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MONDAY AUGUST 6 Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer BBC 2, 9-10pm Fasting has become fashionable but does it do you harm or good? Michael Mosley examines the powerful new [...]

MONDAY JULY 23 Horizon--The Truth About Looking Young BBC 2, 9-10 pm See Pick of the Week TUESDAY JULY 24 File on 4 BBC Radio 4, 8-8.40pm Many soldiers returning [...]

MONDAY MAY 21 Are My Fake Breasts Safe? BBC 3, 9-10pm See Pick of the Week TUESDAY MAY 22 The End of Drug Discovery BBC Radio 4, 8-8.40pm As the [...]

MONDAY MAY 14 Bang Goes the Theory BBC 1, 7.30-8pm It is often claimed that owning a dog is good for your physical and mental wellbeing. Presenter Philippa Forrester takes [...]

SATURDAY APRIL 28 Sextuplets--The Little Lambs ITV2, 8.30-9.30pm Vicky Lamb gave birth to six babies in May 2010, the first sextuplets born in England for 17 years. A camera crew [...]

MONDAY APRIL 16 Mind Changers BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am Claudia Hammond explores behavioural therapist Joseph Wolpe's development of systematic desensitisation--the treatment for phobias that can be seen as the foundation [...]

SUNDAY APRIL 8 The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30-1 pm Can cooking be therapeutic? An increasing number of people believe it can be. Food journalist Sheila Dillon meets a [...]

MONDAY MARCH 12 Helen's Polar Challenge for Sport Relief 2012 BBC 1, 4.30-5pm This nine-week Blue Peter series follows presenter Helen Skelton as she takes on a gruelling 500-mile challenge [...]

SATURDAY MARCH 3 Archive on 4-Playing Doctors and Nurses BBC Radio 4, 8-9pm Mark Lawson surveys the history of factual and fictional programmes about nurses and doctors on radio and [...]

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26 File on 4 BBC Radio 4, 5-5.40pm Julian O'Halloran discusses diabetes, a condition that costs the NHS 9 billion £, and contributes to more than 70,000 deaths, [...]

MONDAY JANUARY 30 Inside Out BBC 1, 7.30-8pm The investigative team look at the production and sale of illegal spirits. Sales of bootleg alcohol cost the exchequer millions in lost [...]

SUNDAY JANUARY 15 Call the Midwife BBC 1, 8-9 pm Jennifer Worth, the best-selling author of the Call the Midwife trilogy, died last year aged 75. This new drama series [...]

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 The Food Programme BB C Radio 4, 12.30-1pm Can the British diet be improved? American food journalist and author Mark Bittman meets some food campaigners in the [...]

MONDAY NOVEMBER 7 A History of the Brain BBC Radio 4, 1.45-2pm, Beginning today At this time on weekdays for the next fortnight, academic researcher Geoff Bunn traces 5,000 years [...]

MONDAY OCTOBER 31 Helicopter Heroes BBC 1, 9.15-10am, Monday-Friday Rav Wilding follows the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance service. Today, darkness threatens to ground a transplant patient's life-saving flight, [...]

MONDAY OCTOBER 17 Helicopter Heroes BBC 1, 9.15-10am, Monday-Friday Ray Wilding follows the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance service. Today, a top jockey is thrown by her horse, a [...]

MONDAY OCTOBER 3 Helicopter Heroes BBC 1, 9.15-10am, Monday-Friday All this week, Rav Wilding follows the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance service. Today a disabled boy is trapped after [...]

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19 Helicopter Heroes BBC 1, 9.15-10am, Monday-Friday Rav Wilding looks at the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. In today's programme, wedding plans are wrecked when the minibus [...]

MONDAY AUGUST 29 No Triumph, No Tragedy BBC Radio 4, 9-9.30 am Peter White asks people with disabilities about the obstacles they have faced. He meets model Shannon Murray, who [...]

MONDAY JUNE 13 Real Rescues BBC1, 11-11.45am Today, a woman is taken to hospital after falling and banging her head, while a motorcyclist captures his own accident on camera. The [...]

MONDAY JUNE 6 This Morning ITV 1, 10.30-11.25am, Monday-Friday Throughout the week, Phillip Schofield and Jenni Falconer look at the pros and cons of cosmetic surgery, beginning with stem cell [...]

MONDAY MAY 2 Bizarre ER BBC 3, 10.30-11pm Sheridan Smith visits A&E, where he finds a schoolboy needing stitches after joyriding in a shopping trolley and a teenager requiring treatment [...]

SATURDAY APRIL 23 That Paralympic Show Channel 4, 1.25-1.55pm As the official broadcaster of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Channel 4 continues its build-up by showcasing various sports. MONDAY APRIL [...]

SATURDAY APRIL 16 Living with Cancer--A Newsround Special BBC 2, 11.25-11.45am Children's TV actor Dominique Moore takes a look at how cancer affects the lives of children and young people. [...]

MONDAY MARCH 7 Smoking and the Bandits--Panorama BBC 1, 8.30-9pm Reporter Sam Poling exposes the criminal gangs that are dealing in smuggled hand-rolled tobacco and cigarettes. He reveals that some [...]

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 6 The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30-1pm Should schools be doing more to teach children how to cook? Sheila Dillon looks at cooking, food preparation and domestic [...]

MONDAY JANUARY 24 The Glasgow Effect BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am Iain Macwhirter looks at Glasgow's mortality rates, which compare unfavourably with cities such as Liverpool and Manchester. Why are the [...]

MONDAY DECEMBER 13 Real Rescues BBC 1, 11-11.45am Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin present the daily dramas encountered by emergency services. This week a man's life hangs in the balance [...]

MONDAY NOVEMBER 29 Power to Persuade--The Story of NLP BBC Radio 4, 11-11.30am Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) aims to improve self-awareness and effective communication. It is claimed the techniques used in [...]

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13 Teensville--Bat School for the Blind BBC 2, 1.25-2.50pm A blind American teenager undertakes an intensive two-week course in echolocation, a technique that helps people visualise through sound. [...]

MONDAY NOVEMBER 8 Remembrance Week BBC 1, 9.15-10am, Monday-Friday Former paratrooper Ray Wilding is with British troops in Afghanistan. In a week of remembrance programmes, he tells the stories of [...]

SUNDAY OCTOBER 10 Half Ton Son More 4, 10.05-11.10pm Nineteen-year-old Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas, weighs 60 stone. Radical action is needed if he is to live through his twenties. [...]

MONDAY OCTOBER 4 Jamie's American Food Revolution Channel 4, 10-11pm Chef Jamie Oliver is in Huntington, West Virginia, trying to improve eating habits in the United States. This week he [...]

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27 Helicopter Heroes BBC1, 9.15-10am, Monday--Friday It begins as a normal day's filming with the North Yorkshire Air Ambulance service. Then calls start to come in of shootings [...]

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20 Helicopter Heroes BBC1, 9.15-10am At this time throughout the week, Rav Wilding continues to follow the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. One of the team collapses [...]

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13 Helicopter Heroes BBC 1, 9.15-10am At this time throughout the week, Rav Wilding follows the work of Yorkshire Air Ambulance. In this episode a nine-year-old boy is [...]

SUNDAY AUGUST 29 Inside Incredible Athletes Channel 4, 9-10.30pm See Pick of the Week TUESDAY AUGUST 31 Case Notes BBC Radio 4, 9-9.30pm Following research that the World Health Organization's [...]

MONDAY AUGUST 23 Dispatches--When Cousins Marry Channel 4, 8-9pm Marriage between first and second cousins is common in the UK's Pakistani community. The Dispatches team looks at the genetic risks [...]

PICK OF THE WEEK LORRAINE KELLY'S BIG FAT CHALLENGE Monday August 16, Channel 5, 10.45-11.45am, Monday to Friday Presenter Lorraine Kelly, pictured, joins the Chawner family from Blackburn, whose binge [...]

SUNDAY AUGUST 1 The Food Programme BBC Radio 4, 12.30-1pm Evidence suggests we may need to consume more vitamin D. What is the case for fortifying more foods or taking [...]

MONDAY JULY 12 Real Rescues BBC 1, 11-11.45am, Monday to Friday Nick Knowles and Louise Minchin present dramatic events from the day-to-day work of the emergency services, including a lifeboat [...]

SUNDAY JUNE 6 The WAGs' Stories BBC 3, 9-10pm For the fourth leg of their volunteer work, five women known for being wives or girlfriends of footballers are shocked by [...]

MONDAY MAY 10 Hospital Heroes BBC1, 9.15-10am, Monday-Friday This series follows staff and patients at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, one of the UK's busiest trauma centres. Today a driver [...]

MONDAY MAY 3 Hospital Heroes BBC1, 9-9.45 am Mon; 9.15-10am Tues-Thurs This series follows events at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, one of the UK's busiest trauma centres. A man [...]

PICK OF THE WEEK LOUIS THEROUX--AMERICA'S MEDICATED KIDS Sunday Apri1 18, BBC 2, 9-10pm Faced with the challenging behaviour of their children, many parents in the United States are turning [...]

MONDAY APRIL 12 Anatomy of ... BBC Radio 4, 8-8.30pm What is it be like to be sectioned? In 2005 Angela was working for an NHS trust and running three [...]

PICK OF THE WEEK GREAT ORMOND STREET--PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES Tuesday April 6, BBC2, 9-10pm This episode focuses on the work of the cardiac unit at the Great Ormond Street children [...]

SUNDAY MARCH 28 Embarrassing Bodies Channel 4, 8-9 pm Stuart, who has schizophrenia, explains how he copes and reveals the things he wishes that others knew about his condition. One [...]

TUESDAY MARCH 16 Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance Channel 4, 8-9pm Jo Frost looks at a serious, but hidden threat to children's health: sleep deprivation. But do parents know how [...]

MONDAY MARCH 8 Panorama--Trust Us, We're an NHS Hospital BBC 1, 8.30-9pm See Pick of the Week TUESDAY MARCH 9 Jo Frost--Extreme Parental Guidance Channel 4, 8-9pm Jo Frost helps [...]