Ends 12.30pm.

Playdays
Dave joins teddy bears and children for a picnic.
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7.20 Snorks
More underwater adventures.
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7.45 Blue Peter
Children's magazine, featuring a meeting with round-the-world yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.10 Moomin
Animated adventures of the moomins and their friends.
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8.35 Dennis the Menace
Animated antics with the good-natured trouble-maker.
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9.00 Xchange
Today's show goes behind the scenes of the making of the new website.
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Website: [web address removed]

9.25 The Roswell Conspiracies
Nick Logan and the renegade Banshee track an Alliance airship to its secret Roswell base.
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9.45 Custer's Last Stand-Up
Episode written by Brian Lynch.
Second in the 13-part drama series. After problems with Dallas and his demo, can Jamie impress the hardest audience of all -the Alien Invaders?
(Cast on Good Friday)
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10.15 Rotten Ralph
Ralph tries to charm himself to the front of the dentist queue.
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10.25 The Really Wild Show Wildest Hits
Today's show comes from Australia, where Howie Watkins visits some wombats and Michaela Strachan encounters a crocodile, some koalas and a platypus.
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10.50 The Raccoons
Cyril is preparing for an antique car show when Mrs Pig - owner of a rare Harvey Hurricane - arrives in the forest.
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11.15 The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
Animated adaptation of the tales of Beatrix Potter. Today, The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddleduck.
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11.45 Teletubbies
Tinky Winky has trouble with the Tubby Toaster.
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BBC CD-ROM: Play with the Teletubbies, for PC and Playstation, price £19.99

12.10 Tweenies
The Tweenies hunt for green things to make a green dragon.
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BBC CD-ROM: Tweenies: Ready to Play, for PC and Playstation, price £19.99

Weekday roundup of business and consumer news.

Another double bill of pirate fun in which a cat pays the noisy crew a visit. (S)

Thriller starring Richard Greene and Eva Bartok about an East German defector forced to return home when the plane on which she is working makes an emergency landing. Reviews pp 62-67.
Director Compton Bennett (1960, U)
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The latest news from Parliament, with Diana Madill.
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Contact Details: fax [number removed] or e-mail [email address removed]

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Esther Rantzen debates more topical issues with her studio audience and guests.
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Culinary contest presided over by Ainsley Harriott.
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Ruthless elimination quiz, hosted by Anne Robinson.
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Lady Penelope is called to a secret rendezvous with a British scientist in Paris.
(Repeated next Saturday)
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In the conclusion to last week's story, the Kazons hijack Voyager, leaving Janeway and her crew to perish on a primitive planet.
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A rerun of their third series continues as Clarissa Dickson Wright and the late Jennifer Paterson prepare a dinner to be served in the Great Hall at Lincoln's Inn. Tonight's repast features beef in pastry, salmon mousse with a cucumber sauce, and Swiss chard with garlic and anchovies.
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In the second regional final in this new series introduced by Gary Rhodes, the contestants are asked to cook a chicken-based main course and produce a pudding featuring meringue. The guest judge is Marjorie Lang, who won last year's contest.
See Choice.
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Website: [web address removed]
Gary Rhodes explains the changes in format, plus contestant Kaia England's spicy chicken recipe: page 18

There are now more new cases of HIV infection among heterosexuals each year than among homosexual men, and most of the 10,000 HIV-positive heterosexuals in Britain are women. In this moving documentary, three infected women talk openly about their experience of, and ways of living with, the virus.
See Choice.
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Positive Women 9.00pm BBC2
Although Aids and HIV have been with us for many years, there is still a great deal of ignorance on the subject and so a documentary like this can only do good. It gives three women who are HIV positive the opportunity to tell their story and gives the rest of us an insight into what it is like to live with the virus.
Nicki, Sarah and Emma are ordinary, healthy-looking women. You would not know that they had HIV unless they told you. They were not particularly promiscuous, nor were they drug users, but they caught the virus. Sarah was just 17 when she found out. "It was something that didn't happen to people like us," says her mum tearfully. "Except it did." Twenty years ago HIV was largely confined to the male gay community. Today, there are more new cases of HIV infection among heterosexuals than among homosexuals. In Britain 10,000 people have contracted HIV through heterosexual sex and the majority are women. There is still a terrible stigma attached to the virus. Todd Austin's film is a dignified, straightforward and calm portrayal of these women's experiences and deserves a wide audience. (JR)

Fourth in this six-part comedy series about a man's mid-life crisis, co-written by and starring Paul Whitehouse.

Pitying Danny's plight, Bob Geldof sets him up on a blind date.
Contains strong language.
See Choice.
(Repeated next Sunday) (S) (W)

Analysis of the news, with Jeremy Paxman.
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The nightly reruns continue with the story of Bill O'Hagan who opened Britain's first specialist sausage shop in London, only to get caught up in a three-year battle to control the new £100 million market for the gourmet banger.
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Followed by 48 Preludes and Fugues
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(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Open Advice - Exam Success
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1.00 Out of the Blue?
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1.30 The Vernacular Tradition
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National Test Revision
2.00 GCSE Bitesize Revision: Science: Plant Biology
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Languages
4.00 Suenos World Spanish: Parts 9-12

Working for Yourself
5.00 Crisis Management

Open University
6.00 A Robot in the Parlour?
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6.30 Hidden Power
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Ends 7.00am.