Ends 10.50.

Oscar's Orchestra
Starting a rerun of the animation. The piano and his friends go back in time.

7.25 Monster Rancher
Genki, Holly and the monsters battle with the evil Seed Sisters.

7.45 Blue Peter
Matt Baker joins a cable-car rescue team in Matlock, Derbyshire. With sign language. Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1

8.15 Doctor Otter
Animated woodland adventures with the mammalian medic and his accident-prone friends. Repeated at 1pm

8 25 Oakie Doke
Cartoon capers with the arboreal Mr Fixit.

8.35 64 Zoo Lane
Animal animation. Lucy learns how to conquer her fear of spiders.

8.45 Fireman Sam
A last-minute hitch hits Sam's bid for the "Best Inventor in Wales" award.

9.00 Teletubbies
In a double bill, the quartet watch three children building a giantjigsaw, before Po makes custard for Dipsy.
BBC video: Teletubbies 2 video boxed set, price £12.99

9.50 Playdays
Peggy and her friends prepare ponies and goats for the Egton village show.

10.10 Tweenies
Fizz and Jake feel frustrated about their possessions. and the Tweenies dress as sea creatures.

Repeats are not indicated.
10.50 Megamaths (ages 7-9)
Measure - Decorating
11.10 Look and Read (ages 7-9)
Spelling Strategies (part 3) 2405453 11.30 Science Zone
(ages 9-11) Electricity - Make or Break? 8610827 11.50
Landmarks (ages 9-12) Portrait of Europe - the Rhine in Germany
[number removed].10 Focus (ages 9-13) Growing Up - How Are Other People Behaving?

Business updates.
Ceefax: page 238

Shown at 8.15am.

Comedy. February 1969: as a tribute to the Alamo siege, the head of an 87-man
Mexican army crosses the border and reoccupies the historic Texas mission. Review page 53. General Maximilian Rodrigues de
Director Jerry Paris (1969, U)

Debates and decisions taking place at Westminster, presented by Zeinab Badawi.

(Contact details Wednesday)

UK Today) Weather

Esther Rantzen introduces another mix of celebrity chat and debate.
(S) (W)

More contestants are challenged to create 20-minute meals by Ainsley Harriott.

Anne Robinson hosts the elimination quiz.
(Repeated at 12.30am on BBC Choice)

Into the Lion's Den: Lambs to the Slaughter. In the first of a two-part story that concludes next Monday, Crichton plays a perilous game on board Scorpius's command carrier.
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/cult/farscape

Intervention. Spike takes delivery of a robot that has been built in Buffy's image and is obedient to his every whim.
Repeated tomorrow 12.15am WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/cult

Alaska. It covers an area larger than Britain and France combined, yet Alaska has a population smaller than Bristol. Although a stranded stranger's chances of survival, or even rescue, are slim, extraordinary tales have emerged. Mears visits "the Last Frontier" to recount the miraculous stories of a steamship that ran aground in 1910, and a float-plane pilot who crashed in one of Alaska's freezing lakes. Director Ben Southwell ; Series producer Dick Cotthurst
Repeated with sign language next Tuesday on BBC1

Fatbusters. If current trends prevail, more than one-quarter of British adults will be caught up in the obesity epidemic by 2010. As the demand for effective weight-loss methods intensifies, the science behind obesity is being closely scrutinised in the hope that a wonder drug can be produced. This film shows how metabolism, hormones and, increasingly, genetic make-up have been involved in recent research.
Producer Jackie Higgins ; Executive editor John Lynch

The Needell Family. A rare, inherited chromosome disorder means that, every time Juliet gets pregnant, she loses the baby. This Gene Stories film follows Juliet as, after eight miscarriages, she and husband Rob put their faith in cutting-edge IVF technology that could prove their only chance of having a healthy child. Narrated by John Hannah. Director Steve Greenwood : Executive producer Tessa Finch www.bbc.co.uk/genes; Ceefax: page 622: Free Booklet: ring [number removed]

Presented by Jeremy Vine.

in Group A, hosts
Mali face Nigeria - a team boasting Arsenal's
Nwankwo Kanu , Ipswich Town's Finidi George and "Jay-Jay" Okocha of Paris St Germain. Plus South Africa v Ghana.

Presented by Andrew Neil.

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Open Science 12.30 Beagle 2 - a Mission to Mars
1.15 Lab Detectives 8191564 1.30 Something in the Air 82545 2.00 Hidden Visions 43274 2.30 Lifelines
3.00 Lost Worlds - the mysteries of extinction. Curriculum Development 3.30 Explicit Learning Plus: Citizenship: Thinking Together- Starting Points Languages 4.00 French Journey (parti)
Working In Health and Care 5.00 Computer Skills
Open University 6.00 Making Contact 64090 6.30 Open Advice - the Three Degrees