'Panorama - In Deep Water'
(BBC 1, 10.15 to 10.55pm)
The current affairs programme looks at how communities are coping after the worst floods in recent memory. Hundreds of families are still living in temporary accommodation, their houses humming with dehumidifiers, their possessions in skips and, in many cases, with little prospect of returning home in the near future.
19 March
'Baby Rites'
(BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm Monday to Wednesday)
In this three-part series Kate Saunders learns about the beliefs and practices surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in different religious and cultural traditions. In this first programme she attends a circumcision, which is performed on all Jewish boys when they are eight days old. The second programme looks at the rites marking the birth of a Muslim child and in the final programme on Wednesday, Kate talks to Chinese women hoping to conceive who pray to the Buddhist goddess of mercy and compassion. After birth they follow the ancient practice of 'lying in' for a month.
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