Animation. (R)

Why Bird rides on a lorry along the road.
(R)

Cat-and-mouse cartoon fun.
(R)

Children's magazine.
(Shown last Friday BBC1) (S) (W)

More seafaring treasure-seeking.
(R)

Animated adventures in Moomin Valley.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Come Outside: Spiders
(ages 4-5)

9.15 Storytime: I Love Animals
(ages 4-5)

9.30 Words and Pictures: Need a Trim Jim
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.45 Watch
(ages 5-7) (S)

A boy helps to paint patterns for the Hindu festival of Diwali.
(R) (S)

Pre-school fun.

Max uses magic polish to make dull metal sparkle and shine.
(Repeated 3.25pm, BBC1) (S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

10.50 Numbertime: Side by Side
(ages 4-5) (S)

11.05 What? Where? When? Why: Autumn Changes
(ages 6-7) (S)

11.20 English Express: Language Skills
(ages 9-11) (S)

11.40 Megamaths
(ages 7-9) (S)

12.00 Space Ark
(ages 7-11) (S)

12.10 Around Scotland
(ages 10-12) (S)

Craig Charles explores how choosing and using words helps conjure up images in people's minds.

Developments in the business and consumer arenas.

Children's animation.
(R)

(ages 7-9) (S)

Expert tips and ideas.
Judith Miller transforms an Edwardian bedhead.
(R)

Including collectable items from the thirties and fifties. (S)

A wedding clashes with army matters. (BW) (R)

Highlights of the annual road race from Newcastle to South Shields, staged yesterday.

Regional News (S), Weather

Celebrity house-matching panel game with Ross Kelly and guests, actor Gary Webster and BBC royal reporter Jennie Bond.

Chefs create a feast costing £5 or less. With Fern Britton.
(S)
Recipes: see Ceefax page

Lowri Turner presides over a discussion on the pressures and pleasures of bringing up a clever child.
(S)

The second quarter-final, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh.
(S)

Bart falls for the Rev Lovejoy's beautiful daughter.
With the voice of Meryl Streep.
(S)
(A Simpsons double bill starts on Friday at 6pm)

Fraser and Ray discover a female Mounty has dangerous secrets. Last in the series.
(S)

In the last of the series, Quentin Willson looks at the De Lorean sports car. It was built in Belfast with the aid of a £52 million government grant. But in 1982, a year after the car went on sale, the factory closed down.
(S) (W)

Jeremy Paxman is the question master as Salford university take on the Royal Academy of Music.
(S) (W)

Sophie Grigson visits the South West for her latest cost-conscious meal, which features seared chicken and peach sandwich with basil mayonnaise, roasted peppers, mussels with tomato, basil and garlic, and chocolate cake.
(S) (W)
Cakes with Sophie Grigson: Food, page 46

Comic goings-on in a celebrity-strewn suburban street.
(R) (S)

With Kirsty Wark.
Including at 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

Kaye Adams hosts the monthly debate in which viewers give their opinions to BBC bosses. Topics include BBC1's documentary Eyes of a Child, about child poverty in Britain.
(S)

First of four episodes this week of the US comedy.

Kramer and Newman hatch a money-making scheme, while George's job is at risk.
(For cast see Tuesday) (S)

Followed by Video Nation Shorts
(S)

Repeats are not indicated.
Open University 12.30 Independent Living (S) 74164 1.00
Talking about Care (S) 34183 1.30 Images of Disability (S) Secondary Schools 2.00 History (S) Languages 4.00 Talk Spanish (1-4)
Working in Engineering 5.00 Nine to Five Manage Yourself 53198 5.30 Running a Team
Open University 6.00 Reflections on a Global Screen (S)
6.30 The Chemistry of the Invisible Ends7.00am (S)