31/10/2011 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show with Count Baker. And Countess

Jones. On a bona chilling Hallowe'en night, we need a guest

to help warm things up. He he is not frightening, he isn't even that

strange and hopefully it won't make any of us go bump in the night,

please enter Lenny Henry! Happy Hallowe'en! Happy Hallowe'en! There

really did say, mind your coat as you go in there. A we have moved

our studio outside. It's not our usual home. Talk about BBC cuts! It

is disgraceful, what are we paying our licence fee on - give them a

studio! There's a little as something on the side for you, if

you fancy it. You can get more dressed up. In the meantime we will

take a look at these, David Turner made these pumpkins earlier and he

is working on at Lenny Henry creation as we speak. I am going to

be in a pumpkin? I love the show! Where else could you be in a

pumpkin! Where else could you get an audience like this? Look how

scary they are. We would like to see you at home if you are dressed

up in honour Hallowe'en costumes, get your foot rose to us. Lenny

Henry it will pick his favour at a later on. We're also going to be

talking about Lenny's new play by the man who brought us Hubble,

bubble, toil and trouble. But before all that, Angelica Bell is

hearing voices from be on the grave. Or is she?

By the mid- 80 hundreds, the explosion of scientific research in

many areas began to present serious challenges to age old certainties.

At the same time, there was a growing interest in proving the

existence of life after death. Spiritualism, the belief that we

can contact the dead, developed a popular following in the United

States. In the mid- 19th century, spiritualism was introduced into

Britain from America. Right at the centre of Victorian spiritualism

was the seance which seemed to offer practical evidence of contact

with the after life in an almost scientific way. It attracted a wide

range of intellectuals, public figures and scientists. In those

days, this was a predominantly Christian society and everyone

accepted life after death as a reality so when Darwin published in

1859, the origin of the species, then this really caused huge

disruption. Suddenly there was another explanation for how we got

here and it didn't rely on us being got's special creation. Many of the

great thinkers of the day were taken end by this brutalist

movement. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and many schemas scientists.

seances became more popular, audiences grew and so did this

potential for or strange behaviour. What was it about the sales that

worked so well for Victorian mediums? I think they stumbled on a

great formula for playing tricks on people's minds. You are in complete

darkness, there is the fear associated with contacting the dead,

so it is a wonderful setting for being filled. What was a Victorian

seance really like and what we still be susceptible to their

tricks today? The professor is going to recreate the seance and

using basic tricks, he will try to fill our volunteers into believing

they are witnessing a paranormal event. He begins by passing around

objects of which he says he will used to channel the spirits. He

lowers the lights and changes his boys. If you are there, we want you

to make your presence known. To drift back through time and join us.

It is absolutely terrifying in the dark. I cannot see a thing and I

have no idea what will happen next. Suddenly, strange things start to

happen. Excellent! The ball appears to shoot up of the table and float

around the room. There are sceptics here, show them the ball! Hang on a

minute, who is that in the corner? Drop the ball! A well-documented

technique in fake seances was to hide an assistant who cannot be

seen. The assistant hides behind the curtain bidding us to work out

what has just happened. Did anyone believe there was a spread in

there? Yes, it was very scary. you go in believing that these

things are real, the effects would be very convincing. I do believe in

the afterlife but I did also look for a string in the ball when it

could be on the shoulders! But I couldn't find any. There are is no

scientific evidence to suggest it is possible to contact the dead

through the medium but some Victorians were drawn into

believing that seances real just like those Victorians, our

volunteers were equally susceptible to display a clever tricks and the

dark. Before we judge the Victorians for their beliefs in

spiritualism, we should put ourselves in their shoes and wonder,

are we any better today than telling truth from fantasy?

It is really strange that through that film, that light started

flashing with no help from anyone, that is incredible. Oh, for

goodness sake! He is just joining in with the spread of the programme.

Before we talk about your new Shakespeare play, let's talk about

your new comedy special, The One Lenny, coming up soon. That was

just a firework. We're alright! OK, carry on. Yes, The One Lenny is a

comedy programme. I think Jasper Carrot is doing one and mind is on

later this year. I do some old characters, some new characters and

we believe we are going to see a clip from something special. It is

a spoof of twilight with a guest appearance from Ronnie Ancona.

You are impossibly strong, her eyes change colour and sometimes you

speak as if you are from a different world. Europe skin is

pale white, yet black! I know where you're from. Go on? You are from

Birmingham. Is it that obvious! Brilliant! My daughter loves

twilight so that was for her. now has a blood dripping from his

lips. That is very apt for Shakespeare because you are now in

a second Shakespeare play? Yes, I am doing a comedy of errors at the

National Theatre. We still have week for at rehearsals. There are

26 of us in the cast. We're on a massive stage so they are making us

run around a lot. I have to go to the gym every day to keep fit and

we have lots of students in their pants eating crisps and I am

working really hard but every morning, I am there to try and keep

up with these young people on the show. It is called the Comedy of

Errors, is it funny even today? writing is 400 years and it is

incredibly resonant. It is all about money and credit and it is

set in modern-day London. It is about transplanting people from one

culture to another and it is about two sets of twins looking for each

other and not finding it other until the very end. There are lots

of cases of false identity. It is a wonderful play, there is lots of

laughter in rehearsals and we are enjoying it. You could get a jumbo

jet in the rehearsal room, it is extraordinary. We start in mid-

November and it is going to be on until March. Very exciting.

Comedy Of Errors starts on 22nd November at the National Theatre in

London and look out for The One Lenny which is on later this year.

At a television set near you, viewers! Also coming up his

Children in Need night on 18th November and to help raise money

for disadvantaged children across the UK, I will be pedalling from

Edinburgh to London on a rickshaw. Why are you doing that? To raise

money. Of course. On a rickshaw? Will you be wearing a hat?

hammered for most of it, I think. It is going to require blood,

sweat... Just say the lines. Here is much in training. Mad has been

training incredibly hard but things are a got -- about to get tougher.

I know it is a very different experience from a normal bike and

today is the first day I will get a chance to ride at. Here she is then,

the beauty. Gavin will be putting mad through his paces. You can see

how quickly it turns around. feels like a circus vehicle. With a

passenger, it will weigh up to 25 stone, the equivalent of a female

grizzly bear but Pudsey Bear will do for starters! Matt's children

are here to see him off. Today, he is attempting at Trent mile

training as a put it on the challenge he will be doing up to 70

miles a day. You got it stages, some are mountain stages. It is

like a mini Tour de France. Downhill is brilliant, we are

hitting 15 miles an hour. But it is not downhill for long. Oh! Even

this, it's hardly a hill. Matt will face over 60 Hills during the days.

Added together, they are nearly as high as Mount Everest. O'Grady,

another hill. His highest hill will be in County Durham, an

excruciating five mile uphill Croll it will take nearly one art.

thought of doing 80 miles a day, it is awful. The fatigue will build

and that is when even the smaller hills it all seemed big. Much will

also have to carry extra weight. How will he do with his first

passenger? We are actually going slower than a walking pace. From

Ikea, I can't take in the use of the English countryside. It has

taken up Matt three hours to do just 10 miles. At this rate, is

going to have to cycle 24 hours a day to complete the journey from

Edinburgh to London. In mid- November, it will be cold, wet and

very dark. The sheer scale of it is finally dawning on that. I know how

horrendous it will be when I'm going up the hill and you just have

to prepare yourself for that and take one step at a time were one

tiny cycle at a time. It will be hard work, painful, but I'll do my

best, that's all I can do. To support Matt's rickshaw

Heavy going number Lenny Henry? I had a surprise for you, I've got

the amount you have raised so far. �$41.60 Sana'a and 23.

Congratulations! Thank you so much for your donations and keep them

Trick or treat! Right, trick or treat. Let's turn the telly off.

Hello, you lot. How are things? we don't want tricks, do we Matt?

But Lenny has lots of treats, so, Peter, how will you scare us.

tell a scary jokes. Why don't mummies take holidays? Why? They

Now, how are you going to scare Henny? I am going to give him a

scary face. OK, look into the camera and pull

your scary face. Terrifying! Very good.

Go on, get yourself a treat. You deserve one for that. Now, then,

Freddie, what are you going to do? I'm going to howl, like a wolf.

Very good! Brilliant stuff. Thank you very much.

Now, then, of course, Hallowe'en would not be Hallowe'en without

scary sounds. Of course! There they are.

Argh! Now, then, these guys are showing us how some of the earie

tunes are created for the movies, but first, Carrie Grant has been

finding out why some chords lead to dischord! These surroundings at

King's College Chapel in London are magnificent, but that music is

setting my teeth on edge. And that's because of something

known as the the devil's chord! This arrangement of notes which

when combined sound unsettling appeared in the scariest sequence

in the scariest film ever made. Argh! And the devil's chord is

reckoned by some to be at the heart of what gives heavy metal music its

unique appeal. Indeed, Black Sabbath's Osie Osbourne remembers

it having a great effect on their audience.

P would scare people out. We probably here the devil's chord

used as an accompaniment to drama, whether it is on stage, cinema or

television. Sam Watts writes music for TV. He uses the devil's chord

to write the characters for the Dr Who spin-off.

We had a Charles Kennedy called Spelman who dressed up as a

ringmaster. There is something about those

melodies that sound slightly wrong, almost? It is funny to use that

word wrong in music, but it does sound wrong? Yes, because I think

that the devil's chord is not a traditional harm ony it does sway

things to feeling slightly wrong. So, what exactly is the devil's

chord? It got its name after tales that the medieval church would

excommunicate musicians that used I need an expert to explain the

musical technicalities. Professor John Deathridge knows it by its

proper flame. The interval is the distorlted

version of the five-note scale. Which then if you lower the top

note it becomes... The devil's interval. That does not sound too

threatening, however if you do it like this... It sounds more

sinister. So, give examples of it being used

in music? One of the best examples is in The Ring by Wagner. He

created one of the most evil characters, the way he did it was

to give him the devil's interval. That does sound sufficiently eeily,

doesn't it? It does. Oh! Pure evil! It's evil and

splendid at the same time! I don't know about that! Much of the evil

power of the devil's chord is because of its association with

scary stuff. For example in Hollywood tpw you

wanted a -- if you wanted a film with Boris Karloff in it, you would

use this music. The interval can be used for a

benign reason, it can be the most beautiful sound in the world. The

famous song, Maria. But despite friendly uses of the

devil's chord, it has not lost its power to unnerve and unsettle.

Don't have nightmares... Will you?! Well, as we mentioned before that

film, we have Kevin and James from the Purcell Music School in

Hertfordshire, they are here to create some bold chilling sounds.

You have a variety of instruments, James is, we hope, playing dead

here. So, what have you got there, Kevin?

We thought we would go to the disused oil refinery. It is big,

dirty, smelly, slippery, and, Matt... We're going in! Fair enough.

Oh! That is earie. Oh, gosh! Then! Right? The awful

moment... The hanging! Oh, I felt a chill in my bottom area then.

Then he wakes up the assistant to give us some wind through the

broken window. Come on, James.

What about that? Horror of horrors, she falls! I'll get that

I'll get that, don't worry. This is supposed to be serious!

Sorry, I was interpretting the door bell! Very good. Thank you very

much. Are you awake now? Alive? Now, voices from the depths of your

rubbish bin! No! Oh, yes. Phil Tufnell has been finding out

about a new way to exercise the litter-throwing demon that may lurk

inside of you. Getting popular celebrities of the

day to sing about the virtues of throwing away your rubbish is not

new. Nice T-shirts, guys.

Rubbish! But being sung to when you do it is something different all

together. Introducing the new singing,

talking and even burping bins! When you chuck a can into one of these

fellows mouths there is a recorded greeting from a celebrity.

It may be Amanda Holden. I'm Amanda Holden that was rubbish!

Or Kenny Logan. Or, even me! That was straight in! Every year we drop

more than 30 tonnes of litter on our streets. The cost of what we

throw out of our pockets will be hitting us as the council spends

over �855 million per year cleaning up after us.

Collette has been working on the talking bins campaign. She thing it

is is time to get tough on the littler bugs.

In New York, where I am from, if you drop litter, 20 people will tap

you on the shoulder and tell you not to do that. You can travel for

a month in Manhattan and almost see none, but in this capital city, you

can walk 20 steps before encountering the next piece of

litter. Who should be blamed? Well, I

really think we have to blame the councils. The answer is not having

more street cleaners, it is time for the councils to slap on some

fines. We are issues people with fixed penalty notes, which is like

a parking fine. We would rather warn people to ask them to pick it

up themselves and ask them not to do it again.

OK it is time to come clean, I have a vested interest. If you come down

here and use this bin in Soho, you will be in for a Phil Tufnell

surprise! Having a recorded message is one thing, but wigging up one

that talks back, now that sounds more fun! -- but rigging one up

that talks back, that is so much more fun.

Thank you very much for putting your rubbish in the bin. Hello,

what is your name? Mark. Do you think there should be more

bins in London? Yeah! You know what you have made it when you are the

voice of a rubbish bin. Help! I'm in the bin! Help! Hello, boys!

Where are you going? Stay for a while, have a chat. Don't go! I

need rubbish. I'm hungry. Hello, are you having a good day? Yeah.

Do you think there are enough rubbish bins in London?

Should we have more on the street corners and stuff? Definitely.

Talking bins may be the hi-tech way to solve the problem, but some

people prefer the good old fashioned way, just pick it up. Tim

Barnes was so annoyed about the state of the litter around his home,

he began to pick it up himself and set up a website to encourage

others to do the same. We are betting to the limit to what

the council can do. It is easy, it takes 15 pins -- minutes to pick up

the litter on my street. I don't see why others don't do that.

Education and direct action are a way of tackling our nation's litter

problem, but I still like my talking bin.

Oi, it is the talking bin here. Anyone got anything to eat. I'm

feeling hungry. Hello, do you think we need more talking bins?

definitely think so. Especially in areas like this.

It is a bit of social conscious? Yeah, we should be proud of it.

Yeah, keeping the country tidy. Yeah, keep Britain tidy, alright!

Lovely. What a random conversation to

finish on, but thank you very much. Lenny is looking a little worse for

wear. I don't feel well! Lenny... This is

hour lieu ie Walsh wakes up every day.

David Turner has been carving pumpkins all day, now he has

finished one of you. Let's have a look.

Oh, brilliant! Oh, my goodness. Isn't that fantastic!? Can he take

it home? I don't want to take it home! Are you nuts.

Also, thank you very much for the photos you have been sending of you

in your Hallowe'en attire. Lenny, what do you have there?

is Rosie from Dundee and Ellie from Swansea.

I'm calling Social Services! I have Louise, Becky, Maddie, Scarlett,

all off to scare the people of Bristol.

Look at Amelia here. She has broken her arm, dressed up as a pumpkin.

That is all the way from Leicester. This is from 11 week old daughter

of Amanda, Marlie. This is a little 16-month-old

getting into the swing of things. This is Lisa Downie getting dressed

So, lots of characters, Lenny, you have had 30 years in the business

if you could choose one character, what is your favourite? It would

have to be Delbert Wilkins. It started off as a character talking

about the Brixton riots and suddenly he has his own TV V series,

-- TV series. Get me! Oh, no, the door bell.

We haven't any sweets left, Lenny has eaten them! Lenny, thank you

very much for joining us and all of the bes with -- best with the The