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Gareth Malone's Extraordinary School For Boys Ep 1/3

Thursday 9 September

9.00-10.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

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Gareth Malone takes on one of his biggest challenges

In an ambitious new series, Gareth Malone turns educator for a term. His mission is to re-engage the boys who aren't fulfilling their potential at their school and who, like many across Britain, lag behind their female peers.

His method is to bring risk, competition and adventure to the classroom. Known for his previous successes as a choirmaster in The Choir and Gareth Goes To Glyndebourne, the move to a school classroom is a new challenge for him.

In tonight's first episode, Gareth joins the staff at a primary school in Essex, an ordinary school where there's a gap between the achievements of boys and girls.

Working with the boys in the top two years of the school, aged between nine and 11, Gareth discovers that they'd do anything rather than sit through a literacy lesson. His antidote is a fresh approach to learning, tailor-made for boys, which brings physical exercise, outdoor lessons and competition to the fore.

The new approach gets the boys excited about being in school, but can Gareth also get them to learn? His initial challenge is to try to improve their speaking skills, which he attempts to do by staging a boys-versus-girls debate.

A formal debate competition is unfamiliar territory for the boys. Now it's a question of whether they will rise to the challenge.

This series is part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's School Season – a range of programming, on air throughout September, encompassing documentary, drama and debate, with additional information at bbc.co.uk/schoolseason. This major season on education focuses on schools and the tough choices parents have to make.

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The Big School Lottery – The Choice Ep 1/3

Tuesday 7 September

9.00-10.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

Julie Newbold, Head of Admissions and Appeals at Birmingham Education Authority

This revelatory year-long journey follows children, parents, schools and Birmingham Education Authority through the often-fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school.

With unprecedented and exclusive access, the series follows Birmingham Education Authority – the largest in Europe – as it allocates school places, and several children and their parents as they go through the process and make the move from primary to secondary school.

This is an intimate and revealing account of modern Britain, bringing to the fore a better understanding of the complexity of administering a system that has to balance all the choices and find school places for 15,000 children this year.

In the White family, Thomas would like to attend a more ethnically mixed school so he doesn't stand out as much; Saffiyah Khan trains two hours each day to try to get into the best grammar school; Simone Vassel is desperate to avoid her son, Jamiah, attending a school where she fears there may be gangs; Ethan Clamp's mum, Alison, knows he would be certain to get into a school with great sport facilities if only he lived a couple of hundred metres closer to it; and Phoebe McHale lives in Sutton Coldfield and is spoiled for choice with her excellent-rated local state comprehensive schools.

Cameras follow their hopes and dreams as they confront the reality of choice in education and make their selections, listing six schools in order of preference, but knowing they may not get their first choice ... with a tense six-month wait to find out.

Julie Newbold is Head of Admissions and Appeals at Birmingham Education Authority. She has the job of managing all these choices and seeking out those who she thinks might not be playing by the rules.

It is a difficult job and, with fierce competition for Birmingham's best comprehensives, some parents will do anything to get their child in. Julie is dedicated to allocating places fairly, so can be found knocking on doors early in the morning to ensure parents are telling the truth about their address.

Part two can be seen tomorrow (Thursday 9 September) and the series concludes with a documentary special later in the month, filmed as term starts and using multiple cameras to follow the children's first day as they enter their big school for the first time.

This series is part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's School Season – a range of programming on air throughout September encompassing documentary, drama and debate. This major season on education focuses on Britain's schools, the tough choices parents have to make and whether people could do better. More information can be found on the dedicated website at bbc.co.uk/schoolseason.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Two continues to offer an insight into one of the most important and stressful decisions a family can make – which secondary school to send their child to. Following several children and their parents through the process, the series also has unprecedented access to the work of Birmingham Education Authority, the largest in Europe, as it allocates its school places.

Having made their preferred six choices of school, there is a six-month wait before parents and pupils discover their fate. Julie Newbold, Head of Admissions and Appeals at Birmingham Education Authority, handles all the school preferences via a computer algorithm which creates the results in just a few minutes – 90,000 preferences from 15,000 children are entered and one school for each child is offered.

On national offers day cameras capture the families' reactions as they discover the verdict.

Sports-mad Ethan, who lives only streets away from his dream comprehensive, is stunned to be given his fourth choice. After an agonising wait for their daughter to finish her school day till they can open the letter, Saffiyah's parents finally discover that their year of hard work giving extra tuition has been worth it as she gains a place at the grammar school they wanted.

Thomas is elated to learn he's got into a comprehensive that is more ethnically mixed so he'll no longer stand out. The film also introduces Miles, who is thrilled to learn he's got his first choice where he can pursue his love of art and drama.

Harry is undecided even though he's made it into the best grammar school in Birmingham. And Mohsin and his family, who would have done anything to get him into Harry's school, are disappointed he's only got his fourth choice.

Jamiah's mum, Simone, is crushed when she finds out he has been given the school at the top of his selection – having changed her mind at the last minute, she now wants his second choice. And Phoebe gets her first choice and her dream of walking to school is now a reality.

For Julie and her team, the weeks that follow offers day are spent fielding thousands of calls from parents unhappy with their allocation, with an expected 700 appeals to be heard through the summer.

The series concludes with a documentary special later in the month, filmed as term starts and using multiple cameras to follow the children's first day as they enter their big school for the first time.

This series is part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's School Season – a range of programming on air throughout September encompassing documentary, drama and debate. This major season on education focuses on Britain's schools, the tough choices parents have to make and whether people could do better. More information can be found on the dedicated website at bbc.co.uk/schoolseason.

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Him And Her – The Toast Ep 1/6

Monday 6 September

10.30-11.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ THREE

Sarah Solemani and Russell Tovey star in Him And Her, a new comedy for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three

Stefan Golaszewski's new six-part comedy for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three reveals the hilarious and often shocking truth of what really goes on behind the bedroom doors of today's 20-somethings.

Russell Tovey plays Steve, a laddish, unemployed man with no dreams or goals, who survives on benefits; he has no apparent interest in any issues wider than eating, sleeping, drinking and having sex. Sarah Solemani plays Becky, his unemployed ladette girlfriend, who is able to see straight through Steve, though sometimes completely unable to understand the weird self-obsession of men.

In the first episode, Steve and Becky are doing their usual thing – staying in bed and just about to have sex.

Their plans are scuppered, however, when Laura turns up panicking because her fiancé, Paul, has stayed out all night. Steve just wants Laura to leave but has to cover for Paul ... and neighbour Dan wants to get melons and eat them with spoons.

This acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all comedy looks at a working-class couple in their mid-twenties and the minutiae of their relationship. The hub of Him And Her is the couple's unmade bed and their rather-too-lived-in bedsit.

Russell Tovey plays Steve, Sarah Solemani plays Becky, Kerry Howard plays Laura, Ricky Champ plays Paul and Joe Wilkinson plays Dan.

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Casualty – Entry Wounds

Saturday 4 September

8.45-10.15pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE

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Michelle Collins stars as a distraught mother as a new series of Casualty begins

Michelle Collins guest stars as the distraught mother of Simone, a young victim of a college shooting incident, in this feature-length first episode of the new series of the long-running medical drama.

Holby City's laid-back staff nurse Donna is catapulted into the Emergency Department (ED) to help out during the traumatic events, while new nurse Mads joins the team as its latest regular. It's her first job since leaving Pakistan and Mads tries her best to understand instructions but struggles with the stronger regional accents, causing serious problems later on.

Jeff and Dixie treat Maria, who has an injury to her arm. Jeff and Maria flirt and arrange to meet later at Holby College where she works. Dixie pales as she realises what's happened – it's not a serious wound, but Maria has been shot.

A jogger is also brought into the ED. It soon becomes clear that both the jogger and Maria have been shot with ball bearings fired from an air rifle. The staff begin to worry – could the shootings be linked? Noel is further concerned when he finds sinister footage on the internet suggesting worse is to come...

The incident comes to a head at Holby College, bringing terror right into the heart of the fully stretched ED. Seen through the eyes of the team in the emergency department and the victims' traumatised families, the incident tests the team's courage, expertise and, ultimately, the strength of their bonds with each other.

Camille is played by Michelle Collins, Simone by Jayne Wisener, Donna by Jaye Jacobs, Mads by Hasina Haque, Jeff by Matt Bardock, Dixie by Jane Hazlegrove, Maria by Bea Segura, Tess by Suzanne Packer and Noel by Tony Marshall.

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Rigoletto In Mantua

Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 September

7.20-8.35pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

Following his critically acclaimed sell-out run at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House as Verdi's eponymous Simon Boccanegra, Plácido Domingo tackles his next major baritone role in a ground-breaking live film of Verdi's Rigoletto, titled Rigoletto In Mantua, on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.

First performed in 1851 at La Fenice in Venice, Rigoletto is set in Mantua and Oscar winning-director Andrea Andermann now takes the action to the heart of its fictional setting in a pioneering and innovative television event. ´óÏó´«Ã½ presenter Katie Derham introduces the opera as it is performed live from locations across the city, with Domingo in the role of the hunchback court jester, Rigoletto, in Verdi's tragic masterpiece.

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Suzy Klein introduces the second of two ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Tonight they play music from the heart of the Austro-German repertoire around the turn of the 20th century.

They start with the prelude to Wagner's last opera, Parsifal, before they're joined by Finnish soprano Karita Mattila for Richard Strauss's swansong – his Four Last Songs – composed in the Forties but full of nostalgia for the first Romantic age.

After the interval the audience is plunged into the avant-garde maelstrom of early 20th-century Vienna, as Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, Alban Berg and Anton Webern, take their cue from the innovations of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler to split traditional tonality at the seams.

This prom is repeated on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 on Friday 10 September at 2.20pm.

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MotoGP – Misano

Sunday 5 September

12.35-2.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE

Jennie Gow presents live coverage of the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano, round 12 of 18 in this year's MotoGP calendar.

The Misano circuit is Valentino Rossi's local track and the charismatic Italian is bound to have the overwhelming support of the home crowd. Rossi has won this race for the last two years and a hat-trick would help to alleviate the disappointment of a season wrecked by a broken leg in June.

Commentary comes from Charlie Cox, Steve Parrish and Matt Roberts.

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Burghley Horse Trials

Sunday 5 September

2.05-4.05pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

Clare Balding presents coverage of the Burghley Horse Trials, including highlights of yesterday's cross country and live action from today's show jumping.

Burghley is one of the equestrian world's most prestigious events and was the scene of a famous double last year when Oliver Townend added the title to the Badminton crown he had won the previous May.

Townend competes again this year, as does Australian Paul Tapner, who succeeded him as champion at Badminton. Commentary comes from Michael Tucker and Ian Stark.

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Shirley Robertson introduces highlights from the Laser World Championship at Hayling Island, where Britain's Paul Goodison looks to add the world title to the Olympic gold medal he won in Beijing in 2008.

There is also a report from San Francisco, where Giles Scott is bidding to win the Finn Worlds and compete with triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie for the single place in Great Britain's team for 2012. Plus, there is news from Denmark, where Olympic bronze medallist Bryony Shaw competes in the RS:X Windsurfing World Championship.

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Blue Peter, presented by Joel Defries, Helen Skelton and Andy Akinwolere, moves to Mondays

Blue Peter moves to a new day and now starts the week on a Monday. Kicking off the first episode in the new slot, Steve Backshall joins the team in the studio to discuss his new series, Live 'n' Deadly, and shows off some of the UK's deadliest animals in the studio.

The programme revs into gear to catch up with more of the team's Italian antics as they visit the Vespa factory near Pisa in Tuscany to build a completely unique one-off Blue Peter scooter. Plus Joel Defries gets a UK exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the new Toy Story Playland at Disneyland Paris.

Viewers will get a "pizza Italian action" in Tuesday's show when it follows the team on their trip to Naples to make the ultimate pizza and deliver it on a zipwire for "Blue Pizza".

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As the week starts in Albert Square, Peggy resumes ownership of the Vic while Phil continues to sink into oblivion.

There's more drama as fists and fireworks fly at Janine's hen do when Bianca and Ronnie go head to head. Meanwhile, Dot is horrified by Stacey's confession.

Peggy is played by Barbara Windsor, Phil by Steve McFadden, Janine by Charlie Brooks, Bianca by Patsy Palmer, Ronnie by Samantha Womack, Dot by June Brown and Stacey by Lacey Turner.

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To mark Rosh Hashanah, Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks interviews four distinguished and engaging atheists in The Case For God?.

By having his own faith challenged by some of today's finest atheist minds, Lord Sacks attempts to get closer to what faith means. He interviews writer Howard Jacobson, who feels that religion is too bogged down by rules and regulations, while philosopher Alain de Botton does not believe any one religion can be the "true faith". Scientist Colin Blakemore insists that science makes religion redundant, and professor Lisa Jardine maintains that human suffering undermines faith in God.

Will the Chief Rabbi find areas of common ground with these atheists and their issues with faith, and will it make him rethink his own beliefs?

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The competition hots up as Sandi Toksvig and Eric Knowles continue to pit the country's leading amateur antiques enthusiasts against each other as they battle through a series of challenges in a bid to be crowned the first Antiques Master.

Four contestants are through to the first of two semi-finals. Paul from Bedfordshire, Ed from London, Alf from Cheshire and Judith from Wiltshire step up to compete in four challenging rounds as they battle it out to prove that they have the knowledge to beat their opponents.

Among the artefacts featured on tonight's show are an angel shell cameo and an antique dog wheel that led to the saying "dog tired". Contestants will have to use all their experience and in-depth knowledge to secure a place in the final.

The show climaxes in a head-to-head, quick-fire question round to decide which contestant will go through to the final and ultimately conclude the search for Britain's best antiques enthusiast to take the title of Antiques Master.

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Ruairi, May, Billy and Dara discover the joys of the great outdoors one last time

May the friendly park keeper, Ruairi the mischievous caretaker, Dara the streetwise fox and Billy the excitable Badger help young children discover the joy of the great outdoors for the final time this series, as Big City Park concludes.

Filmed on location in Belfast's beautiful and bustling Ormeau Park, Big City Park is about the adventure of finding nature's hidden treasures. In each episode, a group of enthusiastic explorers is welcomed to the park to let their imaginations run wild as they explore their surroundings, gathering the park's natural bounty for Ruairi's treasure chest.

In this final episode a special friend comes to visit Big City Park. It's Joe the previous park keeper and he wants to know all about what's been done since he left. May thinks back and tells him about all the great fun she and her friends have had over this series – learning about nature, making leaf boats and playing tricks on each other – as they explored the park and its wonderful treasures.

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It's Janine (Charlie Brooks) and Ryan’s (Neil McDermott) big day

It's Janine and Ryan's big day in tonight's visit to Walford, but will it go without a hitch?

Meanwhile, Peggy ignores a captive Phil's pleas as she prepares for the Vic party, and a guilty Billy makes a decision that he may live to regret.

Janine is played by Charlie Brooks, Ryan by Neil McDermott, Peggy by Barbara Windsor, Phil by Steve McFadden and Billy by Perry Fenwick.

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Penny riles Frieda by sucking up to an obviously lazy and arrogant locum, Glynn, who's working on AAU, as the medical drama continues. When Penny and Frieda argue over a patient's treatment, Penny sidelines her and makes her feel small. Later, Penny notices Frieda performing a procedure that only a doctor could do and realises that Frieda is a trained doctor.

Lady Byrne turns up to offer moral support to Joseph – Faye is due to receive the Lowes test results. The results are negative. Lady Byrne reveals she's been making plans for the baby but Faye tells her and Joseph that she wants nothing from either of them.

Penny is played by Emma Catherwood, Frieda by Olga Fedori, Lady Byrne by Jane Asher, Joseph by Luke Roberts and Faye by Patsy Kensit.

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My Story

Tuesday 7 September

10.35-11.05pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE

Last year the ´óÏó´«Ã½ launched My Story, a search to find the most remarkable true life stories in Britain. From accounts of love and loss to tales of survival, triumph and tragedy, My Story uncovers some of Britain's most compelling narratives and discusses what makes a "good story". Altogether more than 7,500 people sent in their stories and in the first of five programmes, Maureen Lipman meets three of the 15 finalists, one of whom will win the chance to see their story become a free download from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ website and a published book.

Tonight's opening three stories are based around the theme of "family"; including an astonishing tale of coincidence when a woman's past catches up with her in a most unlikely way. This is followed by the story of a wife's perfect middle-class family life which fell apart after her husband planned a shocking surprise. Finally, the programme hears from a mother whose 10-year-old son was abducted and taken abroad.

Stranger than fiction, these are all truly extraordinary stories selected by a panel of literary judges, with the winner revealed at the end of the programme. The panel includes chair Kate Mosse, author and co-founder of a major annual literature prize, award-winning writer and broadcaster Fergal Keane and novelist Jenny Colgan.

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Mercury Music Prize

Tuesday 7 September

10.00-10.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO
11.20pm-12.25am ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO (Schedule addition 26 August)

Lauren Laverne presents coverage of the Mercury Prize Awards show, hosted by Jools Holland from London's Grosvenor House Hotel. The live programme from 10pm features clips of all 12 of the nominated acts performing and the announcement of this year's winner.

The shortlist for 2010 is: Biffy Clyro, Dizzee Rascal, I Am Kloot, Paul Weller, Corinne Bailey Rae, The XX, Villagers, Kit Downes Trio, Foals, Laura Marling, Wild Beasts and Mumford And Sons.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Two then returns to the awards at 11.20pm to provide extended coverage, including performances, interviews and highlights from the esteemed event.

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Waterloo Road Ep 3/20

Wednesday 8 September

8.00-9.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE and ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD

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Lauren (Darcy Isa) kisses Josh

Waterloo Road is running a new sexual health initiative which includes a confidential emergency contraception service, as the drama set in a Rochdale comprehensive school continues. This causes consternation among parents and staff alike. Ronan and his girlfriend, Sarah, are concerned; their condom broke during sex, but while Ronan wants Sarah to take the morning-after pill, she's too mortified to go to the nurse.

Jess also has cause for concern: her promiscuous behaviour has resulted in her needing the morning-after pill – again. Unable to go to the nurse herself, Jess persuades Vicki to get the pill for her. Vicki reluctantly agrees, but fails when the nurse realises she's not there for herself. The two girls get into a huge fight which results in Vicki revealing Jess's promiscuity in front of Chris. Chris is concerned for Jess's welfare but she misinterprets this as a sign that he still cares for her.

It looks like Josh and Lauren are going to become an item but Josh is looking at someone completely different when the pair finally kiss. Elsewhere, Karen and Charlie acknowledge his affair, although he decides he wants to give their marriage a go if Karen is willing. And Janeece admits to Tom that she doesn't want her baby.

Ronan is played by Ben Ryan Davies, Sarah by Jodie Comer, Jess by Linzey Cocker, Vicki by Rebecca Ryan, Chris by William Ash, Josh by Will Rush, Lauren by Darcy Isa, Karen by Amanda Burton, Charlie by Ian Puleston- Davies, Janeece by Chelsee Healey and Tom by Jason Done.

Waterloo Road is simulcast on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD channel – the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s High Definition channel, available through Freesat 108, Freeview 50, Sky 143 and Virgin 108.

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Richard Hammond grabs gravity as the theme in this week's edition of the science-based game show, beamed to the nation from his secret underground laboratory.

First up, the two intrepid teams – the Wild Rangers and SSB – face a game of nerve when they test the incredible strength of paper. A twisted piece of paper is hung in a U-shape from a frame and each team has to hang a variety of household objects from the paper. The team that ends up ripping the paper loses the game.

Meanwhile, Richard asks his Lab Rats to test Galileo's Acceleration Theory, which states that, due to gravity, two objects of different weight will fall at the same speed. But, being Blast Lab, the experiment is a bit different to the kind that your average scientist would conduct. So a big cheese and a little cheese; a big ball and a little ball; a big household appliance and a little household appliance; and a caravan and a carrot can are dropped from a 30-metre high crane.

The show reaches its gunge-fuelled finale with the Messy Messy Mess Test: Bridge Of Destiny. The winning team get to keep their well-earned prizes and the losing team have the pleasure of blowing theirs to smithereens.

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Peggy and Phil have an emotional showdown in the latest drama from Albert Square. Meanwhile, Ronnie harbours a secret from her family.

Peggy is played by Barbara Windsor, Phil by Steve McFadden and Ronnie by Samantha Womack.

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As part of the pan-´óÏó´«Ã½ season The Spending Review – Making It Clear, ´óÏó´«Ã½ One broadcasts 12 major regional television debates across England. The audience includes politicians, public sector workers, business leaders and members of the public.

The debates aim to help people understand the likely impact of the spending review in their regions, and to explore the decisions that local councils will be faced with and how those decisions might impact on jobs, services and local businesses. They use as a starting point the results of a ´óÏó´«Ã½-commissioned survey which brings together, for the first time, a range of different factors that determine how vulnerable an area is to economic shocks such as public sector cuts.

The London Debate is presented by Jeremy Vine.

The North West Tonight Debate is presented by Ranvir Singh and Inside Out's Andy Johnson. Guests include Andy Burnham MP, Andrew Stunnell MP and television producer and screenwriter Phil Redmond.

In the West Midlands, The Midlands Today Debate is presented from West Bromwich by Patrick Burns and Nick Owen. Guests include pottery designer Emma Bridgewater and Lorely Burt MP.

The Spotlight Debate in the South West is held in Plymouth and presented by Justin Leigh. Guests include Gary Streeter MP, Alison Seabeck MP and Stephen Gilbert MP.

The South East Today Debate is presented by Natalie Graham, with guests including former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie, and John Bird, founder of The Big Issue.

For the West, The Points West Debate is presented by David Garmston and guests include Margaret Heffernan, one of Channel 4's Secret Millionaires.

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Recorded live at the Festival Theatre during the world-famous Edinburgh Festival, tonight's show is hosted by the fantastic Shappi Khorsandi.

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Petroc Trelawny introduces the first of two concerts paying tribute to Proms founder, conductor Sir Henry Wood. Paul Daniel joins the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra in a recreation of Sir Henry's mammoth Last Night Of The Proms from 1910 at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The concert opens with Wagner's overture to his opera The Flying Dutchman and goes on to include a range of music, including Dvořák's Humoresque in G flat major, orchestrated by Wood; excerpts from Bizet's L'Arlésienne suites; and Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4.

A short cello piece from the 1910 concert has been substituted by a ´óÏó´«Ã½ commission, continuing Wood's commitment to new works. David Matthews's Dark Pastoral is based on a small fragment of a Cello Concerto by Vaughan Williams.

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The Mitchells are left devastated by last night's shocking events in tonight's visit to the Square. Will they ever recover from the tragedy?

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New Tricks – Dead Man Talking Ep 1/10

Friday 10 September

9.00-10.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE (Schedule addition 25 August)

Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam and Dennis Waterman return in New Tricks, the drama following a team of ex-policeman brought out of retirement to investigate unsolved cases from the past.

When psychic Sebastian Carter reveals to his client, Vicky Anderson, that there is some unfinished business surrounding her father's death, the Unsolved Crime And Open Case Squad (UCOS) reluctantly reopens the investigation.

Douglas Anderson, a wealthy financier based in Hong Kong before retiring back in the UK, died of a heart attack after disturbing an intruder and an ensuing struggle at his home two years ago. On the surface, Anderson appears to have been a well-respected and honourable man who even took in his friend, John Plummer's, daughter Penny when Plummer was imprisoned for a multi-million-pound fraud in Hong Kong.

Deeply sceptical of Carter's "gift", Pullman attends a consultation with Vicky. Far from walking away believing Carter is a con man, Pullman is spooked when he challenges her about a conflict in her own personal life involving her newly discovered brother, Tom. The boys are less convinced by Carter's credentials and are keen to prove that his knowledge of unreleased details surrounding Anderson's death is less to do with his ability to connect with the spirit world and more likely down to cold guess-work.

With doubt being cast over the conclusion of the original investigation that the burglary at Anderson's home was random, the team digs deeper into his business affairs. They discover he and his family left Hong Kong under a cloud with unproven allegations linking him to the fraud for which Plummer was incarcerated. The millions were never recovered and, when Plummer died in prison, Anderson became Penny's legal guardian. With a second burglary attempt on the Anderson house, the team think they've found a motive but they're still missing a suspect and, indeed, the money. Could Plummer have confided in his estranged daughter, Penny, or his cellmate, Simon Beswick, before his death?

Amanda Redman is Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, Alun Armstrong is Brian Lane, James Bolam is Jack Halford, Dennis Waterman is Gerry Standing, Paul Rhys is Sebastian Carter, Alice Patten is Vicky Anderson, Elizabeth Tan is Penny Anderson and David Bradley is Simon Beswick.

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Dr Alice Roberts examines some bones from the Mary Rose

Dr Alice Roberts follows the remarkable historical excavations that reveal the Tudor history of Britain and is on the trail of the UK's most famous, and enigmatic, playwright – Shakespeare – as the series concludes.

In Shoreditch, London, Alice explores the remains of the first theatre that Shakespeare would have acted in, and the first theatre to stage a performance of Romeo And Juliet. But, after a dispute with the landlord who owned the land the theatre was built on, Shakespeare and his pals dismantled the timber structure and headed across the river to Bankside, where they relocated the theatre – which then became known as The Globe. The Museum of London Archaeology Service has just a short window of time to excavate the site before the developers move in.

Alice also travels to Stratford-upon-Avon, where a team from Birmingham University is digging the site of Shakespeare's last home, New Place, in the hope of finding new evidence of the Bard's life by sifting through his rubbish.

Also in the programme, Alice visits the Mary Rose to find out how research is progressing on Britain's largest and most famous Tudor shipwreck. Alice examines the bones of the men who drowned in the wreck and brings a fresh diagnosis to one of the archers who perished. Alice also travels to Strata Florida in Wales to follow this year's excavation at the huge vanished monastery which unlocks the story of the Dissolution, the power struggle between Henry VIII and the Catholic Church which reshaped our land.

Digging For Britain is simulcast on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD channel – the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s High Definition channel, available through Freesat 108, Freeview 50, Sky 143 and Virgin 108.

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Roger And Val Have Just Got In Ep 6/6

Friday 10 September

10.00-10.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO and ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD

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Val is curious to find out how Roger's work tribunal has gone but, following recent events, relations between the two of them are less then easy, as the bittersweet comedy starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina concludes.

Val unwittingly reveals that she's off to a work event which a former colleague is due to be attending – enough to set Roger off, despite her not having seen this colleague since he left for a sojourn in New Zealand. So, in true Roger fashion, he reviews all things NZ and finds them wanting ... dating back to Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing. But more to the point, will Roger and Val be able to surmount their own particular Everest?

Roger And Val Have Just Got In is simulcast on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD channel – the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s High Definition channel, available through Freesat 108, Freeview 50, Sky 143 and Virgin 108.

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As part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's Schools Season this autumn, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films showcases Alan Bennett's critically acclaimed The History Boys starring Dominic Cooper, James Corden and Richard Griffiths, and Richard Eyre's Notes On A Scandal starring Cate Blanchett and Dame Judi Dench.

The History Boys, starring Dominic Cooper, James Corden and Richard Griffiths, tells the story of a group of bright, funny history students in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English teacher (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd professor hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly outnumbered history teacher (Frances De La Tour), and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads.

Based on Zoë Heller's award-winning novel, Notes On A Scandal (to be shown later in the month), is a story of loneliness, loyalty, envy and love. When Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) joins St George's as the new art teacher, Barbara Covett (Dame Judi Dench) senses a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to her. Sheba begins an illicit affair and Barbara becomes the keeper of her secret.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's Schools Season brings together a major season on education, focusing on our schools, the tough choices parents have to make and how we could all do better. Other programmes include a range of documentaries, a drama and further support online.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Films co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Earlier this year, as part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Strategy Review, it was announced that ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two would become the principal home for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Films. This is part of a drive to bring more quality drama to the channel.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ PROMS 2010
Prom 75 Monteverdi's Vespers

Friday 10 September

7.30-9.25pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ FOUR

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Charles Hazlewood presents tonight's Prom live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Monteverdi's Vespers.

Published 400 years ago in 1610, Monteverdi's choral masterpiece is a summation of the different styles of Venetian church music of the 1600s. Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir return to the music with which they made their Proms debut in 1968, now joined by the expert period-instrumentalists of the English Baroque Soloists.

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Sam And Mark's TMi Friday Ep 1/15

Friday 10 September

5.30-6.30pm C´óÏó´«Ã½

Sam and Mark present TMi Friday

Popular presenting pair Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes return with their weekly magazine show in a new day and time slot. TMi now marks the official start of the weekend on C´óÏó´«Ã½.

Viewers can tune in for a weekly dose of unmissable TV, packed full of celebrity guests, games, music, sketches and surprises.

The non-stop hour of entertainment includes: Ultimate Gameshow, where, each week, a different team of kids join forces with celebrity guests as they attempt to climb to the top of the TMi Friday leader board and be crowned the "mightiest TMi-ers in the land"; and a weekly football challenge that tests the football skills of Sam and Mark and their celebrity studio guests.

Meanwhile, Mark is busy plucking up courage for the return of "Are you scareder than a 10-year-old?" – which, this series, has been ramped up a gear to become: "Are you scareder than a 10-year-old extreme?" Last year, Mark went head to head with TMi viewers to determine who was braver. His challenges featured lizards, hawks, crocodiles and snapping turtles but they were small fry compared to what he'll be up against this time.

Helping to make dreams come true, Sam and Mark weave their magic to create more fantastic surprises for unsuspecting viewers, providing them with once-in-a-lifetime experiences, including red-carpet access to exclusive film premières, celebrity makeovers and the chance to interview their favourite stars.

The music-orientated show features all the latest videos, live performances and celebrity interviews.

Fully interactive, the show enables viewers to watch, comment and upload content during the show via the new website.

Finally, the series is set to première the return of C´óÏó´«Ã½'s comedy sketch show, Hedz.

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