'The Saturday Play - His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife'
(BBC Radio 4, 1.30 to 5pm)
In the second book of Philip Pullman's award-winning trilogy, Lyra finds herself in the strange city of Cittegazze, where she meets Will, a 12-year-old boy from our world on the run for accidentally killing a man.
12 January.
'The Food Programme'
(BBC Radio 4, 12.30 to 1pm)
The pomegranate is a fruit that has been cultivated for thousands of years.
Sheila Dillon visits the pomegranate orchards of Iran and examines the scientific claims which have seen it hailed as a modern-day 'super-food'.
'Sunday Feature - Black London's Story'
(BBC Radio 3, 5.45 to 7.30pm)
A programme on the overlooked black people who are part of London's past, from the 18th century to the present.
'Songs of Praise - Marriage'
(BBC 1, 5.30 to 6.15pm)
In the second of three programmes on rites of passage, Aled Jones looks at the different traditions of marriage.
13 January.
'Chinese Whispers - Little Cinderellas'
(BBC Radio 4, 2.15 to 3pm)
Hattie Naylor examines China's single child policy in two short plays. The first follows the adoption of a Chinese baby girl by an English mother, through the hurdles of bureaucracy, and the plight of women in China and the nation's preference for male children.
'Scottish Shorts'
(BBC Radio 4, 3.30 to 3.45pm weekdays)
Five Scottish stories include a psychic recalling her unusual childhood, and how a businessman teaches his five sons to swim by throwing them over the side of his rowing boat on their seventh birthday - until it's his only daughter's turn.
'It's My Story - The Flight of Tiny Feet'
(BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.30pm)
The true story of how three children, aged seven to 11, and now in their 70s, survived Japan's invasion of Burma in 1942 by walking several hundred miles through jungles and over mountain ranges towards India.
15 January.
'Bhangra and Beyond - The History of Asian Music in Britain'
(BBC Radio 2, 9.30 to 10pm)
Sheila Chandra starts in the 1950s with the introduction of a folk dance called the Bhangra, brought here by immigrants from the Punjab. Today it is alive and well in Asian communities and continues to absorb influences.
'Rail Cops'
(BBC 1, 10.35 to 11.15pm)
A documentary about the police who work on the railways. More than 300 people are killed each year through vandalism and trespass, with children most drawn to play on the tracks.
16 January.
'The Dark Origins of Britain'
(BBC Radio 4, 8 to 8.30pm)
The first programme in a major series on how the modern nations of England, Wales and Scotland were born.
17 January
'Blackboards on the Beach'
(BBC Radio 4, 11 to 11.30am)
Miles Kingston celebrates the 50th anniversary of TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), a qualification that has become an institution.
