Ends 9.00.

Playdays
Why Bird finds out how TV programmes are made.
(R)

7.20 Snorks
Double bill of animated underwater adventures.
(R)

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

8.10 Biskitts
The two pups embark on more animated adventures.
(R)

8.35 The Busy World of Richard Scarry
Animated stories.
(R)

(Repeats are not indicated)

9.00 Come Outside: Clay (Pottery)
(ages 4-5)

9.15 Storytime: Big Panda, Little Panda/Baby Animals
(ages 4-5)

9.30 Words and Pictures: Phonics Special: "a-e"
(ages 5-7) (S)

9.45 Watch: Our Environment: Village
(ages 5-7) (S)

A phonics special where Sophie Aldred looks at words with long vowel sounds. Sophie visits the Alexandra Palace Ice Rink where she discovers words wth the "magic e" sound.

Some children go for a walk.
(R) (S)

The Tweenies learn never to give up.
(Shown last Monday BBC1) (S) (W)
BBC Magazine: Tweenies, monthly, £1.25
Website: [web address removed]

Daily consumer news.

Animated fun.
(R)

Animated stories.
(R)

Do-it-yourself tips. (S)

Fantasy adventure based on Jules Verne characters, first in a short season of films starring Robert Ryan. Six people lost at sea are rescued by the enigmatic submariner Nemo. Widescreen. (1969) (S) (W) **
Berlin Express is tomorrow at 1.15pm
Films: pp 60-64

Weather

Esther Rantzen asks Su Pollard, Andrew Sachs, Frank Thornton and Peter Sallis what makes a perfect sitcom.
(S)

Weekday culinary challenges.
With Fern Britton.
(R) (S)
Recipes: see Ceefax page

Daily American comedy series.

The immigration authorities are closing in on Latka.
(R) (S)

Bart must apologise to an entire nation after tricking an Australian boy.
(R) (S)
(A Simpsons double bill is on Friday at 6pm)

Will escorts a lord's daughter.
(R) (S)

Crichton is captured by malevolent Scorpius, who subjects him to mental torture.
(Repeated next Sunday) (S)

Series exploring how design affects everyday life.

Professor Janice Kirkpatrick traces 200 years of patenting history, meets the inventor of a revolutionary vacuum cleaner, and investigates speculation that private companies dealing in genetics could patent human genes.
(S) (W)

Series probing the history of the world's best-known prisons.

Between 1852 and 1954, France sent 70,000 lawbreakers to a penal colony in French Guiana, South America, which became known as Devil's Island. Yet, before it collapsed into a brutal regime, the colony was originally intended to be a humane alternative to jail.
(S) (W)

First of this week's three short films, all set in a London taxi.

A dispute about musical tastes leads to an unexpected journey.
Contains strong language.
(S) (W)
(Another Black Cab on Wednesday at 10.20pm)

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

Then When I Grow Up
Young people discuss the future.
(S)

First of three nightly films following families living on two deprived housing estates in Salford, Greater Manchester. Tonight's episode focuses on pre-teen children.
(S)
Ceefax: page 615

An inquisitive man starts conducting his own market research.
(R) (S) (W)

Political analysis, with Steve Richards.

Open University
12.30 Giotto The Arena Chapel
(S)
1.30 Empire and Nation
The Re-fashioning of Literature

Secondary Schools
2.00 Science Zone
(S)

Languages
4.00 The French Experience: Parts 5-8
Language course for beginners. With in-vision subtitles

Count Me In
5.00 Revisewise Maths for Parents

Open University
6.00 A Hard Act to Follow
6.30 On Pictures and Paintings
(S)
Ends 7.00am.