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Peggy is desperate to feel needed behind the bar at the Queen Vic but there are storm clouds on the horizon when she and Roxy organise a grime night to attract a younger crowd, as the drama in Albert Square continues.

Meanwhile, Patrick, who is anxious to please Liz, launches an investigation to try to track down her missing son, Owen, but it may not be as easy as he first thought.

Elsewhere, peer pressure is mounting against Billie and Whitney.

Peggy is played by Barbara Windsor, Roxy by Rita Simons, Liz by Kate Williams, Patrick by Rudolph Walker, Billie by Devon Anderson and Whitney by Shona McGarty.

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Famous Rich And Jobless Ep 1/2

Tuesday 9 March

9.00-10.00pm ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE (Schedule addition 24 February)

For four celebrities unemployment is about to become a chilling reality, as they start on their emotional journey to become Famous, Rich And Jobless.

Larry Lamb (Gavin And Stacey, EastEnders), television gardener Diarmuid Gavin, interior designer Meg Matthews and model-turned-mechanic Emma Parker Bowles put unemployment in the spotlight by agreeing to swap their fame and fortune for a world of joblessness, job-hunting and surviving on the poverty line and benefits.

With everything they value stripped away, some old clothes and just under £10 a day to live on, they have to adjust to being out of work, out of money and out of their comfort zones, as they discover what it's really like to be jobless in the UK today.

They are guided and assisted by Emma Harrison, employment expert, and Craig Last, a former youth worker for the charity Centrepoint, who has helped many homeless young people find jobs.

At the beginning of their eight-day experience, they are sent to four unemployment blackspots across the country where they spend their first four days surviving on benefits and looking for work. Larry goes to Hartlepool, Diarmuid to Hackney, Meg spends her time in the Ebbw Valley and Emma tries to find work in Wolverhampton.

A night of constant rejections as he hunts for work sees Diarmuid get very emotional; Meg succeeds in earning some money by making friends with the locals in her community; Emma struggles to overcome her addiction issues to get a job in a bar and to get by; and Larry decides to eke out his benefits money as long as he can, to avoid any attempt to look for work.

Larry says: "I don't want to go drifting around knocking on doors asking if they've got work, cos I've got enough grub in my belly. I just feel that if I'm careful I can live on what they give me. If I've got enough money just to keep me ticking over ... I think my energy is best spent understanding where I am, trying to make contact with people, rather than trying to go around trying to get a day's work somewhere."

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As the unemployment statistics once more start to head upwards, multi-Bafta-winning film-maker Brian Woods takes a journey behind the numbers to the people they represent.

Filmed throughout 2009, and seen in part through the eyes of children, Jobless tells the stories of several families across Britain, as both husband and wife cope with losing their jobs – in most cases for the first time in their lives.

Andy and Jackie both worked for a computer printer company in Bracknell. Their daughter, Hannah, aged eight, shares the reality of life without work: "We don't tell people about mummy and daddy losing their jobs because they'll just tell their mummies and then mum will get embarrassed." Andy is confident he will soon find something but, as the months pass, the strain starts to show.

In the North East of England, nine-year-old Leah comments: "I don't really understand why there isn't that much money any more. I only really understand that people are all losing their jobs. Is that the recession?"

And in Enfield, Samantha, aged nine, is missing her dad. Both her parents lost their jobs after two decades of working for a car parts company (originally part of Ford) which filed for bankruptcy. Samantha's dad, Paul, along with several hundred others, occupied the plant, demanding that Ford honour their original severance terms. "He's been sleeping there almost two weeks now. If he sleeps there next week I'm just going to go in there and get him out ... I miss my daddy so much."

Glasgow-based reporter Derek observes when he is told to clear his desk at The Daily Record after 30 years: "I've written many stories of people being made redundant; I've seen people leaving factories for the last time, like caterpillars, people coming out of Ravenscraig when it closed. But it's something that happens to other people, not something that happens to you ... Oh yes it does!"

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The athletes head to Sambarwa in Indonesia this week where buffalo racing is a big part of the Annual Independence Day celebrations, in the penultimate edition of their challenge of a lifetime against some of the remotest tribes on Earth.

Athletes Joni, Alex, Lesley, Anna and Natalie will need nerves of steel for this high-octane race in the penultimate leg of their journey.

Each of the girls will have to drive a chariot drawn by two water buffalos. This is no mean feat as these animals weigh in at around a tonne each. They have been bred and trained for racing and reach speeds of more than 30mph.

It's going to be a tough enough challenge for the girls to keep their balance and stay on the chariot, but they must also go over two jumps and hit the target to be in with a chance of winning.

The tribe members take the sport very seriously and there are a lot of rites and rituals which lie at the heart of the event, so the girls get their very first taste of black, and white, magic.

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The Gemma Factor

Tuesday 9 March

10.30-11.00pm ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ THREE

Gemma (Anna Gilthorpe, right) tries to hog the limelight with Jeff (Ross Adams), Kenny (Angus Barnett) and Janet (Emma Kearney)

Gemma Collinge has only one ambition – to be famous by the time she's 21 – but the clock is ticking. Her dreams of escaping the quiet backwater of rural Lumb Dean mean everything to her and it appears all her dreams are about to come true when a talent agent shows interest in meeting her.

The responsibility of styling her for the all-important meeting falls to her high-camp best friend, Jeff, and it seems her ambitions are within her grasp – but can she leave behind her beloved no-nonsense Nan, ever-pragmatic friend Nell and Lumb's loveable locals, including an incompetent policeman and an obsessive-compulsive café owner?

Gemma is convinced that this is her ticket to the bright lights, but it emerges all is not what it seems with talent agent Kenny Grantham – which, of course, won't diminish Gemma's unbridled, relentless enthusiasm.

The Gemma Factor stars newcomer Anna Gilthorpe as Gemma, Ross Adams as Jeff, Angus Barnett as her agent, Kenny, and Claire King as Jeff's Ab-Fab-style mum. Gwyneth Powell and Emma Kearney also star.

The Gemma Factor is simulcast on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ HD channel – the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s High Definition channel, available through Freesat, Sky and Virgin Media.

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