28/11/2013 The One Show

Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. You

would think that tonight's guest would try everything once. Well,

being the outdoor adventurer he is. But not when it comes to his food. I

don't like octopus. Would you like to stop at a service station and get

some crisps? Please welcome Richard Hammond.

Since the financial crisis of 2008, many small

did you get your crisps? I didn't. You have travelled to all of these

wonderful locations and you don't like the food? You had to get your

locations, get in and get out. I'm used to getting called in, eating my

beans and getting out. It is not just a seafood of the menu, it is

every French food, because you and Jeremy have done something we will

talk about later. There we go. Plus we are meeting a British sporting

legend, the 1953 Sidecar racing world champion Stan Dibben is in

tonight. I say he is in, he is actually out, the Sidecar is too

wide for the left. We will be down in a bit. Now, since the financial

crisis into 2008, many small businesses in Britain have suffered.

Speaking but they are fighting back and according to the Federation of

Small Businesses, there are currently four points 9 million in

the UK today and we have been keen to see how some of them are getting

on. -- 4.9 million. So here's Declan Curry's final visit

to the Lincolnshire coast. Cleethorpes in north-east

Lincolnshire. In November, it is very different to those busy weeks

in the summer when hundreds of visitors come for the holidays. I

have been following the fortunes of the Pleasure Island theme park or

year. I was here in the biting cold for the opening day of the season

and then back in July for the sunny summer holidays and never park is

ready to close for the winter. -- never -- never park. In the last

film, it was clear that Pleasure Island was in trouble, ?120,000 down

on where it should be. The future was touch and go, have the fortune

changed over the summer? Will there be anything for the owner Melanie

and her staff to celebrate? Or was this the last big bang for Pleasure

Island? It is a big thing for the local economy, definitely. It brings

jobs, money to people and it makes people happy. I have been coming

here since I was little, the park means a lot to me and I am really

happy that I can work here. It is the morning after the fireworks. I

hear today is D-day? Speakergreen yes, it is. Melanie is calling a

meeting with her managers, she has something to tell them about the

future of Pleasure Island. Or her employees, this meeting could have

serious implications for their future. We are the biggest seasonal

employer, so if Pleasure Island was not here, people with those jobs in

the summer, where would they go? I have been here 20 years, so it would

be missed. Things were looking pretty bleak for a long time, right

up to the end of July, but I wanted to give you some good news to let

you know that August has been particularly good. It saved our

bacon, so to speak, and the future is looking a lot more positive. It

has been tough and stressful but we got there. So some great news and

everyone will be relieved for you. You must be pretty relieved

yourself. It is really good news, we have four weeks of consecutive good

weather, people could plan. We got the numbers, we had good secondary

spend, people were buying drinks and ice cream and all of that

contributes to a better year and all in all, far more positive than I

could have hoped for. And this place is not cheap to run. No, just under

?2 million per annum. We have talked before about how much personal money

you have had to pour in to keep the business, around ?300,000 last year

alone. Are you getting any of that back? Yes, there is some good news

on that score, I am able to pay myself ?100,000 this year, which is

a step in the right direction. But still not paying yourself a salary.

Melanie cannot safely say when she can pay herself a wage, but in the

short, things are looking better than they did at start of the

season. With the business safe for another year at least, there is a

lot of work to be done over the winter. Many of the rides are put

into storage to protect them from the worst of the weather and there

is time to carry out some running repairs. I think you have got to

admire Melanie. This place has given her such a sleepless nights and

costs of thousands of pounds of her own money, but she keeps it going

out of loyalty to her cell, her family and the town Cleethorpes. You

have really got to hope that she carries on succeeding -- loyalty to

herself also. Congratulations to Melanie and all

of the staff. How much of a barometer is looking at Pleasure

Island and reflecting on domestic business question what it was a very

good summer, wasn't it? It was and you can't draw that much just from

Cleethorpes. It was good news there and there is good news elsewhere,

for the car industry, Richard. October was the fastest pace of

growth for production this year. We have got the Autumn statement coming

up this week. Good or bad? It is hard to say, we don't know, the

Chancellor may have borrowed a little less money than he thought,

the growth this quarter is OK, not brilliant, not awful, but the

problem is we are seeing real gold come -- income's falling and

businesses don't seem to be investing as much as they thought

they would. So the real problem the Chancellor has is the growth in

consumer spending paid for by debt. And 9 million others are in debt. A

survey this week found 9 million reported in serious debt, 9 million

people. That is a big problem. And if people watching the show do have

problems with debt, they should contact the Money Advice Service and

the details are on the BBC website. Especially this time of the year,

with people wanting to buy what they can for Christmas. Do check out the

website. Now, last night, we saw a dinosaur self-absorption for

?400,000 -- sell at auction. What will they do with it? If you think

that was pricey, what about this painting? It sold at auction for ?89

million, it is a Francis Bacon and the most expensive ever sold at

auction, a man in a chair. It is three paintings. It is still quite a

lot! The man in the painting is also one of the greatest artists of the

last 100 years, Lucian Freud, who was known for his eccentric and

meticulous attention to detail, but not just on campus.

-- canvas. The painter Lucian Freud was one of the most talented and

reclusive artist of the 20th century. He painted some of the

best-known figures, from Kate Moss to David Hockney and even the Queen.

His paintings were uncompromising and not always flattering. His

grandfather was Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Freud Jr

was a bit of a bad boy and he fathered at least 40 children and

loved to gamble and be impulsive. But when it came to breakfast, he

was very predictable. For 15 years before his death in 2011, he came

here, to Sally Clark's cafe. What did he come in and order? It was

usually a latte. We called it a Freud latte, it was more milk than

usual, and a large pastry that would fill the plate. He would arrive with

paint splattered trousers and rather a dirty rag around his leg, which

was his scarf. Journalist Geordie Greg was blown away by Freud's

edgy, dangerous paintings when he first saw them as a schoolboy, and

doggedly pursued him for an interview even then. I suppose I

stalked him, really. But to no avail. The famously reclusive artist

pages to giving interviews and it took 20 years of stalking -- hated

giving interviews and it took 20 of stalking before Geordie hit on an

idea. I said I had a brilliant idea but I had to see him in person and I

was banking on his curiosity. I said to him, you won't be photographed,

you won't be interviewed and I said I wanted to photograph a friend of

yours and you can be in the photograph, and he said yes and that

was the beginning of our relationship. Over weekly Saturday

lunches, Freud revealed tales of his colourful past two Geordie here in

Sally's cafe. It was the most important room outside his studio.

He is to see everyone, his book is, his muses, his models, his friends

and children. It is where he relaxed before he went back to that endless

process of painting. He was obviously a very private man. He was

the most reclusive man, he would go to enormous lengths to keep you out

of his life. One biographer try to do a book and he bought him off.

Another one try to write about him and he sent around some folks from

the East End who persuaded him not to do it. Geordie didn't just read

Freud once, he met him every week for ten years and was treated to

tales from everything -- about everything from lovers to gambling

debts. He will say, there I was on the back of a taxi and I would ask

you with, oh, Kate Moss, giving her a tad too. As he entered his 80s,

Freud spent more and more time in the cafe, but while Geordie was

rewarded with regular conversations, Sally was offered a

different kind of privilege. It was his assistant who asked me if I

would consider sitting for him. What did that feel like? I couldn't

believe it. I had to sit down but of course, the answer was yes, there

wasn't any other answer. And what was he like when he got back into

the studio? Did you see a change from the chap you are serving

breakfast? When he was working, it was total concentration, on both

sides, for the sitter and the painter. It took over two years for

Freud to complete the picture. What does Sally think of the finished

painting? I really love it. I love it. It has got my father's eyes and

he has got my earrings, which I wear every day. I know every single

brushstroke and how it progress over the years. Lucian Freud's paintings

sell for millions of pounds and Sally's portrait is now in a private

collection. Speaking I cried when he took it to the frame. Is -- I cry.

Sally may not have the painting, but Freud's portrait exists as testament

to his fondness for his friend and favourite cafe owner.

Do you like his style? Yes. I don't know. Thank you, Phil. And a very

important artist has drawn you, so we went to wear you can see it. Is

it in the British Museum, the Tate? It is in the Beano is where it is.

What an honour, hello? I tell you what, it is beautiful, the artwork

in there. They guest edited me. I like the story about you looking for

the Hamster in the hedge. There are a lot of messages, it is

multilayered uncoded, you have to really look at it. You have been on

what you call the Perfect Road Trip. This is the 51st DVD that Top Gear

have released. Is it? Yes, why is this the Perfect Road Trip? Jeremy

and I decided that we always make our lives worse, we always have to

go to the North Pole or drive about in a rainforest in a broken down car

and we thought, why do we always make it as bad as possible? Let's

make it perfect, so we picked the perfect car for any given moment. He

saw that the type Jaguar, that is actually my own. -- you saw that

E-type. We went to France, so I thought, yes, the 1962 E-type and I

called and got it over. So we struggled to get all of the perfect

cars over. What a nightmare it must have been to film! It. ! One perfect

car after another, did they just become not perfect anymore? How do

you make one car... ? Welcome you are on a motorway and you think, I

want a Rolls-Royce, I want a Maserati, there are some super

hills, so I don't want a small cock, I want a super hatch. -- I don't

want a small car. The elephant in the room is where is James May? The

answer was in the title, we wanted the Perfect Road Trip. You know, I

was busy last year. He did a DVD with Jeremy and he was busy this

year. We decided while he could not do it, we would have the best trip

possible! We were watching, and we thought it was an interesting double

act, but we think we have seen this somewhere before because you are

very similar to Laurel and Hardy. Look, it gets more Laurel and Hardy

in the tunnel! With good reason, it is a model T Ford. And they are

unlike anything. The reason we are screaming is because I cannot

control it. We turned up in Monte Carlo and we had been drifting

about, as you do, and we decided that the crop we have there,

wherever you park outside a posh hotel, you park there until

something better comes along, and then they put that outside. If you

turn up in a moral T Ford, they cannot move it. -- model T Ford. We

know this. The drama continued. Let's have a

look. There are three petals. Which one is the Excel rater? That one.

Start it. That is not the starter! Make it stop! Make it stop! It is

not often say this, Hammond, but you have been a genius. You have never

said that. Because if we cannot drive this, what chance do the Hotel

have? It is the hardest thing I've ever done. They have no chance! Your

life must be so tough, Richard(!) It is, sometimes. What else happened in

France? Why did you get into so much trouble? Eventually, we came home

and it was all over. There was a thing that happened. We fell victim

to something to which older people fall victim. We did it as a warning.

If you were quick to France, this is useful information. We got necked.

The speed limit on the autobahn is 130R kph. I was doing 130R, barely a

mile over the speed limit. But they did not realise that before the

tolls, it drops to 90, and that is where they put the man with the

speed gun. We got busted. Have you had to go on a French speed

awareness course? Well, I would not understand it! We have not. We work

dissuaded from driving there for a few weeks, but now we can. It was

not about driving about -- it was not just about driving in fast cars.

Jeremy did a lot of sightseeing, much to your frustration. It drove

me mad. He wanted to go and look at all staff but I wanted to drive. You

can do both. Yeah, but... That balcony is really something. We had

the odd squabble, to be honest. It was immensely good fun and the cars

were staggering. It looks beautiful as well.

And you can see them yourself, The Perfect Road Trip is out on DVD.

Just all you know, it was tough. We thought we would find out which

presenter the public would like to spend a road trip with. We went off

to the M40 and this is what happened. With whom would you prefer

to travel, Mr Jeremy Clarkson, or Mr Richard Hammond? Jeromy. He reminds

me of my dad. Who would you rather go with? Hammond. I think Clarkson.

34 Hammond. 55 and three. -- 5-3. Do we have to choose one? Clarkson?

Hammond? Yes. He got it. Item you what, those

long journeys can be notorious for back-seat drivers. Terrible

navigators and kids on Sunday screaming, "Are we nearly there

yet?" I feel sick, I feel sick! Here are some more road trippers on their

imperfect road trips. How do you cope with long journeys?

We listen to the radio. You do not like listening to sport? No. The

radio was from me because I'd do the driving. We row about getting too

close to the car in front. It is good that I am in good map reader.

True. And I am in good driver. I'm the better driver. Would you admit

your wife was the better driver? No. Tell me about the things that annoy

you. You drive too fast. I do not get into fourth gear quick enough,

apparently. That can be too much chatter, telling me that I am doing

something that is not right as we are driving along. What subjects of

conversation had? Men, relationships. It has been quite

juicy. It is nice to be in the vehicle without the kids. We have

times when we discuss stuff that we would normally do. Generally, I'd

drive on autopilot. Is he a good travelling companion? No, but he is

a safe driver and that is the main thing. You are musicians? Yes. And

you must travel a lot. We have been on the road for three months. We

smell of rock 'n' roll. It feels like you are constantly taking your

driving test, and yet you do not get annoyed by that. Not visibly. You

know that services? It is on the way home. Would you rather be in a car

or a motorbike? Your parents were happy for you to get a motorbike.

They had no choice. I was going on about it for so many years. I love

motorbikes. That is pretty brave of them. Yes, but they had no choice.

Why would take my daughter on the back of my bike will stop and you

are quite happy about that? Yeah. In honour of you and your love for

motorbikes, we have got a film about the world's oldest sidecar

manufacturer. But we felt sorry for James, because

he did not get to go on a road trip, so he gets to go on this one.

That'll make him happy. Perfect. Think of a sidecar and you might

think of the two Fat Ladies, last of the summer Wine, or Wallace and

Gromit. She won't go any faster! But this

eccentric form of transport was not always just a comic foil. It was

once a staple of British life. Gloucestershire is home to the

world's oldest manufacturer of this form of transport. It started over

100 years ago, when amateur inventor, Fred Watson, had a

brainwave will stop he invented a twist on the original. It came up

with the worlds first folding sidecar. His invention paved the way

for him to create the what Sony and folding sidecar company, a business

that would go on to dominate sidecar manufacturing. Mike was a friend of

Fred Watson. The folding sidecar, why was it so special? He spotted

that there was a difficulty. Sidecar is have to be left in the street, so

being practical, he invented this collapsible sidecar. It enabled

him, with the folding chassis, to wield be sidecar through the narrow

passageway and get it off the street. From that, he developed a

range of other sidecars. That was popular enough to launch the

company. And production was driving up until the war? Absolutely. We

developed it in the 20s and 30s. By the 50s, about half of the sidecar

business was there is. When did the popularity decline? During the late

50s and 60s. Competition from small cars, that was the end of sidecars.

Mike and his team produce 200 sidecars every year now. A far cry

from the 200 a week that they were making at the height of production.

Harry Knight raced sidecars throughout the 60s and 70s. He is as

passionate about them today as he was back then. Harry, when did your

love of sidecars begin? In my early 20s. My body racing motorcycle and

decided was going to be the star. I did half a season and thought it was

too dangerous and not from me. But eyesore the sidecar drivers, and I

thought I fancied one of those. It was from me. Could not stop. It is

like drug. Eventually, Harry gave up sidecar racing as it was proving

costly and his wife was worried about his safety. Many years later

on a motorcycle holiday, Harry found a new reason to get a sidecar. Two

people on a bike trying to carry luggage for a fortnight. My wife

said, what about buying a sidecar? Put a sidecar on and we can carry

all the luggage we want. What a brilliant idea! I have never been in

the sidecar before, so I'm looking forward to my first spin.

Let's go! You see the world from a different perspective.

Once you ride in one, it is easy to see why 100 years after Fred

Watson's design, the brand lives on. There is something about these,

being so low to the ground and enclosed in this casual, you really

feel the speed and it is quite addictive. Any chance of a lift on?

No problem. -- left home. That is good speed!

I have got to believe next like -- got the Li Na.

Boys and their toys. A quick lap of the M25. Digital?

Before Harry Knight, Britain had a sidecar racing champion by the name

of Sam Devon. And he joins us now. It is a very special anniversary,

Stan. -- Stan Dibben. It is the 60th anniversary of my World Championship

win. And it was a series of championships. Not just one race.

The last one that decided the championship was at Monza. And we

took it by half a wheel. And they have made a documentary about you,

called 'No Ordinary Passenger' , which tells all about how you used

to use dirty tricks to get ahead of your competitors. Well, yes. The

trick was to rob your shoulder in the road and shower the man behind

you with stones. Really? ! And you were in the position I was there, so

the key is to get as low as possible? You do not need to hang

out all the time. If you hang out here, and put your feet up, you will

take your weight off the back wheel. And it will oversteer. If you hang

out with your legs down there, you will provide understeer. So it is

not as simple. And before you came around the corner, Stan was saying

how physical it was. Very physical. In the days of front exit sidecars,

most of the G4S was taken off by drift. But in the modern cycles,

they have sticky tyres, and all of the G4S is tremendous today. --

G-force. This is a modern Formula one car. It

has a bike engine, but really, it is like a three wheeled racing car.

Yes. It is an aluminium chassis. Get in. I have had one go on one of

these and I am never doing it again. It is terrifying! You have to

clamber all over... And if you get it wrong, it does not work, that is

the problem. If you do not do your job, it will not go around the

corner. That's right. Racing cars do 200 miles an hour with four tyres

and a driver. Sidecars like this one are doing approximately 190 miles an

hour with three tyres and two people. I can tell you which is the

most interesting to watch. And there is that thing when you have a

massive sidecar, you are sitting to one side anyway, but it is hard to

get around corners. It depends which way you are going. If you are going

left... Stand, tell us about your first lesson. At the time, I was an

experiment will test, testing solo bikes. And the World Champion was

using the Norton motorbike. I was told to go to the motoring

Association was missed Oliver wanted some ballast. I'm sorry, my friend,

we have run out of time. Iter you what, you keep talking now. Thanks

to Richard. Top Gear, The Perfect Road Trip is out on DVD now.

Tomorrow, Strictly's Mark Benton and the Lumineers are here. See you

then. See you later!