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5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Times Radio Breakfast. All the

morning’s headlines 10.00

Matt Chorley 1.00pm Mariella

Frostrup 4.00 Times Radio

Drive. Conversation with

political and economic guests

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 Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.30am The Matt Lucas

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 Country Show with

Bob Harris 10.00 Trevor

Nelson’s Rhythm Nation

12.00 Owain Wyn Evans

3.00am Sounds of the 90s

with Fearne Cotton (r) 4.00

A Dance Through the

Decades 4.30 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 Beethoven (Violin

Sonata in G, Op 30 No 3);

Tchaikovsky (Méditation

from Souvenir d’un lieu

cher, Op 42); and Schubert

(Grand Duo in A, D574) (r)

2.00 Afternoon Concert

Nicolai (Christmas Overture);

Caroline Shaw (Entr’acte for

strings); Suk (A Winter’s Tale);

Tchaikovsky (Sérénade

mélancolique in B flat minor,

op. 26; and Suite from Swan

Lake, op. 20a); Sviridov (Snow

is Falling, chamber cantata);

Vivaldi (Gloria in D, RV 589;

and Haydn (Symphony

No.103 in E flat “Drum roll”)

5.00 New Generation Artists

6.15 Words and Music (r)

7.30 BBC Proms 2021

Beethoven (Overture

“Coriolan”); Robert Schumann

(Piano Concerto in A minor);

Felix Mendelssohn

(Symphony No. 3 in A minor,

“Scottish” — 40 mins) (r)

9.30 BBC Proms 2021 WT Best

(Le prophète — Coronation

March); Bach (Fantasia and

Fugue in C minor, BWV 537);

Widor (Symphony No 5 —

Allegro vivace, 1st mvt);

Saint-Saëns (Fantaisie No 1

in E flat); and Liszt (Fantasia

and Fugue on Ad nos, ad

salutarem undam) (r)

10.45 The Essay: The

Meaning of Ritual

11.00 The Night Tracks Mix

11.30 Christmas, Unclassified

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

6.00 Today

9.00 In Our Time

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week: Taste

— My Life Through Food

By Stanley Tucci (4/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Crossing Continents

11.30 Faith in Music

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Joseph and the Three

Gifts: An Angel’s Story (4/5)

12.18 You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 The Hackers

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: This Thing of

Darkness By Lucia Haynes

and Anita Vettesse (7/7)

3.00 Open Country

3.27 Radio 4 Appeal (r)

3.30 Open Book (r)

4.00 Think with Pinker

4.30 BBC Inside Science

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 The Tim Vine Chat Show

Comedy chat. See Choice

7.00 The Archers Someone

comes knocking for Alan

7.15 Front Row

8.00 The Briefing Room

8.30 The Spark (4/4) (r)

9.00 BBC Inside Science (r)

9.30 In Our Time (r)

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Joseph and the Three Gifts

— An Angel’s Story (4/5) (r)

11.00 Great Lives (r)

11.30 Tim Key’s Christmas

Poetry Programme (r)

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the Week:

Taste — My Life Through Food

By Stanley Tucci (4/5) (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 Adrian Chiles 1.00pm

Mobeen Azhar 4.00 5 Live

Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 8.00 5

Live Sport 9.00 5 Live Sport:

The Euro Leagues Podcast

10.00 5 Live Sport 10.30 Colin

Murray 1.00am Qasa Alom

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Breakfast with Alan Brazil

10.00 Jim White and Simon

Jordan 1.00pm Hawksbee &

Baker 4.00 Drive with Andy

Goldstein and Darren Bent

7.00 Kick Off 10.00 Sports

Bar 1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

6.00am 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 Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am The Men from the

Ministry 8.30 After Henry

9.30 Clare in the Community

10.00 The Sorcerer’s

Apprentice 10.45 Short Works

11.00 Desert Island Discs

Revisited 11.45 The Curious

Cases of Rutherford & Fry

12.00 The Men from the

Ministry 12.30pm After Henry

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 Chrismukkah and Other

Cultural Mash-Ups 3.00 The

Sorcerer’s Apprentice 3.45

Short Works 4.30 Clare in the

Community 5.00 Meet David

Sedaris 5.30 Relativity 6.00

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the

Galaxy is 42 6.30 Great Lives

7.00 The Men from the

Ministry 7.30 After Henry

8.00 Down Payment on

Death 8.30 Agatha Christie’s

Dead Man’s Folly 9.00 Desert

Island Discs Revisited 9.45

The Curious Cases of

Rutherford & Fry

10.00 Comedy Club:

Relativity 10.25 Comedy Club

Extra 10.30 Penny Dreadfuls

Present: Don Quixote

11.30 The Secret World

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06

Assignment 9.30

Healthcheck 10.00 News

10.06 The Forum 10.50

Sporting Witness 11.00 The

Newsroom 11.30 The Food

Chain 12.00 News 12.06pm

Outlook 12.50 Witness

History 1.00 The Newsroom

1.30 Healthcheck 2.00

Newshour 3.00 News 3.06

The Inquiry 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

Assignment 8.30 Science in

Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00

The Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 The Inquiry

11.30 The Food Chain 12.00

News 12.06am The Forum

12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00

News 1.06 Business Matters

2.00 The Newsroom 2.30

World Football 3.00 News

3.06 Outlook 3.50 Witness

History 4.00 The Newsroom

4.30 Heart and Soul

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Gemma Cairney

10.30 Common & Robert

Glasper 1.00pm Craig

Charles 4.00 Huw Stephens

7.00 Marc Riley 9.00 Gideon

Coe 12.00 Best of New Music

Fix with Steve Lamacq

1.00am Best of New Music

Fix with Lauren Laverne

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show 10.00 Eddy

Temple-Morris 1.00pm Tim

Cocker 4.00 Amy Voce 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 Carols from St

Paul’s Cathedral. Gauntlett

(Once in Royal David’s City);

Anon (Sussex Carol); Durufle

(Ubi Caritas); Anon (O Little

Town of Bethlehem);

Adam (O Holy Night); Rutti

(I Wonder as I Wander);

Anon (See Amid the Winter’s

snow); Cornelius (The Three

Kings); Wade (O Come, All

Ye Faithful) 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

The Tim Vine Chat Show:

Christmas Special

Radio 4, 6.30pm

Lee Mack’s only serious

competitor in the quickfire

gags stakes (in fact, Mack

would probably admit that

his former Not Going Out

co-star shades it), Tim Vine,

right, has been prising stories

from the Great British public

for five years now, and he is

absolutely in his element for

this Christmas special. Expect

festive anecdotes, some

fresh, eccentric additions to

the canon of Christmas songs

and some very silly games,

along with a cavalcade of

one-liners plentiful enough

to fill every cracker in the

country when Christmas

dinner comes around.

Gabriel Tate

Thursday 23

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Two by Two (U,

2015) Animated adventure

with the voice of Tara Flynn

12.45pm Dora and the Lost

City of Gold (PG, 2019)

Live-action family adventure

starring Isabela Moner

2.50 Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG,

2011) Animated sequel with

the voice of Jack Black

4.35 The Karate Kid Part II

(PG, 1986) Martial arts sequel

starring Ralph Macchio

6.45 The Karate Kid Part III

(PG, 1989) Adventure sequel

starring Ralph Macchio

9.00 Kingsman: The Secret

Service (15, 2015) Action

comedy starring Colin Firth

11.40 Elizabeth (15, 1998)

Historical drama starring Cate

Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush

2.05am-3.55 Bait (15, 2019)

Drama starring Edward Rowe

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Dummy Talks

(PG, 1943) Crime drama

starring Jack Warner

7.40 A Window in London

(15, 1939) Crime thriller

starring Michael Redgrave

9.10 Scrooge (U, 1935)

Adaptation of Dickens’

A Christmas Carol

with Seymour Hicks

10.45 Doctor in Love

(PG, 1960) Medical comedy

starring Leslie Phillips

12.45pm The Grapes of Wrath

(PG, 1940) Depression-era

drama starring Henry Fonda

3.20 For the Love of Ada

4.05 Big Business (PG, 1988)

Comedy starring Bette Midler

6.00 Interpol Calling

6.30 Painted Boats (U, 1945)

Drama with Jenny Laird

7.45 Christmas In Britain

8.00 Justice

9.00 Easy Money (PG, 1948)

Comedy starring Jack Warner

10.50 Framed (18, 1975)

Thriller with Joe Don Baker

1.00am Never Love a

Stranger (PG, 1958) Thriller

with John Drew Barrymore

2.50 Brass Monkey (U, 1948)

Mystery with Carole Landis

4.35-5.00 Below Zero

(U, 1930) Comedy

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News

9.10 Christmas with the

Andersons (PG, 2016)

Family comedy starring

Christy Carlson Romano

11.00 The Least Of These:

A Christmas Story (PG, 2018)

Drama starring Tayla Lynn

1.05pm The Christmas

Candle (U, 2013) Period family

drama with Hans Matheson

3.10 Dashing Through the

Snow (PG, 2015) Family

drama starring Meghan Ory

5.00 Call Me Claus (PG, 2001)

Drama with Whoopi Goldberg

6.50 The Bounty Hunter

(12, 2010) Action comedy

starring Gerard Butler

9.00 The Edge (15, 1997)

Adventure with Anthony

Hopkins and Alec Baldwin

11.25-2.20am Kingdom of

Heaven (15, 2005) Historical

epic starring Orlando Bloom

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am TCM Shorts:

Ben Miller Off Set

6.20 Oregon Passage

(PG, 1957) Western

7.55 Arizona Bushwhackers

(12, 1968) Western

starring Howard Keel

9.50 Casablanca (U, 1942)

Romance with Humphrey

Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

12.00 Sherlock Holmes and

the Secret Weapon (PG, 1942)

Mystery with Basil Rathbone

1.30pm Sherlock Holmes in

Washington (PG, 1943)

Mystery with Basil Rathbone

3.05 Cromwell (U, 1970)

Drama with Richard Harris

6.05 Gentle Annie (PG, 1944)

Western starring Donna Reed

7.50 The Hawk of Wild River

(U, 1952) Western

starring Charles Starrett

9.00 We Own the Night (15,

2007) Drama starring Joaquin

Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg

11.30-2.00am Absolute

Power (15, 1997) Crime thriller

starring Clint Eastwood

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.15pm In the Heights

(PG, 2021) Musical

2.40 The Obscure Life of the

Grand Old Duke of Corsica

(15, 2021) Comedy drama

starring Timothy Spall

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 Think Like a Dog (PG,

2020) A 12-year-old’s science

experiment goes awry and he

forges a telepathic connection

with his dog. Family comedy

drama starring Josh Duhamel

9.40-12.05am In the Heights

(PG, 2021) Musical

starring Anthony Ramos

Bergman and Bogart in

Casablanca (TCM, 9.50am)