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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Tonight we are joined by a Hollywood heart-throb who was once voted the | :00:17. | :00:29. | |
sexiest man alive! There you go. You might have seen him play an action | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
hero in White House Down. He got down to the bare essentials and | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Magic Mike. And he showed us some up close dancing in the Step Up. | :00:41. | :00:52. | |
Well, that's a definite test. Please welcome - Channing Tatum! CHEERING | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
AND APPLAUSE Welcome. Hello, how are you? I'm | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
happy with just one from you. Good times. Have a seat. We were just | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
watching you spinning round on the end of the pier. That still gets me, | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
I'm not joking saying it for effect, it really does, a really good sob. A | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
beautiful dance with a beautiful lady. We just had our 12 year | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
anniversary and wanted to make sure we could still do the lift after | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
it's been 12 years! She was probably lighter, but I'm getting a little | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
weaker in my old age! You and your wife, that's when you met, on the | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
set of Step Up? Yes, the very first day I met was at the auditions, she | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
came in for a chemistry breed and interrupted someone else's audition. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
She was really nervous and had bad breath. I was like that's it, your | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
mind, I'm marrying you! Lovely. Got us thinking - how many of our | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
viewers have met at work? If a workplace romance sparked off | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
your relationship, please send us a photo of the both of you and tell | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
us where you met. You're here to talk about your | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
new movie Logan Lucky. A very glitzy affair, looking very | :02:21. | :02:33. | |
sharp. It's interesting because over in the States you decided to go down | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
a different path with the pro-mot and did it in a very different way | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
to that. Explain what you are doing over there? You guys public know | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
usually to promote a movie they put you in a hotel remembering you | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
interviewers to ask you about the movie, who are generally versed in | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
film. That's always fun but we made a movie about regular folks in the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
middle of America and tried to do something a bit different. This went | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
viral, didn't it? Yeah, that was queen bee, the other one. We gave | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
this girl a Harley... I think she was 20 years old. As a present? Yes, | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
Harley gave it to us to give away. We gave away a gas station card, we | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
tried to give just a little bit back and still had a little fun. I wanted | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
to know what they wanted to ask, just normal people, and I asked them | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
questions, just changing up a little. Super idea, great. We will | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
talk about the film later on, I loved it, really enjoyed it. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
With V Festival last weekend and Leeds this weekend, | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
the summer music festivals are still coming thick and fast. | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
If you were at the recent Boomtown Festival, you may have | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
noticed another tent popping up next to the food and drinks stands. | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
It's all part of a controversial new scheme which is hoping to keep | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
Summer is here, the Wellington boots are on an festival season is in full | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
swing. And festivals have never been more | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
popular. Nearly 4 million people went to one in the UK last year. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Listening to live music, sleeping in a cheap tent and hanging out with | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
your mates brings a lifetime of memories for most but occasionally | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
there can be a darker side to the festival experience. Many of those 4 | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
million people will have taken drugs, in fact for many people it is | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
an essential part of festival culture. But the increased strength | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
of drugs we've known about for a little while, like ecstasy, and the | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
increased use of new names like ketamine is putting lives at risk. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Here in Winchester four people have died through drug-related incidents | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
in the last six years. Anna is the festival spokesperson. It's been | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
unbelievably heartbreaking. When somebody dies, when it's on your | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
watch, so to say, you don't get over it. Drugs and festivals have gone | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
hand in hand, it's nothing new. What do you think has changed now? I | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
think it's the strength of the drugs and people aren't aware of that they | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
are unaware of the strain and danger they are putting their bodies in. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Many will think more police officers carrying out more stringent searches | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
on in banning -- imposing bans on festival goers is the only way to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
stamp out the problem. Here are Boomtown vapour chosen a different | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
approach. And this is it. Although the police are on site, this pop up | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
laboratory, piloted by drug awareness schema, the Luypaert, | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
allows people to test drugs. Samples can be dropped off anonymously at | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
the front desk and within an hour chemists can test the purity and | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
strength of the drugs handed in. We have had pills that have turned out | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
to be 100% great, antimalarial drugs turned into us. But it is here in | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
the counselling tent where the co-founder of the group believes the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
most important part of the service takes place. We would talk to them | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
about concerns about high strength pills, what the average dose would | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
be for an adult person, whether they have high or low tolerance. Some | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
people will say you are enabling people here? At the beginning and | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
end of the counselling sessions they will be told drugs are illegal, all | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
drugs carry risks and the Loop doesn't encourage drug use. People | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
will buy drugs. When people leave us we hope we are decreasing harm on | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
site. But what of those partying at Boomtown make of it? A good idea bad | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
idea? You think it better to have it on the other? You don't want to | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
encourage it, at the same time. It's pushing the boundaries a bit but I | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
think the right way. In the next four days the team here will test | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
around 1000 substances. This festival goer has just picked up the | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
results from the sample she had tested earlier. She has asked to | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
remain anonymous. It was ecstasy, MDMA that I thought it was going to | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
be. From what I took from there, I'm going to take a smaller amount than | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
I normally would, just because it is strong. What difference does it make | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
to the way you felt about that drug before you went in and how you feel | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
now? I thought it wasn't going to be very strong because I bought it off | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
someone who didn't seem sure about it. You could have found yourself in | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
trouble? Differently. I feel glad I have gone to the tent and got it | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
tested. So, she has been reassured. The drug | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
testing can't guarantee her safety, and although today she won't get | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
into any trouble for it, what she will be taking is illegal. Anna from | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Boomtown still had this controversial scheme will help. You | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
just have to acknowledge that drugs are in existence that festivals, at | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
city centres, at nightclubs, peoples homes, and it's moving that | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
conversation on from don't do it just say no to OK, some people may | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
choose that as a life choice, let's see what we can do to support them | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
through that to reduce harm and make sure don't die. | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
No one is condoning taking drugs, the purpose is to save lives - | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
You have to put it in context. Last year in 2016 we saw the most | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
drug-related, ecstasy related deaths in this country, 63. That is after | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
the great Ferreira in the late 80s, Love him or ecstasy deaths than ever | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
before. You put into context. Then you have 2000 people turning up at | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Boomtown and presenting their drugs. Of those between 10-20% hold handed | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
over their whole stash to be destroyed. People were saying, after | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
what you told me, I don't want anything to do with it. They | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
identified a very dangerous substance also. N-Ethylpentylone, a | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
substance that was there at Boomtown They were able to get the warning | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
out it was a specific type of pill and they would look at that as being | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
very important and a big success. This is a very interesting and | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
intriguing relationship they must have with the police. The police | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
know this is going on and yet they kind of just let it go ahead? Not | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
really, they are enforcing on site. If you go to Boomtown, they are | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
there in numbers, on the entrance gates, sniffer dogs, trying to stop | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
the drugs getting in on the first place. But being realistic and then | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
once they are in, what can we do to minimise the harm they are going to | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
cause to people, to make sure people can get home safe? Therefore the | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
police do just leave other areas, they enforce in other areas of the | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
festival and leave that area alone. Will there be these testing | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
facilities that will festivals? Reed it is the Loop, the organisation | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
doing this, are intending to be in more festivals next year. But it is | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
quite a difficult process to get agreement from the local authority | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
and the event itself from the police and public health Authority. So a | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
lot of people have to be onside to be able to make this thing happen. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
But it is happening in other countries. Sweden, Spain, Austria | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
and the Netherlands, as you might expect, are way ahead of the game. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
They have been testing like this that festivals since 1992, 25 years. | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
Was this the first year? Reed yes, I believe the Boomtown That was a real | :10:48. | :11:12. | |
eye-opener for you. Super progressive. It is a moral question | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
but I think if it saves lives, there's no real question for me, | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
just do it. Thank you for that. Details of organisations offering | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
support are available at this address on your screen. Or you can | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
call free at any time to hear recorded information. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
If you're not going to a festival this weekend and fancy watching | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
a heist movie instead, Channing's latest film | :11:28. | :11:28. | |
And it features Daniel Craig as you've never seen him before. | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
This is a surprise. Haven't seen you in a while, how goes it? Well. I'm | :11:40. | :11:51. | |
sitting on this side of the table, how do you think it's going? Well, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
you look good. Real good. Logan Lucky is directed by Steven | :11:56. | :12:13. | |
Soderbergh who has come out of retirement to do it. He did Magic | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Mike, which was a huge success, there he is in the middle between | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
you and Adam. How did he sell this film to you? We are filming Magic | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Mike two Annie was running camera and editing for his good friend Greg | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
and he said he was writing something. He's technically done | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
more directing that when he was retired, TV directing that he | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
doesn't count as actual directing. I don't know, he's always been a | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
slippery one in that case. I was like, what is it? He said it was a | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
hillbilly, a bunch of good old boys, rednecks robbing NASCAR and a giggle | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
out of me. Most heist movies are career thieves, high-tech, and to | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
see these guys bumbling their way through... They're just like a | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
family that doesn't do this. They might have knocked over a liquor | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
store for a dare or something, but not actually... I bet you won't do | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
it and then they broke one of the biggest corporations, sports | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
companies in the country. Similar to the Oceans films you are cheering | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
you on to make it. But this character was based on your life | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
story, Jimmy Logan? I played American football in college, in | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
West Virginia weirdly enough. I was from Florida. After I was done, I | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
sort of hung it up. I got to come back to Tampa, a bit more of a | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
metropolis and had a lot more opportunity in America. Right now | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
and even for a couple of decades now West Virginia, Kentucky in certain | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
areas of America, where the coal industry with the central industry | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
for all the jobs, it just went away. When the coal industry went away, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
they shut the doors and all the jobs went away. But people were living | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
there, they have had many generations of families there and | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
they didn't want to leave. So now they are trying to have to figure | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
something else out. Jimmy just happens to live in one of these | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
towns and is trying to make some sort of a semblance of life. It's a | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
heist movie as we said, but also quite comedic. There are some really | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
good one-liners. Steven Soderbergh can be very serious and makes very | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
serious movies but I love it when he makes a fun movie. He's always said, | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
don't try and be funny, be fun. Even though this movie is set in a kind | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
of place that is a little bit desperate at the moment, they are | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
really full of life. The movie should be that way as well. I think, | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
I just love these characters, they are deeply, deeply, they mean a lot | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
to me. And you produce this as well, how involved you get from that side | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
of things and do you get involved with the likes of Daniel Craig's | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
performance? Daniel, it was a coup to get him on | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
this movie. Did you swing that? I think that was Stephen Soderberg. | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
When he calls anyone will pick up his phone call and just about anyone | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
will do a Stephen Soderberg film. We are lucky Daniel is coming out of | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
the James Bond world. I'm sure it consumes your life, even the press | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
for the thing takes up a year, travelling around and doing the | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
whole dance. He wanted to do something crazy, outside of that | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
world. He kills it in this movie. He looks so different from James Bond. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
The hair, bleached blonde. What did you do in terms of preparation? I | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
got to eat pizza and drink beer. Nightmare! You would not want to see | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
me with my shirt off in this movie. To be honest, it is not like they | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
said they wanted me to gain a bunch of weight. Jimmy Logan, after work, | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
he would have beer and pizza. Just go with that. Cut to the end of the | :16:33. | :16:45. | |
film I had put on 35, 40 pounds. I got about 25 of it off so far. It is | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
out on Friday. It was announced last week that | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
Daniel Craig would be playing James Bond for a fifth | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
and final time. But why is it that Bond villains | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
are never as good looking as 007? Adam Pearson is on a | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
mission to find out. We have got the moves, we have got | :16:59. | :17:12. | |
the style, but do we have the look to be the next James Bond and his | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
girl? Maybe not. In fact, I thought I would make a good villain. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
Disfigured, a bit of a prat and I want to rule the world. Why are | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
film-makers so keen on making scary? Blofeld, and he is a must Jaws, | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
terrifying, or does he just need a good dentist? | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
My campaign starts after she was injured in a traffic accident. They | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
did not care about stitching it up in a aesthetically pleasing way. I | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
knew it would be pretty bad and it was like a grieving process. I have | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
had years to get used to people staring that she was not used to | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
people reacting. A little girl was like, what is that on your face? I | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
said it is a scar, I have had an accident. She was, it is scary, | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
really creepy. Children it is weird. I am interested in finding out, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
depending on how old they are, whether they have seen something on | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
a film on television that makes them think scars are scary. Phil, as a | :18:34. | :18:43. | |
design student ironically was taught how to create disfigurement. I was | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
giving people scars and months later I had a real scar and it made me | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
aware of the pressing need for a massive shift in attitude. Where | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
does this attitude come from? Is the media just reflecting existing | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
prejudice? Meet this comedian. Mr Pearson. We have been expecting you. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Lawrence is the man behind the show 12% Evil, which looks at the | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
subject. He discovered it goes back centuries. There is a deep-rooted | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
fear of people who are in some way different, not like us. In the | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
middle Ages, there was a guidebook to have to recognise witches. A | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
whole chapter is about different impairments. Being a sign of | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
witchcraft. Are we wizards? No, because if you watch Harry Potter, I | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
could never go to Hogwarts. Have you seen those stairs? What is the link | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
between having a physical impairment? Maybe there is an | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
assumption if you are in a wheelchair, have a scar, a | :20:05. | :20:18. | |
disfigurement, you are around ne'er-do-wells stop the British film | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
institute now has diversity standards that film-makers need to | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
meet to get funding. And the challenge begins with the casting | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
directors. The first thing a casting director will say is will you | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
briefly on the role? So I know what I am looking for. Then hopefully, | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
you take on board and say, what about trying it a slightly different | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
way? We are so used to seeing over the years, villains portrayed in an | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
obvious way. The more we see it change, the better thinking people | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
will have on the subject. On that note, there is me, talented actor. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
And a talented casting director in James Bond territory. Let's do a | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
tiny screen test. You do know I have not cast a James Bond film. Then it | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
is the first time for both of us. Thank you very much to add. As the | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
film is called Logan Lucky we wanted to work out how lucky you were. Will | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
you indulge us and play Channing Tatum's lucky dip? Come on! You spin | :21:26. | :21:38. | |
the tombola. I had trouble with this. Spin it again, and that comes | :21:39. | :21:46. | |
out. It is a lucky seven. Tell us about your lucky break and how | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
involved Ricky Martin... Yes, they were casting for his video and my | :21:54. | :22:02. | |
buddy was going and I happen to be riding with him. It was a dance | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
audition. I am not a dancer. Just go in there and dance around like an | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
idiot and I ended up getting the thing. We did not make money it was | :22:15. | :22:23. | |
a paid vacation to the Bahamas. I was 19 years old and there was me | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
and four other guys and 50 women. I was like, you don't need to pay me, | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
I'm good. Likely audience tonight! Shall we look at the video. We are | :22:37. | :22:53. | |
going to need to see that again. There we go. You did not prepare for | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
that role with pizza and beer. There is another flash in there, I have a | :23:01. | :23:09. | |
woman flying around in the air. One. How much of your dancing ability is | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
down to luck, or kung fu? I did kung fu from nine to 13. My parents | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
needed to put me in anything so I would not get into trouble. I was an | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
over active kid. Anything to discipline me. It was a really | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
beautiful thing. It taught me a lot about body control. Do you still do | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
a little bit? Martial arts. I do not really do kung fu any war. I moved | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
away from my instructor in Mississippi. Just mixed martial | :23:48. | :23:55. | |
arts. It is stuck. We have problems now. | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
LAUGHTER. We have to do it properly. Three. | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Number three, how lucky do you feel to have danced with this superstar? | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
It was Beyonce. This is not Beyonce. It is you, who turns up. You are | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
brilliant as Beyonce. But then, the real... And your wife is here. My | :24:24. | :24:35. | |
wife. Did you know that was going to happen? I did. I got the coup she | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
was bringing out Paula and I knew what song she was doing. We are | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
competitive people. I has no plan to get Beyonce. I found her | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
people'scontacts and sent a stupid video completely with the plan does | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
not getting her. I wanted to come out with a cardboard cut out and | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
dance with her. The day I get an e-mail she is in town and she is | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
thinking about coming and it dawned on me I might have to dance as | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Beyonce, in front of Beyonce. I still have never met her without | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
looking light -- like her. Don't ever do that again! | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
This week, robotics pioneers and artificial intelligence | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
experts have been warning about the dangers of killer robots | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
But in a field in Shropshire, Marty has found some far | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
more peaceful robots - and they could change | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Being a farmer means early mornings and long days on the land. 365 days | :25:45. | :26:00. | |
a year. But what if there was another way, what if the farm of the | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
future did not have to leave the comfort of their armchair? That is a | :26:05. | :26:16. | |
strange sight. Just as driverless cars will soon be on the roads, | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
driverless tractors and combine harvesters are a real possibility. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
This field of barley behind me is being grown entirely or. A human | :26:28. | :26:36. | |
foot has not set foot inside that crop since March this year. This is | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
the first hands-free crop in the world. An experiment run by | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
scientists at Harper Adams University in Shropshire to see if | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
we can plant and grow and harvest crops using robots are lame. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Jonathan Gill is one of the engineers and founders of the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
project. Why are you doing this? Would it be easier to send people in | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
their? Technology needs to progress and we need to make our lives easier | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
and grow more food in the future. A UN report says the world needs to | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
produce 50% more food by 2050. Robot farmers could be the solution. So | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
far it is working incredibly well. Since March, the field has been | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
prepared, fertilised and sewn autonomously. Today they are | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
spraying the crop to protect it. Are you keeping an eye on it, or do you | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
go off and have a cup of tea? We still keep an eye on it. The tractor | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
steering and gears are operated by a preprogrammed computer linked to | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
GPS. Once it sets off it operates on its own but the safety, the team | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
monitors its movements from mission control, a trailer at the side of | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
the field. One thing I love is the team have taken an ordinary tractor | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
and given it a brain. Fitted it with computers and an autopilot taken | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
from a drone. With harvest a few weeks away the team are busy working | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
on their newest creation. I take it it is your combine harvester. This | :28:17. | :28:25. | |
is not a new machine? The team have brought this 25-year-old harvester | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
into the future, fitting it with on-board control systems and a | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
steering motor programme to drive it without a human hand. Will it be | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
controlled by somebody from the side? It will be autonomous based on | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
GPS so each end of the field there will be targets and at the targets | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
actions are assigned, for example, turn it off, turn it around and | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
every time it hits a position it will do the assigned action. The | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
team insists automation is not intended to replace humans but to | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
allow them to work in a different way. Do farmers agree? We invited | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
four to find out. Do you think the farmer's job is going to be | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
significantly different? We will still be doing the job of feeding | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
the country but how we do that will change. The next step is embracing | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
technology to make is efficient. How would you feel if you could do that | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
harvest without having to be out there, with the machinery people? | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
Being reasonably hands-on, I think it may be a sad day in 30 years if I | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
could not go to my field and see what is going on. That is the | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
biggest pride I have in my job, to bring it forward from a single | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
hectare in a control situation, to the real world we farm in. When it | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
gets to that stage that is when I get excited. They will be making | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
robotic country far presenters next. Thanks for your pictures. Channing, | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
would you like to read one. Linda and her husband Steve met at work 30 | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
years ago and still work for the same company. 26 years married. Jean | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
met her partner in a drawing office designing aircraft. They celebrate | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
their diamond wedding next year. Mike and Debbie met at Lloyds Bank | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
in Woking in 1983. Celebrating 30 years of marriage in November. | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
Rosemary and her husband, meeting 54 years ago. Thank you, Channing. | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
APPLAUSE Tomorrow, Michelle and I will be | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
joined by some of the stars My speed record for a full | :30:42. | :30:57. | |
amputation of the leg | :30:58. | :31:00. |