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Julia is back at work and asks Michelle to go and see a lady who has sent them a cheque as a thank you for the help the old campus team gave her with her dying father, in the first visit of the week to the Midlands-based drama.
Michelle clashes with the lady, however, and when she questions how she is living her life the lady takes the cheque back. Later, she returns to the surgery with a larger sum of money, and says she is grateful for what Michelle said to her.
Eva, meanwhile, is called to a burglary. The victim, Mary, an elderly lady, is in a coma and Eva tells Jimmi she has been raped and asks if he can examine her. Jimmi becomes distressed, especially when he notices the same slashes on her arm – which are similar to Vivien's.
Elsewhere, Vivien is waiting at the bus stop when a man bumps into her – making her jump. When he later turns up at the surgery she automatically assumes he's following her, but Michelle tells her it was probably an accident as the man is almost blind.
Julia is played by Diane Keen, Michelle by Donnaleigh Bailey, Eva by Angela Lonsdale, Jimmi by Adrian Lewis Morgan, and Vivien by Anita Carey.
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Dawn is concerned about Jase's whereabouts and calls the hospital, in the first visit of the week to Albert Square. She becomes increasingly panicked, however, as the realisation of what's happened sinks in.
Elsewhere, Jean excitedly prepares for a picnic date with Ted and wears her new dress. Sean, meanwhile, seems to be in an exceptionally good mood, but Stacey is less than impressed.
Dawn is played by Kara Tointon, Jase by Stephen Lord, Jean by Gillian Wright, Ted by Richard Hope, Sean by Rob Kazinsky and Stacey by Lacey Turner.
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Dennis Waterman as Gerry
Standing and Amanda Redman
as Sandra Pullman in New
Tricks Gerry Standing meets his heroes, Seventies rock band Bad Faith, when the UCOS team reinvestigate the death of lead guitarist Andy Fletcher, as the crime drama continues. Originally ruled as suicide, the deathbed confession of a witness, die-hard fan Lori Slade, that Fletcher wasn't alone in his house the night he is supposed to have killed himself, prompts the team to reopen the case.
Brian, meanwhile, has more pressing matters on his mind. In a touching reunion he tracks down Jack and, with the aid of an ice lolly and a bit of tough love, he finally persuades his friend and colleague to return to UCOS.
Reunited, the team immerse themselves in the rock 'n' roll world of Bad Faith. Formed in 1974, the group disbanded after Fletcher's death in 1975, having only released one album, but were hailed as rock gods in that short time. Gerry behaves like an overexcited puppy at the prospect of meeting his idols, but 30 years is a long time and the remaining band members don't quite live up to the legends he remembers. Suspicious, paranoid and wrecked by drugs, bass guitarist Danny Jones takes an instant disliking to Gerry and refuses to speak to him; cocky and arrogant lead singer Dave Dalston struggles to disguise his bitterness that, in death, Fletcher has gained hero status; and, on the Shamhana Retreat, drummer Charlie Webber has found religion and now only answers to the name T'An Shin Wangdu.
A visit to Fletcher's mother, however, helps Jack reconnect with his desire to get justice for the victims. Gail Fletcher hands over the precious notebooks her son had sent her containing handwritten lyrics together with a bank statement revealing that Andy withdrew more than £12,000 on the day he died. It also becomes clear that she has never received any of the royalties owed to her son since his death.
The most alarming discovery is that DAC Strickland is not only a fan of Bad Faith, but he is also something of a musician and, to Gerry's horror, he finds himself seconded to Strickland's band as a singer.
Dennis Waterman plays Gerry Standing, Amanda Redman plays Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, Alun Armstrong plays Brian Lane, James Bolam plays Jack Halford, Roger Lloyd Pack plays Danny Jones, George Costigan plays Dave Dalston, Peter Guiness plays Charlie Webber, June Watson plays Gail Fletcher and Anthony Calf plays DAC Strickland.
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Chinese
Food Made Easy –
Noodles And Dim Sum Ep 4/6
Monday 28 July
8.30-9.00pm BBC TWO
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Ching-He Huang visits a London
fashion house where she
prepares the ingredients for
spiced skewered lamb In an attempt to bring fresh, easy and healthy Chinese food to the UK, Ching-He Huang, the rising star of Chinese cooking, this week explores the fashionable world of noodles, dim sum and dumplings. She tries her recipes out in the health-conscious world of London fashion and on the dancers of the English National Ballet.
Ching creates her own simple and healthy hot and sour noodle soup, which she tests on the ballet dancers before learning the secrets of one of the leading dim sum master chefs in London.
Ching shows Shaun Sellings, owner of a London fashion house, how dim sum can be healthy and easy to make at home. He tries out prawn and pork dumplings and chicken and vegetable spring rolls on his health-conscious customers along with radish and sesame soy noodle salad and spicy skewered lamb. Ching also demonstrates how to create an authentic, but quick and healthy version of the perennially-popular takeaway dish Singapore-style noodles.
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| BBC FOUR Monday 28 July 2008 |
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BBC PROMS
2008
Beethoven And Elliott Carter –
BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Robertson
Monday
28 July
7.30-9.15pm BBC FOUR
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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Celebrating the 100th birthday of the American composer Elliott Carter, BBC Four continues its Proms coverage with a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its principal guest conductor, David Robertson, which includes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Carter's Oboe Concerto with soloist Nicholas Daniel.
Carter says: "The soloist is accompanied in its widely varying, mercurial moods by a percussionist and four violas. The main orchestra opposes their flighty changes with a more regular series of ideas, usually on the serious side, sometimes bursting out dramatically. Each of the two groups uses different musical materials which they develop throughout the work."
It is coupled with two of Beethoven's best-loved works, the Fifth Symphony and the muscular Grosse Fuge.
Robertson feels today's audiences have "lost the sense of how radical Beethoven's Fifth Symphony really is. At the time it seemed completely incomprehensible to the public because of the enormous sense of forward movement in the very opening. Then it suddenly stops! Then it starts again, like some teenager trying to learn to drive, letting out the clutch too quickly and ramming into the wall."
The Symphony was premièred 200 years ago in 1808, in a mammoth concert staged by Beethoven at the Theater an der Wein. It lasted more than four hours and included the première of his Sixth Symphony and his Fourth Piano Concerto.
Tonight's concert adds a full-string version of the Grosse Fuge, written when the composer was completely deaf. Igor Stravinsky called it "an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary for ever."
Presenter Suzy Klein is joined by cellist Gabriella Swallow and double-bassist Dominic Seldis to discuss the music, and soloist Nicholas Daniel and conductor David Robertson talk about the concert in the interval.
Digital viewers can press the Red button on their remote for programme notes during the performance.
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