25/11/2015 The One Show

Well, hello, and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt

Baker. After the Chancellor updated the country today about the state of

the economy, we thought we would give you our own Autumn Statement

about what it is on the show. I am delighted to announce that our

Minister for Balancing Giant Stones has increased the number of stones

on top of other stones by one. In order, order! And our Minister for

health, Daley Thompson, he has been getting people in offices around the

country of their chairs and climbing stairs at an unprecedented rate.

Order in the house! Our very own Speaker of the house has increased

laughter in the UK by a staggering 72%. Please welcome Dara O Briain!

Always lovely to see you. Welcome, on this very special day. Yes! Do

you have an Autumn Statement? What does the they should have too much

of? Ask, between the and the One Show! A break would be lovely and

then they can breathe and miss us -- us. This is the hour show, on the

Wednesday, a good time to miss it. -- mention it. And it is not just

you, also joining us as Rachael Stirling, one of the stars of the

new BBC drama Capital, which is all about money, appropriate after

today's Spending Review by George Osborne. It was a dramatic afternoon

in the House of Commons, when he surprised many by abandoning his tax

credit cuts and collecting -- protecting the police project. But

he did confirm ?12 billion of welfare cuts and as always, the

devil is in the detail so we you happy with what the Chancellor had

to say? We will borrow ?1 billion less than we forecast, making faster

progress towards eliminating the deficit and paying down the debt.

Following on from the Chancellor's speech, I have come to Croydon to

speak to some local residents to get their views. First, I am doubling

the housing budget, doubling it to ?2 billion a year and we will

deliver, with government help, 400,000 affordable new homes by the

end of the decade. You are an estate agent, you have listened to those

proposals on housing, 400,000 extra affordable houses, how'd you about

that? It is great but the market and for those who can afford to buy

houses, it gets them into the property market at a much cheaper

entry point. You are in the construction industry, it is

obviously a bonanza. Yes, a great time at the moment after the

recession, it has been seven years waiting the announcement,

fantastic. Do you think the industry is capable of delivering that

properties? It is a tall order. My question is how much of this new

housing that is going to be built will actually be social housing? How

much of it will be run by private and possibly unscrupulous landlords?

Because I have been able to announce today an improvement in the public

finances, the simplest thing to do today an improvement in the public

is not to faze these changes in but to avoid them altogether. Tax

credits are being phased out anyway as we introduce Universal Credit.

This flagship policy from the budget was quietly dropped, what did you

think about that? These are words I thought I would never say, but I did

quite admire him for making that U-turn. I know that anything to do

with benefits and cuts in income just exacerbate those problems, so

great. The policy was voted down in the House of Lords, so I wasn't

surprised. I would have been disappointed if it went through

because I think people who are at work and are not being paid enough,

for whatever reason, deserve help and support. There are enough people

in the country sponging and these are not spongers. We are not happy

with the situation that so many people in this country have to turn

to it. Employers should pay a proper wage. The NSA -- NHS budget will

rise to ?120 billion by 2021. What did you make of that? Extra money is

a positive thing, but I suspect it won't be enough, many services have

been underfunded for many years, so it is playing catch-up. I suspect it

will be a bit of a sticking plaster rather than a full on operation. I

had a friend in a local hospital who went a car windscreen of a bicycle.

They could not scan him because the scanner was down and he died. So we

really do need to protect vulnerable people in hospital. We are putting

in ?10 million. But in real terms, what is that going to be? It is not

just about the amount of money being spent but making sure it is being

spent effectively, in the right places and getting the right

resources in. Thank you to everybody in Croydon for taking part.

Dara, you used to do of this series, School Of Hard Sums. How would you

like this one, balancing the nation's books? That is voodoo, it

is not a real science. You can't decide whether to put money into the

economy or take it out, same problems, different solution. With

respect, it is all 17th-century medicine. They attach the leeches,

they take the blood out, something might work and game will take the

credit for it. I am happy to be proved wrong, but there are so many

different variables. The budget is not something that occupies your

brain, because on the cover of your new DVD, Crowd Tickler, we have got

various sections. Not a surprise that there is an equation. Yes, you

have to fill in those things, when you do one of those phrenology

schools, you have do fill in the gaps and very few people will

recognise that, it is Stephen Hawkins' equation, we did the

documentary this year and that is his equation about the size of a

black hole that he derived himself. It is kind of a private joke with

Stephen Hawking. And Gloria Estefan. That is a very large section of your

brain. She has been in three different shows, I had her as walk

on music, the lyrics to one of her songs. So not actually her! No, it

is not like me and Gloria... I often go to Miami and hang out. I am the

Miami Sound Machine, and Gloria is singing over it. This DVD is a tool

as well, which is coming to an end. This weekend, Plymouth on Saturday

will be show 142, because when you write the show, you want to do it as

much as possible. The DVD is weird, it is like the album for a band,

Butcher recorded once, one night and the cameras are on and had better

work. We did it at the Apollo. It is of the tour but because it is one

snapshot on one night, it is kind of the weird thing to see it, because

the tour for us as night after night and all of the different stories and

this is one slice of that. You said some of it just didn't turn out you

imagined. U2 once every few years and you think when I go back to the

towns, will it have moved on -- you go on to once every few years. Can I

take the pulse of the nation? And one thing had changed across the UK

and Ireland. One thing. Go on. What has changed in the three years since

the last tour? One thing has changed across the UK and Ireland. Where did

all the pulled pork, from exactly? -- come from exactly

# And more importantly, how did we survive until now without it? Every

meal in a restaurant, I will have a bit of pulled pork with it, we will

slide a bit in Tibet. It is a cheesecake, it has no use for pulled

pork -- we will slide a bit into it. It is so true. We did a weekend of

Belfast, a great place to go to eat and drink but it was like, can you

put more pulled pork in this credit market is in cereal, sandwiches.

Everywhere has barbecues and pop-ups, where did it come from? It

wasn't around, it is like an alien invasion of some description. You

are talking about how your show has evolved over time, when you go to

visit these places all around the UK, you must start switching from

the second you leave the house because all of the material you

bring to the stage about your journey. Absolutely and when you go

to different places, you have this weird relationship from all of the

previous stories you had there and from random running jokes that only

exist in one town... I go to Warwick, the arts Centre and the

university and they leave crisps on the stage due to something that

happened ten years ago. When I go back to Redding, the running joke

will be there was a police officer in the front row and everyone was

exciting and she got up and left and I said, where are you going? And she

said, I got a call. And the whole room said, we want to know what that

is! And then she came back halfway through the second half and sat down

and watched the rest of the show. And we are all going, what happened?

As if she had been asked to stop a burglary and had caught somebody and

then gone, right, I can write you up now but I am going to see the end of

a show so I am going to tie you to the pole outside the theatre. We all

hoped when we walked out, there would be of: --: -- they will be a

fellow and tied to a lamp post. Crowd Tickler is out now on DVD.

Now, many of us are still searching for the perfect work/life balance,

but one man has found the answer by making balance his life work. Yes,

and when artist Adrian Gray approached the One Show with a plan

for his biggest balancing act ever, we had to go and take a look.

I became a stone balancer back in the year 2000. When you balance to

stones together, it is such a simple thing but it has a very high

impact. Because it looks so peculiar and when they are in their balanced

position, the sculpture can almost come alive. What I am going to try

and do here is balanced this stone on the end of the base stone. Some

people think they are not real. People think they are some kind of

illusion or gimmickry. There. When you get it to balance,

there is this fantastic feelings of not just success but the pride in

what you have done, it is extraordinary. A few years ago, I

decided that I needed to do a monumental stone balancing

sculpture. I spent over a year looking for a location which would

do justice to a big stone balancing sculpture and here on Bodmin Moor, I

looked up and saw the tors with the naturally balancing stones and I

thought if I can mirror that'll get anywhere close, this is the ideal

location. And of course, they will be a fantastic backdrop to the

work. The base stone is about 6.5 times. We have never done anything

this big before, nothing on this scale and nothing that will look

quite so impressive. This is the base stone and in the middle of

this, I have a big pin coming up here that sunk into the bedrock and

it is holding it nice and solid. This is the top stone and it is held

up by these. This is called the choke, the positioning of the choke

is crucial to getting the stone hanging in the right place. Because

of the size of everything here, I have got a whole team backing me up.

Normally, when I am doing stone balancing, I am feeling with my

fingers that the point of balance. This is a whole new ball game,

because I can't feel them at all. I can only do it visually.

Just take the weight off and let's see it fall to the right. That is

it. Towards us. If the strops are not in the right

place, it is already leading to far one way or the other and it won't

balance -- leaning too far. It is constantly falling that way, so we

have to move the choke to the left. We are now just making little

adjustments to which part of the top stone touches first. We are really

close now. I can't believe it fell over, to be

quite honest. I thought we had got it right. So we are going to get

back on it and try again. It is feeling like it is really

close. We get down to a very finite bit of movement and then we lose it

and we have to start again. It is a little bit frustrating. Back, about

that much. If we start losing the light, we will have to start calling

it a day. Right, we are changing the choke. It is toppling that way, we

needed to sit more upright. We can't work in the dark, so it

might not happen. Yes! We have been doing this all

day, I mean all day, the nervous tension has been ridiculous. I think

we have done it just in the nick of time, the light is going. I am

feeling fantastic, it is a world forced, but not only that, it has

created a fantastically good-looking stone balancing sculpture. That is

massive. I can imagine that when it is sunny

you will see different colours on it. I think it is going to be one of

those pieces of sculpture that changes with the seasons. How long

were they there for and where they save? The big one on Bodmin Moor was

for -- there for a week. The top stone weighed three and a half

tonnes. I knew it was a strong balance because we had a few

upsets. We eventually got it balanced in place. Yesterday we took

it down because we are going to fix it together so it is safe for going

into a public place. It is going to RHS gardens in rose more. It was on

a private farmer's land. He said they do not have many walkers. I am

sure it will be all right. None of these are affixed, are they? Just

perfectly balanced. Is there a danger that somebody is going to go

up and go, bang! Yes, I am obviously careful about health and safety but

I do sell them as garden sculptures. The great thing about that is that

people say that subconsciously they are reluctant to dodge them because

they feel they have that presence. I could almost blow that over. 60

kilos and I could almost blow it over. Will you blow it over now? No,

because it will make a massive noise. I am not going to do it. It

might not blow over. Just show everybody that it is going to fall.

15 years of art down the drain! Seriously, they are in a triangular

position. Do you always know that is the balance point? The secret is it

is not an exercise in being great in balancing. You have to have the

vision to choose the stones so it will look in probable, and that way

it has a sense of wonder. Lots of people are good at balancing but the

key is the aesthetic. You do it incredibly well.

Now we want you at home to impress us with

your balancing skills by balancing one or two things on top of each

other - taking a photo and sending it to us at the usual address.

And please, stay safe whilst having a go!

A dream, you have got a book out. You are going to pass some of those

tips on to Dara. I am going to try to balance my shoe! This is my

teaching rock. There are a lot of good places to balance. This is a

good stone. Can I putted any side? Put it on that point because it will

look better. Let me get out of the way. That does not make me feel

confident! You think you could turn this into a balancing stone? I

cannot see any way of doing it. You need a lot of practice. You have two

is in on what you are doing, feel that point of contact through your

fingers. Look for any help you can get in the stone. We're going to

give you the length of the next film to keep playing with it and see what

you can come up with. A Buddhist exercise. When I finally do this the

universe will end. Whilst Dara lifts rocks,

one of Britain's most decorated athletes has a far more strenuous

exercise regime lined up for a group And he was even prepared to

break the office 'no shorts' For many of us, long hours in the

office make exercise after the working day seem impossible. I am

going to try to change that. This is Daley Thompson.

At his superb best. With two Olympic gold medals at three Commonwealth

titles and wins in the world and European Championships, I think I

have got the sporting credentials. Motivating Britain's workforce to

get fit in eight weeks should not be too difficult, right? There is

potential for a lunchtime work-out in every office block, if only

people would use the stairs and not the left. It is such a simple change

but for people in these buildings it is often not an option. The stairs

are off-limits on a day-to-day basis. That is not the case in the

11 whole building. Better known as the Cheesegrater. It stretches to

the 13th floor. Catherine Conway is head of communications. People tend

to eat lunch at their desk, everyone feels the pressure of work. We are

delighted you are here to help us because we want people to use the

stairs as much as possible. We want to encourage people to realise the

benefits of why that is important. I am sure we can get their competitive

spirit to, cried. I will be monitoring those left. To see who is

not taking the stairs. Helping me is Doctor Brenda Christopher, who

specialises in sport and exercise medicine. While she gets the

measurements, I am going to get to know them better. How much exercise

do you take? I played golf every week. What has that got to do with

exercise? ! I do a lot of dancing. I have a gym membership but I have

countless -- given up and cancelled it recently. Of the reason you have

not been doing a lot? Got married. Married life has been treating me

well. Too much food and alcohol. Time to checking to see I'm working

with. These are our volunteers. Any thoughts? We have got quite a wide

range of participants in terms of their levels of physical activity.

The measurements I have taken... I hope to see that go down as they get

fitter. The other thing that I am hoping we will see a difference on

is their muscle strength. We have taken strength measurements. We will

see if we see any improvement. We have gathered volunteers

together. I'm going to lead by example with a quick warm up.

Everybody OK? There we go. A bit more range. My man, the star jumper.

Climbers, do you know what they are? People who climb mountains. We are

going to see if we can make any kind of physical change in you with a

little regular exercise over the next eight weeks. It could not be

simpler. Avoid the left. Walk for your lunch. Get off a stop earlier.

The small changes over a long period of time, you will cash in on the

benefits. The most important thing to you will be bombs of steel. I am

not entirely convinced by this bunch, so I think I had better make

sure they have some extra eyes on them.

I have made sure my presence will be felt while I am gone and I will be

back in a while to check up on them. APPLAUSE.

Is that why is? A cardboard cutout of Daley Thompson in my dressing

room. And we'll see our Cheesegrater

volunteers take the Stair Challenge Have a look at what happened moments

ago in the studio. We have given Dara the challenge of balancing this

stone and incredibly, about two minutes after you started, this

happened. It is all in the torch. APPLAUSE.

It has since gone, I believe. Me walking away. That is how

It has since gone, I believe. Me it was. It was quite satisfying. You

and I will never forget that moment. I know. We shared a thing there.

She is starring in a big new BBC drama called Capital.

It's about the residents of a gentrified street in London,

whose lives are changed after a threat to the entire neighbourhood.

Let's remind ourselves of the dramatic ending to last night's

episode. It looks absolutely intriguing. I

know we're supposed to look at things before we have guests on, but

that looks brilliant. In a nutshell, without spoiling the plot for me,

give us a little flavour? It is about the lives of the residents of

the streets of London over the course of a year, compounded by the

rising property prices. They are all simultaneously given anonymous

postcards that say, "We Want What You Have". Invariably the only time

communities come together is when they are under threat. The community

get to know each other to work out what is happening. It was written by

the brilliant John Lanchester. It is mostly about the financial crisis

and its impact on everyday life. You play the character, Arabella. What

does she represent? She represents the materialistic, money grabbing,

ruthless side. Toby Jones is my husband. He is a banker. I am a

money grabbing horrible creature. Are you both baddies? I get a hard

rap but Toby's character is equally at fault. They are both pretty bad.

As bad as each other. When it says, "We Want What You Have", what do

they want? That almost makes it sound like a murder mystery thing

which it is not. The idea is that everybody wants more than their

house and when you get it it is never enough. It is about the

consumerist in all of us. Socially it is a document of London. You have

got an old lady. Who probably bought the house when it was very

little... It is in the programme if you watch it! She has been living

there for 60 years. We taped it.

We are going to look ahead to next week's episode, which nobody has

seen. You get some bad news.

Now, where to begin? I think we are looking at a period of fiscal

rectitude. Fiscal rectitude! It sounds like an internal examination.

You and I both know your bonus is about to come through. Do you know

how much my bonus is? It is not 2 million, not 1 million, it is

?30,000. You expect me to believe that, Roger? Just go up. India

darling, Merry Christmas, how lovely to hear from you.

As you said, you're working the brilliant Toby Jones. You have also

been working with your mother, Dame Diana Rigg. It took a while because

you are not keen, were you, to do a project together? We did Doctor Who.

Mark Gay kiss wrote. -- Mark Geddis. She was plain this horrible woman

who blundered daughter as an experiment. I started to act tackler

with my stick. -- to attack. We were giggling, very badly behaved or

around. She is in Detectorists play my mother. We have always wanted to

work together. It is a cliche and I'm embarrassed by the cliche nest

of it, the full entitlement of children of actors. I have earned my

crust and I love it. I wanted to be able to hold my own.

We were looking around for trips to play and we found this brilliant one

of your mother being interviewed by Parkinson.

I was pushing her through a London store, a high-class London store,

and she was terribly quiet. I knew exactly that one finger was lost one

nostril. But I decided not to say, do not pick your nose! There was a

long pause and suddenly a triumphant voice said, bogey!

It does go on about your bottom as well. We thought we would leave it

at that. Were you aware when you were younger at Adelaide how famous

your mum was? Only because pervy dads kept looking at her.

I don't know why you looked at me at that moment! Exhibit a of a pervy

dad. I would be holding her hand and people would the gunpoint and stuff,

but she was very good at keeping work separate, so I was not a kind

of stage door child particularly. I used to scale up people and thing,

go away, she is my mother, leave us alone -- scowl at people. I felt

protective. Capital continues on Tuesday at 9pm on BBC One. But you

can always watch it online player if you want. Now, whilst Capital is set

in an area of gentrification and rising house prices, at the other

end of the school is Jaywick, officially the most deprived area of

England. Yes, the Essex seaside town has become so run down, even the

council admits they are embarrassed. So can the latest rescue plan

finally turn things around? Here is Fiona Foster.

This is Jaywick, once thriving seaside resort on the Essex coast,

but like many of our coastal towns, it has fallen into a sad and sorry

decline. And as if to hammer the point home, with above-average

unemployment and a large, older population, Jaywick was recently

declared the most deprived neighbourhood in England. I must

admit, on a cold November day, there are pockets of it that are a bit

depressing. Boarded-up shops, a lot of potholes. Altogether, the place

reminds me a bit of a faded 1950s beauty queen who has not aged very

well. But the seascapes here are lovely and back in the 1930s,

Londoners in need of fresh air flocked to this purpose-built

resort. Today, many of the former holiday chalets are no permanent

homes. Coralie net moved here six years ago. What it is like being

somewhere that was never intended to be a proper, permanent home? For a

1-person plays, it is ideal. Whole family, that is another matter --

1-person plays. Then you get inventive. She rents are home from a

landlord who keeps it in tiptop shape, but says others are not so

lucky, adding to the air of overall neglect. We do have some rogue

landlords. They have no interest in keeping properties up to

specification. And the tenant is not going to have any interest in

looking after dump if they are living in one. The you, it must be a

bit of a downer to go outside and see so Faubert and a bit of old

rubbish. -- see a settee. It is. We get people looking from the outside

Jaywick is a dumb and it isn't, we need better. And the people of

Jaywick are uniting to stop the rot. They have spent ?8,000 of National

Lottery funding on this man, community planner Jim. The community

has spent their money on you. They could have spent it on something

concrete. How much responsibility do you feel to get it right? It is a

huge responsibility. Although we were asked to do this by the

residents, they were supported by Tendring district Council, Essex

County Council, the Environment Agency. They have said they want to

hear what the residents are raster and we will work to that plan. So

today, Jim will hear first-hand from locals what they want for a better,

brighter Jaywick. What would you like to see done?

We need more shops, street lights put on, things like that. We need a

lot of money put into the development, housing, things on the

beach for children to do. We could do with a few more shops. Because

everything has gone. Everything is outside of the area. We need to

bring the facilities, the schools, everything, right into the centre of

Jaywick and build the community around it. Paul Price is leading the

redevelopment of the local council. He admits Jaywick has been ignored

for far too long. Looking at some of the roads, some

of the properties, you have to say, what on earth have successive

councils been doing to have ended up in that shameful state? I think it

has become an embarrassment to all the councils and to central

government. We have now decided to take a different approach.

Basically, you have been embarrassed into it, haven't you?

Absolutely, it is a shameful position to be in, but we are

determined to do something but we want good roads, good

infrastructure, bringing in things like schools, shops, medical

facilities that people desperately need here. The council plans to

invest ?7 million in Jaywick, starting with road repairs. Jim says

he has successfully turned around the fortunes of other seaside towns

including Hastings and Eastbourne. So how does he rate his chances of

succeeding in Jaywick? There has been a lot of discussion,

how confident are you that you can translate that talk into something

practical? You can never be sure sure, but this process works, it has

worked in other communities and there is no reason why with the

right people around the table, it can't work here as well. And the

renewed interest has Coralie more buoyant about its future. There are

certainly people who love this area. There is an excellent community

spirit here and they don't want to see it fade. Undoing decades of

decline might take years of achieved but you -- to achieve, that you do

get a sense the winds have changed or at least have started blowing

some needed optimism Jaywick's way. Thank you, Fiona, and you have

inspired the nation, Dara, we have loads of balancing photos. Of rocks

or just things? All will be revealed. But children! We are going

to talk about Tomorrow's Food, as it suggests, about the food of

tomorrow. And about the sheer scale of how you feed a country of 60

million, and the sheer scale of how it takes place. And it speculatively

looks at how we have to change, if climate change occurs and how it

will affect crops and what we have to do to sidestep that. Some of the

solutions are remarkable. Incredibly eye opening and lots of surprises on

the way. Absolutely. Peter vending machine. -- at pizza. It is three

minutes and out comes a hot pizza. There is something that mature swine

are using sonic waves, we had one of those, and we had Angela Hartnett,

who said I don't want to say this is good, but it is good -- matures

wine. I remember being in a plane over Texas doing cloud seeding,

which is where they apply under a rain cloud that is about to pop and

they fly underneath and the thermal drafts draw aero and you pop little

particles of silver iodide and the water clusters around them and more

rain falls, so they manage to get more rain out of clouds. They get 2%

more and I said that is all right, and he said, over this part of

Texas, that is the same amount of water that San Francisco uses in a

year. So it is like irrigation in the sky, that kind of stuff. Next

week, we see you go behind the scenes at an online supermarket and

basically, Rachael, he should stick to the day job. Terrible. The screen

in front of me tells me what you want and I just want to put the

right thing in the right bag. The stuff just keeps coming. Stop

beeping twice. Have you done that one before and put a number in? Yes.

I have put an error into the system. We have done 12 of these and I have

made errors on three of them, at least one of which has caused a

general stock problem. That small red light flashing, this

is an online supermarket, this ludicrously huge warehouse which has

24 kilometres of conveyor belt, so they found the most efficient way,

that stuff people deliver in the morning, it isn't somebody going to

the shelves and filling the bags, you stand there and it comes to

you, the bags from one direction, the stuff from the other and, it is

gone, next bag. And I said, is this a better way? This is a better way.

Half of it is refrigerated, another part is freezing cold, there are

rules about how long they can spend there, but it is scales. If you want

to bring three meals a day to 60 million people, you have to think on

a massive level. Sometimes those meals are not what we think, because

you cover food fraud. 10% of the food industry is fake, watered

down, changed. As high as 10%. A good example would be their

factories all over Europe run by criminal gangs and there is a back

door, they driving a large truck filled with sunflower oil, they put

food colouring in it and at the front comes extra virgin olive oil.

Get lost. No, it is a big thing. Honey that has been sweetened, it is

not real honey. It is ludicrous. If you order caught in a fish and chip

place, it is often not, it will be freshwater fish from Thailand or

fish from Cambodia. If you stick it in batter and with chips, people

don't always notice the difference. There is one guy in Belfast with

incredible technology trying to source this out and solve the

problems. And Tomorrow's Food continues tomorrow at 9pm on BBC

One. Now, what lengths would you go to be a local wildlife? Veranda

visited one community on the West Coast of Scotland who all pull

together when birds start falling from the skies -- Miranda visited.

This is the town of Mallaig on the West Coast of Scotland. Throughout

spring and summer, it is a busy tourist destination. But by

September, the hotels and guesthouses are beginning to quieten

down. Apart from one B and B. For them, it is the busiest time of the

year, with some unusual from across the water. The Isle of Rum, which

lies just off the coast, is home to a third of the world's Manx

shearwaters. They come in the summer to breed. By September, the chicks

are ready to pledge, heading off into the night to avoid predators,

the fledgling is should be starting at 6,000 mile migration to their

wintering grounds of South America. But here in Mallaig, something

strange is happening. Instead of heading out to sea, the fledgling is

a crash landing all around town. For the guesthouse owner Martin, it is

not business as usual. Each year, he gathers the community together and

Leeds and Manx shearwater rescue mission. If there is a westerly wind

blowing, they tend to get blown towards Mallaig and as they approach

Mallaig, they get disorientated by the lights and will circle around

and eventually crashed to the ground. And they are very

vulnerable. Yes, two cats, dogs, otters, Pine Marten is. A lot of

them get run over. Why can't they just take off? The legs are situated

towards the back of the body and the wings hit the ground, being

relatively long wings, and they need a long run and by the time they get

airborne, they have hit a car, Wall, a house or something else. As the

sun sets and with a westerly wind blowing, Martin prepares for a busy

night. He leads a night patrol in town, a team of local volunteers who

walk the streets looking out for grounded birds. The birds could be

anywhere, so we are shining our torches in every nook and cranny and

it is not long before Martin gets a call from three teenagers who have

spotted a bird. The first one. That is great for the

first half of the evening, only just started and we have got a phone

call. That is a good example of the community helping out in this sort

of situation. Back at base, Martin's wife Jenny takes calls

throughout the night from locals who have found birds that need rescuing.

The birds are taking somewhere cool and dark the night, keeping them

safe until release the next day. And soon, Martin gets more news, this

time from a fisherman in the harbour. This area, with its bright

lights, is a real hotspot for the grounded birds. Thanks to Martin's

efforts, everyone is on the lookout for fledgling is. Very much

appreciate that, brilliant. We quite often get them on their boats,

especially when they are fishing around Rum, but to bring one in like

that is a first. Every September, Martin and his team give up their

evenings rescuing around 250 birds, with a record of 154 in one night.

So it is getting on for about two o'clock in the morning and Martin

and his team do this night after night, all the way through the month

of September, which is just incredible, because I am absolutely

shattered. Definitely time for bed. But there is a little time for rest,

as early the next morning, Martin's work continues. To release the

birds, we aren't taking them to a cliff edge, we are heading to a

ferry. Why do you release them on a ferry? I have done releases in the

past but it is normally from land. In the past, we had quite a good

position. However, the local seagulls got wind of this and they

were chased out to sea and it became obvious that we needed to release

them elsewhere. The local ferry offers the perfect solution. It is

always moving, so the Seagulls can't predict where the birds will be

released. This is the very first one to be

released. In a couple of weeks this bird could be all the way in south

America. Off you go. Good! Great! I don't know why I get emotional about

a bird but it is just lovely to see them going. It really is.

They were lovely. Rachel, when the film started, you and I know that

place. Migrate aren't used to live there. We used to spend our summer

holidays there. -- migrate anti-. Did you ever see any stranded birds?

No. We used to look for shells on the beach. We used to go swimming a

lot. It is a fishing village. It is a really tight community. It does

not surprise me they come together like that. Have we got numbers?

Martin rescued 136 birds this year. His total for nine years as 1890.

When you consider the tiny team, that is an astonishing amount of

birds. This is not a problem unique to Malik, is it? Everywhere humans

live we have created light pollution. In Bardsey Island in

north-west Wales they have got a lighthouse. The bemused tricks --

used to extend 22 miles into the sea, obviously disorientating to

birds. Last year they changed that beam for a red flashing LED beam. So

far no birds have been confused. Just a simple change. The birds do

not get confused by red light. This is a global problem? It is. In the

US and Canada they have got an initiative which a number of

different states have signed up to. Basically they are sort of pledging

to turn off any XS lights at night. New York has got a massive problem.

They estimate that every year 90,000 birds died by colliding with

buildings. A lot of that is to do with confusion with light pollution.

Hopefully that will reduce those numbers. It is not just birds, is

it? Turtles also. Anywhere sea turtles are nesting. They lay their

eggs on a beach. When they emerge, they have got to find their way to

the water. They do that by visual cues. They are looking for

reflections of the moon and stars on the water. If there is a lot of

light pollution around, they get disorientated and go the wrong way.

They end up getting squashed on the road by cars. It is terrible. There

is no substitute for darkness. But if we can have initiatives where

they have low-level lighting, lighting that is angled down, that

goes a long way to help. Also, puffins are in trouble, aren't they?

Puffins are on the endangered list this year. My favourite sea bird.

Puffling is our baby puffins. When they hatch, they get disorientated

and confused by the lights on the mainland. We have got a problem in

the Firth of Forth on the east coast of Scotland. The puffins are landing

on the mainland. The local community are being encouraged to look in

their gardens and under their cars to see if they have got stranded

birds. We are moving forward with this problem. Thank you for coming

in. Time to go back to Daley Thompson's

Take the Stair Challenge. His task - to get desk-bound workers

off their chairs and on their feet. Have the Cheesegrater

crew made Daley proud? Two months ago The One Show said a

group of office workers in the Cheesegrater of the challenge of

getting fitter by taking the stairs. To give our volunteers a sporting

shove in the right direction they have sent me in to get them to go

for gold. Today I'm here to find out if a workplace work-out really

works. The plan was simple. Avoid the lift. Walk free lunch and get

off one-stop earlier. A piece of cake. You would not think so from

these rubbish excuses. I did get trapped once on the stairs. It took

me a week to find the stairs. I have been on holiday. Thanks to my

constant nagging, three weeks gone now, maybe try another couple of

floors, over the next few months I got into the swing of things. You

feel much better for it in the morning. To give them that extra

boost, I sent in my boys to see if my volunteers have been reaping the

rewards of my talents. Nice and dynamic. Bring yourself down a bit

lower. Good job. Try to get rhythm. Fantastic. With four weeks left they

would be mad to think they are getting a reward. These are the

healthiest speeds as you will ever have. Yes, the boxes are empty. It

is the day of judgment. I bet they cannot wait to see me. I wonder what

they made of my challenge? We have gathered our volunteers on the 13th

floor to be measured. The stairwell challenge has been great for getting

people together. They have been talking more, they have been more

energised, feeling a good sense of team camaraderie, encouraging each

other to walk the stairs. People who have not actually been involved on

this programme from the start have been joining in and thinking it is

great. Definitely it has been good for everyone. What do the figures

say? I have got one last challenge while the results are being tallied.

I want them to take the stairs all the way to the top. 52 floors and

1469 steps. Come on, guys! Just do it. Good job

everybody. Well done. Awesome. We all made it to the top but has the

challenge made a difference? On average across the group muscle

strength almost double. Heart rate decreased and we had some real

success stories. Volunteers lost to 2% body fat.

If you are not inspired by this lot, I don't know what to say. Excellent.

The changes have been psychological as well.

I have noticed the change in all aspects of my life. It has been a

massive help. I definitely want to get fitter. It has started the ball

rolling. It is a simple adjustment to getting into work and getting

fit. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. There we have it. The statistics

speak for themselves. You can get fitter by taking the stairs. Anybody

want to come down with me? Now Daley can't be with us,

as he's training for a triathlon Sounds like hell. He has chosen a

Hotel with no lift. But he sent Dr Brinda Christopher to

The One Show with some of the Daley Thanks for coming in. Your work is

not over yet. Remind us how bad desk jobs can be for our health? There

are two main issues with sitting. The first is sitting for prolonged

periods of time. And the second is how we chose to break up those

periods of sitting. It has been noticed that people who sit for long

periods of time through the day are at an increased rate of developing

type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mortality from all

causes. Originally it was thought that the increased risk was down to

the fact that these people were more likely to be obese. But new studies

have shown that you can be of normal weight, have sedentary behaviour and

still have those risks. Are their muscles sensitive to insulin?

Skeletal muscle is the largest muscle sensitive to insulin. If you

keep those active, it is an organ ready to mop up glucose sitting in

the blood. That is important to prevent diabetes. Have you kept this

up? Be honest. Put your hand in the air. Not bad. You have tested them

again. Whether any standouts? There were two. One brilliant example. I

will start with the not so good example. Dav Bachra did not put up

his hand. That is down to the fact he has not been keeping up with the

programme. I recorded that on Monday when I went this week. He had some

brilliant muscle strength gains but he lost about 30% of fat. During six

weeks of him not being active he has lost 30% of his muscle strength.

That is a good example of how we'd de train quite quickly. You can see

some changes happen within two weeks. There is a flip side to the

story with Nick? Correct. He was a real success story. In terms of his

mood, his attention span, his alertness, how lively and young he

feels when he gets out of bed, those soft markers mean a lot to the

individual. Nick, a random applause. -- a round of applause. We have got

you a prize but unfortunately we left it in the office on the seventh

floor. And the lift is out of order. Head to the door, you will see the

stairs in front of you. Thank you. We will see if he makes it.

If you want Daley to inspire your office, his poster is available

Print it out, stick it up and rope your office

Look at all these offices that have already been having a go.

The RSPB in Bedfordshire. Very good work. Big life management. And

Macmillan headquarters in Edinburgh. We have to have a go ourselves. Here

is the entire team taking us to the seventh floor yesterday. We do it

everyday obviously. Certainly.

Please keep sending video clips and photos, we'll keep track of

your efforts on the show and maybe Daley will pop by to help out.

Now earlier we asked to see your balancing skills -

Darrah, you kick us off. Dav Bachra did not do well but he has got the

nicest kits. Really good gym wear. All the condiments in beautiful

condition. This is Graham's balanced diet, a plate on his feet. I have

got the best one. Daniela and Mike balancing a popper Dom and onion

chutney on their dog, Archie. That is also my dad's name. There is my

dad! Anita balances pens. They are stopping her from drinking wine.

This is Gordon with bus balancing. That is all for tonight. Thank you

to Dara forgot onion. Crowds ticker is out now. A big thank you to

Rachel. Capital continues next Tuesday. Tomorrow we have Carlos

Acosta on the show. Shall we see if Nick has made it? All seven flights

to collect his prize. He is nearly there! Come on, Nick, you can do it!

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