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Times Radio

Digital only

5.00am Calum Macdonald

with Early Breakfast 6.00

Times Radio Breakfast 10.00

Matt Chorley 1.00pm Ruth

Davidson 4.00 Cathy Newman

7.00 Michael Portillo 10.00

Kait Borsay 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 Gary Davies 9.30 Ken

Bruce 12.00 Jeremy Vine

2.00pm OJ Borg 5.00 Scott

Mills 7.00 Tony Blackburn

8.00 Sounds of the 80s with

Gary Davies 10.00 Sounds of

the 90s 12.00 Romesh

Ranganathan: For the Love of

Hip-Hop (r) 1.00am The Craig

Charles House Party (r) 2.30

The Craig Charles House Party

Mixtape (r) 3.00 Sam Ryder in

Session (r) 3.10 Piano Room (R)

4.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Handel and the Crown Handel

rallies to the Hanoverian cause

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Dvořák (The Forest is

quiet all around, Op 55 No 3;

Songs my mother taught me,

Op 55 No 4; So many a heart is

as though dead, Op 83 No 2; In

the sweet power of your eyes,

Op 83 No 7; and Oh dear soul,

the only one, Op 83 No 8);

Kashperova (Ich Schaue

hinauf, from 12 Romances No 1;

Wunsch, from 12 Romances

No 4; Herbstwind, from 12

Romances No 5; and Reiffrost

im Herbst, from 12 Romances

No 10.); Huw Watkins (Echo);

and Britten (At the mid hour of

night; and O Waly, Waly)

2.00 Afternoon Concert Fiona

Talkington with the third and

final act of Janáček’s Katya

Kabanova, from Rome Opera.

Also, Mozart’s First Symphony

and Gliere’s Horn Concerto

4.30 The Listening Service (r)

5.00 In Tune

7.00 Radio 3 in Concert The

BBC National Orchestra of

Wales and their principal

conductor Ryan Bancroft

celebrate the Queen’s platinum

jubilee at St David’s Cathedral

Festival, the Courtly Dances

from Britten’s opera Gloriana

10.00 The Verb With Lemn

Sissay, Monica Ali, Tishani

Doshi and Daniel Morden

10.45 The Essay: Composers

and Their Dogs Composers’

devotion to cocker spaniels (r)

11.00 Late Junction (r)

1.00am Composed

with Emeli Sandé

2.00 Gameplay

with Baby Queen

3.00 Through the Night (r)

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 (r)

6.00 Today

9.00 Desert Island Discs (r)

9.45 Book of the Week: Black

Gold By Jeremy Paxman (5/5)

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

10.00 Woman’s Hour

10.45-7.00pm (LW) Live Test

Match Special: England v

New Zealand Ball-by-ball

commentary on the second

day of the first Test at Lord’s

11.00 Witness

11.10 A Service of

Thanksgiving for the

Queen’s Reign From St Paul’s

Cathedral. See Choice

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.30 A Laureate for Elizabeth

With William Sieghart (r)

1.00 The World at One

1.45 How to Steal a Trillion

Money laundering (5/5)

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: A Faraway

Back of Beyond Place

By Michael Chaplin (r)

2.45 Living with the Gods (r)

3.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time Listeners’ queries

3.45 Short Works

4.00 Last Word

4.30 More or Less (r)

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 The News Quiz

7.00 The Archers Ruairi

faces a dilemma

7.15 Add to Playlist New series.

A musical journey of discovery

8.00 Any Questions?

8.50 A Point of View

9.00 How to Steal a Trillion

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Mr Wilder and Me

By Jonathan Coe (5/10)

11.00 Great Lives (r)

11.30 Laura Barton’s Notes

from a Musical Island (r)

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the Week:

Black Gold (5/5) (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 Chiles

on Friday 1.00pm The

Question of Sport Podcast

2.00 Elis James and John

Robins 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00

5 Live Sport: The Friday

Football Social 9.00 Rugby

League 10.00 Stephen Nolan

1.00am Hayley Hassall

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Alan Brazil 10.00 White and

Jordan with Martin Keown

1.00pm Hawksbee and

Jacobs 4.00 Drive with Andy

Goldstein and Darren Bent

7.00 GameDay Countdown

10.00 Sports Bar 1.00am

Extra Time with Martin Kelner

TalkRadio

Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30

Breakfast Show 10.00 The

Independent Republic of Mike

Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins

4.00 Rob Rinder 7.00 The

News Desk 8.00 The Best of

Piers Morgan Uncensored

9.00 The Talk 10.00 The

James Whale Show 11.00

The Best of Piers Morgan

Uncensored 12.00 The James

Whale Show 1.00am Darryl

Morris 4.00 The Talk

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Dad’s Army 8.30

Married 9.00 Whose Line Is It

Anyway? 9.30 Protesting Too

Much 10.00 Sir Arthur Conan

Doyle: Rodney Stone 10.50

Inheritance Tracks 11.00

Podcast Radio Hour 12.00

Dad’s Army 12.30pm Married

1.00 Publicity Stunts 1.30

Magnolia Blossom 2.00

Fall Down Seven Times,

Get Up Eight 2.15 Maya

Angelou: Gather Together in

My Name 2.30 The Loss of

Lostness 3.00 Sir Arthur

Conan Doyle: Rodney Stone

3.50 Inheritance Tracks 4.00

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

4.30 Protesting Too Much

5.00 Relativity 5.30 The Rest

Of Us 6.00 Host Planet Earth

6.30 Sounds Natural 7.00

Dad’s Army 7.30 Married

8.00 Publicity Stunts 8.30

Magnolia Blossom 9.00

Podcast Radio Hour 10.00

Comedy Club: The Rest Of Us

10.30 A World of Dowie 11.00

Laura Solon: Talking and Not

Talking 11.30 Concrete Cow

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 Tech Tent

9.30 Science in Action 10.00

News 10.06 The Real Story

11.00 The Newsroom 11.30

World Football 12.00 News

12.06pm Fifth Floor 12.50

Witness History 1.00 The

Newsroom 1.30 Science 2.00

Newshour 3.00 News 3.06

HARDtalk 3.30 Business 4.00

BBC OS 6.00 News 6.06 Fifth

Floor 6.50 Witness History

7.00 The Newsroom 7.30

Sport 8.00 News 8.06 Tech

Tent 8.30 CrowdScience

9.00 Newshour 10.00 News

10.06 HARDtalk 10.30 World

Football 11.00 The Newsroom

11.20 Sports 11.30 Business

12.00 News 12.06am Real

Story 1.00 News 1.06

Business Matters 2.00 The

Newsroom 2.30 Stumped

3.00 News 3.06 Fifth Floor

3.50 Witness History 4.00

News 4.06 The Real Story

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Gemma Cairney

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

The Blessed Madonna. Sitting

in for Steve Lamacq 7.00

Billy Porter 8.00 Lynks and

Andy Bell 9.00 Charity Kase

10.00 Cakes Da Killa 11.00

TAAHLIAH 12.00 Indie

Forever 1.00am Emo Forever

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show with Sky

10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris

1.00pm Tim Cocker

4.00 Gaby Roslin 7.00 Ben

Jones 10.00 Stu Elmore

1.00am Emma Nolan

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am More Music

Breakfast 9.00 Aled Jones

12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall

4.00pm John Brunning 7.00

Smooth Classics 9.00 Music

for Monarchy with Debbie

Wiseman. Concluding the

celebration of the Queen and

music that has intertwined

with her life 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Katie

Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Today’s pick

A Service of Thanksgiving

for the Queen’s Reign

Radio 4, 11.10am

A service live from St Paul’s

Cathedral to mark the

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The commentator Eleanor

Oldroyd, right, will describe

the scene as senior members

of the royal family and

representatives from across

the UK and Commonwealth

gather to celebrate and give

thanks for the Queen

becoming the longest-

reigning British monarch

after 70 years. The service

includes Bible readings,

prayers and congregational

hymns along with anthems

sung by the choir of St Paul’s.

It also features a new setting

of words from the Book of

Proverbs. Ben Dowell

Friday 3

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Ten Tall Men (U,

1951) Comedy adventure

starring Burt Lancaster

1.00pm The Black Arrow (U,

1948) Adventure starring

Louis Hayward and Janet Blair

2.35 The Tin Star (U, 1957)

Western with Henry Fonda

4.25 This Happy Breed (U,

1944) Drama starring Robert

Newton and Celia Johnson

6.40 The Second Best Exotic

Marigold Hotel (PG, 2015)

Comedy drama sequel

9.00 Jumanji: Welcome

to the Jungle (12, 2017)

Fantasy action comedy

11.20-1.40am The

Untouchables (15, 1987)

Thriller starring Kevin Costner

Talking Pictures TV

FV 82 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Traitor (PG,

1957) Drama starring Donald

Wolfit and Robert Bray

7.40 Fighting Coast Guard

(U, 1951) Second World War

drama starring Brian Donlevy

9.25 Sister Kenny (PG,

1946) Fact-based drama

11.30 The Seventh Survivor

(U, 1942) Second World War

drama starring Austin Trevor

1.05pm The Queen and Her

Ceremonial Horses

2.20 Port of Escape (PG,

1956) Drama with Googie

Withers and John McCallum

3.50 Broken Lance (U, 1954)

Western with Spencer Tracy

5.45 The Night My Number

Came Up (PG, 1955) Thriller

starring Michael Redgrave

7.45 Look at Life

8.00 The Outer Limits

9.00 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

9.05 Prince of Darkness (18,

1988) Supernatural horror

11.10 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

11.15-12.55am Six Inches Tall

(PG, 1958) Sci-fi thriller

GREAT! Movies

FV 34 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News

9.10 Stand Your Ground (PG,

2013) Fact-based drama

11.15 GREAT! Movie News

11.25 Moneyball (12, 2011)

Fact-based sporting drama

2.15pm The Pursuit of

Happyness (12, 2006) Fact-

based drama with Will Smith

4.40 The Big Year (PG, 2011)

Comedy starring Jack Black

6.45 Shanghai Knights (12,

2003) Martial arts comedy

9.00 The Darjeeling Limited

(15, 2007) Comedy with Owen

Wilson. See Film Choice

10.50-12.40am The Escorts

(15, 2016) Comedy

GREAT! Movies Classic

FV 52 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

6.00am Cat Ballou (PG, 1965)

Musical comedy Western

8.00 The Big Steal (PG, 1949)

Thriller with Robert Mitchum

9.25 Crack Up (PG, 1946)

Thriller starring Pat O’Brien

11.15 Crossfire (12, 1947)

Drama with Robert Mitchum

1.00pm The Caine Mutiny

(U, 1954) Second World War

drama with Humphrey Bogart

3.30 A Farewell to Arms (PG,

1957) First World War drama

starring Rock Hudson

6.35 The Misfits (PG, 1961)

Western starring Clark Gable

9.00 Women in Love (15,

1969) Drama starring Alan

Bates and Oliver Reed

11.40-1.50am Shampoo (18,

1975) Satirical comedy drama

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors

6.35 Off Set

7.00 Sugarfoot

8.05 Maverick

9.10 The Westerner (PG,

1940) Western starring Gary

Cooper and Walter Brennan

11.15 Sugarfoot

12.20pm Maverick

1.30 Raid on Rommel (15,

1971) Second World War

adventure starring Richard

Burton and John Colicos

3.35 The Day of the Jackal

(15, 1973) Assassination

thriller starring Edward Fox

6.35 TCM Shorts:

Ben Miller Off Set

6.55 Funeral in Berlin (PG,

1966) Cold War thriller

starring Michael Caine

9.00 Alfie (15, 1966) Comedy

drama starring Michael Caine

11.20-1.50am The Birds (15,

1963) Alfred Hitchcock’s

thriller starring Tippi Hedren

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.35pm Come Play

(15, 2020) Horror

2.20 Deadlock (15, 2021)

Thriller starring Bruce Willis

4.05 Four Good Days (15,

2021) Drama with Glenn Close

5.55 The Last Letter from

Your Lover (12, 2021) Drama

starring Shailene Woodley

8.00 The Matrix

Resurrections (15, 2021) Sci-fi

10.35-12.30am Deadlock (15,

2021) Action thriller

The Matrix Resurrections

(Sky Premiere, 8pm)