'Short Change'
(BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm)
As World Cup fever rises, the children's consumer affairs programme is packed with all things soccer, including product testing a range of footballs.
'Cutting Edge - Boys Alone'
(Channel 4, 9 to 10pm)
Last summer ten 11-year-old boys from Hertfordshire took part in a unique study. Given food and drink, and training on how to prepare it, they were allowed to live on their own in a specially-prepared house for one week during half-term. For children of such a protected generation, the opportunity to live by their own rules and timetable proved an exciting one. Yet for some of the boys who had always had a regime, this sudden freedom proved to be a mixed blessing.
3 June
'Toy Symphony'
(BBC Radio 3, 2 to 2.30pm)
Tod Machover's visionary work embraces cutting-edge music technology with a child's imagination. This production from the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow features virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell on hyperviolin, children from Dalmarnock, Sacred Heart and Barrowfield Primary Schools in Glasgow, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gerhard Markson.
'Blue Peter Jubilee Party'
(BBC 1, 2.30 to 4.30pm)
The Blue Peter team present a two-hour extravaganza live from Centenary Square in Birmingham. Viewers will also learn 50 facts they never knew about the Queen and go behind the scenes at some of the Royal palaces. The show also links up to celebrations throughout the UK, with reports from CBBC stars on how to make Jubilee parties go with a swing.
4 June
'Cutting Edge - Classroom Cops'
(Channel 4, 9 to 10pm)
According to a recent National Union of Teachers survey, 80 per cent of teachers think pupil behaviour has seriously deteriorated. This programme visits David Lister Comprehensive School in Hull, where teachers are in the frontline as pupils smash windows, hurl bottles at dinner ladies and throw chairs at staff.
5 June
'Forging a Future'
(BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)
Every day thousands of children in the UK face hardships such as a lack of food in the house or parents addicted to drugs. This programme tells the story of Kid's Company, a London organisation founded five years ago by child psychotherapist Camilla Batmanghelidjh to support children whose parents are unable to care for them due to their own difficulties.
'Life etc'
(BBC 2, 11.20 to 11.50pm)
This programme considers whether people have a right to have a child. It follows a single man who bought the eggs from one woman and rented the womb of another to become one of the first biological single dads in Britain.
