0:00:07 > 0:00:08Ladies and gentlemen,
0:00:08 > 0:00:13please take your seats for the entertainment event of the year,
0:00:13 > 0:00:16with West End star Sophie Evans,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19comedian Rod Woodward,
0:00:19 > 0:00:22Welsh tenor Wynne Evans,
0:00:22 > 0:00:25and pop icon Shakin' Stevens.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Plus, we find out more about the funnyman from Merthyr.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31And here's your host for the evening.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Please welcome to the stage of the Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli,
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Mr Owen Money.
0:00:37 > 0:00:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Hello and welcome to the Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli.
0:00:46 > 0:00:51And this is the first TV show they've ever done here in this fantastic theatre.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54- Isn't it brilliant?- Yes. - Absolutely brilliant.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58And the show is presented by that very funny man from Merthyr. Me.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03- Have we got Merthyr people in?- Yes. - Nice to see you.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06I've been in Merthyr last Saturday. I was on a sponsored mountain climb.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09Kill-a-man-for-a-giro.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16And I've got to say, I can't believe there's so many beautiful women in this audience tonight.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19There's a couple of ugly ones, you know, but...
0:01:19 > 0:01:23I'm not going to point you out. You know who you are, right.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27You're beautiful, you are, love. I've got to be honest. You are.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29No, not you, love, the one behind you.
0:01:32 > 0:01:33Well, today is St David's Day,
0:01:33 > 0:01:38the only Saints Day that's named after a shopping centre in Cardiff.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41It's a day when we celebrate things that are great about Wales.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Things like the great scenery.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Friendly people. The Welsh Assembly.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49AUDIENCE GROANS
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Well, two out of three's not bad. Hang on a minute.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I thought about going into politics but it's a bit of a cutthroat business.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58You know, one day you could be in the Senedd debating big issues,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01the next day you can be out in the street selling them.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06I was saying this to the taxi driver that brought me here tonight, Lembit Opik.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Lembit Opik.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22Not just an ex-politician but 300 points at Scrabble, that is.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Well, I'm living in Porthcawl now, tax reasons.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30- Have we got people from Porthcawl in? Where are you?- Yay!
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Nice to see you. You've got to be old to live there. Look at them.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Oh, they're all old in Porthcawl, aren't they, Gareth?
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Even the shop windows are bifocal.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45But they do cater for the older people.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48I go to a lot of the care homes.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Every Christmas Eve I go to this one in the centre of Porthcawl. It's great.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56And they're all in their 90s and I try to entertain them, you know.
0:02:56 > 0:02:57It's hard work, like.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00Like the gurner's club all over again, they were.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05I had a staring ovation.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07LAUGHTER
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I came off the stage. There's a woman at the front, she's 98.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18I said, "Did you enjoy me?" She said, "You were marvellous."
0:03:18 > 0:03:19I said, "Do you know who I am?"
0:03:19 > 0:03:22She said, "No. But if you ask the matron, she'll tell you."
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Have you noticed when people get older they change?
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Like, ladies, I've got to be honest, ladies, you grow old gracefully.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Some of you, your hair goes like cauliflower,
0:03:35 > 0:03:36but most of you are great.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41You can always tell the age of a man, because the older he gets,
0:03:41 > 0:03:43the higher he wears his trousers, have you noticed?
0:03:45 > 0:03:4860, 70, 80.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52My father's 97 and we feed him through his fly.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01And he's in one of them sheltered accommodations, you know
0:04:01 > 0:04:03where they pull the string and they all come running.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06I went down to see him the other week. He's 97.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08I said, "How's it going?" He said, "Not so bad".
0:04:08 > 0:04:09SMACKS LIPS
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I said, "What are you doing?" He said, "I'm doing a jigsaw of a big chicken."
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I said, "Put the cornflakes back in the box now".
0:04:16 > 0:04:18LAUGHTER
0:04:24 > 0:04:28There's an old fellow driving on the motorway and his mobile phone goes.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30He picks the phone up and it's his wife.
0:04:30 > 0:04:31She says, "Dai, where are you?"
0:04:31 > 0:04:36He said, "I'm on the M4 by Sarn services. I'll be home now in ten minutes."
0:04:36 > 0:04:38She said, "Be careful, Dai.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41"It's just come on the radio here, there's one motorist
0:04:41 > 0:04:43"driving the wrong way down the motorway."
0:04:43 > 0:04:46He said, "One?" He said, "There's bloody hundreds of them", he said.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55I'll tell you what though, it's been a funny old month, hasn't it?
0:04:55 > 0:04:59About four weeks ago they found the remains of King Richard III's body
0:04:59 > 0:05:02in a car park in Leicester.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04They are now looking for the remains of his horse
0:05:04 > 0:05:06in every supermarket in the country.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Well, it started in one supermarket.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Now they're all jumping on the bandwagon.
0:05:20 > 0:05:21They reckon it's not their fault.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25They haven't got four legs to stand on, I've got to be honest.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27It's in Lidl's now. My Lidl pony.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33If you're going to get bread to go with it, don't ask for a cob, whatever you do.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38I was in the supermarket the other day. I got a bag of burgers.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40It kept jumping the queue.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42HE WHINNIES
0:05:44 > 0:05:49Well, it's nice to be here. And it is St David's Day.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50I'm very proud to be Welsh.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54And I don't know whether you know this, but we talk differently all over Wales.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55We've all got different accents.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- CARDIFF ACCENT:- Cardiff, they put the car in the car park.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02- NEWPORT ACCENT:- Newport. "Do you want a fight?"
0:06:03 > 0:06:08- SWANSEA ACCENT:- Swansea. "Where do you want this video, mush?"
0:06:08 > 0:06:09- MERTHYR ACCENT:- Merthyr. "In 'ere, byt."
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Llanelli. They talk very fast in Llanelli. The real ones.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- LLANELLI ACCENT:- Mynydd-y-garreg, top of the mountain, Scarlets,
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Rupert Moon, ugly bugger with a skullcap.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Carmarthen. They start fast and then they go slow.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26"How's it go...ing?"
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Cardigan. "How much?"
0:06:36 > 0:06:40And I love North Wales. I love it. I go up there quite a lot.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43And they talk like Mario Lanza up in North Wales.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46There's two English fellows lost in North Wales
0:06:46 > 0:06:49and they come to the village with the big long name.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50And George says to Charlie,
0:06:50 > 0:06:54"Look at the length of this name. There's about 50-odd letters there. How do you pronounce that?"
0:06:54 > 0:06:58He said, "I don't know. We'll go in and ask the waiter. He's from North Wales."
0:06:58 > 0:07:01So they go in this cafe, and a fellow from Caernarvon came up to them.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04He went, "Can I help you?" "Good God, yes."
0:07:06 > 0:07:07"Can I help you?"
0:07:07 > 0:07:11He said, "Yeah, can you tell us very slowly exactly where we are?"
0:07:11 > 0:07:15And the Welsh fellow went, "MacDonald's".
0:07:21 > 0:07:26- Anybody here from Llanelli? - Yes.- Are you from Llanelli, love?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29That's lovely. Famous for two things, darling.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Beautiful women and great rugby players.
0:07:32 > 0:07:33What position do you play, love?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41I love Llanelli. I've been coming here three years.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45I went out the other day to find out what the people of Llanelli thought about the town.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And this is what I found.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51- Are you from Llanelli, boy?- Er... - Do you want an easier question?
0:07:51 > 0:07:56- So are you from Llanelli? - Yeah, I'm from Llanelli, born and bred, Welsh head.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01- What's good about Llanelli? - It's a nice community feel.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04You go in that new theatre, it's another world.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06I'd take you down the coastal park for a walk.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09- New shopping centre's down there. - You like that? - Yeah, it's really nice.
0:08:09 > 0:08:15- Aren't you proud of it?- Well, no, I'm proud I'm Welsh.- You're not proud of being Llanelli?- No.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19How come it's six below zero and he's dressed like that?
0:08:19 > 0:08:24- Because he's an idiot.- He is an idiot. That's his mother telling him to put a coat on.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28- What's good about Llanelli, cos I'm not from down here?- I prefer Carmarthen to be honest.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Do you? OK. See you, then. Take care.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Sorry.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37There we are.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Now, I didn't recognise this lady when I sat here.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43I haven't met her for years.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46- We did a radio programme from your house.- Yes, in Ebbw Vale.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49I remember that. It was filthy and full of strangers.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53- Do you like rock 'n' roll music? - Oh, yes, love it.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56We've got the greatest rock 'n' roller of all time coming on the stage now.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59Because this guy, three days ago was in a sell-out concert in Poland.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03But he's here tonight. Let's welcome the fantastic Shakin' Stevens.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22- # There's a fire down below - # There's a fire down below
0:09:22 > 0:09:26- # It's burning out of control now - # There's a fire down below
0:09:26 > 0:09:30# Man your battle stations, baby cos there's a fire down below
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- # There's a fire down below - # There's a fire down below
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- # There's a fire down below - # It's burning out of control now
0:09:37 > 0:09:40# There's a fire down below
0:09:40 > 0:09:44# Man your battle stations, baby cos there's a fire down below
0:09:44 > 0:09:46# There's a fire down below
0:09:46 > 0:09:50# Fight fire with fire love with love
0:09:50 > 0:09:53# You can feel the heat coming down from above
0:09:53 > 0:09:57# So come on now, baby I feel so good
0:09:57 > 0:10:00# Just do me up like you said you would
0:10:00 > 0:10:02- # I said smoking - Smoking
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- # Smoking - Smoking
0:10:04 > 0:10:05- # Burning - Burning
0:10:05 > 0:10:07- # Burning - Burning
0:10:07 > 0:10:08# Smoking, burning
0:10:08 > 0:10:10# Getting hotter and hotter
0:10:10 > 0:10:12# Hotter
0:10:12 > 0:10:15# Because there's a fire down below
0:10:15 > 0:10:16# There's a fire down below
0:10:16 > 0:10:20- # It's burning out of control now - There's a fire down below
0:10:20 > 0:10:22# Man your battle stations, baby
0:10:22 > 0:10:25# There's a fire down below
0:10:54 > 0:10:58# There's a fire down below
0:10:58 > 0:11:02# There's a fire down below
0:11:02 > 0:11:05# Oooh, ooooooh
0:11:11 > 0:11:14# I said smoking
0:11:15 > 0:11:18# Burning
0:11:18 > 0:11:20- # Smoking - Smoking
0:11:20 > 0:11:22- # Burning - Burning
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- # Smoking - Smoking
0:11:24 > 0:11:26- # Burning - Burning
0:11:26 > 0:11:27# Smoking, burning
0:11:27 > 0:11:29# Getting hotter and hotter
0:11:29 > 0:11:31# Hotter
0:11:31 > 0:11:33# Cos there's a fire down below
0:11:33 > 0:11:36- # There's a fire down below - It's burning out of control now
0:11:36 > 0:11:38# There's a fire down below
0:11:38 > 0:11:41# Man your battle stations, baby
0:11:41 > 0:11:43# There's a fire down below
0:11:43 > 0:11:45# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
0:11:45 > 0:11:48- # There's a fire down below - There's a fire down below
0:11:48 > 0:11:53- # Yeah, fire - There's a fire down below
0:11:53 > 0:11:54- # Fire - Fire
0:11:54 > 0:11:56- # Fire - Fire
0:11:56 > 0:11:58- # Fire - Fire
0:11:58 > 0:11:59- # Fire - Fire
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- # Fire - Fire
0:12:01 > 0:12:02- # Fire - Fire
0:12:02 > 0:12:05- # Fire - Fire
0:12:06 > 0:12:10# Aaaah, aaaah. #
0:12:21 > 0:12:26APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Thank you very much.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Well, as you know the programme is called Owen Money and friends.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36One of my oldest and dearest friends is here with me. Ruth Maddox.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41APPLAUSE
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Well, hello, campers, Owen, love.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- Oh, Hi-de-Hi.- Ho-de-Ho.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Three bags full and away we go.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Now listen, lovely boy.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54You're now known as the king of pantomime in Wales.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57- What do you like about it so much? - Well, the kids for me.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59They go into the theatre for the first time and they just love it.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01I don't really want to talk about it.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03I'd rather show you what it's all about.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Have a look at this from our production of Babes in the Wood
0:13:06 > 0:13:08at the Princess Royal in Port Talbot.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Well, well, well.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12What have we here?
0:13:14 > 0:13:18# Hey, you with the pretty face. #
0:13:18 > 0:13:20'In 2000, we decided to form our own theatre company,
0:13:20 > 0:13:25'and we took the pantomime out to all the smaller venues in Wales.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31'And it's great because we use a lot of, you know, traditional stuff.'
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- Oh, no, there wasn't. - AUDIENCE: Oh, yes, there was.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Let's have a look around.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40'You've got to have the comedy element, you know.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44'If something happens on the day, we'll put it in.'
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Anybody on income support, be careful.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48There's a camera over there!
0:13:48 > 0:13:51'We've got some great actors in Wales.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53'Dick Bradnum, who plays the Dame, he's never done panto before
0:13:53 > 0:13:57- 'and he's just taken it like a duck to water.'- Sink.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02'Sammy Rod, who came to me six or seven years ago.'
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Bring it on! 'I play Robin Hood.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09'I've been playing boy characters for Owen Money for seven years,
0:14:09 > 0:14:11so I went he thinks I'm a little bit manly.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- I want you to take the babes back to Nottingham Castle.- No!
0:14:14 > 0:14:19I actually met Owen when I was 11. I did his 'Just Up Your Street' show.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Since then, he's kind of reared me into the panto world and stuff.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- So every year, Christmas for me is panto.- Whoa!- Flipping heck!
0:14:26 > 0:14:28It's Barbie from Fairyland indeed.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32'Kids love to hear the modern songs in the panto.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37'I put things like Call Me Maybe in there. And Gangnam Style,
0:14:37 > 0:14:41'which is probably the greatest Christmas song that we've ever had.'
0:14:46 > 0:14:47# Oppa gangnam style. #
0:14:47 > 0:14:50'This is the first time a lot of these kids have seen live theatre,
0:14:50 > 0:14:53'the three and the four-year-olds have never been before.'
0:14:53 > 0:14:56- Where are you from, Bethany?- Skewen.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Skewen? Where's your shellsuit?
0:14:59 > 0:15:00LAUGHTER
0:15:00 > 0:15:06- What's your name?- Gabriel.- Gabriel. How old are you, Gabriel?- Three.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08AUDIENCE: Awww...
0:15:08 > 0:15:12- Three. Are you enjoying yourself? - Yeah.- Who's your favourite?
0:15:15 > 0:15:17GIGGLING
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- What's my name?- Grandpa.
0:15:25 > 0:15:26'Pantomime is a tradition,
0:15:26 > 0:15:30'and I think it's making a big comeback in theatres these days.
0:15:30 > 0:15:35'And it's magic. It is magic. It is.'
0:15:35 > 0:15:38# And live while we're young
0:15:38 > 0:15:40# Let's go baby, baby, baby... #
0:15:40 > 0:15:42APPLAUSE
0:15:45 > 0:15:48I'll tell you what, that little grandson of mine,
0:15:48 > 0:15:51I'm going to kill him one day, I tell you.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54But technology has moved on since I was a kid, you know what I mean?
0:15:54 > 0:16:01They've got iPhones, iPads, iPods. I bought my missus an iRon.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02LAUGHTER
0:16:04 > 0:16:07But these iPhones nowadays, you just touch the screen.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Years ago, remember you used to dial, and the red pill box,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13and we'd go and dial. Do you remember? Some of you remember.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Well, it was a long time ago.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18This guy phones this house up and a posh fella answered.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22He goes, "Hello." And the guy he phoned said, "Oh, hello, mate".
0:16:22 > 0:16:27"Is that 777 7777?" He said, "Yes, it is".
0:16:27 > 0:16:31"Can I help you?" He said, "Yeah. Could you phone 999 for me?
0:16:31 > 0:16:35"And tell somebody I got my finger stuck in seven."
0:16:35 > 0:16:37LAUGHTER
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Songs of the '60s. Remember them, girls?
0:16:44 > 0:16:45AUDIENCE: Yeah!
0:16:45 > 0:16:48When those dresses were new.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52The days when you could walk into the post office and buy a stamp.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56"Can I have a stamp, please?" You go in the post office now,
0:16:56 > 0:16:58the woman who's going to serve you, she's there.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02You can't go up to her any more. You've got to go this way. Have you noticed?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Then you go back around here, like that.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Then you watch a video for 20 minutes.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13I saw Die Hard last week in Merthyr.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19You've been in the post office 25 minutes and you've walked four miles.
0:17:19 > 0:17:21Back around here, like that.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25You get to the front of the queue and the woman goes, "Closed here".
0:17:26 > 0:17:29And you go, well, fancy that.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Do you know, I was in one of them and into the door comes a fella
0:17:35 > 0:17:41in a ski mask and a sawn-off shotgun. "All right." Welsh.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43"Nobody move. I've got a gun here, it's loaded,
0:17:43 > 0:17:46"and I'm going to rob you. Stay where you are."
0:17:46 > 0:17:48And the robber's over here like that.
0:17:51 > 0:17:52"Oh, Die Hard."
0:17:58 > 0:18:00And he sticks the gun in my back
0:18:00 > 0:18:02and he said, "Tell her to give me the money."
0:18:02 > 0:18:05So I goes, "Give him the money, love."
0:18:05 > 0:18:09Now this woman's from Pontypridd.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11She goes, "No, I'm on my break".
0:18:14 > 0:18:17"Forget your break. He has a gun in my back. Give him the money."
0:18:17 > 0:18:20"No, I'm not." "Give him the money." "No." "Give him the money!"
0:18:20 > 0:18:22"No!" Bang. The gun goes off, accidentally, right.
0:18:22 > 0:18:28The bullet goes in there, out there, into her heart. She's dead.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29It's a joke, love.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32LAUGHTER
0:18:32 > 0:18:36With that, there's a policeman going past with a takeaway.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41"Ah, damn, a robbery. It's going to get cold now, this is."
0:18:43 > 0:18:46"OK, the police are here now. Stay where you are.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49"I'm coming to arrest you." And the policeman's over here, like that.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54And he's back round here, like that. "Oh, Die Hard. I saw this."
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Back around here, like that. He comes round here, like that.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00And the policeman arrests me.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02I said, "What are you arresting me for?!" He said,
0:19:02 > 0:19:04"Well, it was through you that she got shot."
0:19:04 > 0:19:07APPLAUSE
0:19:18 > 0:19:20Right, now here's a young Welsh comedian who is
0:19:20 > 0:19:23a regular at London's famous Comedy Store.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25He is also a golfing partner of mine.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29I never realised how good a golfer I was until I played with him.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Let's enjoy the original humour of the great Mr Ron Woodward.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42Thank you very much. Thank you.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46Cheers. Wow! How good is this?
0:19:46 > 0:19:48We're living the dream. In Wales on St David's Day. Unbelievable.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52I live in little village in south Wales called Mackin. You know Mackin?
0:19:52 > 0:19:56Very close-knit, very cosy little village.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59I had no idea how cosy it was. I took a girl out from the village once.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03She took me home to meet her parents. And they were mine.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12That's an awkward moment. I get a lot of those.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14I was in the gym recently.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16We've got a lot of top Lions sportspeople in this room.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18But I'm in the gym, I'm minding my own business,
0:20:18 > 0:20:24and I gradually become aware of this 19-stone lobotomised beefcake,
0:20:24 > 0:20:27this valley commando, staring at me the whole time.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Eventually, he lumbers up, he swings over,
0:20:30 > 0:20:34and he looks at me in the face. He went, "Hey, hey.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37"I can bench press 200 kilos.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39"What can you do?"
0:20:39 > 0:20:42I said, "Well, I don't like to boast, really,
0:20:42 > 0:20:44"but I can read."
0:20:48 > 0:20:50You hear funny things in Wales all the time, don't you?
0:20:50 > 0:20:54You can't believe what you hear. "Cup of tea? Cup of tea?"
0:20:54 > 0:20:56"Only if you're making one."
0:21:01 > 0:21:02How else are you going to have one?
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Sometimes you can't even get a straight answer, can you?
0:21:05 > 0:21:06"Cup of tea?
0:21:06 > 0:21:07"Ohhh...
0:21:09 > 0:21:10"I wouldn't say no."
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Well, say yes, then. Isn't it? You know.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16My wife is doing it.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Come out the house today, I said, "Did you put the alarm on?"
0:21:18 > 0:21:21"Ooh," she said. "I want to say yes."
0:21:21 > 0:21:23I said, "Well, don't let me stop you.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25"Cos then I won't have to go back and check."
0:21:25 > 0:21:27I phoned the hotel tonight, I tried to get a room.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28I said, "Have you got a room?"
0:21:28 > 0:21:30She said, "We're very busy. It's St David's Day.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32"But let me have a look on the system,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35"and I'll see if I can't find you a room."
0:21:35 > 0:21:38I said, "Well, why don't you look to see if you can find me a room?"
0:21:40 > 0:21:43"That would save us both a lot of messing about, to be fair."
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Everybody is turning around now in Wales as well.
0:21:46 > 0:21:47When did that start?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49"She turned round and said that. I couldn't believe it."
0:21:52 > 0:21:54"So I turned round and said this..."
0:21:54 > 0:21:58"I saw the bank manager. He turned round, he said, "We're not giving out loans."
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Then he turned round and said, "You can have a loan."
0:22:00 > 0:22:02He must have gone like that. "You can have a loan."
0:22:03 > 0:22:06I thought, "One good turn deserves another. Thank you very much."
0:22:10 > 0:22:12How often do you hear these stupid things? Every day.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14"You going on holiday?" That's a belter, isn't it?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16"You going on holiday." "Yes."
0:22:16 > 0:22:17"Anywhere nice?"
0:22:20 > 0:22:21"No, no, no."
0:22:23 > 0:22:25"We went somewhere nice last year, and it wasn't for me,
0:22:25 > 0:22:27"to be fair, so...
0:22:28 > 0:22:31"We're going somewhere crap this year."
0:22:31 > 0:22:34You've been an absolute pleasure. Hope you had a good time tonight.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36Happy St David's Day to you. Thank you.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Well, absolutely brilliant. Rod Woodward there. Love it.
0:22:47 > 0:22:48From one funnyman to another,
0:22:48 > 0:22:51a great work colleague of mine at Radio Wales for many years,
0:22:51 > 0:22:52Roy Noble's here.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:22:57 > 0:22:59From one valley boy to another.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Yeah, well, you know, being from a western valley
0:23:02 > 0:23:04- and now nearer Merthyr Tydfil, as it were.- Oh, yes.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Where did it all start for you, then?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Because Merthyr is very close to that ticker.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12Yes, very close to my heart, actually, and no matter where I go,
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- I always tell them I'm from Merthyr.- Yes.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17And actually, I went back to Merthyr just last week
0:23:17 > 0:23:20to find out how the town had changed.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21- Oh, really?- Yes.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27I was brought up in the bottom end of town, at the fountain area,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29lower high street, and I lived in a pub
0:23:29 > 0:23:32right opposite the fountain called the Royal Oak,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35for the first ten years of my life. See that there? That's the fountain.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37It's moved from where it was when I was born.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39My godmother lived in that shop there,
0:23:39 > 0:23:41The Fountain Tuck Shop in those days.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Where that hedge is there is my dad's pub,
0:23:43 > 0:23:46and this is where I made my singing debut.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47I was a choirboy here.
0:23:47 > 0:23:50My mother made me go. I hated it. I still can't sing.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53But I love this area. Are you all from this area?
0:23:53 > 0:23:54ALL: Yeah.
0:23:54 > 0:23:56All from the Caedraw flats.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58We've got a few from the Caedraw flats.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00Where are you going today, then?
0:24:00 > 0:24:03We're doing a walk of our local area to find all the important buildings.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04Are you going to the old courthouse?
0:24:04 > 0:24:07You might end up there one day. It's now the Merthyr Labour Club.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08Go there on a Friday night
0:24:08 > 0:24:10with your boyfriends and your girlfriends.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12LAUGHTER
0:24:12 > 0:24:14You can tell he's a comedian!
0:24:14 > 0:24:16OWEN LAUGHS
0:24:16 > 0:24:18How are you, bud? All right? Good. How are you?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Caedraw School is on one side of the road.
0:24:20 > 0:24:21You go on the other side of the road,
0:24:21 > 0:24:23under the railway bridge, and there it is,
0:24:23 > 0:24:25then Merthyr Labour Club.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27I was a steward here in the Merthyr Labour Club,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29and the original Labour Club was the courthouse.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31It was built in 1150,
0:24:31 > 0:24:35and David there was a foreman on the site when they built it.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37How are you, bud?
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- What happened to you, Dave? - I don't know. Hard life.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Known you too long, I think!
0:24:47 > 0:24:48THEY LAUGH
0:24:48 > 0:24:50He's my best mate!
0:24:50 > 0:24:52All right, bud? Good boy.
0:24:53 > 0:24:54Merthyr's changed a lot, actually.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57You can't drive up the middle of the town any more.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00My father-in-law at the time, he was a fruit and veg wholesaler.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't have had
0:25:02 > 0:25:05the personality that I've got now,
0:25:05 > 0:25:07because he used to make me go out and sell things
0:25:07 > 0:25:09and there was a way of selling things.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11- You selling the fruit, bud? - Still here.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13- All the weight gone?- Most of it.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14I've given it to you.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Aye, it's still there, isn't it?
0:25:17 > 0:25:21A lot of factories in theatre, like Triang and Hoover, of course.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24I worked in Hoover as a forklift driver. Had a great time there.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Likes my heart to see it closed, to be honest.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29When I was here, there were about 6,000 people working here.
0:25:29 > 0:25:30It was at that time, when I was in Hoover,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33that I started playing in cabaret and comedy bands,
0:25:33 > 0:25:37and that's really when my career started to take off as a comedian.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40This is my mate Jeff Lewis, and we'd been friends for years,
0:25:40 > 0:25:42but whereas my memorabilia,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44I don't know where it is, he's kept all of his.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47There is a photograph of me there when I was 17 years of age.
0:25:47 > 0:25:48It was The Bystanders,
0:25:48 > 0:25:51the first-ever photo of The Bystanders. Brilliant.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53I'm looking across here, and this is Good News.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55They were a great comedy band.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57And down the bottom there, Sir Tom Foolery.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01There's Jeff, and there's me.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03During the '70s, you know, we did a lot of work with Tom Foolery,
0:26:03 > 0:26:05topped the bill on the South Pier of Blackpool,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08but I was missing Merthyr. I hadn't seen the football boys for ages.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11My beloved Merthyr AFC. Fantastic.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13And of course, the biggest night of our life
0:26:13 > 0:26:15was when we played Atalanta Bergamo,
0:26:15 > 0:26:19and Kevin Rogers scored our first goal in that one there.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21'It is Rogers.'
0:26:21 > 0:26:23CROWD CHEER
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Ceri Williams, or George as he is known to everybody,
0:26:26 > 0:26:28hit a free kick here...
0:26:31 > 0:26:33..which sort of deflected off one of their players,
0:26:33 > 0:26:35and we won 2-1.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37It was fantastic.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39We were on Match Of The Day and things like that.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Merthyr was really on the map in those days,
0:26:41 > 0:26:43and we had a great side.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46APPLAUSE
0:26:46 > 0:26:49well, actually, with me tonight are the surviving members -
0:26:49 > 0:26:50they're all still alive, I think -
0:26:50 > 0:26:53but actually, we've got about eight or nine here.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56The Merthyr winning team of 1987, and I have the manager with me,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59- Lyn Jones. Great memories, Lyn. - Yeah, superb.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01It was a superb night, and we thoroughly enjoyed the win.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03You haven't changed a bit, you haven't, at all.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04I've got to be honest.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08I wish I could say the same about your team, I've got to be honest.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11And George behind you, Ceri. You scored the winning goal.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Any memories of that?
0:27:13 > 0:27:14Yeah, it was...
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- Speak up, bud, you're on telly. - I've got a sore throat!
0:27:17 > 0:27:19No, we had a good side,
0:27:19 > 0:27:23and we did well for a couple of years, and...
0:27:23 > 0:27:24Are you still playing?
0:27:24 > 0:27:26- No.- You don't play any more.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28But it was a night we'll never forget in Merthyr.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30- We'll never forget. - Give them a big round of applause,
0:27:30 > 0:27:34the team of '87. Merthyr Tydfil Football Club.
0:27:34 > 0:27:35APPLAUSE
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Time for a little bit of glamour now.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40A young lady from Tonypandy who recently starred as Dorothy
0:27:40 > 0:27:42in The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium
0:27:42 > 0:27:45and is soon to make her film debut in a film by Simon Pegg
0:27:45 > 0:27:48called The World's End, tonight singing Save The World.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Let's welcome the lovely Sophie Evans.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54APPLAUSE
0:28:13 > 0:28:15# Into the streets
0:28:15 > 0:28:18# We're coming down
0:28:18 > 0:28:20# We never sleep
0:28:20 > 0:28:22# Never get tired
0:28:22 > 0:28:24# Through urban fields
0:28:24 > 0:28:27# And suburban lights
0:28:28 > 0:28:31# Turn the crowd up now
0:28:31 > 0:28:33# We'll never back down
0:28:33 > 0:28:35# Shoot down the skyline
0:28:35 > 0:28:37# Watch it on primetime
0:28:37 > 0:28:39# Turn up the love now
0:28:39 > 0:28:44# Listen up now, turn up the love
0:28:45 > 0:28:52# Who's gonna save the world tonight?
0:28:53 > 0:29:00# Who's gonna bring it back to life?
0:29:01 > 0:29:08# We're gonna make it, you and I
0:29:09 > 0:29:16# Who's gonna save the world tonight?
0:29:18 > 0:29:20# Oh-oh-oh
0:29:20 > 0:29:25# Oh-oh-oh-oh
0:29:26 > 0:29:29# Oh-oh-oh
0:29:29 > 0:29:32# Oh-oh-oh-oh
0:29:36 > 0:29:38# We're far from home
0:29:38 > 0:29:40# It's for the better
0:29:40 > 0:29:44# What we dream It's all that matters
0:29:44 > 0:29:47# We're on our way, united
0:29:49 > 0:29:52# Turn the crowd up now
0:29:52 > 0:29:54# We'll never back down
0:29:54 > 0:29:56# Shoot down the skyline
0:29:56 > 0:29:58# Watch it on primetime
0:29:58 > 0:30:00# Turn up the love now
0:30:00 > 0:30:04# Listen up now, turn up the love
0:30:05 > 0:30:13# Who's gonna save the world tonight?
0:30:13 > 0:30:19# Who's gonna bring it back to life?
0:30:21 > 0:30:27# We're gonna make it, you and I
0:30:29 > 0:30:35# Who's gonna save the world tonight?
0:30:37 > 0:30:39# Oh-oh-oh
0:30:39 > 0:30:42# Oh-oh-oh-oh
0:30:44 > 0:30:46# Oh-oh-oh
0:30:46 > 0:30:50# Oh-oh-oh-oh
0:30:52 > 0:30:54# Oh-oh-oh
0:30:54 > 0:30:58# Oh-oh-oh-oh
0:30:59 > 0:31:01# Oh-oh-oh
0:31:01 > 0:31:06# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
0:31:06 > 0:31:13# We're gonna make it, you and I
0:31:14 > 0:31:22# We're gonna save the world tonight. #
0:31:25 > 0:31:28APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:31:37 > 0:31:40Well, that was wonderful. Sophie Evans there, of course.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44Now, there's a great friend of mine from Mynydd-y-garreg, Mari Gravell.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Married to my great friend Ray Gravell.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49And what was it like being married
0:31:49 > 0:31:54to probably the most iconic Welshman of all time?
0:31:54 > 0:31:58- And the craziest. - Yeah, well, crazy.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00You're possibly right there, Owen.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03But, well, what can I say? What can I say?
0:32:03 > 0:32:04There's nothing much you can say.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08Because people like Gareth and the boys, they played with Grav
0:32:08 > 0:32:11for many years, but we had him for like 20 years.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13You ask Roy Noble about it.
0:32:13 > 0:32:16He was on Radio Wales for 20 years, and when he came up the steps,
0:32:16 > 0:32:18we always used to go the other way,
0:32:18 > 0:32:20because we could never get to work if he talked to us!
0:32:20 > 0:32:22But he knew everybody at the BBC,
0:32:22 > 0:32:24even the guy who emptied the bins, the toilets,
0:32:24 > 0:32:26he was just absolutely brilliant.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29And actually, one of the funniest things
0:32:29 > 0:32:32I ever did on radio was on one Wednesday afternoon,
0:32:32 > 0:32:34I'm doing the afternoon programme,
0:32:34 > 0:32:37and Grav unwittingly came into my studio,
0:32:37 > 0:32:40thinking there was no-one there, and he started talking to me.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Have a listen to this.
0:32:43 > 0:32:44'Sit down.'
0:32:44 > 0:32:48LOUD LAUGHTER
0:32:48 > 0:32:49'I thought it was in here.'
0:32:49 > 0:32:51'Get in there. Sit over there. Sit there.'
0:32:51 > 0:32:55'Grav, everything stops for you.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57- 'You're in my act.' - 'Owen. Oh, crikey.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59'Crikey. How are you, then?'
0:32:59 > 0:33:01'I'm very well. What are you doing in here then, Grav?
0:33:01 > 0:33:03'I'm late! I've got to record!'
0:33:03 > 0:33:05LAUGHTER
0:33:05 > 0:33:07- 'What are you recording?' - 'Well, usually I record here.'
0:33:07 > 0:33:10'No, no, we're live on air here, man.'
0:33:10 > 0:33:11'What day is it?'
0:33:11 > 0:33:14LAUGHTER
0:33:14 > 0:33:16'I've got the wrong day!'
0:33:16 > 0:33:19LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
0:33:19 > 0:33:23APPLAUSE
0:33:23 > 0:33:26Well... a lot of people don't know what happened after that,
0:33:26 > 0:33:29but he went out of the studio, and about ten minutes later,
0:33:29 > 0:33:31he came back in. And he opened the door, he said,
0:33:31 > 0:33:35"Owen, right day, wrong studio."
0:33:35 > 0:33:38APPLAUSE
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Mari, thank you so much for coming in today,
0:33:40 > 0:33:43and we miss him dearly, as I know you do as well,
0:33:43 > 0:33:45and he was a great rugby player,
0:33:45 > 0:33:47but we've got a few more great rugby players now,
0:33:47 > 0:33:51because 40 years ago this year, actually, January of 1973,
0:33:51 > 0:33:52they say was the best try ever,
0:33:52 > 0:33:54but there were better ones in Ponty in places,
0:33:54 > 0:33:57but there was no cameras there, were there, you know?
0:33:57 > 0:33:58Have a look at this.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01- COMMENTATOR:- This is great stuff. Phil Bennett covering.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Chased by Alistair Scown.
0:34:07 > 0:34:08Brilliant.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Oh, that's brilliant!
0:34:10 > 0:34:13John Williams, Brian Williams, Pullin.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15John Dawes.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17Great dummy.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21David, Tom David. The halfway line.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23Brilliant by Quinnell.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26This is Gareth Edwards, a dramatic start.
0:34:27 > 0:34:28What a score!
0:34:28 > 0:34:32CROWD ROARS
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Oh, that fellow Edwards!
0:34:36 > 0:34:38APPLAUSE
0:34:38 > 0:34:42Well, and some of those great rugby legends are here with us tonight,
0:34:42 > 0:34:45so please welcome on stage, Gareth Edwards!
0:34:45 > 0:34:46APPLAUSE
0:34:46 > 0:34:47Phil Bennett!
0:34:49 > 0:34:51Tom David!
0:34:52 > 0:34:54And John Dawes!
0:34:59 > 0:35:00John-boy.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04Gareth, thanks for coming, mate.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06I tell you what, you're looking fantastic...
0:35:06 > 0:35:07Sorry, Tom.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09LAUGHTER
0:35:09 > 0:35:12Looking great. The memories of that must be great.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15Well, to think that it still lives with us today 40 years later.
0:35:15 > 0:35:16- 40 years.- I can't believe it.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19I just turned to Pat there and I just said to her now, I said,
0:35:19 > 0:35:22"Well, we've got a lot to thank Phil for, haven't we?"
0:35:22 > 0:35:25She said, "You never said that 40 years ago." Cos I said,
0:35:25 > 0:35:28"What's he doing now, for God's sake?"
0:35:28 > 0:35:30Kick it or touch, I wanted him to do.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32It's funny, Owen, you know.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34So many things could have gone wrong,
0:35:34 > 0:35:36because we were lucky enough to beat the All Blacks
0:35:36 > 0:35:39here in Llanelli 9-3 earlier on that tour,
0:35:39 > 0:35:41and I think the people here remember that.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43APPLAUSE
0:35:43 > 0:35:44Got to get it in, haven't you?
0:35:44 > 0:35:47You know, when I saw Alistair Scown coming at me,
0:35:47 > 0:35:49I thought, "Well, I'll beat him, that's easy."
0:35:49 > 0:35:52But I didn't realise Kirkpatrick and a few others were coming behind.
0:35:52 > 0:35:54So I threw a hospital pass out to JPR Williams.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57I know he's a great player. And it ended up with Gareth scoring.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00Absolutely. Tommy, it's lovely to see you here.
0:36:00 > 0:36:01One of my great friends of mine.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03Tommy, you know, you grow old gracefully,
0:36:03 > 0:36:05but what happened to you, bud?
0:36:05 > 0:36:08LAUGHTER
0:36:08 > 0:36:10It's a try that will live in your memory for ever, was it?
0:36:10 > 0:36:12Yeah, I was a very lucky man, actually,
0:36:12 > 0:36:15and as we all know, the try is history.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18It went through seven great pairs of hands, and the only thing
0:36:18 > 0:36:21I can never understand, why people get so excited.
0:36:21 > 0:36:25- Because we practiced that most of the previous day.- Aye, right!
0:36:25 > 0:36:26LAUGHTER
0:36:26 > 0:36:29And John, you probably carried the ball longer than anybody there,
0:36:29 > 0:36:32I suppose. You sold a dummy as well?
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Well, I don't think I sold a dummy.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37In fact, I was convinced I hadn't sold a dummy
0:36:37 > 0:36:39until I saw the commentary afterwards,
0:36:39 > 0:36:42and Cliff Morgan said I sold a dummy, and so I sold a dummy!
0:36:42 > 0:36:43LAUGHTER
0:36:43 > 0:36:46Well, something special's going to happen here tonight,
0:36:46 > 0:36:49because we're going to re-enact that very try on stage here!
0:36:49 > 0:36:51LAUGHTER
0:36:51 > 0:36:53We've got a nice cushion landing
0:36:53 > 0:36:56for you when you do the full-length...
0:36:56 > 0:36:57It'll be all right, don't worry.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00So, we are a couple short, unfortunately, who couldn't make it,
0:37:00 > 0:37:02so we got a couple of stand-ins,
0:37:02 > 0:37:05so let's welcome Roy Noble and Sophie back on stage.
0:37:05 > 0:37:09Come on, boys and girls. Sophie Evans.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12APPLAUSE
0:37:13 > 0:37:17- Fabulous.- At last, at last! - At last, fame and fortune.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20Now, Roy is going to be JPR Williams.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22He looks a bit like him, doesn't he?
0:37:22 > 0:37:25And Sophie, you're going to be the English member, John Pullin.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28All right? In fact, you're the first English international
0:37:28 > 0:37:30I've ever fancied, I've got to be honest!
0:37:30 > 0:37:33LAUGHTER
0:37:33 > 0:37:34So, what we're going to try and do now
0:37:34 > 0:37:38is do this to the commentary, right?
0:37:38 > 0:37:42So I'm going to put everybody in the order they passed the ball.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45So, Benny, you're going to have to go over there first.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47Roy, you're OK, you haven't got to run far. You're next to him.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49You are JPR.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51And next to you is John Pullin. You were there.
0:37:51 > 0:37:55Now, John Dawes, you come next to John Pullin,
0:37:55 > 0:37:56who looks like Sophie.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01And then, you pass it to me, because I'm going to be Derek Quinnell.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04And I never thought I'd ever do this -
0:38:04 > 0:38:06pass a ball to Gareth Edwards and score.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09APPLAUSE
0:38:09 > 0:38:11Right, here we go then. Get ready.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15'This is great stuff. Phil Bennett covering.
0:38:18 > 0:38:22'Chased by Alistair Scown. Brilliant.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24'Oh, that's brilliant!
0:38:24 > 0:38:26'John Williams. Brian Williams.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28'Pullin.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31'John Dawes. Great dummy.'
0:38:31 > 0:38:33That was the dummy!
0:38:33 > 0:38:35'David, Tom David. The halfway line.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38'Brilliant by Quinnell.
0:38:38 > 0:38:39'This is Gareth Edwards!'
0:38:39 > 0:38:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE DROWNS COMMENTARY
0:38:48 > 0:38:49Oh, brilliant.
0:38:49 > 0:38:51Well, there we are.
0:38:51 > 0:38:52I thought that was fantastic.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55I'd like to think Roy for standing in, and Sophie.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57Give them two a big round of applause.
0:38:57 > 0:38:58APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:38:58 > 0:39:01And the four Welsh Barbarians!
0:39:07 > 0:39:11Right, now, we've got three familiar faces.
0:39:11 > 0:39:12We saw you earlier on in the show -
0:39:12 > 0:39:15Sammi Broad, Sule Rimi and Richard Shackley,
0:39:15 > 0:39:18who work for me in my pantomime company.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20ALL: Oh, no, we don't!
0:39:20 > 0:39:21LAUGHTER
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Oh, yes, you do!
0:39:23 > 0:39:26Anyway, Sammi, you're going to talk about Just Up Your Street,
0:39:26 > 0:39:29- aren't you?- I am. I did it when I was 11 years old.
0:39:29 > 0:39:32That was my first TV spot, and I was absolutely petrified.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35I think I had a bit of a bad hair day that day.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38I think I got bullied in school the next day quite horrendously.
0:39:38 > 0:39:41I had a bouffant going on. It was bad!
0:39:41 > 0:39:44But yeah, I was worried and I was nervous,
0:39:44 > 0:39:46but you really guided me through,
0:39:46 > 0:39:48and then looked after me for the rest of the time.
0:39:48 > 0:39:49Just Up Your Street -
0:39:49 > 0:39:51we went all over Wales looking for talent,
0:39:51 > 0:39:53and we discovered some real gems.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55# Let's get it started
0:39:55 > 0:39:57# Let's get it started
0:39:57 > 0:39:59'First company was always just a showcase,
0:39:59 > 0:40:02'and then we started having competitions.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05'And in fact, this was way before the X Factor
0:40:05 > 0:40:09'and we used to do live auditions and we used to film them.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12'I always wanted to do a talent show because I've always believed
0:40:12 > 0:40:14'we've got great talent in Wales.
0:40:14 > 0:40:18'It was at a time when there was just no talent shows on television.'
0:40:18 > 0:40:23# Oh, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya... #
0:40:23 > 0:40:26Get down my street, baby!
0:40:26 > 0:40:27LAUGHTER
0:40:27 > 0:40:30# In my heart there will always be a place... #
0:40:30 > 0:40:32'You never knew what you were going to get
0:40:32 > 0:40:35'when you went to the auditions. You got really talented singers...'
0:40:35 > 0:40:39# I'll keep a part of you with me... #
0:40:39 > 0:40:42'And you'd have somebody who maybe wasn't quite as good a singer,
0:40:42 > 0:40:45'but looked great and you wanted them to be better than they were.'
0:40:45 > 0:40:48#I don't miss it all that much
0:40:48 > 0:40:50# There's just so many things
0:40:50 > 0:40:52# That I can't touch I'm torn. #
0:40:52 > 0:40:55'Then you'd have some who just couldn't shut up.'
0:40:55 > 0:40:57# Yes I'm glad all over
0:40:57 > 0:41:00# Baby, I'm glad all over to glad your mind... #
0:41:00 > 0:41:01'And then we had some...'
0:41:01 > 0:41:02# My loneliness... #
0:41:02 > 0:41:05- '..were unbelievable.' - # ..is killing me...#
0:41:05 > 0:41:08- LAUGHTER - # And I...
0:41:08 > 0:41:12# I must confess, I still believe
0:41:12 > 0:41:13# Still believe...
0:41:13 > 0:41:16# Hit me, baby, one more... #
0:41:16 > 0:41:19- SHE RAPS - # Dum, dum, dum... With the remix and a bump and flex... #
0:41:19 > 0:41:21LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:41:21 > 0:41:22# ...Time. #
0:41:22 > 0:41:25LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES
0:41:25 > 0:41:28Oh, brilliant. Can't believe it, she's brilliant.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31And believe it or not, she's here with us tonight.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34Sarah Jane Farthing, what a performance that was.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37I thought it was my big break. What happened there?
0:41:37 > 0:41:38Did you make it as a singer after?
0:41:38 > 0:41:41Er... No, the singing career flopped, unfortunately.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43But you work in TV now as well, don't you?
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Yes, I'm doing photography and freelance in television,
0:41:46 > 0:41:47so, no more singing for me.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Well, you made it through the door, that's the main thing.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53Sarah Jane Farthing, everybody, wasn't she brilliant? Yes.
0:41:53 > 0:41:54APPLAUSE
0:41:56 > 0:41:59Right now, Sarah, you should listen to my next act,
0:41:59 > 0:42:01because I think he's probably the best tenor
0:42:01 > 0:42:04Wales has produced in many, many years.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07Singing tonight, along with the Llanelli male voice choir,
0:42:07 > 0:42:08Wynne Evans.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14# Pa ham mae dicter
0:42:14 > 0:42:18# O Myfanwy
0:42:19 > 0:42:28# Yn llenwi'th lygaid duon di?
0:42:28 > 0:42:34# A'th ruddiau tirion, O Myfanwy
0:42:36 > 0:42:42# Heb wrido wrth fy ngweled i?
0:42:43 > 0:42:51# Pa le mae'r wen oedd ar dy wefus
0:42:52 > 0:42:59# Fu'n cynnau 'nghariad ffyddlon ffol?
0:42:59 > 0:43:05# Pa le mae sain
0:43:05 > 0:43:10# Dy eiriau melys
0:43:12 > 0:43:20# Fu'n denu'n nghalon ar dy ol?
0:43:23 > 0:43:24PIANO MUSIC
0:43:33 > 0:43:38# Why is it anger
0:43:38 > 0:43:42# O Myfanwy
0:43:43 > 0:43:50# That fills your eyes so dark and clear?
0:43:53 > 0:44:01# Your gentle cheeks O sweet Myfanwy
0:44:02 > 0:44:10# Why blush they not when I draw near?
0:44:13 > 0:44:21# Where is that smile that once most tender
0:44:23 > 0:44:28# Kindled my love
0:44:28 > 0:44:31# So fond so true?
0:44:33 > 0:44:39# Where is the sound
0:44:39 > 0:44:46# Of your sweet words
0:44:46 > 0:44:51# That drew my heart
0:44:51 > 0:44:55# To follow you? #
0:44:58 > 0:45:07# Myfanwy boed yr holl o'th fywyd
0:45:08 > 0:45:15# Dan heulwen disglair canol dydd
0:45:16 > 0:45:24# A boed I rosyn gwridog ienctid
0:45:26 > 0:45:33# I ddawnsio ganmlwydd Ar dy rudd... #
0:45:35 > 0:45:42# Aug hofiar oll o'th add ewidion
0:45:44 > 0:45:51# A wnest I rywun 'ngeneth ddel
0:45:53 > 0:45:59# A rho dy law
0:45:59 > 0:46:05# Myfanwy dirion
0:46:06 > 0:46:14# I ddim ond dweud y gair...
0:46:16 > 0:46:20# Ffarwel... #
0:46:26 > 0:46:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:46:30 > 0:46:32WHISTLING
0:46:39 > 0:46:42Wynne Evans, everybody! Wynne Evans!
0:46:42 > 0:46:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES
0:46:44 > 0:46:46Wynne. Wynno!
0:46:46 > 0:46:48- Wynne. - LAUGHTER
0:46:50 > 0:46:53I did have a couple of encores planned, but clearly not.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55I thought that was Curtis for you, to be honest.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57Actually I've got to pick a bone with you,
0:46:57 > 0:47:00because I've just been backstage and seen
0:47:00 > 0:47:02- Shakin' Stevens' backing group... - Aye.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04- Three lovely young girls. - Oh, aye.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07I get the cast of Dad's Army.
0:47:07 > 0:47:08LAUGHTER
0:47:08 > 0:47:10And the last time I saw Curtis like that,
0:47:10 > 0:47:13I never saw my Uncle Charlie again...
0:47:13 > 0:47:14LAUGHTER
0:47:16 > 0:47:18Anyway, it's lovely to see you.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21Now, I knew your mum and dad very well from the Lyric in Carmarthen.
0:47:21 > 0:47:25- Is that where it started for you? - It did, yes. When I was a little boy.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27- I literally... - That's a few years ago!
0:47:27 > 0:47:29LAUGHTER
0:47:29 > 0:47:32- It's all paid for now.- I know.- Um...
0:47:32 > 0:47:35I literally grew up in the Lyric in Carmarthen
0:47:35 > 0:47:39and when I was a little boy, I used to play the keyboard in a band
0:47:39 > 0:47:41and entertain the children on Saturday morning.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43I was like Mickey Rooney in my own little theatre.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45What's it like being the annoying tenor
0:47:45 > 0:47:47on that television advert?
0:47:47 > 0:47:50- How many have you done altogether? - Oh, about 30-odd.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52- 30-odd.- Yes. - Any funny stories about any of them?
0:47:52 > 0:47:55Once this woman said when she was interviewing me,
0:47:55 > 0:47:58she said, "Tell me, how long did it take to grow that moustache?"
0:47:58 > 0:48:00LAUGHTER I said...
0:48:00 > 0:48:01I said, "You know what, love?"
0:48:01 > 0:48:04I said, "The moustache is not real." And she said, "Oh, right..."
0:48:04 > 0:48:07"How long does it take to get into that massive fat suit then?"
0:48:07 > 0:48:09LAUGHTER
0:48:11 > 0:48:14Brilliant. Everybody, Wynne Evans! What a great star this man is.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:48:19 > 0:48:22Right. In this next item, I've got to change my attire,
0:48:22 > 0:48:25so, you're coming on, boyo Bert! He's from North Wales,
0:48:25 > 0:48:28you see, they make clothes up there not to fit them.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31There. That's it, thank you very much, Bert. All right.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34What's it like to use a mobile phone? That's great, isn't it yes?
0:48:34 > 0:48:37Right, now I wrote a song with a mate of mine
0:48:37 > 0:48:39just...about eight or nine years ago.
0:48:39 > 0:48:42In fact, it's had nearly a million hits on YouTube.
0:48:42 > 0:48:45The song's called The Difference Between English And The Welsh,
0:48:45 > 0:48:49and to help me sing it is my mate and co-writer, Lloyd Davies!
0:48:49 > 0:48:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:48:53 > 0:48:55Thank you, boy.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59- Tell them what it's all about. - Well, that's right,
0:48:59 > 0:49:02I'm sure all the Welsh people in the audience will bear us out
0:49:02 > 0:49:06tonight that we don't speak the same way in Wales as they do in England.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09No, they don't talk tidy like we does down here.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11- LAUGHTER What?- Yes.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14Well, anyway, we wrote this song and it goes like this.
0:49:14 > 0:49:15PIANO MUSIC STARTS
0:49:18 > 0:49:21- BOTH:- # Have you ever thought of the differences
0:49:21 > 0:49:22# Of the English and the Welsh?
0:49:22 > 0:49:27# Well if you never have I think I've found a few myself
0:49:27 > 0:49:29# La, la, la, la... #
0:49:29 > 0:49:32We want you to do that, right? Try it.
0:49:32 > 0:49:36- AUDIENCE:- # La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la... #- Let's do it.
0:49:36 > 0:49:38Don't you sing, love.
0:49:38 > 0:49:39LAUGHTER
0:49:39 > 0:49:42Sarah, don't you sing either, love.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44Here we go.
0:49:44 > 0:49:45# Well, they say food
0:49:45 > 0:49:47# We say grub
0:49:47 > 0:49:48# They go down the restaurant
0:49:48 > 0:49:50# We go down the pub
0:49:50 > 0:49:52- # They eat rolls - We eat baps
0:49:52 > 0:49:53# They wear trainers
0:49:53 > 0:49:55# We wear daps
0:49:55 > 0:49:59- ALL:- # La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la...
0:49:59 > 0:50:01- # They say skinny - And we say thinner
0:50:01 > 0:50:04- # When they have lunch - We have dinner
0:50:04 > 0:50:06# When they are enjoying they say "what fun"
0:50:06 > 0:50:09# And the Welsh they say bloody tidy, man
0:50:09 > 0:50:13# Have you ever thought of the differences of the English and Welsh?
0:50:13 > 0:50:18# If you never have I think I've found a few myself
0:50:18 > 0:50:22# La la la-la-la la la
0:50:22 > 0:50:24# We got Glamorgan
0:50:24 > 0:50:25# They've got Surrey
0:50:25 > 0:50:29- # They have an evening meal - We go for a curry
0:50:29 > 0:50:31- # They have an operation - We have an op
0:50:31 > 0:50:33# They got Harrods
0:50:33 > 0:50:34# We've got the Co-op
0:50:34 > 0:50:36# La la la la... #
0:50:36 > 0:50:38A verse for the English.
0:50:38 > 0:50:41- # We go to comp - They go to school
0:50:41 > 0:50:42# They play cricket
0:50:42 > 0:50:43# We play pool
0:50:43 > 0:50:45# They say crash out
0:50:45 > 0:50:46# We say sleep
0:50:46 > 0:50:47# They've got girlfriends
0:50:47 > 0:50:49# We've got sheep
0:50:49 > 0:50:52# La la la-la-la la la la
0:50:55 > 0:50:58- # We drink squash - They drink crush
0:50:58 > 0:51:01- # They had Gary Lineker - We had Ian Rush
0:51:01 > 0:51:05- # They've got Brighton - We've got Porthcawl... #
0:51:05 > 0:51:08CHEERING
0:51:08 > 0:51:10- # All them are loaded - We got bugger all
0:51:10 > 0:51:15# Have you ever thought of the differences between the English and the Welsh?
0:51:15 > 0:51:22# If you never have I think I found a few myself
0:51:22 > 0:51:25# That's all the differences of the English and the Welsh. #
0:51:25 > 0:51:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:51:35 > 0:51:38Absolutely brilliant.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40I've watched you for many years on the TV
0:51:40 > 0:51:43and you have travelled over to America.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46In fact, I was in New Orleans six months ago.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48They are very friendly, the Americans.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51This guy said, "Hi." I said, "How's it going?"
0:51:51 > 0:51:54Where you from? I said "Merthyr Tydfil".
0:51:54 > 0:51:56He said, "What state's that in?"
0:51:56 > 0:51:58I said, "A better state than this, I tell you!"
0:51:58 > 0:52:01LAUGHTER
0:52:01 > 0:52:04When you were over there, did you meet your rock'n'roll heroes?
0:52:04 > 0:52:08I did a fantastic series called American Money. Have a look at this.
0:52:14 > 0:52:17'One of the most satisfying things I ever did for BBC television
0:52:17 > 0:52:22'was a rock'n'roll series about the music of America from the '60s and the '50s
0:52:22 > 0:52:26'I met some great people like Dion Dimucci and the Mamas and the Papas.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28'I met the Temptations
0:52:28 > 0:52:31'but I think the interview that stands out for me
0:52:31 > 0:52:34'was when I met Carl Perkins. You may well think who's Carl Perkins?
0:52:34 > 0:52:38'When you realise what he wrote, you know why I'm so proud of it.'
0:52:38 > 0:52:41Actually, this is the last interview anybody did with him
0:52:41 > 0:52:43because, the following week, he passed away.
0:52:43 > 0:52:44He was such a lovely man.
0:52:44 > 0:52:49I had watched this couple and how good they could dance together.
0:52:49 > 0:52:53As I finished the song, they were right in front of the bandstand
0:52:53 > 0:52:57and he said, "Don't step on my suedes."
0:52:57 > 0:52:59I did not get that out of my mind.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01I went home and I was lying there awake
0:53:01 > 0:53:03and I thought of the old nursery rhyme
0:53:03 > 0:53:07"one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and four to go."
0:53:09 > 0:53:15Whoa. That's it. I went back downstairs and I got my guitar...
0:53:15 > 0:53:18# One for the money
0:53:20 > 0:53:22# Two for the show
0:53:22 > 0:53:26# Three to get ready now go, man, go
0:53:26 > 0:53:29# But don't you step on my blue suede shoes... #
0:53:29 > 0:53:34I wrote it on a brown paper bag. I didn't have any paper.
0:53:34 > 0:53:40- I wrote blue S-W-A-D-E shoes.- I thought that's the way you spell it!
0:53:40 > 0:53:44It is! S-U-E-D-E is "soo-aid".
0:53:44 > 0:53:47# You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes... #
0:53:47 > 0:53:49APPLAUSE
0:53:49 > 0:53:52That was one of my American rock'n'roll heroes.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55Now one of my British rock 'n' roll heroes singing his very first number one.
0:53:55 > 0:53:58Please welcome Shakin' Stevens with This Old House.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:54:04 > 0:54:06# This old house once knew its children
0:54:06 > 0:54:09# This old house once knew its wife
0:54:09 > 0:54:11# This old house was home and comfort
0:54:11 > 0:54:14# As they fought the storms of life
0:54:14 > 0:54:16# This old house once rang with laughter
0:54:16 > 0:54:19# This old house heard many shouts
0:54:19 > 0:54:21# Now it trembles in the darkness
0:54:21 > 0:54:23# When the lightning walks about
0:54:24 > 0:54:27# Ain't gonna need this house no longer
0:54:27 > 0:54:29# Ain't gonna need this house no more
0:54:29 > 0:54:31# Ain't got time to fix the shingles
0:54:31 > 0:54:35# Ain't got time to fix the floor
0:54:35 > 0:54:37# Ain't got time to oil the hinges
0:54:37 > 0:54:39# Nor to mend the window pane
0:54:39 > 0:54:42# Ain't gonna need this house no longer
0:54:42 > 0:54:44# He's getting ready to meet the saints
0:54:54 > 0:54:55# This old house is gettin' shaky
0:54:55 > 0:54:57# This old house is gettin' old
0:54:57 > 0:55:00# This old house has seen the rain
0:55:00 > 0:55:02# This old house has seen the cold
0:55:02 > 0:55:05# Oh, my knees are gettin' chilly
0:55:05 > 0:55:07# But he feels no fear or pain
0:55:07 > 0:55:09# Cos I see an angel peepin'
0:55:09 > 0:55:12# Through a broken window pane
0:55:12 > 0:55:14# Ain't gonna need this house no longer
0:55:14 > 0:55:17# Ain't gonna need this house no more
0:55:17 > 0:55:19# Ain't got time to fix the shingles
0:55:19 > 0:55:22# Ain't got time to fix the floor
0:55:22 > 0:55:24# Ain't got time to oil the hinges
0:55:24 > 0:55:27# Or to mend the window pane
0:55:27 > 0:55:29# Ain't gonna need this house no longer
0:55:29 > 0:55:32# He's getting ready to meet the saints
0:55:55 > 0:55:58# This old house is afraid of thunder
0:55:58 > 0:55:59# This old house is afraid of storms
0:55:59 > 0:56:02# This old house groans and trembles
0:56:02 > 0:56:05# When the night flings out its songs
0:56:05 > 0:56:07# This old house is getting feeble
0:56:07 > 0:56:10# This old house is in need of paint
0:56:10 > 0:56:13# Just like me, it's tuckered out
0:56:13 > 0:56:15# Well, I'm getting ready to meet those saints
0:56:15 > 0:56:19# Ain't gonna need this house no longer
0:56:19 > 0:56:21# Ain't gonna need this house no more
0:56:21 > 0:56:23# Ain't got time to fix the shingles
0:56:23 > 0:56:25# Ain't got time to fix the floor
0:56:25 > 0:56:27# Ain't got time to oil the hinges
0:56:27 > 0:56:30# Nor to mend the window pane
0:56:30 > 0:56:33# Ain't gonna need this house no longer
0:56:33 > 0:56:37# He's getting ready to meet the saints
0:56:37 > 0:56:38# Oh, yeah! #
0:56:47 > 0:56:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:56:51 > 0:56:53Shakin' Stevens, everybody!
0:56:55 > 0:56:57I think you're brilliant.
0:56:57 > 0:56:59We are almost at the end of the show,
0:56:59 > 0:57:03but we can't leave without some good old-fashioned rock'n'roll.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14# Rock around the clock shake your tail feather
0:57:14 > 0:57:18# Put on your dancing shoes
0:57:18 > 0:57:19# Rocking the night away
0:57:19 > 0:57:22# Rocking the night away
0:57:24 > 0:57:27# Rocking the night rocking the night away
0:57:28 > 0:57:31# Honey, short fat Fanny
0:57:31 > 0:57:33# Good golly Miss Molly
0:57:33 > 0:57:35# Long tall Sally
0:57:35 > 0:57:37# A whole lotta shaking great balls of fire
0:57:37 > 0:57:40# Rock'n'roll music set fire
0:57:40 > 0:57:44# Rocking the night away
0:57:44 > 0:57:46# Rocking the night away
0:57:46 > 0:57:51# I'm rocking the night rocking the night away
0:58:16 > 0:58:19# Rocking and the boogie woogie blue
0:58:19 > 0:58:22# Come on everybody and do the hoochie coo
0:58:22 > 0:58:27# A whole lotta woman but a 40-minute man
0:58:27 > 0:58:29# Baby, yeah, I'm your man
0:58:29 > 0:58:31# Rocking the night away
0:58:31 > 0:58:34# Rocking the night away
0:58:34 > 0:58:39# I'm rocking the night, rocking the night away. #
0:58:47 > 0:58:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:58:50 > 0:58:52Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd