Novel Russia (11.00 am R4). Contemporary Russia through the themes of Anna Karenina .
Culture Fix: Kitsch (1.30, also 4.30, 7.30 BBC Knowledge). The brief history of an idea.
Goodbye Village, Hello City (8.30 World Service, repeated Sat 2.30 am). Start of a five-part series about the global trend to urbanisation, with John Pickford reporting from Ghana, India, England and the American Midwest.
Mary Shelley Night (8.00 BBC Knowledge). A new documentary about the author's early life, A Monstrous Life , is followed by The Last Man (8.50) in which Benjamin Woolley looks at Mary Shelley's neglected "apocalyptic" novel of that title. Next up is Inventing Monsters (9.30), an examination of modern fictional monsters and as a finale, the 1931 classic Frankenstein (9.30) gets an airing.
Twenty Minutes (8.15 R3). Poet Dana Gioia on the life and work of Longfellow.
Lost Worlds: The Future of the Past (9.00 National Geographic). Last of John Romer's history-of-archaeology series, shown last year on C4 as » Great Excavations .
Timewatch: Public Enemy Number One (9.00 BBC2; 9.30 in Wales). About John Dillinger, the USA's "first official anti-hero".
» Night Waves (9.45 R3). Changing identities in Britain - beginning with a visit to Hull.
Hollywood at War (10.00 R2). How the US movie industry responded to World War Two. First of six programmes.