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| BBC ONE Friday 26 September 2008 |
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Dom's On The
Case Of Private Health Ep 5/5
Monday 22 to Friday 26 September
9.15-10.00am BBC ONE |
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With NHS operation waiting lists still hitting the headlines, Dom Littlewood probes into a little-known Government scheme whereby patients can go abroad to receive the treatment they need with the NHS picking up the bill, as he concludes his look at today's NHS.
Dom decides to take four people who are waiting for hip/knee replacements to Belgium, where they can have the operation done almost immediately. In England, the typical wait for a hip or knee replacement is more than three-and-a-half months from a consultation to going under the knife, while a quarter of patients wait nearer to six months.
Dom also meets Chris, who was diagnosed with cancer last year. He gets private health insurance through his work, and their medical insurance company have been paying for him to receive a drug called Avastin alongside his chemotherapy. However, despite this working well for him and his biggest tumour being reduced by 45 per cent, Chris's insurers have decided to no longer provide the drug. Chris is now faced with having to spend thousands of pounds on this drug despite having private health insurance.
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Vivien is shaken by the notification of the trial date that she received in the morning's post, in the week's last visit to the Mill medical centre. Jimmi asks her if she's told anyone else about her ordeal, and when she realises that it will soon be public knowledge, she asks everyone to meet in the staff room at the end of the day.
After a day of gossipy jokes, Vivien faces the team, and with Jimmi's help plucks up the courage to make her announcement. She tells them all very matter of factly what happened, insists nobody makes a fuss, and leaves with everyone too shocked to speak.
Eva is sent out with Mary Drake, a jailed serial killer who has murdered five people. Eva is joined by Tom Jacks, the retired Detective Inspector who bought the case against Mary. They are looking for the final body she buried in the woods – but, when they find it, is it really the last one?
Vivien is played by Anita Carey, Jimmi by Adrian Lewis Morgan and Eva by Angela Lonsdale. Mary Drake is played by guest star Ellie Haddington and Tom Jacks by guest star Tom Georgeson.
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Dani's
House – Pirates Ep 1/13
Friday 26 September
4.35-5.00pm BBC ONE
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Dani (Dani Harmer) has a cash-
flow problem in her new series
Dani Harmer, of Tracy Beaker fame, stars in her own fast-paced new comedy show. Created especially for her, the lively and slightly surreal series features guest appearances by Matt Di Angelo, L'il Chris, Richard Blackwood, Zoe Salmon and Shaun Williamson.
Dani plays the eponymous lead role of a 17-year-old actress continually left in charge of her annoying younger brother Max, his none-too-bright sidekick Ben and their youngest sibling, "the baby from hell". As she can't go out with her friends, Toby and Sam, the trio end up spending most of their time in Dani's house in her hip den hang-out. With so much time on her hands the imaginative actress conjures up a variety of comic situations and locations for the trio.
Dani and her pals assume that their antics are being broadcast to the world and beyond. In fact their zany activities are being closely observed from on high by a pair of aliens, Zarg and Zark, who are hooked on Dani's show, and who bear an uncanny resemblance to Dani and Toby.
In the first episode Dani is in a dilemma. She has broken her mum's favourite vase and, as she's already "borrowed" money from Max, is in desperate need of cash to sort out the problem. The solution might just be buried underneath the house...
After seven years playing Tracy Beaker, Dani recently bagged a role in prime-time BBC sitcom After You've Gone. She also flexes her vocal chords to sing the theme tune to Dani's House, Breaking Free.
Dani is played by Dani Harmer, Max by Sebastian Applewhite, Ben by James Gandhi, Toby by Harry Culverhouse and Sam by Klariza Clayton.
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The regional manager visits the Minute Mart, in the final visit of the week to Walford, but will Patrick and Heather help Yolande?
Meanwhile, Stacey decides that she has to tell Bradley how she feels.
Patrick is played by Rudolph Walker, Heather by Cheryl Fergison, Yolande by Angela Wynter, Stacey by Lacey Turner and Bradley by Charlie Clements.
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| BBC TWO Friday 26 September 2008 |
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Hazel Irvine presents further live golf coverage from the Brabazon Course at The Belfry, in the West Midlands, as the second round gets under way. Young hopefuls Nick Dougherty, Rory McIlroy and Oliver Wilson have already confirmed their participation in the event, worth £300,000 to the eventual winner.
Peter Alliss, Ken Brown and Andrew Cotter commentate as the competition reaches the halfway stage.
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| BBC FOUR Friday 26 September 2008 |
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Classical Legends –
Jacqueline du Pré
And The Elgar Cello Concerto Ep 1/8
Friday 26
September
7.30-8.40pm BBC FOUR
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Christopher Nupen's intimate and pioneering portraits of great musicians are among the most celebrated classical music films ever made. A series of eight of these classic films on consecutive Friday evenings begins tonight with this iconic film about brilliant yet tragic British cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
Du Pré was one of the finest musicians that Britain has ever produced, but her dazzling career was cut tragically short by multiple sclerosis when she was 28. She died in 1987 at the age of 41. The film begins with an account of her activities after the onset of her illness and includes, at her request, a re-edited version of the film Nupen made with her in 1967. It outlines her childhood, her first steps in music, her studies with William Pleeth, her meteoric career and her meeting with and marriage to Daniel Barenboim. It ends with a performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Barenboim. It's a performance which has already passed into legend.
Nupen's pioneering work was largely enabled by the invention of a new camera which made it possible to follow musicians into places, and to show intimate scenes, not previously possible. Nupen says: "Film became capable of remembering performers in a new way." And because he had strong personal relationships with his subjects and was able to spend considerable time with "his friends", he created a genre of music documentary not previously possible, and which, some would say, has not been matched since.
Oxford philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin described some of Christopher Nupen's films as being: "At just about the highest level which television is capable of reaching."
This series of Nupen's films of classical legends also includes Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Evgeny Kissin and Nathan Milstein, as well as a film following the progress of Amman-born musician Karim Said, a protégé of Daniel Barenboim's, from the age of 11 to 17.
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