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Lark Rise To Candleford Ep 4/6

Sunday 30 January

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

• Feature (interview with Richard Harrington)

Twister (Karl Johnson) feels hard done by

The fair has come to town, and there's much cause for celebration as the series based on the novels by Flora Thompson, and adapted by Bill Gallagher, continues. Alf has been crowned champion in the shin-kicking contest, and Queenie has won a whole pig! Twister can't wait for the delicious meals to come, so when Queenie offers to share the pig with Lark Rise without telling him, and seems to treat the pig better than him, Twister begins to feel very hard done by.

Alf is wallowing in the glow of his victory at the fair. But Minnie is tormented by her suspicion that he cheated, causing the pair to have their first real row. Can they put it behind them, or does this spell the end for their romance?

Over in Candleford, Thomas is furious with himself after failing to defend Margaret when her looks are unwittingly slighted by Ruby and Daniel. He becomes determined to restore her honour, but he finds it harder than he thought to get satisfaction.

Dorcas, meanwhile, invites Gabriel to lodge in the post office. She soon regrets her decision when Gabriel turns out to be a less-than-perfect houseguest, monopolising her home with work on his machine.

When news gets out in Candleford that Queenie's pig is a prized Berkshire, everyone tries to persuade Twister to sell them a cut of the meat. When Queenie discovers that not only has Twister sold the pig out from under her but that he has spent all the money, she banishes him to the pig sty. And when the folks of Candleford come to inspect their investment, she insists that the pig is not for sale. How will they decide who owns the pig? Will Twister win back Queenie's affection? And can the secret gift Gabriel has for Sydney mend his rift with Dorcas?

Julia Sawalha plays Dorcas Lane, Olivia Hallinan plays Laura Timmins, Richard Harrington plays Gabriel Cochrane, Ben Aldridge plays Daniel Parish, John Dalgleish plays Alf Arless, Ruby Bentall plays Minnie, Victoria Hamilton plays Ruby Pratt, Linda Bassett plays Queenie Turrill, Karl Johnson plays Twister Turrill, Mark Heap plays Thomas Brown, Sandy McDade plays Margaret Brown and Edward Darnell-Hayes plays Sydney.

Lark Rise To Candleford is simulcast in HD on ´óÏó´«Ã½ One HD on Freesat channel 108, Freeview channel 50, Sky channel 143 and Virgin Media channel 108.

CM4

Australian Open Tennis

Sunday 30 January

8.15am-12.05pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO

Sue Barker presents live coverage of the men's singles final at the Australian Open. The past three years have seen three different winners with Novak Djokovic landing his first Grand Slam title in 2008, Rafael Nadal claiming his first Australian Open trophy in 2009 and Roger Federer earning a record-extending 16th Grand Slam title in Melbourne 12 months ago.

Swiss maestro Federer beat Andy Murray in the 2009 final. The Scot will be hoping to have the chance to go one better this year and end Britain's wait for a male Grand Slam singles champion, which is now stretching to three-quarters of a century. Joining Sue in the studio is former world No. 4 and six-time Grand Slam semi-finalist Tim Henman.

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Sue Barker introduces highlights of ice skating's European Championships from Bern in Switzerland.

Carolina Kostner has been on the podium in each of the past five years and the Italian will be hoping to retain her ladies' title at the Postfinance Arena.

British interest will once again rest chiefly with Sinead and John Kerr in the ice dancing. The Scottish siblings won bronze two years ago in Helsinki but had to settle for fifth in Tallinn last year.

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Graham Bell and Ed Leigh present coverage of the most atmospheric slalom on the World Cup tour – the Schladming night race in Austria. Around 50,000 spectators descend upon the resort and the home fans have had plenty to celebrate in recent years, with Austrian skiers winning for the past four seasons.

Also in the show, Graham and Ed travel to Munich for Crashed Ice, an event that involves downhill skating on an ice track, with steep turns and high vertical drops. The presenters will not only be covering the action – in typical style Ed and Graham cannot resist having a go at this new winter sport.

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Bruce Parry with Gwich'in hunters Robert Kay and Peter Frost waiting for caribou near Old Crow

Bruce Parry continues his Arctic expedition and travels to Canada. Immersing himself in the communities of this wild world, he experiences, first-hand, how the people of the Arctic live now and how these ancient ways of life may be about to change for ever.

Bruce visits the village of Old Crow, just inside the Arctic Circle, and the Yukon's northernmost community, found at the confluence of the Crow and Porcupine Rivers. Although the village has no road access, Old Crow is located on a natural, ancient highway, and the migratory path of the Porcupine caribou herd.

Each spring, almost 200,000 caribou pass close to the village on their way north to their summer calving grounds. For the Gwich'in people of Old Crow, this caribou migration has been a vital part of their existence for thousands of years, and the community's remoteness means its hunting traditions are still strong.

Bruce joins Gwich'in elder Stephen Frost and his family on their annual spring caribou hunt out in the Yukon wilderness. Bruce is in the thick of the action, helping his adopted family set up their camp, spotting caribou for the hunters and helping the men to butcher the meat. As well as food, the caribou provide the Gwich'in with raw materials to make clothing, shoes, and crafts – nothing is wasted.

Though this is an ancient hunt, the Gwich'in are all too aware of the need for conservation, and they adhere to a strict quota system. When each family has reached its target, they return to the village – and the celebrations begin, with the dancing and festivities going on long into the Arctic night.

But the Gwich'in way of life is under threat – the warming Arctic is affecting the ancient rhythm of the migration and the Gwich'in fear that oil companies will be granted permission to drill in the caribou's calving grounds over the border in Alaska.

Bruce then heads south of the Arctic Circle to the tar sands of Northern Alberta, a site that produces 1.3 million barrels of oil a day, and contains the world's largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. He spends time with the native Athabascan people who live around the tar sands site and finds that while the oil industry has brought jobs and wealth to many, it has also changed their traditional way of life for ever.

CD4

George (Russell Tovey), Nina (Sinead Keenan), Mitchell (Aidan Turner) and Annie (Lenora Crichlow) try to help a teenage vampire

Most teenagers are reliant on their parents – for lifts, dinner and money – but teenage vampire Adam is more reliant than most: he needs to drink his parents' blood to survive, in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three's hit drama.

With his mother having passed away a few years ago, and his father now seriously ill and frail in hospital, Adam is hungry. In an attempt to avoid a randy teenage vampire hunting for blood on the streets, werewolf couple Nina and George take him in temporarily – hoping that Mitchell might be able to help him.

An immature vampire is the last thing that Mitchell needs. The Old Vampires have tracked him down through a local agent, and have made him an offer that would see him leave his past far behind. With the aftermath of the Box Tunnel 20 continuing to haunt him, it's tempting. But it would mean leaving Annie, and she has other plans for her new-found hero.

Appointing herself as Mitchell's guardian angel after he gallantly rescued her from purgatory, Annie has made it her mission to help him – and a new job is first on the list. Help from a ghost, however, could turn out to be more of a hindrance...

When Adam's father dies, it's the end of his reliable food supply. Determined to help him, George and Nina leave him in the care of vampire couple Richard and Emma, who have devised a way to feed without killing. Their plush country house, however, conceals a lifestyle that is less than savoury.

Adam is played by Craig Roberts, Nina by Sinead Keenan, George by Russell Tovey, Mitchell by Aidan Turner, Annie by Lenora Crichlow, Richard by Mark Lewis Jones and Emma by Melanie Walters.

Being Human is simulcast on the award-winning ´óÏó´«Ã½ HD channel – the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s High Definition channel available through Freesat channel 109, Freeview channel 54, Sky channel 169 and Virgin Media channel 187.

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