Ends 9.00

Little Polar Bear
Animated antics.
(Repeated at 1.05pm) (R)

7.05 Playdays
A tale about two piano-playing spiders.
(R)

7.25 Tom and Jerry Kids
Cartoon cat-and-mouse capers.
(R)

7.50 The Really Wild Show
A look at working animals. With sign language.
(Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1) (S)

8.15 The Kwicky Koala Show:
More animated marsupial tales.
(R)

8.35 Moomin
Animation.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) Plants and Animals: Animal Families
(S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) Plants and Animals: Animal Care
(S)

9.30 Words and Pictures (ages 5-7) Persephone and the Pomegranate
(S)

9.45 Watch (ages 5-7)
(S)

Andy Brown and some children try to catch failing autumn leaves.
(R) (S)
BBC Music: Teletubbies CD, price £10.99, and cassette, £7.99

Fizz and Milo look in rockpools at the beach.

(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)
(S) (W)

10.50 Numbertime (ages 4-6) Time: Days of the Week
(S)

11.05 What? Where? When? Why? (ages 6-7) Health: Happy Hygiene
(S)

11.20 Zig Zag (ages 7-9) France: Brittany - the Coast
(S)

11.40 Space Ark (ages 7-11) Living: Places to Live
(S)

11.50 The Experimenter (ages 7-9) Living: Get Well Soon
(S)

12.10 Around Scotland (ages 10-12) New Scotland: How It Works - Representation
(S)

Consumer news.
Ceefax: page 238

Ends 1.10
Animated prehistoric adventures. (R)

Animated fun.
Shown at 7am

Quarter-final coverage from the Australian Open. Presented by John Inverdale, with Sue Barker in Melbourne. Commentary comes from Mark Cox and Barry Davies.
(S)

Coverage of Prime Minister's Questions live from the House of Commons. With Diana Madill.
(Contact details on Thursday)
(S)

Esther Rantzen's guests almost struck the big time, but missed out on fame by a whisker. They include ex-Beatle Pete Best.
(R) (S)

Cookery challenge show hosted by Fern Britton.
(R) (S)

Chef Gary Rhodes presents an edition of More Rhodes around Britain in which he visits Hereford and makes griddled honey apples with toffee cream, smoked eel, and seared pork belly.
(S)

Elimination quiz show hosted by Eamonn Holmes.
(R) (S)

Another raid of the archives produces memorable performances by Wham!, Ringo Starr, New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Ian Dury and Roxy Music. With Steve Wright.
(Repeated next Saturday)
(S)
(Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)

As Sisko lies in a critical condition, his mind takes him back to 20th-century USA.

(Star Trek: the Next Generation is tomorrow at 6pm)

Continuing the series in which politicians spend time in different institutions: a university, a prison and a hospital. Conservative MP Gerald Howarth and his Labour parliamentary colleague Stephen Pound become prison officers at Dartmoor. During their stint, they talk to prisoners about their lives and crimes and hear inmates' calls for a greater degree of rehabilitation.
(S)

Expert Alvin Hall continues to help people to overcome their cash crises. Kent fireman Nick McLean and his wife Julie have a second baby on the way and are trying to decide whether Julie should give up her job in advertising. Hall metes out his advice on budget parenting.
See Choice.
(S)
Information: Ceefax page 625: Website: [web address removed]

Lowri Turner investigates anti-ageing processes that don't involve time spent under the surgeon's knife. Instead, she turns to fashion, creams, foods and fitness programmes, while experts John Gustafson and Anthony Yacomine dispense their youthful make-up and hair tips.
(S)

Diarmuid Gavin is in Wandsworth, south-west London, to transform a dilapidated playground into a communal garden for 20 flat owners in a converted Victorian school. The result is a formal garden based on Sissinghurst in Kent, but one that replaces privet hedges with glass bricks.
(S) (W)

Lauren sets Robbie up with a blind date, while Charlie is reunited with an old public-school lover.
(S) (W)

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

The last of the Video Nation series features three people whose lives are governed by the seasons: Shropshire farmer Annis Tonkinson, Hasidic Jew Gabriel Lock and Scottish fisherman Ian McKinnon.
(S)

Writer/Director Mike Kelly's film tells of a girl who claims her mother has been taken by aliens.
(R) (S)

Presented by Michael Dobbs.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Open Advice
1.00 Two Religions: Two Communities
(S)
1.30 The Copulation Explosion
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 History The Cold War

Languages
4.00 Talk Spanish: Parts 3-6

Working with the Land
5.00 Numeracy and Communications

Open University
6.00 Getting It Right
(S)
6.30 Rothko: The Seagram Murals
(S)

Ends 7.00am