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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones... | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Tonight's guest has told us he spends most evenings | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
walking past our studio just after seven hoping to catch our eye | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
It's a sad image - but we're going put that right tonight. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
We've let him in, we've sat him down, we're pretending | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
that we never saw him, and we're looking forward to hearing | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
You were just too busy? Thank you very much, you have left your | :00:36. | :00:58. | |
Drivetime show a little bit early. Did you play a long song to get | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
here? Four minutes and 30 seconds of a country song. Did you tell your | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
listeners to switch over to BBC One? Yes, of course, it is their | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
decision. Let's talk about your radio show. You start with three | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
words that your listeners sum up their feelings with? At the end of | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
the day, three words. We are going to do the same on our show tonight. | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
This was my morning. Garden Centre Meltdown. Basically, garden centres | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
are new to me, as an adult. I was overwhelmed by the choice and there | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
was no pat corner. I thought, this isn't for me. I had to leave. There | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
were no turtles. Not these days. It is a long time since you have been | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
to a garden centre. Mine is going to get quite a reaction from the young | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
viewers. End of term! Shameless crowd pleaser! What would yours be? | :02:11. | :02:20. | |
Shameless crowd pleaser! Just in time? Not to blame? It was 55 | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
seconds, we heard. We would like to know what your three words would be | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
to sum up your day. Take a picture and send it in. Having reported on | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the Pokemon Go phenomenon and a little bit late, can we be the first | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
to declare the craze is over? Wishful thinking, if we do, what | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
will families do in the summer holidays? We know some parents will | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
be looking forward to them with mixed feelings. Iwan is with a | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
family in Devon who think they have the answer. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
What do you do in the summer to keep kids entertained? Do you plan lots | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
to do? It's very difficult to keep kids entertained, especially because | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
we work full-time. They keep us busy and cost a fortune, but we are lucky | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
where we live. What is your favourite thing to do in the summer? | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
Camping! How long do you have off? 47 days. 47 to keep them occupied, a | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
tough job. If the weather goes pear shaped, it is tough. What about | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
this? When it comes to cracking summer boredom, the Bridge family | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
have the perfect recipe. They are all avid kite surfers. They spend | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
their spare time in the waters off Exmouth, honing their skills. It has | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
become more than a hobby, they are experts. Recently, they said four | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
world records, going around the Isle of Wight in a day. When did you | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
start? When I was 31, quite late. But it hadn't been around very long. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
It is a young sport, it came about in the early part of 2000. It's a | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
really fun thing to do as a family. We saw Mum and dad doing it, we | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
really enjoyed it and we wanted to get into it. I think we are really | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
driven, because we all have our own goals that we want to try and | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
achieve. I think that really bounces off each individual. Is it something | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
you think you will do, is this your future? 2018 is the youth Olympics, | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
and kite surfing has been accepted, hopefully I can go to that. We are | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
talking about having a common interest, family going out over the | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
summer? Yours is quite cool? We get on quite well... Sometimes. There | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
are scraps, sometimes. Is Tom quite annoying, sometimes? He is, yeah! | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
What would you say to families that don't do much as a family? It was | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
just a natural thing for me. When I look at other families, I think what | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
they are missing is doing something together. It can be something as | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
simple as rowing a boat, something together with the kids, because you | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
don't get that time again. The Bridges have got some are sewn up. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
What are you going to do as a family to have a perfect break? | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Maybe that has given you an idea. That looks exciting, have you tried | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
that? No. I would admire from a distance and encourage others to | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
take part! Well, your book is certainly on your radar at the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
moment. Let's talk about Blame. We know that children all over the | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
world are engrossed with it. We have a picture of Kian, on holiday. This | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
isn't the PR, he's not a member of your family, it is just a boy | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
enjoying your book? Some parents on Twitter, sending me a thumbs up, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
saying that we bought it. He seems to be liking it. We know that you | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
wrote the Itch trilogy for children, but this is your first young adult | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
book. You were saying that this was tough to write. Three years? It took | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
about three years. It is an adventure story, it's a thriller. It | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
is about a sister and a brother, and a girl, who is 16, called Ant, and | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
the brother, Matty, he is 11. They are in prison with their foster | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
parents, they are considered heritage criminals. This is in a few | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
year's time, in the book, the EU has disappeared, and heritage crime has | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
been declared. That means that we are held responsible for any crimes | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
committed by our parents or grandparents that they got away | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
with. So, Ant and Matty are in prison, not for anything they did, | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
but the family win, the family annexe of this big new prison in | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
London. So, to get heritage crime to work was a big legal principle. Is | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
it a thing? Well, it kind of is, but it just means damage to important | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
buildings, here, now. In my book, it is a completely new legal concept. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
It just means that you are responsible for the crimes of your | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
parents and grandparents. So, it has become a big thing in the book, | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
there has been a bad recession and everybody is looking for a new group | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
of people to blame. It is about scapegoating, wanting to blame other | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
people for what has happened to you. We are looking for other people to | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
blame, the people that have committed the heritage crimes, they | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
are the people that are focused on. They are attached with a tag on | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
their back, which makes them walk straight, so they become known as | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
strutters. That is where the name came from. Susie Dent from countdown | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
said her favourite word at the moment is strutter filth, which is a | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
word used to describe them in the book. I have heard about how this | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
came to you, is that true? Everybody loves War Horse, all of those great | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
books, and the author wrote me a note saying he was putting a book | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
together about reminiscence of the First World War, anybody who had | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
anything to say about World War I. He wrote me a note and he said, do | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
you have any connection, any family members at all? I said, my great | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
uncle died in 2016. Maybe I could write a piece about him? His name | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
was Lieutenant Stanley Killingbeck. Because it was for him, I wanted it | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
to be really good. I sent it off. I wanted it to be really, really good. | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Like doing your best work for the teacher. I had a dream and I dreamt, | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
and it was a very vivid, I dreamt I was in a queue, going to prison, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
going to Pentonville prison, because it had been discovered that my great | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
uncle was a deserter. He wasn't, that in my dream, he was. Because he | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
got away with it, I have to go to prison. Everybody else was going to | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
prison for things they haven't done. It was such a strong image. I was | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
telling my wife, and she said, you should write about that. Here is the | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
book, three years later. On that thought of heritage crime, guilty of | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
crimes your parents did, Alan and Mary? Anything? Once, Mary walked | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
out of a well-known High Street shop with a lovely cash pash Mina throw, | :10:00. | :10:12. | |
and it caught two g-strings on the rack, so she could be done for them. | :10:13. | :10:21. | |
As an excuse, it wasn't a very good one. Simon's book, Blame, is out | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
now. Anita is going to be here telling us about how she went behind | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
the scenes with the people running a city the size of Bath that didn't | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
exist four years ago. Before that, Nick Wallis reports from a town | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
closer to home, that has overcome its own problems, although the job | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
is not done yet. When you get into a cab, it's | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
reassuring to know that the vehicle and the person behind the wheel have | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
been checked and licensed by the local council. Nowhere in Britain is | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
taxi security more sensitive than here, in Rotherham. Between 1997 and | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
2013, 1400 children were abducted and sexually assaulted in the town. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
The official investigation found some taxi drivers ferried a | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
vulnerable girls to their abusers. Gary gearing has been a Robert Crome | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
cabbie for 30 years. Came as a shock to everybody. It had massive | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
consequences for taxi drivers. In the wake of the scandal, four | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
government appointed commission is now run Rotherham, including Mary | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
Nay. They have introduced measures against child sexual exploitation | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
and security measures in every cab full stop We have been working to | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
restore confidence in Rotherham and the taxi trade. We introduced a new | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
policy with much higher standards for the fitness of drivers and | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
technical surveillance in vehicles. This is where the technology is | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
installed. Remember Q's for a treat in James Bond? It's not like that. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Steve wants to drive his cabin Rotherham. It has a panic button if | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
the customer or myself feels threatened, you press the button and | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
it records sound. Taxis are safer, but the system is expensive, about | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
?800 each. At least as a passenger in Rotherham, I know that anything | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
that happens in this taxi will be caught on camera. Rotherham's rules | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
are some of the toughest amongst UK councils. Passengers here should | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
feel reassured. But there is a problem. If you stand on any street | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
corner in Rotherham, you will quickly spot cabs that our Lenten | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Leeds licensed somewhere else. Like this one. It is registered by a | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
council 60 miles away in Lancashire. Cabs licensed elsewhere can operate | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
here legally, but they don't have to metre Rotherham's standards. No | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
cameras, no local knowledge test, and rather amazed powerless to do | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
anything about them. It concerns us, we want people to know if they get a | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
taxi in Rotherham, they get a Rotherham standard in terms of the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
driver and the vehicle. Cabbies are queueing up to get licenses from | :13:20. | :13:31. | |
Rossendale, which has far more taxi drivers than the population. On | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
Bradford's streets, plenty of cabs from Rossendale. We filmed dozens, | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
also in Rochdale and Manchester. Bradford Council has protested to | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Rossendale. They are foreign drivers, as far as I am concerned. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
There is not much trade and they are coming in and taking trade away. So, | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
why Rossendale? We asked several drivers and one that registered | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
their agreed to speak to us. He operated Holden, 20 miles from | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Rossendale. Oldham Council insists on a local knowledge test and an NVQ | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
in passenger transport. Rossendale doesn't. That is the difference, | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
it's easier to get the licence. David of the Rossendale chilli taxi | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
Association agrees it is the lack of testing that is the draw. | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
Birmingham's knowledge test is 126 questions long. The drivers have | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
said, right, enough is enough. We are asking to be taxi drivers, we | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
not asking to learn the Encyclopaedia Britannica. At ?185 | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
for a licence, it certainly generates income for Rossendale. | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Rossendale Council said it does check drivers. It is discussing | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
cameras in cabs and will no longer issue licenses to drivers that say | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
they will operate elsewhere. But if cabs can operate anywhere, shouldn't | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
the same checks apply everywhere? Rotherham Commissioner Mary Nay | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
fears they will still be powerless to vet drivers elsewhere. If they | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
are not doing what they should do, we need to be able to deal with | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
that. The Government has said it is planning national guidelines to | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
ensure child protection in taxis. As yet, there is little detail and the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
timescale for introduction is yet to be decided. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
The situation has changed dramatically since we filmed. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Rossendale Council say they have introduced English language tests | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
and sexual awareness training. And the 4000 cabbies licensed under the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
old scheme will have to take those tests when their licences come up | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
for renewal in the future. In your fascinating documentary, Anita, you | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
have been looking at a different kind of city. I have. It is in | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Jordan. I think the only way to understand what it is, is to see it. | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
Look at the scale of it. It is a refugee camp which did not exist | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
four years ago. It is home to 80,000 people. Some of the figures are | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
staggering. To feed, shelter and provide water for that many people | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
in the desert is quite a feat. There are two supermarkets, 11 clinics and | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
hospitals, nine schools, a butcher's and a barber's. It is not what you | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
would imagine a refugee camp to look like. They look quite substantial | :16:41. | :16:48. | |
those buildings. When it first opened it was a chaotic, frightening | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
place, but in four years it has settled into a relatively normal | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
small town with its own high Street and economy and schools and people | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
are thriving. There is life and there is joy and it was quite | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
humbling experience. Just the water that many people? I joined them. You | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
are in the desert. They basically dug deep enough to tap into a water | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
source and 90,000 loaves of bed which are baked on-site. Overnight. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Every single day everyone in the camp gets four loaves a day. I | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
helped distribute those. I put in a sewage system for everybody living | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
there. When they first moved there they had communal wash blocks but | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
that did not suit the people because they are from quite a middle income | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
area of Syria. They are doctors, nurses, teachers, artists, | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
butcher's, barber's and they are used to a certain standard of | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
living. The reason why it is so well setup is because it has been pushed | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
from the people. They are expecting a certain way of life so the UNHCR | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
has said, let's allow this to happen. Because there are no | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
certainties but how long they will be there, you have to provide | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
essential things really. There are some lovely human stories because | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
you go into it. Some people will have preconceptions but it is really | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
uplifting, the documentary. Tell us about Ziad who grows an amazing herb | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
garden in the desert. It is about the people. They left a lasting | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
impression. Ziad is someone I stumbled across. I saw a swing | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
outside a house. They have Portakabins and this guy had built a | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
refrigerator, a swing for his children, a well outside his house. | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
He called himself the miracle man and he built everything from | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
scratch. He was growing his own herbs. Changes your perceptions | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
about what you think a refugee camp would look like. The Refugee Camp: | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Our Desert Home is on BBC Two at nine o'clock. We have another story | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
for you now. George and Mike are very competitive and also at a loose | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
end so to get them out of the office and get some peace and quiet, we set | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
them a challenge and the results are surprisingly beautiful. | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
In 1985, a Norwegian naturalist published his famous artist like | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
alphabet. Each letter and number is a close-up photograph of the wind | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
from a butterfly or moth. I have come to Littlehampton to take on a | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
One Show challenge inspired by this beautiful work of art. The goal is | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
to find things in the natural environment to spell out the words | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
the One Show. The producers have promised me some help, a top | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
naturalist, they said. Instead... They got me! This is a project we | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
will be tackling together. To make it more fun we will have a | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
competition. I will look into the world of invertebrates. I get the | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
rest of the animals and the plant kingdom. Made the best man win. I am | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
starting by looking for a message in the leaves. There are lots of little | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
flies who lay their eggs on plants and the eggs hatch and the larvae | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
eat inside the leaf. They make squiggly shape called mine and if we | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
are lucky we might find one which looks a letter. Here we are. I | :20:49. | :21:03. | |
reckon that is a pretty good E. I have to say that is pretty good work | :21:04. | :21:13. | |
but I have found a nest which is the perfect letter O. They are | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
everywhere but I am hoping for some alphabetical inspiration in the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
pond. With a water boatman, if it stops moving, that would make a | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
passable T. My next letter has quite literally fallen at my feet! Up | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
there is a sycamore and it is dropping its lovely winged seeds so | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
I can see these gorgeous letters all over the place. Our One Show was | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
looking pretty good but some letters are proving trickier than others. I | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
am seeing what is in the vegetation. There might be something. I think we | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
have got something interesting here. Stuck on this leaf is the wing of an | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
older fly. Let's get it under the microscope. And it has given us a | :22:08. | :22:16. | |
call came letter H. We are nearly there. George, I think you will find | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
all you need is a pair of binoculars and a keen eye. I am watching a | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
family of mute swans on the lake here. If you look at the head and | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
neck, it is the most graceful and beautiful curve, the letter S. It is | :22:33. | :22:41. | |
time to regroup and compare our progress. Mike, I have risked life | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
and limb for the perfect O. That is a top-quality caterpillar. I can see | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
an immaculate circle. But there is one letter I have struggled with and | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
I have looked everywhere. I cannot find it, a W. I might have something | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
up my sleeve. Littlehampton is the best place to see a very special | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
butterfly called the white letter he streak. There is one perched on this | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
hogweed. And that is the missing W. That is the final piece to our One | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Show puzzle. You have done it. I could not have done it without you, | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
mate. I say the same. There we have it, the One Show. As written by | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
mother nature. Everyone will be sending in their | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
phrases now. Speaking of which, three words to sum up your day. This | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
is the era, met her granddaughter. This is Joe, lost my teeth. Then | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
three words are campaign and raining. They are watching the One | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
Show. Push Mac camping and raining. In 2003, a small group in Lowestoft | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
in Suffolk threw on some catsuits, back combed their hair and made an | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
original sound. 13 years later they are forming but not with an original | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
member. Sorry, Dave, the position has been filled! | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
Rock band The Darkness have been a bit like Marmite. They hit record I | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Believe In A Thing Called Love divided music fans. I think we were | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
afraid to be caught out by a joke. We just didn't care. That is what | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
gets people's noses. The band was born at the start of the new | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
millennium when guitarist Dan saw his brother Justin in a pub and | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
thought he would make a great front man. Justin is a terrific dancer. He | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
started acting out the song and then he ran out of ideas and started | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
doing star jumps. He starred job for the rest of the song and so did the | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
rest of the pub and everyone was in stitches! I thought, that is it, he | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
will be the front man. Justin could mimic Mariah Carey in her five or | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
six octave range. It was less than that, with exceptional dance | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
ability. It is a miracle that I was not a child star! I blame my teeth. | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
I blame identity. Together with bassist Frankie, the brothers | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
started writing songs in their flat. We like to think of ourselves as the | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
Knights of a musical round table. We feel like we belong to different era | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
in terms of our musical values. Part of the truth element was if it was | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
rubbish, you would be told. So round the table of truth, how did I | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
Believe In A Thing Called Love a merge? Rock had become very | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
introspective and negatives and dealing with alienation so we wanted | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
to escape from that. We wanted something more euphoric. I also felt | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
when people were talking about relationships in songs, they would | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
speak of love but they would never leave the Leave lose the word love. | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
All of these kids in bands were like, love! I was determined we | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
would have love in the title. We were excited about cramming lots of | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
words together in the chorus. The band decided they needed to create | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
the right image to go along with their music. People aspiring to be a | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
band as the boy next door, there are a lot of people in anoraks | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
performing on stage and we did not want to be the boy next door, we | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
wanted to be the man at the end of the road with the gates and drives a | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
fast car. My vision of what a singer should wear has always been a | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
1-piece. This is a chiffon. And leather. Our intention was not to | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
shock, it was more to entertain. I Believe In A Thing Called Love was | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
recorded at bus less than glamorous studio in Willesden in London. At | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
this point they did not have a record deal so they were funded by | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
money pit Justin made recording advertising jingles. But with their | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
live gigs building a fan base the record company had to take notice. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
The band released their debut album in 2003 and it sold 1-.5 million | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
copies. I Believe In A Thing Called Love was their biggest hit. May be | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
it was because it took so long to be recognised that when it happened we | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
said yes to everything. Our schedule for that two or three-year was | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
insane. It was fun to have whatever you wanted any time of the day or | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
night. We pretty much lived to excess. Completely burnt out, The | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
Darkness split in 2006, but after a few years apart, the band reformed. | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
Now we have brought them back to play in the studio where their hit | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
records took shape. Joining them is drummer Rufus Taylor, the son of | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
Queen musician Roger Taylor. It is perfect for me. I do not know | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
another band like this on the planet. I am very fortunate. Now we | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
are rejuvenated with ruthless, it feels like the song has a new energy | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
to it. People love to try and sing along with it even when they can't. | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
It has become a bit of a modern classic. We would not be here | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
without it. I love that song. Guitar! | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
LAUGHTER Tremendous. On that note, that is it | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
for tonight. Thank you to Simon. His new book Blame is out tomorrow. And | :29:19. | :29:26. | |
tomorrow I will be sharing with Nina Wadia and Mark Rylance will be here. | :29:27. | :29:27. | |
Guitar! Cool off. Cook off. | :29:28. | :29:43. | |
Dive in. | :29:44. | :29:47. |