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The Puppy's Further Adventures
Petey and his pals befriend a puppy who can fly -thanks to his long, floppy ears.
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7.25 C Bear and Jamal
The duo learn about the truth - and nothing but the truth.
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7.45 Smart
Making model animals and creating Chinese masks.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
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8.10 Bill and Ben
The flowerpot men find that looking after Tad the frog can be very tiring.
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8.20 Fireman Sam
Disaster is on the agenda today for the Pontypandy firefighter.
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8.30 Noddy in Toyland
The children learn a lesson that not everything that looks like rubbish needs to be thrown away.
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9.00 Tweenies Christmas Countdown
Fizz spins the wheel on day 14.
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Then Tweenies
The friends think that Max and Doodles are going to leave them for ever. Later, everyone has a part to play in a production of Aladdin.
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BBC CD-ROM: Ready to Play, for PC and Playstation, price £19.99

9.40 Playdays
Poppy begins to think that she is being ignored when Karl's friend visits with her new baby.
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10.00 Teletubbies
The friends play a game hiding behind the trees and watch some elephants in a safari park. Later, in a repeated episode, Little Bo Peep appears in Teletubbyland.
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BBC CD-ROM: Play with the Teletubbies, for PC and Playstation, price £19.99

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10.50 Storytime: Christmas Bear (ages 4-5)
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11.05 Watch: Weather-Rain (ages 5-7)
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11.20 Words and Pictures: Magic Pencil (part 4) (ages 5-6)
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11.35 Hands Up!: The Enormous Crocodile (ages 7-9)
with sign language.
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11.50 See You, See Me: Eurolinks (ages 7-9)
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12.10 Landmarks: Rivers of the World - the Nile (ages 9-12)
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The programme shows the physical power of the Angara river in Siberia, its ability to erode its banks, carve out a valley & carry boulders in flood. Show more

Schools programme which shows how the river Nile in Egypt has given life to the desert, and how people in ancient and modern times live through agriculture and fishing. Show more

Roundup of business and personal-finance news.

Further live coverage from the Barbican Centre in York as the first semi-final in this year's UK championship gets underway.

The match will be played over two sessions on a best-of-17-frames basis. At this stage last year, Stephen Hendry took on John Higgins, who went on to win the tournament, while Mark Williams faced Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Introduced by Hazel Irvine, with analysis from Steve Davis and John Parrott.
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Andrew Duncan meets Ronnie O'Sullivan: page 28

Including at: 3.20 News; Regional News (Digital: UK Today) Weather
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More questions and quips with Anne Robinson in the American version of the quiz.
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(Repeated at 12 midnight on BBC Choice)
BBC Products: CD-Roms, Weakest Link, for PC and Playstation, both £24.99; video Weakest Link - Insults and Exits, price M.99, available now

Bart invokes Lisa's envy when he uses manipulative human-interest stories to outshine her as a co-presenter on a children's news programme. (S)

Continuing the special series of the radio-controlled robot fighting show that pits past champions against each other. Presented by Craig Charles and Julia Reed.
(Repeated at 12.35am)
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BBC Robot Wars Magazine: £1.50. January issue on sale 17 December

Continuing live coverage of the UK championship from York's Barbican Centre, where a maximum of nine frames will decide the first place in Sunday's final. Presented by Hazel Irvine, Steve Davis and John Parrott.
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Charlie Dimmock guides Northamptonshire neighbours through the creation of designer gardens from scratch.

The series concludes as the completed gardens are opened to the village and Dimmock joins each of the neighbours to look back at some of the high points and low marks of the two-month project.
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More highlights from the last series, with a focus on people who are passionately devoted to their gardening projects. Including a visit to the vast biodomes of the Eden Project and a glimpse of history through Vita Sackville-West's inspirational garden at Sissinghurst in Kent. Series producer Colette Foster ; Executive producer
TonyLaryea (Revised rpt) (S) (W) BBC MAGAZINES: Gardeners. World. £2.60. January issue on sale now Gardens Illustrated. L3.50. December/January issue on sale now BBC BOOK: Rower of the Moment, price £18.99 Milestones in gardening: page 15

Professor Robin Knox-Johnston and an international crew attempt to cross the North Sea using only the primitive navigational methods available to the Vikings 1,000 years ago. To complete the challenge, they aim to drag their nine-ton vessel across Shetland to the Atlantic.
First shown as part of the Secrets of the Ancients series.
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Archaeological illustrator Jane Brayne explores remains from a Domesday village.
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In an episode from 1973, Mainwaring decides that the platoon should spend the night in an apparently deserted house.
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Germaine Greer, Natasha Walter and Mark Kermode join Mark Lawson to discuss the week's cultural highlights.

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Steve Davis and John Parrott present highlights of today's opening UK championship semi-final match.
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(Shown 6.25pm)
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Crime drama starring Terence Morgan and Hazel Court. On his release from jail, gangster Augie Cortona tries to reestablish his position in the crime underworld by setting up a sleazy photographic business. Review page 59.
Director John Lemont (1959) (BW) (S)

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