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In just a few years time our hospitals could become dangerous places for patients, with many people dying from simple operations. Some common infections will have no cure. The reason is that common infections are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. There's now real urgency to find new drugs. Scientists in Norwich are leading the way and David Whiteley is given exclusive access to exciting research, and reveals how new cures could come from some very unlikely places.

Fifty years ago it's reckoned there were 35 million hedgehogs in this country, but since then numbers have fallen dramatically. It's now thought there could be as few as one million. Inside Out visits the Shepreth Hedgehog hospital in Hertfordshire to see how they are trying to release these animals back into the wild and joins the survey team from People's Trust for Endangered Species in Essex.

Archaeologist Ben Robinson reports on the threat to a vital part of Northamptonshire's heritage. Collyweston Slate is the stone that gives houses here their unique honey coloured roofs. But it's no longer viable to mine the stone and it's running out. Ben takes us on a rare trip down a mine under an industrial estate in Northamptonshire as he tries to find a solution to save this distinctive part of the county's heritage.