the times | Saturday December 18 2021 saturday review 43
Times Radio
Digital only5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
Times Radio Breakfast
10.00 Matt Chorley 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 4.00 Times
Radio Drive. Conversation
7.00 Evenings on Times Radio.
Conversation 10.00 Carole
Walker 1.00am Stories of Our
Times 1.30 Red Box 2.00
Highlights from Times RadioRadio 2
FM: 88-90.2 MHz6.30am Zoe Ball 9.30 Ken
Bruce 12.00 Chris Mason
2.00pm Steve Wright 5.00
Sara Cox 7.00 Jo Whiley 9.00
Folk Show 10.00 Trevor Nelson
12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds
of the 90s (r) 4.00 Katie PiperRadio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz6.30am Breakfast
9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer of the Week:
Mozart With Donald Macleod
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert Schubert (Piano
Trio in E flat, D929) (r)
2.00 Live Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly joins the BBC Singers
live from Temple Church for
a concert of contemporary
Christmas carols
4.00 Live Choral Evensong
Live from Croydon Minster.
Introit: Jesus Christ the apple
tree (Poston). Responses:
Radcliffe. Psalms 108, 109
(Randall, Bairstow, Flintoft,
Thalben-Ball). First Lesson:
Jeremiah 30 vv.7-11a. Office
hymn: Creator of the stars
of night (Conditor alme).
Canticles: Evening Service in B
minor (Noble). Second Lesson:
Acts 4 vv.1-12. Anthem: O thou
the central orb (Wood). Hymn:
Lo! He comes with clouds
descending (Helmsley).
Voluntary: Improvisation on
Helmsley (Ronny Krippner)
5.00 New Generation Artists:
Winter Showcase
6.15 Words and Music (r)
7.30 BBC Proms 2021
George Lewis (Minds in Flux);
Beethoven (Concert
aria “Ah! perfido”; and
Symphony No 2) (r)
9.15 BBC Proms 2021
Rautavaara (Cantus Arcticus
Op 61 for orchestra & taped
bird song); Judith Weir (Still,
Glowing); Philip Glass (Mad
Rush); Arvo Pärt (Festina Lente
for string orchestra and harp);
Johann Johannsson (Good
Night Day); Messiaen (La Joie
de la grâce from Livre du Saint
Sacrement); Johann
Johannsson (A Sparrow
Alighted on Our Shoulder);
and Samy Moussa (A Globe
Itself Infolding) (r)
10.45 The Essay: The
Meaning of Rituals
11.00 Night Tracks
12.30am Through the Night (r)Radio 4
FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
6.00 Today
9.00 The Reith Lectures
Suggesting a way forward for
human control over AI (4/4)
9.45 (LW) Daily Service
10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Rutherford and Fry
on Living with AI (4/4)
11.30 Maureen & Friends (r)
12.01pm (LW)
Shipping Forecast
12.04 Joseph and the Three
Gifts: An Angel’s Story
By Brian Sibley
12.18 You and Yours
1.00 The World at One
1.45 The Hackers
2.00 The Archers (r)
2.15 Drama: The Christmas
Present By Ben Crompton (r)
3.00 Money Box Live
3.30 All in the Mind (r)
4.00 Sideways (8/8)
4.30 The Media Show
5.00 PM
5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.30 Conversations from a
Long Marriage at Christmas
Comedy two-hander, starring
Joanna Lumley and Roger
Allam. See Choice
7.00 The Archers Jazzer
has got stage fright
7.15 Front Row
8.00 The Moral Maze
8.45 Book of the Week: Taste
— My Life Through Food
By Stanley Tucci (3/5)
9.00 The Young Farmers (r)
9.30 The Media Show (r)
10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime:
Joseph and the Three Gifts
— An Angel’s Story (r)
11.00 Ruby Wax: Talking
Human How the mind works
11.15 Sophie Willan’s
Guide to Normality (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 (3/5) (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World ServiceRadio 5 Live
MW: 693, 9095.00am 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: Liverpool v
Leicester City (Kick-off 7. 4 5)
10.30 Colin Murray 1.00am
Dotun AdebayotalkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00
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:
Liverpool v Leicester City
(Kick-off 7. 4 5) 10.00 Sports
Bar 1.00am Extra TimetalkRADIO
Digital only6.00am James Max 10.00
Kevin O’Sullivan 1.00pm
Trisha 4.00 Cristo Foufas 7.00
Richard Tice 10.00 The Late
Show 1.00am Paul RossRadio 4 Extra
Digital only8.00am Hancock’s Half Hour
8.30 If You’re So Clever, Why
Aren’t You Rich? 9.00 Quote:
Unquote 9.30 All the Young
Dudes 10.00 Midnight at
Christmas 10.45 Nay, Ivy, Nay
11.00 Unsung Heroines 12.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 12.30pm
If You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t
You Rich? 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 We
Three Kings 3.00 Midnight at
Christmas 3.45 Nay, Ivy, Nay
4.00 Quote: Unquote 4.30 All
the Young Dudes 5.00 Ed
Reardon’s Week 5.30 Mark
Steel’s in Town 6.00 The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy is 42 6.30 The
Radio Detectives 7.00
Hancock’s Half Hour7.30 If You’re So Clever, Why
Aren’t You Rich? 8.00 Down
Payment on Death 8.30
Agatha Christie’s Dead Man’s
Folly 9.00 Unsung Heroines
10.00 Comedy Club: Mark
Steel’s in Town 10.25 Comedy
Club Extra 10.30 Little
Lifetimes 10.45 Tim Key’s
Late Night Poetry
Programme 11.00 Radio
Active 11.30 News at Bedtime
11.45 The Goldfish BowlBBC World Service
Digital only9.00am 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
Documentary 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 Documentary 12.00
News 12.06am The
Documentary 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
4.30 The Food Chain6 Music
Digital only7.30am Gemma Cairney
10.30 Robert Plant 1.00pm
Craig Charles 4.00 Huw
Stephens 7.00 Marc Riley
9.00 Gideon Coe 12.00 Freak
Zone Playlist 1.00am The
Upsetter: The Life and Works
of Lee “Scratch” PerryVirgin Radio
Digital only6.30am 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 Through The Night
4.00 Sam PinkhamClassic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz6.00am Breakfast 9.00
Alexander Armstrong 12.00
Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00pm
John Brunning 7.00 Smooth
Classics 8.00 A Westminster
Christmas. A concert by
the Parliament Choir
10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill OvertonToday’s pick
Conversations from a
Long Marriage at
Christmas
Radio 4, 6.30pm
Marrying two of the great
radio voices, Joanna Lumley
and Roger Allam, right,
Jan Etherington’s Christmas
special finds the couple’s
plans for a quiet Christmas
ballooning in size. It leans
heavily on the stars’
effortless chemistry and
hits the “observational” in
observational comedy more
than the “comedy”. But it
slips down nicely, the couplegossiping about feckless
neighbours, missing departed
loved ones, engaging in
panicked shopping trips and
bitching at each other about
putting the bins out, as ageing
couples do. Gabriel TateWednesday 22
Film guide
Radio guide
Film4
FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 42811.00am Alpha (12, 2018)
Prehistoric adventure
starring Kodi Smit-McPhee
12.55pm Flushed Away (U,
2006) Animated comedy with
the voice of Hugh Jackman
2.40 Rango (PG, 2011)
Animated comedy with
the voice of Johnny Depp
4.55 Night at the Museum:
Secret of the Tomb (PG, 2014)
Fantasy comedy sequel
starring Ben Stiller
6.50 Knight and Day
(12, 2010) Comedy adventure
starring Tom Cruise
and Cameron Diaz
9.00 Widows (15, 2018) Four
women with a debt attempt to
carry out a robbery. Thriller
starring Elizabeth Debicki
11.40 The Bank Job (15, 2008)
Fact-based crime thriller
starring Jason Statham
1.55am-4.00am How to Talk
to Girls at Parties (15, 2017)
Comedy starring Elle FanningTalking Pictures TV
FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 4456.00am Green Fingers (PG,
1947) Drama starring Robert
Beatty and Carol Raye
7.45 Cry Wolf (PG, 1968)
Drama with Anthony Kemp
9.00 Together
9.30 Enemy at the Door
10.30 Breakaway (U, 1955)
Drama starring Tom Conway
12.00 Home for Christmas
(U, 1990) Family drama
starring Mickey Rooney
2.00pm Secret Army
3.05 The Long Night
(PG, 1947) Crime drama
starring Henry Fonda
5.05 Carols with
Michael Hordern
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 Christmas 1945: The
Homecoming Christmas
9.10 Dangerous Davies:
The Last Detective
11.20 Post Early for Christmas
11.25 One Step Beyond
12.00 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro
12.05am I Bought a Vampire
Motorcycle (15, 1989) Horror
comedy with Neil Morrissey
2.10 Cellar Club
with Caroline Munro
2.15 Virgin Witch (18, 1972)
Fantasy horror starring
Vicki and Ann Michelle
4.00 Cellar Club with
Caroline Munro
4.05-5.05 Shadows of FearGREAT! Movies
FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 4259.00am GREAT! Movie News
9.10 Santa Claws (U, 2014)
Comedy starring Evan Boymel
11.00 The Christmas Bunny
(PG, 2010) Family drama
starring Sophie Bolen1.05pm Merry Ex-mas (2014)
Drama with Kristy Swanson
2.55 Christmas Mail (PG,
2010) Romantic comedy with
Ashley Scott and AJ Buckley
4.45 The Christmas Cabin
(PG, 2019) Romantic comedy
starring Peyton McDavitt
6.35 How Do You Know (12,
2010) Comedy starring Reese
Witherspoon and Paul Rudd
9.00 Get Carter (15, 2000)
Crime thriller remake
starring Sylvester Stallone
11.15-1.40am Panic Room (15,
2002) Thriller starring Jodie
Foster and Kristen StewartTCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 4156.00am Hollywood’s Best
Film Directors Four editions
8.20 Off Set
8.35 The Badge of Marshal
Brennan (12, 1957) Western
10.15 Denver & Rio Grande
(PG, 1952) Western
12.05pm Sherlock Holmes
Faces Death (U, 1943) Murder
mystery with Basil Rathbone
1.30 The Pearl of Death
(PG, 1944) Mystery
3.00 Wild Heritage (U, 1958)
Western with Will Rogers Jr
4.45 The Iron Sheriff (U, 1957)
Western with Sterling Hayden
6.20 The Goonies (12, 1985)
Adventure with Sean Astin
8.40 TCM Shorts:
Ben Miller Off Set
9.00 Run All Night (15, 2015)
Thriller with Liam Neeson
11.20-1.50am Copycat (18,
1995) Thriller with Sigourney
Weaver and Holly HunterSky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 40112.05pm Last Train to
Christmas (PG, 2021) Drama
1.55 In the Heights (PG, 2021)
4.20 The Obscure Life of the
Grand Old Duke of Corsica
(15, 2021) Comedy drama
starring Timothy Spall
6.00 Pups Alone (PG, 2021)
Family comedy with the
voices of Jennifer Love Hewitt
and Jerry O’Connell
8.00 Last Train to Christmas
(PG, 2021) Festive drama
starring Michael Sheen
9.50-12.15am In the Heights
(PG, 2021) Musical
starring Anthony RamosElizabeth Debicki stars in
Widows (Film4, 9pm)