21/02/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

The One Show with Matt Baker.

And Alex Jones.

And tonight we're joined

by the high-octane, full-throttle

presenters of the nation's

favourite car show.

Self-confessed petrolheads

who spend their days

pushing the flashiest cars

to the very limit.

Honestly, boys and their toys.

Who says we don't do serious car

reviews?

How good is that?

Doing the

dance in the car? A little bit!

That, my friend... Is an ash!

Please welcome Matt LeBlanc

and Chris Harris!

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Good to see you. Chris, how are you?

I am good.

Somebody is missing?

Somebody had to stay behind, he is

shooting extra gear.

He is the one

who works harder? He does the heavy

lifting.

We know where Stig is. He

is catwalk modelling for the Queen

at Fashion Week! Only joking, he is

with us and we will let him in a

little bit earlier but not just at

the moment, keeping a close eye on

things.

We can see you driving these

lavish, exciting cars but in real

life, when you're off, what do you

drive? Matt?

On your ranch? On the

ranch I usually drive some kind of

tractor but were kindred spirits. In

real life, I have a Mercedes SUV. Or

a Porsche.

a Porsche.

This could go on for some

time!

What about Chris? I have a

Mercedes coupe with a big engine

which is very comfortable and I feel

like I have not driven.

like I have not driven.

This man is

downplaying his car collection.

He

has got everything! I have a side

issue in that I cannot stop buying

cars! I have a lot of rubbish that

depreciates rapidly! Plenty of

choice. I like my old French cars.

We have seen you in your Citroen two

CV. When cars are you they have this

lovely smell but people tend to let

them get messy.

Like you, with your?

My old Land Rover is a farm vehicle,

this is this morning, some sheep

feed and jump leads. You bought that

from working? It has its working

clothes on, I like to say. There is

a lot of sandwiches. I didn't take a

picture of the back because it is

horrific!

Well, on that, we'd

like to hear from you tonight.

Because as a nation we're notorious

for being house proud -

but do you treat your cars

with the same TLC?

Yes, we want to see Britain's

messiest motor tonight.

Take a quick photo and send

it our way and make sure you tell us

who's responsible for all the filth!

Name and shame!

Lots more to come tonight,

including the mums who'll be

joining me to take on not one

but five gruelling

challenges for Sport Relief.

I will give you a round of applause

already!

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We're calling it The Mother

Of All Challenges and you can see

what's in store for us

all a little later.

And we've the perfect music to gee

you all along on your challenge.

Performing Running to

the Future from the new movie

Finding Your Feet, Elkie Brooks

performs live at

the end of the show.

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You might be one of the 135,000 who

have already

bought an electric car.

But there's another

environmentally-friendly alternative

coming just around the corner.

One manufacturer is flying the flag

for the UK in where else but Wales.

And Lucy's been to see

their brand new green machine.

The British car industry is famous

all over the world. Around a quarter

of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions

are from transport.

So the industry

is under pressure to change, like

never before. We have already got

electric cars and hybrid cars as

alternatives to petrol and diesel

but we are also starting to see some

cars powered by hydrogen.

I am in

Llandrindod Wells two small company

with big ambitions to take on the

motoring giants with their

revolutionary hydrogen powered car.

Backed by funding from the EU, the

Welsh Government and a crowdfunding

campaign, this is the Rasa, a two

seater car for those short local

journeys. The company founder is

Hugo Spowers. What are you doing the

Giants are not?

We have made the car

lighter, carbon fibre, made to last

longer and we have no gearbox and an

electric motor in each wheel. Is

this exorbitantly expensive? We hope

we will never sell a car. I would

not only that? You would buy a

service contract like a mobile phone

and you pay a monthly direct debit

that covers everything. The customer

fills this with hydrogen but the

bill comes to us, you're talking

about £370 per month and 18p every

mile. There are about 15 filling

stations in the country at the

moment so building and intercity

capable motorway car needs a few

hundred filling stations but if the

car is for local use you can create

a market with one filling station.

Riversimple's mission is to

eliminate the environmental costs of

personal transport. The Rasa is a

result of 15 years of research by a

team including ex-Formula one and

aerospace engineers. Andre Bird is

head of research and development at

the workshop. This is a hydrogen

fuel cell.

It is tiny. It produces

8.5 kilowatts of power, from zero to

60 mph in 9.6 seconds and this is

capped at 60 mph. Will that put

people off? The car is designed as a

two seater Robert Allen use and I

hate to think of anybody getting to

60 mph in the town.

Before it can be

released, 20 will be trialled by 100

volunteers around the time of

Abergavenny. Feedback will influence

the final design. We have invited

one of the test drivers here for a

driving lesson in the prototype.

Karen Harris, a retired head

teacher, is about to become the

first member of the public to drive

it. This is the only Rasa in the

world.

How do you feel about the

responsibility? Somewhat

apprehensive.

Shelby get going?

Don't worry, Andre will be with you

every step of the way.

Off we go!

Once Andre has found a quiet road

for a current practice on, it is

time to swap over.

Select forward.

Handbrake off.

Their OBR. My gosh!

Fantastic. Smooth! This is a nice

driving position.

Being low to the

ground is great fun and it is very

agile.

Going around the corners, you

feel quite safe.

The lightweight

Rasa weighs roughly half as much as

a Volkswagen golf and does the

equivalent of 250 miles to the

gallon.

But the foot down a little

bit harder.

The exhilaration, my

gosh, is really good. --

acceleration.

Here they come.

How

was that? Absolutely fantastic.

Brilliant to drive.

And so nippy.

You looked genuinely thrilled? I

cannot wait to have one to drive

again.

It has to be the way to go.

So the Rasa gets the thumbs up. It

is a huge idea from a tiny company,

will it be a success? The One Show

will find out what happens.

Any film that will get the boys

talking. You are in opposition with

hydrogen and electric, who wants to

go first?

I can see this being a

part of the future, especially

hydrogen, it is a wonderful resource

but you need a lot of geothermal

energy to produce it in liquid form

and fitness storage so electricity

and hydrogen, it is not about

whether it works, it does, but we

need new infrastructure so somebody

has to build the tanks, who pays for

it? The car-makers? Government?

Probably not. It looks difficult but

I love the idea of clean...

That has

to be where it is going?

It is still

a combustion engine and the

by-product is water. You cannot run

down the 7-11 and get some hydrogen.

And storage, that is basically like

an explosive in the car that stores

hydrogen. They have been trying to

jump-start hydrogen cars for a while

but storing, at the place where you

go to buy it, that is a very big

tank, so that is a very big bomb. I

think the future is electric.

Battery technology will get there

and maybe solar panels on the roof.

But you have to make electricity and

in this country... That is oil

fired.

If the car has got solar, the

entire body, it can make its only --

its own energy.

You know about the

weather over here?

So it's not quite

as pure as at my house!

Don't fall

out! We were just about to ask about

your chemistry!

your chemistry! Sunday sees the

start of the current line-up and

there was a lot of fuss, will they

get on? In terms of friendship. We

had that when we started, and you

don't know each other. But by now,

have you settled into a groove

together? Is a relationship forming,

do you go for beers?

Do you want to

hold hands for this next part?!

Maggie said, in the beginning, will

we get along? We didn't know either.

You want to get along because it is

better for the show. But it turns

out we get along really well. We

have a lot of laughs, half the stuff

we come up with we cannot say on

television so we're getting along

great.

Absolutely and Top Gear, if

you are not enjoying making it there

is no joy in the end product so we

have to have fun making it. It is

very strange. As a child of the 90s,

watching him on television, I did

not think I would become Friends

with Joey!

Whenever you go, on your

travels, you are celebrating those

countries.

We're having a good time.

The culture. Cars are everywhere.

Transportation, even. We did a film

in Sri Lanka driving Doctors the

whole time and we had a blast. And

they are huge part of the culture.

-- tuk-tuks. Does it feel British or

global? Top Gear goes all over the

world from your perspective?

It

depends on which part of the show

were working on, making the films,

it feels global. When we get back

into the studio to do the voice-over

parts and stuff, and we go back and

forth with the producer on Ranj

Singh aluminium. -- on pronouncing

aluminium.

A lot of the humour comes

from that, the divide between the UK

and America? One thing you do not

disagree on, well, you do, is

Bigfoot. You take Chris into the

sticks and you are like, it is a

thing?

I first realised it was a

problem like this when I was at his

ranch in the summer and I saw a

little face sticking out of a

planned part and it was a little

Bigfoot. Clearly the Bigfoot thing

is an issue.

Yes, I get a kick out

of him!

You went out into the

sticks...

We have a photograph.

Northern California, to try to find

him.

That looks fun!

him.

That looks fun!

We have a

picture of you dressed up as

Bigfoot.

Can we see that?

There you

are! That is camouflage.

What has

happened, we have the quickfire

round of things. Most competitive?

Rory. Probably Rory.

Definitely. The

most likely to be caught

speeding...?

Rory.

Caught speeding?

I am most likely to get away with

it! He is most likely to be caught!

Most likely distil under pressure?

That would be Rory.

-- to stall.

Which has the best taste in cars.

It

is not Rory.

We have quite similar

tastes. There is a particular

manufacturer in Stuttgart that makes

a car with an engine in the back and

we like them. Ultimately, I own a

1957 Citroen two CV so that trumps

anyone!

I have a big forward delete,

but the two seater in the back.

The

unbelievable thing happens in the

series with the massive crate of

eggs. I cannot believe you did this

with a car that you love so much.

Have a look.

What is happening?

Whose idea was

this?

this?

So, when Andre Citroen

design... I can still smell that

now. When he designed the car, he

had some very strict design criteria

and one was it had to be driven at

around 40 miles an hour over a

likely ploughed field with a basket

of eggs on the lap of the passenger

in the car, so the suspension was

soft and subtle enough. There are

three or four other bizarre claims,

involving livestock and things. So

they tested the design criteria in

the car.

On all actual parts of the

design brief of the car, they were

written in there.

That was one of

them. They were supposed to have 12

eggs. He had 400 anti-tipped them

all on me.

But the car handled the

bumpy field with a basket of eggs

and none of them were breaking. So I

thought it would be fun...

This

would be good television!

That was

the best laugh ever on camera.

It

was funny, but the poor car. The egg

got into the rails and it went rank.

When I took it out of the garage

three weeks later, it was horrible.

And Stig has been round Adam's farm

in Countryfile, and he has been

trying attractive. You can see that

on March the 25th. There he is just

reminiscing. Good day down on the

farm.

With all the miles you do, you

probably fancy a drive through now

and then. If it is fried chicken,

you may have to put more miles on

the clock.

A delivery mix-up has disappointed

hundreds of hungry fried

chicken fans this week,

and the hysteria has

left us wondering -

can the country cope

without the colonel?

Here's Iwan.

It was devastating. It was like the

apocalypse.

I was shocked because it

was closed.

I was suffering a bad

hangover and I chose Subway over KFC

and it was serious.

and it was serious.

Over 600, have

run out of chicken. That is no

finger licking good. It is the

biggest problem KFC have ever had.

They have been a high-street stable

since 1965 when they opened their

first store in Preston. Problems

began last Wednesday when they

switched the distributor. KFC

changed its applied to DFL.

There

were not a lot of lorries and

drivers, so there was a lot of

chicken stuck in the warehouse.

And

as the chicken ran dry, stories

began to close and people took to

social media with the hash tag KFC

crisis. Disgruntled customers were

calling the police who asked them to

stop. We have come to my lender to

see what the public make of this.

What do you know about the KFC

crisis? I eat it as well.

Will you

get through it?

Yes, I will. Does

the chicken situation bother you?

It

might be healthier for people.

May

be it is a good thing to get people

off fast food.

Is cooking an option?

Yes, it is. For the competitors this

is good news.

It is good news for

Burger King and all the small chain

shops.

They are getting a lot of

customers. Will we look back on this

and say, 2018, the great chicken

shortage?

Forget Brexit, this was

the crisis.

Delivery time and KFC

and chicken. But, thankfully, my

lender is now one of the stores off

the closed list. I am satisfied I

finally got what I have been

craving.

I got my hot wings, so it

is all good.

Bless them.

Bless them.

Right, welcome to The One Show car

lot, guys, because it's time

to put your motoring knowledge

to the test in a little

game we like to call

Who Do You Think You Car?

The idea is as simple as they come.

All you need to do is match

the owner to the vehicle they drive.

And these are the first three cars

you've got to play with.

Car one is a 1908

steam-powered Stanley.

Car two is a true original -

affectionately known as Cosmotron.

And car three is a Fiat 500 revamped

to look like an Abarth 695.

It's called Freddie I think.

But who

owns these cars?

Alan from Hertfordshire.

Basil from Norwich.

Kathy from south-east London.

All you have to do is match the cars

to the owners.

All you have to do is match

the cars to the owners.

I always think it is good to look at

footwear. The Oxford brogue.

How do

you feel about yellow?

you feel about yellow?

OK, so if you

stand by your actual cars, that

would be fantastic. Let's see how

right the boys are.

Completely and

utterly wrong!

That could have gone

anywhere.

Let's go and speak to

Basel. What is the story?

This is

and 1908 Stanley steam car.

and 1908 Stanley steam car. It is

equivalent to 1800 horsepower. There

is a boiler under the bonnet, or the

hood as you call it. The fire boils

the water and generates the steam.

Steam and then goes towards the

engine, but via the fire. That super

heats the steam.

We are going to

have trouble shutting you up.

Yes,

we are. The engine is coupled to the

axle and there are no gears and no

clutch.

Does it see the road much?

Do you drive it?

It is clean as a

whistle. We did 1000 miles in

America last year.

Basil, you can

keep chatting if you want.

Let's go

to Alex. It is so lovely that you

have brought these cars end. Cosmo

looks like Penelope pit stop's car.

Is it a hurry? It is him its

omission Mark it is handbuilt in the

UK by a guy called Paul Bacon.

Is

that the real V8? It is a fake top.

How do people react when you pull up

at the supermarket?

I have not got

to the supermarket, but at the

petrol station they do.

How can you

see over that?

You just look past

it. He is beautiful.

Alan cannot

believe that the Stig is in his car.

What is the story with this? How did

you end up with it?

I have always

been a fan of Fiat 500 and we got

married in 1973 and I bought one to

teach my wife had to drive. She

changes gear better than me. We got

one after the other until we had

three up until 1984. I was building

a house and I paid somebody to take

it away. It was crazy.

All

originals?

Yes, all originals. This

one we got a few years ago from a

chap who had completely restored it.

That was 20 years ago and it still

looks fresh.

The good news is we are

going to have another round of this.

Stay tuned for the second part.

It isn't just fast cars and crazy

vehicles that we're celebrating

on the show tonight.

It's time to introduce

you to an impressive bit

of microscopic engineering that's

helping to revolutionise

the treatment of heart failure.

53-year-old Jeff Wales has spent

most of his adult life working on

the railways in Kent.

16 years as a

train conductor, endless trips to

London, how many thousands of miles

have I travel?

Who knows? Good days.

Jeff and his wife Lynne have been

together for 20 years and with a

grown-up family they were looking

forward to enjoying the future

together. But last year their life

took a different turn.

He had time

booked off from work for the weekend

and we thought of going to Wales to

see some family.

On the second day I

had chest pains. Being a man I

decided to wait until I came home

two days later before I said to my

wife, I have some pain.

That was the

first I knew of it.

Jeff was

suffering from heart failure. That

happens when the heart is unable to

pump blood around the body and it

leads to tiredness, shortness of

breath and swelling of the ankles

and if untreated it can be fatal.

If

I had not gone, I would be dead.

This is Jeff's consultant.

He has

what we call cardiomyopathy and the

muscle does not pump enough around

the body.

They believe a virus

caused this failure. He was fitted

with a pacemaker soon after

diagnosis but his condition means it

is only able to pump one side of his

heart and it began to be out of

sync. It all looks pretty random,

the movement of the left ventricle.

This is the inherent problem when

one part is contracting and the

other part can be moving out, so it

leads to a very inefficient pumping

function. It is likely it could get

worse over time and that would

reduce his life span.

The damage to

Jeff's heart is so great, all

conventional treatments have been

exhausted. Time is running out and

everyday becomes bigger struggle.

Just walking up a couple of flights

of stairs and any exertion causes

problems.

A year ago our life was

very different. I feel we are living

the lifestyle of my parents now.

It

has been hard for Jeff and limb to

accept, especially as Jeff's dad has

to do the jobs Jeff no longer can.

I

don't ask often because it is a bit

of a burden on him.

You have got to

do it, he is my son. Yeah.

I don't

care about who does the gardening

and the decorating, I just worry if

he will still be there.

Now this

ground-breaking device is offering

help. It is a stimulating system

which doctors help will

resynchronise his heart. It is the

size of a grain of rice, so small

that it can be placed inside the

heart.

We put the device into the

muscle. There is a little needle and

some barbs and an ultrasound

transmitter activates the device to

electrically stimulate the heart.

Today, Jeff is back in hospital for

the device to be fitted. He is the

first person to have the latest

generation of transmitter. If it

works, it could transform his life,

but it is not without risk.

In

theory the device could fly off into

the heart or another part of the

circulation. That is why we take a

lot of time to make sure it is

correctly deployed and the chance of

that happening is very small. We

have not experienced that

complication.

Jeff is very young for

this procedure.

The fact he's young

and apart from his heart problem,

the rest of him is in pretty good

nick and we are hopeful that if we

resynchronise the heart, that Jeff

will do very well.

I think about the

risk, Jeff does not, but the

benefits far outweigh the risk. We

have got so many things we want to

do.

It is worth a chance. The device

has only become available recently.

A year ago, two years ago it was not

an option. We are very fortunate.

We are very fortunate.

And you can see how Jeff got

on with his operation

a little later in the show.

Right it's the moment that

Alex has been dreading,

because once I finish reading this,

there really is no going back!

In March, Alex will lead a team

of mums in a challenge

for Sport Relief, but it

isn't any old challenge,

it's The Mother Of All Challenges!

Before she has time to back out,

let's see what's in store.

I feel sick. To be honest.

So many of us mums are struggling

and it is all right to get help,

that will bring us together.

I

wanted to do something to make me

feel like myself again.

Don't let

other people tell you cannot do

something, you can.

I don't want

just to prove that I am not that

person any more.

I don't know, I am

more worried about this and any

other Sport Relief challenge.

The Mother Of All Challenges is a

serious challenge, I cannot think of

anyone who would like to be in their

shoes and this is properly tough.

The challenge feels like this

enormous mountain and I hope that

the girls and myself will bond and

do it together.

I don't think I have

fully taken on board but I am going

to be doing.

We're going to be

absolutely nuts!

It is on!

Here they

are...

First up, it's Amal from London!

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Mum to 11-month-old Rafii,

Amal works as a doctor,

specialising in Sports Medicine.

Lovely.

Next up, Debbie from Bristol!

By day, Debbie is a support

worker for adults with

learning difficulties.

But her spare time is devoted

to her four daughters -

Mum three is Jodi from Bristol!

APPLAUSE.

Mum to Taylan and Farren,

Jodi has overcome severe post-natal

depression and now wants to support

other mums facing the same ordeal.

And finally, it's

Leigh from Glasgow!

Mum to Ross and twins

Ethan and Freya, Leigh

loves the gym and works

for a construction company.

So we know who'll be

doing the heavy lifting!

There is no backing out! We have

given birth, we can do this! That is

the bottom line, it is so nice to

have a team of ladies doing it with

me. I am so grateful that you have

signed up. Thank you in advance,

before we get into at!

How will this

work?

Every day there is a different

challenge, and we saw your face!

Matt was giving me tips about the

wet suit and what we should do to

warm it up! One challenge every day,

swimming, biking, hiking, caving and

the marathon and we will play on

each other's strengths. If somebody

is good at running they can take the

lead and we will finish together,

team effort. Nobody left behind.

Leigh, you describe

yourself as Mrs Average.

What made you want to get

involved in the challenge?

Mrs average, we are just mothers, I

always watch the celebrities on

Sport Relief and when Alex asked my

mum to come along, why not? So I

applied and here I am.

The reason we

are asking for mums is this year is

all about raising awareness of

paternity issues and pregnancy

issues. Jodi, you had a real time of

it with postnatal depression and you

thought that you would want to do

something to help others in the same

position?

Give us some background. I

suffered badly after my first son

and it was a really lonely time and

it was a really dark place, not a

great place to be and this is about

trying to normalise that episode so

that women feel they can talk about

it and we can say, OK, we're

actually not feeling great but that

is all right and get that

conversation going.

In general, but

your perspective change in life when

he became mothers? More fearful? Or

more out there?

More fearful! It is

both. I am more fearful for the

children but as I get older I am

getting more gung ho!

getting more gung ho!

Debbie is a

dark horse.

dark horse. Shelley Winters? In the

Poseidon adventure? That is Debbie!

Really good in the water.

Really good in the water. And Amal,

you are the Doctor. How can we feel

better? What is your reason for

getting behind this?

When you put

out the advert I was not in a good

place, similar to Jodi, I was six

months postpartum and I used to be

very fit and active and during my

pregnancy and after I had the baby I

did not have the capacity to

exercise that I guessed it. It used

to be such a massive part of my

identity and at that time I didn't

have the energy or the strength or

do anything and I looked to that

challenge to be something that I

could aim for and get motivated for.

And that transition from being

really fit and healthy to becoming a

mum and your body going through the

mill and is trying to get back to

the same place is a big challenge, I

find it really hard so this is a

reason to get back on the bike!

It

is achieving something, some of us

felt that we had failed as a mother

for a while, and we didn't but that

is how we felt and I think this is

our chance to achieve something.

Absolutely. No doubt your families

and your children think you are the

best thing in the world ever!

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Look at the support! It is so

lovely. Such a great feeling of

absolute support. There we go. And

everybody has been helping you with

training? Yes!

What are we dreading

the most?

Caving.

Running.

Caving.

You really do hate the running?

That

is it, basically damp and tight

spaces.

There must be elements...

You must be looking forward to

something? I cannot wait to get

started and with everyone together

to just go for it, what else can we

do? We just have to go for it and it

is going to happen.

It is the

swimming. I am not as strong swimmer

and it is so cold water.

Speaking of

the cold water, have we time for

this? This is the actual temperature

of Loch Ness. At the moment, just

come over here, take off your shoes!

Very quickly. It is 5 degrees, to be

exact. There you have it. You will

be absolutely fine! That is

absolutely... Well, it is full of

ice cubes!

We wish you all the very

best.

APPLAUSE.

We will get to know this team a lot

better before then.

But in the meantime,

there's lots more information

about the Mother Of All Challenges

on our website.

And we're looking forward to having

Elkie Brooks perform

for us later in the show.

That will be good for motivation.

As we saw earlier, one

of the locations we'll get

to enjoy on our challenge,

if that's the right word,

is the Lake District -

the stunning setting

of our next film.

Not that we'll have

time for fishing.

The bends in rivers are vital for

wildlife. A slow the flow of the

water and allow sediment to build

up, creating habitats for insects

and fish and the creatures that feed

on them. This valley in the Lake

District suffered a drop in wildlife

when the Victorians straightened the

river to make way for more farmland.

At the time the project was heralded

a great success and what they did

not realise was that by changing the

course of this once meandering

river, they had destroyed once rich

wetland habitat full of wildlife.

John Gorse from the local utilities

company spotted an opportunity to

bring the ecosystem back to life by

reinstating the bends.

They are not

only good for wildlife but good for

water quality survey I live the

finer material in the water column

to drop out into the catchment

rather than going to the water

intake. This sort of injury. In the

old straightened channel Weather

Watcher running quickly, all of that

material was highly mobile and would

be taken into the water intake so

there is extra cost.

By stopping the

flow, sediment deposits on the

bends, creating vital habitats for

wildlife. Digging an entirely new

watercourse complete with 15 new

bends was a monumental task but the

effect on wildlife was almost

immediate, as Leigh Scofield from

the RSPB explains.

The gravel is

such a key feature of this

restoration so it is supporting this

new food chain, the gravel bars have

lots of different niche is so

different invertebrates can be

supported and that supports the fish

and the birds and the predators, the

arteries and the kingfishers and the

exciting thing for us was upstream

we could see several salmon spawning

in here, only three months after the

machines left. All that has done

that is putting in the bends and the

water has engineered these smaller

features into the landscape.

Salmon

spawning is an indicator of a

healthy river, showing this project

has been a great success. But

getting there is just the end of a

perilous journey they have made from

the sea. In autumn, our river

systems are motor ways for salmon

looking for spawning grounds and

they. At nothing that gets under

way. Every now and again they will

come across water falls like this

and it is only with a strong flow of

water that allows them to leap up

and get over the top of them and I

am hoping that I have come to the

right place at the right time and

salmon is going to leap in front of

me. Despite several hours, my luck

is not in. Undeterred, I am back.

This time I'm headed south to

stretch of water full of obstacles

and hopefully, salmon. It is

completely hit and miss when it

comes to filming salmon leaping and

I have this ten metre wide waterfall

in front of me and I don't know

which bet they are going to try to

jump up and I do not know when.

That is a whopper! That salmon is

huge. Absolutely fascinating to

watch.

With the U:K.'s salmon population

feared to be at its lowest ever,

projects like this one at Swindell

back are critical to give this fish

the best possible chance of

survival.

In honour of our Top Gear guests

tonight, we've invited some One Show

viewers and their unusual vehicles

onto the show tonight for a quick

game of Who Do You Think You Car?

Three more lovely contenders. Match

the car with the order. Great game,

Who Do You Think You Car? This

beautiful tractor, 1917, this

Samsung tractor, absolute beauty.

Feast your eyes on that. Look at

this 1970 Dodge Charger, half of the

engines sticking out and finally,

number three, this is a customised

jet powered Volkswagen van known as

the Oklahoma Willy.

Let us be the

owners. We have got Sam from

Portsmouth, Perry from Dorset...

Gordon from Norfolk.

Good evening. We have the pictures

of the cards, match the pictures to

the owners.

Matthew, I was rubbish

last time.

You have the roughest

hands so I would imagine that is

you. The muscle car?

I think you

have got the jet.

have got the jet.

Ansan, the Dodge.

Last time you got it completely

wrong. It cannot get any worse.

Please stand by your cars, that

would be fantastic.

Hang about!

would be fantastic.

Hang about! It

is absolutely right! You have nailed

it! The tractor, you will love this,

this Samsung, six - 12.

Six

horsepower and 12 horsepower at the

bully. Powered by?

Single cylinder.

Wow! What year?

1917.

That is

gorgeous.

You have got quite a few

of them? We have a passion for

vintage tractors, the older, steel

wheels once. You don't suffer from

punters!

Takes more loading and

unloading. It will be a slow ride

home!

Sam, you are the owner of the Dodge.

That's it, all muscle.

The Stig is

in there, is it all right?

It has

made my day.

How did you get your

hands on this car?

Growing up it

always appealed to me to have this

car. It looks the part, it has all

the power, but it is all a facade.

15 years later I finally got it. Me

and my dad went to America four

years ago and built our business

buying and selling American cars and

it has taken this long to put it all

together.

How much is it?

If you

can't afford it, don't buy it. Is it

him or it? It is it.

And you are the

owner of this phenomenal machine. It

did not come as a rocket.

I imported

the car from Oklahoma, it was 1958,

spent its entire life on a farm and

it was wrecked when I got it. I

spent three years restoring it. And

then we bought the jet engine to put

on the back. It is 5000 horsepower

is fighter jets engine.

Have a look

at this in action. Talk us through

the speed.

This is me going on the

drag strip pulling away and burning

31 gallons of fuel in ten seconds

covering a quarter of a mile at 150

miles an hour when I crossed the

line at the top. It is good fun, the

world's most inefficient hybrid

vehicle.

Thank you one and all for

bringing in your cars. We simply

asked to this is what we got.

Oklahoma Willie is lovely.

Good fun.

Good fun.

Earlier we introduced

you to train conductor Jeff

who was about to undergo

a revolutionary new treatment

for heart failure.

It's success hinges on a tiny

wireless device and the steady hands

of one of the country's

top heart surgeons.

So let's see how things go.

Last year, 53-year-old Jeff Wales

was diagnosed with heart failure.

I

was horrified when we found that the

diagnosis. Then you start to think

what is going to happen to the

future?

He has been fitted with a

pacemaker but his health is

deteriorating and there was little

else doctors could do until now.

Today we are at Saint Thomas's

Hospital in London and the professor

is preparing to insert a

revolutionary wireless device into

Jeff's heart to help beat normally.

The device is a wireless stimulate

and is the size of a grain of rice

and uses ultrasound to work with

Jeff's pacemaker, making both sides

of his heart beat together. After a

year of life limiting illness, this

could mean a normal future.

I have

got the promise of a better life. If

it all goes well, I hope it happens.

I will be a wreck whilst it is going

on. I want the Jeff of 18 months

ago, that is all.

It is not only

Geoff and Lynne who might be feeling

nervous this morning. It is the

first time they have used this new

generation device. Jeff will be

awake for the procedure but heavily

sedated as the device will be

inserted through an artery. A guide

catheter goes on first to find the

direct location of the heart.

It

goes inside the left ventricle and

we are putting the device from there

and deploy it into the heart. Just

make sure that is straight down

there, guys. You can see it coming

up there.

The next stage is crucial.

The professor has to find a healthy

section of tissue.

We are testing

the device to see whether or not it

captures the heart electrically.

Hold on one second. Check that.

Hold on one second. Check that. Are

you sure your connections are OK?

It

is not good news. The first attempt

has failed.

We have to reposition

that.

OK, more testing, please.

Jeff's heart is even more damaged

than expected. The professor has

discovered extensive scarring, so

they cannot find a site where it

will work.

It is even worse in this

position. Let's try going up very

high on the wall. Otherwise we are

running out of targets really.

They

have now tried a dozen positions and

nothing is working. Jeff's last hope

for a better quality of life is

slipping away.

We have tried the

whole of the lateral wall.

But

Professor Rinaldi is not giving up

and tries one more time.

Try that.

Finally success. They have found a

healthy piece of heart.

I think we

should deploy it here. OK? You can

see now we have pushed the device

forward and the tip has gone into

the heart.

The device is now

anchored into the beating heart

muscle.

muscle. OK, we are done. Jeff's

heart is at last being paced by the

new device.

That was a very

difficult case. We had to move may

be ten times within the heart. Now

it looks like a good position to us.

It has all gone well. Less than an

hour after his future was hanging in

the balance, Jeff is back on the

ward and feeling better.

I didn't

realise how bad it was before. I

have not felt like that for years.

I

am pleased. It is an astonishing

change and Jeff should continue to

improve, but he has already got a

result he hardly dared hope for.

It

feels good. It feels good.

We have

had some lovely news since we filmed

that and Jeff has had his treatment

in October and he is now back at

work and feeling better than ever.

Long may that continue. Jeff, I am

sure that is weird watching your

surgery on television. Chris, you

found that weird.

I do not like

people messing about in that area of

my body.

That is understandable. And

a new series of Episodes is starting

in March. What can we expect?

My

guide, me, gets in the most trouble

he has ever been in, so some pretty

outrageous things. I don't want to

spoil too much, but it is bigger,

broader, crazier and stranger than

ever.

We have got a little clip.

This is you in full name-dropping

mode.

I just got tickets for

Madonna, do you want to come?

Really? In her seat, said they will

be good. Madonna's suits?

She called

me.

You know Madonna? Why can't I

know Madonna? Since she was a

virgin. At the Andy Warhol factory?

Why can't I know Andy Warhol? You

guys are the least interesting

people I know.

We have got to know

which other a little bit over the

years, but, Chris, is that the true

likeness of him in general?

It is

surprisingly accurate in many ways,

but it is inaccurate in others

because he is actually nice. In

Episodes he is not that pleasant.

I

think the man is nice.

What part are

you talking about? There is an

meanness to him. He seems quite

self-centred.

Be nice.

Thank you.

You did mention he invited you to

his ranch. Did you get stacking?

You

have no option, it is a fantastic

way of living. It is all about dirt

bikes and it is amazing and cool.

He

is one of us, he likes getting his

hands dirty.

How are things animal

wise?

Good, everything is good on

the ranch. It is cattle season and

babies are being born.

When will you

be going back?

Probably the weekend

after next.

We have to say thank you

to everybody who have been sending

in pictures of their cars that are

really dirty. Just pick one. That is

a good one.

This is my's friend Ria

and she has a very messy car and she

loves smoothies.

This is horrible.

JP wants to embarrass his friend by

showing us the state of his car. His

friend is anonymous, but he is from

Kilmarnock. That is terrible.

Matt

works in a body shop in Blackpool

and this is his course. That is

incredible. That is almost it for

tonight. A very big thank you to our

guests.

The new series of Top Gear starts

on Sunday night at 8 on BBC2.

Angellica's here tomorrow and we'll

be joined by Christopher Eccleston.

But now it's over to Alex who's back

outside braving the cold.

We are acclimatising out here. It is

tropical. I want to say thank you

before we start. It will be great.

We will be all right, we will

support each other.

Well, playing us out tonight

with a song that can't fail to put

a spring in your step

it's Elkie Brooks and

Running To The Future.

# I'm the things that

I've been put through

# And everything I've done

# The battles that

I've lost and won.

# Though there's no changing

what is in the past

# The rest is mine to live at last

# So I'll take this chance on you.

# So I'm running to the future

# And if this dream survives

# I'm running along beside you

# Through the best

years of our lives

# And it's calling me

# Yes, it's calling me to you.

# So I'm running to the future

# I hope we will be strong

# I'm running along beside you

# 'Cause I know that's where

I belong.

# I was tired and I was hurting

# But you helped me to my feet

# And made my broken heart complete

# I know there will be

hills for us to climb

# So come and put your hand in mine

# And let me walk this line with you

# So I'm running to the future

# And if this dream survives

# I'm running along beside you

# Through the best

years of our lives

# And it's calling me

# Yes, it's calling me

# And it's calling me...

# Yes it's calling me to you.

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