Ends 9.00.

Little Polar Bear
Animated Arctic adventures. (R)

7.05 Playdays
Why Bird and Peggy meet some characters with their heads in the clouds. (R)

7.25 Top Cat
TC has an accident, but decides to turn his misfortune to his advantage. (R)

7.50 The Really Wild Show
With sign language. The team visit Texas.
Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1
(S)

8.15 Heathcliff and Marmaduke
Cartoon fun with the great dane and the alley cat. (R)

8.35 Jim Henson's Animal Show
Today's puppet guests are a zebra and a lion. (R)

The programme visits the wild west in Texas, where the team meets bison and prairie dogs. Plus, Michaela meets a baby racoon.

Repeats are not indicated.
9.00 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) The Earth and Beyond: Weather (S)
9.15 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) The Earth and Beyond: Seasons (S)
9.30 Words and Pictures (ages 5-7) Pass the Jam, Jim (S)
9.45 Watch (ages 5-7) Music: the Songcatcher(S)

The Tubbies watch some children at the zoo.
(R) (S)
BBC Music: Teletubbies CD, price £10.99, and cassette, £7.99

During a game of piggy-in-the-middle, Jake is teased for being small.
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)
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10.50 Numbertime (ages 4-6) Time: Timing of Events
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11.05 What? Where? When? Why? (ages 6-7) Trees: the Oak
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11.20 Zig Zag (ages 7-9) Environment: Waste
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11.40 Space Ark (ages 7-11) The Earth and Beyond: the Water Cycle
(S)

11.50 The Experimenter (ages 7-9) The Earth and Beyond: a Touch of Sun
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12.10 Around Scotland (ages 10-12) Looking at Scottish Art: Things
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Schools programme for 6-7 year olds presented by The Happy Gang. Today's programme looks at the oak tree. Show more

Consumer news.
Ceefax: page 238

Animated prehistoric adventures.
(R)

Cartoon fun at the North Pole.
(R)

Operation Survival
A look at the wildlife of the Caledonian forests.
(R) (S)

1.40 Langley Country
Bob Langley and his team uncover the wildlife of the Wye Valley.

Dermot Cavanagh offers expert painting tuition to Jan Leeming in Drogheda, County Louth.
(First shown in Northern Ireland)

Live coverage from the Commons of Prime Minister's Question Time.
(Contact details on Thursday)
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(S) Weather

Esther Rantzen meets guests who were unhappy with their childhood appearance. (S)

Cookery challenge. (S)

Shown at 10am on BBC1 (S)

Steve Wright plunders the pop-music archives for classic performances from, among others, the Four Tops, Paper Lace, Nirvana, Curtis Mayfield, Helen Reddy, Kylie Minogue, Divine and Toni Braxton.
(Repeated next Saturday)
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(Top of the Pops is on Friday at 7.30pm on BBC1)

Sisko recalls a mission he initiated that was critical to the war against the Dominion - but one which he recalls with shame.
(S)
(Star Trek: the Next Generation is tomorrow at 6pm)

Dr Phil Hammond investigates the impact of stress on people's health and happiness, and learns the methods that ordinary people use to combat the effects. He also discovers experts who expound the subversive view that stress is good for you and that the best method of coping is to expose yourself to increasingly stressful situations.
See Choice.
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Dr Mark Porter on stress: page 40

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen of Changing Rooms and Diarmuid Gavin of Home Front in the Garden join forces once more as they set about redesigning the kitchen and garden of an Edwardian house. However, despite an overgrown garden and bare plaster walls in the kitchen for a decade, owner Kim Burns Spence turns out to be far from easily pleased.
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Sugar Reef is the latest and biggest mega-restaurant to be opened in London's West End. For restaurateur Mark Fuller it is the first venture of this size - a venue that seats 1,000 - and one that will make or break his reputation. Tonight's film follows the build-up to the £250,000 opening night.
See Choice.
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After getting help from a gang of pensioners, the zoo keepers at Belfast Zoo now have to pass the favour on to manager John Stronge.
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As part of the Time Bank campaign, encouraging people to give time to their local community, Ruby Wax visits an inspirational project for emotionally vulnerable children in south London, where she receives an introduction to street culture and exposes the coarse reality of their lives.
(S)

Analysis of the day's events, with Jeremy Paxman.
Including at 11.00 News headlines.
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When Bob rediscovers a talent for curing hiccups, the gang become very rich.
With the guest voice of Paul Merton.
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Andrew Neil introduces extended highlights of Prime Minister's Question Time.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 The North Sea: Managing the Common Pool
1.00 Reinventing the City
New York and LA in the last 30 years.
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Secondary Schools
2.00 The Art

Languages
4.00 Make Italian Your Business: Part 1

Working for Local Government
5.00 Business and Partnership
Business management and partnership strategies.

Open University
6.00 One Fact, Many Facets
6.30 Reflections on a Global Screen
(S)

Ends 7.00am.