29/04/2016 The One Show

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Gethin! -- get in! ..and the very

persuasive Alex Jones. Can I just say, yow right,

Alex? I am, and I'm liking

the brummie hello, Michael. I've been watching Peaky Blinders

and I'm getting ready for to night's gets. It is set in Birmingham, where

I was born. That is the Michael Ball fact of the day. I look forward to

tomorrow. Let's introduce guest, the star of Peaky Blinders, as well as

films like the Queen and Skyfall. Please welcome Helen McCrory. Good

to see you. We will come to Peaky Blinders, but Michael and I have

been discussing our bank holiday plans. We don't have anything, do

we? Nothing. Have you got it nailed down for this weekend? We do, he is

flying back, Damien, from Washington to play football, England against

Germany. I'm taking the kids down, a day of school. It's the 1966

anniversary. Yes. The last time we won. As long as you don't ask me to

play, I'm their! Also want a night's show, Travis are back.

No, no, they aren't moaning about rain any more. They are all chirpy.

Hello, Travis. I'm from musical theatre and I can spot a fake smile

- are you genuinely happy? Absolutely, genuinely happy.

Delighted. It's freezing out there. We will hear their joyful sound

later when they perform their brand-new track, called Magnificent

Time. We have been playing it on Radio 2.

Now, Peaky Blinders, if you haven't seen it, you're missing out. It is

about an interim is Birmingham gang that run riot through the city at

the turn of the 20th century. -- and infamous Birmingham gang.

Against the backdrop of poverty in slums after the First World War,

Peaky Blinders follows the exploits of a gang of villains led by Thomas

Shelby who extorted and bullied their way around a good's second

city. Not since the soap Crossroads has Birmingham been portrayed as the

Centre for gang violence. But who were the real Peaky Blinders and RB

really as bad as they were portrayed? -- are they really? This

local historian knows about them. There were gangs in all of the

backstreets, known as sluggers. In the 1890s, a new name emerged for

the gangs, they were called Peaky Blinders. Where did that name come

from? There is a myth that the name comes from the fact that they sowed

razor blade into the peaks of their caps and they used them when they

fought. It is unfeasible. Try to do it. I have it on good authority that

you're related to one of them. My great-grandfather was one of them. I

am not particularly proud of it. He was a horrible, nasty, violent man

who was always in prison from a young age. Police records and

mugshots of the Peaky Blinders still exist. This looks like a bad episode

of Crimewatch. When you look at these blokes, they look like wrong

ones. No two ways about it. But they were really petty criminals, one

pay? They weren't gangsters of national notoriety like we see in

the series. They were villains, violent men and petty criminals.

They are not top gangsters as we see in the series. But some of the

characters that we see actually existed. That's true, isn't it? Like

Billy. I'm Billy Kemper. I'm going to have you shot against a post. --

Billy Kimber. He was depicted as a gangster from London who ran

protection rackets. The real one was a Brummie who was broad set, tall

and powerful. He was the most feared fighter in England. He moved quickly

to being the leader of the most feared gang at the beginning of

gangland history in England. Much of the filming for Peaky Blinders takes

place here at the Black Country Living museum. Steve Knight is the

programme's creator, and it is his own family's stories that gave him

inspiration to write the series. I have wanted to do it since I was a

kid. It was stories that were told by my parents. My dad's uncles told

stories. One of them, when he was a kid, was told to go and give a

message. When he got there, he said he opened the door and there were

ten men sitting around, the table covered in money, drinking beer from

jam jars. They were using children as runners for taking bets. My mum

was a bookie's runner. They told me stories that they had seen through

children's guys. They told them to me and they became doubly

mythologised. Give us the lowdown on series three. Very few facts. There

is an international element. Paddy Considine is possibly the most evil

character who has ever been in Peaky Blinders. It starts with Tommy

Shelby getting married. To whom? A woman. As for the real Peaky

Blinders, the gangs were eventually taken down by the police, and with

tougher sentencing and social changes, these villains all but

disappeared. There is no doubt that these men in peak caps have earned

their notoriety in history thanks to the series. But the real stories

behind the Peaky Blinders are just as compelling and dramatic as the

ones you see on-screen. Great film, that. Did you know about

the original history? That's great, that's my research for series format

right there. That's fantastic. It's amazing, isn't it? Yes. Let's talk

about your character. She is the leader of the gang. Bring us up to

speed for those who haven't seen it. You hold it all together. Peaky

Blinders, the last time we saw them was two years ago. You have seen

these criminals who run Birmingham as they become more powerful and

they start moving out nationally across the country. Now, two years

later, we see them with a lot more money, and now we're not just

national, we're going international. AUDIENCE: Oooh! Good audience.

Without giving away who Tommy is marrying, you have the Peaky

Blinders on one side of the church, the officers on the other side of

the church, which as we know, for the first time in the First World

War, they had fought cheek by Jarrold. The friction and

understanding that was there, -- cheek by jowl. Episode one has just

made the whole series epic. It has blown it up. It looks extraordinary.

It looks like a big budget production, which I guess is why it

has been such an international hit. It was big in the UK, but

internationally, and you have so many fans, important people. Tom

Cruise, Julia Roberts, Snoop Doggy Dogg. Big fans. That is hilarious.

I'm down with that. I think it's because Steve wasn't frightened and

apologising. So often, we see the upper classes being mythologised,

but we don't hear about 95% of the rest of the country that was keeping

these people in their houses, and this is what Peaky Blinders does. My

character is a petty criminal but she is bright, and if she had had an

education, she would have been running a business. She didn't, so

this was the only part of the one she could dominate, and my God, she

did. As you said, the first series is two years ahead. We will set the

scene. The matriarch of the gang is Polly, Cillian is there, and they

have moved to a mansion. Here is Polly chatting to a potential suitor

who, like everyone else, comes with serious baggage.

You have to tell me the reason or I won't be able to trust you. The

truth is... I slept with the wife of one of the kernels. But that was 12

years ago. The aristocracy don't believe in forgiveness. Neither do

the Shelbys. Really good cast. We mentioned

Cillian Murphy, as it happens, Dougie from Travis knows him

personally. If that right? What is the connection? It is true, yes.

Absolutely true. Kelly and Cillian made a movie together, and we ended

up living very close together in north London. He is a brilliant guy.

On-screen, obviously, he is intense and scary - what is he like in real

life? Does he buy a round? He is the coolest, loveliest guy, not scary.

He's also an amazing actor. Helen,... Cheers, Dougie. We know

you read here -- rehearsing The Deep Blue Sea. When do you open? Four

weeks. I have been lying around on the sofa doing a different type of

accent from the Brummie won, and then I talked to all the people who

ought to be in The Deep Blue Sea. It is because you are a very good

actress. We have some in the audience tonight. Sign them up.

Peaky Blinders starts next Thursday at 9pm on BBC Two.

Now from the Black Country to Belfast and a world-famous boxing

champion. Here is how he got the fighting chance to stay out of

trouble. I'm Carl Frampton, Super

Bantamweight champion of the world. COMMENTATOR: Carl Frampton has been

terrific in the last round, here. They say boxers have the eye

of the tiger and I certainly do because I grew up

in this neighbourhood - I'm still the same

person about here. I maybe have to sign a few more

autographs now and again! This is where I grew up,

this is where I ran Played football against

these walls here. It didn't seem like there was a lot

to do but we always found a way to enjoy ourselves

and make something fun. The object is, hit the kerb,

or crib, and try to catch The two boys on the wall,

Polo and Carn, they would have would have played football here,

we would have played together. My dad would have killed me

if he came out and saw my name spray-painted on the wall -

that would have been the end of me. I lived at the top end

of Tiger's Bay from about the first year of my life and we moved here,

Canning Street, and I stayed here until I was about 21,

I think. My bedroom was the front right

and it was the smallest When I was a kid, I was very small

and quiet and I sometimes got a bit I remember asking my mum to take me

down to the boxing He has been involved in the club

ever since I was involved, really. Carl came down as a seven-year-old

and he took to it, he love it. Carl came down as a seven-year-old

and he took to it, he loved it. So a couple of weeks

after he started, he was boxing. I just don't run up and down

and dance and scream and shout like people expect me to,

but certainly I'm proud. This club means the world

to me, honestly. Who knows which way I would have

went if it wasn't for boxing. When I was about 14,

15, 16, that sort of age, even on nights like this,

when the rain is coming down, you were still hanging

about around the park, They were probably my worst years,

if I'm being honest, when I was about 16,

17, that sort of age. When I was messing about and doing

things at the weekend that A bit of drinking, chasing the girls

and the cops used to come in every now and again and it was always good

craic getting the chase off the cop. But I suppose when you grow up

and you realise you're good at something, you want to put

everything into it. And when I hit about 18,

that's when I started to wise up and I got

on the straight and narrow. I knew that you have one crack

at this game and that is it, I wanted to have a go,

a proper go. IBF and WBA world

champion, Carl Frampton. This is a place very

close to my heart. I've been coming here

since it was going, So I've been coming here

for a long time. I'm allowed to eat this -

for a while, anyway. I love to come and get a portion

of cod bites, a carton of curry. I was recently honoured with an MBE

and it was a proud moment for me. The most nervous I have

ever been in my life, Coming back here reminds me of just

how well I have done over the years. If kids want to look at the picture

of me on the wall and get a wee bit of inspiration from that,

I think that's job well done. Friday night is fish and chip night,

isn't it? Tiger Bay is where he was from in Belfast. Tigers Bay. Tiger

Bay is your grandfather and here is the connection. This is a wonderful

picture. Flyweight champion of Wales 1933, he went into the war, served

in the RAF and then came out and went to Cardiff. And taught boys in

a very disadvantaged area exactly as this man is doing. And he talked to

me about the self-respect, you have to learn self-discipline, you must

never fight in temper, the rule is never punch below the belt. Keeping

yourself fit. I think it's fantastic and the thing this man is doing.

Thank you for bringing this in. I'm very proud. In Peaky Blinders the

odd bit of West Midlands slang creeps in. Alan, what we're going to

do is find out how much of the local lingo you managed to pick up while

you've been filming. I'm going to go over there and we'll play a game.

You are staying here. It is called Speaky Blinders. I'm joined, I

should say yam joined by three lads from the West Midlands. Nice to see

you. James, Steve and Spoz. You are going to say a unique word you would

say in your area then Helen and Michael have to guess what the word

means to the rest of the country. Bostin' for example... Means good. I

knew that, that's all right. You were an extra in Peaky Blinders. I

was it was filmed at the Black Country Museum. I got involved. I

was shovelling muck from one side of a platform to the other side. It was

beautiful. The glamour. Give us your word. My word is gambol. Give us

some context. I did a brilliant gambol at school today. Was James in

art class or P, do you think? It sounds like gamble. I would go with

PE. Bang on the money, Alex, it is PE. And its... A forward roll,

roly-poly. You organise the festival for the Black Country. We do the

festival, yeah. Birmingham tried to join but you weren't having any of

it. We've got a rivalry with them, we'll keep them to decide. My word

is Dubai. I watched one show last night and I was blarting. -- I

watched the One Show. Was he used or upset, do you think? Crying. Upset?

It is crying, isn't it? Three out of three. Very quickly, Spoz, ex-poet

laureate for Birmingham. What is your word? My word is wrekin'. I was

going round the wrekin'. Was he driving somewhere, in a fairground

maybe? Wynne I don't know. Tell them. Driving. If you take the wrong

turn, you are taking the long Way round. Three out of three is pretty

good, well done. That is why we get the big Bucs.

Now, the increasingly dark side of drones. Yes, those miniature

helicopters and cameras appearing from nowhere, recording everything

and you've no idea who is operating them or why. Question is, how do you

stop them? It's not a gun, no, it's not a

missile launcher, a drone catcher. Why would we need one of those? It

seems not a week goes by without drones making the headlines. Their's

evidence they are being used to deliver drugs and mobile phones into

prisons. And the company that looks at near misses aside 18 incidents in

the last six months. Drones do have a positive side, transporting

medicine, inspecting oil rigs and monitoring wildlife. The problem is,

sometimes drones malfunction and sometimes operators break the rules.

It might mean they get arrested. So, what are the rules surrounding drone

usage? Don't fly them within two miles of airports and air feels,

don't fly them where there are lots of aircraft. Absolutely don't fly

them over 400 feet. For them to be successful in future, people now

need to operate them safely. But how do you go about stopping one?

Government agencies have tested burning them with lasers, jamming

their frequencies, even catching them with Eagles, and using other

drones to ensnare them. Now, the unmanned aerial vehicle has a new

enemy. It's the brainchild of five UK graduates, who founded the

engineering company nine months ago. What have we got here? Sky was 100

portable drone defense system. Made of alimony and carbon fibre. How

does it work in principle? This is loaded into the back of the lodger,

air is powered on to the back of it, the operator look through the scope,

locks onto the drone and when it find it, the drone is captured. Can

we have a demonstration? Could anybody use your system? At

the moment in the UK it's illegal for anybody to interfere with a

drone because a drone is an aircraft after all. Our system will be used

by government authorities and law enforcement bodies like the police.

Is this a superior way of catching drones? It's one of a number of ways

of defeating the threat. You have to look at each scenario and tailor the

solution to it. What works for protecting President Obama when

doing an open-air speech might not work for a nuclear power station or

Warner Brothers set of the next Game of Thrones. The keeping with this

system is it's a very portable system and low-cost. It's the sort

of thing you can deploy very quickly and that's important. What is the

future for this drone catcher? The court skywalk technology will be

developed into other systems which could be permanently installed at

sites like nuclear power stations or airports.

Globally, the soaring sales of drones for an opportunity, but also

present security headaches. Might the answer to that be found in this

Northumbrian field? Watch this space.

Thank you, Lucy. He was just saying hello. Travis. Travis, Helen,

Commons, Travis. I love the song, the radio is

important, isn't it? Really important, it's how I always

discovered music, through radio. The thing about radio, you can't see

dance moves, which is a shame because they are brilliant and

simple and we're all going to do them. And you at home. Go and get

ready. Thank you, Fran. We're going to learn how to dance? Thank you to

all of our guests tonight. You can see Helen in the new series of Peaky

Blinders on BBC Two on Thursday night. And thank you to Michael for

joining me, he's been lovely. Let's have a look at that record. It's

proper, it's vinyl, it's the real thing. It's lovely to see it. Can

you get it in other formats? You can get it in all formats. There will be

backing singers and dancers and we will join as well. See you Monday.

Let's pop over here, come on. # It was summer in the city and my

heart stood still # I looked at the past inside my

rearview mirror # There was nobody behind me and

nothing up ahead # I knew I'd never feel the same

again # There was imagery in motion,

# There was gossip in the class # There was holding hands and making

plans # And if I had more time then I wish

you would # I really really really wish you

would # But that's the part we never tried

to stop # Ooooh

# No regret, don't you forget # This magnificent time

# Seize the day, don't throw away # I was somewhere in the city and my

heart went boom # I packed all my troubles in a

different room # And I thought of all the could

have beens # The roads we never took

# And how the story ends # But that's the part we never tried

to stop # We never tried

# Ooooh # Seize the day, don't throw away

# This magnificent time # Magnificent time

# Magnificent time. # APPLAUSE

CHEERING