:00:16. > :00:22.Coming up on today's live Blue Peter, I take on the terrifying
:00:22. > :00:30.heights of one of the most famous masts in European history.
:00:30. > :00:33.Just a little bit of rope between me and the ground. Over 230,000
:00:33. > :00:43.have you got involved, and I was at Buckingham Palace for the Royal
:00:43. > :00:45.
:00:45. > :00:49.record attempt. The Queen is going And all the way from Barbados, hot
:00:49. > :00:59.new band of Cover Drive are live in the studio to perform their latest
:00:59. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:21.Hello! You are watching Blue Peter, we are live and interactive.
:01:21. > :01:25.have got tons on today's show, including these guys! They are
:01:25. > :01:29.poised to perform for us. They are going to sing their new single
:01:30. > :01:39.later on, it is fabulous. They have come all the way from Barbados. If
:01:40. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:46.you want to ask Cover Drive a If you're watching Newsround and
:01:46. > :01:50.the AD would have seen the reopening of a national treasure.
:01:50. > :01:54.It is one of the most famous ships in the world, and a specialist team
:01:54. > :01:59.have been renovating it to restore it to its former glory. I thought I
:01:59. > :02:05.would go and help out, although we didn't know what caused it to
:02:05. > :02:11.myself in for. Tea clippers were a tighter ship which cut the name
:02:11. > :02:14.from delivering luxury goods like tea around the world. They were the
:02:14. > :02:19.fastest sailing ships in the sea. They could travel over 300 miles a
:02:19. > :02:25.day at speeds of over 20 mph. The most famous of them all was the
:02:25. > :02:31.Cutty Sark. Since the 1950s, at De Cutty Sark has been on display in
:02:31. > :02:36.London, but five years ago, disaster struck. The 19th century
:02:36. > :02:43.ship is on fire. The cause of the fire was inconclusive, but it meant
:02:43. > :02:47.that the last tea clipper of its kind was almost lost for ever. But
:02:47. > :02:51.now, the ship is rising from the ashes. Millions of pounds have been
:02:51. > :02:57.spent restoring the ship to its former glory when it first set sail
:02:57. > :03:03.in 1870. And I am here, just a few weeks before it reopens, to help
:03:03. > :03:08.with some of the restoration jobs. This is Andy, he is my bus. What
:03:08. > :03:13.would you like me to do? We have a special job for you. Down here,
:03:13. > :03:18.nice and safe, but we thought you could help us up there. We thought
:03:18. > :03:24.you would be the man for it. want me to go up there? Bring it
:03:24. > :03:31.on! My job is to climb up a mast, secures some reading it, 40 metres
:03:31. > :03:35.up in the air. The rigging it is rope that holds the ship's sales in
:03:35. > :03:41.place, and allows the crew to move the sales to harness the power of
:03:41. > :03:47.the wind. The Cutty Sark had 11 miles have rigging to support and
:03:47. > :03:51.control its sales, making it one of the fastest ships in the world
:03:51. > :03:56.before engines existed. Today all I had to do his client here and
:03:56. > :04:03.released this rope. That sounds simple, but it feels very different
:04:03. > :04:07.up there. So I gingerly take my first steps on the rigging. When
:04:07. > :04:15.his boat was built they didn't have technical staff, they just climbed
:04:15. > :04:20.it. They were either really brave, or really daft! Climbing rigging
:04:20. > :04:27.isn't like climbing a solid ladder. Every step is wobbly and scary. Oh
:04:27. > :04:31.my goodness. It is hard to believe if you worked on a ship like this,
:04:31. > :04:39.climbing to the top of the mast would be part of your every day job,
:04:39. > :04:49.often in howling storms. That is so far down! Be brave, Barney, people
:04:49. > :04:50.
:04:50. > :04:56.are watching! I really don't want to be here right now. Oh, Mate!
:04:57. > :05:05.you OK? Yes. Just when I think I have made it come he breaks the bad
:05:05. > :05:10.news. Are you good for that? I have got to climb another five metres to
:05:10. > :05:16.reach the penultimate yardarm. That is the name for the horizontal beam
:05:16. > :05:26.that the sales hang off. You can step off on to that rope. You are
:05:26. > :05:32.
:05:32. > :05:40.Oh, what! So there is literally just a little bit of rope between
:05:40. > :05:44.me and the ground, a 45, 50 metres drop. That is phenomenal. I have
:05:44. > :05:50.never hold -- held on to anything so tight in my life. Now there is
:05:50. > :05:54.the simple matter of hoisting a line into place. I'm having a
:05:54. > :06:00.moment. It is getting my head round the fact that I am stood on a very
:06:00. > :06:06.small rope, dangling hundreds of metres in the air. You can see just
:06:06. > :06:10.behind you, this wouldn't block, and the wire, all you need to do is
:06:10. > :06:20.released this road, so we can swing it down into place at night and
:06:20. > :06:21.
:06:21. > :06:31.safely. -- released this a rope. Start and tying the knot. And there
:06:31. > :06:36.she goes. Wow. Does this have a function? This controls the yards
:06:37. > :06:43.to stop them swinging around. is brilliant. We are all done.
:06:43. > :06:49.complete. After climbing this high, all I have done is secured one line
:06:49. > :06:59.of the huge web of rigging, but you know what, it is my rope! There is
:06:59. > :07:08.
:07:08. > :07:12.Body, you did phenomenally well. It did look scary. -- Barney. It is so
:07:12. > :07:20.weird, you are so high, you don't realise until you look down. I was
:07:20. > :07:25.balancing on a tiny bit of rope. you want to see these packed be
:07:25. > :07:30.yourself, you are in luck, they will be at the London pet show on
:07:30. > :07:40.the 12th and 13th May. You are not at the pet show! They are having a
:07:40. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:44.fight! Still to come on today's Blue Peter, we will find out how of
:07:44. > :07:51.200,000 of your pictures were turned into a picture for the Queen.
:07:51. > :07:55.And Cover Drive will be hit your answer your questions. It is a
:07:55. > :07:58.friendly show! Let's talk about the Blue Peter calendar. For the past
:07:58. > :08:05.few months we have been using different photography techniques to
:08:05. > :08:08.create different images. Last week, we used the light painting. Let me
:08:09. > :08:13.show you what we did. This was the result of a whole might filming
:08:13. > :08:21.with some of our friends, that is what you can achieve using torches,
:08:21. > :08:24.and a camera. We have seen this one sent in. As you can see, they used
:08:24. > :08:29.a different coloured torches. That is brilliant. We are always
:08:29. > :08:37.overwhelmed by the beach is a new centre in, this one by Scott, he
:08:37. > :08:42.has drawn around himself. I have got cat scratches on one arm and
:08:42. > :08:49.dog scratches on another! There this month, I thought we would try
:08:49. > :08:55.something different, I take photos all that time, and I put this photo
:08:55. > :09:04.-- took this Botha, it was a moment when we all had a break. Johnny
:09:04. > :09:08.Pitts is bidding himself up. Only he could pull off those sunglasses.
:09:08. > :09:14.We thought we would use that as this month's calendar picture. You
:09:14. > :09:20.can go to the website and download that, printed out for yourself.
:09:20. > :09:26.There are some things on there, Robert Petersson's birthday, if you
:09:26. > :09:32.want to get him a cake. One date you do need be a kind that is 26th
:09:32. > :09:37.May, that is the date that a brand new Blue Peter show starts, on CBBC.
:09:37. > :09:47.You can come along, be part of the show, here's a taster of what is to
:09:47. > :09:53.The Olympics are the greatest sporting event on earth, and this
:09:53. > :09:55.summer, they are coming to the UK. Here on Blue Peter, we are going to
:09:55. > :10:00.be be the ultimate guide to this once-in-a-lifetime a sporting
:10:00. > :10:02.moment. We are going to be following the Olympic torch around
:10:03. > :10:07.the country, to bring you an action-packed programme with all
:10:07. > :10:14.you need to know about the Olympics. We will have guides to the biggest
:10:14. > :10:20.sports, with top British Olympians. We will be reliving some of the
:10:20. > :10:26.most amazing moments from past Olympics. Great Britain on the
:10:26. > :10:30.line! Great Britain get the gold medal! And we are joined by four
:10:30. > :10:35.big-name celebrities in a thrilling sporting battle for our very own
:10:35. > :10:39.gold medal. The great news is, you can come along too. We will be
:10:39. > :10:49.staying around all day so you can see us in person and try out all
:10:49. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:56.sorts of the Olympic challengers. And if you watch next week, we will
:10:56. > :11:00.tell you where we are going to be and how you can come along. They
:11:00. > :11:05.have calmed down a bit now, they get excited when we mentioned him
:11:05. > :11:09.on telly. Barney does it to sometimes. How do you turn almost a
:11:09. > :11:15.quarter of a million pictures it into one Portrait of the Queen? I
:11:15. > :11:20.went along to get the inside story of one of the Diamond Jubilee
:11:20. > :11:23.portraits. She has one of the most famous
:11:23. > :11:28.faces in the world. It has been captured in countless photographs
:11:28. > :11:33.and painted by some of the greatest artists of our time in almost every
:11:33. > :11:36.style you can imagine. But to celebrate the Queen's diamond
:11:36. > :11:42.jubilee and mark the fact she is only the second British monarch
:11:42. > :11:45.ever to rain for more than 60 years, our Queen is being given an
:11:45. > :11:50.extraordinary portrait like she has never seen before. And the canvas
:11:50. > :11:54.is none other than her home, Buckingham Palace! For the past
:11:54. > :11:59.eight months, more than 200,000 children from across the UK have
:11:59. > :12:03.sent in their self portraits for the project. These pictures have
:12:03. > :12:06.been pulled it together into a massive montage to great an image
:12:06. > :12:11.of the Queen's face, which will be projected onto the front of
:12:11. > :12:15.Buckingham Palace. They decided to call in the services of Ross Ashton,
:12:15. > :12:19.who has already projected on to Buckingham Palace for the Queen's
:12:19. > :12:25.golden jubilee. This time it is different. Tommy about the
:12:25. > :12:31.portraits at of come in. -- tell me about the portrait that have come
:12:31. > :12:36.in. They have been incredibly different, photography, sculpture,
:12:36. > :12:40.clay modelling, a montages. Some of them are fantastic. To create the
:12:40. > :12:43.Queen's face from all these pictures, Ross has special software
:12:43. > :12:48.that adjusts the colour of each picture, which make up individual
:12:48. > :12:52.squares of the portrait. How will we see this on the Palace? You have
:12:52. > :12:56.got individual frames, in the larger friends, we are showing a
:12:56. > :13:00.sample of the 200,000 pictures. Unfortunately there isn't enough
:13:00. > :13:05.time to show every painting, or we would have, because we would love
:13:05. > :13:09.to. As well as taking on this project, Ross is trying to break a
:13:09. > :13:14.record for the world's largest collaborative art work. The final
:13:14. > :13:20.work all be shown for 24 hours on big screens around the country. You
:13:20. > :13:23.are creating a portrait of the Queen. It involves 200,000 children
:13:23. > :13:29.and is hopefully going to be a world record. Are you feeling the
:13:29. > :13:34.pressure at all? You are scaring me now! There is still a week ago, and
:13:34. > :13:40.he has plenty of work to do, but in the meantime, I'm getting involved
:13:40. > :13:46.in my own way. This is my kit. I am no artist, but that is the point,
:13:46. > :13:49.it is my interpretation. It is not just kids getting involved, loads
:13:49. > :13:56.of celebrity portraits will be auctioned off to raise money for
:13:56. > :14:01.the charity as well. There have been some mixed results. I think
:14:01. > :14:11.Jamie Oliver might have been going from an abstract point of view.
:14:11. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:17.Some celebs have revealed hidden talents. Well, I think we are done!
:14:17. > :14:22.OK, it is not quite up to the best standards, but hopefully it will
:14:22. > :14:26.raise a bit of money for the charity auction. A week later, the
:14:26. > :14:30.big projection day has arrived. I have been given the massive honour
:14:30. > :14:35.of pressing the button that starts the whole thing off. I have been
:14:35. > :14:39.looking forward to this for ages, I am a bit worried no one will come.
:14:40. > :14:43.The weather is really bad! It is so cold and wet but I'm genuinely
:14:43. > :14:48.shivering, and I can't really feel my toes, but we are sticking with
:14:48. > :14:53.it, because I think this is going to be worth it. One person with
:14:53. > :14:57.more to worry about is a Ross, he is looking pretty nervous. This
:14:57. > :15:03.feels a bit wrong, talking to you through bars, but that is because
:15:03. > :15:07.you are very busy and important. What is going on? Fees of the
:15:07. > :15:12.project is we have installed, it has taken us a week to get the
:15:12. > :15:17.equipment set up. What happens between now and the big switch on?
:15:17. > :15:21.I wait for the Sun to go down. you nervous? Of course, it is
:15:21. > :15:26.Buckingham Palace. Despite the weather, the excitement is building,
:15:26. > :15:29.especially for some of the kids who have sent their pictures in. Your
:15:29. > :15:35.paintings are going to be up there on Buckingham Palace. That is
:15:35. > :15:41.pretty exciting! Amazing, my drawing is going to be on a queue
:15:41. > :15:50.mongers Palace. The Queen is going to see your art work on her house.
:15:50. > :15:55.The light is starting to fade which means the projection should work.
:15:55. > :15:58.The rain is easing and the crowds are gathering. It is my job to
:15:58. > :16:02.press the button which means the projection will be switched on. I
:16:02. > :16:12.have a lot of helpers. There will be a big countdown. Then we will
:16:12. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :16:28.hit the button. Are you excited? Yes, I am cold, wet and feeling
:16:28. > :16:32.like a drowned rat, but this is definitely worth it. It was even
:16:32. > :16:39.better for the kids who got to see their pictures on the Palace. Yours
:16:39. > :16:42.was in the middle? Yeah. One of my aims in art is the whole world to
:16:42. > :16:49.see my art and it's just happened now. Did you think it would be that
:16:50. > :16:59.big? No. What stko you reckon. Yeah! Look there is you. That's
:17:00. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:10.OK, guys, two questions for you. Did you enjoy hopefully help break
:17:10. > :17:17.a world record? Yes! Do you think the Queen enjoyed her present?
:17:17. > :17:20.I bet she did. Obviously it takes a long time to
:17:20. > :17:25.count all those pictures so we are not sure if it's a World Record but
:17:25. > :17:29.we will keep you posted. Fingers crossed it becomes official. We are
:17:29. > :17:33.sitting in between the pets from now on. Right our next guests are
:17:33. > :17:38.determined to bring the sounds of Barbados to the rest of the world
:17:38. > :17:44.and they're succeeding. The last single twilight was a success.
:17:44. > :17:49.Rihanna is a fan. It's the fabulous Cover Drive.
:17:49. > :17:54.Hi, guys. Nice to see you. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having
:17:54. > :18:04.us. You already have your Blue Peter badges on. Let's start with
:18:04. > :18:04.
:18:05. > :18:10.the intros. I am T-ray. I am Amanda. I am the Barman. Your music is
:18:10. > :18:14.Carib-pop. It's a mixture of Caribbean music, mixed with pop
:18:14. > :18:19.music and you combine them and it makes Feel-Good sunshine music that
:18:19. > :18:23.make us you feel you are at a beach party. The name, there is a story
:18:23. > :18:28.behind that. It's a cricket shot. It's our national sport. We tried
:18:28. > :18:33.to think of a name that sounded cool and tied in with Barbados. Our
:18:33. > :18:38.manager said Cover Drive. We strive for excellence and it sounds cool.
:18:38. > :18:43.He is very convincing. You didn't call yourself The Wickets.
:18:43. > :18:48.thought of that afterwards, but not for us. We like Cover Drive better.
:18:48. > :18:52.A secret, in rehearsal we had to peel your hat off you. You said you
:18:52. > :18:58.feel like you have lost your power. You love your hats. Actually I love
:18:58. > :19:03.hats. They all have cool hair, so I have to wear hats. He has a
:19:03. > :19:08.collection of fedora hats. He has every single colour you could think
:19:08. > :19:15.of. I am exactly the same. I have to stick one on, although eufg been
:19:15. > :19:20.wearing the same one recently. hair is a mess. It is now! We have
:19:20. > :19:24.a game, follow us over here and we will tell you about it. Right for
:19:24. > :19:28.this section of the show Barney has agreed to be our model. You are
:19:28. > :19:32.going to wear the hats. I am going to tell you guys two facts about
:19:32. > :19:38.these hats but I want to know which one is true and which is false. We
:19:38. > :19:44.are going to start with the fedora. Now it was introduced into fashion
:19:45. > :19:50.as a woman's hat after it was seen in a play called Fedora, is that
:19:50. > :19:55.true? It was named after American blues singer Stewart Fedora who
:19:55. > :20:00.never left home without one. Which is true? Judging by the trajectory
:20:00. > :20:05.of the sun and the moon right now and this fedora, I have to say the
:20:05. > :20:10.second is true. It was wrong! It is that it was introduced into fashion
:20:10. > :20:20.as a woman's hat after it was seen in a play called Fedora. That's why
:20:20. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:32.I am in music. Right, this is the sosombre, the far away galaxy 104
:20:32. > :20:36.is called the galaxy because it resembles the hat's shape or it was
:20:36. > :20:43.originally used in wars to make the soldiers appear taller. I am going
:20:43. > :20:49.to have to try it on. Which is true? I definitely feel taller and
:20:49. > :20:59.more powerful and I could beat all of you. I would say B, soldiers.
:20:59. > :21:03.That's wrong! It's named after the galaxy. Come on guys. Next is the
:21:03. > :21:09.beret. Which of these facts is true? Not sure that's how you are
:21:09. > :21:13.meant to wear it. The originates from Bearnais in France and is
:21:13. > :21:19.based on the shape of an open baguette or it originates from
:21:19. > :21:25.ancient Greece where it was worn as military headgear. Isn't beret a
:21:25. > :21:30.French word. I was thinking about that. It should urge me from France.
:21:31. > :21:40.The bread sounds far-fetched. does,. I know you like them but
:21:41. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:48.they haven't done well so far. is right. First one, A. No! From
:21:48. > :21:54.ancient Greece. Last up. Come on! This is the cloche, the word means
:21:54. > :22:03.shelter as the French women who wore it did manual labour outdoors
:22:03. > :22:13.or is it the word means bell as the hat resembles a bell? We can't get
:22:13. > :22:13.
:22:14. > :22:21.all them wrong. Trust your gut. Correct! It means bell, well done.
:22:21. > :22:27.You know your music. Maybe not hats! You have been sending your
:22:27. > :22:31.questions in for Cover Drive. We will be asking those after this.
:22:31. > :22:37.The Blue Peter website is the place to be for fun games, amazing clips,
:22:37. > :22:42.and loads of things to try at home, like photography.
:22:42. > :22:48.Making board games, and even fashion design.
:22:48. > :22:52.You can catch up on episodes you have missed.
:22:52. > :22:57.And send your questions to the stars you love.
:22:57. > :23:03.So, head over to the CBBC website and click on Blue Peter.
:23:03. > :23:13.OK, straight to our questions. What artists most influence you? As a
:23:13. > :23:15.
:23:15. > :23:20.collective we have to say No Doubt, the black aoeued peas and Bob marry.
:23:20. > :23:25.-- Marley. Were you good at school? I was good at school, yes but I
:23:25. > :23:30.always enjoyed more when I got to go in the art room and chill out.
:23:30. > :23:40.We all did well in exams, though. School is important. Well done.
:23:40. > :23:41.
:23:41. > :23:51.would like to know now, be honest, which of you eats the most?
:23:51. > :23:52.
:23:52. > :23:56.varies. I probably eat the most. Come on. It's a tie. Rosy wants to
:23:56. > :24:02.know what is life like in Barbados? Beautiful. It's like Heaven
:24:02. > :24:09.basically. It's really laidback and very, very hot. It's just beautiful
:24:09. > :24:14.to go on the beach and enjoy it and laugh and relax. It's not stressful.
:24:14. > :24:21.Golden sand, 30 degrees all year. Do you have any lucky charms,
:24:21. > :24:26.that's from Ryan? You have one. actually have a Nelson Mandela
:24:26. > :24:29.bracelet, I never take it off. It symbolises power and I am not going
:24:29. > :24:33.into education right now, but it means a lot to me. We want you to
:24:33. > :24:38.go off and perform your new single. We love it. Go and get your
:24:38. > :24:48.instruments. Let us tell you what's happening next week.
:24:48. > :24:52.The boys from Rizzle Kicks swap tearing up the dance floor for
:24:52. > :24:56.tearing up the roads. Can they learn to drive in one week. I get
:24:56. > :25:06.expert football coaching advice from Harry Redknapp. You have been
:25:06. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:14.singing this song all day. Please # Happy to see you setting me off
:25:14. > :25:17.like sparks # You ignite all the colours inside
:25:17. > :25:21.my heart # On the doorstep like we had never
:25:21. > :25:25.been apart hope you know that I am happy to
:25:25. > :25:31.see you #. # It's just another night
:25:31. > :25:35.# The boys are getting higher # But baby in my head I am there
:25:35. > :25:39.with you instead #. It's just another night
:25:39. > :25:47.# Under the strobe lights # Can't hear what I am dancing to
:25:47. > :25:55.# Just want to be with you. # I am ready to go
:25:55. > :25:58.# On my mind I can't wait anymore # I am happy to see you setting me
:25:58. > :26:04.off like sparks # You ignite all the colours inside
:26:04. > :26:07.my heart # On the doorstep like we had never
:26:07. > :26:11.been apart # Hope you know that I am happy to
:26:11. > :26:18.see you # Them girls put on a show
:26:18. > :26:22.# But they will never know # What makes you Bute Bute
:26:22. > :26:25.beautiful # I watch them come and go
:26:25. > :26:33.# Them boys got all the talk # But they don't know a lot
:26:33. > :26:39.# You know my every thought # That's why I make them walk
:26:39. > :26:42.# Chest tight, and I am ready to go # On my mind I can't wait anymore
:26:42. > :26:46.# I am happy to see you setting me off like sparks
:26:46. > :26:51.# You ignite all the colours inside my heart
:26:51. > :26:58.# On the doorstep like we had never been apart
:26:58. > :27:01.# Hope you know that I am happy to see you
:27:01. > :27:05.# Nothing needed to say # We got nothing to prove
:27:05. > :27:11.# The world doesn't matter # No winner with you
:27:11. > :27:16.# We got no games to play # So we got no rules
:27:16. > :27:22.# The world doesn't matter, you are here and I am happy to see you
:27:22. > :27:26.# Setting me off like sparks # You ignite all the colours inside
:27:26. > :27:31.my heart # On the doorstep like we had never
:27:31. > :27:34.been apart # Hope you know that I am happy to
:27:34. > :27:39.see you # Happy to see you
:27:39. > :27:43.# Setting me off like sparks # You ignite all the colours inside