25/01/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Angela Scanlon.

On our sofa tonight, two stars who share a passion for music,

and in our warped imagination, this is how we think

Summer Loving had me at last. Summer Loving happened so fast. I met a

girl, crazy Flamini. I met a boy, tutors

They also share no fewer than six names.

Wait for it - Neil Patrick Harris and Olivia Newton-John!

CHEERING That was amazing! You have to do it

now. That wasn't actually real, if you couldn't work it out!

Is there anyone you would love to duet with?

This one! That would be amazing. And it would be fun, my kids listen to

Frozen all the time, so Idina Menzel would be good, and also Elton John.

I would love to sing with Rod Stewart. That could work! Raspy,

gorgeous voice. I'm ready! Neil, you are a little bit jealous of a role

that Olivia got to play, specifically the dancing? Yes, Gene

Kelly is amazing. What was that like? It was amazing, he was so

sweet. And he was older when you were doing this? Yes, he was

fantastic, he wanted us to do it in one take, and I had never tap danced

before, so I did three months rehearsal of basic tap, then we had

to learn the whole thing, because he directed that segment and they did

it in one sweeping move. There is something great about a guy that can

dance like that and make it look so effortless. Tap Israeli technical.

You did quite a lot of dancing yourself? I never took a dance

lesson in my life. You just freestyle? I just stand in the front

and get really talented dancers behind me that do incredible dancing

while I stand there and do the hands. Jazz hands get you through!

Sell it with conviction. Eyes and teeth!

Let's meet some more people we'll be spending a bit of time

Four people plucked from the ranks of One Show viewers who are going

to be getting to grips with the biggest issue of our times.

Meet Team Brexit, four One Show viewers who will be answering the

questions that you want answered. Nora from Bolton has already made a

few films for us in the past. This country of ours is called Great

Britain, and it has become great because we have accepted

multicultural people coming over who have integrated. Although fun Nora,

that is not quite the end of the matter. We should have control over

how many people do come into the land. We are sinking. This land is

sinking with the amount of people who are here. So how does she feel

about Theresa May 's speech last Monday? We are leaving the European

Union, but we are not leaving Europe. We will pursue a bold and

ambitious free-trade agreement. What I am proposing cannot mean

membership of the single market. This is a lady who came new into the

job. She had to scrape up an absolute mess that was plopped on

the floor. She has gathered it altogether, and now she has laid out

a plan that is easy for everybody to follow. Next up, Manchester cabbie

John. He used to live in France, and now back in the UK, gives guided

tours of Manchester foreign visitors. As a Mancunian, I am well

used to meeting people from all over the world. What concerns me is I

rely mainly on tourism for my business, and Wilfried of travel

still be the same post Brexit? What's more, he thinks Britain is a

better place to live because of immigration. I like to live in a

multicultural society. We should be grateful that people want to come to

our country because it is so good. Our last two members may also be

familiar. Brothers Nigel and Ian gave their two opposing views on the

One Show before the referendum. They followed their dad into the freight

industry, and set up firms half a mile from each other in Nottingham.

Older brother Nigel is now managing director of a truck sales and repair

firm. I want to see a free-trade agreement with the European Union,

and some control of our borders and immigration, but also the Prime

Minister really cracking on to take us out of the European Union,

trigger Article 50 and get it moving. And Nigel is confident about

the future. We will lead the way with the future with free trade. But

brother Ian doesn't agree. He runs a separate freight company that

manages the movement of goods across Europe. What about all the costs of

coming out of the single market? What about the effect on jobs and on

people's income? At the moment, Ian's company enjoys free trade in

Europe with no tariffs, and he is worried that him it is about to get

a whole more complicated. There will be some cost is barriers, a risk

that lorries will be queueing at the Channel Tunnel, that is bad for my

business and bad for my customers. He also wants to know how long it is

going to take to get a deal. My biggest worry is that there won't be

an agreement within two years. We need that agreement. It is vital for

us, but it is not so important for the European Union to get that

agreement. So, that is Team Brexit, and here is their first mission.

Your first challenge is a big one. There is lots of talk about the

single market and trade deals, but what is it all mean? Will we notice

the difference, and if we do, what difference would it make? It is a

big topic, so are you up for it? Let's go!

Thank you to Alex and Team Brexit, they will be back tomorrow to

cross-examine a former trade envoy. Good luck to all! Someone I would

not like to cross-examine any time is Count Olaf, which is the

character you play in Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate

Events. Yes, Netflix made this series, and I asked me to play him

with all the prosthetics and looking nothing like myself, it is nice

because since it is really to anyone, but for the eyes of ten or

12-year-olds, I get to be unabashedly awful with no remorse or

empathy, and it is rare that you get paid to be able to do that! We have

a handy little scale of evil here, and we thought that perhaps you

might like to place him on it. Cruella de Vil, Ursula Darth Vader.

Who is the Richard Rotter? That is the child catcher from Chitty Chitty

Bang Bang. Well, you can't go pure evil, you can't even really go Star

Wars evil, because they possess actual powers, they could choke

people out. Count Olaf thinks he is much more successful than he

actually is. I would put him that way. He doesn't catch the child.

Right there. Here? There he is, there! Leicester travel look at a

little bit of proof, -- let's have a little look at your character. I am

Count Olaf, your new guardian. You're welcome. Thank you. You're

welcome. Please come in and mind you wipe your feet on the mat. And don't

forget your enormous fortune. APPLAUSE

Talking about seeing this through the eyes of children, but that

baby... It talks about the Baudelaire children, and the

youngest one is just supposed to have teeth that she chews through

things and speak in words you can't understand, and then the older

siblings do know what she means, but that is a hard thing to do with a

little actor baby, because there is no actor baby school. We had this

unbelievable girl named Presley who is super-talented. It was fun. She

doesn't chew through the keys? She doesn't. We had prosthetic teeth.

The wonderful thing is, you are playing a character that is playing

characters, as well. We have some great pictures of all the different

roles. Each book in the series, Count Olaf comes back in disguise as

someone else to try and get the children's fortune, and the kids can

see right through him, as I'm sure you can, but the adults can't,

because again, from the point of view of kids, adults are too mired

in their own obligated lives to be to take things seriously. So I play

a guy who was bald and talks like this, and then an old pirate man,

like a sort of drunk horny Sean Connery. They are magical

characters! And Shirley, the secretary for an optometrist, so

idea to Bette Davis with that. The show is on Netflix, which is nice

because it is streaming so you can download the ball and see them all

without commercials. We got it. Olivia, are there any characters

from your childhood that stick out that you remember? Not

necessarily... Not scary once. I used to read the Terrible Twin

books, I think that is what they were called. We didn't have TV until

later, so I used to go upstairs, books were my thing when I was a

young girl. Absolutely wonderful. And for you as well, those

characters? I read a lot of Roald Dahl, so I very much knew of Willy

Wonka, this crazy magical man who was great and dealt with candy but

also had a dark side, and you knew that if you crossed him you would be

flushed down the toilet! There is a little bit of humour. Not many

redeeming characters stick to Count Olaf. I think a dark sense of humour

is great the kids. So often I find with our own kids, who are six, with

duplicate them, talk down to them and talking baby speak, they zone

out, and when things get to be a little acerbic and ironic, and they

start to figure out what irony means, they are engaged. Lemony

Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events is an Netflix now.

This Friday, the world will mark Holocaust Memorial Day

and there will be a range of commemoration events

herself the challenge of honouring her grandmother and -

amazingly - restoring the family fortunes.

When I was a little girl, my grandmother would regale me with

stories of her wonderful life in prewar Berlin. In the 1920s, she

lived a life of luxury. She would say to me, when the ball Berlin Wall

comes down, we will be rich. Some of her family dismissed her stories

about an elegant old building and a life of luxury in Berlin as a fairy

tale, but her granddaughter never forgot. She was determined to find

out more about her grandmother's life and her own heritage. Nelly at

Herbert ran a successful company in the heart of Berlin, but when the

Nazis came to power in the 1930s, they were among tens of thousands of

JUDY MURRAY: Has people forced to flee for their

lives. Ten years later, Gina began her search. I managed to get hold of

a 1920s business directory, and in there, there was an advert. That was

the name of my grandfather. And I thought, that looks like it. Gina

believed this might be the location of the business. But the building

was in East Berlin, and she couldn't visit until the Berlin Wall came

down in 1989. We passed checkpoint Charlie, and two blocks later, we

stopped outside a huge building. It was bitterly cold, I was wearing my

red duffle coat. I marched in through the doors and a gentleman

came down and said, what do you want? I said I have come to claim my

family's building, and he laughed at me. And I pulled out of my pocket

the 1920s German business directory, and he said, oh, I think you had

better come in. The man had recognised Gina's grandfather's

surname. The building was still known locally as the Wolff building,

and authorities had been waiting to save anybody would claim it. The man

said, I have spoken to head office, and you are right. They told me they

had been waiting for this to happen, but they didn't know if anybody had

survived the war. Tell me your story. The Wolffs fled Germany in

1933. Only one family member, Gina's uncle, stayed on to protect the

family business. He said, I am German, I am staying. So what

happened? The increasingly anti-Semitic laws meant that Jewish

companies could not trade properly. In 1937, he was forced to sell it.

Fritz, the last remaining member of the Wolff family was now alone in

Berlin. He was eventually arrested and sent to Auschwitz. The legacy of

what happened to the dues during the Second World War is all around us in

Berlin. Her great uncle Fritz was killed at Auschwitz. Although she

had tracked down the building, she now had an even bigger task ahead of

her. I had to get land registry documents to prove we had actually

owned the building. And not just leased it. I was fortunate enough. I

did manage to get hold of land Registry documents to prove case.

Dean managed to prove historical ownership of the building and the

German government awarded her family ?8 million in compensation. Nellie

would have said, do not forget the Holocaust was a genocide. We did not

suffer as much as other families. I did not forget and did what I could

to put things right. Bolivia, your mother's parents were

in a similar position. Did they share any of those experiences with

you? It was not talked about. My grandfather was a famous scientist

in Germany. He left Germany quite early and took the family to

Scotland initially. He helped to smuggle a lot of Jewish people out

of Germany. He is a wonderful humanitarian. I am proud to be his

granddaughter. I did not meet him. As a teenager I was too busy. He was

an amazing human being. You were born over here, won't you? You were

born in Cambridge when off over to Australia. An incredible music

career. 50 years. This year and you have teamed up for a personal and

special album. There is one common thing that has brought you together.

It was inspired by the loss of my sister three years ago to cancer.

She had a brain tumour. I have always found music to be healing. I

asked Amy if she would help me to finish the song we started talking

about the fact there was no music for people going through grief and

loss. We asked Beth Nelson Chapman to join us. She wrote a song to

explain the loss of her husband. We we recorded some of our songs we

were known for. It is really an album of moving forward with hope

and compassion. We have just done a couple of concerts, one in Dublin

and one in Glasgow. It was incredible, the feeling from the

audience. People all have those emotions. It is quite open, isn't

it? You're in the early days of the tour. You are welcoming discussion.

We thought we would try at the first show to ask the audience if they

wanted to share any of their experiences. Hands went up all over

the audience and it was incredible. That must be quite difficult as a

performer to go through that. This is brand-new. It is the first time

we have performed together. It is an acoustic show. Best plays guitar.

Amy plays piano. It is just us and the music. It's incredibly

emotional, incredibly inspiring and moving. Yes, people have been

sharing their experiences, which is very healthy. Talking about grief.

People repress it. If it was such a new thing for you, how did it come

about? Did it take you a while to fall into the right format or did it

all just happen? It felt like a gift that came to us. One of the first

mornings we were sitting together in a kitchen and Amy received a text

from someone, the kind of text you do not want to get that a friend of

hers had lost their child. She was saying, what do we say? I do not

know what to safest B went to the piano and wrote the song in about

five minutes. That is really how it was. It was an amazing experience.

It has helped to heal us. I find myself getting really emotional when

I sing them. That is part of it. It does not go away. There is a really

positive message coming out of that. Has always been your mindset to find

something really positive in a situation? We make our choices with

our minds. We can choose to be this or that. I had breast cancer in

1992. Was I going to be positive about it and get through it? I am

very grateful that I did. Many people have been positive and not

been as lucky as I am. Being grateful for every day and living

long. That is what we have called the album. -- living on. There will

be tracks on there that will mean a lock to you. Though I not many

families who have not been affected in some way by cancer. I now

understand why you have us both on foot I just talked about the awful

things and canned Olav as a terrible person and this is like a ying and

yang situation. In a kind of world we are living in today it is nice to

have positive things which move us forward and get as thinking back to

a direction of good. As humans, we all share these emotions and

feelings. We all lose people at some time. It is really important to

share and talk to someone about it because it gets you out of your

pain. If our you hope people will get from this? I think just to show

we have been through this and we are still here. People were crying but

felt really good afterwards. It is a way of releasing it. A good cry is

very cathartic. Are you going to take this as far as you can around

the world? We have just started. We are doing a short tour in California

in Washington State in February and we will see how it goes. It has been

very well received. I have lost one sister and gained two. They are

wonderfully talented people and beautiful singers. It has been a

great experience. It is wonderful that all three of you will be

performing for us live. Berry excited about that. Have your kids

being to London with you? A couple of months ago we were on our way to

France. We stopped over so the jet lag could recover. We were on a

double-decker tour. I love it here. The people are nice and the food is

great. The pound- dollar rate is good.

Before Olivia sings for us with Amy and Beth here's an update on a story

Yes, it's either going to be a victory for common-sense

or a reason to throw something at your TV.

Last October, I met a man whose story touched a lot of heart. Philip

had been keeping geese on this plot of land in Ilkley in West Yorkshire

for 79 years. Who is this? Then it looked like red tape would bring

this lifelong passion to an end for the one person complained. No one

knew who it was but it resulted in the council issuing fillip with a

noise abatement order. They went to court to fight it. Lose and the

geese would have to go. He is frightened of losing his pets. If

you did not have that he would not have the excuse to do the daily

exercise. That would be really detrimental to his health. Three

months on and the court has made up its mind. I have come back to meet

Philip to find out what the verdict was. Hi, Philip. What was the

outcome? It was very good. The abatement has been dropped. I am

very pleased with the result. That is brilliant news. You happy? The

geese have been here for so long, nearly 80 years. They did not

believe the noise had increased significantly over this period of

time. What has that like for you? I am glad it is over. Neighbours

rallied round Philip at the time was that she is also happy. Absolutely

delighted. We all are. A lovely perk. Made me feel very happy about

it. Isn't it nice having nice neighbours? Yes, it is fantastic. In

a way, it has brought us all closer together. Common sense prevails.

Thank goodness. Thanks to Neil and

Olivia for joining us. Lemony Snicket's A Series

of Unfortunate Events And Olivia's album

Liv On is out now. But we leave you now

with Olivia Newton-John, Beth Neilson Chapman and Amy Sky,

singing Stone in My Pocket. # There's a stone in my pocket

that bears your name # There are tears that will not

stop once they start # In the stone

in the pocket of my heart # In a world here

without you every day # I'm telling everybody that

I'm OK # With the weight

of an anchor in the dark # Like

a stone in the pocket of my heart # Looks like this

pain is here to stay # I can't lose it,

I didn't choose it # Well meaning people

they try to help me # There's a stone in my pocket

that bears your name # There are tears that will not

stop once they start # In the stone

in the pocket of my heart # There's a tear in my

jacket, a nail in my shoe # Got a hole in my soul

you could drive a truck through # It's a new kind of normal

in an old shade of blue # I'm a mess but I guess

it's the best I can do # With a stone in my pocket

that bears your name # I walk around dragging

this ball and chain # There are tears that will not

stop once they start # In the stone in

the pocket of my heart # There's a stone in my pocket

that bears your name # I walk around dragging

this ball and chain # There are tears that will not

stop once they start # In the stone in

the pocket of my heart # Baby, like it or not,

gotta roll with the rock # It's a stone in the

pocket of my heart.#