'Space - Star Stuff'
(BBC 1, 8 to 9pm)
This major new science documentary series, presented by actor Sam Neill, explores the beauty and secrets of the universe in an accessible manner. This first programme explains the theory that all life on Earth, including human beings, comes from outer space, and every molecule of our bodies originates from an unimaginably large hydrogen cloud created by the Big Bang.
24 July
'So You Think You're a Good Driver?'
(BBC 1, 8.30 to 9pm)
The issue of children's safety while riding in cars is the focus of this edition of the road safety programme. It follows Melody Branfield, a busy working mother with four children under the age of four, including triplets, to find out how well she concentrates driving with her children in the car. It also looks at what can happen when baby seats are incorrectly fitted and when children do not wear seatbelts in the car.
'999'
(BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.15pm)
The audience is tested on what to do if a child has taken some tablets which could be poisonous.
25 July
'Children's Hospital'
(BBC 1, 8 to 8.30pm)
Five-year-old Nadine Hunt is brought into casualty at Birmingham Children's Hospital following a fall from a swing at school, with a gash on the back of her head that she is reluctant to have examined.
'Electric Journeys'
(BBC Radio 5 Live, 8.30 to 9pm)
Presenter Sheila Fogarty is joined by American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, for a journey on the internet. He visits his own personal web page, NASA sites devoted to his career, and websites devoted to Mars, space tourism and the future of space travel.
'Meet the Kilshaws'
(Channel 4, 9 to 10pm)
This film offers a warts-and-all look at Alan and Judith Kilshaw, the couple at the centre of the internet adoption scandal earlier this year.
26 July
'Home Ground - East to West'
(BBC 2, 7.30 to 8pm)
The picture-book image of Britain that people in India and Pakistan had in the 1960s was very different from the reality that immigrants found on arrival. This programme explores 50 years of Asian culture in Britain, with personal stories showing how people settled, lived, worked and played in Bradford.
'Analysis'
(BBC Radio 4, 8.30 to 9pm)
The programme questions whether the re-elected Labour Government is asking the right questions in its social policy agenda and asks if ministers actually know enough about Britain's social and economic conditions to frame policies that will work.
'Blinded'
(Channel 4, 8 to 9pm)
This second programme of a three-part series on the work of Moorfields Eye Hospital in London follows four patients as they undergo treatment to prevent them losing their sight. They include four-year-old Laura Wilmot, who is undergoing surgery for glaucoma, a condition that has already blinded her mother.
27 July
'Yours for Decency'
(BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)
In America in 1959 the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals maintained that the sight of naked animals was corrupting children and the animals themselves, and even model horses should be clothed. This is the story of a hoax thought up by prankster Alan Abel and actor/writer Buck Henry.
'Food Court'
(BBC Radio 4, 3 to 3.30pm)
Presenter Felicity Finch looks at the issue of food education, asking if the national curriculum encourages children to take a real interest in cooking and food, and if there are enough teachers who can keep the subject going.
