Mon. 16

The Cult Of

BBC4, 11PM

Devoted fans discuss the history of cult British science fiction show Blake's Seven, renowned for being one of the first series of its kind willing to kill off main characters. The programme also examines how Blue Peter once helped out the show's model department, and how lead actor Gareth Thomas, who played Blake, has never seen a single episode. Robert Llewellyn narrates.

My Brilliant Brain

FIVE, 9PM

The story of 38-year-old Susan Polgar, the world's first female chess grandmaster, who has memorised over 100,000 gameplay scenarios. Her psychologist father believes that her remarkable abilities were learned through extra tutoring in childhood rather than inherited - putting forward the case that genius can be taught.

The Green Mile

FILM4, 9PM

This Oscar-nominated 1999 drama, based on a Stephen King novel, stars Tom Hanks as prison officer Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as death row inmate John Coffey, whose strange powers include the ability to heal the sick.

The Essay: Life, But Not As We Know It

RADIO 3, 11PM

"The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for who we are," the astronomer Carl Sagan says, echoing cosmological thinkers all the way back to Galileo and even to Plato. Now astronomers have found a planet - a "new Earth" - 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. In this series a biologist, a writer and a philosopher explore the implications of discovering life beyond Earth.

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