25/08/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones...

And, back by popular demand, it's my favourite singing

Tonight we're joined by a comedy double-act -

one of whom has said, "We did some of our best stuff

when we couldn't stand the sight of each other."

So for the sake of their new sitcom let's hope they really hate each

One thing is for sure, they never miss a merchandising opportunity.

Talking David Mitchell doll, 28,000 world vocabulary in different

settings. Thank you for that contribution to proceedings. What

are my special features? It says you come with a spare T-shirt. You

obviously have a brilliant relationship, do you ever wind each

other on purpose? We did the voices for evil robot in Doctor Who, and I

did them separately. I knew what ever I did, David would have to do

the same kind of thing. I deliberately did it a very camp. I

remember that! Did you go with that? I just did mine very camp as well. I

couldn't have gone totally different, I would say the

characterisation of the two robots was quite similar. Can you do the

voice? Just sort of camp, like that. No, do the voice!

Ella Eyre will also be singing for us.

She's currently in the top 10 with Came Here for Love,

and she'll give us her new single Ego before we go home.

Now, settle down, buckle up and please return your tray

Rory Reid has met a man who has "single-handedly" stopped at nothing

The saying goes, you can't keep a good man down. And it couldn't apply

more than two Steve Robinson. He is one of life's go-getters. A

mechanic, an inventor, successful motivational speaker, he has tried

snowboarding, skiing, canoeing and he is an award-winning pilot. He

puts this list of achievements down to the fact that he lost his right

arm when he was just 18 years old. I was the top student at the technical

College, studying to be a motor mechanic. They lined me up for a job

in the Formula 1 pits. The last day of my final term, I went out on my

motorbike. In the afternoon, I lost my right arm. I had a midair

collision and the motorbike went into my chest and did loads of

internal damage, and it ripped my arm off. Steve began intense

rehabilitation. But with only one arm, his dreams of working in

Formula 1 were over. Instead, he put his energy and remaining arm into

fixing motorbikes, old jukeboxes and one armed bandit arcade machines.

It's a bit of a joke, people used to call me the one armed bandit. You

didn't let your disability get in the way? The fact I had to push

myself harder than anybody else, that is how I got into loads of

weird and wonderful things, like being a break dancer. People said I

couldn't do that with one arm, it was like a red rag to a bowl. I had

to do it. He used his determination to prove you can't keep a good man

like him down. On the ground, that is! I was looking on the internet,

and I saw an article for a flying scholarship for disabled people. I

thought, what have I got to lose? To his surprise, he was accepted. In

2014, he began flying lessons. To operate the controls he needed to

wear a prosthetic arm for the very first time. But this artificial limb

was not up to the job. We were doing some flying at 3500 feet. I said to

my instructor, you've got control. He said, no, you've got to learn to

fly with one arm. I said, no, John! You've got control! My arm has

fallen off! It had, it was on the floor of the aircraft. It was scary,

but it was funny. Determined to fly, he spent the next eight months in

his workshop coming up with this. It looks like something out of a

Terminator movie. To ensure it won't come off, he fixes it to a self-made

rigid jacket that he wears like a waistcoat. This is actually what is

connected to my jacket, on my shoulder. Then it reconnects onto

that. Thanks to his own bear home-made arm, he gained his private

pilots license and is now a regular at his local club. So, this is the

ride. You have your jacket on. How long does it take to fit? Just a

couple of seconds. Does it have to be approved by someone? It have to

be passed by a medical flight examiner. It meant I could do my

first solo flight. It clamps onto one of the two throttle controls. As

I move around, there is no movement transferred to the throttle while it

is in the unlocked position. When I lock that, any movement of my

shoulder is transferred through to the throttle. Basically, it is just

doing that on take-off, full power on take-off, and when we come to

land, we are adjusting the throttle all of the time as I control the

stick. So I'm actually flying the aircraft by twisting my body. Shall

we do that? Take me up! We are that! That was easier than

you thought, wasn't it? Soon we're gliding along. You're using your arm

for the throttle? His aluminium arm is ingenious and it cost less than

?100 to make. Here we go! But this is just the beginning. This is my 3D

printed arm that arrived yesterday. It is far lighter, so futuristic.

Looks amazing, doesn't it? You are unstoppable. Anything is possible if

you put your mind to it. Unbelievable!

Have you used it? I have, but it has a few problems. Just a fuel. When I

push forward to put the throttle on and pull-back to take it off,

there's about two inches of play. When nothing is happening in that,

it's quite scary. You want immediate power. You have to be going around

straightaway. He was pretending to be cool in that plane, but was he?

He was quite nervous. I was buckled in with the prosthetic arm, Rory was

stirred by the wing, looking down. He had a pretty scared looking face!

I felt quite sorry for him. He was probably not one who had been in an

aircraft with a one armed pilot before. I said, are you OK? He said,

I'll be all right. I said, don't worry, I'll look after you. He

should have looked after me, he is bigger than me. Would you take these

two? I'd take them both, I'll take anybody up. I'm in! When you have

done it, coming thing, why didn't I do this before? I'm fascinated,

before you had the accident, were you right or left-handed?

Right-handed. So you have the trauma of losing your arm and had to learn

to do everything again with your left hand? It's pretty hard. The

hardest thing is doing a one-handed handstand. I did actually practice

that. I used to take a dog for a walk, I was the nutcase on the

field, try to do a handstand. I didn't need to do it, but I wanted

to because it was a problem. I became a problem solver. It is not

just about solving problems with you. You actually face your fears

head-on. You didn't like flying before you started? I needed

hypnotherapy to go on a flight to Spain with some friends. I would be

the guy sat in the seat, praying. Please don't let it crash. I was

terrified. You can't really keep that up when you are a pilot, can

you? It would be a good, comedy good, the sketch, wouldn't it?

My other fear was of horses. Now I compete in dressage and I came fifth

in the qualifiers. Had roles of your time, you say, I went and trained to

be a pilot, I was scared of horses so I thought I would do dressage?

Doesn't everybody do that? There must be a problem because you need

two hands for the reins? It is so precise, to give instructions? Yes,

I decided to make my own. You make your own reins, your own arm? If it

doesn't exist, you've got to make it. It's like a bar, and you just

twist the bar, the horse can feel the movement. Hopefully it will go

left when you say left. They don't always go left. Sometimes they do

what they want to do, and that is pretty scary. Do you want to do that

in the Olympics? What would stop you? I need a decent quality

dressage horse. You need somebody to sponsor you? What a great plug! We

could talk all night. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for coming in.

Thanks for having me. David and Robert,the

two of you are back together in a new comedy -

appropriately named Back. Here you are as Stephen and Andrew,

meeting at the graveside Anyway, there is something that I

need... To say. That I was... Never able to... I can't believe Dan has

gone. I mean, dad, the best dad, gone. Yes, dad. My dad has gone.

Don't mind me, I was just remembering the wonderful times with

dad. Dear, sweet dad. Do I know you? You are at your father's grave, and

he turns up. He is saying that he is his father as well? Explain the

premise. Transpires that Andrew, Rob's character, he not saying he is

my little brother, he is a foster brother. My parents used to have a

lot of foster children. He was fostered by my parents for five

extremely precious, important months in his teenage years. Stephen

massively resented the foster kids, but Andrew was one of the

favourites. He has done all of these groovy things, he has had a drama

workshop in Berlin. He comes back metropolitan and suave and makes

Stephen's life a total mystery by working his way into the affections

of his family. Andrew, your character is sort of the baddie? He

might be either very reckless and needy, a people pleaser that puts

people in danger because he wants everybody's approval, or he might

actually be the devil. He has this implacable streak of malice. He is

much nastier than anything in Peep Show. Every now and again, you are

trying to figure out if Andrew is just a little bit awful, or if he is

really, really evil indeed. Stephen is not in a very good place in his

life. Recently divorced, his career has fallen apart, he drinks too

much. He remodelled the pub badly. Everything he touches turns to...

Let's say non-gold. He sort of has very few aspirations. Andrew comes

and tries to take what life he has away from him, and Stephen, when he

protests about it, he just looks like a paranoid loser. Where did the

idea come from? It is written by Simon Blackwell. I have no idea, it

came from the strange things in his head. Clearly with you two in mind?

He wrote it with us in mind. He is hilarious. He wrote some episodes of

Peep Show and he worked on Veep, so he knows what he is doing. You did

Peep Show for 12 years. This is brand-new. Is it daunting to be

launching a brand-new sitcom? That was so well loved and received, it

is quite a big deal to come back with something different, brand-new,

nobody knows about it? How are you feeling? Blimey... We were feeling

fine until you... We are very proud of it, we think it is funny. Peep

Show, we were proud of that. But it was about young men, soon after

university. Which is why we stopped playing them. If it had been a

cartoon, we could keep doing it, but the visual evidence of ageing... You

get to play yourselves as kids in Back? It is lovely seeing the 80s

style. It was 80s, wasn't it? I have made you older than you are?

Sometimes it is children, but then suddenly you appear, morphed into

them? Every now and again, you see your ten-year-old self. I think that

is quite nice, really. We often feel like that, going around pretending

to be grown-ups, and something happens occasionally and you think

you are ten again, I don't know? Do I have to pretend to know what to

do? And they both have very, very different memories of this time.

Stephen's memories are downbeat and depressing, vague. Andrew has

Technicolor, precise memories of this idyllic five months he spent.

The way they project different things on the figure of this dead

father, whose funeral we saw them at... Brilliantly played by Matthew

Holebas. The whole cast is good. You worked a lot at Edinburgh. A

long time ago. In the 20th century. One after the other. Don't forget

Back starts on Channel 4, sixth September.

Your friendships goes back over 20 years. You know each other pretty

well. Do you openly talk to each other and react to each other. Like

feelings? It's completely banned. This may be interesting then.

Here's Mobeen with two men who got through their lowest moments

Men offer suffer alone because they are unable to open up about their

feelings. This condition can be helped by closer relationships

between men. If you saw men hugging in the 1980s you would assume they

were gay, but now we have seen the bromance. Carl fell into depression

when he lost his job and his relationship broke down. I went to

see a doctor and I had severe depression and general anxiety

disorder. When did you enter a bromance? After university, I needed

someone to live in London. Carl had a spare room. So I moved in. It was

over the next year that we realised we had loads in common. We really

like each other. That is when we started to support each other.

During that year we both had quite a difficult time. I was visibly in a

bad place and someone had put in the effort to sort of get me off my feet

and say, let's go and do something for 15 minutes and take your mind

off of it. How are bromances helping mental issue? Issues such as

self-harm, breakdown, young men can talk about these issues and have the

deep and meaningful conversations they were not able to have 30 years

ago. It is about shared interests. They must be emotionally at the

till. There must be physical intimacy and love in that

relationship. After his father committed suicide George was forced

to commit his own anxiety and depression. I felt I had no way of

what was going on in my head. The big turning point was when I needed

a place to live because of things that were going on at home. We lost

our family home and Alex said I could stay with him at his mum's

place. We were always best friends. He almost saved my life. I didn't

know what I was going to do. We started boxing when we were both

about 16. There was quite a long walk down from the gym to my mum's

house because of all the physicality of boxing and training you were more

relaxed and we could talk about things. It was so important to have

him there, not judging me. Not changing the way he acted around me.

It didn't affect our friendship - if anything, it made our friendship

stronger. What is so important with us is I have never been ashamed to

speak about how I felt or what was going on. In other situations maybe

I would. I think our friendship is different from regular friendships

because Alex knows sort of what I thought at the darkest times and you

were there at the darkest times. Men are opening up to one and other

like never before. With this type of close friendship having positive

results and improving mental health, that can only be a good thing.

Thank you. Are you somebody who can open up? I imagine you can! I don't

want to talk about it. Do you think it is important and it's about the

way children maybe are talked to and approached when they are very young.

You know and made to feel it is OK to cry, OK to feel... Certainly with

boys. What you say to a boy when you tell him to man up or act like a man

is usually stop feeling these unwanted feelings. Stop expressing

this pain, this grief or fear. It is not an entirely good idea to tell

them that. It doesn't prepare you for adversities. My mother died when

I was 17. I had a lot of people saying if you want to talk, just

talk. I felt very grateful for the kindness, but I experienced it as

pressure because talking won't help. Talking... What's the point talking

about it. I was specifically trained not to do that. Did you have a

friend who you could turn to? All my friends tried to help. They didn't

know what to do with me really. I have male friends I can talk to now.

But none of them are David. I have made that very clear!

In writing! LAUGHTER

And I have this lovely wife. The mistake that men make sometimes, not

this lovely wife, I mean an actual female wife. I think the mistake

lots of men make is they load all of that on their partner stiems and

they forget -- sometimes and their same-sex friendships fall away a

bit. Fine until the wife dies. They do... Sometimes... Or they

leave you, or whatever! You were talking earlier about

Edinburgh. A couple of weeks ago I was in Edinburgh doing my radio show

live from the fringe - the best time. It is the most exciting place

to be in August. There is only a few days left to enjoy the festival.

This year has been a very important one.

This year is Edinburgh Festival will be 70. Each year it is turned into

an epicentre where many of our greatest stars were born. When I was

21, certainly one of the most important turning points in my

career. I wish to register a complaint!

So this fellow who was tall with big blue eyes came along and it was Hugh

Lawrie. We instantly hit it off. Hello... Hi. It was everything I had

dreamed of as a child. It showed me the world of entertain.

There was night when nobody came. We had no audience. Somebody came up

and said, would you like to do TV? Your own show. That's what happened

in Edinburgh. How did it all begin? After the war, in 1947, the arts

were seen as a way to heal the nation. And this spirit of optimism

was going to play out here, in the city of Edinburgh. These streets,

over the last 70 years, have witnessed a coming together of

artists, writers, musicians and that strangest breed of all - comedians,

in what was a triumph of iedism. Like most young performers I never

thought what lay behind it all, why it exists, why it was ever thought

of. What was the spirit of 1947? The festival had been the idea of a

remarkable man. Rudolp Binge was an Austrian due and believed to turn to

art in darkened times. I started to work on it in 1945, when the war

hadn't quite ended, so the challenge was getting artists who had never

heard of Edinburgh. It was quite a task. It was a mad idea in #19d 47.

Britain was still -- 1947. Britain was still struggling after the war

and to travel outside the UK was impossible. It must have been a hard

sell for the people of Edinburgh to tell them they were going to put on

a party and invite the world. Food had to be brought into the city.

Flowers arrived by the truck load. The bigger problem was there was

nowhere for anyone to stay and a rumour the Americans expected en

suite bathrooms of which there were none. They thought of chartering a

ship or a permanently housed train to house people. In the end they

made a plea to the people of Edinburgh to find 10,000 beds and

they did. Across the city people opened their homes and enough beds

were found. The festival was to become a plagues of drawing together

different nationalities. It would bring the establishment and the

anti-establishment face-to-face. Even at that first year, those who

were not invited took things into their own hands.

A whole new phenomenon was born. Thank you!

You can chart the course of Edinburgh from this arts festival,

which was arts with a capital A - ballet and classical music and the

underthing - fringe, which was low, as opposed to high art and you can

watch how that takes over. The fringe challenged the high-brow

sensibilities, who roots were in classical arts and created a new

space where anyone could come and be discovered. Clive Anderson,

Reece-Jones... Now, 70 years after it began, the Edinburgh Festival

sets the tone for British come dif and the arts and brings the world to

our doorstep. Like so many comedians and performers I owe my career to

Edinburgh. I think we all have a lot to thank it for.

And you can watch Jack's documentary, Festival Tales:

Edinburgh at 70, on BBC Two tomorrow night at 9pm.

Back starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday 6th September at 10pm.

when some of the stars of Holby City will be here.

Now, to play us out it's Ella Eyre with her new single,

# I see you thinking that you're killer

# But could you love someone else like you love yourself right now?

# I wonder if you'd even notice, yeah

# I wonder could a girl like me get your heart

on your sleeve somehow, yeah yeah yeah

# Know it's something I should try to hide

# It's too late and I don't wanna lie

# I guess I thought that I'd knew better

# I'd never let a guy I met get inside of my head like this, oh

# I see you acting like you're modest, modest

# But you're too pretty, let's be honest, honest

# Hoping you were a different type to the one track

# Know it's something I should try to hide

# It's too late and I don't wanna lie