'DIY SOS'
(BBC 1, 8 to 8.30pm)
Nick Knowles and Lowri Turner go to Blackpool, where they help a couple who have fostered some girls who have special needs to finish improvements to their home.
9 February.
'Chalkface Lovesongs'
(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)
School teachers reflect on a single episode from their working careers.
Among them is recently-retired primary school head Jacquie Buttriss, who gives a humorous account of her disastrous attempt to teach the theory of water displacement to her class of five-and six-year-olds by means of a practical experiment. But due to an undetected hairline crack in the bath she was using, the children got the wrong message and so, she says, 'A generation of children in a Somerset town has grown up convinced that Archimedes' principle proves that the more you put into a bowl of water, the more the level of water goes down.'
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