22/07/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show - the second in our series

of three shows for the build-up to the Commonwealth Games.

First thing this morning, Alex Jones was out jogging. Off I went along

the banks of the River Clyde and I bumped into the Australian team. I

felt inadequate so I went back to the hotel, but I tried. Who knows

where you will get tomorrow. Everyone is inspired by the games. A

festival vibe. Here we are at the Quay, a pop-up festival which is

free. Every festival needs headlining acts. How about these?

# Well # You make me want to shout...

# Don't you for get about me. # Don't, don't, don't, don't.

# Don't you forget about me. We are joined by Lulu, Jim from

simple minds and as a lovely added bonus, Clare Balding too. All day

long I was there, what did you think of that mash up? Very impressive.

Clare, your part in the Commonwealth Games is huge. Part of the

presenting team. You have got your Bible. This is my homework, a great

read every night. I sit down and I think, what I am going to learn

today? How many highlighters have you been through? Eight. Here you

go. Thanks, I love stationery. A random fact? Artistic gymnastics,

the oldest ever Australian competitor, she is 25! There is

stuff on all of the different nations and territories. It's great.

We have been doing a bit of sorting up. Here we go.

The Commonwealth Games started in 1930, with 11 nations competing.

Since then, more and more teams have joined from around the world to

compete in cities from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne to Delhi, and now over

4,500 athletes will be going for gold right here in Glasgow.

Who could forget the dramas of Delhi? We have to thank all of you

who have sent in photographs of your connections to the Commonwealth

Games. The aim was to get a photo from all 19 Commonwealth Games that

have been. We are doing all right. This is Angus from Helensburgh in

Scotland. His wife Sarah says he is a forgotten hero of the games

because he won a bronze medal in the Brisbane games of 1982. That is the

type of thing we want. We remember Angus tonight. We will do our best

to get all 19. Not just hosting the

Commonwealth Games but also On Day 2

of his referendum road trip, here's Joe Crowley, and he's travelling

from Glasgow to Edinburgh. to people working in the arts

industry, to find out how they think change could affect them. Alan is a

writer and novelist who is pro-independence. Rod Jones is a

member of the band Idlewild and see says he will vote no. I am as

dissatisfied as the next creative person but I feel we should stay a

part of the solution. People in England and Scotland are not

different... We have a lot in common. England, Wales, places like

that. I can't see how any of those relationships will be different. We

have responsible T as part of the UK to help everybody else, to effect

change and make it a better country for everybody. It is not like your

granny is going to phone you up and say, you voted yes, I don't love you

any more. From Glasgow, the final leg of my journey takes me to the

economic powerhouse of Scotland. Edinburgh is home to a large part of

the financial services industry. I will be voting no on September the

18th because I believe we can have the best of both worlds. As a

business owner in Edinburgh that is really important. Having a home

market of 65 million customers I can freely trade with, not worrying

about currency exchange rates, different tax systems, is incredibly

important. Particularly at a time when we should be making it easier

to do business, not harder. I am going to be voting yes in September.

If you look at the most successful countries in the world, they tend to

be small, democratic, highly skilled countries. Almost exactly like

Scotland. Who have got control over their resources and decision-making.

The Scottish people face a very important decision. An impassioned

debate is taking place across the land. Ultimately, whatever the

outcome, the future of the United Kingdom will be down to the people

of Scotland. A yes man? A no man! I am not convinced it is the right

thing for us. I think it is time Scotland were brave and took a stop

forward themselves and govern their own destiny. -- a step forward. I

don't see any problem with the way the union is at the moment. I

believe the people of Scotland should have the right to make their

own decisions, not decisions made by the establishment in London. It has

been really encouraging to see how many people are engaged by this

referendum, they are excited, they want to have a say. There are still

plenty of people out there who feel politics doesn't make any

difference. It will be whichever side that can win most of those

people across which will determine whether Scotland becomes independent

or not. Angelica has one of the best

microphones I have ever seen. I'm here with Marc Sherland

and Grace Campbell. They each have a very different

message about the referendum. First up, Marc,

who supports Better Together. Nature deems us one mass

fabulous real estate. From John o'Groats

to Lands-never-end. My tartan has rainbow threads.

Heart leaps in highlands, flatlands. Lochs and lakes,

not locks and gates. I love the handshake,

not the Glesga kiss. Proud, wha's like us,

but who see the big picture. Born here, or far off,

corrie or ham fisted. My tartan has rainbow threads.

Heart leaps in highlands, flatlands. Jock Tamson's bairns, better

together, blessed and united. A unique way of expressing yourself,

using poetry. And now speaking up for Yes

Scotland, it's Grace Campbell, an In the end, it is not about nations,

just a world less weighted Not a severing of what exists,

but creating what does not. In the end,

something fairer is all we ask of Start again and say what you want to

say. In the end, between the warring

voices a mute parenthesis remains. In the end, it is not about nations,

just a world less weighted Not a severing of what exists,

but creating what does not. In the end,

something fairer is all we ask of In the end, between the warring

voices a mute parenthesis remains. None will know

unless they brave that leap that is Two effective pieces. Lulu, as a

Scottish girl you won't get to vote because you live in London. Would

people outside Scotland like to have a say? A lot of people who don't

live in Scotland are upset. They have vocalised that quite loudly.

Moving on to talk about your music, Jim, 30 years ago it was pretty much

this area that inspired the song Waterfront. It was. What was it like

this area that inspired the song back then? It was a beautiful

this area that inspired the song like this, it is always like this in

Glasgow! It really was, it was a night like this. If you go back 30

Glasgow! It really was, it was a years, Glasgow is

Glasgow! It really was, it was a reinvent itself, even currently with

the games, people will see another reinvention of Glasgow. Being a

Glaswegian, it's very exciting. At that time, this whole area was

unrecognisable. Probably safe to say it was on its knees. However, on a

night like this, seeing the river flowing and all that, a great

feeling of hope still for the city. We were writing a song for the time,

Derek, our bass player, had come up with a melody that day, and the

words came and the song was Waterfront. It's great that wherever

we go in the world, it is a song that gets the audience up and going.

So much so, you have re-recorded it for your new DVD, at the Hydro

# Move on up to the waterfront. # Walk on up to the waterfront.

APPLAUSE The DVD and album is out on Monday.

Lulu, you are involved in the festivities running up to the games.

I have a gig at Glasgow Green tomorrow night. Come on down. The

weather is going to be like this. We are going to rock out. They tell us

that the Glasgow audience are quite hard to please. They are very fussy

but they have very good taste. Is it right about Frank Sinatra? Yes! Did

they throw tomatoes at Frank Sinatra? Did you? Frank Sinatra came

to Glasgow, to the Empire and they booed him?

to Glasgow, to the Empire and they booed Nobody believes it. It will

not happen to you two. They do say, if the Glasgow audience loves you,

you can make it anywhere. Jim, you are going to be playing a little

something for us at the end of the programme which we are very much

looking forward to. Speaking of excitement, how excited were you

first thing this morning when you realised about your pinger? This is

the last outing of the pinger for a little while. Ready? There she is!

One day to go until the start of the Commonwealth Games. It has been a

long pinger session. Here is Iwan with the story of a sprinter who has

had to put his whole life back on track to even think about competing

in Glasgow. In 1998, I won gold in the 400

metres at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. This year in Glasgow,

Hodgson will be representing Belize at my distance. The fact he is even

competing is amazing. His passion has taken him on a journey which is

far from plain sailing. Less than five years ago, he was homeless and

living rough on the streets of London. Today, he still lives in

London but he uses the streets where he once slept as a training ground.

I find it amazing to meet you and think that you used to live over

there, your first night rough was on those steps. How did life come to

that? I had been living in Croydon with my partner. I popped out to the

shop one day and some drug addicts broke into my flat and assaulted my

partner. We went to the police but because there were no witnesses,

they advised us it was not safe to go back there. He and his partner

had no choice but to leave. They struggled to find another place

where they could live together safely and ended up sleeping rough.

Being in a city like London, because it is so big, you don't know if you

are going to be safe. Being a spoilt kid, I would phone my mum, my dad,

my friends, but you felt pretty much alone in this situation? I phoned my

mum and we had an argument, I decided I didn't want to go home

until I had made something of myself and made her proud. He was born in

Belize in Central America. Together with his two sisters, he was adopted

by British parents at just four and moved to Scotland. He was a very

loving little boy. Just wanted to be loved. And looked after. By the age

of seven, he was already the champion of his local running club

in Helensburgh. At 14, he was breaking school records. He had to

be a winner, even in nursery he was a winner. First prize for everything

in sport. This inner drive saw him get himself off the streets. He was

determined to turn his life around and saw selling the bid is you as

his way to do it. Familiar pavements? -- the big issue.

Definitely, this is where I used to sell the big issue. I got my

magazines. When you are running, you don't think about anything else

about the end goal, where you are trying to get to. I have always done

that. After two years on the street and on friends' couches, he was

given an opportunity in a city law firm through a big issue pacemen

scheme. It was only a matter of time before he secured himself

scheme. It was only a matter of time a permanent position in the billing

department. scheme. It was only a matter of time

a permanent position in the -- basement scheme. He was put forward

to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. Then he received a surprise call

from his home country. He was young, his story was fantastic, we wanted

to encourage him to compete in the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Two

years on, now single, he is balancing the demands of a job in

the city with regular training for the Commonwealth Games. He has since

been reunited with his mother, and for her, seeing him back in Scotland

competing in the Commonwealth Games will be a hugely proud moment. No

matter what has happened in his life, or not happen,

matter what has happened in his life, or I have always been proud of

him and he knows that. It has been a pleasure. Massive good luck at the

Commonwealth Games. Win it, but don't run too quickly because I hold

the record, all right? He is pretty quick! Claire, you love a good story

of an athlete. You are part of the coverage, BBC's Commonwealth Games,

here you are lining one the rest of the team at the end of the pool. So

when can we see you and what will you be doing? I am doing the

swimming. The evening sessions which start on day two. I will be doing it

with Mark Chapman, we have a studio in the front. We have a problem

there Claire. We have a studio with a live band. It is going to be

great. There you go. I think we got that A studio with a live band.

Highlights programme, swimming. We know you love a highlighter, in

Sochi a trolley became your new best friend It did. It got its own

Twitter can't and everything. Matthew Pinsent suggested we have

one here and call it is Scochi trolley. Very good. Is there

anything that has come in obvious as the new thing for the Commonwealth

Games? Something with tartan I am impressed with the little collides,

the thistle who is not prickly. We have to talk about the Clyde ciders.

I love them. London 2012 was about Games Makers, helping out and

volunteering This is the extraordinary thing, and I think it

is a roll on effect from the success of London 2012, all of us feeling

more confident about our ability to stage something, the volunteers made

that Olympic Games and the Clyde cider also do the same for the

Commonwealth Games, and they needed, 5,000 volunteers that were needed,

50,000 applied. It was just, amazing. I met a student this

morning who missed out on been a Clydesider but was volunteering to

help work at the BBC, she was enjoying that. BBC will take free

work when they can get it. Free labour. Brilliant. Why would you say

the Commonwealth Games are unique, there are some that don't feature in

the Olympics You get events like squash and Nick Matthews will carry

the flag for England but you Binyamin Netanyahu ball. I am

excited about, in so many place netball in school, this is their

chance to shine and be on the national stage. Squash, NASA great

TV sport and you hardly ever see it. -- that is a great TV sport. Lawn

bowls, you like that. It is like the curling of the games. We saw you

with Chad Le Clos's dad, which was a brilliant moment, so, who are you

looking forward to meeting from a parents' point of view? Burt. I

would like to meet Chad's mum. I think Chad's dad has had a of, you

know, a lot of attention, he has done three adverts since he went

back to South Africa. Has he really? Unbelievable. Look at my boy, my

beautiful boy, unbelievable. I know you want to see him again.

beautiful boy, unbelievable. I know Everyone's parents and brothers and

sister, I love that. That is a Everyone's parents and brothers and

record from a parents' perspective. The athletes are going for

individual records. One has broken one, if he turns up. David Calvert

is a shooter from Northern Ireland, and this will be his tenth

consecutive Commonwealth Games. 40 years. Of course, there are other

shooters competing, Iwan has been back on the road to meet a family

who have had their sights set on the Commonwealth Games 2014 for some

years. Many families have a competitive

streak, especially when playing games.

But one family involved in this year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

have taken competition to a whole new level.

The McIntosh family have rifle shooting in their blood. Mum has

four medals. Dad is the Scottish team manager, and daughter's

Jennifer and Seonaid compete at international level. So what happens

when you play games at home? Who tends to win? As a family we stopped

playing games when the kids were small because it descended into

argument. So avoid all games. Even monopoly. Especially monopoly!

Especially monopoly. The McIntoshes are an ordinary family but with

extraordinary skills, they often practise here at the rifle range at

Edinburgh's Meadowbank stadium. 2010 at the Commonwealth Gameses in

deli I won three medals. Two golds and a bronze. This year I am hoping

to win a few more. I will compete in three vents so hopefully three

medals from that. I hear you have had good news. Tell

me about it I have been selected to shoot for Team Scotland at the

Commonwealth Games this year. It is really exciting.

When did the girls show an inkling for getting involved? Jennifer has

from a fairly young age, she has memories of her mum coming back from

Victoria Commonwealth Games in 94 and she started young. Seonaid kept

away from it but she has swung to shooting. She is just as committed.

Shirley is one of the most successful woman shooters everything

in the UK. How are you feeling about the

summer? How confident you for the girls? It is a very strange feeling.

I have said it is worse spectating than it is competing. So it is

nerve-wracking Very. But I am sure they will do the best they can. That

is all you can ask of them. I am very proud of both of them, as to

how that are face have come. Medals depend on hair's breadth accuracy.

How big is the target. Half a millimetre across. When you write

and do you a full stop, it is that size basically. If you look at the

McIntosh medal board who would have had the most success? Jennifer.

Jennifer, so the women are outfront then Totally.

And OK, a family shoot out, who would win? One of them. Never mind

the Commonwealth Games, we have set up a One Show shooting gallery and

we are going to settle it once and for all. These aren't just fair

ground -- these are just fair ground rifle, it is going to be a real

level her. Are we ready? Yes. OK, dad, you are the first up. May the

best McIntosh win! OK, after two rounds, we have dad on

eight, we have Seonaid on ten, we have general on seven and -- Jen on

seven and mum on eight. Last round, all to play for.

So sharp shooter Seonaid has wiped the board with a score of 15. She

gets a medal, a gold medal not just any one, a One Show gold medal.

Well done, Bravo! APPLAUSE

Let us hope it is the first of many. I expect you and Thomas to present

that, so what a lovely surprise the see Sarah back. Thanks for the

that, so what a lovely surprise the pictures you have sent in from

previous Commonwealth Games, this is from Nicola Diamond, she was a baton

bearer in the 98 games and her certificate hangs in the downstairs

loo. This comes in from Wendy, he father threw the hammer for Wales in

1962. Thanks for keeping them coming. Time to say thank you to

Claire, and to Lulu, good luck with gig tomorrow and we will play out

with gym Kerr, Simple Minds and Alive and Kicking. Here we go.

# And like the sweetest cup I'd share with you

# You lift me up, don't you ever stop, I'm here with you

# Cause you say you'll follow through

# You follow me, and I, I, I follow you

# What you gonna do when things go wrong?

# What you gonna do when it all cracks up?

# What you gonna do when the love burns down?

# What you gonna do when the flames go up?

# Who is gonna come and turn the tide?

# What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?

# Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?

# Stay until your love is, alive and kicking

# Stay until your love is, until your love is, alive

# Oh, you lift me up to the crucial top, so I can see

# Oh, you lead me on, till the feelings come

# Like if someday it should fall through

# You'll take me home where the magic's from

# What you gonna do when things go wrong?

# What you gonna do when it all cracks up?

# What you gonna do when the love burns down?

# What you gonna do when the flames go up?

# Who is gonna come and turn the tide?

# What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?

# Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?

# Stay until your love is, alive and kicking

# Stay until your love is, until your love is alive

# Alive and kicking # Stay until your love is, love is

# Alive and kicking #