Five Live Report
BBC Radio 5 Live, 10am to 1pm
Since the Soham murders some parents have considered using devices such as mobile phone trackers and microchip implants to monitor their children's movements. Rajesh Mirchandani asks if they are right to be so concerned, or if we are seeing a generation of paranoid parents, while statistics show that kidnaps and murders by strangers in the UK are no more common now than they were 20 years ago.
Desert Island Discs
BBC Radio 4, 11.15am to 12 noon
Children's laureate Michael Morpurgo is Sue Lawley's castaway. The author styles himself as a 'storyteller/writer' and says his aim is to foster a love of books and reading that he believes the education system does not give children. His themes are the relationships between young and old, children and animals, and children's experiences of loneliness and self-reliance.
Songs of Praise
BBC 1, 5 to 5.35pm
Jonathan Edwards visits South Africa, where he meets Archbishop Desmond Tutu and visits a project that organises cultural activities and nature trips for city children to show them there is life outside the crime they encounter on the streets.
12 April
Woman's Hour
BBC Radio 4, 10 to 11am
To coincide with the launch of a timeline detailing the key events in women's lives from 1900 to the present day on the 'Woman's Hour' website, Jenni Murray hosts a debate on the one that has had the greatest impact on women.
Afternoon Story: Jigs and Reels
BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm each weekday
Five short stories by Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat, taken from her first collection of short fiction. In a reworking of Cinderella one of the ugly sisters discovers an admirer in the audience and wonder if she has met her own Prince Charming.
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
BBC 1, 6.30 to 7.30pm
A comedy drama for all the family based around Butch and Sundance, the two pigs who several years ago tried to save their own bacon when they went on the run from a Wiltshire abattoir.
13 April
Blind Man's Beauty
BBC Radio 4, 9.30 to 9.45am
Presenter Peter White, who has been blind since birth, explains why he is a fan of stormy weather.
14 April
Footlight Fairies
BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am
A dramatised documentary telling the story of reformer Millicent Fawcett, who took up the cause of child performers in the 1880s, and whose campaign to outlaw them split Victorian society. During the pantomime season, more than 1,000 children trod the boards on the London stage as fairies and elves.
15 April
Conflicts - Northern Ireland
BBC 3, 9.30 to 10pm
The first programme in a series exploring historical feuds around the world looks at the roots of the tensions between the Protestant and Catholic communities.
