Wildlife/nature programmes are highlighted in green, whereas science shows are in black.

Monday
7.30 The Sky at Night, BBC4. A (cautious) look at the sun.
9.00 Fascinating Deaths, Radio 4. Piecing together the final moments of a mammoth, who died on the Norfolk coast 700 millennia ago.
11.20 Atom, BBC2. Rerun of the BBC4 show with Jim Al-Khalili

Tuesday
11.00am A Life With…, Radio 4. Fly expert Max Levitan of Mount Sinai Medical Center on how species adapt to climate change.
3.00 Home Planet, Radio 4.
7.30 Extraordinary animals, FIVE. Can we communicate with dolphins?
8.00 Nature Shock, FIVE. When bears kill other bears.
8.00 MUST SEE Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, BBC4. Outstanding documentary following Mark Everett, front man of the band Eels, as he learns about the work of his father Hugh – proponent of parallel universes.
9.00 Horizon, BBC2. The effects of sensory depravation.
9.00 Medicine Men Go Wild, C4. The use of medicine in tribal cultures.
9.00 Case Notes, Radio 4. Dr Mark Porter talks to Tom Sanders, a nutrition expert from Kings College, London.

Wednesday
4.00 Thinking Allowed, Radio 4.
4.30 Case Notes, Radio 4. Repeat.
8.00 Bill Oddie’s Wild Side, BBC2.
9.00 Inside Intuition, Radio 4. Mark Lythgoe from UCL Institute of Child Health on the merits of intuition.

Thursday
4.30 Material World, Radio 4. How bacteria communicate (being too small to use Nature Network).
9.00 Costing the Earth, Radio 4. The responsibilities of consumer and retailer in combating climate change.
9.30 In Our Time, Radio 4. Melvyn Bragg talks plate tectonics.

Friday
3.00 Costing the Earth, Radio 4. Repeat.
7.30 Massive Speed, FIVE. The oxymoronic series looks at the evolution of the train.
8.00 Megastructures, FIVE. The engineering challenges behind Dubai’s artificial islands, shaped like a map of the world.
8.00 Natural World, BBC2. Simon King goes looking for Indian tigers.

Saturday

Sunday
5.00 An Otter in the Family, BBC2. Rerun of Philippa Forrester’s close encounters with the aquatic mammal.
5.30 Killer Whales in the UK?, BBC2.
6.10 Natural World, BBC2. Repeat.