Best of 2011 The One Show

Hello, I'm Jimmy Carr and you're watching The One Show: Best of 2011.

Shouldn't take long, should it?

Thanks for that, Jimmy, but as it happens there's been a ton of good stuff to remember,

so, everybody, welcome to a very special holiday One Show.

Now, we've snuck back into the studio to pick out

the top 20 things we loved about the One Show in 2011.

And, as you can see, we've made it as comfy as we can.

-Here we go, Al, it's a cup of props Dave's special mulled wine.

-Lovely.

-Mmm.

-That tastes like paint.

Yeah, I think it might be. Anyway, coming up is stuff like this...

Things don't get much better through the Scottish Borders...

And this!

And you can see, that's a new ear.

And just a quick glimpse of this!

So is your favourite One Show moment on the way? Sit tight and find out.

Right, let's get on with it. Let the countdown begin.

Kicking us off at number 20, it's our wonderful wildlife spotters

who will do absolutely anything to get close to the action.

Here's some of our favourite creature features from this year.

Absolutely brilliant!

We are so close and there are loads and loads of seals. Brilliant.

Seals have very sensitive whiskers that can pick up movement

left by swimming fish and they're very inquisitive about divers' fins

which brings them really close to have a gentle nibble.

This UV light will show a bizarre feature that all scorpions have.

Under UV light, they all glow like a beacon.

I found it - look! Oh, look at that!

Euscorpius flavicaudis, the European scorpion.

This is something you never expect to find in the UK.

That is a absolute beauty.

I never thought I'd be chasing a scorpion along a wall, in Kent!

HE LAUGHS

It's just brilliant!

The bridge's top platform is just short of 50m high,

a typical height an osprey could plunge from.

But as I don't possess wings,

I've got to walk the 210 steps up.

Really nervous. Can't believe what ospreys put themselves through.

HE SCREAMS

Here's to some more great wildlife in 2012.

But some of our wildest moments happened right here in the studio.

Welcome back to the new look

Gothic One Show with Matt 'the bat' Baker...

And Alex 'bones' Jones.

Fish and chips.

You just launched a literacy project with Peter Andre,

can you name one of Peter Andre's songs and can you sing it?

Um, Peter Andre, he's a brilliant singer.

-LAUGHTER

-I would say... Mysterious... Girl!

Give us a kiss, give us a kiss!

ROUGH COCKNEY ACCENT: Happy Christmas, Ange.

This is me, this is me, this is the real me!

We have a chick alert, Kate, over to you!

We've had a little chick hatched out of the egg over there.

Look at that, what are we going to call it?

-I reckon it's got to be Russell!

-Russell!

Dennis The Menace celebrates his 60th birthday...

-Stop it, Dave!

-Dave, stop it.

-AUDIENCE LAUGHS

-Alex, you're up next.

-Oh...OK.

Oh, in we go.

SHE SCREAMS, LAUGHTER

-What is it?!

-A little baby animal, I promise, furry and cute...

-Oh! Oh!

HE REPEATS: You'll frighten it. LAUGHTER CONTINUES

Oh... I think it's a rabbit.

-No, it's something that would attack and kill a rabbit.

-A little cat.

-No.

Is this actually going out on television?

-Yes, it all went out on television. Live.

-Yes, it did.

I found loads of Christmas presents in the office,

that we didn't open before the break.

I wonder who this one's from and what's in it?

Maybe it's a little cat?

Hi, Al and Matt! Peter Kay here! Hope you had a good Christmas.

Sorry it's late, got your pressie here in case you get the urge

to throw things at each other. Here you go.

Knife throwing kit! Ha-ha! Have a good new year.

Thanks, Peter, we'll keep practising.

Yup, here comes number 18.

BOING! >

And it's a moment I'll always remember.

In January, I went to Zambia for Comic Relief

and met people like Joseph - a widowed father of four

who was having an operation to save his sight.

'Today Joseph will get his sight back.'

-Hello, Joseph. Hi, I'm Alex. Hello. Lovely to meet you.

-And same to me.

'The cataract has built up around the lens in Joseph's eye,

'but it's simple for Dr Mumba to remove it.

'A new, plastic lens will mean Joseph can see again.'

It's absolutely incredible. I mean, in less than 15 minutes,

we hope that Joseph's sight has been restored.

OK...

..and that's it.

-Brilliant.

-How is it?

Really fantastic, I can see.

-You can see?

-I can see!

-Oh, it's quite emotional.

LAUGHTER

-Ah, my daughter!

-Who are these?

-These are my daughters!

-Come on!

-Aw!

-My own eyes, I can see your beauty.

Hundreds of you came into the studio

to raise money, including some brave souls who stripped to their undies.

Let the mass wax-off commence!

# If you wanna be my lover you gotta get with my friends

# Make it last forever Friendship never ends!

# If you wanna be my lover you have got to give

# Taking is too easy But that's the way it is! #

-On your marks.

-Drop your robes... And run!

KLAXON BLARES

MUSIC: "Yakety Sax" from The Benny Hill Show

That was definitely a moment to remember.

It was, thanks to all who came to take part,

and everyone who donated to help people like Joseph,

-and we lost a streaker!

-Apparently, he's still running around here.

-Woo!

-BOTH LAUGH

He must be a bit chilly! Quick, what's at 17?

Some of the people who appeared on our show this year

had incredible stories to tell.

Here's Joe Crowley with one of my favourite films of the year.

Shining amid the hills of North Wales,

Llyn Celyn is a cold, deep lake.

It may look like it's been here forever, but it hasn't.

Hidden beneath these troubled waters

lie the remains of a once happy village.

Capel Celyn was a traditional, Welsh-speaking village.

Families had lived there for generations,

farming the valley and attending chapel.

Well, it was typical of a Welsh community in the 50s and 60s.

Very tight, very friendly.

Very, very fond memories, really.

Time in school was a real pleasure.

It revolved, really, around nature and all the things you could find.

Yeah, there's me there.

-This is you?

-That's me, that's really weird.

Very smart in your double-breasted blazer.

To look at these faces going back 30 years is really strange and eerie.

Spooky, like ghosts.

'The children expected that, one day, they'd farm the valley

'like their parents, but in 1955, the outside world came crashing in.'

The people of Capel Celyn received compulsory purchase orders.

Their entire valley was to become a reservoir.

Their homes, farms and memories were to be lost forever.

'60 miles away, Liverpool wanted extra water

'for post-war regeneration and had chosen the Tryweryn valley -

'with its narrow neck - perfect for damming.'

Despite local opposition, planning permission wasn't required

as Liverpool Corporation had the backing of a parliamentary bill.

It didn't really become reality

until you actually saw places that you thought were going to be

there forever coming down in front of your eyes.

It was greeted with disbelief that such a thing had happened,

but it was irreversible.

As the dam slowly rose, residents were permitted to exhume loved ones

from the graveyard before it was bulldozed.

My parents never spoke about it.

I don't think they could bring themselves to imagine such a thing...

would ever happen.

They believed, once you were dead and buried, you were in peace.

Capel Celyn was soon razed to the ground, but the school was left standing till last.

What I remember is the sound of the chainsaws coming closer and closer.

The bulldozers, the mud, the dust, the uncertainty,

the black cloud getting closer and closer and closer,

till, eventually, it swallowed up our school

and destroyed it.

On the day the reservoir was opened, passions ran high.

The loss of Capel Celyn had a profound impact

on Welsh national identity.

There was the cultural argument that villages that still held

to Welsh traditions were getting increasingly rare,

and to destroy one was an act of vandalism.

There was a feeling that, well, at least we've got MPs

to give the Welsh view. They did, but nobody took any notice at all!

Wales at the beginning of the 21st century is a much different place,

and if one looks at a single source causing that change,

I would say Tryweryn.

It was my mother that was born in the valley.

In their last years, well, you could see how the trauma had affected them

and they were just talking about the valley all the time,

asking, "Is the water coming? Is the home still there?"

It's impossible to imagine, for someone like me

who never knew it any other way, that it could be different, really.

It's difficult for me as well.

But despite what they've done here, it's still a very beautiful place.

And there's still people here, we're still here.

And we always will be.

In 2005, Liverpool City Council finally apologised

for what happened here.

Some may have forgiven them, but few will forget.

As the 40-year-old graffiti still says - "Remember Tryweryn".

The One Show wouldn't be the same without a few famous bottoms

sitting on our green sofa.

Here's just some of the best of the guests.

How do you fancy a film about beetles and judo?

I'd fight anybody who'd stop me watching it!

-Oooh!

-I'm his biggest fan.

-Thank you very much, Ruth!

-Thank you very much.

-I'm so overcome!

You've let everyone down, including the pig, OK?

I was just thinking, actually, we could swap points,

cos you just have to put this scarf on your head.

I'll tell you this, my darling, darling doctor,

goodness knows where those lovely hands have been.

LAUGHTER

Facing the wrong way, come on!

RETCHES

LAUGHTER

-I'm going to be in a pumpkin?

-You are.

-I love this show!

It's like chatting with your nan - you don't know what's going to come out next, but I'm enjoying it.

There's a "Come on, England". That'll keep you nice and warm.

-You can put that on.

-I want this on VT, OK?

Just to double-check, is that the right number there?

I always had a bit of a thing for you.

I did for you, but it never happened, did it?

-Stardom took you away from me.

-There's time.

-I'm single. I'm not seeing anyone at the moment.

-I am as well.

-They did end up going for a drink.

-Yeah, they did.

-Oh, I've lost it.

-It's your go.

-Thanks.

-More famous faces are coming up soon.

-Of everybody we've had on, who was your favourite?

-It's a tough one.

Erm, I loved Sarah Millican and Miranda Hart, always good.

Dame Edna, brilliant.

-I suppose maybe Dannii Minogue was my favourite.

-OK.

-What about you?

-That's quite a wide range! I think my favourite would have to be Dolly Parton.

-Oh, yeah.

-She was just class, wasn't she?

-She was great.

-Brilliant.

Do you know what? We've loads more presents to open.

-Shall we go with this one?

-Let's have a look.

Wonder what's in here and who's it from?

Hi, guys, to make sure you have a great new year,

I've got you a classy bottle of champers.

If you want something a little less poncey, why not get a few beers in?

-Decide which one and who gets what. Happy New Year.

-Happy New Year.

-Keep yours.

-Lovely!

-Cheers, lads. What shall we start with?

-I'll go with the champers.

-OK. All the best.

-Cheers.

Whenever a big story hit the UK, The One Show was there.

And they don't come much bigger than our number 15.

During one week in August, England endured night after night

of destruction and looting.

Anita Rani met some of the victims,

and we saw first hand how communities came together to clean up.

Everything empty,

every single thing went. Even the shelves and everything.

Ceiling they rip off, the cameras took off.

There's nothing left in this shop.

This shop has been completely annihilated.

-This is all your livelihood?

-Livelihood 11 years.

We work 80-90 hours a week. And end up with this?

Go with empty hand.

He took a running kick at the window. Then they all join in.

I'm 54 years of age.

For the first time in my life,

I now feel vulnerable.

I devoted my life to it.

This person destroyed it, destroyed our livelihood overnight.

My father's father must be turning in his grave.

When I saw it go up, I thought. "We're all dead," you know?

Difficult.

Trevor, this is the first time you've seen this footage.

-You're obviously very shocked and emotional.

-It's terrible.

I was standing by it and it didn't look anything like that.

It felt pretty horrible, but that's just disgraceful.

They are unbelievable pictures. They are unbelievable.

Standing and seeing them like that, that's frightening.

That is frightening stuff.

The high street is closed till 1pm as investigations go on.

This group of people have seen it on the news, read it on Twitter,

they get down here and help out where they can.

All the hate and violence from the riots

has sort of brought a backlash and an anti-riot feeling.

It's showing community spirit at its heart.

I looked out and there were literally 100 people

walking along our road with brooms, ready to help, and bin liners. It brought tears to my eyes.

Fantastic support.

My house is full of flowers. My house is full of cards.

We'll have a new building, and off we go. Good comes out of bad.

-That's an amazing attitude to have.

-That's how I look at it.

Away from the turmoil of the cities, The One Show's hot-air balloon

floated serenely over our countryside.

Christine Walkden used it to show us flowers

like we'd never seen them before.

You've been growing for 11 years,

so what does it feel like to be up here seeing them from this angle?

It's amazing to see the colours and to see them intermingling together.

We get the RAF pilots at RAF Marham, not too far away,

They come over very slowly and have a good look.

It looks like a giant deckchair. How do you get the stripes?

We use the latest GPS equipment to get as much in the field as we can.

We want to utilise the field to its utmost,

and all the input of chemicals and fertilisers.

What amazes me, having been to Holland hundreds of times.

This is enormous! The Dutch fields are tiny.

We're lucky here that we've got large arable fields,

doing horticulture on an arable scale,

trying to do it the most economic way we can.

-How many flowers do you think are down there?

-Millions, millions.

We'll probably produce 20 million bulbs from these fields.

I actually think that was my favourite shot of the year.

Yeah, it was lovely. You know, I think... Oh no!

I think I'm getting the hang of this-ish. Here we go.

-That's good.

-Down you come.

-That's good. Wiggle the tail. Perfect.

Let's open some more presents before Chris gets here.

Hi, guys, Professor Brian Cox here.

Hope you have an astronomically good new year.

I've brought you something, it's a piece of the sun.

Be careful, it's hot.

27 million degrees Fahrenheit, about 15 million degrees Celsius.

Very hot. Happy New Year.

-"Please wear glasses provided."

-OK. Here we go.

-Ready?

-Yeah.

-Wow! We can toast some crumpets on that later.

-Yeah!

-He's a clever boy.

Well done, son. Talking of which...

Hmm, shiny.

Our science team don't just blow stuff up.

Well, they do, but they can do other stuff as well.

Like crunching up entire planes. Time for our favourite bits of boffinry.

We're not here for the making. We're here for the breaking.

With just the airframe left, it doesn't take long for the team

to reduce this 737 to 25 tonnes of scrap aluminium.

With just a teensy bit of help from yours truly.

It's now time for the surgeons to carve

the rib cartilage into the shape of an ear. With no spare cartilage,

Mr Sabbagh and Mr O'Toole only have one chance to get it right.

You can see... Good. That's a new ear.

People don't stare at me any ore.

Because I've had a new operation.

I'm going to be like everyone else.

And I can wear glasses.

The Electric Mountain's proper name is Dinorwig, a massive hydroelectric

power station which can cope with sudden surges in demand.

It's hidden inside a mountain called Elidir

within Europe's largest man-made cave.

This is the main inlet valve, which is opening right now.

It's allowing 60 cubic metres of water per second.

You can hear it flowing from the top reservoir through this pipe.

The water then spins an enormous turbine in here,

which looks a bit like that one over there, which in turn makes

this huge drive shaft spin at 500 revolutions per minute.

And that makes an electrical generator on the floor above us

generate electricity.

When you're chatting to celebrities on the show,

the one thing you can be sure of is that you can't be sure of anything.

Here's just some of the things they've said that surprised us.

Here's why I'm excited. It is the same motorcycle Steve McQueen used

-to jump the fence in The Great Escape.

-Really?

And then I got to sit on it,

cos I don't actually know how to ride a bike.

-So you don't know how to ride a motorcycle?

-I actually don't.

-The Fonz, with the jacket...

-That's how good I was!

-LAUGHTER

-Is it true you lived in a tree for a short time?

-Well, I did. You've done your research.

I lived in a tree my senior year of university.

I wasn't, like, in a squirrel's house or anything.

I actually had a platform,

and you know, in California then, in the Seventies,

-everyone was very, everyone was living in a dome or a...

-Right.

..hut or an igloo or what have you, so I fit right in.

Well, I was taken into care pretty much straight from court,

at the age of 10½, nearly 11, and went into care homes then.

Eventually, by about a year in, I was settled in one place in Stoke-on-Trent.

The worst thing is being separated from your family.

You know, your siblings and your parents, and coming to terms with that.

I was making a film called How I Won The War with Richard Lester,

who did all the Beatles films.

And John and I, he was then married to Cynthia,

we stayed, I was married to Gabrielle,

and the four of us stayed in this house.

And he started, in the evening, we'd play table tennis or something,

but he'd sit on the end of the bed, going, "Strawberry Fields Forever."

-LAUGHTER Did he write...?

-"Oh, I'm not sure."

I said, "Don't worry, that's great, John. That's coming on very well."

-Some unbelievable stories!

-Yeah.

-Is that Sigourney Weaver in our tree?

I don't think so.

Do you know what? We just had a text from Chris, he says he's on his way.

He's got something for us, which is nice,

and something about a streaker in the car park?

Mmm, intriguing.

Anyway, on with the best bits of The One Show 2011.

We are now up to number 11,

and covering amazing local stories even the locals don't know about.

Here's our Gyles explaining how a world-famous man of peace

ended up in a Lancashire mill town.

Mohandas Gandhi, also known as the Mahatma, meaning the Great Soul,

was famous the world over for promoting the creation

of an Indian state, uniting Hindus and Muslims,

and independent of British rule.

In the 1920s, Gandhi spearheaded an Indian boycott of foreign goods

in an attempt to bring production back to his country.

The boycott especially targeted products like textiles from Britain,

as the British Empire had imposed tax and trade restrictions

that had made many Indian industries uncompetitive.

In doing so, Gandhi was peacefully taking on the might of the Empire.

Gandhi was no stranger to Britain.

As a young man, he'd studied law in London.

But 80 years ago, during the struggle for Indian independence,

he returned to England to take part in round-table discussions

with a reluctant British government.

And then, in the middle of his trip, he got on a train heading north,

and ended up here in the small Lancashire town of Darwen

on Friday the 26th of September 1931.

Why?

'Jayne Waring is a local historian.'

-So Darwen WAS cotton mills?

-Yes.

Built on the cotton mills, that was its sole trade.

And then one day, to this square, to this town hall, came Mahatma Gandhi.

Why?

Gandhi visited Darwen

to see how the people of Darwen were coping with the boycott.

He also wanted to highlight

that the Indian people were a lot worse off than the people of Darwen.

-So Gandhi came up here to see the trouble he was causing at mill.

-Yes, yeah.

This whole town had been hit hard by the boycott.

India was the major recipient of textiles from this area,

and the drop in demand had put hundreds of people out of work.

As a result, the Greenfield Mill owners invited Gandhi to visit,

and see the effects of his boycott on the workers of Darwen.

Modern detached houses now sit where the mill once stood,

but over the road, you can find the homes

that the Quaker owners of the factory once built for their workers.

'And it was at this unlikely spot, in a top floor room

'at Number 3 Spring Vale Gardens,

'that a spiritual leader spent his first night in Lancashire.'

And this is the little attic bedroom where Gandhi actually slept.

Though I hadn't realised that Mahatma was a Liverpool supporter.

Fearing reprisals, the police kept a large presence around Gandhi.

But despite this, the townsfolk were keen

to see an internationally renowned leader on their streets,

and they gave him a warm Lancastrian welcome.

And more than 80 years later, there are still some who remember

coming face to face with the Mahatma.

My father sat me down and told me

who Gandhi was, and what Gandhi had done to the Lancashire cotton mills.

He was a little bit peeved.

He explained why Gandhi was coming,

and he admitted himself, which I do now,

that Gandhi was a very brave man.

What did he look like?

This funny man with skinny legs and ten-to-two feet,

he came nearer to passing, and when he saw me, he stopped.

And he moved towards me, stroked my hair,

patted my face with both hands like that.

Stood there looking down at me, smiling,

didn't say a single, solitary word.

And then he walked away.

For a 10-year-old, it didn't really mean a lot,

but for some reason or other, I've never forgotten that.

Despite witnessing first-hand the hardship his boycott was causing,

Gandhi was not to be swayed from his country's struggle for independence,

whatever the cost to the mill-workers of Darwen.

At the beginning of the 20th Century,

there were more than 79,000 looms in Darwen.

By the end of it, there were none.

Cheaper overseas labour changed the face of Lancashire forever.

Hey, Matt, Al! Sorry I'm late! I almost had an accident in the car park. There's a naked man around.

-Yeah.

-You heard about this?

-I know.

-Unbelievable.

-He must be cold.

-Anyway, presents.

-Thank you.

-Thanks. We've got one for you too.

-Oh, come on, let's open them up!

-Shall we open them?

-So exciting!

-Novelty slippers!

-Slippers!

-Aw, they're really nice!

-Yay!

-Lovely.

-I'm going to put them on.

-You work together, think together - that's how it is. Great!

Listen, I'm late - have I missed anything?

You've missed quite a lot, but don't worry, we've got lots coming up.

-Like this...

-Whoa! Look at this!

A bit of this...

-CHEERING AND LAUGHTER

-And a whole lot of this...

A coconut, for example, you chop it in half and it looks like a haystack.

Cool. Well, I'm just going to get comfy. What's next?

Well, who else could be at number ten but the Prime Minister?

And watch out for THAT question to David Cameron.

We thought we'd start with four quick questions. The same questions

your civil servants came up with to measure the nation's happiness.

-Right.

-Right.

-Prime Minister, these are

the exact questions being asked to 200,000 households next month.

-So here we go. Ready for the first one?

-Fire away.

On a scale of zero to 10, overall how satisfied are you with your life nowadays?

HE LAUGHS

-How long have I got?

-It's just a scale of one to 10, we just need a number.

-Six.

-Six?

-That's pretty good, just over half, though. A bit worrying.

Second question - overall, how happy did you feel yesterday?

-Um... What was yesterday? Monday. Before...

-You were in Derby.

-Oh, I was in Derby. I love Derby. Quick, quick!

-THEY LAUGH

-You were at Rolls-Royce.

-I was. I had a great day, actually. It was really interesting,

-such an impressive place.

-So is that a 10?

-Better give that an eight.

-Yeah, good.

-OK.

That was lucky. I was just thinking, Monday...

-Thank you so much for coming on.

-Really lovely to come on.

-Such a wonderful evening.

Just very quickly, how on earth do you sleep at night?

-Um... I've always been able to sleep OK, actually.

-OK.

I find it you work hard during the day, try and get your stuff done...

-You sleep OK at night.

-..and try and put it behind you.

Because at the end of the day, if you're exhausted, you'll make rotten decisions.

There was the Prime Minister having a perfectly lovely time with your happiness rating on The One Show,

and then you caused a stir with that last question. Were you attempting to make a political point there?

Or were you genuinely asking him about his sleep patterns?

Let's move on to number nine, shall we?

This year, our history team really got hands on.

Here they are at their absolute historical best,

starting with an intriguing discovery in Northern Ireland.

This is actually a late 16th-early 17th century tuning peg for a harp.

-Oh.

-That find was found literally in the gutter, just outside a blacksmith's.

We know that travelling harpists, travelling musicians,

were visiting the houses at night within this settlement,

and it's tempting to say that this particular harpist left one of the houses very late at night,

made his way back up the cobbled surface and bumped against the corner of the blacksmith's forge,

and lost this quite valuable item in the gutter beneath it.

Keeping the skin and hair clean was only part of Roman hygiene.

You also needed to keep the clothes clean.

And for that, instead of detergents, the Romans used...

..urine.

-Oh, this...

-Aah.

-SHE COUGHS

'The urine helps in cleaning, as it contains ammonia.'

And the idea is that you're going to stamp on the clothes, almost like a dance.

This is agitating the fibres, and pushing the urine into the cloth,

and the stains, the dirt, the smells of everyday life

are being lifted up into the water.

-This is just what a washing machine does, isn't it?

-Absolutely.

60 years ago, jet aircraft like this one, the Hawker Hunter,

began to show the potential of being able to break the sound barrier.

But that wasn't a task for the faint-hearted.

My wife was asked, "Did you ever think he could get killed?",

and she said no, because she had no imagination.

You never thought you could make a hole in the ground.

I suppose this is what you need.

A bit of blind faith.

Our resident art expert is Phil Tufnell.

-No, we can't believe it, either.

-And this year, he met a man

whose photographs are literally good enough to eat.

The iconic London skyline has been photographed thousands of times

by professionals and amateurs alike,

but there's one British photographer, Carl Warner,

who has immortalised Tower Bridge and the Gherkin in a unique way.

MUSIC: "London Calling" by The Clash

If you look closely at Carl's London skyline,

you can see it's made out of crackers, green beans and broccoli,

amongst other edible ingredients.

Carl makes landscapes out of food, and then photographs them.

I've always had a love of landscape photography,

but I've always worked all my life as a still-life photographer.

This kind of combines the two,

I can make my own scenes, I can travel the world through food.

I think it works brilliant.

This was the very first one I did. I started off very simply.

I found these beautiful Portobello mushrooms, and I looked at them and thought, "these look like trees,"

so I brought them back to the studio,

put them on a big tabletop with some rice and beans,

-and it's down to the lighting and the camera angle, to get really low underneath them...

-Yeah.

..to make them look like they really are trees in some alien world.

We can trace the use of food in art as far back as the 1500s,

when Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo

first painted fruit and vegetable faces.

Then, from the 20th century onwards,

a few artists began using foodstuffs to create mosaics.

Carl Warner has taken this to the next level.

By photographing actual sets made from food,

his final images have a sense of depth and perspective

that food mosaics don't.

Today, we're working on the last picture for my new kids' book,

which is basically landscapes made out of food,

but predominantly one colour.

So this one today is going to be pink.

-I was fortunate to come across this wonderful Italian nougat...

-Ooh, lovely.

..which has got a pink backing,

and these beautiful nuts inside, which look like a flint stone wall.

So over my shoulder here is Paul, making our cottage,

and he's actually cladding the lower part of the cottage

with this nougat, which gives us a very realistic look.

-I bet they're happy with you down the local sweet shop.

-They love me down the local sweet shop, yeah!

Primarily, I look for things that do look like the similar, larger counterparts in nature.

For example, a broccoli obviously looks like a tree, and that's quite an easy one,

but a coconut, for example, you chop it in half, and it looks like a haystack.

I made a scene out of smoked salmon, where the texture of the surface of the water is very similar

to that of smoked salmon, which I spotted in a restaurant,

thought, "Ooh, look at that," you know. "'Scuse me, sir, can I have your plate of food? Look at that!"

-And what are the difficulties about making sets from food?

-The hardest part, of course, is food perishing.

Coriander, for example, it's a very fragile herb, so the moment you cut it and stick it into your scene,

you turn around, and then 30 seconds later it's wilted.

So I tend to use more robust things like curly kale.

It lasts well under the lights, and it's great stuff,

cos I can use it close up as bushes,

but I can use it in the distance as tree canopy or rainforest canopy,

so I love curly kale.

-How do people respond to your work?

-Well, I think they initially do, like, a double take,

on the more realistic-looking images, people see it and they think it's actually a real place,

and then suddenly realise that it's actually made of food, and at that point they smile,

and I find that's the nicest part of it, seeing their reaction.

Because there's so much doom and gloom around,

and just to see something that, you know, gives people a bit of joy, I think is a great thing.

I could happily live in that finished scene.

Carl's food landscapes are certainly full of surprises,

and definitely bring a huge smile to everybody that sees them.

-And now, proof that Matt watches The One Show when he's not on it.

-Yeah.

The proof is that I now do food art to make my kids eat.

-You should have kids as well, so The One Show works for you.

-Right.

-What about we get on with opening the presents?!

-Who's this one from?

-I don't know!

It's from David Walliams!

Hello, The One Show. David Walliams here.

Hope you're having a great Christmas.

I got you a little something to help you swim into the New Year.

Have a very happy one. Bye!

And thank you to David Walliams for the budgie smugglers, which I'm now wearing on my head.

-Ha ha! Signed! Ooh!

-Lovely. Now to prove that it doesn't always go smoothly,

our next clip is the only time that the show has come to a full stop.

Yeah, but why did we choose this one?

Yep, a moment we will never forget. I mean, you just settle down

to a nice chat with Tamsin Greig, and then this happens...

And you just realise that, you know,

the women are the heart of those communities, the heart of those families.

You obviously have those qualities, as well, don't you? SHE LAUGHS

You do!

Well, you know, maybe my cooking could brush up a little bit.

FIRE ALARM SIREN

-Ooh!

-Ooh! I think that's our fire alarm.

-We've got a fire alarm.

-TAMSIN LAUGHS Wow.

-OK...

-Or maybe that's me talking about...

-Right, then. We'll link to a VT just in case, shall we?

Well, listen, while we've got the fire alarm,

we've got a very odd question for you.

-What do you get if you cross cows and bats?

-Cows and bats?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Battle.

-OK.

-No. What you get is very happy bats.

-SIREN RESTARTS

-We're going to pop out, you watch this VT.

-See you in a little while.

CHEESY MUZAK

-And now, where were we? Oh, yes, welcome to The One Show with Matt Baker...

-..and Alex Jones.

And before we start, we must apologise

that your One Show was interrupted last night.

Now, believe it or not, it was somebody cooking a baked potato

-in a microwave which set off all the fire alarms here.

-Yes.

So, if you're listening down there, do you mind having your tea

-after 7:30pm tonight, that would be great.

-Yeah.

-Brilliant,

BEEPING Dave?

Dave, didn't you get the memo?

-Dave...

-EVERYBODY: Oh, Dave!

I didn't get one.

I didn't get it.

Dave...

Thankfully we had loads more time to talk to our guests

on the other 231 shows this year.

And there were some stellar names. Here's another choice selection.

BOTH: It's Keanu Reeves! Excellent!

GUITAR RIFF, CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Here we go...!

Have you heard of an inventor called Thomas Thomson?

Yes! He invented the, um, glass bottle thing.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

INAUDIBLE

My real name is Ramon Estevez, and I never changed it officially.

The children were all baptised with that name.

-It's a cause for much confusion when the cops pull you over.

-LAUGHTER

-Let's reveal the dead parrots.

-Oh! The dead parrot!

Ooh, I'll have that one.

ALL: Heyyyy!

-Favourite Bond film other than your own?

-The Spy Who Loved Me.

-Oh, apart from...

-Apart from yours, yes.

Oh, were there any?

I am the egg man, I am the walrus, coo-coo-coochoo.

-Is it nice and humid in here for you?

-Yes, it feels lovely.

That door opens and in walks an orang-utan.

Uh-uh-uh...

Has there ever been this much male hair on this sofa, do you think?

I thought that!

-We're like in the '70s or something.

-I know.

It's like we're some really awful prog rock band.

-I'm non-gluten, so I'm looking at this...

-What do you mean?!

You used to throw TVs out of the window!

Why on earth did I ever do this?

That was brutal!

I have no idea what you're talking about.

It's amazing to think we've spoken to that many people.

Well, we have, but only when Gyles Brandreth lets us get a word in.

By the way, Gyles has got some presents

so we'd better be nice to him. Hang on...

Even this is talking!

Hello, you beautiful people. I hope you're are having a very cool Yule.

As a man of many, many, many words,

I just had to get you some little literary goodies for the festive season.

Hope you enjoy them and Happy New Year! There!

Dear me, did you know he used to be the king of Latvia?

It's all right for you two, I haven't got a book.

Never mind that, 15 down, five more to go - Al.

Yeah, number five has got to be the romance of the year.

It's the Royal Wedding, of course.

Everyone remembers where they were on April 29th,

when Wills and Kate tied the knot.

I certainly do. I was at the One Show street party with you,

and a whole neighbourhood of wedding watchers.

-BOTH:

-Welcome to the One Show street party!

# The heart is a bloom

# Shoots up through the stony ground... #

What's going to happen here...?

Oh, it was so close, wasn't it?

# No space to rent in this town... #

At any moment now we will be crossing live to Clarence House.

-Do you feel like you're on standby?

-I am like a royal coiled spring waiting to burst forth.

# And you're not moving anywhere

# You thought you'd found a friend... #

-Who have you come as?

-Chris Evans.

-Chris Evans!

KLAXON

Come on, guys, come on! You've got to be quicker!

We didn't cheat!

# It's a beautiful day

# Don't let it get away... #

I think it's about time we had another

One Show Wildlife Highlight of the Year on this list.

Absolutely.

How about Mike Dilger witnessing a breathtaking bird display in Scotland?

Each winter, around 30,000 barnacle geese

should arrive in the Solway Firth, near Dumfries.

Making for a truly remarkable wildlife spectacle.

The geese have migrated some 2,000 miles

from their summer breeding grounds in the high Arctic,

to gorge themselves on the Solway grasses.

They fly in from Spitsbergen,

a remote island inside the Arctic Circle,

and return to this very spot year after year,

producing a breathtaking display.

But last winter there was a worrying drop in numbers,

and Brian Morrell from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust

thinks it's due to... polar bears?

It has been seen in the last few years

that the habits of polar bears are changing

and they're visiting some of the island nest colonies

of the barnacle geese up in Spitsbergen.

This island is usually covered in ice and snow.

But as the ice sheets are melting, things are changing.

What we think's happening is the bears are being stranded on land

and not able to get to the seal colonies.

So they're just looking for anything they can find to eat.

And if there's a nest with eggs in it, they're eating them.

One polar bear can eat over 1,000 eggs in a season.

And so, unsurprisingly, last year the records for young geese

were down by 50 per cent.

But this year, scientists in Spitsbergen

think the geese may be making a comeback.

To be sure, Brian must count every single goose

arriving to the Solway Firth.

I presume this massive pair of binoculars is what you use.

These are just ideal for the job.

How do you count those?

I must admit, it's not easy.

We start at one end of the flock,

see if we can picture what ten of them look like,

then using a clicker like this one,

and clicking off tens all the way through until you get to the end.

They're not staying still,

and more are being added the whole time. This is not easy.

'At this time of year, 5,000 can arrive in just one day.'

Finished.

-How do you stand? Go on.

-3,090.

3,090?!

4,506.

'Well, either way, numbers are looking good

'and importantly the numbers of goslings are up too.'

It has been quite a good breeding season

for some of the barnacle geese on Spitsbergen.

I reckon the cliff nesting birds

are out of the reach of hungry polar bears.

'Thanks to this clever shift in their nesting locations,

'the geese of the Solway Firth

'should keep coming here in their thousands.

'And this means they'll continue to put on

'their amazing evening spectacle.'

The geese roost at night on the mud flats just out there.

At the moment, they're just behind me,

the other side of that gorse, feeding in a field.

As the light fades and dusk approaches,

they should rise up as one huge flock.

'Right now, there are just 15,000 geese here,

'half the final number.

'But when they lift off, there's no mistaking them.'

The vanguard have just taken off.

Listen to the wall of sound.

BIRDS CALL

All that noise you can hear is Mum saying, "Come on, kids, catch up."

And the kids returning, "Wait for me!"

That is why I'm into wildlife. For sights and sounds like that.

The backdrop of a beautiful sunset to mark the end of a beautiful day.

Listen to this. Whoa, look at this!

Right over my head.

Just doesn't get any better than that, does it?

How about that?

Mike Dilger at number four,

beating the Prime Minister and the Royal Wedding.

-We know he'll be thrilled.

-He will be thrilled.

We're into that top three now. Who's going to be number one?

-What is that moment?

-Don't know. Place your bets now.

-Can't wait.

At three, it's time to take things outside.

As you can see, this year we've got our guests to do things

you've never seen them do before. And they thought they'd never do.

OK, that's good.

Now he's going for the bag of flour.

I pick the chicken!

Oh!

OK, Marvin is in the lead from pole position,

but he's got the outside lines...

Ripping it up into the lead, Oritse, the back leader.

The man who knows what it's like to get things together.

We have a real battle, oh, my goodness me.

Coming through!

CHEERING

And here it comes!

This is Joey.

It's the horse from the National Theatre production of War Horse.

Two seconds will be deducted.

He's over the line.

She's through the heart!

Nothing so far.

KLAXON

There's one. Come on, Rod.

She's got a fourth goal, yes.

Fourth ball. Six goals. A result.

7-3, that means, Alyshia, you get the special One Show trophy.

APPLAUSE

Give it a tickle, and she's got the ball! That's the way.

Yes!

Yes!

WHISTLE BLOWS Winner!

Who knew Alex Jones was so good at basketball?

And who knew that Rod Stewart

would go down like the clappers at that penalty?

Had it not been for Al's Welsh, womanly, warm charm with his lawyer,

we'd have been sued for all we're worth at the BBC.

However, he didn't sue us so we still have some money left

and that means we get to number two which is very tuneful, apparently.

From brass bands...

..and bhangra...

..to Barry Manilow, the show has been filled with music in 2011.

Here's three of our favourite studio performances.

And isn't Hugh Laurie good?

# Let me tell you about a girl I know

# She's my baby and she lived next door

# In the morning when the sun comes up

# She brings me coffee in my favourite cup

# Yes, I know, yes, I know

# Hallelujah, I love her so. #

# But if I still believe you love me

# Maybe I'll survive

# So I tell myself you're coming home

# Like you've done a million times

# And if it's all right I'll still be loving you

# Cos I can't break it to my heart. #

# I'm walking away

# Like Rupert Murdoch told me

# I'm walking away

# My shrink gave his OK

# I'm walking away

# The self-help book implored me

# I'm walking away

# Jubilation day. #

-Brrr!

-So, here we are at number one

and it is of course the moment when...

Wait, Alex.

You've got to build up to these things,

you can't just blurt them out.

-There's still one more present to open.

-The drama!

Hello, One Show, Sarah Millican here.

Just got you a belated Christmas gift.

Hopefully it will keep you warm on winter nights. Happy New Year.

-Thanks, Sarah. Don't they look wonderful?

-Amazing.

They cover your belly up, oh, no, they don't.

Now for our number one highlight of the year.

What could it possibly be? No back-pedalling here.

It's Matt's incredible rickshaw ride from Edinburgh

all the way to London for Children in Need.

Well, it had to be, didn't it?

One man, three wheels

and 484 miles of open road.

You've got a minute and ten seconds left.

I want more pace on those legs, come on. Last minute.

Drive, drive, drive.

Keep it going. Max out, max out.

Five, four, three, two, and recover.

OK, Matt, ease up. Well done.

'I know how horrendous it's going to feel'

when I've got somebody in the back and I'm going up a hill.

You've just got to prepare yourself for that really

and take one step at a time. One tiny cycle at a time.

It's going to be hard work, it's going to be painful,

but I'll do my best, that's all I can do.

-ALL:

-Three, two, one, off you go.

Let's go! Goodbye, Edinburgh.

See you later.

Just over a mile down, 483 to go.

Now I've got a piper in the back.

Things don't get better through the Scottish borders.

Yes!

Let's just roll on down to London.

One minute I was really happy,

and the next I was, like, hanging over the bars in tears.

MATT CRIES AND SNIFFS

# On the road again... #

Missed you, rain. Pudsey in the back.

Uphill, a wonderful cocktail at 6 o'clock in the morning.

We've got a mini Pudsey. Can you come the whole way to London,

because you are much lighter than the bigger Pudsey...? No.

County Durham!

I'm slipping.

-Come on, Matt.

-Come on, Matt!

Tell him to follow my line across the road.

200 turns away from the highest point in the whole route.

-The money we've raised... Look at this.

-Well done, Matt.

How long have you been waiting at the top of this hill for me?

-About an hour, at least.

-I'm sorry to keep you out in the wet.

Thank you all. Thank you all.

York, here we come!

Let's go.

The last four days has just hit me like a...

Oh... Sharp pains in the old knees...

..I've got the back of my kneecap grinding against my bone.

It's excruciating, it makes you feel sick.

All these people that are waiting out to cheer me on and keep me going.

And I just feel so bad that I just can't get to them

when they're expecting me to get to them.

Thank you very much indeed.

'The people of Lincolnshire didn't let me down.

'It was worth every minute of pain.'

Somebody just told me, just today, over 100,000 pledged TODAY.

Today? Really?

Well, we've now left Lincoln behind us...

I am hoping to get to Peterborough by about 6:00pm if you can do that.

-What's your average speed?

-We're doing ten miles in an hour and a half.

I should have brought a picnic.

CHEERING

Here we go!

Isn't that wonderful?

And into a headwind...

Less than 100 miles! Less than 100 miles!

Look at the schoolkids...

What lesson should you be in now? Maths? This is harder than maths.

Matt's ride may be well and truly over,

but you can still donate.

Just text the word Matt to 70705.

Texts cost £5 plus your standard network charge

and £5 goes to Children in Need.

Text lines close at midnight on 31st December.

For full terms and conditions visit our website at

bbc.co.uk/theoneshow.

-Amazing stuff, Matt.

-I'm through, I'm through.

Is that Children in Need? Hi, Pudsey, how are you doing?

Can we give some more money to Matt cos he was so good?

Thank you, bye.

Anyway, so far you and the viewers at home

have raised an incredible £1,823,648.

It goes without saying, a massive thank you to everybody

who came out and supported me, made me food and got me to London.

Thank you so much for all of your donations.

Well, that's it.

Only a fraction of what we got up to in 2011.

The best thing about these highlight shows

is it always looks so much better than it was.

-You can't say that!

-I know, but I just did.

2012 is going to be off the scale, we have the Olympics.

Yes, the Diamond Jubilee, of course.

And the best bit, Chris here is pole vaulting

-across the Grand Canyon for Sports Relief.

-Naked!

Anyway, thanks for watching us all year.

We are back on Monday, January 9th.

Until then have a really happy new year,

we'll leave you with some more of our clever, enthusiastic

and often kooky, strange One Show family.

-Bye.

-Bye-bye.

MUSIC: "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge

INAUDIBLE UNDER MUSIC

# We are family

# Get up, everybody, and sing

# We are family

# I got all my sisters with me

# We are family

# Get up, everybody, and sing... #

Wasn't ready.

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