The Best for My Child
Channel 4, 7.30 to 8pm
Parents' anxiety is mounting as high-profile figures such as Conservative MP Oliver Letwin and Labour MP Diane Abbott publicly shun their local schools. Fiona Millar examines whether choice really is available to all parents and whether the market in education is in fact a ticking time bomb as ambitious parents abandon their local schools.
6 March
Archive Hour - The Polio Years
BBC Radio 4, 8 to 9pm
A vaccination programme begun 50 years ago is thought to have prevented more than two million cases of polio. Peter Preston, former editor of The Guardian and a polio survivor, tells the story of the vaccine's development, the subsequent inoculation programme and how those who missed out then are now experiencing post-polio syndrome.
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