(BBC Radio 4, 3.30 to 4pm)
John Cole considers the modern apprenticeship, as it has moved away from the idea of 'time served' to a new emphasis on 'competence' based on National Vocational Qualifications.
24 November. 'Five Live Report - Deathwish'
(BBC Radio 5 Live, 12 to 12.30pm)
Over the past few months in Belfast 11 young people have taken their own lives. Ruth McDonald talks to some parents who have lost their children.
'The Food Programme'
(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)
Sheila Dillon examines the ways food is being re-introduced into the school curriculum, with independent educators coming into classrooms, the new role of school caterers and educational projects such as that on a farm near Bristol giving children a greater understanding of how food is produced.
'Classic Serial - Just So Stories'
(BBC Radio 4, 3 to 4pm)
Marking the centenary of the first publication of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
25 November. 'Women's Hour Drama - Inner Voices'
(BBC Radio 4, 10.45 to 11am weekdays)
Five comic monologues by Jenny Eclair, Geraldine McNulty, Stella Duffy, Angie Le Mar and Jo Enright cover topics including a woman who waits while her lover tells his wife and children he's leaving them, and what happens when a make-up artist recognises the woman in the chair as her childhood tormentor.
'Blue Peter'
(BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm) The 41st 'Blue Peter' Appeal is unveiled in this programme.
Real Life - Fleur's Story'
(ITV 1, 10.30 to 11.30pm)
Two-year-old Fleur Tobutt was diagnosed at four months as having Progeria, a rare, disfiguring and fatal illness whose sufferers age ten times faster than normal.
26 November. 'Case Notes'
(BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm)
Dr Graham Easton asks experts why some cancers are easier to cure than others, why childhood leukaemias are easier to treat than pancreatic cancer, and why many people lose weight when they get cancer.
29 November. 'Unschooled'
(BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)
As many as one per cent of Britain's five-to 16-year-olds don't go to school but are educated at home, usually by a parent. Maud Hand studies the effects of home education by meeting five young adults who had little or no formal education in school.
'Veg Talk'
(BBC Radio 4, 3 to 3.30pm)
Greg Wallace and Charlie Hicks dispense wit and wisdom on vegetable-related matters.
