20/06/2011 The One Show

Hello, and welcome to One Show with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones.

Tonight we're joined by the man who has been described as Britain's

most admired man. Have a look at Instantly, I feel my heart rate

just goes straight through the roof. I admire him because of all the

things he puts himself through. I admire him for a whole different

reason. It's Bear Grylls. Good to see him there - wow. That looked

pretty horrific, in all seriousness. Why do you put yourself through

this? I don't know. I love all of that stuff. I always feel like I

have done Born Survivor since I was about seven years old but just

never filmed before. I love all of that stuff, and it's the one thing

in my life I have confidence at, and it's a huge privilege to be

able to do it. Where was that? Northern Canada in minus 20. I was

trying to show how a lot of people die falling into ice, it freezes

around them, and if you're trapped in ie, this is how you get out. It

became a long swim. Every time I tried to open my eyes to see where

the ice was above me, my eyes were stinging like crazy, trying to open

one at a time. Gosh! Another day filming... Another day, another

dollar. Is it right to say you have three little boys? Yes, eight, five

and two, Jessie, Duke and Huckleberry. They love all of this

stuff. Do they? They're bored of Born Survivor. They're now on to

Mythbusters. I am not a hero. you go to antenatal classes? I went

to one, but kept missing them and getting into trouble. There was a

big thing about dads being present in the births. I was present, but

being a good dad is about what you do after the birth. We had a home

birth, which was pretty harey, and I was there with the tool box at

the ready. She was in so much pain. I was like, honey, you have to have

an aspirin. This is getting out of hand. She goes, "I can't because it

thins the blood." I am like, "right. I am having the aspirin". It was

incredible - a thing to witness going through. There is antenatal

just for blokes. It's true. Who better than to find out than the

host of Men's Hour. More so than ever a man's place is right next to

his partner during labour. Would you like me to hold your hand,

Betty? Closer. She won't bite you. With more than 4,000 babies popping

out each year at Peter boar are Hospital, the mid wives know all

too well what can become of men at maternity wards.

LAUGHTER I can't see what's going on. Let go

of my arm! You get dads keen to massage a lady's back when they're

having a contraction. You normally get the woman saying, "No, don't do

that. That hurts". Then the men feel they're vulnerable because

then they feel they don't know what to do. I've got daughter! It seems

new dads are still in the dark about their role. I did feel a

little bit going into it that I was just going to be a spare part,

really. Would it have helped to have a bit of antenatal training

before? I think it's very much to do with the woman still. One man is

trying to do this. This is Daddy Natal, Britain's first antenatal

course for men. Hello. You are Britain's first male

fully qualified antenatal educator. I am indeed. What did it take to

get that? It comes from my own experience of the birth of my son

and how I felt out of control. Many men are involved in family life,

but nobody prepares us for that role - not as an expectant father

or a new father, not until now. the birth class is being held here

today, fittingly or not, right by a bar. Has anybody got a fear they

may be having? I am quite ratty when I am tired. I am fearful it's

going to cause a lot of tension between myself and my wife. This

one is quite sickly in the picture. Most people will get a bit

concerned. They want healthy baby. It's a good chance you'll see the

baby covered in this. There is nothing wrong with that at all.

It's totally normal. Have any of you thought about a labouring

partner, how you'll get her in the car? I have a van.

LAUGHTER Amongst the blokey banter, the

take-home knowledge starting to sink in. Has it been useful for you

to have the experience with the other blokes? Very, the worry of

looking an idiot, basically, because you should know, but you

don't. Dean's course is the equivalent of a Hanes' Car Manual

telling you a little bit of each of the things you need to know. In

reality, do as you're told is the number one rule.

It's done in metaphors men understand.

Coach, Sven. I don't want any Alex Fergusons, none at all.

The theory is great, but now up to the practical. I am going to show

you how to squad albaby. Get your first corner. Bring it down across.

What you're doing is generating a V. Tightly bring the wrap around and

tuck it in, OK? You're replicating that wound, right, then you want

your white noise element - shh! Your shh has to be louder than the

baby's cry. I'll give that a shot. Football comes easy, but dolls put

us men out of our comfort zone. Um, meant to support the head,

yeah? Lost it. Come on. Last let's have a look.

Dean is making labour and birth less daunting giving bloke chance

to be useful. The era of nipping to the pub during labour - that's long

gone. Shh. Is that something you would

have attended? No, no, no. It was chaos when we had ours. You don't

know what the hell to do with this thing. That's part of the adventure.

Of course it is. I like the way it looks like they're doing their

training in a bar. They are. They are.

For me, it's that you're in it together. It's a bonding experience.

There you go. Today the UK is revelling in the achievement of our

new sporting hero, the US Open champion Rory McIlroy. And these

are the scenes last night at Rory's local club. Just watch this moment.

Here we go. Yes! Look at if joy there. Joining us there is Rory's

uncle and the junior coordinator from Hollywood Golf Club. Good

evening, gentlemen. Good evening. Now, then, he's achieved this

massive, massive win last night. How do you think Rory is feeling

today? He's going - going to be feeling pretty good. I am sure he

had a good night last night, and he'll have time to reflect on it

the next couple of days. What do you think this means to the whole

of County Down? The world is watching him. The world is in awe

of him. Yeah, everybody's delighted for him, and he's so good. He's

made everybody so proud, and once you get over the first Major, it's

onwards and upwards bay,ically. That's the thing. He's 22 thousand,

and the world are saying -- 22 now. And the world is saying he has this

fantastic swing. Is he one of these heroes to look up to in the years

to come? I definitely think so. There is definitely several Majors

there. As a family, what have you got planned when he eventually

arrives home? We're not sure yet. It's obviously going to be a big

event, and we're hoping his management company will organise it.

And just a quick word there as well - you know, obviously, there is all

of these young golfers watching it. You're juniors coach there. It's

amazing when you get a figurehead on the world stage, what the

momentum can bring. Absolutely. Rory has long since achieved iconic

status around Hollywood here. He's well appreciated by the members and

particularly so by the juvenile members that he helps coach and

manage, and it's fantastic for the junior members to be able to rub

shoulders with the number four golfer in the world and swap banter

and nicknames with him. It's all done very casually. Rory is so

generous with his time and his efforts to repay some of the

development opportunities he's received here at Hollywood.

Wonderful stuff. I am sure you're going to be celebrating like you

wouldn't believe, so congratulations. Yeah. Thank you

very much, gentlemen. Cheers. Bye! Bye! Gosh. Well... What about - as

a former SAS man, yool you'll probably know the regiment is

celebrating 70 three years year. Will you be going to the party?

I'm not. I am away, but it's amazing. It's a proud time, and I

think the SAS has stayed for 70 years at the forefront of Special

Forces, and it's a testament to their hard work, professionalism

and the ethos of the regiment will stay the same. I admire the guys

and the work they're doing at the moment. The Special Air Service has

always required extraordinary soldiers. Tonight Dan Snow

remembers one of its founding members, the irrepressible Blair

Mayne. I thought he was immortal. He was

the best warrior I ever served with. But in his hometown in County Down,

all 6'4" of him became the most decorated soldier of World War Two,

but there was another side to him. I mean, you couldn't turn around

and call him Paddy. You always called him "sir". I think if you

called him that, he'd deck you. was a rebellious boozer and a

brawler with a hair-trigger temper. He could start a fight in an empty

room. He didn't have any respect for authority, although authority

came to have respect for him, and became one of the founder members

of the SAS. Before 1939, he had been a champion

boxer and rugby star, but it was when he joined the Royal Ulster

Rifles at the start of the Second World War that he found the

discipline of Army life wasn't for him, so he transferred to the

Commandos. Their specialities were unarmed combat, covert operations

and explosives. He'd found his place in the world,

though his famous temper nearly blew it for him. Paddy wasn't one

for fighting. If somebody really upset him, he'd just deck somebody.

That was the end of it. He's said to have done just that to a

commanding officer. He was put under house arrest in 1941. The

British forces in North Africa were getting pummelled by the tanks of

German commander Rommel. Drastic action was called for. Lieutenant

David Sterling from the Commandos was asked to come up with a

solution. He needed a real warrior to get it off the ground. Blair

Mayne became his second in command. His idea was simple - he'd

parachute small groups of men highly trained in explosives behind

enemy lines where they'd carry out guerrilla-style attacks. He

believed who dares wins. The SAS was born and it was made for the

likes of a Paddy. He would be the man at the front,

always. Never, "Go on, lads." It was always, "Come on, lads."

his first SAS mission in Libya ended in disaster. He was tasked

with destroying Rommel's air force at tube ruk, but a cruel wind blew

their parachutes off course. Out of 62 men, only 22 came back.

Devastated, Paddy drank his grief away.

But lessons have been learnt. Sterling came Up with another plan

- this time to attack an airfield, not by aircraft, but by vehicle.

Under cover of Dan,, they approached the airfield. Within

minutes they were lei explosive charges and wreaking halfock. It's

said Paddy even ripped controls out of cockpits with his bare hands.

This one-man weapon of mass destruction had become a legend.

You think of the size of that man and the times he's walked up in

full view of Germans, he'd never been hit. Why? I think the sheer

audacity of the man - they must have wondered what the hell was

coming at them. LAUGHTER

German high command admitted the SAS caused more damage than any

other British unit even though they had the smallest number of men.

After the war, when the SAS had been temporarily disbanded, Paddy

found peacetime life a harder mission than risking it all in

battle. He was probably psychopathic in that he was

somebody who was wired for these situations, understood them like a

flash of lightning, but the downside to that was it was very

hard to put somebody like that back into society. The end of the war

was the beginning of the end for Paddy. Tragically, ten years later,

aged 40, drunk at the wheel, he crashed his car into a wall in his

hometown. It was a fatal accident. I met an Irishman once who said he

wasn't killed outright in that accident, but because he was Paddy

and people were scared of him, they wouldn't go near him, and he died

in the car. I didn't think anything would kill Paddy. He saved my life.

An incredible story. He seems like an incredible loose cannon, someone

that people look up to in the SAS? Definitely. I only serve for four

years with the reserve SAS and I am not qualified to talk at all,

except to say he was a legend and a figurehead, a wild man, a real

character, but the regiment has always attracted that sort of

person. He remains inspirational for a lot of soldiers. Your new

book, you are a real character as well. Mud, Swear And Tears. When

you read people's books, there are pictures of grandparents, the house

that they grow up in, but this is what we found Ernie Els. This is

you dropping from a hot-air balloon. This is you running across an

erupting volcano! And then being buried in the Sahara by the French

foreign legion. All by at ways to spend holidays. When you think

about all the stuff that you have done in your life, if there was one

thing he didn't have to do again, what would that be? What was the

worst moment? I led an expedition to cross the Arctic in an

inflatable boat, and we got caught in some horrendous hurricane-force

winds and gales. It was about 500 miles off the coast of Greenland.

It became a very scary experience, up the boat was being pounded and

pummelled, being turned over, hailstones. The Navy were

monitoring where we were. They saw this black hole of weather over

where we had been, our communications went down, and they

thought for two or three days that we had signed. They had to make a

call to my wife that it was not looking good. Eventually, we got

out, we got communications, I had a bit of explaining to do to Shara

when we got back! It teaches you respect, I think, for the wiles and

for the sea. That is a lesson that is hard to learn except for through

experience. Hearing Blair's problems of readjusting to live

after an intense experience in the forces, is this how you channel

your elegy? On expeditions? I do try to separate work from home. You

get back from different experiences, whether it is being in a jungle, up

a mountain, or at sea, and suddenly you are back to life with three

young kids. I do not talk to it a huge amount with my wife, I tell

her it was OK. I like the separation, but it can be hard for

people. When EC soldiers returning, post traumatic stuff that they go

through, what matters is your friends, you share things with them.

When I go home, I tried to separate it a little bit, but it is hard, it

is a process. I found writing the book really cathartic. I was

reliving the emotions and getting them out. There are loads of

fantastic stories in the book. One thing we learnt is that you live on

a houseboat. Is that right? It is fun, yeah. It is a little bit damp

and rusty in winter, but we love it. My mum and Shara's mum are always

saying, be careful, the boys will for off, but they are perfectly

confident, they are not the ones to worry about. I bet you have not

woken up to find a white-faced darter outside your window. It is a

very rare dragonfly that is very particular about where it lives,

and it has not adapted well to the destruction of its habitat.. Mike

Dilger has been to Cumbria to see if he can do anything about it.

Well before the dinosaurs, giant dragon floors for one of the top

land-based predators. Today they are slightly smaller but they are

still killer insects. But some of them need our help. A very rare

white-faced darter dragonfly only lives in wetlands and because 94%

of its habitat has been destroyed in the last century, the population

is falling big time. Right now, it can only be found across a handful

of sites in England. With luck, that is all about to change. One

such site is in Cumbria, and David Clark from the British Dragonfly

Society is helping to save the species by understanding their

foibles. In this case, not wanting to fly too far. They are very

strong fliers, as you know, some of them my great long-distance, but

this PCS does not behave like that at all. It stays in its own little

patch, it is very specialised. There is no way it will move out of

here by itself. To save them, he is having to locate them himself. But

first he has got to catch them. Dragonflies only spent 3% of their

lives as blind adults. The rest, after two years, is bent under

water as larvae. That is what we are after. Another one, brilliant!

They are much easier to catch and do not seem to mind being moved. It

looks like we have the perfect match. How long before the

metamorphosis into adult bird? has already started, but you can

say they are squirting water out of the back of the abdomen, which

means they are not fully changed. When they are, they lose that

capability. You can see the wing cases are getting quite swollen and

big, which means they are transforming already. About another

three weeks, I think. They will emerge into the air. For the first

time in our lives, yes. With 30 larvae collected, it is time to

relocate them 70 miles away. The Cumbrian Wildlife Trust has spent

12 years returning Foulshaw Moss reserve to a pristine Bock, making

It has taken as an hour to get here, but it is a journey the dragonflies

would never have made on their own. Not in one million lifetimes, no.

Do it gently, led some water in. They are shooting around, they like

it. Very good. Wonderful, and hopefully, in a few weeks' time

they will admit it almost into adults. They will be flying around

the pond. Five weeks later, this is the bit we have been waiting for

all staff in all, David has released 100 larvae here. If it has

been a success, we may be lucky enough to see a white face data on

the wing. Just 10 minutes in, we strike it lucky. It has just

crawled up and it is starting to split its skin and emerge,

transferred from what I liked him very alike. It is happening before

our eyes. -- from what a life to aerial life. This is one of ours,

isn't it? Definitely one of ours. It has made it. So it is very lucky.

It is just coming out now. We are seeing metamorphosis... I have seen

thousands of dragonfly, but not like this. To see the whole thing

in front of us. Absolutely perfect view, S. This has spent two years

waiting for this moment, and we just happened to be here of the 70

minutes it takes to transform into an adult dragonfly. It squeezes out

like a tube of toothpaste. It expands to three times its original

size by redistributing fluids Well, seeing a dragonfly emerged is

a wonderful thing, but seeing one of Britain's rarest dragonflies

coming out just stops it all! There we go! How exciting is that? To see

him emerge and go right the way through to find off. I have to say,

it is the first time in 50 years that they have been flying over

Foulshaw Moss. Guaranteed. Just the most extraordinary footage,

was that unbelievable? Beautiful to look at, something that's would

usually eat. Only when surviving! Next year's English university

intake will be the first to pay up to �27,000 in fees, so the usual

question about whether or not to go are more relevant than ever.

universities throw open their doors to persuade sixth-formers designer,

18-year-old Stephanie Errington has to decide if debt and the degree is

I thought as a student this would be me one day. My Name Is Stephanie,

and like most A-level students, university and a degree seemed the

natural next step for me. Now it is a bill of �27,000 just to attend a

course, and it has made me think. My college mates are just as

worried. The prospect of paying �9,000, the year above me is paying

three times less. What is this extra money going to go to? How do

we know they will not double it again? It puts bad things in your

mind that you are unsure about. might not even get a job,

especially with the economy as it is now. Wilder's brother went to

university, but he decided it was not what he wanted to do. -- my

oldest brother. He has still got a lot of debt. I have come to an open

day at Cumbria University. I want to work in childcare, and a degree

could help. I like the idea of the social life at university. But the

costs are really scary. It is not just the course fees. You have to

borrow money to live on, too. From next year, most English and Welsh

universities will charge �9,000 per year. Here at Cumbria, it is only

slightly cheaper at �8,400. It is my pleasure to welcome everyone

this morning to the University of Cumbria. I am delighted you have

come to join us and really pleased that you are thinking of coming

here to do your studies. university are good at making it

seem like the right choice to come here and study. But it all sounds

very interesting, what about the nitty-gritty? Will a degree help me

get a job? Not everyone works with children is a graduate. Is it worth

it? Should I come here to get my degree? Absolutely, you should come

here. Good university, a good degree programme, you would enjoy

the experience, a rewarding experience, a challenging

experience. That is what university is about, starting people on

careers, giving you a choice in the future of jobs that are enjoyable

and interesting. York University is charging �1,400, only �600 less

than hot and Cambridge. -- your university is charging 8,000 for

the pounds. What we are doing here is offering a hugely supportive

environment for students. We put a lot of effort into support and

learning and teaching to make sure that experience is really good.

That may be so, but with one in five recent graduates looking for

work, maybe I should think about going straight to work on getting

an apprenticeship. Hi. I know it is not much, but according to the

Connexions careers adviser, with an apprenticeship you get some money,

rather than building up debt. may get paid a training allowance,

or you may actually be paid at an hourly rate for the job. I was

talking to one of these training providers this morning, and they

were saying that for some of their placements, you would earn �2.50

per hour. Dear think that is an important thing to consider? -- do

you think? Yes, it is worth considering. You have to earn a

living as well as do other stuff. If you look at the jobs you might

get on an apprenticeship, and then you look to get a job in a creche

or nursery, or even as a teaching assistant, that there is a fair bit,

but it could be something like a minimum-wage job and pass around

15,000 per year. Children are the most vulnerable people in society...

At the university open day, I have learned that with a degree I could

go in at a higher level and still might not advise massive repayments.

In I end up in a low-paying job, I do not have to repay any of the

loan. He is it worth the money? have enjoyed my course so much...

If I had a job, the payments would cost me �18 of my monthly wage.

What am I going to do? Am I going to go to university and get a

degree? Or am I going to go straight to work and get an

apprenticeship? Based on what I have heard, I'm going to take a

year out and eventually head off to university.

When faced with the decision, go travelling, that is my conclusion!

You have adopted this little staff, because you are Chief Scout. We

need to do this with three fingers. Absolutely! Jordan beside you, you

awarded him with an Award for Meritorious Conduct, tell us your

story. Well, my mum was screaming in the middle of the night, so I

went downstairs, because Stephen wasn't breathing. I went to the

neighbours to help them. When we came back, the neighbours look

after him, and I look after my mum and crazy. Incredible. A scouting