:00:20. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:23. > :00:27.Tonight's best dipped his toe in the river and ended up winning the
:00:27. > :00:31.Boat race. He dallied with drama and is now the highest paid actor
:00:31. > :00:35.on American TV. He penned a paperback which became a bestseller.
:00:35. > :00:41.And has now taken the music world by storm. But we love him because
:00:41. > :00:44.at heart, he is a bit of a bumbler. Pardon me for saying so, but it
:00:44. > :00:48.seems to be a reasonably straightforward syncopated time
:00:48. > :00:57.signature. If you were to act and the words if, where and fashion,
:00:57. > :01:02.the correct rhythmic pattern would emerge. If, where and fashion.
:01:02. > :01:11.# If you don't know where to go, why don't you go where fashions it
:01:11. > :01:14.so, putting on the Ritz. It is Hugh Laurie! Welcome. We saw
:01:14. > :01:20.you there with the wonderful Stephen Fry in Jeeves and Wooster.
:01:20. > :01:27.How does that compare to House? to so strange. It is like a
:01:27. > :01:31.previous life. A good one, though. A very wonderful previous life, but
:01:31. > :01:37.it is so strange to see that. we going to see more Jeeves and
:01:37. > :01:42.Wooster? We are pushing on a bit now. It is a young man's game. We
:01:42. > :01:47.were young and feckless. That would be lovely. I would love to do
:01:47. > :01:52.anything with the old geezer, as I refer to him when he is not here.
:01:52. > :01:58.Do you think Stephen Fry would make a good butler in real life? No. And
:01:58. > :02:03.not remotely. He doesn't have the qualities. No, he does not have the
:02:03. > :02:10.qualities. He would be good at carrying suitcases. He is big and
:02:10. > :02:14.strong. No. Were a, that is not the only time we will be seeing Hugh on
:02:14. > :02:19.a piano tonight. The studio is packed full of instruments. It is
:02:19. > :02:23.like Jools Holland in here. For a, new guidelines which may make it
:02:23. > :02:26.easier to get a Caesarean on the NHS are released tomorrow.
:02:26. > :02:36.A mum to be Angellica Bell visited one hospital to see if everyone
:02:36. > :02:37.
:02:37. > :02:44.thought this was a good idea. It is a regular day here at the
:02:44. > :02:48.East Surrey Hospital's birthing unit. I will be visiting a place
:02:48. > :02:52.like this in just over one month's time. I am hoping for a natural
:02:52. > :02:59.birth, but if recent headlines are to be believed, there may be more
:02:59. > :03:02.choice on offer for mums to be. Although the likes of Victoria
:03:02. > :03:06.Beckham, Elizabeth Hurley and Madonna have found it easy to
:03:06. > :03:12.arrange Caesareans, ordinary mums find it harder to get one if that
:03:12. > :03:15.is what they want. See sections are currently only available on the NHS
:03:15. > :03:20.when there is clear medical need, when the condition of the more baby
:03:20. > :03:23.means there is a real risk if giving birth the natural way. But
:03:23. > :03:25.now the National Institute of Clinical excellence is revising its
:03:25. > :03:30.guidance. Some believe the new guidelines out tomorrow will
:03:30. > :03:35.suggest that everyone who asks for a Caesarean should be listened to
:03:35. > :03:38.and if she insists, she should get one. That would be a victory for
:03:38. > :03:45.campaigners who say women have been denied the right to choose for too
:03:45. > :03:49.long. I hope they will give women more genuine autonomy. If a woman
:03:49. > :03:53.has looked at the risks and benefits of the two different birth
:03:53. > :03:57.plans and has decided she is more comfortable with the risks of a
:03:57. > :04:01.Caesarean, her obstetrician will listen to that woman and support
:04:01. > :04:05.her with that choice. The risks and benefits of the two planned modes
:04:05. > :04:10.of birth are so close that we cannot say categorically that one
:04:10. > :04:14.is the safest or best route for all women. How can someone believe that
:04:14. > :04:18.open surgery would be better for you? Planned Caesareans have been
:04:18. > :04:23.getting safer. Natural births are challenging. 30 years ago, just 9%
:04:23. > :04:27.of births were Caesarean sections. Now it is 25%, partly because so
:04:27. > :04:31.many modern mums are older and babies are bigger. Although the
:04:31. > :04:35.cost comparison is complicated, elective Caesareans to cost more
:04:35. > :04:40.than planned natural births when things go smoothly. That is a
:04:40. > :04:44.consideration for care trusts, as NHS funds are tight. Although
:04:44. > :04:51.Caesareans are faced -- safer now, there are still factors to weigh
:04:51. > :04:55.against the pain and risk of natural delivery. The duration of
:04:55. > :04:59.surgery takes 30 to 35 minutes. No surgery is without risk of
:04:59. > :05:03.infection. Then there is the risk of injury to the bladder. But how
:05:03. > :05:07.do new mums feel about the different ways of giving birth?
:05:07. > :05:12.Katie had hoped for in afterbirth, but after 24 hours in labour, she
:05:12. > :05:18.was rushed in for an emergency Caesarean section. Congratulations!
:05:18. > :05:25.How old is your little one? She was born just before seven this morning.
:05:25. > :05:29.And how are you feeling? Shattered. If you had the choice before you
:05:29. > :05:37.came in knowing you could have gone for a Caesarean section, would you
:05:37. > :05:44.have gone for it? I think we were quite open to anything. You were in
:05:44. > :05:53.a lot of pain yesterday. I wanted a Caesarean section just to finish.
:05:53. > :05:57.It was the scariest moment of my life. We were surrounded by 10 to
:05:57. > :06:03.12 people, didn't know what was going on. But it was worth it in
:06:03. > :06:10.the end. And you feel OK? Yeah. When people think of a Caesarean
:06:10. > :06:14.section, they do not realise it is major surgery. A few rooms away is
:06:14. > :06:18.Janet, with four-month-old Tabak grace. Was there ever talk of you
:06:18. > :06:22.having a Caesarean because of her weight? No, I always wanted a
:06:22. > :06:28.natural birth if I could have one. It is a woman's choice, but ideally
:06:28. > :06:32.if you can have your baby naturally, you do recover quicker. But should
:06:32. > :06:37.women have that choice? Ahead of having baby number two, choral does
:06:37. > :06:41.not think so. It is a bigger expense for the NHS than having a
:06:41. > :06:44.natural delivery. And if it is not medically necessary, I am not sure
:06:44. > :06:48.we should have the choice. There were no elective Caesareans booked
:06:48. > :06:52.in the day we were at the hospital, but recovery times for caesarean
:06:52. > :06:55.sections are longer than with a natural birth. Women who choose a
:06:55. > :07:01.Caesarean are ready for those things and they do not see them as
:07:01. > :07:05.a problem. They often have very good recovery as a result. Whatever
:07:05. > :07:09.tomorrow's guidelines say, for mothers-to-be and their partners,
:07:09. > :07:13.change, if any, will be gradual. do not anticipate any dramatic
:07:13. > :07:17.changes that would lead us to be needing to support Caesarean
:07:17. > :07:23.section on demand. Does this mean women will still be encouraged to
:07:23. > :07:27.give birth naturally whenever possible? For a first-time mum, it
:07:27. > :07:31.may allay a lot of the fears from the stories she has heard. For a
:07:31. > :07:35.woman who has had children before, it will be about how we can support
:07:35. > :07:42.them next time. You would not offer a C-section -- Caesarean section?
:07:42. > :07:46.No, we did not. Until the guidelines are published, we will
:07:46. > :07:50.have to wait and see what if anything will change in terms of
:07:50. > :07:57.choices available to expectant mothers. But as an expectant mother
:07:57. > :08:01.myself, we all want happy, healthy babies, whichever way they pop out.
:08:01. > :08:07.And Angellica is here in the studio, looking absolutely booming. When
:08:07. > :08:14.are you due? On 19th December, three weeks and five days away.
:08:15. > :08:19.you look tiny! Do you think? I am thinking it is a boy. Listen to the
:08:19. > :08:27.midwife! We would offer you pillows, but we only have a double bass and
:08:27. > :08:31.a large drum. I think I will be all right. Hugh, you have done a course.
:08:31. > :08:36.I have done a St John's Ambulance course. I am qualified to deliver
:08:36. > :08:40.your baby if no one else is around. This is the calmest I have felt all
:08:40. > :08:47.week after you saying that. That is the first thing they tell you, to
:08:47. > :08:52.make the mother calm. Going back to the guidelines, what do you think
:08:52. > :08:56.will happen tomorrow? guidelines will apply to the whole
:08:56. > :08:59.of the UK except Scotland. Scotland have said they believe it is down
:08:59. > :09:03.to personal circumstances, so it is between the mother-to-be and the
:09:03. > :09:07.doctor, and they will make an informed decision together. But the
:09:07. > :09:10.most significant thing from the new guidelines in the eyes of
:09:10. > :09:13.campaigners is to reinforce that the women have the right to debate
:09:13. > :09:18.their birth options. They can request a Caesarean even if there
:09:18. > :09:22.is no medical need. But that does not necessarily mean they will get
:09:22. > :09:25.one, but they have the right to debate. How win for much do you
:09:26. > :09:28.feel at this stage, with three weeks to go? With all my
:09:29. > :09:33.appointments, the word Caesarean has never been mentioned. But I
:09:33. > :09:38.have done a lot of research. A lot of women want a natural birth, but
:09:38. > :09:42.there are complications. So I am open-minded. I just want to get
:09:42. > :09:49.through it. I am nervous, but fingers crossed. We all wish you
:09:49. > :09:53.well. Hugh, you play a doctor in the hit series House. What is the
:09:53. > :09:59.biggest word you have used when diagnosing a patient? We do not
:09:59. > :10:07.have time for the biggest word I have used. It takes about 40
:10:07. > :10:12.minutes. Encephalopathy can score you are about 36 in a game of cat
:10:12. > :10:18.might boggle. Could be good in Scrabble as well. There are plenty
:10:18. > :10:23.of great words. Gyles Brandreth has been doing his own word search to
:10:23. > :10:31.find out if the nation's vocabulary is as healthy as Hugh's.
:10:31. > :10:41.It is a battle to the death. A verbal duel. Two men plumbing the
:10:41. > :10:43.
:10:43. > :10:47.depths of their massive vocabularies. A nine Letter Word.
:10:47. > :10:53.The Oxford English Dictionary defines my name as a substructure
:10:53. > :10:58.of piles. Not many know that. But Scrabble champion Allan Simmons
:10:58. > :11:01.certainly does. He reckons he has a vocabulary in excess of 100,000
:11:01. > :11:07.words, three times as many as appear in the Complete Works of
:11:07. > :11:12.Shakespeare. When I was younger, I was fascinated by finding obscure
:11:12. > :11:22.words in dictionaries and finding out more of -- about the vocabulary
:11:22. > :11:26.
:11:26. > :11:31.that was not used in conversation. Do you have a favourite word?
:11:31. > :11:34.a word for a hardwood tree. But how many of us read books, let alone
:11:34. > :11:38.ditcher is any more? And if we do not read, how do we acquire new
:11:38. > :11:41.what? Is the great British vocabulary shrinking? There is
:11:41. > :11:46.evidence that says one in four people has not read a book last
:11:46. > :11:52.year. That is horrendous. What is to be done. People need to read
:11:52. > :11:58.more. If they read imaginative stuff, it increases their
:11:58. > :12:01.vocabulary and imagination and their ability to use words. If
:12:01. > :12:07.something really awful has happened, instead of saying, that really
:12:07. > :12:12.annoyed me. They could say "I was incandescent with rage". That is
:12:12. > :12:17.more effective than I was annoyed. Professor David Crystal certainly
:12:17. > :12:24.is not short of a word or two. He has written over 100 books on the
:12:24. > :12:27.English language. Why do people still have this myth about thinking
:12:27. > :12:31.vocabulary is poor. There is more written language on the internet
:12:31. > :12:36.that in all the libraries of the world combined. When did you last
:12:36. > :12:41.see somebody not reading? It on screen in some way, or even a
:12:41. > :12:45.teenager. People say they do not read. When did you last see a
:12:45. > :12:52.teenager walking down the street, not read it. It might be their
:12:52. > :12:57.mobile phone rather than Charles Dickens, but they are reading.
:12:57. > :13:01.have come to Roehampton University to conduct our own One Show
:13:01. > :13:07.examination to the state of the nation's vocabulary. If Shakespeare
:13:07. > :13:13.used 30,000 different words, how many will these students know?
:13:13. > :13:18.Probably maybe 16,000? About 7000 words. 10,000 words? We are using a
:13:18. > :13:25.test devised by Professor Crystal. First, take a dictionary of around
:13:25. > :13:29.100,000 pages -- 100 pages or more. Pick 20 pages at random and count
:13:29. > :13:38.how many words you know. Divide the total number of pages in the
:13:38. > :13:43.Dictionary by 20 and then multiply that result by your own words core.
:13:43. > :13:53.Multiplied by 514, my result is 23,052, which I am happy with,
:13:53. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:01.because they predicted 10,000 words. I got 22,500. 30,767. 14,352.
:14:01. > :14:05.Considering that I said 10,000, I am quite happy! I am halfway to
:14:05. > :14:13.Shakespeare. So perhaps the great British vocabulary is healthier
:14:13. > :14:21.than we imagine. But the size of my own ship not be a problem. Let's
:14:21. > :14:31.see. Oh, well. I am rather gratified, viewers. My vocabulary
:14:31. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:38.totals a splendiferous 107,000 plus Can resist showing off!, lot of
:14:38. > :14:48.people will now do that. We had a little play around with your name
:14:48. > :14:52.on the Scrabble board. This is what We will bear that in mind as we go
:14:52. > :14:58.through the next little bit! are here to talk about your music.
:14:58. > :15:01.Before we do that, let's have a little miss them. If very well.
:15:01. > :15:04.# Walking down the road with my head down low.
:15:04. > :15:09.# Looking for my mama but she ain't here no more.
:15:09. > :15:19.# Baby you don't know, you don't know my mind.
:15:19. > :15:22.
:15:22. > :15:29.# When you see me laughing, I'm You have got your fingers in your
:15:29. > :15:34.ears. A always do that. I am very neurotic. I am seeing someone about
:15:34. > :15:40.it! I have always done that, I have never liked looking at myself for
:15:40. > :15:48.hearing myself. Fascinating. There are no mirrors and my house. It the
:15:48. > :15:54.music itself is gritty. It is. real late-night feel. And quite
:15:54. > :15:59.American as well. Well, yes. It is a completely American idiom. I knew
:15:59. > :16:03.that from the start. That is what I have loved since I was a small boy.
:16:03. > :16:08.I don't know why, I am from another country and another culture, but
:16:08. > :16:12.that is what I have always loved. You have got some big names on the
:16:12. > :16:21.album, how did you persuade the likes of Tom Jones to get involved?
:16:21. > :16:25.A couple of crates of beer. For my own guess is that Tom Jones loved
:16:25. > :16:31.singing. He just loves it. He doesn't want a day to go by without
:16:31. > :16:35.him singing. We caught him on a good day, he happened to be
:16:35. > :16:39.available, we sent in some tracks which he liked and he said yes. He
:16:39. > :16:46.literally did ask for beer. We thought he would want caviar and
:16:46. > :16:51.the rest of it. He said no. Down- to-earth Welsh boy! What was it
:16:51. > :16:57.like to perform with him, did you feel nervous? Yes, extremely, but
:16:57. > :17:01.he could not have been more of a gentleman. I thought at the time
:17:01. > :17:05.that in the city of Los Angeles, people get famous for two weeks and
:17:05. > :17:10.go absolutely mad and then get arrested for bondage and cocaine
:17:10. > :17:18.and Gounod's what. He has been incredibly famous for 50 years and
:17:18. > :17:23.he is the most gentlemanly, kind, funny, modest fellow you could hope
:17:23. > :17:28.to meet. An amazing man. Have you ever had a go at trying to hit the
:17:28. > :17:33.music scene before? Music has always been a big passion. No, only
:17:33. > :17:41.in the shower. Why now? You would be eased -- surprised how many
:17:41. > :17:45.people I can get into the shower! 1,800 was the biggest. I suppose I
:17:45. > :17:52.just reached the point where I thought I would hate to look back
:17:52. > :17:58.and say I could have done that and did not. Whatever happens, this is
:17:58. > :18:02.something I have to do, this means a lot to me and I have to dive in.
:18:02. > :18:12.You started playing musical instruments as a boy. You were also
:18:12. > :18:13.
:18:13. > :18:17.a keen sportsman. Yes. I mean, yes. We have got some footage. This is
:18:17. > :18:25.1980, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat race and there you Wharfe. How did
:18:25. > :18:32.you get on in this race? Do why remember? Yes. We lost by four feet.
:18:32. > :18:42.That is the result you do remember. Good biceps, every cloud. Thank you
:18:42. > :18:47.very much! It is not what Alex was talking about. Your dad did rowing.
:18:47. > :18:53.He was an absolute king of that Domain. He won an Olympic gold
:18:53. > :18:59.medal. He went to the Olympics in 1936 in Berlin and Rome again in
:18:59. > :19:05.1948, which is a considerable gap and he won the Olympic gold medal
:19:05. > :19:09.in London in 48. He was amazingly good. Everybody who saw him and his
:19:09. > :19:16.partner said they were out of this world. Do you have his gold medal?
:19:16. > :19:24.I do. I am the keeper. Talking of the world, I can let you leave
:19:24. > :19:34.without talking about House. Let's have a look at you in action.
:19:34. > :19:44.
:19:44. > :19:48.you going to test my you're in or Not diabetes. Use cross matched
:19:48. > :19:55.platelets to find a close match and get the real story. He is hiding
:19:55. > :20:02.something. Anything that is medically relevant. Apple juice.
:20:02. > :20:09.Easiest way to fight -- fake a spike in blood sugar. Is it going
:20:09. > :20:19.to be second time unlucky? Angellica Bell left that. There's
:20:19. > :20:20.
:20:20. > :20:23.going to be no sniffing or testing. Seriously, that is not funny!
:20:24. > :20:33.CD and DVD is out now and he will be performing at the end of the
:20:33. > :20:36.show. Get yourself ready. I will. You can go now. Lovely. For the
:20:36. > :20:41.last few years scientists have been baffled by the various injuries
:20:41. > :20:45.caused to harbour seals in the Outer Hebrides. Mike Dilger has
:20:45. > :20:48.been to meet one man who thinks he has got to the bottom of the
:20:48. > :20:53.mystery. Britain is home to more harbour
:20:53. > :20:57.seals than any other country in Europe. But over the past decade,
:20:57. > :21:03.there has been a huge decline in their numbers. Populations in
:21:03. > :21:10.Scotland have dropped by as much as 84%. At the same time, seals
:21:10. > :21:15.started washing up on Britain's beaches with mutilated bodies. So
:21:15. > :21:20.could there be a connection? Dr Dave Thomson thinks they raise. He
:21:20. > :21:22.is leading end investigation to find out what is going on. He is
:21:22. > :21:26.sharing the a range of gruesome photographs of seals that have died
:21:26. > :21:31.and they all seem to have the same ones. It was first thought these
:21:31. > :21:34.lethal injuries were a result of predators attacking the seals. But
:21:34. > :21:41.Dave has studied many of the corpses and has come to a different
:21:41. > :21:46.conclusion. If you look at the edges of the cuts, they are very
:21:46. > :21:51.smooth, it is not a predator. It is a rotating blade of some sort. The
:21:51. > :21:58.only mechanism we can come up with that is likely to cause that is a
:21:58. > :22:03.propeller and more specifically probably a propeller... A prime
:22:03. > :22:07.example is a bow thruster, which is used for manoeuvring ships. A seal
:22:07. > :22:13.swimming into this would explain the pathology of the wind. But not
:22:13. > :22:17.why it has happened or why it is happening now. But there are a few
:22:17. > :22:21.aspects of the seal deaths which give us clues as to why it they
:22:21. > :22:26.could be dying. Although there are also grey seals around Britain,
:22:26. > :22:30.these injuries have been found almost exclusively on harbour seals.
:22:30. > :22:35.All the rooms start at the head, indicating the seals may have been
:22:35. > :22:39.deliberately swimming into propellers and most curiously,
:22:39. > :22:44.almost all the victims are females. Dave's theory is that female
:22:44. > :22:49.harbour seals are somehow being attracted towards the propellers.
:22:49. > :22:56.The only thing we can think of that would make it that selective would
:22:56. > :23:01.be the acoustic response. Most bodies are found during the mating
:23:01. > :23:08.season. A time when males draw in the females with an extraordinary
:23:08. > :23:12.underwater call. Dave things the females can be mistaking the
:23:12. > :23:18.acoustics of the propeller for this mating call and being drawn to
:23:18. > :23:23.their death. Now he wants to scientifically prove this theory.
:23:23. > :23:26.His unit from St Andrews University has already run tests on captive
:23:26. > :23:30.seals which shows they can be tricked by coming up to an
:23:30. > :23:34.underwater Speaker. Dave wants to take his research one step further
:23:34. > :23:42.and see if he can get similar results in them wild, something
:23:42. > :23:48.The plan is to play recordings of both real mating calls and
:23:48. > :23:52.propeller sounds in the open sea, just off the coast of Oban. What
:23:52. > :23:56.would we would be interested to see his animals reacting to the sound
:23:56. > :24:02.by very closely approaching the speakers. It is that sort of close
:24:02. > :24:08.approach that seems to be happening in the interaction with propellers.
:24:08. > :24:11.They start off playing the real harbour seal mating call. To hear
:24:11. > :24:15.it by a dropped a specialist underwater microphone into the
:24:15. > :24:25.water. It is a really, really rough call, almost like a tractor
:24:25. > :24:33.starting, getting louder and louder. That is a recording of the harbour
:24:33. > :24:40.seal male making noises, but it sounds exactly like a propeller.
:24:40. > :24:43.After being in the water for a few hours, we spot seals on the surface.
:24:43. > :24:49.Dave's research is just getting under way and it will take several
:24:49. > :24:55.years before his theory is proved. In the meantime, seal deaths are
:24:55. > :24:59.likely to continue. With one seal having been washed up this week...
:24:59. > :25:05.And Britain having internationally important numbers, let's hope we
:25:05. > :25:09.get to the bottom of this problem sooner rather than later.
:25:09. > :25:14.All the very best with that study. The talking of Acoustics, we are
:25:14. > :25:18.ready to go in the studio. We have had a lovely e-mail for you. Peter
:25:18. > :25:26.and panicles have said our three- year-old grandson Sam loves you
:25:26. > :25:32.lorry so much he sings along to the Earth second track. He has to have
:25:32. > :25:38.it on in the car wherever he goes. Does he? What are you going to do
:25:38. > :25:48.for us? We are going to do a song made famous by Ray Charles,
:25:48. > :25:51.
:25:52. > :25:57.Hallelujah, I love her so. Take it # Let me tell you about a girl I
:25:57. > :26:00.know. # She's my baby and she lived next
:26:00. > :26:05.door. # In the morning when the sun comes
:26:05. > :26:14.# She brings me coffee in my favourite Cup.
:26:14. > :26:18.# Yes, I know if, yes, I know. # Hallelujah, I love her so.
:26:18. > :26:23.# When I'm in trouble off and I got no friends.
:26:24. > :26:27.# I know she'll stay with me right to the end. For # Fever last me
:26:27. > :26:34.just how I know. # Phi smile at them and say she
:26:34. > :26:42.told me so. # Yes I know of, yes I know.
:26:42. > :26:50.# Hallelujah, I love her so. # When I call her on the telephone.
:26:50. > :26:55.# And I tell her that I'm all alone. # For I got to do is count from one
:26:55. > :26:59.to four. # I hear her at my door.
:26:59. > :27:05.# In the evening when the sun goes down.
:27:05. > :27:10.# And their rain nobody else around. If # She kisses me and she holds me
:27:10. > :27:14.tight. The # Says Daddy it will be all
:27:14. > :27:24.right. # Yes I know, yes I know.
:27:24. > :27:47.
:27:47. > :27:51.# Hallow lawyer, I love her so. -- # When I call her on the telephone.
:27:51. > :27:57.# And I'd tell her that time all alone.
:27:57. > :28:05.# All I've got to do is count from one to four.
:28:05. > :28:08.# I hear her at my door. Off # In the evening when the sun goes down.
:28:08. > :28:12.# And there ain't nobody else around.
:28:12. > :28:22.# She kisses me and she holds me tight.