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A crowd gathers in the Square as police cars pull up outside No. 45, as the drama continues in EastEnders' 25th anniversary week. Jack spots Max heading towards the police and pulls him out of their earshot. Max tells Jack he is going to pretend to the police that he killed Archie, to take the rap for Bradley. Jack tells him he doesn't need to; it's all over now. Max turns to see the police descending on Janine's flat to search it. They find Archie's engagement ring in her bedroom.

Jack is played by Scott Maslen, Max by Jake Wood, Bradley by Charlie Clements and Janine by Charlie Brooks.

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Elliot is called to attend to Charlie, who has had a heart attack, as the medical drama continues. Nick Jordan saved Charlie's life in the Emergency Department and now Elliot is going to take over his treatment on Darwin, but the two disagree on how to proceed. Elliot is overworked and the pressure of operating on a friend is becoming too much for him. He wants to help Charlie but, in his current condition, could end up being more harmful to him...

Thandie, meanwhile, wants to fool the Home Office into believing that she and Ric are a couple to avoid being investigated for fraudulently marrying, and possibly even deported. Thandie succeeds and Ric is reminded of why he fell for her in the first place. Unable to resist, he kisses her.

Nicky is determined to show Maria that he is boyfriend material but he ends up attracting attention from George...

Paul Bradley plays Elliot, Derek Thompson plays Charlie, Michael French plays Nick Jordan, Ginny Holder plays Thandie, Hugh Quarshie plays Ric, Alan Morrissey plays Nicky, Phoebe Thomas plays Maria and Joseph May plays George.

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Survivors Ep 5/6

Tuesday 16 February

9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE

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Al (Phillip Rhys) and Sarah (Robyn Addison) enjoy their new romance

Reunited and on the road, the Family travel south on the lookout for a new home, as the series charting the struggles of a handful of survivors in a post-virus apocalypse continues. They encounter a small but thriving community of survivors and, after some initial trepidation, decide to take up their offer of hospitality, but tragedy strikes when a member of the Family suddenly dies.

While Al and Sarah enjoy their new romance, Tom simmers as Anya makes friends with the new community's leader, Judy. But Tom's anger is short-lived when his relationship with Anya takes a dramatic twist. Greg and Abby leave together to follow up Greg's suspicions about a mysterious postcard, which lead him to an abandoned airfield. Meanwhile, a member of the Family discovers an elderly couple dying from a new, mutant strain of the virus...

Al is played by Phillip Rhys, Sarah by Robyn Addison, Tom by Max Beesley, Anya by Zoe Tapper, Judy by Morven Christie, Greg by Paterson Joseph and Abby by Julie Graham.

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

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David, Alex and Samantha's story is told in Having A Baby To Save My Child

Forming part of BBC One's Being Mum Season, Having A Baby To Save My Child follows two couples over two years as they take a controversial route to find cures for their critically ill children.

Both Alison and Thomas, from Sheffield, and David and Samantha, from York, have a child who needs a bone marrow donor to cure their life-threatening disease, but have found no match through the usual route of the international register.

Now, with advances in IVF techniques, it is possible to have a new baby unaffected by the disease and who will be a perfect tissue match – and therefore a donor – for their ill sibling.

For Alison and Thomas, time is running out for four-year-old David, who has Fanconi anaemia – a degenerative disease of the bone marrow. As practising Catholics, the idea of using IVF techniques to "create" a child to cure another has created a moral dilemma. Alison says: "We're trying to choose a baby that's not only a baby for us but a baby that will help David. I guess ethically there are a lot of strong opinions about whether we should or shouldn't be having a go at doing this."

David and Samantha's daughter, Jessica, was diagnosed with the same disease at the age of 10 in 2007. By the time she was 11, she urgently needed a bone marrow transplant but, with no matched donor available, they were forced to use her dad's marrow, which was only a 50 per cent match. A few weeks after the transplant, Jessica died. Now the couple face losing their two-year-old son, Alex, who also has the disease.

The film follows them as they fight for NHS funding to pay for the treatment. David says: "We're not talking about 'I want a baby with blonde hair and blue eyes', that's not what we are talking about. We're talking about a child that is healthy."

Having A Baby To Save My Child is one of a series of documentaries that focuses on the issues that face parents today, being shown as part of BBC One's Being Mum Season.

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Tying in with this week's 25-anniversary episode of EastEnders, there's another chance to see the series that reveals which Albert Square character has had the most cliffhangers in the show's celebrated history.

Counting down the top hundred, the three episodes list the number of cliffhangers the characters have enjoyed, signalled by the familiar "doof doofs" – that legendary drum roll that fans instantly recognise as the soundtrack to EastEnders.

Since the show exploded onto air in 1985, nearly 4,000 episodes have aired and all have been sourced, scrutinised and counted by a crack research team to compile this chart.

Contributors include past and present EastEnders stars Steve McFadden, June Brown, Adam Woodyatt, Bill Treacher, Pam St Clement and Lacey Turner.

EastEnders – The Greatest Cliffhangers is split into three shows. Part three focuses on the characters who make it into the Top 20 and counts down to reveal the all-important No. 1. The characters to discover their chart position include current Albert Square stars Ian Beale and Pat Evans and old EastEnders favourites Dirty Den Watts and Frank Butcher, among many others.

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Five female athletes from the UK have accepted the challenge of a lifetime – to travel across the globe to meet, live and compete with local tribeswomen in their own indigenous sports in an all-out bid to see who will remain as the Last Woman Standing.

In the second leg of the contest, athletes Alex, Anna, Joni, Lesley and Natalie take part in the most demanding relay race on the planet – the Xavantes log race.

The Xavantes women are some of the toughest women in the world, famous for this particularly arduous endurance event – a relay race like no other. The teams run for 4km in the Brazilian sun, and the baton is a back-breaking 50kg log balanced on the shoulder.

This is a true test of the athletes' strength and stamina and, as the days begin to take their toll, one athlete is suffering much more than the others, and Natalie is forced to pull out of training with an injury.

Finding it hard to keep up with the Xavante women, the remaining girls are forced to battle through their exhaustion and bruising, and fight for their place in the team with an 8km run in the blistering heat. But even without the logs, will they be able to finish the race and compete in the competition?

Over the course of their journey the athletes will be tested physically and emotionally, but only one of the competitors will have the honour of being crowned the Last Woman Standing.

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Ollie is reeling from Jas's unplanned disclosure that she's been unfaithful to him, as the comedy about students in Abingdon continues. Meanwhile, the principal is determined to put DK to good work after his recent antics by sending him to do community service with the elderly.

There, DK forms an unlikely alliance with Doreen and finds that appearances can be deceiving. Meanwhile, Jas and Ollie's feud is threatening to tear the group apart, so Matt and Chloe come up with a novel solution. And as DK's bond with Doreen grows, so does the amount of trouble he finds himself in.

Ollie is played by Ceri Phillips, Jas by Hannah Job, the principal by Ellen Thomas, DK by Joe Tracini, Doreen by Miriam Margolyes, Matt by Tony Bignell and Chloe by Anabel Barnston.

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Rowan Pelling, Daily Mail columnist and former editor of the Erotic Review, takes on BBC Radio 1 DJ Nihal in tonight's episode of the anarchic comedy game in which celebrities answer questions texted in by members of the public.

Mark Watson hosts, Tim Key is in the question master's chair and Alex Horne provides expert analysis from a booth as the two contestants battle it out.

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