:00:16. > :00:25.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:26. > :00:34.Tonight, with a list of Britain's burglary hotspots out, we will be
:00:35. > :00:37.looking at the easy targets. We find out if Scottish 16 and 17-year-olds
:00:38. > :00:40.are prepared for the referendum. And we've got the story of a mini
:00:41. > :00:44.motorbike designed to be parachuted behind enemy lines in the Second
:00:45. > :00:48.World War. So, who better to join us than a man who was in the Parachute
:00:49. > :00:51.Regiment himself and luckily he lived to tell the tale. In fact he's
:00:52. > :00:52.been telling stories ever since. Please welcome Bernard Cribbins.
:00:53. > :01:16.APPLAUSE Good to see you. Make yourself at
:01:17. > :01:20.home. Bernard, you are the perfect guest tonight with our story. I
:01:21. > :01:26.never wrote one of those when I was in the army but I have seen one in a
:01:27. > :01:30.museum and we also used to see them on training films. We will be
:01:31. > :01:40.hearing from a man who jumped out with one of them. I remember them in
:01:41. > :01:50.khaki, that one is very nice. I wanted one to match my skirt.
:01:51. > :01:54.Bernard, do you think these days we're too prone to chucking things
:01:55. > :02:00.out when they're broken? Probably, yes, but I think the difference is
:02:01. > :02:04.that when I was a boy, people didn't have as much money and they use to
:02:05. > :02:11.mend things, and things were simpler then anyway. It was like three
:02:12. > :02:15.screws and you have mended it. You have got to plug everything into a
:02:16. > :02:22.computer these days. We could well be going back in time because as
:02:23. > :02:26.Jasmine Harman found out, not everybody throws things away. If
:02:27. > :02:32.your kettle runs out of steam, should you throw it out? Don't throw
:02:33. > :02:39.it away, how about trying affixing party. Our throwaway society
:02:40. > :02:43.generates about 1.2 million tonnes of electronic waste each year, but
:02:44. > :02:48.if you are one of those people who hates to get rid of things, this
:02:49. > :02:54.might be your kind of party. Dressed casual and bring something broken.
:02:55. > :03:00.It is a cycling harness and it lights up at night but at the moment
:03:01. > :03:07.only one of them works. It only worked for about a year, it has been
:03:08. > :03:14.sitting in the cupboard. This is quite a relic, an old walrus Tiffany
:03:15. > :03:18.lamp. I want to get the views fixed. This is one of the
:03:19. > :03:23.volunteers, a school laboratory technician who has been fixing
:03:24. > :03:27.gadgets in his spare time for years. I like the sense of
:03:28. > :03:34.achievement when something is not working and you figure it out. Toys
:03:35. > :03:39.and telephones are just some of the items being fixed today. Janet has
:03:40. > :03:45.organised over 40 fixing parties and her team has rescued some 600 kilos
:03:46. > :03:55.of broken electronics. Janet, what is the purpose of these parties? It
:03:56. > :04:00.is not just the 36, the idea is that people learn. We are not encouraging
:04:01. > :04:04.people to stay in the Stone Age, we just want people to be more mindful
:04:05. > :04:13.and appreciate what they have. I have asked volunteer David Lukes to
:04:14. > :04:19.take a look at my TV. It comes on, but then it starts randomly flicking
:04:20. > :04:25.through channels. David feels recycling alone cannot solve the
:04:26. > :04:30.problem of electronic waste. They have strange precious metals in
:04:31. > :04:38.them, circuit boards, this is not something you can just recycle. What
:04:39. > :04:43.age were you when you started tinkering with electronics? Probably
:04:44. > :04:49.around ten. I fixed stuff in my house but there is only a limited
:04:50. > :04:54.supply of that so I get to see interesting problems here. The wire
:04:55. > :04:59.has come loose and it just needs to be soldered. Sadly, my television
:05:00. > :05:06.has defeated David but the party has been a success with many items
:05:07. > :05:15.having their life extended. You must be pleased! I am. Today has been an
:05:16. > :05:19.eye-opener for me because to see the Passion, the skill and the patients
:05:20. > :05:22.that goes into repairing broken electronic items that would have
:05:23. > :05:33.otherwise ended up in the rubbish bin is fantastic.
:05:34. > :05:36.We're joined now by Ben, David, and Faraz, our One Show fixing squad,
:05:37. > :05:39.and throughout tonight's show they're going to try and fix three
:05:40. > :05:43.things by the end of the programme. We put these lovely posters up
:05:44. > :05:47.around the BBC asking staff to bring in their broken things and it
:05:48. > :05:52.worked. What sort of stuff will you try to have a go at before the end
:05:53. > :06:01.of the show? We have chosen a vacuum cleaner, and Robertson 's radio, and
:06:02. > :06:05.also a halogen lamp over there which doesn't work in spite of having its
:06:06. > :06:13.views changed. Screwdrivers at the ready, you have got about 20
:06:14. > :06:21.minutes. Off you go! Bernard has got his eye on radio.
:06:22. > :06:26.Yes, I bought my wife one of those for Christmas. If you mend it, I
:06:27. > :06:31.will have it. For Scottish teenagers it is not just exams they have to
:06:32. > :06:35.worry about this year. They will be expected to vote on the future of
:06:36. > :06:40.their country, but have they been swotting up for the challenge? This
:06:41. > :06:45.is an historic moment for the people of Scotland, the first time they
:06:46. > :07:01.have had the chance to decide on independence, but that is not the
:07:02. > :07:03.only first. For the first time, 16 and 17-year-olds will be eligible to
:07:04. > :07:06.vote but how much does the average 16-year-old actually know about the
:07:07. > :07:08.issues? Today we are testing this football team of new voters from
:07:09. > :07:10.Falkirk to see how much they know about the referendum. There is a
:07:11. > :07:15.twist, today the real competition is not taking place on the pitch, but
:07:16. > :07:21.off it. The teenagers are competing against the parents for the glory of
:07:22. > :07:30.winning and for this, the One Show referendum cup. I think they could
:07:31. > :07:36.do more to give us more information. I disagree with that, I think there
:07:37. > :07:42.is quite a lot of information. I have looked at the papers that came
:07:43. > :07:50.out and looked at websites. Are you going to vote? Maybe. This is a quiz
:07:51. > :07:55.and we have thrown in questions like who would be the head of state in an
:07:56. > :07:59.independence vote, what currency would it have, and it will be very
:08:00. > :08:07.interesting. Despite the Scottish government producing a White Paper
:08:08. > :08:12.on independence, recent surveys suggest only one in seven voters
:08:13. > :08:17.fully understand the issues at stake. There has been a lot of
:08:18. > :08:22.debate is taking place but there is not enough clarity on what the
:08:23. > :08:26.outcome of independence would be. Will Scotland be in the European
:08:27. > :08:37.Union if it becomes independent? Probably yes. There is a lot of
:08:38. > :08:45.probablys. There is because so much would be dependent on the deal that
:08:46. > :08:50.could be struck after a yes vote. This is the big moment, when the
:08:51. > :08:56.quiz begins, and this is the real competition. Forget the football,
:08:57. > :09:01.this is what really matters. To kick off, seven multiple-choice
:09:02. > :09:09.questions. Which team will know more? No cheating! Especially the
:09:10. > :09:17.parents! How was that? Parents first. Easy. It is a game of two
:09:18. > :09:22.halves, and whilst the students play on, time for some match analysis. We
:09:23. > :09:29.have some quite interesting and tricky questions. The first one, it
:09:30. > :09:32.was able to vote in the referendum. For example, residents of Scotland,
:09:33. > :09:49.Scottish citizens living elsewhere in the UK? No. What currency would
:09:50. > :09:52.an independent Scotland have? The right answer is that it won't be
:09:53. > :09:57.decided until after the referendum and that is one of the challenges
:09:58. > :10:02.facing voters as they go into the referendum. They want clarity but so
:10:03. > :10:09.much of it would be decided afterwards in the negotiations. We
:10:10. > :10:12.have got the results here, but before we come to the results we
:10:13. > :10:24.just want to go through some of the questions. Who would be head of
:10:25. > :10:28.state? The Queen? Will they still elect MPs to the Westminster
:10:29. > :10:37.Parliament? That's right, they won't, so we come to the big moment.
:10:38. > :10:50.Who is the winners, who will be the losers. 42 out of a possible 105
:10:51. > :10:58.other kids. The adults, 61! Thank you very much. That is interesting,
:10:59. > :11:06.the parents beat the kids, but still 61 out of 105. Could do better. It
:11:07. > :11:14.shows there is still a lot more to be learned, but we won, that is the
:11:15. > :11:17.main thing. There you have it, 232 days to get revising but there is a
:11:18. > :11:31.lot of uncertainty around this because basically is a White Paper
:11:32. > :11:36.is just a vision. Yes, and whichever way the vote goes, there will have
:11:37. > :11:44.to be more negotiation. Can you give some examples of things Alex Salmond
:11:45. > :11:53.will be fighting for? He will be fighting for the pound but Alistair
:11:54. > :12:00.Darling is saying that a currency union might not work out. Alex
:12:01. > :12:06.Salmond is also saying he wants to be in the European Union but they
:12:07. > :12:15.will have to be negotiations and the terms of joining would have to be
:12:16. > :12:19.decided. Britain has ?1.4 trillion worth of debt and the UK Treasury
:12:20. > :12:28.has said it will accept full liability but it says Scotland will
:12:29. > :12:32.need to chip in its share stop if you are Scots person that lives
:12:33. > :12:36.outside of Scotland, you cannot vote. But if you are French person
:12:37. > :12:45.and you live inside Scotland, you can vote. That's right, with the
:12:46. > :12:50.16-year-olds, we are talking 120,000, 3% of the electorate. Scots
:12:51. > :12:56.living outside of Scotland, the estimate is it is about 800,000 who
:12:57. > :13:02.won't be able to vote, and around 400,000 people from elsewhere in the
:13:03. > :13:07.UK, from elsewhere in European Union, they would be able to vote so
:13:08. > :13:13.it is a complex picture. I would be livid if this was happening in Wales
:13:14. > :13:18.and I wouldn't be able to vote, and people who have lived there for less
:13:19. > :13:25.than three months with no roots and no family can vote. It is regardless
:13:26. > :13:32.of whether you were born there. Issues like this will be brought up
:13:33. > :13:36.in TV debates. The plan is to have TV debates but there are debates
:13:37. > :13:45.about debates so the plan is that Scotland should debate with Better
:13:46. > :13:49.Together and Alex Salmond says he wants to debate with David Cameron,
:13:50. > :13:55.but David Cameron says that Alistair Darling should head the debate with
:13:56. > :14:03.Alex Salmond. Alex Salmond says he doesn't want to debate with Alistair
:14:04. > :14:08.Darling. Whoever turns up... I think they should agree before anybody
:14:09. > :14:13.else agrees. Ultimately this will be decided by the residents of Scotland
:14:14. > :14:20.on September the 18th. We saw Bernard on the amazing Welbike at
:14:21. > :14:28.the start of the show, very cute. Andy Kershaw has the story of the
:14:29. > :14:34.motorbike that was designed to fly. I have been around bikes for as long
:14:35. > :14:37.as I can remember. Today, I am on my way to find out about an incredibly
:14:38. > :14:41.special motorbike, which was once tipped to help Britain win the
:14:42. > :14:47.Second World War. It was the brainchild of the 's Special
:14:48. > :14:52.Operations Executive, John The Churchill's Secret Executive Which
:14:53. > :14:57.Was Set Out To Carry Out Sabotage in Europe. They came up with
:14:58. > :15:05.investigations, like the Sten gun and the one-man submarine. Despite
:15:06. > :15:09.all of this, the Welbike was deemed to be too noisy for stealth missions
:15:10. > :15:16.and instead was offered two paratroopers as a swift form of
:15:17. > :15:21.transport in battle. This engineer and his team in Stoke-on-Trent have
:15:22. > :15:23.been restoring and building replicas of these little-known machines. What
:15:24. > :15:31.were the requirements of the Welbike? They had to deploy them
:15:32. > :15:34.reputedly in 11 seconds. From the paratrooper getting hold of his
:15:35. > :15:40.crate to getting on the road, 11th seconds? While Germans are shooting
:15:41. > :15:48.at you at the same time. So, carefully, you would raise the
:15:49. > :15:52.handle bars, raise the seat, and you then have to pressurise the tank. To
:15:53. > :15:57.get the fuel through to the carburettor. Yes. You have got your
:15:58. > :16:05.accelerator, you are ready to go. They would get up to about 30mph. It
:16:06. > :16:12.was used in 1944 in Operation Market Garden, a disastrous Allied attempt
:16:13. > :16:17.to outflank the German defences in the Netherlands. With an estimated
:16:18. > :16:19.1500 paratroopers killed and thousands taken prisoner, the
:16:20. > :16:26.mission was deemed a complete failure. Dennis Collier, 21 at the
:16:27. > :16:30.time, was part of that mission, where the Welbikes were dropped in
:16:31. > :16:32.containers to support the paratroopers. After five days of
:16:33. > :16:38.fighting, he found himself surrounded by the enemy, without
:16:39. > :16:43.food, ammunition or communications. This container was dropped about 200
:16:44. > :16:48.yards away from me, and I thought, it might have some grub in it. You
:16:49. > :16:53.must have taken a heck of a risk just to go and investigate the
:16:54. > :16:57.crate? When you are hungry, you will do anything. I opened it up, and
:16:58. > :17:03.there was a Welbike in it. Before he could ride to safety, his Welbike
:17:04. > :17:07.was hit. It was a traceable it. It was assumed that you had been
:17:08. > :17:12.killed, wasn't it? Yes, because nobody saw me get up. Dennis was
:17:13. > :17:15.eventually captured and taken to Germany, where he would spend the
:17:16. > :17:20.remaining months of the war as a prisoner of war. There was a
:17:21. > :17:24.telegram saying I had been killed on active service, because they did not
:17:25. > :17:29.hear from me. She said, you are dead, it cannot be used! It has been
:17:30. > :17:32.nearly 70 years since Dennis discovered the Welbike on the
:17:33. > :17:36.battlefield. Would you like to have another go on one? I never had a go
:17:37. > :17:42.on one before! Shall I give it ago?!
:17:43. > :17:52.How does it feel, sitting on that after all this time? It is clear. I
:17:53. > :17:58.only sat on it for a few seconds. Shall I give you the test ride, if
:17:59. > :18:04.you don't want to do it? I think you had better do it. Having his fuel
:18:05. > :18:09.tank blown to smithereens meant Dennis never started his bike. If he
:18:10. > :18:19.had, it would have been fine, on flat ground. But off-road, it was
:18:20. > :18:32.not so good. Oh, dear. It stops and starts a bit! And if you store it,
:18:33. > :18:37.like that, it needs a push start. I could lay on that all-day!
:18:38. > :18:43.Tremendous. Great fun, thank you very much. Given me a new toy!
:18:44. > :18:49.Though it proved unsuitable for the front line, it was put to good use
:18:50. > :18:52.as a runaround on military bases. Despite its shortcomings on the
:18:53. > :18:58.battlefield, there remains a lot of affection for the dear Welbike, and
:18:59. > :19:00.I think I can see why. It does deserve its own small place in
:19:01. > :19:06.British motorcycling history. Don't you?
:19:07. > :19:16.He really should do that helmet up. Quirky little things, though, aren't
:19:17. > :19:19.they? I am not sure I would have liked to have ridden one along the
:19:20. > :19:27.road, with somebody shooting at me. That is a very good point. Wonderful
:19:28. > :19:29.little things. You are here to talk about the return of a brilliant
:19:30. > :19:35.children's programme which you are heavily involved in, called Old
:19:36. > :19:42.Jack's Boat. I am a big fan. It is a classic. Yes, when we were talking
:19:43. > :19:47.about it in the first place, Dominic MacDonald, the producer, and
:19:48. > :19:51.myself, we said we would try and get it to be something like Jackanory
:19:52. > :19:55.used to be, with somebody talking straight to camera, and to one
:19:56. > :19:58.child, without too much destruction of editing and cutting away and the
:19:59. > :20:02.rest of it. And that is basically what it is. We have got some lovely
:20:03. > :20:06.characters who live in the village as well. The village incidentally is
:20:07. > :20:11.on the north-east Yorkshire coast, above Whitby. We had such a good
:20:12. > :20:18.time up there, the people were so fabulously helpful. Do you know it?
:20:19. > :20:21.I do know it, yes. The lifeboat station and everything. Everybody
:20:22. > :20:26.was absolutely charming. When we said, quiet please, we are shooting,
:20:27. > :20:29.it was totally quiet, great respect. I have never seen so many dogs,
:20:30. > :20:38.people coming down to the promenade. On that point, your dog
:20:39. > :20:44.Salty has been so successful. She is called Scuzz, really. She belongs to
:20:45. > :20:51.the guy who plays Tom Copley in the show, a guy called Paul Hawkyard. We
:20:52. > :21:00.have known each other for 20 years. And she has got her own show! Yes.
:21:01. > :21:04.There she is, look at her. A total lunatic. She is the most charming
:21:05. > :21:10.dog and she will actually work for me as well, which is ideal. But you
:21:11. > :21:15.being a top storyteller, we just thought, because lots more people
:21:16. > :21:20.are reading bed time story to their children and so on these days, what
:21:21. > :21:25.tips would you give, not just for that, but for people giving
:21:26. > :21:31.speeches, or whatever? Learn to read in the first place. That is a good
:21:32. > :21:37.tip. No, the thing is, if you are writing a speech, obviously, you
:21:38. > :21:42.would say the guests, and make amusing stories, not bitchy or too
:21:43. > :21:49.funny or whatever, but nice, warm-hearted stories, really, which
:21:50. > :21:53.is the essence of Old Jack's Boat. Some of the stories were written by
:21:54. > :21:58.Russell T Davies, who wrote Doctor Who. He touches your heart in so
:21:59. > :22:03.many ways, when you are telling that story. And you are trying to finish
:22:04. > :22:11.the story off, with tears welling up. Be warm, be amusing, if you can,
:22:12. > :22:16.and above all, work hard at telling the story. At the same time, be
:22:17. > :22:24.relaxed. Briefly, you are appearing in Midsomer Murders as well. Am I?
:22:25. > :22:28.Oh, yes, there I am. Yes, I am playing an old RAF gentleman, who
:22:29. > :22:35.has a certain controversy going on with June Whitfield's character.
:22:36. > :22:40.There she is. We had some nice scenes together. She looks like she
:22:41. > :22:44.is on Old Jack's Boat there. I think she is auditioning for the part! For
:22:45. > :22:51.our younger viewers, you can see Old Jack's Boat on CBeebies channel,
:22:52. > :22:56.weekdays at 5.40pm. Now, how well protected do you think your house is
:22:57. > :23:02.against burglars? We have got some advice from someone in the know when
:23:03. > :23:06.it comes to breaking and entering. Burglary, it is a nasty crime that
:23:07. > :23:11.can leave you feeling vulnerable and violated. But even the simplest
:23:12. > :23:17.security measures can make a big difference. To find out what you can
:23:18. > :23:22.do to keep criminals out, I am going to get some inside information. I am
:23:23. > :23:26.about to meet a burglar, someone who was in and out of prison for 18
:23:27. > :23:36.years, someone who knows how not to get burgled. Bob reckons he was once
:23:37. > :23:40.south London's most prolific burglar. But that was a long time
:23:41. > :23:45.ago. Since then, he has turned his life around. I have been a probation
:23:46. > :23:49.officer, I have been working with victims of crime for more than 30
:23:50. > :23:53.years, trying to put things right. But you still have the mindset of a
:23:54. > :23:58.burglar, would you say? Absolutely, I know the psychology of burglary.
:23:59. > :24:04.What he wants is just to get in, get out and get away. Simple as that. A
:24:05. > :24:09.few residents on this street in Reading have agreed to let Bob have
:24:10. > :24:17.a look at their houses. First up is Ian. Now, Bob, can you tell Ian,
:24:18. > :24:22.using the mindset of a burglar, what is wrong with his house? That
:24:23. > :24:29.entrance to your garage, you have got a small gate, it will not what
:24:30. > :24:38.anybody getting through it. So what would you say he needs? A good
:24:39. > :24:41.fence, plus, if you get a bit of Travis work like this, that will
:24:42. > :24:45.give the sensation of the fence being higher, and when somebody
:24:46. > :24:53.jumps on it, that frightens them off. So, the fact that that trellis
:24:54. > :24:58.is not very robust, and will snap, works to your advantage? It
:24:59. > :25:04.certainly would have scared me off. I do not need the aggravation.
:25:05. > :25:08.Nearly two thirds of houses burgled in England and Wales have little or
:25:09. > :25:11.no security. Simply having a house which looks speak and span from the
:25:12. > :25:16.outside could be enough to put a burglar off. The mentality of a
:25:17. > :25:21.burglar, if a house looks really well-kept, that is saying that there
:25:22. > :25:25.are home security is going to be really good. The back of a house can
:25:26. > :25:31.be vulnerable if you see that friends there, you have got
:25:32. > :25:37.foliage, it would be a nightmare to try and climb through there. I just
:25:38. > :25:41.would not bother. I have had a burglar alarm installed, does that
:25:42. > :25:44.help? Yes, it is a very good idea, but it has got to come with a
:25:45. > :25:55.package of things, like you have got. The obvious safety measures are
:25:56. > :25:58.the most effective. In one in five burglaries, they get in through a
:25:59. > :26:03.door which has been left unlocked. Our next couple have a highly
:26:04. > :26:10.effective deterrent right under their feet. This is what I like to
:26:11. > :26:19.see, gravel. If it is going right across, it is very useful. Why is
:26:20. > :26:24.that? You can hear that a mile off. You know when people are around the
:26:25. > :26:30.property. But Bob is not happy with their boarded-up back gate. What you
:26:31. > :26:35.have done, you have blocked it off. If that is taken away, that bit of
:26:36. > :26:41.wood, you can see right down the side of the house. So, anybody down
:26:42. > :26:45.there is going to be exposed. Imagine me trying to get into the
:26:46. > :26:53.side window, nobody is going to see me. Tony, you put that therefore
:26:54. > :26:57.security. You have inadvertently given them a screen, that is what he
:26:58. > :27:03.is saying. By checking out the houses on this street, Bob has tried
:27:04. > :27:08.to make them safer. It has also brought back memories of his
:27:09. > :27:14.criminal past. These are the type of houses I broke into. And I will
:27:15. > :27:18.always be sorrowful about that. That is why I have worked for the last 30
:27:19. > :27:21.odd years with victims of crime, trying to put a bit right. You have
:27:22. > :27:27.just got to keep yourself safe, guys. And to do that, you need to
:27:28. > :27:39.make your house as unattractive to burglars as you possibly can.
:27:40. > :27:55.Earlier on, we set our panel the challenge of mending appliances
:27:56. > :28:03.brought in by people in the BBC. So, starting with you, David. One Show
:28:04. > :28:07.direct terror Andrew brought in this vacuum cleaner. He thinks it is a
:28:08. > :28:16.broken circuit - what do you think? Definitely not. The first thing was
:28:17. > :28:21.this. It is a stone. It was found in one of the tubes. This is some of
:28:22. > :28:29.that gravel that the burglar brought in. He is or so am planing about the
:28:30. > :28:33.smell. This is the state of the filter, it can do with a good
:28:34. > :28:38.clean. You can replace it or alternatively just wash it in warm,
:28:39. > :28:43.soapy water, it will be fine. So, does it work now? It works
:28:44. > :28:48.beautifully. Very good. Let's have a look at this one, which was brought
:28:49. > :28:55.in by Ian, a producer at World Service. What stage you at? Well, it
:28:56. > :29:00.did not have a battery in. I found it is producing sound, but it is not
:29:01. > :29:05.producing any radio. I did some fault finding and the antenna, which
:29:06. > :29:10.picks up the radio waves, is not functioning. Good luck with that.
:29:11. > :29:16.Thanks to all of the fixers. You can find details of the Restart project
:29:17. > :29:22.on our website. Let us know how you get on. Thanks to Bernard as well.
:29:23. > :29:28.Just the clarity, on the Scottish referendum issue, Blair Jenkins is
:29:29. > :29:31.the head of the yes campaign. Tomorrow we will be joined by the
:29:32. > :29:32.Outnumbered kids and the writer behind the show, Andy Hamilton. Good
:29:33. > :29:35.night!