27/10/2011 The One Show

Hello. Welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Max baker. Judges

tonight are -- our guests tonight are judges on a TV show. It's not

Alesha and Craig, it's the Great British Bake-Off's Mary Berry and

Paul Hollywood! APPLAUSE

Paul you were described by one newspaper as an ice cold pastry

fixated terminator. Is this fair, Paul? That sounds harsh to me.

honest. I've always said what I think. That goes good or bad, but

I've always been straight. You've always been fixated on pastry. Does

it go too far? He's a bit tough. I'm still encouraging them to go on

and get better. When other people see them doing things, it tempts

them to try it themselves. Paul and Mary are here to talk about the

junior version of the show. If it's half term and the kids have been

baking master pieces, send us a photo. No cheating parents, we will

know, if mum and dad have had a hand in the cakes. If we don't,

these two certainly will. David Nicholls, a British author has

taken the world by storm by his best selling novel One Day. Over

1.5 million copies have been sold in the UK. It's been trans lated

into 35 long wadges. This week saw the launch of World Book Night, a

night when a million free books will be given away. Anita Rani dook

David to East London to get an early -- took David to East London

to get an early start. Can I interest you in this the Player of

Games. It's free. To me, to me. On the head. The damned United. It's

all about Bryan Clough. Yes! I need the help of an expert. I've

enlisted David Nicholls. You might not recognise his face, but he's

the author of international best selling book One Day. I just wanted

to say something which I couldn't do over the phone, since we were

last together in London... If you say anything else I have to...

There's something I have to tell you. Tell me about World Book Night.

It's a night in April where people who love books and love talking

about book and are passionate about books give a chance to give a

million books away to people who haven't read for a while. It's a

celebration of the written word. They have a short list of 25 books.

It's an incredibly wide ranging list, classics to chick-lit,

horrors, some of my most memorable moments have been sitting there and

reading books. Let's give away books. Can I interest you in a free

book. I'm giving away free books today. What do you love about read

sning It is escapism. It transports you to a completely different place.

Have you read One Day? I loved One Day. The author, David Nicholls.

Are you David Nicholls? I love it. Thank you. My recommendation is

Pride And Prejudice. You're a modern day Mr Darcy. Thank you very

much. I think that's the highest compliment a man could get probably.

Goodbye. It's a science fiction story, but

really moving. It's a master piece. Wow. There you go. Thank you.

anybody? Free book. David, you need 20,000 volunteers

to give away a million books. What type of people are you looking for?

We want people who are passionate about books. We want people to look

at the 25 titles, which is incredibly wide ranging. Find a

book they love and to spread the word. It's not really about giving

the books to other readers or to friends or family. It's about being

ambassadors for reading, giving the books to people who have gotten out

of the habit of reading or who haven't found time to read and

letting them in on this secret of how fantastic it is to sit by

yourself with a book and be swept away. It's a lovely thing to do.

You found it quite difficult to go up to people and say "Here, read

this." I did. Anita was more confident. She held my hand. It's a

brilliant idea. Your book One Day was one of the titles given away

last year, wasn't it? It was. When I found that out, I had no idea

what an extraordinary event it would be. I had this experience of

reading in Trafalgar Square, a freezing cold night in February.

Thousands of people stood absolutely still listening to

incredible authors Alan Bennett and Phillip Pullman read and entirely

unaware of the cold, swept away by the words. That was a thrill.

back to your book. It has recently been turned into a film. Let's have

a look. I've thought about you. I think about you, you and me.

Really? The problem is I fancy pretty much everyone. I mean anyone,

really it's like I've just got out of prison all the time. It's a real

problem. I can imagine. Like a knife through the heart! Such a

smile on your face David, watching that. The film is very faithful to

the book. The book has been read by so many people, it must have been

read by first-time readers and those would don't read so much.

hope. So you hope to get people back into the habit of reading.

There are so many extraordinary new writers out there. Reading a book

shouldn't be a chore. It shouldn't feel like home work. It can sweep

awe way. It's a great experience to be swept away by words in that way.

We have to ask, how do you follow One Day? Is there another one?

avoid the issue by working on films. We're shooting a film of my

favourite book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. We're shooting

that at the moment. When that finishes at Christmas, I'll have no

more excuses and I'll have to start again. Head down now. No excuse.

Thanks ever so much. It's a pleasure. Get more information on

World Book Night from our website. More Garden Watch now with Mike and

Miranda. They've set up shop in the back gardens of Bathampton. Tonight

Miranda has found a wise old bird and Mike is hopping mad.

In this leafy suburb on the outskirts of Bath we're helping the

residents discover the wildlife that lives in their gardens. We've

seen bats, badgers, brightly coloured spiders and here on day

four, we've woken up to a real surprise. We've had great footage

on the overnight cameras. A bird that's really quite hard to see in

the wild and to find it in somebody's garden is really special.

Take a lock at this: This is a tawny owl. This is in the garden of

number 57. Now he or she is on the number 57. Now he or she is on the

ground. He's flown in to catch something and probably missed by

the looks of things. They need to eat the equivalent of six or seven

mice a day. This garden has a very good pest control unit. And they

hunt at night, thanks to nifty adaptations. One of the most

amazing things about tawny owls ised -- owls is their sensitivity

to light. They're 100 times more sensitive to light in low light.

The midges about owls being -- myths about owls being able to spin

their heads around, it's not true. They can twist around 270 degrees.

It's not quite all the way. Garden Watch we usually try to pick

a week that is hot and sunny. But in fact rain brings a new range of

wildlife. They say rain's good for ducks, but it's even better for

these fellas. Frogs have such permeable skin. They love it when

it's moist. Dee hydration is one of the biggest dangers for amphibians

like this common frog, which is why they like the rain. Most of their

time is actually spent away from ponds, hunting in damp, shady spots.

They're equally happy wondering round the borders eating your slugs,

snails and all manner of other things. This, most definitely, is a

garden's friend. Up the street at number 47, it seems the rain has

prompted another animal and another mystery for Val and Peter. This

looks very recent. It does. That's amazing. It's incredible. It's just

the extent of it all. It's not one or two holes. Whatever it is, it's

had a real go. Is it plural do we think? A lot of animals at this

time of year are starting to hide nuts for the winter, things like

that. Of course. It could be any manner of creatures. We've put up

our Stealth camera ready to capture the action. Whatever the culprit is,

we will catch it, red footed, red clawed, red feathered, we'll work

out what it is. All along the street, many residents have

problems trying to keep the deer from nibbling their plants. We get

visits from the deer nightly. They strip most of the branches off. We

have a book saying what they like and don't like. The deer haven't

read the book! At number 57, we set up a deer taste test to tell the

owner Sue what she could grow. Typically, the deer haven't touched

a thing all week, but we have a reason, we think why the deer have

not been this your garden this week. They've been in the next door

neighbour's. Have a look. This is next door. Here we have a doe row

deer. She's just over the back here along the hedge bank. The reason

why the doe is in this garden rather than yours is she has a

penchant for black current -- black currant leaves. She is filling her

face. That is brilliant. Roe deer tend to be solitary and are loyal

to their home range, which could span most of this street. It's

likely this is the same deer that's been nibbling Sue's plants. I think

if you put a Plumtree in. She'll strip some of the leaves, the tree

will be fine and it will give the flowers respite. They don't

particularly like the strong flavoured plants like Rosemary and

lavender. Those Mediterranean-style plants, they don't like. Hopefully

armed with the right combination Sue can enjoy watching the deer,

whilst they stay off her flowers. Paul you were saying a stoat ran

into your kitchen the other day. Yeah, stood up. It was a stoat or

ferret. It was only little and it stood up. What colour? You know I

couldn't tell. The dog went mental. He chase today out. Due give it

crumbs from your bread? The second series of the Great British Bake-

Off has just finished. How impressed were you with the

standard of contestants this year? From a personal point of view, I

was very impressed. We tightened them up on the technical challenges

to make it extremely difficult, knowing what we knew from last year,

it was far easier to come up with challenges this year. We did

squeeze them to see what we could get from them. They rose to the

challenge. You skised them more than I did. -- You squeezed them

more than I did. What else is in the book that accompanys the

series? Tips and recipes? That's exactly what's in there. Anything

to get people baking and enjoy it. It needn't be perfect. You just

need to enjoy it. Whose tips are bet sner His are more difficult.

It's half term, everybody should bake with the young. It's so

expensive to take the children out to all these outings. To bake at

home with friends, it takes no effort and they'll enjoy it and

remember it. We've had lots of pictures in tonight. Thank you.

This year's winner, Jo Wheatley, was brilliant. Wonderful. What an

expert's point of view, what set her apart? When we started in the

final, there were just three. We said, it could be Maryann, Holly or

Jo. They were on a level plain. Then gradually she rose above the

others. What we found was Holly was consistent. Mari Ann had flashes of

inspiration which were stunning. Then Jo's work was all about

flavour. Sometimes technically she never got it right. When the

flavours were right, sublime. Gorgeous. That's why she won the

bake-off. MaryAnn kept saying "I can't go dainty." In the end she

couldn't, but she did such interesting things and Holly was so

stylish. Paul, you grew up as the son of a baker, of course. With the

UNior bakoff are your standards high? You probably used to bake as

a child yourself? I did. I didn't know what to expect and to be

brutally honest, Mary and I were flabbergasted at the standard. I

nearly got my coat and walked off. The standard, I kid you not,

someone produced a two-tiered sponge with chocolate ganache over

it in an hour-and-a-half from It is impressive, but the only

difference between the children's and the adults, we wait the

ingredients out for the hour -- we weighed the ingredients. That took

a bit of the stress away, but otherwise, exactly the same.

have a clip. The confident competitor raced ahead of the

others, but has he cut any corners? The ads lovely, beautiful, golden

brown. The quite like jam, don't you? So do I, it so that's good. It

is a great tasting cake. You can never have too much jam on a

Victoria sponge. How would you stay so trim, come on? As you notice, I

take huge mouthfuls of every single break. But I am a bit careful after

that. I always say, always have a cake, but take a small slice and

don't go back for a second too soon. This is a four-month-old Aaron

starting early, making flap jacks. The problem, the way the spoon is

being held is wrong! True to form! The book is out and you can see the

first episode of the Junior Bake Off on Monday on the CBBC Channel.

Time for some star-gazing with Mark Thompson. He takes us back to the

18th century when one of the biggest leaps forward in our

knowledge of the solar system was made in a back garden in Bath.

For thousands of years, astronomers believe there were just five

planets above us, Machrie, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn -- Mercury.

There were two other planets in the system. It was not until 230 years

ago that man identified the first of them, and iced dry and 63 times

the size of the Earth, and 19 times further out from the San -- and a

waste giant. Ins 1781, Uranus became the first planet to be

discovered by a telescope, by a humble musician from Bath. The

composer of this tune, William Herschel, was a refugee from war in

Europe and settled at 19 new King Street, becoming the local church

organist. William Herschel was originally from Hanover. He was a

fantastic musician, wrote 24 symphonies. It was when he came to

Bath and heard of another lunar eclipse that he borrowed a

telescope, discovered it was rubbish. Said, I can do better

myself. His desire to explore the night sky became an obsession,

driving Herschel and his sister Caroline to build telescopes which

would push the boundaries of Georgian technology.

This town house in Bath would have been the equivalent of a NASA's

headquarters in the Georgian age, wouldn't it? This was mission

control. His telescopes, he was building bigger and better than

anywhere else in the world. telescopes needed metallic mayoress

to collect as much light as possible from the start. The bigger

than it merits got, the more dangerous forging them could be. --

the bigger the Mirror's got. He was building one of his mirrors here,

four people in a tiny room and the bottom of the mould fell out. There

were explosions, stone, brick, molten metal flying around the room,

they were very lucky to escape with their lives. William and his

sister's hours of hard graft and that the observations were about to

shatter theories about the planets laid down by centuries of star-

gazing philosophers. We are here in the garden that William Herschel

discovered Uranus. He must have been overcome with excitement at

that discovery. He certainly knew he was on to something. The

telescopes when used and the best that were around. He was seeing

things that people had not seen before -- the telescopes were new.

At first, he was not sure it could be a planet. Philosophy said they

could only be six planets. How could this musician from Bath dare

say he had discovered something that philosophy has said could not

exist. Herschel told follow astronomers about the object and

continued to track it. It's nearly circular orbit and lack of a comic

style meant it could only be a planet. We know that planet as

Uranus -- a comet tail. It was not originally called Uranus, Herschel

called it George. As a fellow Hanoverian George III was on the

throne, naming the new age planet George's star was a political

gesture, and the name lasted well into the 1800s. It also helped make

her short the King's personal astronomer, and Caroline became the

first woman to be paid by the state as a scientist. In fact, it served

as a springboard for the Herschel siblings to build bigger telescopes

that could look even further into space. Herschel constructed more

than 400 telescopes. This is a model of his most famous, the 40 ft

giant. With this added telescopic power, William and his sister

Caroline were able to catalogue more than 2000 new objects in deep

skies air base, not to mention the discovery of moons of Saturn and

It has pave the way for fascinating discoveries such as Neptune. On the

shoulders of his discovery, we were able to extend the solar system

that much further. People could afford to dare to look for things.

You would expect the discovery of Uranus to overshadow everything

else that the Herschels achieved but perhaps the greatest legacy was

the impact of ordinary people making extraordinary discoveries.

Mark is here. It is not just Uranus that you can see from the back yard,

Jupiter as well. If you look due west after sunset, there is a

really bright star that is actually the planet Jupiter or. You can see

it really easy with the naked eye and even a basic telescope will

show you the orbits around the telescope, it looks incredible.

can you spot it from a star? If you look west, it is the brightest

thing in the sky. It is that easy, nothing else is as bright as that.

Is it still possible for enthusiasts at home to make amazing

discoveries? It is. Herschel was an honoured -- amateur astronomer. In

astronomy, amateurs can still make incredible astronomy at --

discoveries and they are amateurs up and down the world which are

making incredible leaps. Are you into the stars at all? It was my

son's birthday last week, I had and Apple on my phone. -- and app on my

phone. You can find the big ones and then you spot the stars and

planets from there. They loved it, spent an hour out there. Mark, some

good news for mankind? Only a few days back, we can zoom straight in

above my head, this star is 176 light years away. In the dust cloud

around we have discovered water molecules. That means that water

seems common in the universe, which means the chances of life are

pretty high and it gives us somewhere we may be able to move to

in the future, when the sun it dies. It is a long way off! You'll have

to cycle past to get them! Thank you. Our Street doctor and Mark

Porter have been solving the country's sovereign medical mystery

is. Nowhere is immune to their charms and tonight it is Stirling's

We are on a mission to make Britain a healthy her place and we are

coming tier. -- healthier place. The Street doctors are ready to die

no Zhu, right here and right now. We are tackling AIDS and ailments

Ince -- ready to diagnose you. We Ian has a big game coming up, he is

worrying that a health problem I have been suffering from

headaches, especially in the forefront of my forehead. I do is

series of checks to make sure Ian is not shown in a sentence of

migraines and a brain tumour and then examine his sinuses. I think

you have sinusitis. You have sinuses across here and here. If

they get full, this is pressure in here and as you lean forward, you

are going to make things worse. In the short term, nose spray may be

able to get rid of the congestion. If this doesn't settle down, you

may need to think about surgery to I have substituted the Rugby Park

for the local Safari Park, where the cases icy are as diverse as the

cases around us. This has had a problem with her tongue. It is

causing me discomfort, eating certain foods. It is like a burning

sensation. This little bit is inflamed and that is what we call

glass writers. Abbey ever had a problem with anaemia? Yes, I have

done. -- have you ever had? And do you have your periods? Yes. Can you

see the difference between my palms and yours? Yes, a difference.

skin, heavy periods and a sort UN=iron deficiency. The simplest

way to check that is to do a test. Book in to see you practice nurse

We had to sterling cities are under where we are kept busy with a run

They inject some chemicals into you, so they can get the meal quickly.

It has come up that quickly. The best thing to do is to have a tube

of hydrocortisone. Put it on their twice a day, it will start to

shrink it down rapidly and sort it out for you. I will give that a try.

Vivienne is suffering from a sore and itchy skin complaint that has

been coming and going for years. Nobody seems to be able to find a

cure. This is dermatitis, an inflammation of your skin. We get a

thickening of the skin and therefore, cracking. That is a

concern because infection can get in through there. It looks like an

allergic dermatitis, rather than a contact dermatitis. You are going

to need to use a moisturiser, several times a day. You will

probably need steroid creams. Because this is so bad in one area,

it might be worth thinking about getting you referred for something

called patch testing. That would be a test when allergy clinic will see

what you are allergic to. Thank you. I am so glad I met you. I can do

something else about it. As the day draws to a close, just enough time

to squeeze in a few more patience before we shut up shop. Although

Liz looked pale, a blood test showed she was not anaemic so she

will need further tests to get to the bottom of her inflamed tongue.

Vivienne has made an appointment to see the doctor but she is finding

that lost of moisturising is making a difference. -- lots of. Ian told

us his headaches have gone since using a nasal spray, and his team

won their big game. It is time to pack our bags until the next time

we meet, greet and treat the people Top that answers the question, I

think I have an iron deficiency. My palms are paler. They're just the

bits without fake pound! -- fake Matt is travelling 484 miles in

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