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Lulu continues her week-long series of programmes on BBC One Daytime looking back at possibly the most exciting decade in living history: the Sixties. Today the programme focuses on 1964 and 1965 – a period of massive cultural and social change.

Lulu is joined in the studio by legendary British designer Zandra Rhodes. Viewers learn what it was like to live in a city that was at the heart of international fashion, music and showbusiness, but also find out what it was like for teenagers across the country, who lived outside "swinging London".

A Labour government was elected in 1964 with Harold Wilson at its helm. Wilson's son Robin was a student at the time and reveals what it was like to live at 10 Downing Street.

The programme also highlights the heyday of the mods and rockers, and finds unmissable archive of the best TV, music, iconic objects and news stories of the era.

Sixties drama The Indian Doctor continues this afternoon on BBC One Daytime.

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The Indian Doctor – Young Hearts Ep 3/5

Monday 15 to Friday 19 November

2.15-3.00pm BBC ONE and BBC ONE HD

• Feature (interview with Sanjeev Bhaskar)

The Indian Doctor's wife, Kamini Sharma, is still desperate to leave the village of Trefelin, as the new period comedy drama for BBC One Daytime, set in 1963, continues. But as she tries to escape, she finds herself becoming the only person who can help local tearaway Dan when he gets into trouble.

With the previous doctor's green leather diary found, Prem's friendship with Megan deepens as she translates it from Welsh into English and they realise that Dr Elwyn's diary holds vital clues to the deteriorating health of the local miners.

When Prem questions the mine manager Sharpe about the miners' health, Sharpe tries to persuade the doctor that health hazards are just an unfortunate part of a miner's job.

Meanwhile Gina, Prem's receptionist, is falling recklessly in love with Tom...

Kamini is played by Ayesha Dharker, Dan Griffiths by Jacob Oakley, Prem by Sanjeev Bhaskar, Megan by Mali Harries and Richard Sharpe by Mark Williams. Gina is played by Naomi Everson and Tom by Alexander Vlahos. The remainder of the principal cast are: Beth Robert, Ifan Huw Dafydd and Erica Eirian.

The Indian Doctor is simulcast in HD on BBC One HD on Freesat channel 108, Freeview channel 50, Sky channel 143 and Virgin Media channel 108.

The new BBC One HD channel simulcasts a network version of the BBC One schedule, with the majority of peak-time programmes in HD, including The Apprentice, Strictly Come Dancing, Children In Need, Antiques Roadshow, Countryfile, The Graham Norton Show and The Royal Variety Show.

Rewind The 60s, presented by Lulu, also continues today on BBC One Daytime.

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Wallace And Gromit's World Of Invention – Home Sweet Home Ep 3/6

Wednesday 17 November

7.30-8.00pm BBC ONE and BBC ONE HD

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Gromit explores some ingenious inventions for the home

Wallace and Gromit explore ingenious inventions for the home, in the third episode of their series looking at some real-life cracking contraptions, from gadgets that help around the home to the mind-boggling world of space travel and much more in between.

They meet William Kamkwamba, an ingenious young inventor from Malawi who designed windmills to power his family's home, with only the help of spare parts and a library book.

Former engineer and code breaker Tony Sale brings one of his favourite creations, George the Robot, to life for the first time in 60 years.

Science reporter Jem Stansfield rediscovers Einstein's fridge and meets an A-Level student with a homemade fridge made out of scrap metal that she hopes will change the lives of a group of African villagers. And viewers meet a woman with the world's largest collection of one peculiarly English invention, the Teasmaid.

Each episode includes Wallace's Inventor Of The Week, which looks at one specific captivating inventor at a time, and Curiosity Corner, where he delves into a particularly strange story from the world of invention. Jem presents a segment of the show which analyses why certain innovative ideas Never Got Off The Drawing Board. In Contraption Countdown, Wallace introduces his favourite quirky finds, including a list of top inventions that would set any health and safety officer's heart racing. And, finally, Wallace shares some of his own brilliant inventions with the audience, although they often lead to disaster for poor Gromit who, as always, is relied upon to save the day.

The six-part factual series is accompanied by regional roadshows and an online world of invention to inspire the inventor in everyone. To go crackers about inventing, visit bbc.co.uk/wallaceandgromit.

Wallace And Gromit's World Of Invention is simulcast in HD on BBC One HD on Freesat channel 108, Freeview channel 50, Sky channel 143 and Virgin Media channel 108.

The new BBC One HD channel simulcasts a network version of the BBC One schedule, with the majority of peak-time programmes in HD, including The Apprentice, Strictly Come Dancing, Children In Need, Antiques Roadshow, Countryfile, The Graham Norton Show and The Royal Variety Show.

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Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers – Spice Up Your Life

Wednesday 17 November

8.30-9.00pm BBC ONE and BBC ONE HD (Copy updated 11 November)

• www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin
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This week, Nigel Slater shows that spicy food isn't all about hot chillies.

Using a range of everyday spices , Nigel creates a week's worth of tasty dishes that will appeal to everyone. Thai spiced aubergines, chilli feta and a quick Friday night korma are all simple dishes that combine warm and hearty spices but don't burn your mouth.

Nigel also visits Liverpool to meet allotment holders Rachel and Paul and creates a tasty feast from the fruits of their labours.

The series is part of the Dig In campaign: bbc.co.uk/gardening/digin.

Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers is simulcast in HD on BBC One HD on Freesat channel 108, Freeview channel 50, Sky channel 143 and Virgin Media channel 108.

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Peter Ginn, Alex Langlands and Ruth Goodman get to grips with their Edwardian Farm

Archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman continue their challenge of setting up home on the Edwardian Farm at Morwellham Quay in Devon, and are getting to grips with the trials and tribulations of life at the turn of the 20th century.

It's October on the Edwardian farm and in tonight's episode the team take on new enterprises – market gardening, egg production, beef cattle and food preservation using only the tools and materials that would have been available at the time.

Morwellham Quay's market gardens were once one of the nation's largest producers of strawberries, until abandoned half a century ago. Now the team aim to bring them back to life. Cider was also a vital part of the Edwardian rural economy, so Alex and Peter attempt to follow in this tradition by making it on an industrial scale, using an Edwardian cider press and a tonne of apples.

Having acquired a beef herd on the farm, the team bring in a bull; Alex launches a chicken enterprise; a pair of new goats prove to be more than a handful at milking time; and the team celebrate Halloween – Edwardian style.

Across November BBC Two will be showcases a range of new History programming, including: Ancient Worlds; At Home With The Georgians; Ian Hislop's Age Of The Do-Gooders; Pompeii; and JFK. BBC History programmes are known for their thought-provoking themes, meticulous research and expert contributors.

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Around 3,000 years ago disaster struck the Bronze Age civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean. A mysterious regional catastrophe, blamed on a tidal wave of tribal movements led by the "Sea Peoples", snuffed out thousands of years of social, political and cultural advance, and the ancient world entered its first Dark Age.

But civilisation is too useful a concept to give up on, and in the second episode in this ambitious series archaeologist and historian Richard Miles looks at the winners and losers of the great Bronze Age collapse, and the new powers that emerged in the harder-edged Age of Iron.

His journey begins in the Phoenician cities of Byblos and Tyre, run by entrepreneurial merchant-princes, inventors of banking, deep-water sailing and the alphabet.

He then travels to the inland kingdoms of the Jews in Israel and Judah, small "mammal" kingdoms which had a chance to flourish on their own terms once the "dinosaur" kingdoms of the Bronze Age were out of the way. But it didn't last for long. In the east, the shockingly brutal empire of the Assyrians began to flex its muscles, and the consequences for the smaller powers in its path were dire.

The Assyrian war machine rolled west, the Jews were crushed and the Phoenicians took to their boats, looking for wealth with which to appease this insatiable empire. But, like industrious bees, they unwittingly carried with them the pollen of civilisation and the Greek world, lost for centuries in the Dark Ages, began to revive. In the sweep of this epic tale viewers witness how civilisation, tempered in the flames of conflict, re-emerges, tougher and more resilient than before.

Across November BBC Two showcases a range of new History programming, including: At Home With The Georgians; Edwardian Farm; Ian Hislop's Age Of The Do-Gooders; Pompeii; and JFK. BBC History programmes are known for their thought-provoking themes, meticulous research and expert contributors.

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Professor Mark Horton tells the story of Edward Jenner, whose work saved billions of lives and eventually led to the eradication of smallpox worldwide.

This series is part of the pan-BBC A History Of The World project. Each programme is made by a different BBC English Region, and each looks at a significant turning-point in that region's history and shows how the change continues to resonate through objects or the landscape.

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