:00:19. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We
:00:24. > :00:27.are joined by a couple of stadium fillers tonight. The first is a
:00:27. > :00:31.singer with the most consecutive Top Ten hits in the UK. The other
:00:31. > :00:35.is a runner who is the first amputee to run in both the Olympic
:00:35. > :00:44.and Paralympic Games. Please welcome Ronan Keating. I and Oscar
:00:44. > :00:50.Pistorius! Brilliant to see you both. It is a real treat. Two
:00:50. > :00:54.lovely looking guys. Three. And you will stay with us for the whole
:00:55. > :00:59.show. Oscar, we will talk about the Paralympics in a while, but first,
:00:59. > :01:04.let's cast our mind back to the Olympics. What an incredible
:01:04. > :01:08.reception he received in the Olympic Stadium. It was absolutely
:01:08. > :01:13.mind-blowing. I felt like it was my home crowd. It was terrific. At
:01:13. > :01:19.that moment, my grandmother, 89, was sitting on the home straight.
:01:19. > :01:22.My family and friends were there. And the Olympic Games are over for
:01:22. > :01:28.those athletes, but the brilliant thing for you is that it all starts
:01:28. > :01:32.again. And it is the same. The same stadium, the stadiums are packed
:01:32. > :01:36.and sold out, and it will be phenomenal. The athletes had
:01:36. > :01:40.excited and are raring to go. I have seen some of them on the warm-
:01:40. > :01:44.up track and they look pretty fierce. Have you moved out of the
:01:44. > :01:49.village, or have you just stay there? It would have been a bit of
:01:49. > :01:53.a ghost town in between, so I went back to Italy and had a race in
:01:53. > :01:58.Warsaw, and then I packed my stuff and I have come back. It is nice to
:01:58. > :02:03.be back in the village. Feels like a bit of deja-vu, but it is great.
:02:03. > :02:08.I am excited. Ronan, you weren't in London for the Olympics, but you
:02:08. > :02:13.did see it? I watched most of it. The coverage was unbelievable. What
:02:13. > :02:18.a backdrop, London. A way you abroad? I was in Portugal with the
:02:18. > :02:22.kids. I was travelling around Europe doing promo and so on.
:02:22. > :02:30.you hoping to see the Paralympics? Are I am definitely going to catch
:02:30. > :02:33.some next week. I have extra tickets. I will take a few of them!
:02:33. > :02:39.Many of the Paralympic athletes like Oscar have dealt with
:02:39. > :02:41.disability from childhood, but for some, it can happen suddenly.
:02:42. > :02:46.time Paralympic gold medallist Marc Woods is in Stoke Mandeville to
:02:46. > :02:48.find out why sport is so important to people who have had their lives
:02:48. > :02:53.drastically changed through disability.
:02:53. > :02:57.I never imagined I would take part in the Paralympic Games, MOBO when
:02:57. > :03:01.I was 17, I was diagnosed with cancer and had my leg amputated. My
:03:01. > :03:05.parents encouraged me to get into sport and exercise to help with my
:03:05. > :03:09.recovery. Was I got into the pool, I felt as though my life was given
:03:09. > :03:14.back to me. Before long, my swimming was my passion, my life
:03:14. > :03:18.and my career. Using sport to help with rehabilitation started at
:03:18. > :03:22.Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1948. 52 years later, Stoke Mandeville
:03:22. > :03:29.still leads the way in rehabilitation through sport. Many
:03:29. > :03:33.of our Paralympians started their road to sporting success right here.
:03:33. > :03:37.And with his new it to the spinal centre. Just months after breaking
:03:37. > :03:43.his neck snowboarding, he is starting on the long road to being
:03:43. > :03:46.active again. I used to snowboard for the thrill of it. I could see
:03:47. > :03:50.myself doing sport now for different reasons. One is the
:03:50. > :03:54.fitness. Being injured, you are more conscious of your body and
:03:54. > :03:59.what you can and can't do. When I see Paralympians now coming into
:04:00. > :04:04.the hospital, seeing what they can do inspires you to think, I may not
:04:04. > :04:09.be able to do the marathon, but I should be able to go to the shops.
:04:09. > :04:15.I know first hand how important it is to have sport to focus on after
:04:15. > :04:19.everything changes in your life. Clare Dyer is responsible for
:04:19. > :04:24.spinal rehabilitation at Stoke Mandeville. Not everybody is into
:04:24. > :04:28.sport. Some people enjoy the arts side more. But where sport is
:04:28. > :04:32.important is in enabling people to be stronger, improving their
:04:32. > :04:35.balance in the early stages of their rehab, but also for some
:04:35. > :04:39.people, competition is important and they used to take part in sport
:04:39. > :04:43.preinjury. It is a cult -- good opportunity for them to start
:04:43. > :04:47.getting interested in that side again of what might be part of
:04:47. > :04:51.their life when they have left. stone's throw from the spinal
:04:51. > :04:55.centre is a sports facility where both patience and Paralympians
:04:55. > :04:59.train side by side. The Beijing Paralympics were playing on TV when
:04:59. > :05:03.Nicky discovered she would never walk again after having a serious
:05:03. > :05:07.car crash. It was a great time to break my back while Beijing was on,
:05:07. > :05:11.because I had never seen the Paralympics before. So I watched
:05:11. > :05:14.every sport that was on and the ones that I thought looked fun, I
:05:14. > :05:18.e-mailed the federations and said I would like to give their sport a
:05:18. > :05:22.goat. You were very proactive. It must be important to you. I didn't
:05:22. > :05:26.want to be thought of as a disabled person. Then I saw the girls in the
:05:26. > :05:29.wheelchair racing in Beijing. They were sitting in wheelchairs along
:05:29. > :05:35.the start line, but the last thing you noticed was that they were in a
:05:35. > :05:40.wheelchair, you just thought they looked like athletes. Through the
:05:40. > :05:43.fast track Paralympic programme, I got into athletics. Was I had had a
:05:43. > :05:48.go at racing and will chair speed, it was amazing. What are your
:05:48. > :05:54.ambitions now? I hope one day, I will win some Paralympic medals. I
:05:54. > :05:57.would like to go to Rio, maybe for triathlon, maybe track. We will see.
:05:58. > :06:04.I am focusing on being at the Paralympics, which is better than
:06:04. > :06:07.anything I would have been doing if I had not become disabled. A Oscar,
:06:07. > :06:12.you summed it up perfectly. You are not disabled by the disabilities
:06:12. > :06:16.you have, you are able by the abilities you have. In is a great
:06:16. > :06:21.testament to every Paralympic athlete. No one focuses on their
:06:21. > :06:25.disability, but rather on the abilities they still have. You have
:06:25. > :06:27.said we are very forward-thinking over here as part of -- as far as
:06:27. > :06:32.the Paralympics are concerned, and disabled sport. Why do you think
:06:32. > :06:36.that? We travel extensively and I see a lot of people's perceptions
:06:36. > :06:41.around the world when it comes to disability. Some countries, when it
:06:41. > :06:46.comes to the education surrounding various disabilities, they are very
:06:46. > :06:50.narrow-minded and there is a lot of stigma and stereotypes that exist.
:06:51. > :06:54.I have been competing in the UK since 2004 at least once a year,
:06:54. > :06:59.and I have come into contact with the media, and they are more in
:06:59. > :07:02.touch and clued-up with disability. They are not shy to talk about the
:07:02. > :07:08.various disabilities. The way they have approached the Paralympics has
:07:08. > :07:12.been mind-blowing. They have not looked at it as disabled sports or
:07:12. > :07:18.something to be shy of, let's look at it for what it is, a phenomenal
:07:18. > :07:23.sport. It is full of triumphs and disappointments. It has got great
:07:23. > :07:27.successes. It is not an inspiring, but it is hard core sport. There is
:07:27. > :07:31.a lot of hype around the Paralympics, and the media have
:07:31. > :07:39.labelled the Paralympic athletes as superhumans. How do you feel about
:07:39. > :07:44.that? Is it putting too much pressure on? Not at all. Every
:07:44. > :07:47.athlete is a superhuman, not only myself. They are great performers.
:07:47. > :07:50.I watched some of the performances of the previous Paralympic Games
:07:51. > :07:55.and some of the performances in these Olympic Games, and sometimes
:07:55. > :08:01.you expect something of an athlete, and when they compete, you are left
:08:01. > :08:06.speechless. Like, how did he do it? That is superhumans. And that makes
:08:06. > :08:11.us watch it. How can you then compare the Olympics and the
:08:11. > :08:15.Paralympics? In tis the most easy thing to compare. It all boils down
:08:16. > :08:19.to not the most competitive nature between the athletes, but if
:08:19. > :08:22.somebody can step out there and break their own personal best
:08:23. > :08:28.regardless of what the competition is, if an athlete can step out
:08:28. > :08:31.there and smash their record and give it their best, that is what we
:08:31. > :08:37.need to command. Likewise, when they don't do well, you need to be
:08:37. > :08:42.critical of their performance. But I saw some performances previously,
:08:42. > :08:49.like David Rudisha's 400 and 800. I have seen women bench press more
:08:50. > :08:59.than I can. That is superhuman. Let's see you in Beijing in 2008,
:09:00. > :09:04.
:09:04. > :09:09.Everybody in the bird's nest is watching Oscar Pistorius. This
:09:10. > :09:18.could be very special indeed. Oscar Pistorius is champion. Oh, my
:09:18. > :09:22.goodness! Of how does it feel to run faster than anyone else?
:09:22. > :09:28.That was terrible, actually! It was the last race after a very long
:09:28. > :09:32.week. My time was 47.5, and I needed to run a lot quicker. I was
:09:32. > :09:37.just sick during that time. It was a phenomenal experience being out
:09:37. > :09:42.there, but ultimately I have always said I would rather come last and
:09:42. > :09:46.run a personal best than run badly. Hopefully, I can redeem myself in
:09:46. > :09:49.just over a week when I come out for the 400. You have had this
:09:49. > :09:55.transitional period. What have you been doing? You are racing Jonnie
:09:55. > :10:01.Peacock, who is a hot favourite. Brett exciting. In Beijing, I run
:10:01. > :10:06.the 100, 200 and 400. Jonnie Peacock is a great contender. He is
:10:06. > :10:11.doing the 100 metres. By the time he gets to the 100, I will have
:10:11. > :10:17.cleared the 200 and half the 4 x 100. I am looking forward to this
:10:17. > :10:23.event more than anything. I have lost 12 kilograms since Beijing to
:10:23. > :10:26.be more efficient on the 400. But I am sure we will have a great time
:10:26. > :10:31.on the 100. Jonnie Peacock is a great competitor. Are you happy
:10:31. > :10:34.with just medals, or have they got to be gold? I am going to go out
:10:34. > :10:38.there and have fun, and hopefully I can contribute to the evolution of
:10:38. > :10:42.the sport. But yeah, always go for gold.
:10:43. > :10:45.A well, in the days following the Olympic closing ceremony, a
:10:45. > :10:51.specially built terminal at Heathrow handled all the overseas
:10:51. > :10:55.athletes are eager to get home to their friends and families.
:10:55. > :11:01.some of those athletes didn't just fail to check in, they never even
:11:01. > :11:06.went to the airport. This year's Olympics gave Britain
:11:06. > :11:11.more medals than any other games in the last 100 years. They also stand
:11:11. > :11:15.to gain Britain a clutch of asylum- seekers. It has been reported that
:11:15. > :11:22.21 competitors, mostly from African countries, did not fly home after
:11:22. > :11:28.the Games. But no one will know for sure if they want to stay in the UK
:11:28. > :11:33.into after their visas expire in November. One member of the
:11:33. > :11:38.Eritrean team has gone public to tell us about why he made the
:11:38. > :11:42.decision to stay. There is no guarantee that he will be allowed
:11:42. > :11:48.to, of course, but he told me through an interpreter the reasons
:11:48. > :11:55.why he wants to stay. TRANSLATION: I am an athlete, but at the same
:11:55. > :12:02.time, I am a forcibly conscripted soldier. I didn't have any sort of
:12:03. > :12:06.freedom. I enjoyed -- that I enjoyed during my stay in the UK.
:12:06. > :12:15.What do you think the reaction will be from the government back in
:12:15. > :12:23.Eritrea? I will be accused of treason. They will charge me. And
:12:23. > :12:30.if you are accused of such serious allegations, without any rights,
:12:30. > :12:33.you will be executed. So my life would be in danger. For some people,
:12:33. > :12:38.international sporting events are the only chance they get to flee
:12:38. > :12:42.their homeland. After the Sydney Games, 83 members of the Olympic
:12:42. > :12:45.family remained illegally. Closer to home at the 2002 Commonwealth
:12:46. > :12:49.Games in Manchester, 20 members of the Sierra Leone team simply
:12:49. > :12:53.vanished. The number of people claiming asylum has dropped
:12:53. > :13:00.dramatically over the last decade. Last year, nearly 20,000 people
:13:00. > :13:06.applied for asylum, but only 4309 were successful. Of those, 615 came
:13:06. > :13:11.from Eritrea's, a country there was found by a United Nations report to
:13:11. > :13:15.subject its army conscript members to torture and forced labour.
:13:15. > :13:20.Asylum is a very specific thing, and the UK has signed up to the
:13:20. > :13:24.refugee Convention. That allows a country to grant asylum to somebody
:13:24. > :13:28.if a person has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race,
:13:28. > :13:32.religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a social
:13:32. > :13:36.group. It is not the case, as is sometimes perceived, that they are
:13:36. > :13:40.free to come and go as they please. They will report to the border
:13:40. > :13:43.agency regularly so that they are aware of their whereabouts all the
:13:43. > :13:48.time. And they are heavily scrutinised. The reality of the
:13:48. > :13:51.asylum process for this man is that he is told where he has to live, he
:13:51. > :13:55.is under a night-time curfew and he is not allowed to earn any money.
:13:55. > :14:00.He says if he is granted asylum, he wants to work and continue running.
:14:00. > :14:03.Who knows, he could one day be competing for Team GB. He and his
:14:03. > :14:07.translator, who has lived in the UK for nine years after being banned
:14:07. > :14:11.and asylum, insist that welfare handouts are not the reason they
:14:11. > :14:15.have come. There is a perception that asylum seekers choose the UK
:14:15. > :14:22.because it is a soft touch and has a good benefits system. Not at all.
:14:22. > :14:26.I disagree. All they want is personal freedom and to be part of
:14:26. > :14:30.that society. That is why a lot of people come to the UK. They feel
:14:30. > :14:36.they are part of British society, the people are more tolerant,
:14:36. > :14:40.understanding people. And there are opportunities to express yourself
:14:40. > :14:44.and be part of society. If the other Olympic athletes who fail to
:14:44. > :14:49.go home have not applied for asylum by the end of November, when their
:14:49. > :14:52.visas expire, they will become over Stayers. They will become subject
:14:52. > :14:58.to what is called administrative removal. That is where the border
:14:58. > :15:01.agency, if they can locate them, will remove them from the UK.
:15:01. > :15:06.person disappears, what are the chances of tracking them down?
:15:06. > :15:10.his difficult to say. There are obviously problems, and there are
:15:10. > :15:14.an unknown number of people in the UK who do not have immigration
:15:14. > :15:19.status, but have disappeared into the system. As for this man, he now
:15:19. > :15:22.faces an anxious wait to hear if his application is successful. Is
:15:22. > :15:27.it your plant that Mike was it always your plan to come to the
:15:27. > :15:33.Olympics and stay? TRANSLATION: Exactly the same
:15:33. > :15:39.question that you put to me now was asked by the Home Office and the
:15:39. > :15:44.interviewing officer. And I said to her, the only reason that I remain
:15:44. > :15:51.in this country is not something that I had planned previously,
:15:51. > :16:00.prior to coming to the UK. If the British public wants me, it would
:16:00. > :16:04.be a pleasure to be a champion for Ronin, you're a back with an album
:16:04. > :16:09.for the first time in six years. Where have you been? I've been here
:16:10. > :16:16.a few times! And you studio album, it is interesting. The last album
:16:16. > :16:20.was the Burt Bacharach album. I had done covers albums, but this is a
:16:20. > :16:24.brand new studio album, 12 brand- new songs. You being open and
:16:24. > :16:28.saying the last few months have been very difficult for you. Is
:16:28. > :16:36.that reflected in his music? definitely draw from your emotions
:16:36. > :16:40.as a writer and performer. You draw from those emotions, but it is not
:16:40. > :16:50.autobiographical in any way. first single is called Fires. What
:16:50. > :16:50.
:16:50. > :16:54.is that about? It is an uptown opportune. -- up-tempo. I'd guess
:16:54. > :17:00.it is a song about me moving forward, taking the next step and
:17:00. > :17:08.moving on. In the video it is me saying goodbye to an old me and
:17:08. > :17:13.moving on. You worked on this album with the same people who wrote Life
:17:13. > :17:20.Is A Rollercoaster. Grey Alexander is back. This has to be one of the
:17:20. > :17:25.catchiest songs of all time! Faces up for most -- this is up for most
:17:25. > :17:35.summer-long song or something. when we mentioned it for Oscar, he
:17:35. > :17:39.said he loved it. Coming out of the subway... We thought we would get
:17:39. > :17:49.some fans with a few questions and of course they are on board a
:17:49. > :17:59.
:17:59. > :18:06.Are a # Life Is A Rollercoaster. We love you! Life might be a
:18:06. > :18:11.roller-coaster,... Are what? I didn't hear what she said. That was
:18:11. > :18:17.Kate and Katie. Life may be a roller-coaster, but how do you
:18:17. > :18:22.really get your thrills? I have a motorcycle, I liked to ride my
:18:22. > :18:32.motorcycle. That is how I get mine. You like a motorbike. What I ride
:18:32. > :18:37.
:18:37. > :18:44.motorcycles, yes. Another question. Have you ever lost your voice?
:18:44. > :18:49.heard that one! On my first solo tour, I was touring the UK and
:18:49. > :18:54.Ireland, and the last show was in Belfast. 10,000 people. Walked out
:18:54. > :18:59.on stage, no voice whatsoever. Totally gone. Her what did you do?
:18:59. > :19:03.The most frightening thing I've gone through. I had to give the
:19:03. > :19:10.microphone to the audience and let them sing. My band were helping.
:19:10. > :19:15.Weirdly enough, as I went through it, bits-and-pieces were there. It
:19:15. > :19:20.was one of the best gigs I've ever done in the end. They all loved it.
:19:20. > :19:24.Does it play on your mind? After that it really did. I was stressed
:19:24. > :19:33.out. It was wear and tear and not looking after my voice. I've
:19:33. > :19:37.learned a lot from that. Very cautious now. Let's have one more.
:19:37. > :19:47.The queue for this ride is very long, have you used your celebrity
:19:47. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:52.to get to the front of the Ku? I have. Terrible! What situation?
:19:52. > :19:57.When you are rushing through an airport and you are late for a
:19:57. > :20:03.flight, sometimes... You jumped to the top of the security queue and
:20:03. > :20:08.you get through quickly. I've been with my kids. It was probably
:20:08. > :20:13.EuroDisney. It was the last ride and we had to go because we would
:20:13. > :20:18.miss the flight and the kids wanted to go on this thing. You run to the
:20:18. > :20:25.top of the queue and hope somebody will recognise you. I am never
:20:25. > :20:29.going to live this down! It is funny you were saying about losing
:20:29. > :20:34.your voice because apparently my microphone has gone so I have to
:20:34. > :20:39.use this! You've caught the acting bug as well recently. Yes, I made
:20:39. > :20:44.my first film last year, Goddess, which is out in February. A
:20:44. > :20:49.romantic comedy. All of the Boyzone fans will be thinking, have you got
:20:49. > :20:56.time to do a 20th anniversary tour? Her I hope so, we are talking about
:20:56. > :20:59.doing it next year. Maybe an album and a tour. Good news. In a proper
:21:00. > :21:05.showbiz way I will tell you that the new album, Fires, is out on
:21:05. > :21:09.Monday. The dislike Top Of The Pops! The Republic of Ireland has
:21:09. > :21:12.always been a neutral country and in World War to that lead to an
:21:12. > :21:17.extraordinary uprising among the army and the repercussions lasted
:21:17. > :21:23.way beyond the conflict. Larry Lamb went to Dublin to hear about
:21:24. > :21:28.Britain's Irish soldiers. Dublin, capital of the Republic of
:21:28. > :21:31.Ireland. During the Second World War, thousands of men left the
:21:31. > :21:35.southern Irish are made without permission. They deserted, one of
:21:35. > :21:40.the worst crimes the soldier can commit. But the fascinating thing
:21:40. > :21:43.is they were not being cowardly of running away from danger, in fact,
:21:43. > :21:49.many of them were doing the opposite and putting their lives on
:21:49. > :21:53.the line. During the war, the Irish government stuck to its rigid
:21:53. > :21:57.policy of neutrality. While the Allies fought the Nazis, the
:21:57. > :22:01.soldier ants -- soldiers and Ireland were watching from the
:22:02. > :22:07.sidelines or posing for the cameras. So thousands of Irish soldiers
:22:07. > :22:12.deserted, some left to find better- paying jobs, but many wanted to see
:22:12. > :22:17.some real action and help stop the Nazis. For a joint for British Army
:22:17. > :22:20.instead and went to war. -- they joined the British Army. When the
:22:20. > :22:23.war was over here, the Irish soldiers knew they would be in
:22:23. > :22:28.trouble for deserting so many came home expecting to be court-
:22:28. > :22:32.martialled. But they were wrong. After initially car -- court
:22:32. > :22:38.martial in some soldiers, the Irish game -- government came up with a
:22:38. > :22:41.quicker solution. They dismissed 4983 deserters in one fell swoop.
:22:41. > :22:48.And they put their names on a blacklist which made getting a job
:22:48. > :22:54.or claiming welfare almost impossible. Peter has been
:22:54. > :22:58.campaigning for a pardon for men on the list. This list was distributed
:22:58. > :23:03.right across the hall a violent, it right down to the Post Office, the
:23:03. > :23:10.library, the council office. If somebody was on this list, you
:23:10. > :23:14.couldn't get a job. It was mainly in the rural areas... We working
:23:14. > :23:22.for the council. You were bought -- you were barred. They were angry
:23:22. > :23:25.about it. These are Defence Force personnel and they are entitled to
:23:26. > :23:30.military law and to be treated according to military law and the
:23:30. > :23:36.right to a fair hearing. So these men were actually entitled to a
:23:36. > :23:40.court martial? Exactly. But the list punished more than just the
:23:40. > :23:46.soldiers whose names were on it. Many of the men were fathers with
:23:46. > :23:50.families and with no work, there was no food on the table. Many of
:23:50. > :23:53.the family's experience extreme hardship. The list was only
:23:53. > :23:57.supposed a barman from state employment for seven years, but
:23:57. > :24:01.many felt its impact for the rest of their lives. In Britain, these
:24:02. > :24:05.men would have been welcomed home as war heroes, but the Irish
:24:05. > :24:10.government at the time thought it was a fair solution to the problem
:24:10. > :24:14.of dealing with so many deserters. They didn't have the administrative
:24:14. > :24:18.capacity to court martial them. It was felt maybe it was easier to
:24:18. > :24:22.make such a list, one-size-fits-all, put it together and then you've
:24:22. > :24:27.dealt with it. Shouldn't the fact that some of these men had fought
:24:27. > :24:32.the Nazis have made the difference? You would think so, but one of the
:24:32. > :24:36.questions... You have a list of 4983 names, you know they deserted
:24:36. > :24:40.the Irish defence forces, but we don't know what happened to them. A
:24:40. > :24:44.large proportion probably joined the Allies, but we can't say for
:24:44. > :24:48.certain. We also know a proportion would have joined in the economic
:24:48. > :24:53.war effort in Britain. But there also be a minority who just
:24:53. > :24:57.vanished into the woodwork across the border, maybe across into the
:24:57. > :25:00.larger cities in the UK and we don't know where they went. For the
:25:00. > :25:04.Irish government has now announced an amnesty. But only for the men on
:25:04. > :25:10.the list who deserted to fight with the Allies, not for any who
:25:10. > :25:14.deserted to find better-paying jobs or simply disappear. Without proper
:25:14. > :25:20.records, we can't possibly know how many of the names this amnesty
:25:20. > :25:23.applies to, but that is not the point. De point is that the few
:25:23. > :25:28.surviving deserters will know and so will the families of those who
:25:28. > :25:33.have passed away. For all of them, this is a very private reprieve.
:25:33. > :25:38.The feedback I'm getting is that the families are very happy. This
:25:38. > :25:43.has removed the stigma. Historical baggage has been taken off their
:25:43. > :25:48.backs. Dan has joined us to talk about this. Have you heard about
:25:48. > :25:54.this? I know nothing about this, it is really interesting. I would like
:25:54. > :26:00.to learn more. Why have they issued an amnesty now? It is a long time
:26:00. > :26:05.and Britain and Ireland have resolved their differences. They
:26:05. > :26:12.are normalising relations and the Queen was the first British head of
:26:12. > :26:15.state to visit Ireland since independence. She visited some
:26:15. > :26:19.Republican sites and did some good diplomacy. It is about forgiving
:26:19. > :26:27.and moving on. What was the strength of the feeling against
:26:27. > :26:32.Britain? I've got a lot of Irish friends. Amongst people, there was
:26:32. > :26:36.never vicious anti- British or anti-Irish feeling. The Irish
:26:36. > :26:40.government was particularly hostile because the Irish government was
:26:40. > :26:46.dominated by Sinn Fein. The head of the government had actually been
:26:46. > :26:50.condemned to death by the British Army. They have fought of Fischer's
:26:51. > :26:55.war. This was a long time ago for top of the British Army was the
:26:55. > :26:58.absolute enemy, particularly in government circles. It seems hard
:26:58. > :27:02.for us to believe now, but at the time for British had carried out
:27:02. > :27:06.war crimes in Ireland. A lot of Irish people could not believe
:27:06. > :27:10.there would be Irish people willing to fight for the British Army.
:27:10. > :27:14.the magazine... If they celebrated the Queen's coronation, they were
:27:14. > :27:18.banned in Ireland. If you wore poppies to certain pubs around
:27:18. > :27:24.Remembrance Day, you might have somebody having a word. But that
:27:25. > :27:30.has changed. One situation the same in other neutral countries? People
:27:30. > :27:33.were desperate not to get brought into this war. Places like
:27:33. > :27:37.Switzerland, people were actually prosecuted for helping Jewish
:27:37. > :27:41.people escape from Germany. It seems incredible. The Swiss
:27:41. > :27:46.government was desperate not to take sides. In America, before they
:27:46. > :27:50.joined the war, you risked losing citizenship if you signed up for
:27:50. > :27:56.one of the protagonists. By you feeling outnumbered? A little bit
:27:56. > :28:00.but I like it! Tomorrow we are going to be in Sheffield because
:28:00. > :28:08.the One Show is going on tour and Mike is there. He is preparing for
:28:08. > :28:11.top who have you got? I've got Barney the barn owl and
:28:11. > :28:16.tomorrow we will be at Endcliffe Park, part of a massive
:28:16. > :28:20.extravaganza that is the One Show roadshow. Tomorrow, all being well,
:28:20. > :28:25.on the stage over there, Carrie Grant will be teaching the audience
:28:25. > :28:30.how to sing as part of a massive choir. Also, Marty Jopson will be
:28:30. > :28:34.doing a massive science demonstration. A lot of tents
:28:34. > :28:39.around us. Angellica Bell will be co-ordinating a huge piece of One
:28:39. > :28:42.Show art. Sarah Jarvis will be doing her Street doctor clinic,
:28:42. > :28:46.Christine Walkden will be dispensing pearls of wisdom about
:28:46. > :28:51.gardening and Gyles Brandreth will be talking history. It starts
:28:51. > :28:57.tomorrow, please come down. It will be brilliant! Are very well behaved
:28:57. > :29:02.Bonnell! The weather looks great at the moment. That is the One Show
:29:02. > :29:09.road show tomorrow from 12 noon at Endcliffe Park in Sheffield. And it
:29:09. > :29:14.is free. Why not finish your school holiday with a trip to Sheffield.
:29:14. > :29:19.Oscar, tomorrow you will be holding the flag. Yes, really excited! Last
:29:19. > :29:25.time I was in Sheffield it rained for days and days. Thanks for that!
:29:26. > :29:35.I am looking forward to tomorrow. What technique... The flag is quite
:29:35. > :29:43.hard so my technique is to get protein shake. Thank you into our
:29:43. > :29:48.guests. Ronan Keating's album Fires is out on Monday. And thank you to