Ends 9.00.

Playdays
Rosie and Mr Jolly learn all about time. (R)

7.20 Top Cat
A new cat in town tries to cut in on TC's scams. (R)

7.45 The Really Wild Show
With sign language. The team visit Venezuela. Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1 (S)

8.10 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
Prehistoric cartoon fun. (R)

8.35 Jim Henson's Animal Show
Today's puppet guests are a dolphin and a fruit bat. (R)

This programme looks at the beastly behaviour of some of the animal kingdom's wild. Visiting Trinidad and Tabago and England's Gloustershire the team meets some macaws.

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) The Earth and beyond: Rocks
(S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) The Earth and beyond: Sun and Water
(S)

9.30 Words and Pictures (ages 5-7) The Leopard's Drum
(S)

9.45 Watch (ages 5-7) Music: the Songcatcher
(S)

The Tubbies watch Andy Brown and some children looking for otters.
(R) (S)
BBC Music: Teletubbies CD, price £10.99, and cassette, £7.99

Milo buys a magic wand and becomes a wizard.

(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)
(S)(W)

10.50 Numbertime (ages 4-6) Time: Half-past
(S)

11.05 What? Where? When? Why? (ages 6-7) Transport: Planes
(S)

11.20 Zig Zag (ages 7-9) Environment: Using the World's Resources
(S)

11.40 Space Ark (ages 7-11) The Earth and beyond: the Earth from Space
(S)

11.50 The Experimenter (ages 7-9) The Earth and beyond: over the Moon
(S)

12.10 Around Scotland (ages 10-12) Looking at Scottish Art: Places
(S)

Consumer news.
Ceefax: page 238

Animated prehistoric adventures.
(R)

Cartoon fun at the North Pole.
(R)

Coast to Coast
Janet Street-Porter's walk continues through the Vale of Pewsey to Devizes in Wiltshire.
(R) (S)

1.40 Langley Country
Bob Langley and his team explore the leafy Surrey town of Dorking and the surrounding North Downs.

Dermot Cavanagh offers expert painting tuition to Loyd Grossman at Narrow Water Castle in the Mourne mountains, County Down.

(First shown in Northern Ireland)

Live coverage from the Commons of Prime Minister's Question Time. Presented by Diana Madill.
(Contact details on Thursday)
(S)

(S) Weather

Guests join Esther Rantzen to try to decipher why some people are deemed more attractive than others.
(S)

Cookery challenge, presented by Fern Britton.
(S)

Shown at 10am on BBC1 (S)

During an investigation, Julian finds that a new interpretation is being applied to his missions.
(S)
(Star Trek: the Next Generation is tomorrow at 6pm)

Paying close attention to physical appearance has traditionally been considered a female characteristic, yet now many men are also becoming body-conscious. Dr Phil Hammond gives himself eight weeks to get into the sort of shape to adorn the cover of a men's fitness magazine.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Trust me I'm a cover star: page 22

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen of Changing Rooms and Diarmuid Gavin of Home Front in the Garden join forces to give an insight into the relationship between designers and their clients. This week, they create a new kitchen and garden for a businesswoman who loves modernity, yet who would like to indulge her sensitive side. The result is a powder-pink kitchen with stainless steel fittings, and an outdoor sunken living room decked out in orange.
(S) (W)

In the first of five new programmes, the controversial documentary strand investigates the practice of paying women to donate their eggs. Although illegal in Britain, it is big business in California.

Egg-donor agencies help couples find the perfect donor, who can pick up $3,000-$50,000. This programme follows a couple, who have had one child using another woman's eggs, as they try to pay for another, while their original donor meets the child who is, genetically speaking, hers.
(S) (W)

The residents of the homeless hostel featured on Sunday help an organic farmer harvest his crop of sprouts.
(S)
(Next programme tomorrow at 10.20pm)

With Jeremy Paxman. At 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

Lancashire comedian Charlie Hale joins Sandra Bee, Curtis Walker and Gina Yashere in the comedy show that looks back on the events of the past week.
(S) (W)

Adventures on Telly (part 2). The pals go to the North Pole. With the guest voice of Paul Merton. (R) (S) (W)

Presented by Andrew Neil.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 News and the Democratic Agenda?
1.00 Playing Safe - measures to avoid childhood accidents.
(S)
1.30 France in the Viewfinder
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Technology

Languages
4.00 Japanese Language and People: Parts 7-8
with in-vision subtitles.

Working for Local Government
5.00 Numeracy and Communications
Interaction in the workplace.

Open University
6.00 Forest Futures
(S)
Ends 7.00am.