Elaine and Karen go zorbing!

Elaine and Karen go zorbing!
Elaine and Karen go zorbing! (Image credit: BBC)

Elaine convinces a reluctant Karen and Julia to go zorbing, but when Julia's held up by car troubles, Karen is left to face the challenge with confident Elaine. But Elaine starts to panic when she gets into the zorb and can't go through with it. Nervously, Karen steps up to the challenge and is elated after the experience. Akono accompanies Jack to university, keen to get a taste of student life. But when Sarah, a friend of Jack, makes a startling revelation, Akono begins to question his beliefs and tells Mrs Tembe he wants to return home. Also, Mrs Tembe takes Zara's side as the baby scan row escalates.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.