:00:21. > :00:27.Hello and welcome to The One Show at the Edinburgh Festivals with Alex
:00:28. > :00:31.Jones. And joining me in his hometown is a man who knows how to
:00:32. > :00:36.write and deliver a funny line, it is Jack Docherty. Nice to have you
:00:37. > :00:42.with me. How are you feeling ahead of your first One Show? I'm
:00:43. > :00:47.absolutely fine, not nervous at all! If it was live I might be nervous!
:00:48. > :00:52.But knowing that I can swear and it doesn't matter... You might want to
:00:53. > :00:58.tone that down a bit! But don't worry because we have got a nurse
:00:59. > :01:03.standing by, not a proper one, he is from casualties. They are
:01:04. > :01:19.celebrating 30 years of tragedy and former -- Casualties. It is Charles
:01:20. > :01:26.Venn. And you like a bit of cabaret always and the hottest ticket at the
:01:27. > :01:30.festival this year, the star of Goldeneye, X-Men, millions of
:01:31. > :01:40.things, the one and only Alan Cumming! APPLAUSE
:01:41. > :01:52.Well... Look at this, we have Alan Cumming plus one. Who is your
:01:53. > :02:00.friend? This is my dog, obviously. How did you get Lala over on a
:02:01. > :02:10.plane? She came in the cabin with me. Can you prove this? I am sure
:02:11. > :02:14.there is a series of photographs! I was watching quite a bad film. It
:02:15. > :02:22.wasn't very good. The in-flight entertainment. Does she get her own
:02:23. > :02:27.food? Travelling with a dog, you don't tend to feed them before the
:02:28. > :02:34.flight just in case! Feed them earlier in the day. She is very
:02:35. > :02:39.placid. She is a great traveller, she is a great emotional support. We
:02:40. > :02:43.are going to be talking all about Casualty and cabaret, not in that
:02:44. > :02:49.specific order, and we also have one of the top performers joining us
:02:50. > :02:59.this evening. He is a mind reader, Colin Cloud. But first, and this is
:03:00. > :03:08.especially for you, Lala, if you want to look over there, this is
:03:09. > :03:10.Andy Kershaw and Buster who got that motor running and headed up to the
:03:11. > :03:14.north of Scotland for a special road trip.
:03:15. > :03:19.There is a coastal route around the Scottish Highlands that offers some
:03:20. > :03:25.of the best driving in the world. Recently branded the north coast
:03:26. > :03:29.500, it is also earned the nickname of Scotland's Route 66, starting and
:03:30. > :03:37.finishing in Inverness. I am going to experience it with Buster is my
:03:38. > :03:45.face tool navigator. We had North East from Inverness -- my faithful
:03:46. > :03:48.navigator. These hills hide the huge man-made secret cut deep into the
:03:49. > :03:52.rocks before the Second World War. And that the could also hold the
:03:53. > :03:59.most unusual world record, achieved in part by the One Show. Allan Todd
:04:00. > :04:08.Patrick is from historic environment Scotland -- Alan Kilpatrick. This
:04:09. > :04:11.tunnel lead to six enormous storage tanks which were built as part of a
:04:12. > :04:17.secret naval plan to protect oil for the Navy. The tanks held more than
:04:18. > :04:21.32 million gallons of fuel. Although the oil is long gone, with a bit of
:04:22. > :04:27.a squeeze, there is a way to see the vastness of the empty bolts. Crikey!
:04:28. > :04:30.You could fit York Minster in here. The last time these tanks appeared
:04:31. > :04:35.on the One Show, it led to the breaking of a world record. I was
:04:36. > :04:41.asked how long an echo would last and I said about two minutes. That
:04:42. > :04:46.was unheard of as it turned out. The previous record for the longest echo
:04:47. > :04:51.in a man-made structure was 15 seconds set experts came quickly to
:04:52. > :04:54.the scene to investigate. They fired a starter pistol in one of the
:04:55. > :04:59.tanks. The reverberations smashed the previous record by more than it
:05:00. > :05:05.and a half, lasting an incredible 112 seconds. If I shout now, the
:05:06. > :05:15.echo will last for more than a minute? Yes. Hello! As the Echo
:05:16. > :05:19.continues, so do I. All along the coast are abundant reminders of
:05:20. > :05:23.Scotland's rich history. Just outside of which is an old harbour
:05:24. > :05:33.that takes a bit of an effort to reach. These are a man-made stairway
:05:34. > :05:39.which descends to what was, a long time ago, a landing place for the
:05:40. > :05:45.fishing boats. Build during the 18th century, there are more than 300
:05:46. > :05:49.steps. The womenfolk of the fishing community used to. The fish down
:05:50. > :05:55.here and carry them up the steps to the top in baskets and then take
:05:56. > :06:01.them on foot to the me about -- to the nearest town which was ten miles
:06:02. > :06:06.away. Luckily I get to drive, onwards passing John O'Groats. I am
:06:07. > :06:12.now heading west on the trail of a famous visitor to the area and
:06:13. > :06:16.someone whose social and cultural impact is still being felt to this
:06:17. > :06:21.day. He was a canny songwriter as well. This village held special
:06:22. > :06:26.boyhood memories for one member of the Beatles. Donald Campbell has
:06:27. > :06:29.lived here for most of his life and remembers at the age of eight
:06:30. > :06:37.playing with John Lennon. What was he like? Just like any other kid,
:06:38. > :06:43.full of fun and he had a funny Scouse accent.
:06:44. > :06:53.It is believed that he was inspired by his love of the area to write the
:06:54. > :06:55.song In My Life which is about people and plated remembered and
:06:56. > :07:02.there is now a memorial garden dedicated to him and the song --
:07:03. > :07:09.people and places. Your mum met him and she had some advice for him? He
:07:10. > :07:15.came along with Yoko Ono to the house. John asked her how she liked
:07:16. > :07:21.his new glasses and my mother says, I don't know, I have got to get this
:07:22. > :07:27.hair out of your eyes! You can understand why John Lennon and many
:07:28. > :07:31.other people loved this place. It is just so beautiful and it also
:07:32. > :07:35.happens to be at the halfway point on the route. It is probably a
:07:36. > :07:44.pretty good place to stop for the night. Although something tells me
:07:45. > :07:48.we might be staying here for ever! And you wouldn't blame them because
:07:49. > :07:52.it is absolutely beautiful. Part two of that is tomorrow. Did it make you
:07:53. > :07:56.feel nervous? There were a lot of cliffs in that and knowing what
:07:57. > :08:01.happened in the last episode of Casualty, I was thinking of you and
:08:02. > :08:12.thinking you would be nervous! I was wondering why I felt a bit uneasy!
:08:13. > :08:16.It was a cliffhanger! Literally. But you don't like a road trip
:08:17. > :08:23.particularly? It's not necessarily my thing. But that brought back
:08:24. > :08:30.memories. I recall one particular trip going to Bournemouth with
:08:31. > :08:34.friends and en route, there was the biggest bird to along the
:08:35. > :08:47.windscreen! I will never forget it. Shall we get onto your show? You are
:08:48. > :08:53.doing Edinburgh, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs. They say that this is
:08:54. > :08:59.cabaret therapy, it sounds right up my street. How sappy does it get? It
:09:00. > :09:05.depends on your definition of sappy but to me it is something that has
:09:06. > :09:16.something emotional and gets you. Would I cry, someone even with as
:09:17. > :09:21.black heart is mine? You might do. I sing songs that I have connected
:09:22. > :09:25.with and I tell stories and stuff about things that have happened to
:09:26. > :09:30.me. Though it is a way of talking about your life through song? Yes,
:09:31. > :09:36.and it is very old-fashioned, standing up and telling stories and
:09:37. > :09:38.singing songs. It is sappy. We have got a clip that you belting out some
:09:39. > :09:43.Annie Lennox. # Tell me why.
:09:44. > :10:07.# Tell me why. # I may be bad, I may be blind, I
:10:08. > :10:13.may be viciously unkind, but I can still read what you're thinking.
:10:14. > :10:27.APPLAUSE Very nice. He is in bits! And also
:10:28. > :10:33.delighted to hear you singing in a Scottish accent. The whole thing was
:10:34. > :10:37.that I wanted it to be authentic and myself and personal. I think it is
:10:38. > :10:41.weird when people go into American accent when they are singing. It is
:10:42. > :10:44.rare that people think with their own accent. I can understand it
:10:45. > :10:50.because people think of popular music as an American idiom but it
:10:51. > :10:56.seems weird when people sound one way and then something else. Even
:10:57. > :11:04.your Miley Cyrus song? Popular musical hits! A bit of Miley Cyrus
:11:05. > :11:10.and Lady Gaga all done with a Scottish accent! Of course I know
:11:11. > :11:13.that you can sing. We have in fact performed together. We have sung
:11:14. > :11:28.together and we have the proof I believe right here. There it is!
:11:29. > :11:36.That's not you. There I am! I think we need an explanation. You can see
:11:37. > :11:41.how much Allen had let himself go! He has aged catastrophically but I
:11:42. > :11:49.have been going to the gym! Who do you think went on dab of great
:11:50. > :11:51.Broadway career? -- went on to have. Are there any that you that you feel
:11:52. > :12:01.you would not want anybody to see? I don't know. I always remember
:12:02. > :12:09.Bobby Brown, who remembers Bobby Brown? Whitney Houston's husband.
:12:10. > :12:15.Yes, I always wanted to do a live performance of that. You have to be
:12:16. > :12:20.careful what you do, I remember speaking and you said, don't worry,
:12:21. > :12:25.nobody will ever see it. It is a live Hogmanay show. They would have
:12:26. > :12:31.to invent something where you can keep all the clips in the world in
:12:32. > :12:35.one place. Basically the Internet! And they invented it. Can you
:12:36. > :12:42.imagine that we would have thought that? Just Google idiotic Scottish
:12:43. > :12:47.people in tartan trousers! And now it is on the One Show. The show is
:12:48. > :12:52.on until Saturday and on tour in September. I am going back to
:12:53. > :12:57.America and then coming back to Britain in October and doing the
:12:58. > :13:03.London Palladium and Brighton and York and Gateshead. Great. You have
:13:04. > :13:09.been very sensible because you decided to do a solo performance.
:13:10. > :13:22.But a lot of people make it a family affair. We met three such people.
:13:23. > :13:28.My show is called bricking it. Throughout the show my dad is having
:13:29. > :13:32.a go at stand back and I am building a brick wall. Nine months ago I
:13:33. > :13:36.asked my dad if he would swap jobs with me. I have not done any
:13:37. > :13:42.building before and he has never been on stage. When she asked me to
:13:43. > :13:48.be on stage I thought, you can't be serious, can you? And then I
:13:49. > :13:58.thought, why not? My wife had passed away previously and I thought, life
:13:59. > :14:04.is short. I am not wearing a high heels any more. My dad is incredibly
:14:05. > :14:08.embarrassing so I think if I can put him on stage next to me, if I can
:14:09. > :14:15.survive that, I can survive anything. I phoned the local gym and
:14:16. > :14:18.I asked them to teach me how to do the splits, the asked how flexible I
:14:19. > :14:26.was and I said I couldn't do Tuesdays. We are brother and sister
:14:27. > :14:31.and our show is called We Are Family. It is a sketch comedy except
:14:32. > :14:36.at a family wedding. The characters are very similar to us in real life,
:14:37. > :14:47.just slightly exaggerated. Jack is a lot more logical and straight
:14:48. > :14:52.thinking. Boring! Siblings! We put quite a lot of the family experience
:14:53. > :14:56.in our show, we have a mum quiz which is me asking and about some of
:14:57. > :15:00.the things at our man has said. She said some amazing things that we
:15:01. > :15:07.needed to share with the world. Where are you allowed to travel in
:15:08. > :15:11.the world according to our mother? Anywhere where I am taller than the
:15:12. > :15:14.average height of the national mail. That is actually true! Sweden, no,
:15:15. > :15:27.North Korea, off you go! My show is called Sweet Child Of
:15:28. > :15:32.Mine. It's about what my parents think I do for a living. What do you
:15:33. > :15:38.do for a living, I'm a bit confused about what you do for a living. My
:15:39. > :15:43.dad is trying to have a conversation with me and before that I explore my
:15:44. > :15:47.history and artistic past. My dad has been performing on the stage
:15:48. > :15:54.with me for the last five years. He became ill a few weeks before the
:15:55. > :15:59.festival was meant to start, so he decided not to come. The show must
:16:00. > :16:05.go on, as they say in the business, so we decided to cast a local
:16:06. > :16:09.Scottish man as my dad. All of the men who have been involved have said
:16:10. > :16:14.it has prompted them to look at their relationships with their
:16:15. > :16:21.birthday. -- with their fathers. Do you remember what you got your fifth
:16:22. > :16:26.birthday? I do, a fridge. Her face just lit up when she opened it.
:16:27. > :16:30.Family is incredibly important and being so far away from my dad has,
:16:31. > :16:38.in a weird way, brought us closer together. I think we can read each
:16:39. > :16:42.other. He has my back a lot of the time. I think family is number one
:16:43. > :16:49.on this journey has definitely confirmed that for me. She is my
:16:50. > :16:55.inspiration, really, every day. There you go, have you ever worked
:16:56. > :17:03.with a member of your family? Funnily enough, my daughter. She is
:17:04. > :17:08.now 15. She's a budding little actress, performer. We had the
:17:09. > :17:16.pleasure of working together on one of her music videos, a song called
:17:17. > :17:21.Stuck In My Head. It was her song? Yes. We did it a couple of years
:17:22. > :17:29.ago. You keep an eye on her, her videos? Are absolutely. Were you the
:17:30. > :17:33.dad? I played a sort of psychiatrist, trying to figure out
:17:34. > :17:41.what was wrong. You could do some work with Lala, perfectly behaved.
:17:42. > :17:47.She has an agent, a publicist over there, a big career. Let's talk
:17:48. > :17:51.about the 30th anniversary of Casualty, congratulations by the
:17:52. > :17:56.way. It seems to have been on our screens forever, 30 years. It is a
:17:57. > :18:04.staple. It ended, the last episode, as we said on a cliffhanger. Your
:18:05. > :18:10.girlfriend Connie shot over the cliff in a car. Did she? Brown
:18:11. > :18:16.bread? Don't give it away. We don't know. This week is a feature length
:18:17. > :18:22.episode, like a film, off Casualty. Can you give us a hint as to what
:18:23. > :18:30.happens? Oh, wow. Without giving away too much... I'm off on holiday
:18:31. > :18:35.next, tell me what happened. If I told you... What I can safely tell
:18:36. > :18:44.you are definitely, it's a roller-coaster of emotions, pathos,
:18:45. > :18:47.people who are sick. It is a disaster movie for the most part,
:18:48. > :18:55.but what we do have at the centrepiece is a very huge stunt. We
:18:56. > :18:56.won't say any more. We have got an exclusive preview of Saturday's
:18:57. > :19:21.episode, let's take a look. Connie, Connie! I will follow you
:19:22. > :19:30.mate. Priority call, I need a secondary, major RTC, one female
:19:31. > :19:38.flown from the vehicle. APPLAUSE It's not looking good for Connie.
:19:39. > :19:43.No. What's going to happen? Do you do your own stunts? I know that was
:19:44. > :19:49.you sliding the ambulance door? Riaz, it took a lot of work. Sliding
:19:50. > :19:54.down the mud? I do my best to do as many of my stance as possible.
:19:55. > :20:02.Anything scary and hairy happen in this episode, anything Mac show? I
:20:03. > :20:08.am no stranger to the gym. -- anything macho. There were two and
:20:09. > :20:13.seems. We look forward to seeing it. We have a quick game. Lots of
:20:14. > :20:17.people, very famous people have guest starred in casualty before
:20:18. > :20:23.they were famous. Lovely audience members, if you would like to come
:20:24. > :20:26.in... Yes, round of applause. APPLAUSE
:20:27. > :20:30.All you need to do, work as a team and guess if they have been in
:20:31. > :20:42.Casualty or not. Christopher Ecclestone? I think he probably has.
:20:43. > :20:55.I don't think so, no. Yes or no? No. Let's overlook. Yes, he has. I'm
:20:56. > :20:59.going to say no. That is correct. Kate Winslet, I believe that is. I
:21:00. > :21:12.think she has, I think I knew that. Yes. That was the episode when she
:21:13. > :21:18.had incredibly greasy hair. What about Minnie Driver? I don't think
:21:19. > :21:30.so. I think so. We are going with yes. Yes. Frizzy hair. All hair
:21:31. > :21:35.-based episodes. What about Idris Elba? I think there has only been
:21:36. > :21:42.one know so I think it is a no. Don't go with that, go with your
:21:43. > :21:48.heart. I don't think so. He was. You did very well. You did very, very
:21:49. > :21:54.well. Thank you so much to our audience, very good. And of course
:21:55. > :21:59.Casualty is on BBC One, a feature length episode, at 8pm on Saturday
:22:00. > :22:03.night. When we were here yesterday, I know
:22:04. > :22:07.it's hard to believe, but it was absolutely boiling. Now, just to
:22:08. > :22:18.prove, I have a hot water bottle behind here. The castle is there.
:22:19. > :22:24.Genuinely. We can't see it. It's really hard to know what to wear as
:22:25. > :22:32.a result. We invented layers in this country. That's because you need to
:22:33. > :22:35.wear one of these. String vest. At all times, I would pay to see Alex
:22:36. > :22:40.in one of these. To explain the history of this we have Marty.
:22:41. > :22:42.The iconic string vest in all its glory.
:22:43. > :22:51.I'm just resting between Die Hards, you know?
:22:52. > :22:55.But string vests are more than just a laughing matter.
:22:56. > :23:01.In the 1950s, they actually became a question of national security.
:23:02. > :23:07.Our story begins in 1933 on a boat in the freezing cold North Sea.
:23:08. > :23:09.Henrik Brun, a commandant in the Norwegian army,
:23:10. > :23:17.Inspired by the chainmail worn by Viking warriors, he wondered
:23:18. > :23:27.if some old fishing nets could provide the same installation.
:23:28. > :23:32.And with the help of the textile firm Brynje of Norway,
:23:33. > :23:36.And it wasn't long before Britain also decided that this vest
:23:37. > :23:40.But while they kept the Norwegians warm in winter, British men
:23:41. > :23:44.were partial to wearing them on the beach in summer.
:23:45. > :23:47.It seemed that this bit of fabric could keep its wearers both
:23:48. > :23:56.Some seriously strange science was going on.
:23:57. > :23:59.I have come to meet Doctor Chris Tyler to talk about meshes.
:24:00. > :24:04.So, what a string vest does, if you've got this layer over
:24:05. > :24:07.the top, it forms little pockets of warm air which are then trapped
:24:08. > :24:10.by the outer layer, just like a duvet cover.
:24:11. > :24:13.What about keeping me cool when it's hot?
:24:14. > :24:16.The best way we do that when we're hot is evaporation of sweat.
:24:17. > :24:19.By wearing a vest such as a string vest, we might be
:24:20. > :24:22.able to keep that heavy, soddden layer away from the skin
:24:23. > :24:24.and therefore it might be able to facilitate a little bit
:24:25. > :24:27.It's all about keeping the top layers away
:24:28. > :24:32.In 1955, the Ministry of Supply went to extraordinary lengths
:24:33. > :24:37.Issuing men from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
:24:38. > :24:46.To see how cool soldiers would feel at their posting in the hot
:24:47. > :25:01.And some were issued with no vests at all.
:25:02. > :25:04.After a few sweaty months of high temperatures and a report that took
:25:05. > :25:07.over a year to write, the results were in.
:25:08. > :25:12.Soldiers agreed that string vests do help keep you cool.
:25:13. > :25:15.But the test was a subjective questionnaire and we want
:25:16. > :25:22.So that means using a thermal imaging camera to test the body heat
:25:23. > :25:25.of our three soldiers, who we're sending off to the sauna.
:25:26. > :25:33.After a 30 minute sauna session, the results are in.
:25:34. > :25:38.The participant with no vest is about 39.7.
:25:39. > :25:47.The participant with the normal vest is a similar temperature.
:25:48. > :25:54.The participant with the string vest is between 39...
:25:55. > :26:00.So that's a good half a degree cooler.
:26:01. > :26:02.Which is significant when trying to maintain the body
:26:03. > :26:04.temperature of 37 degrees, whether you are in
:26:05. > :26:12.It looks like string vests help you cool down.
:26:13. > :26:36.He got something right, turned out he was right all along. We promised
:26:37. > :26:41.you one of the hottest performers of the fringe and we have Colin Cloud,
:26:42. > :26:47.who can read minds. Slightly nervous about this but welcome, lovely to
:26:48. > :26:56.have you with us. APPLAUSE Thank you. Keep those minds blank.
:26:57. > :27:00.What you need us to do? I thought I would try something quick using all
:27:01. > :27:08.of you. I would love each of you right now to press... If I say press
:27:09. > :27:17.four digits you might go through for a pin code like 9462. Spooky! Four
:27:18. > :27:24.digits, as quick as you can. Alex, the same thing, don't think about
:27:25. > :27:30.it, make it random. And then I will pass it to Alan, any four digits.
:27:31. > :27:37.And Charles, Deborah is anything yet, just make sure you press by.
:27:38. > :27:44.You are thinking to 123, is that pretty close? Think of a two digit
:27:45. > :27:53.number and press it into the phone instead. By and any two digits. You
:27:54. > :28:03.can press = and have a look. Let's have a look, and the total. We can
:28:04. > :28:07.see that is the total. Alan, can you hold that second? That is the number
:28:08. > :28:13.I was hoping you are going to end up on and I can prove this. This piece
:28:14. > :28:19.of paper beside you Alex, if I share it with you, it says...
:28:20. > :28:29.Did use the total will be... You still have it there?
:28:30. > :28:43.Oh my God! Burn him! Just to be clear... For people watching this at
:28:44. > :28:48.home who think maybe somebody swapped a off-camera, you guys chose
:28:49. > :28:50.all the numbers. It had to be these numbers and it could have only been
:28:51. > :28:55.these numbers, because these numbers that this show, The One Show, is
:28:56. > :29:08.exactly what this is. I will explain. No! The One Show. What? I
:29:09. > :29:13.am completely freaked out. That is amazing. Absolutely fantastic. You
:29:14. > :29:20.did it, not me, I just brought the paper. We have today big thank you
:29:21. > :29:25.to all of our guests, Charles, Alan and Colin. Are you back tomorrow?
:29:26. > :29:26.I've been snapped up. Come back tomorrow. We will see you then,
:29:27. > :29:29.goodbye!