(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)
With eating disorders on the rise, experts are exploring how food has become associated with feelings of guilt, approval, rebellion and control. In this programme, Sara Parker talks to those living with disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, slimmers who guiltily have the occasional chocolate bar and vegetarians who sneak off for a bacon sandwich. Contributors include poet Michael Rosen, who tells of the childhood meals his mother never knew about, and psychotherapist Susie Orbach.
'Panorama - Tony in Adland'
(BBC 1, 10.15 to 10.55pm)
In the year 2000-01, Tony Blair's Government became the country's biggest advertiser, spending 192m - 70 per cent more than the previous year, more than soap powder manufacturers. This programme examines three high-profile pre-election Government advertising campaigns, including one on getting single parents back to work and another on benefit fraud.
27 May
'Book of the Week - The Devil That Danced on the Water'
(BBC Radio 4, 9.45 to 10am each weekday)
As the child of a Sierra Leonian medical student and a white Scottish woman in 1960s Aberdeen, Aminatta Forma experienced at an early age the consequences of racial discrimination. On moving to Sierra Leone, where her parents set up a clinic, she enjoyed an idyllic childhood among her father's extended family. But things were to change. Now a journalist and television reporter, Aminatta has written a powerful and moving account of her past.
'File On Four'
(BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.40pm)
Can tolerance and understanding for tomorrow can be built in the playground today? A year on from the Oldham riots, File on Four follows local children as they swap cultures and classrooms in a school-twinning project designed to bring about greater racial harmony. The project involves 33 primary schools where, through various activities, English children are learning with their Asian peers, whose family backgrounds are in Bangladesh or Pakistan.
28 May 'Songs My Mother Taught Me'
(BBC Radio 4, 1.30 to 2pm)
Michael Rosen presents the second of two programmes exploring the relationship between childhood and music.
'The Learning Curve'
(BBC Radio 4, 4.30 to 5pm)
Presenter Libby Purves looks at the controversial proposals under consideration in Northern Ireland on the future of the 11-plus exam and the system for primary and secondary transfer.
The proposed changes have been described as the most fundamental reorganisation of the Province's education system in more than 50 years.
