:00:08. > :00:15.back on the BBC. We have the world's longest bunting. It's over three
:00:16. > :00:18.kilometers long. Dave, down bunting. You've run out of time, my friend,
:00:19. > :00:35.the show's on. All day he has been at it. All day.
:00:36. > :00:38.There we are. Hello and welcome to the One Show with Fearne Cotton And
:00:39. > :00:43.Matt Baker of course. We decorated our studio by covering the outside
:00:44. > :00:47.and inside in as much bunting as humanly possible. Tonight's guest is
:00:48. > :00:53.worth going the extra mile for. It's The Great British Sewing Bee host,
:00:54. > :00:59.Claudia Winkleman. Yeah! Do you like it all? I love it. It's very, very
:01:00. > :01:03.fancy. I just knocked it up. It's good. Oh, I was like - is somebody
:01:04. > :01:10.getting married? All for you. I can't believe it. I have to wrap
:01:11. > :01:14.myself in it. Every Wednesday night this studio turns into the set of
:01:15. > :01:20.Film 2014, this is your second home? Quite. I got into trouble once, Alex
:01:21. > :01:24.Jones keeps a sweetie area of chocolates. I haven't found it. I
:01:25. > :01:28.will show you where it is. No worries, stick with me. I thought
:01:29. > :01:33.they were mine. I would eat... Then she would come in on Thursday
:01:34. > :01:38.morning and be go - who has stolen my chocolate. Claudia Winkleman. She
:01:39. > :01:43.is in the Philippines and won't know anything about it. Don't tell he
:01:44. > :01:50.her. Keep going. Being the award season, we had the BRITS last night
:01:51. > :01:56.and the BAFTAs. We can see you in your dress. My eye makeup went
:01:57. > :02:00.weird. BAFTA films. There have been brilliant ones this year. If The One
:02:01. > :02:03.Show viewers could watch one, what would you recommend? OK. This is
:02:04. > :02:07.going to come left field. This is the Best Film of the year. Best
:02:08. > :02:15.Films I have seen called The Act of Killing. It won Best Foreign, Best
:02:16. > :02:21.Documentary. It's an extraordinary film. It's quite a hard watch. It's
:02:22. > :02:25.the best... It's knockout. Top tip. The last time you were on you said
:02:26. > :02:29.how sorry you felt for your children because you didn't allow them to
:02:30. > :02:33.have pets in the house. Yes. We have been looking at your social
:02:34. > :02:38.petworking site. Can you explain this little girl. I'm in love. She
:02:39. > :02:44.is so cute. We want to keep her small, we are not feeding her. I'm
:02:45. > :02:48.kidding! My little girl is seven. She is adorable, she has two
:02:49. > :02:51.brothers. They leave her out. For Christmas she did, I shouldn't say
:02:52. > :02:57.this, she is not watching, she is fast asleep. I hope! She does her
:02:58. > :03:02.sealed note to Father Christmas. My son, who is almost 11 was like - I'd
:03:03. > :03:09.like trainers, I'd like this and that" the two-year-old was like,
:03:10. > :03:15."I'd like a jigsaw puzzle, dinosaur and baby donkey." She doesn't talk
:03:16. > :03:19.like that. My daughter wrote, "dear Father Christmas, I suppose you are
:03:20. > :03:28.busy. I would like pens with lids on." The that is all she asked for.
:03:29. > :03:33.My husband is a genius double bluff. She got a cat. She had no idea. I
:03:34. > :03:36.would love a cat like that. When you give a pet to a child. You never
:03:37. > :03:40.know what they will call. It I asked her the week before. If you
:03:41. > :03:48.magically got something new, what would you call it. She went - "mummy
:03:49. > :03:57.that is no problem, I would call it Angel, angel Energy Bar." The she
:03:58. > :04:02.went. No, she will be called Biscuit." I have become a cat lady.
:04:03. > :04:06.I stroke her. I'm fully-fledged. How many do you have? Three. What are
:04:07. > :04:10.you talking about. Talking pets today. Sewing as well. We thought we
:04:11. > :04:16.would knit the two together. Come on. Ask for your knitted pets. Maybe
:04:17. > :04:21.you have knitted a pet a jumper or sewn them a scarf. This is dreamy.
:04:22. > :04:26.This is 20 minutes. You could knock something up for Biscuit. Send your
:04:27. > :04:31.pictures to the below address. We will show a few of the best ones at
:04:32. > :04:36.the end. Depending on how many we get. Maybe a hat. A hat for a
:04:37. > :04:47.spider. Don't say the word spider, I will openingly weep. A taxi journey
:04:48. > :04:52.from Nottingham Railway Station to Trent Bridge Cricket Ground usually
:04:53. > :04:58.costs ?3.50. When we called to book a cab for our reporter, Sophie
:04:59. > :05:02.Morgan, the cost rose to ?15. Four times the original amount. We have
:05:03. > :05:06.been looking into whether this sort of discrimination is more common
:05:07. > :05:09.than than you might think. Here is a question, should people in
:05:10. > :05:14.wheelchairs have to pay more for their journeys able able-bodied
:05:15. > :05:18.passengers? We discovered that some taxi firms are charging extra if you
:05:19. > :05:23.are in a wheelchair. Many other companies refuse to take people like
:05:24. > :05:27.me altogether. Researchers from The One Show tried to book
:05:28. > :05:35.wheelchair-friendly taxis with 50 different companies from across the
:05:36. > :05:41.UK. We recorded the calls. I don't have wheelchair accessible taxis,
:05:42. > :05:46.I'm' afraid. Wouldn't do wheelchair, sorry. We haven't got wheelchair
:05:47. > :05:49.access. Only 18 of the 50 companies that we called said that they could
:05:50. > :05:53.cope with a passenger in a wheelchair. Even then, some of their
:05:54. > :05:59.fares were shocking. One company quoted a maximum of ?3.50 for an
:06:00. > :06:02.able-bodied passenger. It was a different story when our researcher
:06:03. > :06:07.asked if there was a taxi that could make the same journey for someone in
:06:08. > :06:13.a wheelchair. We do have one available. It would be ?15 for the
:06:14. > :06:18.journey. ?15. More than four times the price for an able-bodied
:06:19. > :06:23.passenger. They weren't the only ones. Half the companies who would
:06:24. > :06:27.take us were charging more for a wheelchair passenger. Sarah Clifford
:06:28. > :06:30.is from the Disabilities Trust. We get a significant number of
:06:31. > :06:35.complaints about taxi companies, either people are being exploited
:06:36. > :06:41.and really badly overcharged. Or people won't pick them up at all. A
:06:42. > :06:45.little bit of higher fare to take account of expenses or longer time
:06:46. > :06:49.to help people in and out of the Tam taxis is one thing. Real
:06:50. > :06:56.exploitation is another thing entirely. Are the private hire cabs
:06:57. > :07:00.breaking the law? Is the Equality Act applies to all cab companies.le
:07:01. > :07:05.it means that reasonable adjustments have to be made for disabled
:07:06. > :07:10.passengers. What is "reasonable"? Is it seems to be open to
:07:11. > :07:14.interpretation. V cars is one of the biggest private hire cab firms in
:07:15. > :07:20.Bristol. They operate 380 vehicles and only five are adapted for
:07:21. > :07:25.wheelchairs. Is that reasonable? Drivers aren't legally bound to have
:07:26. > :07:32.a wheelchair accessible vehicle. It's also down to the cost of buying
:07:33. > :07:38.one. Is it very expensive to buy an accessible vehicle? In the region of
:07:39. > :07:43.?25,000 to ?30,000. How much is a normal taxi? Is You can pick one up
:07:44. > :07:47.for ?7,000. Is do you not think it's unfair that you don't offer me, a
:07:48. > :07:52.wheelchair user, the same service that you offer everybody else? Is
:07:53. > :08:01.It's slightly unfair. I agree. But we are working within the law. It
:08:02. > :08:06.prurl comes down to money. V Cars are aware of the problem and offer
:08:07. > :08:10.some wheelchair adapted vehicles. Some companies are shirking their
:08:11. > :08:15.responsibilities. Why aren't local councils doing more to improve
:08:16. > :08:19.standards. Nick Carter is licensing manager here in Bristol. There is a
:08:20. > :08:23.real issue with the private hire companies. I wish there was an easy
:08:24. > :08:27.solution. I understand completely the issues you are facing. It's
:08:28. > :08:31.fantastic the council is trying to understand why it's not happening.
:08:32. > :08:35.What are you actually going to do about improving it? We need to
:08:36. > :08:39.change the behaviours of some parts of the private hire trade to make
:08:40. > :08:43.sure the situation doesn't continue. We're very happy to hear from people
:08:44. > :08:48.who have suffered this injustice. If they will work with us, we'll work
:08:49. > :08:52.with them to see if we can actually take some some drivers to court.
:08:53. > :08:56.It's encouraging that Bristol Council has promised to tackle this
:08:57. > :09:00.issue head on. Our research shows this is a problem wheelchair users
:09:01. > :09:04.are forced to deal with on a daily basis. It's pretty clear. More needs
:09:05. > :09:11.to be done across the whole of the UK to make taxis much more
:09:12. > :09:15.accessible for everyone. Sophie is with us. After having that
:09:16. > :09:21.conversation, how did it leave you feeling, shocked, angry? Yeah, both.
:09:22. > :09:24.The I mean, it is frustrating. It's frustrating on so many levels. It's
:09:25. > :09:29.unfair across the board that people have to deal with this. The fact is,
:09:30. > :09:32.disabled people rely on taxis an enormous amount because public
:09:33. > :09:35.transport is difficult to access at times. To be charging extra is one
:09:36. > :09:40.thing. To refuse a passenger altogether is another. It was
:09:41. > :09:44.frustrating. It was great to talk to someone and say - what will you do
:09:45. > :09:48.about it 1234? You spoke to people in that film on the charging side,
:09:49. > :09:54.you can understand from the small taxi firm's point of view, ?25,000
:09:55. > :09:58.to ?30,000 is a lot of money? Yeah. It felt hard sitting there saying,
:09:59. > :10:01.why aren't you doing this. I can see it's not something everyone wants to
:10:02. > :10:05.do. They want to cater for everybody. The answer, in your eyes?
:10:06. > :10:09.The answer really, in an ideal world, the Government would step in
:10:10. > :10:12.and say, we can hand out grants and support people and help them to be
:10:13. > :10:17.able to access things... It's human right. We should be able to do the
:10:18. > :10:20.same as everybody else. It is hard for small businesses. It's not just
:10:21. > :10:25.taxis, this happens all the time. All over the place. Hotels,
:10:26. > :10:28.restaurants, bars. It just happens all the time. You will take this
:10:29. > :10:33.further, right? I would love to. I would love to be able to. I'm a
:10:34. > :10:37.small person, one person to do all this. So much to tackle. So many
:10:38. > :10:41.problems. It's across the board. I think if all of us, if all disabled
:10:42. > :10:44.people, I would really encourage anyone watching to be able to say
:10:45. > :10:49.that we actually, when we encounter this kind of discrimination, it is
:10:50. > :10:53.discrimination, we don't always know our rights. To be able to go and do
:10:54. > :10:57.things like call the Equality Commission has an advice line you
:10:58. > :11:00.can ring. You can get help and support. Don't let it happen. It's
:11:01. > :11:04.not about suing people. I'm not saying that. Go out there and say, I
:11:05. > :11:12.don't want to stand for this any more. Sure. Claudia, anybody who saw
:11:13. > :11:16.Sowing Bee, one of the contestants, Lynda is deaf, has it been hard to
:11:17. > :11:21.adjust things. He she doesn't seem to be bothered at all No the at all.
:11:22. > :11:26.A signer in the room would help her if she couldn't see anybody. She is
:11:27. > :11:31.a brilliant lip reader. That got us intoes trouble. I would say, "get me
:11:32. > :11:37.a biscuit" she would be like, "are you having a biscuit, I didn't think
:11:38. > :11:41.it was biscuit time yet" I was like, "Lynda you are supposed to be making
:11:42. > :11:44.a skirt." Thank you. For further information on anything we have
:11:45. > :11:50.spoken about head to the one show website. BBC security correspondent,
:11:51. > :11:56.Gordon Corera, has made a series of spy films for The One Show. Tonight
:11:57. > :12:02.his final installment links directly to Claudia Winkleman's TV career.
:12:03. > :12:09.This is so sad. I would never call it a "career" it's things I do when
:12:10. > :12:15.I'm not asleep. Soviet spies were rife on the UK shores in 1960s, Oleg
:12:16. > :12:24.Lyalin took on a disguise. Was it, a, a professional ballroom dancer?
:12:25. > :12:32.Was it b, a film director? Russian B movies. Is C, a knitwear Ied trade
:12:33. > :12:40.delegate? Let's find out, shall we? This is fun! In the late '60s London
:12:41. > :12:46.had a problem. The city was infested with unwelcome visitors. The capital
:12:47. > :12:53.was home to a nest of spies. Soviet agents were everywhere in London in
:12:54. > :12:57.the 1960s. A memo to the Prime Minister, Edward Heath, in 1971,
:12:58. > :13:03.concluded there were at least 120 Soviet agents in the UK. Is one of
:13:04. > :13:08.those was Oleg Lyalin, born in southern Russia. He was recruited to
:13:09. > :13:12.the KGB in the 1950s. He was sents to London under the auspices of
:13:13. > :13:17.being a knitwear trade delegate. He was actually a key member of the KGB
:13:18. > :13:23.in London much he would go on to play a pivotal role in Cold War
:13:24. > :13:28.Angelo Soviet relations. Jill Bennett is a a foer Foreign Office
:13:29. > :13:33.historian. Who was he? He was a member of what Moscow centre called
:13:34. > :13:37."department B" a special department of spies working on sabotage and
:13:38. > :13:43.subversion in foreign countries. He had a reputation for being a very
:13:44. > :13:48.hard man, an expert in unarmed combat. Had been suspected in
:13:49. > :13:54.various assassinations, but what he was here for really was to organise
:13:55. > :13:58.the activities of department B for sabotage and subversion against the
:13:59. > :14:03.British state. The task of monitoring him and his fellow spies
:14:04. > :14:09.was running the British security service ragged. Tailing one agent
:14:10. > :14:14.24-hours a day required vast resources. In 1968, the Labour
:14:15. > :14:18.government had tried to reduce the number who could work at the Soviet
:14:19. > :14:22.embassy in London. They got round it by appointing people to other jobs.
:14:23. > :14:26.Such as in the Soviet trade delegation and having people'ses
:14:27. > :14:32.wives carrying on espionage activities. The Oleg Lyalin might
:14:33. > :14:35.have been a crack agent, he had an Achilles heal. He had fallen in love
:14:36. > :14:40.with his secretary. He wanted a new life, free from the KGB. He
:14:41. > :14:46.approached MI5 offering to defect, but while they were weighing things
:14:47. > :14:54.up, matters came to a head here on this very street when he was driving
:14:55. > :14:58.home drunk one night. His car was spotted driving erratically by the
:14:59. > :15:01.police. As he and his secretary drove up Tottenham Court Road. He
:15:02. > :15:07.was pulled over. His secretary ran off. A drunk Lyalin protested that
:15:08. > :15:12.no-one could touch him as he was a KGB agent. He was alest rested and
:15:13. > :15:18.taken to a safe house where MI5 questioned him. George was on the
:15:19. > :15:20.Soviet desk of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at the time. He
:15:21. > :15:26.was the first to see the file on Oleg Lyalin.
:15:27. > :15:32.MI5 provided me with a wodge of paper and I opened the first pages
:15:33. > :15:40.and it had a description of where it would need handy to land a submarine
:15:41. > :15:44.on the shores of Britain. I thought, this is extraordinary. We were used
:15:45. > :15:48.to Russian agents attempting to run spies in our country, that is what
:15:49. > :15:54.they do, but here you have enough spare capacity for people to sort of
:15:55. > :15:58.run around planning future wars. Part of Lyalin's testimony remains
:15:59. > :16:03.classified, but rumours abound as to what he did. George and his
:16:04. > :16:10.colleagues made the extraordinary suggestion to expel all 105 agents
:16:11. > :16:17.that Lyalin had named. He was a trigger to a mood of irritation
:16:18. > :16:20.which had been building up with Russian overconfidence, cockiness in
:16:21. > :16:24.the intelligence community. Suddenly, no one had an answer to
:16:25. > :16:28.the question, why don't we just throw them all out? The government
:16:29. > :16:33.went with the plan and the agents were rounded up and taken to
:16:34. > :16:39.Heathrow. Russia responded by expelling 18 British diplomats from
:16:40. > :16:46.Moscow. Oleg Lyalin was given a new identity and continued to work for
:16:47. > :16:49.MI5 until his death in 1995. The Metropolitan Police officer who
:16:50. > :16:53.stopped a tipsy Russian for drink driving that night on Tottenham
:16:54. > :16:56.Court Road probably did not think he would be changing diplomatic
:16:57. > :17:01.relations forever, but that is exactly what the case Oleg Lyalin
:17:02. > :17:07.did. All because he fell in love with his
:17:08. > :17:10.secretary, like a movie. Now, the bunting gracing our studio this
:17:11. > :17:14.evening is down to the readers of Woman's Weekly, who have
:17:15. > :17:20.collectively sold, knitted and stitched a massive 3.3 kilometres of
:17:21. > :17:24.it, making it world record-breaking. What better reason to hang event to
:17:25. > :17:28.celebrate the second series of The Great British Sewing Bee, which
:17:29. > :17:31.started on Tuesday. All of the candidates survived on Tuesday but
:17:32. > :17:38.next week policeman David may have stitched himself up. How is it
:17:39. > :17:43.going? I ignored the pattern because it did not work with the fabric. Did
:17:44. > :17:53.you just tell me you ignore the pattern? Brave. This is one full
:17:54. > :18:05.square. You wanted complete symmetry. Hold it up. Wow! That
:18:06. > :18:13.would be nice for a goal. Super cute, but very small because he
:18:14. > :18:16.changed the button. You have an eclectic mix of contestants. The
:18:17. > :18:21.production company are so clever because they find people who do not
:18:22. > :18:25.want to be on TV. It is not the usual, is this my best light,
:18:26. > :18:32.because they find extraordinary people who are brilliant amateurs
:18:33. > :18:36.from every walk of life. John Lewis has seen a 54% rise in sample
:18:37. > :18:43.patterns being sold, probably down to your show. Have you had more
:18:44. > :18:53.applicants this year? Many more. On the first one we were turning up,
:18:54. > :18:57.and this year lots of people were also put forward by daughters,
:18:58. > :19:02.husbands, and I think the policeman's White said, come on, you
:19:03. > :19:06.are sewing all the time. How are your sewing skills now, because in
:19:07. > :19:13.the first series you said you could not do it. I said to my daughter I
:19:14. > :19:21.would make a summer dress. Three armholes. I don't know how I managed
:19:22. > :19:28.that. She has options. I said, let's not tell anyone. It is all about
:19:29. > :19:32.having a go. Sewing and knitting are on trend. People are knitting
:19:33. > :19:38.backstage at the fashion shows. Do you want to take up knitting? I will
:19:39. > :19:44.tell you, the coolest schoolmarm and my son's school, she always turns up
:19:45. > :19:49.wearing a grey skirt, with stuff on it, and she buys everything from the
:19:50. > :19:58.high Street and then she adds it. I have got very into that. A bit of
:19:59. > :20:02.pink velvet. Customising. Last year's winner, 75 years of
:20:03. > :20:12.experience. Can anybody be as good? Yes. Really! She was absolutely
:20:13. > :20:18.amazing. But some of the contestants this year are amazing. Somebody can
:20:19. > :20:21.be right at the top and then have a bad alteration challenge, my
:20:22. > :20:26.favourite, and go right to the bottom. It is really exciting to
:20:27. > :20:30.watch, I think. It would take me longer to go out and buy a top than
:20:31. > :20:35.the amount of time you give them to make them. It is remarkable. The
:20:36. > :20:46.Great British Sewing Bee continues on Tuesday at 8pm on BBC Two. Time
:20:47. > :20:55.for some knitting news. We are not joking, this is all true. In China,
:20:56. > :21:02.a devoted wife spent 11 years knitting her husband a cardigan and
:21:03. > :21:07.hat out of her own hair. I am not OK with that. She pulled over 116,000
:21:08. > :21:17.strands from her head. Her husband did not comment. On a Pembrokeshire
:21:18. > :21:20.farm, an ostrich lost all her back feathers chewing a fight with
:21:21. > :21:23.another ostrich and keepers are asking the public to knit her a
:21:24. > :21:31.jumper to keep her warm and encourage feather growth. Over to
:21:32. > :21:38.you. You are never getting these back. I always think glasses should
:21:39. > :21:42.be sideways. People of Scottish heritage around the globe are busy
:21:43. > :21:51.sewing stories together to create a giant tapestry. He is Lucy Siegle.
:21:52. > :21:54.-- here is Lucy Siegle. Communities around the world have
:21:55. > :21:58.Scottish roots going back centuries and many have amazing stories which
:21:59. > :22:03.are now being told through a special Scottish tapestry for the Scottish
:22:04. > :22:08.diaspora. The brainchild of an artist, he comes up with a picture
:22:09. > :22:13.he thinks tells the best tales. How does it work? We tried to make
:22:14. > :22:19.contact with lots of associations around the world, and through that
:22:20. > :22:24.came a group of people around the world who were interested in telling
:22:25. > :22:28.their stories. Through word-of-mouth we began to collect about 500 people
:22:29. > :22:33.around the world who wanted to stitch a story. Volunteers stencil
:22:34. > :22:36.the creation onto cloth before it is sent back to the communities that
:22:37. > :22:41.came up with the story to be stitched, wherever that may be. When
:22:42. > :22:45.finished, they are returned to Scotland to be stretched and
:22:46. > :22:52.prepared for display. There is so much detail. Look at the shoes.
:22:53. > :22:57.Amazing. Not all of the stitching is being done abroad. Leona, what are
:22:58. > :23:04.you doing in Scotland? Why is your story part of this? This panel is to
:23:05. > :23:10.commemorate the link between the Russians and the Arctic convoys who
:23:11. > :23:16.left from Scotland. My father was on one which left in 1942 in September
:23:17. > :23:24.and went to Archangel. This is his ship. This is as far as I have got,
:23:25. > :23:31.and I am trying to interpret the etching lines with the same kind of
:23:32. > :23:36.texture on the ship, but using dazzle colours. Dazzle was
:23:37. > :23:43.introduced in 1942 to break up the outlines of the ships. When did your
:23:44. > :23:48.dad died? In 2000. He was 88. It was when I started clearing out his
:23:49. > :23:53.house but this came to light. What a lovely way to commemorate him. This
:23:54. > :23:58.is amazing. There are so many stories in this tapestry, tales of
:23:59. > :24:02.courage, adventure, exploration, and then there are the very personal
:24:03. > :24:11.stories. This is a love story. Tell me about them. My aunt married a
:24:12. > :24:18.prisoner of war, stationed at a local prisoner of war camp. So she
:24:19. > :24:22.is your auntie and he is a prisoner of war. One was coming on a bus on
:24:23. > :24:29.the other was going off. Their eyes met and they fell in love. How does
:24:30. > :24:38.it feel to be stitching their story? Because it is personal, it means
:24:39. > :24:42.more. It means a lot more. It is really emotional. Can I see how you
:24:43. > :24:47.are getting on? Let's have a look. You are doing well. This is good.
:24:48. > :24:53.This dress is going to be brilliant. I hope so.
:24:54. > :24:58.As we could see, so much love and personal history going into this. It
:24:59. > :25:06.is a global effort. The panels are so beautiful, 25 Nations stitching
:25:07. > :25:10.for glory. There is a panel in Alabama in the States, depicting a
:25:11. > :25:15.Scottish man who became a Cherokee Chief. I heard about one from New
:25:16. > :25:18.Zealand which somebody's ancestor from Scotland invented frozen meat,
:25:19. > :25:23.which you might think is hard to do with embroidery, but they have
:25:24. > :25:27.managed it. Canada, on Tyrie, they have someone who founded a town who
:25:28. > :25:32.was from Scotland. It is amazing and they are all coming into this place
:25:33. > :25:35.in Scotland. We have many panels stitched by ladies in the
:25:36. > :25:42.Netherlands at the Scottish House Museum. We have a live link with
:25:43. > :25:53.them. They are in Veere. They have stitched six panels so far. Can you
:25:54. > :26:04.explain your link with Scotland? Your queen of Mary. From that moment
:26:05. > :26:16.on, Scottish workers were here, trading. You have your very own
:26:17. > :26:23.tartan, looking lovely. They have done six beautiful panels. Thank
:26:24. > :26:33.you, ladies. Enjoy the celebrations when the tapestry makes it.
:26:34. > :26:39.Claudia, we hinted at spiders earlier and we had that reaction. Is
:26:40. > :26:50.this the spider show? Are you OK with lizards? How many species are
:26:51. > :26:55.native to the UK? 400. Sky and macro the answer is three. The slow worm
:26:56. > :27:04.is a legless lizard. You have the common lizard as well. And the sand
:27:05. > :27:09.lizard, the largest of them all. I don't know why we didn't just send
:27:10. > :27:13.you! Hiding under the heathland heather,
:27:14. > :27:20.the UK's largest and rarest lizard, the sand lizard. They are having a
:27:21. > :27:23.really tough time. But a team of volunteers are giving the sand
:27:24. > :27:29.lizard a helping hand, and it starts right here in an unassuming garden
:27:30. > :27:34.in Surrey. Mike Preston has converted part of his garden and
:27:35. > :27:37.some parts of his house into a breeding centre for this most
:27:38. > :27:42.charismatic of reptiles. We are standing in one of your huge Viv
:27:43. > :27:49.areas. How long have you been rearing this creature. We were
:27:50. > :27:53.looking for snakes in the wild and we thought, all of these wild places
:27:54. > :27:59.are going, being built on, dug up and forested, so we decided to do
:28:00. > :28:03.something about it. Is it difficult to rear sand lizard is? Given the
:28:04. > :28:07.right conditions, they do it themselves. They need somewhere to
:28:08. > :28:13.hibernate, they need cover, bare sand to lay eggs, and a plentiful
:28:14. > :28:19.supply of food. With all of that, they are fine. He rears over 250
:28:20. > :28:22.every year. The eggs laid outside are carefully hatched in doors,
:28:23. > :28:28.where he feeds the juveniles until they are ready for release. There
:28:29. > :28:34.are a few key areas in the UK where sand lizard 's can still be found.
:28:35. > :28:37.Their preferred habitat has disappeared, so the picky sand
:28:38. > :28:45.lizard has gone into serious decline. Working closely with Mike
:28:46. > :28:48.Preston, the amphibian and reptile trust have been overseeing the
:28:49. > :28:56.release of the baby lizard in Surrey. Explain why this habitat is
:28:57. > :29:01.perfect for this reintroduction? The most important thing is maintaining
:29:02. > :29:04.the areas of their sand. This is where the females will lay eggs in
:29:05. > :29:09.summer and animals will bask in the sunshine all your long. Heathland
:29:10. > :29:14.requires constant management to maintain it for the species that
:29:15. > :29:23.have evolved to live here. The first lizard. That looks like a good spot.
:29:24. > :29:27.OK, over to you. Of course, this is BBC part, releasing them. A lot of
:29:28. > :29:33.hard work has gone to getting them to this stage. Absolutely. It is
:29:34. > :29:36.important to release them on a day like today so they have the best
:29:37. > :29:39.chance of getting through the night in their new home. Hopefully they
:29:40. > :29:44.will survive until winter and hibernate. When they emerge next
:29:45. > :29:47.spring, it depends how well they have their wits about them. There
:29:48. > :29:53.could be high mortality rates but that is what you would have in the
:29:54. > :29:57.wild as well. This 30 year reintroduction scheme has been
:29:58. > :30:00.amazingly successful. 80% of lizard releases have established a new
:30:01. > :30:05.breeding population. Projects like this can only happen with the hard
:30:06. > :30:10.work and dedication of people like Matt and Mike and an army of
:30:11. > :30:12.behind-the-scenes volunteers. With their help, hopefully this
:30:13. > :30:19.charismatic little lizard will be given a second chance of survival
:30:20. > :30:25.and will pull away from extinction. The lengths that some people go to
:30:26. > :30:28.as animal lovers. Earlier, we asked for your knitted outfits for
:30:29. > :30:35.animals, and we have had thousands. You have made my day with these
:30:36. > :30:37.chicken jumpers. This is a rescue lurcher and greyhound. Something to
:30:38. > :30:48.rival Biscuit. These lurcher and greyhound. Something to
:30:49. > :30:52.year. That is all we have time for. The Great British Sewing Bee
:30:53. > :30:58.continues on BBC Two on Tuesday at 8pm. Tomorrow, Chris and I are
:30:59. > :31:00.joined by Paloma Faith. Have a good evening.