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Times Radio Breakfast. All the

morning’s headlines 10.00

Matt Chorley. A lighter take

on Westminster goings-on

1.00pm Mariella Frostrup.

Conversation about the issues

that matter 4.00 Times Radio

Drive. Conversation with

political and economic guests

7.00 Evenings on Times Radio.

Evening conversation 10.00

Carole Walker. Late night

news 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 The Zoe Ball Breakfast

Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00

Chris Mason 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 Jazz

Show with Jamie Cullum 10.00

Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation

12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am

TBA 4.00 Katie Piper

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Mozart With Donald Macleod

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Eivind Ringstad,

Aleksey Semenenko and

Mengjie Han perform. Britten

(Elegy); Mozart (Duo in B flat

for violin and viola in E flat,

K424); and Schubert

(Arpeggione Sonata

in A minor, D821) (r)

2.00 Afternoon Concert

Britten (Winter Words); Haydn

(Symphony no.90 in C);

Vivaldi (Kyrie in G minor,

RV 587; Credo in E minor,

RV 591 and other sacred

works); Tchaikovsky (The

Nutcracker, Suite No. 1, op.

71a); Peter Cornelius (The

Shepherds); and Stravinsky

(Firebird Suite — 1919)

5.00 Live In Tune

7.00 In Tune Mixtape

7.30 BBC Proms 2021 With the

Monteverdi Choir & English

Baroque Soloists. Handel

(Cantata “Donna, che in ciel”;

and Dixit Dominus); and

Bach (Christ lag in Todes

Banden, BWV 4) (r)

9.15 BBC Proms 2021 The

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

performs. Knussen (The Way

to Castle Yonder); Purcell

(Three Consorts transcr.

Benjamin — world premiere);

Ravel (Piano Concerto in G);

George Benjamin (Concerto

for Orchestra —

world premiere) (r)

10.45 The Essay: The

Meaning of Ritual

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 News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

6.00 Today

9.00 Things Fell Apart Jon

Ronson tells how a 2017 prank

led to the Capitol insurrection

of January 2021 (7/8)

9.30 Four Thought

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week: Taste

— My Life Through Food

By Stanley Tucci (2/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Wild Inside (3/3)

11.30 Moving Pictures (3/3)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.05 Joseph and the

Three Gifts: An Angel’s Story

By Brian Sibley

12.18 Call You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 The Hackers

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: Song of the Reed

— Eel Occasional drama by

Steve Waters. See Choice (3/4)

3.00 Short Cuts (6/6)

3.30 Three Vicars Talking (r)

4.00 Consumed by Desire

New series. Documentary

4.30 Great Lives

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 The Missing Hancocks

By Ray Galton and

Alan Simpson (7/8)

7.00 The Archers Oliver

offers words of wisdom

7.15 Front Row

8.00 A Family of Strangers

8.40 In Touch

9.00 All in the Mind

9.30 Things Fell Apart

Jon Ronson presents (r)

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Joseph and the Three Gifts

— An Angel’s Story (r)

11.00 Mr Fletcher, the Poet (r)

11.30 100 Years of Exile (r)

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the Week:

Taste — My Life Through Food

By Stanley Tucci (2/5) (r)

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

Chris Warburton 11.00

Naga Munchetty 1.00pm

Mobeen Azhar 4.00 5 Live

Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport

7.45 5 Live Sport: Arsenal v

Sunderland (Kick-off 7.45)

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 & Baker 4.00

Drive with Andy Goldstein &

Darren Gough 7.00 Kick Off:

Arsenal v Sunderland

(Kick-off 7. 4 5) 10.00 Sports

Bar 12.00 Extra Time

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Digital only

6.00am James Max 10.00

Kevin O’Sullivan 1.00pm Ian

Collins 4.00 Cristo Foufas

7.00 Richard Tice 10.00

James Whale Feat Ash

1.00am Paul Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am The Goon Show 8.30

Molesworth 9.00 Quote:

Unquote 9.30 The Mitch Benn

Music Show 10.00 The

Midnight Folk 11.00 The

Forum 11.40 A Christmas Tree

12.00 The Goon Show

12.30pm Molesworth 1.00

Down Payment on Death 1.30

Agatha Christie’s Dead Man’s

Folly 2.00 Maeve Binchy

Short Stories 2.15 Children in

Need: D for Dexter 2.30

Beatrix Potter’s Favourite Tale

3.00 The Midnight Folk 4.00

Quote: Unquote 4.30 The

Mitch Benn Music Show 5.00

Small Scenes 5.30 The

Casebook of Max and Ivan

6.00 The Hitchhiker’s Guide

to the Galaxy: The Primary

Phase 6.30 Soul Music

7.00 The Goon Show

7.30 Molesworth 8.00 Down

Payment on Death 8.30

Agatha Christie’s Dead Man’s

Folly 9.00 The Forum 9.40

A Christmas Tree 10.00

Comedy Club: The Casebook

of Max and Ivan 10.25

Comedy Club Extra 10.30

Keep Calman Carry On

11.00 The Maltby Collection

11.30 Concrete Cow

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 The

Documentary 9.30 Discovery

10.00 News 10.06 The Arts

Hour 11.00 The Newsroom

11.30 In the Studio 12.00

News 12.06pm Outlook 12.50

Witness History 1.00 The

Newsroom 1.30 Discovery

2.00 Newshour 3.00 News

3.06 People Fixing the World

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

Documentary 8.30 Digital

Planet 9.00 Newshour 10.00

The Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 People Fixing the

World 11.30 In the Studio

12.00 News 12.06am The

Arts Hour 1.00 News 1.06

Business Matters 2.00 The

Newsroom 2.30 The

Compass: My Arab Spring

3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness

History 4.00 The Newsroom

4.30 The Documentary

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Gemma Cairney

10.30 Arlo Parks 1.00pm

Craig Charles 4.00 Huw

Stephens 7.00 Marc Riley

9.00 Gideon Coe 12.00 Artist

in Residence 1.00am Don

Letts’ Culture Clash Radio

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show with Sky

10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris

1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00

Kate Lawler 7.00 Steve

Denyer 10.00 Rich Williams

1.00am Virgin Radio 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 Lord’s

Taverners Carol Concert with

the Stars. From Marylebone

Church in London, with

performances by the Holst

Singers, Kitty Whately,

Thomas Allen and Anna

Tillbrook 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

Song of the Reed — Eel

Radio 4, 2.15pm

The third of Steve Waters’s

seasonal and evocative

dramas following a wetlands

nature reserve over a year

finds Liv (Sophie Okonedo,

right) and Ian (Mark Rylance)

facing up to imminent

flooding with dismay and

resignation: the saltwater is

likely to threaten Liv’s plans

to sell her Wildscapes reserve

cum tourist trail, and many of

the freshwater species that

are inherent to the area’s

survival. The environmental

message is powerful and the

leads absolutely engaged

with the material. Once

again, though, the sound

design is the star, drawn

from recordings at RSPB’s

Strumpshaw Fen. Gabriel Tate

Tuesday 21

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Thunderbirds Are

Go! (U, 1966) Adventure with

the voice of Shane Rimmer

12.55pm Ice Age: Collision

Course (U, 2016) Animated

sequel with the voices of Ray

Romano and Denis Leary

2.45 Meet Dave (PG, 2008)

Sci-fi comedy starring Eddie

Murphy and Elizabeth Banks

4.40 Zathura: A Space

Adventure (PG, 2005) Family

sci-fi adventure starring Josh

Hutcherson and Jonah Bobo

6.45 Bumblebee (PG, 2018)

Fantasy with Hailee Steinfeld

9.00 Peppermint (15, 2018)

Thriller with Jennifer Garner

11.05 Watchmen (18, 2009)

Comic-book drama

starring Patrick Wilson

2.15am-4.00 Paranormal

Activity: The Ghost

Dimension (15, 2015) Horror

sequel starring Chris J Murray

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Springtime in the

Sierras (PG, 1947) Musical

Western starring Roy Rogers

7.35 Freckles (U, 1960)

Western starring Martin West

9.15 Christmas Carols in 1947

9.30 Sir Francis Drake

10.00 The Break (PG, 1963)

Drama starring Tony Britton

11.35 The Perfect Woman

(U, 1949) Comedy starring

Stanley Holloway

1.20pm Ships with Wings

(PG, 1941) Second World War

drama starring John Clements

3.25 Christmas Under Fire

3.40 Let’s Make Love (U,

1960) Musical with Marilyn

Monroe and Yves Montand

6.00 Dial 999

6.30 Marty Wilde:

50 Years of Rock & Roll

7.50 Snow

8.00 The Human Jungle

9.00 Anna and the King of

Siam (12, 1946) Romantic

drama starring Irene Dunne

11.35 The Beachcomber

(U, 1954) Romantic drama

starring Glynis Johns

and Robert Newton

1.15am Resurrected (15, 1989)

Drama starring David Thewlis

3.10 Calculated Risk

(PG, 1963) Crime drama

starring William Lucas

4.40-5.00 Hog Wild (U, 1930)

Laurel and Hardy comedy

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News

9.10 Christmas with Tucker

(PG, 2013) Drama

starring James Brolin

11.00 All I Want for Christmas

(12, 2013) Festive fantasy

starring Melissa Sagemiller

12.45pm Christmas Angel

(PG, 2012) Family drama

starring Della Reese

2.45 Defending Santa (PG,

2013) Drama with Dean Cain

4.35 The Christmas Sitters

(PG, 2020) Romantic drama

6.25 Burlesque (12, 2010)

Musical drama starring Cher

9.00 Heist (15, 2001) Thriller

starring Gene Hackman

11.15-1.10am The Hatton

Garden Job (15, 2017) Drama

starring Stephen Moyer

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 Off Set

8.10 TCM Shorts:

Michael Caine Off Set

8.40 The Walking Hills

(PG, 1949) Western

10.15 Johnny Reno (PG, 1966)

Western with Dana Andrews

12.00 Sherlock Holmes and

the Voice of Terror (U, 1942)

Mystery with Basil Rathbone

1.30pm The Scarlet Claw

(PG, 1944) Mystery

3.05 The Train Robbers

(U, 1973) Western

5.05 Oregon Passage

(PG, 1957) Western

6.50 Carry On Screaming

(PG, 1966) Comedy horror

starring Kenneth Williams

9.00 Absolute Power

(15, 1997) Thriller with Clint

Eastwood and Gene Hackman

11.30-1.35am National

Lampoon’s Vacation (15,

1983) Comedy starring Chevy

Chase and Beverly D’Angelo

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.25pm Another Round

(12, 2020) Comedy drama

starring Mads Mikkelsen

2.30 The Stand In (15, 2020)

Comedy drama starring

Drew Barrymore

4.20 No Man of God (15, 2021)

Crime drama based on a true

story starring Elijah Wood

6.10 Last Train to Christmas

(PG, 2021) Festive drama

starring Michael Sheen

8.00 In the Heights (PG,

2021) Musical with Anthony

Ramos and Corey Hawkins

10.25-12.05am The Obscure

Life of the Grand Old Duke of

Corsica (15, 2021) An architect

embarks upon an unusual

commission for an eccentric

billionaire. Comedy drama

starring Timothy Spall

National Lampoon’s Vacation

(TCM Movies, 11.30pm)