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Times Radio

Digital only

5.00am Calum Macdonald

with Early Breakfast 6.00

Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with

Times Radio Breakfast 10.00

Matt Chorley 1.00pm Mariella

Frostrup 4.00 John Pienaar at

Drive 7.00 Phil Williams 10.00

Carole Walker. Late-night

news 1.00am Stories of Our

Times 1.30 Red Box 2.00

Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

6.30am The Zoe Ball Breakfast

Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00

Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve

Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 6.30

Sara Cox’s Half Wower 7.00

Will Young’s Shiny Happy

Playlist 7.30 Will Young 9.00

The Country Show with Bob

Harris 10.00 DJ Spoony’s

Rhythm Nation 12.00 OJ Borg

3.00am Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s

Kitchen Disco (r) 4.00

A Dance Through the

Decades 4.30 Vanessa Feltz

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Errollyn Wallen

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Sarah Walker presents

highlights from the 2021

Prague Spring Festival. Dvořák

(Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor,

op. 26); Robert Schumann

(Fantasiestücke, op. 73); and

Scriabin (Piano Sonata No. 5

in F sharp, op. 53)

2.00 Afternoon Concert

Elisabetta Brusa (Firelights);

Beethoven (Symphony No. 8 in

F, op. 93); CPE Bach (Violin

Sonata in B flat, Wq. 76);

Rachmaninov (Piano Concerto

No. 4 in G minor, op. 40);

Raimonds Tiguls (I Pray You,

Lord — premiere); Irīna

Mihailovska (Triptych —

premiere); Beethoven (Ah!

perfido, op. 65, scene and aria);

Christiane Karg (soprano);

Schubert (Symphony No.3);

and Dobrinka Tabakova

(Fantasy Homage to Schubert)

5.00 In Tune

7.00 In Tune Mixtape

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

Schubert (Symphony No.8 in B

minor, D.789 —“Unfinished”);

Berlioz (Les nuits d’étè); Fazil

Say (Geza Park 3); and

Schubert (Symphony

No.5 in B flat, D.485)

10.00 Free Thinking Rana

Mitter looks at war and tactics

10.45 The Essay: Artists and

the Spirit World Jennifer

Higgie celebrates the work

of the artist Ithell Colquhoun

11.00 The Night Tracks Mix

11.30 Unclassified Manchester

duo Space Afrika share a piece

of transportative music

12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am-7.30 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

second day of the fourth Test

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

6.00 Today

7.30 (LW) Today

8.31 (LW) Yesterday

in Parliament

9.00 Rethink: Population

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week:

Viewfinders: Ways

of Seeing at 50 (4/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Crossing Continents

11.30 The Lotte Berk

Technique (r)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Subterranean Homesick

Blues By AL Kennedy (2/5)

12.18 You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 Past Forward:

A Century of Sound

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: Vital Signs

3.00 Open Country

3.27 Radio 4 Appeal (r)

3.30 Bookclub (r)

4.00 Think with Pinker

4.30 BBC Inside Science

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 Fags, Mags and Bags (r)

7.00 The Archers

Jennifer promises help

7.15 Front Row Arts news

8.00 The Briefing Room

8.30 Lights Out (r)

9.00 BBC Inside Science (r)

9.30 Pride or Prejudice:

How We Read Now (r)

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Subterranean Homesick Blues

By AL Kennedy (4/5) (r)

11.00-5.20am (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

third day of the fourth Test

11.00 The Nether Regions

New series. See Choice

11.30 Today in Parliament

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the

Week: Viewfinders — Ways

of Seeing at 50 (4/5) (r)

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

Nicky Campbell 11.00 Adrian

Chiles 1.00pm Nihal

Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live

Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport

10.30 Colin Murray

1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Alan Brazil 10.00 Jim White

and Simon Jordan 1.00pm

Hawksbee & Baker 4.00 Andy

Goldstein and Darren Bent

7.00 Kick Off 10.00 Sports

Bar 1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30 Julia

Hartley-Brewer 10.00 Mike

Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins

4.00 Jeremy Kyle 7.00 Kevin

O’Sullivan 10.00 James Whale

Feat Ash 1.00am Paul Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Men from the

Ministry 8.30 After Henry

9.00 Many a Slip 9.30 Clare

in the Community 10.00

A Room with a View 11.00

Desert Island Discs Revisited

11.45 Curious Cases of

Rutherford & Fry 12.00 Men

from the Ministry 12.30pm

After Henry 1.00 Dr Finlay

1.30 Colvil and Soames 2.00

Man of Iron 2.15 D for Dexter

2.30 Rosa and Leos 3.00

A Room with a View 4.00

Many a Slip 4.30 Clare in the

Community 5.00 Meet David

Sedaris 5.30 Fags, Mags and

Bags 6.00 Schalken the

Painter 6.30 Great Lives 7.00

Men from the Ministry 7.30

After Henry 8.00 Dr Finlay

8.30 Colvil and Soames

9.00 Desert Island Discs

Revisited 9.45 The Curious

Cases of Rutherford & Fry

10.00 Fags, Mags and Bags

10.30 The Penny Dreadfuls

Present 11.15 A Wet Handle

11.30 Secret World

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06

Assignment 9.30

Healthcheck 10.00 News

10.06 Forum 10.50 Sporting

Witness 11.00 Newsroom

11.30 Food Chain 12.00 News

12.06pm Outlook 12.50

Witness History 1.00

Newsroom 1.30 Healthcheck

2.00 Newshour 3.00 News

3.06 Inquiry 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

Assignment 8.30 Science in

Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00

Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 Inquiry 11.30

Food Chain 12.00 News

12.06am The Forum 12.50

Sporting Witness 1.00 News

1.06 Business Matters 2.00

The Newsroom 2.30 World

Football 3.00 News 3.06

Outlook 3.50 Witness History

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

Steve Lamacq 7.00 Marc

Riley 9.00 Gideon Coe

12.00 New Music Fix

1.00am New Music Fix

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am Chris Evans 10.00

Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00pm

Tim Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler

7.00 Steve Denyer 10.00 Rich

Williams 1.00am Through

The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00 John

Humphrys 12.00 Anne-Marie

Minhall 4.00pm John

Brunning 7.00 Smooth

Classics 8.00 Concert with

John Suchet. JS Bach

(Toccata & Fugue in D minor

BWV.565; Air on the G string

— from Orchestral Suite No 3

in D BWV.1068; Il Giardino

Armonico; Jesu, Joy of man’s

desiring; Brandenburg

Concerto No 3 in G BWV.1048;

Violin Concerto in A minor

BWV.1041; Cello Suite No 1 in

G BWV.1007 Prelude & Fugue

in C BWV.846; Keyboard

Concerto in D minor

BWV.1052; and Flute Sonata

in E BWV.1035) 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Bill Overton

4.00 Early Breakfast

Today’s pick

The Nether Regions

Radio 4, 11pm

Radio 4 has a good pedigree

when it comes to weird

late-night comedy, stuff in

tune with that witchy time

before sleep envelops us. Rob

Grant and Andrew Marshall’s

new sketch show certainly

fits that bill, opening with the

Shipping Forecast as normal

people hear it: “Dover, Sole,

Haddock... Vikings, Dolphins,

Plusnet and East Acton.” They

recreate Melvyn Bragg being

attacked by bees and blow up

the Desert Island Discs island,

but making The Archers

interesting seems beyond

them. Some skits are surreal,

while others, such as Love

Island imagined by Jane

Austen, are just silly. But it’s

all good fun. Ben Dowell

Thursday 6

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Santa Fe Passage

(U, 1955) Western adventure

starring John Payne

12.50pm Anastasia (U, 1956)

Historical drama with Ingrid

Bergman and Yul Brynner

3.00 The Weaker Sex (U,

1948) Second World War

drama starring Ursula Jeans

4.45 The Colditz Story (U,

1954) Second World War

drama starring John Mills

6.50 Goodbye Christopher

Robin (PG, 2017) Biopic of AA

Milne with Domhnall Gleeson

9.00 Venom (15, 2018)

Fantasy adventure starring

Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed

11.10-1.50am Raging Bull

(18, 1980) Boxing biopic

starring Robert De Niro

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Scotland Yard

Investigator (PG, 1945) Crime

drama with C Aubrey Smith

7.20 Master Spy (U, 1964)

Cold War drama starring

Stephen Murray

8.45 Woman Hater (U, 1948)

Comedy with Stewart Granger

10.50 Take Me High (U, 1973)

Musical starring Cliff Richard

12.35pm Nine, Dalmuir West

12.50 Value for Money (U,

1955) Romantic comedy with

John Gregson and Diana Dors

2.35 Unpublished Story (PG,

1942) Drama starring Richard

Greene and Valerie Hobson

4.10 The Ship that Died of

Shame (PG, 1955) Drama with

Richard Attenborough

6.00 Interpol Calling

6.30 House of Blackmail (12,

1953) Mystery with William

Sylvester and Mary Germaine

7.55 Glimpses

8.00 Justice

9.00 Heavens Above! (PG,

1963) Satirical comedy with

Peter Sellers and Eric Sykes

11.20-2.20am Anna and the

King (12, 1999) Period drama

starring Jodie Foster

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Paint By Murder (PG,

2018) Thriller starring Alexxis

Lemire and Mark Krenik

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 Killer Assistant (PG,

2016) Thriller starring Arianne

Zucker and Brando Eaton

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 Eve of Abduction (PG,

2018) Thriller with Sarah Lind

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 Nick and Norah’s Infinite

Playlist (12, 2008) Comedy

drama starring Michael Cera

4.40 Arctic (12, 2018) Thriller

starring Mads Mikkelsen

6.30 Legends of the Fall

(15, 1994) Period drama

with Anthony Hopkins

9.00-12.20am The Patriot (15,

2000) Action adventure with

Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger

GREAT! Movies Classic

FV 51 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

6.00am Machine-Gun Kelly

(15, 1958) Fact-based drama

7.40 Berlin Express

(PG, 1948) Thriller

9.20 The Running Man

(PG, 1963) Drama

11.10 Farewell My Lovely

(PG, 1944) Crime drama

1.05pm Who Was That Lady?

(U, 1959) Comedy

3.25 The Las Vegas Story (PG,

1952) Drama with Jane Russell

5.15 Cash on Demand

(PG, 1961) Crime thriller

6.55 Breaker Morant

(PG, 1980) Fact-based drama

9.00 The Odessa File (PG,

1974) Thriller with Jon Voight

11.35-1.40am The War Lover

(PG, 1962) Wartime drama

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Double bill

7.10 Off Set

7.25 Waco (PG, 1966) Western

9.15 Torpedo Run (U, 1958)

11.15 Johnny Guitar (PG, 1954)

Western with Joan Crawford

1.30pm Ghost Town (U, 1956)

Western starring Kent Taylor

3.10 Sergeant Rutledge

(PG, 1960) Western drama

5.30 The Gun That Won the

West (U, 1955) Western

7.00 Stars in My Crown

(PG, 1950) Western drama

8.50 The Utah Kid (U, 1944)

Western starring Hoot Gibson

10.00-1.10am Robin Hood (12,

2010) Medieval adventure

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.15pm In the Heights

(PG, 2021) Musical

2.40 Naked Singularity (15,

2021) Crime comedy drama

4.30 Think Like a Dog (PG,

2020) Family comedy drama

starring Josh Duhamel

6.15 The Croods: A New Age

(U, 2020) Animated sequel

with the voice of Nicolas Cage

8.00 In the Heights (PG,

2021) Musical with Anthony

Ramos and Corey Hawkins

10.25-12.05am Naked

Singularity (15, 2021) Comedy

drama starring John Boyega

Robert De Niro as Jake

LaMotta (Film4, 11.10pm)