Monday
How Do They Do It? (FIVE, 19.30-20.00) Ever wondered how pencils are made? How Do They Do It tells you how they do it.
Life (BBC1, 21.00-22.00) Attenborough’s sinks his teeth into the mammals. Should be plenty of cutes.
Race and Intelligence: Science’s Last Taboo (C4, 21.00-22.20) Bold programming by channel 4, giving such a delicate, controversial topic such a long time slot.Expect to see a tweet or two on Twitter.
Costing the Earth (Radio 4, 21.00-21.30) Countdown to the Copenhagen climate change conference.

Tuesday
Science Versus The Stradivarius (Radio 4, 11.00-11.30) Can scientific analysis explain the unique sound of the famous violin, or is it all a myth?
A History Of Private Life: Science And Nature In The Home (Radio 4, 15.45-16.00) How 18th Century ideas about science were reflected in the home.
Nature Shock (FIVE, 20.00-21.00) The series can append a ‘literally’ suffix to its title tonight, as it investigates the deaths of five elephants said to have been killed by a lightening strike.
Horizon (BBC2, 21.00-22.00) An update on stem cell therapies for various ailments.
It’s Only A Theory (BBC4, 22.00-22.30) Popular science writer Marcus Chown tries to persuade the comedian hosts on his ideas of time travel. It’s a promising format for a show, but somehow it just doesn’t seem to work.

Thursday
Material World (Radio 4, 16.30-17.00) Quentin Cooper looks at sience fiction.
Big, Bigger, Biggest (FIVE, 20.00-21.00) The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona.
Leading Edge (Radio 4, 21.00-21.30) Geoff Watts looks at the nuclear test ban treaty and how the international community deal with transgressions.
Defying Gravity (BBC2, 21.00-21.45) Part three of the new sci-fi drama. Anyone seen it? Any good?

Sunday
The Human Zoo: Science’s Dirty Secret (C4, 19.00-20.00) The ‘human zoos’, which displayed Africans as ‘missing links’ until as late as 1904.