Ends 9.00.

Playdays
The Playbus team tell Bedtime Stories by Clive Duncan. (R) (S)

7.20 Pocket Dragon Adventures
The cookie-loving lizards travel to Trashmandu to retrieve the wizard's book. (R) (S)

7.35 Snorks
The silly snorkasaurus stars in today's double bill of aquatic antics. (R) (S)

8.00 Short Change
More consumer stories. With sign language. Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1 (S) (W)

8.25 Moomin
A dolphin repays a kind gesture by offering to give Moomin a tour of the ocean. (R) (S)

8.45 64 Zoo Lane
Lucy hears the story of Adam the armadillo, who tries to play football but finds he is too small. (R) (S)

Repeats are not indicated.
9.00 Storytime (ages 4-5)
Handa's Surprise- Beverley Hills visits a market and tells a new version of The Little Red Hen. (S)
6208433 9.15 Words and Pictures
Plus (ages 6-7) Long Vowel
Spelling: Mr McGee Goes to the Sea- Pamela Allen 's story is read by Paul Ewing. (S) 8056810 9.30 Magic Key (ages 5-6) The Stone of Contentment- can Wilf, Chip and Floppy help Queen Sharon? (S) 3186810 9.45 Dynamo (early years) Science: Senses. Smell,
Hearing, Touch and Sight - fun with Dynamo and Slomo. (S)

Ends 10.50.

Teletubbies
Oddly-shaped clouds appear in Teletubbyland. while the children use paint to make a colourful picture. (R) (S)
BBC CD-ROM: Play with the Teletubbies, for PC and Playstation, price £19.99

10.30 Tweenies
Jake turns into Dotman to sort out Doodles's colour problem. (R) (S) (W)
BBC CD-ROM: Ready to Play, for PC and Playstation, price £19.99

10.50 Come Outside (ages 4-5) Carrots (S) 3311425 11.05
Pathways of Belief (ages 7-9) Hinduism: Living as a Hindu - Diwali and New Beginnings (S) 5520907 11.20 Landmarks Shorts (ages 9-11) Berlin (S)
2737433 11.30 Megamaths (ages 7-9) Division: Divide by Four-links between division and sharing. (S) 9888758 11.50 Music Makers (ages 7-9) Composition: Talking Drums - making rhythm patterns. (S) 5404520 12.10 Landmarks
(ages 10-12) World Environmental Changes: Wetlands -how humans influence environments in which they live. (S)

Consumer news, with Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw.

Action from the Crucible theatre in Sheffield of both world-championship semi-finals, played out over the best of 33 frames. The difference between winning and losing at this stage is £74,000. Presented by Dougie Donnelly and Matt Smith , with commentary from the team of Clive Everton, Ray Edmonds , Dennis Taylor , John Virgo , Willie Thorne and Steve DaviS. (S) (W)
Including at
3.20 News; Regional News
(Digital: UK Today); Weather (S)(W)

Grandpa v Sexual Inadequacy. Homer and his father hit the road selling a home-made love potion. (R) IS)
6.20 Fear of Flying. Actress Anne Bancroft and stars of Cheers including Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson add their voices to a tale of Marge's phobia. (R) (S)

Comedy from the US about the bizarre Wilkerson family.
Malcolm Babysits. The family are trapped in a trailer while their house is fumigated - but babysitting provides an escape for Malcolm. Meanwhile, Francis finds a corpse.
Repeated next Saturday (S) (W)

The first of the tournament's semi-finals reaches its penultimate session. Presented by Matt Smith , with commentary by Clive Everton , Ray Edmonds , Dennis Taylor , John Virgo , Willie Thorne and Steve Davis. (S) (W)

What is seemingly one of Britain's last truly wild landscapes beckons as presenter Aubrey Manning travels north to the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands. In search of an ancient Caledonian forest that once covered the region, he unearths a lost landscape and a way of life that has now disappeared, while a spot of deer-stalking leads him to discover the Victorian secret at the heart of the area.
Director John Triffitt ; Executive producer Richard Reisz (S) (W)

The old meets the new at the Bournville site as Rachel de
Thame tends the old hedge, plants up the new steps and looks at innovative ways of ordering plants. Joe Swift , meanwhile, busies himself by recycling blue bricks in the terrace. Plus a look at the horticulture, colours and species of the South African plant tritonia. With Alan Titchmarsh.
Series producer Colette Foster ; Executive producer Tony Laryea (S) (W) WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/gardening
BBC BOOK: Gardeners' World Complete Book of Gardening, price £12.99 TV's budding new star: page 14

Another eight frames of semi-final action from Sheffield.
Presented by Dougie Donnelly. (S) (W)

Analysis of today's news, with Kirsty Wark.
(S) (W)

Germaine Greer and Tom Paulin join Kirsty Wark to discuss the high points and low marks of the cultural week.
Producer Mark Bell (S) (W) WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/arts

Drama from Steven Soderbergh , best director at this year's
Oscars. St Louis in the Depression: with his mother in a sanatorium and his father frequently absent, 12-year-old Aaron is left to fight the odds stacked against him. Ends
2.10am. Widescreen. Review page 55.
(1993. PG) (S) (W) Barry Norman on Steven Soderbergh : page 50

Repeats are not indicated.
GCSE Bitesize Revision 3.00 PE Ends 5.00am. (S)