Monday
7.00 Wildlife on Two, BBC2. Dolphins.
7.30 Helicopter Heroes, BBC1. The Yorkshire air ambulance.
7.30 Human Guinea Pigs, FIVE. Using leeches for medical use. I prefer lychees.
8.00 Megatumour, C4. How to remove an 11 stone tumour. Not to time your TV dinner for.
8.00 The Gadget Show, FIVE.
8.00 A Comet’s Tale, BBC4. The story of the celestial iceballs.
9.00 Parallel Worlds, Parallel lives, BBC4. Don’t miss The troubled singer and songwriter Mark Everett from Eels talk about his father Hugh Everett, who formulated the ‘many worlds hypothesis’ of parallel dimensions. Repeated at 11.40 (times may vary in alternative realities).
9.00 War of the Whales, Radio 4. Examining the resumption in Japanese whaling, supposedly in the name of science.
Tuesday
7.30 Chris Barrie’s Massive Engines, FIVE. Trains.
9.00 The Power of the Planet, BBC2. A look at the Earth’s atmosphere.
9.00 All in the Mind, Radio 4. Psychology programme.
Wednesday
4.00 Thinking Allowed, Radio 4.
4.30 All in the Mind, Radio 4. Repeat.
8.00 Parallel Worlds, a User’s Guide, BBC4. No, not literally.
9.00 Frontiers, Radio 4. Philip Ball looks at medical inventions.
9.00 The Nature of Britain, BBC1. The UK’s last remaining wildernesses are explored.
10.00 The Nature of Britain, a User’s Guide, BBC4.
11.05 Superhuman- Giants, ITV1.
Thursday
3.00 Check-up, Radio 4. Medical phone in.
4.30 Material World, Radio 4. When computers make the decisions.
9.00 Leading Edge, Radio 4.
Friday
7.30 Will Work For Nuts, FIVE. More offbeat wildlife insights. Where else can you watch a kestrel race a remote controlled car?
7.30 The Sky At Night, BBC4. Patrick Moore invites a few friends round to look at the Perseid meteor shower.
10.00 Doctors to be 20 Years On, BBC4.
Saturday
5.45 Impact Earth, FIVE. Saturday afternoon doom served up via a docudrama about a meteor impact.
Sunday
5.15 Shark Therapy, BBC2. To paraphrase one reader last week, the mind still boggles.
6.10 The Nature of Britain, BBC2. Repeat.
7.00 Earth: The Power of the Planet, BBC2. Repeat.
7.30 Hubble Telescope, BBC4. The celebrity telescope, in focus.
8.30 The Sky at Night, BBC4. Continuing the theme, Moore looks at the hundreds of manmade objects circling the earth.
9.00 A satellite’s tale, BBC4. The evening continues with another doc about the chunks of metal whizzing round above our heads.