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- Dollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics.
- Respectable follows a group of young women working together; squabbling, chatting and bonding, like any other work force. There's just one difference...they work in a brothel.
- Donna has a drunken revelation on her hen night and decides that she has been missing out on the single life. So with just days to go, she calls off her wedding to fiancé Karl and moves in with her two best friends - Karen, an irresponsible primary school teacher, and Louise, a hopelessly romantic waitress. Will Donna find what she is looking for? Or will she find that the grass isn't always greener on the other side? Including a supporting cast of weird and wonderful ensemble characters, we follow the three girls as they try to navigate their way through the pitfalls of every day life, with frequently hilarious consequences.
- After dating boring but dependable, devoted but despairing, bumbling boy-friend Karl for five years, Donna says yes to tying the knot. Her friends organize a hen night, where she changes her mind, realizing it's hardly true love and simply not the way to happiness. Karl doesn't just take it badly, he's shattered, and convinces Donna at least to wait and go trough with a lunch his mother organized for the wedding guests, without telling anyone yet, but gets drunk there till he tells himself...
- Louise is struck by the guy Karen pulled at the party and is annoyed to find she failed to get his number. Donna asks Karl to get her a job through an employment agency but Karen loses her teaching post after unravelling in front of her class.
- Donna saves Karl after he has tried to hang himself and asks her friend Tanya to act as his minder whilst she and Karen go to a party where Karen gets pestered by an obnoxious married man called Mark. On returning home Donna finds that Tanya's efforts at therapy with Karl have not been particularly successful.
- It's Donna's thirtieth birthday and she wakes up in bed with a barman and a poor recall of the previous night. Louise decides to get her a birthday present via the Internet but ends up getting into porn exchanges. Karen finds out that Mark has died, so she goes to his funeral, but only to get back the money he owes her.
- Richard, Louise's boss at the cafe where she works, takes her, Donna and Karen out for a drink, where Donna meets the gorgeous Sam. She succeeds in getting his number but ends up in bed with Richard. And he's meant to be gay. Karen gives up the drink and becomes rather a mess as a result. Louise meets Oleg, a customer at the cafe. She has not had sex for two years and finds that Oleg is more than happy to help her make up for lost time!
- Louise's mother, Eileen, arrives at the flat and announces that she is moving in. She has left her (younger) boyfriend and is gagging for it. She goes to a club with Karen and Louise where she embarrasses them by simulating Lesbian moves with her daughter, in order to attract male attention. Donna's efforts to impress Sam's friends are equally disastrous and he eventually tells her to choose between him or Karl.
- Overweight comedian Steve Daly visits the UK to make them aware of the obesity problem that is taking place in the UK.
- Dr. Noreena Hertz goes on a personal mission to find footballers willing to donate their wages to fund a nurses' hardship fund.
- A look at people past the retirement age who still choose to work.
- Kris Murrin travels to various heavily-congested UK towns and cities with the intention of getting its citizens to go car-free for a day.
- Follows nine overweight people as they try to lose weight using dieting and fitness regimes from the Victorian era and the 1920s.
- The volunteers are asked for stool samples, all in the cause of science. As Sir Roy explains, there's a connection between what goes into the body and what comes out. When he sends everyone to the farmer's market for healthy food, one person falls off the wagon.
- Tanya re-encounters Karl and they end up having sex on the kitchen floor. Louise has sex with Oleg but is not happy when he falls asleep halfway through. Donna can't find anyone to go out with, let alone have sex, so she stays in for the evening, learning about global warming. Karen meets unstable ex-, Billy. OK so he did once try to kill her but, hey, they go back a long way.
- To get one over on Oleg, Louise dates reformed flasher Mike. He gets into a fight but she stands by him, declaring,"O.K. so he might be a flasher but he's my flasher!" Donna's efforts to impress her old friend Catherine go predictably awry whilst Karen is appalled to find that Billy has married an Argentinian cleaning lady to give her a British passport.
- Karen finds a dead mouse in her flat, and a cat, which she adopts. Donna consoles Ian, her boss, whose mother has died, leading her to believe she has potential as a counsellor. Louise is left in charge of the café and gets a local artist to brighten it up with unusual results. Tanya invites Karl back for a dinner party. It looks like it's all on again.
- Louise has a big row with Karen following a girls' night out to celebrate Louise's birthday. It was meant to be for the girls only but Karen pulled, and got off with a man, leaving the bash and leading Louise to accuse her of disloyalty and to move out.
- Donna is unhappy to learn that Karl is moving to Italy, selling his house at a vast profit in so doing. Karen gets involved with a guy called Justin, who is emotionally heavy going and she finds it very difficult to dump him simply because he won't stop crying. Louise discovers a new and very addictive pastime - shoplifting.
- Karen believes she is pregnant by Billy. She is not keen for him to find out but Louise tells him and he promises to mend his ways and stand by her but she has her doubts. Louise finds a new man in her life with pumpkin risotto as their aphrodisiac. Donna sleeps around to erase the memory of Karl, her one true love, though he re-appears. Has he changed his mind or is he just saying goodbye?
- Giles and Sue experience the diet of Britons during World War II.
- A look at the impact of television on British culture.
- Journalist Jon Henley investigates the rising cost of UK property and the future of the property market.
- In commercial TV's alternative to the BBC's "The Apprentice", a group of 8 sales-persons have to compete in a different environment each week to prove themselves the top seller.
- James Wong presents a guide to making your own natural remedies using everyday ingredients.
- James demonstrates how fruits can help maintain a healthy digestive system, regulate sleep and boost the immune system.
- Donna dates self-centred yuppie Stefan, whose birthday present to her is to have sex on a wad of bank notes,his orgasm brought on by the money, not her. He takes her to a business meeting at a posh restaurant but passes her off as an escort, neglecting her for the prettier one he had forgotten he'd already hired. Hearing Karl is back,Donna dumps Stefan, only to find Karl is engaged to an Italian girl. Seeing the girl kiss another boy gives her the chance to win Karl back but she is told that they have an open relationship. Louise returns from holiday with the clinging,adoring Greg, whom she does not have the heart to throw over as he saved her from a mudslide. However, when she finally turns him down he jumps out of a hot air balloon and ends up in a coma. Karen slaves for piggish Martin, even making a special journey to the mini-mart when she serves him the wrong mustard. She re-encounters old flame Billy, now a drunk with cancer, living in a garage. She rescues him and they marry - his cancer going away - after she has had revenge on Martin. This involves stripping him nude, tying him to a chair with tampons in his ears and nose and a cheese up his arse, covering him with foodstuffs and bringing everyone round to laugh at his humiliation. Donna proposes to Stefan but neither is really keen and she ends up on a station platform with Karl.