Ends 9.00.

Playdays
The gang discover why rivers need cleaning.
(R)

7.20 Taz-mania
Animation. Taz and co are stranded at the mall.
(R)

7.45 Tom and Jerry Kids
Cartoon cat-and-mouse capers.
(R)

8.10 Get Your Own Back
Messy game show pitting children against adults.
(R) (S) (W)

8.35 Bruno the Kid
Animated action with an 11-year-old spy.
(R)

The weekday studio debate hosted by Robert Kilroy-Silk.
(R) (S)

Followed by News (S) and Weather

Simon Biagi and the team turn a drab room at a Harborne boys' school into a smart drama studio using lots of colour.
(R) (S)

Antique dealer David Dickinson challenges amateur collectors to seek out bargains to auction for profit.
(R) (S) (W)

Followed by News (S) and Weather

Adventure. Having fought with the International Brigade, a Czechoslovakian is refused refugee status in France in 1939. Despite his girlfriend's pleas, he is interned as a slave labourer by the Vichy regime.
(1944) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 58-63 **

More grooming tips from Lowri Turner's fashion and beauty series Looking Good.
(S)

Triple bill of animated fun with the cute cub.

Another global story, today from Australia.
(R) (S)

! More useful hints on jazzing up your home. (S)

Drama set in 1840s Scotland. A gypsy girl causes community consternation by falling in love with the village minister.
(1934) (BW) (S)
Films: pp 58-63 ***

(S)
Weather

Esther talks to close-knit couples and families, including Paul and Kerry Ross, the Nolan sisters and Andrew and Liz Collinge, to see if familiarity does breed contempt.
(R) (S)

Culinary challenge presented by Fern Britton.
(R) (S)
BBC Book: The Big Ready Steady Cook Book, £9.99, is available from retailers

Ken Hom conjures up another feast inspired by Oriental cuisine.
(R) (S)

Cookery queen Delia Smith makes perfect rice.
(R) (S)
BBC Book: price £16, and video, £19.99

The family spend their vacation at the most violent amusement park on earth.
(R) (S)
(A Simpsons double bill can be seen on Friday at 6pm)

A hospital stay teaches Will to look at life differently.
(Another episode on Friday at 6.45pm)
(R) (S)

The starving crew encounter hostility when they look for help on a mining planet.
(S)

Every year thousands of British Asian children are stolen from their mothers and taken to countries such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. This week's programme addresses the problem and asks what hope there is for finding the youngsters. Presented by Lisa Aziz.
(S) (W)

A series of films examining forces of nature.

A look at how plants and animals have evolved to exploit the opportunities created by fire.
(R) (S) (W)

Another behind-the-scenes look at the insight into the life of a group of baboons in Ethiopia.
(S)

An account of the 1994 journey made by Dominican-born Jacob Frederick who decided to travel to his ancestral home in the South American jungles of Guyana, using a 35ft-long traditional dug-out Carib Indian canoe as transport.
(R) (S)

Concluding the guided tour of madness.
(S) (W)

With Jeremy Vine. Including, at 11.00, News headlines.
(S)

First in a new ten-part drama about twentysomethings on Glasgow's high-octane club scene. Trouble brews as Sandra's teenage brother appears at the Tinsel Town club. Contains strong language and adult material.
See Choice.
(Repeated on Friday at 12.35am)
(S) (W)

Beginning this week's showings of the US comedy series.

Chelsea's desire for an expensive "execuvan" means sacrificing bonuses.
(Cast and next episode tomorrow at 11.50pm) (S)

Tiff Needell pronounces judgement on the current range of Lotus cars.
(R) (S)

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open University
12.30 Rinuccini Chapel, Florence
(S)
1.00 Brecht on Stage
1.30 Greenberg on Jackson Pollock
(S)

Teenagers and Families
2.00 Living With Teenagers: 2

Languages
4.00 Spain Inside Out: Parts 3-4

Working In Sport and Leisure
5.00 Careers

Open University
6.00 Poetry and Landscape
(S)
6.30 Berlin - Unemployment and the Family
(S)

Ends 7.00am.