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19 February 'Europe and Us - Euronews'
19 February

'Europe and Us - Euronews'

(BBC Radio 5 Live, 12 noon to 1pm)

Sweden currently holds the European Presidency and, as part of a Europe and Us week, 'Euronews' broadcasts two programmes from there. European specialist Paul Henley reports on Swedish moves to ban advertising on children's television across Europe, a major conference on young people and alcohol, and the innovative ways the Swedish government and Swedish companies are dealing with high levels of stress in the workplace. The second programme is on 20 February at the same time.

'Blue Peter'

(BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm)

Presenter Konnie Huq takes to the road as a co-driver in the 2001 International Swedish Motor Rally, one of the major dates in the motor rally calendar. The programme follows Konnie and her co-driver Ben Briant as they travel to Karkstad in Sweden to start the gruelling four-day rally.

20 February

'Holiday 2001'

(BBC 1, 7 to 7.30pm)

Among the travel items in this edition of the consumer series, former 'EastEnders' actress Gillian Taylforth finds out if Menorca is family-friendly. With her nine-year-old daughter and toddler son, she visits a kids' club with a parent pager and pre-orders baby necessities.

'File on Four'

(BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.40pm)

London and the south-east of England are heading for a crisis in key services because workers cannot find homes they can afford. Yet for several years now the Government has promoted a policy to create cheaper accommodation by requiring developers to build affordable homes as part of new housing developments. The programme asks whether the policy is being undermined by some developers and local authorities who have been reluctant to zone land for cheaper homes.

'Boston Law'

(BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.05pm)

In this episode of the documentary series about the workings of the American judicial system, convicted child rapist David Cherry is about to be released having been imprisoned for 13 years. Assistant district attorney Leora Joseph wants to ensure he is never allowed to mix with children again and that he is categorised as a Sexually Dangerous Person, which would mean he could be held at the Massachusetts State Treatment Centre indefinitely. But Cherry's lawyer thinks this is an outrageous infringement of the felon's civil liberties. So where will Cherry go, and can the community at large be sure he won't re-offend?

21 February

'Comic Relief Dead Serious - Rwanda: Hope in Hell'

(BBC 1, 9.10 to 10pm)

Fergal Keane visits the tiny African country of Rwanda, where nearly a million people were slaughtered in 1994. During that campaign of genocide the HIV virus was spread in a deliberate policy of mass rapes. Now there is hardly a woman infected seven years ago who isn't either dead or dying, and the children who survived the slaughter are saying goodbye to the one person left alive to care for them - their mother or foster mother. Fergal reports on how the Comic Relief charity hopes to help these chidren, whose hearts have been broken and who now face the world alone.