20/07/2016 The One Show

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

Tonight, we're in the mood for a fight! We are. A proper fight.

Because Robot Wars is back. We've got some of these met Al monsters

who look ready to rumble. -- metal. Angela Scanlon will tell us more

later on. Welcome back to Geoff. His sons help him battle illness and bat

health. He is fighting fit and looking good. Looking very well. And

we have got a gang of rebels with us who are ready to cause a ruckus in

the studio. They are the stars of a brand new sitcom that looks

absolutely smashing. LAUGHTER. What an entrance. It's

Simon Callow, Anita Dobson and Bill Patterson.

APPLAUSE. Now, this show, this new sitcom, is all about ageing

hellraisers. We will talk about it later. We don't know whether you saw

it. Theres with a survey out last week, ridiculous survey, wasn't it?

Yes. Saying what age people think that people should stop doing things

considered to be young things. For example, there is a picture here of

Keith Richard, 72 years old, wearing a pair of trainers. The cut off

apparently for trainers should be 49. Insane? On that giggle. What do

you think is the age you should be wearing skinny jeans, Simon? Late

70s. According to the survey, 47. Do you have a pair of skinny yeans? No.

Would you like a pair! What age Anita should we stop going to a

nightclub. Never. We should always go to nightclubs. Never. Should that

be the voice of non-reason. 44, apparently. What about a tattoo? A

tattoo. Ta-ta. I'm ready to start the tattoo. I have thrown caution to

the wind. You You do not join the authority who say you should be 38.

38. I'm approaching that! Dave disagrees with all of it. He thinks

it's nonsense am look at him. Tattoos, skinny jeans. A selfie as

well. You should be no older than 34 to take a selfie. You should be in

at midnight at 52 years old. Midnight! Anyway. Depends if matron

is there. The internet has revolutionised

the way we shop - and not just for those of us staying the right

side of the law. Because there's a hidden world

online where you can buy a whole Dan Donnelley has logged

into the 'Dark Web'. We all like to think our personal

data is private and that the organisations we have to share it

with will keep it safe. On this memory stick I've managed to get

hold of some people's most personal details. Details they would never

have willingly given to a stranger. So how does it feel when someone

knocks on your door, hello... And shows you they've got your very

private information? I'm shocked. I'm absolutely shocked. I've bought

the personal data of a dozen people from a list of you thousand offered

for sale online by cybercriminals. I did it by visiting a part of the

internet most of us never see. It's called the dark web. It's an online

black market selling anything a criminal could want. That includes

stolen data. James Lyne is one of the UK's top cyber security experts.

Its his job to keep a watchful eye on this internet underworld. The

Dark Web is a basically a term to describe all of the more illicit

sites on the internet where cybercriminals and others go to

trade information. To access it you need special software that keeps

your identity anonymous. Why isn't it being shut down by the

authorities? Well, the challenge is the internet is borderless. Laws are

far more national. By the time police and others track down a

particular operation, it's very easy for the cybercriminals to have

jumped to the other side of the planet. How easy is it to get hold

of the kind of material criminals want? Well, with the help of James

I'm going to enter the hidden world of the Dark Web. The first thing you

notice is how ordinary it looks. Professional looking, isn't it? It

isn't what I was expecting from the dark web. It's like shopping for

insurance. Look at what is on sale. Everything from fake passports and

hard drugs... This guy is doing a special offer on heroin. To weapons,

from tasers to sub-machine guns. Wow! Oozy with silencer.

Unbelievable. Also up for sale are stolen credit card details and

personal data. We have access to the credit cards, expiry dates. Full

addresses and telephone numbers of every one of those individuals.

Absolutely everything required to commit some fraud online. That took

seconds. That's just as easy as doing your shopping online. Some

people harvest this site day in and day out for hundreds or thousands of

credit cards. You can buy them singly or as a job lot. The crooks

want your feedback reasons. The last thing we want to do is put money in

their pockets. Clicking the buy buttons is the only way we can

verify the card details for sale are the real deal. We bought a list of

people's credit card details, including the security codes and all

at just ?5 each. We are using the information we've bought to warn the

card holders, like 80-year-old Dave. You're details are on this criminal

website. Here is your bank details. Mine? ! Yep. My you actual bank

details are on there? If you look there. Yes. How the hell did they

get that in I'm shocked. The suspicion is that this website could

be based in Russia, but the actual criminals trading on it could be

anywhere. You have frightened me. Sorry about

that. No, you helped me out a lot. This could go on forever. You do

need to warn your bank that your details have been stolen. When you

Levi will be strabth on to them. I can assure you that. Build we con

tanthed all the people whose card details we bought and alerted the

National Crime Agency to what we found. We also went back onto the

Dark Web to tell the criminals who we really are. No surprises, they

didn't reply. Just so you know, we are going to delete all of the

personal information on here to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong

hands. Like anybody, Dave individual and his wife were stunned there. For

tips to stay safe online we have put tips on there. To shine some light

on this mist steerious subject is author of The Dark Net Jamie

Bartlett. -- mysterious. Where did it come from A US government

document, US Navy intelligence wanted a way to allow their spies to

go online without giving away their location. To stay anonymous. You

understand why. A couple of years after that, a decade ago or so, they

opened sourced this. Made it available to anyone. A way to browse

the net with a web browser who it encrypts your traffic and bounces it

around computers around the world. You can go online without anyone

knowing where you are. That is brilliant actually for civil

liberties groups and journalists. It's run by a charity of civil lib

rity people who believe in privacy and lack of censorship. Over the

last few years criminals have migrated there. They see the

benefits of staying hidden. How do the users not get ripped off? Some

do. People get scammed, as they call it, very often. As you saw in that

piece, they are like professional markets. Like Amazon or eBay. They

work in the same way. The users reviews, for example, mean consumers

who go there have some way of giving feedback to the vendors who try to

get a feedback score. You will go back to them again. It's a highly

competitive and very creative place. They use clever ways of payment with

bitcoin toic make sure they are hidden as well. It's a very, very

competitive marketplace. That is why there is a level of consumer

protection. From those good points you talked about earlier. Do you see

this as the future, the way it is going if you want to remain private

in what you do online? Yes, actually. The internet changes very

often. Every decade or so it changes what it is about. We never imagined

it would be like how it is now. Evolves. I think the internet is

starting to change. People are getting worried about their privacy.

About what happens to their data. You saw what happened to that

person's credit card details. Yes. More of and more of us live so much

of our lives online it's places like the dark net where people care so

much about privacy, using encryption and anonymous browsers that I can

see lots of people will start using that. It will go mainstream because

people are worried about what happens to their data. Data

protection. Do you see it as a good or scary place? It's both. It's

quite scary when you spend time there. It isn't only used by

criminals. No. Whistleblowers and civil liberty activists and

journalists like myself rely on it too. It keeps us safe. You can't

have one without the other. If you build this software to keep the good

guys safe and private, the bad guys are always going to use it as well.

I'm afraid, we will have to live with that. Thank you, Jamie. Hope to

see you again with more good advice and help. Thank you.

Anglers on the river Avon in Hampshire have been hit

They're catching too many fish And they're upset about it.

Tommy Sandu packed his fishing rod and cast off to find out why.

On a beautiful day like today what could be better than casting a line

into the clear waters of the River Avon. Anglers here in Hampshire

aren't happy. Not because there aren't any fish, quite the opposite.

Something like 60,000 edible rainbow trout have appeared in this river

behind me. Causing the local fishermen the unusual problem of

having too many to catch. Andy Brown run as local tackle shop. He is not

seeing the funny side of the situation. How did they get there?

They have escaped from a trout farm. The anglers are catching one after

another. After the first sort of 10-15 the noveltiy wears off. There

are so many your cat can eat and you can put on the BBQ. They will attack

the fry on in the river. The baby fish? The juvenile fish spawned this

year. The trout will prey on them and eat them. We are telling people

to catch them, take them home, give them to neighbours and get them out

of the river. How much have you caught? 42 trout in three hours.

Maybe I can catch fish. I have never fished before I should find this

easy, shouldn't I? Yeah. No problem. Let's get some gear. Right, I've got

my gear. Let's go and get some trout. Down by the river bank I meet

local fisherman Jim who is struggling to overcome the

disappointment of catching fish? To be honest, they are a plague. A real

plague. Fishing hell. Why? The general angler wants to catch his

species, but these are so envasive it's stopped me from fishing here. I

live here and this is my local water. I would pop down here two,

three, four times a week. It has stopped me from fishing here now. I

have to fish other parts of the Avon. I'm here to do my bit. Is this

a good bit? As good as any. Bright and sunny. We will see if we can

catch a trout. If there are that many in there, will even I be able

to catch one? It's stuck in my finger! I don't think that is

supposed to happen. It's not as easy as it looks. Maybe I need to rely on

Jim's skills. When he gets another bite, I manage to land it. Watch

this. Here it comes. I can feel it pulling. What is that? What is that?

That is a trout. I've got my first trout! 60,000 minus one, doing my

bit for the river. Just a few more to get. You never forget your first

trout, Tommy! What. Is that a thing? Maybe. It is now. Let us move on to

The Rebel. It starts tonight. Your sitcom on Gold. You play henny

Palmer who lost his wife and discovered his rebellious side. Some

would describe him as Victor Meldrew on steroids. How do you see him?

He's a very, very angry man. The thing that made him so angry is a

feeling, I think a lot of people have this feeling at the age of 70,

as he, is something like it, at retire am age, they have had their

life stolen from them. They have spent 40 years of earning, of being

serious, proper fathers and husbands and all the rest of it. Then

suddenly they think - my life is about to be over. I haven't actually

lived. The life he wanted to live was the life he lived as an

18-year-old. He thought the world was changing for the better. That it

was going to be a world of poets and singers and dope smokers. Heavily

into dope. So he's not much like Victor

Meldrew! So, Anita, where do you come in? Well, I play Margaret, who

lost her husband a couple of years ago and she works as a volunteer in

the local charity shop, where Henry comes in to have a look for the odd

little waistcoat, jacket, hoping to pick one up quite cheap, and she's

got a bit of a penchant for Henry, so she keeps things are signed --

keeps things aside for him, hoping that one way she could set her cap

that way. Bill, you're quite hip? I'm kind of the other side of the

coin to the Mod gang, I'm the laid-back old hippy who's constantly

looking for that new experience of light that never quite came. He is

finding it now, he's finding it now, he's finding it, just as Henry is.

So it's the other side of the same coin, we've been through the same

decades and we've reached this one with a particular slander on life.

Let's have a look at a scene that three of you are in, set in

Margaret's charity shop. Peace, man! Margret, don't move, I want to

remember you like this, standing there are amongst the old footwear.

You dreadful man! I try my best! What can I do for you? I tell you

what, I'm looking for a stress toys for my gerbils, have you got

anything? How about this? ?1. Henry, that might make my gerbils even more

neurotic. Goodness. What do you think? Well, it's like... It's

terrible. So, this series is all kind of built

on a cartoon? Amazing, none of us read, we're not nearly old enough to

read! Hang on, we said you were a fan, Bill. Written and drawn by

Andrew Burch. Andrew has very kindly given us this, of your experience on

The One Show tonight. We will put it online as well, so you can have a

look. We've got three. Thank you, they are lovely! It was interesting

working with a writer in this commit you found it quite fluid, did you

not? One of the joys... Because it's such a strong visual image, they're

very masculine, junkies figures, even Anita! -- mass killing

masculine chunky figures. He's not forcing a script on us. He was

certainly very open to changes. The director, unusually, directors of

comedy is often have very short timescales and they have to get it

in the can and all that, but he really opened it out all of us, so

we all made it together, which was fantastic and joyful. And Andrew was

around, it's very personal to Andrew. Andrew's dad was a man not

exactly like Henry Palmer but a man who just at the age of 70 started

speaking in the way he started speaking in Anglo-Saxon, basically!

Four letter words started coming out of this man's mouth that he had

never heard before! His wife had died and he had been brought up by

his mother very closely, the wife was very dominant and then she died,

and suddenly this man was free! That what it's about, freedom, wanting

freedom again. Well, the Rebel starts 10pm tonight on Gold.

The question is, have you got a guitar in the garage, a lute in the

loft or even a bass soon in the back room? Sounds wrong! So many Beeb

will start learning an instrument, they give it up when they are young

and they don't try it again. Richard has taken on the challenge of taking

five amateur musicians and making them into a quintet of maestros. As

the BBC's Get Playing season shines a light on amateur music and invites

you to go online and play with a virtual orchestra, The One Show had

the bright idea that we could put together our own band of budding

musicians. I have taught music in schools and I play a broad range of

instrument -- broad range of instruments but this latest

challenge could be one of my toughest gigs yet. Can I take five

The One Show presenters of different levels of musical ability and turned

them into a top winter in just two weeks? -- top quintet. With the kind

of musical talent I have got to play with, what could possibly go wrong?

In The One Show quintet, I will be on the fiddle. Angelica Bell will be

laying cello. Alex Riley thinks he's going to be rocking guitar. We have

Miranda and her magic flute. And Christine walked and has dusted off

her recorder. Our musical mission, to play a piece

of composed music in harmony in just two weeks. We have a range of

abilities, from Alex... I've never met Alex until today. He gets

distracted quite easily! Miranda, on the other hand, is very experienced.

I was playing piano from about the age of six, then I did recorder. I

started the flute at the age of about eight or nine. The only thing

I really one was a Young Musician of the Year, vision. With instruments

tuned, it's now time to learn to play.

CHUCKLES When he played the song I thought he

had got it mixed up, because why on earth would we be doing an opera?

Carmen? We're going to play one of opera's most famous arias, the

Toreador song. We're going to perform publicly,

quite an intimate venue, called Trafalgar Square! So essentially

we're just going to be busking? It's for charity, for children in need.

The tricky bit would be learning the music. I've written a version of the

score for the instruments. Christine has a problem. It's her eyesight,

she can't see the notes, so I have super-sized her sheet music. Oh! I

can see it now instead of squinting and guessing. I think Alex and I are

similar but the others can play! It's so flipping obvious, we are the

mugs and they are the players! I started playing cello when I started

at secondary school. It was a time when I was finding my creativity and

when I played the cello when I was younger I didn't practice, it didn't

sound good and that meant that I gave up. I want this to sound good,

I want this to be a great experience. I want to get them all

together, play it through and then we have got a benchmark we can go

from. They are all fantastic one show

presenters but playing music live is a bit of a different thing. I'm

quite worried we might have that domino effect where one goes wrong

end it puts off the next person. Well, it's close! Ish! I'd say it's

just about everyone going home and doing masses of practice. It's all

right in the rehearsal room, but a live performance? Let's wait and

see. We're on the edge of our seats here but we will see how they get on

a little bit later. We're very pleased to welcome someone special.

He's called Jeff Wrightington. -- Geoff Whittingham. He was overweight

and had been diagnosed with type two diabetes. Since then he has battled

back to full fitness with the help of his two sons and you can see

their story on Fixing Dad. I don't enjoy it! I don't enjoy cooking.

He's sat in his ways. I want to make you learn how to do it. Bring me out

of my comfort zone? Yes. Why? Really shouldn't be doing this but we need

you to step up to this now. How many millions of pounds did we spend on

this thing? At the end of the day it's because I'm eating the wrong

stuff. All you've got to do is get out and do something like this and

you can get through it. Unbelievable!

APPLAUSE It's absolutely fantastic to see the

three of you again. Geoff, we've met a couple of times. The first time

you came on, you had sort of thrown in the town, in a sense, hadn't you?

That was the beginning of the boys putting you back together, so to

speak. Now you're fighting fit, a picture of health. But you have had

a major setback in the last year? Yeah. Everything seemed to be going

really well. I was feeling so much better all around, but because of

the project itself, I was sent for a scan in Newcastle and the scan

actually revealed cancer in my kidney. Basically, it hadn't been

found at that time but I know now, it would have been found by now and

could be at stage two, stage three. It's just thanks to the boys that

that did happen. The lads helped you through it and you had the

procedure. What's the situation at the moment? All clear with the

cancer. Brilliant. It's just now purely concentrating on what we've

been doing with the diabetes. On the Type two diabetes subject, you were

20 stone at the start. You would never believe it now. Trim now,

Geoff, trim. I can do anything now. The documentary is incredibly

enlightening. You've got these big board and York putting up all these

ideas to try and fix your dad, and a stubborn chap! He is! I think the

whole project was driven by just the deluded hope. We didn't find

anything online that gave us any kind of encouragement, it was just

really, we said we are going to fix this. We looked for everything, we

were positive about it and we said we are going to find the case

studies that have and we came across some reversal Case studies and we

said we are going to try our hardest. You broke it down to

fitness, nutrition... That is what we decided to break it down to,

because the mind is a very important part of it. Part of -- partly the

stubbornness, partly this idea ingrained of what he thought was

healthy food. The big thing was the big goal that we set. That's a key

thing to get people motivated. The exercise was the motivation and the

nutrition side was incredibly important in getting him to not be

on any medication now. To get off the medication, the nutrition was

the way forward. The cycling was much more than just cycling for dad

committed literally led to the renewed use of his own two feet. He

was able to get out, enjoy things. It was everything. How much cycling

are you doing now? I'm out every day. A minimum of ten miles a day.

We don't recognise you since the first time you came in! Completely

different. But you're not finished yet, are you? You've done all this

stuff and it's been a two-year journey. What's next, boys? The big

thing is because dad is off all his diabetes medication now, we think he

is an inspiration to a lot of people and we hope the film can inspire a

lot of people to do the same. It does. We really hope it does and we

hope people can do it. We're looking at a legacy for this, inspiring

other people to do the same for their families, working closely

together. We're working with Prudential Royal London together who

are going to kick that off with a fixing challenge, which is going to

be balloted with London 2017, we're going to beat men touring for Lucky

Families! Who have got somebody to fix themselves? Yes, with health

issues, who needs some help, really. We can just give them a viewpoint is

from our experience. If you go to Prudential online, people will be

able to enter for next year. I bet you are sober pleased that you made

that packed with your son is where you said I will do whatever you tell

me for the next year? Absolutely. There's no way I am now otherwise.

The documentary is so inspiring. Fixing Dad, this Sunday at Tenby on

BBC Two. Angela Scanlon will be here soon

telling us about the brand new high-powered Robot Wars which is

back bigger and Bader than ever before. First, Ruth Goodman has

discovered a motor industry pioneer who we think would do very well in

robot wars. Carl Benz, Henry Ford, names connected to the automobile.

There was a car designed and built entirely by women. The Galloway car

was the brain child of Dorothy Pullinger. She was the first

successful female car manufacturer after managing 7,000 women in a

munitions factory during the First World War. This old factory behind

me in Scotland Dorothy and her women mechanics set up their first

assembly line. Staffed entirely by women, her company designed,

manufacturered and assembled 4,000 Go low way Cars over an eight year

period. Becoming successful engineer wasn't easy. Dorothy's father was a

well-known vehicle industry, Thomas Charles Pullinger who believed a

woman's place was in the home. Yvette is his granddaughter. I don't

think quite honestly my grandfather stood a chance against my mother. I

think she would have just worn him out. Having proved her management

skills in the war, Dorothy's father eventually made her Managing

Director of Galloway Cars. Together, they introduced progressive work

policies, such as installing a swimming pool and tennis courts on

the roof of her factory. More importantly, Dorothy gave women a

new kind of future. She believed they could do anything a man could.

They had a three-year apprenticeship. She didn't see women

should be doing the washing and the laundry and the ironing. It's a bit

dull. Dorothy's company logo even adopted the colours of the

suffragettes. She designed everything in the Galloway car with

women in mind. She standardise what had is arguably one of the most

important features of a car - one that we all take rather for granted

today. Louise is Kew curator of transport at the National Mew

#15i78s Scotland. Although, for instance, rear view mirrors had been

used before. She introduced them as standard. An interesting book

written in 1909 where she suggests taking your mirror off your dressing

table and holding it up to see what is going on behind you. Oh, my

goodness. One handed. She lowered the dashboard so that you could see

over it better. The seat was fully adjustable. The gear stick, the

inside is much, much easier. You are not reaching outside the car. It was

probably with women drivers in mind. By the early 20s though men had

returned from the war and a woman's place was firmly back in the home.

She was told all the time - you're doing a man out of a job. You should

do a woman's job. Dorothy's answer - to start a company that was of

little interest to men. A laundry business. She found a form of

engineering that the men didn't want? Therefore as a Exactly. Woman

she was free to run it with no benches. Inter ference. She wouldn't

know what to do. Next time you look in your rear view mirror remember

it's innovators like Dorothy Pullinger who made it all possible.

I love that film. Isn't it great? Up your street. From building cars to

building bots. It's the long-awaited and hugely anticipated return of

Robot Wars. Slightly terrifying. We saw it on the telly 12 years ago.

Hugely popular. What has changed then for this brand new series?

Visually the first thing you will see the difference is a giant

bulletproof box. The battles happen inside that. #24e are more powerful.

The weight restrictions have gone up. They are heavier. Batteries are

lighter. They have more fiercest. They have been rebuilt? Yes. They

are bigger, better. Most are double the size that they were originally

in the previous series. They are scary. They are quite terrifying.

Absolutely. Here is the all new Robot Wars. 3-2-1.

The big question here, who can beat the mighty Razor. Oh, out come the

bots. Mayhem here. It will come out and wedge in underneath and flip

them up-and-over. They have activated the pit. Down goes the

pit. Someone could be on the edge of doom... It's like a Gladiator arena.

They screamed it, "in the pits" they get into it. Scarily so. It says as

much about the people who build the robots as the men Absolutely.

Themselves. It's metal on metal in the arein. In the pits watching

people helping each other having torn lumps off each other inside the

the arena. They get on board lending each other motors and fixing up. One

of the robots was destroyed. Torn to pieces. There was 15 competitors all

hands on deck helping them out. It was quite sweet and family kind of.

The camaraderie comes from the team we have here. Gabriel and hes mill.

Dad and daughter. Your connection to Robot Wars goes way back? The first

time we went on Robot Wars was 2001 #. During that time when Esme's mum

was pregnant with Esme. We were knocked out. On the way back - Mum

was sitting safely. She was in the crowd In the pit, getting excited.

Maybe too excited. On the way home her contractions started. No Esme

was born two-days later. Born 11 weeks early. She spent a long time

in hospital. Very small. Now you are on the team. Now on the team. How do

you divide duties then? You look after the weapons, don't you, Esme,

in these robots? Yeah. I saw my dad on it before. When I heard the new

series was coming back he asked me if I wanted to be on the team I said

- I'd love to be on the team much he was like - would you like to drive

the weapons? At first I was nervous because I'd never done it before.

Yeah. How much of Esme's inheritance have you spent on your robot, Sabre

Tooth? The actual cost without any time is ?5,000. Goodness me. A lot

of money. A lot of money. Where does it live in the garage? No, no. So...

Oh, dear. There is another story. Sabre Tooth lives in the spare

bedroom in our home. Your sister moved out. Yeah. Sabre Tooth has

taken over the bedroom. Polly who was on the team, she moved out and

Sabre Tooth moved in. Tucked in in the bed. We tuck in every night. As

we mentioned earlier the house robots are back, bigger and better

than ever. Go on. Where should we start. Matilda, the only female

house robot. I thought Esme may have been named after Matilda if they she

were die hard. Killalot. They patrol the arena. To keep law and order, if

you like. They also act, you know, as moving hazards. There is the

flames. They are hazards and competing robots will feed their

opponents to Sir Killalot who can do a quicker job ending them than they

could themselves. It becomes very, very tactical. They are being tame

now because they can't go nuts. Snoop they do go nut. Our arena is

too small. You filmed a demo. It wouldn't be appropriate here. We

filmed a demo earlier on. Just a little one. Shall we have a look. Do

you recognise that, Matt Sorry, yeah. There is my wife. That is a

painting in your house, isn't it, of the BFG? Yes. Yes, it is. He got the

death stare that Killalot has. Hang on. What we did with the particular

picture was seeing how good Killalot was at destroying. That was painful.

Yeah, great. That's my picture. Thanks ever so much. Why? Thank you.

It was important to show these people put their heart and soul into

things they really love theses machines. Yeah, yeah. Destroying it

gives you a sense - Don't worry, it is's not the proper one. It's a

lookalike. Nicola has - I wondered what was going on, you people. Good.

What is happening? Your picture is safe. That is all you need to know.

It was fine. A demo. It didn't go quite to plan, did it? Later in the

show we have a Robot Wars challenge, they will go head-to-head against

the daddy of them all Sir Killalot. I don't know what is happening. Have

I got a picture or not? It's safe. Confused. 100%. Robot Wars returns

on Sunday, 8.00pm on BBC Two. Who would have thought that a small

budget British film set in, of all places, a launderette

would compete for a Oscar against the likes of Platoon,

Hannah and Her Sisters and Crocodile But it did happen and now one

of it's stars, Gordon Warneck, has arranged a very special One Show

screening to see if it It was low budget, shot in six weeks

as a TV movie and never intended to be a cinematic smash. This 1985

Oscar-nominated British classic became just that and had a cult

following for more than 30 years. I played one of the leads, Omar. My

Beautiful Launderette tells the unlikely love story between a former

National Front punk and the son of a Pakistani immigrant navigating the

ideals of Thatcher's Britain. In this damn country, which we hate and

love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and available.

That's why I believe in England. Fresh out of drama school, this was

my first film. With subject matter challenging sterotypes, this was a

project I really wanted to be involved in. Seduced by his uncle's

promises of getting rich, Omar gets involved with his families dodgy

dealings. He is harassed by a gang of punks who blame Asians for taking

their jobs. Their leader is childhood friend, Johnny, played by

Daniel Day who flirted with -Lewis fascism since they saw each other I

read it and said this is really good. That is how we met. He had a

father from Pakistan and a white English mother. I was white

middle-class. He taught me everything. He taught me about mim

grant life. I thought the critique of Margaret Thatcher was the

important thing. I didn't notice there would be gay themes that would

echo around the world. Despite Johnniy's racist past they rekinkle

their relationship -- Johnny. They turned it into a think of drama and

class, Powders. We were part of the do-it-yourself generation surrounded

by the spirit of free enterprise. I loved the script. It was ambiguous

and dark and questionable. I found it very thrilling. Cherry has an

attitude she say, "I'm sick of hearing about these in-betweens.

People should make up their minds where they are." You have to side

with us or side with them. The racism comes from both sides then.

The reaction to the film was about audiences coming faces to face with

something that wasn't what they norm Al thought of as an immigrant

community. One of the things I think that did bewilder people was the

fact that you were talking about a wealthy middle-class Pakistani

family effectively. Yes, it's been proven over and over in Britain's

social history that immigrants are very aspiration Al. Powders a

Portuguese restaurant. Around the corner is Dirty Laundry. A perfect

place for tonight's screening. More than three decades on what will our

group make of the movie? It has relevance irrespective of the fact

it was done 30 years ago. It's relevant today. We had to deal with

discrimination. I'm a professional businessman not a professional

Pakistani. We met in the launderette at the student We got drunk union.

In that launderette. As an Asian man growing up and thinking about my

ethnicity and how it affected my only development as a gay man. I

loved it. It was like the first time I felt I was represented on screen.

It made me feel like - om, my God things are happening then. I can

feel relevant now. New audiences need to be exposed to that material.

My Beautiful Launderette's commitment to tell the stories of

minoritieses means its message endures over 30 years on and still

resonates with contemporary Britain today.

That film tackled the issue of being gay in the 80s. The 80s was when you

decided to come out yourself, Simon. Is it right that people advised you

not to? Oh God, yes. When I went to the national theatre in the 70s I

was interviewed for the first time in my life by national journalists

and so on and they would say, so, you've got a girlfriend, have you? I

would say no, I'm gay, and they never printed it at all. I realised

that the British press wanted to find me out rather than me to tell

them. So I carried on doggedly and valiantly saying this, I did

Shakespeare's sonnets and the directors wrote a piece about it for

the new statesman saying Simon and I worked on this, me as a heterosexual

man and him as a homosexual man, and the national theatre department

deleted the phrase. They told me it would be the end of my career. The

only way I could actually come out was to write a book. In which I

actually said, I just said "I'm gay". It wasn't an issue book, it

wasn't about being gay, I just said, I'm gay. That has always been the

most important single thing anybody can do in that situation is just

stand up and be counted and say yes, I'm gay, that's that. The T-shirt

says it all, some people are gay, get over it. That's exactly my

attitude. I'm not militant about it but I think everybody who is gay

would be much, much happier if they came out. If people do come out,

everybody understands that being gay is a perfectly normal thing, there

are gay people in nearly every family in the land, businesses,

shops, every walk of life there are gay people. And there have been,

from the beginning of time. So let's just get used to it. And we have to

say congratulations, Simon, because we know that you recently got

married! I did. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

It was very, very lovely. And he is gorgeous! He is, very gorgeous. Even

more gorgeous than that, actually! You had a honeymoon? We had a

four-day honeymoon in Turkey. But life is a honeymoon now. That's so

nice! We will hark back to the 80s if we can for a moment regards Anita

Dobson and EastEnders, I'm sure people ask you this a lot but how

does that chapter of your life relate to everything you've done? It

changed everything it changed my career and my life. I would never

have met my husband had I not been cast as that character. It changed

my career because I went from being a jobbing actress that nobody had

heard of to suddenly being on the front page of every newspaper for

about three years! It was massive. We loved Angie. Last time we came

into me you were talking about Dad's Army, Bill. You told us then that

you nearly turned the role down but today we discovered there was

another film that you really did turn down. There's nothing more

boring than actors telling you the films they turned down! You've still

got the script? I have the script of this one to prove it. In 1978I got

sent a very nice script, which you don't always get nowadays, you get a

little bit on the computer with your name across, but I got a beautiful

script for a film called Alien. I said oh, my goodness me, this is

science fiction, I don't like science fiction! It's about a

freighter going through space and something comes up... Nobody will

watch it! Just tell Mr Scott I'm not turning up for the interview, and

that was it. But I have still got that script. So if there's anybody

watching, on the Internet, I still have it. You could sell that at

auction. Get on the dark web! Earlier we saw Richard attempt the

impossible, to create a quality quintet from some slightly musical

members of our one show family. Well, it's time, everyone. It is in

fact the moment of truth. How will their Carmen chorus go down in

Trafalgar Square? We're all wondering.

Two weeks ago I began turning this mob of The One Show presenters into

a quintet. But it was clear we needed to practice. One, two...

So, Christine and I managed to face time each other. I'm having problems

with timing with some of this. If you write on your music "Long,

short, long, short," I think that will really help. Like anything,

playing in your bedroom is fine but when you actually come to play live,

I am a bit concerned that this whole thing could still unravel.

But ready or not, the time has come for our plucky players to face up to

the challenge and perform for the Great Britain is public. -- great

British public. I don't think I'm going to be nervous because there is

safety in numbers, Trafalgar Square is an iconic place and I will be

going in wanting to do well. One, two, three.

This is the first time I've ever played a guitar in front of other

people. Hopefully not the last! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

I thought they were very good, they did very well. Carmen, basking,

intra- Albert Square! You can't get better than that! Marks out of ten?

I would give it an 8.5. Top job, everyone! But The One Show producers

are upping the ante. They want to know if our amateur musicians can

cut it at an even higher level. I'm scared now! Read it out. You have

been invited to play with the BBC concert Orchestra! BBC concert

Orchestra. Ten night! Tonight? No way! We are out of our depth! Of

course I haven't, I've only played with these four before! So, we're

here. Whatever happens, this is going to be one of the most

memorable experiences of their lives. We have some presenters from

The One Show in the Orchestra tonight. We're not sure what to

expect, but we're looking forward to it. And so we begin.

I mean, just to be in it and to feel a part of it, it's just mind

blowing. My solo was absolutely spot on, for two bars, I was part of the

Orchestra! My dream has come true. Just feeling the music a bit better

and being around such amazing people has made me feel like I want to be

better. Music is not something you do by yourself, it's something that

brings a lot of people together, that's what I love about it.

LAUGHTER I think they will be recording The

One Show theme tune before long! It was good until Christine did that on

the record! BBC music lovers everywhere can join in the Proms

celebrations. To find out how to take part, visit the get playing

website. The deadline is the 27th of August, still time. Are you going to

do it? Nobody wants to hear me on a violin, to be fair! If you thought

that Robot Wars started on Sunday, think again! It's about to start

right here and right now. Our top design team have built some

state-of-the-art robots on behalf of tonight's guests, and they are about

to do battle with the scariest robot on the planet, Sir Killalot! OK,

Simon, you're going to be controlling Sir Callowbot! Anita,

you're going to be in charge of the Dobinator! And then Bill, you're

going to be in charge of Kill Patterson! Can they survive for a

minute in our arena? All you have to do is avoid Sir Killalot. To be

fair, Sir Killalot is not in a very good mood. I would get yourselves in

position if I were you, because it's about to happen. Angela, any last

words of wisdom? I think there absolutely doomed! Just go for it!

OK, go! The Dobinator is often with a little

kind of crawl. That's a bit underwhelming. Oh! No! He looked

fearsome as always, but he's really going for it! OK, our hopes rest on

Kill Patterson. Come on Kill, Patterson, get moving. I mean, to

put this in perspective... CHEERING

Kill Patterson... Keep rolling. You just have to survive this. 700

kilograms. I don't know how much Kill Patterson ways, but my hunch is

not very much. He's taunting him! Oh!

They were absolutely annihilated! Build a year lasted the longest. He

did, well done. -- Bill, you lasted the longest. The hair we are! That's

all thanks to all our guests. Simon,

Anita and Bill will star in The Rebel tonight on BBC Two. We will be

back tomorrow with Simon Mayo. See you then. Goodbye.

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