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Wednesday 13 June - 11.30am The Making of a Teenage Protester. Channel 4. The programme follows 16-year-old Laurie Pycroft, a pro-establishment rebel.

Thursday 14 June - 11.30am The Boy Who Killed His Best Friend. Channel4. The story of 17-year-old Tommy Kimpton. To what extent did hisdifficult life drive him to murder?

Monday 18 June

- 8.00pm Mind the Gap Year. ITV1. As thousands of students prepare fortrips abroad, one mother waits for her son to return - almost threeyears after he disappeared in Cambodia.

- 8.00pm Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys. BBC2. Hislop discovers theScouting for Boys book is actually very radical and addresses issues wethink of as modern, such as disaffected young people.

Tuesday 19 June - 10.35pm Children Fighting Cancer. BBC1. Six-year-oldEllie refuses to give up her sense of humour despite cancer andchemotherapy.

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