Tonight's stories include how doctors saved the life of a knife attack victim by performing open heart surgery on the floor of a pub, and a workman's daring escape from a smoke-filled lift. Plus stuntman Marc Cass is in Norway to demonstrate the dangers of walking on thin ice.

Heather Coles-Bayes who was impaled in the throat after slipping onto railings near her home in Leeds. Stuntman Marc Cass provides a graphic demonstration of the dangers of pouring petrol onto a barbecue. Plus a lorry driver's escape from the icy depths of a fjord in Norway.

Michael Buerk presents more reconstructions of real-life rescues, including how a lone climber was saved after he became stranded with horrific injuries on the Isle of Skye's Cuillin Hills. Stuntman Marc Cass re-creates the experience of being stuck on a mountain with the symptoms of hypothermia. And the story of a canoeist who was rescued after becoming trapped under a weir.

A blazing trawler traps five men in the Orkneys, and a man is impaled on metal rods in a building site accident. Michael Buerk presents these and more true-life stories of bravery and heroism. Plus, stuntman Marc Cass demonstrates the dangers of drinking and driving.

Michael Buerk introduces more true-life rescue tales, including that of a group of workers trapped beneath a huge steel door in a sewer on Liverpool's docks. Meanwhile, Marc Cass gets to grips with his fear of insects and a five-year-old tells the story of how she saved her dad's life when he lapsed into a diabetic coma.