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Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.30am Nicki Chapman 9.30

Scott Mills 12.00 Our Platinum

Year. A look ahead to 2022

2.00pm OJ Borg 4.15 Ravio 2

5.00 Joe Lycett 7.00 Sophie

Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco

New Year’s Eve 9.00 Romesh

Ranganathan’s New Year’s Eve

Bangers 11.00 Michelle

Visage’s Fabulous New Year’s

Party 1.00am Music 3.00

Romesh Ranganathan: For the

Love of Hip-Hop 4.00 Sophie

Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Puccini Exploring Puccini’s

genius for creating

different sound worlds

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Highlights from the

Bath Mozartfest 2021. Ravel

(Mother Goose Suite) and

Brahms (String Quartet

in C minor, Op 51 No 1)

2.00 Afternoon Concert Ian

Skelly with performances from

around the world. Louise

Farrenc (Overture No.1, Op.23);

Handel (Zadok the Priest, HWV

258); Debussy (Prelude á

l’après-midi d’un faune);

Dvorak (Symphony No.9 in

E minor, Op.95 — From the

New World); Caldara (Te

Deum — Vox Luminus) and

Hugo Wolf (Penthesilea)

4.30 The Listening Service (r)

5.00 New Generation Artists

Elisabeth Brauss plays

Schumann and the Mithras

Trio plays Mozart

6.15 Words and Music (r)

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

Jacqueline Wilson and guests

read from her books alongside

musical interludes. Langford

(Galop’ from A Little French

Suite); Stravinsky (Circus

Polka) and Keisha White

(Someday — Theme from

The Story of Tracy Beaker)

9.00 BBC Proms 2021 Georgia

Mann and Petroc Trelawny

present the Last Night of the

Proms. Gity Razaz (Mother);

Arne (Rule, Britannia!); Elgar

(Pomp and Circumstance

March No 1 in D, Land of Hope

and Glory); Parry (Jerusalem)

12.00 Late Junction

1.00am Gameplay

with BabyQueen

3.00 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 Desert Island Discs

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week: Just

William — The Great

Performer (5/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Science Stories (r)

11.30 Common Ground

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 The Princess Bride:

Bitesize Backstories (5/5)

12.18 Call You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 Call to Kabul

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: SteelHeads New

series. Thriller by John Scott

Dryden and Brett Neichin.

A woman with a terminal

disease is cryogenically

frozen, and awakes to find

a world in chaos (1/5)

2.45 New Year Solutions (r)

3.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time Listeners’ queries

3.45 Short Works

4.00 Last Word

4.30 Sending Mum Abroad (r)

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.15 Sandi Toksvig’s Hygge

6.30 The News Quiz

7.00 Lemn Sissay’s

Poetry Rebels (5/5)

7.15 Screenshot Insights

8.00 Correspondents’

Look Ahead to 2022

8.50 A Point of View

9.00 Loose Ends Lounge

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Deborah Frances-White

Introduces Jessica Fostekew

shares her memories of a

naughty child from her school

days. Read by the author (5/5)

11.00 John Finnemore’s

Souvenir Programme (6/6) (r)

11.30 Influencers (r)

12.00 News and Weather

12.15am The Digital Human

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

Clare McDonnell 11.00 Chiles

on Friday 1.00pm Elis James

and John Robins 3.00

Kermode and Mayo’s Film

Review 5.00 5 Live Drive 7.00

5 Live Sport 8.00 Headliners

9.00 5 Live’s Review of 2021

10.00 Stephen Nolan

1.00am Hayley Hassall

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am A talkSPORT Special

6.00 talkSPORT Breakfast

with Alan Brazil 10.00 White

and Jordan with Martin

Keown 1.00pm Charlie Baker

4.00 talkSPORT Drive with

Andy Goldstein and Darren

Bent 7.00 Fergie at 80 8.00

Hawksbee and Jacobs Clips of

the Year 11.00 Majestic’s New

Years Eve Party 1.00am Extra

Time with Martin Kelner

talkRADIO

Digital only

6.00am James Max 10.00

Nick De Bois 1.00pm

Afternoon Show 4.00 Cristo

Foufas 7.00 Claudia-Liza

Armah 10.00 Darryl Morris

1.00am Martin Kelner

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Dad’s Army 8.30

Married 9.00 Funny You

Should Ask 9.30 In the Red

10.00 The Haunted Hotel

11.00 Best of Podcast Radio

Hour 2021 12.00 Dad’s Army

12.30pm Married 1.00 Father

Brown Stories 1.30 Detective

2.00 Letters from Tove 2.15 D

for Dexter 2.30 Short Cuts

3.00 The Haunted Hotel 4.00

Funny You Should Ask 4.30 In

the Red 5.00 The Headset Set

5.30 Alex Horne Presents the

Horne Section New Year 6.00

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the

Galaxy: The Secondary Phase

6.30 Off the Page 7.00 Dad’s

Army 7.30 Married 8.00

Father Brown Stories

8.30 Detective 9.00 Best of

Podcast Radio Hour 2021

10.00 Alex Horne Presents

the Horne Section New

Year 10.25 Comedy Club:

Comedy Club Extra 10.30

Hamish and Dougal: You’ll

Have Had Your Tea 11.00 Old

Harry’s Game 11.30 That

Mitchell and Webb Sound

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 Tech Tent

9.30 Science in Action 10.00

News 10.06 Correspondents’

Look Ahead to 2022 11.00

The Newsroom 11.30 World

Football 12.00 News

12.06pm The Fifth Floor

12.50 Witness History 1.00

The Newsroom 1.30 Science

in Action 2.00 Newshour

3.00 News 3.06 HARDtalk

3.30 Business 4.00 BBC OS

6.00 News 6.06 The Fifth

Floor 6.50 Witness History

7.00 The Newsroom 7.30

Sport Today 8.00 News 8.06

Tech Tent 8.30 CrowdScience

9.00 Newshour 10.00 The

Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 HARDtalk 11.30

World Football 12.00 News

12.06am Correspondents’

Look Ahead to 2022 1.00

News 1.06 Business 1.30

WorkLifeIndia 2.00 The

Newsroom 2.30 Stumped

3.00 News 3.06 The

Fifth Floor 3.50 Witness

History 4.00 News

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Chris Hawkins 10.30

The Blessed Madonna

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

Huw Stephens 7.00 The

People’s Party with

Afrodeutsche 9.00 Tom

Ravenscroft 1.00am

6 Music’s Indie Forever

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show 10.00 Eddy

Temple-Morris 1.00pm Tim

Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler

7.00 Ben Jones 10.00 Stu

Elmore 1.00am Virgin

Radio Through The Night

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am More Music

Breakfast 9.00 Aled Jones

1.00pm Marverine Cole 5.00

John Brunning 7.00 Smooth

Classics. Charlotte Hawkins

presents this New Year’s Eve

edition, revisiting her

favourite recordings released

this year and playing the

music she finds most

soothing on a winter’s night

10.00 Smooth Classics

1.00am Katie Breathwick

4.00 Sam Pittis

Today’s pick

Assorted Music Shows

Radio 2/Scala/Jazz FM,

from 7pm

Radio 2 has assembled a

clutch of standbys to see us

into 2022, with Sophie Ellis-

Bextor, right, dusting off

tunes from 2001, the year of

Groovejet, in her revived

Kitchen Disco at 7pm, before

handing over to Romesh

Ranganathan at 9pm, with

wall-to-wall hip-hop bangers

from De La Soul, Beastie Boys,

Jay-Z and more. Michelle

Visage goes all-out cheese at

11pm to take us past midnight.

Jazz FM has an enticing

alternative, with hours of New

Orleans standards from 7pm,

while Darren Redick offers a

more sedate route into new

year with classical favourites

on Scala. Gabriel Tate

New Year’s Eve

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Sense and

Sensibility (U, 1995) Jane

Austen drama starring Emma

Thompson and Kate Winslet

1.45pm Time Bandits (PG,

1981) Fantasy comedy

starring Craig Warnock

4.10 Mrs Doubtfire (12, 1993)

Comedy with Robin Williams

6.35 Star Trek (12, 2009) Sci-fi

adventure with Chris Pine

9.00 John Wick: Chapter 3 —

Parabellum (15, 2019) Action

thriller starring Keanu Reeves

11.35 Escape from New York

(15, 1981) Sci-fi action

adventure with Kurt Russell

1.35am-3.25 Frances Ha

(15, 2012) Comedy drama

starring Greta Gerwig

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Gert & Daisy Clean

Up (PG, 1942) Comedy with

Elsie and Doris Waters

7.40 The Cariboo Trail

(U, 1950) Western drama

starring Randolph Scott

9.20 Let’s Make Love (U,

1960) Musical with Marilyn

Monroe and Yves Montand

11.40 El Cid (U, 1961) Historical

drama with Charlton Heston

3.10pm The Ghost of Greville

Lodge (PG, 2000)

Supernatural family drama

starring George Cole

5.00 Upstairs, Downstairs

6.00 The Lavender Hill Mob

(U, 1951) Ealing comedy

starring Alec Guinness

7.40 Out of the Fog (PG, 1962)

Crime drama starring David

Summers and Susan Travers

9.00 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

9.05 Curse of the Fly

(18, 1965) Horror sequel

with Brian Donlevy

10.45 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

10.50 The Great St Louis

Bank Robbery (PG, 1959)

Fact-based crime drama

starring Steve McQueen

12.40am Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

12.45 The Black Torment

(12, 1964) Ghost story

starring John Turner

2.30 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

2.35 Beware My Lovely (PG,

1952) Thriller with Ida Lupino

4.10 Four Star Theatre

4.45-5.30 Every Day Except

Christmas (U, 1957)

Documentary

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am A Bone to Pick: An

Aurora Teagarden Mystery

(PG, 2015) Whodunit starring

Candace Cameron Bure

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 A Bundle of Trouble: An

Aurora Teagarden Mystery

(PG, 2017) Whodunnit starring

Candace Cameron Bure

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 Three Bedrooms, One

Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden

Mystery (PG, 2016) Drama

with Candace Cameron Bure

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 Fun with Dick and Jane

(12, 2005) Comedy remake

with Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni

4.50 Vertical Limit (12, 2000)

Action adventure starring

Chris O’Donnell

7.10 Arctic (12, 2018) Thriller

starring Mads Mikkelsen

9.00 The Other Boleyn Girl

(12, 2008) Historical drama

starring Natalie Portman

11.25-1.45am Marie

Antoinette (12, 2006) Drama

starring Kirsten Dunst

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Double bill

7.10 Off Set

7.25 Stars in My Crown

(PG, 1950) Western drama

9.15 The Gun That Won the

West (U, 1955) Western

10.45 North By Northwest

(PG, 1959) Hitchcock thriller

1.30pm Big Jake (15, 1971)

Western starring John Wayne

3.50 South of Death Valley

(U, 1949) Western

5.00 TCM Shorts:

Ben Miller Off Set

5.20 Ice Cold in Alex

(PG, 1958) Wartime drama

8.00 Robin Hood (12, 2010)

Adventure with Russell Crowe

11.10-1.00am A Nightmare on

Elm Street (18, 1984) Horror

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.40pm Boogie (15, 2021)

2.15 The Suicide Squad (15,

2021) Adventure comedy

4.35 Fatman (15, 2020)

Fantasy starring Mel Gibson

6.20 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)

Animated sequel with the

voice of James Corden

8.00 The Suicide Squad (15,

2021) Comic-book adventure

comedy with Idris Elba

10.20-12.00 Boogie (15, 2021)

A basketball prodigy living in

New York dreams of playing

in the NBA, but his parents

pressure him to focus on

earning a scholarship. Drama

with Taylor Takahashi

The Other Boleyn Girl

(GREAT! Movies, 9pm)