24/03/2014 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show. Now, we weren't on air on Friday

night as Sport Relief took over BBC One, raising well over ?53 million

and our Alex played a considerable part. We can reveal you raised an

incredible... Well it was thanks to many of you

that Alex managed to raise such a massive amount of money. We were

going to give Alex the day off to recover but she wasn't having any of

it. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome our Sport Relief legend...

Alex Jones! What take your rightful place. It is

so nice to sit down and be on solid ground and be back with you. This is

much more comfortable. We've picked out some highlights we want to hear

your side of the story on. I have not seen any. Don't let me go, for

God's sake. I don't know what to do, I'm not standing on anything. I

can't! I can actually recall the precise

feeling of that half an hour. I had only just started climbing and I

thought, what have I taken on? I felt out of my depth. The enormity

of the challenge took over. I felt so tiny against this massive rock

and so petrified. I tried to man up a bit by the second day. How do you

get through something like that? I was just thinking, you have

committed to something. You are the same, when you commit, you just have

to get to the top. You don't want to let anybody down, you know people

have donated before you started and you just want to get to the top. You

just have to overcome the fear. We were inundated with questions. A lot

of them on one particular topic. Linda Smith was intrigued as to how

you went to the toilet? We were on this ledge, smaller than a double

bed. At the beginning of each day and the end of each day, Andrew

would put some music on and we would take it in turns to be under the

sleeping bag. So I would be under the sleeping bag and he would do

what he needed to do. Then he would put the sleeping bag over his head

and I would do what I needed to do. It was that unpleasant. How many

times did you go to the toilet? Just twice a day. I should have drunk

water, but I didn't. You obviously did get it together, you had been

climbing for a couple of hours when you had another wobble, but when you

look at these pictures, you can understand. During training,

everybody said, you will get the exposure thing. I think I just got

that bit. Did you look down? You had to talk yourself around and think,

it is fine. The rope feel elasticated and a little bit

unsteady. Everything has gone again. You are so tiny. It is the exposure

thing. You realise how high you are. Trying to get over that is the

biggest... This afternoon I have been looking through loads of

letters you have sent with your donations. Thank you so very much, I

will take them home tonight and read them. And you can see the full

documentary of Alex Against the Rock on the iPlayer via The One Show

website. So let's reveal the total...

Here it comes. Your total, as it stands up a moment is...

That is thank you to all of you, you have been so kind and generous. And

more from the Le Murte acrobats a bit later on. We know so many of you

have donated, but if you haven't got round to it yet then there's still

time - so many charities around the world benefit immensely from your

donations. So if you can donate text ALEX to 70005.

Still to come, a completely different kind of rock, thank

goodness! A rock legend! Roger Daltrey joins us in a few moments.

But first, three parent IVF is probably not a term you've heard

before, but it might be one that you'll be hearing in the future.

Jasmine Harman explains that why in certain medical cases, three parent

may be better than two. These images show a new form of IVF.

Instead of using two donor parents, this embryo is being created with

DNA from three people. It is ground-breaking science and if

approved, the UK will be the first country to allow it. But it is

controversial. Doc has said this could help eliminate serious

diseases, but critics say it is unethical and could set the UK on

the path to designer babies. The brains behind the procedure are here

at Newcastle University. They have developed it to combat a fatal

illness which is passed from mother to child. Mitochondria, like the

batteries in every cell in our body, is when those batteries go wrong. In

simple things it means all of the cells don't have enough energy to

work properly. It can be devastating. We have one family

where they have lost five children within the first 48 hours of life.

Why have you developed this technique? There isn't a cure for

mitochondria and for many families, this is to be prevented from

happening. This is a recording of how they carry out the procedure.

This is a fertilised egg using traditional IVF methods and this

part, the nucleus is where everything about how the baby looks,

eye colour, hair colour is stored. The team will remove the nucleus and

all of the faulty microcosm rear is left behind in this part of the egg.

Then, the nucleus is put into another egg, a donate from a third

party who has healthy mitochondria and it will create a baby that does

not carry the disease, if it is successful. Nicky only learned she

had the disease when her daughter was diagnosed with it ten years ago.

She was probably about 11 when she started presenting problems. I tried

to ignore it, rightly or wrongly. I knew, what happened to me was

starting... Nicky and Carly both suffer weakness in their leg

muscles. They fully support this new research. It is not designer babies.

We not saying we want a blonde haired, blue-eyed child. We don't

want to have something awful onto your offspring. You just want a

normal, healthy child who will grow up to be a normal healthy adults. If

this new technique is allowed by Parliament, it could regulated in

the same way as organ donation. This means the identity of the donor will

be kept anonymous and never revealed. The critics could argue it

is happening too fast, too soon and is a step too far, because even

though almost all the child's DNA will come from its parents, it will

inherit a tiny fraction, no .1% from the egg donor, so he or she would be

a product of three people. How will this affect his children when they

grow up? It might create biological and social problems for the

children. But we are talking about a tiny percentage of DNA, what is

wrong with that? If we start to go down this road, as a society, we

will be saying lines aren't worth living and that is the beginning of

designer babies. But experts believe the technique is justified. Is it

ethical or is it laying God? There will always be some people who it is

not acceptable to. My view is, if society is broadly supportive, is it

ethical not allow this to go ahead? Having just had a baby myself, I

cannot imagine the horror that I had passed on an incurable disease to

her, so I can understand why this technology is so exciting. It is now

waiting for a vote in Parliament to decide whether 3-person IVF should

be allowed, a decision which could be made by the end of the year.

Thanks Jasmine. Later on we'll be meeting the people

who have found some World War One artefacts and we'll be trying to

trace to whom they belong. And this footage was found in an attic a few

years ago featuring a band called the High Numbers, but can you guess

'Who' they transformed into soon after?

That's who The Who were before they were The Who. Please welcome, Roger

Daltrey! Wellcome. How are you. Please take a seat. Very well. 50

years of The Who this summer. We were wondering, will you be

celebrating? Have you got something special planned? We are going to try

to make a new record which will be the first for seven years. Then we

will do the last tour, after the last one, before the next one, which

will be never-ending. You will be out there again! We want to have

fun. You have been collaborating on a new album with Wilko Johnson.

As soon as we played that music, your feet wet tapping because it is

good fun? Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic

cancer a year ago. He was supposed to be dead in October! We were

trying to make an album three years ago and never got round to it. When

I found out his diagnosis, I said I will sing anything you like, let's

just do this for fun. I do believe just music can do a lot of healing.

It will not cure him but it might extend his life. We did it for fun,

we did it in eight afternoons. So it could have been four days. Two guys

with no expectations, loving what they do and doing it for the right

reasons. We didn't even have a record deal when we made it. My bet

is going to cancer is. It said, that you said you will do anything, you

will sing Three Blind Mice, what is it that makes you desperate to

collaborate with him? He is one of those rich -ish guitarists that only

the British make. -- British. He is a one off. Because of the speed you

did it out, it has a real, live feel to it, it is not overproduced? It is

fresh. A lot of things today, computers take control. It is

difficult to get these modern producers off a polishing stuff too

much and sometimes you lose the little rawness of it. It is

certainly not bland! I was jumping around the kitchen! Their new album,

Going Back Home, is available from today. Is to remind Dan need your

help to discover the rightful owners of some World War I artefacts. --

history man. We are trying to find the heirs of these artefacts from

the First World War, but this is the latest instalment of our film about

World War I heroes. I am Tessa Bailey, and my Great War

heirloom is a piece of bread. It is the last ration that my grandfather

brought out of his prisoner of war camp at the end of the war. This is

what the poor prisoners had to eat every day. It's made out of sawdust

and potato peeling is, and its rock hard and has survived nearly 100

years but still looks very much like a piece of bread. Not one you would

want to eat. My grandfather was with the troops fighting in the

trenches, and they were captured and taken across Europe, staying in

different prison camps until they ended up there. My grandfather wrote

down a detailed description of everything that happened to him from

the moment he was captured. The cravings for food obsessed us and

filled our thoughts, the pain of such hunger was excruciating and

left us pale, weak and emaciated. Being able to read something in his

own handwriting, so personal about his experience, is just a lovely

link to someone I wish I had met. My name is Anna Brown, and my Great

War heirloom is a piece of material from a jacket with a message. He

asked his friends to write a letter in front -- in the form of a poem to

send back to his wife. To my dear wife Bess, in the land of the free,

good luck I send on this piece of khaki. It's not a choice card or a

sweet-scented packet, but torn from the back of my old khaki jacket.

It's sheltered me long through rain and through storm, the danger I've

been through I've met with no harm. And I hope that the time will not

long be when you'll welcome again your hubby in khaki.

My name is Leslie, my Great War heirloom is a letter sent to my

grandmother, Jennifer Duncan. My grandmother Jenny was a nursing

sister during the war years, and from Manchester she was sent out to

France. The letter is from a Thomas Close on behalf of Fred Gossard, who

was a patient under my grandmother's care. His dying wishes

were that is thanks was passed on. It's beautiful, a beautiful letter.

Nurse Watkinson, language cannot be expressed his appreciation of your

devotion to duty, and I've coupled my gratitude with his, for I was

impressed with the true dignity and nobility of character he revealed to

me in speaking of you in his dying moments by his repetition, Tom, I

should not have been here now but for the night nurse, she is an

angel. I would imagine she would have been very moved. She was

somebody very special. Dan joins us now, and we need

viewers help once again. We really do, and this is exciting, we might

make history tonight. What have you got, Steve? I have got a 1940-15

campaign staff. Where did you find this? This is a medal. I found it

when I was landscaping in a garden in Chislehurst, it was nothing to do

with the owners of the house, so they let me keep it. It belonged to

a capped and hopped on, -- Captain Hockton. If everybody knows of this

guy, of any ancestor that is alive, we think he is the fine looking

gentleman with the dog. We have got a name, a unit, get in touch. We

would love to return this to its rightful owner. Would you not be sad

to part with it? Not at all, I have got my grandfather's medals, and

this deserves to go to his family. Martin has his reading glasses on

for a good reason. This is very special indeed, it is a diary,

explain who wrote it. A British Red Cross nurse serving in a General

Hospital in Le Havre in 1918. A woman's I view of the fighting on

the front line, absolutely extraordinary. We have got a section

that is one of your favourites, do you fancy reading it out? Yes, she

was treating a dying Australian soldier, and she writes, I came off

duty quite miserable, and I thought about him all night. I kept wishing

I could have kissed him, he was so very far from home, and he died at

3am. It gives you goose bumps. She would never have thought that so

many people would have just heard that. You rescued this. I found it

in a box full of rubbish which a neighbour asked me to take to the

dump. Thank goodness you didn't, it is very special. We have found a

census record, she was born in Lancashire, get in touch. She was

married in 1920 and may have died in 1968, many of all children might be

able to get in touch. If, like me, you are interested in reading more

of this diary, we have put this week's entries on the One Show

Facebook page. Thank you for bringing them in. We will keep

everything crossed. Alistair McGowan has travelled as far south as

Cornwall investigating British languages, dialects and accents, but

so far he's only travelled as far north as Edinburgh and Glasgow. The

next stop, you would think it would be Aberdeen, but apparently not...

Aberdeen, famous for football, steak and oil, and known by everybody in

Scotland as the Granite city. Most people down south, as they say a

peer, would be familiar with the Glaswegian accent of the likes...

But in the third city of Scotland, people have a very distinctive way

of talking. But if you want to spot and Aberdeen accent, what sounds

should you be listening out for. Dominic Watt knows them all. People

replace WH with F. So man goes through the back of the mouth.

People use a diminutive suffix on the end of words, so man becomes

manny. Lets go and have a little listeny at sea of people fall into

the traps. In a suburb just two miles south of the city centre,

Billy and Allen both have classic Aberdeen accents. What was your work

when you were working? I was a street sweeper. 25 years I swept

outside here. We crocheted blankets, and we have just knitted 70 hats for

seafarers. Every seafarer that comes into Aberdeen, I like to give them

something, and it was woolly hats. A woolly hat will keep your ears warm.

So, listening to Billy talking, we have heard some fantastic Aberdeen

sounds, some of the ones you were talking about, the back of the mouth

A, earies. Perfect examples. But I like this, Aiberdeen. I was

expecting Aberdeen. You hear the people on the news, from the South,

they say Aberdeen. Aberdeen! It is as if they have never heard the

word, it is Aiberdeen! But where do sounds like these come from? The

answer lies in an ancient dialect called Doric and in rural

Aberdeenshire you'll still find many older people who grew up with it as

their mother tongue. You spoke it at home, and suddenly

you went to school and you were expected to speak English, like a

foreign language almost. You would get slapped for speaking it at

school. Can you give as an example of it but we knew? -- between you?

Take us through some of the words that we have heard. That is a word

for cattle, that is for wet weather. A lot of great words are very

descriptive kind of words, dugs, clart, dubs is mud. I like that, we

have some new sounds, but some that we heard earlier in Aberdeen. Yes,

we heard the F for WH. And some diminutive suffixes. Can we see that

it is a Doric accent? It grew up in that part of Scotland, it's diverged

a bit from the rural speech roundabout, and it took on its

fundamental form, but fundamentally yes. So the Aiberdeen accent is both

the sound of a modern Scottish city and the echoes of a centuries old

dialect. Thank you to Alistair. Before you

go, we must talk to you about... And anvil is passing! You are a big

supporter of the Teenage Cancer Trust, in its 14th year. Who will

have you got playing? We have got a comedy micro night with John Bishop,

a host of people, too many to name. We have got the Duo. And A

Supporting Act? That Is Me, Wilko And I! We are actually supporting

the supporting act. Thank you very much, Roger. The gigs are on all

this week, and the album is out now. We will see you tomorrow with Kermit

and Miss Piggy, but we will leave you with La Meute who are opening

the festival at the Roundhouse this week.