With Signing.
(Stereo)

Cartoon fun with the rodent superspy, plus Winsome Witch and Squiddly Diddly.
(Repeat)

Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1)

Animated drama. Joseph helps an octopus to put on his shoes.
(Repeated at 2pm) (Repeat) (Stereo)

Parliamentary update,

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

9.00 The Science Collection: Cats, Cars and Chemists
(ages 16+)

9.25 Job Bank: Gas Service Engineer
(ages 14+) (Stereo)

9.40 Megamaths: The Nine Times Table
(ages 7-10)

The Patch Stop becomes a hive of cooking activity.

10.30 Storytime: Stanley in the Dark/Reflections
(ages 4-5) (Stereo)

10.45 Teaching Today: Materials: Does It Hold Water?
(Stereo)

11.15 In Living Memory: Struggle
(ages 14-18)

11.35 Landmarks: Pakistan and Its People - Introduction to Pakistan
(ages 9-12) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

11.55 Techno: Food - Travel Food
(ages 11-14) (Stereo)

12.15 Quinze Minutes Plus: Au College
(ages 11-13)

Business and consumer news. (Stereo)

1.00 Lifeschool: P is for Parenting
(ages 14+) (Stereo)

1.25 Isabel: Paco Vuelvea Casa
(ages 14-16) (Stereo)

1.45 Numbertime: Side by Side - Up Down, On Off
(ages 4-5)

(Shown at 8.20am) (Stereo)

The series that explores the delights and demands of family life, with practical tips and problem-solving.
(Stereo)

Regional News and Weather

The day's business in Parliament, with Diana Madill.

Regional News and Weather

Nostalgia quiz show.
(Stereo)

Cookery challenge, with Fern Britton.

Esther Rantzen talks to people with different phobias, including women who are terrified of birds, clowns, and buttons. Other guests explain how they have conquered their fears. (Stereo)

Marion and her family discover if they have made legal history.
(First shown on ITV) (Stereo)

Actress Patricia Hodge recalls the day she started acting classes at the drama school Lamda.
(Repeat)

Quark is curious when the Ferengi leader decides to abolish his race's greedy ways.
(Star Trek is tomorrow at 6pm)

Sam is transported into comedy act facing hostile crowd.
(Postponed from 16 January)
(Repeat) (Stereo)

The District Council of Welwyn/Hatfield has been ordered by the High Court to pay £50 million compensation to a property developer to whom it had been "peddling lies". However, the council's budget is only 10 million and the residents are up in arms. Andrew Hosken asks who will foot the bill.

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(Regional Programme: see variations below)

Last in the drama-documentary series.

In October 1986 the Americans and Soviets were about to hold unprecedented talks to reduce nuclear arms. Days before the summit, a nuclear submarine operating in secret off the American coast suffered a devastating accident. One of its 16 ballistic missiles exploded on board, causing severe damage and starting fires. Using classified documents, Disaster reconstructs the three-day struggle by its crew to prevent a nuclear catastrophe.

(Stereo)(Subtitled)

Jeremy Clarkson tests the Honda Legend and Toyota Camry, and asks whether these cars have sufficient pulling power to become alternatives to the vehicles traditionally chosen by high-flying executives, such as BMWs or Mercedes. Steve Berry rides the Triumph 595, the long-awaited British bike that is expected to take on Ducatis and Honda Fireblades.

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Dick feels it's time to join an ethnic group, but which one?

The Spanish conquistadors told of an Incan ceremony in which children were sacrificed to mountain gods. Historians doubted its existence, but, as the last in a three-part Horizon special reveals, several bodies have been found buried high in the Andes.
See today's choices.

Journalist Oscar Moore died of an Aids-related illness last year. Here, he reflects on mortality.

By the Conservative Party.
With subtitles.

(Shown at 9pm BBC1 and 10pm ITV) (Stereo)

With Kirsty Wark.

Germaine Greer, Allison Pearson and Jim White join Mark Lawson for a film special in which they discuss Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, John Cleese's Fierce Creatures, Steve Buscemi's Trees Lounge and Patrice Leconte's Ridicule.

Followed by Skiing Forecast

With Trevor Phillips.

Open University
12.30 The Creation of Childhood
(Repeat)
1.00 Running the Country Global Media
(Repeat)

FETV Short Cuts
2.00 TV Genres: The Police

Languages
4.00 Greek Language and People 9 and 10; French Experience Know How 5

Business and Work
5.00 The Small Business Programme
(Repeat)
20 Steps to Better Management - the Drama
(Repeat)
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Open University
6.00 Disappearing Childhood
The effects of TV.
(Repeat)
6.25 Valued Environments, Environmental Values
(Repeat)

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