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

Monday
7.30 How Do They Do It?, FIVE. Includes a trip to the Whitechapel bell foundry to see ‘how they do it’.
8.00 The Gadget Show, FIVE. Drool over the MacBook Air. Not literally.
8.00 HIGHLIGHT Rise of Lifestyle Nutritionists, Radio 4. Ben Goldacre exposes the uses and abuses of fad diets and supplements.
9.00 Alternative Therapies, BBC2. Kathy Sykes checks out meditation.
9.00 HIGHLIGHT Africalab, Radio 4. Can science help kickstart African development?

Tuesday
8.00 HIGHLIGHT Big, Bigger, Biggest, FIVE. The technology behind big engineering – tonight, the Burj Dubai, soon to be the world’s tallest manmade structure.
8.00 Inside the British Council, Radio 4. Celebrating 75 years of the institution.
9.00 Case Notes, Radio 4. The thyroid gland.

Wednesday
4.00 Thinking Allowed, Radio 4.
8.00 Natural World, BBC2. Our perception of wolves.
9.00 World on the Move, Radio 4. Animal migrations.

Thursday
4.30 Material World, Radio 4. What do we mean by a kilogram?
8.00 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Volcanoes, BBC2. (Unless you saw it last time.)
8.00 The Investigation, Radio 4. Are statins being over-prescribed?
8.30 Analysis, Radio 4. Suggests we should accept climate change and work out ways to live with it.
9.00 Leading Edge, Radio 4.
9.30 In Our Time, Radio 4. It’s four in a row for Radio 4 tonight, with a look at Newton’s laws of motion.
10.30 The Big Bang Theory, C4. Comedy.

Friday

Saturday
6.20 HIGHLIGHT Dr Who, BBC1. OK, it’s not really science. But, hey.

Sunday
1.30 HIGHLIGHT A Nasty Case of the Vapours, Radio 4. Why did so many Victorian fictional characters die after being caught in the rain?
2.45 Tony Hawks Gets Lost In The…, Radio 4. Neuroscientists speculate about why we lose things so often.
7.00 Steven Hawking: Master of the Universe, C4.