:00:30. > :00:35.Hello. Ho, ho. Ho. Welcome to the One Show before Santa comes down
:00:35. > :00:38.the chimney. She's Alex Jones. Chris Evans. Tonight our primary
:00:38. > :00:42.school nativity stars go live. Phil Tufnell and Sister Wendy give
:00:42. > :00:44.us a festive feast for the eyes. And our guest is the top chap of
:00:44. > :00:50.Top Gear, James May. James May is here.
:00:50. > :00:57.Plus, that music you hear - it's being whistled live by this man.
:00:57. > :01:02.David Morris, world champion whistler. He's so cool, isn't he?
:01:02. > :01:07.He's incredible. He's the best. James, Christmas shopping, how is
:01:07. > :01:11.it going for you? I haven't done it yet. Petrol stations are open
:01:11. > :01:15.Christmas eve. Oh, no. I'll do it tomorrow. It's going to be a quiet
:01:15. > :01:18.one, isn't it? Yes, I am staying home for the first time in quite a
:01:18. > :01:23.long time. It's just me and the missus - sorry, I shouldn't say
:01:24. > :01:28.that in this day and age, durky, Christmas carols around the piano.
:01:28. > :01:38.From tonight? Yes, Tiny Tim and all of that stuff. Very nice.
:01:38. > :01:41.Traditional, sweet and charming. Very Mayish. Very Mayish. The
:01:41. > :01:45.Christmas special you usually give us is the Top Gear Christmas
:01:45. > :01:49.Special. We have news - it's not in dear, is it? We have done a
:01:49. > :01:54.Christmas special technically. It's not very Christmasy because it's
:01:54. > :01:59.fairly well known it takes place in Africa, where it's hot and it's not
:01:59. > :02:04.in December, but March. Apart from that... It was February, but you
:02:04. > :02:07.moved it back even further from Christmas. Yes, we moved it further
:02:07. > :02:10.back because we thought people might mistake it as something
:02:10. > :02:14.festive for Christmas. It's March. In Somerset celebrating Christmas
:02:14. > :02:17.200 feet below the earth in Frozen Deep, the cave we proved was the
:02:17. > :02:19.biggest in Britain earlier this year. Yes. The question is, can you
:02:19. > :02:22.beat it? Send us photos of you celebrating
:02:22. > :02:27.Christmas in a strange place please. We'll show some later, when James
:02:27. > :02:32.will also tell us about playing with his new big toy.
:02:32. > :02:35.After our Christmas, the Paper Plane Superstars challenge on Toy
:02:35. > :02:41.Stories. Now, our first film is all about
:02:41. > :02:51.the story behind this Christmas classic.
:02:51. > :03:03.
:03:03. > :03:07.If you let it, Christmas can become the season of stress and traffic
:03:07. > :03:13.jams. Suddenly, it can lift and you see the festive way ahead when a
:03:13. > :03:20.song comes on, and it sums up what it's really all about. It's about
:03:20. > :03:23.dropping everything for two weeks and doing Christmas. Chris Rea's
:03:23. > :03:29.Driving Home For Christmas is a seasonal standard, but it could
:03:29. > :03:38.almost have been his swan song. He began writing the track whilst he
:03:38. > :03:48.was working here at Abbey Road Studios trying to emulate the
:03:48. > :03:51.success of the song You're a Fool If You Think It's Over.
:03:51. > :03:56.His wife Joan drove down from Middlesbrough to pick him up for
:03:56. > :04:00.the Christmas break. My career at that point was really on the floor.
:04:00. > :04:05.I'd ceased to become the popstar that the record companies wanted me
:04:05. > :04:15.to be, and I was about to be dropped, so it was pretty ropey
:04:15. > :04:16.
:04:16. > :04:19.when we left Abbey Road that night. We had been discussing opening an
:04:19. > :04:23.Italian restaurant and leaving the music business. We started to drive
:04:23. > :04:28.hope. It was snowing when we left Abbey Road. And we were young. We
:04:28. > :04:31.were in love. I just felt happy. I felt stuff the stuff that's
:04:31. > :04:40.happening in my career. It's Christmas. There was a little tune
:04:40. > :04:47.I had in my head which was Christmasy, you know? Mukhachyov
:04:47. > :04:51.# I'm driving home for Christmas # Oh, I can't wait to see those
:04:51. > :04:56.faces # We're all driving home for
:04:56. > :05:01.Christmas, and I do silly things like wind the window down, wish
:05:01. > :05:06.this person a happy Christmas. I just scribbled the lyrics down,
:05:06. > :05:12.just so I don't forget. I always do that, back of a fag packet, that
:05:12. > :05:17.kind of thing. We eventually got home 5.30am. What I always remember
:05:18. > :05:24.is when we opened the house that we - just about to lose the mortgage
:05:24. > :05:26.on - the snow fell in the hall and didn't melt.
:05:26. > :05:30.LAUGHTER It was that cold, and there was one
:05:30. > :05:38.letter on the floor, and I opened it, and it was the PRS statement
:05:38. > :05:44.for Fool If You Think It's Over in America. Those were your writing
:05:44. > :05:47.royaltys? Yeah. She was having to check the notes, and it was just a
:05:47. > :05:55.Christmas story, you know? It was like I just said to her, well,
:05:55. > :06:00.we're going to have the big tree. # Well, a thousand memories... That
:06:00. > :06:05.part of the leer ic I love is "a thousand memories". Why is coming
:06:05. > :06:08.home so important for you? At that point in time it was huge because I
:06:09. > :06:12.was very happy personally in Middlesbrough. We were Irish
:06:12. > :06:16.Italians. The total family - there was nine of us. Christmas was huge.
:06:16. > :06:24.Christmas was more special then. I always loved coming down about
:06:24. > :06:30.4.00am in the morning, and it would be icy waste or snow outside, and
:06:30. > :06:33.the final was still on. It's magic. It is magical. The unexpected
:06:33. > :06:37.royalty cheque helped turn things around for Chris, and a few years
:06:37. > :06:41.later with his career on the rise again, he came back here to Abbey
:06:41. > :06:46.Road to record his Christmas classic. The wonderful magic of
:06:46. > :06:50.this song is, this was where I got the first idea, and also, years
:06:50. > :06:54.later when you became successful, this is where the strengths were.
:06:54. > :06:59.How do you feel about that song now when you hear it? I went through a
:06:59. > :07:04.period of being cynical. I went through - with all of my illnesses,
:07:04. > :07:07.I didn't - I couldn't go there. It used to make me depressed, you
:07:08. > :07:11.know? I would think of a time when I wasn't ill. I quite like it now.
:07:11. > :07:16.# Though you can't hear me when I get through #
:07:16. > :07:21.It's one of those silly moments, and I think we all - we all get
:07:21. > :07:25.silly at Christmas. # I'm driving home for Christmas #
:07:25. > :07:31.It's got to be in your top five... It's a brilliant song. What about
:07:31. > :07:34.Flying Home for Christmas - look at this picture! The boys and girls in
:07:34. > :07:38.Afghanistan flying home for Christmas. What a touching sight.
:07:38. > :07:42.That is a good picture. James, there may not be a Top Gear
:07:42. > :07:47.Christmas Special, well, there is in March, but there is a James May
:07:47. > :07:57.Toy Stories special. There is. is where you relive your childhood
:07:57. > :07:59.
:07:59. > :08:04.making toys bigger and better. it's an attempt to discover science
:08:04. > :08:09.through toys. Which toy are you obsessed with for Christmas? Flying
:08:09. > :08:15.toys but particularly those toys they would have made in the '70s at
:08:15. > :08:20.Christmas - balsa wood - toys you spent ages, days sticking together
:08:20. > :08:23.for Christmas. We supersized it and gone for a record. We're
:08:23. > :08:29.celebrating the magic of flight which grips people at a really
:08:29. > :08:32.early age. We explain it's not magic because it's simple physics.
:08:32. > :08:36.It's easy to understand basic air row dynamics but then when you fly
:08:36. > :08:40.something, it's completely magic. When you talk of a free flight,
:08:40. > :08:45.which we'll see in a moment or two - you urge it to keep going, and
:08:45. > :08:50.you tend to get more excited the further and further it goes. Model
:08:50. > :08:54.aeroplanes are basically sustained by hope rather than anything that
:08:54. > :09:04.happens in the world of physics. Shall we see a little bit of that
:09:04. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:20.hope? Look at that. That's better! Oh! Oh! It's still flying. Go, baby.
:09:20. > :09:25.That is best model aeroplane I have ever been involved with. Every
:09:25. > :09:27.other one I built ever got only as far as that bush there. Look at
:09:27. > :09:32.that. It's almost out of sight. APPLAUSE
:09:32. > :09:35.I mean, it did work out in the end. We won't give away the ending
:09:35. > :09:40.completely, but some things did go wrong? Oh, yeah, virtually
:09:40. > :09:45.everything went wrong. It's a simple idea - build a balsa wood
:09:45. > :09:53.glider and fly it. In some ways the bigger you build it, the better it
:09:53. > :09:56.is. But yeah, we had problems with logistics, problems with
:09:57. > :10:04.international politics, probables with... Problems with the French?
:10:04. > :10:07.How much can you tell us about that. I do give a little soliloquy on the
:10:07. > :10:10.white cliffs of Dover which makes the problem quite clear, I think.
:10:10. > :10:13.LAUGHTER It's to do with the world record
:10:13. > :10:18.attempt, wasn't it? Yes. We did want a world record. There is one
:10:18. > :10:24.that exists for a free flight distance by a toy glider, by a
:10:24. > :10:28.basic balsa wood glider, but things like the weather - this has been a
:10:28. > :10:34.very bad year for filming things outdoors in Britain. It has, James.
:10:34. > :10:38.Just like a Sheffield. A bit dreary. Everybody watches thinking at least
:10:38. > :10:42.we can see something nice on television - it's not. It's rain
:10:42. > :10:46.and gales. You were going to launch this from a Baloon, but in the end
:10:46. > :10:48.you had to do it from beneath a helicopter. Yeah. That gave us a
:10:48. > :10:53.problem as well because theoretically when you launch from
:10:53. > :10:58.a bool on, it is stationary with the air. The balloon moves with the
:10:58. > :11:01.air, so it's like throwing it out the window, but if you do it from a
:11:02. > :11:06.helicopter, you have this massive downdraft from the rotars. There's
:11:06. > :11:12.various risks of the glider flying into the helicopter. So we had to
:11:12. > :11:16.run it the last minute - a day-and- a-half before, I had to get my
:11:16. > :11:21.chief engineer working on a system to launch it. If it hadn't worked,
:11:21. > :11:27.I wouldn't be here talk to you now. It's very exciting. Any show that
:11:27. > :11:32.involves you having your own chief engineer is amazing. He actually
:11:32. > :11:38.lives in my house. James May's Toy Stories Kung Foo Fighting is Sunday
:11:38. > :11:40.at 9.30pm on BBC Two. Don't miss it. It's a great hour of TV. For the
:11:40. > :11:43.past two days we've been following rehearsals for Battlefield
:11:43. > :11:46.Primary's nativity, and tonight it's time to find out whether the
:11:46. > :11:49.play was all right on the night. And Carrie's on double duty tonight
:11:49. > :11:51.as she's in Glasgow with some very proud parents and teachers.
:11:51. > :12:01.It is the actual proper nativity performance for all your mummies
:12:01. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:17.and daddies. How excited are you? Yeah! Yeah. He has to wear tensile
:12:17. > :12:22.
:12:22. > :12:26.We have 246 seats today. We're hoping that'll be enough. This way.
:12:26. > :12:33.I think we'll get a bit scared when we're on stage, but I think we'll
:12:33. > :12:40.do really well. # Little town of Bethlehem
:12:40. > :12:49.# What a starry sky # You will see amazing things
:12:49. > :12:59.# On the special night # Tonight, tonight
:12:59. > :13:02.
:13:02. > :13:10.# On the way you'll see # It's exciting because we're going
:13:11. > :13:17.to be good. # My house is very, very -
:13:17. > :13:24.# We've all been getting in a tizzy # We've not got any room at all #
:13:24. > :13:27.Please, sir, can you help us? David Weirry and need sleep. I suppose I
:13:27. > :13:32.can squeeze you into the stables. It's a bit smelly, but you'll have
:13:32. > :13:36.to mind the animals, and you're welcome. Usually something goes a
:13:36. > :13:41.bit wrong, but it adds - adds to the flavour.
:13:41. > :13:46.CRASH I am going to be a wee bit nervous,
:13:46. > :13:56.but I think I can do it. There in the stable before it was dawn, a
:13:56. > :13:58.
:13:58. > :14:02.# It's amazing # It's a wee little baby boy
:14:02. > :14:05.# It's amazing # There is no mistaking
:14:05. > :14:10.# It's a baby # We're going to enjoy #
:14:10. > :14:19.Have you packed the camels? Yes, they're all ready. Let's follow
:14:19. > :14:24.that star. A very special baby boy has just been born in Bethlehem.
:14:24. > :14:29.All those angels, we must go and see this baby. He must be very
:14:29. > :14:33.special. Let's take him a little lamb for a present. Now it's time
:14:33. > :14:41.to say goodbye. It's time we must be stopping.
:14:41. > :14:44.ALL: So hurry up and grab your bags and do that Christmas shopping.
:14:44. > :14:49.# Hallelujah, sing hallelujah # The children really rose to the
:14:49. > :14:58.occasion. # Hallelujah
:14:58. > :15:05.# Sing hallelujah # Christ is born today #
:15:05. > :15:14.ALL SPEAK AT ONCE All of my friends did a really,
:15:14. > :15:18.really good job. # And stamp your feet
:15:18. > :15:26.# Swing your heads around to the beat #
:15:26. > :15:28.Just - it's done. I've done it! # Hallelujah
:15:28. > :15:38.# Sing hallelujah # Christ is born today #
:15:38. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:46.APPLAUSE Ah, aren't they lovely? Beautiful,
:15:46. > :15:50.and that's why YOU should have children. Right. Carrie is on
:15:50. > :15:54.double duty tonight, as she's in Glasgow with some very proud
:15:54. > :15:56.parents and teachers. Welcome to Glasgow.
:15:56. > :15:59.APPLAUSE How cute are the children of
:15:59. > :16:02.Battlefield Primary? They're so cute, and they're here with us live.
:16:02. > :16:05.It's great to have you with us. Hazel, you were taking that ever so
:16:05. > :16:08.seriously. How have they done? have been brilliant, absolutely
:16:08. > :16:12.fabulous. I can't be prouder of them.
:16:12. > :16:20.You do at a timeic seriously. What are the plans for the next
:16:20. > :16:26.production? How do you top it? like to do Oliver. I don't know.
:16:26. > :16:36.What do you reckon? ALL: Yes. How would you like to get
:16:36. > :16:37.
:16:37. > :16:43.on the stage yourself? Absolutely. Daniel, who do you play? King Heard.
:16:43. > :16:50.What do you do? Wa-ha, ha, ha! That's your evilla. Where does he
:16:50. > :16:56.get that from, dad? Me. How has he been this week? He has been stack,
:16:56. > :17:00.very proud of him. What are you doing? I am a soloist
:17:00. > :17:03.in the choir. What was her performance like, mum? It was very
:17:03. > :17:10.good. The teachers did a great job in Battlefield. Did you feel
:17:10. > :17:14.nervous for her tonight? I do, but she doesn't. How about you guys,
:17:14. > :17:18.nervous? ALL: No. Are you ready to take it
:17:18. > :17:23.away? ALL: Yes.
:17:23. > :17:28.Off you go. The stable was hushed. Not a sound
:17:28. > :17:37.met the sheep. Everyone looked at the baby asleep While he slept on.
:17:37. > :17:47.Not a soul made a sound. The stable was filled with love all around.
:17:47. > :18:03.
:18:03. > :18:08.# Away in a manger # No crib for his head
:18:08. > :18:14.# The little Lord Jesus # Laid down his sweet head #
:18:14. > :18:18.Let's hear it for the kids. They have been amazing. James, tell us
:18:18. > :18:24.about you falling in love doing your own nativity play? Oh, I told
:18:24. > :18:29.you that in complete confidence. Sorry! No, I had a brown dressing
:18:29. > :18:34.gown which was the passport to stardom in the '70s. I was a
:18:34. > :18:38.shepherd, then promoted to non- speaking Joseph, where I was
:18:38. > :18:42.allowed to stand with my arm around Jane Young, who was Mary. You said
:18:42. > :18:52.you fell in love with her. I was six, Chris. But it was a lovely
:18:52. > :18:53.
:18:53. > :18:56.moment, yes. Time now to see how others have interpreted the
:18:56. > :18:59.nativity story through the eyes of our favourite pair of art lovers,
:18:59. > :19:02.Sister Wendy and Phil Tufnell. The scene of the wise men following
:19:02. > :19:05.the star to the birth of baby Jesus is probably one of the most popular
:19:05. > :19:09.scenes on our Christmas card, but what was their significance? Sister
:19:09. > :19:17.Wendy has picked out two paintings from the National Gallery in London
:19:17. > :19:22.to tell us more. Sister Wendy, good to see you again. You too, dear sir.
:19:22. > :19:26.A beautiful picture you have chosen. It is beautiful. It's an unusual
:19:27. > :19:31.shape. It's a round picture, so everything has to be perfectly
:19:31. > :19:39.balanced, and he's got it. Now, dear Phil, what do you think you
:19:39. > :19:44.are looking at? Well, uh, the three kings... Ah ha, ha! You think
:19:44. > :19:51.you're looking at the three kings? I do. Well, in actual fact,
:19:51. > :19:56.although there's clearly a crown there... Yes, that's the give-away
:19:56. > :20:01.for me! Kings is clearly in the imagination. Because they brought
:20:01. > :20:05.such rich presents, all the scriptures say wise men came from
:20:05. > :20:09.the east. They were astrologers and astronomers because they saw the
:20:09. > :20:14.star. There were three? No there, could have been platoons of kings.
:20:14. > :20:22.We just know they were wise men from the east. OK. When they found
:20:22. > :20:28.the infantries, they worshipped him, an event known as "the Adoration."
:20:28. > :20:33.And it meant so much, they were called to come worship the new-born
:20:33. > :20:38.Christ because up until then it was thought he was theirs, just for the
:20:38. > :20:42.Jews. Everyone. Yes, and this shows it, you see? Another thing - I
:20:42. > :20:47.always thought it was in a stable. That's not a stable. It looks like
:20:47. > :20:53.an old ruin. It is a ruined temple. Botticelli wanted to show us the
:20:53. > :20:57.pagan religion had gone. The coming of Jesus had ruined it, so he's
:20:57. > :21:02.ensconced there high up. You'll notice that because everybody's
:21:02. > :21:06.looking up. Yes, it's all painted - you can only see the back of the
:21:06. > :21:10.heads. And the backs of the horses, et cetera. Yes, there is the huge
:21:10. > :21:13.back side of a horse there. I think that's meant to show us this is the
:21:13. > :21:20.real world. This wonderful thing is happening in a world where there
:21:20. > :21:24.are back sides. LAUGHTER
:21:24. > :21:29.Sister Wendy's next choice shows us the second part of the story.
:21:29. > :21:35.What's this got to do with the wise men? It's the unexpected political
:21:35. > :21:42.fallout of a very innocent mistake by the wise men. Right. They went
:21:42. > :21:46.to king Herod, the king of the Jews, to ask, "Where was the new-born
:21:46. > :21:52.king?" Which terrified him because he hadn't got a new-born son, so he
:21:52. > :21:57.decided to kill all small children in the immediate vicinity, so an
:21:57. > :22:00.angel warned Joseph, "Take Mary and the child and flee into Egypt." And
:22:00. > :22:05.this shows they're safe now - or relatively safe, though they - on
:22:05. > :22:10.their way to Egypt - though I must admit this doesn't look very much
:22:10. > :22:13.like Egypt, but this is how the Renaissance artists who had never
:22:13. > :22:23.seen Egypt imagined it. They're looking a bit more relaxed, aren't
:22:23. > :22:25.
:22:25. > :22:30.they? They're having a rest. They feel they're safe. Mary is holding
:22:30. > :22:34.the child. At their feet you can see the possessions they could tai,
:22:34. > :22:39.not much, and Joseph, who is absolutely worn out.
:22:39. > :22:43.I know how he feels. He's got his staff, and he's looking up,
:22:43. > :22:48.spotting that they've got an angelic protection. Three little
:22:48. > :22:52.angels. Yes, little cherubs, so it's a pleasing picture. Why have
:22:52. > :22:57.people been interested in this story? I think partly because it
:22:57. > :23:01.shows us how hard the human life of Jesus was. We think of him in a
:23:01. > :23:07.kind of bubble of holiness, but no, he lived in a political world, and
:23:07. > :23:11.here, he's a refugee, like many other people are. Well, thanks
:23:11. > :23:15.again,siessy, for showing us these lovely paintings, and every time I
:23:15. > :23:21.see the three wise men on a Christmas card, it will mean a bit
:23:21. > :23:29.more to me. Thank you, Phil. Phil couldn't be
:23:29. > :23:32.here tonight, but luckily our other fellow sportsman could, welcome Un
:23:32. > :23:38.Certain Regard un. Tell us about a blast from the past. Superstars is
:23:39. > :23:44.coming back, so the top 16 Olympians - mow Pharaoh, Nicola
:23:44. > :23:48.Adams, all of our great sports men and women who were still fit -
:23:49. > :23:56.that's key - this is people at the height of their fitness right now.
:23:56. > :24:04.Lots of events they're not used to, thes like of kayaking, archery, the
:24:04. > :24:09.dreaded gym test - it's worth to it see Mo in a kayak. Unlike archery...
:24:09. > :24:13.He showed his everybody in there. He shows his nerve where it matters.
:24:13. > :24:17.I doubt he trained for it. There was so much pressure. All the crowd
:24:17. > :24:22.were watching. He above everybody kept his nerve. I can't tell you
:24:22. > :24:28.who won overall. Come on. I can't. What about the Brownly brothers?
:24:28. > :24:35.Casezy boys. The night before filming I turn up, they're off on a
:24:35. > :24:40.15-mile run. Everybody is going, where is the bus? Take me back to
:24:40. > :24:43.the hotel - he ran 12 miles to meet us at the bar. That's spirit of
:24:43. > :24:51.superstars. Everybody wanted to win. Although they pretended it was a
:24:51. > :24:59.bit of fun, "Oh, I have never done kayaking", as soon as the starters'
:24:59. > :25:03.whistle went, everybody wanted to win. We decided to combine James's
:25:03. > :25:09.obsession with planes and Superstars. Here's what happened.
:25:09. > :25:15.There's our planes. James and I made ours. There's mine. It was
:25:15. > :25:21.further than I thought. More of a dart than a plane. Did I show a
:25:21. > :25:25.little bit of belly then? A little bit. Oh, no. Yours was better than
:25:25. > :25:35.most occasion he tried. But look at this! It's still going!
:25:35. > :25:47.
:25:47. > :25:53.APPLAUSE Hang on a minute! Well done, James.
:25:53. > :25:57.Are you relieved, James? Yes. have a Paper Plane Superstars
:25:57. > :26:05.trophy for you. Thank you. I have been working on it for 40 years,
:26:05. > :26:15.but thank you. Wonderful. This is Milly, the ocelot keeping Melissa
:26:15. > :26:22.
:26:22. > :26:25.top of Penovaen. Where is that? Wales. Whereabouts in Wales?
:26:25. > :26:26.Somewhere. Back to the guys and gals in the
:26:27. > :26:31.forces! APPLAUSE
:26:31. > :26:38.This is Claire 20 metres underwater in Egypt.
:26:38. > :26:43.When is Superstars on? Saturday the 29th on BBC One. That isn't your
:26:43. > :26:48.last one, is it? No, that scares me that picture because I am going to
:26:48. > :26:55.be in the sea in Exmouth. Live? every Christmas they run into the
:26:55. > :27:00.water - in Speedos - I apologise, mum, for that, and I'll be cooking
:27:00. > :27:04.for all the lifeguards as part of Gordon Ramsay's programme. Live on
:27:04. > :27:10.Christmas Day? Yes. Happy Christmas. Nice to see you both. Thanks for
:27:10. > :27:20.coming in. Dast David Morris, where will you be celebrating Christmas?
:27:20. > :27:22.
:27:22. > :27:28.- wife Helen, my son and daughter. Any tips for whistling? High notes,
:27:28. > :27:38.tongue high in the mouth, low notes, tongue down. Excellent. Thank you
:27:38. > :27:41.for coming in. This is our last show before Christmas. So we'd like
:27:41. > :27:44.to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
:27:44. > :27:48.Watch out for the One Show On Ice on Friday, 28th December at 7.30pm
:27:48. > :27:49.on BBC One - basically Matt, Chris and I trying to stay upright whilst