world class destination that is both a visitor destination, _ as in tourism, as well as a scientific institution. . if we don't get the support we need, i'm afraid we're just— going to have to go. and if you can't get the funding, what's the alternative? well, under planning, we will have to backfill the mine to the roof. so it will be completely backfilled and lost. surely, we can be more imaginative than that. this place really is magnificent. i mean, there's 150 million years worth of history down here, and i feel really lucky and privileged to be able to see it as well. the idea that you might not be able to see it, i find that pretty upsetting. ollie peart, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with nick miller.

big variation across the uk this afternoon. we have got some sunshine, quite hazy in parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england, but the rest of england and wales, even though you may see a few sunny spells today, there is a lot of cloud around and some heavy rain becoming a bit more widespread in south—west england. as for temperatures, high teens. thicker cloud in the northern and western isles of scotland, around 13 degrees. heavy rain more widely across southern england and south wales this evening and tonight, and particularly south west england and south wales, they could be some flooding and difficult travelling conditions. the mild night to come. milder in northern scotland than last night. further rain in the morning for wales, south—west england. scotland and northern ireland driest. into the evening, they could be some heavy and

thundery downpours to contend with. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: the new health secretary, sajid javid, says he recognises the "huge responsibility" facing him after matt hancock's resignation i will do everything i can to make sure that i deliver for the people of this great country. we are still in a pandemic and i want to see that come

to an end as soon as possible. classified ministry of defence documents containing details about hms defender and the british military have been found at a bus stop in kent. the death toll from collapsed apartment block in miami rises to five as rescue teams continue to try to search for survivors grab a jab — half of all adults under 30 in england will have had their first covid vaccine by the end of the day. now on bbc news, lucy hedges takes a look back at some of the travel show�*s most tuneful musicaladventures, including a performance from rajan at new orleans' french quarter festival. coming up on this week's show: rajan�*s washboard recital in new orleans. christa's underwater concert in denmark.

that's so cool! woo—hoo! and a bit of bell—thumping in bavaria. hello, and welcome to the show. now, if you're still dreaming of packing a suitcase and heading off on your travels — although you probably can't do that just yet — stay with us for the next 30 minutes and hopefully, we'll give you some inspiration as we take a look back at some of our favourite films and destinations here on the show from the past few years. and this week, our choice definitely has a musical note

as the team attempts to play a tune or two. so let's kick things off with a trip rajan made to the deep south of america, back in 2016. now, he was there to learn about a style of music called zydeco, but little did he know that he'd end up performing in front of thousands before the day was over. so, let's take a look at how he got on. that is new orleans, exactly how i imagined it — a brass band going down the street a the whole crowd following them, getting into the vibe. fantastic!

now, the city might be best known for jazz, but you can also find a type of music here that i've never encountered before. chubby carrier is a grammy award winner and a third generation of a legendary zydeco—playing family. the music, zydeco. tell me about it? zydeco music, a lot of people get mixed up with cajun music, but if you hear zydeco music, you hear more of blues, r&b, soul and rock �*n�* roll, mixed into one. this, chubby says, is the expression of louisiana's black creole community — that's a bit of african, a bit of french and some caribbean all mixed up. and apart from the accordion, chubby says the essential instrument in the zydeco sound is the one that evolved from his grandmother's washboard. this is my grandmother's washing machine! a washing machine?

this was her washing machine back in the day! and you hear the rhythms? the buttons on your shirt would make a little sound like this, and my grandmother was washing clothes at the time, and of course my daddy goes "hey! "that sounds good! "it might fit with the accordion! "bring it over here!" she said "you must be out of your mind — this is how i do my laundry!" you should try it, man, yeah. yes, yes, yes. look at that. it's our percussion in zydeco. you have the rhythm going like this. that's it! yeah? when you hit the board, you lose it. why? i don't know. laughter. the streets are packed and there's a jubilant atmosphere here. # shake it, pretty lady. i feel lucky to have

a ringside view. because when we point that camera to ya, i want you to shaking your booty like your mama gave it to you! cheering. we're going to send this to monday and let �*em now how we do it in new orleans! yeah! and then, after my frankly disastrous ten—minute lesson, this happened. bbc travel here. london, england, y'all!

well, i've got to say, rajan didn't do a bad job there — or perhaps the crowd werejust being kind. laughs. ok, up next, we're off to denmark — a country that's famous for its annual roskilde music festival, where over 100 bands usually take to the stage every year. now, unfortunately, the festival has been cancelled this year due to the pandemic. but to keep you going, why not submerge yourself in this film from denmark with christa, back in 2018? butjust a word of warning, please don't try this one at a home without a snorkel! ethereal singing. this is the group between music. their latest show is the first in a a—part series called aquasonic, which aims to explore who we are human beings.

and it begins with our time in the womb. we are so often divided between you and me, them and us, different religions, different cultures. but here is something that i think we can all know something about. we have ourfirst in nine months, covered by this water filter. so i think somehow, the audience — i think they are there, at least on an unconscious level. they'll have a flashback to hearing those sounds. so, as performers, how does it feel when you are underwater, performing to an audience? it gets really somehow — someone says a loneliness to it. that there is not only a visual loneliness to see these humans in the tanks, but also the sound has a loneliness to it.

i think it is quite a nice idea. ooh! so, here goes. one deep breath and... well, actually, this is quite nice. amazing! you are doing good! it's really — it's lovely and yeah, this is great! so, if you take this microphone that's hanging and then you hit this bell plate. this one here? yeah. and then you take the microphone and put it towards it. 0h! can you hear that effect? amazing. then you can sort of play with it. i'm beginning to think i'm a bit of a natural! and then maybe you should just pull that in the front window. and then you can sort of — if you hit it with the hammer, and then you can, like, close the sound with your hand.

another thing, if you take the — there's a small stick on the top of the... yeah. exactly. and you can use that for the ring over there, with the holes in it. 0h, 0k. banging drums that is so cool! you're making music! woo hoo! applause. it's amazing. you have these hammers that are... when you hit, you feel it resonate through the whole tank and you feel it in your chest and your whole body. it's amazing. it's a totally different experience than just banging a bell with a hammer. yep!

christa there, getting her a avant—garde groove on, back in 2018. well, stay with us, because we've plenty more still to come here on the travel show. i'm m ixin 9 ! including the time ade raised the roof at london's ministry of sound nightclub. and rajan�*s knees took a battering at one of the most bizarre festivals we've ever seen in germany. well, nightlife around the world has taken a massive hit during the pandemic. in many places, nightclubs were amongst the first to be forced to shut down and looks like they'll be among the last to finally reopen again. now, if you're missing your clubbing fix, take a look at this. a film from back in 2017 when ade got the chance to learn how to master the decks at one of the most famous superclubs in the world.

ministry of sound is celebrating 25 years. i can't believe it, �*cause i came here in the early days. this first started off as a small club in a derelict garage, and has now become a massive global brand. in fact, at one stage it owned the biggest independent record label in the world, selling over 70 million records. hey! ministry of sound was london's first—ever super club, and has survived a number of attempts to shut it down. justin berkmann is one of the founders. he's also one of its resident djs, so i am in good hands for this dj lesson. you have your volume controls here, your highs, mids and lows, so this is the big bass knob. give it a little bit of sibilance, strip it out, bring that down. with the technology today, it gives you much more flexibility to take risks and do things that you couldn't do in the old days with vinyl.

so could you put, like, a classic opera track with some hip—hop? yes. beethoven wrote most of his music at 120 bpm, so he was one of the first house dj. ah, beethoven knew what he was talking about, he dropped beats! he did, a lot of his stuff was dance music. all right, let's do this then. one, two, three, four. three, two three, four, bingo. i'm m ixin 9 ! now time to see if all that training has worked. it's the moment of truth. i tell you what i will say, it is very loud in here. dance music plays. i'm in the dj box with gavin mitchell, he's the resident dj and promoterfor the gallery,

which takes place every friday night at the club. fortunately, it is still early, so the pressure is off a bit and i'm getting the hang of things. by the end of the night, i've got the house rocking! i think all clubs have their nemesis moment where there comes something along that wants to close it. it's usually residents, and it is the balance between a city and the fact that it needs some form of entertainment. you can't have one without the other, because a city full of bedrooms is no fun, so you have to have nightclubs, you have to have restaurants, you have to have bars, you have to have entertainment. ade at the ministry of sound back in 2017. time now for something a little more sedate. back in 2018, carmen headed to taiwan to explore a gigantic

new art centre about to reopen, claiming to be the biggest in the world. and in amongst the massive performance and exhibition spaces, she got to fulfil one of my childhood dreams, playing one of those huge dramatic pipe organs. yeah, i'm pretty jealous of that one. this is the weiwuying, taiwan's brand new national art centre. the centre has been built to become a fixture on the international performance circuit. so this might look like a big empty warehouse, but we are actually backstage at one of the more intimate auditoriums here. it can seat around 1,200 people. the centre will stage its own performances, and host international touring productions. the weiwuying has four main stages — an opera house, a concert hall, a playhouse and a recital hall.

pipe organ plays. this splendid venue can seat over 2,000 people. after rehearsal, organist tony kindly offered to show me the pride of the concert hall. wow, tony, that was amazing. thank you so much. what does it feel like to play such a magnificent instrument? it is very exciting because i can make any kind of music in here. and... the high pitch here. ooh! like birds.

and the very, very low, we do have very, very low pipes. you can hear the entire house vibrating. how many keyboards are there here, there are five keyboards, and 127 buttons, not to mention all these cords down the bottom. i do have to spend a lot of time to practise. this one is brand—new organ, and also i believe it is the biggest one in entire asia's concert hall. wow, the biggest pipe organ in asia. what a privilege to play it. do you want to play it? 0k.. i haven't played in 20 years! plays heart and soul.

thank you, tony! you're such a good sport, to humour me! carmen roberts accepting bookings to play to packed concert halls all around the world as soon as travel kicks back in. well, maybe after a bit more practice. 0k! so to finish off this week we are off to germany, where, back in 2016, rajan headed to bavaria to learn how to play one of the strangest musical instruments i've ever seen. now, if you're thinking about taking this one up, i'd highly recommend some earplugs and knee pads. you'll see what i mean. the festival takes place in the town of rinchnach, and celebrates the ancient custom

of herdsmen ringing bells to scare wolves away. hans, hello. hello! hans is one of the organisers. these other famous bells have heard about. tonight, hundreds of local people will form teams of bell—ringers, and i'mjoining in too, a rare privilege for a non—bavarian. first, i need the right outfit. and what is the point of these twigs? i look like a christmas tree. the headgear pales into insignificance once i realise i'll be lugging this 20kg bell around.

so heavy, it's ridiculous! ok, so i'm taking this bell over here and i think this will be the bavarian people doing it as well. did you hear me coming by any chance? so you two are also taking part this year? fantastic. how big a night is this for you? i think it's the biggest night of the year, something like this. yeah, nowhere else is something like this, and so, yeah, we're very proud of it, and we also want to take part of it.

have you ever thought about wearing earplugs? oh yes i have them! you have them! you have to. it's impossible without them. i'll bear that in mind, that's really good advice. banging on bells i join the rest of the team as we head towards the town centre. nothing could have prepared me for the incredible din that's generated heaving these enormous bells around. i'm trying not to use my knees but it's almost impossible. they feel battered and bruised already. we're greeted by a huge crowd of tourists and locals.

hans' son dominik is the flamboyant leader, rousing the troops, leading the beat... and conducting the cacophony. luckily for me, after half—an—hour, dominik calls time for a much needed break. wow! that was one of the most physically intensive things i have ever done. amazing. tribal, but great. and i deserve this.

rajan in 2016, and those bells looks just crazy, i'm sure there's some new form of exercise routine just waiting to be invented, because it looks like a total workout carrying those bells strapped to your waist, let alone playing them. that's it for this week, but do join us next week if you can, when: it's my turn behind the wheel of our travel show van for the next stage in our road to recovery trip across the uk. i'll be in wales, exploring cardiff and beyond, and finding out how this furry rodent is helping the fight against climate change. that's next week, but don't forget to check us out on social media for a whole host of inspirational ideas of things to see and do when we can all travel again, which hopefully won't be

too far away. till next time though, from me, lucy hedges, and everyone else here on the show, it's goodbye. time for your latest live update from bbc weather this sunday afternoon. there is a bit of rain affecting parts of southern england but quite a bit of dry weather around elsewhere. it is clear where most of the sunshine is at the moment. northern counties of northern england. for much of wales, there is a lot of cloud around, because here, closer to low pressure, it is about to turn

wetter, high pressure across scotland and northern ireland is going to hang around for much of the week ahead. if you want some pleasant summer weather, it is certainly on the cards. parts of northern and staying dry too. the rain becoming a bit more extensive across southern counties of england as we go on through the rest of this afternoon and temperatures mostly high teens, low 20s. thicker cloud may produce the odd spot of rain. most of the rain in the south and it pushes up across east anglia, south wales, south—west england. this is where the greatest concern is for the highest rain totals. they could be a bit of flooding in a few spots, impacting travel as well. some outbreaks of rain, parts of the midlands, north west england. a lot of that slowly fizzling out. but plenty of cloud in england and wales. sunshine in scotland and northern ireland. seven england

brightening up. some heavy, even torrential downpours going on throughout the afternoon. lasting into the evening but they could have quite an impact. all of this is combined with the start of wimbledon. maybe not as bad as that looks but they will be rain at times. we are expecting some interruptions. and across southern england on monday evening, we are expecting thundery downpours. still across much of england and wales, cloud, heavy rain pushing into wards east anglia and the south—east. parts of northern england, scotland and northern ireland, sunshine, warm in that sunshine. parts of scotland heading towards the mid 20s. that area of low pressure moving away later in the week as the weather settles down. over the weekend, another area of low pressure moving in. unsettled weather more widely and it could be your chance in scotland and northern ireland to see

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this is bbc news with the latest headlines. sajid javid says he recognises the "huge responsibility" facing him as he takes over as health secretary, following matt hancock's resignation i will do everything i can to make sure that i deliver for the people of this great country. we are still in a pandemic and i want to see that come to an end as soon as possible. a cabinet minister defends the prime ministerfor refusing to sack mr hancock over the controversy. we are in the middle of a very surreal situation with the pandemic, something that he has got huge experience of dealing with, a phenomenal success with the vaccine roll—out we have seen with the team at the department of health. he and the prime minister wanted to deliver on that.