The Teletubbies watch some children painting.
(Shown yesterday at 10am)

Animated marsupial fun.
(Repeat)

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

Cartoon capers with the bear.
(Repeat)

Adventures of a hairy prehistoric hero.
(Repeat) (Stereo)

Parliamentary update.
(Stereo)

(Note: all programmes are in stereo; repeats are not indicated)

9.10 Go for It: All about Me

9.25 Mad about Music: Rhythms
(ages 11-16)

9.45 Come Outside: Pencils
(ages 4-5)

Looking at the use of rhythm in a variety of musical forms - funk, contemporary, community music, flamenco & Indian Kathak dance.

The Teletubbies watch Oscar read the story of the Gingerbread Boy to his brother Felix.
(Repeated tomorrow at 7am) (Repeat)

10.30 Storytime: Jasper's Beanstalk
(ages 4-5)

10.45 The Experimenter: The Earth and Beyond: Over the Moon
(ages 7-9)

11.05 Space Ark: The Earth and Beyond: the Earth from Space
(ages 7-11)

11.15 Zig Zag: The Romans: Invasion
(ages 7-9)

11.35 TV: Friend or Foe?
(ages 11-13)

11.55 Lifeschool: U Is for Underage
(ages 14+)

Consumer issues.

Adventures of the monster family. (Repeat)

Animated fairy antics.
(Repeat)

Drama, based on a true story, starring Richard Crenna, Rhea Perlman

When he is fostered into the loving Russ family, young Gregory Kingsley experiences life in a stable and happy home for the first time and changes his name to Shawn Russ. But he is totally devastated when told by social services that his natural parents want him back.
(1993, PG)

(Stereo) (Subtitled)
(See Films: pages 48-53)

Regional News and Weather

News of today's political developments in Parliament.
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

3.25 News
Regional News and Weather

David Vine introduces further coverage from the Crucible in Sheffield of the second-round clashes at the world championship.
(Stereo)

Janeway and Paris slip back in time to warn the inhabitants of a planet of its imminent destruction.
(Repeat) (Stereo)
(Star Trek is tomorrow at 6.20pm)

Dick finds that there is something he is not good at when he invites himself to Dr Albright's evening class in art.
(Repeat) (Stereo) (Subtitled)

Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White, whose four showdowns in world finals have contributed many memorable moments to the history of this tournament, complete their first-round match at the Crucible in Sheffield. Plus coverage of today's second-round matches.
(Stereo)

A celebrity book quiz to mark World Book Day. Two teams pit their literary knowledge against each other, under the watchful eye of chairman Griff Rhys Jones. With Stephen Fry, Phill Jupitus, David Baddiel, Morwenna Banks, Meera Syal and Miles Kington.

(See today's choices)
(Stereo) (Subtitled)
(The Written World is at 10.20pm)
(See Polly Toynbee: page 8; Family: page 38)

Then World Book Day
The choice of comedian Griff Rhys Jones.

One-third of the half-a-million cars stolen annually in England and Wales are never recovered. Quentin Willson reports on evidence that suggests that many are being given the identities of legitimately owned vehicles.
How well does the latest Lotus Esprit compare with its illustrious predecessors? Tiff Needell tests the new supercar. And Jeremy Clarkson sees how the new Mercedes M-class fares in the four-wheel-drive market.

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Top Gear Magazine: £3 from newsagents

Jeremy looks at the new Mercedes 4x4 M Class and Quentin reports on cloning, the process of giving a stolen car the identities of legitimately-owned vehicles.

Continuing the look back at the training of the medical students first seen in Doctors to Be.

Three years into their training, the students meet their first real patients. Nothing has prepared them for the terror of taking blood for the first time, or stitching up a child. And still to come is the ordeal of their final exams - if they fail, they're out.

To celebrate World Book Day, a tour of the globe through the writings of some of the world's most famous contemporary novelists and poets.
See today's choices.

Then World Book Day
With poet Murray Lachlan Young.

News analysis, presented by Jeremy Paxman.
(Subtitled)

Highlights of the day's action at the Crucible, including the conclusion of Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White's first-round match.

Followed by Holiday Forecast

Political Chat Show.
(Stereo)

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Care industry
1.00 Just in Time? Restructuring Corporate America

Further Education
2.00 Mental Health Care

Teaching Film and Media
4.00 Inside the Wrong Trousers
(Subtitled)
4.30 Film Education: Marketing Movies

Teacher Training
5.00 Teaching and Learning with IT: Key Stage 1
Teaching Today Special: Foreign Languages 1
Teachers and learners.

Open University
5.45 Global Tourism
6.10-7.00am Women, Children and Work
The costs of childcare.