7.00 Noddy in Toyland
Planet pup feels left out when Kate and Truman play with a real dog.

7.30 Top Cat
Top Cat promotes Dibble's singing career.
(Repeat)

7.55 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday 5.10pm, BBC1)

8.20 Dastardly and Muttley
Cartoon capers.
(Repeat)

8.40 Polka Dot Shorts
More adventures with Polkaroo in the Land of Roo.

8.50 Tales of Aesop
The Tortoise and the Hare, narrated by Tom Baker.
(Repeat)

(Note: repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Job Bank: Mechanical Engineer
(ages 14-19) (Subtitled)

9.10 Watch Out: New Life
(ages 7-11)

9.30 Watch: Art Start - Collage
(ages 5-7) (Subtitled)

9.45 Come Outside: Cleaning
(ages 4-5)

The Tubbies sing their special songs into Tinky Winky's bag.
(Repeat)

10.30 Storytime: A New Home for Tiger
(ages 4-5)

10.45 The Experimenter: The Environment - Beside the Seaside
(ages 7-9) (Subtitled)

11.05 Space Ark: The Environment
(ages 7-11) (Subtitled)

11.15 Zig Zag: Ancient Greece - Persians
(ages 7-9) (Subtitled)

11.35 Pathways of Belief: Christianity - Easter
(ages 7-9+) (Subtitled)

11.50 Susanne
Drama serial in German
(ages 14-16)

12.10 The Geography Programme: Investigating Britain
(ages 11-13)

The series takes a closer look at food production in Europe, as developments in agriculture have seen yields double, creating a surplus.

Business and consumer news.

Narrated by Geoffrey Matthews.
(Repeat)

This afternoon Bob Langley explores the outdoor life in Anglesey.
(Repeat)

Eamonn Holmes meets Olympic rowing champion Steve Redgrave.

Parliamentary news.

Word panel game.
(Repeat)

Les undergoes surgery.
(First shown on ITV)

Cookery challenge.

Esther Rantzen hosts a discussion on some women's health issues. Studio guests include broadcaster Lynn Faulds Wood and Conservative MP Teresa Gorman.

More celebrities undertake the challenge of identifying home owners.

With the federation's help, the Bajoran government is about to tap the energy of its fifth moon. Kira and Dax are assigned to ensure that all the inhabitants have been evacuated.
(Repeat)

Buffy is invited to a party at the Delta Zeta Kappa fraternity house, where she discovers a terrifying secret.

The Peugeot 205 Gti was in demand a decade ago, but its popularity declined in the face of the recession and soaring car theft. Tonight Tiff Needell tests its successor, the new Peugeot Gti, which is a little larger, heavier and faster- but is it a lot better?
Meanwhile Steve Berry reports from the Isle of Man on the progress of motorbike trials champion Dougie Lamkin in the World Outdoor Trials.
(Digital widescreen)

The series on the history of the solar system continues.

Although there is a volcano on Mars, and Venus has giant plains of frozen lava, for many years it seemed that the planets' surfaces were geologically dead. But at the end of the seventies, living volcanoes spitting boiling sulphur, ice and frozen nitrogen were found on the moons of Jupiter and Neptune.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen)
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First in a three-part series exploring the emotions and conventions surrounding death and bereavement.

Susan Sinclair's children explain how planning her funeral helped them come to terms with their loss.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen)
See John Peel: page 9

With Jeremy Paxman. Including at 11.00 News headlines.

Then Video Nation Shorts

Mark Lawson is joined by Tom Paulin, Tony Parsons and Bonnie Greer to review the week's cultural highlights, including Clint Eastwood's latest film True Crime and the TV series From Earth to the Moon, starring Tom Hanks.

Bilko has to reconcile a wealthy father and his would-be sculptor son.
(Black and white) (Repeat)

Followed by Holiday Weather

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Black Triangle
1.00 Relationships
1.50 Open Late - Health and Social Welfare

Further Education
2.00 Marketing

Teaching Film and Media
4.00 Film Education: The Holocaust on Film
4.30 Film Education: The Distributor's Tale

Business and Training
5.00 Webwise: Working on the Internet

Open University
5.45 Who Belongs to Glasgow?
(Subtitled)
6.10-7.00am From Public to Private
The effects of privatisation