Ends 9.00

Little Polar Bear
Animated antics.
Repeated at 1pm (R)

7.05 Playdays
Poppy, Peggy and Why find an unusual farmyard. (R)

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

7.50 The Really Wild Show
Featuring a look at hippos. 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)

From Cameroon, this programme looks at bushbabies, the potto and the straw coloured fruit bats that leave their roost in Cameroon's capital city, Yaounde.

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) Living: Night Life
(S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) Living: Being Healthy
(S)

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

9.45 Watch (ages 5-7)
(S)

Andy Brown and some children watch badgers. Dipsy plays a game.
(R) (S)
BBC Music: Teletubbies CD, price £10.99, and cassette, £7.99

Jake has a colourful adventure as a superhero.
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)
(S) (W)

10.50 Numbertime (ages 4-6)
(S)

11.05 What? Where? When? Why? (ages 6-7): Health: Fit for Fun
(S)

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

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

11.50 The Experimenter (ages 7-9): Living: Sorting It Out
(S)

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

Consumer news.
(Ceefax: page 238)

Shown at 7am

The House Detectives The secrets of two properties in Manningtree High Street, Essex, are revealed by presenter Juliet Morris and the team.
(R) (S)

1.40 Hart-Davis on History A look at the Thomas Cook travel company, plus a pioneering home catering for disabled people.
(R)

Series Guide: send a cheque for £4.00, payable to BBC Education, to [address removed]

Sue prepares for her new life when she leaves the police force.

(First shown on ITV)

(For donation details see Sunday at 5.05pm on BBC1)
(S)

Live coverage of Prime Minister's Questions. With Diana Madill.
(Contact details on Thursday)
(S)

Esther Rantzen and guests discuss the pros and cons of national service.
(R) (S)

Cookery challenge.
(R) (S)

Gary Rhodes presents an edition of his 1997 cookery series when he visited Alderney in the Channel Islands to make mussels and roast chicken with tarragon, garlic and lemon.
(S)

Elimination quiz show.
(R) (S)

Another raid of the pop music archives produces memorable performances by Bob Marley and the Wailers, Alice Cooper, Rick Astley, Bronski Beat, and the Kinks. With Steve Wright.

(Repeated next Saturday)
(S)
(Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)

Dax, O'Brien and Dr Bashir find themselves reduced in size while on a scientific mission.
(S)
(Star Trek: the Next Generation is tomorrow at 6pm)

Concluding the series in which politicians spend time in different institutions: a university, a prison and a hospital.

Social-worker-turned-Labour MP Ann Coffey joins Conservative Liam Fox and Liberal Democrat Evan Harris - both former hospital doctors - for an enlightening visit to Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham. See Choice.
(S)

Expert Alvin Hall continues to help people to overcome their cash crises. Shopaholic Sherry Morris-Davies's spending sprees have left her and husband Mickey with a £31,000 debt. Fortunately, a lottery-winning relative has given them a £50,000 gift. Mickey hopes to use the cash to pay off the mortgage. First, though, Sherry must conquer her addiction.
(S)
Information: Ceefax page 625; Website: [web address removed]

Presenter Lowri Turner gives two hospital theatre nurses the chance to find out if it is possible to eat and exercise their way to happiness. She enlists the help of a nutrition expert and a personal trainer to the stars as well as calling on the show's resident team for assistance in the hair, make-up and fashion departments.
(S)

Diarmuid Gavin faces an uphill struggle in Surrey, where he has to transform a relatively small garden on a steep slope. He takes its owners Helen and Tony Crawford to Kew Gardens in search of horticultural inspiration, but saves the piece de resistance for their children - in the shape of an egg-shaped, aluminium-clad rocket.
(S) (W)

Comedy set in the offices of an Edinburgh advertising agency.

Ben and Robbie are on the hunt for drugs during an advertising awards ceremony.
(S) (W)

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

Concluding this week's trilogy exploring the notion that the state is dead, Andrew Marr hears from those who feel disenfranchised and disillusioned and asks what, if anything, should replace Britain.
(S) (W)

Presented by Andrew Neil.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Flexible Work - Insecure Lives
(S)
1.00 Open Advice: A University without Walls
1.30 Looking at What Happens in Hospital
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Geography: The World 2000; Newsfile
Environmental issues and economic change.
(S)

Languages
4.00 Talk Spanish: Parts 3-6

Working with the Land
5.00 Health and Safety

Open University
6.00 Valued Environments, Environmental Values
Recalling a campaign to save the Lake District.
(S)

Ends 7am