:00:22. > :00:26.carried to the top of Snowdon. In the same country that hosted the
:00:27. > :00:30.very first relay for the 1958 Commonwealth Games. A country but
:00:31. > :00:34.I'm proud to say we are standing in now.
:00:35. > :00:38.Croeso i Cymru. Welcome to Wales!
:00:39. > :00:48.Where shortly we will welcome the Queen's Batten. Earlier it set of on
:00:49. > :00:57.a five-day race. I think they will be here on time. But while we wait
:00:58. > :01:10.let us meet our guest tonight. Let us put on some music. It is The
:01:11. > :01:17.Shadows. It is the man famous for that
:01:18. > :01:26.sound. And he always leaves us hungry for more. It is Hank Marvin.
:01:27. > :01:34.Good to see you. Have you been to this part of the country before. I
:01:35. > :01:39.have driven past a few times heading further south to places like
:01:40. > :01:50.Aberystwyth. But it is wonderful to be here. You have chosen a fantastic
:01:51. > :01:56.day. I love the summer here! Later on we will be speaking about sibling
:01:57. > :01:59.rivalry. A great film about brothers who competed against each other in
:02:00. > :02:07.the Commonwealth Games and they are going to rerun that race. What about
:02:08. > :02:13.you with several rivalry growing up? -- sibling rivalry. One time
:02:14. > :02:15.when I was about seven or eight and my brother was about four years old,
:02:16. > :02:21.he stood in front of the my brother was about four years old,
:02:22. > :02:25.and he would not move and I said if you do not move I
:02:26. > :02:32.and he would not move and I said if you. I threw it and it got stuck in
:02:33. > :02:43.his leg. I have never got over it! You know Oscar Pistorius, well my
:02:44. > :02:53.mother is now on one leg at Manor. -- my brother is a one legged
:02:54. > :03:01.runner. You are going to love this. Let's get the pinger on screen.
:03:02. > :03:07.There it is. It is 55 days until the bat on which is Glasgow for the
:03:08. > :03:14.start of the Commonwealth Games. But what exactly is it. Here is its
:03:15. > :03:19.unique connection to Wales. The One Show has tracked the journey of the
:03:20. > :03:28.Queen's bat on. And with 55 days to go it is here in Wales. I have been
:03:29. > :03:34.privileged to carry it in parts of Wales on its way to Glasgow. Down
:03:35. > :03:37.the years the route to the games has always been creative and special.
:03:38. > :03:42.Passing the baton has been a tradition from day one. Today I
:03:43. > :03:49.joined two runners from West Wales who had that a village in 1958. 50
:03:50. > :03:56.odd years ago it was a lot further and faster. Slightly faster. We did
:03:57. > :04:03.just over a mile. I remember it was a lovely day and there was quite a
:04:04. > :04:10.large crowd in the town centre. I did not have a crowd, just three
:04:11. > :04:17.people with me. After that was exchanged and I took it I shot off
:04:18. > :04:21.and a Rolls-Royce drew up alongside me and asked me to slow down a
:04:22. > :04:28.little. Otherwise it would be ahead of schedule. I was too fast for the
:04:29. > :04:34.Rolls-Royce! Do you feel proud today? I feel proud that I was able
:04:35. > :04:40.to be here. And there are so many children participating. And still it
:04:41. > :04:46.is the ordinary members of the public charged with ringing the
:04:47. > :04:52.Queen's bat on safely to the games. We had the chance to write a letter
:04:53. > :04:59.to see way -- why we should be chosen. My letter was dead. And
:05:00. > :05:03.you're quite sporty so I do not think fitness will be a problem. You
:05:04. > :05:09.have cycled miles with your dad. And you will have cycled from lands end
:05:10. > :05:19.to John O'Groats? I'm doing that to raise money for the important work
:05:20. > :05:25.that my charity does. So you are very excited? Yes. If you could
:05:26. > :05:30.share your experience with anyone, who would you run alongside? My dad
:05:31. > :05:32.because he does lots of things with me and he taught me how to cycle. He
:05:33. > :05:39.is like a best friend to me. me and he taught me how to cycle. He
:05:40. > :05:49.good crowd assembled the moment has finally arrived for Jack to hold the
:05:50. > :05:54.Batten. Enjoying it, yes. He is about to pass it onto his dad, this
:05:55. > :06:10.is complete surprise, his dad is not expecting this. Well done. I'm
:06:11. > :06:15.coming with you? Seriously? At six o'clock this morning while I was on
:06:16. > :06:23.the train local runners went all the way up Snowdon, over 3000 feet. And
:06:24. > :06:27.here it is arriving at the top of what is normally a very picturesque
:06:28. > :06:38.Snowdon. A proud day for Wales and for the Commonwealth.
:06:39. > :06:48.And look who has got hold of it now. Powering her way up the Menai
:06:49. > :06:53.Strait. What a moment that was! It was
:06:54. > :07:02.fantastic, so exhilarating to be part of it. And it was beautiful out
:07:03. > :07:09.on the Menai Straits. It has been a long day. But I got the train up
:07:10. > :07:17.their! It is too early in the morning to run for me. You could
:07:18. > :07:21.almost see the message. If you look closely you can see a few of the
:07:22. > :07:25.words of that message inside from the Queen. But we had some
:07:26. > :07:32.suggestions on the Facebook page as to what the message might say. Paul
:07:33. > :07:39.said it is by my royal decree that there will be no frowning or boredom
:07:40. > :07:46.at these games. This is my personal wish, but I do not get pushed out
:07:47. > :07:55.the helicopter. Hang, what do you think the message would say. I know
:07:56. > :08:05.what it is. She says the new CD from Hank Marvin is out soon. So where
:08:06. > :08:09.will it go from here is Mac one more day in Wales and then it goes to
:08:10. > :08:14.England on Saturday. 10,000 people are expected in Congleton, a great
:08:15. > :08:20.turnout. Then on Wednesday it goes down south. My beloved Southampton.
:08:21. > :08:28.And then at the weekend it goes to London and they expect 20,000
:08:29. > :08:36.people. Matthew Pinsent will be abseiling from a building there. And
:08:37. > :08:44.then it goes to Suffolk. Everyone who wanted it to go to their town,
:08:45. > :08:47.they had to apply and say why. Suffolk put in some really creative
:08:48. > :08:55.ideas. And in Ipswich they have a big family day with pyrotechnics and
:08:56. > :09:08.music. And then it goes up to Newcastle. Away, the lads. Then it
:09:09. > :09:17.goes to Scotland. It will be there 40 days, hand-to-hand action, proper
:09:18. > :09:23.relay style. Schools are going to be running. And it will end up going to
:09:24. > :09:28.Edinburgh and on the 23rd of July it is the opening ceremony in Glasgow
:09:29. > :09:36.and we will be there. An epic journey. And the Royal Mint have
:09:37. > :09:45.created something special to commemorate the event. 5 million of
:09:46. > :09:53.these special 50p pieces for the Commonwealth Games. That could be
:09:54. > :10:02.worth some money one day. Get your hands on one,
:10:03. > :10:06.Welcome to Wales! I can hear The Shadow's hit song
:10:07. > :10:18.Apache, which signals that the baton is about to arrive.
:10:19. > :10:32.Here we have an incredible hammer thrower. I'm not very good at
:10:33. > :10:38.running! How was it to get your hands on that. It was very exciting
:10:39. > :10:43.to take part in such a great event. You hope to be part of the Welsh
:10:44. > :10:54.team. How is training going and help confident are you? Well training is
:10:55. > :10:59.going well. I just had my university exams recently. And you
:11:00. > :11:02.going well. I just had my university results at the same time? It will be
:11:03. > :11:07.a very nervous moment. Which you more nervous about? If I fail I will
:11:08. > :11:17.have to take the resit around the same time. Just throw a hammer at
:11:18. > :11:22.the present! These old they are different weights? There is a
:11:23. > :11:28.specific weight and length that we have to use for competitions.
:11:29. > :11:31.for training we use different ones. We tend to use the larger one to
:11:32. > :11:41.focus on speed and then the heavier ones. They look fantastic but
:11:42. > :11:54.they're not what I expected. Where are the actual hammers? I am with
:11:55. > :12:02.you on this. They look gladiatorial. And there will be a lot of sibling
:12:03. > :12:14.rivalry at the games this year. We have some battling sisters.
:12:15. > :12:16.is about to arrive. Amarah
:12:17. > :12:28.and Elinah Phillip will be swimming for the British Virgin Islands.
:12:29. > :12:31.We met some runners who may not have won anything if not for its doubling
:12:32. > :12:44.rivalry. -- sibling rivalry. won anything if not for its doubling
:12:45. > :12:47.gold. They both represented Scotland, fulfilling the dream
:12:48. > :12:51.gold. They both represented their Scottish father. But here in
:12:52. > :12:56.Birmingham they grew up and they trained
:12:57. > :12:57.Birmingham they grew up and they intense rivalry began. Today they're
:12:58. > :13:01.in their 60s, intense rivalry began. Today they're
:13:02. > :13:09.competitive. I have come to me where it all started. Where you are
:13:10. > :13:15.typical younger brother? I was, you always put your brother on a
:13:16. > :13:22.pedestal and look up to them. As brothers you're always rivals. I was
:13:23. > :13:31.more than capable of getting myself into a lot of trouble. I used to
:13:32. > :13:36.find it at pain in the neck. When he went camping with his friends he set
:13:37. > :13:42.fire to the tent and I got the blame for it. I was not even their! Went
:13:43. > :13:50.in turn 16 he began to take on his brother on the track. They joined
:13:51. > :13:56.the Lichfield Harriers running club and his younger brother was
:13:57. > :14:01.desperate to join. I just got fanatical about it. I ramped up the
:14:02. > :14:09.mileage and I had no time for anyone else. When the brothers came up
:14:10. > :14:15.against each other in 1970 in Edinburgh it turned out to be one of
:14:16. > :14:20.their greatest battles yet. Peter Stewart, Ian
:14:21. > :14:23.their greatest battles yet. Peter before the Commonwealth Games came
:14:24. > :14:27.to Edinburgh the brothers were pitched against each other running a
:14:28. > :14:31.mile on track built especially for games. You have not seen this
:14:32. > :14:41.footage before. We managed to track it down. You are mesmerised! What is
:14:42. > :14:48.going through your head? This was a tough race. It is Peter Stewart who
:14:49. > :14:58.is going to make it. That was probably the wrong thing to do. Here
:14:59. > :15:05.we go. Ian Stewart coming back again. He had snatched victory from
:15:06. > :15:12.his brother. Did that hurt? It definitely hurt. I would top not let
:15:13. > :15:16.him get past if I could have helped it. I was not happy. The coach was
:15:17. > :15:23.not happy, he had a good moan at it. I was not happy. The coach was
:15:24. > :15:28.This nail-biting race spurred the brothers on to qualify for their
:15:29. > :15:32.biggest competition yet, the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. But
:15:33. > :15:37.this time they competed in different races. Peter was first in the 1500
:15:38. > :15:42.metres final but came a disappointing fourth. His older
:15:43. > :15:50.brother had just missed out on a medal so Ian Stewart saw the chance
:15:51. > :15:58.to do him again. My coach was convinced I'd could not win the
:15:59. > :16:05.five. That was the end of it and I never saw my coach again. Ian
:16:06. > :16:11.Stewart hit the front with 450 metres to go and in spite of a
:16:12. > :16:18.valiant effort from Ian McCafferty, a fellow Scot, he held him off to
:16:19. > :16:21.claim the gold medal. Since the brothers ran at the Commonwealth
:16:22. > :16:27.Games their competitive streak has not faded. So today 44 years on the
:16:28. > :16:36.brothers are back on the track to settle the score once and for all.
:16:37. > :16:48.On your marks, set. You did your best, but not quite
:16:49. > :16:53.good enough, but you will always be the older brother. Yes, and you will
:16:54. > :16:57.always be the little brother. But we have a medal to rival the
:16:58. > :17:04.Commonwealth Games gold. It is better than that, I can tell you.
:17:05. > :17:08.Good answer. Well done, lads. Congratulations. Interestingly,
:17:09. > :17:14.Hank, your son and daughter are involved in the new album which you
:17:15. > :17:20.beautifully plugged earlier on. Is there much rivalry between them? Not
:17:21. > :17:24.really. Where there is rivalry between brother and sister, the
:17:25. > :17:29.sister wins every time. I haven't got a brother, but I imagine that is
:17:30. > :17:32.the case. They are very close, and they have an acoustic duo and they
:17:33. > :17:40.do a lot of work around Perth in Australia. My daughter, she has just
:17:41. > :17:47.gone into real estate. Oh, dear. I hope she's not watching this. She's
:17:48. > :17:53.going to be good at it, I know. Before we talk about your new music,
:17:54. > :18:23.let's have a few classics from the The Shadows.
:18:24. > :18:31.Hank, it's so relaxing, even when you speed up it seems to calm me
:18:32. > :18:34.down, your music. But you started playing with your friends in a bar
:18:35. > :18:38.in London and then you are asked to be the guitarist for Cliff Richard.
:18:39. > :18:42.What was your impression then of Sir Cliff before you started working
:18:43. > :18:53.with him? I don't do impressions. Sorry. We were 16, Cliff was 17 when
:18:54. > :18:58.we met, and he was kind of a youth as we work, and within about an
:18:59. > :19:03.hour, he was getting fitted in London for his first tour on and we
:19:04. > :19:07.went back to his parents Council house for the first rehearsal,
:19:08. > :19:10.travelling in style on the Green line bus. And that is when we got to
:19:11. > :19:17.know each other. We found out we had the same sense of humour, the goons,
:19:18. > :19:22.Tony Hancock and we were all mad about Brigitte Bardot. Our dream
:19:23. > :19:26.woman at the time. That was it. Within about an hour on the bus, we
:19:27. > :19:32.felt at home, and we struck up a friendship that has lasted until
:19:33. > :19:37.today. To be fair, he had heard your music, and that unique sound you
:19:38. > :19:42.have with the Echo box, at the time, that set up guitar playing as we
:19:43. > :19:49.know it today. It was something different at the time. How did that
:19:50. > :19:54.come about? Accident. We had a Stratocaster, which Cliff bought
:19:55. > :19:58.me, and Bruce had it, he borrowed it from Cliff and never gave it back.
:19:59. > :20:05.He's going to give it me one day, apparently. I had the guitar, with
:20:06. > :20:09.the whammy bar, and that was important in developing the style.
:20:10. > :20:15.But the Echo box was the cream on the Coffey, or the icing on the
:20:16. > :20:20.cake. -- in the Coffey. That gave us the sound, the different echoes.
:20:21. > :20:27.Somebody called me the godfather of delay. I think they meant I was
:20:28. > :20:31.always late. But it certainly was an important factor in producing the
:20:32. > :20:37.sound. Let's talk about the new album, it is called Hank, and it is
:20:38. > :20:41.full of summer hits. Very summery songs, perfect for this lovely
:20:42. > :20:46.bright day. I hope it makes a change from the weather when it comes out.
:20:47. > :20:52.There they go. We should mention this. This is a five K race. It is
:20:53. > :20:56.halfway around the harbour, so by the end of the programme, the baton
:20:57. > :21:00.will have gone all the way round. Which is your favourite track? A
:21:01. > :21:07.difficult one, but one of my favourite songs is a thing called
:21:08. > :21:16.California Girls. This is a different version from the Beach
:21:17. > :21:19.boys, obviously. We had it on during my barbecue, and there was nothing
:21:20. > :21:26.better run. You will need a beanie hat and a barbecue turned up to keep
:21:27. > :21:32.your -- you warm. Everybody, isn't Hank wonderful? We can see Anglesey.
:21:33. > :21:37.Just point up a little bit there. Over there there is a sport which
:21:38. > :21:41.has lifted the spirits of everyone in the town of Holyhead. But why is
:21:42. > :21:42.one town so obsessed with weightlifting? It all comes down to
:21:43. > :21:52.the enthusiasm of one man. Holyhead in North Wales is straining
:21:53. > :21:57.under the weight of success. Population, 13,000, number of
:21:58. > :22:04.gymnasiums, one. It's really good at weightlifting. Is there something in
:22:05. > :22:09.the water? The town's only gymnasium is run by the national coach, Ray
:22:10. > :22:14.Williams, who won Commonwealth gold in 1986, inspired by another local
:22:15. > :22:17.medallist from a decade earlier. Robert was my teacher, and the
:22:18. > :22:21.minute I saw his bronze medal, all I wanted to do in life was lift
:22:22. > :22:26.weights. From that, in a small town, those were great stories
:22:27. > :22:28.through the decades, and it captured everybody's imagination. You look at
:22:29. > :22:37.weightlifting is a small sport, in Great Britain, but in Holyhead, it's
:22:38. > :22:40.massive. And then there were more. I hold five world records in
:22:41. > :22:48.powerlifting and I'm 76 years of age. If I hadn't taken the sport up
:22:49. > :22:53.I haven't got a clue what I'd be doing. Probably playing bowls.
:22:54. > :22:58.Pumping iron like this does more than work up a sweat. Sure, it gives
:22:59. > :23:04.you great guns, but it's also good for your bones, your balance and
:23:05. > :23:08.your state of mind. You need to be mentally robust, but you need
:23:09. > :23:18.flexibility, speed strength, power and that total sort of focus to
:23:19. > :23:22.flexibility, speed strength, power weight. It's not what people
:23:23. > :23:26.expect. It's very athletic. People think it is all
:23:27. > :23:31.expect. It's very athletic. People and heaving the weights around, but
:23:32. > :23:34.it is so technical. For Byron, it was life changing. He first walked
:23:35. > :23:37.into the gym five years ago when he was 11 years old and he weighed 16
:23:38. > :23:46.and a half stone. At the time I was was 11 years old and he weighed 16
:23:47. > :23:52.wasn't able to play football for long periods of time. My weight was
:23:53. > :23:53.going up. Heavyweight was his problem, but heavyweights became the
:23:54. > :23:58.answer. Up to five times problem, but heavyweights became the
:23:59. > :24:02.sessions lasting two hours at a time. Six years later I've lost five
:24:03. > :24:04.and a half stone and it makes me feel more confident in everything I
:24:05. > :24:12.do in life. Gareth Evans is representing Wales in this year 's
:24:13. > :24:15.Commonwealth Games. I always said you had to had a bit of a screw
:24:16. > :24:20.loose to be a weightlifter. You are throwing yourself into picking up
:24:21. > :24:23.things that are two and a half times your body weight. You have to have a
:24:24. > :24:28.good work ethic and train hard and be willing to get into the gym, even
:24:29. > :24:32.if you don't want to go. Things will be feeling heavy, but you are a
:24:33. > :24:36.weightlifter. The membership here has increased tenfold in two years
:24:37. > :24:40.after it was revamped thanks to European funding. It is now a
:24:41. > :24:43.world-class facility, designed to create world-class weightlifters.
:24:44. > :24:47.But you don't have to be a budding champion to come here. Anybody can
:24:48. > :24:52.walk through the door. Doesn't matter if you are male, female, 12,
:24:53. > :24:55.62, if you want to come in and lift weights, then come in and lift
:24:56. > :25:00.weights, then coming Gareth Evans and we are joined by some or
:25:01. > :25:06.hopefuls from the team. Hank, am I right in saying you used to do one
:25:07. > :25:12.arm press ups? I did, then I found that I had two arms and it was
:25:13. > :25:17.easier. I couldn't do it now. OK, fair enough. Let's meet Aled Thomas
:25:18. > :25:24.or should I say Aled Sion Davies MBE. Your credentials are quite
:25:25. > :25:26.something. Gold in the 2011 world athletics, gold in the 2012
:25:27. > :25:31.Paralympics, gold on the 20 13th world Championships. What are your
:25:32. > :25:36.hopes for Glasgow? I just want to make the games. I find out on
:25:37. > :25:41.Sunday. That is the official date for the athletics, so I found out --
:25:42. > :25:45.so I find out then. I'm pretty confident, broke the world record
:25:46. > :25:53.two weeks ago, so maybe that should be enough to make the team. I want a
:25:54. > :26:00.word with Cathay. Lawn bowls. This could be the Commonwealth curling.
:26:01. > :26:04.You could say that. What is so exciting about lawn bowls? It's a
:26:05. > :26:07.great sport to be involved in. You can play at all ages, but having
:26:08. > :26:13.said that, the international players do tend to be in their 20s, 30s and
:26:14. > :26:16.40s, which I think goes against the normal thinking about lawn bowls
:26:17. > :26:21.being an old person 's sport. The international team are made up of
:26:22. > :26:29.young people, and I am the oldest. Have you made the team? Yes, I have.
:26:30. > :26:35.Yes, we have got one. Katie, clay pigeon shooting. How things looking?
:26:36. > :26:40.Looking good, I made the team, and I was told I was qualified in
:26:41. > :26:44.December. How you getting your eye in before the games? I've got a lot
:26:45. > :26:52.of training days lined up, here and the way. -- away. I am with Phoebe,
:26:53. > :26:57.part of the hockey team. Out of the team feel? Very excited. We found
:26:58. > :27:01.out what the team was two weeks ago, and I am in. Another round of
:27:02. > :27:09.applause, I think. Training hard then? Yes, we have two weeks off now
:27:10. > :27:13.as it's been an eight week cycle, but we're trying to get as fit as we
:27:14. > :27:18.can before the games. Good luck to you all. That is nearly at for
:27:19. > :27:22.tonight. Just to say, a big thank you to Hank, and the album, Hank, is
:27:23. > :27:30.out on Monday. The baton will make its way around the harbour shortly.
:27:31. > :27:33.In the meantime, we are going to see the Cofis Bach vertical stunt
:27:34. > :27:37.dancers accompanied by the Syr Hugh Owen school singing a traditional
:27:38. > :27:40.Welsh classic, men of Harlech. See you tomorrow.