For the covid deLayed year as Uk City of culture 2021. Radio Jingle Bbc cwr Good morning, happy saturday this is rachel new. I hope youve had some caffeine in you already, because today is Going to be a very big day. The start of a Summer Weekend in coventry But this is no ordinary saturday. Today, the whole city will be become a giant stage, to mark the start of a big year. As the Uk City of culture. Stay with us all day, because were Going to make sure that you do not miss a moment of this. Cove ntry. Its been a long time coming. Coventry won the honour back in 2017. Cove ntry . Way before covid forced Artistic Directorjustine Themen to change all her pLans. You see the track . Its down here. Because we cant be bringing audiences together in Large numbers, or even participants, we have had to think very differently. For a start, what is about to take pLace on these streets has had to be kept a complete secret. Theres one of you that isnt. To avoid Large crowds gathering to watch, wit
Suffered its most intense Bushfire Season on record. 18 months on, Nick Lazaredes travels to some of the areas hardest hit. It just exploded. Like, a whole mountainjust exploded in five seconds. Ive never seen anything like it. Australians know it as black summer. The months in late 2019 and early 2020 when the Country Saw its most intense Bushfire Season on record. Up to Three Billion animals were killed or displaced, and huge swathes of their habitat were burnt. Im Nick Lazaredes, and 18 months on, ive been travelling across australia to discover how its wildlife is faring now. Theres a complete removal of resources that wildlife needs. Whether they eat leaves, flowers, pollen, fungi all those resources, the foodstuff of the wildlife, is gone. But From The Ashes of catastrophe, there are also signs of hope and new beginnings for some of australias most iconic animals. Yes, there were some casualties, but there was no species lost, and that is important. And people have to realise it