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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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