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EastEnders

Monday 21 February

8.00-8.30pm BBC ONE and BBC ONE HD

• www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders

The new B&B opens as Denise struggles to put the past behind her, in the week's first visit to Albert Square.

Meanwhile, Alfie comes up with a plan to try to impress Kat.

Elsewhere, Shirley tries to persuade Heather that George would be better off with her; and when Whitney tries to reconnect with her family at Ricky's birthday, Janine ruins it for her.

Denise is played by Diane Parish, Alfie by Shane Richie, Kat by Jessie Wallace, Shirley by Linda Henry, Heather by Cheryl Fergison, Whitney by Shona McGarty, Ricky by Sid Owen and Janine by Charlie Brooks.

EastEnders 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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Outcasts Ep 5/8

Monday 21 February

9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE and BBC ONE HD

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Stella (Hermione Norris) leaves Forthaven in search of support

A man shows up in a bar in Forthaven with a fistful of diamonds and stories of "bodies" outside the settlement, as the blockbuster sci-fi series continues. The man claims to live by Carpathia's ocean, which seems impossible as it's been marked as a radiation hotspot, uninhabitable by human life. A bar-room brawl follows and Cass and Fleur are called in. Intrigued, they follow the man, who they come to know as Pak, out of the city gates and into the wilds of Carpathia.

Back in Forthaven, Stella soon realises that the man in the bar was none other than Patrick Baxter, an old XP and the first man to set foot on Carpathia, who went mad and killed his Commanding Officer. Her wish to see the ocean, the cradle of life, and potentially find more fossils, and the anxiety of knowing that her team are outside the fence with a murdering psychopath, drives Stella out of Forthaven, with Jack for support.

Cass and Fleur discover that the man they've entrusted their lives to is Baxter. They are now alone, lost and unarmed on a planet that they know very little about. Hot on their heels, Stella and Jack must deal with an AC ambush, which results in the death of Jack's tracker and an alarming insect attack.

Berger, keen to seize any opportunity to cement his influence, encourages a gold rush by publicising the existence of diamonds outside the settlement. Forthaven's workforce begins to abscond, forcing Tate to lock down the fence.

Cass and Fleur arrive at the ocean – Pak has found a path through the radiation hotspots. The sea sparkles with diamonds; Carpathia has a diamond tide. Pak tells Cass and Fleur how he survived for 11 years away from humanity: he was cared for by his old golden retriever from Earth. Cass and Fleur write this off as the ramblings of a crazy old man, but is there something more at work on this planet?

Back in Forthaven, who is Berger communicating with through a transmitter?

Cass Cromwell is played by Daniel May, Fleur Morgan by Amy Manson, Pak by Gary Lewis, Stella Isen by Hermione Norris, Jack by Ashley Walters, Julius Berger by Eric Mabius and Richard Tate by Liam Cunningham.

Outcasts 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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The King James Bible is a worldwide best-seller – the only authorised English translation of what many believe is the greatest story ever told. The majesty and beauty of its prose rivals that of Shakespeare and its influence has shaped not only our own language, culture and society but also that of the rest of the world.

Yet 400 years ago, this masterpiece was the grand political project of a publicity conscious King; shot through with private motive and rival agendas. It was entrusted to a string of committees in a bureaucratic web that checked and re-checked the translation down to the smallest detail.

When God Spoke English – The Making Of The King James Bible examines how around 50 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London created a text which, for all its failings, has never been equalled. How did this group of near-anonymous divines – a muddled, drunk, self-serving, ambitious, ruthless, obsequious, pedantic and flawed bunch of individuals – manage to bring off this astonishing translation? How did such ordinary men make such extraordinary prose?

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