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Hello and welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker... | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
And we're starting the show in the spirit of the new US | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
administration's approach to press conferences. | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
Our guest tonight is so popular that we can say, | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
without doubt, the audience is the largest we've ever had. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
We've actually installed different flooring in the studio which may | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
highlight gaps in the audience that haven't been obvious | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
And in the same spirit - our guest is the most-intelligent, | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
the funniest and the best looking comedian that we've | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Welcome! It has been a busy few days. Donald Trump was sworn in last | :00:51. | :01:09. | |
week and we were talking about the ceremony. You said you were quite | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
surprised by the music acts? I didn't really recognise any of them. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
It was acts like Toby Keith, circus 1903, sounds like everybody was | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
dead. The best one was the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, they | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
were asked to do the catering. They were going to do Pink Floyd's The | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
Wall, but he refused to pay for it! We started the programme in | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
reference to Sean Spicer, the US press adviser. He has basically | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
given alternative facts as to the attendance at the inauguration. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Actually, the point of view of Donald Trump was this. You can see, | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
from his perspective, it looks very busy. With reference of the Topshop | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
we showed the studio, if you look at it from your point of view, you look | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
there, it is absolutely rammed! -- the top shot. Exactly what I see. | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
They say you should eat more fruit and veg, but it is McDonald's, twice | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
a day, that is my alternative facts. But that may! I hope there are more | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
facts like that in your tour. We are going to our first film | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
report of the evening. First, we all know the pressure | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
on junior doctors, not least, But do any of us appreciate the risk | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
that puts on their own safety? In a recent survey, 41% admitted | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
to having fallen asleep And it's a momentary lapse | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
in concentration that Sam is a junior doctor in Oxford. | :02:47. | :02:58. | |
She is getting ready for a 13 hour night shift in intensive care. She | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
often works for Mike Robb is in a row. After only a few months on the | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
job, she had a near miss driving home. About five minutes away from | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
home, I was on a country road and found myself on the opposite side of | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
the road. Thank goodness, there was nothing coming the other way. In | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
fact, only just last year, I was going to night shift and I came | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
across a car that had flipped in the road. It was another junior doctor, | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
coming back from late shift. On that occasion, the driver escaped unhurt. | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
But, sadly, that is not always the case. When she came off night shift, | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
she phoned home and said she was leaving. She talked to her mum and | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
explained the night shift had gone well. She was feeling quite pleased | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
with herself. Nevertheless, on the journey back home, she fell asleep. | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
Brian's daughter, Lauren, was fatally injured. She was just 23. We | :04:06. | :04:15. | |
set off to find her. When we were driving, we could see the action on | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
the other side of the road. At the time, junior doctors in Scotland | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
could work up to seven night shifts in a row. Brian's campaigning has | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
helped cut this to five. I am Lauren's voice now. She is not able | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
to speak for herself. I think she did speak up, initially. She was not | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
able to carry that through. I'm trying to do that now. It's so close | :04:42. | :04:52. | |
to home, somebody that is almost exactly like you, it is scary, it is | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
something that really makes you think. It is 8am. Sam has just | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
finished a 13 hour night shift. To trust her driving reactions after a | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
busy night's work, we have brought her to the transport research | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
laboratory in Berkshire. Simon is in charge of driver fatigue research | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
and will be analysing her performance. Fatigue is a huge road | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
safety problem. Our own perception of fatigue level tends to lag behind | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
reality. By the time we have realised it, we could have already | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
made a serious mistake that could have led to a collision. We would | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
like you to keep to 60 mph the whole time. I know I am tired, but if I | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
need to get home, I would get into the car. The simulator is set up, | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
ready for you to start. She has to drive along the inside lane of a | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
virtual motorway for the next 90 minutes. We are monitoring her | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
reactions from the control room. After just a few minutes, she starts | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
blinking more rapidly, in a failed attempt to increase her alertness. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
After 19 minutes, her eyes start to blink more slowly. She is having | :06:11. | :06:22. | |
micro sleeps will stop It is just a slightly longer blink. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Neurologically, it is an indicator that somebody is disengaged from | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
their task. Really long eyed closures. You can now stop the | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
vehicle. Test over, and Simon has the results. Today, 69 occasions you | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
left the inside lane of the motorway. What is really worrying is | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the number of times that your reaction speed was slower than 1.5 | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
seconds, and therefore dangerous. There were 12 occasions when you | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
failed to respond quickly enough. In one instance, it was 5.5 seconds | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
later. How do you feel, when you hear those numbers? That particular | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
one is really shocking. 5.5 seconds, to not brake on a motorway, it is | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
just off as you say, it would cause a collision. Absolutely terrifying, | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
really, really scary. Clearly, driving when this tired is | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
dangerous. The controversial new junior doctors contract cuts the | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
number of consecutive night shifts from seven, down to four, and limits | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
weekly hours to 72. That is still almost double a normal working week. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
We're going to be looking for 40 years of service from a junior | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
doctor, but we are not going to get it if they are so exhausted that | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
they have accidents like Lauren, or otherwise. Nobody should leave their | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
home and not return from work. Thanks to Brian Connolly for talking | :07:55. | :08:08. | |
to us about his daughter, it makes you think. You feel like you are | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
doing the right thing by trying to get home. Nick can talk to us about | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
this. We saw that they are reducing it, there is not as many consecutive | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
nights. How else does the junior doctor contract offer protection? An | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
important new clause in the contract, if a doctor feels that | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
they are too tired to drive home after a shift, the hospital must | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
provide a place for them to sleep. If they have somewhere on the | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
premises, a dedicated area, in a hotel or a cab home. That's | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
important for junior doctors, there will often find that they are moved | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
from hospital to hospital. They might have a longer drive home than | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
they would like, on occasion. As part of qualifying, they have to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
move around. Outside of the medical profession, there are 3.5 million | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
people that have a job that involves them travelling late at night or | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
through the night? A lot of people watching will be able to identify | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
what it does with your body. Sleep deprivation, tiredness and fatigue | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
is horrible. It is like jet lag, it takes ages to recover. It is really | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
serious, it is costing lives. It is thought 20% of accidents in the UK | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
are linked to fatigue in some way. We know that a lot of accidents | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
happen overnight. But it is not just night driving, night workers. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Because the human body craves sleeping twice a day, most accidents | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
happen between 2am and 6am in the morning, but also 2pm and 4pm. That | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
gets more pronounced with older drivers. You have a problem that you | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
have got to be aware that when you feel tired, listen to your body, it | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
could have serious applications for your safety. You hear about what you | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
could call old wives tales, wind down the window, turn up the music | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
loud, do they help? They don't really help at all. The moment you | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
think that you are so tired that you need to wind the windows down, that | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
is the moment you should make immediate plans to stop and get some | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
sleep. The way to get through it is to have 15 or 20 minutes sleep. | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
Combine that with a caffeinated drink and you should be OK for one | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
or two hours. There is no substitute for a good night's sleep. We | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
appreciate not everybody can do that, which is why we have to take | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
responsibility. If you are a passenger in a car and you are | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
tired, chances are your driver is tired. If your passenger is asleep | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
next to you, you should be thinking about getting sleep. It must have | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
happened to you, coming back from a gig? I don't want to quit myself | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
junior doctors, but I was so tired, I was going at midnight and I was | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
stopped by the police. I was so tired, I was hallucinating. I | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
thought I see pterodactyls swooping. They said, do you know how fast you | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
are going? I said, 80, 90? You were doing ten mph in the middle lane. We | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
watched you for a minute and you suddenly ducked. I said, did you see | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
the pterodactyl? They took me to one side and they make me sleep. I | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
remember they were still there, and when I woke up, they were gone. They | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
were kind enough to do that. This is where we need to stop, nobody needs | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
to see pterodactyls! I heard them saying the secret to success is | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
sleep, when they say sleep on it, if you sleep on something, in the | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
morning you have a great idea. And you can hear more | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
about the risks taken by our Junior Doctors | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
on Inside Out South straight And it's available for the rest | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
of us on BBC One HD - again, straight | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
after tonight's show. Now, with more and more people | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
leaving it later to have children, it's perhaps surprising that older | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
mums still face a media backlash - just look at the headlines | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
about Janet Jackson having And Dame Julia | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
Peyton-Jones at 64, too. But is it anyone else's | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
business but their own? Where better for Esther to pose | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
the question than the town celebrating its 50th birthday | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
today - Milton Keynes? Do you think is anyone's business if | :12:07. | :12:25. | |
somebody who is older has a baby? As long as they are happy and healthy, | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
and they have a nice family and love, it is entirely up to them. | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
Nothing to do with anybody else. When they have kids at 60, they will | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
be completely knackered! I have had three of my own, I know how tiring | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
it is and my grandchildren are hard work. Wait until they get to a | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
teenager! My God. That would see them right off. For the mother, it | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
is amazing, maybe the first child? Vote for the child come I don't know | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
if the mother would be strong enough to support the child through the | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
whole childhood. When you had your grandchildren, do you feel it? It's | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
true, after a whole afternoon dancing... The sooner they go, the | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
better, you think. For my generation, I think it should be | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
between 20 and 30. Three women over 50 a week have babies. | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
I don't think people should stereotype people of a certain age. | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
I think it is nice, no matter what the age. What about a lady of 64 | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
having a baby? God, rather heard and me. I struggle at 34. What do you | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
think? She is mad! It is unfair on the kid, when the kid is ten, she is | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
70, were now 20, she will possibly be on her deathbed. That is kind of | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
mean! I am 76, how much longer would you give me? I don't know. 55, I | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
think that is sensible, after that, I think it is risky for the child. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
If the man gets ill, who will look after the child? The husband? When I | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
have my daughter, I was classed as an older mother and I was 36. Do you | :14:16. | :14:24. | |
feel like you are worn out? Sometimes. I have my worn out | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
moments. Varied opinions. Let's move on to the dad of three, Omid. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
Schmuck For A Night, you have been touring since August, so you have | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
been one for a while? Yes, for the autumn, summer, winter. It is a | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
completely different show now. It's amazing. It is supposed to take in | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
world events. In a press release, sometimes you will not laugh at | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
something until you get home and look at the telly. That has happened | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
more than I would have expected. But it is ever evolving. It is different | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
most nights. You are touring the UK, but ended up in Finland. How did | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
that go? What on earth were you doing there? | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
I managed to offend the people in Finland. I noticed their language, | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
it is not your normal Scandinavian language. It is a derivative of | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
Turkish and Hungarians. It is a very harsh language shall I do not know | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
if people are talking more die lungs are collapsing. This is no joke. In | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
the car, I broke wind quite loudly. The taxi driver said, where did you | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
learn to speak Finnish? The reason you are carrying on going in the UK | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
as there is a demand to see you. People are inviting you. The | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
reviews. That is the thing. I never knew that Tours were by invite only. | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
When I did 12 date tours before, that is a real shock to me. I am | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
happy that where there is demand I will go. Are you incorporating dance | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
moves into your tour? I did not. In August I have never had more people | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
at the stage door complain. They want this dancing. That is great | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
dancing. They said if you do not do dancing, there will be | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
repercussions. I am being serious. You have shrewd Rita more. Go to | :16:43. | :16:58. | |
Blackpool, out of season. -- shrewd -- Shrewsbury tomorrow. 110 dates in | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
total. You are halfway through. You are also doing a Disney film at the | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
same time. That was contentious. I was supposed to do jury service. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Comics when they are called for jury service say they are a comedian and | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
on medication. I got to do this massive Disney film, The Nutcracker. | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
I had to stand before a judge. He said, I understand you're doing a | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
film called the Nutcracker. I said it is the noise that men of my age | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
and weight make when they sit down. He said, you're going to court six. | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
I missed the first few days of filming. It will come out in 2018. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
It is real people. Not an animation. They are doing Dumbo now, live | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
animation. The Nutcracker should be the ultimate. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
Now, it's one of the most-famous venues in the country... | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
Having hosted the likes of David Bowie and The Clash. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
If you've ever danced, moshed or air-guitared the night | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
away at Glasgow's Barrowlands, you've got one very-determined | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
All that lovely steak. Fancy one of them? The barriers sells everything | :18:30. | :18:55. | |
under the san. This place is steeped in history. If you look up that we | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
will see a mark of Glasgow royalty. Maggie McIver, Queen of the Barras. | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
Born in 1879, Maggie worked a market stall from the age of 12. A canny | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
entrepreneur she put her money back into the business. By the 1920s she | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
had built an empire, Barrowland. Writer Jack Maclean grew up nearby. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
This is teeming with life. There were kids everywhere, little dogs | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
everywhere but if he did not trip over the goods, you would trip over | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
children. It was like a football crowd, a day out. I used to come | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
here as a teenager. It was really exciting, just hearing the banter. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Maggie McIver was the queen of the Barras. What did she look like? She | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
had one macro brown eye, one macro blue eye. She wore boots. She owned | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
the ground, which was worthless at that time she rented out the stalls. | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
That is where the fortune was made. So, where does the rock and roll bit | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
coming? Well, the Barras Queen did something exciting is that she built | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
a ballroom in the heart of her market. Maggie was standing outside | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
the ballroom. Recognising Glasgow was the dancing city. Capitalising | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
on this, she built a ballroom. That was a big risk. It must have been | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
fabulous. We are talking great deprivation, during the 30s, 40s, | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
early 50s. People could be Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers for a wee | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
while. Rebuilt after a fire in the 50s, the | :20:49. | :21:01. | |
Barrowland ballroom is now a top rock venue which has echoed to the | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
sound of Oasis and Primal Scream. I'm having a tour. That is the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
beauty, that they have kept the character. It is a venue that still | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
has a personality. It has built up over decades you do not get that in | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
a modern arena. This is where the magic happens. I am sure the spirit | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
of Maggie is about. Yes, she is one of the greatest entrepreneurs. What | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
do they call the place? I believe they call it your tombstone. The | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
tombstone. That is right. I built that with hate and knees and pennies | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
for the if it's not a rude question, how old are you? -- half pennies and | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
pennies. All my family have worked in the Barrowlands, they still do | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
today what do you think she would have made of this rock venue that it | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
is today? She would go with it. Tonight, Bossi Love make a shout out | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
for the women who made all possible. A shout out for Maggie McIver, who | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
opened the Barrowlands all those years ago. | :22:24. | :22:35. | |
The whole history of the Barrowlands is now embedded in Scotland's | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
Heritage, it is part of Scotland's psyche and we are proud of it. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Maggie died in 1958 a millionaire. Her rain may have ended but Maggie | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
left behind something that Glasgow still holds clear. What better at | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
the task at the Queen asked for than that? Thank you, Glasgow. I hope you | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
have an amazing night. When you walk into the venues, you must get that | :23:10. | :23:19. | |
real sense of nostalgia. I did Jukes ree recently. It is the theatre | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
where Morecambe and Wise were. You can really feel the history of the | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
place. If they ever got rid of the comedy store in London I would be | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
really upset. Laughs bounced around and they put a microphone in the | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
middle of the audience to amplify the last. The first tie when I was | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
laughing. I don't get what is going on. It is infectious. Omid, | :23:48. | :24:00. | |
this is a little bit higher than ten metres. | :24:01. | :24:14. | |
Humans have always harboured an obsession with flight. Flying | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
unaided through the sky. A 21st-century wing suit has brought | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
us closer than ever to the dream of flight. There have been many | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
casualties along the way. In 1912, an Austrian leapt from the Eiffel | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
Tower. The jump proved fatal. It marked the beginning of the race for | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
mankind to fly like a bird. Many pioneers went on to pay the ultimate | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
sacrifice. Their endeavours helped to shape our understanding of human | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
flight. Today's wing suit technology has provided some stunning results. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Wing suit allows skydivers to dive through the air at speeds up to 225 | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
miles an hour, travelling as far as almost 19 miles across varied | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
terrain. How do they work? This doctor is a lecturer of astronautics | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
and a wing suit pilot. We have to turn a human being into an aircraft. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
If we were to stop engines in flight, you would not necessarily | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
fall out of the sky can you with guideline glider. You have to turn | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
the human being into a glider. The wings we have in their wing suit our | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
bottom skin and a top skin. We RAM are into these events which inflates | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
the wing. This shape allows us to generate lift. Today I am putting a | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
21st-century wing suit to a test. Unlike traditional skydives cricket | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
is essential that I create a detailed flight plan. Neal has | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
completed over 400 wing suit dives. Today we should be jumping out of | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
the aircraft from 15,000 feet. With their wing suits we have, we are | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
looking at fairly good airtime. The distances you can cover, compared | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
with normal skydiving, are incredible. You need to be careful | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
of that. We can fly for ten, 15 seconds. Turn left 90 degrees and | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
then turn left again 90 degrees and that will bring us back towards the | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
drop zone. With the wind direction to want to open our parachutes | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
roughly in this area. You will be controlling the count, letting me | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
know when we are going. You will not be telling us, you will be doing a | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
visual representation. You can scream if you like. Control it with | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
your head. Out, in, then we will go, both of us together. The timing on | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
that is pretty critical. The most important thing is that by 4000 feet | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
we are safely over the drop zone. Correct. With rehearsals over, it is | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
time for Neil and I to take to the skies. As the plane reaches 15,000 | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
feet, we make final checks to our suits. I learned a half away from | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
the drop zone, we exit the plane. -- a mile. Only by flying in the same | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
direction and turning back we can avoid flying too far and missing the | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
target. We soon hit our top speed of 120 miles an hour. At this speed, | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
even the tiniest change in my body position has a huge impact on the | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
direction of my flight. Neil uses his experience to fly directly | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
behind me. Then, at 4000 feet, we deploy our parachutes and make our | :28:00. | :28:00. | |
way safely to the ground. The dive itself went perfectly. | :28:01. | :28:17. | |
Lugging it around, it was beautiful. It may have taken a century to | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
perfect but it was worth it. A lot more exhilarating than a regular | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
skydives. So much closer to the ultimate dream of human flight. | :28:29. | :28:40. | |
There we are. Finishing the programme on a high. | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Thanks so much to our guest, Omid Djalili. | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
You can see him on tour at a venue near you for the best part of 2017. | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
Tomorrow night, we're celebrating the return of Trainspotting | :28:52. | :28:54. |