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the times | Saturday December 4 2021 saturday review 27

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6.00am Jenny Kleeman and

Luke Jones with Times Radio

Breakfast. Kick off the

weekend with all the morning’s

headlines 10.00 Hugo

Rifkind. An entertaining look

at the week 1.00pm Alexis

Conran. Politics in-depth and

consumer features 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 8.00 Stories 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 1.00am Highlights

from Times Radio. Some of the

best interviews of the week

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

5.00am Radio 2 in Concert (r)

6.00 Sounds of the 60s with

Tony Blackburn 8.00 Anita

Rani 10.00 Claudia Winkleman

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

Nashville Songwriters 10.00

The Craig Charles House

Party 11.30 The Craig Charles

House Party Mixtape 12.00

Ana Matronic’s Dance

Devotion 2.00am Disney’s

Women: The Story of Walt’s

Leading Ladies (r) 4.00 Radio

2 in Concert: The Pretenders (r)

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast

9.00 Record Review

11.45 Music Matters

Celebrating the 60th

anniversary of West Side Story

12.30pm This Classical Life

With Erland Cooper

1.00 Inside Music Soosan

Lolavar examines how

composers will often

revisit their best ideas

3.00 Sound of Gaming

Louise Blain explores music

composed for video games

4.00 Music Planet The stories

of female Scots Gaelic singers

5.00 J to Z Femi Koleoso

shares inspirational music

6.30 Opera on 3 from the Met

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

conducts the world premiere

of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice,

from New York’s Metropolitan

Opera House, with Erin Morley

singing the title role

10.00 New Music Show

Featuring further highlights

from the Huddersfield

Contemporary Music Festival

12.00 Freeness Music

exploring energetic

currents and rituals

1.00am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Witness (r)

6.00 News and Papers

6.07 Open Country (r)

6.30 Farming Today This

Week Agriculture

7.00 Today

8.31 (LW) Yesterday

in Parliament

9.00 Saturday Live

10.30 Soul Music

11.00 The Week in

Westminster

11.30 From Our Own

Correspondent

12.01pm (LW) Shipping

Forecast

12.04 Money Box

12.30 The Now Show (r)

1.00 News

1.10 Any Questions? (r)

2.00 Any Answers? Phone-in

2.45 From Fact to Fiction (r)

3.00 Drama: D for Dexter

By Sarah Daniels.

4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour

5.00 Saturday PM

5.30 Political Thinking

with Nick Robinson

5.54 Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.15 Loose Ends Clive

Anderson and Arthur Smith

are joined by Tom Jones and

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

7.00 Profile

7.15 This Cultural Life

8.00 Archive on 4: It’s Not

How You Start Kate Weinberg

examines the evolving

function and importance of

endings in fiction, with the aid

of archive interviews with

writers, thinkers, comedians,

film-makers and critics

9.00 Brief Lives (4/6) (r)

9.45 The Poet and The Echo

Lesley Hart reads Goblin

Market by Louise Welsh (r)

10.00 News

10.15 The Moral Maze (r)

11.00 Quote: Unquote (r)

11.30 Uncanny

12.00 News and Weather

12.15am The Poetry Detective

Stories of people reading

poems out loud (r)

12.48 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

11.00 Fighting Talk 12.00 5

Live Sport 5.00pm Sports

Report 6.00 6-0-6 8.00

Kermode and Mayo’s Film

Review 9.00 Stephen

Nolan 12.00 Newscast

1.00am Hayley Hassall

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

6.00am GameDay Breakfast

9.00 GameDay Warm Up

11.00 Live GameDay

Exclusive: West Ham United v

Chelsea (Kick-off 12.30)

2.30pm GameDay Live 5.15

Live GameDay Exclusive:

Watford v Manchester

City (Kick-off 5.30) 7.30

GameDay: Your Verdict 10.00

Fight Night 1.00am Extra

Time with Martin Kelner

talkRADIO

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5.00am Clashes of the Week

7.00 Cristo Foufas 10.00

Peter Cardwell 1.00pm The

Week with Trisha 4.00 The

Andy Jaye Show 5.00

Claudia -Liza Armah 7.00 Nick

De Bois 10.00 Darryl Morris

1.00am Martin Kelner

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Listomania 8.30

All the Young Dudes

9.00 Mastertapes: Access All

Areas. John Wilson takes a

three-hour songwriting

masterclass. See Choice

12.00 Meet David Sedaris

12.30pm The Mitch Benn

Music Show 1.00 The Man

Behind the Mask: Dave

Prowse 2.00 The Penny

Dreadfuls Present: The

Odyssey 3.00 Hut 33 3.30

Bleak Expectations 4.00

Aesop’s Astronauts 5.30 Great

Lives 6.00 Spine Chillers

7.00 Mastertapes: Access All

Areas 10.00 Comedy Club:

The Lee Mack Show

10.30 Women Talking About

Cars 11.00 The Skivers 11.30

Hut 33 12.00 Spine Chillers

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 BBC OS

Conversations 9.30 The

Explanation 9.50 Over to You

10.00 News 10.06 Sports

Hour 11.00 The Newsroom

11.30 WorkLifeIndia 12.00

News 12.06pm World Book

Club 1.00 Newshour 2.00

News 2.06 Sportsworld 6.00

The Newsroom 6.30

Trending: The Denial Files

6.50 Sporting Witness 7.00

News 7.06 The Documentary

8.00 News 8.06 The Arts

Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.00

The Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 The Cultural

Frontline 11.00 News

11.06 Music Life 12.00

News 12.06am BBC OS

Conversations 12.30

Trending: The Denial Files

12.50 Over to You 1.00 News

1.06 The Science Hour 2.00

The Newsroom 2.30

Healthcheck 3.00 News

3.06 World Book Club 4.00

News 4.06 From Our Own

Correspondent 4.30

The Cultural Frontline

6 Music

Digital only

6.00am Amy Lamé 8.00

Radcliffe and Maconie 10.00

The Huey Show 1.00pm

Jamz Supernova on 6 3.00

Tom Ravenscroft 6.00 The

Craig Charles Funk and Soul

Show 9.00 The Blessed

Madonna 12.00 Lose Yourself

With 1.00am Lose Yourself

With 2.00 Late in the Day

4.00 The Morning After Mix

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.00am Amy Voce 9.30

The Graham Norton Show

12.30pm Virgin Radio On

Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00

Ben Jones 10.00 Stu Elmore

1.00am Virgin Radio

Through The Night

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

7.00am Alan Titchmarsh

10.00 Aled Jones 1.00pm

Alexander Armstrong 4.00

Moira Stuart’s Hall of Fame

Concert 7.00 Saturday Night

at the Movies. Andrew

dedicates the show to

visionary film-makers,

featuring The Dark Knight

(Christopher Nolan), The

Aviator (Martin Scorsese) and

The Godfather Part II (Francis

Ford Coppola) 9.00 David

Mellor’s Melodies. David

presents festive favourites

10.00 Smooth Classics

1.00am Katie Breathwick

4.00 Sam Pittis

Today’s pick

Mastertapes:

Access All Areas

Radio 4 Extra, 9am

In October 2012 Billy Bragg,

right, was the first guest on

Mastertapes, the series in

which John Wilson chewed

the cud with musical icons

before taking questions

from an invited audience of

superfans. Wilson takes this

as the starting point for a new

programme in which he looks

back at 40 episodes of the

series. Featured guests have

included Paul McCartney,

Robbie Williams, Corinne

Bailey Rae, Randy Newman,

Sinéad O’Connor and Paul

Weller. The best of these

interviews are featured in this

masterclass, dissecting the

songwriting process by the

finest in the business. Joe Clay

Film4

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11.00am Beneath the Planet

of the Apes (15, 1969) Sci-fi

sequel with James Franciscus

12.55pm Cutthroat Island

(PG, 1995) Swashbuckling

adventure with Geena Davis

3.15 Transformers: Revenge

of the Fallen (12, 2009)

Sci-fi adventure sequel

starring Shia LaBeouf

6.15 The Abyss (12, 1989)

A rescue team encounters

aliens living in the depths.

James Cameron’s sci-fi

thriller starring Ed Harris

9.00 Deadpool 2 (15, 2018)

The anti-hero tries to protect

a young mutant being

pursued by a heavily armed

cyborg from the future. Action

comedy with Ryan Reynolds

11.15 First Love (15, 2019)

Crime drama with Sakurako

Konishi. See Film Choice

1.30am-3.20 Blair Witch (15,

2016) Horror sequel starring

James Allen McCune

Talking Pictures TV

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6.00am The Narrowing

Circle (PG, 1956) Detective

drama starring Paul Carpenter

7.20 Stranger from Venus

(U, 1954) Sci-fi drama

starring Helmut Dantine

8.55 Odeon Song

9.00 Hawkeye & the

Last of the Mohicans

9.30 The Roy Rogers Show

10.00 Phantom Creeps

10.25 Tim Driscoll’s Donkey

(U, 1955) Children’s drama

starring David Coote

11.35 Trail of the

Royal Mounted

11.55 Albert’s Savings

12.00 Juggernaut (PG, 1936)

Thriller starring Boris Karloff

1.15pm The Frogmen (U, 1951)

Second World War thriller

starring Richard Widmark

3.15 Down to the Sea in Ships

(PG, 1949) Adventure

starring Lionel Barrymore

5.45 Look at Life

6.00 Scotland Yard

6.35 Look at Life

6.50 Crash Dive (PG, 1943)

Romantic drama with Tyrone

Power and Anne Baxter

9.00 Blood and Wine (15,

1996) Thriller starring Jack

Nicholson and Michael Caine

11.05 Under Suspicion

(18, 1991) Murder mystery

starring Liam Neeson

1.10am The Boston Strangler

(18, 1968) Fact-based drama

starring Tony Curtis

3.30-5.30 Over the Hill

(PG, 1993) Melodrama with

Olympia Dukakis

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News

9.10 Lost Letter Mysteries:

From the Heart (PG, 2016)

Drama starring Eric Mabius

11.00 GREAT! Movie News

11.10 Lost Letter Mysteries:

One in a Million (PG, 2016)

Drama starring Eric Mabius

1.00pm Lost Letter

Mysteries: The Impossible

Dream (PG, 2015) Drama

starring Eric Mabius

2.50 Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG,

2009) Comedy starring Kevin

James and Keir O’Donnell

4.45 Jack and Jill (PG, 2011)

Comedy with Adam Sandler

6.35 All the King’s Men (12,

2006) Drama with Sean Penn

9.00 Gone Baby Gone

(15, 2007) Crime drama

starring Casey Affleck

11.15-1.10am Dog Eat Dog (18,

2016) Thriller starring Nicolas

Cage and Willem Dafoe

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 Johnny Guitar (PG, 1954)

10.05 Arizona Bushwhackers

(12, 1968) Western

12.00 The Counterfeit Traitor

(12, 1962) Espionage drama

3.00pm Hellfire (PG, 1949)

5.00 Showdown at Abilene

(U, 1956) Western

6.45 Dallas (U, 1950) Western

8.45 Off Set

9.00 47 Ronin (12, 2013)

Fantasy with Keanu Reeves

11.35-1.45am Deep Blue Sea

(15, 1999) Thriller

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.15pm Wander (15, 2020)

Thriller with Aaron Eckhart

2.05 Nowhere Special (12,

2020) Drama starring James

Norton and Daniel Lamont

3.55 Godzilla vs. Kong (12,

2021) Sci-fi adventure

6.00 A Boy Called Christmas

(PG, 2021) Family adventure

starring Henry Lawfull

8.00 8 Bit Christmas (PG,

2021) A boy in the 1980s sets

out to get the latest and

greatest video game system.

Comedy with Steve Zahn

9.40 Godzilla vs. Kong (12,

2021) King Kong and his

protectors journey to find his

true home. Sci-fi adventure

with Alexander Skarsgård

11.35-1.15am Sound of

Violence (18, 2021) Horror

starring Jasmin Savoy Brown

Saturday 4

Film guide
Radio guide

Sean Penn in All the King’s

Men (GREAT! Movies, 6.35pm)