Ends 9.00

Christopher Crocodile
(Shown on Tuesday at 1pm)

7.05 Playdays
Peggy Patch visits a vegetable show and finds out how the prize exhibits are grown. (R)

7.25 Tom and Jerry Kids
Triple bill of cat-and-mouse chaos with the rivals in their early years.
(R)

7.50 Blue Peter
(Shown yesterday at 5.10pm on BBC1) (S) (W)

8.15 The Kwicky Koala Show
Animated triple bill featuring the peace-loving marsupial.
(R)

8.35 Moomin
More fun and frolics amid the changeable climate of Moomin Valley.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Cats' Eyes: Plants and Animals: Is It Living?
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes: Plants and Animals: Flowers, Seeds and Plants
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.30 Writing and Pictures: The Tailors
(ages 6-7) (S)

9.45 Watch: Faith Stories
(ages 5-7) (S)

Po counts to three, then the quartet decide to watch Sam go for a ride in a helicopter.
(R) (S)
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When Jake can't find his toy train anywhere, the others all help to make a runaway train from cardboard boxes.
(Shown last Thursday BBC1) (S) (W)

10.50 Numbertime: Numbers 11-20: Number 11
(ages 4-6) (S)

11.05 Zig Zag: Tales from Europe
(ages 8-10) (S)

11.20 Zig Zag: Weather
(ages 7-9) (S)

11.40 Look and Read: Through the Dragon's Eye
(ages 7-9) (S)

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

12.10 Science Zone: Living: Fit for Life
(ages 9-11) (S)

The latest business and consumer news.

Animation. Romuald loses the school hamster.
(R)

More action from the Australian Open. Last year's tournament saw a culling of male seeded players, with none of the top five making it beyond round four.

Hosted by John Inverdale, with Sue Barker in Melbourne.
Commentary by Barry Davies and Mark Cox.
(S)

Live coverage from Potters Leisure Resort of the opening quarter-final clash. Presented by Dougie Donnelly, with match commentary by David Rhys Jones, John Bell, Mal Hughes and David Corkhill.
(S) (W)

An update on the day's events in Parliament with Diana Madill, plus the chance to question the politicians by phone.
(S)
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(S) Weather

More quarter-final action from Norfolk. Players triumphant in the best-of-five-sets clashes will receive a guaranteed payday of at least £7,000.
(S) (W)

Picard, Riker and Admiral Pressman undertake a mission to retrieve top-secret equipment.
(R) (S)

Buffy falls into a hunter's trap in Makeout Park after Xander and Cordelia barely escape the clutches of a new menace to Sunnydale's teens: a werewolf.
(Repeated next Saturday) (S)

The world's richest collection of historic shipwrecks lies under the Channel just off the coast of Kent - however, maritime archaeologists fear that this priceless treasure is being neglected by the Government.
(First shown on BBC South) (S)
(Regional Programme: see panel on left for variations)

The first of four investigations into the often shady practices employed by various housing professionals.

Reporter Paul Kenyon goes undercover in Dorset and in Birmingham, where he exposes "ladder gangs" - unscrupulous builders who convince elderly and vulnerable people to contract them for work that is often overpriced and sometimes totally unnecessary.
(S)
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The series returns after a short break with a special edition from Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Tiff Needell test-drives the new Shelby Series land talks to the car's creator, Carrol Shelby. Plus a night-vision Cadillac and an appraisal of the new Ford F-150 Lightning. With Quentin Willson, Vicki Butler-Henderson and Kate Humble.
(S) (W)

Continuing the series that illuminates the lives of ancient peoples. Showing as part of the History 2000 strand.

Julian Richards joins a team of archaeologists and other experts on a patch of waste ground near Peterborough as they try to piece together the lives of Britain's earliest Anglian settlers.
See Choice.
(S)

Roughly 2,000 years ago, the Nasca people of Peru made strange desert markings so large they could be seen in full only from the air. Aided by colleagues Brian Harrison and Andrea Drusini, archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici tries to excavate Cahuachi, the monumental city that was home to the Nasca, and unlock its secrets.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

How housework can be less of a chore for people who don't live in houses.
(R) (S)

With Jeremy Paxman. At 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

Mark Lawson is joined by Tom Paulin, Bonnie Greer and Ekow Eshun to discuss the week's major cultural events. The new BBC2 drama series Gormenghast, which began on Monday, is one of the subjects for consideration.

Presented by Sian Williams.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Background Brief
12.45 What Have the Eighties Ever Done for Us?
1.00 The WebStory.com/Tomorrow
1.30 Final Frontier
1.45 What Have the Eighties Ever Done for Us?
2.00 The Birth of Liquid Crystals
(S)
2.30 Uncertain Principles
(S)
3.00 A Thread of Quicksilver
(S)

Curriculum Development
3.30 Teaching Today: ICT

Languages
4.00 Italianissimo: Parts 5-8

Working with the Land
5.00 The Future

Open University
6.00 Looking for Hinduism in Calcutta
(S)
6.30 Wallace in Wales
(S)
Ends 7.00am