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Ends 12.30pm.

Playdays
The Playbus stops at the Why Bird stop.
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7.20 Snorks
Animated underwater capers.
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7.45 Blue Peter
Children's magazine. S Club 7 perform their new single.
(Shown last Friday, BBC1)
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8.10 Monster Rancher
Last in the series. An ancient fighting robot helps Genki and his friends, then turns on them.
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8.30 Dennis the Menace
More capers with the young ruffian.
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9.00 Xchange
The daily magazine show returns for a ten-part series offering ideas for holiday activities. Today Damage learn how to fence, Marsali Stewart offers a guide to Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry, Joe Challands and Erica Harvey try ballroom dancing and Ade Adepitan makes banoffee pie.
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9.25 The Roswell Conspiracies
A daily rerun of the animated sci-fi series. Nick Logan is hired to find a renegade Banshee.
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9.45 Custer's Last Stand-Up
Written and devised by Gail Renard.
First in a 13-part drama series. Jamie's ambition to be a stand-up comic leads him to use his sister's love life as material.
(Cast on Good Friday)
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10.15 Rotten Ralph
Animated adventures with the dishevelled cat.
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10.25 The Really Wild Show Wildest Hits
The wildlife show returns for a new weekday ten-part series. Michaela Strachan presents today's first show from the artificial tropics of the Eden project in Cornwall. There's a look at manatees in Florida, giant otters in Guyana and iguanas' island life.
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10.50 The Raccoons
Animated comedy from the Evergreen Forest.
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11.15 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny
Animated adaptation of the tales of Beatrix Potter. Today, The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny.
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11.45 Teletubbies
Little Bo Peep looks for her sheep in Teletubbyland.
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12.10 Tweenies
Jake and friends are confused by nightfall.
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Contributors

Singers (Blue Peter):
S Club 7
Presenter (Xchange):
Marsali Stewart
Presenter (Xchange):
Joe Challands
Presenter (Xchange):
Erica Harvey
Presenter (Xchange):
Ade Adepitan
Guests (Xchange):
null Damage
Writer/Devised by (Custer's Last Stand-Up):
Gail Renard
Presenter (The Really Wild Show Wildest Hits):
Michaela Strachan

Comedy starring Margaret Lockwood. In 1948, Peter Pyke stumbles across the Elephants, a society of drop-outs dedicated to idleness. However, when Peter decides to open up a hotel, the group amazingly decide to help. Reviews pp 62-67. Director Val Guest (1944, U)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Lockwood.
Unknown:
Peter Pyke
Director:
Val Guest

Documentary series exploring the training of Special Operations Executive agents during the Second World War. This week, a German counter-intelligence officer explains his methods in tracking down SOE agents, plus a look at the women who received and decoded agents' messages.
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BBC Book: Secret Agent by David Stafford, price £16.99, from bookshops

Contributors

Producer:
Jonathan Dent
Series Producer:
David Darlow

When an old cemetery in Coventry needs to be cleared for a millennium project, the team's first job is to extract three corpses from a 19th-century vault. Julian Richards traces their identity and finds their story reflects the city's changing fortunes since Victorian times.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Julian Richards
Series Producer:
Ian Potts
Executive Producer:
Caroline van den Brul

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley, comedian Eddie Brill, Cradle of Filth's Dani Filth and TV presenter Lisa Rogers join regulars Mark Lamarr, Phill Jupitus and Sean Hughes on the irreverent pop quiz.
(Repeated next Sunday)
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9.30 Harry Enfield's Television Programme
Another chance to see the last episode of the second series, with Smashie and Nicey paying a visit to Alan Freeman in the old folks' home.
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10.00 Room 101
Paul Merton invites ex-England football team manager Terry Venables to reveal his pet hates, which include uninformed journalists and working-class snobs.
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Mark Lamarr
Team captain (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Phill Jupitus
Team captain (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Sean Hughes
Panellist (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Steve Harley
Panellist (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Eddie Brill
Panellist (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Dani Filth
Panellist (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Lisa Rogers
Director (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
John L Spencer
Producer (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Simon Bullivant
Producer (Never Mind the Buzzcocks):
Warren Prentice
Director (Harry Enfield's Television Programme):
Geoff Posner
Director (Harry Enfield's Television Programme):
Geoffrey Perkins
Himself (Harry Enfield's Television Programme):
Alan Freeman
Presenter (Room 101):
Paul Merton
Guest (Room 101):
Terry Venables
Director (Room 101):
Geraldine Dowd
Producer (Room 101):
Richard Wilson

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Open University
12.30 Talking about Care
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1.00 What's Right for Children?
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1.30 Picasso's Guernica
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National Test Revision
2.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision: Science: Chemistry
Exam revision for the GCSE chemistry.
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Languages
4.00 Suenos World Spanish: Parts 5-8

Working for Yourself
5.00 Growth and Change

Open University
6.00 Smithson and Serra - Beyond Modernism?
(S)
6.30 The Portuguese Voyages of Discovery
A look at life aboard a 15th-century sailing ship.
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Ends 7am.

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