24/11/2015 The One Show

Hello and welcome to Tuesday's One Show with Alex Jones.

And Matt Baker. Tonight's guest has just flown

in from Alaska. It's not often we get

the chance to say that. But then its not often we get

a guest like him. He's a comedy phenomenon who

never does anything by halves; please welcome Eddie Izzard.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Flown from alas ska. How was the crowd. I found

the more extreme places you go to, I don't know if there is an analogy.

If you present around the UK and go to extremes, people go, you came

here. Alaska, goes, hey you came. All we know is Sarah Palin. But all

the cool kids come. Had you been before? Had played Anchorage before.

It must have been in the summer, because there was sun. It was minus

17 in Fair Banks. So I was texted this before I went, I thought it was

like the previous time at minus five. But you have to wear

everything. We found this picture on your Twitter account. It is you and

the forest making friends? They said, do you want to meet some

reindeer? I love you have got red lipstick. It is kind of my trade

mark thing. I was out there and thought I would meet rein Deest

deer. -- reindeer. Dogs do this and go running around. The reindeer do

that. One of them just said, hey, I'm going bonker and they would

charge us to. This is a handy thing if you have reindeer coming to you

in the UK. They might breed and they get in and sneak away in an air

plane. You have to do big horns. Because they have the antlers and

you have to go hey and do that kind of noise. This one kept going. I

can't remember his name. It wasn't Rudolf. He kept coming up. I'm

confident with animals and I have no fear thing. I do it with horses.

Horses are powerful with children. It is like riding a mouse. You have

got to treat it like it is a mouse. What the horse? Yes. No. A mouse. A

mouse that has been inflated with a pump. It doesn't work. It is just

they will do what they want and reindeer are the same you have to go

Grrr. We will move on now from reindeer.

Here's a question - if you are accused of a crime, go to

court and are cleared of all charges who should pay your legal fees?

Should it be the state, which accused you of the crime,

or should it be you even if you did nothing wrong?

Here's Joe. The old Bailey has seen some of the

country east worst criminals jailed. But it has seen innocent people put

on trial and critics say new rules on legal aid could spell rough

justice. If you wind up in court it is harder to get legal aid to pay

the fees for the lawyer who will defend you. Until three year ago,

anyone declared not guilty in court would get around 80% of their legal

costs paid from the public purse. No us the chances of -- now the chances

of getting back the cash are in the balance. People like Mr Patel who

owned this store for 30 years and is a respected member of the community.

Last year a police raid turned that upside down. A lot of police and

some agency people turned up in the shop to... Raid the place and they

were saying we are looking for counter fit stamps. It was scary. I

had no idea what was going on. Selling counter fit stamps is a

serious offence. He had unwittingly bought some. I never knew counterfit

stamps existed. The defence had to congins the jury he was innocent.

And he was cleared after a seven day trial and thought his problems were

behind him until he got the legal bill. It was about ?25,000. To clear

your name? Yes. A couple of miles along the Thames the House of

Commons, Nigel Evans is a former Deputy Speaker. He was cleared of

sexual charges but was left with a bill of more than ?130,000. When

your facing prison, you want to make sure when you're innocent you have

got the best counsel. I had to have representation. Fortunately, I just

happened to have that money there. But that was my life savings. It is

now gone. I got none back. Len the changes came in you were Deputy

Speaker and couldn't vote. If you're asking me the question would I have

voted for them, the answer is probably yes. I suspect part of the

problem is that when they were going through they were seen as a

technical change. It only when you go through fire and you are

acquitted and the thanks is by the way here is the invoice and it is

six figures and you think, wow, what a barmy system we have created. With

legal aid costing the taxpayer ?2 billion a year, the aim of the

change is to cut that bill was far from barmy. Even some critics like

this agree there were abuses of the old system. There were some cases in

the old days which I don't think anybody would say were right. So

there were some celebrities who took on very expensive lawyers, they got

back really high sums for their legal costs. But she thinks the new

earnings limit is too low. In the Crown Court if your income is above

?37,000 a year, you won't get legal aid. If someone goes for what they

would see as a top notch lawyer and costs a lot, should the taxpayer pay

for that? I think the taxpayer should pay more than it does at the

moment to lose. Which some people have their house, their life savings

defending their own innocence cannot be fair. The Ministry of Justice

said those who don't qualify for legal aid and are acquitted can

reclaim a fraction of the costs. They add that as legal aid fundses

are finite it is important to spend money as firnltly as possible --

efficiently as possible. But that is scant consolation for those on the

wrong end of the changes. I'm always worried if something happens, I have

to have that much money. I had so much faith in the system. But now

I'm scared. That little of scaredness will always stay with me.

What is your reaction Eddie, if you're innocent do you think you

should pay for your fees. No. I feel the same. That is what is set up

for? It cops under recession. Joe remind us, you touched on it in the

film why the changes came to be. It is about money. In the age of

austerity, the Government fell the legal aid bill that was running

away. There was cases they felt was taking advantage of legal aid,

whether celebrities or wealthy people. There was one involving

pharmaceutical companies accused of price fixing and that cost ?18

million and some lawyers the government claimed were working

full-time on legal aid and making vast sums. What evidence is there

that legal costs are affecting the way people are pleading. We are

seeing evidence now, Mr Patel in the film told me that he was seriously

considering pleading guilty, it was a man proved to be innocent, because

of cost. He knew he wouldn't get that money back. So that is one

side. The other thing is the criminal court cost, which has come

in this year. That is essentially the idea was for criminals to pay to

the cost of the fees. And if you plead guilty, in a Magistrates'

Court it will be a set fee of ?150 F you plead not guilty but you're

found to be guilty that cost to be 1,200 pounds. This is a serious

issue that magistrates have been outspoken on. They feel that is

almost an incentive to plead guilty and they're worried where people are

pleading guilty, because of the money. That is one area that might

change. Last week a cross party group of MPs were suggesting that

should be something that should be scrapped. Thank you. To another

family message. Iwan is doing is shopping is how would you like your

jewellery wrapped. A little box. He has some that has been wrapped in

Channel Island mud for two thousand years and washed with sea water. I

will take anything with a big bow. Jersey known for potatoes and

cowings. -- cues. Cows. But three years ago three men stumbled across

the largest haul of Celtic coins in history. Matt reported on the find

in 2012 and now we have come back. What has happened in the last three

years? We have been removing coins for almost 18 months and taken off

about 30,000. Nearly half way? About 40% of the way through. And we have

discovered this gold jewellery. Because it is too thick to X ray, we

only find objects by removing coins. You will work and somebody will go,

oh, we have some gold or a leaf or an insect. My temptation is rip it

out. But you can't do that? We have to record every bit of information

we can get. As we carried on removing the top we found these

pieces of jewellery. If you asked us the ten most important things, some

would be the remains of some textile things of no financial worth at all.

But are of huge importance to telling the story of the object. Are

you any closer to finding who it belonged to? About 99% of the coins

belong to the core Sol tie tribe. Perhaps there was a battle and they

wanted to hide it. We may get an idea back in the field. It thoughts

the treasure is worth ?10 million. Not that Richard and Reg will get

much. No attemptation to take any No it is owned by the crown and not by

us or the state of Jersey. At some point discussions will take place.

It has a soul of itself. I think the locals would love it to stay here

intact. The find has become a spectator sport with locals coming

to see what has been uncovered. How special it is to be here? I am a

Jersey girl and this is is like one of most incredible things that's

happened here. I'm interested to see how it unfolds. Every now and again

they discover a little bit more. And a little bit more. And today how

lucky are we, we turned up to see this. That is a crushed section.

There we go. You're the first person to see the bottom of that in 2,000

years. Over 2,000 years. Why do you keep returning? The fascination of

seeing every bit being dug out. We have been coming almost every week.

A lot has been learned, but with a similar amount of coins still to go,

it will be some time until we unlock all the secrets of Jersey hoard. He

will need a big box for that! Yes. Eddie, you are still very much on

tour. We mentioned you're flown here from Alaska. This Force Majeure.

There is no rules on touring. I could tour this show. I keep

adjusting it. Here are all the places you have visited. 28

countries. Is that a record for a comedy show? I am claiming that. I

will claim it and wait for people to write in, answers on a post xard and

they stay no. One guy played 27 he said. I said let's do 28. I grabbed

Iceland and I have played before, but with this one2one show. When I

get Spanish I can do central and South America and the rock and roll

record is 51. But you are coming back to London. For a month long

residency. An extra week. This is the type of thing that people can

expect if they would like a ticket. Ancient dressage. It is a French

words that means dressage. Where does it come from? Maybe the

surrealist wars when people said men and women get on your horses ride to

the horse and come up and do this... Saying this Mr Stevens... Go to

trousers... Dah dah dah what is going on? Who watches it? You don't

go when is the dressage on? It comes up on the screen and you go... Oh...

We are back to horses, Eddie. It is obviously fine control, and hats off

to the men and women for winning the medals. But I just think, what can

you use that for? After that, or you can do is pack a horse in the

cupboard, and that is not necessarily useful for the horse or

yourself. Do you have an unexpected highlight of this tour you have been

on so far? What surprised you the most? We have stumped Eddie Izzard.

My highlight was playing Paris at the Olympia, which is like the

Albert Hall crossed with Brixton academy. And I sold it out, 2006,

all playing in French. David Bowie has played there, Jimi Hendrix. I

sold it out and did it all French. And it is 200 years since the battle

of Waterloo, so that is beautiful, especially considering what has

happened recently. I have just Tour de France are doing it in French and

now I am doing it in English. Extremists are trying to change our

way of life, but we will not be moved. We know you love languages.

You are off to Southern America next month, so we thought we would come

up with a couple of phrases you might want to crowbar in. For the

locals. We have got them here. We have got that dills my pickle. The

dog will hunt. And my eyeballs are floating. That is a drunk one. No,

it means I need to give to the loo. Because you are drunk. Is it? I have

heard it. And the dog will not hunt is one I have heard in a film. I am

hailed Americana. I think like an American, in the sense of an

economic migrant. Touring France in French is not on the list of things

to do. I like to do things. That dills my pickle, that means

something irritates you. Really? I like it when they say, you all come

back, even when you are only one person. I am playing Birmingham,

Alabama. That will be interesting. I am not mainstream Alabama. It will

be all the cool people. If you get one in, let us know. If you are

around the world, you can see Eddie at the Palace Theatre in London from

the 18th of January for five weeks. Now, experts around the world have

long claimed that singing is really good for us. It can apparently help

us breathe better, boost our immune system and also reduce stress. But

can it stop you from snoring? # Sweet dreams till sunbeams find

you. Ah, sweet dreams. But night-time can

be a nightmare if you are next to someone like this.

LOUD SNORING. As many as one in four of us snores,

and it can play havoc with your personal life, particularly if you

are as loud as Colette. I had sleep apnoea when I was

morbidly obese, and that is a condition where you go to sleep and

you think you are asleep, but your airway is obstructed because you are

so fat, so you nearly wake up and snuffle and go back to sleep for

half a minute, and then you stop breathing again, so you never get a

good night's sleep. Despite losing eight and a half stone, her snoring

has never gone away and has even caused problems in a relationship

she was in. Now, Collette worries that snoring might jeopardise her

future. Is this the final bit of the jigsaw, the snoring? There is a hope

that I could return to the dating scene, but I don't want this snoring

to get in the way of my relationships. Today, we have

brought Collette to the peaceful surrounds of Exeter to try and get

help with her snoring problems from an expert. She is a choir director

who has advised a series of vocal exercises that she claims can help

people get rid of troublesome snoring. It sounds a bit odd, but

singing and snoring use the same part of our vocal apparatus. Snoring

happens when we breeding and the soft palate and tissue in the back

of the throat begin to vibrate. In many cases, this happens when the

muscles there are in bad shape, particularly if we are in for

weight. The singing programme for snorers aims to tone up the muscles

in the soft palate by moving it up and down, the tongue, forwards and

back, giving the whole area a work-out. But not all snoring can be

helped by turning up the throat muscles, so her programme may not

work for everybody, although Collette is optimistic. If I can

improve the strength of the muscles in the rest of my body, there is no

reason why I can't improve the strength of the muscles in my

throat. Will Elise's vocal exercises work for Collette? Only time will

tell. For three months, Collette sings... And sleeps. And sings...

And sleeps. All the time, keeping a record of her snoring habits. So,

has it helped? I am back to check the results with the aid of an app

that has been analysing Collette's snoring patterns. On this device, it

tells me how often you snored last night and what the volume was. This

is what it sounds like. I can't hear anything! There was a spike here in

noise. That is nothing. According to this, you only snored, and that was

not even a snore, for 9% of your sleepless night. No! I don't think

this one will be keeping anyone awake. It was the one thing I was

anxious about that might stop me getting into a relationship. So it

seems you really can sing yourself snoreless. Good luck! That is

fascinating. We can pass that on to people we know. I can fall asleep

easily and I do wake up making a snorting sound, which is not cool in

trains and planes and automobiles and getting your haircut. So that is

very interesting. And I am singing more. I sing in the show. Actually,

it is a nice sound. My mother was a singer. She sang at the Albert Hall

enquires. She was an amateur singer, but she did sing. There may

be a voice genetically somewhere. Our bodies are an instrument, you

just have to learn how to play. Eddie, we don't know what your sea

legs are like, but this film will be very nostalgic for all amateur

sailors out there. Buster bring us the story of the man who brought the

sport to the masses in the 1960s. Any second now. Just rewinding it.

Sailing was not a cheap hobby. Boats were built by hand eye craftsmen,

making them too expensive for most people. However, one man had a dream

of making sailing accessible to anybody, by designing a boat which

was affordable for ordinary folks. He was Barry but Noel, the BBC's DIY

guru, and a man usually seen on by land. Hello! In this programme, I

had better tackle a job I have been putting off for a long time. In

1962, Barry began drawing up the plans for what became the Mirror

dinghy. I have come to the annual gathering of Mira sailors instead

only to find out how Barry's boat became the most widely owned to

person sailing dinghy in the world. Dougal Henschel has researched the

origins of this boat and its links with the daily paper. Barry

Bucknell, Mr DIY, goes to the pub with the BBC team, and there were

other people there from the Mirror. They picked up on the story that

Barry Bucknell was designing and building his own boat. In post-war

Britain, the idea of owning your own boat was highly fashionable. So the

Mirror put up the money to develop Barry Bucknell's plans, on condition

that the boat was named after the paper and the sales were read like

their paper. Barry designed the first kit boat that anyone could

build at home. Everything came in a box. You took it out of the box and

build yourself a boat. A key design feature was the lack of a

traditional pointed bow. The hardest part of building any boat is getting

that pointed shape at the front. By putting this flat panel in, you take

away over half the complexity of the task. You stitch the two panels

together with bits of copper wire, and then lay a strip of glass fibre

tape along that, and you have made the joint. The first Mirror kit sold

for just ?63, about ?800 in today's money. They took the idea of

building a boat and made it into something that anybody could build.

You didn't need to be a boat builder or a woodworker. You could make one

of these in your lounge in 100 hours in the winter. And you could turn it

upside down and put it on the roof of your car and drive around with

it, and people did. It wasn't long before these were selling at the

rate of over 250 a month. Within a few years, Britain was swept by

Mirror mania. Suddenly, suburban garage is up and down the land were

filled with the sound of planing, sawing and hammering. Dad built it.

It was a pale yellow colour when he had finished, and it was the best

thing in the world. The Mirror is now over 50, but its appeal hasn't

aged a bit. I used to sail with my mum and dad. Now we are coming down

and doing the same with our kids. It is a great way to spend the holiday.

You can fit three people in it, so you can sail with your friend 's.

But this little boat is capable of high-performance tailing, and the

rise of the Mirror was parallel with the rise of sailing as a competitive

sport. Today, Britain has more Olympic gold medals in sailing than

any other nation. # Here comes the Mirror. Now it is

my turn. They are very responsive on the tiller, really quick. 70,633 is

the number on your boat. It is a little boat with a huge heart. It

sails like a big boat. You learn your skills in one of these, you

have good skills that will take you right away through life. Barry

Bucknell's DIY approach to dinghy making undoubtedly a revolution in

British sailing. In democratising the sport, he made sailing available

to everybody, even you, Buster, old sea dog that he is.

What a wonderful story. A big thank you to Eddie for joining us this

evening. You can see him in London from the 18th of January. The

tomorrow with Dara O Briain. Bye-bye.