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Gymnastics – World Championships

Saturday 17 October

1.00-4.30pm BBC ONE

• www.bbc.co.uk/gymnastics

Gabby Logan presents live coverage of the World Gymnastics Championships, which are taking place in London for the first time.

There is no team competition at these Championships so the focus this weekend is on the individual apparatus finals. Today it's the men's floor, pommel horse and rings, while the women will be competing on the vault and the uneven bars.

Britain's Louis Smith took bronze on the pommel at last year's Olympics, ending an 80-year medal drought at the Games for British gymnastics. The 20-year-old will be looking to get among the medals at the O2 Arena, having taken silver at the Europeans in Milan earlier this year.

Beth Tweddle struck gold twice in Milan and is a former world champion on the uneven bars. But she missed out on an Olympic medal by just one place in Beijing and will be looking to regain her world title in London.

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Formula 1 – Brazilian Grand Prix Qualifying

Saturday 17 October

5.20-7.15pm BBC ONE

• www.bbc.co.uk/f1
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The Formula 1 bandwagon makes its penultimate stop for the 2009 season, to a place which has, in the past, been full of incident and drama.

After the last race in Japan, the teams have made the 10,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean to Brazil, where the title has been decided in each of the last four seasons.

It was Lewis Hamilton's turn to taste glory at the Interlagos circuit last year, but only after a thrilling final weekend which began with Felipe Massa setting the fastest time in qualifying.

Jake Humphrey introduces the action.

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Strictly Come Dancing

Saturday 17 October

7.15-9.25pm BBC ONE

• www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing
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The pressure is really on as the 12 remaining couples perform either a jive or a Viennese waltz, as Strictly Come Dancing, presented by Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, continues. All the couples are hoping that they will impress the judges and the viewers and stay out of the dreaded dance-off.

Following the performances, viewers will be able to vote for the couple they want to stay in the competition.

The two couples with the lowest scores, when the viewers' votes and judges' scores are combined, find themselves performing again in the dance-off, after which the judges decide who stays and who will have to hang up their dancing shoes for good.

There will also be a performance of the samba and the American smooth by Strictly’s professional dancers and music from a guest artist.

Strictly Come Dancing is simulcast on the BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel, available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

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The Swann children are delighted when Shalondra and Gary announce they are going away for the weekend – leaving them at home – as the tuneful adventures continue in this musical comedy series. Unbeknown to the excited siblings, the trip is, in fact, a ruse, and Gary and Shalondra have ensconced themselves in the recording studio so they can spy on the children via a series of strategically placed cameras. Their plan goes awry, however, when they discover they are locked in.

Fed up with Toyah obsessing about her belongings, Aretha decides to mess around with Toyah's things but breaks her step-sister's most treasured possession: her late mother's bow. Hadley and Isaac have to try to keep Toyah from discovering the truth before they can mend it.

When Martha discovers her parents are locked in and have been spying on the family, the crafty eight-year-old realises that she finally has a bargaining tool to negotiate for a pet kitten.

Shalondra is played by Rakie Ayola, Gary by Andrew Clover, Toyah by Naomi Battrick, Aretha by Dominique Moore, Hadley by Angus Harrison, Isaac by Matt Morgan and Martha by Rachel Brady.

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On his way home, Ivan gets the feeling he is being followed, as the interactive digital drama thriller created by award-winning "godfather of young adult fiction" Melvin Burgess continues. Later that night, Ivan is attacked by a horrible old hag.

Beth reveals that she has had dreams about the house. When she returns there, she experiences a strange flashback to another time, encountering what appears to be the ghost of a woman who thinks Beth is her dead daughter.

The woman talks of the hag and another greater evil beneath the well before showing Beth where to find items that she has hidden around the house to help her.

A new episode of The Well on BBC Switch on BBC Two is shown each week and extends online at bbc.co.uk/switch, where the audience can explore a spookily atmospheric recreation of the main drama location in a multi-level, problem-solving game.

By engaging with The Well through a series of online tasks and challenges, the audience can unlock hidden drama content which reveals the back story to the TV drama.

Beth is played by Jo Woodcock, Ivan by Isaac Ssebandeke, Coll by Karen Gillan, Luis by Gregory Foreman and The Hag by Amanda Lawrence.

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Gymnastics – World Championships

Saturday 17 October

4.30-5.00pm BBC TWO

• www.bbc.co.uk/gymnastics

Gabby Logan presents further live coverage of the World Gymnastics Championships from London's O2 Arena, with commentary from Matt Baker, Mitch Fenner and Christine Still.

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The Palace of Westminster burned to the ground 175 years ago.

Accident and incompetence succeeded where Guy Fawkes had failed and the centuries-old chamber of the House Of Commons in St Stephen's Chapel was gutted, as was the chamber of the Lords. It was London's biggest blaze in the time between the Great Fire Of London and The Blitz. The consequences were political and constitutional, as well as architectural.

In a special BBC Parliament programme to mark the anniversary of Parliament's Great Fire, Mark D'Arcy looks back at the disaster and its aftermath. He examines some of the few items that survived and tells the surprising story of how King William IV tried to offload Buckingham Palace as the new home of Parliament – and the real reasons the politicians turned him down.

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