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Match Of The Day Live – FA Women's Cup Final
Bank Holiday Monday 5 May
12.40-3.10pm BBC ONE
www.bbc.co.uk/sport
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Jake Humphrey is at the City Ground in Nottingham for live coverage of the E.on FA Women's Cup Final between Arsenal and Leeds United.
All-conquering Arsenal are looking for their third FA Cup win in a row and Leeds will have their work cut out to become the first non-London side to win the FA Cup for 14 years, especially given that they were thumped 5-0 by the Gunners in the final two years ago. But the Yorkshire club have developed a reputation as cup specialists and can take further encouragement from the fact that Everton, the team they beat on penalties in the semi-finals, overcame Arsenal in the League Cup Final in February.
Joining Jake in the studio are Gavin Peacock and England internationals Rachel Brown and Jo Potter.
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Bianca (Patsy Palmer) is
struggling to find another job Steven goes to great lengths to keep Lucy away from Ian, in the first of this week's visits to Albert Square. Elsewhere, Ben hopes that Phil doesn't find out about his dancing exam.
Meanwhile, Bianca is struggling to find another job in Walford.
Steven is played by Aaron Sidwell, Lucy by Melissa Suffield, Ian by Adam Woodyatt, Ben by Charlie Jones, Phil by Steve McFadden and Bianca by Patsy Palmer.
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Gabby Logan presents the
topical sports show Inside
Sport Gabby Logan presents another edition of the topical sports show, featuring news, discussion and exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in world sport.
Two high-profile journalists join Gabby in the studio to give their take on the stories making the headlines.
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| BBC TWO Bank Holiday Monday 5 May 2008 |
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The South West is well known for its soft climate, rich soil, lush pasture and rugged moors. It is also renowned for its diverse produce, so there will certainly be a varied menu of dishes provided during this week's regional heats as Great British Menu continues.
This time round, the competitors are Chris Horridge and Elisha Carter. Chris has turned his back on his classical training with a radical new food philosophy as a pioneer of three-dimensional cuisine, which is all about presentation, flavour and nutrition. Meanwhile, Elisha has more of a freestyle approach and likes to add unexpected twists to modern classics.
Chris and Elisha are two extremely talented and competitive chefs and, in tonight's programme, the judges have to decide whose version of modern British cooking is worthy of a place in the final.
Great British Menu is narrated by Jennie Bond.
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| BBC FOUR Bank Holiday Monday 5 May 2008 |
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Michael Wood in the British
Library with the Codicote Court
Book As part of BBC Four's season looking at life in medieval times, Michael Wood delves into medieval court books to follow the fortunes of one village, Codicote in Hertfordshire, from boom to bust, into the horrors of the Great Famine and the Black Death.
The 14th century is the most conflicted in British history, shot through with famine, plague and war. It's a time of climate change, with floods, rains and failed harvests, of virulent cattle pests such as BSE and, above all, the Black Death. Hard as life was, this is also the time when modern mentalities were shaped, not by the rulers, but by the common people. It was the beginning of the end of serfdom, the growth of individual freedom and the start of a capitalist market economy.
This is an everyday story of the medieval country folk who helped shape the character and destiny of ordinary British people. It is history told through the eyes of the forgotten half of the workforce – women. Michael unravels a story of 14th-century neighbours – the family of poor peasant Christina Cok, her father, Hugh, her estranged husband, William, and her children, John and Alice.
"In the 14th century," says Michael, "though their lives might at first seem quite alien, you only have to scratch below the surface to find uncanny connections with us. With them you see our beginnings as a nation of shopkeepers; the roots of the British love affair with beer, football and, maybe more importantly, the triumph of that sturdy, fatalistic and cussed streak of individualism that has made us Brits the people that we have been ever since."
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