i really just want to get in the same room with you again. i just wanna do that. oh, it's been a tough old year but we are so grateful that we have stayed on your screens and today, at least we can have a get—together — albeit 2020 style — for the last show of this year. yeah, that's right, and for this show, we've been able to go out and about filming just a little bit, and if santa had asked me what would i like to do for christmas, if i could do anything at all, what would i say? i'd say "i want to be like you, big guy, and fly". well, it's pretty early in the morning. i've been told to meet my driving instructor richard here, and he's told me i need to wear these. don't know why. loud whirring. dramatic music.

music reaches crescendo. yeah, so it turns out richard's not in a fiat panda then. he's arriving at goodwood speed week in style as the chief test pilot of gravity industries — a start—up that believes they've finally nailed the jet pack. i hatched this idea in 2016 of could you reinvent flight byjust adding a minimalist amount of equipment and using your brain and your body to fly in a very unusual way? no logical reason — that was just an interesting idea, i thought. chuckles. so, i'm going to have a go in this. mm—hmm. any tips? actually, it's like watching a child learn to ride a bike because if you described a bicycle to somebody who'd never seen one, it sounds very clever and complicated and difficult to learn. but our experience is when you let the inner balance brain take over, then it's remarkable how well that collaboration between machine and human works, and this is the same. right, so what we're going to do is put the harness on.

that will do a good job of kind of connecting you to the suit as best as possible. if you stress and overthink it, it's really hard. walking and standing up is much more complicated than learning to fly this, so just relax into it and enjoy it. the jet suit is pretty daunting and although it is also pretty heavy, there's not that much to it — two turbines on each arm and one at the back and well, that's it. right, so if you look in the end, see the trigger? just get used to the pull of it. that's the throttle. so when you're up there, when you squeeze it and you can feel the engines gradually ramp up. this finger will actually nudge the power up, and that will nudge the power down. a couple of nudges — each nudge gives you a couple of kilos more thrust. so the idea is that you're learning about lateral stability and rotation, but it will still shove you around a bit, but once you get your weight over the top of it, you'll notice that it's really not very much. right. i mean, it's really scary cos i can feel the power and i can feel the heat all around me. the diesel fuel lasts

for up to ten minutes. all of which, for me, will be spent at most a few centimetres off the ground. what the helljust happened?! that was honestly really good. that was incredible! that's — that's — i don't know whether that's adrenaline orjust sheer terror or excitement or what. but, um... phew! the main application, richard thinks, is in entertainment — imagine seeing jet pack races across lakes, for example. but in september 2020, richard joined the great north air ambulance service to show how paramedics might quickly get to casualties in the rough terrain of the lake district.

the great north air ambulance reached out and said that there appears, according to their analysis, to be a large cluster of cases where if they could move very quickly out of a vehicle with this, that would work. and so, we went up and tested it. the headline result was i got to the casualty in 90 seconds when it took 25 minutes to walk there. hardly surprising, since richard broke the guinness world record for fastest speed in a body—controlled jet engine power suit — twice. they're noisy, impractical, and expensive butjet packs are now real, which is a good enough christmas present for this little fan boy. who is up? paul: i have a present, except my present is a gift for all of you, notjust one. thanks paul! sweet! what is it? i will be the ghost of christmas past and take us all back

to the 1950s, specifically, to a jazz club in vancouver called the palomar. it was demolished in 1955. but thanks to the magic of live motion capture, and an incredible singer called jill barber and her band, she's recreated it for one christmas only, so grab a drink, sit back and let's go back in time. # oh, the weather outside is frightful. # but the fire is so delightful. # since we've no place to go. # let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. # it doesn't show signs of stopping. # and i've brought

some corn for popping. # the lights are turned way down low. # let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...#. that was jill barber and the phantom jazz band. and after the performance, i managed to catch up with her at the bar. so, jill, just to start with, can you tell us about where we both are? sure, you and i are sitting at the palomar supper club which is a club that was demolished in 1955. how are we doing that? i am actually sitting in front of a green screen in a film studio in vancouver, british columbia, canada, and you are 7600 kilometres away at a studio at the bbc in london. but through the magic

of cross reality technology, we can be here together at the palomar. showcap, the company behind the performance, created this virtual venue using the unreal engine, a platform created for gaming. with the performers in motion capture suits shot against a green screen, they could be transported to the ‘50s while maintaining their intricate human movements. # i quit pretending...# historically, motion capture and virtual production techniques have been used in the creation of blockbuster films, in big budget video games, but with cinematic quality computer graphics that can be rendered in real time, we're starting to really sort of explore the use of these things in live performance.

jill's first palomar concert was broadcast online in november, but unlike many other performances we've all watched over the last year, for me, something about this really stands out. it's more than just you performing in a space. you've created a back story and a feeling around it. tell me about how that came about, and for example, why the palomar? the palomar also has this incredible history of hosting the likes of ella fitzgerald and louis armstrong and the mills brothers, billie holiday, and i thought how cool to continue that legacy and perform on the same stage that those artists graced back in the day. oh, that is so brilliant. that is just so brilliant, but i'm afraid that is it for the short cut of our special clickmas special. the full—length cut is waiting for you right now on iplayer

and hopefully, we'll we'll be back to normal next year. now, normally, the show that follows clickmas is a look back at our last 12 months, but who here really wants to look back to 2020? thought so. so, instead we will bring you a special live show where we look back at the past 20 years of click. that's right! until then though you can find us on social media, youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter... spencer, are you 0k? yeah i am, i'm just taking it all in really... i mean, this truly has been a special day. we didn't think that we'd be able to do it, but we posted the gifts to each other, we got everyone together, and when i say everyone, i mean everyone! it's been a challenging year for us all, but we have done our best to bring you your weekly dose of click.

and everyone on the team just wanted to be here to say thank you. thank you for watching us, thank you for being part of our click family, so until next time, it's goodbye and merry clickmas! merry clickmas! # hurry down the chimney tonight. # hurry down the chimney tonight #. hello there. parts of the uk have seen quite a bit of snowfall over the last few days, mainly northern and western parts of a good into wales, northern scotland, parts of northern ireland. the southeast corner though still hasn't seen much snow, but you could see some over

the next few days, likely to see further bouts of rain, sleet and snow, and of course, ice is going to be an issue pretty much wherever you are over the coming few days. this cold northerly wind blowing right down across the country will be with us down across the country will be with us for the rest of this weekend into the start of 2021. it's going to be pushing and lots of showers around coastal areas overnight, but through the night, it looks like we could see winds turning a little bit more northwesterly, that will drive the stars into western coats, scott unterman oven ireland into western england and wales, it's going to be a cold night wherever you are. could c-8 -9, a cold night wherever you are. could c—8 —9, some of the snowy guns of scotland. so wednesday, we continue with the coastal wintry showers. this feature runs into the southwest, bringing outbreaks of rain, and as it bumps into the cold air into southern england, south wales, turn into sleet and snow, certainly over the high ground, rain closer to the coast. still some uncertainty to the northward southwards extent to this. a cold day for many, some sign —— sunshine

for eastern areas. wednesday night, this feature runs across a vending when into the southeast to bring some rain, sleet and snow over the high ground. again, this one system to watch. this feature running south across central, southern scotland, northern england, could bring substantial snow certainly to the high ground here. could be looking at some disruption to start new year's eve here. a cold lake to come again, subzero values for most of us. again, subzero values for most of us. this is the pressure chart for new year's eve. low pressure over the north sea, higher pressure out west, fairly breezy conditions out west, strong northerly here, that will accentuate the cold. it looks like new year's eve could be quite disruptive across central southern scotland, northern england, this mixture of seen to connect rain, sleet and snow will be into england, wales, could start to weaken as it moves southwards. some uncertainty on this, stay tuned to the forecast demo some sunshine around again, but it will do much for the temperatures. it's going to stay cold. then for new year's day and

the first weekend of january 2021 looks cold with further rain sleet and snow in places. he remains very cold. for the rain, sleet and snow for the most of us.

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