21/08/2012 The One Show

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

Tonight's guest is used to the sound of leather against willow as

one of the BBC's cricket commentary team. He's also used to the hush of

a gallery as the One Show's resident art critic. But he's

clearly new to the world of gardening. That is starting to work

my wrists. Never play the piano again! It's Phil Tufnell! I will

never play the piano again! That was a clip from your new TV show

The Flower Pot Gang in a bit but first you've represented your

country Phil - what do you make of the honours for gold medalists

debate? Wee won so many, it was a fantastic Olympics. Everyone should

perhaps get one, but how do you rate success? Is it two gold

medals? Every athlete trained and dedicated themselves so perhaps

they should all get on it. Would you expect to do more than just

winning at your sport to get an honour? I think so, there is more

to it. You have got to perhaps be an ambassador for your sport and

put something back as well. Mo Farah would be nice, or Bradley

Wiggins. Jade Jones? It will be tricky, plus the Queen would be

there for days! She hasn't got time. I went out earlier today to see

what you think about honours for our Olympians. All British gold

medallists in Beijing were given at least an MBE, but this time around

should all the winners be honoured by the Queen? Or do they need to do

more than just getting on the podium? Do you think these athletes

should be honoured? Yes, I do. It has taken so much work to get there.

He if they have broken a record, then they should get one. To have a

gold medal is an honour enough. what does the name Sir Chris Hoy a

mean to you? He is exceptional. What about Mo Farah? Definitely, he

is lovely. What about Ted McKeever? No, it is like saying snooker it is

a gold medal event. What about Nicola Adams, the first female

boxer to be a gold medal winner? just let her enjoy her gold medal.

What about Bradley Wiggins? For the sideburns alone. Move in these

Olympians around, and it seemed no one can agree whether a gold medal

is enough. One thing is for sure - Loafer, Nicola Adams and Sir Chris

Hoy are firmly in our hearts of people here.

I spoke to one boy who said why not have a sports person of the British

Empire? Top idea. We don't know. What do you think? E-mail your

thoughts and we will read them out later. There is a new question of

sport with an Olympic team. You don't know anything about this?

the questions are top secret, but the Olympians will be there and we

will be having a good time. We know exactly what is in store because we

spoke to your executive producer. And you are recording it next week,

did you know that? Yes, I knew that. Now in honour of Question Of Sport

and your new gardening show we're going to see if you've actually

learnt anything. Because we're going to be playing A Question Of

Horticulture! But first, dog walking DJ Andy Kershaw has been to

Cumbria to find out how England's biggest mountain has been

attracting not just hoards of hikers...but an awful lot of litter

bugs too. Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain, surrounded by a

staggering Cumbrian countryside. People come from all over the world

to climb to the summit. But once they are there, it is not always as

picturesque as they had hoped. Imagine climbing up this beautiful

mountain and getting an eyeful of litter. I might as well make myself

useful whilst I am up here. The hundreds of thousands of visitors

who ascend this mountain every year are leaving more than just

footprints. It has always been bad, particularly in the summer months,

but it is progressively getting worse. People don't understand the

need for keeping the mountains clean. You only need to walk a few

yards from here and you will find litter. As you get further rock,

plastic bottles, cans of drinks, and as you progress to the top of

the mountain where people start to have their sandwiches, that is

where you find the real rubbish. The worst thing is the toiletry

that goes on on the mountain. do you mean? Obviously people need

to pay a call, but a lot of them will go on their path and leave

their droppings and paper on the path. I am wondering - if walkers

can pick it up after their dogs, why can't they pick it up after

them self? If there is litter up there, I will need help picking it

up. Richard and Lynsey are experienced Hill runners. With

their help, we will have the mountain clean and tidy in no time.

I will catch you up. I will be waiting for them at the summit.

More and more people are slugging all Scafell Pike every year. Many

of them are experienced walkers. Some locals are worried that the

influx of people is adding to the litter problem here. They come in

big numbers. I don't think in many cases they realise what they are

doing. They get up there, under little pressure, and they drop

litter. 90% of people are good people. You get a group that come

and don't, and that is what gives them a bad name. I had better catch

up with the litter pickers and look what I found. We won't be picking

that will. Richard was right. These are human droppings all right. Now

it is a race to the summit before the weather closes in completely.

My goodness me, the litter pickers have beaten me to it. How did you

get on? Were have not done too badly. Plastic bottles, sweet

wrappers, banana-skin, flasks. There is always rubbish here.

People sit down, they feel a sense of accomplishment, they have their

refreshments and took everything around. Yes, you find things on the

rocks that didn't get there by chance. I can't believe that people

who like mountains enough to climb them can then scatter them with

litter. Let's get out of this class old and the rain! The National

Trust say it is a never-ending job to keep this Cumbrian treasure

clear of rubbish, but providing bins and toilets is out of the

question. Mount Everest has the same issue and they have the same

approach, providing very little to no facilities in the most beautiful

and natural areas, but providing facilities where people park their

cars. The National Trust has a team of Rangers and volunteers here

throughout the year helping to manage the landscape, going up on a

regular basis to help tidy the mountain. Without their support,

the litter problem would be 10 times as much as it is now. It is

not difficult to carry your litter home with you. I'm doing it for

people that couldn't be bothered, and like me, do try to go before

you go, if you know what I mean. What do you say, old chap?

It is so easy to put your letter in the bag and taken away.

Phil, your new TV show started last Wednesday on BBC1 at 8pm and it's

called The Flowerpot Gang, what happens? Me, Anneka Rice, and Joe

swift turn on wanted plots of land into lovely gardens, it is as

simple as that. Last week was in Sheffield at a dementia care home.

The pass were cracked and so on. We got the diggers in, got stuck in,

the community came down and it was an amazing reaction. A were you

surprised at the reaction? Yes, but all of the mums and dads, husbands

and wives, it was a garden for the whole community because the kids

can come and see people in the care home and get out and about as well.

We left, had a great party and left them with a fantastic garden.

does bring a tear to your RI. It is great for you because you are the

one who meets people and get the stories. You rather chatty man.

and I do a lot of digging. Jo always get me doing the digging and

the shovelling. It is quite hard work, pretty dirty and messy and we

have to get stuck in. Not doing much digging here. The my wrist was

playing up. How close is the beach to the area you are working in?

This is for the young carers and they have got a lot of

responsibility on their shoulders, looking after family members and

what have you so they don't really get time to go and have a childhood.

They have a lot of stress and pressure on young shoulders so we

built this make-believe garden for them so they can get away from the

stresses and strains which they shouldn't be having as youngsters.

Have you found a new love of gardening from this? I am getting

there, green fingers, I don't mind a little bit of gardening. Have you

got a garden at home? I have, and I have a feller who comes round and

does it. I might get out and have a tinker. You must have been blown

away with the amount of response you had? The have a little team

helping us out, but everybody came down. The community spirit that was

shown was amazing, and we couldn't have done it without them.

something that might appeal to you. It is simple - just sit back, put

your feet up and let this little feller do the work.

Over the centuries the British landscape has changed significantly.

Rare habitats like this grass landing Devon have been severely

reduced and are even at risk of being lost altogether. A pair of

experimental engineers have been employed here in the hope they can

alter the landscape for the better. Beavers - nature's top engineers.

There tree-felling down building champions. I am here in a secret

location to meet some leavers who have brought about big changes to

the countryside in one year. Peter Burgess, conservation manager for

the Devon Wildlife Trust explains why something had to be done to

save this grassland. It is very Wildlife rich and it is one of the

jewels and the crown of what we have in Devon. It costs a lot of

money to manage and we are looking at investigating the potential of

the Beavers restoring it. There needs to be a good supply of water.

Two beavers have been released into this and closure and the results

have been dramatic. My goodness me, look at this! It is astonishing.

huge amount of effort to be expanding. They are felling large

chunks of wood here. Has this all been created by them? Yes, probably

over the last four months. You can see they have engineered a wet

London environment. A what is also astonishing is the height of the

water on the dam, nearly a metre drop. Yes, the beavers have

utilised the street which has All of the activity here is through

the beavers. They excavate these be the canals, as they are known.

Understanding their habits means Peter knows the best place to get a

glimpse of our landscape gardeners. Usually nocturnal animals, we

should have had plenty of time to set up all the night time camera

kit. There are bubbles everywhere. Oh, wow. We have just finished

reading ticket, and they caught us on the hoof because it is not even

eight yet, and they are already out and about. I am quite excited! I

cannot believe we are this close. They are much larger than you think.

In the water, they are sleek, but look at the size of its tail.

is an incredible sight in the British countryside. But that was

not the end of our luck for the evening. Two Beavers! It seems both

beavers are getting well stuck into the job at hand. A native species

to the UK, beavers were hunted to extinction in the 16th century. Now

they are back, through reintroduction projects like this

one that enable us to get a better understanding of how they manage

the environment around them. It is exciting to see the beavers going

off and cutting down small birch sapling. They are managing the

grass loans around here. Young sapling growth is one of the

biggest threats to grassland, and the beavers are doing the job for

us. Out of hours, working overtime. Here in Devon, this trial seems to

be going well. It is great that the engineering work is carried out by

these beavers, helping to revitalise this fragile landscape.

Maybe one day, we will see beavers finding a new and more permanent

home in the British countryside. They do make an amazing difference.

But they are not the only spot where they have been reintroduced.

The error projects going on elsewhere in the UK. There are no

plans in Northern Ireland at the moment. In Wales, they are

considering six potential sites for reintroduction of beavers. Pippa

are worried about the fact that they might damage local crops, so

the decision is with the government. In Scotland in 2009, a five-year

project was started. This is footage from that. They introduced

a number of beaver families from Norway to a forest in Argyll, and

they are doing well. They have been breeding in an area that is not

enclosed. They are packed, so they keep an eye on them, but there is

no potential conflict with local farmers. It has been a successful

project. Are they dangerous? What do you do if you come across one?

They are vegetarian! It is shocking, the way they can alter the

landscape. We saw what they could do to a small area of land it in a

year, completely change the environment. Is it reintroduction,

or because these species have been away for so long, is it an

introduction of an alien species? It is a big debate. In Wales, the

National Farmers' Union say it is an introduction and other species

has been extinct for too long in this country. In Scotland, the

Wildlife trusts say this is a reintroduction. Man was responsible

for the demise of this species, and man is putting it back. It is not

unnatural. Engineer Maggie Aderin- Pocock has a more drastic style,

demolition. It in the next of a dramatic series of films for The

One Show, she is at the Red Road flats in Glasgow, where one of the

huge towers is about to come down. But there is only a matter of

metres between the buildings. In the '50s and '60s, tower blocks

were hailed as the answer to Britain's post-war housing shortage.

Now where embrace them more than Glasgow, and none are more iconic

and the Red Road flats. When opened in 1966, the Red Road flats in

Glasgow were some of the poorest -- tallest residential buildings in

Europe. Known as the Super blocks, they housed 5000 people. In their

day, these giants were seen as beautiful and futuristic. But today,

tower blocks are being brought down around the country. One block at

Red Road is next. But this tower is not going down without a fight.

Blast engineer William Sinclair has found a huge challenge inside.

any given floor, we found a complete mish-mash and cocktail of

steel columns. Some of the steel is industrial strength, thick steel.

Bringing down a building made from concrete is relatively simple. The

shockwave from the expression usually shatters the material,

meaning the building can collapse and implode on itself. A steel

structure is so rigid that it has to be knocked over, like felling a

tree. William's solution is to use to types of explosive. One to

topple the steel girders over... The scissor a bomb box, a box with

dynamite sticks inside. That has a charge that will shift the column

out of position. And another explosive to slice the steel in two,

called a cut to charge. They form a modern jet of copper with explosive

inside, which will heat up and fire through the steel and slice it like

a knife through butter. Gwilliam and his demolition team

have another major headache. The neighbouring block is only 45

metres away, and the Tower is 80 metres tall. So how can they bring

it down without hitting the other block? The frame of the building is

made up of steel girders along the front, middle and back of the

building. A third of the way up, Williams will take out the front

and middle girders. On three floors, the explosives will slice through

the steel and blow it outwards. The back Gerda remains to act as a

hinge. The building first collapses down, reducing its height before

toppling it forward. This combination of explosives means

that this building will topple that way, missing that building by 12

metres. Hopefully! A crowd of onlookers have come to see the end

of these famous flat. But it is mixed emotions for this family.

They were home for over 20 years. We had a fantastic time growing up

here. I couldn't say a bad word of the place. I will be sad to see it

go, because it is a link to your past. My parents are now a bad --

debt, so it is one of your final links to your parents. But time is

up for the Red Road flats. A quarter of a ton of explosives is

ready to go. A siren has just gone off. I really feel for the

engineers on this one, because it is a massive building and it has to

come down incredibly precisely. You But as planned, it misses the other

building by metres. Wow! That took me by surprise. It shot across, and

collapsed. I am really proud to be an engineer, seeing that. I don't

like looking at that blank space. Demolitions don't get much bigger

than this, but it marks the beginning of the end of these epic

towers. One down... Several more to You can't see that enough! I want

to keep replaying it. You wouldn't want to get that wrong. We would

all like to press the button. As I said earlier, to honour your new

role in The Flowerpot Gang and A Question Of Sport, we have devised

a game especially for you. It is called... It is not A Question Of

Sport. It is A Question Of Horticulture! But it is very

similar. Behind these squares, there will be a picture of a plant

or shrub, and you have to guess what it is. We start with square

number one. Buttercup. Yes, but for a bonus point, can you name the

Latin? The posh name! What was it? Ranunculus. You can have that!

Square number two. You planted many of these in Sheffield. Lamb's

tongue. It is! Let's roll on with number three. See, I was listening.

What is that? Very common. Geraniums. Yes! What about number

four? That is the wood sculpture of me! An extra bonus point if you

take it home as well! It is in the way, Phil, in the corridor! Four

Marks. I would just like to thank Joe Swift for that. Anita Rani has

done her chef's whites to find the recipe of a happy marriage from a

couple with a record-breaking experience.

This is the temple where I was married in my home town of Bradford.

But today, I'm going to meet a couple who got married a long, long

time before I did. They are believed to be Britain's longest

married husband and wife. They wed in the Punjab region around the

Coen border between India and Pakistan in 1925. By the time they

move to Bradford in the '60s, the couple had already been married 40

years. I am going to take them all the way back to where their journey

together first began, by recreating the feast they had on their wedding

day. He is now 106, and his wife will soon be 100. They speak very

little English, so to find out more, we chat in Punjabi. Even though

they got married really young, she was only 13 or 14. They would get

married, but because the girl was so young and had not come of age,

she would stay at home with her parents. It was only when she had

matured into a woman Thatcher would leave to go to her husband's house.

That happened a lot of. Their villages were not far apart, but he

went on a horse and cart to get his bride. The couple have been happily

married ever since. They have eight children and 27 grandchildren and

23 great grandchildren. What is their secret? Staying with the

family, my sisters and my wife look after them. We want to bring back

their memories with a big family celebration. I am going to join the

daughters in the kitchen and cook up a taste of the 1925 wedding day.

When they were married, meat was still in a tree, so only one of

today's dishes contains chicken. The other car is a vegetarian. As

well as the cauliflower dish, we have a dish of mustard leaves and

Dahl, a lentil curry, although today's is made with chickpeas and

black lentils. This is what they would have had. 87 years ago,

Punjabi cuisine was aimed at sustaining farmworkers, so it was

high on calories, heavy in carbohydrates and fats, especially

Keith. This is clarified butter, which is a key ingredient in

traditional Punjabi cooking. It is ready. The cooking is all done. On

to the best bit, the eating. Lots of family and friends have joined

us, and on the menu, the same dishes they ate 87 years ago in

rural Punjab on their wedding day. It is all good. So what is the key

ingredient to their long life together? She says, I have just

been eating this food my whole life. What a privilege it has been to

cooks at a special meal for them. I hope they continue to have a

healthy and happy life together. I am having curry for the! Who says

Currie is bad for you? They look great. Let's do some e-mails.

you for your e-mails on honours for gold medallists. Kevin says, I

think the system of giving honours needs looking at. Perhaps they

should be given at the end of a career. Does the brilliant

taekwondo Stade Jade Jones need an honour at the age of 20? Luke says,

I believed the team should be awarded the honour, and it should

then be kept in a sporting museum. Cases has what about doctors,

teachers? They contribute more to society, and what about the