30/03/2016 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show, with Alex Jones.

And for one night only, I'll be playing Judy,

So if you are going to be Judy,, what are you cooking for dinner

tonight? Maybe lasagne and salad. I bought it earlier at the shop.

That's how it works in real life. Now, tonight's One Show

is all about joining forces. Soon we'll meet the Manchester

community that came together The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

community have come together We've got quite a few of them

in the studio tonight - And we'll see some good

old-fashioned community activism in Glasgow, that saw

locals join forces to Also coming together tonight -

two comic actors whose characters have often been

a class apart. Posh nosh. My uncle was a builder,

not that he built houses like ours. He couldn't have, it was built in

1685. Hello there, are you interested in the question of

women's rights? I don't know, I'll have to ask my man! Am I interested

in women's rights? No! STUDIO: Please welcome -

Elaine C Smith and Arabella Weir. We're also joined by a singer who's

only one letter away from presenting Hello, guys. We might get muddled

up. We look very similar as well. Until I start singing, and then it's

a no go. Arabella - just one

question to start with. It was your catchprase

on The Fast Show for many years but I really need to know -

does my bum look big in this? Yes... No. Do people say that all

the time? They either say funny thing that sound peculiar out of

context, are you the bum girl? I sound like a working girl who does

special things! Or they go, love, yes. And he means, might bum looks

big in this. You need a catchphrase on The One Show. But it was my

catchphrase on The Fast Show. It can be now.

Brad Pitt has been out shopping in B Q this week.

It was just down the road for my house in west London. He bought some

drills. What does he want to do with them? Who knows. We are short on

detail. What was the drills sized bit? It is just down the road. He's

like everybody else, it's a holiday weekend, and you go to your local

hardware store and wander around and buy things you don't want. But he

must get people to come in and drill for him. Not today.

Tonight, we want you to send in your stories, along with pictures

ideally - which famous faces have you seen in places you would never

Maybe you saw George Clooney in a charity shop.

Send them, along with pictures ideally, to the usual addresses

and we'll read some out during the show.

Now, when strolling the streets of your local area, you may not have

bumped into a celebrity, but you've probably come

across a few lumps, bumps and potholes -

Well, the locals of Levenshulme in Manchester, have come up

Alex Riley has got this one in the can.

When I heard I was making a film about graffiti I couldn't wait to

get my 90s gear and come down to Manchester to hang out with my home

girls. The women I've come to see have been making a name for

themselves as Granny VT artists. They have taken their spray paint on

the streets of Levenshulme to highlight potential hazards. --

granny graffiti artist. Ladies, let's go and paint some walls. We're

painting pavements. Pavement? Come on. This 74-year-old grandmother,

Muriel Powell, is the leader of this posse known as the Inspire task

force. They felt compelled to act in order to make South Manchester's

streets safer for older people. The main thing that came up were trip

hazards on the pavements and potholes on the roads. We decided

that if we got some biodegradable paint, and we marked it, it would

make them aware of the hazards. Broken and uneven pavements are no

joke. Age UK say that across Britain more than 2300 older people trip and

fall on them every day. Inspire veteran, this 63-year-old, has

personal experience of coming a cropper. I tripped over this piece

of tarmac sticking up and went ahead long. I was badly bruised on my legs

and side. For anybody more frail, they can seriously break their legs

or arm. It's not just pedestrians cruising for a bruising. 60-year-old

Joanne is one of around 350,000 mobility scooter users in the UK,

and she finds getting around is made much more difficult by the state of

some curbs and pavements. Some of the side streets, the road surface

is that uneven, it makes it more painful for me. To avoid it, I have

to go further up the road to be able to get across, to come down. I have

to find somewhere where it's even to get to the other side. Today the

task force are focusing on one particularly notorious St. Among

them, 56-year-old project worker Jean Bernard. This is right outside

somebody's door. Some people might argue we are going over the top, but

it's about building a relationship with the council to say, please do

something about this thing we've highlighted. This retired NHS worker

Janet is convinced the painting has prevented accidents. I've seen

people walking along, and they have seen something highlighted and gone

around it. It probably washes off in a couple of weeks. You can't keep

going around and around going on top of all the hazards. What do you want

to happen? In an ideal world we wanted to be fixed, but we both know

there is only so much money available to do these things. If the

worst ones could be done, that would be great. Between 2013 and 2015,

Manchester City Council paid out over ?1.4 million in compensation

related to trip accidents. So we are heading back to the community centre

to meet a man from the council who has braced the spray-painting

wholeheartedly. Health and well-being lead Paul Andrews. I

first of all thank you for inviting me here. I'm really thrilled with

what you are doing and I can only support and encourage more people to

do the same. This actually gives us the opportunity to make sure we look

after some of the more vulnerable people in the community. Paul is

talking the talk, but has there been any action to allow older people to

walk the walk in safety. Have the council repaired any pavements to

your satisfaction? Not all of them, not yet, but we feel quite satisfied

that we have achieved what we set out to do. So as I hip-hop out of

town, it seems the Levenshulme graffiti grandmas will spray the

streets as long as it takes to keep the town safe. STUDIO: The e-mails

are flooding in. It was legal, the wall you graffitied. It's a

well-known graffiti wall in Salford, it was legal, the owner came out to

see us, and it's OK. They can stop complaining, you didn't break the

law. Are the pensioners contravening any bylaws or criminal laws by

spraying the pavement? The Green paint they use is totally

biodegradable, so the rain and traffic will wear it away, so they

find to do it, and they are providing an important public

service. Two weeks ago, for the first time in my adult life I fell

over. It was because of a slightly raised paving stone. I really hurt

myself, ruse to my side and damaged my hip. -- bruised my side. I just

want to see those bruises., on! They are a problem all over the country.

What's being done, Alex? Apparently last year, 6.3 million motorists

were the victim of pothole damage. Repairs to their cars apparently

cost ?684 million to put right. In December 2014, the government

announced it would set aside ?6 million for road maintenance. -- ?6

billion between 2015 and 2021. Enough to fill 18 million potholes.

You totalled your car didn't you? About four weeks ago I was driving

home in Glasgow, and I would like those women to come to Glasgow.

There were no signs on the road. It was torrential rain, and it had

started to flood on a road that I go down regularly, under a railway

bridge. Quite a main road, not a little side road. The water had

filled the hole. I drove in, thinking, this will be all right. I

went in, and it stopped in the middle, and the water was rising. I

was crying, hysterical. I had to phone the fire engines. It was like

in a reliant Robin. The damage was so bad the car was written off?

Completely written off. And I have to say the insurance company were

great. You don't usually hear that, but they were fantastic. No fighting

or anything. Are you pleased it happen because you got a new car? I

did get a new car. You work around a lot on the motorbikes in London. You

hit a pothole on them and you feel it. I didn't get home until 3:30am,

I opened my car, the watered flooded in. If I had been a much older woman

than myself on my own, and I was able to phone my husband, he was

able to get me out and push the car. We realised when the breakdown

service came, they wouldn't come in the water to push the car because of

health and safety, because it could be toxic. My husband had to go back

in. Toxic puddle? Toxic water, its Glasgow, you don't know what's in

there. It was terrifying. Other than going out with aerosol is to

complain, what can people do? You can contact your local council, but

there is a new website called fix my street allowing you to alert the

council to the problem. There is a map on screen and you indicate

wedded problem is with a virtual pin. -- where the problem is. It

works out the local authority, you describe the incident, and it sends

an automatic e-mail to the local authority requesting something is

done about it. There is no guarantee? But it helps them go in

the right direction. Now here on The One Show

we like to send Esther out, And following the attacks in Paris

and more recently Brussels, US Republican front

runner Donald Trump have labelled Britain

and Europe, "not safe" - telling visitng US citizens

to avoid crowded places. So the question is -

do you feel safe here? Do you think people feel safe? Going

to London, going on the underground, and Paris, I would be worried. You

have to keep travelling. I travel a lot with my work and I will keep

travelling. Yes, I'm more aware of it, but I will not stop what I do.

Do you feel unsafe? I do. I'm worried about bombings and not nice

things happening. What about flying? I will not fly. I think you have to

carry on as normal and everyone should be united together. There is

a lot more security and police about. Are you more worried about

coming to crowded places? Maybe in London I would be, but in places

like Nottingham, I might not. I'm from Nottingham. We mustn't be

scared, otherwise we give them right. You are completely right. We

have to do trust the security systems and hope they do their best

to keep us safe. It's different when it's just you or you and your

partner. You take the risk, if you like. But when you have children you

start to think differently about where you will go and what you will

do. You are from Belgium... Has it changed your life? To be honest, it

does hit home a little bit. I think, at least for now, it will have quite

an impact on tourism and travelling in general. It's horrible, but you

can't just stop living your life because of it. Maybe people are a

bit too paranoid about it and it's a shame because it's like it's

working. That's what they want, they want everyone to be scared. I was in

Brussels about 18 months ago and we stayed right in the centre and

didn't feel threatened at all. It's a horrible business. Would you go

back there now? Yes, perhaps not straightaway, but we would go back

to support them. You think we should go to Belgium more now to make it

clear the terrorists are not winning? I think so. It was like

Paris with the attacks there. There was so much solidarity afterwards it

was really refreshing. Many people in the film mentioned

they would not feel safe necessarily in London. We have all travelled

into central London today, so does it cross your mind?

It crosses your mind but you must live your life. It never crosses my

mind. I don't think I do think about it. The great comfort is that

statistically, the chances of being caught up in one of these things is

vanishingly small, compared to the Blitz, it is tiny statistically

speaking. As people said on the film, the people who are doing this

are winning, but you do think about it, I came into Heathrow today, I

flew from Glasgow where there was a terrorist incident. You wouldn't

cancel a trip? Never. You go to carry on the best you can.

Time now to chat to Elaine and Arabella about their new sitcom,

it's hitting our sceens in just two days time -

Heller, Beth. Hi, Christine, how are you doing? Shattered, I've been up

all night with this bladder of mine. . Dear. It's like a field hospital

in here, come in for a cup of tea? I just popped round to invite you to

hours. I don't think so, I'm just not at my best just now. That's a

shame. You know me, I'm a fighter but the business with the bladder

has got to me. You once said something wise about sitcoms, they

only work if there is assemble idea at the core, that is the beating

heart of the sitcom, what is the concept of this one? You go. Thanks!

Then I will explain what you are saying. It is a street that anybody,

never mind in Britain, anybody in the Western world would recognise,

neighbours that are too close, close enough to be good friends but

sometimes too close, in and out of everybody's houses. You don't have

to be blood relations but we are a family because we all live in the

same street and have had shared experiences. I've known the person

playing her daughters since she was born. You have to rub along with

each other. You have to get along, you have to revert to the norm at

the end. You cannot say I will never talk to you again. Some neighbours

do end up doing that. The golden rule is to get on with your

neighbours. So much easier. I was going to say about the idea Rachel

said about the sitcom, the ones that I love are the ones like everybody

loves Raymond, it's about the missing sock. It is about a tiny

thing. Each episode of this, there is a reason we end up at age other's

houses. It's that simple idea. Whether you want your neighbour to

be there or not works really well. The freezer defrosting in this case.

I spent a week on a boat with Doon Mackichan, and for an entire week

she spoke with a Glaswegian accent. She cannot drop it? She can't, she

said she never comes out of character, are you the same? Do you

remain in character? I'm not Glaswegian, I'm from the Home

Counties, but I just speak in a Glasgow accent. I believed you then!

It's not true! Whereas I am from Scotland but don't speak with a

Scottish accent. Doon Mackichan is the one who does it all the way

through. Some people have an ear. Judy had an agent aunt who I met

once, all of that part of the family spoke with a broad Manchester

accident, and I said I didn't know you aren't was in Scotland. She said

she went there in 1938 for a week and came back and spoke their that

way ever since. An accident can control you. You have a bit of a

Scottish accent. I am Scottish. My parents are Scottish, I wasn't born

there but that was my cultural upbringing. Alex isn't really Welsh.

Neither is Aled! Doon Mackichan went to high school there, although her

parents, her dad was Scots and everything, and then she was taken

to Fife, not Glaswegian, a very different accent. We had a screening

the other night and the amount of Scots said they didn't know that

both Arabella and her. Aled, Too Much TV, we have to say. What would

you say about it? I saw it this afternoon, I really loved it. I

would tell you if I didn't like it, I didn't like your character much

but you were great! I really loved it, it is quite simple. It draws you

in and the characters are believable. It could be anywhere.

There is one about a transit van backfiring and sprouts which you

should listen out for. That's one of my favourite lines. It has been

recommissioned already, another series is in the pipeline. I don't

know if you can say that but you have said it. It is out there now!

Great writing. Not afraid as writers to let women be funny. Which is

unusual. Without men being in the scene. There are men in its too. It

passed the test, a feminist test set at universities, find a film or a TV

show in which there are two macro women talking, not about a man and

not about anything to do with men. They have to be talking about a job.

This passes with flying colours. Elaine and Arabella's comedy sitcom

Two Doors Down begins Friday 1st And on the subject of comedy

sitcoms, we all love them, so we might have a bit

of a British Comedy sitcom quiz later, with a Mastermind theme -

Elaine and Arabella - you've both done

Mastermind for real? I did very well! You did very well.

I didn't do quite so well. We will run the clip later. We will show

people exacted how well you did in half an hour.

Something a lot tougher than a TV quiz, is The Duke of Edinburgh's

Millions have completed their Bronze, Silver and Gold Award,

and 60 years on there's now the opportunity to take

We have the lovely pin. Can I have that anyway?

LAUGHTER Gyles went to meet some of the Duke

of Edinburgh's finest to take them In 1958 band of city boys from

Birmingham became pioneers on an epic outdoor adventure. 4-for days

and three nights these fearless fellows had to fend for themselves

in the Welsh wilderness. But this was no modern-day survival challenge

with pop-up tents and lightweight waterproofs. Although now in their

70s either Plaid, Tony Mullins, Ivan Greg and Alan Hobson, the trip still

seems like yesterday. 60 years ago, you were going for gold. What is the

challenging sadly involve? It was about 62 miles because we didn't

have very good map reading, to say the least, and that's the polite

version. You got hopelessly lost, did you? Absolutely. Founding in

1956 the Duke of Edinburgh's Award was set up to inspire, guide and

support young people, the mission that still stands to today.

Initially just for boys, the scheme consisted of graded awards with gold

being the most difficult, taking up to 18 months to complete. We were

part of a group in the city of Birmingham, all working-class lads.

All of our dads worked in factories or the equivalent. Were your parents

anxious about you going off into the wilds of Wales on your own? I think

they were anxious about what we were doing, there was no health and say

those days. You brought some of the kits that you had, you've kept them

all these years, it's amazing. This is 60 years old, biscuit. It is,

that is why it is harder than it used to be. This is the sleeping

bag. It is quite capacious, isn't it? Yes. Do you remember the food?

It was in tubes mostly. Tubes? Condensed milk. A tube of bright

yellow condensed milk. If they were lucky there was a friendly farmer to

boost their meagre supplies. He said, do you want some milk? Yes,

please. Whereupon, he gets the cup, goes to the cow, and there it was.

We had never seen anything like it. We didn't quite know whether we

ought to drink it or not! It wasn't just self-preservation skills these

Brummie lads got out of their expedition. All candidates who

achieved the Gold award were invited to achieve it personally from His

Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. To date the dude has

hosted more than 500 Gold award ceremonies. The St John's ambulance

cadets were among the first to visit Buckingham Palace. Were you nervous?

I think we were. Meeting royalty, once we? Not just like a man in the

street. It was an honour, obviously achieving the award, and to go to

Buckingham Palace, it is something which will stay with us for the rest

of our lives. As teenagers these chaps earned their Gold awards

through teamwork and tenacity. Have they got the same pluck today? To

find out, we are putting them through their paces once again. To

commemorate the Duke of Edinburgh Award's 60th year, anyone of any age

can sign up to complete a challenge and receive the 60th anniversary

diamond pin. At the combine Dave Schultz 302 they are going

abseiling, rather than than me! -- the combined age of 302. Ready?

You've done the hard part, it's all downhill from here. Bye! Two down

and two to go. CHUCKLES

With the abseiling complete, I've arranged another surprise for our

chaps, a rather special award. Well done, gentlemen, quite an

achievement that. Today, unbeknownst to you, you were taking part in a

Diamond Challenge. And those who take part in it and succeed like you

get the Diamond award. That is yours, and there is yours. Receiving

the diamond pin is a fitting tribute to what the two Alans, Tony and

either have got out of the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme over the

years come from lifelong friendships to shaping who they are today.

APPLAUSE Thank you to Gyles and the two

Alans, either and Tony join us now and also we have some other Duke of

Edinburgh Award legends, Sheila, Kari and Tori. Here we are in the

beautiful camp. Tony - you've got DofE

in your DNA haven't you? It is root and branch in your

family. It is indeed. It's the 60th anniversary of the award this year

and also my 60th year of voluntary service for the award. And in that

time I met my darling wife, Valerie, who is Alan's sister. Because of the

award? Because of the award, yes. When I say that to the duke, I said

he has a lot to answer for and he looks at Valerie and said it is

worth it. Three lovely daughters as well. Yes, my daughter has the gold

and my grandson has the gold which makes as the first three generations

to get the award. Congratulations. Alan, we heard in the film that you

still have your 60-year-old sleeping bag. You've brought some other

equipment for us to have a look at today. It's very different to the

equipment you can buy today, for the youngsters. This was much harder

work, but it's the stove that we filled with paraffin and that then

we had to pump it up to get pressure, but you had to light it

with methylated spirit first. It really stank. Yes, we used to

methylated spirit. I used to use it in the Scouts. We have heard from

the guys. Let's crossover to the girls. How different is it now to

get the awards than it was back in the day for winning? For a young

person looking at my record but now, if they saw what we had to do they

wouldn't recognise the award. We didn't do physical like the boys do,

we had to do the alternative called design for living. If I look at my

design for living in my book it is assessors report on personal hygiene

and good manners. Personal hygiene and manners! Just for the men? We

didn't have to do that. And an extra course on modern home nursing. Did

you have to do knitting? Actually I did do knitting but that was a

choice! Back then, we didn't have the word sexist in the language

really, in common language, but did you realise back then that this was

not fair? Absolutely. We realised the Boite's programme was much more

interesting but it was pre-feminist days -- the boys programme. It

didn't occur to me that we could even complain. How things have

changed, for the better! It went on like that until the 1980s.

Absolutely. You were one of the first women to get the gold-medal

and now going for the diamond as the boys have already had. What are you

planning to do for the challenge? The Diamond award is open to

anybody, you don't have to have done your Gold award to get it. I've

decided I'm going to swim the length of Windermere in July. What? Gosh.

What is that about ten miles? The way I've measured it is 11 and a

half will stop I'm sticking to that. I used to work in the Lake District

and those lakes are freezing. They are very cold. What will you do? I'm

reserving the right to wear a wet suit but I'm hoping to do it in

skins, as we call it. What is that? Just a bathing costume and swimming

hat and I will have a little boat beside me to feed me hot drinks

while I go. Well, good luck and we will think of you. Keep warm!

Tori, you are a poster girl from the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, you've

done phenomenally and we are proud of you in Wales because you were the

first girl from Wales to climb Everest and get to the summit,

phenomenal achievement. APPLAUSE

The youngest British woman as well. At the time I was the best British

female in 2007, that's right. I wouldn't have got there if I hadn't

done that be of Eden, that is what introduced me to climbing and

camping and living outdoors -- DeOssie. There was a huge sense of

achievement when I finished that four day walk. I thought, what's

next? You went for the big one! There were a few things in between.

What's it like at the top of the world? It's incredible, the view,

you can see as far as the edge of the Earth, or must the curvature of

the Earth you can see. It's incredibly noisy because of the

wind. It's very difficult to communicate to somebody who is even

sat right next to you. Did you use oxygen? Yes, I did. The feeling was

one of relief that all of the hard work and training had paid off

because it was an 18 month journey or more to get there. And of course

climbing mountains is an amazing thing to do and it doesn't have to

be Everest. It could be something that you could do for your Diamond

Challenge this year. You could do anything. What an achievement. Thank

you to all of you for popping in. We have loved having you.

One of the skills the Duke of Edinburgh Awards hopes to develop

is the ability to remain calm under pressure.

And nothing demonstrates that skill more than the amazing story

of Paul Kelly - who owes his life to the cool head of one

Paul Kelly runs an industrial cement business. At his factory near

Preston, huge mixes grinds together the ingredients for the building

trade. It's called a rhythm blender, and it's designed to fold a

material, like a mixer folds dough. One day to mark of his staff called

in sick, leaving him alone in the factory. I was chasing around,

putting on the mixers, ready to put them into the packaging. All of the

mixes were for level and guarded with a grill, except one. There was

powder coming up, filtering up into the atmosphere. I thought, I will

just throw a piece of cardboard over it. I heard the phone go, rushed to

get it, stepped onto the cardboard realising it was covering the hole,

and fell into the mixer. I was being rotated at a pace of 30 revolutions

per minute. Every two seconds I was being turned over. I was churning

around, soon realised I was going to die. Do you remember what you were

thinking when you fell in? I went into an area where my mind... It was

very light, very floaty, cotton wool type effect. The next thing, the

machine mixer stopped. I couldn't believe it. I found out later that

what caused the machine to stop was my Wellington boot acting as a

break, which cut the power to the motor. I immediately kicked into

survival, putting my elbows either side of the machine to try to lift

myself out, and I couldn't move. Outside, lorry driver Mick was

delivering sand, a process that usually takes an hour. On this day,

by some miracle, he left his lorry to come into the factory. I don't

usually leave my tank unattended, but on entering the factory and I

wanted to buy some stuff off Paul. I heard this funny mumbling, like, and

I thought, where's that coming from. I could just see this head bobbing

up and down. I ran up the stairs like mad, realised it was Paul. I

didn't know whether it was switched off or not, so I pressed the red

button to make sure it was OK. I looked in, thought, blimey, this is

a mess. I made him as comfortable as possible, tried to lift him out

which I couldn't do because he was trapped. I dialled 999. He climbed

in the mixer with me and held me until the emergency services came. I

can't tell you what his hands were like. He had rubber gloves on, and

the blood was amazing. I crossed his hands and hugged him. I was shouting

at him, because he was drifting in and out by this time, and I was

screaming at him to stay, stay with me, Paul. We could hear the klaxon

in the background. The paramedic wanted to get me out, I was lifted

out like it was on a crucifix. I was put into the air ambulance and lost

consciousness. Paul was flown straight to Wythenshawe Hospital

where he nearly died of his horrific injuries. I practically lost my left

leg. It was just about holding, but it severed quite close to the knee

joint. Lost my hand, severed around the wrist. On my right hand I lost

all my digits including the thumb. The surgeons reattached the fingers,

but I never found the little one. They took my big toe for my left leg

that I lost. During 30 hours of surgery, Paul required 30 units of

blood, the equivalent to his entire workforce giving one unit each. I've

gone from being a triple amputee, without the use of my hands, and

without a leg, to enjoying life. Without the blood donations I

wouldn't have survived. It's as important as Mick saving my life.

Amazing story. It's like falling into a combine harvester or a jet

engine, I can't forgive anything more potentially lethal.

Thanks to Paul for sharing his story.

If it's inspired others to give blood, there are links of how to do

that on the website. Let's do some famous faces in unusual places. We

have had some brilliant ones. You can show your first one. This is

Abby, who saw Harry Styles at her local supermarket shopping for a

barbecue. I thought it was Harry Styles who had met Helen Mirren!

Quite similar. Michael saw Samuel L Jackson in the pound shop in

Liverpool. He loved it, he was spending loads. You can in a pound

shop! Emily saw Orlando Bloom in a little tiny village in Northern

Ireland. David and Victoria Beckham were spotted in a kebab shop when

Victoria was pregnant with Brooklyn. It was probably cravings!

So Aled - this is your new album - One Voice - features a super

An extraordinary version of yourself. Jimmy is mend?! That would

have been a better idea. It's me at 15, the final album I made as a boy,

but it was never released because my voice broke and I got dropped by the

record company. This had the entire album on it, and it was my mum and

dad 's airing cupboard for years. It was on this DAT. One after noon we

were having a conversation about how Melbourne 's I made as a kid, and I

said it was 16. My dad said it was 17 and he took this out of the

airing cupboard. It was the first album I had listened to over the

years as me as a boy. I had 16 albums in four years, so I had never

really listened to them. Recording and moving on. You have completely

forgotten recording them, and this is a reminder.

We have all glazed over the fact that the record is in EF. How did

you feel when you listened to this 29 years later for the first time.

It feels like being a grandfather, and this boy is my grandchild. I've

never looked back at the soprano bit apart from Walking In The Air at

Christmas. I'm really proud, I think it's the best thing I did as a kid.

The top of the voice is really sparkling. My mum and I listened to

it with one earbud each when we found it. It was quite teary. We

didn't think it would work when we went to the studio. One person, and

two voices. So we had this hard and producer behind the glass, and they

were asking, did you feel that. Going back to the early days, you

were almost a professional tennis player. I was quite good. Pretty

decent. County standard. It brought you into contact with royalty.

Didn't you do a special private concert for Charles and Diana? I

forgot my words in front of the Queen, singing Memory. Rory Bremner

said, you haven't got one! I sent privately for the Prince and

Princess of Wales. Prince Charles rang me at work, I nearly put the

phone down, I didn't believe it. But he said he would like to hear me

sing before my voice broke. So we went down from north London to

Kensington Palace. I was so scared I couldn't open the door of the car. I

sang privately for them, Charles wanted a lot of Handel, Diana wanted

a lot of songs by the Beatles. We sang for about an hour, and I

proceeded to drop a glass of water on the carpet. I thought it would be

off to the tower, but Diana rubbed it in and said the boys did it all

the time. We used to have the same hairdresser, me and Diana! Richard

Dalton cut her hair in Kensington Palace, and I came down to London

and would be offered the same as eight treat. I was offered that same

gig, but I think I asked for too much money. It sounds lovely.

Aled's album One Voice is out Friday and the cathedral tour begins

Pre-orders of the Albemarle going very well. It's going really well.

Now, Arabella - Aled has been looking back at his past.

Now it's time for you to relive your Mastermind experience -

What was the name of the singer who became Cliff Barnes' love interest

after he stole her from JR? Pass. Pass. Pass. Past. Before her

marriage, Donna had been the wife of which former governor of Texas?

Somebody colder. Sam Colver. In which year did the shooting... I've

started so I will finish... APPLAUSE It's a lot more entertaining than

knowing all the answers. What went wrong? They said Will you do it on

this day, and I said yes no problem. I used to be obsessed with Dallas

but I thought I would check my memory, so I had the videos of

Dallas and was going to watch them on the Wednesday. On Tuesday night

there was a car waiting for me from the BBC. My agent had moved it back

a day. The researchers said to me that they thought I would be the

brightest person on the show. The other guest was Tara Palmer

Tomkinson. We made the question is really difficult for you. There was

a golfer in, and there were questions like, what is a golf

stick. His specialist subject was golf! Being a comedian you came out

of this well, because you wrote a funny article in the newspaper

called, does my brain look small in this? I got 25 when I went on.

Michael Burke was furious. We are running out of time, we were going

to put you through the mill again, but we can't do it.

We're used to sitcoms rewriting history -

Blackadder and Allo Allo spring to mind - but in the 1960's,

two young filmakers presented

an alternative version of the past which was much much darker.

Here's Joe Crowley on the trailblazing teenagers

Are cities are filled with monuments to Britain's literary victories, and

yet if Germany had triumphed in the Second World War things might have

looked very different. Of course, it was a reality that never came to

pass, that it was portrayed in a fascinating film about Britain and

the Second World War. It happened here, is a 1964 cult classic which

imagines Britain under a nightmarish Nazi occupation. One of the most

surprises things about this film is that it was the brainchild of two

teenagers. Kevin Brownlow was an 18-year-old trainee film editor when

he came up for the idea one day in 1956. A black Citroen screeched to a

halt beside me and the driver ran out to a delicatessen and shouted at

his companion in German. I thought that was a great subject for a film.

What might have happened if the Nazis had occupied. Having borrowed

camera Kevin assembled a team of volunteers to shoot a Nazi rally in

Trafalgar Square. We just got everyone we could find, including

passers-by, and crammed them in front of the camera and shot as

though there were hundreds of people, it was awful. Kevin Tindal

with Andrew Mollo, a 16-year-old military enthusiasts who knew how to

make the scenes look realistic. We have come back to recreate one of

the most chilling scenes. You have to be ambitious to get very

difficult, I don't think we had permission, we had to do it early in

the morning and we had to do it very quickly before anybody realised what

was happening. Their mock newsreel made ripples in the movie industry.

Stanley Kubrick gave them some film stock left over from his classic

Doctor Strangelove and they enlisted 22-year-old as director of

photography. It was an incredible opportunity to spread my wings and

learn a lot about filming. -- Phil Mackie, just what I dreamt of. The

film became a real drama about life under fascism. What is the

significance of this location? Our main character Pauline is coming to

see a doctor in a basement flat and in the flat there is an injured

resistance fighter. We've got to fight fascism because it's a disease

of the mind. It Happened Here shows that people would have had to make

difficult choices about which side they would be on. We can't stand on

the sidelines any longer. We don't accept your decisions. The

conventional approach for a film-maker would be to portray all

British people as resistance fighters. But the film was more

complex than that. It was a very provocative, very provocative idea.

Filming began on It Happened Here 60 years ago but for the film-makers it

still means a huge amount. What is it that you both really wanted to

show in this movie? I think it was that the British were very smug and

they tended to say it could never have happened here. And in fact,

it's terribly difficult to exist in an occupied country without

collaborating. You try and humanise it, puts on parade in rather than

black and white. Trying to be more realistic about human nature. It

Happened Here premiered in 19 sick to four and won awards in Europe and

the US. It could only have been made by people with a fearless take on

the subject and a huge passion for film-making. Peter has gone on to

work at the highest level of his craft and was director of

photography on The Empire Strikes Back. Andrew Mollo has used his

knowledge of military history to advise on a string of films about

the Second World War. And in 2011 Kevin Brownlow was awarded an

honorary Oscar for his work as a film historian. But it all began

with this very striking film. Fascinating. Interesting film.

So Kevin and Andrew were trailblazers in making

a 'what if' film, and you've brought some other examples

We are quite preoccupied with the Second World War so that's one of

the big counterfactual questions, what if? They were doing it really

early, they came up with the ideas in the 50s and there have been loads

of examples since, famous novels, Dominion by CJ Sansom, Fatherland,

great book and also made into a film. Striking imagery of Nazi

banners. You have Hitler as an old man, for his 75th birthday. One of

the images from the first page of the book is Heathrow Airport in 1964

and the Nazis had won and there were aircraft with red swastikas on the

tail. The latest is The Man in the High Castle, this Amazon series by

Ridley Scott. Explained the idea. The axis powers won the Second World

War, Japan and Germany. America is divided into two to the west of the

Rockies there is a Japanese controlled puppet state and to the

East you have an artist date tent in the middle this neutral zone. Like

the Vichy zone in France. People are trying to escape either state and

they run to this lawless area. We have not got a picture of it but

there is a picture of Concord with Nazi insignia on the tail. Really

weird, very chilling when you see that. That has been a huge hit. What

does it tell is about the actual history? Very little. It's based on

the premise that Roosevelt was assassinated in the 30s and America

never really got involved in the war in the same way. What we really

learn is about the time when it was written, because it's based on a

book from the early 60s, the height of the Cold War, this book wants to

refocus public minds on the atrocities of Nazi history. Getting

forgotten in the battle of coming as. He was fearing that America was

drifting to the right politically so in some ways it was a warning about

what you'd get if you go too far towards fascism. Not all of these

enterprises are as successful as those we have talked about. There

was a terrible thing like Thunderbirds on acid! Have you seen

this? This came out in 2008, it's a bit like a Thunderbirds spoof but it

had a huge cast doing the voices. It was a good cast. It had your

McGregor, Timothy Spall, Dominic West, Rosamund Pike, Richard E

Grant, just because you didn't see it we have a little clip.

They are England's last hope. Kill them all! Against a full-scale Nazi

invasion. The German army is your friend! It's the invasion. The

budget for the film was in the millions. It was $6 million and it

grossed 20,000. The idea was the Nazis invaded London and everyone

regrouped in Scotland to fight them off. But as you can tell

counterfactual history by itself isn't always a hit because that did

not do well. Joe, thank you very much. We are off

to a place very close to Elaine's heart, the Edwardian public

bathhouse just south of Glasgow. The council tried to close these bats

about 15 years ago but they had no concept who they were up against.

This is Govanhill in Glasgow, one of the most deprived areas in Scotland

with high levels of poverty and crime. However, it's also home to

one of the most successful examples of social solidarity in recent

times. Save our pool! In 2001 residents occupied the local

swimming pool in an attempt to prevent the council from shutting it

down. Young people can go anywhere else to swim.

Is the 15th anniversary of the occupation and I'm here to find out

how the building brought the community together.

This is our main pool, the large pond as it was known back in the

day. This is the largest of the three swimming pools. It is such a

huge space, I can always feel the history. It is kind of like a

cathedral. This place was opened in 1917, built during the First World

War. We have a women's pool, children's pool, it was also a

community building with Turkish bats and soreness, a place the whole

community could share. All of the divisions in the community were left

at the door. But it wasn't just about swimming.

This is what is known as the slipper barfs, 40 bats, women up that side

and men decide and people would come here for a wash after work. It was a

very important building and that's why people were reluctant to let it

go. Despite the popularity of the pool

the council were intent on shutting it down. They were part of the

occupation of the Bath in 2001. Initially it was a bit of fun and

then we realised, my God, we've just occupied building. So a number of,

mainly women godparents of the local swimming club chained themselves to

the sun loungers and said they were not moving. The police did not know

how to react, the council didn't know how to react. We realised how

much power we had in just occupying this building. We want a pool on

Govanhill! Four months and months these people have been ignoring you.

It was a great atmosphere. We did things like the hokey Cokie and

tried to keep it as peaceful and light-hearted as much as we could.

141 days later we had to be forcibly removed. I can remember the day of

the eviction, the sheriff officers and police came and woke everybody

up. That was the end of the game. When the sheriff's officers broke

the windows to put the shutters on that was one of the most horrific...

I feel like I'm going to cry. Sorry! After that, the demonstrations

carried on and the building was eventually listed.

It's obvious how Passion of the people are about this building. And

after 15 years it's time this pool was filled with water once again --

passionate the people are. We secured enough funding to open up

two thirds of the building. Our motto was united we will swim and we

will have swimming in this building again but we will have more than

that. Brilliant result. Elaine, this is

very close to your heart, you knew who the council were dealing with.

Never underestimate a Glaswegian woman, that is all I will say. It

was the mothers, the women generally, who stuck together. There

is a great tradition of that through the rent strikes as well in Glasgow.

They said, this is our resource and we want to keep this. They were

quite defiant on it. They were up against really difficult opposition.

I'd love to have been at the meeting at the council when the penny drops

that this was not going to go away. Exactly. Congratulations. It's great

for them. I don't do anything. It's down to tenacity. There are

communities across the UK that when they are threatened they don't value

what they have got until they are threatened. Earlier we asked for

lost Tories of spotting famous people in the least likely places.

We have had a brilliant response. -- your pictures. She seemed really

confused when asking for treats for pets in a sweetie shop. He was seen

in the National Shire horse centre. She worked in the gift shop and

apparently you walked in to buy some polos. Yes, to feed to the horses.

This is a great picture. Julie's daughter bumped into Stephen Hawking

at a restaurant in Abergavenny, what a moment. Alice Szot Mary Berry in a

local supermarket buying orange juice. And then when Mary understood

summary had spotted her she ran into the clothing section. The last one,

Brian met Pierce Brosnan, Mr good looking at St Pancras station in

2013. Have you ever seen anybody in an unusual place? Anne Diamond when

I was little in a shop in London. Dustin Hoffman coming out of the

gents. That is all we have time for. Thanks to Elaine and Arabella -

Two Doors Down begins Friday at 10pm And thanks to Aled -

his album One Voice is released on Friday and you can see him

on tour from May 6th. Thank you, Richard, as always it has

been lovely to have you. Fearne Cotton and Adil Ray will be

keeping our seats warm tomorrow. Hello, I'm Tina Daheley

with your 90 second update.