25/04/2012 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones And Matt Baker.

guest tonight is Matt's TV wife at the weekend. First she froliced

with Hugh Dennis in the Great British Countryside. Then she had a

consumer affair with Nick Knowles on That's Britain. To top it all

off, she's now presenting a new show called Planet Earth Live, with

Richard Hammond off of Top Gear. make it worse, she's only gone and

brought him here tonight, it's Julia Bradbury and Richard Hammond!

APPLAUSE Yes you minx. Stay apart boys. I

love you both equally. We thought swords would sort it out. You are

going to look after her, aren't you? I promise. He always looked

after me. Helps me over fences and everything. He's very good. I was

hoping you'd help me over fences. Yeah, nay way. We've all heard

large parts of the UK are currently experiencing a drought. Now hi to

put on wellies this morning because of the heavy drought we've been

having. The drought ruined the washing I put out last night.

interesting drought times. There was drought running off all my

roofs and guttering. A lot of drought pouring everywhere. I had

to dot welly thing. That deep in drought I was. Up to here in

drought. We want to see how the drought is affecting you at home.

Send us in your best pictures. want to see you braving the drought

with your Macintosh on, under your drought umbrella jumping in the

biggest drought puddles you can find. We'll show our favourites,

without a drought! Get it? We will take a more serious look at the

issue later on with Matt Allwright. And we'll talk to a man who usually

does this. But he's planning to jump to earth from space. I cannot

believe that. But yeah, we're talking to the man whose 1960

record that he plans to break. A great show. First, the Queen braved

the drought today to re-open the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, after it

was ravaged by fire in 2007. In its heyday it was the fastest vessel on

the seas. It's slowly returned to its former glory. The remains of a

less well known ship were return totd UK after almost 350 years

abroad. Larry Lamb set sale for The One Show to find out more.

It's a bright, sunny afternoon and a stealthy foreign warship makes

its way up the Thames. The Holland is the newest and most advanced

ship in the royal Netherlands navy. On board, a precious cargo,

something the Dutch stole from us a long time ago. It's a relic from a

British warship and the story of how the Dutch came to own it is one

of the darkest episodes of royal naval history. Launched in 1655 and

originally called the naysby, the HMS Royal Charles bore Charles back

to England from Holland for the restoration. But in 1667, the Dutch

launched the surprise raid on the river Medway in Kent, destroying

several ships and capturing the royal. Taken back to Holland, the

royal Charles was broken up for scrap in 1673 with only the coat of

arms from its stern being retained as a trophy. It has been held in

Amsterdam's museum ever since. But now what remains of the royal

Charles is finally being returned to Britain after 345 years as part

of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations. Although the return is only going

to be temporary. It's the commander's job to make sure the

precious cargo arrives safely in British waters. The stone carving

of the Royal Charles is very honour to have on board. How do you think

your naval forebearers would feel about you returning the coat of

arms to Britain? I think they're laughing in heaven. We've seen a

lot of medals, but a lot of friendship between the Anglo-and

Dutch fleets, especially nowadays. We have close cooperation with the

Royal Navy. Now this extraordinary coat of arms will be handed over

into the care of the National Maritime Museum with all the pomp

and ceremony of a royal occasion. In Holland you have to imagine that

this story is in every school book. It celebrates, sorry to say that,

the power of Dutch marine, in the 17th century. It's rather

interesting when in Britain, it was known as the Medway raid, when in

fact if they had won, it would probably been called the battle of

Medway. We call it the victory of the Medway. I've had to get up at

the crack of dawn to be amongst the first people in Britain to see the

carvings on British soil in over 345 years. You get so worried

they're going to drop it. It's all a bit nervewracking. Watching,

looking, officials from the museum here.

Isn't it just a bit strange to have this symbol of one of the navy's

greatest disasters used as part of the celebrations for the Diamond

Jubilee? This is a great Dutch victory and a huge important trophy

for the Dutch. They're lending it in this Diamond Jubilee shows

extreme significance. Have you had any thoughts on perhaps not letting

it go back? That's a delicious idea, but I think that better be taken up

by authorities higher than me for that.

The final task is to painstakingly put the two parts of the carving

together, where one slip could cause irrepairable damage. Here it

is, reassembled safe and sound. The detail in the carving is absolutely

extraordinary. But for me, I can't help feeling that it's a reminder

of what was perhaps the greatest disaster in our navy's history. But

then I suppose to have it back on English soil, even if it is only

temporaryily is rather poignant. Thanks Larry. Think we should hang

onto that? Bless them for lending it to us, but it was ours to begin

with. A very good point. Just make a model of it and send that back,

and we'll keep that one. Or say that we never received?. Got lost

in the post. If they're surprised at how light it is because it's

fibreglass, just say it was when we got it. It looks amazing, this

Planet Earth Live. We've seen the trails with you on. It's very, very

exciting. It's ambitious, isn't it. It suddenly seems right now very

ambitious. When do you set off to do this? I've been out already to

Mexico to make friends and meet the grey whales, the wonderful grey

whales. I've been in Monterray with the sea otters and a mini trip to

He's introducing us to the black bears. I'm essentially going to

spend the month in the north woods of Minnesota, every day interacting

and tracking the bears. So Planet Earth Live goes live from May 6,

what is it then? You two aren't together at all, are you? This is

it. Yeah, it's a short-term thing, just so you know. It's kind of, you

know, this could never have been done before. Technologically it

wasn't possible to establish live links around the world. If I say

it's a global snapshot, that sounds like a buzz word. It's a global

live wildlife show. We'll be talking to one another. I'll be

catching wup what's going on with the elephants and lions with

Richard in Africa. He'll catch up with what I'm doing in America.

There we go, look. That's lovely. Nice hair Richard. The point is you

will know that at any given time what you're seeing, because it's

live, that's happening. From the living room you know right now that

pride of lions is being taken over, or the cubs that have run away, the

bears are coming out of hibernation. That's happening now. It's a unique

situation that's happening as I watch. How do you know the animals

will turn up on time? You don't. You can't book them. Where will you

be Richard? In Kenya in Masai Mara watching the lions, there's the

marsh pride amongst others and drifting north to watch the

elephants. Both tremendously social animals with complicated

hierarchies. They've been on telly before. Yes the marsh lions. Notch,

I'm desperate to meet. He's a fearsome creatures. He's legendary.

They reckon he's fathered more lion cubs than any other lion in living

memory in the Masai Mara. At the moment he dominates three or four

prides and drifts about the place with four henchmen, doing what he

likes, really. He's a male lion, they're a bit lazy really. They're

conserving energy. There's no food. They are probably thinking, if I

catch thwart hog, will it contain the energy I will expend catching

it. They're wait fogt big one. wildebeest arrive in the next month.

This is the key time, watching during this month. All of the

animals, the young, are fighting for life. This is their fight for

survival over the next few weeks. We're watching them around the

world. When you're seeing fluffy bear cubs or fluffy elephants,

that's great. But it's what perils they are facing. These are the guys

that I've already had an encounter with one of the adult female black

bears. They're incredible animals. They're very sociable. They're

coming out of hibernation. The cubs are learning to climb for the first

time. They've come out of the den. They're foraging for food for the

first time. These are dangerous weeks for the cubs. This is when

things can go very wrong for them. They're not the only animals that

you've had a close encounter with. Here you are with a grey whale.

Here you are with a grey whale. Gorgeous. Hello, beautiful creature,

hello. I can't think of another instant in the wild, where an adult

mother would encourage her young to go towards humans. It just wouldn't

happen. You wouldn't find it with bears. And so strange and wonderful.

They're going to want to be on They're going to want to be on

telly. That is a phenomenon. Oh, is it, I was exactly where you were

about a week later, filming for something else, hoping to see grey

whales and in the a thing. It was my mothering natural world

instincts. They just came for me. Did you do your special whale call?

Yes, I did. There it is. It worked. Planet Earth Live begins on Sunday

May 6 on BBC One at 7.50pm. Richard, if you bump into an elephant that

seems to have a problem with its lower lumbar region, fear not.

Watch this, because it may help you help the elephant.

Here at west Midlands safari park when an animal suffers from aches

and pains it might be given an unusual form of treatment, off the

yol think, currently used as an alternative therapy for us, it

involves the manipulation of muscles and joibts. Some are except

-- sceptical. Today I'm meeting a man pushing the limits with this

therapy with rather large patients. Tony is an osteopath. He's worked

with over 300 different animal species and is now helping the

elephants of West Midlands safari park. I'm a about the of a sceptic

myself. I asked Tony to explain how it works with animals. It's quite a

softly, soft lay proch, how is that different from doing physiotherapy

for example? I can really only talk from the osteopathic point of view.

We're looking at if you have a problem with a joint or set of

muscles, you want to see what the effect is to the whole body. It's a

holistic approach? Very much so. It's the visual assessment first.

Feeling what's going on, and then straight into the treatment. You're

going to show how that works? we'll show you how to do that and

Five is a perfectly healthy female but is going to act as a model

while Tony demonstrates his technique for animals with mobility

issues. Initially, you don't rub your hands over the skin, but by

applying pressure and feeling under, you can feel the subcutaneous

structure and the muscles under the skin. Gently press in. That's

amazing. Presumably the skin is so thick, how can you feel is muscle

underneath? As soon as you take up the slack. She's shifting her

weight and I can feel the muscle changing. Managing one sets of

muscles affects the entire body. Even by working on a muscle here,

you are keying straight into the central nervous system of thisage

in a -- of this animal in a non- invasive way. This elephant lost

her parents to poach ers in South Africa. Prematurely weaned, she

developed problems with her joints. Every two weeks she steps inside to

receive her treatment. Teaming up with vet Chris Collis, Tony uses

the most unlikely of diagnostic tools. Tell me what you are doing

with the thermal imaging camera? were looking at the internals of

the el fan. When the muscles tighten up, the blood vessels shut

down and it goes cold. This targeted approach has been used

previously by Tony and Chris to treat horses and there is

increasing evidence that it works on elephants. The hotter areas tell

you there is more blood flow here than the greens and blues.

Basically these cold areas are telling us that the muscles aren't

doing us, that there is reduced movement through these parts, so I

know she is overusing the front legs and not using the back

properly. The thermal images show that she has a problem with her

back legs. Tony applies his skills to this area, but it is not a quick

fix. She's had many sessions and there are many more to come.

Tabo has got much better since Tony has been working on her. She's a

lot freer in her joints now. She moves better and will have less

problems in the future. It is easy to be sceptical about new ideas and

treatments, but the keepers here have seen real positive changes in

her temperament and her movement, so anything that can help an animal

in my mind is worth investigating further. There we go, Richard, a

little nugget for you. I will take that with me. Elephants' emotions

are complicated. So it is worth looking at. Stay away. They are

wild. We are joined by Felix Baumgartner and Colonel Joe

Kittinger. Felix is planning to be the first person to jump from

120,000 feet. This is unbelievable. We can see there you are trying to

skydive from space to land on Earth. For anybody who hasn't heard about

this, it is mind-blowing. How is this going to happen? I'm going to

put on my spacesuit. I'm sitting in a capsule like on the screen.

That's hanging underneath a helium balloon. It takes off and then it

takes about three hours to level off. I'm at 120 ,000 feet. Then I

depressurise that capsule. I try to climb out. I'm standing on that

step and I take off. Within the first 25 seconds I'm accelerating

so fast I'm breaking the speed of sound. Will you be the first

parachutist to break the speed of sound. What effect will that have

on your body? That's biggest unknown. We've been testing a lot

on the ground. Simulating a lot. But what happens to a human when he

breaks the speed of sound, nobody can tell. Lots of people at home

will be thinking, "Why?" That was on my mind. My mom was asking the

same question. I'm a competitive person and I always like to fly.

That's why I started skydiving. When you spend so much time doing a

sport, my childhood hero is the one who has been there and done it.

Your record is 102,000 feet. What does it feel like on your body when

you are at that height and hurtling towards the Earth? I only went at

613 miles per hour. Feel licks be going 700 something miles per hour.

I did not go supersonic. I reached terminal velocity at 90,000 feet.

From then on you slow down but still have terminal velocity all

the way down through the atmosphere. And your glove came off didn't it?

No, it didn't work. My hand swelled up to twice its normal size and I

couldn't use it. It was just a small problem I had. Minor space

issue! Isn't it right that half the people who've attempted this

haven't been successful? What are the big risks for Felix, would you

say, Joe? Feel isics is the ideal person to do the job. He has a goal.

He is a professional athlete, a great skydiver and he's dreamed

about doing it for a long time. I'm delighted to be a part of the

project. We have a great sponsor, a great team. Our job is to get him

up there and down safely. That moment when you open that door

and stand out and look down to Earth, that is going to be

something isn't it? That was an amazing moment. I was climbing out.

I only had ten seconds to stay there, as I only have ten minutes

of oxygen. My botle is only providing ten minutes of Jen, so I

had to hurry. I could see the curvature of the Earth. The sky was

black. But it is the ultimate free- fall and I enjoyed it all the way

down. I feel sorry for your mother. No doubt she will be feeling sick.

Good luck. It is happening in the summer but there's a window

weather-wise? Between July and August, depending on the wind. It

will be a interesting summer. hope you are successful. What's

next for you? I think I'm going to retire after this. Oh! You cannot

top that. I'm sure. We'll keep everything crossed for you and

hopefully in a few years you will be sat where Joe is. Will you be

forgiven for forgetting that there's a drought on with all the

rain we've been getting. But being careful about how much water we use

has never been more important. That's why The One Show sunflowers

will only be watered by hand for the duration of the ban. Don't

water Chris's, as that one's big enough already. Mine looks pathetic.

Anyway, and don't show that picture. That's the most unflattering

picture ever. But what exactly does the hosepipe ban mean for us? Lucy

Siegle has been helping One Show viewers in Swindon to find out.

You've only got to look at the water levels in our reservoir to

see that in England we've got a bit of a problem. 20 million people are

living with water restrictions, and even if it rains all spring it

won't be enough to get them lifted. So time for the One Show to get on

the road. As is tradition, whenever I do a film about droughts it

begins to rain. Nevertheless we wanted the find out exactly what

these restrictions mean and answer some of your questions about what's

allowed and what isn't. Am I still allowed to water my garden or allot

You can use a watering can or a bucket but you cannot use a hose.

And you are also not allowed to use a sprinkler. They use as much water

in just one hour as the average family of four uses in an entire

day. Here in Swindon we are in one of

the water restriction areas, so am I allowed to wash my car? Yes,

remember that it is just the hosepipe that's banned. If you are

using water from a bucket you can legally use as much water as you

want, but as water is in short supply at the moment it would be

good to use as little as possible. If I take Meg out for a walk in

this weather, am I allowed to hose her down before she goes back in

the house? This one depends on where you live. If you are with

South East, southern, Sutton and east Surrey, south-east or central,

then fine. In the Angela and Thames Water regions you can only use a

hosepipe for health and safety reasons. I'm afraid mud isn't one

of those. So for a muddy Meg or Harvey it is back to the bucket or

sponge. Sit true a shower uses less water than a bath.? There is only

one way to find out? Let's start the shower and see if it gives us

enough water to fill a bath. Let's give it five minutes.

That doesn't look very deep did. I would want more water in a bath. So

in this case, an after shower uses less water than a bath. However,

fit was a power shower, that would be a different story.

Don't worry, we are not going to waste the water. Will it the garden

no end of good. I'm not sure about the ducks though. With regard to

the drought, why are fountains running and sports pitches still

being watered? Public fountains are only allowed to run on recycled

water. But some football rugby, cricket and golf courses have an

exemption and are allowed to carry on watering the grass using a

hosepipe. But for the moment for 20 million of us at least, come rain

or shine, it is time to pack away those hosepipes. Thank you Lucy.

Lucy has gone to Peru, so Matt Allwright is with us tonight. Lots

of people will be sitting at home thinking, it is pouring outside,

how long can this hosepipe ban go on for? The hosepipe ban could be

going on indefinitely. They've not put an end on that, but what we are

looking forward to now is next winter. That's the crucial bit. If

we have another dry winter, next winter, we could be in trouble. We

need to get good winter rain. There's a difference, apparently,

between winter and summer rain. We need winter rain. In the

consistency of it? No, it is all water. It is not like winter rain

is drier or wetter than summer rain. It is about what permeates down.

Winter rain doesn't evaporate but goes into the ground water. The

reservoirs and the farmers and the rivers and gardens are benefiting

from the gallons we are seeing outside. We've got a graphic here

that shows how much rain we have had this year in comparison to

previous years. It is almost half. If we look, average rainfall for

the south of England in 2010-11 we've had two bad years one after

the other. Before it was followed bay good year. That's why we are in

trouble now. You can see from the parts of Britain that are affected

by the hosepipe ban, they are in red. At the moment it does look

like a north-west south-east divide. The red is the seven water areas

where there's a ban. The only one which isn't sure is Cambridge Water.

She say there's a medium risk where they might have to impose a

restriction. People say it always rains in Wales, but who is laughing

now? Has anybody been prosecuted for

using a hosepipe? There is one anecdotal case in the Thames Water

region of one gentleman caught bay police officer use hosepipe. It was

because he gave the officer some lip that he received a prosecution.

It is the only one. Prosecutions are not what water companies wants.

They cost money. They take time. And they say that the advice they

are giving out is working. People are being responsible off their own

what and work hard to bring down the amount they use. It will be

tricky for the people with a lot of cars. No, because you are allowed

buckets. I put them in one by one bath them. You've got 15 cars?

Something like that. Mostly old and broken. And muddy. Talking of

washing things. We asked for your drought pictures. This is Cooper

aged two, washing his wellies outside, Bromley. This is Philip

from Kent. This is me jumping in from Kent. This is me jumping in

15cms of bone-dry water. Can I just say, the lady that sent this this

is incredibly brave, but when you read the back it is her husband, my

lovely wife Louise wearing her drought attire. She will be so

pleased! And this is Poppy, who usually only gets to pad until the

local stream. Is that a pudle? That's from David in Derbyshire.

Talking of Wipe Out and things, it's the last series of Total

Wipeout. How can that be, because people love it! It is because we

knew it had a shelf life. It has to knew it had a shelf life. It has to

end while it is still fresh. Matt and I have been asked to do it and

we've always said, no way! I salute everyone who did it because it is

terrifying. Good luck with everything.