here we go. # let's go, go, explorer. —— explorer. let's meet new friendly faces. that is some of the new look. when will we see the first episode? the first episode will be monday on channel five. 7am, i believe. iwill have episode will be monday on channel five. 7am, i believe. i will have my recorder ready about everybody else does. as you saw there, we have an amazing new theme song. we thought we can't go with the classic theme song. we have to have a new theme song. we have to have a new theme song that captures thomas' global adventures and the new energy and pace of the show. we want to make it releva nt for pace of the show. we want to make it relevant for today's audience. more fast paced but still the gentle age of stea m 7 fast paced but still the gentle age of steam? absolutely. thank you so much. that wonderful, wonderful story of the reverend audrey in water —— wilshire. now the weather. the we're looking at someone despite

the fact we've entered into metre rogic late —— meteorological autumn. further north and west week weather fronts bring more cloud. maybe some light rain across western hills. temperatures in the southeast 19—21. still a few showers over western hills. quite a bit of cloud around. it's going to be a much warmer sta rts it's going to be a much warmer starts at sunday morning. temperatures no lower than 14—16dc. variable cloud across northern and western areas. outbreaks of rain beginning to push into the far north—west of the country as we had through the afternoon. hello this is bbc news.

the headlines — an investigation claims hm revenue and customs blocks people from receiving honours — if they're found to be avoiding tax. a man has appeared in court, charged with the murder of a mother and daughter, who were stabbed outside their home in solihull. more than two thirds of northern rail services have been cancelled today, in a dispute over driver—only operated trains talks are taking place in iran today, to discuss the fate of british—iranian charity worker nazanin zahghari—ratcliffe — who's been jailed there since 2016. now on bbc news it's time for the travel show. this week on the show. we're checking out the food scene in ireland's west cork.

kayaking britain's coastline in all conditions. and i get a deeply visible tour of sarajevo's war wounds. the hairon my the hair on my armsjust the hair on my arms just shut up. i don't know what to say. i've never seen anything like this before. we start this week ireland, the country is marking 170 years

since the great hunger, a famine that swept across the country leading to the deaths of overi million people. but ireland has since undergone a food revolution and kate hardie—buckley is returning home and at the taste of west cork food festival to explore what was once the epicentre of the famine and is now the country's top foodie destination. welcome to west cork. this is the mizen peninsula, the most south—westerly tip of the island of ireland. i've been coming to this part of the world since i was eight years old. people are drawn here by the dramatic scenery, the arts, and the great craic. and now they're flocking here for the local cuisine. west cork was recently voted

ireland's food capital. the history of the area is as rich and diverse as its food. along the coast you'll find caves where pirates smuggled their treasures. it is where marconi sent the first tra ns—atla ntic radio transmission to america. and it was here the first famine death was recorded, the first of over i million across ireland, with a further 2 million people emigrating. so this is the skibbereen saturday market. at the height of summer i think maybe the best market anywhere in the country. the freshest mozzarella available in ireland right now. mmm. it is like lactic poetry. april makes the most

astonishing potions. slainte. when we think vinegars, we think it's something that's harsh and aggressive. it's very gentle. and that's gentle. obviously i can taste the apple. mm-hmm. but there's like a berry taste to it or something like that. maybe even the whisky. you're tasting the whisky. whisky? a bit early for the whisky. yeah. the skibbereen market continues to slowly but organically grow and get better. people, i think, are really realising more and more that the essence of a real experience is when it's grounded in that local foods. that is what you want without you're in bangkok or tuscany or west cork. here we go, skibbereen. bon appetit. mmm. wow, it's a real west cork burger. i have come to meet the fergusons, who run gubbeen, one of the original irish cheese farmhouses here. and they pay to play a huge role in the west cork food scene. giana and herfamily have been making their award—winning cheese for the last a0 years. and is this sort of where you begin

creating the flavours and the texture? in a way. although i think the real start of the story is the soil. and, of course, the big flavour is once the cheeses are made and they start to ferment. this is heavier than you'd think. oh my goodness. smells incredible. there you are. the finished products. i think if you're in new york, or paris or wherever we export to, and you come across this, what your are going to feel or smell — west cork. that's what i love about this. giana's children are the latest generation working the land. fingal makes the charcuteries, with over 100 different products. the fergusons and other west cork food makers account for 75% of artisan producers across the country. in west cork, not only do you get

to taste great food, but you also get the chance to find and explore new ingredients. it's beautiful down here. here we go. jim and maria kennedy run sea kayaking trips all along the coast, where you get to forage for your own food. out on the atlantic looking for dinner. and we don't have to look far. when you start to investigate they become like friends. youjust see, oh, look, there's the oarweed coming up, and over here the sea spaghetti. it's absolutely amazing. for ireland's coastal communities, seaweed has long been a staple food. it has everything you need. it has minerals, it has vitamins, b vitamins, that we spend, you know, 20 or 30 euros buying across the shelf, it's all in here. there's a seal over there,

also looking for his dinner. hello, buddy. so what is on my seaweed board? we have dillisk or dulse, carrageenan, another traditional favourite, we have seagrass, beautiful green, also known as spirulina. i recognise that one. mm—hmm. and then for something completely different, the queen of all seaweeds — or maybe the king. pepper dulse — the truffle of the sea. that's extraordinary. peppery. such a bite to it, such a kick. what's most extraordinary is the diversity under the kayak, different shapes, forms, textures, colours. it's quite extraordinary. even in the famine people ate seaweed. but i think then it became associated with poverty and hunger. and now people are beginning

to rediscover the amazing properties of seaweed. the people of west cork are also exploring their past this summer in a special remembrance festival of the irish famine. various artists are gathering for the coming home: art and the great hunger exhibition. tonight they're performing at an old famine workhouse in skibbereen. it's been a great adventure exploring the west cork food scene. and it makes tonight all the more poignant being here on land that was once ground zero of the famine. three days in skibbereen, february 1847. over 400 people have come tonight to hear from the diaries of victims and pay their respects at a famine grave. despite the success of the food story here, the famine years will always remain part

of ireland's identity. food that was once in such short supply is now a source of great pride and people all over the world are coming here to savour the tastes of this food revolution. still to come on the travel show... tyne, dogger, fisher, german bight. north or north—east, four orfive, fog patches, moderate or good, occasionally very poor. the man using an iconic bbc broadcast as inspiration for his incredible journey. and i get a disturbing close—up view of what sarajevo was like 25 years ago during its terrible siege. so don't go away. the travel show, your essential

guide wherever you're heading. next up, a man whose passion for the bbc‘s much loved shipping forecast has inspired him to make the journey of a lifetime. we have been catching up with toby carr as he prepares to set off from his home in london. i think one of the really exciting things about going in a kayak on the sea is a sense of simplicity that is just about being very close to the water and it is a human—powered movement. you can use the environment to your advantage or disadvantage. i'm toby carr and over the next year i am going to kayak in all of the areas of the shipping forecast. and now the shipping forecast, issued by the met office,

on behalf of the maritime and coastguard agency. there are warnings for gales in south—east iceland. high norwegian basin 1029. expected 40s, 1030, by midnight tonight. the shipping forecast in the uk is the world's first storm warning system. it covers an area from the south coast of iceland and mid atlantic in the west to the danish coast in the east, right down to the north coast of africa. portland, plymouth, north biscay, northerly or northeasterly, four orfive, showers later, good. it broadcasts several times during the day on bbc radio 4. it's a pretty big undertaking to paddle in all the areas. the funny thing about the shipping forecast is that i think so few people

understand its actual meaning or relevance, but so many people love it and enjoy listening to it. so there's this funny balance between its meaning, or its practical meaning, and its cultural meaning, in a way. south biscay, variable, three orfour... the radio was on quite a lot in our house when i grew up. so in a way it was a bit of a background. so you'd hear this regular rhythm of something being read out. east sole, lundy, fastnet, irish sea. while i was growing up, we had a small boat on the east coast of england. because of that we also grew up listening to the forecast having a real meaning and trying to understand what it would mean and writing it down. so i have two days to go. i'm going through all my stuff.

it's a bit daunting because i have to get all of this stuff into a kayak. ijust am going through what i can take in what i can leave. this is a personal locator beacon. if something is really badly wrong this is registered with the maritime and coastguard agents in falmouth. and it's connected to an international rescue system. so you pull up the antenna and do the thing that you hope you are never going to have to do, which is push the red button here, so push the button and a whole fleet helicopters turn up. i grew up with a rare genetic condition, which my brother also had. when we were kids we were often told we would not live longer than 30 and the life expectancy is quite short. i think that obviously puts in your mind a sense of determination to try to get the most out of things. you have a sense of freedom.

you can get to places that people can't normally get to. so there's a remote aspects to it, which is appealing. there's also a point perspective, i think, that being on the water and looking back the land is quite an interesting way to experience it. faroes, southerly, four orfive, occasionally six in west. occasional rain in west. mainly good. people havejust contacted me from other places and just got on board with the project — offered places to stay, offered to plan different parts of the trip, offered to lend me boats or equipment, offers of meals, all sorts of things. and you share a love for doing something. there is a side that is also really important to me,

which is meeting people in these different places. and i think that is what will bring the trip alive. this is it. bbc travel show, i am off. wish me luck. and that's the end of the shipping forecast. lying in a balkan valley and studded with ancient mosques, it's fair to say that bosnia and herzegovina's stunning capital sarajevo is often unjustly overlooked by tourists. walking around the city, it is easy to always be looking up at the bell towers and cathedrals, the minarets and the mosques, the beautiful hills.

if you do look up, you might miss these, which are down at your feet and you might not even know what your looking it. these are called sarajevo roses and they mark the impact site of a fatal artillery shell. a couple of years after the war, artists came and filled them in with red resin and you can see them all over the city. 25 years ago, this was a very different place. bosnian serbs sat in the hills and laid siege to sarajevo as the breakup of yugoslavia led to nationalism and inter—ethnic violence. 10,000 people died in the city in some of the most terrific fighting europe has seen in modern times. it's cast a long distressing shadow and in an attempt to help me understand what it is like being there back then, i've been sent here to a hostel in

the city centre. hello. nice to meet you. zero one. zero one is your name? it was my father's war codename. and this is the hostel? thank you. inside, zero one attempts to simulate the experience of living in sarajevo during a siege. it's something different, isn't it? it certainly is. there are gunfire sounds that never get switched off, electricity is run from a car battery, the windows are covered and you sleep on the floor on a rectangle of foam. i am making the stories come alive here, tried to make them come alive because when you open a book, you have to imagine here, don't need the book, you just need to come and see it and witness it for yourself. some aspects you understand, some aspects.

for instance one thing i would never like to simulate is the fear of losing something, whether that is your life or yourfamily. this is a high frequency radio. when there was power, this would be the only connection to the world. underneath the hostel, there is a collection of relics from the war, paraphernalia salvaged from zero one's walks on what used to be the frontline. and there is the bunker, a recreation of the front—line facility once used by his father when fighting up in the hills. what we did is, we took my dad's memory and we made it real so that people would understand what it was like. zero one began this project just by running tours to demonstrate just how badly damaged the city was during the siege on how the scars still pockmark the city. so this is what happens when you separate people into us and them.

the hairs on my arms just shot up. i don't know what to say. i've never seen anything like this before. the district of grabovica is hard enough and up in the hills, you understand the scale of the problem. this used to be a luxury hotel with superb views. so this is a sniper hole. basically a sniper‘s den, shooting from here, easing the gun out and just picking some random targets. you can see the whole city from here. that's a lot of windows as well. we are getting ready

for a night on the bunker. zero one is here preparing a room ferocity is reinforced the point that it is quite intense. we can hear the echoing gunshots much louder down here. there is smoke already. it feels quite real. not many people choose to sleep down here, as the experience is pretty intense. one of the rules that zero one has the bunker is, no timekeeping devices.

i had to forfeit my watch on my cell phone. before he left. so i have no idea what time it is. they left me on here about 11:30pm and maybe it's been an hour. a couple of the sounds that play whenever they sound, itjustjolts me. the night has been a blur of pseudo— half rest. not really quite asleep and not really quite awake. ok, there is some daylight, which is a good sign. i don't really feel like a fresh

daisy now, but the world seems to be awake. i take my leave of zero one in the morning but something has bothered me. is this in good taste? people could think we are playing games 01’ wargames, but it's not the point. the point is to give you a small glimpse of what it was like for people who were forced to live like this, like me and my family, people forced to go on the frontline. there was no choice. thank you very much, that was a night that i will remember for the rest of my life. thank you for staying here. thank you so much. that was a pretty

intense experience. not exactly for everyone but for me, it was pretty powerful, actually. that is it for this week. coming up next week. lucy is in south africa meeting the dancers who are challenging the perceptions of johannesburg's most feared neighbourhoods. yes! in the meantime, remember, you can follow our adventures on social media. you can find links for those on our website but now, from me, mike corey and the travel show team here in sarajevo, it's goodbye. it's the first day of meteorological

autumn. weather—wise it looks like we will see something summary this weekend. thanks to high pressure, it's largely dry with some good spells of sunshine. a bit more cloud to the north and west. high pressure to the north and west. high pressure to the north and west. high pressure to the east of the country means we will draw up southerly winds from spain and from france which is why we will see these temperatures rising. it's going to be a fairly cloudy afternoon across much of the north and west. the best of the sunny spells will be across the eastern half of england. at least it's going to be largely dry with some good sunny spells across central areas we could make low to

mid 20s. across western wales, there may be a few spots of light and patchy rain. eastern parts of northern ireland and the north—east of scotla nd northern ireland and the north—east of scotland could see some sunny spells where we could see 19 or 20 celsius for aberdeen. overnight, largely dry with a few spots of rain across western hills. a lot of cloud around. we pick up this warmer southerly breeze. a pretty warm start to sunday. or not to cool spots across the far south—east because of clear skies overnight. the best of the sunshine here through sunday. then we should see more holes in the cloud further north and west so it could be quite warm across the north—east of scotland. elsewhere, largely dry and

warm. temperatures 22—25 celsius in the south—east. a band of cloud through central areas with showery rain. ahead of it a bit brighter. another warm day in the south—east. as we head deeper into the week, high pressure dominating. fairly warm again in the south with temperatures remaining to normal. this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm. an investigation claims hm revenue & customs blocks people from receiving honours,if they're found to be avoiding tax. they are going after schemes of this kind, and individuals who have benefited from them are being held to account. that is surely right. a man has appeared in court, charged with the murder of a mother and daughter, who were stabbed outside their home in solihull.

more misery for northern rail passengers, as more than two thirds of services are cancelled, in a dispute over driver—only operated trains. the fight to free british iranian charity worker nazanin zahghari—ratcliffe continues her fate will be discussed at top—level talks in tehran today. also coming up this hour, all—aboa rd the new look thomas the tank engine. he's set to travel the world with a new group of gender—balanced trains as part of a bid to remain "releva nt".