Monday
7.30 Street Doctors, BBC1.
7.30 Human Guinea Pigs, FIVE. New series in which people do silly things to their bodies in the name of science. Cool website.
9.00 Nature, Radio 4. Nope, it’s nothing to do with us. Instead, a film crew track a bunch of orang-utans.

Tuesday
7.30 Chris Barrie’s Massive Engines, FIVE.
9.00 Case Notes, Radio 4.

Wednesday
4.00 Thinking Aloud, Radio 4. Human behaviour with Laurie Taylor.
4.30 Case Notes, Radio 4. Repeat.
9.00 The Sounds of Science, Radio 4. Why are some sounds pleasing and others grating?
9.00 The Nature of Britain, BBC1. Titchmarsh observes otters and parakeets.
10.00 The Nature of Britain: A User’s Guide, BBC4. Companion show to the above.

Thursday
4.00 Material World, Radio 4.
7.30 Thames Wildlife Super Highway, ITV1.
7.30 Doctors To Be Twenty Years On, BBC4. A look at the career of a consultant surgeon.
8.00 Wiring the NHS, Radio 4.
9.00 The Genius of Photography, BBC4. The first episode of this new series looks at the period 1800–1914.

Friday
8.00 A Passion For Plants, BBC2. Nothing better for a Friday night than a touch of horticulture.
8.00 Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures, FIVE. Nick plays with a giant salamander known as the Hellbinder. Forget horticulture.

Saturday
Nothing. Go out and play.

Sunday
4.25 Arctic Giants, FIVE. When walruses attack.
5.00 My Life With Animals, BBC2.
6.10 The Nature of Britain, BBC2. Repeat.