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13 July Spelling Bee (BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)
13 July

Spelling Bee (BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)

America's annual spelling bee is a two-day competition among schoolchildren to find the country's best junior speller.

13 July Panorama - What Happened Next? (BBC 1, 10.15 to 10.55pm)

Panorama returns to some stories covered in the past year. It revisits the Oxfordshire family from a programme revealing the lack of support available to those caring for severely disabled children, and reports on developments with the anti-depressant drug, Seroxat, showing that since Panorama's investigation, the drugs regulator has issued advice to GPs that it should not be prescribed to the under-18s.

14 July

Family Xchange (BBC 1, 10.15 to 10.45am, Mon. to Fri.)

Natalie Sawalha presents a new series on two families who exchange lives for one week. The results reveal much about everyday life, about men's and women's roles in the home and how one family's absolute priority may be of no importance to another.

Storyville - Where Is My Family? (BBC 4, 10.30 to 11.30pm, Mon. to Fri)

A season of films celebrating the extraordinary challenges and endless variety of family life around the world. 'Remember the Family', the first in the series, tells the story of a British family affected by the failure of a business.

Fresh Air Kids (BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm)

Through features and audio diaries, this programme explores teenage life around the UK.

15 July

Welcome to Britain (BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.35pm)

Last year 6,000 children arrived alone in Britain, without their parents, to claim asylum. This four-part series looks at how British society responds as global migration continues its upward trend.

File On 4 (BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.40pm)

The Government insists that children expelled for bad behaviour must be provided with alternative full-time education, yet thousands of problem pupils - some as young as six - have failed to receive this. Fran Abrams asks whether Britain has abandoned the hope of bringing its lost children back into the educational fold.

17 July

Body Hits - Sensory Overload (BBC 3, 9 to 9.30pm)

Dr John Marsden delves deeper to find out what the senses really do and how they work. He meets extraordinarily 'sensitive' people who are put through a series of tests of their senses.