Lives in a Landscape

Alan Dein returns with more extraordinary stories of ordinary life in Britain. In Rooms for Rent, he meets Helga and her daughter Melody - from a small Norfolk town - who, ever since husband - a Cliff Richard impersonator - upped sticks and left, rent out rooms. Will is a scaffolder and has been renting from Helga for a year, but graduate trainee Colin has only just joined the household. How will Colin’s clarinet-playing fit in with Will’s Nirvana-style guitar band? And as the 'family' gather round the communal dinnertable, they dream of a fulfilling future beyond this often noisy house of song and dance. Producers Sarah Bowen and Simon Elmes

Still digging coal in their 70s, Alan Dein meets the Forest of Dean 'free miners'. They're a dying breed but one woman's attempt to join the club has stirred up strong feelings.

St James' Gardens in Liverpool was once a derelict no-go area. Now restored, Alan Dein meets a regular group of visitors and finds out the role the park has played in their lives.

Mimi and Ryan are getting married. Alan Dein presents a fly-on-the-wedding cake documentary that follows them through the day, from waking up with a hangover to chucking-out time at Sale Rugby Club. In between there's a church wedding, a christening (their daughter Isabella is six months old), photographs, confetti, a lavish home-made buffet, speeches (ranging from tearful to inappropriate), dancing and a lot of laughter.

It's rambling, but not as we know it. Every year the Long Distance Walkers' Association organises a 100 mile walk. It has to be completed in 48 hours, which for most people means walking through two nights with no sleep.

Idyllic Castle Cary is a sleepy station in Somerset - till Glastonbury comes around! As the Rolling Stones set out to play, all is not quiet on the station front! Presenter Sangita Myska finds out more

An insight into the lives of two Yorkshire van drivers who transport items traded on eBay

In the second of two programmes, Alan Dein follows the mixed fortunes of a new primary school, St Michael's, over the course of its first year. As the school opens its doors, headteacher Jackie Ashley is still struggling to attract the numbers she hoped for. Producer: Laurence Grissell

In the first of two programmes, Alan Dein follows a year in the life of St Michael's, a new primary school just outside Peterborough. As building work continues, will it open on time and will there be enough pupils? Producer: Laurence Grissell

When Terry Chambers became wheelchair-bound after a stroke, he needed someone to push him through the streets of Crouch End in North London. He already had one carer but it wasn't enough. So he placed a jokey advert in the local newsagent's window - "Pusher needed for Silly Old Fart in Wheelchair" and found Robert.

When Dave Clifford left the Metropolitan police after thirty years of service he didn’t opt for an easy life: instead of retirement he took a job as head of year at a London academy and eight years on he’s still there. Alan Dein meets him and finds out more about the pastoral care he delivers, including sorting out the mysterious case of chicken bones found spread across the canteen floor and the baffling antics of teenage pupils who have been filming themselves as they cough and splutter whilst eating cinnamon!

Muchelney means 'Great Island' and this village in the Somerset Levels is often cut off. In the highest flood in living memory Alan Dein meets the people who live on this occasional island.

Fancy buying a zoo? If so, here is your chance - a private zoo in Borth, Wales has been put on the market. Alan Dein visits to meet the animals, the owners, and their stories. Producer: Sarah Jane Hall

Alan Dein visits a Hastings allotment and finds that a plot of land means a lot more to people than a place to grow vegetables. He joins various allotmenteers as they tend their plot and hears how differently they use it. A young family have created a haven where the children learn about nature; a teacher who tended the land as a means of combatting depression and two friends meet under a full moon to await the wild original inhabitants of the allotment. Producers: Sarah Bowen and Neil McCarthy

Burdiehouse is a council scheme on the outermost tip of Edinburgh and it's here, hidden away from the world outside, that Alan Dein encounters the pigeon, or doo men, locked in a constant battle to capture each other's birds. These men are neighbours but when it comes to pigeons the battle lines are drawn. Producer: Caitlin Smith