Monday
The Green Room (Lyric fm, 7 p.m.)
In Bach At Home, a new five-part series, Tim Thurston looks at this composer.
Rattlebag (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m.; repeated 11.10 p.m.) Featuring Children's Book week. Noel Coward's diaries and the new film, Romeo must die.
Tuesday
Play of the Week (RTE Radio 1, 9.02 p.m.) The Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo, performs Still Life by Malcolm Hamilton.
Life Before Birth (BBC Radio 4, 9 p.m.)
Charting the new science of the human life cycle, what people know and what is speculation.
Wednesday
Rattlebag (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m.; repeated 11.10 p.m.)
A review of Robert O'Byrne's new biography of art collector Hugh Lane.
Documentary on One (RTE Radio 1, 7.05 p.m.)
A feature on Gloria, an Irish gay and lesbian choir. e in California to participate in an international choral festival - is narrated as a journal by alto Joan Murphy.
Thusday
Eamonn Lawlor (Lyric fm, 4.30 p.m.) The first of two live broadcasts this week from Wexford's Festival Opera.
Audioscope (RTE Radio 1, 7.35 p.m.)
The first of two programmes examining achromatopsia, a rare condition involving the absence of colour perception and hypersensitivity to bright light.
Friday
The Friday Concert (Lyric fm, 8 p.m.)
Popular American classics live from the NCH. E Concert Orchestra conducted by Colman Pearce.
Afternoon Play (BBC Radio 4, 2.15 p.m.)
Sam Kelly and Frances Tomelty star in Robin Hood's Revenge, a highly-entertaining comedy drama by Richard Bean.