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Times Radio

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5.00am Calum Macdonald

with Early Breakfast. The best

way to start the week 6.00

Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with

Times Radio Breakfast.

Monday’s big stories and

interviews 10.00 Matt Chorley.

A full primer on the political

week 1.00pm Mariella

Frostrup. News, views and

reviews 4.00 John Pienaar at

Drive. Analysis of the day’s

news 7.00 Phil Williams.

Entertaining evening

conversation 10.00 Carole

Walker. Today’s headlines and

tomorrow’s front pages

1.00am Stories of Our Times.

The Times’s daily podcast 1.30

Red Box. Matt Chorley’s

politics podcast 2.00

Highlights from Times Radio.

The best of Times Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast

Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00

Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve

Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 6.30

Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00

Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy

Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00

The Blues Show with Cerys

Matthews 10.00 Trevor

Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00

OJ Borg 3.00am Pick of the

Pops (r) 4.00 Vanessa Feltz

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Mark-Anthony Turnage

1.00pm Live Radio 3

Lunchtime Concert Brahms

(Rhapsody in B minor, Op. 79

No 1); Szymanowski (Piano

Sonata No 3, Op 36) and

Chopin (Barcarolle in F sharp).

2.00 Live Afternoon Concert

Brahms (Tragic Overture);

Bach (Sonata No 2 in D for

viola da gamba, BWV 1028);

Mussorgsky (Songs and

Dances of Death); Sibelius (En

Saga); Wagner (Waldweben);

Alberga (Succubus Moon)

and Tchaikovsky (Serenade

for Strings in C, Op 48)

4.30 New Generation Artists

5.00 In Tune

7.00 In Tune Mixtape

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert Fibich

(The Tempest — Overture, Op

46); Suk (Fantasy for Violin and

Orchestra in G minor, Op 24)

and Rachmaninov (Symphony

No 2 in E minor, Op 27)

9.30 Northern Drift

With Andrew McMillan, Eliza

Carthy and Saul Rose

10.00 Music Matters (r)

10.45 The Essay: Another

Northern Ireland The first of

five reflections on the country

11.00 Night Tracks Music

for late-night listening

12.30am Through the Night (r)

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 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

6.00 Today

9.00 Start the Week

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week:

Wintering Writer Katherine

May recounts a difficult

chapter in her personal and

professional life (1/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 The Untold

11.30 Loose Ends (r)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Faith, Hope and Glory

New series. Second series

of the drama exploring

post-war Britain (1/8)

12.18 You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 Male Order

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: No Place but the

Water New series. Linda

Marshall Griffiths’ drama set in

a flooded future world. It has

been raining for 37 days and

the rising water level threatens

the growing crops (1/3)

3.00 Quote: Unquote

3.30 The Food Programme (r)

4.00 The Exploding Library (r)

4.30 Beyond Belief

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

7.00 The Archers

7.15 Front Row Arts news

8.00 The Wedding Detectives

The stories behind lost

wedding photographs (3/3)

8.30 Crossing Continents (r)

9.00 Afterlives (r)

9.30 Start the Week

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime: The

Omen The wife of American

diplomat Robert Thorn gives

birth to a boy (1/5) (r)

11.00 Wireless Nights

11.30 Today in Parliament

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the

Week: Wintering (1/5)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service

Radio 5 Live

MW: 693, 909

5.00am Wake Up to Money

6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00

Nicky Campbell 11.00 Naga

Munchetty 1.00pm Nihal

Arthanayake 4.00 Drive 7.00

5 Live Sport: The Monday

Night Club 8.00 Live 5 Live

Sport: Everton v Arsenal

(Kick-off 8.00) 10.00 5 Live

Sport 10.30 Colin Murray

1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

talkSPORT Breakfast 10.00

Jim White and Simon Jordan

1.00pm Hawksbee and

Jacobs 4.00 Drive 7.00 The

PressBox 10.00 Sports Bar

1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30 Julia

Hartley-Brewer 10.00 Mike

Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins

4.00 Jeremy Kyle 7.00 Kevin

O’Sullivan 10.00 James Whale

Feat Ash 1.00am Paul Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Marriage Lines 8.30

Old Dog and Partridge 9.00

It’s Your Round 9.30 The

Leopard in Autumn 10.00

Jayne Lake 11.00 TED Radio

Hour 11.50 Inheritance

Tracks 12.00 Marriage Lines

12.30pm Old Dog and

Partridge 1.00 The

17-Jewelled Shockproof

Swiss-Made Bomb 1.30

Burnt 2.00 A Portrait of the

Artist as a Young Man 2.15

D for Dexter 2.30 Backstage

Tales 3.00 Jayne Lake 4.00

It’s Your Round 4.30 The

Leopard in Autumn 5.00 In

and Out of the Kitchen 5.30

I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

6.00 The First Church of the

New Millennium 6.15 The

Testament of Jessie Lamb

6.30 A Good Read 7.00

Marriage Lines 7.30

Old Dog and Partridge

8.00 The 17-Jewelled

Shockproof Swiss-Made

Bomb 8.30 Burnt 9.00 TED

Radio Hour 9.50 Inheritance

Tracks 10.00 I’m Sorry I

Haven’t a Clue 10.30 Life

with Lederer 10.45 Date with

Fate 11.00 The Now Show

11.30 Young Postmen

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 The

Climate Question 9.30

CrowdScience 10.00 News

10.06 The Cultural Frontline

10.30 Trending 10.50 More

or Less 11.00 Newsroom

11.30 The Conversation

12.00 News 12.06pm

Outlook 12.50 Witness

History 1.00 Newsroom

1.30 CrowdScience 2.00

Newshour 3.00 News 3.06

HARDtalk 3.30 Business 4.00

BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06

Outlook 6.50 Witness History

7.00 The Newsroom 7.30

Sport Today 8.06 The

Climate Question 8.30

Discovery 9.00 Newshour

10.00 Newsroom 10.20

Sports News 10.30 Business

11.00 News 11.06 HARDtalk

11.30 The Conversation 12.00

News 12.06am The History

Hour 1.00 News 1.06

Business Matters 2.00 The

Newsroom 2.30 The

Documentary 3.00 News

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs

1.00pm Craig Charles. An

uplifting mix of music, with

guest Tom Jones. See Choice

4.00 Steve Lamacq 7.00

Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon

Coe 12.00 The First Time

with Kelis 1.00am In

Their Own Words: Kelis

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show 10.00 Eddy

Temple-Morris 1.00pm Tim

Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler

7.00 Steve Denyer 10.00 Rich

Williams 1.00am Through

The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00

Alexander Armstrong 12.00

Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00pm

John Brunning 7.00 Smooth

Classics 8.00 The Classic FM

Concert with John Suchet.

Goss (See Amid the Winter’s

Snow); Bach (Christmas

Oratorio BWV.248 —

“Sinfonia”); Bryan Kelly

(Improvisations on Christmas

Carols); Wagner (Siegfried

Idyll) and Debussy (Clair de

Lune) 10.00 Smooth Classics

1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

Craig Charles

6 Music, 1pm

Tom Jones and 6 Music

may not seem as if they

are obvious bedfellows, but

Craig Charles is not your

typical 6 Music DJ and he

has invited the legendary

Welsh singer, right, on to his

show for a natter. In April

Jones, who turned 81 this

year, released his 41st studio

album and fourth album of

cover versions, Surrounded

By Time, which went to No 1

in the UK, making him the

oldest male artist to achieve

the accolade. Jones joins

Charles to promote its

expanded reissue, The

Hourglass Edition, which

includes a stunning version

of Bob Dylan’s Not Dark Yet.

Joe Clay

Monday 6

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am 49th Parallel (PG,

1941) Second World War

thriller with Anton Walbrook

1.35pm The Man Who Knew

Too Much (PG, 1956) Alfred

Hitchcock’s thriller remake

starring James Stewart

3.55 Distant Drums (U, 1951)

Western starring Gary Cooper

6.00 Transformers: The Last

Knight (12, 2017) A mechanic

continues his fight against the

evil Decepticons. Sci-fi

adventure sequel starring

Mark Wahlberg

9.00 Jason Bourne (12, 2016)

The former government

operative is drawn out of

hiding to uncover more truths

about his father. Action thriller

starring Matt Damon

11.25 Topsy-Turvy (12, 1999)

Mike Leigh’s drama with Jim

Broadbent. See Film Choice

2.40am-4.00 My Life as

a Courgette (PG, 2016)

Animation with the voice

of Gaspard Schlatter

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Second Woman

(PG, 1951) Thriller with Robert

Young and Betsy Drake

7.50 Sing As You Swing

(U, 1937) Musical comedy

starring Charles Clapham

9.00 Together

9.30 The Adventures

of William Tell

10.00 Dear Mr Prohack (U,

1949) Comedy starring Cecil

Parker and Glynis Johns

11.45 Voyage North

12.15pm The Black Swan

(PG, 1942) Swashbuckling

adventure with Tyrone Power

2.00 Rooms Double bill

3.00 Brighton Rock (PG,

1947) Thriller starring

Richard Attenborough

4.50 The Gentle Trap

(PG, 1960) Crime drama

starring Spencer Teakle

6.00 Scotland Yard

6.35 Post Early for Christmas

6.40 Colonel March

Investigates

8.00 The Main Chance

9.00 Cry of the City

(PG, 1948) Crime drama

starring Victor Mature

10.50 Silver Bears (PG, 1977)

Comedy with Michael Caine

1.05am The Seekers (15, 1954)

Drama starring Jack Hawkins

2.50 The Hand of Night (12,

1967) Horror starring William

Sylvester and Diane Clare

4.35-5.30 Burke’s Law

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Lost Letter

Mysteries: One in a Million

(PG, 2016) Drama starring

Eric Mabius and Kristin Booth

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 Lost Letter Mysteries

for Christmas (PG, 2014)

Comedy starring Eric Mabius

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 Trust No One (PG, 2016)

Thriller with Nicole de Boer

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 Christmas Mail (PG,

2010) Romantic comedy with

Ashley Scott and AJ Buckley

4.50 A Very Cool Christmas

(U, 2004) Comedy starring

George Hamilton

6.55 GREAT! Movie News

7.05 Vice Versa (PG, 1988)

Fantasy comedy with Judge

Reinhold and Fred Savage

9.00 Basic (15, 2003) Thriller

starring John Travolta

11.05-1.30am True Romance

(18, 1993) Crime thriller

starring Christian Slater

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Four editions

8.20 TCM Shorts:

Ben Miller Off Set

8.40 Fort Utah (U, 1967)

10.25 The Counterfeit Traitor

(12, 1962) Espionage drama

1.30pm The Lonely Man

(PG, 1957) Western

3.20 Off Set

3.35 The Train Robbers

(U, 1973) Western

5.35 Denver & Rio Grande

(PG, 1952) Western

7.25 Oregon Passage

(PG, 1957) Western

9.00 Blood Father (15, 2016)

Action thriller with Mel Gibson

10.50-1.20am 47 Ronin (12,

2013) Fantasy adventure

starring Keanu Reeves

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.30pm Godzilla vs. Kong

(12, 2021) Sci-fi adventure

2.40 Trauma Centre (15,

2019) Action thriller starring

Nicky Whelan and Bruce Willis

4.20 Nowhere Special (12,

2020) Drama starring James

Norton and Daniel Lamont

6.15 8 Bit Christmas (PG,

2021) Comedy with Steve

Zahn and Neil Patrick Harris

8.00 Godzilla vs. Kong (12,

2021) Sci-fi adventure with

Alexander Skarsgård

10.00-12.00 Miss Marx (15,

2020) Biopic of Karl Marx’s

youngest daughter, Eleanor,

a keen and educated social

activist, starring Romola Garai

Romola Garai stars in Miss

Marx (Sky Premiere, 10pm)