'Front Row'
(BBC Radio 4, 7.15 to 7.45pm)
Francine Stock interviews popular children's writer Dick King Smith, author of Babe the Sheep Pig.
'Costing the Earth - Chemical Soup'
(BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm)
Presenter Alex Kirby continues his investigation into indoor air pollution and reveals the dangers from volatile chemicals. He looks at new evidence linking manmade chemicals to a range of illnesses including sickness and diarrhoea in babies, migraine and depression in young mothers, and male infertility and testicular cancer.
9 September
'Countryfile Special - The Road Not Taken'
(BBC 1, 11.30am to 12 noon)
The programme investigates the case for vaccination as a way of tackling foot and mouth disease. It reports from Argentina, whose citizens have lived with the disease for generations, and Holland, which decided to vaccinate earlier this year.
10 to 14 September
'Book of the Week - A Life's Work'
(BBC Radio 4, 9.45 to 10am weekdays)
Abigail Cruttenden reads an account of motherhood by novelist Rachel Cusk. Women often complain they are never told the truth about pregnancy, birth and motherhood, so Rachel, having had two daughters in quick succession, decided to dispense with all the comforting tips to tell it like it is.
10 September
'A Child's World - Life and Times'
(Channel 4, 8.30 to 9pm)
By the age of two, children have mastered the basics of walking and talking, but their brains and thought processes are undeveloped. This six-part series charts developments that mark the way on the journey to become an independent person. This first programme looks at children's concepts of life and mortality, including pre-schoolers who think a doll is a living thing but a plant is not, a three-year-old who refuses to believe she was ever a baby and four-year-olds who come face to face with death for the first time. The series consultant is child development psychologist Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith of the Institute for Child Health.
11 September
'The Long View - Mental Health'
(BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30am)
Jonathan Freedland explores the effect of mental illness on families. He looks at the lives of Charles and Mary Lamb, a Victorian brother and sister who are remembered today as adapters of Shakespeare for children.
'Mind of a Murderer'
(BBC 1, 9 to 9.55pm)
Neurological research using advances in brain imaging has revealed deficits and brain damage in certain types of murderer. This programme investigates how shaking infants can result in types of brain damage that may increase the likelihood of them committing murder later in life.
14 September
'Catching the Killers - Video Surveillance'
(BBC 2, 9 to 9.50pm)
This film looks at the history of surveillance and CCTV cameras and asks if video evidence ever tells the whole story.
However, both suffered from depression and, during a severe bout of illness as a young woman, Mary stabbed and killed their mother. In court she was found to be 'lunatic' and Charles pleaded to be allowed to care for her.
