:00:18. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:26. > :00:30.Joining us tonight is a Dame and a Sir with around 100 awards between
:00:31. > :00:33.them. In their honour, we decided to roll out two red carpets tailored to
:00:34. > :00:35.their glittering careers. Please welcome Ian McKellen and Julie
:00:36. > :00:58.Andrews. Welcome, welcome, welcome! Hello.
:00:59. > :01:04.How are you? Lovely to see you. Please take a seat. How are you?
:01:05. > :01:12.Very well. It is wonderful to have you both. I am glad we did not wear
:01:13. > :01:16.green. People often say that! Surprisingly, you two have never
:01:17. > :01:21.worked together but we understand that you came very close. Not for
:01:22. > :01:26.lack of wanting, I can tell you. You did not know this but I told you
:01:27. > :01:29.this morning when we bumped into each other. When he told me that
:01:30. > :01:36.wonderful story about... What was she called? Gertrude Lawrence. You
:01:37. > :01:40.had your old friend Noel Coward as one of the characters. I auditioned.
:01:41. > :01:46.I had a whole day pretending to be Noel Coward. A whole day? It was
:01:47. > :01:51.wonderful and I loved it but the part went to Dan Massey who was
:01:52. > :01:58.nominated for an Oscar, so... What could have been! There is still
:01:59. > :02:04.time. We have had a very exciting day at the BBC. What have you been
:02:05. > :02:13.up to? We have had a massive to one of famous songs. There you are. They
:02:14. > :02:18.are very good at waving. Should we waved back? This singing is just as
:02:19. > :02:24.good. We understand that you would like to spend a bit more time
:02:25. > :02:31.singing. Is that right? Well, I don't know. Do you think it is too
:02:32. > :02:39.late to start singing? I don't. Don't forget that if you don't feel
:02:40. > :02:46.like singing, you can things speak. We had a little go at that. Did you
:02:47. > :02:50.never play Henry Higgins? I was once asked to do it with the Scottish
:02:51. > :02:55.national opera and I said I could not go in and speak with opera
:02:56. > :03:04.singers. You should do it in concert with a big Symphony Orchestra. And
:03:05. > :03:07.pick up an agent! Your wonderful Emma Thompson did Sweeney Todd at
:03:08. > :03:12.Lincoln centre in New York and she was fabulous. There is just
:03:13. > :03:20.something about a musical, isn't there? I can't agree with you more.
:03:21. > :03:27.Salad Days, remember that? Julian Slade. Jimmy was in that for eight
:03:28. > :03:34.years and I asked how they did it. He said every night I heard the
:03:35. > :03:38.piano and I was away. This is one of those marvellous actors'
:03:39. > :03:43.conversations! It is like the dressing room. Here we go again...
:03:44. > :03:46.Is it true that if you are fortunate enough to be in the long run of a
:03:47. > :03:51.play, the first three months you are learning your lines all over again,
:03:52. > :03:58.the next three months of the first year you are just enjoying it, and
:03:59. > :04:02.the next three months you are listening to the orchestrations and
:04:03. > :04:10.finding things and all of that, and then the last three months... It is
:04:11. > :04:14.hell? You just have to keep remembering. We have loads of
:04:15. > :04:25.material Plantier! Sorry! You should just crack on. I think that is true.
:04:26. > :04:29.The way round it is to treat every performance as though it is the
:04:30. > :04:32.first one ever because it is always the first for the audience. We have
:04:33. > :04:39.got some rather unusual singing for you to enjoy this evening. Christine
:04:40. > :04:43.has flown across London's rooftops from the Chelsea Flower Show to talk
:04:44. > :04:48.about the highlights, including plants that thing. We are not
:04:49. > :04:53.kidding. All will be revealed later. I cannot understand how this
:04:54. > :05:00.is done. She will be testing the Edelweiss. It will be an album next!
:05:01. > :05:04.This will all be happening throughout the show. As we
:05:05. > :05:08.mentioned, it was a big day at the BBC and we wanted to do something
:05:09. > :05:13.special because you were coming and we went slightly over the top,
:05:14. > :05:17.really. We are going to show the efforts at the end of the programme,
:05:18. > :05:22.but first here is the story of how the whole BBC joined forces for you,
:05:23. > :05:28.Julie. The BBC, a hotbed of creative
:05:29. > :05:32.talent. Today we are stretching our vocal chords to celebrate a movie
:05:33. > :05:36.icon in the only way we know how, a mass singalong. We have asked our
:05:37. > :05:43.colleagues and singers from around the country to give us their best
:05:44. > :05:47.singing voice. From Radio 1... Heated discussions about how the
:05:48. > :05:54.line should be delivered. It is just one line! To watchdog. I call
:05:55. > :05:59.myself... I like that. Maybe I am tone deaf? Vanessa has taken a
:06:00. > :06:09.minuet from her chat show. I love The Sound Of Music. I didn't think
:06:10. > :06:17.the lyrics correctly but I sang from my pram. We are singing up a storm
:06:18. > :06:23.and possibly strangling a cat. Is that Lucy wearing the wrong dress?
:06:24. > :06:29.Finding this quite hot because Mary Poppins wore a lot of undergarments.
:06:30. > :06:35.I am enjoying the support of these women but I don't think they are
:06:36. > :06:40.from the same film. These are not real. We got the outfits from the
:06:41. > :06:44.intranet. We even think we can teach Jamie how to hold a tune. Am I
:06:45. > :06:54.singing the whole line? Just a female deer. And Ray, a drop of
:06:55. > :07:00.golden sun. It is like watching Julie Andrews. Remarkable! How do
:07:01. > :07:08.you solve a problem like Matt Allwright? Climb every mountain! Is
:07:09. > :07:12.that too much? With our singing voices, we have got a mountain to
:07:13. > :07:17.climb but thankfully lots of people have turned up to help. We just love
:07:18. > :07:21.The Sound Of Music and Julie Andrews and we have seen it so many times.
:07:22. > :07:26.It is wonderful. The Sound Of Music is a family of session so I had to
:07:27. > :07:31.come. I love the film and I love Julie Andrews. You will have to wait
:07:32. > :07:40.until the end of the show to hear the sound of our music. You have put
:07:41. > :07:43.so much work into that. We enjoyed every second of doing it and
:07:44. > :07:49.hopefully it will look good. Thank you. What a great compliment. We
:07:50. > :07:54.couldn't choose which song. There were so many but let's talk about
:07:55. > :08:00.Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious because it was not in the book. How
:08:01. > :08:04.did it feel to be singing this? Well, it was OK. It wasn't in the
:08:05. > :08:10.book but the wonderful Sherman brothers who wrote the music came up
:08:11. > :08:16.with this wonderful music hall song. That was my background, music hall,
:08:17. > :08:21.four years. Your parents were from the halls, where they? And so was I.
:08:22. > :08:29.All over the place. You acted with them? Did you get thrown about like
:08:30. > :08:34.Buster Keaton? Yes! My parents were a very good second top of the bill.
:08:35. > :08:38.My mother said it was better than being top of the bill because there
:08:39. > :08:45.is no responsibility. But I bet you became the star. That did happen a
:08:46. > :08:49.little bit. The reason you are here is because you are doing this
:08:50. > :08:56.fantastic evening looking back over your life. Aled Jones is hosting. I
:08:57. > :09:00.am going to be in the audience. How do you sum up the night? It is an
:09:01. > :09:05.engagement that I have done many times. I did it in Australia last
:09:06. > :09:10.year and I had a ball. It is me welcoming everybody to my living
:09:11. > :09:18.room, so to speak. It is clips, outtakes, funny stuff, a montage of
:09:19. > :09:21.some of the films, lots of talk about things that I am passionate
:09:22. > :09:25.about and funny things that have happened along the way. Then Aled
:09:26. > :09:30.Jones will join me in the second half and then he really monitors the
:09:31. > :09:35.questions and the answers that the audience have submitted. That is my
:09:36. > :09:39.favourite part. You have touched on this a few times in your life. I
:09:40. > :09:45.have done it a number of times. Does it get easier to be more open about
:09:46. > :09:50.your private life? Do you want to be more private? I think I want to be
:09:51. > :09:55.more private as I get older. What about you? The older I get, the less
:09:56. > :09:59.confident I am that there is anything in my life of interest to
:10:00. > :10:04.anybody. It is true. My work is one thing but what I do when I am not
:10:05. > :10:10.working... I don't want to talk about that. You have got kids. I
:10:11. > :10:15.don't allow my kids, right from when they were born, they were not
:10:16. > :10:19.allowed to be photographed. There were a couple of accidents that
:10:20. > :10:27.happened but mostly know because it was too dangerous. I don't have kids
:10:28. > :10:31.but I do have nephews and nieces and their children. There is nothing
:10:32. > :10:37.like a good uncle. Thank you. And they are going to love your new film
:10:38. > :10:42.which is out in cinemas soon. It is the seventh instalment of The X-Men.
:10:43. > :10:47.This is quite complex until you see it. Wolverine is sent back in time
:10:48. > :10:55.so that he can create a better future. And you are sort of a bad
:10:56. > :11:00.guy, are you? I do my best but people do not approve of the way I
:11:01. > :11:04.do it. When we go into the past, it is not me playing Magneto but the
:11:05. > :11:11.wonderful Michael Fassbender. Let's take a look. You need to go to my
:11:12. > :11:19.house and find me. Convince me of all of this. You need me as well. It
:11:20. > :11:23.is going to take the two of us, side-by-side at a time when we could
:11:24. > :11:28.not be further apart. You will have to be patient. That is my strongest
:11:29. > :11:32.suit! You will go to sleep by your body travels back in time. As long
:11:33. > :11:36.as you are back in the past, the present will coexist. Do you really
:11:37. > :11:47.think this will work? I have faith in him.
:11:48. > :11:51.Just watching that, you get special effects and so on, what is it like
:11:52. > :11:57.for you as one of our finest theatre actors to suddenly be surrounded by
:11:58. > :12:03.green screens and acting to fresh air? An awful lot of stuff is talked
:12:04. > :12:08.about green screens. It is a screen on which later on the scenery will
:12:09. > :12:16.be projected. There I am doing something. What am I doing? It is
:12:17. > :12:21.all pretending. It is called acting! I am not really up a tree. But an
:12:22. > :12:25.awful lot of the time, particularly doing the Lord Of The Rings, we were
:12:26. > :12:30.wherever we appeared to be. It was back in the studio for the close-ups
:12:31. > :12:37.that there might have been a green screen. But on stage it is not a
:12:38. > :12:41.real castle, it is not a real room! Really? ! What is fascinating is
:12:42. > :12:45.looking at a clip like that and then playing the beautiful scenes in Mary
:12:46. > :12:50.Poppins. Our screen was yellow most of the time in those days. Disney's
:12:51. > :12:56.version of the green screen. That is the 60s. That is in front of a huge
:12:57. > :13:02.yellow screen. Oh, for the animation? When you go across the
:13:03. > :13:08.water, which you do any second, are you on trolleys? I just had to step
:13:09. > :13:14.on a little raised turtle. Don't tell me you are not on that hill and
:13:15. > :13:23.you did not turn around? That one-sided. Here we go. Looking down.
:13:24. > :13:27.I just step on... You will see. And all I had to do was step on a little
:13:28. > :13:33.turtle and the magic of Disney did the rest. It was a great lesson
:13:34. > :13:37.because it is the first movie I ever made and it taught me right away the
:13:38. > :13:43.patients that is needed. Especially for special effects. They take twice
:13:44. > :13:49.as long. That must have been one of the first films using animation and
:13:50. > :13:52.people at the same time. He tried it in a couple of movies but much
:13:53. > :13:58.smaller and this was very big for Disney at the time. Ground-breaking.
:13:59. > :14:01.Julie and Ian have both played characters that are firm favourites
:14:02. > :14:03.for fancy dress parties. Now it is your turn to show your versions to
:14:04. > :14:11.them. Send us your Magnetos from X-Men,
:14:12. > :14:19.Gandalfs, Richard IIIs, Marias and Mary Poppinses to the usual address.
:14:20. > :14:26.Can I tell you about one of Julie's frocks from The Sound Of Music? One
:14:27. > :14:32.of them was auctioned and the lucky winner was Peter Jackson who
:14:33. > :14:39.decorated Lord of -- directed Lord Of The Rings. Does he wear it? Don't
:14:40. > :14:48.answer that! I said to him at a party, has your wife turned it on?
:14:49. > :14:59.-- tried it on? She said across the party, no! If you are out there,
:15:00. > :15:08.Peter, put on address and send us a picture.
:15:09. > :15:17.are going to hear some singing plants.
:15:18. > :15:22.What have you got going on? This is where science and gardening
:15:23. > :15:30.comes alive. This is a bronze award winning Chelsea exhibit and this is
:15:31. > :15:34.how it plans can be monitored to pick up the electromagnetic
:15:35. > :15:39.frequencies to make them saying. The pineapple, a South American
:15:40. > :15:44.herbaceous plant very good in drinks. If you press it, it will all
:15:45. > :16:00.become very quiet, and you might just hear it singing. Listen... That
:16:01. > :16:11.is real sound, live! You look a little bit sceptical? Is it April
:16:12. > :16:20.on? -- is it 1st April? We have got another two to come. That is
:16:21. > :16:27.strange, talking to plants and them and to ring back. I see what you are
:16:28. > :16:32.doing. Oh, my! The idea of cells being reversed to a pre-embryonic
:16:33. > :16:36.state sounds like something out of X-Men rather than something from the
:16:37. > :16:40.real world. But the use of stem cell research means we are finding
:16:41. > :16:46.revolutionary ways to treat certain conditions. Ewan Thomas has been to
:16:47. > :16:52.read a man with a superhero style mission on his hands.
:16:53. > :16:58.This man has just got off a flight from Cologne with a special bit of
:16:59. > :17:06.hand luggage. The box he is carrying over his shoulder contains this, a
:17:07. > :17:12.bag of stem cells. His trip began 24 hours ago when he set off to get
:17:13. > :17:16.them. One is acutely aware that when one is carrying the box with the
:17:17. > :17:22.stem cells that they could be saving somebody's life. The reason he has
:17:23. > :17:26.to go abroad? The demand for stem cell transplants outstrips the
:17:27. > :17:32.compatible donors. The match ratio between donor and patient is minute.
:17:33. > :17:41.Of those awaiting transfer in the UK, less than half will succeed.
:17:42. > :17:44.Peter volunteers for the Anthony Nolan charity which matches donors
:17:45. > :17:49.around the world with patients in Britain. He selects the stem cells
:17:50. > :17:54.in a refrigerated package which stays cold enough for just under two
:17:55. > :17:59.days. This short hop to Cologne is relatively easy in comparison with
:18:00. > :18:03.previous journeys. I have been to Australia, I have been to Israel, I
:18:04. > :18:08.have travelled throughout Europe. He is frequently dispatched to Germany,
:18:09. > :18:12.where they have nearly 5 million people on their donor database, ten
:18:13. > :18:17.times as many as in Britain. His job is to bring the stem cells back to a
:18:18. > :18:22.hospital in Manchester where a recipient we are not allowed to
:18:23. > :18:27.identify is waiting. Each year, around 1800 people need a stem cell
:18:28. > :18:31.donor, like 29-year-old Mike Brandon from Bristol who was told he had
:18:32. > :18:35.leukaemia just after he got engaged this year. Unfortunately he was too
:18:36. > :18:47.unwell to take part in the film himself. He said, I have been dealt
:18:48. > :18:52.a bad hand but I can deal with it. Mike needs to find a stem cell donor
:18:53. > :18:57.match. We had his three brothers tested to see if they were a match
:18:58. > :19:02.and unfortunately they weren't. The specialist turned to the Anthony
:19:03. > :19:06.Nolan register to look for matches. About a third of people can find a
:19:07. > :19:12.suitable donor in their own family but the majority have to rely on
:19:13. > :19:23.strangers. Kate is helping to find Mike a donor closer to home and has
:19:24. > :19:31.set up a social media campaign. We called it Shake For Mike. In the
:19:32. > :19:35.first 48 hours we had 2136 people register to be a donor. Hopefully
:19:36. > :19:40.shortly we will find out that we have a match for Mike but the
:19:41. > :19:47.campaign will continue. Peter needs to get to Manchester by public
:19:48. > :19:52.transport. First, a train to London. You got that with your
:19:53. > :19:58.life, literally? I am going to be careful. It does not move from my
:19:59. > :20:03.site. I feel very humble and proud to be with you. Why do you do it? I
:20:04. > :20:09.am very privileged to be able to do this. Potentially in that box is
:20:10. > :20:17.somebody's life. Now, the tube to Euston. I am going to aim to do the
:20:18. > :20:22.400 metres at some point in my life but I do not think I will ever
:20:23. > :20:28.emulate your wonderful efforts. And finally, the train to Manchester.
:20:29. > :20:35.Peter has got a 2.5 hour train journey and then he is a stone's
:20:36. > :20:40.throw from the drop-off point. It has been an easy trip today. I have
:20:41. > :20:46.been to Australia and back. It took 37 hours. I have got ice packs in
:20:47. > :20:51.here but only last for 42 hours. If there had been a severe delay we
:20:52. > :20:56.could have been in trouble. Peter's trip was on planes, buses, the tube
:20:57. > :20:59.and trains but it has only taken him eight hours to make it to the
:21:00. > :21:08.Manchester hospital, plenty of time to spare this time. Hello,
:21:09. > :21:15.everybody. The stem cells are in this bag. I will hand this over to
:21:16. > :21:21.the hospital. They are still really cold and ready to go. What happens?
:21:22. > :21:25.To the lab and to the patient. So your job is done?
:21:26. > :21:32.your job What a job. We have an update. A
:21:33. > :21:40.match has been fined for Mike and he will be having his transplant next
:21:41. > :21:43.month. If you would like more information
:21:44. > :21:50.on how to become a stem cell donor, visit the website.
:21:51. > :22:02.You have been doing a lot of research in the past? In 1972, or
:22:03. > :22:21.something, all on the NA -- DNA. I saw a name, wangdoodles. I had to
:22:22. > :22:27.research like crazy about someone needing a match and I did research
:22:28. > :22:37.about whether it could be done and it could. Maybe if you are free you
:22:38. > :22:40.could do a DNA film? Julie famously sang about sugar but
:22:41. > :22:45.our supplies would have been down to a spoonful or less if it was not for
:22:46. > :22:49.the fighting spirit of eight particular group of factory workers
:22:50. > :22:55.during the Blitz. Dan Snow has been to silver time to find out more. --
:22:56. > :23:06.silver time. If you head east over the city of
:23:07. > :23:09.London you get to the industrial peninsulas of Silvertown, sandwiched
:23:10. > :23:13.between the old docks and the Thames. From the mid-1800 's,
:23:14. > :23:23.Silvertown was the Empire's gateway one materials and a hub for booming
:23:24. > :23:32.Britain. -- gateway for raw materials. Keeping all those
:23:33. > :23:38.factories running required thousands of workers, all housed in terraces.
:23:39. > :23:44.3000 of them worked at the Tate and Lyle refinery which still dominates
:23:45. > :23:48.the skyline today. By the start of World War II this had become the
:23:49. > :23:55.largest cane sugar refinery in the world, producing around 14,000
:23:56. > :24:00.tonnes a week. On 7th September, 1940, the first of the London
:24:01. > :24:08.Blitz, the success that had put Silvertown on the map made it a
:24:09. > :24:10.prime target for the loved waffle. The Blitz onslaught was
:24:11. > :24:16.catastrophic. Street after street was levelled as 300 tonnes of Nazi
:24:17. > :24:20.bombs rained down on East London. Ethel was a 10-year old girl living
:24:21. > :24:27.in Silvertown when the bombs began to fall. I remember the first
:24:28. > :24:34.bombing, that was on 7th September, my birthday. We went out of the
:24:35. > :24:44.shelter and all of a sudden it went up. Some of it hit our house. Can
:24:45. > :24:50.you remember the aftermath? The paint factory was alight. All the
:24:51. > :24:55.houses were standing but they were bombed out. They wouldn't let anyone
:24:56. > :24:59.back into Silvertown. Ethel and her family were among the thousands who
:25:00. > :25:06.had no choice but to flee the devastation of Silvertown. To most
:25:07. > :25:11.of the workforce evacuated, it would not have been a surprise if the
:25:12. > :25:15.industry had ground to a halt but sugar was key to maintaining morale
:25:16. > :25:20.and economy had to find a way to keep production going. Philip Lyle
:25:21. > :25:26.was the refinery manager during the Blitz. They started work preparing
:25:27. > :25:30.for a raid precautions two years before it happened. They build air
:25:31. > :25:34.raid shelters in the strongest buildings. They stock them with
:25:35. > :25:40.food, water, everything. What did your father tell you about the
:25:41. > :25:45.raids? He wrote this letter, which describes the aftermath of the first
:25:46. > :25:49.heavy raid on Silvertown... "nearly all the factories on the weight were
:25:50. > :25:54.burnt out and blazing fiercely but halfway along I find the roadway
:25:55. > :25:58.full of molten tar, which made passage difficult. I got through and
:25:59. > :26:02.find the factory practically intact, though both its neighbours were
:26:03. > :26:08.nearly burnt out and still blazing. " The workers, many of whom were
:26:09. > :26:12.women, refused to be intimidated by the raids and slept in dormitories
:26:13. > :26:17.on the site. Not even a parachute mine exploding meters away broke
:26:18. > :26:21.their spirits. Beyond minor shock there were no casualties at all and
:26:22. > :26:25.an hour later the girls were back in the same dormitory. Remarkably,
:26:26. > :26:29.later in the war with the bombs still falling, 14 you rolled Ethel
:26:30. > :26:46.returned to Silvertown and took a job in the refinery. -- 14-year-old.
:26:47. > :26:50.Weren't you scared? Not when you are young. It gives you an idea of the
:26:51. > :26:58.spirit of these people. They are marvellous. The girls were sleeping
:26:59. > :27:08.near people whose homes had been smashed up. But many were forced to
:27:09. > :27:12.leave silver time -- Silvertown forget. You don't see anybody now.
:27:13. > :27:22.They all moved. You lose contact, don't you? Whilst the vast
:27:23. > :27:26.Silvertown refinery remains those who made it thrive have all but
:27:27. > :27:40.disappeared. Don't you just love Ethel? That he
:27:41. > :27:46.would have been -- it was very important for morale, wasn't it? It
:27:47. > :27:50.was a key factory. The youngsters back at home on without. There were
:27:51. > :27:57.stories of carrots rather than ice cream. Kids would not believe it to
:27:58. > :28:08.date - no sweets, no chocolate, no candy bars. And they always said not
:28:09. > :28:17.to accept sweets from strangers. As a kid, I never had a sweet. I did
:28:18. > :28:20.not know what it was. We did have a good diet. It was organic,
:28:21. > :28:26.everything was organic and home-grown. Is it right that you had
:28:27. > :28:32.a prisoner of war at your house for Christmas? Yes, there was a prisoner
:28:33. > :28:39.of war camp near us in Wigan. We had evacuees from Middlesex. If they are
:28:40. > :28:46.watching, get in touch! We have not seen you for 70 years. They lived
:28:47. > :28:50.with us for a year. My parents were good people and they thought, the
:28:51. > :28:54.war is over and there is some poor German away from his family who
:28:55. > :28:58.needs comfort at Christmas, so he came round and spent Christmas Day
:28:59. > :29:04.with us. And if that family are watching, do e-mail. You never know
:29:05. > :29:08.we might find them before the end of the show. Julie, you were a bit
:29:09. > :29:14.older but you were living in Camden to you had lots of experience of
:29:15. > :29:18.sheltering from the Blitz in the tube stations? Yes, with my mother
:29:19. > :29:29.and stepfather, and the guitar. We would run down there. Did you do
:29:30. > :29:38.concerts? My dad did. Sir Henry Moore made that so famous. What do
:29:39. > :29:42.you remember? It was very smelly. They had burners. There were babies
:29:43. > :29:50.with nappies being changed. There were toilets, and God knows what.
:29:51. > :29:54.150,000 people and I went head down there. It was the only place you
:29:55. > :29:57.could be safe. We are going to talk about the
:29:58. > :30:07.doodlebug, give us some information about that. These were unpiloted
:30:08. > :30:12.bombs, the precursor to cruise missiles, I suppose, and the Germans
:30:13. > :30:17.launched them towards Britain. They were terrifying because they were
:30:18. > :30:22.unmanned, and a hint of the future of warfare. It was scary to hear
:30:23. > :30:25.them coming over, it really was. My parents, towards the end of the war
:30:26. > :30:31.when the doodlebugs were coming fast and furious, no house wife could
:30:32. > :30:36.bake a cake or do their washing or get the laundry done or anything,
:30:37. > :30:42.change the birds. My mother would stay in the house until the last
:30:43. > :30:47.possible moment and muggins would have to sit on the top of a shelter
:30:48. > :30:51.with a whistle and umbrella because it was always raining! I protested
:30:52. > :30:55.mightily but I could tell the difference between a doodlebug and
:30:56. > :30:59.one of ours. When I heard the doodlebugs coming, I would blow the
:31:00. > :31:07.whistle and we would run into the shelter. And with the umbrella, did
:31:08. > :31:11.you float up into the air? One day I forgot to blow the whistle. I
:31:12. > :31:14.wouldn't go. It was pouring with rain and so many neighbours came
:31:15. > :31:21.round and said, bloody hell, why didn't you blow that whistle? Dan
:31:22. > :31:27.has sent us these brilliant audiophiles so we can hear the sound
:31:28. > :31:34.of a doodlebug now. DRONING.
:31:35. > :31:39.Still familiar? A horrible noise. I don't know if anybody else
:31:40. > :31:48.remembers. Let's lift the spirits with another singing plant. Lovely!
:31:49. > :31:53.Christine, what have you got for us? I have got a phone but she is being
:31:54. > :32:04.a diva. She stressed out from being at Chelsea. -- fern. Julie, can you
:32:05. > :32:11.pass any any top tips to make a relax? She can't have a gentle cup
:32:12. > :32:18.of tea or anything, can she? I think a little misting would be a good
:32:19. > :32:21.idea for a plant. She won't do it but never mind we have got
:32:22. > :32:32.edelweiss. You know a lot about this. Small and white, clean and
:32:33. > :32:39.bright. Edelweiss. I never knew that plants could make noises. I love it.
:32:40. > :32:43.Thank you very much, Christine. Speaking of edelweiss, coming up we
:32:44. > :32:50.have got a mass singalong of Do-Re-Mi in homage to Julia. Let's
:32:51. > :32:54.have a look. 100 people joined in including Jamie Cullum. And the BBC
:32:55. > :33:00.weather team with their green screen. We were inspired by this
:33:01. > :33:01.particular number from The Sound Of Music.
:33:02. > :33:05.# Doe, a deer, a female deer # Ray, a drop of golden sun
:33:06. > :33:09.# Me, a name I call myself # Far, a long long way to run
:33:10. > :33:13.# Sew, a needle pulling thread # La, a note to follow Sew
:33:14. > :33:17.# Tea, a drink with jam and bread # That will bring us back to
:33:18. > :33:26.# Let's start at the very beginning # A very good place to start
:33:27. > :33:34.How vivid is that memory? That is not green screen, it is really the
:33:35. > :33:39.Alps. Was there a lot of rehearsing? Yes, lots. Lots of pre-rehearsing.
:33:40. > :33:43.Mapping out the number of stairs, running here and there, so we knew
:33:44. > :33:47.the choreography before we even got there and then it was just a case of
:33:48. > :33:52.acting it. Looking around, your finger placement on guitar was
:33:53. > :33:56.superb. Thank you. I had a horrible time doing it. They kept putting me
:33:57. > :34:03.back in the trailer to keep practising. I couldn't do it now. I
:34:04. > :34:09.play guitar myself. Sorry! My grandson does. Two of them actually.
:34:10. > :34:18.You didn't play the guitar? I did but I couldn't do it now. Do you?
:34:19. > :34:22.No. OK! Julie's big break on the silver screen is down to one of the
:34:23. > :34:26.biggest film producers in the world and years before he set eyes on
:34:27. > :34:33.Julie, he spent a bit of time over here.
:34:34. > :34:39.This little Lincolnshire village has a surprising and star-studded
:34:40. > :34:48.connection with Hollywood. The clue is in the name. Norton Disney. It
:34:49. > :34:51.was here on the 6th of July 1949 that whilst Disney, creator of
:34:52. > :34:56.countless children's classics, arrived unexpectedly with his wife
:34:57. > :35:02.and two children. The local newspapers reported that he was on
:35:03. > :35:07.his holidays. Walt Disney was already in the UK filming Treasure
:35:08. > :35:11.Island, his first film with actors rather than cartoons, and he took
:35:12. > :35:16.the trip from Devon to Lincolnshire. He did not turn up in Norton Disney
:35:17. > :35:20.entirely by chance. Walt Disney and his family spent some time exploring
:35:21. > :35:25.the village and chatting to local residents. He visited the local pub
:35:26. > :35:29.for a drop of cider. Perhaps a tasty picked up filming in the West
:35:30. > :35:35.Country. But it was not just the current President is attracting him
:35:36. > :35:41.to the village. He was keen to visit Saint Peter's parish church to look
:35:42. > :35:46.at the graves. Alan is the local historian. In 1949, Walt Disney and
:35:47. > :35:54.the Vicar of the date stood where we are standing now. Where is this? --
:35:55. > :36:01.vicar of the day. This is the mortuary chapel and it is the first
:36:02. > :36:07.place that a Disney is buried. We have five in total into that there
:36:08. > :36:17.are many underneath. While Disney must have wondered if there was a
:36:18. > :36:23.family resemblance. He could trace his family history back to Ireland
:36:24. > :36:27.and the 17th century. The Norton Disneys came from a powerful French
:36:28. > :36:31.family and arrived in England sometime after the 11th century. The
:36:32. > :36:36.belief is that the Disney family came over after the Norman conquest
:36:37. > :36:42.and settled here? They came shortly after William The Conqueror, towards
:36:43. > :36:47.the end of that century. And they settled for hundreds of years. Where
:36:48. > :36:50.they related to Walt Disney? He seems to think so. Although the
:36:51. > :36:57.footage has never been released, he spent some time filming the tombs on
:36:58. > :37:02.his cine camera. Storylines of many Disney movies feature a strange soul
:37:03. > :37:06.searching for their family so perhaps it was a case of life
:37:07. > :37:10.imitating art when Walt Disney visited Norton Disney to rifle
:37:11. > :37:14.through the parish records. The current custodian of those records
:37:15. > :37:19.is Doctor Rogers from the Lincolnshire archives. What is the
:37:20. > :37:24.earliest reference you have found? This, which dates from the 13th
:37:25. > :37:38.century, and it mentions paying rent to Lord William Disney. And that is
:37:39. > :37:43.from the friends, meaning of Isney. And spelling does not settle down
:37:44. > :37:48.for a long time. By what time do we get the name Disney that we
:37:49. > :37:53.recognise? Certainly by the end of the 18th century. But the spelling
:37:54. > :38:00.of his name is not the only parallel between Walt Disney and these
:38:01. > :38:07.nobles. There is a bit of land here called Disney land. The original
:38:08. > :38:14.Disneyland! When does it state from? 1386! It all started here. I
:38:15. > :38:21.absolutely knew it. We have got right here. Is there a link between
:38:22. > :38:26.Walt Disney and the land of Disney in Lincolnshire? One record states
:38:27. > :38:32.that in 1651 a branch of the Disney family certified by William Disney
:38:33. > :38:37.was established in Ireland. But sadly there is still no evidence to
:38:38. > :38:44.prove that the Northern Disneys were related to Walt Disney's own Irish
:38:45. > :38:49.bloodline. His living relatives seem to have made up their minds about
:38:50. > :38:55.the origins of his family name. 50 years later, when his knees also
:38:56. > :39:04.came to visit the Disney teams, she signed the visitors book, Mary
:39:05. > :39:12.Disney, direct descendant. What a brilliant story. These two I just
:39:13. > :39:17.chatting away! We are back on! Can we ask you about Mary Poppins? Did
:39:18. > :39:23.you originally turned down the role? I didn't turn it down. What Disney
:39:24. > :39:27.came backstage when I was performing in Camelot and I thought he was just
:39:28. > :39:31.being nice but he asked if I would come to Hollywood to see the designs
:39:32. > :39:36.and hear the songs that he was planning for this movie that he
:39:37. > :39:42.intended to make. I was horrified. I said, oh, Mr Disney, I would love
:39:43. > :39:46.it, but I have to tell you. I am pregnant! Three months pregnant. He
:39:47. > :39:51.said, that is all right. We will wait. They were barely in
:39:52. > :39:56.preproduction. You know how long it takes to get a movie up and running
:39:57. > :40:02.and ready for the screen, by which time I had had my lovely daughter
:40:03. > :40:08.Emma. And three months after she was born, off I went with my husband to
:40:09. > :40:18.Disney. Did you do Camelot with Richard Burton and Eddie -- anybody
:40:19. > :40:24.else? After Richard left, he left before I did, he made Cleopatra. Do
:40:25. > :40:31.you get a tingle when you come back to London? When I drive home I
:40:32. > :40:34.always think about Mary Poppins. Especially in the spring. I love
:40:35. > :40:42.this country. I love my country. It is my country. Isn't it the best
:40:43. > :40:51.thing that our great performer of this generation sings with an
:40:52. > :40:55.English accent? Yes! Nobody has ever been to one of your concerts and
:40:56. > :41:00.heard you singing without hearing every single word. That was my
:41:01. > :41:03.lovely singing teacher. She was a stickler for diction. Hang on to
:41:04. > :41:07.your words and your voice will follow. We had something planned a
:41:08. > :41:12.bit earlier and I don't know if we have still got it but we have a clip
:41:13. > :41:26.of you H 12 at your first performance. Really? --
:41:27. > :41:47.Did you know how extraordinary you were? Of course not. It was just
:41:48. > :41:52.what I did. I had an adult larynx in a very young voice box. That was my
:41:53. > :42:02.stock in trade. All the time I was in third avail -- musical, I was
:42:03. > :42:07.belting out those operatic arias. When was it that you thought, this
:42:08. > :42:16.is it for me and I want my life to be like this. I saw either Novello
:42:17. > :42:36.in King's Rhapsody. Oh, my God! It was with Vanessa Lee. And Olive
:42:37. > :42:46.Gilbert. Oh, my God! Novello was before Anna Steyn and Andrew Lloyd
:42:47. > :42:51.Webber. The great Welsh composer. Did you come to films fairly late?
:42:52. > :42:57.No, I have made them since I started but they were so bad you have never
:42:58. > :43:01.seen them! The first was called The Bells of Hell and it was an
:43:02. > :43:04.adventure movie set during the summer in Switzerland. It was taking
:43:05. > :43:11.advantage of the success of The Sound Of Music with lots of kids in
:43:12. > :43:16.it. No music. And the snow started early that year and the whole film
:43:17. > :43:21.was abandoned. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got
:43:22. > :43:26.?4000, my entire salary, which I could put in the bag and work
:43:27. > :43:31.wherever I wanted. Richard III was the film that catapulted you into
:43:32. > :43:38.the big-time, so to speak. That was when filled people thought perhaps
:43:39. > :43:46.he doesn't just shout the time. -- film people. Let's have a look at
:43:47. > :43:55.one of your speeches. Now is the winter of our discontent
:43:56. > :44:05.made glorious sun by this son of York! And all the clouds that
:44:06. > :44:18.glowered upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Fabulous.
:44:19. > :44:26.Maggie Smith playing my mother, yes. She wasn't best pleased about that!
:44:27. > :44:30.The technique there, you make it very accessible. I went to the Julie
:44:31. > :44:37.Andrews school of diction. You can't pretend you can't sing with that
:44:38. > :44:43.voice. Well, thank you. All right. I will take that as encouragement.
:44:44. > :44:49.Let's do one together. The difference doing that speech on film
:44:50. > :44:53.compared to a full auditorium... The best thing was I had played it for
:44:54. > :44:57.so long on stage that in the studio all I had to concentrate on was not
:44:58. > :45:02.how to play it, not what I was going to do, but what I would do in terms
:45:03. > :45:05.of cinema rather than theatre. It was a good way of doing a major part
:45:06. > :45:23.in a film for the first time. swing and Christine will be telling
:45:24. > :45:28.us about the highlights. She is off to meet some people who pay them for
:45:29. > :45:34.a living. The botanic Gardens in Cambridge
:45:35. > :45:38.have been collecting different plants species since the early 19th
:45:39. > :45:42.century. It is sometimes easy to forget that the scientific study of
:45:43. > :45:51.plants underpins our understanding of life on Earth. Plants generate
:45:52. > :45:57.the air we breathe, supply the food we eat and have even helped provide
:45:58. > :46:03.the clues to evolution itself. For centuries, botanical illustrators
:46:04. > :46:08.have captured the detail and diversity of the plant world.
:46:09. > :46:12.Botanical art started many hundreds of years ago, when it was really
:46:13. > :46:18.important to understand which plans could be used to cure you, to treat
:46:19. > :46:22.illnesses, to save lives. So, right back when the first herbals were
:46:23. > :46:29.written, it was important to have that accuracy.
:46:30. > :46:35.By the 1840s, when these gardens opened to the public, botany was
:46:36. > :46:41.being taught as an academic subject. We are seeing a teaching sheet. It
:46:42. > :46:45.was produced by a man called John Stevens hence low who founded the
:46:46. > :46:49.Botanic Gardens in Cambridge. He was very meticulous. He did not just
:46:50. > :46:54.look superficially at the appearance of the plant but wanted to show his
:46:55. > :47:01.students the details. One of the most famous people he taught was
:47:02. > :47:05.Charles Darwin. He told them -- put him to recognise the different
:47:06. > :47:11.elements so they could use those skills. It was those observational
:47:12. > :47:16.skills that many believe helped sow the seeds for natural selection,
:47:17. > :47:25.white some species flounder while others flourish. That was behind
:47:26. > :47:28.everything Darwin deed and that came from Cambridge. His work was about
:47:29. > :47:38.looking at the animals and plants closely on thinking, what am I
:47:39. > :47:43.seeing and what does that mean. That is still the key to botanical art. I
:47:44. > :47:47.am looking to capture the texture and colour of the petals and the
:47:48. > :47:51.structures, so the reproductive parts of the plans, the bods,
:47:52. > :48:02.perhaps the fruits if I was to paint them later on. It takes up to 90
:48:03. > :48:09.hours to paint a flower in detail a photograph could not produce. Our
:48:10. > :48:14.eyes are different from a camera. We can manipulate the image. We have
:48:15. > :48:17.the leaves presented in a way the scientists can see most clearly. We
:48:18. > :48:21.can see into the flour in the painting and we can find the perfect
:48:22. > :48:33.you presented plans for photographing. -- presented plant. I
:48:34. > :48:37.love the way you have the round shape of the alley. The team at
:48:38. > :48:45.Cambridge is encouraging a new generation. Botanical artists to
:48:46. > :48:51.date show us things we would not see two-day. It is because you have to
:48:52. > :49:01.look properly to draw. It is a skill that is still important. Today, life
:49:02. > :49:07.happens fast. We can spend time just looking, just being, just observing.
:49:08. > :49:11.Botanical illustration may now be closer to art than science but it
:49:12. > :49:15.can still inspire people to take a closer look to the world around
:49:16. > :49:23.them. It is exactly that. I have got a lot
:49:24. > :49:31.of agricultural guidebooks for country file. If you use the painted
:49:32. > :49:40.once you get a lot more information. We have allowed Christine to come in
:49:41. > :49:47.because it was called out there. You have brought in these lovely plans.
:49:48. > :50:06.What is it? It is a rose. This is a new Rose introduced, this is Rosa
:50:07. > :50:12.David Alston --. It smells beautiful. It is disease-free, it is
:50:13. > :50:23.a great Rose. These are other lovely new introductions. They are all
:50:24. > :50:38.being released at Chelsea this year. This is the plant of the year,
:50:39. > :50:48.hydrangea 'Miss Saori'. When they arrive, and I cut them, what do I
:50:49. > :50:54.do? Do I put aspirin in the water? If you wish to arrange it cut it at
:50:55. > :51:02.a slant. Aspirin, and little bit of sugar, and look at it flourish. Are
:51:03. > :51:11.you a gardener? I am a flower arranger. I love having flowers in
:51:12. > :51:24.the house. Do you have flowers in the dressing room? I love being
:51:25. > :51:30.given flowers. I know what to get you.
:51:31. > :51:42.If you are a florist and you love that creation, that is the plant for
:51:43. > :51:49.you. The foliage will intensify to gold and you get a metallic purple
:51:50. > :51:56.striations on the stem. The head of the flower will turn intends
:51:57. > :52:05.metallic blue. She looks so beautiful in an arrangement and so
:52:06. > :52:13.elegant. She is 'Neptune's Gold'. It is brand-new and a heck of a good
:52:14. > :52:17.plant. Talking of keeping them indoors and outdoors, it has been a
:52:18. > :52:24.real challenge for Chelsea gardeners because a lot of the flowers are
:52:25. > :52:29.wilting? We have had it hot and cold, but that is the skill of the
:52:30. > :52:35.British horticulturalist. You see it nowhere else in the world executed
:52:36. > :52:42.to such a level than at the Chelsea Flower Show. So many expert growers
:52:43. > :52:46.come together in one space. That is what makes Chelsea the flower show
:52:47. > :52:59.of horticulture. Is it to do with the fact we have a allotment is? We
:53:00. > :53:04.have a history of growing. What fascinates me is that we have small
:53:05. > :53:11.plots, but the stories you can tell in such a short space - you do not
:53:12. > :53:17.need a big garden at all. You should go, Julie. I will try. You should
:53:18. > :53:23.engage with plans and you do not need a gorse, you just need a window
:53:24. > :53:40.box and just enjoy the plant. One plant can set you on fire. Pity she
:53:41. > :53:47.is not enthusiastic, isn't it? ! And this is Gaillardia ?Celebration?.
:53:48. > :53:51.The flowers remain intensely red and do not fade out. It is a good
:53:52. > :53:58.container plant. It will be a very popular plant. It has a very long
:53:59. > :54:05.flowering season. It is quite hardy. It will come back year after year. I
:54:06. > :54:12.am noticing things like azaleas, they bloom again, which they never
:54:13. > :54:16.used to do. See that big telly, we will switch to BBC Two as soon as we
:54:17. > :54:20.have finished because at eight o'clock the Chelsea Flower Show will
:54:21. > :54:25.be on and you can find out all about it.
:54:26. > :54:33.The time has come for us to show off our mass singalong of Do-Re-Mi in
:54:34. > :54:37.honour of Julie. We are a bit nervous so bear with us. Thank you
:54:38. > :54:44.to the choir to have given us a hand and especially the people at
:54:45. > :55:05.Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music for spreading the word. Here we go!
:55:06. > :55:38.FACING DO-RE-MI -- THEY SING DO-RE-MI.
:55:39. > :55:57.# WHEN YOU KNOW THE NOTES TO SAYING # You can sing almost anything...
:55:58. > :56:48.#. Bravo! Bravo!
:56:49. > :56:57.I want a copy of that, do I get a copy? So do I. We will give one to
:56:58. > :57:02.you for your birthday, Ian. If we could get them to sing happy
:57:03. > :57:10.birthday to Ian. Thank you for sending in your photos of you
:57:11. > :57:14.dressed up as iconic characters. This is Richard and friends. These
:57:15. > :57:20.costumes are made entirely of curtains. Thank you for sending that
:57:21. > :57:36.in. This is Laura dressed as Gandalf for a pub crawl. A themed pub crawl?
:57:37. > :57:48.World Book Day is an important day for five-year-olds and this is EV.
:57:49. > :57:57.This is Charlotte as Mary Poppins. This is Josh and his brother. We are
:57:58. > :58:03.saying that you could be in X-Men because you have a metal foot? I am
:58:04. > :58:12.a bionic woman. I have a bionic angle. Two years ago it was so bad,
:58:13. > :58:17.I had to do that or end up in a wheelchair. It does not go off
:58:18. > :58:25.because it is titanium. Does it manipulate itself? No, the muscles
:58:26. > :58:32.are still around. It is the most beautiful piece of equipment, it is
:58:33. > :58:37.brilliant. You could join in with X-Men. I have surely enjoyed
:58:38. > :58:47.listening to the pair of you. APPLAUSE.
:58:48. > :58:51.Thank you and all the best with the new X-Men movie, Days Of Future
:58:52. > :58:59.Past. If you want to stay and keep talking, feel free. Good luck with
:59:00. > :59:02.the tour. We will see you tomorrow with the Morrisey. We are back then.
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