What did you think of The One Show? Guest: James Earl Jones
Adrian and Christine were joined by veteran Hollywood actor and voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones.
Mike Dilger and Miranda Krestovnikoff are talking to animals all this week. Tonight Miranda attempted to sing like a wren.
- Animal impersonations - phone them in!
- Can you identify the real thing? Play our animal noises quiz.
Dom Littlewood looked at how you can claim back bank charges - if you can prove you're in financial hardship.
Dom Littlewood is also going head to head with Mike Dilger this week in our Children in Need challenge. Who do you want to see face the Wall of Death on Friday?
Kirsten O'Brien asked 'What's in a name?' as she looked at the rebranding of St James Park, Newcastle United's football ground.
And to mark Armistice Day, Arthur Smith uncovered the story of the Americans who secretly joined the Royal Navy to fight Hitler, before the United States joined WWII.
Also: The One Show blog has a new look
You may have noticed that the One Show blog has been reorganised - from now on all of our blog posts should all be in place, making them easier to find.
What did you think of the show? Add your comment.
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The show hasn't happened yet, but so pleased James Earl Jones is on. I think he is a fantastic, versatile actor. He has done so much; president to rights of African Americans. Great stuff!
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Looks like the come dancing crew have to dress as stormtroopers now lol
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So we are all post moderated now just in case we speak our minds LoL
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Just to add a bit of balance (isn't that supposed to be the BBC's job?) there were quite a few Americans of German decent who travelled back to Germany to fight for the National Socialist government.
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Its means if it does not follow there presious rules none of us will see it call it selective deletion sort of censorship so its pc like the rest of the bbc.
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Well and watch people stop blogging due to being censored by the bbc
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The bbc balanced lol when let me know !!
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At least it gives someone in the bbc another job to do moderating everything I write well heres my message its just to make everything pc on the bbc. So we dont tell you what we really think see iv had my rant read that and pass it on.
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I wish Adrian and Christine where my parents!
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oh goody!
as a bank employee, i am now waiting with baited breath for the new wave of "hardship" cases to come in and demand their charges back.
Surprisingly, a large proportion of these "hardship" cases will be claiming charges accrued by essential bills like Sky, Virgin, health club memberships, o2 not to mention the essential purchases like designer clothing, takeaways, cinema tickets and electronic gizmos bought on chip and pin.
try and think before you march into your bank and let rip at us please?
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Just seen the bit about bank charges and agree that this is a problem that needs sorting out as there are many people being penalised by the system and it is making them worse off. What I don't agree with is the choice of words used by the presenter.......'Shout loud and keep shouting.' As a customer facing employee I would hate this advice to be taken literally!! There are ways of putting your dissatisfaction across which get far better results than just yelling at the first employee you come across. Maybe I'm over-reacting but the media do have a fantastic influence on how people confront such passionate issues as this.
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wigglediggle - good luck with receiving a response/explanation - I did notreceive one when my post was removed on 29 October. I'm now awaiting a reply to my subsequent complaint re this.
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My last post is now in a state of limbo (which is new) - it says all new members are pre-moderated initially. What?!? New member? OK - just scrolled up - I guess this is what happened to wigglediggle as those posts have now appeared above. I take it this is a new measure along with the other restructuring.
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Hearing and seeing James Earl Jones was awesome!
He's been one of most iconic voices for me, my entire life! First as Darth Vader, then as Mufasa in The Lion King.
Since TLK is still my favourite film it was great to see the man behind the King on the One Show!
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[at] sky_viewer, it must be personal. Everyone else's posts are appearing instantly. You must be a wrong-un, up to no good.
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Alun...you are a little stirrer
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well I agree with sky viewer I dont think i will not get an answer its so that the blog ends up pc and that anything that does not fit there rules it wont be shown.
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#10 craig macpherson
Craig, don't tar everyone with the same brush.
Bank charges are ludicrous and nothing but usury. Usury set up by the overpaid, over-rated failures who run the banking system.
Don't blame the customers for complaining, afterall these poor sods pay your wages.
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Well whats odd about it is they was not pre moderated the days before so I think thats why when the new system I could not log in maybe its away the bbc can contol those who speak there mind.
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And shouldnt most banks not charge anything as we have poured billions of taxpayers money into them.
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How pretty with the red ink, shame you cannot access previous blogs as easily as you were once able to.
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On a lighter note, am I alone in thinking that Christine's entire colouring has undergone a deep tanning over the past couple of days.
Maybe she's going back on 'Strictly'.
She was much paler on Friday, could it be that Chelsea effect?
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As it happens I am NOT A NEW MEMBER, SO PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU ARE MODERATING MY COMMENTS.
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astro - bank charges may be "ludicrous" in your mind but some form of charge is neccessary in order to teach people how to control their finances - my point is that far too many of charges accrued by the public are simply through their own bad management and those customers with a genuine need of assistance get lost in the scrum - I do feel for these people, as daisy mentioned - the wording in the article was not well modulated - remember the poor sods that are going to have to deal with these people - we get paid to help you in any way we can, not deal with shouting, threats and insults - remember that there are two sides to every story please?
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Eat your heart out George Orwell, you thought you were writing fiction, but Big Brother is alive and well!!!!!
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Re 15: as per 23, it seems I am not alone. Alun - are yours still appearing instantly? As I write, no. 25 is awaiting moderation.
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Post 24, quote, "teach people how to control their finances", do you actually mean what this sounds like, a costly stick to make them toe the line?
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Miranda is so wonderful that I even watched tonight's piece on birdsong the whole way through (for the misnomer 'birdsong' read 'intolerable racket'). Preferred the woodpeckers - infinitely more pleasant sound.
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#24 craig macpherson
Craig, everyone dealing with the public, whether bank employees, call centre operators et al, are the ones who get it in the neck. Your are that organisations first line of defence...unfortunately.
Yes, I agree with you that most customers would get further by keeping cool with you, but the problem for banks in particular, is that your bosses have made the whole business so impersonal that we feel totally cut off. Everything is computer generated and the charges that are levied cost the banks peanuts. Bankers try to tell us that £35 charges for the issuance of a bog standard letter and stamp is reasonable...it cost them nothing like that--probably less than a pound.
Were it not for people who you say 'cannot manage their finances' there would be a big black hole in the banks books.
It's a good excuse for banks to generate money whilst spouting self-righteous nonsense about managing money. They certainly have set a very bad example in that area. Perhaps we should charge them for blowing the banking system apart.
Banks should practice what they preach.
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Post 29, astroplums, excellent post!
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jadedoldie post 21:
How pretty with the red ink, shame you cannot access previous blogs as easily as you were once able to.
Yes you can!! Look... I can still show you up for the ignorant hypocrite that you are who enjoys writing snide down the nose remarks about other bloggers. And if anybody wonders what I'm on about - all they have to do is click on your name!
Here's an example:
"johnholyer I thught I would be devastated, but find I am not. This is I think the result of my precarious mental state, no doubt fostered by my reliance on my imaginary [according to appichappi] family and friends. Fortunately they [the people I SAY I live with???"
WRITTEN BY YOU:-
"Dara O'Briain 9:53pm on 03 Nov 2009 Post 38, some of us watch the show in deference to others in the family who do enjoy it!"
SEE!! Easy innit? You'll be telling me next that you never contradict yourself!
Mustn't forget your boyfriend...
G'night john boy!!!... Don't stay up too late - you know how easily your cage gets rattled if you don't enough sleep.
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Post 31 appichappi, Can't quite understand what you mean about my reference to other bloggers re the red ink, nor the insert of the comment about Dara O'Briain, however if it pleases you to make inappropriate comments please do so, as you know your meanderings amuse me.
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Post 31, have just realised you mean my reference to the embellishments to the web site which are in red! Obviously you were in such a hurry to make one of your meaningful posts about me you did not take the time to check your facts, a very basic mistake, lol.
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Hello everyone - we want to thank our regular bloggers for their patience, if their comments have been held in moderation. This should now be fixed.
We asked the BBC blog experts, and they send their "sincere apologies that your messages haven't been going live immediately. This was just an over sight in the creation of the new, shiny blog. It has been corrected now, so do post away!"
Thanks for visiting The One Show website.
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To host ryan well you should have told us earlier also can u change the colour hate red dont know why lol
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Love the show. Can someone tell me where Christine's dress is from in the 'custard pie' sketch for Children in Need? Love it!
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I'd just like to say the young lad doing the great dane impersonation I think was doing scooby doo.
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Re the discussion about soldiers returning to life at home. In 1939 my dad, like thousands of others were made to go and fight in a war. This was unlike todays spldiers who chose to join up in the armed forces.
Thankfully 1n 1945 my dad came home from the war and returned to the job he had had since he left school. He then went on to work in that job in a factory for little pay and no social help - until he retired at the age of 65.
As much as I feel sorry for soldiers fighting in Afghanistan they chose this job so why are they now beefing on about how much it has badly affected them.
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I loved the show, not so much for Darth Vader, but for Christine gorgeous stripey top. Can I buy it and donate to children in need?! Anyway I love Christine and Adrian and could watch the show all day. The content is always good as well? Please can I have your top Christine?
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In reply to lab rat's comment about balance Eric Berryman one of my co-researchers on the subject would like to respond:
What does 'add a bit of balance' mean, exactly? We know that there were twenty-nine members of the British Free Corps who joined the Waffen-SS. And as for 'quite a few Americans' there were exactly five. These numbers are unconnected to the BBC 1 story about twenty-two US citizens who volunteered to serve Great Britain at a very dark hour indeed.
What the brief documentary did not have time to explore is that these Americans all came from privileged backgrounds and attended the best private schools and universities like Yale, Princeton and Harvard. Most of the men were well past the age limit for induction into any military and their country was neutral. They put their lives on the line when much of the rest of the world, including the US ambassador in London Joseph Kennedy, thought that Hitler was going to win in a walk.
The US RNVR volunteers had an active war; they got themselves killed, wounded and made prisoners of war. They were commandos on the invasion beaches of North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and in the jungles of Burma. They helped sink U-Boats, shoot the Luftwaffe out of the sky, and defuse unexploded bombs in major cities throughout the British Isles.
If you want 'balance' in the story of foreign volunteers in the Second World War there is no contest: hundreds of thousands of men volunteered to fight in a German uniform. Among them eight thousand Danes, about the same number of French, and tens of thousands from elsewhere on the European Continent including Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Holland. All the Don cossacks joined, about 100,000 strong. The 1930s were much more complex than goose-stepping parades along Unter den Linden. The whole phenomena now even has a name: the Anabasis. Moreover, it is inaccurate to say that these numbers reflect people who wanted to fight for 'the National Socialist government'. They were motivated to join German arms in order to fight against Communism and for Christianity and swore an oath to that effect. Such historical nuances are only now starting to be examined, obscured as they have been for 70-plus years by Hitler's mass murder of innocents.
Eric Dietrich-Berryman
berryman2@earthlink.net
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