:00:24. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones... And Matt Baker.
:00:27. > :00:30.Tonight we're joined by a man who has escaped to the country, found
:00:30. > :00:40.cash in the attic, sung countless praises and is still walking on air
:00:40. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:49.because he's got a big new job. It I am really impressed. 10 seconds
:00:49. > :00:56.into the link and you mention of walking on the air. Have you ever
:00:56. > :01:00.played strip billiards in Las Vegas and naked? Not yet. How do you
:01:00. > :01:06.think Prince Harry would have explained that to his grandmother?
:01:06. > :01:14.I do not know really. Do you think she follows Twitter? She probably
:01:14. > :01:17.does not care. He is young and single and can do what he wants.
:01:17. > :01:21.Aled's career is about to take a dramatic new turn and we'll be
:01:21. > :01:24.finding out more about that later. It is day two of The One Show's
:01:24. > :01:34.harvesting live. You've sent us loads of pictures of your home-
:01:34. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:54.This is safely with her next-door Thick -- that was Tony with his
:01:54. > :02:04.baby carrots. Yesterday, Lucy Siegle spent the day on a farm in
:02:04. > :02:05.
:02:05. > :02:12.Norfolk. I am in a barn on a Norfolk farm bus-stop this is a
:02:12. > :02:19.mountain of wheat. It has been harvested so far the Shia at this
:02:19. > :02:24.farm. -- this year. It belongs to Algy Garrod. You are disappointed.
:02:25. > :02:30.We should not be standing here. The boards should be up and there
:02:30. > :02:37.should be overflowing with wheat. We should not be able to get in
:02:37. > :02:43.here. I am guessing that your coffers are not for either. We are
:02:43. > :02:51.missing �40,000 of wheat. You are missing for 2000 quid basically.
:02:51. > :02:56.try not to look in here. It is not all bad news. Algy Garrod has
:02:56. > :03:00.diversified. We will be looking at some of the crops he has harvested
:03:00. > :03:08.so far this year. One particular crop we think is rather special.
:03:08. > :03:15.See you then. That panda wheat harvest is a common picture all
:03:15. > :03:24.over the country. -- bad up wheat harvest. Simon Boazman reports of
:03:24. > :03:31.my dishes were there -- on the White this year's weather could
:03:31. > :03:37.affect the price of wheat. These fields are eerily untouched. The
:03:37. > :03:42.unpredictable weather has not just put a damper that on things for us,
:03:42. > :03:48.it has put the entire harvest on hold. We have had one of the
:03:48. > :03:54.wettest summers ever. That plays havoc with the nation's crops. This
:03:54. > :04:02.man grows wheat for biscuits, breakfast cereals and bread. His
:04:02. > :04:08.combined he stuck in a shared. was raining again. -- his combine
:04:09. > :04:17.harvester is stuck in the shed. There is a fine line between
:04:17. > :04:23.success and failure. We lose all the quality when shoots appear from
:04:23. > :04:29.here. We have spent a lot of money to produce good quality milling
:04:29. > :04:34.wheat. If it stays wet and starts to grow, we lose all quality. It is
:04:34. > :04:39.just good for chicken feed. A break in the showers and the possiblity
:04:39. > :04:45.of a couple of hours of sunshine. That is too good an opportunity to
:04:45. > :04:54.miss. The sun is about, the wind is blowing a rural see if we can
:04:55. > :05:04.manage to cut it. Every Friday counts. Farmers are harvesting
:05:04. > :05:09.world the wheat is relatively wet. -- every dry day counts. The main
:05:09. > :05:14.problem seen his disease caused by the wet-weather. If you put your
:05:14. > :05:19.finger nail through them, you will see there is nothing there. That is
:05:19. > :05:24.bad weather and disease. There is no value. Eight weeks ago, we
:05:24. > :05:29.looked like we were on for a huge harvest. Farmers have been
:05:29. > :05:33.struggling since March when it started to rain to keep control of
:05:33. > :05:42.disease. Yields are a damn. They were looking a very big yields and
:05:42. > :05:48.now it is not. -- yields are down. Will viewers see any difference in
:05:48. > :05:58.their price for bread? Their advantage. Wet tweed will not sell
:05:58. > :06:04.but there is a solution. -- they are bound to. Farmers can pay to
:06:04. > :06:11.put the wheat through massive dryers like this. It might cost �2
:06:11. > :06:18.of �3 a term in trying costs but that is nothing to be �40 a term if
:06:18. > :06:28.his harvest crop failed. It is crunch time. Has the wet weather
:06:28. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:36.gamble paid off? We have our farmers grade. What is it testing?
:06:36. > :06:40.It is testing the elasticity of the flower. It will determine whether
:06:40. > :06:48.the bread will rise and stay risen or whether it will rise up and
:06:48. > :06:53.flopped down again. We are passing the 250 mark. That is a very good
:06:53. > :07:00.crop. That extra trying appears to have paid off. The grain gets top
:07:00. > :07:06.marks and can be sold off to bakeries. Thousands of farmers are
:07:06. > :07:10.to -- crossing their fingers for more dry days. This summer has been
:07:10. > :07:14.frustrating for farmers. Further rain could spell more trouble. The
:07:14. > :07:21.ability to adapt has meant we should keep bread on our tables. He
:07:21. > :07:28.might have to pay a little bit more for it. That is so worth it.
:07:28. > :07:34.Nothing nicer than fresh bread. You were brought up on local produce.
:07:34. > :07:41.Living in North Wales, everything was organic. We buy direct from the
:07:41. > :07:46.farmer. It is nice going past fields and looking and knowing...
:07:46. > :07:51.You would not go to the supermarket at all. We would buy vegetables and
:07:51. > :07:58.meat and stuff from the farmers. You were trendy before your time.
:07:58. > :08:05.No one has ever said that to me before! A TV career it is on the up.
:08:05. > :08:10.It is exciting. We were a little bit worried. We saw this scene in
:08:10. > :08:18.the Olympics boost 2012 Foster Wheeler trying to find a celebrity
:08:18. > :08:28.judge for a nationwide bell-ringing competition. -- Olympics Booth 2012.
:08:28. > :08:30.
:08:30. > :08:36.We were trying to find. Did you come up with added Jones? No, leave
:08:36. > :08:43.him. -- Aled Jones. That was the greatest moment of my life being on
:08:43. > :08:48.that programme. We spent the day in Canary Wharf. The whole team were
:08:48. > :08:53.brilliant. Did they tell you they were going to do that? I knew they
:08:53. > :08:59.were going to take the mickey out of me for the duration of the
:08:59. > :09:03.programme. What an honour! That was before they knew about the new job.
:09:03. > :09:09.We filmed it three months ago. All of a sudden end as they are going
:09:09. > :09:17.to do that bell-ringing composition competition for the Olympics. So,
:09:17. > :09:24.it came true. You are going to be an early riser. I'm going to be
:09:25. > :09:34.presenting Daybreak. Some people thought it was going to be the lead
:09:35. > :09:36.
:09:36. > :09:41.singer of Stereophonics but it is not. I will be on at 7am to at
:09:41. > :09:46.8:30am. It will have a new set. It will be a new challenge but I am
:09:47. > :09:52.looking forward to it. They will talk about the chemistry. I have
:09:52. > :10:01.known no rain since I was very young. She has been to be used me
:10:01. > :10:08.numerous times. -- she has interviewed me numerous times.
:10:08. > :10:16.you quite surprised? I was. I did not see myself like that. I am
:10:16. > :10:22.looking forward to it. I have not had that consistency in my life. I
:10:22. > :10:28.have spent my life in graveyards and fields. I have loved that. Now
:10:28. > :10:33.I can do things like the school run. You have other projects. This will
:10:33. > :10:41.be a daily show. How will you fit in Songs Of Praise and your radio
:10:41. > :10:48.show? I will have six early mornings a week. I will do Daybreak
:10:48. > :10:54.and then I will get up early on a Sunday as well to do the radio.
:10:54. > :11:03.a cathedral tour. That is next year. Is all this talking good for the
:11:03. > :11:09.boys? Of course it is. It is warming up. I panicked before eight
:11:09. > :11:14.gig. I have to practise like everyone else. You're talking about
:11:14. > :11:21.doing a school run. Singing is running in the family, isn't it?
:11:21. > :11:30.son sings a lot but he thinks such singing is full girls. My daughter
:11:30. > :11:37.sings. She was in a show last year for a year and had a great time.
:11:37. > :11:47.She was Princess Vienna, wasn't she? She won a thank you for that.
:11:47. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:56.-- Fiona. She will not thank you for that. She usually tells me I
:11:56. > :12:03.sing things rubbish. It is not going to be like this arm Daybreak,
:12:03. > :12:09.I will tell you that. You can see him on the show a week on Monday.
:12:10. > :12:13.Time to go back to the shower -- to the farm in Norfolk. Still down on
:12:13. > :12:18.the farm and work continues as the farmers tried to make up some
:12:18. > :12:24.ground on the harvest. The weather has -- the weather has been
:12:25. > :12:29.terrible. It has been an enormously tough hardest. This time last year,
:12:29. > :12:38.70% of the whole wheat harvest in the UK had been brought in. The
:12:38. > :12:43.sheet is just 25%. A massive discrepancy. -- this year is just
:12:43. > :12:48.25%. Quite a struggle for farmers in different parts of the country.
:12:48. > :12:54.I am in Norfolk on the east coast. It has been very dry with very good
:12:54. > :12:59.weather. They have had two weeks of reasonable weather. That has been a
:12:59. > :13:07.lifeline. The farm I am on today has been able to harbour some crops.
:13:07. > :13:13.This is how we got on today. -- harvest some crops. They have been
:13:13. > :13:19.on the farm for three generations. Quite a civilised start to the day!
:13:19. > :13:23.Very important to get a cup of tea and slice of toast. He grows a
:13:23. > :13:33.diverse selection of crops, including something you might not
:13:33. > :13:33.
:13:33. > :13:43.expect - birdseed. What crops to grow? We croak a mixture of seats.
:13:43. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:49.-- grow. Some wheat and some maize. Why do you put so much in it?
:13:49. > :13:55.Different bird species like different seats. It suits all.
:13:55. > :14:05.do you stop the birds from helping themselves? Birds will sit on the
:14:05. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:16.top and help themselves. We used The wheat crop took a battering
:14:16. > :14:24.this year. He got round that by replacing part of it with more
:14:24. > :14:30.versatile Bali. Serious represent the largest % of our area. There is
:14:30. > :14:34.a small issue with green straw. It is probably the ramifications of
:14:34. > :14:40.all the wet weather we had. It is imparting moister into the straw
:14:40. > :14:45.and becomes more difficult to separate the grain from the straw.
:14:45. > :14:55.The field next door, which was wheat, was the disastrous yield.
:14:55. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :15:00.Over there, disaster, only here, good. -- over here, appeared. They
:15:00. > :15:05.have a farm shop where they sell direct to the public. There is
:15:05. > :15:11.corner on the cob and another special treat on their menu. --
:15:12. > :15:18.corner on the cob. Also a huge popcorn cooker. Lots of hot oil.
:15:18. > :15:28.You are an arable farmer. Why a making popcorn? We grosgrain, why
:15:28. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:46.This is different. I get meet the public. I can sell my product
:15:46. > :15:51.greatly. The kids love it. You've got big ambitions for this popcorn?
:15:51. > :15:57.It's in the a bit of fun? It's not a hobby? No, I would love to see
:15:57. > :16:03.this sold across the UK, and who knows. One may we might sell to
:16:03. > :16:06.Uncle Sam. So selling to America. Indeed. So in a minute as that
:16:06. > :16:11.cooks we're hoping it's going to look great and we can tip it out
:16:11. > :16:15.and have a look at that. It's about to start going now. It's going to
:16:15. > :16:17.go off in a minute, isn't it? Is this something that you think is a
:16:18. > :16:21.serious part of your business that'll help you. We have talked
:16:21. > :16:25.about all the problems with the harvesting and the weather. Could
:16:25. > :16:28.this really become a core part of your business that could help you
:16:28. > :16:32.balance the books really Yes, it's about adding value and selling
:16:32. > :16:38.directly to the customer. We get a larger proportion of the final
:16:38. > :16:42.price. We can guarantee quality. We know where it comes from. We use
:16:42. > :16:46.cold-pressed rapeseed oil locally grown. OK. It's really starting to
:16:46. > :16:50.pop now. Let's go for this. I want to bring in two of your helpers
:16:50. > :16:56.while you're doing that. 20 seconds now... Quickly come in. Your dadly
:16:56. > :17:00.make lots of products - turn around for me. Which do you like best, the
:17:00. > :17:05.birdseed or the popcorn? Definitely the popcorn. Yes. I knew that was
:17:05. > :17:09.going to happen. Do you actually like popcorn? Yeah, we love it.
:17:09. > :17:13.do you think it's fun daddy does this? Yes, it's brilliant. What is
:17:13. > :17:18.a harvest like? What is it like when he's harvesting? It's good fun
:17:18. > :17:24.because we get to run the tractors and that sort of thing. Marvellous.
:17:24. > :17:29.So you're keen farmers yourselves? Yes. Yes. Yes? Annabelle, yes?
:17:29. > :17:33.OK. Are we almost ready to eat some of this popcorn? Girls, stand to
:17:33. > :17:39.the side. We're going to do what I like the call the Norfolk popcorn
:17:39. > :17:45.tip. Let's go. Three, two, one. This is getting excited. Here we go.
:17:45. > :17:51.Woo! The best thing is Algy, we'd like to try some as soon as you're
:17:51. > :17:54.ready. Here we go - fresh local popcorn. This is fresh popcorn from
:17:54. > :17:59.Norfolk. Delicious. I have definitely got the best gig. Back
:17:59. > :18:04.to you. Jealous! The pressure was on there
:18:04. > :18:09.- not sharing. A bowl of that would be lovely. The Paralympics start
:18:09. > :18:13.next week, so the Games Lanes will be back in action, and the timings
:18:13. > :18:18.on some traffic lights will be changed to say to reduce some
:18:18. > :18:23.congestion. We know everybody has sat at a traffic light and just
:18:23. > :18:27.wished they could change the lights. Marty Jopson had the chance.
:18:27. > :18:32.There was a time when man controlled our junctions.
:18:32. > :18:37.Now computers decide who gets the green light. But are we moving in
:18:37. > :18:42.the right direction? We all know the frustration of needlessly
:18:42. > :18:45.sitting at a red light when it's clear and it should be green. It
:18:45. > :18:49.feels like I could do better than this. Well, there is a team of egg
:18:49. > :18:53.nears that think I could be right. Traffic lights all over the country
:18:53. > :18:58.are run by computerised systems like this one in Leicester. They're
:18:59. > :19:05.called UTCs, Urban Traffic- Controllinged systems. The aim of
:19:05. > :19:14.this is to minimise delays by giving the green light to the
:19:14. > :19:18.busiest lanes. Sensors in the road tell them how many cars are in a
:19:18. > :19:23.lane. The computer assumes the average of how long it will take
:19:23. > :19:28.for a car to get through, but this engineer at the University of
:19:28. > :19:35.Southampton thinks there might be a better way. He's created a computer
:19:35. > :19:40.game that lets drivers control traffic lights. It's revealed
:19:40. > :19:44.spreeks spend less time waiting at lights when humans are in charge.
:19:44. > :19:48.traffic junction might look like a simple thing, but in fact there is
:19:48. > :19:54.some complex behaviour going on. don't drive in the regimented way
:19:54. > :19:58.the computer assumes. We switch lanes and drive at different speeds.
:19:58. > :20:03.The computer just reacts to what the programmer has told it to do,
:20:03. > :20:07.whereas a human is quite good at adapting and changing, trying out
:20:07. > :20:13.new strategies. But Simon has never tested his theory outside the game,
:20:13. > :20:18.so we're going to do just that. We've taken over a test track. We
:20:18. > :20:23.have a junction with four light and 30 cars driving around continuously.
:20:23. > :20:30.Let's see who can get the most cars through the lights - man or machine.
:20:30. > :20:39.First up, the UTC. It has to decide if road A or road B gets the green
:20:39. > :20:43.the junction. We've got a nice big queue on this leg, and we can see
:20:43. > :20:47.some vehicles building up, and the junction has just given them a
:20:47. > :20:52.green light. That was definitely a good move the compute her given
:20:52. > :20:56.them. They're building up here. really the computer should give
:20:56. > :20:59.them a green light. I would have done it already. This is green, but
:20:59. > :21:03.there was nobody there. The computer uses the average time the
:21:03. > :21:07.vehicles will take to get through the lights. When cars get through
:21:07. > :21:11.faster, it means another lane needlessly sits at red.
:21:11. > :21:17.If you could stop the test that would be great. Thank you. After 15
:21:17. > :21:23.minutes, 323 cars have got through the lights under UTC control.
:21:23. > :21:31.Right. Now you get to have a good. So how many cars can I get through?
:21:31. > :21:34.Come on, you lot. Go, go, go, go, go. You've got to be constantly
:21:34. > :21:38.thinking, where's the traffic? Where's it going to be? It's going
:21:38. > :21:44.to be cleared in about - yeah. Right. I go now. They'll whip
:21:44. > :21:50.through. OK. Yeah, that was perfectly timed. I got them through.
:21:50. > :21:56.I am getting the hang of this. I can anticipate how long each lane
:21:56. > :22:04.needs a green light. Two, three one, now. When you were
:22:04. > :22:13.controlling the junction 286 cars made it through the junction, and
:22:13. > :22:16.with the compute 233. Yes. It seems man can beat the machine.
:22:16. > :22:22.But it's not practical to have people controlling them, so Simon
:22:22. > :22:25.has found a way to combine the best of both words. He's using
:22:25. > :22:30.artificial intelligence. The computer copies choices made by a
:22:30. > :22:35.player in the game. So when it encounters a new situation, ill
:22:35. > :22:41.will try to look through the statistical patterns it's collected
:22:41. > :22:45.and think what will Marty do here? The more people play, the more the
:22:45. > :22:48.computer thinks like a human. Hopefully, over time it will learn
:22:48. > :22:52.to control the traffic better. Simon is currently working with a
:22:52. > :22:58.company that develop traffic light systems. His artificial
:22:58. > :23:02.intelligence technology should be Good news. Thanks, Marty. I can't
:23:03. > :23:08.believe what you just said. He said, "I would love to drive around that
:23:08. > :23:11.junction." He did say that. It just looks quite orderly - it does make
:23:11. > :23:17.me sound incredibly sad. LAUGHTER
:23:17. > :23:22.Anyway, let's get back to harvesting and all of your...
:23:22. > :23:28.is from Julie. She says this is my husband Joe with his strawberry
:23:28. > :23:32.crop. You have one. I have. I have one here. I have Brian Crisp with a
:23:32. > :23:38.parsnip. Not just a parsnip - look behind him at his work top as well
:23:38. > :23:43.- that's full. He's going to cook it with pork and apple sauce.
:23:43. > :23:49.mentioned chillies last night. This is from Roger. He says, "This is
:23:49. > :23:59.how you grow chillies, Alex." look nothing like this. This is
:23:59. > :24:01.
:24:01. > :24:09.from Ian. This is his wife Sheena with her veg patch. These are not
:24:09. > :24:13.chillies. He said "I grew these tomatoes from my seeds in
:24:13. > :24:18.Switzerland"! If the weather stays fine I know many of you will plan
:24:18. > :24:23.al fresco dining. But have you ever thought how your colourful picnic
:24:23. > :24:26.could invite unwelcome guests? There is a world of mysterious
:24:27. > :24:32.creatures out there. No matter how hard you try, you cannot escape
:24:32. > :24:38.them. These invaders can be the bane of our lives in summertime.
:24:38. > :24:43.I love eating outside in the summer, but insects can ruin a picnic. They
:24:43. > :24:50.fly around. They bite us. They sting us. So how can we avoid these
:24:50. > :24:53.pests? The secret to keeping insects at bay is to understand
:24:53. > :25:00.what they're attracted to. First things first, this blanket was a
:25:00. > :25:05.mistake. For a Beatle, the colours yellow and green look pretty
:25:05. > :25:08.similar, so this yellow picnic blanket just looks like a giant
:25:08. > :25:16.leaf. They think it's lunch. Insects generally have restricted
:25:16. > :25:22.colour vision. They only see the world in shades of yellowy green or
:25:22. > :25:27.blue, and yellowy green means food, so if you don't want to have
:25:27. > :25:33.unwanted guests joining your picnic, stay away from yellow and green in
:25:33. > :25:37.your picnic and clothes. What else attracts these beasts? What food we
:25:37. > :25:42.have obviously attracts as a magnet for insects. There are some foods
:25:42. > :25:47.that cause surprising reactions. Fellow entomologist Dr Adam Hart is
:25:47. > :25:54.joining me to see what his honeybees make of my picnic. They
:25:54. > :26:02.do look a bit sleepy. They do look a bit docile. Some of the things in
:26:02. > :26:07.your picnic might liven them up. What do you suggest? These banana
:26:07. > :26:17.sweets - let's put them in and see what happens. That's working.
:26:17. > :26:20.
:26:20. > :26:27.is that? That's strong. This pheromone is found when they sting,
:26:27. > :26:30.so you're attracting not just bees but angry bees. This chemical is
:26:31. > :26:34.used as a sweetener in ice creams and cakes and also naturally in
:26:34. > :26:39.bananas and apples, but in much lower concentrations, so you're
:26:40. > :26:44.safer with those on your picnic. there anything that repels bees?
:26:44. > :26:52.There is some evidence this substance does. It's called
:26:52. > :26:56.heptonine. That's like blue cheese. Yeah. It is found in a pheromone
:26:56. > :27:00.honeybees give off to warn other bees when there is danger. It's
:27:00. > :27:04.also what gives blue cheese its taste.
:27:04. > :27:14.So what I should do is get rid of these and replace it with a nice
:27:14. > :27:15.
:27:15. > :27:23.Where you have your picnic also suggests how many uninvited guests
:27:23. > :27:28.you'll attract. The classic place to find insects like midges black
:27:28. > :27:32.flies and another dreaded menace - the male mosquito. It's only the
:27:32. > :27:35.female mosquitos that bite us. They need a blood meal to help their
:27:35. > :27:40.eggs develop, and we're the perfect source.
:27:40. > :27:44.The females breed in ponds. Yes, and they lay the eggs which hatch
:27:44. > :27:50.out into larvae which grow into these. What particularly makes them
:27:50. > :27:55.attracted to us? We're warm, produce carbon dioxide. We're
:27:56. > :28:00.magnets for mosquitoes. We might as well have a sign saying "Eat me."
:28:00. > :28:05.Staying away from still water help, but the best way to avoid these
:28:05. > :28:09.blood suckers is to time your picnic right. Most insects come out
:28:09. > :28:13.at dusk and dawn. Now that I have top tips for avoiding intruders I
:28:13. > :28:19.won't be put off my picnic. The only thing that can stop me now -
:28:19. > :28:23.is the British weather. We have achieved some patchy
:28:23. > :28:27.weather over the weekend. It's mixed. There is some sunshine in
:28:27. > :28:35.parts. How very positive of you. you have any plans for the Bank
:28:35. > :28:39.Holiday? No, I am going to take it easy. Last one. I might go for a
:28:39. > :28:41.run because I aim to have a body like yours - I was pointing at
:28:41. > :28:47.yours, actually. LAUGHTER
:28:47. > :28:52.Going to take it easy I'll be back on the radio from 6.00 to 9.00.