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| BBC ONE Monday 29 September 2008 |
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A child maths prodigy, fast-tracked at 14, finds it difficult to fit in with his peers at university in the first visit of the week to The Mill Medical Centre. When the boy goes for a drink with a female student, her jealous boyfriend spikes his coke with vodka.
Mike helps when the young boy has a fit, and is shocked to discover that the older student who spiked his drink is the boy's older brother, who did it because he is jealous about being left in the youngster's shadow.
Ruth tells Mike that she will phone Michelle to tell her that he's going to be late for their date. But when Mike turns up an hour late, Michelle is furious saying she didn't receive a message.
Nick shows George that he can take a few steps without his crutches, so when Julia asks him to take part in a charity wheelchair race he rudely refuses, claiming that he doesn't use his chair much any more.
Everyone, especially Julia, is having a bad day dealing with Vivien's announcement. Nick feels bad when George points this out to him, and he tells Julia that he's changed his mind about the wheelchair race.
Mike is played by James Carlton, Ruth by Selina Chilton, Michelle by Donnaleigh Bailey, Nick by Michael McKell, George by Stirling Gallacher and Julia by Diane Keen.
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Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen)
comes face to face with an old
enemy The Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) returns in this BBC Children's drama adventure series produced by current Doctor Who supremo Russell T Davies.
Now working as an investigative journalist, Sarah Jane discovers that life back on Earth can be just as mysterious, exciting and dangerous as exploring time and space in the Tardis.
Reports of strange lights around the Tycho Radio Telescope lead Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria into a terrifying forest encounter, where Sarah Jane comes face-to-face with her oldest enemy.
Meanwhile Maria wrestles with a huge decision when her dad is offered a new job in America.
Sarah Jane is played by Elisabeth Sladen, Luke by Thomas Knight, Clyde by Daniel Anthony and Maria by Yasmin Paige.
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Bianca asks Tony an important question in the week's first visit to Albert Square. Ronnie also has an important question to ask Archie – why has been hiding letters from her?
Meanwhile, Max is suspicious of Stacey and Callum.
Bianca is played by Patsy Palmer, Tony by Chris Coghill, Ronnie by Samantha Janus, Archie by Larry Lamb, Max by Jake Wood, Stacey by Lacey Turner and Callum by Elliott Jordan.
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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
goes back to his seafaring roots Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has always felt a close connection to the sea and discovers how far back his seafaring roots go, in this final episode in the series in which famous names venture on a journey of discovery into their ancestors' pasts. Laurence also wants to find out if there is any truth behind a family legend that they descend from wealthy squires whose lands were nefariously stolen.
He first looks into the life of his grandfather, a merchant sea captain, and is surprised to discover that, during the First World War, his ship was sunk by an early German U-boat. A personal account in a war diary reveals that the naval ship protecting his grandfather was captained by a drunk. To discover if the sinking could have been avoided, Laurence travels to Germany to examine the U-boat's records.
Laurence learns that his great-great grandfather, Roger Twist, was also a sea captain who travelled the world at the peak of the age of sail and is shocked to discover that Roger falsified his naval records to cover up a desertion. It seems Roger gave way to temptation when he landed in Melbourne at the height of the great gold rush.
Laurence's investigation into the family myth of a lost fortune confirms his ancestors were indeed wealthy squires. But was the family estate really stolen from the family by a mysterious "Mr Tricky", as his great-great aunt always maintained?
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| BBC TWO Monday 29 September 2008 |
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Culinary adventurer Valentine Warner turns his attention this week to some of his favourite autumn vegetables – pumpkin, onion and beetroot.
Valentine believes beetroot is sadly misunderstood and, when cooked from fresh, it can be amazing. This honey-sweet crimson beauty makes amazing iron-rich salads and soups.
To find the very best variety for his beetroot with green sauce recipe, Valentine visits Spencer Christy, a biodynamic farmer in Essex who believes that the lunar cycles affect the growth of plants and follows an astronomical sowing and planting calendar.
One of Valentine's lasting childhood memories is the taste of his dad's perfect pumpkin soup. Armed with this very special recipe, he heads to Banbury, home of American farmer Greg Klaes who specialises in vegetable growing with a penchant for pumpkins. Using four different varieties, Valentine follows his father's recipe inviting Greg and his family to put it to the test.
Valentine is not alone in his appreciation of the humble onion. In September the Gloucestershire town of Newent holds its annual Onion Fayre, where like-minded individuals come to celebrate this most versatile of vegetables. Valentine shows his competitive streak when he enters the raw onion-eating contest in an attempt to break the world record for eating a single onion in the fastest time. He also cooks up a deliciously sweet onion tart.
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Bruce Parry meets up with
some old friends as his epic
journey along the Amazon
continues Bruce Parry continues his epic journey along the Amazon by meeting up with some old friends.
The Matis tribe welcomed him into their homes two years ago when he was filming Tribe, but their greeting is lukewarm this time round. Bruce discovers that "white man's" diseases, brought in by outsiders such as loggers, have decimated their population. With just 262 people in the whole tribe, it's possible the Matis may not exist as a people for much longer.
In complete contrast, further along the river, Bruce joins the Marubo tribe and finds a lively life of dancing and rituals which go on late into the night. A mixture of peoples from several tribes who banded together after the rubber boom of the late 19th century destroyed their lands, the Marubo now intensively cultivate their culture, keeping their ceremonies alive.
Bruce then meets the loggers, who are blamed for cutting down huge swathes of the forest and bringing disease. He finds that, far from being the "bad guys" of the story, their homely camp rings with laughter – they are just trying to make a living, like everybody else.
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| BBC FOUR Monday 29 September 2008 |
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The
Art Of Arts TV – The Arts Magazine Show Ep
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Monday 29 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC FOUR
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Some of the most durable and iconic arts programmes have been formatted as magazine shows.
Often live, and invariably lively, programmes such as the BBC's Monitor, Late Night Line Up, The Late Show and The Culture Show; ITV's Tempo and Aquarius; and Channel 4's Without Walls have provided broadcasters with a space in which arts practitioners could perform, and cultural commentators could respond with immediacy to developments in contemporary culture.
These programmes have also been likened to experimental film schools, which spawned successive generations of directors who would go on to establish themselves in feature films. In the Fifties and Sixties, Monitor was the breeding ground that gave the directors John Schlesinger (Far From The Madding Crowd, Midnight Cowboy, Sunday Bloody Sunday) and Ken Russell (Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Tommy) their chance to shine.
In the Nineties, The Late Show was an early home for directors such as Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones's Diary), Paul Tickell (Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry), Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) and Anand Tucker (Hilary And Jackie).
In this episode, critics, programme-makers and presenters discuss the merits of the magazine shows that have provided a public space for some of Britain's most prominent commentators to offer provocative insights into the contemporary arts, challenge received wisdom and set the national cultural agenda.
The series is part of a week of programmes on BBC Four which will give viewers a chance to see some of the very best arts programming shown on British TV in the last 50 years.
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| CBEEBIES Monday 29 September 2008 |
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LazyTown
Extra Eps 9-12/26
Monday 29 September to Thursday 2 October
4.00-4.15pm CBEEBIES
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
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LazyTown's adventure-loving Ziggy plays basketball and visits an art class as he continues his travels around the UK for CBeebies.
Robbie Rotten, meanwhile, creates his usual mayhem as he tries to beat the world long-jump record by cheating with springs in his shoes.
LazyTown Extra is an action-packed magazine-style show for three to six-year-olds with each themed episode featuring all the LazyTown favourites, exclusively for CBeebies.
The series also features children from across the country showing Ziggy their favourite activities, such as playing basketball, visiting the zoo, or growing vegetables.
Viewers can also see Sportacus introducing the CBeebies audience to an exercise each day, while Stephanie and Trixie are in the kitchen making a face pizza.
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