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Times Radio

Digital only

5.00am Calum Macdonald

with Early Breakfast 6.00

Jenny Kleeman and Luke

Jones with Times Radio

Breakfast 10.00 Matt Chorley

1.00pm Giles Coren. Fast-

talking chat 4.00 Cathy

Newman at Drive 7.00 Michael

Portillo 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 Zoe Ball Breakfast

Show 9.30 Ken Bruce 12.00

Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve

Wright 4.15 Steve Wright:

Serious Jockin’ 5.00 Sara Cox

7.00 Tony Blackburn’s Golden

Hour 8.00 Sounds of the 80s

with Gary Davies 10.00 Sounds

of the 90s with Fearne Cotton

12.00 Romesh Ranganathan:

For the Love of Hip-Hop

1.00am The Craig Charles

House Party (r) 2.30 The

Craig Charles House Party

Mixtape (r) 3.00 Tracks of My

Years 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: Errollyn Wallen

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime

Concert Sarah Walker presents

highlights from the 2021

Prague Spring Festival.

Scriabin (Poeme in F sharp, op.

32/1); Dvořák (Piano Trio No. 4

in E minor, op. 90 — “Dumky”);

Szymanowski (Piano Sonata

No. 3, op. 36); and Scriabin

(Prelude, op. 59/2)

2.00 Afternoon Concert

Russian music from Prague.

Rachmaninov (Symphonic

Dances, op. 45); Corelli

(Violin Sonata in C, op. 5/3);

Tchaikovsky (Piano Concerto

No. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23);

and Gustav Mahler arr.

Britten (What the Wild Flowers

Tell Me — 2nd movement

of Symphony No.3)

4.30 The Listening Service (r)

5.00 In Tune

7.00 In Tune Mixtape

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

Bernard Haitink leads the

Royal Concertgebouw

Orchestra in an all-Strauss

programme. Richard Strauss

(4 Last Songs; Traumerei —

“Reverie”; Heidebild:

On the Heath — from

Stimmungsbilder Op. 9; and

An Alpine Symphony)

10.00 The Verb

10.45 The Essay: Artists

and the Spirit World

11.00 Late Junction

1.00am Gameplay

with Baby Queen

3.00 Through the Night (r)

Radio 4

FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz

LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz

5.30am-7.30 (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

third day of the fourth Test

5.30 News Briefing

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day (r)

6.00 Today

7.30 (LW) Today

8.31 (LW) Yesterday

in Parliament

9.00 Rethink: Population

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 Book of the Week:

Viewfinders — Ways

of Seeing at 50 (5/5)

10.00 Woman’s Hour

11.00 Fungi: The New Frontier

New series. With Tim Hayward

11.30 The Train at Platform 4

New comedy by Hugh Dennis

and Steve Punt. See Choice

12.01pm (LW)

Shipping Forecast

12.04 Subterranean Homesick

Blues By AL Kennedy (5/5)

12.18 You and Yours

1.00 The World at One

1.45 Past Forward:

A Century of Sound

2.00 The Archers (r)

2.15 Drama: SteelHeads (2/5)

2.45 New Year Solutions (r)

3.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time Tips on sustainability

3.45 Short Works (3/11)

4.00 Last Word

4.30 Yorkshire’s Cricket Test

Kamran Abbasi presents (r)

5.00 PM

5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast

6.00 Six O’Clock News

6.30 The News Quiz

7.00 Past Forward:

A Century of Sound (r)

7.15 Screenshot

8.00 Any Questions?

8.50 A Point of View

9.00 The Northern Bank Job

Omnibus episode

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Subterranean Homesick Blues

By AL Kennedy (5/5) (r)

11.00-5.20am (LW) Live Test

Match Special: Australia v

England Commentary on the

fourth day of the fourth Test at

the Sydney Cricket Ground

11.00 Great Lives (r)

11.30 Today in Parliament

12.00 News and Weather

12.30am Book of the Week:

Viewfinders — Ways of

Seeing at 50 (5/5) (r)

12.48 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

Nicky Campbell 11.00 Chiles

1.00pm Elis James and John

Robins 3.00 Film Review 5.00

5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport

8.00 Football 10.00 Mobeen

Azhar 1.00am Jim Davis

talkSPORT

MW: 1053, 1089 kHz

5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00

Alan Brazil 10.00 Jim White

and Simon Jordan 1.00pm

Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00

Andy Goldstein and Darren

Bent 7.00 FA Cup GameDay:

Swindon Town v Manchester

City (Kick-off 8.00) 10.00

Sports Bar 1.00am Extra Time

talkRADIO

Digital only

5.00am James Max 6.30 Julia

Hartley-Brewer 10.00 Mike

Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins

4.00 Rob Rinder 7.00 Kevin

O’Sullivan 10.00 Darryl Morris

1.00am Martin Kelner

Radio 4 Extra

Digital only

8.00am Dad’s Army 8.30

Married 9.00 Funny You

Should Ask 9.30 In the Red

10.00 Das Kapital 11.00

Podcast Radio Hour 12.00

Dad’s Army 12.30pm Married

1.00 Dr Finlay 1.30 Colvil and

Soames 2.00 Man of Iron 2.15

D for Dexter 2.30 Birth of an

Orchestra 3.00 Das Kapital

4.00 Funny You Should Ask

4.30 In the Red 5.00 The

Headset Set 5.30 Henry

Normal: A Normal Ageing

6.00 The Drowned Village

6.30 Off the Page 7.00 Dad’s

Army 7.30 Married 8.00 Dr

Finlay 8.30 Colvil and

Soames 9.00 Podcast Radio

Hour 10.00 Henry Normal:

A Normal Ageing 10.30

Encyclopaedia Poetica 11.00

Old Harry’s Game 11.30 That

Mitchell and Webb Sound

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 Newsroom 11.30

World Football 12.00 News

12.06pm The Fifth Floor

12.50 Witness History 1.00

Newsroom 1.30 Science in

Action 2.00 Newshour 3.00

News 3.06 HARDtalk 3.30

Business 4.00 BBC OS 6.00

News 6.06 The Fifth Floor

6.50 Witness History

7.00 Newsroom 7.30 Sport

Today 8.00 News 8.06 Tech

Tent 8.30 CrowdScience

9.00 Newshour 10.00

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 Newsroom 2.30

Stumped 3.00 News 3.06

The Fifth Floor 3.50

Witness History 4.00 News

6 Music

Digital only

7.30am Lauren Laverne

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs

1.00pm Craig Charles 4.00

Steve Lamacq 7.00 The

People’s Party with

Afrodeutsche 9.00 Tom

Ravenscroft 11.00 The Ravers

Hour 12.00 Indie Forever

Virgin Radio

Digital only

6.30am The Chris Evans

Breakfast Show 10.00

Eddy Temple-Morris

1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00

Kate Lawler 7.00 Ben Jones

10.00 Stu Elmore 1.00am

Through The Night

Classic FM

FM: 100-102 MHz

6.00am Breakfast 9.00 John

Humphrys 12.00 Anne-Marie

Minhall 4.00pm John

Brunning 7.00 Smooth

Classics 8.00 The Classic FM

Concert with John Suchet.

Great Composers Month

continues with a programme

celebrating Rachmaninov.

(Piano Concerto No 2 in C

minor Op 18; Vocalise Op 34

No 14; Rhapsody on a Theme

of Paganini Op 43, Andante

Cantabile; All Night Vigil

Op 37, Ave Maria; and

Symphony No 2 in E minor

Op 27) 10.00 Smooth

Classics 1.00am Katie

Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Today’s pick

The Train at Platform 4

Radio 4, 11.30am

Radio 4 comedy stalwarts

Punt and Dennis take us

behind the sliding doors of

an onboard train operation. A

new operator has taken over

and harassed train manager

Sam (Rosie Cavaliero, right)

has her hands full, especially

because the new bosses want

her team to “enhance the

onboard travel experience”

for customers. That means

using words like “await”,

serving free coffees and

replacing KitKats — what

catering manager Dev (Ali

Shahalom) calls the “Mars Bar

of chocolate snacks’’ — with

granola. It’s very enjoyable in

places, although it may feel

too close to reality for

commuters. Ben Dowell

Friday 7

Film guide
Radio guide

Film4

FV 14 FS 300 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428

11.00am The Thirty-Nine

Steps (PG, 1978) Thriller

starring Robert Powell

1.10pm Appointment with

Danger (PG, 1950) Noir

thriller starring Alan Ladd

3.00 Ten Tall Men (U, 1951)

Foreign Legion adventure

starring Burt Lancaster

5.00 The Tall T (PG, 1957)

Western with Randolph Scott

6.40 My Best Friend’s

Wedding (12, 1997) Comedy

starring Julia Roberts

9.00 Mean Machine

(15, 2001) Comedy drama

starring Vinnie Jones

11.05-12.55am Sea Fever (15,

2019) Thriller starring Connie

Nielsen and Dougray Scott

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am Circumstantial

Evidence (PG, 1952) Crime

drama with Rona Anderson

7.10 The Price of Silence

(U, 1959) Crime drama

starring Gordon Jackson

8.45 Bachelor of Hearts (U,

1958) Romantic comedy with

Hardy Kruger and Sylvia Syms

10.35 Talking Pictures

With George Sweeney

11.10 Big Business (PG, 1988)

Comedy starring Bette Midler

1.05pm Francis of Assisi

(PG, 1961) Biopic of the saint

starring Bradford Dillman

3.15 The Astonished Heart

(PG, 1949) Drama

starring Noel Coward

5.00 Upstairs, Downstairs

6.00 Fantastic Voyage

(U, 1966) Sci-fi adventure

starring Raquel Welch

8.00 The Outer Limits

9.00 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

9.05 Curse of the Crimson

Altar (15, 1968) Horror

starring Boris Karloff

10.45 Cellar Club with

Caroline Munro

10.50-1.10am The Trial

(PG, 1963) Surreal drama

starring Orson Welles

GREAT! Movies

FV 33 FS 302 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425

9.00am A Focus to Kill (2018)

Thriller with Linsey Godfrey

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 Secrets of My

Stepdaughter (12, 2017)

Thriller starring Josie Davis

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 Her Boyfriend’s Secret

(12, 2018) Thriller starring

Kelly Sullivan

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 Silverado (PG, 1985)

Western with Kevin Kline

5.40 GREAT! Movie News

5.50 The Guns of Navarone

(PG, 1961) Wartime adventure

starring Gregory Peck

9.00-12.05am Pulp Fiction

(18, 1994) Quentin Tarantino’s

crime drama starring John

Travolta and Uma Thurman

GREAT! Movies Classic

FV 51 FS 303 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424

6.00am Days of Glory (PG,

1944) Wartime adventure

7.35 Hotel Reserve (U, 1944)

9.20 Angel Face (PG, 1953)

Crime drama

11.05 Born to Be Bad

(PG, 1950) Drama

1.00pm Nocturne (PG, 1946)

2.50 Walk Softly, Stranger

(PG, 1950) Drama

4.30 The Running Man

(PG, 1963) Drama

6.40 Fire Down Below

(PG, 1957) Romantic drama

9.00 Magnificent Obsession

(U, 1954) Melodrama

11.15-1.20am Callan

(15, 1974) Spy thriller

TCM Movies

SKY 315 VIRGIN 415

6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 Off Set

7.55 Johnny Reno (PG, 1966)

9.40 Meet Me in St Louis

(U, 1944) Musical

11.55 The Forty-Niners (U,

1954) Western with Bill Elliott

1.30pm Revolt at Fort

Laramie (U, 1957) Western

3.05 Cromwell (U, 1970)

6.05 The Yellow Tomahawk

(PG, 1954) Western

7.50 Bandits of the West

(PG, 1953) Western

9.00 Get Carter (18, 1971)

Thriller starring Michael Caine

11.20-1.35am Hanna (12, 2011)

Thriller with Saoirse Ronan

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.40pm A Quiet Place Part II

(15, 2020) Horror sequel

2.30 The Stand In (15, 2020)

4.25 The Croods: A New Age

(U, 2020) Animated sequel

with the voice of Nicolas Cage

6.15 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)

Animated sequel with the

voice of James Corden

8.00 A Quiet Place Part II (15,

2020) Horror starring John

Krasinski. See Film Choice

9.50 Naked Singularity (15,

2021) Crime comedy drama

starring John Boyega

11.30-1.20am The Stand In

(15, 2020) Comedy drama

starring Drew Barrymore

Connie Nielsen in the thriller

Sea Fever (Film4, 11.05pm)