the times | Saturday January 1 2022 saturday review 23
Times Radio
Digital only7.00am Luke Jones with New
Year’s Day Breakfast 10.00
Pienaar’s Predictions 1.00pm
Hugo Rifkind’s Highlights of
2021 4.00 Times Radio Drive.
Conversation 7.00 Pienaar’s
Predictions. A look ahead at
what to expect in 2022 10.00
Kait Borsay. An early look at
Sunday’s newspapers 1.00am
Highlights from Times RadioRadio 2
FM: 88-90.2 MHz5.00am Radio 2 in Concert (r)
6.00 Sounds of the 60s with
Tony Blackburn 8.00 Owain
Wyn Evans 10.00 Claudia
Winkleman 1.00pm George
Michael Chart 4.00 Songs That
Bring You Joy with Gaby Roslin
7.00 It’s a Kind of Magic: The
Queen Story. See Choice (r)
9.00 George Michael: Older
at 25 10.00 The Craig Charles
House Party 11.30 The Craig
Charles House Party Mixtape
12.00 Ana Matronic’s Dance
Devotion 2.00am David
Bowie at the BBC 4.00
Radio 2 in Concert: Elbow (r)Radio 3
FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz7.00am Breakfast
9.00 Record Review Tom
Service picks his favourite
recording of Mozart’s Piano
Concerto No 20 in D minor
10.15 Live New Year’s Day
Concert from Vienna Josef
Strauss (Phoenix March op.
105; and The Siren Polka op.
248); Johann Strauss II (Wings
of the Phoenix Waltz, op. 125;
Morning Papers, Waltz, op. 279;
Die Fledermaus Overture;
Champagne Polka, op. 211;
Persian March op. 289; and
A Thousand and One Nights,
Waltz, op. 346); Joseph
Hellmesberger II (Little
Advertiser Galop, op. 4; and
Elves, Character piece); Eduard
Strauss (Little Chronicle, Fast
Polka, op. 128; Greetings to
Prague, French Polka, op. 144);
Carl Michael (Night Revellers,
Waltz, op. 466); and Josef
Strauss (Nymph, French Polka,
op. 50; and Harmony of the
Spheres, Waltz, op. 235)
1.00pm Inside Music
3.00 Sound of Gaming
4.00 Music Planet
5.00 My Problem
with Shostakovich
6.00 Opera on 3
A performance of Wagner’s
Tristan and Isolde from
the 2021 Aix-en-Provence
Festival starring Stuart Skelton
and Nina Stemme and
10.15 New Music Show
Kate Moilleson launches New
Year New Music, favourite
pieces specially selected
by Radio 3 presenters
12.00 Freeness
1.00am Through the Night (r)Radio 4
FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz
LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
5.45 Four Thought (r)
6.00 News and Papers
6.07 Open Country (r)
6.30 Farming Today This
Week Agricultural issues
7.00 Today
9.00 Saturday Live
10.30 The Kitchen Cabinet
11.00 Under the Influence (r)
11.30 From Our Own
Correspondent
12.01pm (LW)
Shipping Forecast
12.04 Money Box
12.30 The News Quiz (r)
1.00 News
1.10 Correspondents’
Look Ahead to 2022 (r)
2.00 Pick of the Year
3.00 Drama: The Princess
Bride With Westley captured
and Buttercup on the cusp of
marriage, there are only two
people who can save the day
— one is lost and the other is
drunk. With Ruby Barker (2/2)
4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour
5.00 Saturday PM
5.30 Political Thinking with
Nick Robinson The Today
presenter interviews major
political figures about
their lives and careers
5.54 Shipping Forecast
6.00 Six O’Clock News
6.15 Loose Ends Clive
Anderson and Michelle
McManus are joined by Trevor
Horn, Laura Checkley and
Ore Oduba. With music from
Mica Paris and Cherise
7.00 Profile Friends,
colleagues and confidants
provide an insight into the
personality and motivation of
a person who is making the
headlines. With Mark Coles
7.15 This Cultural Life New
series. Nicole Kidman
discusses the experiences that
shaped her creative life
8.00 Archive on 4: The Villain
in Six Chapters (r)
9.00 The Strange Vanishing
of Julian Quark (r)
9.45 Sandi Toksvig’s Hygge (r)
10.00 News
10.15 The Moral Maze (r)11.00 Counterpoint (r)
11.30 Uncanny
12.00 News and Weather
12.15am Shaking
Up the Shanty (r)
12.48 Shipping Forecast
1.00 As BBC World ServiceRadio 5 Live
MW: 693, 9095.00am Film Review 6.00
Breakfast 9.00 Scott Mills and
Chris Stark 11.00 Fighting Talk
12.00 5 Live Sport 5.00pm
Sports Report 6.00 6-0-6
8.00 Sport’s Strangest
Crimes: Allen Stanford — The
Man Who Bought Cricket
9.00 Stephen Nolan 12.00
Boxing 1.00am Qasa AlomtalkSPORT
MW: 1053, 1089 kHz6.00am Breakfast 9.00
GameDay Warm Up 11.00 Live
GameDay Exclusive: Arsenal v
Manchester City (Kick-off
12.30) 2.30pm GameDay Live
5.15 Live GameDay Exclusive:
Crystal Palace v West Ham
United (Kick-off 5.30) 7.30
Your Verdict 10.00 Fight
Night 1.00am Extra TimetalkRADIO
Digital only5.00am Clashes of the Week
7.00 Cristo Foufas 10.00
Peter Cardwell 1.00pm Week
with Trisha 4.00 Andy Jaye
5.00 Claudia-Liza Armah 7.00
Nick De Bois 10.00 Darryl
Morris 1.00am Martin KelnerRadio 4 Extra
Digital only8.00am It’s Your Round 8.30
Smelling of Roses 9.00 Joe
Queenan: My Years of Awe
and Wonder 12.00 Many a
Slip 12.30pm Believe It! 1.00
The Supernatural North 1.45
Christmas with Clare Barker
2.00 The Penny Dreadfuls
Present: Hadrian’s Beard 2.45
Life with Lederer 3.00 That
Mitchell and Webb Sound
3.30 The Museum of
Everything 4.00 Miss
Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye5.30 Great Lives 6.00 The
Hex 6.50 Absent Friends:
The 7th Dimension 7.00 Joe
Queenan: My Years of Awe
and Wonder 10.00 Comedy
Club: Chain Reaction
10.30 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip
Hop 10.45 Paperback Hell
11.00 Mr and Mrs Smith
11.30 Hut 33 12.00 The Hex
12.50am Absent Friends:
The 7th DimensionBBC World Service
Digital only9.00am News 9.06 BBC OS
Conversations 9.30 The
Story 9.50 Over to You 10.00
News 10.06 Sports Hour
11.00 Newsroom 11.30
WorkLifeIndia 12.00 News
12.06pm World Book Club
1.00 Newshour 2.00 News
2.06 Sportsworld 6.00
Newsroom 6.30 Trending:
World of Wisdom 6.50
Sporting Witness 7.00 News
7.06 World Service New
Year’s Concert 8.00 News
8.06 The Arts Hour New Year
Comedy Special 9.00
Newshour 10.00 Newsroom
10.20 Sports News 10.30 The
Cultural Frontline 11.00 News
11.06 Music Life 12.00 News
12.06am OS Conversations
12.30 Trending: World of
Wisdom 12.50 Over to You
1.00 News 1.06 The Science
Hour 2.00 Newsroom 2.30
Healthcheck 3.00 News
3.06 World Book Club 4.00
News 4.06 From Our Own
Correspondent 4.30
The Cultural Frontline6 Music
Digital only6.00am Amy Lamé 8.00
Radcliffe and Maconie 10.00
The Huey Show 1.00pm
Afrodeutsche 3.00 Gilles
Peterson 6.00 The Craig
Charles Funk and Soul Show
9.00 The Blessed Madonna
12.00 Lose Yourself With
2.00am Cillian Murphy’s
Limited Edition 4.00 The
Morning After MixVirgin Radio
Digital only6.00am Amy Voce 9.30
The Graham Norton Show
12.30pm Virgin Radio On
Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00 Ben
Jones 10.00 Stu Elmore
1.00am Through The NightClassic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz7.00am Alan Titchmarsh
10.00 Aled Jones 1.00pm
Catherine Bott 4.00 Moira
Stuart’s Viennese Concert.
Music from Vienna 7.00
Saturday Night at the
Movies 9.00 David Mellor’s
Melodies 10.00 Smooth
Classics 1.00am Katie
Breathwick 4.00 Sam PittisToday’s pick
It’s a Kind of Magic —
The Queen Story
Radio 2, 7pm
The Queen story told through
their songs and the musicians
who inspired them, this
musical feast features the
BBC Concert Orchestra
performing outdoors in
Malta. Joining it are the
guitarists Dave Holmes and
Andy G Jones, with vocalists
including Tony Vincent, star
of the Queen musical We Will
Rock You. The hits include
Don’t Stop Me Now, We Are
the Champions and BohemianRhapsody. Numbers such as
John Lennon’s Imagine, Led
Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll and
Aretha Franklin’s Think show
the influence these tracks had
on Freddie Mercury, above,
and the boys. Ben DowellFilm4
FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 42811.00am Wonder Park (PG,
2019) Animated adventure
with the voice of Mila Kunis
12.45pm Dragonheart (PG,
1996) Fantasy adventure
starring Dennis Quaid
2.50 We Bought a Zoo (PG,
2011) Fact-based comedy
drama starring Matt Damon
5.10 Goodbye Christopher
Robin (PG, 2017) Biopic
starring Domhnall Gleeson
7.15 Jumper (12, 2008)
Fantasy thriller starring
Hayden Christensen
9.00 Venom (15, 2018)
Fantasy adventure starring
Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed
11.10 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
(18, 1992) Horror
starring Gary Oldman
1.45am-3.50 Daybreakers (15,
2009) Thriller starring Ethan
Hawke and Willem DafoeTalking Pictures TV
FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 4456.00am Shipmates O’Mine
(U, 1936) Musical with John
Garrick and Jean Adrienne
7.40 Marked Men (PG, 1940)
Crime drama with Warren Hull
8.50 Stars We Have Lost 2021
9.00 Hawkeye & the
Last of the Mohicans
9.30 Young Eagles
10.10 Exploits at West Poley
(U, 1985) Children’s period
drama starring Brenda Fricker
11.25 The Barnstormers
11.55 Saturday Morning
Pictures Memories
12.00 A Bell for Adano
(U, 1945) Second World War
drama starring Gene Tierney
2.05pm One Million Years BC
(PG, 1966) Adventure
starring Raquel Welch
4.05 Look at Life
4.20 Daleks’ Invasion Earth:
2150 AD (U, 1966)
Sci-fi adventure sequel
starring Peter Cushing
6.00 Scotland Yard
6.35 I’m All Right Jack
(U, 1959) Satirical comedy
starring Ian Carmichael
8.45 Brokedown Palace (12,
1999) Drama starring Claire
Danes and Kate Beckinsale
10.50 Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
(15, 1974) Crime adventure
starring Peter Fonda
12.35am Omen III: The Final
Conflict (18, 1981) Horror
starring Sam Neill
2.45-5.30 Hit! (18, 1973) Crime
drama with Billy Dee WilliamsGREAT! Movies
FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 4259.00am Earthtastrophe
(PG, 2016) Sci-fi thriller
starring Paige Lauren Billiot
10.35 Real Murders: An
Aurora Teagarden Mystery
(PG, 2015) Mystery starring
Candace Cameron Bure
12.15pm Three Men and a
Baby (PG, 1987) Comedy
starring Tom Selleck2.20 Meet the Parents
(12, 2000) Comedy starring
Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller
4.30 Shanghai Noon (12,
2000) Comedy Western with
Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson
6.45 Shanghai Knights (12,
2003) Martial arts comedy
sequel starring Jackie Chan
9.00 The Da Vinci Code (12,
2006) Thriller starring Tom
Hanks and Audrey Tautou
11.50-2.15am Seven Pounds
(12, 2008) Drama starring Will
Smith and Rosario DawsonTCM Movies
SKY 315 VIRGIN 4156.00am Off Set
6.10 Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers (U, 1954) Musical
8.15 Johnny Guitar (PG, 1954)
Western with Joan Crawford
10.35 Meet Me in St Louis
(U, 1944) Musical
12.55pm Raid on Rommel
(15, 1971) Wartime adventure
3.00 The Yellow Tomahawk
(PG, 1954) Western
4.50 Flat Top (U, 1952) War
drama with Sterling Hayden
6.35 Death Valley Rangers (U,
1943) Western starring Ken
Maynard and Hoot Gibson
7.50 West of Carson City
(U, 1940) Western starring
Johnny Mack Brown
9.00 Hanna (12, 2011) Action
thriller with Saoirse Ronan
11.20-1.40am Pale Rider (15,
1985) Western directed by
and starring Clint EastwoodSky Cinema Premiere
SKY 301 VIRGIN 40112.20pm The Suicide Squad
(15, 2021) Adventure comedy
2.40 Think Like a Dog (PG,
2020) Family comedy drama
starring Josh Duhamel
4.20 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)
Animated sequel with the
voice of James Corden
6.00 The Croods: A New Age
(U, 2020) Animated comedy
sequel featuring the
voice of Nicolas Cage
7.45 The Suicide Squad (15,
2021) Comic-book adventure
comedy with Idris Elba
10.05 Fatman (15, 2020)
Comedy starring Mel Gibson
11.50-1.20am Young Hearts
(15, 2020) Romantic drama
starring Anjini Taneja AzharNew Year’s Day
Film guide
Radio guide
Winona Ryder and Gary
Oldman (Film4, 11.10pm)