oh, i see you wish to become a blood donor? i certainly do. tony hancock. benny hill. frankie howerd. and a 20—year partnership with terry scott. i'm talking about food. what about eating out? what about the garage? 0h, i'd much prefer a restaurant. when she became damejune whitfield, it was in honour of more than 1300 appearances on tv, radio and film. as the writer denis norden once said, it was a mystery how anyone could do a comedy show without june whitfield. damejune whitfield who has died at the age of 93. the next news on bbc one is at 5:35pm. now at this festive time of the year it's time for a very

special edition of click — filmed live before an audience who were treated to the very latest in technology, including augmented reality, drones and dancing robots. shhh! why, hello there, little bedbugs. you're so sweet. i can change my face completely to match what i'm supposed to do. for example, i can be a woman like this. it's a bit creepy. we have got an informal queueing system going on here, like a pub. hello! 17 minutes to go until the show begins. and we're just writing the script. we should start with "welcome." then busk it. spencer kelly is really funny. better than some actors, anyway. technology has moved on quite a lot since i was at school. we didn't have any computers then. you don't get nervous. he does, all the time! just getting in the last touches.

are you looking forward to it? yeah. welcome to click live. from broadcasting house in london, this is bbc click live. please welcome your hosts, lara lewington and spencer kelly. good afternoon, london! welcome to click live. we're going to start with something truly magical. i would like you to put on your headsets and we'll show the magic image. we're going to show you part of a show about gulliver's travels. gulliver and his daughter gilly are in the land of the giants. they've been brought to the queen to entertain her. enjoy the show.

why, hello there, little bedbugs. i hear you have prepared a special song for me? like we have a choice. your highness, i am afraid there's been a small misunderstanding. you see, we do know how to play the piano, but we are not used to such a big one, you see. the peasant promised you would play the piano for me. yes, but... and when promises are not kept it makes my heart so sad, and when my heart gets sad i start crying, and when i start crying... please, don't cry. forget what i said. we will play a song, just as you were promised. 0k? you may. thanks. here we go. ready? ready. 0k. piano music. applause.

i'm going to call up one of the people behind this ar show, from israel, please welcome sasha kreindlin. thank you so much. can you explain whatjust happened? what we did is, we created the tools to incorporate ar into the live show. this tool allows the artist to focus not only on the stage but the entire venue as your canvas. if everybody turned their head while the scene was going on, there is a whole castle around you. and the second revolutionary part is the interaction part, because they have buttons on their headsets and they can interact with the live show and it gives a world of possibility. please give it up for the ar show.

so, we're just getting the robots ready. a] is getting his laser tag guns ready, because he will trigger the robots to dance. at mekamon hq in bristol, 30 robot toys are being taught to tango. well, sort of. to get the bots to bust a groove simultaenously, they all need to be set off at exactly the same time. so the team behind them had to get creative. so, this fires infrared. at all the robots. and the robots get the signal, and they know it's time to dance. ok, now. a tv remote was just really boring, so we got the laser gun. and it makes cool noises. it is cool, when it works. does it still need reloading? you have to reload the laser gun? and we can reset that. it's a cone of light that comes out, not a single beam.

if you get very close to our robot it's a net that's more narrow. it won't affect as many. the further back you are, we find it's a better, wider tack. it is the same with the robots, they fire out a cone. they have used video animation software to choreograph the custom dance routine. i make one animation and that will be distributed to all 30. the way that we did the mexican wave was that we put it into grid so that the last bit has a staggered animation, so for that bit, they all had their own little animation. so here i've got six animations. that's how you get this ripple effect. because the robots don't know where they are in relation to one another, they have to be positioned in precisely the right place. but when it's done right... music plays.

and i'm joined here by their proud father, ceo and co—founder of reach robotics, silas adekunle. thanks for having me. if robotics can already do this for fun, there must be some exciting prospects about what they will be capable of soon. definitely. with mekamon we are about education, so you can learn to code and learn stem skills with mekamon. on top of that we have robots starting to go into the home. the next phase for robotics, especially consumer robotics, which will be a big part of that, robots that can go to our houses and help us. some of you may have smart devices, they can speak you and ask questions of you. the next stage is for you to be able to say, get me there and we'll get it for you. can you tell them a bit about your story? you have an interesting background. yes, that's a photo of me from nigeria.

i was born in nigeria, moved to the uk when i was about 11 or 12, but before that i had been interested in science, engineering, stem. so when i moved to the uk, to cut a long story short, i went to university to study robotics and in that time i saw that when you combine consumer robotics with gaming, it creates a really powerful engagement. it's a lot more interesting, as you can see. these robots are a bit like videogame characters in real life. they get better and stronger over time. that was the inception of the idea behind mekamon. how do you get the motion so realistic? there are two ways we do that. one is something called kinematics, where the robot is actually figuring out where it's moving to, and the second is that we have an amazing talented team of animators who work on it digitally and try to make that motion as realistic as possible. so what you're looking at here is years of lots of research into behaviour and motion that is translated into the real world. finally, it is the mechanical engineering aspect. we have some proprietary technology that allows

the robots to move like this. great, thank you so much. a man who wants to take over the world, but before we go, because we had this amazing routine taking place, we didn't want just you lot to see it. so earlier today they had a little activity outside the bbc building. take a look at this. music plays. so i have a background in technology and magic. and magicians are interesting. their allusions accomplish what technology cannot. but what happens when the technology of the day seems almost magical? what happens when you can do this? now, 100 years ago that would have been the magic of levitation.

now, is it possible to create illusions in a world where technology makes anything possible? jump. now, if you know how the trick is done, where is the illusion? but still, our imagination is more powerful than our reasoning. and it's easy to a tribute personality to machines. these are quadcopters. but they are more than mechanicalflying machines. they analyse the environment around them and react to everything i do. advanced algorithms allow these autonomous machines to fly in close formation, aware of each other, aware of me. mathematics that can be mistaken for intelligence. and intelligence for personality. that's it.

and a click live show wouldn't be a click live show without some lasers and a game that involves lots and lots of applause. well, you've gotta get it somewhere, haven't you? three, two, one — go! being clapped off stage. a fitting end if ever there was one. all that remains is to thank everyone who turned up to see us live and, of course, you at home for watching. all: goodbye! hello, there.

high pressure remains in the driving seat. it is sitting to the south and around it, went from a south—westerly direction. around it, went from a south-westerly direction. quite a lot of moisture and that will affect western areas through sunday. the best brightness to the east. aberdeenshire seeing most of the sunshine. clear spells overnight, there may be some mist and fog. it won't be particularly cold, especially in northern parts of scotland. a bit more breeze and thicker cloud. up and running into new year's eve and it's a case of spot the difference, a lot of dry weather again. cloud dominating but the best breaks to the east and in the best breaks to the east and in the south on new year's eve. the fly in the ointment is this whether

front working into north—western scotla nd front working into north—western scotland and strengthening wind for the northern isles. this is bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at 2pm: another group of migrants cross the channel and arrive in kent as the home secretary cuts short his holiday to deal with the crisis. the president of the european commission, jean claude juncker, has urged the uk to "get its act together", over brexit. also this hour, the health secretary, matt hancock, sets out plans to provide better support for mothers and babies in england. the proposals would include more specialist neonatal staff, and targets to halve the number of stillbirths, and maternal and infant deaths, by 2025. stars from the entertainment world remember comedy actress, dame june whitfield, best—known for her roles in terry and june and absolutely fabulous, who's died at the age of 93. 2018 in the uk has seen months of extreme weather. join us from cumbria, in the next hour, to see