5.45pm FILM: The Spy Next Door
Stars Jackie Chan. A secret
agent looks after his
girlfriend’s mischievous kids
— just as his arch enemy
escapes from prison.
Likeable comedy. (2010, PG)
7.30 Football’s Funniest
Moments A look at comical
incidents from the sport. (R)
9.30 Chucky Jake and his friends
desperately try to figure
out Chucky’s mysterious
endgame. (7/8, R) 10.30
Chucky The doll’s diabolical
plan comes to fruition at
a particularly dangerous
venue. (Last in series, R)
11.30-12.30 There’s Something
About Christmas Movies
Alan Carr hosts a festive
special, with Thomas Brodie
Sangster, Susan Wokoma
and James Acaster. (R)
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 7.00 LIVE Big Bash
League: Sydney Thunder v Sydney
Sixers. Coverage of the T20 match at
Giants Stadium 10.15 LIVE Big Bash
League: Perth Scorchers v Melbourne
Renegades. Coverage of the T20 match
at Optus Stadium 12.00 LIVE SPFL:
St Johnstone v Celtic. Kickoff at 12.30
2.45 LIVE EFL: Barnsley v Stoke City.
Kickoff at 3.00 5.00 LIVE Super
Sunday: Aston Villa v Chelsea.
Coverage of the Premier League
match at Villa Park. Kickoff at 5.30 7.45
LIVE Super Sunday: Brighton & Hove
Albion v Brentford. At AMEX Stadium.
Kickoff at 8.00 10.30 LIVE NFL.
Coverage of a week 16 match 12.30
NBC’s FNIA 1.10 LIVE NFL: Dallas
Cowboys v Washington Football Team.
Kickoff at 1.20 4.30-6.00 NewsEUROSPORT 1
6.00am Masters Snooker Final 8.00
Equestrianism: Season Review 9.00
Australian Open Tennis 10.00 Novak
Versus History 10.35 Cyclo-Cross
12.35 LIVE Cyclo-Cross. The women’s
event in Dendermonde, Belgium 1.40
Cycling. The Paris-Roubaix 2.00 LIVE
Cyclo-Cross. Coverage of the women’s
event in Dendermonde, Belgium 3.15
Tokyo 2020: Mountain Biking 4.15
Novak Versus History 4.45 Cycling. The
Tour of Flanders 5.00 Tokyo 2020:
Boxing 6.00 Tokyo 2020: Equestrian
7.00 Giro D’Italia 8.00 Tour De France
— Best Of 9.00 Vuelta A España 10.05
Alpine Skiing 11.00 Freestyle Skiing
12.00 Cycling. The Paris-Roubaix 1.00
Archery: Season Review 2.00 Alpine
Skiing 4.00-6.00 Cyclo-Cross
BT SPORT 1
7.30am Ashes Daily 8.15 The Ashes
9.45 Goals Reload 10.00 WWE
Smackdown Highlights 11.00 Scottish
Football Extra 11.30 LIVE Premier
League: Liverpool v Leeds United.
Coverage of the top-flight encounter at
Anfield. Kickoff at 12.30 3.00 Score
5.00 LIVE National League: Bromley v
Southend United. Coverage of the
match at Hayes Lane. Kickoff at 5.20
7.30 The Football’s On 8.30 Ligue 1
Highlights 9.00 Serie A — Full Impact
9.30 The Ashes 11.00-7.30 LIVE The
Ashes: Australia v England. Coverage of
the second day of the third Test in the
five-match series, taking place at
Melbourne Cricket Ground6.00 Blue Bloods (Series 8, ep 2)
7.00 Game Of Thrones Fantasy.
11.45 Mare Of Easttown Crime
drama, with Kate Winslet. A
detective investigates a
murder. (1/7) 12.55 Mare Of
Easttown Mare questions
suspects in a grisly case. 2.05
Mare Of Easttown Mare and
Colin question an unlikely
suspect. 3.15 Mare Of
Easttown An anonymous
call gives Dawn hope that
Katie might still be alive.
4.25 Mare Of Easttown Mare
opens up about her family’s
history with mental health.
5.35 Mare Of Easttown Mare
Sheehan nears the end of her
investigation. 6.45 Mare Of
Easttown Mare reaches the
end of the investigation.
8.00 American Rust Billy has to
face the consequences of his
actions. (Last in series)
9.05 Game Of Thrones Tommen
confronts the High Sparrow;
and Arya continues her
training. (S6, ep 3) 10.10
Game Of Thrones Jorah and
Daario undertake a difficult
task. 11.15 G ame Of Thrones
Tyrion seeks a strange ally.
12.20 Gomorrah (Last in series)
1.25 The Good Lord Bird (1/7)
2.30 Nurse Jackie (Series 3, ep 8)
3.00 Dexter — New Blood (8/10)
4.05-6.00 CSI Double bill.COMEDY CENTRAL
8.00am Friends 3.30 FILM: The
Princess Bride. Stars Cary Elwes 5.30
FILM: Ace Ventura — When Nature
Calls. Stars Jim Carrey 7.15 FILM:
Blades Of Glory. Stars Will Ferrell 9.00
FILM: Little Fockers. Stars Ben Stiller
and Robert De Niro 11.00 Lee Evans:
Big — Live At The O 2 12.00 Jason
Manford — First World Problems 1.00
Frank Skinner — Man In A Suit 2.00
South Park 4.15-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am Impossible Engineering 8.00
The World At War 10.00 Auschwitz —
The Nazis And The Final Solution 12.00
Africa 2.00 Dynasties 3.00 Classic Soul
At The BBC 4.00 One Hit Wonders At
The BBC 5.00 Sounds Of The Sixties
5.30 Sounds Of The Seventies 6.00
Sounds Of The Sixties 6.30 Sounds Of
The Seventies 7.00 Secrets Of The
Transport Museum 8.00 Secrets Of The
London Underground 9.00 Hornby — A
Model World 10.00 Bangers And Cash
12.00-1.00 Abandoned Engineering
DAVE
6.00pm Big Zuu’s Christmas Eats 7.00
QI XL. With Chris McCausland, Justin
Moorhouse and Holly Walsh 8.00
Expedition. In the eastern Pacific
9.00 QI XL. With guest panellists Jason
Manford, Romesh Ranganathan and
Holly Walsh 11.00 Red Dwarf 12.20
Would I Lie To You? 1.35 QI 2.15
Unforgivable 3.15-4.00 Red DwarfFACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Ultimate Tutankhamun.
Investigating new research surrounding
the Egyptian pharaoh’s death 7.00 Lost
Treasures Of Egypt. Archaeologists
investigate the downfall of Cleopatra
8.00 Unknown Waters. Jeremy Wade
explores Iceland’s river systems in
search of the Atlantic salmon 9.00
Kingdom Of The Mummies 1.00-4.00
Secrets Of Tutankhamun’s TreasuresDISCOVERY
6.00pm Building Off The Grid 8.00
Alaskan Bush People. The Browns meet
their match bringing salvaged mining
equipment to life 9.00 Homestead
Rescue — Raney Ranch. Helicopter
pilot Eric battles dangerous weather
condition on an aerial supply mission
10.00 Expedition X. The team
investigates a series of bizarre cattle
mutilations 11.00 Moonshiners. A
wrong turn earns Josh his next broken
bone 12.00-5.40 Deadliest CatchPBS AMERICA
4.40pm The Civil War 9.45 Petra —
Lost City Of Stone. Documentary
exploring the ancient city 11.00-12.05
Yellowstone Wolves — The Renewal Of
Nature. Documentary following the
largest wolf pack in the national parkSKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Fish Town 8.00 The Directors
9.00 I Am Jackie O 10.40 My Icon:
Martin Offiah 11.00 Andre The Giant
12.45 Dettori 3.00 Class Action Park
4.45 My Icon: Kadeena Cox 5.00 The
Wimbledon Kidnapping 7.00 The
Beatles — Eight Days A Week: The
Touring Years 9.00 Dettori. The
story of the jockey 11.15-12.15 UFO
SKY NATURE
6.00am Monkey Life 2.00 Into The
Wild — India 5.00 Into The Wild —
Colombia 6.00 Christmas Winter
Wonderland 7.00 Monkey Life
8.00 Into The Wild — India 11.00-
12.00 Into The Wild — ColombiaSMITHSONIAN
6.00am Aerial America 1.00 Private
Lives Of The Windsors 4.00 Henry VIII
And The King’s Men 7.00 Britain In
Colour. Three editions 10.00 The
Blitz — Days That Changed WWII
11.00-12.00 Searching For Secrets5.00pm Super Sunday: Aston Villa
v Chelsea. Live coverage of
the Premier League match at
Villa Park. Kickoff at 5.30.
7.30 Football’s Funniest
Moments A look at comical
incidents from the sport, with
contributors including Gary
Neville and Chris Kamara. (R)
9.30 FILM: Beverly Hills Cop
Stars Eddie Murphy, Judge
Reinhold and Ronny Cox.
A Detroit police officer goes
to Los Angeles to track down
the killers of his friend, who
are working for a seemingly
untouchable drug kingpin.
Pacey comedy. (1984, 15)
11.30-1.30 Micky Flanagan — Back
In The Game The comedian
performs to his home crowd
at London’s Hackney Empire,
regaling his audience with
tales of middle age, marriage
and a man’s prerogative. (R)
19 December 2021 71Kate Winslet (Atlantic, 11.45am)SKYMAX
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RADIO 4
5.30 News 5.30-7.30 (LW) Test
Cricket: Australia v England 5.43 Bells
5.45 Profile (R) 6.00 News 6.05
Something Understood (R) 6.35 Natural
Histories (R) 7.00 News 7.10 Sunday
7.30 (LW) Sunday 8.00 News 8.10
Worship 8.48 Point Of View (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)
12.00 News 12.04 I’m Sorry I Haven’t
A Clue (R) 12.32 The Food Programme
1.00 The World This Weekend 1.30 The
Listening Project (R) 2.00 Gardeners’
Question Time (R) 2.45 A Home Of Our
Own (R) 3.00 The Ambridge Mystery
Plays 4.00 Open Book 4.30 Kitchen
Cabinet 5.00 A Family Of Strangers (R)
5.40 Profile (R) 6.00 News 6.15 Pick Of
The Week 7.00 The Archers 7.15 Quote
... Unquote 7.45 Gambits 8.00
Feedback (R) 8.30 Last Word (R) 9.00
Jeremy Irons Reads TS Eliot (R) 9.35
Think With Pinker (R) 10.00 News
Review Of The Year 11.00 John
Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (R)
11.00-5.30 (LW) Test Cricket: Australia
v England. The second day 11.30
Something Understood (R) 12.00 News
12.15 Sideways (R) 12.45 Bells (R)
12.48 Shipping 1.00 As World ServiceRADIO 4 EXTRA
5.30 Great Lives 6.00 Short Stories
7.10 Fairy Tales 7.20 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 Fairy Tales 12.00 Between
The Ears: Yuletide In The Land Of Ice
And Fire 12.30 HR 1.00 The Lore Of
The Land 2.10 Inheritance Tracks 2.20
Young Victoria Omnibus 3.30 Alice Is
Still In Wonderland 4.00 The Snow
Queen 5.00 Between The Ears:
Yuletide In The Land Of Ice And Fire
5.30 HR 6.00 After Supper Ghost
Stories 6.45 A Dreadful Night 7.00 The
Moth Radio Hour 7.55 Fairy Tales 8.00
The Snow Queen 9.00 Desert Island
Discs Revisited 9.45 The Curious
Cases Of Rutherford & Fry 10.00 HR
10.25 Comedy Club Extra 10.30
Bridget Christie’s Christmas List 10.45
The Demon Cakestand Of Beastley
Chase 11.00 The Harpoon 11.30-12.00
The Museum Of Everything
LBC
7.00 Andrew Castle 10.00 Tom
Swarbrick 1.00 Maajid Nawaz
4.00 Camilla Tominey 7.00 Rachel
Johnson 10.00 Nick Abbot 1.00
Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
7.00 Breakfast 9.00 Sunday Morning
12.00 Private Passions 1.00 Lunchtime
Concert. The tenor Alessandro Fisher
performs Schumann, Grieg, Delius and
Frumerie (R) 2.00 The Early Music
Show 3.00 Choral Evensong (R) 4.00
Four Peaks Sound Walk 5.00 Jazz
Record Requests 6.00 Words And
Music. Marking the 150th anniversary of
the Royal Albert Hall, with readings by
Josie Lawrence and Petroc Trelawny
(R) 7.15 Feature. The historian Flora
Willson tells the story of Verdi’s
operatic masterpiece Aida though an
Egyptian lens 8.00 BBC Proms. At the
Royal Albert, Mark Wigglesworth
conducts the Proms Festival Orchestra
in Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony (R) 9.20 BBC
Proms. The Russian pianist Pavel
Kolesnikov performs Bach’s Goldberg
Variations (R) 11.00 Free The Music
With Pekka Kuusisto 12.00 Classical
Fix 12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
7.00 Aled Jones 10.00 John Brunning
1.00 Andrew Collins 4.00 John
Humphrys 7.00 Moira Stuart.
Highlights from the show 10.00 Karthi
Gnanasegaram 1.00 Katie Breathwick
RADIO 2
5.00 Tracks Of My Years 6.00 Good
Morning Sunday 9.00 Steve Wright
11.00 Michael Ball 1.00 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. A party playlist 12.00 Owain
Wyn Evans 3.00 Radio 2 Live —
Across The UK (R) 4.00 Katie Piper
VIRGIN RADIO
6.00 Amy Voce 9.30 The Graham
Norton Show 12.30 On Demand 4.00
Bam 7.00 Christian Williams. Tunes
and chat 10.00 Stu Elmore 1.00
Through The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham
TALKSPORT
6.00 Weekend Sports Breakfast 9.00
GameDay Warm Up 11.00 GameDay
Exclusive: Liverpool v Leeds United.
Kickoff 12.30 2.30 GameDay Live
5.15 GameDay Exclusive. Aston
Villa v Chelsea. Kickoff 5.30 7.30
GameDay — Your Verdict 10.00 Sports
Bar Weekender 1.00 Extra TimeTIMES RADIO
7.00 Boxing Day Breakfast. A full
roundup of the big news stories
10.00 Times Radio’s Best Interviews:
Politics. Highlights from the year
1.00 Times Radio’s Best Interviews:
Culture 4.00 Times Radio’s Best
Interviews: World News. Highlights
from the year 7.00 Times Radio’s
Best Interviews: Entertainment.
Highlights from the year 10.00
Times Radio’s Best Interviews 1.00
Highlights From Times Radio
To get in touch with the Times Radio
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Mystery Plays
Radio 4, 3pm
Lynda Snell, pictured,
Ambridge’s am-dram guru,
presents an adaptation of
the religious dramas, with
the locals touring the village.
In Phantom At 35 (Radio 2,
1pm) Luke Evans celebrates
the anniversary of Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of
the Opera, talking to past and
present casts. Andrea Bocelli
discusses his life, work and
faith in Heart And Soul
(World Service, 10.30am).
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