Ends 9.00.

Philbert the Frog
Cartoon adventures with the forgetful frog.
(R)

7.05 Playdays
Peggy looks for badgers in the New Forest.
(R)

7.25 Top Cat
An anteater follows Benny home from the zoo.
(R)

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

8.15 Heathcliff and Marmaduke
Triple bill of animated fun.
(R)

8.35 Jim Henson's Animal Show
Jake and Stinky interview an owl and an octopus on the puppet animal chat show.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

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

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

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

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

Some children make mosaics from different shapes.
(R) (S)
[web address removed]

Doodles comes across a mouse in the playroom.
(Shown last Thursday BBC1) (S) (W)

10.50 Numbertime: Numbers up to 100: Patterns of Ten
(ages 5-7) (S)

11.05 Zig Zag: Tales from Europe: Arthur and the King
(ages 8-10) (S)

11.20 Zig Zag: Kenya: Out and About
(ages 7-9) (S)

11.40 Look and Read: Through the Dragon's Eye: Danger on High
(ages 7-9) (S)

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

12.10 Science Zone: The Environment: Green Piece
(ages 9-11) (S)

The latest business and consumer news.

Animation. A storm creates work.
(R)

Ends 2.10.

1.10 Dream Gardens
Writer Liz Rigbey unravels the mysteries of symbolic gardens.
(R)

1.40 Langley Country
Today's programme visits Lincoln and the Suffolk Wolds.

Dermot Cavanagh visits the picturesque Moy in Tyrone with broadcaster Latta Sharma; there he meets a local calligrapher and a sculptor.
(First shown in Northern Ireland)

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

(S) Weather

Esther Rantzen asks if life in hospital wards is anything like what we see in Casualty and Holby City.
(S)

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

Shown at 10am on BBC1 (S)

Apu offers the Simpsons his services as valet after he is fired from the shop.
With the voice of film star James Woods.
(R) (S)

Captain Picard becomes involved in complex negotiations for a settlement between the Federation and the Cardassians.
(R) (S)

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

Dibnah's journey this week takes him from the earliest wrought-iron suspension bridge to the Channel Tunnel. In Wales he steers a canal barge across the Pontcysyllte aqueduct and later admires the view from atop one of the Humber bridge's 500 foot-tall towers.
(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]
Webwatch: motoring sites: page 47

Last of the films in which Sir John Harvey-Jones revisits six businesses he advised in his very first series.

Harvey-Jones calls on an apple juice company and an East Anglian ale brewery - both of which have been touched by tragedy since the first visit.
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Philippa Forrester introduces a selection of the latest robot technology inspired by the animal kingdom. This National Science Week programme includes robotic pet dogs, devices based on insects and a "snakebot".
See Choice.
(S) (W)

Two hardened smokers offer insights into their habit in the second of three programmes. Nica and Chris are desperate to give up smoking. Both have tried unsuccessfully before, and this time they record their struggles on camera.
(S)

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

Then Budget Response
By the Liberal Democrat spokesman on the economy, Matthew Taylor.
(S)

The cameras follow Frip and his team of four painters as they climb electricity pylons, undercoating and painting them a silver colour.
(S)

Highlights of today's developments at Westminster, presented by Sian Williams.

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Background Brief
12.45 What Have the Seventies Ever Done for Us?
1.00 The Ascent of Man: The Majestic Clockwork
1.45 Local Heroes
2.00 Biological Barriers
2.30 Building in Cells
3.00 A Tale of Two Cells

Curriculum Development
3.30 Teaching Today: Primary Dance

Languages
4.00 The Business Language Special

Working for Local Government
5.00 Computer Skills

Open University
6.00 Looking Glass World
6.30 Samples of Analysis
Ends 7.00am.