25/11/2011 The One Show

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The One Show, boys and

girls, Gries, budgies, dogs. We have a very special person with us.

To be Rorty, possibly the Queen of worldwide entertainment. -- TV

royalty. I think she is here now. On the show tonight we have

Penelope Keith. Hello, viewers. Hello, Penelope. Penelope has been

restoring some houses. I know, I saw the first show. It was

beautiful. I approved it for the BBC. That is jolly nice to hear.

This is Dr Sarah Jarvis. Please, Doctor! I will wait until that is

out, I think. You have to put it in a warm spot. The at is my line!

This is Jay Rayner. You have to get some tasty treats with him. Lovely

chef's hands. And that is the wonderful, wonderful Chris. Hello,

my dear boy. In case you are very new to the television, this is

Chris Evans. Would you like to meet the public at home? I would. Shake

their hand. Hello, possums. Dame Edna Everage is here! Please, sit

down. This is amazing. Dame Edna, thank you so much for coming.

Darling, we are so, so happy for you and your lovely dancing. We

wish you great success. Thank you very much. It is so nice of you to

be with us on our first one-hour show back. Where are you staying

when you are in the UK? Considering the extreme discomfort of the

studio, viewers, you have no idea. It looks lovely but backstage it is

a nightmare. Even the ladies' room, it was... You need to see the men's

room! You probably went in by mistake. That was a lovely line up

for the start of the show but it was your second of the day. It was

because earlier on her Royal Highness Camilla popped in to see

us in Strictly rehearsals. This is no joke! I think you are so great.

It is a great series. It is petrifying. Will you be watching

tomorrow? I shall. I would not miss it. How come she was there? Well,

she is a big fan of the show so she asked whether she could come along.

I asked whether we needed to curtsy, and we did. We had to address her

correctly. I mispronounced it and said hello, can. Luckily that is

nearly her name! You have been in lots of line-ups. Knowing them as I

do, it does not feel like work. they coming to see you? Do you go

to see them? A little bit of both. I really rather adore them. I am of

course a Republican and a disapprove of royalty. But not our

royalty! I love them. They have perfect manners. Did you find that?

They do. Her face was in shadow. I don't think it really was her but

that was a lovely clip all the same. We are going with the story that it

was her! Did you see this on the TV last weekend? It was Alex Jones at

the top of the leaderboard for Strictly! I thought it was

impressive. I thought it was impressive, too. I

was speechless. Was that the sponsored silence?! Here is your

partner, James. Welcome to the programme. Hello, dear. Hello.

have been together for the last eight weeks. James, I am really

rooting for you. Thank you very much. Top of the leaderboard. Did

you ever think you would see that? No, to be perfectly honest. Can I

have a copy afterwards in case it never happens again? How did it

happen? Apart from Alex best teacher -- having the best teacher

on Strictly, which is obvious! She danced very well. She does not take

itself too seriously. We have a good time and put in lots of work.

We train about eight hours a day and we cannot do much more. Your

aim, and it works, is to make the difficult look easy. Alex makes the

easy look difficult! That can happen sometimes. How was the big

Wembley show? The tango is all about passion. You might have been

worried it would not come across on that big stage. But it did. I would

like to point out that we did not run through the routine from

beginning to end until we got on set on Friday. We had to do it in

three parts because the studio was so small. She had the added

pressure of not being able to dance it from beginning to end. Can you

imagine? Was there any other added pressure, may I ask? Did you feel,

with his gorgeous young woman, a sense of arousal?

Lovely! We are like brother and sister. I am a married man! Can she

go all the way? Forgive me. Calm down. This is a family show. It is

a public show. They get to decide, at the end of the day. What do you

think? I think yes because I know how adorable she is. Alex has,

whatever anybody says, improved the most. And she has a nightly TV show.

All right! Round of applause for James. How but have you looked on

the dance floor and do you have a photograph that you are willing to

share? -- how a nice have you looked? So send in photographs of

your best ballroom dancing shops. We are willing to accept action

shots. We will show the best at the end of the show. If I am trying to

find Alex, she can be anywhere during the holiday, but if she is

trying to find me? You always have your nose buried in a car magazine.

I do like automated vehicles. But compared to a gentleman from Stroud,

I am nothing. He has a real problem with a particular kind of vehicle.

UCC good went to meet him and his long-suffering wife. -- Lucy.

Mervyn's hobby has taken him from one end of the country to the other,

but I don't think his wife is quite as keen. Just a little bit further.

I only wanted a cup of coffee. at that. It is beautiful! What do

you think? We have seen them all. Why fire engines? It is sad, but

when I was in primary school I could not be a fireman, so I

decided to do the next best thing and take photographs of the fire

engines around the country. Do you love fire engines? No. When was the

last time you have had a holiday that did not involve a fire engine?

No other. I deserve the Victoria Cross for putting up with it!

Mervyn sent his photographs to auction and it was a like-minded

enthusiasts that bought them. How would you explain to me the

seductive quality of these machines? They look ready for

action, ready to deal with any emergency that comes their way.

This one was built on the 12th series. This is the main building.

They are called aerial ladder appliances. It is amazing. He does

know it all! I thought it would be nice to bring Mervyn Jim Martin in

a marsh and the Fire Service Training Facility. -- to Molton in

the marsh. This is not open to the public, but it is nice to give him

a chance to do what he has always wanted to. It had to be a Dennis!

It could be nothing else. We have a surprise for you. You are not just

looking at it, you are driving it. Wonderful! He is heading straight

for it. Are you excited? Yes. now making fire engine noises! The

firemen talks him through the controls, but let's face it, he

knows them all anyway. automatic gearbox is here. Push the

button in and select tried. 13 tans, 250 horsepower, this baby can pump

300 gallons of water every minute. -- 13 tonnes. I have been in the

car with him. Keep your eye on the speedometer! I certainly will.

are you feeling? Top of the world. Yes! I can't believe he is actually

driving it. He has been dreaming It feels fantastic. Absolutely

That was absolutely fantastic. Better than I ever thought. What

was so good about it? I was in control of it. In control, like

with my wife. Perhaps this will be the start of a whole new

collection? Perfect. What Mervyn does not know is that

we have a surprise lined up for him. It will be outside his house later

tonight. It will be live on TV. This is just like Noel Edmonds!

Don't miss it. Dame Edna, you are starring in your first pantomime

this year. Extraordinary, isn't it? It is a long time coming, surely?

have had a lovely career and this is a watershed, whatever that may

mean. I am in pantomime at a place called Wimbledon. It is as close as

you can get to an Australian suburb in London. A downmarket Australian

suburb, of course. And I am in something called Dick Whittington.

Right! It bears very little resemblance to the real story of

Dick Whittington but it is fun, family fun. It is marvellous to be

playing with all these gifted young actors and actresses. There are

lots of rats involved. You have resisted the lure of pantomime for

your whole career. How come it has finally grab you? Honestly,

Christopher, and for those of you that have just tuned in, this is

Chris Evans! And lovely Alex, too. The reason I resisted for so long

is that I have never been asked. You must have been! People think

they cannot afford me. But they can? They can! Does a woman of your

experience need to rehearse for pantomime? Do you just walk

straight on? I don't. I am there every day with this cast of

thousands. Beautiful sets, and of course the lovely people, the young

couple. Dick Whittington is played by Sam. Have you heard of him?

Beautiful. And the lovely girl playing Alice is little Anna.

Another presenter? Yes, of course. She is absolutely gorgeous. I adore

her, too. What about your manager Barry Humphreys, is he in The

Hobbit? My manager Barry Humphreys, by a miracle, is working. And he is

in the film made in New Zealand of The Hobbit. It is based on a story

called The Hobbit. And it is about a Hobbit. He is playing the evil

Goblin King. Very good casting, if Have you talked to him on the

phone? I'm not really communicating with him. He is an embezzler.

Simple as that. You must have met a few in your time. Other names are

available. You are far more famous than your manager because there is

a statue of you in Melbourne. But you don't like it? I hate that

statue! Look at it. It is an eyesore. What is wrong with that?

Look at the frock! That horrible face. Very bright lipstick. Luckily,

it is in a part of Melbourne when nobody does. We want to help you

change that. That is why we brought in speed sculptor Frances Segelman.

She is going to create a brand new head with your statue that you can

take with you to Australia. I can go to Australia with my head under

my arm! You can take off the old order and put on the new one.

would be happy to do that. I did notice this attractive woman

fiddling with something. sculpted the Queen, by the way.

she? After ran and reasonably warm We have just started to see signs

of winter creeping up on us. If you are hankering after some sunshine,

we've got the perfect excuse to treat yourself to a trip abroad.

large number of us Brits need to get some vitamin D. The best way to

get it is through blue-sky thinking. Ricketts, the trial to the bone

disease, has been hitting the headlines recently. -- the trialled

hood bone disease. Some doctors are starting to see more cases of a

disease we thought we had beaten 70 years ago. Professor Nicholas

Clarke runs a weekly clinic for children with bone problems. He has

seen a growing number of children with rickets. The classic story for

infants is that there is usually quite significant bone deformity.

Usually swollen joints. As the child gets older, the commonest

physical sign is knock knees or bow legs. It results from the more

severe forms of vitamin D deficiency. Although on the

increase, cases like this are thankfully pretty unusual. Milder

forms are still very common. Three- year-old Calo was diagnosed with

vitamin D deficiency last year. took her to a health visitor and

she got her to stand up with her feet together. There was a bit of a

gap. She said, that might potentially be knock knees. She had

to have a blood test. They said, yes, she is slightly vitamin D

deficiency. I was quite worried. I thought I should have picked up on

it. Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones in children and

adults, because it helps us absorb calcium from our food. Recent

research suggests that it plays a role in protecting against serious

diseases like diabetes, heart attack and bowel cancer. It is

vital that we get enough. We get some vitamin D from our diet. Over

90% is produced when we are exposed to the sun. That is why it is known

as the sunshine vitamin. Our bodies harness the energy of the Sun to

manufacture vitamin D in our skin. That is one reason why so many

people in the UK do not have enough. The dark your skin, the more time

you need in the sand to make enough. It is no coincidence that cases of

rickets are often in areas with large ethnic minority communities.

There is another problem. During the winter months in the UK it is a

real struggle to make enough vitamin D, whatever the colour of

your skin. It is all to do with where you are in relation to the

sun. During the spring and summer, when the sun is at its most

powerful, we get enough solar energy to make vitamin D. During

the winter, production slows. If you live north of Birmingham, the

winter sun never get strong enough and vitamin D production grinds to

a halt. In adults, symptoms of vitamin D deficiency include aching

bones and muscle weakness. A blood test is the only way to confirm

deficiency. A recent study found that around half the UK population

have lower than ideal levels. Professor Clarke believes our

modern lifestyles may explain why some children have low levels of

the vitamin. There is, one may say, a tendency to model -- mollycoddle

children in terms of lifestyle. They spend most of their time

inside, they get taken to school in the car, they do not play sport.

This does not contribute to the exposure to sunshine. It was not

clear what originally caused the vitamin C deficiency, but she was

put on supplements and told to spend plenty of time in the sun.

is coming to spring and summer and she was getting out a lot more. On

the last track but we had, she was improving. -- the last check that

we had. She needs to have annual checks to make sure that it is

getting better. There are things you can do to boost your levels of

vitamin D. Try to eat more foods like oily fish, mushrooms and eggs.

Or you could consider supplements, particularly in the winter or if

you are dark-skinned, or in an at- risk group liked pregnant women

with young children. And make the most of the sun. Just 10 to 15

minutes' exposure on unprotected face and arms during the spring and

summer may be all that is required. Be sensible, don't sunbathe. A

little sun is good for us. What is better than one doctor? Two.

Dr Sarah Jarvis is here. We are both fair-skinned. And we are both

vitamin D deficiency. I am the same as you. My doctor said that if you

just have that bit of your skin exposed to the Sun for 20 minutes,

that is enough? Probably if you live in the south. We are

discovering that people that live north of the Midlands are going to

be vitamin deficient all year round. So, it really does... What are you

going? She is being attempted! absorbing every little drop of the

vitamin D. Are you hanging on my every nugget? I bet you learn

something from that. Absolutely. Essential. Have you seen cases of

rickets recently? When I was a medical student, we saw them in

text books from the Victorian era. I am not old enough to have been

around then, we are all too young. You are smart! These days, I have

seen a few cases. Not often, but they are happening here in the UK.

Is there anything we can do at the moment apart from taking

supplements? There is not, but you don't need it every day. You can

store it. If you have it during Bach I am not surprised you got

things wrong! If you have that during the summer time, that is OK.

But kids are sitting inside on their Xboxs. And their parents are

being really careful that they don't get into the sun too much. We

do not want too much, but we do want some. We are being given

conflicting signals from the medical profession. Keep out of the

This is not a word with which you are familiar, but it is moderation.

Somewhere in between. Excess is my motto! Tell me this, my darling Dr.

Goodness knows where there has lovely hands have been. I believe

in vitamin L. Laughter! That is the thing that we all need lots of.

Don't you agree? Yes... And does not going to the toilet, either. We

stalk it. Well done for getting By Wendy Robins brought us the

amazing moment when a fire man was reunited with a young girl whose

life he had saved. Tonight, another story of survival against the odds

41-year-old father Robert two Harry Berger owns a bar and bed-and-

breakfast in the Lake District. On the 2nd June last year, he was

driving to his local bank in Seascale when a chance encounter

changed his life. Take me back to the day it happened. I had driven

into Seascale, perfectly normally, oblivious as to what was going on

in the outside world, as usual. To be faced by a taxi approaching the

under a narrow bridge, he started to handle a gun. I turned around,

as if to say, do not threaten me with that, and he shot me. It came

through and hit my right hand. Then he shot me again. This time, in

through the triceps, out through my bicep, removing everything. And

then he casually drove off. armed man was Derrick Bird. Derrick

Bird drove through the streets, committing indiscriminate murder.

He was a quiet, local man, he went on a killing spree through West

Cumbria, calmly shooting dead 12 people and injuring 11 before

taking his own life. Did you know at that stage that you were badly

hurt? When the second shot hit, I realised then that there was

something majorly wrong. Because I could not feel my arm. It had gone.

It was just dangling. There was nothing I could do. Did you think

you were going to die? I had no reason to think otherwise. The loss

of blood, I would describe it as catastrophic. I assumed I was going

to die. The Great North Air Ambulance was called into action.

On board, a team that included Dr Simon Leclerc, an army doctor with

many years' experience dealing with battle wounds in Afghanistan and

Iraq. I remember seeing bodies with sheets over them and police

standing by. That is when it hit us that it is very surreal to be doing

this in the British countryside. I've thought about Harry a lot

since the incident. It was a very difficult day. It was a very

upsetting day. I have heard he is doing well, but I've not seen him.

It would be good to see how he is getting on. The shooting resulted

in Harry losing two fingers and the use of his right arm. He has had

five operations and he still suffers excruciating pain on a

daily basis. Yet he knows that without the expertise of Simon,

things could have been a lot worse. I think I was incredibly lucky to

have somebody with battlefield experience, a recent battlefield

experience. He saved your arm? think he saved my life. He got

quite a nasty hole in his arm, that we packed and dressed. We made sure

there was a tour Nikkei above it, so it didn't bleed any more than it

had. We wrapped it up in pressure dressing, the things we used in the

military. What would you like to say to him? Thank you is very

small... I don't know. Simon is recently back from Afghanistan and

on call with the air ambulance. I brought Harry over for a special

reunion. It is the first time the two men will have met since that

terrible day a year-and-a-half ago. This is a very surreal moment for

me. It certainly is. Thank you very much. He thinks you 100% saved York

-- his life. I genuinely do. Firstly, I wanted to make sure you

didn't have more Signet big injuries. You can get shot by

snipers and they can have wounds that are not of the its. After that,

I was focusing on your arm. I thought you were going to lose it,

to be honest. I am glad you have still got it. I was pretty

determined to keep it. I kept telling people in accident and

emergency, I am keeping my hand and my arm. I said, there is no way I

am going to lose them. You've done a great job. I'm a bit of a

patchwork quilt. But I would prefer to be a patchwork quilt than

To cap the whole events of the last 18 months with finally meeting

Simon, he is the guy, ultimately, who saved my life. He let me have

another life. Two very brave men. Harry is currently attempting to

raise money for the Great North Air Ambulance Service to try to repay

them for their help that day. Now, Dame Edna is with us this

When did you get here? Not here, but here. And what did you get up

to at first? I came to England... It doesn't date me edit, possibly.

I came to England from Australia because I had won an award called

the lovely Madaya contest. -- a lovely mother contest. A lot of my

girlfriends cent pictures to the newspaper, the morning Murdoch. I

won the competition, a trip to England. I came here, very shy,

self-effacing woman. A little bit like you. You remind me of myself.

That means that he will end up like that, when you are older. I will

take that! One of the earliest is you and your daughter. Is and Dame

Margot an absolute marvel for her age? Getting up on her toes and

jumping all over the stage? I must say that my own daughter, Valmay,

she used to get up on her toes before she got married, she would

certainly have passed. I'm not just saying that because she is my

How embarrassing! Do you remember that? I didn't remember it at all.

The colour of my hair has changed. You are much more glamorous. Rather

like yours... I know, I am testing out for the poodle parlour. You can

see what a nervous person I was back then. And I have all the

confidence in the world now. have never been nervous about

anything, have you? If I relax, because I enjoy bringing so much

happiness to people. But you were not even nervous when you were on

You have done it all! And you look remarkably like Marge Simpson in

that clip. Well, she looks like Dame Edna. I think they basted a

little bit on me. It did not hurt my feelings. -- they based it on

May. We have another guest coming up in a moment. He does lovely

coming to your home. This boy invited me home to meet his lovely

wife. Not his first wife, but still. Not my second wife, either! But a

successful union, at producing an adorable son, but I met this

evening. And there is a throne when you walk into his house. That is

true. How the heck do you know that? You can take little pictures

of your son. There is a throne. It was there when we arrived. We did

not buy it. It is not mine. Then there is this woman's home. I could

not believe it. It is full of false eyelashes. It is! How did you get

in? I have got one under my tongue. Horrible. I thought it was a spooky

spider. Very few people have had a TV career for as long as Dame Edna,

how could they? But we have seen the return of one of the rarest of

breeds. Tim Gudgin has been the voice of the BBC's sports results

and he kindly let us follow him at work on his very final Final Score.

My name is Tim Gudgin. You might not know my name and you certainly

do not know my face. But perhaps you recognise my voice. Swindon

Town 1. The South Wales Police 13. My broadcasting career began during

my National Service, when I worked for the British forces Network

Radio in Germany. Two years later I joined the BBC European services.

In 1965 I joined Grandstand. Now the racing results. Those sign

writers were absolutely brilliant. It used to be marvellous weather

blokes used to climb up on really tall ladders. -- when the blokes.

They would write the captions, the latest scores, somebody would jog

the board and something would fall out and they had to get down and

put it back on. Tim Gudgin is the voice of the results. And briefly

the face of the results today! 1995, I became only the second

person to read out the football results after my dear friend Len

Martin passed away. Time for the classified results, from Tim Gudgin.

Black Birnerova 7. Not in Forest nil. -- Blackburn seven. Nottingham

Forest 0. I have made some fluffs reading through them. Match

postponed because they are playing tomorrow. Sorry, no-score draw.

That is a fine start! Up to 60 years working in the business, it

is almost time for the final whistle. It is a special and sad

set of classified. For the final time they will be read by Tim

Gudgin. For one more time, BBC One is all yours. Thank you. Everton

two. Wolverhampton 1. Swindon Town 1. Yeovil Town 2. Exeter city 2. --

Exeter City. That is a brilliant story. Tim

Gudgin was going to be on the programme. We wanted to talk to him

and get him to meet Dame Edna, but he could not come because his

family had organised a secret, not any more, birthday party for his

82nd birthday. Happy birthday. A happy birthday, possum. We are

about to welcome another very special to be staff. Do you mind

sharing the limelight? I don't in the least mind. I hope it is a

beautiful woman. In it is. Penelope Keith. She has a brand new show,

with a cheeky title, To The Manor Reborn. Let's see the sitcom that

inspired it. This is Mr de Beer. How do you do? It was a great shock

but life must go on. It is Mr de Beer of Cavendish foods.

caterers? In that case you must give everybody else a drink.

Penelope Keith! In that little clip, that is the first time we see

Audrey and Richard. What made them such a success? Oh, very good

writing, very good actors. I remember Scandinavian journalist

saying the same thing to me. Why was it such a success, the series?

I said I didn't know and I asked him. He said it was a love story

and everybody loves a love story. Don't they, Dame Edna? I have a bit

of a love affair from a distance with you. You have been described

on this wonderful, seminal and pivotal television programme as a

TV star. I know Penelope Keith also as a distinguished stage start. --

stage start. You have been at the Theatre Royal in Haymarket just

like me recently. Those wonderful boards. You carry on. We will

leave! I love this show. I have some influence at the BBC. When

they submitted To The Manor Reborn to me, in which people who can

afford to buy a manor house, old people... And people that are rich

like you. Yes. You show them how to revamp them and make them lovely

again. Yes, it is wonderful. They can touch the furniture and lie on

the beds. To The Manor Reborn is on Thursdays and Sundays depending

where you are in the UK. Let's have a look. I see a worried face.

is because of the marble. Can you think of another room where there

is that kind of marble in a bedroom? I am not keen on the

marble panelling. I love the blue ceiling. Clouds, in that caving

area, I think it will look stunning. That is so Queen Anne. It is to

sherry for the National Trust. -- too flashy. It is sort of like a

posh DIY SOS. Is it?! Do you think people really want their houses

turned into Tudor and Georgian houses? No. It is the National

Trust has been restored. Well, being reinvented. Mostly when you

see National Trust houses, they were lived in by one family, and

this one was lived in by lots of different families. You have four

death at periods of history, which is interesting. You have to do, --

four different periods of history, which is interesting. Tudor,

Georgian. And somebody invested a lot of money and had a good time at

restoring the stones. It is older than Stonehenge. It is unbelievable.

What an exciting process that you are sharing. I am sharing it not

just with them but with you. I did so many wonderful things. I saw

Lennon being woven, carpets being made, silk being died. I went to

Holland to see the marble. I got into the Royal Bath in my Georgian

nightie with Dan Cruikshank. Top that! I couldn't possibly!

would you try? Please stay for the rest of the show. I told the BBC to

do this because I knew it was a good idea. I gave it the green

light, Penelope Keith. This, by the way, is the distinguished Penelope

Keith. And I am on a lovely little show called The One Show. And my

guess is Chris. -- my best. countdown to Christmas is

officially on! If you are in charge of buying the food for Christmas,

don't panic. Jay Rayner has one thing that has to be on your list.

Stilton is one of our oldest blue cheeses, a staple on many a festive

cheeseboard. We produce 1 million Stiltons every year and one third

are sold over Christmas. But where does our appetite for this mouldy

cheese come from? I have come in search of the origins of this

world-beating English beauties. Where better to start my journey

than in Stilton? Excuse me, do you have any Stilton made in the town

of Stilton? No, because we are not allowed to make Stilton cheese in

Stilton. What? Why not? It is in the wrong county. The European

Union gave it protected status, meaning it can only be made in

Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire, but not in

Cambridgeshire. In fact there is no proof that Stilton was ever made

here. It first got its name after being sold in the 18th century at

this in. The world's entire supply of Stilton come from just five

dairies which are allowed to make it. I have come to the world's

biggest Stilton dairy in Leicestershire. It is a far cry

from its farmyard beginnings when the mould that Stilton is famous

for developed naturally as the cheese was the Turin. Now it is a

taste that we have grown to love. - - was much during. How do we get

the mould? It was manufactured in the blood -- laboratory. What does

it look like? It arrives in powder form at and then we add water.

did almost the colour of Stilton mould. -- it is almost. Do you want

to try some? No! I prefer it in the Stilton. Just adding the mould is

not enough. You need the blue veins. It also has to be skewered. Do you

just put a hole in it? Yes. You just put it all the way in and then

pull it out. What are we doing? allow the oxygen in, which start

the mould development. Around one- third of the 400,000 Stiltons will

be found on our cheese boards this Christmas, but what is the best way

of eating it? In days of all, it was laced with port to prevent it

drying out. What effect does that have on the all-important taste?

You have done one here. Can I try some? Please do. It looks rather

extraordinary, I have to say. It is interesting. You get the fruitiness.

Then the cheese underneath. I am not entirely convinced. Still, who

cares what I think? Let's ask the good people of Melton Mowbray.

Please try the Stilton by itself. Lovely. Now try some that has been

fed with port for a weekend. You really don't like it, do you?

prefer the Stilton and the port separately. You can hardly describe

opinion as divided. Every single person thought it was best eaten as

his. And I agree with them. -- as it is. As it happens, it was also

the World Cheese Awards. It is like we planned it! It could not happen

at a better time. We do the Stilton film and then the World Cheese

Awards. And the winners. This is the world's best cheese, from South

West France. It is a sheep's milk cheese. I would like to apologise

for the cheese hedgehog. I am a class C man that somebody is not.

nothing wrong with pineapple and cheese on sticks. There is

everything wrong with that! little bit of salami and gherkin

would be nice. The cheese is creamy. I think it is fantastic. I have

ruined it for you. Sorry, Penelope. Next to we have the best Australian

cheese, Moss Vale blue, made by Berry's Creek into one, 100

kilometres from Melbourne. -- Poowong. From where? Poowong. There

is nothing funny about that. think we can smell it in Melbourne.

I understand that your friends Sir Les Patterson was share of the

Australian Cheese Board. He is no friend of mine. But he is a

Cheeseman and he pioneered the Tasmanian cheese with purple veins.

But he come from Poowong. Lot of people come from there. What should

we do? Do not store it too cold, in the warmest part of your fridge. Do

not rabbit in clingfilm, but greaseproof paper so that it can

breathe. What about tinfoil? Look at the clothing you are wearing!

Greaseproof paper. Do not serve it too cold. It has to be nice and

warm so that the softies can run away. They have to come out to meet

What about when the cheese goes mouldy that is not supposed to be?

Can you just cut it off? People in health and safety will scream at me,

I think you can on hard trees. it to the birds! If it is wrong, I

will be told about it on social media later! After the success of

our viewer trifle challenge, we have another one. We have the mince

pie challenge. We are on the hunt to find the favourite mince pies.

We want you to reveal your baking secrets, your mystery ingredients

and your recipes. If you want to enter, you need to send a picture

of your Ben Spies, a description of what makes them so original and

your personal recipe. -- mince pies. We are going to put the recipes

into a book, sell the book and keep the money for ourselves. No, we

will set the challenge and the winner will go head-to-head with a

chef from a top restaurant. That is what we are going to do? When you

take a picture of it, you should have a cross section. You should

see what it looks like. Absolutely. Open it. And smell it. OK, if you

could send us a cross section, that would be amazing. Bisect one

tonight will stock and some smell. Don't forget to send a picture of

yourself, also in cross section. Full terms and conditions are on

the website. Now, who do you go to if you want

to find the inside track on a must she loved personality? Children, of

course! We asked the son of Dick Francis to lift the lid on growing

up with his very famous dad. Dick Francis, great jockey, best-

selling writer and a champion dad. What a treble. Best known, perhaps,

for his thrillers, set in the racing world. But he was already

known in the 1950s as a steeplechase jumper, riding over

2000 races and winning 300 of them. But there was one race that he was

desperate to win. And it would all end in disaster. He avoids the

collision and takes the lead. ESB, they are close together. It was the

1956 Grand National. He was riding the Queen Mother's horse. Devon

Loch can't lose... Heaslip! -- he slipped. Devon Loch is on his feet

again, but it is too late. The most tragic defeat in Grand National

history. He was worried how much he might have upset the Queen Mother.

He wrote a letter the day after. It is one of his most treasured

possessions. He has never shown it to anybody. But now he is gone, and

so we she, I think that I can. She says, I believe that all over the

country people were weeping over their radios. Although this does

not cure the pain in one's heart, it does help to know how sincere

and kind is the feeling of sympathy for owner, trainer, jockey and

gallant horse. His worst fear is that he would be remembered as the

man who did not win the Grand National. He didn't need to worry

about that because of his success in writing, first as a racing

correspondent with the Sunday Express and then with thrillers. I

just had my mother's home movies put on to DVD. It is the first time

I have seen them in 40 years. So exciting. Here is my dad, mowing

the lawn. He hated having his photo taken. My mum used to do it all the

time. They were absolutely devoted to each other. He was a great

showman. Here I am, jumping. It must look like an idyllic childhood.

He wrote quite a lot here, in Paignton in Devon. This seaside

hotel is where the family had been coming on holiday all of my life.

50 nine-times for me, so far. This is the hotel beach, where we had

such fun. We used to play cricket and my dad used to whack the ball

into the sea. He would be running backwards and forwards and we would

have to go and swim to collect it. He was so competitive. Marvellous

times. In her later years, during my mother's ill health, they moved

to the Caribbean. The warm waters. But this was the beach where we had

all of the fund. This is where we had all our memories. Who needs the

Caribbean when you've got Paignton He always found writing difficult.

He was absolutely amazed by the successful stop but 43 books over

half a century, all of them about racing, translated into 35

languages. Look at this. The headline. Dad was a careful writer

and a stickler for Branagh. Two days before he died, his Carys said

to him, come on, Dick, please eat some more or you will get sicker

and sicker. He looked at her and said, I think you mean more sick

and more sick! I am now writing the books under my own name. The only

fiction I used to write was school reports, because I used to be an A-

level physics teacher. But we still call them Dick Francis books. I was

forever stealing the typewriter. Perhaps it was for things to come!

Any other kids of famous mums and dads, if they want to make a film,

that is fine. Send your e-mails to the same as the mince pie people.

We have asked for York versions of Strictly pictures. We've had

thousands of them. How about this, from Germany. This was her, 46

years ago with Billy and Bobby Irvine, who were then the ballroom

champions of the world. This has been sent in by Roy Harris. It is

the dress rehearsal for my wife and I, representing eastern England

against Northern Ireland in 1964. Isn't that a great picture? So nice.

Dame Edna? This is from Julie Davies of West Sussex. She says,

this is a photograph of myself, Lisa and Debbie, all set to do the

Charleston. That is the dance tomorrow. What do you have? Sent in

by Keith and Sam Whatley. They are from Devon. My wife and I, dancing

in the Maldives on our honeymoon. Very romantic. Very Mamma Mia.

Earlier, we met a man called Mirfin, whose obsession with fire engines

has seen him and his wife travelled the country, spotting them, for the

past 40 years. Lucy Siegle is with him outside his house. It is time

to let him in on his big surprise. It's very exciting. I am at the end

of May in's Road, with a slightly confused Mervin. You are excited?

He can hear the siren. What do you get the fire engine spotter that

has spotted them all? You get him one he has never seen before. That

is courtesy of Nottinghamshire Fire Service. What do you think of this?

It is a unit! A Specialist Rescue Unit. Are you delighted? Absolutely

overwhelmed. Also courtesy of the fire service, we have Colin Poyzer.

Stand over here, get close to it. You can touch it, if you like. What

is this used for? It is a specially built emergency rescue unit.

were built it?! He has lots of questions, just stick to mind.

is not used for fire fighting, just technical rescue. Large animal

rescue, multiple accidents, or water rescue. There is a clue there,

water rescue. It is a beautiful machine, but there is something

inside? A fully inflated boat. Would you like to launch it?

would love to! How much? I would love to! Showed him how to do it.

am going to press this button. Keep your finger on it and watch what

comes out. Go! Very exciting moment. It is a bit like Thunderbirds. Give

us some statistics as it comes out. It is a 383 inflatable boat. On the

other side, we have an outboard motor. Fantastic! The best I have

ever seen one launched. A fantastic. It would not be complete, this

experience, without that wonderful woman that has been by your side.

June, the long-suffering June. It is not all about Mervyn tonight.

We've got something for you. Fire We have got fire engines, flowers,

Do you know how much bother that film has just caused? What do you

mean? So many little lads that want a fire engine for Christmas, they

will have known which one they wanted, and now they will want one

with a boat coming up the back. I am talking specifically! Throughout

the show, Speed sculptor Frances has been working on a replacement

for the head of Dame Edna's statue in Melbourne. Because she doesn't

like it, we much point that out. don't like it. This is Dame Edna

speaking to you now. You are a serious sculptor, though? I am

serious. You do this for fun, but you have done the Queen? Absolutely.

How did she compare, to the Queen, as a model? I haven't been near

royalty until now. She sounded very Was that sincere or not, as an

actress? Terribly sincere. You can That took two hours. That is

beautiful. My skin is not quite so Tallard. But it is very, very...

Much better than the other one. -- so tanned. Thank you very much. Are

you genuinely happy? Two hours. are such a clever little Minx.