DON'T drop dead is the title of a new six part series on how to survive life in the 1990s starting on RTE one at 8.30 p.m. tonight. It may prove of interest to science, home economics, media studies and civics teachers.
The first programme asks why do we like the foods that are bad for us? It includes how our taste buds work, the role fat plays in making things taste good, advertising, the packaging of convenience foods and why crips have more appeal than celery.
Next week, programme two goes in search of the "perfect body". Is there an ideal shape? Has this shape changed over the centuries?
Meanwhile, The Chemistry of (Almost) Everything continues on BBC2 at 7.30 p.m. tonight (Tues Sept 10th) with a look at the building blocks for new materials and drugs which are too small the see. Presenter Dr Mike Bullivant explores the imagined landscape of the chemist's world.
Still with science, Tomorrow's World on BBC1 at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow reports from Australia on how proud mums can get an extraordinary memento of their unborn baby while it's still in the womb. Plus news from the US on a revolutionary new baseball bat.
Music teachers may be interested in One Evening in May 96, which will be shown at 6,30 p.m., tomorrow, on RTE I. One evening in May at the National Concert Hall, has become the focal point for the annual schools' choir competition, which is sponsored by Telecom Eireann in association with the Department of Education. The programme follows the 12 competing choirs and sees how they get on in the final.
