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27 January 'Good Morning Sunday' (BBC Radio 2, 7 to 9am)
27 January

'Good Morning Sunday' (BBC Radio 2, 7 to 9am)

Nicholas Winton and author Vera Gissing join Don McLean to mark National Holocaust Day by talking about how Nicholas saved the lives of 669 children, most of whom were Jewish, bringing them from Prague to Britain as the Nazis approached during World War Two. Vera was one of those children.

'The Food Programme' (BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)

Sarah Dillon investigates why an estimated 4m people in the UK can't afford a healthy diet because nutritious foods can cost up to 50 per cent more than unhealthy alternatives, and how a lack of shops selling good food in poor areas and the loss of cooking skills can contribute to the problem.

'Five Live Report - Memory Wars' (BBC Radio 5 Live, 12 noon to 12.30pm)

The term 'False Memory Syndrome' is being used increasingly as a defence in retrospective child sex abuse cases in the USA and Britain. But leading psychiatric bodies refuse to recognise its existence and claim the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, an American support and advice network, is a useful hiding place for paedophiles in denial, as no background checks for previous convictions are done on prospective members.

'Stig of the Dump' (BBC 1, 5.45 to 6.15pm)

In this third episode in an updated production of Clive King's children's classic, Barney rebuilds Stig the caveman's chimney, while Stig discovers a new talent for drawing and begins to draw a hunting scene on the cave wall. Barney realises that Stig wants to eat meat but prefers to catch it himself.

'Go4It' (BBC Radio 4, 7.15 to 7.45pm)

John Lassiter and Pete Docter, the creative team at Pixar who are behind the popular animated films 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life', talk about the highs and lows of making their latest film, 'Monsters Inc', just about to be released in the UK, in this edition of the children's magazine programme.

'How to Build a Human - the Secret of Sex' (BBC 2, 9 to 9.50pm)

This third programme in the series about how human beings are made and the way that our genes and hormones shape us from cradle to grave looks at the secret of sex and the notion of gender.

29 January

'Life as a Child' (BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm)

Connie St Louis talks to children aged five to 11, to discover more about the relationships they form with their parents and how they view their siblings.

30 January

'Touch' (BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm)

Dr Gillian Rice investigates the role of tactile contact in our lives and suggests that a mother's touch will affect her baby's mental and social development throughout later life.



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