21/10/2013 The One Show

Hello. Welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. Tonight

we are joined by an actor who does not just play famous people, he

becomes them. He has been Kenneth Williams, Tony Blair, Sir David

Frost, Brian Clough. So who will he play next then - Jesus? He already

has! It's Michael Sheen. APPLAUSE

Welcome back. Thank you very much. When you are playing these people

then, they say you don't like to meet them - the living ones, that

is, obviously, before you do the role. Is that true? For instance,

with David Frost, who was a lovely, lovely man. Anyone who met him would

always say what a lovely man he is. You don't want to be compromised at

the early stages when you are working on something. You will be

warts and all portrayal. If you've got a relationship with someone, you

don't want to be thinking, oh, will he be upset if I do this?

As we see, as viewers, you are so bang on with that characterisation,

you would think your first port of call would be to sit down and say,

what do you think of this? You have to make it imaginative. You have to

find a point between the real person and yourself, so you can inhabit it.

It is Benedict Cumberbatch playing Julian Assange in The Fifth State.

Julian said to him, don't do it. I think I heard him say that the day

he was about to start filming it, he had that. That is a difficult

position to be in. What would you do then? You have make a decision

whether you, this is the right thing to do - regardless of whether the

person you are playing thinks it is the right thing to do. That is your

call. Then you have to stand by it, I suppose. It is your job. You have

to put food on the table. We will talk to Michael about his latest ce

consideration. Despite a raise -- latest creation. The Fostering

Network say 30% of foster parents are leaving the service each year.

Tony Livesey had met one couple as they prepare themselves and their

home for fostering a child. Even their chihuahua is under scrutiny.

In the UK we are short of foster homes. 9,000 are needed over the

next year. This recent advert by Cumbria County Council had the

desired effect. They received four times as many inquiries as usual.

Deciding to be a foster parent is often the first tiny step on a long

and difficult road. Out of 350 people who inquiry about fostering

in Cumbria each year, only 20 go on to be accepted. And the qualifying

process can take up to a year. Angela and her husband Darren are

ten months down that road. Why did you decide to do this? What was the

trigger point for you? Because we know we can give a child a home I is

nice to think you are doing something good. It will be nice for

our children to have the experience of having other children around them

as well. Whether they are approved or not, they have started preparing

the spare room. The fun bit is getting all the toys

ready. There are rules they have to stick to as well. Is there almost a

check list? Yes. What is on it? Like smoke alarms, locks on cupboards. So

you are assessed for all kinds of things. What about your pets? There

is a risk assessment. The chihuahua has been risk-assessed. Is he all

right? Yes. He passed. What about the parrot - is he risk-assessed?

Yes. Were you surprised at the level of detail? I was not expecting with

the pets. I suppose it has to be done. ??FORCEWHITE Angela is

excited, but she has some concerns. How do you think you'll cope when

you have to hand the baby back? It will be hard. It is difficult.

Obviously you could have had that child from being tiny and then

you've had that child maybe six months, and then they are going to

be moving on and also I worry about how my children will cope with that

as well. I have brought Angela to meet Sally,

who is currently fostering two children. She has cared for over 100

in the past 25 years. So, she's has to say goodbye plenty of times.

It is something you will not really know until you actually do it. Once

they drive off in the car, I come in and my legs wobble and I have to sit

down and I have a good cry. There have been times when we've looked

after older children, in particular, and teenagers, who, their behaviour

has become so disruptive, I've had to ask them if they can be moved on.

Once the children are gone, do you hear from them again? Very often.

Yes we do. Today, I have received a parcel from a little girl who moved

into adoption recently. She sent me some seeds for the garden.

Some chocolate. Bless!

That is the rewarding part, isn't it? Absolutely! It was a pleasure to

receive that. I am a dad. I like to think I am a good one. Would I want

strangers coming into my private life? Would I like to be told I have

to adapt my house. You have to really want these children. That is

the problem - not enough people do. Here are the facts - you are

eligible to foster if you are single, a same-sex couple, disabled

or childless. Generally, you shouldn't smoke, if you want very

young children. For Paul and his wife, that was one rule too many.

They pulled out when Essex County Council queried their application

after he admitted to smoking cigars at a party. It was devastating.

Devastating for my wife and, you know, obviously devastating for he,

given the amount of time and the actual energy we'd put into that

process over the two years. When you have put your all energy and effort

and all your thought process into two years into something, at that

stage then, we honestly felt we couldn't put ourselves through that

again. Those who do stick it out have to have medical checks, provide

between two-six personal references. If the children are not siblings,

they must have separate bedrooms. You do earn money. Around ?200 per

child per week, depending on where you live. Tracey is responsible for

approving carers in Cumbria. It is intrusive and it does take a lot of

time and work. It is necessary. The Government have recently relaxed

some of the rules, trying to make it easier to adopt. Would you advocate

relaxing the rules in fostering? We have our rules in fostering for good

reasons. That is to make sure that everybody is safeguarded. And there

is a lot of rules there to protect the children and the carers.

It will be two months before Angela and Darren find out if they have

been approved. How would you feel? You are this close to the finishing

line. How would you feel if something went wrong and you were

told there would be no child? I would be devastated. We've come this

far. Thanks so much Tony. All the best as well to Angela and Darren,

who have the final panel meeting on 13th December. We wish you all the

best for that. We were talking there. You are involved in a charity

which supports foster children. You are re at the other end. By the time

you get to 18 you have to leave any foster care you are in. So, in terms

of, where do you go to live? Well, there's a charity and limited

company within the Neath Port Talbot area that I got involved with and

they work with young people between 16-25, helping them move into

accommodation, with supported living and hopefully independent living as

well. It will help them through that process. So, apart from being a

local charity, was there any reason in particular, did your relatives

foster? This is not the reason I got involved. I found out recently, my

mum and dad said, that before me and my sister were born, they got

involved with an organisation where a child or children would come and

be with you for like a day a week or a couple of days a week, to either

give their parents a break or whatever the situation is. It is so

weird to think, my parents looked after another child before I came

along. It was not the reason I got involved. I worked on the Passion in

Port Talbot a couple of years ago. I started to find out about all this

incredible work going on in the Neath Port Talbot area.

Organisations like Cross Roads, working with young carers, the drug

and rehabilitation... You see all these amazing organisations. I

trooed to get involved with as -- tried to get involved with as many

as I could. You have to make sure that obviously it is the right place

- but any way, now Mike Dilger has been to visit a piece of protected

land in Cumbria. You cannot dig or use metal detectors. The site is so

precious. Happily, no-one has told the local moles yet.

In a remote area of the North Pennines these mounds of earth hide

one of the best preserved Roman forts in Europe. Built around 1900

years ago and known to the Roman Romans as Surrounding the Point, it

housed a garrison of around 600 men. This site is incredibly important to

our national heritage. It is highly protected bylaw. There's a ban on

digging, no metal detecting allowed. You cannot disturb the ground at

all. The only thing is, no-one seems to have told the moles and that they

have become the researchers' secret weapon. Digging is what moles do.

Whilst going about their daily routine, they have started an

excavation of their own. For Eline, who owns the land, this amount of

mole holes would normally be her worst nightmare. Many gardeners and

farmers alike don't like moles. We spend a lot of time trying to get

rid of them. On the Roman fort, for us, they are doing a good job. How

did it come about? Foush years ago, walkers led by English Heritage. One

happened to look down and see something on top of a mole hill.

They found a bronze dolphin. You can see a fin and an eye as well. It is

thought to be the handle of a knife. You think the moles brought this to

the surface? They definitely did. Today is mole hill survey day, with

archaeological excavation forbidden here, the moles and the mole hills

they produce is producing the only opportunity the volunteers have to

reveal the fort's secrets. We need to take the top soil into our garden

sieve and start to explore it. One mole hill can bring forth a few

finds. Another may bring forward nothing. Although there is nothing

in this one, another volunteer has had more luck. This is a pestle and

mortar. You know this because if you turn it over, and feel the inside

edge... Much rougher? Much rougher. It has been ground done down. --

down. Most people will not see one alive. I have organised to bring one

along to meet the volunteers. Look at that - isn't it amazing. Isn't it

fast! Cute! Shall we lift him out and have

a look? Look at that! He's incredibly strong. He's constantly

try trying to get my hands apart. Spending most of their lives

underground, they have tiny eyes, meaning they are virtually blind.

Instead, they rely on their whiskers, sensing their

surroundings. They have got absolutely enormous

paws. That's basically the digging apparatus. How are they managing to

get the artefacts from underground? They have all this soil they need to

move out. They have vertical chambers. Literally they will brace

one arm and push it up like that. They are incredibly strong. Whatever

is down there, along with the earth will be pushed out. That is how the

artefacts are coming from maybe three, four, five metres down.

With the mole released back to where it came from, it is time for me to

find out who hidden tres sthurs -- treasures his companions have

brought up. They have been busy. There is so much stuff here!

Wed have spring 2 #0 #1 11-2013. Hundreds of artefacts have been

found, including jet and glass beads, pottery and even a solid

bronze door knob. The finds, generally speaking, none are

particularly special or valuable. Together they are all very

interesting. What does it tell you about the bigger picture of life in

this fort? It gives you a feeling for every day life here. It enables

us to see what was going on within it. It is thanks to the moles we are

able to do that. These moles have proved they can be

more than garden pests. Here, at least, their digging has helped

unearth the secrets of Roman Britain. The next time you pass a

mole hill, why not take a second look! You never know what they might

have dug up! That was absolutely fascinating. And

we are now going to talk about animal Minix. Starting with the

cuckoo. Recent research has said that the cuckoo is trying to imitate

the sparrowhawk. It is a sheep in wolf is clothing. It wants to try to

go into the nest and put in a name. The females go one step further, and

they can get their eggs to mimic the host bird's, so certain females only

go for certain species of other bird whose nests they will plant their

eggs in. Now we move onto mimic octopus. This

can change to a flounder, and has a repertoire of 50 different animals.

And this one, my favourite. These are territorial damsel fish, and it

is representing a snake, a predator of the fish, so that they disappear.

And finally, a crab. It comes over to have a look, and the octopus

startles, changes colour, and the crab backs off. It is so intelligent

it can change to 50 different animals and big which one it wants

according to the predator to defend itself. -- 15 different ones. That's

amazing. And there is a plant example as well. This was found in

2009. It is the largest single flower in the world, and this huge

spike comes up in a matter of a couple of days, and it stinks of

rotting flesh. It will attract pollinating flies. You were talking

about your process earlier, and you have been an animal. I have been. At

some point in drama school, you have to learn to do animal study, and

everyone has to pick an animal, and in retrospect, the King and animal

that doesn't move much, that was a good idea. I was a black widow

spider. Can you do it now? I dressed all in black with big Dr Martens on,

and sat on top of a piano, and that is all I did. And I dropped on

Michael Powell, who was pretending to be a Labrador puppy. Classic! In

a moment, we will be talking about Michael's new series, it does have

adult themes but we will make sure that it is right for our family

audience. And now we would like everybody to

get closer, because we are talking about hugging. It is all because of

this lady. She is an Indian spiritual leader who believes that

hugs can spread a bit of peace. That feels very peaceful. She says

she has already hugged 32 million people. That is unbelievable. But

can she bring herself to hug Justin Rowlatt.

Everyone seems to be doing it. All additions, world leaders, the rich

and famous. Even animals are at it. We all need a hug from time to time.

Look at the weather, no wonder I'm feeling down. I could do with a hug.

But I can't seem to get one. But I know where I can. Amma tours the

world giving hugs. She is in London today.

How much can a hug really achieve? It can open your heart. It can

change your perception of life. She says she's doing it to spread love

and peace throughout the world. What is in a hug? Without love,

there is no existence. There is no life. The love that you have for

others, you express it by hugging them. With a single hug, you can

save a life. Amma, could any hug make a

difference, or is it just yours that are special?

If you have a pure attitude and pure intention, then you can transform

anyone, because the potential is within anyone. Love is our true

nature. It is something that you have to

experience, and you can't put it into words. It speaks to my heart.

Thank you. Now you have a smile on your face. You have hugged millions

of people. What you hope this will achieve?

I don't claim anything and I don't think in that way. I have become an

offering to the world, and once you become an offering, you cannot claim

anything. It is actually quite intense, because she holds you very

tightly and chance in your ear, and you become enveloped in Amma. It is

always nice to get a hug, and it has actually made me feel a bit better.

You can't beat a little Pudsey hug while you are there! We are asking

viewers at home to post your hugging pictures on our Facebook page. And

Michael, we have this for you. This is a hugging cushion. You can

give yourself a nice little hug. There you are. A friend at last! You

can take that to LA now. I will. Now, your new TV series. William

Masters is a pioneer in sexual relations. Izzy at the opposite end

of the scale to a hug? He certainly wasn't a hunger. He was doing a

study about the most intimate thing that you can do, and yet he was

really bad with people. He had terrible social skills. He was such

a closed book, didn't like to be vulnerable in any way will stop how

did you find all that out about him?

There is a book by a man called Thomas Maier, which this series is

based around. But he was a really difficult man to get to know. Even

people who knew him all his life said that they knew nothing about

him. And the relationship that he had with the woman who was his

partner in terms of the work they did, and was eventually married to

him, Virginia Johnson, it is still impossible to know what was really

going on in relationship. Perfect drama. For those people who haven't

seen it, you can catch up online. So who were William Masters and

Virginia Johnson? William Masters was a leading obstetrics and

gynaecology surgeon in America, and a fertility expert. In the 1950s. He

had a passion for doing a pioneering study into the effect on the human

body of sex. And obviously this was a hugely controversial subject at

the time, and nobody talked about it. It was the most to brew subject.

So in terms of his study, he was running the risk of losing all

respect, losing his position. So he went into this study, but he found

it very difficult to deal with people, so Virginia Johnson, who was

his secretary to begin with, eventually became an equal partner.

Let's have a look at you in action. Women in the 1950s were kept in

their place. I don't understand. If you think I'm

qualified to conduct scientific research, how am I not... There is

no study. The study is forbidden here, something you had a hand in,

may I remind you. And in case you've forgotten, it has taken me over 20

years to get where I am with medical school and everything. When you have

that kind of experience under your belt, you can tell me to take the

lab coats to the basement. Is that clear?

APPLAUSE You told her!

There are explicit scenes, but what is your daughter, because she is a

teenager, what do she think? It is the ultimate nightmare for her. Her

dad is in a show called Masters of Sex. She is 14. She can barely go to

school. And seven series? That is 160 episodes. That is standard for

American TV. But we don't know if we will be able to do another series.

The standard thing is you sign on for a pilot episode not even knowing

if the first season is going to happen, but you have to do a deal

for seven years. Is it hard to maintain a balance between acting

here and over their? It is not so much the acting. My family are here

in Wales, my friends are here, and a lot of the things that concern me

most are here. Masters of Sex is on Channel four -- on television

tomorrow night. And John Sergeant is going to meet

people who make one particular item of clothing, and we are not talking

about cardigans. A large clothing manufacturer here

in Cardigan employed 400 people, turning out thousands of garments,

including ladies jeans. 11 years ago, all that changed. On November

eight 2002, overnight, the unemployment rate doubled when the

biggest factory in the town closed down. The company had decided to

shift production to Morocco. It is sickening. I am too upset to talk. I

will have to move away. The local county council recalls the effect on

the town. It was devastating, because you had not just 10% of the

workforce but 10% of the population suddenly out of work overnight. And

although they will offer alternative employment out in Morocco, few of

them could take that up. For a small town, it was a big blow.

Richard Williams, his wife Heather and son Paul all lost their jobs

with the closure of the factory. Was it a real shock? A massive shock,

not just to us but to the community. It wasn't just a job, it was a way

of life at Dewhirs. It must've been an awful time. We were lost after 30

years of regular salary. There were many families in the same

boat, but nine years after the factory closed, they were offered a

lifeline. Entrepreneur David Hyatt wanted to set up a new British jeans

band, and one place with existing manufacturing know-how was Cardigan.

I have been coming here for 30 years, and I knew the town used to

make jeans. And when I was thinking about making jeans, I was thinking,

it would be easier for us to go to China, and cheaper, but actually, I

wanted to do something for myself and for the town. How much of a risk

was it? Without the people here, we couldn't have done it. We had almost

150 years of experience of making jeans, so on quality, we can win.

How much of these genes going for? Pics -- the expensive ones ?240, the

affordable ones, ?130. They would be ?30, ?40, ?50 cheaper made abroad,

but our relationship with our customers has to be direct. Whereas

the market? London, California, Australia, Hong Kong. It is a global

market. We want to build a global denim brand, and we know that is

tough. With three of the original team, and David caused grandmasters,

in 2011, Cardigan was again producing genes. Initially, just 30

pairs a week. And Evans is one of the grandmasters, and spent seven

years working in Morocco. It is a dream come true that you can come

back to your hometown and make jeans again. Jean day worked at the old

factory for 17 years. I never thought a million years that I would

ever come back. It is a pleasure to come into work every day.

Entrepreneurs run on optimism. The unproven has to be tried. People

think I'm crazy for trying it, but they are glad that we are trying it.

These top and jeans have gone some way to saving the town, although

they are hardly a replacement for what went before. That the people

here can take pride again in the fact that these are made in Britain.

Thank you, John, and best of luck to the factory. After did today, ?130

for terror Edu jeans! A big thank you to Michael. Masters of Sex is on

tonight. Ian McShane, Ed Byrne, Leo Sayer, Joan Collins, Harry Redknapp,

all still to come this week. Let's all have a hard! See you later.