Five Live Report - Terrorised Teachers (BBC Radio 5 Live, 10am to 1pm)
Reporter Rebecca Sandles investigates the increasing levels of physical and verbal abuse that teachers are facing in Britain's classrooms, amid claims that Ofsted inspectors are failing to pick up on such behaviour.
Rolf on Art - Lowry (BBC 1, 6.05 to 6.35pm)
Rolf Harris looks at the techniques one of Britain's best-known artists, LS Lowry, who made his name painting images of factories, mills and industrial scenes from the north of England in a 'childlike' manner.
15 September
The Child Migrants (BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30am)
Charles Wheeler presents a four-part series on the forced migration of 230,000 unwanted children from Britain over a 60-year period from 1906 to 1970. It is based on the recollections of more than 150 former child migrants euphemistically referred to as 'the seeds of empire' who were sent to Australia, Rhodesia, Canada and New Zealand, and many of the original legislators and childcare specialists involved in the policy are also interviewed.
Eagles, Owls and Nightingales (BBC Radio 4, 8.30 to 9pm)
This programme looks at how birds can take many people out of themselves to a different emotional place. Among those interviewed is Jordi Trilla, who tells how seeing two barn owls as a seven-year-old boy living in Spain changed his life.
17 September
Thinking Allowed (BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm)
Laurie Taylor hears of the effects of long-term imprisonment on the families of inmates. He talks to sociologist Megan Comfort, who has been studying such families in California for a number of years, meeting children who wonder why their father has such a huge house when his own family have to live in just one room and women who, by battling the institutionalisation of their husbands, risk the institutionalisation of their own family.
Everyman - Sink or Swim (BBC 2, 9.50 to 10.30pm)
The programme follows a group of young Christians who go to the deprived Hattersley estate in Manchester and seek to help troubled teenagers there to turn their lives around.
19 September
Blair's Crisis: Battle on the Home Front (Channel 4, 7.30 to 8pm)
In the run up to the Labour conference in Bournemouth, Michael Crick looks at divisions in the party over domestic policy which are likely to cause problems for Tony Blair in coming months as the party ranks rebel, especially over schools and hospitals.
