28/07/2016 The One Show

Standing in format, Giles is here, as we reveal the authors who

successfully predicted the future. It's a little bit spooky. So is

finding snow caves, not in Antarctica, but in Scotland, in

July. If you've been glued to your TV

every Tuesday night for the last five weeks firmly holding onto one

of these, even though there is nothing spookier right now than it

tonight's jest. From the living and the dead, it's Colin Morgan. He

doesn't look so terrifying in the flesh. Congratulations on the

series, it's a huge hit, people know you from that, and from Merlin as

well. Humans. I first saw you on stage and thought you were brilliant

when I went to see my friend Roger Allen at the Globe in the Tempest.

You were aerial, the sprite, you seem to specialise in these half

human, half unnatural creatures, does it

reflect your own nature? I'm fascinated by this character is

because they present a challenge, a type of transformation you have to

undertake as an actor. No matter how unreal the situation, the character

doesn't know it's an unreal situation, you have to find the

truth for them and live in that world. Make the unreal real. The

transformation in The Living and the Dead is phenomenal. We looking

forward to talking about the final which is on next Tuesday. We go from

the freaky to the fraudulent. Tachograph are installed in lorries

to make sure the drivers take regular breaks. They can cause

accidents. It doesn't stop operators from breaking the law. As Nick

Wallace reports. This is cat and mouse on wheels. It's a waiting

game. Waiting to pick the right vehicles. I'm on the M6 with Paul

Harding from the driver and vehicle standards agency. In our sights,

truckers, using high-tech devices to override the on-board

tachographs. He's in. He didn't want to come in. When a suspect truck is

pulled over, the vehicle inspector goes straight for its tachograph.

Criminals are using sophisticated gadgetry which could be buried

anywhere inside the truck. The only way to detect it is see if it's

training tiny amounts of electricity from the tachograph power supply.

I've been completing a test on the tachograph system, it's drawing 12.7

when it should only be drawing ten, I suspect there may be a switch on

this one. There is extra power being drawn. It's not conclusive proof of

fraud. The tachograph readings are next to be checked. Mark is taking

some readings from the driver's tachograph, there

seems to be discrepancies. He's having a chat to see if he can tell

him what's going on. The Polish trucker is driven from Denmark. If

he doesn't admit anything, his lorry will be taken apart bit by bit. Find

out what happens later. With a fifth of serious accidents on our main

roads and motorways down to tiredness, the tachograph is key to

keeping commercial drivers and other road users safe. Peter Hearn

is the operations director. We're constantly looking to stay one step

ahead of the people developing these devices. As we uncover things,

people are changing the device. Cameras watching over our motorways

have automatic number plate recognition software. Images are

flashed back to base. The team is looking for individual trucks or

fleet operators with a history of poor vehicle maintenance, tax

dodging or tachograph fraud. The truck being examined fits the

profile of others, where Taca tachograph cheats were found. He is

handed over this on-board diagnostic plug which switches the tachograph

on and off. He has confessed to having something on the cab he

shouldn't. The blood effectively makes all of the truck's safety

features worthless. -- the plug. To prove fraud they need to see the

switch in action. The symbol in the top left-hand corner is a bed and

symbolises rest. It should change to a circle when the lorry moves. As

you can see, it's still recording rest. It's the proof they need.

While the lorry is stripped down to recover the rest of the device, the

driver is fined ?580 and faces being up to ?1500 for a new tachograph.

This is done with knowledge of a vehicle system, this is not somebody

cutting wires, it's quite complex. Devices being inserted into the

vehicle's brain. 51 cheats have been caught here this year, a fraction of

the huge number caught nationally. We found around 1400 last year.

Those are the ones you detected. Vehicle examiner Mark takes me

through some of the finds. Tell me what we're starting with. This is a

collection of magnets, about 50 year, all found individually on

drugs. Each one of these would cheat a tachograph. This is more

sophisticated. A second sensor hidden within the truck. Operated by

this key fob, so they could switch the tachograph on and off. This is

inside an actual unit itself. This is the light is one we've been

finding, these switch is fitted within the tachograph itself, making

it harder to find. But also operated with a key fob. As somebody recently

qualified to drive a bus... What? You can drive a bus? Bendy bus,

double-decker, coach, whatever you want. How long can you drive without

being arrested? Nine hours. He can't drive a bus but he can ride a horse.

They are more reliable on the whole. You on this new series everybody is

looking, it's reaching its climax, it's dark and gruesome and grim, yet

it begins with you playing this benign, inelegant gentleman farmer.

Like Matt Baker. Without the matte finish. There is a dark end to this.

Nathan is a pioneering psychologist, married to Charlotte, played by

Charlotte Spencer. They inherit the family home of Mason and move to

make a new life. There is a lot of and dealt with trauma and grief,

particularly for Nathan, attached to the homeland area. A series of

paranormal, possibly cytological events... My darling wife is

watching it from behind the sofa. It's quite jumpy

show. From the beginning, there is a character called Harriet who appears

in the first. She sees a presence, a ghost, I spilled my tea everywhere

in the dressing room earlier because I petrified. How did those

occurrences have an effect on Nathan? Underneath everything for

him he has unresolved grief from losing his son several years ago.

For someone like him, so based in science that if the prospect of an

afterlife exists, then the prospect of a connection with his son exists.

What you see through the series is this gentleman farmer, descending

into the depths of a kind of despair, madness. This is the 1890s,

when Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to the scene, Dracula invented,

people leading double lives. Good point. A big theme of the show is

what lies beneath should be kept beneath. Do you know why you're so

at home with this part. When is your birthday? The 1st of January. People

born on the cusp of the year have some of

the past and future in their make-up, this is why you were born

to play this kind of a role. It's a good team. It makes relationships

difficult. What happens with you and Charlotte? The marriage becomes more

strange as a man consistently drawn to the past, the dead, to live in

the present, for him, with the living, is a tough thing. She is the

grounding force, she's the one who can keep him there, it becomes

increasingly difficult to keep the marriage together. It starts off

sweetness and life, the climax happens in the finale, next Tuesday,

let's have a look. You're afraid of giving birth, of motherhood, so you

project this infant is a urged on to me, making me the thing you fear,

which is not only unfair, but stupid! You're so clever because you

found a profession where you could feel less damage because everyone

else is damaged more. Now down here you have to face it, there's

something wrong with your mind. Doctor Charlotte. So young and yet

so wise. In your heart and soul. I can't... Can't what? Recall what I

liked about you. APPLAUSE I know it's what we call acting, but

that deep fruity voice, where does it come from? It's amazing. It's a

challenge. What drew you to them, why are you doing the script? It's

the script, the characters, guttural instinct when you read something,

there is an unspoken calling, that comes from the character. You

must play me! They have do intimidate you, they have to make

you scared to do it because I think that is the driving force behind

things, the challenge. You terrify us, I can tell you. You can catch

the finale of The Living and the Dead Tuesday at 9pm on BBC One.

Watch the entire series on BBC iPlayer. It's also on DVD from the

8th of August. Nowadays we are rarely found far from our friends,

watching videos, booking flights, taking photos of our dinner. Some

spend more time on our phones than we do talking to each other. Now

smart technology spreading into the home. There we are! Modern. Delete.

Smart home Tech. These days just filling the Catalan switching it on

is so passe. Get the Apple. Now you need to download an app and brew by

Bluetooth. Internet enables tallies. Fridges that can order food.

Quickstart guide. Heating you can control from your phone. It makes

sense, it can save you money. Half of us are expected to be doing it

within five years. Is it any good? Let's put this smart tech to the

test. On the people studies show least interested. Pensioners. We've

asked 31 show families to try a range of smart gadgets. With Frank

and Annie Barclay get a better night of sleep with his phone operated

monitor that analyses your sleeping habits? Norah and her friend Lindsay

are smarting a smartphone enabled home security camera which claims to

tell the difference between a burglar and family member. First,

Linda and Dave Corfield have a go with the coffee machine you control

from your phone. Can they work it and will they like it? They are

trying to get to grips with making Coffey through a Bluetooth app, it's

taking a while. -- making coffee. Time to enjoy the coffee. For ?160

they can schedule Coffey time in advance or make it remotely. Making

coffee from the garden now, prepare for blast off, anything coming

through? I'm astonished. What impressed you then? When you're

rough and ready like this, you like your mug of instant, maybe we're not

the right market to aim it at. How's Norah getting on with the fancy

security camera? Also costing ?160, it can be programmed to recognise a

family member or alert you to an intruder. It's all set up, we've got

to try it. I'm excited now! Will the camera clock and uninvited guest.

Just let myself in... Look here. Look! Alex. We knew you were coming.

That's brilliant, isn't it? I was hoping to do some petty thievery in

your house, there's no chance now. You've got me banned to rights. You

were pretty impressed by this piece of smart technology. Yes, very

impressed with this, it's really a good thing. Meanwhile...

Instructions must be inside somewhere. ... Frank and Annie's

?130 gadget promises a better night of rest, tracking bedroom light,

noise and temperature. We've got problems, it doesn't fit into my

phone. If it doesn't go into your phone, how do you do it? There's got

to be another thing. No, there isn't anything else.

What a palaver. At bedtime, what will the monitor revealed? I am in

frank and Annie's bedroom, and I'm using night vision to watch them

sleeping while they use their gadget. In the morning we will be

able to see exactly what's going on. Hello, Alex! Sorry. How did you find

the sleep tracker? What did it tell you? It's supposed record when

people snore and things that but as I don't snore... Has it changed your

life? Frank does snore. It is like a graph going up and down. That is the

noise level. That's good because he claims he wasn't but he was

according to that. Maybe it was you? No! Thumbs down for the sleep

monitor. It hasn't solved the age-old problem of it's not me, it's

you. Our couples don't seem convinced. Perhaps they are the

wrong generation, after all some people may have felt the same the

first time they were exposed to an electric toaster. Thanks to everyone

who took part. Classic One Show viewers. Someone has texted me to

say, why did you not properly die your shirt! I'm speechless! I just

don't like this new technology, I don't want to have do learn a new

password. You are very good on Twitter. We loved the second series

but at the end there was a big cliffhanger because you were shot,

your character, along with Jamie Dornan. Big shame. I hope that is

not too much of a spoiler. The third series, are we going to see you?

Well, we are locked down on how much we can say. Do you at least make an

appearance at the beginning? We pick up right where series to left off.

You are straightaway picked up. You heard it here first. That is the

mystery and the excitement. Good. As many occupied your bags for the

annual summer getaway, you will no doubt want a good book to while away

the hours on the beach, how about the book ranked 46th best in the

20th century? It has now been made into a BBC TV series set in the...

Set in 1907. It is topical. The secret agent is a tale of spies and

terror set in Victorian London. Toby Jones's character runs a CD shop

with his wife. He is really a secret agent spying on an anarchist cell.

We need to show that our intention is to sweep away the whole of social

creation. It all goes wrong when he is forced to carry out a terror

attack in order to provoke a government crackdown. What about the

observatory? It's a tense tale based on the 19 are several -- 1907 novel

by Joseph Conrad, best known for heart of darkness, which Apocalypse

now is based on. The secret agent itself is based on what was probably

the first-ever international terrorist attack at the Greenwich

Observatory. On the 15th of February 1894 a French anarchist blew himself

up right here. With a bomb that he was holding, exploded in his hands.

Officially he was labelled an antiestablishment agitator but this

professor thinks that there could be more to it. One of the stories that

was set up among the anarchists was that he had been betrayed by a

double agent anarchist who was working for the establishment. And

that he was being tricked into it. He was the victim of a plot cooked

up by a double agent? Exactly. His eyes were naturally heavy and he had

an air of wallowing fully dressed all day on an unmade bed. He faces a

dilemma, plant a bomb or have his real identity revealed. Attempting

to keep watch on all of this is Chief Inspector Heat. A man

preoccupied with the darkest of characters. If I'm such a fantasist,

Chief Inspector, explain this. Conrad was Polish, born in 1857, he

wrote so well about anarchists because his parents where exiled as

revolutionaries, orphaned at 11 he later moved to London. While the

secret agent is one of the most important novels of the 20th century

it made its biggest impact after 9/11, because it seemed to foretell

modern terrorism. What is one to say of an act of destructive ferocity so

absurd as to be in comprehensibility inexplicable, almost unthinkable, in

fact, mad? It's extraordinary. Conrad is writing this 110 years ago

and yet it could be about the world we know now in 2016. Writer Tony

Marchand is a man who has transformed this into a TV drama.

You have turned it into three hours of television, what is the process?

You need a healthy disrespect for the novel otherwise you would be too

in awe of it to touch it. The job is really to read it and read it and

get as acquainted with it as Conrad himself was and then throw it away

and eventually because you have two right your own scripts based on the

novel and look for the points of conflict and drama but ultimately

it's the story of how our family is caught up in these machinations of

spies, double agents, suicide bombers, anarchists. The real hero

of the piece is a woman who is desperate to make her marriage work

and her family work and because of that it is relatable. The

universality in terms of Conrad is that he writes so well about family

dynamics. On the screen, not on the page, the secret agent is a

thrilling mix of deception, human frailty and international

skulduggery. It's a must see, and a must read as well. Well, he was

rather good, wasn't he? I tell you who is rather good, Lucy Pike Tory

with two more tales that are spookily predictive of the future.

Yes, I think these are really spooky. The first is called Stand on

Zanzibar which was published in 1969, and the British author is

writing about the year 2010, modern-day America, basically. It's

frighteningly... Practically an account of how we live. There is the

stuff people are using, driving electric vehicles and using laser

printers and have on demand TV and film. But what about the cultural

and context and the backdrop? Society is plagued by terrorism,

mass shootings, and on a lighter note there is lots of cultural

things that are happening, people still get married but very few, the

prevalent trend is for casual hookups. Swiping right and left.

What is that about? We will explain later. Detroit was once flourishing

but now in decline but they have electronic dance music. He predicted

Detroit rave culture in 1969 and if you're not commenced his genius

there is one other killer fact, one other world leader who is

universally adored, what is his name?

Two letters different! This was written in 1969. That is amazing. It

is totally amazing. Are you making this up? I do not make things up.

Let's start with the opening sentence, she was the largest craft

to float and the greatest of the works of men. That was written by

Morgan Rudd bets on to describe a ship, he is describing it in terms

of luxury, equal to a first-class hotel, it is 800 foot long, British

owned, too few lifeboats, it set sail in April and it sinks by

hitting an iceberg on the starboard side around midnight in the North

Atlantic. What am I talking about? 14 years before the Titanic Morgan

Robertson wrote this novel called the wreck of the Titan. We are

officially freaked out. That is brilliant. It may be the 1st of

August on Monday but the last film is all about snow. Here it is. For

most people the winter is a dim and distant memory. All thoughts of snow

and ice are banished in favoured of the -- in favour of the long-awaited

summer sunshine. But in the Scottish Highlands the last remnants of

winter can stay well into July and beyond. Patches of snow and even

stunning snow caves linger in the Scottish mountains through most of

the summer. Ian Cameron leads a volunteer survey team who count

every patch each August. I've got to say, I'm really surprised to be out

here so late in the year looking for snow patches. How many have you

found? It varies enormously, last year we found 670 patches of snow

across Scotland. And that's in August? It's a huge amount but last

year was unusual, summer was miserable. Not nice at all, it was

cool and overcast. How difficult is it to find these snow patches quit

Mark later in the year when they start to recede, it can be very

difficult indeed. -- snow patches? They hide in some inaccessible

places. Elsewhere in the UK snow is all but gone by June, but snow

patches can remain all year round in the Cairngorms which is home to five

of the UK's six highest mountains. Ian coordinates the survey in his

spare time by recruiting volunteers and co-authoring a report for the

Royal meteorological Society. They aim to understand the link between

snow cover and variations in climate. After an hour of hard

hiking, up to around 1000 metres, I am the tin to helping with the

survey. How deep can these patches get? In other parts like Ben Nevis,

in winter you are looking at 25 metres deep, so we are looking at a

small block of flats. Up close this is quite something but the real

magic is in hidden caves which are sometimes found beneath them. Our

timing should be perfect. It is warm enough for just the right amount of

melting. Finally we hit the jackpot, a cave that Ian thinks will be

stable enough to explore. CHUCKLES Wow. Look. My goodness. Here we go,

this is exactly what we were hoping for. This is amazing. It is

phenomenal. This is a proper tunnel. How does it form? We are seeing snow

which has fallen probably around eight or nine months ago, and now

that summer is upon us, it starts to warm and what you find is that as

the rock warms up the snow melts away from it and you make a gap and

it creates these incredible shapes. The hexagonal shapes are called

ablation hollows, they are formed when warm wind blows across the snow

and the melt is now well underway, but the snow may persist through the

summer. In the last two centuries, there have only been five years when

all of the snow melted in Scotland. In a way, this is the closest thing

that the UK has two ablation? Obviously the UK does not have place

years and it hasn't for many thousands of years but when you see

something like this, you really get a sense of what it might be like as

the final Galatians were melting away, and this really is a window

into the past. What can we really learn from the snow patches? --

final Galatians. That is best answered in 50 years when people

look back and they can draw their own conclusions. It has been a

privilege to take part in the survey and who knows what secrets his work

will reveal in the years to come. Weren't they pretty? You can't beat

snow. That's it for tonight, thanks to Colin. The final episode of the

living on the dead -- The Living and the Dead... It is spectacular.

Thanks for stepping in, tomorrow Ricky Wilson will be back and he is

performing at the end of the show. And we will have actress Kelly

Macdonald with us. Not to be missed. Goodbye.

MUSIC: Not Gonna Break Me by Jamie N Commons