30/08/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones

Now, these were the scenes today at Kensington Palace

where Princes William and Harry are commemorating their mother,

Diana, Princess of Wales, who they lost 20 years ago tomorrow.

Later tonight, three One Show viewers will open up

their photo albums to tell us about their connections to Diana,

Send us your Diana photos to [email protected]

or our social media and tell us what she said to you.

A lot can change in 20 years, can't it?

In 1997 our guest tonight was a keyboard player about to leave

In 2017, he's Britain's most popular astrophysicist.

Will you be living on this planet or a semi-detached on the Moon. We have

this vision, perhaps. Plenty of parking. A little Union Jack outside

it. There you go. It's possible. That is the answer. We will talk

later about the documentary I made, the idea of having hotels in space,

of being able to go as a tourist into space, possibly to the Moon,

even to Mars, is not as far fetched as I thought it was. This document,

you can't stop talking about its content. You were surprised by what

you discovered. Even you! ? When you talk to people like Jeff Bezos, he

runs Amazon, the richest person in the world. Richard Branson, Elon

Musk. They have rocket companies. They are not interested in the

internet any more, they are interested in building rockets to go

into space. When it's people like that, you start believing it. We

will hear all about it later. It's fascinating. Who will win the race,

that is what we'll discuss. It's a good question.

Britain is becoming a nation of addicts, according

Four times as many sleeping pills, antidepressants and pain killers

are taken now than in the 90s and athletes are

Here's a very personal story from Rugby League

For 15 years I played in Rugby League's top-flight, it earned me

two Super League, medals, the Challenge Cup and the World Cup

Challenge. It left me battered. I end up taking tramadol for my

injuries. It's a strong painkiller. I was determined to keep playing. I

carried on training and using tramadol to get over my injuries and

that's where the addiction started to come in. For five years I was

hooked. In 2013 I forced myself to go cold turkey. A month of stomach

cramps, sweats and exhaust. An experience that has left me asking -

how many other sports people struggle with predescription drugs?

I've come to Saddleworth Rangers to ask how much a part painkillers play

in the culture of rugby. If I play on a Saturday, I'm sore until

Thursday. The head coach suffers from injuries from his past career

as a pro. He was encouraged to take prescription drugs. Straight after

the operation, on strong painkillers. At the club you are

back on the rehab, painkillers after painkillers. Many players feel

pressure to pay through the pain. You don't want to look soft as such.

You are carrying knocks before the game you will think, I'll have

painkillers. People do it to get through. There was a culture within

the sport that people used to take prescription drugs to help them wind

down from the game. That's where the use of the drug became wrong and

it's something that needs to be talked about within our sport.

That's one of the reasons I'm now taking part in the UK's first ever

study into the impact rugby has on its players' long-term health. Dr

Karren Behind is leading the research. Rugby is a unique sport.

It ex-certs a substantial amount of collisions upon the body. The key is

to understand what then happens when these players retire. Former

international John Slight Holme is another taking part. It's important

when players retire they can understand what type of things they

will have to manage when they get older. How much pain they will have

to manage and if they need more operations as their joints

deteriorate. Karren has invited John in for a bone scan. We would like to

get a profile. They are asking players about their painkiller use.

I think whilst you are playing sport, 100% painkillers are part of

what you do. Painkillers mask pain. Pain is there for a reason. The

rugby football league says it has a strong record of supporting current

and former players and ed indicates on the risks associateded with

prescription painkillers. World Rugby, which governs Rugby Union,

says player welfare is the number one priority and they have an

evidence approached to prevention, Edinburgh case and management. Why

are injuries so bad that some players get hooked on painkillers.

We are go to find out. We will look at these lads playing and see what

it's like to take a Rugby League title. The kit, called Liveskin

measures an analyses force on the body. Jack, one of the inventors,

hopes it will make players safer by dodging huge hits with bester

posture. Tom has said he will try it out. It might be a training session,

but he's not holding back. On that tackle we did with Tom, how does it

show up on the graph? 400 kilograms weight on Tom's show. On his

shoulder in that one tackle? To put that into perspective. Imagine four

rugby players falling on you from one meter high. For a split of a

second that's massive force on the shoulder. That sort of impact, is it

any wonder that players like me end up taking too many painkillers? The

game as a whole is amazing. It's given me my life and friendships

that will last forever. I care about the sport, which is why I want the

players and clubs to be more honest and open about the use and abuse of

painkillers. Well, Rob and Dr Saleyha are with us now. Welcome

both. Rob, the thought at the end of that film. When you are not in pain,

how easy was it for you to get the painkillers from the doctor?

Exceptionally easy. You play doctors off against each other and you

become good at lying. With the internet these days things are

really easy to get hold of. Once my playing days finished I was needing

the chemicals in my body it was easy to get hold of. You were saying you

needed them. What feelings would you have then in terms of withdrawal?

The withdrawal was horrendous. When I stopped taking them, stomach

cramps, you don't sleep. Very nausea. Flu-like symptoms as well.

Dr Saleyha, what drugs are we talking about here? Are they stuff

that viewers at home would have heard of? Absolutely. Opioid are

predescription drugs, you shouldn't have them without prescription.

Codeine or tramadol, that you will know. Morphine, itself, given by an

injection. The really strong one that we've been hearing a lot of in

the news, Fentnol. It must be difficult, talking about what Rob

said about how easy it is to get them, how hard it is to track what

patients are taking? The days when the GP was like an extended member

of the family, you know them and they know, the good old days, you

could monitor and track a patient. If there was something wrong. If

there was pain from an injury, or whatever, if it wasn't resolving.

Incompetent stead of continuing a cycle of prescription you would

monitor it, you would know that something wasn't right if the

patient kept coming back more and more. Nowadays it's a different GP.

It could be an agency. If you have developed into an addict and

developed the addictive behaviour, will are gaps in the system that you

can manipulate. Addicts are very clever at doing that. As they are

across the board. If there is anybody at home, Rob, you know, that

they are worried about a family member or a friend who they think

may be addicted, what would your advice be having been through it? My

advice is to speak to your GP. Sometimes your GP is your drug

dealer at times. They are there to help you. The reason for us doing

this piece was to show it's a wider kind of epidemic within society.

There are people there to help. I went through that little bit of a

turmoil in my life and turned this negative into a big positive. It's

not just about sportsmen. It's about average Joes and people in society

who have do have these issues. You start off with a genuine problem.

That is how mine did. The chemicals became something I needed and craved

daily. We are trying to help a wider - Absolutely. You sought help

because you had pain. Pain is a sign or symptom that something is wrong.

We are in a quick-fix society we want things fixed now. We want to be

match ready or be ready to go back out to work without giving ourselves

and our bodies time to heal. That is what we need. There are other things

available if painkillers aren't working. Dr Saleyha thank you very

much indeed. Rob, thank you for telling your story. Thank you very

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While last century's space race was the USA v the Soviets,

it's now a battle between Earth's richest men, including

The idea we used to throw these away. It's heartbreaking. When you

look at the precision of this airspace quality hardware and it's

obviously very wasteful just financially, it's heartbreaking to

put so much work into something and only use it once. Yeah. We talked

about how buoyant you are for the future of the human race. You follow

the path of the story of these three bill airs. We have a photo of the

three up here. Run us through. We know Sir Richard Branson. His

company, Virgin Galatic have been test firing. They test flew the

first ever supersonic aircraft developed with private money. They

are a serious company. They hope to be flying tourists within the next

one or two years at the end of the test flying programme. Jeff Bezos is

sometimes the richest person in the world and Elon Musk who everyone

knows. Musk his company, SpaceEx have a company with Nasa. They are

delivering supplies to the space station and will deliver astronauts

this year or next year. They have a space croft. Bezos, I went to his

rocket company. He has a factory of rockets. You saw them that clip.

These rockets don't get into space once. All the rockets in human

history have gone in understand with and been destroyed. Imagine if you

got from London to New York and then they blew the plane up when you

landed. Imagine how expensive that would be. That is no longer the

case. Suddenly, you have the possibility of getting us into space

and being able to build infrastructure hotels industry in

space. This is what was most interesting to me about these three

are individuals. They said the same thing. Why are they doing it? The

reason, to save the planet. They are idealists these people. They said,

imagine that you could - we have access to anything we want. There

are resources out. There someone in the documentary says there is enough

iron in the asteroid belt to build a skyscraper. An infinite amount. If

you want our civilisation to survive, but also to expand and to

be interesting and have a frontier, then you can do it without damaging

the planet. Jeff Bezos saided to me, we should zone the earth

residential. Imagine that. You move heavy industry off into space. All

the solar power you need and reresources and the earth is a place

you protect. Before you made the documentary, did you think that that

was possible? No. I thought this was - it sounds, as I say, like science

fiction, doesn't it? I thought it would be 50 years ago, 100 years

away. It happens that these three individuals and many other smaller

companies, mainly in America, are doing this now. Within, I think,

five years, ten years we will have the opportunity to go into space. It

will be expensive initially. Right. 250,000 dollars a ticket, people are

talking about. The idea is for that to come down. On you go from there.

The thing is, the concept that it's not a vision any more, it's actually

happening. You go and Yeah. You see, you have been to the rocket

factories and seen them landing a rocket, which is unbelievable? For

someone like me, an aviation geek, to see these things building built.

Elon Musk is talking about going to Mars within ten years. He's building

the rockets. Jeff Bezos... He's doing it. You are talking about

serious people with serious money. They are not - in the Silicon

Valley, the internet was the thing. That was yesterday. Mining astro

noids. So much stuff in this document you think, suddenly, all

the industry is out there and we'll just live on earth and kind of enjoy

the beautiful landscape that we. When you say it, you think, what an

idealistic and silly vision. Except we have the technology to do it and

we have the people who want to do it. Put the robots out there. That

is what I say. Put them out there. If Professor Brian Cox gets on the

robot, I'm on it am scla The 21st Century Race

for Space is on next Tuesday, Tomorrow it will be 20 years

since Diana, Princess of Wales, Some thought the outpouring

of grief was striking but many felt a deep personal

connection to the Princess, and we asked three One Show viewers

to share theirs with us. I'm Nicola. Diana was my real-life

princess because when I was nine she got engaged to Princeton Charles.

She was a real-life fairy tale. She died on the 31st of August. We were

getting married on the 6th of September. When I found out that

Diana had died, I didn't give any thought to when the funeral would

be. It was announced that it would be on the day of our wedding. It was

really surreal. When I woke up in the morning, I banned the radio. I

knew if I watched it, it would upset me. When the car turned up to take

us, there was no traffic on the roads. There wasn't a shop open, it

was really eerie. The man said, I'm really sorry but I'm not sure how

were going to get there because all the petrol stations were shot. But

we got there really early because the roads were empty. When we got

there, there was a flower tribute for Diana in the church. They

muffled the bells because they wouldn't be too loud. I always think

about her. Her spirit will live. I'm John, a big fan of Princess Diana.

I've been going to Kensington Palace for 20 years every year on the

anniversary. When I found out that Diana died, I was broken, completely

dumb. It was my partner's birthday, Marion, we had a bottle of champagne

and then when we heard the news, we changed our mind, there was no

celebration. I was anxious to get to the mile, the palace, I'd never

heard anything like it. You could hear a pin drop. People talking very

low to each other about Princess Diana. The world stood still because

we have lost our special princess. On the 20th anniversary, myself, and

the Royal fans, are going to Kensington Palace, we lay tributes

to her, in flowers, in words, pictures, banners, and prayer. We

will have an all-night vigil. We will be lighting candles through the

whole night and talking about Diana's memories. Very few people

have two hearts. One she gave to the people. My name is Colin Edwards, I

photographed Diana between 1981 and 1987. I used take days off to travel

around the country. I built up a vast collection of photographs of

her. She was very charismatic, she had warmth, compassion and a great

sense of humour. A friend came to my house and knocked on the door. It

was eight o'clock in the morning on the 31st of August and gave me the

sad news that she had died tragically. I was terribly upset. I

couldn't believe it. The morning after her death, a friend and I went

to Kensington Palace with flowers. It seemed unreal. I took photographs

of the floral tributes that were building up. It was extremely

moving. People loved her who had never met her. I was privileged to

have met her many times. It was like a personal loss. To some higher up

in one word is not easy. So many adjectives I could use. She was

quite simply irrepressible. -- irreplaceable.

20 years ago, former BBC Royal correspondent Jennie Bond

was at home in Devon when the accident happened.

But at ignite. I remember it so well. I'd stupidly told my

seven-year-old girl but she had her mum there for seven days. I was

always breaking promises for her. I got the news at about one in the

morning. I'd been to drink 's party and was over the limit and my

husband said you can't get into the car. There were reports that she had

been injured. That she had walked away. I had to get a taxi 200 miles

to London. The taxi driver was very helpful. He took the banner down to

lessen wind resistance. We flew to London. I was listening to the radio

in the back of the car. My pager was going, my phone was going. The news

came from the Far East fire Robin Cook the Home Secretary. I heard the

tone of the coverage change and I recognised that tone. We rehearsed

these things at the BBC. I arrived at six o'clock in the morning. Just

batted broadcasting for a very traumatic week. How upset were you

at the time? You'd experienced so much of her life first-hand as royal

correspondent. I knew her quite well, we'd had long conversations

and I liked her. It was very upsetting. As you know, as a

journalist, in a fast-moving story, professional instincts kick in.

You'd witnessed the public reaction to Diana. Did it prepare you for the

outpouring of grief that we saw? It was extraordinary. They kept me trap

that the BBC for 24 hours and I said that you've got to let me go out and

I've got to feel what is happening on the streets. I arrived at Saint

James 's Palace where they were signing books of condolence. I got

there early and a chap with a beard just looked at me and burst into

tears. I thought then that the emotion was real and palpable and it

grew and grew. Prince William said in the BBC documentary last weekend

that he was surprised by the reaction from people who didn't

really know her. The boys were bewildered. Harry said, almost

resentful that people should be grieving so openly for someone who

meant so much to them but was unknown to those people. It's how

any little boy would feel. They've been magnificent this week. She

would be so proud of demo. What do you think is her legacy? I think her

compassion and the causes that she has espoused. They are continuing

her work with vulnerable people. That is what Diana was all about.

And that is a real driving force for the princess. Thank you to everyone

who has been sending in interactions with Diana.

Simone met Princess Diana in 1981 when she was in Swan Lake. She said

it must be hard when you get to the stage. Liz, when she was just three

in this photo. She met Princess Diana who said she had a beautiful

smile and was adorable. Thanks for all of those. Brian, a slight change

of tone. For his documentaries, Brian

travels all over the world to some of the most dramatic landscapes

on Earth, from the Arctic Circle

to the Namib Desert. It's like a catalogue. That one is

like an album cover. But you don't have to go that far

to see something extraordinary. Mike has been to a special part

of our planet that's Sutherland at the very northernmost

tip of Scotland is home to one of our most ancient and wild

landscapes. This far north, I'm as close to the Arctic as I am to

London and it shows. The region feels fast and otherworldly. It's

covered in this. Blanket bog. One of the rarest and most precious of all

our habitats. I'm surrounded by 400,000 hectares of the stuff. The

greatest expanse of its kind. Not just in the UK but in the entire

world. I'm in an area called the flow country. This spectacularly

unscathed is of national importance for wildlife and is the last

remaining home for one of the UK's rarest birds. The not so common in

common scota. They could face extinction in the UK within a few

years. So far this year, only 17 pairs have returned to breed after a

winter spent at sea. Paul has monitored the population. There is

only about 50 breeding pairs in the UK and we've got about half of them

up here. This environment is like tundra. It is flat and treeless. It

is the same environment as Iceland, Scandinavia and Russia. The mosaic

of pool systems and locks. They have choice of be for feeding and for

nesting. Even with the perfect habitat, Paul and the team are only

just unravelling the mystery behind the disappearing duck. Under these

calm waters, there is a battle going on. The scotas are losing. Some of

the population of these invertebrates are declining. They

are competing for the same size of food. There are simply too many

brown trout out there. To combat the problem, front line combination --

conservation have teamed up with unlikely allies. Anglers. We've been

increasing fishing efforts on locks where fish numbers have gone up.

We've been removing trout down to a sensible level which reduces

competition for food between the trout and the birds.

It only been two years since the anchors were brought on board but

there have been some promising signs. It means more food for the

scoters. In this stretch of wetland, it's a very small needle in a very

large haystack. Just as we were losing the light... There is a male

and female constantly diving down for food. The mail is velvet black

with a little yellow bit on its ill. The female is a bit more dull and

dusky. That is Britain's rarest reading duck. With the active

support of fishermen, it is hoped that this beautiful landscape will

once again support a healthy population of one of our rarest

birds. The not so common common scoter. He always manages it at the

end. The 21st Century Race For Space

next Tuesday at 9pm on BBC Two. And tomorrow

we'll still be in orbit