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Poppy escapes from the Pagemans with baby Cartier, while Eva watches as Matt tells Jack that someone has shot Callum, as the drama based in a Midlands health centre continues. Jack declares he'll kill the person who did it, and Eva and Matt manage to cover themselves when he questions them about what happened.
Later, Poppy arrives at the Mill to see Jimmi and tells him everything. Poppy's Aunt May comes to collect her, and they are both taken in for questioning by the police. Poppy agrees to tell them about Jack's criminal activities in exchange for witness protection.
Back at the pub, Jimmi pretends to drop off a delivery. Eva is shocked to see him, but manages to get him alone and admits that she killed Callum. Jimmi tries to get Eva to leave, but she refuses, saying she is so close to getting the evidence against Jack she needs.
Heston, meanwhile, is continuing to upset people at the Mill. He puts his foot in it with Archie and his patient, who has a needle phobia. Archie complains to George that Heston treats the nurses like dirt and, at the end of the day, Heston is oblivious as he almost knocks Archie off his bike.
Poppy is played by Kerrie Hayes, Eva by Angela Lonsdale, Matt by Chook Sibtain, Jack by James Gadas, Jimmi by Adrian Lewis Morgan, Aunt May by Kate Fitzgerald, Heston by Owen Brenman, Archie by Matt Kennard and George by Stirling Gallacher.
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Dani's House
– Killer Party Ep 4/13
Friday 17 October
4.35-5.00pm BBC ONE
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Dani's vivid imagination gets the better of her in the latest episode of the comedy series created especially for Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer. She's convinced that Toby and Sam's surprise birthday party plans for her actually involve having her assassinated! With her scheming younger brother, Max, exploiting the situation, it's not long before Dani's paranoia is at bursting point.
Pop star L'il Chris makes a cameo performance as a member of a Blues Brothers tribute band.
Dani is played by Dani Harmer, Toby by Harry Culverhouse, Sam by Klariza Clayton and Max by Sebastian Applewhite.
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Max continues to try to charm Tanya as Ronnie attempts to get Jack to confess he still loves her, in the final visit of the week to Albert Square. Meanwhile, Archie rattles Sean with talk of dirty nappies and says it is the end of his cosy nights in.
Max is played by Jake Wood, Tanya by Jo Joyner, Ronnie by Samantha Janus, Jack by Scott Maslen, Archie by Larry Lamb and Sean by Rob Kazinsky.
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The
American Future – A History: American War Ep
2/4
Friday 17 October
9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO
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Simon Schama continues his travels through America, against the backdrop of the presidential campaign, to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what is at stake right now.
In American War, Simon reveals how different the American attitude to war is from what outsiders assume it to be. "The world has got in the habit of thinking of America as the tough-guy empire; trigger-happy cowboys addicted to the rush of military power. But that's not the way America sees itself," he says.
Two of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, disagreed about whether America should even have a professional army – a division still evident when Simon visits America's premier military academy at West Point. From the Civil War right through to Mark Twain's denunciation of President Teddy Roosevelt's imperial adventure in the Philippines, American wars have inspired profound debate. And nowhere more so in this election than San Antonio, Texas, nicknamed Military City because of its high population of veterans and serving soldiers, where Simon finds feelings about the war are deeply divided.
As with the great war elections of the past, it's a debate which forces America to dig deep and rediscover what it stands for.
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Classical
Legends – Vladimir Ashkenazy:
The Vital Juices Are Russian
Friday 17 October
7.30-8.20pm BBC FOUR
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BBC Four continues its exploration into the Classical Legends with a close-up look at the life, talent and trials of one of the most quietly successful musicians of modern times: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
The film was shot in 1968 as Ashkenazy lived through a crucial turning point in his life and career. After leaving the Soviet Union and living in London for five years, he and his Icelandic wife, Thorunn, decided to move to Iceland.
The film is also a closely observed account of one of the most demanding and rewarding of all professions, and a lively reminder of a new kind of television music film which inspired a new audience for classical music. It was described by Ingmar Bergman on Swedish television as the best he had seen about a living musician.
The title – The Vital Juices Are Russian – comes from a statement about Ashkenazy's Russian-ness which he makes in the film.
To quote Christopher Nupen, who made this film: "Some piquancy was added by the fact that our young hero felt that he was struggling to come to terms with the great traditions of the West, because, as he says in the film, he felt inadequately prepared. At that time, the idea that he might, somewhere in the distant future, become an internationally recognised conductor was not even on the horizon."
In the years since Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but also as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world.
This is the fourth in the series of Christopher Nupen's profile films about Classical Legends. Further films in the series, which continues on Fridays on BBC Four, take an intimate look at the lives and careers of Evgeny Kissin, Nathan Milstein and Amman-born musician and protégé of Daniel Barenboim, Karim Said.
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Les
Paul
Friday 17 October
9.00-10.30pm BBC FOUR
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The legendary Les Paul – father of the solid-body electric guitar, inventor of overdubbing and multi-track recording, king of the Fifties pop charts and rock 'n' roll icon – tells his own classic rags-to-riches story in this performance documentary featuring a wall-to-wall soundtrack of greatest hits from How High The Moon to My Generation.
A 90th-birthday celebration at the Iridium Jazz Club and the many accolades that follow – induction into National Inventors Hall of Fame, double Grammys for his Les Paul & Friends duets album; School of Rock tribute at the Roseland Ballroom; lifetime achievement award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame – feature alongside Paul's lively recollections of a remarkable life.
A blend of interviews, vintage film and television clips, recordings, radio shows, photos and personal memorabilia also illustrate Paul's narrative and his accomplishments.
Musical performances in the film include not only Les Paul and his Trio but also the artists who most influenced him (Django Reinhardt, Bing Crosby, Earl Hines and Art Tatum) and those he most influenced (Buddy Holly, Jeff Beck, Richard Carpenter and Paul McCartney). Among the interviewees are BB King, Steve Miller, Jeff Beck, Bonnie Raitt, Ahmet Ertegun, Kay Starr, Jose Feliciano, Tony Bennett, Bucky Pizzarelli, Merle Haggard and Phil Ramone.
Les Paul has been "chasing the perfect sound" since his boyhood in Waukesha, when he punched new chords into his mother's piano roll and turned his bedsprings into a radio antenna which could pull in jazz broadcasts from Chicago. Paul is one of the self-educated, innovative generations of musicians and media pioneers who revolutionised popular music and reinvented the global culture.
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