Programme Information

Six Nations Rugby – Wales v France

Friday 26 February

7.55-10.00pm BBC ONE

• www.bbc.co.uk/sport

Jonathan Davies, John Inverdale and Jeremy Guscott provide comprehensive coverage as the 2010 Six Nations reaches its halfway point

John Inverdale presents live coverage of Wales versus France as the 2010 Six Nations reaches its halfway point.

Twelve months ago, these two teams met in Paris in the first-ever Friday night match in the Six Nations and the experiment is being repeated at the Millennium Stadium this year. Wales will be hoping for a different result, having gone down 21-16 to the French in 2009, but neutrals will be hoping the match is just as exciting as last year's thrilling and atmospheric encounter at the Stade de France.

Raphael Ibanez and Jeremy Guscott offer their expert analysis in the studio with match commentary coming from Nick Mullins and Jonathan Davies.

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

SB4

Monty Don turns his hand to the craft of the blacksmith

Monty Don puts three more rookies through their paces as they follow their dreams of training to be blacksmiths.

The humble smithy was, for centuries, the most important place in the village and it was the craft of the blacksmith – more than any other – that, during the industrial revolution, transformed Britain into the great workshop of the world.

Market trader Dominic Branch, 37; museum educator Gill Fewings, 47; and architectural illustrator Hugh Gallagher, 41, take up their places as enthusiastic beginners in a 300-year-old forge in Humberside to learn this ancient craft.

It takes four to five years to train properly as a blacksmith. During their six-week course, the trainees learn the foundations of the craft – from how to forge precision decorative panels to making their own tools.

They are instructed by Don Barker, the first working blacksmith in 200 years to be appointed to the court of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. He's made ironwork for the Royal Family, Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral.

Monty explores the importance of blacksmithing in history and joins in an experiment to test the same method the Romans would have used to smelt iron ore. The trainees learn how to make everything from nails to scrolls and from latches to chisels. Finally, they put all they've learnt into practice to both design and forge, unassisted, to make some decorative fixtures for the front gates of three local residents.

Can they pull it off and impress not only their clientele but also Bob Hobbes, the only living Gold Medal holder of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths?

BR/LS2

Germaine Greer, Ed Byrne and Jon Richardson are locked away in the media-free zone that is The Bubble for three days, as the comedy quiz, hosted by David Mitchell, which plays on the fact that some news stories are so hard to believe one would think they’d been made up for a joke, continues.

The three celebrity contestants are shown a series of news reports or images from TV, newspapers and celebrity gossip magazines and must identify the true stories from the fakes. Because they’ve been away and out of touch – just like when you come back from holiday – they’ll believe almost anything.

AN

A visit to a fortune-teller brings ghostly predictions for the future, as the young warriors continue their quest against evil in the CBBC martial arts action-adventure-drama series, which mixes CGI and live action.

Master Wu predicts that they will shortly encounter ghost dogs, their dreams will come true and that they will have to enter the Labyrinth of Lost Spirits. Bo's doubts are soon proved wrong when the predictions come true. While Jen and Vicky's dreams materialise before their eyes, Martin, Trix and Bo apparently enter the Labyrinth of Lost Spirits. But all is not as it seems and they must work out where they really are in order to get the piece and find their lost friends.

Master Wu is played by Junix Inocian, Bo by Jessica Henwick, Jen by Alicia Lai, Vicky by Lil' Simz, Martin by Karl Rogers and Trix by Gilles Geary. This episode also features Burt Kwouk as the voice of Shen, Benedict Wong as Li and Tom Wu as Hwang.

VT