Moment of Truth

Richard Cooke is a photographer with a passion for air-to-air pictures. He is obsessed by a single aerial photograph: a formation of jet fighters, trailing smoke, flying straight at his camera. They say it is impossible and too dangerous. But that doesn't stop Richard. He gets a first and last chance to capture the E20 million snapshot.

Derek Ryan and Steve Blackwell are 17, football mad, and on the brink of being signed by Wolverhampton Wanderers FC as soccer professionals - or thrown on to the scrap heap. They have two months to make it. Derek's looking likely but Steve's struggling. The club is on its way down. Desperate measures are needed before the boys make their long walk to the manager's office.

High in the Italian mountains 1,000 movie extras are arriving for what Hollywood hopes will be the most spectacular biblical battle ever filmed - the massacre of the ancient Israelites by the Philistines. Action director David Tomblin - leader of the toughest technicians in town - has been planning the big battle scene for months. He has two days to take on rain, snow, and the wrath of the gods, and help King David bring in millions of dollars at the box office.

Ewen Riddick was 18 months away from an honours degree. But a dive into the waves on a Portuguese beach put an end to those hopes. The waves hid a sandbank and Ewen's neck was broken. Total paralysis looked inevitable. He entered Stoke Mandeville Hospital on a stretcher. He was determined to leave on his feet.

Jenni and Herbie Watson are dog obedience trainers. They took 13 delinquent dogs, and their owners, into a Manchester park for a long weekend. They all had to be cured, or else ...

Twenty nurses from the National Health Service are joining the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps and embarking on a six-week induction course to prove they've got what it takes to save life on a modern battlefield. It culminates in Exercise Nightingale: three days of ordeal by gunfire when casualties are either killed or cured!