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Janine (Charlie Brooks) finally reaches a compromise with Jack

Jack and Janine continue their game of cat and mouse, finally reaching a compromise, in the last visit of the week to Albert Square.

Elsewhere, Jane and Christian's exploits are revealed and battle lines are drawn, while Patrick is finding it difficult to move on.

Jack is played by Scott Maslen, Janine by Charlie Brooks, Jane by Laurie Brett, Christian by John Partridge and Patrick by Rudolph Walker.

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Pete Owen Jones's adventures continue as he embarks on the American leg of his religious odyssey, to find out why – when it comes to ritual – anything goes.

In this film, he discovers a dangerous side to the Bible Belt when he gets too close to the serpent handlers in the Appalachian mountains, before taking his seat at a table-tipping séance. He continues to challenge his own faith when he comes face to face with a miracle-working evangelist and a boy preacher. He then witnesses gay rites in California.

In Utah, he visits the Holy city of Mormonism and ventures into the wilderness to seek out religious outlaws who take many wives. Pete goes native in a traditional Navajo sweat lodge and visits a sect where mummification is alive and well. His journey across the most religiously diverse country in the world reaches an explosive climax in Nevada, when he joins 50,000 revellers to witness the ceremonial burning of a man.

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Folk America, BBC Four's landmark documentary series which tells the epic story of the American folk revival from the Twenties to the Sixties, continues with This Land Is Your Land, which covers the increasingly political side of folk following The Depression and the emergence of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

In The Depression years of the Thirties, folk music became increasingly political. Conservative Texan John Lomax found convicted murderer Leadbelly in a Southern jail and put him on stage in New York. His music would never be mainstream and was never quite as pure and untouched by pop as Lomax believed. But it set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed.

Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted that mould perfectly. The two teamed up with Lomax's son, Alan, Pete Seeger and Josh White – a band of brothers who believed "they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it". Their songs and their radical politics took them to high places of influence but also brought about their downfall in the blacklisting Fifties.

Contributors to tonight's programme include Pete Seeger, Rambling Jack Elliot, Tom Paxton, Roger McGuinn, Woody Guthrie's sister and daughter and Josh White's son.

BBC Four is also broadcasting a range of archive documentaries and sessions on American folk music around the series.

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