TV and radio

10 July 2002

12 July. 'Angelina Ballerina - The Ballerina Rag Doll'. (ITV 1, 3.35 to 3.50pm) In this story about the ballet-dancing mouse and her friends, Angelina decides to give away some of her old toys.

12 July. 'Angelina Ballerina - The Ballerina Rag Doll'. (ITV 1, 3.35 to 3.50pm)

In this story about the ballet-dancing mouse and her friends, Angelina decides to give away some of her old toys.

'Horrible Histories - Ingenuous Industrialists' (ITV 1, 3.50 to 4.25pm)

Fed up with tests and homework, Stitch and Mo want to trade school for the working world until they discover what life was like for child labourers during the Industrial Revolution.

13 July. 'Sack Race Blues'. (BBC Radio 4, 10.30 to 11am)

Always the smallest and skinniest boy in his class, Tony Robinson remembers the trauma of school sports day and revisits those egg and spoon races, competitive mums and dads and the ever-present sack race.

14 July. 'On Saying Goodbye - The English Patient Principle'. (BBC Radio 4, 5.40 to 5.55pm)

In the last of three programmes, Michael Rosen looks at how people face the knowledge of their own deaths. He hears from children at a hospice and compares their expectations to those of the 'fit' elderly who are nearing their own end but are still full of life.

15 July. 'Emotional Rollercoaster'. (BBC Radio 4, 9.30 to 9.45am)

In the first of a series on scientific research into the emotions, Claudia Hammond looks at fear. Believed to be the first human emotion to have evolved, it is as potent today as ever.

16 July. 'Afternoon Play - Huskar: An Awful Visitation'. (BBC Radio 4, 2.15 to 3pm)

In July 1838, after a freak storm, 26 children were drowned in a small pit called Huskar in a Pennine village, the youngest aged only seven. This drama documentary tells how the disaster became a critical event in the drive to abolish the employment of children in British mines.

17 July. 'Child's Play'. (BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)

At the moment around 70 children work in London's West End and another 50 are touring the UK. This programme looks at the world of child performers through the eyes of chaperones, children's directors, assorted children and their parents. She also finds out what it is like for the child to return to normal life when the job is all over.

'Tomorrow's World Roadshow'. (BBC 1, 7 to 7.30pm)

'Tomorrow's World' comes live from the National Athletics Stadium in Cardiff. It features a portable swimming pool that can be used to alert parents if a toddler falls in the water and a hospital in Swansea using a new bar-coding system for patients in intensive care.

'Children's Hospital'. (BBC 1, 8 to 8.30pm)

Staff at Manchester Children's Hospital deal with babies and children who have sustained injuries and need surgery.

'Teen Species - Adults?'

(BBC 1, 9.15 to 10pm)

This programme looks at the risks of teenage pregnancy, as 16-year-olds Sanet and Billy prepare for the birth of their baby. Although teenagers may be physically developed, emotionally they are not fully grown, and this makes a great difference to how they live.

19 July. 'Rule the School'. (BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm)

This new series looks at what would happen if a gang of children were given the chance to occupy a school and invent their own lessons, homework and punishments for one term, as well as putting them in charge of the teachers.