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 #. —— stays in the coal team. a few spots in between. temperatures staying below average to the rest of this week, denoted by the blue colours on the chart, what follows from this guy will often be in the form of sleet and snow, so it stays wintry through the rest of this week and will continue to do so into the start of 2021. there will be dry and sunny weather around as well and don't forget some pretty icy night. i see start to tuesday, snow again covering and more snow drifting through parts of midlands and wales. around the peripheries of the country, showers, which will turn to snow, chiefly over high ground and you have to watch for rainfall which is courting up across cornwall for the next few days and we have the keenest of the breeze with lighter and further east and like we saw on monday, some mist and fog lingering. tuesday evening, quite a few showers around the coast, many becoming dry, clear and very frosty, and i see with cold air in place meaning this next feature means we see it push around and it could give a wide spreads bell of snow. milder air, colder air on the north edge and its crucial to the track of that system who will see the snow. it is subject to change and one thing i will say is that at the moment, it seems like the dominant area is through wales. it is potentially disruptive as well. rain across giving aces impact on southern well. rain across giving aces impact on southern areas. well. rain across giving aces impact on southern areas. even if it doesn't impact during the day, we will see some snow for a time. frost and ice to take us to new year's eve and ice to take us to new year's eve and a flurry of showers pushing its way down the eastern half of the country giving another covering of snow across parts of northern england, the midlands and towards the temperatures staying below where they should before the time of year, seeing out 2020 possibly covered in white through parts of the midlands and eastern england with the snow around all links into the other areas of the east, keeping a northerly flow for a new year's day. we will see it linger. then it sta rts we will see it linger. then it starts to fizzle and we are not going to be surprised to see the clouds can share that might converge. new year's day for a walk. through the night, into saturday, low— pressure through the night, into saturday, low—pressure start through the south. the good news is though showers are seen south. the good news is though showers are seen persistent through much of the week in wales and the far south of england will gradually belie bringing wintry showers. snow could feature in those, bit of sunshine in between. then as we go into the first part of 2021, the jet dips to the south. the yellow cloud goes around. we could see loads of cloud with rain, sleet and snow mix pushing back and across the country particularly for southern areas. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm philippa thomas. the uk reports a record 40,000 new infections in the past 2a hours, and with more patients now in hospitals in england than at the previous peak in april, doctors warn some services are now stretched to the limit. a chinese journalist who reported on the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, has been sentenced to 4 years injail. the british government warns travellers and business people to expect bumpy moments in the months ahead, as they get to grips with the uk's new relationship with the eu. president trump signs a coronavirus relief and spending package, after previously threatening to block it. also in the programme, a major study of the atlantic ocean