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4 unusual facts about The One Show


Larry Grayson

He initially used the stage-name Billy Breen, but changed it to Larry Grayson in the 1950s on the advice of his agent; (He was still performing as Billy Breen in August 1962) BBC TV's "The One Show" reported on 27 November, 2012 that the name "Grayson" was taken from the American singer Kathryn Grayson, but the origin of the name "Larry" is unknown.

OPAL Soil Centre

The Soil and Earthworm Survey was featured on The One Show on the 23rd March 2009 with a piece presented by George McGavin.

Real Relay

The One Show on BBC One featured the Real Relay on 23 July 2012 including an interview with Kate Treleaven and footage of the final five miles.

Somebody's Me

In an interview for BBC's The One Show Iglesias was asked why he released the song to which Iglesias simply stated "Because my record company told me to".


Beneath the Snow Encumbered Branches

In December 2009, Gyles Brandreth presented a piece on the history of the painting for BBC One’s The One Show.

Hope and Greenwood

Miss Hope and Mr. Greenwood regularly appear on the telly, in such shows as The Alan Titchmarsh Show, The One Show, Heston's Fantastical Food to name but a few.

John Stride

For a while it was thought that John Stride had died because both Stuart Baird, in a DVD commentary on The Omen, and Martin Shaw, during an interview on The One Show, had said so.


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Cliff Richard tours

After the European Leg of the tour Cliff and The Shadows came back to the UK to make television appearances on The Paul O'Grady Show on which they played Singing The Blues, and The One Show on which they played their last ever performance together in the UK.

Karl Gomes

Karl has won numerous awards at Cannes, Webby, One Show, New York Festivals, Asia Pacific Adfest, Abby and AAAI, including the 1st Indian Cyber Shortlist at Cannes 2006 for Timesjobs, the 1st Indian Webby award for a simple and intuitive multilingual portal for Life Insurance Corporation of India, the 1st Bronze Cyber Lion at Cannes 2008 and India’s first Silver Pencil at the One Show Interactive 2009 for an Online campaign “highlighting what's important” for Luxor Highlighters.

Sangita Myska

Myska has also worked as a current affairs presenter and reporter on The Daily Politics with Andrew Neil on BBC Two; on Real Story with Fiona Bruce for BBC One; presented Outrageous Fortunes – Guinness for BBC One and BBC Three; and BBC Two's Current Affairs series Lifting the Bonnet; BBC1 World Olympic Dreams:Mongolia Rising www.bbc.co.uk/18075876; BBC1 The One Show www.BBC.co.uk/news/uk-13143206