Ends 12.30pm.

Spider
Animated antics with the eight-legged character.
(R)

7.05 Polka Dot Shorts
Adventures in the polka-dot land of Roo.
(R)

7.15 The All-New Popeye Show
Three more misadventures with the spinach-guzzling sailor.
(R)

7.35 Rugrats
Animated double bill with the cute youngsters.
(R) (S)

8.00 Blue Peter
Children's magazine, presented by Konnie Huq, Liz Barker, Matt Baker and Simon Thomas.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.25 S Club 7 Go Wild
Tina Barrett is in China to learn about giant pandas.
(R) (S) (W)

8.50 Monster Rancher
Genki and his friends, along with Falcon, head for the floating castle to rescue Holly.
(S)

9.15 The Really Wild Show - Wildest Hits
Today's show features items about extreme places and the animals that live there.
(R) (S)

9.40 64 Zoo Lane
Animation. Molly tells the story of Henrietta, a hippo mocked for being hairy.
(R) (S)

9.50 Romuald the Reindeer
Animation. Romuald loses the school hamster.
(Repeated at 1pm)
(R)

10.00 Teletubbies
The foursome have fun side-stepping their way around Home Hill.
(R) (S)

10.30 Tweenies
Jake is at his grandmother's house, so he misses a trip to the zoo.
(R) (S) (W)

10.50 The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Animated arachnid adventures.
(R)

11.10 The Animals of Farthing Wood
Badger recuperates in the comfort of the Warder's cottage while his friends starve in the bitter cold.
(R) (S)

11.35 The Raccoons
More animated comedy-adventures from the Evergreen Forest.
(R)

12.00 Harry and the Hendersons
More comedy with Bigfoot and his adopted family.
(R) (S)

The latest business and consumer developments.

(Shown at 9.50am)

Ryan's jealousy puts Kurt in hospital, Mai sets up a student helpline, and Draz becomes a Good Samaritan. (R) (S)

Sports drama.

Cody and Chris have one dream, to race the motorbike they built themselves on the professional circuit. But all their hopes are shattered when it is destroyed in a local race.
(1989, 15)
(S) Films: PP 58-64 **

(S) (W)

Esther Rantzen meets more celebrities and holds a discussion with her audience.
(S) (W)

Chef Ainsley Harriott presents the against-the-clock cookery show.
(S)

Anne Robinson hosts another round of the got-to-be-ruthless-to-be-rich general-knowledge quiz.
(S) (W)

Lex Luthor threatens to cause an endless succession of disasters in Metropolis.
(R) (S)

Buffy senses that something is amiss when the previously mild-mannered Jonathan becomes a hero.
(Repeated tomorrow at 12 midnight)
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

Once famous for hat production and now for Vauxhall cars, Luton is about to lose 2,000 manufacturing jobs. As they wait for the axe to fall, the men and women whose jobs are at risk talk candidly about their fears.
(S)
Website: [web address removed]

A rerun of the series in which Mears demonstrates survival skills in some of the most inhospitable places on earth.

The Sahara desert is no place for the fainthearted, daytime temperatures soar to over 45°C/120°F and if something goes wrong it's a life or death situation.
(R) (S) (W)

In the first of a new 15-part series of the motoring magazine, Jason Barlow checks out the Ford Mondeo's latest competitor - the Renault Laguna II, and Andy Wilman explores the history of Ireland's one and only production car - the Shamrock. Plus, a look at the three new versions of the Rover 25, 45 and 75 which have just been revealed.
(S) (W)
BBC Top Gear Magazine: price £3.50, available monthly from newsagents

Thrashed, crashed and rehashed for more than 35 years, this is the story of how one car survived.
(R) (S) (W)

Richard Wilson and Michael Brunson join regulars Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton for the satirical quiz.
(R) (S) (W)

News analysis, with Jeremy Paxman.
(S) (W)

The nightly series of short films continues with Some of My Friends Have Got Titles, in which a woman tries to tap into a university's upper-class set, then It's Doin' My Nut In, visits a small rural town. Contains strong language.
(S) (W)

with Sir Denys Lasdun.
Designer of London's National Theatre, Sir Denys Lasdun, who died last month, reveals his key influences and the secrets behind his work.

Followed by Turning Points
Uri Geller claims that reading a prime minister's mind led him to fame and fortune.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 What Have the Seventies Ever Done for Us?
12.40 Background Brief
1.00 A Life in Time
(S)
1.30 Background Brief
1.45 What Have the Nineties Ever Done for Us?
2.00 Healing the Whole
(S)
2.30 Therapies on Trial
(S)
3.00 Animal Psychology
(S)

Curriculum Development
3.30 Explicit Learning Plus Languages
4.00 Learning Languages

Working In the Arts
5.00 Career Development

Open University
6.00 Home and Away
(S)
6.30 Our Invisible Sun
(S)

Ends 7.00am.