Ends 9.00.

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

7.05 Playdays

Peggy, Poppy and Why Bird take flight and sing. (R)

7.25 Top Cat
TC tricks Dibble into letting the gang stay with him over the winter. (R)

7.50 The Really Wild Show
With sign language. The team visit Cameroon. Last in the series.
Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1
(S)

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

8.35 Jim Henson's Animal Show
Today's puppet guests are a sea otter and a vulture. (R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) The Environment: Eating Plants (S)

9.15 Cats' Eyes (ages 5-7) The Environment: Life in the Water (S)

9.30 Words and Pictures (ages 5-7) Jack's Fantastic Voyage (S)

9.45 Watch (ages 5-7) Music: the Songcatcher (S)

The Tubbies watch some children who are looking for creatures on the beach.
(R) (S)
BBC Music: Teletubbies CD, price £10.99, and cassette, £7.99

Max takes a trip to the launderette.
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC1)
(S) (W)

10.50 Numbertime (ages 4-6): Time: Months and Seasons
(S)

11.05 What? Where? When? Why? (ages 6-7): Trees: Life in the Forest
(S)

11.20 Zig Zag (ages 7-9): The Environment: Guarding the Future
(S)

11.40 Space Ark (ages 7-11): The Environment: Desert Environment
(S)

11.50 The Experimenter (ages 7-9): The Environment: Beside the Seaside
(S)

12.10 Around Scotland (ages 10-12): Looking at Scottish Art: Stories
(S)

Schools programme for ages 6 -7 presented by The Happy Gang. Today's programme looks at trees and life in the forest. Show more

Consumer news.
Ceefax: page 238

Animated prehistoric adventures.
(R)

Cartoon fun.
(Shown at 7am)

Ends 2.10.

Dream Gardens
Actor Michael Hordern looks at the designs of Humphrey Repton.
(R)

1.40 Langley Country
The team pay a visit Carlisle and the Solway Firth.

Dermot Cavanagh paints with mountaineer and architect Dawson Stellfox in Kilkeel, Down.

(First shown in Northern Ireland)

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

(S) Weather

Esther Rantzen speaks to people whose lives have been changed by a quiz show appearance.
(S)

Cookery challenge. (S)

(Shown at 10am on BBC1) (S)

Homer the Vigilante
Homer takes the law into his own hands when a cat burglar targets Springfield.
(R) (S)

6.20 Treehouse of Horror V
A trio of short ghoulish tales involving the dysfunctional family - The Shinning, Time and Punishment and Nightmare Cafeteria.
(R) (S)

(Another episode is on tomorrow at 6pm)

More head-to-head battles in the technology tournament. Ulrika Jonsson introduces highlights of sprinting, rope-climbing, swimming and the high jump. Plus an update on the attempts to build a robotic arm.
(S) (W)

In the final programme of the series, Dr Phil Hammond reveals that people who require operations may be at risk; patients' postcodes can be the deciding factor in determining which doctor at which hospital will perform the operation. This could lead to some surgeons performing operations for which they have no expertise, with sometimes disastrous results. Contains scenes of surgery.
(S) (W)

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen of Changing Rooms and Diarmuid Gavin of Home Front in the Garden give their assistance to Simon Black, a single businessman keen to shake off the bland feel of his new three-storey home on the outskirts of London. Inside, the hallway gets a sleek new look with a black marble floor and dark green walls; outside, Gavin installs a black-granite water feature.
(S) (W)
Know How: From hip to skip, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Diarmuid Gavin on the latest trends in home design and gardening: page 43

This is the estimated number of detectives for hire in Britain, playing an increasingly important role in the evolution of the British legal system. Modern Times talks to some of them about the task of finding errant husbands, tracking down missing children, investigating espionage and fraud, and stepping in to help the police and private prosecutors.
(S) (W)

A new, three-part series looking at errors perpetrated in the name of business theory and management consultancy, from the team that made Blood on the Carpet.

This first programme looks at how management "gurus" advised firms to expand their operations until they nearly went under.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Analysis of the day's events, with Jeremy Paxman.
Including at 11.00 News headlines.
(S)

Then Budget Response
By the shadow chancellor Michael Portillo.
(S)

Another chance to see the story of Jimi Hendrix's former girlfriend's five-year campaign to convince English Heritage to erect a blue plaque in London in his honour.
(R) (S)
(Another Picture This film is tomorrow at 11.30pm)

Steve Richards introduces extended highlights of Prime Minister's Question Time.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Child's Play
(S)
1.00 England's Green and Pleasant Land
(S)
1.30 Insights into Violence - from playground punch-ups to brutality in war.
(S)

Secondary Schools
2.00 Mathematics

Languages
4.00 Make French Your Business: Part 2

Working for Local Government
5.00 Numeracy and Communications
Numeracy techniques and workplace communications.

Open University
6.00 Modelling in the Motor Industry
(S)
6.30 Global Firms in the Industrialising East
(S)

Ends 7.00am.