28/11/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

the One Show with Matt Baker.

And Alex Jones.

Now the hot topic of conversation

everywhere today is Prince Harry

and Megan's happy news.

It was lovely to see them on The One

Show last night.

To spread the love a bit,

we want to hear from you if you've

popped the question over the past

couple of days, but maybe

feel your own announcement has been

slightly overshadowed.

So as well as reporting

from Edinburgh, Bradford

and Devon tonight -

we are going to celebrate your

engagement stories too.

Send us a photo of you

and your other half,

tell us about who proposed to who,

and we'll show a selection later.

Tonight's guests all got

into music at school,

but ended up in performing

in very different fields.

The first, Dizzee Rascal,

became a platinum selling hip hop

artist with a bagful of awards

and number one hits.

You might just recognise one of them

being played by our second guest,

Nicholas McCarthy.

He overcame the challenge

of being born with one

hand, to become a top

classical concert pianist.

APPLAUSE.

A third performer - Jay McGuinness -

went onto sell out stadiums

with The Wanted, and won Strictly

along the way.

He wants to celebrate the one thing

they all have in common.

Music was always a big part of my

life growing up. I have been lucky

enough to make a career out of it.

So I was disappointed to find out

that some schools are cutting back

on teaching music, meaning it is no

longer a big part of kids'

education. Today I am joining pupils

in Bradford, putting music at the

heart of their education. Are we

ready for some school run karaoke?

Yes!

And it is all down to this man.

Jimmy Rotherham. Four years ago,

Jimmy joined struggling Faversham

Academy and turned it into

Bradford's very own School of Rock.

Are you Bradford's Jack Black?

Yes,

I'm a little bit slimmer! I have

been getting a bit of enthusiasm

from the children.

In 2010, the

school was placed in special

measures by Ofsted. But a new head

brought big changes. Music went from

30 minutes to six hours a week, and

Jimmy introduced a radical new

approach to musical lessons.

I teach

an approach from Hungary. It is all

based around games and having fun.

When we were at school we would

probably have a song to learn and we

would sell it -- sing at 16 times to

get it perfect. I the fifth time you

are going, not this again!

There are

games. It is a lot of fun.

I have a

guitar. Every lunchtime we have

guitar lessons.

We all gathered

together and start singing really

nice. It is good.

Has the school

changed since you introduced the

programme?

I have no suggest an

improvement in behaviour and

attitude of the children.

Jimmy

plays in a covers band so he knows

how to get the kids ready for their

next gig. You guys are putting on a

concert this afternoon?

We are going

to do 15 songs in two minutes.

Anni songs by The Wanted?

# Have you seen that girl?

I know you're watching, boys. We are

here in Bradford. Outside the gates,

this is one of the most deprived and

densely populated parts of the city.

You will find children from every

background in our school, children

who have just come to the contrary,

they all get involved at a high

level in music.

When Jimmy first

came to you with the programme, what

was your reaction?

My staff will not

be able to cope. Music was

nonexistent. Now we are in the top

10% of all schools in the country

for a pupil progress.

I had of the

concert, the kids are hard at work

rehearsing, including one of Jimmy's

stars students. There it is. In the

living room!

Let's hear it. She is the first

Muslim girl to be accepted into

Bradford's foundation for a

musically gifted children. Why did

you pick drums?

It is really fun to

play.

How has it helped you in other

classes?

Concentrating more. It has

just made me improve.

Do you enjoy

performing in front of the other

kids?

At first I feel nervous but

then when I get into the mood to

perform, I just get on with it.

There aren't many parents who would

put up with a drum kit in the living

room, but her sister and dad

couldn't be happier. RU super proud

because she a trailblazer?

Yeah, I

am really proud of her.

Do you ever

wished she had picked another

instrument? Yes! Back at school it

is time for the big performance. 15

songs in two minutes in front of

parents, teachers and the whole

school. No pressure!

As soon as music players, something

happens, stirs inside you.

Everybody

who walks into the school comments

on what a great atmosphere it is.

The music is a huge part of that.

We

all show a different passion for the

music.

APPLAUSE.

I think that was an absolute flying

success. They have worked really

hard for this and they all enjoy

themselves.

It has been a really nice day.

Children's music. You can't macro

beat it. So much fun.

That group are

lucky to have him as a teacher.

Dizzee and Nicholas were reminiscing

on their music lessons. These days

you go into a lot of schools. What

difference do you find music makes

in schools?

Music is a universal

language. That is the thing. People

can really express themselves. It is

scientifically proven that the left

side the brain really develops

through music. This is why it is

such a shame with the arts cuts that

music is being overlooked. If every

school could take a leaf out of

their book, the students would just

be, all of them, well rounded

individuals.

Dizzee, you said it was

music classes at school that really

spoke to you and got you through

education?

Yeah, that is what I

really cared about. Every other

lesson I just went to because I had

to go to. Music I cared about. I did

music outside of school. I was on

pirate radio. I went to college and

I realised I didn't even need to be

in college and I might as well drop

out. Within that year I had a single

and album out. It went crazy.

When

did piano playing come into your

life, Nicholas?

Quite late. I was 40

Mana got into music and have

discovered a love for it. Especially

as a pianist, it is quite late. It

was a friend of mine who inspired

me. She was a very good pianist. I

thought, this is what I want to do.

As my career.

It was never an issue

that you only had one hand?

Added of

teenage invincibility set in. When

you are 14 you can do anything. I

kept forgetting I had one hand. It

wasn't an issue. When I was talking

my friends and family and saying I

wanted to be a concert pianist, they

were very supportive. It was not

until later in my career that maybe

those doors were not as fully open

as I would have liked.

When you are

in situations like that, it shows

you how resilient human beings can

be. You can find a way.

Persistence

as well. If you believe in something

as well.

How bad do you wanted?

We

could hope you up, you two tonight?

Would you be up for that?

Rappers

have always sample stuff. To do with

life, you would get a bigger, richer

sound anyway.

That is your next

album then, Dizzee!

And we'll take

15%.

15?!

Just before we came on air we

reminisced about the fact you had

both played the same stadium, London

2012. Easy, you are at the opening

ceremony. And Nicholas, you played

at the closing of the Paralympics.

To be chosen, obviously have those

ceremonies, folk are looking for

something quintessentially British.

You were both selected full. What an

honour.

I performed with the British

Para Orchestra, a fantastic

initiative headed up by Charles

Hazlewood. They do fantastic work

promoting disabled musicians. That

is how we got to perform alongside

Coldplay. Obviously you were a

proper headliner. What was your

slant? It was amazing.

It was crazy

because I am from there. That

stadium wasn't even there. It was

built obviously for the Olympics. I

can't remember what was even there

before that. I had never performed

anywhere that big in the area that I

grew up. The jacket I was wearing at

the postcode of the area.

If you

weren't performing you could have

listened in your garden.

Yeah!

Nicholas, we have to talk about your

new album, echoes. How hard is it to

make an arrangement for the left

hand?

It is tricky. I work with a

few arrangers who sometimes do a

better job than I do at the

arranging side of things. The piece

I'm playing at the end is one of my

own arrangements. It is tricky. And

it is tricky to record. It is so

strenuous. You know the recording

process. It is hard work.

Was there

a period in history when there was

quite a bit of left-handed piano

music produced?

You are completely

right. It started in the 19th

century as a show of thing. Look

what I can do with my left hand, my

we can. And then the First World War

happened and hundreds of thousands

of people came back with missing

limbs. Usually you are right handed.

Most people are right-handed. You're

more likely to injure it in a

battle. It was because of that these

injured servicemen, one man in

particular, came back and

commissioned these 20th-century

composers to write the left hand

alone. That has given me about 3000

works were left hand alone which I

played today.

You will perform for us later. And

we will be talking about your new

album as well, Raskit.

For nearly half a century

Edinburgh's Meadowbank Stadium has

hosted some of the country's most

memorable sporting events -

and a few musical ones as well.

But next weekend all

that comes to an end

when the legendary venue closes.

JJ meets the athletes who'll be

shedding a sporting tear or two.

Edinburgh, summer 1970. The newly

built Meadowbank Stadium was the

proud new home of Scottish sport,

built to host the first-ever

Commonwealth Games in Scotland. Its

sport halls and athletics track were

state-of-the-art. Of those games

Scotland won 25 medals, including

four in athletics. This stadium had

an instant legacy, inspiring dreams

of greatness. Former Olympian Peter

Hoffman remembers it well.

Watching

that fantastic 5000 metres final

where you had the Kenyan Olympic

champion, against Iain Stewart and

McCafferty, that was it for me.

This

is where you grew up. It is

virtually in your back garden. How

did it feel when world-class

sporting competitions came here?

It

wasn't just that. You had some of

the best athletes on the planet.

David Jenkins trained here. In 1978

we have the opportunity to raise

Sebastian Coe in the UK

Championships. We had the naivete to

think we could actually beat him.

What are you laughing at?!

We wanted

to train several times a week but it

was expensive.

I used to jump that

fence. One evening I threw my bag

over and when I landed I was

face-to-face with the manager! I

thought, I'm really going to get a

serious doing. He wrote me a year's

pass to get into Meadowbank. That is

the kind of thing that can happen.

What does this place mean to you?

I

learned a lot more than I would ever

done at school because it teaches

you to become focused on how to

treat other people, to be kind,

basically.

I think the nearest I

could describe it to youngsters

today is its almost like hot words.

A place were magic actually happens.

This place is so much more than

bricks and mortar. It is a must 50

years of treasured memories.

Spectacular world records, victory

and pure hard graft. Sprinter Allan

Wells trained at the stadium in the

run-up to the Moscow Olympics. You

can even see the spike marks?

Absolutely. It wouldn't surprise me

if some of these were made by me!

What you look at this on your

doorstep?

Absolutely. We were

privileged. Most of Britain had

grass track. To have this stadium

with an all-weather track, you would

have different events going on. You

would have people getting changed in

the stands, you would have 800

metres runners, long jumps. You

would, printed this atmosphere,

which was inspiring.

Is hard work

paid off, he won Olympic gold. It

was a proud moment but there one

that topped it in Edinburgh at the

1986 Commonwealth Games.

It was coming in here with the

message from the Queen in my hands.

Coming around the track, there was

like a Mexican wave.

I am an

Edinburgh boy and it is a sad idea

that this stadium will close its

doors, but it is brilliant that on

its footprint that will hopefully be

another stadium that will stand for

another 50 years.

If you're going to

replace something, you should

replace it with something better and

it would be nice to think that that

would be better than it is at the

moment and it will be there for

another 50 years.

The glory days of

the Commonwealth Games may have

passed but the spirit of Meadowbank

Stadium still lives on with the

memories of all the people whose

achievements touched so many lives.

So many memories, Meadowbank Stadium

will close this Sunday and a new

sports centre is due to open their

in 2020.

Is their ability or place

that has inspired you Dizzee?

A few

in East London, Stratford Rex or

Palace Pavillion. They were venues.

Nightclubs, but they also had shows,

they were some of the early places

in the early grime days, I would

perform.

They are gone now. That is

where it all started for you.

Yes.

People don't know what I am talking

about when I talk about them. It is

a big part of history.

We are going

to talk about the early days of

crime, you have had so many hits,

let us have a look at a few of them.

#, and downs with me.

# Let's party.

# Let's fly away.

# Getaway.

# Go to the club or hideaway.

# Some people think I'm bonkers but

I think I'm free.

# There is nothing crazy about me.

# Some people play for thrills.

# I get mine for free.

# Bonkers.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.

I am laughing

remembering some of the things that

were going on in those videos!

That

is a bit weird.

Tell us later. It

was so long ago.

You have got this

new album which is called Raskit. On

the cover there is a really cute

picture of Dizzee as a six-year-old

boy. There he is! What sort of Boyd

were you growing up in Bow.

Everyone

loved me. I was not shy. I always

loved music. Even then, I would

listen to pirate radio. There was

happy hard-core and things like that

and eventually drum and bass and

garage. I liked heavy metal and

Aaron maiden as well.

You are the

godfather of grime and you are

revisiting that with the new album.

The godfather of grime!

LAUGHTER.

That is going to be

sampled. You are revisiting that.

What were you trying to create back

in the day?

Those times, I was

trying to make rap music. My

influences are different, drum and

bass, UK garage, dance hall as well

as grand and a lot of West Coast

hip-hop. I was putting it all

together with the facilities I had.

I am not a classically trained

musician. I could not play that

early R&B and rap of the time so I

put everything together.

Crime is

very British. That is the thing. You

were listening to American stuff and

you could not get into it as much.

I

got into it, but I understood,

especially with the rap that you

have got a sense of where they were

from by the slang that they used and

the way they said things and that is

why I have to give credit to the

garage and drum and bass musicians,

because they help me to be proud of

where I was from because they

performed in a UK accent. I wanted

the stardom ought to be on the

biggest level of the Americans.

The

next chapter of your musical career

is out now, your new album is called

Raskit. The godfather of grime!

Bride to be Meghan is set to join

the The Firm. She has a lot to get

her head around. Michelle is in

London and Cardiff to discover what

advise people would pass on.

After

getting engaged to Prince Harry, it

seems that Meghan Markle is about to

swap pumpkin pie for pie and mash,

so what advice to be have for her?

My advice going into any large

family would be compromise.

Every

time. Just imagine it is going to be

like marrying into any other family,

there will be in-laws and you have

to treat your in-laws like royalty.

What would your advice be?

Don't

stop working. It is not like she's

going to be Queen.

Mark in together.

Pick up her socks and put them in

the basket.

Stay how she is because

that is why he is attracted to her.

Don't change your accent.

It is very

proud moment to see someone from

mixed race going into the Royal

Family.

She has to make sure her

style is on point. She is going to

be in the spotlight all the time.

I

think her toughest problem is what

to buy him for Christmas! What buy

them for Christmas?

She has already

been before tea, if you have been

for tea, bad is it.

-- that is it.

Earlier we asked you to share your

happy news if you got engaged in the

past few days.

We have got Daniel

and his now fiance. They got engaged

this weekend.

Congratulations. This

one is our favourite. Adrian and

Natalie have been together for ten

years, he asked to get married in

York.

APPLAUSE.

Arthur Smith is at that

stage in his life he enjoys a nice

bus trip and we have taken to

sending him around the country.

Arthur has been to Devon on what is

probably the country's least

frequent bus.

The bus is due at ten

past nine and you miss it at your

peril because it is a long wait to

the next one. There are only three

buses per year. And here it is. The

bus to a seaside town in Devon,

probably the rarest service in the

country, it departs on any fifth

Saturday over seven months of the

year. How often do you use the

service?

I have never been on this

bus. I have lived in Africa and New

Zealand and Australia and travelled

extensively but I have never been to

Dawlish.

It is a scheduled service

that stops along the way so councils

help pay for it. It is a simple

journey, not much more than one

hour. A return to Dawlish.

We don't

do returns. We do not have the

technology. We are a charitable

organisation. During the week we

concentrate on local routes. You

volunteer? Yes. That is very noble

of you Roger.

Why gives role. OK,

crack open the beers, we are off! We

are taking the scenic route,

travelling along the narrow lanes

and bridges of Dartmoor, pass the

prison and onto the coast. Are you

looking forward to going to Dawlish?

Yes I am. I have not been there

since 1958. When I saw that this bus

went there I thought it was a good

opportunity to go and have a look

around. I want to enjoy a bit of

lunch there and possibly a cream

tea.

Our proper Devon cream tea.

Yes. I

have been honoured at a lot of

times. It is a nice day out and

Dawlish is a special place for me.

Any chance to go to the seaside,

really. That must be one of the

bleakest landmarks on Dartmoor, the

prison. There have been hurt few

residents there in 200 years. It is

an austere looking place. You would

not want to be imprisoned there. If

they wanted to escape and of course

they do not, not a lot of places to

hide despite the mist. At the next

up there is a short queue. Sorry, no

room. I am listening out for wild

barking here because this is the

hound of the Baskervilles country.

Arthur Conan Doyle's gigantic hound

was meant to stop this area, it did

not take Sherlock blog to crack the

case. It was not the noble baronet

what done it. No surprise, to say

that Dartmoor has other dark

stories. We are not going down

there. That is the hairy hands road.

Hairy hands? What is that? The story

is that a pair of disembodied hands

come over your shoulder and grabbed

the steering wheel and take you off

the road.

Let's hope that does not

happen! Before the journey ends, I

have a cheeky question. How old are

you? 88 yesterday!

# Happy birthday to you.

# Happy birthday dear Gordon.

# Happy birthday to you.

Thank you

very much.

Dawlish, everyone. Let's

go and have some fun. A cup of tea

to start. That is the main thing.

What else do they do with their four

hours Dawlish? I find a few of them.

I have bought him a surprise. Oh

dear! It so happens I am the world

champion at minigolf. I will get

there. Yes! It is nearly half-past

three. If I miss this bus I will

have to wait five months for the

next one. I had better go.

Let's

hope he got there on time. We have

it on good authority that your

favourite bus route is the number

eight. I am number 94.

You don't

need buses in the country. We don't

have that many. That is a whole

different story. That is all we have

the time for.

Dizzee's album is out

now, it is called Raskit. Tomorrow

Alexander Armstrong and Alexandra

Burke will be here. From his album,

album macro, we will leave you with

Nicholas McCarthy performing

Rachmanioff's G Minor Prelude Opus

23, Number 5. -- Echoes.

MUSIC: Rachmaninoff's G Minor

Prelude Opus 23, Number five.