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Manish Bhasin hosts the weekly football show that previews the upcoming games and looks back at the key
events from the last seven days.
Manish and his studio guests review the midweek Barclays Premier League fixtures and assess their effect on
the table. They also discuss today's matches, which include Hull City visiting champions Manchester United. The
Tigers have so far exceeded all expectations in their first season in the Premier League and their away
form has been outstanding, but a trip to Old Trafford will be arguably their most daunting task to date.
Fellow promoted side Stoke also face a tricky assignment, playing host to Arsenal at the Britannia Stadium.
Chelsea entertain Sunderland, while Liverpool travel to struggling Tottenham.
In the Coca-Cola Championship, Wolverhampton will be looking to continue their good start to the season at
FA Cup runners-up Cardiff, while the pick of the weekend fixtures in Scotland comes on Sunday when Celtic
face Hearts.
There is also a look ahead to next week's European fixtures, which include Manchester United's visit to
Celtic.
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John Inverdale introduces live coverage from one of the weekend's crucial EDF Energy (Anglo-Welsh) Cup matches.
It's the last round of the pool stages, which will confirm the line-up for March's semi-finals at the Ricoh
Arena in Coventry. At this stage last year, Leicester, Wasps and Ospreys all progressed to the last four of
the Anglo-Welsh competition, as did Saracens, who scraped through thanks to the bonus points earned in a
thrilling final group game against the Scarlets.
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Ray Stubbs introduces results and reports from today's football fixtures.
A studio panel of guests give their take on the afternoon's events and there is also reaction from managers
and players who featured in the top games. Today's Premier League matches include Manchester United v Hull
and Stoke v Arsenal.
Digital viewers can watch Final Score from 2.30-6pm by pressing the Red button.
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It’s the mid-way point of this series and only 10 couples remain to contest the title of Strictly Come Dancing champions.
Live from BBC Television Centre, the celebrity couples perform in front of the studio audience to win the judges’ approval. Bruno Tonioli, Arlene Philips, Craig Revel Horwood and head judge Len Goodman score the couples before the public make their decision and vote.
Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly present the extravaganza and, once again, the lowest scoring contestants will return to dance for their place in the competition in Sunday’s results show.
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When Arthur becomes besotted with a mysterious girl, he stands to lose more than just his heart, as the
magical family drama continues.
Morgana has a terrible nightmare showing Arthur's death at the hands of a strange but beautiful girl. She
does not fully understand what it is about, but the intensity of the dream scares her.
While hunting in the forest, Merlin and Arthur come across a girl, Sophia, and her father, Aulfric, under
attack from bandits. The prince wades in and, with a little covert magical help from Merlin, successfully
sees off the vagabonds. Seeing the rescued couple are shaken, Arthur offers them refuge in Camelot.
It becomes apparent that Arthur is quite taken with the beautiful Sophia, but when Morgana sees her she is
far from happy – this is the girl from her nightmare; Arthur must not trust her. Morgana tells Gaius
of her dream and, wary, he sneaks into the guest chambers where he finds Aulfric's staff, which has ancient
scripture carved into it. Before he can investigate further, Aulfric returns. Gaius makes his excuses to an
angry Aulfric and leaves, but not before he notices a red flicker in the stranger's eyes...
Convinced that the guests are up to no good, Gaius confides his suspicions in Merlin. The young warlock
follows Aulfric to a lake where their concerns are verified: Merlin's powers allow him to see a gathering
of magical people hovering over the water. Aulfric converses with them, begging passage back to Avalon, the
land of eternal life, from which he and his daughter have been banished. The elders refuse – Aulfric
can never return. His daughter's passage may only be bought with the life of a mortal prince – so
Aulfric promises to bring Arthur as payment.
A stunned Merlin rushes back to Camelot to tell Gaius what he saw. The pair work out that Sophia and
Aulfric must be Sidhe, a magical people with the gift of enchantment. Merlin knows he must warn Arthur. But
it might be too late...
Bradley James plays Arthur, Katie McGrath plays Morgana, Colin Morgan plays Merlin, Holliday Grainger plays
Sophia, Kenneth Cranham plays Aulfric and Richard Wilson plays Gaius.
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Dixie comes face to face with the Malone family, only to find their seriously ill sister suffering from a
morphine overdose inflicted by the brothers, as the medical drama continues.
Meanwhile, a father in the final stages of cancer has a chance to make peace with his son and meet his
grandson, but his desire for revenge brings chaos into ED (Emergency Department).
Elsewhere, a young fire-fighter struggles to live up to the idea of being a hero and nearly takes his life,
and Jordan takes a risk with Ruth in ED, allowing her to undertake a big procedure. Tess is not happy.
Dixie is played by Jane Hazlegrove, Jordan by Michael French, Ruth by Georgia Taylor and Tess by Suzanne
Packer.
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Gary Lineker presents highlights from all today's Premier League games.
Hull paid their first top-flight visit to Old Trafford, home of champions Manchester United. The Tigers
have never won in the league at the "Theatre of Dreams", although they did enjoy an FA Cup win
there back in 1952. Fellow promoted side Stoke also had a tough fixture today – a trip to the
Emirates to face Arsenal. Hull became only the second side to win at Arsenal's new home earlier this season
– could Stoke cause what would arguably be an even bigger upset?
Everton's early season form at Goodison Park has been poor, but Toffees fans would have been hopeful of
getting something out of Fulham's visit today. The Cottagers have never won a league match at Everton and the
Blues have won the last 15 times they have hosted Fulham in the league.
Robbie Keane scored twice for Tottenham against Liverpool last season, but returned to White Hart Lane today
on the opposite team. Across London at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea were looking for their eighth consecutive
win against Sunderland. Middlesbrough hosted West Ham, Wigan travelled to Portsmouth and West Brom and
Blackburn met at the Hawthorns.
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BBC SWITCH ON BBC TWO
Mission Beach USA Ep 2/8
Saturday 1 November
12.30-1.05pm BBC TWO
www.bbc.co.uk/switch
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It's crunch time for the eight British teenagers on
San Diego's Junior Lifeguard programme It's crunch time for the eight British teenagers having the experience of a lifetime in San Diego's Junior
Lifeguard programme, as Mission Beach USA, shown as part of BBC Switch, continues.The teens find out which group they'll be in for the rest of the summer, and while two of
the eight are confident they'll get into the elite Cadet group, there's a surprise in store and
disappointment for at least one who didn't make the grade. They all soon realise that the intermediate A1
group have a much easier time than the elite Cadets; this isn't lost on one budding lifeguard, who manages
to wriggle out of training for the day.
Joe hits a high point as he seems to have two love interests – Californian girl Lexie and
Portsmouth lass Georgie – and a low point with a very painful injury ... but is it as
painful as he's making it out to be?
The eight have their first taste of California nightlife at a beach bonfire, where they get to know some of their San
Diego neighbours and experience their first SoCal party. Struck by Emma's lack of sea knowledge and
constant questioning, Jack and Tommy tease her during training. The teens finish off their first week with
a barbecue at the family home of their new Californian friend, Andee.
San Diego's junior lifeguard programme is world-famous and this year the lifeguards have opened
up a space for eight UK teenagers, many of whom will have their first experience of living away from home.
This is the ultimate "work hard, play hard" environment, where the dream of the Californian
lifestyle meets tough discipline.
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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
Timewatch – The Last Day Of World War One
Saturday 1 November
8.15-9.15pm BBC TWO
www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance
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Michael Palin at Compiegne,
where the Armistice was
signed in 1918 Michael Palin tells the explosive story of the final day of the First World War – the conflict in
which nine million soldiers died – with the help of newly discovered photographs; original research
never before seen on television; contemporary film archive and newspapers; and state-of-the-art graphics.
Travelling to the battlefields of northern Europe to see the places where Allied troops were fighting as
the First World War came to an end at 11am on 11 November 1918, Michael counts down the final hours of war, questioning the
thousands of casualties that occurred in the hours after the Armistice had been signed.
Michael discovers the terrible truth that, in those final hours, the killing continued, with one historian
estimating that more than 11,000 soldiers were killed or wounded on the final day of the war – a higher
figure than on D-Day.
Michael's journey takes him to Verdun, where American troops were going into action throughout the morning
of 11 November. In the battlefields of the Argonne, he finds the soil still full of guns, bullets and
personal artefacts of the fallen Americans. He then travels north to the banks of the Sambre Canal where
2,000 British soldiers – including war poet Wilfred Owen – lost their lives that same morning.
Next he moves on to Mons, where the war finally ended for the British and Canadian armies.
The film ends in June 1940 when Hitler chose the Armistice Carriage at Compiegne to accept the surrender of
the French. Michael tells how Hitler recorded the scene on newsreel while military bands were present in a
great symbolic gesture that, to the Nazis, seemed to erase the humiliation of the last days of the Great
War.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
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