Ends 11.15.

Playdays
Cobra the Gladiator joins Zoe and her friends at Woking gym in Surrey.
(R)

7.20 Popeye and Son
More fun with the spinach-loving sailor and his pacifist son.
(R)

7.35 Blue Peter
Former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan and family describe their round-the-world trip.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.00 Ukool Live
Another edition of the live weekday magazine series for 10 to 12 year olds.
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9.00 The Raccoons
Animation set in Evergreen Forest.
(R)

9.25 Silver Surfer
Galactus is dying and his new herald seeks help from the Silver Surfer.
(R)

9.45 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animation, based on the books by Richard Scarry.
(R)

10.10 Bill and Ben
Bill and Ben fly by hanging onto a kite.
(R)

10.20 Yoho Ahoy!
Jones finds a way to make the sails go.
(R)

10.30 Teletubbies
Laa-Laa finds gold and silver tree.
(R)

10.55 Tweenies
Bella prepares a big surprise.
(R)

Musical comedy starring John Mills. A poor girl who pretends to be interested in buying a Rolls-Royce from her local garage, is surprised when the car is delivered to her door. Review page 42.
Directors Graham Cutts , Austin Melford (1935, U) (BW)

Top tips from professional stylists.

Weekday roundup of business and financial news.

Quick design ideas from the Home Front team.

Drama based on Walter Greenwood's novel about life in the Depression-hit north of England in the thirties. Sally Hardcastle, the daughter of a miner, is being courted by two men but has her heart set on another - the poor but idealistic socialist Larry Meath.
Review page 45.
(1941, PG) ****
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Live coverage from Parliament, plus studio debate.
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Topical studio debate hosted by Esther Rantzen.

Culinary contest, with Ainsley Harriott.

Anne Robinson plays ruthless quizmistress again.
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Chakotay leads a Delta Flyer mission into a spatial anomaly to retrieve a three-century-old historic Mars mission spacecraft.
(S)

US time-travel series starring Jonathan LaPaglia.

A robbery-triggered explosion and a bombshell from his ex-wife cause dilemmas for Frank Parker on his latest trip back in time.
(S) (W)

A new eight-part series begins with a revealing and occasionally disturbing portrait of Oldham's racial divide. Asian and white communities talk candidly about the race riots earlier this year, the worst in Britain for over two decades.

In the first of a seven-part rerun of seafood journeys, Rick Stein travels along the south coast from Dorset to Kent, discovering such delights as mackerel, sole, blue clams, gurnard and squid, fresh from the sea.

In the first of a second,eight-part series in which top chefs aid their biggest fans to prepare a dinner party,
Gary Rhodes helps Essex nurse Lesley Kennelly cook roast monkfish with crispy bacon or Parma ham, followed by bittersweet strawberry tart with marscapone cheesecake cream - an ambitious menu for Lesley who is daunted by the thought of cooking fish and preparing pastry.
Executive producer Nick Vaughan-Barratt ; Series producer Nichola Hegarty
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/food/friends What's it like cooking with a top chef: page 34

Born Richard Jenkins in Wales in 1925, actor Richard Burton's life and career were changed for ever by his tempestuous relationship with Elizabeth Taylor. The first programme in this new eight-part series uses interviews and extracts from Burton's notes and diaries to reveal his private agonies over his relationship with Taylor, his struggles with addiction, and his attempts to fulfil his acting potential.
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The truth behind the actor's public face: page 12

[Photo caption] A documentary on Richard Burton reveals new insights into a man whose personal life overshadowed his career.

Reputations 9.00pm BBC2
When Richard Burton died of a brain haemorrhage, his obituaries were generally agreed on one thing - he had squandered his prodigious talents as a stage actor to become a film star and celebrity husband of Elizabeth Taylor. Such accusations dogged him throughout his life, but as one of the more remarkable sequences from this excellent documentary demonstrates, his greatest champion was Taylor.

Eyes flashing and shoulders bridling with assumed offence, Taylor flies to her husband's defence in the face of an onslaught from a snooty interviewer who accuses him of selling out. She is not a woman you would wish to cross.

The pair's relationship has been well documented, but the programme looks deeper than the diamonds-and-jets lifestyle, thanks to access to Burton's own diaries. These show a frequently troubled, difficult, highly intelligent man who was forced to grapple with the "stupendous publicity" generated by his affair with and marriages to this extraordinary woman, and their implications for his own acting career.

In many ways Burton lived a classic, cliched show-business life - drink, money, enormous fame, affairs, acclaim, early death. But he was a complicated man who, when he set his mind to it, was a powerful and charismatic actor.

The programme includes many thoughtful contributions from family members and from Burton's widow, Sally, who laughs fondly as she says: "I look back on it now and I think, what the hell was I doing?"

Burton in his own words: p12

Written by David Croft and Jimmy Perry

A small fire in the church hall chimney lights up Walmington-on-Sea.

Analysis of today's news, with Jeremy Vine.

Following multi-millionaire Jacqueline Gold, boss of Ann Summers, as she goes back to sewing bras by day and selling them by night. She owns 70 sex shops and has an army of 7,500 saleswomen, but it has been 20 years since she's sold any of her own products.

Followed by 48 Preludes and Fugues

Events in at Parliament, presented by Andrew Neil.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Front Desk
1.00 Landfill for the New Millennium
1.30 Deadly Quarrels

Parenting
2.00 The Pocket Guide to Parenting Plus: Part 3

Languages
4.00 France Inside Out: Parts 2-3

Working In the Media
5.00 Press and Photography

Open University
6.00 In Search of Vector Spaces
6.30 Structural Components
Ends 7.00am.