20/02/2013 The One Show

$:/STARTFEED. Hello. Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt

Baker. It's easy to imagine if our three guests weren't here they

would be on their own having a brilliant night in. Feathers might

just fly as the evening went on. Please welcome Pauline Quirke,

Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph. APPLAUSE

It's lovely to see you. It's not true that you are all sick of the

sight of each other now? Maybe! know what, restarted rehearsals on

Monday and we are not getting a lot done, because we're doing too much

rabbiting. We had to say to the director, "Where there's a gap say

something." Coming up the stairs it was just talking. We are still

talking when we get here. It's lovely. You've all gone off to do

separate projects, but who's best in keeping in touch? Linda and I

have worked together a lot since we finished. Some people say too much.

Probably, yes. She is mad about the old Twitter business now. Are you

one of them? I've got 10,000 followers. It was 12,000. It's

12,000. Matt's not keen on it. I was going to talk about the title

sequence, which has to be one of the most memorable especially from

our growing up, but so many people have seen your childhood

photographs. I know, yeah. Look, there we are. Arh. Bless us. Lovely.

I love the hair cut. When they did the titles they were talking about

using our daughters, but they said they didn't look enough like us, so

they cast two little girls who looked like us. That was for the

end. You've been friends for 46 years? We were - I'm 54 this year

and Linda is 72. We were at primary school together. It's 45 years in

the business this year. So a long time. It's strange when I first met

these two to work with them, they'd known each other all their lives.

We went to the Ritz and you were wearing trainers. Wait a minute.

It's absolutely true. I was so scared. We didn't think I would get

in. We got in and we had champagne and you put water in it. They

bought us this expensive champagne over, pink. The wine waiter was

devastated because we poured Perrier water in it. It sounds like

an episode of Birds. It's wasted on us. I think I had to finish all of

this. You are back with a stage show which we'll talk about later

and the family is extended. It is. Your son is part of the cast and

he's here tonight. I bet his mum's gorgeous. What a good-looking lad!

We'll find out where you left the story, but we'll remind ourselves

of the last episode ten years ago. Oh, my God! Oh, no! Oh, yes. Shot

out quicker than... It's two fingers up to the NHS. Hello

beautiful. Oh, my God, get this child away from me before I get mad

cow disease. APPLAUSE

This is the weird thing, we did over 100 episodes and I do not

remember anything about that episode. I think I can remember

that green top. I remember giving birth in the stable, but I can't

remember the sex of the child until we did the stage show. It's a boy.

You had a different reaction there. Also tonight, in honour of our

guests, whose characters lived next door to each other, we want you to

take a photograph of yourself and your neighbour, so send it with

send it in. If you've never said hello before, well, now's your

chance. We'll reveal the story of how this enormous photograph was

taken. Go, on Dave. We believe this is the world's largest-ever

Panorama and there's quite a story to tell. Of the many places hit in

the recent floods, an unexpected casualty was an inkent bridge in

Somerset called the Tarr Steps. It was constructed from huge stones

laid hundreds of years ago, but it was still torn apart. Here's Matt.

Around us is Exmoor and running through is the river. Going across

the river used to be the Tarr Steps, an ancient stone-slab bridge. I say

used to, because on 23rd December last year the river smashed a hole

in here. The water would have been up to here. I wouldn't have been

here. It would have been foolish. The damage that did to the Tarr

Steps is plain to see. Massive slabs carried all the way down the

river. No, somebody's got to put it back together. It's a bit like

jenga. That task has fallen to Kenny Higgins, who with his team,

has been working around the clock to put the Tarr Steps back together

again. What we will do initially is salvage all the stones and set them

to one side and identify them. Find all the pier stones and where they

originated and we'll re-install the actual stop slabs. You've got the

pier stones which are the uprights and then the slab stones sitting on

top of those. How do you know where they go? We have a file, which has

a lot of specifications and details on the individual stones. There's

photographs. Some have a chip on one corner, maybe a slight crack

and we use that to move the slabs. We get them in. No one knows when

the bridge was built. Some believe it's 3,000 years old, but it's most

likely to have been constructed 500 to 600 years ago. Personally, I

like the local legend which says it was built by the devil to win a bet.

A lot of people will look and think it's a pile of stones, why should

we bother putting it back the way it was? It's very, very unusual.

It's unique. A claper bridge is basically stones laid across a

river. They're not in mortar together or fixed together, but

it's very different to all the other bridges, because it's much,

much bigger. It has 17 spans, rather than one or two. It's an

ancient monument, so it's legally protected. There's a duty to repair

and people feel strongly about the Tarr Steps. People have family

memories of coming here perhaps when they were children and it's in

the national park and it's beautiful and it's probably one of

the most iconic sights on Exmoor. To complete the work, Kenny has had

to bring in a specialist piece of equipment. A first inspection may

look like Kenny and the boys are inflating some kind of inflatable,

but no, this is a boomer to go across like a dam and it unfurls

like a frog's tongue to divert the flow of the river away from the bit

that they want to work on. Bearing in mind this has been around for

centuries, do you look and think amazing, so long ago, they got it

right really? Absolutely. The privileges we have of using the

heavy machinery to lift these things and what did they have? I'm

not opposed to modern structures, but this thing does the job. It's a

damn sight cheaper than building in concrete. You get satisfaction of

doing something like this. By the time we have finished we have

reconstructed the Tarr Steps. Within a week, the last slab was

put in place. The Tarr Steps were now back to as they were, to be

peshed, but more importantly, -- appreciated, but more importantly

used as an important bridge. What a bridge that is. Very proud. You

were saying, that you've been spending some time down in the West

Country, Pauline? Would you say it's your favourite place? I loved

it. I've been filming down there for three months. I've never been

to that part of the world before, I'm ashamed to say. Lime Regis and

all the coast and I absolutely loved it. Really did. What a

beautiful part of the world. What were you filming? It's called

Broadchurch. It's a drama for ITV beginning next month. We are there

from August up to December. You had a bit of time to enjoy the place?

was staying right on the beach. Lovely. Girls, do you enjoy

holidaying in Britain? I do. I love it down there, but I learnt to swim

in Weymouth and I used to go to the beach with my parents. We always

went down to Devon and Cornwall and I love it. There is a theatre in

Cornwall, which is right on the cliff. I played there. There were

storms and lightning. It's fantastic. I absolutely love it.

you go on holiday together then, girls? No. No. No! We spent 17

weeks together last year. It's nice to get away. Being on tour is like

being on holiday. We are in hotels or digs or cottages. When we went

to L and Berlin and Majorca. That was all together on the series.

think it would put an end to the friendship! We have a nice time. We

went to Bath last year. That's the first time I've ever been and I

absolutely loved it. Beautiful place. You were there for Christmas.

The Roman baths. Shut up, Linda! They're only on for an hour!

hasn't mentioned the granddaughter yet. That's coming up. We look

forward to that. In 1993 Kate Hoey confirmed what we all thought that

the BT Tower didn't exist, but as we discovered up until then it was

supposed to be a secret, despite having had five million visitors.

Opened in 1965, the Post Office Tower was Britain's tallest

building for the following 15 years. Despite being some 620 feet high,

its looming presence was expected to go unnoticed. Because, due to

the role it played in beaming sil defence messages across the nation,

-- civil defence messages across the nation, it was protected by the

Government. Today, it's not the case that it's illegal to take

photographs, and I'm on a mission to discover a fresh angle on

London's original supertower. And find the photographic beauty in the

detail. It was a war photographer, Robert Capper who said if your

photographs aren't good enough, you're not good enough. That

applies perfectly here. Looking straight up, it's not the most

comfortable position to take photographs from, but all of the

surrounding buildings create this amazing pattern of lines that

converge on the very top of the tower. And zooming in reveals a

telling detail. The circular shape of the tower, which was used to

give it the strength to withstand the force of an indirect nuclear

blast. But, you can't fully appreciate the tower from down here.

I'm giving most of the 842 steps a miss. -- 843 steps a miss.? What is

one of fastest lives in Europe. -- in what is one of the fastest lifts

in Europe. But even this can only take us so far. 36th floor. Where

we're going it's a last set of stairs, a ladder and through the

air conditioning room. I think we're nearly there, before one last

climb to freedom. No now, that is what you call a view -- now, that

is what you call a view and when this was first built it needed to

be. The tower was one of many of a network designed to carry phone

calls and sing nals via microwave radio links across the -- signals

via microwave radio links across the UK. Each needed a clear line of

sight to the next tower in the chain. Today the Post Office Tower

is the BT Tower and the microwave dishes that did encircle this

entire floor has been replaced by a modern network of fibre optic

cables and they're buried in the ground, but the unparalleled pan

rammic vistas it offers over the capital remain. Back in 1965, all

of this could have been yours for the grand admission fee of just

four shillings. More than one million people went to see the view

during the first year of operation. London had never had a view like

this before. And neither had they had this particular dining

revolution, a rotating restaurant floor, that having been tested for

smoothness in an aircraft hanger by pouring cups of tea, offered diners

a complete view of the capital in Minutes. Here it would seem the

sky's really the limit. Sadly, the public viewing galleries and

restaurant are no more, but the floor did still turn. To capture a

sense of that 1960's glamour, we've We should get our own panoramic

shot in no time. It is not every day that you get to use a landmark

building as your very own motorised panoramic tripod and this for me is

the beauty in the detail of the BT Tower. I can't help thinking that

we could do better though. Don't put yourself down, I thought

it was a lovely photographs. This is a trip down memory lane. You

won't reminiscing about having lunch there? We got taken there for

lunch to the BT Tower and then we went to a pantomime in the West End

so it was quite an exciting days. It goes round reduce lonely. It is

good because you can wait until you pass the toilet to get us. -- it

goes round very slowly. We sort where you left us ten years ago in

Birds of a Feather so bring us up to date. I am in a North people's

home. But...! -- in an old people's home. Turn your hearing aid up!

your character is? Obviously! You have to come and see the show but

rest assured, the eyelashes are still on and the skirts are even

shorter. I have not seen them for how many years? Ten years.

finished in 1999 so it is 14 years since the television series

finished. And what about you? are still living Together, Sharon

and Tracey. Other men still in jail? They are out. They do get

mentioned a lot but you do not see them. Tracey and Daryl are not

together any more, they had a bitter a.. Her son lives in

Australia and Travis, the one she gave birth to in the stable, he is

in the show, played by our son's, they share the part. How is it

working with your mum? Which one? It is like having three! No, it is

really good. Is she very demanding? She is sitting at there. You can be

honest. In the interval, we have to make cups of coffee and make sure

it is cool enough for them when they get us. We have got them well-

trained. It has been lovely. It was always like a family. Now to have

the two boys there, it feels even more like family. We have various

rituals that keep grubbing before we come on stage. I don't know how

they got to be what they are -- keep growing. Is always has to say

the same at every night. He said donkey once and now we have to say

that every night. We do pelvic thrusts, we grab hands... People

are having their tea at home! Let's keep something private! We put to

the cameras into rehearsal. Let's What are you giving me evils for?

You had better not go near the windows with that, the paparazzi

are outside and they offered me 50 quid to dish the dirt on new. I

told them to get lost. That stuff is worth at least a grand. After

the Leveson Inquiry, I did not think this was allowed. A suppose

it is inevitable. A young glamourous woman involved in an

unexplained death. What young glamourous woman? You?! Brilliant!

It is just like you are having the same conversation. Your editors

have been very kind to us. We did not merit any of the lines! And you

had your script in your hand! it shot in front of a live studio

audience, Birds of a Feather? Is it very similar to how you would

do it in the studio? No. In the theatre, sometimes things have

happened like we have forgotten our lines and we stopped for five

minutes while we giggle, but in the studio it has to be quite precise,

with the lives. Thinking through the camera to about 12 million

people. It is very different. first night was absolutely terrible.

We got to the second half and we said one line three times. Then we

kept going round in circles. In the end I just said, I haven't got a

clue what to say next and the stage manager gave us the next line. We

were so scared. DU at lib? No. Only when things go wrong. -- Do you ad

lib? We discovered last year on tour that when it does go wrong,

and that got less and less as the weeks went on, the other two are

there for the people who has gone wrong. We have so much history.

can see the panic in their lives. There is one line that Pauline has

and I can see the panic! Sometimes the audience get it and sometimes

they don't. Are you wearing leopardskin? Yes, I am. The shorter

but you have ever seen in your life. And the high heels. I remember it

very well from my younger days. A did you have a crush on her? I

think a lot of us did! I can feel the electricity. Can you? The Birds

of a Feather tour starts next Tuesday in Coventry.

Earlier on today we asked ourselves if it was too shameful to show a

bird film with the girls from Birds In the animal kingdom, it is

generally accepted that it is the male of the species that rules the

roost, yet on the highest peaks of the cane crops national park there

is a bird whether traditional roles are reversed and it is the girls

leaving the boys holding the babies, and that Birt is the -- that bird

is the dotterel. They belong to the plover family and come here in the

spring in order to breed. Kathy from Scottish National Heritage has

brought along her expert tracker Nelson. I will need his keen eyes

in this weather if I will have a chance of finding the dotterel.

What is it that is so special about the tops of the mountains in the

Cairngorms? It is adamant landscape from the Ice Age. Not quite but

very close to being glacial. Not many predators up there. So they

have less chance of being killed when they are breeding in this

hostile environments. What are the chances? It is a difficult boat to

find. We are probably going to be the ones that find it harder than

they are -- it is a difficult bird to find! The top of the Cairngorms

is more than 1,000 metres above sea level. What was rain at the bottom

is falling as snow on the summit. Searching in these conditions is

going to be task. -- toughed. Thankfully after three hours, the

clouds lift but we were still not having much luck. Looking for the

dotterel is trying to find a needle in an enormous haystack. We are

Have a look at this. The mountain crane fly. That is food for the

dotterel and a really good sign that we might just find the bird.

After another four hours of searching, it is our expert Nelson

who finally senses something in the I can't believe it! We have got a

pair of dotterel ats. You can see the difference in their feathers

and the size. She is the one in front and he is the one that is

following. In almost every other bird, it is the male that is the

show will. Why it is the role reversed with this one? You will

have heard of polygamy, where a man takes several wives. This is the

opposite. Polly Andre. Where a female will mate with several males.

She mates with one male and produces a clutch for him, his

chicks, but she then mates with another male and possibly a third

and possibly even a fourth, so she literally doesn't have all of her

eggs in one basket. Leaving de male in charge of rearing, the scheme

are his three to find new mates and lay more eggs. These birds have

developed this strategy to allow as many chicks as possible to

successfully fled during the short summer breeding season. --

successfully breed. That his courtship behaviour. That is lovely.

The male is chasing the female. looks as if he wants to mate with

her. They are in a difficult phase, do you want to be with me?

Courtship behaviour is a great sign. The Scottish titles are the

dotterel stronghold -- Scottish Highlands. Let's hope this couple

of successful and the male turns out to be a devoted father. What a

fascinating life style and what a treat to finally find the

If the dotterel is the Dorien of the bird world, who are the Sharon

and Tracey? Yes, very decorative, quantitative with men, the dotterel.

She will fly all the way to Norway and leave the men with the babies!

We have a sparrowhawk, bossy, controlling. Females are much

larger than the male but particularly the sparrowhawk. She

needs to be big and put a lot of weight on to bring up their chicks.

Or you are not saying that Linda is big. No! The male is much smaller

and more agile so they can go so the smaller birds. Definitely the

females are bossing the males in the sparrow world. We thought long

and hard about Sharon with the cuckoos. Taking it easy, letting

everybody else take the strain, the cuckoo is well known in the natural

world. They come from Africa, they will breed in the spring, the

female cuckoo was said there and she will look for a nest, she will

go him, lay one holes her own eggs inside the nest. Then the chick

were oust the chicks of the warblers have. That is the sum

total of the cuckoo's involvement. Nice! I think I did best out of the

three of us! Sparrowhawk is all right! You have some other

examples? Yes, a bossy females. The rain. -- wren. The theme are just

sits and watches what the male makes their nest -- the female just

sits and watches. If she does not like it, she will walk away. The

male will make up to seven nests. In this case, the female is happy

enough. That is one of my favourites. We have pigeons in the

rehearsal room. We can hear them in the chimney breast. A sudden you

realise I have never seen a baby pigeon. They're squabs. They can

meet and greet any month of the year, they do not have a specific

breeding season. And I have never seen a grown-up sparrow. Because

they are hidden away. Do you think sparrows are baby pigeons? How can

I put this? No. We should be celebrating a 62-year-

old's birthday. Yes, the oldest boat in the northern hemisphere. An

albatross in the end all -- Northam R picker Lago of Hawaii. It was

ringed as a five-year-old in 1956. All albatrosses are monogamous.

Wisdom has had several partners because she is so old. She has

probably raised 32 chicks fourth dog that his footage they specially

shot for the One Show full of dog And when it is five or 62, it looks

exactly the same, they do not have the problem of ageing! It will

carry on and carry on. Looking good $:/STARTFEED. The retirement age is

rising and by 2026 it's planned to go up to 67 for both men and women.

What happens when you get to call it a day at work. As we discover,

things could be very different from what we're pecting. Retirement,

it's the time of life when you could put your feet up, or spend

more time doing the things you love. But young people today, they don't

do jobs for life and their works pensions aren't as secure or

generous. So, is retirement for them just a fantasy? 28-year-old

Florence is a PR consultant living in London. I don't have any money

or savings. Pension savings has fallen across all age groups with

11 million of us not saving enough for our retirement. The age group

saving the least are those aged 22 to 29. I like two to three holidays

a year and love going out for dinner with my friends. Florence

still knows what she wants. I would like to have around �30 a year when

I retire. I would like to live in a two-bedroom cottage in a nice

village. She earns under the average salary, but doesn't save a

penny. We asked her to keep a diary and I'm bringing Sarah pen nels

along to -- Pennells along to see. I went to a gallery and out for

dinner. It wasn't expensive. What's that? Festival tickets. �32 on food.

You are looking on banking on it never raining. What would you cut?

Maybe a lit bit. There's barely any there. Whether you want savings for

a deposit on a house or retirement, put some money in the account

before you get your paws on it. Do you save in a pension? I don't. My

employer pays into a pension for me. I think if I paid into it they

would match what I put into it. That would leave Florence relying

on a State pension, that's �107 a week and her income. If she stays

with the same employer until 65, their contributions means she'll

get around �160 top-up. But if she matched that �100 a month they pay

in, that would bring the top-up up to �3040. She'll have to put aside

between �400 a month, including her employer's contributions.

taking Florence on a journey to see what her future could hold. This

community centre offers a luncheon group for local pensioners, costing

them �2.35 each. It provides a social opportunity to those, but

it's a far cry from what she's used to. I believe in living from day to

day. I lived in those days. I used to go out every night. When you

were thinking about when you retire what would you dream? I wanted a

cottage in the country. That's your dream. My husband and I spoke about

that. When it came to the mortgage, I could not afford it. I lived in a

flat. It's a little flat. Like every pensioner, but it's up to the

youngsters today, what they pay. you think I should be saving now?

When you've got a chance. You've got a chance. You should do it.

Florence is looking in a mirror. She has met Ada who enjoyed herself

and spent her money. She told Florence they wished she hadn't and

saved a bit more. If Florence wants that pension of �30,000 a year she

better start saving now. To get that had she started at 25, she

needs �5,000. If she starts now it rises to �9,000 a year. This is the

type of house you want. That's right. With no savings at all in

order to get on the property ladder, Florence needs to get together a

deposit. Ing saving �300 a month would give her �20,000 in five

years' time, but even that's not going to be enough for the sort of

places she wants, so I'm showing her a more realistic proposition.

She could afford a one-bed flat. A mortgage of �600. She would own it

outright when she retires, but if she wants the pension as well,

she'll need savings of �500 a month, including her employer's

contribution and tax relief, so she'll have just over �100 to spend

a week. Ironically, the same as today's State pension. She'll not

have the kind of retirement that most people dream of. It's

definitely become apparent that I need to think more about exactly

what I want when I retire and the sort of place I want to live and

how I'm going to get there using my current circumstances. I'm clearly

not saving enough money to be where I want to be when I retire. It's

frightening. I'm not being very sensible in that department. I'm

not mentioning ages, but who out of you three is ready for retirement?

That's got to be me then. Hello! I get my pension. She's been getting

it for over 20 years. Only you can get away with that. I do, but the

trouble is if you're working then you'll pay tax on it anyway and I

think whichever way you go, property, there's no guarantee it

will go up. Whatever you do, it's never going to be worth it. Did you

feel well prepared and invest throughout your whole life?

Coming to Birds was a bit later in my career so I think it's wise to

start planning for the year dot, but all the rules are changing now,

so it's never going to be this wonderful panacea that you'll be

able to retire and what do you do about old age and care homes

wherever you are? Are you two prepared and putting money aside?

little bit. Not a lot. Probably started in my 40s, which was maybe

too late to start. What age would you recommend? This is the thing

about pensions, that the earlier you start, the easier it is. My

financial adviser talks about a rule he calls the half and half

rule, that if you want half your salary when you retire you save

half your age when you start. If you start when you're 20 you save

half 20,10%, if you're 40, you save half, 20%. The longer you leave it

the harder and harder it is to build up a big fund in your pension

pot, because you're money hasn't got as long to work for you as it

would be if you started when you were younger. My kids are going to

look after me. Charlie? Hang on. You'll look after mummy, won't you

son? Yeah, definitely! We'll get a bit more advice for you while

Declan's here. You are begging to be put in a home. The thing is, the

word itself is a turn-off. If it was an invest in your future scheme,

more people would be putting their money in. It's normally called the

old-age pension and when you are really young you don't think you'll

get old and you'll never work like you are now. It's the future that -

you could say test better to spend because you've only got one life

and worry about what when the time comes. Yeah. It depends how much of

a burden you want to be on everyone else when you reach that stage. The

word is such a bore. Who wants to save for a pension when they're 20

or 30? There are other fun ways of spending money and if you are

younger, there are other demands on the cash, the mortgage, the car and

perhaps a wedding or babies. There are huge demands on money. If you

thought about it differently, stop calling it a pension, start

thinking of it this way - you're not spending today so that you can

spend and enjoy yourself when you're older. It's deferred

gratification rather than instant. What about the risks? There are

always risks. Some that are tied to the value of the markets, you saw

when the markets tumbled at the start of this particular century,

anyone retiring at that point relying on the stock market got far

less than they expected. The thing you have to remember with pension

is this - the state pension is never as generous as people expect

and in today's money it's six grand a year. The other thing is, the

amount of money you need in your own private pot to have a

comfortable retirement is always staggering greater than you imagine.

The earlier you start, the easier it should be. What about putting

money in property? You can do that. For some people that works. You buy

a big property when you're working and move somewhere smaller. But

what tends to happen for some people the money runs out a lot

faster than they expect. Declan, it's such a shame you didn't come

on earlier, like two years ago. Thank you so much. Earlier on, we

asked you to nip next door have have a photograph with your

neighbour. This is Nicky C and T and they've been neighbours in

Cornwall for two-and-a-half years. This is John and neighbour Rudy who

is 101 years old. My mum is 100 and she got a telegram from the Queen

and if I may say, talking about pensions, she got a telegram from

Iain Duncan Smith, Minister of Works and pensions. How bizarre is

that? Love it. Was he asking for money? She is 101 in May. Bless her.

Talking of investing in the future, they say that one is born every

minute, but of the 33,000 registered midwives in the UK, only

132 of them are male and in Scotland, there's just three, with

just one man delivering at home. We went to meet the man flying the

flag. If you asked me to choose the perfect midwife for this baby I

would have said someone kind, patient, good at quelling nerves,

but I would never think of a man. Meet David Cunningham. David is

currently the only practising community male midwife in Scotland.

And he's been helping women to deliver babies for the past 25

years. Can you hear that? That's a good one there. Over the years,

David's delivered hundreds of babies. What was your husband's

reaction to your midwife being a man? I think we both were a bit

like that. My first midwife that I had didn't have children, and in

some respects there was absolutely no difference because she had never

been through the process either. Have you bver been mistake for

somebody else? -- ever been mistaken for somebody else One of

the girl's mum thought I was a gas man. They don't know who you are.

What did she say? Oh, right. She was shocked. Shows like Call the

Midwife, mean the profession is in the spotlight as perhaps never

before, but men make up a tiny majority of midwives. You went to

train as a nurse? Yeah. While you were training you loved mid-

wievery? It appealed to me. There are more healthy women and I was

interested. It was something different at that time. Caroline

had a daughter nearly three weeks ago, called Isla. This is her first

born. I'll have a wee check and get the scales. Sometimes you open the

door and it's not always happy mums? No. Some mums have been up

all night and feeding and it feels like they're at the end of their

tether, but I just come in. I think sometimes they need a helper and

helping with breast-feeding. You can sit down and they are frb often

doing a good job. You tell David as much as you tell Mark? Probably

more! Despite his day job, David's still very much a man's man after

work. I like to go to the pub with my mates and out with the wife at

the weekend and friends. I don't do anything different. I don't do

anything different. I don't think differently, but when I go to work

I switch on and when I feel protective to the people who I look

David has certainly shown me that male midwives are just as effective

and supportive as the now one's definitely. -- as a female ones.

You have all given birth. Would you feel comfortable with a man? Mine

were women. My daughter had a baby and I don't think she would have

minded as long as she felt comfortable with the midwife.

such an amazing experience, you don't really care who is there as

long as the baby is delivered safely and you are in so much pain

anyway, you just think, help me. is just important you feel

comfortable with the person. We are getting inundated with people

asking if there will be another TV series of Birds of a Feather.

the moment, there is a script with the BBC, it was delivered last week.

Fabulous. And at the moment we are waiting. There is the answer.

is somewhere at the BBC. Maybe if the BBC don't want it, maybe

someone else will. They all came along to Richmond when we did it

last year and it was phenomenal. will watch this space and cross our

fingers. A you had been busy doing your own

separate projects as well. You did "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of

Here!". I have watched it for the last 12 years. I did not do it last

year because my daughter was pregnant but I thought, this year

is my last year, I will be on his timber-frame any later. The first

two days were so hard. You cannot believe you actually there. The

creatures and the rats, everything you see, it is as awful as it seems.

People think, you would give him food and drinks. What you see on

the telly is what you get. After the third morning I thought, you

know what? This ain't as bad as I thought it was going to be. We got

on really well. We got on really well. Once I knew my kids were in

Australia, I could not wait to get out! And that hotel was waiting as

well. But I loved it and I have no regrets. Calendar Girls? Yes,

stripping for the nation. It was wonderful. It is a bit like this,

you all there together. Can I just say I was actually naked behind

that as well. Yes, I was! I do not know why I chose to share that with

everybody. I am so sorry. But it was an amazing experience. It was

really invigorating. And a lot of money goes to cancer research. It

is an amazing story and we met a Calendar Girls. I just absolutely

loved it. And then I came to this. It is like doing two wonderful

shows, it is bliss. You also have done a documentary about looking

after the elderly. That was really tough but a lot of that money we

raise money for on the elderly, maybe it resonates because of my

mum. It was heartbreaking. I went into dementia hospital wards. It is

really important that they get it out there. Some people say, like

when they gave up smoking, it is terrible, and now nobody even

thinks about it. It is like that with older people. We have got to

get to a stage where we look after them. Very have got a message from

two special people. Hello, Lesley. It is packed. I really enjoyed you

You did everything from Malcolm. You got up in the night and we

really did appreciate you been here but the highlight for me is when we

went down the bingo, and I won. I know you wanted to win but it was

my time. And with that money I went on a cruise and I thoroughly

enjoyed it and it could not have happened without you. Thank you

very much, darling. APPLAUSE. Sorry. That was the most

extraordinary thing because we me when to bingo, she won �1,000.

Everybody thought we had done it on purpose. It was a national game,

you cannot state and national game, they would kill you! We were in at

Dartford -- you cannot staged the national game. I said, you have

won! They said, we have got a winner in Dartford. It was

extraordinary. It was heartbreaking but wonderful. Bless you. And you

said how nervous you get, which is incredible. You have done so many

different productions. When we started the tour last year, I

cannot tell you how it scared I was. I had not done theatre for 25 years.

The girls have both done lots of the attack. It is just that are

built up. Because Charlie was with me, I didn't want him to see what a

state I can get myself into. So I gave myself a talking-to. It is

healthy. Nothing wrong with a bit of an Airbus. -- a bit of nerves. A

thin as we get out there, we love it. -- as soon as we get out there.

The pressure is on now. No! We have got some old footage, a blast from

the past. We will take you back to 1976 and we want to see if you can

identify the man you were starring opposite.

�1.50 and I will carry your shopping home. We cannot say fairer

than that. You will do anything I want? Anything. I will have him.

Lovely. I hope you will be satisfied. I can't wait until I get

home. Basically, that lad with the chains around him, you chopped his

head off with a magic trick,... All sorts of things. He is one of the

four gentleman we have got in the studio. There he is! Don't spoil

it! Is it number one? Number two? Number three, a feathered friend?

Or number four? Who are you going for? You have got to know us.

I have got my glasses on. Number two! Step forward, the real Mike

Holoway! Did they really make you do all

that? Thank you. How lovely to see you. I know everybody says you

haven't aged but you really haven't. What a lovely looking lad! It was

extraordinary. I signed up to be a singer and drummer of a pop band

and they threw everything including the kitchen sink at me. Are you

still traumatised? At that age! can't believe a word of it. Good to

see you. Good luck to you. Many of you will know how to take a

panoramic photo on your phone. We took one only yet on in the studio.

-- A earlier. But back up the BT Tower, Jamie Crawford's doing a

supersize one. At the BT Tower what, we we started

the 1960s revolution, and captured a time-lapse of London by night.

And by stitching together the shots, we have made a 360 degree panorama

far wider than can be achieved in just one shot or stop but I am not

the only one to spot but how will's unique photographic potential

because a team of specialist photographers are setting out to

create the most detailed panoramic image of his city ever made.

were asked to create the largest photo in the world. I thought the

BT Tower will would be a perfect location for that because it is

like a giant tripod. And on that tripod, four computerised cameras

will snap a grid of images which will make up one-quarter of the

Panorama. 160 pictures across by 76 pictures in increments. It will

take more than 12,000 pictures on each position. Nearly 50,000 photos.

It is a process that will take over an hour and in theory, in that time

a single person could be photographed multiple times in

different places across the city, so detests the resolution of the

final image, we are dispatching our One Show target-man on a mission to

try to appear, first nearby the BT Tower and then to race the cameras

across London to another landmark two miles away. The building that

before the BT Tower was billed was the nation's tallest, St Paul's

cathedrals all-star the race is on. The team must take all of the

50,000 photographs they need before the light will have changed too

much for the shots to match. If they can do this, their final image

will be so detailed that my own effort would sit inside there's

5,000 times of. Our man reached St Paul's just in time. This reveals

the full extent of the most detailed photographs of the city

ever taken. I can't wait to see this.

We are now going to look at the whole thing in the studio.

Hang on! We have gone wonky! Look Absolutely extraordinary.

We have got Geoffrey Martin. This is a small version of what you can

produce. The full-size would be 93 metres long and 20 metres tall.

With that detail. And this was commissioned for a particular event

but it took a bit longer to do then you anticipated. Right. It took

over three months to put it together. It was supposed to take

As we know, this is the world's largest Panorama. That's right.

Which are the ones have you done? did one previously of London. And

another one of Prague,... How does that relate to a normal photo?

is made of 48,000 individual photos. We have got Simon over here for

Simon Rodway is a London tour guide. Over here we have to One Show! That

is television centre. Of course, the BBC is coming back to its old

This is Regent Street. You can just make up the famous round Church.

How nice for you to be flying all over this of. And coming down here,

Fitz Roy via, fantastic. You have this, this is the old Middlesex

Hospital. To walk round that, we have a big fence. Brilliant.

asked rig your photo of your Steph and Maddie. Best friends as

well as neighbours Foster. Abigail and Cheryl Cole Thanks to

Pauline, Linda and Lesley, and the Birds of a Feather tour starts in

Coventry next Tuesday. Tomorrow we'll be joined by the man with a