:00:16. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to Tuesday's One Show with Alex Jones.
:00:21. > :00:22.And Matt Baker. Tonight's guest has just flown
:00:23. > :00:25.in from Alaska. It's not often we get
:00:26. > :00:27.the chance to say that. But then its not often we get
:00:28. > :00:30.a guest like him. He's a comedy phenomenon who
:00:31. > :00:37.never does anything by halves; please welcome Eddie Izzard.
:00:38. > :00:48.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Flown from alas ska. How was the crowd. I found
:00:49. > :00:55.the more extreme places you go to, I don't know if there is an analogy.
:00:56. > :01:03.If you present around the UK and go to extremes, people go, you came
:01:04. > :01:08.here. Alaska, goes, hey you came. All we know is Sarah Palin. But all
:01:09. > :01:14.the cool kids come. Had you been before? Had played Anchorage before.
:01:15. > :01:25.It must have been in the summer, because there was sun. It was minus
:01:26. > :01:29.17 in Fair Banks. So I was texted this before I went, I thought it was
:01:30. > :01:34.like the previous time at minus five. But you have to wear
:01:35. > :01:39.everything. We found this picture on your Twitter account. It is you and
:01:40. > :01:46.the forest making friends? They said, do you want to meet some
:01:47. > :01:54.reindeer? I love you have got red lipstick. It is kind of my trade
:01:55. > :02:00.mark thing. I was out there and thought I would meet rein Deest
:02:01. > :02:06.deer. -- reindeer. Dogs do this and go running around. The reindeer do
:02:07. > :02:11.that. One of them just said, hey, I'm going bonker and they would
:02:12. > :02:16.charge us to. This is a handy thing if you have reindeer coming to you
:02:17. > :02:24.in the UK. They might breed and they get in and sneak away in an air
:02:25. > :02:29.plane. You have to do big horns. Because they have the antlers and
:02:30. > :02:35.you have to go hey and do that kind of noise. This one kept going. I
:02:36. > :02:42.can't remember his name. It wasn't Rudolf. He kept coming up. I'm
:02:43. > :02:50.confident with animals and I have no fear thing. I do it with horses.
:02:51. > :02:56.Horses are powerful with children. It is like riding a mouse. You have
:02:57. > :03:07.got to treat it like it is a mouse. What the horse? Yes. No. A mouse. A
:03:08. > :03:13.mouse that has been inflated with a pump. It doesn't work. It is just
:03:14. > :03:22.they will do what they want and reindeer are the same you have to go
:03:23. > :03:24.Grrr. We will move on now from reindeer.
:03:25. > :03:29.Here's a question - if you are accused of a crime, go to
:03:30. > :03:32.court and are cleared of all charges who should pay your legal fees?
:03:33. > :03:34.Should it be the state, which accused you of the crime,
:03:35. > :03:36.or should it be you even if you did nothing wrong?
:03:37. > :03:45.Here's Joe. The old Bailey has seen some of the
:03:46. > :03:52.country east worst criminals jailed. But it has seen innocent people put
:03:53. > :03:57.on trial and critics say new rules on legal aid could spell rough
:03:58. > :04:01.justice. If you wind up in court it is harder to get legal aid to pay
:04:02. > :04:08.the fees for the lawyer who will defend you. Until three year ago,
:04:09. > :04:13.anyone declared not guilty in court would get around 80% of their legal
:04:14. > :04:19.costs paid from the public purse. No us the chances of -- now the chances
:04:20. > :04:28.of getting back the cash are in the balance. People like Mr Patel who
:04:29. > :04:31.owned this store for 30 years and is a respected member of the community.
:04:32. > :04:36.Last year a police raid turned that upside down. A lot of police and
:04:37. > :04:40.some agency people turned up in the shop to... Raid the place and they
:04:41. > :04:48.were saying we are looking for counter fit stamps. It was scary. I
:04:49. > :04:57.had no idea what was going on. Selling counter fit stamps is a
:04:58. > :05:10.serious offence. He had unwittingly bought some. I never knew counterfit
:05:11. > :05:15.stamps existed. The defence had to congins the jury he was innocent.
:05:16. > :05:19.And he was cleared after a seven day trial and thought his problems were
:05:20. > :05:27.behind him until he got the legal bill. It was about ?25,000. To clear
:05:28. > :05:37.your name? Yes. A couple of miles along the Thames the House of
:05:38. > :05:42.Commons, Nigel Evans is a former Deputy Speaker. He was cleared of
:05:43. > :05:50.sexual charges but was left with a bill of more than ?130,000. When
:05:51. > :05:54.your facing prison, you want to make sure when you're innocent you have
:05:55. > :05:59.got the best counsel. I had to have representation. Fortunately, I just
:06:00. > :06:04.happened to have that money there. But that was my life savings. It is
:06:05. > :06:10.now gone. I got none back. Len the changes came in you were Deputy
:06:11. > :06:14.Speaker and couldn't vote. If you're asking me the question would I have
:06:15. > :06:21.voted for them, the answer is probably yes. I suspect part of the
:06:22. > :06:25.problem is that when they were going through they were seen as a
:06:26. > :06:28.technical change. It only when you go through fire and you are
:06:29. > :06:35.acquitted and the thanks is by the way here is the invoice and it is
:06:36. > :06:40.six figures and you think, wow, what a barmy system we have created. With
:06:41. > :06:44.legal aid costing the taxpayer ?2 billion a year, the aim of the
:06:45. > :06:51.change is to cut that bill was far from barmy. Even some critics like
:06:52. > :06:58.this agree there were abuses of the old system. There were some cases in
:06:59. > :07:04.the old days which I don't think anybody would say were right. So
:07:05. > :07:08.there were some celebrities who took on very expensive lawyers, they got
:07:09. > :07:17.back really high sums for their legal costs. But she thinks the new
:07:18. > :07:23.earnings limit is too low. In the Crown Court if your income is above
:07:24. > :07:28.?37,000 a year, you won't get legal aid. If someone goes for what they
:07:29. > :07:33.would see as a top notch lawyer and costs a lot, should the taxpayer pay
:07:34. > :07:38.for that? I think the taxpayer should pay more than it does at the
:07:39. > :07:43.moment to lose. Which some people have their house, their life savings
:07:44. > :07:50.defending their own innocence cannot be fair. The Ministry of Justice
:07:51. > :07:54.said those who don't qualify for legal aid and are acquitted can
:07:55. > :07:59.reclaim a fraction of the costs. They add that as legal aid fundses
:08:00. > :08:05.are finite it is important to spend money as firnltly as possible --
:08:06. > :08:11.efficiently as possible. But that is scant consolation for those on the
:08:12. > :08:15.wrong end of the changes. I'm always worried if something happens, I have
:08:16. > :08:21.to have that much money. I had so much faith in the system. But now
:08:22. > :08:28.I'm scared. That little of scaredness will always stay with me.
:08:29. > :08:33.What is your reaction Eddie, if you're innocent do you think you
:08:34. > :08:42.should pay for your fees. No. I feel the same. That is what is set up
:08:43. > :08:47.for? It cops under recession. Joe remind us, you touched on it in the
:08:48. > :08:53.film why the changes came to be. It is about money. In the age of
:08:54. > :08:58.austerity, the Government fell the legal aid bill that was running
:08:59. > :09:02.away. There was cases they felt was taking advantage of legal aid,
:09:03. > :09:08.whether celebrities or wealthy people. There was one involving
:09:09. > :09:13.pharmaceutical companies accused of price fixing and that cost ?18
:09:14. > :09:17.million and some lawyers the government claimed were working
:09:18. > :09:22.full-time on legal aid and making vast sums. What evidence is there
:09:23. > :09:27.that legal costs are affecting the way people are pleading. We are
:09:28. > :09:34.seeing evidence now, Mr Patel in the film told me that he was seriously
:09:35. > :09:38.considering pleading guilty, it was a man proved to be innocent, because
:09:39. > :09:42.of cost. He knew he wouldn't get that money back. So that is one
:09:43. > :09:45.side. The other thing is the criminal court cost, which has come
:09:46. > :09:54.in this year. That is essentially the idea was for criminals to pay to
:09:55. > :09:58.the cost of the fees. And if you plead guilty, in a Magistrates'
:09:59. > :10:04.Court it will be a set fee of ?150 F you plead not guilty but you're
:10:05. > :10:10.found to be guilty that cost to be 1,200 pounds. This is a serious
:10:11. > :10:15.issue that magistrates have been outspoken on. They feel that is
:10:16. > :10:19.almost an incentive to plead guilty and they're worried where people are
:10:20. > :10:23.pleading guilty, because of the money. That is one area that might
:10:24. > :10:25.change. Last week a cross party group of MPs were suggesting that
:10:26. > :10:37.should be something that should be scrapped. Thank you. To another
:10:38. > :10:43.family message. Iwan is doing is shopping is how would you like your
:10:44. > :10:47.jewellery wrapped. A little box. He has some that has been wrapped in
:10:48. > :10:54.Channel Island mud for two thousand years and washed with sea water. I
:10:55. > :11:02.will take anything with a big bow. Jersey known for potatoes and
:11:03. > :11:08.cowings. -- cues. Cows. But three years ago three men stumbled across
:11:09. > :11:15.the largest haul of Celtic coins in history. Matt reported on the find
:11:16. > :11:21.in 2012 and now we have come back. What has happened in the last three
:11:22. > :11:27.years? We have been removing coins for almost 18 months and taken off
:11:28. > :11:32.about 30,000. Nearly half way? About 40% of the way through. And we have
:11:33. > :11:38.discovered this gold jewellery. Because it is too thick to X ray, we
:11:39. > :11:45.only find objects by removing coins. You will work and somebody will go,
:11:46. > :11:52.oh, we have some gold or a leaf or an insect. My temptation is rip it
:11:53. > :11:59.out. But you can't do that? We have to record every bit of information
:12:00. > :12:04.we can get. As we carried on removing the top we found these
:12:05. > :12:09.pieces of jewellery. If you asked us the ten most important things, some
:12:10. > :12:14.would be the remains of some textile things of no financial worth at all.
:12:15. > :12:19.But are of huge importance to telling the story of the object. Are
:12:20. > :12:32.you any closer to finding who it belonged to? About 99% of the coins
:12:33. > :12:40.belong to the core Sol tie tribe. Perhaps there was a battle and they
:12:41. > :12:45.wanted to hide it. We may get an idea back in the field. It thoughts
:12:46. > :12:52.the treasure is worth ?10 million. Not that Richard and Reg will get
:12:53. > :12:57.much. No attemptation to take any No it is owned by the crown and not by
:12:58. > :13:02.us or the state of Jersey. At some point discussions will take place.
:13:03. > :13:07.It has a soul of itself. I think the locals would love it to stay here
:13:08. > :13:11.intact. The find has become a spectator sport with locals coming
:13:12. > :13:17.to see what has been uncovered. How special it is to be here? I am a
:13:18. > :13:22.Jersey girl and this is is like one of most incredible things that's
:13:23. > :13:29.happened here. I'm interested to see how it unfolds. Every now and again
:13:30. > :13:35.they discover a little bit more. And a little bit more. And today how
:13:36. > :13:45.lucky are we, we turned up to see this. That is a crushed section.
:13:46. > :13:54.There we go. You're the first person to see the bottom of that in 2,000
:13:55. > :13:59.years. Over 2,000 years. Why do you keep returning? The fascination of
:14:00. > :14:05.seeing every bit being dug out. We have been coming almost every week.
:14:06. > :14:11.A lot has been learned, but with a similar amount of coins still to go,
:14:12. > :14:25.it will be some time until we unlock all the secrets of Jersey hoard. He
:14:26. > :14:32.will need a big box for that! Yes. Eddie, you are still very much on
:14:33. > :14:36.tour. We mentioned you're flown here from Alaska. This Force Majeure.
:14:37. > :14:41.There is no rules on touring. I could tour this show. I keep
:14:42. > :14:47.adjusting it. Here are all the places you have visited. 28
:14:48. > :14:54.countries. Is that a record for a comedy show? I am claiming that. I
:14:55. > :14:59.will claim it and wait for people to write in, answers on a post xard and
:15:00. > :15:06.they stay no. One guy played 27 he said. I said let's do 28. I grabbed
:15:07. > :15:14.Iceland and I have played before, but with this one2one show. When I
:15:15. > :15:20.get Spanish I can do central and South America and the rock and roll
:15:21. > :15:26.record is 51. But you are coming back to London. For a month long
:15:27. > :15:31.residency. An extra week. This is the type of thing that people can
:15:32. > :15:39.expect if they would like a ticket. Ancient dressage. It is a French
:15:40. > :15:43.words that means dressage. Where does it come from? Maybe the
:15:44. > :15:50.surrealist wars when people said men and women get on your horses ride to
:15:51. > :15:56.the horse and come up and do this... Saying this Mr Stevens... Go to
:15:57. > :16:03.trousers... Dah dah dah what is going on? Who watches it? You don't
:16:04. > :16:15.go when is the dressage on? It comes up on the screen and you go... Oh...
:16:16. > :16:24.We are back to horses, Eddie. It is obviously fine control, and hats off
:16:25. > :16:28.to the men and women for winning the medals. But I just think, what can
:16:29. > :16:32.you use that for? After that, or you can do is pack a horse in the
:16:33. > :16:37.cupboard, and that is not necessarily useful for the horse or
:16:38. > :16:39.yourself. Do you have an unexpected highlight of this tour you have been
:16:40. > :16:49.on so far? What surprised you the most? We have stumped Eddie Izzard.
:16:50. > :16:53.My highlight was playing Paris at the Olympia, which is like the
:16:54. > :17:02.Albert Hall crossed with Brixton academy. And I sold it out, 2006,
:17:03. > :17:08.all playing in French. David Bowie has played there, Jimi Hendrix. I
:17:09. > :17:13.sold it out and did it all French. And it is 200 years since the battle
:17:14. > :17:16.of Waterloo, so that is beautiful, especially considering what has
:17:17. > :17:21.happened recently. I have just Tour de France are doing it in French and
:17:22. > :17:25.now I am doing it in English. Extremists are trying to change our
:17:26. > :17:31.way of life, but we will not be moved. We know you love languages.
:17:32. > :17:38.You are off to Southern America next month, so we thought we would come
:17:39. > :17:45.up with a couple of phrases you might want to crowbar in. For the
:17:46. > :17:53.locals. We have got them here. We have got that dills my pickle. The
:17:54. > :18:01.dog will hunt. And my eyeballs are floating. That is a drunk one. No,
:18:02. > :18:07.it means I need to give to the loo. Because you are drunk. Is it? I have
:18:08. > :18:18.heard it. And the dog will not hunt is one I have heard in a film. I am
:18:19. > :18:21.hailed Americana. I think like an American, in the sense of an
:18:22. > :18:27.economic migrant. Touring France in French is not on the list of things
:18:28. > :18:35.to do. I like to do things. That dills my pickle, that means
:18:36. > :18:40.something irritates you. Really? I like it when they say, you all come
:18:41. > :18:52.back, even when you are only one person. I am playing Birmingham,
:18:53. > :18:59.Alabama. That will be interesting. I am not mainstream Alabama. It will
:19:00. > :19:04.be all the cool people. If you get one in, let us know. If you are
:19:05. > :19:08.around the world, you can see Eddie at the Palace Theatre in London from
:19:09. > :19:11.the 18th of January for five weeks. Now, experts around the world have
:19:12. > :19:16.long claimed that singing is really good for us. It can apparently help
:19:17. > :19:23.us breathe better, boost our immune system and also reduce stress. But
:19:24. > :19:26.can it stop you from snoring? # Sweet dreams till sunbeams find
:19:27. > :19:31.you. Ah, sweet dreams. But night-time can
:19:32. > :19:37.be a nightmare if you are next to someone like this.
:19:38. > :19:50.LOUD SNORING. As many as one in four of us snores,
:19:51. > :19:51.and it can play havoc with your personal life, particularly if you
:19:52. > :20:07.are as loud as Colette. I had sleep apnoea when I was
:20:08. > :20:12.morbidly obese, and that is a condition where you go to sleep and
:20:13. > :20:15.you think you are asleep, but your airway is obstructed because you are
:20:16. > :20:19.so fat, so you nearly wake up and snuffle and go back to sleep for
:20:20. > :20:24.half a minute, and then you stop breathing again, so you never get a
:20:25. > :20:29.good night's sleep. Despite losing eight and a half stone, her snoring
:20:30. > :20:32.has never gone away and has even caused problems in a relationship
:20:33. > :20:38.she was in. Now, Collette worries that snoring might jeopardise her
:20:39. > :20:43.future. Is this the final bit of the jigsaw, the snoring? There is a hope
:20:44. > :20:46.that I could return to the dating scene, but I don't want this snoring
:20:47. > :20:51.to get in the way of my relationships. Today, we have
:20:52. > :20:57.brought Collette to the peaceful surrounds of Exeter to try and get
:20:58. > :21:04.help with her snoring problems from an expert. She is a choir director
:21:05. > :21:06.who has advised a series of vocal exercises that she claims can help
:21:07. > :21:14.people get rid of troublesome snoring. It sounds a bit odd, but
:21:15. > :21:20.singing and snoring use the same part of our vocal apparatus. Snoring
:21:21. > :21:24.happens when we breeding and the soft palate and tissue in the back
:21:25. > :21:28.of the throat begin to vibrate. In many cases, this happens when the
:21:29. > :21:32.muscles there are in bad shape, particularly if we are in for
:21:33. > :21:36.weight. The singing programme for snorers aims to tone up the muscles
:21:37. > :21:40.in the soft palate by moving it up and down, the tongue, forwards and
:21:41. > :21:45.back, giving the whole area a work-out. But not all snoring can be
:21:46. > :21:49.helped by turning up the throat muscles, so her programme may not
:21:50. > :21:55.work for everybody, although Collette is optimistic. If I can
:21:56. > :21:58.improve the strength of the muscles in the rest of my body, there is no
:21:59. > :22:06.reason why I can't improve the strength of the muscles in my
:22:07. > :22:13.throat. Will Elise's vocal exercises work for Collette? Only time will
:22:14. > :22:23.tell. For three months, Collette sings... And sleeps. And sings...
:22:24. > :22:32.And sleeps. All the time, keeping a record of her snoring habits. So,
:22:33. > :22:35.has it helped? I am back to check the results with the aid of an app
:22:36. > :22:39.that has been analysing Collette's snoring patterns. On this device, it
:22:40. > :22:46.tells me how often you snored last night and what the volume was. This
:22:47. > :22:57.is what it sounds like. I can't hear anything! There was a spike here in
:22:58. > :23:03.noise. That is nothing. According to this, you only snored, and that was
:23:04. > :23:08.not even a snore, for 9% of your sleepless night. No! I don't think
:23:09. > :23:13.this one will be keeping anyone awake. It was the one thing I was
:23:14. > :23:23.anxious about that might stop me getting into a relationship. So it
:23:24. > :23:34.seems you really can sing yourself snoreless. Good luck! That is
:23:35. > :23:43.fascinating. We can pass that on to people we know. I can fall asleep
:23:44. > :23:48.easily and I do wake up making a snorting sound, which is not cool in
:23:49. > :23:55.trains and planes and automobiles and getting your haircut. So that is
:23:56. > :24:02.very interesting. And I am singing more. I sing in the show. Actually,
:24:03. > :24:09.it is a nice sound. My mother was a singer. She sang at the Albert Hall
:24:10. > :24:14.enquires. She was an amateur singer, but she did sing. There may
:24:15. > :24:19.be a voice genetically somewhere. Our bodies are an instrument, you
:24:20. > :24:24.just have to learn how to play. Eddie, we don't know what your sea
:24:25. > :24:28.legs are like, but this film will be very nostalgic for all amateur
:24:29. > :24:35.sailors out there. Buster bring us the story of the man who brought the
:24:36. > :24:43.sport to the masses in the 1960s. Any second now. Just rewinding it.
:24:44. > :24:47.Sailing was not a cheap hobby. Boats were built by hand eye craftsmen,
:24:48. > :24:54.making them too expensive for most people. However, one man had a dream
:24:55. > :24:58.of making sailing accessible to anybody, by designing a boat which
:24:59. > :25:05.was affordable for ordinary folks. He was Barry but Noel, the BBC's DIY
:25:06. > :25:13.guru, and a man usually seen on by land. Hello! In this programme, I
:25:14. > :25:17.had better tackle a job I have been putting off for a long time. In
:25:18. > :25:27.1962, Barry began drawing up the plans for what became the Mirror
:25:28. > :25:32.dinghy. I have come to the annual gathering of Mira sailors instead
:25:33. > :25:39.only to find out how Barry's boat became the most widely owned to
:25:40. > :25:44.person sailing dinghy in the world. Dougal Henschel has researched the
:25:45. > :25:50.origins of this boat and its links with the daily paper. Barry
:25:51. > :25:54.Bucknell, Mr DIY, goes to the pub with the BBC team, and there were
:25:55. > :25:57.other people there from the Mirror. They picked up on the story that
:25:58. > :26:03.Barry Bucknell was designing and building his own boat. In post-war
:26:04. > :26:08.Britain, the idea of owning your own boat was highly fashionable. So the
:26:09. > :26:16.Mirror put up the money to develop Barry Bucknell's plans, on condition
:26:17. > :26:20.that the boat was named after the paper and the sales were read like
:26:21. > :26:24.their paper. Barry designed the first kit boat that anyone could
:26:25. > :26:30.build at home. Everything came in a box. You took it out of the box and
:26:31. > :26:34.build yourself a boat. A key design feature was the lack of a
:26:35. > :26:40.traditional pointed bow. The hardest part of building any boat is getting
:26:41. > :26:44.that pointed shape at the front. By putting this flat panel in, you take
:26:45. > :26:50.away over half the complexity of the task. You stitch the two panels
:26:51. > :26:57.together with bits of copper wire, and then lay a strip of glass fibre
:26:58. > :27:03.tape along that, and you have made the joint. The first Mirror kit sold
:27:04. > :27:07.for just ?63, about ?800 in today's money. They took the idea of
:27:08. > :27:11.building a boat and made it into something that anybody could build.
:27:12. > :27:15.You didn't need to be a boat builder or a woodworker. You could make one
:27:16. > :27:21.of these in your lounge in 100 hours in the winter. And you could turn it
:27:22. > :27:24.upside down and put it on the roof of your car and drive around with
:27:25. > :27:31.it, and people did. It wasn't long before these were selling at the
:27:32. > :27:39.rate of over 250 a month. Within a few years, Britain was swept by
:27:40. > :27:42.Mirror mania. Suddenly, suburban garage is up and down the land were
:27:43. > :27:50.filled with the sound of planing, sawing and hammering. Dad built it.
:27:51. > :27:54.It was a pale yellow colour when he had finished, and it was the best
:27:55. > :28:00.thing in the world. The Mirror is now over 50, but its appeal hasn't
:28:01. > :28:03.aged a bit. I used to sail with my mum and dad. Now we are coming down
:28:04. > :28:09.and doing the same with our kids. It is a great way to spend the holiday.
:28:10. > :28:13.You can fit three people in it, so you can sail with your friend 's.
:28:14. > :28:17.But this little boat is capable of high-performance tailing, and the
:28:18. > :28:20.rise of the Mirror was parallel with the rise of sailing as a competitive
:28:21. > :28:24.sport. Today, Britain has more Olympic gold medals in sailing than
:28:25. > :28:32.any other nation. # Here comes the Mirror. Now it is
:28:33. > :28:45.my turn. They are very responsive on the tiller, really quick. 70,633 is
:28:46. > :28:49.the number on your boat. It is a little boat with a huge heart. It
:28:50. > :28:54.sails like a big boat. You learn your skills in one of these, you
:28:55. > :28:59.have good skills that will take you right away through life. Barry
:29:00. > :29:02.Bucknell's DIY approach to dinghy making undoubtedly a revolution in
:29:03. > :29:09.British sailing. In democratising the sport, he made sailing available
:29:10. > :29:16.to everybody, even you, Buster, old sea dog that he is.
:29:17. > :29:21.What a wonderful story. A big thank you to Eddie for joining us this
:29:22. > :29:24.evening. You can see him in London from the 18th of January. The
:29:25. > :29:27.tomorrow with Dara O Briain. Bye-bye.