5.30pm An Idiot Abroad Karl
Pilkington visits Egypt,
where he tastes delicacies
including rabbit meat. (R)
6.30 FILM: The Spy Next Door
Stars Jackie Chan. A Chinese
secret agent looks after his
girlfriend’s mischievous kids
for the weekend — just as his
arch enemy escapes from
prison. Frantic. (2010, PG)
8.15 Dynamo — Beyond Belief
Following the magician on
tour around the globe. (1/3,
R) 9.15 Dynamo — Beyond
Belief The trickster faces
difficulties as his medication
takes hold. (R) 10.15 Dynamo
— Beyond Belief A stunt
involving a sports car. (R)
11.15-12.00 Never Mind The
Buzzcocks Comedy quiz,
hosted by Greg Davies. (R)
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 7.00 Good Morning
Sports Fans 7.30 My Icon: Ebony
Rainford-Brent 7.45 LIVE Big Bash
League: Adelaide Strikers v Sydney
Thunder. Coverage of the T20 match at
Adelaide Oval 12.15 News 6.00 LIVE
NBA Basketball: Boston Celtics v
Phoenix Suns. Coverage of the
inter-conference match at TD Garden.
Tip-off at 6.00 8.30 News 11.00 NFL
Fantasy 12.00 Total Access 1.00 News
4.30-6.00 LIVE Big Bash League:
Hobart Hurricanes v Brisbane HeatEUROSPORT 1
6.00am Hall Of Fame: Sochi 2014 7.00
Hall Of Fame: Pyeongchang 8.00
Olympic Games: On Edge 8.30
Snowboarding: Charlotte Bankes 8.45
Alpine Skiing 9.45 Ski Jumping 10.45
Cross-Country Skiing 11.45 LIVE
Cross-Country Skiing. The men’s 15km
mass-start event in Oberstdorf,
Germany 12.45 LIVE Ski Jumping.
Qualifying for the Four Hills event at
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2.15 LIVE
Cross-Country Skiing. The women’s
10km mass start event in Oberstdorf,
Germany 3.00 Cross-Country Skiing
3.20 LIVE Ski Jumping. Coverage of
the women’s HS97 event at the World
Cup meeting in Ljubno, Slovenia 5.00
Cyclo-Cross 7.00 Ski Jumping 9.00
Alpine Skiing 10.00 Ski Jumping 11.00
Triathlon: Super League 12.00 UCI
Track Champions League 2.00 Ski
Jumping 4.00 UCI Track Champions
League 5.00-6.00 Cyclo-Cross
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Serie A — Full Impact 6.30
Fishing — On The Bank 7.30 Premier
League World 8.00 LIVE A-League:
Central Coast Mariners v Macarthur FC.
Coverage of the Australian top-flight
encounter at Central Coast Stadium.
Kickoff at 8.05 10.00 ESPN FC 10.30
Serie A — Full Impact 11.00 Ligue 1
Highlights 11.30 The Run-In 12.00 Uefa
Champions League Goals Show Retro
2.00 The Football Archives 3.30 Inside
Sailing 4.00 Badminton Unlimited
4.30 Takeover 5.00 Premier League
Match Pack 5.30 Premier League
Preview 6.00 The Ashes 8.00 Scottish
Football Extra 8.30 LIVE College
Football. Coverage of a match 12.30
LIVE College Football. Further action
4.30 UFC — The Walk 5.00 Gearing Up
5.30-6.00 Serie A — Full Impact6.00 Game Of Thrones Drama.
10.00 Scenes From A Marriage
3.30 Landscapers Drama charting
the true story of an ordinary
couple who find themselves
the focus of a murder inquiry.
With Olivia Colman and
David Thewlis. (1/4) 4.35
Landscapers The pressure of
police questions takes its toll
on Susan and Christopher.
5.40 Landscapers The
couple’s relationship with
Susan’s parents comes
under the spotlight. 6.50
Landscapers Susan and
Christopher each take the
stand for a final chance to
prove their version of events.
8.00 Game Of Thrones Tyrion
tries to save Westeros from
itself. (Series 7, ep 7) 9.30
Game Of Thrones The Stark
children are finally reunited in
Winterfell. (Series 8, ep 1)
10.35 Game Of Thrones
Jaime Lannister is confronted
with the consequences of his
past mistakes. 11.40 Game
Of Thrones The Night King
reaches Winterfell and an
epic battle between the living
and the dead begins.
1 .10 Landscapers Drama. (4/4)
2.15 Dexter — New Blood (8/10)
3.15 The L Word — Generation Q
Drama. (Series 2, ep 10)
4.15-6.00 CSI Crime drama.1.45 Friends. Back-to-back episodes of
the sitcom 9.00 FILM: Dumb And
Dumber To. Stars Jim Carrey and Jeff
Daniels 11.15 Lee Evans — XL Tour 12.15
Lee Evans — Monsters 1.15 Jason
Manford Live At The Manchester Apollo
2.15 South Park 4.15-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am Hidden Traces 8.00 War
Factories 12.00 David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities 3.00 Great British
Railway Journeys 6.00 Antiques
Roadshow 7.00 Secrets Of The
Transport Museum 8.00 The
Architecture The Railways Built. Tim
Dunn visits Ribblehead Viaduct in the
Yorkshire Dales 9.00 Steam Train
Britain. Plans are under way for the
opening of the new station at
Caernarfon 10.00 Bangers And Cash
12.00-1.00 Abandoned Engineering
DAVE
6.00pm QI 6.40 Would I Lie To You?
8.00 Travel Man. Richard Ayoade and
Rob Beckett head to the Russian city of
Petersburg 8.30 Travel Man. Richard
Ayoade is joined by the actress and
comedian Aisling Bea to spend two
days in Budapest 9.00 Not Going
Out 10.00 Gavin & Stacey 2.00
The Misadventures Of Romesh
Ranganathan 2.50-4.00 Travel Man
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm New Air Force One — Flying
Fortress. A first look at the overhaul of
the two presidential planes 7.00
Russia’s Toughest Prisons. Documentary
8.00 Britain’s Underworld 11.00
Australia’s Hardest Prison 12.00 Death
Row Texas 1.00-4.00 Narco Wars
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud 7.00 Railroad
Alaska. An earthquake threatens to
bring the railroad to a standstill 8.00
Gold Rush — The Dirt. The cast and
crew discuss the highs and lows of the
latest gold mining season in Alaska
9.00 The Alaska Triangle. Hostile
Sasquatches are said to be leaving
the wilderness behind for Alaska’s
big cities 10.00 Expedition X 11.00
Supertruckers 12.00 The Alaska
Triangle 1.00-2.00 Expedition XPBS AMERICA
5.55pm The Vietnam War. Lyndon
Johnson escalates America’s military
commitment 8.30 The Vietnam War.
North Vietnamese troops stream down
the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south
11.00-12.15 Clinton. The story of the
former American president Bill ClintonSKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Fish Town 7.00 PL Legends
7.30 The Directors 8.25 The Donut King
10.25 Six By Sondheim 12.10 The
Go-Go’s 2.10 Missile From The East
4.00 I Am Patrick Swayze 5.50 Hitsville
— The Making Of Motown 8.00 JFK —
Destiny Betrayed. Documentary
questioning the actions of the
president’s political enemies 9.00
Gascoigne. The life and career of the
footballer 10.50-12.50 Belushi. The life
story of comedy star John BelushiSKY NATURE
6.00am Monkey Life 2.00 David
Attenborough’s Dragons And Damsels
3.00 David Attenborough’s Global
Adventure 4.00 David Attenborough’s
Global Adventure — Home Planet 5.00
David Attenborough’s Global
Adventure — The Rise 6.00 Great
Barrier Reef With David Attenborough.
Unlocking the secrets of the natural
wonder 7.00 Great Barrier Reef With
David Attenborough. The shark-
infested waters of Osprey Reef 8.00
Great Barrier Reef With David
Attenborough 9.00-12.00 GalapagosSMITHSONIAN
6.00am Aerial Britain 1.00 Aerial
America 8.00-12.00 Aerial Greece5.00pm Elvis — Aloha From
Hawaii A 1973 concert
featuring Elvis Presley singing
25 of his hits, including Blue
Suede Shoes, Hound Dog
and Suspicious Minds. (R)
6.30 Hitsville —The Making Of
Motown Rare performances,
interviews and rarely seen
footage come together to
paint a picture of the history
and origins of Motown. (R)
8.30 Coldplay — Austin City
Limits The band’s 2011
appearance at the festival,
including performances of
Yellow, In My Place, The
Scientist and Paradise. (R)
9.45 Freddie Mercury — The
Tribute Concert The 1992
concert in honour of the
Queen frontman, including
performances by Elton John,
David Bowie, Annie Lennox
and George Michael. (R)
11.45-12.00 New Year Fireworks
19 December 2021 91Down to the wire (More 4, 6.30pm)SKYMAX
SKYSHOWCASE SKYATLANTIC SPORT RADIO
RADIO 4
5.30 News 5.43 Prayer 5.45 Farming
Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day (R) 6.00
Today 9.00 Desert Island Discs (R)
9.45 Book Of The Week 9.45 (LW)
Daily Service 10.00 Woman’s Hour
11.00 Science Stories (R) 11.30
Common Ground 12.00 News 12.01
(LW) Shipping 12.04 The Princess
Bride — Bitesize Backstories 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, by John
Scott Dryden and Brett Neichin 2.45
New Year Solutions (R) 3.00 Gardeners’
Question Time 3.45 Short Works. The
Riots, by Dawn Watson 4.00 Last
Word 4.30 Sending Mum Abroad (R)
5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping 6.00
News 6.15 Sandi Toksvig’s Hygge 6.30
The News Quiz 7.00 Lemn Sissay’s
Poetry Rebels. Lemn considers online
poets 7.15 Screenshot. News and
insights from the film world 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 11.00 John
Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme (R)
11.30 Influencers (R) 12.00 News
12.15 The Digital Human (R) 12.48
Shipping 1.00 As World ServiceRADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Meet David Sedaris 5.30 The Tim
Vine Chat Show 6.00 Father Brown
Stories 6.30 Detective 7.00 The
Headset Set 7.30 Alex Horne Presents
The Horne Section New Year 8.00
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 12.30 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 10.00 Alex Horne Presents
The Horne Section New Year 10.25
Comedy Club Extra 10.30 Hamish And
Dougal — You’ll Have Had Your Tea
11.00 Old Harry’s Game 11.30-12.00
That Mitchell And Webb Sound
LBC
7.00 Nick Ferrari 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair.
Discussion 6.00 Andrew Pierce 9.00
The Consumer Hour 10.00 Nick Abbot
1.00 Clive Bull 4.00 Ian Payne
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week 1.00
Lunchtime Concert. Highlights from
the Bath Mozartfest, with concerts
recorded at the Assembly Rooms,
today featuring Ravel’s Mother Goose
Suite 2.00 Afternoon Concert. Ian
Skelly introduces performances from
around the world, including the St
Petersburg Symphony Orchestra with
Dvorak’s 9th Symphony and the
Freiburg Baroque with Handel and
Caldara 4.30 The Listening Service (R)
5.00 New Generation Artists 6.15
Words And Music (R) 7.30 In Concert.
The children’s author Jacqueline
Wilson and special guests read from
her books alongside musical interludes
by composers past and present,
including the Tracy Beaker theme tune
9.00 BBC Proms. Georgia Mann and
Petroc Trelawny present the Last Night
of the Proms, with the tenor Stuart
Skelton and the accordionist Ksenija
Sidorova joining the BBC SO (R) 12.00
Late Junction 1.00 Gameplay With
BabyQueen 3.00 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Sam Pittis 9.00 Aled Jones 1.00
Marverine Cole 5.00 John Brunning
7.00 Charlotte Hawkins 10.00
Margherita Taylor 1.00 Katie
Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis
RADIO 2
6.30 Nicki Chapman 9.30 Scott Mills
12.00 Our Platinum Year 2.00 OJ Borg
4.15 Ravio 2 5.00 Joe Lycett 7.00
Sophie Ellis-Bextor 9.00 Romesh
Ranganathan 11.00 Michelle Visage’s
Fabulous New Year Party 1.00 Craig
Charles 3.00 Romesh Ranganathan
4.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 Chris Evans 10.00 Eddy
Temple-Morris 1.00 Tim Cocker 4.00
Amy Voce 7.00 Ben Jones 10.00
Stu Elmore 1.00 Through The Night
TALKSPORT
5.00 A Talksport Special 6.00 Alan
Brazil 10.00 White And Jordan 1.00
Charlie Baker 4.00 Andy Goldstein
And Darren Bent 7.00 Fergie At 80
8.00 Hawksbee And Jacobs 11.00 New
Years Eve Party 1.00 Martin KelnerTIMES RADIO
5.00 Early Breakfast 6.00 Times
Radio Breakfast. All the morning’s
headlines 10.00 Luke Jones. A full
primer on the political week 1.00
Afternoons On Times Radio 4.00
Times Radio Drive 7.00 Evenings
On Times Radio. Entertaining
evening conversation 10.00 Late
Nights On Times Radio. A first look
at tomorrow’s front pages 1.00
Stories Of Our Times 1.30 Red Box
2.00 Highlights From Times Radio
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message charge.PICK OF THE DAY
Michelle Visage’s
New Year Party
Radio 2, 11pm
Visage, pictured, sees in
2022 with party anthems
and listeners’ requests.
Drama: SteelHeads
(Radio 4, 2.15pm) is a thriller
starring Jessica Barden as a
tennis pro diagnosed with
a terminal illness who has
herself cryogenically frozen
in the hope that one day
there will be a cure. Claire
Handscombe presents a look
at the world of British books
in The Brit Lit Podcast.
Clair Woodward