iceland is a country famous for its natural beauty. and said he wasn't prepared to see her victimised by the press but as cat moh has been finding out, things there are changing. as his mother was. we've all seen it on the covers of magazines, and the footage of nature documentaries. stunning images of a landscape from which iceland takes its name. torrential rain has swept across large parts of england but these glaciers are more and wales — causing floods, fragile than they may seem, closing roads and forcing people to leave their homes. and they have a story fit for a storyteller. landslides blocked the railway line between carlisle and newcastle. "there was an immense crack. a major incident was declared on the isle of man from where danjohnson sent this report. all the cars behind it the ensuing earthquake was greater than any experienced since man first are going, as well. they're used to bearing the brunt walked the planet. of the weather here. but in laxey, this — well, this was something else. 0h, some sandbags, there... my name is andri magnusson, i am a writer in iceland, that is actually the civil defence van that is supposed i have written children's books, to be laying sandbags. talk about optimism poetry, plays, science in the face of adversity. fiction and non—fiction. even rescue teams struggled as the river raged after hours of rain, so a coastguard helicopter came to lift residents to safety, we are in an example of what has as schools were closed and people to happen to all coal—fired power were warned to get out or head upstairs. stations in the world.

i am part of a group who made after the deluge, a creative place out of it. the damage was clear. you can see from the debris what is your connection to glaciers? in the riverjust how forceful the water was, and you can see the destruction it caused. my connection to glaciers is more cars have been ruined, and homes too. if you look on the wall there, you can see the tide mark. that is how high the water got. through my grandparents. this was the front room. some homes were under three, four or even five feet. the next thing the door came in, my grandparents were founding partners of the icelandic glacial research society. and so i was trying to push the door. and they went on a glacial honeymoon the kids were upstairs, screaming. in 1956, for three weeks. i managed to get the dog and they were stuck in a tent and cats upstairs, as well. in a blizzard, and i asked them it was just horrendous. when i was a child, it was literally within five weren't you cold? minutes, it happened and they said "cold? within five minutes. we were just married." there was nothing you could do. at one stage there were 50 flood warnings across england, and although the storm surge wasn't as bad as feared, in cumbria, landslides i didn't understand how you get warm blocked railway lines, when you get married. but i found out later. and after a month of record rain, carlisle was one of many places where roads were tricky. this has been family mythology, in leicestershire, rivers swelled, our brave grandmother, leaving cars submerged. a pioneering woman on the glacier. back on the island, there is much

more clearing up to do, but if i had written 20 years ago and there is disbelief that glaciers would melt here at the speed, intensity and destruction of this in the lifetime of a single human being, that would have been sci—fi devastating flash—flood. at the time. well, now it is not sci—fi any more. dan johnson, bbc news, it's just sci, science. in laxey, on the isle of man. ba nksy banksy has revealed he has opened a homewares banksy has revealed he has opened a homewa res store banksy has revealed he has opened a homewares store in south london andri, hello. welcome. after a legal dispute with the hi, i'm cat. greetings card company. he wants to welcome to my power station. prevent the firm from acquiring a thanks! it's not everyday i get trademark to his art. it features invited to power station. so these are your grandparents. items such as a stab proof vest he yes, this is iceland's highest peak, 2119 metres. designed. time now for the travel grandma is not even show. this week on the travel show: wearing a coat, is she. no, it's good weather there. so i slightly interrupted you, can i help you hang these up? i slide without the ice. how i am choosing what photos changing climate affects the landscape. we get some tips on how i would like to use in my book. i will put this one up here. to vogue like a pro. and alec leaves

andri, how does looking at these photos make you feel? his wheelchair behind as he takes a they have always made me trip up the mast of a special 00:03:07,104 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 sailing ship. feel nostalgic, proud, but they are also a slice section of time, that is, this is the first generation that was able to enjoy glaciers, and we only have three generations that will live that period. so then the glaciers will go, and after 300 years, these photos will be totally alien to that generation, especially in iceland. when the ice has left iceland. andri wanted to take me somewhere to show me just how quickly the landscape is changing. about 10% of iceland is covered in glaciers. but glaciologists now believe that all of iceland's glaciers will be gone in just 200 years.

we meet a guide to help navigate us on a long walk high up into the clouds. "here are the colours replacing the flowers. "here are the bulbs replacing the stars, "here are the brands replacing the species, "here are the freezers replacing the glaciers. "this is the eye of the storm, the reason for everything is right here in my cart." tell me about where we are standing right now. we are standing at this memorial plaque which is where 0k glacier used to stand. 50 metres above us, should have been an ice sheet across here, 30 years ago. but that has now completely vanished, and we only have these remains of dead ice around us. five years ago, when 0k glacier

was no longer heavy enough to lift itself up and move, it was declared dead. the amount of ice here has decreased dramatically. researchers from rice university in america recently drew attention to the loss. they approached andri to write the inscription for the plaque, commemorating the dead glacier. it's a strange situation, because how do you memorise the sky? it is something big, firm, eternal, it pushes in two directions. it points from here to the future, and it points from the future back to us. will you read me what you wrote? yes. here it says, "a letter to the future. "0k is the first icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. "in the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected "to follow the same path. "this monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening, "and what needs to be done. "only you know if we did it.

"august 2019, 415 ppm of c02." that's the amount of c02 in the atmosphere, and actually the cause of the melted glacier. and that is rising, about 2—3 ppm every year. but still, hundreds of glaciers remain here. i left andri and went with my guide to solheimajokull glacier, the icy tongue of iceland's fourth—largest glacier, which covers nearly 600 kilometres square. it's also suffering under global warming. leifur runs carbon neutral tours here. do you think it is necessarily

a good thing to encourage tourists to come to places where it might be their last chance to see it? notjust here, but anywhere around the world, isn't thatjust making a bad situation even worse? i think you can always question to fly and travel. but if you do, whether it is to spain or to iceland, then at least i think it is good that people are educated about nature, about glacier behaviour and how global warming is affecting the glaciers. but step down from the glacier to its lagoon, and here you can find

a whole new perspective. you can actually see how quickly the ice is melting — look at all the water just dripping down into the lake. while a certain amount of meltwater each year is normal, it's the rate of loss at glaciers like this that is unsustainable. so how deep is this? close to the glacier it is about 60 metres deep. has it changed much in the time you have been coming here? oh yes, enormously. the lake didn't exist, just recently, it is just ten years old. this lake is ten years old? yes, it was starting to form in 2007 as a tiny pool, and now the glacier is melting at 100 metres per year. first i found it really interesting to be living in a land where you could see the changes. but then, when you see it at this scale, it is frightening and a bit sad.

i have a gift for you. what is the gift? a rare diamond. (laughs). a rare diamond! inside, there is trapped air that has been there for hundreds of years. that is incredible. it's so clear, isn't it. it's crazy. the ice may be beautiful, but it is a stark reminder that unless something changes soon, seeing and experiencing iceland's iconic glaciers is a privilege that few further generations will have the chance to enjoy. stay with us, because there is plenty more to come on this week's programme.

ben is in new york, for a voguing lesson. and we rejoin alex on the second part of his adventure at sea. this time he leaves his chair behind to get a truly bird's eye view. don't go away. back in the early 90s, madonna had a huge global hit with her single "vogue". almost 30 years on, it looks like voguing is back. so we sent ben hunte to new york to learn some attitude. this one should be good. voguing has impacted me in so many ways. before i started voguing i was a less confident person than i am now. it's helped me break out of my shell and be more expressive, not be afraid to be like, boom, this is me.

voguing, a dance, a culture and for many, a lifeline. 0riginally born out of the harlem renaissance in the 1920s, through time, voguing became a form of expression for a sometimes marginalised community. most voguers were lgbt people of colour and the surrogate houses and families at the centre of the subculture provided a vital support when the hiv pandemic hit in the late ‘80s. the dance poses were inspired by fashion runways and magazines, hence, the name vogue. and during balls, members of the different houses came together to compete against one another. today, lessons are popping up everywhere and i'm off to pick up some moves. hello! hey, man, how's it goin‘? good, how are you doing? good, welcome. thank you.

so i got our vogue essentials class today that we're going to be doing here at gibney. so, blade, blade. and i'm pushing, just like you'r pushing through like some fudge orsludge, it's like, heavy. a screen, yeah? trying to show it. look at me, i'm on my throne and i'm showing it off. boom. boom! that's why your hands are here, so it's framing that face. from here, three, four, five. six, seven.... eight. 0oh, jeans are a little bit tight! i know, mine are too, don't worry. voguing, what is voguing? million dollar question. really short, voguing is telling your story through poses and movements. one, two, three, up. the same thing i got which was the love of dance, the love of vogue, i want you to take this love and then take it home and then go from there. voguing is now more popular than ever before. hit tv shows like rupaul‘s drag race and pose have pushed this unique dance form into the spotlight once again. but to really understand voguing's history, i'm heading back

to where it all began, harlem. this is the imperial elks lodge, home of ballroom until about 1988 so it's ‘80s ballroom. this was our church, it was our political rally, it was our worship, it was ourfun, it was our protection. and what type of people came here? what brought them together? trans folks created this. in fact, only trans people were participating in drag balls for almost 50 years before ballroom. people were being kicked out of their homes, kicked out of their families because of being lgbt and those kinds of things but also the notion of being kicked out of family is also kicked out of your black family or your latino family. sadly, today spaces for lgbt youth are sometimes still rare but sexual health charities often host what are known as kiki balls.

predominantly for a younger generation of voguers, these balls help to bring people to their services. what does all of this mean? is there any social meaning to it? it's a way of life. honestly speaking, ‘cause this is something that we naturally do. this is our kinship, this is how we party, this is how we come together. like, this is who we are. luckily, the rise in popularity of voguing means there are balls and classes are all over new york city where anybody is welcome. seven, and go! back in class, it's time for my big moment. ok, so i've learned the key elements of vogue. so now we're going to put it all together into a routine which i'm going to flop, it's going to be horrific, but you know what? it's fine, because as long as it's a fashion... in the words of madonna, i was ready to let my body move to the music. but i don't think i'll be winning any trophies anytime soon.

take him over. boom...boom...boom...boom. this is everything. and freeze! 0k, bro, i wouldn't give up your day job just yet. you need to work on that. well, to finish off this week's travel show, we're going to head off to sea, because if you were watching last week, you'll remember alex setting sail on a ship that invites disabled people and able—bodied people to sign up as crew for three orfour days. now they're out on the high seas so let's see how they got on. hello. how are you feeling? good, thank you.

i'm doing much better now. after a stormy and pretty sleepless night at the sea, it's time for breakfast with my shipmates in the mess. it's called happy hour, where everyone works hard, washes and makes everything spick—and—span, except i've lost my team and what i'm meant to be doing. many years ago, we had a young lad come on lord nelson and he had multiple sclerosis and he didn't get out of the car, he was helped out the car by his mother and father, popped in the wheelchair and we pulled him up the gangway. after two weeks on here, he walked off the ship with the help of the sticks, didn't

want his chair, and his mother and father couldn't believe it. and that's why we run it. that's why we do what we do. 0n the final day, the beautiful weather gave me the chance to do something that i've been looking forward to but also secretly dreading, climbing the ship's mast. luckily, i'm not going first, though. it's kind of amazing. in fact, it is mad. oh, god. for some of the folk who don't quite get what we do to start with, this is the point where generally they all get it.

don't like this one. you know how hard it is, you just did it. yeah. it looks a lot easier than it is. it's ten times harder. oh, my god, you were amazing. how do you feel? 0h, great! were you scared? no. you're amazing. right, you're definitely going to be the best at this, alex. because you have seen it like five times now. am i? well, i'm glad you have confidence. ifeel like i am dancing here. he's not dancing back, i don't think he's interested. i'm excited now, i want to get it done. i say that now, though. i mean, once i'm halfway up, i might change my mind. this is a handle. you're going to have

to grip towards you, 0k? and basically, it slides up the rope but when you pull down, it grips and it will pull. grip! heave! i'm stuck! 0h, here we go. cheering and applause. i can't really explain it. it's hard to get up there but once you're up there, my god, it's amazing, it's like you're a bird. you can see everything. it's weightless as well so you're just free, and i've never had that, ever. and it's really, really high, just to make that point clear. it's very high. but it's very nice. i didn't want to come down,

but it was beautiful. you want to do it again? i'll go again now, you guys? yeah, is that all right, yeah? after almost a week at sea, finally land is in sight. 0ur destination, port harbour. we can see land. i miss land quite a bit. overall, though, it's been... actually been amazing. it's been hard, as i keep saying, but it's been worth it. as a person who's in a chair, especially in my case, it's often quite hard to explore. as a kid, i kind of had to ask other people for that help and you kind of have to imagine things and that's why i would write books and things, or read books and have ideas. i couldn't really do it, so i had to write it. but in here, it's quite nice because you actually go on board and you get to do that stuff and go

on the seas which is lovely. i've been up a mast which i don't do every day so that was actually amazing, really. i've never, ever thought i could do that. well, that's it for this week. coming up next week... christa is in greece, tojoin a dig, uncovering some amazing historicalfines. found an artefact! 0k, check that out if you can but don't forget you can follow us on social media too. but for now, from me, ade adepitan and all the travel show team, it's goodbye.

good morning. we've all had our fair share of rain, haven't we, just recently? in fact, tuesday, i'm sure you're now well aware of the flooding rains that we had through the isle of man and the north of england. but they have gradually drifted their way south and east over the last few hours and we are seeing a slow improvement. so the sharp, thundery downpours easing as well in the south—east, and they will continue to clear. so, by dawn, temperatures are going to be the talking point, not the rain. and in fact, with the northerly wind kicking in, the temperatures falling away quite sharply, so we are going to be greeted with some blue tones on our chart. temperates close to freezing in places. so, yes, there could be a touch of frost first thing this morning, and certainly it's going to be chilly start in comparison to of late. so we start off, yes,

on that chilly note, but it will be a dry one, with some lovely spells of sunshine coming through, and probably the best day in terms of drier, sunnier weather through wednesday. now, a northerly wind could drive in a few sharp showers up into the far north of scotland, and at the same time, down to the south—west, we could pick up a little more fair weather cloud. and those temperatures really struggling after that chilly start. 11—15 degrees the high, down on where they should be for the early half of october. so wednesday a cool day, the blue tones denoting that. but if we look out into the atlantic, around this circulation here, the warmer russets, the winds coming from more of a southerly direction. and within this significant area of low pressure is a lot of tropical moisture, so a little more warmth is set to return. you're probably aware now that this has the remnants of ex—hurricane lorenzo in it, and it's this low that's going to track to the west of ireland, and it will bring some wet weather and some pretty rough seas and high tides. that moves across ireland, into northern ireland, and ahead of it, we'll see the cloud

thickening and the winds strengthening to gale—force gusts. but further east, there should be a little more in the way of brighter weather, a little more sunshine coming through from time to time. and temperatures similar values on thursday to wednesday. we're looking at highs of around 11—16 degrees. but it's when this low pressure, which is going to track its way steadily eastwards and south during thursday into friday, which will introduce slightly milder air, but it will bring a spell of wet and windy weather, before that system slowly starts to ease as it pushes south. take care.

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