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In the first of our occasional series about life's lessons, the novelist looked back over her eventful life. Fay revealed what she would say to her 21-year-old self.
What advice would you give to the 21 year-old you? What lessons has life taught you?
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For The One Show Gyles Brandreth has been investigating what happened to the traditional family Sunday.
Typically, British Sundays were known for being a day of rest, for going to church, for sharing a family meal, and going for a drive to visit relations.
But in 1994 the Sunday Trading Act was passed (as an MP, Gyles voted for it).
And now it can seem that it's the new cathedrals - the shopping malls - that are full, and not the churches.
Has shopping spoiled the British Sunday? Are we poorer for not having a day dedicated to "spiritual refreshment"? Or maybe you think that our Sundays have evolved - that more choice of activity is a good thing? Is there anything wrong with shopping on a Sunday? Tell us, please.
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At the end of the day, basically, literally, what are the expressions that annoy you the most?
For The One Show Kirsten O'Brien has been finding out about the origins ofÌýirritating phrases and cliches.
24/7. Know what I mean?
Tell us the expressions that annoy you the most... the best-worst will be read out on the show.
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On December 1st 2008Ìýit will be 70 years since the start of Kindertransport - a little known rescue mission.
In 1938 before the outbreak of World War II, there were more thanÌýnine million Jewish people living in Europe. After the war, nearly two thirds of them were gone, murdered as part of the Nazi's Final Solution.
Just months before war broke out, the British Prime Minister granted temporary admission for Jewish children and teenagers. On December 1st 1938 the first Kindertransport train left Germany. In total the scheme saw the evacuation of over 10,000 predominately Jewish children from Nazi occupied states to countries such as the UK. Many of these children never saw their relatives and extended families again.
The One Show's Lucy Worsley met with Bertha Leverton, who along with her younger brother Theo was one of the teenagers that made the journey to the UK. Bertha was 15 at the time and living in Munich. She remembers her parents making the traumatic decision to send two of their three children away on the Kindertransport. She told Lucy:
"To see so many people breaking down at the platforms. Children crying and being pushed into the train compartments. And every parent promised their child something that of course the majority couldn't keep - 'don't worry darling we'll see you soon
'we'll be coming - we'll all follow'"
On arrival in Britain, Bertha and her brother were housed in a holiday camp near Ipswich. After her sixteenth birthday she was employed as a maid.
In the summer of 1939, with war looming, her little sister Inge joined her. Bertha:
"It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful. And I tell you the best food I've ever eaten in my life - you know what that was? Three day old sandwiches - egg sandwiches that my mother made and she being a well brought up little girl didn't throw away what she didn't want and to me they tasted heavenly because my mother had made them."
ApproximatelyÌý80% of Kindertransport families were never reunited. Many of their stories have been forgotten.
But Bertha was one of the lucky ones. Back in Germany, Bertha's mother and father had made arrangements to escape from Nazi occupied Germany. In a dangerous journey they slowly made their way across Europe and in 1944, five years since they were last together, Bertha's family were finally reunited in England.
Bertha recalls:
"There's so many good moments in a person's life but that really topped it all off after five long years. It's the single greatest moment of my life..."
Suitcase - Kindertransport commemoration
To mark the 70th anniversary of Kindertransport, a theatre performance will be held at Liverpool Street Station, London, on Tuesday 2nd December. Many of the Kindertransport children passed through Liverpool Street Station on their way to their new homes in Britain. For more information email jane@khpl.co.uk or call 020 7503 1640.
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Were you or anybody you know involved with the Kindertransport mission? Were you or one of your relatives one of the children? If you have any memories or stories from this time, we'd love to hear from you.
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Lucy Siegle met with an elderly couple who hired their home to Spooks to use as a film location. Lucy observed filming taking place, and the transformation that occurs at the house. It included the film crew replacing the front door to allow the bad guys to kick it down!
The couple felt slightly nervous about allowing the crew into their home - but everything was put back in its place after filming finished. The homeowners will be using their fee to give their living room a facelift.
Lucy's tips on hiring out your home to a film team
Make sure a proper agreement is set up with the production company.
Tie up any loose ends.
Make sure the team return the house to its original state and cover the costs of insurance.
See also: Behind the scenes at Little Dorrit.
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Would you rent out your home as a film set? Have you done it already? Any hints and tips you can share with us?
It was revealed last week that Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has had voice-coaching lessons. It's been claimed that in the past year his voice has dropped in tone and his speaking style sounds less posh. It's also been noted that David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary may also have had voice-coaching lessons - apparently he's been dropping Ts from the ends of words etc - if true it would make him sound less grand.
For The One Show Gyles Brandreth has been investigating why people from different parts of the UK are sounding more and more like each other as their local accents and dialects die out with geographical and social mobility - a phenomenon that was nailed down more than a decade ago under the name ''.
So what do you think, is it embarrassing to be posh? Or is a regional accent more of a hindrance?
are charismatic little critters, they are actually related to sharks and look like miniature versions of their more aggressive cousins the reef shark.
Unfortunately more than 50% of sharks off the coasts of Britain are considered threatened. Many dogfish are accidentally killed by getting caught in fisherman's lobster pots.
Dogfish egg cases are often called mermaid's purses, once baby dogfish hatch the empty egg cases often wash up on our beaches. These are a great source to conservationists trying to monitor the whereabouts and numbers of nursery grounds.
Now you can help, are currently running The Great Egg case Hunt. If you find any egg cases log on and let them know.
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It's the final film of Bug Week. George McGavin has already looked at leeches, ticks, head lice and wasps.
Tonight he finds out more about .
The mosquito is responsible for causing millions of deaths worldwide. In the UK, they may not spread disease yet, but it's a distinct possibility in the future. And with our recent wet summer people are noticing more and more of them about.
So what can you do to avoid being bitten? How do you repel the mozzies?
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Lucy Siegle has been looking at what happened to suet - a once common British ingredient.
She met Perry, a butcher, who showed her where suet comes from (it's the fat from around cow's kidneys). And she met Peter, founder of the Pudding Club, who explained that in his opinion, suet provides that extra something!
See also: Stir It Up Sunday.
So, who does still use suet in their recipes? Is it you? Do you have suet hints, tips and recipes that you'd share with us? Or is the very idea of suet enough to make you feel ill?
Can't see the film? Click here to see our exclusive videoÌýof George McGavinÌýidentifying your photos of insects.
It's Bug Week on The One Show and every night George has been presenting a film on a specific insect.
Christine and Adrian have been asking you to send in pictures of bugs, for George to identify. They've flooded in - thanks for sending in so many interesting photos!
For our exclusive film, George travelled to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History with your photos, to identify some of the best and to give you some more insect info. Watch the film above.
If you bug photo hasn't been identified in the video, you may find it labelled in our photo gallery.
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George has been 'havin a McGavin' all week. He's been sucked by leeches, chewed by ticks and tonight he comes face to face with wasps.
They're one of the most hated insects in the country, says George.ÌýBut he believes that this strength of feeling is unfair. Wasps use shock tactics to protect themselves from predators but if you're calm and don't startle them, it's very rare that they'll sting you.
Wasps are also incredibly useful. They're carnivorous which means that they'll happily eat your garden pests. So if your garden is flourishing, chances are your local wasps may have helped.
Do you have a wasp story to share? A family treatment for soothing the pain of a sting?
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Monday it was leeches. Tuesday it was ticks. Tonight, on the third night of Bug Week George McGavin is in Bristol combing for head lice.
For info on spotting and treating head lice please see the .
Most insects, says George, have a very useful job to do, but head lice seem to be here just to make us itch and suck our blood. Humans have been plagued by head lice for a hundred thousand years or more and they're common all over the world. They're on the increase because they've become immune to the pesticides we use to kill them.
Does your family have a method for spotting and treating head lice? Some useful (please don't mention brand names. No advertising, please) tips for treating head lice that you can pass on? And as we're here, can you please tell us: What are headlice for?! Thank you.
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Yesterday George McGavin was bitten by leeches and today, in episode two of Bug Week, ticks suck on his blood.
George was in Thetford Forest in Norfolk searching for ticks. As he demonstrated, ticks use their hypostome organ to anchor themselves into skin to feed and then expand - this is why ticks are hard to remove. George then went to see Dr. Susan O'Connell, a medic specialising in tick-borne to find out whether he is at risk of catching it. She said that even if George's tick had carried Lyme disease, which is rare, it had not been feeding long enough to transmit - as the tick would need to be attached to George for 24 hours or more.
For more info on ticks and Lyme disease One Show viewer Denise suggests the websites: lymediseaseaction.org.uk and bada-uk.org.
Have you been bitten by a tick? Do ticks make you, er, cross?
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Tonight Gyles Brandreth visited - considered one of the most architecturally important cemeteries in Britain.
And the Visit Britain website lists the . Which got us thinking... are there any interesting graves near you?
Please tell us in the comment box, below.
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It's the mystery of the royal tomb. For The One Show, Dan Snow travelled to Earl Shilton in Leicester to witness the excavation of what could be King Richard III's stone coffin.
Richard's death at the (1485, fought near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire) marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses.
The story goes that after his death in battle he was buried in Greyfriars Church (now a car park), but years later his grave was opened, his coffin paraded through the streets by a jeering mob and his bones thrown into the River Soar.
Fast forward 500 years to gardener Reg Colver watching a programme about on the TV. When the commentary described the coffin in which the king had been interred, it reminded Reg of a water feature in a garden in Earl Shilton. Reg contacted the council, and their archeologist Richard Knox decided to investigate - and The One Show cameras were there, exclusively, to record the subsequent archeological dig.
Has Reg found the discarded coffin of Richard III? The archeologists can't be sure. Richard Knox says that it is a rich man's casket from the early medieval period and that there's a good chance that it is from the friary site. But he wonders how a jeering mob could have carried such a heavy stone sarcophagus to a river.
Richard Van Allen from the told us that, as far as he knows, Richard III is the only English king whose grave has been lost "so that this is the holy grail - but there are all sorts of legends about what happened to his body". "Everybody lives in hope that he will be found - but no one knows where he was buried at Greyfriars."
The coffin is to be displayed at its new home - .
What do you think, is it the coffin of Richard III? What did happen to King Richard's body?
This week on The One Show we'll be finding out what's so great about a wasp, why mosquitoes make that annoying noise in your ears, what makes a tick - tick, and why nits like clean hair.
The first film of the week is all about . George McGavin waded through the ponds and ditches at Romney Marsh in Kent, dressed as a 19th century leech collector. Back then, the medicinal leech was extremely popular as it was believed to cure people of their bad blood. Today, leeches are still used in plastic and reconstructive surgery, as wounds heal much better when leeches are used to keep the blood flowing through them.
There are sixteen species of leech in Britain, but only one has the jaws capable of sucking human blood, the medicinal leech or .
Bloodsucking leeches will drop off on their own when they are done feeding - removing a leech by burning with a cigarette (as seen in the movies) is generally not recommended as this can result in the leech regurgitating into the wound and causing infection much worse than the leech bite itself.
See some of the photos of insects you've sent in.
Have you been bitten by a leech? Have you been treated with leeches? What was it like?
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Lucy Siegle has been looking at researching your family tree without spending lots of money. Lucy pointed out that a lot of the information that professional researchers, and some commercial websites, will charge you for can be gathered for free.
and record offices are a mine of free information - as they contain parish records. An expert that Lucy spoke to recommended looking at the 1881 census online.
for more info on looking at census records online (England and Wales). for more on Scottish genealogical information.
Lucy also said to beware of paying too much for certificates that can be obtained for less from a register office.
Click for the , the and the . See also: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Family History website.
One Show viewer Colline Mcleod from Blackheath (watch her film, above)Ìýin London is an avid genealogist. She has been tracing her family tree for 15 years and has managed to follow it back as far as the 1700s. Along the way she discovered a great great uncle who served at Buckingham Place under George V and a branch of her family who emigrated to Patagonia only to be killed by a local tribe.
Colline's top tips for tracing your ancestry cheaply:
1) Talk to all of your older family members to glean as much as possible.
2) Visit the area that relatives lived in and talk to the local residents.
3) Use local parish records.
4) Use the National Archives at Kew.
Have you researched your family tree? Do you have tips, hints, or stories to share with us?
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Not Monte Carlo, or Saint Tropez... The is on the Dam Head Estate in Blackley, Manchester.
It contains six exercise machines to provide a gentle workout.
Gyles Brandreth met the enthusiastic users of the Play Area... and it made us wonder... would it catch on?
Over 60? Would you go back to the playground?
ÌýThe One Show's David Lindo visited a garden in Hackney, London where the local grey squirrels have been eating food that the owners have left out for the birds. David followed RSPB advice to make the feeding stations less accessible for the squirrels, and it seemed to foil them, for the time being at least!
As many bird lovers will know, grey squirrels are ingenious little creatures that have a tendency to find any way possible to feed, usually to the detriment of the local bird population. On their website the offer advice on creating deterrents to keep grey squirrels away, including dusting bird food with chilli powder and greasing poles to make them slippery.
But is this taking things a bit too far?ÌýAre squirrels cute, entertaining creatures who are a delight to watch in the garden?
Or 'vermin' and no better than 'rats in trees'? Eating bird food, and scaring away wildlife!
What do you think? Are grey squirrels friend or foe? What are your experiences of them in your garden? Should there be a nationwide cull to control them?
Let us know your thoughts here...
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Des Colemen met Lola, a tabby cat who had recently re-appeared at the family home after a long absence. In that time owner Grace Jennings, thinking she wouldn't see Lola again, took in a homeless kitten.
After Lola's return the once good relationship between pet and owner broke down. Lola's personality changed - making her aggressive and violent towards Grace.
The advice from Sarah Heath, a vet specializing in cat behaviour, was to make some changes to the household. An established cat may take a dislike a dislike to the newcomer, perhaps because it feels that its home territory is being threatened. Sarah recommended separate playing, sleeping and eating areas for both cats.
For more advice on keeping your cat happy visit:
The website and site.
Also: Tell us about your fierce felineÌýexperiences. Do you have any tips you can offer to others?
The One Show's Marty Jopson is on a quest to examine the truthÌýbehind popular myths.
The story that opera singers can shatter glass grew up around the great Italian tenor . It's said that he was able to shatter a crystal goblet by singing a note in just the right frequency.
Marty agrees that it could be possible. Every object has its own frequency and ifÌýmatched, it is possible that the object will break. But can a human voice smash glass?
The answer: Yes, but amplification is required. Marty enlisted soprano for his test. With the help of Salford University's acoustic lab, and a high speed camera, he managed to capture the moment that Sarah's voice shatters glass.
See also: Marty and fizzy drinks.
Can you smash glass with your voice? Have you ever seen it done?ÌýWhat mythsÌýwould youÌýlike investigated?
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
For The One Show, Phil Tufnell looked at the poem 'Remember Remember'. As most know, it refers to Guy Fawkes and the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the 17th Century. Guy Fawkes was subsequently tried as a traitor with his co-conspirators for plotting against the government and was sentenced to death. The rhyme ensured that this crime would never be forgotten!
'Remember Remember' may be one of the best known but do you know of others?
Do you still recite: Red sky at night: shepherd's delight / Red sky in the morning: shepherd's warning ? Or I before E, except after C ?
Does your family or local region have use poems, mnemonics or acronyms to remember certain things? Do you remember some from school days? Tell us, please.
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