The Travel Show

Dwayne Fields heads to Zambia's wild heart, to meet the animals and their custodians, people keen to share and preserve their country's precious natural assets.  At Kafue National Park he joins the hardy rangers taking their canine units out to track poachers, takes part in a lion monitoring expedition, and meets the orphaned elephants being prepared for release back into the wild.

In the past decade, the African nation has become one of the world's fastest emerging tourist destinations. Dwayne Fields travels to Zambia's most visited attraction, Victoria Falls, visits the country's capital, Lusaka, and a traditional pre-wedding ceremony. He finishes in Kasanka National Park, witnessing the world's largest mammal migration - the arrival of ten million fruit bats.

Whistler Blackcomb has become a bucket list destination for skiers so Rob - who used to work as a 'liftie' there in his youth - goes behind the scenes to find out what goes into such a mammoth operation. He gets back to work on the lifts, hears the indigenous reaction to having a giant of tourism arrive on their land and spends time with the ski patrollers working to keep the customers safe.

Fifty years after the death of Agatha Christie, presenter Roma Wells is retracing the iconic train journey that the legendary crime author took across Europe on the Orient Express. In 2027, the legendry Paris to Istanbul route will be relaunched and Roma is on mission to discover the reality of modern European sleeper train travel. Can it emulate the golden age of railways?

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia has recently become the world's tallest church. On the 100th anniversary of the death of its creator Antoni Gaudi, Rajan Datar visits the basilica to meet the people who live and work in its shadow. He meets the architect tasked with overseeing the gargantuan project and joins a bride and groom getting married in the crypt of Spain's most popular attraction.

In 2024, a wildfire swept through Canada's Jasper National Park, burning more than 80,000 acres of Rocky Mountain forest and around a third of the town of Jasper. As nature begins once again to reclaim the land, Qasa Alom finds out how the community's recovering, meets the indigenous people who say they know how to stop it happening again, and races in aid of the town's firefighters.

It's a staple of British cuisine that has delighted diners for centuries. But is the British pudding in danger? The Travel Show journeys the length and breadth of the nation to find out how the humble pudding is faring. The Master of Puddings gives his view, a food historian reveals the dark side of this sweet treat, and the wild, regional variation in prime puddings is investigated.

Rajan Datar travels across the Canary Islands to explore how volcanic forces continue to shape both the land and its people. From hiking the haunting ridges of La Palma's Tajogaite volcano to witnessing Europe's largest volcanic emergency drill on Tenerife, Rajan uncovers stories of resilience, reinvention and readiness on this tiny Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.