20/11/2012 The One Show

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

Jones. Tonight we are joined by a Brooklyn

sumer star. Fresh from his Royal Variety

Performance last night, let's say hello again to Neil Diamond.

APPLAUSE Welcome back, Neil.

APPLAUSE I went downstairs for food and it

was rammed with ladies? Well, I'm glad that we were able to take them

in from the rain! LAUGHTER

It was cold out there so I'm happy to have them in and thank you for

taking them in. These lovely ladies were telling

Matt that you had a great night last night at the Royal Variety

Performance? High the most fun. I got a chance to sing to Her Majesty

which was the reason for our trip over here. Halfs that -- what was

that like Neil? Well, it was unique and extraordinary. High a chance to

-- I had a chance to speak to Her Majesty before I went on and we had

a nice chat and she really wanted to talk to my wife about horses and

they did talk and had a nice conversation. Was she doing a

little, you know? I hope so. The rest of the audience was. We were

having a good time during the show. I did chat with Prince Philip for a

little bit. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful experience, I don't think

I will forget it. We understand that for instance

William is a fan. Is it right that you were going to change the words

from Sweet Caroline to Sweet Catherine? I hadn't heard that, but

I would be happy to! We heard he was a big fan and you were on the

list for maybes to sing at the wedding.

That's wonderful to hear. We will be talking to you more

during the programme. It is the December that's been -- it is the

disease that is sweeping through the country.

The forests of Britain are facing one threat.

So far in 2012, more and new outbreaks of tree diseases have

been recorded in the UK than in any previous year. It is fear that had

the majority of the UK's 80 million ash trees could die. Even one of

our most iconic trees, the Scotch pine is believed to be in danger.

An increasing number of pests and parasites are nahuing are eating

through our forests. If we don't take care in trying to

prevent these organisms coming in we could be looking at losing

several tree species or severe damage and the landscape effects

could be even worse than we have seen already with Dutch elm disease.

Tens of thousands of ash trees have been felled to stop the spread of

ash dieback since it was first identified in February. But this

disease is just the latest to hit our trees in the last few years. In

recent weeks, a record number of tree in the west of Scotland have

been identified as being infected. This incredible machine can fell

several hundred trees a day. The guys have their work cut out out

for them because they have thousands left to fell.

How much is at risk? At the moment, it is contained in the West Coast.

It was originally West Coast of England and it moved up through

Wales and into Scotland and there has been a large outbreak in

Scotland over the last year. The large trees release spores in the

wind and they be blown on to other sites. As soon as a tree is felled,

that's the problem contained. We had 10 to 11 trees on this silet

that were -- site that were infected, but we needed to fell the

3,000 trees on the site to contain the disease.

Action has been taken. The Government held emergency meetings

and banned imported seeds, plants and tree to say protect our remain

ash trees. A key woodland site in Dunbarton

reacted to the crisis. We were due to plant over 7,000 ash

saplings but we won't plant past 2013 because we don't know they are

safe. What other species are under

threat? In Scotland, Scotch pine is being affected. There is another

one going for juniper. They are iconic trees to Scotland and people

will notice if we lose the trees. If you read the headlines, it is

doom and gloom, how bad is it? is not good news. We plant esh

because everybody because everyone knows it as a native species. In

this landscape we have silver birch. You love what you do, that's plain

to see. How optimistic are you about the future? I'm optimistic

about it. Diseases have existed longer than we have and you know...

Tree also survive? Trees will survive and they have to sur vifz

and we have -- survive and we have to get more of them in the ground.

Which ones aren't dying? Which ones are resistant? Let's plant for

trees so we are covered for things like this. There are plenty more

tree that is can go in. It is impossible to imagine the

British countryside without trees, but it may already be too late for

Well, Lucy is here to discuss this further. Lucy, there were a lot of

people in high places banging their heads together about this and

trying to make sure this isn't the end for our forests? As the

Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson said now ash dieback is in

mature trees, there is no way it can be eradicated from the UK. It

is about managing the impact. A lots of people are doing a lot of

work. I think every forestry professional, every forestry

forestry scientist is probably out there monitoring the trees at the

moment and they are using special portable DNA kits to see where it

has spread and really the great hope is in the mature trees because

some will hopefully be naturally resistant. That's happened in

Denmark where they lost 90% of their ash trees and there was

resistance in a mine orlt, but -- minority, but we will have ash

trees and it is important to remember that. Replant that strain

and go from there. We can't have a sample of the the

disease in the studio. There is lesions on the bark and

that spreads to the leaves and some of the leaves in dramatic cases,

they look like they have been burned and it spreads throughout

the crown of the tree. It is really dramatic.. And it is about finding

out where it has spread to so people at home can help? If we

leave it to the scientist, there is not enough of them to see every ash

tree. So there are things like phone apps where you can take a

picture of what you think is a diseased tree and send it through

to people who are monitoring this. Be vig land and keep an eye on

trees in your area. The other thing really to do is to practise what we

call really good good good etiquette, don't take any twigs

with you and you are supposed to change your boots.

We were seeing in the film, Neil, how important trees are are for you

in Colorado in your ranch? I have got a small ranch and and these

diseases go through the pine tree ins Colorado. I know how careful

you have to be and how heartbreaking it is to lose trees.

So... Yeah, it is heartbreaking. People Feel very, very strongly

about it. It is part of our landscape.

You are going to start creating a new woodland for us tomorrow?

we are going to be up in Wrexham tomorrow. We need to keep planting

them so we don't have all our eggs in one basket.

Lucy to the rescue! You can You can find details on how

to spot and log ash dieback on our our website:

Are you ready to be rocked? AUDIENCE: Yes!

From living room to say stadiums across the world, the Marshall amp

has been the essential kit for any aspiring rock god and Matt

Allwright. This is a story about genius, inspiration, great British

engineering and a man who made things louder, Jim Marshall.

Ah, Jimi Hendrix, it was Jim Marshall's amplifiers that helped

make some of the music legends so distinctive, he gave them what they

wanted. The biggest sound President Obama.

-- --ted biggest sound possible. His amplifyication empire had

humble beginnings way back in 1962. The magic all began here in the

back room of a tiny shop on the Uxbridge Road in West London.

It is now a a barber shop. You have got Eric Clapton, Ronnie

Wood, Pete Pete Townsend hanging around the shop talking about music.

We were all stumbling on distortion, create ago long sound from the

guitar and it happened around that time that Jim Marshall opened a

music shop and we decided to make the loudest amplifiers.

They started creating a prototype amplifier. They would say, "Don't

touch anything. Just plug it in here and tell me what you think.".

This meeting of minds resulted in a sound different to that of the

clean, polite hi-fi of the 50s and early 60s. There is a particular

thing that you are doing in that box to make that sound, what is it?

Marshalls are built around valves. There is an electrical signal that

comes out of the guitar and valves create harmonics and we get a vocal

sound and it is the voice that the guitarist can use to connect with

the audience. And big audiences, filling bigger

venues, needed bigger sound so Jim hit on the idea of stacking speaker

cabinets which meant everyone could hear, even the poor sold people at

the back, the Marshall stack was born and became an icon at 70s and

80s stadium rock'n'roll putting up with heavy duty handling.

It is the greatest amplifyication that has been thought of and built

by one man. It is everything in the kitchen

sink and that's what keeps going across row 20, row 20,000.

The story was you could drop one off the back of a van and it would

work. REPORTER: Have you tried that?

personally, no. Jim's collaboration with rock

legends continued and Marshalls played their part in what has

become the ultimate rock band par day.

The numbers go to 11. Look, right across-the-board. 11, 11, 11.

the amps go up to 10. Does that mean it is louder? Well, it is one

louder. And this is Marshall now. The

headquarters in Milton Keynes, from here amplifiers are sent over the

world. One found its way to me! Let's Meet her. Marsha.

50 years on and although he has passed away, Jim's craftsmanship

and quality lives on. Quality is so important to the

company. The wood is all hand sanded and dad used to insist on

signing the inside of cabinets by the person who finishes them.

Is this the best job in the world? It is not a bad job at all.

Anything wrong with this one? Growing up, dad was hard-working.

He was passionate about the job, but he was a family man. What dad

did, of course, I am proud. He created this Marshall family and

If there was one word that sums up the genius of Jim Marshall it's

feedback. Eknew how to listen to the musicians around him and give

them what they wanted - feedback. Neil, what does the sight of a

Marshall amp do to you? It puts fear into me, because the volume

that you can generate from a Marshall is overwhelming and if

you're playing a large venue or arena or a festival, you want that,

but you have to be very careful with it. You have been recording

for over five decades. How did you decide what songs to put on the

Very Best of Neil Diamond? I was lucky enough with this album to

convince the four different labels that they were recorded for to put

all the original versions - the studio versions - on the album. Up

to now they each kept them and put them out, so these are the original

studio cuts that go way back. There are 23 songs on it and for me it's

a voyage down memory lane. Play the recording and it just takes me

right back to the time that I was recording it. It's an amazing

experience. Was it quite difficult to know in which order to put the

songs? Was that important? Well, it was. I tried to put them in

chronological order. In some cases I got it right. In some cases I

made some little changes, just so they worked a little better in the

sequencing, but sequencing is very important. You are always appealing

to new audiences. We have a brill iant moment from glassbury in 2008.

What -- gloss onbury in 2008. -- Glastonbury in 2008. What a sight

this is. Are you going to help me out with this, or what? Here we go.

# Sweet Caroline # Good times never seemed so blue

# I'm feeling fine # To believe it's never true... #

That was brilliant. I've never seen that before. You attracted a whole

new generation of fans there. well, that too, but just seeing

that and singing in front of an audience and having them all having

a good time, it's a great feeling. One of the tracks on the album is

I'm a Believer, but originally it was a hit for the Monkees when you

first wrote it and that had an impact on your career? It did,

because - there they are. They sing it well, to be fair. A beautiful

version of it. Their record was a hit worldwide and it helped me get

my name known worldwide too. I had a song called Cherry Cherry, which

was a big hit and following that, they came out with I'm a Believer

and that sealed the deal. People knew who I was. It was the

beginning of my career. Even before that, you were singing in the high

school chorus, with incredibly, Barbara Streisand, so the pair were

in the chorus. Who on earth was singing the lead? There were none.

I'm sure Barbara would have taken the lead, but those were fun times.

I didn't know Barbara. There were 100 voices in the choir. She was 15

years old. I was 16. We reminisce about it years later, because the

conductor of the chorus was a very posh, Italian man and all the women

in the chorus were in love with him and all of the boys were in

horrible fear of him, because if you sang a wrong note or you didn't

come in beautifully, you would be scalped. We both remember him.

pair of you are on the album. The album is out on 26th November. It

was announced that the Government will force energy companies into

offering just four tariffs to customers by 2014, so in the

meantime, we sent some families a challenge to cut their energy bills

and as we find out, there's more to energy saving than turning off the

heating and putting another jumper on. Two families living in the same

street in Cardiff in the same type of house, with the same big energy

bills. Both families have taken some steps to make their homes more

energy efficient, but could they be doing even more to save money?

Could a few little lifestyle changes reduce the amount they pay

for gas and electricity? Time for a One Show experiment. We have asked

experts from the Energy Saving Trust to check that the two homes

are equally energy efficient and we have recorded the families'

consumption over seven days. Our first family are the Griffiths.

They use �38 every week, so what do they spend their money on? A hot

shower. I tumble a lot of clothes to cut down on ironing. Are they up

for our energy-saving challenge? Yeah. Yes. We are excited. Which

will be the hardest bit? Now the weather's colder, it's feeling the

cold if we have to turn down the heating. The neighbours, the

Rutherfords, use �31 in a normal week. I hate being cold, but it's

using the tumble dryer to get rid of the damp clothes and the washing

machine. It will be fun trying to make everybody change their

behaviour - switching off light, that sort of thing, and switching

off CDs and televisions. Can they use less than them lot over the

road? We'll put on two extra jumpers. We'll beat them. We like a

challenge. The families will compete to see who can save the

most energy. The man has a few tips for them. The average house can

save �50 to �80 by turning things off stand-by a year. The term

statistic, turning it down one degree. You might -- thermostat,

turning it down one degree. You might feel a bit chilly. You'll

save yourself money with a shower timer. Four minutes is enough to

wash anybody, male or female. Family washing machine. You can use

30 degrees, so wherever you can 30 degrees and keep the load full.

Tumble dryer. You can use it, but when you can, try to avoid it.

Kettle, fill it up with water, but don't fill it too full. Just enough

for what you need it for. Non- energy efficient lightbulb. Change

it. Duncan is impressed that both families have already saved money

by saving supplier and home improvements The wall instalation

and loft instalation that can save a house like this �416 a year.

challenge to make further savings is on. As the families start their

low-energy lifestyle week we ask them to keep a video diary. Quick,

everybody, jumpers on. We have turned the thermostat down. It's

been a little colder. The biggest shock is getting out of bed,

because you notice it then. temperature is not getting up high

enough to dry the clothes and they've been hanging wet for two,

whole days. Over the road, the message is turn it down, switch it

off. The hall, landing, maybe the kitchen, livingroom or diningroom,

the light is left on accidently and we keep reminding each other to

switch them off. I'm really cold. I want a bath, but I have to have a

shower. Four-minute shower, yeah! The week is over. Time for me to do

a final check on the metres and reveal how much the families have

cut off their bills. Remember, before they started this challenge,

they were spending between �31 and �38 per week on gas and electricity.

You've used �12.74 less. Good grief. You've done even better and saved

�14.99. I really expected to knock a couple of quid off, but not

anything like that. I'll carry on knowing it's costing that amount of

money to just have many some light on that you don't need. That's it,

we're converted. We have calculated the family would save �500 every

year, now, that's definitely worth turning your light off for. And I'm

now here in the studio with the families. Both horrified to see

their houses on television. But Neil, are you still competing there

in the competition? Not now, no. Hopefully we'll keep on saving.

What kind of things are you continuing with? Everything we

started doing that week. It's just a little less frantic. I don't get

quite as stressed if the landing light are still on. Fiona, how

about you? Is it hard not to use the dishwasher? It's quite

difficult, but I'm doing my best and trying to wash up by hand.

Switch off the light whenever possible. What we have done is take

out a lot of light bulbs. We have a lot of fittings that have many

bulbs, because we moved into a house that needed renovating and

that's made a big difference, because we need one bulb to light a

room. I bet you notice a big difference on the street? That's

right, the two houses are the darkest by far. Everyone else has

the light blazing. We look quite dark, but we're using the light in

the room we are in. Have you talked about Christmas light? Oh, no,

that's a good point. I don't know what we'll do. Every other light.

That's a good idea. Are you still having the four-minute showers?

Going all right? Yes. Alex was horrified as the thought of that.

Neil, how long do you spend in the shower? Hours! I tell you, you

don't think you'll be welcome around these houses. Thank you both

for coming in. As Neil pointed out, did you, saving energy, but don't

turn the show off right now. If the word supersize makes you think of

huge burgers, a new BBC series is asking you this think again. Look

at this. Today, I'll join the team whose job it is to clean the

outside of a -- of the world's highest windows. Do you get nervous

at all? Yes. I haven't looked down yet. Now, I've looked down. Dallas

is with us now. Welcome. Thank you. As well as proving that you've got

quite a good head for heights, what else can we learn? Well, not that

good a head actually. That was one of the most terrifying things I've

ever done. It's kind of a snapshot of the modern world. The way that

human beings live on the planet has just changed radically in our

lifetime, so the way we now build faster and higher and we have

shrunk the world with the way we build transport networks, so we've

been around the world looking at the scale and ambition of some of

the engineering projects that have facilitated this change. You see

from that clip, that in telling the story I've been involved in some

pretty hair-raising adventures. Including your search for the

tallest building starts at Lincoln Cathedral? Who knew that the

tallest building in the world was that for 4,000 years. The great

pyramid was the tallest until this came along in the Middle Ages, but

I wonder if they ever knew. It used to have a big spire on top, which

made it the tallest building, but that's gone. I wonder about the guy

who was originally putting the little pit on the top and wondered

if this was the tallest building. Techniques have sped up a bit since

then. We have a clip of you in China. Here you are. Tell us what

is happening here. This is incredible. We hear a lot about

China and about the progress that goes on, but these guys can build a

fully functioning skyskyscaper, 15 storeys, earthquake-proof in two

weeks. They can knock that up in two weeks. If you had the builders

in at home, and they're taking too long, look at this. New York as

well. Do you have a favourite building? The Empire State Building

took eleven months to build and -- but I'm impressed if they can build

that in two weeks. It tames more time than that to get Chinese take-

out. Much less to put a building up. We filmed a lot in New York. My

first experience with big buildings was New York. You would think it

was the home of skyscrapers, but we're all looking to the East and

China and the Middle East. Yes. Thank you very much. The programme

starts tomorrow night on BBC One at 8pm. Thank you to Neil and his at

bum is out on 26th November. Thank you -- album is out on 26th

November. Thank you. We'll be talking to the Rolling Stones on

Friday. We want to hear your stories about them. Do you have a

link with the band? Does their music mean something to you or do