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Times Radio

Digital only

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Times Radio Breakfast 10.00

Matt Chorley’s Christmas

Cracker 1.00pm Giles Coren’s

Christmas Coren 4.00 Times

Radio Drive. Conversation with

guests 7.00 Michael Portillo.

Cultured conversation and

political interview 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 The Matt Lucas

Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken

Bruce 12.00 Chris Mason

2.00pm OJ Borg 4.15 OJ Borg:

Ravio 2 5.00 Sara Cox 8.00

Sounds of the 80s with Gary

Davies 10.00 Sounds of the

90s with Fearne Cotton 12.00

TBA 1.00am The Craig Charles

House Party (r) 2.30 The Craig

Charles House Party Mixtape

(r) 3.00 The Muppets at

Christmas: It’s Time to Play the

Music (r) 4.00 Sophie

Ellis-Bextor’s Kitchen Disco

Radio 3

FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz

6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Mozart With Donald Macleod

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Eivind Ringstad and

the Amatis Trio perform.

Mahler (Piano Quartet in A

minor); and Schubert (Piano

Quintet in A, D667 — Trout) (r)

2.00 Afternoon Concert

Thea Musgrave (Loch Ness —

A postcard from Scotland);

Tchaikovsky (Symphony

No.1 in G minor, “Winter

Daydreams”); The WDR Big

Band plays jazzy arrangements

of festive Christmas favourites

including “Let it snow”, “It’s the

most beautiful time of the

year” and “Rudolph the

red-nosed reindeer”);

and Haydn (Symphony

No.96 in D “Miracle”)

4.30 The Listening Service (r)

5.00 New Generation Artists

6.15 Words and Music

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert HRH

The Prince of Wales joins Ian

Skelly to introduce a special

performance of Benjamin

Britten’s popular collection of

carols for harp and voices,

A Ceremony of Carols

8.40 BBC Proms 2021 Strauss

(Die Fledermaus — overture);

Berg (Seven Early Songs);

Ravel (La valse); and Korngold

(Symphony in F sharp) (r)

10.45 The Essay: The

Meaning of Ritual

11.00 Late Junction

1.00am Tearjerker

with Jorja Smith

2.00 Gameplay

with Baby Queen

3.00 Through the Night

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

6.00 Today

9.00 Desert Island Discs

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week: Taste

— My Life Through Food

By Stanley Tucci (5/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Look at What You

Could Have Won (r)

11.30 Count Arthur Strong’s

Radio Show! Comedy

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Joseph and the Three

Gifts: An Angel’s Story

By Brian Sibley (5/5)

12.18 Call You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 The Hackers

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: Pilgrim —

The Winter Queen By

Sebastian Baczkiewicz (2/2)

3.00 A Festival of Nine

Lessons and Carols

4.30 Last Word

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.15 Dead Ringers (3/3)

7.00 Lemn Sissay’s Poetry

Rebels Charting how voices

outside the mainstream

made themselves heard

7.15 Screenshot Exploring

festive screen favourites

8.00 Loose Ends Lounge

9.00 With Great Pleasure at

Christmas Poetry and prose

10.00 The Reunion The cast

of the 2003 film Love Actually

reunite. See Choice

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Joseph and the Three Gifts

— An Angel’s Story (5/5) (r)

11.00 Soul Music (r)

11.30 Midnight Mass: Live

from Salford Cathedral

12.48am 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 Colin Murray 11.00

Chiles on Friday 1.00pm Elis

James and John Robins 3.00

Kermode and Mayo’s Film

Review 5.00 5 Live Drive

6.00 Match of the Day: Top 10

6.30 Fantasy 606 7.00 5 Live

Sport 8.00 5 Live Formula 1

9.00 That Peter Crouch

Podcast 10.00 Chris Buckler

1.00am Dotun Adebayo

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Breakfast with Alan Brazil

10.00 Jim White and Simon

Jordan 1.00pm Hawksbee

and Jacobs 4.00 Drive with

Andy Goldstein and Darren

Bent 7.00 Fergie at 80 8.00

GameDay Countdown

Christmas Special 10.00 Top

5s of the Year 12.00 Extra

Time Christmas Special

talkRADIO

Digital only

6.00am James Max 10.00

Kevin O’Sullivan 1.00pm

Afternoon Show 4.00 Cristo

Foufas 7.00 Richard Tice

10.00 Darryl Morris 1.00am

The Overnight Show

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Dad’s Army 9.00

Quote: Unquote 9.30 In the

Red 10.00 Rumpole and

Memories of Christmas Past

10.45 The Fir Tree 11.00

Podcast Radio Hour 12.00

Dad’s Army 1.00pm Down

Payment on Death 1.30

Agatha Christie’s Dead Man’s

Folly 2.00 Maeve Binchy

Short Stories 2.15 Children in

Need: D for Dexter 2.30 Stars

of Wonder 3.00 Rumpole and

Memories of Christmas Past

3.45 The Fir Tree 4.00 Quote:

Unquote 4.30 In the Red 5.00

Welcome to Our Village,

Please Invade Carefully 5.30

Love in Recovery 6.00 The

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the

Galaxy: The Primary Phase

6.30 Off the Page 7.00

Dad’s Army 8.00 Down

Payment on Death

8.30 Agatha Christie’s Dead

Man’s Folly 9.00 Podcast

Radio Hour 10.00 Comedy

Club: Love in Recovery

10.25 Comedy Club Extra

10.30 On the Hour 11.00

Old Harry’s Game 11.30

Conversations from a Long

Marriage at Christmas

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 in

Action 2.00 Newshour 3.00

A Festival of Nine Lessons

and Carols 4.30 BBC OS 6.00

News 6.06 Fifth Floor 6.50

Witness History 7.00 The

Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today

8.00 News 8.06 Tech Tent

8.30 CrowdScience

Christmas Bonanza 9.00

Newshour 10.00 The

Newsroom 10.20 Sports

News 10.30 Business 11.00

News 11.06 HARDtalk 11.30

World Football 12.00 News

12.06am The Real Story 1.00

News 1.06 Business 1.30

WorkLifeIndia 2.00 The

Newsroom 2.30 Stumped

3.00 News 3.06 Fifth Floor

3.50 Witness History 4.00

News 4.06 Reith Lectures

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Gemma Cairney

10.30 Jarvis Cocker 1.00pm

Craig Charles 4.00 Huw

Stephens 7.00 The People’s

Party with Afrodeutsche

9.00 Queermas: Lynks 10.00

Queermas: HE.SHE.THEY

11.00 Queermas: Sherelle

12.00 Focus Beats

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show with Sky

10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris

1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00

Amy Voce 7.00 Ben Jones

10.00 Stu Elmore 1.00am

Through The Night

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am Christmas Breakfast

9.00 John Brunning 12.00

Christmas Eve Requests with

Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00pm

Aled Jones Narrates The

Snowman 4.30 Carols from

the Royal Hospital Chelsea

6.00 Alexander Armstrong’s

Christmas Evensong 8.00

The Classic FM Christmas

Concert with John Suchet.

A selection of perfect music

for Christmas Eve 10.00

Smooth Carols 1.00am Katie

Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Today’s pick

The Reunion:

Love Actually

Radio 4, 10pm

In the 18 years since its

release, Richard Curtis’s

most glutinous cinematic

concoction has been

reinvented as a timeless

festive classic. Tonight Kirsty

Wark brings Curtis together

with some of his crew and

cast (who ranged from Billy

Bob Thornton to Martine

McCutcheon, Julia Davis to

January Jones) to explain

how it all happened; expect

tributes to Alan Rickman

(whose break-up with Emma

Thompson was the one part

of the film that rang true),

plus tomfoolery with Bill

Nighy, above, and musings on

how life imitated art in Anglo-

US relations. Gabriel Tate

Christmas Eve

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am Over the Hedge (U,

2006) Animated comedy with

the voice of Bruce Willis

12.45pm Flight of the

Navigator (U, 1986) Sci-fi

adventure with Joey Cramer

2.30 The Chronicles of

Narnia: The Voyage of the

Dawn Treader (PG, 2010)

Fantasy with Georgie Henley

4.40 Madagascar 3: Europe’s

Most Wanted (PG, 2012)

Animated comedy with

the voice of Ben Stiller

6.25 Now You See Me 2 (12,

2016) Crime thriller sequel

starring Jesse Eisenberg

9.00 Kingsman: The Golden

Circle (15, 2017) Comedy

adventure with Taron Egerton

11.45 Upgrade (15, 2018)

Sci-fi thriller starring

Logan Marshall-Green

1.45am-4.00 Thunderbolt

and Lightfoot (18, 1974)

Comedy drama starring Clint

Eastwood and Jeff Bridges

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am The Rainmaker

(PG, 1956) Drama

starring Burt Lancaster

8.20 Christmas

Under the Sun

8.40 Highly Dangerous

(U, 1950) Comedy thriller

starring Margaret Lockwood

10.25 The Holly and the Ivy

(U, 1952) Drama starring

Ralph Richardson

12.05pm The Tales of Beatrix

Potter (U, 1971) Drama

1.55 A Service for

Christmas Eve

3.05 Come to the Stable (U,

1949) Comedy with Loretta

Young and Celeste Holm

5.00 Upstairs, Downstairs

6.00 The Night

Before Christmas

6.15 The Christmas Tree

(U, 1966) Family drama

starring William Burleigh

7.25 Christmas 1945: The

Homecoming Christmas

7.30 The Smallest Show on

Earth (U, 1957) Comedy

starring Bill Travers

9.05 Rita, Sue and Bob Too

(18, 1987) Comedy with

Siobhan Finneran, Michelle

Holmes and George Costigan

10.50 Doctor at Sea (PG,

1955) Comedy with Dirk

Bogarde and Brigitte Bardot

12.40am All About Eve (U,

1950) Drama with Bette Davis

3.25-5.00 The Man In The

Mirror (U, 1936) Fantasy w

ith Edward Everett Horton

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am GREAT! Movie News

9.10 All Good Things

(15, 2010) Crime drama

starring Ryan Gosling

11.20 The Christmas Clause

(PG, 2008) Festive family

fantasy with Lea Thompson

1.10pm Christmas Mail (PG,

2010) Romantic comedy with

Ashley Scott and AJ Buckley

3.00 Crown for Christmas

(PG, 2015) Comedy

starring Danica McKellar

4.50 His and Her Christmas

(PG, 2005) Romantic

comedy starring Dina Meyer

and David Sutcliffe

6.35 The Pursuit of

Happyness (12, 2006)

Fact-based drama starring

Will and Jaden Smith

9.00 The Nebraskan (PG,

1953) Western with Philip

Carey and Roberta Haynes

10.55-1.25am Almost Famous

(15, 2000) Comedy drama

starring Patrick Fugit

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Four editions

8.20 Off Set

8.30 The Iron Sheriff (U, 1957)

Western with Sterling Hayden

10.10 Battle of the Bulge

(PG, 1965) Wartime drama

1.30pm Sherlock Holmes

and the Woman in Green

(PG, 1945) Mystery

3.00 TCM Shorts:

Michael Caine Off Set

3.30 Guys and Dolls

(PG, 1955) Musical

6.40 Meet Me in St Louis

(U, 1944) Musical

9.00 Passenger 57 (15, 1992)

Thriller starring Wesley Snipes

10.45-12.50am National

Lampoon’s Vacation (15,

1983) Comedy with Chevy

Chase and Beverly D’Angelo

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.10pm Fatman (15, 2020)

1.55 Last Train to Christmas

(PG, 2021) Festive drama

3.45 The Stand In (15, 2020)

Comedy drama starring Drew

Barrymore in dual roles

5.35 In the Heights (PG, 2021)

Musical with Anthony Ramos

8.00 Fatman (15, 2020)

Comedy starring Mel Gibson

9.45 Last Train to Christmas

(PG, 2021) Festive drama

starring Michael Sheen

11.35-1.15am The Obscure Life

of the Grand Old Duke of

Corsica (15, 2021) Comedy

drama starring Timothy Spall

Mel Gibson stars in Fatman

(Sky Cinema Premiere, 8pm)