'Doing Time - Verdict'
(Channel 4, 9 to 10pm)
This three-part series tells the stories of the prisoners' children and their families as they struggle to come to terms with an enforced separation. Here two young mothers wait to hear if they will be sent to prison. One is an habitual burglar who has been in and out of prison since her teens. In the past her two children were too young to understand that their mother was in prison, but now, aged five and nine, they are much more aware of the prolonged absences, prison visits and taunting at school. The other mother knows that a prison sentence will result in her daughter going into care.
27 May
'New Shoots, Old Tips'
(BBC Radio 4, 2.45 to 3pm)
Garden historian Caroline Holmes and biologist Dr Robin Probert of the Millennium Seedbank Project assess tips from the past 2,000 years, such as how to preserve seeds from favourite plants for future generations.
'Journey into Language - Teaching and Research in London' (BBC Radio 4, 5.40 to 5.55pm)
Eric Hawkins, director of the Language Teaching Centre at York University, traces his experiences in 1920s Liverpool where his primary teacher insisted on her boys using a pocket mirror to practise their French vowels. Later he became one of the first state schoolboys to be taught a language other than French.
28 May
'Woman's Hour Drama - Growing Pains: Anthologies of Parenthood' (BBC Radio 4, 10.45 to 11am weekdays)
Actors including Lindsay Duncan, Barbara Flynn and Geoffrey Palmer read a selection of poems, prose and music celebrating motherhood and fatherhood. They begin with conception and pregnancy. Giving birth is Tuesday's topic; Wednesday focuses on babies and toddlers; Thursday covers childhood, and Friday, the teen years and letting go.
29 May
'999'
(BBC 1, 10.40 to 11.30pm)
Each week Dr Catherine Hood will put the First Aid knowledge of audiences around the country to the test with frighteningly realistic scenarios including choking toddlers, road traffic accidents and water disasters. An online first aid course at www.bbc.co.uk/health/999launches with this programme. Viewers can complete an interactive test with the knowledge they have picked up and take a first aid qualification at an assessment centre in their area.
31 May
'Home Ground - Enough is Enough'
(BBC 2, 7.30 to 8pm)
Last year almost 4,000 Asian women living in the Midlands had the courage to say that they were being abused by their husbands. This programme looks at the work of Karma Nirvana, a Derby-based agency offering support and counselling for Asian women who have been subjected to domestic violence.
