Ends 9.00.

Playdays
Featuring the stories of the Ugly Duckling and Ma Myrtle's Bus Ride.

7.20 Pocket Dragon Adventures
The dragons help Walter the alien find a missing jewel.

7.35 Smurfs' Adventures
Vanity plays Robin Hood.

8.00 Blue Peter
Featuring coverage of the Blue Peter bikeathon, in aid of leukaemia research.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.25 Moomin
A terrible wind damages Hemulen's house.

8.45 64 Zoo Lane
The animals tell Lucy a story about teamwork.
(Repeated at 1pm)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Hands Up!: Food (ages 3-7)
with sign language.

9.15 Hands Up!: Storytime: Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? (ages 4-5)
with sign language.

9.25 Hotch Potch House: Babies (ages 3-5)

9.45 Dynamo: Numeracy: Number 8, Circles and Squares (early years)

Ends 10.50.

Teletubbies
Bo Peep has lost her sheep in Teletubbyland.
(R) (S)

10.30 Tweenies
Milo loses a wheel off his fire engine.
(R) (S)
BBC Music: the latest Tweenies single, Best Friends Forever, available now.

10.50 Zig Zag Shorts: France: the Alps (ages 7-9)

11.00 Watch: The Songcatcher: the Bushy Tailed Fox (ages 5-7)

11.15 Numbertime: More or Less: Three More (ages 4-6)

11.30 Look and Read: Captain Crimson: Banana Drama (ages 7-9)

11.50 Zig Zag: Art: Colour (ages 7-9)

12.10 Folk Dance (ages 9-12)

All the latest consumer and business news.

Shown at 8.45am

Live coverage from the Belfry of the first round of the Benson and Hedges International Open, one of the leading PGA European Tour events. This is the tour's first visit to Britain this year and the tournament sees many of the world's best players, including defending champion Jose Maria Olazabal, competing for a million-pound prize fund.
Sport: page 24

Coverage of the day in Parliament, plus viewers quiz MPs. With Diana Madill.
(Contact Details: see Tuesday)

Continued first-round coverage from the Belfry, presented by Steve Rider.
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Against-the-clock cookery, with Ainsley Harriott.

Lois and Clark investigate when the children of a wealthy family are kidnapped.
(R)

The conceding part to the first episode of the first series.

Buffy discovers that Sunnydale is directly above the Hellmouth.
(Repeated tomorrow at 12.35am)
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By a cruel twist of fate, railwayman Rob Dawber got his big break as a script writer the week he found out he was suffering from cancer. As film director Ken Loach began to shoot Dawber's tale about negligence on Britain's privatised railways, Rob was left battling the disease that could prevent him seeing his film screened.
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A series in which presenter Daru Rooke helps heritage-seekers to investigate the history of their ancestors.
In the 1920s mannequins were not the inanimate dummies they are today, they were live models who displayed clothes to wealthy female shoppers in department stores. Accompanied by Rooke, Oare Cowley explores the life of her ancestor, "Gloria of Selfridges". a Yorkshire mill girl who as a mannequin became the most famous face of her day. Director Nick Metcalfe ; Senes producer Jo Va!e

A took at the new Peugeot 307 - has it got what it takes to lead the family hatchback pack? Plus, is the recently revived, Dutch-designed Spyker CS Spyder worth its £150,000 price tag? With Adrian Simpson and Tiff Needell.

BBC Top Gear Magazine: price £3.40, available monthly from newsagents

First in a three-part drama written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff.
When only child, Daniel, attends an extraordinary family reunion with his parents at a luxurious London hotel, he discovers an exciting new world of possibilities.
BBC Video: Perfect Strangers, price £14.99. available from 14 May

Stephen Poliakoff's family reunion: page 38

Matthew Macfadyen stars as a young surveyor caught up in family affairs in Stephen Poliakoff's latest drama Perfect Strangers.
9.00pm BBC2
Anything by Stephen Poliakoff, the playwright who gave us modern television milestones such as Caught on a Train and Shooting the Past, is keenly anticipated by anyone who likes to immerse themselves in dramas of sinuous beauty. So rub your hands with glee at the arrival of this elegant three-part story centred on the peculiar and mysterious Symon family, who gather at a London hotel for a huge and startlingly well organised reunion.Though everyone is part of the same family, most are indeed "perfect strangers" to one another, linked by blood but in many cases very little else.
At the epicentre of the onslaught are the "Hillingdon contingent" - young Daniel (Warriors' Matthew Macfadyen) and his parents Raymond and Esther (Michael Gambon and Jill Baker). Raymond is a cantankerous anti-reunion agitator who is rude to just about everyone, while Daniel, a surveyor, finds himself and his skills in great demand, notably from the garrulous Irving (Timothy Spall).
The performances are wonderful, and watch especially closely for Anton Lesser, the possessor of one of the most beautiful voices in acting. Perfect Strangers does not announce its presence loudly, but if you enjoy masterly understatement, you'll find this a compelling joy. It continues next Thursday. Stephen Poliakoff on family life: page 38.

News analysis, presented by Jeremy Paxman.

Four engaged couples set about compiling a wedding list that will find approval with family and friends.

Presented by Andrew Neil.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Hollywood Science
12.45 Background Brief: The Science of Ageing
1.00 Final Frontier
1.35 What Have the Eighties Ever Done for Us?
1.45 Background Brief: Superbugs on the March
2.00 A Thread of Quicksilver
2.30 The Mother of All Collisions
3.00 Maiden Hights
(S)

Curriculum Development
3.30 ICT
Higher order skills in the primary school

Languages
4.00 Europuzzle: Belgium/Germany

Languages
5.00 Make Japanese Your Business

Open University
6.00 Venus Unveiled
6.30 Heating the Whole

Ends 7.00am.