Ends 9.00.

Playdays
Why Bird is expecting grandad to tea.
(R)

7.20 Tom and Jerry Kids
Animated cat-and-mouse triple bill.
(R)

7.45 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown last Friday, BBC1) (S) (W)

8.10 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
Daily animated adventures.
(R)

8.35 Jim Henson's Animal Show
Guests on the puppet chat show are a walrus and a wart hog.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Come Outside: Eggs
(ages 4-5)

9.15 Storytime: So Much/Shelly's Birthday
(ages 4-5)

9.30 Words and Pictures Plus: Consonant Clusters: the Three Billy Goats Gruff
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.45 Watch: Weather: Temperature
(ages 5-7) (S)

Tamzin Griffin tells a story about a spider.
(R) (S)

The Tweenies make preparations to put on a play.
(Shown last Monday BBC1) (S) (W)
BBC Magazine: Tweenies, published monthly, price £1.25
Website: [web address removed]

Consumer news, with Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw.

Two stories set at a village barn dance.
(R)

Animated stories. (R)

Adam Hart-Davis is in the Wirral, North West England, in the first of five programmes this week. He visits the soap workers' cottages in Port Sunlight, while Jayne Constantinis meets the historians of Tranmere Rovers football club.
(R)

Irish lakes and Whitby.

Adventure. Fred MacMurray stars as a sea captain racing a pirate for a hoard of diamonds.
(1953, PG) (S) ***
Films: pp 60-65

Weather

Daily debate with Esther Rantzen.

Today's subject is money - people who have it, those who've lost it and individuals who don't want it. Guests include ski-jumper Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards and Peter Lee, who won £500,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
(S)

Chefs are challenged to create a meal for less than £5 in under 20 minutes. With Fern Britton.
(S)
Recipes: see Ceefax page

Shown at 10am on BBC1 (S)

Mr Burns yearns for his long-lost teddy bear.
With the voices of rock band the Ramones.
(R) (S)
(A Simpsons double bill is on Friday at 6pm)

Crichton and Aeryn accidentally trigger a wormhole - could it provide a path home?
(Repeated next Saturday) (S)

Will joins the school poetry club, where he tries to impress a female classmate.
(R) (S)

Series examining official records from the last 1,000 years.

Bettany Hughes examines how British soldiers have been persuaded to fight for their country. She learns that, back in the First World War, height requirement for the 16th Highland Infantry was cut to just five foot. Earlier history reveals many dubious recruitment tactics.
(S) (W)
More History 2000 - Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments, Thursday, 8pm
Information: History 2000 events line: [number removed]. Calls charged at national rate. Website: [web address removed]

The female students of New Hall, Cambridge, take on Aberystwyth, University of Wales, for a quarter-final place. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions.
(S)

Delia Smith uses British fruit to prepare oat-and-plum slices, apple-and-almond crumble and rhubarb trifle before going further afield to create a tropical fruit salad.
See Choice.
(S)
Delia on British fruit: page 38

The third instalment of the four-part drama, starring Lee Ingleby and Paul McGann, written by Bryan Elsley.

David heads south, meets up again with Jenny, and joins protesters tunnelling under an airport development.
Contains strong language and nudity. See Choice.
(S) (W)
BBC Video: available from 28 February, price £14.99.
Alison Graham's TV Review: page 50

Satirical quiz show presented by Angus Deayton, with teams captained by regulars Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.
(R) (S)

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

First of four nightly episodes of the claymation comedy.

Rex and his friends take a break abroad.
(R) (S) (W)

Political analysis, with Michael Dobbs.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The Authentick and Ironicall Historie of Henry V
(S)
1.30 What Was Modernism?

Secondary Schools
2.00 Science
(S)

Languages
4.00 Deutsch Plus: Parts 5-8
(S)

Working in Education
5.00 Middle Management

Open University
6.00 Humanity and the Scaffold
(S)
6.30 Copernicus and His World
(S)
Ends 7.00am.