31/05/2012 The One Show

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

It's a very special occassion for us tonight, because we're welcoming

a man who's played a hugely important role in British public

life. Over the years he's played that role with dignity and grace,

and has had a wonderful way of communicating with his subjects...

King, must have own crown and sceptre. That sounds absolutely

perfect. It does sound right up your street. And you can say...

what do you do? Well, he's TV royalty at least, it's Jon Culshaw!

Great to see you. It is grand to be back. Obviously, you're the king of

doing Prince Charles. But lots of people think they can do him,

including Matt Baker here. Yours was better than mine, to be honest.

But what is the key? I think I have just demonstrated it. You just need

a little sound or a little phrase, something to get you started. I

would say, fiddling with the cufflinks... And you're in there.

He has heard your impression, hasn't he? That's right. One time

he put a party on, it was the anniversary of the Archers, and we

were invited to be the comic turn on the night. And he was saying

about how he had always been surprised by Impressionists, all

the way from my Yarwood onwards. You know, always, the affectations

that one inevitably has! Well, Jon has obviously not upset the royals

too much, because he is hosting a special festival in Hyde Park this

weekend. Meanwhile, down on the River Thames, Carrie Grant has been

watching the first boats arriving. They are starting together. But on

Sunday, there will be an incredible 1,000 ships which will have come to

London to take part in the Diamond Jubilee Pageant. Later on, I will

be finding out how they manage to get up the River Thames without

crashing into each other. We did hear that you arrive in London in

spectacular style. Yes, kind of. I arrived on this amazing ship from

France. You can call that style! More from Carrie later.

preparations are well under way for the pageant. But we want to see how

your Jubilee preparations are going. Yes, show us your bunting, is what

we are asking tonight. Garages, sheds, streets... It is wonderful,

actually. It is sort of building. The bunting is spreading! It is

turning into a classic 1950s postcard, with flags everywhere.

Fast fashion is in the news today. That's the term for the huge number

of clothes which are being thrown out less than a year after being

bought. Yes, we're sending millions of tons of clothes to the rubbish

tip every year. This warehouse is part of a multi-million pound

fashion industry. And A-Team is one of its biggest buyers. He sources

British fashion for a network of small traders across West Africa.

How much would you take every week? About 25 tonnes of. 25 tonnes of

clothing a week? That's massive. Yes, it is. If we could take more,

we would. But there is something surprising about these clothes. All

of them are second hand. They might be cast-offs, but to operations

like this, they are this season's must haves. Definitely, we will

take this one. It is fashionable. This operation employs 100 people,

and every day they sought the equivalent of 100 textile banks are

full of our unwanted items. The best stuff goes to buyers like this

one, who pay around �700 for every ton of clothes. Why is there such a

demand in West Africa? The quality of the material that we get from

here, the price is a big factor. Because of globalisation,

everything that is happening here, people are well aware of it over

there. I imagine they see Chelsea Football Club on television.

Chelsea, very popular. They have got big African stars as well.

biggest growth market for our second hand clothes is in Eastern

Europe, where our winter woolies go down particularly well. This

factory was set up 50 years ago by Ross Barry's grandfather, and

business is booming. Where will these be going? These will be going

to sub-Saharan Africa. And those ones at the top are going to

Hungary. It is a trading model which has not changed much since

the days of the rag-and-bone man. Only now, the market is global.

is similar to a scrap merchant, selling some of the parts, we do

the same with clothes. What is it worth once you have processed it?

We get high-value for certain things, down to 1p per garment, for

some things. Some textile banks are run by private firms like this, or

on behalf of charities. But in most cases, the clothes inside them

never go on sale in a charity shop. Instead, the charity is given a

share of the revenue from the sale of the clothes. We buy it, we do

not know what is in the bank, and we have to get the value out of

that. The charity is still making money out of that, and risk-free.

For every ton of good quality clothes sold in this way, the

operator can make up to �700, and the charity gets �250. But if they

were donated straight to a charity shop, they could fetch up to four

times more. If I brought a bag like this in to Oxfam, what would happen

to it? We can make money out of every single item. We have got

brilliant volunteers in our shops who know what will sell in every

area. But even if you do give your clothes directly to the shop, there

is no guarantee that it will go on sale there. Two thirds of clothes

are sold overseas. The Salvation Army says that after they have

taken the best stuff, 97% of their stuff gets sold abroad. We could

sell something like that in Eastern Europe or some sort of really cold

country, I think. Around two thirds are sold abroad. Half in Africa,

and the rest in a variety of countries. Do you think people will

be surprised by that? They might feel misled? If people have been

generous enough to give us their stuff, it is our job to make as

much money as possible out of every item. So, if we cannot sell it in

the shop, we will sell it abroad. If we cannot sell it abroad, we

will recycle it and turn it into something else, but everything will

have value, which is really important for us. Every year, half

a million tons of clothes are sent to charity shops or recycling, but

double that amount goes to landfill. Clothes should never go to landfill,

there is no reason for it to go to landfill. The best option is to

take it to a charity shop. But if they're happy for the charity to

just get a revenue for it, then they could put it in a textile bank.

See, there were a few nice dresses there. Yes, a lot of good stuff.

Quite a few of your subjects have actually given new items of

clothing. Yes, certain times, for example, Ozzy Osbourne, he said,

you can have some of my glasses, you know! So, I have got two pairs

of Ozzy Osbourne's genuine glasses. And also some tracksuit bottoms.

Kind of like familiar Ozzy Osbourne uniform, you know. Those are the

ones that I use if I portray Ozzy Osbourne. When you go shopping, do

you end up buying things when you have got your subjects in mind?

sometimes you spot things, like, this would be really good for Simon

Cowell. If you were going to do Matt, what would you buy? Yours are

quite fitted. Those square shoulders. This weekend, you're

hosting the Jubilee Festival in Hyde Park, so what will be

happening? It is two Pact days, on the 2nd June and 3rd June. If

people are over in London, to take in the Jubilee, this is the kind of

thing you can bring the whole family to. Visually, it will be

fantastic. Yes, the main stage will be in Hyde Park, myself and Myleene

Klass will be hosting that. There will be a huge Disney show, with

all of those classic tunes, and there is also War Horse, they will

have their own paddock on the side of the stage! They came here as

well, didn't they? Yes, it is so realistic, you forget there are

puppeteers. And you have got a bit of Strictly. Yes, of course, we

need you, Alex, come and join us! There is a lot of pressure for the

Olympics and everything, do you think we might crumble?

certainly not. I think there is a feeling of everything just building

up. I think with the Olympics and the Jubilee, it really is going to

be superb, I think. And we have been speculating who are the last

three people will be to carry the torch into the stadium - any ideas?

Who could you have? I think maybe Professor Brian Cox would just hold

the torch up and looked at it as though it was our nearest star, the

sun, and then perhaps... Maybe Michael McIntyre could skip along

with the torch! Who wells? John bishop could hold a torch light

that and sort of say it is his dream come true, like that, and

that would be just fantastic. believe the torch went from Stoke-

on-Trent over to Bolton today. and you can see that festival in

Hyde Park at the weekend, and tickets are still available.

Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant will be taking place this Sunday.

Carrie Grant will be finding out how on earth all of those chips are

going to get down the river in one piece. Fingers crossed, we have had

no accidents yet. -- ships. The boats have come from all over the

UK and from further afield, and they are moored in this area here,

at West India Docks. Yesterday, I have the great privilege of being

aboard one of the most amazing ships as she sailed from France. I

have never crossed the English Channel quite as magnificently. It

is a pleasure to be aboard this beautiful boat, the Belem, as she

comes to Tower Bridge for the Diamond Jubilee. You may have

noticed something different about her. This boat is steeped in

history. Beneath the Tricolor beats a very British heart. She has been

invited over from France to symbolise the friendship between

France and Britain. Launched in 1896, the three-masted ship

transported sugar, coffee and cocoa back to France. But in 1914, she

became British property, having been bought by the second Duke of

Westminster. She was extravagantly refitted to become his private

The Duke was a privilegeed cousin of King George V. The Belem was the

jewel in his crown. Famously, he wooed, Gabriel Coco

Chanel, looking at the elegance of the ship I can understand. In 1930,

Arthur Guinness, convinced the Duke to sell the ship.

Here is the picture Guinness changed the name of the boat then,

he called it Phantom II. So the ship has had new names as it

has gone along. How dot French feel about the fact that the British had

it for all of those years? For us, the feeling is that the English

saved the boat. In 1979, the Belem was returned to France and the

symbol of French industry and British pleasure is now very much a

coveted treasure. Now, this is the first trip that

the ship has made up the Thames into London. We are entering the

Thames Estuary now, so it is very exciting. Signalling raised in

celebration for the Jubilee, and whilst the sun has been with us,

the wind has not. But that's not dampened my spirits

for sailing. We're almost in the City now, we

are coming right into London. What is the best advantage point?

best advantage point should be up to the mast.

Should we dare to do it? Yes, it is a 35-metre climb.

Everything is crossed! Up here, I'm getting a real sense of the 4,500

metres of rigs on the ship. This is amazing! Reggie! Look, we are going

under the Queen Elizbeth Bridge! Here's to the Queen! This has to be

the best way to see the London skyline. I can see Canary Wharf,

the City of London, this is amazing. And after 110 nautical miles we

round the Isle of Dogs and Tower Bridge comes into view, simply

breathtaking. I, for one, have had the most amazing Channel crossing

and it's been great to be a part of the Belem's Virgin voyage to London.

That was amazing. An incredible experience, but today they brought

out the VIPs, Prince Charles was on board meeting the French Ambassador.

I bet he was upset he did not get to climb the mast. Oh, well, but

all 1,000 ships are sailing west on Saturday, ready for the Pageant.

That is where the fun begins. Tom Cunliffe, you are there, are an

eexpert in all things boating, is it difficult to get 1,000 ships

sailing together? Difficult is not in it! The worst bit is not the

start. Can you imagine? They are all vessels, you think they are

Grand Prix cars, but unlike that, a boat blows about like a crisps

packet, it blows all over the place. Could they knock each other? They

could, but we don't expect it to be too drastic, they have put like

with like. Talking of grids, we have our own

of the order of service of the boats coming on. What are you

looking forward to? I think that the rowing boats will be amazing.

This is not a collection of bath boats in a country park, you know,

this is the best selection of rowing craft you will ever see. We

have skifs, jewels of boats. We have great big rowing boats, things

you see on Caneletto pictures. The boats that you might have had

staling from the Dunkirk. Without these boats there would

have been no British Army! someone who does not know much

about boats, what should I look out for? I think you should look out

for the feeling of history, but the next lot through are the historic

ships, many of them in the National Historic Fleefplt

So, it is not just the big ships, but the little ones? It is,

absolutely. All of them are involve in a people ceremony. Without the

people there are no boats, without the boats, the people would not

have come together. You are doing the commentary on

Sunday. We wish you the best. Later on in the show, I'm interviewing

some of the people that own the boats. Thank you very much, Carrie,

and looking forward to hearing from Tom.

Jon, you are off on your travels soon with the tour? Yes, the

Hitchhiker'sm Guide to the Galaxy. It is the original radio cast

coming back together to do a live version of the show.

Where do you jump on board? I'm in Leicester and two nights in

Manchester. A number of us will be the guest voice of the book. I was

always a great fan of much Hitchhiker'sm Guide to the Galaxy.

So I'm learning an impercent nation of the original voice of the book,

Peter Jones. I shall portray it as best I can.

You will be a busy boy in the summer. You lot have home have been

but they get theing bunting up. You have not let us down.

This is The Rodney pub. What a great pub.

And this is from Tim and Mark. The children say that they love the

house, they have even put up reinforcements.

Rachel sent this one through of Holly the dog with flags growing

out of her ears! We shall try to get more in later. When it comes to

creating a new home, our wildlife man, Mike Dilger can recommended

the perfect builders. Yes, they are hard-working, they can build the

finest of homes in about a week and they are cheep, very cheep, cheep!

Britain is packed with complex feats of engineering, designed by

great architects, but to my mind, one of the most intricate master

builders is made by an animal, it is the long-tailed tit. The long-

tits have tails longer than their tiny bodies. They have big families.

Up to ten eggs, so they need good nests that are well camouflaged,

but, with space to grow. This is their answer. An intricate ball of

moss and twigs woven together. Ben Hatchwell studies this master

builders, he's from the University of Sheffield. Look at this, this is

like the Faberge egg of the natural world. It is exquisite? This is

remarkable. There are lots of different

components involved here? There are, so many. Thousands of pieces of

moss, liken, fibres and most importantly, spider's silk.

This is the key ingredient. As spider's silk is strong and

stretchy, the birds gather it to provide glue for the nest and extra

room. It gives wonderful elast isity, so

later on when the chicks hatch, there are ten chicks plus the

parents in the nest. So room for expansion without

building on the side? That's right. It is warm in there? Yes, this

bring up to 2,000 feathers to line This wood lank outside of Sheffield

is the favourite for the long- tailed tits. There are 80 pairs

nesting here. Right now, they are building nests all in different

stages of construction. Ben, it is an extraordinary amount

of work by both parents to create an elaborate nest, than, for

example, say a blackbird? It is and they work so hard at it. This nest

has been worked on for four or five days. It will take another threw to

four days before they finish the dome.

As we watch, they bring in the spider's silk. I can see the

spider's webs? That is right. They cleblgt them and bring them to the

nests and pull out the silk and bring it together as a binder.

The birds make up to 3,000 trips to the nest.

That is almost as much work as it requires to feed a brood of chicks.

Camouflaging the nests from preders to is critical. The long-tailed tit

has mastered the art of disguise. Have you spotted it? Just to my

right is an utterly gorgeous and completed long-tailed tit's nest.

Which, hopefully, should help towards hiding the eggs and the

chicks away and making this one very, very safe house.

Once it is finished, female's incubate the eggs for about two

weeks, during which they make regular trips away to forage for

food. That gives Ben the chance to count the eggs and check their

progress. He has a special licence. He normally does it by feel, but

not today. We have an endoscope and one of

Ben's long-tailed tit's nests here, we are going to see how many eggs

are in there and how crowded the nest is. In it goes... Loads of

feathers! We have eggs! Eggs! One, two, three, four, five or six? Ben,

have you ever seen this view before? No, we have never used the

endoscope to look inside the nest. We rely on fingerprints to count

them. That is tricky. Let's pull this out and leave the

birds to it for the female to come back in and hopefully raise that

brood of at least five or six eggs. With thousands of pieces of liken,

feathers and spider's web, this phenomenon alarchitect produces a

NUMASTer piece every year. Thoroughly enjoyable. Imagine that

being encased by thousands of feathers.

Jon, please tell us you have an impression of Mike? He is fantastic.

David Attenborough does elephants and ostriches, I get fur! That is

really very good. Any way, time to head back to

Carrie with the first boats to arrive for the Jubilee Pageant this

weekend. How are the crews feeling ahead of the big day? I don't know,

let's ask them. How are you feeling! ALL SPEAK AT ONCE Yeah!

think that means good. Mike, what kind of boat do you have? I have a

motorboat. What are you doing? I am

coordinating the recreational motorboats.

You are rehearsing? Yes, you have to get it right.

Marvellous. Emily, also Pamela, what kind of

boat are you coming in on? Dutch boats and barge boats.

You have found love on the water? Yes, I did. I boat a boat and then

I met my husband. And Emily, have you found love on

the water? I did not find my husband on the water, but we had

our wedding on the river. It was great.

Now you have land legs and live in a house? Never it is a land

vacation. Finally, David Hunt, what is your

type of boat? She is an ex-Cornish fishing boat, one from the Dunkirk

meeting. So you are one of the historic

boats. How do you feel about this Pageant? We are all very proud. We

meet once a year, we work very hard to get the boats ready, we call it

the Dunkirk spirit, getting ready for a reunion, but this is one of

the best times to do this ever. If you want to take part, the

places to avoid are to avoid bridges, Lambeth, Westminster,

Blackfriars have only the ends open. So come down on to the thems on to

the banks. There are 47 big screens there.

They are marked in red and black. That is where 1 million spectators,

apparently will be coming down to. Get their nice and early, it kicks

off at 2.00pm when the Queen goes on to her barge and 2.00pm. There

is more on the website. But I hear that Matt and Alex, you

are going to be on the Thames? we are all part of it.

Cooking up treats. Well, I will not be, Angela Hartnett will be! Well,

you have not disappointed us with all of the bunting pictures you

have been sending in. Let's have a look at this one from Kath in

Cambridge. This is from the hospital car park.

And this is some bunting at more primary school near Warrington.

They are having a Jubilee party tomorrow.

And Jon the best one? I wanted to announce this one as John craven

with this cow of a -- dressed as a patriot.

Here are a few more, here is one of the Queen! That is from Richard and

Margaret. This is Hannah beving tonne's mum, she has bunted