Monday
7.00 James May’s 20th Century, BBC2. Technology of warfare.
7.30 Street Doctor, BBC1. GPs in London.
8.00 Poison on Your Plate, ITV1. Investigation into superbugs.
8.30 Panorama, BBC1. Give us your DNA – arguments about a national DNA database.

Tuesday
3.00 Home Planet, Radio 4.
7.00 Galapagos, BBC2. Including the geology of the islands.
7.30 Chris Barrie’s Massive Engines, FIVE.
9.00 Case Notes, Radio 4.

Wednesday
4.00 Thinking Aloud, Radio 4. Human behaviour.
4.30 Case Notes, Radio 4.
7.00 The Truth About Food, BBC2. Effects of food on the body.

Thursday
4.30 Material World, Radio 4. Zoology of the Amazon.
7.30 Chris Barrie’s Massive Engines, FIVE.

Friday
3.00 Costing the Earth, Radio 4. The pressure of population growth on the environment.

Saturday
6.00 The Blue Planet, BBC2.

Sunday
2.45 The preposterous Files, Radio 4. At the turn of the 20th century, a chemist battles the medical profession.
8.00 Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone, BBC2. The scientists currently scaling Everest.
11.30 Something Understood, Radio 4. Are we on the brink of a sixth mass extinction?