TV and radio

'Maisy'

(ITV, 3.20 to 3.25pm each weekday)

More animated tales for young children about Maisy Mouse and the adventures she has with her friends Charley and Tallulah. Narrated by Neil Morrissey.

27 July

'Face the Facts'

(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)

Families are being torn apart after being wrongly diagnosed with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, as growing numbers of parents are accused of harming their own children to get medical attention, and guidelines meant to protect families are being ignored.

28 July

'Twenty Minutes - Anne Fine'

(BBC Radio 4, 11.45am to 12.05pm)

Anne Fine recently took over from the writer and illustrator Quentin Blake as Britain's second Children's Laureate. She talks about her plans for her two-year stint, including her beliefs about making reading for pleasure more central to children's experience. Michael Rosen also explores the dark vision at the heart of many of her books, often centred on fragmented or dysfunctional families and children who are making do in lives that lack the comforting certainties featured in the previous generation of children's literature.