:00:22. > :00:26.# Left a good job in the City # Working for the man every night
:00:26. > :00:29.and day # But I never lost one minute of
:00:29. > :00:33.sleep # Wondering about the way things
:00:33. > :00:42.might have been # The Big wheel keeps on turning
:00:42. > :00:52.# Proud Mary keeps on burning # Rolling, rolling, rolling on the
:00:52. > :00:56.
:00:56. > :01:04.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones and Chris Evans.
:01:04. > :01:14.Let's hear it for the winners of The Choir Singh while you work. --
:01:14. > :01:17.Let's introduce our special guest. He has hung out with a rock royalty
:01:17. > :01:23.as a Munich -- music journalist and kept us entertained on television
:01:23. > :01:32.and radio for decades. Please welcome the lovely Danny Baker.
:01:32. > :01:38.Thank you. Tell us about your new book. Joking! You have a new book
:01:38. > :01:47.out. I have never written one before. It is full of wisdom and
:01:47. > :01:52.drama, but it has been the cause of come -- some kind of drama itself.
:01:52. > :01:56.What? Here is the thing. They said be discreet about it. Basically, I
:01:56. > :01:59.have never had a book published before and I did not get it until
:01:59. > :02:04.Monday night. I thought you got it months in advance and gave one to
:02:04. > :02:08.everyone, like confetti. I read it and I thought, that story has been
:02:08. > :02:12.in it already. And that should be there. It turns out it was not the
:02:12. > :02:16.finished book and they had already printed it up and it was going out.
:02:16. > :02:23.They had to bring it back and get other ones out. But it is all right
:02:23. > :02:30.now. It is still not out yet. people have told me they can get it,
:02:30. > :02:34.like boot leg. It is already the collector's item. More about the
:02:34. > :02:38.book throughout the show, but first, one of the best-known tunes in the
:02:38. > :02:48.world. One up -- a record number of people are expected to hear it
:02:48. > :03:02.
:03:02. > :03:07.Of course, we're talking James Bond. Not many people know the story of
:03:07. > :03:14.how it came about. Gyles Brandreth does.
:03:14. > :03:19.From the moment that Dr No hit the big screen, it was not just 007 who
:03:19. > :03:26.grabbed the world's attention. It was the bold and enigmatic tune
:03:26. > :03:30.that accompany the title sequence. I have been expecting you, viewers.
:03:30. > :03:40.Bond villains may come and go but the James Bond theme tune has
:03:40. > :03:43.
:03:43. > :03:48.endured for 50 years. Everyone knows the tune, but few
:03:48. > :03:55.know who composed it. Monty Norman was a big name in the theatre in
:03:55. > :04:00.the 1950s and 1960s. His musical was backed by the man who later
:04:00. > :04:05.produced the James Bond films. rang me and asked me to come to his
:04:05. > :04:10.office to meet his new partner. He said, we have just acquired the
:04:10. > :04:14.rights of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, and we are going to turn
:04:14. > :04:20.them into films. The first one is going to be Dr No. Would you like
:04:21. > :04:25.to do the score? Did you know the novels? Not really. I had heard of
:04:25. > :04:28.James Bond but I had never read them. And then he was made an offer
:04:28. > :04:34.he could not refuse. He and his family were invited to Jamaica,
:04:34. > :04:38.where the film was being made, hoping to inspire him. That was the
:04:38. > :04:42.clincher for me. I did not know whether the James Bond film would
:04:42. > :04:48.be a flop or anything, but at least we would have the sun, sea and sand
:04:48. > :04:53.holidays. Monty was inspired, and he began to write the score. He
:04:53. > :05:00.needed a bold scheme to open the film. So, where did the James Bond
:05:00. > :05:07.theme come from? It came from a musical that Julian More and I were
:05:07. > :05:11.writing, called A House for Mr Biswas, based on V.S Naipul's novel.
:05:11. > :05:14.The musical, based on the story of an Asian community, featured
:05:14. > :05:19.traditional Indian Ince -- instruments, but it never made the
:05:19. > :05:24.stage. I went to my bottom drawer and found this number that I had
:05:24. > :05:34.always liked, and I played it to myself.
:05:34. > :05:37.
:05:37. > :05:42.# I was born with this unlucky # I came into the world the wrong
:05:42. > :05:46.way round. # It had this very Asian quality.
:05:46. > :05:56.get the Indian feel, but whereas James Bond? I thought, what would
:05:56. > :06:01.happen if I split the notes. So I went... And immediately, the moment
:06:02. > :06:05.I did that, I realised that this was what I was looking for. And the
:06:05. > :06:11.producers agreed. They brought in a new young talent called John Barry
:06:11. > :06:15.to arrange the peace, and both the film and the theme tune were hit.
:06:15. > :06:19.John Barry's name went on to become synonymous with 007 which led many
:06:19. > :06:29.to think he had composed the theme tune, but Monty had set the tone
:06:29. > :06:32.
:06:32. > :06:40.for James Bond. I would like to send a cable. His sexiness, mystery,
:06:40. > :06:49.ruthlessness, it is all there in a few notes. Good night.
:06:49. > :06:57.obviously, the world agrees. years on, we want to hear his theme
:06:57. > :07:02.on the traditional Indian instruments that inspired it. It is
:07:02. > :07:12.performed here in the shadow of MI6. Monty Norman wrote this tune and it
:07:12. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:22.has conquered the world. How do you feel about that? Very proud. I am
:07:22. > :07:23.
:07:23. > :07:29.happy that it is 50 years on, and I am happy that I am still here.
:07:29. > :07:39.There you go, for your ears only. The tune from a composer's bottom
:07:39. > :07:50.
:07:50. > :07:54.What a story! The unsung hero of the James Bond theme. Time for
:07:54. > :07:58.another musical success. If you did not see The Choir last night,
:07:58. > :08:08.Gareth Malone was on the hunt for the best work play squire. Here is
:08:08. > :08:11.
:08:11. > :08:14.a snippet of what you missed. -- # Birds flying high, you know how I
:08:14. > :08:24.feel # Sun in the sky, you know how I
:08:24. > :08:28.
:08:28. > :08:32.Oh, yeah, baby! You were singing. How did you feel? Absolutely
:08:32. > :08:37.amazing. It was an amazing performance by the whole choir.
:08:37. > :08:41.Very magnanimous of you. Some performers like to own the stage,
:08:41. > :08:45.but others have to get through what they are doing. How did it feel for
:08:46. > :08:50.you? I was only told a week and a half before that I would do the
:08:50. > :08:55.solo, so managing to get through it was very hard, but we did it.
:08:56. > :09:00.us about the trophy. This had been a secret, the fact that you had one.
:09:00. > :09:05.The kids had to keep it secret. Well done. Where did you keep the
:09:05. > :09:12.trophy? The Severn Trent Centre, our head office. I have not seen it
:09:12. > :09:16.since we won it. Well, it is out now. What is the future for the
:09:16. > :09:19.choir? There is a big future. We are rehearsing for a big Christmas
:09:19. > :09:24.concert in December and we will be carrying on, with more staff
:09:24. > :09:28.planned for the new year. There is no proof that you needed to vote
:09:28. > :09:32.people out because the coach was too small. You are not going to
:09:33. > :09:41.vote Sam out, are you? We look forward to hearing is singing at
:09:41. > :09:46.the end of the show. We have a film about telling tales in pubs. Can
:09:46. > :09:52.you ask Danny why he lies all the time? Chris said that all of the
:09:52. > :09:55.stories in your book might not be true. What about Elton John?
:09:55. > :09:59.greatest tribute anybody could pay me, having read this, is to say
:09:59. > :10:05.that they do not believe it. That would validate living it. It is all
:10:05. > :10:08.true. It finishes in 1982, the book. People say, that is just when you
:10:08. > :10:13.get into television, as if only amazing things can happen in the
:10:13. > :10:16.media. We know that it is not like that. Last time I was on a here you
:10:16. > :10:24.were good enough to let me expose the eyelid with Elton John for a
:10:24. > :10:27.few years. That is explained in this. -- I lived with Elton John. A
:10:27. > :10:35.journalist campaigning for the Labour Party before Elton had come
:10:35. > :10:38.out was told that they were looking for lovers to spill the beans. I
:10:38. > :10:42.think I was the only straight person ever to work there at that
:10:42. > :10:46.time, and they found it amusing. They said, you should live -- you
:10:46. > :10:50.should speak to Danny Baker because he lived with Elton John for years.
:10:50. > :10:54.It took a long time for the journalist to say this. It is a
:10:54. > :11:01.story I tell with pride, because I could then ring up Elton John and
:11:01. > :11:08.say, I think the papers are after you. I tried to be gay for ages.
:11:08. > :11:13.Did you? I worked in the street, straight out of school at 15, and
:11:13. > :11:23.the street was as gay as a tangerine. I suddenly found myself
:11:23. > :11:29.going, hello, deer! I could do the written, but the practical, it was
:11:29. > :11:37.a shame. I tried to be gay for so long. Well done. We have all done
:11:37. > :11:44.it, haven't we? We have all told aphid or two. I thought we had all
:11:44. > :11:48.tried to be gay! Iwan Thomas certainly tells a few tall stories.
:11:48. > :11:53.Here is my exaggerated stories. I once met Kylie Minogue. That is
:11:53. > :11:59.true. She also told me I was cute. But the more times my mates are
:11:59. > :12:08.here the story, that encounter became a lot more. Never told a
:12:08. > :12:15.white lie? No. I have a friend that does it all the time. I definitely
:12:15. > :12:21.told someone I was 10 years older. I told people I had climbed
:12:21. > :12:30.mountains without any idea. I told someone he had a connection with
:12:30. > :12:35.someone famous from the 60s who played guitar with his teeth.
:12:35. > :12:38.once told me they had too much to drink at university and basically
:12:39. > :12:46.decided to go and borrows some traffic lights and road signs. And
:12:46. > :12:51.they put them up in their flat and got go-karts and pretend to have a
:12:51. > :12:57.road system. So you have gone from saying that you never lie, to lying
:12:57. > :13:01.about your age, about your car... used to know Cilla Black and the
:13:01. > :13:06.Beatles. And I do tell the story that I knew Pete Best, but they did
:13:06. > :13:13.not really know him well. Those are the stories I used to exaggerate.
:13:14. > :13:19.How many times have you heard the Cilla Black story? Not a lot,
:13:19. > :13:25.really. I would be bringing it out all the time!
:13:25. > :13:33.Danny Baker, you also tell people that you were David Essex's brother.
:13:33. > :13:37.Yes. If I lived as his brother... That is me. That is me on the right.
:13:37. > :13:45.Behold the ruins of a once great beauty. That is me in the record
:13:45. > :13:48.shop at about 16, 17. I was doing OK. With all due disrespect to
:13:48. > :13:52.other biographers, those ones that tell you they were lonely as
:13:52. > :13:56.children, my book is not like that. I was extremely happy and got on
:13:56. > :14:03.great with the girls. But it hit me once people kept saying, you look
:14:03. > :14:08.like David Essex. In the days of the internet, the thing that will
:14:08. > :14:12.make things spread quicker is to ask someone not to tell anyone. I
:14:12. > :14:18.said to one person, I'm David Essex's brother, don't tell anyone.
:14:18. > :14:22.After that, this went on for years, people believed it. People would
:14:22. > :14:30.come over and say, my mate reckons you're David Essex's brother. I
:14:30. > :14:35.would say, I am not. They would say, oh, you are. For 18 months I told a
:14:35. > :14:45.good section of women I was his brother. He has just started a UK
:14:45. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :15:04.tour and has taken time to send you I hope the book does well, all the
:15:04. > :15:10.rest! There are lots of things that people could have said. His real
:15:10. > :15:15.name is David Kirk and I thought, they will find that out. Some said,
:15:15. > :15:25.how can you name is Danny Baker? I said, the family does not want to
:15:25. > :15:25.
:15:25. > :15:30.be pestered. He said, could and Baker? Get it? You book contains
:15:30. > :15:38.some stories that are true? There are no stories in their that are
:15:38. > :15:45.true. The first thing that got me interested in words is Edward Lear
:15:45. > :15:51.and Spike Milligan. In a the Jumblies, I found a good metaphor
:15:51. > :15:56.or for setting out on a career that I had no training for. The rest of
:15:56. > :16:06.it is like that but it has come back to haunt me because the book
:16:06. > :16:16.is called getting back. People say, you are doomed to failure? No, it
:16:16. > :16:17.
:16:17. > :16:27.is called Getting Mac. - Mike Going To Sea In A Sieve. I knew this was
:16:27. > :16:29.
:16:29. > :16:34.an odd way to live. The jobs I had before her... I was travelling at
:16:34. > :16:40.the world. Meeting Michael Jackson in Los Angeles. I am not 20 years
:16:40. > :16:46.old and it is a brought -- ought thing that has brought me here.
:16:46. > :16:55.told us earlier that some of them were made up! I didn't say that. I
:16:55. > :17:05.said one specific story about you killing Bob Marley. That is not my
:17:05. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:19.fault, that is the internet's fault. Did you kill Bob Marley? I did not.
:17:19. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:28.He wasn't even murdered! His book, is out in the shops soon. Wednesday
:17:28. > :17:36.is Hallowe'en and if you are carving out a pumpkin, I have been
:17:36. > :17:39.learning a few tricks. A flickering candle lighting up a
:17:39. > :17:46.grin, the pumpkin is what Hallowe'en is all about. The
:17:46. > :17:48.tradition has its roots in an ancient festival when a turnip
:17:48. > :17:52.lantern was lit and left on the doorstep to ward off evil spirits.
:17:52. > :18:00.It was the Americans who really took the tradition to their hearts,
:18:00. > :18:04.replacing the turn up with their native tongue can. -- pumpkin. This
:18:04. > :18:08.is Lincolnshire where farmer David says he grows more pumpkins and
:18:08. > :18:15.anywhere else in Europe. How many are either in his warehouse of
:18:15. > :18:19.years? I would think the best part of 3 million. Entirely for the
:18:19. > :18:24.Hallowe'en market, not much trade for them afterwards. His father
:18:24. > :18:30.started producing pumpkins years ago for an nearby airbase and in
:18:30. > :18:33.the last few years, demand has rocketed. His pumpkins take just
:18:33. > :18:40.four months to grow but this year, the great British weather has made
:18:40. > :18:47.it tough. Some are a bit green when I expected them all to the Orange.
:18:47. > :18:54.That is because it has been a lousy weather with the cold and rain.
:18:54. > :18:58.When my turn orange in the heat? sincerely hope so. Whether the
:18:58. > :19:03.harvest is good or bad, this place regards itself as the British home
:19:03. > :19:08.of the pumpkin. Every year, they celebrate with a week-long festival
:19:08. > :19:11.culminating in a pan can parade. This year I want to see if I can
:19:11. > :19:18.persuade the locals that there is more to a pun can manage just
:19:18. > :19:23.carving a scary face. The chef promises he can impress me with the
:19:23. > :19:27.versatility of the vegetable in a ball that sweet and savoury dishes.
:19:27. > :19:33.We carve a scary face for Hallowe'en but for Thanksgiving we
:19:33. > :19:37.make pies and risotto and soup and butter. There are hundreds of
:19:37. > :19:41.varieties but the one she found in the shops for Carling at Hallowe'en
:19:41. > :19:51.are fine for cooking. Is there anything to be scared of?
:19:51. > :19:51.
:19:51. > :19:56.Absolutely not. It is like cooking with any other root vegetable.
:19:56. > :20:06.First we are making a puree which Alex we used to make a three-course
:20:06. > :20:12.feast. Soup, risotto balls and a gorgeous pumpkin pie. Were going to
:20:12. > :20:20.mix this with our winter spices, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger. Some
:20:20. > :20:25.eggs, evaporated milk. 40 minutes later, it is done. Next, on with
:20:25. > :20:30.the risotto. The good think about these is they now go in the deep
:20:30. > :20:40.fat fryer which is the best thing that can happen to any ingredient.
:20:40. > :20:45.
:20:45. > :20:50.This is the bit I have been waiting for, a testing time. O! Smooth,
:20:50. > :20:59.rich, buttery - this is what made America great! I love these pumpkin
:21:00. > :21:03.treats but what about the people here? That's nice and creamy.
:21:03. > :21:13.just can't have it and it is a shame because that is lovely.
:21:13. > :21:16.
:21:16. > :21:23.tastes like carrots. Do you ever eat it? I have never tasted it. It
:21:23. > :21:27.would go nice with chips. Thanks to Alex for lending his culinary magic.
:21:27. > :21:36.Mike tray is practically bare and I think it is time that we look at
:21:36. > :21:40.their humble pumpkin in a new light. What other unused you bring us?
:21:40. > :21:50.Acropolis fine although the farmer was complaining about the weather,
:21:50. > :21:50.
:21:50. > :21:56.the prices have not gone up and there are plenty in the shops.
:21:56. > :22:06.said that lots of people carve it and throw it away? You can eat the
:22:06. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:12.seeds, you can make the oil from it. We have made an ice-cream from it.
:22:12. > :22:16.It is a very versatile vegetable. In Mexico they deep fry the flowers
:22:16. > :22:26.in Portugal they make a cake with Ammons. In Kenya, this team
:22:26. > :22:31.
:22:31. > :22:41.believes. It is gorgeous. The size of the biggest pumpkin in the world
:22:41. > :22:42.
:22:42. > :22:48.is 2009 pounds. Look at that! it is time for a woodpecker with a
:22:48. > :22:56.very long time. This week, Mike and Miranda had been on a wildlife
:22:56. > :22:59.mission and tonight it is time for the final stick at. We have found
:22:59. > :23:09.some amazing sights over the last few days but his next challenge is
:23:09. > :23:13.by far the biggest. Hopefully it will happen here. We both like
:23:13. > :23:18.watching the birds but I am the most interested in seeing a
:23:18. > :23:24.different varieties. What different species have you seen? Great tits,
:23:24. > :23:27.blue tits, nut Hatch and the woodpeckers as well. These are the
:23:27. > :23:32.most common that woodpeckers to visit our garden feeders but out in
:23:32. > :23:36.the wild, they are more likely to eat invertebrates and I want to
:23:36. > :23:43.show this couple one of the unique ways they do it, using their
:23:43. > :23:48.astonishing tongue. We have no idea if it will work or not. We have an
:23:48. > :23:55.old cherry a long and behind that crews, we have fat and those
:23:55. > :24:00.wriggly worms. Brilliant food for woodpeckers. We're hoping the
:24:00. > :24:09.woodpecker is going to see the worms, come in and insert that huge
:24:09. > :24:14.tank which is wrapped around the brain and get the worms. It is a
:24:14. > :24:20.desperate hunt, we had no idea it will work. Great if it comes off.
:24:20. > :24:25.This is the job for at camera in a hide for a very long time. Trevor
:24:25. > :24:30.has a garden mystery he would like us to solve. I was out here on my
:24:30. > :24:37.hands and knees weeding and I heard this St scratching noise and it was
:24:37. > :24:45.a wasp on the fence panel. I don't know what it was doing. I have been
:24:45. > :24:54.digging around and I found something that I need to show you.
:24:54. > :25:00.Just on the other side of the offence is a beautiful wasp's nest
:25:00. > :25:06.so what those Wasps are doing his grinding a bit of your fence away,
:25:06. > :25:09.mixing it with saliva and then making a nest. We're only this
:25:09. > :25:13.close because it is late in the season and there are few wasps
:25:14. > :25:22.around. To give you an idea of what it looks like internally, by
:25:22. > :25:29.glamorous Assistance's neighbour had this in his house. This is
:25:29. > :25:32.obviously a lot bigger but you can get an idea of the structure. The
:25:32. > :25:36.thousands of cells in the nest are designed to house the brood of
:25:36. > :25:42.young Wasps. The gaps between the layers let air move about to help
:25:42. > :25:45.regulate nest temperature which Wasps managed very well. They will
:25:45. > :25:52.fan their wings to moves the air around the nest and can collect
:25:52. > :25:57.water to damp it down if it gets too hot. I gather there is more
:25:57. > :26:02.than one variety, do we know what species this one is? We have 250
:26:02. > :26:08.species in this country, seven of which are social and build their
:26:08. > :26:12.nests like this. We have one of the Wasps here and that is a common
:26:12. > :26:16.wasp. Despite a bad reputation, Wasps are great to have in the
:26:16. > :26:25.garden as they feed on things that attack last and vegetables like
:26:26. > :26:33.caterpillars and flies. D'you want to let it go? It has taken us three
:26:33. > :26:39.days but we have had a phenomenal excess with our feeder. Have a look
:26:39. > :26:45.at this. There is the woodpecker. Watch this. First it takes a few
:26:45. > :26:54.because it can reach them with his bill quite easily. Then it needs to
:26:54. > :27:00.use its tongue. Their guilt. That is incredible, I didn't realise it
:27:00. > :27:10.would work like this but that is spectacular. This is slowed down to
:27:10. > :27:11.
:27:11. > :27:18.times so it is lashing that tongue out at an incredibly quick wit. If
:27:18. > :27:26.I had a tongue that size, scaled to human size, it would be 50
:27:26. > :27:33.centimetres long. Can you imagine that! We're absolutely thrilled we
:27:33. > :27:41.have got it. You guys have a unique feeder, no one in Britain has a
:27:41. > :27:51.special bespoke woodpecker feeder like this. I will give to you, the
:27:51. > :27:54.
:27:54. > :27:58.feeder and a supply of worms. what we have always wanted!
:27:58. > :28:04.Danny's autobiography, Going To Sea In A Sieve, is on from 6th November.
:28:04. > :28:09.The biggest star is your dad? book that has endless encounters
:28:09. > :28:19.with Mick Jagger and Elton John and so on, my dad is still the biggest
:28:19. > :28:24.
:28:24. > :28:30.star and the people who have read it say, oh, your dad is great.
:28:30. > :28:33.shall dedicate the whole show to Henna! Ben Elton is here on Monday,
:28:33. > :28:39.have a good weekend and don't forget to put your clocks back on