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Eva is determined to nail a local villain and is on a stakeout waiting for him to show up, as the Midlands-based drama continues. As she and three colleagues hide out in an empty flat for the evening, Eva discovers that one of the officers has a cocaine habit while another is lumbered with his secret.
Meanwhile, Julia offers Daniel a permanent contract at the practice and he's delighted. However, she tells him he will not be allowed to let them down.
George spends the day asking Julia what Mal likes to eat, in preparation for dinner later that evening. When Julia and Mal go round to George and Ronnie's, George interrogates Mal, and Julia is furious with her. She assures George that, following her previous relationships, this one is on her terms.
Elsewhere, Joe discovers the vase in the hallway, which Daniel tells him he's looking after for a friend. However, a suspicious Joe does some research and is alarmed to find an auction website stating how much it was sold for the day before!
Eva is played by Angela Lonsdale, Julia by Diane Keen, Daniel by Matthew Chambers, George by Stirling Gallacher, Ronnie by Sean Gleeson and Joe by Stephen Boxer. Mal is played by guest star Ray Fearon.
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Esther Rantzen believes her family history is exclusively a story of genteel middle-class respectability, but there is one tale of a "black sheep" that has always intrigued her, as the series in which famous names venture on a journey of discovery into their ancestors' pasts continues.
Esther's cousin reveals the black sheep to be their great-grandfather, Montague Leverson, who, following some "financial trouble", abandoned his family and fled to America. Esther's investigations into Montague uncover a scandalous story of fraud, bigamy and murder.
Esther then goes on to investigate the origins of her unusual surname. As she traces her family back, she is stunned to learn that her wealthy stockbroker grandfather was born in an East End slum. Her investigations into the Rantzen family's rapid social rise expose a close family connection to diamond magnate Barney Barnato, one of richest men in the 19th century.
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| BBC TWO Wednesday 3 September 2008 |
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God On Trial
Wednesday 3 September
9.00-10.30pm BBC TWO (Schedule addition 21 August) |
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Sir Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Jack Shepherd and Lorcan Cranitch star in God On Trial, a new drama for BBC Two written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, one of this country’s most versatile and prolific screen writers, which is his first television project in 10 years.
Cottrell Boyce’s script takes as a starting point the story that prisoners in Auschwitz, their faith tested by their suffering and the barbarity of the Nazis, put God on trial. In the drama, the charge is that God has broken his covenant with his chosen people to protect and care for them. The trial takes place in a camp blockhouse over the course of one day, around a selection of those prisoners who are going to be taken to the gas chamber.
God On Trial also stars Stephen Dillane, Dominic Cooper, Stellan Skarsgard, Rene Zagger, Eddie Marsan and Blake Ritson.
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| BBC FOUR Wednesday 3 September 2008 |
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Blood And Guts – A History Of Surgery Ep 3/5
Wednesday 3 September
9.00-10.00pm BBC FOUR
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Michael Mosley (right) meets the
world's first hand transplant
patient, Clint Hallam Today, transplant surgery saves 70,000 lives every year. But in the beginning, transplants didn't cure – they killed. Medical practitioners had no knowledge of one of the most sophisticated defence systems in the natural world: the human immune system.
Blood And Guts – A History Of Surgery continues its exploration into how brilliant surgical breakthroughs – sometimes humorous, often tragic – shaped the evolution of modern medicine.
This episode follows a surgical dream – the idea of spare parts for all – from its crude beginnings. In his journey through transplants' troubled past, presenter Michael Mosley discovers a branch of surgery that has progressed through surgical heroics, strokes of luck and brave human sacrifice.
He hears about one of the pioneers of transplant surgery, a French neo-Nazi named Alexis Carrel. The controversial father of the transplant, Carrel invented the delicate surgical stitch that made it possible – for the first time – to sew blood vessels together. Carrel learnt sewing from a French embroiderer and Michael follows in his footsteps to see if he, too, can master the tiny delicate stitches needed to sew blood vessels together.
Michael also comes face to face with a real-life human guinea pig, Clint Hallam, the New Zealander who received the world's first transplanted hand. However, Clint's new hand began to decay whilst attached to his arm and was ultimately removed in a transplant reversal.
Michael also shakes the new hand of David Savage – American's third (and more successful) hand-transplant recipient, and talks to him about how it feels to have someone else's body part attached to his own body.
Michael's journey uncovers the hidden face of transplant surgery, revealing the miracles of this superhuman science and the bloody, desperate measures taken to achieve them. His journey leaves him amazed by the medical feats that transplants have achieved, but there is one thing he becomes certain of: whatever you do, don't go first.
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