:00:15. > :00:16.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones...
:00:17. > :00:19.And, back by popular demand, it's my favourite singing
:00:20. > :00:33.Tonight we're joined by a comedy double-act -
:00:34. > :00:36.one of whom has said, "We did some of our best stuff
:00:37. > :00:38.when we couldn't stand the sight of each other."
:00:39. > :00:44.So for the sake of their new sitcom let's hope they really hate each
:00:45. > :00:59.One thing is for sure, they never miss a merchandising opportunity.
:01:00. > :01:09.Talking David Mitchell doll, 28,000 world vocabulary in different
:01:10. > :01:16.settings. Thank you for that contribution to proceedings. What
:01:17. > :01:25.are my special features? It says you come with a spare T-shirt. You
:01:26. > :01:30.obviously have a brilliant relationship, do you ever wind each
:01:31. > :01:35.other on purpose? We did the voices for evil robot in Doctor Who, and I
:01:36. > :01:38.did them separately. I knew what ever I did, David would have to do
:01:39. > :01:47.the same kind of thing. I deliberately did it a very camp. I
:01:48. > :01:54.remember that! Did you go with that? I just did mine very camp as well. I
:01:55. > :01:56.couldn't have gone totally different, I would say the
:01:57. > :02:04.characterisation of the two robots was quite similar. Can you do the
:02:05. > :02:10.voice? Just sort of camp, like that. No, do the voice!
:02:11. > :02:14.Ella Eyre will also be singing for us.
:02:15. > :02:17.She's currently in the top 10 with Came Here for Love,
:02:18. > :02:20.and she'll give us her new single Ego before we go home.
:02:21. > :02:22.Now, settle down, buckle up and please return your tray
:02:23. > :02:28.Rory Reid has met a man who has "single-handedly" stopped at nothing
:02:29. > :02:40.The saying goes, you can't keep a good man down. And it couldn't apply
:02:41. > :02:46.more than two Steve Robinson. He is one of life's go-getters. A
:02:47. > :02:49.mechanic, an inventor, successful motivational speaker, he has tried
:02:50. > :02:53.snowboarding, skiing, canoeing and he is an award-winning pilot. He
:02:54. > :02:59.puts this list of achievements down to the fact that he lost his right
:03:00. > :03:03.arm when he was just 18 years old. I was the top student at the technical
:03:04. > :03:07.College, studying to be a motor mechanic. They lined me up for a job
:03:08. > :03:12.in the Formula 1 pits. The last day of my final term, I went out on my
:03:13. > :03:15.motorbike. In the afternoon, I lost my right arm. I had a midair
:03:16. > :03:18.collision and the motorbike went into my chest and did loads of
:03:19. > :03:24.internal damage, and it ripped my arm off. Steve began intense
:03:25. > :03:28.rehabilitation. But with only one arm, his dreams of working in
:03:29. > :03:35.Formula 1 were over. Instead, he put his energy and remaining arm into
:03:36. > :03:40.fixing motorbikes, old jukeboxes and one armed bandit arcade machines.
:03:41. > :03:45.It's a bit of a joke, people used to call me the one armed bandit. You
:03:46. > :03:47.didn't let your disability get in the way? The fact I had to push
:03:48. > :03:52.myself harder than anybody else, that is how I got into loads of
:03:53. > :03:55.weird and wonderful things, like being a break dancer. People said I
:03:56. > :03:59.couldn't do that with one arm, it was like a red rag to a bowl. I had
:04:00. > :04:05.to do it. He used his determination to prove you can't keep a good man
:04:06. > :04:10.like him down. On the ground, that is! I was looking on the internet,
:04:11. > :04:14.and I saw an article for a flying scholarship for disabled people. I
:04:15. > :04:19.thought, what have I got to lose? To his surprise, he was accepted. In
:04:20. > :04:22.2014, he began flying lessons. To operate the controls he needed to
:04:23. > :04:29.wear a prosthetic arm for the very first time. But this artificial limb
:04:30. > :04:33.was not up to the job. We were doing some flying at 3500 feet. I said to
:04:34. > :04:40.my instructor, you've got control. He said, no, you've got to learn to
:04:41. > :04:48.fly with one arm. I said, no, John! You've got control! My arm has
:04:49. > :04:53.fallen off! It had, it was on the floor of the aircraft. It was scary,
:04:54. > :04:56.but it was funny. Determined to fly, he spent the next eight months in
:04:57. > :05:04.his workshop coming up with this. It looks like something out of a
:05:05. > :05:08.Terminator movie. To ensure it won't come off, he fixes it to a self-made
:05:09. > :05:13.rigid jacket that he wears like a waistcoat. This is actually what is
:05:14. > :05:20.connected to my jacket, on my shoulder. Then it reconnects onto
:05:21. > :05:24.that. Thanks to his own bear home-made arm, he gained his private
:05:25. > :05:31.pilots license and is now a regular at his local club. So, this is the
:05:32. > :05:37.ride. You have your jacket on. How long does it take to fit? Just a
:05:38. > :05:40.couple of seconds. Does it have to be approved by someone? It have to
:05:41. > :05:46.be passed by a medical flight examiner. It meant I could do my
:05:47. > :05:52.first solo flight. It clamps onto one of the two throttle controls. As
:05:53. > :05:56.I move around, there is no movement transferred to the throttle while it
:05:57. > :06:01.is in the unlocked position. When I lock that, any movement of my
:06:02. > :06:04.shoulder is transferred through to the throttle. Basically, it is just
:06:05. > :06:08.doing that on take-off, full power on take-off, and when we come to
:06:09. > :06:12.land, we are adjusting the throttle all of the time as I control the
:06:13. > :06:14.stick. So I'm actually flying the aircraft by twisting my body. Shall
:06:15. > :06:36.we do that? Take me up! We are that! That was easier than
:06:37. > :06:41.you thought, wasn't it? Soon we're gliding along. You're using your arm
:06:42. > :06:48.for the throttle? His aluminium arm is ingenious and it cost less than
:06:49. > :06:54.?100 to make. Here we go! But this is just the beginning. This is my 3D
:06:55. > :07:02.printed arm that arrived yesterday. It is far lighter, so futuristic.
:07:03. > :07:05.Looks amazing, doesn't it? You are unstoppable. Anything is possible if
:07:06. > :07:08.you put your mind to it. Unbelievable!
:07:09. > :07:17.Have you used it? I have, but it has a few problems. Just a fuel. When I
:07:18. > :07:22.push forward to put the throttle on and pull-back to take it off,
:07:23. > :07:27.there's about two inches of play. When nothing is happening in that,
:07:28. > :07:34.it's quite scary. You want immediate power. You have to be going around
:07:35. > :07:39.straightaway. He was pretending to be cool in that plane, but was he?
:07:40. > :07:44.He was quite nervous. I was buckled in with the prosthetic arm, Rory was
:07:45. > :07:51.stirred by the wing, looking down. He had a pretty scared looking face!
:07:52. > :07:54.I felt quite sorry for him. He was probably not one who had been in an
:07:55. > :07:59.aircraft with a one armed pilot before. I said, are you OK? He said,
:08:00. > :08:03.I'll be all right. I said, don't worry, I'll look after you. He
:08:04. > :08:09.should have looked after me, he is bigger than me. Would you take these
:08:10. > :08:14.two? I'd take them both, I'll take anybody up. I'm in! When you have
:08:15. > :08:21.done it, coming thing, why didn't I do this before? I'm fascinated,
:08:22. > :08:25.before you had the accident, were you right or left-handed?
:08:26. > :08:29.Right-handed. So you have the trauma of losing your arm and had to learn
:08:30. > :08:32.to do everything again with your left hand? It's pretty hard. The
:08:33. > :08:40.hardest thing is doing a one-handed handstand. I did actually practice
:08:41. > :08:43.that. I used to take a dog for a walk, I was the nutcase on the
:08:44. > :08:47.field, try to do a handstand. I didn't need to do it, but I wanted
:08:48. > :08:51.to because it was a problem. I became a problem solver. It is not
:08:52. > :08:58.just about solving problems with you. You actually face your fears
:08:59. > :09:01.head-on. You didn't like flying before you started? I needed
:09:02. > :09:06.hypnotherapy to go on a flight to Spain with some friends. I would be
:09:07. > :09:10.the guy sat in the seat, praying. Please don't let it crash. I was
:09:11. > :09:20.terrified. You can't really keep that up when you are a pilot, can
:09:21. > :09:26.you? It would be a good, comedy good, the sketch, wouldn't it?
:09:27. > :09:34.My other fear was of horses. Now I compete in dressage and I came fifth
:09:35. > :09:39.in the qualifiers. Had roles of your time, you say, I went and trained to
:09:40. > :09:44.be a pilot, I was scared of horses so I thought I would do dressage?
:09:45. > :09:52.Doesn't everybody do that? There must be a problem because you need
:09:53. > :10:01.two hands for the reins? It is so precise, to give instructions? Yes,
:10:02. > :10:05.I decided to make my own. You make your own reins, your own arm? If it
:10:06. > :10:11.doesn't exist, you've got to make it. It's like a bar, and you just
:10:12. > :10:14.twist the bar, the horse can feel the movement. Hopefully it will go
:10:15. > :10:17.left when you say left. They don't always go left. Sometimes they do
:10:18. > :10:23.what they want to do, and that is pretty scary. Do you want to do that
:10:24. > :10:27.in the Olympics? What would stop you? I need a decent quality
:10:28. > :10:36.dressage horse. You need somebody to sponsor you? What a great plug! We
:10:37. > :10:38.could talk all night. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for coming in.
:10:39. > :10:41.Thanks for having me. David and Robert,the
:10:42. > :10:43.two of you are back together in a new comedy -
:10:44. > :10:45.appropriately named Back. Here you are as Stephen and Andrew,
:10:46. > :11:01.meeting at the graveside Anyway, there is something that I
:11:02. > :11:10.need... To say. That I was... Never able to... I can't believe Dan has
:11:11. > :11:22.gone. I mean, dad, the best dad, gone. Yes, dad. My dad has gone.
:11:23. > :11:23.Don't mind me, I was just remembering the wonderful times with
:11:24. > :11:41.dad. Dear, sweet dad. Do I know you? You are at your father's grave, and
:11:42. > :11:49.he turns up. He is saying that he is his father as well? Explain the
:11:50. > :11:53.premise. Transpires that Andrew, Rob's character, he not saying he is
:11:54. > :11:59.my little brother, he is a foster brother. My parents used to have a
:12:00. > :12:04.lot of foster children. He was fostered by my parents for five
:12:05. > :12:11.extremely precious, important months in his teenage years. Stephen
:12:12. > :12:13.massively resented the foster kids, but Andrew was one of the
:12:14. > :12:19.favourites. He has done all of these groovy things, he has had a drama
:12:20. > :12:25.workshop in Berlin. He comes back metropolitan and suave and makes
:12:26. > :12:32.Stephen's life a total mystery by working his way into the affections
:12:33. > :12:38.of his family. Andrew, your character is sort of the baddie? He
:12:39. > :12:42.might be either very reckless and needy, a people pleaser that puts
:12:43. > :12:47.people in danger because he wants everybody's approval, or he might
:12:48. > :12:55.actually be the devil. He has this implacable streak of malice. He is
:12:56. > :13:00.much nastier than anything in Peep Show. Every now and again, you are
:13:01. > :13:05.trying to figure out if Andrew is just a little bit awful, or if he is
:13:06. > :13:09.really, really evil indeed. Stephen is not in a very good place in his
:13:10. > :13:19.life. Recently divorced, his career has fallen apart, he drinks too
:13:20. > :13:29.much. He remodelled the pub badly. Everything he touches turns to...
:13:30. > :13:32.Let's say non-gold. He sort of has very few aspirations. Andrew comes
:13:33. > :13:36.and tries to take what life he has away from him, and Stephen, when he
:13:37. > :13:45.protests about it, he just looks like a paranoid loser. Where did the
:13:46. > :13:48.idea come from? It is written by Simon Blackwell. I have no idea, it
:13:49. > :13:55.came from the strange things in his head. Clearly with you two in mind?
:13:56. > :14:03.He wrote it with us in mind. He is hilarious. He wrote some episodes of
:14:04. > :14:09.Peep Show and he worked on Veep, so he knows what he is doing. You did
:14:10. > :14:13.Peep Show for 12 years. This is brand-new. Is it daunting to be
:14:14. > :14:17.launching a brand-new sitcom? That was so well loved and received, it
:14:18. > :14:21.is quite a big deal to come back with something different, brand-new,
:14:22. > :14:33.nobody knows about it? How are you feeling? Blimey... We were feeling
:14:34. > :14:38.fine until you... We are very proud of it, we think it is funny. Peep
:14:39. > :14:42.Show, we were proud of that. But it was about young men, soon after
:14:43. > :14:48.university. Which is why we stopped playing them. If it had been a
:14:49. > :14:57.cartoon, we could keep doing it, but the visual evidence of ageing... You
:14:58. > :15:03.get to play yourselves as kids in Back? It is lovely seeing the 80s
:15:04. > :15:09.style. It was 80s, wasn't it? I have made you older than you are?
:15:10. > :15:25.Sometimes it is children, but then suddenly you appear, morphed into
:15:26. > :15:29.them? Every now and again, you see your ten-year-old self. I think that
:15:30. > :15:33.is quite nice, really. We often feel like that, going around pretending
:15:34. > :15:36.to be grown-ups, and something happens occasionally and you think
:15:37. > :15:42.you are ten again, I don't know? Do I have to pretend to know what to
:15:43. > :15:45.do? And they both have very, very different memories of this time.
:15:46. > :15:53.Stephen's memories are downbeat and depressing, vague. Andrew has
:15:54. > :15:57.Technicolor, precise memories of this idyllic five months he spent.
:15:58. > :16:03.The way they project different things on the figure of this dead
:16:04. > :16:04.father, whose funeral we saw them at... Brilliantly played by Matthew
:16:05. > :16:19.Holebas. The whole cast is good. You worked a lot at Edinburgh. A
:16:20. > :16:27.long time ago. In the 20th century. One after the other. Don't forget
:16:28. > :16:31.Back starts on Channel 4, sixth September.
:16:32. > :16:37.Your friendships goes back over 20 years. You know each other pretty
:16:38. > :16:47.well. Do you openly talk to each other and react to each other. Like
:16:48. > :16:52.feelings? It's completely banned. This may be interesting then.
:16:53. > :16:55.Here's Mobeen with two men who got through their lowest moments
:16:56. > :17:09.Men offer suffer alone because they are unable to open up about their
:17:10. > :17:14.feelings. This condition can be helped by closer relationships
:17:15. > :17:20.between men. If you saw men hugging in the 1980s you would assume they
:17:21. > :17:26.were gay, but now we have seen the bromance. Carl fell into depression
:17:27. > :17:33.when he lost his job and his relationship broke down. I went to
:17:34. > :17:38.see a doctor and I had severe depression and general anxiety
:17:39. > :17:43.disorder. When did you enter a bromance? After university, I needed
:17:44. > :17:48.someone to live in London. Carl had a spare room. So I moved in. It was
:17:49. > :17:52.over the next year that we realised we had loads in common. We really
:17:53. > :17:56.like each other. That is when we started to support each other.
:17:57. > :18:02.During that year we both had quite a difficult time. I was visibly in a
:18:03. > :18:07.bad place and someone had put in the effort to sort of get me off my feet
:18:08. > :18:16.and say, let's go and do something for 15 minutes and take your mind
:18:17. > :18:22.off of it. How are bromances helping mental issue? Issues such as
:18:23. > :18:26.self-harm, breakdown, young men can talk about these issues and have the
:18:27. > :18:31.deep and meaningful conversations they were not able to have 30 years
:18:32. > :18:38.ago. It is about shared interests. They must be emotionally at the
:18:39. > :18:41.till. There must be physical intimacy and love in that
:18:42. > :18:46.relationship. After his father committed suicide George was forced
:18:47. > :18:53.to commit his own anxiety and depression. I felt I had no way of
:18:54. > :18:56.what was going on in my head. The big turning point was when I needed
:18:57. > :19:00.a place to live because of things that were going on at home. We lost
:19:01. > :19:04.our family home and Alex said I could stay with him at his mum's
:19:05. > :19:09.place. We were always best friends. He almost saved my life. I didn't
:19:10. > :19:14.know what I was going to do. We started boxing when we were both
:19:15. > :19:19.about 16. There was quite a long walk down from the gym to my mum's
:19:20. > :19:24.house because of all the physicality of boxing and training you were more
:19:25. > :19:28.relaxed and we could talk about things. It was so important to have
:19:29. > :19:33.him there, not judging me. Not changing the way he acted around me.
:19:34. > :19:37.It didn't affect our friendship - if anything, it made our friendship
:19:38. > :19:41.stronger. What is so important with us is I have never been ashamed to
:19:42. > :19:48.speak about how I felt or what was going on. In other situations maybe
:19:49. > :19:51.I would. I think our friendship is different from regular friendships
:19:52. > :19:59.because Alex knows sort of what I thought at the darkest times and you
:20:00. > :20:05.were there at the darkest times. Men are opening up to one and other
:20:06. > :20:08.like never before. With this type of close friendship having positive
:20:09. > :20:11.results and improving mental health, that can only be a good thing.
:20:12. > :20:21.Thank you. Are you somebody who can open up? I imagine you can! I don't
:20:22. > :20:25.want to talk about it. Do you think it is important and it's about the
:20:26. > :20:30.way children maybe are talked to and approached when they are very young.
:20:31. > :20:35.You know and made to feel it is OK to cry, OK to feel... Certainly with
:20:36. > :20:39.boys. What you say to a boy when you tell him to man up or act like a man
:20:40. > :20:44.is usually stop feeling these unwanted feelings. Stop expressing
:20:45. > :20:48.this pain, this grief or fear. It is not an entirely good idea to tell
:20:49. > :20:52.them that. It doesn't prepare you for adversities. My mother died when
:20:53. > :20:57.I was 17. I had a lot of people saying if you want to talk, just
:20:58. > :21:01.talk. I felt very grateful for the kindness, but I experienced it as
:21:02. > :21:07.pressure because talking won't help. Talking... What's the point talking
:21:08. > :21:12.about it. I was specifically trained not to do that. Did you have a
:21:13. > :21:17.friend who you could turn to? All my friends tried to help. They didn't
:21:18. > :21:22.know what to do with me really. I have male friends I can talk to now.
:21:23. > :21:27.But none of them are David. I have made that very clear!
:21:28. > :21:32.In writing! LAUGHTER
:21:33. > :21:37.And I have this lovely wife. The mistake that men make sometimes, not
:21:38. > :21:42.this lovely wife, I mean an actual female wife. I think the mistake
:21:43. > :21:48.lots of men make is they load all of that on their partner stiems and
:21:49. > :21:49.they forget -- sometimes and their same-sex friendships fall away a
:21:50. > :22:02.bit. Fine until the wife dies. They do... Sometimes... Or they
:22:03. > :22:07.leave you, or whatever! You were talking earlier about
:22:08. > :22:10.Edinburgh. A couple of weeks ago I was in Edinburgh doing my radio show
:22:11. > :22:15.live from the fringe - the best time. It is the most exciting place
:22:16. > :22:20.to be in August. There is only a few days left to enjoy the festival.
:22:21. > :22:28.This year has been a very important one.
:22:29. > :22:35.This year is Edinburgh Festival will be 70. Each year it is turned into
:22:36. > :22:40.an epicentre where many of our greatest stars were born. When I was
:22:41. > :22:43.21, certainly one of the most important turning points in my
:22:44. > :22:51.career. I wish to register a complaint!
:22:52. > :22:56.So this fellow who was tall with big blue eyes came along and it was Hugh
:22:57. > :23:03.Lawrie. We instantly hit it off. Hello... Hi. It was everything I had
:23:04. > :23:10.dreamed of as a child. It showed me the world of entertain.
:23:11. > :23:17.There was night when nobody came. We had no audience. Somebody came up
:23:18. > :23:22.and said, would you like to do TV? Your own show. That's what happened
:23:23. > :23:26.in Edinburgh. How did it all begin? After the war, in 1947, the arts
:23:27. > :23:30.were seen as a way to heal the nation. And this spirit of optimism
:23:31. > :23:35.was going to play out here, in the city of Edinburgh. These streets,
:23:36. > :23:39.over the last 70 years, have witnessed a coming together of
:23:40. > :23:45.artists, writers, musicians and that strangest breed of all - comedians,
:23:46. > :23:49.in what was a triumph of iedism. Like most young performers I never
:23:50. > :23:56.thought what lay behind it all, why it exists, why it was ever thought
:23:57. > :24:05.of. What was the spirit of 1947? The festival had been the idea of a
:24:06. > :24:10.remarkable man. Rudolp Binge was an Austrian due and believed to turn to
:24:11. > :24:17.art in darkened times. I started to work on it in 1945, when the war
:24:18. > :24:21.hadn't quite ended, so the challenge was getting artists who had never
:24:22. > :24:27.heard of Edinburgh. It was quite a task. It was a mad idea in #19d 47.
:24:28. > :24:31.Britain was still -- 1947. Britain was still struggling after the war
:24:32. > :24:36.and to travel outside the UK was impossible. It must have been a hard
:24:37. > :24:38.sell for the people of Edinburgh to tell them they were going to put on
:24:39. > :24:42.a party and invite the world. Food had to be brought into the city.
:24:43. > :24:48.Flowers arrived by the truck load. The bigger problem was there was
:24:49. > :24:51.nowhere for anyone to stay and a rumour the Americans expected en
:24:52. > :24:56.suite bathrooms of which there were none. They thought of chartering a
:24:57. > :25:01.ship or a permanently housed train to house people. In the end they
:25:02. > :25:05.made a plea to the people of Edinburgh to find 10,000 beds and
:25:06. > :25:11.they did. Across the city people opened their homes and enough beds
:25:12. > :25:15.were found. The festival was to become a plagues of drawing together
:25:16. > :25:18.different nationalities. It would bring the establishment and the
:25:19. > :25:23.anti-establishment face-to-face. Even at that first year, those who
:25:24. > :25:32.were not invited took things into their own hands.
:25:33. > :25:37.A whole new phenomenon was born. Thank you!
:25:38. > :25:42.You can chart the course of Edinburgh from this arts festival,
:25:43. > :25:46.which was arts with a capital A - ballet and classical music and the
:25:47. > :25:53.underthing - fringe, which was low, as opposed to high art and you can
:25:54. > :25:57.watch how that takes over. The fringe challenged the high-brow
:25:58. > :26:02.sensibilities, who roots were in classical arts and created a new
:26:03. > :26:12.space where anyone could come and be discovered. Clive Anderson,
:26:13. > :26:15.Reece-Jones... Now, 70 years after it began, the Edinburgh Festival
:26:16. > :26:20.sets the tone for British come dif and the arts and brings the world to
:26:21. > :26:25.our doorstep. Like so many comedians and performers I owe my career to
:26:26. > :26:32.Edinburgh. I think we all have a lot to thank it for.
:26:33. > :26:36.And you can watch Jack's documentary, Festival Tales:
:26:37. > :26:39.Edinburgh at 70, on BBC Two tomorrow night at 9pm.
:26:40. > :26:44.Back starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday 6th September at 10pm.
:26:45. > :26:57.when some of the stars of Holby City will be here.
:26:58. > :27:00.Now, to play us out it's Ella Eyre with her new single,
:27:01. > :27:19.# I see you thinking that you're killer
:27:20. > :27:22.# But could you love someone else like you love yourself right now?
:27:23. > :27:25.# I wonder if you'd even notice, yeah
:27:26. > :27:28.# I wonder could a girl like me get your heart
:27:29. > :27:30.on your sleeve somehow, yeah yeah yeah
:27:31. > :27:37.# Know it's something I should try to hide
:27:38. > :27:39.# It's too late and I don't wanna lie
:27:40. > :28:07.# I guess I thought that I'd knew better
:28:08. > :28:22.# I'd never let a guy I met get inside of my head like this, oh
:28:23. > :28:25.# I see you acting like you're modest, modest
:28:26. > :28:27.# But you're too pretty, let's be honest, honest
:28:28. > :28:29.# Hoping you were a different type to the one track
:28:30. > :28:33.# Know it's something I should try to hide
:28:34. > :28:36.# It's too late and I don't wanna lie