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- Presenter Piers Gibbon and historian Colin Spencer head for Holdenby House in Northamptonshire, where they challenge chef Valentina Harris and her culinary team to rustle up an authentic English Civil War feast, featuring rabbit, hare, pigeon, grouse and pheasant.
- Clevedon-based comic Kev F Sutherland presents a chance for viewers to choose between two more one-off comedies by local talent, while the studio audience get a final chance to devise their own sitcom ideas in the weekly Pitchfest. Last in series.
- The programme begins with members of the public taking part in a sponsored 'Wag Walk' organised by the home. We then follow the work of local dog warden, KIM McGARVER, as she collects and transports a stray dog to the home. We meet STEVE HILL, the home's resident animal behaviourist, who works with the more challenging rescue dogs, including Paddy, a large, aggressive Alsatian. We discover that it's not just cats and dogs that need a new home and join Kayla inside the small animal section where she talks to a family about rooming Damson, a lively ferret. In part two we encounter a 150 year-old tortoise which has been abandoned in reception and join Kirstie for feeding time before witnessing activities associated with the 'Cat Cuddle-a-thon'. A sponsored cat cuddling event in which visitors are locked in a cat pen or five hours to raise money for the home.
- In this episode, website controller JAN CLARE struggles to get a bunch of lively puppies to sit still for photographs. Meanwhile Ollie's cattery is bursting at the seams with kittens, and over at the kennels an unusual family reunion takes place. Ninety-six year-old, JOHN HOBHOUSE, founder and President of BCDH also pays a visit and reflects on the qualities that make the Home so special. We also catch up with Brandy, the collie with dodgy hips and follow him on visit to a special canine hydrotherapy centre.
- Andrew Young of the Avon Archaeological Unit and Geophysics expert Mark Noel of Durham University have put their own time and money into the early exploration of the site which seems to be a previously unknown Roman town. They hope that the importance of the site will persuade English Heritage to schedule the site to protect it for the future.
- The archaeologists undertake two test digs relating to the geophysics reports that indicate that there might be a defensive feature and a paleochannel that could give important dating information for the site. With graphics and re-enactments we bring to life what this small Roman town might have looked like and give an idea of the people who lived at this small industrial site which on the evidence seems to have been occupied from the 1st to the 4th centuries.
- A chance for viewers to vote on the merits of two more one-off comedies : The Client, by James Harris, Rupert Wainwright and Marc Blakewill, and Jane Simon's cautionary tale Go Wild in the Country. The studio audience also get the chance to devise their own sitcom ideas in the weekly Pitchfest.
- Clevedon-based funny-man Kev F Sutherland introduces a special devoted to improvisational comedy, featuring the combined talents of Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Niall Ashdown and Suki Webster. The studio audience also get the chance to devise their own sitcom ideas in the weekly Pitchfest.
- A chance for viewers to choose between two more one-off comedies : Jimmy James, written by and starring James Holmes, and On the Job, a product of Adam Fresco's HTV Television Workshop. The studio audience also get the chance to devise their own sitcom ideas in the weekly Pitchfest.
- Follows ethnobotanist Piers Gibbon on his trip to the Peruvian jungle in search of the highly hallucinogenic Ayahuasca brew drunk by Amazonian shamans. He wants to know the contents of the brew, but the shamans insist he has to spend several nights on his own drinking the concoction first - which makes him violently sick.
- The story of Russell Pascoe, the last man to be hanged at HMP Bristol, who was executed in 1963 for the murder of a Cornish farmer. His accomplice, Dennis Whitty, was also put to death at Winchester jail for his part in the crime. The programme explores aspects of the case and looks at the country's attitude to capital punishment on what was the eve of its abolition.
- Profile of Mary Rand, dubbed the golden girl of British sport. Hailing from Wells, Somerset, her natural talent for the long jump earned her a chance to compete in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where she became the first UK woman to win a gold medal - as well as a silver for the pentathlon.
- A chance for viewers to choose between two more one-off comedies : Football: R For Revenge, by Matt Bowdler and Ben Manning, and Perfect 10, by Rich Johnston. The studio audience also get the chance to devise their own sitcom ideas in the weekly Pitchfest.
- The Bath Cats & Dogs Home is a unique community of people and animals. It's not only the largest rescue centre in the West, but it also re-homes more animals than any other RSPCA centre in the UK. Each year it takes in and cares for more than 3000 unwanted cats, dogs and small animals, and in the 67 years since it was set up, tens of thousands of animals have been saved from cruelty, homelessness and destruction. In spite of its record, it receives no public funding and relies for its income on adoption fees, legacies, charitable trusts, donations and fundraising events. At any one time the staff have approximately 125 dogs, 100 domestic cats, over 30 feral cats and a variety of small animals in their care. This year they've also had to cope with 100 chickens and 20 ferrets. The Home aims to find every animal a new loving home, no matter how long this may take. It acts as an adoption agency, animal hospital and funeral directors, and also provides temporary accommodation to pets which have been subject to maltreatment and whose owners are being prosecuted by the RSPCA. 'TELLING TAILS' is a three-part observational documentary series about life at the Home. It follows the work of key people, including the president, fund raising manager, vet, animal handlers and volunteers. Every day staff face new challenges as they care for animals and try to match them to suitable owners. We share the survival stories of individual animals, from when they're first rescued, through being nurtured back to health and ultimately re-housed. We also see how staff at the Home help to raise funds and interact with the wider community through taking part in key events including fundraising efforts such as the Bath half-marathon.
- Archive footage and personal testimony combine to bring regional stories from the past 50 years to life. Featuring a report on the quadruplets born to a Bristol woman in 1948 - the first to survive a birth by Caesarian section - focusing on the effects of growing up in the public eye.
- Examination of the events that led up to the three-day week and power rationing of 1973, when businesses were forced to close and lights went out across the country. The programme looks at the effect the crisis had on people and industry in the region - and the reversal of fortunes suffered by the Conservatives at the 1974 elections.
- Two-part series in which archaeologists investigating a series of mysterious objects stumble across a massive Roman town. Metal detectorists and the local landowner have been finding material on the site for years but no one has done a proper survey of the site.
- As Britain's Beagle 2 probe heads to find evidence of life on Mars, a look at the evidence of scientists who believe they have already found life on Mars. In 2001 Arthur C. Clarke announced that he had discovered images of trees on NASA satellite photographs. Despite NASA's claims that these were frost a team of astronomers and evolutionary biologists have said that the photographs show the life cycle of Martian surface organisms.
- Chef Valentina Harris and her helpers are given four hours to rustle up an authentic 16th-century feast in Sulgrave Manor's Tudor kitchen, using traditional ingredients including a 6ft conga eel. Will presenter Peter Gibbon and food historian Colin Spencer be impressed with their efforts?
- Presenter Piers Gibbon and food historian Colin Spencer challenge chef Valentina Harris and her team to prepare an authentic Victorian meal in the 19th-century kitchen at a Milton Keynes museum. On the menu are goose-neck sausages, mock turtle soup, tripe and onions, and mulberry ice-cream.
- A chance for viewers to choose between two more one-off comedies : What an Anchor, by Adrian Peck and John Kelly, and A Producer's Tale, by Roland Moore. The studio audience also get the chance to devise their own sitcom ideas in the weekly Pitchfest.