Cartoon adventures of a duck-billed platypus.

Sixth of a 15-part nature series. Black and White or Coloured
A zebra's stripes help camouflage its outline but the bird of paradise wants to be seen. Music and narration by Derek Griffiths. .STEREO

Space-age cartoon fun. Elroy's Space Cub troop needs a new Big Buddy Leader.

Fun with the Chuckle brothers.
Market Forces. Paul and Barry join the ancient order of costermongers when they take up market trading. OSTEREO

Cartoon adventures. Eric is turned into a bogbeast.

Singer Marky Mark Wahlberg is on the show this morning and there's a Soundcheckspecial from Africa with Beats
International. Meanwhile, vet Nigel Taylor has tips on caring for your kitten, Peter Simon presents Double Dare, and there's cartoon action from The
Raccoonsand Thundercats.
Presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene , with Nick Ball and James Hickish. Editor Chris Bellinger STEREO
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Introduced by Steve Rider.

Provisional Timetable
12.20 Football; 12.35 Motorsport; 1.00 News; 1.05 Snooker; 1.25 Racing; 1.40 Snooker; 1.55 Racing; 2.10 Snooker; 2.25 Racing; 2.40 Snooker; 2.55 Racing; 3.10 Snooker/Tennis; 3.50 Half-times; 4.00 Snooker/Tennis; 4.35 Final Score

Snooker
Semi-finals of the Rothmans Grand Prix from the Hexagon. Reading. The best of 17 frames. Commentary by Ted Lowe, Jack Kamehm and Clive Everton. (Further coverage at 4.55pm on BBC2).

Football
European football roundup. A review of Liverpool's midweek match against Auxerre in the first leg of their Uefa Cup second-round tie. Plus the best of the rest of the week's action from Europe's three premier club competitions.

Tennis
Semi-finals of the Midland Bank Championships from Brighton. Will Steffi Graf, unbeaten in Brighton for three years, be on course for a fourth successive title? Commentary by Dan Maskell and Virginia Wade.

Racing
From Newbury.
1.30 BBC Trainer Handicap Stakes (1m 3f)
2.00 Radley Stakes (7f 60yds)
2.30 People-Sporting Life Championship 3-y-o Handicap Final (9f)
3.00 St Simon Stakes (1½m).
Commentary by Peter O'Sullevan, Julian Wilson and Jimmy Lindley.

Motor Racing
Rounds 15 and 16 of the British Formula 3 Championship, from Silverstone and Thruxton. Scotland's David Coultard leads after 14 rounds, but Brazilian Rubens Barrichello is hot on his trail and could still take the title with two races to go.

Trivia quiz presented by Andrew O'Connor. Which of tonight's three contestants will win the chance to play for this week's holiday of a lifetime? Director Bill Morton
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Family pairs compete to see who will take part in the conveyor belt challenge with the chance to win a host of prizes. With Rosemarie Ford. Director John Gorman
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Last July, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh gave Anneka Rice a special challenge to mark his
70th birthday. Will she get the royal seal of approval? Directors David Cumming and Tom Gutteridge
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With Martyn Lewis.
Weather Rob McElwee
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This week's studio guest is comedienne Ruby Wax, Jewish princess and complete stranger to any concept of good taste. As usual, Clive James casts a humorous eye over the world's small screens and takes his pick of the brightest and the best, the fastest and the funniest television anywhere. And, beaming in by satellite, commentators and celebrity guests report what's going on in their part of the world. Series producer Beatrice Ballard
Executive producer Richard Drewett

Second World War action adventure, starring Clint Eastwood Telly Savalas
When he discovers the whereabouts of$16 million in gold hidden behind enemy lines, Private Kelly recruits the oddest platoon in the army to go and get it. Should be a piece of cake!
Director Brian GHutton
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