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the times | Saturday December 18 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 Dermot

O’Leary 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 TBA 10.00 The

Craig Charles House Party

11.30 The Craig Charles House

Party Mixtape 12.00 Ana

Matronic’s Dance Devotion

2.00am TBA 4.00 Radio 2 in

Concert: Beverley Knight (r)

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast

9.00 Record Review

The pianist Iain Burnside

recommends a recording of

Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No 3

11.45 Music Matters

A look at Auld Lang Syne

12.30pm This Classical Life

With the tenor Nicky Spence

1.00 Inside Music With the

bassoonist Robin O’Neill

3.00 Sound of Cinema The

score to Peter Jackson’s

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

4.00 Music Planet The

Yorkshire carolling tradition

5.00 J to Z A concert by

Melissa Aldana and her quintet

6.30 Opera on 3 A Royal Opera

House production of Verdi’s

Macbeth, with the baritone

Simon Keenlyside and the

soprano Anna Pirozzi

9.30 A Tribute to Piers

Plowright: Between the Ears

— At the Window A 1999

profile of the boogie-woogie

pianist Jimmy Yancey (r)

10.00 New Music Show

The BBC SSO performs pieces

by Courtney Bryan and

Talib Rasul Hakim

12.00 Freeness With the

saxophonist Archie Shepp

1.00am Through the Night (r)

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am-Midday (LW) Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Live commentary on

the third day of the second

Test at the Adelaide Oval

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Four Thought (r)

6.00 News and Papers

6.07 Open Country (r)

6.30 Farming Today

This Week Agriculture

6.57 Weather

7.00 Today

9.00 Saturday Live

10.30 Soul Music Emotional

reactions to Britten’s

A Ceremony of Carols (6/6)

11.00 The Week in

Westminster

11.30 From Our Own

Correspondent

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Money Box

12.30 Dead Ringers Live

Comedy impressions (2/3) (r)

1.00 News

1.10 Any Questions? (r)

2.00 Any Answers? Phone-in

2.45 Drama: Christmas Every

Day By Viv Groskop (r)

3.30 Yorkshire’s Cricket Test

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 With guests

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie

Crook and Cassie Kinoshi

7.00 Profile

7.15 This Cultural Life

8.00 Archive on 4: Piers

Plowright, Soundsmith

Tribute to the radio producer

who died earlier this year

9.00 Brief Lives By Tom Fry

and Sharon Kelly (6/6) (r)

9.45 Dr John Cooper Clarke

at the BBC (1/2) (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 A Very John

Kearns Christmas (r)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service

3.45-5.20 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Live commentary on

the fourth day of the second

Test at the Adelaide Oval

Radio 5 Live

MW: 693, 909

5.00am 5 Live Boxing 6.00

Breakfast 9.00 Scott Mills and

Chris Stark 11.00 Fighting

Talk 12.00 5 Live Sport

3.00pm 5 Live Sport 5.00

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: Manchester United

v Brighton & Hove Albion

(Kick-off 12.30) 2.30pm

GameDay Live 5.15 Live

GameDay Exclusive: Leeds

United v Arsenal (Kick-off

5.30) 7.30 GameDay: Your

Verdict 10.00 Fight Night

1.00am Extra Time

with Martin Kelner

talkRADIO

Digital only

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

Comedy Greats 12.00

Molesworth 12.30pm Getting

Nowhere Fast 1.00 The

American Art Tapes 2.00

The Penny Dreadfuls Present:

Le Carré on Spying 3.00

The Secret World 3.30

Concrete Cow 4.00

McLevy 5.30 Great Lives

6.00 The Haunting of MR

James 7.00 Comedy Greats

10.00 Comedy Club:

The Lee Mack Show 10.30

Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop

10.45 Paperback Hell

11.00 The Shuttleworths

11.30 Hut 33 12.00 The

Haunting of MR James

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 The

Documentary 1.00 Newshour

2.00 News 2.06 Sportsworld

6.00 The Newsroom 6.30

World of Wisdom 6.50

Sporting Witness 7.00 News

7.06 The Documentary.

The Beatles’ decision to snub

Imelda Marcos. See Choice

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 World of

Wisdom 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 The Documentary 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

Gilles Peterson 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 Cillian Murphy’s

Limited Edition 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 9.00 David

Mellor’s Melodies. Some

festive tunes 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Katie

Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Today’s pick

When the Beatles

Didn’t Meet Imelda

BBC World Service, 7.06pm

Finished Get Back? Awaiting

Macca’s The Lyrics in your

stocking? This documentary

should fill the gap nicely,

telling the story of what

happened when the Fab Four,

exhausted and frustrated by

the insanity of their touring

schedule, went to the

Philippines in 1966 and

caused an international

incident when they turned

down an invitation from

Imelda Marcos and were

chased out of the country.

Two months later they had

quit the road and, after

hearing this story (told by

fans, DJs, journalists and road

manager Peter Brown), you

can’t blame them. Gabriel Tate

Film4

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11.00am Snoopy and Charlie

Brown: The Peanuts Movie

(U, 2015) Animation with the

voice of Noah Schnapp

12.45pm Alpha (12, 2018)

Prehistoric adventure

starring Kodi Smit-McPhee

2.35 Night at the Museum:

Secret of the Tomb (PG, 2014)

Fantasy comedy sequel

starring Ben Stiller

4.25 The Karate Kid (PG,

1984) Martial arts drama

starring Ralph Macchio

6.50 The Karate Kid Part II

(PG, 1986) Martial arts sequel

starring Ralph Macchio

9.00 The Hitman’s

Bodyguard (15, 2017)

Comedy action thriller

starring Ryan Reynolds

11.20 Conan the Barbarian

(15, 2011) Fantasy adventure

starring Jason Momoa

1.30am-3.25 Memory: The

Origins of Alien (15, 2019)

Documentary about the

making of Ridley Scott’s Alien

Talking Pictures TV

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6.00am Phantom from Space

(PG, 1953) Sci-fi horror

starring Ted Cooper

7.30 Fire Maidens of Outer

Space (PG, 1956) Adventure

starring Anthony Dexter

9.00 Hawkeye & the

Last of the Mohicans

9.30 That’s an Order (U, 1955)

Children’s short film starring

Peter Butterworth

9.50 Calamity the Cow (PG,

1967) Children’s comedy

starring John Moulder-Brown

11.05 Phantom Creeps

11.25 Hardy Victim De Laurel

11.30 The Barnstormers

12.00 Look at Life

12.10pm Don’t Take it to

Heart (U, 1944) Comedy

starring Richard Greene

1.55 Ordinary People

2.25 A Hill in Korea (PG, 1956)

Drama starring George Baker

4.05 Broken Lance (U, 1954)

Western with Spencer Tracy

6.00 Scotland Yard

6.35 Miss MacTaggart

Won’t Lie Down

7.05 Doctor Who and the

Daleks (U, 1965) Sci-fi

adventure with Peter Cushing

8.45 Look at Life

9.00 Eyewitness (15, 1981)

Thriller starring William Hurt

11.05 The Beauty Jungle

(PG, 1964) Comedy drama

starring Janette Scott

1.20am The Color of Money

(15, 1986) Drama sequel

starring Paul Newman

3.45-6.00 The Quiller

Memorandum (PG, 1966) Spy

thriller starring George Segal

GREAT! Movies

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9.00am A Christmas

Wedding (PG, 2006)

Romantic comedy

10.50 A Christmas Wedding

Date (PG, 2012) Comedy

starring Marla Sokoloff

12.40pm Love for Christmas

(PG, 2012) Romantic

comedy starring Shantel

VanSanten and Rob Mayes

2.25 Evening (12, 2007)

Romantic drama with Vanessa

Redgrave and Claire Danes

4.45 My Girl (PG, 1991) Drama

starring Anna Chlumsky

6.50 The Nebraskan (PG,

1953) Western with Philip

Carey and Roberta Haynes

9.00-11.55pm Kingdom of

Heaven (15, 2005) Historical

drama with Orlando Bloom

TCM Movies

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6.00am Hollywood’s

Best Film Directors

6.35 Off Set

6.50 The Natural (PG, 1984)

Drama with Robert Redford

9.35 Flaming Feather

(PG, 1952) Western

11.20 Fort Bowie (U, 1958)

Western starring Ben Johnson

1.05pm The Train Robbers

(U, 1973) Western

3.00 Wild Heritage (U, 1958)

Western with Will Rogers Jr

4.45 Operation: Daybreak

(15, 1975) Fact-based drama

starring Timothy Bottoms

7.20 Oregon Passage (PG,

1957) Western with John

Ericson and Lola Albright

9.00-11.55 Kill Bill: Volume 2

(18, 2004) Thriller sequel

starring Uma Thurman

Sky Cinema Premiere

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1.45pm Last Train to

Christmas (PG, 2021) Drama

3.40 Another Round (12,

2020) Comedy drama

starring Mads Mikkelsen

5.50 A Christmas Number

One (PG, 2021) Romantic

comedy starring Freida Pinto

8.00 Last Train to Christmas

(PG, 2021) A nightclub

manager embarks upon

the 3:17 to Nottingham for

a Christmas family reunion.

Drama with Michael Sheen

9.50-12.15am In the Heights

(PG, 2021) A bodega owner

saves every penny and sings

about a better life. Musical

starring Anthony Ramos

Saturday 18

Film guide
Radio guide

Uma Thurman stars in Kill

Bill: Volume 2 (TCM, 9pm)