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Bridget Farmer, an old university friend of Nick's, shows up at The Mill keen to get to know him again, as the medical drama continues. Things begin to heat up over a successful lunch and they arrange to meet again that evening.
Nick later arrives at Bridget's house and they order a takeaway but, before it arrives, her ex-husband turns up, barges straight past her and tells Nick that Bridget has been lying to him. It turns out she's looking for someone to save and Nick is the perfect candidate.
Vivien, meanwhile, buys Jimmi an awful tie as a thank you for helping her with her driving – much to everyone's amusement. Eva turns up at The Mill to see if Jimmi will go and see a house with her, but he's already agreed to go driving again with Vivien. Vivien suggests combining the two, and she drives them to the house.
Davey turns up at the campus surgery and insists Ruth take a break with him. He takes her straight to the nearest bank and demands she takes out her month's wages and give them to him as there are bills to pay. At the end of the day he turns up at work to meet Ruth, charm personified, and suggests to Michelle they all go out the next evening for a drink. A worried Ruth, however, wonders what he is up to.
Bridget Farmer is played by Kim Thomson, Nick by Michael McKell, Vivien by Anita Carey, Jimmi by Adrian Lewis Morgan, Eva by Angela Lonsdale, Davey by Gavin Bell, Ruth by Selina Chilton and Michelle by Donnaleigh Bailey.
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Dan
Cruickshank's Adventures In Architecture Ep
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Wednesday 21 May
9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO |
Dan Cruickshank concludes his travels around some of the world's greatest buildings and explores how architecture provides pleasure – to its creators and to the people who enjoy the buildings today – in the final instalment of this landmark architecture series.
In India, Dan visits one of the world's greatest and most luxurious hotels, the Taj, in Mumbai. Like a palace sitting on the ocean's edge, the hotel is a vision from the age of the great Maharajahs and the British Raj – a spectacular fusion of East and West. In Germany, Dan goes to the Schloss Neuschwanstein, a fantasy castle created by one of history's most outrageous monarchs, King Ludwig II. Even today, it is the stuff of fantasy for the many millions of visitors who reach its heights in the Bavarian mountains.
Moving on to Italy, Dan celebrates the hedonism and excess of ancient Pompeii as he visits the oldest brothel in the world. He then heads for Brazil and the Amazon basin to find opera at the heart of the rain forest as he visits the opera house at Manaus. Built on the back of the rubber trade, the pleasure it brings is a painful mix for the people of the region.
Dan finally explores the Villa Barbaro in northern Italy, one of the world's most beautiful country houses, where pleasure was deemed to be created by perfect architecture and perfect architecture was arrived at by mathematical proportion – designed by arguably the world's greatest architect, Andrea Palladio.
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My New Best Friend Ep 1/3
Wednesday 21 May
9.00-10.00pm BBC FOUR
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Nanae, Lydia, Annabelle and
Daisy start their new life at
Cheltenham Ladies' College
My New Best Friend is a new, three-part series exploring one of the most significant turning points in a child's life – the transition from primary to secondary school.
Each film focuses on a different part of Britain and a contrasting type of school – a girls' boarding school in England, the Scottish high school that is the only option for children raised in the remote islands of North West Scotland, and an inner-city London comprehensive.
Shot over eight months, the films take an affectionate look at how children change as they start facing adulthood for the first time. Only children are interviewed and their honest, positive and touching insights build a bigger portrait of children on the cusp of adolescence in Britain today.
Today's opener follows four 11-year-old girls as they leave the familiarity of their prep schools to join one of the most prestigious girls' schools in the country, Cheltenham Ladies' College. For Annabelle, Lydia and Daisy, leaving home to become boarders can be as daunting as it is exciting. And Nanae, the only day girl featured, faces a different set of challenges when trying to settle in. With courage, maturity and good humour, all the girls tackle loneliness, make new friends and succeed in beginning to find their place in this new world.
My New Best Friend forms part of BBC Four's Childhood Season, which examines different aspects of childhood with four unique documentaries from award-winning and critically acclaimed film-makers.
The other films in the season are: Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, director Kim Longinotto's award-winning film that follows the extraordinary stories of children who live at the Mulberry Bush boarding school; Painted Babies Growing Up, in which film-maker Jane Treays follows up on her acclaimed 1995 film, Painted Babies, by revisiting the unique world of the baby beauty pageant queen; and The Death Of Childhood, which follows Child Of Our Time by filming 22 children continuously for 48 hours, putting their day-to-day lives under the microscope to build up a real picture of a day in the life of the average British child.
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