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Times Radio

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6.00am Jenny Kleeman and

Luke Jones 10.00 Carole

Walker 1.00pm Alexis Conran

4.00 Ayesha Hazarika 7.00

Past Imperfect. Interviews with

Alice Thomson and Rachel

Sylvester 8.00 Wine Times

8.30 Red Box 9.00 Highlights

from Times Radio 10.00

Kait Borsay 1.00am

Highlights from Times Radio

Radio 2

FM: 88-90.2 MHz

5.00am Tracks of My Years

6.00 Good Morning Sunday

9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday

Love Songs 11.00 The Michael

Ball Show 1.00pm Elaine Paige

on Sunday 3.00 Sounds of the

70s with Johnnie Walker 5.00

Paul O’Grady 7.00 Sunday

Night Is Music Night (r)

9.00 TBA 10.00 Dr Rangan

Chatterjee 12.00 OJ Borg

2.30am One Hit Wonders

with OJ Borg 3.00 Pick of the

Pops (r) 4.00 Katie Piper

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

7.00am Breakfast

9.00 Sunday Morning

11.00 EBU Christmas Around

Europe A festival of Christmas

music and singing from

Europe and Canada, featuring

Saint-Saëns from Leipzig and

Handel from Riga in Latvia

3.00pm Choral Evensong

From Sacred Trinity

Church, Salford (r)

4.00 EBU Christmas Around

Europe More from the festival

of Christmas music and

singing from Europe and

Canada, with performances

from Athens, Copenhagen,

Stuttgart and Vancouver

11.00 Free the Music with

Pekka Kuusisto Exploring and

questioning the significance

of repetition in music

12.00 Slow Radio: Venice

Between the Bells

12.30am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am-Midday (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Live commentary on

the fourth day of the second

Test at the Adelaide Oval

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Bells on Sunday

5.45 Profile (r)

6.00 News Headlines

6.05 Something Understood

6.35 Natural Histories (r)

6.57 Weather

7.00 News and Papers

7.10 Sunday

7.54 Radio 4 Appeal

7.57 Weather

8.00 News and Papers

8.10 (FM) Live Sunday

Worship The morning service

8.48 A Point of View (r)

8.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

9.00 Broadcasting House

10.00 The Archers (r)

11.00 Desert Island Discs

11.45 Some Hay in a Manger

Festive comedy (1/2) (r)

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 I’m Sorry I Haven’t

a Clue Panel show (r)

12.32 The Food Programme

1.00 The World This Weekend

1.30 The Listening Project

2.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time From East Sussex (r)

2.45 A Home of Our Own (r)

3.00 Drama: Starship Titanic

Adaptation of Terry Jones’s

comic sci-fi novel. See Choice

4.00 Open Book

4.30 Leaving the Family

Home Documentary (r)

5.00 The Great Pyramids

of Albania (r)

5.40 Profile (r)

5.54 Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.15 Pick of the Week

7.00 The Archers

Lynda seeks divine justice

7.15 Love in Recovery (r)

7.45 Gambits The Queen

by Eley Williams (8/10)

8.00 Feedback (r)

8.30 Last Word (r)

9.00 Money Box (r)

9.25 Radio 4 Appeal (r)

9.30 Rutherford and

Fry on Living with AI (r)

10.00 The Westminster Hour

11.00 Think with Pinker (r)

11.30 Something Understood

Exploring regarding the story

of Jesus’ birth as myth (r)

12.00 News and Weather

12.15am Sideways (7/8) (r)

12.45 Bells on Sunday (r)

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service

3.45-5.20 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Live commentary on

the fifth day of the second Test

Radio 5 Live

MW: 693, 909

5.00am Sports Desk 5.30

5 Live Football Daily 6.00

Science 7.00 Breakfast 10.00

Laura Whitmore 12.00

5 Live Sport. Live football

coverage 4.00pm 5 Live Sport

4.30 5 Live Sport: Tottenham

Hotspur v Liverpool (Kick-off

4.30) 6.30 6-0-6 8.00 Teach

Me a Lesson with Greg James

and Bella Mackie 8.45 Life

Hacks 9.00 Stephen Nolan

12.00 Teach Me a Lesson with

Greg James and Bella Mackie

12.45am 5 Minutes On

1.00 Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

6.00am Weekend Sports

Breakfast 9.00 Jonny Owen

and Friends 11.00 Live

GameDay Exclusive: Everton

v Leicester City (Kick-off

12.00) 2.00pm Sunday

Session with Sam Matterface

and Perry Groves 5.00 Darren

Bent’s Boot Room 8.00

A talkSPORT Special 9.00

Trans Europe Express

12.00 A talkSPORT Special

1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5.00am The Best of TalkRadio

7.00 Cristo Foufas 10.00

Richard Tice 1.00pm Bob

Mills 4.00 Plank of the Week

5.00 Clashes of the Week

7.00 Driven Chat with Andy

Jaye 8.00 Nick De Bois 10.00

Unexplained with Howard

Hughes 1.00am Paul Ross

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

7.20am Children in Need:

D for Dexter — Snakes and

Ladders Omnibus 8.30 A Life

of Bliss 9.00 The Clitheroe Kid

9.30 In and Out of the Kitchen

10.00 Desert Island Discs

Revisited: Americans 10.45

The Curious Cases of

Rutherford & Fry 11.00 Moth

Radio Hour 11.55 Inheritance

Tracks 12.00 Poetry Extra

12.30pm HR 1.00 A Christmas

Carol by Charles Dickens

4.30 Open Book 5.00 Poetry

Extra 5.30 HR 6.00 Echoes

from the Abbey 6.45 A

Sacrifice at Christmas 7.00

Moth Radio Hour 7.55

Inheritance Tracks 8.00

The Von Trapps and Me

9.00 Desert Island Discs

Revisited: Americans 9.45

The Curious Cases of

Rutherford & Fry 10.00 HR

10.30 Geoff Norcott: Right

Leaning but Well Meaning

11.00 It’s David O’Doherty

Time 11.30 The Museum of

Everything 12.00 Echoes

from the Abbey 12.45am

A Sacrifice at Christmas

BBC World Service

Digital only

9.00am News 9.06 From Our

Own Correspondent 9.30

Outlook 10.00 News 10.06

A Pyrotechnic History of

Humanity 10.30 Heart and

Soul 11.00 Newsroom 11.30

Compass 12.00 News

12.06pm Documentary 1.00

Newshour 2.00 News 2.06

Forum 2.50 More or Less

3.00 News 3.06 Music Life

4.00 News 4.06 Sportsworld

7.00 Newsroom 7.30 Heart

and Soul 8.00 News 8.06

Business 9.00 Newshour

10.00 Newsroom 10.20

Sports News 10.30 Outlook

11.06 A Pyrotechnic History

of Humanity 11.30

Explanation 11.50 More or

Less 12.00 News 12.06am

Our Own Correspondent

12.30 Heart and Soul 1.00

News 1.06 Business 1.30

Discovery 2.00 Newsroom

2.30 Climate Question 3.00

News 3.06 A Pyrotechnic

History of Humanity

3.30 Explanation 3.50 Over

to You 4.00 Newsroom

4.30 Conversation

6 Music

Digital only

6.00am Amy Lamé 8.00

Radcliffe and Maconie 10.00

Cerys Matthews 1.00pm Liz

Kershaw’s Legends in Their

Own Lunchtime 2.00 Guy

Garvey 4.00 Iggy Pop 6.00

Now Playing @6Music 8.00

Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone

10.00 Don Letts’ Culture

Clash Radio 12.00 Cillian

Murphy’s Limited Edition

2.00am Late in the Day 4.00

The BBC Introducing Mixtape

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.00am Amy Voce 9.30

Graham Norton 12.30pm On

Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00

Christian Williams 10.00 Stu

Elmore 1.00am Through The

Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

7.00am Aled Jones 10.00

John Brunning 1.00pm

Catherine Bott 4.00 John

Humphrys 7.00 Smooth

Classics 9.00 Moira Stuart

Meets: The Archbishop of

Canterbury 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Bill Overton

Today’s pick

Starship Titanic

Radio 4, 3pm

Michael Palin, Terry Jones,

Douglas Adams and the

director Dirk Maggs

represent a dream team of

audio comedy, and so it

proves in this deeply silly

adaptation of Jones’s novel

set in the Adamsiverse of

Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect et

al. Palin, right, takes the

de facto narrator role as

the Encyclopaedia Galactica,

as the titular engineering

miracle vanishes on its

maiden voyage in a potential

insurance scam, only to

reappear on top of an

Oxfordshire property being

inspected by an unsuspecting

couple from Middle England.

Gabriel Tate

Sunday 19

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Carry On Nurse

(PG, 1959) Comedy starring

Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims

12.50pm Evolution (PG, 2001)

Sci-fi comedy starring David

Duchovny and Orlando Jones

2.50 Dora and the Lost City

of Gold (PG, 2019) Live-action

adventure with Isabela Moner

4.55 Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG,

2011) Animated sequel with

the voice of Jack Black

6.45 Spider-Man: Into the

Spider-Verse (PG, 2018)

A student becomes a version

of Spider-Man, and crosses

paths with counterparts from

other dimensions. Animated

adventure with the voices of

Shameik Moore and Nicolas

Cage. See Film Choice

9.00 Independence Day

(12, 1996) The US president

leads the fight against a force

of seemingly indestructible

aliens. Sci-fi adventure with

Will Smith and Bill Pullman

11.50 What Men Want

(15, 2019) Romantic comedy

starring Taraji P Henson

2.10am-4.00 Career Girls

(15, 1997) Mike Leigh’s drama

starring Katrin Cartlidge

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Front Line Kids

(U, 1942) Comedy starring

Gerald Rex and Leslie Fuller

7.30 Old Bill and Son

(U, 1940) Wartime comedy

drama starring John Mills

9.30 Law of the Plainsman

10.00 The Night We Got the

Bird (PG, 1961) Comedy with

Brian Rix and Dora Bryan

11.40 Thunder in the East

(PG, 1951) Adventure starring

Alan Ladd and Charles Boyer

1.40pm The Winslow Boy (U,

1948) Historical courtroom

drama starring Robert Donat

4.00 The Footage Detectives

5.00 The Dickie

Henderson Show

5.30 Night Mail (U, 1936)

Documentary by Harry Watt

and Basil Wright

6.00 Upstairs, Downstairs

7.00 The October Man

(PG, 1947) Psychological

thriller starring John Mills

9.00 Secret Army

10.05 Anna and the King of

Siam (12, 1946) Romantic

drama starring Irene Dunne

and Rex Harrison

12.40am House of Bamboo

(PG, 1955) Gangland thriller

starring Robert Stack

2.45 Vice Squad (18, 1982)

Thriller with Season Hubley

4.35-6.00 The Butler’s

Dilemma (U, 1943) Comedy

starring Richard Hearne

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am Runaway Christmas

Bride (PG, 2017) Comedy

drama starring Cindy Busby

10.50 The Christmas Candle

(U, 2013) Period family drama

starring Hans Matheson

12.55pm Call Me Claus (PG,

2001) Christmas family drama

starring Whoopi Goldberg

2.45 Vice Versa (PG, 1988)

Fantasy comedy with Judge

Reinhold and Fred Savage

4.40 The Nebraskan (PG,

1953) Western starring Philip

Carey and Roberta Haynes

6.35 What’s Eating Gilbert

Grape (12, 1993) Drama

starring Johnny Depp

9.00 Panic Room (15, 2002)

Thriller with Jodie Foster

11.25-1.20am Moon

(15, 2009) Sci-fi drama

starring Sam Rockwell

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Double bill

7.10 Off Set

7.20 Black Patch (PG, 1957)

Western starring

George Montgomery

9.10 Doctor Zhivago (PG,

1965) Drama with Omar Sharif

1.15pm The Adventures of

Sherlock Holmes (PG, 1939)

Mystery with Basil Rathbone

3.00 The Iron Sheriff (U, 1957)

Western with Sterling Hayden

4.40 Dial M for Murder (PG,

1954) Thriller with Ray Milland

6.55 Off Set

7.10 Fort Dobbs (PG, 1958)

Western starring Clint Walker

9.00 Payback (18, 1999)

Thriller starring Mel Gibson

11.05-1.35am Copycat (18,

1995) Thriller with Sigourney

Weaver and Holly Hunter

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

1.35pm Hide and Seek

(15, 2021) Thriller

3.30 Another Round

(12, 2020) Comedy drama

starring Mads Mikkelsen

5.35 In the Heights (PG, 2021)

Musical with Anthony Ramos

8.00 A Christmas Number

One (PG, 2021) Romantic

comedy starring Freida

Pinto and Iwan Rheon

10.00-11.55 Hide and Seek (15,

2021) A wealthy businessman

follows a lead to find his

missing brother. Thriller with

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Katrin Cartlidge in Career

Girls (Film4, 2.10am)