30/04/2013 The One Show

to tell us about your role in Spartacus! You must defeat these two

gladiators in glorious battle and the place on our sofa will be yours.

with Matt Baker... And Alex Jones. And please welcome the brave and

to get in here! It's nice to have you back. Thank you.It's nice to be

here. Good. The last time you were here, we're not telling you off

now, but you did let a little swear word slip out. You apologised, but

we were wondering what reaction you got when you got home? I was worried

about the kids, because my son is quite delicate about all that bad

language stuff, quite rightly so, as is my daughter. But I think actually

they had got carried away with something else and they weren't

watching it! Are they watching tonight? They should be.We are

going to help you out. We have a long list of all of the words you

cannot say at seven o'clock on a show like ours. The gladiators will

keep you in check as well. All of those words have been said many

times in John's series Spartacus, which we are going to talk about

later. Earlier on today, I felt very sorry for that woman who was filmed

parallel parking, taking 20 minutes to do it. There she is. 20 minutes

isn't that long, though! We were saying that there are a lot of bad

drivers out there, but would you say that you were one of them? New

research has found that one in five thought they would fail a retest,

and when challenged to try, the outcome was even worse. John

Sergeant has been driving since 1961, so we didn't think he would

have a problem. I have had a driving licence for

very many years, but research shows that if people took their test

again, any of them would fail. The One Show is making me take a special

test to see if I can drive! Before I jump behind the wheel, I want to

find two volunteers who will take the test with me. How did you get on

when you take your test? I took it loads of times. How many times?

Seven. Did you pass first time? did. What are your thoughts -- what

are your faults as a driver? Leaving the handbrake on on hills and stuff.

I don't have my hands at ten to two. May be singing along to music and

not concentrating. Are you repaired to come along with us and take the

test again? Why not?If you were to take the test again, do you think

you would pass? I hope so.Marking us is Des O'Connor. No, not that

one! Our Des O'Connor has been a driving instructor for 17 years.

am looking for forward planning, observation, and when you take part

in manoeuvres, keep the vehicle under control. How do you feel?

quite excited! Good luck. We are being tested on general control of

the vehicle... At the roundabout ahead, I would like you to follow

the roundabout ahead, taking the intentional! And finally, emergency

asking you to do that again. John is here, rather tentatively,

along with Barbara and Paul, to find out how they have done! It's very

exciting. John, how do you think you would fare if you reset your test?

think I would do OK. I passed my test a long time ago. I sat a

motorbike test a few years ago because I had to for a job. I

passed, so I rode a motorbike for a few years, and I cycle as well. You

have to pay attention and be sensible and smart and do the right

thing. There's things like, in London, if somebody is turning

right, people stopped to let them go, thinking they are doing the

right thing. That's incredibly dangerous for a cyclist coming up on

the inside, who doesn't know that that person has stopped. The rules

are there for a reason. I have to do what they say. Barbara and Paul,

John has the results here. Barbara, quickly, pass or fail? Pass.

reckon I have failed. Let's find out. Who is first? Shall I give the

result and then the reasons? Give the reasons first. Barbara, you

delivered the best driving experience in general. You speeded

while passing a speeding camera, but apart from this you are not a

dangerous driver. You did, however, failed the emergency stop. You have

three serious faults, which means you failed! Barbra! What about

Paul? Paul... You stalled ten times! And you put the car in third gear

when first was needed. At the roundabout you indicated right when

you intended to go straight across. You got to serious false, which

means you also failed. Were you nervous? I was a little bit, yes.

You can keep your license, though! No one will know! What other main

bad habits that drivers pick up after a few years of driving.

Obviously, the one that catches all of us at one time or another,

speeding. Only putting one hand on the steering wheel. You are also

meant to look around all the time will stop even when you are changing

speed, you've got to look. The most common cause of a crash is when

people don't look around properly. The so many people who have been

driving for a long time, failing this retest, does that mean that

accidents are caused by older, more experienced drivers? No, it is the

young people who cause most of the accidents. If you are 18, you are

more than three times as likely as someone who was 48 to have a crash.

The insurance companies know exactly what they are doing. The safest

group is between 50 and 69. So you are OK. I think you are

overconfident. I think with the kind of cars people drive, I noticed that

Volvo drivers were well worth avoiding, because they think they

are driving a really nice, safe car, so they don't have to pay as much

attention to other road users. Another manufacturer is forward.

Paul proved, people get into a bit of a flap before they tried tests.

Back in 1935, when tests were first introduced, Ford brought a little

video out to help us feel more relaxed. If you do the reversing

test like this, your stock will be at a distinct discount, and your

chance of driving the family on Sunday will disappear. Your examiner

is assessing the road, and he means the road, not the pavement.

Every night after the show, that is what the car park looks like

downstairs as Alex leaves! John, we have your result here. Oh, dear!Are

you ready? I am not.You have good control of the car. You check your

mirrors often. You didn't, however, indicate on approaching a

roundabout, which means... Failed! It's rigged! It's not fair!

study anything. You take any university graduate and get them to

set the test 30 years later, and the chances are they will fail! I will

just go off and drown my sorrows. Don't go driving then! Let's move

on. Don't mind me. We have been using antibiotics for over 80 years

to keep bacteria at bay. Some of our best weapons against infection may

be about to stop working. Crouchlands Farm in West Sussex,

where Gwynn Jones Farms 350 dairy cows, producing two and a half

million litres of milk every year. Today, local vet is carrying out a

routine inspection. Today, we are just carrying out some checks.

there was an outbreak, what would you see? A few years ago we had a

viral inspection -- viral infection. It cost us hundreds of cows. It is

fundamental to keep them healthy. infection is detected in any of the

cows, they will be given antibiotics. On some farms,

antibiotics are given to healthy animals to prevent infection

spreading. Every year, 290 tonnes of antibiotics are sold for use with

farm animals, and some of those have the same active ingredients as the

antibiotics we need. In certain quarters, that is causing real

concern, because every time an antibiotic is used, it could render

it less effective with the bacteria it is supposed to kill becoming more

resistant. Some experts believe that if, as a become less effective on

animals, that resistance could pass on to us as well. Recently, the

Chief Medical Officer made headlines when she described antibiotic

resistance as a ticking timebomb. we don't take action, we could all

be back in a 19th-century environment where infections kill us

as a result of routine operations. Antibiotic resistance is monitored

across the NHS in this lab by Professor Neil Woodford. Ten years

ago, his team dealt with just three new instances of resistant bacteria.

This year, we are looking at nearly 800. Here is a gut bacteria called

E-coli. We have exposed it to six different antibiotics in these

strips. You can see large zones where these bacteria cannot grow.

The problem is that when you kill the susceptible bacteria, any

resistant bacteria aren't killed. They can multiply, and you can have

E-coli that looks more like this one. In other words, on these

bacteria, the antibiotics haven't worked. It is alarming. It is a

stark example of how effective these critically important antibiotics

are, and how their use can make them less effective full stop should we

be using them with animals? Resistance to even workforce

antibiotics is becoming a reality. Then you have a problem because

there is no next Becks choice. You have to preserve the antibiotics

we've got now so that we've got antibiotics for future generations.

In both people and animals, the more antibiotics are taken, the greater

the risk of antibiotic resistant bacteria developing. Whether the

resistant bacteria from animals can move on to cause infection in people

is dividing opinion. Scientists insist that in some circumstances,

it has been proven that there is a risk. The government agrees it is a

complex issue, and they don't believe the use of antibiotics in

animals is a significant cause of resistance in humans. The former

Chief Medical Officer believes there is already enough evidence to stop

some antibiotics being used on animals altogether. We have not

concentrated enough on the link between the infections that are very

difficult to treat now in people in hospitals because of antibiotic

resistance, and those same antibiotics being used in

agriculture, and promoting antibiotic resistance. Those

critical antibiotics we need to protect ourselves, would you like to

see their use in agriculture banned? There is a very strong case for

banning them, to make sure that when people go into hospital, they are

not faced with illnesses that can't be treated because the antibiotics

become ineffective through excessive use in agriculture. The government

says if these antibiotics were banned, it would have a significant

impact on animal welfare and industry productivity. Back on the

farm, they are satisfied the herd are healthy and don't need any

treatment today. I wouldn't want any person's health put at risk because

of the way we are using antibiotics. But it is important that if we are

going to drink milk, it's important thought that no new classes have

been found. If you've found any, let us know. Tell the Government.

John, you've been in stark and gory films, but you've just finished a

Christmas film. What brought about the change of direction? You can

only exercise choice over what you're offered. It's not like I

thought what next. Something came in and since I've had kids they've

all been pretty dark and foul, foul-mouthed films. Awful things.

And this thing came in and the script came in and it was sweet and

charming and it was really nice. I got to go and film in some of

England's finest little chocolate- box villages. I don't normally get

that. I get dodgy car parks in south-east London! You were talking

there of some of the harder and tougher roles and this series, the

box set, how real was that to history and how real was Batty? --

Sparticus? He started the rebellion from this point. There is a lot of

creative writing in there and lot of imagination. The team have been

brilliant. It was fantastic fun to get a character like that and what

was really interesting, over 13 episodes you got to know the

character's life and you got to develop it. You saw him having

plans and going forward and I never particularly wanted to go and

bother the writers about, does it work out or what happens there, I

was more like to have a plan and then it fails and then you have to

have another plan. They kept coming up with new plans. I liked him as a

person, shame. This is him introducing Sparticus to the other

gladiators. We have proved that the name will live long after we have

gone to dust. Stand proud before the bringer of rain, the slayer of

the shadow of death, the new CHEERING

APPLAUSE It's a brilliant, brilliant series,

but it's quite lusty and gory and Matt you said something in the

meeting. You wouldn't show it to your children even as an adult you

wouldn't watch it with your parents. I think my mother would like it.

She has not watched it. She is a bit older, but she would have loved

it, although she wouldn't have wanted to watch it with me. I

watched it with my dad and the first ten minutes went passed and

my dad is getting on a wee bit and after about ten minutes he went,

"That fella's awfully like you." I spent eight months of my life in

New Zealand. My dad thought he looked a wee bit like me. Has he

seen Wee Man? No. He's passed seeing stuff. You are off to the

Cannes Film Festival, aren't you? Am I? You are very proud of that

one aren't you specifically? Yeah, I think it's done really well. It's

a brilliant underdog story, we low- budget British film and they

distributed it and marketed themselves and the press in

Scotland were daggers out. The police didn't even let us film in

Glasgow. The company opened it themselves and it was top in

Scotland. Per cinema ratio it took more than the other big film out

that week. It was huge. Fantastic. And in Paisley. If you want to see

Sparticus, it's out now on DVD. Brits travel thousands of miles to

see the world's most Intelient animals in their natural --

intelligent animals in their natural hab bat like dolphins. Are

you going to do your dolphin accent? Aaarrrkkkhhh.Ravens, rooks

and crows have been steeped in superstition and were said to carry

the souls of the dead to the afterlife, so given the gruesome

past, the Tower of London is the fitting home for the largest member

of the crow family, the raven. This highly inquiffive creature is --

inquisitive creature has been catching theioman's attention. Here

at the Tower of London, the man responsible for them is Raven

Master, Chris. You know the birds intimately. Tell me some of the

behaviours. They have a history of being thieves. They will steal

anything. One of them stole a purse and proceeded to bury the coins.

They'll take crisps. They don't like the flavour, but they'll wash

the flavour off. It's their bin- raiding skills that have been

causing all the fuss and to demonstrate, Chris has set up a

test. Here's the problem - they're too big to get inside, yet the food

is at the bottom, out of beak reach. How do they get to their prize?

They've learnt to hoist the bag up using their big and their feet. --

beak and their feet. It would be easy to dismiss this clever

behaviour as a one-off, but remarkably what has been filmed

here off the M4, shows that the Tower of London ravens aren't the

only birds to have learnt this trick. Rooks have also learnt that

by securing the bin liner under their feet an inch at a time they

can slowly raise the bag within reach of their beaks. Despite the

mess the birds are making, some believe it does in fact show that

the members of the crow family are bird geniuss and this aviary within

Cambridge University, professor Nicky Clayton, an expert in animal

behaviour, is testing the intelligence of rooks and Jays.

They are not normal tool users in the wild, yet give them a problem

to solve - using a bin liner as a tool to get food out of reach they

can do it and figure it out. Even more impressive than being able to

use a tool like that, is time. They pull up the bin liner under their

beak many times before they get a piece of food, so they're doing a

lot of action before the reward, so they have to think about the future.

Tool use and the ability to think several steps foo the future for

delayed gratification illustrates extraordinary intelligence and

places them in a very exclusive group. Nicky and her colleagues

have devised their own test on Jays. The birds were presented a tall

test tube half full of water with juicy wax worms flowing out of

reach. Small stones and balls of cork were the only tools provided.

The Jays quickly learnt that stones raised the level of the water,

while the cork floated on top. Understanding that solids displace

liquid is a complicated concept that even five-year-old children

struggle with. Nicky believes this remarkable ability to solve

problems bears many similarities to the evolution of intelligence in

apes. The crow family have huge brains for their body size. They

are also long-lived, like the apes and they are highly social and the

final one, brilliant at the physical problem-solving tasks and

they are the sim features that are suggested to be so important --

same features that are suggested to be so important in the evolution of

chimps. Bird-brain may be a wholly inaccurate insult. The ability to

co-operate and to use tools suggest that the crows are among the

brainiest of all animals. Can you imagine you go to all that trouble

and you get a prize of prawn cocktail crisps? Cheese and onion

every time. This year the One Show and the country's top poets are

coming together to create new verses celebrating their home town.

We have a new poem this evening. Britain was a very different place

when my parents left India in the late 1950s. When I was born in 1956

my parents were settled near Heathrow Airport. As an adult, I

decided to stay in west London and here in Harrow is where I know call

home. This place feeds into my poetry and for me represents what

it is to be part of multi-cultural Britain. In terms of my own poetry,

I was aware that the English tradition lacked a sense of

Asianness, so I was trying to bring in Asian characters into the poems

and also to mix the English language, so there is a sense of

English and Punjabi coming together. A kind of punglish. One of my early

poems about my parents' experiences of running a corner shop is taught

on the GCSE English syllabus in local schools. This was a real

honour, being a teacher myself. things you have on offer you have

never got in stock. In the worst Indian shop on the whole Indian

block. My specially commissioned poem for the One Show is a

celebration of the different cultures that live in Harrow. In

particular, I wanted to capture the great range of foods, languages and

leisure that exist in this great part of the city. All shades to the

good in my heart-felt Harrow, with the Metropolitan Police poll tan

line for the sticks or the city. Look at us side by side and mucking

in, for Harrow's no-one's centre, everyone's home. Harrow is stalls

busling with enormous plan contains. Harrow is Polske and seasonal

matzos and the song of pomegranate and melons and mangoes. Harrow is

ball-clacking Shinti, bowls and a work out to bang ra, or freestyle.

-- bangra or freestyle. Harrow is alongside summers of jazzy stuff

and others. The seepia shades of tall trees and slant parks were

home for romantic Lord Byron, home too for India's jewel of

independence, Nehru and Winston Churchill. Home too for our time-

bending Roger Bannister. Imagine him pegging it down the lanes for

our local school, where now my daughters are at home in the

countries and continents of tongues. May my children and all the

children and all who claim their origins from over the rainbow learn

to love whatever is contrairary in our youthful Harrow with the arms

flying in the air. That was lovely. We were just saying, John, how

brilliant poetry sounds in a Scottish accent. It lends itself,

doesn't it? Yeah, of course, yes.A bit of Burns? We sleek it, cower