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00:00Hello, everybody! Hello, hello, hello, hello!
00:04Good evening to you all!
00:08You are so welcome to the show.
00:10We've got a great line-up for you tonight,
00:11plus a very special surprise.
00:15Ooh!
00:16I can't say any more, but suffice to say,
00:19you may regret wearing that.
00:20Now, see me for you tonight.
00:23Look over there, it's Georgia Smith!
00:27Yeah!
00:27She'll be performing her current single, Dancing!
00:31But who's dancing on a bike sofa first tonight?
00:34This young Aussie wildlife conservationist
00:36has been getting up close and personal with crocodiles
00:38since he was just a kid,
00:39carrying on the incredible legacy of his father,
00:42Steve Irwin.
00:43Cranky!
00:43Say hello to Robert Irwin!
00:47Oh, he's dressed for the occasion!
00:50You look fantastic!
00:51Have you ever seen Robert Irwin?
00:55Yeah!
00:57She dazzled on the West End in Broadway
00:59as the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot,
01:02put Cersei into shame in Game of Thrones
01:04and gained stardom and a primetime Emmy
01:07as Rebecca Welton in the hit comedy Ted Lasso.
01:11It's a first-time welcome to...
01:12Hannah Waddingham!
01:14CHEERING
01:15Never been here before!
01:17Never been here before!
01:18Never been here before!
01:19Hello!
01:20Very good to see you!
01:21Yeah!
01:22And as we do!
01:23Good to see you!
01:24Good to see you!
01:25Good to see you!
01:26And this double Oscar-winning star on stage and screen
01:29ruled as the Elf Queen in Lord of the Rings,
01:32reigned over her orchestra as Uber Conductor Tarr
01:35and has bossed it twice as her own Queen Elizabeth I.
01:39It is a warm welcome back to the great Kate Blanchett!
01:42CHEERING
01:46Hello!
01:48How are you?
01:50How are you?
01:51Nice to see you!
01:51Good to see you!
01:53Good to see you!
01:53Have a seat!
01:55Oh!
01:56How are you?
01:57How are you doing?
01:58Good to see you.
01:59Welcome all!
02:00City down!
02:01City down!
02:02Ah!
02:02So, welcome back to Kate.
02:04A first-time welcome to Hannah and Robert.
02:06Hello!
02:07Thank you!
02:07You're so excited!
02:08I know!
02:09It is weird!
02:09In my head, I felt like you'd been here before, but no!
02:11I feel like you and I have known each other since time began.
02:14A long time!
02:16Haven't we?
02:16We've Eurovisioned all four.
02:18Oh, yeah!
02:18And before that, kind of knocking around!
02:20Knocking around!
02:21Yeah!
02:22The dive bars of the West End!
02:24Not Ryan!
02:27Welcome to you, Robert!
02:28Lovely to see you!
02:28Thank you so much!
02:29It's great to be here, mate!
02:30Very nice to see you!
02:31I have to say, there are lots of things that remind me
02:33that I'm getting older.
02:34One of them is that your late father,
02:37Steve Irwin,
02:38was on this show before you were born!
02:41Yes, that is true!
02:42And you guys wrangled a crocodile together!
02:44Well, it was a toy crocodile!
02:45But we did it!
02:46We did it!
02:46You were boots and all in there!
02:48I was just on the phone with my mum,
02:50literally right before I came out here!
02:52Oh, wow!
02:52And she just has the most special memories,
02:54and my dad thought the world of you, man!
02:56He really did!
02:57We had a great time with you!
02:58And we're so pleased you're here!
02:59Fantastic!
03:00Mate, good on you!
03:01You were in there, boots and all!
03:02Oh, yeah!
03:03Holy molly!
03:04They weren't my clothes!
03:05Look at that!
03:05I was going to say, look at your face!
03:07Aussie!
03:08And as an Australian, I'm guessing, do you know Robert?
03:11Yes!
03:11Have you met Robert before?
03:13We've been in the same city!
03:14We have, we have!
03:15We've been in very close proximity!
03:17It means we're related!
03:18So no!
03:18No, you have not met!
03:19OK!
03:20Mate, all Aussies know each other, though!
03:23And we either know each other, we're either mates or mate of a mate!
03:26You know, so...
03:27Mate!
03:28Yeah, but I...
03:30You have a strange experience, not quite with Robert's father.
03:34No, no, no, I did have a...
03:35Well, I was thinking of you recently.
03:37Right, OK.
03:37I was just on stage at the National Theatre.
03:39Have you met my dad?
03:40No, I didn't meet him, but I did have an interface nightly with a life-sized cardboard
03:45cut-out of your father at the National Theatre.
03:48Wow!
03:49Because I've just been doing a production of Electra Persona.
03:52Like a smash-up of Bergman's Persona with Sophocles' Electra.
03:55It was a complicated, interesting, challenging show.
03:58Yeah.
03:58And I would go every night at the 15-minute call to get a chocolate bar to the canteen.
04:03Right, right.
04:03And I'd pass...
04:04For some reason, they put a life-size cut-out of your father in the fire escape.
04:09No!
04:09It was one of Graham!
04:10It was one of Graham, but then they did put another one of Kylie next to it.
04:15Wow!
04:15That is an Aussie thing.
04:15All these Australians just kept accruing, so I don't know.
04:19It's an omen.
04:19That is really sweet.
04:20It was meant to be.
04:21Well, it's very nice to meet you.
04:23Unless it was just a homesick Australian working at the National.
04:26Maybe.
04:28That play, Electra Personas, you were in the papers because you kind of called someone
04:32out.
04:33What?
04:34Didn't you?
04:35You're gay, I said.
04:36Yeah, yeah.
04:38You there.
04:39You don't know it yet, but...
04:40Oh, no, no, no.
04:40Someone was filming the show.
04:42Oh, we love that.
04:43And so there was a moment in the show where, you know, when they, when we flip roles where
04:48whoever's playing the, the Electra sits down the front and looks at the audience and I
04:53went, oh my God, the person's filming the show.
04:56And so it's, it's that thing of, I don't mind, you know, people film.
05:00Yeah, no.
05:01I just had to call, but I just had to say something at the end.
05:03Please don't.
05:04Yeah.
05:04I said it really sweetly.
05:06You know, absolutely.
05:06Does that, like, take you out of the, the moment?
05:08Like, is that...
05:09No, I don't mind.
05:09I actually, I probably shouldn't say this too loudly, but I don't mind if people's phones
05:13go off.
05:14I massively mind.
05:15Do you?
05:16Yes!
05:16Put your damn phone away!
05:17Who hasn't gone somewhere and, we've all, we all make mistakes.
05:22But you can't make a mistake filming the whole show.
05:24Yeah, you can't do that accidentally.
05:25That's a little bit different.
05:26That's the moment of change, come on.
05:27See, for me, usually when I'm in front of an audience, I'm like, I'm feeding a crocodile.
05:30So, like, when that goes off, you've got to, you've got...
05:32So if your phone went off, you'd be dead.
05:34Oh, yeah.
05:35So you've got to, like, zone it all out, because that croc's looking at you.
05:38And if, and if you're like, oh, who was that?
05:40Then, like, there goes your leg.
05:41Like, it's not convenient.
05:42That might be the coolest sentence ever.
05:45Yeah.
05:45You feel a bit better about it now, Hannah, don't you?
05:48It's so cool.
05:49It's not so bad.
05:51Listen, before we go on, I've just got to mention Ted Lasso.
05:55Just finished.
05:56Hi.
05:57Just finished.
05:59Yes.
06:02And did you think it had stopped?
06:04Do you think it had gone away?
06:05I thought it had so, so stopped.
06:06And then when it was revived, I got slightly told off by the powers that be,
06:10because I said, it's like exhuming your beloved dead dog.
06:14And I was like, but I did say beloved, so, you know, back off.
06:18But we did think it was completely done, hoping that it would be back,
06:22and very much hoping it would be back with a women's team.
06:25And it was.
06:26Yes.
06:27And our girls have absolutely risen to the challenge.
06:30They've just been incredible, because it's hard coming into something
06:33that's so established and being garnered with all the lovelies.
06:36And I'm really proud of how they've taken up the moment.
06:40They've taken up the mantle and just run with it.
06:41They're just brilliant.
06:42But it's one of those shows that people don't just like it.
06:44They love it.
06:46Oh, yeah.
06:47Fully obsessed.
06:47Yeah, yeah.
06:48I don't think even Jason Sudeikis thought that it was going to have the
06:50response it did.
06:52But I think everyone was ready to have something that was beautiful
06:55and positive and funny.
06:57Yeah.
06:57Rather than, I'm not a fan of a comedy roast, personally.
07:00And I think it was, you know, I think it does a disservice to say
07:04that COVID was a thing that, you know, made it ignite.
07:08I actually think it would have anyway, because I think people were
07:10ready for warmth and the beauty of supporting each other and it
07:15being funny along the way.
07:16It's big in the Irwin household.
07:17Is it?
07:18Oh, yeah.
07:18No, we love it, mate.
07:19We love it.
07:20But yeah, you make positivity cool.
07:22There we go.
07:23And that to me is like, yes.
07:24There we go.
07:25It's awesome.
07:25I didn't realise it was big in Australia.
07:27I was out shooting the Fall Guy out there and I thought,
07:29oh, I'm going to have a lovely anonymous time.
07:31No, no.
07:32Photographers coming out of the bushes.
07:33Oh, wow.
07:34They just do that all the time.
07:37I was surprised how big it is in Oz.
07:40Oh, yeah, mate.
07:41Yeah.
07:41And Robert, you're now kind of famous all over the world for all
07:44your work with wildlife.
07:45You're mostly based in Australia and you work at the Australia Zoo.
07:48I do.
07:49And I think people in this country think, oh, well, the zoo,
07:51we know what that is.
07:51But it's not that.
07:53No, no, not at all.
07:54I mean, it's like a resort for wildlife.
07:57I mean, it's a place where my mum and dad kind of created this
08:03incredible movement for conservation.
08:04It's a state of the art.
08:05How big is it?
08:06Tell us about it.
08:06It's a 700 acre sanctuary, right?
08:09And it's animals like, you see, that's DJ, my beautiful big
08:12rhino.
08:13And he's like a big old puppy dog.
08:15You scratch him on the tummy and he rolls over.
08:17He's so cute.
08:18Hopefully he rolls the other way.
08:23He doesn't know where his horn ends though.
08:25You've got to really dodge him.
08:27But, you know, the animals are living as they would in the wild.
08:31A lot of them rescued.
08:32A lot of them endangered species.
08:34And then in terms of visitors, you are the man in charge of the crocosium.
08:39Mate, yeah.
08:39I'm in there feeding the crocodiles.
08:41Yeah.
08:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:42This is me and Scrapper.
08:44Crocosium.
08:44What the hell?
08:45This is...
08:46You say it like it's the most normal thing in the world.
08:49Well, it's...
08:50See, for me, crocodiles are my passion.
08:51Because they're this animal that people think they're big and scary and running around eating
08:55everyone.
08:56They are!
08:56They do!
08:58They're your children!
08:59Some of them don't.
09:00Scrapper's never eaten anyone.
09:02Scrapper!
09:03Scrapper!
09:04He has not eaten anyone.
09:05Scrapper!
09:05He's tried hard.
09:06But he hasn't.
09:08He's beautiful.
09:09And so, you know, these crocs, they...
09:12Unfortunately, the deal is in Australia, when a croc gets too close to people or livestock,
09:17they end up getting shot.
09:19So, my dad would spend literally years of his life, his entire 20s, out there rescuing
09:25crocs, bringing them back to Australia Zoo and feeding them and demonstrating the beauty
09:30of these animals to ultimately try and conserve them.
09:33And now it's my job to do that and kind of follow in his footsteps.
09:36And how many close calls have you had in the crocosium?
09:39Because it is...
09:40I mean, you're not pretending.
09:41It is dangerous.
09:42No, it is.
09:43And for me, what's important is that this animal, a top predator from the wild, is living
09:49as it would in the wild.
09:50I mean, it's easy to chuck a piece of food to a crocodile every now and again, but to be
09:54in there, boots and all, allowing that animal to hunt, to stalk, to strike, so incredibly
10:01good for them.
10:01Because at the end of the day, the most important thing is that our animals are living a great
10:06life.
10:06You wrangle the croc with that.
10:08You know what it's like.
10:08Is that the most important thing?
10:09The most important thing is you then close the gate.
10:12Don't die.
10:13Bye.
10:14See you tomorrow.
10:16Well now, one of the other things that links all three of you is you're all involved in
10:22the Earthshot Prize, which is the big environmental prize founded by His Royal Highness Prince William.
10:28Yeah.
10:28So I could ask you about that, but we just thought, why not ask the man himself?
10:35So, ladies and gentlemen, compose yourselves, this is not a drill.
10:38Please give a warm first-time welcome to His Royal Highness Prince William.
10:42Welcome to Pablo, comesado.
10:46Yeah, I can do it!
10:47And now I tell him, you're a senator .
10:50swooshly, hello, nice to meet you, my.
10:51Thank you, Alex.
10:59Good to see you big.
11:00CHEERING
11:02Come on. Come on. Come on.
11:05Is that your thing? Yeah, there you go.
11:07Thanks again. Oh, wow.
11:09You're very welcome. Lovely to see you. Yeah.
11:12Are you...
11:13Are you as surprised to be here as we are to see you?
11:16Yeah. I was meant to be seeing the W.I. tonight, so...
11:21And for the purposes of chat show land, how do I refer to you?
11:26Your... Whatever suits. OK.
11:27I'm going... Will? Yeah, William. That's good.
11:30Good, William. OK. The prince is silent. OK.
11:35And I guess because of Earthshot, you all know each other.
11:38Yeah.
11:41We hang out a lot. Yeah.
11:42Old friends, old friends. We've got a group chat. Yeah.
11:47And you are so famous, but recently you were at an event
11:50and someone didn't know who you were?
11:52Yes. That happens quite regularly, actually.
11:55No, it does not. It happens quite a lot. It does.
11:58But I went to a place in Somerset
12:01and was looking around some of the local communities there.
12:03And one lovely gentleman looked up at me from his seat and said,
12:07um, when are you going to sing?
12:10And I looked at him and I had many requests over many years
12:13for all ranging parts of society.
12:15And I said, I'm sorry, what do you mean?
12:19And he goes, um, when are you going to sing your performance?
12:22And, uh, the lady behind tapped his arm and went, no, no,
12:24he's not that prince.
12:26LAUGHTER
12:28It turned out he wanted me to sing Purple Rain.
12:31Um, which I don't know the lyrics for, so...
12:33Wait a second.
12:34I was... I escaped that one.
12:36It is very nice of you to be here, because you could be having a night at home
12:39and I know, being here, you're missing celebrity traitors.
12:42LAUGHTER
12:43Now I've reminded all of them.
12:45But I'm like, where are you?
12:47You are a proper fan of it, aren't you?
12:48Yeah, I love it. Yeah, the family love it.
12:50Yeah. Where did you bump into Ross Kemp?
12:51So, Ross was down...
12:52I saw him recently down, uh, in the south-west,
12:55and we were doing things for the National Emergencies Trust,
12:57which he's an ambassador for.
12:58And I had seen the episode, as we all had, um, the night before,
13:02so I couldn't help but sort of, in the most appropriate way,
13:05touch Ross, uh, in very nice and see what reaction I got from him.
13:09LAUGHTER
13:13Oh, there, oh, there you are.
13:15Er, OK, who do you think's going to win?
13:17Traitors.
13:17Oh, no, don't do that.
13:18I can't spoil exactly.
13:19No, no, no, he doesn't know.
13:20No, no, no, no.
13:20When you say that, you say that.
13:22Oh, did you know?
13:22Oh, no.
13:25Absolutely don't want to know.
13:26Ross break his contract in many areas, so...
13:29No, no, no.
13:30No, I'm joking, I'm joking.
13:32Spoiler alert, he didn't tell me.
13:33I did try, I did try, but he didn't tell me.
13:35But why would he know?
13:36Because he wouldn't have been there.
13:36Unless he was.
13:38Why would you create dissension in the ranks?
13:40I don't want to know.
13:41All right, all right, all right.
13:43Honest.
13:43Er, so you are here to tell us about Earthshot, but before we talk about it, here's a little
13:49introduction to the Earthshot prize.
13:51Thanks.
13:58This is obviously an enormous undertaking, so I guess let's start with where the idea
14:03came from.
14:04Is it your idea?
14:05Did someone come to you with it?
14:06How did it happen?
14:06So, for many, many years I was going around listening to stories of environmental issues, and
14:15one thing that struck me, and I'm sure these guys will be able to pipe in here, but there
14:18was a lot of negativity, and there's a lot of doom and gloom and doomsaying about it, and
14:22it got me down, as I know it does everyone else.
14:24And I was thinking to myself, we can do something here that's a bit more powerful, a bit more
14:28optimistic, and the idea of an awards ceremony came about, and we thought, come on, we can
14:33talk about urgency and optimism together, because we do need urgency.
14:36That's something we can't ignore.
14:39But the optimism piece is a really big selling point.
14:42It's not pessimism, it's all about getting excited.
14:44And when we started looking, we started scratching away at kind of around the world and trying
14:48to work out, you know, what's out there.
14:50It turns out there's some amazing people out there doing incredible things to protect
14:54the world.
14:55And it's to do with waste, it's to do with climate, it's to do with oceans, it's to do
15:00with land restoration.
15:02I mean, there's varying degrees of scalability out there.
15:05But what we discovered was we could really highlight and take these people to the next
15:09level, make them a household name, and try, if we can, to scale their solutions to have
15:14more impact around the world?
15:15As, like, a Gen Z-er.
15:17For me, whenever I would go anywhere.
15:20Alright!
15:20We are not!
15:21We should do it!
15:22We should do it!
15:22We are young!
15:23We're young!
15:23We're young!
15:23We're young!
15:24We're young!
15:24He had to get that in.
15:28That's the end of the sentence!
15:30That's all I need to do!
15:31That's all I need to do!
15:34And an environmentalist, I feel like every discussion I have, wherever I'm at in the
15:40world it's always other young people saying I I have an interest I have a
15:45passion for conservation I have a passion for environmentalism but it's
15:48it's all too big and it's all too much and it's all the walls are kind of
15:51closing in on me what can I do as as one person so I feel like to see as you
15:56say
15:57you know not shying away from the big issues but rather looking at it through
16:01the lens of solutions it gives young people this community and I think that's
16:06what we were lacking was this sense of community and I applaud now that we're
16:11over the halfway point the amount of tangible real effect that the Earthshot
16:16Prize has made worldwide is astonishing truly and I think it shows optimism
16:22works just showing why he's an ambassador for the Earthshot Prize
16:31halfway because this is a ten-year initiative yeah yeah and this year 15
16:36finalists five winners and it is a prize worth winning tell us what the five
16:42winners are going to get so the winners will get a million pounds each and that
16:45million pounds goes to scaling their solution yeah not as a recycling and the
16:54idea being that a lot of these people have started with literally nothing and
16:57they have to grow their team they have to grow their marketing and all that sort
17:00of things as well as the technical aspects of growing a company but the
17:04vast majority their shot prize finance are commercially viable solutions it's not
17:08philanthropy so many of these solutions will go on to make people a lot of money
17:12but in the process of doing that they're also protecting our world and and caring
17:16for things that we all care about there's the wit sorry Kate there's there's the
17:19winners and then the reason I wanted to get involved with it is because there are
17:24the winners on the night but then those people who haven't won are still
17:28entirely nurtured which I think is quite a unique thing yeah and let me tell you
17:33the prince has the most ridiculous dating agency on the planet because he puts
17:38together all these people you know you know the most the most tiny little
17:53organization with like a great big behemoth of an investor and just kind of
17:57nurtures it's like the greatest Rolodex ever of just nurturing all these
18:03people for change and being in the awards room I've never seen such positivity
18:09those people that win the others who haven't they are absolutely up because at
18:14least one of them is winning in that moment and then the earth shots takes
18:18those who haven't won and nurtures them just as much well this year it's on the
18:2217th of November in Mumbai and obviously we don't want to jinx it for
18:26anyone but give a taste of some of the kind of past winners success stories from
18:31the past six years yeah so one of my favorites is Nopla which stands for not
18:36plastic and it's actually started in the UK by a Spanish and French guy at
18:39university who got fed up with picking up plastic off beaches and around the
18:43world so they came up with a plastic alternative which was seaweed so we can now
18:49grow seaweed and turn into plastic which means the London Marathon I think it was
18:54two years ago now was entirely plastic free because of these guys and the only
18:59challenge they have now is how you build an enormous water bottle effectively
19:02because the bigger the water bottle the harder to hold the structure together but
19:06that's their next advancement and they're doing amazingly well I mean that in
19:11one deal they made a compass group who provide a lot of catering to all our
19:16stadiums and events in the UK they save 75 million single-use plastic items so
19:22it's making huge it's commercially five it's not just for good people are
19:33making money out of exactly that so it has to be commercially viable and not
19:36every single solution in the airshot is commercially viable but the vast
19:39majority are talk to us about this antelope because it's not all kind of
19:42businesses you there's an antelope is in Kazakhstan yeah exactly so Alton Dala
19:47there it is
19:50I'm sure Robert can tell us about the origins
19:53That's his friend Derek
19:56Just in the corner we'll see Robert's crocodile pop up and eat it
20:01Oh gosh, no, no, no, that's not that kind of joke
20:03But this antelope was critically endangered and they're now back to huge numbers and all because the government of Kazakhstan
20:10appreciated and realized how important this species was to the name of the country and to conservation and they threw
20:17their
20:17full weight behind it
20:18Wow and Kate you're a judge have you been a judge for instance that since the beginning
20:22Yes, since since it was founded so the first year was 2021 so yeah
20:27She took one phone call from me and she's regretted ever since
20:30It's been amazing actually because I mean I'm sure like like everybody you do feel despondent and after these calls
20:36and after seeing all the submissions
20:37As you say like it's it's not just the winners. It's the nominees and what I find really exciting is
20:43that yes, it's it's it's corporations its governments, but it's also
20:48It one of the ones I find really interesting is a Danish offshore wind company called osted who's a
20:53Finalist this year and they 20 years ago used to be a fossil fuel company and they had
20:59Totally transitioned to being the world's leading
21:04Offshore wind producer which applies I think 7% of the British
21:09Electricity which doesn't sound like much but that's 6 million homes and they're going to get to 10% by
21:14next year and
21:15There it sort of it shows other industries like old system industries that you can make the change and the
21:22fact that the city of Milan has won with a waste
21:25Of the city and the country of Bhutan as it has
21:28You know also as a finalist so I think it's not just those it's showing other governments other systems and
21:35corporations
21:36That it can be done. Yeah, so we're just to try not to give away winners for this year. Yeah
21:42Do we not know this?
21:47And are any of you going to be there in Mumbai this year or I'll be there might hundred percent
21:51Oh very good
21:52Well horses couldn't keep me away
21:54Now's the time to commit guys
21:56Yeah
21:57It is
21:58Oh wait, it's going to be awesome
21:59It's going to be awesome
21:59A reminder the Earth's top prize it takes place in Mumbai on the 17th November and it's being streamed globally
22:05on Prime Video in 40 languages across
22:08240 countries and territories so you can't miss it really I mean you've done a good you've done a good
22:12job there
22:13You really have
22:15Now William we were talking to Hannah earlier about Ted Lasso and I know you're a fan of Ted Lasso
22:20aren't you?
22:20I am yes I haven't watched every series but I've watched the first two
22:22Sorry Hannah
22:23What do you mean you haven't watched?
22:25Charming
22:26You had one memo
22:29Because you are a big football fan aren't you?
22:31I love football
22:31Yeah
22:31Now Aston Villa is your team
22:34Absolutely
22:35So why Aston Villa?
22:36Er...
22:37It's a long story
22:38Some charter friends of mine got me into Aston Villa clearly thinking they'd get some free tickets in later life
22:45I think it's probably worked
22:47I love that you look like you've been possessed when they score
22:51It's brilliant
22:57Any Aston Villa fans watching apparently you secretly post in the fan forums
23:02I am on some of the fan forums yeah
23:03What?
23:05No way
23:06What's your answer?
23:08What's the username?
23:09I'm Robert Irwin
23:09No
23:11That's awesome
23:12That is amazing
23:14Do you give it away by saying one didn't think that was very good?
23:18I have to mind my language a bit
23:20I know who that is
23:22But we should say you're also a proper film fan
23:25Yeah
23:25Is that something that you kind of thought right I'm going to get involved in this as I get older
23:30Weirdly so for me switch off time is film and music as well I love my film music
23:35And I like getting immersed in kind of really deep thinking kind of films
23:40I like the action films as well but I like something that kind of is a bit different
23:43And Christopher Nolan is a big fan of all his films I think they're absolutely fantastic
23:48Particularly the Dark Knight series when he retook Batman and made it into something quite psychologically dark
23:54Yeah
23:55And mysterious I absolutely love that
23:56And Inception and Interstellar are these films
23:59He just takes a concept that you think is completely out there
24:03And he makes it incredibly entertaining and really deep
24:06And I've loved you know escaping into his worlds that he creates
24:10Did you see the odyssey?
24:11I have seen the odyssey
24:11Oh it's so cool isn't it?
24:13Oh my god
24:14Yeah I love that
24:15Yeah
24:16It was in colour and everything
24:17Yeah
24:18Yeah
24:19Great
24:19Love it
24:20Ellison we know you really love cinema because we've got a picture of you working in one
24:24Er there you are
24:27Yes
24:27Manning the till
24:28And now I'm really sorry there are so many photographs like this
24:33Yeah
24:34Of you kind of you know operating machinery or behind a till
24:37Selling pasties
24:38Extremely proficient
24:39Pouring pints or everything
24:41Like does it kind of do your head in?
24:43Or do you just kind of
24:44Like if you want to go
24:45I'll just take a picture of me standing here I don't need to pull a pint
24:48Yes I'm aware I'm on national TV so I've got to be careful what I say
24:51But no I mean I love it
24:52Erm and
24:55It's a real privilege to operate the popcorn machine wherever I go
25:03Can you say no or people go oh he's very grumpy that principle
25:06Yeah
25:07It has a reaction yes
25:09Yes
25:09It's easy to say yes Graham
25:11Well someone who does not say no to photo opportunities is Robert Irwin
25:15He loves a photo opportunity
25:16He does
25:17He does
25:17Now
25:19These are wild like these are wildlife pictures
25:23What's happening
25:24Of Robert Irwin
25:25You know the pictures we're going to show
25:27Oh no no
25:28I should show them
25:30No no no
25:31It's a great look
25:32Well this is Robert with some snakes
25:36Yay
25:39It's all coming out now
25:44Can I just say is that your back garden?
25:47Yeah yeah that's
25:48I love the lawnmower
25:50The lawnmower is just casually
25:52I just
25:52I can't believe I'm looking at this with Prince William
25:58There's more
25:59No
26:00There's another one
26:01Oh now
26:05That was a bit too much that one
26:07Thanks
26:08Thanks
26:08Okay there's a reason
26:10Can I give context please
26:11Yes yes yes
26:12Okay so
26:12We'll believe you
26:15The washing machine was broken
26:19Australia's hot you can't wear too much
26:23You've got a lot of pictures of Kate like this as well
26:25Yeah yeah
26:25It was an underwear commercial obviously
26:29But I wanted to kind of create a conservation element to it you know
26:35Well I believe in bringing the message to an audience that might not ordinarily be interested in wildlife
26:40I'm taking my snake for a wolf
26:42And the message
26:43But seriously what matters to me is the snake in that image you know
26:47It's the fact that wildlife
26:49Wildlife was showcased you know
26:53Yeah
26:53There's one more
26:56At least we saw the snakes
27:01It's quite hard to spot what you're modelling there
27:04It's a spider I believe
27:05It's a huntsman spider there on my shoulder
27:07Okay
27:08Yeah yeah
27:09Venomous too yeah
27:10Okay
27:10Because now what's your story Kate
27:12Oh no I had a tarantula crawl on me
27:15I did a western
27:16Oh wow
27:17And the director got down on the ground and said look I will have the tarantula crawl on me
27:20And so when the director says he thinks I have to say yes
27:22But apparently you even know more than I do
27:25But they freeze
27:26And so in the scene where the tarantula was crawling on me they
27:29It didn't move because it got stage fright
27:31And so I had to spend like an hour and 20 minutes with the tarantula not moving because it looked
27:36fake
27:36With the props guy blowing on it with a straw
27:39Oh no
27:40From behind the camera so it didn't move and they cut it from the film
27:43Oh
27:43But they
27:44Can you milk spiders?
27:46Yeah yeah so
27:47So good question
27:48That is just not
27:48The name of Tara
27:49Because they told me they'd milked her
27:52Yes
27:53But when she was on her name is Tara
27:54And when she was on me they said I said has it been milked?
27:58And they said only you can't milk them
27:59How did you know you get milked?
28:01It's different to like milking a cow like they don't have
28:03Oh no really?
28:04But it's like
28:05You have an expert
28:07It's not like I'm milk or tarantula
28:09Like it's no
28:11But yeah they milk snakes
28:12They will milk snake venom to create anti-venom
28:15Yeah but spiders
28:16You can't milk
28:17You can't really milk
28:18They lie to me
28:19But where do you milk from?
28:20It's harder to milk
28:21Yeah it's very challenging
28:22We're never going to do it Hannah it's fine
28:24I'm just
28:25No there's not like teats
28:26It's like
28:27It's the fangs
28:28It's actually the venom from the fangs
28:30But apparently daddy
28:30Daddy
28:31I like Hannah do
28:32How do I milk them?
28:36I want it to be like that
28:38It's definitely not like that
28:40I'm still thinking about your python
28:43Yes
28:43Yay
28:49A great beauty agency
28:52Talking of photo ops
28:55Talking of photo ops
28:56You took your kids to see Taylor Swift at Wembley as well
29:00You're a gorgeous lady
29:01And she had a picture with you and your family backstage
29:06And now are you aware of the significance of this picture so I wasn't until recently I hadn't appreciated the
29:13significance
29:13And actually I was trying to move him out the photo
29:15I couldn't work out why he kept coming back in
29:19I was trying to move him out so it was just me and Taylor and the children
29:24So this was when they went photo official apparently yeah
29:26Oh that was the first time
29:29I know
29:31And seeing you with the kids there it seems like you're trying to give them as close to normal
29:37You know upcoming as possible hanging out with Taylor Swift
29:43Yeah, but obviously you know you've been born into your job as a as a child
29:48Did you fantasize about doing other things did you kind of think when I grow up? I might not be
29:53king. I'll do this
29:55Yes, there was evidence to that grim, yeah
29:59I'm rapidly trying to think about what I can say on television
30:03You don't want to go wrangle crocodile
30:05I met you earlier
30:06Yeah, it would have been good
30:08I did want to be a policeman when I was younger
30:09I thought I could make a good policeman
30:11But you're tall?
30:12Tall, exactly
30:16There's a bit more to it than that
30:18You've got the uniform and the hat
30:20I wasn't on the catwalk
30:22Okay
30:24And yeah, being a policeman I thought was quite cool
30:25And then I went through a phase where I wanted to be a DJ
30:27Which didn't go very well
30:30And I came up with a name
30:32I was called DJ Zara with an X
30:34It wasn't good
30:36DJ Zara?
30:37With an X
30:38That's rubbish
30:38Where's the X?
30:39The X was the front, Zara
30:41Oh I see
30:42And was that one of your moves?
30:43Yeah, no, I didn't do that movie
30:45I remember when he became very uncool
30:48Did you DJ at school parties?
30:50No, I didn't
30:51I never got that good
30:51Oh
30:53Very cool
30:55Kate, when did you realise acting was you?
30:57Were you one of those little children who kind of thought
30:59I want to do that?
31:00I just didn't think it was something you did for a living
31:02I thought you did it for fun
31:04So I thought I'd, I don't know
31:06I studied fine arts and economics
31:09So I thought I'd go into gallery curation
31:11I was always interested in restoration
31:13But I never thought I'd be an actor
31:15I still don't think I'm going to be an actor
31:16Wait, wait, wait, wait
31:17I'm really interested
31:17You did these weird kind of verbatim performances
31:21Did you do them in front of your parents?
31:23No, I used to back in the day
31:25I used to hide cassette recorders all over the house
31:29Cassette recorders?
31:34Gen Z
31:36I think that was PR
31:39It was pre-Robert
31:39Turn them around
31:40Just to get a pencil
31:41Around the other way
31:42And so I would, I would turn them on when people weren't listening
31:45And I'd record people sort of arguing, fighting, doing all that sort of stuff
31:50And then I, I waitressed like most actresses
31:53And I used to pretend I was writing down orders
31:56But I'd be writing down conversations
31:57Oh
31:58Yeah, it was fascinating
32:00You had things that people say
32:01Then you could have been a spy
32:02I could have been a spy
32:04Yes
32:04Very good
32:05So yeah
32:06Hannah, your mother, she was an opera singer
32:08Yes
32:09Was she?
32:10Yes, she was a principal at Covent Garden
32:12I only lost her two years ago
32:13Apologies if I get a little bit emotional
32:14Oh darling, I'm sorry
32:15I didn't know
32:16Talk about her because she was absolutely my idol
32:19I love that her name was Melody
32:21Melody, from the Isle of Man
32:23Oh my goodness
32:23Yes, both her parents were opera singers as well
32:25So if I hadn't been able to sing that would have been a bit rubbish
32:29But yeah, she was a principal at Covent Garden before I was born
32:32And then she took off 11 years to raise my brother and myself
32:35And then she went back into the chorus of the English National Opera
32:39So that she'd be able to do both
32:41Yeah
32:41And every time she came to see me in anything
32:43She had that kind of, you know, they don't quite talk normally
32:47Obviously
32:48And she would just say, does that not hurt?
32:51The way I would shout
32:52And I'd just think, no, no, no, mother
32:54It doesn't hurt, it's just different from opera
32:56Yeah
32:56But I have such a, such a love of opera
33:00And I've recently started listening to classical music again
33:03Because I found it very hard
33:05And I must say that the Prince was so kind
33:08And wrote to me when I lost my mum
33:10And it meant the world to me, really
33:11Oh, that's very nice
33:13That's a lovely thing
33:17And Robert, tell me this
33:19You, similarly, kind of born into your job and your life
33:23Did you always know you were going to go that way?
33:26Oh, yeah, I think like when you, when you grow up in a zoo
33:29And I mean, having the, the, the dad that I had
33:32Look at little chubby Robert
33:33Oh, look at you
33:35You know, my, my dad and my family just instilled so many lessons
33:40I mean, more than just the animal side of it
33:42It's like what, what, what you say
33:43It's this core family dynamic, you know
33:46I was always taught kindness is wisdom
33:49Empathy is, is the greatest human trait
33:52It's these, these core beliefs to treat every living being
33:55The way you would wish to be treated
33:56That, that passion that was just built in
33:59Factory settings for me
34:00It just made me go, wow
34:02I, I have the ability to hopefully keep that passion going
34:06You know, and, and particularly my dad's legacy
34:09I look at this, this one person
34:11Who created such a, a movement
34:14Such an incredible pioneering force
34:17And, um, it doesn't matter what you do
34:20When you've got your family around you
34:21When you have that legacy
34:23You have that drive to keep their mission alive
34:26It is, it's what fuels me
34:29Every single day
34:30Yeah, and Steve got so many of the next generation into conservation
34:33I remember watching some of his films growing up
34:35And it was amazing
34:36I mean, the things he did was just, you know, amazing
34:38He got so up close and personal with them
34:40And, again, his energy and his enthusiasm for it
34:43Got me really excited
34:44And, you know, we've grown up with David Attenborough here
34:45But Steve was, was a big part of everyone's childhood
34:48Yeah, it's really cool, thank you
34:50Now, Robert, I believe you have given Prince William something very special
34:55Oh, I did, yes
34:56So, I, I would, month, about a month ago
35:00I was on our annual crocodile research expedition
35:03So, we have a, for about 20 years
35:07My, something my, my dad started
35:09We research crocodiles in the wild
35:11It's catch, tag and release
35:12Using all of the methods that he came up with
35:14And it is the longest telemetry study of any individual animals on earth
35:18Wow
35:19And it is uncovering the secrets of this animal in the wild
35:22To figure out how to conserve them, basically
35:23But every single crocodile that we catch, we, we name
35:27It was a tradition that my dad started 20 plus years ago
35:30And it is very special
35:32We caught 299 crocs
35:34And on our last expedition, on one of the last days
35:37We caught this beautiful, beautiful, big 12 foot boy
35:42Emphasise that
35:42Beautiful
35:42Absolutely
35:43Mate
35:44He was a unit
35:4512 foot long
35:46He was death rolling
35:48He was, had teeth like this
35:49He comes out swinging, like he was just amazing
35:53Yeah
35:53He got it
35:54Leaving it
35:56You feel it
35:57Yeah
35:57So it only felt right
35:59He got an acoustic tracker, satellite tracker, release back into the wild
36:03And we went, you know what
36:03This is like crocodile porn
36:04We're
36:06I also feel you
36:08I feel you shouldn't leave off the rock
36:10Like it shouldn't be me
36:11No, no
36:11It is Prince William the crocodile
36:22But you know, Graham
36:24Yes?
36:25You've got a croc named after you too?
36:27No I don't
36:28Yeah mate
36:43Popped him in there
36:44But I tell you what
36:45He's the only crocodile
36:47Ever
36:47To actually bite
36:48My dad
36:49He bit him
36:50Right on the head
36:51And dragged him back
36:53He had to bring him out
36:55And he's a beautiful big boy
36:56There he is
36:57There's Graham
36:58Oh Graham
37:00He's actually
37:00I feel Graham's not a great name for that crocodile
37:03I feel Graham should be like a little terrier
37:05Oh
37:06Oh
37:08Prince William's 12 feet long
37:10Graham is a whole lot bigger
37:11Yeah
37:12Yeah
37:13He's 40 feet
37:15Hello
37:17Hello
37:17Hello
37:18Hello
37:18What about a lady crocodile?
37:20Oh
37:20Okay, alright
37:21Well next time I see ya
37:22No pressure
37:23How do you tell the difference between a male and female crocodile?
37:25Oh don't start him off
37:25Oh don't
37:26Oh don't
37:28Oh don't
37:29Oh I can see that
37:31We're not going into that discussion
37:33Er
37:34I can
37:35I'll tell you after
37:35Yeah, yeah, yeah
37:36And actually one crocodile or another
37:38Are you hanging around for red chairs?
37:39Yes, definitely
37:40Okay
37:44Good
37:45We look forward to that
37:47And right
37:47It is time for music
37:48This Brit Award winner and Grammy nominee
37:51Has one of the most distinctive voices in British music
37:54Her third studio album is called
37:55What Are The Odds
37:57And here performing the track Dancing
37:59It is
38:00Georgia Smith
38:01And her band
38:03And her backing witness
38:04Come on over do
38:05Georgia
38:08So beautiful
38:09Thank you very, very much
38:11That is so lovely
38:13Lovely to see you again
38:14Come on love
38:15Here you go
38:16Thank you
38:17Thank you
38:18Thank you
38:19Thank you
38:20Thank you
38:20Thank you
38:21Thank you
38:33Welcome to your first time on the show
38:34Yeah it is
38:35Well
38:36I know that now
38:37Yeah
38:37That was funny
38:38I shot my shot and now I'm here
38:39Yeah
38:40We need to give context
38:41We did an event together
38:42And afterwards I was being interviewed
38:44And they went
38:45Has anyone here been on the show?
38:46And I went
38:46Georgia
38:47Never
38:48Oh no
38:50I hope you called it out
38:51Hey
38:52No I haven't
38:52But I'd like to
38:54And now it's happened
38:55It's wish fulfilment
38:56I like it
38:57It's all very good
38:58Do you know anyone on the couch?
39:00I've met you before
39:01Yes we have
39:01A few weeks ago
39:02That was amazing
39:03You did an incredible speech
39:04Super inspiring
39:06And then
39:07I don't know you
39:08But
39:09Obviously
39:09Yeah
39:11I do a great rendition of pepperine
39:16We're going to have it later when the cameras are
39:19I want you to warm up act
39:21Thank you so much for that beautiful performance
39:23It was flawless
39:24Thank you
39:25And that is from the album
39:27What are the odds?
39:28Which is out now
39:29People can get it
39:30Properly
39:31Yeah
39:31So
39:32What are the odds?
39:34What are the odds?
39:35It's very dancey
39:37Yeah it is
39:38I wanted to
39:39Do you know what?
39:40I've always tapped into like dance music
39:42I like garage
39:42UK funky house
39:44And I thought
39:45Why not do a whole
39:47Album
39:48That is
39:48In that style
39:50And also
39:50It's great you've got all these dancers
39:51Because you're going on
39:52On tour
39:53I'm going to South America
39:55Next week
39:56Ooh
39:57Handy
39:57Yeah
39:58Anyone?
39:59We can dance
39:59Do you dance as well?
40:01No not really
40:02Okay
40:02I just do that
40:03Oh no
40:04That's awesome
40:06Yeah
40:06I'm really excited
40:08Wow
40:08Yeah
40:08But I like this
40:10Celebrating ten years since you first started an artist
40:12With a very big gig
40:14Yeah
40:15I'm at the O2
40:16Ooh
40:17Yeah
40:18Oh my god
40:19I'm at the O2
40:20Yeah
40:21That was amazing
40:23Is it your first time headlining at the O2?
40:26Yeah
40:26First time ever
40:27Yeah
40:27That is really exciting
40:29That's immense
40:30That is brilliant
40:31Congratulations
40:32But my god so deserved
40:33Your tone is just beautiful
40:35Thank you
40:36Really beautiful
40:37Yeah
40:37I love to sing and write songs
40:39So I'm very happy that I get to do that
40:41Yay
40:42Well we're so happy you're here
40:43And thank you very much indeed
40:45Good luck with the album and the tour
40:48And thank you for that performance
40:49George Smith everybody
40:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
40:56Now
40:57That's nearly it
40:58But before we go
40:59Just time for a visit
41:00The big red chair
41:02OK
41:03Now we've moved the lever
41:04So that if
41:06The future king
41:07I have a story should be stopped
41:10It's up to you
41:11All right
41:11Who's up for us?
41:13Who's up for us?
41:14Hello
41:15What's your name?
41:16My name's Alison
41:17And I'm from a village in South Oxfordshire
41:19Called East Hendred
41:19Oh thanks for telling us that
41:27All right
41:28And what do you do for a living?
41:30I'm a home worker
41:31And a part-time freelance bid writer
41:33A speech writer?
41:34Bid writer
41:35Oh bid writer
41:36Yes
41:36Anyone?
41:37I thought you said bid writer
41:38Off you go with your story
41:38Right
41:39So when my now 17 year old son
41:41Xavier was four
41:43And had started school
41:43He was preparing for his first nativity play
41:46And he came home and he said to me
41:48Mummy
41:48I know something that nobody else does
41:50I know that there are in fact two Jesuses
41:54There's the one that we learn about at school
41:56And who's in the crib in the nativity play
41:58That's the really good Jesus
42:00Then there's the one that you're always talking to at home
42:03When you're cross
42:04You were saying Jesus
42:06Jesus
42:06Jesus
42:07That is the really bad
42:12That was fair wasn't it?
42:14You're being too nice
42:16I think there's a threshold
42:17I'm not quite at the threshold yet
42:19What a great thing to have on your tombstone
42:21The future king knocked me back in a chair
42:24Fabulous
42:25Okay, who's up next?
42:26Hello
42:27Hello
42:28Hi, what's your name?
42:29Tasha
42:29Tasha, hello Tasha
42:30Where are you from?
42:31Ely, near Cambridgeshire
42:32Oh lovely, very nice part of the world
42:34And what do you do Tasha?
42:36I'm a carer for the elderly
42:37Okay, see now
42:38Now
42:39When people do lovely jobs you feel bad
42:41And yet we still flip them
42:43How do you go with this story?
42:45So, a few years back I got the privilege of going to New York
42:49Courtesy of my husband's boss
42:51Very exciting
42:53Went to meet him
42:54And I woke up later that evening with jet lag and everything else on
42:59Inside the world
43:01YAY!
43:04Go, Joana!
43:06Go, Joana!
43:10And she works with the elderly
43:12Oh!
43:14I can't believe you did that
43:16We were all getting a bit of jet lag
43:17Terrible, terrible
43:21Shall we try one more?
43:23Yeah, let's do one more
43:24Here we go
43:25Here we go
43:25Hello
43:26Hi, what's your name?
43:27I'm Tara
43:28from Australia all right are you just here visiting or I live here now oh wow
43:35what do you do I'm a molecular biologist where are you from in Australia Sydney
43:40yeah no molecular biologist come on I know I hear off you go with this story
43:46right well this happened my first year of university I was in a first year's
43:50camp where I wanted to meet new people make some friends and the first night
43:54there was a game of truth or dare so of course I join in and the bottle lands
43:58on me so I was there to do the worm and I've never done the worm before but I
44:03thought I don't know anyone here whatever I'm not gonna be framed as a
44:06wimp so I'll go ahead and do it got in the middle started doing it started
44:10feeling really good about it I was like I can do the worm got into it went bang
44:15head up look in my hand my full front tooth is in my hand came out and I've
44:22got a fake tooth rock and roll that story went much better than I thought it
44:25rock and roll and you can walk young lady
44:28come on come on there you go
44:32okay that really is all we've got time for please thank you to all of my guests
44:36and Georgia Smith no
44:39Robert Irwin
44:42Anna Waddingham
44:44Kate Blanchett
44:46and his royal highness prince william
44:52join me next with musical guest sugar babes british actor naimi acky
44:56succession star kieran colton eight-time oscar nominee glenn close
45:00and hollywood legend michael douglas i'll see you then good night
45:03everybody bye
45:03bye
45:03you