BBC Radio 1’s Stories – Knockout: Girl Boxers

BBC Radio 1, Monday, 9pm

Adele Roberts delves into the world of female boxing, as the sport prepares to make its debut at the Commonwealth Games. Talking to some of those who will be fighting for gold, she looks at the physical demands of the sport, and the personal struggles faced by women in a male-dominated world. Along the way she has a boxing lesson with Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams, who punched her way into the record books at the London 2012 Games.

BBC Radio 4, Monday, 1.45am

Professor Kathy Willis, the Head of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, examines how our attitudes to plants over the last 250 years – from seeing them as tools to exploit for food, fuel and industry, to objects of beauty, to being an essential global resource we have to conserve. In this first programme of the series she looks at how a huge increase in newly discovered plants gave botany a kick start in the 17th Century.

BBC Radio 2, Monday, 10pm

Lulu returns to the city where her career began, to celebrate her half-century in music. Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, she paints a vivid picture of her upbringing in Dennistoun: “We were a tribe. We were loyal to each other. We stood by each other. We’d die for each other. Glasgow was my whole world. This town made me who I am.”

BBC from the Quay – The Radio 1 Breakfast Show

BBC Radio 1, Tuesday, 6.30am

The BBC is celebrating the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games with a 16-day pop-up festival outside BBC Scotland’s headquarters at Pacific Quay. It will host live television and radio shows, music and comedy. Nick Grimshaw kicks things off by welcoming Naughty Boy, Ella Eyre and Professor Green to perform in front of an invited audience. He’ll be joined by athletes and stars of BBC Sport to celebrate the sporting festival about to hit Glasgow.

BBC Radio 2, Wednesday, 10pm

The fire at Glasgow’s School of Art, designed by Rennie Mackintosh, made headlines around the world. Hardeep Singh Kohli talks to David Scott of Keppie Design to learn more about the architectural significance of the building. He takes a trip to Falkirk to see the breathtaking Kelpies.