23/05/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones...

Now tonight, we're either very small, or these

These images are highly detailed. They are from a new exhibition

showcasing insects. George will tell us what these

spectacular supersized Also tonight, we're joined

by the long-suffering wife of a family who made us

laugh for years. But it turns out that they have

a hard time keeping a straight face. I'm not one for long goodbyes.

Marion went out for a meal last Friday with her husband.

Please welcome The One Show's favourite TV mum - Sue Johnston!

APPLAUSE We should have got you to do the theme tune tonight! That was

from Royle Family. We heard that when cast members misbehaved, you

had a special place onset where you would send them. Yes, we had a

naughty corner. The props guys built it. It got more and more elaborate,

until it looked like a little jail, and they put a little blue light

outside it, and a little rail. Who was the worst offender? Of Ricky

Tomlinson, followed by Craig Cash, followed by Ralf Little. Usually, we

all got in there. Craig Cash is in the new comedy, Rovers, which we

will be talking about shortly. Did you have to reinstate the naughty

corner? Not yet. Just verging on it. We should definitely get one here.

Now roll back eight months to September 2015,

when David Cameron announced that the UK would take in 20,000

The first 1,000 are now here, and Trish Adudu has met one family

who had made the life-saving journey from

One-year-old Baraa his dad Ali, and mum Abeer are settling into their

new home. This family are part of a first wave of a resettlement

programme in the UK to re-home refugees from camps near the Syrian

borders. Syria's bloody war has meant that more than 11 million

people have fled their homes, the largest wave of mass since World War

II. Answering a UN call for governments to act to help, written

pledged last September to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020. To

discourage illegal migration, the government says all those selected

to come to Britain will be Syrians who've fled to neighbouring

countries like Turkey and Iraq. And that is how a Syrian family came to

be plunked from their temporary home and set down 3500 kilometres away

here, in the charming and historic county of Wiltshire. I've come to

see how they are getting on. We were so happy in Syria before the world.

It is so dangerous to stay there. We were in forced to escape. Having

made it a across-the-board to Lebanon on, and office became their

makeshift home, and the couple lived on what Ali could earn selling

coffee. How did it feel when you got that news is that you would be

leaving, going to a better life? At the beginning, we didn't believe. We

were so happy, we immediately started to have English lessons. All

the people there are very lovely and helped us, and gave us some cards.

Welcome to your house! Lovely. Really, it touched our hearts.

Today, Abeer and Ali are making me atypical Syrian breakfast. Have you

been making some Syrian breakfast for your Wiltshire neighbours? Yes?

Yes, we invited our friends to have Syrian food, and they enjoyed it.

They had many different things, Tamburlaine, and so on. Delicious!

That is really nice. Around a quarter of the 400 plus councils

across the UK have so far volunteered to accept refugees from

the scheme, with the government footing the bill for the first five

years. Ali and Abeer are qualified IT teachers, both keen to integrate

their new community. This afternoon, they are heading to their local

library. It is very good to meet other people to improve our English.

Here I have met other months. We do rhymes for the children. Give us a

nursery rhyme that you have learnt! Row, Row, row your boat! Helping the

Syrian families getting to grips with the Wiltshire's unfamiliar ways

are some volunteers. How difficult has it been to integrate? I think

they really miss their families. But people have been so welcoming. They

walk the streets and people say hello to them. They want to get on.

They are in my heart now. Since September, new arrivals have been

settled anywhere from the Western Isles of Scotland to the south coast

of England. Ali is embracing village life, and now has an allotment,

planning to grow much of their own food. Despite their new home in the

English countryside, Syria is never far from the couple's minds. Are you

worried about family back home? Yes, of course, because there is no

safety where they are now. I know that there are people never want

from Syria, but I want to change this. We want to build our life

here. We want to start again. I hope the future will be very good for us.

We have to improve ourselves, we have to look for a good job, to be

good citizens. That looks like a lovely house

and area that the family Where does the housing stock

come from That is down to the individual

councils. They can either pick housing accommodation, stocks

council housing or private rented accommodation. The Home Office

insists that none of this stock is being given in place of other people

who are waiting for it. They say it is either surplus stock, or it has

been deemed unsuitable for people on the council waiting list. They want

to stress that this scheme is being funded by the government's overseas

development budget, not council tax. What is the process of families

ending up in different councils across Britain? It isn't potluck.

The councils will assessed its individual families' needs or

individual's needs. It will put a plan together for them and accept

the numbers they have pre-agreed. The refugees don't have the right to

insist where they go in the country, but they can request it. If they

have a family member already settled by the scheme, say in Leeds, they

can request a home near Leeds. Can local councils refuse to accept

refugees? It is a voluntary scheme, so only 100 councils of the 433 in

this country have signed up so far. The numbers they are accepting is

very low because it hasn't been going that long. Britain has agreed

to take 20,000 refugees by 2020, compared to Canada with 48,000,

Germany with 20,000, and many other countries who have agreed to do

this. They will all have different pressures on them and different

reasons for accepting these refugees. The government gets it in

the neck both ways. Some charities say we should be accepting way more

than 20,000, but others are saying that because of economic migration

and illegal immigration, and asylum seekers from other places, the

government has too much on its plate already. Are they given the chance

to get started? They start on benefits and they get training

programmes provided by the government, councils and volunteers.

Ali and Abeer were getting help in that video. The idea is as much help

as is required is being given to these people, so that eventually

they can go into work. Unlike asylum seekers who cannot work in this

country, as things stand, they have the right to work, claim benefits

and be here for five years. In five years' time, the war in Syria might

be over and they may return. But circumstances might be different.

They might have had children in this country, or might be building a life

or a career here. If that is the case, they can apply to the

government for permanent settlement in the UK.

and is all set in the world of a non-league football team.

Sue plays Doreen, who runs the clubhouse.

Let's take a look at her showing the new barmaid the ropes.

Race yourself. Doreen. You all right? What should I write it down

to make it quicker? Did you ask Peter if he wanted tomato ketchup?

Yes. He said yes. OK, so that is plus Tom ketch. You just said it is

like watching your mother! It is like seeing my mother coming out of

the screen. It is all based in the clubhouse, and Doreen is the head

bar might and the matriarch of the whole setup. She is. Her and her

husband set it up together, and he died, and she's run it for the last

25 years on her own. To her, it's just home, and these very strange

people who are football supporters are just her family, I suppose. She

loves them, she looks after them. She tries to raise funds for them.

27 people who come to watch the game every week! It must be a wonderful

world for you to be in, because this is you through and through. You are

a hardened Liverpool fan. I am. That was great fun. I get the jokes! Have

you been watching the football. There's been quite a bit. What do

you reckon about Louis van Gaal being ditched, two hours after the

end of the match? Apparently he found out from his wife. It's really

embarrassingly bad. The tradition at Manchester United football club,

which is similar into addition to Liverpool, I cannot believe they

have treated somebody like that. It's bad news. Not good news. Having

said that, Jose Mourinho wandering around Manchester is OK with me!

You're happy with that? Why do you think that non-league football is

such a right area for comedy? Well, I suppose... I don't want to hurt

anybody's feelings, but it is the thought of failure, and that these

people turn up every week to fail! It is celebrating the underdog. That

is a much kinder way of putting it. It is about the football club,

because it is a football club, but it is about these characters that

goes. It's very character driven. And the characters are very

eccentric. And very warm. And I think it's very well written. It's

written by Joe Wilkinson and David Earl, who are stand-up comedians. As

our half the cast. So it's really great. A really interesting mix.

Interesting, and really exciting, as an actor, to work with these

comedians. They just change everything. They say, that's not

working. I found them fascinating. And the writing I love. It's

brilliantly observed. And we had such fun. It's as much fun as we've

had since the Royle Family. You would go into work and laugh all

day. You were a barmaid, back in your student days. I loved being a

barmaid. The next best job to being an actor! It's a bit like acting

because you have the bar, and you are safe behind there, and you can

just perform a bit to the crowd. That must have been... I loved being

a barmaid. Away from the screens there, you were saying to our

researcher that when your grandson plays football, back to the football

thing and how much of a fan you are, you're worried you will turn into a

pushy football gran. I worry about going to watch them really. Only one

has started playing football yet. The others are too small. I know, I

just imagine that it will be a lot of shouting off to the ref in

language that's not desirable. But I'll have to see. Never lose that

passion. No, never lose that passion.

Rovers is on tomorrow night on Sky 1 at 10.00pm.

In a moment, George will be introducing us to the creatures

Before that, Phil Tufnell is itching to tell us about the man who gave

us our very first creepy-crawly close-ups - 350 years ago.

Back in the 17th century, the average Brit probably had lice and

maybe even fleas. But while these creepy crawlies got close up and

personal with us, we've not seen them in such intimate detail. Until

a scientist called Robert Hook created a microscope that allowed

him to peer into a hidden world. Suddenly the tiniest bugs looked

like complex monsters. Hook drew what he saw, recreating the tiniest

objects on a scale never seen before. His drawings appeared in a

book called Micrographia. Published in 1665, it became a best seller. In

the archive vaults of the Royal Society in London, the librarian

Keith Moore has an original copy. That's a monster for a flea. Here's

the smallest and most common of creatures shown completely in a new

light. How did the book come about? The book came about because the

Royal Society was constantly trying involume King Charles II in its

business. One of the ways they did that was to send him interesting

things. The Royal Society was set up in 1660 to develop and promote

science. They sent the king some drawings of insects under the

microscope. Intrigued, he asked to see more and Robert Hook took on the

job. Hook has the honour really of being the first professional

scientist. He was at the weekly meetings of the Royal Society doing

the demonstration. Hook was used to tinkering with the latest tech for

his demonstrations and had the skills to build a high quality

microscope. Microscopes go back to Galileo. Here is Hook producing

fantastic illustrations using the microscope and really demonstrating

the possibilities of scientific research using this instrument. What

was the impact of the book? It was rather astounding for Hook's

contemporaries. Samuel Peep is the great diary writer of the period. He

was a great reader. He said this was the most ingenious book that he'd

ever read. Hook's giant insects were eye catching and surprisingly

accurate when compared to images from modern electron microscopes.

This professor believes that's because Hook didn't just have skills

as a scientist. He was trained as an artist, initially apprenticed to

Peter Lilley, the king' portraitist. He had to leave because the oil

paints gave him a headache and made him sick. Hook turned to science,

his artistic training helped him bring the microscopic world to life.

On a flat piece of paper he can present objects that look really

three dimensional. I've got my hands on an 18th Severnery micro-- century

microscope similar to what Hook would have used. Drawing a flea is a

challenge. How much did he get so much detail into his images, it's

not that clear. A lot of work had to go in with jiggling the microscope,

the light source and bit by bit creating parts of an image. This was

months of intense work. There's no way I can capture Hook's detail, he

was a fantastic artist and a great scientist. Not many people in the

period had this kind of combination of skills and this is what makes

this particular book really unique. 350 years ago, Hook's micrographia

grabbed the public's attention and unlocked the potential of the

microscope. It was no longer an object of curiosity, but a

scientific instrument and would reveal new worlds for future

generations. Thank you Phil. Unbelievable. We've

lost the squeamish. But the hardened stomachs are still with us.

George McGavin is here to bring us the 21st century version of Hooke's

work and we're surrounded by beautiful photographs.

These are just as spectacular in our day as Hooke's images were. These

are inincredible photographs. Amazing job of taking insects who

are quite small and making them huge. He takes images of the insects

in various parts and always through from top to foot so that they're all

sharp. Each of these images is 8,000 separate photographs stitched

together, processed. Each takes about three weeks to make. It's an

incredible amount of work. The effect is intricate. It's stunning.

Here on the wing edge here, when bees fly, they want the wings and

back wings to beat as one. A tiny row of hooks, which link the front

and hind wing in flight, extra eyes here, not the main eyes, these are

extra eyes in the middle. Extra eyes! They detect if it's dark or

not. That's an orchid bee from Brazil. This one puts its eggs in

the nests of other bees. We have the green tiger beetle here. Absolutely,

you will see in the UK. Very fast animal, massive jaws for impailing

prey. It moves so fast over the ground. Its eyes are a bit, if it's

at full pelt it can't quite see what it's aiming for. Every so often, it

has to stop and make sure. In the heat of June, you'll see these on

heath lands, a flash of groan and off they go. Amazing -- green. For

you, George, with your past, being in charge of the insect unit at

Oxford, there what does this do for you? It makes me realise that I

chose the right career all along, all those years ago. I am blown away

by these images. These are slightly smaller than the ones you'll see at

the show. My favourite, this is my favourite. This incredible insect

here. I collected it myself in the jungles of Belize. It's about the

size of my little finger nail. They are very hard to see the the strange

thing about these things, called tree hoppers, is that all of this is

just a strange outgrowth of the back of the insect. The head is here, the

abdomen is here. There's the wings. All of this is just intended to hide

the insect from things that might eat it. There are some that have the

back as open jawedants or -- jawed ants or seeds. The inspiration that

will come from these images, jewellery and all sorts. A bracelet,

Matt, a bangle. That's my insect. Where do you keep this then? That is

all the possess men's in the show were -- specimens in the show were

from Oxford. They were picked and cleaned especially. That is just

exactly as it looks. To me, that's just, well, I think one of the most

amazing things I've ever seen. Is your fireplace big enough to hang

this? I would love to have that. They're probably very expensive. You

could take this one. The Gavin towers. Have this one. Thank you to

George. Microsculpture will be on display

at Oxford University Museum Let's shift scale now -

from the microscopic to the massive. Here's our brand new One Show

Structural Engineer, Roma Agrawal, explaining some

of the secrets behind skyscrapers. Apparently, it's all down

to some very clever design My name is Roma, I'm a structural

engineer and for six years I worked on the tallest building in Western

Europe, the Charred. I've -- the Shard. Some of the key engineering

innovation that's made the modern skyscraper possible were pioneered

not in London, New York or Chicago, but here in Merseyside. This is the

orrial chambers, designed by Peter Ellis and built in 1864. It may look

like an average office block, but hidden within this building is one

of the engineering innovations that's crucial to skyscraper design.

Marge ewe Ashton is showing me around. -- Matthew. This is

brilliant. I love this bright orange column right in the middle of your

office. In this building the frame itself, in the interior of the

building, is supporting the building. It takes the load of the

occupants and it takes the load itself. It's the frame that's doing

all the support. What made Orial chambers so pioneering is the hidden

metal frame that runs throughout the building. It's not the walls that

keep the building up, it's this strong frame. Though it's not

necessarily terribly high in the context of later skyscrapers, he

needed to achieve height in the most efficient way possible. So, by

having a frame, it allows the walls to have the biggest possible

windows. The design of this building inspired architects who went on to

build the first American skyscrapers. And with that strong

internal skeleton, they grew taller and taller. But it would be nine

decades before another Merseyside innovation would give the modern

skyscraper something else it needed - very large sheets of perfectly

flat glass. The Gherkin contains a colossal 7,500 individual sheets of

glass. The method for manufacturing high quality, flat glass needed tore

skyscrapers was invented by Sir Alex Pilkington. The Managing Director

shows me how it's done. This is the furnace. We begin with our raw

materials. Inside here, we're heating it to 1600 degrees C, that's

hotter than a volcano. The traditional way of making high

quality flat glass involved passing molten glass through mechanical

rollers and then grinding and polishing it to make it flat. This

revolutionary method was quicker and cheaper and involved floating the

molten glass. You have a demonstration here. We have, yes.

The idea behind the float bath is that glass floats on molten tin in

the same way that oil will float on water. So the glass is actually

lighter and floats on top. The molten tin is denser. The tin is

perfectly flat so the glass is actually perfectly flat. The idea of

floating molten glass on molten tin to make it flat was ground breaking.

Nowadays, all glass for buildings is processed in this way. It's

brilliant. Without the float glass technique or the revolutionary

design principles pioneered in Liverpool, our city's skylines would

look very different. So there you are. Liverpool responsible for the

first skyscraper. You did spent a lot of time in the Cavern as a long

woman? I spent far too much time in the Cavern! It's appropriate we have

these Beatles in tonight. Nice link Matt! There you are. Very clever. I

was going to say, we have to ask, we have 40 seconds left, you ended up

on tour with the Rolling Stones for goodness sake It wasn't me going on

tour with them. My then boyfriend was the drummer in the swinging Blue

Jeans. So I took a week off work and went with them. The things I saw

that I've never recovered from. You've been lovely company tonight.

Thank you so much. Thanks to Sue for

joining us tonight. Rovers starts tomorrow night

on Sky One at 10pm. Tomorrow Paul Hollywood will

be here. Hope he brings cake! Give him a

ring. I will.