'Hilltop Hospital - Flower Power'
(ITV 1, 3.20 to 3.30pm)
In this episode of the series for young children set in a hospital where the staff and patients are all animals, Beverley, a botanist bee, discovers she is allergic to flowers.
'Angelina Ballerina - Angelina's surprise'
(ITV 1, 3.30 to 3.45pm)
In this episode of the series about a ballet-dancing mouse and her friends, Angelina gets involved in a tree-climbing contest.
28 October
'The Ark - Hannukah'
(ITV 1, 10.30 to 11am)
This series for children exploring the world's religions continues with the crew of the Ark looking at the Western Wall of Solomon's temple in Jerusalem as they hear the story of the eternal lamp and the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Then the crew are off to Tiberias to hear the tale of the torch, the cockerel and the monkey.
29 October
'Eureka TV'
(BBC 1, 4.20 to 4.35pm)
This science programme for children takes a look at man's best friend, explaining how all dogs are descended from wolves and have been 'designed' through selective breeding for all sorts of jobs. It also shows how children can fool their friends with a banana hammer that really works.
'Beneath the Veil'
(Channel 4, 10.35 to 11.35pm)
Another chance to see reporter Saira Shah's documentary about the medieval barbarity of life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. There, girls over the age of eight have been banned from schools, women are not allowed to work, which forces them to beg for scraps on the street, and more women die in childbirth in Afghanistan than anywhere else in the world since women doctors have found it all but impossible to work and men are forbidden to carry out gynaecological examinations.
31 October
'Look Both Ways'
(BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm)
Lynne Truss celebrates the zebra crossing by talking to Dr George Charlesworth, who devised its black and white design, and Elaine Williams, a teacher on the Isle of Tiree in Scotland where there are no zebra crossings at all, so the teachers have painted their own so that the children will have some experience of them when they leave the island.
1 November
'Body Briefs - Skin and Bone'
(BBC 1, 9.50 to 10pm)
This ten-minute science programme looks at the human body's skin and bone. Skin keeps our bodies cool or warm and produces vitamin C to create the calcium found in our bones. Bones provide the framework for the body, changing and growing over time. As they develop, muscles and ligaments form, enabling the formation of the perfectly-engineered joints we need to walk, run and jump.
2 November
'Blue Peter'
(BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm)
Jenny and Beccy, the Science Sisters, come into the 'Blue Peter' studio to demonstrate some amphibian antics and fascinating frog facts.
