What did you think of The One Show? Guest: Clive Anderson
Tonight's guest was comedy writer and presenter, Clive Anderson.
There always seems to be 'sale' signs in shop windows, so Lucy Siegle asked: Can you still get a bargain?
Our towns and cities may look too busy for rare wildlife - but look up above the rooftops and it's a different story. Mike Dilger travelled to Chichester in search of peregrine falcons.
Do you know your national speed limits? Following reports that the government might consider lowering the single carriageway speed limit from 60mph to 50mph, Matt Allwright tackled some of the issues surrounding speeding.
And they're off! Its the epic race that often tempts even the most conservative of us to have a flutter - Clare Balding guided us through the history of the Grand National. How do you pick a winner? Let us know.
And finally, how would you like to share a holiday with The One Show? Our wildlife duo Mike and Miranda are looking to join a family to discover just how much wildlife lives around your favourite holiday spot. Get involved here.
What did you think of the show? Add your comment below.
© MMIX~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~20~RS~)
Comments
Why don't you remind everyone that according to the Department of Transport's own statistics, only 6% of all road accidents are caused by exceeding the speed limit. Why isn't anywhere near as much money being spent on addressing the other 94% of causes of road accidents?
Complain about this comment
And Clive Anderson's *next* show will be:
Watching Paint Dry.
Honestly, Bridge on't telly! Whatever next?
Complain about this comment
Were the National Speed Limits quoted correctly??? I think they are different for vans! I know someone who was fined for doing 70mph on a national speed limit dual carriage way.
Complain about this comment
blog 2,little tyke...it IS celebrity bridge though !!!!!!
Complain about this comment
BLOG 3 ....he did say it was the speed limit for cars fairly early on,easy to miss.
Complain about this comment
i enjoyed the speed limit story,,,i live near the stocksbridge road.
i am glad that the cameras have had a positive result.
Complain about this comment
Why is it the motorist fault all the time. If someone wants to run out in front of moving traffic then they desereve all they get. Educate children to the dangers of the road. Showing my age now but Tuffty was about when i was younger then the Green cross man. But they worked. my three children have all left school now but only one, the youngest ever came home from school with details of road saftey. and that was when he left primary.
Complain about this comment
The bird Christine is plagued by is most likely to be a Cockatoo (probably a sulphur-crested Umbrella male).
Her impression was excellent.
I owned one for over twenty years, and they shriek at over 90 decibels making them easily heard from over a mile away!!
Best wishes
Geoff
Complain about this comment
Yes, they said the speed limits wrong!
Only a car, car-derived-van upto 2 tonnes in weight can travel on Motorway/Dual C at 70mph
Cars with trailers, busses, goods vehicles, etc are less !!!
And (here's the best one) a goods vehicle exceeding 7.5 tonnes (eg Artic) can only tavel at 40mph even if the single carriageway road has a 50mph sign !!!!
Come on guys. You need to get it right.
Steve
Norfolk & Norwich Advanced Motorists
www.nnam.org
Complain about this comment
beegee09,blog 7.
there are so many more cars now than when i was a child.
i remember walking or riding my bike to school and not seeing many cars on the journey.
it is now 2009 and high powered cars have doubled,doubled and doubled again.
we are not comparing like with like.
i for one would be happy to reduce my speed if it saves just one life whether the person(adult or child) is at fault or not.
Complain about this comment
If you are interested in saving lives then why not join your local Advanced Motorist group.
You will learn when to and when not to use speed.
I strongly believe that it's education that we all need instead of rules.
Complain about this comment
blog 9...i am sure that he said the speed limits that he was discussing were for cars only.
it would have taken forever had they explained all vehicle limits and then how it would impact on all the different classes.
i stress if you watch it again he said he was talking only about cars.
Complain about this comment
steveminvo.... not wishing to be over confident but i think i am quite a good driver.
i have 3 points on my license for speeding at 35 in a 30 and i deserved them.
i think very carefully when i drive about the speed i drive at but will you not concede that we have many more cars now that are so much more powerfull than they used to be?
i agree about education and training,hopefully i can be trained as well as the driver of a learning school car that overtook me at speed near a crossing on sunday without a second person in the car.
perhaps he was late for picking up his pupil.
his training had done him a lot of good.
it was in a 20mph area in thurnscoe and he passed me as i approached the crossing,,he was well above the limit.
the roads are full of people who think they can drive at speed because they are good at driving and think the snail drivers cause the problems.
Complain about this comment
the spine tailed swift is the fastest bird in the world,not peregrine falcon.
Complain about this comment
Some simple explanation as to why a speed cut is effective! The energy in a moving mass is 1/2 x mass x velocity squared.
So cars travelling at 60mph have 60x60/50x50 times more energy than when travelling at 50mph. That is 3600/2500= 1.44 times more energy!! Or the other way 2500/3600=0.69 or 31% less energy.
For 60mph compared to 30mph that's 60x60/30x30 or 4.0 times more energy!!
So what about a smallish car ~1 ton compared to small lorry at ~5 ton.
The lorry's energy equivalent at 60mph is 5 x 60 x 60 = 18000. The car's is 1 x 30 x 30 = 900. Therefore the lorry has 18000/900 = 20 TIMES MORE energy than the slower smallish car - and that kills - especially if the lorry collides with a small car!!
Would you pick a fight with someome who can hit you 20 times harder than you can?
Complain about this comment
I think the bird Christine hears in the morning maybe a Great Tit.
Complain about this comment
blog 15,,,think i agree 100%.
but you will still get some that think THEY can drive at speed better than anybody else(whether through ego or training) and that it is other drivers,pedestrians or anybody else that is to blame.
Complain about this comment
Thanks one show, for displaying the one word most women cannot resist, ( SALE )
has any one for instance, ever bought a 3 piece suite that wasn't in a sale, as Lucy pointed out, they are not really sales, the shops are asking too much on purpose, to make it look like genuine reduction.
Complain about this comment
Hi there, the bird Christine has a problem with is definitely a Magpie.
A common warbler of the description she gave for this time in the mornings.
It happens to us every day we can see them on our bird table.
I am an avid bird watcher and can vouch for this.
Regards from Greg from Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
Complain about this comment
Post 16, are you being rude ?
Complain about this comment
People often say "why not just have speed limit signs" instead of the national speed limit sign.
This is hopelessly impracticable!
The reason the Signs don't use numbers is because they vary by vehicle.
---------
There are four categories of vehicles:
Cars, vans and bikes (up to 2 ton);
Cars, vans and bikes (up to 2 ton) with trailer;
Buses & coaches (up to 12m) and goods vehicles (2ton - 7.5ton); and
Goods Vehicles (over 7.5 ton).
There are then four categories of road: Motorway, Dual Carriageway, Single Carriageway and Built up Areas.
The limits are:
For cars: 70, 70, 60, 30;
For cars with trailers: 60, 60, 50, 30;
For buses and goods vehicles: 30, 50, 60, 70*; and
Goods Vehicles: 30, 40, 50, 60.
*60 if articulated or towing a trailer.
Signs posting limits over-ride the national speed limit for all groups, even this results in a higher than usual limit.
----------
OK, granted, looks complicated but the average motorist need only remember one set!
Moving to a posted limit system would either result in the necessity for multiple signs (a limit for each vehicle group) or 25ton articulated lorries legally allowed to hurtle down country lanes at 60mph!
There is nothing wrong with the current system. If it is confusing, you need to do some homework because ignorance of the law is no defence!
Just be thankful we don't have a system that also varies by driver age, experience, time of day and season as occurs in some parts of Europe.
---------
At the end of the day, lowering of speed limits won't reduce deaths. The main cause of deaths is prats who'll do 90 no matter what the limit is. Another cause is slow drivers, yes you heard me, slow drivers!
Here is the situation, you're driving along at 60, see a car in the distance, assume that it too is doing 60. Suddenly as you get closer, you realise that it is doing 40. You hit the brakes, no problem. Unfortunately, the guy behind doesn't notice and hits the back of you.
Also, distractions: Phones, arguments, kids, cigarettes, food, sat nav, etc., etc.!
Lastly, the biggest cause, the incurable one. Tiredness!
The world will never be a large, furry, fluffy playground. It will be dangerous. People will die. Roads, cancer, accidents with chain-saws, air crashes, you name it.
Road deaths is now a low figure, what with modern car technology, but people will always die. More die from cancer though!
The problem with removing a blanket national speed limit is that people lose the ability to judge a situation.
Even though the limit is 60, I should be intelligent enough to use my judgement and realise that this twisty, single track road should be taken at 40.
Likewise, I should know that in a busy high street, 30 isn't appropriate.
If the government keeps giving me limits though, I will lose this ability and we will all come to the conclusion that the speed limit is no longer the "maximum safe speed" but is now the "correct safe speed". Suddenly, we have to use judgement, and haven't got a clue!
Remove all speed signs, except in accident black spots maybe. Give the cops the power to penalise "careless or inappropriate speed" . They can penalise "careless driving" so why not "careless speed".
This would allow the person who defends the right to drive past a school on the dot of 30 to be prosecuted.
This would make the country a better country of motorists.
--------
Jonathan Kubiak, a newly qualified 17 year old driver.
I enjoy driving fast, but safely. Always safely.
A mate of mine died last year, not because he was speeding, not because he was drunk and not because he was waring a seat belt but because some old lady coming the other way was driving at 30 in a 60 zone. A car behind her realised he slow speed too late, braked, spun and pushed my mates car down an embankment. He was 20.
Complain about this comment
Post 21, sorry for the loss of your mate, its a sad old world sometimes, no matter how safely you drive, its those other idiots you must look out for. Take care.
Complain about this comment
Post 21. Sorry for your loss.
Complain about this comment
re21: Your comments at #21 are a cogent and rational contribution that is germane to the discussion. But chiefly it is all good common sense. Thank you.
Complain about this comment
I wish television presenters would learn some manners. When Adrian Chiles Asked if Clive Anderson had had a nice weekend he just said yes and forgot to say thank you. Shame on you. But I know it is not just Clive other people are the same. Good Manners cost nothing.
Complain about this comment
re25: So Clive Anderson won't be invited to tea again.
Complain about this comment
I usually like the show, but it annoyed me to see a load of people who live and work in London (I assume) saying we need slower speed limits in the countryside.
I live and work in the countryside and if the traffic gets any slower it will take forever to get anywhere. Slower speeds just make the queues of traffic longer and it gets more and more difficult and dangerous to join the main roads at junctions from minor roads.
If we must have lower speed limits then we need traffic lights at every junction so that people can safely join the queues of traffic snailing along our roads. 60mph? I'd be lucky.
Oh, and by the way the prices of all our goods in the shops would go up because it will take longer for the delivery lorries to get to the local shops - or else the local shops will close down, and we'll have yet more traffic on the roads as everyone has to drive to their "local" supermarket.
Great idea! Not!
Complain about this comment
With respect, would it be possible for Clare Balding to research the number of horses killed or destroyed in the Grand National since it started up until the present race. I would be interested in your presenter's opinions on this aspect of the sporting event.
Alan -Staines
Complain about this comment
Here's one for Christine.
Loved the bird impression!!
DAWN CHORUS
Is that a blackbird, or maybe a thrush
Singing aloud in the pre-dawn hush?
His cheerful song in the early morn
The first voice I hear as a new day dawns
Soon he is joined by a host of birds
All making sure that their voices are heard
Their songs filter through the mist of my dreams
As through my window first rays of light stream
Birds singing to welcome a bright new day
I would go back to sleep if they'd all go away.
Joan. Manchester.
Complain about this comment
blog 21.....how cost effective would it be to have police sitting in cars waiting for careless speed ?and how easy would it be to prove?
blog 27,liked your blog-yes the idea for the topic came from a londoncentric production team(cost effective johnholyer ?)
Complain about this comment
Is it me or does anyone else find Clive Anderson totally boring and says the same think as last time he was on?
Complain about this comment
I think Bob Champion Is a really nice bloke but the rest of the show was disappointing.
(Hope I got right day for Bob)
Complain about this comment
31....like the show but,,,YES.
Complain about this comment
i think clive is an extremely iteligent &funny man , has anyone else noticed that john sergents hands are like a load of bananas ?
Complain about this comment
View these comments in RSS