Times 2 - UK (2020-11-13)

(Antfer) #1

the times | Friday November 13 2020 1GT 11


television & radio


Times Radio
Digital Only
5. 00 am Calum Macdonald with Early
Breakfast. Join the early morning news club
6 .00 Jenny Kleeman and Luke Jones with
Times Radio Breakfast. All the morning’s big
stories 10. 00 Gloria De Piero. Uplifting
stories of real life 1 .00pm Giles Coren.
Fast-talking chat 4. 00 Cathy Newman at
Drive 7 .00 Michael Portillo. Thoughtful,
in-depth interviews 10. 00 Kait Borsay.
Late-night conversation 1. 00 am Stories of
Our Times. The Times’s daily podcast 1 .3 0
Red Box. Matt Chorley’s politics podcast
2. 00 Highlights from Times Radio. Some of
the best interviews of the week

Radio 2
FM: 88- 9 0.2 MHz
5. 00 am The Joe Wicks 24 Hour PE Challenge
for Children in Need 6 .30 The Joe Wicks 24
Hour PE Challenge for Children in Need 9 .3 0
Ken Bruce12. 00 Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Gary
Davies in the Afternoon 5 .00 Sara Cox 7.
Tony Blackburn’s Golden Hour. The veteran
broadcaster plays a selection of popular
tracks from the past 50 years. With tracks by
Daft Punk, Kool and the Gang and others
8. 00 Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies.
Gary celebrates Kim Wilde’s 60th birthday
with a special Mastermix 10. 00 Sounds of
the 90s with Fearne Cotton 1 2. 00 Bruce
Springsteen: From My Home to Yours
1. 00 am The Craig Charles House Party (r)
2 .3 0 The Craig Charles House Party Mixtape
(r) 3. 00 Radio 2 in Concert: Chic Featuring
Nile Rodgers (r) 4. 00 Huey Morgan

Radio 3
FM: 9 0.2- 9 2.4 MHz
6 .30am Breakfast
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3’s
classical breakfast show, featuring listener
requests and the Friday poem
9 .00 Essential Classics
Music and features with Suzy Klein
1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
James Price Johnson (1894-1955)
Donald Macleod explores the latter period in
Johnson’s life, during which he came out of
retirement and made a comeback. After
stepping back into the limelight, he wrote
music for stage shows, performing both live
and in the studio. Johnson (Hungry Bluess;
Harlem Hotchaa;Ain’tcha Got Musicc;Harlem
Symphonyyy;Lonesome Reveriee; Gut Stompp;
Blues for Fatss; You Can’t Lose
a Broken Heartt; andCharlestonn)

1 .00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Exploring the music of Schubert’s final
month. Presented by Sarah Walker. Schubert
(Sonata in B flat major, D960; andDer Hirt
auf dem Felsenn, D965)
2 .00 Live Afternoon Concert
The BBC Philharmonic presents a studio
concert, live from MediaCity Salford.
The BBC Concert Orchestra features in
the rest of the programme. Faure (Pavanee);
Justina Repeckaite (Chartress); Mozart (Violin
Concerto No 5 in A, K219); Raymond Premru
(Divertimentoo); Holst (Japanese Suitee);
Falla (Nights in the Gardens of Spainn); Turina
(Poema en forma de cancioness); and Delius
(Hiawatha — tone poem)
4 .30 The Listening Service
Writing a great tune (r)
5. 00 In Tune
With Chen Reiss and Tigran Hamasyan
7. 00 In Tune Mixtape
An eclectic non-stop mix of music
7 .30 Live Radio 3 in Concert
EFG London Jazz Festival’s opening night
gala, live from Cadogan Hall. Guy Barker
conducts the EFG London Jazz Festival
Ensemble and the event is hosted
on stage by Jumoké Fashola
1 0.00 The Verb
With Gabriel Byrne and Pascale Petit
1 0.45 The Essay: Yorkshire
Andrew Martin recalls the coastal
Yorkshire of his youth (r)
1 1. 00 J to Z Late
Live from the London Jazz Festival, with live
performances from London kings of swing
Kansas Smitty’s and some special guests
1. 00 am Jazz Fix
A playlist that smashes those tired old jazz
stereotypes and whets the aural appetite
1 .3 0 Chick Corea at 2 012
London Jazz Festival
Chick Corea in concert at the 2 012
London Jazz Festival (r)
2. 00 Jazz Mixtape
A special all-British mixtape featuring music
from Orphy Robinson and Maggie Nicols
3 .00 Wayne Shorter at 1995
London Jazz Festival
The saxophonist Wayne Shorter recorded
at the 1995 London Jazz Festival
3 .3 0 Jazz FM Presents
Helen Mayhew presents highlights
from Jazz FM’s Virtual Jazz Festival
4 .00 Cerys Matthews’s Mixtape
Cerys shares her eclectic taste in jazz
5 .00 Jazz Voice Revisited
with Guy Barker
A look back at the history of Jazz Voice
5 .30 SEED Ensemble in Concert

Radio 4
FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz LW: 198kHz MW: 720 kHz
5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)
6.00 Today
With Nick Robinson and Justin Webb
8.30 (LW) Yesterday in Parliament
9.00 Desert Island Discs
Kirsty Young talks to David Mitchell (r)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
9.45 An Unknown Warrior
How an unknown warrior became a symbol
of a nation’s grief and gratitude (5/5)
10.00 Woman’s Hour
Magazine show offering a female perspective
on the world. Including at 10 .45 the 15
Minute Drama: Part five of Eleanor Rising
1 1.00 The Corrections
The Trojan Horse Affair (2/3)
1 1.30 Count Arthur Strong’s
Radio Show!
Arthur understudies on a Christmas
production of Bedknobs and Broomstickss (r)
1 2.01pm (LW) Shipping Forecast
1 2.04 The Nickel Boys
By Colson Whitehead (5/10)
1 2.18 You and Yours
1. 00 The World at One
1 .45 Mayday
Chloe Hadjimatheou reveals how to tell who
the jihadists are (5/15)
2. 00 The Archers (r)
2 .15 Drama: Keeping the Wolf Out
Philip Palmer’s detective drama set in
communist Hungary
3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time
With Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness
and Pippa Greenwood
3.45 Short Works
Marcus Brigstocke writes and performs
a story inspired by the news


  1. 00 Last Word
    The lives of famous and less well-known
    people who have recently died
    4.30 Feedback
    Listeners’ views on BBC radio programmes.
    Presented by Roger Bolton
    5 .00 PM
    5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
    6 .00 Six O’Clock News
    6 .30 The Now Show
    Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a
    satirical look through the week’s news (3/6)
    7 .00 Front Row
    Arts programme
    7 .45 Eleanor Rising
    By Shaun McKenn. Last in the series (r)


8. 00 Any Questions?
Topical discussion
8. 5 0 A Point of View
Reflections on a topical issue
9 .00 Mayday (r)
1 0.00 The World Tonight
With Razia Iqbal
1 0.45 Book at Bedtime:
The Nickel Boys
By Colson Whitehead. Abridged by Richard
Hamilton and read by Rhashan Stone (r)
1 1. 00 Americast
Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel follow the
aftermath of the US election
1 1.30 Things That Made t
he Modern Economy
Tim Harford examines the worldwide
financial data system SWIFT (r)
1 1.45 Today in Parliament
1 2. 00 News and Weather
1 2.3 0 am An Unknown Warrior
How an unknown warrior became a symbol of
a nation’s grief and gratitude (5/5) (r)
1 2.48 Shipping Forecast
1. 00 As BBC World Service

Radio 4 Extra
Digital only
8. 00 am The Navy Lark 8.3 0 King Street
Junior 9. 00 Wordaholics 9 .3 0 Ballylenon
10. 00 Persuasion 11. 00 Podcast Radio Hour
1 2. 00 The Navy Lark 1 2.3 0 pm King Street
Junior 1. 00 Proof 1.3 0 Hercule Poirot: Taken
at the Flood 2. 00 Vinegar Girl 2.15 Modesty
Blaise — The Silver Mistress2.3 0 The Singer
and the Song 3. 00 Persuasion 4. 00
Wordaholics 4 .3 0 Ballylenon 5. 00 Jack &
Millie 5 .3 0 Love in Recovery 6 .00 Night
Terrace 6 .30 Off the Page 7. 00 The Navy
Lark. Comedy with Leslie Phillips 7 .3 0 King
Street Junior. Comedy with Peter Davison
8. 00 Proof. Thriller by Dick Francis 8 .3 0
Hercule Poirot: Taken at the Flood. Mystery
by Agatha Christie 9. 00 Podcast Radio Hour.
Amanda Litherland and her guest recommend
the best podcasts 10. 00 Comedy Club: Love
in Recovery. By Pete Jackson 10 .3 0 The
Hudson and Pepperdine Show. Comedy
sketches with Mel Hudson 11. 00 Flight of
the Conchords. Comedy with Jemaine
Clement and Bret McKenzie 1 1.3 0 My
Teenage Diary. The writer Lionel Shriver
reads from her frank teenage journals

Radio 5 Live
MW: 6 93, 909
5. 00 am Wake Up to Money 6 .00 5 Live
Breakfast 9. 00 Your Call 10. 00 Chiles on
Friday 1.00pm Elis James and John Robins

2 .3 0 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review


  1. 00 5 Live Drive 6 .30 5 Live Sport: Rugby
    Union — Ireland v Wales (Kick-off 7. 00 )
    9 .00 5 Live Sport. Day two of The Masters
    from Augusta National Golf Club 10. 00
    Stephen Nolan 1. 00 am Jim Davis


talkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz


  1. 00 am Early Breakfast 6 .00 talkSPORT
    Breakfast with Alan Brazil 10. 00 Jim White,
    Martin Keown and Bob Mills 1 .00pm
    Hawksbee and Jacobs 4. 00 Drive 7. 00
    GameDay Countdown 10. 00 Sports Bar

  2. 00 am Extra Time with Martin Kelner


talkRADIO
Digital only


  1. 00 am James Max 6 .30 Julia Hartley-
    Brewer 10. 00 Mike Graham 1 .00pm Ian
    Collins 4. 00 Mark Dolan 7. 00 Kevin
    O’Sullivan 10. 00 Cristo Foufas

  2. 00 am Martin Kelner


6 Music
Digital only


  1. 00 am Chris Hawkins 7 .3 0 Lauren Laverne
    10 .3 0 Mary Anne Hobbs 1 .00pm Shaun
    Keaveny 4. 00 Nemone 7. 00 Iggy Pop 9. 00
    Tom Ravenscroft 1 2. 00 The 6 Mix with
    Nemone 1.3 0 am The 6 Mix Guest Mix 2. 00
    Focus Beats 4. 00 Alt 90s 4 .3 0 Alt 00s


Virgin Radio
Digital only
6.30am The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
with Sky 10. 00 Eddy Temple-Morris
1. 00 pm Tim Cocker 4. 00 Kate Lawler 7. 00
Ben Jones 10. 00 Stu Elmore1. 00 am
Virgin Radio Through The Night

Classic FM
FM: 1 00 -1 0 2 MHz
6 .00am More Music Breakfast 9. 00
Alexander Armstrong 1 2. 00 Anne-Marie
Minhall 4. 00 pm John Brunning 7. 00
Smooth Classics at Seven 8. 00 The Classic
FM Concert with John Suchet. Music by
Mackenzie, Beethoven, Bizet, Sarasate
and Stanford. Mackenzie (Britanniaa —
A Nautical Overture Op 52); Beethoven
(Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 ); Bizet
(The Pearl Fishers Duett — From The Pearl
Fisherss); Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen
Op 20); and Stanford (Symphony No 1 in
B-flat) 1 0.00 Smooth Classics 1 .00am
Katie Breathwick 4. 00 Jane Jones

Radio Choice


Debra Craine


CrowdScience: How


Can I Beat Pain?
BBC World Service, 8.30pm

Most of us at some time
or another will experience
pain. An especially nasty
migraine, a broken leg, a
terrible backache. Pain is
the body’s way of telling us
that something is wrong,
but how best to cope? Does
a positive mindset help?
Or meditation? Marnie
Chesterton, above, speaks
to psychologists and
neuroscientists to find the
answers. We also hear from
two people on opposite ends
of the pain experience: Lucy
has fibromyalgia and
experiences pain all over
her body every day; Steven,
meanwhile, has a rare
genetic condition that
means he doesn’t feel
physical pain at all.

our tv newsletter
Sign up to a weekly briefing of
the only shows you need to watch
thetimes.co.uk/bulletins

Saving Britain’s Pubs
BBC Two
{{{{(

University Challenge
BBC Two
{{(((

O


ur pub doors are shut,
the beer barrels are empty
and pint glasses stand
untouched in the dark.
It’s a terrible irony for
British pubs, already in decline since
2000, with about 12 closing every
week. The full lockdown had
reminded everyone of the value
of a draught pint sipped amid
convivial strangers, yet here they are
forced to close again. This year the
pubs’ decline isn’t about natural
selection, it’s manslaughter.

Time for a celebrity chef off the box
to ride to the rescue? That’s what the
title Saving Britain’s Pubs with Tom
Kerridge suggested. However, not
even the affable and clearly very savvy
Kerridge can do anything about Covid,
and this first episode was filmed in late
2019, another era. But this isn’t the
latest Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares-
style schedule filler either.
As public-service TV it was valuable
for explaining the universal challenges
already faced by publicans. The
predicament confronting the White
Hart in Chilsworthy, Cornwall —
even with its view over the Tamar
Valley — was attracting customers
from further afield than their loyal
locals. It’s a story that will be familiar
to so many rural pubs.
Kerridge offered his creative
solution for the White Hart, but it
was a freehold, and for pubs tied to
a pub company (or “pubco”) such
as the Prince Albert in Stroud, near
Gloucester, there are the unavoidable
iniquities of the “beer tie”.
The harsh terms from the company
that owns the building means that the
landlord has to pay a higher price for
the beer, thus forcing them to sell it at
a higher price. Between that, the rising
taxes and rents, the Prince Albert’s
friendly tenant landlords, Lottie
and Miles, whose only fault is their
generosity to their punters, are making
nothing for themselves.

Suffice to say, as Kerridge lumbered
between breweries and meetings with
an ex-minister, the boo-hiss pubcos
did not come out of this well. Next
week we’ll hear their side of the story.
All the landlords in this programme
were good people, loving their locals
and looking after them even over their
own pockets. In the Golden Anchor in
south London the crowd of regulars
were allowed to play dominoes for
hours rather than actually drinking
much. Yet at points like this the
programme reminded you of the value
of pubs in our lives. And it hasn’t even
got to the Covid crisis yet. If you have
ever enjoyed a pint in a pub, this is
a series you should be watching.
Another British institution that’s
been experiencing declining on-the-
night totals is Children in Need. It’s
tonight, but first came a jolly curtain-
raiser in the form of University
Challenge: Children in Need Special,
in which BBC faces took on ITV ones.
The questions were often Pudsey the
bear level, covering Tiger King rather
than trinomial expansion. No wonder
Jeremy Paxman wasn’t presenting.
Instead we had the BBC presenter
Kirsty Wark, who made the best quip
when she said: “I promise I’ll not show
any bias, and may the best publicly
funded broadcaster win.” Well, it’s for
charity and we should support the
good cause; to donate, ask Pudsey —
Tom Kerridge addressed the challenges faced by publicans he’s not hard to miss right now.

Will Covid mean it’s finally last orders for pubs?


ELLIE KYNASTON/BONE SOUP PRODUCTIONS

James


Jacks on


TV review

Free download pdf