Ends 9.00.

UBOS
Cassy and Gus seek out mystical gemstone.

7.20 Blue Peter
Including the return of the sci-fi adventure The Quest.
(Shown last Friday, BBC1)

7.45 X-periMENTAL
Teams from Blackpool and Stockport lock horns. Shown Wednesday, BBC1

8 00 Round the Twist
Linda gets a broken nose.

8.25 Flint the Time Detective
Benkei Minamoto plans to prove he is the strongest warrior.

8.50 Sheeep
The wolves plan to steal Captain Bleat's cargo.

Ends 10.50.

Clifford the Big Red Dog
Has T-Bone got Mac into trouble?

9.15 Bob the Builder
Bob erects a fence for farmer Pickles.

Followed by CBeebies Birthdays

9.30 Binka
Binka gets pestered by a strange cat.

9.40 Fimbles
Pom finds a doll.
(Shown last Friday)

10.00 Tweenies
Fizz's mother is expecting a baby. [web address removed]
BBC Tweenies magazine: published monthly £1.40. New issue on sale now.

10.25 Teletubbies
Noo Noo sucks up Tinky Winky's bag. [web address removed]

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10.50 English Express (ages 9-11) Texts - Those Terrible Tudors 8310403 11.10 Primary History (ages 9-11) Britain Since 1948-the Thatcher Years
11.30 The Experimenter (ages 7-9) Switching On 2020861 11.50 See You, See Me (ages 7-9) Are
You Eco-friendly?-the Mountain 5920823 12.10 Around Scotland (ages 10-12) Children of Coal and Iron - Workers Unite

The first of the week's finance and business news round-ups. With Adam Shaw.

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1.00 Magic Key (ages 5-6) Biff and the Queen of Hearts (Reasons and Explanations)
115 Numbertime (ages 4-6) Time - Clock Face

Sequel to the religious epic The Robe, starring Victor Mature and Susan Hayward.

After witnessing the Crucifixion, Demetrius is given the robe Christ wore on the way to the cross. After hiding it, Demetrius is forced to become a gladiator. Review page 47.
(1954. PG)

(Digital: BBC London
News); Weather

The first of five weekday celebrity profiles explores the life of comedian Benny Hill.

Cookery contest.

Elimination quiz.

Saturdays of Thunder. Homer's paternal shortcomings lead him to attempt a bond with Bart over a go-kart.

Will's Misery. Will has cause to rue a chat-up line he uses on a sorority recruit, while Geoffrey considers legal action. Another episode is on Thursday at 6.20pm

Crichton watches an alien film that he hopes will help locate a secret base.

The University of Sheffield lock horns with Merton College, Oxford in the last second-round match. With Jeremy Paxman. Director Tracey Rooney ; Producer Peter Gwyn
Another collegiate battle is on Friday at 7pm on BBC4

An Audi S3 is on its way out, and something fast and noisy is on its way in for Jim Henderson of the West Midlands. Jason Barlow and Dominic Littlewood help him choose a car, then send him off to buy it and sell his old one.
Director Paul Barnett ; Series producer Karen Mackinder

Ends 10.30.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks Singer Sarah Whatmore of Pop Idol, vocalist Dennis Locorriere of 1970s popsters Dr Hook, TV presenter Fearne Cotton and Christian Datsun from New Zealand rockers the Datsunsjoin Phill
Jupitus, Bill Bailey and Mark Lamarrforthe comic pop quiz. Director Paul Wheeler ; Producers Simon Bullivant and Warren Prentice
Repeated next Sunday
9.30 Shooting Stars Hosts Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer , team captains Ulrika Jonsson and Will Self, and regular Johnny Vegas welcome TV presenter Tess Daly , actor Nick Moran and radio DJ Stuart Hall for more quiz-show quirkiness. Director Richard Valentine : Producer Lisa Clark
First shown on BBC Choice
10.00 The Kumars at No 42 Actress June Whitfield and singer-turned-DJ Boy George join the Kumar clan for another round of cross-questioning. Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar , Meera Syal , Indira Joshi and Vincent Ibrahim.
Written by Richard Pinto , Sharat Sardana , Sanjeev Bhaskar : Producers Lissa Evans. Richard Pinto. Sharat Sardana ; Executive producers Jimmy Mulville ,
DeniseO'Donoghue

June Whitfield and Boy George join the Kumar clan.

Analysis of the news, with Kirsty Wark.

Beginning a four-part Correspondent special in which reporter Ben Anderson visits the countries branded "evil" by George W Bush. His first destination is North Korea, a hermit kingdom which lives with paranoid propaganda and fear of nuclear war.
(Continues tomorrow at 11.20pm)
(First shown on BBC4)

TV Insider Danger man
After working on Donal Maclntyre's controversial investigation into a Kent care home, reporter Ben Anderson (right) has again gone under cover, this time for his own series. In Holidays in the Axis of Evil (11.20pm BBC2), he takes tourist trips to the six countries the USA has labelled the enemies of international law and order, starting with North Korea. Not that Anderson went entirely unnoticed. "We were detained by the authorities in Iran," says Anderson, 28. "They accused us of working for MI5, and interrogated us for about five hours every night for a week. It's a real shame because the result is the complete opposite of the film I wanted to make about Iran." Not that it's deterred him from under-cover work. Next, Anderson tells RT, he's planning to go to the Philippines in search of al-Qaeda. Clearly, Anderson's is a name to watch out for.

Are guns now a cheap and glamorous fashion accessory widely available in our cities? Reporter David Akinsanya investigates the proliferation of firearms and learns what to do when confronted with a gun. Producer Richard Bee ; Executive producer Colin Savage

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Open University 12.30 Music and Place - Long and Remembered Hills 39411 1.00 Building the Perfect Beast 1578625 1.50 Ever Wondered?
Secondary Schools 2.00 Geography France 2000 Languages 4.00 Italy Inside Out (parts 3-4)
The Tool Kit to Communicating 5.00 Talking with Others Open University 6.00 Bringing Home the Bacon
6.30 Manet