6.00pm Harry Potter — A Who’s
Who Of The Wizarding World
The greatest characters in
the movie franchise. (R)
7.00 Harry Potter — Hogwarts
Tournament Of Houses
New quiz, hosted by Helen
Mirren. 8.00 Harry Potter —
Hogwarts Tournament Of
Houses Superfans earn
their house points in a
head-to-head competition.
9.00 FILM: The Fog Stars
Adrienne Barbeau. The
residents of a small coastal
community are besieged by
the ghosts of drowned
mariners. Creepy. (1980, 15)
10.45 Rob & Romesh vs Anthony
Joshua Revisited (R)
11.45-12.45 Rob & Romesh vs
Ballet The comic duo
perform in Swan Lake. (R)
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT
6.00am News 7.00 LIVE Big Bash
League: Sydney Sixers v Brisbane Heat.
Action from the T20 match at Sydney
Cricket Ground 10.30 LIVE Big Bash
League: Melbourne Renegades v
Hobart Hurricanes. Action from the T20
match at Marvel Stadium 12.00 The
Football Show 12.30 LIVE Darts. Action
from session one on day 12 of the world
championship at Alexandra Palace in
London, featuring three third-round
matches 4.30 News 7.00 LIVE SPFL:
Aberdeen v Rangers. Coverage of the
Scottish Premiership match at Pittodrie.
Kickoff at 7.45 10.00 LIVE Darts.
Action from session two on day 12 of
the world championship at Alexandra
Palace in London, featuring three
third-round matches 11.00 NFL Fantasy
12.00 Total Access 1.00-6.00 News
EUROSPORT 1
6.00am Triathlon: Super League
London 6.30 Alpine Skiing World Cup
2019 6.50 Alpine Skiing 8.50 LIVE
Alpine Skiing. The women’s World Cup
slalom in Lienz, Austria 10.00 LIVE
Alpine Skiing. The men’s World Cup
downhill in Bormio, Italy 12.00 LIVE
Alpine Skiing. The women’s World Cup
slalom in Lienz, Austria 1.00 Cyclo-
Cross 2.00 Ski Jumping 3.00 LIVE Ski
Jumping. The Four Hills meeting in
Oberstdorf, Germany 5.15 LIVE
Cyclo-Cross. The Superprestige
meeting in Diegem, Belgium 6.05
Cyclo-Cross 6.55 LIVE Cyclo-Cross.
The Superprestige meeting in Diegem,
Belgium 8.15 Ski Jumping 9.15
Alpine Skiing 11.15 Snowboarding:
Charlotte Bankes 11.30 Triathlon: Super
League London 12.00 Cyclo-Cross
2.00 Alpine Skiing 4.00-6.00 UCI
Track Champions League
BT SPORT 1
7.30am Ashes Daily 8.15 The Ashes
9.45 Goals Reload 10.00 Premiership
Rugby Highlights 11.30 Inside Sailing
12.00 The Ashes 1.30 Ashes Daily 2.15
WRC Review 3.15 Goals Reload 3.30
Ligue 1 Highlights 4.00 A-League
Highlights 5.00 WWE Smackdown
Highlights 6.00 WWE Raw Highlights
7.00 Reload 7.30 Badminton Unlimited
8.00 Serie A — Full Impact 8.30 DIY
Pundit 9.00 WWE NXT 10.45 Reload
11.00-7.30 LIVE The Ashes: Australia v
England. Coverage of the final day of
the third Test in the five-match series6.00 Blue Bloods (Series 8, ep 7)
6.50 Game Of Thrones Drama.
9.00 American Rust Drama.
2.00 American Rust Harris races
the clock in his search for the
anonymous eyewitness. (5/9)
3.15 American Rust Harris
travels back to Pittsburgh
with his old partner to repay
a debt. 4.30 American Rust
Harris’s investigation into the
anonymous eyewitness
continues. 5.45 American
Rust Harris realises what he
has to do. 6.55 American
Rust Billy has to face the
consequences of his actions.
8.00 Game Of Thrones Jon
organises the defence of the
North. (Series 7, ep 1) 9.05
Game Of Thrones Jon faces
a revolt; and Tyrion plans the
conquest of Westeros. 10.10
Game Of Thrones Cersei
returns a gift; and Jaime
learns from his mistakes.
11.20 Landscapers Susan and
Christopher each take the
stand for a final chance to
prove their version of events
from that fatal night. (4/4)
12.20 The L Word — Generation Q
Bette is forced to make a
huge decision. (Last in series)
1.25 Yellowjackets Drama. (7/10)
2.30 The Good Lord Bird (6/7)
3.35 Californication (S7, ep 5)
4.10-6.00 CSI Crime drama.YESTERDAY
6.00am Impossible Engineering
8.00 The Buildings That Fought Hitler
12.00 Earth From Space 2.00 David
Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities
3.00 Great British Railway Journeys
6.00 Antiques Roadshow 7.00 Secrets
Of The Transport Museum. An F1 racer
goes on a perilous journey 8.00 The
Architecture The Railways Built. Tim
Dunn visits the Ffestiniog in Wales 9.00
Hornby — A Model World 10.00
Bangers And Cash 12.00-1.00
Abandoned Engineering
DAVE
6.00pm QI. With Daniel Radcliffe,
Graham Norton and Lee Mack 6.40
Would I Lie To You? 8.00 Travel Man.
Katherine Ryan joins Richard Ayoade in
New York 8.30 Travel Man. Richard
Ayoade is joined by Paul Rudd for a
brisk romp round Helsinki 9.00 QI XL
11.00 Red Dwarf 1.00 Would I Lie To
You? 2.25 QI 3.00-4.00 Travel Man
FACTUAL
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
6.00pm Nazi Megastructures 8.00
Disasters Engineered. Documentary
looking at the dark side to clean
energy 9.00 Seconds From Disaster
11.00 Air Crash Investigation. The case
of a plane that flew into a storm over
Indonesia 12.00 Airport Security —
Brazil 1.00-2.00 To Catch A Smuggler
DISCOVERY
6.00pm Fast N’ Loud 8.00 Kindig
Customs 9.00 Moonshiners. Mark and
Digger convert a carnival ride into a
whiskey-aging machine 10.00
Moonshiners — Smoke Ring. Searching
for the best pit masters 11.00 Gold
Rush — The Dirt 12.00 Moonshiners
1.00-2.00 Alaskan Bush PeoplePBS AMERICA
5.00pm Hitler’s Circle Of Evil 7.20
World War Speed — The Drugs That
Won WWII 8.35 Holocaust Escape
Tunnel 9.45 Surrender On The USS
Missouri. The sailors, soldiers, airmen
and marines who witnessed the official
Japanese surrender 11.00-12.15 World
War Speed — The Drugs That Won WWII
SKY DOCUMENTARIES
6.00am Fish Town 8.00 The Directors
8.55 Kenny 10.40 I Am Paul Walker
12.40 Andre The Giant 2.20 The
Capote Tapes 4.20 Being Frank — The
Chris Sievey Story 6.20 Bruno v Tyson
8.00 JFK — Destiny Betrayed. Oliver
Stone’s four-part documentary
exploring the Kennedy assassination9.00 The Bee Gees — How Can You
Mend A Broken Heart. Documentary
exploring the history of the group
11.10-1.30 Tina. A celebration of
Tina Turner’s life and careerSKY NATURE
6.00am Monkey Life 7.00 Impossible
Animals 10.00 The Bachelor King 11.30
David Attenborough’s Natural History
Museum Alive 1.00 Shark With Steve
Backshall 4.00 Gangs Of Baboon Falls
6.00 Malawi Wildlife Rescue 9.00
Pridelands — Wilderness Reborn. An
Australian family set out to rebuild a
private South African ranch 10.00-
12.00 Kenya Wildlife Diaries
SMITHSONIAN
6.00am World’s Most Dangerous Shark
7.00 Shark Ganglands 8.00 Secrets Of
Shark Island 9.00 Ocean Super
Predators 10.00 Big Cat Country 4.00
Tasmania — Curious Life Of Quolls
5.00 Yukon’s Wild Grizzlies 6.00
America’s Heartland — Wild Prairie
Reborn 7.00 Cher And The Loneliest
Elephant. The singer’s charity Free the
Wild relocate an Asian elephant 8.00
New Forest — The Crown’s Hunting
Ground. Hugh Bonneville ventures into
the New Forest national park 9.00
Wolverine — One Tough Mother
10.00-12.00 The Wild Andes6.00pm Harry Potter — A Who’s
Who Of The Wizarding World
The greatest characters in
the movie franchise. (R)
7.00 Harry Potter — Hogwarts
Tournament Of Houses
New quiz, hosted by Helen
Mirren. 8.00 Harry Potter —
Hogwarts Tournament Of
Houses Superfans earn
their house points in a
head-to-head competition.
9.00 FILM: Ghost Stars Patrick
Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg
and Demi Moore. The spirit
of a murdered executive
hopes to help his girlfriend
catch his killer, but the only
person he can communicate
with is an eccentric medium.
Dead good. (1990, 12) (R)
11.15-1.20 Tina The life and career
of Tina Turner, featuring
contributions from Angela
Bassett and Oprah Winfrey.
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RADIO 4
5.30 News 5.30-7.30 (LW) Test Cricket:
Australia v England. The fourth day of
the third Ashes Test 5.43 Prayer 5.45
Farming Today 5.58 Tweet Of The Day
(R) 6.00 Today 7.30 (LW) Today 9.00
The Reunion (R) 9.45 Book Of The
Week 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 10.00
Woman’s Hour 11.00 Political Thinking
(R) 11.30 Casebook Of Max And Ivan
(R) 12.00 News 12.01 (LW) Shipping
12.04 Bitesize Backstories 12.18 You
And Yours 1.00 The World At One 1.45
Call To Kabul 2.00 The Archers (R) 2.15
Drama: My Dad’s Wardrobe (R) 3.00
Money Box 3.30 All In The Mind (R)
4.00 Thinking Allowed 4.30 The Media
Show 5.00 PM 5.54 (LW) Shipping
6.00 News 6.15 Sandi Toksvig’s Hygge
6.30 Missing Hancocks (R) 7.00 The
Archers 7.15 This Cultural Life (R) 8.00
Moral Maze 8.45 Four Thought (R) 9.00
Flipside 9.30 The Media Show 10.00
World Tonight 10.45 Book At Bedtime
(R) 11.00 John Finnemore’s Souvenir
Programme 11.00-5.30 (LW) Test
Cricket: Australia v England. The fifth
day of the third Ashes Test 11.30 Ruby
Wax — Talking Human 11.45 Guide To
Normality (R) 12.00 News 12.15 Paul
Sinha’s General Knowledge (R) 12.48
Shipping 1.00 As World ServiceRADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Small Scenes 5.30 The Missing
Hancocks 6.00 Father Brown Stories
6.30 Detective 7.00 Believe It! 7.30
Conversations From A Long Marriage
8.00 Hancock’s Half Hour 8.30 If
You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t You
Rich? 9.00 The Write Stuff At
Christmas 9.30 Smelling Of Roses
10.00 An Enemy Of The People 11.00
The Sondheim Archive 12.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 12.30 If You’re So
Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich? 1.00
Father Brown Stories 1.30 Detective
2.00 Letters From Tove 2.15 D For
Dexter 2.30 When Standing Stones
Come Down To Drink 3.00 An Enemy
Of The People 4.00 The Write Stuff
4.30 Smelling Of Roses 5.00 Believe
It! 5.30 Conversations From A Long
Marriage 6.00 The Hitchhiker’s Guide
To The Galaxy: The Secondary Phase
6.30 The Radio Detectives 7.00
Hancock’s Half Hour 7.30 If You’re So
Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich? 8.00
Father Brown Stories 8.30 Detective
9.00 The Sondheim Archive 10.00
Conversations From A Long Marriage
10.25 Comedy Club Extra 10.30 Little
Lifetimes 10.45 Tim Key’s Late Night
Poetry Programme 11.00 Radio
Active 11.30 The News At Bedtime
11.45-12.00 The Goldfish Bowl
LBC
7.00 Nick Ferrari 10.00 James O’Brien
1.00 Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick
1.00 Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
RADIO 3
6.30 Breakfast 9.00 Essential Classics
12.00 Composer Of The Week 1.00
Lunchtime Concert. Highlights from
the Bath Mozartfest, with concerts
recorded at the iconic Assembly
Rooms, featuring pieces by Fauré and
Shostakovich 2.00 Afternoon Concert.
Performances from around the world,
including the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra in Britten’s Nocturne, and
music by Hans Rott, Georg Muffat,
Heinrich Biber and Haydn 4.00 Choral
Evensong 5.00 New Generation Artists
— Winter Showcase. Music by Brahms,
Schubert and Clara Schumann 6.15
Words And Music. Adjoa Andoh and
Henry Goodman read poetry and prose
inspired by chess (R) 7.30 BBC Proms.
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
perform Dvorak’s Cello Concerto,
with Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Grace-
Evangeline Mason and R Strauss (R)
10.00 Laura Mvula’s Music Room 11.00
Night Tracks 12.30 Through The Night
CLASSIC FM
6.00 Sam Pittis 9.00 Aled Jones 1.00
Marverine Cole 5.00 John Brunning
9.00 My Classical DNA 10.00
Margherita Taylor 1.00 Katie Breathwick
RADIO 2
6.30 Nicki Chapman 9.30 Scott Mills
12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00 OJ Borg 5.00
Joe Lycett 8.00 My Life In A Mixtape
(R) 9.00 The Folk Show 10.00 DJ
Spoony 12.00 Owain Wyn Evans
3.00 Radio 2 Live — Across the UK.
A set by Steps (R) 4.00 Katie Piper
VIRGIN RADIO
6.30 The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00 Tim
Cocker 4.00 Kate Lawler 7.00 Steve
Denyer 10.00 Rich Williams 1.00
Through The Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham
TALKSPORT
5.00 Talksport Special 6.00 Breakfast
10.00 Jim White And Simon Jordan
1.00 Charlie Baker 4.00 Andy Goldstein
& Darren Gough 7.00 Kick Off: Chelsea
v Brighton & Hove Albion. Kickoff 7.30
10.00 Sports Bar 1.00 Extra TimeTIMES RADIO
5.00 Early Breakfast. A full briefing
on the morning’s stories 6.00 Times
Radio Breakfast 10.00 Luke Jones. A
full primer on the political week 1.00
Afternoons On Times Radio. News,
views and reviews 4.00 Times Radio
Drive 7.00 Evenings On Times Radio
10.00 Late Nights On Times Radio.
A first look at tomorrow’s front pages
1.00 Stories Of Our Times. The
Times’s daily podcast 1.30 Red Box
2.00 Highlights From Times Radio
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Saunders podcast, in which
the duo, pictured, offer
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authors about their favourite
childhood books; guests
include Lauren Child and
Ben Miller. The Bald Talk
podcast sees comics Charlie
Sanders and Brian Huskey
talk to fellow baldies about
life and vulnerability.
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