24/10/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.

Four years ago we met Bob who had a brilliant story to tell.

Whilst living rough on the streets of London he met a recovering drug

addict and helped him turn his life around.

Bob is a cat, his friend is called James.

And the book James wrote about the two of them became

an international bestseller spending an incredible 76 weeks at the top

Everyone thought it would make a great movie.

Please welcome the stars of A Streetcat named Bob.

And the man and his cat themselves, writer James Bowen and Bob!

We have been watching intently through the entire opening here.

I've been incredibly excited to meet Bob. He can do a high five. Is there

any chance? Give 'em a high five. Come on. For treats? High five, come

on. Do you know what, he's done all the acting in the movie. Show that

to him. High five. Aw. High five. Oh it's worked!

James just very quickly, last time you were on we talked about the

movie and loads of actors who could play you and you ended up with Luke

here. Are you happy? You should be? Oh, my goodness I'm so happy. Luke

has been so dedicated to the task. When you talk about method acting,

he really put his all into it and high five to you, Luke, seem proud

of you, mate, I couldn't have had any more praise for someone doing my

sort of interpretation, you know, a painting of a painting, and he just

did it so well. A great singer as well. Lovely voice. We are looking

forward to finding out how Bob was brought to the big screen later and

we'll have a special tribute to dad's Army creator Jim Perry who

died yesterday at the age of 93. Whether you believe it's a blip or

something more permanent, the value of the pound is rippling. It's

$1.21, 18% less than on the day of the EU referendum in June. We met

the owners of fish different businesses in one seaside town to

see how they view their Financial Future.

Welcome to sunny Blackpool. Illuminations. The shows, the night

life. Blackpool was one of the biggest areas in the country for

wanting to leave the EU. What is this? Unfunny money. There's nothing

funny about money in business. This is about as good as Brexit has done

us in our business. LAUGHTER.

It's no good to me at all. I'm Will, I'm the managing director

at Cheatham Ltd, designers and manufacturers of decorative

lighting. We might have supplied cruise ship lighting, a TraveLodge,

Holiday Express Hotel or a 5 Star top end hotel in the Middle East.

The question everyone is asking about the moment is, how is the

value of the pound affecting business and why is it important? If

this was the pound pre-Brexit, I guess we are about there. As a

manufacturing company we have a lot of goods and raw materials we need

to buy predominantly from China and we are buying goods in US Dollars.

This year we were lucky enough to forward buy at a favourable rate. We

maintained our pricing at that level. Come next year we have to

start again and who knows what will happen but we are expecting the

pound to weaken even further. I'm David, I'm the chairman and

founder of Tangerine Holdings Group. We are a manufacturer of animal

health products. We have everything that you would find in a Holland and

Barrett for Pets. We are currently exporting to approximately 40

countries around the world. The fall's certainly affected our

purchasing pricing, no doubt about it. It's always the situation if you

are buying raw materials, yes, they cost you more, but it enables you to

export a lot easier because the cost of the goods to the people buying

them are a lot cheaper, so it's always been a little bit of a swings

and roundabouts thing and not something we have focussed on too

much. Business is pretty good at the moment. We all believe business is

going to carry on the same. I'm Harry Nixon, this is my business, we

supply nuts, bolts, washers. It's good. We supply the piers, from a

car, think of a car down to garden furniture. 90% of fasteners come

from the Far East, Taiwan, China. Everything is done by the dollar, as

you are probably aware, and the pound against the dollar is not

brilliant, dropping all the time. The cost of everything coming into

the country is increasing, my prices are rising 15%, I have to pass that

on to the customer which is the manufacturer manufacturing goods for

Joe Public. This is how much the Brexit vote is affecting my

business, 15%, maybe a bit more. I'm Dawn, and this is my sister and

business partner, Diane. We are catering equipment distributors. The

uncertainty at the moment with the pound, the euro, touch wood, has not

affected us at all at the moment. There are discussions that it will

affect prices January February next year. There are certain

manufacturers and distributors that are really quite upbeat and I would

certainly like to put ourselves within that cat glory. My confidence

in the pound is so much that even if we put it in the blender, it's going

to come out exactly the same. All untouched, all worth exactly the

same as before. And there is a report out that

confirms what the businesses in Blackpool there were telling us. The

weaker pound's meant that exports have shot up in the last three

months and they are expected to keep on rising. Yes. Let us talk about A

Streetcat Named Bob. Definitely the star of the show tonight isn't he?

When you came in about four years ago James, wasn't it, and you said

you'd love your store to be turned into a film, of course here it is,

did you have a lot of input to how the film was made and were you on

set a lot? Well, yes, I was on set a lot but it was never intended that

way. Usually when you sell the writes to the book, off they go and

make the film. I think the only other case of someone being really

in their film is like Stephen King when he hosts cameos and things like

that. I remember Luke was doing this scene from the beginning of the film

and I came along and he was really putting his all into it and then

they were doing this scene in Covent Garden and I came along, brought Bob

along and we were doing some shot on the millennium Britain which weren't

used in the final film. Later in the evening, as it was getting darker,

Roger the director decided that he wanted to have Luke playing the

guitar with Bob on the Bow Street back street. They were doing the

takes and Bob did every single take perfectly. Of course he did. Look at

him. Luke was playing absolutely fantastically as he does and I just

heard this whisper over my ear from the producer, I'm going to put by 2p

in about having Bob on, you know, and I thought to myself, oh, dear

here we go. The next thing I know, I was roped into coming in at 5. 30 in

the morning every day for seven weeks. I couldn't have said no, it's

essentially our film. Of course, it's your story. They've honoured us

by making it so we were there for them as much as they were there to

make our story. Obviously Luke great to be working with the real Bob but

what was it like to have James on set because you are telling his

story and it's incredibly emotional as well, the two meet and what you

have to go through to get through your heroin addiction as well and

you had to play all of that in front of James so what was it like for you

to play all that and see him? It was really amazing to have James theram

actually. You do your research and build up your character, work on the

voice and physicality of someone then you shoot the film. To have

James on set every day, it was a constant reminder of who it was that

I was playing. And yeah, having real Bob there, I mean, none of the other

cats could handle being in Covent Garden while we were filming. They

were very good at what they did. They were doing stunts and a lot of

the second unit work. But Bob is Bob, you know, so... It was strange

some days pretending to be James whilst pretending to have lost Bob

and James and Bob would be sat in the corner, we had to use our

imagination some days. We were crammed in the corner of the set. A

lot of people will be wondering where you come in, Joanne, and we'll

figure that out in a second but let's see you and Bob in action.

Don't go over there. He's not even my cat, he's followed me on to the

bus. Haven't you? Eh... Ain't he lovely. Is he allowed? I don't know,

have you paid for im? Two for one. That was a One Show friend there,

Nina as the bus inspector there. Go on Joanne, where do you come into

it, you have an important role in this? Yes, it's very much James and

Bob's story and Luke does the most incredible job playing James and I

just come in as a supporting role and play what would have been

James's key worker, social worker. I'm an amalgamation of A housing

worker and drug worker. For dramatic purposes we combined it into me. So

yes, that's where I come in. I'm the support system for Luke's character

which sounds really strange saying that when you are sat there, James,

but our character James, rather than the real James. So yes, that's my

role. Everybody can see A Streetcat Named Bob at cinemas from November

4th. Now James here spent over ten years

on the streets and figures have shown that the number of people

sleeping rough in England has more than doubled since 2010. As Nicky

and Dave demonstrate here, getting some rest when you are sleeping

rough can mean taking to public transport.

Central London at night. People are on the move and the iconic red buses

are in high demand. Shortly after Midnight, Nicky is

travelling with her boyfriend Dave who she met a year ago. Here you

are, here is a 24-hour one. Unlike other passengers, Nicky and Dave

have no real destination. They are two of London's estimated 7,000

rough sleepers. In her 20 years on the streets, Nicky has learnt that

come night-time, buses are better than pavements. Living on the

streets, as a woman, is one of the scariest things ever. I woke up to

someone trying to get on top of me. I personally feel safer on a bus.

There's CCTV, there's usually people and you've got the driver.

Unfortunately, bus sleeping only lasts as long as the bus route. At

the last stop, Nicky and Dave must get up and wait for their return

trip outside. This is the worst bit, especially when it's windy like

this. But it don't phase me. As long as I can sleep. Night buses are

notoriously infrequent. It will be another 30 minutes before the 27

will reappear. It's not known how many of London's

homeless sleep on buses at night. Many will do so when it's very cold,

wet or when they're particularly vulnerable. Last year at the New

Horizon's youth centre here in Central London, staff handed out bus

tickets to homeless young people who had nowhere else to go at the end of

the day. The hostels available to us have become completely depleted. One

young woman I know did her A-levels while she was sleeping on a bus. I

need to ensure young people are safe more than anything else and keeping

them off the street is paramount. The slumper doesn't last more than

40 minutes before it's time to get off the bus once again.

I'm so tired, I just want to get back on a bus. If we go to the

hospital toilet and then get on the 29 bus there, babe...

This is the best place to get the buses because you can go anywhere

from Warren Street. I would rather pay on a bus than

just travel, but there has been times where yes, I haven't had any

money and I've had to get on a bus and I've dodged the fare. But I'm

now paying for it in fines. ?3,000. I ain't got ?3,000. A safe night's

sleep on London's buses is far from guaranteed for rough sleepers. Luke

is one person who returned to the traditional doorway after he was

badly attacked by two drunken men on a night bus last year. I went to

sleep. Next thing I knew I was getting punched and head butted. I

just froze. I didn't know what to do. From now on, I sleep in shop

doorways and move about from place-to-place wherever I can get my

head down really. Oh, man, I was well enjoying that sleep. You know

when you've just had a little sleep and feel refreshed. Oh, wow... 17

years ago, I remember, it sticks out in my mind, the best night's sleep I

ever had, best night's sleep ever. I couldn't have done it without my

partner. You know, he always makes sure that I'm safe. If we can get

through what we've been through, we can literally get through anything.

They continue to ride the number 29 bus in a circle until 6am, before

retiring once again to the pavements of central London. In less than 12

hours it will be dark once more and they'll have to start thinking about

how to get through the night ahead. Maybe a shop doorway, maybe a

stairwell or maybe a bus. Well, a big thanks to them for

sharing their story and of course James a film that rings true with

you. It is astounding that numbers have doubled since 2010. Where do

you think the problem lies? In the fact they are all placed into the

same boat as such. There are mental issues. There are family issues.

There are drug issues. There are all sorts of different reasons, you

know. Immigration issues. Things like that. All sorts of different

reasons that people end up on the street. If we broke it down more for

each individual person, then maybe we could get a better action to the

root of the problem. This time of year, when it starts to get

incredibly cold and the nights draw in, that is when you think of those

who are out there. Luke, you spent some time on the streets. What was

your experience? What was your overriding memory of sleeping rough?

I just wanted to get a little sense of it really. So James took me

around Soho to places he busked. We went busking for the evening. You

showed me different doorways you had been in on Christmas mornings. In

the end I got cardboard and went to sleep on the pavement. The amazing

thing is everyone is rushing back from work, going home on the Tube

and if you are sitting there playing you feel invisible really. It is a

very vulnerable place to be on the streets. Absolutely. It would seem

that Bob is a very big fan of your music. Here he is being serenaded.

Are cats really music lovers? There is one American composer who thinks

he has found a sound that is pretty, well let's say cool for cats. Oh,

you went there! Cats, cats, cats, cats. Pussycat

Dolls. Stray cats, Cat Stephens and that Andrew Lloyd weber thing. None

of the music we enjoy is meant for cats. There is research that

suggests they may not even like it. That is why the a composer has

produced an album specifically for cats. He claims scientific research

shows that it really is the cat's whiskers. I figured that a sound

that was reward-related, that cats all heard as their brains were

developing was the swishing of suckling for milk. This for real? I

am here at the cat show in Birmingham to see what the cat

owners think. The idea seems ludicrous to me. Do you think it

might work? It is worth a try. They are very in tune to that sort of

thing. It is possible. She likes a few tunes. What tunes does she like?

She likes a little bit of John Legend. Do you think if we played

soothing cat music to Summer... I don't think she likes the look of

the cover. To see for ourselves, we have set up our very own one show

cat cafe and we played them some of David's music.

Listen, puss you... -- use. There is music playing for you

Button's ears are pricking up. Buttons is beginning to hear the

special music, creating to soothe cats around the world.

Is there a contented cat or a terrified cat - wondering where is

this music coming from? Listen to the lovely music May. A

few cats liked it. Most didn't. Maybe your cat is a bit more of a

Musow! Bob throughout that was wagging his

tail. It's had the same effect on you. He was wagging his tail Some

liked it. Some didn't. On the music theme then, when you played guitar

and was singing away was there one track Bob particularly liked? I

think he's in to it. He likes busking. He would sit on my

shoulders, he loves it. Get him a guitar now. A bit growly. He's had

enough. He wants this. Give him salmon paste.

Can we talk about your new film because that is based ond a true

story and the premise, it sounds heart-breaking, just give us a

flavour of the plot. Starfish is released this Friday and A Streetcat

Named Bob is released the following Friday. You cannot get away from me.

Starfish is a true story, based on the lives of Tom and Nicola Ray.

Basically Tom came down with sepsis one evening. Went into hospital

thinking he had food poisoning, went into a coma and sort of woke up five

months later having had his lower limbs amputated and some of his face

amputated as well. The first half of the film is the story of his wife,

who I play. Trying to cope with giving birth to their second child

and a young child. The second half is how they rebuild their life

together and then Tom is brilliantly played by Tom Riley in the film.

Mostly it is an incredible love story. It is one of the most

incredible love storiesvy ever read. It is true. They are still together

now. This happened in the millennium year. Their kids are teenagers. They

are an amazing, inspirational couple. The street cat the following

Friday. Your stories are real. They are not people who were around years

ago. I am fascinated by real stories. Talking to James is

incredible. I could talk to you for hours and hours. We spent a lot of

time on set together and stuff. I am sure he got bored of me picking his

brains. I am fascinated by real people. We look forward to seeing

them both. We often send reporters to difficult locations. Andy Torbet

has ventured into Snowdonia to see what is beneath the surface of a

flooded slate quarry. Submerged since the 1970s it is a story of

hard labour and death. I want to explore its secrets. Today, in these

peaceful and beautiful surroundings, it is hard to imagine that for 150

years generations of skilled men laboured 100 metres down there. This

is in Snowdonia. Once empty of water this whole area used to be a quarry,

producing up to 17,000 tonnes of slate a year. The skilled craftsmen

who worked here could split just one inch of slate into six perfect

roofing tiles. Working here could be perilous, as workers had to descend

into the pit which sat below the natural water table. In 1884 several

drowned when the bottom of the pit flooded. A beam engine was installed

to pump the water out. By the 1960s plain concrete tiles were more

popular than slate. The pump was switched off. John Williams worked

there and worked there like his father before him.

My dad used to be a workman. They used to... A death defying job. In

charge of charges... Some of the walls are hundreds of feet high?

There were 30 of us here to the bot to. It would take half an hour for

some men to walk up. How do you feel now about the quarry, what is left

here? Well, I would like to make a museum here. I would love it.

And recognition for the work that went on here? Yes and to bring back

memories. There are calls to make quarries

like this one World Heritage Sites, but that will not reveal the gems

under the quarry's surface. These days only divers make the trip down.

Many don't have official permission and they face freezing conditions,

hazards and depths in excess of 100 metres. More than 20 people have

lost their lives here in the last 30 years.

Some believe a regulated dive centre would help keep divers safe. For

now, we've been given official permission to explore this once

thriving Welsh Atlantis. To ensure that everyone's safety, good

equipment and preparation are key. I've got my close circuit

re-breather which circles my warm breath helping to keep my core

temperature up, which means I can go deeper for longer. There are three

on the dive, me, the diving camera operator and our dive buddy, who is

a dive supervisor who will monitor us from the surface. It was

dangerous before it filled with water and it is no more dangerous

today. We are professionals, prepared and so we are going

exploring. Below water, 80 metre high pinnacles

loom from the depths. They were formed when workers blasted through

the rock to reach the slate. Many original blast tunnels remain.

Some still have paths inside. Others are littered with waste slate

which couldn't be used for roofing. Workers took cover from explosions

in small shelters. The slabs of stone on top protected the men

inside from falling rocks. We can still see the cables. And the

iron rods that workmen put ropes on to climb down.

But it is those ladders, stretching down to the bottom -- ladders,

stretching down to the bottom that really take my breath away.

The quarry men may be gone, but these icy waters preserve in tact

the man-made spectacles beneath the surface.

A big thank you to Joanne, Luke, James and Bob.

A Street Cat Named Bob is in cinemas from the 4th of November.

Before we go, a special One Show tribute to the man behind Hi-de-Hi,

It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Dad's Army - amongst many

Writer Jimmy Perry died yesterday, aged 93, and his family have told us

they would like to thank everyone for their kind thoughts and comments

at this very sad time, saying, "He was the loveliest of men

Jimmy also helped write the iconic theme song to Dad's Army.

And in his honour, it's that we will hear now,

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