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Zainab is trapped in the Masala Unit experiencing labour pains, in the second visit of the week to Albert Square. However, the rest of the family are serving food at a function and nobody is picking up her messages for help.

Christian, meanwhile, is on his way to give the expectant mother a piece of his mind and hears her cries for help. Despite her protestations, he comes to her aid.

Elsewhere, Dot says a tearful goodbye to her granddaughter, Dotty, as the girl's real mother comes to collect her.

Wanting to get her niece, Zsa Zsa, back into school, Shirley's meeting with the headmaster turns sour when she launches a verbal attack and accuses him of writing the girl off unfairly.

Zainab is played by Nina Wadia, Christian by Johnny Partridge, Dot by June Brown, Dotty by Molly Conlin, Zsa Zsa by Emer Kenny and Shirley by Linda Henry.

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Thandie and Ric's relationship seems to be back on track this week, as the medical drama continues. Thandie's brother, Moses, arrives – he has Aids and only days to live – and asks Thandie to help him die. She eventually agrees – only to realise that this has hastened the end of her marriage to Ric. She later declines a job offer from Michael and leaves Holby.

Maria, meanwhile, is determined to get closer to George and asks him to lunch with her parents. However, he snubs her and says he's busy. His continuing ribbing of Nicky comes to a head with George admitting he is bisexual. Realising he's not at all serious about their relationship, Maria tells George it's over.

Elsewhere, Joseph tries to build bridges with Faye and asks her to go on holiday, but she turns him down. Realising how hurt he is, Faye tries to make it up to Joseph but, as he tries to kiss her, she pulls away and leaves him to contemplate the future of their relationship.

Ginny Holder plays Thandie, Hugh Quarshie plays Ric, David Gyasi plays Moses, Hari Dhillon plays Michael, Phoebe Thomas plays Maria, Joseph May plays George, Alan Morrissey plays Nicky, Luke Roberts plays Joseph and Patsy Kensit Healy plays Faye.

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Survivors Ep 6/6

Tuesday 23 February

9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE

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Abby's (Julie Graham) only concern is finding her son

In mourning over the loss of one of their own, and with a new strain of the virus set to take hold, the Family find themselves battling on all fronts, as Adrian Hodges's drama charting the struggles of a handful of survivors in a post-virus apocalypse concludes.

The Family convene in the ruined Lab – with a new strain of the virus loose, the scientist's work to find a vaccine is more important than ever. But Abby's only concern is to find her son, Peter, glimpsed briefly beyond the confines of the Lab.

Al, believing that he has nothing left to lose, volunteers himself to test the vaccine. Meanwhile, Whitaker, surviving off the serum culled from Abby's blood, continues to hamper the Family's plans with lies and deceptions – leading the group to the abandoned airbase for a final showdown with the mysterious Landry.

Abby is played by Julie Graham, Peter by Jack Richardson, Al by Phillip Rhys, Whitaker by Nicholas Gleaves and Landry by Patrick Malahide.

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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So far in this series Professor Iain Stewart has looked at how four natural geological forces have shaped human history. In this final programme Iain explores a completely new force; humans. No longer at the mercy of the planet, human beings have had a major impact on Earth.

Iain travels to Indonesia where he discovers the aftermath of a catastrophic mud volcano. A village close by now lies entombed in solid mud; all that is left is the roof of a mosque. This eruption was unique, as it was the result of a devastating geological accident caused not by the planet, but by mankind.

This eruption is a symbol of our geological muscle, but also a sign that human power over the planet often lacks control. But human impact on Earth goes back much further than one might think, and what's more, it has not always been negative, as Iain finds out when he visits the Rocky Mountains in Canada. Scientists say that 10,000 years ago the planet was set to begin a long, slow cooling which would have meant that today we should be on the verge of a new ice age. It didn't happen; this is the ice age that never was. This great escape was made possible by one thing: farming. This was the beginning of our role as a force of geology.

Iain explores how the human race has intervened in the soil and water cycles. It's an intervention that sometimes backfires but also a story that speaks of our great ingenuity in bending nature to our will. Today man has created an alternative human version of the planet's water cycle, where five times as much water is held in man-made reservoirs as flows in all the world's rivers.

Man's power to alter natural cycles can be traced back to one single resource: oil. Iain visits the Tar Sands – an oil-mining operation that demonstrates our dependency on this fuel. The by-product of this dependency has been a dramatic increase in levels of greenhouse gases. Today they're higher than at any time in the last 15 million years and it's causing Earth to warm.

Today we're no longer at the mercy of the planet – people have the potential to take conscious control, and ensure that our impact on Earth works to our own benefit.

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Luzon, an island in the Central Philippines, is the venue for the third leg of the contest, as five female athletes from the UK continue their challenge of a lifetime – to travel across the globe and compete against some of the most remote tribes on Earth.

The athletes, Joni, Alex, Lesley, Anna and Natalie, face the harshest week of their lives as they learn the discipline of stick fighting in a remote martial arts training camp.

Kali is a martial art with blades, sticks and hand-to-hand fighting, which is traditionally performed by Filipino women as a form of defence while their men are away hunting. Kali is all about resilience and technique and, in order to fight well, the athletes must be both spiritually and physically strong.

The girls are tutored by Kali master Rommel, who sets them initiation trials which they must first pass before training can begin. The training itself is a set of gruelling exercises which will push them to their limits and they must demonstrate that they have the strength and will to fight even after they are exhausted.

After two days of training, however, all the girls are in agony and Joni is reduced to tears when an old sports injury resurfaces and it looks as though she may have to bow out of the competition.

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Writer, actress and comedian Sharon Horgan takes on travel writer and presenter Benedict Allen this week, in the final episode of We Need Answers.

As usual, 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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