Five Live Report
BBC Radio 5 Live, 10am to 1pm
Since the Soham murders some parents have considered using devices such as mobile phone trackers and microchip implants to monitor their children's movements. Rajesh Mirchandani asks if they are right to be so concerned, or if we are seeing a generation of paranoid parents, while statistics show that kidnaps and murders by strangers in the UK are no more common now than they were 20 years ago.
Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4, 11.15am to 12 noon
Children's laureate Michael Morpurgo is Sue Lawley's castaway. The author styles himself as a 'storyteller/writer' and says his aim is to foster a love of books and reading that he believes the education system does not give children. His themes are the relationships between young and old, children and animals, and children's experiences of loneliness and self-reliance.
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