Animated tales.
(R)

Why Bird helps to deliver the mail.
(R)

Animated fun with the hungry Tasmanian devil.
(R)

The team launch the annual "Bike Right" competition.
(Shown last Friday BBC1) (S) (W)

Animated tales with the pups on Biskitt Island.
(R)

Animated adventures in Moomin Valley.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Come Outside: Apples
(ages 4-5)

9.15 Storytime: New Clothes for Alex
(ages 4-5)

9.30 Words and Pictures
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.45 Watch
(ages 5-7) (S)

Animated characters introduce us to images of different places. Artist Clare Goddard makes a cityscape collage using recycled teabag.

Two boys make models from clay.
(R) (S)

More pre-school fun.

It's snowing and the Tweenies learn about heat and cold.
(Repeated 3.25pm BBC1) (S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

10.50 Numbertime: Shapes: Circles
(ages 4-6) (S)

11.10 Zig Zag: A Walk through Time
(ages 7-9) (S)

11.30 English Express
(ages 9-11) (S)

11.50 Megamaths: Division: Divide by Two
(ages 7-9) (S)

12.10 Landmarks: World Environmental Changes
(ages 9-11) (S)

Developments in the business and consumer arenas.

Live-action and animation. Noddy cheers up Big Ears.
(R)

(ages 9-11) (S)

Holidays in Weymouth, Dorset, and Cornwall.

Disney adventure, based on a true story. A ill-prepared Canadian scientist journeys to the Arctic wilderness to observe wolves.
(1983, PG) (S)
Films: pp 82-88 ***

Celebrity house-matching panel game with Ross Kelly and guests TV presenter Alice Beer and chef Antony Worrall Thompson.

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

In this Christmas edition from 1997, Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson prepare a lavish feast for the choirboys of Winchester Cathedral.
(R) (S)
(Another edition on Friday at 4.30pm)

Daily debate. Lowri Turner hosts a debate on women in politics. Guests include MPs Joan Ruddock and Jackie Ballard.
(S)

Daily DIY show with advice on using leftovers and oddments, with Linda Barker. Today, colourful touches are added to a flat in east London.
(S)

Lisa joins an ice-hockey team.
(A Simpsons double bill starts on Friday at 6pm)
(S)

Call of the Wild (part 2). Concluding the last-ever adventure for Mounty Benton Fraser. The trail of an arms dealer leads to the Yukon. With guest star Leslie Nielsen. (S) A rerun of the first series of Due South is scheduled to start next Monday

Continuing the sweep through 1,000 years of world history.

AD 1200-1300 sees Genghis Khan and his Mongol horsemen thunder across Asia, creating the world's largest land empire. The advance westwards is halted by the Mamelukes, who turn Cairo into one of the world's great cities. Narrated by Ben Kingsley.
(S) (W)
Website: [web address removed]

Then Floral Britannica
Focusing on another British plant.

Prog 11 of 19:HENBANE:The most sinister of wildflowers, and the most misused Henbane was used by Dr Crippin.

Jeremy Paxman is the question master as St Catharine's College, Cambridge, take on Oriel College, Oxford.
(S)

Delia Smith's back-to-basics cookery guide continues with easy-to-make shortcrust, flan and flaky pastry. She bakes a smoked fish quiche, pumpkin pie and mincemeat ravioli.
(R) (S)
(Delia Smith's Christmas is tomorrow at 4.30pm)
BBC Video: Delia's How to Cook Part One, price £19.99

Comedy in a celebrity-strewn suburban street. Jagger tries to attract customers to the shop, while Bowie tries comedy.
(R) (S)
(Another episode can be seen on Thursday at 10.20pm)

Comedy sketches with Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, Caroline Aherne and John Thomson.
(R) (S)

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

The family celebrate Christmas, but Cicily contracts malaria.
(The series continues tomorrow at 11.20pm) (S)

Analysis of events in Parliament. With Michael Dobbs.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Fortress Britain
(S)
1.00 Out of the Melting Pot
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Religious Education

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo (5-8)

Working In: Webwise
5.00 Get Webwise: Getting Started on the Web
5.30 Computers Still Don't Bite

Open University
6.00 Who Belongs to Glasgow?
(S)
6.30 The Chemistry of Power
Ends 7.00am
(S)