:00:18. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones.
:00:20. > :00:28.Tonight's guest is a big reader, a lover of all genres,
:00:29. > :00:31.Being a stand up comic he's constantly searching
:00:32. > :00:42.There's another reason for reading(!)
:00:43. > :00:48.And recently becoming a children's author himself,
:00:49. > :00:52.he's been intently reading, how to pose for a promotional photo
:00:53. > :00:54.shoot for his own book without looking slightly ridiculous.
:00:55. > :01:06.LAUGHTER None of those were real! I did pull
:01:07. > :01:15.the faces, yes. You have got this book out, Beyond The Sky. How easy
:01:16. > :01:21.was it for you to get in touch with your in a child? Surprisingly easy,
:01:22. > :01:27.I am very near to it, it is for children of all ages... No, it is
:01:28. > :01:36.for children, this is a children's book, it is to tap into the naked
:01:37. > :01:40.enthusiasm, I know for compact legal reasons lie and I can never appeared
:01:41. > :01:45.together(!), I would do something that feels a lot like, the times I
:01:46. > :01:54.get dragged into my kid's school, whenever Stargazing, to do the talk
:01:55. > :01:58.about what we are doing. Eight to 12-year-old, seven to 14-year-olds,
:01:59. > :02:04.it is about the day-to-day of space, certain body functions, how they
:02:05. > :02:09.work... All that good stuff. You want to explore. This is, how do we
:02:10. > :02:13.explore? Where do we go, how far can we take it? We will talk more about
:02:14. > :02:17.the book, quick question, what games do you remember playing at a chart,
:02:18. > :02:25.outdoor, on the street? I remember... Constant versions of
:02:26. > :02:32.football. Between the two pavements? No, we would throw a ball at the
:02:33. > :02:37.other pavement, and if it... Kerbie! If you threw it at the other
:02:38. > :02:40.person... If you catch it, then they could not move. You know that one.
:02:41. > :02:44.We had those games. Well, Alex Riley went to Radford
:02:45. > :02:46.in Nottingham to meet the playful residents paving the way
:02:47. > :02:59.for a return to the good old days. When I was a kid, me and my mates
:03:00. > :03:04.played in the street, right outside me front door, football, hopscotch,
:03:05. > :03:11.skipping rope, losing your marbles in the gutters... All enjoyable
:03:12. > :03:19.memories from the past. And even asking for your ball back from the
:03:20. > :03:23.neighbour's garden, happy days! But kids are not playing out as much as
:03:24. > :03:27.they used to, which is why people from all over the UK are actively
:03:28. > :03:36.involve making their streets more child and play friendly, doing this
:03:37. > :03:40.through a new grassroots movement. We spoke with the founder. Why did
:03:41. > :03:43.you set this out? Our children needed the chance to play out like
:03:44. > :03:48.we did when we watch old and, to have the freedom to run around and
:03:49. > :03:52.feel part of the neighbourhood. From there, we decided to set it up as an
:03:53. > :03:55.organisation that could support residents anywhere to do it. Why do
:03:56. > :04:00.you think kids have stopped playing out? Kids are -- streets are very
:04:01. > :04:05.dominated by traffic, car drivers develop a sense that the road is
:04:06. > :04:09.theirs... We have found that you have two legally and quite clearly
:04:10. > :04:16.closed the roads to cars for people to take it seriously. Is it better
:04:17. > :04:20.having the road closed? Yeah, yeah! This is better. Normally there is
:04:21. > :04:25.cars going in and out... Every time we are at a good part, we have to
:04:26. > :04:29.stand back and then start it again. If you are keen to run such a
:04:30. > :04:34.session on your street, you cannot just go out and block the road, you
:04:35. > :04:36.need to speak with someone like this councillor, David Trimble,
:04:37. > :04:39.responsible for leisure and culture at Nottingham City Council. The
:04:40. > :04:44.council is telling people, how to play out. We don't want organised
:04:45. > :04:49.fun, what we want is local residents to do it for themselves. We do not
:04:50. > :04:53.want the Council there are, that is why we stand back. Who pays for the
:04:54. > :04:57.cones and the signs and the high visibility jackets? It is free of
:04:58. > :05:05.charge to fill in the form, marginal costs are paid by the council. It
:05:06. > :05:09.was your idea to organise this play out today, what are the kids getting
:05:10. > :05:12.out of it? It is not something that is normally done, these children
:05:13. > :05:15.would not have other places to go and play, of them have never had the
:05:16. > :05:20.opportunity to come out and meet other children. We work together, we
:05:21. > :05:24.unite together, children love going out to play. What happened today
:05:25. > :05:34.brings the community a little bit closer. All the children are having
:05:35. > :05:39.such a fun time. Have you been doing any skipping? I am a little too old
:05:40. > :05:47.for skipping(!) what have you been playing? Skipping! Plate spinning!
:05:48. > :05:59.Free ice! I did not know it was free! Are you enjoying it? CHEERING
:06:00. > :06:05.Can't go wrong! They do it on my street, two hours, every Sunday
:06:06. > :06:22.afternoon, I do the squash. Why not! We should get kerbie going again!
:06:23. > :06:39.Kirby(!) is great, but he is no Mario(!) LAUGHTER
:06:40. > :06:47.I never bring you the breaking edge stuff, there is something to be said
:06:48. > :06:50.for jumping around in an enthusiastic way, somebody who can
:06:51. > :06:57.be plain curious, but I say, yeah, but also... That would be to get
:06:58. > :07:02.young minds going. The fact I love, space starts only 60 miles away!
:07:03. > :07:05.Suddenly it becomes really quite close dog with plenty of journeys we
:07:06. > :07:08.take on a weekly basis which are longer than the journey into space,
:07:09. > :07:14.holidays we have taken which have been much further away. 100
:07:15. > :07:17.kilometres, the actual official line, and space tourism trips, they
:07:18. > :07:24.do not even go to that, they come back down again. Experience, for 60
:07:25. > :07:29.miles, you did not say that but! And there is a lot that has to go in.
:07:30. > :07:39.Trying to drag us back down again, it is surprisingly close, even the
:07:40. > :07:43.scale of where we have gone... Where we have gone, which is really
:07:44. > :07:47.close... The Moon is the end of the garden in terms of space, where we
:07:48. > :07:50.are now, that is stepping out to see if you need a cold, that is the
:07:51. > :07:56.level of journey we are taking at the moment! Lots of journeys we
:07:57. > :08:00.cannot do. In the books, we say, we may not be able to do this, but what
:08:01. > :08:05.we need to do is to build robots that will do these journeys. Or, sit
:08:06. > :08:10.here, let them come to us, the most incredible thing about space, the
:08:11. > :08:13.most amazing thing we see, we see from here, looking up, at
:08:14. > :08:18.telescopes, like that comes to us from a long way away, and a long
:08:19. > :08:27.time ago. So much content in the book, we cannot cover it in a single
:08:28. > :08:38.with a little idea, a little plan, like on have I got news for you.
:08:39. > :08:43.Mock the Week! Mock the Week, yes, Mock the Week is what I mean.
:08:44. > :08:46.Sometimes I get mock of the week. That is one that I get sometimes.
:08:47. > :08:53.You did not really need to bang it like that... Let's see what we've
:08:54. > :08:57.got... This occurs in black holes, this term, black holes are dense
:08:58. > :09:01.stars, lapsing onto themselves, and pulling everything in, there is an
:09:02. > :09:05.event horizon around the edge where nothing can escape, if you fall into
:09:06. > :09:09.one, the gravity starts getting really intense at a gradient, so you
:09:10. > :09:15.will get, as you go towards, you will get stretched out! You will
:09:16. > :09:21.become spaghetti. If you need a diet... Really good, I suppose, but
:09:22. > :09:31.you will never see the results. Give it another bash. Perhaps a clapping
:09:32. > :09:38.mechanism? Well-known for spotting comic, fulfilled a wish that a lot
:09:39. > :09:41.of people had that he would be buried on the moon. -- comets. We
:09:42. > :09:47.send people to the moon and they just land there, and his ashes
:09:48. > :09:51.are... Some of his ashes, anyway, were placed in a canister and fired
:09:52. > :09:58.onto the moon. The one person we have buried off the planet. Lie I'm
:09:59. > :10:02.sure will be the next one... Not soon, hopefully, for professor lie.
:10:03. > :10:06.I was going to say, that did sound like a threat. Now, that was
:10:07. > :10:11.spinning before you even touched it, bring that one back to the shop(!)
:10:12. > :10:16.planet nine, there may be a mystery planet within our solar system,
:10:17. > :10:19.because there is a technology to planet 's, but eight acknowledged
:10:20. > :10:24.planet 's, there may be a ninth one, you see a weird orbit of other
:10:25. > :10:30.planets, far away, the only thing you can say, there is a planet like
:10:31. > :10:34.object out there, and we saw it on Stargazing, my God, we need to be
:10:35. > :10:39.able to tell people we found it, we successfully eliminated many
:10:40. > :10:43.candidates. Which is less exciting, as a big reveal, at the end of it.
:10:44. > :10:51.Good science, good signs often involves narrowing things down. Hit
:10:52. > :10:56.the thing again, is there one more? It seems to be rather erratic. I
:10:57. > :11:00.have broken it. If you have just tuned in, this is not mastermind, it
:11:01. > :11:05.is all the content of the new book from Dara O'Briain, and it is very
:11:06. > :11:10.funny as well. I had the scope to do that which, again, lie has to be so
:11:11. > :11:15.serious(!) but I can do some silly jokes as well. The book is out next
:11:16. > :11:17.Thursday, Beyond The Sky, enjoy watching it.
:11:18. > :11:20.The world-renowned activist Malala Yousafzai has said this about
:11:21. > :11:23."She is our hero. Everyone must read her story.
:11:24. > :11:27.Nujeen Mustafa, known as The Girl From Aleppo,
:11:28. > :11:30.is an extraordinary young woman who became a poster girl
:11:31. > :11:32.in the midst of the Syrian refugee crisis two years ago,
:11:33. > :11:34.after she embarked on an astonishing journey.
:11:35. > :11:37.Her time watching TV in a fifth floor apartment in Aleppo, Syria.
:11:38. > :11:40.Nujeen's family made the decision to leave for Turkey.
:11:41. > :11:44.Born with cerebral palsy, and unable to go to school, she spent much of
:11:45. > :12:01.her time watching television. 16-year-old Nujeen and her
:12:02. > :12:08.older sister Nasrine were trapped, they embarked on a three and a half
:12:09. > :12:13.thousand mile journey for a better, Nujeen was one of the many migrants
:12:14. > :12:17.making the hazardous crossing to Greece in a dinghy,
:12:18. > :12:20.going on to take buses and trains across Europe sleeping in camps,
:12:21. > :12:22.detention centres or sometimes, the open air, with the hope
:12:23. > :12:24.of one day being reunited Over five million Syrians have been
:12:25. > :12:36.displaced since 2011, but Nujeen wants the world
:12:37. > :12:47.to know she is not just Wonderful to see you and hear your
:12:48. > :12:51.story, you made it to Germany, there was a very special reason why,
:12:52. > :13:00.specifically, you wanted to get to Germany. I missed my brother, he was
:13:01. > :13:07.there from... Several months prior, and I just wanted to see him. The
:13:08. > :13:13.second reason, I believed in my right to have another chance in
:13:14. > :13:14.life. This is the wonderful moment when you were reunited with your
:13:15. > :13:26.brother, let's have a look at this. How did you feel, when you saw him
:13:27. > :13:30.for the first time, because he had made it... Must have been
:13:31. > :13:36.incredible. Yes, I just wanted to cuddle him, or something. I had been
:13:37. > :13:40.on this journey for a month, and everything seemed so new, and
:13:41. > :13:47.different, from what I knew. From what I had known, as a girl and to
:13:48. > :13:53.have this familiarity, finally... You have got there, you have done
:13:54. > :13:58.it. It is an incredible feeling. You are 18 now, can we just take you
:13:59. > :14:03.back to when you were 15, in Syria, those feelings you were having, as a
:14:04. > :14:11.teenager, of why you needed to get out there, from your perspective?
:14:12. > :14:21.Well, I needed to get out of there because... There is nothing worse
:14:22. > :14:26.than living with nothing but fear. I also was afraid of oblivion. I know,
:14:27. > :14:32.I know what happened in history, you talk about the politics, the
:14:33. > :14:35.strategy, the military, but you forget the people. 10 million, 15
:14:36. > :14:43.million, 20 million dead. Just statistics. I was afraid that in 50
:14:44. > :14:47.years, they would be talking about Russia, and what Bashar al-Assad
:14:48. > :14:52.did, China, how paralysed the international community was. And I
:14:53. > :14:56.would be forgotten. And you said, rightly, you said, the sense of
:14:57. > :15:01.achievement, that you had got to the end of your journey, but the
:15:02. > :15:04.journey, we have a map of it, it was incredible, the countries we went
:15:05. > :15:09.through, when we got to the point where you needed to cross, is it
:15:10. > :15:18.true that you paid the smugglers $1500, to get into a dinghy which
:15:19. > :15:25.was supposed to be for 15 people but 38 people were injured, how did you
:15:26. > :15:27.feel, just before you set sail? I think... We are believers of
:15:28. > :15:40.destiny... Well, we are believers in destiny
:15:41. > :15:45.and we prayed for luck. For me and kind of made sense, like a movie
:15:46. > :15:50.plot, I've everything or nothing! And these pictures that we are
:15:51. > :15:53.seeing of you in your chair, travelling across this incredible
:15:54. > :15:57.landscape, so many people helping you on your journey, what kind of
:15:58. > :16:03.reception where you are getting as you travelled these vast distances?
:16:04. > :16:10.What is she doing in a wheelchair? Do you speak English? The most
:16:11. > :16:22.frequently asked questions, like my Google third, that she speak
:16:23. > :16:27.English. What is the answer? Allen through television. I watch a lot of
:16:28. > :16:33.documentaries. You have written about this, Nujeen, in the book.
:16:34. > :16:40.What do you hope that people like us will take from reading the book? I
:16:41. > :16:48.want them to know that we are people, human, we have our stories.
:16:49. > :16:56.We also had what you have no, job, school, a family, but we have lost
:16:57. > :17:00.it. And am quite aware that the media, makes me feel like refugees
:17:01. > :17:06.are the nightmare that is haunting every decision in Europe. The main
:17:07. > :17:17.messages, don't be afraid. We are not different. We like you. Yeah. We
:17:18. > :17:22.are like you. Do you feel you are in a peaceful place now. There is not a
:17:23. > :17:30.helicopter overhead, I have a school, I feel safe,... It is all
:17:31. > :17:33.documented in this book, an incredible read. You'll stay with us
:17:34. > :17:40.for a while so we won't say goodbye yet. Will talk about your future
:17:41. > :17:47.plans, and amongst them is to become an astronaut. This is perfect, Dara.
:17:48. > :17:52.You will get to test Dara on his knowledge! The big test is yet to
:17:53. > :17:59.come! She's read the book. One fascinating fact, how many birth but
:18:00. > :18:02.you could fit into the sun. It's remarkable, over a million. Just in
:18:03. > :18:16.terms of the mass of the sun. 1.3 million. You can fit 1000 Earth but
:18:17. > :18:24.into the great red storm on Jupiter. You have met your match, Dara! The
:18:25. > :18:25.sun is the subject of our next film. We've gone to shed light
:18:26. > :18:36.on the biggest stars in the art world. The sun, delicate gold, deep
:18:37. > :18:42.pink, with such a palette of colours it is no wonder that this glowing
:18:43. > :18:45.orb has fascinated artists for centuries. As an artist myself I
:18:46. > :18:49.love how the light of the sun can change the mood of a scene in many
:18:50. > :18:54.different ways, and this is one of the reasons why I started painting,
:18:55. > :19:01.myself, to capture those subtle differences. But one artist, hero of
:19:02. > :19:12.mine, took his fascination with the sun to a new level. Born in 1775,
:19:13. > :19:14.Joseph Maher Lord William Turner was one of Britain's most celebrated
:19:15. > :19:20.landscape painters. He revolutionised the way that light
:19:21. > :19:25.was depicted, and now a new exhibition is exploring this great
:19:26. > :19:32.artist's fascination with our nearest star. Nicola is the curator.
:19:33. > :19:37.Before Turner, landscape artists had used the sun as a static backdrop.
:19:38. > :19:42.What he does is to make the sun almost like a protagonist in the
:19:43. > :19:50.painting and how that transforms the entire surface of the picture. That
:19:51. > :19:53.is so revolutionary. And Turner's interest in the sun was scientific
:19:54. > :19:57.as well as artistic. It's interesting because we think of
:19:58. > :20:02.signs about being separate. In his lifetime they would not have been
:20:03. > :20:08.such a boundary between the two. We know that Turner was friends with
:20:09. > :20:13.Michael Faraday, the pioneer of electromagnetism. Michael Faraday
:20:14. > :20:16.seems to have helped Turner mix the pigment that had greater
:20:17. > :20:20.light-fastness whether colour would last longer. He also owns three
:20:21. > :20:29.telescopes himself, he is interested in optics, and colour theory, all
:20:30. > :20:33.quite scientific concerns. At that time one scientist in particular was
:20:34. > :20:37.changing the way that people have viewed the sun. Brendan Owens is an
:20:38. > :20:44.astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. In Turner's time
:20:45. > :20:46.William Herschel was one of the most renowned astronomers worldwide,
:20:47. > :20:53.experimenting with new ways of looking at the sun's light to try to
:20:54. > :20:58.unravel its mysteries. It is too dangerous to view directly through a
:20:59. > :21:02.telescope soaked in Turner's day people projected the sun onto a
:21:03. > :21:07.surface like this. What William Herschel did that was revolutionary
:21:08. > :21:11.was finding a way to look at the sun's light directly. Not protecting
:21:12. > :21:16.it but having something in between his telescope tube and his eyepiece,
:21:17. > :21:22.that could help see the sun up close in detail and this may have inspired
:21:23. > :21:27.people like Turner. William Herschel 's discoveries revealed the sun to
:21:28. > :21:31.be far more dynamic and fluid than previously thought. How did this
:21:32. > :21:36.new-found understanding affect paintings by Turner? When you look
:21:37. > :21:43.at the way he paints the sun rather than a flat pale disc it does have a
:21:44. > :21:49.textured, tangible surface. I think, in a way, it is an instance of
:21:50. > :21:53.people arriving at a similar point, through parallel lines, Turner is
:21:54. > :21:58.trying to do in art what William Herschel has been trying to do
:21:59. > :22:03.through science. Turner's paintings of the sun are extraordinary and
:22:04. > :22:09.they have given me an idea for my own Turner inspired landscape in
:22:10. > :22:12.which the sun takes centre stage. Just gradually bringing in some
:22:13. > :22:19.warmth into the sky. I am trying to capture the effect of the light on
:22:20. > :22:25.the water. Each part of the scene catching a bit of that light. Turner
:22:26. > :22:31.used science to better understand a light that most of us take for
:22:32. > :22:38.granted. I just hope my own attempt will do this great artist justice.
:22:39. > :22:43.So there you have it. My own take on a Turner landscape. I am glad I have
:22:44. > :22:48.had the opportunity to shed some light on an artistic genius whose
:22:49. > :22:49.paintings still dazzle us today as they must have done two centuries
:22:50. > :23:05.ago. Beautiful. Mesmerising. Lovely. Now you have swapped books. That
:23:06. > :23:09.lovely art, lovely. I'm sure that whatever was on screen was great but
:23:10. > :23:15.I couldn't help noticing that in your book one of your dedications
:23:16. > :23:20.soars to Yuri Gagarin. So you are big science person as well. For
:23:21. > :23:24.someone who has done an incredible journey what was it about Yuri
:23:25. > :23:31.Gargan in that inspired you? I think to have that first look at how
:23:32. > :23:39.beautiful our home looks, is something that we have lost. With
:23:40. > :23:47.the hope that our home would look like that again inside and out. Wow.
:23:48. > :23:54.Do you have a question for Dara? Yes, do you believe, our world is
:23:55. > :24:04.ruled by two set of different laws. Do you believe in the extensions of
:24:05. > :24:09.the unifying theory... How long do we have? About 30 seconds, Dara!
:24:10. > :24:16.LAUGHTER Do you know,... I think there's a
:24:17. > :24:21.fundamental difference between quantum and gravity in terms of how
:24:22. > :24:31.they operate. This could go on... You carry on. Shall we talk about
:24:32. > :24:37.the beach? Something a bit more on our travel. We go to the beach. What
:24:38. > :24:49.do you pack? Windbreaker maybe? A towel. Bucket and spade. You pack
:24:50. > :24:55.marbles though, widget. Marty Jopson would. This is why, it is epic.
:24:56. > :25:06.I just get bored. Sand castles and stuff don't appeal. What else can
:25:07. > :25:11.you do. Marble racing. Now that is for me. This YouTube smash features
:25:12. > :25:16.one of the longest ever marble runs on sand, a whopping 250 metres.
:25:17. > :25:26.Creating a marble run that big is impressive. So I wanted to create my
:25:27. > :25:31.own but... Super-sized! At 80 metres high, these sand dunes near
:25:32. > :25:35.Bridgend, South Wales, some of the highest in Europe. To pull off a
:25:36. > :25:40.marble run here I need to speak to the who built the original, this
:25:41. > :25:53.24-year-old from Holland. Any tips on me? Do it as fast as you can
:25:54. > :26:01.otherwise be sand is to dry. So I need people to come a rope into help
:26:02. > :26:04.out, and the beach? -- so I need people, but who can I rope in, to
:26:05. > :26:20.help out, on a beach? Welcome everyone to my sand dune and
:26:21. > :26:24.my marble run. The key to this, according to the advice I have
:26:25. > :26:29.taken, is to do it quickly has otherwise it will dry out. Are we
:26:30. > :26:37.already? Let's do it. # I'll be ready #.
:26:38. > :26:42.I start by marking at the root, we want it long but also steep enough
:26:43. > :26:45.to allow gravity to do its work, then the arduous work begins as each
:26:46. > :27:04.team takes one section to dig. So that's about two, three, four,
:27:05. > :27:09.ten metres. Only another 200! It's a gargantuan effort for the teams,
:27:10. > :27:15.especially when you are a team of one. So how are we getting on. The
:27:16. > :27:22.sand is so dry it is caving in quickly. It's really uneven, it goes
:27:23. > :27:27.uphill. Is quite hot, everyone else has shorts on and I'm dressed up. It
:27:28. > :27:32.is going slow. No one said it would be easy or even fun. We are getting
:27:33. > :27:35.there, the final job is to spread the sand with water so it stays
:27:36. > :27:42.compacted. Three hours after we started we set with commentary from
:27:43. > :27:46.Jason Mohammad of BBC sports, it is race time. COMMENTATOR: Thank you,
:27:47. > :27:50.Marty. Each team has their own marble, Marty is in white, the
:27:51. > :27:54.lifeguards are in yellow, the volleyball isn't clear and the ice
:27:55. > :28:01.cream man in a weird sort of mirror thing. Let's play marbles. Of that
:28:02. > :28:07.amazing pace for this breeze busting Marble race. This is adrenaline in a
:28:08. > :28:12.glass ball! The crowd are going wild. He's smiling so hard he could
:28:13. > :28:15.break his mouth. The volleyball is and the sculptors are jostling for
:28:16. > :28:22.first, Marty is so far back he is still in the dressing room. Marty
:28:23. > :28:28.has stopped but is being pushed on, is that within the rules, who knows,
:28:29. > :28:32.there aren't any! Ice cream man flicks it, the volleyball is failed
:28:33. > :28:35.to bounce back and this is never too was race between the sculptors and
:28:36. > :28:44.the lifeguards. But this is now a horse race. And the sculptors have
:28:45. > :28:48.passed the lifeguards. They are used to creating castles, today they are
:28:49. > :28:53.just decimating dreams. They think it's all over and the sculptors it
:28:54. > :28:58.is now! That was completely awesome. It just goes to prove that there is
:28:59. > :29:00.only one way to spend the day on the beach. And that is with a marble
:29:01. > :29:06.run. CHEERING
:29:07. > :29:08.We weren't expecting that, I can't wait to go on the beach now.
:29:09. > :29:12.Thanks to the inspirational Nujeen for coming on the show -
:29:13. > :29:15.her book The Girl from Aleppo is available to buy now.
:29:16. > :29:17.And a big thank you to Dara, Beyond The Sky is released
:29:18. > :29:19.in all good book stores on September 7th.
:29:20. > :29:22.Tomorrow, Patrick Kielty will be in the hot seat and we'll be
:29:23. > :29:36.There's only ever going to be room in his heart for one person.
:29:37. > :29:40.You think about everything that's wrong, it's just Jane.