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5/6. Drinking. We now drink nearly twice as much as in the 1950s. What result is that having on our health? While host Richard Hammond investigates, he also persuades a teetotaller to take up drinking for a month to check out the effects on mind and body.
Producer Nicola Cook ; Series producer Kate Beetham

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hammond
Producer:
Nicola Cook
Producer:
Kate Beetham

Pauline brings fresh hope for the exhausted Miller family but their optimism proves to be short-lived. Writer Carey Andrews ; Producer Jo Johnson ; Director Jeff Naylor Cast on page 37 Repeated at 10pm on BBC3

Contributors

Writer:
Carey Andrews
Producer:
Jo Johnson
Director:
Jeff Naylor

3/9. Dr Yasmin Kapadia flies to help a six-year-old girl who's fallen 20ft over the side of an escalator, while consultant Alastair Wilson leads the team in treating a 52-year-old American tourist who has suffered multiple injuries in an accident involving a double-decker bus. Kwame Kwei-Armah narrates.
Series producer Alison Gregory ; Executive producer Camilla Lewis See also Trauma Uncut at 9pm on BBC3

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Yasmin Kapadia
Unknown:
Alastair Wilson
Unknown:
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Producer:
Alison Gregory
Producer:
Camilla Lewis

3/8. An incomplete extension means that Elsie and Duncan Pinches have put up with a kitchen lacking any natural daylight for 13 years. Nick Knowles and the team set to work on bringing a ray of sunshine into that dingy space. At the same time, they treat the couple to a dazzling new country-style kitchen. Series producer Moniza Uddin ; Executive producer Mark Hill
TO TAKE PART: write to DIY SOS. [address removed] or visit www.bbcco.uk/lifestyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Knowles
Producer:
Moniza Uddin
Producer:
Mark Hill

3/3. Dave Pickett , 34, went to the doctor thinking he had a stomach ulcer - he found out he had cancer of the oesophagus. Lorry driver David Waite has been told the same devastating news. Both are depending on the skill of top surgeon Professor Mike Griffin.
If they are suitable for the operation - and only a third of Griffin's patients are - they face a gruelling, high-risk procedure. But they both know this option is their sole chance of survival. Barbara Flynn narrates. Director Rachel Crellin ; Series producer Helen Thomas

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Pickett
Unknown:
David Waite
Unknown:
Professor Mike Griffin.
Unknown:
Barbara Flynn
Director:
Rachel Crellin
Producer:
Helen Thomas

2/2. Flamboyant US weight-loss guru
Richard Simmons guests as Victoria's cheerful look at diets and body image takes her to Los Angeles. She also chats to experts about America's obesity problem. Producers Judith Holder and Ben Warwick
Postponed from 28 July (RXS)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Simmons
Producers:
Judith Holder
Producers:
Ben Warwick

Bittersweet period romantic drama starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster. Two years after the end of the American Civil War, Jack Sommersby returns home. His personality seems to have changed for the better but, as he's been away for seven years, his wife sets aside suspicions he may be an impostor. Review page 51. Director Jon Amiel (1993, 12)
Followed by Holiday Weather

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Gere
Unknown:
Jodie Foster.
Unknown:
Jack Sommersby
Director:
Jon Amiel

Signed programmes.
Bank of Mum and Dad 1/6. Can shop-until-she-drops Linsey be saved from financial ruin?
2.30 Houses Behaving Badly The team try to de-clutter a property in Cambridgeshire.
3.15 Airport The Queen pays a flying visit.

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