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Chorley. An insider’s guide to

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6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast

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Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve

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Jo Whiley’s Shiny Happy

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The Country Show with Bob

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Radio 3

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6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Mark-Anthony Turnage

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Haydn (String

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2.00 Afternoon Concert

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7.30 Live Radio 3 in Concert

Sibelius (Finlandia); Dove

(In Exile — UK premiere)

and Dvorak (Symphony

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10.45 The Essay:

Another Northern Ireland

Claire Mitchell looks into

the history of her County

Down hometown

11.00 The Night Tracks Mix

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5.30am (LW) Live Test Match

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5.30 News Briefing

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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: This Thing of

Darkness By Anita Vettesse.

Paul and Sarah discover that

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3.00 Open Country

3.27 Radio 4 Appeal (r)

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5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

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7.00 The Archers

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8.00 The Briefing Room

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9.00 BBC Inside Science

9.30 In Our Time

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10.45 Book at Bedtime:

The Omen (4/5) (r)

11.00 Fred at the Stand

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 (4/5)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

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5.00am Wake Up to Money

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Nicky Campbell 11.00 Adrian

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Wondermentalist Cabaret

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9.00am News 9.06

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Healthcheck 10.00 News

10.06 The Forum. How algae

are indispensable to the

presence of life. See Choice

10.50 Sporting Witness 11.00

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Witness History 1.00 The

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Newshour 10.00 The

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Sporting Witness 1.00 News

1.06 Business Matters 2.00

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10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

Steve Lamacq 7.00 Marc

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12.00 New Music Fix

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6.30am The Chris Evans

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Williams 1.00am Through

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Classic FM

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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.

Prokofiev (Troika — From

Lieutenant Kijé Op 60);

Howard Blake (The Snowman

— Suite); Handel (For Unto Us

a Child Is Born — From The

Messiah) and Bernstein (West

Side Story — Suite for Violin &

Orchestra) 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

The Forum

BBC World Service, 10.06am

Algae is indispensable to

life on earth (it is the most

efficient capturer of carbon

in the world) and yet toxic

in excess (harmful algal

blooms can have severe

impacts on human health,

aquatic ecosystems and the

economy). So there is much

to discuss in tonight’s edition

of The Forum devoted to

algae and its evolution. Rajan

Datar is joined by experts

including Ruth Kassinger, the

author of Slime: How Algae

Created Us, Plague Us and

Just Might Save Us, and Dr

Gothamie Weerakoon, the

senior curator of lichens and

slime moulds at the Natural

History Museum in London.

Joe Clay

Thursday 9

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Blanche Fury (U,

1948) Drama starring Valerie

Hobson and Michael Gough

12.55pm Rawhide (PG, 1951)

Western with Tyrone Power

2.40 The Bridges at Toko-Ri

(U, 1954) Wartime adventure

starring William Holden

4.45 Beneath the Planet of

the Apes (15, 1969) Sci-fi

sequel with James Franciscus

6.40 Cutthroat Island (PG,

1995) A pirate enlists the help

of an educated slave to find

treasure. Swashbuckling

adventure with Geena Davis

9.00 Deadpool 2 (15, 2018)

The anti-hero tries to protect

a mutant. Action comedy

starring Ryan Reynolds

11.20 Trainspotting (18, 1996)

Drama with Ewan McGregor

1.10am-3.20 Trance (15, 2013)

Thriller with James McAvoy

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am My Teenage

Daughter (PG, 1956) Drama

starring Anna Neagle

8.05 Hello Down There (U,

1969) Sci-fi comedy starring

Tony Randall and Janet Leigh

10.05 Trottie True (U, 1949)

Comedy starring Jean Kent

12.05pm Live it Up (U, 1963)

Comedy starring David

Hemmings and Jennifer Moss

1.30 The Captain from Castile

(PG, 1947) Swashbuckling

adventure with Tyrone Power

4.20 Nurse on Wheels (U,

1963) Comedy starring Juliet

Mills and Ronald Lewis

6.00 Interpol Calling

6.30 Ticket to Paradise

(U, 1961) Romantic drama

starring Emrys Jones

and Patricia Dainton

7.45 Look at Life

8.00 Justice

9.00 Blood and Wine (15,

1996) Thriller starring Jack

Nicholson. See Film Choice

11.05 The Amorous

Adventures of Moll Flanders

(PG, 1965) Period drama

starring Kim Novak

1.40am French Postcards (15,

1979) Comedy starring Miles

Chapon and Debra Winger

3.30 The Hangman Waits

(PG, 1947) Crime drama

starring John Turnbull

4.45-5.00 Copenhagen at

Noon Footage of the city

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am A Mother’s Sacrifice

(PG, 2017) Thriller with Kristy

Swanson and Samm Wiechec

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 Still Life: A Three Pines

Mystery (12, 2013) Whodunnit

starring Nathaniel Parker

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 Time of Death (12, 2013)

Thriller starring

Kathleen Robertson

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 A Christmas Wedding

(PG, 2006) Romantic

comedy starring Sarah

Paulson and Eric Mabius

4.50 His and Her Christmas

(PG, 2005) Romantic

comedy starring Dina Meyer

and David Sutcliffe

6.35 GREAT! Movie News

6.45 Catch and Release (12,

2007) Romantic comedy

drama starring Jennifer

Garner and Timothy Olyphant

9.00 Paycheck (12, 2003)

Thriller with Ben Affleck

11.20-1.15am Into the Ashes

(15, 2019) Thriller with Frank

Grillo and Marguerite Moreau

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.50 Denver & Rio Grande

(PG, 1952) Western

9.50 The Best Years of Our

Lives (U, 1946) Drama

1.30pm Riders of Ve ngeance

(U, 1952) Western

3.10 Carry On Cruising (U,

1962) Comedy with Sid James

5.05 The Train Robbers

(U, 1973) Western

7.00 Torpedo Run (U, 1958)

Adventure with Glenn Ford

9.00 Street Kings (15, 2008)

Drama with Keanu Reeves

11.15-3.30am Das Boot (15,

1981) Wartime drama

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.35pm Notorious Nick

(12, 2021) Sporting drama

starring Cody Christian

2.20 Miss Marx (15, 2020)

Biopic starring Romola Garai

4.20 Vanquish (15, 2021)

Thriller with Morgan Freeman

6.10 8 Bit Christmas (PG,

2021) Comedy with Steve

Zahn and Neil Patrick Harris

8.00 Playing God (PG, 2021)

A pair of con artists recruit

their mentor to scam a

grieving billionaire. Comedy

drama with Hannah Kasulka

9.50 Godzilla vs. Kong (12,

2021) King Kong and his

protectors try to find his true

home. Sci-fi adventure with

Alexander Skarsgård

11.50-1.30am Sound of

Violence (18, 2021) Horror

starring Jasmin Savoy Brown

Kim Novak as Moll Flanders

(Talking Pictures TV, 11.05pm)