The Times Saturday Review - UK (2020-11-14)

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Times Radio

Digital only

6 .00am Jenny Kleeman and

Luke Jones with Times Radio

Breakfast 10. 00 Hugo Rifkind.

Informed, entertaining

conversation 1 .00pm Alexis

Conran. A deep look back

at the week 4. 00 Ayesha

Hazarika. Saturday’s headlines,

unpacked 7. 00 The TLS

Podcast. A round-up of all the

week’s news in the world of

books 8.00Stories of Our

Times. The Times’s daily

podcast 8. 30 Red Box. Matt

Chorley’s politics podcast 9.00

Highlights from Times Radio.

Some of the best interviews of

the week 10. 00 Kait Borsay.

An early look at Sunday’s

newspapers 1. 00 am

Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88 - 90 .2 MHz

6 .00am Sounds of the

60 s with Tony Blackburn

8. 00 Dermot O’Leary

1 0.00 Graham Norton. JK

Rowling chats about her new

bookThe Ickabog. See Choice

1 .00pm Pick of the Pops 3. 00

Rylan on Saturday 6 .00 Liza

Tarbuck 8. 00 The Rock Show

with Johnnie Walker 9. 00

Radio 2 in Concert: Elton John

(r) 10. 00 The Craig Charles

House Party 1 1. 30 The Craig

Charles House Party Mixtape

1 2. 00 Ana Matronic’s Dance

Devotion 2. 00 am Radio 2 in

Concert: Kylie Minogue (r)

3. 00 Radio 2 in Concert: kd

lang (r) 4 .00 Angela Scanlon

Radio 3

FM: 90. 2 - 92 .4 MHz

5. 00 am Jazz Voice Revisited

with Guy Barker

5 .30 SEED Ensemble

in Concert

6. 00 Jacob Collier’s

Feel Good Mixtape

7 .00 Breakfast

9. 00 Record Review

1 1.45 Music Matters

1 2.30pm This Classical Life

With guest Kaapo Ijas (r)

1 .00 Inside Music (r)

3 .00 Sound of Gaming The

world of stealth gaming

4 .00 Music Planet Including

a Road Trip to Tuva

5. 00 J to Z Julian Joseph looks

ahead to some of this year’s

London Jazz Festival highlights

6 .30 Opera on 3 Rossini’s

operaTancredi, based on

Voltaire’s tragedy Tancrede,

recorded at the 2017

Beaune Festival. Presented

by Martin Handley,

accompanied by Flora Willson

10. 00 New Music Show

Kate Molleson presents

highlights from last month’s

Aberdeen Sound Festival

12. 00 Freeness Including

a celebration of the

music label Discus Music

1 .00am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92 .4- 9 4. 6 MHz

LW: 1 98 kHz MW: 72 0 kHz

5.30am News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Four Thought (r)

6 .00 News and Papers

6 .07 Open Country (r)

6 .30 Farming Today

This Week Agriculture

7. 00 Today

8.45 (LW) Yesterday

in Parliament

9.00 Saturday Live

10. 30 You’re Dead to Me New

series. Greg Jenner examines

the life of pirate Blackbeard

1 1.00 The Week in

Westminster

1 1.30 From Our Own

Correspondent

1 2.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12. 0 4 Money Box

12. 30 The Now Show ( 3 / 6 ) (r)

1 .00 News

1 .10 Any Questions? (r)

2 .00 Any Answers? Phone-in

2 .4 5 Drama: James Bond

— Thunderball Dramatisation

of Ian Fleming’s novel,

starring Toby Stephens (r)

4 .15 Weekend Woman’s Hour

5.00 Saturday PM

5. 30 The Bottom Line (r)

5.54 Shipping Forecast

6. 00 Six O’Clock News

6 .15 Loose Ends With Stephen

Fry, David Arquette and

Marika Hackman

7 .00 Profile The personality

and motivation of a person

making the headlines

7 .15 My Dream Dinner Party (r)

7 .45 What Is a Story? (r)

8.00 Archive on 4: How to

Come Back from the Brink

Steve Fielding explores how

political parties have

recovered from big

election defeats

9. 00 Drama: Tracks — Abyss

By Matthew Broughton.

Stars Olivia Poulet ( 3 / 9 ) (r)

9.45 Rabbit Is Rich

By John Updike ( 5 / 10 ) (r)

10. 00 News and Weather

10 .1 5 The Moral Maze (r)

1 1. 00 Quote: Unquote (r)

1 1.30 My Muse Folk group the

Young’uns celebrate

songwriter Graeme Miles ( 3 / 3 )

1 2. 00 News and Weather

1 2.15am A British History in

Weather ( 10 / 10 ) (r)

1 2.30 Short Works (r)

1 2.48 Shipping Forecast

1 .00 As BBC World Service

Radio 5 Live

MW: 693 , 909

5.00am 5 Live Boxing 6.00

Saturday Breakfast 9. 00 Scott

Mills and Chris Stark 1 1. 00

Fighting Talk 12. 00 5 Live

Sport 1 2.45pm 5 Live Boxing

2 .45 5 Live Sport 3 .00 Live

Rugby Union: England v

Georgia (Kick-off 3 .0 0 )5.00

Sports Report 6. 00 6 - 0 - 6

8. 00 Stephen Nolan 1 1. 00

Kermode and Mayo’s Film

Review 12. 00 How Do You

Cope? With Elis and John

1 .00amJim Davis

talkSPORT

MW: 1 053 , 1 089 kHz

6 .00am GameDay Breakfast

10. 00 GameDay Warm Up

1 .00pm Saturday Session

with Sam Matterface

5. 00 A talkSPORT Special


6. 00 The talkSPORT Quiz
   8.00A talkSPORT Special
   1 0.00Fight Night


7. 00 amExtra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5. 00 am Darryl Morris 7. 00

Penny Smith 10. 00 Kevin

O’Sullivan1. 00 pm Bob Mills

4 .00 Driven5.00Mike Parry

7 .00Badass XL 1 0.00Mark

Dolan 1 .00am Martin Kelner

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8. 00 am The Motion Show

8. 30 North East of Eden 9. 00

The Real Comedy Controllers:

The Things That Made Us

Laugh 1 2.00 Michael Frayn’s

Pocket Playhouse 12.30pm

The Goon Show 1. 00 Hercule

Poirot: Taken at the Flood 1. 30

Hercule Poirot: Taken at the

Flood 2. 00 Hercule Poirot:

Taken at the Flood 2. 30

Hercule Poirot: Taken at the

Flood 3. 00 Hercule Poirot:

Taken at the Flood

3. 30 A Good Read 4. 00 The

Poisoned Chocolates Case

5. 30 Great Lives 6. 00 Kafka’s

Metamorphosis 7 .00 The

Real Comedy Controllers:

The Things That Made Us

Laugh 10. 00 Comedy Club:

Saturday Night Fry 10. 30 The

Lawrence Sweeney Mix 1 1.00

State of the Nations 1 1.30The

Wilson Dixon Line12. 00

Kafka’s Metamorphosis

BBC World Service

Digital only

9. 00 am News 9. 06 BBC OS

Conversations 9. 30 Girl

Taken 9 .5 0 Over to You

10. 00 Sports Hour11. 00

The Newsroom11. 30 The

Documentary 12. 06 pm

Music Life1. 00 Newshour

2 .00News 2 .06 Sportsworld

6. 00 The Newsroom 6. 30

Trending 6 .5 0 More or Less

7. 00 News 7. 06 World

Questions 8.00News

8.06 The Arts Hour9.00

Newshour 1 0.00News10.06

The Newsroom10.30Heart

and Soul 1 1. 00 News11. 06

Business Weekly 12. 00 News

12. 06 am The Cultural

Frontline 12. 30 Trending

12.50 Over to You 1 .00

News1.06 The Science Hour

2. 00 The Newsroom 2. 30

Heart and Soul 3. 00 News

3. 06 The Big Idea 4. 00

News 4. 06 From Our Own

Correspondent 4. 30 Girl

Ta k e n4.50The Big Idea

6 Music

Digital only

7. 00 am Mark Radcliffe and

Stuart Maconie 10. 00 The

Huey Show 1. 00 pm Liz

Kershaw 3 .00 Gilles Peterson

6.00 The Craig Charles

Funk and Soul Show9.00

The Tom Robinson Show

12. 00 Ambient Focus


13. 00 am Focus Beats 3. 30
    The Morning After Mix

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6. 00 amAmy Voce 10. 00

Steve Denyer1. 00 pm

Christian Williams 4. 00 Bam

7 .00Ben Jones 10.00Stu

Elmore 1 .00amVirgin Radio

Through The Night

Classic FM

FM: 1 00 -1 02 MHz

7. 00 am Alan Titchmarsh

10. 00 Bill Turnbull 1. 00 pm

Alexander Armstrong 3 .00

Moira Stuart’s Hall of Fame

Concert 5. 00 Saturday Night

at the Movies 7. 00 Cowan’s

Classics 9. 00 Beethoven: The

Man Revealed with John

Suchet. John focuses on 1823,

when Beethoven attended a

recital by a young Franz Liszt

10. 00 Smooth Classics

1. 00 amKatie Breathwick


2. 00 Jane Jones

Today’s pick

Graham Norton

Radio 2, 10am

Graham Norton, who has just

announced that he is leaving

this show on December 19,

has another great line-up in

store for listeners today.

His guests include the author

JK Rowling, who discusses

her new novel, The Ickabog,

her first children’s book

since Harry Potter. Also

joining Norton is Anne

Tennant, Lady Glenconner,

right, who has a new novel

out, Murder on Mustique.

Her previous book, Lady in

Waiting: My Extraordinary Life

in the Shadow of the Crown,

was a bestselling portrait of

her life as lady-in-waiting to

Princess Margaret for more

than 30 years.

Debra Craine

Film4

FREEVIEW 14 SKY 313 VIRGIN 4 28

11.00am Diary of a Wimpy

Kid: The Long Haul (U, 2017)

Comedy with Jason Drucker

12.45pm Hotel for Dogs

(U, 2009 )Family comedy

2.4 5 The Adventures of Tintin

(PG, 2011 ) Animation

4.50 Dragonheart (PG, 1996)

Fantasy adventure

6.55 The League of

Extraordinary Gentlemen (12,

2003 ) Comic-book fantasy

adventure starring Sean

Connery and Shane West

9.00 Terminator Genisys

( 12 , 2015 ) A time traveller sent

on a rescue mission discovers

a plot to change history

beyond recognition. Sci-fi

adventure sequel starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

11. 2 5-1. 30 am The Last Stand
    (15, 2013)Action thriller with
    Arnold Schwarzenegger

Talking Pictures TV

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6.00am The Lost City

7.55 Report On Litter

8. 00 Born Of The Sea

(U, 1949 ) Drama

9. 00 Runaround

9. 30 Stagecoach West

10. 30 Shadows

11.00 The Atlantic

Community

11.2 5 The Terrornauts

(PG, 1967 ) Sci-fi mystery

1.00pm The Three-Pointed

StarDocumentary

1.40 The Arsenal Stadium

Mystery (U, 1939) Thriller

3.25 The Eternal Sea (U, 1955 )

Fact-based drama

5. 30 The Adventures
   of Sir Lancelot
   6.00 Kill Her Gently
   (PG, 1957 ) Crime thriller
   starring Griffith Jones
   7.30 Good Time Girl
   (PG, 1948 ) A runaway girl
   is persuaded to pawn stolen
   jewellery, setting her feet
   on the road to ruin. Drama
   starring Jean Kent
   9 .1 0 The Fourth Protocol
   ( 15 , 1987 ) A British agent
   investigates a KGB plot to
   smuggle a nuclear bomb into
   Britain and blow up an
   American military base. Cold
   War thriller starring Michael
   Caine and Pierce Brosnan
   11.30-1.40am This Property Is
   Condemned ( 12 , 1966 )
   Romantic drama

Sony Movies

FREEVIEW 32 SKY 3 21 VIRGIN 42 5

9.00am Flirting with Danger

( 15 , 2006 )Thriller

10 .4 0 Death Al Dente: The

Gourmet Detective (PG,

2015 )Murder mystery

starring Dylan Neal

12.25pm Zoom (PG, 2006)

Comedy adventure starring

Tim Allen and Courteney Cox

2. 0 5 How Do You Know

(12, 2010) Romantic comedy

with Reese Witherspoon

4 .25 Autumn in New York

( 15 , 2001 ) Romantic drama

starring Richard Gere and

Winona Ryder

6 .30 Chocolat (12, 2000)

Fifties-set drama starring

Juliette Binoche

9 .00 Babel ( 15 , 2006 )

An American couple’s holiday

in Morocco sparks an

international crisis when one

of them is accidentally shot.

Drama starring Brad Pitt

1 1.5 0 - 2. 0 5am The Road

(15, 2009) Post-apocalyptic

drama starring Viggo

Mortensen

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

7 .50am Operation Crossbow

(PG, 1965 ) Second World War

adventure starring George

Peppard and Sophia Loren

1 0.15 Gunfighters of Casa

Grande (PG, 1964 ) Western

1 2.15pm Air Force (PG, 1943)

Second World War drama

3 .00 Johnny Guitar (PG,

1954 ) Western starring Joan

Crawford and Ernest Borgnine

5.25 The Texas Kid (U, 1943 )

Western starring Johnny

Mack Brown

6 .40 I Killed Wild Bill Hickok

(PG, 1956 ) Western starring

Johnny Carpenter

8. 00 Sherlock Holmes

(12, 2009) The detective

investigates a criminal who

has seemingly returned from

the dead to carry out a spate

of murders. Action thriller

starring Robert Downey Jr

1 0.55-1.20am Get Carter ( 18 ,

1971 ) Thriller starring Michael

Caine and Ian Hendry

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 30 1 VIRGIN 4 01

5. 20 pm Doctor Sleep
   ( 15 , 2019 ) Horror thriller
   8.00 The Hunt ( 15 , 2019 )
   Horror thriller starring Betty
   Gilpin and Hilary Swank
   9 .45 Jojo Rabbit (12, 2019)
   During the Second World War,
   a lonely German boy
   discovers that his single
   mother is hiding a Jewish girl
   in their attic. Comedy starring
   Roman Griffin Davis
   1 1.4 5 -1. 30 am American
   Fighter (15, 2020) Thriller
   starring Tommy Flanagan

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Scarlett Johansson stars (Sky

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