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Times Radio

Digital only

5.00am Calum Macdonald

with Early Breakfast. A full

briefing on news, sport and

business 6.00 Aasmah Mir and

Stig Abell with Times Radio

Breakfast 10.00 Matt Chorley

1.00pm Mariella Frostrup

4.00 John Pienaar at Drive.

Today’s developments 7.00

Phil Williams 10.00 Carole

Walker 1.00am Stories of Our

Times 1.30 Red Box 2.00

Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.30am Zoe Ball 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 Folk Show with Mark

Radcliffe. With Kris Drever

and Jackie Morris. See Choice

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm

Nation 12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am

Sounds of the 90s with Fearne

Cotton (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 Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Chausson (Andante

and Allegro); Saint-Saens

(Clarinet Sonata); Poulenc

(Clarinet Sonata) and

Bernstein (Clarinet Sonata) (r)

2.00 Live Afternoon Concert

Borodin (Prince Igor —

Overture); Arnold (Rinaldo and

Armida); Maconchy (Two

Dances from Puck Fair);

Rawsthorne (Madam

Chrysanthème Suite) and

Scriabin (Piano Concerto)

4.00 Live Choral Evensong

Choral Vespers for the

Immaculate Conception of the

Blessed Virgin Mary live from

Buckfast Abbey with the choir

of Gonville and Caius College,

Cambridge. Introit: Ave Maria

(Stravinsky). Hymn: Ave Maris

Stella (Plainsong arr. Matthew

Martin). Psalms 109, 112, 121,

126 (Plainsong/Falsebordone,

Matthew Martin/Patrick

Russill). Scripture Reading:

Romans 5 vv.21-25. Matthew

Martin (Director of Music),

Kyoko Canaway and

Martin Baker (Organists)

5.00 In Tune

7.00 In Tune Mixtape

7.30 Live Radio 3 in Concert

Shostakovich (Violin Concerto

No 1 in A minor, Op 77); Brett

Dean (Notturno inquieto) and

Rachmaninov (Symphony

No 3 in A minor, Op 44)

10.00 Free Thinking

10.45 The Essay: Another

Northern Ireland

11.00 Night Tracks

12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am (LW) Live Test Match

Special Australia v England

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

6.00 Today

8.00 (LW) Today

8.31 (LW) Yesterday

in Parliament

9.00 The Reith Lectures

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Rutherford and

Fry on Living with AI

11.30 John Finnemore’s

Double Acts (6/6) (r)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Faith, Hope and Glory

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 By Linda Marshall

Griffiths. Jessie has seen a ship

approaching the island (3/3)

3.00 Money Box Live

3.30 All in the Mind (r)

4.00 Sideways (6/8)

4.30 The Media Show

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 Mark Steel’s in Town

7.00 The Archers Natasha gets

the wrong end of the stick

7.15 Front Row Arts news

8.00 The Moral Maze

8.45 Book of the Week:

Wintering (3/5)

9.00 The Young Farmers (r)

9.30 The Media Show

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

The Omen (3/5) (r)

11.00 Rosie Jones: Box

Ticker Too (4/4)

11.15 The Skewer

11.30 (LW) Live Test Match

Special Australia v England

11.30 Today in Parliament

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the

Week: Wintering (3/5)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 (LW) Live Test Match

Special Australia v England

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

5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live

Sport 10.30 Colin Murray

1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

talkSPORT Breakfast with

Laura Woods 10.00 Jim White

and Simon Jordan 1.00pm

Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00

talkSPORT Drive with Andy

Goldstein & Darren Gough

7.00 Kick Off 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 Hancock’s Half Hour

8.30 No Commitments 9.00

Listomania 9.30 All the Young

Dudes 10.00 Ben Hur 11.00

Unsung Heroines 12.00

Hancock’s Half Hour 12.30pm

No Commitments 1.00 Ordeal

by Innocence 1.30 Deep Six

2.00 A Portrait of the Artist as

a Young Man 2.15 D for Dexter

2.30 August Shines 3.00 Ben

Hur 4.00 Listomania 4.30

All the Young Dudes 5.00

Ed Reardon’s Week 5.30

Mark Steel’s in Town 6.00

The First Church of the New

Millennium 6.15 The

Testament of Jessie Lamb

6.30 The Radio Detectives

7.00 Hancock’s Half Hour 7.30

No Commitments 8.00

Ordeal by Innocence 8.30

Deep Six 9.00 Unsung

Heroines 10.00 Comedy

Club: Mark Steel’s in Town

10.30 Little Lifetimes

10.45 Tim Key’s Late Night

Poetry Programme 11.00

Radio Active 11.30 The

News at Bedtime 11.45

The Goldfish Bowl

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 The

Compass: My Arab Spring

9.30 Digital Planet 10.00

News 10.06 The Reith

Lectures 11.00 The

Newsroom 11.30 The Comb

12.00 News 12.06pm

Outlook 12.50 Witness

History 1.00 The Newsroom

1.30 Digital Planet 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 8.00 News 8.06

The Compass: My Arab

Spring 8.30 Healthcheck

9.00 Newshour 10.00 The

Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 HARDtalk 11.30

The Comb 12.00 News

12.06am World Book Club

1.00 News 1.06 Business

Matters 2.00 The Newsroom

2.30 Assignment 3.00 News

3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness

History 4.00 The Newsroom

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

Steve Lamacq 6.00 6 Music

Album Club 7.00 Marc Riley

9.00 Tom Robinson 12.00

Freak Zone Playlist 1.00am

6 Music Artist in Residence

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 More Music

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.

Hess (A Christmas Overture);

Leontovych (Carol of the

Bells); John Williams

(Somewhere in my Memory

— Home Alone); Liszt (The

Christmas Tree Suite); Berlioz

(The Shepherd’s Farewell

—L’enfance du Christ); Chopin

(Etude in A minor Op 25 No 11

— “Winter Wind”) and Britten

(A Ceremony of Carols Op

28) 10.00 Smooth Classics

1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

The Folk Show

with Mark Radcliffe

Radio 2, 9pm

Spell Songs is an ensemble

of eight folk-inspired writer-

musicians, including Karine

Polwart, Julie Fowlis, Seckou

Keita and Kris Drever, who

formed to create a musical

evolution of the book The

Lost Words by the writer

Robert Macfarlane and the

painter Jackie Morris, right.

The book was inspired by

the increasingly forgotten

English words for nature, and

tonight Mark Radcliffe is

joined by Drever and Morris

to discuss Spell Songs II: Let

The Light In, the second

nature-inspired album from

the collective, which weaves

into the music “the soft sound

of a moth’s wing”. Joe Clay

Wednesday 8

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Destry Rides Again

(U, 1939) Comedy Western

starring James Stewart

12.55pm Hatari! (U, 1962)

Adventure with John Wayne

4.05 Tobruk (PG, 1967)

Second World War adventure

starring George Peppard

6.20 Master and

Commander: The Far Side of

the World (12, 2003) Drama

starring Russell Crowe

9.00 The Hitman’s

Bodyguard (15, 2017)

Comedy action thriller

starring Ryan Reynolds

11.20 The Boss (15, 2016)

Comedy starring Melissa

McCarthy and Kristen Bell

1.25am-3.10 Paranormal

Activity: The Marked Ones

(15, 2014) Horror sequel

starring Andrew Jacobs

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Echo of Diana (U,

1963) Thriller starring Betty

McDowall and Vincent Ball

7.15 Four Star Theatre

7.50 Mystery on Bird Island

(U, 1954) Children’s adventure

starring Mavis Sage

9.00 Together

9.30 The Champions

10.30 Pit Of Darkness (PG,

1961) Mystery starring William

Franklyn and Moira Redmond

12.00 My Six Loves (U, 1963)

Comedy starring Debbie

Reynolds and Cliff Robertson

2.00pm Secret Army

3.05 Christmas Under Fire

3.15 Crash Dive (PG, 1943)

Romantic drama with Tyrone

Power and Anne Baxter

5.25 Terminus

6.00 For the Love of Ada

6.30 Look at Life

6.50 The Edgar Wallace

Mystery Theatre

8.00 Rumpole of the Bailey

9.05 An Innocent Man (18,

1989) Thriller starring Tom

Selleck and Laila Robins

11.25 One Step Beyond

12.00 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

12.05am The Blood on

Satan’s Claw (18, 1971) Horror

starring Patrick Wymark

2.00 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

2.05 Carnival of Souls

(15, 1962) Horror starring

Candace Hilligoss

3.40 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

3.45-5.10 The Screaming

Skull (18, 1958) Horror

starring John Hudson

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Til Death Do Us Part

(PG, 2014) Psychological

thriller starring Haylie Duff

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 A Date to Die For (12,

2015) Thriller starring Victoria

Pratt and Bart Johnson

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 Virtual Lies (PG, 2012)

Thriller starring Christina Cox

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 If You Believe in

Christmas (PG, 1999) Festive

drama starring Ally Walker

4.50 Christmas Angel (PG,

2012) Family drama starring

Della Reese and Teri Polo

6.55 GREAT! Movie News

7.05 Bridge to Terabithia

(PG, 2007) Drama starring

Josh Hutcherson

9.00 While We’re Young (15,

2014) Comedy drama starring

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts

10.55-1.20am The Social

Network (12, 2010) Drama

starring Jesse Eisenberg

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 Off Set

8.00 Flat Top (U, 1952)

9.45 Hellfighters (PG, 1968)

12.15pm Rawhide Rangers

(U, 1941) Western

1.30 The Man from Bitter

Ridge (U, 1955) Western

3.15 Arizona Bushwhackers

(12, 1968) Western

5.05 Billy the Kid (PG, 1941)

7.05 Off Set

7.20 Gentle Annie (PG, 1944)

Western starring Donna Reed

9.00 V for Vendetta (15,

2005) Futuristic action thriller

11.45-1.50am Maximum Risk

(18, 1996) Action thriller

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.25pm Godzilla vs. Kong

(12, 2021) Sci-fi adventure

2.30 The Last Job (15, 2021)

Thriller with Richard Dreyfuss

4.20 8 Bit Christmas (PG,

2021) Family comedy

6.10 Nowhere Special (12,

2020) Drama starring James

Norton and Daniel Lamont

8.00 Godzilla vs. Kong (12,

2021) Sci-fi adventure with

Alexander Skarsgård

10.00 The Last Bus (12, 2021)

A pensioner travels from John

O’Groats to Land’s End using

his free bus pass. Drama

starring Timothy Spall

11.30-1.10am 8 Bit Christmas

(PG, 2021) Family comedy

starring Steve Zahn

Kristen Bell and Melissa

McCarthy (Film4, 11.20pm)