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Sue Barker introduces live coverage of the second day of Davis Cup action as Great Britain face Austria on the grass of Wimbledon. The Murray brothers are joined by Alex Bogdanovic and Ross Hutchins in the Great Britain line-up, as captain John Lloyd looks to get the best out of his team in the two reverse singles rubbers that could ultimately lead to Britain's safety in the World Group relegation play-off.
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The 16 celebrities limber up for
a new series of Strictly Come
Dancing Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly return for the first live show in the fabulous sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing. This season is bigger than ever with 16 couples competing for the coveted title of Strictly Come Dancing champion.
Tonight, the men battle to stay out of bottom place on the leader board. One of them will exit after performing either a waltz or a cha cha, whilst the girls strut their stuff in a group dance.
Judges Arlene Philips, Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli return to cast a professional eye over the performances. Andrew Castle, Tom Chambers, Phil Daniels, Mark Foster, Austin Healey, Gary Rhodes, John Sergeant and Don Warrington compete for the men. For the women, Christine Bleakley, Jodie Kidd, Cherie Lunghi, Heather Small, Lisa Snowdon, Rachel Stevens, Gillian Taylforth and Jessie Wallace will perform in the group dance.
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It's a busy shift in the ED and the atmosphere is full of blame, as the medical drama continues. Zoe is late, Abs hasn't turned up and Adam has wrongly declared a patient dead. With no boss, following Zoe's demotion, the staff have no clear leader.
On the local Farmead Estate, a young girl goes back to help a boy in an underpass. He was being beaten up by bullies, but her father made her walk on by. In an altercation she is injured and left semi-conscious. Stacey, a passing drunk, finds her and carries her along the road, where the police take over. As the team prepares to treat her in ED, Adam and Zoe are at loggerheads. Zoe arrived late, but is aware of Adam's earlier mistake. She blames him and his lack of procedure.
In the midst of their arguing, a tall stranger walks into ED. He hands over his jacket and bag to reception, and authoritatively strides through the double doors into resus: "Hello, I'm Nick Jordan, I'm your new Clinical Lead..." Everyone is astonished. Jordan rolls up his sleeves and expertly takes command of the situation, bringing the order and procedure previously lacking.
Zoe and Adam receive a verbal dressing down from Jordan. Ruth is bowled over by the power and leadership that Jordan exhibits.
Meanwhile, Abs is concerned about Stacey, who is vomiting blood.
Dixie and Jeff turn up unenthusiastically for their first appointment with the counsellor, Ben Harding. Hungover and bleary-eyed, Ben turns up late and seems to have no idea why they're there...
Zoe is played by Sunetra Sarker, Abs by James Redmond, Adam by Tristan Gemmill, Nick Jordan by Michael French, Ruth by Georgia Taylor, Dixie by Jane Hazlegrove, Jeff by Matt Bardock and Ben Harding by Mark Letheren.
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SWITCH ON BBC TWO
Scene Stealers Ep 3/6
Saturday 20 September
12.30-1.00pm BBC TWO
www.bbc.co.uk/switch
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Jeff Leach presents Scene
Stealers on BBC Switch
Dorian, a Goth boy from Sheffield, and Michaela, an emo girl from Lancashire, have to become plastics, as Scene Stealers, the show in which two teens are challenged to pretend they belong to another teen tribe in just 48 hours, continues.
Presented by Jeff Leach (the host of BBC Switch's teen talk show The Surgery), the series sees each teen paired with a mentor who shows them how to pass themselves off in their new persona. Both will have to perform a series of tasks in order to complete the transformation.
There is also a surprise in store for the teens – they will be going on a date with their rival scene stealer!
At the end of the 48 hours, Dorian and Michaela go head-to-head at the High Court of Plastic. Will they fool the experts? And which teen will be exposed as the scene stealer?
Next week sees a posh girl and a plastic boy try to pull it off as
hippies, but will they fool the High Court of Hippy?
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Arena
– The Hunt For Moby Dick
Saturday 20 September
10.30-11.30pm BBC TWO
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Arena – the BBC's flagship arts documentary strand – confronts man's fascination with one of the most mysterious creatures of the ocean, the whale, in a new adventure documentary: The Hunt For Moby Dick.
Filmed in England, America and the Azores over four years, the documentary follows acclaimed author Philip Hoare as he writes his new book and tackles man's complex relationship with the whale, bringing it into startling new focus through one book: Moby Dick. Herman Melville's 19th-century novel resounds with 21st-century relevance. Hoare draws an eerie parallel between Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of the great white whale on the high seas and today's "war on terror".
In precarious wooden boats, whalemen once faced the biggest animals on Earth with no more than hand-held harpoons. Their furious battles were grim and without mercy and the prize was the mighty sperm whale. Today, the whale is still regarded with awe – no longer a monster but a magnificent, gentle giant.
In an epic journey which takes him from his hometown of Southampton to the whaling ports of New Bedford and Nantucket, and finally to the islands of the Azores – where whales were still hunted with traditional harpoons up to the Eighties – Hoare enters a world haunted by a bloody and violent past.
He stands at the desk where Melville wrote his masterpiece and visits the last remaining whaleship, the Charles W Morgan, to see what conditions on board were really like. And out in the mile-deep waters of the Atlantic, he has his own extraordinary encounter with the legendary sperm whale itself.
In Arena – The Hunt For Moby Dick, Hoare takes viewers closer than ever before to the truth behind the story of the whale and the fear and awe it inspires. What does Moby Dick have to tell us about the modern world?
BBC Four hosts a Whale Night on Sunday 21 September, with new short films from the Arena team.
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