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A life worth living?

A Short Stay In Switzerland

BBC ONE See BBC Week 4 Unplaced

Julie Walters stars in Frank McGuinness's moving drama, inspired by the true story of Dr Anne Turner, a woman who lived and died by her principles

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Horizon – Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

BBC TWO See BBC Week 4 Unplaced

The BBC's flagship science strand puts 10 volunteers to the test as it aims to discover why some people stay thin while others tend to pile on the pounds

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Being Human

BBC THREE See BBC Week 4 Unplaced

Lenora Crichlow, Aidan Turner and Russell Tovey star as three twenty-something housemates who try to live normal lives despite their unusual afflictions: one's a ghost, one's a vampire and the other is a werewolf

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Tennis – Australian Open

Saturday 24 January on BBC ONE

British hopes are high as Andy Murray sets his sights on the opening Grand Slam of 2009 in Melbourne

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Ice Skating – European Figure Skating

Sunday 25 January on BBC TWO

Sue Barker presents highlights of the 2009 European Figure Skating Championships, from Helsinki, where Scottish siblings Sinead and John Kerr will be among those hoping for medals

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High Altitude

Sunday 25 January on BBC TWO

Ed Leigh and Graham Bell are in New Zealand to attempt a "Tyrolean Traverse" – a 100m crossing between two mountain peaks on a single piece of rope – in the first programme in BBC Two's all-action winter sports show

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Robert Burns – The People's Poet

Sunday 25 January on BBC FOUR

Writer Andrew O'Hagan asks what made Robert Burns one of the world's favourite poets, as Scotland prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons

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