1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,040 Hello, I'm Sam Neill, all the way from New Zealand, 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,000 welcoming you to The Graham Norton Show. 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:15,720 This programme contains some strong language. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:23,200 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 5 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,880 Hello, good evening, you're all so welcome to the show. 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,760 Oh, clapping ourselves in an empty room with just a few sycophantic 7 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,080 members of staff to cheer us along. 8 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,920 I feel like Boris Johnson visiting Scotland. 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,080 I don't know exactly where he visited, perhaps 10 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:45,120 it was the famous Scottish resort of Loch Down. 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,800 It's been a long year already! 12 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,920 No audience here in the studio, but we do have a fantastic virtual 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:55,920 audience watching from home. 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,440 Hello, everybody! 15 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,560 Look at them, pages of them, pages! 16 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,200 I know why you're all happy, yes, only two more days 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:05,760 of Dry January left. 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:10,920 Like anyone has been doing that! 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,560 So who have we got for you on the show tonight? 20 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:15,960 Well, me here in the studio is comedian and actor 21 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:17,480 turned novelist, Andi Osho! 22 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,760 Star of Cold Feet and The Hobbit, Jimmy Nesbitt! 23 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:26,200 From Doctor Who and I Hate Suzie, Billie Piper is with us! 24 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,960 And it's The Voice himself, music legend Sir Tom Jones! 25 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:32,640 Thank you, thank you. 26 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,040 Plus, shortly we will be joined live from New Zealand 27 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,080 by Jurassic Park star Sam Neill! 28 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:41,160 I know! 29 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:43,560 That's nice, very nice! 30 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,640 Yes, you might well clap, it's a very good show! 31 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,400 Billie can't stop! 32 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:50,720 So, welcome, all. 33 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:51,920 First time for you, Andi. 34 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,560 Yes, yes. 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,000 And Billie and Jimmy, you know each other, don't you? 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Billie and I know each other, yeah. 37 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:58,720 Yeah. 38 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:01,840 A long time ago, I think I was with you on your first... 39 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,960 It was my first professional job, yeah. 40 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,160 It was a BBC adaptation of The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. 41 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,080 I remember that! 42 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,280 And they were shooting it quite quickly. 43 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:12,600 Yeah. 44 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,240 And you have to get to know each other really quite 45 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:16,360 quickly, if you recall. 46 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,920 I think it was my first of many sex scenes! 47 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:28,880 But you sort of meet and you go, "Hi, I'm Jimmy and this is my arse." 48 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,320 And Sir Tom, a double celebration for Tom Jones, 49 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,240 because since we last met, you have unbelievably 50 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,000 turned 80 years old. 51 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,000 80, yes. 52 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,960 Wow! 53 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,040 And there should be a confetti cannon or something, 54 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,520 because you've also had the vaccine? 55 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:48,680 Yes, two of them. 56 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:49,920 Yeah! 57 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:50,960 You're fully vaccinated? 58 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,040 I've had the two, yes. 59 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,840 Let's all cough on Tom! 60 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,240 That was two weeks ago, when I had the second 61 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,880 one, so now I am like, you know, bullet-proof. 62 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,040 I'm going to be gobbing all in your direction. 63 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,320 Actually, we should all hug Tom! 64 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:08,840 So, you are now good? 65 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,040 Yes. 66 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,680 Now everybody else has got to get it. 67 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,520 Because I thought, oh, I'll be able to go out and sing 68 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:16,880 some live shows now. 69 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,960 But you've got to have an audience for that. 70 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,080 If they haven't had it, what's the point? 71 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,520 Yeah, "I'm fine!" 72 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,080 But you're singing for us later? 73 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,920 Yes. 74 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:31,840 I'm delighted to say, live in the studio! 75 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,280 That is a treat, isn't it? 76 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,160 Just us in this room and then you're going to be singing. 77 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,200 Exactly. 78 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,360 But I was thinking, you've been going a while... 79 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,720 Yes, quite a while, yes. 80 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,080 A new record, a new single, do you still enjoy it, 81 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,680 do you still get excited? 82 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,000 I love it. 83 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:53,560 I sing around the house, I sing when I don't get paid for it. 84 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,680 I mean, I love to sing, I really do. 85 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:57,720 And it... 86 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,440 You get the hook, you know. 87 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,600 Any chance I've got of getting up and singing, I will. 88 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,160 Because, Billie Piper, how long was it before you got 89 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,240 tired of the singing? 90 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,280 Like, three years. 91 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,480 I was retired by 18. 92 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:12,640 And then, I met you. 93 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,440 That was my journey. 94 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,080 Was that a good point as well, when you met Jimmy, 95 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:20,280 it was like, "I'm out! 96 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:21,480 This is for me now." 97 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,520 This is for me. 98 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,160 And you knocked it on the head, didn't you, it didn't 99 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,800 knock you on the head, if you know what I mean? 100 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,440 Yeah, I knocked it on their head when I was 18. 101 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,040 So I think I signed my record deal when I was, like, 14, and then... 102 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,680 You always show that picture, like I haven't got any others! 103 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,600 It's just on my computer. 104 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,560 Not just yours! 105 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,600 You love that shot. 106 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,840 So, yeah, about 18, I was done and dusted, exhausted, 107 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:49,800 and ready for a big change. 108 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,160 Look at Tom Jones! 109 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,040 I know, that's something completely different. 110 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,280 You can sing really well for a start! 111 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:58,280 That's a difference. 112 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,440 Because Andi, you were in a band, weren't you? 113 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:01,480 That's right, yeah. 114 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:04,120 I think for probably about six weeks? 115 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,800 OK! 116 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,360 We got a letter from the people who were running 117 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:09,800 the band or whatever... 118 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,240 Whatever! 119 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,360 Telling us that they didn't want me and my mate in the band. 120 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,000 It was the weirdest way to get rejected from the band. 121 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,800 It was like being rejected for a mortgage. 122 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,240 Just tell us to our faces! 123 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:22,360 We were only 16... 124 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:23,960 Were you in school? 125 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:26,360 Well, we were in school but they were in college. 126 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:27,640 They were grown-ups! 127 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:30,880 They had access to a printer. 128 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,040 Yeah, it was pretty humiliating. 129 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,400 You know, James Nesbitt, fabulous actor, but I think 130 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,840 it's fair to say that music was your first love? 131 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:41,720 No, well, it was. 132 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,560 I sang a lot as a child. 133 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,240 We were from quite a musical family. 134 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,440 And you were in musicals? 135 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:48,040 I was in musicals. 136 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,240 The first job I did was I played the Artful Dodger. 137 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:53,080 People talk of it still! 138 00:05:53,080 --> 00:06:00,000 People say I'm still playing exactly the same role. 139 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,000 But no, I played the Artful Dodger when I was 13. 140 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,840 Then did telly come crawling immediately? 141 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,240 Well, my friends, as a result, wrote to Gloria Hunniford, 142 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:10,280 you remember Gloria? 143 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:11,320 Of course! 144 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,720 What Gloria used to do, she was like the doyenne 145 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,840 of news and magazine kind of television programmes. 146 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:18,760 She was the Graham Norton of her day. 147 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,440 She is the Gloria Hunniford of now! 148 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,160 She's a fantastic woman. 149 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,080 And my friends had written to her unbeknownst to me, 150 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,440 saying that they wanted to set up an Ulster youth theatre, and she did 151 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,560 a live magazine show every night, and so I knew nothing about this, 152 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,200 I was playing rugby, actually, in Coleraine, in school one day, 153 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,800 I was dragged off the pitch, thrown into a car by this director, 154 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,800 me and my mates were taken up to Belfast, went live on a show 155 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,400 in our costumes from Oliver that we put on in the car on the way 156 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,760 up, and at the end of it, we did a bit of a chat 157 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:52,240 with Gloria about setting up an Ulster youth theatre, 158 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,880 we were 13, and at the end of it, Gloria said, 159 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,720 "Well, we've got a bit of time, so the boys are going to sing us out 160 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,880 with There's No Business Like Showbusiness," which is not 161 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,120 a song from Oliver. 162 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,760 So, we stood behind Gloria and she went, "Take it away!" 163 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,880 And the other two couldn't sing to save their lives, and we went... 164 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,800 # There's no business like show business 165 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,560 # Like no business I know...# 166 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,440 HE MUMBLES 167 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,600 So there was this terrible, awkward silence, and Gloria 168 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,280 just went, "Oh, well, at least they're 169 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,320 all full of spunk!" 170 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,360 And I... 171 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,400 LAUGHTER 172 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,440 We were 13. 173 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,360 When you are 13, spunk means one thing. 174 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,560 So I burst out laughing. 175 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,480 Meanwhile, my mother and father were in Coleraine, 176 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,120 waiting for me to come home from rugby for my tea, 177 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,440 so it was quite a rude awakening to my TV career! 178 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,320 Well, we don't have the clip of Gloria talking about your spunk, 179 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,880 but we do have another clip. 180 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,240 How old are you in this clip, do you know the one I mean? 181 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:46,280 All That Jazz? 182 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:47,320 Yeah! 183 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,960 Oh, no, I'm 13 or 14 in this. 184 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,520 It is... 185 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:54,200 ..beautiful! 186 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,920 No, this is 14-year-old... 187 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,360 What were you going to say? 188 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,200 My children love this, my children... 189 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,480 When Mary and Peggy often, if I've said something 190 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,640 to annoy them or whatever, they'll just send me 191 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,560 a still from this other video. 192 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,120 And they'll say, "How did you ever have children?" 193 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,240 Oh, no! 194 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,960 This is 14-year-old Jimmy Nesbitt performing All That Jazz. 195 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,920 Oh, God! 196 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,400 # Come on, babe, why don't we paint the town? 197 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,840 # And all that jazz 198 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:31,320 # I'm gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down 199 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,400 # And all that jazz 200 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,360 # Start the car, I know a whoopee spot 201 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,760 # Where the gin is cold but the piano's hot. 202 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,360 # It's just a noisy hall where there's a nightly brawl. 203 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,520 # And all that jazz....# 204 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,600 Gorgeous! 205 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:54,640 What a voice! 206 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,880 I don't remember being that camp, actually! 207 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,480 I'm sure if we had a clip of Tom Jones at 14, it wouldn't look 208 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,760 as old as that bit of film! 209 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,480 I know! 210 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,880 It looked like you were performing in a great panic! 211 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,080 Yeah, I should have been! 212 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,880 Right, let's crack on. 213 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:20,400 What an amazing time to be Billie Piper! 214 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:21,840 You are on such a roll! 215 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:22,880 Thank you! 216 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:24,560 I Hate Suzie, such a big hit. 217 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:26,480 I mean, were you daunted, were you terrified, 218 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,880 or did you kind of think, "Oh, here we go?" 219 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,280 I was really excited for the show to come out, 220 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:35,280 because it felt like I was doing something finally that I come um... 221 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,160 because it felt like I was doing something finally that I, um... 222 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,560 ..that made sense to me, and it's a big howl, 223 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:43,560 really, of everything, so it felt very satisfying. 224 00:09:43,560 --> 00:09:47,440 And also, it's kind of weird, and actually, I am a bit weird. 225 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,920 So it was nice to put that out there. 226 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,680 Well, I mean, did you see the tweet just yesterday? 227 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:57,000 You must have seen this tweet. 228 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,440 No, I haven't seen the tweet. 229 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,640 The Lena Dunham one? 230 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,680 What's Lena Dunham saying? 231 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,080 Lena Dunham, you know, created Girls and some other things, 232 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,040 she tweeted this just yesterday. 233 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:15,640 Hear, hear! 234 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,480 I love "runaway libido"! 235 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:19,520 It's good! 236 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,440 It's true. 237 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,320 And presumably, she saw it because it's still on Sky on demand... 238 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,600 Yeah, yeah. 239 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,080 And she's in London now. 240 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,320 Not that that matters. 241 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,520 But you are here tonight, this is the thing, you are here 242 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:35,680 tonight with a new movie, Rare Beasts. 243 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:39,040 And this is a rare beast, because not only do you star in it, 244 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,680 talk about sense of ownership, this one, you wrote and directed? 245 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:42,720 Yeah, yeah. 246 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:43,760 About two years ago. 247 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:47,200 Apparently, it's coming out in May, but I'm not entirely sure. 248 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,080 Let's pretend it is, let's talk as if it is. 249 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,080 It will be released this year, and that will be great, finally. 250 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,080 Because it's almost like a phantom film, 251 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,160 I'm starting to think it never happened! 252 00:10:58,160 --> 00:10:59,680 It's become like... 253 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:01,840 Have you been working on it all that time, 254 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,000 or did you finish it completely that long ago? 255 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,880 I finished it two years ago, and then, I started filming Suzie, 256 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,520 but Suzie happened to come out before, it's just the way 257 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,000 it's worked this time. 258 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,080 But you did such a great job of this, and how do you describe it? 259 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,960 Because it's not a rom-com, but it is funny, and it is 260 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,520 about dating, sort of. 261 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,560 Yeah, I think people sort of call it this anti-rom-com, and I'm... 262 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:29,280 I think that's too easy, in a way. 263 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:34,520 For me, it's like a pitch black comedy, borderline horror. 264 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:40,200 But people don't like it when I say that, so I make it shiny! 265 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,800 That's why it may or may not come out this year? 266 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:43,840 Yes! 267 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,120 The film I apparently wrote, directed and starred in. 268 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,840 OK, this is you on your first date with Pete, played by Leo Bill. 269 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,040 Leo Bill, yeah. 270 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:54,560 He's such a good actor. 271 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,520 OK, so this is the first date. 272 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,040 You'll marry me in a year. 273 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,400 Unlikely! 274 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:08,600 Come on, we get on. 275 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,240 I don't want this to be some sort of three-year arrangement, 276 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,320 where you're haemorrhaging your youth to no end. 277 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:14,960 Work will do that, modern woman. 278 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,920 Let's just say that if after a year we're undecided about marriage, 279 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,880 then will just part company. 280 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:22,800 I could see that coming. 281 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,480 I mean, you ate like a pig. 282 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:25,680 Come on, please. 283 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:27,120 Just think about me all night. 284 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:28,320 I pretty much adore you. 285 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,400 Taxi! 286 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,360 I'm going to go home and wank over your Instagram pictures, OK? 287 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,000 I mean, it is so brutal, but so well observed. 288 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,640 It is brutal, it's bonkers, but I just feel like that's 289 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,640 what life feels like now. 290 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,040 I feel like everyone's at the end of their rope, 291 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,760 and I think that's sort of represented in the film. 292 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,960 Brilliant. 293 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,880 Well, Billie's new film is called Rare Beasts 294 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,800 and it is due for general release on the 5th of May. 295 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,480 Right, time to meet our virtual guest tonight. 296 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,360 He is the star of Jurassic Park, Peaky Blinders and 297 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:04,120 Hunt For The Wilderpeople, it's Sam Neill, everybody! 298 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,520 Hello, yay! 299 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:13,800 Hello, Sam Neill! 300 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:15,200 Lovely to see you, Graham Norton. 301 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,120 Well, I like the look of your kitchen! 302 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,080 It's entirely devoted to alcohol. 303 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,280 Yeah, you would be very welcome here and very much 304 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:24,560 at home, I would think. 305 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,360 So, this is your vineyard, is it? 306 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:28,120 Yes, it is. 307 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,640 It's a lovely morning, it's about nine o'clock, 308 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:32,320 and do you want to see outside? 309 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:33,680 Oh, yes! 310 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:35,480 So this is New Zealand. 311 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,600 Oh, wow! 312 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,600 Sunny day. 313 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,560 You should have had strangers kissing or something, 314 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:45,840 just to really show off. 315 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,680 It's sunny and we don't have Covid! 316 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:50,600 I feel slightly weird talking about it you, 317 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,320 because I know that the UK is in such dire straits, 318 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,960 but we have three cases in the community and the whole 319 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,280 country is very nervous! 320 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,840 So it seems odd by comparison, doesn't it? 321 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,880 But we are a little bit on edge at the moment. 322 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,760 And this place, it presumably looks familiar to you, Jimmy Nesbitt? 323 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:12,960 It looks very familiar. 324 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,240 Hi, Sam. 325 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:16,360 Hi, Jimmy. 326 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:22,280 I spent... 327 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,840 I met Sam when I was over doing The Hobbit and I was lucky enough 328 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,760 to spend some time with Sam down at the vineyard, it's beautiful. 329 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,600 But I spent the day with Sam on the farm, we spent 330 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,640 the morning shovelling shit... 331 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:33,680 We are actors! 332 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,560 And then we all actually had a bit of a wine tasting 333 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:37,760 competition in there, I think. 334 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,000 Do you have any recollection? 335 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,840 I do! 336 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:42,400 Blissful. 337 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,960 We wallowed in compost, it's an Irish thing. 338 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,320 We have that in common. 339 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,600 And then smelling sweetly, we then had a taste of, and he won! 340 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,720 And then smelling sweetly, we then had a taste off, and he won! 341 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,800 It was really irritating. 342 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,280 And now, Sam, Tom Jones, you've met? 343 00:14:58,280 --> 00:14:59,840 Yes. 344 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:01,120 Do you remember where? 345 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,160 I do, yes. 346 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,920 The Greek Theatre, it was at a Sting concert. 347 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:07,080 Wow. 348 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,960 And Sam was backstage, and I asked him what he was doing, 349 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,640 you know, what are you up to? 350 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,760 And he said, "Well, I'm doing this movie about... 351 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:14,960 There's these dinosaurs in it. 352 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:16,440 But you don't actually see them." 353 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,840 He said, "I'm acting, I'm looking up and doing this, 354 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,000 but they're going to be put in later on. 355 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,480 So I don't know what's going to happen with it." 356 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,080 Jurassic Park. 357 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,160 We know what happened to that, yeah! 358 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:31,200 I was delighted to meet Tom, and I found myself in a circle 359 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,640 where there was the great Tom Jones, Herbie Hancock, the immaculate 360 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:38,320 Herbie Hancock, Sting and myself, and I was like, 361 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,280 this is a supergroup! 362 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,000 This has got to be a supergroup! 363 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,840 But I would be the sort of joke drummer, you know, 364 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:47,840 that couldn't drum! 365 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,320 I've met a few of those! 366 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,880 Yeah. 367 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,280 Sam Neill, you've got a movie to tell us about. 368 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,440 This is Rams, it stars yourself and the Australian 369 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,560 actor Michael Caton. 370 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,960 And this is very close to your heart, this film. 371 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,320 Tell us about it, it's a lovely film. 372 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,680 Yeah, it's been on release in Australia and New Zealand, 373 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,080 and I'm getting such wonderful feedback from it, people saying 374 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,440 they are feeling so much better for having seen this film. 375 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:22,400 It's gratifying to get that, er, to get that feedback, 376 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,000 but it has its genesis in a beautiful Icelandic film 377 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,200 which was actually rather grim. 378 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,640 Our film was very different. 379 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,280 It's about two brothers who haven't spoken for about 40 years, 380 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,000 and who love sheep. 381 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,800 There is a small romance in it, with Miranda Richardson, 382 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,880 who is an old friend of mine. 383 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,200 So it's mostly about sheeping men, and community. 384 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,360 And it's rather touching and lovely a little sad, 385 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,920 but also very sort of heart-warming. 386 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,400 It's a lovely film. 387 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,520 It is, because it is that thing where the town of it shifts. 388 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,640 It is, because it is that thing where the tone of it shifts. 389 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,520 Like, sometimes it's really tragic and then it can be very funny 390 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:02,560 and whimsical and quirky. 391 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:03,760 It's a really special thing. 392 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,880 Yeah, and for lovers of sheep, there is no better thing, I think! 393 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,720 Rams, it's available on all digital platforms from next Friday. 394 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,920 And we've got a clip, Sam. 395 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:20,840 This is you settling in with your new housemates. 396 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:25,320 Good morning, my lovelies. 397 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,080 There we go. 398 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,960 Go on, my lovely girls. 399 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,920 Lovely, lovely girls. 400 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,760 Lovely! 401 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:49,120 Get back! 402 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:50,400 Come here! 403 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:51,840 Get out of here, get out! 404 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:52,880 Come on! 405 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:54,320 Round you go, bring her in. 406 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,280 Come on, come on! 407 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,520 Good dog. 408 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,200 Bring her in, bring her in. 409 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,800 Good dog. 410 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,280 Come on, stop mucking around! 411 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,240 Bring her in, come on! 412 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,440 Bring her in. 413 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:12,640 Come on, bring her round! 414 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,840 Bring her in, bring her in! 415 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,800 Oh! 416 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:18,880 Good girl. 417 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,560 Go on! 418 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:22,800 Nothing out here for you, darling. 419 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,240 Good girl. 420 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:31,280 As for you... 421 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,240 DOG WHINES 422 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,480 And how hard is that - you can't train sheep, can you? 423 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,240 You can to an extent, but a sheep is an animal 424 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:49,080 of limited capacity for... 425 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:55,280 You don't see sheep in circuses, for instance. 426 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,680 And presumably you would like to spending time with them, 427 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,680 because famously you have a lot of livestock, don't you? 428 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:07,400 Yes, I have goats and sheep, and cattle and a lot of chickens, 429 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:09,800 you know, these terrible battery farms, which I thoroughly disapprove 430 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,440 of, one was going past the other day, and there were a lot 431 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,560 of, one was going bust the other day, and there were a lot 432 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:18,760 of chickens looking for homes. 433 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,640 I already have about 24 chickens, so now I'm up to 36, 434 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:22,840 I think, at last count. 435 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:23,880 It's at least 36. 436 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,040 So there is a gang of them out there. 437 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,240 And they all think I'm wonderful, so it's like having... 438 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,200 It's like having Tom Jones fans, actually. 439 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:38,760 LAUGHTER 440 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,320 Billie Piper, you too have joined the world of chicken donors? 441 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,120 Yeah, we have chickens, we have two chickens. 442 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:46,160 Just the two? 443 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:47,760 Just the two. 444 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,520 What are they called? 445 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,880 One has changed its name a few times. 446 00:19:52,880 --> 00:20:00,520 Price Belmar and then it was Bob and then The Notorious Chicken. 447 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,880 Cockerels - both cockerels, wanted layers and got cockerels - 448 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:03,920 it's like pot luck. 449 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,120 His name is Heavy Metal. 450 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,840 Wait a minute. 451 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,280 So these are the two cockerels. 452 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:09,960 This is one cockerel in different poses. 453 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,000 OK. 454 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,440 And this is a competitive bird. 455 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:13,880 You can enter them for competitions. 456 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:14,920 They have amazing plumage. 457 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:22,800 I don't think that's a competition anyone wants to do. 458 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,520 But it looks fantastic. 459 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:26,560 It does. 460 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,320 But it's awful. 461 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,440 It's a horrible, aggressive cockerel. 462 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:32,840 It's... 463 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,040 He's become a real problem. 464 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,160 And loud? 465 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,360 Very loud, and sort of swoops down at you, 466 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,480 chases you around the garden, puts his wing out and sort of circles 467 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:48,880 you, and now it's doing this, and apparently... 468 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,000 I said to this guy down the road, like, "What am I going 469 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,080 to do about this?" 470 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,720 And he said, "You've just got to show him who's boss." 471 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:58,760 But he's so gorgeous. 472 00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,960 How could you possibly discipline... 473 00:20:59,960 --> 00:21:01,880 I think he's very frustrated because I think 474 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,680 he wanted this competition life, and instead he got us in lockdown. 475 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,640 What he might like is a hen. 476 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:12,800 I mean, I'm not a vet, but... 477 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,640 That might cheer him up. 478 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,720 I can't take any more risks. 479 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,760 And, Sam Neill, you talked about your animals on the show 480 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:27,480 before and I hesitate to ask, am I still alive, Sam? 481 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,440 You're not only alive. 482 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:32,400 You're the number one bull now. 483 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,640 That's me! 484 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,560 Look at him. 485 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,240 Now, it's less good news, I believe, 486 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,560 for James Nesbitt. 487 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,240 Well, Jimmy Nesbitt, Jimmy served us well, 488 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,280 but he got old and very arthritic. 489 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:51,800 Oh, no! 490 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,840 Is he no longer with us? 491 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,120 He's no longer with us. 492 00:21:55,120 --> 00:21:57,000 He had to be put down. 493 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,960 He was in quite a lot of pain. 494 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,640 And we gave him an honourable burial 495 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,400 down at the end of the farm. 496 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:06,880 A huge grave. 497 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,240 I mean, it was the size of a house. 498 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,520 Well, take one for me. 499 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:12,560 Wait a minute. 500 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,000 You dug a hole for that? 501 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,040 Yeah. 502 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:20,400 Absolutely. 503 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,000 Is that a thing... 504 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,200 Don't wild... 505 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,400 Animal expert Andi has a question. 506 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,600 Does livestock explode after it's expired? 507 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,840 Is that an urban myth or a rural myth? 508 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,400 It's a very urban myth. 509 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:38,520 I feel like I made it up. 510 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,160 Jimmy Nesbitt in his prime was something to behold, though, Sam. 511 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,200 Is that not right? 512 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,960 Yeah, he was a fantastic bull. 513 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:49,520 With a distinguished name like Jimmy, I couldn't really 514 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,640 turn him into sausages, so he has a grave and a little 515 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:58,840 marker on him, so RIP, dear old Jimmy. 516 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:00,440 Have you got a Tom Jones yet? 517 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,160 Surely Tom Jones is ripe for the farm. 518 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:05,600 And I'm Welsh! 519 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,680 I mean, God. 520 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:14,960 I got a couple of new Rams who are unnamed, 521 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,120 as a matter-of-fact. 522 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:17,160 Well, hello! 523 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:18,360 Very quickly, Sam. 524 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,760 Andi, I know you're a big fan of Jurassic Park. 525 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:21,800 Definitely. 526 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:22,840 Oh, me too! 527 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:23,880 Everyone loves... 528 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:24,960 Hey, hey! 529 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,680 Because the new one, is it finished? 530 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,080 Do we know when that is going to see the light of day? 531 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,920 Yeah, it was supposed to be May of this year, 532 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,800 but it's been put back for a year, so it's May of 22, yeah, 533 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:49,520 and, gosh, time has gone so weird these last few months, hasn't it? 534 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,120 Yeah, May of 22, and we shot it all at Pinewood, so I spent most 535 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,280 of last year in England, and it's going to 536 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:56,320 be huge! 537 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,720 So hopefully there's still some cinemas open and people might 538 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,920 want to go back to the movies. 539 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:04,840 Well, hopefully you can come and tell us 540 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,040 about it in May, 2022. 541 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,080 That would be great. 542 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,640 Would be good to see you again. 543 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,520 Thank you for getting up so early in lovely New Zealand and 544 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:13,560 talking to us. 545 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,760 Rams is available on all digital platforms next Friday. 546 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:17,040 Sam Neill, everybody! 547 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,280 Bye, Sam! 548 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,360 Bye-bye, Sam! 549 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,040 CHEERING 550 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,680 Oh, lovely. 551 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,800 I love the bit where he said it's about men and sheep and 552 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,200 there's some romance, and I'm sitting here going, "Don't say 553 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:39,160 anything, don't say anything." 554 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,800 And he's giggling, going, "Sounds like Wales!" 555 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,640 No, Miranda Richardson is the romance. 556 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,640 Oh, I see, OK, OK. 557 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,200 Sam's the greatest, though. 558 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:55,240 Isn't he lovely? 559 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,680 OK, let's turn to Jimmy Nesbitt. 560 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,840 He brings us a gripping new crime thriller, Bloodlands, 561 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:00,280 coming next month to BBC One, 562 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,480 and this has amazing pedigree. 563 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,400 It's from the people who made Line Of 564 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,440 Duty and The Bodyguard. 565 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,480 So it's Jed Mercurio. 566 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,400 Who you have known for a long time. 567 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,440 I knew him... 568 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,840 I did a show years ago, Jekyll, which was written 569 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,760 by Steven Moffat and Jed's partner produced it, 570 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,120 and I've known Jed for a long time and Jed also had a lot 571 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,240 of presence in Northern Ireland for a long time because he makes Line 572 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,280 Of Duty there. 573 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,520 I was never in it - series six, series seven. 574 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,320 And so I saw him a bit over the years 575 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,960 and I said I'd love to work together and we love 576 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,160 each other and Jed was 577 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,360 sent scripts by new writers. 578 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:36,000 He read one of them called Bloodlands and he 579 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,600 sort of thought of me and so it finally came to pass, and when Jed 580 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,400 sort of gives you a call it's like God calling, really. 581 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,080 And says, will you work for me? 582 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,120 Yes. 583 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:47,160 I'll die for you. 584 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,040 And so it's a thriller set in Northern Ireland. 585 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:55,840 I play a policeman called Tom Brannick, coming to the 586 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:55,920 end of his time. 587 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:55,960 And it's about me on the hunt for a legendary 588 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:56,960 assassin. 589 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,080 And it's really twisty-turny and you don't know who's 590 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,120 good, who's bad. 591 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,960 It's really good. 592 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,080 And as beautiful as Northern Ireland is to look at, it provided certain 593 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,480 kind of acting challenges for you. 594 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:15,440 Yeah. 595 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,800 Yeah, it's fucking cold. 596 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,200 We were filming from January to March, and it was... 597 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,400 I mean, it was freezing. 598 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,080 You were in the water and everything. 599 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,720 Well, Strangford Lough, when the wind comes up the lough, I 600 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:27,920 mean, it's bitter, you know? 601 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,840 And if you're playing kind of a hard-nosed 602 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,520 sort of detective who's on the case which is of huge personal 603 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,920 significance to him, you're going out on kind of boats 604 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,560 along the lough at six and seven in the morning and 605 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,600 it was... 606 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,640 Often, my... 607 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:41,680 Often, we couldn't speak. 608 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:42,720 The jaws were frozen. 609 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:43,760 You ever had that? 610 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,160 I've had my jaw sort of lock whilst I've been 611 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,200 filming in the cold. 612 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,280 I mean, that shot there... 613 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,680 I look grim and determined and kind of 614 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,840 stony faced there. 615 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,000 That's me getting off a boat after seven hours 616 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,440 going, "Get me into my Mercedes. 617 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:02,160 Get me into my hotel room." 618 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,760 I want a giant hairdryer on me now! 619 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,680 But it's just an important and exciting time 620 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:07,720 for Northern Ireland. 621 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,880 It's important that we continue to make these shows 622 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,760 there and we continue to try and turn this kind of peace 623 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,680 into a social and economic and cultural prosperity 624 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:15,720 for the young people. 625 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,400 And obviously there's big action sequences and 626 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:18,440 this one... 627 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,600 Now, what was the involvement in this with your 628 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,880 family? 629 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,040 That was after a particularly bad catering set at 630 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,760 lunch. 631 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,800 You were cold! 632 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,040 "I'm going to set fire to the car!" 633 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,600 "It's my sushi!" 634 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,000 No, that was filmed in kind of a market town 635 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,480 in Northern Ireland called Ballyclare and 636 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,120 my aunt Edith, a formidable, small, brilliant, religious woman, 637 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,440 she knew I was filming in Ballyclare, but she 638 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,600 was coming back from the shop and we were 639 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:53,800 doing this stunt, there were 640 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,480 police cars going, a petrol bomb thrown, 641 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:56,680 I'm putting a policeman on 642 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,320 fire out, but she went up to one of the policemen 643 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,480 there kind of standing back, and she said, "What's 644 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,080 happening?" 645 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,480 And this guy, this policeman, said to her, "Oh, it's 646 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,520 James Nesbitt." 647 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,680 And she went, "My James is filming here today. 648 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:14,360 What's happened to him?" 649 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,880 And she realised they were in the middle of a stunt. 650 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,320 All right, we've got a clip. 651 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,480 This is you getting your colleague up to speed 652 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:22,520 on the case. 653 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:23,600 OK. 654 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,280 These are the original disappearances, the ones 655 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,320 who preceded Keenan. 656 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,440 David Cory, Joe Harkin, and Father Simon Quinlan. 657 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,600 A priest? 658 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,880 And an IRA arms dealer. 659 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,080 Joe Harkin was an IRA quartermaster and 660 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,120 Cory was from the other side. 661 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,040 He was a Protestant paramilitary Godfather. 662 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,960 That's what made it all the more puzzling. 663 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,120 It wasn't one side or the other. 664 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,520 His targets were people who were threat to the peace 665 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:54,560 process on both sides. 666 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,680 He kept it evenhanded. 667 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:01,560 You said there were four targets. 668 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:09,520 He also murdered my wife. 669 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,200 CHEERING 670 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,760 So that was Bloodlands. 671 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,920 I always think those bits of acting must be 672 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,760 so hard, the bit where, I'm not talking but there's still filming 673 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,840 and here we go. 674 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:37,800 But I mean, it's such a good bunch of people to work 675 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,160 with, and Chris, who wrote it, was overseen 676 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,600 by Jed and Jed Mercurio is 677 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,040 God, to tell you the truth. 678 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,720 Well, listen, Bloodland is coming to BBC 679 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,600 One next month, and talking of Jed Mercurio and Line Of Duty, 680 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,240 and Andi Osho, you are in the new Line Of Duty. 681 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,280 That's right, yeah. 682 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:56,480 Tell us all about it. 683 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,640 I'll put a word in for you, don't worry. 684 00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,680 Wow. 685 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,600 This was your first time in Northern Ireland? 686 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,960 I mean, I've lived there all my life, but I never got in it. 687 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,360 I was just there on a holiday and Jed was 688 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,000 there, and he was like, "Do you want to be in..." 689 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,040 It so weird. 690 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,080 Kind of rude, OK. 691 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,280 Have you finished it now? 692 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:14,320 I've finished. 693 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:15,360 I've done my bit. 694 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,400 OK. 695 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,280 It must be so weird walking around with that in your head. 696 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,320 I... 697 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,720 Yeah, I'm a real fan of the show as well, 698 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:24,640 so it's very hard to keep my cool. 699 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,080 You're like, "It's Steve, it's Steve!" 700 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,880 Oh, hello. 701 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,120 Oh, hi, hi. 702 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,160 Now, you are... 703 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,800 Obviously, we know you as a stand-up and an actor, but 704 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,680 you're here tonight to talk about your debut novel, Asking For A 705 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,720 Friend. 706 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:39,920 Do you have a copy? 707 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:40,960 I have a copy. 708 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,000 Bizarre. 709 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,200 Have you not seen it? 710 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,400 You must have seen it. 711 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,440 I love it. 712 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,840 I was so taken aback by the fact that it 713 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:48,880 was embossed, like, the 714 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:49,920 title is embossed. 715 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:50,960 Yeah, it's posh. 716 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,000 I know, right? 717 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,280 Yeah. 718 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,680 And it's a comedy, but it's also about 719 00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:01,000 friendship, but the premise is this idea of friends playing a dating 720 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,640 game, so explain the dating game and the rules of it, 721 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,560 because you came up with this game, right? 722 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,200 Yeah, yeah. 723 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,120 So, basically, the three girlfriends that the book 724 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,320 is about, they are kind 725 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,200 of stuck in terms of relationships for different reasons, and so they 726 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,320 decide that they're going to take their dating lives on and just go 727 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,440 out and just ask guys out in real life, but for each other. 728 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,840 And they set up a load of rules, like you're 729 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,720 not allowed to veto, you're not allowed to do anything illegal - 730 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,760 things like that. 731 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,160 So, yeah, the story is about what happens to them 732 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,560 as they go out on the prowl looking for dates. 733 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,920 Because you've done some extreme dating. 734 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,840 I love the idea of your Edinburgh show. 735 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,000 So explain the thing that went on in your 736 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,040 Edinburgh show. 737 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,720 Yeah, so I wrote an Edinburgh show... 738 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,200 I think it was, like, 2011 and it was basically 739 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,320 about dating, but at the end of every show, I would ask someone 740 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,160 out in the audience, or I would 741 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,800 basically get their mates to sort of volunteer them, 742 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,720 because no one ever volunteered themselves, because it 743 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,880 was always like, "You go," and pushing someone forward. 744 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:56,920 Everyone else stepped back. 745 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,080 So, yeah, I ended up in some quite interesting 746 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:00,120 situations. 747 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,280 Because you actually went on a date with them? 748 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,960 Yeah, I went on the dates afterwards. 749 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,440 I 100% did it. 750 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:06,880 Like, to what point? 751 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,480 Well, with people watching out for me, 752 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,000 chaperones sitting a few tables away. 753 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,360 I also had like a fake gin and tonic that I would, "Yes, alcohol, 754 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:15,400 yummy." 755 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:16,840 It isn't, it's just tonic water. 756 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,600 Yeah, there were a couple of guys... 757 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,160 There was one guy who was 758 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,560 lovely, but he had grown up children, so it was just like, "I'm 759 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:34,400 going to be your new mummy!" 760 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,040 The very first guy I went on this date with, he 761 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,160 just looked absolutely terrified, and I took a selfie of us, and he's 762 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,640 just like that in the selfie, like... 763 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,800 He was this French guy, and I'm feeling like 764 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,240 I don't know if he knows 765 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,280 what's going on here. 766 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,160 Like, I don't know if he knows he's on a date with 767 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,200 me. 768 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,640 And were there any second dates? 769 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,840 I'm going to shock you. 770 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:56,880 No. 771 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,080 There were no second dates. 772 00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,280 After a month of Edinburgh? 773 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,320 I know! 774 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,360 Can you believe that? 775 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,400 A lot of sex. 776 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:03,440 No second dates. 777 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:04,480 But with the dates? 778 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:05,520 Some. 779 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,560 Sometimes it ended in... 780 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,600 No, it didn't happen. 781 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:08,640 Mum, that didn't happen. 782 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,080 Swings and roundabouts kind of... 783 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,200 There were some swings. 784 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,600 And are you back here full-time? 785 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,520 Because you moved to America, am I right? 786 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:20,920 Yeah, I was sort of backwards and forwards, like spending 787 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,040 time there and here, but I thankfully moved 788 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,600 back sort of couple of years ago, about 18 months ago, and I feel like 789 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:28,640 it was... 790 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:29,680 The right choice. 791 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:30,720 Exquisite timing. 792 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:35,040 Look at the state of them. 793 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,080 The country's burning. 794 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,120 Yeah. 795 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,320 Yeah, glad I moved back. 796 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,960 Because, Tom Jones, how long did you live in LA for? 797 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,000 41 years. 798 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,040 Wow. 799 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,240 So clearly you liked it. 800 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,280 I did like it. 801 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,320 I did. 802 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,360 It was... 803 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,520 Well, it was the sunshine and everything, you know. 804 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,600 And because I'm a live performer, I'm on the road a lot, 805 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,400 or used to be when I was younger anyway, and so to 806 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,080 me it was like a holiday place. 807 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,480 You know, I would go back to LA, and my 808 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,560 wife was there and the house and I'd be up at the pool most of the time. 809 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,480 And I didn't really have to do anything. 810 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,840 Once in awhile, I would do a TV show, you know, or I would 811 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,760 record something, and it's all there, of course. 812 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:11,960 Whatever you want to do. 813 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,520 But it was so easy. 814 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,680 It's handy for Vegas and all that sort of 815 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:16,720 stuff, isn't it? 816 00:34:16,720 --> 00:34:21,080 Well, yeah, exactly, so, I mean, I was working a 817 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,440 lot in Las Vegas, so I could fly there or just drive up there. 818 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:25,480 And tell me this. 819 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,520 When you went... 820 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,920 The first time you went, was it to do a 821 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:29,960 TV show in 1967? 822 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,000 65. 823 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,920 65, and is that when you met Elvis? 824 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,120 That's when I met Elvis Presley. 825 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,320 Don't try and compete. 826 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:40,880 LAUGHTER 827 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,080 Difficult. 828 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,720 So I got there and it was wonderful. 829 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:52,640 We were staying in a famous hotel. 830 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,320 On the Sunset Strip at the time. 831 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,000 I was like, "God, this was unbelievable! 832 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,440 My first year in show business!" 833 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,600 And then 834 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,200 I had to go to Paramount Studios for a song or something and they said 835 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,560 Elvis Presley is going to be there tomorrow and he would like to meet 836 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:06,600 you. 837 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,520 I thought, "Elvis Presley wants to meet me?" 838 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:09,560 It was unbelievable! 839 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,320 And I went there to go and see about the 840 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,640 song and they said, "Elvis is filming and once 841 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:17,840 they stop the filming, you 842 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,720 go in." 843 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:25,680 So I did and they closed the doors again and I'm standing at the 844 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,960 back there with the Memphis Mafia, these guys that work for him, and 845 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,240 he's in this little mock helicopter with this girl. 846 00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,880 And they did a scene and I'm like looking, "My God, 847 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,680 there's Elvis Presley." 848 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,840 And they said, "OK, cut," and he looked across 849 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,840 and went, you know. 850 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,000 And I was like, you know, looking at these fellas, 851 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,840 and they said, "Elvis is waving at you, wave back!" 852 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,680 "Me?" 853 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,080 So he gets out of that helicopter and he starts 854 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,120 walking towards me. 855 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,280 Well, I had a single record at the moment. 856 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,480 It was my third single. 857 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:01,520 With These Hands. 858 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,680 It was a ballot, it was a beautiful song. 859 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:07,320 And Elvis is walking towards me going... 860 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,920 # With these hands I will cling to you...# 861 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,000 Right? And I thought, 862 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,400 "My God if the boys back home could see me 863 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,400 now!" 864 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:17,440 It was unbelievable. 865 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:24,280 CHEERING 866 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,680 That's an amazing Elvis Presley story. 867 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,360 Well, listen, Tom, the time has come 868 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,520 for you to perform, so if you would like 869 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,200 to make your way over to the 870 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:32,240 stage over there. 871 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:33,280 There he goes. 872 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,360 Lovely. 873 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:40,120 Now, shortly we will be having some stories from the red 874 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,520 chair, and I need somebody to volunteer for the chair. 875 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:43,720 Do we have a volunteer? 876 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:44,760 No. 877 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:45,800 Are you volunteering? 878 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:46,840 I think so. 879 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,280 Do you want to do it? 880 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:49,320 Gladly. 881 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,360 Excellent. 882 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:51,920 Well done. 883 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,720 OK, here performing his current single No Hole In My Head 884 00:36:56,720 --> 00:37:04,680 from the new album Surrounded By Time, it's Tom Jones! 885 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:19,200 # Everybody thinks my head is full of nothing 886 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,320 # They want to put their own special stuff in 887 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,400 # Fill up the space with candy wrappers 888 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,640 # Keep out sex and revolution 889 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,240 # But there's no hole in my head 890 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:39,200 # Too bad 891 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:47,520 # They called me a dupe 892 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,960 # For this and the other 893 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,880 # Called me a puppet on a string # They don't know my head's full of 894 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,040 me 895 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,200 # And that I have my own special thing 896 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,120 # And there's no hole in my head 897 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:01,280 # Too bad 898 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,520 # I have lived since early childhood 899 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,440 # Figuring out what's going on 900 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,680 # I know what hurts 901 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,280 # I know what's easy 902 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,440 # And when to stand and when to run 903 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,840 # But there's no hole in my head 904 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:24,600 # Too bad 905 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,600 # So please stop shouting in my ear 906 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:34,080 # There's something I want to listen to 907 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,480 # There's a kind of birdsong out there somewhere 908 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,400 # People walking when I want to run 909 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,320 # And there's no hole in my head 910 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:46,200 # Too bad 911 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:51,120 # Everybody thinks my head's full of nothing 912 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,360 # Trying to put their own special stuff in 913 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:58,600 # Fill up the space with candy wrappers 914 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,240 # Keep out sex and revolution 915 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,560 # But there's no hole in my head 916 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,880 # Too bad 917 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,120 # No there's no hole in my head 918 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:15,400 # Too bad 919 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,680 # There's no hole in my head 920 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:24,560 # Too bad # I can say whatever I want to say 921 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,040 now 922 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,080 # Do whatever I want to do 923 00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:36,800 # Well, within reason.# 924 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,360 Tom Jones, everybody! 925 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:41,400 CHEERING 926 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,720 Fabulous song. 927 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:47,120 Come on back, please. 928 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:53,160 Oh, Tom Jones! 929 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,200 How amazing was that? 930 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,880 I mean, the voice is full on. 931 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:56,920 Well done. 932 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:57,960 Thank you. 933 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,000 It still works. 934 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,280 It really does still work. 935 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,320 Thank God. 936 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:09,120 It's fantastic. 937 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,040 That's from the new album, Surrounded By Time, 938 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,200 and that is out on the 23rd of April. 939 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,560 At that single is out now, and I will say to you, I wasn't 940 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,960 aware of that song, but it is an old song. 941 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,080 It was by Malvina Reynolds and she was around in New York in 942 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:30,040 the early 60s. 943 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,560 Like, Bob Dylan and a lot of those people, Pete Seeger. 944 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:41,640 They all loved her. 945 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,480 And her Ain't No Hole In My Head was her kind of 946 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,120 people, they misjudged her because they thought she was just a 947 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,160 middle-aged woman. 948 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,320 Yeah, she was trying to sing for people in 949 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:51,360 general, really. 950 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:52,600 To do your own thing. 951 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,480 And not to try to be moulded into something that you're not. 952 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,800 You know, within the music business, they try to tell you that you've got 953 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,520 to look like this, look like that. 954 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,600 You know, I had curly hair when I first came up to London, 955 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:04,640 and doesn't work. 956 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,680 Well, why? 957 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,600 They try to make it into something else. 958 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,240 So thank God, you know, as time has gone on, of 959 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,160 course, but you've got to prove a point. 960 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,200 Yeah. 961 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,400 Well, listen, thank you very much for that beautiful 962 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:16,400 performance. 963 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:17,440 Tom Jones, everybody. 964 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:18,480 Really amazing. 965 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:19,560 Right, that's nearly it. 966 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,640 Before we go, there's just time for a visit to the big red 967 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,680 chair. 968 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,720 Is Mr Nesbitt there? 969 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:25,760 Oh, look at him. 970 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:26,800 He's ready. 971 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:27,840 OK. 972 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:28,880 Jimmy is ready. 973 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,000 Let's find out who's telling a story to keep you in that chair. 974 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,040 Hello, sir. 975 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,080 Good evening. 976 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,160 What's your name? 977 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,160 My name is Brian. 978 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,600 Brian, and where are you from? 979 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,760 I'm from the North Norfolk coast, a small village 980 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:40,800 called Mundesley. 981 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,840 Mundesley, OK. 982 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,240 And you are telling a story to keep Mr Jimmy 983 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:45,280 Nesbitt in that chair. 984 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:46,320 OK? 985 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:47,360 Absolutely. 986 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:48,560 All right, good luck, everyone. 987 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,000 Off you go with your story. 988 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,240 Here we go. 989 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,640 I'm in London, I'm in East London, it's dark, it's 990 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,800 drizzly, I'm lost, seriously lost, bursting for a pee. 991 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,200 I look at the floor, there's a water bottle there, 992 00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:01,400 but I can't reach it. 993 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,320 Stuck in this traffic queue for an hour. 994 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,520 I'm fed up, I'm miserable. 995 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,640 I look at the screen and see a man in a high viz 996 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:08,680 jacket. 997 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,800 I decide to get out the car and ask him what's going on. 998 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,200 I get out the car, he walks towards me and 999 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,840 says, "Whoa, whoa, you cannot get out your car here, buddy." 1000 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,960 I said, "Well, why not?" 1001 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:28,280 He said, "Well, because you're on the Woolwich Ferry." 1002 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,280 Jimmy, I must apologise. 1003 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:34,320 No. 1004 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,360 But you understand. 1005 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,760 I'm completely understand. 1006 00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,440 I'm surprised it took so long, to tell you the truth. 1007 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,280 Well, I kept thinking, the story will make sense in a minute. 1008 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,320 It started well. 1009 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,360 Where was he? 1010 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,600 He was in East London... 1011 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,960 It was somehow he had driven on a ferry without 1012 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,000 knowing. 1013 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:53,920 He must have been out of his mind. 1014 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,120 I thought there was a bottle in his car. 1015 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,520 That's what I thought, the bottle was in the car. 1016 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,160 Anyway, I think we are over analysing. 1017 00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:01,200 Let's try another one. 1018 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,240 Oh, no. 1019 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:03,920 This has got to be a story. 1020 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:04,960 This is the story. 1021 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,000 This is the one. 1022 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,040 This is the one. 1023 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,080 Hello. 1024 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,120 What's your name? 1025 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:10,160 My name is Bernie. 1026 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,840 Bernie, and where are you from, Bernie? 1027 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:12,880 Belfast in Northern Ireland. 1028 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:14,320 We knew it, we knew it. 1029 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:15,760 Beautiful interior decoration, beautiful, lovely frame. 1030 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,000 What do you do in Belfast? 1031 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,160 I'm a social worker, but I'm off on sick 1032 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,200 leave. 1033 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,600 I'm getting treated for cancer, so more recently I'm writing 1034 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:29,960 poetry. 1035 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,000 Good on you, Bernie. 1036 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,040 Very good. 1037 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,240 We enjoy all your endeavours. 1038 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,920 OK, off you go with your story. 1039 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,080 OK, so this happened a number of years ago 1040 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,280 when my first child was 1041 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:39,320 born. 1042 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:42,200 My husband and I, like a lot of new parents, were completely 1043 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,320 sleep deprived, but we had invited a couple of friends round that we 1044 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,200 hadn't seen for many years and they'd come a long distance to 1045 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,240 meet us. 1046 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:51,160 Really having a wonderful, wonderful evening, really enjoying 1047 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,520 ourselves, but as the evening wore on, like a lot of new parents my 1048 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,680 husband and I were getting more and more tired, 1049 00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,840 and they just weren't getting the cues, the yawns, 1050 00:43:58,840 --> 00:43:59,880 nothing was working. 1051 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,760 So I look at my husband at one stage of the evening 1052 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:04,680 and I asked him to check the child. 1053 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,760 So he went up to the child's bedroom and I had my excuse, I said I was 1054 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,160 just nipping to the loo and would be back shortly. 1055 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,520 So up I went and the two of us, we started plotting in the 1056 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,400 bedroom as to how we could get them to leave, tactfully, diplomatically, 1057 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,040 without hurting anyone's feelings, so anyway once we were finished we 1058 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,680 were all ready for the big plan, but they had started 1059 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,800 to put their coats on. 1060 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,000 And they were acting very oddly. 1061 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,200 And they seemed very offended. 1062 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,640 So we thought nothing more about it. 1063 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,320 We were so delighted that we were 1064 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,720 going to get off to bed, so off we went 1065 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:36,920 and started cleaning up the 1066 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:37,960 dishes. 1067 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,600 And then I heard the baby crying through the baby monitor. 1068 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,880 They had heard the whole thing. 1069 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:43,920 Very good. 1070 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:44,960 You can walk. 1071 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,000 Walk, Bernie. 1072 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,440 Love you guys. 1073 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:48,480 Oh, Bernie. 1074 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,920 Lovely Bernie. 1075 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,080 OK, that really is all we have time for. 1076 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,200 If you would like to tell us your story, 1077 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:58,920 you can contact us via the website. 1078 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,000 Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests, Jimmy Nesbitt. 1079 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,040 Andi Osho. 1080 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,640 Billie Piper. 1081 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,720 Sam Neill. 1082 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:14,640 And Sir Tom Jones. 1083 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,040 Do join me next week with singer Jessie Ware, Sister 1084 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,760 Michael from Derry girls, Siobhan McSweeney, top comic 1085 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,920 Alan Carr, Back To Life star Daisy Haggard, Bridgerton 1086 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:25,840 star Rege-Jean Page and rock legend Dave Grohl. 1087 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,760 I'll see you then. 1088 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:36,720 Goodnight, everybody, bye-bye!