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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.

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Tonight, with a list of Britain's burglary hotspots out, we will be

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looking at the easy targets. We find out if Scottish 16 and 17-year-olds

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are prepared for the referendum. And we've got the story of a mini

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motorbike designed to be parachuted behind enemy lines in the Second

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World War. So, who better to join us than a man who was in the Parachute

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Regiment himself and luckily he lived to tell the tale. In fact he's

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been telling stories ever since. Please welcome Bernard Cribbins.

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APPLAUSE Good to see you. Make yourself at

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home. Bernard, you are the perfect guest tonight with our story. I

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never wrote one of those when I was in the army but I have seen one in a

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museum and we also used to see them on training films. We will be

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hearing from a man who jumped out with one of them. I remember them in

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khaki, that one is very nice. I wanted one to match my skirt.

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Bernard, do you think these days we're too prone to chucking things

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out when they're broken? Probably, yes, but I think the difference is

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that when I was a boy, people didn't have as much money and they use to

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mend things, and things were simpler then anyway. It was like three

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screws and you have mended it. You have got to plug everything into a

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computer these days. We could well be going back in time because as

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Jasmine Harman found out, not everybody throws things away. If

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your kettle runs out of steam, should you throw it out? Don't throw

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it away, how about trying affixing party. Our throwaway society

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generates about 1.2 million tonnes of electronic waste each year, but

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if you are one of those people who hates to get rid of things, this

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might be your kind of party. Dressed casual and bring something broken.

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It is a cycling harness and it lights up at night but at the moment

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only one of them works. It only worked for about a year, it has been

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sitting in the cupboard. This is quite a relic, an old walrus Tiffany

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lamp. I want to get the views fixed. This is one of the

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volunteers, a school laboratory technician who has been fixing

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gadgets in his spare time for years. I like the sense of

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achievement when something is not working and you figure it out. Toys

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and telephones are just some of the items being fixed today. Janet has

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organised over 40 fixing parties and her team has rescued some 600 kilos

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of broken electronics. Janet, what is the purpose of these parties? It

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is not just the 36, the idea is that people learn. We are not encouraging

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people to stay in the Stone Age, we just want people to be more mindful

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and appreciate what they have. I have asked volunteer David Lukes to

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take a look at my TV. It comes on, but then it starts randomly flicking

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through channels. David feels recycling alone cannot solve the

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problem of electronic waste. They have strange precious metals in

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them, circuit boards, this is not something you can just recycle. What

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age were you when you started tinkering with electronics? Probably

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around ten. I fixed stuff in my house but there is only a limited

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supply of that so I get to see interesting problems here. The wire

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has come loose and it just needs to be soldered. Sadly, my television

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has defeated David but the party has been a success with many items

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having their life extended. You must be pleased! I am. Today has been an

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eye-opener for me because to see the Passion, the skill and the patients

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that goes into repairing broken electronic items that would have

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otherwise ended up in the rubbish bin is fantastic.

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We're joined now by Ben, David, and Faraz, our One Show fixing squad,

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and throughout tonight's show they're going to try and fix three

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things by the end of the programme. We put these lovely posters up

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around the BBC asking staff to bring in their broken things and it

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worked. What sort of stuff will you try to have a go at before the end

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of the show? We have chosen a vacuum cleaner, and Robertson 's radio, and

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also a halogen lamp over there which doesn't work in spite of having its

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views changed. Screwdrivers at the ready, you have got about 20

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minutes. Off you go! Bernard has got his eye on radio.

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Yes, I bought my wife one of those for Christmas. If you mend it, I

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will have it. For Scottish teenagers it is not just exams they have to

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worry about this year. They will be expected to vote on the future of

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their country, but have they been swotting up for the challenge? This

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is an historic moment for the people of Scotland, the first time they

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have had the chance to decide on independence, but that is not the

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only first. For the first time, 16 and 17-year-olds will be eligible to

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vote but how much does the average 16-year-old actually know about the

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issues? Today we are testing this football team of new voters from

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Falkirk to see how much they know about the referendum. There is a

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twist, today the real competition is not taking place on the pitch, but

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off it. The teenagers are competing against the parents for the glory of

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winning and for this, the One Show referendum cup. I think they could

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do more to give us more information. I disagree with that, I think there

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is quite a lot of information. I have looked at the papers that came

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out and looked at websites. Are you going to vote? Maybe. This is a quiz

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and we have thrown in questions like who would be the head of state in an

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independence vote, what currency would it have, and it will be very

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interesting. Despite the Scottish government producing a White Paper

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on independence, recent surveys suggest only one in seven voters

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fully understand the issues at stake. There has been a lot of

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debate is taking place but there is not enough clarity on what the

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outcome of independence would be. Will Scotland be in the European

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Union if it becomes independent? Probably yes. There is a lot of

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probablys. There is because so much would be dependent on the deal that

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could be struck after a yes vote. This is the big moment, when the

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quiz begins, and this is the real competition. Forget the football,

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this is what really matters. To kick off, seven multiple-choice

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questions. Which team will know more? No cheating! Especially the

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parents! How was that? Parents first. Easy. It is a game of two

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halves, and whilst the students play on, time for some match analysis. We

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have some quite interesting and tricky questions. The first one, it

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was able to vote in the referendum. For example, residents of Scotland,

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Scottish citizens living elsewhere in the UK? No. What currency would

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an independent Scotland have? The right answer is that it won't be

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decided until after the referendum and that is one of the challenges

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facing voters as they go into the referendum. They want clarity but so

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much of it would be decided afterwards in the negotiations. We

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have got the results here, but before we come to the results we

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just want to go through some of the questions. Who would be head of

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state? The Queen? Will they still elect MPs to the Westminster

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Parliament? That's right, they won't, so we come to the big moment.

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Who is the winners, who will be the losers. 42 out of a possible 105

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other kids. The adults, 61! Thank you very much. That is interesting,

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the parents beat the kids, but still 61 out of 105. Could do better. It

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shows there is still a lot more to be learned, but we won, that is the

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main thing. There you have it, 232 days to get revising but there is a

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lot of uncertainty around this because basically is a White Paper

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is just a vision. Yes, and whichever way the vote goes, there will have

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to be more negotiation. Can you give some examples of things Alex Salmond

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will be fighting for? He will be fighting for the pound but Alistair

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Darling is saying that a currency union might not work out. Alex

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Salmond is also saying he wants to be in the European Union but they

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will have to be negotiations and the terms of joining would have to be

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decided. Britain has ?1.4 trillion worth of debt and the UK Treasury

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has said it will accept full liability but it says Scotland will

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need to chip in its share stop if you are Scots person that lives

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outside of Scotland, you cannot vote. But if you are French person

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and you live inside Scotland, you can vote. That's right, with the

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16-year-olds, we are talking 120,000, 3% of the electorate. Scots

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living outside of Scotland, the estimate is it is about 800,000 who

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won't be able to vote, and around 400,000 people from elsewhere in the

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UK, from elsewhere in European Union, they would be able to vote so

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it is a complex picture. I would be livid if this was happening in Wales

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and I wouldn't be able to vote, and people who have lived there for less

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than three months with no roots and no family can vote. It is regardless

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of whether you were born there. Issues like this will be brought up

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in TV debates. The plan is to have TV debates but there are debates

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about debates so the plan is that Scotland should debate with Better

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Together and Alex Salmond says he wants to debate with David Cameron,

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but David Cameron says that Alistair Darling should head the debate with

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Alex Salmond. Alex Salmond says he doesn't want to debate with Alistair

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Darling. Whoever turns up... I think they should agree before anybody

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else agrees. Ultimately this will be decided by the residents of Scotland

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on September the 18th. We saw Bernard on the amazing Welbike at

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the start of the show, very cute. Andy Kershaw has the story of the

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motorbike that was designed to fly. I have been around bikes for as long

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as I can remember. Today, I am on my way to find out about an incredibly

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special motorbike, which was once tipped to help Britain win the

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Second World War. It was the brainchild of the 's Special

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Operations Executive, John The Churchill's Secret Executive Which

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Was Set Out To Carry Out Sabotage in Europe. They came up with

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investigations, like the Sten gun and the one-man submarine. Despite

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all of this, the Welbike was deemed to be too noisy for stealth missions

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and instead was offered two paratroopers as a swift form of

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transport in battle. This engineer and his team in Stoke-on-Trent have

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been restoring and building replicas of these little-known machines. What

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were the requirements of the Welbike? They had to deploy them

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reputedly in 11 seconds. From the paratrooper getting hold of his

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crate to getting on the road, 11th seconds? While Germans are shooting

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at you at the same time. So, carefully, you would raise the

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handle bars, raise the seat, and you then have to pressurise the tank. To

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get the fuel through to the carburettor. Yes. You have got your

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accelerator, you are ready to go. They would get up to about 30mph. It

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was used in 1944 in Operation Market Garden, a disastrous Allied attempt

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to outflank the German defences in the Netherlands. With an estimated

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1500 paratroopers killed and thousands taken prisoner, the

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mission was deemed a complete failure. Dennis Collier, 21 at the

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time, was part of that mission, where the Welbikes were dropped in

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containers to support the paratroopers. After five days of

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fighting, he found himself surrounded by the enemy, without

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food, ammunition or communications. This container was dropped about 200

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yards away from me, and I thought, it might have some grub in it. You

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must have taken a heck of a risk just to go and investigate the

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crate? When you are hungry, you will do anything. I opened it up, and

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there was a Welbike in it. Before he could ride to safety, his Welbike

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was hit. It was a traceable it. It was assumed that you had been

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killed, wasn't it? Yes, because nobody saw me get up. Dennis was

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eventually captured and taken to Germany, where he would spend the

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remaining months of the war as a prisoner of war. There was a

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telegram saying I had been killed on active service, because they did not

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hear from me. She said, you are dead, it cannot be used! It has been

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nearly 70 years since Dennis discovered the Welbike on the

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battlefield. Would you like to have another go on one? I never had a go

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on one before! Shall I give it ago?!

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How does it feel, sitting on that after all this time? It is clear. I

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only sat on it for a few seconds. Shall I give you the test ride, if

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you don't want to do it? I think you had better do it. Having his fuel

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tank blown to smithereens meant Dennis never started his bike. If he

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had, it would have been fine, on flat ground. But off-road, it was

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not so good. Oh, dear. It stops and starts a bit! And if you store it,

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like that, it needs a push start. I could lay on that all-day!

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Tremendous. Great fun, thank you very much. Given me a new toy!

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Though it proved unsuitable for the front line, it was put to good use

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as a runaround on military bases. Despite its shortcomings on the

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battlefield, there remains a lot of affection for the dear Welbike, and

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I think I can see why. It does deserve its own small place in

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British motorcycling history. Don't you?

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He really should do that helmet up. Quirky little things, though, aren't

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they? I am not sure I would have liked to have ridden one along the

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road, with somebody shooting at me. That is a very good point. Wonderful

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little things. You are here to talk about the return of a brilliant

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children's programme which you are heavily involved in, called Old

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Jack's Boat. I am a big fan. It is a classic. Yes, when we were talking

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about it in the first place, Dominic MacDonald, the producer, and

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myself, we said we would try and get it to be something like Jackanory

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used to be, with somebody talking straight to camera, and to one

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child, without too much destruction of editing and cutting away and the

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rest of it. And that is basically what it is. We have got some lovely

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characters who live in the village as well. The village incidentally is

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on the north-east Yorkshire coast, above Whitby. We had such a good

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time up there, the people were so fabulously helpful. Do you know it?

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I do know it, yes. The lifeboat station and everything. Everybody

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was absolutely charming. When we said, quiet please, we are shooting,

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it was totally quiet, great respect. I have never seen so many dogs,

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people coming down to the promenade. On that point, your dog

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Salty has been so successful. She is called Scuzz, really. She belongs to

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the guy who plays Tom Copley in the show, a guy called Paul Hawkyard. We

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have known each other for 20 years. And she has got her own show! Yes.

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There she is, look at her. A total lunatic. She is the most charming

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dog and she will actually work for me as well, which is ideal. But you

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being a top storyteller, we just thought, because lots more people

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are reading bed time story to their children and so on these days, what

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tips would you give, not just for that, but for people giving

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speeches, or whatever? Learn to read in the first place. That is a good

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tip. No, the thing is, if you are writing a speech, obviously, you

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would say the guests, and make amusing stories, not bitchy or too

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funny or whatever, but nice, warm-hearted stories, really, which

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is the essence of Old Jack's Boat. Some of the stories were written by

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Russell T Davies, who wrote Doctor Who. He touches your heart in so

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many ways, when you are telling that story. And you are trying to finish

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the story off, with tears welling up. Be warm, be amusing, if you can,

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and above all, work hard at telling the story. At the same time, be

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relaxed. Briefly, you are appearing in Midsomer Murders as well. Am I?

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Oh, yes, there I am. Yes, I am playing an old RAF gentleman, who

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has a certain controversy going on with June Whitfield's character.

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There she is. We had some nice scenes together. She looks like she

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is on Old Jack's Boat there. I think she is auditioning for the part! For

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our younger viewers, you can see Old Jack's Boat on CBeebies channel,

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weekdays at 5.40pm. Now, how well protected do you think your house is

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against burglars? We have got some advice from someone in the know when

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it comes to breaking and entering. Burglary, it is a nasty crime that

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can leave you feeling vulnerable and violated. But even the simplest

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security measures can make a big difference. To find out what you can

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do to keep criminals out, I am going to get some inside information. I am

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about to meet a burglar, someone who was in and out of prison for 18

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years, someone who knows how not to get burgled. Bob reckons he was once

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south London's most prolific burglar. But that was a long time

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ago. Since then, he has turned his life around. I have been a probation

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officer, I have been working with victims of crime for more than 30

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years, trying to put things right. But you still have the mindset of a

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burglar, would you say? Absolutely, I know the psychology of burglary.

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What he wants is just to get in, get out and get away. Simple as that. A

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few residents on this street in Reading have agreed to let Bob have

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a look at their houses. First up is Ian. Now, Bob, can you tell Ian,

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using the mindset of a burglar, what is wrong with his house? That

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entrance to your garage, you have got a small gate, it will not what

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anybody getting through it. So what would you say he needs? A good

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fence, plus, if you get a bit of Travis work like this, that will

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give the sensation of the fence being higher, and when somebody

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jumps on it, that frightens them off. So, the fact that that trellis

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is not very robust, and will snap, works to your advantage? It

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certainly would have scared me off. I do not need the aggravation.

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Nearly two thirds of houses burgled in England and Wales have little or

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no security. Simply having a house which looks speak and span from the

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outside could be enough to put a burglar off. The mentality of a

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burglar, if a house looks really well-kept, that is saying that there

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are home security is going to be really good. The back of a house can

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be vulnerable if you see that friends there, you have got

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foliage, it would be a nightmare to try and climb through there. I just

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would not bother. I have had a burglar alarm installed, does that

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help? Yes, it is a very good idea, but it has got to come with a

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package of things, like you have got. The obvious safety measures are

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the most effective. In one in five burglaries, they get in through a

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door which has been left unlocked. Our next couple have a highly

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effective deterrent right under their feet. This is what I like to

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see, gravel. If it is going right across, it is very useful. Why is

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that? You can hear that a mile off. You know when people are around the

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property. But Bob is not happy with their boarded-up back gate. What you

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have done, you have blocked it off. If that is taken away, that bit of

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wood, you can see right down the side of the house. So, anybody down

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there is going to be exposed. Imagine me trying to get into the

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side window, nobody is going to see me. Tony, you put that therefore

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security. You have inadvertently given them a screen, that is what he

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is saying. By checking out the houses on this street, Bob has tried

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to make them safer. It has also brought back memories of his

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criminal past. These are the type of houses I broke into. And I will

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always be sorrowful about that. That is why I have worked for the last 30

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odd years with victims of crime, trying to put a bit right. You have

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just got to keep yourself safe, guys. And to do that, you need to

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make your house as unattractive to burglars as you possibly can.

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Earlier on, we set our panel the challenge of mending appliances

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brought in by people in the BBC. So, starting with you, David. One Show

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direct terror Andrew brought in this vacuum cleaner. He thinks it is a

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broken circuit - what do you think? Definitely not. The first thing was

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this. It is a stone. It was found in one of the tubes. This is some of

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that gravel that the burglar brought in. He is or so am planing about the

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smell. This is the state of the filter, it can do with a good

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clean. You can replace it or alternatively just wash it in warm,

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soapy water, it will be fine. So, does it work now? It works

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beautifully. Very good. Let's have a look at this one, which was brought

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in by Ian, a producer at World Service. What stage you at? Well, it

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did not have a battery in. I found it is producing sound, but it is not

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producing any radio. I did some fault finding and the antenna, which

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picks up the radio waves, is not functioning. Good luck with that.

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Thanks to all of the fixers. You can find details of the Restart project

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on our website. Let us know how you get on. Thanks to Bernard as well.

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Just the clarity, on the Scottish referendum issue, Blair Jenkins is

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the head of the yes campaign. Tomorrow we will be joined by the

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Outnumbered kids and the writer behind the show, Andy Hamilton. Good

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night!

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