(BBC Radio 4, 7 to 9am)
Financial expert Alvin Hall, who is perhaps best-known as the presenter of 'Your Money Or Your Life' on BBC 2, talks about his latest book, which is based on the programme.
'The Food Programme'
(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)
Sheila Dillon explores the history of pasta and and its political importance, reporting from the Estorick Collection of Modern ltalian Art, where the latest exhibition celebrates the design of pasta, from cannelloni to vermicelli.
'The Service - The Man with a Plan'
(BBC 2, 8 to 9pm)
Health secretary's Alan Milburn task is to transform the 1948 model of the National Health Service into a 21st-century service that matches high public expectations within today's demanding consumer society. This programme follows his personal journey from the launch of the Government's ten-year NHS Plan in July 2000 to this year's Budget, when taxpayers were asked to pay more for the NHS.
22 July. 'Twenty Minutes - Seeing Sounds, Hearing Colours'
(BBC Radio 3, 8.10 to 8.30pm)
Synaesthesia is a condition that causes a crossing of the senses, so that when one sense is stimulated, another sense is as well. Neuropsychologist Dr John Harrison describes what life is like for people who have the condition.
'A Life of Grime'
(BBC 1, 9.30 to 10pm)
This programme looks at the work of Salford City Council as its graffiti team tries to persuade children not to write on the subways. Meanwhile the city's street cleaners visit schools to urge children to pick up litter or not drop it.
24 July. 'Thinking Allowed'
(BBC Radio 4, 4 to 4.30pm)
Investigative journalist Fran Abrams talks about her new book Below the Breadline, an account of her time working at or below the national minimum wage. She spent a month as a night cleaner at the Savoy Hotel, where she met people holding down two jobs whose journey on the tube to and from work was the only time they slept. She also worked in a pickle factory in Doncaster, where she was astonished by its hierarchy of hats - the more important a person in the factory, the harder their hat, with workers wearing floppy hats and managers hard hats.
'Tomorrow's World Roadshow'
(BBC 1, 7 to 7.30pm)
The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre near Glasgow is the last stop on the tour celebrating Science Year. Items featured include a device to fight midges, a particular problem in the Scottish Highlands.
25 July. 'Material World'
(BBC Radio 4, 4.30 to 5pm)
Around the world, millions of people are struck down by food poisoning carried by the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium, and it's estimated that the typhoid fever it transmits kills up to 500,000 people a year.
Researchers are coming closer to understanding how salmonella causes infection and it may soon be possible to protect humans and farm animals from it.
'Primitive Streaks'
(BBC Radio 4, 9 to 9.30pm)
Peter Evans explores the human body's response to stress and fear in a society where stress is ever more common. When fear strikes, hormones are released, adrenalin courses through veins, the blood pressure increases, the heart rate goes up, pupils dilate and legs start to shake to prepare to run. He argues that it is important for people to learn to overcome these extreme responses to avoid becoming ill.
