25/01/2018 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

The One Show with Matt Baker.

And Angela Scanlon.

For one night we have created a

public footpath.

I think we can see

our guest tonight. She's about to

explore some of the best walks in

Britain.

You cannot keep her away from a

path. Is it cold out?

It's very

nippy out there. That is why I have

my cosy hat on.

Do you want a cup of

tea? Something else in there.

A nice

soggy sandwich.

A walk is not the

same... Do you want a bite of this?

Can you sort my hair out for me? It

has something floating in the top as

well.

It is extra.

Shall I have a

bite and then I can't talk to you at

all?

There's nothing better than a

cuppa and a battered sandwich on a

long walk.

If I am filming a walk, I

ask where I am staying, can you make

me a bacon sandwich, on brown, cut

off the fat, lots of ketchup. I am

not good in the mornings at all. So

I then wait, stash it in my back

pack. 11am, when I have been filming

for a while and the hunger comes on,

that is it - it is when I get my

cold crispy bacon sandwich out and I

love it.

We will meet a lot of

walkers tonight.

A lovely walkway. I

am sorry I deviated off the path. I

don't encourage people to do that

ever.

It gets more challenging

around the news room. A fascinating

series which uncovers the series of

all the people who have lived in the

same house in Liverpool.

We want to

know if you have discovered anything

in your house which gives you a clue

as to who the previous occupants

were.

Maybe you found something

written behind the wallpaper, an

object in an old cupboard, something

stuffed under the floorboards.

The

weirder, the better. Take a picture,

send it to the usual address and we

will show as many as we can later

on.

I am talking about Scafell Pike

where last week walk a walker had to

get rescued after injuring himself.

He spent two nights in subzero

temperatures.

The rescue team are calling for

controversial changes to stop people

getting into difficulty in the first

place.

place.

The Lake District sees 16

million visitors a year. Many drawn

to walking the 150 peaks. For the

unprepared this could be a death

trap.

trap. When a ramble goeses wrong

local Search and Rescue are called

out. Last year they responded to 521

incidents, they say it is stretching

them to breaking point.

them to breaking point. The rescue

mountain team carrying out practise

exercises once a Monday. I am making

-- once a month. I am walking up

Scafell Pike. Richard, hi. Nice to

meet you.

Good morning. I have a

test for you. You have your map and

your compass. Let's walk over here

and see how you cope.

Richard's

challenging me to find my way to the

mountain top. It is not always clear

which way to turn.

You have a

choice. You can go right across the

footbridge. Left, up stream, or

follow the wall up the mountain.

Your choice?

I am thinking I will

take the lowest path because that

won't be too energetic. It's asking

me to go to the right. It is

confusing because there is a path

going straight up. That seems to be

the easiest way.

You can follow a

wall. It is not the easiest route or

the right route. Turning right is

correct, Kevin. That is the way to

go.

So the easiest path will not

necessarily be the right path.

That

is the difficulty. Up the mountain

it gets more and more complicated.

What are the consequences if you

choose the wrong path?

Down here not

really a problem. Higher up the

mountain much bigger consequences.

Possibly fatal if you get it wrong.

Tragicall 2017 saw the death of 17

walks on the lake's mountains. Many

who make these climbs are not

equipped, whatever the weather. That

is why Richard is calling for safe

routes to be made clearer.

It is

great that people coming to the Lake

District to enjoy the scenery.

District to enjoy the scenery. Many

who have not gone up mountains

before. Improving the paths, getting

some improved signage for awareness

and that will be a tremendous help

to reduce the number of call-outs.

We are not talking about big tall

sign posts pointing, four hours to

the summit that way - we are talking

very discrete. Prominent, saying,

safely go that way and safely that

way.

But that would require investment by

the National Parks management.

Including the lake's largest

landowner, the National Trust.

We

invest money and time every year in

the paths of Scafell Pike. Those are

being maintained and cared for. This

isn't the place for signs on the

mountains. It gives that false sense

of security that you are in a more

managed environment. These are not

very managed environments. Signs at

the bottom of the valley to help

people understand the route that

they need to talk, encouraging

people to be well prepared. Those

are the best approaches.

The Lake District's 12 search and

rescue teams are staffed by

volunteers.

Mountain rescue.

Last year, the team

had a record number of call-outs and

she fears they'll become overwhelmed

if the National Trust don't support

their calls for change.

A lot of

team members have said that they

just can't sustain the level of

commitment. They have families, they

have jobs. It is the intensity and

the frequency that's causing the

problem. It is not so much the

physical effort, it is the

psychological impact, the continuous

stress, because it is stressful.

We're not looking for sympathy. But

we have a system that's at breaking

poin and we cannot sustain it. And

the results of that could be

tragedy.

For any viewers out there

who would like to go walking, what

advice would you give them to reduce

these call-outs?

Anybody who likes

walking, keep walking. Keep going on

the mountains, because that's what

we do. We love the mountains, that's

why we go out. But just think about

the volunteers across England and

Wales and Scotland, who are all

volunteers, unpaid, have got lives

outside mountain rescue that can be

disrupted and it can be avoided just

with that little thought about

preparation, equipment and knowing

how to use it.

It is that point, just that little

bit of extra thought and a little

bit of planning. It doesn't half

help, that is for sure.

Where do you

stand on it, Julia?

Obviously

signage is important, but there is a

balance to be struck between the

natural environment. You cannot have

neon signs flashing up there. I

mean, the last contributor in the

film made that point. People really

underestimate walking and they have

to take care. You've got to know

where you are going. You should have

a map. You video got to tell people.

The -- you have got to tell people.

People who go out in a T-shirt,

didn't plan their route and

something, they just lost their way.

Hiking is trendy.

I thought you can

have a similar system as skiing, so

with the black runs and the blue

runs, so people know what they are

letting themselves in for and how

challenging it would be. You are off

again, Julia. Two-and-a-half hours

this time on Tuesday night, ITV,

this is Britain's Favourite Walks,

top 100.

Who would have thought you

could have a whole night of prime

time television to do with walking.

It is the top 100, as voted for by

the public. We had a survey. We were

helped by friends from National

Trust from, the Ordnance Survey.

8,000 people took part. They voted

and said, these are the walks we

like and these are the reasons why.

What makes a good walk then?

Everybody has a different reason.

For me, I like a summit. I like

something to get to the top of. You

feel like you have achieved

something and you have got the view

at the end of it. That being said, I

love a woodland walk. Walking

through wood lands and the canopy of

the trees and the rivers... We all

love different things. But mostly we

like somewhere we are familiar with.

It will be our childhoods. You'll

have somewhere back in Ireland where

you walked when you were a little

one. It brings back a memory for you

and stirs a memory. A lot of the

people on this night, they are just

sharing their lovely stories. There

are some heart warming stories. Some

funny stories. There are dogs. You

make it. Everything that happens.

The thing about walking, it is the

great leveller. You can be a banker,

you can be a Baker, you can be a

matchstick maker. But you know...

Or

all three!

Or all three. But when

you are standing there, looking at

the view together you are all the

same.

Talking of standing there and

looking at a view, you have a

beautiful one on the Bronte Way.

Let's have a look.

Look at that!

This is the moment...

It all opens

out.

It ex-and and you suck in the

landscape.

And this is what inspires the Bronte

sisters.

Very much so. You feel at

this point you are walking in their

footsteps.

You really do.

That is such a lovely walk.

Were

there any surprises on there?

People

will not be surprised by obviously

the big ones that have made it on to

the list. Iedly the winner will

surprise some people. I -- I think

the winner will surprise some

people.

You have Snowdonia, you have

the Scottish Highlands.

All the

usual stars of the land scape you

would expect to be there are there.

There are some lovely canal walks,

urban and city walks in the mix.

Most of us don't live in the

countryside. 80% of the population

lives in an urban environment.

For

those who don't want to sit and

watch it, they want to do these

walks - where is all the information

of where they are?

Information on

the outdoor guide, which will be

live on 30th January and people can

go to the outdoor guide. They can

download the routes and see what

that top 100 are. OS have been

helpful and provided us with the

maps. There is a lot of information.

When that night is over and we are

all crying, don't worry, there is

back-up information for you there.

Lots of different walkers, different

types of walkers.

We have Nordic

walkers. Nordic walking of course is

very popular. The poles are really

helpful for people. Very good for

ladies because it is good for s

osteoporsis and good for upper

strength building.

Where are you

from?

Midlands. Nordic walking UK.

It is for everybody. We have free

tasters, come and have a go.

Do you

provide sandwiches, that is what I

want to know?

We make sure we do

some stock.

Give us your finest

Nordic walk away. Thanks for coming

in. All the very best. We think

behind it, it is not just for

walkers. It is also for four-legged

friends, too.

It is.

Max and Paddy.

On the night they go along... This

is Max and Paddy. One has a

birthday?

It is Paddy's first

birthday yesterday.

How do you

feature in the programme?

Snoo

We

walk one of the most iconic hills in

the Keswick area.

They are stars,

your dogs?

They are known nationally

or internationally.

I think their

ears should have their own instagram

pages.

Have you seen the clip? Here

we go. Hope you enjoy it at home.

Magic! Thank you so much for coming

in. Enjoy the rest of your walk.

Thank you.

They just need goggles, don't they?

You can fine out which walk takes

number one spot on Tuesday. Not the

one you would expect.

For those who

don't know it is Burns Night. It is

haggis for tea for a lot of people

across the country as we celebrate

Scotland's national bard and all his

poetry.

Some news about the great man which

may surprise some of you.

Few poets have captured our hearts

like Robert Burns.

I can hardly remember a time when

Burns was not a part of my literary

life. My family celebrates Burns

night annually. On more than one

occasion I raise a toast to my

fellow lassies. New research here

carried out at Glasgow university

could be about to change how we view

his work. A professor has examined

the origins of his poems and songs.

He's come to some surprising

conclusions.

Over the years there has been a

tendency to a tribute songs to Burns

he did not necessarily right.

The professor wants to take his name

or 40 poems and songs such as

favourites Auld Lang Syne and my

love is like A Red Red Rose.

A Red

Red Rose has some Burns input but

not very much but you can piece a

lot together from different

18th-century and 17th-century song

books.

The line, though it worth

10,000 mile, seems to have been

lifted from a poem written 77 years

earlier and this could be traced to

a song around for two decades and

the famous opening line may not have

been entirely Burns' own work.

Those

that you think of a signature line

or not by Burns.

How should we look

at him, plagiarist?

No, he was a

great romantic editor and we have

tried to make the editor into an

author since his death, to make him

a voice of the folk.

This is quite a

claim, because if the professor is

correct Robert Burns did not write

some of his most famous songs, he

merely edited them. What do local in

his hometown thing?

Disappointed

because they are some of his special

ones.

I prefer to live with things

as they are now, never mind

research.

People delight in making

sensational stories. People say the

same about Shakespeare, maybe

someone else had a hand in writing

things.

There is one local with a

closer tie to Burns the most. Hello,

I'm Natasha, lovely to meet you.

Tell us, what is your connection to

Robert Burns?

He was my great great

great great grandfather.

The

professor at Glasgow University

contests that Robert Burns' name

should be taken off red red rose.

How do you feel about that?

I feel

robbed. I think everybody will feel

robbed. It is one we associate most

with him and the way he was. I think

they should get a life and stop

spoiling it for the rest of us.

Does

it really matter if Burns wrote

these poems? Perhaps not. Robert

Burns was the people'spoet. He may

not have written every single word

have some of his celebrated works,

but what he did was bring together

the stories of the people

around him and record them for the

ages and in that spirit, this is the

recital of A Red Red Rose, performed

by the people of his hometown

especially for the One Show.

O my Luve's like a red,

red rose

That's newly sprung in June.

O my Luve's

like the melodie

That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou,

my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I.

And I will luve thee still,

my dear,

Till a' the seas gang dry.

David Olusoga joins us. Are we at

risk of losing the romance of

history by digging too deep and

finding truths we do not want to

know?

It is because it is so great

it has been subject to analysis.

Obscure writers do not get this. I

am cynical. He cut-and-paste as we

said today, all great artists take

bits from here and there and it is

how you put it together and I will

continue to see Burns as a genius.

They will be applauding you in

Scotland. Are you a fan?

Yes. My

partial fancy, nobody could resist

my Nancy.

We have been fascinated by

your latest series A House Through

Time which charts the history of a

house in Liverpool, 62 Falkner St.

And all the stories of people who

live there and you have uncovered

incredible stories but the house

itself, why was that selected?

Researchers looked at a lot of

houses and we wanted somewhere where

a lot of people came through. Not a

surprise we ended up in Liverpool. I

do not think any city has

experienced the roller-coaster of

national fortunes, the boom and

bust, as Liverpool, one of the

richest places in the 1870s and one

of the poorest in the 1970s and the

house reflects the roller-coaster

fortunes.

You have uncovered

extraordinary stories. Tell us about

them.

Who are these? This is a man

ridiculously I have come to dislike,

even though

even though he did a century before

I was born. Wilfred Steele, a cotton

broker, not a nice guy, and I found

myself in the ridiculous situation

of hating someone I did not meet.

The documents do not paint a nice

picture, he was involved in the

cotton trade, slave produced cotton,

and the treatment of his family.

1935, we move onto something

happier. This is a nice story.

Again

you can see how much it meant. A

wonderful story, a couple, the

Duffys, who had nothing, born in

poverty, they rise up and find each

other. It is a beautiful,

heart-warming story and what is

powerful, reading about their life

and love, being in the place it

happened. I have never had that

before, being in the place amplifies

the emotional impact.

Tonight the

episode takes you into the swinging

60s and this is you talking to June,

about when she was a life model in

an art class for a famous neighbour.

The door burst open and the arrival

of John Lennon. He said, my name is

John Lennon, I have enrolled to do a

fine art degree and I will be

drawing you, is that all right? I

said, that is all right, get an

easel and chair, sit down. He was

very entertaining. He used a place

like a big cocktail party.

LAUGHTER.

June is the star of the show. She is

amazing. Her memories go back to

this time when Liverpool was the

coolest place in the world. The

bottom of Falkner Street, it was the

art college and John Lennon live

their for while. It was rundown of

the 60s but I would have liked to

have been there.

And who might have

slept in the bed before you arrived.

The deeds will tell you if you're

lucky but there are directories, the

normal records in ancestry research.

It is hard work, but if you are

curious, yes.

We will get the

researchers from your show involved!

Shortly we'll be showing some

of the things you've

discovered in your house,

left by previous occupants.

First, George McGavin on why spiders

like to make their homes in a place

that's pretty unlikely to appeal

to anyone else.

Arachnophobia, chill out, not a

spider inside.

The chances are you

may have noticed the spider's Web on

the wing mirror and brushed it off

without a thought. The outside of

the car might seem a perilous place

for a spider to make its home but it

is not as daft as it sounds. Peter

Smithers from the British rack the

logical society thinks the

hitchhikers might be onto something.

What is it about spiders and wing

mirrors?

It is ideal architecture

for building webs. The wing mirror

is in the right place at the side of

the car and said the spider can make

a web easily and the space behind

the wing mirror gives it a retreat,

out of the weather and away from

predators.

The spiders might have

found a safe refuge inside the wing

mirror but the web must take a

battering from the elements. We have

come to a wind tunnel to find out

how strong they are. When you are

driving, you do not appreciate how

exposed the outside of a car is so I

am going to see what wind speeds I

can take.

can take. We are using a slow motion

camera to capture the test in minute

detail. As the wind blasts faster,

it becomes increasingly hard to

breathe normally. This is now 70

mph. That is the maximum speed you

can do on a British motorway, and it

is alarmingly strong. I would not

want to be a spider in this. OK,

enough with the wind already. Bah a

few of my own silky locks, I am in

one peace but how would a wing

mirror web cope in the same

conditions? Earlier we have picked

one up from a scrap yard, complete

with door. Let's get it into the

wind tunnel. We can see how it

fares. Time to fire up the fans.

First, we will simulate driving at

30 mph. At this speed, the web

hardly moves. So far we have had a

gentle country drive in town. Now we

need to go on the open road. At 50

mph the web feels the strain and

this is where the unique properties

of spider silk comes into play.

Scaffolding Fred holds it into place

where more flexible ones are used

for the spiral, which makes it able

to stretch many times its length. In

slow motion, it is clear the web

escapes the full force of the wind,

while the spider is safely sheltered

behind the mirror, like us

sheltering from the storm in a

house. It looks as if it is more

than capable of surviving 50 mph.

But will it survive a spell on the

motorway? OK, here we go. That is 70

mph. Not broken, it is still

surviving.

There it goes.

It is

breaking up. What is amazing, even

at 70 mph, the main framework of the

web is still intact. Meaning all the

spider needs to do is to repair the

spiral in the middle and she is up

and running again. Thanks to the

exceptional qualities of their silk

and a great hiding place, these

hitchhikers can survive in one of

the most inhospitable places for any

wildlife, the open road.

You will never look at one of those

cobwebs in the same way. Thanks for

photos of the lovely things you have

found in houses you have moved into.

Margot found this when the roof was

replaced.

Isn't he lovely?

I am not

sure you will say this is lovely.

Jeff found dentures in a Tupperware

container when he moved house.

Ian

found these glasses under the

floorboards while renovating their

home.

Lucy Li from Flintshire found

this canopy of a World War II

fighter plane complete with bullet

holes in the garden.

holes in the garden. We have had all

sorts of things walking through the

One Show studio but tonight we have

a first. A llama and alpaca. We do

not want to applaud because they do

not like it.

Llama trekking and

walking is popular and it makes an

appearance in Britain's Favourite

Walks. You do not climb on it, you

walk with the llama and it is the

comfort, the soothing experience.

Originating in the Andes. Where do

you walk with them?

We have a farm

in East Sussex.

Get yourself down

there.

there.

Goodluck Jonathan Britain's

Favourite Walks which kicks off on

Tuesday night at 7:30pm on ITV and A

House Through Time concludes tonight

on at 9pm.

And Alex will be here

with Rob Beckett and Ade