:00:15. > :00:16.the stroke of midnight! Very exciting!
:00:17. > :00:20.Plus a very, very funny guest, who we'll have longer to talk to about
:00:21. > :00:22.his brand new stand-up tour the quicker he gets us to the studio!
:00:23. > :00:37.Wagons roll, my friend! Come on! Hello and welcome to The One Show,
:00:38. > :00:46.with Alex Jones. And Evans.
:00:47. > :01:03.Plus our special guest, Alan Davies! How you feeling? You
:01:04. > :01:07.fibber! So, if you are going to get married to a man? I can't have
:01:08. > :01:12.someone tarring over me, so I would want someone small. Probably a
:01:13. > :01:20.jockey. He is the third one. Motorcyclists. They are little. Dani
:01:21. > :01:32.Pedrosa, Valentino Rossi. We getting names! And that bloke who placed
:01:33. > :01:37.Thor. He's gorgeous. If I was going to have babies with them, it would
:01:38. > :01:41.be Robert Downey Junior. For companionship, Jules Holland. I
:01:42. > :01:56.wouldn't have babies with Robert Downey Junior. He seems flighty. As
:01:57. > :02:00.reliable as your... ? Anyway! I can't believe that you scale that
:02:01. > :02:03.rock for sport relief, I know it is old news, but it is the first time
:02:04. > :02:08.we have seen each other. APPLAUSE
:02:09. > :02:12.And millions of superwomen who you will have bought gifts for by now
:02:13. > :02:24.ahead of Mothering Sunday. Yes. But first, lots of mums owe a
:02:25. > :02:28.lot to Ada Maguire. I have come to Nottingham city Hospital to meet a
:02:29. > :02:33.lady called Ada Maguire. She is a nurse with 40 years' service saving
:02:34. > :02:35.lives in the neonatal unit. Tomorrow, she will work a shift for
:02:36. > :02:45.the very last time. In 1974, she started on the low
:02:46. > :02:49.dependency unit as a nursery nurse, caring for sickly newborns. When the
:02:50. > :02:53.hospital phased out the nursery nurse position in 1988, she
:02:54. > :02:59.successfully qualified as a registered general nurse in order to
:03:00. > :03:04.carry on doing the job she loved. Tomorrow, you will work your final
:03:05. > :03:10.shift here. Has it sunk in? It hasn't. It doesn't feel quite real.
:03:11. > :03:16.But after 40 years, I am finishing. Mixed emotions? Absolutely. Did you
:03:17. > :03:20.think you would end up staying for 40 years. I didn't think I would end
:03:21. > :03:25.up managing the unit, because as a nursery nurse, that didn't seem
:03:26. > :03:32.likely. What you love about it? The babies, the people. It looks very
:03:33. > :03:38.snug in there, very cosy. Every year, the unit sees nearly 600
:03:39. > :03:44.babies pass through its wards, from full-term newborns with problems at
:03:45. > :03:49.birth as well as premature babies. Being a reward system means Ada is
:03:50. > :03:56.responsible for coordinating the entire operation. You save babies
:03:57. > :04:02.lives. These babies wouldn't survive without us. Babies at 24 weeks
:04:03. > :04:05.didn't even come here when I started, because there was nothing
:04:06. > :04:13.we could offer them. The technology has changed hugely.
:04:14. > :04:21.Nothing fazes her. I can think of the drama is that we have had here.
:04:22. > :04:26.She knows everything will be all right. You have to want to do this.
:04:27. > :04:30.You couldn't do this just because it is a job. She is a really good
:04:31. > :04:34.manager and we will miss her a lot. You have to be compassionate and
:04:35. > :04:39.caring and go the extra mile for these families, because they deserve
:04:40. > :04:48.it. There is that in eight quality in some people. Started her nurse
:04:49. > :04:54.training in 1989. She was lovely from the start. She will be missed
:04:55. > :05:03.by a lot of people when she leaves. And what was that about? Just seeing
:05:04. > :05:08.Ada interact with the mothers and the babies, she is a real natural.
:05:09. > :05:13.She remembers us, and she remembers the children, remembers how they
:05:14. > :05:18.were. The staff here do such an amazing job. She really is a very
:05:19. > :05:23.nice lady, and a very good nurse. As a mother to two boys herself, and a
:05:24. > :05:26.grandmother to eight, Ada will now finally have the time to devote to
:05:27. > :05:35.them after 40 years of caring for other people's. What has the last 40
:05:36. > :05:39.years meant you? It has been a huge journey, and for my own career
:05:40. > :05:43.development, it has been fabulous. It is moments like these that are
:05:44. > :05:45.just memories. This is what it is about, letting them go home to their
:05:46. > :05:59.families. From the short amount of time I have
:06:00. > :06:03.spent with Ada, it is clear to see she is an amazing woman with such a
:06:04. > :06:07.big heart. This time tomorrow, her work will be done. It will be a sad
:06:08. > :06:11.day for Nottingham and also for nursing. But something tells me she
:06:12. > :06:12.will find it very difficult to keep away from these gorgeous little
:06:13. > :06:26.babies. And how emotional did she get during
:06:27. > :06:32.the filming? They said, not at all, but looking at that back, it is a
:06:33. > :06:38.lot to take. All babies are special, but there must have been some extra
:06:39. > :06:45.special ones. The smallest one we had was 420 grams when she was
:06:46. > :06:52.born, about 12 weeks early. She went home after about 12 weeks. She was
:06:53. > :06:57.fit and well. That was in the early 1990s. The problems you have with
:06:58. > :07:05.those early babies are there feeding, and breathing. As you can
:07:06. > :07:14.see, Riley is next to me. I think he will be fine. And Kayleigh, Ada was
:07:15. > :07:33.brilliant when you delivered Riley. He wasn't premature, he was term. He
:07:34. > :07:40.weighed 12lbs. Ada went out of her way to make sure that he could get
:07:41. > :07:44.home for Christmas. And you have a message to Ada from the people on
:07:45. > :07:48.the ward. Everyone would like to say thank you so much for all the hard
:07:49. > :07:54.work you have done over the years and saving our babies' lives.
:07:55. > :07:56.APPLAUSE Obviously you will miss it like
:07:57. > :08:02.nothing else. Was it a vocation? I did nursery
:08:03. > :08:09.nurse training when I was 18, and then saw this advertised and went
:08:10. > :08:14.for it. And what will you do now? I am going to make jam and chutney.
:08:15. > :08:22.Then you can stay! We will have you next week. And I hope to join the
:08:23. > :08:29.quality care commission. Well, on it is Mother's Day, and you are super
:08:30. > :08:34.mother. Here you are. And they are not from a garage!
:08:35. > :08:35.That was the best we could do in central London.
:08:36. > :08:50.Reilly, give those to mummy. Thank you, Kayleigh, Riley and a
:08:51. > :08:55.round of applause for Ada. And now to Alan.
:08:56. > :08:59.So Alan hits the road on his new UK tour next month. And if you've never
:09:00. > :09:00.seen him live, here's what you can expect.
:09:01. > :09:08.Our primary school didn't have a uniform. But my father thought it
:09:09. > :09:14.ought to. So he went and bought two school uniforms, completely
:09:15. > :09:20.misunderstanding the concept of uniformity, in my view!
:09:21. > :09:27.Dressed us up, little black shoes, black trousers, grey shirt, short
:09:28. > :09:34.back and sides. We looked like rejects from Lord of the flies. And
:09:35. > :09:43.he sent us into a 1970s playground with corduroy and big collars,
:09:44. > :09:47.platforms. And there we are, waiting for the college to come round so we
:09:48. > :09:52.can join in the conversation. APPLAUSE
:09:53. > :09:57.So the new tour Little Victories starts in under a week.
:09:58. > :10:03.That you have road-tested it in Australia. Yes, it has been good
:10:04. > :10:06.fun. And now I am starting next Thursday in Reading and going up to
:10:07. > :10:12.Scotland in April, doing some date in April, and then a full tour in
:10:13. > :10:16.the autumn. What's the connection between the title and your dad's
:10:17. > :10:21.refusal to eat jam? He wouldn't eat blackcurrant jam, but he would eat
:10:22. > :10:30.all the others. Strawbridge am is the king. Raspberry jam is the
:10:31. > :10:37.back-up. And then you have some novelty jam, apricots. But he won't
:10:38. > :10:46.eat blackcurrant. I agree with him. It's got bits in it. I like the
:10:47. > :10:49.bits. I had to lay an elaborate trap to force him to eat it and admit he
:10:50. > :10:54.liked it. And that was the little victory? You tap away at the little
:10:55. > :11:08.ones, and one day you get a big one! They are tumour litigious.
:11:09. > :11:15.We hear about you writing observations down on your phone.
:11:16. > :11:32.Most of my notes are things like this. No, I can't say that.
:11:33. > :11:45.My little girl had learned how to pray at nursery school, and she was
:11:46. > :11:58.like this at the bed. And she said, why can you not understand that I
:11:59. > :12:05.need to tap shoes? Amen! So how has being older and a parent nfluenced
:12:06. > :12:09.your stand-up? When you get a bit older, you need to have a point of
:12:10. > :12:14.view. My dad is not that well at the moment, I lost my mum when I was a
:12:15. > :12:16.kid. There are things that I might have found tricky to talk about when
:12:17. > :12:20.I was younger, but now I find it easier to touch on those things, and
:12:21. > :12:25.they resonate a bit more with the audience. I have children. But there
:12:26. > :12:31.is still a fair amount of scatological nonsense. You may well
:12:32. > :12:41.have age chronologically, but not as far as looks are concerned. Look at
:12:42. > :12:45.that. That is 20 years ago. The differences now I can't actually see
:12:46. > :12:56.that picture. Let's have another look at it. What is going on? That
:12:57. > :13:03.was a Radio 1 publicity shot. It was probably taken in this building. You
:13:04. > :13:08.look a little bit pale birth. Radio, you see.
:13:09. > :13:17.You put your passion for being on stage to having a big ego. It is
:13:18. > :13:24.more that you talk about yourself a lot, or I do. My stand-up is quite
:13:25. > :13:27.autobiographical. And to get the material, you have to think about
:13:28. > :13:33.yourself for months. So it is quite narcissistic. But you are trying to
:13:34. > :13:41.find stories that resonate with an audience, so you are not entirely
:13:42. > :13:54.self obsessed. But it is a good job to choose if you are. Can you do
:13:55. > :13:58.impressions? Alex can do an amazing impression, and it only involves one
:13:59. > :14:11.word, but see if you can guess. Millionaire! It's Sandi Toksvig. Is
:14:12. > :14:21.it? LAUGHTER
:14:22. > :14:24.We want the country's most talented amateur impressionists to come to
:14:25. > :14:27.our studios next Tuesday to be judged by Rob Brydon.
:14:28. > :14:34.E-mail your clips to the usual address. My grandmother can do a
:14:35. > :14:38.goat. But can she do an impression? Now, it's not often in life things
:14:39. > :14:42.start to get cheaper. But can they get too cheap? Here's Jay with what
:14:43. > :14:48.could be the beginnings of a very dangerous price war.
:14:49. > :14:54.We all know that food prices have gone up over the years, but by how
:14:55. > :15:01.much? I have been taking a little trip down memory lane to 1987. Back
:15:02. > :15:14.then, a Mars bar was 20p. Today it is 60p. A pint of beer to wash them
:15:15. > :15:19.down was 80p, and now it is ?3. But a pint of milk currently costs
:15:20. > :15:24.25p, the same as it did in 1980 Evan, almost 30 years ago.
:15:25. > :15:29.This is the result of a war on the price of milk, with the supermarkets
:15:30. > :15:32.selling four pints of milk for a pound. We all love a bargain, but
:15:33. > :15:43.can this really be a good Farmers probably don't like it but I
:15:44. > :15:48.am sure people who are buying it do. I just pay what it is. I don't think
:15:49. > :15:53.about it, to be honest. I know they are trying to get people into shops
:15:54. > :15:57.buying it but I worry about the farmers, and do they get the money
:15:58. > :16:01.they deserve for producing this note? Indeed many of the dairy
:16:02. > :16:07.farmers are seriously worried their product is being sold too cheaply.
:16:08. > :16:12.Derek has a herd of 300 milking cattle in Berkshire. So, have a look
:16:13. > :16:16.at this. What you make of that ad? Yes, it is not something you would
:16:17. > :16:20.want to see, the price of milk coming down, over your breakfast.
:16:21. > :16:24.Historically it does come back to the farm gate and it does have an
:16:25. > :16:30.affect on the farm gate price. This is the average price farmers get for
:16:31. > :16:36.their milk regardless of where it ends up. It is currently just under
:16:37. > :16:39.34p per litre but according to the National Farmers' Union, the cost of
:16:40. > :16:44.producing a litre of milk is at least 30p, leaving a very tight
:16:45. > :16:49.profit margin. The price of milk comes down, it has a huge affect on
:16:50. > :16:52.our business. A penny on a litre of milk costs us a lot of money in a
:16:53. > :17:01.year. My son has joined the business and I would like to think that he
:17:02. > :17:03.will be here for a long, long time. However, if the price of milk
:17:04. > :17:06.crashes, agriculture, as a business, if it doesn't pay, it will go. If
:17:07. > :17:10.the supermarkets are willing to pay fair, where is the problem? Well,
:17:11. > :17:16.the National Farmers' Union says it is unsustainable and devalues a very
:17:17. > :17:21.important product, risking the industry as a whole. Smaller
:17:22. > :17:25.retailers are all -- also feeling the pressure. Peter works in this
:17:26. > :17:30.village shop with two of the major supermarkets within a drive. Let's
:17:31. > :17:35.have a look. This is a two litre bottle. The equivalent of four
:17:36. > :17:42.points. How much does it cost you to buy this? That costs us ?1.79. So
:17:43. > :17:50.there is no way you could sell this for a quid? No way. Because we need
:17:51. > :17:54.a margin to pay our expenses. 70% of all the milk produced in the UK is
:17:55. > :17:58.sold in the supermarkets. Sainsbury's has joined the price war
:17:59. > :18:04.and is also selling four points for a pound. Our job is mainly to be
:18:05. > :18:09.competitive for our customers. So the key items in their baskets, the
:18:10. > :18:13.staples, bread, eggs, milk, are very, very important and it is
:18:14. > :18:21.important we remain competitive on those products. But is ?1 for four
:18:22. > :18:24.points sustainable in the long-term? I cannot answer that question but I
:18:25. > :18:28.know that our farmers, they are still getting paid what they have
:18:29. > :18:32.always been paid so for them it is sustainable. You think others in the
:18:33. > :18:36.wider dairy industry are being alarmist when they say this price
:18:37. > :18:41.war is potentially damaging going forwards? Those Derry farmers who
:18:42. > :18:47.aren't in long-term contracts and are not protected by the cost of
:18:48. > :18:53.production model, then clearly that market for them in the price of milk
:18:54. > :18:59.is more volatile. -- dairy farmers. Well the supermarkets are adamant
:19:00. > :19:02.the price cut won't affect farmers, many are uncertain about the times
:19:03. > :19:08.ahead. The question is, how much do we value our milk?
:19:09. > :19:17.It is all about the milk. What is the breaking news? The price war is
:19:18. > :19:26.getting more intense. Aldi has cut to 79p. And you can get 24 pint
:19:27. > :19:31.bottles for ?1 something. Marks Spencer is not doing it, Waitrose
:19:32. > :19:36.are not doing it but they for their loyalty cardholders. A small
:19:37. > :19:41.supermarket chain, Booth, in the north-west, is not getting involved
:19:42. > :19:44.in the price war. Lots of viewers will want to be on the side of the
:19:45. > :19:50.farmers because this is a really difficult time for them, so what can
:19:51. > :19:54.we do if we do value our milk? It is about consumer power. If you think
:19:55. > :19:59.?1 is too cheap for milk, don't buy it. You will find other brands which
:20:00. > :20:02.will cost more you go to small local shops or the supermarkets not
:20:03. > :20:05.selling at that price. At the moment, the supermarkets are not
:20:06. > :20:11.passing on the price cut to the farmers. But we are undermining the
:20:12. > :20:13.sense of value of milk in the consumer's mind and they will get
:20:14. > :20:19.used to the idea it should be that cheap, and then eventually, price
:20:20. > :20:27.cuts will be forced on them. And we should all look out for the Red
:20:28. > :20:34.Tractor logo? Yes. It indicates it is from assured farms. They tend to
:20:35. > :20:38.be British. One dairy farmer is going out of business a day. That is
:20:39. > :20:42.why it matters. If we carry on paying too little for our milk, all
:20:43. > :20:46.of our food, then the agricultural base in this country will be
:20:47. > :20:49.undermined. So if you don't want to see that happen, you have to be
:20:50. > :20:55.prepared to pay a bit more for your food. And we did a survey down on
:20:56. > :21:02.the Piazza... It was very scientific! I asked them. Look,
:21:03. > :21:10.there they are. What was the outcome? The outcome was that nobody
:21:11. > :21:23.knew. Two people thought it was 24, 20 5p a point. It went up to ?1.10.
:21:24. > :21:29.-- 25p per pint. But outside here, outside the BBC, probably full of
:21:30. > :21:32.newsreaders. Tonight we are celebrating without same-sex couples
:21:33. > :21:35.who are about to get married, as they can from midnight to night for
:21:36. > :21:46.the first time ever in the UK. So, Alan, and Jamie, you have your
:21:47. > :21:53.names. Let's sing. # Love and marriage
:21:54. > :22:05.# Go together like a horse and carriage. Keep on singing! Here is
:22:06. > :22:11.Gyles. Frank Sinatra began his career with
:22:12. > :22:16.an orchestra but in 1942, his decision to go solo made him a star
:22:17. > :22:22.and within a year his unrivalled popularity in performances one --
:22:23. > :22:32.won him a movie deal and he was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood by
:22:33. > :22:41.1955. My name is Frank Sinatra. What?! Oh! So, why was it that he
:22:42. > :22:45.played to theatres when he came to Britain that were all but empty? One
:22:46. > :22:52.was here in Birmingham, the Hippodrome. Roy Edwards, who was
:22:53. > :22:56.just 20 at the time, was here to see his idol perform. I bought a
:22:57. > :23:00.ticket, which was unusual. But I thought, I had better get a ticket
:23:01. > :23:04.because Frank Sinatra, such a big star. Came into the theatre and I
:23:05. > :23:11.couldn't believe how few people were here! Down in the front stalls,
:23:12. > :23:16.there was nobody sitting there at all. So what happened when the great
:23:17. > :23:19.man came on? He looked across the auditorium and put his hand to his
:23:20. > :23:29.forehead, and said, is anybody out there? We gathered at the front
:23:30. > :23:38.rows, the front of the stage. I think you sign Whole Man River. It
:23:39. > :23:40.was a big thing to see Frank. It is hard to describe what it was like to
:23:41. > :24:00.see somebody like that. So what had gone so terribly wrong?
:24:01. > :24:04.The answer may lie in Frank Sinatra's personal life. Just two
:24:05. > :24:08.years previously, you divorced his first wife for more than ten years
:24:09. > :24:12.to marry his second, Ava Gardner, one of the biggest stars in
:24:13. > :24:17.Hollywood. She herself was twice divorced. Their marriage caused
:24:18. > :24:22.headlines around the world but in the moderately -- morally rigid 50s,
:24:23. > :24:26.Frank Sinatra became a pariah. Attitudes towards divorce were very
:24:27. > :24:29.negative to say the least. And people who are divorced were
:24:30. > :24:33.therefore seen as different, as deviant in lots of ways. And there
:24:34. > :24:37.was a lot of stigma attached to divorce as well. Because of course,
:24:38. > :24:42.divorce is seen as something about unthreatening to the family, and yet
:24:43. > :24:47.there was a sense that it was becoming a bit fashionable. So a big
:24:48. > :24:54.star like Frank Sinatra leaving his wife and children and marrying
:24:55. > :24:56.somebody who was a double divorcee, my! There would have been very mixed
:24:57. > :24:58.feelings about stars who were getting divorced and remarried and
:24:59. > :25:04.apparently so easily because of the fear that could spread to ordinary
:25:05. > :25:08.people. In fact, 1953 marked the lowest point in Frank Sinatra's
:25:09. > :25:12.career. His records when selling, his TV show had been cancelled and
:25:13. > :25:15.he made his first suicide attempt. His UK tour was supposed to put him
:25:16. > :25:20.back on his feet but it did nothing of the sort. After playing to a half
:25:21. > :25:23.empty house at the Hippodrome, Sinatra could be forgiven for
:25:24. > :25:29.seeking the solace of a quiet drink in the pub. But for at least one
:25:30. > :25:34.fan, his private life didn't matter. A friend of mine, we went down for a
:25:35. > :25:39.drink in the pub. And somebody said, Frank Sinatra has just come in. We
:25:40. > :25:44.were totally amazed that he was in the same pub as we were! It is not
:25:45. > :25:51.what one expects in a Birmingham pub? No, to see Frank Sinatra, and
:25:52. > :25:56.in the same establishment, to be in the same one as Mr Sinatra. And
:25:57. > :26:00.having spent that money on the seats, you didn't have the money to
:26:01. > :26:05.buy him a drink, did you? But there was to be a dramatic turnaround in
:26:06. > :26:11.sonata's fortunes. Earlier that year he had played a supporting role in
:26:12. > :26:16.From Here To Eternity. Attitudes to divorce softened later and his star
:26:17. > :26:20.never waned again. Sinatra, we all thought we knew him. He was the
:26:21. > :26:24.voice, the chairman, and old blue eyes all rolled into one. But a few
:26:25. > :26:28.months back in the early 1950s in Britain, he was just a man putting
:26:29. > :26:32.on a brave face as he sang this song.
:26:33. > :26:34.# When you are smiling # Keep on smiling
:26:35. > :26:51.# The whole world smiles with you. Thank you, Gyles! And nothing wrong
:26:52. > :26:54.with a healthy divorce! Or two! So a view of Frank's marriages ended in
:26:55. > :26:59.divorce but tonight we are celebrating couples getting married
:27:00. > :27:05.very shortly. First, how about Mrs and Mrs Smith? Good evening, ladies.
:27:06. > :27:11.All very exciting. You didn't like each other at first, did you? No, I
:27:12. > :27:16.thought she was very quiet and never responded me -- to me time to get to
:27:17. > :27:20.know her. And I was rather brash! But she loves that about me now! So
:27:21. > :27:30.it is all going to kick off properly? Yes, for 15 PM at the
:27:31. > :27:37.library. Now, due to believe you were the first to register married
:27:38. > :27:41.in the UK. -- you two believe. Why was it so important? Well, first it
:27:42. > :27:59.was important they got my name right. James! Did I say Sian?!
:28:00. > :28:02.Sorry! Well, it was the fact that marriage was being put into place
:28:03. > :28:13.and the meaning behind the word means a lot more than partnership.
:28:14. > :28:18.Hello. How are you doing? It was going to be a civil partnership but
:28:19. > :28:24.that has changed. Yes, we decided as soon as we could get married we
:28:25. > :28:33.strip -- we changed it straightaway. Who will be walking down the aisle?
:28:34. > :28:37.With you? I have my son. You are going to get married at midnight
:28:38. > :28:42.tonight. They are in their outfits already. What is going to happen
:28:43. > :28:47.between now and midnight, Sinclair? We are going to go back home, get a
:28:48. > :28:52.drink, throw out clothes back on and head straight to the venue. Best of
:28:53. > :28:58.luck! What a night! Congratulations! That is it for tonight. Alan Maclean
:28:59. > :29:05.is in the rickshaw. -- Alan is in the rickshaw. You can see him in his
:29:06. > :29:12.Little Victories tour from May. We have a ending chorus with Get Me To
:29:13. > :29:16.The Church On Time. # I'm Getting Married In The Morning
:29:17. > :29:22.# Ding-dong, The Bells Are Going To Chime