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6.30am The Nicki Chapman

Breakfast Show 9.30 Scott

Mills 12.00 Jeremy Vine

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6.30am Breakfast

9.00 Essential Classics

12.00 Composer of the Week:

Puccini Donald Macleod

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Puccini created in La Bohème

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Highlights from the

Bath Mozartfest 2021. Weber

(Grand Duo Concertante, Op

48); Stravinsky (Trois pieces

faciles) and Mozart (String

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2.00 Afternoon Concert Ian

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4.00 Four Peaks Sound Walk

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the series. See Choice

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Winter Showcase

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7.30 BBC Proms 2021 From the

Royal Albert Hall on 7th

September. Unsuk Chin (Subito

con forza); Beethoven (Piano

Concerto No 4 in G major) and

Saint-Saens (Symphony No 3

in C minor— “Organ” (r)

10.00 Laura Mvula’s Music

Room Music from 2021

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5.30am-7.30 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

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9.45 Book of the Week: Just

William — The Great

Performer By Richmal

Crompton. William is being

ousted as chief. But if he wants

to make some money he had

better go along with Violet

Elizabeth’s ideas (2/5)

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Deborah Frances-White

Introduces (2/5) (r)

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Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

fourth day of the third Ashes

Test, which takes place at

Melbourne Cricket Ground

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a Lesson with Greg James

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Compass: My Arab Spring

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The Blessed Madonna

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Furman 9.00 Gideon Coe

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Residence 1.00am The First

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My Classical DNA: Danny

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1.00am Katie Breathwick

Today’s pick

Four Peaks Sound Walk

Radio 3, 4pm

If you haven’t left the

house for a few days, this

might be the programme to

drag you out for a bracing

walk. After romps up Ben

Nevis, Slieve Donard and

Scafell Pike (all available

on BBC Sounds), Horatio

Clare, right, ticks off

Snowdon, the highest peak in

Wales, a mountain that has

been creaking under the

post-Covid strain, with many

Brits choosing to holiday

closer to home. Clare

forgoes the train for the

Rhyd Ddu Path, talking to

fellow hikers en route and

accompanied by music from

Gavin Bryars, Jean Sibelius

and the Penguin Cafe

Orchestra. Gabriel Tate

Tuesday 28

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

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11.00am Rango (PG, 2011)

Animated comedy with the

voice of Johnny Depp

1.10pm Zathura: A Space

Adventure (PG, 2005) Family

sci-fi adventure starring Josh

Hutcherson and Jonah Bobo

3.25 We Bought a Zoo (PG,

2011) Fact-based comedy

drama starring Matt Damon

5.55 Exodus: Gods and Kings

(12, 2014) Historical drama

starring Christian Bale

9.00 Mortal Engines

(12, 2018) Two survivors in

a brutal post-apocalyptic

world try to stop a conspiracy.

Adventure with Hera Hilmar

and Robert Sheehan

11.35 Snowpiercer (15, 2013)

Fantasy thriller starring Chris

Evans and Tilda Swinton

2.10am-4.00 The Cabin in

the Woods (15, 2012) Horror

starring Kristen Connolly

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Charlie Chan at the

Olympics (U, 1937) Comic

mystery with Warner Oland

7.30 In the Can

7.45 Just William’s Luck

(U, 1948) Comedy starring

William Graham

9.30 Sir Francis Drake

10.00 Stop Press Girl

(U, 1949) Fantasy comedy

starring Sally Ann Howes

11.35 Gorgo (PG, 1961)

Adventure with Bill Travers

1.05pm Come to the Stable

(U, 1949) Comedy

starring Loretta Young

3.00 The Plank (U, 1967)

Comedy starring Eric Sykes

4.05 Broken Lance (U, 1954)

Western with Spencer Tracy

6.00 Dial 999

6.30 The Girl on the Pier

(PG, 1953) Crime drama

starring Veronica Hurst

7.45 Look at Life

8.00 The Human Jungle

9.00 Steptoe and Son Ride

Again (PG, 1973) Comedy

starring Harry H Corbett

11.00 The Day of the Triffids

(15, 1962) Sci-fi thriller

starring Howard Keel

1.00am The Broken

Horseshoe (PG, 1953) Crime

thriller starring Robert Beatty

2.35 Invasion of the Bee Girls

(18, 1973) Sci-fi adventure

starring Victoria Vetri

4.20-5.00 Four Star Theatre

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am The Toy (PG, 1983)

Comedy with Richard Pryor

11.00 Bicentennial Man

(PG, 1999) Sci-fi drama

starring Robin Williams

1.40pm Stepmom (12, 1998)

Drama starring Julia Roberts

and Susan Sarandon

4.15 Evening (12, 2007)

Romantic drama with Vanessa

Redgrave and Claire Danes

6.35 The Pursuit of

Happyness (12, 2006)

Fact-based drama starring

Will and Jaden Smith

9.00 Seven Pounds (12,

2008) Drama with Will Smith

11.25-1.15am Bronson

(18, 2008) Biopic of Charles

Bronson starring Tom Hardy

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Four editions

8.20 Off Set

8.35 Denver & Rio Grande

(PG, 1952) Western with

Edmond O’Brien

10.25 The Pearl of Death

(PG, 1944) Sherlock Holmes

mystery with Basil Rathbone

11.55 The Scarlet Claw

(PG, 1944) Sherlock Holmes

mystery with Basil Rathbone

1.30pm Guys and Dolls (PG,

1955) Musical starring Frank

Sinatra and Marlon Brando

4.35 Arizona Bushwhackers

(12, 1968) Western

starring Howard Keel

6.30 Mars Attacks! (12, 1996)

Sci-fi comedy starring Jack

Nicholson and Glenn Close

8.35 Off Set

9.00 Run All Night (15, 2015)

Action thriller starring Liam

Neeson and Ed Harris

11.20-1.05am Curse of the

Undead (18, 1959) Horror

Western starring Eric Fleming

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.10pm The Suicide Squad

(15, 2021) Adventure comedy

2.30 Fatman (15, 2020)

Fantasy starring Mel Gibson

4.15 Pups Alone (PG, 2021)

Family comedy with the voice

of Jennifer Love Hewitt

6.15 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)

Animated sequel with the

voice of James Corden

8.00 The Suicide Squad (15,

2021) Supervillains and a

rag-tag bunch of cons at Belle

Reve prison join a secret task

force. Comic-book adventure

comedy with Idris Elba

10.20-12.15am Plan A (15,

2021) In 1945, a group of

Jewish Holocaust survivors

plan to poison the water

system in Germany. Drama

starring August Diehl

Tilda Swinton stars in Mortal

Engines (Film4, 9pm)