the taklamakan desert in xinjiang, northwest china, the aral sea, the destroyed aral sea.se are places that are challenging to be, but also challenging in terms of the political situation. which was your favourite desert place? i love arizona. i spent a week in a straw—bale hut, not very far from tucson, 60 miles from tucson. in the sonoran desert. it's exceptionally dry, hundreds of people there die every year trying to cross into the usa. and yet there's vegetation, there's the sound of the cicadas every night, there's the sound of foxes and coyotes yapping. and it's one of the safest places i've ever been. i've never felt so safe. i would sleep outside under the stars and never feel a sense of the remotest threat. the magic of the desert. william atkins, the author of the immeasurable world. thank you very much. thank you. hello, once again and thanks very much indeed forjoining me. i want to update you on how we see the rest of the holiday weekend panning out right across the british isles. before we look into the future, let me take you back to last night, where we ha

the desert in the northwest china, the aral sea, the destroyed aral sea, these are places that are challengingrms of political situations. which was your favourite desert place? i love arizona. and i spent a week in a hut, not very far from tucson, arizona. in the sonoran desert. it's exceptionally dry, and people there die every year trying to cross into the usa. and yet there is vegetation, there's the sand, the sound of foxes and coyotes. and, it's one of the safest places i've ever been. i've never felt so safe. i would sleep outside under the stars and never feel a sense of threat. william atkins, the author of the immeasurable world. thank you. a bit of excitement in the forecast in that there may be at risk of thunderstorms in the southern counties of both england and wales. not everyone will get to see them but i'm giving you an indication of the sort of certain that may well see those showers, if not thunderstorms. generally speaking once you start drifting that bit further north or east, then the night is much quieter, there will be the return of low cloud across the north—eastern sh