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Nessa (Ruth Jones), Stacey
(Joanna Page), Gavin (Mathew
Horne) and Smithy (James
Corden) are reunited Critically acclaimed across the board and recipient of three British Comedy Awards and The South Bank Show Award for Comedy, the hugely successful Gavin & Stacey, written by James Corden and Ruth Jones, comes to BBC One, following its BBC Three airing earlier in the year.
In the first episode of the second series, newlyweds Gavin and Stacey return from honeymoon to a big welcome from both families. But Smithy seems none too happy with his best mate and Nessa has a confession to make that throws the whole evening into disarray.
Stacey is played by Joanna Page, Gavin by Mathew Horne, Smithy by James Corden and Nessa by Ruth Jones. Alison Steadman, Rob Brydon, Larry Lamb and Melanie Walters also star.
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The Fallen
Saturday 15 November
9.05pm-12.05am BBC TWO
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Siblings Nathan, Jodie and Katie
(Name of deceased: Guardsman Neil
Tony Downes) British troops have now been in Afghanistan for over seven years and in Iraq for over five. The Fallen is a powerful and poignant film in which families and friends of those who have died talk openly about their feelings, their loved ones and their grief. Epic in scale and spanning seven years of war, this landmark film gives a rare insight into the personal impact and legacy of this loss.
Alongside intimate testimonies from families who have lost loved ones, The Fallen names every single serviceman and woman who has died while serving with the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Behind each of these names there are family members who have suffered and will continue to do so – through telling the stories of a significant number, The Fallen highlights the immense sacrifice made by these servicemen, women and their families.
Made by acclaimed film-maker Morgan Matthews, The Fallen goes across Britain and into the homes of those who have lost loved ones: the little girl who sings the special song she has written to her daddy; the grandparents who show the video diaries filmed by their grandson out in Iraq; the mother who shows the outfit her son was famous for dressing up in to go "out on the pull"; the sister who goes to the grave to talk to her brother up in Heaven; and the fiancée whose partner had asked her to marry him shortly before he was killed. The Fallen also uses cherished personal home movie footage featuring those who have died, as well as archive footage, leaving a lasting impression of their lives both inside and out of the Armed Forces.
Broadcast on BBC Two shortly after Remembrance Day, The Fallen is a stark reminder of the human cost of conflict.
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Tooni Mahto, Philippe Cousteau, Paul
Rose and Lucy Blue travel to the
notoriously hostile Southern Ocean Explorer Paul Rose, together with environmentalist Philippe Cousteau Jr, maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue and marine biologist and oceanographer Tooni Mahto, travel to the notoriously hostile Southern Ocean, as the series that uncovers the secrets of the deep continues.
Since explorers first began venturing south, it has been clear that the Southern Ocean is a unique – and harsh – environment. Storm-force westerly winds, huge seas and mountainous icebergs are characteristics of this vast area.
Often described as the lung of the planet, the Southern Ocean plays a vital role in regulating levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. But parts of it are warming twice as fast as the rest of the world's oceans. The Oceans expedition travels here to discover the impact this is having.
The team bases itself in Tasmania, a remote island separated from mainland Australia by one of the roughest bodies of water in the world. Here, they explore the iconic kelp forests off the eastern coast of Tasmania to discover how this unique ecosystem is being affected, not only by the rise in sea temperatures, but also by the influx of a new predator.
They go in search of one of the planet's most curious and enigmatic creatures found only in the Southern Ocean – the weedy sea dragon – and discover the threat to its habitat.
The group sees one of the thousand shipwrecks in the waters and risk high winds and currents to explore the tannin-stained waters of the Sunken Valley. They search for mysterious deep ocean creatures that normally live at inaccessible depths, hundreds of metres below the surface.
Finally, they risk diving in remote sea caves to hunt for evidence of ancient sea creatures that can reveal how our oceans have been shaped and formed over millions of years.
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