Wildlife/nature programmes are highlighted in green, whereas science shows are in black.
Monday
8.00 The Gadget Show, FIVE.
8.00 The Life of Mammals, BBC4.
9.00 100 Years of Wildlife Films, BBC4.
9.00 Frontiers, Radio 4. The British Antarctic Survey.
Tuesday
7.30 Extraordinary Animals, FIVE. Can dogs count?
9.00 Case Notes, Radio 4. Robot surgery.
Wednesday
4.00 Thinking Allowed, Radio 4.
4.30 Case Notes, Radio 4. Repeat.
6.30 Double Science, Radio 4. Comedy about two science teaches trapped in a college that specialises in drama.
9.00 World on the Move, Radio 4. Satellite-linked geese migrate across the Arctic.
Thursday
4.30 Material World, Radio 4.
9.00 Costing the Earth, Radio 4. All those gadgets we love are killing the planet.
10.30 The Big Bang Theory, C4. Neverending comedy series about physics nerds.
Friday
3.00 Costing the Earth, Radio 4. Repeat.
Saturday and Sunday
Oh, for a minute there I thought that “Cultural Blackspot” was a science show on at the weekend.
Definitely not a candidate for the London logo.
“The Gadget Show”
Splutter! You can’t be altogether serious? A fun piece of tech geekery perhaps, but shamelessly inflated way beyond the 15 minute running time that its content should dictate.
An no mention of Melvyn and chums, who will be tackling the Black Death on Thursday at 9 am? Tsk! Tsk!
Wow, no comments on this weekly post EVER and then two come along at once. Um, make that three now.
I’ve never seen the Gadget Show, but the TV listings often make it sound like it includes vaguely sciency content, beyond the geekery.
And good spot with In Our Time.
Well, if you have nothing better to do tonight, why not try the following ‘experiments’:
You can submit your report tomorrow…
Well I like Melvyn anyway, not that I have ever seen any of his TV programmes (as I don’t watch live TV), but I like his books and he went to a very good school I have it on excellent authority. But, more to the point, who in the UK is doing more than people like Melvyn, Jonathan Miller and David Attenborough not to “teach” people about science, but to show the richness of a cultural perspective that integrates science (medicine and natural history)?