What did you think of The One Show? Guest: Omid Djalili
In a very special One Show 'Moon Show', commander Bleakley and space cadet Chiles were joined by comedian Omid Djalili to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings.
Lucy Siegle told us about Dr Tom Bacon, an unsung British space hero whose achievements were, um, eclipsed.
Marty Jopson met Richard Osborne, one of
Matt Allwright investigated the conspiracy theories surrounding the moon landings.
And finally, Robert Llewelyn and his team in Cambridgeshire launched The One Show Rocket.
Plus: Protect the Earth from alien invasion!
Play our game here. Ben, The One Show 'astronaut' (pictured right) scored a measly 3160 points. Can you do better? Play the game here.
Also: Watch the latest One Show Web Show - Adrian and Christine's pick of your recent comments, pictures and stories.
Have a great weekend, we'll see you on Monday.
What did you think of the show?
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America's got NASA and we've got some bloke in this back garden.lol
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My Girlfriend loves Christine's dress, Can you tell me where it is from? Thanks
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How come the in the film of the first step on the moon Neil Armstrong is almost transparent, like a shaddow, and you can see the horizon through him? It seems to support the fact it never happend
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I loved the comment by Lucy about Bacons roll (sic) being immense!
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I'm sorry but they didn't go to the moon.
Evidence here: http://stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_landings.htm
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The conspiracy nuts are comical. The whole 'light-source' thing is especially amusing. In case they hadn't noticed the moon reflects the light of the Sun - otherwise we wouldn't be able to see it at night....
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I'm sorry, but the conspiracy theory have been consistantly disproved time and time again, by considerably more eminent people than your "photography expert". Why are the same theories put about time and time again...cheap time fillers maybe?
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Ooops...make that theories, I think I'm suffering from "angry fingers"!
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Friday's One Show on July 17th 2009.
" Moon Show Special"
Reviewed by Tim Rawlinson.
Rating: ***
Following a nice pre-title sequence introducing the show and inviting viewers to The One Show Moon Show, we were introduced to a new moon set which looked cheap but in a nice way, not like some other cruder sets. It was nice to see the coffe table had been given a welcome vacation.
Omid Djalili told us a story about a fake letter at school which all the pupils got, and Christine looked as beautiful as ever in her spacey little number.
So, then into the first V.T item, which celebrated the British input into the American Apollo 11 Space Mission. Rule Britania! The item was well constructed but a bit hefty on the facts. It was very well illustrated with back up points to boot, and some interesting interviews, The best being with Francis Bacon's son, Edward. He is getting on a bit himself and looked a bit like the guy out of Pixar's first ever animation.
So back to the studio, with more purple in it than Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, shirts included.
There was then a rather boring discussion about moon rocks, but I guess if you were interested in the subject you will have liked it.
Omid then explained that his name means Hope because of a rocket named after him and this added a bit of comedy to anotherwise dull but factual interview.
And after all that education the BBC plug nothing better than BBC Games... nice one.
So onto the 2nd V.T item... again drumming home the fact that Britain contributes a lot to the space travel progress around the world.
There was then an amazing experiment conducted in someone's garden that looks like it should have been on Blue Peter or some other kind of show. It did prove a serious point however, small things lead to bigger and better things. And nothing great was ever achived without failing first.
The rest of the report was like an old Science video in school, loads of jargon and facts thrown at us on a Friday evening, uncalled for and un needed.
Back to the purple paradise of The One Show Studio for a look at thier own rocket launch. Finally something entertaining. A big One Show rocket is shown and this gets our interest. A launch control area is shown and it is a big 7 or 8 man job, and health and safety has been considered. The old thing of stay tuned is used.
Omid is replacing Owen Atkinson in Oliver and a great and fabulous interview is conducted with him in the studio. " Is this to much? I never know!"
Race is then touched about an iranian playing a jew on stage, but it is all pretty calm and discussed in a mature and great manner by the team and Omid.
Then to even thing's out Matt tells us the moon landing may have been faked. This is a great report with amazing content and great in depth explinations of how it may have been faked. With a remake of the video.
What a fabulous and entertaining point of view and thanks for being two sided for a change One Show!
The rocket is then shot and the show closes
WHAT A BORING FACT BASED SHOW!
Noticably the show it's self had a few dodgy camera shots and bad timings but was over all well produced.
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As for theories if it didn't happen, its the greatest hoax in history!
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Ha ha, so that's how the BBC celebrate 40 years since the moon landings to peak audiences.......turn it into a joke.
To think that the BBC actually appears to give credence to the doubters....please apoligise to Sir Patrick.
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RE:11. I think the BBC will have more serious shows on BBC Four if you don't have a sense of humor and light hearted fun.
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Nice to see Robert Llewelyn on the one show.People should checkout hes web show called "carpool" its very interesting.
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I can't believe you gave so much air time to the stupid conspiracy theories surrounding the Apollo moon landings, every peice of so called evidence for fraud given in the show has been debunked thousands of times in the last 40 years.
Visit www.clavius.org for more details.
Nasa went to the moon nine times with six landings between 1968 and 1972. FACT. They were probably the best documented events in history. Io way was it faked.
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Re 11. Sorry, angry fingers here too!
It's just I thought we had done the 'didn't go to the moon' theory to death!
I have got a sense of humour - but it's a passion of mine!
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purpletimr, BBC Four have indeed been running a very interesting 'Moon season' and (as is usually the way with these things) many of those programmes will probably be making it to BBC2 very soon.
I would have liked more of Colin and less of Omid, though.
I liked the addition of the dog (presumably Laika, the first dog in space) in the title sequence.
Oh and Christine looked out of this world ;) (See what I did there, eh?)
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A great show! I wish I had been there as I would have loved to discuss the "Moon hoax" theories. I followed the space programme from the early 60's and can genuinely say that I know a good deal about the subject. In fact the people who claim we didn't go to the Moon (as opposed to the thousands who have simply seen what they say about it) really do not know what they are talking about. Aside from using very selective video clips, what they don't realise is that some of those same clips actually show they *were* on the Moon!
They also appear to be very ignorant about radiation, the Apollo programme itself, photography (including basic things like perspective) and science in general. What makes this daft is that they could have found the real answers if only they did the minimal research. The lander did NOT weight 17 tons on the Moon. There is NO reason for a crater to have been formed by the landing engine. The spacesuits were NOT inflated to a greater pressure than a football.
I'm pleased to say that I can claim to be responsible for a certain drinks company removing their advert suggesting the Moonwalk was filmed in a studio.
Anyone who wants to hear these claims laid to rest should go to "The Great Moon Hoax" at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich on Tuesday evening. See http://www.nmm.ac.uk/visit/events/great-moon-hoax/*/changeNav/false/from/2856
We should promote science, not attack it!
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Me too, I'm all for a bit of entertainment, and I found the programme well done overall. If anything, the piece on the conspiracy theories made it even clearer how laughable they are, if thats what we can come up with using today's technology (although with a very limited budget), how did they manage a fake of that magnitude and believability with 40 year technology?
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Why does everyone appear to forget there were 3 people sitting in that capsule on the way to the moon. Without Michael Collins cotribution the whole exercise would have been a disaster. Give the guy the credit he deserve.
Mike Collins the forgotten astronaut.
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It's funny how the people with the most to gain from disproving the moon landings (apart from authors flogging their dubious wares, of course) never managed to.
Indeed, the Soviets never even attempted to seriously deny NASA's achievement. Instead they perpetrated their own hoax, by claiming that they were never in a race to the moon, that they considered the landings were of little benefit and that they wouldn't risk Soviet lives on such a fool-hardy expedition. Which was all nonsense that was only fully exposed when the Soviet Union collapsed.
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the bbc sets up a show to highlight all that is good about our nation.
our country has great places to visit and stories waiting to be told.
what do we get...yes you know LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST AND PLACES WITHIN AN HOUR OF THE CAPITAL.
the moon show???? what was that all about?
iran and iranian was mentioned more than the moon.
what did it tell us we didnt know or havent seen a thousand times better before?
how original- a man in london setting off a rocket on an elastic band in his back garden and more of the same on conspiracy theories.
it was all a cosy local show from bbc london.
the one show does a special devoted to the moon and still finds a bbc celeb with something to plug.
i am under the impression that ratings are starting to fall for the show as people grow tired of its london theme,,what a surprise????
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just wanted to let the one show know that mythbusters on the discovery channel dedicated a whole episode to the moon landing photos and were able to explain all the different shadow angles and to prove it they replicated them and confirmed it was possible . check out the episode in question
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cyd1974,,,,,,,,,,,,proves the topic has been done a million times better on other progs.
a waste of our money.
the purple lighting makes adrian look like a drinker and sun tan like a plum
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Post 1 gaz911 and the beauty of it all is that being British we are proud of our eccentricity,lol.
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Why has NASSA never been back, not enough cash for another moon landing? if they did it once, why don't they do it again, and prove they did it in 1969, by finding the the flag they allegedly planted there.
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has now reached the Moon and is orbiting at less than half the height that Apollo did. It has a high-resolution camera that will be able to see the descent stages of the Lunar Modules when it passes over them. Of course there are those who will say that the resultant photos are fakes, but you can't please everyone ...
Why has NASA never been back? Because at the time it was no longer politically desirable. Now we are planning our return, based on an on-going programme that will keep NASA spending at about its current level.
People think the costs were absolutely massive, yet NASA spending is only about 1% of government funding. The USA spends far, far more on health, education & welfare, and as for defence spending, their operations in Iraq were costing them $1 billion per day, which meant we could have paid for a manned Mars mission in under 2 months! As for the UK, the NHS budget is about £7.2 billion, when we spend less than £200 million on space. A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that the two new aircraft carriers ordered 2 years ago at a cost of £3.2 billion will now cost £5 billion. So please don't say that space exploration is a waste of money that we can't afford.
If anyone wants an informative and entertaining presentation on space exploration, have a look at http://www.geocities.com/spaceflight_uk
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re 25 NASA went back about 4 times in the early 70s
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I think The One Show should do mechandice:
Here are a few ideas.
1. An Adrian Chiles nodding dog.
2. A Christine barbie doll with inter changeable clothes.
3. A Dom little wood action man with stretchy arms.
4. Signed autograph photos made out to people personally for 3.99
5. T shirts that say I support The One Show.
6. Adrian chiles lovely face printed on a plate for us all to enjoy.
7. An annual- featuring semi naked poses by people who wear nice dresses- i'd pay anything for that!
8. One show post cards.
9. One Show whippy cream.
10. And finally I would also like a set of One show bowling balls.
If I am a good boy do you think santa will bring me these things?
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Onr thing we can all agree on- the set looked better than usual
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The moon programme is well within my memory but I seemed to have forgotten most of it until the recent documentaries-on my first day at school as a 5 year old Russias sputnik was big news and the moon landing occured just as I was doing my A levels-the space programme was very much part of life and I think we became a little complacent-oh well we'll go the moon and then to Mars etc-we did not realise that we were witnessing history.Tonights programme was an interesting recap and we were introduced to yet another comedian Omad who is not quite as funny as he thinks he is.
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Re 5: LOL! The 'evidence' has been worded quite brilliantly.
Re 39: No no no!! I'm missing the skelton - sorry - table already. Hope to see it on Monday.
Re 28: No.2 - an action figure, perhaps? There should be more such action figures. And a Lucy one too. They could be displayed proudly in the living room. Re No. 3: I hope the splitting of the surname was unintentional as it adds a completely new dimension to what you've said about poor Dom.
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liked Omid, he always makes me laugh, as usual like most guests he was promoting his show, but thats the same on all shows, isn't it??
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Those who don't believe they went to the Moon could look at:-
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu It shows images taken in the last few days by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.
Then again maybe you think that's all a hoax as well!
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What will be the theme
Promoted by the team
Who person this One Show?
We all quite soon will know
From the moment it blasts off
We knew that they will not
Leave 4o years on Sundays -
Events alone, till Monday
So yes predictably
The "Moon Show" it will be
And for some company
Weve Omid Djalili
Another unsung hero here
A space one this time, to revere
Doctor Francis Tom Bacon
(Elizabethan Franciss direct relation)
Note, Tom was a proud Britain
Not another loud American
And without his famous fuel-cell
The Apollo project wouldnt have gone half so well
But too his eternal regret
He missed Neil Armstrongs one small step
And hearing him complete the line
One giant leap for all mankind
Next with Martin Jopson
Off to meet Richard Osborne
Leading space amateur
Rocket man extraordinaire
Watch the test firing
Of his missile on a shoe-string
Conspiracy theories abound
And rumours go around
That NASA had to fake it
And the moon men didnt make it
20th July 1969
The biggest con-show of all time
Was it a cold-war con trick
To match the Russians Sputnik
(One percent of people poled
Firmly to the opinion hold
Buzz Light Year not Buzz Aldrin
Was the one who went moon walkin!)
In Americas defense
Were shown some evidence
"Rock-solid" proof at that
As in the studio, sat
Is our own OU Professor
No less than Colin Pillinger
In whose sweaty hand
Dug from the Sahara sand
Is a piece of meteorite
Which to all purposes might
Like thousands of other bits each year
Have travel from the moon down here
No kidding, theyre found bout everywhere
Yes, even in Kidder-min-i-ster
The Iranian Space Mission
Has come to the decision
To name their treasured rocket
After no other than Omid
Omid of course means hope
And we wonder will it cope
With all the challenges it will meet
They should really have called it certainty
Their space shuttles name is fingers crossed
According to Omid, who we trust
Their Space station will be called dont hold your breath
Believe Him? You can please yourself!
China plans a moon walk too
In just 15 years from noo
Their sightsre set upon their stars
The next rung up the ladders Mars
But, forget that, our count has begun
Excitement now grips everyone
In field-gazeboed Mission Control
And fingers are crossed in the studio
The rocket aptly named One Show
Is on the pad and ready to go
Join with us 10 98. 7.
Eyes all lifted to the heavens
65.4..3.21..
Blast off and the One Shows gone
Till next Monday
Anyway
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Fantastic show. Great to see a live launch on prime time tv. Congrats to Richard Osbourne, Richard Brown and the rest of the 'motley crew' assembled there.
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What will be the theme
Promoted by the team
Who person this One Show?
We all quite soon will know
From the moment it blasts off
Well know if they or not
Will leave 4o years on Mondays -
Events till their anniversary
I guessed it - no predictably
Tonight the "Moon Show" it will be
And for some company
Weve Omid Djalili
Another unsung hero here
A space one this time, to revere
Doctor Francis Tom Bacon
(Elizabethan Franciss direct relation)
Note, Tom was a proud Britain
Not another loud American
And without his famous fuel-cell
The Apollo project wouldnt have gone half so well
But too his eternal regret
He missed Neil Armstrongs one small step
And hearing him complete the line
One giant leap for all mankind
Next with Martin Jopson
Off to meet Richard Osborne
Leading space amateur
Rocket man extraordinaire
Watch the test firing
Of his missile on a shoe-string
Conspiracy theories abound
And rumours go around
That NASA had to fake it
And the moon men didnt make it
20th July 1969
The biggest con-show of all time
Was it a cold-war con trick
To match the Russians Sputnik
(One percent of people poled
Firmly to the opinion hold
Buzz Light Year not Buzz Aldrin
Was the one who went moon walkin!)
In Americas defense
Were shown some evidence
"Rock-solid" proof at that
As in the studio, sat
Is our own OU Professor
No less than Colin Pillinger
In whose sweaty hand
Dug from the Sahara sand
Is a piece of meteorite
Which to all purposes might
Like thousands of other bits each year
Have travel from the moon down here
No kidding, theyre found bout everywhere
Yes, even in Kidder-min-i-ster
The Iranian Space Mission
Has come to the decision
To name their treasured rocket
After no other than Omid
Omid of course means hope
And we wonder will it cope
With all the challenges it will meet
They should really have called it certainty
Their space shuttles name is fingers crossed
According to Omid, who we trust
Their Space station will be called dont hold your breath
Believe Him? You can please yourself!
China plans a moon walk too
In just 15 years from noo
Their sightsre set upon their stars
The next rung up the ladders Mars
But, forget that, our count has begun
Excitement now grips everyone
In field-gazeboed Mission Control
And fingers are crossed in the studio
The rocket aptly named One Show
Is on the pad and ready to go
Join with us 10 98. 7.
Eyes all lifted to the heavens
65.4..3.21..
Blast off and the One Shows gone
Till next Monday
Anyway
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8157368.stm
Hmmmm - enough said I think.
'The One Show' - you just lost a viewer.(For good)
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I think Americans must have landed on the Moon, I have looked it up, 12 Americans have walked on the Moon on 3 separate occasions, nearly all were American citizens, they can't all be lying about it, so I think they really did land on the Moon!!
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BBC BBC I DESPAIRED AT YOUR INADEQUACIES.
THE SINGLE MOST COMMON THING SHARED BY YOUR LICENSE PAYERS OVER ALL OTHER COMMONALITIES IS
MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA!!
WEATHER THEY SUFFER IT, OR DELIVER IT.
YOUR FEATURE ON THE ONE SHOW WAS RATHER LIKE TALKING ABOUT A TREE AND NOT KNOWING THE NAME OF THE FOREST!
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