The Art Show - What Age Can You Start Being an Artist?
Channel 4, 7.30 to 8pm
This programme tells the remarkable story of how a primary school near Fort William set up what has become an internationally renowned art department, 'Room 13', run by the pupils. Ten-year-olds Rosie and Amy show how their school allows any child to leave their classroom at any time during the day to make art, and how they shot to fame by winning last year's Barbie Art Prize of 20,000, while the National Endowment for Science and the Arts has awarded them a huge amount of money. The programme features pupils' artwork and follows them as they visit the Tate Modern gallery to pick up one of their many prizes.
1 February
Desert Island Discs
BBBC Radio 4, 11.15am to 12noon
Judith Kerr, the writer and illustrator known to millions of children both for her charming picture books about Mog the cat, which have sold more than three million copies over the past 30 years, and for her careful rendering of the life of a Jewish child fleeing Nazi Germany, talks about her life and work.
The Food Programme
BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm
Sheila Dillon explores how the act of producing food can affect people's mental health and their ability to communicate with others. And in a feature from India, Simon Parkes finds out how vegetable production is helping street children and young addicts to get back on to the straight and narrow.
2 February
Newsround Extra
BBC 1, 5.25 to 5.35pm
This first programme in a new series of the award-winning news programme for children in Britain examines obesity, one of the biggest health problems facing them today. It investigates the effects of obesity on health, self-esteem and confidence, and hears from children about their experiences of being obese.
Flu - A Medical Mystery
BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.30pm
It is estimated that up to 50 million people worldwide died as a result of the 1918-19 flu pandemic, which killed mainly the young and healthy. In this investigative programme, Dr Jonathan Miller asks whether people are at risk of a new flu pandemic that could kill just as many people today. There have already been smaller epidemics in 1957 and 1968, and many scientists now believe the Hong Kong chicken flu that raged in 1997 was a close call.
5 February
Reclaiming the Streets
BBC Radio 4, 8.30 to 9pm
In the first of two programmes, Allan Urry has been given exclusive access to the work of police and council staff in Leeds, a city at the forefront of winning back the streets from antisocial juveniles. Among those featured is a family of six who describe how they were attacked and intimidated, and became too scared to let their children outside to play. Such was their fear that they all slept in the same bed for weeks, while their aggressive neighbours rampaged around the estate at night.
