nonchala nt, like surfing. not quite californian. do you ever see any sewage? do you ever see any big poos in the sea? that's your only break you've had between may and now. so yeah, it's been absolutely full on. last year we had 12 days. now eight days, i believe, of totally eight days off since eurovision. and then had a break over christmas, but so myself and my tour manager kaz, who isjust the other side of the glass right now actually, and everyone else involved in the team, like we're all old friends, you know that this has all happened to together and that is just so wonderful. and we find when you're spending time with those people,

you don't finish a day and think, oh, i need a break, i need to get out. like you're with the people that give you the sense of that break and that rest and that recuperation. and you can have, like we used to call them, like three hour holidays. there was a gap in the schedule. like you just go somewhere, play, you know, lose and or go for a walk all together. and it's funny what you can like if you have the mindset in the right place, how quickly you can recuperate if you need it, you know, and i'm hearing myself in these headphones knowing that i need to recuperate, cause my voice sounds like marge simpson in a minute. it'sjust because i'm in the middle of a tour. there's nothing that can prepare i you for this, though, is there? i like how do you cope with it all? well, i live out in the countryside and just before we started filming this, we were just chatting and i mentioned that no one really cares. and i love that out in the countryside, like you just

sort of it's just a neighbourhood watch kind of thing. no one really cares beyond the bins being out on time and like keeping your dogs, like, on a lead in the park. but like, it'sjust it's fabulous. i love coming into london to do work, but i equally really enjoy going back home and just walking along the sea wall doing some lego. i don't know, just. just relaxing and reading and keeping myself to myself. so before because you talk a lot about gratitude, you know, and, you know, like the power of the universe. so you seem really spiritual. so how did you prepare yourself mentally before going to euroivision? that's a good question. so i knew that something like eurovision is something that,

i mean, we often throw away the term like "once in a lifetime". we say it so often, but eurovision, you can really say apart from lorraine, like it's likely to be a once in a lifetime opportunity, and you're looking at a number of countries and one person every year, it's like the hunger games. but the stakes aren't as severe depending on how you look at it. well, no one dies. yeah. so i knew that i didn't want to be nervous for it. it felt like a waste of energy to be nervous. and i know that sounds flippant, but i'll get to the point in a minute. like to be invited and have the opportunity to do something like that. if you were nervous walking onto that stage, you would miss it because it's three minutes, your performance, and you'd walk off and i know what it's like to be nervous before a gig. it flashes by in front your eyes and you can't remember. it even happened by

the time you walk off. and what a shame that would be. so spiritually, like, i really like sort of wanting to build up my armament against that. and the way i did that was to kind of build upon focusing on the excitement rather than the nerves. so every time there was a feeling of nervousness coming into like my emotional state, it's just telling myself i am excited, i am so lucky and i'm just thrilled to be here. and you do that enough and you lie to yourself enough essentially that it works and it starts becoming habitual. we can your energy through the screen. but honestly...| sat there with my mum and you could literally feel the positive energy coming from me and i think the rest of you would have felt that as well. so all of this that you say and actually just shone through, it was incredible. thank you. would you ever consider doing it again? i don't think so.

but who knows? in ten years there's been, you know, ten years thing a lot of things can change. but it would kind of go against everything that i've just said, like it being an opportunity for someone new to have that time. a year is a long but short amount of time. and it's such a...it grants so much opportunity. it's given me so many blessings that i feel. i'm in want for nothing. you know, i have my health, like thank god i've got...i am able to spend time on tour playing to actual people. they come to the shows now, which is a new thing because there used to be no one. and that's all because of this thing that we're a part of. and ultimately, i believe that in life you got a want for other people what you want for yourself, you know. and sometimes that can be a challenge. we all know that, especially

if you're in the entertainment industry, because it's so easy to look at other people's journeys and ask yourself, what happened? why couldn't i get that? why can i achieve that? and ultimately that's the lesson, and that's how you kind of embolden your spiritual like, kind of approach to this stuff. like you've got to want for other people what you are. trying to find in life for yourself. and that's why they say you're the nicest man ever. "sam ryder�*s so nice. he's so nice." and you are really nice. today is the day we're recording this on friday, where they confirmed to the bbc that gladiators is definitely coming back. is it? are we breaking that news? i'm guessing you have no idea what gladiators were. it's notjust television in the 905. iremember. i'm not sure if they're in fit enough shape.

you never know. well, right now, we're going to bring back another old tv format. this is your life, where people got celebrities and people coming back from their past to come and give them messages on tv. we've gotjustin hawkins from the darkness. one of your legendary figures. here's his message. good day to you, it's justin hawkins, and have a lovely message for sam ryder as i ponder life and the tribulations of my daily existence here in my studio. i often sing spacemen to myself and ijust think it's brilliant. what a brilliant number. so proud of you, my friend. also, i shaved off my moustache because i think you should be the rightful custodian of all british facial hair. and i'll keep my chin and top lip clean in your honour. nice one. my favourite thing about justin is not his incredible skill

as a singer, songwriter and guitar player, which are mountainous levels. it's his palette of vocabulary. it puts most of us to shame, the way he can string a sentence together, and it feels like just bobbing on a lake, like it'sjust gorgeous. he's so funny. him just saying anything is great. but yeah, he's just tried to do eurovision in 2007. he entered the bbc competition and he lost to scooch. oh, i thought you might say katie. katie price. whatmight have been, what might have been. so that was the year after lordi. i wonder if that forjustin was as crucial a year for eurovision for me as well. irememberseeing them and thinking, hang on, this has changed everything. like for me, it's given eurovision a fresh, new like lease of life.

it is putting a genre on a stage, the world's biggest stage. i was listening to at home and playing guitar along to in my bedroom, but now it's kind of in the culture. it's on everyone's tv screens around the whole world. i'm guessing you'll be - involved somehow this year, but have you got any thoughts on interval acts? _ this year is is going to be incredibly crucial to get this right because of the relationship between obviously it being ukraine's party hosted at our house. so ijust trust fully that those in power, those making the wheels turn on this, will absolutely smash it. but it is going to be interesting.

and it's such an important year to follow on that story from last year and that story of support. if you've got to dream freely then and we're talking - uk bands or artists, - who would you want to see? iron maiden. iron maiden? yeah, ijust love it. they'd never do it. but you said i could dream freely. so there you are. i made it. why do you think they never do? i mean, who knows? maybe i'm totally wrong. maybe i'm being cynical there. ijust don't think it's their... i mean, they've never. who knows? maybe i'm totally wrong. i just think a group of schoolchildren playing greensleeves on the recorder. keep it simple. it's a budget. i suggested muse. what are your thoughts on that? muse would be great. muse would be wicked. i'd love to see. there was silence....

i'm trying to think actually here, i'd love... does it have to be a uk act? no, madonna's done it. and she wasn't from israel. justin timberlake did it. yeah, that's what i'm thinking. billy joel would be amazing. billyjoel would be. see, i would love phil collins. i mean, he's not i don't think he's he's playing any more. bless him. he's doing his last tour. yeah, farewell tour. but i did actually think about this, like him being involved in some way or like, i don't know, holograms on something. well, sam, thank you very much forjoining us here on eurovision. it's been a pleasure. thank you so much. bless you. and eurovision cast is published every week. it's available on bbc sounds. and if you like what you hear, be sure to search online for another child. this is eurovision eurovision cast from bbc news. hello. the bank holiday weekend is upon us,

and the weather is looking a little mixed, but, you know, overall, it's not going to be too bad. plenty of sunny spells in the forecast, but one or two showers, and some of them could be heavy. let's have a look at the big picture. across our neck of the woods, so a low pressure in the north atlantic, a large one, and it's helping to draw in a warm atmosphere from the southern climes. infact, milderair coming all the way from the azores. but the very far north of scotland, under the influence of a colder current of air from the north. so here is the forecast for the early morning, for saturday, and it's a sort of mild—ish start to the day. it's certainly not frosty out there, 5—10 celsius in some spots. a lot of cloud in the morning, first thing, particularly across the northern half of the uk. and then showers are expected to develop from wales, the midlands, the north west of england, certainly in northern ireland, maybe one or two in scotland as well. the best of the sunshine and the warmest weather

will be across the south. take a look at these temperatures, 19 or 20 celsius in london, about that as far west as cardiff. but in scotland, chilly, only 7 celsius expected in aberdeen. in fact, it will be chilly right along the north sea coast. here's a look at sunday, i think there'll be quite a few showers around, hit and miss, sure, but some thunderstorms are possible in northern ireland, so there could be some downpours. again, the best of the weather on sunday further towards the south and east, temperatures in the high teens, but more typically, it'll be around about 15—16 celsius. so that's the end of sunday. how about the bank holiday itself? well, overall, again, not looking bad for most of us. high pressure is close by, particularly out towards the west. but weather fronts also affecting the north of scotland, and also showers are in the forecast for east anglia in the south east. and, again, there could be one or two downpours. so after a sunny saturday and sunday, showers on the cards for london and the south east.

elsewhere, variable amounts of cloud and actually not looking too bad at all. look at that, 17 celsius in newcastle, around 16 celsius in belfast. let's have a look at the outlook then for the week ahead. so here's that little mixed weekend, and then into next week, i think the temperatures will ease somewhat, but overall the weather isn't looking too bad. bye— bye.

live from washington. this is bbc news. the us starts evacuations in sudan as fighting continues. the leader of the rsf militia group tells the bbc he won't negotiate until fighting ends. at least 25 civilians have been killed in a wave of russian air strikes across ukraine. and the bbc chairman richard sharp resigns after a report finds he was not open about his dealings with borisjohnson when he interviewed for the chairman'sjob. welcome. we start in sudan where fighting continues despite an extrended ceasefire. as for who is responsible,

the army and the rival militia group, the rsf, are pointing at each other.