5.30pm Hansel & Gretel — After
Ever After Fantasy comedy,
with David Walliams and
Sheridan Smith. (R)
6.30 The Amazing Mr Blunden
Fantasy, with Tsion Habte
and Jason Rennie. (R)
8.30 Rob & Romesh vs Christmas
The duo join the circus
to train for a Christmas
performance. (R)
9.30 Dan Brown’s The Lost
Symbol Mal’akh puts
pressure on Langdon and
Peter to decipher the clues.
(6/10, R) 10.30 Dan Brown’s
The Lost Symbol Mal’akh
sheds light on Zach’s
final days in prison. (R)
11.30-1.00 Never Mind The
Buzzcocks Greg Davies hosts
a festive edition, with Holly
Johnson, Lauren Laverne
and Asim Chaudhrey. (R)
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 7.00 The Transfer Show.
Analysis of the latest transfer news
8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans. The
day’s early stories 9.30 Saturday
Social. Discussing football’s trending
topics on social media 10.30 Soccer
AM. A festive edition 12.00 The
Transfer Show 1.00 News 4.00 The
Transfer Show 5.00 LIVE NBA
Basketball: New York Knicks v Atlanta
Falcons. Coverage of the Eastern
Conference match at Madison Square
Garden. Tip-off at 5.00 7.30 LIVE NBA
Basketball: Milwaukee Bucks v Boston
Celtics. Coverage of the Eastern
Conference match at Fiserv Forum.
Tip-off at 7.30 9.45 LIVE NFL: Green
Bay Packers v Cleveland Browns.
Coverage of the match at Lambeau
Field. Kickoff at 9.30 1.15 LIVE NFL:
Arizona Cardinals v Indianapolis Colts.
At State Farm Stadium in Glendale.
Kickoff at 1.15 5.30-6.00 NewsEUROSPORT 1
6.00am Snooker: World Championship
Final 8.00 Archery: Season Review
10.00 Tokyo 2020: Trampolining 10.30
Tokyo 2020: Swimming 11.00 Tokyo
2020: Gymnastics 12.00 Tokyo 2020:
Skateboarding 1.00 Tokyo 2020: BMX
2.00 Tokyo 2020: Athletics 3.00 Tokyo
2020: Sailing 4.00 Tokyo 2020:
Equestrian 5.00 Tokyo 2020: Modern
Pentathlon 7.00 Tokyo 2020: Track
Cycling 8.00 Tokyo 2020: Mountain
Biking 9.00 Tokyo 2020: Diving 10.00
Tokyo 2020: Swimming 11.00 Olympic
Games: Winter Pass 12.00 Cycling. The
Paris-Roubaix race 1.00 Archery:
Season Review 2.00 Freestyle Skiing
3.00 Snowboarding 4.00 Cycling. The
Het Nieuwsblad race 5.00-6.00
Cycling. The Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
BT SPORT 1
6.00am Sailing To Tokyo 6.30 Scottish
Football Extra 7.00 Reload 7.15 Premier
League Reload 7.30 BT Sport Takeover
8.00 WWE NXT UK 9.00 WWE Friday
Night Smackdown 10.30 Takeover
11.00 Fight Night 12.30 Fight Night
1.30 Fight Night 3.00 TBA 4.00
Scottish Football Extra 4.30 Ligue 1
Highlights 5.30 The Ashes 9.30 The
Cricket’s On 10.30-7.30 LIVE The
Ashes: Australia v England. Coverage of
the first day of the third Test in the
five-match series, taking place at
Melbourne Cricket Ground6.00 Blue Bloods (Series 8, ep 1)
6.55 Game Of Thrones Fantasy.
9.15 Gangs Of London Drama.
2.35 Gangs Of London Darren
wrestles with the chaos he
has unleashed. (5/9) 3.40
Gangs Of London Marian
puts the pressure on Sean to
uncover Finn’s killer. 4.45
Gangs Of London The truth
about Finn’s murder is finally
revealed. 5.50 Gangs Of
London The Wallaces are
forced to go into hiding.
6.55 Gangs Of London
Elliot makes a choice
that defines his future.
8.00 Game Of Thrones Daenerys
hosts a much-anticipated
celebration of athleticism.
(Series 5, ep 9) 9.05 Game
Of Thrones Cersei finds
herself seeking forgiveness.
10.10 Game Of Thrones The
fate of Jon Snow is revealed.
(Series 6, ep 1) 11.15 Game Of
Thrones The Night’s Watch
stands behind Alliser Thorne.
12.20 Gomorrah Genny is forced
to give up his dream of
normality and to return
to action. (Series 5, ep 9)
1.25 Penny Dreadful — City Of
Angels Drama. (6/10)
2.30 The L Word — Generation Q
Tensions rise. (Series 2, ep 9)
3.35 Nurse Jackie (Series 3, ep 7)
4.05-6.00 CSI Two episodes.8.00 Michael McIntyre’s Big Christmas
Show 9.00 Michael McIntyre’s Big
Show. With Alfie Boe, Michael Ball,
Catherine Tate and Harry Enfield 10.00
Lee Evans — Monsters. The stand-up
star’s 2014 performance at the National
Indoor Arena in Birmingham 11.00 Jason
Manford Live At The Manchester Apollo
12.00 South Park 4.15-5.00 Friends
YESTERDAY
6.00am Impossible Engineering 8.00
The World At War 12.00 Africa 3.00
Motown At The BBC 4.00 TOTP2: Pop
Stars 5.00 TOTP2: School Days 6.00
Sounds Of The Sixties 6.30 Sounds
Of The Seventies 7.00 Secrets Of
Britain 8.00 Secrets Of The London
Underground 9.00 Hornby — A Model
World 10.00 Bangers And Cash
12.00-1.00 Abandoned Engineering
DAVE
6.00pm Would I Lie To You? The Best
Bits 6.40 Gavin & Stacey 8.00 Travel
Man. David Baddiel joins Richard
Ayoade for a seasonal trip to Jordan
9.00 QI XL. Two editions 11.00 Live At
The Apollo. Hosted by Sara Pascoe
12.00 Would I Lie To You? The Best Bits
12.40 The ’Christmas’ Misadventures
Of Romesh Ranganathan 1.40 Eddie
Eats Christmas 2.10 Unforgivable
3.10-4.00 Live At The Apollo
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Black Pharaohs — Empire
Of Gold. Documentary about the
Kushites 7.00 Lost Treasures Of Egypt
10.00 Secrets Of The Pyramids
11.00-2.00 Lost Treasures Of EgyptDISCOVERY
6.00pm Gold Rush — White Water
8.00 Gold Rush. The gold miners of the
Yukon put everything on the line in the
hopes of striking it rich 9.00 Mighty
Truckers. An insight into the challenges
of being a truck driver 10.00
Homemade Astronauts. Mad Mike’s
final steam rocket launch shocks
Waldo and the rest of the rocket
world 11.00 The Alaska Triangle
12.00-5.40 Nasa’s Unexplained FilesPBS AMERICA
6.00pm The Amish 8.30 The Amish —
Shunned. Former Amish members
reflect on leaving their community
11.00-12.15 The Black Church —
This Is Our Story, This Is Our SongSKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Hollywood Couples 11.00
Spielberg 1.40 Queen Of Speed
3.30 Superswede 5.15 McLaren7.00 Ferrari — Race To Immortality.
Documentary chronicling the early
years of the Scuderia Ferrari racing
team 9.00 Senna. Exploring the life of
Formula 1 world champion Ayrton
Senna, examining his achievements on
the track in the 10 years before his
death during the San Marino Grand Prix
11.00-12.40 Missile From The East.
A motorcycle racer who risked his
life defecting to West GermanySKY NATURE
6.00am Monkey Life 2.00 Kingdom
Of Plants 5.00 David Attenborough’s
Rise Of Animals — Triumph Of The
Vertebrates 7.00 David Attenborough’s
Dragons And Damsels 8.00 David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure. A
look at the greatest filming sequences
of the naturalist’s career 9.00 David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure: Home
Planet. Further footage of the naturalist’s
global wildlife adventures 10.00 David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure:
The Rise 11.00-12.00 Galapagos
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am Aerial America 1.00 Aerial New
Zealand 2.00 Aerial Ireland 3.00 Inside
The Christmas Factory 4.00 Aerial
Africa. Back-to-back editions of the
series 10.00 Inside The Christmas
Factory 11.00-12.00 Aerial Greece5.30pm Hansel & Gretel — After
Ever After Fantasy comedy,
with David Walliams and
Sheridan Smith. (R)
6.30 The Amazing Mr Blunden
Fantasy, with Tsion Habte
and Jason Rennie. Two teens
begin an adventure when
their mother takes over as
caretaker of a mansion. (R)
8.30 Rob & Romesh vs Christmas
A festive special in which
Rob Beckett and Romesh
Ranganathan join the circus,
teaming up with West End
and Big Top show Zippo’s. (R)
9.35 FILM: The Matrix Stars
Keanu Reeves, Laurence
Fishburne and Carrie-Anne
Moss. A computer hacker
joins rebel fighters to free
the human race from a
virtual-reality fantasy created
by machines. Astounding.
(1999, 15; ends at 12.00)
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RADIO 4
5.30 News 5.43 Prayer 5.45 Four
Thought (R) 6.00 News 6.07 Open
Country (R) 6.30 Farming Today This
Week 7.00 Gardeners’ Question Time
7.45 Book Of The Week (R) 8.00 With
Great Pleasure (R) 9.00 Christmas
Service 9.45 50 Things That Made The
Modern Economy (R) 10.00 Saturday
Live 11.00 Moominland Midwinter
12.00 News 12.01 (LW) Shipping 12.04
Short Works 12.30 Dead Ringers (R)
1.00 News 1.02 You’re Dead To Me —
Medieval Christmas 1.30 Ed Reardon’s
Christmas Week (R) 2.00 Jacqueline
Wilson’s Wonderful World With The
BBC SO 3.00 HM The Queen 3.05
News 3.15 Drama: The Princess Bride
4.15 Weekend Woman’s Hour 5.00
Fortunately With Fi & Jane 5.54
Shipping 6.00 News 6.15 Loose Ends
7.00 Profile 7.15 This Cultural Life
8.00 Archive On 4: The Many Faces Of
Ebenezer Scrooge (R) 9.00 Jeremy
Irons Reads TS Eliot (R) 9.45 Dr John
Cooper Clarke At The BBC (R) 10.00
News 10.15 The Moral Maze (R) 10.30-
5.20 (LW) Test Cricket: Australia v
England 11.00 Quote ... Unquote (R)
11.30 Uncanny 12.00 News 12.15
Christmas Meditation 12.30 Short Works
(R) 12.48 Shipping 1.00 World ServiceRADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Welcome To Our Village, Please
Invade Carefully 5.30 Love In
Recovery 6.00 Neil Gaiman’s Norse
Mythology 7.30 Great Lives 8.00
Quote ... Unquote — A Celebration
8.30 All The Young Dudes 9.00 Sue
Perkins’ Christmas Comedy Stocking
12.00 The Goon Show 12.30 Hancock’s
Half Hour 1.00 The Forum 1.40 A
Christmas Tree 2.00 The Penny
Dreadfuls Present: Don Quixote 3.00
Conversations From A Long Marriage At
Christmas 3.30 Old Harry’s Game 4.00
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology 5.30
Great Lives 6.00 Love Henry James:
The Turn Of The Screw 7.00 Sue
Perkins’ Christmas Comedy Stocking
10.00 The Lee Mack Show 10.25
Comedy Club Extra 10.30 Ida Barr —
Artificial Hip Hop 10.45 Paperback
Hell (R) 11.00 Count Arthur Strong’s
Radio Show! 11.30-12.00 Hut 33
LBC
7.00 Andrew Castle 10.00 Matt Frei
1.00 Maajid Nawaz 4.00 David Lammy
7.00 Natasha Devon 9.00 The Legal
Hour With Daniel Barnett 10.00 Nick
Abbot 1.00 Clive Bull 4.00 Ian Payne
RADIO 3
7.00 Breakfast 9.00 Christmas
Morning Live. With Stephen Hough,
and music by Granny’s Attic 1.00 A
Festival Of Nine Lessons And Carols
(R) 3.00 Sound Of Cinema 4.00 Four
Peaks Sound Walk. New series. Hikes
up the highest peak of each UK nation,
beginning with Ben Nevis 5.00 J To Z
6.30 Opera On 3: Hansel And Gretel.
Colin Davis conducts the Tiffin Boys’
Choir and Children’s Chorus and
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in
a performance of Humperdinck (R)
10.00 New Music Show. Including
Peteris Vasks’ Third String Quartet, and
Arvo Part’s Fourth Symphony 12.00
Freeness (R) 1.00 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Tim Lihoreau 10.00 Christmas
Day Requests 1.00 The Nation’s
Favourite Carol 3.00 The Queen 3.05
A Royal Christmas 5.00 Christmas With
Sir Trevor McDonald 7.00 The Story Of
Carols. Anne-Marie Minhall shares the
tales behind the most famous carols
10.00 Karthi Gnanasegaram 1.00
Katie Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis
RADIO 2
5.00 In Concert (R) 6.00 Mica’s Gospel
Christmas 8.00 Good Morning
Christmas 10.00 Junior Choice 12.00
Paul O’Grady 2.00 Richie Anderson’s
Festive Boy Bands vs Girl Bands 5.00
Gary Davies With 70 Christmas
Number Ones 7.00 Human League —
Don’t You Want Me At 40. Gary Davies
chats to band members in Sheffield
8.00 Westlife’s Christmas Day Pop
Party 10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Soul
Christmas 12.00 Ana Matronic 2.00
Phantom At 35 (R) 3.00 In Concert (R)
VIRGIN RADIO
6.00 Amy Voce 9.30 The Graham
Norton Show 12.30 On Demand
4.00 Bam 7.00 Ben Jones 10.00
Stu Elmore 1.00 Through The Night
TALKSPORT
5.00 Gameday Preview 6.00
Christmas Breakfast With All The
Trimmings 10.00 2021 The Verdict
12.00 English Football Genius —
A Tribute To Jimmy Greaves 1.00
Hawksbee And Jacobs Clips Of The
Year 4.00 Top 5s Of The Year 6.00
Fergie At 80 7.00 The Summer It
Nearly Came Home 10.00 Fight Of My
Life — Best Of 12.00 English Football
Genius — A Tribute To Jimmy Greaves
1.00 Extra Time With Martin KelnerTIMES RADIO
7.00 Breakfast With Calum Macdonald
10.00 Matt And Mariella’s Selection
Box 11.00 Times Radio Presenters In
Conversation With Luke Jones 3.00
HM The Queen’s Christmas Message
3.10 2021 — What A Year! 4.00 Matt
Chorley’s Christmas Cracker. Matt’s
big quiz, his annual pantomime and
more 7.00 Podcast Takeover. A
selection of the best podcasts from
the year 10.00 Podcast Takeover
1.00 Highlights From Times Radio
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Moominland
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Radio 4, 11am
John Finnemore stars as
Moomintroll, with Samantha
Bond as the narrator, in an
adaptation of Tove Jansson’s
book. Sound Of Cinema
(Radio 3, 3pm) marks 90
years of Abbey Road studios
and its history of making
music for film and video
games. Trevor Nelson’s Soul
Christmas (Radio 2, 10pm)
comes from the Royal Albert
Hall, with the BBC Concert
Orchestra and guest singers.
Clair Woodward