:00:24. > :00:29.Hello, thanks for tuning in to The One Show with Strictly's Alex Jones.
:00:29. > :00:34.And Chris Evans! Don't take this the wrong way, we love the people
:00:34. > :00:40.that introduce our show. But as our guest tonight was once a continuity
:00:40. > :00:47.announcer, let's give it another go and see how he might have done it.
:00:48. > :00:52.And now one BBC One, the always brilliant One Show, with ginger
:00:52. > :00:56.genius Chris Evans, dancing Welsh wonder Alex Jans and possibly the
:00:56. > :01:04.best comedian, actor and chat show host there has ever, ever been, Rob
:01:04. > :01:09.Brydon! Our first guessed that introduced himself! Takes the
:01:09. > :01:15.pressure off us. How long ago were you a continuity announcer?
:01:15. > :01:20.Wales, late 80s. In those days, you operated it all yourself. It was
:01:20. > :01:24.like Star Trek. You were doing all of the fading, the buttons.
:01:24. > :01:28.Inadvertently, I once gave all of Wales the Bristol News. I pressed
:01:28. > :01:32.the wrong button. They were expecting terrible news about sheep
:01:32. > :01:37.and cows, and they got people talking like that, telling them,
:01:37. > :01:43.it's all very nice, actually. did you get out of that? Of that
:01:43. > :01:47.particular mishap? I slunk off. I felt I had done something terrible.
:01:47. > :01:52.I walked out of BBC Cardiff like this. Seriously, I thought I had
:01:52. > :01:57.done something awful. You also used to do shopping channels? Let's
:01:58. > :02:02.bring it all up! I was a shopping channel presenter. We used to sell
:02:02. > :02:07.everything. We sold jewellery, clothing, garden equipment. There
:02:07. > :02:12.was someone on from a very famous Garden Company, demonstrating
:02:12. > :02:19.planing on a garden wall. I said, tell us about it. He says, it's a
:02:19. > :02:25.tremendous piece of equipment, they safety record is second to..., no!
:02:25. > :02:28.Blood everywhere! This is from your new book, it is called Small Man In
:02:28. > :02:35.A Book, but it is basically all of your jobs? A series of heroic
:02:35. > :02:40.failures. We are continuing Matt Baker's rickshaw of talents and we
:02:40. > :02:43.are giving Rob the chance to race against the clock. Dan Snow will be
:02:43. > :02:46.joining as to tell us why the greatest movie directors and the
:02:47. > :02:51.world need you to get in touch for an exciting new project. First, a
:02:51. > :02:55.diary that has given us in President did new insights into
:02:55. > :03:01.life in the real Dad's Army. -- unprecedented new insights will
:03:01. > :03:04.stop a hitherto unseen piece of British history was uncovered in
:03:04. > :03:09.Hythe. A member of the Home Guard, Rodney
:03:09. > :03:15.Foster, risked court martial by keeping a diary of his experiences
:03:15. > :03:19.in World War II. I was just out of bed, just after 6am, when a plane
:03:19. > :03:24.went right over the roof and we herd two explosions to the West. To
:03:24. > :03:28.the east, I saw a snub-nosed hunt flying over my head. Another was to
:03:28. > :03:34.the north, then a third over Seabrook wrote. I saw the bomb come
:03:34. > :03:40.out. It landed on Hythe cricket pitch. I was so interested, I
:03:40. > :03:42.forgot to tell my family to go to safety! Such note keeping was
:03:42. > :03:46.severely discouraged, as it was felt that if they fell into the
:03:46. > :03:49.wrong hands they could give away secrets to the enemy. That is what
:03:49. > :03:52.makes these eight leather-bound books so astonishing. What is
:03:52. > :03:58.incredible about the diaries is that they might never have come to
:03:58. > :04:03.light. I anti Daphne, Rodney's daughter, the house was cleared
:04:03. > :04:09.when she died. We were not informed in time. The entire contents of the
:04:09. > :04:15.house were lost. After a number of years, the diaries were bought at a
:04:15. > :04:20.car-boot sale by a man. Not realising their worth, he sold them
:04:20. > :04:26.to one historian. But fortunately, he noticed the value of the books.
:04:26. > :04:29.They are very rare to come across on eBay. When they came, eight
:04:30. > :04:35.comprehensive volumes. The style of writing, the newspaper clippings,
:04:35. > :04:38.it is not your average Diary, by a long way. In the diaries, Rodney
:04:38. > :04:43.gives an incredible first-hand account of the fragile emotions of
:04:43. > :04:51.people as they were swept up in this terrible war. Sunday,
:04:51. > :04:58.September 3rd, 1929. It says, war declared by England... And France.
:04:58. > :05:02.At 11:15pm, Chamberlain broadcast... I know that you will play your part.
:05:02. > :05:07.As soon as he had finished, the air-raid warning started. There was
:05:08. > :05:13.panic amongst people in the street. I told the congregation that came
:05:13. > :05:16.out that it was only sounded to say that war was declared. We learned
:05:16. > :05:20.in the evening at Folkestone, having seen a single aeroplane out
:05:20. > :05:30.at sea, thought it was a raid. Heaven help us if our nerds are to
:05:30. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:36.be shattered by such false alarms. -- our nerves. Rodney's unit was
:05:36. > :05:40.based in Saltwood. Their job was to defend this area in the event of a
:05:40. > :05:43.German invasion, which they all thought was imminent. We are told
:05:43. > :05:47.that Hitler is almost certain to attempt an invasion by air. What is
:05:47. > :05:51.really interesting in the diaries is the direct access it gives us to
:05:51. > :05:59.the hopes, the fears and the tensions that the official records
:05:59. > :06:03.of the time had no interest in acknowledging. A young corporal was
:06:03. > :06:11.showing two sergeant majors have to put a paw through into a rifle butt.
:06:11. > :06:15.This training is a farce! In 1943, with the tide of war turning in
:06:15. > :06:19.Britain's favour, he had his command reduced to three platoons
:06:19. > :06:24.and he felt compelled to hand in his resignation. Something, which
:06:24. > :06:28.it seems, he battled with. I think it would have been really upsetting
:06:28. > :06:32.for him. He would have had a long time thinking about that decision.
:06:32. > :06:38.You notice from the diary entries that he got another job straight
:06:38. > :06:42.away, serving. That would have been his main priority, to serve.
:06:42. > :06:46.will never know if Rodney Foster wanted to keep his writings private
:06:47. > :06:52.or share them with a vast audience. What he has done is given as a new
:06:52. > :07:02.insight into the everyday goings-on of the Home Guard. Written by a man
:07:02. > :07:04.
:07:04. > :07:10.who served Wright Sir -- right Now, how close is the book to the
:07:10. > :07:14.real Dad's Army? From the telly? The weird thing is, they start out
:07:14. > :07:19.a bit amateurish. The couple of great entries, one night he puts
:07:19. > :07:23.two guys to guard the waterworks. He goes round to check them and
:07:23. > :07:28.they are fast asleep. Two weeks later, they do rifle practice. Half
:07:29. > :07:36.of them do not turn up. He says, the old soldiers were too full of
:07:36. > :07:41.beer to should properly. -- it properly. As the war went on, the
:07:41. > :07:45.average age came down. It got a far more professional. That book is out
:07:45. > :07:50.now? It has just come out and it is magical. There are many books out
:07:50. > :07:54.for Christmas, that is just one of them! As we said earlier, you have
:07:54. > :08:00.some really exciting news for viewers at home. Some big directors
:08:00. > :08:06.want their help? They do, badly. How big? As big as they get! Ridley
:08:06. > :08:15.Scott! Ridley Scott?! Kevin MacDonald, the Last King of
:08:15. > :08:23.Scotland. What did they want? want us to film on one particular
:08:23. > :08:27.day, 12th November 2011. It is from midnight on Saturday morning, all
:08:27. > :08:32.the way through to midnight on that night. Anything we want. Then we
:08:32. > :08:35.send in the clips to YouTube, we send them in to the BBC website. We
:08:35. > :08:40.send all of this stuff in. It will then appear in a 90 minute
:08:40. > :08:45.documentary. It will be an amazing snapshot of British life, from
:08:45. > :08:48.Scotland, Northern Ireland, Kent, John o'Groats to Land's End.
:08:48. > :08:52.weeks tomorrow. The Americans and other people around the world have
:08:52. > :08:57.tried this before? It yes, it's incredible. The Americans made this
:08:57. > :09:01.last year. It's amazing. It gives you an idea of the kind of stuff
:09:01. > :09:07.people want to film. Underwater, that's a good idea. But ours will
:09:07. > :09:13.be much better, it will be Britain! Incredible. It will be better
:09:13. > :09:17.because it is British! Actually, the United Kingdom. For me, it will
:09:17. > :09:24.be an incredible visual time capsule. People can look back and
:09:24. > :09:30.say, what were those people about? We can show them. I had a little go.
:09:30. > :09:34.Because it's not on 12th November, it doesn't really count? I would
:09:34. > :09:39.say to the viewers, lower your expectations. And turn the camera
:09:39. > :09:46.the right way! Did I get it wrong? It is Thursday in Sheffield. This
:09:46. > :09:49.is my hotel room... Exciting, as you can see(!) I've been eating
:09:49. > :09:54.some food, I've been on the internet. If you've never been to
:09:54. > :09:58.Sheffield, this is what you are missing. Look at these beautiful
:09:58. > :10:08.fountains. Aren't they good? There were kids down area, running
:10:08. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:16.Not everybody will be as good at it as that. We did flip that, the
:10:16. > :10:22.entire thing was upside down. directing ambitions might have been
:10:22. > :10:29.misguided. Hang around, if you don't mind, we will need you later
:10:29. > :10:33.on. Time for some comforting trips back into childhood. Jay is not
:10:33. > :10:39.here, but he has left something wobbly to what! What is your
:10:39. > :10:43.favourite thing to eat? Jelly. most of us, the sight of the wobbly
:10:43. > :10:48.stuff triggers fond memories of childhood desserts. It comes in a
:10:48. > :10:51.variety of colours and flavours. It has a taste and texture that
:10:51. > :10:57.defined many childhoods. I remember hanging around in the kitchen while
:10:57. > :11:00.my mother was making jelly, hoping she would give me a cube of the
:11:00. > :11:04.uncooked stuff. I think it's to do with the strength and sweetness of
:11:04. > :11:10.the flavour that has lodged it so firmly in our collective memories.
:11:10. > :11:15.I used to love jelly with ice-cream, the flavoured ones, strawberry. It
:11:15. > :11:21.brings back really happy memories. Strawberry was my favourite. The
:11:21. > :11:28.texture, I used to love it. It's fun to eat it, especially green
:11:28. > :11:31.jelly! The first packet jelly was produced in 1923. In 1932, the
:11:31. > :11:38.familiar tubes were produced for the first time, making it more
:11:38. > :11:41.convenient than ever before. It was boom time for jelly. But times
:11:41. > :11:47.change and jelly fell out of fashion. In recent years there has
:11:47. > :11:52.been a resurgence of interest in this unique food. Florence White is
:11:52. > :11:56.head chef here, and she has put together a new take on this
:11:56. > :12:00.nostalgic dish. She kindly showed me how she creates her modern jelly.
:12:01. > :12:05.An important part of it is the sheet Chillerton, the equivalent of
:12:05. > :12:12.the cubes that my mother used. It's made from animal bones and skin?
:12:12. > :12:15.Exactly! Gelatin is a strange substance. It contains chains of
:12:15. > :12:20.protein that break apart with boiling water and reconnect when
:12:20. > :12:23.called, allowing it to be moulded and hold its shape. This is the
:12:23. > :12:29.Blackberry liquid, poached with sloe gin and sugar. It's nice and
:12:29. > :12:36.warm. Squeeze out the liquid, and the gelatin and it will dissolve.
:12:36. > :12:45.It will simply dissolve in there? I'm making jelly! And here is one
:12:45. > :12:49.that Florence prepared earlier. Oh, that really is... That memory of
:12:49. > :12:57.childhood, the slipperiness and the burst of fruit. And then there is
:12:57. > :13:01.the cake of the sloe gin! It is quite strong. I'd better check! But
:13:01. > :13:04.that's not the only way in which jelly is evolving. There are a
:13:04. > :13:10.couple of new boys on the block that are changing the way that we
:13:10. > :13:18.think this dish should look. Here, they use state-of-the-art computer-
:13:18. > :13:23.aided design to create startling looking jellies. Using things that
:13:23. > :13:28.we were taught as architects, we discovered we could make our own
:13:28. > :13:33.jelly moulds. The hardest one was to recreate a St Paul's Cathedral.
:13:33. > :13:36.I just about managed to do it. From then on in, it was clear sailing.
:13:36. > :13:44.This is where we really started doing it for a living. I challenged
:13:44. > :13:49.them to make me a fancy jelly. It's time for the grand unveiling. OK.
:13:49. > :13:59.I've kind of position that where I want it on the plate. I'm just
:13:59. > :14:00.
:14:00. > :14:04.wetting it and shaking it. And that is...? Buckingham Palace, in
:14:04. > :14:07.beautiful orange jelly. It may not look the same or taste the same as
:14:07. > :14:17.when I was a child, but I'm delighted to see it making a
:14:17. > :14:18.
:14:18. > :14:26.Perfect for Halloween, those jellysmiths have created some glow
:14:26. > :14:34.in the dark chilly for us. Yes, St Paul's, things over there. That is
:14:34. > :14:42.not St Paul's, because the tenants are not there. We have some
:14:42. > :14:50.Prosecco. We have gin-and-tonic over there. We have got strawberry.
:14:50. > :15:00.Very posh, very nice. Very nice. The kids would love these alcoholic
:15:00. > :15:07.chillies. -- jelly. Very clever, all this. From childhood memories
:15:07. > :15:11.to Children In Need. As you might know, for Children In Need, Matt
:15:11. > :15:20.Baker is going to put away rickshaw from Edinburgh to London in just
:15:20. > :15:27.eight days. It is tiring just thinking about it. One drop of this,
:15:28. > :15:37.and we are any body's. Can I say, that is appalling! How can people
:15:38. > :15:58.
:15:58. > :16:04.donate to the rickshaw challenge. - Brilliant. We will set you loose in
:16:04. > :16:07.our rickshaw for the first fastest lap in a moment or two. Let's talk
:16:07. > :16:12.about your autobiography, Small Man In A Book. As he said at the
:16:12. > :16:15.beginning of the show, it is basically all of your jobs. Yes, it
:16:15. > :16:20.is the struggling years when I won from local radio presenter,
:16:20. > :16:24.shopping channel presenter. I was trying to get work as an actor but
:16:24. > :16:31.the height of my acting in those days was at a conference for thrush
:16:31. > :16:37.cream in Glasgow. Not the bird. I had to play a pharmacist, a doctor,
:16:37. > :16:44.not a patient. I wanted to be Al Pacino. You would never see him
:16:44. > :16:49.doing that. You might have done, we do not know how he started. But you
:16:49. > :16:59.did better than that. You did thirst Knight with Sean Connery.
:16:59. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:10.As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, somewhere there is a man
:17:10. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:19.that is better than me. It could be here, today. There is another bit
:17:19. > :17:22.when I look like Griff Rhys Jones. How did you get that job. Someone
:17:22. > :17:26.got me in to see the casting director, who would never have seen
:17:26. > :17:32.me otherwise. She sat me down at a desk and looked through the list
:17:32. > :17:40.and she said, what have we got for you? Marauder. Her assistant looked
:17:40. > :17:45.at my CV and said, 5 ft 7. So the page was turned. But villager, that
:17:45. > :17:52.part was first villager. My audition involved looking down the
:17:52. > :18:02.lens, I will do it here. They sent it to the director. I had to go, No,
:18:02. > :18:06.please, I beg you. Did you get to do that in the film? No. They gave
:18:06. > :18:10.that to somebody else. We have read your book and we love this photos.
:18:10. > :18:20.They forced you to put them into the book. We have some of these
:18:20. > :18:21.
:18:21. > :18:28.photos. That is little you. This is a bit bigger. Standing on the
:18:28. > :18:33.bonnet of a car. The that would have been my dad's. He sold cars,
:18:33. > :18:41.and he used to bring a different car home every night. He said that
:18:41. > :18:51.he sold them! You never know. Look at these. One of these, I think the
:18:51. > :18:53.
:18:53. > :18:59.top left, maybe, Ken Yeu-Tzuoo Min? -- can use to me in? One of them
:18:59. > :19:06.looks like he is enjoying a private moment and another one looks like
:19:06. > :19:12.he has held up a post office. Springsteen Rob Brydon. I thought
:19:12. > :19:22.it was more like Rambo. I call it Sylvester Springsteen calls that
:19:22. > :19:23.
:19:23. > :19:29.they were my two big heroes. This one is so cool. I do not know why
:19:29. > :19:33.there is in there. Seriously. They want photos. I thought, that is a
:19:33. > :19:40.funny photo. Now I look at it and I think, but there is no reason. It
:19:41. > :19:47.is not illustrating a story. It is just there. You have a lovely body
:19:47. > :19:50.in that. Cliff Richard still looks like that before. You are hosting
:19:50. > :20:00.Would I Lie To You, which is on tonight. Let's have a look at a
:20:00. > :20:05.
:20:05. > :20:15.Who wants to go first? Both teams. How does it feel? That is my son,
:20:15. > :20:25.
:20:25. > :20:30.by the wave. Hard to describe I am not doing anything! That was a
:20:30. > :20:33.good laugh. One of the bits we love the most is when the mystery guest
:20:33. > :20:39.comes on and the panel have to guess which one of the panel knows
:20:39. > :20:45.the mystery guest. You never get to play it because you are hosting.
:20:45. > :20:55.This is your lucky night. Would you like to play? Come on, come in here.
:20:55. > :20:56.
:20:56. > :21:06.We are going to play it like you do. This is Tom. But which of us really
:21:06. > :21:06.
:21:07. > :21:10.knows him? Tom over there, his job, he is a cleavage Chekhov on
:21:10. > :21:19.Strictly Come Dancing, so he makes sure that no cleavage is showing
:21:19. > :21:25.too much that it breaches broadcast standards. Even Anton? He loves
:21:25. > :21:31.that the most. She is lying. This is Tom Hartley junior, who waded
:21:31. > :21:38.not know until Wednesday but I met him at a car auction, and he outbid
:21:38. > :21:44.me by �500. I have seen that you write tweets about car auction has,
:21:44. > :21:47.so that is interesting. This is my friend, Tom, and I saved part of
:21:47. > :21:55.his severed finger by throwing it in a fridge in the middle of the
:21:55. > :22:00.Atlantic. That you get to ask a question. Alex, are you satisfied
:22:00. > :22:05.with the attention he has been giving your cleavage? He is very
:22:05. > :22:13.gentle and he has a mini tape measure to make it easy. I do not
:22:13. > :22:19.like men with take measures. Chris, he beat you at the auction? I don't
:22:19. > :22:23.believe anybody has ever out be due in the history of mankind. I had a
:22:23. > :22:30.budget, and he beat me by �500. I have since offered him a profit but
:22:30. > :22:36.it will not accept. Nonsense. Where do you know him from? Eyes sailed
:22:36. > :22:42.across the Atlantic and a needed a winning hand. He cut his finger off
:22:42. > :22:50.by mistake. There is an easy way to check if he dropped his finger off.
:22:50. > :22:56.I have made my decision. Because he looks like the two of you were at
:22:56. > :23:00.university together, I reckon it is you. I am his friend, forever
:23:00. > :23:05.grateful that he salvaged my finger, but after 10 years it is probably
:23:05. > :23:10.time for him to stop banging on about it.
:23:10. > :23:15.That means you win more of the jelly that you do not like. We are
:23:15. > :23:21.about to go outside for the rickshaw challenge. We have a
:23:21. > :23:25.Helmut here for you. Before that, the final day of Garden Watch. Mike
:23:25. > :23:35.and Miranda find three zebras and the hippo in a back garden in
:23:35. > :23:39.It is the last day on Garden Watch and we have already seen a huge
:23:39. > :23:44.variety of wildlife, but there are a few mysteries left unsolved.
:23:44. > :23:50.Earlier in the week, Russell wanted help keeping squirrels off his bird
:23:50. > :23:53.feeder. So we put chilli powder on the nuts in the hope that the
:23:53. > :24:03.squirrel's more delicate palate could not hack the heat. How have
:24:03. > :24:03.
:24:03. > :24:09.they got on? This is what the cameras caught. Here he is, coming
:24:09. > :24:17.down. He is having a sniff and he does not like it. And he does not
:24:17. > :24:22.go back. I think they are safe. no more chewing on the plastic.
:24:22. > :24:27.the birds seemed happy, too. We also put a squirrel feeder in place,
:24:28. > :24:32.so all they need to do is to learn to lift the lid. And there has been
:24:32. > :24:39.plenty of interest. I am sure it will only be a couple of days
:24:40. > :24:47.before they work it out. Earlier in the week, Mike found dragonflies
:24:47. > :24:52.around this pond, but we know there is more life lurking in the depths.
:24:52. > :24:57.Then, Joe, her Scylla and Roser have volunteered to look for
:24:57. > :25:06.predators as menacing as those on the African savanna.
:25:06. > :25:12.Look what I have got. There is a nasty predator. Do you know how it
:25:12. > :25:19.eats? It has a mouth like this. Two Park's shoot out, grabbed their
:25:19. > :25:24.prey and then they eat them while they're alive. If it was on the
:25:24. > :25:30.African plains, it would be a lion pulling down a zebra. That is not a
:25:30. > :25:38.top predator. It is actually a grazing herbivores. Imagine him in
:25:38. > :25:43.the African savanna, that would be a wildebeest, or is a bra. -- as a
:25:43. > :25:53.brush. These ones have a special mouth part that sticks into the
:25:53. > :25:56.
:25:56. > :26:00.prey and sucks out the Jews. Scary. -- the juices.
:26:00. > :26:05.This pond is full of prey, like this newt. If I was living in the
:26:05. > :26:09.pond, it is one of the most savage places to live. It is brutal in
:26:09. > :26:16.there. And I also think that is the best pond dip I have ever done. You
:26:16. > :26:22.have got an amazing pond, full of predators.
:26:22. > :26:26.Finally, up the street, one mystery left unsolved. This couple wanted
:26:26. > :26:33.to know who was digging up their garden, and thanks to our camera,
:26:33. > :26:39.we have a good idea who it is. It is bigger and furry and it has a
:26:39. > :26:45.tale. But that is not conclusive. It is quite close to the camera.
:26:45. > :26:52.bit too close. Fortunately, we caught him again. There is the
:26:52. > :26:58.stripey face. They are using those powerful front claws to excavate
:26:58. > :27:04.for grubs and things like that. That is what he is doing. And three
:27:04. > :27:08.Gardenstown, we caught them in action. -- three gardens down. They
:27:08. > :27:12.have a superb sense of smell which helped them -- helps them to find
:27:13. > :27:18.worms and grubs. What a way to finish the week. We have seen loads
:27:18. > :27:26.of great garden wildlife. It is time to say goodbye from Garden
:27:26. > :27:31.Watch in Bathampton. Goodbye. has been a great week, thanks to
:27:31. > :27:39.Mike and Miranda. As we said earlier, Matt is pedalling from
:27:39. > :27:44.Edinburgh to London for Children In Need. He needs you to donate.
:27:44. > :27:47.are going to challenge guests over the next two weeks to the Rickshaw
:27:47. > :27:53.Speed Challenge, and Rob Brydon is going to pose the first time.
:27:53. > :27:57.will be top of the leaderboard, but also bottom and middle. You have to
:27:57. > :28:07.follow the bollards and get a jelly and Pickup Pudsey and get over the
:28:07. > :28:07.
:28:07. > :28:11.line. Three, two, 1, go. In and out of the bollards. As far as Matt is
:28:11. > :28:17.concerned, he is going from Edinburgh to London in eight days
:28:17. > :28:22.and finishing on Children In Need at night. Rob Brydon has picked up
:28:22. > :28:29.Pudsey. He has knocked over the bollards, but we do not mind. He
:28:29. > :28:39.obviously keeps fit. There are more photos of his tight torso in the
:28:39. > :28:39.
:28:39. > :28:45.book. He is over the line in 29.61 seconds. You are top of the
:28:45. > :28:51.leaderboard. Congratulations. Let's see if our other guests can beat
:28:51. > :28:56.that time. That is it for tonight. Good luck with the book, Small Man
:28:56. > :29:02.In A Book. You are on tour. Liverpool tomorrow, Manchester in
:29:02. > :29:06.the evening. Next week, Julian Fellowes, Ricky Gervais, Hugh
:29:06. > :29:11.Fearnley-Whittingstall, Miranda Hart, and on Monday, a Halloween