22/04/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show - with Alex Jones,

And from Red Dwarf via radio 6 Music, Craig Charles.

Joining us on the sofa tonight to talk about new film

"Golden Years", Nick Knowles, Una Stubbs and Phil Davis.

Looking forward to hearing all about the new film. With the sad news

about Prince yesterday, I have to ask you, as somebody who lives and

breathes his type of music, how would you sum his up loss? It is

terrible, isn't it? No other musician other than David Bowie

could have elicited this outpouring of grief. He danced like Michael

Jackson, he could play guitar like Hendrix, great all-rounder. Terrible

loss. If you could describe him in three words? Taste maker,

trendsetter, iconoclast. Good words. See if you can get one into

conversation tomorrow. I'll need a dictionary first. Here is how other

people reacted when we asked them to sum up Prince in just three words.

He was an amalgamation of all the greatest musicians you could imagine

bundled into one. Guitarists who are revered say he is a better

guitarist. Singers who are revered say he is a better singer than they

are. # Stormy night

# No love, no hope in sight. My life soundtrack. He led art but in pop

music. Sassy, strong, sexy. The most amazing live performer I've ever

seen. # Extra time and your kiss.

# Six o'clock already, I was just in the middle of a dream. If you look

beyond the persona, the trousers and frilly shirts, it came down to just

one thing: music. # Just another manic Monday. This

guy was upstairs playing of funk and soul, turns out it was Prince. He

was so real. He was never afraid to be himself. Just a complete enigma.

# Nothing compares two U. Prints just revelled in difference. I think

that is Prince's greatest gift to the world. Different is good.

# Sometimes it snows in April # Sometimes I feel so bad

# So bad # Sometimes I wish that life was

never-ending # But all good things, they say,

never last #.

Well, we have lost very different artists this week.

Victoria Wood, very familiar and comforting but with

a wicked streak, and Prince, completely unfamiliar,

People react to different deaths in different ways of course.

You had worked with Victoria, it must have been a shock. It was a

shock. She is really young for nowadays standards. But I loved

working with her. And she was quite shy. But she knew how she wanted her

work to be played and she was quite strong about that, so you've learnt

a lot from her. We learned you were also a Prince fan? Oh, I loved him.

Especially his dancing. Incredible, incredible. What a loss. It a

strange time. They seem to be dropping all over the place, these

great artists. Alan Rickman, David Bowie. He was slightly bonkers. It

is not a thing to say when somebody has passed away but I loved the way

he was bonkers. Out-of-the-box, and an electric performer. Just like all

the ones that have gone recently are iconic and unique, really. In the

case of Prince, Victoria, just so young, seems incredibly young. Yeah.

Victoria, interesting, she really took joy from just everyday people.

All her writing was about the fund. The humdrum, wasn't it? Fun to be

found in the humdrum. I learned a lot watching her in terms of writing

as well, so a great loss stop. We have two enjoy everybody we have got

because you just don't know. We will be hearing a rare Prince

performance. At the end of the show. Now tonight we launch a brand

new series of food films fronted Who has taken on a pretty epic

challenge and for this one, I am on a journey. Mile by my and

letter by letter I am going on an alphabetical odyssey seeking out the

UK's best food. And you are going to be my guide, from Birmingham's balti

to Cornwall's clotted cream. I'll be visiting the places you tell me are

home to our finest cuisine. I'm starting with the letter A and the

Scottish County of Angus. I've come to see farmer Geordie Sutil who has

been producing pure bred Aberdeen Angus piece here for 20 years. These

are designed to eat grass. And the meat then is a lot more succulent.

And not so intense as grain fed beef. The meat is a healthy, natural

product. With the weather so bleak I can't wait to get into the warmth of

the kitchen. After seeing your wonderful cattle outside, for me

it's all about the beef. Well, here's some very lovely brisket.

Let's see what you can do with that. This is the way to have top quality

beef on a budget. I cut like brisket, fairly inexpensive, and it

is wonderful. In go garlic, onions, star anise. My Scottish sauce is

made from whiskey and Scottish heather honey. Into the oven for

four hours. While we wait, Geordie shows me just how far back he can

trace the heritage of the cattle. This is. Both Aberdeen Angus books

tracing all the animals on our form. This is like the equivalent of a

family tree? That's exactly what it is. Volume one is 1857. Is that

right? Old Jock. He is number one in the book. The grand daddy of them

all. In the rain, Geordie explains that over the years crossbreeding

became common to feed our growing appetite for beef with the coveted

Aberdeen Angus label. Keith bearing the title today can be as little as

25% Aberdeen Angus. Geordie has made it his life 's work to restore the

original 100% pure bloodline. 20 years ago I bought the first pure

native animal and I just realised what a treasure they were. So I set

out to gather up all the existing families with no imported

bloodlines. We now have them all here. And in 2012 we got them off

the rare breeds critically endangered list. That was because

they were literally becoming extinct? Borderline extinct, yes.

They were literally down to the last handful of cattle left. The food is

ready. Time for Geordie and his wife Julia to try my first alphabet dish.

Tucked in and see if I've improved your beef or made it worse. So, what

do you think? It's absolutely tremendous. I thought it was going

to be fairly tough but far from it. Have I kept the Scottish theme? You

have and it is subtle. Not a heavy sauce, lovely place, attractive and

absolutely delicious. I call that a success. Geordie, thank you very,

very much indeed for being the first stop on my alphabetical odyssey.

Thank you for a wonderful meal. Here's a little reminder of your

time in Angus. As I leave Angus I can tick off the letter A. So where

next? Will it be Bradford, Birmingham, Belfast or Bangor? Get

in touch with your suggestions and together we will continue to build

my a to Z of the UK's best food. And if you have any suggestions

of where to send him next please do What I found comforting was the

genealogy, in these days of carbon footprints and pre-packaged food,

you can catch the genealogy of the state. All the way back to Jock stop

you can catch the genealogy of the balti? I turned the can for months

ago, I don't eat butter any more. You've changed so much since we saw

you, film writer, the can. It was a subconscious thing kicking in. Phil

Davies, you've acted in campus films and TV shows.

From Quadrophenia to Vera Drake and more recently

What was your first reaction when you heard Nick Knowles had

written a film and wanted you to be in it?

Well, let me be honest. I saw Nick Knowles, I thought, I don't know

him. I agreed to do it and we were filming and there was this bloke on

sat, I thought, I know him from somewhere. I said, have we met

before? I thought, oh yes, that's the guy. I can't say it was either

an incentive or a disincentive to appear in the film, I had absolutely

no idea, I had not made the connection with Nick Knowles off the

TV. I did not send the script out with the full CV of who I was

because they don't care. We just pinged the script out to people.

What's really nice is people took it on the script, they read it. Just on

its merits. On film sets you don't usually meet the writer, they keep

the writer away. This is the thing, I was talking to mum and I said Nick

Knowles is coming on, she said what for? I said he has written a film,

she said, don't be silly, it can't be the same Nick knows. So where did

the idea come from? All kinds of things. Me growing up, my aunts and

uncles, lots of cousins, weddings, we would turn up and I would watch

my uncles and aunts. Everybody's got a favourite uncle, aunt, grandad,

somebody with a twinkle in their eye who acted out. The Hatton Garden

robberies, I am here to say I am Basil, the one that got away. It is

important to say it was written before that. Seven years ago, from

writing to get the money and cast together. We had a fantastic time.

What is the premise of the film? Arthur and Martin are two old

pensioners, getting cheesed off at the way their pensions are being

treated, so they decide to have a bank robbery and get their money

back from the bank. Then they get the hang of the whole thing and they

want to move on. Then they hear their beloved social club is being

taken over by a supermarket. So they are determined to stop that as well,

and so it goes on and on. And they recruit their friends, that's where

we get involved. We go round very politely, without swearing, saying

please, thank you, and we rob a number of banks. OK then, let's have

a look at the trailer. Sort out this sorry mess. Special

forces. It's not just a club where people come to play bowls or bingo,

this is more than a social club, this is a lifeline for some people.

We can't let it be destroyed. Let's invite the gang back. We are in.

I've always wanted to play Robin Hood. There is a phenomenal cast.

Lots of great actors in this. How did you convince them all, then?

Obviously the strength of the script was there but there must have been

more to it? And Virginia came out of retirement. She hadn't made a film

for 17 years. Weirdly this month is the 50th anniversary of the royal

premiere of born free. She was a massive star then but had gone away

from it. John Miller, who co-wrote it with me, developed a relationship

with Bernard Hill, that's how that came about. I was basically driving

along the road, racking my brain of thinking I could get to play in the

film, and I had known in Virginia for 20 years and never asked her. I

rang her son and said, can I ask her? He said, what are you asking me

for, just ring her up. I centre the script and it went from there. We

got this amazing cast. It was a cast of players rather than anyone

superstar. Like an Ealing comedy. That was the thing. I think of this

as the rebirth of the Ealing comedy, it's got that same sort of gentle

humour, with a genuine message underneath stop blue it it is funny

but there is a vein of melancholy going through it. It is business

with comedy. So how long did it take to write the

script? Seven years ago, it was four days in a hotel in Bristol. It went

for 20 or 30 rewrites afterwards, but then we spent seven years

raising the money. There are people putting money into this, putting

their own investment in, so it is a proper independent movie, about ?3

million, and people seem to like it, it is going. 108 cinema as. You have

to ring up your Odeon and check, because there are only certain times

it is on, so people can see it. So, Golden Years is released next

Friday. And Nick made a cameo in his own film. You can see it if you are

quick. Did you see it? Did you see it? We

slowed it down, but you have to be really quick to see it. I was an

extra in the film Room With A View, and I was in that more than in my

own film! And Simon Callow is in it as well.

Well we've found a few unlikely celebrities popping up in cameo

roles so we want to see if you can spot them.

The first one is from the film Hook.

What do you think? Billy Connolly? It was in fact Glenn close with a

beard. It suits her! She went on to play in the Irish film, she played a

man in that. She did. The next cameo is from

old classic Life of Brian. Who did you spot there? Handmade

films? George Harrison! APPLAUSE

Yes, aeroplanes being the clue. Richard Branson. He lent them one of

his aeroplanes, and got in the film. That is what we need to do next.

Time for one more - who has a cameo in this clip

That is a bit of a tough one. Was it one of the zombies? Yes, right in

the back of the shot. It is actually Chris Martin from Coldplay. You can

see him if you look closely. I think you did a song on the move a as

well. Very similar danced of the one at

the Super Bowl this year. He is good friends of Simon Pegg.

Now this weekend marks the start of Shakespeare 400

and loads of programmes on the BBC and elsewhere will be celebrating

We sent Gyles to meet some people who have even more reason

The UK's greatest literary export wrote 37 plays, and today they are

more popular than ever. But what about the namesakes? To any of

today's Shakespeare's have any literary talents? I am William

Shakespeare and I failed English twice. I am William Shakespeare and

I have never seen any of his plays. There are over 20 William

Shakespeares on the electoral register, so what was it like

growing up with a famous name? I found I was a little different

school. People will smirk when I asked my name and I told them, I was

known to the teachers because they'll remember me. Why did your

parents could you William should expect? To make sure I grew up with

a sense of humour, I think. It has been more of a hindrance than a

help. Try booking a bed-and-breakfast with my name! And

your son, you have handed on the name? Absolutely not. We called him

Thomas so he wouldn't have to put up with the jibes I was used to. I

think we can play around, just so that I can say, to tee, or not to

tee. Some of today's most popular phrases

were made popular by the great bard. The Bodleian library in Oxford has

one of only 13 surviving sonnets of his. Scholar Emma Smith believes

people underestimate the impact Shakespeare's writing has had an

needless language. What he does do is put words together in these

phrases and sentences that we are still using. Greek to me, neither

borrower or a lender be, in my minds eye. Shakespeare composed 154

sonnets in all, and many are as popular today as they were in the

17th century. What are they about? Love, but not love in a Valentines

sense, it includes hate, self-doubt, jealousy, all kinds of other quite

hard and bitter emotions. What is the number one hit? Shall I compare

the two summers day? Sonnet 18 is the nation's favoured, so to mark

the 400th anniversary of his death, the One Show has arranged a special

poetry performance by Williams around the UK who all share the

surname. Shall I can barely to a summer's

day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the

Darling buds of May, and summer's lease have all too short a date.

Some time to hop, the eye of heaven shines, and often the old conflicts

and dimmed, and every fare from fair, sometime declines, our chance

and nature's changing course on dimmed. The eternal summer shall not

fade, nor lose possession of how fair thou art, nor shall death brag

thou art in its shade, when in eternal lines to time by growers to,

so long as men can breathe and eyes can see, so long as this and this

gives life to the. Lovely idea! Thank you so much to

Gyles, and of course to William, William, William, William and

William. And for more on the BBC's Shakespeare coverage, have a look on

the website. Now, the Globe Theatre have formed 3710 minute films of the

37 plays, and they are showing them on Saturday and Sunday, tomorrow and

Sunday, along the South bank and 37 screens on a loop. They are

absolutely free, you can walk from Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge

and see them all. There is a fantastic cast, James Norton, loads

of people. I am in one myself, so do go down to the south bank tomorrow

and have a look. It's free! I will be going, definitely. William

Shakespeare's not the only one with a namesake. We have a fellow Phil

Davies in the audience. But which of these do you think he is? Which one

is it? I think he has already given himself away! He is excited. Do you

have an E in your surname? No, there is no E. He looks like a Phil Davis.

And we have scoured the entire UK, and found the only other Una Stubbs,

she is in our audience, and can you guess which of these ladies she is.

Is it the lady in the front in the black and white dress? It is indeed!

Step forward for us. Is she Australian? No, she is English.

Thank you so much for popping in. We did find a Nick Knowles, but sadly

he wasn't able to make it. That doesn't surprise me, he is probably

try to keep a low profile! A nightmare to have the same name as

someone famous. We have found an Alex Jones. Is it a boy? Where is

he? We will have to do it very quickly. There he is on the right!

They are both Alex Jones! I'll be back on Monday

with Matt, when we'll be joined by two of the stars

of Captain America: Civil War. Look out for a special film

narrated by Trevor Nelson celebrating Prince

on BBC 4 tonight at ten. tribute on my Radio 2 show

between ten and midnight tomorrow. Here is Prince now with Rosie Gaines

performing one of his # It's been seven

hours and fifteen days # I go out every night

and sleep all day # Since you been gone

I can do whatever I want # I can eat my dinner

in a fancy restaurant # But nothing, I said nothing can

take away these blues # It's been so lonely

without you here # Nothing can stop these

lonely tears from falling # Tell me, baby,

where did I go wrong # I can put my arms

around every boy I see # I went to the doctor

and guess what he told me # He said, "Rosie, you better try

to have fun no matter what you do."