24/02/2016 The One Show

Is that the most beautiful start we have ever had? Hello and welcome to

prog-macro with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We just saw the incredible

shadow dances Attraction, and we will have a live performance from

them later on. We will also find out why our friend Andy Torbet has been

doing this. Andy has been throwing himself out of a plane at 15,000

feet and plummeting to the ground. It is all in an attempt to beat the

fastest animal on the planet. Will he do it? From one Flying Scotsman

to another. The world's most famous train is back on track. We will be

seeing the restored Flying Scotsman in all its glory shortly. We have

got flying presenters, the Flying Scotsman and our guests tonight are

causing the arrows to fly every Sunday on Let's Play Darts For Sport

Relief. Shall we give them the proper darts welcome? Yes. Here is

Little Richard. This darts player is a proper Bobby Dazzler, a multiple

tournament winner and one of the most popular pros ever to play the

game. Darting royalty, Bobby "King of Bling" George!

MUSIC: WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS BY QUEEN Our next player knows how to get 8

Out Of 10 Cats, but can he get three out of three darts on the board? It

is Jon "The Lancashire Hot Shot" Richardson!

MUSIC: BIG BAD JOHN BY JIMMY DEAN Good to see you, my friends, have a

seat. Bobby, I have to say, that code is right up my street. It is

quite Shirley Bassey. What is the story behind it? I got it made in

India. I saw it in a glass case and I said, I want one of them. You

looked like a ruler or raking with it. So I waited five weeks for them

to make it and they sent it to me. I thought one arm was going to be

shorter than the other. It didn't come out perfect. Very nice. Bobby

"King of Bling" George, is that your... Nice jumper, Jon. Reed

ridiculous! From Bobby "King of Bling" George to our call out

tonight. If you have a great sporting nickname, tell us about it.

Here is a photo we couldn't wait to show you. Yesterday, we told you the

story of Monty Short from Leicester who was searching high and low for

her beloved Yorkshire terrier who was slowly earlier this month.

Following our appeal, somebody call the police to say that a dog they

recently bought strongly resembled that one. Today, police confirmed it

was indeed Gog and she was immediately returned to a delighted

mum. The power of television! Happy times ahead. Very sweet. This week,

a study into obesity is found shot in just 5% of your body weight can

have a huge effect on your health. If you are looking for motivation,

how about the only football league in Britain where losing is the

ultimate goal? Tonight promises to be a heavyweight

clash here, where dyslexia and tied take on their opponents. Top striker

Andy Alsop says he will ring -- run rings around the opposition. I will

score a hat-trick. The captain is confident his side will put on a

belly busting performance. We will lose more weight. You haven't got a

chance. This isn't a normal matchup. These guys are part of a unique

weight loss programme targeted specifically at men. Come on! In

Solihull, 80 men with a body mass index of more than 30 have signed on

to play in this football competition designed to help them lose weight.

Recent figures show that over 66% of men in the UK are classed as obese

or overweight. Paramedic Andy Alsop is currently 23.5 stone. In the

past, when he signed up for weight loss programmes, he was the only man

among mainly women and he failed to shed the plans -- he failed to shed

the pounds. What makes this different? Men inspire men. You get

so much more enjoyment with people who are in the same boat. His wife,

Cathy, recently gave birth to their first child, Harry, which had a big

impact on Andy's motivation. He will be want -- wanting to be running

around and playing football. I want to be around for as long as possible

to look after this one. It is time now to pull my finger out. Down the

road in King sees, 21.5 stone Mark is keen to turn his lifestyle

around. He is tired of people reading him about his weight. If you

go out to eat, other people are looking at what you are eating. They

maybe do it as a joke but it is a problem. How will your personality

changed if you lose the weight? It will get me back to the kind of

person that I know. I like to socialise, so maybe I will not be so

withdrawn. Mark as a five-year-old called Stephan. With another on the

way, like Andy, he is determined to lose the weight for them. Tonight,

Mark's team will take on Andy's in their third game of the season. Is

it important to have support from other guys in the same situation?

This scheme is great because we are all looking out for each other. It

is the social aspect as well. You don't want to come here and put on

weight because you think you have left the team down. Isn't nice to be

an all-male group. The banter is different. The teams are chomping at

the bit. Time for kick-off. Maybe best team win. -- made the best team

win. Solihull council are trying a number of male targeted weight loss

schemes over the next two years at a cost of over ?100,000. This football

league lasts 14 weeks with eight teams of ten playing for 30 minutes

every Monday night. Public Health England and Martin Todd from the

men's health Forum are calling on all local councils to recognise the

need for weight loss programmes aimed at men. The figures are clear.

Even though men suffer more from the bad consequences of being overweight

and women, the programmes that are in place are reaching out to them

less effectively. Mark's team have won the match 1-0 but there is more

scoring to come. Over to the scales. For every two players that lose

weight, their team get an extra goal on top of the result. Good luck. So,

with a one goal margin, there is all to play for. After three weeks of

playing, Andy and Mark have both scored, with Andy losing nearly a

stone and Mark shedding half a stone. Tonight, mark's team are the

winners with a combined weight loss of nearly five stone.

The founder and poster boy, Andrew Shanahan, is in the studio. Let's

have a look at a photo of him. This is a couple of years ago. Here is

Andrew in the studio now. Andrew! What a difference! When you see a

photo like that, how does it feel? Fantastic. What I want to do is to

help other guys to do the same thing, to move from a BMI of 30,

obese, back to healthy and get happier. Obviously more people

across the country as well, which is the ultimate goal for this. Yes,

this started in Solihull and we are looking to branch out all over the

country and beyond. Good luck. How does the run-up to the match

hang-out? Are you all on the same diet? We get given a programme at

the start of the course to follow. We get dieticians and forums on the

website. We are all sort of following our own and what works for

us. Over 90% of the guys losing weight and it is clearly that you

adapt it to your needs. The match at the end of the week, have you

noticed a difference in your fitness level, Mark? We have gone from guys

crawling off the pitch. Now, we are having to drag people off. In all

seriousness, conditions like sleep apnoea, clothes getting better,

everybody is noticing it. You can feel the excitement around you. We

have got a result for you. We have totalled up the amount you have lost

in the last six weeks. We are going to do it in sporting fashion. Little

Richard... The total now lost is 13 stone and five pounds! Fantastic!

What about that?! That is like one Matt Baker, can you believe it? Nick

Wallis is here now with more on a story which got a huge reaction from

prog-macro viewers. It was the second week in January. Remind us.

What did you find out? It was hospital parking, specifically the

lack of it for carers. We have since discovered this is a much bigger

issue from the response we got from viewers of the one show. During the

investigation, we said that the health authorities in Northern

Ireland, Scotland and Wales didn't charge for carers to park at their

car parks. This has been blown out of the water in the response we get,

who said, I am sorry, that isn't my experience. To give you one example,

Grace got in touch to say her daughter was having a baby at the

maternity unit at her local hospital in Edinburgh. Not only was her

daughter's husband charged for parking there but, when they

overstate, because the baby was late, they got a fine. Watts what is

going on? We went back to the NHS and said, what is going on? They

said, most people who do visit car parks don't pay if it is an NHS car

park but, if the car park is operated privately, people will pay,

or if the hospital was built under the PFI initiative, under the

current contract, people will pay for parking. PFI hospitals tend to

be larger, so more people have an experience of paying for parking. In

England, there are guidelines, which are voluntary. My question is, why

are they voluntary and why doesn't every car park adhere to the same

guidelines? You are right, they are guidelines and there is no penalty

for noncompliance. Have a look at this graphic, which we put together

using information from viewers after our last broadcast. If you know

better, get in touch. Look at the differentials in rates between

parking around the country. Chelsea and Westminster will charge you ?40

if you keep your car in for ten hours. The disparity is just... It

is hard to take it in, but it is all there. The temptation would be to

say, why don't we clear it all down and make it free so there would not

be a postcode lottery? The argument is that the car parks have to be

maintained and they maintained by parking fees. If you get rid of

them, you have to make a decision about putting money into car park

maintenance which could go into life-saving operations, which is a

tough decision. The government think that should be down to local trusts

to make the best decisions which suit their sites. Now for an epic

battle of the skies. In one corner, a sleek, powerful, skilled hunter

who can swoop faster than anything on earth. In the other, a bloke

called Andy. Over the last few years I've clocked up nearly 300

skydivers. The fastest I've ever been free falling to Earth is over

150 mph. But now I'm preparing for my biggest challenge yet.

The peregrine falcon in hunting mode is one of the more formidable sites

in our skies. The can reach speeds of more than 200 mph, making them

the fastest animal on the planet. And I want to see if I can go as

fast as this bird of prey in the sky. The Falcon's incredible speed

is its primary weapon to catch prey. It can reach top velocity went

plummeting from the sky in a near vertical dive called a steep. But to

reach these speeds safely, it has some amazing adaptations. It has

little cones of bone in its nostril, and it's believed that slows down

the FO to prevent its lungs from bursting. It has a third eyelid that

comes down to protect and moist in the eye in flight. It's see-through,

so they don't lose vision at 200 mph. To protect myself, I will have

a full face mask and helmet. The Falcon also has a powerful and

teardrop shaped body and wings they can wrap around themselves to give

them the ability to move rapidly through the air. At the moment I'm

50 mph short, so I need to adapt I skydiving position to go faster. To

make myself more aerodynamic I'm going to need some help. This Doctor

is a lecturer of Aeronautics and advanced propulsion. Also a winged

suit base jumper, leading the research in the UK in that area.

What we need to do is look at the way we can make you more like that

bird. We need to focus on how the airflow moves around your body, and

therefore try to maximise your aerodynamic efficiency and velocity

so we can try to achieve speeds in excess of 200 mph in a head down

dive. I've been attached to a specially adapted chest rig in the

wind tunnel allowing him to analyse the airflow in a range of body

positions. We are now at 30 metres per second. Going to the body

position. With wind speeds up to 70 mph, he

can test exactly how much drag I'm producing. Using smoke and tassles

it allows him to visualise how BM moves around my body, aching small

but adjustments to increase my potential speed. -- how BM moves. A

more downward looking position was better. -- how the air moves. Keep

the shoulders in and legs close together. After 30 minutes of

testing, Angeloni calculates my terminal velocity. We predict that

based on the configurations you are in, you would hit a top speed of

just under 190 mph. How does that sound? Doesn't sound good, actually.

Puts me ten mph short of the magic 200. It might be short, but the

thing to factor in is that this test was conducted at sea level

conditions. When you jump at 15,000 feet the atmosphere will be more

thin, so the air density will be lower. Because of the thinner air I

should be able to go 20 or 30 mph quicker. It's time to put what I

learned in the wind tunnel into practice. But getting the correct

position in a controlled environment is one thing. It will be totally

different up here because there is so much more to think about.

On my first attempt, the techniques I've learned in the wind tunnel go

completely out of the window and I do make a big mistake. Doesn't sound

great, out of the aeroplane and making a huge mistake. Thank

goodness it's a two Pata! We'll see if Andy beats

the record later. Bobby, this is your second year

of Let's Play Darts Jon, were you up for this? I was

well up for it. If you're in a plane, and then you out of it,

you've already made your mistake! I was well up for it. How do this lot

compare to the last lot last year? They are all really competitive and

really up for it. We have Greg Davies, Robbie Savage. I don't know

how he got that name is about boy. He's such a gentle soul. I hope you

are watching. He might beat me up next time he sees me. Let's talk

about Jon's darts pedigree. Did you play a lot when you were young? I

turned pro briefly between the ages of six and seven. But then the

comedy took over. Did you have the Velcro board? Yeah, with the plastic

tips. And I had proper board from when I was a big boy a couple of

years ago. Getting that darts board in a garage and practising, that's

what you should do, but has that been your world for the last couple

of weeks? It would have been, but you've got too much work going on.

You have to be in a position to clear your diary. I did a bit of

practice. The more you take it seriously, the more disappointed you

will be when, in my experience, your hopes are crushed. The thing to do

is be relaxed and not have any dreams, and that's great advice for

life. He did get nervous. I'm sure. He tells jokes in front of small

audiences, and he doesn't get nervous, but he says when he plays

darts gets very nervous. That's because you don't see the audience,

what just play the dartboard in front of you. You must have got

nervous back in the day. I'm nervous tonight. The more times you do it

Romeu get used to it and you don't get nervous. The tournaments, the

first round you might get butterflies, but when you start

playing they go. You get used to doing it after so many years and you

don't get nervous. Funny you telling me I was nervous because I face the

audience usually, and I have my back to them that darts, but I seem to

remember you said it was because I hadn't had enough to drink. You were

nervous because you hadn't brought me a drink! Here's Jon at the end of

the oche. Another thing I quite like about John, he likes to set himself

goals while playing darts at home. Such as, I won't let myself go to

the toilet until I hit treble 20. That's the reason I never played

darts with Jon Richardson. APPLAUSE STUDIO: You use to play with your

dad when you were younger, so you saw him do it and you use to have

competitions. Yet, but we didn't used to film it. Great to see the

first bit of footage ready camera has to zoom out to see where the

dart went. A unique piece of humiliation. My dad was a very good

player, and he had a rule where he wouldn't let me win, so if I beat

him I would know I earned it. Did you beat him? No. Took a gamble on

myself the steam, that I might never win. -- on myself a steam. I picked

a set of darts up, didn't turn professional until the age of 30,

and I went fishing to Ireland. Couldn't go fishing because the

water was all rocky. Started playing in the pub with this blog. He asked

me, how come you keep doing that? I said, what, and he said keep hitting

the bull's-eye! He pushed me to play darts and I haven't looked back.

Everybody has got some sort of talent, it's just finding it. Isn't

it, Jon? I hope so! LAUGHTER APPLAUSE

I tell you what, we are going to have a game of darts later. The

three amateurs will throw and see how we do.

The amatuers, myself, Matt and Jon - versus a blindfolded Bobby.

Ring it's bad enough being able to see a dartboard, we'll see how I on

later. One thing you need to be a great

darts player is an aptitude for mental arithmetic -

and having a great maths teacher So Iwan went to meet the British

teacher who has just been nominated as one of the best in the world

to get some extra lessons. When I was at school I was way more

interested in track and field than trigonometry and fractions.

Everybody thinks their teacher is the best or worst. Today I'm eating

a teacher called Colin Hegarty, or Sir, as I should call him, who is

really regarded as one of the best in the world. He's made the short

list of a global teacher prize. It's kind of like the Nobel Prize, but

for teachers. You're like the Justin Bieber of the maths world. You had

more than 5.5 million hits on your YouTube videos on how to teach

people maths, so you must be doing something right. Videos are useful

for students who want to learn at home. It's great support for them.

What I like about meeting you, you are passionate, but your classroom

simplifies it and you have inspirational people on the wall. I

always start lessons, before we talk about maths, we talk about

confidence. Confidence is crucial for anything. If you don't believe

you can do something you will stop trying to do it. Maths wasn't my

favourite subject at school. It killed my family when I failed first

time with a day because my mum was a maths teacher. No matter how

difficult you think subbing is, you got to believe and you have to have

that first belief it's worth trying. Would you know how to work out three

fifths of a number? It's 27, so what's the number? I would say 27

divided by three. Nine. Under pressure now. We want to divide it

into five. Three of those is 27. One fifth is nine. Exactly, so how much

is the whole number? Five nines, 45. I get a gold badge! Colin believes

that maths makes you more employable, gets you better wages

and keeps your mind agile. It's relevant everyone and everything,

and not just in the classroom. At a restaurant with your friends when

you are splitting the bill, the best way to do it is roughly do it in

your head, that's the kind of things you need maths for, quick cents

check decision is to inform everyday life. Does your brain work

differently, do you see numbers everywhere? Sometimes the structure

of something, like the playground features there, built in and

elliptical shape, and that's because it's a strong shape to hold subbing

up. You are an engineer as well? Maths is the mother of all is I

insist, the language of computing and engineering and everything. I

wouldn't look at it like that. I think we are slightly different. If

I run an average of 18 mph, and I do 400 metres in 44 seconds, and you

take a minute and a half... What is your fraction? I'd like to break 60

seconds! Race Kuster I never thought I would ever say this. I've fallen

in love with maths. -- race? Not fractions. Remember those? It

was quite intimidating sitting and watching that because our guests

were doing the sums all the way through.

Bobby has gone into a few schools to try to teach them. If you can't

enjoy it, there's no point. If you know what Shanghai is on a

dartboard, single, treble, double, so if you have single one, treble

one, 11, that would be sex. Then onto the twos -- that would be six.

Then moving on, it's just your six times table. So they can play the

game of darts... They can do their seven times table, two trebles and a

single. Seven, 14, 21 and so on. I teach them the easy way, the

beginning of maths. It's like telling the time. That's the hardest

thing you can learn when you are a kid, telling the time. Especially

American, like ten. 45... Quarter to ten? It's different. Time is maths,

getting to work at nine o'clock, if you're not there you don't get paid.

Unless you work on the one show and then it is PM. Get on maths, and get

them grasping it and then they get interested. The caller was a young

boy who came to me. Now he does it for a living. On eight out of ten

Cats does countdown, I'm always impressed with Jon, that bit where

you pick the numbers and Rachel presses the button, you're pretty

good at that. How would you rate your maths? We edit that, I actually

get three hours to do it. But I do like maths, did it at A-level and

enjoyed it. One of the few things you do in life when you know when

you are right or wrong. I did Spanish and French and it was all

opinions and things, relationships are complex, and sometimes it's nice

to say, it's exactly 17, well done, clever boy. Perfect sense. We were

talking about your lovely coat early on, Bobby, a bobby-dazzler of a

coat, and you say you spotted it in India. It was part of the The Real

Marigold Hotel. A great documentary. Let's remind ourselves of your time

out there. Can you see the cows? Amazing. How

have you been coping without me? Taking your tablets? Yes. Bobby and

Marie are staying on in India to look at property. I can't believe I

am here. Are you going to miss it? I will eclipse, yeah. You stayed on,

it then? I stayed for ten days afterwards. I was there for over a

month. I really enjoyed it. Was the plan... I looked for property but I

found that you can't buy hoppity in India. You have have an Indian on

your deeds. -- you have to buy property. We are captain of our

ownership in this country. But you can rent a place quite reasonably so

you could live there on a pension. You can't live the style, if you

want to live high style, if you like. You could live like the

Indians on ?20 a month, probably. Normal living, 150, ?200 a month,

you could do it. A lovely country. Honestly, don't ever run this

country down. You go to India and the poor are poor. The rich are

rich. There is nothing in between. And the animals are marvellous.

There are no rubbish men. They dump their rubbish on the corner every

morning. Out come the cows, they learn to open plastic bags and take

what they want. Then can be pigs, then the wild dogs, then the kids

take the plastic and begins out. By 11:30am, because all gone! They

don't waste anything. Use throw it away, somebody will make something

of it. And it doesn't smell, don't believe that India smells. I was

there for over a month and it's not normal to me. You have to go there.

Best it smelt normal to me. If you missed it, The Real Marigold Hotel

is still available to look at on the eye player. Tomorrow sees the

official return to the rails of one of the most legendary trains ever.

In its heyday, the Flying Scotsman... It has been a difficult

route back from neglect, but now Joe Crowley is pleased to report that

the Scotsman is back in business. The Flying Scotsman, simple words

that, for so many people, evoke the romance of rail from the steam age.

This mighty engine was once the epitome of British engineering

excellence. During the 1920s and 30s, locomotive for 472 became a

pin-up of the steam age was given the name Flying Scotsman after the

service it ran between London and Edinburgh. This engine became both

the first run the route nonstop and the first to officially get 100 mph.

After 40 years up and down the coast mainline, the Flying Scotsman came

out of regular service in 1963. Since then, the locomotive has

travelled the world and it has had a number of owners. Skip forward to

2004 and at the National Railway Museum in York they had a campaign

to restore it to its former glory. Now, after a decade of work, this

powerful locomotive is ready to roll back the years and returned to

Britain's mainlines. This man has worked on the locomotive's

restoration. Ten years, millions of pounds, what have you done to it? We

have done major jobs, including renewing the complete front end of

the engine. We have done work on the wheels, the ball has been

overhauled. -- the boiler. What is captured your engineering -- your

imagination? To be involved in something going along at 75 mph,

that is incredible with a steam engine. Can it still claim to be the

Flying Scotsman? The main part of the engine, the frames, is the part

which keeps the loco's identity. So it is still the Flying Scotsman.

Lots of people don't see the behind-the-scenes things which

happen with these. A lot of hard graft has gone on to getting this

thing ready. Even now, we are up at daft o'clock in the morning to get

it ready, to light the fire, to scrape the ash out from underneath.

It is a filthy job. Tomorrow, the Flying Scotsman will return to the

and run a one-off service from London to York. Ron Kennedy worked

on the railways for nearly 50 years. Ron, you have done every job there

is going, right? Yes, I started off as a cleaner then I went on to a

fireman and then I drove it. We knew it as 60,000 103. Was it just a job,

you were busy, or did you enjoy it and realise how special it was? I

enjoyed it, all the enthusiasm used to come up. People would take it off

in their books. Are you surprised by the interest still shown in it? No,

I'm pleased because it is our history. Do you remember that engine

in particular and have affection for it? Yes, especially when it was nice

and clean. When you were a fireman, how hard was that? On a run to

Newcastle, you could shuffle from between six tonnes to eight tonnes

of coal and use a hell of a lot of water. Thirsty work! Tomorrow, when

you have a chance to write on that train, to be part of the Flying

Scotsman again, what will it be like? It will be fantastic, a dream

come true. I will be going back again on a steam engine and I write

to York. -- on a right to York. To catch them read born Flying Scotsman

on its first journey tomorrow, here is where it is due to go. It leaves

tin crossed -- King's Cross at 10:30am before arriving in York at

lunchtime. The public can have a look at it at the National Railway

Museum later on. Remember, stay behind the barriers, not on the

tracks. Good advice. It is time for the darts match of the century. It

is between a blindfolded, yes, blindfolded Bobby George, myself,

Alex and Jon. Basically, we have three darts each and the highest

total wins. It is over to the voice of the darts, Little Richard! It is

time for our darts challenge here on The One Show. First up to the oche

is Alex "The Arrow" Jones! How do you warm up for darts? I don't know.

It is Alex to throw first. Game on. I am nervous. Come on. 24 is your

total. Next up to the oche is Matt "Bullseye" Baker! Isn't it weird! 24

is the score to beat. Hang on, let me concentrate. 20. In the lead by a

point, it is Alex. Our third player to the board is the Lancashire

hotshot, Jon Richardson! A bit high, this board. Five, one, and five. Our

final player is Bobby "King of Bling" George! You have one shot to

get your eye in and then we are going to blindfold you. I will be

glad to hit the board! I don't have to move. You just want to go for it

now? What is the score to beat? It is yours, Alex, 24.

The winner is Bobby "King of Bling" George! Look what he has won! Bobby,

you have won a speedboat. Brilliant. You have got to love that. You can

see the next round of Let's Play Darts For Sport Relief this Sunday

at 9pm on BBC Two. Now, when we last saw Andy, he was plummeting towards

the ground while telling us he had made a huge mistake. Is the attempt

to go faster than the fastest animal on the planet doomed?

I am going to see if I can go as fast as a peregrine falcon. When

chasing prey, they can reach over 200 mph. The maximum speed I have

never reached while skydiving is just over 150. I have been to a wind

tunnel to work out how to be more aerodynamic and now I have tried to

put everything into practice, but my first attempt has proven to be more

challenging than I thought. It didn't go quite to plan. The problem

is that it is really unstable. You need your legs out quite far and

your arms out quite far to get stability. I tried to do it like in

a wind tunnel, but it is like trying to balance a pencil on its tip. You

want to fall over all the time. When skydiving, I have a device attached

which measures my velocity and altitude showing the speed of my

descent. Michael is the current British skydiving champion who has

been looking back at my data. Your initial acceleration is nice and

smooth, and that is just natural acceleration from gravity. You have

picked up a bit of speed and then started to struggle. Your top speed,

you are approaching 180 mph. In the wind tunnel, we found that perfect

position, tucked in and streamlined, but it just wasn't working in

reality. A bit of drag is helpful for keeping you stable, like a

shuttlecock. A shuttlecock can go very fast and it has got feathers on

it to keep it stable. Your centre of gravity is somewhere around here and

your legs will be like the feathers of a shuttlecock. Think about taking

your legs a bit wider to start. As soon as I jump from 15,000 feet, I

have got just ten seconds to get my body into a streamlined position and

a further 20 seconds to get to maximum speed before I have to slow

down to Paul reshoot. If I am going to pass, the parachute will not open

properly and I will be in trouble. -- to pull the shoot. Over the next

few hours, I'd try a few more jobs but I am yet to reach the

peregrine's speed of 200 mph. You definitely have an improvement. A

bit of trouble at the beginning, but you have a nice acceleration here,

taking you above 300 miles per hour,. Just short of the 200 mark.

To eke out that extra ten mph, Mike helps me with some more tips. On

attempt number 18, it feels like it is all coming together.

But have I done enough to reach the magic 200? Much, much better. It

felt so much more stable. I managed to hold my head down all the way

from exiting the plane at 15,000 feet down to putting the brakes on

at 5000 feet. Let's find out how fast I was. Really nice

acceleration. You get it nice and even all the way up to just under

350 kilometres per hour, so we are looking at about 215 mph. Well done.

Get in! It puts you up there with the fastest animal on the planet.

When I started, I wanted to go as fast as a peregrine falcon and,

thanks to experts, technology and a bit of help from gravity, I have

managed to be up there with one of nature's marvels. Well done, 18

attempts and he did it. Speaking of danger, we just want to point out,

it's not a good idea to play blindfolded darts. It's not a good

idea to play without the blindfold! This is yours, Jon. Fastest on

water! Well done Andy - and Mike Dilger

is here with some more examples of how humans have used physical

enhancements to try and beat animals We will start with the strongest

land mammal, the elephant. The African elephant, it's all down to

that amazing trunk, a unique appendage in the animal world, no

bones or cartilage, and it's calculated they can lift 350 kilos.

With brute force they can use their trunk to do that. It's also so

dextrous and deft they can use their trunk to pick up a pencil. Compare

that to the human world record in weightlifting. A Russian in 2015 did

the old clean and jerk, and he managed 246 kilos, pretty

impressive. But the Americans have been developing an exoskeleton with

the military, and you look like Robocop when you wear it and it

inordinately increases your strength. If our Russian friend must

aware that exoskeleton he could lift the equivalent of 4888 kilos. That's

effectively like if you are lifting one kilo, it's the equivalent of

lifting 17. Moving arm. -- moving on. We will move on to the kangaroo.

This one is Australia 's straightforward record leap of 1.8

metres. Down to these massive Achilles tendon is, like springy

pogo sticks. In 2013 a gentleman was wearing bionic stilts, like the ones

used in the Paralympics, and they provided an enormous amount of

height. 2.76 metres, straight over. They work like spring levers. As he

jumps down they store the energy as he goes up and it releases in terms

of power to enable him to go higher, way higher than the red kangaroo.

Alex isn't listening to a word I'm saying! Back to darts, which animal

would be great on a darts team? I would choose the leopard slug. They

have an amazing mating ceremony. They can fire love darts to each

other when mating. Where do you get them from? It's part of the mating

ritual, and they are pretty accurate. They would be in the

bull's-eye, 180. Better than bull's-eye Baker, that's the shore.

It wasn't meant to go like that. -- that's for sure. Talking nicknames

tonight, we asked for sporting nicknames. Bobby, do you have a

favourite darts nickname of all the competitors out there? Mine. That

1's easy. Couldn't think of anyone else. Andy Fordham, is he there?

This is a woman! Is that you? No, it's not. She's a junior bowling

champion. Her nickname is Roffletoss, which is the noise she

makes when she bowls. Do you have one in real life, Jon? I have quite

a few that are shouted at me during gigs and in the street! Lewis is

nicknamed Spewy Louie because he's always sick on the rugby pitch. This

is hairy Potter, watching Stoke City. John's nickname is poppy

Dazzler. We have Martin and, from the bowls team, Ginger Ninja and

binge Ninja. Oh dear. You can read this one. Harry at the rugby club,

his nickname is the bull. Ending on a safe one.

On Friday night, on BBC 4, you - the great British public -

will be given the responsibility of choosing a song that hopefully

will win this year's Eurovision Song Contest for the UK.

Hopefully all the performers can take some inspiration from our first

winner - Sandie Shaw in 1967 - who went from humble beginnings

We got there in the end. # I wonder if one day that

# You will say that you care # If you say that you love me madly

# Arrow gladly be their # Like a Puppet On A String #.

That's not my house! Wow, look at the front bit. My mum would have

loved that. She always wanted a porch. It's been 50 years since I've

been in this place. And it's a bit nerve wracking. My stomach is

churning a bit. Here is the front room. Oh, yes, cosy and warm. Moving

into this house was a big deal for my parents. They had saved up for so

long to buy it. My dad had worked as a welder and my mum always worked in

an office. The gramophone was here and I used to sit here every Sunday

afternoon listening to Alan Freeman. The guy next door used to wear

leathers and had a motorbike. He was a lot older than me and he had big

blue eyes and his hair slicked back. He used to let me go in and listen

to his rock and roll records, like Gene Vincent. This is the room where

I went on strike. I decided in my early teens to put away all the

girly things, painted everything white, nothing pink or frilly, and

that started me off thinking, girls can do something different. Why are

we being limited? Why are there only boybands and why aren't any girls

singing? It was the germ of an idea. Down at the dance hall I would ask

the bands if I could sing with them and that's where I trained. This is

my wonderful old school, Robert Clack. This is my maths class. I

will go in there now. Hello. Long time no see. Yes, I remember you

really well. I wonder if you remember my class. You were in class

3-D. I would describe them as the most difficult for me in the 33

years I was at the school. Rioting! From time to time. The other

teachers I remember really well, Mr Jones. Without him I wouldn't have

started recording in French. I was amazed when I found out you accorded

in very slight ridges. It's all thanks to my school. -- recorded in

various languages. This was the iconic Eltham Palace.

One time there was a talent contest here and I came second. However, a

guy said, my uncle is in show business. You should go up to London

to meet him. My mum and dad didn't know until I suddenly announced I

had been discovered. They were totally shocked at Alessandro Nesta.

-- at our sander. -- our Sandra. It was because I knew

where I came from, and it was a reminder of the rags to riches,

Cinderella story. I don't think I have essentially changed that much.

I still come from the same place and singing from the same hymn book.

That's what I've learned from this journey.

# I'm still here. And we will be live

with Mel Giedroyc at the big Eurovision: You Decide show this

Friday, when the public will have a say in our entry

for the first time in six years. We've moved here into the cafe

at New Broadcasting House. - there's the news room and you see

behind the newsreaders - because we needed a space that

could be completely blacked out Very exciting. Read to say a big

thank you to Bobby and Jon first. Let's Play Darts for Sport Relief

continues this Sunday at 9pm on BBC Two. We will leave you here as we

wander away. Tomorrow Sir Chris Hoy will be

riding his way into the studio, In 2013 Britain's Got Talent shadow

dancers Attraction even brought a tear to Simon Cowell's eye,

winning with performances like this. Tonight, they're here to exclusively

perform a scene from their new show The Box - premiering

at the London Palladium It promises some ground-breaking

visual treats. We've seen a bit of it and it's fantastic.

but now, performing in black light on British television for the first

MUSIC: A Thousand Years by Christina Perri.