TV and radio

(BBC Radio 4, 8.02 to 9pm)

How foot and mouth disease got out of control in Britain's countryside and became a national crisis costing the lives of millions of animals as well as billions of pounds of taxpayers' money.

24 February 'Five Live Report - Assault Course'

(BBC Radio 5 Live, 12 noon to 12.30pm)

Esther Armah discovers there's more than just name-calling going on in the nation's playgrounds and classrooms, in this programme about bullying.

25 February 'Women of the Crescent Moon'

(BBC Radio 4, 3.45 to 4pm)

British Muslim women present two programmes about living with their faith amid the pressures of modern life. Here Saba Rifat talks about being a pharmacist and Islamic artist as well as being divorced. In the second programme at the same time on 26 February, Almaas Alam explains why she gave up her job as an optician to bring up her three young children.

26 February 'The Boy Can't Help It'

(BBC 1, 9 to 10pm)

Tourette's Syndrome is a condition that causes people to twitch, spit, shout and swear.This programme features an eight-year-old boy whose parents are struggling with its agonising effects on their son, while he wonders what the future holds for him.

'Raised by the State'

(BBC 2, 11.20pm to 12 midnight)

David Akinsanya was put into care when he was ten days old. By the age of eight he was considered 'unfosterable'; at 11 he was deemed maladjusted and institutionalised. Now a campaigner for children in care, he examines the British care system and how growing up in institutions affects all aspects of life.

27 February 'Best Inventions'

(BBC 1, 7 to 7.30pm)

Hosts Katy Hill and Trevor Baylis look at a wall panel heater that looks like a painting, a T-shirt with an LED panel on which to type messages, and a device that vacuum shrinks rubbish.

'Twenty Minutes - Oldham Then and Now'

(BBC Radio 3, 8.20 to 8.40pm)

Writer Peter Kalu contrasts today's Oldham, which suffered riots last summer, with the town the composer William Walton would have known as a child in Edwardian times.

28 February 'Horizon - The Boy Who Was Turned Into A Girl'

(BBC 2, 9 to 9.50pm)

The story of a boy who grew up as a girl and the issues it raised about gender. By the second birthday of twins born in 1965, Brian was a happy, bouncing boy and Bruce was Brenda. Postponed from 21 February.

1 March 'Law in Action'

(BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.40pm)

How far should the authorities go in pursuit of those who prey on children through the internet? Catching those who intend to harm children by meeting them through chatrooms might encourage entrapment.