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| BBC ONE Saturday 3 May 2008 |
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Manish Bhasin and guests look ahead to a busy couple of days in football.
It's the penultimate round of Barclays Premier League matches and the final weekend of Coca-Cola Football League action so there will be plenty of drama as promotion, play-off and relegation issues are settled. In the top flight, Manchester United host bogey team West Ham while Chelsea visit a revitalised Newcastle.
On the final day in last season's Championship, six teams were vying for three play-off spots – it was a happy day for West Brom, Wolves and Southampton, but there was heartache for Stoke, Preston and Colchester, who all missed out.
Today's programme also has reaction to the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, which took place in the week and involved Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea.
In Scotland, Aberdeen face Dundee United, with Rangers in action tomorrow against Hibernian. There will also be a chance to see last week's goals from the Clydesdale Scottish Premier League, which included the final Old Firm clash of the season.
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Will the Doctor (David Tennant)
have to make the ultimate
sacrifice? The Sontarans activate their masterplan and begin to choke the whole of planet Earth, as Russell T Davies's Bafta Award-winning time-travelling drama continues. UNIT is left defenceless, with a traitor in their ranks. And as interplanetary war edges closer, the Doctor has to fight to keep both Martha and Donna alive – but will he have to make the ultimate sacrifice?
David Tennant plays the Doctor and Catherine Tate plays his companion, Donna Noble. Freema Agyeman and Christopher Ryan guest star.
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A kiss from Joanne leaves
Toby (Matthew Needham) on
cloud nine It's Ruth's day off and she is alone in her room and again on the verge of suicide, as the medical drama continues. She goes for a run but witnesses an accident and pulls one of the victims out of the way of a motorbike. Her subsequent care and treatment of those involved is praised by her colleagues, and offers her a glimpse of hope.
In ED, Jessica and Adam are drawn to each other, unable to keep apart. However, an innocent mistake in resuscitation reveals Jessica's secret to everyone. Jessica retrieves Sean's watch, which has fallen off in surgery. When he comes back for it, her simple act speaks volumes, and it is clear they are husband and wife. Adam is hurt and furious, while Zoë is astonished.
Meanwhile, a father (played by Alexander Morton) watches as his Down's syndrome daughter has to have life-saving surgery. He also has to let go and allow his daughter's boyfriend to marry her.
Elsewhere, Toby gets an ear-bashing from Sean, but later receives a kiss from Joanne, leaving him on cloud nine.
Ruth, having coped well with her day and having saved a patient's life, ends the day smiling.
Ruth is played by Georgia Taylor, Jessica by Gillian Kearney, Adam by Tristan Gemmill, Sean by Richard Dillane, Zoë by Sunetra Sarker and Toby by Matthew Needham.
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Alice (Tamsin Greig) struggles
with her conscience after her
break-up with Douglas Alice has some space and privacy at last, as she relinquishes the sofa in Milly's pokey basement flat for a room of her own in the more spacious apartment of her actress friend, Fae Madison, as the entertaining and provocative drama continues. But will Alice's new life in the orbit of the sexy young starlet prove any less eventful than before?
For starters, she has to endure the somewhat uncomfortable experience of watching her new flatmate perform some rather risqué voiceover work to accompany a nude love scene with a beautiful young woman from the Czech Republic.
Then there's the news that Fae's father, Larry, has only six months to live, and has vowed to fulfil his final days by getting married again, at the age of 71, to his new friend, Matilda. Little does Alice know that the consequences of making a promise to a dying man will land her in very deep trouble with Matilda.
As Alice struggles with her conscience following her traumatic break-up with Douglas, she worries how he will manage to cope with rejection and face up to a life without her. As Cleo and Milly hotly debate the prospect of her former boyfriend taking a razor blade to his wrists in the bath, Alice finds herself pondering the awful question – has she, in fact, made the wrong decision?
Meanwhile, Douglas seems to
have embarked on his own voyage of discovery after solving a curious
puzzle in an email. What is the dark, intriguing secret of the bewitchingly
blonde Heather, who does his ironing? Inevitably, he finds himself
falling under her spell... and, in doing so, makes a discovery not
even he could have predicted.
Alice is played by Tamsin Greig, Milly by Montserrat Lombard, Fae by Amelia Curtis, Larry by Lee Montague, Matilda by Lynda Bellingham, Douglas by Mark Heap, Cleo by Sheridan Smith and Heather by Joanna Page.
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Gary Lineker presents highlights from today's Premier League programme, which is the penultimate weekend of the season in the top flight.
Chelsea faced a tricky visit to Tyneside to play a resurgent Newcastle, while Manchester United were up against bogey team West Ham, who have won the last three matches between the sides. Reading and Tottenham met for the fourth time this season with neutral fans hoping for a repeat of the league game at White Hart Lane, which Spurs won 6-4. Portsmouth made the long journey north to Middlesbrough while strugglers Fulham and Birmingham met at Craven Cottage. Aston Villa played Wigan, Sunderland were at Bolton and Derby travelled to Blackburn.
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| BBC PARLIAMENT Saturday 3 May 2008 |
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Creative
Industry Lecture Series –
Sir David Attenborough
Saturday 3 May
9.00-9.30pm BBC PARLIAMENT
www.bbc.co.uk/thefuture
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Legendary naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough shares his thoughts on the future role of public service broadcasting in the inaugural Creative Industry Lecture.
As part of the response to the Ofcom Public Service Broadcasting review, the BBC has invited three leading figures in the creative community – Sir David Attenborough, Stephen Fry and Will Hutton – to give their personal views on what public service broadcasting delivers to Britain.
Sir David delivers his lecture to an invited audience on Wednesday 30 April at Millbank, Westminster, in London. BBC Parliament broadcasts the lecture in full today and it will also be posted online at bbc.co.uk/thefuture.
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