22/04/2013 The One Show

It must be such a job to keep a straight face though. Always.

Have you got a trick, do you cross your toes or something to stop

something going wrong? It's the degree of seriousness you give to

it. Actually, I've been asked to do most of the comedy I do, so that's

a trick and a secret in itself. it hard because you have worked

quite a bit? Giro Juan, like me, is serious about comedy. It's a

serious business. Yes, another trick you have got is a moustache

you have had for many years, now you are sporting a beard? There was

a glorious few months with nothing, a new but original me. Did you find

that liberating? David's character in The Wright Way, he plays a

safety officer. He makes sure kids wear goggles while playing conkers.

Is that an unfair stereotype? If you work in health and safety and

have a risk-taking side, then send in a picture of you doing something

off the scale to the normal address. Health and safety is anybody's

responsibility! So please take care. We have an intriguing mystery for

you. The body of a young man is discovered in the streets of West

London with no obvious clues as to how it got there. At about 7. 45pm.

I heard a thud and thought nothing of it. I went back to sleep. Then I

remember my brother saying, Clare, you have to wake up. There is a man

in the street. He is dead. He was a black guy, wearing a pair of

sneakers and jeans. We thought he had been murdered then. This was the

shock. His body twisted. To me it was obvious, really. The way it

looked. Police merge? We are in Portman Avenue in Mortlake. We have

come across what looks like a dead body. It may be a hoax, but we

thought we should let you know. Where do you think this is? It is

outside number... 22. I have seen people murdered in the street

before. People stabbed and shot, but this man looked like he had been hit

hard. I thought that this was a road traffic accident, but it was a quiet

street. Not a busy street. To be hit like that, he had to go over

someone's bonnet, over the roof. . What started out as a crime scene it

looked like the man had been murdered. I noticed that they kept

looking at the sky as the planes were coming over. In bed, the planes

are close enough to see the landing gear being lowered. To me it was

obvious. It looked like he had fallen from a very long way. There

are so many other things going through your mind. You don't want to

miss, that you sometimes almost miss the obvious. The man had tissue in

his ears, and it indicated that he had fallen from an aircraft. He had

no identity, documents on him. Nothing to identify him as a person.

His name, address, or even his country of origin. The flight was

from Angola. He had Angolan and Botswanian currency in the pocket

but the phone was from a provider called Air Tel, but pointing to

Africa. It has affected me long-term. I have had bad dreams

about it ever since. Ever time a plane comes over now I do get

nervous. When I see the undercarriage coming down, I think

is it going to happen again. It is a body found in a street,

unidentified, to let the relatives know what has happened, that is my

priority. Somewhere, a mother, father, brother, sister, e.on

children, he was missing. There is a mother who wants to know what

happened to their son. What would be nice is if they found out where his

family is from and why he did it. I would be at rest if I knew that the

man had a burial. He landed right on the pavement. He did not hit a car,

a roof. He landed right on the pavement. As though X marked the

spot and there he laid. I think it is an unbelievable story to have

featured on the show? It is incredible. Rob Walker, you are

following the story for a BBC documentary. You have an update

since that was filmed? That's right. We saw in the film that this is a

man who stole away on the flight. What we know is that he was from

Mozart. The police believe he is 30-year-old, his name is Jose

Acasuso, but we don't know his family. They have not come forward.

Unless the family are found, he will be buried in the country with out

the family present. We don't know if they know what happened. How have

they found out the information that you know in the update? They had a

few clues in the beginning. There was a clue, a SIM card tucked in his

trousers. The police started to call the numbers on the SIM card. They

got nowhere. Then one number. No-one picked up. Finally, someone called

back, the detective. To say you had been calling me. What was it about.

It turned out it was his employer. She was then able to identify him.

The first she said was that she thought she may know who he was. She

said that straight away? Yes. So, so far his family have not been found.

Let's hope that they find them. It is hard to imagine, how desperate

somebody must feel before trying a stunt like this? The chances of

survival are slim. We know from the text messages he sent. That he said

he wanted to get to Europe to find a better life. What we don't know is

why he thought he could survive doing that. . There have been cases

in the past where people have done this. They have been told by

traffickers, that there is a way into the plane. If they get into the

wheel arch that they can find their way into the plane. A few cases

where people have paid money to get them into that position, but in this

case we don't know why. There is no oxygen. Temperatures down to minus

50 Celsius? Yes. There are a documented of certain cases, about a

quarter of those who try it survive, but there are so many things that

can happen. You can be crushed by the wheels. Or the pressure

dropping, the oxygen becoming less. If the wheels drop you can fall out.

Are the survivors all of the lower altitude? Yes, in the cases we know

that they survive, it is because it is short hall or lower altitude. A

man came from veena to London. There was bad weather. The plane flew low,

so he survived. It was warmer. On a long haul flight, the chances are

slim. Thank you very much. I am doing a radio document for BBC World

Service, we will finish the documentary if hopefully we can find

his family. Back in the '70s, a small record shop was the hub of the

Belfast alternative music scene. A future film about the man behind the

success has proven to be a big hit. Andy Kershaw caught up with the shop

as it was about to reopen. When it comes to punk, New York has the

haircuts, London has the trousers but Belfast has the reason! 19-76,

one of the most violent periods of Northern Ireland's troubles. It made

Belfast the terrifying place, divided by religion and politics. A

veteran hippy decide decided to wreck lessless, some may say, to

open a small record store. He did it here on Great Victoria Street. It

was known as Bomb Alley. He called the shop Good Vibe rations. The

name, Good Vibe rations was not a reference to the Beach Boys but a

nod to the after shocks of the Belfast bombs. What did the shop

mean to Belfast people? I wanted to let the world know that there was

more going on in Belfast than just #3w078s and mrets. In Belfast, the

punk scene exploded on to the streets. It did not matter if your a

republican or a loyalistist, Catholic or a Protestant. If you had

green, orange or purple hair. As long as you were a music fan it what

fine. Terri was persuaded to visit the Harp Bar. To see a band called

Rudy. How different would music have been in Belfast would Terri Hooley.

We never drept we could put a record out. We put out a sing. Once Big

Time was out, everyone thought if they can do it, we can do it. The

Northern Irish punk precedent had been set. Terri signed another new

band, the back street kids of rock and roll, the John Prescott

undertones. What did this building mean? Without Terri, we would never

have made it. What was the memory of the day of the recording? Terri came

in with fish and chips and lemonade. That is my only memory of him! You

realised it was something special? Well, I didn't realise it was

special, but it was a great opportunity to make a record. What

was the reaction from the media, from the music industry? What

response did you get? We went to London and we were told that Teenage

Kicks was the worst record that they had heard. I was devastated. So,

Terri, you dropped a few copis off at Radio 1 for the great man. I

think it was on a Monday night. He played the record, we were so

delighted. Then unbelievably, he played it for a second time. Terri

sold teej Kicks for �400. Over the years, the Good Vibe rations shop,

has shut done a staggering ten times. Now it is about to open its

doors once again, for the 11th time! At the age of 64, Terri's passion

for music is as strong as ever. People are proud of what the label

did in the shop. Everyone has a story to tell. Some met their wives

in the record shop and got married. The shop is not a record shop. It is

not a record label it is a way of life. It will kill me or it will

keep me alive! It looks like music in Belfast will be alive and kicking

as long as TerriHooley will be with if you were a punk or a rock fan.

We would have known more when we found this photo!

You are in Dr Who there, aren't you? I was taking over a planet by

cloning myself! Of course you were! As one is woed to do. But I get

more mail from that one episode, it's a four-episode series, than

anything else. I was in it for 35 seconds.

You were one of my clones. Since then, conservationists and

developers will often argue whether an old building should be

demolished in the name of progress or kept intact. There is another

way, as Arthur explains. # Just an illusion... # Facades on

TV and film sets create an illusion that something is real when it

isn't. It would seem silly in the real

world wouldn't it? Actually, no. There is an architectural

phenomenon known as facadism. Architects can build an entirely

new inside of a building behind the actual building. It started in the

70s when building technology made it possible. Facades are common in

many UK cities. A striking example is The Lloyds Building in the City

of London built in 19876. The architect chose to retain the

original 1920s facade but juxtapose more modernist steel and glass --

1986. It's won numerous awards, but not everyone is a fan of this

blending of old and new. It's rather like a collage where they've

stuck a bit of facade next to this modern building. It's not really a

part of the building itself, it's a memory of what was there before. I

think there are some facades which need to be retained but I think we

do keep too many of them just because people are afraid of the

new buildings that might go in their place. The thing that worries

me about facade retention is where you get this facade which is

totally unrelated to what is behind. An infamous example of what its

opponents dislike about facadism can be found in historic

Spitalfields in East London. Conservationist and historian Dan

Cruickshank is unimpressed. It's daft and I'm cynical about facade

retention. It's a screen hiding the duller and modern building behind

there. There is rudimentary metal bars which look ghastly. There are

whole histories. Keeping a facade cannot be in keeping with proper

up-to-date conservation. You are not a facade-ist, but what about

this, the Hearse building in New York? Lauded as a dramatic example

of fusing the modern with the historic. I rest my case on that.

It's a vast contradictory erection arising out of a beautiful 20th

century building, turning it into theatre. This is a tragedy.

Facadism has its nisier, but I'm told there's one building that's

won over conservationists. The Unilever headquarters in London's

won awards for its imaginative use of facade retention. John Bushell

is the architect responsible. What was your original brief for

this build something Unilever wanted to see whether they could

both keep their location and their wonderful heritage in terms of this

facade but also have a modern, invigorating work place that was

this generation's contribution to the site. In the end, we took the

facade back to as close as possible to 1931.

The real transformation was inside. Gosh. This is a classic exterior

which is preserved and a modern space is created inside. The best

of both worlds. The building, as we found it, was dark and gloomy. It

was a maize on the ground floor. It felt like a Government building. We

transformed it. We brought a lot of light in. You can see and be seen

and feel like one community within the building. One of the ways this

was achieved was to open up the back of the building. In opening

out the centre of the building, I'm opening out the back and bringing

London into the building. We have discovered if we knock down large

parts of cities and everything is new, that we lose layers of

historical richness and juxtaposition. Whatever we think of

it, facadism is shaping the city landscapes. I love FA sashedism. Or

maybe that's just a front! -- facadism. One thing's for sure,

once you demolish an historic building, it's gone forever.

Facadism! Where do you stand, David? I love the juxtaposition of

old and new if it's clever. I think so, if they do it well.

There were some examples in that film I wasn't keen on.

The last was good. I'm sure some of those building sites would have

been a nightmare or a heaven even for a Gerald Wright in the new BBC

comedy. So who is he and what is it all about? He's a man of great duty

and passion, Gerald, he loves his job and runs an eccentric health

and safety unit in the town Council of Basilricky. Let's see Gerald

going about his business. Here he We've all been there, David.

have. The exasperation!I know those taps so well, you just can't

get them on. I'm becoming the character, but you can't get the

water out. I know! Doing with with your head is not

very health and safety. I know. Health and safety is rich pickings

really for comedy, isn't it? Absolutely. We are all as peeved as

each other by health and safety and that obsessive adherence to what is

healthy and safe. Is it challenging for you in those pre-recorded bits

that aren't in front of an audience because nobody's laughing but your

timing is absolutely spot on there? I think in the pre-records, you

have to ignore the concept of the audience and Leigh it to the editor

because you have to believe the timing that you are doing the

actual physical comedy and then assume that it will fit. It will

work, yes. The laughter filters over the next moment or the next

line if it involves dialogue. are also playing another pretty

physical character in the form of King Lear in Bath in July? I am,

hence the beard. Yes. It's completely different. It's getting

grey which is school. You are flattered to be playing King Lear,

because it's often seen as an older man's role, is it not? It is, but I

think all the King Lear's who're the best ones are younger. I'm not

arrogant about this role, it's impossible to get right I think,

but I think the reason to be younger is the energy of some of

the scenes of when he's really insane, you know. So you haven't

started rehearsing yet? No, there's another six weeks of growth.

will be down here by then. Yes. It's set in the 60s, or

there's a 60s twist to it? Yes, there is. Because we were looking

for many King Lear's and we wanted to make an interesting resonance

for the audience. There are very few patriarchal underworlds around,

but there was that underworld in London that existed in the 60s and

that could be quite interesting thing. Trying to make a living from

the sea without harming the local wildlife in the process has always

been a challenge. It's one that conservationists and

fishermen are struggling with in Argyll on the West Coast of

Scotland, as Miranda's been finding out.

The wild lochs and rivers of Scotland. Home of the world famous

Atlantic salmon. As well as an important species of

wildlife, Scotland's salmon is a healthy, affordable food, popular

the world over. But it's not just human who is love

the taste of fresh salmon. One of Scotland's other great wildlife

attractions has a keen interest in them as well. Seals. An adult seal

eats around five kilograms of fish a day and that's what's brought

them into a head-on conflict with humans.

Between them, anglers, fishermen and commercial fish farms shoot

hundreds of seals off the Scottish coast each year to protect their

fish stocks. Someone who resorts to shooting is

Scottish netsman James Mackay. He catches wild salmon by placing nets

at river mouths, but it's a disaster for him if a seal gets

into the nets. It's like a fox getting into a chicken coup. They

would destroy all the fish. They would maybe eat one or two or maul

them. Often this results in the entire catch being ruined. The seal

stresses the fish so much that the fish become of a poorer quality,

they become soft and don't have the same firmness about them.

Two years ago, the Scottish Government passed a law to try and

control the number of seals being shot.

Anyone killing one must hold a licence and only kill as a last

resort. James stresses he shoots only when there really is no other

option. We are not cruel people. We like nature, we are not part of

cruelty. We like the ocean and the birds and things like that. We are

not all out to kill, kill, kill, we just want to protect our living.

There are many who don't want to see any seals shot and feel the law

isn't being enforced properly. David Ainsley worries that salmon

farming in the same area have ago an adverse effect on the wildlife.

We run a wildlife tourism business, so we are taking people to see

seals, dolphins and porpoise and all are affected, unnecessarily, by

the way salmon farmers currently operate.

He wants to see a change in working practices which he claims would

prevent the need to shoot. The answer is simply to do what is

already happening in Canada and very effective at solving the

problem. Use two nets, a double layer of net. The nets are kept

tensioned and separated so that the seals can't get close to the salmon

and you don't have a problem. Any farm which is using a single net

and shooting seals is not shooting seals as a last resort, they are

shooting them because single nets are cheaper than double nets and

they don't want to spend the money. This accusation is denied by

technical director Dr John Webster from the Scottish salmon Producers'

Organisation. He says the doubling of nets would slow the water

current down and reduce oxygen to the fish and he stresses that they

are following the law. The first line of defence is to prevent the

seal get near the salmon in the first place. Only when that doesn't

work do they resort the shooting. He says the damage caused by seals

is devastating. A single seal reaching a salmon pen could take

hundreds, even thousands of salmon in a single sitting. It's not going

to eat them all though? They tend to take a single bite out of the

throat and move on to the next fish. The effect on fish welfare is

extraordinarily bad and the effect on the well-being of the people

whose job it is to make sure the fish are in good order is

catastrophic when this happens. We are moving on and developing new

technology and approaches which we hope in the very near future will

eliminate the need to shoot seals at all. Until the day seals and

salmon can be kept apart more effectively, it appears that seals

will continue to be shot. It's an example of the ever growing

conflict between food production and wildlife conservation.

It's difficult. Thank you. In honour of your character, we asked

for health and safety officers doing extreme things. Paul rarri,

the health and safety emergency planner ice climbing in New Zealand

and not wearing a helmet. This is Jane, a health and safety manager,

part of the British gliding team. Look at the fastest woman in the