Ends 9.00.

Playdays
A shopping trip to the supermarket.
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7.20 Albert the Fifth Musketeer
More swashbuckling adventures with the lesser-known musketeer.
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7.45 Get Your Own Back
Continuing the game show presented by Dave Benson Phillips and Lisa Brockwell.
(Shown last Friday on BBC1)
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8.10 Monster Rancher
A young boy named Genki is sucked into a virtual world where he rescues a monster called Mocchi.
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8.35 Animorphs
Sci-fi adventure series about five teenagers battling an alien invasion.
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Two teams scour Newmarket antiques fair for bargains. With David Dickinson.
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One of the best episodes from the last series of the debate show. With Robert Kilroy-Silk.
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Followed by News; Weather
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More home makeovers with Anna Ryder Richardson and the design team.
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A Shropshire couple hope to turn a former village store into a dream home. (S)

The Australian school drama.
Kurt is swayed by Lachlan's right-wing rhetoric, but Anita sets him straight. (S)

Three viewers receive thorough makeovers. (R) (S)

Weekday roundup of consumer and financial news.

Penguin fun. (R)

The first of five episodes this week on the natural history of the Pacific Polynesian islands. Today's programme looks at the tropical paradise of Tahiti.
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Western starring Claudette Colbert and Barry Sullivan. Texas in the 1880s: an emancipated woman, heading west to start a new career as a newspaper editor, lands in trouble with two ruthless cattle barons. Review page 54.
Director Tim Whelan (1955. U) (S)

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The topical studio debate, hosted by Esther Rantzen.
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Another outing for the culinary challenge show, with Ainsley Harriott.
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First of the week's editions of the elimination quiz, hosted by Anne Robinson.
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Homer has a close encounter.
Featuring the voices of Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny and Leonard Nimoy.
(Double bill on Friday at 6pm)
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In an attempt to prove that he's the best man for the job on Hilary's TV show, Will escorts a famous comedian's sister out on the town.
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Troy Tempest finds that his life is put in danger during the making of a film.
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Another chance to see the four-part series in which historian Michael Wood charts the Spanish conquest of the New World.

In this, the first episode, Wood follows the mountainous route that Cortes and his band of daring conquistadors took to the fateful meeting with the Aztec leader, Montezuma, in Mexico City.
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BBC Products: Conquistadors book £18.99, double video £19.99 and audio tape £13.99, from retailers

The first in a new series of the inter-college quiz. Host Jeremy Paxman asks demanding questions of students from Hull University and Somerville College, Oxford.
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Second in the six-part repeat showing of the series in which Adam Hart-Davis examines Roman ideas and inventions.

Hart-Davis analyses the military strength and effectiveness of the Roman army and visits the Lunt, a reconstruction of an early wooden fort near Coventry.
(Postponed from 16 July)
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More caricatures and sketches from the team that includes Paul Whitehouse and Caroline Aherne.
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Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are joined by comedian Linda Smith and former Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott.
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Analysis of the day's main news stories, with Jeremy Vine.
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Charting the endeavours of an ambitious British team to launch the Beagle 2 probe on its mission to Mars.
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The pilot episode of a new US comedy series set in a newsroom.

A surprise announcement by Pearce McKenzie leads Al to the wrong conclusion.
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(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 A Tale of Two Capitals - Paris and Rome
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1.20 Ever Wondered?
Why music makes us tingle.
1.30 Theory and Practice
Great composers.
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Parenting
2.00 The Pocket Guide to Parenting Plus: Part 2
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Languages
4.00 Talk Italian: Parts 5-6; Italy Inside Out - Venice

Working in Hospitality
5.00 Careers

Open University
6.00 Putting Training to Work: Britain and America
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6.30 Public Murals in New York
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