:00:07. > :00:08.The rumour mill has been in overdrive over the final three
:00:09. > :00:13.On tonight's One Show - we'll speak to them live.
:00:14. > :00:21.And who's going to be shaking this particular tush?
:00:22. > :00:40.Welcome to your Friday One Show with Gabby Logan.
:00:41. > :00:44.Now it's not all Strictly tonight - we're also joined
:00:45. > :00:47.by an actor whose characters are always a force to be reckoned with.
:00:48. > :00:54.From the unlikely hero Oskar Schindler in the Academy
:00:55. > :00:57.To the great Scottish folk hero Rob Roy.
:00:58. > :01:00.He was a formidable Jedi Master in Star Wars.
:01:01. > :01:05.And electrified audiences in the Taken series.
:01:06. > :01:20.Even when he's yellow and made of plastic!
:01:21. > :01:30.Playing dumb, master builder. That is my favourite, it is Liam
:01:31. > :01:36.Neeson, everyone! Welcome to the One Show.
:01:37. > :01:41.Even in the Lego Movie, you play a tough character with the good side.
:01:42. > :01:46.Always that moral fibre. What attracts you to those roles? They
:01:47. > :01:52.are more interesting to play. It is boring to play someone who is always
:01:53. > :01:58.one note. You know? And this film I am doing at the moment, "A Walk
:01:59. > :02:06.Among The Tombstones", it is a kind of cinematic loner. He has a good
:02:07. > :02:10.inner moral compass but shady. A complex character there. We will
:02:11. > :02:14.talk about it later and see a clip. As far as dangerous roles are
:02:15. > :02:18.concerned, what is the most dangerous role you have played?
:02:19. > :02:27.Dangerous to you as a human being, not as an actor? Hmm... Not as an
:02:28. > :02:32.actor, gosh, that is a tricky one, Chris. Let's move on.
:02:33. > :02:38.We can't it is the link to the next film! Have you had to perform a
:02:39. > :02:46.stunt where you thought that your life was in danger here? Give me a
:02:47. > :02:50.clue... No. I will tell you why. Liam is health and safety conscious.
:02:51. > :02:57.We are talking about workplace safety. You know why? The much
:02:58. > :03:02.maligned Health and Safety Act is years old.
:03:03. > :03:07.And the passion and the drive of a largely forgotten man was always
:03:08. > :03:14.there. One man has made it his mission to
:03:15. > :03:18.irritate... That must be a fire door.
:03:19. > :03:26.Embarrass. And shamed people into being safety conscious.
:03:27. > :03:33.His name was James Tie and he single mindedly made the world safer.
:03:34. > :03:40.He explained his campaigning tactics as T AM E. It stood for his approach
:03:41. > :03:46.to maximum embarrassment. The strategy was to grab as much
:03:47. > :03:49.attention as possible. Believing it was shame that motivated people into
:03:50. > :03:55.action. He was not a man shy of courting
:03:56. > :04:01.controveersy. No question about it. He used this as a weapon. At times
:04:02. > :04:06.causing upset, offending people but equally to help to create an
:04:07. > :04:10.effective campaigning organisation. He knew what would grab the public
:04:11. > :04:15.and the media's attention. This is the worst position in the
:04:16. > :04:21.world for a petrol tank... It worked. The identity for publicity
:04:22. > :04:25.was hugely influential about bringing about safety improvements
:04:26. > :04:33.that we take for granted today. He campaigned to make seat belts
:04:34. > :04:37.compulsory. To enprove the efficiency of life jackets. To
:04:38. > :04:45.ensure that taxi doors were strong enough not to be blown open. No-one
:04:46. > :04:51.was above his campaigning zeal. In 1977 he even up braided Princess
:04:52. > :05:01.Anne. Leaving hospital with her new-born son, Peter, and failing to
:05:02. > :05:06.fasten her seat belt. A training Shichito was set up in
:05:07. > :05:12.1957 and it ran for nearly 30 years. Health and safety was more than just
:05:13. > :05:18.a job. But it was a calling, a crusade.
:05:19. > :05:23.Did people like him? Not really. He was a very effective safety
:05:24. > :05:32.campaigner and also an arch self-publicist. Not always a man
:05:33. > :05:38.that I liked but he did have impact. As Tie's boat came into dock. He and
:05:39. > :05:42.his colleagues decided to throw lifejackets into the sea to
:05:43. > :05:47.celebrate. The jackets sank to the bottom of the ocean. This prompted
:05:48. > :05:50.him to jump feet first in front of the cameras to Demme trait the
:05:51. > :05:57.problem. It is a disgusting state of affairs.
:05:58. > :06:04.This does not conform. But for all of his charisma and
:06:05. > :06:09.attention-grabbing stunts, he was deadly serious about his mission.
:06:10. > :06:13.That is still keenly felt today. Lawrence Waterman was in charge of
:06:14. > :06:19.health and safety for the Olympics. He now does the same job as the
:06:20. > :06:26.Olympic Park is redeveloped. This is the first Olympic built
:06:27. > :06:31.without fatality. It was believed that it was possible to work safely.
:06:32. > :06:34.Good health and safety means that people go home to their family at
:06:35. > :06:40.night. He irritated a lot of people? Anyone
:06:41. > :06:45.that nudges for change, on an agenda that the politicians don't have is
:06:46. > :06:50.always a bit of an irritant. He was a great campaigner! It is hard to
:06:51. > :06:54.imagine how one person is so instrumental in improving safety in
:06:55. > :07:00.the country. You may think it was the result of armies of bureaucrats.
:07:01. > :07:06.But legislation and the health Health and Safety at Work Act has
:07:07. > :07:10.improved safety no end. Since the introduction 40 years ago, the
:07:11. > :07:14.deaths at work have fallen by an astonishing 80%.
:07:15. > :07:17.This man succeeded as he was so committed. He fought against the
:07:18. > :07:23.odds and in the end won because he was right. As a result, the world is
:07:24. > :07:30.a safer place. So, well done.
:07:31. > :07:36.Health and safety is everywhere. You are an ex-builder? I worked on
:07:37. > :07:45.sites when I was 14 or 15. Nobody wore a hard halt! You just did not.
:07:46. > :07:48.I worked as a fork lift truck driver in the Guinness factory. Constantly
:07:49. > :07:53.without a hat. A dangerous place.
:07:54. > :07:58.Yes, much maligned but very important for all of us. Now, your
:07:59. > :08:04.new film, "A Walk Among The Tombstones", out September the 19th,
:08:05. > :08:09.an ex-cop, alcoholic, troubled. A lot is going on there... Yeah, he is
:08:10. > :08:13.not relationship material! You can see how he would struggle to hold
:08:14. > :08:20.one down with that going on. So take it from there and tell us what
:08:21. > :08:25.happens? You are right, he is an ex-NYPD guy. Something terrible
:08:26. > :08:30.happens to him that makes him leave the force. I will not tell you what
:08:31. > :08:35.it is, it is in the film. But investigative work is in his DNA so
:08:36. > :08:40.he takes up life as an unlicensed private investigator. He is brought
:08:41. > :08:43.in to solve these heinous horrible crimes.
:08:44. > :08:47.Here is the moment where your character is hired to bring the
:08:48. > :08:51.killers to justice. If you are asking me to run a bag,
:08:52. > :08:57.deliver money, that is not something... I already paid them.
:08:58. > :09:03.When? Last night. And your wife? Where is she? She is
:09:04. > :09:11.dead. . I paid them but they killed her
:09:12. > :09:20.anyway. Now, there is a lot of rain in this
:09:21. > :09:32.film. Because of course, that is the old way of Hollywood increasing the
:09:33. > :09:37.drama on the scene. How did it work? We shot eight weeks of night shift
:09:38. > :09:44.in New York. A lot of the time it was real rain. How did does it work
:09:45. > :09:50.with the rain machines that they had? How big are they? They are as
:09:51. > :09:55.high as the ceiling. Was it rain off, rain on? Yes but
:09:56. > :09:58.varying degrees. Can you request temperatures? It is
:09:59. > :10:03.cold. It makes the action more real.
:10:04. > :10:10.One thing you are good at is fighting. You were a bit of a boxer?
:10:11. > :10:16.I did. I boxed for several years. Not just one thing that you are good
:10:17. > :10:22.at, by the way but lots of things! You did box to quite a high level as
:10:23. > :10:27.a kid? I was the Ulster champion a few years, three years... Do you
:10:28. > :10:35.still box? No, I train. I use a heavy back.
:10:36. > :10:45.-- bag. You look fit. I was asked to ask you
:10:46. > :10:51.about the Mohammed Ali story? The Mohammed Ali story. I met him. He
:10:52. > :10:59.was over here promoting a terrible film. He was playing a slave. The
:11:00. > :11:06.lady I was with was invited to this preshow. It was a meeting with
:11:07. > :11:10.Mohammed Ali. There were various British celebrities there, Freddie
:11:11. > :11:14.Star, people like that. About ten of us. Mohammed Ali came into the room.
:11:15. > :11:20.There he was. He still had one more fight in him. He was like a God to
:11:21. > :11:27.me. Well we all formed a little line. He came along each of us to
:11:28. > :11:32.shake our hands. As he came closer to me, my knees literally started to
:11:33. > :11:38.shake. He got to me. I remember looking at him asking him to sign
:11:39. > :11:47.this for my father. He asked what was his name. I said it was Barney.
:11:48. > :11:54.He started to sign it and I lost it saying "Mohammed Ali, I love you! "
:11:55. > :12:01.So he gave me a big hug. I think that my girlfriend was disgusted. I
:12:02. > :12:07.became like an eight-year-old. More later about strict strict but
:12:08. > :12:16.first, more farmers are turning crops into Bayeux feel. Jane has
:12:17. > :12:22.finding out how it may transform Britain's landscape.
:12:23. > :12:31.A beautiful summer's day, the corn is so high. Now, Bayeux crops,
:12:32. > :12:35.should they be used for food or turned to green energy? At this
:12:36. > :12:40.farm, this are aiming to achieve both. They have expanded to become
:12:41. > :12:47.the biggest supplier of sweetcorn in the UK. Dealing with the waste of
:12:48. > :12:51.the crop. We eat 75 million a year. If you
:12:52. > :12:56.consider that a quarter is discarded as waste before it gets to the shop
:12:57. > :13:02.it is a lot of spare roughage. The sweetcorn comes to the field
:13:03. > :13:07.with the husk in tact. We remove that. The consumer does not want it
:13:08. > :13:13.in their kitchen. What did you do with it before? We sent it to
:13:14. > :13:23.farmers to use in beef cattle. Now we put it into a machine that is fed
:13:24. > :13:29.with green waste and the product is digested within the tanks, within
:13:30. > :13:39.the stomach, to produce, rather than milk or meat but to produce Bayeux
:13:40. > :13:46.gas -- bio gas. So like an enormous part? Exactly.
:13:47. > :13:53.We produce two megawatts 24 hours a day. Using the first part for energy
:13:54. > :13:59.for the factories, and the rest to the grid.
:14:00. > :14:05.So by eating up 30,000 tons of waste a year, the digesters are well on
:14:06. > :14:09.their way to saving ?4. 5 million. Digesters are a great idea with lots
:14:10. > :14:15.of waste. But what if farmland is used to grow crops to feed these
:14:16. > :14:19.beasts, rather than us? If farmers are offered subsidies by the
:14:20. > :14:27.Government to produce bio fuels, is there the risk of diverting farmland
:14:28. > :14:37.to energy production? Dr Ian Shield is a bio energy research scientist.
:14:38. > :14:42.I think there are certain renewable energy subsidies that encourage a
:14:43. > :14:46.reasonably large scale planting of crops, that help with the energy
:14:47. > :14:50.system. It is not the waste product of another food crop.
:14:51. > :14:55.Do you think it is a problem going forward? There are situations where
:14:56. > :15:01.the energy crops can be grown where the alternatives are few. But if you
:15:02. > :15:04.are using good land to produce digestible crops, that is taking
:15:05. > :15:09.away the food production. Certainly there is a future for the bio energy
:15:10. > :15:19.in this country coming from our farmland. It just must be targeted
:15:20. > :15:24.carefully. This maximises land use for food and energy production. How
:15:25. > :15:30.technical a business is it growing sweet corn? Increasingly more. When
:15:31. > :15:36.we drill the crop in the spring, the tractors are guided by GPS signals.
:15:37. > :15:40.It can tell him how deep the tool is and how straight he's driving. It
:15:41. > :15:46.all adds to the bigger picture to produce a healthy crop. What about
:15:47. > :15:52.know whenning it's time to -- when it's time to harvest? It still needs
:15:53. > :15:56.us. We come along, look at the corn. You look for the brown silk, but
:15:57. > :16:02.there's a feel. Can you feel the grain at the end of the husk and
:16:03. > :16:10.there we are. Nice, bright yellow, just what we want. If we're able to,
:16:11. > :16:14.you can see if it passes mutter. I can just eat that. Absolutely.
:16:15. > :16:19.Blimey, that's sweet. That technology has worked to a benefit.
:16:20. > :16:23.Thank you. A perfectly ripe corn on the cob, grown in a cycle whereby
:16:24. > :16:29.the waste for this year's crop goes to feed next year's. With a growing
:16:30. > :16:33.population making increasing demands on this green and pleasant land we
:16:34. > :16:37.have to be clear that what we're planting will provide enough food
:16:38. > :16:42.for future generations. Some great shots there. Well done
:16:43. > :16:49.everybody making that film. You were taken with his pinstripe corn field
:16:50. > :16:57.look. Real country attire. Liam Neeson is with us.
:16:58. > :16:59.Let's remind ourselves of Liam in one his most powerful
:17:00. > :17:01.performances, Schindlers List, with an emotional scene from
:17:02. > :17:09.the end of the movie where Oskar Schindler expresses his regret over
:17:10. > :17:17.I could have got more out. I could have got more. If I just... I could
:17:18. > :17:28.have got more. There are 1100 people alive because of you. Look at them.
:17:29. > :17:34.If I'd made more money. I threw away so much money.
:17:35. > :17:39.Schindler's list was an extraordinary film
:17:40. > :17:48.Will you make a film with such an impact? I don't think so. When the
:17:49. > :17:53.film came out, it profoundly affected Stephen Spielberg too. He
:17:54. > :17:56.had made a lot of films, entertainment films, blockbusters,
:17:57. > :17:59.but I think he was profoundly affected by the power of cinema when
:18:00. > :18:04.that film came out. It really did have an effect. A lot of people,
:18:05. > :18:09.still is, shown at schools and colleges and stuff. And it should
:18:10. > :18:13.be. Every school child should see that. We hear, rightly or wrongly
:18:14. > :18:16.and we're about to find out that you weren't happy with that performance
:18:17. > :18:20.of yours? That last scene, no, I wasn't. That's why I couldn't look
:18:21. > :18:26.at it. What's wrong with it? It's too long to go into, Chris. It was
:18:27. > :18:30.the very last shoot, it was a night shoot. It was the last scene of the
:18:31. > :18:37.film of the whole complete shoot. I wanted to do it a different way. I
:18:38. > :18:41.didn't want him to be standing in the midst of all his Jewish friends
:18:42. > :18:45.and giving this speech and stuff. I felt he should be cringing up
:18:46. > :18:50.against the side of a car. Even now, 20 years later? That scene just
:18:51. > :18:54.always... I love the film. Do you ever come away and think you've
:18:55. > :19:01.nailed it? All the time. LAUGHTER
:19:02. > :19:07.Thank heaven he said that. Is there another Shindler's List smouldering
:19:08. > :19:12.in you? I think I've done it with the bios. Playing these action guys
:19:13. > :19:17.is much more fun. Doing well with the action heroes, the kind of
:19:18. > :19:22.thriller, the gritty guy that solves everything and saves the day. Sure,
:19:23. > :19:26.I know. And Hollywood is still sending me the action scripts, which
:19:27. > :19:32.is amazing. I'm 62 years of age. What about the mini series, the TV
:19:33. > :19:37.megaseries now, started with 24 and Wire and the West Wing, have you
:19:38. > :19:41.been offered one of those? No, I haven't. Strangely enough, it's not
:19:42. > :19:45.strange, they are attracting the best writers in Hollywood because
:19:46. > :19:48.they have a chance to develop characters and story lines over a
:19:49. > :19:58.long period of time. Do you fancy one? In a movie it's a two-hour
:19:59. > :20:03.slot. You fancy that? Sure, I do. You are available right now? Phone
:20:04. > :20:07.Follow the up. Money, honey. In a moment we meet the final three
:20:08. > :20:14.contestants to be confirmed for Strictly 2014.
:20:15. > :20:16.That's right after a vertigo-inducing climb up Britain's
:20:17. > :20:23.The United Kingdom skyline is constantly changing, towering above
:20:24. > :20:29.us, the latest record-breaking addition is the Shard in London,
:20:30. > :20:35.standing at 306 metres. These buildings are dwarfed by the UK's
:20:36. > :20:41.tallest free-standing stuckure. This tower in -- structure. This tower in
:20:42. > :20:45.Yorkshire. This is a vertical-inducing construction
:20:46. > :20:47.starting at 330 metres high. It transmits television and radio
:20:48. > :20:52.channels across the north of England. This wasn't the first tower
:20:53. > :20:57.on this site. Before it was constructed -- before was a
:20:58. > :21:01.construction 50 metres taller. It formed a central column, during the
:21:02. > :21:07.winter, these vast sections would attract layers of ice. On 19th
:21:08. > :21:12.March, 1969, this coat of ice was to be the mast's down fall. The sheer
:21:13. > :21:17.weight of the ice and gale-force winds caused the mast to buckle and
:21:18. > :21:22.collapse. The sound of the impact of the falling structure could be heard
:21:23. > :21:26.for miles. The huge sections of the tower buried themselves five feet
:21:27. > :21:30.into the earth upon impact, luckily no-one was killed or seriously
:21:31. > :21:36.injured in the accident. However, television and radio signal was lost
:21:37. > :21:45.to over six million viewers in the area. Television technician is were
:21:46. > :21:48.on the scene. I went home to watch the news on the television and it
:21:49. > :21:52.wasn't there. I thought there was a problem. I rang the control desk and
:21:53. > :21:58.they said yes, the mast has fallen down. I jumped in my car and drove
:21:59. > :22:03.up there to see the mast in pieces. A new tower was needed. One that
:22:04. > :22:08.could with stand the elements. They decided to build a tower out of
:22:09. > :22:12.concrete and laid the foundations in 1969. This was the first concrete
:22:13. > :22:18.television mast ever to be built in the UK and to this day, remains the
:22:19. > :22:22.tallest. It's an unmistakable feature of the Yorkshire landscape,
:22:23. > :22:32.bur actually, it's inside that the scale of this monster comes clear.
:22:33. > :22:42.-- becomes clear. That is a long, long way to the top. Paul French is
:22:43. > :22:48.head of field operations here. It's his job to make sure this tower
:22:49. > :22:51.stays up. Paul, this is an outstanding, just quite intimidating
:22:52. > :22:56.piece of engineering. Why is it so tall? If you imagine a lighthouse
:22:57. > :23:03.and you imagine the TV signals coming out of the tower, similar to
:23:04. > :23:07.the way the light beam comes from a lighthouse, then a hill gets in the
:23:08. > :23:12.way and the signal is stopped. The higher you go the further the signal
:23:13. > :23:16.goes. To get to the top, it's a seven-minute journey in the lift or
:23:17. > :23:21.there's another way. The 865 rung ladder. You would have to be really,
:23:22. > :23:26.really fit to climb that. That sounds like a challenge. It's
:23:27. > :23:42.time for me to kit up and have a go. Best get started. 290 feet done. I
:23:43. > :23:53.have 710 feet to go. Maybe a cup of tea at the end of this.
:23:54. > :24:02.Well, that was hard work. It's a long way up. But worth the effort,
:24:03. > :24:06.because what an absolutely spectacular view.
:24:07. > :24:11.The team have to constantly check the structure's integrity to avoid a
:24:12. > :24:13.repeat of the events of 1969, which gives me an opportunity to get a
:24:14. > :24:33.once in a lifetime view. That's it, I'm standing on the very
:24:34. > :24:38.edge of Britain's tallest free-standing structure. This
:24:39. > :24:41.building has received Grade II listed status, thanks to the hard
:24:42. > :24:49.work and efforts of the guys here, it will stand for generations to
:24:50. > :24:53.come. Great climbing Andy. During that film, Liam has turned into the
:24:54. > :25:00.Strictly come dancing trophy. Touch it, come on. I know you want
:25:01. > :25:11.to. Infamously exited Strictly in 2007? Yes, 2007. Seven years ago.
:25:12. > :25:15.There were protestations outside the BBC because people thought she
:25:16. > :25:19.should never have left. The judges voted her off, before the public
:25:20. > :25:28.vote. The reason isser it's mooted that the reason is... Stop! Stop!
:25:29. > :25:33.Because Rhod Stuart is booked to appear -- Rod Stewart was booked to
:25:34. > :25:36.appear the week later. Not true. The show is great, a wonderful
:25:37. > :25:38.experience. # Wake up Penny, I think she's got
:25:39. > :25:42.something to say to you. Over the past fortnight the Strictly
:25:43. > :25:45.producers have been revealing the From CBBC, wildlife presenter,
:25:46. > :25:54.Steve Backshall. Mark Wright
:25:55. > :26:03.from the Only Way is Essex. And Simon Webbe
:26:04. > :26:10.from the boyband Blue. From Mrs Brown's Boys,
:26:11. > :26:45.actress Jennifer Gibney. Bargain Hunt's Tim Wonnacott
:26:46. > :26:58.and Masterchef's Greg Wallace. APPLAUSE
:26:59. > :27:04.You three, shimmy over here, come on.
:27:05. > :27:10.Welcome to the show. The journey starts here. Hi Tim, how are you
:27:11. > :27:19.doing? Looking fit already. Are you ready? There's the trophy there. I'm
:27:20. > :27:24.glad you said that, yes. I said I want your tips. You didn't mishear
:27:25. > :27:29.me did you? No, I didn't. Jennifer you are in for the ride of your
:27:30. > :27:33.life. It's just the best show to do. It's so much fun. But there are
:27:34. > :27:36.these stories that rumble underneath that people are falling in love with
:27:37. > :27:40.their partners and there have been a couple of real romances on the show.
:27:41. > :27:45.Is Brendan worried that this is going to happen with you? Not a
:27:46. > :27:49.chance! Absolutely not a chance. I am married to an amazing man and I
:27:50. > :27:54.love him to bits. APPLAUSE
:27:55. > :27:57.Who do you think you are? Tim, you're looking fitter and trimmer
:27:58. > :28:02.than ever before. That's kind of you. Training today, how was that?
:28:03. > :28:07.Extraordinary. It's like being in a mad house, isn't it? These
:28:08. > :28:13.completely disassociated people, right, 30 of them, that only met the
:28:14. > :28:18.day before, are doing this kind of freak act OK it's choreography...
:28:19. > :28:21.It's intimate very early. Greg, you're now being judged having
:28:22. > :28:26.previously been the judge. How will you take that? That irony is not
:28:27. > :28:30.lost on me. We had Craig on Celebrity MasterChef. I'm thinking
:28:31. > :28:35.back now desperately... Pay back time. Was I nice to him? Of course
:28:36. > :28:40.not! Have a look back at the tapes? Really? No, we haven't got them. You
:28:41. > :28:44.have seven days to the launch show. Good luck with your partners. 7th
:28:45. > :28:54.September it starts. Thank you to Liam of course for being here as
:28:55. > :28:58.well. Matt and Alex are back on Monday with a week-long music Thanks
:28:59. > :28:59.to festival. Our Strictly contestants here. Have a great
:29:00. > :29:05.weekend. Bye!