TV and radio

05 May 2004

6 May Dispatches - Keep Them Out

6 May

Dispatches - Keep Them Out

Channel 4, 9 to 10pm

An investigation into the Government's immigration policy seen through the eyes of the residents of a quiet seaside community who are fighting plans to build an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in their town.

7 May

My Life in Numbers

BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm

This programme explores people's relationship with numbers, from childhood and the classroom to the 'divi' number at the Co-op and an Auschwitz survivor who had his number tattooed on the inside of his forearm.

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids

ITV 1, 4.05 to 4.30pm

Two more animated stories narrated by Nigel Planer. In 'Bogman', a girl who always shirks washing up duty to sit on the toilet and read comics wishes she hadn't done so, and in 'The Stickmen', a lonely boy who draws pictures of stick men on his walls gets a surprise when they come to life and take him back inside his picture.

9 May

Panorama - The Invisible Kids

BBC 1, 10.15 to 11pm

It is estimated that there are 250,000 to 350,000 children of drug-addicted parents in the UK, but the authorities admit that they know little or nothing about these children, even though they have a legal responsibility to protect and care for them.

10 May

Talking Peace

BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am

A profile of the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation in the Wicklow mountains near Dublin, which fosters tolerance and understanding between people involved in conflict, including a schools programme.

The Harsh Divide

Channel 4, 7.55 to 8pm, each evening

A series of four short films about South Africans who live with HIV and AIDS, with mothers and children discussing the stigma and the pain they endure.

11 May

Case Notes

BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm

Dr Mark Porter finds out what happens when a volunteer donates blood and how it reaches needy patients.

12 May

New Servants

BBC 2, 8 to 9pm

Childcare comes under the spotlight with a fashion designer who has hired a maternity nurse, a woman expecting her first child who has employed a doula, and a businesswoman who has employed a cleaner-cum-nanny and wants a nanny-cum-PA.

The Protectors

BBC 2, 9 to 10pm

Members of a public protection team of police and probation services and mental health agencies monitor a man convicted 15 years ago for assaults on three young boys and a baby. He has been released into the community and the team has to assess his risk of re-offending.

School Day

BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.35pm

Postponed from 5 May, this follows a classroom assistant in a tough primary school in London, who was repeatedly expelled from school in his youth, but now loves his job.