21/11/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to your Wednesday One Show with Matt Baker. And an

excited Alex Jones. Why have you been in make up for two hours?

it's because we only have 49 of the world's most desirable men in our

studio tonight. This weekend Mr World contest takes place here in

the UK. We have all the contestants with us this evening. Hello Mr

Croatia. Hello. South Africa, UK, Vietnam. Hello? Hello. This is

great. Hello everybody. How exciting is this? It goes out. The

lushness goes on into the studio. We are absolutely packed with

lovely looking men this evening. Bulgaria, Peru, Mr Malta, Denmark,

Mr Iran. Hang on a minute. I recognise you two. Come on. Beards

off. It's Sandi Toksvig and Omid Djalili.

APPLAUSE Brilliant. You couldn't have picked

a better night, let's be honest. This is amazing. What do you think

of our lovely contestants? It's like being in a large gentleman's

outfitters. It's very jolly. They look gorgeous all of them. As far

as contestants go, have you given any strange awards out? I've never

done a beauty competition. But I did give one for best aluminium

windows and a Grade II listed building. Glamorous. Can you quiz

any of these men later on. The same for you. Thank you very much. So

exciting! Now I tell you what, do you have a potential Mr World

sitting in your lounge right now? If so, get them to pose, take a

picture and send it in to us. don't even have to get out of the

chair. Age is unimportant, size is unimportant, to be frank, looks,

well they're by the by. We are looking for that something that

says I am a winner! OK? Get them to us and we'll judge some of the One

Show viewers later on. As well as Mr Worlds another good looking

exotic guest with us, no not Gyles. We'll meet Harold the Vulture very

soon. There he is. No that's Gyles! Great. That was a bit slower than

we thought there. Didn't quite work. How do you follow that? After we

talked about tree diseases yesterday, we could do with some

good tree news. There say community in the UK who want to turn a former

quarry into a wildlife haven by planting hundreds of new trees.

When they asked for our help, there was only one thing to do, send in

the Dilger. I've in Gresford just outside

Wrexham to find out about a community conservation project.

They've asked The One Show for some much needed help. It was Sue Kelley

from the action group who first contacted us. What a lovely view.

Isn't it amazing? It's fantastic. What did this placed used to be?

sand and gravel quarry. They used the sand and gravel from it to

build airports during the war. did you come to own this? We used

to walk our dogs in here when it was private land. One day somebody

heard that the land was to be sold. I found the name of the and -- land

agent and I asked if the community could buy it. The landscape was

transformed in the 1980s by the planting of 28,000 Corsican pine

trees. But these are a real problem. Their dense needle covered branches

means very little sunlight hits the forest floor. When the needles

finally drop they create the worst possible growing conditions for our

native woodland flowers. They're about the worst possible habitat

for our native birds, insects and mammals that we want to encourage.

This is something that the group are desperate to address and why

they need our help. Trevor, you're surrounded by tree stumps. What's

going on? We have thousands of pines here. We've taken out about a

quarter of them. We're keen to open up some space and create green

areas for natural wildlife. keen to help out. I have broad

shoulders. Shall we get to it? Let's go. All the trees we've got,

420 of them, are bare rooted. We need to get them into the ground as

quickly as we can or the roots will dry out and they'll die. First one

in. Brilliant. I am worried, though. You have a lot of saplings and not

much time to do it. You need a green army. We do. Want some help?

Yes please. Leave it with me. I'm going to need many hands to plant

420 saplings. Our children would love to volunteer. They're great

gardeners. We have a lot of tools. We've been given trees as part of

our grow with me project, could we bring those as well? More than

happy to plant some saplings and clear the area as well. Of course,

I can come and feed and water the troops and tree planters. An army

marches on its stuck am -- stomach, no problem. I've heard about a

local naturalist I'm keen to rope in. I recognise some of these moths,

elephant hawk, buff tip. There are a lot of trees to plant and not

many hands. Are you able to give us a hand putting a few native trees

in? I would love to yes. I'll be there on the day. Think of the

insects. I'll help them as much as I can.

What a good man. Unfortunately Mike couldn't make it back up to

Gresford today. We've sent a perfect replacement, a shrub-

stitute, you could say. Great. Have you managed to get the trees

planted and have the people come to help you?

Yes. Welcome to Gresford. There's lots of people here. Lots of hard

work has been going on. In fact, swept along on a wave of enthusiasm

created by Mike Dilger. The people of Gresford have done themselves

proud today. It all started about 9.30am this morning. This whole

plot at the front had to be cleared of brambles and thorns. That was

really hard work. All that had to be done before any trees could be

plantsed. So while that was going on, on the top site people were

really getting into it. They were really planting those trees. We had

children as young as three planting their first tree on the top plot.

It's been a massive community effort. It's been amazing,

absolutely amazing. Now, it is fair to say that there are still a few

trees to be planted. Trevor and Sue are working away there. We have so

many volunteers here again this evening. Give us a little cheer.

CHEERING They must be getting really tired,

but they're still here. It means so much to them. We also have

something very special coming up. Simon O' rourke is making a special

commemorative statue. He's spent two days making this. We will

reveal that later on. See you then. Thank you Lucy. Now that is a

wonderful sight for you, because you are an ambassador of the

Woodland Trust. Yes and I'm passionate about woodland. You know

what I love, if you plant a tree you are looking at not even the

generation next, but the one after that and after Tha'it will enjoy.

-- That will enjoy it. The thought is it originally came from Denmark.

I didn't bring it with me! course. The Danes have been on this

for about ten years now. It's a relatively new thing and there is

very good research. Some trees are resistant to this disease. There is

some good news, I think. Some good news is that shock, horror, you

have a DVD out for Christmas. horror. Why? It's made of wood.

What's the Tour of Duty all about? It's always uncomfortable to

promote yourself on TV shows to say I'm really funny. It's for others

to say. No-one says it. So I've got to come on. It's a tour I did at

the beginning of the year. The Hammersmith Apollo is the last show

and the best show. I was there and it was very good. Was it? Thank you.

I threw everything and the kitchen sink. The bongo bit is brilliant

and the accents that you do as well. It's a dream for you tonight to be

with these lads. I know! I'll be chatting. As soon as somebody

throws something out from the audience, straight away you're in

their accents. My children pointed this out the other day. I went to

Marseille. I say Marseille (in a French accent) and I came back via

par-eee. In Italian restaurants I don't like the shells and prawns.

But if you say... HE SPEAKS ITALIAN Have you got a favourite accent?

like to do the Nigerian accent. It is a particular favourite. We have

a load of contestants. They're nod ago long. They're loving it. --

nodding along. They're loving it. They're very good looking. Very

handsome. Let's look at 30 seconds of the DVD.

I came across this quote that says "Great niends talk about ideas.

Average minds talk about events and small minds only talk about other

people." Yeah. Really got me thinking. I thought, do you know

what, doesn't Ed Miliband look like Wallace from Wallace and Gromit.?

APPLAUSE The men love it. They like it.

They're getting rowdy now. obviously pick up on different

senses of humour, what do you think are the main difference between the

British and Iranian sense of humour? You picked up a lot from

your dad. Yes my dad was very funny. Iran ian sense of humour, people

think they don't have a sense of humour because of the images you

see. In Britain, if you don't like a comedian, you heckle them. In

Iran, they hang them. Which is very hard when you're just starting out.

It's a difficult one to negotiate. Tough training. People think they

don't have a sense of humour. Iranians are very flamboyant and

love telling jokes. That's a big thing, telling jokes an singing a

song. What about the Danes? Isn't it funny because we produced

fantastic comedy that has exported. The last one was the Killing.

People took it very seriously. I thought the sweater alone, I

thought were entertaining in themselves. So, yeah, I think the

Danes have a tremendous - in fact my career started in Denmark when I

was very early on, my father told me a story. In the Second World War

there was a comic, we were occupied, he came to the stage and went like

this. All the SS officers went like that. He waited for them to sit

down. He went "Do you know last winter the snow was this high

outside my house." I love that. omid's DVD is out now. In the news

this week is the retired submarine captain Nick Crews who wrote to his

children to say how ashamed he was of them. He said. "It's Obvious

that none of you has the faintest notion of the bitter disappointment

you have dished out to us. We've had enough of being forced to live

through the never ending bad dream of our children's underachievement

and domestic inept tueds. I want to hear no more from any of you until

you have a success or an achievement." Pretty harsh. You've

read the e-mail in full, what do you make of all this? Do you think

he was right? It's a shocking thing. I have three children and I would

never write such a thing. He's a submarine captain. It makes him

sound like captain von trap. He needs to marry a nice nun and calm

himself down. It's very harsh. agree. I have children too. If I

can speak seriously for a second. I believe in constructive criticism,

but I think the children are very delicate. They're like flowers. If

you speak harshly to a child, it's like crushing a flower. I would

never write a letter or e-mail to criticise my children because...

They can't read, which is one thing. I'm joking. That's silly. But I'm

saying that children are very delicate people. In general, not

just children, human beings, we think we can be harsh with each

other, but a bit of encouragement goes a long way. The word

"disappointment" is terrible. like he bottled it up. Maybe a

little chat earlier on in the years would have been helpful. When the

child become as dult, where do you draw the line. All our children are

going to be in therapy one day talking about us. To see if a

parent's pride should have any limits Carrie Grant hit the streets

of Birmingham. As parents, we all have

expectations of our children. But they do sometimes disappoint us.

Have there been a tireless way you have felt proud of your daughter?

She recently got a first in her law degree, and she is now a trainee

solicitor a here in Birmingham. about for you? Have your parents

let you know they are proud of you? I joined the police, they are proud

of that. Have they been times when they have said, we are

disappointed? Yes, when I left university, they were a bit

disappointed, because I was the first person to go. Had there is a

mother of two, shopping with her daughter, Helen. -- Heather. Have

there been times when you have felt disappointment? No, she has been to

three Olympics, so I cannot be disappointed. I was an Olympic

swimmer. You must have felt times when you were losing. That is when

my mum would have shown their disappointment, she was frustrated

for me. Chair is a mother of two knows that parenthood is not plain

sailing. My son was on drugs, but now he is trying to reform himself,

which he went through a period when he was very aggressive. DCA time

when you could sit back and think, I am really proud of him? -- do you

see? I think he will come through and prosper in the years to come.

Stephen and Jocelyn on holiday from the USA. Even at this age, do they

sometimes disappoint you? The answer is not writing a letter, no.

You can very easily crush the spirit of a child, and it is

important you do not go overboard. Children make mistakes, sometimes

they wilfully do what they want, and so we have to correct that

lovingly. Today I have heard a lot about parental pride, and

inevitably I have also heard about his appointment. But what we tell

our children in an e-mail? No! I would!

What an ending, goodness me! A When We Are you sure that your parents

were proud of you? What about your son? I got nominated for an award

at the Edinburgh Festival, I had an extra show, and my father came to

watch me for the first time, and he was writing notes. He's quite a

funny guy, but he showed me the notes, and there were two figures,

gross and net. He just looked at me and went, cash! And then I knew

that he loved me! That was the moment I knew. Sandi? My parents

have always said how proud they are of me, but neither of them were

able to go to university because of the war, and when I told my father

I had got into university, he burst into tears. What a moment. That was

very special, and then when I graduated as well. At the end of

the day, we just want to make our parents proud. I still ring my mum

and say, I hope you are pleased. do exactly the same. Has anyone

seen Alex? Where has she gone? is here in her element with all the

Mr Worlds, this is the best night ever on the One Show, by the way!

This is the current Mr World, you have a very Irish name. Born and

bred in Limerick. There is room for two of us here. When you are around

Mr World with your sash and tiara and all the rest of it, there must

be other duties that you have to undertake? Quite a few, the list is

long and varied, everything from public speaking to humanitarian

work, but it is a tough competition, with 48 of the world's most

desirable men, all fighting for my throne, but they go through quite a

lot of training, talent, sport, extreme thickness, high-intensity

assault course. Really? Yes, it is boot camp for these guys. Not for

the faint-hearted. I used single? Not that I am asking! I am single,

what are you doing Saturday night? I would get into trouble! Invite

your friends, because the final is on this Saturday. Do you tell girls

that you are Mr world. I do not. Probably best! Sandi and Omid

cannot wait to get their paws on the contestants.

With pageants like this, interviews take place, and the first thing you

said, Mr Canada is my kind of guy! Who knew that I would find the man

of my dreams on the One Show?! Frank is 20, from Vancouver, he

wants to become a speech at development coach, he enjoys baking

and singing. Sandi has got a question. Is this what you dreamt

of as a boy? Did I dream of being in a pageant? No, I wanted to be a

singer and an actor, but being here allows me to pursue all those

dreams, and being shorter than my competitors, it sends a message to

the world. Are you doing a bit way you have to go through the mud? How

high is it, that is my concern! muddle was high, but I did it!

Omid, who do you want to chat with? I would like to ask Mr England,

because we can speak English, and there's no question about

understanding, I would really like to know, why are you doing this?!

kind of fell into it, and it has been a great laugh, I have met some

great guys, we have really gelled, and it is a good experience. I am

using it to promote myself and my music and enjoyed the journey.

There must be an easier way to meet Mr Belgium, your shoes are

fantastic! His ambition is to work in fashion and travel the world.

His motto is, chances are there to be taken. Have you got a question?

Can you tell us a Belgian joke? Belgian joke? I will do my very

best. You can tell us in Belgium, just tell us when to laugh! I will

say it in Belgium first and then translated. You will have to be

Quickly, the translation! It just means, like, if you go to the

toilet and you do not wipe your ass... Let's leave it there! He has

just been kicked out of the contest, sorry about that! We are going to

be showing you... That was such a bad idea! Mr South Africa has got

this for us, Ben with his son, Thomas. Could you hold that, Mr

World? Thank you very much. This is Jonathan, who is away from home

tonight. Good, perfect. Another one here, this is Kevin from Bradford,

definitely Mr One Show! Yes, looking good. While you are sitting

comfortably, here is Ruth Goodman on the chairs that saved Britain.

1930s Britain, home ownership increased spectacularly. New homes

meant a need for new furniture, and the industry was booming. These

items were strong, heavy, greedy on materials. They will often boxes in

style, and they reflected the Art Deco style of the period. But in

1939, Britain was importing 96% of its timber. That was about to

I have to tell you now this country Almost immediately after war broke

out, a control of timber order was put in place, and by July 1940

supplies of imported timber to the furniture industry were withdrawn

completely. The problem was compounded when, in 1940, the Blitz

destroyed millions of houses. Suddenly, there was an urgent need

for new homes and for new furniture to make those homes habitable. In

its there was the utility furniture scheme. This is a catalogue. There

was no furniture around for people to have on display in shop windows.

They look in here, and then they filled out an application form to

get their units. And this would prove that they were in desperate

need, and the Government would issue them with a maximum of 60

units. He could only use these within a 50 mile radius of where

the home was going to be. One unit would allow you to buy one chair,

and it would cost you about �1.10 shillings. All other furniture

production ceased, nobody was making anything apart from these 22

designs that were chosen by the government, and they were designed

specially so that they were easy to make, because not many people were

available for making furniture. Each piece is marked with this mark,

it stands for civilian clothing, in fact, which was the first area of

rationing for domestic goods. The 41 was for 1941. These figures were

designed to look unrecognisable, and people knew them affectionately

as the cheeses. Who got the Russian? People who had been bombed,

who had growing families, and people who were setting up home for

the first time, newlyweds. couple to benefit from the scheme

was Julie's mother and father. father was in the Navy, my mother

was in the Wrens. They got married and set up home, and this was their

furniture. My sister and I used to do our homework at it, and we had

something to put on top to stop it getting ink on it. How long has it

been in the garden? 15 or 20 years! Good grief, that is sturdy stuff!

It is what it says it is, utility. I noticed there was a mark. Oh, yes,

there it is. The real thing, or definite! I did not know that was

there. In service with one family for over 60 years. The furniture

may have been simple but it was built to last. Furniture rationing

itself finished in 1948, but the logo had become so synonymous with

quality that the scheme continued until 1952. Furniture like this

continued to graze British homes for decades. -- Grace.

Good quality furniture there! You like good quality furniture, Sandi.

I do, and I like woodworking enormously. Anna Ford and I signed

up for woodworking lessons in Richmond in Surrey, and we were

very excited, and we cleared every Tuesday for an entire term, and

then they phoned up saying that they had cancelled the lessons.

Why? I think we were the only two people who thought it was a good

idea. We had signed up under pseudonyms, I do not know if they

would have been surprised if we turned up together. If I am the

same, I can spend hours watching my dad at the lathe, I love it! It is

a lovely thing, I live on a boat, and we cannot find a desk that

fitted because it is close quarters, as Omid and I know, so I made my

own desk. And there it is! Omid, how is your woodworking? I mean...

About 12 years ago, I got one of those IKEA flat-packs for my

children, a bunk bed, and I thought it would be easy to put my kids up

for adoption, much quicker and easier. I never did it. Call me.

just could not do it, impossible. Leave that with me. Sandi, new book,

you are incredibly interested in history anyway, Heroines And

Harridans. Yes, it is a strange collection of women by of history

that have been forgotten. I have got a friend who is the most

fabulous illustrator. Peter oh pictures. Sandra Nightingale has

done the pictures. I mostly right things because she does these

wonderful drawings. They are silly and funny, hopefully, but some

astonishing people. Queen Vishpala, the picture you showed there, was

an astonishing woman, a queen about 3,500 BC in India, leading her

troops into battle when she had her leg amputated. She had an iron leg

fitted, the first person in history with a prosthetic limb. And she

went back into battle! What a fantastic woman. We should know

about her. Lots of fabulous women like that, some of whom have been

entirely neglected, I think, and we need to remember them. We... We

know that you like history, who would you choose from history?

is a good question. I did play Mussolini, which was very exciting.

Actually, no, I played young Picasso in a film with Andy Garcia.

I was supposed to lose weight, but they did not give me much time. At

the Cannes Film Festival, they did ask, why is Picasso with a little

bit overweight? I had to say, well, it was not known that between the

rows period and the blue periods there was the crispy bacon with

extra cheese period. You see me painting with doughnuts! It is at

there, that was a really great More accents still to come. We are

about to be joined by a brave woman who decided to beat breast cancer

by making a difficult sacrifice. She's called Wendy Watson and Wendy

Robbins has been to meet her. My name is Wendy Watson and 20

years ago I made the decision to have a voluntary double mastectomy

despite being perfectly healthy at the time.

In 1992 Wendy Watson became the first woman in Britain to choose to

have both healthy breasts removed. She had battled for years for the

right to do so. What made you take such a radical decision? My mum and

my grandma both had breast cancer. I was convince it was hereditary. I

couldn't get a GP to agree. The GP dismissed my fears and said the

chance of me getting it virtually didn't exist because breast cancer

was not hereditary. I discovered I had nine relatives with the disease.

So that could not possibly be by chance. Breast cancer had killed so

many of her relatives that Wendy was convinced she was next and

needed to take action. But back then in the early 90s it was I

thinkable that you would have healthy breasts removed to stop you

getting the disease. How did you view your breasts up until then,

what did they represent for you? think I never actually enjoyed my

breasts. They were quite a nice shape, I believe. But I didn't like

them because they represented terror to me. Like ticking time

bombs. They represented to me the cause of my mother's death. Wendy

was struggling to persuade the medical profession to remove her

breasts. Finally, she was referred to Professor Gareth Evans who was

conducted research to prove a link between certain genes and

hereditary breast cancer. She was the first woman I had ever met who

came straight out and said, "I want you to say I can have my breast

tissue removed." It was a very reasoned decision that she had made.

I said if it's so important to catch it early, why don't I have

the blinking operation now and then I know I've caught it in time

because it's about the spread. Mat jort of the medical profession

thought I'd gone completely crackers. But she convinced

Professor Evans and went on to have the pioneering surgery that removed

both healthy breasts. Lots of surgeons, particularly in the early

1990s, felt it was barbaric and completely wrong that any woman

should choose to do it. In the early 90s there was no published

evidence that preventive mastectomy worked. That didn't happen until

1998. Now there is irrefutible evidence that it works. Wendy's

risk paid off. Two-and-a-half years after her surgery, the genes linked

to breast cancer were discovered. She had been right all along. As a

carrier of the genetic mutation her risk of developing the disease

could have been up to 80%. families carry the faulty gene,

they carry it and there is a lot of breast cancer in those families.

They are at the top of the risk scale. Surgery to remove the breast

tissue is the most effective way of reducing that risk. If you are

someone who carries those genes in your family, you don't necessarily

have to opt for surgery. No, no-one has to have surgery. Taize personal

choice. In fact, with MRI screening, we would hope to cure more than 80%

of women in the screen prog Graeme, if they get breast cancer -- in the

screening programme, if they get breast cancer. About one in 400 of

us have the affected genes. When Wendy's kaurt Becki was just 24,

she discovered she too was a carrier and chose to have both

healthy breasts removed, becoming the youngest person in the UK to do

so. Mum always said that when she had her operation, it was just like

a feeling of release and a feeling of freedom in a way. I can totally

understand where she was coming from with that. Being able to chase

my own fate. I remember waking up and yeah, you can feel the pain,

but it's all worth it. Her mother has put her experience and

knowledge of hereditary breast cancer to good use. She now

operates a website and help line for people in a similar situation.

London would be the nearest genetic clinic... Looking back, it's

probably the best decision I've ever made, to go ahead with this. I

haven't had one single second of regret. I'd sacrifice -- sacrificed

a part of my body in order to keep it all.

Wendy Watson and Dr Dr Mark Porter are here with us. There was

obviously no doubt that you would go ahead with the procedure. How

different was the decision make prog ses with your daughter? For me,

I had to invent it for myself. It was something I came to, I

counselled myself through. For Becki it was different. She had

seen me go through it. I wanted her to see how positively I came

through. It I didn't want to influence her. It's important she

made her own mind us. -- up. One of our relatives developed breast

cancer in her mid-20s so Becki decided she would have the test

earlier than we'd hoped. She carried the same fault that I've

got. Very brave at 24. But lots of

viewers will be worried about hereditary breast cancer, men and

women. How can they go about doing like Wendy and Becki have done to

see if they have the gene? Lots of people will be worried because lots

of people may have a relative who has had breast cancer. It's one in

eight will get it if you live to your 80s. Fewer than 10% of all

breast cancers are related to genes. Most just happen by chance. We look

for unusual patterns. Just because you have one relative doesn't mean

you should be concerned. But if you have lots of relatives, for

instance, first degree relatives, mother or sister, who develop

breast cancer before the age of 50 would ring alarm bells. If you have

one male member of the family, one chap who has developed breast

cancer that could mean your family has the genes. Then what you need

to do is go along to your GP and say look I have this family history

and spend a bit of time documenting it. If in doubt, he or she will

refer you to a specialist. As we saw in the film there, you run this

help line now. What's the main theme of advice that you find that

you're giving? I run it 24 hours a day every day of the year. It's

people ring up with all sorts of queries. But mainly people want

identify with other people who have been through this decision-make

prog ses. It's really, really important that you don't influence

people by the decision I made. Because all the options are

available and full support should be given no matter what. We have

now set up 37 support groups across the UK and information centres, so

that people can actually learn about this on the High Street and

be more aware and more educated. I'm trying my very hardest to raise

the profile without frightening anybody at all. There's nothing to

be frightened of. You're doing a great job. Thanks so

much for sharing your story. If you need any help or advice on this

issue, we've put links on our website bbc.co.uk/The One Show.

Gyles is here with another one of his escaped animal stories. Where

is he? I'm here. Let me relate to you the curious tale of a fethered

fugitive called Foster, the amazing vanishing vaulure.

# One day I'll fly away... # Twitters are famous for travelling

hundreds of miles for a glimpse of a rare bird. Imagine their

excitement, then, when in June 2001, a fearsome creature swooped down

onto the roof tops of a house in East Anglia, terrifying the local

residents. It was a grifb vulture, a bird with an eight-foot wing span

and a taste for raw meat. This was a sensation. A vulture on the loose.

The residents in Suffolk had a shock today when a rather large

bird perched upon a roof turned out to be an African vulture... Three

hours into the spectacle the owner arrived home to meet her new lodger.

I certainly won't go out into the garden although I don't think they

attack humans, do they? Meanwhile, a few miles down the road, in

Norfolk, one of the keepers was in trouble with his boss. I was in my

office and the manage ING Director, the owner of the zoo came walking

in saying "there's your vulture". This was one of the vultures from

the zoo's collection of exotic birds. One of them called Foster

was often reluctant to return to his aviary after the daily flying

displays. We would leave him out overnight and in the morning, he

would go in quite happily, to rejoin his friends. You left the

vulture out overnight, is that safe? Is it like putting the cat

out? You left the vulture on the run, as it were? He was on the top

of the aviary here with his friends. He didn't normally leave his

friends. However, it must have been nice weather and he fancied a jaunt

to the coast. So international twitchers alert, when in fact it's

just John not doing his job properly. I imagine you work

elsewhere now? Funny you say that, yes, I am. John, a horde of

twitchers and the world's press sped off to look for him after four

days on the loose settled in Suffolk. Someone was knocking on my

door saying, "Excuse me, my vulture is in your garden. Do you mind if I

get it down from the tree?" That's the most peculiar thing I've ever

had said to me. All attempts to capture him failed. John came up

with a plan. The next thing was to introduce one of his friends. We

brought this bird here and this is Vomit a hooded vulture. The name?

Vomit. Even Vomit making eyes at Foster failed to tempt him back

into captivity. Eagle-eyed John had a better idea. Foster had a human

best friend too. She trained him. She knew him best. Her name was Jo

Long. Perhaps she could hold the key. Jo, you worked here, you

walked with the animals, talked with the animals. Foster was your

special friend. He was. We had a special bond. We worked together

every day. Yes, you get to know one another. People thought, well,

Foster is one of Jo's boys, we'll send her into the rescue. What

happened? To start with he was on the roof. Then he would slowly,

after a couple of hours, make his way down to a tree. Then down to

the ground. This has the pattern through the day. Falconer getting

closer to vulture, but not close enough. Then it was obvious I would

have to start get nearer and nearer. There was a moment where it had to

be done and there was no turning back. Foster momentarily let down

his guard and paid with his liberty. I'm very pleased. I'm surprised I

kept hold of him. I thought he was going to wriggle out of my grip.

It's 11 years since the break for freedom. But vultures can last into

their 40s. And Foster is still joining in the zoo's flying

displays. Jo is now an estate agent and it's many years since she's

seen Foster. So The One Show couldn't pass up the chance to

reunite this formerly devoted pair. But would the bond still be there?

This is him. This is definitely him. How old would he be now? He must be

20 years old. You were about 20 when you... 21. He likes you. He

knows you. What's it like seeing him again? Fantastic, amazing.

Thank you very much. I never thought a vulture would

bring a tear to the eye. You live Gyles is here. He's brought two

friends Alan. Now who is the other one? This is my new best friend

Harold. Unlike the vulture in the film, this one is a bit bigger and

this one comes is eur-Asian. He's 25 years old and Alan looks after

him in Kent. He has become a close friend as mine. He's in the as bold

as he looks. He's gorgeous. He looks so cuddly. You want to stroke

him. Wait till you see the wing span. Although he's flapping his

wings... It was a stroke. He's in the a confident flyer, though?

he's hopeless. How? What he does is he can only ever fly if the wind is

blow ING Directly up the hill. If it's from the left or the right he

goes off in a semi-circle and crashes at the bottom. If the wind

is right, he goes out and straight up, then he seems to get frightened

and comes round. He's been up to about 300 feet. Then he crash lands

again. He's done some abysmal landings. Oh, my God. You shouldn't

insult him in public. So long as we're alive, we're owe kai. That's

the secret. -- OK. He's just really excited. Let's not worry too much

about Harold escaping. The land is awash with escaping animals. Never

mind escaping vultures. He's got his dinner here. That was a moment.

Not really a vegetarian moment, though. What is that? Leave it at

meat. Wow. The reason we didn't is because if he wanted to sit on his

lap, we could distract him with this. He is thoroughly distracted

now. Let's move on to Gyles. I have got some amazing escaping cows in

Harrogate earlier in the year, 30 cows on a Sunday morning, you

looked out of your window and what did you see? These ram pathing.

They'll be coming through the Shall we move on to New York?

we will talk about another bird, then what it would be like a golden

eagle had escaped, it has a wingspan even bigger than this, and

it ended up a tree, there You are. That is the kind of Christmas

decoration! Does Harold suit up your Christmas tree? You would need

a very big Christmas tree, this is 16 lb of water, and is starting to

get very heavy now! He has dropped something there. You are more than

welcome to try him on your tree. once went out with somebody who had

similar table manners. He is mesmerising to watch! This is as

nothing compared to what has happened in the past, New York,

1874, the front page of the New York Herald, this extraordinary

story about the animals from Central Park Zoo that escaped on

the same day, a terrible scenes of mutilation in the streets, awful

combat between beasts and citizens, a carnival of death! There was a

panther in a check, a Reile no in a sewer, and anaconda trying to eat a

giraffe. Apparently there was able to record Harold, oh, no! 200

people injured, 49 dead. And then I got to the end of this long story,

and it says at the bottom, the entire story given a vote is pure

fabrication. Guess who the editor was of the newspaper at the time.

Gordon Bennett! Shall we move on quite quickly? Thank you very much

indeed, nice to see you, he is going to go! He is coming back for

the rest of it, look, just tidying up before he leaves. I You're all

right, Sandi? I have rarely had more fun! The combination of Mr

Cannon and able to eating his dinner, A Night to Remember. -- Mr

Canada. Although there may not be many questions about as bigging

blotters on your new show, there are questions about 1001 things

that you should know. Let's find out if you know what you should

about animals. I am Mark Evans from Channel 4, I think you should know,

a Sinn is an old name for which British mammal? I am going to say

gate. It is a good guess, but it is not the right answer. You are

locked out. Paul or Harry can buzz in. Is it paid? Funnily enough, no!

I'm not supposed to help you, but the answer is not paid! I do not

actually have... Hippo! That old Yes, the Bulger has gone, so we can

make as much noise as we want now, at the correct answer was knot

Henshall. At the beginning of the show, You ask the contestants to

tell them... One of my second cousins is Ian Rankin, the crime

novelist. Have you got one to offer? I am bald and I have a DVD

on sale! I once shared a night with the Mr World contestants and Ray

Boulger. You have just recently been made Chancellor of the

University of Portsmouth. That is one of my proudest achievements.

Were they any of the questions that came up that you did not know the

answer to? I do not keep my finger on the pulse, I do not tweet, I put

a Post-it note on the fridge. I did not know the name of Adele's debut

album. 21 or something? 19! That was a cash question, you would have

won some money. Not everyone who goes on a quiz show is a genius,

there have been some hysterically bad answers in the past, so with

that in mind, let's played this. Things they should have known!

potentially hilarious, we are on to ask you a series are questions, and

what we want to know is what the contestants said as answers. OK,

let's go. University Challenge, what was Gandhi's first name?

Kevin! The answer they came up This one is from the Sara Cox show,

what was Bram Stoker's most famous creation? What was the answer?

Stoker... Was it a steam engine? it was... That is what I would

answered! Name something you would do if you ran out of clean

underpants. What did the contestants say? Have old ones sent

away to be read by a fortune teller. Wash them, turn and inside out,

sprinkle on some talcum powder! would not have wanted to stand next

to them. Sandi, the question was... Saucy scripts? Well, no, the answer

is seashells, but the contest and Armenian priest. The answer was a

public museum, but they said Indian restaurant. I was quite close.

Shall we keep going? The next one is from blockbusters, what can

travel at speeds of up to 900 ft per second? Trainer. The correct

answer is trained, but the question said Turnbull. I am no good at this

Kenny Everett. The correct answer is escalator but the contestant

said Dong Crewe! The two can say that but the pull up Belgian guy

Lee Mack told me he was watching University Challenge, he shouted at

Henry VIII, and the answer was nitrogen. A bit is the stress of

the studio environment. 1001 Things You Should Know is on every weekday

on Channel 4 at 3:30pm. Now, tonight, Lucy is near Wrexham

helping the community to plant a brand-new wood. Can you see the

wood for the trees yet? Almost, we are almost there,

welcome back to press further! They have been working so hard today. --

Press Fund. Two days ago we were set the challenge to build a

community in his old quarry, and some would say it is impossible,

but we have planted hundreds of trees, the community has done

amazing work. We have got about 200 trees planted, 300 at the top site,

and they may look like weedy little saplings, but Mother Nature has

done her work. Keith Evans hopes it will look something like this,

maybe in about 10 years' time, wouldn't that be magnificent? We

can say we were here at the start. I'm going to have a word with

Georgina from the Woodland Trust, hello. We have been talking a lot

about problems with British trees, and we had an update on ash dieback

last night. Why is a project like this so important? With the threat

to woodlands across the country from ash dieback and other diseases,

there has never been a more important time to plant trees.

Trees are really vital to our life, they help us breathe, provide

fantastic places to play and a walk-in, and they bring communities

together. We have definitely seen that today. You want more people to

plant more trees. Absolutely, in this Jubilee year, we are planting

6 million trees, we are 3 million through, and we need more people to

come out and help us, and we have got thousands to give away. On that

note, thank you so much. All the details are on our website, but if

you think you can transform a space, as his community has done, there

are thousands of free British saplings that you can get hold of,

the details are on the website. Talking about transformations, up

from one British hope, a local wood sculptor has produced a beautiful

commemorative statue for this would. Let's have a look, isn't that

stunning? It will remind everyone of the history of this place,

because it was once a curry -- a quarry. We will have a bit of a

celebration in a minute, because the final saplings are going in,

aren't they? Yes. You set as his challenge, how do you think it has

gone? You can be honest! Really fantastic, it has been a great day

today. It has been wonderful having the young people carrying out the

planting, they will be able to see the trees growing. Listen, put the

final saplings in. Next week we will be in Glasgow, and I am asking

for donations are second and winter clothing. Please e-mail if you can

help us out with those donations and we will show you what we have

done with them next week. The final saplings are going into the ground,

you have planted a forest! Back to you guys.

That is wonderful. That is fantastic. Not easy in the dark.

might get myself a chainsaw and start doing that kind of sculpting,

I will have a word with Anna Ford. You have landed so many trees, you

are quite obsessive. We should all be, it is the most wonderful thing,

it is representative of life, and we should all adopt a tree, it is a

lovely thing and a greater investment in the future. Any tree

lovers here? That is good. cannot... I am constantly planting

trees! That is going to score you some points. It is quite a sad

moment, because we have only got two minutes left with the Mr World

contestants, but now we have got Mr Mongolia here, what is your name? I

will read your biography, you are 25 years old, Umar leader of the

young model Association, you like playing checkers and you are an

opera singer. Take a deep breath! Could we have a blast, please? Take

And that is it, Omid is doing a Snapping out of character. We have

had lots of pictures in. He is business the Philippines with the

pictures? Bring them in. -- is this the Mr Philippines. Who is this? 73

years old, look, scuba diving in Ireland! You can hold that. This is

Mr Caravan on holiday in Mablethorpe, very hard. Shall we

going? Oh, goodness me, are we allowed to show this? That is Mr

Cheshire! He has actually said that in himself! This is Wendy, saying

this is my father nor having a sleep during the One Show, how dare

you! On Friday we are going backstage with the Rolling Stones

as they rehearsed, and we want to know if you are rehearsing for

anything. We will get the Rolling Stones to say good luck if you send

a picture. That is all from tonight. Omid's Tour Of Duty is out now.