Ends 9.00.

Spider
Tales of a boy and his spider.
Repeated at 1.05pm (R)

7.05 Playdays
It's time for birthday celebrations. (R)

7.25 Smurfs' Adventures
Animated tales of the blue folk. (R)

7.50 S Club 7 Go Wild
Jon Lee monkeys around with orangutans in Malaysia.
With sign language and in-vision subtitles.
Shown Monday 4.35pm. BBC1 (S) (W)

8.15 The All-New Popeye Show
Cartoon sailor antics. (R)

8.35 Polka Dot Shorts
More colourful capers. (R)

8.45 Oakie Doke
(R)

Repeats are not indicated.
9.00 What? Where? When? Why?
(ages 6-7) Homes: Building a Home (S) 3723953
9.15 Watch (ages 5-7) Birth, Care and Growth: Our Baby (S) 1810069
9.30 Writing and Pictures (ages 6-7) Snapshot (S)
9.45 The Pocket-Size Guide to Parenting (S) (W)

Ends 10.50. The Tubbies watch a boy make egg sandwiches. (R) (S)

Jake dresses up as his grandmother. (R) (S) (W) BBC MUSIC: Tweenies No 1, a single CD, available from retailers

10.50 Watch (ages 5-7) Time Treasures: the Coronation (S) 6802717
11.05 Watch (ages 5-7) Weather: Temperature (S)
11.20 English Express Own Goal (S) 9275088
11.50 Megamaths (ages 7-10) Big Numbers (S)
12.10 See You, See Me (ages 7-9) The Romans in Scotland (S)

The latest business news.

Ends 1.10. Animated fun.
(R)

Shown at 7am

(ages 7-9)
(S)

Oasis. David Attenborough narrates a documentary about the fertile havens that dot the vast seas of barren deserts.
(R) (S)

Dermot Cavanagh meets Irish comedian Nuala McKeever in Tyrone. (R) (S)

Ken Hom prepares sweetcorn and crab soup followed by chow mein. (S) (W)
BBC BOOK: Foolproof Chinese Cookery by Ken Hom, price £15, from retailers

Live coverage from the Commons of Prime Minister's Questions followed by the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.
Series editor Jon Williams (S) CONTACT DETAILS: see Tuesday

Food and fun in the against-the-clock cookery test. (R) (S) RECIPES: see Ceefax page

Another round of the elimination quiz, hosted by Anne Robinson. (S) (W)

U2 perform an exclusive track from the new album and there's archive footage including Wizzard, Sade, Salt 'n' Pepa, Junior and Neil Young. With Steve Wright.
Producer Mark Hagen (S) Repeated next Saturday Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1

Through the Looking Glass. Trapped in a parallel universe, Sisko makes an appeal to Jennifer. (R) (S)

The Last Oil Shock. Nearly half of the world's total oil reserves have been exhausted. While the fuel industry is ready to downplay predictions of economic catastrophe, tonight's programme asks what will happen when the oil wells run dry? Producer David Strahan : Series editor Diarmuid Jeffreys (S) (W) NOTE: as The Money Programme is topical its subject matter may change.
8.

Rick Stein continues his travels around Britain in search of seafood delicacies. Tonight, the seas of Scotland and the North East coast reveal their bounty including herring, cullen skink, Arbroath smokies and the wolf-fish. See Choice.
Director/Producer David Pritchard (S) (W) RT SHOP: book available for L15 (normally L20) plus 99p p&p. To order, send a cheque, payable to RT Shop. to [address removed] or call [number removed] (national rate).
Poached haddock with mussels, spinach and chervil: page 45 Cutlery and cookware offers - RT Shop: page 62

Gary Rhodes whips up a signature dessert for fan Louise Jenson and sketches out a dream dinner party menu. But as the anxious amateur grills him later over his mobile phone about preparing chicken tournedos, he wonders if he has asked her to bite off more than she can chew. See Choice.
Executive producer Nick Vaughan-Barratt ; Series producer Nichola Hegarty
(S) (W) Guess who's coming for dinner?: page 16

Continuing the new series in which bosses return to the shop floor to experience working conditions first hand.
Behind Bars. The director general of Her Majesty's Prison Service Martin Narey is embarrassed and horrified by the conditions he finds during a week as an officer at Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight. See Choice.
Director Hugh Dehn ; Executive producer Robert Thirkell (S) (W) WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/floor Polly Toynbee : page 14
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Analysis of the day's news, presented by Jeremy Vine in London with Jeremy Paxman in Washington. (S) (W)

Ruby Wax 's guests tonight are TV presenter Anthea Turner , former rugby player and alleged "love rat" Will Carling and flamboyant chef Clarissa Dickson Wright with her on-screen partner Johnny Scott . (S) (W)

George Pascoe-Watson with today's political news.

(Repeats are not indicated.)

Open University
12.30 The Crunch: St James Court Hotel
1.00 My Favourite Things
(S)
1.30 Changing Berlin: Changing Europe
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Clementine
Teenage drama

Languages
4.00 Espana Viva!
(parts 12 and 13); Famously Fluent (S)

Working in IT
5.00 Running a Business

Open University
6.00 Autism
(S)
6.30 Open Advice: Study to Succeed

Ends 7.00am. (S)