Ends 9.00.

Playdays
A visit to the Why Bird Stop for something that goes under and over at the same time.
(R)

7.20 Snorks
Double bill of animated underwater adventures.
(R)

7.50 Blue Peter
In America, Konnie Huq and Matt Baker encounter alligators.
(Shown last Friday)
(S) (W)

8.15 The Puppy's New Adventures
Animated tales. Can Petey save the life of a king?
(R)

8.35 Moomin
Animated stories with the inhabitants of Moomin Valley.

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Come Outside: Water (Indoors)
(ages 4-5)

9.15 Storytime: Grandad Pot
(ages 4-5)

9.30 Words and Pictures: Phonics Special: "oa"
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.45 Watch: Homes across Europe
(ages 6-7) (S)

A phonics special where Sophie Aldred looks at words with long vowel sounds. Sophie visits some people who live on a houseboat, and discovers three words with "oa" sound.

Some children paint shapes.
(R) (S)

Jake has an invisible friend called Douglas.
(Shown last Monday BBC1)
(S) (W)
BBC Magazine: Tweenies, monthly, £1.25
Website: [web address removed]

10.50 Watch: Musical Instruments: Shaking
(ages 5-7) (S)

11.10 Zig Zag: Anglo-Saxons: Anglo-Saxons at Bay
(ages 7-9)

11.30 Ghostwriter: Just in Time: Part 3
(ages 10-12) (S)

12.00 Ghostwriter: Just in Time: Part 4
(ages 10-12) (S)

Weekday consumer news.

Animated tales with the inquisitive cub and pals.
(R)

Animated canine fun. With voices by Griff Rhys Jones.
(R)

Suzanne and John have financial problems.
(Postponed from 16 May)
(R) (S)

World Championship action from the Acropolis Rally in Greece.
Shown yesterday in Sunday Grandstand
(W)

Film following the preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
(S)

Weather

Another horticultural question-and-answer session. Presented by Mark Jeffries.
(S)

Esther Rantzen and her studio guests discuss the merits and drawbacks of home and school education.
(S)

Another culinary challenge.
With Fern Britton.
(R) (S)
Recipes: see Ceefax page

Interior-design series, presented by Tessa Shaw. Kevin Allan creates two new bedrooms, and Andrea Maflin transforms a bathroom for just £300.
(R) (S)

The townsfolk are outraged when the head of Jebediah Springfield's statue disappears.
(R) (S)
(A night of programmes devoted to The Simpsons starts on Friday at 6pm)

Will is shocked when his mother forbids him from going to his aunt's wedding on the grounds that she is marrying a white man.
(R) (S)

D'Argo helps an aged holy woman with her death ritual, but she emerges as a revitalised young Luxan. However, the miracle could carry a heavy price.
(S)

Explorations of how design innovations affect daily life.

Professor Janice Kirkpatrick discovers why the Japanese believe that chairs are proving detrimental to their ancient traditions, and examines how chairs have evolved in the western world to become designer items and to denote the user's status. Last in the series.
(S) (W)

The salmon that fill the rivers of the Pacific coast of North America have one of the most miraculous and mysterious life-cycles in the entire animal kingdom. Show more

The series concludes with Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, once the world's most notorious prison, where gangsters such as Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and "Birdman" Robert Stroud were incarcerated. But the reality was that inmates were more likely to die of boredom than brutality.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Luke's life changes dramatically when an art dealer, a critic and a leading art collector visit his studio.
(S) (W)
(Another 10 10: New Directors tomorrow at 10.20pm)

With Jeremy Vine. Including at 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

Political news, with Andrew Neil.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Cine Cinephiles
1.00 Born Into Two Cultures
1.30 Slaves and Noble Savages
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Geography: Investigating Asia
(S)

Languages
4.00 Deutsch Plus: Parts 5-8
Beginners' German language soap series.
With in-vision subtitles.

Working In Retail
5.00 Getting Started in Business

Open University
6.00 Dialogue in the Dark
(S)
6.30 Film Montage: the Projection of Modernity
(S)