Larry Lamb reveals how the Roman Empire became the dominant power in the Mediterranean. Beginning his quest at the Roma Termini train station in central Rome, he learns how the city was attacked by the Gauls in the Battle of the Allia, fought roughly 400 years BC. This three-year conflict inflicted great losses and damage, and left the Romans believing that attack was the best form of defence.
Britain's favourite opinionated TV viewers on The Apprentice, Spider House, Countdown, X-Factor and the News including Robbie Williams filming his wife's labour and the Queen's first tweet.
The band heads to Nashville, Tenn. Dave sits down with Dolly Parton, Tony Joe White, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and producer Tony Bown to discuss Nashville's musical influences. Foo Fighters prepare to record at Southern Ground studio.
Parker fights with the crew about running at night; Tony twists an important steel frame on the dredge; Todd, Jack and Thurber work on their first clean up.
Kuvira threatens Zaofu; Bolin is caught in the middle of the bad blood between Su Beifong and Kuvira.
Mr Khan is over-the-moon when he learns that his mother-in-law wants to move into a home.
Mike gives Mandy advice on how to set aside money for paying taxes, but she decides to do things her own way.
Stephen Fry, Jo Brand, Josh Widdicombe, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies look at parts of the body beginning with L.
The Sharks hear a pitch for hypergravity-exercise clothing, as well as a line of products that appeal to fans of facial hair, and a karaoke machine that adds jaw-dropping vocal harmonies to help users sound like their favorite singing stars. Also: belts that are easy for kids to use, and a follow-up on Barbara's Season 5 investment in a company specializing in hand-knitted socks and leg warmers.
Audrey must call in outside help as she is no longer immune to the troubles and Nathan may be lost forever.
As they travel across Nebraska, the group finds themselves trapped in a morgue as a literal zombie tsunami engulfs them; at the same time, Citizen Z gets a visitor who might not be who he seems to be.
Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips fame joins Scott as they are visited by the show's accountant, a creepy couple and the scariest of all: the ghost of Scott's former career.
The Gedächtnis Esser continues to steal memories and Captain Renard's mother visits him in the hospital to try to save his life. Meanwhile Wu confronts Nick about Trubel and Nick and Adalind share a psychic connection.
Frank and Danny are determined to make sure that an international felon who always manages to walk away from murder charges ends up behind bars. Erin thinks about going into private practice after she looks into college costs for Nicky. Danny clashes with his new boss.
Deep in the mountains of Western Pennsylvania, John is a small mining community's only defense against an ancient Welsh spirit. In the course of protecting these isolated innocents, John finds a vital new ally in a mysterious young woman named Zed.
After a difficult start, Lewis and Hathaway's partnership seems to have gained some semblance of normality. DS Maddox has become a part of the team. Her abilities will be put to the test when an investigation begins on the brutal murder of an American classics student Rose Anderson Her body is hauled from the canal with a stand wound to the neck and abdomen. Suspicious soon fall on astrophysics professor, Felix Garwood who had recently broken off an affair with Rose. However, Felix was married to Rose's supervisor, Philippa Garwood. Could the jealous wife have committed such a murder?
Bonnie is furious when Christy's poor financial decisions threaten the family's living situation. Meanwhile, Christy agrees to help out Jill, a woman who is newly sober.
Nick's best friend Zack comes over for a sleepover when Anne is in the middle of an experiment on magnetism. Nick tries to convince her to let Zack come help, but Anne doesn't want anyone else to know about the androids. However, when Pal accidentally gets turned into a magnet, Zack gets drawn across the street into the junkyard due to his metal backpack. Luckily, Zack is pivotal in demagnetizing Pal and becomes the newest member of their junkyard crew.
Anne is thrilled when a meteorite lands nearby because the space rock is the last one she needs for her extensive rock collection. Fortunately, Eyes was tracking it in the sky and knows exactly where it landed. Nick convinces Anne to let Eyes come on their space rock adventure but, little does he know, other amateur geologists and Nick's Reporter Mom are on the meteorite hunt too!
Russell Howard offers his unique perspective on the big stories dominating all of our news outlets, from online and print to broadcast, as well as picking up on those sometimes overlooked things. He uses clips, sketches and studio guests to look at things that have made him smile during the week.