In 2022, Sir Salman Rushdie was on a stage in Chautauqua, Pennsylvania, when a man emerged from the audience and subjected Rushdie to a 27-second knife attack. In an interview with Alan Yentob, Rushdie talks about the attack's devastating effects.

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It's an emotional homecoming, and a first for Jules Hudson, as he visits County Down and County Antrim for some property shopping in Northern Ireland. He's with a couple who want to relocate there after a lifetime spent in the Canadian city of Toronto. Jules also visits the region's coast to marvel at the spectacular, world-famous Giant's Causeway.

Mike and Val have always enjoyed their garden, but now Val isn't able to access it, so it's time to call in Garden Rescue. The couple would love a fragrant rose garden, and Chris and Charlie are the designers battling to win them over.

Knockout Week continues, and the second group of eight remaining amateurs return. They will need to dig into their repertoire for some killer culinary ideas, as their first task is a daunting Invention Test.

Twenty-four hours a day, the latest national and international stories as they break.

Jo Coburn and panel discuss the big issues of the day.

Contestants compete across the series, scoring points by answering questions correctly. However, they must avoid the impossible answers, otherwise they will be eliminated from the show until the next day.

Clive Myrie asks the questions, which are on the Giza necropolis, Martin Luther, the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, and `Yes Minister' and `Yes, Prime Minister'.

Beginning on the Moray Firth, Michael admires the impressive Cullen viaduct before enjoying a bowl of Cullen skink at a family-run fishmonger of 150 years' standing. Heading west along the firth, Michael reaches Forres Station and the seaside village of Findhorn, where he meets members of an eco-community founded in the 1960s. At the Findhorn Foundation, Michael discovers spiritual energy, sacred dancing and a history of very large vegetables.

Can animals count? This is question that has intrigued and fooled investigators for a long time. Just over 100 years ago, a German horse called Hans was declared a mathematical genius but all was not as it seemed. Some bamboos around the world flower exactly at the same no matter where they are. Are they counting down the years?

All around is a blackened smoking wasteland, the aftermath of the huge fire. Torrential rain brings hope and the land is reborn into a green paradise as water quenches the scorched earth. Mirroring the changes in the landscape, the cycle of death and rebirth comes to the fore as the Serengeti's elders prepare their young for adulthood and a life on their own.

Gregg joins Tesco's Head of Plant Innovation as he invents new vegan meals that he claims will taste like meat, and sees how Asda are using ingenious growing techniques to make tomatoes sweeter than strawberries.

The show comes from Hull's City Hall, East Yorkshire. Antique experts Caroline Hawley and David Harper are on hand to find a selection of objects to take to auction. Caroline uncovers a remarkable collection of suffragette postcards, and David is delighted by some Hull Daily Mail newspaper printing blocks, saved from the tip.

Every day this week, former winners Yasmine Akram, Stephen Mangan, Ingrid Oliver and Tom Rosenthal take on a series of quiz rounds selected by the host, quiz legend Richard Osman.

The baguette is an essential in France that's eaten with every meal. Baguette in hand, Marcus hits the market looking for inspiration, and it's not long before he's found a stall selling dozens of rotisserie chickens.

Alice Roberts reveals the most fascinating archaeological discoveries in the East of England: a Roman dodecahedron, the secrets of Boudicca's hill fort and Waterloo's disappearing dead.

In Porthcawl, on the South West coast of Wales, the crew receive a call about a swimmer who's been swept out to sea. Plus, the strong offshore winds at North Berwick in Scotland cause the crew to be called out to two shouts in quick succession.

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Ruth Goodman learns about London's earliest double-deckers.

Dara O Briain and Hugh Dennis look back at some of the news of the week with guests James Acaster, Angela Barnes, Ed Byrne and Nish Kumar.

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Two sisters, Blanche and `Baby Jane' Hudson are ageing former movie stars who live together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. When the last of their domestic staff is finally dismissed, Blanche is left at the mercy of the alcoholic, increasingly demented and sadistic Jane.

It's 1982, and KGB spy Oleg Gordievsky travels to take up a post at the Soviet embassy in London. The spying game and paranoia magnify the suspicion between superpowers, and an arms race threatens to bring the world to nuclear Armageddon.

An exquisite gallery made of seashells needs shoring up, a priceless Rubens is saved from falling down and an ancient Egyptian obelisk is cracking up.

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A riverside period house alongside a riverside path in historic Canterbury is modernised for a family, and a grandfather transforms a flat in Brighton to be nearer to his grandchildren. Work also gets under way to transform a house in need of TLC in Ashton-under-Lyne.

The team face one of their biggest challenges ever in Witney, Oxfordshire. Amy and Chris's garden sits at the bottom of a steep bank and is shaded by a mass of trees. Charlie and Chris both come up with woodland-inspired designs to tackle it, but before anything pretty can be done, the landscapers have to secure the sloping bank and level the lower part.

Lincolnshire is a county of farming innovation, where Rick meets inventor James Dyson, who allows him special access to his farm of the future. Here, strawberries, tended by robots, are grown all year round.

Knockout Week draws to a close as the week's best cooks return to compete for a place in the semi-finals. This is the sharp end of the competition, so it will take bags of self-belief and some perfect plates to get there.

Twenty-four hours a day, the latest national and international stories as they break.

Jo Coburn and panel discuss the big issues of the day.

Contestants compete across the series, scoring points by answering questions correctly. However, they must avoid the impossible answers, otherwise they will be eliminated from the show until the next day.

The specialist subjects are the saxophone, Margaret Thatcher, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and venomous snakes of Africa.

Michael Portillo's Scottish coastal railway journey reaches Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, the third great inlet on the northeast coast of the Highlands. Michael's next stop is Fearn, from which he heads to the mudflats and saltmarsh of Nigg Bay and its Global Energy Park. On the shore of the Dornoch Firth, Michael helps to reintroduce his favourite delicacy to the firth's shallow waters. Oysters were plentiful in this region for thousands of years.

David Attenborough investigates two shells that have proved to be winners in evolution, the bird's shell and the hard shell of the tortoise. The ostrich egg is so strong it is possible for a person to stand on it without it breaking.

One family, 37 faces: from the Arctic wolf to the talkative dhole, the tiny fennec fox to the long-legged maned wolf, this is the definitive celebration of dogs in the wild.

Gregg sees how Ocado are using robots to revolutionise online delivery, and visits a state-of-the-art Norfolk farm supplying 300 million lettuces a year exactly when people want them. Also, Nikki tests out the Co-op's new pay-in-the-aisle technology.

The team are at Dover Castle in Kent. Antique experts James Lewis and Catherine Southon search for items to take off to auction. James unearths a silver owl inkwell and Catherine discovers an alabaster bust. Paul Martin delves into the history of the English Channel.

Every day this week, former winners Yasmine Akram, Stephen Mangan, Ingrid Oliver and Tom Rosenthal take on a series of quiz rounds selected by the host, quiz legend Richard Osman.

In Provence, the markets and shops are awash with an extraordinary array of fresh fruit, all locally produced. It's got Marcus thinking, so he sets out to see whether the French also have a passion for retro recipes.

Archaeology in the south of England unearths Britain's oldest shoe, the lost shipyard of one of England's greatest warrior kings and Britain's top-secret WWII defences.

In her old neighbourhood of Notting Hill, in West London, Andi Oliver revisits her past with her daughter Miquita to create her most fabulous feast yet, celebrating those doing incredible work to uplift the community.

With Gordievsky's help, Britain identifies Mikhail Gorbachev as a possible new contender for Soviet leader. He could be the ticket to better relations between East and West. However, fragile steps towards diplomacy are threatened by vested interests.