23/05/2013 The One Show

Thank you so much for your e-mails on how to improve the NHS. We got

loads of them. They are not going in the recycling bin, we will be

delivering them to the medical director of the NHS in England.

Let's hope he reads them all. Matthew Baker, how would you

describe your style? My style? I let the clothes do the talking. Cardigan

casual? Possibly. With a rule pant. Tonight guest is a singer and a

style icon. She never wanted to be a pop star but now counts Annie Lennox

and Prince is among her fans. Here's a clue. This is a better one.

It was New York, New York. She took his heart away.

And I'm picking up the pieces. We are just the same, we all get

desperate sometimes. Feeling black and blue!

Welcome to the sofa, Paloma Faith. Hallo! It is lovely to have you.

Would you go with Cardigan casual? Yes, it is very inoffensive and

understated. Neutral. That is what we aim for. A bit like in that clip,

the last bit was me as a man. I played all the characters in that

video. I think we are wearing similar outfits. Me as a man wears

what you wear. That is praise indeed! It is like I am looking in

the mirror! That is perfect! Brilliant! I was amazed that you did

your own hair. I do my own hair and make up because my record company

have pulled the budget! You have done a brilliant job. You must have

lots of mirrors around you. To see what is going on around the back.

do not know what is going on around the back!

Now it is time to celebrate the place that has seen countless first

dates, goodbyes and emotional reunions. The clock at Glasgow

Central Station has been a meeting point for generations.

Whenever somebody says Central Station, I automatically think, my

goodness, the clock. It is historic iconic. Every time I walk past it, I

always get and butterflies. I knew Mark since I was 16, he was my best

friend. I said goodbye to him one night under the clock and I just

went, I am so in love with this guy, I cannot deny it any more. The

clock made time stand still and made me realise that I would absolutely

infatuated with the boy! I saw him walk down from the train and my

heart stopped beating. It was such a magical moment. It sounds really

cheesy but the whole world stopped. I think that clock has powers.

does bring back a lot of happy memories. Our relationship was

mainly a happy one and we had a lot of our happiest moments under this

clock. Unfortunately it did not work out but we are still really good

friends. When you think of Central Station, the clock is central to

that. I remember what I was doing there, how I felt, the thoughts

going through my mind. My son was being deployed to Iraq, in the Armed

Forces. We were at Central Station to say goodbye. I was feeling

nervous. I was bawling my eyes out, what mother wouldn't leaving their

son going into a conflict situation? I remember the tears, I remember

getting a lot of cuddles. They came a point where I had to say, I need

to go, ma'am. I need to go. When you see your only child walking away

from you, with no guarantees you will ever see them again, I would

defy any mother to hold it together! You want that clock to

stand still. You don't want the hand to move because every time that hand

moves, it is bringing you closer to the point where you have to let them

go. A few years ago, I used to work in a retail unit further up in the

station. I had been working in the station for 19 years.

He was doing security checks and delivery days he would come and

knock on the back door. I think I was becoming a pain in the backside!

Eventually I had the courage to ask Margaret out. Thankfully she said

yes. The first date, we met under the clock. I could see him standing

here. He looked so nervous. As soon as we got under the clock, that was

eight. It was like we had done it before. We had a wee cuddle, kiss on

the cheek. We have never looked back. We have been married for 15

years and we have two children. The clock symbolises a lot, it means a

lot to us. It is part of our relationship. It all started under

the clock. I think that is my favourite film.

That first goal was infatuated with him and he was having none of it!

was speaking in past tense! I was like, no! But he is back, you never

know. I like what the man said, you just want the clock to stand still.

This is your first time on the One Show. Obviously lots of people will

know your music and will have seen you in things like St Trinian's but

we want to know what makes you tick. We want to do a quickfire thing.

You are half English and half Spanish. Good evening or buenos

tardes? Probably good evening.A bit of Italian as well? I speak Italian

but I am not Italian. Parlo italiano. Born performer or late

Bloomer? Born performer. I started at four in dance classes. That

answers the next question. What came first, singing or acting? Dance!

That went well! Billie Holiday or the idle? Billie Holiday. -- Billie

Holiday. I was a jazz singer before I was in pop, she is so

inspirational, and I have been known to sing a lot of her songs. We have

a big shot of a tattoo of one of your fans. I am so flattered. I am

also so flattered at how amazing the artwork is, it is incredible. Who

would have thought? I thought it was a picture of you. Brilliant. Basics

covered. You are going on tour for the summer including your first time

at the O2. I am really scared that I will have a 20,000 person get less!

Honestly, people will come. How will you prepare? I am really excited for

the show. Tickets are still available. I hope you will come. I

am bringing two worlds together, my pop stuff with my orchestral stuff,

so I have got orchestra that I work with along with my band, so it is a

huge version of what I normally do. I have never done that before. I

have got a lot of special guests performing, people in the music

industry that I won't name because it is a surprise, but they are

coming to perform duets with me which I am sure my fans will love.

And you are going to be performing in some forest 's? Yeah. I am really

excited about that. Quite a lot of tickets have sold for that. Have you

ever performed anywhere like that? No, I have done festivals obviously

but this is like a forest opened up for a show, which is beautiful and

magical. It lends itself to my fairytale imagination. We will cross

fingers for the weather! How will your costumes cope with the

undergrowth? We thought we would come up with some options for you.

We have this beautiful dress. it. I feel like I need to have a

pedicure because do letters will not work in the forest. -- stilettos.

Perfect! If you get hungry, you can snap on them. Are you quite punctual

as an artist? Some stars turn up late. You will be at the O2 on

time? If I am not on stage on time, it is usually one of my backing

singers. They are dreadful! Fair enough. Paloma's tool starts in

Newcastle on Monday. Can you do your Tommy Cooper impression? Yes, just

like that. It wasn't the best. It was all right! First it is my

cardigan, now it is my Tommy Cooper! A lot of dads are probably doing the

same thing! Tommy spent his career pretending to be terrible but we

have been finding out where he got his magic from.

In this house at Ford's Road Exeter lived a young boy who would grow

quite literally into a comedy giant. Just like that. Although the six

foot for bumbling magician had arrived at stardom, he was a far cry

from his famous catchphrase. Millions were bound by his Saturday

night spell but Tommy's start in life was far from funny. Born two

months premature in Cathy Lee in 1921, his father worked in the pits

before the great War left him disabled. Mining ran in the Cooper

blood so did entertaining. father was a comedian, he was

talking all the time. Uncle Jim had the gift as well. He used to put

some eggs on a glass and they would land on top of the water, hopefully

not broke, which they never did. trick Tommy would later perfect.

suppose he did it when he went to Tommy's house. Tommy grew up with it

like I did, and with his father. With Tommy Stickley, the family

decided to leave the town -- Tommy being sickly. They left Wales and

moved to Exeter. When he was eight, his auntie gave him a magic set and

Tommy became a loner, disappearing for hours into his box of tricks.

But Tommy also experience the thrill of having an audience. I know once

his mother took him to an iron mongers shop and people were

laughing outside and appearing in the window and when she went to see

what it was all about, there was young Tommy sitting on a toilet

seat, so she yelled at him, get off at -- get off that, and he said, I

haven't finished! She held everything together. As the

depression loomed over 1930s Britain, Tommy 's family fell on

hard times. His father's love of gambling lost them the family home.

Despite this Tommy never abandoned his magic. In his first job in a

boat yard, he would try out tricks on his workmates. Tommy suffered

from stage fright so badly that he often botched his first performances

but despite his failures, the audience laughed. It wasn't the

costs of amazement he was looking for but he realised he had found a

magic formula. He would pick up his trademark fares while on wartime

duty in Egypt's. In peacetime, he joined the ranks of ex-service

entertainers like Tony Hancock. Another comic admired the brain

behind the humbling magician. looked chaotic but his control, he

was very disciplined. I walked past his crops table one afternoon before

we did a show and there was just a piece of paper on there with notes

on there, article, left, upstage, he was organised. The laughing, they

were laughing and he was not even on the stage, I do not know how you do

that. Soon, Tommy landed a full-time career and his agent landed him his

own show on TV. By the 1970s, he topped the bill at the London

Palladium and was the highest-paid comedian in Britain but the magic of

fame and fortune would start to wear off. Tommy did have self-doubt at.

That, bless his heart, led to him having three or four before he went

on, altering himself, not going on cold. The brink, with the pressure

of playing top of the bill, took its toll -- the drink. The curtain

closed on Tommy Cooper when he suffered a fatal heart attack live

on TV. They say if you are famous you will be famous for ever if you

die onstage and it seems like it worked. Tommy Cooper, the manic

magician who took his final bow at 63. What an entertainer. You were

just saying you were magician's assistant. How did that start?

in a ghost train, as a ghost. And I met loads of magicians and

illusionists on that. We have some old footage. That is from a ghost

train which is now in Blackpool. There you are. If it does not work

out, you can go back to stuff like that. Anyway, the battle for

Scottish independence hotted up this week with Scotland's first Minister

Alex Salmond insisting the country can afford to do it alone. But Dan

Snow has the story of how England and Scotland came together in the

first place. British history is littered with famous battles between

the English and the Scots. But on the night in September 1513, a less

well-known battle took place in this field in Northumberland. After three

hours of fighting, 10,000 Scots had been slaughtered and their king lay

dead. It was the Battle of Flodden. The death of the Scottish king,

James the fourth, changed British history. Defeat at Flodden was an

absolute catastrophe for the Scottish monarchy and mobility. They

took generations to recover. It was also an important milestone on the

road to the unification of the crowns of England and Scotland. Ford

Castle here in Northumberland is at the heart of the story. In the

summer of 1513, James the fourth invaded England and reached Ford

Castle in Northumberland. Why did he marches army down here and invade?

France and Scotland had an agreement dating back many centuries that

should the one be attacked by England, the other would come to the

defence. Henry did a was in France with a military expedition to gain

political kudos. -- Henry VIII. James was asked to take one yard of

English land. He did, opening up a front. Ford Castle was owned at the

time by Lady Heron. This is the current owner. When he turned up at

the castle gates, he was made welcome, as was the tradition of the

day. It did not matter whether he was an invader or resident monarch.

While his men made camp on a nearby hill, James, a notorious ladies man,

lingered for five days. While his guys are on top of the hill in the

rain, years holding court in this room? He would have used this as his

office, living room. This room has not been changed very much so he

would recognise it today. Some people think he had a wild fling

with the lady and that was why he was not out there. It is said she

was a particular beauty and she entertained him lavishly and

properly. He finally tore himself away to do battle, arranged by

heralds, messengers on horseback, who would communicate with the

opposing side. The Earl of Surrey had gathered being rich forces, sent

by Henry VIII to repel the invaders. James and his Scottish army were

expecting the English to come from the south, but Surrey outmanoeuvred

him and approached from the Scottish border, to the north. The Scots must

have been surprised to see the English army approaching from

Scotland. Absolutely. It was a filthy day, with rain blasting in on

the teeth of a gale. The armies did not see each other until they were

caught of a mile apart. The Scots came off worse in the initial

exchange of artillery. This one is designed to knock down castle walls,

not to shoot at groups of men in a field. The English army had these

little cannonballs. This one is skimming along and taking out whole

groups of people. It could travel through soldiers. James made a

terrible error, sending his foot soldiers down the hill to engage the

English. The Scottish footsoldiers advanced with their pikes facing

towards the English. The beauty of this was that the body of men could

march in tight formation and present an unbroken wall of steel towards

the enemy. Unfortunately for the Scottish, it had been raining for

days and this hillside was a morass. By the time they got to this very

muddy bottom, the big Scottish force was in disarray, no longer a

well-organised hedgehog of steel. And the pike was no match for the

English will work. It was a massacre. James died alongside his

men in the bloodbath that followed. After the battle, the course of

British history began to change. Elizabeth first died childless.

James' grandson, James the sixth, became the obvious candidate for the

English crown, James the first of England. He unified the monarchy of

the two nations. Scotland was now ruled from London. And Dan Snow is

here now. We have been talking fashion, so we asked you to delve

into the chewed wardrobe and, some gems, like this helmet. This is an

unbelievable helmet. It is early Tudor. It is an absolute beauty,

like a sports car of its age. This one was made in Britain but other

aristocrats would send off to northern Italy to get them made.

Look at what Paloma is wearing, this gauntlet, this glove to protect your

fingers. It is slightly big for me. It is quite heavy. It was designed

to be used. Easy! Watch out. These were worn on the battlefield to

scare the enemy but also to impress people. RU feeling threatened?

think it suits you. We were looking at pictures and comparing them.

think you often where Tudor staff. That is in the finest Tudor style.

You have the circular frame around your waist, which they became famous

for. What you have avoided, which is clever, is the big rough around the

neck. They were apparently quite uncomfortable. And it makes you look

like you have no neck. There is a new season starting to might on BBC

Two. Why are we fascinated with this period? The Tudors come from Wales,

so the Welsh people love the English Tudors. It has everything. It has

fashion, drama, intrigue, passion, love. People's emotions, genuine

human emotions, swinging affairs of state deciding the outcome of wars

and having an impact on the modern world. Thank you. Very nice to see

you. You can put the glove down. The recession has affected the country

in many ways. Animal charities say that tough times have resulted in a

rise in the number of pets being abandoned. We have been spending

time at one of Britain's busiest pet hospitals, where they offer help to

owners struggling to pay the bills. Owning a pet is increasingly

expensive business but here in Stoke-on-Trent, home to one of the

country's busiest pet hospitals, help is at hand. The People's

dispensary for sick animals provides free pet care for those on low

income, or no income. At nine a.m. , a poorly wrapped has come in with

his owners. We have been putting in the drops. Wayne and his daughter

are worried that the eyedrops are not working. Theo the rat had

previously come in with a swelling under his right eye, causing an

ulcer in the eyeball itself. think, unfortunately, that I has

ruptured. Polly and CEO are best friends and have fun together.

can walk up the stairs and down the stairs, and he can jump off high

things. He has done that a lot. Probably we need to book him in to

have the high removed. That will need general anaesthetic. There is

considerable risk to doing that. Are you happy for me to book him in?

What do you want to do? She makes the tough decision to hand over her

friend for what could a risky surgery. Yes.In reality, an

operation is the only option so the risk is one worth taking. An

increasingly common case coming through the doors is that of pet of

the city. Nearly one in three cats and dogs in the UK are now

considered obese. And for Carl and his rock Wyler who has come in with

an upset tummy, the diagnosis might be hard to hear. -- Rottweilers. She

is seriously overweight and her other health issues stem from this.

I struggle, same as everybody else, but I would rather feed my dog than

myself, and that is it at the end of the day. Pets come first. We want to

book you in for a weight clinic. bond between a pet and its owner is

a deep one. In this case, the strength of the relationship is born

out of adversity. Ten years ago, he was in a serious motorcycle

accident. I lost my leg in a bike crash. I have to keep taking it off

and on. If it was not for her, I would not be doing that. When I was

married, she was there for me. It is something we have to discuss with

the owner beforehand. At a private practice, this procedure would cost

over �350. That is the money when you consider that the dog cost just

�4 from a pet shop. Surgery has gone well, and he is now in recovery.

Everybody has a connection with their pet, and I think the bond is

big. Especially with a small child. Wayne returns to collect Theo after

surgery. It went well. You need to keep an eye on him for signs of

swelling. If you see any bleeding from the wound. Theo is still not

out of the woods completely but he is free to go home to Holly.

that I could do was think whether he would be OK and how he was getting

along with it. I would be guard to see him when I got home. And really,

I was going to snuggle him to death. Money is tight. They are not dear

pets at all. Very playful. It brings everyone closer. You can have a good

time with him. I was really glad that he was home. What a lovely note

to finish on. Thank you for coming on. Tickets for your gig at the O2