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Libby tries to get Owen released from prison in the first visit of the week to the London Borough of Walford. Denise is annoyed by this and pressures Libby to get ready to go shopping for bridesmaid's dresses. Libby ignores her – she is too involved in trying to help her dad.

Meanwhile, Jack offers to babysit Amy but Roxy is reluctant and continues to make excuses.

Libby is played by Belinda Owusu, Owen by Lee Ross, Denise by Diane Parish, Jack by Scott Maslen and Roxy by Rita Simons.

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The bombardier beetle expels a caustic mix of chemicals

Insects are in the spotlight as the series from the BBC's Natural History Unit, narrated by David Attenborough, continues. There are more types of insects than all the other animals on Earth combined – the ratio is thought to be 200 million individual insects for every human being. The success of insects is down to their flexibility, their ability to develop new ways of living and to change their body shapes.

Darwin's stag beetle of Chile is the insect world's perfect demonstration of a flexible body form. The massive jaws of the male have evolved to become serrated and curved – the ultimate fighting weapon.

Insects can also become walking chemical weapons. The bombardier beetle has two chambers within its body, each storing an inert chemical. When threatened, the beetle mixes the chemicals in a third chamber and then bursts them explosively from its rear in a boiling, caustic jet. The jet pulses at 500 times per second, allowing the beetle's rear end to cool just enough to prevent it from cooking itself.

The Japanese red bug displays amazing care for its young. The youngsters eat a rare fruit which their mother laboriously collects. It can take her hours and she may have to fight off another mother for it. But if she doesn't get the fruit back to her young quickly enough, they grow impatient and abandon their nest to search for a better mother.

Insects' greatest societies are the closest thing in the natural world to the complexity of a human city. Some grass-cutter ants are huge-jawed, perfect for cutting; others are smaller and do the carrying. They march in their thousands, carrying cut grass above their heads. And yet they can't digest it. Instead, they cultivate a fungus in their nest which grows on the grass and breaks it down. The ants then eat the fungus. They grow so much of it that a colony may contain five million ants.

Flying With Butterflies, this week's diary feature at the end of the programme, shows how climbers Tim Fogg and Jim Spickler took three days to rig a very complicated spider's web of cables among the trees enabling the crew to "fly" a camera through thousands of monarch butterflies during their mass hibernation in the Mexican forests.

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In recent years, Britain has seen a rise in affordable art, mass-market masterpieces. This trend has facilitated a change in taste of domestic art, but why is the art we hang in our homes so different from the kind of art we expect to see in a gallery?

In The Art On Your Wall, part of the Modern Beauty Season on BBC Two and BBC Four, comedienne Sue Perkins aims to discover just what the average British person displays above their mantelpiece. Some of these iconic images are reproductions of famous artists, while some are unknowns, but Sue tracks down the artists behind the most popular prints to find out what has influenced their work.

Sue discusses Tretchikoff – the seminal Sixties print artist – with Red Or Dead founder and print collector Wayne Hemingway. She meets Scottish miner-turned-millionaire painter Jack Vettriano and tracks down best-selling print photographer, and creator of Ullswater, Mel Allen.

Sue also chats to Spencer Rowell, the photographer behind Athena's Man And Baby print, before heading to Cornwall to get to the bottom of the two million-selling Tennis Girl print, by meeting its flamboyant creator, Martin Elliot. Finally, she meets Sam Toft, creator of Mr Mustard, the quirky figure featured in a series of best-selling prints.

This is the story of the images that changed these artists' lives as well as Britain's walls.

The Modern Beauty Season examines the perception of beauty both in modern and classical art forms through a collection of films on BBC Two and BBC Four.

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Young Butcher Of The Year Ep 1/4

Monday 16 November

10.30-11.30pm BBC THREE

• www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree

Showcasing the very best of young talented British professionals, Young Butcher Of The Year is the first in a series of four programmes, each celebrating a different profession and the young people of the UK who are working hard to build up their careers.

Unlike other talent shows, these finalists haven't set out to be famous, and they don't want to be celebrities, but they are all striving to be the best at what they do.

Presented by George Lamb, the series of four stand-alone programmes will also crown the Young Mechanic Of The Year, Young Hairdresser Of The Year and Young Chef Of The Year, highlighting the true star of each profession.

Hundreds of 16 to 24-year-old butchers, mechanics, hairdressers and chefs from across the country took part in a rigorous audition process in an attempt to be crowned the best in their profession. They were whittled down to a final five in each of the four categories.

Each programme features a different profession, in which the finalists face a number of increasingly difficult challenges designed to test their skill, knowledge, ability and passion for the job they do. As they pit their skills against each other they are pushed to their limits to impress two judges who are experts in their field and industry.

Tonight's judges are Justin Preston, owner of Allens of Mayfair, the oldest British butcher to still operate on its original site, and master butcher David Lishman, from Lishmans in Yorkshire, one of the best-known names in the business and twice British sausage champion.

With three rigorous challenges, a grilling from the judges and elimination all to be overcome, the last person standing will truly be able to claim the title of BBC Young Butcher Of The Year.

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Enid

Monday 16 November

9.00-10.25pm BBC FOUR

Helena Bonham Carter stars as Enid Blyton

Enid is the first of three major one-off films to première on BBC Four as part of the Women We Loved season about the artistic careers of British female icons Margot Fonteyn, Gracie Fields and Enid Blyton.

Enid Blyton's charming characters and classic tales have enchanted generations of children for nearly 80 years. More than 500 million copies of her books have been sold in 40 countries.

This one-off drama reveals the woman behind such enduring stories as the beloved Famous Five, Secret Seven, Malory Towers and the Noddy series. The film will cast light on this ambitious and driven woman from the adversity of her imperfect childhood to her rise to become a renowned author and household name. Enid explores how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds she created in her stories contrasted with the complexity of her personal life.

Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd) plays Enid and Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon, Little Dorrit) plays Hugh Pollock, her publisher, first husband and father of her daughters Gillian and Imogen. Denis Lawson (Bleak House) plays Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who becomes Enid's second husband following her divorce, and Claire Rushbrook (Mutual Friends) plays her friend, Dorothy.

The Women We Loved season continues next week with Jane Horrocks as Gracie Fields in the romantic drama Gracie! by Nick Vivian, charting the rise to fame in the Thirties of the singer and comedienne from Rochdale who became the nation's darling and the highest-paid film actress in the world.

In the third film, Anne-Marie Duff (Is Anybody There, Born Equal, The Virgin Queen) stars as the great dancer Margot Fonteyn in Amanda Coe's film, Margot.

For further insight into Enid Blyton's life, a new online BBC Archive collection will be available closer to transmission at bbc.co.uk/archive.

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