Ends 9.00.

Monty
Animation with the podgy pup.
(Repeated tomorrow at 1pm) (R)

7.05 Playdays
Peggy Patch visits a swannery.
(R)

7.25 Top Cat
A TV producer wants to stage a robbery in the alley.
(R)

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

8.05 Heathcliff and Marmaduke
Triple bill of animated fun with the alley cat and the great dane.
(R)

8.35 Jim Henson's Animal Show
Jake and Stinky interview a skunk and a rattlesnake on the show.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Cats' Eyes: The Earth and beyond: Weather
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes: The Earth and beyond: Seasons
(ages 5-7) (S)

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

9.45 Pathways of Belief: Hinduism
(ages 7-9) (S)

Some children make pictures using a very interesting technique.
(R) (S)
[web address removed]

Jake hears some strange noises in the garden.
(Shown last Thursday BBC1) (S) (W)

10.50 Numbertime: Numbers up to 100: Counting in Tens
(ages 5-7) (S)

11.05 Zig Zag: Tales from Europe: Reeta and the Cow That Ran Dry
(ages 8-10) (S)

11.20 Zig Zag: Kenya: Food
(ages 7-9) (S)

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

12.00 Space Ark: The Earth and beyond: the Water Cycle
(ages 7-11) (S)

12.10 Science Zone: The Earth and beyond: out of This World
(ages 9-11) (S)

The latest business and consumer news.

Animation. Bob's cat goes missing.
(R)

Ends 2.10.

1.10 Operation Survival
Meeting the scientists and otter watchers trying to ensure the survival of the playful animal.
(R) (S)

1.40 Langley Country
Exploring the Cambridgeshire fens and the cathedral city of Ely.

Clones in Monaghan is Dermot Cavanagh's destination, where he chats with artists and paints with broadcaster and former boxing champion Barry McGuigan.

(First shown in Northern Ireland)

An update on the day's events in Parliament.
(S)
Contact Details: phone [number removed] (calls charged at the local rate), fax [number removed] or e-mail [email address removed]

(S) Weather

Esther Rantzen's guests discuss whether or not Britain should intervene in overseas wars and famines.

(Postponed from 24 February)
(S)

Cookery challenge show.
(S)
BBC Book: The Big Ready Steady Cook Book, £9.99, is available from retailers

Shown at 10am on BBC1 (S)

Picard and Data return from a mission to find the ship adrift and the crew behaving oddly.
(R) (S)

Classic comedy from 1962 with Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, who tonight find themselves involved in a courtroom drama. With guests Jack Parnell and his Debonnaires.
(First shown on ITV) (BW) (S)

Followed by When I Grow Up
Young people from India, Tunisia and Spain discuss the future.

Series in which steeplejack Fred Dibnah celebrates some of Britain's great buildings and engineering feats.

Dibnah's journey takes him from a 1,000-year-old tithe barn in Sussex to the modern Lloyd's Building in London. Along the way he visits a Norman hospital and one of Britain's oldest dockyards in Kent.
(S) (W)
BBC Book: Fred Dibnah's Magnificent Monuments in paperback, £11.99

Motoring magazine show, with Vicki Butler-Henderson, Kate Humble, Tiff Needell and Quentin Willson.
(S) (W)
Magazine: £3.30 from newsagents
Website: [web address removed]
Deja View with Mark Lewisohn: page 15

Sir John Harvey-Jones revisits six businesses he advised in his very first series to see how they've fared since then.

Harvey-Jones calls on a china company - which was resisting pressure to move its manufacturing to the Far East - and a small engineering firm.
See Choice.
(S) (W)
Andrew Duncan meets Sir John Harvey-Jones: page 8

Factual: Troubleshooter - Back in Business 9.00pm BBC2
Sir John Harvey-Jones's buccaneering spirit delivers a feel-good dividend for viewers, but few would relish being on the end of a tongue-lashing from him. The industrialist remains jolly even when he is critical of the businesses he revisits. But this week he shows the flipside of his evangelical belief in British manufacturing. "What a ghastly monument to management inefficiency," he comments on a factory closure. The picture is not all rosy when he returns to Churchill China in Stoke-on-Trent. Similarly, jobbing engineering is not making Alex Kitchen rich but the irrepressible boss of Velden Engineering has sunk £1 million in his plans to become a golf-cart king. Thank goodness Sir John is around to give him a good talking-to about sales and marketing. (GE)

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

A second helping of comedy, with guests including Chief Ffi and newcomer Mandy Newton.
(S) (W)

A TV evangelist brainwashes Wendy. Featuring the voice of Bob Monkhouse.
(R) (S) (W)

Presented by Sian Williams.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Background Brief
12.45 What Have the Sixties Ever Done for Us?
1.00 The Ascent of Man: The Starry Messenger
1.45 Local Heroes
2.00 Health and Disease in Zimbabwe
(S)
2.30 A Tale of Four Cities
(S)
3.00 Bloodlines - Family Legacy
(S)

Curriculum Development
3.30 Numeracy in Action

Languages
4.00 Make Italian Your Business: Part 2
with in-vision subtitles.

Working for Local Government
5.00 The Future

Open University
6.00 Animal Physiology: A Winter Sleep
6.30 Images of the Cosmos
(S)
Ends 7.00am.