27/02/2018 The One Show

Well, to The One Show with Matt

Baker.

And Alex George. Whilst we

deal with the beast from the east we

have the perfect guest to cosy up

tonight.

The BAFTA winning actor and

writer that everyone wants to work

with, if this is anything to go by.

What's up?

I just want to say hello.

I will work for you for free.

I

think I would be great for this job.

I can make it easy for you, meet you

at your local.

I am right behind

you, save me a seat.

I want to pick

myself up against the best I can

find.

I think what we are saying

is...

It's not a problem...

Please

welcome Sharon Horgan! CHEERING

APPLAUSE

That is such a weird mash up.

What

we saw were clips from some of the

most popular shows you've done,

Catastrophe, Divorce with Sarah

Jessica Parker, an Anderson and the

brilliant Motherland. They are

collaborations so you must be the

easiest person to write with.

I am

just grateful for help. It is much

easier to write with someone else

because it means you laugh and you

know what is funny if somebody is

laughing along. I am fairly easy.

Have you dealt with the fact that

people want to write with you and

work with you and things are

successful at the moment?

No.

Does

it still feels strange?

It does feel

bonkers. I did not even start

working in TV until I was in my 30s.

That's good, in a way, because I am

super grateful for it. It's weird

seeing that, all those people. I

should make sure with everyone

together, it seems to work, you did

a nice job.

You could get all your

favourite cast members back.

Well

unless you spent the last 24 hours

in hibernation you will have noticed

the Mercury has plummeted and it's

all thanks to a blast of cold air

from Siberia dubbed Beast from the

East.

This is what it was like when

we arrived this afternoon.

We had

just been to the cinema watching

your new movie which we will talk

about but you don't often get scenes

like that.

It is like we were in New

York!

Yes, we are going outside...

It is warmer now than it was a few

hours ago. They say it is zero but

feels like -20 five.

What were you

hoping for.

hoping for.

-7 up north at the

moment.

Temperatures are expected to

be a lot colder overnight and

tomorrow and as we've been finding

out in Norfolk a lot has been done

to keep people warm and safe as they

prepare for the worst.

First thing in the morning, rush

hour and it is absolutely freezing.

-3, feels like -7 with wind chill

and a bit of snow on the ground. For

the good people of Norwich it's time

to get to work. Or not is the case

may be. The so-called Beast from the

East weather system created havoc

for commuters before it arrived will

stop on Sunday Greater Anglia trains

postponed and cancelled well before

flake of snow had the tracks. I'm

wondering where you are trying to

get to?

Barcelona.

Let me check the

departures...

They are running

hourly.

That's a bit nervous, trains

running hourly when you're trying to

get a flight, will it work out for

you?

I hope so.

My daughters school

is closed and they only let me know

ten hours before it started so I

have call friends.

That's not good

enough.

No, it's just a bit of snow.

Your train is running?

It is and I

am pleased. I'm meeting a friend, we

planned this trip for a long time.

What are you doing?

I could not

possibly say. I will not be back

until Friday.

This bitterly cold

weather is not just for a problem

trying to get around, when the

temperature plummets it's the

vulnerable and elderly who are most

at risk even in their own homes.

Community nurse Claire has to battle

the cold weather as she goes on

around checking her patients. How

tricky it is the cold weather for

some of the people you are seeing?

Very burnable patients, it's

important to prioritise and see

patients who have specific needs

such as injections, maybe insulin.

It's important they get that

injection.

So some you cannot fail

to get to?

That's right.

What are

your key considerations?

Keeping

them safe and warm and comfortable,

knowing they have helped if they

need it.

Today she's checking on

Eileen.

I am going to change leg of

that is OK? Ginger bandage.

How

important is it that the nurse comes

to see you?

Very important, I've not

been outside for tonight years.

That

long? And that is because of

mobility issues?

Yes.

What advice do

you give about hot weather? -- cold

weather?

Hot food and keep active to

try to get the blood flowing. It's

important we come today because of

the bandages are not in place you

risk open wounds getting infected.

It's showing good signs of healing.

You are on the mend.

You're on the

mend.

I'm on the mend!

The

north-east and Home Counties have

been some of the worst affected

areas seeing as much as ten

centimetres of snow fall. On the

roads traffic was at a standstill on

the 20 in Kent. Tomorrow it could be

worse.

Could be worse but Ben Rich is here

to confirm, there has been a lot of

hype about this, is it that bad?

I

think it is. I think it has lived up

to the hype. Temperatures struggling

to get above freezing during the

day, wind chill and this is

widespread across the whole country,

not just parts of Scotland are

Eastern areas, everywhere is cold

and just about everywhere by the end

of the week will have seen snow as

well.

We are used to subzero

temperatures here but the air and

the cold, I feel Zagadou from kind?

I think that's because of it has

come from, we have heard more times

than you can shake a stick at, Beast

from the East. That is the air

coming from Siberia which is dry, it

is land so air from there will not

be moist, it will be dry. One of the

things you might have noticed as you

not needed to scrape your car not

because it's not been called it's

just the air has not been moist

enough.

This is all news to me. I

did not know it was even snowing. I

think you just want this.

You think

I want this to happen?

Fake news.

On

the weather maps, you say it is too

dry for ice and snow but on the

maps, it should tomorrow and

Thursday that all this white stuff

is spreading, is that snow?

Yes,

Thursday that all this white stuff

is spreading, is that snow?

Yes,

that is snow.

We might have thunder snow.

That is

even better than Beast from the

East!

That will be in your next show

wanted?

No.

This is from Devon.

wanted?

No.

This is from Devon.

This

is a postcard.

No it isn't. You

wanted thunder snow?

This is that

big cloud waiting to drop a whole

load on us tomorrow?

Yes, there

could be blazers in the south

tomorrow. -- buzzers. As the area of

low pressure, called storm MR. As it

runs on to the cold air parts

if we are going to go for it we

might as well have a blizzard.

I

wondered why the Portuguese called

it Emma? .

Thank you to everyone who

sent in videos and postcards, keep

them coming in.

If you want

sent in videos and postcards, keep

them coming in.

If you want to help

take the temperature of the nation

we are looking for a short weather

report from your area so get your

telephone, hold it like a landscape

and send us a quick video telling us

what the weather is like in your

area, how it is affecting you or how

it is not affecting you, include the

area, how it is affecting you or how

it is not affecting you, include the

temperature if you can and we will

show some tomorrow.

Thank you, I

like how you held it like that.

Good.

Sharon's new film is called

Game Night, it's all about a group

of friends getting together to play

board games. At least that's how

things start.

They are not

everyone's idea of fun apparently

but whatever you do do not see that

these guys.

We love board games so much we

opened our own board game category.

-- cafe. 10-15 years ago it was

unheard of people would come and

play board games but now it's the

cool thing to do.

We opened up the

cafe so there would be a space for

people to sit and relax and hang out

with friends and play games.

It's

Friday evening, you can hear the

buzz, people are arriving and

laughing and it's not even 6pm.

We will have 25-year-olds playing

hungry hippos, we will have an

elderly couple playing Scrabble.

We'll have some heavyweight gamer

geeks playing a five-hour game of

strategy.

We have a regular dungeon

and Dragons nightwear people come.

You open the door and walk down and

suddenly a dark Lord standing there

with a big axe, he wants to kill

you, what do you do now? I roll six.

They are lots of fun and I watch

people playing games and connecting

together and it sometimes has

reduced me to tears and that is

amazing.

I set up a company to make

people feel socially included in

games nights. Everyone gets a sense

of inclusion. Everyone gets a sense

of accomplishment. I have suffered

everything from depression to

anxiety, it can be difficult to

socialise or feel like you're part

of a group or feel the same as

everyone else. When I play board

games and table top games there is

an aspect of logical sense which

puts people into roles without

emotional needs. It's a lot easier

to interact. And understand what is

going on in the social situation. I

held an event in Hackney, people

came down and I offered pizza,

drinks and the games themselves. I

believe board games saved my life,

they gave me a purpose and they give

me meaning and understanding. I want

to be able to give that to other

people.

I work in the British Museum

and it's my good fortune to find out

rules for an ancient board game

which is the oldest game in the

world we know how to play today. We

know how to play it and we can

imagine rather well the environment

in which it was played because it

was a race game. Two players, you

had pieces and dice and you had to

race around the board and get home

before your opponent. The most

important thing is about this whole

subject, what we call games night,

they exist and are important around

the world but they are at the tail

end of a whole long process of

thousands of generations of people

playing together. I think this

phenomenon of using your daily

preoccupations for a moment in this

kind of arena is a very beneficial

thing.

Isn't that wonderful?

They

say the family that plays together

stays together.

I have never heard

that one.

But your new film Game

Night is out on Friday and it's

about couples getting together to

play games but it's not just

Monopoly and corridor, things

progress to something more dramatic.

Yes, if this were I tell you about

the film?

LAUGHTER

Yes, they are friends who have games

nights, the characters at the heart

of it are played by Jason Bateman

and Rachael McAdams, Jason Bateman's

character is very competitive with

Kyle Chandler who plays his brother.

It's a murder mystery party but he's

mixed up with shady folks and shady

dealings. So the game night turns

into a real-life murder mystery and

hilarity ensues.

Lets get a sense of

it, here is your character

explaining to her very odd neighbour

how you got involved.

How long have

you two been a couple?

We are not.

We work together. I would not, I

would not do that.

I thought I

detected a certain chemistry between

the two of you.

No. No way. No.

I'm

not the best judge of chemistry in

the world.

Because your wife left you.

You

didn't start working as you know it

now until you were in your 30s. This

is your first big Hollywood film.

Yeah.

How have you been comparing

the two, the sitcom writing to being

in Hollywood?

There's better food!

That is the only difference!

You

know, bigger budgets and more money

and more toys to play with. But I

mean it's the same kind of thing. We

are all just trying to bring your

script to the screen.

Is it less

stressful? You are so involved with

the writing and editing normally and

in it sometimes, this must have been

like a holiday?

Oh, yeah. It was

really relaxing. Yeah. Just turning

up and saying a few lines and then

just going back to my trailer for a

kip.

No doubt writing while in your

trailer?

I was, actually. I had to

find time to slot it in. We were

about to start making Motherland. I

was saying to Holly, I will be able

to do it. I'll keep writing. We

wrote on Skype two episodes of

Motherland while I was there. You

get so much time in your trailer.

What else are you going to be doing?

Knitting or reading.

Is it something

you would like to do more of. You

are busy with writing. Would you

like to put it to one side and do

the writing?

No. No, not really. I

mean, it's fun acting. The reason I

wanted to do it because I hadn't

done any for a while. Apart from

Catastrophe. Write something really

hard work. It takes up a lot of

time. Yeah, it's fun to go and play

and just do a...

It's a full on

film. A lot of action.

There is. I

liked doing that, though.

That's

what you think about a Hollywood

film, isn't it? A little bird told

us that you are writing your own

film.

Oh, yeah. Me and Holly Walsh.

Sharon Horgan tell us more.

I can't.

You are going to have. We're here

now. What's the plot? What's the

feel? Something?

We pitched it as a

comedy single, white female. A

female buddy movie.

Comedy?

Yes,

it's definitely a comedy.

Two girls.

Yes. I will not tell you what it's

about. We are still writing it. We

have written it, we need to make it

better. I don't want to jinx it if I

tell what you it's about is will

sound rubbish and no-one will come

on board.

At the end do you drive

over a cliff?

Yeah.

Games Night is

on Friday. We had fun watching it.

We did.

Time now to catch up

with Emma Massingdale on her journey

through the Outer Hebrides.

As a One Show regular,

Emma's led her horses -

Noah and Storm - through some

of the most rugged and spectacular

landscapes in the UK.

Now, it's time to take them home.

I'm on my fourth day travelling up

through the Outer Hebrides with my

dog Inca and my ponies, Noah and

Storm. I've arrived on Eriskay where

the breed got their name. This is

literally heaven. Eriskay ponies

were down to their last 20 in the

1970s, thanks to the work of

dedicated local people their numbers

are back up to around 420 worldwide.

Donald's family have have lived on

the island for generations and used

them on their small holdings.

Everyone would have had a pony at

with you time. It was the vital part

of working the croft.

As demand

fell, so did their numbers. Once

again, they are an important part of

island life.

They are a tourist

attraction. They are quite popular

with the tourists and good for the

island. This time of year, if you

look around the place, it's nice and

green. If there wasn't anything

grazing on the island it wouldn't be

that green. It would be overrun.

As

for my two ponies I have had to keep

them separate from the wild herd as

it can takes for them to be

accepted. They are enjoying their

home land. Noah and Storm are happy

to roam free. Nice to see them

getting to live like a true Eriskay

pony. Eriskay is not just famous for

its ponies their football pitch is

recognised by Fifa as one of the

most remarkable places to play in

the world. The first thing you

notice is that the pitch is... How

they play on it, I don't know. On

this corner it can go straight down

hill. After a bumpy and wet game,

Eriskay snatch a 4-3 win. At the

island's only pub I join Martin and

Sean for a drink. With such a small

population on the island it can be

tough to rustle up a team.

A lot of

phoning around a couple of nights

before. We get there in the end.

What do other teams make of your

incredible pitch here?

They moan a

lot. You hear them moaning and

groaning about it. The pitch has

been there for 50, 60 years. It's

unique.

Although there are six main

islands, the Outer Hebrides is made

up of hundreds of little ones as

well with most uninhabited I'm

camping on one of them tonight. To

get there we nighed to cross a tide

al cross way, which is possible when

the tide has gone out. Well, at the

moment the road just runs into the

sea. We have to wait four hours, but

it's worthwhile. Out to sea we go.

It shows just how brilliant these

ponies are.

ponies are. This is amazing. This

tidele causeway is a mile-and-a-half

long and allows the ponies to get up

a bit of speed. Oh, my word. That

was so much fun.

was so much fun. The ponies are

cantering along. The spray was going

everywhere. Awesome. Our own

companions on the island are

highlands cows who seem pleased to

have company. You guys are awesome.

After I set up camp, the rain comes

in again. One minutes it's sunny and

nice. The next minute, pouring and

rain. Literally deluge of waterfalls

out of the sky. In the morning, the

journey back across the causeway is

horrendous. I'm absolutely soaked.

Covered in sand and I really feel

like I need a coffee and some hot

breakfast.

breakfast. The ponies are used to

the climate. They have a swinging

rock to tell them how bad the

weather is. It's wet and windy,

according to the rock. While I get

warmed up, the po Ennis have to wait

outside. Sorry, boys. This is just a

pitstop as we still have plenty more

miles to cover. The journey will get

tougher as we head to the largest

and most mountainous islands of

Lewis and Harris I will get close to

the fantastic wildlife that inhabits

these islands. He got it! Thank you,

Emma.

We

We have Jenga out. In honour of

your film

That little clip was

textbook One be show.

Of course.

There is a catch. If you pull a

block out and it has black on that

will be a confession question. If

it's red we will have more of a

career based question.

OK.

Future

and stuff.

All right.

That is a good

one.

Red.

Sensible question.

Serious

one of Divorce starring Sarah

Jessica Parker was a big hit.

We understand it's back tonight.

What can we expect?

Oh, we do the

post-divorce. There is signing the

papers in the first episode. The

first series was really, you know,

tough kind of going. A lot of pain.

This is them just trying to embark

on lives outside of each other. They

have kids and are still...

Are you

feeling nervous it starts tonight?

No.

You are happy?

No, it's grand.

40 seconds.

Sugar.

Come on.

Black.

Confession.

OK.

Quick.

What's the

most expensive thing you've ever

stolen?

Like a bag of pick-n Halifax

mix.

A whole bag. Normal people do

one or two!

In my local supermarket

you could fill up a bag of

pick-n-mix...

She's not the woman I

They are basically thought.

Saying -

help yourself to kids.

We are done.

We are done.

Finally tonight, a fierce argument

is raging in Northern Ireland

which has nothing to do

with power-sharing or

hard and soft borders.

Andy Kershaw's been

to find out more.

This barge in Northern Ireland is

extracting one of the most in demand

natural resources on the planet.

It's not oil and it's not gas, it's

sand. Incredibly, after water, sand

is the second most sought after

commodity in the world. Now most of

us probably don't give sand a second

thought. When you move sand from a

place like this, and take it

somewhere else, then what damage

does it leave behind? Every year in

Britain around 16 million tonnes of

it is dredged from under water. Here

at lock anyway, Britain's biggest

lake, annually 1.5 million tonnes of

sand is excavated. It's also a

specially protected site. As you can

imagine, not everyone is a fan of

sand dredging. In some parts of the

country, the practice is highly

controversial. Even more so here

because it's happening without

planning permission. Local

fishermen, Martin Devlin, has been

making a living from this lake for

had more than 30 years.

This area

here is the area of contention.

He

invited me to hop in his fishing

boat to get a closer look. We are

surrounded by three dredgers. You

can see the process in action. There

is a huge pipe that goes down to the

bed of the lake which is sucking

Uptons of sand.

They are encroaching

in spawning ground and areas which

are used by the small fish for

shelter and for feeding. Those areas

have been sacrosanct for us to

generations. There are more

stakeholders on lock anyway and that

the sand dredgers.

You think there

should be co-ordination so sand

dredging and fishing can happily

co-exist?

If we are to leave

anything for the next generations of

fishermen and sand dredgers we need

to do something about it now.

Gordon

Best represents the sand traders. He

believes dredging from the lake is

vital.

Virtually all the sand that

is taken out

is taken out of n out is used in the

construction industry. Even the

iconic Parliament Buildings behind

me was built using sand. If the sand

supply stopped tomorrow it would

have a devastating effect on the

Northern Ireland economy.

The

Northern Ireland Government

announced the public inquiry into an

application for planning permission

for dredging here. James Orr from

Friends of the Effort wants it

stopped until a decision is made.

This is where it's stored. This is

one of several different processing

plants. We are simply saying, how

long can we sustain this unlawful

extraction and not plan

strategically for this resource in

the future. The biggest unauthorised

extraction in Northern Ireland.

This

dredging must have to be licenced in

some way? There is a licence of

sorts and that's the Easterly of

Shaftesbury who owns the bay of the

Loch. People may be surprised by

that. It's a massive global problem?

Across the world companies, called

sanded Mafias, are moving in and

illegally extracting these

resources. It's a crisis in terms of

the availability Forlan few future

generations of a finite resources.

Bird species are being lost because

of unauthorised extraction.

The

Government says that while it makes

a decision over planning permission,

it has put controls in place which

monitor dredges and limit the amount

of sand they can extract. Fisherman

marpt inis happy with his catch. It

seems unlikely that the line in the

sand will be drawn over this row any

time soon. You have learned about

dredging as well tonight.

I know. I

always wanted to know about sand.

That's it for tonight.

Thanks to our guest, Sharon Horgan.

Game Night is in cinemas on Friday.

Tomorrow, Lulu will be

here and we'll have music

from The Fratellis.

Have a great evening and stay warm!

Good night.