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Janine (Charlie Brooks) continues
to squabble with Ronnie

Tanya finally manages to see Lauren, but the troubled teen won't return home, in this week's last visit to Walford.

Meanwhile, Janine and Ronnie's squabbles reach a surprising conclusion and Jane and Christian continue to plot their business venture behind Ian's back.

Tanya is played by Jo Joyner, Lauren by Madeleine Duggan, Janine by Charlie Brooks, Ronnie by Samantha Janus, Jane by Laurie Brett, Christian by John Partridge and Ian by Adam Woodyatt.

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Pete Owen Jones continues his epic journey examining belief around the world. In tonight's episode, he reaches the Middle East and encounters an unknown side to a part of the world often scarred by religious strife.

In a moving and thought-provoking film, Pete travels to Israel where he meets the African-Americans who've settled in the Holy Land to live by the principles of the Old Testament – including polygamy.

He also ventures to Syria to explore Islam and the Sufi Whirling Dervishes; to Samaria to witness the 3,000-year-old Passover sacrifice; and to northern Iraq to track down the ancient and obscure Yazidi sect with its curious reputation for devil-worship.

Pete also visits Jerusalem, revered as the ultimate city of spiritual power, where he takes part in two great rituals – the Christian Via Dolorosa and the Jewish Purim festival.

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Folk America Ep 1/3

Friday 23 January

9.00-10.00pm BBC FOUR

www.bbc.co.uk/music

Folk America is a landmark documentary series which tells the epic story of the American folk revival from the Twenties to the Sixties, and how nostalgia for a lost past became bound up with the idea of progress – or why America wears blue jeans.

Tonight's opening episode, Birth Of A Nation, focuses on a golden age for American music – in a release of pent-up energy, artists such as the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mississippi John Hurt, Charlie Poole and Dock Boggs burst onto the recording scene, eager to share in the riches of the new record industry.

Most lapsed into obscurity again when the Depression struck, virtually closing the record industry. Contributors include Anna Lomax (daughter of folklorist Alan Lomax), the surviving relations of Twenties greats such as Mississippi John Hurt, the Carter Family and Uncle Dave Macon, plus three actual survivors of the era: guitarist Slim Bryant, now aged 99; banjoist Wade Mainer, aged 101; and Delta bluesman "Honeyboy" Edwards.

The series continues with This Land Is Your Land, covering the increasingly political side of folk after the Depression, featuring the emergence of Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. It concludes with Blowin' In The Wind, which details how folk was picked up by the likes of The Kingston Trio, before Bob Dylan and Joan Baez took over and a new generation threw themselves into the Civil Rights Movement, their equivalent of the idealism of the singers of the Thirties and Forties.

Contributors to the series include Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Odetta, Tom Paxton, John Sebastian, Roger McGuinn, Robbie Robertson, Country Joe and members of The Kingston Trio, The Mamas And The Papas and Peter, Paul And Mary.

The Barbican is hosting two concerts to accompany the series. Highlights from the first of these shows follow this first episode. BBC Four is also broadcasting a range of archive documentaries and sessions on American folk music.

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Folk America At The Barbican

Friday 23 January

10.00-11.00pm BBC FOUR

www.bbc.co.uk/music

Seasick Steve, The Wiyos, Cedric Watson And Bijoux Creole, C.W. Stoneking, Diana Jones and Allison Williams And Chance McCoy perform in the first of two concerts from London's Barbican Centre which accompanies the BBC Four series Folk America.

Folk America – Hollerers, Stompers & Old-Time Ramblers showcases an eclectic line-up of performers reviving the old-time musical traditions first recorded in the American South in the Twenties.

The concert features mountain string band music, vaudeville swing, junk shop blues, creole dance tunes and folk country ballads, all delivered energetically and with a fresh twist.

Produced by the Barbican in association with BBC Four, the Folk America concerts are a celebration of the enduring influence of American folk music and a chance to see fresh young talent as well as bona fide legends performing live.

The second concert, Greenwich Village Revisited, featuring performances from Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn and Eric Andersen, among others, will focus on the Sixties folk revival, centring upon the extraordinary singer-songwriter talents that emerged from the clubs of New York's Greenwich Village and beyond. The line-up of originals, and those they inspired, delves into the extraordinary songbook that has proved a rich legacy of the times.

Folk America is a landmark documentary series which tells the epic story of the American folk revival from the Twenties to the Sixties.

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