:00:16. > :00:23.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones and Matt Baker.
:00:24. > :00:26.Tonight's guest is an actress and former paid up member of the Young
:00:27. > :00:32.Ornithologist's Club. AUDIENCE: Ooh! Ooh, indeed. We are
:00:33. > :00:35.putting her to the test. Tony, can we have the first bird impression of
:00:36. > :00:46.the show, please. He's good, isn't he. Caroline
:00:47. > :00:52.Quentin, name that bird? It's tricky. I've got two, I'm swinging
:00:53. > :00:57.between two. Between a robin and a blackbird. I will go robin. I'm
:00:58. > :01:08.clapping early. Let us see if you are right? YES! I like that robin. I
:01:09. > :01:18.couldn't contain my excitement. You get so excited. I love a bird call.
:01:19. > :01:22.Nice to see you. Lovely to see you both. We will put Caroline
:01:23. > :01:27.on-the-spot throughout the show. By the end of the programme you should
:01:28. > :01:31.be able to recognise what these five familiar garden birds look like.
:01:32. > :01:36.Look away. I'm not looking at. Caroline will also be talking about
:01:37. > :01:46.her new play, Oh, What A Lovely War. First, Lucy has been to visit a
:01:47. > :01:52.village that has become an Ireland. An island. Here we are in so
:01:53. > :01:56.Somerset. I'm meeting a community who have suddenly become islanders.
:01:57. > :02:02.It's causing them a lot of inconvenience. The village of
:02:03. > :02:06.Muchelney was cut off from surrounding towns and villages by
:02:07. > :02:11.floods three weeks ago. This is actually the main road into the
:02:12. > :02:15.village. You can just see that object, that's actually a car.
:02:16. > :02:20.That's its roof. Lies in what is effectively a large basin. Rainwater
:02:21. > :02:27.from the surrounding higher ground runs down into it causing it to
:02:28. > :02:31.flood. The 190 villages here are reliant on a boat provided by the
:02:32. > :02:35.council. This is one of the first of the day. The boat is used to
:02:36. > :02:41.transport, food, medical supplies and even animals. He doesn't like
:02:42. > :02:46.the water. It takes an hour to get from home to the school. The kids
:02:47. > :02:54.are getting cold, wet. After 4.00pm there is no boat. You are stranded.
:02:55. > :03:02.# The village church is a collection point for food and post. Are there
:03:03. > :03:04.postives that have come out of this? The community has come together on
:03:05. > :03:08.Sunday we had a time in the service where people can write down the good
:03:09. > :03:13.things that have happened. Friendship, met good neighbours. The
:03:14. > :03:23.children enjoyed the tractor rides. It's beautiful, yet it's tragic.
:03:24. > :03:24.Peter and his wife Liz had only just finished repairing damage from the
:03:25. > :03:29.flood last year when they were hit finished repairing damage from the
:03:30. > :03:37.again. This time it was even worse. The name Muchelney, means big or
:03:38. > :03:40.great island in saxon. Isn't the clue in the name. Britain is an
:03:41. > :03:46.island. You don't expect it to flood. An island is out of water.
:03:47. > :03:49.Are you feeling now that you are knee deep in water again? The
:03:50. > :03:53.Environment Agency should have dredged the river. They failed to do
:03:54. > :03:58.it. This flood is going on much longer than is perhaps necessary
:03:59. > :04:01.because they are enable to get rid of the water. No-one from the
:04:02. > :04:07.Environment Agency has visited the village. It's hard to believe they
:04:08. > :04:11.take it seriously. The Environment Agency agreed to talk to us about
:04:12. > :04:16.the villagers' concerned, but declined to come to the village. I
:04:17. > :04:22.took the villagers' concerns to them. Why aren't you dredging? It's
:04:23. > :04:27.so flat. If you lower the wed bed you Inamoto crease storage and speed
:04:28. > :04:32.up flow as bit. When we is have something like 85 million tonnes of
:04:33. > :04:40.water coming past here, in a four week period, that will make little
:04:41. > :04:45.difference, the problem is, if you accelerate it gets worse downstream.
:04:46. > :04:50.It would have made no difference? No. There are many things that would
:04:51. > :04:53.have a greater benefit. The point is, it hasn't been part of the
:04:54. > :04:59.answer because you didn't do the dredging? They still would have
:05:00. > :05:03.flooded if we'd done the drijing. -- dredging. . Seeing the roof of that
:05:04. > :05:09.car going through the water. Extraordinary. You live in Devon...
:05:10. > :05:12.I pass the Sommer set Levels on the train, to and from London, you can
:05:13. > :05:21.see, my husband said, "I remember when all this was fields." Just a
:05:22. > :05:25.huge lake. Those poor people, just done their house. Terrible.
:05:26. > :05:30.Caroline, you are in the revival of the old musical, Oh, What A Lovely
:05:31. > :05:34.War. The this surely is all part of the centenary of the Great War? It
:05:35. > :05:38.is. It's 50 years since Joan Littlewood's production was produced
:05:39. > :05:42.at Strafford East Centre where we are remounting it. We are sticking
:05:43. > :05:47.pretty much to the original concept of the show and script. Tery
:05:48. > :05:53.Johnson, our director, has put modern tweaks in. It has a modern
:05:54. > :05:57.edge, it's very much in keeping with that original production. OK. For
:05:58. > :06:00.those who then aren't familiar with it as a musical. Can you describe
:06:01. > :06:12.what it is about? It's difficult to describe really because it's based
:06:13. > :06:17.on a on a pier show and based around the world war one shows that people
:06:18. > :06:21.will know, Pack Up Your Troubles and Goodbye, those beautiful songs. The
:06:22. > :06:25.story is told of how the war started, what happened, who joined,
:06:26. > :06:31.it's from a political and personal perspective. It's very much from the
:06:32. > :06:38.soldiers' point of view. OK. As far as your role is concerned, or roles?
:06:39. > :06:43.Yes. There is me, Tom, Olly, all the guys. I play lots of different
:06:44. > :06:48.things. My main role is really a variety singer. A recruitment
:06:49. > :06:54.officer in a very tight dress. We will talk about the satire side of
:06:55. > :07:00.it in a moment. Talk about the corset in a moment. It was a West
:07:01. > :07:01.End hit, global hit and a Hollywood film by Richard Attenborough. Let us
:07:02. > :07:18.look at it now. # A third Sob Officer jumped right
:07:19. > :07:23.over to other Sob Officer back... # They were only playing leapfrog
:07:24. > :07:31.# They were only playing leapfrog # They were only playing leapfrog
:07:32. > :07:35.# When one Sob Officer jumped right over another sub officers back...
:07:36. > :07:41.#. I left a room full of boys bending
:07:42. > :07:45.over and jumping over each other. That is showbusiness, I suppose. I
:07:46. > :07:50.can't continue with this story. The image is wonderful. They were lined
:07:51. > :07:57.up and bouncing over each other rehearsing that number. Used
:07:58. > :08:05.traditional songs to be satirical? Yes. To lift the spirits. When you
:08:06. > :08:10.are in a trench, up to your waist in mud, and there are rats everywhere
:08:11. > :08:13.and you're frightened, and a lot of them untrained, I think those songs
:08:14. > :08:20.were used to bolster their spirits. Back in the day when it came out in
:08:21. > :08:25.the 60s, there wasn't much satire around about the Great War. It was a
:08:26. > :08:30.real risk is It was. In that British way, it had been made very sacred.
:08:31. > :08:35.One wasn't allowed to criticise ones superiors in those days. I think
:08:36. > :08:41.Joan Littlewood's company really challenged some of that. The show
:08:42. > :08:48.is, to this day, very funny. I mean, properly funny, and very moving. And
:08:49. > :08:52.kind of sexy and... It's a show for the people. I mean, it's very
:08:53. > :08:55.embracing. That is the twist you were saying that has been put on it
:08:56. > :08:58.for today's modern audience? Yes. were saying that has been put on it
:08:59. > :09:02.It's there in the original, but some of it has been tweaked a bit to make
:09:03. > :09:06.it even more accessible for a whole new generation, some of whom, like
:09:07. > :09:09.my children, will only know very little really about the First World
:09:10. > :09:14.War. It's a way of educating them, but in a kind of gentle way. On that
:09:15. > :09:19.topic of children going to see it and learning, Michael Gove spoke out
:09:20. > :09:24.and said children shouldn't necessarily learn about the Great
:09:25. > :09:28.War through satire? I would like to say, thank you Michael, our ticket
:09:29. > :09:34.sales went through the roof! Really, I don't need to be here to sell it,
:09:35. > :09:38.Michael Gove has done it for me. He is entitled to that opinion. He
:09:39. > :09:42.voiced it. He is in the business of being heard and selling his version
:09:43. > :09:48.of events. He is perfectly entitled to do that. I don't... I don't agree
:09:49. > :09:52.with him. I think it's a beautiful piece of theatre. And, I think most
:09:53. > :09:58.of us would struggle to say that there isn't a time to reflect on the
:09:59. > :10:04.terrible carnage and waste of human life. That's my feeling about it.
:10:05. > :10:07.Lovely, OK. Oh, What A Lovely War opens at the Theatre Royal,
:10:08. > :10:13.Stratford East in London on 1st February. The songs from that play
:10:14. > :10:18.began life in the musical halls that were hugely popular at the time of
:10:19. > :10:22.the First World War. One of them, Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old
:10:23. > :10:25.Kit Bag became such a huge global hit that even the German soldiers
:10:26. > :10:25.Kit Bag became such a huge global started singing it on the other side
:10:26. > :10:34.Kit Bag became such a huge global of no-man's land.
:10:35. > :10:40.# Pack up your trouble in your old kit back and smile, smile... #
:10:41. > :10:46.Pack Up Your Troubles is the song at the heart of the launch of the BBC's
:10:47. > :10:51.World War I centenary. Written by two Welsh brothers in the early days
:10:52. > :10:55.of the war, the words and tune are still familiar to us a century
:10:56. > :10:59.later. Back then the writers did not expect it to catch on. The song
:11:00. > :11:03.would have been performed in music halls like this one. During the
:11:04. > :11:06.First World War musical halls thrived on the home front when
:11:07. > :11:12.people headed out for entertainment and song. These were the days before
:11:13. > :11:19.radio, people would have to turn to their own talents to share music.
:11:20. > :11:24.The piece of kit that made this song accessible was this, the piano. The
:11:25. > :11:29.60 years leading up to 1914 were a golden era for piano production.
:11:30. > :11:33.These would have been in every pub, in every house, you could hire them
:11:34. > :11:39.for a few shillings a week. Whereas today we download songs or buy CDs,
:11:40. > :11:44.in those days sheet music was the most popular way to get hold of a
:11:45. > :11:48.song. People gathered around a piano for a sing song would have been
:11:49. > :11:51.familiar. This is an original copy of the sheet music of the song.
:11:52. > :11:59.These sold in their thousands. Pack Up Your Troubles was a huge success.
:12:00. > :12:03.# Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag... #
:12:04. > :12:08.Popular on the home front, it was a firm favourite for soldiers on the
:12:09. > :12:14.western front. It spread didn't stop there. The song went global and was
:12:15. > :12:15.released on record in the UK and United States and featured in a
:12:16. > :12:33.successful Broadway musical. But what was it that made this song
:12:34. > :12:37.so popular? How did Pack Up Your Troubles become the viral hit of
:12:38. > :12:41.World War I? To answer that very question is the man himself, Mr
:12:42. > :12:45.Gareth Malone. Hello, how did it become so popular? It's an
:12:46. > :12:53.immediately easy song I think for people of that era to recognise.
:12:54. > :13:04.It's very... Musical. The two brothers wrote it in 6. 8 time. Had
:13:05. > :13:08.a little. Put it in a drawer marked "duds" they dragged it out for a a
:13:09. > :13:13.marching competition which won. It was then a huge hit. It was in a
:13:14. > :13:18.different key? G Major. It's a nice simple key. One sharp. Anyone could
:13:19. > :13:24.play it on frontline if you had a fiddle or a bango, nice easy key.
:13:25. > :13:31.The words themselves actually resonated, didn't they, with the
:13:32. > :13:39.soldiers? Very much. Everyone had a kit bag. The second line is "why you
:13:40. > :13:44.have a Lucifer" a match would light under any circumstances. Probably
:13:45. > :13:49.chemicals. We don't have them any more. Things that were familiar.
:13:50. > :14:03.People would end up postcards saying "pack up your Troubles." Eliza
:14:04. > :14:09.Dolittle did a version. Is is this an original? Be careful. If you slow
:14:10. > :14:13.it down. It was sung in the darkest of times? It was. At the moment it
:14:14. > :14:33.says, "with a is the use of worrying, it never was worthwhile",
:14:34. > :14:37.like a sermon. The boat sank and they needed great need of it. Are
:14:38. > :14:41.you having difficulty with your songs. Could Gareth at this point
:14:42. > :14:50.help you out? Oh, gosh, yes. Shall we have a sing song? I'm not sure if
:14:51. > :14:54.you know any of the songs we are doing inlet show. I only know Pack
:14:55. > :14:58.Up Your Troubles. . The boys do this one. It's not really a girl's song,
:14:59. > :15:03.is it? No. That film you made there, it was a cut down version of
:15:04. > :15:06.something you made for iWonder a brilliant new learning tool? Started
:15:07. > :15:10.for the 100 years since the First World War. The BBC created this
:15:11. > :15:15.resource. There are videos. There is... It's a website that can work
:15:16. > :15:24.on your tablet or phone or your desk top - Not just music. No, there is
:15:25. > :15:31.stuff about plastic surgery. I'm doing one about the real war horses.
:15:32. > :15:37.My great grandfather took all the artillery to the frontlines with the
:15:38. > :15:42.mules. It's remarkable. We tap in? Go to the web address,
:15:43. > :15:46.bbc.co.uk/ww1, then you will see all these pages come up. Like Gareth
:15:47. > :15:52.says you have films there. So much information you can read. Great way
:15:53. > :15:58.to watch a great new way to watch TV, I think. Films are there
:15:59. > :16:03.indefinitely? It will build and build. If you don't want to watch
:16:04. > :16:07.anything on there you can go to the theatre to see Oh, What A Lovely
:16:08. > :16:10.War. There you are. That is the other option. Another idea. The web
:16:11. > :16:14.address is bbc.co.uk/ww1. That is where you can find everything to do
:16:15. > :16:21.with the BBC's four year season marking the Great War. Have a look.
:16:22. > :16:27.Thank you very much to Gareth, you are playing later? Yes, the whole
:16:28. > :16:31.song. I will join in. Try and stop me.
:16:32. > :16:36.We are now going back to Tony for the second bird impression. Tony,
:16:37. > :16:59.take it away. It was a remarkable performance.
:17:00. > :17:03.Caroline, name that bird. That is one of my favourite birds but I
:17:04. > :17:08.think it has had some cigarettes because it sounded a bit throaty. I
:17:09. > :17:16.think it is a blackbird. Or a thrush. Let's see if you are right.
:17:17. > :17:25.Well done! Plenty more to come where that came from. I couldn't contain
:17:26. > :17:30.myself. He would be terrible spy. Not many people would complain about
:17:31. > :17:36.hearing a blackbird in the morning. But the same cannot be said about
:17:37. > :17:40.seagulls. Seagulls are controversial creatures.
:17:41. > :17:45.Too many people, they are noisy hooligans, famous for nicking your
:17:46. > :17:50.chips. But there is more to these scavengers to meet the eye. They
:17:51. > :17:54.tend to get lumped together as seagulls but there are 11 different
:17:55. > :18:05.species regularly recorded around the British Isles. One of them, the
:18:06. > :18:13.black backed gull has been studied by an ornithologist. It used to have
:18:14. > :18:16.20,000 pairs but today there are more like 400. They are doing well
:18:17. > :18:22.20,000 pairs but today there are in urban areas but in rural areas
:18:23. > :18:29.they are struggling. The study colony is on the Suffolk coast. As
:18:30. > :18:33.an ex-military testing ground, with the odd unexploded mine knocking
:18:34. > :18:41.about, they are not the easiest place to work. First of all, via la
:18:42. > :18:48.has to get hold of them. The plan is the bird walks in but cannot get
:18:49. > :18:53.out. We have caged all the nests in this area and we just need to wait
:18:54. > :19:02.until a gull wanders in. 20 minutes later, we have bagged a bird. Look
:19:03. > :19:10.at that, and adult lesser black backed gull. Fabulous. This was the
:19:11. > :19:20.first 19 gulls that the owner's team court. They are weighed and
:19:21. > :19:29.measured. It is their blade like weeks which make an impression on
:19:30. > :19:39.me. Hopefully it should just take off back to the colony. Or run off!
:19:40. > :19:45.And it is. No harm to the bird. Just a bit of damage to me. But there is
:19:46. > :19:50.far more to Viola's research than simple measurements. She has been
:19:51. > :19:56.using some state-of-the-art GPS tags to get to know this colony inside
:19:57. > :20:01.out. We can get information every three seconds. What does that tell
:20:02. > :20:06.you about where they are going? The most interesting aspect is the
:20:07. > :20:12.bird's migrate rude behaviour. Some stay in East Anglia. Others go to
:20:13. > :20:19.Africa. Some go to Africa in 15 days flat and hang out on the beach all
:20:20. > :20:23.winter. Others take five months to reach their destination. I expect
:20:24. > :20:28.the ones which take very fixed journeys and do not wander around a
:20:29. > :20:33.lot are possibly older. The older ones like the package holiday, the
:20:34. > :20:36.same location every year but the young ones are the intrepid
:20:37. > :20:41.explorers getting off the beaten track? This is incredible data to
:20:42. > :20:45.have uncovered that the data reveal something even more extraordinary.
:20:46. > :20:49.This is a male bird which we tagged as part of a pair early in the
:20:50. > :20:56.breeding season. He is not going very far to forage. These dots
:20:57. > :21:04.represent GPS points. A typical day sees him visiting the nearest town,
:21:05. > :21:10.Aldeburgh five miles away. He's probably scavenging fish and chips
:21:11. > :21:15.or the odd ice cream. But later in the day his behaviour completely
:21:16. > :21:20.changes. He's flying out to sea, go halfway to the Netherlands. We can
:21:21. > :21:27.only assume he is foraging for fish. What is triggering this change? This
:21:28. > :21:33.data is from early June, peak hatching time. Basically, he wants
:21:34. > :21:39.the best food for his chicks. They are swapping battered fish for the
:21:40. > :21:43.fresh stuff. He was not the only one to change. Leftovers in towns can
:21:44. > :21:48.sustain fully grown birds but developing chicks need the best
:21:49. > :21:53.possible nutrition. We did take them for granted but they are spectacular
:21:54. > :21:57.birds with an undeserved reputation and incredible individual
:21:58. > :22:03.characteristics. I think it is time that we paid them a bit more
:22:04. > :22:11.attention. How was your arm? The thing is, they
:22:12. > :22:16.have a massive hook on the bill. You do not want them to pull away
:22:17. > :22:25.because the hook will break down your arm. Nice! Caroline likes
:22:26. > :22:37.them, Matt likes them but that is to .521. So we have been testing your
:22:38. > :22:43.knowledge, Caroline. We have not lost the plot completely. There is a
:22:44. > :22:48.reason why we are doing this? A recent survey from gardeners world
:22:49. > :22:55.magazine found astonishingly few of us knew the common songs of garden
:22:56. > :23:02.birds. Five birds they tested. Only 25% knew the robin. 32% know the
:23:03. > :23:05.beautiful iconic call of the blackbird which we will be hearing
:23:06. > :23:14.in a couple of weeks. The most commonly recognised bird was the
:23:15. > :23:22.wood pigeon. Astonishingly good! 55%. That is not a wood pigeon on
:23:23. > :23:32.the screen, that is a London pigeon. Good spot! That is a feral
:23:33. > :23:42.town pigeon. 30% knew the house sparrow, the cockney chippy. Tony,
:23:43. > :23:49.take it away. That is brilliant. It is like there is one in the room
:23:50. > :23:54.with us. That is the first one he learned as a five-year-old lad. And
:23:55. > :24:05.the most common bird on bird tables is the blue tit. Only 11% knew it.
:24:06. > :24:17.Tony, come and have a seat. That is fantastic. Goodlad, Tony. Really
:24:18. > :24:27.nice! We have one last test. This is unusual, it is not a garden bird.
:24:28. > :24:45.We ask you to name that bird. It is a corncrake. Yes! The celebrations
:24:46. > :24:51.are remarkable. I promise you know one told me that. I am thrilled!
:24:52. > :24:57.This is the perfect film for Alex and me. It involves sheepdogs. And
:24:58. > :25:02.hairdos. Brilliant. Today I am in Warwickshire at the
:25:03. > :25:06.International sheepdog championships. I could do with one
:25:07. > :25:11.to round the kids up from the park when I leave. This is the lovely
:25:12. > :25:19.Judith and she is the boss, I believe. Is that right? Presumably,
:25:20. > :25:24.you have got a sheepdog. No, I do not have a dog. I do not have a
:25:25. > :25:34.field. A border collie needs to work. It is a working dog. It is not
:25:35. > :25:37.a pet. We have 60 competing in the singles competition. Then we have
:25:38. > :25:42.eight competing in the brace or doubles competition when they run
:25:43. > :25:49.two dogs. It is a fantastic thing to achieve to be supreme champion. Take
:25:50. > :25:57.a look. That is fabulous, thank you very much! A pleasure. It looks
:25:58. > :26:08.pretty straightforward to me. Maybe I shouldn't whistle. No, probably
:26:09. > :26:12.not. This is Jenny and she is the health and is a steward here. I
:26:13. > :26:21.believe you have got six dogs of your own. I have, four sheepdogs. Do
:26:22. > :26:29.you train them from being a puppy. You start putting the commands on
:26:30. > :26:38.them. Come by, means left. Clockwise. And go buys the other
:26:39. > :26:56.way. I'm not sure they will recognise you. Take look. Very nice.
:26:57. > :27:04.You from Zona? Relief? Guess. -- you are from Arizona. We do not have
:27:05. > :27:14.sheep in Arizona. They would not last. This is Cornelius. I did the
:27:15. > :27:21.doubles, the brace competition. Why is it called the brace? Because
:27:22. > :27:26.there are two dogs. You have to tend sheep and you have to divide them
:27:27. > :27:31.five and five. You put five in one pen with one dog and five in the
:27:32. > :27:35.other pen with the other dog. Is it different sheep? Every competitor
:27:36. > :27:41.gets different sheep. You have different commands for different
:27:42. > :27:46.dogs. They will have different whistle commands. You blow the
:27:47. > :27:52.whistle for one dog, the other dog doesn't respond. If you and your dog
:27:53. > :27:58.wins, does the value of the dog increase? Of course. If it is world
:27:59. > :28:06.champion they will be paying between five and ?10,000 probably. How was
:28:07. > :28:14.that? That is fine. I weighed to me. That is it, that is it. Stay, down.
:28:15. > :28:18.There you go, I have got the hang of this. Good cameraman!
:28:19. > :28:24.I wonder how long he stayed there for! That is nearly it for tonight.
:28:25. > :28:32.Oh, What A Lovely War is at the theatre Royal Stratford East. Now
:28:33. > :28:36.Gareth will sing us out. # Pack Up Your Troubles in your old
:28:37. > :28:40.kit-bag. # And smile, smile, smile.
:28:41. > :28:43.# While you've a lucifer to light your fag.
:28:44. > :28:48.# Smile, boys, that's the style. # What's the use of worrying?
:28:49. > :28:51.# It never was worth while, so. # Pack Up Your Troubles in your old
:28:52. > :29:01.kit-bag. # And smile, smile, smile. #.