With Signing.

Animated fun with Alvin and his brothers

Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1

Animation. Noddy borrows Big Ears's umbrella to protect his passengers.

(Repeated at 2pm) (Repeat)

On a visit to Californian redwood country, Lassie and Ranger Erickson meet Neeka.
(Repeat)

Note: repeats are not indicated.

9.00 The IT Collection: In the Money
(ages 16+) (Stereo)

9.25 The Art: The Art of Things
(ages 11-16)

9.45 Writing and Pictures: It's Magic!
(ages 6-7) (Stereo)

Art for 11-14 year olds looking at inanimate objects as art works including the work of architect Edward Cullinan, typographer Stephen Male & sculptor Antony Gormley. KS3 Art.

Today, the Patch Stop.

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10.30 Storytime: Peace at Last
(ages 4-5) (Stereo)

10.45 The Experimenter - Types of Materials: Out for a Duck
(ages 7-9) (Stereo)

11.05 Space Ark - Types of Materials: Water Supply
(ages 7-11) (Stereo)

11.15 Welsh History - Famous People: Betsi Cadwaladr/Daniel Evans
(ages 5-7)

11.35 Landmarks: Investigating Local History - the thirties in Perivale
(ages 9-12) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

11.55 Belief File - Christianity in Britain: Faith in Action
(ages 11-16)

12.15 Hallo aus Berlin: In der Stadt
(ages 11-13)

Welsh history series for 5 to 7 year olds. Elen Hughes travels back in time to meet nurse Betsy Cadwaladr and Patagonian settler Daniel Evans.

Business and consumer news.

1.00 Lifeschool: D Is for Death
(ages 14+) (Stereo)

1.25 Mad about Music: Playing with Ideas
(ages 11-16)

1.45 Numbertime: Number Four
(ages 4-5)

1/2 looking at composition, showing the way a film composer writes. Also included is a demonstration using computers.

(Shown at 8.20am)

Live coverage from Bournemouth, including speeches by Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine and Education Secretary Gillian Shephard.

Including at 3.00 News Regional News and Weather

Regional News and Weather

Nostalgia-based quiz. (Stereo)

Culinary competition.

Oprah Winfrey and guests offer advice for single women who want a man.

Prue Leith offers tips on selecting the correct cut of meat and the best way to cook it.

A visit to Longstock Park Gardens, an intricate seven-acre archipelago of islands and water channels in Hampshire.

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Bajor is about to elect a new spiritual leader and Kira's lover, Vedek Bareil, is the leading candidate. Then Kira learns to her horror that Bareil was implicated in a massacre.
See Sci-Fi: page 48

A roundup of the day's events at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth and a live phone-in. Tonight, viewers can questions to Chancellor Kenneth Clarke. Presented by Andrew Neil

(For details see Friday) (Stereo)

A look at how five students from the Cardiff School of Journalism cope in the outside world, with assignments as diverse as writing for "Your Dog" magazine and reporting for Channel One cable TV.

(Stereo)

The series on the arts and popular culture.

Don Simpson co-produced some of the last decade's biggest Hollywood blockbuster films, including Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun. In January this year he died from a drug overdose at his Bel Air mansion. Don Simpson's story is one of brilliance and determination that took him to the top in Hollywood. But what forces drove him to such despair and self-abuse?

In tonight's edition of the motoring magazine programme, Michele Newman visits the home of the Skoda in Prague to view their new Octavia model. And Quentin Willson casts his eye over the S-class Mercedes.

The documentary series exploring Britain's social security system.

The Department of Social Security employs 90,000 civil servants and costs £4 billion every year to administer. Tonight's programme eavesdrops on ministers and mandarins as they struggle to control Britain's biggest bureaucracy and try to find ways to improve it.

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

By the Labour Party.
With subtitles.
(Shown at 9.00pm on BBC1: 10 pm on ITV)

With Jeremy Paxman at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth and Peter Snow in London.
(Subtitled)

Tony Parsons, Allison Pearson and Howard Jacobson join host Mark Lawson to discuss the week's cultural highlights.

Followed by Weatherview

In the last programme of the series, Robbie Coltrane looks at the project to build a robot drill that can take a sample from a comet.
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Open University
12.30 The Chemistry of Survival
(Repeat)
1.00 Death and Dying: One Fact, Many Facets
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
1.30 Victorian Ways of Death
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FETV Short Cuts
2.00 Adults Learning

Languages
4.00 Now You're Talking: Progs 13/14; From the Place That Brought You the Titanic

Business and Work
5.00 The Business
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5.30 Business Matters
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Open University
6.00 The Chemistry of Creativity
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6.25 The Chemistry of Life and Death
(Repeat)
6.50 Surviving the Exam
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