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6.30am The Nicki Chapman

Breakfast Show 9.30 Scott

Mills 12.00 Jeremy Vine

2.00pm OJ Borg 5.00 Joe

Lycett 8.00 My Life in a

Mixtape (r) 9.00 The Folk

Show with Mark Radcliffe

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Nation 12.00 Owain Wyn Evans

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Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Puccini Exploring the drama

surrounding Madam Butterfly

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Highlights from the

Bath Mozartfest 2021.

Saint-Saëns (Tarentelle in

A minor, Op 6); Fauré (Dolly

Suite, Op 56) and Shostakovich

(String Quartet in F sharp

major, No 14 Op 142)

2.00 Afternoon Concert

Ian Skelly with performances

from around the world,

including Jess Gillam playing

Barbara Thompson’s

Saxophone Concerto in

Hanover and the BBC SSO

with Britten’s Nocturne

4.00 Choral Evensong From

the Collegiate Church of St

Mary, Warwick. Introit:

Gaudete! (Trad., arr. Luke

Fitzgerald). Responses: Rose.

Office hymn: Of the Father’s

heart begotten (Divinum

Mysterium, arr.Willcocks).

Psalms 131, 132 (Lloyd,

Edwards). First Lesson: Isaiah

57 vv.15-21. Magnificat octavi

toni (Bevan). Second Lesson:

John 1 vv.1-18. Nunc dimittis

(Holst). Anthem: A babe is born

(Mathias). Hymn: O come, all

ye faithful (Adeste fideles)

5.00 New Generation

Artists: Winter Showcase

6.15 Words and Music (r)

7.30 BBC Proms 2021 Grace-

Evangeline Mason (The

Imagined Forest — world

premiere) Dvorak (Cello

Concerto in B minor)

R Strauss (Don Juan) and

Hindemith (Symphonic

Metamorphosis of Themes

by Carl Maria von Weber) (r)

10.00 Laura Mvula’s Music

Room Featuring Miles Davis

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5.30am-7.30 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

fourth day of the third Test

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

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9.45 Book of the Week: Just

William — The Great

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10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Political Thinking

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Shipping Forecast

12.04 The Princess Bride:

Bitesize Backstories

12.18 You and Yours

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2.15 Drama: My Dad’s

Wardrobe Frazer Flintham’s

comedic adventure (r)

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4.00 Thinking Allowed New

series. Human behaviour

4.30 The Media Show

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5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

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6.15 Sandi Toksvig’s Hygge

6.30 The Missing Hancocks (r)

7.00 The Archers

7.15 This Cultural Life (r)

8.00 The Moral Maze

8.45 Four Thought (r)

9.00 The Flipside with Paris

Lees New series. The host

explores forgiveness

9.30 The Media Show

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Deborah Frances-White

Introduces (3/5) (r)

11.00-5.20am (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

fifth day of the third Test at

Melbourne Cricket Ground

11.00 John Finnemore’s

Souvenir Programme (4/6)

11.30 Ruby Wax Talking

Human How the mind works

11.45 Sophie Willan’s

Guide to Normality (r)

12.00 News and Weather

12.15am Paul Sinha’s

General Knowledge (3/4) (r)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

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Radio 5 Live

MW: 693, 909

5.00am Wake Up to Money

6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00

Clare McDonnell 11.00 Adrian

Chiles 1.00pm Mobeen Azhar

4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live

Sport 7.30 5 Live Sport 9.30 5

Live Sport 10.30 Colin Murray

1.00am Chris Latchem

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MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am A talkSPORT Special

6.00 talkSPORT Breakfast

10.00 Jim White and Simon

Jordan 1.00pm Charlie Baker

4.00 talkSPORT Drive with

Andy Goldstein & Darren

Gough 7.00 Kick Off 10.00

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6.00am James Max 10.00

Nick De Bois 1.00pm

Richard Tice 4.00 Cristo

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Armah 10.00 James

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8.00am Hancock’s Half Hour

8.30 If You’re So Clever, Why

Aren’t You Rich? 9.00 The

Write Stuff at Christmas 9.30

Smelling of Roses 10.00 An

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The Sondheim Archive 12.00

Hancock’s Half Hour 12.30pm

If You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t

You Rich? 1.00 Father Brown

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from Tove 2.15 D for Dexter

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Come Down to Drink 3.00 An

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The Write Stuff at Christmas

4.30 Smelling of Roses

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Conversations from a Long

Marriage at Christmas 6.00

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the

Galaxy: The Secondary Phase

6.30 The Radio Detectives

7.00 Hancock’s Half Hour

7.30 If You’re So Clever, Why

Aren’t You Rich? 8.00 Father

Brown 8.30 Detective 9.00

The Sondheim Archive 10.00

Comedy Club: Conversations

from a Long Marriage at

Christmas 10.25 Comedy

Club Extra 10.30 Little

Lifetimes 10.45 Late Night

Poetry 11.00 Radio Active

11.30 The News at Bedtime

11.45 The Goldfish Bowl

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9.00am News. Headlines

9.06 The Compass: My Arab

Spring. Meeting activists

involved in the so-called

‘Second Wave’. See Choice

9.30 Digital Planet 10.00

News 10.06 Documentary

11.00 Newsroom 11.30

Documentary 12.00 News

12.06pm Outlook 12.50

Witness History 1.00

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 Newsroom 7.30

Sport Today 8.00 News

8.06 The Compass: My Arab

Spring 8.30 Healthcheck

9.00 Newshour 10.00

Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 HARDtalk 11.30

Documentary 12.00 News

12.06am TDocumentary 1.00

News 1.06 Business Matters

2.00 Newsroom 2.30

Assignment 3.00 News 3.06

Outlook 3.50 Witness History

6 Music

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7.30am Chris Hawkins 10.30

The Blessed Madonna

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

Huw Stephens 7.00 Ezra

Furman 9.00 Gideon Coe

12.00 Freak Zone 1.00am

Bowie: Dancing Out in Space

Virgin Radio

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Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00pm

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Williams 1.00am Through

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Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Aled

Jones 1.00pm Marverine

Cole 5.00 John Brunning

7.00 Smooth Classics 9.00

My Classical DNA 10.00

Smooth Classics 1.00am

Katie Breathwick

Today’s pick

The Compass

BBC World Service, 9.06am

This time last year Ella

Al-Shamahi, right, had just

finished presenting a BBC

TV documentary alongside

Chris Packham about life

at a man-made waterhole

in Tanzania. Tonight the

presenter and anthropologist

joins her brother Abubakr

and concludes a gripping

five-part radio series on the

impact of the Arab Spring ten

years after its first rumblings.

With Tunisia, the one

democracy emerging from

the mayhem, compromised

by a presidential power grab

and Syria in perpetual chaos,

the outlook is bleak — but

could a “second wave”

centred on Algeria and Sudan

offer optimism? Gabriel Tate

Wednesday 29

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

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11.00am Flushed Away (U,

2006) Animated comedy with

the voice of Hugh Jackman

12.45pm Wonder Park (PG,

2019) Animated adventure

with the voice of Mila Kunis

2.30 Bee Movie (U, 2007)

Animated comedy with the

voice of Jerry Seinfeld

4.20 The Day the Earth Stood

Still (12, 2008) Sci-fi remake

starring Keanu Reeves

6.25 Now You See Me 2

(12, 2016) Crime thriller

sequel with Jesse Eisenberg

9.00 Taken 3 (12, 2014) Ex-CIA

agent Bryan Mills fights to

clear his own name after

being framed for his ex-wife’s

murder. Action thriller sequel

starring Liam Neeson

11.15 Midnight Run (18, 1988)

Comedy thriller with Robert

De Niro and Charles Grodin

1.50am-4.00 Monos

(15, 2019) Adventure thriller

starring Sofia Buenaventura

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Model for Murder

(PG, 1959) Crime drama

starring Keith Andes

7.30 Road to Happiness (U,

1941) Musical with John Boles

8.50 Christmas In Britain

9.00 Together

9.30 Enemy at the Door

10.30 The Rebel (U, 1961)

Comedy with Tony Hancock

12.35pm Patricia Presents:

Witness in the Dark

12.40 Witness In The Dark (U,

1959) Thriller starring Patricia

Dainton and Conrad Phillips

1.55 Patricia Presents: Outro

2.00 Secret Army

3.05 Max Wall: It’s

Got to Be Funny

4.10 Went the Day Well?

(PG, 1942) Second World War

drama starring Leslie Banks

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 Rita, Sue and Bob Too

(18, 1987) Comedy with

Siobhan Finneran

10.50 The Rivals of

Sherlock Holmes

11.50 The Last Hard Men (15,

1976) Western with Charlton

Heston and James Coburn

1.45am-5.45 Jack the Ripper

GREAT! Movies

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9.00am Garage Sale Mystery

(PG, 2013) Crime drama

starring Lori Loughlin

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 Garage Sale Mystery:

All That Glitters (PG, 2014)

Mystery starring Lori Loughlin

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 An Emma Fielding

Mystery 2: Past Malice (PG,

2018) Mystery starring

Courtney Thorne-Smith

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 The Heist (12, 2009)

Crime comedy starring

Christopher Walken

4.50 My Girl (PG, 1991) Drama

starring Anna Chlumsky

6.55 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

(12, 1986) Comedy starring

Matthew Broderick

9.00 The Terminal (12, 2004)

Comedy starring Tom Hanks

and Catherine Zeta-Jones

11.30-1.25am While We’re

Young (15, 2014) Comedy

drama starring Ben Stiller

TCM Movies

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6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 Off Set

8.00 South of Death Valley

(U, 1949) Western

9.10 North By Northwest

(PG, 1959) Hitchcock thriller

12.00 Sherlock Holmes in

Washington (PG, 1943)

Mystery with Basil Rathbone

1.30pm Four Guns to the

Border (U, 1954) Western

3.20 Casablanca (U, 1942)

Romantic drama

5.25 Off Set

5.50 Where Eagles Dare (PG,

1968) Wartime adventure

starring Richard Burton

9.00 Jonah Hex (15, 2010)

Fantasy Western starring Josh

Brolin and John Malkovich

10.45-1.15am We Own the

Night (15, 2007) Drama

starring Joaquin Phoenix

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.35pm The Suicide Squad

(15, 2021) Adventure comedy

2.55 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)

Animated sequel with the

voice of James Corden

4.35 Fatman (15, 2020)

Fantasy action comedy

starring Mel Gibson

6.25 Young Hearts (15, 2020)

A girl enters high school and

sparks a relationship with

her brother’s friend. Drama

with Anjini Taneja Azhar

8.00 The Suicide Squad (15,

2021) Comic-book adventure

comedy with Idris Elba

10.20-12.00 The Obscure Life

of the Grand Old Duke of

Corsica (15, 2021) Comedy

drama with Timothy Spall

Grodin and De Niro star in

Midnight Run (Film4, 11.15pm)