:00:18. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to the One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker.
:00:22. > :00:27.Tonight's guest has journeyed to the centre of a big volcano. Daring.
:00:27. > :00:37.Dived with great white sharks. Scary. But what he really loves is
:00:37. > :00:41.
:00:41. > :00:49.cosying up to giant teddy bears. Look at the size of that! She has
:00:49. > :00:58.just jumped right into the water! Look at that! Yes, it is Steve
:00:58. > :01:04.Backshall! Nice to see you. I have just noticed how my voice goes up a
:01:04. > :01:08.couple of octaves every time I get excited. We do little impressions
:01:08. > :01:12.of you. You are clearly delighted to be stirred by those grizzly
:01:12. > :01:17.bears, but they can move quite quickly, you must have been a
:01:17. > :01:21.little bit scared. This is the extent of my day acknowledge!
:01:21. > :01:26.Guinness Book of Records says they can run as fast as a racehorse. I
:01:26. > :01:31.am not sure they can, but they can run faster than he you can. They
:01:31. > :01:36.were so focused on the salmon, they were not coming near us. You are
:01:36. > :01:42.back from Sri Lanka. What was the most extraordinary experience?
:01:43. > :01:47.would say that. We were filming Blue whales, you almost couldn't
:01:47. > :01:52.tell you were in water, with a whale like a nuclear submarine,
:01:52. > :01:57.cruising past, it was incredible. Tonight, we're not just talking
:01:57. > :02:00.about Deadly 60, we are actually doing it. It is the return of our
:02:00. > :02:10.favourite game - put your hand in the box when you don't know what is
:02:10. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:20.in the box! Don't do it! Don't do Is he all right? All that is to
:02:20. > :02:25.come. First, as any parent knows, taking your child to buy their
:02:25. > :02:30.first pair of proper shoes is a big step. But for one mum and daughter,
:02:30. > :02:38.it was an experience they nearly never got to share.
:02:38. > :02:43.On the morning of 7th January 1920 11, Ava was like any other 13
:02:43. > :02:48.months girl, but by 11pm, she was close to death, and about to embark
:02:48. > :02:53.on an extraordinary journey. had a high temperature, so Whitaker
:02:53. > :02:58.out of the hospital. The doctor came and told us she had meningitis.
:02:58. > :03:02.Within an hour, she was covered head-to-toe in spot. We were told
:03:02. > :03:06.there was a strong possibility she would die, so my world fell apart
:03:06. > :03:11.there and then. At what point did you notice there was an issue with
:03:11. > :03:15.her feet? After a couple of days, they would jet black. They were
:03:15. > :03:21.like pieces of coal, and they said there was a strong possibility she
:03:21. > :03:31.might lose her feet. I just said, just bring her smile back, that is
:03:31. > :03:37.all I need. This doctor was the plastic surgeon who took over her
:03:37. > :03:42.care. The very tips of her toes, the skin had all died off, so it
:03:42. > :03:47.involved two operations, one to amputate the but at that level, and
:03:47. > :03:51.our main goal was to preserve as much length of the but as possible,
:03:51. > :03:56.until she got into shoes properly. We didn't know what the impact
:03:56. > :04:06.would be. How did Ava cope with come out of the operation? She has
:04:06. > :04:06.
:04:06. > :04:14.dealt with it fantastic. You would think she was 10, not two. Tell us
:04:14. > :04:18.about how these prosthetic feet came about. Somebody had given the
:04:18. > :04:23.information for orthopaedics, and they said we would try, see what
:04:23. > :04:27.came out, and that is when the process started. Dorset prosthetics
:04:27. > :04:34.were used to making bespoke prosthetic limbs, but this was a
:04:34. > :04:38.new challenge. These are the moulds for Ava's feet, that I took on the
:04:38. > :04:47.day, formed in such a way that they support her feet structurally. They
:04:47. > :04:53.used silicon, like a puppy, and mould back -- that around the feet.
:04:53. > :04:57.The dimensions of the FT All Change, the buyer mechanics will change,
:04:58. > :05:02.and so the race will be on to keep pace with her now. What did she
:05:02. > :05:06.make of it? She was excited. She wouldn't try them on at first
:05:06. > :05:12.because she was very unsure about them, but when she did, she saw it
:05:12. > :05:17.as a big joke. She put them on top of her socks. She is kicking people
:05:17. > :05:21.with them! They look very realistic! I noticed the nails have
:05:21. > :05:26.got a nail polish on. You can do them any colour you like, which
:05:26. > :05:35.makes it a lot easier for Ava, because some days she wants them
:05:36. > :05:39.and some days she doesn't. Before we meet Gemma and Ava, Dr
:05:39. > :05:44.Sarah Jarvis is here. Advice about how to spot early signs of
:05:44. > :05:50.meningitis has been updated dramatically, hasn't it? It has. A
:05:50. > :05:54.lot of people know about that rash, and in Ava's case, it was very late.
:05:54. > :05:58.Getting in early, getting help, can save lives, which is why it is so
:05:58. > :06:04.important to spot the early symptoms. Little kids don't even
:06:04. > :06:09.have a severe headache, holder Kit might have neck stiffness and not
:06:09. > :06:16.like the light. Young Vic it may have cold hands and feet, or they
:06:16. > :06:22.might have nasty pains in their legs. -- younger kids. It is
:06:22. > :06:26.important for parents not to be too paranoid. Never a day goes by in my
:06:26. > :06:35.surgery where ride don't get some child to kiss the Fenny. If you can
:06:35. > :06:44.kiss your need -- kiss your knee, your whole spinal cord is stretched.
:06:44. > :06:52.You haven't got meningitis! Vital tips there for any parent. You may
:06:52. > :07:02.have heard, Ava is in the studio, with her mum, Gemma. Come on over.
:07:02. > :07:04.This is her favourite song! Welcome to the One Show, Ava. Gemma, did
:07:04. > :07:10.you ever think you would see the day when she would be running
:07:10. > :07:14.around, as we saw on the film? Never. But at the time, I didn't.
:07:14. > :07:21.But it was your instinct as a mother that saved her, because
:07:21. > :07:27.Sarah said, it is difficult to know with a toddler. What were the
:07:27. > :07:30.symptoms you spotted? Of vomiting and high temperature. Incredible
:07:30. > :07:35.mixed emotions for you, to have gone through what you have gone
:07:35. > :07:41.through, but now to have Ava are running around. It is massive to
:07:41. > :07:47.last as a family. We have got a little surprise for Ava! Because
:07:47. > :07:55.you have come in to see us, we know you like sparkly shoes... A do you
:07:55. > :07:59.like those? Would you like them? They are all yours. You have come
:07:59. > :08:08.into the One Show inner Balloon Week, so we have got you a pink
:08:08. > :08:15.balloon as well. You will have so much fun. And it'll start at the
:08:15. > :08:20.end of it. Perfect. Steve, we have uncovered some extraordinary
:08:20. > :08:27.footage of you with a balloon, talk us through what is going on here.
:08:27. > :08:32.Well, the idea was, this is a viper, it can sense walked at about the
:08:32. > :08:37.temperature of blood, so we filled our water ballooned with water,
:08:37. > :08:42.about 38 degrees, the buy-back sensed it, thought it was prey, and
:08:42. > :08:47.we filmed it in slow motion. Make sure your balloon doesn't go
:08:47. > :08:53.anywhere near any snakes! We don't have a snake in the next film, but
:08:53. > :08:58.we do have a Larry Lamb and day 3 of Balloon Week.
:08:58. > :09:02.Decoys have played an important role in the tactics of war for
:09:02. > :09:06.thousands of years. But possibly the most audacious example of
:09:06. > :09:11.military deception was during the Second World War, when rural areas
:09:11. > :09:17.like this were transformed into decoy airfields, military bases,
:09:17. > :09:21.and even whole cities. The aim was to draw the bombs away from their
:09:21. > :09:26.intended targets and have them fall harmlessly in empty fields, instead.
:09:26. > :09:30.At the beginning of the war, navigating was difficult. GDS
:09:30. > :09:35.systems were decades away. The navigation systems they did have
:09:35. > :09:39.would only direct planes into the general area. German pilots could
:09:39. > :09:43.usually spot their targets. But at night, things were completely
:09:44. > :09:47.different. Crews would become confused as to where they were, and
:09:47. > :09:52.the only means of identifying location was the pattern of light
:09:52. > :09:58.before. The British Witter to exploit the potential for Miss
:09:58. > :10:04.identifying targets by creating their -- fake cities into took
:10:04. > :10:08.tricking German pilots. This whole campaign was based at Shepperton
:10:08. > :10:12.Studios near London, the perfect place to be. While film production
:10:12. > :10:17.there was suspended during the war, a little movie magic could be
:10:17. > :10:23.sprinkled on the decoys, making them look as real as possible.
:10:23. > :10:29.Nearly 800 decoy sites were built. One of the most impressive was at
:10:29. > :10:34.Blackdown. This irritated the whole city of Bristol, 12 miles away. --
:10:34. > :10:38.imitated. How did they make it look so convincing? Base to realised
:10:38. > :10:45.that trying to imitate a whole town in daylight was impossible, it
:10:45. > :10:50.would have to be... It was impractical. But what they could do
:10:50. > :10:54.was create an impression of what a town would look at night.
:10:54. > :10:57.blacked-out how wouldn't look like much from the air? There are some
:10:57. > :11:03.types of light that couldn't be suppressed, and it was those they
:11:03. > :11:10.tried to imitate. Some lamps imitated the close from locomotive
:11:10. > :11:17.for boxes, special vamps imitated the flashes from Trans. -- special
:11:17. > :11:22.lamps. In some ways, at the first aircraft would drop incendiaries,
:11:22. > :11:25.and then a decoy fire would be lit away from the city in the hope that
:11:25. > :11:29.the NATO aircraft would drop their bombs on the fire, believing that
:11:30. > :11:34.to have been started by the one that came first. This was the
:11:34. > :11:42.control room at the top -- whole operation, this was where the decoy
:11:42. > :11:48.it was operated from, but also operated as a bomb shelter. Making
:11:48. > :11:55.decoys eventually became so routine that instructional films were made.
:11:55. > :12:02.The Allied -- allied forces had been issued kits. They were issued
:12:02. > :12:08.instructions on how to build it decoy airfields as they advanced.
:12:08. > :12:13.There. As easy as that. Now, we are going to build a decoy used in
:12:13. > :12:18.liked it out in exactly the same pattern as a runway of the time. To
:12:18. > :12:27.see how convincing the stocks from above, I am going to call on the
:12:27. > :12:32.One Show balloon, and take it on its very first night flight.
:12:32. > :12:36.Bombers during the Second World War blew at tens of thousands of feet.
:12:36. > :12:40.Because Picard get up to those sort of altitude at the heart air
:12:40. > :12:50.balloon, we can see how affected those de Claire Lyte were --
:12:50. > :13:01.
:13:01. > :13:04.because we can't get up to those With a simple delight, the One Show
:13:04. > :13:09.have been able to create something looking like an airfield without
:13:09. > :13:12.any of the infrastructure. It all looks very convincing to me. If
:13:12. > :13:22.that were the target you were looking for, you would be drawn
:13:22. > :13:22.
:13:22. > :13:27.towards it, in the way the German It is estimated that throughout the
:13:27. > :13:32.Second World War, more than 5% of all the German bombs were actually
:13:32. > :13:41.dropped on decoy targets, and that is thought to have saved more than
:13:41. > :13:44.2500 lives. Brilliant idea. We saw the Viper
:13:45. > :13:50.and the balloon before, but have you used a hot air balloon for
:13:50. > :13:55.Deadly 60? Not really, you tend to be quite a long way away from the
:13:55. > :13:59.animals, we tried to get closer. Have you been up in a balloon?
:13:59. > :14:08.is fantastic, much quieter than you expect. I seem to be the only one
:14:08. > :14:14.who hasn't! Next Balloon Week! the third series of Deadly 60, is
:14:14. > :14:17.it hard to keep making them more and more deadly as they go on?
:14:17. > :14:22.really, ever since I started doing this for a living, whatever
:14:22. > :14:28.scientist I pork 2, I'm always on the lookout for new stories. --
:14:29. > :14:33.I've talked to. When it came round to see Rees 3, I came up with about
:14:33. > :14:40.500 new ones. So we will never be without Deadly 60! We will go on
:14:40. > :14:46.and on... But you always seem cool and collected in the face of danger.
:14:46. > :14:56.But even you had a bit of a freak out when you came face-to-face with
:14:56. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:02.I want them to feed on the meat of the tree, using this as bait.
:15:02. > :15:12.Let's move! The Dragons reaction took us all by surprise.
:15:12. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:20.The do move fairly fast! Go! Yeah! Go! Here they come!
:15:20. > :15:25.As far as the behind-the-scenes stuff is concerned, how long were
:15:25. > :15:30.they chasing you for? 100 metres. The whole thing was over with in
:15:30. > :15:34.six minutes. Once they found the meat, they forgot about us but for
:15:34. > :15:39.a few minutes, it was genuinely quite frightening. We were actually
:15:39. > :15:43.pushing Dragons away with a big stick. When you go on safari they
:15:43. > :15:48.say, the only person you have to run faster than is the person next
:15:48. > :15:53.to you! Any Other sticky moments? It is
:15:53. > :15:56.never the things that people expect. Working with venomous snakes and
:15:56. > :16:01.crocodiles, they tend to be predictable and you have a good
:16:01. > :16:07.idea of what they are going to do. It tends to be the larger animals,
:16:07. > :16:13.like an African elephant is probably the most frightening
:16:13. > :16:18.animal on earth, hippos and buffalo and things that are intelligent,
:16:18. > :16:23.unpredictable and can run faster than you. In this series, you were
:16:23. > :16:29.hanging out of a helicopter and you met the most deadly his snake...
:16:29. > :16:35.That was one of the coolest thing I have ever done. Giving 150 mph,
:16:35. > :16:40.dropping into a crocodile nest, really terrifying stuff! Do you
:16:40. > :16:44.ever fear the next thing? Obviously you approach every situation and
:16:44. > :16:50.respect the animal, but thinking of Steve Irwin, do you fear for your
:16:50. > :16:55.life? What happened to Steve was a freak accident. Tens of thousands
:16:55. > :16:59.of people every year dive with stingrays and come to no harm and
:16:59. > :17:03.the more I work with animals, the more I realise their limits and the
:17:03. > :17:08.old truth that animals would much rather moves away from you than
:17:08. > :17:13.attack you becomes more and more apparent. Animals mean us no harm,
:17:13. > :17:17.with almost no exception. Genuinely, I feel more safe working with
:17:17. > :17:21.animals than I do wandering around a big city at night. That is good
:17:21. > :17:27.news. Last time you were on, we played it
:17:27. > :17:33.game, we played and you watch it. It is our favourite game.
:17:33. > :17:43.absolutely love it. Put your hand in the box... When you don't know
:17:43. > :17:51.
:17:51. > :17:57.You are doing good...! There we go. I thought there wasn't going to be
:17:57. > :18:01.anything in the box and that is why I was so freaked out! Anyway, Steve,
:18:01. > :18:09.we are going to turn the game on you and because it is you and you
:18:09. > :18:13.have no fear, we have upped the ante. OK! How are you feeling?
:18:13. > :18:22.little bit nervous. I am guessing he would not put anything in their
:18:22. > :18:30.genuinely venomous. Off you go! your hand and gently and be careful.
:18:30. > :18:40.It is warm blooded, it is very, it You might have worked with this
:18:40. > :18:47.creature before. You met this creature in Northern Ireland...
:18:47. > :18:57.has got nonretractile cause so it is not a cat. -- clause. Give us
:18:57. > :18:58.
:18:58. > :19:03.another clue. Smell. It is a skunk! The good news is, we have another
:19:03. > :19:07.two for you before the end of the show! You can see Steve in Deadly
:19:08. > :19:14.60 from Monday to Friday on CBBC. And you can catch up with the sea
:19:14. > :19:19.was online. Another person who is not scared of a tough challenge is
:19:19. > :19:22.Esther Rantzen and the latest could be heard toughest yet. -- her
:19:23. > :19:32.toughest yet. Twenty-five years ago, I fancied
:19:33. > :19:33.
:19:33. > :19:38.ChildLine, a helpline for children Back then, nothing had been done
:19:38. > :19:43.like that before but now I have come up with another idea. A
:19:43. > :19:48.helpline for order people to combat loneliness and isolation. -- older
:19:48. > :19:53.people. After my husband died, I experienced just what it feels like
:19:53. > :20:00.to be gripped by loneliness. 85- year-old Vicky Pryce and also
:20:00. > :20:05.suffered acute loneliness when her husband passed away. In my mind, I
:20:05. > :20:10.had got myself in a hole and I did not want anybody near me. The it
:20:10. > :20:17.sounds as if you lost the will to live? Exactly. I was on the verge
:20:17. > :20:23.of a nervous breakdown. Too much pride? Wouldn't ask for help?
:20:23. > :20:28.can do this on my own. It did beat me. Unbeknown to Jimmy. Did you
:20:28. > :20:33.know what I mean? -- unbeknown to me. I thought it was the natural
:20:33. > :20:37.thing when you are a widow on your own. Being alone can be bad for
:20:37. > :20:41.your health. Research shows having good social relationships with your
:20:41. > :20:46.friends and family as you get older becomes extremely important. Not
:20:46. > :20:51.only do many people have less chance of survival, one study
:20:51. > :20:55.suggests they are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's. For Vicky,
:20:55. > :21:00.it took many years to find a place like this in Putney, to help her
:21:00. > :21:05.overcome her loneliness. We have roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and
:21:05. > :21:11.roast potatoes today. And friendship, as you can see, all
:21:11. > :21:15.around us. Mein Silverline service would offer elderly people a
:21:15. > :21:20.lifeline, and it would be a friendly service for those who just
:21:20. > :21:25.wants somebody to talk to. It will signpost to groups who can help
:21:25. > :21:30.them and it will help for hidden problems, like abuse. When I set up
:21:30. > :21:36.ChildLine, I had no real idea of the challenge and was taking on.
:21:36. > :21:39.Now I know. Now I am on my own so I am flying to Dublin to meet a
:21:39. > :21:46.fabulous woman who have set up a special helpline for people there,
:21:46. > :21:50.in the republic. Mary set up a senior helpline 16 years ago, and
:21:50. > :21:55.despite its success, it is a small group of committed and passionate
:21:55. > :22:01.volunteers. I am hoping she can give me an insight into what
:22:01. > :22:06.Silverline can offer. It is a peer- to-peer listening service. It is
:22:06. > :22:12.people can listen sympathetically, and in some cases they may know
:22:12. > :22:17.what it is like to be on their own. When we launched ChildLine, we had
:22:17. > :22:21.50,000 on the first night so I am slightly concerned that I may be
:22:21. > :22:27.stimulating a demand that I can't reach. What we did was started
:22:27. > :22:32.small and then we started to grow step by step. So you are being
:22:32. > :22:37.sensible and starting smaller, and I am being lunatic and starting be?
:22:37. > :22:46.I don't think you are a lunatic. I think there is a real need for this
:22:46. > :22:52.service. Senior helpline, good afternoon. The helpline has 370
:22:52. > :22:56.trained volunteers in Ireland, with two lines open 12 hours every day.
:22:56. > :23:00.We might have a caller who is upset about a family problem and they
:23:00. > :23:06.can't share it with their family member, and sometimes it is easier
:23:06. > :23:09.to speak to a stranger. helpline introduces isolated older
:23:10. > :23:13.people to activities like this, where they enjoyed teaching
:23:13. > :23:17.children how to do meeting. Do you think young people and
:23:17. > :23:22.elderly people should mix up or should children only speak to
:23:22. > :23:28.children? No, old people and young people should talk! They always
:23:28. > :23:32.know loads of stuff and they can pass it on. It takes me out of the
:23:32. > :23:38.house. And lets me do things with pickets also stop they are so
:23:38. > :23:43.interested. It brings so much life to us. And we are giving them the
:23:43. > :23:49.gift of knitting. It is a lovely scene, but two generations having
:23:49. > :23:53.so much fun together. I am so glad I have seen it in action. Having
:23:53. > :23:59.met Mary and seen her business, it is clear I have got a lot of work
:23:59. > :24:03.ahead of me if I am to launch next year. With 10 million pensioners in
:24:03. > :24:07.the UK, the demand could be overwhelming. When I think about
:24:07. > :24:11.Vicky and all the older people around the UK who have written to
:24:11. > :24:16.me about their loneliness, if we can make it work, it is really
:24:16. > :24:21.going to be worthwhile. I think they can gain a lot from the
:24:21. > :24:27.Silverline, truly I do, because there is such a lot of lonely
:24:27. > :24:33.people out there. All the best. Good news, Steve. You on to the
:24:33. > :24:43.second box. Five seconds. The it is live telly. Here we go. It is a
:24:43. > :24:51.
:24:51. > :24:54.reptile. Any thoughts? You have met this reptile before. Skink. Yes!
:24:54. > :24:59.Certain alien species released in the countryside have damaged
:24:59. > :25:04.certain wildlife, but Jeremy Wade looks at one foreign predator who
:25:04. > :25:09.may not be as destructive as it has been made out to be. 15 years ago,
:25:09. > :25:14.news reports warned of the new alien species of predatory fish
:25:14. > :25:19.taking over Britain's waterways. The dominance of the Zander has
:25:19. > :25:29.left for a call to target the fish to reduce its numbers. This is the
:25:29. > :25:32.
:25:32. > :25:38.It is obviously a predator, it has It is also known as a pike perch
:25:38. > :25:42.but they tend to feed on the same fish species as pike, small silver
:25:42. > :25:46.fish. These are the fish people start to worry about when they
:25:46. > :25:50.start to appear in the water. Native to the European Continent,
:25:50. > :26:00.where they are a popular eating fish, Zambia were first introduced
:26:00. > :26:03.
:26:03. > :26:08.to Woburn Abbey in 1878 -- zander. Just under half a century ago, 97
:26:08. > :26:14.finger sized fish were introduced not into a pond but into a large
:26:14. > :26:22.system of water in the Norfolk Fens. This release by the local water
:26:22. > :26:26.authority with legal. By 1957, 97 had turned into 20,000 and they
:26:26. > :26:31.were eating 20 tons of fish every year. Over the last 40 years, they
:26:31. > :26:35.have been spreading. Partly due to natural migration to connected
:26:35. > :26:41.waterways but also, through deliberate, illegal introductions
:26:41. > :26:45.by anglers, who want to fish for them on their own patch.
:26:45. > :26:50.Is trying to get rid of them a real option? It would be extremely
:26:50. > :26:54.difficult, very costly, but let's try to contain it where we have got
:26:54. > :27:03.it and let's not introduce it to New River Systems that don't have
:27:03. > :27:09.it. Some anglers maintain the zander is not wiping out native
:27:09. > :27:17.fish stocks. They are in specific areas. I have come up here to have
:27:17. > :27:21.a go to try to catch them. I have come 150 miles. I have not noticed
:27:21. > :27:26.over 15 years of fishing for them any decrease in the fishing. In
:27:26. > :27:33.fact, it is better now than it has ever been. So do these fishermen
:27:33. > :27:38.have a better perspective than the authorities? If you compare zander
:27:38. > :27:43.to crayfish, which has taken 20 years to decimate native crayfish
:27:43. > :27:47.numbers, they could be right. There is under appears to have had little
:27:47. > :27:55.or no detrimental effect and has been here half that time, but the
:27:55. > :27:59.rate of impact varies with species and it is possible zander could
:27:59. > :28:03.still have a devastating effect on wildlife in the future, and
:28:03. > :28:07.fishermen's tales of fishermen using them to populate their local
:28:08. > :28:12.rivers indicate bed rather than stopping the spread, we are in some
:28:12. > :28:17.incidences actually promoting it. For now, one thing nearly everyone
:28:17. > :28:23.agrees on is that non-native species should not be spread with
:28:23. > :28:27.our help. Native or non-native is the
:28:27. > :28:33.question, with the final round of "put your hand in the box when you
:28:33. > :28:40.don't know what is inside the box". This is probably the most dangerous
:28:40. > :28:50.out of the three. We know you do fear it. Very smooth to the touch.
:28:50. > :28:54.
:28:54. > :29:02.Have they feel. -- have a feel. It is a real, human person! He just
:29:02. > :29:12.looked me! Any idea what that could be, bearing in mind you on the One
:29:12. > :29:13.
:29:13. > :29:20.Show? It is Mike Dilger! APPLAUSE. Thanks, Steve, ever so