The week's TV: obesity, nursery food and cannabis

Charlotte Goddard
Monday, January 25, 2010

Here's your friendly neighbourhood round-up of TV shows you might want to watch this week.

Monday 25 January

BBC1 8.30pm Panorama: What's Really In Our Kids' Food? An investigation of the kind of food children are being given at home and in nurseries. Quite timely following this story.

BBC2 9pm  The British Family. Kirsty Young looks at the British family in the 1980s and 1990s, concentrating on money.

Tuesday 26 January

BBC1 10.35pm Too Old to be a Mum? With no legal age limits on IVF treatment and biological boundaries being pushed ever further, how do we decide what age is just too old to be a new mum?

Wednesday 27 January

BBC4 9pm Shooting the War - Children. The experiences of children during the second world war.

BBC3 12.15am I suppose this is technically tomorrow but hey. Cannabis: Britain's Secret Farms.  Organised gangs are cashing in on widespread demand for cannabis among Britain's youth by setting up sophisticated factories in suburban homes and disused warehouses. Research shows a third of the UK's 15-year-olds have tried cannabis and a quarter of young people aged 16 to 24 smoke it regularly. Presenter Rickie Haywood-Williams journeys "beyond the scaremongering headlines to find out the true impact of the UK's skunk-smoking habit. "

Thursday 28 January

Channel 4 10pm Girl With Eight Limbs Grows Up This Bodyshock Special finds out how Lakshmi, who is now three, is developing, and what further operations and treatment she still needs to develop as normally as possible.

Channel 4 11pm Gok Wan: Too Fat Too Young  Gok talks to teenagers who have been severely affected by food addiction and explores the extent of Britain's teenage obesity crisis.

Friday 29 January

Nothing today that I can see.


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