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Playdays
Dave and his friends test their driving skills at the Playground stop. Plus a visit to the London Transport Museum.
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7.20 Pocket Dragon Adventures
More castle-based antics. Philbert climbs a mountain.
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7.35 Snorks
More ocean-floor adventures.
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8.00 Blue Peter
Top chef Raymond Blanc demonstrates his culinary skills.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.25 Moomin
Moomin Papa recalls how he met the maiden who later became his wife.
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8.45 64 Zoo Lane
Molly has to wait a long time for her nephew Eddie to arrive - unfortunately for her, he's off on an adventure.
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Contributors

Guest (Blue Peter):
Raymond Blanc

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9.00 Hands Up!: My Home (ages 3-6)
with sign language.

9.15 Hands Up!: Storytime: Frog in Winter (ages 4-5)
with sign language.

9.25 Hotch Potch House: Just the Same (ages 3-5)
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9.45 Dynamo: Science: Exercises and Senses (early years)
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Ends 10.50.

Teletubbies
A black-and-white cloud appears in Teletubbyland, while Dipsy is given a present.
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10.30 Tweenies
Jake, Milo and Bella have fun playing with some cardboard boxes that Max has left behind in the garden.
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Magazine: published monthly, price £1.25, from newsagents

10.50 Zig Zag Shorts: France: Brittany (ages 7-9)
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11.00 Watch: The Songcatcher: Picnic Time (ages 5-7)
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11.15 Numbertime: More or Less: Two More (ages 4-6)
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11.30 Look and Read: Captain Crimson: Guzzle Trouble (ages 7-9)
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11.50 Landmarks: Britain since 1930: Evacuation (ages 9-12)
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12.10 Landmarks: Pakistan and Its People (ages 9-12)
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Further quarter-final coverage from Sheffield. This stage last year saw eventual winner Mark Williams ease into the semis with a comfortable 13-5 win over Fergal O'Brien while fellow finalist Matthew Stevens ended Jimmy "Whirlwind" White's ongoing search for that elusive first world title with a 13-7 victory, Introduced by Dougie Donnelly.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Dougie Donnelly

Another double bill of digitally remastered episodes from Gerry Anderson's fifties subaqua science-fiction series.

6.00 Treasure Down Below
The crew of Stingray embark on a perilous adventure when an old map reveals the location of some hidden treasure.
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6.25 The Big Gun
The formidable firepower of an unknown undersea race leads Troy Tempest to steer Stingray to dangerous depths.
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[NB this series was from the 1960s not the 1950s]

Contributors

Created by:
Gerry Anderson

The opening frames from the Crucible theatre in Sheffield of this evening's quarter-final action at the world championship. Introduced by Matt Smith, with commentary by Clive Everton, Ray Edmonds, Dennis Taylor, John Virgo, Willie Thorne and Steve Davis.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Matt Smith
Commentary:
Clive Everton
Commentary:
Ray Edmonds
Commentary:
Dennis Taylor
Commentary:
John Virgo
Commentary:
Willie Thorne
Commentary:
Steve Davis

This week's regional round asks Elizabeth Boyd-Ratcliff, a beauty consultant from Essex, Norfolk businessman Max Kent and David Swallow, a concept-development technologist from Lincolnshire, to prepare a main course of white fish, followed by a cheesecake dessert. To judge this week's culinary offerings, presenter Gary Rhodes is joined by Sam Clifford, formerly the personal chef of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Website: [web address removed]
BBC Good Food Magazine: available monthly, price £2.20

Contestant Elizabeth Boyd-Ratcliff's spiced apple cheesecake, plus a Sabatier knife-set offer: page 22

Contributors

Presenter:
Gary Rhodes
Judge:
Sam Clifford
Contestant:
Elizabeth Boyd-Ratcliff
Contestant:
Max Kent
Contestant:
David Swallow
Series Producer:
Melanie Jappy
Executive Producer:
Richard Bryan

The second of three films this week about advertising.

Following the team at Hal Henry as it goes through the process of putting together a campaign for Guinness, to be shown in Ireland, based around the Gaelic sport of hurling. Armed with only a substantial amount of product research and inquisitive minds, the team has to come up with a plan that the client will agree to back.
See Monday's Choice.
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(The final episode is tomorrow at 11.20pm)
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Followed by Turning Points
Tim Smit recalls the moment when he decided to embark on the Eden Project.
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Contributors

Interviewee (Turning Points):
Tim Smit

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Open University
12.30 The Information Society
The example set by the Britannia Building Society's new customer-information system.
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1.00 Blue Haven
Can mathematical models help to decide whether the blue whale will survive, or is it already too late for the species?
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1.30 Computers in Conversation
How the convergence of computers and telephones might change the way people communicate.
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Secondary Schools
2.00 Geography: Australia 2000
An exploration of this country of dramatic contrasts, including a look at how the Olympic Games affected Sydney.
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Languages
4.00 The French Experience 2: Parts 9-10/The Geography Programme: France 2000/French on a Plate

Languages for Work
5.00 Make German Your Business: Part 2
The intermediate-level German programme.

Open University
6.00 Velocity Diagrams
How diagrams showing a component's speed can help to solve engineering problems.
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6.30 Inspection by Torchlight
Exploring the nature of colour and light by examining a painting from the Victoria and Albert museum.
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Ends 7.00am.

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