24/08/2017 The One Show

Blimey, better polish up the old trumpet.

Hello and welcome to a very Victorian One Show, with Alex Jones.

Yes, the scene is set for the grand arrival of tonight's guest.

She's time-travelled from Doctor Who's sidekick,

to acting royalty in the hit drama 'Victoria'.

Hello, Jenna. Welcome! Nice to see you. Welcome back! Thank you, it has

been a couple of years. We have redecorated. Very civilised. I like

the King Charles spaniel. And we have these large migratory. And we

also have tea with Ormond milk in it which is... Not very Victorian!

Anyway, I was just warning you! What? I'm just saying!

Can you give some words of advice for the un-cast Doctor Who assistant

Who may or may not come in the shape of Bradley Walsh! Somebody else as

to me today. It is news to me. But I did say the advice I gave to Pearl

was about the catering, that was the most useful advice. You can order in

and you do not have to go to the canteen every day. Right, and that

the changes nice? Yes. On that note, try this tea with almond milk. You

do not have almond milk. It is just Jenna. Sorry, I did not realise. It

tastes just like regular tea! It is very nice. We will talk about the

new series of Victoria shortly. The first series of Victoria saw

the Queen give birth to her first These days, some women are leaving

it much later to start a family, which can lead to age-related

concerns around fertility. So more and more healthy women

are choosing to 'flash freeze' But is this new method a reliable

way to put your baby plans on ice? I am a doctor. I'm also 37 and

single. I have always known that I want to have a family, but so far, I

just have not met the right man. And I am not alone. There are loads of

help the women in their 30s who won the children but not in a position

to have them. -- healthy women. It is so common, it has been given its

own name. Social infertility. For me, it feels like time is running

out. Women are born with all the eggs we will ever have and our

ability that fertility declines in our mid-30s as the quality

diminishes, but there is a way to buy more time, a controversial and

explosive process called egg freezing, I want to know if I should

consider it. Eggs are collected from a woman and frozen so she can use to

have her own biological child. How does it actually work? She will take

hormone injections to stimulate her ovaries. And when her follicles are

ready, she will come in for the collection procedure. The collection

is done under sedation and we use a needle like this. That needle? Yes,

only a small part of the needle goes inside. The extracted eggs will be

dehydrated using a sugar solution and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen

at -196 degrees. This technique called vitrification events ice

crystals forming which could damage the eggs and is more reliable than

slower freezing methods from the past. This is where we store eggs.

This is literally where life is being stored for later. What happens

when they come out of storage? When a woman is ready to have a child,

she comes back, we take out the eggs and defrost them and fertilise them

with her partner or donor's sperm and hoping for a positive pregnancy

test. That positive test is far from guaranteed and some experts fear the

process is giving women false hope. One of them is medical lawyer

Professor Emily Jackson. I think there is a danger women might be

being oversold egg freezing as a complete solution to the problem of

age-related fertility decline, but it is not guaranteed to work and it

does mean becoming a IVF patient and we all know IVF does not always

work. Is this adding more pressure on women already declined -- already

aware of their declining fertility? Yes, there is a terrible scenario in

which women who did not freeze their eggs might feel responsible and feel

they could have done something. For women who see it as their only hope,

the statistics do not look good. In 2013, only 14% of women who

defrosted their eggs had a baby. Some people would say vulnerable

women are being sold a false hope, what you say to those people? The

statistics from the UK at the moment do not look good because they do not

reflect the success rates. Many women trying to have a baby now

froze their eggs using the older slow freezing method. I believe is

more women freeze their eggs and come back to use their eggs in the

UK, we will see improved success rates. Even if success rates are

improving, at prices starting from ?4000, egg freezing is not cheap. I

want to find out if it is worth it and I am meeting Sarah who had Home

Equity frozen in 2015. I came out of a long-term relationship, I knew

that I had always wanted kids so I kind of went into panic mode about

my age because I was 38. What was it like? A lot of ups and downs, I felt

very emotional. Not because of the physical side of things, but I think

because of the questions about your age and why have you got to this

stage? Sarah was able to freeze five healthy eggs which are now in

storage. How do you feel about your decision? I feel good, I had to take

action and I feel I have done something positive and it was better

than not doing anything at all. Even for me, a doctor, it is a lot to get

your head around but I can see how for many, even with the risks and

costs involved, it is a chance they are prepared to take.

And Zoe joins us now, along with Ally, who used

the flash-freezing method to have twins Molly and Monty.

You can probably hear them! It is bedtime, they must be tired. Are you

all right? Hello! We will have a chat with your money and you can

come and say hello. Sorry, you highlighted the success rate was

very low, although it does give women who can afford it a bigger

chance of having babies. What conclusion have you drawn? I think

that experience of making that film gave me the information I needed to

make an informed choice. Even though going through that process, probably

only a one in four chance it will be successful and give me a child, I

have decided to go ahead and freeze my eggs. You cannot hearing from

people who have gone through it to get enough information and thank you

for coming in, Ally. Where did it start? It started in 2007 when I was

41 and I had split up from my partner. I was at a stage where I

thought if I want to have children, a need to do something about this.

The quick freezing method was just coming in and I thought, I need to

make a decision, and I decided to freeze my eggs which are used when I

was 47 and I have Molly and Monty. As they are three and a half. It was

very brave of you to go it alone. You froze 27 eggs initially. And

then how many were viable? Out of 27, three survived. And out of those

three that were fertilised and put back in me, I had the twins. And

because I was 47 which was allowed to have three put back in so I was

extremely lucky. One of the challenges to do this process as

early as possible and at 41, it was late. There were crimes are not

abnormalities which is why the eggs did not survive -- there were

abnormalities. So if you are thinking about it, check your

fertility and do it as early as possible. People are not informed

enough about it. That is definitely the case. There is the lot of

negative press about this and it is definitely not suitable for

everybody and the financial implications of it mean it is not an

option for a lot of people but award encourage women from around the age

of 30 to start looking into it and becoming better informed. If Molly

and Monty want to come over, they can do. Run over here and watch

laces, do not trip over! Would you like some cake?

Let's get you a little cake on my little saucer.

We will talk about clinics. It is not available on the NHS. But you

need to find a reputable clinic and compare prices. Because prices do

vary and it is pricey as a procedure. What is the best way to

do that? In addition to prices, there are three things I would say

you need to consider. One is the consultant, the fertility expert,

make sure they do NHS practice as well as private practice. Not for

egg freezing but other things, so they are reputable. Go for a clinic

using this technique because it is better technology and success rates.

And there is nothing better than a recommendation for some body who has

been through the process and has that experience. One must

experience, Monty, is that nice cake? Looks like he is enjoying it!

Good luck and looking forward to finding out how it goes and thank

you, Ally. You can take the cake away. You will

have to stay up a bit longer before bedtime.

They are not going to sleep after all that sugar!

Good luck with everything. Last series saw a young Victoria

ascend to the throne, learn the royal ropes and meet

and marry Albert. Series Two begins on Sunday night

with a feisty Victoria, learning to balance her roles

as both mother and monarch. I want to go riding. Riding, are you

sure? Yes, of course I am sure. Forgive me, I'm afraid it would be

most irregular for you to appear in public before you have been

Churched. Churched? Your Majesty, it is customary for a woman to be

repealed verified in Church before she rejoined society. And you are?

Drummond, Sir Robert's Private secretary. Well, Mr Drummond, I am

not a woman, I am a Queen. Well, that told him!

Yes, every woman had to do it after the sin of childbirth, to be

welcomed back into the community. So what else to recover in this series

apart from being a mother? -- what else do you cover. All I can think

about is babies, so many babies! We are currently on baby number four.

We wrapped at 9pm last night, the Christmas special. Just back to

London now and we have got a lot of babies and a lot of animals. And

quite a bit of arguing, we understand. Interesting

relationship. It is the early days of their married and the honeymoon

and navigating the political balance within their marriage and how much

workload Albert has and how much independence Victoria has and he was

the master in the House is the question and leads to a clash of

wills. We found out today you can read Queen Victoria's diaries online

which I found fascinating. I assume that is something you have done or a

biography, so how do you see her life? What is amazing is, what I

love about her is given her position as Queen, you would think she would

like to keep things to herself, but she is so unashamedly frank and it

is really refreshing. Everything she thinks, she is very candid and vocal

about her opinions and her thoughts. She is one of those prolific journal

writers of history. So the access is enormous. As the first series has

been incredibly successful globally. You have been accepted across the

world. With the second series, do you approach it differently? You

will be more confident. But are you taking anything from the first

series you are building on now concentrating on perhaps? I guess it

is covering those parts of history like the first series was very much

Victoria on the day she became Queen were growing up, falling in love and

navigating those things and we find her here in the early days of

marriage and motherhood. And falling pregnant again. When the chin. --

when she did not want to, and that is an interesting story I have not

seen on screen, somebody in a very loving relationship in resenting the

fact they are pregnant so it is quite interesting storytelling. And

in the meantime, at the time we are dealing with the corn laws and/or

things going on politically. It could go on and on, she did not die

until she was 81, you play her at 21. LAUGHTER

There is too much story, within that, in episode seven, we have

taken a story from one of the journals, where they go to get lost,

there is a storm, they get lost and stumble across a cottage, and people

in the cottage do not know who they are, they spend an evening, they do

not know, and they never did, they never knew who they were. There is

just so much detail, it is pacing, how quickly do you go through her

life... As well as the diaries, a lot of painting and sketching, and

we have got this... We have this portrait. Self-portrait. 1835, when

she was 16... The similarities there... Don't you think...?

I am going to say it, you are a lot more pretty! LAUGHTER

A lot more pretty. Not many people know

that Queen Victoria because he could not propose

to her, being the Queen. And she survived seven

assassination attempts! Well, who else to send but Gyles

to investigate how Victoria managed to dodge a bullet,

on so many occasions? VOICEOVER: On the evening of Monday,

30 of May, 1842, 23-year-old Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are

taking their regular carriage ride through London's Royal Parks. An

assassin steps from the shadows, aims, and fires. It seems

incredible, but apparently Queen Victoria was expecting this attempt

on her life, and had put herself deliberately in the line of fire.

The day before, the same assassin had tried to shoot the Queen here,

on the Mall, his handgun failed, he ran away. The Prime Minister, Sir

Robert peel, close adviser to the Royals, hatched a plan to flush him

out. -- Sir Robert Peel. He suggested that the royal couple take

their widely known right around the Royal Parks the next day, as normal,

and they agreed. You may imagine that our minds were not easy, it was

written, we looked behind every tree, and I cast my eyes around in

search of the rascal's face. Historian Barry Charles has examined

this case in great detail. What happened that day? Queen Victoria

and Prince Albert came out from Buckingham Palace, as they were

coming back, that is when John Francis struck. He was a 19-year-old

youth, an unemployed carpenter... Where was he? He was up against the

wall of Buckingham Palace gardens, a lot of police, somebody really quite

close to him, a constable... Did he have suspicions? Know, did not

searching, did not stop him, as the royal party approached, he saluted,

looking away from where John Francis was, that is when he stepped forward

and fired. When he heard the bang, he turned around and Rab hold of

him. So, eventually, Trounce bounced! Probable that there was no

bullet in the gun. -- grabbed hold of it. Gunpowder, getting her

attention. Francis was apprehended but it was clear that a better

protection was needed, and a secret defence was created, it is still in

the Royal collection and housed in the Museum of London. This is it,

this parasol? What you cannot see it there is a layer of metal in between

the two layers of silk. And the idea was... She would hold it like that,

bullet would bounce off? Did she use it? I think not. It is far too

heavy, it is 1.5 kilograms, she was a small woman! At least seven

attackers can directly confronted Queen Victoria during her life,

would-be assassins included a barman, a newspaper vendor, an

artist and a dapper gentleman who struck her on the head with a cane.

And what happens to these scoundrels? Well, it was treason,

some ended up in mental hospitals, many of them were transported to

Australia. John Francis was one of 240 complex thrown onto a barely

seaworthy prison ship, transported to Van demons land, an island off

Australia, now known as Tasmania. The Tasmanian archives still hold

the record, and they make for fascinating reading. -- Van Diemen's

Land. It is all here, all in all, he served four years hard labour. So

what happens next? In Australia, his great-great-grandson, Alan Phillips,

has the answer. He married a 16-year-old, they had ten children.

When he was a builder, he built the town hall in Lord Stern, the Royal

Theatre, and the gasworks... So, this unhappy story ends happily?

Unfortunately not, the property market bottoms during the recession,

he went to Victoria, he was virtually broke. -- Launceston. It

is an irony that he ended up, trying to assassinate Victoria, living in

the city of Victoria. -- living in Victoria. Yes! He lived until 1862,

and died at that closes. Yes, his attempts on the life of Victoria and

her stoical attempts supporting them, made the people love her more,

she became the second longest serving monarch. Long live the

Queen! STUDIO: Great stuff! Always keeping

an eye on us... Very creepy... We have got something wrong, they are

supposed to be on the back, to protect from the hair, not on the

bottom bits... So we have got those wrong... So your headers not get

greasy. We have got the antimacassars all wrong. Now, now...

We are going to go Doctor Who... Do you think you are...!

you discovered whilst filming Victoria.

You and your ex-Doctor Who co-star, Matt Smith, worked out

the royal characters you've played are related?

I hope I have my facts right, which I may not have done... There we

go... Great-great-grandmother as well. Technically, his fictional

great-grandmother, I am technically his fictional great-grandmother. Not

only the 11th doctor, but the 12th... Peter Capaldi... What is he

doing? Do you see, because he played Charles the first, in a television

drama that in 2008, so he is Queen Victoria's great great great great

eight uncle... -- great great way all from Doctor Who do you think you

are this week... LAUGHTER It's been revealed today that high

levels of inactivity amongst middle-aged people may be

harming their health, and all 40-60 year olds should take

a ten-minute brisk walk every day. Well, Kevin has been to meet

some activity-seekers, who are keeping fit,

earning money and helping the community from middle-age well

into their retirement. 2.5 million of us go swimming every

week. But swimming pools like this could be in danger of closing,

because of a national shortage of lifeguards. So, what a surprise in

solution is on the horizon... To help keep swimmers safe. Forget bay

watch, this is grey watch! ! -- Baywatch. -- Greywatch. To combat

the lack of lifeguards there has been a nationwide push to recruit

pensioners. David is 74, John is 66. What made you, at this point of your

career, want to become a lifeguard? I retired in May, after a couple of

very good careers, and I did not want to stop, and I think that I am

still young enough and fit enough to do this work. Were you concerned

about what people would think, with you starting this career at an older

age? That never crossed my mind, actually... Good man! John only

qualified as a lifeguard this year, David has been doing the job for 28

years. How much do you love it? I really do enjoy it, remember, I am a

pensioner, everyday is a Saturday... I go in, when they call me, I am

only ten minutes away, I am down there like a shot. The brains behind

the campaign to attract more older lifeguards is Melanie Silverman, who

works for a company responsible for 141 swimming pools across the

country. What made you target pensioners? We usually go out and

target students for the summer because it is a perfect summer job.

We look at the workforce, and we saw that we have a lot of brilliant

older lifeguards, fantastic role models for younger people, and just

as fit, if not fitter than some of the youngsters that already work for

us, so we thought, why not? Everyone assumes you have to be 19 years old,

superfit, happy to run around in a tiny old swimsuit, that is not the

reality of the job. So what does it take to become a lifeguard? Today,

in Swindon, 12 people are midway through an intense week-long

training course. , Brian Reid, who is looking for a new career, 15

years after he should have retired. I found it a lot harder than I

thought it would be. The theory, I am wondering if we can still

remember on Saturday what I was told on Monday... In theory, I am all

right, but when you get older, attention is the issue. Question has

got to become a widely want to be a lifeguard, why now? You are either

going to sit at home, watch the world go by, all you go out and do

something, at 80, people do not... Jobs do not grow on trees. If you

still can do what I can do, get out and do it. Helping 18-year-old Brian

take the plunge, the course leader, Cheryl potting. What skills and

qualities do you need? Mainly you need to be a good swimmer, just in

case you need to do pool rescues, you need to be vigilant and take

control of that pool. -- Cheryl Pottinger. We were not respecting

him to be so good, we did not know he would be so switched on, he has

the CPR, picking it up really well. At the end of the week, Brian will

find out if he has passed, the national pool lifeguard

qualification. What will it mean to you, passing the test at the end of

the week. I will probably be very self-satisfied, yes. I think I shall

be quite proud. Around 12,000 people a year are rescued from UK swimming

pools, so what do people here think about their lives being left in the

hands of older lifeguards? Generally, I would feel more

confident with a younger person. They have tremendous skills,

expertise, experience, which should be brought to bear. A bad idea, they

would not be fit enough, it might child was drowning, to dive into a

pool to be quick enough to pull them out. I don't think a pensioner would

put themselves in that position if they could not do it. What about

those who say that being a lifeguard is a young man's game? That is a

misconception, everyone is stuck with this Baywatch syndrome and the

sooner we get away from it, the better. Get down the pool, make some

enquiries, go for it, you've got nothing to lose! STUDIO: That was a

few weeks ago, so, Brian is with us, did he pass the test? APPLAUSE

He did! Congratulations! Congratulations, you do not look a

day near 80 years old. Come on, give me five days, at least! Brilliant

news. How active have you been as a lifeguard since? I have been doing

two or three sessions a week since then. Little red shorts on? Yes,

with my white legs, yes! Thank you for doing what you are doing. We

have got time to show a lovely picture of you here... He played an

extra? Yes, he played the man in the crowd. Victoria is on Sunday night.

You are going to be back... I'll be back tomorrow

with Michael Ball and we'll be