Ends 8.30.

Fimbles
Fimbo finds a ball which soon becomes very attached to him

6.50 Pocket Dragon Adventures
Witch Mildred wants the dragon to help with her spells. (S)

7.00 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)

7.30 Taz-Mania
A double bill of madcap cartoon antics with the insatiable Tasmanian Devil and his eccentric family.

7.50 Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie inadvertently starts a hurtful rumour about Kate. which in turn leads to conflict between Kate and Miranda.
(Shown yesterday at 4.35pm on BBC1)

8.15 Snailsbury Tales
Grandpa Mollusc runs into difficulty with the law.

Ends 10.50.

Little Bear
More adventures with the curious cub and his friends, cat, duck, owl and hen.

8.55 Bob the Builder
Scoop appears to be suffering from hayfever as a result of working in Farmer Pickles' field.
BBC MAGAZINE: Bob the Builder.

Followed by CBeebies Birthdays

9.10 Balamory
There is a power cut in the nursery.
For cast see Thursday

9.30 Brum
Can Brum apprehend two jewel thieves at the airport?

9.40 Fimbles
Pom finds a radio and hears her favourite song. The radio also helps Fimbo find something he has spent the whole day looking for.

10.00 Tweenies
Everyone gets angry with Jake. Judy organises a special game to improve the atmosphere.

10.20 Pingu
Adventures with the clumsy penguin.

10.25 Teletubbies
The lion and bear play their hide-and-seek game in Teletubbyland.

Repeats are not indicated.
10.50 Primary Geography (ages 7-9) Village, Town and City - -Our Patch 3630788 11.10 Let's Write a Story (ages 7-9)
Master Story Teller - Programme 1

News, views and live coverage from the House of Commons.

Business news with Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw.

As the tournament enters the quarter-finals, Hazel Irvine,
Steve Davis and John Parrott introduce live action from the best-of-25-frame matches.
Commentary by Ray Edmonds , Clive Everton , Terry Griffiths , Dennis Taylor , Willie Thorne and John Virgo. Including, at 3.20, News; Regional News (Digital: BBC London News) Weather

By the Labour Party.

Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious. The
Simpsons hire a Mary Poppins-like nanny to help out when Marge becomes overwhelmed by the demands of being a housewife. Featuring the guest voice of Pamela Hayden.

Tonight's instalment of pop nostalgia features classics from Black, Catatonia, Tracey Ullman , Eruption, Andrew Gold , Depeche Mode and the Fatback Band, plus new music from Dana Glover. Introduced by Steve Wright.

Ray Stubbs introduces live coverage from tonight's best-of-25-frames quarter-finals from the Crucible in Sheffield, where the difference between winning and losing at this stage of the competition is f 39.500.
The quarter-finals are the midpoint of the tournament with the increased number of frames allowing sufficient leeway for the top players to make a poor start and still recover. Last year at this stage, eventual champion Peter Ebdon cruised past Anthony Hamilton 13-6 on his way to a classic semi-final with Matthew Stephens , who overcame 1998 champion John Higgins with relative ease in the other quarter-final in the bottom half of the draw. The games at the top half of the draw were much closer, however, with seven-time winner Stephen Hendry squeezing past 1997's champion Ken Dohertybythe narrowest of margins and Ronnie O'Sullivan eventually beating Stephen Lee 13-10.
Commentary is from Ray Edmonds , Clive Everton ,
Terry Griffiths , Dennis Taylor , Willie Thome and John Virgo.

Pandora's Secrets. In 1791 HMS Pandora was sent to capture the mutineers from the Bounty. Having caught 14 of them she was on her way home when disaster struck. Thirty metres below the Great Barrier Reef, film-makers come face to face with one of the crew. But who is it?
Director Sian Griffiths ; Series producer Will Aslett

Professional relocators Scott Huggins and Melissa Porter help the Maslen family trade the stresses of life in the suburban South East of England for the rural beauty of the Dordogne in France. But with the language to learn, work to find and three children to settle into school, their new life is hardly without stresses of its own. Will the Maslens want to return home at the end of theirtrial month?
Producer Helen Soden ; Series producer Remy Blumenfeld

Ray Stubbs is joined by former champions Steve Davis and John Parrott as he introduces continued live coverage from tonight's quarter-finals from the Crucible in Sheffield.

Analysis of today's stories, presented by Jeremy Paxman.

Ray Stubbs introduces highlights of today's quarter-final games from Sheffield.

Repeats are not indicated.
Open University 12.30 Women of Northern Ireland
32924 1.00 "Yes, We Never Say 'No'" 92943 1.30 Modem Art: the Colonial Encounter
Secondary Schools 2.00 Religious Education: Testament
The Bible in Animation - evocative presentations of well-known Old Testament stories.
Languages 4.00 Deutsch Plus (parts 9-12)
Working In Engineering 5.00 Mind Your Own Business - Sir John Harvey-Jones gives strategic advice for smaller engineering businesses.
Open University 6.00 Marin Mersenne: the Birth of Modern Geometry