The Indispensables
BBC Radio 4, 3.30 to 4pm
Presenter Lynne Truss examines the revolutionary impact of everyday inventions including the baby buggy, the fax machine and the lift. She talks to designers, inventors, social historians, writers and mums-to-be about life before and after these items arrived.
5 July
Take Three Girls
BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am
Three girls aged 13 and 14 from widely different backgrounds are the best of friends. Through their audio diaries and interviewing their relatives and friends, this programme explores how they interact with each other.
Fifty Years of TV News
BBC 2, 3 to 4pm
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of BBC Television news, the BBC has produced a retrospective series of programmes that incorporate groundbreaking stories with hard-hitting visuals covering major news stories and pivotal moments of the past five decades.
Night Waves
BBC Radio 3, 9.30 to 10.15pm
How the smallpox virus has changed the course of history, having helped to create empires and wipe out indigenous people. Now it is threatening to escape from the lab where it has been contained for the last 25 years.
6 July
File on Four - PFI Windfalls
BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.40pm
Under the Private Finance Initiative, taxpayers are committed to pouring billions of pounds into private companies over the coming decades as schools, hospitals and other projects are built privately, then leased back to education and health authorities with binding contracts stretching 20 or 30 years into the future.
You Are What You Eat
Channel 4, 8.30 to 9pm
Nutritionist Dr Gillian McKeith examines people's eating habits and what food is doing to their bodies. She confronts each volunteer with exactly what they have eaten over the past week by laying it out in front of them on their very own 'bad food table', then breaks down the nutritional value of their diet and challenges them with the results.
7 July
Connect
BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm
The fascinating world of dust and how science is unravelling its mysteries.
9 July
Sport Relief 2004 - Kirsten Goes the Extra Mile to India
BBC 1, 5 to 5.25pm
Kirsten O'Brien travels from England to India to organise a sports day, meeting children who tell her about their lives and finding out about the work of Seed and Alternative India Development, two charities Sport Relief has supported.
The English Garden - Small is Beautiful
BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30pm
The rise of suburbia and the little back gardens people have today, with a look ahead to the future of the garden.
