20/10/2016 The One Show

These guys are trialling one street in Manchester, with 11 extra bins,

trying to gather all the cups from Starbucks, they are not taking part,

maybe they are doing else. But to me, that is a we are trialling

recycling in Manchester. We will get back to you in one year, 18 months,

until I see one of these big companies brandishing a properly

recyclable coffee cup, and I'm afraid that it is... There you are!

Take your cup, bring it with you wherever you go. Even on the train,

that is Also tonight, this moving family

story. Seeing both my sons wanting to risk their lives for me, it was a

big, big thing. But now, thanks to top chefs

like Hugh, there's no shortage of people wanting to get

into the food business, but some jobs don't

have the same pulling power. Nurses, GPs, plumbers,

they're all high on the list of professions struggling

to recruit enough new workers. And there's a crisis

looming on our roads, too, The career break I've been looking

for! Second only to being an astronaut, driving a lorry was quite

simply the stuff of dreams when I was a child. But it seems it has

lost its lustre. In the UK, there are 315,000 truck drivers like Terry

here, but the haulage industry says that is nowhere near enough. It

claims that we need 60,000 more right now, and by 2018, another

100,000. And for businesses like this family haulage company, the

shortage of drivers touches us all. We cannot get machines to building

sites to build houses it affects every single business. A recent

report highlighted a lack of younger drivers, as well as woeful levels of

female and minority drivers. Young people aren't coming through because

there is enough help in schools. We are not attracting them at a young

enough age. There are loads of different jobs that women and men

can do, and that is what we want - more people. I have rolled up near

Grimsby. This is big trucking territory, but it also happens to

have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. So, can we

convince some locals that a truck's life is for them? We've persuaded

Sean, pate and Alex and Kelly to give it a go. Are you not

intimidated by the size of them? The articulated ones look a bit... Dicey

looking. It is daunting when you see them close up. Different seeing them

on the road. And selling them driving as a possible career, some

surprisingly young truckers. First in the convoy, Lindsey's daughter

Sammy. Then every Shannon. At 20, she is Britain's youngest female

truck driver. Then Lindsey's son, John. All these guys, tell them

about the benefits of being a truck driver. We specialise in heavy

transport. We are escorted by the police a lot. It is quite exciting.

Everything starts from the back of a lorry, really, doesn't it? It is

time for our volunteers to get behind the wheel. It's a daunting

prospect. Have you driven anything that size before? Not at all. The

first test, to drive the wagon in a circle and stop safely. Terry, the

instructor, is on hand. Our truckers will be judging how well they do.

The second test is trickier - reversing into an imaginary loading

bay. It is meant to go in there, I think! While a potential recruits

get to grips with the trucks... Theresa that was awesome. Sally from

the transport Association tells me the industry has an image problem

when it comes to diversity and wages. The industry has been

pigeonholed. It is very much white, middle-aged driver. And we've got to

move on from that perception. If you are eager to encourage more people

into truck driving, shouldn't the average wage be higher? It is around

?28,000, the average. But if you want to work the big retailers, it

would be in the region of ?30,000. All of our potential truckers have

finished their tests will stop Judge Sammy is impressed. But after their

day with us, are our recruits still interested in being truckers? It is

a fallback - they all want to be truck drivers. It was amazing, and I

would definitely do it again. It has definitely changed my mind, today.

Without truck drivers come a little in this country would be distributed

or bought and sold. Finding the next generation of truck drivers isn't

only desirable, it is vital for the country. Right, which way is

Nashville? Thanks so much, Andy. I'm just flicking through

Truck Stop News here, out their coveted Truck Stop

of the Year Award. And the award for best facilities

goes to Chippenham Pit Stop! Hello. You are getting giddy for the

award! I am here at Chippenham Pit Stop, where 100 hungry truckers bed

down every evening. They have the best facilities in the country, and

they are really good. They even have a barber. They have an outdoor gym,

and they have women's facilities with hairdryers and underfloor

heating. Inside, it is like no I have ever seen before. There are

plants and flowers if you want to oxygenate your cab. There is fruit

and veg, locally sourced, locally grown and used on the menu here.

Sheila toils away every day, making the most amazing cake. I had the

lemon drizzle and it is amazing. Let's talk to Neal. You are holding

your ward with pride. Well done. Thank you very much indeed. This is

different to what we expect from a truck stop. We are next really.

Having freshly cooked food and locally sourced products, hopefully

we will appeal to the next generation of boys and girls coming

through the ranks now. Hello, guys, if you had a daughter, would you

want her to get into trucking? No chance. Not even... My son is not

even doing it. Have you used the facilities here? I had not used the

barber's, because I shave my own head. My girlfriend does it for me.

Have you used the gym? Next time. We're going to kick it up a notch.

We have a very special menu. Tonight, having pigeon breast, leek

and nettle potato cakes, and they are going to be delicious. I am

looking forward to seeing what the lads think of these. Sheila's cakes

sound like another level. I could see you in the hairdresser's. I

would fancy being a truck driver. Long distance Clara! All sorts of

possibilities for plan B here! it's the presidential

campaign that's turned into the ultimate

un-popularity contest. From their mud-slinging

debates, you'd be forgiven

for thinking they have polar-opposite viewpoints

on almost every issue. But is it really so easy

to spot the difference? He would rather have a puppet as

president in the United States. You are the puppet. The debates are over

and plenty has been set, but who said what? Can people here call the

quotes? If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my

hairstyle. Tromp. I'll say Clinton. It's Clinton. What do you expect

from Trump? Just something shocking. I think he's not. Next... Trump. You

think that's Trump? It is Clinton, in fact. I would say that is a

Trump. It sounds boring and wordy, so I would say Clinton. You think

the sensors are out to get Clinton? I like his style. Including his

hair? Sounds like something Trump would say. Clinton. Its Trump.

Goodness! Hugh, let's talk about your latest

campaign. You're talking about the ivory trade and trying to save the

African elephant. How long have you been involved? Well, I've been going

to Africa for a while, but the chance to do something about it and

make a documentary came this year, and I started following the ivory

trade, looking at the crisis facing the African elephant. 30,000 are

being killed in Africa every year. There is still a voracious demand

for ivory products. That demand is widely understood to be all about

the Asian market. I went from the tragic killing fields of northern

Mozambique, one of the worst poaching hot in Africa, to look at

the market in Hong Kong and China to try and find out how the ivory was

being smuggled. We went undercover, put a lot of time and resources into

trying to get to the bottom of what's driving this trade. One thing

that popped up that we really weren't expecting - loads of ivory

arriving in Hong Kong from Europe and the UK. We actually have a legal

ivory trade here in the UK. We cannot export raw tasks, even though

there are some knocking around from colonial times, but we sell a lot of

carved objects. In the last few years, those objects have started

going out to Asia really fast, some legally, some illegally. My problem

with that is, the UK carved ivory is propping up the market. That means,

you know, that makes us somehow complicit, and it means that we need

to look at how we sell ivory in this country and really assess whether we

could be contributing to the problem. My films conclude that we

pretty much are. You mentioned Mozambique. This is you seeing the

results of poaching for the first time. Atypical gang will include a

couple of men to cut out the tasks and carry them away. Between all of

them, they will probably share as little as ?100 for their work.

Either they are getting a very good price or they don't mind what they

shoot. Is it right that these elephants are being killed because a

third of their task is actually inside the skull? Yeah, you can't

really take ivory from an elephant without killing it. The biggest and

most valuable part is inside the head of the elephant, so it is

always a legal business. -- a lethal business.

Prince William is backing your campaign,

and has even gone as far as to say the royal ivory collection

Where do you stand on the antique trade?

That is the crunch question. We have been complacent about antique Ivory,

because it is old, it has been around a long time, we think it is

not part of a problem, but pre-1947 antique Ivory is streaming out to

Asia and propping up the market and giving cover for poached ivory. That

means that is the problem Ivory, we really need to have another look at

that. Any so-called band that the government might be talking about,

if it does not look at pre-1947 Ivory, it will be pulling up short.

Needs to be a blanket. Is that what you are asking for? Is that what you

are trying to get? I have tried to get conversations with the

government in the programme, we caught up with the Minister of the

environment in the second programme, and I had a brief conversation...

But I think it was the government are some here. Into manifestos they

have said they want a total ban on the ivory trade, we are now waiting

to see exactly when and how they deliver on that promise. This is

still a very real process for you, in the edit with the second

programme, so hopefully, we will see more. It has been intense! First

episode is on BBC One, it is on Monday night.

Saving Africa's Elephants: Hugh and the Ivory War.

Now, on the face of it you might not think

the Northern Irish countryside has much in common with the plateaus

But one man's looking to change all that with a few

plants and a polytunnel and Jennie Brown's been to meet him.

With 165 million cups of tea drunk in the UK every day, we clearly love

those leaves, and feeding the habit means we have two import 140,000

tonnes of tea every year, and the hotter climates in the world, like

Bertin and Kenya. There is a place that might just give us a home-grown

cuppa. -- Bhutan. And it is a little bit surprise. Northern Ireland? One

man seems to think so. Oscar has ambitious plans for the tea

plantation here, the first, and he's growing seedlings just outside

Belfast. These are your babies. It is amazing that it has come this

far. The journey they have been on his four years, so far. You must be

so proud! His travels throughout Asia gave him the hots for a cuppa,

so he returned to Belfast to set up 80 importing company and now he

thinks he has found tea plants that will grow here. These are from

Tanzania, a particularly cold state. They have a bit more sunshine. --

set up a tea importing company. A lot of things working against us

here, but I like a challenge! To be honest, I

can't help feeling that the Northern Ireland climate is never going to

nurture eight T plantation, but Oscar is certain he has a place

which is perfect, and this is it, on the Irish peninsula, bought a very.

-- a tea Plantation. The sum is out today, but will this really work for

tea? I need some expert advice. -- the sun is out today. This BBC

weatherman may be the man for it. It is almost guaranteed to be frost

free here, that is the special bit about where we are, you have the

Irish Sea, just a few miles over there, it is already going to be

warm, that is like having a winter duvet, but you have the lake as

well, that is like having a hot water bottle, it keeps everything a

little bit warmer. Oscar is not a meteorologist but he found somewhere

induces to growing tea? I think he is brave, if I was going to plant

tea plants anywhere in Northern Ireland, right here is where I would

do it. This is the tea fields. But why here? What makes this so

special? Will respond to you need a lot of rain. Plus, this

is the height of the sun, during the day. It doesn't look like much, what

Oscar aims to plant 500 of his specially nurtured tea plants here,

which he hopes will transform this into this. -- but Oscar aims. The

tea plants we saw earlier have already yielded some of the blend

which will be grown import a very, and I am one of the first to try

this home-grown brew. -- grown in Portferry. We will have about four

minutes. This is the moment of truth, I'm so

excited, the first tee grown in Northern Ireland. I will sit some of

this... Cheers. -- sip. I'm pleasant surprise, that is lovely, that is

gorgeous, actually. But, who am I to judge? Let's leave it to the real

jury, the possible paying patrons of Portaferry. What are you thinking,

happy with that? Yes, I like it. I would drink that. Like a Chinese

green tea, a bit like. I like it. What you think? It is nice. Would

you say that has Northern Irish personality? Yes, possibly. It is

nice. I admit, I was sceptical, but there just might be something

brewing in Portaferry. STUDIO: It is a shame we do not have anything to

taste. What are you doing? I have moved on from the truckstop news, I

am doing you's new book. Look at the size of that! -- I am reading Hugh's

new book. It is a real-time, it is an a to Z of ingredients, building

up your kitten condiments, no ingredient need hold any fear for

you. -- build up your kitchen confidence. That is all your years

experience in one, and... Co-authored by my many colleagues at

River Cottage, the guys that you see on the show, who teach the courses,

really. We were at Chippenham truckstop earlier on, and we have

come up with a meal menu for tonight. We are serving the truckers

pigeon breasts with nettle and potato cakes for starters, bacon and

maple cookies, we know they like their bacon. Do they go together?

Sweet and savoury, yes. Is that something to munch on down the

motorway, we will go to junction 17 on the M4 and find out. We usually

see pigeon in a different capacity, I'm sure. Is it nice, in your belly?

It is lovely, it tastes different, it tastes very nice. Cook very well.

What do you think of the nettle potato cakes? Taste like bubble and

squeak! It is a good hearty food. It is good but it is not hearty, not

enough on the plate. Maple and bacon cookies, move on, I had a sneaky

sample, they are delicious. You had some cookies, do you want some

cookies? Come on, come on baby are good. They are nice, they are nice.

Loads of bacon as well, that is exactly what you want after a long

day on the road. Different. Different. LAUGHTER

Getting both sides of the argument on tonight's show, he says, not

putting any of my kids into this game. Lovely nettle potatoes, that

sounds lovely. Now if you're a fan of Eastenders,

you'll know that Phil Mitchell is battling cirrhosis of the liver

and needs a transplant and it's looking like his son Ben

may be his best option. And that's not as far-fetched

as you might think. There were 36 liver

transplants from "live donors" in the UK last year

and Naresh Aggarwal was among I was born with mild haemophilia, a

problem with clotting, leading to increased bleeding, in 1992, I had

some drug products, at medical school, unknown to me, I contracted

hepatitis C from contaminated blood. It was a very long time until my

father became aware that he was infected, hepatitis C is a virus

that attacks the liver. It causes scarring. This scarring also known

as cirrhosis can lead to cancer. When I found out, I was working as a

GP, in South Bend, I had a wife, three children. I was starting to

get quite depressed about what was happening. As my father became more

and more ill, obviously it was having an effect on his general

well-being. His mental state. -- Southend. I ended up retiring,

medically, and soon afterwards, divorced. As time went on, I really

did start missing my family, and I tried to make contact with my

children. Luckily, they responded. My eldest son, Jarrett, in

particular. October, 2014, my father told me he had cancer and he was

basically going through various tests, so the doctors could see

whether they could remove the tumour. During this time, the liver

cancer had progressed to the point where now the only curative

procedure would actually be a liver transplant. When my dad was put on

the donor list, we were very aware that cancer was what aggressive. It

might be the case that he did not receive a donation in time.

Straightaway I put myself forward. I said, I would like to donate my

liver to my dad. After some tests, they found out

that I would need to donate 66% of my liver, and that meant I was in

the category. You can have two little liver left in him, for his

own survival. At that point, unbeknown to me, my youngest son had

had a private blood test. He would also be suitable as a living donor.

We did not expect me to be able to go ahead with it, I am much slighter

than my brother, you would not think I would have a sufficient liver, if

my brother was not able to. They thought that he was more suitable,

he needed only 54% of his liver to be taken. The risks to him were

lower, and much as I did not like hearing that, it was the right thing

to do. Stark reality, very soon we realised, this would be the only

option for the Cure, and to see both my sons wanting to risk their lives

for me, that was a big thing for me. It was hard to accept that. It is

difficult to say how proud I am of my brother. We had the opportunity

to go through and help someone you love. The bravery he showed, to go

through with the transplant, it was huge.

After the operation, I was left with around 45% of my liver. After a

week, my liver had regenerated to 75%! That is truly remarkable. After

three months, my liver was up to 100%. Functioning perfectly

normally. I have a new life, a new way of thinking about life. And I am

extremely grateful, to both my sons. The type of relationship we have is

much closer than we had before. I feel glad to be alive, I feel there

is a purpose to me that I did not have before.

The bond is so close between father and son anyway... What a lovely

story. Think of that some of the decisions that families have to

make. That is all we have time for, in tonight 's programme. Thanks so

much to our guest Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, his fight to

save the African Elephant begins on Monday night here on BBC One. On

tomorrow's