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New online is the first of two programmes for 7-9 year olds based on the controversial topic of the use of animal fur and whether or not it is deemed appropriate in today's society.

Listen online to Passion for Fashion: What you wear can eat you up
Programme Notes - 278kB

And catch the latest music and movement programme for 5-7 year olds:

Listen online to Hop, Skip and Jump: Little Louis takes off
Programme Notes - 231kB

More programmes coming up...

Griff Rhys Jones talks about anger in his new two-part series Losing It.

Losing It is part of the Headroom campaign to encourage you to look after your mental wellbeing. The website has clips and guides about how anger works, the benefits of keeping your anger under control and advice on how to manage your anger more effectively.

You can watch the second part on the iPlayer from Tuesday evening, and due to repeat showings, the first will still be available online for another week.

Gavin Mitchell discovers the history of William Wallace in The Wallace, the first programme of three about the Scottish Wars of Independence for 10-12 year olds.

The Wallace on iPlayer
Programme Notes - 386kB
Scottish Wars of Independence website
Wallace and Bruce website

And here are more of our programmes that were on during the past two days while we were out at the Scottish Learning Festival:

Scottish Weather: Sporting Forecast on iPlayer
Programme Notes - 794kB

Listen online to Hop, Skip and Jump: Teeny weeny tadpole
Programme Notes - 231kB

Listen online to China Stories First/Second Level: Getting to like you
Programme Notes - 297kB

Listen online to China Stories Second/Third Level: Sink or Swim part 2
Programme Notes - 332kB

More programmes coming up..

We've launched a new website for The LAB, with details of the workshops you can take part in at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland.

Whether it's video, animation, audio or a photo slideshow, we're here to help you bring your story to life. You don't need any knowledge of the world of digital media - by the time you've finished a free workshop at The LAB you'll be amazed at what you can achieve.

Our new site giving you round the clock online access to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Learning archive launches today.

Use keywords to search the Learning Zone Scotland site for clips you can stream into class. New content is being added all the time so why not sign up to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland Learning Newsletter to keep up with the latest clips.

Watch the latest real life China Stories.

Dr Hao practises ancient Chinese medicine, and Tian Tian is at a top kung fu school.

China Stories on iPlayer
Programme Notes - 143kB
China Video Stories
China Production Stories

Catch the first in a four-part series delving into how medieval man understood the world in Inside the Medieval Mind.

Professor Robert Bartlett presents Knowledge, an , part of the Medieval Season.

Star in your own clip in the C´óÏó´«Ã½ world of Funky Fables.

Upload images of your face in different expressions - there's a photo guide for pointers and video instructions on how to do it. Give it a go and send the result to your friends, and if you're 6 to 12 you might make it on the Funky Fables TV show.

The Happy Gang return with tv programmes for 5-7 year-olds. What? Where? When? Why? is now on iPlayer with Blooming Weather to view online or download.

Spatz finds he has to make a tv programme about the weather. Once the excitement has worn off he worries what to put in his programme. Nicky gives him an idea as he watches her making ice lollies and Mr P promises to help him find out how the garden is affected by different types of weather. The big expert on weather of course is Heather the Weather who explains various questions from children all over the country.

Watch Blooming Weather
Programme Notes - 794kB
More programmes coming up..

Sink or Swim is the title of both China Stories : Sport radio programmes for 10-12 year-olds, now available as audio on demand.

The two programmes follow the events of two young athletes learning how to be a successful sportsmen with intensive training and a positive mental attitude, and the lengths they have to go to and sacrifices they have to make along the way.

Listen to China Stories: Sport
Programme Notes - 332kB
Order the CD - 111kB
More programmes coming up..

Make the news in your school by signing up for 2008/09.

explaining what the School Report project is all about. There are to be had, so to get your school involved in the run up to News Day on 26 March 2009.

Listen online to our two latest radio programmes, Hop, Skip and Jump and China Stories for Scottish Resources First/Second Level.

Hop, Skip and Jump is a series of music and movement programmes that provide plenty of opportunities to respond to music and other stimuli. And the Scottish Resources series aims to engage the imaginations of children and inspire their own exploratory activities. Programme Notes are available for each.

Hop, Skip and Jump
Programme Notes - 231kB

Scottish Resources First/Second Level - China Stories
Programme Notes - 297kB

You can download an order form for all the School Radio programmes on CD. Find out what other programmes are coming up...

Our first programme of the new term was broadcast this morning, and is our first to feature on the iPlayer. Catch China Stories: Xiao Di and Jiang Fen Gui for next 7 days.

The China Stories website has just launched its new Video Stories section, containing the individual stories - each around 10 minutes long.

And meet the team behind the programmes and the website in Production Stories.

China Stories on iPlayer
Programme Notes - 143kB
China Video Stories
China Production Stories

Other China Stories content coming up, aimed at upper Primary and Secondary...

Primary TV

Around Scotland Age 10-12 ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mondays / Fridays, 1140-1200

China Stories
15 Sep Xiao Di and Jiang Feng Gui
22 Sep Dr Hao and Tian Tian New time: 1110-1130
Programme Notes - 143kB PDF
China Stories website

Primary Radio

Scottish Resources First Level/Second Level Age 7-9 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 digital Mon/Tues overnight, 0345-0400

China Stories
16 Sep Getting to know you
23 Sep Getting to like you
Programme Notes - 297kB PDF
Listen online

Scottish Resources Second Level/Third Level Age 10-12 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 digital Wed/Thurs overnight, 0335-0355

China Stories
18 Sep Sink or swim - Part 1
25 Sep Sink or swim - Part 2
Programme Notes - 332kB PDF
Listen online

China Stories
02 Oct The cooking competition - Part 1
09 Oct The cooking competition - Part 2
Programme Notes - 406kB PDF
Listen online

China Stories
16 Oct Ghost Granny - Part 1
23 Oct Ghost Granny - Part 2
Programme Notes - 534kB PDF
Listen online

Secondary TV

Modern Studies Int2/Higher ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mon/Tues overnight

China Stories
04 Nov Director Feng and Yang Xi Wen 0400-0420
04 Nov Cao Fei, Tong Yan and Liu Hong Liang 0420-0440
Programme Notes coming soon
China Stories website

Here are listings for our tv and radio programmes with accompanying Programme Notes and websites.

Autumn listings
15 Sept - 5 Dec 2008

Primary TV

Around Scotland Age 10-12 ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mondays / Fridays, 1140-1200

China Stories
15 Sep Xiao Di and Jiang Feng Gui
22 Sep Dr Hao and Tian Tian New time: 1110-1130
Programme Notes - 143kB PDF
China Stories website

Scottish Wars of Independence
26 Sep The Wallace
03 Oct The Bruce
10 Oct History and Heritage
Programme Notes - 386kB PDF
Scottish Wars of Independence website

Sustainability - Renewable Energy
06 Oct The energy gap
13 Oct On the horizon
Programme Notes - 249kB PDF

Victorian Scotland
17 Nov Looking for evidence
24 Nov Assessing the evidence
01 Dec Telling the story
Programme Notes coming soon

What? Where? When? Why? Age 5-7 ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Thursdays, 1145-1200

Scottish Weather
18 Sep Blooming weather
25 Sep Sporting forecast
02 Oct Going places - weather permitting
Programme Notes - 794kB PDF

When Gran and Grandad Were Young
09 Oct People and what they wore
16 Oct School and games
Programme Notes - 442kB PDF

Health and Safety Education
06 Nov A friend in need
13 Nov Scared of the dark
Programme Notes - 484kB PDF

Financial Capability - The Nature of Money
20 Nov The big money programme
27 Nov Old junk, new junk
04 Dec Lots of Lolly!
Programme Notes - 888kB PDF

See You See Me Age 7-9 ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mondays / Fridays, 1140-1200

Financial Capability - Treasure!
03 Nov The bounty and the budget
10 Nov Debts and doubloons
Programme Notes - 222kB PDF

The Romans
07 Nov The Romans in Scotland 1
14 Nov The Romans in Scotland 2
Programme Notes - 122kB PDF

Vikings in Scotland
21 Nov Raiders - the Vikings arrive
28 Nov From Vikings to settlers
05 Dec The legacy of the Norse
Programme Notes - 623kB PDF
Vikings in Scotland website

Primary Radio

Hop, Skip and Jump Age 5-7 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 digital Mon/Tues overnight, 0330-0345

Hop, Skip and Jump
16 Sep Yes we can
23 Sep Teeny weeny tadpole
30 Sep Little Louis takes off
07 Oct Oliver's wood
14 Oct Little copy cub
Programme Notes - 231kB PDF
Listen online

Hopscotch Age 5-7 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 digital Mon/Tues overnight, 0330-0345

Hopscotch
21 Oct Look it up
04 Nov Come on, Puddock!
11 Nov Colour is all around
18 Nov The language of colour
25 Nov Christmas in the sun
Programme Notes - 732kB PDF
Listen online

Scottish Resources First Level/Second Level Age 7-9 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 digital Mon/Tues overnight, 0345-0400

China Stories
16 Sep Getting to know you
23 Sep Getting to like you
Programme Notes - 297kB PDF
Listen online

Passion for Fashion
30 Sep What you wear can eat you up
07 Oct What you wear and what it says about your beliefs
Programme Notes - 278kB PDF
Listen online

Pirates
14 Oct A short history
21 Oct Modern day pirates
Programme Notes - 882kB PDF
Listen online

My School, Your School
04 Nov Two's company
11 Nov Channel hopping
Programme Notes - 214kB PDF
Listen online

Boys and Girls
18 Nov At home
26 Nov At school
Programme Notes - 742kB PDF
Listen online

Scottish Resources Second Level/Third Level Age 10-12 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 digital Wed/Thurs overnight, 0335-0355

China Stories
18 Sep Sink or swim - Part 1
25 Sep Sink or swim - Part 2
Programme Notes - 332kB PDF
Listen online

China Stories
02 Oct The cooking competition - Part 1
09 Oct The cooking competition - Part 2
Programme Notes - 404kB PDF
Listen online

China Stories
16 Oct Ghost Granny - Part 1
23 Oct Ghost Granny - Part 2
Programme Notes - 534kB PDF
Listen online

Newsmaker in the News
06 Nov Programme 1
13 Nov Programme 2
Programme Notes - 931kB PDF
Listen online

Food
20 Nov Dying to eat
27 Nov Crumbs of comfort
Programme Notes - 255kB PDF
Listen online

Secondary TV

Modern Studies Int2/Higher ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mon/Tues overnight

China Stories
04 Nov Director Feng and Yang Xi Wen 0400-0420
04 Nov Cao Fei, Tong Yan and Liu Hong Liang 0420-0440
Programme Notes - 143kB PDF
China Stories website

History Int2/Higher ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mon/Tues overnight

USA
04 Nov The Large-Scale State - The USA 0440-0500
04 Nov Race Relations in the USA 1918-1968 0500-0520
Programme Notes - 113 kB PDF
USA website

Modern Studies Int2/Higher ´óÏó´«Ã½ TWO Scotland Mon/Tues overnight

Social Issues in the UK
04 Nov Wealth and Health Inequalities 0520-0540
04 Nov Equality in Society - Wealth and Health 0540-0600
Programme Notes - 89kB PDF
Wealth and Health Inequalities website

The world's most powerful physics experiment has begun this morning as scientists attempt to re-create the aftermath of the Big Bang.

Get live updates from the control room at CERN and see what's on offer from Radio 4 today. Find out more about the experiment and the Large Hadron Collider in the and , including the , and behind it all.

Registration is now open for primary schools to take part in Off By Heart.

Off By Heart is a brand new competition, to be televised on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ next year, giving 7-11 year olds the chance to represent their school and region and become UK Poetry Recital Champion.

Find out more about the competition, and download accompanying , as well as the 15 poems to choose from. You can register anytime from now until the 19th December.

Preview the new Science & Nature homepage.

Have a look at the new design, comparing it with the current site and leave feedback so the team can improve it further.

Film-maker Eamonn Devlin goes on a deeply personal journey examining the long-lasting emotional scars from being bullied as a child and agonises over whether to meet his childhood tormentor again.

Shown on ´óÏó´«Ã½ ONE Northern Ireland, Bully for You is available on iPlayer for the next few days.

Ken Macdonald asks whether the education of Scottish school children - both native and new to the country - is suffering due to increasing numbers of pupils who can't speak English.

Radio Scotland's The Investigation takes a look at the rising number of children with little or no English coming into Scotland's schools every year. At last count there were 138 different languages spoken by over 15,000 pupils all needing extra help with their English.

An education report has been highly critical of the PE facilities in many primary schools.

Seonag Mackinnon's report from Pathhead Primary School in Fife. And about the story at ´óÏó´«Ã½ News.

Scottish schoolgirls are this week starting to get vaccinated against cervical cancer.

about the immunisation programme and the vaccine, as well as a personal account from Denise Burgin whose daughter Shelley died shortly after being diagnosed with cervical cancer aged just 27.