News The BBC have announced a major ‘season’ to coincide with next year’s Darwin200 celebrations. David Attenborough, Andrew Marr, Jimmy Doherty and others will celebrate the great naturalist (and Nature Network blogger) throughout winter 08/09.
On with the listings. As usual, wildlife/nature programmes are highlighted in green.
Monday
7.30 How Do They Do It?, FIVE. Making fireworks and extracting limestone (not at the same time).
7.30 The Sky At Night, BBC4. The Phoenix Mars lander.
8.00 The Gadget Show, FIVE.
8.00 The Life of Mammals, BBC4. Monkeys.
8.30 Panorama, BBC1. Increasing privatisation on the NHS.
9.00 HIGHLIGHT Science in the Making, Radio 4. Why should we believe scientists? Or, rephrasing for the audience, why should people believe us?
Tuesday
11.00 World on the Move, Radio 4. Animal migrations.
3.00 Home Planet, Radio 4. Environmental chat.
7.30 Extraordinary Animals, FIVE. Rats that can smell TB, and other oddness.
8.00 Tiger: Spy in the Jungle, BBC4. Attenborough and big cats.
9.00 All in the Mind, Radio 4. Psychology show.
9.30 NHS at 60: The Cost of Health, Radio 4. Similar to yesterday’s Panorama.
Wednesday
11.00 In Living Memory, Radio 4. The scientists who tracked down the cause of Legionnaire’s Disease, first identified in 1976.
4.30 All in the Mind, Radio 4.
8.00 Tiger: Spy in the Jungle, BBC4.
9.00 World on the Move, Radio 4.
Thursday
4.30 Material World, Radio 4. Metabolomics.
8.00 Tiger: Spy in the Jungle, BBC4.
8.00 NHS at 60: National Doctors, Radio 4. The changing role of doctors during the NHS’s 60 years.
9.00 Leading Edge, Radio 4.
9.00 Life and Death on the NHS, ITV1. Yet another programme to mark 60 years of free health care.
Friday
11.00 The Eureka Years, Radio 4. Adam Hart-Davis starts a new history-of-science slot with a look at the role of the coffee house on English Enlightenment science.
3.00 Shared Earth, Radio 4.
Matt – people might be interested in Lab Rats which airs on BBC2 at 9.30 pm on Thursday. Set in a research lab St Dunstan’s University, it’s “a big, daft, cartoony sitcom, filmed before a studio audience…”. It involves some of the same people who did “The Thick of It” though I think it’s cast from a very different mould…
Oh, is Lab Rats finally on air?
You heard it here first, folks!
Being elderly and needing little sleep, can I bring to your attention Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live? On Monday morning at 1.35, there is a Dr Chris Smith and on Thursday at 3 am science with Dr Karl, a gentleman from the Antipodes. Both ae both entertaining and informative.