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6.00am Jenny Kleeman and

Luke Jones with Times Radio

Breakfast. A full round-up of

the big news stories 10.00 T&G

with Tom Newton Dunn and

Guests. A relaxed political talk

show 1.00pm Alexis Conran

4.00 Ayesha Hazarika 7.00

Past Imperfect 8.00 Wine

Times 8.30 Red Box 9.00

Highlights from Times Radio

10.00 Kait Borsay 1.00am

Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

5.00am Tracks of My Years

6.00 Good Morning Sunday

9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday

Love Songs 11.00 Alex Jones

1.00pm Elaine Paige on

Sunday 3.00 Sounds of the 70s

with Johnnie Walker 5.00 Paul

O’Grady 7.00 BBC Radio 2

Young Chorister of the Year

2021 9.00 Tracks of My Tears

with Edith Bowman 10.00 Dr

Rangan Chatterjee 12.00 OJ

Borg 2.30am One Hit Wonders

with OJ Borg 3.00 Pick of the

Pops (r) 4.00 Vanessa Feltz

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast

9.00 Sunday Morning

12.00 Private Passions

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Enescu (Serenade

Lointaine); Shostakovich

(Piano Trio No 1 in C minor,

Op 8) and Brahms (Piano

Trio No 1 in B, Op 8) (r)

2.00 The Early Music Show

Marking the 500th anniversary

of Robert Fayrfax’s death

3.00 Choral Evensong From

Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal,

Hampton Court Palace, with

music by Andrew Smith,

Weelkes and Byrd. Introit: Veni,

redemptor gentium (Andrew

Smith). Responses: Tomkins.

Office hymn: Hark! a herald

voice is calling (Merton).

Psalms 6, 7, 8 (Purcell, Turner,

Garrett, Soaper, Parratt). First

Lesson: Isaiah 65 v.17 — 66 v.2.

Canticles: The Sixth Service

(Weelkes). Second Lesson:

Matthew 24 vv.1-14. Anthem:

Vigilate (Byrd). Hymn: Thou

whose almighty word

(Moscow). Voluntary: A Fancy

(Byrd). Carl Jackson (Director

of Music), Rufus Frowde

(Organist). Recorded 19

October 2021 (r)

4.00 Jazz Record Requests

5.00 The Listening Service (r)

5.30 Words and Music (r)

6.45 Sunday Feature: In

Search of the Sublime

7.30 Drama on 3: Winter

Solstice By Roland

Schimmelpfennig (r)

9.30 Record Review Extra

11.00 Music’s Inner Vision

12.00 Classical Fix (r)

12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am News Briefing

5.43 Bells on Sunday

5.45 Profile (r)

6.00 News Headlines

6.05 Something Understood

World weariness (r)

6.35 Natural Histories (r)

7.00 News and Papers

7.10 Sunday

7.54 Radio 4 Appeal

8.00 News and Papers

8.10 Sunday Worship

8.48 A Point of View (r)

8.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

9.00 Broadcasting House

9.45 Radio 4 Christmas

Appeal: Making a Difference

10.00 The Archers (r)

11.00 Desert Island Discs With

naturalist Helen Macdonald

11.45 Witness (r)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 I’m Sorry I

Haven’t a Clue (r)

12.32 The Food Programme

1.00 The World This Weekend

1.30 The Listening Project (r)

2.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time Listeners’ queries (r)

2.45 A Home of Our Own (r)

3.00 Drama: Leave It to

Psmith (2/2) (r)

4.00 Bookclub

4.30 The Language Exchange

5.00 The River Man (r)

5.40 Radio 4 Christmas

Appeal: Making a Difference

5.54 Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.15 Pick of the Week

Highlights of the past week

7.00 The Archers

7.15 It’s Not What You Know (r)

7.45 Gambits Bishop by

Eley Williams. (6/10)

8.00 Feedback (r)

8.30 Last Word (r)

9.00 Money Box (r)

9.25 Radio 4 Appeal

9.30 Rutherford and Fry on

Living with AI (r)

10.00 The Westminster Hour

11.00 Think with Pinker (r)

11.30 Something Understood

12.00 News and Weather

12.15am Sideways (5/8) (r)

12.45 Bells on Sunday (r)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service

Radio 5 Live

MW: 693, 909

5.00am Sports Desk 5.30 5

Live Sport 6.00 5 Live Science

7.00 Sunday Breakfast

10.00 Laura Whitmore’s

Sunday Session 12.00 5 Live

Sport 4.30pm 5 Live Sport:

Aston Villa v Leicester City

(Kick-off 4.30) 6.30 5 Live

Formula 1. Live F1 coverage of

the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix

7.30 6-0-6 9.00 Stephen

Nolan 12.00 5 Live Sport

1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Jonny

Owen and Friends 11.00 The

Warm Up 1.00pm The Sunday

Session 5.00 Darren Bent’s

Boot Room 8.00 Fight of my

Life 9.00 Trans Europe

Express 12.00 Fight of my

Life 1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5.00am The Best of TalkRadio

7.00 Cristo Foufas 10.00

Richard Tice 1.00pm Bob

Mills 4.00 Plank of the Week

5.00 Clashes of the Week

7.00 Driven Chat 8.00

Nick De Bois 10.00 The

Unexplained with Howard

Hughes 1.00am Paul Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

7.20am Madame Bovary

Omnibus 8.30 A Life of Bliss

9.00 Life with the Lyons 9.30

In and Out of the Kitchen

10.00 Desert Island Discs.

Rolling Stones drummer

Charlie Watts talks to

Sue Lawley. See Choice

10.45 The Curious Cases of

Rutherford & Fry 11.00 The

Moth Radio Hour 11.55

Inheritance Tracks 12.00

Poetry Extra 12.30pm Natalie

Haynes Stands Up for the

Classics 1.00 The Book of

Dust: La Belle Sauvage

2.10 Inheritance Tracks

2.20 House Rules 3.30

George on George

4.00 The Saturday Play 5.00

Poetry Extra 5.30 Natalie

Haynes Stands Up for the

Classics 6.00 A Short History

of Gothic 6.30 Small Gods

7.00 The Moth Radio Hour

7.55 Inheritance Tracks 8.00

The Saturday Play 9.00

Desert Island Discs 9.45 The

Curious Cases of Rutherford

& Fry 10.00 Comedy Club:

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for

the Classics 10.30 Paul

Sinha’s Citizenship Test 11.00

Carnival of Monsters 11.30

Life 12.00 A Short History of

Gothic 12.30am Small Gods

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 From Our

Own Correspondent 9.30

Outlook 10.00 News 10.06

Deeply Human 10.30 Heart

and Soul 11.00 Newsroom

11.30 The Compass: My Arab

Spring 12.00 News 12.06pm

The Documentary 1.00

Newshour 2.00 News 2.06

The Forum 2.50 More or Less

3.00 News 3.06 Music Life

4.00 News 4.06 Sportsworld

7. 0 0 Newsroom 7.30 Heart
   and Soul 8.00 News 8.06
   Business Weekly 9.00
   Newshour 10.00 Newsroom
   10.20 Sports News 10.30
   Outlook 11.06 Deeply Human
   11.30 The Explanation 11.50
   More or Less 12.00 News
   12.06am From Our Own
   Correspondent 12.30 Heart
   and Soul 1.00 News 1.06
   Business 1.30 Discovery 2.00
   Newsroom 2.30 The Climate
   Question 3.00 News 3.06
   Deeply Human 3.30 The
   Explanation 3.50 Over to You

6 Music

Digital only

6.00am Amy Lamé 8.00

Radcliffe and Maconie 10.00

Cerys Matthews 1.00pm Liz

Kershaw 2.00 Guy Garvey’s

Finest Hour 4.00 Iggy Pop

6.00 Now Playing 8.00 Freak

Zone 10.00 Don Letts’

Culture Clash Radio 12.00

Cillian Murphy 2.00am 6

Music’s Jukebox 3.00 Sound

and Vision 4.00 Mixtape

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.00am Amy Voce 9.30

Graham Norton 12.30pm On

Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00

Christian Williams 10.00 Stu

Elmore 1.00am Through The

Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

7.00am Aled Jones 10.00

John Brunning 1.00pm

Catherine Bott 4.00 John

Humphrys 7.00 Smooth

Classics 9.00 Moira Stuart

Meets 10.00 Smooth Classics

1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

Desert Island Discs

Radio 4 Extra, 10am

During December Radio 4

Extra is remembering

castaways who died in 2021.

The Absent Friends season

begins with Charlie Watts,

right, the drummer of the

Rolling Stones, who died in

August at the age of 80. Watts

was Sue Lawley’s guest in

2001, for which his favourite

music included Charlie

Parker, Frank Sinatra, Duke

Ellington and cricket

commentary from a 1956 Test

between England and

Australia. He also discussed

living on “water, sultanas

and nuts” after getting clean

from drugs. And his luxury

item? Drumsticks, of course.

Joe Clay

Sunday 5

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Animal Farm (U,

1954) Animated drama with

the voice of Maurice Denham

12.35pm Leap Year (PG, 2010)

Romantic comedy with Amy

Adams and Matthew Goode

2.35 The Choice (12, 2016)

Romantic drama with Teresa

Palmer and Benjamin Walker

4.45 Night at the Museum:

Battle of the Smithsonian

(PG, 2009) Fantasy comedy

sequel starring Ben Stiller

6.55 Behind Enemy Lines

(12, 2001) A Nato naval air

commander leads an

unauthorised mission to

rescue a reconnaissance pilot

shot down by Serb militia.

Bosnian War drama with Gene

Hackman and Owen Wilson

9.00 Last Orders (15, 2001)

Four men visit Margate to

scatter a beloved lifelong

friend’s ashes and reminisce

about their experiences.

Drama with Michael Caine

11.10 Layer Cake (15, 2004)

Thriller with Daniel Craig

1.15am-4.00 Blade of the

Immortal (18, 2017) Fantasy

drama with Takuya Kimura

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Child in the House

(U, 1956) Drama with Phyllis

Calvert and Eric Portman

7.40 The Seventh Survivor

(U, 1942) Second World War

drama starring Austin Trevor

9.15 Look at Life

9.30 Law of the Plainsman

10.00 Great Day in the

Morning (U, 1956) Western

starring Robert Stack

11.50 Press For Time (U, 1966)

Comedy starring Norman

Wisdom and Tracey Crisp

1.50pm Always a Bride

(PG, 1954) Comedy starring

Peggy Cummins

3.30 Pollyanna

5.35 Blue Pullman

6.00 Upstairs, Downstairs

7.00 I Believe In You (PG,

1952) Drama with Cecil Parker

8.45 Look at Life

9.00 Secret Army

10.05 Yangtse Incident (U,

1957) Fact-based adventure

starring Richard Todd

12.25am Nor the Moon by

Night (12, 1958) Romantic

drama starring Belinda Lee

and Patrick McGoohan

2.25 Only When I Larf (U,

1968) Crime comedy starring

Richard Attenborough

4.30-5.50 Don’t Talk to

Strange Men (PG, 1962)

Thriller with Christina Gregg

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Wrong Swipe (U,

2016) Thriller starring Anna

Hutchinson and Blake Berris

10.40 Lost Letter Mysteries:

Lost Without You (PG, 2016)

Mystery starring Eric Mabius

12.25pm A Cinderella

Christmas (PG, 2016)

Romantic comedy starring

Emma Rigby and Peter Porte

2.15 Raising Helen (PG, 2004)

Comedy starring Kate Hudson

4.40 Sweet Home Alabama

(12, 2002) Romantic

comedy starring Reese

Witherspoon and Josh Lucas

6.50 The Bounty Hunter

(12, 2010) Action comedy

starring Gerard Butler

9.00 The Social Network (12,

2010) Fact-based drama with

Jesse Eisenber g and Andrew

Garfield. See Film Choice

11.25-1.20am Momentum

(15, 2015) Action thriller

starring Olga Kurylenko

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 The Badge of Marshal

Brennan (12, 1957) Western

9.25 Secret of Treasure

Mountain (U, 1956) Western

10.55 El Paso (PG, 1949)

1.10pm Gentle Annie

(PG, 1944) Western

3.00 He Rides Tall (18, 1964)

4.55 Fort Dobbs (PG, 1958)

6.45 Off Set

7.00 Torpedo Run (U, 1958)

Adventure with Glenn Ford

9.00 Magnum Force (18,

1973) Action thriller sequel

11.35-1.40am Maximum Risk

(18, 1996) Action thriller

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.45pm 8 Bit Christmas

(PG, 2021) Family comedy

2.30 Wander (15, 2020)

Thriller with Aaron Eckhart

4.20 A Boy Called Christmas

(PG, 2021) Family adventure

6.15 8 Bit Christmas (PG,

2021) Comedy starring Steve

Zahn and Neil Patrick Harris

8.00 Godzilla vs. Kong (12,

2021) King Kong and his

protectors try to find his true

home. Sci-fi adventure with

Alexander Skarsgård

10.00 A Boy Called Christmas

(PG, 2021) A youngster sets

out to find his father. Family

adventure with Henry Lawfull

11.50-1.35am Sound of

Violence (18, 2021) Horror

starring Jasmin Savoy Brown

Reese Witherspoon stars

(GREAT! Movies, 4.40pm)