30/04/2012 The One Show

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Matt Baker and Alex Jones. Tonight's guest is known the world

over for starring in France but he is not quite as well known for his

born Jerry videos. -- starring in Friends. But he is not quite so

well known for his poncho the It is Matt LeBlanc. How about that?

What was he thinking of, the bed is very flammable. Tell that to

Claudia Schiffer! You have done two videos for John Bond Jodie, haven't

you? Yes. In the day, or when videos had giant barges, the

director was a god of -- giant budgets. He called me and he said,

do you want to be the guy in this video, come and hang out for a

couple of hours. I said, all right. Then he did once before Friends and

that was the fun. Is there a third in the pipeline? I am hoping. A

tough gig to get. We have this wonderful picture of you winning a

Golden Globe for your role in Episodes. You looked quite

surprised but loads of people would think, of course you will win a

Golden Globe. That is a massive TV! Everyone comments on it! Way did

you get it? I will tell you later! They have probably come down in

price since we bought it. That was a good night, obviously. It was a

huge honour. It was my 4th nomination and the first time I

have won. I was fully prepared for them to say someone else's name. I

thought it would be Alec Baldwin. When they said my name, I thought,

that sounded an awful lot like my name. Then I started to sweat and

the rest is kind of a blur. We will be talking to Matt about this

second series of Episodes a bit later. The final touches have been

added to the Olympic stadiums and the athletes are training flat out

for what most people expect to be a brilliant showcase for London and

the UK. There is not long to wait but a small number of people are

planning to ruin it for everybody. Iwan Thomas is not happy, and he

Already this year, we have seen how protesters use sporting events to

get their voices heard. These scenes from Formula 1 in Bahrain

were shown all over the world, and put the race in jeopardy. I know,

as an athlete, sharing the stage with a protest is the last thing

you want after years of training, especially when that stage will be

witnessed by 4 billion people. Should the Olympics be the right

platform for protesters to make their stand? Four years ago, Connie

hug's lake of the Olympic torch relay was disrupted by human rights

protesters. More recently, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was

thrown into chaos by Trenton Oldfield swimming across the course.

Before I was a glimmer in my dad's I, people work disrupting public

events in order to gain publicity for their cause, some who have even

gone on to greater things. In 1970, former minister Peter Hain

protested against South Africa's proposed cricket tour of England.

He managed to stop the tour and in the process, split the country's

opinion. This is why we think we have every chance of succeeding.

Are you still proud of your protest? Yes, I am. We took a stand

against teams that were sited on the basis of race. That is why we

used tactics to run on the pitch, lay siege to the team in its hotel.

We physically stopped these tours from happening and that was a major

blow against apartheid, in stopping those racist tours. I feel for the

cricketers who missed out, Abbey spoken to any of them, have you

remained friends with any of them, did any agree? Some of the white

South African could because -- cricketers, who were denied the

opportunity to talk and then excluded from what cricket after,

have subsequently said to me that I was right. That we were right. But

I don't think people should lightly or easily, or catchily target sport

for protest. South Africa was a unique case. I think you have got

to be really careful about protesting against sporting events.

In the end, you will just stop sport happening, if you use any old

excuse to target a particular sports event. Whereas Peter boss

actions in the 70 used sport to highlight and or smugly help break

apartheid, many of the protests are against the sponsors organisers of

London 2012. The counter Olympics that work and our Olympics are just

some of the group's planning protests -- counter Olympic network.

If you were to run in front of them, they have to stop and swerve to get

out of your way, you see that as OK? Absolutely. We are planning to

make the London 2012 Games the greatest act of non-violent civil

disobedience of our age, because we feel it warrants it, based on the

exorbitant cost of the Olympic Games, based on the unethical

corporate sponsors of London 2012, but also the context in which the

Olympics takes place, which is one of crushing austerity measures,

which are really punishing the most vulnerable groups in our society.

understand what you are saying, there is a lot of things behind the

scenes in every walk of life which you may deem as unethical, but I am

just doing my job, and that is to be an athlete. And our job as

members of a society is to make that society as ethical, as

sustainable and as responsible as we can. This form of protest is

absolutely the centre of making sure our society is held to the

highest ethical standards that we can possibly do. On the busiest

days, 9,000 officers will police the Games, with access to over

12,000 cameras, co-ordinated from a Special Operations Room with a

staff of 300. The Met have already started taking pre-emptive action.

Simon Moore was involved in a campaign to stop the construction

of a temporary basketball training venue on Leaton Marsh. He now has

an Olympic ASBO. The ASBO privets me from entering or remaining in

100 yards of any existing or proposed Olympic competition or

practice venue, or root. Worst-case scenario, of a police officer was

to come here and know that you have got an ASBO, you face jail? Yes, I

could be sent to prison for up to five years. A long time, you

obviously feel very strongly about this. I don't think I'm doing

anything which is unjust. If the law deems that what I'm doing is

illegal, I am prepared to break the law in this instance. Ultimately,

how successful any of these protests are will depend on how

much sympathy they gain. Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson has urged

the public to shop anybody who they believe are plotting to disrupt the

Games. The London Gwenddydd of Olympics should be an opportunity

for British athletes to shine. It would be unfortunate if that were

overshadowed by protests, however democratic they are.

You must have been furious, speaking to carry. I get on with

everybody, I think I am quite easy- going, but I was fuming because she

seemed to have an answer for everything. I said, I have worked

so hard for everything, to get my Olympic medal, and she said, do you

realise where that comes from? It looks like her organisation are

adamant that you are going to protest. - you not understand your

perspective? I said, if you want to get your point across, holed up

some signs and banners but you don't have to disrupt the athletes.

We have trained our lives for that one moment, that one opportunity

Andy just want to do yourself and Britain proud, and you don't want

someone like that ruining it. -- and you just want to do Britain

proud. She doesn't know the sacrifices our athletes have made

to get to London and it is a real shame that could be taken away.

also met Simon who has an ASBO, who protested against a temporary

basketball court on Hackney Marsh. You had a bit more sympathy for him.

I quite liked him, he made me a cup of tea. He was a bright lad. His

argument was, why are you putting up a temporary structure which is

going to cost millions and you are going to take down? Why did you get

the basketball players to strain in local schools and colleges, then

encouraging the future and the legacy could carry on. Some events

are more at risk than others. The cycle road race and the marathon as

well. Had you thought much about protesters before maybe Trenton

Oldfield jumped in front of the boats? Before the but rates, but it

to a back of my mind. -- before the Boat Race. My awareness has been

heightened that we need to be careful. The Olympics is the

biggest thing on the planet and people use that as a time to be

heard. Things like the marathon, I can only think of someone like

Paula Radcliffe. She has trained so hard to get back, can you imagine

if they protest that runs in front of her or chuck something at her,

that is wrong, that is selfish. Would this sort of thing happen in

America? The Olympics, it is such a major stage, I am sure it is a

concern everywhere that the Olympics are held, it is

unfortunately the world that we live in. I e a big fan of the

Olympics? Yes. Excited? Sure. you could have a ticket to any

event, which one would you go to? Thanks ever so much. 3D, or not 3D,

that is the question. Just a gimmick, or the future of cinema?

We sent Marty Jopson to find out why some the moviegoers are already

sick of the three-dimensional 3D entertainment is booming these

Hollywood seems to be really pushing it as the future of film.

Cinemas are full of their latest 3D offerings. But there is a little

bit of a problem. For a significant number of people, the 3D viewing

experience is making them, well, a Studies show that up to a 5th of us

experience problems when we watch 3D. The most common complaints are

eyestrain and headaches. What is actually happening when we watch a

3D film? The concept of 3D isn't new. It has been around for more

than 100 years. Creating a 3D image is relatively easy. All you need to

do is take two images from slightly different angles. Let me show you

what I mean with just a single frame. Here are two pictures of

some ugly fellow, taken from Abersoch slightly different angles.

If we superimpose the two images, and flick between them really

quickly, 3D! Sort of. That is how it is done. But what is it about

the process that can cause problems for some viewers? Not surprisingly,

major film companies would like to know the answer and they have

recruited Dr Tim Smith from Berbec University in London to find out. -

- Birkbeck University. When you watch 3D, your eyes do something

quite unusual. In the real world, when we see an object, we actually

focus on the light reflected from it. Like with this green ball on a

stick. But what if that object doesn't exist. Here is my handy

virtual 3D... This isn't really here? No, it is just on the screen.

As it comes here, your eyes are pointing at this point in space.

The light is always coming from the screen. So your lens inside your I

always focuses on the screen, but your eyes point here, and that

creates a conflict. It means your muscles are working overtime,

leading to a conclusion -- confusion and possibly eyestrain.

Be it is worse when things appear to zoom off into the distance or

leap out of the screen. It creates extreme lengths between background

and foreground object but this is the thing that film-makers love to

give us, and many of us love to see. How do you keep if the rules and

avoid the unpleasant side-effects? -- the thrills. Tim Smith is using

special software to help film- makers establish just what our

rights can stand. The red dots show exactly where I am the king. The

kit works by following the movement of my pupils. You can see how

rapidly they are moving around. was deliberately not looking at the

back ground because it was too much. If our eyes are darting around, it

gives an indication that we are finding the viewing uncomfortable.

When we stray from what the film- maker wants us to see, we are

straying from what the director intended for we can look at how we

watch a movie and if it doesn't work how we think, they can fix it

and changed the movie and make it easier to watch. Studies have shown

there is a comfort zone for the depth of 3D. Tim can work with

film-makers to make sure the main point of interest in a scene is

within this safe area. This allows them to be more adventurous with

Film makers have to learn where the comfort zone is, so that is

comfortable for the eyes to focus on it and see the depth.

3D is being heavily promoted, not just as the future of cinema, but

of TV, smartphone and games as well. It is little wonder that the 3D

industry are going to such lengths to fix the problems.

D does make me feel sick. And me, I have never seen Avatar as

a result. Matt, are you a fan of the 3D

experience? I think that I did a bucket.

Great. Moving on! When the first Friends

came out, we had Tamasin on to promote it, halfway of explaining

the premise of the Episodes, the fire alarm went off, so we never

finished. Can you tell us the premise of the Episodes series?

Hopefully I don't set the fire alarm off.

Basically it is a show about a show. So it is Tamasin, Greg, playing a

married British couple who are writer producerss with a hit show

in the UK, called Limon's Boys. About the headmaster of a boy's

school called Richard Griffiths, hopelessly in love with a librarian.

It is a big hit. They are at the BAFTA, an American President

convinces them to move to America, promises the world, to keep the

cast, not to change the scripts, they are given all kinds of money,

house, car, they are wooed by Hollywood and come to the States.

Once they arrive, one by one, every promise is broken, including the

fact that they can keep Richard grich itselfs and they are forced

to replace him with me. So I play this very bizarre manipulative,

emotionally damaged version of myself, as I am not emotionally

damaged at all! Just to underline that! It starts on the 11th of May.

Let's have a little look. You think if you died the others

would come to your funeral? Yeah, I think they'd come.

Even Jennifer from Friends? Yeah, even Jennifer.

God, could you imagine the press, all of you together again. But I

would be dead. Yeah, but still. Still... I'd be

dead. In real life not damaged at all. Do

you worry if people think you are playing Matt LeBlanc, that people

will think you are like that. strange in the beginning when I

first got together with the producers to talk about doing the

show. It seemed a great idea, an interesting way to go back to work.

The only reservation was that I was not sure of Matt to be playing

myself. They assured me we were not making a documentary, that it would

be fine. That we would come up with it together. That anything I was

uncomfortable with I could alt err change or leave out. Then it became

fun to make fun of myself. So basically, who the guy is, it is

the public's perception of celebrity. All of the pitfalls and

the royalty and skid rowness of what goes along with it. It has

been real fun. Yeah, I have had a good time.

It is a huge success. It has sold to 108 countries, you were saying?

Yes, 108 countries. Which I thought, wow, how many are there! Every

country! There are 190 countries -- sorry, it was sold to 180 countries.

We have done seven episodes the first season, so now the second

year we have done nine more. We shot in the UK, in London it was

really fun it was a great place to be at work. I really enjoyed it.

So, before the new series of Episodes start on Friday, 11th May

at 10.00pm on BBC Two. Now, each week on the One Show, we

are remembering the Falklands as it happened. This is the story as it

started on April 30th, 1982. Britain declare as total air and

sea lock blockade around the Falklands. The ultimate object, to

recapture the Falkland Islands. Argentine television has been

reassuring its viewers that the air bridge to the garrison on the

Falklands is continuing with an occasional break in bad weather.

They say that morale is high, the defences is ready and the will to

hold the Falklands is unbreakable. Let's have a look at the way that

the islanders traditional and British way of life has been

altered by the Argentine occupation. The local radio has been taken over.

Half of the broadcasts are in Spanish. The Argentines have

introduced the peso as the official currency. The islanders have driven

on the left, arrows have been painted on the road to show that

they must now drive on the other side.

We must remember that the aggression was not a part of

Argentina in this dispute over the sovereignty of that little ice cold

bunch of land. The planes went in low, in waves

seconds apart... They glimpsed the raiders left by the falcons and

left behind them more fire destruction.

The latest news from Buenos Aires. We have John Stapleton on the line.

John, are you there? What is the news? The Government statements

issued within the last few minutes claim that Argentine plane hit

three British warships. The general enflanked by military

leaders saying that Britain had committed an act of war and was

trying to recolonise Argentine land. The talk of is victory, of British

planes shot down, they say that Argentine heroism is beating

British aggression. I'm not allowed to say how many

planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I

counterparted them all back. The pilots were not hurt, they were

jubilant. One plane had a bullet hole in the tail, it's already been

repaired. Arpblg Tina's only cruiser, the

second biggest ship in her Navy has sunk. The General bell gradow was

struck by two torpedoes from a British nuclear submarine.

One newspaper headlines say two words: English murderers! If we get

retaliation by the Argentine ship, very soon there will be a loss of

life in that area, greater than the actual population of the fiebgdz

itself. In the course of its duties, hymns

Sheffield, a type 42 destroyer -- HMS Sheffield, a type 42 destroyer

was attacked and hit later on this afternoon by an Argentine missile.

The attack was made by low-flaying aircraft, slipping in beneath the

guard. HMS Sheffield, was able to receive only seconds of warning. It

was struck mid-ship. It was exploded with devastating effect.

Who would have thought it come to this, to hear a ship going down,

one of ours as well. I have a few mates on that ship it is

disheartening. The atmosphere today was in stark

contrast to 30 days when the first taskforce ship sailed out. Today

was the reality of the situation. And we are joined by Captain Robert

Lawrence, who fought in the Falklands War. It must be strange

for you watching that footage? it was a very long time ago. These

memories live with you. Especially with an anniversary date

like now you are very aware of it, but the challenge was we were

soldiers, we wanted to be soldiers, the concern is looking after the

guys that come back from these events. Whether they are injured or

not, I run a charity to help keem they were motivated. There are

better treatments, there are more things to help them back in 82.

Let's take you back to 1982, yourself being a soldier, where

were you when you heard that the Sheffield had sunk? We were on the

ships going down to the island. Our major concern at that time was that

there may be a political resolution, that it would all end. That we

would get all the way there an not get the chance to do the job we are

trained to do. So it became a reality at that

point, people dying, ships going down. The first ship that the Royal

Navy had lost since the Second World War, so this is a major event.

Well, you did land and led a platoon up Mount Tumbledown, it was

the battle that was key towards the end of the Falklands. What do you

remember of the conditions? You were severely injured? On the night

it was minus 20 without the wind shield factor, that took it down to

minus p 2. I was shot in the head with a bullet right at the end of

the battle. It would have been that cold that saved my life, but I

remained conscious. I have rek lexs of various different aspects of

being hit, being worried that I would not be seen, I would be left

bleeding to death on the battlefield. So every aspect of it.

The brain works very fast, you remember it all.

You returned to Mount Tumbledown recently. How was that? How did you

feel going back there? It is fantastic to go back to an island

that is grateful for the liberation that we did for it. It is not the

same for future for the boys going back to Afghanistan, but you think

you are in control of your emotions and you have it packed away and

settled and then you go up the mountain you fought on and finding

memorials for troops and friends that died from their families, that

really brings it home again. It is extraordinary to talk with

you. Thank you very much for sharing your memories with us. If

you have memories of the Falklands War, we would like to see them. If

you have photos, do send them to us to the normal One Show address. My

dad took a shot there of a bomber, going from the village green. There

they are en route to the Falklands. So do send in your pictures.

We will show them over -- over the coming weeks.

Here at the One Show, we love a scientific experiment. So we hit

the streets of Brighton with a burning question: Who is this man?

How you doing?! This is Joey from Friends. Matt LeBlanc is who it

really is. This is Joey. It is Matt LeBlanc.

I recognise the face... Joey from Friends.

Is it Nicolas Sarkozy? Is he a TV presenter! How you doing! That man

is Matt LeBlanc. Matt LeBlanc. Joey from Friends.

Only just, though. You played Joey for 12 years, we

cannot have you on without talking about Friends, a much-loved

character. Do you think you will escape Joey, or do you want to?

I'm honoured to have been a part of that. That was a great show. I'm a

big fan of the show, it is on late at night. Do you still put it on?

Sure, why not. Cool. Great.

The amazing thing about friends friends, it appealed to men and