Monday
7.00 Wildlife on Two, BBC2. Black bears in Canada.
7.15 Polar Bear Adventures With Nigel Marven, FIVE. More bears in Canada. Some kind of ursine ratings war?
8.00 The Gadget Show, FIVE. Just in time for Christmas shopping.

Tuesday
7.15 Polar Bear Adventures With Nigel Marven, FIVE.
8.00 Columbia’s Final Flight: The True Story, FIVE. Documentary about the 2003 shuttle disaster.
9.00 All In The Mind, Radio 4. Psychology show.
11.20 The Martians and Us, BBC2. The origins of British sci-fi.

Wednesday
7.15 Polar Bear Adventures With Nigel Marven, FIVE.
9.00 Frontiers, Radio 4. The reliability of forensics.
11.20 The Martians and Us, BBC2. More British sci-fi.

Thursday
11.20 The Martians and Us, BBC2.
3.15 Check-up, Radio 4. Health phone-in.
4.30 Material World, Radio 4. Voice recognition.
8.30 In Business, Radio 4. Inside the Palo Alto labs of Xerox.
9.00 The Switching Point, Radio 4. Epigenetics.
9.30 In Our Time, Radio 4. Melvyn Bragg looks at early medicine, and the four humours theory.

Friday
7.15 Polar Bear Adventures With Nigel Marven, FIVE.
8.00 Penguin Adventures With Nigel Marven, FIVE. This guy gets around.

Saturday
7.35 Polar Bear Adventures With Nigel Marven, FIVE.

Sunday
3.45 An Otter In The Family, BBC2. Cutesy nature programme.
4.20 Killer Whale Attack, FIVE. Not so cutesy nature programme.