Five Live Report - Race Hate in Northern Ireland BBC Radio 5 Live, 10 to 11.55am
After years of sectarian conflict, Northern Ireland is experiencing a new menace on the streets - racism. In some areas, families from ethnic minorities have suffered physical and verbal abuse or have been forced from their homes. Reporter Karen Atkinson investigates the rise of racism.
Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4, 11.15am to 12noon
Sue Lawley's castaway is Judith Kerr, a writer and illustrator known to generations of children for The Tiger Who Came to Tea, the Mog the Cat series and for her careful rendering of the life of a Jewish child fleeing Nazi Germany.
The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm
Obesity is estimated to cost the NHS 500m a year and the risk of developing many other life-threatening conditions has been shown to be significantly reduced by improving diet. Sheila Dillon hears from researchers who are examining the role that dieting during pregnancy plays on the diseases babies suffer in later life.
1 March
Book of the Week - My Wounded Heart BBC Radio 4, 9.45 to 10am each weekday
The true story of Lilli Jahn, a Jewish doctor who died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, is told largely through the letters exchanged between her and her children.
Twenty Minutes - White's World BBC Radio 3, 7.45 to 8.05pm
From across the Channel in Brittany, poet Kenneth White writes a political and very personal letter to a friend critiquing his mother country, Scotland, which, he argues, 'has always been more Europe-minded than England'.
2 March
Emotional Rollercoaster BBC Radio 4, 9.30 to 9.45am
Claudia Hammond continues her investigation into the science behind emotions. The first emotion she explores is disgust, which some believe has evolved to steer people away from dangerous and potential disease threats, while others think it is there to create and maintain social hierarchies.
Diet Junkies BBC 2, 8 to 9pm
The hunt for a medical answer to obesity is the topic for the final programme in this series. And when the drugs don't work, surgeons in the US and now the UK are ready to conduct a gastric bypass, where the stomach is stapled to the size of a golf ball and recipients can never eat normally again.
4 March
Material World BBC Radio 4, 4.30 to 5pm
Quentin Cooper investigates how the science of perception is explaining the links between the motor control cortex - the part of the brain responsible for movement - and dance movements.
Analysis - Health Promotion BBC Radio 4, 8.30 to 9pm
In the first of a new series, David Walker asks if health education campaigns actually work and whether the public wants fewer doctors and more advertisements.
