:00:07. > :00:16.Matt! Allo, allo. Come on, the show is being great. There will be lots
:00:17. > :00:22.of great characters, good catchphrases, come on! It's going to
:00:23. > :00:43.be great this, isn't it! Stupid boy! Hello and welcome to the One Show
:00:44. > :00:47.with Matt Baker And Alex Jones. Yes, tonight we have gone all out to
:00:48. > :00:51.celebrate a certain classic sitcom. Everyone is getting into the Dad's
:00:52. > :00:54.Army spirit. Look at the crew. They look absolutely wonderful, don't
:00:55. > :01:00.they? There is Rob, the floor manager. Very good, sir. Even Dave.
:01:01. > :01:05.And our editor. The boss. It doesn't stop there. Let's look in the
:01:06. > :01:08.gallery. There is the director HMRC private Smith - don't panic. The
:01:09. > :01:12.audience are in the spirit of things. They have dressed up. Which
:01:13. > :01:16.is lovely. We have room for a few more, haven't we? They are a bit
:01:17. > :01:24.quiet. Let's have a drum roll, please.
:01:25. > :01:31.Tonight, we vn an incredible number of guests from acting royalty to
:01:32. > :01:47.sitcom stars they are in the Dad's Army film. 1, 2, 3, 4! Please
:01:48. > :02:04.welcome Blake Harrison. Mr Daniel Mays. Bill Paterson. It's Sir Tom
:02:05. > :02:13.Courtenay. Another Sir, it's Michael Gambon. And we also have Catherine
:02:14. > :02:23.Zeta-Jones. # Who do you think you are kidding,
:02:24. > :02:24.Mr Hitler... # Military
:02:25. > :02:31.APPLAUSE Welcome. Have a seat. Thank you very
:02:32. > :02:36.much to The Bevin Boys, they are our house band for the evening.
:02:37. > :02:41.Fantastic. More from them later on. Lovely to have you here. The film is
:02:42. > :02:44.finally out on the 5th February. Everybody is very excited, aren't
:02:45. > :02:49.we. Very much so. We have seen it. How was the premier? It was
:02:50. > :02:53.brilliant. Brilliant. Had you seen it before last night before the
:02:54. > :02:58.premier? I saw a cutting of it somewhere. I can't remember where.
:02:59. > :03:02.It was very good. Seeing it with an audience was my fist time, my mum,
:03:03. > :03:07.dad and family were there. It was wonderful. The response was great.
:03:08. > :03:11.There were things I had forgot about even while shooting it. Knowing the
:03:12. > :03:17.gag I was laughing. It was great. We have a lovely picture of you all.
:03:18. > :03:21.Love the dress, Catherine. Let's look at you at the premier. That is
:03:22. > :03:27.you with the Chelsea Pensioners. There you are. You have only just
:03:28. > :03:32.said goodbye to each other but you are on the One Show together. Lovely
:03:33. > :03:37.to have you here tonight. We wanted to do the same tonight and recreate
:03:38. > :03:46.the characters from Dad's Army. We have started. Let's put together our
:03:47. > :03:55.own Dad's Army look a likes. Is your dad the spitting image of Captain
:03:56. > :03:58.Mainwaring like our producer's dad. Please send us your pictures as long
:03:59. > :04:06.as they look like characters from Dad's Army. It doesn't matter.
:04:07. > :04:09.Britain is still being battered by the tail of storm Jonas which has
:04:10. > :04:12.already brought flooding and gale force winds to many, many areas. In
:04:13. > :04:15.Scotland, for example, two lorries were blown over on the busy A1. That
:04:16. > :04:19.wasn't the windiest moment in British history. For that, you need
:04:20. > :04:29.to go back in time 27 years. Marty did. In February 1989, Britain was
:04:30. > :04:36.battered by storms that left a trail of destruction across the UK. As
:04:37. > :04:40.high as 83 miles per hour in Lancashire and Leeds, destroyed
:04:41. > :04:44.buildings and overturned buses and lorries, leaving Britain in chaos.
:04:45. > :04:55.It was a Scottish fishing town that was hit the hardest. On the 13th
:04:56. > :05:00.February 1989 the Aberdeenshire town of Frazerborough experienced a gust
:05:01. > :05:04.of wind at 142 miles per hour. That's twice as fast as the winds
:05:05. > :05:09.that were causing havoc across the rest of the country. . It remains in
:05:10. > :05:15.the record books as the strongest ever low-level wind recorded in the
:05:16. > :05:22.United Kingdom. To get a sense of how violent this storm was I'm
:05:23. > :05:30.stepping into the wind tunnel at Glasgow University. Here comes the
:05:31. > :05:38.wind. Right. How's that? That's only 30! That's a really blowy day on the
:05:39. > :05:54.High Street. Brollies - no use. Wind it up, come on. 50 miles an hour.
:05:55. > :06:04.70 miles an hour. 0! At this speed I'm struggling to keep my balance.
:06:05. > :06:15.This is Force 11 and caused trees and roofs to topple in 89.
:06:16. > :06:25.That was 100 mile an hour wind. At 100 miles per hour I can't take any
:06:26. > :06:30.more. Such hard work. That's far less than the record of 142, but
:06:31. > :06:37.clearly still capable of causing chaos. Can I come out now? So, what
:06:38. > :06:46.happened that night in Frazerborough to create such extreme winds? Pete
:06:47. > :06:52.Buchanan is a meteorologist in nearby Aberdeen. It was a depression
:06:53. > :06:56.that formed not north-west of the UK. The wind came down from the
:06:57. > :07:02.north-west a straight into this area. The wind reached 78mph average
:07:03. > :07:07.speed. Technically, for a land station, that represents hurricane
:07:08. > :07:12.force. The wind speed they recorded is nearly twice that. How could that
:07:13. > :07:17.possibly be? What we have here is essentially gustiness. A gust is
:07:18. > :07:21.basically a short increase in wind speed, lasts just a very few
:07:22. > :07:26.seconds. To show why we get this sudden increase in wind speed I'm
:07:27. > :07:30.getting back into the wind tunnel. Imagine that this stream of smoke is
:07:31. > :07:35.the powerful wind storm blowing over the North Sea that night. It has
:07:36. > :07:41.nothing to get in the way until that is it gets to somewhere like Frazer
:07:42. > :07:46.borough. Imagine I'm Frazerborough, the wind has to move around each
:07:47. > :07:53.tree and building, every obstacle in its way. This creates turbulence.
:07:54. > :08:00.Within the turbulence we see fast and unpredictable whirls of air.
:08:01. > :08:03.These energetic whirls are gusts. Gusts are usually around
:08:04. > :08:09.one-and-a-half times the average wind speed, but that night saw so
:08:10. > :08:15.much turbulence that the gust was almost twice the speed. As you can
:08:16. > :08:19.see it sticks out a little bit. It was also in the zone of strongest
:08:20. > :08:28.winds making it even more gusty than normal. So the area, vulnerable and
:08:29. > :08:32.exposed headline, lying in the path of the hurricane force winds, was
:08:33. > :08:39.perfectly placed for a record-breaking gust. 8mph became
:08:40. > :08:44.142mph. The speed of the gust of wind that night has never been
:08:45. > :08:53.equaled. -- 78. They hold the United Kingdom record for the fastest ever
:08:54. > :08:59.low-level wind. You feel more cosy. It is. That happened is what we were
:09:00. > :09:05.saying. Not cosy in New York. Lots and lots of snow. No. We saw it
:09:06. > :09:09.coming. I actually got a flight earlier in anticipation of me being
:09:10. > :09:12.stuck and missing seeing my friends, missing the premier last night. We
:09:13. > :09:17.got on a flight and spent the weekend with my family and my niece.
:09:18. > :09:24.It was wonderful. Nice to be back home. You are more Welsh than we
:09:25. > :09:31.were expecting? I had time with my family. Meeting Alex. We haven't met
:09:32. > :09:35.I know. Before. Anyway, lovely to meet you now. You too. Keeping the
:09:36. > :09:41.Welsh flag flying, my darling. Very happy. We are slowly taking over the
:09:42. > :09:45.world! Slowly, but surely. If we talk about your character in the new
:09:46. > :09:48.Dad's Army film you play Rose Winters. She is the only main
:09:49. > :09:53.character isn't in the series from the past. What are your memories of
:09:54. > :10:01.Dad's Army of old? It's like my memories of my great childhood of a
:10:02. > :10:06.cup of oval teen and watching Dad's Army with my grandparents, my
:10:07. > :10:09.grandfather was in the war, some of my family members with recite
:10:10. > :10:13.remember bay tum the lines of some of the scenes. We were Avid - They
:10:14. > :10:18.must have been beside themselves when you told them When my agent in
:10:19. > :10:22.America called me - honey, they're doing Dad's Army! Sorry? They want
:10:23. > :10:28.you to be in Dad's Army, it's really big over there. I was like - yeah,
:10:29. > :10:33.give me Oliver Parker's number, I should deal with this personally.
:10:34. > :10:37.It's way too rooted in my being to not do this. When they said that
:10:38. > :10:41.then and you explained to Michael, your husband, did you have to tell
:10:42. > :10:46.him what the series was or did he know what Dad's Army? No, not at
:10:47. > :10:51.all. I tried to explain it to him. He got it, but when I told him the
:10:52. > :10:55.kind of actors I was going to be working with - He got it. Sir
:10:56. > :11:00.Michael, the wonderful cast we have on this chair. He said - whatever it
:11:01. > :11:04.is, you've got to do it, you know that, right? That was his, you know,
:11:05. > :11:09.it was just great. It was everything that I wanted it to be. Great
:11:10. > :11:14.experience coming home, working with great, great actors. The journalist
:11:15. > :11:19.that you play in the film then, how would you entice our viewers into
:11:20. > :11:22.her character? Well, she's very enticing kind of character. I
:11:23. > :11:34.wouldn't know - it was method acting! No idea where I got it from.
:11:35. > :11:39.But she does use your womanly charms to manipulate and nurture what
:11:40. > :11:45.everyone believes is she's doing a story for the lady magazine. She
:11:46. > :11:49.gets thrown into Walmington-on-Sea wearing Chanel suits, fabulous 40s
:11:50. > :11:57.attire, shakes it up, not only with the men, but with the ladies. Not in
:11:58. > :12:00.that way! It's the 40s, we hadn't got there then, come on! She has got
:12:01. > :12:08.the Home Guard wrapped around her little finger. Let's look at Rose in
:12:09. > :12:14.action. Morning Miss Winters. Corps rat Jones. A-butcher by trade. A
:12:15. > :12:19.soldier by night, more notches on my rifle than you've had hot dinners.
:12:20. > :12:24.No the that you've had too many hot dinners you have a fine figure, if I
:12:25. > :12:31.may say. Welcome to Walmington. Thank you, Mr Jones. Good day. I saw
:12:32. > :12:40.that Jack Jones, just slipped her a sausage!
:12:41. > :12:45.APPLAUSE That's a line! Sir Michael, you play Godfrey then who was
:12:46. > :12:50.originally played by Arnold Ridley. Did you find yourself, you are an
:12:51. > :12:54.actor in your own right, you can't help but have that image of the way
:12:55. > :12:59.he did it The way he stands and walks and talks all sticks to you.
:13:00. > :13:03.When you go on you just feel that or try and make it inside you, turn
:13:04. > :13:07.yourself into that. It's not copying him, it's being part of him. Right.
:13:08. > :13:11.What was the direction then that you were given? Was it to immiate a
:13:12. > :13:17.little bit or bring yourself to it? Not immiate at all. You just sort of
:13:18. > :13:23.- you make it feel as though you - he belongs - it's difficult to
:13:24. > :13:28.explain, isn't it, about acting? It's not copying, is it? Why No.
:13:29. > :13:33.Pretending, working yourself into it. You play Dumbledore as well in
:13:34. > :13:38.Harry Potter. If you are being yourself as Dumbledore and being
:13:39. > :13:44.yourself as this kind of bumbling soldier where do you sit the most
:13:45. > :13:48.comfortable the wizard or soldier? I'm not being myself, I'm being
:13:49. > :13:55.them. I'm being Dumbledore and I'm being this bloke. I don't really
:13:56. > :14:00.know what I'm doing! I mean started off... I don't know nothing about
:14:01. > :14:03.it, really. I just go on. How did it fit in as an experience? You have
:14:04. > :14:07.done so much stuff, being on set doing this? I loved it. All my
:14:08. > :14:11.friends play leading roles in it. I know everybody. I'm very happy.
:14:12. > :14:17.Except it's very cold where we shot this. I bet. My God. Really pretty,
:14:18. > :14:25.wasn't it? Beautiful. You are the eldest member of the platoon. You
:14:26. > :14:31.spout beautiful nonsense during the film was it ad libs or heavily
:14:32. > :14:36.scripted? No, you can't ad lib everything I said is Brit written
:14:37. > :14:41.down. Proper. I'm proper, I don't muck around. Some of the actors - I
:14:42. > :14:47.won't tell you their names. Go on. Name and shame. When we hire a new
:14:48. > :14:51.One Show presenter we like to get them with an entertaining name. We
:14:52. > :14:56.have a Michael Douglas, he is a hairdresser hechl cuts our hair.
:14:57. > :14:59.That is Michael Douglas. He looks like Michael Douglas. Because we
:15:00. > :15:05.knew at some point obviously we would have you on, well we have a
:15:06. > :15:18.music man and he's called Richard Mainwaring much he says you
:15:19. > :15:19.pronounced Main-War-Ing. Who better to present the film about the theme
:15:20. > :15:31.tune. Let's have a look. # Pack uppior troubles - when it
:15:32. > :15:39.comes to winning wars, songs are often a secret well for rally
:15:40. > :15:48.troops... And poking fun at the enemy. Hitler has only got one...
:15:49. > :15:57.Some do both # Two do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler? If you think
:15:58. > :16:05.we are on the run? # We are the boys who will stop your little game # Who
:16:06. > :16:10.do you think you're kidding Mr Hitler captures the 40s and it is
:16:11. > :16:15.ideal as the Dad's Army theme. But it wasn't written during the war
:16:16. > :16:21.years. It was actually created specifically for the series at the
:16:22. > :16:30.height of the swinging 60s. Its aim to pastiche the sound, feel and tone
:16:31. > :16:37.of 1940s popular music. Jimmy Perry was behind the song and used his own
:16:38. > :16:41.experiences to get everything right. Tony Pritchard is head of the Dad's
:16:42. > :16:47.Army appreciation society. He was in the home guard as a boy of 16 and
:16:48. > :16:53.thought it was a game. Later on in the war he moved to Burma and was a
:16:54. > :16:58.sergeant there. And saw action there and wept into the concert party and
:16:59. > :17:05.started producing plays and things. When he came back, he began acting.
:17:06. > :17:12.So it is based upon his experience? Yes absolutely. The sound he wanted
:17:13. > :17:17.to evoke was a mixture of styles anyone who served during the war
:17:18. > :17:25.would have been familiar with. Fundamentally it is a military
:17:26. > :17:38.march. # Dah dah dah dah dah # But it is rooted in music hall. But we
:17:39. > :17:47.can't forget 1940s big band style and tend of opening credits has a
:17:48. > :17:54.jazz hands moment # If you think old England's done! # Genius. The
:17:55. > :18:07.influence of music hall is found in the lyrics which in addressing Mr
:18:08. > :18:12.Hitler directly are for comedy effect. The person who actually
:18:13. > :18:25.performed the song was no fiction character. Bud Flanagan was a
:18:26. > :18:35.war-time music hall legend. By the 60s he was retired but Jimmy Perry
:18:36. > :18:38.got him to the microphone and it is said he nailed the performance in
:18:39. > :18:46.one take in what was his last recording. The song was complete and
:18:47. > :18:52.was the start of the first Dad's Army on 31st July 1968. I could have
:18:53. > :19:00.you shot for this. That would be tricky since he is the only one with
:19:01. > :19:08.a gun. Nearly 50 years I want to pay my tribute in the town it was film
:19:09. > :19:13.with the band of the RAF and the people of Thetford, also known as
:19:14. > :19:19.Walmington-on-Sea. Who do you think you're kidding Mr Hitler, if you
:19:20. > :19:26.think we're on the run? We are the boys who will stop your little game
:19:27. > :19:34.# We are the boys who will make you think again # Who do you think
:19:35. > :19:44.you're kidding Mr Hitler f you think old England's done! CHEERING AND
:19:45. > :19:48.APPLAUSE Cheers! It is a song you can't help joining in with. Thank
:19:49. > :19:54.you to Richard the people of Thetford. That is not the last we
:19:55. > :20:05.will see of the town. Joe will be there live soon meeting some of the
:20:06. > :20:13.unknown stars of original. Bill Paterson and joins us. Catherine has
:20:14. > :20:19.a cup of tea. Bill, you play private Frazer and the repeats of Dad's Army
:20:20. > :20:23.still get two million. You had some reservations about doing the film.
:20:24. > :20:30.Who wouldn't? All of us grew up with Dad's Army. It was part of my life
:20:31. > :20:39.and I saw the first episode and my dad was Home Guard. He joined the
:20:40. > :20:45.Royal Artillery later. I watched, it is one of the few things I bonded
:20:46. > :20:52.with the 60s, you didn't bond much with your dad, we were hippies, it
:20:53. > :20:57.was Dad's Army and sergeant bill Coe. It is engrained in the spirit
:20:58. > :21:02.is the joy of Dad's Army. When you found out who was doing it, you
:21:03. > :21:10.thought I had to be part of it. No, it only when I heard of the other
:21:11. > :21:16.people doing it, if they think they can do it. They won't cancel it
:21:17. > :21:21.because I can't do it. Did you have the same reservations or were you up
:21:22. > :21:29.for it? No I wasn't. It was going to be done in the summer and I was
:21:30. > :21:34.offered it in the spring when I was doing 45 years and time past and it
:21:35. > :21:44.came back in the autumn and I heard these boys were on board, that so I
:21:45. > :21:52.thought it would give it a go. So it is somebody's wrong if it goes
:21:53. > :21:55.wrong. Michael, how do you approach something that is so treasured and
:21:56. > :22:00.something so important to the British? You just had to be careful
:22:01. > :22:04.and try and get it right and make it become the man you watched on the
:22:05. > :22:10.television in the series, trying to become him in some way, without
:22:11. > :22:14.copying him. It is very difficult. It must be like Shakespeare play or
:22:15. > :22:18.something, so many people have done it before, you do it... You just
:22:19. > :22:24.have to jump in the water and try and get it right. I don't know how I
:22:25. > :22:30.did it. It is magic, you just jump in the water and become him. We have
:22:31. > :22:38.already seen you as corporal Jones trying to slip Catherine a pound of
:22:39. > :22:43.sausages. Let's... Have Bill and Michael and Frazer and Godfrey.
:22:44. > :22:47.Attention to detail, ladies. The sooner we get the wounded back on
:22:48. > :22:56.their feet, the sooner we shall win this war. How that is George? Rather
:22:57. > :23:01.painful dear. It is your own fault, you stood on a land mine. Been shot
:23:02. > :23:14.in the leg. But it goes all the way up. You big baby. I can't take this.
:23:15. > :23:22.Lift your arm Mr Godfrey, you have been shot in the chest. Have I? Oh
:23:23. > :23:30.dear. Will I be all right? We had it on good authority you were a
:23:31. > :23:38.trouble-maker. On set. The fun that was having was that the case. All
:23:39. > :23:44.lies. 'S a wonderful actor bs but incapable speaking the truth. Don't
:23:45. > :23:49.take notice of anything he said. I dropped my mobile phone in the
:23:50. > :23:53.middle of a take. We have got to tell this. You have got to keep
:23:54. > :23:59.watching to the end of the credits. There is an extra bit at the end.
:24:00. > :24:05.Don't get up. Before we came on, he said, is my mobile phone working? I
:24:06. > :24:11.told him, give it to somebody else or it will be... I haven't got it
:24:12. > :24:18.now. Attention seeking. You might have been the trouble maker, Tom,
:24:19. > :24:25.you were the stunt man. We saw dangling off the cliff. You did that
:24:26. > :24:29.yourself. No double I had my own private bit of cardboard cliff. I
:24:30. > :24:34.was about that high off the ground. I loved it, because all the others
:24:35. > :24:44.were sent home while I dangled on the cliff. It made me feel very
:24:45. > :24:50.important. It was very nice dangling. We understand at 78 you
:24:51. > :25:00.had a career first, doing a recent... Sex scene? Some of us saw
:25:01. > :25:05.it. It is a family show this. In my underpants. I thought that was
:25:06. > :25:12.untruthful. I wanted to take them off and they wouldn't let me. It was
:25:13. > :25:19.sensitively done with Charlotte Rampling. To change the subject,
:25:20. > :25:25.David Cameron announced plans to re-develop around 100 of what called
:25:26. > :25:32.the UK's worst sink estates, where he said poverty, gangs and
:25:33. > :25:36.anti-social behaviour are rife. We sent our reporter to Falinge in
:25:37. > :25:42.Rochdale to see if the residents agreed him. This is Lower Falinge,
:25:43. > :25:46.it has been described as one of the most deprived estates in Britain. It
:25:47. > :25:52.is a community of around a thousand people, but fewer than one in three
:25:53. > :25:57.have a job. The Prime Minister wants the country's worst housing estates
:25:58. > :26:01.to be blitzed and replaced with better homes. He has not said where
:26:02. > :26:06.it will happen. But what do people think here. Do they love it or want
:26:07. > :26:12.to demolish it? We are going to put to it the vote. Do you think it
:26:13. > :26:16.should be knocked down Yes it needs improvement. Look at the state of
:26:17. > :26:20.it. How do you feel about the possibility of this estate being
:26:21. > :26:25.pulled don? Not happy. I have lived here nine and a half years and I
:26:26. > :26:31.love it. I brought my children up here. They love it. People with kids
:26:32. > :26:36.don't know. People don't want to live here, because it has a bad
:26:37. > :26:43.reputation. It is sad, but I think they should just cut their losses
:26:44. > :26:54.and raze it to the ground. Yes or no. Yes. No. Another no. Results
:26:55. > :26:59.later. Scotland is leading the way with one in four high rise flats in
:27:00. > :27:05.Glasgow demolished as part of a separate scheme and now a ?140
:27:06. > :27:12.million fund has been set aside to regenerate a hundred of England's
:27:13. > :27:19.worst estates. What is this section? The new build. In Lower Falinge
:27:20. > :27:24.there have been changes and Andy from the residents' association is
:27:25. > :27:29.showing me around. Two blocks, more than 40 flats, have made way for new
:27:30. > :27:37.homes. 25 new houses. How much did it cost? 3.7 million. He is
:27:38. > :27:45.sceptical about what the 140 million can achieve. There is one estates,
:27:46. > :27:50.that is 1.4 million each. These cost 3.7. The money isn't there. The
:27:51. > :27:56.people moved out didn't automatically get first choice on
:27:57. > :28:03.the new homes here. Tony speaks for more than hundred of the UK's
:28:04. > :28:07.housing associations. ?140 million for one hundred estate is not
:28:08. > :28:11.enough. We need resources from the housing associations and the private
:28:12. > :28:15.sector to do a proper job in these areas. If you only tackle the
:28:16. > :28:21.buildings, you will not successfully turn around that estate. You have to
:28:22. > :28:29.tackle things like gang culture, poverty, unemployment. On the estate
:28:30. > :28:33.I am meeting a lady who have lived here all her life and thinks
:28:34. > :28:39.starting over could solve a lot of the social problems. If we have
:28:40. > :28:43.better houses and fa till sis it would be -- facilities it would be
:28:44. > :28:46.happier. We don't feel safe with our children going out. You don't know
:28:47. > :28:55.who is about and we have nothing on the estate for them to do. Time to
:28:56. > :29:00.vote. I'm torn with it. My heart has always been with this estate. And if
:29:01. > :29:09.we do get new houses, then I think it could be a good place. I'm going
:29:10. > :29:14.to say yes. How is Andy going to vote in here and others have been
:29:15. > :29:21.upset by negative reports about life here. It annoys me when people slate
:29:22. > :29:28.the area. When they don't know the area. People are saying this is a
:29:29. > :29:32.bad estate. Come down and have a look. The flats are nice. You have a
:29:33. > :29:39.good community spirit here. People watch out for each other. I'm proud
:29:40. > :29:45.to live here. You want to demolish or not? No way are we demolishing.
:29:46. > :29:49.I'm not going anywhere. How has it gone? All right, there was a real
:29:50. > :29:56.affection for the place and even the people who say tear it down, they do
:29:57. > :29:59.say with a heavy heart. Much of the nitty-gritty that could affect
:30:00. > :30:04.voting like what happens to those who have bought their own homes and
:30:05. > :30:09.whether people moved out would get to move back is yet to be thrashed
:30:10. > :30:19.out. But the poll is in. Their evenly split. Mine is a mixed bag.
:30:20. > :30:26.In our poll we questioned 50 people. 14 said demolish it, 16 said no and
:30:27. > :30:28.20 refused to answer. With opinions split, the battle to re-develop
:30:29. > :30:41.these estates could be a bitter one. I think it's about time that we met
:30:42. > :30:46.some genuine Home Front heroes. Let us introduce our very own Captain
:30:47. > :30:50.Mainwaring. It's John Sergeant. APPLAUSE A little theme tune as
:30:51. > :30:55.well, John. Looking superb. Thank you. Sit down. You are loaded with
:30:56. > :31:03.facts here. I am. As always. Too many. Let us find out where the Home
:31:04. > :31:06.Guard came from then? May 1940, it may seem funny looking back it
:31:07. > :31:11.wasn't funny at the time. It really looked as though there was a danger
:31:12. > :31:16.of innovation. The call went out for a local volunteer force and within
:31:17. > :31:24.seven days 250,000 men had volunteered. Really? As Dunkirk came
:31:25. > :31:30.it then really - getting more serious leading up to the Battle of
:31:31. > :31:37.of Britain they had volunteers, not much equipment. A shambles. By the
:31:38. > :31:42.end of the war 1.7 million people in the Home Guard. They have been doing
:31:43. > :31:47.serious things such as bomb disposal. 1,200 had been killed.
:31:48. > :31:54.This is, sort of, you see the context of the joke. It's wonderful.
:31:55. > :32:00.If you look back, as you all know - This is the thing. Breath taking You
:32:01. > :32:09.were in series. The Home Guard, how old you were you then? 13. What did
:32:10. > :32:15.you do as a 13? I was drafted in as it were because I was in the School
:32:16. > :32:23.Cadet force and had a uniform. I was the only one much our crew who had a
:32:24. > :32:27.uniform. We had Reg the barber, Jack the Gardiner, Fred the groccer, Tom
:32:28. > :32:33.the ringer the of the bells. Quite true? Absolutely true. We were all
:32:34. > :32:39.different. Anyway, I remember we drilled with my weapon in fact was a
:32:40. > :32:44.broomstick. A broom handle. It was a great piece of equipment. How did
:32:45. > :32:50.you use that then? What was your technique then? I beg your pardon!
:32:51. > :32:56.It's like Dad's Army all over again. You told me this was a financialily
:32:57. > :33:02.show! We stood at ease, all that sort of stuff. I was the drill man,
:33:03. > :33:06.you see. I was the only one, the rest were either 400 years old or
:33:07. > :33:13.whatever. I was the only one who knew anything about drilling at all
:33:14. > :33:19.through my experience, as it were. We filled sandbags. No sand, but we
:33:20. > :33:25.filled it with earth from our local allotment. We built gun placements.
:33:26. > :33:30.I had to get a spade. I didn't have one. My mother bought one and it's
:33:31. > :33:37.in my shed to this very day. It's never been used since! Let us talk
:33:38. > :33:47.about the Auxillery Territorial Service, you were part of it then.
:33:48. > :33:55.What was your job When the aircraft came in you have to go and get your
:33:56. > :33:59.instrument ready and you look and get on target. You saw what the
:34:00. > :34:03.height of the plane that goes over to the guns so the guns can elevate
:34:04. > :34:11.to have a. It was matter-of-fact? Yes. It must have been daunting when
:34:12. > :34:15.the news came in? We got used to it and worked in different shifts.
:34:16. > :34:25.Everybody took their turn. Anne, what about yourself? I had a good
:34:26. > :34:29.job, really. Go on. Officers looking after the officers mess. I had the
:34:30. > :34:47.good things. How did you get that job then? Well... You promised not
:34:48. > :34:50.to ask those questions! Alex! The Dad's Army aren't the only
:34:51. > :34:54.characters currently being revitalised for a new generation to
:34:55. > :35:02.enjoy. Here's Gyles with a monster of a renovation project. Deep in the
:35:03. > :35:07.heart of South London something is lurking in the undergrowth. A
:35:08. > :35:14.mysterious group of creatures that has been striking fear into the
:35:15. > :35:21.hearts of local residents. For decades they have been lying dormant
:35:22. > :35:25.- until now! These fearsome beasts have finally woken from their
:35:26. > :35:33.slumbers and, by the look of it, they're hungry. Well, not really.
:35:34. > :35:36.Steven Spielberg may have sparked dino fever with his series of
:35:37. > :35:38.blockbusters but the original Jurassic Park was here in the London
:35:39. > :35:51.suburb of Sid nap. The models stunned Vick tore yoen
:35:52. > :36:05.society and represented the latest in scientific thinking. The --
:36:06. > :36:09.Victorian. They were built in 18 54 The crystal Palace Company wanted to
:36:10. > :36:13.build a theme park. They wanted to make it about education. Dinosaurs
:36:14. > :36:17.were big news at the time. They had quite recently been discovered and
:36:18. > :36:37.named and there was a lot of popular interest in them. Designed by
:36:38. > :36:44.Benjamin Waterhouse they were the first of their kind. If you think of
:36:45. > :36:49.Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park all starts here. The theme park was an
:36:50. > :36:56.instant success. A scientific thinking moved on these poor
:36:57. > :37:06.creatures began to look outdated. For one thing this should be upright
:37:07. > :37:15.and this spike spike should be on his thumb. A plan has been hatched
:37:16. > :37:21.to save them. How much are you trying to raise? ?2 million. ?1
:37:22. > :37:30.million for the work on the sculptures themselves. ?1 million
:37:31. > :37:36.for education and outreach maintenance. Our ideas have changed
:37:37. > :37:40.throughout. Science is a process of changing. That is what these
:37:41. > :37:48.sculptures tell us. So far enough money has been raised to restore the
:37:49. > :37:51.patient most in need of attention. Lewis is leading the conservation
:37:52. > :37:57.effort. This is an odd-job. It's not every day you are asked to conserve
:37:58. > :38:02.a Victorian dinosaur. What is it made of? Concrete, casting sections
:38:03. > :38:10.and built around a metal frame. Hollow inside? They look solid? You
:38:11. > :38:21.can poke your head in there. Really? Here is the torch. Where do I go?
:38:22. > :38:26.Watch your head. It's personal, never mind, there's a hole here.
:38:27. > :38:31.It's amazing. Lewis and his team are securing the foundations and fixing
:38:32. > :38:38.the tailback into place. Today's job is a little more delicate. Wow, this
:38:39. > :38:44.is as close as I've been to a dinosaur's jaw. A lead tooth. Brand
:38:45. > :38:49.new. Based on the original. I put it into this hole you drilled? Just
:38:50. > :38:59.there. In it goes nicely. Perfectly done. There I am, the original
:39:00. > :39:04.Jurassic toothfairy. Finally, these neglected creatures can be given a
:39:05. > :39:13.new lease of life and this original Jurassic Park restored to its former
:39:14. > :39:18.glory. What can possibly go wrong? Oh. Anything when Gyles is there.
:39:19. > :39:26.That's so true. Thank you. Catherine is back. The tea was good. Lovely.
:39:27. > :39:38.You have brought with you the young turks. Welcome to you both. You
:39:39. > :39:42.play, Pike, Blake. The actor who played him originally is still
:39:43. > :39:46.alive, Ian Lavender. He was in a scene with you, how was that?
:39:47. > :39:52.Nerve-wracking. He did a great job with it. He was just really lovely.
:39:53. > :39:56.I mean, he was respectful and let me do my thing with it. He didn't come
:39:57. > :40:01.up and say - you're doing it wrong, do it like this! He was really,
:40:02. > :40:06.really lovely. After the premier last night he came up and was really
:40:07. > :40:12.complimentary and said some lovely things about me in it and the film
:40:13. > :40:15.in general. No higher He didn't like praise. The football scarf? I don't
:40:16. > :40:19.know how much of that is true from what he said much my opinion on that
:40:20. > :40:24.was - as a Millwall fan it was too claret and blue! Sticking a bit of
:40:25. > :40:33.something in there, yellow, something like that, to make it less
:40:34. > :40:36.West Hammy. You made Walker more likeable really in the film than he
:40:37. > :40:42.was in the series was that deliberate? Really. That's kind of
:40:43. > :40:46.you. I didn't do anything drastically different I think from
:40:47. > :40:52.James Beck who played him in the original. I loved playing him he is
:40:53. > :40:57.the cheeky cockney charmer, loveable rogue. I wanted to make him as fun
:40:58. > :41:01.to watch as it was watching the guys back in the day. A lot of fun with
:41:02. > :41:08.it. You have done quite a few gritty roles. How did this role sit as far
:41:09. > :41:19.as your career is concerned? It was a great departure. I have done
:41:20. > :41:26.hard-hitting stuff. Look, to be in -- with these actors. I've admired
:41:27. > :41:31.them for years - Thanks mate. He's a will havely lad. I will pay you
:41:32. > :41:35.later. It was an honour really and great company to be part of it. We
:41:36. > :41:39.have met the whole platoon shall we see you together in action. You have
:41:40. > :41:43.brought with us an exclusive clip. You won't have seen this anywhere
:41:44. > :41:53.else. Here we go. You're not taking this seriously, are you Walker? How
:41:54. > :42:01.did you know it was me? Pike. Put thought into this, Jones. Thank you,
:42:02. > :42:08.captain. It was lent to me from last year's production of Robin Hood. I'm
:42:09. > :42:12.a tiny bit of Sherwood Forest. Godfrey, you look like you are on a
:42:13. > :42:17.cruise to the South Seas. Thank you so much, sir. Very kind of you. I
:42:18. > :42:23.got the idea from a picture I saw last week. I thought it looked
:42:24. > :42:27.rather open-air. Take it off. Captain, might I be excused.
:42:28. > :42:35.Certainly not! APPLAUSE
:42:36. > :42:44.You of course Blake, as Pike got to kiss Catherine here. Yes, the kiss
:42:45. > :42:49.again! Is this an awkward moment for you? We were all very jealous, yeah.
:42:50. > :42:55.I bet you were. How was it for you then, this is awkward. We have to
:42:56. > :43:00.ask? I'm a professional. I'm sure it was nerve-wracking for you. Yeah.
:43:01. > :43:04.You wanted to rehearse a lot. I've been in this business long enough I
:43:05. > :43:08.don't needed to rehearse the kiss. I was like, no, we do need to rehearse
:43:09. > :43:11.it a little bit. I think Catherine kept getting it wrong on purse so we
:43:12. > :43:16.had to keep doing it over and over again. We heard as well to make the
:43:17. > :43:20.lipstick look authentic in other scenes you got involved off camera
:43:21. > :43:26.there as well, was that right Pray tell? Um, we're not getting paid
:43:27. > :43:31.enough in this movie to be talking about this! It's interesting because
:43:32. > :43:35.your life in America is obviously very different to the life that
:43:36. > :43:39.you've got back at home how does it feel when you are back here and
:43:40. > :43:44.doing British films. It's been a while since you've done it, does it
:43:45. > :43:49.feel right for you? Yeah. It kind of woke me up and reminded me how much
:43:50. > :43:56.I love coming back. Really. Working with British crews. Working with - I
:43:57. > :44:01.mean, it was a slam dunk. If they asked me to read the film book I
:44:02. > :44:05.would have come over over with these guys and the ladies too. It was a
:44:06. > :44:13.real treat for me. It reminded me of my Darling Buds of May. I used to
:44:14. > :44:18.love it that. Nostalgic and peace of Dad's Army. Working with real
:44:19. > :44:22.actors, all of us come from a theatre background or done some
:44:23. > :44:26.theatre. We all knew our lines and on time. Everything else was a
:44:27. > :44:33.bonus. I could have been there all day long lis tong their stories and
:44:34. > :44:36.watching these guys the young turks following their careers and proud of
:44:37. > :44:41.what they are doing and happy to be one of the platoon. I suppose the
:44:42. > :44:48.other opposite to Catherine is your dream to go over to America and to
:44:49. > :44:53.be in films there? Are you happy? We live in hope!
:44:54. > :45:02.Start of bigger things to come. We wait and see. Who knows. The
:45:03. > :45:07.Inbetweens was massive. Thats with a sitcom that win to the big screen.
:45:08. > :45:10.Hopefully that was the same? It's a completely different thing,
:45:11. > :45:16.obviously. You could take your gran or someone under 18 to watch this
:45:17. > :45:20.one. Yeah, fingers crossed that it does as well, even better. You never
:45:21. > :45:30.know with these things. OK. As promised Joe has now hot footed it
:45:31. > :45:33.to the town that became Walmington-on-Sea once year from
:45:34. > :45:35.1968 while the original series was being filmed. We hear you found a
:45:36. > :45:45.pub. Good boy? It is The Bell Inn and every year
:45:46. > :45:51.when the crew came here to film for two weeks, they stayed here. This
:45:52. > :45:57.was the epicentre of Dad's Army. They're mad about Dad's Army and
:45:58. > :46:04.they have rooms named after and even Pike's Bar. This is my best effort
:46:05. > :46:11.at a Pike scarf. Back then you might find some of the actors. I'm joined
:46:12. > :46:17.by some of the original extras. Tim, this is you back then, you were 14,
:46:18. > :46:23.playing a scout and you had to play the bugle. It was going to be the
:46:24. > :46:28.biggest moment of my life playing the bugle, before the take, they
:46:29. > :46:33.said would you play it out of tune. I said I couldn't, because I have
:46:34. > :46:38.been practicing perfect. They said play anything. All that practicing
:46:39. > :46:50.and you had to do it out of tune. It has been a few years but give us a
:46:51. > :47:09.blast. It has been 40 years... PLAYS OUT OF TUNE Derek, I love the tie,
:47:10. > :47:16.what was you role? The resident tramp. You were there to get
:47:17. > :47:21.everyone rounded up. You must have been popular. Yes, although the job
:47:22. > :47:28.was voluntary, everyone was happy to be an extra in Dad's Army and after
:47:29. > :47:35.a couple of years, Equity said we had to be paid, so I became more
:47:36. > :47:41.popular. You were also an extra. Did Keith get everyone around to my
:47:42. > :47:52.house. Yes without any warning, ewe found out the gin and beer we could
:47:53. > :47:57.find and plied them with drink. John Le Mesurier complained the piano was
:47:58. > :48:03.flat. I was about to get the cooking sherry out and the home made slow
:48:04. > :48:14.gin when they left. Don't panic we still have gin. I have a collection
:48:15. > :48:19.of their autographs. Arthur Lowe and Jimmy Perry. Food and drink was
:48:20. > :48:27.important and I'm told what they did was scheduled in lots of time for
:48:28. > :48:40.dinners and drinks, because if they get get that right, it would
:48:41. > :48:49.translate and Arthur Lowe had his own drink, the am scone. Not bad. --
:48:50. > :48:56.the Amazon. It is not bad. Hello captain Mainwaring. I should salute
:48:57. > :49:02.you. These are all volunteers at the Dad's Army museum and form the
:49:03. > :49:06.Walmington-on-Sea platoon and here I'm joined by Stewart, Stewart here
:49:07. > :49:13.is the curator of the museum. Because of the film, you must have
:49:14. > :49:22.got a few new exhibits? Yes we have some props of the new film including
:49:23. > :49:30.this tree and we have a helmet from the original series, made of fibre
:49:31. > :49:36.glass, because they complained about the tin helmets. You're down here in
:49:37. > :49:43.the 70s, you were one of the few who were not only in the original
:49:44. > :49:52.series, but have been an extra in t new film. I have been in both. So
:49:53. > :49:57.hand on heart, which was better? Sorry, folks, but Thetford, will
:49:58. > :50:03.always be Walmington-on-Sea! There we go. Popular with the Thetford
:50:04. > :50:07.crowd. I think if you would be upstanding, because from Thetford
:50:08. > :50:15.the spiritual home of Dad's Army, we raise a toast, we raise you an
:50:16. > :50:22.Amazon - cheers! They don't like it up 'em! Lovely. From the old pub to
:50:23. > :50:29.the new pub. You were taken with the new location with Bridlington and
:50:30. > :50:34.Scarborough where you stayed. I'm biased I'm from Wales and there is
:50:35. > :50:39.nothing like that. But it is pretty spectacular up there. Scarborough is
:50:40. > :50:43.a fantastic town and that beautiful architecture and that... We
:50:44. > :50:50.commented on it. We were wondering where it was, it looked so great.
:50:51. > :50:56.The only place where you are happy to wearchesy clothes -- wear itchy
:50:57. > :51:02.clothes, because it was cold. We had long Johns on. I didn't! It was
:51:03. > :51:07.worth it for the gorgeous outfit. As we have seen from the trailer the
:51:08. > :51:14.platoon are not exactly the best at catching... Well anything. But
:51:15. > :51:21.Miranda has been on the trail of sea eagle. A bird that could give this
:51:22. > :51:29.lot a run for their money. The isle of Skye, a place of incredible
:51:30. > :51:35.beauty and avian action. This is a battle of eagles versus gulls. Two
:51:36. > :51:39.white-tailed sea eagles have developed a way of getting the
:51:40. > :51:51.seagulls to do their hunting for them. Sea 'ings are a conservation
:51:52. > :51:58.success story have been reintroduced to Scotland. A unique tidal flow
:51:59. > :52:06.creates a great food supply. While Victor can catch his own fish, he is
:52:07. > :52:11.not adverse to bullying other birds for food. Alison knows the birds
:52:12. > :52:17.better than most. They have been around since the autumn of 2009 and
:52:18. > :52:23.The Had some successful breeding attempts. This year we have one
:52:24. > :52:29.chick in the chest. This is a period of intense feeding activity. We are
:52:30. > :52:34.lucky with the unique situation, everything comes together so there
:52:35. > :52:40.is a plentiful food supply. An ideal place to be? Yes perfect. With a
:52:41. > :52:45.hungry chick, Victor and Orla have to up their game. Fishing comes as
:52:46. > :52:50.second nature, but they have been known to adopt more unusual
:52:51. > :52:56.techniques. To get the best view I need to get on board the local
:52:57. > :53:08.ferry. I'm not the only one keen to spot the birds. This channel is
:53:09. > :53:13.called the Kyle narrows. It is near the eagles do most hunting. The tide
:53:14. > :53:19.had just turned and the water will start flooding through gap and the
:53:20. > :53:25.eagles show starts. As the water is squeezed through the gap, so too are
:53:26. > :53:32.huge numbers of fish, mainly mackerel, which triggers a feeding
:53:33. > :53:38.frenzy. There is heads popping up. There is seals and gulls. There
:53:39. > :53:44.is... Energy and anticipation here. There is no guarantee of seeing the
:53:45. > :53:50.sea eagles fishing or harassing the other birds, but this is their
:53:51. > :53:56.favourite spot. They were perch on the rocks, or perhaps up on the
:53:57. > :54:01.trees behind. On the larch tree up there. Just the front tree. He is
:54:02. > :54:10.enormous. He is off and swooping down! He has got something. Has he
:54:11. > :54:15.got a fish? He is going... Yes he is going for one himself. I thought he
:54:16. > :54:21.was going to clays the gulls. -- chase the gulls. Victor is more than
:54:22. > :54:27.capable of catching his own lunch today. Ironically it is the eagles
:54:28. > :54:31.getting harassed by the gulls and crows, rather than the other way
:54:32. > :54:35.around. But there no chance of Victor giving up his fish. He has
:54:36. > :54:40.disappeared in that direction. Is that where the nest is? Yes heading
:54:41. > :54:47.home to the nest and that fish will go straight to the chicks. They
:54:48. > :54:53.always take fish to the chick before they feed themselves. They can feed
:54:54. > :54:57.their chicks 11 times in one day. Sometimes bullying the gulls for
:54:58. > :55:03.food, other times picking off mackerel for himself, but it is
:55:04. > :55:08.clear that in these parts it is the sea eagles who rule the roost. There
:55:09. > :55:16.we are. We were trying to make you feel at home. That is pretty. We
:55:17. > :55:20.have to say thank you f sending in your Dad's Army pictures. Shall we
:55:21. > :55:27.have a look at some. I will save that one for the end. Graham played
:55:28. > :55:32.corporal Jones in a stage show and raised money for holidays for
:55:33. > :55:46.heroes. This is Gary, dressed up as... The old private Walker. This
:55:47. > :55:53.is Sheryl's dad, he was in the home guard in World War two, captain
:55:54. > :55:57.Mainwaring? Godfrey. He is 93, Jimmy and we are going to put that there.
:55:58. > :56:09.With the new member. Just have a look at that. Cheeky! He was
:56:10. > :56:16.impressed by your head gear. I love the headscarf. You're so cheeky.
:56:17. > :56:26.Carry on. Hopefully, we think it is a fantastic film. If there is a
:56:27. > :56:34.Dad's Army two, are we all in? Yes. We are definitely in. Pike should go
:56:35. > :56:40.to Jamaica. That is my idea. I couldn't agree more. And is it right
:56:41. > :56:46.you're going to be playing Churchill? Yes I have finished it
:56:47. > :56:51.now. It is on ITV soon. I don't know when. Some time soon. Don't talk
:56:52. > :56:57.about it. Don't say you're nervous about that. I'm nervous about
:56:58. > :57:00.everything. As you say, just be yourself. Just you know, you have
:57:01. > :57:04.already done it. Don't worry about it. Listen, that is almost that we
:57:05. > :57:12.have got time for for tonight. Thank you so much to Catherine, so Michael
:57:13. > :57:22.and so Tom. And Bill, Blake and Daniel. Dad's Army is in cinemas
:57:23. > :57:36.from 5th February. And now playing us out it is The Begin Boys. -- The
:57:37. > :57:43.Bevin Boys. # Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven!