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- A behind-the-scenes look at the UK's most remote hospital, the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick, Shetland which provides emergency and medical care to the 23,000 inhabitants of the island group.
- The battle between the scientists and their critics over climate science and data transparency.
- Three documentaries, without narration, showing craftspeople in Mexico making traditional, intricate, forms of art utilising embroidery, sculpture and wood carving respectively.
- Amanda Lamb presents the programme in which craftspeople use their expertise and their imagination to transform dusty family heirlooms and forgotten treasures into amazing items.
- Sabrina Grant helps contributors choose which of a team of crafts people they think has the vision and ability to convert objects that have meaning but are gathering dust, into items that can take pride of place in their lives.
- The coastguard rescue a 6ft 9 Norwegian nicknamed Tiny from a ship going to the Shetland Folk Festival. Junior doctor Freddie treats an Indonesian fisherman in A&E. Paramedic Emma and colleagues travel to Yell to train first responders.
- It is early summer and Shetland's farmers are at their busiest. But Wilma must take a break from her croft to undergo a serious operation at the Gilbert Bain. A veteran farmer has a heart scare.
- A patient makes a 450-mile round trip for a hospital appointment that takes just 20 minutes. An oil rig worker is rushed to A&E with a suspected stroke. Emergency service staff join forces raise money for an MRI scanner for Shetland.
- Chloe starts her first shift as a fully qualified nurse. Emma takes three junior doctors for a rejuvenating dip in the bay near the hospital. Coastguard Rescue flies in a night-shift worker for urgent medical attention from A&E staff.
- A 95-year-old navy veteran is winched from the deck of a cruise ship, having lain undiscovered in his cabin for 11 hours. A patient has his holiday interrupted with kidney problems.
- Patients on Fair Isle wait for a break in the weather to make the trip to hospital for important operations. GP Esther Mitchell makes the trip the other way. Poor weather means it has been eight weeks since she was able to visit.
- Dental director Dr Brian Chittick operates on one of his colleagues who has two troublesome wisdom teeth that need removing. A patient arrives in A&E with abdominal pains. The women's rugby 7's team take on teams from across Scotland.
- The latest crop of junior doctors have to put all their training and experience to the test. A group of off-duty junior doctors and medical students take a trip to the island of Fetlar for a midnight swim.
- Jean, the community nurse on the little archipelago of Out Skerries, is out on her rounds seeing patients and delivering medicine. A man who fell into a fence is in A&E with a very sore shoulder. Paramedics welcome a new team member.
- There are serious concerns for a baby boy who arrives in A&E feeling very unwell. Occupational therapist Marc Beswick has been making modifications to an electric wheelchair to ensure its owner can develop some independence.
- Jane brings in her late mother's wedding dress, pink suede jacket and best dress to be transformed. Graeme arrives with an unused tea trolley with a squeaky wheel. Eric wants something to be done with a propeller from an outboard motor.
- A traditional Chinese dowry box, an old family tent and a single bowling pin are the three items brought in today. Each has special meaning for their owner but needs a design to transform them into something memorable.
- A sailing club's training boat which was damaged in a storm, a professional trombone player's first trombone and an old coffee table are the three items brought in for the team to pitch to reuse today.
- Metalwork specialists Titch and Leigh pitch ideas when Chia-Yu arrives with a replica post box, an item from her wedding. Kay brings in a battered-looking armchair that belonged to her grandad. Allan and Yvette bring in an old church pew.
- Linda brings a beautiful and unusual Polish cloak that belonged to her father to the workshop. Ken arrives with a collection of family rings and gemstones. Mechanics and metals expert Titch has a favour to ask of seamstress Elizabeth.
- Daisy and Rob offer their ideas of what an old upright piano that is beyond repair could become. Seamstress Chinelo transforms a wedding dress brought in by Teresa. Can Titch find a new use for a rare 1920s petrol pump?
- A collection of T-shirts, a clapped-out trailer, a huge wooden playhouse that doesn't fit a new garden and traditional Jamaican fabric that connects a mother and daughter six thousand miles apart are the items brought in today.
- Michelle and Carl have brought a stunning 1930s gramophone to the workshop. Kate brings an old slide projector into the workshop. And an intriguing item gives interior design craftsman Rob a challenge. It's an old steamship lamp.
- An old hi-fi, a much-loved childhood bicycle and a wartime Royal Navy kit bag are among the items transformed into new and useful items for their owners by the skilled team of crafters.
- Caroline brings in a special recumbent tricycle that once carried an Olympic torch. Widow, Irene asks jewellery expert Disa to transform her engagement and wedding rings. Sculptor Leigh asks Rob to transform his old wooden sled.
- A Swiss clock that caused a honeymooning couple's first argument 40 years ago and a collection of skateboards in need of a new purpose are brought into the workshop. Plus, Shelly has a special project of her own to work on.
- A vintage sewing table with great sentimental value, a 1960s transistor radio and a martial arts expert's karate belts and karate suit are the item brought into the workshop to be re-purposed today.
- A collection of beautiful Middle Eastern fabrics that are now just gathering dust and some vintage games consoles are brought into the workshop to be radically transformed. Sculptor Leigh has his own pet project to work on.
- Textile designer Emily has one chance to transform some precious baby clothes. Plus, woodworker Radha tackles the remake of a 1960s guitar.
- Woodworker Radha is focused on every detail as he transforms a 100-year-old dressing table and family heirloom that connects its owner to her late mum.
- Metalsmith Leigh forges steel to create an ambitious water sculpture from Victorian clocks. John transforms a sideboard and reveals its century-old secrets.
- Foster parents David and Paul from Herefordshire have brought in an oak gate-legged table they hope can be remade by one of the woodworkers. Velvet is challenged to transform a large mascot into something new.
- Textile designer Emily Dupen has a tricky task ahead as works with an intriguing tapestry that may be a century old. Leatherworker Jason Stocks-Young is challenged to reuse an used jacket.
- Woodworker Daisy Lula Brunsdon turns a family table into six identical items. Meanwhile, steel specialist John Osborne feels the weight of history as he transforms a traditional game.
- Daisy's woodwork must be perfect to transform an item full of family history, while metalsmith Leigh has an idea for an encore for an old theatre spotlight
- In this special edition of the restoration programme, Leigh turns a toy train into an item that reflects its owner's love of rugby and frogs, and a 63-year-old teddy bear is given a new lease of life.
- In this edition, Leigh reimagines an old love seat as a spectacular sculpture that celebrates the owners' love for their garden. Daisy tackles a chair she made as a student.
- Woodworker Daisy reimagines an old dolls' house originally made from recycled materials. John and Jason transform a saddle that belonged to a lifelong companion.
- Motorcycle expert Titch takes on an old engine packed with sentimental value. An early 20th century trunk proves a tricky remake for designer Emily.
- Titch has his work cut out as he redesigns a sentimental guitar body and piano. John uses his skills in wood and steel to turn a sun lounger into toddler toys.
- Titch transforms a titanium tibia, once part of its owner's leg. Woodworker Radha redesigns a trunk that transported a family's belongings from Italy in the 1950s.
- Woodworker Daisy discovers an old Welsh dresser's secret as she transforms it. Meanwhile, seamstress Velvet is in her element working with colourful sari material.
- A wooden chest proves trickier than it looks when Daisy discovers woodworm. Presenter Amanda Lamb asks the re-makers to reimagine her husband's old model ship.
- Alinka reveals how Mexican artists shook off European influence to find a distinctive voice, expressed by landscape painting and reconnecting with Pre-Hispanic subjects.
- Alinka reveals how artists became the authors of Mexico's official history defining the origins of its power. She shows that from the revolution to the present day, in Mexico art and power are inextricably linked.
- In this final episode, Alinka explores how faith has always driven life in Mexico, and how the need for a visual image created a unique blend of Mesoamerican and Catholic faith.
- Follows embroiderers making huipiles, loose-fitting tunics made from rectangular pieces of fabric joined together with stitching, ribbons or strips of fabric. Originally utilitarian, but have now become decorative objects of status.
- Follows a sculptor as he makes The Tree of Life, a form of clay sculpture emblematic of Puebla State and originally used to teach Bible stories to indigenous peoples.
- Alebrijes are brightly coloured, fantastical creatures, carved from copal wood and decorated in extremely detailed paintwork. The animals and patterns are associated with birth dates and full of meaning.