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16 May 'It's A Mystery' (ITV 1, 4.15 to 4.35pm)
16 May 'It's A Mystery'

(ITV 1, 4.15 to 4.35pm)

Neil Buchanan, Ben Jones and Shelley Bond explore the irresistible world of mysteries by looking at floating objects, a journey back in time and how there's more to being a detective than meets the eye.

19 May 'Five Live Report - A School for God's Children'

(BBC Radio 5 Live, 12 noon to 12.30pm)

Reporter Nadine Ghouri discovers that religious sectarianism is thriving for young children in Northern Ireland when she visits a school where any discussion of sex is censored and the teaching of evolution is undermined by the certainty that the world was created in six days.

20 May 'No Home for Heroes'

(BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)

This programme tells the story of soldiers' families who found themselves with nowhere to live in post-1945 Britain. One recalls having to melt snow to bathe her newborn baby as she squatted with other homeless ex-servicemen and women in a former Army barracks.The men and women, some now in their nineties, tell the story of their desperate struggle that eventually changed Government policy.

'Blue Peter' (BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm)

The popular children's magazine programme stages a 1950s-style show in honour of the Queen's Golden Jubilee and the team show viewers tasty ideas for party food to celebrate.

'4x4 Reports' (BBC 1, 7.30 to 8pm)

The current affairs programme puts school examinations under scrutiny and features six-year-old children who are suffering from exam stress as a result of being assessed at school.

21 May 'Songs My Mother Taught Me'

(BBC Radio 4, 1.30 to 2pm)

Michael Rosen presents the first of two programmes exploring the relationship between childhood and music. He asks why music has the enduring power to take people back to their childhood years after they have become adults and why children respond to music so strongly. He celebrates childhood music by talking to musicians, composers, teachers and children, and learns how reggae in the womb can make lifetime fans, why lullabies work and about the playground songs children don't want adults to hear.

22 May 'Frontiers' (BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm)

Peter Evans follows the scientific quest to understand the emotion of fear, which relies on pathways that involve a structure deep in the brain called the amygdala. As the circuitry is worked out and researchers come close to seeing the brain in the act of storing information about the signal that predicts danger, they are attempting to study the effects of medication and psychological therapies on a variety of mental illnesses.



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