22/05/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the programme. If you have recently bought a car,

have you checked you have a spare tyre? It may well be worth checking

because you might be shocked to hear more than 50% of cars come with a

sealant kit like this one instead of a spare tyre. We have put both

methods to the test this afternoon and we will give you the results are

little bit later. Speaking of spare tyre, back in 90s

everybody had them. Including tonight's guest.

The thing about the human body is, as we know, is that it is a temple.

Yes. It is just that my temple seems to have grown into a slightly larger

temple. With a big wobbly dome. Please welcome Neil Morrissey.

You are blowing out that. It was a prostatic. It had to be measured. At

the time, I have actually got one out, back in the day I didn't. I was

too skinny. It had a very natural wobble to it. That was quite

intimate. Your role as Tony, that was huge for your career, when

things really took off. Do you still miss it? I never missed it when we

finished it, but it is great. You are not given much transfer it to be

out in the general psyche. Are always talking about it. 15 years?

We are going to be talking about it later on. You are going to be

working with one of your co-stars again and we will find out who.

We will be meeting the daughter Fred Basset's creator.

He was the cartoon hound who was almost human, beautiful pictures.

We will call all Basset Hound owners tonight, we want your real-life Fred

Bassets and give us a line on what you think they might be thinking. It

doesn't have to be an actual Basset Hound, any hound dog will do. Send

them in to the address. We will show as many as we can.

Men Behaving Badly's Tony and Gary were famous for their flippant

sexist remarks. It was all for the art of comedy, of course. But the

topic of sexism has been all over the papers recently for more serious

reasons. We said first-time reporter Margherita Taylor onto the streets

to find out what you think what is or isn't acceptable.

This week Premier League chief Richard Skidmore has been in the

spotlight for the sexist content of some of his e-mails and it seems

sexist behaviour in the workplace and social situations and right here

on the street is still rife. What actually constitutes sexist

behaviour and is this charming young man qualifier as the worst

offender? You are looking good. Don't worry, he's only an actor. I

love Frenchwoman, beautiful. When people shout out in the streets, you

have got good legs, it is very in there were a group of men in a

senior position to me saying are you single? Now you are. Do you want to

come home with me. People comment on the way I am dressed in the

workplace, there have been some inappropriate remarks. According to

journalists Laura Bates far more serious forms of sexism are on the

increase. It is a problem that is so

widespread it seems to be infiltrating so many different

areas. The highest number of reports that we receive come from women in

the workplace. After that it has been women experiencing harassment

in public spaces, often in the street, we are not talking about a

woman who walks into the office and her male colleague, and a jacket, we

are talking about a woman being told to sit on her last's rabbit she

wants a Christmas bonus. We are opening the door to the same kind of

ideas and attitudes about women that underlies some of the more serious

abuses further down the line. It is time to start taking some of these

things which are brushed off as banter more seriously. Do you think

sexism still exists? And did the centre stop definitely. Obviously

not paid as much as the guys, more of a struggle. A few places where I

have worked, I have seen it. There might be a degree of risque jokes.

Where does being a gentleman and holding old moral values border into

being sexist? Wanting to pay for dinner. You offered to pick

something up, carry something, they see that as being sexist.

It is depends in the environment, how they see it, how it is aimed at

you, about the tone and expression. You look absolutely beautiful today.

Where did you get your necklace from? It is George Jensen. You look

beautiful. I thought it was a charming, and forth from an

individual, I didn't related to a male type of comment. I would rather

go about my everyday life and not feel people are judging me for the

way I look at the way I am dressed. There is a fine line, it blows quite

a lot. It is hard to say what is one and what is demeaning. -- what is

fun. I think it is the feeling you get

when a comment is put to you. That is nice to see her on the one show.

Where do you think the lines are and are the lines are and other roles

different in comedy? It is difficult. Individuals are so

different, it is kind of how you perceive what would be sexist or

not. I don't think what we were doing in Men Behaving Badly was

sexist. The show was run by a very powerful woman in our industry. She

has probably suffered more of that sexist attitude and she was coming

through the business genius, an amazing woman. She wouldn't have had

sexism in the show. In terms of where does the ban to stop and the

sexism start? Asking somebody to sit on your need to get their Christmas

bonus is a bit off. I have spoken to girls who have loved it when they

have been wolf whistled by builders on the way into work. On woman in a

film that Martin Claims Director and I got wolf whistled and I thought it

was quite nice. -- Martin claims directed. Some of the crew did like

to come up and grab me, I didn't like that. It was quite strange

playing a woman and the men were coming on to me as if I was a real

woman. The make-up girl who was on the show talked to me like I was a

woman. Talking about various things like gentlemen's packages work

discussed. Where do you draw the line? We also love banter. And men,

when they get together, are going to have conversations that they

wouldn't have in front of women. Same as girls, by the way. Yes, it

depends on the individual and how comfortable you are with the

compliments presented to you. If you can take it as banter.

That is where we will draw a line under it. You have to be careful not

to come across as being sexist. Our next film is all about cars and the

modern ways of changing attire. It is perfect for... Everyone.

It is every motorists might work, a puncher that leaves you stranded

miles from the nearest garage, but it is OK, you have got a spare. Look

in the boot of most modern cars and you will not find a spare tyre any

more, it is more likely to be one of these. A sealant repair kit. Since

the spare tyre was first introduced back in 1904, it has been a mainstay

of motoring. One recent survey found half of all new cars are sold with a

sealant kit instead. Bruce Ellis, a technician for a sealant

manufacturer, explains why. If you have to replace the tyre, it is

cold, dark, raining, that means have to replace the tyre, it is

getting all the tools out, you have got to take the old one off, Jack

the vehicle, the advantage of having a sealant system is

the vehicle, the advantage of having introduce the sealant without having

to take the tyre off. So we are going to give the sealant

to take the tyre off. to go. Off to mechanics School for a

lesson. Steve to go. Off to mechanics School for a

motoring college in high Wycombe. We now have a flat tire. It is up to

you. Let's see how it works. I have, kit,, time to give it a go. -- I

have got my kit. It doesn't seem to be going in, it

just seems to be going in. I have got an idea first put my finger over

it, see how I get on. It has been 20 minutes, I have had to keep my

finger of the puncher. We have now got to drive two miles at 30 mph to

get it to set, check the tyre pressure again to make sure it is

safe to continue. It is still not over yet? It is not over yet.

Time to hit the road. After a quick spin, has the sealant done its job?

It seems to have plug the gap, this is very much a temporary fix.

Absolutely, yes. It is just designed to get you a very short distance to

get a new tyre fitted. It seems to have done the trick, but

what do other motorists think? Would they go for the sealant over a

spare? Are you happy with a spare or would you prefer one of these

newfangled repair kits? I like the spare. You know what you have got.

With the repair kits I don't know if they work properly. Do you know if

you have got a spare tyre? I have got one of those fluid things. How

long Jews reckon it would take you to fix your tie with one of them?

Ages. They are supposed to be quick to use

and by not carrying a heavy spare the car will be lighter, which helps

the manufacturers meet their EU emission targets. Sounds like a good

idea. But lots of recovery services like the RSC, they have seen a

massive rise in call-outs to vehicles without a spare tyre.

Getting busier, month on month. You are a specialist just doing tyres.

Yes. Last year the RAC dealt with 93,000 tyre breakdowns, and reckon

that figure will rise. How long have you had this car? About ten weeks.

Nobody told me it didn't come with a spare tyre and nobody informed me

about this. How do you feel about that? I am quite angry. The puncher

was in the shoulder of the tyre where it is not suitable to use the

sealant to repair it as it could be dangerous. It may do its job, the

tyre will reinflate and be perfectly serviceable but drive on that and

with every rotation where the weight of the vehicle is transferred, that

perforation will be flexing, and that whole could be getting larger

or a split appearing, that could effectively blow out at motorway

speed. It is a ticking time bomb. How much of this tyre could be

repaired by the sealant? 73 -- the centre three quarters. Any damage

other side, you can't. You can't figure out easily exactly when to

use it and if you get it wrong the consequences can be extremely

dangerous. It is easy to see why are a lot of people do not like them.

I think we had a better time. What is this sealant and how does it work

in the tyre? It is like a milky, rubber solution

and that coats the inside of the tyre. But you need the air pressure

to be up for that to happen. When I was doing it, I couldn't get enough

air pressure in so had to put my finger over the whole.

This is only suitable for a percentage of punctures? What have

Ford said? They said the majority of punctures

occur within that zone where you can use the sealant. If you get it on

the wall it is not safe to use, you could end up with a blow out.

Earlier on we had a bullied afternoon of changing tyres. --

brilliant afternoon. One the traditional way, the other the

sealant. To see which would be quicker and more effective. This is

the old-fashioned way. We replaced it with a spare safety

tyre. You can't do this beats you can with normal title. It is

temporary. Quite good, six and a half minutes. You can't go more than

about 50 miles an hour but it will get you where you need to go.

Then we tried the sealant kit and this is how that went. It took

awhile to figure out where it was. It was quite easy, the instructions

were easy. After about ten minutes it did finally pump the tyre.

A lot of that time was spent reading the manual. How do you do it? Such

new technology. In the right place. If I was my own in the rain I would

the sealant kit. But if you were in the wilds of Scotland. In the rain

and the dark and you get a hole in the side of your tyre, you are there

all night. With a small spare like that you are on your way in six

minutes. I think even if I was buying a new car I would get a spare

as an optional extra. I prefer the spare.

Now, many creatures are named because of their colourings,

And of course there's the great white shark, the red squirrel, the

pink Amazon river dolphin, the grey squirrel, the brown bear, the red

panda, the black widow, the bluetit, the yellowhammer, the bluebottle

fly, the red-bellied water snake, the blue linkia sea star, the red

kite, the grey wolf, the blue whale, the red setter, the black mamba.

Well, Mike Dilger went to meet the imaginatively-named green lizard.

I've seen my fair share of native British lizards, but there is one

species I have yet to encounter. Here on Jersey is the only place in

the entire British Isles the native population of the green lizard.

Jersey Royal presents the north-western edge of the green

lizard's range in Europe. As cold-blooded creatures, they need to

warm up for becoming active. Because of the glorious sunshine, it isn't

long before we see one warming up will stop looks just down here. It's

a female. She is vague! She still has the stripes she would have had

when she was a youngster will stop green lizard is a remarkably

accurate name. Grass green. And between her rear legs, a brown patch

called a meeting scarf. This time of year, it is meeting time. Being

amongst the largest lizards in Europe, the average male can reach a

length of 40 centimetres, and the male is distinct view different to

the female. The males are very spectacular at this time of year.

They have a blue chin to impress the girls. Thanks to legislation brought

in to protect them, the green lizard population is now reasonably

healthy. We are probably talking about thousands. And particularly

here on the maritime heathlands. There are lots of insects they can

feed on. And islanders are also doing their bit to help the lizards

thrive. One location on the east and is receiving a helping hand in a

rather unusual way. This golf course had to include habitat for

lizards as part of their planning permission. But they've gone a few

steps further to help. Beneath one of the Tees, they have built an area

where the lizards can live all year round. So they can hibernate here

and nest and lay their eggs? Yes. The actual

and nest and lay their eggs? Yes. the bank. What's you see on the

outside is the granite edge to it so that the lizards can bathe in the

sun. Then there are tubes going in which are packed full of woodchip to

try to make a bedding area. What are the golfers say? Do they say they

see them? I normally get photos sent to me as well. Around the coast,

other islanders have also been making adaptations. Penny Fogerty

has done just that. The lizards have always been here, so I garden

carefully to encourage them. I don't want to disturb their burrows or

their sunbathing rock. To have a wild beautiful animal choosing to

live in your garden is precious. I am privileged to have them. If I was

witty confident, am privileged to have them. If I was

confident, but I didn't think I would use six inches from them.

Absolutely brilliant. The new reptile in the top day.

Beautiful. We mentioned earlier on that you were going to be reunited

with one of your Men Behaving Badly co-stars, Caroline Quentin. You play

a butler in your new play with her. Are you a posh butler? It is a sort

of Kentish accident, but when he is working with the aristocracy, he

mimics them, so it is a mixture of the two. You haven't done a lot of

posh in the past. I don't get cast posh, I don't know why! Generally,

theatre will give you more leeway than they do on television. There

are enough posh people about anyway. None in this room! The show is on at

the moment, so it is a struggle for you to get in there. I had less than

two weeks to rehearse and get it white. Caroline was happy for me to

practice lines with her. The cast is a proper little family. I had the

script for a couple of weeks before I started rehearsing, and in that

fortnight of rehearsals, no rehearsals on Thursday, none on

Saturday, and you don't work on a Sunday, so if you take off those

four days out of 14, I've had not very much rehearsal time at all.

Some seismologists in Leeds and feel me trembling will stop going back to

the play, it was originally staged back in 1951. Give us the

background. It was written in 1951. The era is a clash between Clement

Attlee and Churchill. And there was the great exhibition. So it is a

clash of aristocracy in the house, and it turns out that the clean-up,

Caroline, the chief has made -- house made, is the girl who his

Lordship is going to marry is her little sister who comes from a

common background. So there is that attitude all around. It is complex.

If there anybody is coming to see it, they can work it out.

You can see Neil in Relative Values at the Harold Pinter Theatre from

Neil, are you a fan of newspaper comic strips?

My father was Alec Graham, the creator of Fred Bassett. He is the

hand who is almost human. It started in 1963 when I was 14 or so. Dad was

asked to do this strip by the Daily Mail. The problem was that he

actually couldn't draw the dog very well, said the Daily Mail bought him

his first Bassett hound, a little girl called Frida. And then my

parents bought another one, Frida too.

Father's day was regimented. It was the way he worked for him. Never

worked in the afternoon. He worked in the morning and then after T he

would go out again, and he would be thinking up ideas. Wednesdays and

Sundays were golf days. When I was young, I spent a lot of

time down here at the golf club, being blown about as we are today. I

would play with my dad. The golf club was a wonderful source of ideas

for dad. I don't think we were really conscious that that was

observing us. Taking us into his cartoon strips. My teenage years

were well documented. Dad did this series in punk, Daughter in the

House. Parents who have overnight it seems seen their daughter

transformed from a lumpish schoolgirl into a sophisticated and

beautiful young lady will know what this book is about. I do have a

favourite in here, it is of the father walking around upstairs in

his underpants, and the daughter saying, I think it is disgusting. I

must have been quite a difficult daughter looking at this! These were

my dad's ideas which were amazing. It took me many years to realise

what this was, possibly OK. These were the doodles he did if he was

out for dinner, doodling on table and menus and everything. This is

how he worked out his drawings. Our house is full of wonderful

paintings of my father's, all of the styles he went through over the

years. He would always have his sketchbook. And when he came home he

would paint. That is his self-portrait as a young man. It is

very special to us now. And then his final painting, he didn't finish,

when he died, this one up here. It was on his easel in his studio. Dad

knew he wasn't well for some time, but he didn't tell us, he didn't

tell mum, he had never been to the Dr in his life, and he wasn't going

to go now. It was a big shock to us, an enormous shock, because he was

active, bright, intelligent, filling every minute of his day with

different things, and then suddenly he was gone. When he died, and we

went to his studio, we discovered 18 months of strip is, an extraordinary

amount. It enabled us to carry on, to find a new artist full up dad

would often use the name of his friends, his local pubs, and we

still carry this on. Our little dog, Gemma, has appeared, and she is

vying for Fred's attention. The language, the humour, the

gentleness, continues through. You can really sense

carried on through his daughter. Earlier on,

we asked for your pictures of Basset Neil, can you guess what

these hounds are thinking? Charlie's dog, few go. -- Hugh. This

is Bella. Here is a lovely one, he's got a little shoe in his mouth. This

is a collie, but it has big dreams. And some gentle sarcasm.

You can see him in Relative Values at the Harold Pinter Theatre

in London from Monday through till June 21st.

Tomorrow, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Eurovision