:00:03. > :00:13.Jones and Chris Evans. Thank you to the Ronnie Hazlehurst Orchestra,
:00:13. > :00:15.
:00:15. > :00:20.who we are laughing having as our house band this evening. -- we are
:00:20. > :00:24.laughing. Ronnie Hazlehurst wrote over 200 classic TV theme tunes.
:00:25. > :00:29.Are You being served, Last Of the Summer Wine, Blankety Blank, the
:00:29. > :00:34.Generation Game. I have not -- got time to go through them all. They
:00:34. > :00:38.have had us rocking all afternoon. Tonight's star guest is a musician,
:00:38. > :00:48.comedian and wildlife not who has been described as the Quentin
:00:48. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:04.Tarantino of nature. It is Bill Hello. Were you aware of the
:01:04. > :01:09.Quentin Tarantino thing? That is not something I am familiar with.
:01:09. > :01:15.The Quentin Tarantino! That was not me that came out with that. That
:01:15. > :01:21.implies some sort of violence against badgers. Mr Black, Mr White.
:01:21. > :01:26.Mr Black and White. What do you think of the house band? They are
:01:26. > :01:31.rocking, fantastic! They should be on the main stage at the heroes of
:01:31. > :01:37.metal festival. They are rocking. I would love to go on tour with a
:01:37. > :01:46.band like that. Brilliant! It is a busy night for you because you are
:01:46. > :01:52.also on QI. I liked the way you called me the Bailey. What is going
:01:52. > :01:56.on with the outfit? That is something I wear around the house.
:01:56. > :02:01.I think it is a Shakespeare Festival tonight. Something to do
:02:01. > :02:05.with Shakespeare. You know what it is like, most of it is over my head.
:02:05. > :02:11.Stephen Fry will explain. He has a brain the size of a planet. We just
:02:11. > :02:16.go along with it. You will have to leave it to him. We will be finding
:02:16. > :02:22.out why he is turning himself into Le Qualmpeddler and what exactly a
:02:22. > :02:29.Qualmpeddler is a little bit later on. And we will be meeting this
:02:29. > :02:39.little lady. She turned a one- bedroom flat into a top Parisian
:02:39. > :02:49.restaurant and also got a TV show out of it. Rachel Khoo. Also coming
:02:49. > :02:50.
:02:50. > :03:00.up,... Let's do that again. Also coming up, but not quite yet...
:03:00. > :03:07.
:03:07. > :03:12.Pick up the instruments. Also A blast of Tom Jones. That must
:03:12. > :03:17.mean that we are visiting The Voice on the eve of the first live show.
:03:17. > :03:22.How exciting. I cannot believe I have been given backstage access to
:03:22. > :03:27.the biggest show on TV right now, The Voice. I will be catching up
:03:27. > :03:34.with two of the coaches and talking to the competing teams. Now all I
:03:34. > :03:39.need is a backstage pass. Thank you very much.
:03:39. > :03:42.It has to be one of the biggest studios I have ever seen. This
:03:43. > :03:48.enormous sound stage at Elstree Studios is where they filmed Star
:03:48. > :03:52.Wars. It is 16,000 square feet and it is named the George Lucas stage.
:03:52. > :03:56.I will be interrupting rehearsals later hoping to catch Tom Jones and
:03:56. > :04:01.Stanley and speak to them and find out what is going on in the show on
:04:01. > :04:06.Saturday, and also speaking to Tom's team, who will be up for the
:04:06. > :04:13.public vote. Tension is high and we will get the backstage gossip.
:04:13. > :04:17.is so lucky to have a backstage pass. Everyone is lucky! Our
:04:17. > :04:21.brilliant house band are here this evening, named after one of the
:04:21. > :04:28.greatest composers of theme tunes that TV has ever seen. Carrie Grant
:04:28. > :04:31.picks up the story of the legendary Ronnie Hazlehurst.
:04:31. > :04:41.Music flowed effortlessly from Ronnie Hazlehurst. In meticulous
:04:41. > :04:52.
:04:53. > :04:57.pencil, he wrote some of the most Ronnie Hazlehurst composed,
:04:57. > :05:02.arranged and conducted for radio, TV and film for over 40 years,
:05:02. > :05:06.including a long spell as the BBC's musical director. His TV themes
:05:06. > :05:10.alone topped and tailed dozens of the nation's favourite shows, and
:05:10. > :05:13.he knew exactly what they were supposed to do. Get people out of
:05:14. > :05:18.the kitchen is the first thing, make them aware that the programme
:05:18. > :05:20.is coming on. It does not necessarily have to be loud, but
:05:20. > :05:25.arresting enough and identifying enough with the programme to make
:05:25. > :05:30.them realise what is coming on. was the model of an all-round
:05:30. > :05:36.musician in all but one surprising aspect. He was the original self-
:05:36. > :05:40.made man. He had no musical education? He was self-taught. He
:05:40. > :05:45.left school at 14 and went to work in the cotton mills at will with
:05:45. > :05:49.the family finances. The story goes that he found a trumpet and his
:05:49. > :05:56.brother's bed and that spurred him on. After years of playing in dance
:05:56. > :06:00.bands, he got a coveted BBC job as a musical arranger in radio. And he
:06:00. > :06:06.was spotted from TV. The first thing I remember, he was doing the
:06:06. > :06:10.likely lads when it first started, the original black and white ones.
:06:10. > :06:15.His career coincided with the boom in BBC sitcoms and light
:06:15. > :06:20.entertainment. His talents served it perfectly. When I was a kid, it
:06:20. > :06:27.was one of those names you felt comfortable with, comfortable BBC,
:06:27. > :06:31.and the sound of the music had that feel as well. Probably, you would
:06:31. > :06:37.identify it by the rhythms of the actual words, Blankety Blank,
:06:37. > :06:42.Blankety Blank. Blankety Blank, Blankety Blank. Last of the Summer
:06:42. > :06:52.Wine. Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, which was written from Morse code
:06:52. > :06:56.of the actual words. The Morse code was played by two piccolos. That,
:06:56. > :07:03.in itself, is really clever. Everybody knows that tune, don't
:07:03. > :07:10.they? David Lowe's work is equally well known today, including BBC
:07:10. > :07:13.News, grand designs and the One Show. But computers have made life
:07:13. > :07:17.easy for a modern composer. In his day, he would have worked
:07:17. > :07:21.everything out with a manuscript paper at his desk and he would not
:07:21. > :07:26.have known what it sounded like until he got into the studio. Now,
:07:26. > :07:30.we have every sound at our disposal on the computer. I can be working
:07:30. > :07:34.on something in the morning and at midnight I can think, I want to add
:07:34. > :07:37.a marimba to that, a tambourine, and I can come and do it later.
:07:37. > :07:44.Ronnie Wood have been working in the studio with the band, getting
:07:44. > :07:48.it all done in one go. It was a different vibe altogether. Ronnie's
:07:48. > :07:53.skills made his job portable, needing paper, pencil and possibly
:07:53. > :07:57.a video of the show he was writing for. At 78, he was even composing
:07:57. > :08:02.in hospital. Matt Baker met in the day before major heart surgery.
:08:02. > :08:07.is a funny place to be working on this. I remember when he was in
:08:07. > :08:13.hospital how he was desperate to be involved. I am doing the Christmas
:08:13. > :08:17.episode of the Last Of the Summer Wine. That show was in his soul.
:08:17. > :08:20.Just one year later, he died, but to keep the music live, his
:08:20. > :08:27.manuscripts were put into the care of a man with a band who could play
:08:27. > :08:31.them. I have half a garage full of them. A massive amount of music.
:08:31. > :08:37.Chris Dean worked for Ronnie and he now runs the Sid Lawrence Orchestra.
:08:37. > :08:42.He came up the right time but also had a protective gift. He used a
:08:42. > :08:46.cash register in Are You Being Served. Who writes music free cash
:08:46. > :08:56.register? To the manor born was done like Elgar, a good old British
:08:56. > :08:59.March. He really picked out what was required. The Two Ronnies, that
:08:59. > :09:08.was the first time I came across Ronnie Hazlehurst. And then I found
:09:08. > :09:14.out there were three rallies. -- it was the Three Ronnies. Corbett,
:09:14. > :09:19.Barker and Hazel Hirst. His legend lives on through Chris and the band,
:09:19. > :09:29.but we could not have them on without a blast of Blankety Blank.
:09:29. > :09:42.
:09:42. > :09:51.We have got the Blankety Blank microphone. Shall we have a game?
:09:51. > :09:56.Yes. Rachel, will you guess? Matt Le Blanc was the guest on my
:09:56. > :10:05.radio show this morning and the thing he wanted to talk about most
:10:05. > :10:15.was his "blank". What do you think? I would say probably his up and
:10:15. > :10:18.
:10:18. > :10:24.coming TV show. Which is on in two weeks from tonight. Panther. I
:10:24. > :10:30.don't know. Does he have a weird animal? I am going with a pet.
:10:30. > :10:34.Rachel, what do you think? His hair. You are all wrong. Matt Le Blanc
:10:34. > :10:39.was the guest on my show this morning and the thing he wanted to
:10:39. > :10:49.talk about most, and this is true, was his motor home with a built-in
:10:49. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:00.I will have a go. A motor home with a garage bills in. Does that not
:11:00. > :11:06.defeat the object of having a motor home. If you have a motor home,
:11:06. > :11:11.that drives around. So what are you driving into the garage? Is it like
:11:11. > :11:15.a Russian doll. He loves motorcycle racing, so he takes his daughter to
:11:15. > :11:19.the track. They live in the motor home and his mechanics work out of
:11:19. > :11:24.the back of it to get his bikes fast to win the race. That might be
:11:24. > :11:29.all that we have time for. Here we go. I had just moved into a flat
:11:29. > :11:39.with my boyfriend and the only thing that we have argued about so
:11:39. > :11:41.
:11:41. > :11:50.far is a "blank". Another person in the flat? That would be a serious
:11:50. > :11:58.argument. It is not quite that serious. A lava lamp. Rachel,
:11:58. > :12:02.anything sensible? A kettle. Very important. Very important, a cup of
:12:03. > :12:10.tea. Yes, it is the first thing we bought. I have just moved into a
:12:10. > :12:20.flat with my boyfriend and the only thing we have argued about so far
:12:20. > :12:28.
:12:28. > :12:38.Might go, brilliant. I went to the shop today and I've bought a brand
:12:38. > :12:39.
:12:39. > :12:44.new "blank". Unicycle? A bearded dragon. That is not a bad answer.
:12:44. > :12:52.Yes, I am going with that. Rachel, what do you think I got in the
:12:52. > :13:02.shop? A rubber duck. Do you want me to tell you? It was a brand new
:13:02. > :13:12.
:13:12. > :13:16.Bill, you know a thing or two about theme tunes. Yes, I do. Before we
:13:16. > :13:22.talk about theme tunes, shall we have a look at you doing the theme
:13:22. > :13:32.tune to Panorama? The longest running current affairs programme
:13:32. > :13:36.
:13:36. > :13:42.in the world, the theme to Panorama. I think, I don't know about you,
:13:42. > :13:52.but I think that would sound the same if you played it backwards.
:13:52. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:17.Can you play that? Backwards? Give APPLAUSE
:14:17. > :14:21.And you are right, Bill. There's the keyboard!
:14:21. > :14:26.What is your favourite theme tune? I love theme tunes. You can see how
:14:26. > :14:32.versatile they can be. One of my favourites is the Match of the Day
:14:32. > :14:41.theme tune. Very nice. You can play nit a variety of different ways, it
:14:41. > :14:45.lends itself to the classical genre, you know. Lovely. You know, that's
:14:45. > :14:49.very nice. I also personally prefer the lounge version, a much more
:14:49. > :14:59.relaxed version. I don't know whether the band can join in here.
:14:59. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:36.Oh, to be talented! Well done! APPLAUSE
:15:36. > :15:41.I have to say, that's not my favourite, my favourite version of
:15:41. > :15:49.Match Of The Day is the Jewish fock song version of Match Of The Day,
:15:49. > :15:59.if you transpose it into a minor key, you get this -- Jewish folk
:15:59. > :16:11.
:16:11. > :16:18.Oi! Excellent. It doesn't sound like a football programme. Exactly.
:16:18. > :16:28.I suppose one of my favourites would be Ski Sunday. Oh, yes.
:16:28. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:35.It's an absolute corking classic. It's brilliant. It's a beautiful
:16:35. > :16:45.piece of music, written in the '70s, written as a paradiof Bach and it
:16:45. > :16:55.
:16:55. > :17:05.was actually, the BBC used it for Ski Sunday and it is modelled on
:17:05. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:16.This is virtually the siem in a minor key. If you play Ski Sunday
:17:16. > :17:25.in a minor key, you get Bach. -- the same. Ladies and gentlemen,
:17:25. > :17:28.come on! APPLAUSE Would you fancy
:17:28. > :17:32.collaborating with the band later on? Thank you very much for that,
:17:32. > :17:40.fantastic. Do you want to play us out with the band collaborating?
:17:40. > :17:46.Yes. Not now. We have got half an hour left. Could the 1p copper coin
:17:46. > :17:55.be on the way out? Some shopkeepers want that. Can you even spend 1p
:17:55. > :18:02.these days. Alex Riley's adding his two pennet worth to the debate.
:18:02. > :18:07.Chances are, the one pences are stuck in the back of a settee or
:18:07. > :18:11.are stuck in the cack juem cleaner. There is a debate, isn't it about
:18:11. > :18:17.time we abolished the penny? It's been 4 1 years since the penny came
:18:17. > :18:21.into the world in its present decimal form. The pound will be
:18:21. > :18:26.divided into 100 new pence. didn't immediately catch on with
:18:26. > :18:30.everyone. I certainly don't want to start with this new coinage to me
:18:30. > :18:36.now, I can't get through with it. Due to inflation, the buying power
:18:36. > :18:41.of the penny is less than a 12th of what it was in 1971, so how easy is
:18:41. > :18:46.it for me to "spend a penny". Nothing for a penny in there. Used
:18:46. > :18:55.to be just pennies. Now it's just pounds.
:18:55. > :19:05.This is more like it. Oh. Only takes 2 pences. How much are flying
:19:05. > :19:05.
:19:05. > :19:10.saucers? One penny. I'll have 1,000 please. Last month Canada got rid
:19:10. > :19:16.of their equivalent of the penny, as have New Zealand and Australia.
:19:16. > :19:21.Isn't it time we followed suit? It's been around for years and it
:19:21. > :19:27.was the only coin in surklaition for this country for years. --
:19:27. > :19:31.circulation. What is a penny made of? Up until 1992, they were made
:19:31. > :19:34.of bronze, that's 1971, the earliest one you will find in
:19:34. > :19:40.circulation, would have been made of bronze. The later one is made of
:19:40. > :19:44.copper plated steel and it's magnetic. That one there isn't.
:19:44. > :19:49.does the old adage that if you look after the pennies, the pounds will
:19:49. > :19:53.look after themselves still hold true? Just seeing if anybody picks
:19:53. > :20:00.it up. If you saw a penny on the floor, would you pick it up?
:20:00. > :20:08.would. No. You would, you fibber. 2p I would. Bending down in public
:20:08. > :20:14.isn't very good. I would pass it on to somebody. 10p perhaps, but, you
:20:14. > :20:21.know, I'm a man of means. Can't go the toilet now for a penny can you,
:20:21. > :20:28.like you used to. It's 20p and 30p in railway stations. It is.
:20:28. > :20:33.Royal Mint calculates that about 6.5 billion pennies have been lost
:20:33. > :20:38.in circulation, lost or stashed away. Your organisation represents
:20:38. > :20:41.200,000 small businesses, do you members think the penny's spent?
:20:41. > :20:44.Opinion will be Dwighted. People will say it's a good thing, some
:20:44. > :20:48.will say it gets in the way. My gut feeling is that most people will
:20:48. > :20:51.say it's time to accept the penny's not worth much. The biggest
:20:51. > :20:55.challenge to anybody that works with cash is having to keep a float
:20:55. > :20:59.of cash in the tills. They have to count and process it and take to it
:20:59. > :21:04.the bank. When you pay money in, cash into a bank, often it costs.
:21:04. > :21:08.More people pay by card and small value items in particular are
:21:08. > :21:12.increasingly being purchased by plastic, rather than copper in your
:21:12. > :21:17.pocket. With an increasing number of people
:21:17. > :21:24.asking for it to be withdrawn from circulation, is it just a matter of
:21:24. > :21:28.time before the penny's dropped? There are 6.5 billion pennies
:21:28. > :21:33.missing, so let's find them, shall we? Let's find them now. We want
:21:33. > :21:37.you to stick your hand down the back of your sofa, take a picture
:21:37. > :21:43.of you with whatever you find and send it in. Nothing down here!
:21:43. > :21:49.don't know, let's have a feel. We have a '70s theme going on here.
:21:49. > :21:58.The new penny was born in 1971, Ronnie Hazlehurst' band with are us
:21:58. > :22:04.and we are joined by Dominic Sandbrook. Your new series is
:22:04. > :22:07.called The Seventies? Does what it sent on the till, a Ronseal kind of
:22:07. > :22:12.programme. Do you have to wait until they are vintage or have you
:22:12. > :22:16.pitched this idea before? It's 30 or 40 years since the 706z, so you
:22:16. > :22:19.can look back now and see the beginning of things like consumer
:22:19. > :22:23.borrowing and feminism and these things. They've laid the
:22:23. > :22:26.foundations for the world we live in right now. You say feminism. One
:22:26. > :22:30.thing that shocked me was the way attitudes have changed towards
:22:30. > :22:36.women. In your show, you show a clip of Parkie and I'll never look
:22:36. > :22:41.at him in the same light again. Women were routinely portrayed as
:22:41. > :22:50.sexual play things. One of our rising stars of the theatre and
:22:50. > :22:56.asks she's especially telling with slutish eroticism, Helen Mirren".
:22:56. > :23:00.You are a serious actress, but do you find that what could be best
:23:00. > :23:07.described as your equipment hinders you in that pursuit? I would like
:23:07. > :23:13.you to explain what you mean?Y your physical attributes? You mean my
:23:13. > :23:19.fingers? No, I meant your... Naughty Parkie skham
:23:19. > :23:23.Oh! When did all that stop, was it Mary Whitehouse? It was shifting in
:23:23. > :23:27.the late '70s, early '80s. It's astonishing when you look back at
:23:27. > :23:31.this footage, it's easy to look back and be appalled. There was a
:23:31. > :23:34.great car ad in the '70s and the tagline said if this car was a
:23:34. > :23:39.woman it would get its bottom pinched and underneath somebody
:23:39. > :23:45.spray painted, if this woman was a car, she'd run you down. Really?! I
:23:45. > :23:50.wonder who spray painted that! Punk a came along. How was that born?
:23:50. > :23:56.think as a great explosion of energy really in the art schools in
:23:56. > :24:01.the mid '70s and everyone remembers the Malcolm McLaren impresario who
:24:01. > :24:05.created the Sex Pistols. Older people, as we show in the series,
:24:05. > :24:12.were horrified. They saw it as a barbaric challenge to everything
:24:12. > :24:18.that Britain stood for. Some Welsh people were properly scared. Church
:24:18. > :24:26.goers gathered outside the Castle Cinema, led by a local pastor.
:24:26. > :24:31.do protest that it's come to Caerphilly. Terrible. Disgusting.
:24:31. > :24:40.Lowering the standard of our people in Caerphilly. But what was it that
:24:40. > :24:47.had the good people of kaerfil in such a advertisey? -- Caerphilly
:24:47. > :24:54.The cult is called punk, the music is punk rock. Raw, outrageous and
:24:54. > :25:00.crude. In the Vanguard, the Sex Pistols. Do you think the whole
:25:00. > :25:05.explosion of punk was a full stop the decade that preceded it, to the
:25:05. > :25:09.second half of the 60, did we need it to end to give us closure?
:25:09. > :25:14.think so, they were the anti- Beatles, priding themselves on that.
:25:14. > :25:20.The person that founded Malcolm McLaren, he dreamt of creating The
:25:20. > :25:24.Beatles. The beat lgs started off squeaky clean and they evolved, but
:25:25. > :25:31.the Sex Pistols were the opposite - - Beatles. They went out to shock
:25:31. > :25:37.Middle England. I suppose they do punctuate pop culture. Before Sex
:25:37. > :25:44.Pistols, before punk and after punk. Even though punk's musical legacy,
:25:44. > :25:48.we don't live in a punk musical universe any more... You had the
:25:48. > :25:53.Bay City Rollers then punk, how mad is that? I thought it was very much
:25:53. > :25:58.about the era of do it yourself, you know, sort of these bands very
:25:58. > :26:03.proficient bands who were very good musicians and very good technically
:26:03. > :26:12.and it was almost like being at a board meeting of the band, you know,
:26:12. > :26:16.very, very... Sort of bands like Emmerson and Palmer. You didn't
:26:16. > :26:21.necessarily have to play that well. Do you think it was getting too
:26:21. > :26:28.fancy and people wanted to kill off? It was getting airy-fairy?
:26:28. > :26:33.good way of describing it. Airy- fairy and then punk. The seventies
:26:33. > :26:38.continued on Monday. Back to Angelica, the voice studio and
:26:38. > :26:42.she's collared Tom Jones and Danny O'Donoghue. All very exciting here.
:26:42. > :26:49.I'm joined by two of the coaches, Danny and Tom. Woo!
:26:49. > :26:55.So excited to meet you both. Very nice to meet you too. Welcome.
:26:55. > :27:02.Welcome to the Voice. This is the first look we have had at the set,
:27:03. > :27:07.the BBC have done themselves proud, it's amazing. When you are here,
:27:07. > :27:11.you are swaying and that's looking like you want to get on stage?
:27:11. > :27:15.unnatural part is that we have to coach the other singers. What tips
:27:15. > :27:20.have you been giving your team? relax more than anything else, not
:27:20. > :27:24.to get uptight. It's hard to say it, but they have to feel that,
:27:24. > :27:30.especially now going live. Exactly. How are you going to feel having to
:27:30. > :27:35.say goodbye to is somebody? That's the hardest part, that's been the
:27:35. > :27:38.hardest part since we started. really hard. Everyone we have seen
:27:38. > :27:44.day in day out, week in week out giving their all for the show and
:27:44. > :27:49.it's really hard to kind of then decide after the UK has voted for,
:27:49. > :27:53.let's say the top three, then Tom's going to have to decide between two
:27:53. > :27:58.people that he fought for to have on his team. I suppose that's the
:27:58. > :28:02.process to find The Voice? Quite right. If it was easy, everyone
:28:02. > :28:07.would be doing it. I would be auditioning. Your team and Jessie
:28:07. > :28:11.J's team are doing a special performance, correct? We'll watch
:28:11. > :28:15.Sir Tom and Will Duke it out on Saturday. To remind everybody, the
:28:15. > :28:20.real team's out there, me and Jessie have put our team through
:28:20. > :28:24.their paces and they'll be doing a special group performance. Can you
:28:24. > :28:27.tell us what song? I can't, sorry, you will have to tune in, no
:28:27. > :28:36.exclusives here. Any rivalry coming in? No, we want the best for our
:28:36. > :28:39.teams, for the singers, so whoever wins, whose ever team wins, I don't
:28:39. > :28:46.think it's as important as coaching them, coaching the people properly
:28:46. > :28:50.and trying to get the best from them. Definitely. Who do you think
:28:50. > :28:53.could win this competition? We have winners amongst our ranks and
:28:53. > :28:57.whoever performs on the day may just walk away with it, everyone
:28:57. > :29:01.has really strong singers, even at this level now. I wouldn't want to
:29:01. > :29:06.put my money on any one person to be honest with you. Thank you so
:29:06. > :29:10.much for talking to us. We'll be chatting to the teams later today.
:29:10. > :29:14.Thank you. Big night for Tom's team and Danny's team tomorrow. And it's
:29:14. > :29:19.live! For the first time on BBC One! Now friends, we have a game
:29:19. > :29:29.for you to play at home and it's called, very simply, Name the Theme
:29:29. > :29:30.
:29:30. > :29:34.Starring the Ronnie Hazlehurst Orchestra. They are about to play
:29:34. > :29:40.three top TV tunes. If you can name them, send us an e-mail and we will
:29:40. > :29:50.not give a prize to anyone because we're not allowed to any more.
:29:50. > :30:26.
:30:26. > :30:30.That is great. Have you got all three answers? Everyone. Have you?
:30:30. > :30:34.Sometimes we get letters from showbiz pals asking to make their
:30:34. > :30:37.dreams come true, like a celebrity Jim'll Fix It. Often they want
:30:37. > :30:42.something ordinary like a fly-on- the-wall documentary series or a
:30:43. > :30:46.centre plate -- centre page spread in Hello magazine. Sometimes they
:30:46. > :30:50.ask for something a little bit special.
:30:50. > :30:55.John Barrowman is famous for his performances on stage and TV,
:30:55. > :31:03.especially as captain Jack in torch would. But as a dog lover, he has a
:31:03. > :31:08.pretty wild ambition, to get up close to a wolf. Why? Having grown
:31:08. > :31:12.up in Scotland and started my life journey there, the fact that Wolves
:31:12. > :31:16.no longer exist in northern Scotland, I think it is something I
:31:16. > :31:22.would like to see maybe them brought back. I have only seen them
:31:22. > :31:27.in films and the Hollywood portrayal. It is not good. I hope
:31:27. > :31:31.to dispel that myth today a little bit. And to come back with all of
:31:31. > :31:37.your limbs intact. I have a plan for that, because if you are with
:31:37. > :31:41.me, I'm throwing you into their jaws and running! By the 18th
:31:41. > :31:44.century, British balls had been hunted to extinction, but today
:31:44. > :31:50.there are some in private collections, rehoused from zoos and
:31:50. > :31:55.wildlife parks. Near the Welsh border, Tony runs Wolf Watch UK, a
:31:55. > :32:00.charity that saves walls which might otherwise have been destroyed.
:32:00. > :32:04.It all started about 30 years ago when myself and a friend visited a
:32:04. > :32:08.zoo in south Warwickshire which was being closed by the local authority.
:32:08. > :32:12.The zoo keeper showed us around and ask what he was doing with the
:32:12. > :32:20.wolves. He said they were not worth anything so they would be put down,
:32:20. > :32:25.and that was how it started. So you saved them? I suppose so. Speaking
:32:25. > :32:30.of them... Although Wolves are part of a canine family, the strength of
:32:30. > :32:40.their bite is reckoned to be twice that of a German shepherd. Listen
:32:40. > :32:45.to that. Some animals, you see them stripping the meat off the bone,
:32:45. > :32:49.but he just chewed right through it. They will eat the whole carcass.
:32:49. > :32:54.Wolves hunt in packs with a strict hierarchy and they will strive for
:32:54. > :32:59.dominance, even in captivity. Tony has Five walls, and it could be too
:32:59. > :33:04.dangerous for us to go into the enclosures with most of them. But
:33:04. > :33:08.one Wolff, Maddy, raised from a PUP, is much more approachable. When you
:33:08. > :33:14.are close, you realise how big they are. From a distance, you think it
:33:14. > :33:19.is like an Alsatian. When you are disclose, the Big ears and the long
:33:19. > :33:24.snout and the big, thick neck. thought I would be more nervous,
:33:24. > :33:30.really. But what about John's desire to see Wolves back in
:33:30. > :33:33.Scotland? It is a topic of much debate. They were natural predator
:33:33. > :33:37.for deer in northern Scotland and they are thinking of reintroducing
:33:37. > :33:41.them into the wild. I like to think it is better to have a natural
:33:41. > :33:47.predator than to have men hunting them all the time. Is that a good
:33:47. > :33:50.thing, or a bad thing for them to be re-released? It is a lovely idea,
:33:50. > :33:54.but if you look at why the animal became extinct and look at what has
:33:54. > :33:58.happened since extinction, and look at what the likely environmental
:33:58. > :34:02.impact would be if you reintroduced it, the idea of putting several
:34:02. > :34:07.packs into an area such as Scotland where there are a lot of sheep and
:34:07. > :34:10.livestock, I do not think it would go down very well. But there is one
:34:10. > :34:16.loud element of their behaviour that John has yet to encounter,
:34:16. > :34:21.which I think is best to experience at night. There are lots of fables
:34:21. > :34:25.about these animals blowing down pigs houses, eating grandmothers,
:34:25. > :34:30.howling at a full moon. They do how all regularly to communicate, and
:34:30. > :34:35.if we are lucky, we might get to do it with them. They do it to warn
:34:35. > :34:40.other packs of their territory, but also to bond with in their group.
:34:40. > :34:50.And it needs one to kick it off. And you, tonight, John, can be that
:34:50. > :35:15.
:35:15. > :35:22.Wolff. Clear your throat. Here we Andrew Lloyd Webber, you need to
:35:22. > :35:28.write a musical for the two of us. That is amazing. What a night.
:35:28. > :35:38.Creepy, magical. The perfect icing on a cake for the perfect day.
:35:38. > :35:41.
:35:41. > :35:48.That musical could become a bit tiresome after 10 minutes. There is
:35:48. > :35:53.not a theme tune there. Bill Bailey, is it true that you went to China
:35:53. > :35:58.to savour owls? Well, I did not go there with the intention of saving
:35:58. > :36:03.owls, that was not the plan. But it happened by accident, really. We
:36:03. > :36:08.were travelling around and we were in Guangdong province in the south,
:36:08. > :36:13.an industrial region, and we wanted to take some pictures. I wanted to
:36:13. > :36:18.show my son about recycling. It is a place where they recycled all of
:36:18. > :36:22.the electronic waste of the world. We got taken to a restaurant. In
:36:22. > :36:26.the lobby there were lots of animals, creatures. You see them in
:36:26. > :36:31.Chinese restaurants - prawns and lobsters. There were other more
:36:31. > :36:37.exotic creatures. Live animals. There was a live Salamander, a
:36:37. > :36:43.giant lizard. There were other various things. There was half a
:36:43. > :36:51.weasel, or something. Various different things, legs and arms.
:36:51. > :36:57.There was a live cormorant, to eat. And live mammals. And an owl. A
:36:57. > :37:02.giant eagle owl in a cage that you could choose to eat. All of those
:37:02. > :37:09.things were on the menu. This is not a joke? It is not a joke. We
:37:09. > :37:15.said, we would like to buy the owl. We thought, we cannot leave it here
:37:15. > :37:19.and we have to set it free. We said we would pay for it. They went,
:37:19. > :37:26.right. I actually think they thought we wanted to have it to
:37:26. > :37:30.take away. "They do not want to eat it here, they want to take it away".
:37:30. > :37:36.So they wrapped it in Sellotape and put it into a box. We took it into
:37:36. > :37:40.the woods and let it go. Were you tempted to pick up anything else?
:37:40. > :37:50.If I could have poured everything, I would have done. How much did it
:37:50. > :37:51.
:37:51. > :37:58.cost? It was 4500 in the Chinese currency, about four on it and �50.
:37:59. > :38:04.We had to do something. -- �450. If you are ever in China and you see
:38:04. > :38:12.an owl, buy it and set it free. to fund a things like this, you
:38:12. > :38:20.have gone on tour. I have. It is called Qualmpeddler. What is a
:38:20. > :38:26.Qualmpeddler? Well, I love the word. It is a fantastic word, qualm. You
:38:26. > :38:30.only ever hear it in plural. You never have one qualm. It is a
:38:30. > :38:35.fantastic word. My grandmother used to use it all the time about
:38:35. > :38:42.everything. She would say, I have qualms about this flam. Or she
:38:43. > :38:49.would say, have qualms about nuclear power. Nervousness, jitters,
:38:49. > :38:54.anxiety. So you are the Qualmpeddler. Yes, indeed. I have
:38:54. > :38:58.favourites, things that you worry about, and then big ones, what is
:38:58. > :39:02.the nature of the universe. And what of those things that you press
:39:02. > :39:06.down and they bounce back up? What are they called. Last night was
:39:06. > :39:12.your first gig of the tour in London. What did you learn from it
:39:12. > :39:17.and what are you leaving Int or taking out? Looks of it seemed to
:39:17. > :39:21.go well. I used a lot of music in the show. I did a bit of the theme
:39:21. > :39:30.tune thing. I did a reggae version of Downton Abbey. That went down
:39:30. > :39:34.well. I did not think it would work, but people seemed to know about it.
:39:34. > :39:39.I talked a little bit about some interesting ideas, cognitive
:39:39. > :39:44.dissonance. Seemingly, people seemed to know what it was. There
:39:44. > :39:48.was a good response. I was surprised, actually. Last summer,
:39:48. > :39:53.you played at Knebworth in front of 66,000 people but you are scaling
:39:53. > :39:58.back. Yes, I am playing venues in the Highlands and Islands of
:39:58. > :40:03.Scotland which added a couple of years ago and it was fantastic. --
:40:03. > :40:06.I did a couple of years ago. The venues are not on the main touring
:40:06. > :40:12.schedule, so people are very pleased that you are coming. They
:40:12. > :40:15.are really up for it, so it is a good place to try stuff out.
:40:15. > :40:21.Qualmpeddler continues in a sold- out Lancaster, but there are
:40:21. > :40:31.tickets for Carlisle the next day and beyond. What do you call Foodie
:40:31. > :40:35.
:40:35. > :40:40.Friday without Jay? Foodie Friday Almost all of our home-grown
:40:40. > :40:45.asparagus is harder stood between 23rd April and 21st June. The rest
:40:45. > :40:49.of the year, we rely on imports. -- it is harvested. This field is just
:40:49. > :40:54.starting to show signs of life, but rather than waiting for him to wake
:40:54. > :40:58.up, farmers in recent years have developed a way of cheating the
:40:58. > :41:04.seasons. The falling British asparagus plants into growing
:41:04. > :41:09.earlier in poly tunnels like these. Tricking asparagus plants. I have
:41:09. > :41:13.come to this farm of Stephen and David. We planted some crops with
:41:13. > :41:18.heating pipes underneath which warms the soil around the ground
:41:18. > :41:22.early on and gets it going about two weeks earlier than it would do
:41:22. > :41:27.without the heating. Those two weeks are so productive that they
:41:27. > :41:31.provide half of the farm's total asparagus. Extending the season can
:41:31. > :41:36.only be done by starting early. For the good of the plants, the harvest
:41:36. > :41:41.cannot finish late. In June, you have to stop. We have to be careful
:41:41. > :41:47.that we do not cut everything, but that we leave some to grow up and
:41:47. > :41:53.feed the plant the following year. That gives us this date of around
:41:53. > :41:57.Midsummer's day in June, when we stop harvesting. A single bunch of
:41:57. > :42:03.British asparagus can cost �3, but the cost reflects the effort to
:42:03. > :42:06.grow it. It takes around three years to mature. When it eventually
:42:06. > :42:13.produces a crop, the asparagus spears grows so fast that the same
:42:13. > :42:16.plants can be harvested twice a day. It is labour intensive. It is hand
:42:16. > :42:20.harvested and it has to be done carefully so that you do not damage
:42:20. > :42:26.newly emerging Spears when you harvest one. You cannot eat them
:42:26. > :42:36.like that, can you? You can. It is like a sweet pea, so fresh and
:42:36. > :42:43.sweet. Cheers. The first of many. Now it is time to cook the first of
:42:43. > :42:50.this year's crop. North of the farm, chef Paul Gilmour of its my
:42:50. > :42:54.delivery. I come bearing gifts. Wonderful gifts. Are you the right
:42:54. > :43:00.chef to have brought English asparagus for? I would like to say
:43:00. > :43:05.so. I will not cook foreign asparagus. I like them to keep
:43:05. > :43:08.their seasons, and I keep my seasons. But can I taste the
:43:08. > :43:14.difference between imported asparagus and the local crop once
:43:14. > :43:24.they have been cooked? It is the blindfold test. This is the second
:43:24. > :43:27.
:43:27. > :43:32.OK, I know immediately. I think I know. This is the one from the farm.
:43:32. > :43:40.Completely different. It is completely different. I am not just
:43:40. > :43:46.saying that. It is not a patch on the English one. This is just sweet.
:43:46. > :43:52.And he has a tip for me. Cook it for up to two minutes and then stop
:43:52. > :43:57.the cooking process in iced water. Then keep it in a fridge, chilled,
:43:57. > :44:01.dried for up to two days. When you want to repeat it, reheated on a
:44:01. > :44:07.griddle, on a barbecue, even in a little pan of water, if you want.
:44:07. > :44:13.That means it will be perfect all the time. He served me and
:44:13. > :44:17.asparagus extravaganza. Buttered asparagus. Simple, perfect.
:44:17. > :44:22.Asparagus and broad bean risotto with white truffle oil. I think I
:44:22. > :44:30.am having a love affair with asparagus. Grilled trout with
:44:30. > :44:32.asparagus. Delicious. Roast asparagus with beef. You would
:44:32. > :44:40.think the beef would be overpowering, but the asparagus
:44:40. > :44:44.stands up. And finally, poached asparagus with lavender ice-cream.
:44:44. > :44:49.There is an English summer garden party going on in my mouth right
:44:50. > :44:54.now. British asparagus might be available a little longer than we
:44:54. > :44:57.are used to at the minute but you can still only get it in those few
:44:57. > :45:07.months. I think there is something quite appealing about this home-
:45:07. > :45:10.
:45:10. > :45:16.grown wonder not being available Shall we release Rachel? Let's do
:45:16. > :45:21.it. Come on in, Rachel. Thank you. What do you have for us tonight?
:45:21. > :45:28.Well, I have the Battle of The asparagus here, French and English
:45:28. > :45:32.asparagus on the same plate. Anita loved the English one and could
:45:32. > :45:36.tell the difference straightaway. Are you fighting for the French
:45:37. > :45:43.here or English? English. How have you prepared these? Just boiled
:45:43. > :45:52.them and then I've made a little lemon vinaigrette with mint and a
:45:52. > :45:58.French goat's cheese. Shall we pile in? Yes. That's the French one. The
:45:59. > :46:06.white one is French. You'd better just bite into it. I like the
:46:06. > :46:13.French. No problem with the foreign.. It's more delicate in the
:46:13. > :46:19.flavour. It's not too cheeky is it. It's a bit sea cucumber-ish. I have
:46:19. > :46:24.that most nights, love it. released one of those into the wild
:46:24. > :46:27.actually! We have got to talk about your show,
:46:27. > :46:32.Little Paris Kitchen. You have a lovely story about how it came
:46:32. > :46:39.about. What were you doing in Paris? Six years ago I had enough
:46:39. > :46:46.of London, moved to Paris to learn how to bake cakes, studied at Le
:46:46. > :46:51.Cor don Bleu, met some people in the cookery book store where I was
:46:51. > :46:56.working, got a book deal and then an English book deal. Pimp my cook
:46:56. > :47:01.cake is a course. What was that?! Sounds amazing. Parisians didn't
:47:01. > :47:05.know what cup cakes were. Did they know what pimping was? No, either,
:47:05. > :47:09.so it was like do something fun and we are going to take a cup cake and
:47:09. > :47:14.pimp it and people would create these crazy Towers and they don't
:47:14. > :47:19.have icing in Paris and hundreds of thousands, so they went a bit mad.
:47:19. > :47:29.You allow people to eat in your kitchen, that was the whole thing,
:47:29. > :47:29.
:47:29. > :47:38.a one-bedroomed place you lived in. Not even a bedroom. A table for two.
:47:38. > :47:42.People would send me e-mails like, it's my dad's birthday or my
:47:42. > :47:46.honeymoon. Andest test out your recipes on these people. Did you
:47:46. > :47:56.film everything in your own kitchen? Everything, it was insane.
:47:56. > :48:03.
:48:03. > :48:09.Your kitchen was your living room, bedroom, kitchen? Yes. You had to
:48:09. > :48:14.get rid of them to go to bed? get the Hoover out, that would
:48:14. > :48:18.always work. The rehearsals of the biggest show on television - that's
:48:18. > :48:22.official - we are talking about the Voice and she's with ten nervous
:48:23. > :48:27.contestants at Elstree right now. Rehearsals are over and, as
:48:27. > :48:31.promised, I'm with Tom and Will's team!
:48:31. > :48:35.Excellent. You have just been rehearsing, how are you feeling?
:48:35. > :48:39.Really scared, but excited. It's just really good to get out here.
:48:39. > :48:43.It's going to be the live show. Do you think that will have a
:48:43. > :48:46.different feel for you? Yes, it may be a little bit different. We have
:48:46. > :48:51.done it before so you have got to take a little bit of something from
:48:51. > :48:56.that and carry on as best you can reallyment You haven't had a public
:48:56. > :49:01.live vote before have you? Let's be honest, it must raise the stakes a
:49:01. > :49:08.lot, come on? Of course, but you have to stay focused and do what
:49:08. > :49:12.you do. It's very gad to do that, so let's do that. You two are
:49:12. > :49:18.performing together so does it give you an edge? It's good to have
:49:18. > :49:22.someone hold your hand emotionally. Tom, is he a good mentor? Brilliant.
:49:22. > :49:27.He's really good. He has a really Calming Influence on you and pushes
:49:27. > :49:31.you to do well. You guys seem to be gelling but it's getting
:49:31. > :49:35.competitive now, this is Will's team. Are you a bit sad that some
:49:35. > :49:39.people have gone or are you pleased that it's getting smaller? I think
:49:39. > :49:43.it's going to be sad but bitter sweet, we are all here for one
:49:43. > :49:49.thing. Sad it will be but it will be amazing if we can get through
:49:49. > :49:54.the live shows. Has Will given you any top tips? He's good at telling
:49:54. > :49:59.you to be yourself, he's a great mentor, we couldn't ask for more.
:49:59. > :50:04.big yes here? He says stay focused, be yourself and go for it. What do
:50:04. > :50:08.you think you've got that will make you possibly win? I think we love
:50:08. > :50:18.music, you know, we've got the soul, we are ready for this, we just Juan
:50:18. > :50:21.
:50:21. > :50:25.that do Will I am proud. Just wanna do will i am proud. We are all here
:50:25. > :50:28.because we love music and we are all about The Voice and hopefully
:50:28. > :50:34.we can pull out some amazing performances. I'm sure you will. We
:50:34. > :50:43.are all rooting for you and good luck. Make sure you watch The Voice
:50:43. > :50:47.tomorrow on BBC One, 7pm. Go, guys! I'll be there with my swivel chair.
:50:47. > :50:51.People do that at home don't they, people turn round at home, it's
:50:51. > :50:55.amazing. We can vote tomorrow. have some more breaking news.
:50:55. > :51:00.said the repeat of little Paris kitchen is on on Saturday but this
:51:00. > :51:05.week it's a Sunday, so there you are, it's all on iPlayer anyway.
:51:05. > :51:09.Earlier we asked if you could name some classical TV tunes played by
:51:09. > :51:19.our boys here this evening. Here they are again.
:51:19. > :51:47.
:51:47. > :51:54.APPLAUSE Fantastic. All the tunes composed
:51:54. > :52:01.by Ronnie Hazlehurst and his orchestra is there, led by Chris
:52:01. > :52:07.Dean. So the answers to those, Bill, please? Oh, right, I see. Well,
:52:07. > :52:13.Chris, the first one has got to be Generation Game. The second one I
:52:13. > :52:23.thought I knew what it was but then I slightly thought hang on, I got
:52:23. > :52:25.
:52:25. > :52:32.this wrong. Thought it was Reggie Perrin. To the Manor Born. And the
:52:32. > :52:38.Two Ronnies. Billy the Kid, Dave have Darlington, Mark from
:52:38. > :52:40.Sheffield, Bonnie and Malcolm. You all win nothing cos we can't give
:52:40. > :52:45.away anything any more and thank you for joining in. We have a
:52:45. > :52:48.warning for viewers of a nervous disposition. You are about to see
:52:48. > :52:53.the resident hairdresser Michael Douglas in some very fetching and
:52:53. > :53:01.rather tight swimwear, but you know what, he looks all right, gets away
:53:01. > :53:04.with it. For a long time, synchronised swimming was a
:53:04. > :53:08.Cinderella sport, the ballroom dancing of the aquatics world. Back
:53:09. > :53:14.in 1984, that all changed when it became an Olympic sport for the
:53:14. > :53:22.very first time. This is the City of Leeds synchronised swimming club.
:53:23. > :53:26.One of the best young teams in the country. They've recently won
:53:26. > :53:29.silver and bronze medals in the British Championships, so I reckon
:53:29. > :53:33.they are a good set of swimmers to teach me all about the sport. If
:53:33. > :53:43.I'm going to get many the pool with these later, I'd better do some
:53:43. > :53:47.
:53:47. > :53:53.warming up, which is what they are I've only done that for a minute
:53:53. > :53:56.and I'm exhausted. This is Fiona, the coach here at Leeds
:53:56. > :54:02.synchronised swi-sming club. We'll treat you to straight hair today,
:54:02. > :54:06.yes? Started at seven, went through to the age of 20, but then got into
:54:06. > :54:14.the judging side. Judging other people, I like that. And I'm one of
:54:14. > :54:19.the Great Britain judges. Where are the men swimmers? It's very female
:54:19. > :54:24.dominated, but there are a few. It's one sport where men can't
:54:24. > :54:28.compete in the Olympics. Is there a move when they come out and spit
:54:28. > :54:31.water out? No, the highest girls are training with us 17 hours a
:54:31. > :54:38.week. They are dedicated then aren't they? Yes, it's what you
:54:39. > :54:42.need. One, two, three, take a look. Wow! Is that a real wow or ooh, are
:54:42. > :54:49.you happy? Yeah, no, very happy. She's happy!
:54:49. > :54:59.Can I go swimming now? Come on. Can't wait. All I need is some
:54:59. > :55:11.
:55:11. > :55:18.goggles, a nose clip, earplugs, oh, That sit. Extend your legs out.
:55:19. > :55:26.So, this is Jessica. Jessica is one of the team captains of the
:55:26. > :55:32.synchronised club. Why did you do it? I was constantly swimming so I
:55:32. > :55:36.was told to go for it. Smile. Teach me that. How long can you hold your
:55:36. > :55:40.breath for? A minute and a half. tried to hold my breath yesterday,
:55:40. > :55:45.27 seconds was all I could do, it felt like a year. One, two, three.
:55:45. > :55:55.Oh, wow, yeah, really different. Really happy, thank you. She's
:55:55. > :55:59.
:55:59. > :56:08.It's pretty impressive on the water, but there's an awful lot going on
:56:08. > :56:12.underneath. This is the lovely Megan, a fellow
:56:12. > :56:17.synchronised swimmer. I can say that now because I've had a go, you
:56:17. > :56:20.know, Superman wears trunk, Batman wears trunks, the Hairman wears
:56:20. > :56:23.trunks, we are all superheroes fighting crimes of some description,
:56:23. > :56:28.mine are just against hair. How much time do you spend in the water
:56:28. > :56:32.a week? 20 hours. Does that have any adverse effect? It dries your
:56:32. > :56:35.skin out and you get chlorine burn. I've got a bit on my cheek.
:56:35. > :56:40.thought you were just blushing because I was in my trunks. Take a
:56:40. > :56:44.look. Oh, wow. You like it? Yes, thank you. It's a pleasure, my
:56:44. > :56:49.darling. I honestly thought this would be easy, it's one of the most
:56:49. > :56:57.exhausting things I've ever done. It's like walking through treacle
:56:57. > :57:01.or something. Thanks, Michael. Good luck girls. Earlier on, we asked
:57:01. > :57:07.you to stick your hand down your sofa and send us a picture of what
:57:07. > :57:10.you found. This is Ben aged eight with his sister. He found his
:57:10. > :57:14.sister's necklace down the back of the sofa and it was a special gift
:57:14. > :57:18.for her as she'd had heart surgery last year so we are really glad.
:57:18. > :57:23.Thought she lost it and because of the One Show she found it. From
:57:24. > :57:30.Nick and Susan, must be mum and dad. A ball of hair found by Sam aged
:57:30. > :57:34.eight from Hemel Hempstead half an hour ago sent in by Alison. This is
:57:34. > :57:38.from Richard. This is Phoebe Vaughan with our sofa content. So,
:57:39. > :57:44.it's a penny and a pen. Quite useful. This is poppy aged five
:57:44. > :57:52.with a little penny she found. have another penny here, my dad was
:57:52. > :57:58.happy with his find from Nena. Seven-year-old, from Karen, Alfie
:57:58. > :58:05.found this down the arm chair. That's a result. Looking for a
:58:05. > :58:09.penny, already up on the deal finding 20p. Keep it. Thanks to our
:58:09. > :58:13.guests. You can find Bill's tour coming up soon, he's off for a meal
:58:13. > :58:22.with the family tonight. See you on Monday when Matt Le blank joins us
:58:22. > :58:32.in the studio. Take it away, boys - - Matt Le Blanc.
:58:32. > :58:43.
:58:43. > :58:47.A huge manhunt's taking place in North East England for a suspected
:58:47. > :58:49.double killer. James Allen knew one of the victims. Both died from head
:58:49. > :58:53.injuries. Police have urged him to give himself up.