:00:18. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to the one show with Matt Baker and Angela Scanlon.
:00:25. > :00:28.Tonight we are running 15 minutes late due to the extended news
:00:29. > :00:32.coverage of today's events in Westminster. Shortly we looking
:00:33. > :00:36.forward to chatting to our two guests, James Blunt and comedian Joe
:00:37. > :00:41.Lycett. We shall be with you very shortly but first you don't need to
:00:42. > :00:44.be a maths teacher to know that the skills are struggling to make the
:00:45. > :00:48.sums add up when it comes to funding -- schools. As the government
:00:49. > :00:51.prepares a new funding formula ministers have detailed some of the
:00:52. > :00:55.cost-cutting measures they have been considering. They include shortening
:00:56. > :01:02.the school day, selling school land and asking parents for donations and
:01:03. > :01:06.those parents are not happy. The anger felt by parents, teachers
:01:07. > :01:09.and children towards the Government's plans to change the way
:01:10. > :01:17.schools are to be funded in England has spilled out into the streets of
:01:18. > :01:21.East Cheshire. In this country our children deserve the chance of a
:01:22. > :01:25.good well rounded education. Schools here are facing cuts that
:01:26. > :01:29.would leave them amongst the lowest funded in the country. What do we
:01:30. > :01:33.want? More than 1000 people turned up today, what of very angry and
:01:34. > :01:39.passionate parents. When do we want it? Now! Basically
:01:40. > :01:44.we are killing our country. Give every right to the education --
:01:45. > :01:48.child the right to the education they deserve. Parents in this area
:01:49. > :01:52.have the right to be angry. One of the big issues is some schools are
:01:53. > :01:56.increasingly turning to parents for more and more contributions. There
:01:57. > :02:00.is a lot of fundraising at the school I am at to pay for essential
:02:01. > :02:04.things. We give money regularly for books, books are not a luxury, they
:02:05. > :02:08.are essential thing is wearing out and the school can't afford to
:02:09. > :02:12.replace them. We give ?10 a year direct debit. Trips to museums and
:02:13. > :02:16.things like that, anything extra curricular needs paying for. I don't
:02:17. > :02:20.want them to miss out but at the same time I don't know if I could
:02:21. > :02:31.justify paying more for education. Haven't we got a responsibility to
:02:32. > :02:33.put our children. We do that anyway, we pay taxes, we contribute, and I
:02:34. > :02:36.volunteer at the school, parents do a lot. It is not right and it's not
:02:37. > :02:43.fair. Our children are worth more than this.
:02:44. > :02:51.Although schools are a scheme parents for voluntary contribution
:02:52. > :02:55.isn't a new idea according to this woman who runs a school social media
:02:56. > :03:00.funding group in London it's getting worse. Parents are asked to make
:03:01. > :03:05.direct debit regular monthly contributions ranging from ?25 to
:03:06. > :03:10.?50. Have there been any extreme cases you have heard? Yes, a couple
:03:11. > :03:13.of examples of schools where they have a deficit in the budget and
:03:14. > :03:18.reaching out to parents to ask them to make contributions to pay off
:03:19. > :03:22.that deficit and the suggested minimum contribution was ?250.
:03:23. > :03:26.Parents can't keep raising this sort of money. Up-and-down the country
:03:27. > :03:30.frustrated parents say they are being asked to pay for things like
:03:31. > :03:35.sports gear, new lockers and even selling equipment. Parents like
:03:36. > :03:39.Vanessa who lives in Wokingham. We now have parents going into the
:03:40. > :03:43.classrooms to replace teaching assistants. And, of course, you want
:03:44. > :03:49.to contribute, it is your child's education but where does it stop?
:03:50. > :03:53.And Sue Mortimer in Devon. They asked for a voluntary donation, a
:03:54. > :03:57.minimum of ?5 a month to help the shortfall of funding they already
:03:58. > :04:04.have at school. My worry is the schools in the rich areas will have
:04:05. > :04:08.the money but this is one of the more deprived areas and there will
:04:09. > :04:11.be fewer parents able to pay. The government says the aim of the new
:04:12. > :04:15.funding formula is to address existing unfairness between schools
:04:16. > :04:20.and funding is at record levels. The Government are saying we are
:04:21. > :04:24.given new ?40 billion, isn't that enough? The Government keeps saying
:04:25. > :04:27.they are spending more than ever before but they don't finish the
:04:28. > :04:30.sentence which is that the people numbers are higher than they have
:04:31. > :04:34.ever been so the relevant fact is spent per pupil and that is going
:04:35. > :04:38.down. There is no denying the strength of
:04:39. > :04:42.feeling here today and with online petitions and social media gathering
:04:43. > :04:46.momentum it looks like the sort of things are going to happen a lot
:04:47. > :04:54.more. Parents have a voice and they intend to use it.
:04:55. > :04:58.Say no to budget cuts! Thank you. Before today's dramatic
:04:59. > :05:01.events at Westminster Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn clashed in Prime
:05:02. > :05:05.Minister's Questions over the proposed changes to the funding for
:05:06. > :05:10.schools in England with the consultation period now closed. We
:05:11. > :05:12.will have to wait and see how the situation unfolds.
:05:13. > :05:15.If you have any other examples of how you have been asked to
:05:16. > :05:21.contribute to your child's School let us know at the usual address.
:05:22. > :05:23.Look who has joined us on the sofa, please welcome James Blunt and Joe
:05:24. > :05:29.Lycett. APPLAUSE
:05:30. > :05:35.Welcome. Thank you. One was in the army and one is dressed in
:05:36. > :05:41.camouflage. Yes! Did you coordinate? No, I don't think I would have done
:05:42. > :05:45.well in the Army. Would you teach me how to be in the Armed Forces? I'm
:05:46. > :05:52.sorry but not everyone can be in the Army. It was my dream! You are a
:05:53. > :05:56.much bigger man than me so you probably could be. I could wrestle
:05:57. > :06:06.you to the ground, yes. That sounds fun! Listen, Joe. Too soon!? We have
:06:07. > :06:12.a bit of a bone to pick with you. Make sure that is clipped on. Do you
:06:13. > :06:16.learn that in the Armed Forces? Thank you so much. This is quite a
:06:17. > :06:23.moment I feel we are interrupting. Now, for some time, Joe, I have been
:06:24. > :06:28.used as a source of comedy for some people, for you in particular. This
:06:29. > :06:31.is all about some fake news then. I've been trying to sell stories
:06:32. > :06:37.about you to newspapers about things that you haven't done. Yes, this was
:06:38. > :06:43.a story that I think you sold to a certain tabloid newspaper. Tried!
:06:44. > :06:48.Tried, let's take a look. When I spotted Matt Baker from the BBC One
:06:49. > :06:51.show on his phone in the street he seemed angry about something and at
:06:52. > :06:55.one point he was so angry that to my amazement he tried to kick a pigeon.
:06:56. > :06:58.LAUGHTER I'm flattered to be a source of your
:06:59. > :07:04.comedy but where does this come from? And whiny? I've been looking
:07:05. > :07:07.forward to this. Basically, I thought the image of you kicking it
:07:08. > :07:11.pigeon would be really funny because you are so lovely that you would
:07:12. > :07:15.obviously never do that and come across so well on screen and as a
:07:16. > :07:19.human I thought it would be funny the image of you kicking a pigeon. I
:07:20. > :07:23.tried to sell it to the Sun newspaper and they said, can we see
:07:24. > :07:25.a picture of it? I said here is a cropped version and sent them a
:07:26. > :07:32.picture of a pigeon. LAUGHTER
:07:33. > :07:37.Which they didn't buy. They didn't buy that and then they sent a
:07:38. > :07:41.picture of you and asked if I had a picture of you kicking a pigeon and
:07:42. > :07:47.they offered ?1000. So if you fall on hard times. I will give you a
:07:48. > :07:51.ring. Just give The Sun a ring and you will be fine. Brilliant, I love
:07:52. > :07:56.that. How about this for a scary animal story, a snake got left
:07:57. > :08:01.behind by a passenger on an Alaskan plane and it got loose in the cabin,
:08:02. > :08:05.and the flight attendant had to catch it. I know! I can see Joe's
:08:06. > :08:11.face. It wasn't Ben Innes but it caused panic. You'd be worried
:08:12. > :08:16.regardless. You don't want that on your flight. Sitting on an easy
:08:17. > :08:21.chair and there is a lie and there! -- it wasn't venomous. There are no
:08:22. > :08:27.pigeons in this but there are chickens.
:08:28. > :08:31.A worrying moment. This recent archive shows an engine failure just
:08:32. > :08:37.after take-off from Manchester Airport. Across the world it's
:08:38. > :08:44.estimated that 100,000 aircraft take-off and land each day and they
:08:45. > :08:48.share the air not only with each other but with hundreds of billions
:08:49. > :08:55.of birds, and sometimes the two collide. Every year 1500 bird
:08:56. > :09:02.strikes are recorded in the UK alone. Most planes hit by birds land
:09:03. > :09:09.safely but sometimes it's more serious. And so before a plane is
:09:10. > :09:15.built its materials are put through rigorous testing. The rather
:09:16. > :09:20.absurdly named chicken guns have been features of aircraft testing
:09:21. > :09:25.since the 1950s. They used to fire recently deceased chickens at speeds
:09:26. > :09:28.of up to 400 miles an hour into aircraft engines, bodies and
:09:29. > :09:34.windscreens to replicate a bird strike. This remarkable footage from
:09:35. > :09:42.2012 shows the true extent of a bird strike. America still uses this
:09:43. > :09:46.testing method but in the UK we use gelatin packs. The first stage of
:09:47. > :09:51.the process is to put the materials you are going to make your aeroplane
:09:52. > :09:56.out of two the test. Doctor Steven Reid and Simon Bates test materials
:09:57. > :09:59.in the engineering department at Bristol University. They use much
:10:00. > :10:04.smaller impacts than chicken guns to test materials before they get to
:10:05. > :10:09.the chicken dung stage. Service machine here is the impact tower we
:10:10. > :10:12.have an impact head with the material set up underneath. This
:10:13. > :10:17.would look at how one of these materials would behave under an
:10:18. > :10:23.impact event, like a bird strike. The weight of impact is equivalent
:10:24. > :10:27.to that of a bird strike. Yes, look, it has punched a neat hole. In this
:10:28. > :10:30.case we have ruptured straight through all of the fibres in the
:10:31. > :10:34.risen and blown out on the back surface. On an aircraft we would
:10:35. > :10:38.want to have some further impact protection, for example an aluminium
:10:39. > :10:45.or titanium coating to absorb and dissipate the energy from an event
:10:46. > :10:49.like this. It is a big old dense but it didn't go through. Yes, so unlike
:10:50. > :10:53.the carbon fibre we don't have a catastrophic failure of the
:10:54. > :10:57.material. You can see how it has brought in material from around the
:10:58. > :11:00.site and we have a lot of what we call plastic de formation. But the
:11:01. > :11:05.materials are not the only thing is put through their paces. Today,
:11:06. > :11:10.pilots are trained on high-tech simulators to train them for the
:11:11. > :11:15.worst. But what happens when a bird strike takes out an engine? With The
:11:16. > :11:22.Help of a flight simulator I'm going to find out for myself. Gentleman.
:11:23. > :11:30.Hello. Hello, Martin. Right, are ready to take off? We are ready.
:11:31. > :11:38.Let's do it. Something happened. Rotate.
:11:39. > :11:43.Positive climb. Engine fire. What's happening? What happened is
:11:44. > :11:49.we had an indication of an engine fire perhaps as the result of a bird
:11:50. > :11:52.strike. But we are still flying perfectly safely? Perfectly safely,
:11:53. > :11:55.we have three other engines and as you can see the plane is under
:11:56. > :12:00.control flying away. Most passengers would be blissfully
:12:01. > :12:04.unaware of the bird strike as the pilots shot down the damaged engine.
:12:05. > :12:07.And now what would happen? We would decide what the best course of
:12:08. > :12:11.action would be, to go back to Heathrow in this case. As a
:12:12. > :12:14.precaution pilots will land the plane at the nearest available
:12:15. > :12:22.airport. But what if that's not an option? In 2009 both engines on
:12:23. > :12:28.flight 1549 were taken out of. At this moment captain Sullenberger
:12:29. > :12:34.performed an incredible emergency landing on the Hudson River saving
:12:35. > :12:38.all passengers and crew. If you are taking to the skies soon, pause to
:12:39. > :12:44.think although testing that goes into keeping us safe, all of which
:12:45. > :12:51.mean that if you are on a collision course for a bird, it's the bird
:12:52. > :12:55.that's going to come off worse. James, you got your pilot license at
:12:56. > :13:00.16. Have you ever had any hairy encounters with some feathered
:13:01. > :13:07.friends? No, I haven't. The planes I've been flying our smaller. Single
:13:08. > :13:11.engines, yes? We have a brilliant photo of the present that you got
:13:12. > :13:16.your dad but it came in kit form. It came in 2000 pieces and I gave it to
:13:17. > :13:22.my dad and my dad made it in about 18 months, my mum was happy because
:13:23. > :13:30.it kept him out of the house. Why does it have Yelp on the side? You
:13:31. > :13:35.can choose your own numberplates. We fly around and we are like plane
:13:36. > :13:46.spotters flying around at home. That maiden voyage must have been... That
:13:47. > :13:51.was the maiden voyage. My dad is like Biggles. You have a new album
:13:52. > :14:04.out on Friday called the afternoon love and you announced it in an
:14:05. > :14:08.unusual manner -- The Afterlove. Be afraid, be very afraid. Did it get a
:14:09. > :14:15.big response? Very bit, I was quite frightened. What is the vibe of this
:14:16. > :14:21.particular album? It is more diverse than the stuff I've done before. I
:14:22. > :14:23.know I am known as a man with a guitar singing miserable songs so
:14:24. > :14:29.there is a little less misery. Misery sells so I like that but
:14:30. > :14:34.there is some upbeat stuff and it's a bit more diverse. Was that a
:14:35. > :14:40.conscious decision? Yes, if it did the same stuff I would kill myself.
:14:41. > :14:43.It is a bit of a change and I think it will surprise people, there are
:14:44. > :14:47.some songs on there that if you like my old stuff you will love it and if
:14:48. > :14:51.you have not liked James Blunt's music I'm confident you will dig a
:14:52. > :14:55.couple of songs on there. Do you think because you are now a family
:14:56. > :15:01.man it is a different chapter in your life? I don't think so, I've
:15:02. > :15:05.done four albums and for the faith I thought I've got a lot of experience
:15:06. > :15:08.and worked with some amazing people on this album, I've worked with a
:15:09. > :15:16.guy you might have heard of called Ed Sheeran. Who? I know, he is
:15:17. > :15:26.little-known. Is it true you taught him to ski in return for writing
:15:27. > :15:31.lessons? I taught him how to ski and he taught me how to write songs. I
:15:32. > :15:36.think I got the better deal. It is a song called Make Me Better At and it
:15:37. > :15:45.is a sweet song and I've written with the lead singer of The Wet
:15:46. > :15:50.Republic. We wrote in his hotel room in the Carinthia and while we were
:15:51. > :15:56.writing the song at 9:30pm somebody came and banged on the door and told
:15:57. > :16:01.us to shut up which he was surprised about but I'm used to it. He banged
:16:02. > :16:07.on the door, it is him and the guy that wrote that song in 2005. They
:16:08. > :16:11.were embarrassed. I'm pretty cool with it. And then we recorded it in
:16:12. > :16:15.his dressing room at the Roundhouse. I've been all over the place. I've
:16:16. > :16:19.had a dream team of people to work with and it is a cool album as a
:16:20. > :16:24.result. Talking of people in your life as well, Carrie Fisher was a
:16:25. > :16:28.great friend of yours, wasn't she? Yes, absolutely. When I first got a
:16:29. > :16:31.record deal she put me up in her house in Los Angeles and I've lived
:16:32. > :16:39.there ever since when I've been in Los Angeles, I recorded Goodbye My
:16:40. > :16:45.Lover and it is a Tragedy she has died. I am saddest that my little
:16:46. > :16:50.son won't get to know his godmother but I have to say she was back at
:16:51. > :16:56.the top of her game in Star Wars so she went out with a bang. I'm proud
:16:57. > :17:00.of her. Happy memories. That song must mean so much knowing that you
:17:01. > :17:04.recorded it at her house and the lyrics and everything. I have so
:17:05. > :17:07.many ridiculous memories, Debbie Reynolds from singing in the rain
:17:08. > :17:14.lived on the property and she used to shout about me, hey, Charlie, you
:17:15. > :17:21.I'd say, I'm not Charlie. She'd say, do you want a drink anyway? Amazing
:17:22. > :17:24.place to live. Absolutely wonderful. You will be performing later on and
:17:25. > :17:31.we are very much looking forward to that. Joe Root, Red Nose Day, 48
:17:32. > :17:37.hours away? Yes, Friday, it's come so quick. Incredible. Here's another
:17:38. > :17:45.good reason to donate. Miranda Hart has met some young people whose
:17:46. > :17:50.donation meant they stop the cycle of self harm. I think we're getting
:17:51. > :17:53.so much better at talking about issues around emotional well-being
:17:54. > :17:55.and thank goodness, because one in four of us will experience a mental
:17:56. > :18:00.health issue. Five years ago Cas found herself in
:18:01. > :18:05.a position where she needed help and simply didn't know what to do. I
:18:06. > :18:10.think I started self harming when I was 11 or 12. The first difficulty
:18:11. > :18:14.at school was being bullied. The most I did in one day with seven or
:18:15. > :18:20.eight times. For me, self harming was like a release for any emotions
:18:21. > :18:23.you have. I felt so depressed and so numb to everything, I didn't want to
:18:24. > :18:27.get out of bed, I didn't really want to do anything. I got the point
:18:28. > :18:31.where I was really suicidal, where I was like... I need help now and if I
:18:32. > :18:37.don't do it now, I don't know what's to happen. Often self harm is of
:18:38. > :18:41.response to something else going on, it's like a release. The trouble is,
:18:42. > :18:44.the more you do it, the more addictive it becomes. About a
:18:45. > :18:49.quarter of all young people have self harmed.
:18:50. > :18:54.It kind of went downhill when my mum and dad split up. I had friendship
:18:55. > :18:59.issues, I didn't really have anyone to talk to about anything. I think I
:19:00. > :19:02.was 12 or 13 when I started self harming, which became progressively
:19:03. > :19:06.worse throughout the years. The more you do it, the more you become
:19:07. > :19:10.resistant to it, so you have to do it more to get the feeling you had
:19:11. > :19:12.when you first started doing it. If I didn't reach out for help I would
:19:13. > :19:30.be... It's really important for these
:19:31. > :19:35.young people to have a place where they can come and feel supported and
:19:36. > :19:42.feel part of a community and feel accepted. That's something the wish
:19:43. > :19:47.centre offers. It's one of the only face-to-face providers of self harm
:19:48. > :19:50.support in the UK. What we've seen if it is peer support that makes a
:19:51. > :19:55.difference for young people going through self harm. There are not
:19:56. > :19:59.many places that are specifically targeting it. It's a support
:20:00. > :20:03.network. Support for self harm because that is quite rare. When you
:20:04. > :20:06.come here, everyone understands what you're going through and if you need
:20:07. > :20:13.to talk to somebody desperately, you can just text one of the people here
:20:14. > :20:20.and sell reply. -- they will reply. It's nice. You don't have scars on
:20:21. > :20:25.your... You have your tattooed. As much as I said I wanted a tattooed
:20:26. > :20:28.to cover them, I kind of don't. It means a lot because I've been there,
:20:29. > :20:33.I've been through it and I'd come out the other side. You should never
:20:34. > :20:36.be in Paris that, it's OK to have scars, everyone has their individual
:20:37. > :20:41.battles whether they are physical or mental. When I look into the future
:20:42. > :20:45.I see a lot clearer how my life could play out. I've got plans. I'm
:20:46. > :20:50.going to college. I'm a lot more hopeful about the future.
:20:51. > :20:55.I don't think it's a stretch to say that this is a life-saving and
:20:56. > :20:59.incredible life improving service that so many people. Do you think
:21:00. > :21:04.without the Wish Centre things would be different? I doubt notified be
:21:05. > :21:08.here without it, it changed my perspective on everything. At the
:21:09. > :21:12.moment I've begun to help run the group. It's really strange going
:21:13. > :21:17.back and... I was that exactly where they were sat five years ago. You're
:21:18. > :21:19.amazing. LAUGHTER You are, you're amazing. You've been
:21:20. > :21:22.through a lot and you're coming out the other side. Now you're paying
:21:23. > :21:26.back. How much it helps me, I hoped it
:21:27. > :21:29.could help someone else. No young people should have to go through
:21:30. > :21:32.such deep anxiety and depression on their own that they get to this
:21:33. > :21:36.stage of self harming. Your donations help support projects like
:21:37. > :21:44.these. If you feel passionate about me, please, please donate tonight.
:21:45. > :21:51.Thank you so much. There you are, your donations really
:21:52. > :21:53.make a difference. A big thank you to Cass and Jo. If you've been
:21:54. > :21:57.affected by any of those issues, go to our website where you can get
:21:58. > :22:01.links to help and advice. This is one of the reasons Comic Relief
:22:02. > :22:05.needs your help. At least 40% of your donations will be spent right
:22:06. > :22:09.here in the UK and the rest go to projects in the poorest communities
:22:10. > :22:14.in Africa. Remember wherever you live in the UK, you're likely to be
:22:15. > :22:17.within just 20 miles of a Comic Relief funded project. James and
:22:18. > :22:22.Joe, would you do the honours and give the numbers.
:22:23. > :22:32.To donate ?5... To donate ?10... Those will cost you the donation and
:22:33. > :22:35.a standard message charge on all of your donation will go to Comic
:22:36. > :22:40.Relief stops are you must be 16 or over and please ask the bill payer's
:22:41. > :22:43.permission. The terms and conditions or more information or to donate
:22:44. > :22:54.however much want online go to the website. Joe, you are involved in
:22:55. > :22:57.hosting. We will be meeting a baby very shortly. You have been
:22:58. > :23:04.preparing since you were a baby for this? Not quite baby, but yeah... At
:23:05. > :23:08.school I always watched it as a kid. It's kind of mad I'm doing it, there
:23:09. > :23:14.must be a clerical error, I should be doing! But yes, at school, at 1.I
:23:15. > :23:18.used to spray red paint on my head and have red hair for it. I should
:23:19. > :23:21.have done it on my nose but I thought the hair was better. The
:23:22. > :23:25.deputy head that I had to wash it out. I went to the toilet and this
:23:26. > :23:29.sort of turned to a bright ginger, which is a lovely colour. Nothing
:23:30. > :23:35.wrong with that. But it went down my neck so I had a ginger neck. I bet
:23:36. > :23:41.you are a nightmare at school. I talked a lot but it was generally
:23:42. > :23:47.quite a good child. Why do you say that? I just thought in general.
:23:48. > :23:50.LAUGHTER I'm not going that! Talking at
:23:51. > :23:59.school, let's look at this. I personally would hate to go to
:24:00. > :24:04.school with Mahal you have to -- imagine if they say that what have
:24:05. > :24:09.you brought you? They start with Sal AMG says, I have brought in this
:24:10. > :24:17.patio mache cat. They say OK, anyone else, Malala, did you bring
:24:18. > :24:22.anything? Yes, this Nobel Peace Prize. LAUGHTER
:24:23. > :24:28.On Friday, what will you be doing? It sounds like I've made this up
:24:29. > :24:35.just for now. I am running a Pizza Express and the head chef is Mickey
:24:36. > :24:39.Flanagan and the chef is foul from date of because people say I look
:24:40. > :24:44.like her even though she's a 66-year-old woman. What is the plan?
:24:45. > :24:48.I don't know. They want it more anarchic this year and I love it
:24:49. > :24:52.when it's sort of anarchic at live gigs. There will be customers in
:24:53. > :24:58.there and we will be serving pizza. Actual pizza? Mickey Flanagan is
:24:59. > :25:02.making them so I hope they eat before they get there. You have a
:25:03. > :25:06.pizza pedigree, you have a restaurant? Yes, a restaurant at the
:25:07. > :25:12.top of a mountain which I share with Lawrence Dallaglio and Kyle Fogerty.
:25:13. > :25:18.We are the three Amigos who have a restaurant at the top of a mountain.
:25:19. > :25:28.Healthy food, what is the name? What is on the James Blunt pizza? It is
:25:29. > :25:33.small but spicy! LAUGHTER Joe, from small but spicy, I hope
:25:34. > :25:36.you are serving some of them, what are you doing today as part of Comic
:25:37. > :25:40.Relief? I am covered in mud and I have got
:25:41. > :25:44.on your sofa, and sorry. I've been to a project in Dudley, I'm from the
:25:45. > :25:48.Midlands but I don't like it because I'm better! I was in Dudley today,
:25:49. > :25:52.an amazing project called the Sycamore adventure Centre. Comic
:25:53. > :25:56.Relief have funded them in part. It was wonderful. They have these
:25:57. > :26:00.go-karts, which is why I'm covered... There is a picture of me
:26:01. > :26:08.looking ludicrous on a go-kart. It was brilliant. I've been to Malawi a
:26:09. > :26:11.few days ago do there. When you see it, you realise how amazing the work
:26:12. > :26:14.they are doing with every pound is. Great to see what they're up to.
:26:15. > :26:20.This great anticipation about Friday night. It's coming from the O2 and
:26:21. > :26:24.comedians have said the whole idea is to just go with the flow and see
:26:25. > :26:28.what happens. What an environment for you. As an up-and-coming
:26:29. > :26:33.comedian. Yes, it's so exciting. I want to get it right for the
:26:34. > :26:37.charity. If it was just for fun, there's less pressure, but the
:26:38. > :26:41.actual fact that it matters so much, you want to get it right. I spoke to
:26:42. > :26:45.Mickey today and he's well up for going to fall bonkers so we're going
:26:46. > :26:49.to do some mad things. What a wonderful line-up. Originally Comic
:26:50. > :26:55.Relief was all about comics and it's kind of comeback. Go. Does it feel
:26:56. > :26:59.like element of pressure because of that, going back to the glory days?
:27:00. > :27:04.Yes, totally. It should be funny and it should India people to donate.
:27:05. > :27:09.There amazing people from my generation and amazing people
:27:10. > :27:17.from... The first people doing it. We've heard a rumour about some sort
:27:18. > :27:28.of take on La La Land. The other day I was on roller -- roller-skates. I
:27:29. > :27:30.was carried around by young attractive men and I thought, I
:27:31. > :27:35.could get used to it. They were doing a parody of the La La Land
:27:36. > :27:39.opening and I think it will be really funny. I haven't seen the
:27:40. > :27:45.final edit but I nearly fall over so that's funny enough! Apart from
:27:46. > :27:50.wheeling around, do you think? I do a little... A little number, you are
:27:51. > :27:55.teasing us! Shall we find out what that little baby is doing here in
:27:56. > :27:58.the studio? The theme this year is make your last count. You've been
:27:59. > :28:00.sending your laughing videos into us all week. We have thoroughly enjoyed
:28:01. > :28:20.this! Laughter really is the best
:28:21. > :28:23.medicine, isn't it? We have invited three more laughing viewers in to
:28:24. > :28:28.introduce their own laughter. Let me introduce you all. How you doing? Hi
:28:29. > :28:34.cat, as mum, tellers little bit about Oscar. I think we have a
:28:35. > :28:40.little bit of a giggle, almost. Are we going to get a giggle? He is
:28:41. > :28:44.eight months. He's very easily amused. Good. He find quite a few
:28:45. > :28:48.things funny and I think you have a clip of him laughing in the bath. A
:28:49. > :28:55.beautiful boy, guess we have, laughing in the bath. Here we go.
:28:56. > :29:16.That hearty laugh came off the back of uh-oh. His word of the week is
:29:17. > :29:22.sockies, do you want to give it a go? Sockies. LAUGHTER
:29:23. > :29:26.I think I terrified him! Oscar, you play with that red nose, shove it in
:29:27. > :29:31.your mouth, put it on your nose, whatever. Thank you. Have a nice
:29:32. > :29:37.little cuddle. Chris, where you from? Sway in the new Forest. Can
:29:38. > :29:41.you introduce your clip please. Is very wet weekend in the two K with
:29:42. > :29:54.my mate Steve. APPLAUSE
:29:55. > :29:58.We are going to have to leave the gag there because they cannot say
:29:59. > :30:07.this on family telly, can we? Not really. Thank you Chris. Colin,
:30:08. > :30:09.where you from? I'm an apprentice carpenter from Southend. Very good,
:30:10. > :30:11.introduce your clip for us. This is me on a tea break being entertained
:30:12. > :30:24.by the lads. LAUGHTER
:30:25. > :30:28.Oh dear! APPLAUSE Thank you all very much indeed. More
:30:29. > :30:32.laughs through the course of the rest of the week. Women have been
:30:33. > :30:34.serving in the Fire Service the decades but it's only recently
:30:35. > :30:39.they've been given the top job. Lucy has been to meet a pioneering
:30:40. > :30:42.commissioner hoping to inspire a new generation of firefighters.
:30:43. > :30:51.At the start of this year Danny became the first woman in the London
:30:52. > :30:55.Fire Brigade's 151 year history to be appointed Fire Commissioner. One
:30:56. > :30:59.of my aims is to show people you can join as a firefighter, like I did,
:31:00. > :31:02.and come up through the ranks and you can run this brilliant
:31:03. > :31:07.organisation, and actually a woman can do as well as a man. As one of
:31:08. > :31:14.the highest ranked female officers in the country, Dani is in charge of
:31:15. > :31:17.102 fire stations and nearly 4700 uniformed firefighters. So what do
:31:18. > :31:21.people make of her appointment? Are you aware that Chief Commissioner
:31:22. > :31:28.for the whole of London Fire Service is a woman Marcelo Melo. No. What
:31:29. > :31:32.you think? Great. Think they can do the job as good as a man, it's a
:31:33. > :31:37.quality now. The world is changing, people should change with it. Dani
:31:38. > :31:41.may have public support now but her rise to the top hasn't been easy.
:31:42. > :31:44.I'm here to meet her at Lewisham Fire Station, where she became the
:31:45. > :31:50.first woman ever make station officer.
:31:51. > :31:55.this is about the teamwork aspects of everyone here knows this bit of a
:31:56. > :31:59.job and understand what everyone else is doing and can do all of it.
:32:00. > :32:03.When she began her career 30 years ago attitudes in the service were
:32:04. > :32:07.very different. It may be quite sad because I went to the first station
:32:08. > :32:10.and three of the guys put in to transfer before I got there because
:32:11. > :32:13.they didn't want to work with a woman and I was surprised people
:32:14. > :32:19.didn't accept someone is just being a firefighter because I had done the
:32:20. > :32:22.same training. There were other more practical challenges, Danny shows me
:32:23. > :32:27.the station's sleeping quarters. When I joined it was one big
:32:28. > :32:30.dormitory. Mine wasn't like this with lockers, it was a huge room
:32:31. > :32:35.with pull-down bed is. You were in there with the guys? There was ten
:32:36. > :32:39.guys in the dormitory and me. Throughout the 80s only 60 women
:32:40. > :32:48.joined the brigade, today there are 324. Now we've got about 7% of the
:32:49. > :32:54.workforce who are women. The female facilities are also
:32:55. > :32:57.improving. So, this is the women's dormitory so we obviously now have
:32:58. > :33:04.segregated sleeping areas. Every time we build a new fire station now
:33:05. > :33:08.we plan to have it really segregated so they can sleep in separate areas.
:33:09. > :33:12.This is nowhere near the height of your ambition. This is nowhere near
:33:13. > :33:16.but we want there to be more women firefighters so we need to make sure
:33:17. > :33:18.the uniform is right, the accommodation is right and the
:33:19. > :33:23.workplace is right so that very important. She has big plans for the
:33:24. > :33:27.future of the brigade and it seems those working beneath her are in
:33:28. > :33:30.full support. What is it like having a female boss? It is no different to
:33:31. > :33:35.having a male boss but it's good for the progression of the brigade. If
:33:36. > :33:39.you think how high she has got and the experience she has got to get
:33:40. > :33:42.where she is today and she is so approachable. She is warm, friendly
:33:43. > :33:49.and caring. She's an inspiration, someone to look up to. But sadly
:33:50. > :33:53.even today Dany says not everyone has been quite so supportive. On my
:33:54. > :33:56.promotion there was the inevitable stuff like you were always going to
:33:57. > :33:59.get the job because you were the woman on the panel and its political
:34:00. > :34:03.correctness gone mad and then there are a lot of people saying, are you
:34:04. > :34:07.really capable? Lots of it is retired firefighters from years gone
:34:08. > :34:10.by because it was very different in their day. It's not just about
:34:11. > :34:14.fighting fires, the role has changed from firefighters from the community
:34:15. > :34:17.engagement to the rescue side. That's the brilliant thing about the
:34:18. > :34:23.role of a firefighter, you never know when, what your day will hold.
:34:24. > :34:26.What is your goal for women in the Fire Service, 50-50 split? That
:34:27. > :34:31.would be brilliant because that is what the population of London looks
:34:32. > :34:34.like and I will be happy when we are truly a workforce where anyone can
:34:35. > :34:37.join and there are no barriers and people can come to work and be
:34:38. > :34:42.themselves and be the very best they can be for protecting London. That's
:34:43. > :34:47.why today Dany is meeting with some young cadets to help challenge
:34:48. > :34:51.stereotypes and inspire future firefighters. What advice would you
:34:52. > :34:54.give to a young female who wants to join the fire brigade? The first
:34:55. > :34:58.step is joining your local cadet scheme and we are hoping to get far
:34:59. > :35:02.more cadet scheme is running across London. Do you believe that fire
:35:03. > :35:05.cadets has encouraged more girls to join the Fire Service? I hope so and
:35:06. > :35:09.looking at you around here I want that to be the case and I try and
:35:10. > :35:13.get a lot of cadet things because I want to say all of the cadets,
:35:14. > :35:16.especially to some of the girls, I think it is the best job in the
:35:17. > :35:19.world and it has given me some of the most fantastic opportunities. If
:35:20. > :35:23.you can go to work and go home that day knowing you have saved someone's
:35:24. > :35:28.life there is no better feeling, you cannot buy that feeling.
:35:29. > :35:31.What a great spokesperson. Absolutely. Firefighters Julie,
:35:32. > :35:38.Nikki and Jena have joined us, thank you for coming in. Julie, this was a
:35:39. > :35:44.second career for you, wasn't it? I joined the Fire Service to work for
:35:45. > :35:45.the media team 15 years ago and seeing operational female
:35:46. > :35:52.firefighters really inspired me and I used to look at them and say I
:35:53. > :35:55.could do that and I am a firefighter now, White watch. How would you
:35:56. > :36:01.describe being on the front line when you are in the heat of it? My
:36:02. > :36:07.watch? Yes. Really supportive, it sounds cliched but we are a family
:36:08. > :36:12.and we support each other and I love it. Nicky, you've got two jobs,
:36:13. > :36:17.haven't you? Yes, my day job is a hairdresser and when I'm not in the
:36:18. > :36:22.salon I'm on call in the community in Lindenhurst. It is a contrast of
:36:23. > :36:26.the two but I absolutely love both, luckily. A real mix, and what did
:36:27. > :36:30.your family think of that mix? I think my mum was worried to start
:36:31. > :36:35.off with but I said to her I wouldn't be put in a situation where
:36:36. > :36:40.they thought it was going to be risky. I know that's part of the
:36:41. > :36:46.job, but not to worry. They have been so supportive and so proud.
:36:47. > :36:49.Jena, Dany such an inspiration and hearing her talk and all of the
:36:50. > :36:53.generations that will be inspired by her. She has always been an
:36:54. > :36:57.inspiration for me when I joined 15 years ago, I joined the women in the
:36:58. > :37:01.Fire Service network and she has was been at the end of the phone when
:37:02. > :37:05.you have needed a bit of advice, a bit of mental ring, she has always
:37:06. > :37:10.been there. I am sure they will be lots of budding firefighters
:37:11. > :37:18.watching that. -- mentoring. I'm sure you will be excited about this,
:37:19. > :37:20.James will be performing live tonight, you'd better get warmed up
:37:21. > :37:23.because it's four minutes away. Carrie Grant has met up with another
:37:24. > :37:27.hit maker to discover how she made her dreams come true. 25 years ago
:37:28. > :37:31.three ambitious young people right at the very start of their careers
:37:32. > :37:34.came together at just the right time. Daring to dream they could
:37:35. > :37:39.make it big in the music industry they wrote and recorded a song about
:37:40. > :37:44.just that. The end result became an anthem for the 90s.
:37:45. > :37:48.# Dreams can come true # The singer Gabrielle grew up in
:37:49. > :37:51.south London with a passion for music but little self-confidence
:37:52. > :37:55.having been bullied at school because of a problem with one eye.
:37:56. > :37:59.When I was younger it wouldn't open because the eye muscle was kind of
:38:00. > :38:04.dead so it would wink on its own and I'd go to school and I would have
:38:05. > :38:09.girls being really which she saying, why are you winking at me? Strangers
:38:10. > :38:16.would come up to you and ask what is wrong with you I? But encouraged by
:38:17. > :38:18.an endless teacher Gabrielle wrote about her experiences. It's because
:38:19. > :38:23.of her I enjoyed writing poems I later turned into songs. Although I
:38:24. > :38:29.didn't have the confidence I have and continue to have that love of
:38:30. > :38:32.music and performing. Working in a club singing covers Gabrielle
:38:33. > :38:41.decided to try and record one of her own songs. Dany came to my little
:38:42. > :38:46.studio -- Gabrielle. We recorded a demo. Back then music producer Tim
:38:47. > :38:51.Lawes was working out of a shed making dance records. As soon as she
:38:52. > :38:55.started singing I just thought wow. Tim liked my voice and somehow ended
:38:56. > :38:58.up getting a call-back that he wanted to work with me. So do you
:38:59. > :39:03.want to hear the original demo we made?
:39:04. > :39:10.I sound really young. I had various backing tracks and this particular
:39:11. > :39:15.one stood out to me as may be the one she could collaborate with me
:39:16. > :39:20.on. I went home and went into the book I had filled with lyrics. She
:39:21. > :39:24.came back with what I thought was a poem at that stage and we started
:39:25. > :39:34.playing with a few melodic ideas, she sang it, and it was born really.
:39:35. > :39:42.It was about just wanting your dreams and desires to come true. It
:39:43. > :39:46.was lovely to hear that back. In the early 90s he was a young talent
:39:47. > :39:51.scout looking for the next big thing and then he heard the demo of
:39:52. > :39:56.Dreams. I'm absolutely gobsmacked, it was really enchanting, a really
:39:57. > :40:00.distinctive voice and a perfect song and I just kept playing it over and
:40:01. > :40:06.over again. I met up with her, I got her number, it seemed simple, I
:40:07. > :40:10.found her up and we agreed we would work together. It was such an
:40:11. > :40:12.amazing thing to go through because people believed in you even though
:40:13. > :40:16.you didn't believe in yourself. He signed
:40:17. > :40:27.he signed Gabrielle and Dreams was released. The stroke of genius was
:40:28. > :40:31.Gabrielle's eye patch. I put it on and felt like this different person,
:40:32. > :40:33.I felt like I could go into character. That work because
:40:34. > :40:37.everyone always talked about the song with the girl with the eye
:40:38. > :40:40.patch. The success of Dreams was the turning point of all of their
:40:41. > :40:45.careers and it was the highest chart debut by a female artist and
:40:46. > :40:48.Gabrielle went on to become a multi-award-winning
:40:49. > :40:51.singer-songwriter. Gabrielle wasn't writing about things in the
:40:52. > :40:57.abstract, she was writing about her and what makes pop music work. He is
:40:58. > :41:00.now President of Columbia records and Tim is a successful record
:41:01. > :41:09.producer who's worked with artists like Lighthouse Family. Today that
:41:10. > :41:15.he and Gabrielle outperforming the track the first time writing it.
:41:16. > :41:21.Dreams really set up my career for me and I will be forever thankful.
:41:22. > :41:27.What I love is how much of a narrative to both Gabrielle's life
:41:28. > :41:33.and to my life the song has. It did what it said on the tin.
:41:34. > :41:40.# Dreams can come true # You know you've got to have hope #
:41:41. > :41:44.Having so many insecurities, having the idea I was considered a nobody,
:41:45. > :41:50.to have that success, it was the most amazing thing, just, you know,
:41:51. > :42:01.that feeling, vindication. # Dreams can come true #
:42:02. > :42:07.You were doing a bit of routine. Joel, thank you, nice to see you.
:42:08. > :42:11.Good luck with Comic Relief. Friday night, 7pm, BBC One. We will be here
:42:12. > :42:16.tomorrow talking to Arlene Phillips and Maureen Lipman. Now to sing is
:42:17. > :42:18.out with Bartender from his new album out on Friday, its James
:42:19. > :42:21.Blunt. APPLAUSE
:42:22. > :42:26.# And I wonder what he said because she's crying
:42:27. > :42:32.# When they're heading from the whiskey and the wine
:42:33. > :42:35.# I know that I have said things I regret when I'm sober
:42:36. > :42:38.# Cause we always hurt the ones we love the most
:42:39. > :42:42.# I messed up and I know it if I hurt you girl I'm sorry
:42:43. > :42:44.# But it's good to see the girl I used to know
:42:45. > :42:48.# Maybe we can stick to holding hands
:42:49. > :42:54.# If we keep on drinking we're gon' fall back in love
:42:55. > :43:02.# We must not be thinking 'cause we can't get enough
:43:03. > :43:23.# We can talk about a future, we don't wanna reminisce
:43:24. > :43:26.# Because we both know it was me who got it wrong
:43:27. > :43:31.# Baby listen now, they're playing our song
:43:32. > :43:35.# Maybe we can stick to holding hands
:43:36. > :43:44.# If we keep on drinking we're gon' fall back in love
:43:45. > :43:54.# We must not be thinking 'cause we can't get enough
:43:55. > :44:17.# And it's closing time, back to yours or mine?
:44:18. > :44:26.# After all this time, you still blow my mind
:44:27. > :44:29.# If we keep on drinking we're gon' fall back in love
:44:30. > :45:07.# We must not be thinking 'cause we can't get enough
:45:08. > :45:11.Hello, I'm Sarah Campbell with your 90 second update.