The Teaching Awards 2003 BBC 2, 12.40 to 1.40pm
Now in their fifth year, award categories range from Teacher of the Year to Award for Lifetime Achievement, and each includes a prize package to the value of 25,000 to the teachers' schools.
2 November
The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm
Sheila Dillon examines the British love affair with Italian food, from its post-war origins to the present day and what the future holds for it.
Bookclub BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm
Esther Freud talks about her semi-autobiographical novel Hideous Kinky, which describes through the voice of its five-year-old narrator the voyage of discovery from England to Morocco by her, her mother and big sister.
Esther also tells James Naughtie about the impact that such peripatetic early years had on the rest of her life.
3 November
Colours of the World - Stories from the Belfast Festival BBC Radio 4, 3.30 to 3.45pm each weekday
Five short stories from five major writers on the theme of colours of the world, which range from childhood reminisces and the relationship between a granddaughter and her grandmother to a woman unable to have children whose husband is determined to father a child of his own.
4 November
Separated at Birth - Mothers and Children BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.15pm
This programme features mothers who are searching for their children - something made harder by the fact that, as the law stands, they do not have the same right to search as their children. They have no idea what name their child was given and do not have access to their adoption files. Under current legislation, individual adoption agencies can decide whether or not to help birth relatives by accessing these files themselves and contacting the child on their behalf.
5 November
One Life - Scared to Leave Home BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.15pm
This documentary follows Julie, a young woman who has been agoraphobic for the past ten years and is afraid to leave the village in Yorkshire where she grew up.
6 November
The Pariah Profession BBC Radio 4, 8.02 to 8.30pm
Jenny Cuffe follows Chris Hall, who is one of Hertfordshire's Children's, Schools and Families workers - a new breed in the county that has done away with social services - as she helps vulnerable children in a large comprehensive school.
Daisy Daisy Channel 4, 10.40 to 11.15pm
Daisy Donovan investigates the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee, America's national spelling competition for children, and its prodigies who think nothing of spelling (and understanding) words such as 'epollicate'.
