The Times - UK (2021-12-18)

the times | Saturday December 18 2021 saturday review 59

Times Radio

Digital only

7.00am Boxing Day Breakfast

10.00 Times Radio’s Best

Interviews. The best interviews

of the year from Times Radio

7.00pm Times Radio’s Best

Interviews 1.00am Highlights

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

5.00am Tracks of My Years

6.00 Good Morning Sunday

9.00 Sunday Love Songs 11.00

The Michael Ball Show 1.00pm

Phantom at 35 3.00 Sounds of

the 70s 5.00 Festive Reggae

7.00 Musicals: The Greatest

Show (r) 9.00 Pet Shop Boys:

Takeover 12.00 Owain Wyn

Evans 3.00am Radio 2 Live:

Across the UK 4.00 Katie Piper

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast

9.00 Sunday Morning

12.00 Private Passions

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Schumann (5 songs

on texts by Hans Christian

Andersen, Op 40); Grieg (The

Heart’s Melodies, Op 5); Delius

(Evening Voices) and Frumerie

(Songs of the Heart, Op 27) (r)

2.00 The Early Music Show

3.00 Choral Evensong Fom

the Chapel of Merton College,

Oxford, on the Feast of St

Stephen in 2018. Introit:

Welcome Yule! (Parry).

Responses: Radcliffe. Office

hymn: Jesu, the father’s only

Son (Christe Redemptor

omnium). Psalms 57, 86 (Hine,

Battishill, Lord Mornington).

First Lesson: Genesis 4 vv.1-10.

Canticles: Dyson in D. Second

Lesson: Acts 7 vv.51-60.

Anthem: And I saw a new

heaven (Bainton). (r)

4.00 Four Peaks Sound Walk

Horatio Clare ascends

Slieve Donard in Co Down

5.00 Jazz Record Requests

6.00 Words and Music (r)

7.15 Sunday Feature: Aida at

150 Exploring the Egyptian

roots of Verdi’s operatic

masterpiece. See Choice

8.00 BBC Proms 2021

Shostakovich (Festive

Overture, Op 96) and Mahler

(Symphony No 5) (r)

9.20 BBC Proms 2021

Bach (Goldberg Variations)

11.00 Free the Music

with Pekka Kuusisto

12.00 Classical Fix

12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am-7.30 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

first day of the third Test at

Melbourne Cricket Ground

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Bells on Sunday

5.45 Profile (r)

6.00 News Headlines

6.05 Something Understood

6.35 Natural Histories (r)

6.57 Weather

7.00 News and Papers

7.10 Sunday

7.30 (LW) Sunday

7.54 Radio 4 Appeal

8.00 News and Papers

8.10 Sunday Worship

8.48 A Point of View (r)

8.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

9.00 Piers Plowright,

Soundsmith (r)

10.00 The Archers (r)

11.00 Desert Island Discs

11.45 Some Hay in a Manger (r)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 I’m Sorry I Haven’t a

Clue With Rory Bremner (r)

12.32 The Food Programme

1.00 The World This Weekend

1.30 The Listening Project (r)

2.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time Kathy Clugston hosts (r)

2.45 A Home of Our Own (r)

3.00 The Ambridge

Mystery Plays (1/2)

4.00 Open Book

4.30 The Kitchen Cabinet New

series. Culinary panel show

5.00 A Family of Strangers (r)

5.40 Profile (r)

5.54 Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.15 Pick of the Week

7.00 The Archers

7.15 Quote: Unquote: A

Celebration With Nigel Rees

7.45 Gambits

8.00 Feedback (r)

8.30 Last Word (r)

9.00 Jeremy Irons

Reads TS Eliot (2/5) (r)

9.30 Radio 4 Appeal

9.35 Think with Pinker (r)

10.00 News Review of the

Year The stories that hit the

headlines in the past year

11.00-5.20am (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

second day of the third Test at

Melbourne Cricket Ground

11.00 John Finnemore’s

Souvenir Programme (1/6) (r)

11.30 Something Understood

12.00 News and Weather

12.15am Sideways (8/8) (r)

12.45 Bells on Sunday

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service

Radio 5 Live

MW: 693, 909

7.00am Sunday Breakfast

9.00 5 Live Formula 1 10.00 5

Live Sport 11.00 Match of the

Day: Top 10 12.00 5 Live Sport

5.00pm Sports Report 6.00

6-0-6 7.55 5 Live Sport:

Brighton & Hove Albion v

Brentford (Kick-off 8.00)

10.00 Tony Bellew Is Angry

11.00 Live Test Match Special

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

6.00am Weekend Sports

Breakfast 9.00 GameDay

Warm Up 11.00 Live GameDay

Exclusive: Liverpool v Leeds

United (Kick-off 12.30)

2.30pm GameDay Live 5.15

Live GameDay Exclusive:

Aston Villa v Chelsea (Kick-off

5.30) 7.30 GameDay: Your

Verdict 10.00 Sports Bar

1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5.00am Best of the Year 7.00

Cristo Foufas 10.00 Morning

Show 1.00pm Afternoon

Show 4.00 Plank of the Week

5.00 Clashes of the Week

7.00 Driven Chat with Andy

Jaye 8.00 Nick De Bois 10.00

The Best of the Unexplained

1.00am Paul Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

7.20am Children in Need: D

for Dexter 8.30 A Life of Bliss

9.00 The Clitheroe Kid 9.30

Reluctant Persuaders 10.00

Desert Island Discs Revisited

10.45 The Curious Cases of

Rutherford & Fry 11.00 The

Moth Radio Hour 11.55 Te r r y

Jones’ Fairy Tales 12.00

Between the Ears 12.30pm

HR 1.00 The Lore of the Land

2.10 Inheritance Tracks 2.20

Young Victoria 3.30 Alice Is

Still In Wonderland 4.00 Hans

Christian Andersen’s The

Snow Queen 5.00 Between

the Ears 5.30 HR 6.00 Jerome

K Jerome: After Supper Ghost

Stories 6.45 A Dreadful Night

7.00 The Moth Radio Hour

7.55 Terry Jones’ Fairy Tales

8.00 Hans Christian

Andersen’s The Snow Queen

9.00 Desert Island Discs

Revisited 9.45 The Curious

Cases of Rutherford & Fry

10.00 Comedy Club: HR

10.25 Comedy Club Extra

10.30 Bridget Christie’s

Christmas List 10.45 Demon

Cakestand of Beastley Chase

11.00 The Harpoon 11.30 The

Museum of Everything 12.00

Jerome K Jerome: After

Supper Ghost Stories

12.45am A Dreadful Night

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 From Our

Own Correspondent 9.30

Outlook 10.00 News 10.06

A Pyrotechnic History of

Humanity 10.30 Heart and

Soul 11.00 Newsroom 11.30

The Compass 12.00 News

12.06pm The Evidence 1.00

Newshour 2.00 News 2.06

The Forum 2.50 More or Less

3.00 News 3.06 Music Life

4.00 News 4.06 Sportsworld

7.00 Newsroom 7.30 Heart

and Soul 8.00 News 8.06

Business 9.00 Newshour

10.00 Newsroom 10.20 Sport

10.30 Outlook 11.06 A

Pyrotechnic History of

Humanity 11.30 Explanation

11.50 More or Less 12.00

News 12.06am From Our

Own Correspondent 12.30

Heart and Soul 1.00 News

1.06 Business 1.30 Discovery

2.00 Newsroom 2.30 The

Climate Question 3.00

News 3.06 A Pyrotechnic

History of Humanity

6 Music

Digital only

6.00am Amy Lamé 8.00

Radcliffe and Maconie 10.00

Cerys Matthews 1.00pm Liz

Kershaw 2.00 Guy Garvey’s

Finest Hour 4.00 Iggy Pop

6.00 Now Playing @6Music

8.00 Stuart Maconie’s Freak

Zone 10.00 Don Letts’

Culture Clash Radio 12.00

Cillian Murphy 2.00am Late

in the Day 4.00 Mixtape

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.00am Amy Voce 9.30

Graham Norton 12.30pm

On Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00

Christian Williams 10.00 Stu

Elmore 1.00am Through The

Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

7.00am Aled Jones 10.00

John Brunning 1.00pm

Saturday Night at the Movies

4.00 John Humphrys 7.00

The Best of Moira Stuart

Meets 10.00 Smooth Classics

1.00am Katie Breathwick

Today’s pick

Sunday Feature:

Aida at 150

Radio 3, 7.15pm

“Take the world’s most

famous living composer,

give him a plot set in an

ancient kingdom everyone’s

obsessed with, pay him four

times his usual fee, match

him up with an Egyptologist,

build yourself an opera

house, wait for a war to finish

so you can import sets and

costumes from Paris, then sit

back, relax and enjoy.” The

historian Flora Willson gives

Ve rd i ’s Aida the big build-up,

but the story behind it

justifies it: musical majesty,

cultural appropriation,

modernisation and nation-

building... Aida has it all.

Gabriel Tate

Boxing Day

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Kindergarten Cop

(12, 1990) Comedy starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

1.10pm Spider-Man: Into the

Spider-Verse (PG, 2018)

Animated adventure with the

voice of Shameik Moore

3.35 Sense and Sensibility

(U, 1995) Jane Austen drama

starring Emma Thompson

6.20 A Knight’s Tale (PG,

2001) Comedy adventure

starring Heath Ledger

9.00 Mission: Impossible —

Fallout (12, 2018) Ethan Hunt

tries to prevent a disaster

caused by terrorists. Action

thriller sequel with Tom

Cruise and Henry Cavill

11.55 Commando (18, 1985)

Action adventure starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

1.45am-4.00 Animals (15,

2019) Comedy starring

Holliday Grainger

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Copacabana (U,

1947) Showbusiness comedy

starring Groucho Marx

7.50 Escape Route (PG, 1952)

Thriller starring George Raft

9.30 Law of the Plainsman

10.00 The Christmas

Truce of 1914

10.15 Beyond Christmas

(U, 1940) Romantic fantasy

starring Harry Carey

11.50 Daddy Long Legs (U,

1955) Romantic musical with

Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron

2.25pm Dangerous Crossing

(PG, 1953) Mystery

starring Jeanne Crain

4.00 The Footage Detectives

5.00 The Eartha Kitt

Show: Australia

5.30 Mantovani Plays the

Music of Christmas

6.00 Upstairs, Downstairs

7.00 Christmas In Britain

7.15 Daleks’ Invasion Earth:

2150 AD (U, 1966)

Sci-fi adventure sequel

starring Peter Cushing

8.55 Christmas 1945: The

Homecoming Christmas

9.00 Secret Army

10.05 Heavenly Pursuits (15,

1986) Comedy drama starring

Tom Conti and Helen Mirren

11.55 The Likely Lads (PG,

1976) Comedy starring James

Bolam and Rodney Bewes

1.45am Passport to Shame

(PG, 1958) Melodrama

starring Diana Dors

3.30-5.20 Alien Nation

(18, 1988) Sci-fi adventure

starring James Caan

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News

9.10 Funny Girl (U, 1968)

Musical with Barbra Streisand

12.00 GREAT! Movie News

12.10pm Ferris Bueller’s Day

Off (12, 1986) Comedy

starring Matthew Broderick

2.15 Three Men and a Baby

(PG, 1987) Comedy starring

Tom Selleck, Ted Danson

and Steve Guttenberg

4.20 Three Men and a Little

Lady (PG, 1990) Comedy

sequel starring Tom Selleck

6.30 The Terminal (12, 2004)

Comedy starring Tom Hanks

9.00 Die Hard with a

Vengeance (15, 1995) Action

thriller sequel with Bruce

Willis and Samuel L Jackson

11.30-1.45am Get Carter (15,

2000) Crime thriller remake

starring Sylvester Stallone

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 TCM Shorts:

Michael Caine Off Set

8.15 Denver & Rio Grande

(PG, 1952) Western

10.05 Sherlock Holmes and

the Spider Woman (U, 1944)

Mystery with Basil Rathbone

11.25 South of Death Valley

(U, 1949) Western

12.40pm Jet Pilot (U, 1957)

Romantic adventure

3.00 Big Jake (15, 1971)

Western starring John Wayne

5.20 The Man from Galveston

(U, 1963) Western with Jeffrey

Hunter and James Coburn

6.30 TCM Shorts:

Ben Miller Off Set

6.50 El Paso (PG, 1949)

Western starring John Payne

9.00 Miami Vice (15, 2006)

Crime thriller starring Colin

Farrell and Jamie Foxx

11.50-1.45am A Nightmare on

Elm Street (18, 1984) Horror

with Robert Englund

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

2.05pm Last Train to

Christmas (PG, 2021) Drama

3.55 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)

Animated adventure sequel

with the voices of James

Corden and Colin Moody

5.35 In the Heights (PG, 2021)

Musical with Anthony Ramos

8.00 The Suicide Squad (15,

2021) Comic-book adventure

comedy starring Idris Elba.

See Film Choice

10.20-12.15am Last Train to

Christmas (PG, 2021) Festive

drama with Michael Sheen

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

(GREAT! Movies, 12.10pm)