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Ronnie catches a soaking wet Owen in the sitting room looking at Danielle's picture, in the first visit of the week to Albert Square. She questions him about his feelings for Denise but Owen lies, denying he has any.

Peggy, meanwhile, is happy with the turnout for the Queen Vic's "happy hour", but this fades when she sees Archie. Causing a scene, she tells him that he isn't welcome.

Ronnie is played by Samantha Womack, Owen by Lee Ross, Denise by Diane Parish, Peggy by Barbara Windsor and Archie by Larry Lamb.

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Life – Birds Ep 5/10

Monday 9 November

9.00-10.00pm BBC ONE

• www.bbc.co.uk/life
• Press pack

From the equator to the Poles, birds use ingenious ways to overcome the challenges of life. Everything revolves around their unique attribute – feathers.

Few go to greater extremes than the male marvellous spatuletail hummingbird, whose tail feathers are so long that it can barely take off. But still they perform extraordinary aerial displays.

Red-billed tropicbirds depend on speed and manoeuvrability to escape from piratical frigate birds, while red knots use endurance to migrate 10,000 miles every spring from their wintering grounds in Argentina to nesting sites in Canada.

Grounded for extended periods during nesting season, birds face the toughest time of their lives. Lesser flamingos build nests in highly caustic soda lakes while chinstrap penguins, which fish in the icy waters of Antarctica, make an exhausting climb up a volcano to feed their young.

Meanwhile, fish-eating great white pelicans have learned to supplement their diet with live gannet chicks.

Birds also use their feathers, together with colour, song and ingenuity, to attract mates. Male sage grouse advertise their virility by rubbing their wings against their chest feathers, making bizarre popping sounds. And the male Vogelkop bowerbird crafts a giant bower around a central sapling which he decorates to try to impress a female.

But perhaps the most dazzling courtship spectacle is of that of the lesser flamingo on Kenya's Lake Bogoria. In a sea of pink, up to a thousand birds promenade side by side.

This week's diary feature, Hide And Seek, follows cameraman Barrie Britton and assistant producer Stephen Lyle as they attempt to film the vogelkop bowerbird.

CBBC also takes a look behind the scenes of this landmark series in Inside Life. This week's programme looks at frigate birds.

Life is simulcast on the BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel, available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

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Miranda

Monday 9 November

8.30-9.00pm BBC TWO (Schedule addition 2 November)

Miranda Hart stars in Miranda

Based on the semi-autobiographical writing of comedy actress Miranda Hart (Not Going Out, Hyperdrive, Absolutely Fabulous), Miranda started life as a TV pilot before becoming the critically acclaimed, Sony Award-nominated radio series Miranda Hart's Joke Shop, on BBC
Radio 2.

Despite blowing her whole inheritance on a joke shop and employing childhood friend Stevie to manage it, Miranda is desperate to fit in; a near-impossible task with her over-bearing mother, Penny's, constant attempts to marry her off.

When long-term crush Gary Preston returns from his travels, Miranda bumps into him and, anxious not to make one of her usual conversational cock-ups, talks all about her Olympic gymnastic achievements and her two children, Orlando and Bloom. Surely everyone ends up lying to impress when they're nervous, don't they?

After an impromptu "date" is planned, Miranda decides to "Trinny and Susannah" herself, and takes a trip to the new "bespoke" clothing store, Transformers, picking an outfit guaranteed to stop people calling her sir to her face.

A reluctant lunch with newly engaged Sloane Ranger school friends Tilly and Fanny leads to a wedding dress shopping bonanza and leaves Miranda looking like she's had a chiffon-based anaphylactic shock, witnessed by a delighted Penny and rather terrified Gary.

Miranda is played by Miranda Hart, Stevie by Sarah Hadland, Penny by Patricia Hodge, Gary Preston by Tom Ellis, Tilly by Sally Phillips and Fanny by Katy Wix.

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Michael Portillo meets Laura Lorca, niece of world-renowned poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca

One of the most popular holiday destinations for sun seekers, Spain is where the British feel comfortable; it's like visiting an old friend. But, in Digging Up The Dead, Michael Portillo looks beyond the familiar vision of Spain to reveal a nation in trauma.

For the first time since the end of its bloody civil war, 70 years ago, and the subsequent long years of General Franco's brutal dictatorship which followed, Spain is officially examining its past and exhuming bodies from mass graves in every region of the country. Some of the mass graves, which are often just minutes from the beaches, bars and cultural attractions, contain the remains of as many as 4,000 bodies and most have lain untouched until now.

Michael, the son of a Spanish exile who fought against Fascism, investigates the psychological impact that digging up the past is having on a country that has tried so hard to forget the horror of its civil war.

He returns to his father's home town of Madrigal, which he visited as a child. He also visits Granada and Malaga, both scenes of terrible carnage and bloodshed during the war years, and talks to people about their deep desire to be reunited with their loved ones and give them a dignified burial at last.

But there are those, such as Laura Lorca – niece of world-renowned poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca – who would prefer their family members to remain at peace, where they were killed. She tells Michael, though, that she will not oppose the opening of the grave if permission is granted to the families of those that lie alongside Garcia Lorca.

Digging Up The Dead is part of BBC Four's War Graves Week, which also includes Storyville's Section 60 – Arlington National Cemetery. The programme provides an intimate glimpse into the grief, pride and loss suffered by visitors to the largest military burial ground in the United States.

The Children Who Fought Hitler tells the forgotten story of a heroic battle fought by the children of the British Memorial School to help liberate Europe from the Nazis. The school served a unique horticultural community of ex-First World War soldiers and their families, who tended the war graves in Ypres.

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