As John Craven celebrates 50 years as a BBC presenter, on this – his 1,250th episode for Countryfile - he opens up a treasure trove of memories of some of his favourite parts of Britain. Each location evokes aspects of his life, his career and his passions: discovering a hidden treasure he never knew existed on his childhood doorstep in Yorkshire; indulging his love of verse with a trip to Cambridgeshire to find out more about John Clare, the peasant poet; and revealing his love of history on an ancient Scottish battlefield. And he has never forgotten the time he was roped up to the heady heights of the dark hedges in Northern Ireland.
Michael investigates his own passivity. Evidence from past traumas haunts Matthew and Gianni. Orna is tempted to cross a line. A family crisis devastates Tashira, but Dru struggles to relate.
Tashira evades Dru’s affection. Michal and Michael announce a life-changing surprise and Orna critiques Michal. Matthew digs into his traumatic childhood.
Adolf Hitler had a depraved sex life that he tried to keep hidden from the German public. During his lifetime there were many rumours about what he got up to behind closed doors. He was said to be homosexual, a chronic masturbator, a voyeur and that he engaged in sado-masochistic sex with women. Using extensive archival research this program explores the squalid secrets he lied and killed to protect.
Alba wakes up on a beach after a rape she doesn't remember. And then she discovers that her rapists are friends of her lover.
Jessica is extremely unhappy when her sister starts dating a new guy. Brooke and Baylee struggle with Denver's ultimatum. Patricia gets cold feet. Anna and Lucy take a big step in their relationship with Ben.
Louise Bergstein continues to assist the investigation to find the serial killer, who now has six brutal murders to his name. With Karina Hørup, Louise returns to the first victims in an attempt to find out where they may have met their killer. Peter notices that the police are closer to him than ever before, and at the same time happens to meet Louise again.
Responding to an emergency call, Northstar marine sets out to salvage a sunken tug in the Delaware Bay. Following the devastation caused by Hurricane SallyCapt. Chris Ward and his crew work to salvage sunken sailboats.
Gargamel falls under the mind control of Azrael and the Smurfs must help to set him free.
Evan and Keith hit some roadblocks on a house with hidden plumbing issues and another home with a fallen tree on its roof. Keith's mind spins in all directions as he transforms these problem properties into a peaceful haven and a bold masterpiece.
The first ever murder on a British train. 70-year-old Thomas Briggs was murdered on the 9.45pm train from Fenchurch Street to Hackney Wick on 9 July 1864 by Franz Muller.
The murder of coin dealer 64-year-old Isaac Frederick Gold on the 2.00pm express train travelling from London Bridge to Brighton on 27 June 1881 by 22-year-old Percy LeFroy Mapleton.
The first time a railway police officer was murdered in the line of duty. 37-year-old Detective Sergeant Robert Kidd was murdered in Sepember 1895, while investigating a spate of thefts from goods wagons in a yard at Wigan railway station.
The murder of 28-year-old Geoffrey Charles Dean, a booking clerk at Ash Vale railway station. The murderer was 23-year-old John James Alcott, a railway fireman from Hither Green Depot, who stole £160 from the railway booking office.
The murder of 73-year-old Polish aristocrat Countess Teresa Lubienska on the eastbound Piccadilly line platform of Gloucester Road Underground station. The Countess was stabbed the evening of 24th May 1957, dying in hospital on the 25th.
The murder on 18th March 1910 of John Innes Nisbet, a colliery clerk from Heaton who had been carrying miners' pay for Stobswood Colliery. John Alexander Dickman was hanged for the crime, (the last man hanged in a Newcastle jail).
Because of a mishap, Papa Smurf disappears and the only way to make him visible again is to get a whisker from Azrael
As Nik searches for the ring that once belonged to his mother, memories of a catastrophic flood in India invade his consciousness, and we discover this is the ring he once used to propose to Kareena.