26/02/2012 Something for the Weekend

Morning. Joining us today, actor and comedian Sally Phillips is here.

They call them Jules and Katie, The Ting Tings. They are here to cook,

some chat and to take a look at next week's telly. This is

Welcome to Something For The Weekend. It is Sunday 26th February.

Is that right? I got it wrong last week! How are you? I'm really,

really good, thanks. Ufr' been away? In Australia, mate. I threw

some sh rifrps on the barbecue. day food, Carling Cup find.

going? I am going. Spreading love today. I will hug all Cardiff City

fans. Who are you supporting? Liverpool or Cardiff? Gillingham.

It's my team! Let's Dance was on last night. Here are the two who

I can see you doing that, Tim. should have told you who they were.

They are all in make-up. First one was Eddie "the Eagle" doing Austin

Powers. The next guy was Miles Jupp, actor, comedian, he's in Balamory.

"What's the story in Balamory, wouldn't you like to know # All

parents who've had young children know what that is. They were the

two who went through. Eddie "the Eagle" was on total wife out. He's

such a lovely man. Not going to tell you how well he did. But he's

great. Is he an athlete? We like to... He has to be quite good to

get up and down the thing. He has skis to help him. Is he athletic?

He was on my show anyway. It is the 4th annual Academy Awards tonight.

Let's do the best picture. The Artist. The Decentents. The hep,

Hugo. Monyeball. Haven't seen any of them. Been away a lot. I'm going

for War horse. I'm going for The Help. Are we taking bets. I went

with who I wanted to win. Not who I think will win. Who will win?

think the Artist will win. On today's show. You're going to have

to bear with, we've funny girl Sally Phillips with us to tell us

about her new film, The Decoy Bride. Takes his photograph and leaves.

Then we go find Laura, bring her back to the chapel and do all over

this time for real. You're amaidsing, also. And Jules and

Katie otherwise known as The Ting Tings. I don't know why I want to

say that with an Irish accent? It just sounds so right.

# Next time baby, you can Hang It Up up

# You can Hang It Up up, you can Hang It Up up # This time baby... #

All their songs get right in your head. In a good way. They are in

there and stay with you all day. you have a question for The Ting

Tings, email us at bbc.co.uk/somethingfortheweekend or

Tweet us @SFTW. We've some examples. I gave you one

earlier. The example I gave you said... It is from Chris Madden,

The Ting Tings. Where have you been for the past two years? They've

been nowhere, just touring apparently. And writing a new album.

We'll discuss that later. It is out today. What's on the menu, Simon?

We're starting with grilled must Emms with chor chorizo. Stick them

in a pan, boil them up. With a crumbly top on. Bit of Parmesan in

there. Main course, baked leek Gorgonzola and walnut pen in a, --

penne, big strong flavours. You need it with a couple of beers the

day before the Cup Final. A few beers. Celebratory red fruit

dessert, rueb ash and blood red orange crumble. Finally today, or

classic is pulled pork with spicy coleslaw. That looks amazing. I

bags eating all of that. It's your kind of food. Head to our website

bbc.co.uk/somethingfortheweekend to follow all of those recipes. Here's

what else is on today's show. Mrs Thackeray meets up with her

nephew and his family in Upstairs Downstairs. I haven't fizzled out,

aupblty collar Rhys, you've still got me. BBC Four celebrates its

10th anniversary with The Joy Of Disco. People came all over the

from to get the joy of sound. Pregnant Gemma continues to lead a

double life in prisoners Wise of wiefs. -- Prisoners' Wives.

Wayne has some inspired cocktails. What could they be? To celebrate

the winners of the BRITS we've true BRITS. Liqueur, cider brandy from

Somerset. Elderflower. Because of the Oscars tonight and the

prediction is The Artist will win it, I've an old school twist on a

Martini called the Tuxedo. Is there a glass, cut Adele off in the

middle of her speech in there? There might be. As it is a silent

film there will be no speech in there! You presented the Oscars?

From the red carpet. What's it like? The whole of Los Angeles

shuts down. Roads are closed for two days before. There you are with

Jamie cheek ston. Security's stepped up. You have about a week

in advance to get get your credentials. Get your passport.

There's you. With my BFF Clooney. I'm technically not with him.

That's the clois -- closest I'll ever get. Celebrities are starving

themselves, getting their teeth whitened, tanned. Can you get a

room there? No, it's impossible. The town is buzzing. It is

something really special. Did you go to the any of the parties?

went to Elton John's. You just name dropping! More Champagne, Sir? Can

I take your coat? That was it. I was cleaning up after all the

celebs. I snubbing in. I was working the carpet and then I went

at end of it and was gone. It was great. If you think Amanda looks

like a giant today, she's wearing ridiculous... Can you put your leg

up? You're so romantic. Can we do this gracefully? Stkpwhroo look at

those. We need a side look, not the bottom. Come on, fashion people.

dish best served cold. We didn't see the front of them. Did we?

on, boys. Get it together. Aren't they lovely. Are you a bit

intimidated by them, Tim? You're too tall for me! That's great.

too tall for me! That's great. Shall we do a bit of cooking? We're

doing mu else with Corr its owe. Garlic, shallots, chor eats owe. We

had wine, vinegar. Bread comes -- breadcrumbs, ma'am San, butter. Tim,

finely dice the chorizo. Amanda, do the shallots. Do you want me to

square this off? You don't want the pieces to be massive. You want to

be able to eat it comfortfully. If you've huge bits it makes for an

uncomfortable eat. If we were at an Oscar party, if ufrp serving the

guests at Elton John's party you would want to be able to eat it. As

soon as we've chorizo and shallots in here, put them in here. Chorizo

ahead of the shol lots. Are they too small? No, it's fine. You could

use bacon if you don't like chorizo. Who doesn't like chorizo? Everyone.

How do you say it, Tim? I don't know what I say. I'm confused. I

don't know. Chorizo? I don't know. We always have this argument.

argument is it should be Paris not sounding the s. In goes the garlic.

Stir that around. Straight in. Nice. My eyes. Is there anything you can

do to stop that, chopping onions? Practice. There's all that, put a

spoon in your mouth when chopping them. Put the onions in water

beforehand. I think, really, it's all about a bit of practice. We put

some thyme in there. Cook this out for two or three minutes. We don't

have the opportunity to do. That chuck in the mussels. Give that a

quick stir around. We need our liquid in there. We've red wine and

vinegar. Nice little bit of acid Di ity in there -- acidity in there.

Put the lid on. Stir it. Shake it. These won't take long at all.

Couple of minutes, wait for the must Emms to open. Any that don't

open, chuck them away. Amanda, tip the Parmesan and breadcrumbs in

there, rub together. Making a crumble. How was your holiday?

went to Sydney. Visited my girlfriend in Tamaran beach. Did a

coastal walk every morning. It was amazing. You've never been to

Australia? No. Have you not? Any interest? It's just a long way.

you're dying to go? Eh! I'd like to government there's lots of other

places I'd like to go first. People say it is amazing. You did a lot of

training out there? You're doing a big event for Sport Relief?

doing cycling, rowing, running and there's another one, O'he, yeah,

sailing. For Sport Relief. It is called first nation home. England,

ierd, Scotland, Wales. We're all starting in our capitals. I'm on

the team. I'm not doing 1,000 miles by myself. Really Anyone can do

that, Really? 15K in one session? When do you start? The 10th March-

17th March. Next job, Tim. Wow! That's strong. Put them there.

They're hot, though, Simon. They're burning my little delicate hands.

Back in the day, when you were MasterChefing, you would have done

this. That's when I was trying to win something. Let's pretend

there's a prize. At the end of this, there's a prize. Something For The

Weekend badge! I was running every morning from Bondi to Kugi.

Probably not enough. You're probably using different parlgts

parts of your bod jistkph I've never sailed. I met Iain Percy. Top

man. One of our Olympic sailors. He's the man you want to meet.

Here's our miselse. Do you want to put the chorizo in there? Yes. You

could scoop it out. We've reduced the sauce a little bit. You want to

bring this down to a nice syrup. I've added a pinch of sugar into

that because we've done this quite quickly. It can be quite bitter.

Whilst we've vinegar in there, you want it to be balanced. A pinch of

sugar takes away the bit of harshness. Amanda, sprinkle some

topping into there. When you row, you have to row with your legs, not

your arms. The most I've managed so far is 15 mins and I put my back

out. It was killing me for... Sorry. I am thinking about this race.

We've got slightly over-grilled mussels. It's all falling to pieces.

OK. We've got a little bit of watercress there. And then we

simply lift... Oh, that looks delicious. On the mat, Simon.

Thinking about that? Yeah, maybe thinking about what's

going to happen at Wembley today. What's the outcome, Simon?

hoping for a Liverpool win. Can I try one? I would hope for a

Liverpool win. It is a Cup Final. A good game. Great football and, as

long as Liverpool win, that's the main thing for me. Stringle,

sprinkle, sprinkle, gor for it. It it's rich... That's really good.

Isn't that nice? The chorizo, the wine... Yes, really good, really

different. You have outdone yourself, Simon. Really different.

That's the main course? The main course we're doing penne with

gorgonzola and walnuts. As always, you can find all of our recipes at

bbc.co.uk/somethingfortheweekend. That's hot. Really hot, isn't it?

But good, tastes good. I have third degree burns on my tongue. Sarah

Thackray has been for a visit to her nephew. This is the second part

of Upstairs Downstairs. Howard, you're too generous. You

know that. Who else am I going to spend my nest egg on? I am going to

make my way, you know? I don't doubt it, my dear. One day, there's

going to be nothing but the best for my little soldier. Oh, your dad

used to call you that. I know. used to have such lovely

Christmases. I think of us all sometimes crammed into the parlour

in Edmonton, the gaslight hissing, the trifle on the side board, and I

think, how did that come to pass? How can a family just fizzle out?

Like fireworks? It was fate, isn't it? Well, fate and the Spanish flu.

Oh, God. Oh, here. Mucky pup. I haven't fizzled out on you, Clare's.

You've still got me. You've got me too for what it's worth. Look,

auntie! And you can see the second part

tonight on BBC One at 9.00pm. Now, our first guest hit the

screens as receptionist Sophie in Alan Partridge - ha! Always want to

say that after that, don't you? Then it became a house hold award-

winning name in Smack the Pony before teaming up with one of the

country's favourite comedians. Hungolso-muck-mungolos. Looks like

you might have lost him to his travels. I am so over him. You are

not. I am. I am the whole new me. Oh! Stop! Welcome to Something For

the Weekend Sally Phillips. Thank you very much. Thank you very much

having me. How are you coping? Tired at the moment? I am a bit

tired at the moment. This is my third baby. Congratulations or

commiserations on the exhaustion. No, it is congratulations. He's

just over there. My friend is holding him for me. Do you mind if

we get a shot of your baby? Can we turn around? There we go. His first

taste of fame. What's his name? So beautiful. Very cute. So Miranda

Hart, there we saw - a huge success that has been. Well, that's all her,

isn't it? She's a very, very clever - very, very clever, very funny,

extremely nice person. Isn't she brilliant in Midwife? Fantastic. It

took her awhile to get there. She has been doing a lot of bit parts

and things, and now... She's really worked hard for it. It's all come

good for her. Did you have her in Smack the Pony? Is that true? I

think I gave her her first TV shot. I think I saw her in Edinburgh 12

years ago, and she was doing a double act called The Orange Girls.

She wrote saying, "Thanks for coming to see it. Can you help?" I

said no, I have no power. I suggested she went to Jennifer

Saunders, then got her in to do some videos on Smack the Pony. She

does a video date where she says, "I've got a castle". And I think

she does one more video date where she has a lamp on her head, so it

wasn't a massive break for her. it quite a close community, ladies

in comedy in British TV? We didn't get to meet each other. There were

so few of you, you didn't get to work together. Hello, Tom.

LAUGHTER Where's - yeah, that's strange now.

So yeah, it is more of a community now, I'd say. I definitely feel a

real sense of solidarity. It was one of the first of its kind, the

first all-female sketch comedy show, wasn't it? No, it wasn't. There

were previous ones. I am trying to remember what they were called.

There was one with Ruby Wax in - see, my brain doesn't work - it's

terrible. We definitely weren't the first, but it worked quite well.

How did it come about, though? Because when you pitch a female

comedy to networks... I wish. you a little sceptical of the idea?

It wasn't my idea. I wish I could claim credit for it because I am

proud of it, but Victoria Pyle, who produced it and Caroline who went

on to produce King Wing and a Commissioner at Channel 4 had the

idea and they selected a team, and we developed it for about a year

before we did it, but it wasn't my idea. We have a clip of Smack the

Pony. What I like about this clip is the astonishment of the dog who

gets all confused during the sketch. Here we go. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Would - um, ooh, excuse me. Would you sign a petition to give dog

owners the right to exercise their dogs around the long pond? I don't

know anything about it. I am not a dog owner. I am actually slightly

phobic. Um, so that is... Ahhh! Ahh! Ha hh!

Ahh! Ahh! Ahh! LAUGHTER

Absolutely brilliant. That dog is so confused - what is going on?

usual understated performance from myself! Brilliant. You went from an

all-female sketch show to writing your first feature, which is a

female-led rom-com, Decoy Bride. Tell us about that. It was my

alternative career plan when I started having children. I thought

I'll obviously be fat when I start having children, so let's not go in

front of the camera. I'll stay behind and just knock off a

screenplay - how hard can that be? While my baby plays quietly by

itself in a basket. That didn't happen? Playing with the sun beams

- no, that's not - it was kind of I have started, so I'll finish, so I

started doing it, and I had a very supportive film company, and yeah,

that's how it came about, really. I never expected it to get made.

Really? I kept saying to my family - they'd ask what was happening

with the film. I expected someone to say, "OK.Ed a good run."

started filming it in... A long time ago. They asked me why don't I

get a part? I thought that would be a good idea. My first child wasn't

that well when he was first born. It slipped down my list of

priorities. They gave me a brilliant writing partner, Neil.

Hello, Neil. Who has the final say? Or is it very much a partnership?

You have no power when you're writing a film. Everybody else has

the power. As a writer, you merely make suggestions. It's the

director's medium really. Decoy Bride - what exactly is that? I

believe it's an actual profession. I don't know if it is, but I did

hear J-Lo and Ben Affleck were - you were there when they were

getting married? Yeah, I was the decountry bride! What is a decoy

bride? I heard their PR saying when we booked three decoy brides, three

decoy venues and two decoy chefs, we realised what was supposed to be

a very small, personal event had gotten out of control, whereas the

real reason they didn't get married is they didn't like each other

anymore. I have never heard of the phrase "decoy bride." What's the

purpose of them? To put the paparazzi off. Imagine if you're

single, and you're the joke bride, the not real bride, and if all you

wanted to do more than anything else is to be married - of course,

the film itself is not that story at all, but that phrase lodged in

my mind, and it sort of came from there. We've got a clip. Let's have

a look. S OK. He's in a tree. He wants a photo of the happy couple.

Let's give it to them. We go through with the wedding as planned

but with the stand-in. He takes his photo, leaves, then we find Laura,

take her back to the chapel, do it all over again, but this time for

real. You're amazing also. I'll go tell James. Don't tell that

Googling leech anything. If James finds out Laura is missing, the

first thing... Oh, you're in here. I'm going to go do AA. Fine.

Everything all right? Doctor Who is in it. He's Brit in

it, and Kelly MacDonald - you haven't got a clip of her, but

she's wonderful in it. The aim of the film was to write a modern

Screwball. They had these great screenplays with really zinggy

dialon - It Happened One Night, old-fashioned movies. It's quite an

old-fashioned movie. A lot of fun to film? It's fun watching Kelly

and David doing it. The dialogue is so good, and Kelly is so adorable,

really adorable in it. You're of course no stranger to the big

screen because you're in Bridget Jones' Diary, one and two, but I

heard you originally went up for the role of Bridget Jones. Yes,

thanks for bringing up one of my career failures. Really big

knickers! It was a shambles. I didn't realise what a big deal it

was to be honest. At that time, I was a single girl living in Notting

Hill, failing to go to the gym, unlucky in love, falling for people

who were frankly way out of my league, so yeah, I didn't really -

I did five auditions for that, and they very wisely didn't give it to

me because I wouldn't have been able to do it. They gave me the

consolation prize. It's the top of Tim's DVD list. He's never seen it,

have you? I have not seen it, no. LAUGHTER

Thanks for that! Sally is staying with us all morning, so is Tom, her

son. Maybe he'll join in with some Make sure you get your questions in

for her or the Ting Tings. E-mail us or Tweet us. Can you guess the

year all of these stories hit the headlines and the number one in the

charts in today's Deja View? # It's my life

# It's my life # The Prince of Wales has been

attending the Garter Service on the eve of the publication of her book

about her life as a Royal. Betty Boothroyd has become the new

Speaker of the House of Commons. The heritage secretary David Mellor

finally gave in tonight to the pressure over allegations over his

private life. He handed his resignation to the Prime Minister

saying "I am privileged to count # So you think you can stop me and

spit in my eye? # # So you think you can love me and

leave me to die? M #... Garth, pull over. Not again!

Just saying how much we like Mike Myers. He's a Liverpool fan. Google

it now. Isn't he a Canadian? He has links with Liverpool. I think his

family was originally from Liverpool. What, he listened to the

Beatles once? It's true. I think that's 1994. I'm going 1992.

Great film that, Wayne's World. Love it. Starting with a romantic

one. Lauren and boyfriend Ben from Hertford shire. They make a pancake

decorated with fresh strawberries and sprinkleled with edible glitter.

Won't last? Who's takings the picture? Sna that's another story.

There are car keys on the side, Tim, that's all I'll say. What is that?

It looks like deodorant. This is my nephew, Peter. He made the Cuban

chicken with rice wearing his lacrosse T-shirt. Peter, you have a

bit of a boy band hear cut! does he support? He's not a great

fopbl fan but Liverpool! I like lacrosse. This is Sarah Thackrah

from Cullercoats near Newcastle. Wouldn't you love that to be your

view from your house. Where's that? Cullercoats near Newcastle. This is

Lauren from Leigh-on-Sea. My name's Lauren. I'm a physio by day and

baker by night. Today we'll eat chocolate gooey mousse cake. Does

that sound like something from the guys from the Fast Show? No! This

is a whole tribe of people. Cuban chicken chocolate mousse cake in

the Alps. Are you hungry? We've hot and spiced baked Cuban chicken and

rice and for dessert, gueying chocolate mousse cake. Thank you

Something For The Weekend. Goodbye from Switzerland.

Some good snow out there. There's more, Tim. It's hair time. And it's

Tim first, today. Check this one out!

Oh, mate. Milli Vanilli. That's great. How old are you there?

twenties. This is me in Wham. at that. Look at that vest. Your

shorts, what have they got on them? It is some wild random pattern.

you remember when grey, black and red was in. Boys' bed 5078 were

grey, black and red. Weird! Fortunately, only a couple more

weeks of photographs of me with hair. If you have a photograph.

hair. If you have a photograph. Send it to us. Starter was really

good. Thank you. Have you burned sgs else? Yeah! His mind's on the

football, on the Cup Final. It's not the biggest match today.

There's the big derby. Sheffield derby. What's that? You thought I

was going to go North London. The crowds they get at that derby,

League One, it's massive. You expect them to be up in the top

flight. We're going to do some slightly charred leek, walnut and

Gorgonzola baked pasta. We've got some leeks, butter, peace, walnuts,

Gorgonzola, garlic. Penne, lemon, tarragon and some garlic bread to

go with it. Tim, cut that down the middle and we'll have half moons on

the leeks. I'll do garlic chopping. I am aware I'm slightly preoccupied

with the game. You try to be professional. Is this what I'm

supposed to be doing? If you turn it over it might be easier. It is

split there. They are coming out as halves not quarters. With the

mussels, you want them to be edible. We tend to eat things with a

similar size. Some oil and butter goes into the pan. We put leeks in,

cook them quite slowly. Do you have a prediction for me today, Tim?

you know what, I don't no who I want to win. I suppose I might go

for the underdogs. I'd quite like to see you happy and winning.

That's nice. You are the Premiership team. It would be rude,

being British, not to go for the underdogs? I'm excited seeing

Liverpool play at Wembley. We've not been there for a few years.

Thres something going round on the internet. All Liverpool fans saying

no flares. As in the trousers. Last time they went there, they were all

wearing flares. I can't believe that got such a beautiful laugh

from the floor! Mike Pickering signed The Ting Tings. You killed

his cat! Stop that. They're not going to talk to you. You killed

Mike Pickering's cat. Such a bad story. Moving on, Tim. Strip that

tarragon and chop it. These fall lass have cooked quite well. This

extra colour on them is on optional element on that, really. Probably,

you're better off not colouring them quite so much. In go the peace.

In goes the creme fraiche. This is a really simple dish. One of those

that doesn't have to be complicated. Sometimes I think we're all prone

to overcomplicate things. I'll chop some Gorgonzola. Get little cubes

so it will melt... Do you want this chopped finely? I love tarragon.

Probably my favourite her be? Really? Oh, no. What's yours?

Parsley. Or basil. I made kediree. It was really spicy. I made poached

egg rather than boiled. Very good, very good indeed. I like lentil in

with the kedg. Is is Oh, no, Simon. It just gives extra texture. It's a

breakfast dish, really, a bizarre breakfast dish. Once you eat it,

you can understand why it is good. It is hearty. The eggs help with it.

We've kegigree on the menu at the moment. Smoked haddock, peace and

sweetcorn too. Is that right? Sweetcorn, interesting. Bet it

worked? The sweetcorn's really nice. This is all going to be chucked in.

Walnuts in. Is that enough? That can all go in. Does it go in now or

at the end? It can go in now. To cut through the creaminess of the

Gorgonzola, we'll have a squeeze of lemon juice. We stir that around.

You get that nice smell, the Gorgonzola begins to cook out and,

of course, that makes it nice. We've a coated pasta. It shouldn't

be swimming in sauce. I sometimes think when people do pastas that

have too much sauce on, you know what I mean... What are you smiling

at? Just because if people are tuning in, people will think you're

killing cats. Five years you've been doing that story. It's a true

story. I blame Pickering. OK, we spoon that into there. I'll be

attacked like that woman who did that thing with the cat that time.

In the bin? Yes. We sprinkle the gorgzol A our grill is like a

nuclear reactor today. Let's remember that's under here. That

goes in there. All we'll do to serve with it, Tim, just cut on an

equal angle, a piece of bread. Cut it down the middle lent-ways. Bit

of oil on there. Let's move the griddle pan. How's your dog getting

on? Dog's great. We've had our labradoodle for nearly a year now.

Is that snuff? Yeah. I resist for yearsed having a dog. I thought it

would be a nightmare. Now we have the dog, I quite like it. Taking it

for a walk. Every day? Four or five days a week. Who walks it? My wife,

the kids take the dog for a walk. I go for a run in the morning, 6.30.

Then walk the dog. Once a week! Five times a week, I run. How's

your Achilles? It's all right. It is the stopping and starting. That

doesn't work for me anymore. Just some garlic butter with the back of

the spoon, spread that on there. Now the grill's gone the other way.

Isn't working. Brilliant! OK. So, what will happen is... Look how

nice and crispy that is now! That's not even melted, Simon. No, but

it'll still taste delicious. We cut across on an angle like that. Nice

delicious stphraifrs. The bread really, for me, is for dipping in.

We get a little bit of that. You've all the flavour in there. Get it to

the point where your Gorgonzola has become a little crispy. Here with

go. Dig in, ladies and gentlemen. That looks delicious. Macaroony and

cheese, basically, Simon? A little bit. Don't have it swimming in

sauce. It's horrible. You just taste everything. It's coated it

rather than soaking it. I like that. Really good. That is georgeous. It

has a walnut too. Dessert, Simon? Rhubarb and orange crumble. I've

never cooked rhubarb. Do you cook it for ages? Find out in a minute.

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Classic hits there. Welcome to Something For the Weekend, The Ting

Tings. We were talking about this before, an Ivor Novello, a

nomination for a Grammy, then we didn't see you at all. Where have

you been for the past couple of years? Touring. We kind of caught

on in different countries at different times. Because it was our

own little thing in Salford making our own music and videos and things

like that, it never really got pushed like a pop thing, then

suddenly all the different countries discovered us but at

different times of the UK started to go well, then six months later,

"Oh, you need to go to America. It's going really well there." Six

months after that, Japan and South Korea and I don't know South

America. You big in Germany? We do all right, yeah. We actually made

our second album there. Did you? You're rehearsing now to go back

around America. You have done well over there in comparison to other

British bands. They have taken to you. Yeah, it has been really good.

Tours out there, you get on a bus for six, seven weeks. You're one

unit. In the UK it's two weeks a tour. In the States it goes on

forever. It's a great platform to get better at what you're doing.

Isn't it hard work, though, every night, every other night doing a

gig? We have always said we should have been a folk band because there

is only two of us on stage. I said why don't we just write folk songs

and sit on stools? I was saying before the show hard work - two of

you on stage - if you have a band of four or five, the pressure is on

two of you. Tell us how you do your live gigs? We use pedals. There is

no backing track or sync play-back. Everything is spontaneous. I have

four pedals around my kit. She has four. It's a guitar fix, layering

stuff. Nine times out of ten, it goes wrong, but that's really what

we love about it because it's spontaneous. We argue on stage, but

it gives us our energy. A bit like this show. You. Mention you argue

on stage. We were discussing before the show it's hard work being

together for that length of time. You fall out a lot.

We kind of do. I fall out with Jules as much as I would fall out

with our sound guy. There is only, what, eight crew with us on tour,

but yeah, we have definitely had some - you're singing That's Not My

Name and you're flicking things at him. That's not my name! What's

your backgrounds? How did you two meet? How did The Ting Tings get

formed? We were both in different bands. I can't remember. We were

rehearsing in London in different bands, and I don't think we liked

what we were doing. A lot of my friends studied in Manchester. I

studied in London. I used to go to Manchester a lot, so hearing her

Manchester accent made us bond at that rehearsal studio. Next time I

was in Manchester, we hooked up, started to write. We loved a band

called Portishead and we tried to imitate their records, then we got

another member, got signed, got dropped. That whole thing got us to

Salford where we started The Ting Tings. Did you ever think - the two

of you is a weird dynamic - did you ever think we need to put more

members in the band as you were going along writing? No, we tried

it in a small tour of Australia. These poor musicians - we brought

them with us, and we just ignored them on stage. I was like, why are

these people on our stage? They were so talented and good. The

energy of the band changed. I felt so much more relaxed - great, there

is four of us. We can fill the stage, whereas normally, we have

performed in our living room in effect in Salford to, like, 40

people, and that same show we played at Glastonbury to like tens

of thousands of people. It was the same show, and it was basically me,

like, legging it around the stage trying to fill the stage. In a way

that gives us our energy. We have the new single from the new album

out today. It's called Hang It Up. # Throw parties

# We sit on the ground # I would rather they just let me

down # People say don't rock the way

# Everybody needs somebody # You can hang it up

# Listen, baby # You can hang it up

# Listen, baby # You can hang it up

# You can hang it up. You hit a bit of a sonic wall, didn't you, while

you were making this album? Sonic wall? Yeah, that's my metaphor for

hitting a wall. It wasn't plain sailing, was it? You kind of

scrapped the first edition, didn't you? Kind of, yeahs but we did that

on the first album, to be honest. We wrote a song and if we weren't

feeling it, we'd store it rather than go back to it. I think it is

difficult to do a second album. The first one we wrote it by ourselves.

The second one we have all of these people that were like, wow, you

should try this. You should try that. We finally isolated ourselves

in the south of Spain, literally no phone signal, concentrated. We made

the album we wanted to make. We wanted to make something authentic.

We do it all ourselves. We wanted it to feel like it came for us.

does it compare to the other album? Quite similar? It's different. From

three years on Tuesday, we listened to all of our music on MP3 players,

whereas before that we had a record collection. We can't listen to

those on tour. Everything became a play list. I don't know if you do

that - rather than listen to a whole album, you can have three

tracks from Led Zeppelin or ABBA, whatever it is. We did that. When

we got to record this album, we had a reason to write it. The first

album was organic, didn't stop. The second album, we were exhausted

thinking, do we fake it or try to find some real substance? That

became the centre - the way we listen to our music. It's like a

play list. People will feel like, is this The Ting Tings on every

single song. You won an Ivor Novello award. Is that the best

award to win for a band because it's about writing songs? I think

for us it was because we have been writing together for six or seven

years. It's the main thing we do. Aye we're not a celebrity-driven

band. It's always about songs for us. If you write good songs, they

do the work for you. It when are you touring Britain? We're playing

London next week. I don't know what date. Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday. We

actually go to Paris, then the United States for a massive 25-date

Tuesday, then we do South America, then come back and do European

festivals, then we do our own tour. I don't know when. I am terrible

with dates. No home life for either over you, then? No. On the road all

the time. We set up places - wherever we're touring, if we

happen to be in Paris three days before New York, we just stay in

Paris. It's so hard to get back to Manchester for those two days. By

the time you settle in, you're off again. So it's best to stay the

last place you visit. But fun nonetheless I would imagine.

They're staying with us to cook our last dish of the day. If you want

to ask them or Sally Phillips anything, Tweet us or e-mail us at

bbc.co.uk/somethingfortheweekend. All of this is still to come.

Gemma is nervous her secret is about to come out in Prisoners'

Wives. I am at work. I must know what I

have done. Simon cooks up one of his classic dishes, pulled pork

with spicy coleslaw. Jeremy Paxman travels to India. It was here the

British learned of Imperial Power. Still to come in our gadget roundup,

Nikki Moore will tell us what she has brought in including a new

popcorn maker - there she is stuffing her face with popcorn.

She's pregnant, so allowed to do that apparently. Sally is with us.

Are you handy in the kitchen? are you staring at me pregnant...

Because you have a baby. Did you eat a lot when you were pudding?

did. I couldn't shift it. Did you have cravings or not? Yes, I did

have a few. The first time I craved mango and cod. The last time it was

pan au chocolate. Is it something your body wants you to have?

don't know. I think it gets polluted with greed. I hear sleep

deprivation is really hard. Because you get tired, you get hungry, so

you need these sugar things all the time trying to keep going. Do you

do a lot of cooking yourself or... Yes, but not with any great skill.

What are we doing? We're doing a Lauren Rubin from Southend. We have

rhubarb, blood oranges, vanilla, star Anise, sugar, the crumble,

flour, flaked almonds, dermerrera sugar and cinema. We dump in the

star Anise, sugar and vanilla. Nice to put it in a cold pan, then bring

it up slowly. This we'll fiercely cook away. Give it a bit of a prod

vanilla seeds out? The heat will bring the seeds out of the pod, but

also there is loads of flavour in the pod itself. The most effective

way to get the most value for money out of the expensive vanilla pod is

if you were to blend it with sugar, you won't need to buy lots of

vanilla pods. You wouldn't buy vanilla sugar? No, you could make

your own. Bring it to a boil, and you get this intense vanilla syrup,

and it costs you a fraction of buying vanilla sugar. Rhubarb, all

you have to do is top and tail and cut it into pieces about that kind

of length, then just lay them into our baking dish. That's it. Go.

pressure. I made - just don't chop your fingers off. I made your

rhubarb fool - is it fool? Yeah. made his rhubarb fool. It was

absolutely delicious. I do like a bit of rhubarb. We got some e-mails

and tweets in for you. Ashley says, "What attracted you to comedy in

the first place?" You know what, I think I wanted to be initially very

serious, but was physically handicapped - not attractive enough

and also a bit stupid. I just looked ridiculous, so I tried to be

serious for a couple of years, then just got spotted by comedians. The

minute I started doing comedy, everybody was like, that's better!

I die - in one play I played a syphilis-infected whore who had to

die at the end, which was supposed to be very, very sad, and everybody

would go, ahh! Which wasn't quite right, so comedy chose me really.

Do you think there is a different sort of acting for comedy and

straight? I think there is. Some people say no, but I think so. It

has been said that comedy is the art of bad acting. That's nice.

Which it is - in some forms it is. Was your first role on TV in Alan

Partridge? No. My first... Just lay it in there. I was completely

thrilled to get it. I was on Smith and Jones. My very first job is I

was in bed with Mel Smith. It started on Mel. He went "I'm really

sorry, love. This has never happened before to me. It must have

been the drink." Do you do this Sunday mornings on a sketch? It's

clean. You mentioned "bed" - I was like, right! We didn't get it on.

He said "It must have been me." And they panned over to me, and I was

covered in vomit. It's maybe not a cooking joke. They poured cool soup

over me. I had an allergic reaction. I was thrilled to get that first

ever TV appearance. The blood orange - we're going to top and

tail like that and it's really just bringing the knife around at an

angle so you get as much of that off as you can, so we're going to

slice across it. Meanwhile, the sauce is done. I am going to boil

this up. I am going to strain this. Now you have all of that vanilla

coming out so you have a really delicious syrupy blood orange sauce.

When you write a film like Decoy Bride, how much is the finished

product like your vision? Because you said a lot of people had a say

in it. No, when you're a writer, it's the director's medium. They

say there is three films, the film you write, the film you shoot and

the film you make in the edit. Right. The film version is really

very different to the thing you write. I always thought to write

dialogue must be the hardest thing, to actually write so you're writing

in different characters' voices, then to write to make something

that's funny - the men sit around and go, wow. That is really funny.

What is amusing me is I just met my writing partner's parents at the

premier in Glasgow last week for the first time. He said - lovely

guy, but his parents had been in the north, so I hadn't met them. It

turns out his characters, nearly all of them, come from his dad,

especially the older ladies in the script. Really? Is based on his dad

- I don't know. I like that I understand how that works... Might

work, yeah. Chuck the blood oranges on top. This is a beautiful colour.

You can use regular oranges but you don't get that delicious colour if

you don't. It just makes for a nice flavour. For the crumble, tip all

of those in there, really simple, then sprinkle that on top of the

rhubarb and the blood orange. It's that, that easy. It's set in

Scotland, but it is filmed in the Isle of Man, is that right? Partly

filmed in Scotland, partly in the Isle of Man, but we had the money

given to us by the Isle of Man Films. It doubled really well,

actually. We were worried about that because they have slightly

better weather than the outer when redese. We had some fantastic

weather - brilliant mist and fog. That was great for us because it

wasn't a very expensive film. The weather makes it look - because

normally that fog would have been a fog dispenser - a massive squirter

- fog squirter that costs you millions of pounds to hire, but we

had actual fog. The amazing thing is we had continuity fog because we

had to pick up a bit of a scene we didn't finish on the day. Four days

later when we had to do it, it was foggy again. Both places are brutal.

The Isle of Man and the Outer Hebrediz is brutal. I have never

been to both. Isle of Man is cracking. I have been fishing.

you? I think it would be great to go with young kids. It's really

should be like National Crumble Week. Something I haven't burned,

today, Tim. So relaxing. Lovely soft fruit. Some of the sauce.

Finally a good dollop of clotted cream or you could use custard with

that. It is heavenly. If you'd like to come round and try this. Ting

Tings. Very hot this, apparently, guys. Take a spoon and try some.

That's very good. How hot is it? Going to burn my head? We're doing

a classic pork pork for the and finally. -- pulled pork.

Very nice. Yummy. In a moment, Wayne has a BRIT inspired cocktail.

First, another chance to guess when all this happened in Deja View.

# It's my life # It's my life #

The Princess of wails attended the service on the eve of a

controversial pub hub kaigs of her book. Betty Boothroyd has become

the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons. She's the Labour

MP for West Bromwich West. Health Secretary David Mellor gave

into allegations about his private life. He handed in his rest

Ignatius to the Prime Minister saying "I'm privileged to count you

as a dear friend.". # It's my life

# It's my life deml # It's my life... #

Wayne's World, party time. And, we're clear. Excellent show

everyone. Great show. Benjamin Cain. Director for. I'm Russell finally.

We spoke earlier today. Maybe we can go somewhere to get acquainted.

Russell. Get to know the crew. Russell. Get to know the crew.

you guys later. I went 194. Simon wept 19192. I'm going 1993. I think

it's earlier. Wayne's World has thrown me slightly. I thought it

was earlier. We'll find out at the was earlier. We'll find out at the

end. You're making cocktails. We're celebrating the BRIT awards.

This is called True Brit. The best of British summer ingredients. Lime,

sweetened with sugar. Put some good old scotch in there. Just one

measure. Then we've here some cider brandy

from Somerset. Similar to you'd find in northern franch. This one's

from Somerset. Which one's this? Cider brandy. It has that really

nice apple flavour. I like cider on a nice hot day, sitting outside.

Don't hog it! That's good. season for rhubarb it is here.

Rhubarb liqueur. That is really strong. I love it though. That

apple punchiness to it. That's really nice. I like that. Delicate..

Rhubarb never tasted so good. Where there any interesting drinks in

Australia? Not really, throw a shrimp on the barbie. Have you been

to Australia? I was there last summer. Sp How's the cocktail

scene? It's growing. Sydney and Melbourne are leading it. Some

things happening in Brisbane and the west coast. It is now more

cosmopolitan in Sydney. Good jazz scene. Good restaurants. Loads of

casinos in Melbourne. Really? Did you frequent them? I did. What have

you put in there? Elderflower press. Apple flavours, bit of the

elderflower. A wedge of apple. There you've got True Brit. To

celebrate those winners. Adele, who's winning everything. I know.

What did you make of her speech? don't know why they didn't fade out

Blur at the end and let her finish her speech. We've got the clip.

Thank you very much. Nothing make the prouder than coming home with

six Grammys, coming to the BRITS and winning Album of the Year. I'm

so proud to the British, flying our flag. I'm so proud to be in the

room with all of you. I'm so sorry. I can't believe I'm about to...

You're going to cut me off. Can I just say, goodbye and I'll see you

next time round... It was George Michael in the background laughing.

He was going, oh, no, a stipger here! Thing is, someone made a

mistake. It would have been easy to let her keep talking. Does it

really matter in the great scheme of things? They should do what they

do at the Oscars. Play elevator music until they get off. To Adele.

All worth it now. The Oscars is on tonight. This is a great twist on a

classic Martini. It is called a Tuxedo. The Artist is looking like

the favourite to win it, black and white old school movie. It will

take you back. Have you seen it? haven't. Do you go to the cinema?

do with the kiddies. They don't want to see this one, two hours of

silence! A good double measure of begin. Do you go to the movies much,

Tim? Average, I've gone to a few. Take them in now and then. You?

do enjoy going to a matinee by myself every now and then! Don't

look at me like that. People give you funny looks, though. What have

you put in there? Little drop of the ab absinthe. We've got the

begin, vermouth. Maraschino. Absinthe. A little accent at the

back. The drink. Comes through at the end. You don't want too much.

It is just the smell of that brings me back to days gone past when I

wasn't feeling very well, let's say. Some good old days. Bad old days, I

think. A traditional 1950s cocktail glass here. Fab. Like -- looks like

the sort of thing Tom or Jerry... Which one's the mouse? Jerry.

is a really delectable flavour. You want to get the aromas. Have a good

slurp. It is a classic. That is divine. Really georgeous. A nice

layer of flavours. Thanks, Wayne. You can get all of his cocktail

recipes by logging on to www.bbc.co.uk Something For The

Weekend. Gemma is starting to fear she's to

the good at hiding the truth. This the good at hiding the truth. This

is Prisoners' Wives. N # Far away, someone was weeping

# While the world was sleeping # Any Dream Will Do

Got for get this. It's me. Gemma. Hang on. See you tonight, love.

I call you back? He's altogether work. He must know what I've done.

He's at work. He's been released. Why? I can't talk now. I'll meet

you. Explain it then. Just don't tell him anything. All you have to

do is pretend everything is normal. Andy. Sorry to keep you waiting. Is

everything OK? I need you to pass on a message. Called you at home

and your mobile. When are you next speaking to receive? I can't xaul

him. He has to ring me. When will he next call you? I'll speak to him

in the evenings. Raw OK? Fine. you speak to him. Tell him to call

me. What is it? A bit of trouble with the business. Something's

happened so just make sure you pass And you can catch the next episode

of Prisoners' Wives on Tuesday night, BBC One at 9.00pm. Our

gadget guru is Nikki Moore with Oscar-inspired ideas. This is a

good idea. This is the home cinema popcorn maker. Perfect for movie

nights in. Popcorn made at home with the kids. It is made... It is

popping already. Made in the same way as in the cinema. Not like Mike

waive popcorn. You can see it is popping away. It comes with...

need to invent quiet popcorn for the cinema. Nothing more

frustrating than something sitting next to you chomping. Being noisy.

You add oil to the - you add oil to the metal dish. You add the

Colonels which come with it when you buy it. It all collects at the

bottom. I have a scoop. This is how they do it at the cinema. Butter.

Taste that. Shake it up a bit. A bit too much! This is the thing you

have at home. Is it as good as microwave? Miles better. It tastes

better. Taste it. I make it all the time. It is only a couple of

minutes. It is quite retro. Kids, when they have their friends over

for sleepovers, they'll love it. Fun to watch it being popped and

made. Tastes nice. It tastes like popcorn. You get 25 boxes when you

buy it. Two seasonings. We have chocolate, butter. You can get

barbecue, salt, sweet and savoury. I think that's quite good. How much

is this? �99.95. Quite pricey?. It'll last. What's next?

Lomography LomoKino. An analogue movie camera. No sounds, to make

retro movies. To post production. Just a simple motion picture. With

films like The Artist, people are wanting to make retro films. We've

some footage. It is quite ray. Not like digital movies. That's really

cool. Uses is 35mm film. You film using the crank handle at the side.

It shoots three to five frames a second. You might get 30-45 seconds

of footage. You have to get the film developed. It is a lot messier.

Convert it? You can digitise it. You can watch it on a movie

projecter. If you want it digitised, Lomography would do that for you.

You'd use it once or twice? I think people into this would really like

Next is the Optoma PK320 Pico Projector. This is a very portable

powerful light-weight projector. It's great did you want to watch

movies at home, you can watch a big movie on a big screen. I am going

to connect it to a device. We have it connected to a tablet but it

also has two gig of internal memory which you can export to a micro-SD

slot. Does it come with that thing there? No, the screen and the

tripod are separate. You can project it on to a wall. We have it

on a tablet so you can get the idea. I is decent quality. What is good

is it also does MS Office and Adoneby, so you can do presentation

at work - presentations, videos, clips. It has built-in speakers.

Look at that, Wayne Collins. Wayne, I never knew. That's quite good.

That is �329. OK, �329 - that's a lot. Or is it? No, I don't think

that's too bad, actually. Can we turn that off? I'm trying to do it

with the remote control, but it's not working. Finally? We have

Bean2Bed, which is, again, great for watching movies. They look like

beanbags but actually contain a full-sized mattress, so you can get

them in double size, king size or children's size. What you do is

unzip the beanbag at the back, then pull out the mattress, made of a

high-end foam. It's like memory foam. It's comfortable. It moulds

to your body. Once you've got it out, you have to fluff it up, so

you've got to flip it two or three times just to get all the foam

flipped up. Flip that a couple of times. This is the king-sized one.

There you go. If you have a lie on it, see how comfortable it is. Is

it comfy? Come on. It's all right. She's pregnant. I won't get up if I

get on here. What do you think? think it's wonderful. How much is

this one? They start at 175. They come in a variety of fabrics, suede,

animal print, denim. They come in different sizes and colours, and

you can customise them as well. Thanks, Nikki Moore. For any

information on today's gadgets, e- mail us. We'll get back to you.

Jeremy Paxman traces the history of the British colonies beginning by

asking how such a tiny island came to rule a quarter of the world's

So much that shaped the extraordinary story of the British

Empire was born here in the complex, time-worn expanse of India. It was

here the British learned the art of imperial power, yet it was a treaty

signed thousands of miles away that determined the fate of India. In

February 1763, the great European powers were meeting in Paris to end

years of war and to divide the world between them from Canada to

the Philippines. Britain's representative at the peace talks

was the Duke of Bedford, a stubby, arrogant little man who had never

been to any of these places. In fact, his gout had made it

difficult enough for him to get to Paris, but the Bedfords did pretty

well out of the summit. The Duchess was given an 800-piece porcelain

dinner service by the King of France, and the Duke got India for

the British. And you can see the first part in

the new series of Empire tomorrow evening on BBC One at 9.00pm. Katy

from the Ting Tings is with us in the kitchen. Can you cook? Kind of.

I poisoned myself a couple of times, but yeah - over the space of a year.

Not a good recommendation. I can cook, though. Remind me never to

come to a dinner party hosted by you. You're left-handed. It's weird

how many people we have on the show who it seems the knife skills are

much harder. The ramt of people that have seen me cooking see me

take the bus out... Really? Boss says you're cack-handed, whatever

that means. Mark is the most left- handed person I have ever seen -

he's genius, genius. Are you going to make her chop so we can look at

those cack-handed skills? Yeah, we have a hunk of pork, cider, cider

vinegar, we have garlic, onions, coleslaw - lime, carrots, cabbage.

Give me onions - of all things! - I would like slices but happy

with chunks. Cooking with Katy from the Ting Tings - Hiroki Hara we go.

Is that all right? Yeah, it would be really careful if we wounded a

Ting Ting I'd be playing a gig with four fingers. Can we talk about you

killing the cat? No! Is this the cat there? This is the cat. What

happened, Simon? I know you're watching and laughing. Here is the

story for the 45th time. Mike, A and R for Ting Tings. I bought my

house from Mike, good friends. They had a cat that stayed with us, went

missing, then after awhile, one of Mike's kids said, what happened to

the cat? It went missing. Tim in week four said, "Is it true you

killed Mike Pickering's cat?" To the day this story goes and goes.

Now I am being abused by The Ting Tings. Funny thing is he's never

mentioned having a cat. You must have scarred him so much he can't

even talk about it. Amazing. I am not enjoying this and the fact Tim

is sniggering hugely - moving on. Then we have whole-grain mustard -

it did make the cat really tasty, the mustard. People switching off

as we speak. What we do is put the garlic around the edge. That'll do

you. Then the onions - you did well. I think it's down to your tools,

isn't it? A good knife. This is a weird thing to say, but you're

actually better cutting yourself with a sharp than a blunt knife

because you have a cleaner cut. I'll remember that next time I'm

trying to... It tears the skin, but the sharp will just cut it, so it

heals more easily. We hour over the cider and cider vinegar, cover it

with foil or parchment, cook for four hours so the pork softens.

want to ask you a question from a viewer, "How did The Ting Tings get

their name? Was it anything to do with the Chinese bride from Little

Britain?" I stole it from a girl I worked with. I worked in a shop,

and her name was Ting Tinge. I thought her name was so cool. We

started a band. We didn't think we'd be successful, so we thought

that would do. We recently found out it means the innovation on open

minds. So we named it anything really. So what you want to do is

you want long pieces of carrots so go right the way down. People tend

to do that but if you do that, you'll get longer pieces of carrot.

You're that way because you're left-handed. Yeah. See, I can't do

it... It's really weird. But I can learn guitar -- play guitar left-

handed but I have learnt it right. My little boy is left-handed but

right footed. That's weird, isn't it? It's true. Wonders will never

cease. You know what I mean? I assumed if you were left handed,

you would be left footed. Doesn't that make sense? I am left footed.

It's about your brain, so why would you have one brain... Clearly both

sides of his brain are working unlike us normal folk. So we slice

the onion and a Katy is grating carrots. Is that enough? That'll do.

What you do is squeeze the lime juice in there, tip the soya and

mayo in, start to give it a bit of a stir-around. Jack wants to know,

"Who would you most like to collaborate with?" Both myself and

Jules are big fans of Talking Heads. Have you had that discussion?

have missed two opportunities - first, he asked us to play on a

stage he was cure ateing in the States. We couldn't do it. He asked

to us cover on a charity record. We had two hours - we went into the

studio and destroyed the song - we were like, we can't do this. It's

our favourite song in the world. We have missed two opportunities.

Potentially it will happen in the future? I don't know, never met him.

If you're watching this morning! All of this, the delicious flavours

come in. I like the fat the best. That's my favourite bit. All the

flavours come into the mix. We pull it apart with the fork, hence the

reason it's called pulled pork because you pull it a way like this.

You get this gorgeous shredded pork and the end bits are the best bits

- what you might want to call the burnt butts of the pork. If there

was scratch-and-smell television... It's the greatest smell. What we do

is simply spoon a big load of this delicious concoction into there.

This in itself is heavenly. You want loads of the sauce. You want

all of those in there, so this can sit here... That would be perfect

to bring to the game today. I am going to take this for sandwiches

obviously. Beats a bacon but thety, doesn't it? A spoonful of our spicy

coleslaw on the side - pulled pat - uh, pork! Pulled Pickering cat!

While you dish that up, it's over to the Deja View reveal. Yeah, when

Betty Boothroyd was made Madam Speaker and the controversial

Princess Diana biography made its debut, It's My Life was in the

charts - 1992. Do you want to try that?

He's kind of a cat killer. Really put me off. Really a cat. Got lots

of Tweets from you asking about projects. One asks if there is

going to be another series of Miranda Hart? I think so. Miranda

Hart is in a hut in the forest writing as we speak. We're going to

be shooting in the summer, so I guess it would be on the screens in

the autumn. Chris says, "What's going on with Bridget Jones Three?

Will you be in it?" I haven't seen the script, but apparently there is

one. It was supposed to shoot before Christmas, but didn't, so

it's postponed, but not cancelled. Isn't there a Bridget Jones, the

Musical, coming up? Supposedly. Lily has written that. I am not

involved in that. What is that like? Have you eaten any? I want to

get stuck in, but I feel rude. please, get stuck in. Do that. "Are

there any plans to bring back Smack the Pony" says Maxwell. Not to

bring it back as it was, but I am good friends with Fiona and Doon

Mackichan. Together we have worked out and written up a sitcom which

we're trying to - going to try to persuade the BBC to do - please,

BBC! What's that about? It's about whether or not to stay married

called Stick or Twist, three - we were trying to grow up. That's a

good subject at the moment because everybody gets divorced. I think

everybody thinks about it. I am still married. I am still married.

Is that delicious? Very good. You're about to go to the States in

a couple of days, is that right? show Tuesday in London, then we go

to the States after that. About a week before we go to the States.

How is the touring and the food? Really difficult because obviously

you can't eat that well. We end up - obviously, we try to avoid fast

food, but you end up picking up bits of food - especially in

America, it is really hard. At the end of the day, the choice is

really limited. You end up trying to keep some sort of balance

between fitness and eating as less as possible when you're touring.