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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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And Matt Baker. Sometimes our strawberries can be lowbrow. But | :00:36. | :00:44. | |
tonight we're going high brow in a big way. We welcome the manner of | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
real culture, not to mention the man with the best hair on TV. It's | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
Melvyn Bragg. It looks great, even when it is on. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
I am joking! I want to check how highbrow you are. What was the last | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
thing you watched on TV? Chelsea against Munich. I am not a Chelsea | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
fan at all but I like our teams to win and it was the end of a fantasy | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
season in football. Goals in the last two seconds, I was enthralled. | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
It is like a drama with a satisfactory ending. We watched it | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
with no sound through a pub window. It wasn't very highbrow! | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Tonight we are going live to the Eurovision Song Contest. Is there | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
time in your cultural calendar for Eurovision? Yes. I want to see | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
Engelbert do his stuff without any question. I don't follow the | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
Eurovision Song Contest, O K, but from the very beginning, the South | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Bank Show brought into British arts programme pop music. Our first | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
programme, we had Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Dolly | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
Parton. Out of that came of it anything as good as what was coming | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
in. So I want to watch Eurovision to see Engelbert. Here is is the | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
very him, then Hump, in Azerbaijan. Hello, this is Engel but all the | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
way from Baku and Melvyn, I am bringing you some high culture all | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
the way from Azerbaijan. See you later! He is even reporting on the | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
One Show! Also on the show tonight, find out | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
what happened when our "Famous Five" friends who grew up in a | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Barnado's home together met up for the first time in 50 years. | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Get your hankies ready, it's going to get emotional. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
We all know that councils across the country are having to make | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
drastic cuts and local libraries are particularly in the firing line. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Some have managed to stay open through the dedication of | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
volunteers - but can this work for every library? | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
Anita Rani has been to find out. Libraries have always played a | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
really important role in my life. I love everything about them, that | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
warm feeling, the distinctive musty smell and the fact that you are | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
surrounded by it all of those brilliant words. But with squeezed | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
budgets, local councils are having to make difficult choices and | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
across the UK, many libraries are closing or reducing their opening | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
hours. These used to be the library for Barnet in north London but it | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
doesn't exist anymore and that has prompted an angry protest from the | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
people who once used it. Last month some of the locals decided to | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
occupy the building in protest. People feel that the library is the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
centre of the community. We cannot destroy this sense of community. | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
The council told us budget cuts meant they had to save �1.5 million | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
from the library service and they acknowledge that not every resident | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
would be happy with the changes. feel devastated that my local | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
library has closed and it doesn't seem right. The community said no, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
all the schools and businesses has said that the library needs to stay | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
open. In the weeks following the closure, the protest group decided | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
they would try to run their own makeshift library on Saturdays. It | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
relies on the honesty of local people to return the books. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
According to the group, the council have offered them a building where | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
they can run their own voluntary library but this campaign it is | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
keen to find out if the library run by volunteers can ever hope to | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
survive in the long term, so I am taking him on a trip outside London. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
In Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, they have set up a | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
library with no professional staff. The One Show first pay them a visit | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
to make three years ago and now I am taking Martin to see what he | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
thinks. We fought tooth and nail for the library not to be shut and | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
in an ideal world, you want it to be run by the county but | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
unfortunately, there is not the money to do it. So in Chalfont St | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Giles, the local people agreed to keep the library running themselves. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
The people do not get paid but the library does get grants. They also | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
lost uses a voluntary �10 annual subscription to help with costs. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
is going extremely well and a huge improvement from when it was won by | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
the county. When they closed it, there were 4500 books. There are | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
now 7,000 and it is open 50% more of the time. They have even managed | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
to keep the children's groups going. Storage time is happening behind me. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
I will join them. They have had the same books on the shelves for years. | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
But now, a lot of them or given by the people in the village and the | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
literary quality of the books has gone up. Do you think this could be | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
rolled out across the country? You desperately need community like | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
this, with people know each other and are prepared to help. So what | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
do you do in and not particularly affluent community? The authorities | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
really have to keep those libraries going. Martin is really impressed | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
with what he has seen in Chalfont St Giles and the six of the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
volunteers have had been improving it, but could something similar | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
work in Barnet? -- the success. It is no replacement from paid | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
librarians and a paid library service. In Barnet, the Community | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Library is continuing to operate but campaigners do not want that to | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
be a replacement. None of us have the time and inclination to run | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
this service. We have families cannot working full-time and | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
studying. We are disappointed the council is not listening to us. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
campaigners are considering whether one course of action is to | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
challenge its closure in the courts. In other parts of the country, some | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
councils have been forced to rethink their plans to close | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
libraries. Melvyn, did libraries play the big | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
part in your growing up? At one stage in my life, they were | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
everything. We did not have books. We lived in a council house. I used | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
to go with my dad on Tuesday and Friday nights. Mr Cameron was the | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
librarian. He would say, I think you should read that. For five | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
crucial years before I went to a school with a library, I read and | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
read from that library and these volunteers are fantastic and they | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
are all over the place. Good luck to all of them. For many people, it | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
is the entrance to 100 new worlds. And you said you are donating your | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
books to a library in London. We could not have you on without | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
playing a bit of this. The theme tune to the South Bank Show. It is | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
brilliant. The South Bank Show is back on Sunday. You have six hour | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
shows. We are starting on Sunday with Nicholas Hytner, the director | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
of the National Theatre. Some people thinks that is the greatest | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
city theatre in the world and some people think he is the Best | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
Director in the world. Pat Barker, who writes about the First World | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
War, marvellous novels. Then these lads in the East End of London and | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
their music, Dizzee Rascal. Different! Then we have a male | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
ballet dancer -- belly-dancer, Carlos Vela Costa and others. And | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
then women singer-songwriters and Ben Nicola Benedetti in fairness, | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
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Scotland, Brazil and London. I think it is quite a six pack! | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
Here you are interviewing Nicholas Hytner, talking about James | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
Corden's play, One Man, Two Guvnors. The idea was to do it with James | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
Corden and not do it as a kind of pastiche from today, but let's try | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
to recreate a tradition which I think is still very much alive, the | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
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tradition of English comedy. Carry On comedy. Yeah! LAUGHTER. APPLAUSE. | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
That is the first one. James Corden is fantastically funny. I must have | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
seen that clips several times and he always makes me laugh. We went | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
to the States to see what would happen with a very English comedy | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
went to Broadway in the United States and is slaughtered them! | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
People were almost crying, you know when you are rocking in a big | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
audience! Richard is such a good writer, it was marvellous. And then | :10:28. | :10:35. | |
you go to cover some crime. Are you surprised you shows that? -- crime? | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
We should point out that that is a type of rap music. Yes, rap music, | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
classical music, and then these lads in the East End next to the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
richest part of the country, Canary Wharf, with the biggest youth | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
poverty in the UK and these lads in these three blocks of flats have | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
made their own music and they are very proud of it. It is Dizzee | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
Rascal and wily and they will not have American accents. Did rap | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
music grab you? No. I like it now but I came to it very late. Archie | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
power well, one of the directors. If you are on a programme as varied | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
as mine, you cannot know everything. The director got these people | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
together and persuaded them to do it and they were not too keen | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
because they had done it all to themselves. I really cannot tell | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
you how moving their strawberry is. These young lads have as near to | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
next to nothing as you can have -- moving their story is. It is so | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
moving. They remind me of the Liverpool scene in the early 60s | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
with McCartney and those guys, going to do music and nobody is | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
going to stop them and they are given to get on with it. Few have | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
interviewed a diverse range of people but he would you like to | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
interview that is not with us any more -- you have interviewed? | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
would like to have interviewed Elvis Presley. What would you have | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
asked him? Partly, why did he make so many rubbish films. I would not | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
have dead! I would ask him about the early days. He had the voice of | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
a saucer Rock. He could have been a great opera singer. And then a man | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
called Samuel Beckett, who wrote Waiting for God go, which is a play | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
I could see again and again. Those two. The South Bank Show starts | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
this Sunday at 10pm on Sky. Late last year we featured the | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
Mossbourne Academy. A school in the deprived London borough of Hackney. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
Mossbourne's head teacher Sir Michael Wilshaw insisted on old | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
fashioned values like standing when the teachers enter the room and | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
reciting a mantra at the start of lessons. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Since then Sir Michael has become the head of Ofsted, whose job it is | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
to inspect schools in England. And he has some radical ideas on how | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
every school should change, but not everyone agrees. | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
So, we called a staff meeting. And invited teachers from two Essex | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
schools. You might recognise some of them from the fly-on-the-wall | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
documentary Educating Essex. They started off their discussion | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
talking about unannouced inspections. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
It is interesting that both of you as head teachers come when you said | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
about the Ofsted inspection, there was no notice, you both said you | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
had to protect your staff. I have a right to prepare them for the | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
scrutiny and the inspection. No notice inspections are divisive and | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
unfair to the children and to the staff. I do not think that is at | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
all right. It is another example of not trusting schools almost. One of | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
the thing that resonated was that quote from Michael will sure that | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
teachers do not understand what stresses and that we needed a | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
reality check. I have been in the profession for over 30 years and I | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
do not think there has been a period where teachers have worked | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
harder. There is the inference that we tolerate mediocrity and that we | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
do not have that expectation from students and the staff. When we see | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
them questioning our professionalism and dedication to | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
the students, that only has a detrimental effect on us. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Michael Wilshaw is said to have commented that you should have | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
pleasure that morale is low amongst your staff as a head teacher. Our | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
worry about that. With good morale, you feel happy, people are valued, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
it is a good message and we believe in that. I work in a great | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
department and we all get on really well and we enjoy what we do and if | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
we have a stressful day, we help each other out and that does keep | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
you going. Why would anybody say that they would like staff morale | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
to be low? That makes no sense. think that is about his choice of | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
words. He would say, I don't mean that. He makes a blunt statement. | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
If I have loads dope -- Low Row I must be doing a good thing. No, he | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
will have constant turnover of staff and supply teachers, no | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
consistency, sickness rates. I do not see him as a bad person and the | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
enemy of teachers. His heart is in the right place but unfortunately | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
at the moment, he is just getting it wrong with how he sells his | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
message. He is a teacher! Ultimately this is a man who has | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
done the job and done it brilliantly. I just want him to | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
help me to do it brilliantly. Thanks to the teachers of and St | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
Thanks to the teachers of and St John's and Passmore's Academy. Did | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
you mean what you said about low morale amongst staff? That was | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
taken out of context. I was taken to task a member of staff who was | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
teaching poorly. He wrote a three- page letter the following day | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
saying what an awful person I was an same staff morale was at an all- | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
time low. I said, sometimes, when you have to take on the challenging | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
situation in a failing school, this sort of accusation might be made. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
Staff morale was at an all-time low. This is the sort of accusation that | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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can be made. It was taken out of context. What sort of things did to | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
implement and other schools should follow suit? Mossbourne was in a | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
very disadvantaged part of London. It was on the site of a badly | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
failing school. It served children from poor backgrounds. The children | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
achieve well above the national average. Where there are three | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
things you said you did? realised we had to make no excuses | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
for them - no excuses for their background. We said, we do not care | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
what background to a from. We expect you to achieve. -- you are | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
from. We worked hard in the evenings and at twilight sessions | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
and at the weekends and make sure they were supported to get them | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
through their exams so they would do well. I saw one episode from | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
that programme and they did the same. They saw their | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
responsibilities and duties outside the classroom as well as the inside. | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
A lot of our youngsters came from very unstructured environments. We | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
introduced a lot of structure to their lives. All the rituals and | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
routines you saw in the clip helped to create a good structure in which | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
good teaching could go on. I used to say, we run a formal institution | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
but when you are in the classroom, we want you to be innovative and | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
interesting and make your lessons come alive. One hot topic is | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
unannounced inspections. The teachers prepare, don't they come | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
up for inspections. What do you think you will gain by that? | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
have yet to make a decision on this one. The idea behind it was that | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
there was a lot of stress that comes in before an inspection. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
People get very stressed. I have seen it over and again as a teacher | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
and her head teacher. I think when inspectors turn up on a morning | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
that stress levels would be lower. The second reason is, I think | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
inspectors want to see a school as it really is and not changed for an | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
inspection. Just to seat a normal school as it is. We have taken into | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
account lots of responses to what we propose. Some head teachers so | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
they need to be there and they might be out of schools. What other | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
chances of parents seeing that in children's schools right across | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
England? Parents would be good school for their child. We have one | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
in three schools at the moment that are not good - satisfactory and | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
below. I have made it clear that I want to seat all schools good or on | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
a journey to being good. That is the important thing. That is what | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
parents and kids want. And it can happen? I hope so with the measures | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
we are putting in place. The second part of the amazing story of those | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
Barnardo's girls separated from each other or loges a go. -- all | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
those years ago. They were aged just -- between just one Aberu | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
Kebede and eight and their families could not look after them. -- four | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
and eight. The five girls are now women in the 60s. They are spread | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
all over the world. They have not seen each other since the day they | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
left this has 50 years ago. In a few minutes we would be reuniting | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
this unique set of friends at the very same house that holds very | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
powerful memories. You never felt alone. We were always there for | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
each other. The four other girls were my family. Five children, | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
split up, go different ways, in different countries, how could they | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
get together? I feel really excited about it. It is like a part of my | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
life is put back together. It is like we were torn apart and put | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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back together again. In my mind's eye, they all look the same. They | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
will not have changed. They have travelled from as far afield as | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
America and Australia for this moment. Back at their old | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
Barnardo's care home together, for the first time in 50 years. Oh, my | :21:50. | :22:00. | |
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gosh! Patsy! I recognise you. wonderful. As soon as they step | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
through the door of their former childhood home, though shared | :22:18. | :22:24. | |
memories come flooding back. This is where you do the dishes. We used | :22:24. | :22:32. | |
to scrub the floor on our hands and knees. I spent hours in here. | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
has changed. Much has changed in the 50 years since the women lived | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
here. The house has become a private home. In that old bedroom, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
at the back of the wardrobe, a poignant reminder of their time | :22:47. | :22:56. | |
here it remains. Patsy, Pam. Nobody painted over it! A what is it like | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
to see all your names all those years on? It brings you back to | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
those times. There is no awkwardness at all. It is like we | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
could move back into this house and it would be the same. You will suit | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
-- still be Baby Pam. The garden was the big reward for chores well | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
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done. We played croquet a lot on our holidays. You could remember | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
yourselves playing together outside in the gardens. It brings a lot of | :23:35. | :23:45. | |
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memories back. We did not have that. I am still wondering if it is real. | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
You were the last original ones. There have been so many years | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
waiting for this and not really knowing. At that moment, it hits | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
you that here they are, in flesh and blood. I am emotional now. | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
Whoever would have thought! For me, it is like having my family back. | :24:12. | :24:20. | |
We were family. Do you know what I think we should do? You know the | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
photo, let's blind you all up doing exactly the same 50 years on. -- | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
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That has made me go all tingly. Do you want eight issue? It is | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
wonderful news. They join us now. - - a tissue. Did you watch the | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
episode last night? Yes, we did. All emotions. The reunion happened | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
last Sunday. What did you do? How did you celebrate? Oh, my gosh! | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
What did we do? You just looked at each other, I expect, just held | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
each other. Did you have drinks? We'd just when the nest. Did you | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
recognise each other straight away -- we just reminisced. We recognise | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
each other's straight away. could see the features on the faces. | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
It came out at that moment. What happens from here? You are | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
incredibly close but your lives must be so much richer. Australia | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
next. You are all salted for holidays. We are already planning. | :26:02. | :26:10. | |
-- sorting. We will be on the internet. We will make plans. There | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
are plans in the works. My sister and I are going to see about | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Australia. We are already hoping to do something. You look so happy. It | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
is magical. You are very excited because we have Engelbert | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
Humperdinck on. You have seen him in Tampa, haven't you? Can he do it | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
for Eurovision? He is representing as in the Eurovision Song Contest | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
will start I did not know anything about that. Do not go back to | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
America! We are going to go live to the crystal ball. Scott Mills is | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
covering Eurovision for BBC Three. He is with Engelbert Humperdinck | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
now. Can you hear us? It is midnight over there. It is. It is | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
about a million degrees in the stadium. I am with the man who is | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
the only hope for us in the UK - Engelbert Humperdinck. I have seen | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
your rehearsal. Arlene Phillips has been involved. She has been amazing. | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
She has given me the professional tips I needed. We stand a good | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
chance. How are you feeling? I am first on. First out of the gate is | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
good. You can get out there and tried to keep the lead. If tonight | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
we have the semi-finals on BBC Three at 8pm. There are two to | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
watch out for. The first is the Russian grannies. They are from a | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
little town in Russia. They are trying to get funds to rebuild | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
their church, which Stalin knocked down 70 years ago. The other ones | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
are Jedward. What you think of that? One is for the very young and | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
the others up for the adults. Both are very talented people. I | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
consider them competition and I hope they consider meat like that | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
as well. You have been here for a few days. How are you finding it? | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
The whole thing is magnificent. Security is really tight. I could | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
not get in tonight. More security than you have ever seen before. | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
is an amazing place. It is beautiful. We will see you on the | :28:46. | :28:53. | |
final on BBC One on Saturday. Join me and Sarah Cox on BBC Three at | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
8pm for the Russian grannies and Jedward life. The semi-finals are | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
on BBC sleep tonight and Thursday and the finals are on Saturday. -- | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
BBC Three. Can he cut through the political nonsense and win it for | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
us? Absolutely. He was on the circuit in the sixties when he was | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
up against the best competition in the world and he still held his own. | :29:19. | :29:26. |