:00:16. > :00:31.Hello and welcome to Friday's One Show with Chris "Worsels' fan"
:00:32. > :00:36.Evans. And Alex, "NKOTB" -- New Kids On The Block Fan. It's Wear Your Old
:00:37. > :00:39.Band T-shirt to Work Day. See if you can tell who today's guest is by
:00:40. > :00:58.their t-shirt. Here we go. Clearly, the inner rocker has never
:00:59. > :01:06.left him, he is taking it on tour. Please welcome, Jack Dee!
:01:07. > :01:15.Hi. Judas Priest. Are you genuinely a fan of Judas Priest? Judas Priest
:01:16. > :01:21.for a brief period when I was younger. I talk about it on the DVD,
:01:22. > :01:26.which is why I'm wearing it today. Can you play Judas Priest on the
:01:27. > :01:36.mandolin? No, I can't. I do my own songs on the mandolin, I am a singer
:01:37. > :01:41.songer writer nowadays. We want you to send in pictures of you in your
:01:42. > :01:47.old band T-shirts. We will show as many as we can at the end of the
:01:48. > :01:50.show, usually about two! We never leave any time to show them. We
:01:51. > :01:56.might do three tonight. Let us go for three. It was a big night last
:01:57. > :02:00.night. You finished this mammoth stint? The tour has been going on
:02:01. > :02:06.for nearly two years including warmups. Was it relief, sadness?
:02:07. > :02:12.There is always a thing where you think, I'm looking forward to it
:02:13. > :02:17.being over. Then you think, what will I do next? I'm in limbo. You
:02:18. > :02:21.have to see your family. I went on tour because I wanted to spend less
:02:22. > :02:27.time with my family and talk about them. They have all grown since I've
:02:28. > :02:33.been been away. You talk about that on tour. It's the perfect way to run
:02:34. > :02:38.a relationship? From a distance. You text each other. It's great.
:02:39. > :02:42.Terrible. Miss you too - send. It's done. Perfect way to have a
:02:43. > :02:49.relationship. All right. You would be hard pressed not know that today
:02:50. > :02:53.is the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassinations. Months before he was
:02:54. > :02:58.killed President Kennedy was in East Sussex for a day. The stars of our
:02:59. > :03:03.next film will never forget. 50 years ago today a gunshot
:03:04. > :03:15.reverberated around the globe. The world's most powerful man had been
:03:16. > :03:19.assassinated. Four Sussex schoolboys and an Irish photographer were you
:03:20. > :03:24.lucky enough to have an encounter the the President before he died.
:03:25. > :03:30.For the first time since the 1960s the boys are reuniting to share
:03:31. > :03:36.their memories of meeting JFK. Robert, nice to see you again. It's
:03:37. > :03:42.a long time. Shall we go in? Let's do that. Tell me about the day that
:03:43. > :03:47.JFK visited, why was he here? He had been to Europe. He was here for a
:03:48. > :03:52.weekend before going back to the States to meet Macmillan. It was an
:03:53. > :03:59.important visit. There was no Chequers, there was Birch Groove.
:04:00. > :04:02.What do you remember We lined the drive. There was excitement about
:04:03. > :04:06.this man whom we had heard so much about at the time of the Cuban
:04:07. > :04:10.Missile Crisis. We were terribly impressed I think by the cars and
:04:11. > :04:17.the walkie talkies and all that sort of thing. Just terribly exciting.
:04:18. > :04:21.Look at that one? He looks all powerful. That captures it exactly
:04:22. > :04:29.as I have it framed in my mind. There are the secret service people.
:04:30. > :04:34.Lady Dorothy Macmillan. He towered above us. Asked us about the school.
:04:35. > :04:39.He thanked us for lining the drive. It will live with me me forever
:04:40. > :04:43.that. That was fantastic. 50 years ago now, it's a bigger point in your
:04:44. > :04:50.life than you probably realised at the time. Months earlier Kennedy had
:04:51. > :04:57.also visited Ireland which he saw as his an kestrel home. Stanley Shields
:04:58. > :05:03.was there to capture the President's emotional visit. Lovely. Fantastic.
:05:04. > :05:06.I didn't realise I was photographing the most powerful man in the world.
:05:07. > :05:09.As far as I was concerned, it was another job. All the the other
:05:10. > :05:14.photographers were taking pictures. There's no point taking his back. I
:05:15. > :05:19.touched him on the shoulder and said, "Mr President, will you look
:05:20. > :05:25.this way" he turned round. I got his picture. He got into the car. I
:05:26. > :05:29.winked at him first, he winked back. Then he nodded his head. I went up
:05:30. > :05:38.to the car, opened the door, got in, lifted up my camera and there were
:05:39. > :05:44.two fellas on top of me. Kennedy say, "it's OK, Jim, he's a friend."
:05:45. > :05:49.They let me go. The two fellas are keeping an eye on me. I think he's
:05:50. > :05:53.amused by me. It really was a privilege to meet President Kennedy.
:05:54. > :06:00.I was honoured. He gave me the picture. To this day I treasure
:06:01. > :06:07.having taken. Here we are, this is the driveway? This is it. I remember
:06:08. > :06:11.it as bushier. The drive felt three times the length of this at the
:06:12. > :06:17.time. He would have parked here? About here. We were dotted down each
:06:18. > :06:21.side. They came for some reason I decided to cross over. He shook
:06:22. > :06:28.hands with the people on the right and not with the people on the left.
:06:29. > :06:33.Error! You were on the right! I know that Robert you kept a diary
:06:34. > :06:38.religiously for the whole year of 1963? I did. There it is. Written in
:06:39. > :06:42.pencil. That is incredible. An entry for every day of the year. What did
:06:43. > :06:49.you write on the day you found out he had been assassinated? Friday
:06:50. > :06:58.22nd November, I used to hate Friday fish, Friday fish was not bad. Ate
:06:59. > :07:02.it with tomatoes, quite nice. At 7.00pm, heard that President Kennedy
:07:03. > :07:11.had been shot. Did not believe it until I was told through the radio.
:07:12. > :07:22.He died at about 7.30pm. Felt very shocked and frightened as to what
:07:23. > :07:32.was to happen to the world. Super, quite nice hchlt a bath, quite fun.
:07:33. > :07:38.Aneat join us in the studio. Nice bob. Thank you. The assassination
:07:39. > :07:42.resonates with people 50 years on, doesn't it? Spending time with those
:07:43. > :07:47.four Oldboy, the stories they were saying. They explained that at that
:07:48. > :07:51.time this man had just taken, he had become the leader of the free world.
:07:52. > :07:56.He was young, dynamic, charismatic. Even though we are in Britain and he
:07:57. > :08:00.is the President of the USA it affected them as well. He turned up
:08:01. > :08:03.to Birch Groove, they were in a privileged position where they were
:08:04. > :08:08.lined up to greet him. He didn't have to stop his limousine and get
:08:09. > :08:12.out. Charles de Gaulle was there a few months earlier and driven past.
:08:13. > :08:17.He parked the car up, he shook their hands. He had the common touch. The
:08:18. > :08:21.charisma oozed out of him. This tall, bronzed man walked towards
:08:22. > :08:26.them. They felt they were in the presence of somebody great. The You
:08:27. > :08:33.have someone special with you tonight? Never seen before footage
:08:34. > :08:38.of the day of the assassination. OK. Never seen before! Let's have a
:08:39. > :08:45.look. What is this now? This was taken by a chap called Andre Leche.
:08:46. > :08:51.He had a new camera. He is on the north side of main street. This is
:08:52. > :08:56.the motorcade coming down with John F Kennedy. It's a minute away when
:08:57. > :09:01.they turned into Dealey Plaza, where he was assassinated. It's just taken
:09:02. > :09:08.a minute before the shooting. That has never been seen before. The chap
:09:09. > :09:12.who took that footage, Andre died in 1987. This year his son was going
:09:13. > :09:17.through his stuff and found this Kodak box on it was written
:09:18. > :09:21."Kennedy." That was fwh it. Incredible. There are o lot of
:09:22. > :09:25.conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination. Jack, do you believe
:09:26. > :09:31.hes those theories? No. I read a book about it recently. I think Oz
:09:32. > :09:38.Oz Oz, he was a loner. -- Lee Harvey Oswald, he was a loner. A sad o, I
:09:39. > :09:44.don't think he was in league with anyone. A nut case. Is a hankering
:09:45. > :09:49.to be a better story? That is all it was. He wanted to prove himself to
:09:50. > :09:55.the world and his wife. He was a failure. I think he was trying to
:09:56. > :09:59.make his mark. The theories go from the plausible to the ridiculous.
:10:00. > :10:06.Everybody from the CIA to the mob, to Cuba, the Soviets to Jackie,
:10:07. > :10:10.sitting next to him. To Vice-President Johnson. So many
:10:11. > :10:20.conspiracy theories. Have to talk T-shirts. Off you go. The Smiths. It
:10:21. > :10:27.was one summer, the previous year at school I was the biggest Blockhead!
:10:28. > :10:31.Yeah. Somebody at school's older brother was into the Smiths, a tape
:10:32. > :10:37.was being passed around. The next summer I'm not into those sados any
:10:38. > :10:44.more, I'm into proper music. My teenage years were spent alone
:10:45. > :10:52.listening to the Smiths. It's hot. Very hot. Come on, girls, focus. A
:10:53. > :10:58.delightful tale of children's author, Judith Kerr a woman
:10:59. > :11:02.enchanted by the strangeness of our feline friends. Who better to meet
:11:03. > :11:06.her than Phil "The Cat" Tuffnell who spent the day listening to her
:11:07. > :11:09.incredible story. Judith Kerr is a children's author whose books have
:11:10. > :11:18.been bestsellers for almost 50 years. She is the lady who created
:11:19. > :11:24.the hugely successful Mog the Forget Cat and The Great Granny Gang. She
:11:25. > :11:34.wrote the books and illustrated them as well. Her first book, The Tiger
:11:35. > :11:38.Who Came To Tea, has never been out of print and was written in 1965.
:11:39. > :11:45.What has been the secret of your success? I was very lucky when I
:11:46. > :11:49.started because it was just the beginning of a great interest in
:11:50. > :11:56.picture books because realised that they were very important for helping
:11:57. > :12:00.children to read. The tiger was a story I made up for my little
:12:01. > :12:06.daughter when she was two going on three. The story centres on a tiger
:12:07. > :12:11.who pay as surprise visit to Sophie and eats all the food in the house.
:12:12. > :12:15.Somehow Judith researches her illustrations has changed
:12:16. > :12:20.considerably since her first book. I used to go to the zoo to draw
:12:21. > :12:28.tigers. Now you can Google it. Wonderful. You can Google "open
:12:29. > :12:35.mouthed tigers" a whole lot of open-mouthed tigers come up. Her
:12:36. > :12:46.writing is not always fictional. Her 1971 book, When Hitler Stole Pink
:12:47. > :12:52.It. My father was a well-known writer in Germany. He was witty and
:12:53. > :13:01.made fun of Hitler and warned people against him very early on. He was
:13:02. > :13:05.second on Hitler's Hit List. Six months before they came into power
:13:06. > :13:11.they published a list of people in their Nazi newspaper and these were
:13:12. > :13:15.people they said, when we come to power we will stand these people up
:13:16. > :13:21.against the wall and shoot them. My dad was second on the list. It
:13:22. > :13:26.wasn't really a good place to stay. We got out. We got across the
:13:27. > :13:34.frontier and got to Switzerland. Terrible for my parents. They lost
:13:35. > :13:41.everything. The What made you write Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit? I thought
:13:42. > :13:47.I would write this book to try and explain what it was like. Tells the
:13:48. > :13:53.story of a family fleeing the Nazis. It's a set text in many schools. In
:13:54. > :13:57.Germany they have to write essays about it. I used to hate writing
:13:58. > :14:00.essays about books. I don't think they make them do here, which is
:14:01. > :14:08.nice. As a child she didn't have a pet. Her children had many. One in
:14:09. > :14:12.particular inspired her Mog The Forgetful Cat series. I was
:14:13. > :14:16.fascinated by all the things she did. They are weird cats. They do
:14:17. > :14:20.odd things. She did all these things. She wanted her super. She
:14:21. > :14:25.would the sit on the telly and hang her tail down in front of the
:14:26. > :14:28.screen. I thought I would do a book about all the things this cat did.
:14:29. > :14:33.You are not afraid to tackle difficult subjects. You killed off
:14:34. > :14:39.Mog, didn't you? Well, I mean, pets do die. Upset a few people, didn't
:14:40. > :14:45.it? It was very funny because when I asked in the shops after it was out,
:14:46. > :14:50.people told me that the children all took it in their stride but the mums
:14:51. > :14:54.all wept. Judith is a master when it comes to illustrating cats. I'm
:14:55. > :15:04.wondering how my drawing will measure up. Where would we start? I
:15:05. > :15:15.start with the head. Yes. Eyes. Smile. Yes. And ears. And then the
:15:16. > :15:24.tail. What do you think of my chap? Unusual. It's square! I quite like.
:15:25. > :15:30.It Sort of essence of cat. That's what I'm getting. I could sit here
:15:31. > :15:40.drawing cats with you all day. Well, why not! Why not! Meow! It's like a
:15:41. > :15:45.bear cat. You drew a bear. It wasn't very good. He is a spin bowler, they
:15:46. > :15:49.are all crazy. Let us see yours? It's the first cat I have ever
:15:50. > :15:56.drawn. I don't believe you. I drew the body, I ran out of space for the
:15:57. > :16:03.ears. They aren't very big. Monster Cat! A slit for a mouth? He has a
:16:04. > :16:11.bowl there. The mouth does open. Right, good. You will see that cat
:16:12. > :16:18.again on the Doctor Who Special tomorrow night. It was hard to
:16:19. > :16:28.choose a clip from your DVD? Normally it's impossible to find a
:16:29. > :16:43.funny bit from a DVD. Local handy man, no job too small. To me, that
:16:44. > :16:50.is like a challenge. I rang him up. I said, I got your flyer, I wonder
:16:51. > :17:02.if you could please come over because I've got a pencil that needs
:17:03. > :17:07.sharpening. Jack, small ads, you meet a Japanese tourist asking for
:17:08. > :17:12.directions, that is funny. Buying paracetamols is that funny. Can you
:17:13. > :17:17.make everything funny? With me, it's the tiny stuff. That is what I like
:17:18. > :17:21.to focus on. Big stuff, on the news, it writes its own comedy. Everyone
:17:22. > :17:25.can figure their own jokes. I like to go in for stuff under your nose
:17:26. > :17:32.and make you laugh about that. That is what I've done. Do you have a go
:17:33. > :17:37.at some subjects. They seem so mundane? Sometimes. I did stuff
:17:38. > :17:41.about religion and conspiracy theories, those are big subjects.
:17:42. > :17:45.They don't expand for me in the same way that just little tiny stuff
:17:46. > :17:50.does. I love to completely unpack. That is where I've got the most fun.
:17:51. > :17:55.I think the audience have with me. Can we talk about your gumpiness?
:17:56. > :18:01.Everyone knows you are pretty grumpy. A little bit miserable. The
:18:02. > :18:05.Me! ? We think you might be in a a transitional phrase you could go
:18:06. > :18:10.content or super grumpy? I'm not happy with this grumpy description.
:18:11. > :18:17.Never heard that before? No. The next tour I will call it No More Mr
:18:18. > :18:22.Nice Guy. I will show people my true nature, it will be ugly. Do you fear
:18:23. > :18:27.contentment, it isn't funny at all? If I get contentment, I have had it.
:18:28. > :18:32.I make the point of never being happy or satisfied with anything.
:18:33. > :18:39.Jane, my wife will say, do you want to go to the restaurant? I say, is
:18:40. > :18:43.it nice? She says yes, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in
:18:44. > :18:51.nice times. This is the first DVD that your twins can legally watch.
:18:52. > :19:04.What do they make? -- make of it? They are now 15. One of my boys eats
:19:05. > :19:14.Coco Pops. He said, you could have told me not to. I felt dreadful as
:19:15. > :19:17.he was enjoying them. Python is getting back together, have you got
:19:18. > :19:21.an opinion? Why would they want to do that. They are legends. Good
:19:22. > :19:26.luck. They are my heroes. I think, you have made your mark. You have
:19:27. > :19:31.done your best thing possible. I hope it's fun. Would you buy a
:19:32. > :19:37.ticket? If I could, I would. It would be sold-out, what is the point
:19:38. > :19:41.of trying! They will sell-out too quickly. You would Raith ter would
:19:42. > :19:46.sell-out and you couldn't get a ticket. Everything I want to go
:19:47. > :19:52.sells out too quickly. I really have to work to sell my tickets. You said
:19:53. > :19:56.goodbye to like two years worth of material last night. I asked you
:19:57. > :20:00.about some of the routine. It's almost like you have already deleted
:20:01. > :20:04.it. You couldn't remember last night's - into no, it has gone out
:20:05. > :20:07.of my head. You said - what comes after that bit? I'm like, I don't
:20:08. > :20:12.know. It's gone now. It will probably never come back. I don't
:20:13. > :20:18.keep it in my head. Unless I'm on the stage, then I'm living it again.
:20:19. > :20:21.It comes back. Then it flows. Hopefully you haven't forgotten how
:20:22. > :20:27.to play the mandolin. Why did you learn? For the tour. I had an idea
:20:28. > :20:32.for a song. I played guitar. The guitar is like I'm taking myself too
:20:33. > :20:39.seriously. I bought a mandolin. The song is on the DVD. I will be able
:20:40. > :20:44.to say this is from my latest album! It is. I bought a mandolin. When you
:20:45. > :20:50.are on tour you have spare time. Prove you can play it then? Do you
:20:51. > :21:09.want a little bit of it? Yes, if you don't mind.
:21:10. > :21:21.What are you doing? ! Having fun. Jack Dee, come on, let's hear it it
:21:22. > :21:26.for Jack. I was getting into that, they ruined it. That is your talent.
:21:27. > :21:34.We found out earlier that Chris does have a talent. OK, blink and you
:21:35. > :21:47.will miss it. OK. It's a wood pigeon. Often mistake as an owl by
:21:48. > :21:52.people from your dressing room. There may be over a million of them
:21:53. > :21:57.but the pigeon is perhaps the most overlooked bird in the UK. Yes,
:21:58. > :22:01.surprisingly this unassuming animal has contributed towards human
:22:02. > :22:08.civilisation in more ways than any other species of bird. The pigeon's
:22:09. > :22:15.rich history hasn't always been associated with their reputation of
:22:16. > :22:20.fly vermon. Darwin studied and wrote expensively about the pigeon and
:22:21. > :22:24.they became decorated national heroes during both world wars. The
:22:25. > :22:30.pigeon is in fact a hugely important and successful bird. Maybe it just
:22:31. > :22:38.needs to be looked at differently. One person who does have an
:22:39. > :22:42.enlighten views of pigeons is Adam Rogers. He has been investigating
:22:43. > :22:46.some of the reasons for their success. These pigeons are
:22:47. > :22:52.fantastic. They have an image problem, I reckon. If you look at
:22:53. > :22:56.them, they are amazingly intelligent gent species. They have a sense of
:22:57. > :23:01.self. They can recognise their own reflection in a mirror on a TV
:23:02. > :23:07.screen. That puts them up there with dolphins, elfants, Why are they
:23:08. > :23:12.successful in the urban environment? Our urban environment with our
:23:13. > :23:17.high-rise flats and buildings is a perfect replica where they would
:23:18. > :23:23.have come from. They breed all year round. The pigeon's agility has
:23:24. > :23:28.helped in their success. They are surprisingly athletic. Their strong
:23:29. > :23:34.flight muscles give them power and they can access the city's nooks and
:23:35. > :23:38.crannies and they can escape easily from predators. They can take off
:23:39. > :23:43.almost vertically. We have decided to take a closer look at this
:23:44. > :23:53.special skill in the most urban of settings. We have brought along a
:23:54. > :23:58.time slice rig, 4 mini cameras and slow motion camera. We can freeze
:23:59. > :24:05.and move around the, action, usually only in a semi circle. We are are
:24:06. > :24:07.able to get the full 360 degree look. We will not rely on a wild
:24:08. > :24:32.pigeon. This is S MUGE. It takes a lot of energy to achieve
:24:33. > :24:36.that vertical takeoff. It happens in the blink of an eye. With our
:24:37. > :24:41.cameras, we can reveal their flight in much more detail. Leaping into
:24:42. > :24:46.the air is the start. Next raising their wings until they meet in a
:24:47. > :24:49.loud clap and peeling them apart again, it creates air pressure
:24:50. > :24:58.differences that almost suck the bird into the air. Pigeons share
:24:59. > :25:02.something in common with the much more specialised hummingbirds. They
:25:03. > :25:10.can generate significant lift on the wings upstroke as well as the down
:25:11. > :25:15.stroke. Pausing the action reveals that the vertical body position
:25:16. > :25:22.during her high energy assent. This is happening on every stroke of her
:25:23. > :25:27.rapid wing beat. Every beat is seven times faster than a human blink.
:25:28. > :25:36.Seeing them like this, you can't help but admire this avain acrobat.
:25:37. > :25:42.Next time you are out shopping, why not take a moment to appreciate what
:25:43. > :25:49.a fabulous bird the pigeon is. They really are our urban hummingbirds.
:25:50. > :25:53.Thank you very much. The Now, they do wonderful things at University
:25:54. > :26:00.College London, one of them is in the studio right now, it is a pigeon
:26:01. > :26:12.simulator. Jack here has been tasked with trying it out. Why does Britain
:26:13. > :26:17.need a pigeon simulator? We are trying to make London smart and the
:26:18. > :26:21.UK smart and every time you use your phone, every time you tweet you let
:26:22. > :26:25.a little bit of your self-out. We can grab that, grab your location
:26:26. > :26:31.and learn about how places work. Let us give it a go then. Jack is the
:26:32. > :26:38.pigeon. We are at London Bridge. Jack, your task is to fly home to
:26:39. > :26:43.the Apollo. The Put your arms directly out. Like a pigeon. You are
:26:44. > :26:49.flying around. You can flap to go higher. This isn't a joke. Jack is
:26:50. > :26:56.controlling this. It's not a joke, I can do that. He can zoom, lean
:26:57. > :27:03.forward, dive. If I see rubbish, can I go down and have a bit of a meal?
:27:04. > :27:09.Find the Apollo. It's your spiritual home. It's on tonight. You are going
:27:10. > :27:14.east. You are going west. What is the purpose then of this? Left,
:27:15. > :27:20.Jack, left. I don't look stupid, do I? You are going round in circles.
:27:21. > :27:25.I'm a confused pigeon. I haven't done this before. They are putting
:27:26. > :27:29.it in schools. It will go into classrooms. We are viewing it as a
:27:30. > :27:33.learning tool. They do fantastic work which is putting information
:27:34. > :27:38.into the world. We want them to fly about it in a new and fun way to
:27:39. > :27:43.learn about place, space and geography. You look like you are
:27:44. > :27:54.having more fun? I'm enjoying it. I always wanted to do this. Do you
:27:55. > :28:01.have fly dreams? Don't stop! Andrew, if someone tried to buy this off you
:28:02. > :28:06.for million pounds It's completely free. It's all out there. Can you
:28:07. > :28:10.come here and we will do these band t-shirt things. You have Judas
:28:11. > :28:22.Priest there. Thank you, Andy. That was great. The Undertones shirt
:28:23. > :28:34.there. This is Martin. This is with his Judas Priest. Here's Rosie and
:28:35. > :28:41.her dad in his ACD t-shirt. His brand new DVD is very funny. It's
:28:42. > :28:45.Hardenne to get a very funny comedy DVD. So What? Is out now. Kids are
:28:46. > :28:49.going to love this. What is happening over the weekend? Lots of
:28:50. > :28:55.different things over the weekend. On Monday we will be back with
:28:56. > :29:00.Esther Rantzen. It's the 40 anniversary of the That's Life.
:29:01. > :29:02.Don't miss Doctor Who tomorrow night. Goodbye.