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Life of Terry
He wasn’t the Messiah. He was a very naughty boy… Terry Jones, comedy genius 1942–2020
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Terry Jones 6 Funny, intelligent, charming and a dear friend — we celebrate his life and career in RT
Death in Paradise 16 As Ralf Little becomes top cop on Saint Marie, we investigate the hardest cushy job in showbiz
Mary Beard 22 Art history laid bare — the classicist wants us to think twice when we admire nudes
Sausages and squares 28 Here’s all you need to know if you want to pick up a pencil and join in with BBC4’s life drawing class
Baghdad Central 30 A murder mystery set in post-invasion Iraq serves up great drama — and challenges lazy stereotypes
The Six Nations 34 As the tournament kicks off, rugby finds itself in a state of flux, says BBC commentator Eddie Butler
Daniel Kaluuya 36 He’s a Bafta winner and an Oscar nominee, but it’s his TV comedy that his mum loves most
Paddy O’Connell 127 If we must have award ceremonies, then they should be run my way… ALSO THIS WEEK
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Viewpoint John Sergeant 14 Discover TV The best of iPlayer and beyond 52 Soaps This week in Soapland 75 Your RT Books, money, travel and wine 148 Puzzles The prize crossword and more 155 Feedback You have your say 160 View from my sofa Reece Shearsmith 162 Contact editor Mark Frith by email on RTeditor@radiotimes.com
Film 38 The Film Baftas From 1917 to The Joker, Andrew Collins runs his expert eye over the nominees
‘Mary Beard gets an eyeful… of art’
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here’s a knowing and funny bit in Death in Paradise (Thursday BBC1) as new cop DI Neville Parker arrives on the island. As usual at the end, the suspects are assembled in a room, though of course this is baffling to our newcomer (played by the lovely Ralf Little). “Why is everyone here?” he asks Commissioner Patterson, appalled. Patterson leans in and replies: “Because you need to tell them what happened and who did it.” Frankly, I haven’t watched Death in Paradise for a couple of years now because my patience with locked-room mysteries has never been elastic, and to be honest I probably won’t watch it again, but I like that line a lot. Little’s arrival is probably the big television news of the week, but it’s possibly the image of classicist and all-round good egg Mary Beard getting an eyeful of ancient Greek manhood that
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might sear itself onto your retinas. In Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard (Monday BBC2), the professor explores society’s attitudes towards nudes both female and male (hence those Greek statues) in art. Where, she wonders, does art end and pornography begin? It’s an accessibly absorbing documentary and Mary Beard is funny and game – she joins a hen party as they sit down in their hen costumes to a life drawing class with a male model.
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loved Secrets of the Museum (Thursday BBC2), which is so delicate, informative and restful. Cameras go behind the scenes at the Victoria and Albert Museum to its vast caverns of stored items. Watching experts in the most arcane of disciplines – ie restoring paper items – is such a delight, as is eavesdropping on the V&A’s textile team as they primp the most dreamily beautiful Christian Dior gowns for an exhibition.
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WHAT I’M WATCHING…
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France v England, kick-off 3.00pm. Eddie Jones will press the reset button for England’s first outing since the World Cup Final. But can his team set aside the chaos at club level?
Six Nations Rugby 1.40pm BBC1 4.00pm ITV Wales v Italy, kick-off 2.15pm, followed by Ireland v Scotland, kick-off 4.45pm. Wales, the reigning champions, begin the first round of matches in the Six Nations on home turf.
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The Masked Singer 7.00pm ITV Another week, another minor celebrity fails the singing test and reveals their identity. It’s as daft as ever but strangely addictive.
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too predictably, for I am ‘aAllsucker for Scandi noir – and
Casualty 9.15pm BBC1 It’s the end of an era as Cathy Shipton — aka emergency department stalwart Duffy — makes one final appearance. No, you’re crying! SATURDAY starts p54
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Doctor Who
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the more lugubrious the better – I’m watching Wisting. And the The surprise to myself Fishing is This Fishing Life Life. Moody Norwegians and Cornish ring-net fishermen – I am hooked.
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As a series of unusual events play out around the world, the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker, right) and her team investigate. What on earth is going on?
The British Academy Film Awards 9.00pm BBC1 Graham Norton hosts this year’s glittering event from the Royal Albert Hall, where Joker and 1917 look set to win big.
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Burt Lancaster plays a railwayman with the French Resistance who isn’t about to let the Nazis get away with a train full of art treasures.
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This inspirational true story finally credits the AfricanAmerican women somehow excluded from the story of Nasa’s 1960s space triumphs.
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The UK may be the first nation to leave the European Union, but we are not, Ed Balls discovers, the most Euro-sceptic. Polls show that Italians are more convinced than any other nationality in Europe that EU membership has not benefited their country.
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I love to see good people doing good things, and I love a bit of skill,” says the children’s novelist, “so my two favourite programmes are DIY SOS and The Repair Shop – unquestionably the greatest TV programmes of all time. I watch them to remind myself that this – and not Question Time – is what we are really like as a nation. Sadly, they’re both off air, so I just watch them on iPlayer when The Repair I need a boost. Shop
SUNDAY
I Think I’ve Been Here Before 8.00pm Radio 4 What is it about déjà vu? To mark Groundhog Day, Ross Sutherland explores the mystery of new experiences we think we’ve had before.
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UNMISSABLE TV, FILM & RADIO FOR YOU TO WATCH AND RECORD MONDAY
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New/Documentary of the Week Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard 9.00pm BBC2 A two-part documentary in which Beard ponders nude figures in paintings and sculptures and asks: where does art end and porn begin?
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New Life Drawing Live! 8.00pm BBC4 Josie d’Arby hosts a life drawing class for amateur artists while experts offer tips so that viewers can draw along at home.
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New Britain’s Most Expensive Home
New Our Coast
9.00pm C4
Adrian Chiles brings his trademark “why am I doing this?” air of exasperation to this gentle tour of the Merseyside shoreline. Mehreen Baig co-hosts.
8.30pm BBC2
Billionaire John Caudwell is doing up a Mayfair mansion for £65m. You judge if he has more money than taste.
New Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State
New Secrets of the Museum
9.00pm BBC2 With revealing access and vivid characters, a three-part series follows those at the top and bottom of the messy benefits revolution.
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A delightful doc that takes us deep into the Victoria and Albert Museum to look at treasured items, such as a much-loved toy elephant.
10.00pm C4
Comedy of the Week Would I Lie to You? 9.00pm BBC1 David Mitchell’s dramatic encounter with a London Tube train and Dani Dyer’s tale of a supernatural slug are just two of the stories in a sparkling episode.
The comedy-drama about a Dorking family adopting a Syrian asylum seeker returns with Sami (Youssef Kerkour, above) at his wits’ end.
Inside No 9 10.00pm BBC2
Death in Paradise
As the sublime anthology returns, Ralf Little and David Morrissey (centre, above) join the team inside a referees’ changing room. Dark deeds are afoot.
New/Drama of the Week Baghdad Central
9.00pm BBC1 Ralf Little arrives on the paradise island. He’s allergic to sunshine and just about everything else, but he doesn’t plan to stay long…
Silent Witness
Avenue 5 10.00pm Sky 1
A sinuous adaptation mixes procedural and heartfelt drama, as a policeman’s daughter goes missing in post-Iraq-War Baghdad.
9.00pm BBC1 A powerful series finale finds Clarissa (Liz Carr, above) and her fellow scientists at the Lyell Centre caught in a nerve agent crisis that keeps claiming more victims.
Armando Iannucci’s smart sci-fi sitcom comes up with the funnies week after week. Tonight, ship’s captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie, above) phones home…
Balls paints a vivid picture of the crisis in European politics, simply by listening to ordinary people.
The comic (above) takes to the road ahead of a big tour. There’s sharp talk on serious issues, but he’ll also make you snort with laughter.
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WEDNESDAY starts p94
THURSDAY starts p104
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Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner probe a brutal crime on a Native American reservation in this heady blend of politics and pulp.
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Some deep dark truths are on offer in this ten-part 15-Minute Drama by Katie Hims, which centres on the discovery of an old woman’s body in a snowy park.
The “miracle” cure for ageing isn’t really a miracle at all. The answer lies in exercise, and this is a look at schemes around the world set up to encourage it.
Alex Edelman’s Peer Group 6.30pm Radio 4 The New York comedian spends time with UK students to find out what their issues are — and how they feel the media represents them.
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10.00pm C5 Michael B Jordan plays the son of Sylvester Stallone’s old nemesis in a rousing Rocky spin-off that has a second sequel on the way.
In Tune 5.00pm Radio 3 Cello sensation Sheku Kanneh-Mason is just one of seven amazing musical siblings. Performing here are Braimah (violin), Konya (violin), and Jeneba (cello).
An extreme case of puppy love sets a former hitman (Keanu Reeves) on a bloody revenge mission when his beloved pooch is killed.
And the Academy Award Goes To… 11.00am Radio 4 Return of the countdownto-the-Oscars programme hosted by Paul Gambaccini. Today: the story behind Chicago’s 2002 triumph.
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now for something completely different… terry jones 1942–2020
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Over five decades, Radio Times followed the eclectic career of the comedy genius. Mark Braxton digs into the archive… erry Jones was a Ripping Yarns, and frequently visited him giant of comedy, a through his illness. “He was far more than one of towering talent who the funniest writer-performers of his generahelped shape British tion, he was the complete Renaissance comet e l e v i s i o n a n d , dian – writer, director, presenter, historian, brilindeed, television liant children’s author, and the warmest, most around the world, as wonderful company you could wish to have. a founder and key Terry was one of my closest, most valued friends.” part of Monty Carol Cleveland tells RT, “I’m always being Python. Much of that asked who my favourite Python was and I’ve extraordinary career was caught here in the always declined to say. But I’ll tell you now that pages of Radio Times. As recently as last year, Terry J was always one of my two favourites. Michael Palin shared with us his view that his Working with him in a sketch was such a joy. He great friend Jones was the funniest Python at always had me in stitches.” playing women. “There were certain caricature Jones’s sense of humour extended to interviews, women that we had to play ourselves. Then including one during a beer-and-nuts-fuelled there were women-women, that Carol Cleveland rehearsal for Monty Python’s Flying played very well! But a lot of people would say, Circus in 1970. “The worst ‘Why didn’t you have women playing Terry’s thing about this show,” mother?’ Well, because Terry could play his Jones told RT, “is that mother better than anybody! And that’s what a people keep drinklot of Terry’s characters were based upon.” ing your beer.” LADY HA HA Jones’s death last week after a long struggle And when the As Mrs Pinnet in the 1971 with dementia was met with a deluge of affec- Pythons submitMontreux tion on TV, in print and on social media, much ted a special special episode of it focusing on his work with Monty Python. episode to the And yet, Jones’s impact on television and film goes way deeper, and until his illness took hold, he was always pushing himself with new projects in lay his mother p ld u co ry er T literature and entertainment. His talents are best summed better than anybody! up by Palin, who co-wrote with Jones for Monty Python and
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1971 Montreux Television Festival, RT asked Jones why the show had been selected. He said: “Because of its complete and utter silliness, its total lack of moral fibre, its lack of awareness of world politics, its general low level of humour.” He was underplaying it all, of course. Flying Circus won a Silver Rose that year, and soon took off in the public imagination, running for four series until 1974, before the gang took over the world with feature films and stage shows. orn in colwyn bay in 1942, Jones studied at Oxford University, where he met Palin, and went on to write for The Frost Report, Twice a Fortnight and ITV children’s show Do Not Adjust Your Set. But it was the creation of Monty Python’s Flying Circus in 1969 that would change television for ever. Oxford’s Jones and Palin met with Cambridge alumni John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle, plus American animator Terry Gilliam from Minneapolis and comedy actor Cleveland. Describing the atmosphere that gave birth to Python, Jones later told us, “It was so stuffy in the 60s. The class system had a stranglehold… There are no taboo areas with humour, nothing you can’t make fun of. The only criterion is: Jones and Palin paired up to write many Python sketches, so it was no surprise when they reunited for Ripping Yarns, a comedy anthology that began with a pilot programme in early 1976 and continued over two series from 1977 to 79. Its mini-feature films spoofed the Boy’s Own style of adventure stories, in
Jones showed his gift for direction in the
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COMIC GENIUS Posing at home for RT in 2009, shortly after becoming a father for the third time
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nother domain that reaped rewards for Jones was history, and he fronted a series of TV documentaries in the late 90s and early noughties. Giving RT a sneak preview of his BBC2 documentary on ancient Rome, Jones said: “The history of gladiators has been blatantly lifted from the scripts of Monty Python. For example, in Life of Brian we staged a gladiatorial contest in which a feeble retiarius (or ‘net-man’) is faced by a formidable gladiator. We thought it would be fun if the net-man simply took to his heels and ran round the amphitheatre until the gladiator, weighed down by his armour, ended up having a heart attack. Bit of theatre of the absurd, or so we thought. However, while filming Gladiators: the Brutal Truth, we
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Tom a very reliable critic.” was a great fan of Rupert the Bear, to the exclusion of almost everything else. Then, at 14, I went straight on to Ray Bradbury, which probably explains a lot.” RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
As soon I as I met him at realised th Terry was very funny and easy to get on with
discovered that almost nothing we could dream up was too far from the truth.” To celebrate the Pythons’ 40th anniversary in 2009, Radio Times interviewed Jones at his house near London’s Hampstead Heath, where he and his Swedish partner Anna Soderstrom were living, with their baby daughter Siri. Jones had two grown-up children with his first wife, Alison. He’d just finished a libretto commissioned by the Royal Opera House, and had his musical Evil Machines performed the previous year. It was a reflective man that RT met that day. “It’s easier to understand comedy if you’re confident of people delivering it. You look at Morecambe and Wise now because you love Eric and Ernie, but it wasn’t that funny, whereas Python works for a new generation: school kids are fans. COMEDY “I felt the Pythons had to be the funniest MASTERS Palin and Jones thing on TV, it would make or break us… in the first I’m proud and relieved it lasted so long. episode of It enabled me to do a lot of academic stuff as I didn’t need to earn money.” Yarns Python still inspires huge devotion among fans. “I’m sure one day people will say the Pythons weren’t funny,” Jones said. “It happens with Shakespeare. Tragedy survives better than comedy, but I think we have a few more years.” WHERE IT ALL BEGAN 씰
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Monty Python films The Holy Grail (with Gilliam), their biggest movie Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. He went on to direct non-Python projects, from the Cynthia Payne-inspired comedy Personal Services to The Wind in the Willows, in which he starred as Toad, in green-face makeup. A separate string to his bow was to prove hugely successful for Jones. He wrote a first draft of the screenplay for Jim Henson’s fantasy film Labyrinth, and also penned books on ancient and medieval history (Chaucer’s Knight, Medieval Lives, Barbarians) and many for children (Fairy Tales, Nicobobinus, The Beast with a Thousand Teeth and Fantastic Stories). The last book was adapted for Jackanory in 1993, when he told RT, “They’re all set very much in the world of the traditional fairy story, with ogres and castles and talking beasts. Whenever I write a new story I try it out on my
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t’s July 1969, and an army of engineers is perfecting preparations for the historic first manned landing on the Moon by crew members of the Apollo 11 mission. The same month, Prince Charles is invested as Prince of Wales, the first American troops are withdrawn from Vietnam and, rather appropriately, Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman is at the top of the UK pop charts. In and around London, the first film inserts are being shot for a new BBC series planned for later in the year: a slapstick silent film involving Queen Victoria and Prime Minister William Gladstone, and men in superhero costumes walking down a suburban street… In fact, after the actors involved watch Apollo 11 blast off on TV, they spend the afternoon sweltering in 80°F heat while dressed in mouse costumes… Half a century ago, comedy was largely safe and predictable. Sitcoms and sketch shows tended to follow established guidelines and ensured that nothing frightened the horses. That is, until six young men came pogoing along
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on a huge Renaissance foot and trampled over all those rules and conventions until they were nothing but rubble. Over five years and 45 episodes, an initially mystified general public would gradually get used to, then come to love, the sight of City gents with wayward walks, deceased parrots, Vikings breaking into song about Spam and dark, grumbling cartoon creatures scuttling through Dalí-esque landscapes. Monty Python’s Flying Circus, in other words. How did the collision of elements that was Jones, Palin, Cleese, Chapman, Idle and Gilliam come to pass? alin recalls, “I remember a quite significant phone call with John Cleese. Terry Jones and myself had just done a series called The Complete and Utter History of Britain [Jan–Feb 1969, ITV], of which a few fragments survive. Some of it was very funny and some of it didn’t quite work, and John said, ‘Well, you won’t be doing any more of those, will you?’ in his cheerful, supportive way. “But on the other hand, he was interested in us as performers and writers. We – Terry Jones, myself and Eric – had worked on Do Not Adjust Your Set, and John was the funniest man around at the time – he’d done At Last the 1948 Show. We d myself enjoyed storyan y rr Te looked at John and Graham Chapman the way to and all those performers and thought, telling. We felt that was e a story ‘These are really good people, we’d love go: to make each episod to work with them.’ So when John said, ‘Is there anything we can do together that would be different and unusual? – let’s
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how long it will take, how much it will cost. It has to be checked for political correctness, ‘compliance’, ‘diversity’. It’s much more controlled.” Cleese takes up the story: “It was nerve-racking at the start because after we’d had this extraordinary meeting with Michael Mills, and without us having any idea, we were anxious for a bit because we had one or two meetings that got absolutely nowhere, until dear old Terry Jones said, ‘Well, let’s just go home and write.’ And then after a few days we had a read-through at Terry’s flat in Camberwell [south London], and we started laughing at what the others had written, what we each had written. And that was a marvellous moment.”
a read-through and started laughing at what the others had written,what we each had written. AND That was a marvellous moment
Main image: Terry Jones fronted this line-up with (from left, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese and Michael Palin at Acton Working Men’s Club in October 1970, where they were rehearsing sketches for series two of Monty Python’s Flying Circus with, inset left, producer Ian MacNaughton. Below, the Pythons as Pepperpots in 1974
have a talk about it,’ that was exciting. “Of course, it didn’t necessarily mean anything would work: there were six people chosen fairly randomly, because we all made each other laugh, but it did work and from the first meetings on, there was physically a good mix of people.” The BBC’s comedy adviser Barry Took then arranged for the group to meet head of comedy Michael Mills. Given this golden opportunity, however, the new team found that they were severely underprepared. Asked by Mills what they had in mind for a comedy series, they were unable to give definitive answers about guests, music, or indeed very much at all… By Cleese’s recollection, it was “humiliating”. However, at the point where the hopefuls expected the meeting to grind to a halt, Mills told them to go away and make 13 programmes. If they were incredulous then, the Pythons remain so to this day. As Palin once told Radio Times, Now it has to go through half a dozen stages. They want to know what you’re writing about, RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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he first studio recording of Monty Python’s Flying Circus took place on Saturday 30 August, in Studio 6 at BBC Television Centre, after a warmup by Barry Took. This would end up being episode two. “The day of recording I’ve always remembered very, very clearly,” says Cleese, “because the first sketch was the one about the flying sheep, and I remember waiting in the wings to watch Terry and Graham do it. I was with Michael and I said to him quietly, ‘We could be the first people in history to record a comedy show to complete silence.’ And he said, ‘I was having the same thought.’ We had no idea how it was going to be received. And people always say, ‘Did you think it was going to be a great success?’ Absolutely not!” As it transpired, Cleese and Palin, still in the wings at this point, could begin to relax: “There were one or two chuckles,” says Cleese, “and then a laugh. And then a big laugh. And I remember thinking, ‘It’s going to be all right.’” Watching the show today on Netflix or DVD, it’s hard to appreciate how alien the sight of dead parrots and Hell’s Grannies must have seemed to British viewers. But before long, this late-night secret was a world-conquering behemoth, on telly, on stage and in the cinema. 1969 was a very busy year, then. But while a padded boot on the Moon is as far as manned space exploration has ever gone, Cupid’s foot made sure that comedy, and TV in general, would never be the same again. MB
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hen Boris Johnson went to Buckingham Palace to be appointed Prime Minister, the Queen reportedly said, “I don’t know why anyone would want the job.” The same point might be made to those in the running for the top post at the BBC. Whoever replaces Tony Hall as director-general in the summer will inherit an in-tray bursting with problems. A few are short-term: improving relations with the Government after the election clashes, placating female staff bitter about pay equality, and sharply increasing programme investment outside London. But they are as nothing compared with the main problem – how to reform the increasingly outof-date funding system, based on the licence fee. It was all much simpler some 50 years ago, when I joined up. The BBC was proud of being different. We did not go on holiday; we took leave. If you drove a BBC vehicle, an ordinary driving licence wasn’t good enough, you had to pass a special test to be granted a permit. Almost everyone who worked there was on the staff. Few tasks were contracted out. There was even a BBC cow, kept in a dairy in west London. And, as a news reporter, I had an expensive BBC watch, to make sure that I could time my reports to the nearest second. The widespread acceptance of the BBC as a special case, supported by the licence fee, was a hangover from the time when Auntie had been the only Aunt. The monopoly was broken by the arrival of ITV, later by Channel 4 and Sky, but for years the BBC was allowed to rest on its
has been shattered. More and more channels were widely expected, following the American model. But the real surprise has been the advent of programmes on demand, with people willing to pay for them. With so many streaming services, the routine question has become, “What can we put on the telly tonight?”
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It’s hard to see how ‘ the BBC can last in its present form ’ laurels as “the Best Broadcaster in the World”. Now, despite heroic efforts by programmemakers, the case for the licence fee – a form of poll tax – has been steadily eroded by the arrival of a multitude of competitors. It’s hard to see how the BBC can last in its present form for much longer. It used to be argued that at the very least the corporation brought people together. The Church of England might have suffered a sharp decline, but at least we worshipped in a different way, in front of the box. We were also likely to be optimistic when the routine question was asked, “What’s on the telly tonight?” This homely vision
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he BBC was quick to invest in iPlayer and more recently in BBC Sounds. Competition from Amazon and Netflix has been kept partly at bay by impressive efforts with programmes from Blue Planet to Killing Eve. The BBC has also devoted itself to climate change coverage, and has promised to bow to political demands for more production outside London. It has grappled with the problem of supporting TV licences for the over-75s. But the strains are clearly showing. The average age of the audience is increasing, the number of viewers is falling. Young people are more likely to be hooked on their tablets and smartphones. It is time to think of different ways of paying for BBC programmes, whether it be some form of payment by subscription, as well as programme sponsorship, if not a move towards advertising in general. Will it be like the old BBC, complete with our own cow in west London? Of course not.
Tony Hall is leaving the BBC after seven years at the top
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5.20 Doctor Who
Tom Sharpe’s blackly comic novel Blott on the Landscape had been adapted by Malcolm Bradbury for BBC2 and we went on set to meet the stars. George Cole played Sir Giles Lynchwood, the bluff toff secretly trying to run a motorway through the ancestral home of his wife Maud (Geraldine James), and David Suchet played Blott, the handyman who does his best to help Maud secure her home. The future Poirot star gave us a few acting tips. “If I am going on a journey I look first at people’s feet… I know a lot of actors who get into the character when they have found the right shoes,” he told us.
You had a lot to say about Terry Wogan, who had just left his Radio 2 breakfast show to pursue a career in television. Mrs Vera Smith from Berkshire said she initially had “serious doubts” about Terry’s replacement, Ken Bruce, but had eventually warmed to the new man. While Georgina Meredith-Jones from Ashley in Wiltshire was clearly no Wogan fan, and said Bruce provided “a brisk programme of tuneful music, interspersed with short, pithy comments. Bravo! The change was long overdue.” BEN DOWELL
The Mark of the Rani starring Colin Baker and Kate O’Mara.
6.40 The Little and Large Show
With guest Hank Wangford.
7.15 One by One Zoo drama starring Rob Heyland.
8.05 Dynasty 8.55 International Snooker 9.45 News and Sport
With Jan Leeming.
10.00 Match of the Day
Introduced by Jimmy Hill.
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othing can prepare you for the noise, the sheer cacophony on the island,” says Ardal O’Hanlon, sipping tea on a gloomy winter’s day in London, evidently very happy to be out of the tropics. “The sun goes down at six o’clock and then the frogs and the crickets kick in. They don’t stop for 12 hours, it gets louder and louder. Then the wild dogs start barking and start chasing the wild hens. It is chaos out there, madness.” O’Hanlon has played DI Jack Mooney in three and a half series of Death in Paradise. “That’s four summers, 24 episodes and at least 24 murders,” he says. “Most of which I solved with very little help from anybody else.” From the sound of it, the Irish actor is lucky to have got back alive from Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, where the show is filmed. “The heat and humidity when you first step off the plane are astonishing,” he says. “You’re wet in the morning, wet in the night, wet in your costumes, wet in your bed. You’re damp for months on end.” He doesn’t look like he’s been through hell. He has plenty of hair and no sign of a paunch, pretty good for 54. “I had to make a conscious effort to get much fitter and live cleaner out there. Within two days of arriving I realised I wasn’t fit enough for the job. It was a big wake-up call. I needed to up my game and have more energy. I started to exercise more, eat healthier and not drink as much. “I also learnt to be pretty good at
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when I wasn’t in front of the camera. You can almost shut your organs down, and just go [a deep intake of breath] Zen. No use of unnecessary energy. Ever.” Was it really so awful? “Listen, it was an incredible experience, hugely enjoyable,” he says. “There were days when we were filming out at sea and I’d look back at the island, pinch myself and think, ‘This is brilliant.’ ” So why stop? “It’s a tough gig, physically draining. You’re working in incredible conditions and cannot sustain the
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intensity. And I wanted to go back to stand-up.” O’Hanlon first gained fame in the 1990s as a hapless cleric in the sitcom Father Ted, but he’s long been a highly regarded live comic. “If I’d left it another year, all my sharpness as a stand-up would have gone. I announced I was doing tours and then I knew the writing was on the wall for Death in Paradise. Something has to give.” e says island life hasn’t changed the tone of his stand-up act – “Oh no, I haven’t lost my bitter cynicism” – but it’s had an effect on his acting. “My technique has improved a hundred-fold just by watching all the great actors that appear on Death in Paradise.” How will he use that new-found prowess? Is he planning more TV shows? “I’ve never been proactive about that sort of thing. I don’t know how to go about it. But having done a sitcom and now a light drama, my instinct is to do serious drama.” He says the BBC have chosen his replacement wisely. “I know Ralf from meeting him late at night in dens of iniquity in London. He’s a great bloke and a really smart actor with lots of charisma.” What will be the key to Little’s survival on the island? “Preparation,” O’Hanlon replies. “Not just knowing the lines but knowing the story inside out so when your brain shuts down in the afternoon heat, which it will, you can go on autopilot. “I remember Kris Marshall telling me stuff when we handed over and it doesn’t sink in at the time. You have to experience it yourself. It really is a different life out there. I told
Ralf all the cool restaurants to go to, but the only real advice I could give him, other than preparation, is stay cool, literally and metaphorically, when things go wrong. Because they will go wrong.” He has three children: Emily, 22, Rebecca, 20, and Redmond, 17. “Talking to the family was a touchstone for me. I take my parental duties very seriously. I’d come in from work at half six and talk to them before they went to bed [back home]. That was really important. Their lives are busy. Nailing them down for ten minutes can be tricky. This way they were obliged to talk to me. On my last day of work on the island I really did feel a sense of, ‘Wow this is an amazing show but it’s over now and I’m kind of relieved.’ I couldn’t wait to go home and see my family.” And what will he miss when the next series starts filming this May? “The relationships you develop on the island. When you’re working on a show [in the British Isles], you go home at the end of the day, and there’s no social dimension to it. It’s not like that on Death in Paradise. Out there everyone is in the same boat. The crew, 80 or 90 people, are all thrown into this together and you rely heavily on each other for emotional support and friendship. It’s very social. “Actually, when I said that I was living cleanly, that might have been an exaggeration. The rum is very cheap. I’ll miss that.”
“Life on the island is a terrifying ordeal!”
alf Little grabs my leg and pulls hard. “We’re not supposed to reveal any details of how Ardal leaves and I join Death in Paradise,” he says, leaning over the table. “But it’s so exciting I’m going to tell you anyway. We followed the Doctor Who model. Ardal goes, ‘I’ve had a great time, everyone,’ then lights shoot out of his eyes and mouth and he turns into me. He regenerates! The special effects are amazing.” Little, still remarkably boyish, though he turns 40 on 8 February, plays DI Neville Parker, an allergy-prone Mancunian so spectacularly illsuited to life in the tropics, he can barely get out of his car. “He has a skin condition and gets sunburnt really quickly,” says the actor best known for The Royle Family and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. “He reacts to every possible type of pollen and seawater makes him itch. He can’t leave the Jeep without slathering on 44 layers of sun cream. Life on the island is a terrifying ordeal for him.” Parker replaces Ardal O’Hanlon’s DI Jack Mooney, who shuffles off the show just as Kris Marshall’s DI Humphrey Goodman did in 2017 and Ben Miller’s DI Richard Poole, the original British copper seconded to the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, in 2014. Technically, Poole was slain with an ice pick before he could be replaced, but the exchange of male leads has become a key moment in a show that has been running since 2011 and attracts eight million viewers, and Little isn’t risking any spoilers. As his mother told him when he got the role, it could all go very wrong. “Mum went, ‘But what if no one likes you and they stop watching it?’ I was like, ‘Thanks, Mum!’ So I hope I don’t affect Death in Paradise like George Clooney did Batman, so only Christian Bale can HANDOVER come in and revive it.” Ardal O’Hanlon Little had already makes way for been in a 2013 Ralf Little in Death in Paradise episode alongside Miller. The production team knew he could hack life on Guadeloupe.
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“Yes, it’s hot and uncomfortable,” he says. “But so what? You finish work and jump into the sea then go and practise French with the locals or play your guitar or hang out with friends. It was an absolute joy to make. Before I went, I called up Ben and Kris and I spoke to Ardal. All three were great. I thought they might say, ‘Mate, it will drive you mad.’ But they all said, ‘Congratulations, you’ll have a great time.’ ” iller famously, struggled in the Caribbean heat, though it was partly his own fault, Little claims. “In the pilot episode, Ben has a three-piece dark wool suit and a tie on,” he says. “The sergeant asks, ‘Sir, if you’re hot, why don’t you take your jacket off?’ Ben replies, ‘I can’t do that. I’m a member of the British police force.’ That line killed him for three years because it set the tone, he could never take his jacket off. He said to me, ‘Just make sure if there are any lines about your costume in the first episode, you say you love linen, it’s got great breathability.’ ” Being away from family for six months has been an issue for the other male leads on the
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show, but Little has no children and spends much of his time in the US with his girlfriend, the New York-based playwright and screenwriter Lindsey Ferrentino. “I met her during her play [Ugly Lies the Bone] at the National Theatre, which starred me and Kris Marshall. People ask, ‘What’s the future for you two, is it kids?’ We’re always working out where the hell we’re going to live, that’s number one, and we’re not going to be able to do that for two years or however long Death in Paradise goes on for.” Little was born in Oldham, Lancashire, one of five children. His older sister Ceridwen was killed in a fall on a camping trip when Little was nine. His grieving parents, both accountants, sacrificed evenings and weekends to send their children to clubs and acting classes, where he was in youth theatre productions. “They sacrificed their lives for us,” he says. “And it left me with this real gift. A mental attitude that I can do anything and will be good at anything.” He was taking a medical degree at
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ITCHING TO BEGIN Ralf Little joins Death in Paradise as allergy-prone DI Neville Parker
Manchester University when he heard he’d been cast as Antony, the much-put-upon son in The Royle Family. “I was 18 when The Royle Family came out and it was bonkers,” he says of the sitcom written by Craig Cash and Caroline Aherne, and also starring Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston and Liz Smith. “I think I’m the luckiest person in the world, to have stumbled out of nowhere into being in a bit of TV history. I can’t believe I was fortunate enough to be among that true talent and genius. There’s no parallel universe where being in The Royle Family was anything other than my greatest achievement ever.” It’s because of his experience on the show that Little thinks he’ll handle the attention that Death in Paradise will bring. “I’ve been the
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subject of quite intense scrutiny before. I’ve run that gauntlet. I’m older and wiser now and frankly, I don’t go out to nightclubs any more anyway. I’m boring now, so life is so much more straightforward. I’m nearly 40 and there’s very little I do that’s of any interest to anyone, unless it’s, ‘Ooh, Ralf Little spotted playing the Xbox again.’ ” e’s been known for making quite a lot of noise and getting attention for his campaigning on Twitter, however. In 2017, his complaints about NHS mental healthcare underfunding irked then health secretary Jeremy Hunt so much he sent Little 27 tweets. Last November, Twitter suspended him after he rebranded his account as the fake “Conservative Press Orifice” in protest at the Tories rebranding their own Twitter account as “Factcheck UK”. He says, “Nobody from the BBC, [production company] Red Planet or Death in Paradise has said anything other than, ‘Do what you want to do.’ I’m not a spokesperson for the BBC, in the same way as Gary Lineker isn’t. I’m pretty careful. I don’t go out of my way to insult anybody. Surely, we can all just get along? “Equally, I’m not daft. Hits are hard to come by and I’ve already been very lucky. Walking into Death in Paradise, which is already a very popular and beloved show, is a massive thing for me.” Ralf Little also guest-stars in Inside No 9, Monday 10pm BBC2
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Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard Monday 9.00pm BBC2
‘Is this art, or is it porn?’ Mary Beard wonders if it’s still OK – in the age of #MeToo – to gaze at the nudes that fill our galleries
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rofessor Dame Mary Beard is taking a mercilessly modern look at art. The title of her new two-part series, Shock of the Nude, riffs on the 1980 art histor y series by grumpy Australian critic Robert Hughes. “It’s an in-joke for the over-50s,” confesses Beard, who doesn’t worry about sounding weird for millennials. They all love her, anyway, because she is Mary Beard, the Cambridge University don who is a social media-savvy, clever and also unBotoxed presence on TV – and these days, that is disruptive with a capital D. Is her new series really shocking? “It’s not a reverential programme about the naked body,” laughs Beard. “It’s a show that I hope will make viewers look at the nude differently. And, actually, be a little unsettled. We go to a gallery and what do we expect? We expect to find naked bodies.” Particularly female ones. Is that a problem? “I do not want our galleries to be free of naked women,” she says quickly. “But I do want us to think a bit more carefully about what they are showing, and why they are showing it.” Indeed, once she starts marching about museums in her sparkly trainers, pointing out all the nudity on show, you’ll probably never venture into a traditional gallery again without thinking
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saying, ‘What is this? Is this really soft porn for the elite, dressed up in a classical guise?’” In the series, Beard doesn’t pull any punches. She does a whole number in front of Gustave Courbet’s famously unapologetic 1866 work, The Origin of the World (basically, a close-up of a female pudendum), which, as she points out, is only really acceptable because it has a posh title and is in a posh frame, hung in a posh gallery. “If it was called, I don’t know, ‘Delphine’s Pussy’,
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? Mary Beard with a cast of a Roman statue of a dying Gaul in the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge
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Life is a bit of a whirlwind for the 65-year-old professor of classics these days, what with the arts docs and the regular gig on Front Row Late and writing for the London Review of Books, all that tweeting and blogging and hosting events with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, and her supremacy as the only regular woman on TV who doesn’t mind looking, well, regular. “That was good fortune for me, in part because I didn’t do any telly until I was 55,” she says. “I came in as a woman in her mid-50s, who couldn’t plausibly pretend to be somebody else. I mean, I got flak for it, but I thought that when I look back at myself on telly, I want to see me. I don’t want to see someone pretending to be someone they are not.”
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he show is deliberately coarse in that very Mary Beard way. She is, of course, aware of this. It has an intellectual justification, as does all her commentary and scholarship. “You could say that all I do is talk about tits and bums, but you have to jolt people out of the sense that what we see on the gallery wall is somehow completely removed from how we talk about our bodies and sex. You can’t really look at galleries of nudes displaying themselves without thinking, ‘There is something about male sexuality and male desire and male ownership here’. But what else is going on?” It’s a classic Beard question, bringing what The New Yorker called “a proletarian focus to the world of the ancients”. She makes even the oldest RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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we would look at it differently, wouldn’t we?” Um, yes, probably. Not that Beard is being coy. “I don’t have a stronger moral purpose here except to say, let’s look harder at what we look at.” Are all these nudes painted for the delectation of the male gaze? Well, as Beard points out, they were (mostly) commissioned by men, and gazed at by men, certainly in the early days. “But where does that leave the female viewer? One of the things we are trying to say is, ‘On what terms can I enjoy looking at a naked woman whose image was drawn and painted, let’s imagine, for the pleasure of the male customer?’” Like the Venus of Urbino, whom Titian painted pleasuring herself, perhaps (see p25). “I don’t want to not look at that. I enjoy it: I think it’s a great painting. But then I have to say, ‘On what terms am I letting myself enjoy that? How am I enjoying that? How can I?’”
his position is so unusual that at the beginning, it was a bit of a baptism of fire. The late Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill seemed to take no notice of what she was actually saying. Reviewing her 2010 series, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town, Gill suggested that she was too ugly to be on television. “The hair is a disaster, the outfit an embarrassment… she should be kept away from cameras altogether.” Well, that didn’t go too well for him. Beard invited him to visit her at Newnham College in Cambridge and suggested that he was simply one of those chaps “frightened of smart women who speak their minds”. Rather than crush her, Gill’s critique only made Beard look cooler and brainier. “I got a huge amount of support from people who things seem revelatory; as a Latin scholar once would not normally have been cheering on put it, “When Mary does something, it is not old Beard. But what became clear to me was that hat. It becomes new hat.” What is going on with when Gill attacked me, he was attacking them. ordinary people is always what seems to have I think it was that I seemed to be speaking for fired her work, be it what made Romans laugh, them to a world which they think doesn’t want an interest in Pompeiian garden tools (left them to look like they do.” If anything, she has become more determined behind in specific rooms when Vesuvius erupted, prompting her to surmise that the eruption was to be authentic. “The older I get, the more I expected) or who was selling refreshments to think that you have to find your own way of doing it.” So, no plastic surgery? “If you the crowds at lavish victory celebraGOOD want to have work done, and that suits tions. She has always treated her viewCOMPANY you… but quite a lot of people don’t ers as she might her Cambridge Discussing want to go that route. Perhaps I’ve students and this is why her misogyny and women in high done my little bit by saying, ‘Look, programmes are so watchable. places with it’s fine. If you are 65, why do you Beard is a great teacher, no Hillary not want to look 65? What’s the matter who she is instructing. Clinton in matter?’” “Our students are clever, 2017 Although she has but they want to be interthrown down the gauntested, as a TV audience let, she is uninterested does. People often say: ‘It in criticising women must be really different who are not like her. talking to a TV audi“Whatever you look ence rather than your like as a woman on Cambridge students.’ telly, you get it in the Well, it’s not that differneck. Ten years ago, I ent. And the problems went on a breakfast are quite straightforshow, I can’t rememward. ‘Is this art or is it ber which one. It was porn?’ is not a problem presented, in part, by a that people have diffiwoman who looked culty understanding.”
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MARY BEARD’S NUDES THAT MATTER
Look again – artworks that give us a new view of the naked body
c330–50 BC PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME, ROME “He’s an old, scarred, hunched guy who’s seen too many fights. For me this is a favourite because it’s a fantastic antidote to the idea that all ancient nudes were hunks. It shows there were Greek and Roman sculptors who saw that there was another side to the nude. The boxer is showing that he is no longer what he once was. It’s a totally brilliant work of art.”
2 Adam and Eve Lucas Cranach the Elder
1528 UFFIZI, FLORENCE “One of Cranach’s Adam and Eve’s would be nice to include, because they’re sort of showing you the origin of the fig leaf by using a bit of local greenery. So you’re there at the beginning, really, of artists thinking about how they are going to cope with genitalia on display.”
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1534 UFFIZI, FLORENCE “I still have a soft spot for her. You could say this is the object of male passion — yes, but she is also teasing us. You don’t know what she is doing. Is she playing with herself? ‘Am I masturbating or not?’ she says. She’s in charge.”
2005—7 FORMERLY FOURTH PLINTH, TRAFALGAR SQUARE “What is put on the Fourth Plinth is always interesting because you get people to look at the work in a way that they wouldn’t in a gallery. What Quinn did was play with the idea of the incomplete statue — like the Venus de Milo — but in terms of disability.”
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Telly Perfect. We were talking afterwards about flak, Twitter, emails and stuff. And I said, ‘I get all that stuff, but you probably don’t.’ And she said ‘I get it, too.’ It made me realise that this isn’t actually about how I or you, or whoever it is on the telly, looks. However women look on the telly, they’ll be gone for. Either as mutton dressed up as lamb or for having Botox. Or not brushing their hair.” On which point, she is quite defensive. “I am actually quite dutiful. Before a piece to camera, I have producers saying to me, ‘Brush your hair, Mary’, and I do, and it still looks like what it looks like.”
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eard fans will be thrilled (probably) to learn that the esteemed professor goes the whole way in this show, sitting in a life class as the nude model. “I’m certainly not fully clad. But you’ll have to wait and see exactly how this is handled.” Oh no, I think. Is this one of those RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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weary moments when the historian apes the subject of the show? Not at all, apparently. As soon as she took up position in front of the artist, she says, “I felt very conscious that we were talking about power. Often this was about the clothed male artist and the naked female model in a hierarchy of power. I didn’t feel entirely morally OK about dissecting the power relations between naked female and clothed artist if I never put myself in a position of weakness. It’s not a bad idea to make yourself a bit vulnerable.” Of course, the great thing about Beard is that nothwithstanding her dismissal of the armour of Botox and airbrushed make-up and perfect hair,
she uses her wits to defend her. This makes her seem incredibly powerful, and liberated. This is why millennials, and everyone else, love her. “I look perfectly ordinary. I am what it is very easy to look like if you are 65. That is liberating. People who look as if they’ve taken immense care get flak. I get flak because I haven’t. That is the residual… I think calling it misogyny is putting it a bit hard, but it’s a residual sexism.” The geometry is as perfect as something that might have been expressed by Pythagoras. Classical scholar analyses history; is mocked for how she looks on camera and takes what can be classed as a current feminist stance on it; is commissioned to analyse the history of Western art with a current feminist stance. Is there an academic formula for this, and if so, can it be repeated across the cultural world, with Mary Beard as our guide?
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Pencils at the ready As the BBC asks us to life draw live, RT’s Michael Hodges sketches his very first nude
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Lack of experience is no barrier, and neither do you need professional materials. “Use some scrap paper and a pencil if you like,” says Goudie. “It’s the process of considering the shape and form of another human being that matters. At first, lots of things go through your mind, but let that clear, and calmness should come over you. Think of this as yoga for the brain.” I have never before put charcoal to paper – or attempted yoga – so ahead of tonight’s class Goudie gave me an intensive beginner’s course in life drawing. The first thing I noticed on arriv-
ing at his London studio was a reproduction of the central scene of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel – Adam stretching to touch his finger to God’s, open at the easel. This is perhaps the defining image of the Renaissance. Were we aiming a little high? “If you’re going to copy someone,” Goudie declared, “then copy the best.” He paints representational canvases, still lifes, interiors, and landscapes that are recognisably so. He is not an abstract painter, which means he wasn’t entirely impressed with my first attempt. “Hmm,” he said, “I see Picasso and even RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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Don’t obsess about the right paper or charcoal. A felt tip pen and the back of a sheet of printed A4 can be the first step on your way to becoming a life-drawing master. Think about where you are going to position your first mark on the paper — everything depends on where you start. Draw lightly at first, don’t commit yourself too heavily right away. Think about the body as a collection of geometric shapes
Henry Moore, but not Michelangelo.” Much like the Eric Morecambe joke, I was drawing the right bits, but not necessarily in the right order. “Join it up,” Lachlan demanded. “Mark the outlines, establish the shape – be bold!” My second attempt was too bold, an overconfident sweep of the charcoal suggesting a giant backside. Goudie didn’t like it. “He’s Adam, not a Kardashian.” Eventually, bum shrunk and limbs attached, I had a passable Adam, and Goudie declared me ready to draw a real-life man.
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j o i n t o g e t h e r.” After 40 minutes of intense concentration, my problem is joining sausages together. I establish Valerie’s bottom as two half spheres and her head as a tilted square. Her back, Goudie says, is a pretty good oblong, but the legs – one a WOMAN WITH skinny frankfurter, BROOM (2020) Michael’s first the other an unhappy attempt (above) and banger – are, to use a (right) Lachlan’s technical term, all wrong. At this point we cheat. Goudie leans over from his canvas and with one firm stroke of his charcoal fixes the frankfurter. I should have left it at that. As Goudie says, the hardest bit is know-
— spheres, cubes, triangles, squares — then join them up. Consider the proportions of each element of the body — always be thinking about how the size of the foot relates to the size of the head. Always step back from the easel. It will be apparent where you’ve gone wrong. Don’t be hard on yourself. You’re not going to be able to draw like Rembrandt the first time, but you will get better. So, enjoy the process.
ing when to stop. But glancing across the room I notice that most of the other artists have included noses and mouths. And looking at Valerie as she clings to her broom, it’s clear that she does have a nose and a mouth. Goudie looks up just as I finish. “No, don’t put a face in, you’ll get the perspective wrong.” And, sure enough I have put her lips in her chin. Goudie smudges my charcoal. “Suggest her face,” he says. “Then it can’t be wrong.” The timer sounds. Valerie puts on her gown and inspects everyone’s work. She pauses at my easel, goes “Hmmfff!” in the way only Frenchwomen can and walks on. “You know,” Lachlan tells me later. “I think she liked it.”
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‘Roles for Arabs are often offensive’ Waleed Zuaiter was tired of the parts he was being offered until he read Baghdad Central, based on the novel by Elliott Colla in which a flawed cop unravels a mystery in war-torn Iraq
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I wrote my novel Baghdad Central over seven weeks in late 2009. I was initially surprised how quickly the characters and plotlines came to me, but in retrospect it’s not so strange. On the one hand, I’m a scholar and translator of modern Arabic literature at Georgetown University in Washington. So, between living in the Arab world for many years, and reading books, I’d come to have some knowledge of what was happening in Iraq, and how that affected the rest of the Arab world. On the other hand, my late father-in-law, Muhsin Mahdi, was an important Iraqi intellectual who had spent his adult career in exile. For many years, I’ve had the privilege of listening to family stories of life in Karbala and Baghdad. The year – 2009 – was also important for other reasons. Barack Obama had just taken office as US president and raised our hopes that there might be a reckoning for the reckless George W Bush years. Alas, we were sorely wrong. In April of that
GRIEF AMID THE RUINS Waleed Zuaiter, who is of Palestinian descent, found a story to relate to playing policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji
year, Obama stopped the release of the Abu Ghraib torture files [showing abuse by military guards of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan]. Then he announced that he wouldn’t investigate the crimes that led to the war; or the crimes of the torturers and the lawyers who had enabled them; or other, more routine crimes of war; or even the massive profiteering and corruption that dogged the US occupation. Obama’s first big pronouncement on these subjects presaged what was to follow: “This is a time for reflection, not retribution… Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.” Investigations came to a halt. The page was turned.
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wasn’t just frustrated, I was ashamed and furious: my country was blundering through history and killing masses of people in the process. By 2009, I’d spent many years speaking out about the war and occupation. I routinely teach courses about modern and classical Arabic literature, thinking that cultural exchange might bring understanding. Like many colleagues, I’ve translated works of Arabic literature into English, in the belief that they might offer a more complex picture of life in the Arab world. But Americans had little interest in hearing what Arab writers had to say about their own world, and even less about what American scholars had to say about it. There are also many, many solid, scholarly books that challenge traditional, orientalist depictions of Arab society. But most Americans tend to read stories and accounts that confirm, rather than challenge, the old stereotypes. Baghdad Central was an attempt to break through the impasse with fiction. Maybe noir fiction could be a way to challenge the routine villainisation of Muslims and Arabs in US culture? My hope was to start conversations, spark curiosity, and perhaps ignite debate among people who had never read, and would never search for, Arabic novels in translation or the new scholarship on the Middle East.
I’d just discovered Carlo Lucarelli’s thoughtprovoking Inspector De Luca novels, which follow a detective working in fascist Italy, collaborating with (and also resenting) his Nazi superiors – then doing the same, in the later novels, with Americans. The novels trace the shifting alliances as one order is replaced by another, factions vie to settle old accounts, and flawed men scramble through the ruins of crumbling empires. Suddenly, I saw something inherent in the noir genre. It was uniquely poised to address the murkiest questions of military occupation. Stephen Butchard’s script for Channel 4’s six-part adaptation captures the core of my novel and develops it in rich, provocative ways – giving life to my characters and adding new ones, giving the story its own visual texture, sound and mood. Initially, I thought I might
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resent the kind of changes that invariably happen in any adaptation. But that wasn’t at all my experience. Seeing the series take shape was like discovering that my novel had a sibling! Selfishly, too, I have already managed to learn a few things about storytelling from Stephen. In the first episode there’s a brilliant scene with a beautiful thoroughbred standing in the middle of a busy intersection. I won’t tell you what happens next – but I will admit that I wish I had written it. It captures, in five seconds, what it took me hundreds of pages to say. Waleed Zuaiter’s central performance also deserves special notice. When I wrote Muhsin al-Khafaji, the cop protagonist of Baghdad Central, I pictured him with the charisma, force and moustache of [Palestinian politician] George Habash and the wiry gauntness of Harry Dean Stanton. An impossibility, I know. But
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tasted like safety. This was when my adulthood started. There was no going back.” And so he ploughed on into acting, an interest that had been sparked when Joana, a girl he liked, enrolled in theatre class at high school in Kuwait. “I feel like I discovered acting at the same time I discovered love and the freedom that comes with its expression,” he explains. They married in 1991, months after separately escaping Kuwait – Joana’s route saw her held as a human shield in Baghdad for two weeks, standing behind Saddam while he ruffled the hair of a British boy in a notorious TV stunt. While Joana entered academia, Zuaiter held down a steady career on stage and screen with parts in TV dramas including Homeland and The Good Wife. Then he produced and starred in 2013 film Omar, about a Palestinian freedom fighter who turns reluctant informant, and was thrust into the spotlight (with Leem Lubany, his co-star in both Omar and Baghdad Central) when it was nominated for an Oscar.
TURNING POINT Waleed Zuaiter’s career took off when he both starred in and produced Omar (2013), nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar
Waleed took my figment and made it flesh: I’ll never think of Khafaji the same way again. Waleed managed to capture exactly what I wanted in this hero: a strong, principled, flawed – that is to say, human – man living under impossible circumstances. Western screen culture tends to depict Arab men as a problem. As terrorists, fanatics, wifebeaters. Occasionally directors try to make individual male Arab characters likeable, but too
Khafaji smokes, drinks ‘ and loves poetry. He has worldly desires ’ often that involves making them super-pious, as if they can’t imagine compelling, virtuous Arab men who aren’t praying all the time. Khafaji smokes and drinks and loves poetry. He has a messy backstory, worldly desires and sordid dreams. Waleed shows all this with grace – and proves that it’s not so hard to imagine Arab men as compelling characters.
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n 2020, all this seems very important again. The same people who called for the invasion of Iraq are now calling for war on Iran, and they may get their way if they’re not stopped. Those we failed to hold accountable are back in power. America’s current CIA director personally directed the brutal torture of captured prisoners. We have a president who pardons convicted war criminals. The story of Baghdad Central may take place in 2003, but the characters and situations might as well have been drawn from our present moment. It’s never too late to revisit an old story and re-examine its pages in the hope that we might just learn something from the past.
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‘I fled from Saddam’ For Waleed Zuaiter, the starring role of Khafaji in Baghdad Central was far more than the biggest job of his career. It was personal. The son of Palestinians displaced in the 1948 war, he was born in Sacramento, California, in 1971 before work took the family to Kuwait five years later. At 19, he had just completed his freshman year at college in Washington and returned to Kuwait in August 1990 for his brother Eddie’s engagement party. Days later, the region exploded following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. “Eddie and his fiancée had left for New York while I stayed in Kuwait with my parents and grandmother,” Zuaiter explains over coffee in Rabat at the end of a long day’s filming. “We found out about the invasion when Eddie woke us up calling from the US to ask if we were OK – he’d seen it on CNN. Sure enough we opened the window and saw the tanks outside. It took four hours! Two hours later the phone lines were dead and the TV channels were off-air.” For all the quiet tone of his voice now, it must have been terrifying. “Everything is shaken up,” he nods. “Fear overrides logic and people you think are close to you turn against you. There was a lot of looting until the Republican Army turned up. It was a free-for-all.” Flight was the only option, but with the Saudi border closed, the only route to safety for Zuaiter and his family was through Iraq to Jordan. “I became the third generation in my family to experience displacement,” he says. “The journey took three days and nights and I saw things I’ll never forget. It was chaotic, tragic and primal. Once we got to Jordan we saw this little flame in the distance. It was this guy making shawarma [a Middle Eastern meat dish] and, honestly, it
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onetheless, a defining role proved evasive as the frustrations of being an American actor of Middle Eastern descent ate away at him. “Shortly after 9/11 there were many roles for Middle Eastern actors, but they were often offensive, angry, or badly written. The industry only saw me for certain roles and I felt I’d played every version of what the entertainment world thought of as ‘Arab’, from the sleeper cell terrorist to the many variations of ‘the good Arab’. I’m grateful for these roles, because it’s how I built my screen career, but a part of me felt I was simply taking part in someone else’s narrative.” Baghdad Central, Zuaiter initially feared, simply offered more of the same. “I really wasn’t interested in playing another accented Arab in a Western entertainment show,” he says. “My
We opened the window ‘ and saw tanks – then the TV went off-air ’ dad had recently passed and I was in a very dark place – depressed, really. But my wife, manager and agent all forced me to audition and as soon as I spoke the words, the role felt nuanced. Plus, it was told from an Iraqi point of view, which took me out of any stereotype. It turned out to be a role I could relate to in that shared grief, in wanting to overcome one’s worst fears and in trying to be a better parent. Khafaji is the role of a lifetime – everything that I wanted to play was staring at me in plain sight. “It feels as though there is finally room for actors like me to find roles and stories that they see themselves in. I hope we’re evolving to tell a much wider spectrum of stories that unite, inspire and ultimately make us feel less alone.” AS TOLD TO GABRIEL TATE
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Forget the heroics and the failures of the World Cup, the Six Nations is a fresh start, says the BBC’s Eddie Butler Six Nations Rugby Union Wales v Italy Sat k/o 2.15pm BBC1/S4C/5L Sp Ex Ireland v Scotland Sat k/o 4.45pm ITV/5L Sp Ex France v England Sun k/o 3pm BBC1/5L Sp Ex
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fter a Rugby World Cup of many wonders, it’s time to start afresh. The memories of the tournament in Japan are to be tucked away, to be remembered fondly (by the English and Welsh) or with a wince (by the French, Italians, Irish and Scots). But definitely over. A new cycle is about to start and, with it, all the hopes that come with the Six Nations, our cosy little rugby ritual that HIGHS & LOWS never fails to warm the transiEngland beat the All tion from the coldest month Blacks in the World Cup semi-final — then lost to of the year to early spring. South Africa STRIPPED AND READY FOR ACTION So goes the script. But The captains of the home nations there is a rugby reality line up at the launch of the Six Nations to be faced after the in January. From left: Stuart Hogg World Cup and it isn’t of Scotland; Owen Farrell of England; Alun Wyn Jones of Wales and Ireland’s entirely full of the joys Johnny Sexton of spring. Twenty-five years after rugby took the almighty plunge but all in all it is squeaky from amateur into clean compared with the professional, certain old amateur days. And “issues” have arisen and infinitely better for being so. they’re going to weigh heavily Enter concussion. It began on the championship. to rear its rattled head in Rugby was always cautious about American Football and stretches now allowing payment for playing, being a sport firm into football, where heading is about to become And it’s not going to let up in the Six Nations, in its belief that it could never fully trust itself to strictly for grown-ups. Rugby is obviously impli- such is the worry at World Rugby that inaction control its more violent impulses, even with no cated, not through the savagery of old, but on this front could spell the end of the game monetary reward at stake. In that respect, it has through the “advances” made in organising a everywhere. So, we must be prepared for more performed quite admirably as, far from becom- defence. Tacklers stand tall and go face to face stoppages in play: to go through the mandatory ing a bloodbath, rugby is practically wholesome. with ball-carriers, both sets hugely brave and, all medical procedures with players on the receivLong gone are the days of punching and biting, too frequently, hugely unconscious. Or players in ing end of a blow to the head; to review incidents booting and “bag-snatching”. Cameras and the heat of the contest simply forget, while of “avoidable” contact to the head and neck area; neutral officials and citing protocols and, above performing a low tackle, to put their head on the for lectures and cards. Now, there is a certain all, fines and suspension have cleaned the game safe side of the opponent they’re trying to fell. drama to all this, but it isn’t going to make the up no end. Players square up occasionally and At the Rugby World Cup in Japan, the afternoons and evenings any shorter. take each other out from time to time in the air, campaign against concussion began in earnest. Another cloud over the game in its 25th-anni-
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ANYONE BUT ENGLAND... Don’t bet against an upset, says Simon Barnes
England were Rugby World Cup finalists, conquerors of the mighty All Blacks in that masterclass of a semi-final and are favourites to win the Six Nations. But every match is filled with history: rivalries, victories, defeats, war, peace and eternal rancour. Resentment of England has always been at the heart of it — in these troubled times, more than ever. So, don’t bet against an upset. Because no one loves beating England more than this lot… ENGLAND
Though Wales traditionally save their best for England, they reached the semi-finals in the World Cup, and it might have been an England v Wales final — fearsome thought — until they lost to South Africa. Now with a new coach, the Kiwi Wayne Pivac, a new era starts. One best marked by beating England. WALES
Scotland were — shall we say unexceptional? — in last year’s Six Nations. And then just as we were consigning their season to the dustbin, they played the match of the tournament and drew 38—38 with England. If they played every match against England they would be world-beaters. SCOTLAND
English fans think the French nickname for the English, les rosbifs, is a grudging compliment to their strength. It’s actually an insult to their gross appetites and behaviour. The French take food, clothes and sport and try to turn them into art. Can new coach Fabien Galthié help them rediscover the artistry he exhibited as a player? FRANCE
versary year of going pro is the case of the overpaid Saracens. Rugby by nature is a game of flexibility when it comes to its policing. It has laws not rules, which means that so much of what happens is subject to the interpretation of the referee on the day. Nothing is absolute, not even foul play or the offside line, where mitigating circumstances can always be found. But a salary cap is a salary cap, isn’t it? Apparently not. It appears the flexibility of law interpretation extends into the accounts. Now, the affairs of a club in north London might not seem to have much to do with the Six Nations, but so dominant have been the Saracens over the past five years and so successful in recruiting talent from all over the world, and so big is the club’s contingent in the England team, that there’s bound to be at least some banter. If money has reduced old-fashioned violence, what RadioTimes 1–7 February 2019
effect might it have on players whose bonuses have been affected by Saracens’ success? Eddie Jones’s clear-the-air meeting with his players will have been an interesting gathering. If England find a way through their morality play to be two-thirds as good as they were against New Zealand in their World Cup semifinal, they will stroll to victory in the Six Nations. But the same might be said of any year since 1870. England, inventively and dramatically, always seem to find a new way to allow the others to keep up. They start with a trip to Paris, where Shaun Edwards, once defence coach of Wales but now of France, will be giving his first team-talk in Wigan-French. If his new charges commit to a third of what they understand, they could be the sensation of the tournament.
Even though the Romans conquered Britain 2,000 years ago, Italy is too far away for their matches to carry the same oomph. Alas, in rugby they are doomed to play the role of gallant strugglers. Can new South African coach Franco Smith instil a winning mentality? They’ve beaten every team in the Six Nations at least once, apart from England… so far. ITALY
Ireland have gone beyond the desperate need to validate themselves by beating England, and that has made them stronger against every team in the world, including England. But their World Cup ended in a slightly dismal quarter-final defeat by New Zealand, so the four-year rebuilding starts all over again here. IRELAND
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LOVE STORY With Jodie TurnerSmith in romantic drama Queen & Slim
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don’t want to talk ‘Iabout race – I’m not defined by it ’ a contradiction. I see it all the time with people who get out of the loop, not checking in with their friends and their people. They do stuff because everyone else is doing it.” His next projects were big-budget studio film Black Panther and the Steve McQueen thriller Widows, while his latest outing is the quirky Queen & Slim, from first-time director Melina Matsoukas, co-starring Jodie Turner-Smith. They play a couple who meet on a Tinder date in an Ohio diner, but as Slim gives Queen a lift home, they are pulled over by an aggressive policeman and in the ensuing struggle, Slim shoots him dead in self-defence. The couple go on the run and what ensues is part road-trip, part romcom, with an everpresent reminder of the racism that still exists in America. It’s already attracted the attention of film festivals and critics. Despite the recent controversy surrounding the virtually all-white Bafta and Oscar acting shortlists, Kaluuya has always insisted he doesn’t want to be a spokesman for black actors and reiterates now, “What is there to talk about race? It’s just boring to me. What’s the debate? I’m more of a doer. I’m just going to do what I want to do. I don’t know what there is to talk about.” After Get Out, which was about race, did he have any reservations about taking on Queen & Slim, knowing that he would be asked about the subject yet again? “A little bit, possibly,” he hesitates, “but I loved the love-story element of Queen & Slim. Yes, it’s got those moments [about race] but that’s more of a catalyst. Fundamentally, it’s a love story. And Get Out functioned as a thriller. I’m not going to ignore that I’m surrounded by [racial issues], but I’m not defined by it. I’m just Daniel, who happens to be black. “People try to build up a perception of you. I was the guy in UK comedies, then I did a couple of plays. Next, people will be saying, ‘You’re the race guy’.” Given his intention to mix up his career, will
he avoid films with such overt racial themes in future? “I have done that!” he protests. “The Fades ain’t about race, Psychoville ain’t about race, Skins ain’t about race, Chatroom ain’t about race, Johnny English Reborn ain’t about race. But that almost gets erased. There’s a narrative that is pushed.” And, despite the often-grisly subject matter, Queen & Slim is full of humour: Kaluuya has funny bones and a superb deadpan delivery. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, as his early days included stints on sketch shows That Mitchell and Webb Look and Harry and Paul, in which he played an overly enthusiastic traffic warden, Parking Pataweyo – “That’s still my mum’s favourite thing I’ve ever done – Paul Whitehouse is a genius!” “I’d love to do more comedy,” he says. “Life has humour. If a film doesn’t have humour, I think it’s a weird script.” Kaluuya was a bright child: aged two he could do maths equations but says he wasn’t stretched enough at school and became bored and argumentative with teachers whom he found “disrespectful”. He’s still in touch with former schoolfriends who now work at places like UPS and Primark, and thinks he would have ended up working at a bank if he hadn’t discovered acting after his mum put him up for classes at the Anna Scher school.
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is first major acting job was on Channel 4’s teen comedy-drama Skins, but he also wrote for the show and he maintains an ambition to write more, when he has the time and headspace. But for now, he’s living out of a suitcase, based in the UK but working constantly in the States. He has said before that he had to find work in America because the colour of his skin limited the parts he was offered here: does he stand by that? “It’s not even that. There weren’t roles in England that would push me as a performer. The roles I was getting here just weren’t challenging. Plus I was at a difficult age at 25 – too old to play kids, too young to play men. “But I’m not saying I’m never doing English stuff. I could do a play upstairs in the Royal Court, or the Young Vic. I’ve sat down with them and said I’m open to it. But you have to own where you are, and the stuff is coming from over there at the moment.” In the meantime, he’ll still need his suitcases: his latest film is another American movie, with the working title Jesus Was My Homeboy. “I just want to keep doing experimental stuff. You have to drop in some random stuff to keep you on your toes. I have no idea where I’m going next or what I’m doing. One day I’ll need more stability, but for now it’s quite exciting. The good thing is there’s no expectation on me, so I could bomb, but I’ve had a good innings!” Queen & Slim is in cinemas from Friday 31 January
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t’s been two years since Daniel Kaluuya won the EE Rising Star Award at the Baftas, beating Timothée Chalamet, Tessa Thompson, Florence Pugh and Josh O’Connor. “Amazing company to be in, man,” nods Kaluuya now. “It was a big moment in my life. I don’t ever want to be singular – like, ‘I’m a star!’ – I want to be part of a whole generation of people who work hard.” Then he breaks into a huge smile. “But what’s happened to those guys since, eh?” Well, indeed: Chalamet was Oscar-nominated in 2018, as is Pugh this year. O’Connor won a Golden Globe as part of The Crown ensemble (he plays Prince Charles), while Thompson is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as warrior Valkyrie. And Kaluuya? The Londoner is as revered as his peers, with his own Oscar nomination and Hollywood career. He has been working solidly in the UK since he was a teenager, with parts in the usual shows like Skins and Doctor Who, but it was an episode of Black Mirror that brought him to the attention of America. From there, he landed the lead in horror movie Get Out (which was made on a $4.5 million budget but brought in $255m worldwide, making it the tenth most profitable film of 2017) that earned him a surprise Oscar nomination for best actor in 2018, where he lost out to Gary Oldman. After that, things changed very quickly for Kaluuya (now 30). He found himself recognised everywhere he went, and has had to stop hanging out in his old haunts in north London – at least until the fuss died down. “I walk and get the bus everywhere, but when all that happened I couldn’t do it any more. It’s saying goodbye to a certain lifestyle that I loved. If I do go to places, I have to prepare myself, because if you take one selfie, you have to take every selfie. “What’s fascinating is that with the increased visibility, you’re actually more vulnerable, even though you look more robust,” he says. “It’s
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Taron Egerton stars in the Elton John biopic, which Andrew is tipping for best British film
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A film’s nationality is measured using a points system, which led to furrowed brows in 2014 when Disney-invested, California-shot Saving Mr Banks qualified as British because it was developed here by BBC Films. This year there are riches to enjoy: Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins two-hander The Two Popes; Sorry We Missed You, another vital slice of social realism from Ken Loach; and Bait, a lo-fi protest against gentrification in a Cornish fishing village whose director Mark Jenkin could net outstanding British debut if outclassed here by Rocketman. Waad Al-Kateab’s Aleppo video diary For Sama is also nominated but is surely nailed on to win the best documentary category. WHO WILL WIN? Rocketman It’s better than Bohemian Rhapsody. WHO SHOULD WIN? Bait A nomination is recognition enough.
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mid glitz, glamour and grandeur, the 73rd British Academy Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s easy to forget that until 2001 the film Baftas were, self-defeatingly, held after the Oscars, but happily they now fine-tune the thermostat of pre-Oscars anticipation. I conducted red-carpet interviews for the Baftas in 2009, and not a superstar went unticked. My highlight was encouraging best actor winner Mickey Rourke into my ad hoc studio: he handed me an opened bottle of fizz and encouraged me to glug from it. I’m willingly obliged as your armchair guide to read the runes of Bafta’s bubbles, too. Here are my fallible tips for who could pick up the prizes in the seven biggest categories on Sunday…
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Not to be confused with best British film – a flag-waving category launched at the inaugural awards in 1948 – this is the big one: a chance for Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half hour Netflix-bankrolled mob saga The Irishman to face off against the supervillain cry-for-help Joker, Sam Mendes’s technically dazzling, non-stop trenches chamber piece 1917 and Quentin Tarantino’s self-defining Once upon a Time in… Hollywood. The outsider is South Korean showman Bong Joon-ho’s calculating social farce Parasite, raising the artistry of the category to bold new heights. But it’s sad to see Rocketman overlooked – it’s as if last year’s big score for Bohemian Rhapsody requires a fallow year for rock jukebox biopics. WHO WILL WIN? 1917 Because it’s what the cinema was made for. WHO SHOULD WIN? 1917 The naysayers are wrong.
There was an outcry when the all-white nominees for this and the other three acting categories were revealed; I advise you to look at the Rising Star shortlist for a more representative cross-section of talent. At 30, Rocketman Taron Egerton is the youngest best actor contender, while 72-year old Jonathan Pryce gets a nod for The Two Popes here and at the Oscars. Leonardo DiCaprio in Once upon a Time in…, Joaquin Phoenix in Joker and Adam Driver (Marriage Story) are the other nominees. WHO WILL WIN? Taron Egerton Because Rami Malek did last year. WHO SHOULD WIN? Jonathan Pryce Age before beauty.
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At 50, an age that traditionally used to make actresses disappear, but no longer, Renée Zellweger is the oldest nominee and note-perfect as the tragic Judy Garland seeking appreciation in the UK. Oscar winner Charlize Theron also interprets a public TOM HANKS figure, Fox News His role as Mr Rogers earned him anchor Megyn a best supporting Kelly, while there actor nod are two Irish representatives in Jessie Buckley and Saoirse Ronan. The former plays a blinder as a Glaswegian singer and single mum in Wild Rose, while Ronan, 25, builds on her child-star beginnings in Little Women, a film that has the unfathomable air of this year’s big loser. Scarlett Johansson does her best work in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. WHO WILL WIN? Renée Zellweger Bridget who? WHO SHOULD WIN? Jessie Buckley Too much looking back.
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SAM MENDES Is Andrew’s pick for best director
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR When you read that elder superstar statesman Tom Hanks is nominated for best supporting actor, you’d assume perhaps a magnanimous cameo part. But no, playing America’s muchloved children’s TV host Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood – an almost exclusively American phenomenon – he’s clearly the star of the film. Sleight of opportunistic nominating hand is clearly afoot. The irony is that this year’s shortlist is heavy on equally august names in late-career roles: Anthony Hopkins as the second of Two Popes, and Al Pacino and Joe Pesci at various, digitally enhanced ages of man in The Irishman. Even the group’s token 56-year-old Brad Pitt has enough screen time in Once upon a Time in… Hollywood to be best actor. WHO WILL WIN? Tom Hanks Well, he’s Tom Hanks. WHO SHOULD WIN? Brad Pitt It’s about time.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS In most years, one Margot Robbie nomination would be enough. But not this year. She’s up against herself as the fictional third anchor in Bombshell and the non-fictional 60s actress Sharon Tate in Once upon a Time in… – the latter a somewhat light role despite the heavy Manson Family vibrations. Scarlett Johansson gets a nod again, this time for Jojo Rabbit, and Florence Pugh is splendid in Little Women, but Laura Dern – nominated for Marriage Story – is due something cinematic to offset her “limited series or TV movie” Golden Globe shelf. WHO WILL WIN? Margot Robbie A case of probability. WHO SHOULD WIN? Laura Dern She already has the Globe.
BEST DIRECTOR Sam Mendes, also the producer and co-writer of 1917, boasted of a “royal hat-trick” when the film had its world premiere as a Royal Film Performance in London in early December (it was his third premiere to have royals in attendance). His edge could be blunted by the alt-weird conviction of Todd Phillips for Joker, or Scorsese’s decades-deep, sentimental, The Irishman, or Tarantino and his historyrewriting Once upon a Time in…, or dark horse Bong Joon-ho, and his Parasite. But in sheer technical terms, Mendes by definition delivers the best direction. WHO WILL WIN? Sam Mendes He’s a knight. WHO SHOULD WIN? Sam Mendes Does mention the war.
Clint’s on target I came face to face with Clint Eastwood once and have never forgotten it. A junior film reviewer for the music press in the early 90s, I meekly checked in at reception for a screening at the modest Soho office of Warner Bros (Clint’s permanent home from The Outlaw Josey Wales in 1976 to now). The lift approached the lobby and we found ourselves gently encouraged away from the doors, which opened with a polite “ding!” At this, Clint Eastwood emerged, looking every inch the 6ft 4in legend as he was ushered outside to a waiting vehicle. Even the more jaded of my fellow star-chasers looked awestruck. Clint was in his early 60s then — in my mind’s eye wearing a cardigan under a tweed jacket and a gracious, thin-lipped smile — around 15 films into an acclaimed directing career that began with Play Misty for Me and recently tipped 38 with SNAPSHOT Richard Jewell. Though Bradley Cooper the 90s and noughties plays sniper proved hit and miss Chris Kyle (contrast the staggering achievement of Unforgiven with well-written but routine filler Blood Work), things started to go right around the tender neo-noir Mystic River, since which Eastwood has directed and produced decent, intelligent, issue-led films at a rate of at least one a year — usually behind the camera, where it’s said he favours as few takes as practical.
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DID YOU KNOW ? A 98-year-old Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P Henson in the film) was honoured at the 2017 Oscars, to a standing ovation
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p Hidden Figures ★★★★ 9.00-11.25pm C4
government papers fizzles out. But Eddie Izzard is excellent as the pompous English Home Guard officer, as is Fenella Woolgar as his wife. The film is likely to be best enjoyed by those unfamiliar with the 1949 classic. BP (UK/Fr 2016, HD)
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The Hitman’s Bodyguard ★★★★
DRAMA Having just binge-watched HBO’s 1998 mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, I find myself quoting JFK’s 1962 speech about doing things like going to the Moon “not because they are easy, but because they are hard”. Hidden Figures is an inspired dramatisation by writer/director Theodore Melfi of a “hidden” footnote in history. Taraji P Henson (Empire), Octavia Spencer (who won an Oscar for The Help and was nominated for this film) and versatile singer-actress Janelle Monáe (Moonlight) play three real-life Nasa mathematicians sidelined by institutional sexism and racism. Much indignant humour comes from Spencer’s fraught dashes to the “colored” ladies’ room, situated in another far-off building, while boss Kevin Costner bends to progress. Indignant, fresh and funny, and funkily co-scored by Pharrell Williams, this strident, full-blooded tale doesn’t take long to achieve lift-off. (US 2016, col/BW, HD)
The Jane Austen Book Club ★★★ 12.30-2.30pm Sony Movies h ROMANTIC COMEDY Writer/director Robin Swicord’s cosy tale follows a California book group whose members find their personal dramas echoing the works of Jane Austen. Among them are Maria Bello, who’s too busy trying to fix up pal Amy Brenneman to address her own love life, and Emily Blunt as a teacher whose gothic state of mind makes her feel a bit Northanger Abbey. The performances make up for the sometimes laboured storytelling, while Swicord manages to overcome the quaintness of the premise to show how Austen’s observations are still relevant to women today. SP (US 2007)
A Canterbury Tale ★★★★
5.30-8.05pm Talking Pictures TV y WAR DRAMA This re-think of Chaucer from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is the most peculiar piece of wartime propaganda ever devised. Two army sergeants (one British, one American) and a girl arrive at a village OUTSTANDING ★★★★ VERY GOOD
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ACTION COMEDY This mismatched buddy movie sees “personal security consultant” Ryan Reynolds try to deliver hired killer Samuel L Jackson to court to testify against despot Gary Oldman. Standing in his way are countless assassins — and the killer himself is not the most co-operative of charges. Bad guys and authority figures are painted in predictably broad brush strokes, but Tom O’Connor’s script is laugh-out-loud hilarious when it comes to the two leads’ sparring. Salma Hayek adds to the fun as Jackson’s foul-mouthed, no-nonsense jailbird wife. TeS (US 2017, violence, swearing, HD)
American Sniper ★★★★ 10.40pm-1.00am ITV
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X-Men — the Last Stand ★★★ 11.25pm-1.20am C4
near Canterbury, where women are punished for fraternising with servicemen by a local who pours glue into their hair. While it’s hard to convey the film’s eerie shifts of mood, it impresses as a study of a community resistant to change. In the year of D-Day, the film-makers seem torn between welcoming US support and warning of a loss of traditional values. This far-sighted piece, dismissed at the time, is lyrical in its celebration of a vanishing England. AT (UK 1944, BW)
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FANTASY Director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) took the reins of the Marvel Comics franchise for this enjoyable episode. War looms when a cure for mutants is invented, threatening the future of their kind. The faction led by Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) stands for choice, while Magneto (Ian McKellen) believes in the survival of the fittest. The script suffers from a bewildering mass of interpersonal storylines, but Ratner’s technically proficient blockbuster is spectacular to a fault, with Magneto’s manipulating of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge one of the highlights. AJ (US 2006, violence, swearing, HD)
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ROMANTIC DRAMA François Ozon’s engrossing film marked new territory for the niche French director. Shot in blackand-white, it’s set in a picturesque German village in 1919, with flashbacks to the war that took the life of the eponymous Frantz. The story revolves around the young soldier’s grieving parents and fiancée (Paula Beer), and a lie that provides a release from their suffering. Entering their world is a sensitive Frenchman (Pierre Niney), who lifts their spirits with vivid recollections of Frantz. While at times heavy-handed, the film casts a spell with its affecting performances and Hitchcockian sense of romanticism and ambiguity. DO (Fr/Ger/US 2016, violence, BW/col)
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Up in the Air ★★★★ 12 midnight-1.40am BBC2
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Keeping Rosy ★★★ 12.25-1.50am BBC1
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THRILLER Maxine Peake, who’s better known for her powerful TV roles, carries this modestly scaled British thriller about a high-flying executive confronted with the rash decisions she makes on a really, really bad day. She returns fuming to her high-rise home and clashes with her cleaner, and events spiral out of control from that point. Director Steve Reeves resourcefully cranks up the tension in and around Peake’s swish apartment block. TJ (US/UK 2014, violence, swearing, a sex scene, HD)
PICK OF THE REST... Alice in Wonderland ★★ 12.25-2.35pm C5
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Beach Red ★★★★ 1.15-3.20pm Paramount Network
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 ★★★★ 6.20-9.00pm ITV2
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ★★★ 6.55-9.00pm Film4
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Three Identical Strangers ★★★★ 9.00-11.00pm More4 h A tale that’s stranger than fiction. (2018, HD)
Maria Full of Grace ★★★ 9.00-10.55pm Sky Atlantic
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WAR DRAMA “One man’s impossible mission — to save his country’s priceless treasures!” yells the poster for John Frankenheimer’s film, which followed in the wake of similarly crowd-pleasing Second World War adventures The Great Escape and The Guns of Navarone. It boasts explosive action and a hero in Burt Lancaster’s French Resistance railwayman, but The Train has a psychological angle, too. In 1944, a train loaded with art looted from the Louvre is travelling from Paris to Berlin under ruthless German colonel Paul Scofield. So Lancaster takes it upon himself to slow it down until the Allies liberate France. There are some spectacular crash sequences — for which Frankenheimer used real trains and not models — and look out for the showdown between Scofield and Lancaster, the vengeful Nazi identified by his jackboots, seen from beneath a carriage. Visually masterful, the film is a cut above the usual war-movie shtick. And Lancaster gets a speech to savour: “Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it!” (Fr/It/US 1964, some violence, BW)
regulating all extraterrestrial activity on Earth. While investigating an alien sighting, the pair becomes involved in the search for a missing galaxy to appease an interstellar force and avert the Earth’s destruction. Great special effects, inventive alien designs and Smith and Jones’s hip, hilarious double act make director Barry Sonnenfeld’s Lethal Weapon-style buddy picture a fast-paced pleasure. Men in Black 3 is showing tomorrow on E4. AJ (US 1997, edited for violence, language, HD)
DID YOU KNOW ? John Frankenheimer’s insistence on authentic looking action and real crash scenes saw the film’s initial budget double to $6.7 million
Road to Utopia ★★★★ 4.55-6.50pm Sony Classic
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COMEDY Sadly, they really don’t make them like this any more. This is among the best of the much-loved Road series, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope as down-at-heel entertainers posing as hardened prospectors in order to get their hands on a Klondike gold map. Told as an elongated flashback and blessed with a mocking commentary by Robert Benchley, the film contains a wealth of the insider gags that were a trademark of these freewheeling comedies. Complete with the obligatory squabble over Dorothy Lamour, talking animals and other larks, the time simply flies by. DP (US 1945, BW)
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The Southerner 5 11.50am1.40pm Talking Pictures TV y DRAMA Probably the best American film by the great French director Jean Renoir, this was also the only one to be well received critically and to break even at the box office. The story follows one year in the life of a cotton farmer who has to fight a malicious neighbour, the elements and malnutrition. Renoir shot the film almost entirely on location in the San Joaquin valley in California (standing in for Texas) and produced an effective slice of Americana, made with affecting simplicity and directness. Zachary Scott, cast against type in a role refused by Joel McCrea, gives one of his finest performances. RB (US 1945, some violence, BW)
Annie ★★ 12.55-3.10pm C5
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New York mayoral election campaign of cynical billionaire Will Stacks (a merely adequate Jamie Foxx). Annie and Will help each other find love and family, but, under the haphazard direction of Will Gluck, it all feels like a bit of a wasted effort. AJ (US 2014, HD)
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The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn ★★★ 1.30-3.40pm C4 g ADVENTURE This much-anticipated animated outing for the bequiffed boy reporter marked Steven Spielberg’s first time using the motion-capture process. The tale of lost parchments and sunken treasure has its share of thrills and spills, but it doesn’t do a great deal to make the juvenile hack’s personality any more compelling. Spielberg remains a master director, but despite Jamie Bell’s valiant voice contribution, it becomes increasingly difficult to care about our shiny-faced hero. Only Andy Serkis’s boozy Captain Haddock and Snowy the dog triumph over the deadening effect of the digital technology. AS (US/NZ/Bel 2011, some violence, HD)
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Men in Black ★★★★ 4.40-6.30pm C4
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FANTASY Ben Stiller heads a cast of A-list comedy actors ranging from Mickey Rooney and Dick Van Dyke to Robin Williams and Ricky Gervais in this raucous romp through history. Stiller plays the patsy once again as night watchman Larry Daley, who has to run for his life when an ancient curse causes the exhibits at New York’s Museum of Natural History to come to life. Stiller does a sterling job here and there’s a witty use of visual effects, but director Shawn Levy is not always in control of his storyline as he tries to string together various subplots. Fortunately, there are enough exciting stunts and larger-than-life performances to entertain kids and old relics alike. SP (US 2006, HD)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ★★★ 9.00-11.10pm Syfy h ACTION With a reported $170-million budget, the third Terminator movie buys its way into public affection. Accordingly, this addition to the saga is both bigger and louder than its predecessors. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cyborg arrives in the present to protect future saviour of the human race John Connor (Nick Stahl) and we are immediately propelled into an overlong car chase involving a truck, a crane and an ambulance. The twist here is that the killing machine sent to eliminate Connor takes female form (Kristanna Loken). Other than that, it’s more of the same — the thrills are expensive and the action is highly charged, with Arnie’s one-liners suitably wry. AC (US/Ger 2003, violence, swearing, nudity)
I’ll Never Forget What’s ’Is Name ★★★ 9.00-11.10pm Sony Classic j COMEDY DRAMA After a string of Swinging Sixties satires, Michael Winner rather ran out of steam with this scathing look at the world of advertising, receiving a rare showing on TV tonight. Oliver Reed is moodily unconvincing as the commercials director with literary pretensions, but Orson Welles is corpulently corrupt as the man who leads him back down the path of transient achievement and empty glamour. Carol White, meanwhile, is brassily vulnerable as Reed’s secretary. This is so nearly spot-on; instead it ends up being frustratingly inconsequential. DP (UK 1967)
Prisoners ★★★★ 11.00pm-1.45am C4
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THRILLER This deeply haunting film from Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) sees Hugh Jackman take the law into his own hands after his daughter is kidnapped. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the cop who, in Jackman’s eyes, fails to put away the chief suspect: a young man with learning difficulties, played by Paul Dano. Jackman instead does his own questioning, and his tactics are heavyhanded to say the least. The plot does spiral off towards the end, but the tension is almost unbearable and you’ll be rooted to your seat throughout. SP (US 2013, violence, swearing, HD)
PICK OF THE REST... Epic ★★★ 9.10-11.10am E4
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Pan ★★★★ 6.45-9.00pm ITV2 g Spectacular fantasy adventure. (2015, HD)
High Noon 5 7.15-9.00pm Paramount Network
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Step Brothers ★★★ 9.00-11.00pm Comedy Central
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Cool Runnings ★★★★ 9.00-11.05pm 5STAR
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Braven ★★★ 9.00-10.55pm Sony Movies
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Hostel: Part II ★★★
10.50pm-12.45am Horror Channel z Terrifying, bloody horror sequel. (2007)
Steven Gerrard: Make Us Dream ★★★★ 11.00pm-1.15am ITV4 j Profile of the Liverpool legend. (2018, HD)
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BIOPIC Sony’s new movie channel promised us classics and thus far it’s delivering, with prominent, often award-winning pictures that are neither too obscure nor too well-worn. Gandhi, from 1982, is a good example: it was garlanded with prizes (eight Oscars, including best picture; five Baftas; five Golden Globes, and so on) yet isn’t shown on TV every other week. A testament to great British film-making, Richard Attenborough’s three-hour-plus epic still thrills through its sheer scale, while its attention to casting warms the cockles. Ben Kingsley earned a place in movie history for his role playing the peaceful activist in a film that united all in praise. (UK 1982, violence)
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ROMANCE Moira Shearer stars as the ballerina whose life is torn between a career with a manipulative impresario (Anton Walbrook) and marriage to a young composer (Marius Goring). Based vaguely on the story of Sergei Diaghilev and Waslaw Nijinsky, this is arguably the best-loved dance film of all time (Martin Scorsese cites it as his all-time favourite movie). The team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ponder the power and nature of the subject matter with some extravagant, exuberant dance sequences and a riot of Oscar-winning Technicolor designs. Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus is showing tomorrow. AT (UK 1948, HD)
The Lady Is a Square ★★ 4.55-7.00pm Talking Pictures TV
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MUSICAL COMEDY Anna Neagle brought down the curtain on a 30-year cinema career with this amusing if formulaic musical, here receiving its channel premiere on Talking Pictures TV.
RT BOX OFFICE The Flying Scotsman
SCI-FI This intriguing movie is set in a future where robotic alter egos take care of day-to-day work. However, a dogged FBI agent discovers a glitch in the connection between humans and their “surrogates”. Since Bruce Willis does no-nonsense, world-weary lawmen to a tee, his very presence signals that all is not well in this brave new world. The underlying story of Willis’s failing relationship with wife Rosamund Pike adds a resonant emotional layer not often found in popcorn action flicks. TJ (US 2009, violence, swearing, drug abuse)
DID YOU KNOW ? There was no comput er enhancement during the funeral sequence — you’re looking at arou nd 300,000 extras, which set a new world record
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It was the penultimate film directed by Neagle’s devoted husband, Herbert Wilcox, and formed part of a quartet of pictures that the pair made with Frankie Vaughan. The Liverpool-born singer plays a rising singing star who poses as Neagle’s butler because he has a crush on her daughter, Janette Scott. Neagle and Scott do what they can with the cornball script. DP (UK 1959, BW)
Mission: Impossible III ★★★ 9.00-11.15pm Sky1
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THRILLER Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) springs into action for a third time, only here, with JJ Abrams as director, we get to see a more intimate side of the superspy. The story unfolds with Hunt called out of retirement to rescue a former trainee who’s been kidnapped by an arms dealer (Philip Seymour Hoffman). But when the assignment goes wrong, it’s Hunt’s new wife (Michelle Monaghan) who’s the primary target for revenge. The race against time that follows is fast-paced and slick, but the formula is beginning to feel a little stale. SF (US 2006, violence, HD)
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DRAMA Chinese novelist and film-maker Hu Bo committed suicide aged just 29 after shooting this debut feature, which offers a dramatic portrait of the realities facing those left behind in China’s apparent progress towards prosperity. An argument over a school bully’s stolen mobile has violent consequences for various parties — including the supposed thief’s loyal best mate and the victim’s petty crook brother — as their fates intertwine over the course of a single day. As the camera tracks and circles the embattled protagonists, we are compelled to share the deep empathy the film shows for them. TJ (Chi 2018, violence, swearing, sex references, HD)
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Black Narcissus 5 3.35-5.15pm BBC2
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DRAMA Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s simmering drama is set in a remote mountain mission, where the arrival of English agent David Farrar causes passions to run dangerously out of control among the nuns. The film is a striking example of studio-controlled artifice, with Jack Cardiff’s lush colour images not only enhancing the beauty of the stylised Himalayan scenery, but also bringing a certain grandeur to the melodramatic events. Star Deborah Kerr is the focus of a Talking Pictures special preceding the film. David Parkinson (UK 1947)
They Live ★★★
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SCI-FI This cheerful knockabout salute to the alien invasion sci-fi movies of the 1950s marked John Carpenter’s return to his B-movie roots. Wrestler-turnedactor Roddy Piper is the working-class hero who, on finding a special pair of sunglasses, discovers that alien-like creatures appear to have taken over Los Angeles. There’s a nicely relaxed feel to Carpenter’s direction and he keeps the action roaring along, stopping only to take a few satirical swipes at yuppie life. JF (US 1988, violence, swearing)
PICK OF THE REST... i Erasing His Past ★★
A Twin Sister’s Obsession ★★
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Predictable identity-theft thriller. (2018, HD)
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2.45-5.00pm Sony Classic Brooding dockside drama. (1954, BW)
Hidden Figures ★★★★
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Endless Love ★★
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1.50-3.35am C4 A tale of teenage obsession. (2014, HD)
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DID YOU KNOW ? Taylor Sheridan tried to cast as many Native American actors as possible and the film was actually funded by the Tunica-Biloxi tribe
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Creed ★★★★ 10.00pm-12.40am C5
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CRIME THRILLER Texan all-rounder Taylor Sheridan,
BOXING DRAMA The Rocky franchise was
who acted in Sons of Anarchy, wrote Sicario and its sequel, plus the Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water, took the directorial reins for Wind River. While the term “western noir” is often bandied around when Sheridan is about, this neo-mystery is frozen to its marrow, and is set against the backdrop of a Wyoming winter that both conceals and reveals. Jeremy Renner is the haunted US Fish and Wildlife Service officer — no, really — called in to track the killers of an 18-year-old girl, whose death points to just about everyone in this remote deep-freeze. Elizabeth Olsen is the rookie FBI agent way out of her comfort zone when tribal rites on Native American territory clash with a greedy drilling operation. Sheridan’s script draws attention to the high rates of sexual assault on indigenous women, giving the procedural a deadly serious edge. (UK/Fr/US 2017, violence, swearing, HD)
on the ropes circa 1990’s fifth instalment, but Sylvester Stallone must be relieved he didn’t kill off his plucky pugilist. He made his comeback 26 years later in Rocky Balboa, but 2015’s Creed, muscularly directed and co-written by Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler, offered a cleaner slate. This time, Stallone plays trainer to the son of his deceased old friend Apollo Creed, played with skill and physical heft by Michael B Jordan. There’s drama (Rocky has a health scare), romance (Tessa DID YOU KNOW ? Thompson plays the love This was Stallone’s interest) and a climactic seventh appearance as bout, staged at Everton’s Rocky Ba lboa, and it’s Goodison Park, that sets the first film in the the stage nicely for saga for which he did n’t 2018’s Creed II. (US 2015, write the screenplay violence, swearing, HD)
Cromwell ★★★★ 3.00-5.15pm BBC2
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DRAMA This excursion into the English Civil War could have been a dry, portentous affair, but Richard Harris’s aggressive, warts-and-all Oliver Cromwell and Alec Guinness’s unyielding Charles I make this historic double act very watchable. Writer/director Ken Hughes was given an enormous budget for a British film at the time, and the result is a long-winded but compelling epic featuring some mightily well-staged battles and powerhouse performances from the two leads. Harris is the subject of Talking Pictures, which precedes the film. TH (UK 1970, some violence)
Bad Neighbours ★★★ 9.00-11.00pm E4
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COMEDY High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron continues to dirty up his image by playing the neighbour from hell in this outrageous comedy. His adversary is new dad Seth Rogen, who, along with his missus (Rose Byrne), begins a campaign of dirty tricks in an attempt to shut down Efron’s frat parties. But their best-laid plans soon backfire. Director Nicholas Stoller pushes too hard against the boundaries of taste, with the big laughs more often coming when he just lets the actors bounce off each other. SP (US 2014, swearing, sex scenes, nudity, drug abuse, HD)
Shutter Island ★★★ 9.00-11.40pm Sony Movies
Inglourious Basterds ★★★ 11.15pm-2.20am ITV4
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ACTION Cinema saves the world in Quentin Tarantino’s history-bending homage to war movies. The multistranded plot includes Mélanie Laurent as a Jew avoiding Gestapo capture, Brad Pitt as a lieutenant commanding a dirty dozen of Nazi hunters and Diane Kruger as a German movie star spying for the British. Although a long haul, it’s delivered as a series of witty, dialoguedriven vignettes containing flashes of violent action. As usual for a Tarantino film, there’s a superb soundtrack, while the script is full of cineaste jokes. AJ (US/Ger 2009, violence, HD)
PICK OF THE REST... Mandy ★★★★ 1.30-3.20pm Talking Pictures TV
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The silent world of a deaf and speechimpaired child is opened up. (1952, BW)
The Wrong Mother ★★ 2.15-4.00pm C5 A nurse has an ulterior motive. (2017, HD)
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the tale that some may see coming early on. But there is still fun to be had as Scorsese weaves his operatic thrills in the distinctly gothic surroundings. It may be overlong and overly explained, yet Shutter Island weaves an impressive and gripping spell. AJ (US 2009, violence, swearing, nudity)
The Last of the Mohicans ★★★★ 9.00-11.15pm Paramount Network h Full-blooded period adventure starring Daniel Day-Lewis. (1992, HD)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills ★★★ 9.00-11.10pm Sony Classic j A rich couple takes in a hobo. (1986)
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The Last Hurrah ★★★ 10.35am-1.00pm Sony Classic
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DRAMA Spencer Tracy stars as Frank Skeffington, an old-time political operator standing for mayor one last time and observed with wide-eyed approval by his nephew, Jeffrey Hunter. This is a great part for Tracy and he runs and runs with it, turning on the Irish-American blarney when it suits him. As so often with John Ford’s films, there’s also a flabby sentimentality even when he’s dealing with the cut-throat electoral process, but the film’s optimism strangely anticipated the defeat of Nixon and the triumph of Kennedy in 1961. AT (US 1958, BW)
Yentl ★★ 3.05-5.15pm BBC2
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DRAMA Based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer and set in 1904 in central Europe, Barbra Streisand’s first film as director/star is about a Jewish girl who dresses as a boy to receive a religious education. Such complications suggest a kosher Victor/Victoria or Tootsie, but Streisand approaches it all very seriously. Despite the obvious pains taken with the period setting (British studio interiors plus Czech location work), it rather lumbers along, but the film still won the Oscar for best original score, and received nominations for two of its songs. AT (UK/US 1983, nudity, HD)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 ★★★★ 9.00-11.45pm E4 h ADVENTURE As the fourth and final instalment of the dystopian saga opens, our heroine Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) has lost her voice. Yet you can’t keep a stubborn gal down, and the face of the revolution is soon ignoring orders to remain safely behind the scenes and sets off to assassinate Panem’s wicked president (Donald Sutherland). Though
some of the well-staged action has been edited into incoherence, Lawrence is resplendent in her resilience in a franchise-closer that’s routinely stirring and occasionally gut-punching. It’s a film of genuine integrity, performed with compelling conviction. EAS (US 2015, some violence, HD)
Safe House ★★★ 10.45pm-1.00am ITV4
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ACTION CIA rookie Ryan Reynolds sees his world turned upside down when rogue former agent Denzel Washington is delivered to the safe house he mans in Cape Town. However, before Washington can be interrogated, the bolt hole is attacked, forcing him and Reynolds on the run. But who are their pursuers and can they really trust everyone in the CIA? Director Daniel Espinosa occasionally gets bogged down in the complexities of the plot, but is on more confident footing with a series of white-knuckle chases and exciting shoot-outs. TeS (US/SAfr 2012, violence, swearing, HD)
PICK OF THE REST... Samson and Delilah ★★★ 12.35-3.10pm Film4
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Biblical epic with Victor Mature. (1949, HD)
A Murderer Upstairs ★★★ 2.15-4.00pm C5 A teenager has a secret. (2017, HD)
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A Lonely Place to Die ★★★
10.45pm-12.40am Horror Channel j Brisk, energetic survival horror. (2011)
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DID YOU KNOW ? Director Chad Stahels ki is a former stuntman who has doubled for Keanu Reeves in films such as The Matrix and Constantine
John Wick ★★★★
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THRILLER Early last year, I wrote about cranked-up revenge tale John Wick, but it involved a confession: I had avoided seeing the first film of what turned into a franchise for Keanu Reeves because I knew it was predicated on his puppy being killed by sadistic thugs. Well, I have now watched the offending sequence — through my fingers — and I can now see the film for what it is: a neo-noir rooted visually in graphic novels and kung fu. Reeves suits the laconic role he’s carried into two sequels so far (a fourth film is due in 2021), but animal lovers might want to avoid. The phenomenon is not without merit or soul, but I’ll be over here, patting a pet. (US 2014, violence, swearing, HD)
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Last Vegas ★★★
ROMANCE This soap opera’s distinction rests largely with its hit title ballad and director Henry King’s imaginative use of early CinemaScope, as stars Jennifer Jones and William Holden fail to convince in the occasionally trite tale of forbidden love. Alfred Newman’s Oscar-winning score makes stunning use of the main theme and may convince you that this then-hugely popular film is better than it actually is. TS (US 1955, HD)
COMEDY Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline form an attention-grabbing line-up in director Jon Turteltaub’s geriatric take on The Hangover. The flimsy story sees Douglas’s pensionable lothario decide to settle down — with a woman who could be his granddaughter — prompting him and the old gang to assemble for a stag do in Sin City. Cue much dancing, drinking and doddering. For all its lazy plotting, it’s clear the guys are having a great time, making the movie impossible to hate for that reason alone. SP (US 2013, swearing, HD)
Sabotage ★★ 11.05pm-1.05am C5 j THRILLER A squad of drug-enforcement agents led by Arnold Schwarzenegger find themselves in bloody battle with the cartel they were tasked to bring down in this convoluted shoot-’em-up. Director/ co-writer David Ayer wrote the Oscarwinning Training Day, but the focus here is firmly on blood and broken bones. Only Olivia Williams’s sharp-tongued investigator makes an impression. TeS (US 2013, violence, swearing, drug abuse, nudity, HD)
Southside with You ★★★★ 11.45pm-1.00am BBC2
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ROMANCE This charming depiction of Barack Obama’s first date with his wife, Michelle, takes place over the course of a single day. It portrays the future president (Parker Sawyers) and his would-be first lady (Tika Sumpter) as ambitious 20-somethings, following them as they stroll around Chicago’s South Side during the summer of 1989. Scripted and directed by Richard Tanne (making his big-screen debut), this disarming story works far better than you might expect, thanks in part to superb performances from the two leads. SC (US 2016, violence, swearing, HD)
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THE SEAGULL
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Starring Emilia Clarke — tickets from £37.10* Playhouse Theatre, London From 11 March to 30 May 2020 Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’s unique modernisation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Jamie Lloyd. A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside where dreams are in tatters, hopes dashed, hearts broken and there is nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other. Following on from their critically acclaimed, five-star production of Cyrano de Bergerac, the Jamie Lloyd Company’s second show in the Playhouse Season sees Anya Reiss propel Chekhov’s tale into the 21st century.
REVIEWERS Ronald Bergan, Stephen Carty, Andrew Collins, John Ferguson, Sloan Freer, Tom Hutchinson, Trevor Johnston, Alan Jones, Karen Krizanovich, David Oppedisano, Stella Papamichael, David Parkinson, Brian Pendreigh, Emma Simmonds, Tony Sloman, Adam Smith, Terry Staunton, Adrian Turner, Damon Wise
PICK OF THE REST... Love You to Death ★★ 2.15-4.00pm C5 A lawyer’s life is put in danger when a killer walks free from court. (2015, HD)
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xXx ★★★ 9.00-11.30pm Syfy
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Sports hero Vin Diesel is coerced into spying for the US government. (2002)
Pulp Fiction 5 9.00-12.05am Sony Movies
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THE PRINCE OF EGYPT Tickets from £23.40* Dominion Theatre, London From 5 February to 12 September 2020 The new musical from three-time Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz. Based on the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation film, and featuring the Academy Award-winning, chart-topping song, When You Believe, The Prince of Egypt is an exhilarating, powerful and joyous celebration of belief and the human spirit.
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Alaska made dull I don’t want to live in a log cabin, says Alison Graham
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he big prize in Win the Wilderness: Alaska (Sunday BBC2) is a couple’s self-built lodge in the middle of nowhere, 100 miles from the nearest road. Six British couples carry out various tough, wilderness-y tasks to compete for the house, which will be passed to the winners by its owners/builders, Duane and Rena Ose. “How far would you go to escape the demands of modern life?” wonders the voiceover. Mmm, probably as far as Whitby, is my answer. What is known in television circles as “jeopardy” is piled on with a digger as beardy survival experts, who all look like members of ZZ Top, drone on and on about how if you don’t do this or you don’t do that YOU WILL DIE. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Hey, Mr Alaskan, have you ever tried to find a public toilet in a market town? Have you ever tried to work an unfamiliar microwave in a holiday rental? Yup, even we cosseted, mimsy urban-dwellers have our own special perils. Now off you go and do a fandango
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with a moose. Though I laughed this week when the expert pointed out to one hopeful chap that wearing flip-flops as he wielded a massive axe to chop wood probably wasn’t safe. Bye-bye, toes! I like Win the Wilderness because it’s absolutely dull. The couples are perfectly nice and are all tremendously British and polite to one another, at least in the first couple of episodes. They are the sort of people you see on Escape to the Country, who hold hands and make jokes about how they are lost for words “and that’s unusual for me”. *Chortle* The couples are under constant scrutiny from ZZ Top, who report back to the Oses. They in turn decide who they’d like to meet in every episode and invite a particularly impressive couple to their fortress of fastness for dinner. This involves a flight in a teeny tiny plane. The Oses are terribly sweet, but living 100 miles from anywhere clearly plays havoc with your social skills, because it’s not the Algonquin Round Table up there on their mountain. They are simply an elderly couple without a telly. And RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
FORTRESS OF FASTNESS Duane and Rena Ose are passing on their Alaskan hideaway
the house – come on! We’ve all watched Grand Designs. I want way more than a big log cabin. I want a converted water tower with black granite kitchen worktops, or a converted lighthouse complete with working foghorn. And a log cabin in the woods, 100 miles from the nearest road, with no neighbours? I’ve seen enough horror films/Nordic noir television dramas to know that the axe I use to chop my wood will be grasped by an unseen and malevolent hand as I fall into a difficult sleep, and I’ll be coarse-cut pâté by breakfast time.
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think the wilderness experts and the Oses expect the competing couples to be exhausted, angry, weeping wrecks, but everyone is very jolly and does what they are asked without fuss and with good humour, despite the warnings about how people get stressed in the wild, how you have to be on constant look-out for bears and so on. No one seems particularly perturbed. My favourite couple are chosen this week to meet the Oses, and there’s an enormous, quietly shocking revelation that left me admiring them even more. I hope they don’t win. Britain needs people like them.
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THAT SOFA? I’m getting to that stage in my life when the furnishings I grew up with at home are finding their way into dramas set in the 60s, 70s and 80s. I have recently seen “our” hellishly uncomfortable three-piece suite in Dr Stephen Ward’s waiting room in The Trial of Christine Keeler (below). Our living room curtains crop up in White House Farm (Wednesday ITV); they were in Midsomer Murders, too, a couple of weeks ago. While in Sunday’s Call the Midwife (BBC1), the unpleasant plastic mat from the Graham family kitchen has pride of place in a patient’s house. Who knew we Grahams were such trendsetters?
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Night on Earth Available from 29 January
A nature series with a gimmick that inevitably makes it spookier than most: heavy use of night-vision cameras reveals a new world of hunting and survival taking place after the sun has gone down. This throws up delightful oddities, such as the frog that freezes to death every evening, then wakes up again. The final episode, meanwhile, will make you vow never to walk the streets of Mumbai after dark.
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The Trial of Christine Keeler
Available now As a retelling of a notorious political disgrace from decades ago, this drama’s not quite on the level of last year’s A Very English Scandal, but it’s not far off. Sophie Cookson is the young woman whose involvement with establishment figures, including War Secretary John Profumo, is about to destroy several careers — as the great and the good close ranks against anyone they deem dispensible. HAUNTING REAL-LIFE DRAMA
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The Stranger
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TEEN DRAMA WITH A TWIST
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Ragnarok Available from 31 January
Adam Price, creator of Borgen and Ride upon the Storm, is behind this intensely atmospheric Norwegian drama. Roughly Smallville meets Fortitude, it follows an awkward teen as he returns to his small (and incredibly beautiful) home town, enrols at high school and discovers he has strange, mythical powers. Which is just as well, because plenty of weird stuff is about to go down. The epic fantasy elements come with a good dose of grounded wit.
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Following on from 2018’s Safe, this is the second collaboration between Netflix and bestselling thriller writer Harlan Coben. It’s a classier, sturdier affair, albeit still rammed with unlikely twists. Richard Armitage holds it together as the comfy uppermiddle-class dad whose world is destroyed by — you guessed it — secrets, lies and perhaps even murder.
The Windermere Children
The 75th anniversary of the closing of the Nazi concentration camps has inspired a raft of thoughtful BBC programming, including this moving true-life drama about a busload of children who, having survived the death camps, come to Cumbria to try to start unfamiliar new lives. Romola Garai, Iain Glen and Tim McInnerny excel as Brits helping with the healing. ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTARY
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Pandemic Available now
This sprawling six-parter is uncomfortably topical. Following medical professionals in America, India and elsewhere, it looks at the latest research and groundwork combating viral outbreaks, asking: are we prepared for a pandemic like the one that killed millions in 1918? Government intransigence and toxic anti-vaccine campaigns are among the obstacles to overcome.
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The Goes Wrong Show
Available now File this under “shouldn’t work, but does” — it’s a comedy where every episode is a TV play that’s completely scuppered by missed cues, confused acting and, particularly, malfunctioning props and sets. As the repertory try and fail to tackle a different genre each week, the visual gags are imaginative and frequent enough to keep you laughing at what could have been a fatally old-fashioned bout of silliness.
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WHAT’S NEW ON iPLAYER, NETFLIX, AMAZON AND BEYOND NOW TV/SKY BOX SETS
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This Is Our Family Available now
A disarmingly simple idea for a factual series: each of the four episodes looks in detail at the lives of one British family. We follow their ups and downs and get a close-up view of their strengths and weaknesses. With problems to tackle including blending two clans together at a wedding, or keeping an existing relationship intact under the strain of caring for a sick child, every episode brings powerful, relatable emotions.
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Sick of It Available now
Series two of Karl Pilkington’s off-kilter comedy plunges his alter ego, Karl, into even more existential crises. He’s a lovelorn loser whose most misanthropic thoughts are spoken aloud by an apparition (also played by Karl Pilkington) that only he and we can see. That’s a vehicle for Pilkington’s trademark, cynical observational comedy, which adds wry humour to what’s generally a strange, downbeat beast of a show.
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Press Available now
Maintaining its reputation as the home of dramas from a year or two ago that you never quite got around to watching, BritBox now has the only series of this 2018 BBC2 show set in Fleet Street. Mike Bartlett’s saga about rival newspaper editors — one of a crusading broadsheet, the other of a nasty tabloid — is prone to grandstanding and pantomime characterisation, but it’s got sparkling dialogue and crackling plotlines too. Ben Chaplin and Charlotte Riley star.
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Cobra Available now
Robert Carlyle and Victoria Hamilton lead a strong cast in a homegrown collapse-of-society thriller, sparked by Britain being hit by a geomagnetic storm. As the north east of England in particular falls prey to demagogues and vigilantes, can the Prime Minister and his colleagues maintain control, or will their own myriad personal problems precipitate armageddon? If the torrent of catastrophe grabs you, the whole series is up as a box set.
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Ballers Available from 27 January
The fifth and last series of the US drama starring Dwayne Johnson as a retired NFL player who’s now on the business side of sport. It’s about manly men striking huge deals while staying in touch with their roots, and as such it’s mostly cheesy escapism. It can land a dramatic punch, though, usually based on the idea that many elite sportsmen are kids from poor backgrounds who aren’t equipped for lucrative success and fame.
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The C Word Available from 30 January
A soul-baring performance from Sheridan Smith (above, with Paul Nicholls) drives this emotive one-off, shown on BBC1 in 2015. Based on the real story of journalist Lisa Lynch, who responded to a breast cancer diagnosis at the age of 28 by writing about her treatment with candour and humour, the drama bristles with wit and vivacity, as well as sadness. Smith, who was drawing on her own family experience of cancer, fully commits to a demanding role.
COOL NEW SCANDI CRIME
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Stockholm Requiem
Available now Scandi crime fans can indulge all their detective-drama desires with this series: it’s crisply filmed in snowy Sweden, it deals with dark cases starting with a child abduction, and its protagonist is a classic northern-European troubled maverick. Liv Mjones is the glacial Fredrika Bergman, a criminologist and former classical musician whose arrival on the police force is not welcomed by the grizzled, jaded cops.
CHALLENGING DRAMA
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Deadwater Fell Available now
As the craze for true-crime shows continues, particularly on streaming platforms, this Channel 4 series is one of the first entirely fictional British dramas to be inspired by those addictive, ambiguous stories. Writer Daisy Coulam had Netflix doc The Staircase in mind when she created GP Tom Kendrick (David Tennant), who falls under suspicion when he’s the only survivor of a house fire. Tennant excels as the apparent victim whose reactions aren’t quite right.
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SATURDAY Choices
The pick of today’s TV XLEADING BY EXAMPLE Captains Luca Bigi (Italy), Owen Farrell (England), Alun Wyn Jones (Wales), Jonathan Sexton (Ireland), Stuart Hogg (Scotland) and Charles Ollivon (France)
Television Saturday
WHERE TO WATCH
PICK OF THE DAY
Six Nations Rugby 1.40pm BBC1/1.30pm S4C, 4.00pm ITV
SPORT From Twickenham to Toulouse, the first Saturday in February means only one thing: the Six Nations tournament begins today. The opening match is Wales v Italy (kick-off 2.15pm BBC1/S4C) and, for the reigning champions, this might be what the pundits call “a transitional period”. After 12 years and three grand slams, Wales coach Warren Gatland has stepped down, passing the traditional burden of expectation to his successor, Wayne Pivac. But optimism has been fired by the possible debut of
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fleet-footed winger Louis Rees-Zammit, who turns 19 tomorrow, if injury doesn’t rule him out of the first round. The afternoon’s second game is Ireland v Scotland (kick-off 4.45pm ITV), featuring two sides that under-achieved at the World Cup. Ireland are also under new management, in the guise of Andy Farrell, who just happens to be the father of England skipper Owen Farrell. Scotland have named six new faces in their squad, while Stuart Hogg takes the captain’s armband. CHRIS HUGHES Sport: page 34
NB All times given are kick-offs Round one Sat 1 February: Wales v Italy 2.15pm BBC1/S4C Ireland v Scotland 4.45pm ITV Sun 2 February: France v England 3pm BBC1 Round two Sat 8 February: Ireland v Wales 2.15pm ITV/S4C Scotland v England 4.45pm BBC1 Sun 9 February: France v Italy 3pm BBC1 Round three Sat 22 February: Italy v Scotland 2.15pm ITV Wales v France 4.45pm BBC1/S4C Sun 23 February: England v Ireland 3pm ITV Round four Sat 7 March: Ireland v Italy 2.15pm ITV; England v Wales 4.45pm ITV/S4C Sun 8 March: Scotland v France 3pm BBC1 Round five Sat 14 March: Wales v Scotland 2.15pm BBC1/S4C Italy v England 4.45pm ITV France v Ireland 8pm BBC1
The Greatest Dancer
The Masked Singer
Yes, Prime Minister
The Voice UK
6.30pm BBC1
7.00pm ITV
8.00pm BBC4
8.30pm ITV
ENTERTAINMENT Tonight The
ENTERTAINMENT The anonymity of
SITCOM Derek Fowlds was such
ENTERTAINMENT Being called up
Greatest Dancer goes live, which adds an element of unpredictability that you simply don’t get during the pre-recorded auditions — not least sartorially. The tabloid press tend to pitch female judges’ fashion choices against one another, but surely all eyes will be on Todrick Hall’s attire rather than Cheryl’s or Oti Mabuse’s. And finally, we viewers at home will get the chance to have a say as the voting lines open for the first time. The dance captains each have three performers to mentor, and Cheryl’s pint-sized protégés Lily and Joseph are surely early contenders, as is Hannah — the superb 17-year-old rhythmic gymnast on Matthew Morrison’s team. FRANCES TAYLOR
being dressed as a pharaoh or a tree clearly instilled enough confidence in the likes of former Home Secretary Alan Johnson and football legend Teddy Sheringham to get up in front of millions and give this barmy show a go — and fair play to them. After being unmasked, Sheringham detailed the extreme backstage security, including having to walk around wearing a motorcycle helmet and a T-shirt saying “Don’t speak to me”. Sounds extreme? That’s what it takes to keep the names under wraps until the crucial moment — and ensure fans at home are hooked on this thoroughly entertaining game of musical Guess Who. FT
a beloved fixture on British television for so long — to me he will always be “Mr Derek” from The Basil Brush Show — that it’s hard to believe we’ll never see him again, after his recent death, aged 82. In tribute, BBC4 repeats an episode from one of Britain’s best-loved sitcoms, though it’s poignant to realise that all three of its stars — Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington and now Derek Fowlds as Bernard, the PM’s private secretary — are no longer with us. In The Tangled Web PM Jim Hacker (Eddington) is appalled to discover he’s unwittingly lied to the House of Commons about tapping an MP’s phone. ALISON GRAHAM TV EDITOR
for the blind auditions at the tail end of the run is always going to leave contestants on The Voice UK at a disadvantage. With places in all the teams filling up fast (Sir Tom Jones only has three places left), the singers often have to stretch that little bit further to get that longed-for button push. Tonight, they include a singer/songwriter from London who boldly performs one of his own songs. As well as trying to guess at home who the coaches will spin their chairs for, it’s also enjoyable playing “You’re going to smash it” bingo, counting the endless uses of what has become the most hackneyed phrase in reality TV. FT
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY DISCOVER TV
THE WALLIS SIMPSON STORY nomination for this 1988 mini-series. The King’s Speech The constitutional crisis is seen from a different angle as George VI (Colin Firth) takes the throne after Edward (Guy Pearce) and Wallis (Eve Best) put love before duty. The Crown Lia Williams and, later, Geraldine Chaplin play Wallis on Netflix. W.E. With Madonna directing and Andrea Riseborough in the lead, this was a box office and critical flop. DAVID BROWN
Snowfall
Veep
9.00pm BBC4
10.30pm, 11.20pm BBC2
11.50pm, 12.25am Sky Comedy
DRAMA In an episode first shown last
DRAMA The elaborate, beautifully
COMEDY When Veep began in 2012,
year, there’s a brief, uncomfortable flirtation with contemporary events — the rescue of boatloads of Syrian refugees — before Montalbano settles into more familiar territory back at the Vigata police station with the inappropriate patterned wallpaper. The usual gang is all here, including the idiotic Catarella and his tired slapstick (there’s a life-wasting sequence involving a rescued cat), and Salvo’s long-suffering girlfriend Livia makes her usual brief appearance before she’s conveniently dispatched, after insisting that Salvo be fitted for a new suit. But murder intrudes and Salvo must untangle the many threads of the victim’s complicated romantic life. AG
acted 1980s drug-dealing saga returns for a third series. (The show’s co-creator John Singleton died last year: a caption after episode one reads simply “For John”.) At the story’s centre is Franklin Saint, the young mastermind played with bags of charisma by British actor Damson Idris. As we rejoin Franklin, it’s dawning on him that his dream of building a business empire might not be worth the damage that crack is doing to his own LA community. Much like Tommy Shelby or Michael Corleone, he also senses that success makes him a big target. And his girlfriend’s father, a local uniform cop, looks like being a worthy adversary.
it seemed a long shot that Armando Iannucci and his writers could translate the sweary satire of The Thick of It from Whitehall to Washington. But they very much did, once again delivering rich gouts of cynicism, sniping and political pratfalls at the pace of a 1930s screwball comedy. Veep went on to win a staggering 17 Emmys. If it passed you by (as it did most UK viewers), or if late on a Saturday feels like a good time for a revisit, Sky Comedy is running repeats from the start. Episode one sees newly installed Vice-President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) launch a drive for clean jobs that falls foul of the plastics lobby. DAVID BUTCHER
FAREWELL DUFFY After more than 30 years, Duffy (Cathy Shipton) goes — and Charlie’s in pieces
DAVID BUTCHER
Casualty
Suit You, Sir! iPlayer (expires today) An archive treat from 1999, reshown last month as part of BBC2’s Fast Show night. Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse are persistently funny as they dismantle their creation character by character, catchphrase by catchphrase. The rest of the cast offer their memories, too, and there are some tremendous interjections from a performatively envious Harry Enfield.
DISCOVER TV KIDS
Saturday Mash-Up 9.00am CBBC, iPlayer The slime-spattered Saturdaymorning extravaganza returns, with new presenters: BBC Asian Network’s Harpz Kaur and YouTuber Joe Tasker. JACK SEALE
Saturday Television
Inspector Montalbano
The best of streaming and catch-up
BEST LIVE SPORT
9.15pm BBC1 DRAMA Cathy Shipton’s
association with Casualty dates right the way back to the first episode in 1986. If you watch it, you’ll notice that Duffy had a distinctively West Country accent, which vanished at some point down the decades (Shipton has said that her character started listening to Radio 4). But what’s been a constant throughout Duffy’s years on the show has been her pairing with fellow nurse Charlie, first as colleagues and then, in later years, as a married couple. This being Duffy’s final appearance, that partnership with Charlie is very much in the spotlight. And while I’m sworn to secrecy as regards the exact nature of Duffy’s exit, it’s certainly an event that fans won’t want to miss. Even Charlie, who’s usually to be found dispassionately staring off into the middle distance, is overcome with emotion. DAVID BROWN
Premier League Football: Leicester City v Chelsea 12 noon (kick-off 12.30pm) BT Sport 1 Leicester winger Ayoze Perez. Man United v Wolves 5pm (k/o 5.30pm) Sky PL/Main Event Australian Open Tennis: women’s singles final 8.30am Eurosport 1 Six Nations Rugby: Wales v Italy k/o 2.15pm BBC1/S4C; Ireland v Scotland k/o 4.45pm ITV
o FILM OF THE DAY
Hidden Figures 9.00pm C4
Three female African-American mathematicians battle racism and sexism at Nasa during the 1960s Space Race. See page 41
SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY
Channel 5 tonight shows the salaciously titled Wallis: the American Who Stole Our Prince (6.05pm), with Georgina Rich playing Mrs Simpson. But this isn’t the first time the story of the American socialite divorcee has been dramatised… Edward & Mrs Simpson In 1978, ITV recounts the abdication drama, with stars Edward Fox and Cynthia Harris (right). The Woman He Loved A pre-Dr Quinn Jane Seymour got a Golden Globe
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SATURDAY Main Channels DAYTIME
Television Saturday
BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Naga Munchetty, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD) 10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live Matt Tebbutt is joined by chefs Danilo Cortellini, Sam Evans and Shauna Guinn. Clara Amfo faces her food heaven or hell and Olly Smith picks the perfect wines. (S) (HD) 11.30 Garden Rescue Charlie Dimmock and the Rich brothers visit Bradley Stoke, Bristol, where they create a water-saving, wildlife-friendly space. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD) 12 noon Football Focus Dan Walker looks ahead to the weekend’s fixtures including Liverpool v Southampton and Leicester City v Chelsea. (S) (HD) 1.00pm BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 1.15—1.40 Eddie Butler’s Six Nations Eddie Butler looks ahead to the championship, speaking to the likes of new Wales head coach Wayne Pivac and his star outside half Dan Biggar. Shown last Wed on BBC1 Wales (S) (HD)
BBC2 6.45am Wild and Weird First shown on CBBC (S) (HD) 7.00 Top Class First shown on CBBC (S) (HD) 7.30 The Dog Ate My Homework First shown on CBBC (S) (HD) 8.00 The Dengineers First shown on CBBC (S) (HD) 8.30 Blue Peter First shown on CBBC (S) (HD) 9.00 Deadly 60 Predators in Ethiopia. (R) (S) (HD) 9.30 How Earth Made Us How fire has influenced the development of humanity. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 10.30 Robot Wars: Battle of the Stars Kadeena Cox, Robbie Savage, Neil Oliver and Jordan from Rizzle Kicks design their own fighting bot. (R) (S) (HD) 11.30 Best Home Cook 5/8. Mary Berry challenges the remaining six contestants to create their ultimate curry night feast. Shown last Thursday BBC1 (S) (HD) 2 BBC RED BUTTON 11.50am–1.15pm Cyclo-Cross
Coverage of the men’s under-23s in the World Championships from Dübendorf, Switzerland
12.30pm The Best Dishes Ever A range of dishes featuring different types of cheese. (R) (S) (HD) 1.00 Tennis: Australian Open Sue Barker presents action from the women’s singles final. (S) (HD) 2BBC SPORT ONLINE 1.50–3.05 Cyclo-Cross Coverage of the elite women in the World Championships, at bbc.co.uk/sport
2.30 The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes A look at glamorous homes in Florida. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Spy in the Wild 2/4. “Spy macaque” joins snow monkeys in Japan. Shown last Wednesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30—5.00 Coast Island-hopping in the Western Isles of Scotland and out to Shetland. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
ITV 6.00am CITV See page 61 9.25 ITV News (S) (HD) 9.30 James Martin’s Saturday Morning With guests Marc Almond, Gareth Ward, Philip Serrell and Tessa Bramley. Oz Clarke offers his guide to the best Argentinian wines on the supermarket shelves. (S) (HD) 11.40 Living on the Veg 3/10. Featuring recipes for paella and a Texan-style pizza. Shown last Sunday (S) (HD) 12.40pm Save Money: Lose Weight 2/6. Two new diets are put to the test. Shown last Thursday (S) (HD) 1.10 ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD) 1.20 Dancing on Ice Ep 4. The remaining ten celebrities try to keep their hopes of victory alive by avoiding the bottom two. Shown last Sunday (S) (HD) 3.25 ITV News Weather (S) (HD) 3.45—4.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
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5.55am Mike & Molly Two episodes. (R) (S) (HD) 6.40 Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD) 7.35 Frasier Two episodes of the US sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) 8.30 The Big Bang Theory Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 9.55 The Simpsons Homer goes on a diet. 10.25 The family takes in a tax evader on the run. 10.55 Bart and Lisa rescue a cow from slaughter. 11.25 Lisa’s movie is entered in a prestigious festival. 11.55 Homer’s activist mother pays the family a visit. 12.25pm Bart creates a comic strip featuring Homer. 12.55 Marge and Homer help Apu and Manjula. (R) (S) (AD) 1.25—4.00 Come Dine with Me Spanish and Kenyan menus feature when the dinner party challenge heads to the Reading area. (R) (S) (HD)
BBC1
BBC2
Casualty 9.15pm With Duffy’s mind playing tricks on her, Charlie worries when he can’t contact her
Snowfall 10.30pm Franklin Saint has work to do to keep control in a world that is constantly changing
1.40pm Six Nations Rugby
5.00pm Pipers of the Trenches
Wales v Italy The opening match of the tournament sees the grand slam-winning champions — under new coach Wayne Pivac — take on the perennial wooden spoon winners at the Principality Stadium (kick-off 2.15). Wales will expect to get off to a flying start, but might Italy’s new interim coach, Franco Smith, be able to inspire his team to a great upset? See page 54.
The story of the around 2,500 pipers from Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand who served in the First World War. Within a year of signing up, a thousand of them had been killed.
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Director Sarah Williams; Editor Michael Jackson (S) (HD) Ireland v Scotland is at 4pm on ITV
See feature: page 34 2 BBC RED BUTTON 2.30—5.25 Final Score
Jason Mohammad presents the latest football scores
4.30 Final Score Football updates presented by Jason Mohammad. Producer Chris Treece; Editor Ben North (S) (HD)
6/6 Series 2. Three more pairings play the music quiz hosted by Marvin and Rochelle Humes. Director Chris Power; Series producer Gareth Davies Postponed from 21 December (S) (HD)
Series 2. The show goes live with an a5/10 opening performance from the dance captains
and their final three acts in a “best of British” episode. Hosts Jordan Banjo and Alesha Dixon will also be strutting their stuff, before viewers decide who must shimmy out of the exit. See page 54.
Series producers Lyndon Tovey and Clara Elliot; Exec producers Louise Hutchinson, Amelia Brown, Nigel Hall and Kalpna Patel-Knight (S) (HD)
8.30 First and Last 5/6. More contestants hurl themselves into another five bizarre challenges. Jason Manford hosts. Director Barbara Wiltshire; Producer Tom Baker Repeated Wednesday 11.30pm (S) (HD)
9.15 Casualty
is concerned when Duffy heads out in aCharlie freezing weather. Lev tries to ignore warnings
about the severity of Luka’s condition. See page 55. Maddy Hill Gabriella Leon Di Botcher Kelly Gough Kerry Fitzgerald Finlay Robertson Marilyn Le Conte Tom Mulheron Brochan Evans Rebecca Knowles
Writer Katie Douglas; Producer Mat McHale Director Eric Styles (S) (AD) (HD)
10.05 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) Followed by National Lottery Update (S)
10.25 Match of the Day Highlights of today’s Premier League fixtures, including Liverpool v Southampton. Producer Colm Harty; Editor Steve Houghton Repeated tomorrow 7.25am (S) (HD)
11.55 The NFL Show Mark Chapman looks ahead to Super Bowl LIV, with live coverage tomorrow from 11.25pm. Series editor Rob Williams (S) (HD)
12.25am Keeping Rosy ★★★ Thriller starring Maxine Peake and Blake Harrison. When hard-nosed executive Charlotte takes out her bad day at work on her cleaner, events escalate in ways she hadn’t expected. Review p41.
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Director Steve Reeves (2014, 15) (S) (W) (HD) 1.50 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 1.55—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)
BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
of the famous Ealing comedy. The oRemake whisky drought being endured on a Scottish
island during the Second World War looks like it might be about to end when a ship carrying 50,000 cases runs aground. However, the English commander of the Home Guard does not want the locals to get their hands on the cargo. Review p41.
Joseph Macroon Captain Waggett Sergeant Odd
Gregor Fisher Peggy Macroon Eddie Izzard George Campbell Sean Biggerstaff Catriona Macroon
Naomi Battrick Kevin Guthrie Ellie Kendrick
7.30 Dad’s Army The Royal Train. Captain Mainwaring and the team are asked to provide a ceremonial guard when the King travels through Walmington-on-Sea by train. Writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft; Producer David Croft (R) (S) RT BOOKS To order Dad’s Army at 50! for £9.99 plus p&p, visit radiotimes.com/rtdadsarmy
6.30 The Greatest Dancer
Ruby Spark Jade Lovall Jan Jenning Violette Spark Erin Caterham Michael Caterham Dr Sian Bowen Luka Malinovsky Billy Caterham PC Menzies
6.00 Whisky Galore! ★★★
Director Gillies MacKinnon (2016, PG) (S) (W) (HD)
5.25 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 5.45 The Hit List
Charlie Fairhead Derek Thompson Lisa “Duffy” Duffin Cathy Shipton Robyn Miller Amanda Henderson Connie Beauchamp Amanda Mealing Dylan Keogh William Beck Noel Garcia Tony Marshall Jacob Masters Charles Venn David Hide Jason Durr Lev Malinovsky Uriel Emil Faith Cadogan Kirsty Mitchell Rashid Masum Neet Mohan
Director/Producer Andy Twaddle (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Great American Railroad Journeys Talkeetna to Juneau. Armed with his 1899 edition of Appletons’ Guide Book to Alaska, Michael Portillo feels the pioneering spirit of early 20th-century prospectors at the remote former goldrush settlement of Talkeetna and helps a modern-day “homesteader” to clear land for a log cabin. From there, he is dazzled by some spectacular views as he crosses the gorge on the Hurricane Gulch Bridge. In Denali National Park, he learns how photographers 100 years ago captured the beauty of the Alaskan landscape and then joins the scientists at Poker Flat who are studying the mysterious northern lights. Michael ends his journey in Alaska’s railwayless state capital, Juneau, where he researches the life of the female author of his Appletons’, Eliza Scidmore. Director Dave Minchin; Editor Alison Kreps (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 QI XL Sandi Toksvig calls for “Quiet” from Sara Pascoe, Jimmy Carr and Andrew Maxwell. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
9.45 Live at the Apollo The stand-up comedy show features Mash Report regular Ellie Taylor introducing Fin Taylor and Tez Ilyas. Director Paul Wheeler; Series producer Anthony Caveney (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Snowfall
series. 1/10 Series 3. Protect and Swerve aNew After betrayals that saw him up on a murder
charge — and on the ropes — Franklin squares things with his family as his gang rules the streets. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 2/10. The More You Make. Since Manboy’s gang made a move, Leon does not trust his old friend — but Franklin is playing a longer game. The whole series is available on iPlayer. See p54. (S) (AD) (HD)
Franklin Saint Damson Idris Cissy Saint Michael Hyatt Teddy McDonald Carter Hudson Alton Saint Kevin Carroll Gustavo “El Oso” Zapata Melody Reign Edwards Sergio Peris-Mencheta Wanda Gail Bean Leon Simmons Isaiah Johnson Manboy Melvin Gregg Jerome Saint Amin Joseph Andre Wright Marcus Henderson Louie Angela Lewis 12 midnight—1.40am Up in the Air ★★★★ Romantic comedy drama starring George Clooney. Ryan Bingham specialises in corporate downsizing, but his own job is threatened when his boss hires Natalie, who believes his role can be achieved via video conferencing. Ryan takes her on a crosscountry trip to show her the error of her ways. Review p41.
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Director Jason Reitman (2009, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY ITV
Channel 4
Six Nations Rugby 4.00pm Can new captain Johnny Sexton inspire Ireland to a winning start?
Hidden Figures 9.00pm A longoverdue tribute to the role played by black women in the Space Race
BBC4
Regional variations
Inspector Montalbano 9.00pm The Sicilian cop tackles a very timely case
BBC1 SCOTLAND 4.30—5.25pm Sportscene Results: David Currie presents the classified results
BBC SCOTLAND 4.00pm Four in a Bed
Ireland v Scotland All the action from Dublin as the old rivals get their campaigns under way (kick-off 4.45). Ireland’s new coach Andy Farrell is taking charge of his first Six Nations match, with the aim of getting the side back to the peak of the form they showed under previous coach Joe Schmidt, who led them to three Six Nations titles. Gregor Townsend is still at the helm for Scotland, but can the former fly-half start to harness the undoubted talent that his squad possesses and achieve positive results? Mark Pougatch is joined by Brian O’Driscoll, Sir Ian McGeechan and Jonny Wilkinson, with pitchside reports from Martin Bayfield and commentary from Nick Mullins, Scott Hastings and Gordon D’Arcy. See page 54.
The B&B competition visits the Ship Inn in Dymchurch, Kent; Thompson Hall Retreat in Norfolk; the White House in Swansea and Jacobs Plough in Bicester, Oxfordshire, before the owners settle some scores and find out who has won.
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Editor Stuart Smith Highlights tomorrow 10.40pm (S) (HD)
Sport: page 34
7.00 The Masked Singer
Trying to get their voices heard from a 6/8. beneath the weight of their elaborate
disguises, the seven remaining mystery stars sing their hearts out before another two are silenced by the judges. And as the extravagant ensembles of the rejected warblers are finally removed, panellists Davina McCall, Jonathan Ross, Rita Ora and guests Sharon and Kelly Osbourne set their faces to stunned for the big reveal. Joel Dommett presents. See page 54. Director Simon Staffurth; Executive producers Claire Horton, Derek McLean and Daniel Nettleton Repeated tomorrow 10.30am ITV2 and 2.05pm ITV (S) (HD)
8.30 The Voice UK
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Ep 5. The blind auditions rumble on as coaches Sir Tom Jones, Olly Murs, will.i.am and Meghan Trainor remain hopeful of being spun into an ecstasy of superlatives by the talents of the aspiring performers. Will they be surprised by what they see when they turn to face them? Emma Willis hosts. See page 55.
Series director Liz Clare; Series producers Cally Haycox and Leo Holden Repeated tomorrow 12.35pm (S) (HD)
10.00 Shopping with Keith Lemon Keith joins Matt Goss from Bros for some retail therapy around Mayfair, and helps Emily Atack as she goes in search of a new bed. Series producer Jessie Swanson Executive producer Jonno Richards (R) (S) (HD)
10.25 ITV News Weather; Regional Weather
(S) (HD)
10.40 American Sniper ★★★★
drama starring Bradley Cooper. q Action The true story of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in US military history, who became a target himself during his tours of Iraq. But away from the battlefield, he struggled to fit back into civilian life with his family, and after leaving active duty, it seemed he would never be able to readjust. Andrew Collins My Movies: p39.
Chris Kyle Bradley Cooper DIA Agent Snead Eric Close Taya Renae Kyle Sienna Miller Navy SEAL Lieutenant Martin Marc Lee Luke Grimes Sam Jaeger Ryan Job, “Biggles” Jake McDorman Winston Kyle Gallner Sheikh Al-Obodi Navid Negahban Mustafa Sammy Sheik Jeff Kyle Keir O’Donnell The Butcher Mido Hamada
Director/Producer Maxie Allen (R) (S) (HD)
1/10. The chef embarks on a culinary break in autumnal Bordeaux, where he helps judge a wine contest and drives to the coast. At home, he cooks a dish of steak frites with Bordelaise sauce.
6.30 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 The Royal House of Windsor
Director/Producer David Pritchard Signed repeat 2.25am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
6/6. The final instalment focuses on one of the most outspoken heirs to the throne, Prince Charles, and the radically different vision of the monarchy he promises for his own reign. From a young age, Charles’s determination to do something important with his position in the royal family led him to set up the Prince’s Trust charity to help various causes, and he has also been prepared to weigh in on a number of controversial political issues across the years.
Series 2. The Tangled Web. Jim is horrified at allegations of phone-tapping and denies they are true — until Sir Humphrey informs him otherwise. Showing as a tribute to actor Derek Fowlds, who died last month at the age of 82. See page 54.
Director/Producer Maninderpal Sahota (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Dr Helen Czerski examines how science is revealing more about the aurora, the lights in the night sky that have fascinated us throughout our history.
8.00 The Queen’s Lost Family 1/3. The inside story of the royal family over three turbulent decades, from the 1920s to the end of the Second World War. With monarchies across Europe having already toppled as a result of the Great War, a new democratic, but unpredictable, age dawned in which most working men and many women now had the vote. In a bid to move with the times, George V changed the family’s German name to Windsor and deployed his children to woo the public. Director Kelly Close; Producer Lisa Martinson (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Hidden Figures ★★★★
set in the 1960s and based on a true oDrama story. Three African-American women
working as Nasa mathematicians at Langley Research Center become crucial elements of the Space Race, battling institutionalised racism and sexism in the process. Film of the Day: p41.
Katherine G Johnson Taraji P Henson Dorothy Vaughan Octavia Spencer Mary Jackson Janelle Monáe Al Harrison Kevin Costner Vivian Mitchell Kirsten Dunst
Paul Stafford Jim Parsons Colonel Jim Johnson Mahershala Ali Levi Jackson Aldis Hodge John Glenn Glen Powell Ruth Kimberly Quinn
Director Theodore Melfi (2016, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) Also showing Tuesday 9pm 4seven
11.25 X-Men — the Last Stand ★★★
sequel in the fantasy action qSecond adventure series, starring Hugh Jackman,
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. A wealthy industrialist finds a “cure” for the mutants, but it is an announcement that divides the community, with many refusing to give up their powers. As dissent grows, Magneto uses the unstable atmosphere to rally support for a war on the humans. Review page 41.
Logan/Wolverine Hugh Jackman Professor Charles Xavier Patrick Stewart Eric Magnus Lensherr/Magneto Ian McKellen Ororo Munroe/Storm Halle Berry Dr Jean Grey/Phoenix Famke Janssen
Marie/Rogue Anna Paquin Dr Henry McCoy/Beast Kelsey Grammer Scott Summers/Cyclops James Marsden Raven Darkholme/Mystique Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
Director Brett Ratner (2006, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
1.00am Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 Rebound Quiz with Sean Fletcher. (R) (S) (HD) 3.50—6.00am Nightscreen Text information. (HD)
1.20am The Last Leg: Countdown to Brexit Ep 3 Extended edition in which the team counted down to the moment Britain left the EU. Shown yesterday (S) (HD) 2.40 Hollyoaks Omnibus. Cast Tue/Fri (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 4.50 The Great Hotel Escape Adam the builder rushes to finish James and Fjona’s hotel renovations in time for their VIP guests to arrive. (R) (S) (HD) 5.45—5.55am Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free Kirstie visits homes in Brighton and Devon. (R) (S) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
Channel 4 Freeview 4 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 +1 F’view15 F’sat121 Sky 204 Virgin 142 HD F’view104 Sky 138 Virgin 141
Director Clint Eastwood (2014, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
7.00pm Rick Stein’s Long Weekends
8.00 Yes, Prime Minister
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Writers Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay Director Sydney Lotterby (R) (S) (HD)
8.30 Aurora: Dangerous Earth
Director/Producer Ben Wilson (R) (S) (HD)
9.00 Inspector Montalbano
6. The Other End of the aSeries Line. While dealing with the
arrival of boatloads of migrants from across the Mediterranean and the human tragedy that accompanies them, the detective stumbles upon the murder of a dressmaker. Italian +subtitles. See page 55. (R) (HD) Salvo Montalbano Mimi Augello Giuseppe Fazio Catarella Elena Dr Osman Meriam Anna Silch Franco Guida Teresa
Luca Zingaretti Cesare Bocci Peppino Mazzotta Angelo Russo Elena Radonicich Ahmed Hafiene Eurydice El-Etr Giorgia Salari Carlo Calderone Anna Ferruzzo
STV 1.00am Teach My Pet to Do That 1.25—6.00 Nightscreen
BBC1 WALES 11.30—12 noon Six Nations Sin Bin: Gabby Logan and Gareth Thomas take a look at this year’s Six Nations
BBC1 NORTHERN IRELAND 4.30—5.25pm Final Score: including at 5.00 Final Score from Northern Ireland
Saturday Television
4.00pm Six Nations Rugby
As BBC2 until: 4.30pm Pipers of the Trenches 5.30 FILM: Whisky Galore! 7.00 The Seven 7.15 Seven Days 8.00 Born to Be Wild 9.00 Prophecy 10.20 Scotland Unsolved 10.35 Burnistoun Tunes In 11.05 Taken Down 11.55—12 midnight Tune
BBC2 NORTHERN IRELAND 7.30—8.00pm Getaways: Holly Hamilton and JJ Chalmers visit Prague and Brno
10.45 Clive James: Postcard from Berlin Clive takes a light-hearted look at the German capital, revealing the changes that have taken place there since reunification — architecturally, socially and culturally. First broadcast in 1995. Producer Martin Cunning Executive producer Richard Drewett (R) (S) (HD)
11.35 Frantz ★★★★
drama. In the aftermath oRomantic of the First World War, a Frenchman arrives in a German town, where he strikes up a friendship with the grieving fiancée of a dead soldier and the man’s parents. French, German +subtitles. Review page 41.
Adrien Rivoire Anna Dr Hans Hoffmeister Magda Hoffmeister Kreutz Frantz Hoffmeister
Pierre Niney Paula Beer Ernst Stotzner Marie Gruber Johann von Bülow Anton von Lucke
Director François Ozon (2016, 12)
1.25am Top of the Pops 1989 With Def Leppard, Gloria Estefan and Texas. (S) 1.55 With S-Express, Dusty Springfield and Michael Ball. Both episodes shown yesterday (S) 2.25—3.25am Rick Stein’s Long Weekends Shown 7pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white
Channel 5 listings are overleaf
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Alice in Wonderland 12.25pm Alice
Shrek 4.30pm Peace and quiet is within
Midsomer Murders 7.00pm A body
Life on Mars 9.00pm Gene and Sam
is led to a strangely familiar world
touching distance for the green ogre
is discovered at a sculpture park
disagree over methods of detection
Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 61 9.55 SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob battles a cleaning robot. (S) (HD) 10.05 New. The Loud House Lincoln has to get to school on time. First shown on Nicktoons (S) (HD) 10.20 Access (S) (HD) 10.25 Friends Series 1. Monica applies to become head chef in a fancy restaurant. 10.55 Phoebe’s twin sister arrives. 11.25 Rachel and Monica become love rivals. 11.55 The girls lose in a poker match. (S) (HD) 12.25pm Alice in Wonderland ★★ Fantasy adventure based on the books by Lewis Carroll, with Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp. The now teenage Alice follows a white rabbit to a strangely familiar world. But Alice is soon pitched into a battle against the evil Red Queen.
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records (S) (HD) 7.15 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 9.50 Dress to Impress (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 11.50 Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 1.50pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) 2.20 FILM Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang ★★★★ Period fantasy adventure starring Emma Thompson (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 4.30 FILM Shrek ★★★★ Animated fantasy comedy starring Mike Myers (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Lewis (S) (AD) (HD) 7.45 Agatha Christie’s Marple (S) (AD) (HD) 9.45 Coronation Street: omnibus. Maria suffers a loss. Daniel confuses Bethany with Sinead (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45pm Foyle’s War: triple bill. A body is found near a military centre; 2.55 An RAF officer is found hanged (S) (AD) (HD)
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Director Tim Burton (2010, PG) (S) (W) (HD)
2.35pm Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt Thriller starring Tom Selleck. The cop returns to his role as chief of police to bring the perpetrators of a Mob-related double homicide to justice. (S) (HD)
4.20 Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise The police chief heads to Boston to investigate a murder case in which the prime suspect is behind bars. (S) (HD) 6.00 5 News Update (S) (HD)
6.05 Wallis: the American Who Stole a Prince Feature-length drama documentary re-appraising Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American of whom King Edward VIII became enamoured and gave up the throne to marry. Director Paul Olding Executive producer Jeff Anderson (S) (HD)
8.00 Manhunt: Catching Britain’s Most Wanted Following a ten-strong tactical unit from Kent Police, dedicated to hunting suspects on the run. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
9.55 Funniest Ever TV Cock Ups Clip show featuring a compilation of television mishaps and moments when things did not quite go according to the script. The programme features a variety of embarrassing snippets, from fluffed lines to unruly guests. (S) (HD)
11.50 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 4/9 Series 5. Vince discovers that the working bar he bought is actually anything but working. Bambi puts on a show at the caravan site to raise money for a dog rescue centre. Directors/Producers Dominic Aston, Tom Dalzell and Dave Warren (S) (HD)
12.45am Access (S) (HD) 1.00 New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 Inside DHL: the World’s Biggest Delivery Company (S) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.10 Divine Designs (S) (SL) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) +1 Freeview 44 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155 5 Select For listings see opposite page
BBC4 listings are overleaf
6.20pm Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 ★★★★ Sci-fi adventure. The Guardians
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must set aside their differences to defeat a new foe who is set on conquering the galaxy, while also helping their leader when he encounters his father. Peter Quill/Star-Lord Gamora Drax the Destroyer Baby Groot Rocket Racoon
Chris Pratt Zoe Saldana Dave Bautista Vin Diesel (voice only) Bradley Cooper (voice only)
Director James Gunn (2017, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island: Unseen Bits
Iain Stirling narrates highlights of the past week, as well as unseen footage. (S) (HD)
10.05 Family Guy Series 9. Peter volunteers Lois to take part in a boxing match. 10.30 Brian’s luck as a writer changes when Stewie becomes his manager. 11.00 Series 8. A quest to find the source of all dirty jokes takes Peter, Quagmire and Joe to Virginia. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 11. Stan makes a wish upon his Christmas tree angel to become single — which then comes true. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05am Stan and his CIA colleagues set off on a mission to Thailand to blow up a weapons cache. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.30 The Cleveland Show (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 Ibiza Weekender (S) (HD) 2.00 The Stand Up Sketch Show (S) (HD) 2.30 Release the Hounds: Famous and Freaked (S) (HD) 3.25—3.30am Nightscreen (HD) ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
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4.55pm Foyle’s War 2/3 Series 6. Broken Souls. October 1944. When a member of staff at the local military psychiatric hospital is found dead, suspects abound, and Foyle must pick through the wreckage of their wartime experiences to find the truth. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Midsomer Murders A Dying Art. The opening of a sculpture park in the village of Angel’s Rise takes a grisly turn when organiser Brandon Monkford is found stone dead, arranged on top of the star exhibit. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Saints and Sinners. The discovery of a saint’s bones at an archaeological dig causes a stir in the village. But when the leader of the dig is killed, Barnaby and Nelson realise that it is not only skeletons that have been left long buried. (S) (AD) (HD) DCI John Barnaby DS Charlie Nelson Sarah Barnaby Christopher Corby Jared Horton Penny Henderson Valerie Horton Rev Peter Corby Dr Kim Karimore
Neil Dudgeon Gwilym Lee Fiona Dolman Aden Gillett Ralf Little Julia Sawalha Ruth Sheen Malcolm Sinclair Manjinder Virk
7.30am Cadfael 9.00 Lovejoy (S) 11.00 Sharpe: Sharpe fakes his own death (S) 1.00pm Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (S) 3.00 Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 4.00 Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm The Brokenwood Mysteries 1/4 Series 2. Leather and Lace. Shepherd investigates when a rugby coach’s body is found tied to a goal post (S) (AD) (HD) Mike Shepherd Kristin Sims Jared Morehu DC Breen Gina
Neill Rea Fern Sutherland Pana Hema Taylor Nic Sampson Cristina Serban Ionda
8.00 Murdoch Mysteries 3/18 Series 12. My Big Fat Mimico Wedding A guest at the marriage of Higgins and Ruth attempts to kill the groom. However, that is just the beginning of the drama at the Newsome estate. (S) (HD)
9.00 Life on Mars 3/8 Series 1. The detectives investigate a stabbing, but while Sam places his trust in evidence, Gene has a simpler approach — the first suspect to speak did it. (S) 10.20 4/8. When Sam discovers many of his colleagues are taking bribes from a local gangster, he resolves to put a stop to police corruption. However, Gene is reluctant to get involved. (S) Sam Tyler Gene Hunt Annie Cartwright Ray Carling Chris Skelton
John Simm Philip Glenister Liz White Dean Andrews Marshall Lancaster
11.00 Law & Order: UK
11.40 Kavanagh QC
1/6 Series 7. Tracks. After a suicidal man drives his car across a railway track causing a train to crash and kill several people, Crown prosecutor Jake Thorne pursues the culprit with vigour. (S) (AD) (HD)
1/6 Series 2. True Commitment. Kavanagh learns a harsh lesson when he defends a left-wing activist accused of murdering someone from the opposite end of the political spectrum. To make matters worse, he finds out daughter Kate is having an affair with her married tutor. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Law & Order: UK: two episodes of the crime thriller (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00am Long Lost Family (S) (HD) 2.55 Rising Damp (S) 3.20—3.30am Nightscreen +1 F’view 34 (9pm—midnight) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174
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1.10am Cadfael: the monk investigates a nun’s murder 2.45—4.00am Garden Hopping Drama +1 Sky 243 Virgin 226
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F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am Football’s Greatest: Johan Cruyff (S) (HD) 6.15 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (S) (AD) (HD) 7.20 Fishing Allstars (S) (AD) (HD) 9.30 New. Racing: the Opening Show (S) (HD) 10.30 Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Jeremy Brett stars (S) (HD) 12.40pm River Monsters (S) (HD) 1.15 Goals of the 70s (S) (HD) 1.30 LIVE Racing: from Sandown at 1.50, 2.25, 3.00 and 3.35, from Musselburgh at 2.05 and 3.15 and from Wetherby at 2.45 (S) (HD) 4.00 FILM Red River 5 Western (BW) (S) (HD) 6.40pm Football’s Greatest: Bobby Charlton A profile of the former Manchester United and England player. (S) (HD) 7.00 LIVE Darts Coverage of day two of the Masters. Jacqui Oatley presents. (S) (HD) 11.00 FILM Inglourious Basterds ★★★ Second World War action adventure directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt. English, German, French, Italian +subtitles. Review page 46. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am Little Women: LA (S) (HD) 7.50 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD) 8.50 Be Tasty (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10pm The Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (AD) (HD) 1.05 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD) 2.00 Sam and Billie Faiers: the Mummy Diaries (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Sam and Billie Faiers: the Mummy Diaries Sam attempts to finish the weaning process with baby Rosie. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Dinner Date Sasha from London views menus by five potential suitors. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Drue from Bristol takes part. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Botched Terry Dubrow performs full body work on co-dependent sisters. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Botched by Nature A man whose chest implant is threatening his life. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Vanderpump Rules: Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright head out to a Kentucky farm. (HD) 11.30 Brittany’s father confronts Jax. (HD)
2.10am The Protectors: Harry guards a Russian author (S) 2.40—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
12 midnight Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars (S) (HD) 12.50—12.55am Nightscreen (HD)
12.20am Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish (S) (HD) 1.20 Not Going Out (S) (HD) 2.10— 4.00am Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (S) (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.15am The Joy of Techs: double bill (S) (HD) 8.05 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 9.05 Storage Hunters (S) (HD) 10.00 Aussie Pickers (HD) 11.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 12 noon Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 3.00pm Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) (HD) 4.00 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Scrapyard Supercar (S) (HD) 6.00pm Room 101 With guests Jonathan Ross, Michael Vaughan and Sara Pascoe. 6.40 Christian Jessen, Warwick Davis and Victoria Coren Mitchell reveal their pet hates. 7.20 The best bits from the series. (S) (HD) 8.00 Not Going Out 4/10 Series 7 Lucy tries to befriend the new neighbours. 8.40 5/10. Lee appears on Pointless. 9.20 6/10. Lee’s dad Frank moves in. (S) (HD) 10.00 Mock the Week With Rob Beckett. (S) (HD) 10.40 Josh Widdicombe guests. (S) 11.20 Have I Got a Bit More 2018 News for You An extended compilation. (S) (HD)
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
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Paramount Network
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Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) 9.25 Murder, She Wrote (S) 5.25pm Columbo: Blueprint for Murder 7.05pm NCIS Series 11. Triple bill. A sergeant’s alibi for a hit-and-run is that he was killing someone else at the time 8.00 A covert listening device is found in a pen 9.00 The team investigates the murder of a marine (S) (AD) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 3. Triple bill. A girl accuses her father of rape 10.55 A triple murder is investigated 11.55 Series 2. A singer’s son is killed
Three Identical Strangers 9.00pm
Reunited: Edward, David and Robert
5.20pm Come Dine with Me Dinner parties in Aberdeen. (S) (HD)
8.00 David Jason’s Great British Inventions 2/4. The actor examines British innovations in the history of flight, from the first glider to the modern jet suit, and discovers how Britain contributed to the Moon landing. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Three Identical Strangers ★★★★ The astonishing true story of
q three men — Robert Shafran, Edward
Galland and David Kellman — who made the chance discovery, at the age of 19, that they were identical triplets, who were adopted by three different sets of parents. Director Tim Wardle (2018, 12) (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 24 Hours in A&E Seventy-five-year-old Leslie, who fell out of bed, may have had a stroke. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05am Father Ted: the priests go on holiday (S) (AD) 1.15 It Was Alright in the 1990s (S) (HD) 2.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (S) 3.15—3.45am Father Ted (S) (AD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196
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Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150 9.00am Access (S) (HD) 9.10 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught on Camera (HD) 11.20 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 1.15pm FILM Beach Red ★★★★ Drama (S) (HD) 3.20 FILM All Quiet on the Western Front ★★★ First World War drama (S) (HD)
6.25pm The Devil’s Brigade ★★
World War adventure starring q Second William Holden and Cliff Robertson. Director Andrew V McLaglen (1968, PG) (HD)
9.00 A Walk among the Tombstones ★★ Crime thriller with Liam Neeson.
q A former NYPD cop is reluctant to
take the job of hunting down a gang that kidnapped the wife of a drug dealer. But it becomes clear they must be stopped. Director Scott Frank (2014, 15) (S) (AD) (HD)
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Crime drama starring Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ryan Phillippe and Bruce Willis. A gang member teams up with a crime boss to track down the buddy who betrayed him after a heist goes wrong. Director Mike Gunther (2011, 15) (HD)
1.00am Street Hawk: double bill (HD) 3.05 Designated Survivor (HD) 4.45 Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) 5.35—6.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) (HD) Paramount Network +1 Sky 250
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F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 6.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 8.00 Wife Swap USA 9.00 Don’t Tell the Bride 10.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 11.30 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 3.00pm The Big Bang Theory (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 2/23 Series 3. Sheldon and Howard make a bet. 6.30 3/23. Sheldon succeeds in getting Penny to conform to his standards. 7.00 4/23. Raj accepts an offer from Sheldon. 7.30 5/23. Sheldon faces his arch-enemy. 8.00 6/23. Leonard worries that his football knowledge is not good enough. 8.30 21/23 Series 2. Leonard and Raj take a heartbroken Howard to Las Vegas. (AD) 9.00 FILM The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 ★★★★ Finale to the adventure series, starring Jennifer Lawrence. Despite her importance as a figurehead to the rebel cause, Katniss puts her life on the line to join the front lines on an assault on the Capitol. However, President Snow has some surprises waiting for them. Review page 46. (AD) (W) 11.45 Gogglebox EastEnders is appraised. (AD) 12.50am Critiques of The Cameron Interview and Jamie’s Meat-Free Meals. (SL) (AD)
F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am Escape to the Château: DIY 2.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses 7.00pm Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It Ep 4 Series 5. The duo meet a couple in Northamptonshire who are unsure whether they should renovate their current home. (AD) 8.00 Crazy Delicious Ep 2. The contestants have to make the humble apple the star of a brand-new dish, then they must turn a spaghetti bolognese into something extraordinary. Shown last Tuesday C4 (AD) 9.00 24 Hours in A&E Ep 3. A woman with autism is brought in by her sister. (AD) 10.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? Ep 2 Series 10. Exploring the importance of the father-son relationship and the potential consequences and difficulties. (AD) 11.05 Naked Attraction Ep 4 Series 6 A 60-year-old entertainer hopes to find the perfect partner. Shown last Thursday C4 (AD)
1.55 Eight out of Ten Cats 2.55 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.50 Wife Swap USA 4.40—6.00am Don’t Tell the Bride: a wedding at a caravan park
Freeview 11 Freesat 144 Sky 152 Virgin 165
12.10am Bring Back the Bush: Where Did Our Pubic Hair Go? (AD) 1.15 How to Lose Weight Well (AD) 2.20—4.45am Come Dine with Me
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6.00am M*A*S*H 6.30 The Waltons 8.30 Hart to Hart 12.30pm Charlie’s Angels 5.00 TJ Hooker 6.00 Starsky & Hutch: triple bill. The duo pose as stuntmen to trap a down-and-out former screen star 7.00 A loan shark’s debt collector is killed. Guest-starring Danny DeVito 8.00 The detective duo pose as gamblers to investigate an assault at a casino 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: four editions 1.00am Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Hart to Hart 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Waltons 5.10—6.00am Touched by an Angel
6.00am Nothing to Declare (AD) 9.00 60-Minute Makeover 1.00pm Star Trek: the Next Generation 6.00pm Motorway Patrol: double bill. The Eagle helicopter helps police to hunt for a stolen vehicle, then a car crash leads to some unusual behaviour on the side of the motorway 7.00 Highway Cops (AD) 8.00 Caught on Dashcam: outrageous road disasters and highway hijinks (AD) 9.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK: police officers in west Wales deal with a dangerous domestic incident 10.00 The Force: North East: Northumbria police hunt for the mother of a three-year-old boy found alone 11.00 Banged Up Abroad: the story of Vietnam prisoners of war Ernie Brace and John McCain and the friendship they formed by tapping code through the cell walls of Hanoi Hilton prison 12 midnight Road Wars (AD) 1.00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK 4.00—6.00am Highway Patrol
Sony Channel +1 Freesat 152 Sky 257
Pick +1 Freeview 92 Freesat 145 Sky 252
E4 +1 Freeview 28 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146
Sony Channel
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Freeview 48 (limited) Freesat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 6.00am Find My Past (S) (AD) (HD) 7.10 Graham Hill: Driven (S) (AD) 8.00 Royal Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 9.00 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Trains That Changed the World (S) (HD) 1.00pm The Blue Planet: six back-to-back episodes (S) (AD) 7.00 Sounds of the Sixties: four editions 9.00 Secrets of Britain: the history of subterranean London (S) 10.00 World’s Greatest Palaces (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 David Jason: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (S)
12.55am Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (AD) 1.50 CSI: NY (S) 3.50—4.00am Access
(AD) (HD) 12 midnight Impossible Engineering (AD) (HD) 1.00am Royal Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am Graham Hill: Driven (S) (AD)
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
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Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 8.20 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 12.35pm FILM Grounded ★★ Comedy (S) 2.30 FILM The Prince & Me ★★ Romantic comedy (HD) 4.45 FILM George of the Jungle ★★★ Comedy starring Brendan Fraser (S) (HD) 6.40pm FILM The Day after Tomorrow ★★★★ Disaster movie from Independence Day director Roland Emmerich, starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal (HD) 9.00 FILM Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ★★ Fantasy thriller sequel starring Nicolas Cage (S) (HD) 10.55 FILM The Hills Have Eyes ★★★★ Horror (S) (HD) 1.05am FILM Deliver Us from Evil ★★★ Supernatural action horror (HD) 3.25 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 3.55—4.00am Access (HD)
11.20 Set Up ★
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Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access 9.10 Cruising with Jane McDonald 1.00pm Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 3.00 Britain by Bike with Larry and George Lamb 7.00 Our Yorkshire Farm: hill shepherds Amanda and Clive try to harvest the farm’s hay crop during a heatwave 8.00 The Lost City of the Pharaohs: archaeologists search for a settlement built 3,000 years ago by the pharaoh Rameses II. Could the largest magnetic ground survey in Egyptology finally reveal its location? 9.00 The Pillars of the Earth 10.05 WW2 Wrecks: Draining the Ocean 11.05 World War II in Colour
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Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am The Hotel Inspector (HD) 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer (HD) 12 noon Antiques Road Trip (HD) 2.00pm Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (HD) 4.00 Helicopter ER (HD) 8.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (HD) 9.00 Helicopter ER: an off-duty doctor tries to save a truck driver (HD) 10.00 Saving Lives at Sea: crew members in Ireland race to rescue a lone yachtsman (HD) 11.00 New. Random Breath Test: double bill. A behind-the-scenes look at police random breath-test patrols (HD) 12 midnight Help! My House Is Haunted (HD) 1.00am Ghost Adventures (AD) (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (HD)
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Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279 7.00am House Hunters International (HD) 8.00 My Dream Derelict Home (AD) (HD) 9.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb (HD) 3.00 A Place in the Sun (HD) 5.00 River Cottage Australia (HD) 6.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 8.00 Escape to the Country: double bill. Finding a home in rural Perth and Kinross, then a family home on the Kent-East Sussex border (HD) 10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Flog It! (HD) 2.00am Island Life (HD) 3.00—4.00am Nick Knowles’s Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
Quest
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F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 2.00pm NCIS 6.00 NCIS 7.00 Scorpion: double bill 9.00 CSI: Cyber: triple bill. The team tracks down a killer who hacks into online games 10.00 Ryan and Krumitz are taken hostage during an operation 11.00 Ryan’s fingerprints are found at the scene of a murder of one of her former patients 12 midnight NCIS 2.00am Perry Mason 4.00 Texas 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am Deadliest Catch (HD) 7.00 Supercar Superbuild (HD) 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 2.00pm Hunting Hitler (HD) 3.00 Treasure Quest: Snake Island (HD) 4.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 5.00 Goblin Works Garage (HD) 6.00 Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (HD) 7.00 Born Mucky: Life on the Farm: a bull causes problems for Ian as he attempts to grow his cattle herd (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters: Drew Pritchard catches up with a young dealer (HD) 9.00 New. EFL: including Leeds United v Wigan Athletic and West Bromwich Albion v Luton Town (HD) 11.00 Combat Dealers (HD) 12 midnight The Unexplained Files (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 Wheels That Fail (HD) ) 3.00 Destroyed in Seconds 4.00 Goblin Works Garage (HD) 5.00—6.00am Overhaulin’
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
3.00—4.00am Fights, Camera, Action!
CBS Justice
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Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
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Challenge
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Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
7.30am Tomorrow’s World 8.00 Home Shopping 9.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (HD) 2.00pm Medical Detectives (HD) 4.00 Judge Judy: ten back-to-back editions 9.00 Psychic Private Eyes: mediums assist Tom Walker to identify his grandfather, who is believed to have been shipped to France 10.00 Medium: double bill. Allison suspects she has committed a terrible crime, then she investigates a youngster’s disappearance 12 midnight Medium 3.00—6.00am Judge Judy
7.00am Wheel of Fortune (AD) 9.30 Catchphrase (AD) 12 noon Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 2.30pm Family Fortunes 5.00 Bruce Forsyth’s Play Your Cards Right: game show in which genial host Bruce Forsyth offers contestants the chance to win big cash prizes on the turn of a card 6.00 Take Your Pick: Des O’Connor hosts the game show 7.00 Strike It Lucky 8.00 Bullseye 9.00 The Chase 2.00—6.00am The Chase USA (AD)
Horror Channel
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Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
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Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
8.00am FILM 6-Headed Shark Attack ★★ Comedy action adventure 9.50 Highlights 10.00 Mutant X 3.00pm FILM Descent ★★ Sci-fi disaster movie 4.50 FILM Lava Storm ★★ Disaster 6.35 Highlights 6.45 FILM End of the World ★★ Sci-fi comedy drama starring Neil Grayston 8.30 Tales from the Darkside 9.00 FILM John Carpenter’s Vampires ★★★ Horror starring James Woods 11.05 FILM Terrifier ★★★ Horror starring Jenna Kanell 12.45am FILM White Settlers ★★ Horror thriller starring Pollyanna McIntosh 2.25—4.30am FILM Communion ★★ Sci-fi thriller
10.15am Scottish First Minister’s Questions 11.00 Scottish Parliament 3.30pm Welsh First Minister’s Questions: queries in the Welsh Assembly 4.15 Welsh Assembly: recorded coverage 6.00 Political Highlights: recorded coverage of political and parliamentary highlights 8.45 BOOKtalk: discussion of political publications 9.00 Briefings: key speeches and news briefings 11.00 Eòrpa 11.30—6.00am Political Highlights: recorded coverage of political and parliamentary highlights
Wine
Saturday Television
F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (S) (HD) 12 noon Location, Location, Location (S) (HD) 2.05pm Escape to the Château (S) (AD) (HD)
A Walk Among the Tombstones 9.00pm Matt (right) seeks revenge
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SATURDAY Satellite & cable
Mission: Impossible 2 9.00pm
Maria Full of Grace 9.00pm
Blue Bloods 8.00pm Danny
Nyah needs Ethan’s help
A teenager makes a deal
investigates an acid attack
Television Saturday
Sky 1
Sky Atlantic
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All Round to Mrs Brown’s 9.00pm Lulu pops in for a chat
Gold
Sky 106 Virgin 110 HD Virgin 109
Sky 108
Sky 107 Virgin 112 HD Virgin 111
Sky 109 Virgin 125 BT 311 HD Virgin 211 BT 383
Sky 110 Virgin 124 BT 310
6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 10.30 New. Soccer AM (HD) 12 noon Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 3.00pm New. Soccer Saturday (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons: two episodes (S) (HD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Homer plays matchmaker for Selma. 6.30 Homer traces his half-brother. 7.00 Grampa falls in love with a woman at the rest home. (S) (HD) 7.30 Modern Family Ep 3 Series 11 Phil, Claire, Alex and Luke decide to give Haley the day off. (HD) 8.00 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip Ep 4 Series 2. With Patrice Evra. (HD) 9.00 Mission: Impossible 2 ★★★★ Action spy thriller sequel starring Tom Cruise. Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt is on the trail of former colleague-gone-bad Sean Ambrose. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 11.20 New. The Road to Fast 9: Concert Cardi B, Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth, Ozuna and Ludacris perform at the event in Miami. (HD) 12.20am The Russell Howard Hour (HD) 1.25 Magnum P.I. (HD) 2.25 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 3.25—6.00am Motorway Patrol: five back-to-back editions (S) (AD)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (HD) 1.00pm Without a Trace: five episodes (S) (HD) 6.00pm Without a Trace 8/24 Series 7. Jack and Samantha travel to LA to investigate a man who vanished after attending a funeral. 7.00 9/24. A doctor disappears after helping a patient. 8.00 10/24. The disappearance of a weatherman is probed. (S) (HD) 9.00 Maria Full of Grace ★★★ Drama starring Catalina Sandino Moreno. A pregnant teenager arrives in the Colombian capital and agrees to work as a drug mule for a gang smuggling heroin into New York. Spanish, English +subtitles. (W) (HD) 10.55 Band of Brothers 9/10 Easy Company makes the grim discovery of a concentration camp as they enter Germany. (S) (HD) 12.10am 10/10. The men of Easy Company overrun Hitler’s Bavarian fortress retreat while awaiting news of their impending deployment to the Pacific. (S) (HD) 1.25 Nurse Jackie (S) (HD) 2.00 New. The New Pope: two episodes (HD) 4.20—6.00am The British: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00am Border Security: Australia’s Front Line (S) (HD) 8.00 The Real A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Sun, Sea and A&E (S) 11.00 Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD) 2.00pm Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 6.00pm Nothing to Declare A suspected drug smuggler undergoes an ultrasound. (S) (AD) 6.30 A teacher fails to declare more than $10,000 in cash. (S) (AD) 7.00 Blue Bloods 15/22 Series 2 Danny vows to avenge a colleague’s death. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 16/22. Danny and Jackie investigate an attempted acid attack on a reporter. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 8/22 Series 21 Benson helps the victims of drugging and assault separate hallucinations from memories. 10.00 19/24 Series 14. The SVU must thwart a psychopathic boy with homicidal tendencies. 11.00 20/24. The SVU investigates a sexual assault at a university. 12 midnight 21/24. A girl is assaulted at a concert, and the best witness is a Gulf War veteran. (HD) 1.00am Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 9-1-1 (S) (HD) 4.00 Madam Secretary (HD) 5.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare (HD)
6.10am The Bill (S) (HD) 11.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 6.00pm Tipping Point Game show with Ben Shephard. (S) (HD) 7.00 Inside the Ambulance A taxi flips over with two passengers trapped inside. (S) (HD) 8.00 A young boy raises the alarm after his mother collapses. (S) (HD) 9.00 The Shift: Women on the Force PC Becci deals with the fall out of a drink-drive case, while in Keighley, PC Laura is called out by neighbours concerned about the welfare of a pensioner. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 999 Rescue Squad A major fire breaks out in a haulage depot and an accident at an off-road biking site leads to a rider needing urgent treatment. (S) (HD) 11.00 Louis Theroux: America’s Medicated Kids Louis visits one of America’s leading children’s psychiatric treatment centres in Pittsburgh, to discover what drives parents to treat their youngsters with drugs. (S) (AD) 12 midnight One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 1.50 American Housewife (S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD)
7.10am The Piglet Files 7.35 2 Point 4 Children (S) 8.10 Open All Hours (S) 8.50 Porridge (S) 9.25 Keeping Up Appearances (S) 10.05 The Good Life (S) (AD) 10.45 Only Fools and Horses (S) (AD) 6.20pm Only Fools and Horses Del gets his hands on a statue of a Hindu god — which plunges him into the middle of an age-old feud. 7.00 One of Del’s old flames turns up out of the blue. 7.40 Rodney finds a girlfriend, but unfortunately she is old enough to be his mother. 8.20 Del acquires a nuclear fallout shelter, so he, Rodney and Grandad make sure they know what to do if the Russians attack. (S) (AD) 9.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s Agnes is joined by Lulu, Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. (HD) 10.20 The Mighty Boosh Howard and Vince go fishing. (S) (AD) 11.00 The duo get marooned. (S) (AD) 11.40 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow With Sarah Millican, Simon Evans, Jimeoin and Imran Yusuf. (S) (HD) 12.40am Black Books (S) 2.15 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (S) (HD) 3.05—4.00am The Mighty Boosh (S) (AD)
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
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Sky Arts Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am Celtic Woman: Emerald (S) (HD) 7.30 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 10.00 Discovering: Ernest Borgnine (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Discovering: Albert Finney (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Gene Hackman (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Discovering: Omar Sharif (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Discovering: Telly Savalas (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Gary Cooper: the Irresistible (S) (HD) 4.00 Portrait Artist of the Year (HD) 5.00 I Am Steve McQueen (S) (HD) 7.00pm Live from the Artists Den Alanis Morissette delivers a set including Ironic, You Learn and Thank U at the Judson Memorial Church in New York. (S) (HD) 8.00 Johnny Cash: behind Prison Walls The country star’s concert at the Tennessee State Prison, Nashville, in 1977. (HD) 9.00 Heartworn Highways Documentary released in 1981 about the outlaw country music movement, including Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, Rodney Crowell, Gamble Rogers and Steve Young. (S) (HD) 10.45 Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes The original members of the band reflect on how they pioneered the British folk-rock movement. (S) (HD) 12.15am Donovan and the Beatles in India (S) (HD) 1.15 Joan Baez: Live in New York (S) (HD) 3.05 Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (S) (HD) 4.00—6.00am The Seventies (S) (AD) (HD)
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Sky Crime Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) 7.00 Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 11.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 3.00pm Brit Cops: Law & Disorder 6.00 Snapped (S) 8.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation: Mary Bell killed two boys aged three and four in 1968, when she herself was a child (S) (AD) 9.00 World’s Most Evil Killers: Dennis Rader murdered ten people near Wichita in Kansas area over 17 years (S) 10.00 Smiley Face Killers: the Hunt for Justice: double bill. Six murders linked by graffiti, then the drowning of a basketball player 12.15am Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 4.15 UK Border Force (S) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)
Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: Atlanta 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: Atlanta 1.00pm Speeders 6.00 Speeders: six editions. A San Jose mother is lost for words when she is pulled over, and two pet groomers are stopped 6.30 A New Jersey mother re-enacts the moment officers stopped her 7.00 A driver heads in the wrong direction down a one-way street 7.30 Two lawyers cause problems for an officer 8.00 as 6pm 8.30 as 6.30pm 9.00 Bait Car: Atlanta: revealing how the police catch car thieves in the act 11.00 Speeders 12 midnight Bait Car: LA 1.00am Speeders 3.00 Bait Car: Atlanta 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car: LA
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
60
Sky Witness
The Shift: Women on the Force 9.00pm Laura Gargett
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am Four Weddings (S) (AD) 10.00 Babylon 5 (S) 3.00pm Stargate SG-1 (S) 8.00 Magnum P.I.: Katsumoto hunts for an escaped killer who is heading for a Halloween party 9.00 Cobra: Sutherland, Anna, Fraser and their teams head to Northumberland to see the situation on the ground (S) 10.00 Avenue 5: Ryan learns that an engineer has an optimistic theory about the ship’s future 10.35 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip: Andrew Flintoff, Jamie Redknapp and Tom Davis are joined by Patrice Evra 11.30 SEAL Team 12.30am Hawaii Five-0 (S) 1.30 NCIS: Los Angeles 2.30 Jett (S) 3.45 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD) 4.50—6.00am RSPCA Animal Rescue (S)
Syfy
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.30 The Mindy Project 1.00pm 30 Rock (HD) 8.30 Miracle Workers: comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe (HD) 9.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry takes on a major project to spite a new adversary (HD) 9.40 Ballers: an offer comes Spencer’s way and sends him back into the lion’s den (HD) 10.15 Sex and the City: Charlotte models for a famous painter (HD) 10.50 New. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: chat show featuring guests from the world of showbusiness (HD) 11.50 RT CHOICE Veep: double bill of the political satire. See page 55 (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Sex and the City (HD) 3.55—5.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD)
TLC
Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am FILM 2012: Ice Age ★★ 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 FILM Arctic Apocalypse ★★ 12.50pm FILM Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ★★ 3.00 FILM Lara Croft, Tomb Raider: the Cradle of Life ★ 5.10 FILM Grimm’s Snow White ★★ 7.00 Marvel’s Runaways 8.00 Blood & Treasure: the FBI offers Danny and Lexi information 9.00 FILM xXx ★★★ Spy action thriller starring Vin Diesel 11.30 FILM Twelve Monkeys ★★★★ Futuristic thriller starring Bruce Willis and Madeleine Stowe 2.00am FILM 5-Headed Shark Attack ★ 4.00—
Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377 6.00am Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Curvy Brides Boutique (AD) (HD) 3.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 5.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK (HD) 7.00 Say Yes to the Dress America (HD) 8.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 9.00 My Baby Has Two Heads: Body Bizarre (HD) 10.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 11.00 Say Yes to the Dress America (HD) 12 midnight
6.00am Mythica: a Quest for Heroes
Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 1.00am My Baby Has Two Heads: Body Bizarre (HD) 2.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 3.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 5.00—6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (AD) (HD)
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 FILM Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked ★★ Part-animated comedy adventure starring Jason Lee 12 noon My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 3.00pm Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 FILM Airplane! 5 Quickfire disaster-movie spoof from 1980, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen 11.00 FILM Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ★★★★ Satirical comedy with Sacha Baron Cohen 1.00am South Park (S) (HD) 3.25 My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 4.15—5.00am Impractical Jokers (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy (HD) 1.00pm Love at First Flight (HD) 3.00 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (HD) 7.00 Marrying Millions: double bill. Kate grapples with doubts about Shawn, then Sean and Megan’s wedding is jeopardised by Sean’s father (HD) 9.00 New. Ghost Hunters: Grant Wilson looks at the search for paranormal activity 10.00 Celebrity Ghost Hunters UK: with Terri Dwyer, Tina Malone, Jilly Goolden and John McCririck (HD) 11.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Hunters 1.00am Celebrity Ghost Hunters UK (HD) 2.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hardcore Pawn (HD)
Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY CHILDREN’S Milkshake! on C5 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p58
Death in Paradise 7.00pm
The Mentalist 6.00pm Lisbon
Mary (Wendy Craig) visits
and Jane speak to a sheriff
Alibi
Fox
Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car 8.00pm A TVR Cerbera
Discovery
Regimental Stories 8.10pm
The Coldstream Guards
PBS America
91
Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view 91 (1–11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 8.00 Miss Marple (S) (AD) 11.00 Death in Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00pm Miss Marple A couple wake up to find a strangled corpse on the hearthrug in their library, and turn to Miss Marple to investigate. Joan Hickson stars. (S) (AD) 7.00pm Death in Paradise 5/8 Series 5. When Humphrey’s Aunt Mary pays a visit, she finds herself the only witness to the death of another tourist. JP is left confused after seeking romantic advice from Dwayne. 8.20 5/8 Series 2. Camille’s best friend collapses during a night of music and cocktails on a party boat, prompting the team to question the tourists on board. 9.40 6/8. An English tourist is strangled in her villa by a killer using the victim’s scarf. The crime scene indicates a robbery gone wrong, but DI Poole recalls an identical case back in London. 11.00 7/8. The team is called to investigate the death of a meteorologist, but with a hurricane fast approaching, there is little time to uncover the truth. Mathew Horne guest-stars. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20—4.00am Miss Marple: a body is found in a library (S) (AD)
8.00am Bull (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 11.00 The Mentalist (HD) 12 noon NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Bones (HD) 2.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 The Mentalist (HD) 4.00 Bones (HD) 5.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm The Mentalist 3/22 Series 6. A dead body is found in a pond close to a chapel that was to be used as a wedding venue. (HD) 7.00 NCIS 22/24 Series 14 A mounted police officer helps the team to discover why a US marine died in a national park. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 23/24. Delilah is rushed to hospital when the stress of planning her wedding becomes too much for her. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The Fix 9/10. Sevvy offers a multimillion dollar reward. (HD) 10.00 American Dad! Series 12 An apocalyptic event reduces Langley Falls to a wasteland. (HD) 10.30 Steve and Snot plan a party for fellow social misfits. (HD) 11.00 Family Guy Series 10. Ryan Reynolds arrives in Quahog. (HD) 11.30 Brian and Stewie revisit the pilot episode of the comedy. (HD) 12 midnight American Dad! (HD) 1.00am Family Guy (HD) 2.00 American Dad! (HD) 3.00 Family Guy (HD) 4.00—5.00am Bull (HD)
6.00am Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (S) (HD) 12 noon Unexplained and Unexplored: six editions (HD) 6.00pm Gold Rush: White Water Dustin and his crew take a gamble on a spot above the raging McKinley falls. (HD) 7.00 Gold Rush The mining season is nearly over, and Rick Ness and his crew are making up for lost time. (HD) 8.00 Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car Mike Brewer and Marc Priestley trade up to a British muscle car, the TVR Cerbera. (HD) 9.00 Richard Hammond’s Big Richard explores the vast Kölnbrein Dam in Austria. (HD) 10.00 Disasters Engineered Experts examine the sinking of the Titanic and the Hindenburg airship fire, to see if the disasters could have been avoided. (HD) 11.00 Mighty Ships The cable-laying Stemat Spirit. (S) (HD) 12 midnight Richard Hammond’s Big (HD) 1.00am Expedition Bigfoot (HD) 2.00 Kindig Customs (S) (HD) 3.00 Richard Hammond’s Big (HD) 3.50 Expedition Bigfoot (HD) 4.40 Alaska: the Last Frontier (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Jet Set 8.30 Regimental Stories 11.50 This Is Greece 5.35pm Regimental Stories The Royal Welsh victory at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in South Africa. 6.10 The story of the Parachute Regiment, originally formed to spearhead the liberation of Europe during the Second World War. 6.50 The history of the Royal Tank Regiment, from its groundbreaking achievements during the First World War to the present day. 7.30 The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, an amalgamation of three regiments whose lineage can be traced back to the 17th century. 8.10 The Coldstream Guards, a regiment formed to fight the monarchy during the English Civil War, but which now functions as the Queen’s bodyguard. 8.50 Hiroshima 1/2. Dramatised documentary investigating the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, including personal testimonies from survivors and the man who led the mission. 9.55 2/2. Conclusion of the dramatised documentary, starring Edward Teller and Clark Clifford. 11.00 As 8.50pm. 12 midnight As 9.55pm. 1.05—2.00am Jet Set
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Doing Da Vinci 8.00 Expedition Unknown 10.00 World War II: the Complete History 3.00pm Doing Da Vinci 5.00pm Expedition Unknown Josh Gates travels to the remote and landmine-riddled jungles of Cambodia to investigate the lost city of the Khmer Empire. 6.00 Josh Gates journeys in search of the legendary golden loot of Jesse James. 7.00 Hard To Kill Tim Kennedy travels to California to learn how to be a bomb technician. 8.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files Nasa redirects a probe on a mission to find proof of life. 9.00 Ghost Asylum The team hunts for the spirits of pirates and a headless horseman. 10.00 Close Encounters Two cops out on patrol chase an unidentified object through Ohio. 10.30 A wave of reported UFO sightings in the Brazilian city of Colares which caused mass panic. 11.00 World War II in Colour How the course of the conflict was affected by Nazi U-boats’ efforts to sever transatlantic supply lines. 12 midnight Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, during which the German forces met their match. 1.00am Frontline Battle Machines with Mike Brewer 2.00—6.00am Secrets of the Arsenal Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
History
Nat Geographic
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am Forged in Fire (HD) 7.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 8.00 Brunel: the Man Who Built Britain (HD) 10.00 American Pickers (HD) 11.00 In Search Of 12 noon Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00pm New. Truck Off!: a 1986 Suzuki Samurai and a 2008 Lexus are among trucks going head to head (HD) 7.00 Forged in Fire: double bill. Seven losing competitors return for a second shot at glory, then the four qualifiers compete for a chance to become champion (HD) 9.00 Sniper: Into the Kill Zone: extraordinary feats of marksmanship, including gripping acounts of the longest shots and deadliest ambushes from Vietnam t o Iraq(HD) 11.00 Ancient Aliens: examining whether past plagues have been brought to Earth by aliens (HD) 12 midnight—6.00am Pawn Stars (HD)
8.00am Superstorm New York: What Really Happened (HD) 9.00 Tornado Destruction: Caught on Camera (HD) 10.00 The Next Mega Tsunami (HD) 11.00 Witness to Disaster (HD) 1.00pm Air Crash Investigation (HD) 4.00 Sinkholes: Swallowed Alive (HD) 5.00 World’s Worst Natural Disasters (HD) 6.00pm Worst Weather Ever? (HD) 8.00 Killer Tornado USA: Caught on Camera (HD) 9.00 Air Crash Investigation: triple bill. The destruction of American Eagle Flight 41-84 near Roselawn, Indiana, in 1994 10.00 A plane crippled while flying into the heart of Hurricane Hugo 11.00 Korean Air Flight 801 in 1997 (HD) 12 midnight Air Crash Investigation: two further editions 2.00—5.00am Seconds from Disaster (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD) 7.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 4.00pm Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 7.00 Cuba’s Secret Shark Lair (S) (HD) 8.00 New. Lone Star Law: Boone receives an anonymous tip-off about a hunter who illegally shot a deer (HD) 9.00 I Survived an Animal Attack: stories of individuals who have been viciously attacked by wild animals and lived to tell the tale (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Mountain Monsters: the hunters track down one of the mysterious cloaked figures at the heart of the Spearfinger mystery (HD) 11.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 12 midnight Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD) 1.00am Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 4.40 How Do Animals Do That (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am The Zoo (HD) 11.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD) 12 noon Alaska: Earth’s Frozen Kingdom (AD) (HD) 3.00pm The Zoo (HD) 5.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD) 6.00 Alaska: Earth’s Frozen Kingdom: triple bill. A year in the life of the American state, beginning with spring 7.00 Summer arrives and grizzly bears fatten up on a sudden wealth of salmon 8.00 The challenges faced by the state’s tough and resourceful animal and human inhabitants in winter (AD) (HD) 9.00 The Zoo (HD) 11.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Alaska: Earth’s Frozen Kingdom (AD) (HD) 5.30—6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Smithsonian
57
F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am Seriously Amazing Objects 7.00 Air Warriors (HD) 8.00 Secret City of WWI (HD) 9.00 Aerial America (HD) 10.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 11.00 Mystic Britain (HD) 12 noon Seriously Amazing Objects 1.00pm Air Warriors (HD) 2.00 Secret City of WWI (HD) 3.00 Aerial America (HD) 4.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 6.00pm America in Colour: the 1920s The Jazz Age and the bombing of Wall Street. (HD) 7.00 America in Colour: the 1930s Defining moments, including the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and the New Deal. (HD) 8.00 America in Colour: the 1940s A look at the decade’s most significant moments. (HD) 9.00 America in Colour: the 1950s The years in which Elvis Presley became a phenomenon and the Space Race took off. (HD) 10.00 New. Seizing Justice: the Greensboro 4 Four students whose non-violent protest started a revolution in the battle to end racial segregation in America. 11.00 America in Colour: the 1920s As 6pm. 12 midnight America in Colour: the 1930s (HD) 1.00am America in Colour: the 1940s (HD) 2.00 America in Colour: the 1950s (HD) 3.00 Seizing Justice: the Greensboro 4 4.00—6.00am Smithsonian Time Capsule
Money
CBeebies
202
Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Show Me Show Me 6.25 Twirlywoos 6.35 Teletubbies 6.50 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Postman Pat: SDS 7.15 Bing: double bill 7.35 Hey Duggee: double bill 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.25 Bitz & Bob 8.35 The Furchester Hotel 8.45 Biggleton 9.00 Something Special 9.20 What’s the Big Idea? 9.25 CBeebies Thumbelina 10.15 New. YolanDa’s Band Jam 10.30 Swashbuckle 10.50 Andy’s Safari Adventures 11.05 Grace’s Amazing Machines 11.20 Waffle the Wonder Dog 11.35 Topsy and Tim: double bill 11.55 Olobob Top 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Katie Morag 12.30 Sarah & Duck 12.40 Down on the Farm 1.00 Where in the World? 1.15 Our Family 1.25 What’s the Big Idea? 1.30 My Pet and Me 1.45 Woolly & Tig 1.50 Melody 2.00 Something Special 2.15 Andy’s Baby Animals 2.25 Junk Rescue 2.40 Grace’s Amazing Machines 2.55 Bitz & Bob 3.10 CBeebies A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4.00 Sarah & Duck 4.10 The Baby Club 4.25 Magic Hands 4.35 Treasure Champs 4.50 Tinga Tinga Tales: animated African folk tales 5.00 GiggleQuiz 5.15 Apple Tree House 5.30 Katie Morag: Adventures with the feisty seven-year-old who lives on a Scottish island 5.45 Sarah & Duck 5.50 Charlie and Lola 6.00 Tee and Mo 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: a tale is read for younger viewers before bed
CBBC
Saturday Television
Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
6.00am Peppa Pig 6.20 Ben and Holly 6.35 Bob the Builder 6.45 Thomas & Friends 6.55 Fireman Sam 7.10 Noddy: Toyland Detective 7.20 New. Shane the Chef 7.35 Ben and Holly 7.50 Peppa Pig: double bill 8.05 Butterbean’s Cafe 8.25 Paw Patrol 8.40 New. Nella the Princess Knight: Trinket loses her voice 8.55 Wissper 9.05 New. Pirata & Capitano 9.15 Floogals 9.30 Digby Dragon 9.40—9.55am Shimmer and Shine
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F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am Run Wild, Run Free ★★★ Watchable family drama starring John Mills, Mark Lester and Gordon Jackson. (1969, U) (S) 1.05pm The Boxtrolls ★★★ Appealing animated adventure. Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-
Sky Oscars
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am Billionaire Boys Club As 6pm 8.00 As 3.45pm 9.45 Radioflash ★★ Thriller. (2019) 11.45 The Favourite As 8pm 2.00pm i Escape Plan 3 As 10.10pm 3.45 Dolittle Special 4.00 Eighth Grade ★★★★ Comedy drama. Elsie Fisher (2018, 15) 5.45 Joker preview
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 7.00am Babe ★★★★ Fantasy comedy. James Cromwell (1995, U) 8.40 First Man ★★★★ Space drama. Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy (2018, 12) 11.10 The Blind Side ★★★★ Sports drama based on a true story. Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron (2009, 12) 1.30pm Argo 5 Thriller. Ben Affleck (2012, 15)
6.00pm Billionaire Boys Club ★★ Flashy tale of a financial scam. Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey (2017) 8.00 The Favourite 5 Olivia Colman won an Oscar for her performance in this superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne from Yorgos Lanthimas. Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15) 10.10 i Escape Plan 3 ★★ Brutal action thriller. Review left. Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista (2019, 15)
3.40pm The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne. Olivia Colman,
Wright, Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, Toni Collette (2014, PG) (S)
2.55 Rise of the Guardians ★★★★ Beautifully rendered animated adventure. Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman (2012, PG) (S)
4.50pm Eragon ★★ A boy becomes a “dragon rider” in this fantasy adventure.
Television Saturday
Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle (2006, PG) (AD)
Studio Ghibli heaven My Neighbour Totoro 1111 Netflix It’s a great day for fans of beloved Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Netflix has acquired 21 Ghibli films, with the first seven arriving on the platform today and the rest to follow in March and April. Among the first batch are Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso, Laputa: Castle in the Sky and Hayao Miyazaki’s charming, 1950s-set My Neighbour Totoro, about the fantastical adventures of two young girls. Pity those anime aficionados in North America, though; the Ghibli-fest won’t be appearing on Netflix there. ELLIE PORTER
6.55 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ★★★ Fast, fun and family-friendly action adventure. Megan Fox, Will Arnett (2014, 12) (S) (AD) 9.00 The Hitman’s Bodyguard ★★★★ Ryan Reynolds has to deliver hired killer Samuel L Jackson to court in this buddy movie that’s packed with gags and thrills. Review p41. Gary Oldman (2017, 15) (S) (AD) 11.20 i Lowlife ★★★ Violent and blackly comic drama. Mark Burnham (2017, 18) (S) 1.15—3.35am Hyena ★★★ Moody British crime thriller. Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham (2014, 18) (S) Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am A Deadly Obsession ★★ Drama. (2011) 10.45 Deadly Honeymoon ★★ Mystery. (2009) 12.30pm The Jane Austen Book Club ★★★ Comedy drama. Review p41. (2007, 12) 2.30 How Do You Know ★★ Comedy drama. (2010, 12) 4.50 Six Days Seven Nights ★★★ Comedy adventure. Harrison Ford (1998, 12) 6.55pm Signs ★★★ Atmospheric sci-fi thriller. Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones (2002, 12) 9.00 Shutter Island ★★★ Stylish and atmospheric mystery. Leonardo DiCaprio (2009, 15) 11.40 Vanilla Sky ★★ Glossy romantic fantasy thriller. Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz (2001, 15) 2.20am Only God Forgives ★★★★ Crime thriller. Ryan Gosling (2012, 18) 4.10—6.00am Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
Prisoners of snore p Escape Plan 3 11 10.10pm Sky Premiere
The first Escape Plan was a solid, enjoyable action thriller, but its first sequel was so poor that star Sylvester Stallone condemned it on social media. Part three is a slight improvement, with Stallone’s prison security expert on a mission to rescue hostages from a man with a grudge against him. Sly gets far less screen time than you might expect, while co-star Dave Bautista gets even less. The fights are refreshingly brutal, but the story doesn’t hold the attention. Stallone clearly deserves better. STEPHEN CARTY
Comedy with teeth What We Do in the Shadows 1111 BBC iPlayer FREE TO VIEW Jemaine Clement and JoJo Rabbit’s Taika Waititi co-direct and star in this delightfully deadpan spoof about a bunch of house-sharing Kiwi vampires. The film leaves iPlayer at the end of the weekend, but you can still enjoy its TV spin-off on the platform — and a second series is in the works. LUCY BARRICK Film reviews for the week ahead begin on page 41 For more on-demand availability, see Discover TV on page 52
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F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am On Dangerous Ground ★★★ Drama. (1951, PG) 7.35 Berlin Express ★★★ Thriller. (1948) 9.20 Footsteps in the Fog ★★★ Thriller. (1955, U) 11.10 Barbary Coast ★★★ Drama. (1935, PG) 1.00pm Affairs of a Rogue ★★★ Drama. Jean-Pierre Aumont (1948) 2.55 What a Carve Up! ★★★ Comedy horror. Kenneth Connor (1961, U) 4.45 Road to Morocco ★★★★ Musical comedy. Bing Crosby (1942, U) 6.30pm The Devil at Four o’Clock ★★★ Watchable hokum. Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra (1961, PG) 9.00 The Big Chill ★★★★ Wise and witty drama. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt (1983, 15) 11.10 My Stepmother Is an Alien ★★★ Sci-fi comedy. (1988, 15) 1.15am Texas Adios ★★★ Western. (1966, 12) 3.00 Machine Gun Kelly ★★★ Drama. (1958, 12) 4.25—6.00am Long John Silver ★★ Adventure. (1954, U) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
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Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.00am Frontier Days ★★★ Western. (1934) 7.10 Diamond City ★★ Drama. (1949, PG) (S) 8.55 Demobbed ★ Comedy. (1944, U) (S) 10.45 Assignment Redhead ★ Drama. (1956, PG) (S) 12.20pm Devil Girl from Mars ★★ Sci-fi drama. (1954, U) (S) 1.55 Personal Affair ★★ Crime drama. Gene Tierney (1953, U) 3.45 Home at Seven ★★★ Mystery. Ralph Richardson (1952, U) 5.30pm A Canterbury Tale ★★★★ Strange and marvellous drama. Review p41. (1944, U) 8.05 Nor the Moon by Night ★★ Melodrama. Belinda Lee, Michael Craig (1958, 12) 10.05 And Soon the Darkness ★★★ Atmospheric British chiller. Pamela Franklin (1970, 15) 12.05am Seven Nights in Japan ★ Romantic drama. Michael York (1976, PG) 2.10 The Family Way ★★★★ Comedy drama. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett (1966, 15) 4.25—6.00am While I Live ★★ Drama. Sonia Dresdel (1947, PG) (S)
12 midnight Escape Room ★★★ Horror thriller. Taylor Russell (2019, 15) 1.45am Beats ★★★★ Comedy drama. Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald (2019, 18) 3.30 As 9.45am 5.30 1917 Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
Sky Megahits
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15)
5.50 Braveheart ★★★★ Rousing, bloodthirsty historical drama. Mel Gibson , Sophie Marceau (1995, 15) 9.00 Saving Private Ryan ★★★★ Strongly acted Second World War drama, following soldiers during the D-Day landings. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns (1998, 15)
12 midnight Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri 5 Gripping crime drama. Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish (2017, 15) 2.00am Braveheart
As 5.50pm 5.00 Babe As 7am
Sky Greats
Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 6.00am Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ★★★★ (2001, PG) 8.35 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ★★★★ (2002, PG) 11.20 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ★★★★ (2004, PG) 1.45pm Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ★★★★ (2005, 12)
Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 6.50am Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life ★★★ (1983, 18) 8.45 Remember the Titans ★★★ (2000, PG) 10.45 Rio Grande 5 (1950, U) 12.35pm The Quiet Man 5 Comedy drama. (1952, U) 2.50 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 5 Western. James Stewart (1962, U)
4.25pm Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ★★★★ Lord Voldemort re-emerges. Daniel
5.00pm Twins ★★★★ Nonetoo-subtle but fun comedy. Arnold
Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson (2007, 12)
7.00 Grease ★★★★ Hugely enjoyable musical. John Travolta,
6.45 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ★★★★ The forces of evil grow stronger. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson (2009, 12)
Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito (1988, PG)
Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing (1978, PG)
9.00 Die Hard 5 Gripping, no-holds-barred action thriller.
9.30 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 ★★★ Harry, Ron and Hermione are on the run. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint (2010, 12)
George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn (1992, 18)
12 midnight Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 5 Harry and Voldemort clash for the final time. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint (2011, 12) 2.15am As 4.25pm 4.35 As 11.20am
1.30am Mad Max 5 Futuristic action adventure. Mel Gibson (1979, 18) 3.10 Bugsy ★★★★ Crime drama. Warren Beatty, Annette Bening (1991, 18) 5.30 K-19: the Widowmaker ★★ Action thriller. Harrison Ford (2002, 12)
Sky Action
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia (1988, 15)
11.15 Basic Instinct ★★★ Slick erotic thriller. Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone,
Sky Comedy
Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 6.00am As 6.10pm 8.00 As 9pm 10.00 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift As 10.50pm 11.50 Fast & Furious ★★ Thriller. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (2009, 12) 1.40pm Fast Five ★★★★ Action thriller. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (2011, 12) 3.55 Fast & Furious 6 ★★ Thriller. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (2013, 12)
Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.05am Dusty and Me ★★★ Comedy. Luke Newberry (2016, 12) 7.50 As 7.10pm 9.40 As 11pm 11.45 Beethoven ★★★★ Comedy. Charles Grodin (1992, U) 1.15pm King Ralph ★★ Comedy. John Goodman (1991, PG) 3.00 The Object of My Affection ★★ Romance. Jennifer Aniston (1998, 15)
6.10pm The Fast and the Furious ★★★★ A cop goes under cover in LA’s street-racing scene.
5.05pm What Men Want ★★★ It’s a man’s world for Taraji P Henson in this gender-swapping comedy. Aldis Hodge, Josh Brener (2019, 15) 7.10 Game Night ★★★ A murdermystery game gets out of control. Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams (2018, 15) 9.00 The 40 Year Old Virgin ★★★ A sexually inexperienced middle-aged man’s workmates decide to help him to lose his virginity. Steve Carell, Catherine Keener (2005, 15)
Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez (2001, 15)
8.00 The Road to Fast 9: Concert Movie promotion event. 9.00 2 Fast 2 Furious ★★★ Disgraced cop Paul Walker goes under cover in Miami. (2003, 12) 10.50 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ★★★ Lucas Black takes the lead role. (2006, 12) 12.35am Fast & Furious As 11.50am 2.25 Fast Five As 1.40pm 4.40 Volcano: Fire on the Mountain ★★ Disaster thriller. Dan Cortese, Cynthia Gibb, Don Davis (1997)
11.00pm Sorry to Bother You ★★★ Fantasy. Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson (2018, 15) 1.00am Sex Tape ★★ Comedy. Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel (2014, 15) 2.40 Old Boys ★★★ Comedy. Alex Lawther (2017, 12) 4.20 As 1.15pm
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Disney
Sky
Adventure
Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.35am As 2.20pm 8.25 101 Dalmatians ★★★ Comedy. Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, (1996, U) 10.15 As 8pm 12.20pm A Wrinkle in Time As 10pm 2.20 Bedtime Stories ★★★ Fantasy. Adam Sandler, Keri Russell (2008, PG) 4.10 Enchanted ★★★★ Fantasy. Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey (2007, PG)
6.25pm Aladdin 5 Robin Williams steals the show as the voice of the Genie. Scott Weinger, Linda
6.00pm Jumanji ★★★★ Two children free Robin Williams and a host of marauding wildlife from a sinister board game. (1995, PG) 7.45 Dolittle Special 8.00 The Kid Who Would Be King ★★★ A bullied schoolboy discovers he is King Arthur’s heir.
Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker (1992, U)
8.00 Mary Poppins 5 Two children find their lives transformed by a magical nanny. Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson (1964, U)
10.25 The Little Mermaid 5 Delightful fish-out-ofwater adventure, with showstopping songs. Jodi Benson (1989, U) 11.55pm Beauty and the Beast 5 Fairy tale. (1991, U) 1.30am The Muppet Movie ★★★★ Comedy. (1979, U) 3.15 Muppet Treasure Island ★★★★ (1996, U) 5.05 The Aristocats ★★★★ (1970, U)
Sky Thriller
Louis Ashbourne Serkis (2018, PG)
10.00 A Wrinkle in Time ★★ A young girl embarks on a multidimensional quest. Oprah Winfrey (2018, PG) 11.55pm Pete’s Dragon ★★ Cute fantasy. Helen Reddy, Jim Dale (1977, U) 1.50am The Mask of Zorro ★★★★ Action adventure. Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins (1998, PG)
4.15 101 Dalmatians As 8.25am
Sky
Drama
Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 7.05am Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri 5 Drama. Frances McDormand (2017, 15) 9.05 Ocean’s 8 ★★★ Caper. (2017, 12) 11.00 Gran Torino ★★★ Drama. (2008, 15) 1.00pm The Sisters Brothers ★★★★ Western. John C Reilly (2018, 15) 3.05 Sweet Country ★★ Adventure. (2017, 15)
Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510 6.30am The Senator As 10.25pm 8.30 Jellyfish ★★★ Drama. Liv Hill (2018, 15) 10.25 The Breakfast Club As 6.10pm 12.15pm Evita As 8pm 2.40 3 Generations ★★ Drama. Elle Fanning, Naomi Watts (2015, 12) 4.25 Stand by Me 5 Coming-ofage drama. Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix (1986, 15)
5.05pm Rust Creek ★★★ A student stranded in a forest is hunted by ruthless criminals.
6.10pm The Breakfast Club ★★★★ Five teens form unlikely friendships during a detention.
Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson (2018, 15)
Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson (1985, 15)
7.05 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile ★★ Zac Efron stars as serial killer Ted Bundy. Lily Collins (2019, 15) 9.00 Lethal Weapon ★★★★ A suicidal detective and a veteran cop team up to take down a drugs ring. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover (1987, 18)
8.00 Evita ★★★ Madonna plays the poor rural girl who became a mother figure to Argentina. Antonio
11.00pm Lethal Weapon 2 ★★★ Thriller. (1989, 18) 1.00am Domino ★★ Thriller. (2019, 18) 2.45 Miller’s Crossing 5 Drama. (1990, 18) 4.50 Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man ★★ Mystery. (1998)
Sky
Sci-Fi/Horror
Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504
5.00pm Sky PL/Main Event
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 6.55 My Icon 7.40 History of Old Trafford
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437 6.00am LIVE International Rugby Sevens Sydney Sevens. 10.00 My Icon (AD) 10.30 Soccer AM 12 noon LIVE Championship Football Hull City v Brentford at the KCOM Stadium (k/o 12.30pm). 3.00pm Soccer Saturday 5.00 LIVE Premier League Football Manchester United v Wolves at Old Trafford (k/o 5.30). 8.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day three of the Phoenix Open from TPC Scottsdale, Arizona. 11.00 LIVE Rugby Union Jaguares v Lions, a Super Rugby match (kick-off 11.00). 1.00—7.00am LIVE International Rugby Sevens The second day of the Sydney Sevens.
Sky Football
12.25am Stand by Me As 4.25pm 2.10 3 Generations As 2.40pm 3.55 I Can Only Imagine ★★ Music drama. J Michael Finley, Madeline
3.00pm Soccer Saturday: live scores 6.00 Goals Express 7.00 Goal Zone 8.00 Championship Highlights 8.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.00 One2Eleven (AD) 11.15 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Football Years (AD) 12.30am SPFL Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Football Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
6.15pm Little Monsters ★★★★ A teacher ferociously protects her pupils from zombies. Lupita
4.50pm I Killed Wild Bill Hickok ★★ Western. John Forbes,
Nyong’o, Alexander England, Josh Gad (2019, 15)
6.15 The Day of the Jackal 5 Suspenseful thriller adapted from Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller about a plot to assassinate General de Gaulle.
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Premier League Football
6.00am Championship Football: Derby County v Stoke City 9.30 Saturday Social 10.30 Soccer AM
TCM Movies
Tom Brown, Helen Westcott, Virginia Gibson (1956)
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel (1973, 15)
9.00 US Marshals ★★ Efficient rehash of The Fugitive. Tommy Lee
12 noon LIVE Championship Football Hull City v Brentford at the KCOM Stadium (k/o 12.30pm).
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 6.00am Chronicles of a Champion (AD) 6.30 European Tour 7.30 PGA Tour Golf 8.30 European Tour Golf
9.30 LIVE European Tour Golf The Saudi International, day three. 2.00pm PGA Tour Golf 3.00 Chronicles (AD) 4.00 European Tour Golf 5.00 PGA Tour Golf 6.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day three of the Phoenix Open. 11.00 European Tour Golf 12 midnight Ryder Cup Memories (AD) 1.00am European Tour 2.00 Chronicles (AD) 3.00 European Tour 4.00 Chronicles (AD) 4.30—6.00am World of Golf (AD)
Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr (1998, 15)
Premier Sports 1 11.40pm Collateral Damage ★★ Thriller. (2001, 15) 2.00am Captain Newman, MD ★★★ Comedy drama. (1963, 12) 4.30 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 5.30 Close Up TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
7.00am Badminton (AD) 7.30 Italian Football 8.00 Premier League Match Pack 8.30 Premier League Preview 9.00 WWE (AD) 11.00 Early Kick-Off
Sky Cricket
10.25 The Senator ★★★ Political drama about the 1969 scandal involving White House hopeful Edward Kennedy. (2017, 12)
Carroll, Dennis Quaid, Trace Adkins (2018, PG)
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Premier League Preview 7.30 Match Pack 8.00 Premier League World 8.30 Premier League Preview 9.00 Match Pack 9.30 Saturday Social 10.30 Soccer AM 12 noon Soccer Saturday
8.00 Best Goals 8.30 Game of the Day 10.30—6.00am Highlights
Man Utd skipper Harry Maguire
Sky 412 Virgin 551 5.10—7.00pm LIVE Italian Football Cagliari v Parma. 7.40—9.45 LIVE Italian Football Sassuolo v AS Roma (kick-off 7.45).
BT Sport 1
Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502
5.00pm LIVE Premier League Football Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers from Old Trafford (kick-off 5.30).
Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503
Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 6.00am Close Up 6.30 All Quiet on the Western Front 5 Drama. (1930, PG) 9.15 Murder She Said ★★ (1961, PG) 11.05 Murder at the Gallop ★★★ (1963, U) 12.50pm Cahill, United States Marshal ★★★ Western. (1973, 15) 3.00 Six Black Horses ★★ Western. (1962)
12.15am Pacific Rim: Uprising As 4.15pm 2.10 Battle Los Angeles As 6am 4.10 Escape from the Planet of the Apes ★★★★ Fine third instalment in the popular series. Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter (1971, PG)
Sky Premier League
Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail (1996, PG)
Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am Battle Los Angeles ★★★ Drama. Aaron Eckhart (2011, 12) 8.10 Above the Shadows ★★★ Fantasy. Olivia Thirlby, Alan Ritchson, Maria Dizzia (2019, 12) 10.15 As 6.15pm 12 noon As 8pm 2.00pm As 10pm 4.15 Pacific Rim: Uprising ★★★ Adventure. John Boyega, Scott Eastwood (2018, 12)
8.00 Bumblebee ★★★ The lovable robot befriends a teenage girl. Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena (2018, PG) 10.00 Captain America: the First Avenger ★★★ The star-spangled hero is born in this pleasingly retro-style Marvel Comics caper. Chris Evans (2011, 12)
SPORT
7.45 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup play-off semi-final. 3.45pm My Icon (AD) 4.00 How the 2014 World T20 Was Won 6.00 Cricket in Mumbai 7.00 How the 2014 World T20 Was Won 9.00 Cricket in Mumbai 10.00 Captain’s Log 10.30 How the 2014 World T20 Was Won 12.30am My Icon 1.30 Greatest Games (AD) 2.00 How the 2014 World T20 Was Won 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00—6.00am My Icon
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD) 8.00 NFL: action from the play-offs 2.00pm Super Bowl LII: from 2018 4.00 Favre Meets Mahomes 4.30 NFL 8.30 Favre Meets Mahomes 9.00 NFL: America’s Game 10.00 Inside the Huddle 10.30 Favre Meets Mahomes 11.00 NFL: highlights 1.00am Super Bowl LIII: from 2019 3.00—6.00am NFL: Greatest Games
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am LIVE International Rugby Sevens Sydney Sevens. 10.00 Greats (AD) 11.00 Super League Gold (AD) 11.15 Super League 11.30 NBA Heatcheck 12 noon Allen Iverson: the Answer 1.00pm LIVE Rugby Union Stormers v Hurricanes, a Super Rugby match (kick-off 1.05). 3.00 Boxing: Demetrius Andrade v Luke Keeler 7.00 Super League 7.15 Rugby Greatest Games 7.35 International Rugby Sevens 9.35—6.00am LIVE International Rugby Sevens Day two of the Sydney Sevens. Coverage continues until 10.30am.
Sky Mix Sky 145 Virgin 520 HD Virgin 510 6.00—8.00am LIVE Rugby Union Crusaders v Waratahs. 8.30—11.00pm LIVE NBA Los Angeles Clippers v Minnesota Timberwolves (tip-off 8.30).
Eurosport 1 Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435 6.00am Tennis: Australian Open
8.30 LIVE Tennis: Australian Open The women’s singles final. 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open 11.15 LIVE Tennis: Australian Open The mixed doubles final. 1.00pm Tennis: Australian Open: the best action from day 14 2.00am Roland Garros Classics 2.25 Tennis: Australian Open 4.55—7.00am LIVE Tennis: Australian Open The men’s doubles final at Melbourne Park.
12 noon LIVE Premier League Football Leicester City v Chelsea (kick-off 12.30pm). 3.00pm BT Sport Score 5.15 LIVE German Football RB Leipzig v Monchengladbach. 7.30 German Football 8.00 WWE (AD) 10.45 German Football 1.15am French Football 3.15 Premier League World 3.45 T20 Cricket 4.00—6.00am LIVE Men’s Hockey Australia v Great Britain.
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.30am Match Pack 7.00 Premier League Preview 7.30 T20 Cricket
8.00 LIVE T20 Cricket The Big Bash League knockout match. 11.30 Italian Football 12 noon LIVE Men’s Hockey Spain v Netherlands, Pro League. 2.00pm Fishing (AD) 3.00 WWE 5.00 30 for 30: Brian and the Boz (AD) 6.30 The Two Bills (AD) 8.00 LIVE Basketball Oklahoma Sooners v Oklahoma State Cowboys. 10.00 T20 Cricket 11.00 LIVE Basketball NCAA. 3.00—6.30am LIVE International Women’s T20 Cricket Australia v India from Manuka Oval, Canberra.
BT Sport 3
Saturday Television
Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.25am As 11.55pm 7.55 As 5.15pm 9.05 As 6.25pm 10.40 As 10.25pm 12.10pm The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ★★★★ Adventure. (1977, U) 1.30 As 8pm 3.50 The Jungle Book 5 Musical adventure. (1967, U) 5.15 Dumbo 5 Fantasy. (1941, U)
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.00am LIVE Australian Football 8.00 German Football 8.30 LIVE Australian Football 10.30 BT Sport Reload 10.45 LIVE Australian Football 12.45pm International Women’s T20 Cricket 1.45 BT Sport Reload 2.00 Yachting (AD) 3.00 Hockey 5.00 International Women’s T20 Cricket 6.00 T20 Cricket 7.00 LIVE French Football 9.00 German Football 10.00 Hockey 2.00am LIVE Hockey 4.00 German Football 4.30—6.30am LIVE Hockey
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434 6.00am Around the Horn 6.30 ESPN FC 7.00 Pardon the Interruption
7.30 LIVE Women’s Hockey Australia v Great Britain. 9.30 ESPN FC 10.00 Pardon the Interruption 10.30 Basketball 12.15pm Reload 12.30 Basketball 9.00 LIVE Basketball Four US college games back to back. 5.00—7.00am LIVE Australian Football Mariners v Wanderers.
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 6.00am Snooker 6.20 Ski Jumping
7.20 LIVE Ski Jumping 9.15 LIVE Alpine Skiing 11.50 LIVE Nordic Combined Skiing 12.50pm Snooker 1.00 LIVE Snooker From Berlin. 4.30 Alpine Skiing 5.30 Cycling 6.00 Cyclo-Cross 7.00 LIVE Snooker From Berlin. 10.30 LIVE Cycling 11.30 Cycling 11.55 Ski Jumping 12.55am Snowboarding: World Cup 1.25 Cycling 2.00 Alpine Skiing 3.00 Luge 4.00 Snooker 5.50—6.20am Nordic Combined
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SUNDAY Choices
The pick of today’s TV CALLING THE SHOTS
Television Sunday
Graham Norton makes his debut as Film Awards host
JOJO RABBIT Scarlett Johansson is up for two Baftas
JOKER Will Joaquin Phoenix be lucky this time?
PICK OF THE DAY
The British Academy Film Awards 9.00pm BBC1
AWARDS Joker, The Irishman, Once upon a Time in… Hollywood and 1917
are the titles you’ll hear mentioned most tonight: they’ve racked up 40 nominations between them, including best film. Also nominated in that category is the acclaimed Parasite, a darkly comic Korean film that is one of the few foreign-language films ever to be up for a best picture Oscar. It’s hard to predict winners this year, although surely Joaquin Phoenix (nominated but overlooked three previous times) must get recognised for
Six Nations Rugby 2.30pm (kick-off 3pm) BBC1 SPORT France v England With
English club rugby in meltdown, what’s the worst opening fixture Eddie Jones could hope for? France away would be right up there. Jones’s problem is that Saracens players, who’ve been the engine room of the England team for years, are in turmoil as their club is about to be dumped out of the Premiership for breaking salary cap rules. Will the likes of Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje and Elliot Daly be able to mesh with players in the squad from other clubs, who may see Sarries as, to put it crudely, cheats? Add to that uncertainties over selection and Les Bleus will be licking their lips in anticipation. DAVID BUTCHER Sport: page 34
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Running Wild with Bear Grylls
his mesmerising Joker? Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson is in with a good chance of going home with a bronze mask — she’s nominated twice, as is Margot Robbie. However, outstanding British film is trickier. How do you choose between a technically dazzling war film, a grainy paean to Cornish fishermen, a rockin’ Elton John biopic, an intimate Syrian video diary, a slice of social realism and a sumptuous papal bromance? JANE RACKHAM Daniel Kaluuya: page 36; Film: page 38
Call the Midwife
Top Gear
8.00pm BBC1
8.00pm BBC2
7.00pm National Geographic
DRAMA The midwives are all of
MOTORING Remember Romesh
REALITY High-flying actress and
a flutter at the arrival of The Sound of Music at the local cinema. But Nonnatus House boss Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) is purselipped and snippy about the movie, which she claims is “frivolous and inappropriate”. So she must learn a lesson about lightening up and being less judgemental. This also comes after a couple of mean dressingdowns from two of Poplar’s sturdy working-class women, who have a go at her for living in an ivory tower and not knowing anything about real life. It’s an episode covered in treacle (those omnipresent soppy strings don’t help), but there’s a welcome bit of grist from Phyllis about men attending births. ALISON GRAHAM
Ranganathan? We barely get to see him on television these days, but the reclusive comedian breaks his silence to visit the Top Gear studio this week. And if there’s anyone who could usefully add to — and maybe top — the comic chemistry of the show, it’s Ranganathan. Elsewhere, Paddy McGuinness decides that the latest version of the Land Rover Defender is too pricey to be a rural runabout, so he devises his own bargain 4x4, a customised Bedford Rascal van with a hot drinks dispenser, and takes it to Scotland for a test. At the other end of the price range, Chris Harris races the £2.5m 250mph McLaren Speedtail — against a fighter jet. DAVID BUTCHER
model Cara Delevingne is a big cheese on social media. But the Sardinian ravines don’t care about her 42 million Instagram followers. She knows she’s in for a rough ride when Mr Grylls can barely complete their first challenge himself (a linepull across a 200ft-high canyon). But Cara is tenacious. “Never giving up is my most important skill,” she says. She’s pushed to her limits, however, when Bear makes her gut a rat. “It’s not entirely fresh, so I’ll make sure it’s well cooked,” he whispers to camera. When she’s not listening. Next up, forest-pooing techniques. You didn’t get those in Romancing the Stone. GARY ROSE
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY DISCOVER TV
WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR AT THE SUPER BOWL
8.00pm ITV DRAMA After a night at a dog track,
an online-betting magnate is shot dead by robbers in his sumptuous house as his wife and daughter are held hostage. The gang escapes with cash and expensive watches. So, a fairly cut-and-dried case, the last in the series, for DCI Vera Stanhope… Ah, well, perhaps not. Vera’s attention is attracted by the shiftylooking local neighbourhood security firm and suggestions that the victim was the subject of a hate campaign. She and her team dig deeper to uncover a web of secrets and lies, and a very observant young witness with Down’s syndrome. “Are you plain clothes?” he asks her. “That’s one way of putting it,” comes the reply. AG
CHRIS HUGHES
Art on the BBC: The Story of the Nude
9.00pm BBC2
9.00pm BBC4
FACTUAL A wilderness expert, sent
ART New series Ahead of Shock of the
to keep an eye on the British couples competing to win a log cabin in the middle of the Alaskan nowhere, has a quiet word with one of the men, who’s wearing flip-flops as he chops wood with a huge axe. Take a look at your footwear, buddy, your toes are at risk. The little group seem to be getting along just fine with each other as they complete a men v women orienteering task. The women take the sensible option. The men… well, just wait and see. Everyone has a go on a shooting range (bears are a constant threat in the wild) and some of the novices seem to take to gunplay very comfortably. AG The Alison Graham column: page 51
Nude with Mary Beard (tomorrow), here’s a fascinating clip show, curated by art historian Kate Bryan, about the BBC’s exploration of nudity in art over the decades. It’s a delight: Kenneth Clark in ecstasy over David; Sister Wendy rhapsodising over the figure of Adam in Masaccio’s Expulsion; John Berger being stern about the commodification of the female nude for a male gaze. Then there’s the seismic change, as Goya dares to show his Nude Maja staring directly back at the viewer, leading eventually to the full-frontal approach of Lucian Freud and Jenny Saville. An eye-opener for the mind.
SANDS OF TIME
GILL CRAWFORD
Doctor Who
More than a million Britons work in the beauty industry, many of them employed by big American brands. In this three-part documentary — available all at once today as a box set — four diverse Brits, from a wannabe “influencer” to a cosmetics skeptic, travel to the USA to visit some of these mega-companies, while also hearing from industry insiders and critics of the make-up business.
DISCOVER TV KIDS
Pirato & Capitano 9.00am Channel 5, My5 Today in a new episode of the swashbuckling, seafaring cartoon: Roberto accuses Murana of stealing his prized golden ladle, but then she turns the tables. JACK SEALE
BEST LIVE SPORT
7.10pm BBC1
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DRAMA While this series
of Doctor Who has been stacked with puzzles — Who is the Timeless Child? What happened to Gallifrey? — this new episode, Praxeus, co-written by Pete McTighe and showrunner Chris Chibnall, might just be the most mysterious yet. What do a washed-up (literally) naval officer, Peruvian birds and a missing astronaut have in common? The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her friends try their best to find out, scattering around the globe to investigate unusual events taking place all over the planet. Guest-starring Warren Brown, Matthew McNulty and Molly Harris, the story soon sees the entire human race at risk as the Tardis team face a deadly race against time. But not even the Doctor can save everyone… HUW FULLERTON
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
Beauty Laid Bare from 6am BBC3/iPlayer
Win the Wilderness: Alaska
Where in the world is the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) this week?
The best of streaming and catch-up
Sunday Television
Vera
touchdowns against the Green Bay Packers. For the Chiefs, look out for peerless quarterback Patrick Mahomes (right) and offensive tackle Dennis Kelly, although at 6ft 8in and 22st 13lb, you probably won’t be able to miss him. It might also be worth staying up for the half-time show headlined by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
Six Nations Rugby Union: France v England 2.30pm (kick-off 3pm) BBC1 England’s fearless captain Owen Farrell. Australian Open Tennis: men’s final 8.30am Eurosport 1 Premier League Football 1pm Sky PL/Main Event: Burnley v Arsenal (k/o 2pm); Tottenham v Man City (kick-off 4.30pm) Super Bowl 10pm Sky Action/ Mix; 11.25pm BBC1
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The Train
3.50pm BBC2 (not Wales) Marvellous Second World War drama starring Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield. See page 42
GUY LEVY/BAFTA; ALLSTAR; GETTY
The Super Bowl isn’t just a sporting event, it’s also the biggest TV show in America. More than 100m viewers will be tuning in as the San Francisco 49ers face the Kansas City Chiefs (10pm Sky Action/Mix; 11.25pm BBC1, kick-off 11.30pm). The 49ers player to watch is running back Raheem Mostert (left), a former surfer who secured their place in the Super Bowl with four
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Television Sunday
BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Roger Johnson, Nina Warhurst. (S) (HD) 7.25 Match of the Day Shown yesterday 10.25pm (S) (HD) 9.00 The Andrew Marr Show A round-up of the week’s stories. Repeated 7pm BBC Parliament (S) (HD) 10.00 Politics England Regional political news. (S) 10.30 New series. The Big Questions From James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich, south London. (S) (HD) 11.30 Wanted Down Under In Perth. (R) (S) (HD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt Two teams scour Kingston upon Thames for bargains. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 BBC News Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 1.15 Songs of Praise The Rev Kate Bottley discovers the deep Christian symbolism of snowdrops. Katherine Jenkins explores the ruins of Reading Abbey. (S) (HD) 1.55 Six Nations Build-Up John Inverdale and guests look ahead to France v England in Paris. (S) (HD) 2.30—5.10 LIVE Six Nations Rugby France v England The final fixture of the opening weekend at the Stade de France (kick-off 3.00). Also available online at bbc.co.uk/sport. Post-match forum on the red button. See page 64. (S) (HD) See feature: page 34
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BBC2 6.05am The Farmers’ Country Showdown A farmers’ market in Marylebone. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (HD) 6.50 The Instant Gardener A wild, riverside patch is rejuvenated in Newhaven, East Sussex. (R) (S) (HD) 7.35 The Edible Garden Legumes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 8.05 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip With Helen Flanagan and Jorgie Porter. Shown last Friday (S) (HD) 9.05 Countryfile Reports from the Peak District. Shown last Sunday Signed repeat tomorrow 12.50am (S) (HD)
10.00 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites Highlights. (S) 2 BBC SPORT ONLINE 10.30am—6.00pm Hockey Live coverage of the Super 6s finals at bbc.co.uk/sport
11.30 Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets Mary visits the March family at Goodwood House. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2 BBC RED BUTTON 11.50am—1.05pm, 1.20—3.00
Cyclo-Cross The women’s under-23s in the World Championships from Dübendorf, Switzerland, followed by the elite men
12.30pm A Cook Abroad: Dave Myers’s Egypt The Hairy Biker visits the pyramids. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Tennis: Australian Open Action from the men’s singles final, presented by Sue Barker. (S) (HD) 3.00—3.50 Flog It! David Fletcher spots a rare pistol when the team visits Glemham Hall in Suffolk. (R) (S) (HD)
ITV 6.00am CITV See page 71 9.25 ITV News (S) (HD) 9.30 Ainsley’s Caribbean Kitchen Ainsley Harriott prepares local dishes on a tour of Tobago. (R) (S) (HD) 10.30 Living on the Veg 4/10. Prue Leith joins vegan chefs Henry Firth and Ian Theasby. (S) (HD) 11.30 The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury 4/6 A visit to Skiathos and Skopelos. Shown last Fri (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Countrywise: Guide to Britain Liz Bonnin walks along the Thames Path in Oxfordshire. (R) (S) (HD) 12.30pm ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.35 The Voice UK Ep 5. The blind auditions continue. See choice, p55. Shown yesterday 8.30pm (S) (HD) 2.05 The Masked Singer 6/8. Two more stars are unmasked. See choice, p54. Shown yesterday 7pm (S) (HD) 3.35—4.35 Tipping Point Game show. (R) (S) (HD)
BBC2
The British Academy Film Awards 9.00pm The Farewell star Awkwafina is up for a Rising Star award
Win the Wilderness: Alaska 9.00pm Couple Matt and Rachel face a navigation test
5.10pm Sir David Jason at 80: a Lovely Jubbly Celebration
3.50pm The Train ★★★★
Johnny Vegas takes a trip through the BBC archives to pay tribute to his Still Open All Hours co-star, piecing together Sir David’s rise to comedy greatness. With interviews and Only Fools and Horses rarities. Series producer Simon Goretzki; Series editor Simon Catt (S) (HD)
5.45 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 6.10 Countryfile
World War drama. France, 1944: with qSecond Germany facing defeat, Colonel von Waldheim is ordered to transport priceless works of art from a Paris gallery back to the Fatherland. But the French Resistance has other ideas. Film of the Day: page 42.
Labiche Burt Lancaster Papa Boule Colonel von Waldheim Paul Scofield Miss Villard Christine Jeanne Moreau Herren
Michel Simon Suzanne Flon Wolfgang Preiss
Director John Frankenheimer (1964, PG) (BW) (S) (W)
In Dungeness, Kent, Margherita Taylor meets the people campaigning to save film-maker and artist Derek Jarman’s cottage and garden, while Matt Baker explores the headland’s strange and barren terrain. Includes Weather for the Week Ahead.
6.00 Undiscovered Worlds with Steve Backshall
Series producer Joanna Brame; Executive producer Bill Lyons (S) (HD)
7.00 Ski Sunday
7.10 Doctor Who
Action from the World Cup meeting in Schladming in Austria, where the night slalom took place, as well as highlights of the boardercross from Feldberg in Germany, which features the Inferno — the world’s longest downhill race. A field of 1,850 racers, from professionals to enthusiasts, tackle the 15km descent.
Series 12. Praxeus. The gang try to make the a6/10 connections between a missing astronaut, birds strangely in Peru and a US naval officer macting washed up on a Madagascan beach. See p65. The Doctor Graham O’Brien Yasmin Khan Ryan Sinclair Jake Willis Adam Lang
Jodie Whittaker Bradley Walsh Mandip Gill Tosin Cole Warren Brown Matthew McNulty
Gabriela Camera Suki Cheng Jamila Velez Joyce Zach Olson Aramu
Joana Borja Molly Harris Gabriela Toloi Soo Drouet Tristan de Beer Thapelo Maropefela
Writers Pete McTighe and Chris Chibnall; Series producer Nikki Wilson Director Jamie Magnus Stone Signed rpt Friday 1.35am BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
The naturalist explores the Arctic, where he and his team attempt to kayak through the world’s largest fjord. Producer Rosie Gloyns; Series producer Susanna Handlsip (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Series producer John Nicholson (S) (HD)
8.00 Top Gear
Paddy McGuinness reveals his ultimate a2/6. cheap but luxurious off-roader — the homebuilt
8.00 Call the Midwife
“Dirty Rascal” — while Chris Harris races the £2.5m McLaren Speedtail against the RAF’s latest fighter jet. With guest Romesh Ranganathan. See page 64.
carer for all her family accept help. See page 64.
Series producer Nick Dalton; Executive producers Alex Renton and Clare Pizey Repeated Tuesday 7pm (S) (HD) RT BOOKS To order Top Gear Ultimate Supercars, for £23 incl p&p, call 03302 232639 or visit radiotimes.com/shop06
Series 9. Sister Frances struggles to make a a5/8 fiercely independent woman who is acting as Sister Julienne Jenny Agutter Nurse Phyllis Crane Linda Bassett Sister Monica Joan Judy Parfitt Trixie Franklin Helen George Nurse Shelagh Turner Laura Main Nurse Lucille Anderson Leonie Elliott Nurse Valerie Dyer Jennifer Kirby Dr Patrick Turner Stephen McGann Violet Buckle Annabelle Apsion Sister Frances Ella Bruccoleri Sister Hilda Fenella Woolgar Miss Millicent Higgins Georgie Glen May Tang April Rae Hoang
Cheryl Hodson Helena Antoniou Timothy Turner Max Macmillan Ronald Mallen Karl Davies Grace Calthorpe Samantha Spiro Albert Calthorpe Jay Simpson Ingrid Ellis Lotte Rice Dad Michael Carolan Lil Angela Sims Aileen Mallen Carla Langley Minnie Stephanie Fayerman Angela Turner Alice Brown Voice of mature Jennifer Worth Vanessa Redgrave
Writer Jonathan Harvey; Producer Ann Tricklebank Director Noreen Kershaw (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The British Academy Film Awards
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Graham Norton hosts the ceremony, live from the Royal Albert Hall. This year’s nominees for leading actor include Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Joaquin Phoenix and Taron Egerton, while leading actress nominations go to Charlize Theron, Saoirse Ronan, Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley and Scarlett Johansson. The best film field comprises 1917, The Irishman, Once upon a Time...in Hollywood, Joker and Parasite, with their respective directors also up for awards. See page 64. Producer Ceire Deery; Executive producer Katherine Allen (S) (HD)
Channel 4
Daniel Kaluuya: page 36; RT’s predictions: page 38
5.55am The King of Queens Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 6.45 Everybody Loves Raymond Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 7.35 The Big Bang Theory Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 8.25 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast Ep 5 Claudia Winkleman guests. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD) 9.30 Sunday Brunch With guests Oti Mabuse, Youssef Kerkour, Joel Dommett and Tom Grennan. (S) (HD) 12.30pm The Simpsons Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 1.30 The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn ★★★ Animated action adventure starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis and Daniel Craig. Review page 42. Director Steven Spielberg (2011, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 3.40—4.40 A Place in the Sun Featuring a couple looking to retire to Orihuela in eastern Spain. (R) (S) (HD)
11.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 11.25 Super Bowl LIV
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Kansas City Chiefs v San Francisco 49ers The 100th NFL season draws to a close in Miami (kick-off 11.30). The Chiefs have a proud Super Bowl legacy, having played in the first one, but they haven’t won the title for 50 years. The 49ers, meanwhile, haven’t won since the last time it was held in Miami, 25 years ago. Highlights tomorrow 11.15pm BBC2. (S) (HD) The Inside Story: page 65 3.25am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 3.30—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
9.00 Win the Wilderness: Alaska
Separated from their partners, with the a2/6. men in one group and the women in the other,
the competitors must prove their worth by navigating through an area of untamed Alaskan wilderness. The couple that impresses most on this intimidating test will earn a flight to see Duane and Rena’s home on Ose Mountain and the opportunity to make it on to their shortlist. In the male group, Theo quickly feels the frustration of not being listened to, while two of the older men, Mark and Pete, quietly show their leadership qualities. See page 65. Directors/Producers Georgina Burrell, James Callum, Mark Challander, Brent Gundersen and James Nutt Rptd Thursday 11.15pm (S) (AD) (HD) RT TRAVEL Visit Alaska and the Canadian Rockies on a wonderful cruise and tour holiday — 14 nights from £2,649pp. Visit radiotimes.com/Alaska to find out more
The Alison Graham column: page 51
10.00 Match of the Day 2 Highlights of Tottenham v Manchester City and Burnley v Arsenal. Presented by Reshmin Chowdhury. Producer Richard Day; Editor Ben North (S) (HD)
11.00 Super Bowl LIV Build-Up Setting the stage for Super Bowl LIV, between Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers in Miami. The game itself follows on BBC1. (S) (HD)
11.30 The Women’s Football Show Including Manchester City v Arsenal, Chelsea v West Ham and Reading v Manchester United. Shown 7pm BBC4 (S) (HD)
12 midnight Women’s Six Nations Ireland v Scotland at Energia Park, Wales v Italy at Cardiff Arms Park and France v England at Stade du Hameau. Repeated tomorrow 1pm (S) (HD) 12.30—3.15am Sign Zone 12.30 Question Time Fiona Bruce presents from Buxton, Derbyshire. Shown last Thu BBC1 (S) (HD) 1.30 Best House in Town Three detached properties in St Albans, Hertfordshire, are in the spotlight. (R) (S) (HD) 2.15 Holby City Cameron faces a crisis when dealing with a stabbing victim and her boyfriend. Shown last Tue BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY ITV
Channel 4 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home 8.00pm The host visits Vipul and Jenny’s 1930s terraced property
Vera 8.00pm DCI Stanhope tries to uncover the truth behind the murder of a bookmaker
4.35pm ITV News Weather (S) (HD) 4.45 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 5.00 The Chase Celebrity Special
6.00 Dancing on Ice Ep 5. It’s Fairytale Week and the remaining celebrities and their professional partners fight to stay in the competition. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean head the ice panel alongside Ashley Banjo and John Barrowman, and there’s a spectacular performance from Disney on Ice. With Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. Series director Nikki Parsons; Series producers Anna Dunkley and Sam Rees-Jones Repeated Friday 11.45pm (S) (HD)
8.00 Vera
Series 10. The Escape Turn. All is not a 4/4 quite as it seems when DCI Stanhope looks
into the case of a wealthy bookmaker who was murdered during a home invasion in front of his wife and daughter. See page 65. Gayle Beecher Katy Carmichael Tony Hinshaw Charlie De’Ath Jess Wilmott Ella-Grace Gregoire Alun Wilmott Steve Lorrigan Leon Wilson Mark Hawkins Iain Beecher David Partridge Jackie Nolan Rod Arthur Wilma Howland Liza Sadovy Ryan Derring Thomas Dylan Kathy Bennions Caroline O’Neill Ronnie Bennions Jessica Baglow
Writer Paul Matthew Thompson; Producer Will Nicholson Director Carolina Giammetta (S) (AD) (HD) RT DVDs To pre-order Vera series 10 on two DVDs for £19.99 incl p&p (RRP £24.99), call 0844 848 7300 (charges apply, see p161) or visit radiotimes.com/dvds06, quoting ref RT1801
The Story of the Nude 9.00pm Kate Bryan explores the shock value of nudity in art
4.40pm Men in Black ★★★★
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Sci-fi comedy. When a police officer is recruited by a top-secret agency that monitors alien activity he finds himself in a race against time to save the Earth. Review page 42.
K J Laurel Edgar
Tommy Lee Jones Will Smith Linda Fiorentino Vincent D’Onofrio
Zed Jeebs Beatrice Gentle Rosenberg
Rip Torn Tony Shalhoub Siobhan Fallon Mike Nussbaum
Director Barry Sonnenfeld (1997, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
6.30 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 The Great Pottery Throw Down Ep 4. Sue Pryke sets a multi-coloured slip cast challenge to make two vases, and Keith Brymer Jones sets a blindfolded challenge to throw the widest bowl. Who will be named potter of the week and who will leave the pottery? Exec producers Richard McKerrow and Sarah Thomson-Woolley Series director Mark Drake Shown last Wed More4 (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home 5/5 Series 6. George takes on a classic 1930s terraced home with a kitchen so small that the fridge and oven are in another room. The two mismatched fireplaces are causing marital strife, with one of the couple loving the original 1930s one, and the other favouring the Victorian reproduction. George’s new scheme will keep only one, so which fireplace will bite the dust? Series producer Mike Ratcliffe; Exec producers Rebecca Mulraine and Tania Fallon Repeated Thursday 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 SAS: Who Dares Wins 5/6 Series 5. The remaining recruits are sent on the run from a hunter force, stalked across the Highlands during the escape and evasion phase. Those who make it through will face the interrogation stage, where they are captured and questioned by military interrogators. With limited sleep and rations, the final stages of selection are designed to grind down recruits.
STV
7.30 Iolo’s Snowdonia 1/4. Wildlife expert Iolo Williams explores Snowdonia through the seasons, beginning in spring at Nant Ffrancon in the Ogwen Valley. Director/Producer John Gwyn (R) (S) (HD)
8.00 Galapagos: Islands of Change The wildlife of the Galapagos Islands is bizarre and unique. But the wilderness that inspired Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution is becoming ever more crowded due to human migration. David Attenborough narrates this Natural World documentary which examines how creatures are adapting to their changing circumstances. Director/Producer Stuart Armstrong (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Art on the BBC: The Story of the Nude
series. 1/4. Clips from the aNew BBC archives help to illustrate
how six decades of TV have influenced our understanding of the arts. In the first edition, art historian Kate Bryan looks at the use of the nude by both artists and film-makers as a means to shock their audiences and challenge conventions. See page 65.
10.15 Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad
10.00 Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown
4/6 Series 2. In Ohio, the pair head for Dayton — the home of aviation — where Barney takes a plane for a spin after re-creating history in the Wright B flyer. Continues Wednesday 8pm.
Ep 4. Miles Jupp and Sophie Duker join Sean Lock and Jon Richardson for the words and numbers game, while Stevenage builders Lee and Dean join Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner.
10.00 Horizon: What’s Wrong with Nudity?
Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)
Director Richard Valentine; Series producer Jodie Krstic Shown last Thursday (S) (HD)
Editor Guney Gok (S) (HD)
Sport: page 34
11.40 Liar 4/6. Laura travels to Edinburgh to uncover the truth behind the death of Andrew’s wife, but finds more than she bargained for. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 12.30am 5/6. Laura enlists Tom in her plan to bring Andrew to justice. But when a deception is exposed, she must resort to dangerous methods.
11.00 Prisoners ★★★★
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Crime thriller from the director of Blade Runner 2049. Pennsylvania, USA: when two young girls go missing after a lunch party, one of their fathers decides to take matters into his own hands to find his missing daughter. But the detective in charge of the case refuses to agree to his extreme tactics. Review page 42.
Keller Dover Detective Loki Nancy Birch Grace Dover
Hugh Jackman Jake Gyllenhaal Viola Davis Maria Bello
Franklin Birch Holly Jones Alex Jones Ralph Dover
Terrence Howard Melissa Leo Paul Dano Dylan Minnette
Horizon asks why many of us are embarrassed about our bodies. Taking a group of volunteers and subjecting them to a series of physical and psychological tests, scientists hope to change our attitude to the naked form.
1.20am Nightscreen 5.05—6.00 Judge Rinder: court cases
BBC1 WALES 10.00—10.30am Politics Wales: presented by James Williams 11.30 A Question of Sport: Sue Barker hosts 12 noon Tudur’s TV Flashback: Tudur Owen discovers how to have a good time 12.30—1.00pm Bargain Hunt
BBC2 WALES 12.30pm Coast: Neil Oliver explores Worm’s Head on the Gower Peninsula 12.50 Women’s Six Nations: Wales v Italy (kick-off 1.00) 3.00 Tennis: Australian Open 4.30 Flog It! 5.15 Prairie Dogs: Talk of the Town: Natural World looks at the communication between prairie dogs 6.00—7.00 Scrum V Six Nations Special: action from the opening fixtures
BBC1 NORTHERN IRELAND 10.00—10.30am Politics Northern Ireland
Director/Producer Paul King First shown on BBC2 (S) (HD)
11.00 Fig Leaf: the Biggest Cover Up in History Writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith explores the history of the fig leaf’s use throughout 2,000 years of Western art and ethics. He explains how Bernini created a new form of erotica and how Rodin brought depictions of nudity back to the public’s attention.
Director Denis Villeneuve (2013, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Director/Producer Rosie Schellenberg (R) (S) (HD)
1.20 Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 Teach My Pet to Do That A dog and a ferret show off their summoning skills. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 3.25 Nightscreen Text information. (HD) 5.05—6.00am Judge Rinder Robert Rinder delivers his verdict on real-life courtroom cases. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
1.45am Come Dine with Me In Walsall. (R) (S) (HD) 2.40 Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency 2/4 A teenager is admitted to a psychiatric ward after a pattern of self-harm. Shown last Tuesday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 3.35 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud meets a couple converting a water tower into a home. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.35 The Great Hotel Escape Jake’s hotel is finally relaunched in Yorkshire. (R) (S) (HD) 5.30 Kirstie’s Vintage Gems A playroom. (R) (S) (HD) 5.50—6.30am Countdown (R) (S) (HD)
12 midnight No Body’s Perfect with Rankin and Alison Lapper The artist and the photographer tackle contemporary attitudes to beauty and identity. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Arena: American Epic — the Sessions Modern artists test the recording machine that made American music. (R) (S) (HD) 3.00—3.30am Monkman and Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain 4/4. Eric and Bobby head to Scotland. Shown last Tuesday (S) (SL) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
Channel 4 Freeview 4 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 +1 F’view15 F’sat121 Sky 204 Virgin 142 HD F’view104 Sky 138 Virgin 141
BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
Writers Jack Williams and Harry Williams; Producer Eliza Mellor Director Sam Donovan (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
BBC SCOTLAND
Editor Jemma Archer; Director Matt Roberts Repeated 11.30pm BBC2 (S) (HD)
Series director Max Shapira; Series producer Claire Cahill Rptd 12.40am 4seven and tomorrow 1.50am C4 (S) (AD) (HD)
Jill Douglas presents the best moments from England’s opening match against France in Paris, plus action from Wales v Italy in Cardiff and Ireland v Scotland in Dublin.
10.00—10.30am Politics Scotland: presented by Gordon Brewer
Highlights of the weekend’s games in the Super League, including Manchester City v Arsenal at the Academy Stadium and Chelsea v West Ham United at Kingsmeadow.
7.00pm The Women’s Football Show
Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)
10.40 Six Nations Rugby Highlights
BBC1 SCOTLAND
As BBC2 until: 7.00pm The Seven 7.15 Sportscene 8.30 Fish Town 9.00 David Wilson’s Crime Files 10.00 The Storm That Saved a City 11.00 A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Ring Road 11.45—12 midnight Rewind 1990s: 1992
Executive producers Emma Parkins and Ed Stobart Signed repeat Tuesday 3am (S) (HD) The Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard is tomorrow 9pm BBC2
10.00 ITV News
Regional variations
Sunday Television
Sam Nixon, Mark Rhodes, Jimmy Carr and Ann Widdecombe team up in an attempt to beat ruthless quiz genius the Chaser, with the aim of winning thousands of pounds for their charities. Hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R) (S) (HD)
DCI Vera Stanhope Brenda Blethyn DS Aiden Healy Kenny Doughty DC Kenny Lockhart Jon Morrison DC Jacqueline Williams Ibinabo Jack DC Mark Edwards Riley Jones Dr Malcolm Donahue Paul Kaye Louise Wilmott Karen Bryson Royce Hobson Patrick Robinson Orla Cossdale Anna Wilson-Jones Gareth Wyatt George Bukhari Ciaran Duggan Karl Collins Adam Beecher Daniel Laurie
BBC4
a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white
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The Wonderful World of Chocolate 9.00pm The Malta Chocolate Festival
Pan 6.45pm Peter (Levi Miller) tries to
Lewis 6.00pm Is a clinical trial behind
Silent Witness 9.00pm The team’s
elude Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman)
a spate of suspicious deaths?
Christmas celebrations are cut short
Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 71 9.50 SpongeBob SquarePants Plankton tells Patrick he is his conscience. (S) (HD) 10.00 New. The Loud House Lincoln is the deciding vote on the vacation. First shown on Nicktoons (S) (HD) 10.10 Access (S) (HD) 10.30 New series. WWE: RAW Wrestling action with the superstars of WWE. (S) (HD) 11.25 Friends Series 1. Rachel rekindles her relationship with her ex-fiancé, Barry. 12.00 Someone steals Monica’s identity. 12.25pm Monica dates a student. (S) (HD) 12.55 Annie ★★ Musical based on the Broadway hit, starring Quvenzhané Wallis and Cameron Diaz. Review p42.
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am You’ve Been Framed! Gold: two editions (S) 7.55 The Ellen DeGeneres Show: double bill (S) (HD) 9.35 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 10.30 The Masked Singer See choice, p54. Shown yesterday 7pm (S) (HD) 12 noon Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 2.05pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold: Yearbook (S) 3.05 FILM Richie Rich ★★ Comedy starring Macaulay Culkin (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 5.00 FILM Hotel Transylvania ★★ Animated comedy with the voices of Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Rising Damp: double bill (S) 6.55 Coronation Street: omnibus. Maria suffers a heartbreaking loss (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.50 Emmerdale: omnibus. Charity is floored by what she learns (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 12.45pm Foyle’s War (S) (AD) (HD) 2.45 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (S) (HD)
Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
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Director Will Gluck (2014, PG) (S) (W) (HD)
3.10 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Pesky pomeranians Bella and Lola attack anyone who walks in through the door. Shown last Tuesday (S) (HD)
4.10 New. Wonderful World of Baby Animals Twin lambs of the rare valais blacknose breed are born. (S) (HD) 5.05 5 News Update (S) (HD)
5.10pm The Motorway There’s a red alert near Leeds on the M1 and an attempted suicide to manage. Series producer Anna Sadowy (S) (HD)
6.10 Inside Rolls-Royce: Dream Machines A look under the bonnet at the luxury British brand, and how its fortunes have been on a rollercoaster ride since 1906. First shown on 5 Select (S) (HD)
7.00 New. Royals in Wartime
2/2. How the House of Windsor helped the nation through the Second World War. Featuring archive material and insider commentary. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Inside Iceland: Britain’s Budget Supermarket 4/4. The supermarket teams up with Disney for a Christmas promotion, which coincides with the launch of Frozen 2. Directors/Producers Steven Prior and Kate Wilson (S) (HD)
9.00 New. The Wonderful World of Chocolate 5/12 Series 2. The rivalry between Jacob’s Club and McVitie’s Penguin. Directors/Producers Al Edirisinghe, Dom Longmuir and Emma Westwood Postponed from last Sunday (S) (HD)
10.00 When Award Shows Go Horribly Wrong Julian Clary narrates a compilation of disastrous moments at awards shows. Executive producers Elaine Hackett, Jason Wells and Simon Withington (S) (HD)
12.55am Access (S) (HD) 1.00 New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 Inside DHL: the World’s Biggest Delivery Company (S) (HD) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) (HD) 5.10 Divine Designs (S) (SL) (HD) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) (HD) +1 Freeview 44 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155 5 Select For listings see opposite page
BBC4 listings are overleaf
7.10am Doctor Finlay (S) 8.00 The Bill (S) 12 noon Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (S) 2.00pm Catherine Cookson’s The Rag Nymph: period melodrama with Honeysuckle Weeks (S)
5.00pm Call the Midwife
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb An archaeologist dies of a heart attack shortly after smashing the seal of an ancient Egyptian tomb. (S) (HD)
1/8 Series 4. Trixie helps a family of neglected children and new nurse Barbara gets off on the wrong foot. (S) (AD) (HD) 6.20 2/8. Barbara has her most challenging case to date when she treats a first-time mother. (S) (AD) (HD)
comedy adventure starring q Fantasy Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Levi
6.00 Lewis
7.40 New Tricks
Peter Pan Blackbeard Tiger Lily Hook Mary
8.00 Paul O’Grady: for the Love of Dogs
6.45pm Pan ★★★★
Miller. Peter Pan is abducted to Neverland, where he must fulfil his destiny and fight Blackbeard to save the enchanted world. Levi Miller Hugh Jackman Rooney Mara Garrett Hedlund Amanda Seyfried
Director Joe Wright (2015, PG) (S) (W) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island
Relationship-based reality show in which singletons seeking a romance compete in the hope of winning £50,000. (S) (HD)
10.05 New. Ibiza Weekender
3/10 Series 6. Tash realises she is starting to have feelings for Jaden, and head rep David decides to treat himself. Repeated Tuesday 1.40am (S) (HD)
11.05 Family Guy Series 9. Peter suffers kidney failure after drinking kerosene and needs a transplant. Meg and Chris write a poem. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 Series 8. Lois agrees to be a surrogate mother for a friend — who promptly dies unexpectedly. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05am American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.05 The Cleveland Show (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Don’t Hate the Playaz (S) (HD) 2.15 The Stand Up Sketch Show (S) (HD) 2.45 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records (S) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
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F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am World of Sport: Petrol Heads (S) (HD) 6.20 The Protectors (S) 6.55 New. Auto Mundial (S) (HD) 7.25 World Rally: Monte Carlo (S) (HD) 8.25 The Professionals (S) (SL) (AD) 9.30 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (S) (AD) (HD) 10.35 Hornblower (S) (HD) 12.45pm LIVE Darts: the quarter-finals of the Masters from Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. Presented by Jacqui Oatley (S) (HD) 5.00 River Monsters (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30 Mr Bean: the buffoon meets royalty (AD) (HD) 6.35pm World Cup Rivalries: England v Argentina The nations’ history. (S) (HD) 7.00 LIVE Darts Coverage of the Masters semi-finals and final from Marshall Arena in Milton Keynes. Commentary by John Rawling, Stuart Pyke and Ned Boulting. (S) (HD) 11.00 FILM Steven Gerrard: Make Us Dream ★★★★ A profile of footballer Steven Gerrard, in which the Liverpool FC and England star opens up about the highs and lows of his career. (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 1.15am The Protectors (S) 1.50 Fishing Impossible (S) (HD) 2.40—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
4.50pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot
3/4. The Mind Has Mountains. A young student dies while taking part in a clinical trial for an antidepressant drug. (S) (AD) (HD)
Photographer Rankin snaps a dog. (S) (HD) 8.30 A labrador-lurcher cross is unable to swallow properly. (S) (HD)
9.00 Harry and Meghan: an African Journey Reporter Tom Bradby talks to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their recent tour of southern Africa. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Good Karma Hospital 5/6 Series 1. Lydia and Ruby arrive at a seemingly miraculous diagnosis. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 6/6. The monsoon rains begin as tensions run high between Lydia and Ruby, who makes a shock decision. (S) (AD) (HD)
5/8 Series 6. Death of a Timeshare Salesman. After a former escort girl finds God and confesses her sins, a link is found between a businessman’s death and a notorious criminal. (S) (AD) Brian Lane Jack Halford Sandra Pullman Gerry Standing DAC Robert Strickland
Alun Armstrong James Bolam Amanda Redman Dennis Waterman Anthony Calf
9.00 Silent Witness 5/5 Series 21. Family. Nikki, Jack, Thomas and Clarissa are just settling down for their respective Christmas Day celebrations when they are called in to investigate a shooting spree. (S) (AD) (HD) Dr Nikki Alexander Jack Hodgson Dr Thomas Chamberlain Clarissa Mullery PC Rachel Duke
Emilia Fox David Caves Richard Lintern Liz Carr Fiona Boylan
Dr Ruby Walker Amrita Acharia Dr Lydia Fonseca Amanda Redman Greg McConnell Neil Morrissey Dr Gabriel Varma James Floyd Dr Ram Nair Darshan Jariwalla AJ Nair Sagar Radia Mari Rodriguez Nimmi Harasgama Maggie Smart Phyllis Logan 12.05am Law & Order: UK (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 The Halcyon (S) (AD) (HD) 2.50 Emmerdale: omnibus (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 5.15 Rising Damp (S) 5.40—6.00am Nightscreen
1.35am Tess of the D’Urbervilles (S) (HD) 2.45—4.00am Doctor Finlay (S)
+1 F’view 34 (9pm—midnight) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174
Drama +1 Sky 243 Virgin 226
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F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am Little Women: LA (S) (HD) 7.50 The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD) 8.45 Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10pm Income Property (S) (HD) 12.35 The Real Housewives of Orange County: five editions (S) (HD) 5.15 Don’t Be Tardy: double bill (S) 6.15pm New. The Bachelor USA The group travels to Singapore, where Tayisha and Colton take part in a bungee jump. (S) (HD) 8.00 Celebrity Dinner Date With rapper and reality TV star Romeo Dunn. (S) (HD) 9.00 New. Botched Paul Nassif helps a woman injured by a dog. (S) (HD) 10.00 New. The Real Housewives of Potomac US reality series following a group of women living in Maryland. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County Kelly makes a dramatic departure from Tamra’s housewarming party. (S) (HD) 11.55 Growing Up Chrisley Chase and Savannah Chrisley embark on a trip. (S) (HD) 12.25am Todd and Julie adjust. (S) (HD)
11.05 Waking the Dead 9/10 Series 9. Waterloo 1/2. Boyd is being moved out of the Cold Case Unit. But before he goes he decides to take on the unsolved mystery of 16 homeless boys who disappeared in the early 1980s. The investigation unearths the grimmest find of his career. (S) (AD)
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F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.10am The Joy of Techs (S) (HD) 8.00 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Ultimate Movers (HD) 10.00 Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge (HD) 11.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 1.00pm Drug Wars (HD) 2.00 Aussie Pickers (HD) 3.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 4.00 Room 101: triple bill (S) (HD) 6.00pm Soapbox Race From Montreal. (HD) 7.00 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers Officers become suspicious when they pull over a businessman from Mexico. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 New. Suspicions are raised after an x-ray reveals some dubious packages hidden inside the tyres of a pick-up truck. (AD) (HD) 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You With Andy Hamilton and Cariad Lloyd. (HD) 10.00 QI XL Jenny Eclair, Johnny Vegas and Bill Bailey join the quiz show. (S) (HD) 11.00 Live at the Apollo With Jason Manford and Michael McIntyre. (S) (HD)
12.50—12.55am Nightscreen (HD)
12 midnight Mock the Week (S) 12.40am Have I Got a Bit More News for You (HD) 1.40 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled: double bill (S) (HD) 3.35—4.00am The Indestructibles (HD)
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
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High Noon 7.15pm Will (Gary Cooper)
West Midlands paramedic Ally
and Amy (Grace Kelly) have a dilemma
F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (S) (AD) (HD) 9.55 Ugly House to Lovely House with George Clarke (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Come Dine with Me: from Cardiff (S) (HD) 1.35pm Four in a Bed (S) (HD) 4.05 Escape to the Château (S) (AD) (HD)
Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150
6.15pm Escape to the Château Dick and Angel rush to complete their huge to-do list before the arrival of relatives from England. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.15pm High Noon 5
western starring Gary Cooper q Classic and Grace Kelly. Marshal Will Kane’s
7.20 Britain’s Wildest Weather
wedding celebrations are interrupted by the news that his archenemy is arriving on the noon train, seeking revenge.
Some of the UK’s most extraordinary weather events of 2019, including the Whaley Bridge dam crisis. (S) (AD) (HD)
Director Fred Zinnemann (1952, U) (BW)
9.00 New series. 999: on the Frontline
9.00 London Heist ★★
Ep 1 Series 4. An hour in the life of paramedics in the West Midlands. (S) (HD)
10.00 24 Hours in Police Custody: Murder in the Woods Following Bedfordshire Police’s investigation into the killing of a young man in Cambridgeshire. (S) (AD) (HD)
thriller starring Craig Fairbrass. q Heist A career crook tries to uncover the
truth behind his father’s murder.
Director Mark McQueen (2017, 15) (S) (HD)
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thriller starring Steven Seagal q Action as an Interpol agent whose latest
F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Hollyoaks (AD) 8.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 9.10 FILM Epic ★★★ Animated adventure with the voice of Amanda Seyfried (W) 11.10 The Goldbergs (AD) 12.40pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 2.10 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 4.05 Celebrity Come Dine with Me: with Abz Love, Donna and Verona, Mark Francis, Dani Harmer and Jack Fincham 6.45pm FILM Night at the Museum ★★★ Fantasy comedy starring Ben Stiller as goodnatured loser Larry Daley. Determined to make a better life for himself and his young son, Larry takes a job as a night security man at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. But what he hopes will be a peaceful shift becomes just the opposite when an ancient Egyptian spell brings the exhibits to life as darkness falls. Review page 42. (AD) 9.00 New. Star Trek: Discovery 8/15 The Discovery is tasked with a high priority mission to the planet Pahvo. (AD) 10.00 Gogglebox Reviews include Britain’s Got Talent: the Champions and The Circle. (AD) 11.05 The Circle: Vote Night and Britain’s Got Talent: the Champions are assessed. (AD) 12.10am The Big Bang Theory (AD) 1.10 Tattoo Fixers: Extreme (SL) (AD) 2.15 Star Trek: Discovery (AD) 3.05 How I Met Your Mother (AD) 3.30—6.00am Hollyoaks (SL) (AD)
Director Lauro Chartrand (2010, 18) (S) (HD) 1.00am Spartacus: Blood and Sand (HD) 3.15 The X-Files (S) (HD) 5.00 Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) 5.50—6.00am Access (S) (HD)
Paramount Network +1 Sky 250
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F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am A Place in the Sun 2.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 4.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 6.00pm Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef visits the Burger Kitchen in LA, run by a dysfunctional family who have changed the menu ten times in 16 months. 7.00 Gordon continues his battle to save the Burger Kitchen restaurant in Los Angeles. 8.00 The chef comes to the aid of a family-run Italian restaurant in California. 9.00 Farage: the Man Who Made Brexit Documentary exploring the world of the politician Nigel Farage. (AD) 10.35 24 Hours in A&E. Lisa, who has extreme autism, has injured her finger. (AD) 11.35 Naked Attraction Sixty-year-old entertainer Glyn is hoping to find the perfect partner to dance off into the sunset with. (AD) 12.40am SAS: Who Dares Wins (AD) 1.45 Meet the Drug Lords: inside the Real Narcos (AD) 2.50 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (AD) 3.55—4.50am How to Lose Weight Well (AD)
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Freeview 11 Freesat 144 Sky 152 Virgin 165
6.00am Touched by an Angel 9.00 Murder, She Wrote 4.00pm Murder, She Wrote: three episodes. A best-selling author is killed 5.00 Metzger’s brother is accused of murder 6.00 Jessica enrols at a corrupt computer school 7.00 The Persuaders!: double bill. Danny and Brett help a woman in distress, then Brett wakes up to find himself married 8.00 The Persuaders! 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.00am Starsky & Hutch 2.00 TJ Hooker 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Persuaders! 5.10—6.00am Touched by an Angel
6.00am Border Patrol 8.00 UK Border Force (AD) 9.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 10.30 Highway Cops 12 noon The Dog Whisperer 2.00pm Monkey Life (AD) 7.00 New. Monkey Life: double bill. Documentary following daily life at Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset 8.00 Nothing to Declare: fly-on-the-wall documentary accessing the world of national security at Australia’s biggest airports 9.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers: an examination of Mick Philpott, the notorious Derby father of 17 who killed six children, five of them his own 10.00 How I Caught the Killer: a woman killed in a bath full of bleach 11.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation: the hunt for Raymond Leslie Morris, who was suspected of murdering three girls during the 1960s (AD) 12 midnight World’s Most Evil Killers (AD) 1.00am Road Wars 4.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (AD)
Sony Channel +1 Freesat 152 Sky 257
Pick +1 Freeview 92 Freesat 145 Sky 252
E4 +1 Freeview 28 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146
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Freeview 48 (limited) Freesat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) 9.25 CSI: NY (S) 10.10 Murder, She Wrote (S) (AD) 12.10pm Columbo: A Trace of Murder 2.05 Columbo: Blueprint for Murder 3.40 Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes 5.30 Columbo: Old Fashioned Murder 7.00pm NCIS Series 11. Double bill. A mysterious illness strikes children from military families, then a stolen drone is linked to an elusive terrorist (S) (AD) 9.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Series 6. A popular video blogger is apparently kidnapped (S) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (S)
Yesterday
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Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 6.00am Jim Clark: the Quiet Champion (S) (AD) 7.10 Prince Philip: the Plot to Make a King (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 1.00pm Bangers and Cash (S) (HD) 5.00 Murder Maps: triple bill. Profile of John Christie 6.00 A horrifying discovery made in a left luggage office 7.00 New. The crimes of Henri Landru (HD) 8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! (S) 10.00 Bangers and Cash: a couple are reunited with their Volvo breakdown truck (S) (HD) 11.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD)
1.55am CSI: NY (S) (AD) 3.50—4.00am Access
12 midnight War Factories (S) (HD) 1.00am Jim Clark: the Quiet Champion (S) (AD) 2.00—3.00am Prince Philip: the Plot to Make a King (S) (AD) (HD)
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
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Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am Access (HD) 8.10 Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 8.35 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 1.00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 4.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away: Big Family Bust Up (S) (HD) 5.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords: triple bill (S) (HD) 8.00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door: accounts of extreme and extraordinary disputes between neighbours (S) (HD) 9.00 FILM Cool Runnings ★★★★ Sports comedy based on a true story, starring John Candy, Leon and Doug E Doug (S) (HD) 11.05 FILM Van Wilder ★ Comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid (S) (HD) 1.00am Bodylicious! (S) (HD) 2.00 It’s Your Fault I’m Fat (S) (HD) 3.00 On Benefits and 40 Grand in Debt (S) (HD) 3.50—4.00am Access (HD)
5 Star +1 Freeview 55 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186
5 Select
11.05 Born to Raise Hell ★★
assignment turns into a revenge mission.
12 midnight 999: What’s Your Emergency? (S) (HD) 1.00am 24 Hours in A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Shocking Emergency Calls (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—4.00am 999: on the Frontline (S) (HD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196
E4
9.00am Access (S) (HD) 9.10 Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) (HD) 9.45 Can’t Pay? My Nightmare Ex Wife (S) (HD) 10.45 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 12.55pm World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught on Camera (HD) 3.00 FILM something big ★ Comedy western (HD) 5.20 FILM Fighting Man of the Plains ★★ Western
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Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access (S) 9.15 FILM A Challenge for Robin Hood ★★ (S) (W) 11.10 FILM Ten Little Indians ★★ (BW) (S) (W) 1.00pm World’s Most Vicious Beasts (S) 2.00 Deep-Sea Super Monsters (S) 3.00 How the Victorians Built Britain (S) 5.00 Britain’s Greatest Bridges (S) (AD) 7.00 Heathrow Airport: Then and Now (S) 8.00 Inside Air Force One: Secrets of the Presidential Plane R (S) 9.00 The Space Shuttle: Triumph and Tragedy (S) 11.00 JFK’s Secret Killer: the Evidence (S) 12 midnight Paddington Station 24/7 (S) 1.00am Panic at 30,000 Feet (S) 2.00 Fights, Camera, Action! (S) 3.50—4.00am Access (S)
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Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am The Hotel Inspector (HD) 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 11.00 Antiques Road Trip (HD) 4.00pm Homes under the Hammer (HD) 8.00 Call the Cleaners: double bill. A team attempts to clear 30 years’ worth of belongings from a bungalow, then Maxine and Jasmine help a man who is caring for his elderly father (HD) 9.00 Dr Pimple Popper: Louis is covered in dry, scaly skin (HD) 10.00 Embarrassing Bodies: a 65-year-old who had gender reassignment surgery 11.00 Ghost Adventures (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Nation (HD) 1.00am Haunted Hospitals (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Antiques Road Trip (HD)
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Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279 7.00am House Hunters International (HD) 8.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 10.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 12 noon Flog It! (HD) 2.00pm River Cottage Australia (HD) 3.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 5.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 7.00 A Place in the Sun: double bill. Potential buyers explore Cinque Terre in Liguria, Italy, then another set of house hunters explore the Croatian island of Hvar (HD) 9.00 Flog It! (HD) 10.00 Flog It! (HD) 11.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 12 midnight Bargain Hunt (HD) 2.00am Island Life (HD) 3.00—4.00am Nick Knowles’s Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
Quest
12
F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
8.30am Tomorrow’s World 9.00 Diagnosis Murder 2.00pm NCIS 7.00 Scorpion 9.00 NCIS: Los Angeles: five editions. A former marine is killed by an exploding mobile phone 10.00 A navy officer is killed at a strip club 11.00 Callen assumes an old alias 12 midnight Dom activates a distress signal 1.00am Five men are killed by a lethal toxin 2.00 Perry Mason 4.00 The High Chaparral 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am Find It, Fix It, Flog It (HD) 7.00 Supercar Superbuild (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (HD) 9.00 Goblin Works Garage (HD) 10.00 EFL on Quest (HD) 12 noon Outback Opal Hunters (HD) 4.00pm Deadliest Catch (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) (HD) 7.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (HD) 8.00 Born Mucky: Life on the Farm: a one-ton bull causes problems for Ian as he attempts to grow his cattle herd (HD) 9.00 Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars: buying, restoring and selling classic cars (HD) 10.00 Goblin Works Garage (HD) 11.00 Hunting Hitler (HD) 12 midnight Treasure Quest: Snake Island (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 Wheels That Fail (HD) 3.00 Destroyed in Seconds 4.00 Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (HD) 5.00—6.00am Overhaulin’ Chronicles Vol. 2 (HD)
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
CBS Justice
39
Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
71
Challenge
46
Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
7.30am The Key of David 8.00 Shopping 9.00 The Father Dowling Mysteries 2.00pm Unsolved Mysteries 6.00 Matlock: five episodes. A photographer is murdered 7.00 A reporter tries to prove a woman did not kill her husband 8.00 Four men are suspected of killing a doctor 9.00 An Englishman is accused of murdering his father 10.05 As the case continues, the attorney goes to England 11.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 12 midnight CSI: Miami (HD) 4.00—6.00am Judge Judy
7.00am Wheel of Fortune (AD) 9.30 Catchphrase (AD) 12 noon Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 2.30pm Family Fortunes 5.00 Bullseye 6.00 Impossible: game show in which 30 recurring players compete for the chance to win £10,000. Hosted by Rick Edwards 7.00 All Star Family Fortunes: double bill 9.00 The Chase 11.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 2.00am The Chase USA 4.00—6.00am Supermarket Sweep
Horror Channel Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149 8.00am FILM End of the World ★★ Sci-fi
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comedy drama 9.50 Highlights 10.00 Star Trek: Voyager 3.00pm FILM Warbirds ★ Horror fantasy 4.50 FILM Bermuda Tentacles ★ Sci-fi horror 6.40pm FILM Masque of the Red Death ★★ Horror 8.30 Tales from the Darkside 9.00 FILM Lake Placid: the Final Chapter ★ Horror thriller starring Yancy Butler and Elisabeth Röhm 10.50 FILM Hostel: Part II ★★★ Horror sequel starring Lauren German and Roger Bart 12.45am FILM The Unfolding ★★★ Horror mystery 2.35 FILM Patchwork ★★★ Comedy horror 4.20—4.30am Highlights
Travel
Sunday Television
999: on the Frontline 9.00pm
5 USA
Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
232
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605 6.00am Westminster Hall 10.55 Prime Minister’s Questions 11.30 The Week in Parliament 12 noon America This Week 1.00pm Washington Journal 3.00 HARDtalk 3.30 BOOKtalk 3.45 The View 4.30 Politics Scotland 5.00 Politics Northern Ireland 5.30 Politics Wales 6.00 Question Time: from Buxton 7.00 The Andrew Marr Show 8.00 Politics North West 8.30 Politics West Midlands 9.00 Political Highlights 12 midnight Politics London 12.30—6.00am Political Highlights
Listings for PBS America, Smithsonian see over. Film4 and other Freeview movie channels: p72
Michael Portillo’s Thai adventure
YOUR RT P152
69
SUNDAY Satellite & cable
Magnum P.I. 8.00pm The
The New Pope 9.00pm
The Rookie 9.00pm Nolan
team goes looking for a killer
Assente explains his policies
has a debate with Jessica
Television Sunday
Sky 1
Sky Atlantic
W
Hold the Sunset 8.40pm
Roger asks Mrs Gale for help
Gold
Sky 106 Virgin 110 HD Virgin 109
Sky 108
Sky 107 Virgin 112 HD Virgin 111
Sky 109 Virgin 125 BT 311 HD Virgin 211 BT 383
Sky 110 Virgin 124 BT 310
6.00am Hour of Power (HD) 7.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.30 New. Dolittle Special (HD) 9.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 10.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 11.00 Rugby’s Funniest Moments (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon LIVE Women’s Rugby Union: France v England (kick-off 12.30pm) (HD) 2.45pm The Simpsons (S) (HD) 6.00pm The Simpsons Homer prevents a nuclear meltdown. 6.30 Bart tries to reunite Krusty the Clown with his estranged father. 7.00 Bart, Homer and Lisa suffer from nightmares at Halloween. 7.30 A pickpocket targets the residents of Springfield. (S) (HD) 8.00 New. Magnum P.I. Ep 6 Series 2. Thomas helps his girlfriend with a case. (HD) 9.00 New. Hawaii Five-0 Ep 6 Series 10. McGarrett and the team investigate a fatal hit-and-run. (HD) 10.00 New. NCIS: Los Angeles Ep 6 Series 11. The team partners up with two ex-criminals. (HD) 11.00 Cobra 3/6. The teams head to Northumberland. (S) (HD) 12 midnight S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am The Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 1.55 Jett (S) (HD) 3.05 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD) 4.00—6.00am Road Wars (S)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 4.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Blue Bloods 2/22 Series 1. The Reagans are forced to question their attitude toward vigilantism and the media. 7.00 3/22. Danny investigates a series of attacks on a college campus, and discovers the culprit may be a fraternity member. 8.00 4/22. Danny’s search for a policeman’s killer brings Henry back into contact with a former foe who could have vital information. (S) (HD) 9.00 The New Pope 7/9 The terrorist threat becomes increasingly menacing. Meanwhile, Assente’s policies undermine the Church’s credibility. (HD) 10.10 8/9. Having uncovered John Paul III’s secrets, Voiello begins his plan to regain power. Lenny Belardo secretly returns to the Vatican. (HD) 11.20 The Outsider 4/10. Jack’s behaviour grows more erratic and Glory faces increased scrutiny. (HD) 12.30am Oz 1.45 Life Itself Special (HD) 2.00 New. The Outsider 5/10 Jeannie gives Ralph a warning (HD) 3.05 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 4.00 Storm City (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Urban Secrets (S) (HD)
6.00am Nothing to Declare (HD) 9.00 Sun, Sea and A&E (S) (AD) 12 noon Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD) 1.00pm Customs UK: double bill 2.00 Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 6.00pm Nothing to Declare Two further editions following the work of customs and immigration officers in Australia. (S) (AD) 7.00 Ghost Whisperer 13/22 Series 2. Melinda tries to protect her pregnant friend from a dangerous spirit. (S) (HD) 8.00 14/22. Melinda investigates the meaning of a mysterious code and the activities of a secret drag-racing society. (S) (HD) 9.00 The Rookie 3/10 Series 2 Tension builds between Officer Nolan and Jessica, while Officer Chen meddles in Officer Bradford’s love life. (S) (HD) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 22/24 Series 14 The squad is pulled into a city-wide investigation of sniper attacks. (HD) 11.00 23/24. A comatose woman is found clinging to life in a rowing boat on the East River. (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Whisperer (S) (HD) 2.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD) 3.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare: six editions (HD)
6.10am Tipping Point (S) (HD) 11.00 Doctor Who (S) (AD) 5.00pm Inside the Ambulance A toddler suffers convulsions. 6.00 A young man has a seizure. 7.00 A young motorcyclist needs urgent treatment. (S) (HD) 8.00 999 Rescue Squad The discovery of underwear on a canal bank sparks a search. (S) (HD) 9.00 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends The agnostic presenter goes in search of salvation in America’s Bible Belt, where a Christian TV-channel host invites him to be born again live on air. (S) (AD) 10.00 Stacey Dooley Investigates: Canada’s Lost Girls The reporter investigates missing or murdered women and girls in Canada. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Amish: a Secret Life A family from the religious group’s strictest order consents to be filmed — even though it means there is a risk of excommunication by the Amish church. (S) (HD) 12 midnight One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 1.50 American Housewife (S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD)
7.10am The Piglet Files 7.40 Only Fools and Horses (S) (AD) 6.00pm Only Fools and Horses The Trotters go on holiday. 6.40 Rodney finds a girlfriend. 7.20 Del decorates the local Chinese restaurant. (S) (AD) 8.00 Dad’s Army Jones finds himself cast adrift. (S) 8.40 Hold the Sunset Bob suggests that Roger apply to become his mother’s paid carer — but the only problem is that she is in perfect health. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Porridge An intriguing new inmate arrives, in the form of rock star Rob Strange. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Still Open All Hours Granville tries to stop Madge and Mavis moving away — but there is only one person who can change their minds. (HD) 10.40 Mrs Brown’s Boys Maria goes into labour. (S) (HD) 11.20 Harry Enfield and Chums With guests Desmond Lynam, Jimmy Hill and Martin Clunes. (S) (AD) 12 midnight Hold the Sunset (S) (AD) (HD) 12.40am Black Books (S) 2.20 Harry Enfield and Chums (S) (AD) 2.50 Black Books (S) 3.15—4.00am Peep Show
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
Sky Arts Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am Rossini: Moses (HD) 7.30 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 10.00 Discovering: Leslie Howard (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Discovering: Eli Wallach (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Richard Widmark (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Discovering: Terence Stamp (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Discovering: Max von Sydow (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Darbar: Music of India (HD) 6.00pm Portrait Artist of the Year With sitters Trevor Nelson, Noel Clarke and Ashley Roberts. (HD) 7.00 Great Film Composers: the Music of the Movies Soundtracks of the 1980s, including John Williams’s score for ET, Brad Fiedel’s music for The Terminator and Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind’s work on The Shining. (HD) 8.00 Bafta: Life in Pictures Hugh Grant chats to Briony Hanson about the film that nearly put him off acting and his superstardom as the bumbling Englishman. (S) (HD) 9.00 The Shadows: the Final Tour A 2004 concert featuring tracks including Apache, Riders in the Sky and FBI. (S) (HD) 11.55 Carl Perkins and Friends The rockabilly star is joined by fellow artists Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and others for a concert recorded in London in 1985. (S) (HD) 1.00am Johnny Cash: behind Prison Walls (HD) 2.00 The Music Videos That Shaped the 80s (S) (HD) 3.00 The Seventies (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00— 6.00am The Eighties (S) (AD) (HD)
Sky Crime Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 11.00 Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 12 noon Highway Cops (S) (AD) 1.00pm Caught on Dashcam 3.00 Road Wars (S) 6.00 Snapped: triple bill. The shooting of a cab driver 7.00 A woman accused of killing her husband 8.00 Stories of women who turned to murder (S) 9.00 New. Smiley Face Killers: the Hunt for Justice: double bill. A navy veteran who vanished just after speaking to his girlfriend, then a body is found on a beach 11.00 Snapped (S) 1.00am Killer Neighbours 2.00 A Lie to Die For (S) 3.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) 4.00 Road Wars (S) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)
Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: Atlanta 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: Atlanta 1.00pm Speeders 6.00pm Speeders: six editions. A car full of partygoers is pulled over 6.30 A woman in Chicago gets distracted, while a driver has lots of excuses 7.00 Members of a band are stopped by officers and a woman with a surprising past is pulled over 7.30 A couple reveal a story about their daughter’s party and a group of lovestruck men are encountered 8.00 as 6pm 8.30 as 6.30pm 9.00 Bait Car: Atlanta 11.00 Speeders 12 midnight Bait Car 1.00am Speeders 3.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
70
Sky Witness
Stacey Dooley Investigates: Canada’s Lost Girls 10.00pm
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am 60-Minute Makeover 10.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 3.00pm Stargate SG-1: three episodes of the sci-fi drama (S) 6.00 Stargate SG-1: two further episodes. Jackson is enslaved by the Goa’uld, then a Jaffa leader tries to form an alliance with Earth (S) 8.00 Chicago Med: Dr Choi and Dr Marcel disagree 9.00 Chicago Fire: the crew are called in to deal with two eerily similar car wrecks 10.00 Chicago PD: a murder in a Bulgarian neighbourhood results in a challenging investigation for the team 11.00 The Rookie (S) 12 midnight Madam Secretary 1.00am Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD) 5.00— 6.00am RSPCA Animal Rescue (S)
Syfy Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am FILM Cold Zone ★★ 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 FILM Bridge to Terabithia ★★★★ 1.00pm FILM Upside Down ★★ 3.10 FILM Flight of the Navigator ★★★ 5.00 FILM SPYkids ★★★★ 7.00 FILM Almighty Thor ★ 9.00 FILM Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ★★★ Sci-fi action thriller. Review page 42 11.10 FILM The Devil’s Rejects ★★★ Road-movie sequel to House of 1000 Corpses, starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon 1.20am FILM Bounty Killer ★★★
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.00 The Mindy Project (HD) 1.00pm Parks and Recreation (HD) 6.00 Parks and Recreation: five episodes. Leslie welcomes dignitaries from Venezuela 6.30 Leslie helps to build a playground 7.00 Halloween arrives, and Leslie enlists Dave and Andy to keep an eye on a prankster 7.30 Leslie crosses paths with Ron’s manipulative ex-wife Tammy 8.00 The department enters a competition to design a mural (HD) 8.30 A.P. Bio (HD) 9.00 New. Saturday Night Live (HD) 10.30 Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo (S) (HD) 11.45 Curb Your Enthusiasm (HD) 1.40am Ballers (HD) 2.10 Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker (HD) 3.30—5.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD)
TLC Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377 6.00am Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 3.00pm Say Yes to the Dress: UK (HD) 5.00 Long Island Medium: Theresa spends an entire day doing non-stop readings (HD) 6.00 Unpolished: an upcoming surgery brings the family together during a time of turmoil (HD) 7.00 Sister Wives: Meri returns to Flagstaff but feels alone (HD) 8.00 90 Day Fiancé: double bill. Mursel packs his bags for Turkey and Angela arrives in Nigeria (HD) 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 12 midnight 90 Day
3.20 Future Man 4.00—6.00am Mythica: the Darkspore
Fiancé: double bill (HD) 3.00am Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 4.00—6.00am Say Yes to the Dress (HD)
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 9.00 Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 FILM Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Road Chip ★★ (S) 1.00pm The Office US (S) (HD) 2.00 Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 FILM John Tucker Must Die ★★ Romantic comedy starring Jesse Metcalfe (S) (HD) 9.00 FILM Step Brothers ★★★ Comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C Reilly (S) (HD) 11.00 Roast Battle: Jamie Laing v Ivo Graham, and Joe Sutherland v Sophie Duker (S) (HD) 11.30 Lee Evans: XL Tour: stand-up comedian Lee Evans returns to Wales (S) 12.30am South Park (S) (HD) 4.15—5.00am Impractical Jokers (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy (HD) 1.00pm Little Women: Atlanta (HD) 4.00 Judge Judy (HD) 8.00 Cheerleader Generation (HD) 9.00 24 to Life: a mother who attempted to regain her family’s trust before leaving for prison (HD) 10.00 FILM I Am Elizabeth Smart ★★★ Crime drama based on a true story, starring Alana Boden and Skeet Ulrich. In June 2002, teenager Elizabeth Ann Smart was abducted from her home and held hostage by a religious fanatic (W) (HD) 11.45 Little Women: Atlanta (HD) 12.45am Little Women: Atlanta (HD) 2.35 The Toe Bro (HD) 3.30—4.00am Judge Judy (HD)
Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY CHILDREN’S Milkshake! on C5 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p68
Father Brown 6.10pm The
NCIS: New Orleans 6.00pm
priest digs up a family’s past
Pride investigates a murder
Alibi
Fox
Battle of Britain: the Real Story 9.40pm James Holland
Alaska: the Last Frontier 9.00pm Otto on his tractor
PBS America
Discovery
91
Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view 91 (1–11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Miss Marple (S) (AD) 10.00 Death in Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00pm Maisie Raine (S) (AD) 4.00 Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (S) 6.10pm Father Brown 3/10 Series 2. The opening of Pryde Castle ends in disaster when a guide is struck by an arrow, and Father Brown becomes convinced that the motive lies in the family’s past. 7.10 4/10. A convicted killer is given a temporary reprieve and begs Father Brown to help prove her innocence. 8.10 5/10. The disappearance of an old friend leads Father Brown and Sid on a quest to find the mythical Lannington Rosary. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.10 Murdoch Mysteries 3/18 Series 13. Murdoch investigates the murder of a woman who vanished years earlier. (HD) 10.10 Frankie Drake Mysteries 2/10 Series 3. Frankie steps into the boxing ring and meets up with her old friend Moses Page as part of a plan to stop illegal boxing and take down a corrupt cop. (AD) (HD) 11.10 Inspector Alleyn Mysteries 6/6 Series 1. The detective enlists the help of an old friend. (S) 1.20—4.00am The Bad Seed: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00am Bull (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 11.00 The Mentalist (HD) 12 noon Bones (HD) 4.00pm The Mentalist (HD) 5.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm NCIS: New Orleans 17/24 Series 4. A navy lieutenant commander is murdered. (HD) 7.00 NCIS Ep 4 Series 17 Investigating a string of attacks on homeless veterans. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Ep 5. The team members investigate a US marine corporal after evidence suggests that she killed her neighbour while being treated for insomnia. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 NCIS: New Orleans 18/24 Series 4. Sebastian and Tammy join Pride in South America when an old colleague asks him for help with a classified operation that has been compromised. (HD) 10.00 Family Guy Series 17. Stewie invents a shrinking machine. 10.30 Series 10. Lois prepares a Thanksgiving meal for friends. 11.00 The Griffins are stranded near an Amish community. 11.30 Lois tries to save the life of Stewie’s new best friend. (HD) 12 midnight Family Guy (HD) 1.30am American Dad! (HD) 2.30 Family Guy (HD) 3.00 American Dad! (HD) 4.00—5.00am Bull (HD)
6.00am Building Off the Grid (S) (HD) 12 noon Expedition Bigfoot (HD) 6.00pm Truth behind the Moon Landing The Nasa tapes that recorded the Apollo 11 Moon landing are missing. Experts examine whether their disappearance is part of a cover-up. (S) (HD) 7.00 Expedition Bigfoot Mireya agrees to act as bait in order to lure out Bigfoot. (HD) 8.00 Richard Hammond’s Big Richard explores the Kölnbrein Dam in Austria. (HD) 9.00 New. Alaska: the Last Frontier Atz Lee, Jane and Etienne stock their freezers with trout, and Otto and August refurbish an old tractor. (HD) 10.00 Ed Stafford: Man Woman Child Wild Ed Stafford takes his wife and their two-year-old son on an epic adventure. (S) (HD) 11.00 Gold Rush Tony goes off the beaten track looking for gold. (HD) 12 midnight Gold Rush: White Water (HD) 1.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (HD) 2.00 Kindig Customs (S) (HD) 3.00 Expedition Bigfoot (HD) 3.50 Alaska: the Last Frontier (HD) 4.40 Richard Hammond’s Big (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Walks around Britain 8.30 Hitler: Germany’s Fatal Attraction 11.45 D-Day 360 1.00pm D-Day at Pointe du Hoc 2.15 Walks around Britain 2.50 Battle of Britain: the Real Story 4.05 Hitler: Germany’s Fatal Attraction 6.05pm Hitler: Germany’s Fatal Attraction How Hitler’s popularity began to fade away. 7.15 D-Day 360 The battlefield of Omaha Beach is re-created using data gathered through forensic laser-scanning, 3D computer modelling and eyewitness accounts. 8.30 D-Day at Pointe du Hoc How the US army’s 2nd Ranger battalion neutralised German artillery at the top of 100ft-high cliffs during the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. 9.40 Battle of Britain: the Real Story James Holland explores the Battle of Britain from the German point of view, focusing on the tactics, technology and intelligence available to both nations, and how they decided to use their resources. 11.00 D-Day 360 As 7.15pm. 12.15am D-Day at Pointe du Hoc 1.30—2.00am Walks around Britain
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Doing Da Vinci 8.00 Expedition Unknown 10.00 Mysteries at the Museum 3.00pm Doing Da Vinci 5.00 Expedition Unknown 6.00pm Expedition Unknown Josh treks the Inca Trail. 7.00 Wildest Europe Discovering the wildlife of Europe’s waterways, including the world’s only underwater spider, the European river otter and the Danube delta’s golden jackal. 8.00 Hacking the Wild Andy braves a remote forest in Alaska, a terrain that’s rugged, wet, and cold. To return to civilisation, he must use his tech to stay warm, dry, and alive. 9.00 Ultimate Warfare Exploring the Battle of Hue, which took place at the beginning of the Tet Offensive, the Viet Cong’s campaign of surprise attacks against the US and its allies in 1968. 10.00 Surviving the Cut The training regime undertaken by the US Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians, consisting of a five-day, non-stop series of highly stressful missions. 11.00 World War II in Colour The Allied forces’ preparations for the Normandy landings. 12 midnight Hitler’s final attempts to shift the balance of power in his favour. 1.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum: five editions Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
History
Nat Geographic
Smithsonian
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am Pawn Stars (HD) 11.00 Ancient Aliens (HD) 12 noon Pearl Harbor: Survivors Remember (HD) 2.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 4.00 Storage Wars (HD) 6.00 Mega Mechanics: the maintenance of enormous coal mining machines (HD) 7.00 New. The Curse of Oak Island: Digging Deeper: documentary following two brothers searching for treasure on a Nova Scotia island (HD) 8.00 The Curse of Oak Island: Digging Deeper 9.00 Civilisation Lost: prehistoric life (HD) 11.00 The UnXplained with William Shatner: featuring the mothman, chupacabra and Mongolian death worm (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars (HD) 2.00am Storage Wars (HD) 4.00 Mega Mechanics (HD) 5.00—6.00am The UnXplained with William Shatner (HD)
8.00am Worst Weather Ever? (HD) 9.00 Inside the Mega Twister (HD) 10.00 Destroyed by Nature (HD) 11.00 Witness to Disaster (S) (HD) 1.00pm Air Crash Investigation (AD) (HD) 4.00 Doomsday Earth (HD) 6.00pm Drain the Oceans (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 RT CHOICE New. Running Wild with Bear Grylls: Cara Delevingne joins Bear on a journey into the mountains of Sardinia. See p64 (HD) 8.00 Air Crash Investigation: the true story of a plane crash in the Himalayas (HD) 9.00 Rescued (HD) 10.00 Running Wild with Bear Grylls (HD) 11.00 My Fighting Season (HD) 12 midnight Battleground Brothers (HD) 1.00am Chain of Command (HD) 2.00 Real Time Disaster (HD) 3.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 4.00— 5.00am Seconds from Disaster (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 10.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 12 noon Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 3.00pm Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD) 4.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (HD) 5.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 6.00pm Legend of Deep Blue (HD) 7.00 New. Homestead Rescue: the residence of musician Lou and partner Stacey is threatened by water erosion and is at serious risk from a torrential rainstorm, so the Raneys come to the rescue (HD) 8.00 New. Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD) 9.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (HD) 10.00 Lone Star Law (HD) 11.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 3.50am Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 4.40 How Do Animals Do That (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am The Zoo (HD) 11.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD) 12 noon Russia from Above (HD) 3.00pm The Zoo (HD) 5.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD) 6.00 Russia from Above (HD) 9.00 The Zoo: five editions. Zookeepers Ken and John say goodbye to Jubari the rhino 9.30 The elephants enjoy a mud bath 10.00 A tiger undergoes emergency dental surgery 10.30 A lion cub seems to have broken its leg 11.00 A gorilla gets close to giving birth (HD) 11.30 David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities: the curious creatures that have led to accusations of forgery (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Russia from Above (HD) 5.30—6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Wine
57
F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am Aerial America (HD) 7.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 8.00 Mystic Britain (HD) 9.00 Space Voyages (HD) 1.00pm The Lost Tapes (HD) 3.00 Volcanos: Dual Destruction (HD) 4.00 Chilean Mine Rescue (HD) 5.00 The Deadliest Wave: Asian Tsunami (HD) 6.00pm Russia’s Meteor Mystery An explosion that hit a forested region in Siberia in 1908. (HD) 7.00 Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink The possibility of a man-made extinction event. (HD) 8.00 Aerial Britain Stunning aerial photography of northern England, including Liverpool and Alnwick Castle. (HD) 9.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates Julie Montagu explores Elizabethan mansion Doddington Hall, discovering how a retail empire helps to keep it alive. (HD) 10.00 First Ladies Revealed The role of style in the lives of US president’s wives — including Jackie Kennedy — and how it is not only personal, but political. (HD) 11.00 Aerial Britain As 8pm. 12 midnight An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 1.00am First Ladies Revealed (HD) 2.00 Aerial Britain (HD) 3.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 4.00 First Ladies Revealed (HD) 5.00— 6.00am White House Revealed (HD)
CBeebies
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Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Show Me Show Me 6.25 Twirlywoos 6.35 Teletubbies 6.50 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Postman Pat: SDS 7.15 Bing: double bill 7.35 Hey Duggee: double bill 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.25 Bitz & Bob 8.35 The Furchester Hotel 8.45 Biggleton 9.00 Something Special 9.20 What’s the Big Idea? 9.25 Mimi and the Mountain Dragon 9.50 Go Jetters: double bill 10.15 New. YolanDa’s Band Jam 10.30 Swashbuckle 10.55 Andy’s Safari Adventures 11.05 Grace’s Amazing Machines 11.25 Waffle the Wonder Dog 11.35 Topsy and Tim: double bill 11.55 Olobob Top 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Katie Morag 12.25 Woolly & Tig 12.30 Sarah & Duck 12.40 Down on the Farm 1.00 Where in the World? 1.15 Our Family 1.25 What’s the Big Idea? 1.30 My Pet and Me 1.45 Woolly & Tig 1.50 Melody 2.00 Something Special 2.15 Andy’s Baby Animals 2.25 Junk Rescue 2.40 Grace’s Amazing Machines 2.55 Bitz & Bob 3.10 Peter Rabbit Special: The Tale of the Unexpected Discovery 3.30 Go Jetters: double bill 4.00 Biggleton 4.10 The Baby Club 4.25 Magic Hands 4.35 Treasure Champs 4.50 Tinga Tinga Tales 5.00 GiggleQuiz 5.15 Apple Tree House 5.30 Katie Morag 5.45 Sarah & Duck 5.50 Charlie and Lola 6.05pm Tee and Mo: animated adventures 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden..: revival of the classic animation, narrated by Michael Palin 6.50—7.00pm Bedtime Stories
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Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
6.00am Peppa Pig: four episodes 6.25 Ben and Holly 6.35 Bob the Builder 6.45 Thomas & Friends 6.55 Fireman Sam 7.10 Noddy: Toyland Detective 7.20 Shane the Chef 7.35 Ben and Holly 7.45 Peppa Pig 8.00 Butterbean’s Cafe 8.20 Paw Patrol 8.35 New. Nella the Princess Knight 8.50 Wissper 9.00 RT CHOICE New. Pirata & Capitano See page 65 9.20 Floogals 9.30 Digby Dragon 9.35—9.50am Shimmer and Shine
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Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 621 Virgin 734 6.00am Dino Dana 6.10 Super 4 6.35 Thunderbirds Are Go 7.00 Dare Master 7.05 The Tom and Jerry Show: triple bill 7.30 New. Scrambled! 9.25 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud: double bill 9.55 Mr Bean: the Animated Series 10.55 Mr Magoo: triple bill 11.25 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 12.55pm Mighty Mike 3.25 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud 3.55 Mr Bean: the Animated Series 4.55 Mr Magoo 5.30 Hotel Transylvania 6.00pm Thunderbirds Are Go: a modern remake of the classic 1960s adventure series 6.30 LEGO Jurassic World: the Legend of Isla Nublar 7.00 ToonMarty: double bill 7.30 The Bagel and Becky Show 7.55 Massive Monster Mayhem 8.20 Drop Dead Weird 8.50—9.00pm Mission Employable
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F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am A Thousand Words ★★ Comedy with a garrulous Eddie Murphy. (2009, 12) (S) 12.50pm Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! ★★★★ Terrific animated adventure. Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Dan Fogler (2008, U) (S)
2.30 Ice Age ★★★ Witty animated adventure. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo (2002, U) (S)
Television Sunday
4.05pm The Devil Wears Prada ★★★ Meryl Streep gives a delicious performance in this glossy, entertaining fashion-industry satire. Anne Hathaway (2006, PG) (AD) 6.15 Star Trek into Darkness ★★★★ A rogue Starfleet officer is pursued by Kirk and the Enterprise crew in this warp-speed sci-fi sequel. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Karl Urban (2013, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 Gods of Egypt ★ Fantasy adventure. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (2016, 12) (S)
And the Bafta goes to… For Sama 5 All4 FREE TO VIEW Filmed in the Syrian city of Aleppo over five years by co-director Waad al-Kateab, For Sama is an often harrowing experience, with death and grief viscerally present and the sound of bombs cacophonous and sudden. But Waad’s love letter to her daughter, born during the conflict, is also a moving, life-affirming work that shows that humanity can abide in the most desperate of places. The film is nominated for four Baftas tonight, including best British film. Andrew Collins rates its chances on page 38. JEREMY ASPINALL
11.25 The Other Woman ★★★ Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann team up in this bubbly comedy. Kate Upton (2014, 12) (S) (AD) 1.35—3.20am Menashe ★★★★ Naturalistic drama set in Brooklyn. Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus (2017, U) (S)
Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am Murder in Mexico: the Bruce Beresford-Redman Story ★★★ Drama. (2015) 10.40 Live Once, Die Twice ★★ Drama. (2006) 12.20pm The Forger ★★ Crime drama. (2012, 12) 2.00 GI Joe: Retaliation ★★ Action adventure. (2013, 12) 4.15 The Hunger Games ★★★★ Futuristic thriller. (2012, 12) 7.05pm Reign of Fire ★★ Humans battle dragons. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey (2001, 12) 9.00 Braven ★★★ Action. Jason Momoa (2018, 15) 10.55 Homefront ★★★ Well-played thriller. Jason Statham, James Franco (2013, 15) 1.00am Jarhead ★★★ War drama. Jake Gyllenhaal (2005, 15) 3.30—6.00am Julie & Julia ★★★★ Drama. Amy Adams, Meryl Streep (2009, 12) Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
That funny familiar feeling Groundhog Day 5 Sky Comedy Today marks Groundhog Day, the North American tradition said to predict the coming of spring. The festivities were made famous by Bill Murray’s 1993 time-loop comedy, which is showing all day on Sky Comedy. Although no sequel was made, Sony released the virtual-reality game Groundhog Day: Like Father like Son last year, while the theme of an endlessly repeating day has inspired the likes of sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow, comic horror Happy Death Day and seafaring nightmare Triangle. ANDREW COLLINS
Winston at war Darkest Hour 1111 Netflix A recent arrival on Netflix, this account of the lead-up to the 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk manages to reclaim Winston Churchill from the dusty pages of history books. A nearly unrecognisable Gary Oldman plays Churchill with mischief and passion in a performance that deservedly won him a Bafta and an Oscar. DAMON WISE
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F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am Riff-Raff ★★★★ (1991, 15) 7.35 Rock around the Clock ★★★ Musical. (1956, U) 9.15 The Reckless Moment ★★★ Thriller. (1949, 12) 11.00 Don’t Panic Chaps ★★ Comedy. (1959, U) 12.50pm First Men in the Moon ★★★ Adventure. (1964, U) 3.00 The Paleface ★★★ Comedy. (1948, U) 4.55 Road to Utopia ★★★★ Comedy. Review p42. (1945, PG) 6.50pm The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 5 Powerful drama. Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage (1962, 12)
9.00 I’ll Never Forget What’s ’Is Name ★★★ Scathing satire on the advertising world. Review p42. Orson Welles, Oliver Reed (1967, 15) 11.10 Bunny Lake Is Missing ★★★ Mystery. (1965, 12) 1.20am Days of Glory ★★ Romantic drama. (1944, PG) 2.55 Hellhounds of Alaska ★ Western. (1973, PG) 4.25—6.00am Mayflower: the Pilgrims’ Adventure ★★ Drama. (1979) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
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Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.00am The Invisible Message ★★ Western. (1935) (S) 7.40 The Stranger ★★★ Thriller. (1946, PG) (S) 9.40 The Siege of Pinchgut ★★ Thriller. (1959, PG) 11.50 The Southerner 5 Drama. Review p42. (1945, U) (S) 1.40pm The Sound Barrier ★★★★ Drama. (1952, U) (S) 4.00 Rockets Galore ★★ Comedy. (1958, U) 6.00pm Get Some In! TV sitcom. 6.30 Tell Me Another TV talk show. 7.00 Old Bill and Son ★★ Knockabout comedy. Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare (1940, U) 9.00 Sunday Night at the London Palladium TV variety show. 10.00 True as a Turtle ★ A couple fall out on board a yacht. John Gregson, June Thorburn (1956, U) 12 midnight What a Crazy World ★★ Musical. (1963, 12) 1.45am Raise the Titanic ★★ Adventure. (1980, PG) (S) 4.00—6.00am The Stars Look Down ★★★★ Drama. (1939, PG) (S)
Sky Oscars
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am Eighth Grade ★★★★ Comedy drama. Elsie Fisher (2018, 15) 7.50 As 6.15pm 9.45 As 10.10pm 11.30 Dolittle Special 11.45 As 8pm 1.55pm Joker preview 2.10 Billionaire Boys Club ★★ Crime drama. Ansel Elgort (2017) 4.15 Radioflash ★★ Disaster thriller. Brighton Sharbino (2019)
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 6.35am The Constant Gardener ★★★★ Political thriller. Ralph Fiennes (2005, 15) 8.45 Ghost As 6.50pm 10.55 Dreamgirls As 9pm 1.05pm My Cousin Vinny ★★★★ Comedy. Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei (1992, 15) 3.10 Gone with the Wind 5 Period drama. Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable (1939, PG)
6.15pm Escape Plan 3 ★★ Sly Stallone leads a rescue mission in this brutal action thriller. Review p62. Dave Bautista (2019, 15) 8.00 The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne. Olivia Colman,
6.50pm Ghost ★★★★ Touching romantic drama about a man who returns from the dead to protect his fiancée. Patrick 9.00 Dreamgirls ★★★ Uplifting musical drama. Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult (2018, 15)
Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson (2006, 12)
10.10 i Never Grow Old ★★★ Undertaker Emile Hirsch gets a lot of work when outlaws take over his town. John Cusack (2019, 15)
11.10 Tootsie ★★★★ A struggling actor masquerades as a woman in order to land a choice part.
12 midnight Rabid ★★★ Horror. (2019, 18) 2.00am Beats ★★★★ Comedy drama. (2019, 18) 4.00 The Cleanse ★★★ Black comedy. (2016) 5.30 Final Score Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
1.10am Kramer vs Kramer ★★★★ Moving study of the suffering divorce brings to a family. Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep (1979, PG) 3.00 Gone with the Wind As 3.10pm
Sky Megahits Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 7.00am The Mummy ★★★ Horror. Brendan Fraser (1999, 12) 9.10 The Mummy Returns ★★★ Horror. Brendan Fraser (2001, 12) 11.25 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ★★ Horror. Brendan Fraser (2008, 12) 1.20pm Avengers: Infinity War ★★★★ Action adventure. Robert Downey Jr (2018, 12)
3.50pm Ant-Man and the Wasp ★★★★ Fast-paced and funny action adventure. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas (2018, 12)
5.50 Captain Marvel ★★★ Marvel’s classy adventure. Brie
Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg (1990, 15)
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr (1982, 15)
Sky Greats Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 8.00am Grease ★★★★ Musical. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John (1978, PG)
10.00 Grease 2 ★★ Musical.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield (1982, PG)
12 noon Flash Gordon ★★★ Sci-fi fantasy. Sam J Jones (1980, PG) 2.00pm 2001: a Space Odyssey 5 Sci-fi epic. Keir Dullea (1968, U)
4.30pm Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5 Classic sci-fi drama. Richard Dreyfuss (1977/1998, PG) 6.50 Jaws 5 Classic thriller about a shark terrorising a beach community. Roy Scheider,
Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Jude Law (2019, 12)
Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss (1975, 12)
8.00 Avengers: Endgame ★★★★ The surviving superheroes from Avengers: Infinity War make their last stand. Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans (2019, 12)
9.00 The Wolf of Wall Street 5 Leonardo DiCaprio plays a corrupt Wall Street player in Martin Scorsese’s exhilarating blackly comic drama. Jonah Hill (2013, 18)
11.00pm War of the Worlds ★★★★ Disaster epic. Tom Cruise (2005, 12) 1.00am King Kong ★★★★ Period fantasy adventure. Naomi Watts (2005, 12) 4.15 The Grinch ★★★ Animated fantasy. Benedict Cumberbatch (2018, U)
12 midnight Die Hard with a Vengeance ★★★★ Action thriller. (1995, 15) 2.15am Mad Max 2 ★★★★ Adventure. (1981, 18) 4.00 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5 Western. Paul Newman (1969, PG)
Sky Action Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 6.15am As 6.45pm 8.30 As 9pm 10.30 As 11pm 12.30pm The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ★★★ Action thriller. Lucas Black (2006, 12) 2.30 Fast & Furious ★★ Action thriller. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (2009, 12) 4.30 Fast Five ★★★★ Action thriller.
Sky Comedy
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson (2011, 12)
Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.00am Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm 7.45 Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm 9.30 As 6.15pm 11.15 Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm 1.00pm Groundhog Day 5 As 8pm 2.45 Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm 4.30 Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm
6.45pm Fast & Furious 6 ★★ Vin Diesel and Paul Walker pull one last job — again. Dwayne Johnson (2013, 12) 9.00 The Fast and the Furious ★★★★ Paul Walker plays a cop who goes under cover in LA’s illegal street-racing scene and befriends its champion, the ultracool Vin Diesel, in this thriller. (2001, 15) 11.00 2 Fast 2 Furious ★★★ Disgraced cop Paul Walker goes under cover in Miami. (2003, 12)
6.15pm Groundhog Day 5 Fabulous comedy fantasy in which cynical TV weatherman Bill Murray is forced to live the same day over and over again… See left. Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott (1993, PG) 8.00 Groundhog Day 5 …and over and over again. (1993, PG) 9.45 Groundhog Day 5 …and over and over again. (1993, PG) 11.30 Groundhog Day 5 …and over and over again. (1993, PG)
12.50am The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift As 12.30pm 2.35 Fast & Furious As 2.30pm 4.35 Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders ★★★ Animated action adventure. Adam West (2016, PG)
1.15am Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm 3.00 Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm 4.45 Groundhog Day 5 As 6.15pm
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Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.35am Cinderella As 2.55pm 8.25 Dumbo As 4.45pm 10.25 Aladdin As 6.45pm 12.40pm Mary Poppins Returns As 9pm 2.55 Cinderella ★★★★ Fairy tale fantasy. Lily James, Cate Blanchett (2015, U) 4.45 Dumbo ★★★★ Fantasy adventure. Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton (2019, PG)
Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.10am Enchanted ★★★★ Fantasy. (2007, PG) 8.00 As 5.30pm 9.30 As 3.35pm 11.25 As 7pm 1.35pm Jumanji ★★★★ Fantasy. Robin Williams (1995, PG) 3.20 Dolittle Special 3.35 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ★★★★ Fantasy. (2010, PG)
6.45pm Aladdin ★★★ Energetic live-action retelling of the Arabian Nights tale. Will Smith,
5.30pm Gulliver’s Travels ★★★ Rollicking comedy adventure. Jack Black (2010, PG) 7.00 Tomorrowland: a World Beyond ★★★★ A teenager is inspired to save a futuristic utopia.
Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott (2019, PG)
9.15 Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald ★★★★ Newt Scamander heads into danger in Paris. Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Johnny Depp, Dan Fogler (2018, 12)
1.30am Fantasia 2000 ★★★ Animation. (1999, U) 2.55 Ice Princess ★★★ Comedy drama. Joan Cusack, Kim
11.35pm The Mask of Zorro ★★★★ Adventure. Antonio Banderas, (1998, PG) 2.00am The Legend of Zorro ★★★ Action. (2005, PG) 4.20 A Dog’s Way Home ★★★ Adventure. Ashley Judd (2018, PG)
Sky Thriller
Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502 6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 6.30 Highlights 10.00 The Sunday Supplement 11.30 Goals on Sunday
1.00pm LIVE Premier League Football Burnley v Arsenal; 4.00 Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City (kick-off 4.30). 7.30 Best Goals 8.30 Goals on Sunday 10.00 Highlights 11.00 Best Goals 11.30 Highlights 12.30am Best Goals (AD) 1.00 Highlights 2.00 Best Goals 2.30—6.00am Highlights
George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson (2015, 12)
James Corden, Johnny Depp (2014, PG)
Cattrall, Michelle Trachtenberg, Hayden Panettiere (2005, U) 4.45 Blank Check ★★ Comedy. Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy (1994, PG)
Sky Premier League
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Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 6.35am Panic Room ★★★ Thriller. Jodie Foster (2002, 15) 8.35 Searching ★★★★ Thriller. John Cho (2018, 12) 10.30 Crypto ★★ Thriller. Beau Knapp (2019, 15) 12.20pm Miss Bala ★★ Drama. Gina Rodriguez (2019, 15) 2.05 Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★ Action thriller. Jessica Chastain (2012, 15)
Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510 6.00am Singin’ in the Rain 5 Musical. (1952, U) 7.45 All Summers End ★★★ Romantic drama. (2017, 12) 9.15 As 5.55pm 11.20 As 8pm 1.20pm The Best of Enemies ★★★ Drama. Taraji P Henson (2019, 12) 3.45 World Trade Center ★★★ Moving drama. Nicolas Cage (2006, 12)
4.45pm Lethal Weapon 3 ★★★ Slick action comedy thriller.
5.55pm Seven Pounds ★★ A taxman seeks atonement for his past actions. Will Smith (2008, 12) 8.00 Elizabeth: the Golden Age ★★★★ Cate Blanchett reprises her role as Queen Elizabeth I. Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen (2007, 12) 10.00 The People vs Larry Flynt ★★★★ An account of the life and times of America’s most successful pornographer.
Sky Cricket Super Bowl LIV 10.00pm
Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504
Sky Action/Mix/Main Event Who will follow Tom Brady?
6.00am Best of Sky Cricket (AD)
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437 7.00am LIVE International T20 Cricket New Zealand v India. 10.30 The Sunday Supplement 11.30 Goals on Sunday 1.00pm LIVE Premier League Football Burnley v Arsenal from Turf Moor (kick-off 2.00); 4.00 Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City (kick-off 4.30). 7.30 LIVE US Tour Golf The final day of the Phoenix Open. 10.00 LIVE Super Bowl LIV Kansas City Chiefs v San Francisco 49ers from Miami (kick-off 11.30). See page 63.
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Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci (1992, 15)
6.50 Lethal Weapon 4 ★★★ The cop duo track down a Triad gang. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci (1998, 15) 9.00 Assassination Nation ★★★ Bold, brash black comedy. Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse (2018, 18)
11.00 Sleepers ★★★ Absorbing drama. Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt (1996, 18)
Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love (1996, 18)
1.40am Feedback ★★ Horror thriller. Eddie Marsan (2019, 18) 3.30 The Hurricane Heist ★★ Action thriller. Maggie Grace, Toby Kebbell (2018, 12) 5.25 Deep Family Secrets ★★★ Thriller. Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson (1997)
12.10am World Trade Center As 3.45pm 2.20 The Keeper ★★★ Handsomely staged biopic of Bert Trautmann. David Kross, Freya Mavor (2018, 15) 4.25 Singin’ in the Rain As 6am
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Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am Wonder Woman ★★ Animated action fantasy. (2009) 7.20 Predator As 3pm 9.10 Predator 2 As 5pm 11.00 Predators As 7pm 1.00pm The Predator As 9pm 3.00 Predator ★★★★ Sci-fi thriller. Arnold Schwarzenegger (1987, 15) 5.00 Predator 2 ★★★ Sci-fi thriller. (1990, 15)
Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 6.00am Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 6.30 For Whom the Bell Tolls ★★★ War drama. (1943, U) 9.30 Murder Most Foul ★★★ Mystery. (1964, U) 11.30 Murder Ahoy ★★★ Murder mystery. (1964, U) 1.30pm Riding Shotgun ★★ Western. (1954, U) 3.00 Chisum ★★ Western. (1970, PG)
7.00pm Predators ★★★ Back-to-basics reboot of the 1987 sci-fi action thriller. Adrien
5.20pm Seven Ways from Sundown ★★★ Satisfying western in which Audie Murphy stars as a Texas Ranger trying to bring in a killer. Barry Sullivan (1960, U) 7.10 Cattle King ★★ B-western about disputes between settlers and ranchers. Robert Taylor (1963, U) 9.00 Code Name: Emerald ★★ Polished Second World War thriller set in the weeks before D-Day. Ed Harris, Max von Sydow (1985, PG)
Brody, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne (2010, 15)
9.00 The Predator ★★★ The alien hunter returns to Earth in search of human DNA. Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Olivia Munn (2018, 15)
11.00 Halloween ★★★★ A superior continuation of the killer saga, with Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role. Judy Greer (2018, 18) 1.00am Halloween As 11pm 2.35 Unfriended: Dark Web ★★★ Horror. Chelsea Alden, Betty Gabriel (2018, 15) 4.15 Project ALF ★★ Sci-fi comedy. Miguel Ferrer, William O’Leary (1996)
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11.00pm Ocean’s Thirteen ★★
Breezy caper. George Clooney (2007, PG) 1.35am Analyze This ★★★★ Crime comedy. Billy Crystal (1999, 15) 4.00 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
Sky Football Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503 6.00am EFL Greatest Games 6.45 SPFL Greatest Games 7.00 League One and Two Goals 7.30 Championship Highlights 9.30 League One and Two Goals 10.00 The Sunday Supplement 11.30 Championship Highlights 1.30pm League One and Two Goals 2.00 Championship Highlights 5.00 League One and Two Goals 5.30 Championship Highlights 8.00 League One and Two Goals 8.30 Championship Highlights 11.00 League One and Two Goals 11.30 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Years (AD) 12.30am Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Offs 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 6.00am Chronicles of a Champion (AD) 6.30 European Tour 7.30 PGA Tour Golf 8.30 European Tour Golf
9.30 LIVE European Tour Golf The Saudi International, day four. 2.00pm PGA Tour Golf 3.00 Chronicles (AD) 4.00 European Tour Golf 5.00 PGA Tour Golf 6.00 LIVE US Tour Golf The final day of the Phoenix Open. 11.00 European Tour Golf 12 midnight Ryder Cup Memories 1.00am European Tour Golf 2.00 Chronicles (AD) 3.00 European Tour Golf 4.00 Chronicles (AD) 4.30—6.00am World of Golf (AD)
Premier Sports 1 Sky 412 Virgin 551 11.25am—1.30pm LIVE Italian Football Juventus v Fiorentina. 1.55—4.00 LIVE Italian Football AC Milan v Hellas Verona. 4.55—7.00 LIVE Italian Football Lecce v Torino (kick-off 5.00). 7.40—9.45 LIVE Italian Football Udinese v Inter Milan (kick-off 7.45).
6.55 LIVE International T20 Cricket New Zealand v India. 10.30 25 Years of the Barmy Army 10.45 Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 11.30 Greatest Games (AD) 12 noon International T20 Cricket 3.35pm 25 Years of the Barmy Army 3.50 Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 4.00 How the 2016 World T20 Was Won (AD) 6.00 International T20 Cricket 9.35 Captain’s Log 10.30 How the 2016 World T20 Was Won (AD) 12.30am Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 1.30 Cricket’s Greatest Games (AD) 2.00 How the 2016 World T20 Was Won (AD) 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00—6.00am Best of Sky Cricket (AD)
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am Super Bowl LI 8.00 Super Bowl LII 10.00 Super Bowl LIII 12 noon NFL 4.00pm Super Bowl LIII 6.00pm NFL: America’s Game (AD) 8.00 NFL: action from the play-offs
10.00 LIVE Super Bowl LIV Kansas City Chiefs v San Francisco 49ers from Miami (kick-off 11.30). See page 63.
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5.00—6.00am Sporting Greats (AD)
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am LIVE International Rugby Sevens Sydney Sevens. 10.30 Greats (AD) 11.00 NBA Classic Games 12 noon NBA Champions 1.15pm Super League Gold (AD) 2.00 LIVE Super League Toronto Wolfpack v Castleford Tigers (kick-off 2.30); 4.30 Leeds Rhinos v Hull FC at Headingley (kick-off 4.45). 7.00 LIVE NBA Houston Rockets v New Orleans Pelicans. 9.30 NBA 11.15 NBA: Sounds of the Finals 11.45 Super League 12 midnight NBA Classics 2.00am Super League 2.15 Super League Gold (AD) 3.00 Records (AD) 4.00 Super League Gold (AD) 5.00—6.00am Records (AD)
Sky Sports Mix Sky 145 Virgin 520 HD Virgin 510 12.00—2.45pm LIVE Women’s Rugby Union France v England in the Six Nations (kick-off 12.30). 10.00—5.00am LIVE Super Bowl LIV Kansas City Chiefs v San Francisco 49ers from Miami (kick-off 11.30). See p63.
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Eurosport 1 Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435 7.00am Tennis: Australian Open
8.30 LIVE Tennis: Australian Open The men’s singles final from Melbourne Park. 11.30 Tennis: Australian Open: the best action from the finals at Melbourne Park 1.40am Snooker 2.00 Alpine Skiing 4.00—6.00am Snowboarding
BT Sport 1 Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430 6.00am Badminton (AD)
6.30 LIVE Women’s Hockey Australia v Great Britain. 8.30 Reload 9.00 Wrestling (AD) 11.00 Premier League World 11.30 LIVE Scottish Premiership Football Hamilton Academical v Celtic (kick-off 12.30pm). 2.45pm Hockey: Pro League 4.45 LIVE German Football SC Paderborn v VfL Wolfsburg. 7.00 German Football 7.30 BT Sport Reload 7.45 LIVE French Football Bordeaux v Marseille (k/o 8.00). 10.00 Scottish Football Extra 10.30 Scottish Premiership Football 12 midnight French Football 4.30am BT Sport Reload 5.00—6.00am International Women’s T20 Cricket
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.30am T20 Cricket 7.30 Premier League Football 9.00 Italian Football 9.30 T20 Cricket 10.30 International Women’s T20 Cricket
12.30pm LIVE Rugby Union Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins in the Premiership Cup (kick-off 1.00). 3.15 Fishing (AD) 4.15 Italian Football 4.45 Mic’d Up: Darren Ferguson 5.15 BT Sport Reload 5.30 LIVE NHL Washington Capitals v Pittsburgh Penguins. 8.00 Hockey 9.00 30 for 30: Vick Part 1 (AD) 11.00 Hockey: Pro League 12 midnight UFC 1.00am Rugby Union 2.30—6.00am German Football
Sunday Television
9.00 Mary Poppins Returns ★★★ Emily Blunt is pitch perfect as the magical nanny in this fun sequel. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw (2018, U) 11.15 Into the Woods ★★★ A baker and his wife try to break a witch’s curse. Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt,
SPORT
BT Sport 3 Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.30am German Football 10.00 French Football 12 noon 30 for 30: What Carter Lost (AD) 1.30pm Big Bash Reload
1.45 LIVE French Football Nice v Lyon; 4.00 Metz v Saint-Etienne. 6.00 Australian Football 7.30 Italian Football 8.00 International Women’s T20 Cricket 9.00 Wrestling 3.00am Australian Football 4.30—6.00am Scottish Premiership Football
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434 7.00am World of X Games 8.00 World Rally 9.00 Basketball 2.15pm Reload
2.30 LIVE German Football FC Cologne v Freiburg (kick-off 2.30). 4.30 BT Sport Reload 5.00 LIVE Basketball Pittsburgh Panthers v Miami Hurricanes; 7.00 Team USA v Louisville Cardinals. 9.00 X Games: from Colorado 10.00 LIVE Basketball Missouri Tigers v Arkansas Razorbacks. 12 midnight ESPN Films: Elevate (AD) 1.30am Angry Sky (AD) 3.00 ESPN Films: Son of the Congo (AD) 4.00 World Rally 5.00—6.00am X Games
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 6.20am Ski Jumping: World Cup
7.50 LIVE Alpine Skiing 10.30 LIVE Nordic Combined Skiing From Seefeld in Austria. 12 noon Snooker: German Masters 1.00pm LIVE Snooker The final of the German Masters. More 7pm. 4.00 Alpine Skiing 5.00 Cycling 6.00 Cyclo-Cross 7.00 LIVE Snooker From Berlin. 10.00 LIVE Cycling The final stage of the Vuelta a San Juan. 11.30 Cycling: Challenge Mallorca 11.50 Snowboarding 1.45am Cycling 2.00—7.00am Tennis: Australian Open
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MONDAY Choices
The pick of today’s TV
WHISTLE BLOWERS
Television Monday
Reece Shearsmith, Ralf Little, David Morrissey and Steve Pemberton marshal the action
PICK OF THE DAY
Inside No 9 10.00pm BBC2 (N Ireland: Tue 11.45pm)
ANTHOLOGY The referee blows the whistle to kick off the fifth run of this
excellent series from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, their first since the deftly wrongfooting, live Halloween special in 2018. You should know the score by now: a different tale each time and a different space, numbered nine, inside which the action takes place. (Even that idea gets an uncomfortable twist in this edition.) We’re in a referees’ changing room for a crunch clash between United and
Shakespeare and Hathaway
Only Connect
Silent Witness
Cold Feet
8.00pm BBC2
9.00pm BBC1
9.00pm ITV
2.15pm BBC1
QUIZ This could be a historic edition
DRAMA This is one of those Silent
DRAMA I know its ratings aren’t
DAYTIME CHOICE Despite the
of Only Connect (and wow, does the show do well for BBC2 — some weeks it secures more viewers than the blockbusting University Challenge). Because host Victoria Coren Mitchell boggles at the tortured logic of one particular question involving maps and place names.“I genuinely think this is the most difficult question we have ever had,” she marvels, after a team cracks the code and gets the right answer. “This is a level of thinking that I would never get near.” In a great contest between the Eggchasers and the Turophiles, Coren Mitchell also makes honourable mention of her husband David Mitchell’s comedy partner, Robert Webb. ALISON GRAHAM
Witness episodes where things move, to start with, at a soporifically slow pace, the story emerging like slow drips from a pipette. But towards the end, I’m glad to say, all hell breaks loose. So it’s worth putting up with the elliptical stuff at the start, to do with a soldier who collapses and dies during a gas drill at an Army training camp. Thomas is involved at the inquest, where the dead man’s father and grandmother are looking for answers — the father (played by William Ash) is convinced there will be a cover-up. Meanwhile, there’s drama back at the Lyell Centre, too, with a bombshell announcement.
exactly dynamite, but I do hope ITV keeps on making Cold Feet as there’s not really any other drama on telly with such quiet wisdom. And I especially love the way that Hermione Norris and Fay Ripley in particular are able to swerve sentimentality with either a sardonic raise of an eyebrow (Karen) or a world-weary sigh (Jen). The plotlines, too, keep you on your toes, with last week’s cliffhanger dash to the hospital having heartbreaking repercussions for one character. And away from medical matters, we have some sharp comedy for David, who’s taken on a new role as the caring face of capitalism. Not that he believes a word of what he’s preaching. DAVID BROWN
crackers plotlines (today’s involves a murder in a bingo hall) and the largerthan-life guest turns, this weekday Stratford-upon-Avon-set detective drama just about manages to stay on the right side of daft. I think it’s mainly because hangdog PI Frank (Mark Benton) never fails to elicit our sympathy as he blunders his way through the investigations with his partner Lu (Jo Joyner). In this series three opener, there’s the added pleasure of seeing Benton reunited with Jim Moir, playing a supposedly reformed criminal. In 2004, the pair starred in surreal sitcom Catterick. If you enjoy their banter here, do seek it out. DAVID BROWN
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Rovers. David Morrissey (who’s long wanted to be in the show) guest-stars as ref Martin, at the end of his career and intending to go out on a high. The other match officials are dodgy Oggy (Pemberton); grotty Brendan (Shearsmith), who creates a stink; and Phil, who wants his hair to look just right for the cameras. (He’s played by Ralf Little, who’s also joining Death in Paradise on Thursday.) It’s a triumph — and if I say more, they’ll show me the red card. PATRICK MULKERN Reece Shearsmith’s view from the sofa: page 162
DAVID BUTCHER
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY TODAY IN SOAPLAND
down their life to save the other? If so, I don’t fancy Mick’s chances if he’s relying on Linda to rescue him. Evidence that she’s in no state for any heroics comes thick and fast tonight when she drunkenly lashes out at Chantelle before falling asleep and leaving son Ollie in terrible danger. Tomorrow’s episode will see Shirley try to make Linda face up to her problems. But I doubt that realisation will dawn for the Vic’s landlady before the Carters set sail later this month. DAVID BROWN
Miracle Workers
Baghdad Central
9.00pm Paramount
9.00pm Sky Comedy
10.00pm C4
DOCUMENTARY This week the
COMEDY The airily insubstantial
DRAMA OF THE WEEK New series
elegiac western revolves around the things you uncover, and those you need to cover up. For me, the show works best when it plays out against the Montana scenery, so we drink in the scale of the landscape, set against the wrangling of the people who fight over it. But tonight John Dutton (Kevin Costner) sets to work concealing the part his son Kayce played in the bloody events of last week. That means calling in favours and intimidating enemies — not in scenic valleys but in churches, rodeos and a medical examiner’s lab. Meanwhile, Kayce has accidentally unearthed a buried dinosaur skeleton, much to his son’s delight. DAVID BUTCHER
sitcom gets into gear tonight as our heroes, both workers in Heaven Inc’s department of unanswered prayers, set about winning their bet with God. If they lose, he’ll blow up the Earth, which has been a disappointment to him anyway. So all they have to do is get a couple of 20-somethings who already fancy each other to kiss, and God will spare creation. If only Craig (Daniel Radcliffe) weren’t so timid with his miracles, it would be a lot easier. As they struggle with that, God (Steve Buscemi) bullies one of his executive underlings into an obscene undertaking involving a part of Bill Maher’s anatomy that the not-so-almighty wants to see explode. DAVID BUTCHER
Don’t let the fact that the BBC has big guns out elsewhere tonight deter you from this classy Iraq-based drama. Set in 2003 in the chaotic aftermath of the war, it makes the radical move of showing us events from the perspective of ordinary Iraqis attempting a normal life amid the ruins of their country. The story is adapted by Stephen Butchard (who wrote House of Saddam and The Last Kingdom) from Elliott Colla’s novel. Our protagonist is Khafaji, a widowed former Baghdad police detective whose daughter has gone missing. He sets about trying to find her, only to be arrested and interrogated himself. DAVID BUTCHER See feature: page 30
WHAT LIES BENEATH Mary Beard looks behind the fig leaves of artistic perception
Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard 9.00pm BBC2
When Mary Beard Met Clive James iPlayer (expires today) This 2018 interview stood out among the recent repeats remembering the late critic, poet and TV presenter Clive James. It works well as a final interview: James is weakened physically, but not mentally as he enjoys sparring lightly with an interviewer who can easily match his intellect. Team it with Shock of the Nude (see below) for a night of cerebral stimulation with Mary Beard.
DISCOVER TV KIDS
Something Special 9.45am CBeebies, iPlayer A new series of the valuable preschooler show that uses songs, rhymes and Makaton sign language to promote language skills. Today, Justin plays basketball. JACK SEALE
BEST LIVE SPORT
DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK
A cheery conservator at a Cork art gallery chips at a modestypreserving fig leaf on a male nude statue as Mary Beard happily notes: “It’s like a brutal version of dentistry.” Says the conservator: “I’m not going to your dentist, Mary.” Beard is observing a project at Crawford Art Gallery to remove the fig leaves from a series of 200-yearold sculptures of males. The leaves were added some time after the statues were cast. So what’s underneath? “He’s still got his balls,” marvels Beard. Though the gentleman is missing a valuable piece of his anatomy. Ouch. In a breezy two-part documentary Beard looks at the curious history of the nude, mainly the female nude and its titillation of the male gaze, and recent controversies, including the removal from a gallery of John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs. AG See feature: page 22
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
The best of streaming and catch-up
Monday Television
Yellowstone
DISCOVER TV
Snooker: World Grand Prix, day one 6.45pm ITV4 Holder Judd Trump defends his title. German Football: Bochum v Hamburg 7.30pm (k/o 7.30pm) BT Sport 1 A second-tier clash. Italian Football: Sampdoria v Napoli 7.40pm (kick-off 7.45pm) Premier 1 Action from Serie A. NHL Ice Hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs v Florida Panthers 12 midnight Premier 1
q FILM OF THE DAY
Gandhi
1.20pm Sony Movies Classic Richard Attenborough’s stately biopic of Mahatma Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley. See page 45
SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY
I have a feeling Linda’s alcohol problem will be integral to the boat disaster that EastEnders (8pm BBC1) is planning for its 35th anniversary. The BBC has announced that a party on the Thames to celebrate the Queen Vic winning a best pub competition will result in the death of someone significant. And there’s a tantalising titbit in the press release which states that Mick (Danny Dyer) and Linda (Kellie Bright) will face “the toughest decision they’ve ever had to make”. Will one of them have to lay
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Television Monday
BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Louise Minchin, Dan Walker. (S) (HD) 9.15 New series. Fraud Squad: the Hunt A gang tries to swindle the public purse of £13 million. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Homes under the Hammer Properties in West Sussex, the West Midlands and Kent. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Wanted Down Under A family tries out life in Brisbane. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD) 11.45 Defenders UK Enforcement officers check takeaways in Oldham. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt In Detling, Kent. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 1.45 Doctors Ayesha hosts a coffee morning. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 New series. Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 1/10 Series 3. Return of the comedy drama starring Mark Benton and Jo Joyner. Jim Moir guest-stars. See page 74. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Escape to the Country Two returning expats look for a home in the New Forest. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.45 The Farmers’ Country Showdown A market gardener and beekeeper sell their wares. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Natasha Raskin Sharp and Raj Bisram compete in Kent. Rptd Tue 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
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BBC2 6.00am Wanted Down Under Emma and Gerald spend a trial week in Perth. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (HD) 6.45 Antiques Road Trip Louise Gostelow and David Harper are in West Yorkshire. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (HD) 7.30—8.30 Sign Zone MasterChef: the Professionals The semi-finalists are sent to work at Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous’s London restaurant Hide. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 The Week in Parliament The week’s proceedings. Shown last Friday BBC Parliament (S) (HD) 9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Current affairs. (S) (HD) 11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S) (HD) 12.15pm Politics Live With Jo Coburn. (S) (HD) 1.00 Women’s Six Nations Action from the opening round of fixtures. Shown yesterday 12 midnight (S) (HD) 1.30 Get away for Winter A Glasgow couple want to rent a property in southern Spain. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Hollywood Actresses: Talking Pictures Leading ladies of Hollywood’s golden age. (R) (S) (HD) 3.05—5.15 The Red Shoes 5 Classic ballet drama starring Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer and Marius Goring. Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov enlists dancer Victoria Page and young composer Julian Craster in his company. Review p45.
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Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1948, U) (S) (AD)
ITV 6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) 9.00 Lorraine Guests, gossip and more. (S) (HD) 10.00 This Morning Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Daily discussion. (S) (HD) 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 2.00 Judge Rinder Real-life legal cases. (S) (HD) 3.00 Tenable Five workmates answer questions about top ten lists. (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather 4.00—5.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (S) (HD)
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6.30am Cheers Double bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD) 7.20 The King of Queens Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 9.10 Frasier Double bill of the US comedy. (R) (S) (AD) 10.10 Undercover Boss USA The president and CEO of Buffalo Wings & Rings goes under cover. (R) (S) (HD) 11.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA An Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania. (R) (S) 12 noon News (S) (HD) 12.05pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses A newly engaged couple hope to retire to Spain. (R) (S) (HD) 1.05 Escape to the Château: DIY Two musicians want to start putting on foodie events. (R) (S) (HD) 2.10 Countdown Dr Phil Hammond guests. (S) (HD) 3.00 A Place in the Sun A couple seeking a home in the Costa Cálida region of Spain. (R) (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun A couple stake everything on a cycling-holiday business. (S) (HD)
BBC1
BBC2
Silent Witness 9.00pm DI Guyatt and Jack look for clues when a military exercise proves fatal
Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard 9.00pm Revealing the naked truth about the history of art
5.15pm Pointless
5.15pm Flog It!
Quiz presented by Alexander Armstrong. (R) (S) (HD)
Nick Hall is dazzled by some jewellery in Hull. (S) (HD)
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) 7.00 The One Show
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
With Alex Jones and Matt Baker. (S) (HD)
6.30 Great Asian Railway Journeys
7.30 Inside Out 3/10
Bangkok to Hua Hin. Michael Portillo continues his exploration of Thailand, finding out about Bangkok’s Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute. (S) (AD) (HD) Your RT Travel: page 152
LONDON Anna Williamson reveals what is being done to help new mothers with mental health problems. SOUTH EAST How train staff are developing mental health problems because of violent passengers. SOUTH An online tuition system that advertises itself in flyers being given to children in schools. SOUTH WEST The pitfalls of online tuition services. WEST Seb Choudhury investigates the death of a man during the Clipper round-the-world yacht race. WEST MIDLANDS The illegal trade in lower priced red diesel fuel for vehicles on urban roads. EAST MIDLANDS A cancer patient’s fight to protect workers’ rights for the terminally ill. EAST Jo Taylor witnesses the challenges facing truckers as they drive across Europe to the UK. YORKSHIRE/LINCOLNSHIRE Tracy Gee talks to prison officers who have been violently attacked. NORTH EAST/CUMBRIA The programme meets prison officers assaulted on duty. With Chris Jackson. NORTH WEST Investigating ovarian cancer. (S)
8.00 EastEnders Linda has a run-in with Shelley at the school gate. Writer Rebecca Wojciechowski Cast Thursday/Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Cashing In on the Housing Crisis: Panorama Reporter Callum Tulley finds out what life is like for residents living in office blocks converted into homes. Director/Producer Tom Jenner Signed repeat Friday 1am BBC2 (S) (HD)
9.00 Silent Witness
Series 23. The Greater Good 1/2. The a9/10 postmortem on a soldier raises questions over
Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the Rev Richard Coles, Stuart Maconie and Lou Sanders test their skills. Director John Smith; Executive producer Tamara Gilder (S) (HD)
7.00 The Twinstitute 4/6. Better Brain. Chris and Xand van Tulleken investigate the best way to keep our minds sharp. Director Andy Hall; Series producer Helga Berry (R) (S) (HD)
7.30 Mastermind Four contenders answer questions on the specialist subjects of Harpo Marx, Otis Redding, the Romanov dynasty and the life and works of Frederick Douglass. Director Geraldine Dowd Producers Kate Middleditch and Chris Jones (S) (HD)
8.00 Only Connect
Coren Mitchell hosts another secondaVictoria round match as the Eggchasers take on the
Turophiles, having each won and lost a game. See p74. Director Siân G Lloyd; Producer Jenny Heap (S) (HD) RT BOOKS To order Only Connect: the Difficult Second Quiz Book for £13.50 incl p&p, call 03302 232 639 or visit radiotimes.com/shop06
8.30 University Challenge In the second of the quarter-final matches, two teams of four students compete to make it to the next stage of the competition. Jeremy Paxman hosts. Director Bridget Caldwell; Producers Irene Daniels, Peter Gwyn (S) (HD)
DOCUMENTARY OF THE WEEK
9.00 Shock of the Nude with Mary Beard
The classicist shares her perspective on the a1/2. history of the naked body in art, exploring what
10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 10.35 Ladhood
sculpture and paintings reveal of our shifting ideas about gender, sex and morality. Tonight, she explains how an ancient Greek sculpture of Aphrodite bathing by Praxiteles neatly evaded accusations of lewdness and set the tone for future depictions of the female nude. She also confronts Courbet’s frankly anatomical The Origin of the World. See p75.
5/6. Schnecker. Liam finds himself doing cocaine on a Tuesday night. The series is available on iPlayer.
See feature: page 22
his death. Continues tomorrow 9pm. See page 74. Writer Michael Crompton; Producer Lawrence Till Director Dominic Leclerc For cast see Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)
Writer Liam Williams; Director Jonathan Schey Producer Joseph Nunnery (S) (HD)
11.00 LONDON/EAST/WEST MIDLANDS/WEST A Very British History LONDON Vlogger Shu Lin explores the history of the UK’s Chinese community from the 1950s to now. EAST The story of the thousands of Bangladeshi families who settled in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. WEST MIDLANDS Musician Angela Moran looks at the history of Birmingham’s Irish community. (S) WEST Rachel Nguyen tells the story of Vietnamese refugees who came to Britain in the 1970s and 80s. (S) ALL OTHER REGIONS Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad The former footballer talks about being a widowed father.
Director Deborah Lee; Producer Helena Hunt (S) (AD) (HD) See also Life Drawing Live! tomorrow 8pm BBC4
10.00 Inside No 9
series. 1/6 Series 5. The Referee’s a... In aNew a tale of promotion, relegation and corruption,
it’s crunch time for United and Rovers as four match officials oversee the last game of the season. See p74. Martin Mitch Brendan
David Morrissey Phil Steve Speirs Oggy Reece Shearsmith Calvin
Ralf Little Steve Pemberton Dipo Ola
Writers Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith Director Matt Lipsey; Producer Adam Tandy (S) (AD) (HD)
Reece Shearsmith’s view from the sofa: page 162
10.30 Newsnight Presented by Emily Maitlis and Emma Barnett. (S) (HD) 11.10 Weather (S) (HD)
Director Matt Smith; Producer Jessica Winteringham (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
11.15 NFL This Week
12 midnight ALL EXCEPT NORTH EAST/NORTH WEST The Graham Norton Show With Jim Carrey, Margot Robbie, Daniel Kaluuya and Lewis Capaldi. Shown last Friday (S) (HD) NORTH EAST/NORTH WEST The Super League Show Including highlights of Toronto Wolfpack v Castleford Tigers and Leeds Rhinos v Hull FC. Repeated tomorrow 1pm BBC2 (S) (HD) 12.45am Weather (S) (HD) 12.50—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
A review of Super Bowl LIV, which saw Kansas City Chiefs face San Francisco 49ers in Miami. Series editor Rob Williams (S) (HD)
12.05—1.45am Sign Zone 12.05 The Farmers’ Country Showdown A family sells its speciality cheeses. (R) (S) (HD) 12.50 Countryfile The Peak District. Shown Sun 9.05am (S) (HD) BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY ITV
Channel 4
BBC4
Baghdad Central
Cold Feet 9.00pm Karen attempts to make amends with her mother Heather, but will she succeed?
The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook 9.00pm Fresh analysis of an eventful decade
10.00pm Muhsin
al-Khafaji faces a difficult decision when his older daughter vanishes
Regional variations BBC1 SCOTLAND 7.30—8.00pm Fish Town 12 midnight—12.45am Graham Norton
BBC SCOTLAND 5.00pm The Chase
5.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me
7.00pm Beyond 100 Days (S) (HD)
Four more contestants face the Chaser. (S) (HD)
On the menu in East Anglia are some family favourites, a trifle and a Chinese banquet.
Followed by Weather (S) (HD)
Rhona is determined to uncover the truth. Writer Jane Pearson This week’s episodes produced by Kate Brooks and Laura Shaw, directed by Coilin O Scolai and Rupert Such Cast Tuesday/Thursday Repeated tomorrow 7.50am and 12.15pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 Coronation Street A dishevelled Nina calls in at the café. Nina Lucas Mollie Gallagher Gary Windass Mikey North Maria Connor Samia Longchambon Eileen Grimshaw Sue Cleaver Yasmeen Metcalfe Shelley King Geoff Metcalfe Ian Bartholomew Faye Windass Ellie Leach Liam Connor Charlie Wrenshall Carla Connor Alison King Johnny Connor Richard Hawley Jenny Connor Sally Ann Matthews Aggie Bailey Lorna Laidlaw Ed Bailey Trevor Michael Georges Michael Bailey Ryan Russell
James Bailey Grace Vickers Imran Habeeb Toyah Battersby Sarah Platt Bethany Platt Daniel Osbourne Brian Packham Cathy Matthews Alya Nazir Ray Crosby Abi Franklin Kevin Webster Rita Tanner
Nathan Graham Kate Spencer Charlie de Melo Georgia Taylor Tina O’Brien Lucy Fallon Rob Mallard Peter Gunn Melanie Hill Sair Khan Mark Frost Sally Carman Michael Le Vell Barbara Knox
Writer Owen Lloyd-Fox More cast Wednesday Repeated tomorrow 8.20am and 12.45pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 The Martin Lewis Money Show 7/10 Series 9. The journalist looks at whether people could be owed tax on their PPI claims, and compares child savings accounts to find out which ones are the best bets.
Series producer Sam Keay (S) (HD)
6.00 The Simpsons All about Lisa. Sideshow Bob relates how Lisa came to replace Krusty the Clown. (R) (S) (AD)
6.30 Hollyoaks Walter plays cupid for Mitchell. Writer Tom Melia Cast Tue/Fri Shown last Friday E4 Rptd tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 8.00 Australia on Fire: Climate Emergency The dramatic story of the battle to save Australia from the bushfires ravaging the country, including first-hand accounts from the front line. Reporter Kylie Morris examines the long-term impact of the fires on the diverse animal population and ecology, with drone footage revealing the extent of the devastation. Repeated Tue 12 midnight C4 and Wed 9pm 4seven (S) (HD)
9.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? Ep 3 Series 10. Over the last five years calls to Northampton Police for hate crimes have risen by 62 per cent. PCs Lauren El Sharkawi and Nina Crehan are called out to a family who have been subjected to racist abuse from a neighbour.
Series producer Clare Miller; Exec producer Mike Blair (S) (HD)
Series producer Natalie Maynes; Executive producers Gabe Solomon and David Hodgkinson Repeated Wednesday 10.30pm C4 and Friday 9pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Coronation Street
DRAMA OF THE WEEK
Gary assures Maria that he wants to be with her.
10.00 Baghdad Central
Writer Simon Crowther Repeated tomorrow 8.50am and 1.15pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Cold Feet
Series 9. Jenny faces fresh heartbreak, a 4/6 and David starts his new venture, but soon
realises that all is not as it seems. See page 75. Adam Williams James Nesbitt David Marsden Robert Bathurst Karen Marsden Hermione Norris Pete Gifford John Thomson Jenny Gifford Fay Ripley Matthew Williams Ceallach Spellman Roger Gerald Kyd Laura Sacha Parkinson Robyn Lucy Robinson Deborah Sunetra Sarker Heather Gemma Jones Ellie Marsden Sylvie Briggs Barbara Blyth Marji Campi Olivia Marsden Daisy Edgar-Jones Chloe Gifford Madeleine Edmondson
Adam Gifford Jack Harper Young Barbara Hayley Cartwright Robbie Tim Dantay Young Jenny Georgina Davies Young Sheila Juliet Davies Sandra Claire Keelan Rosemary Eliza Marsland Young Heather Rachael McGuinness Amber Yemisi Oyinloye Patrick Jay Rincon Sheila Sally Rogers Young Karen Connie Thorniley Morecambe nurse Suzanne Fulton Morecambe doctor Nasreen Hussain
Writer Jan McVerry; Producer Jim Poyser; Director Fiona Walton Repeated Friday 10.45pm (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 ITV News at Ten
series. 1/6. Crime thriller based on aNew the novel by Elliott Colla and set six months
after the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition. Former Iraqi policeman Muhsin al-Khafaji has lost everything and is battling to keep himself and his daughter, Mrouj, safe. But when he learns that his estranged elder daughter, Sawsan, is missing, Khafaji is forced into a search to find her. The entire series is available online on All 4. The series also continues next week on C4. See p75. Khafaji Waleed Zuaiter Frank Temple Bertie Carvel Zubeida Rashid Clara Khoury Sawsan Leem Lubany Amjad Tawfeek Barhom Megan Ford Charlotte Spencer Captain John Parodi Corey Stoll Mrouj July Namir Maha Nahar Ramadan Nidal Hisham Suliman Candy (Sanaa) Nora el Koussour
Candy’s mother Clark Kibbert Zahra Omar Karl Young Tareq Suheir Young Sawsan Young Mrouj Mosuli Florida
Nadia Niazi Jonny Holden Maisa Abd Elhadi Thaer al-Shayei Youssef Kerkour Warred Namer Zahraa Ghandour Larsa Namer Salma Namer Yousef Sweid Thalissa Teixeira
Dramatised by Stephen Butchard; Producer Jonathan Curling Director Alice Troughton Signed rpt Thu 1.40am (S) (AD) (HD)
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)
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10.45 Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals
11.00 Emergency Helicopter Medics
2/4. Chronicling the royal family’s relationship with the press. Continues Thursday 9pm.
The medics battle to keep 48-year-old Paul alive as he suffers a series of heart attacks. Series producer Nicki Young First shown on More4 (S) (AD) (HD)
12.35am Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 James Martin’s French Adventure The chef heads to Lyon, where the famous food market provides inspiration for a bacon salad. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 3.50 Nightscreen Text information. (HD) 5.05—6.00am Judge Rinder (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
12 midnight Meet the Drug Lords: inside the Real Narcos 3/3. The drug cartels of Peru. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Helping Park’s Edge restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. (R) (S) 1.50 SAS: Who Dares Wins 5/6 Series 5. The escape and evasion phase. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD) 2.45 Come Dine with Me From Nuneaton. (R) (S) (HD) 3.40 Grand Designs In the French Alps. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.35 The Great Hotel Escape Steph and Dom help two former creatives who run a historic hotel. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 5.30 Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free (R) (S) (HD) 5.50—6.30am Countdown (R) (S) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
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11.45 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite Explosive action from the weekly AEW event. Shown last Friday ITV4 (S) (HD)
7.30 Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage 3/12. Bosnia and Dubrovnik. Sea conditions turn rough as Francesco da Mosto hugs his way along the coastal waters of the Adriatic towards the Mostar bridge, now rebuilt after being destroyed in the Yugoslav war. Then he hops over to Hvar and Korcula on the Dalmatian coast before arriving in the medieval city of Dubrovnik. Director/Producer Andrea Illescas (R) (S) (AD) (HD) RT TRAVEL Explore all Croatia has to offer on one of our fantastic holidays — visit radiotimes.com/croatia to find out more
8.00 A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley 2/3. The history of love reaches the Victorian age, where Lucy explores the romantic gestures that emerged and still exist today, such as performing love songs and sending flowers. She also reveals how medieval chivalry shaped courtship, defining the roles that men and women had to play, and dips into popular novels of the time. Director/Producer Rachel Jardine Signed repeat 2.45am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook 1/3. The Sound of the Crowd. The historian begins by examining how powerful new forces of choice and consumerism radically reshaped British life — a new culture of consumerdriven populism that propelled Margaret Thatcher to victory. He takes in everything from the popularity of Delia Smith and the subcultures of Britain’s youth to the crisis of identity that rocked the political left. Director/Series producer Alexander Leith (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 This Life 1/11 Series 1. Coming Together. Cult mid-1990s drama depicting the louche London lives of five 20-somethings. Anna is offered a job by an old flame in return for a one-night stand. 10.40 2/11. Happy Families Miles is seduced by a scheming, out-ofcontrol temptress who’s facing fraud charges. Egg struggles to adjust to his job — and to living with Warren. 11.30 3/11. Living Dangerously Egg gets too involved with a client, while Miles accuses Anna of jealousy. Next episode tomorrow 10pm. Writer Amy Jenkins; Producer Jane Fallon; Director Sam Miller Cast Tue/Wed First shown on BBC2 (R) (S)
12.10am Art of Germany 1/3. Andrew GrahamDixon travels to Cologne Cathedral, which he believes encapsulates the varied character of the nation’s creative output. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.15 Treasures of the Indus 2/3. The artistic legacy of the Mughal empire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Tales of Tudor Travel: the Explorer’s Handbook Professor Nandini Das explores Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations. (R) (S) (HD) 2.45—3.45am A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley Shown 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white
STV 10.00pm ITV News at Ten; STV News and Weather 10.40 Scotland Tonight; ITV Weather 11.05 Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals 12.05am Rebound: quiz show 1.00 Nightscreen 5.05—6.00 Judge Rinder: court cases
BBC1 WALES 7.30—8.00pm X-Ray 8.30—9.00 The Crash Detectives 10.35 Cashing In on the Housing Crisis: Panorama 11.05 Ladhood 11.30 Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad 12.30am Graham Norton 1.15—6.00 BBC News
Monday Television
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 Emmerdale
As BBC2 except: 12.15pm Inside Central Station: signed 1.15—2.15 The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner: signed 7.00 Beechgrove Repotted 7.30 Getaways 8.00 This Farming Life 9.00 The Nine 10.00 River City 11.00 Gary: Tank Commander 11.30—12 midnight Mirror Mirror
ITV WALES 10.45—11.45pm Sharp End: with Adrian Masters
BBC1 NORTHERN IRELAND 7.30—8.00pm Getaways northern Croatia 10.35 True North: Soul Singers: Belfast Community Gospel Choir prepares for a concert 11.05 True North Shorts: How to Honour Your Husband 11.15 BBC Arts NI Presents — Collaborations: musicians from various genres team up for one-off performances 11.45 Ladhood 12.10am Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad 1.10 The Graham Norton Show 2.00—6.00 BBC News
BBC2 NORTHERN IRELAND 10.00—10.30pm Beidh Aonach Amárach: new series. Competitors going for glory at the Omagh Show in Tyrone
UTV 10.45—11.45pm View from Stormont
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detective looks into a murder spree
Nora has a bone to pick with Alvin
Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 81 9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) 11.15 Paddington Station 24/7 Behind the scenes at the London station. (S) (HD) 12.10pm 5 News (S) (HD) 12.15 GPs: behind Closed Doors Dr Kwan sees a teenage patient with a history of depression. (S) (HD) 1.10 Access (S) (HD) 1.15 Home and Away Shown last Friday 5 Star
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 7.50 Emmerdale (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.20 Coronation Street (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Superstore (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 12.15pm Emmerdale Shown last Friday ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 Coronation Street Shown last Friday ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 1.50 New. The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 2.45 Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 3.50 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 New. Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) 6.55 Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD) 8.55 Rising Damp (S) 9.55 Man about the House (S) 10.25 Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 12.40pm Heartbeat (S) (AD) 1.45 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Kim asserts herself over the Home Farm staff, then Betty discovers the extent of Pollard’s deception (S) 2.50 Classic Coronation Street: double bill. Tracy tells Deirdre she is disgusted by her and her toy boy, then Charlie makes plans to leave Weatherfield (S) 3.55 The Durrells (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD)
Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
Repeated 6pm Channel 5 (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 5.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 A Twin Sister’s Obsession ★★ Thriller. Kendra’s life is disrupted by identity theft, but her problems are actually the work of her long-lost twin.
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4.00 Friends Series 2. Rachel struggles to deal with Ross’s new relationship. (S) (HD) 4.30 Ross babysits his new son Ben. (S) (HD)
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 5.30 Neighbours Ned suspects that someone has sabotaged Yashvi’s car. Shown 1.45pm Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
Bella walks in on Willow and Alex in bed. Shown 1.15pm Next episode 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 5 News Tonight (S) (HD) 7.00 New. Rugby Union
Action from Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins in the opening semi-final of the Premiership Rugby Cup. (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Traffic Cops
An insight into the working life of officers patrolling the nation’s roads, using modern technology and old-fashioned methods to bring criminals to justice. (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
9.00 New. The Motorway
4/4. Lives are endangered when a truck illegally reverses down the M1 into the path of high-speed traffic, while a lorry driver hits a car and does not notice. Directors/Producers Harriet Morter, Tom Kent, Miranda Stern and Jimmy Dallas (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Busted in Bangkok
4/6. A state of emergency is declared on Koh Samui as a powerful storm is forecast to hit the island. Series producer John Bonny; Executive producer Charlie Bunce Rptd Wednesday 12.05am (S) (HD)
11.05 The World’s Heaviest Child: Extraordinary People The story of an 11-year-old from Indonesia who weighs 30 stone. Director/Producer Justyna Wrucha (S) (HD)
12.05am Bad Girls behind Bars 3/6 Series 2
Shown last Tue (S) (HD) 1.00 New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.10 Divine Designs (S) (SL) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) (HD)
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6.00pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold Four back-to-back editions of the comedy clip show narrated by Harry Hill. (S)
8.00 Two and a Half Men 14/24 Series 9. Zoey asks Walden to shave his beard and cut his hair to make him more presentable for her colleagues. (S) (HD) 8.30 15/24. Walden decides to use a batch of Berta’s special brownies to spice up his relationship with Zoey. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island
6.00 Home and Away
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Laura Whitmore presents as the fourth week of the relationship-based reality show begins with plenty more surprises in store as the singletons compete in Cape Town. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Love Island: Aftersun
Laura Whitmore is joined by a celebrity panel of Love Island superfans to dissect all the news from the villa. (S) (HD)
11.05 Family Guy Series 9. Lois befriends a news presenter who asks her to appear on her show, but the feature makes her look like a fool so she vows to put things right. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 Brian hopes to confront Rush Limbaugh at a book signing, but the outspoken radio talk-show host has to unexpectedly come to his rescue. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05am American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility Shown last Thursday (S) (HD) 1.50 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 2.20 The Stand Up Sketch Show (S) (HD) 2.45 Plebs (S) (AD) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen (HD) ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
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6.00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot Sad Cypress. The detective investigates a double poisoning, aiming to prove the innocence of the chief suspect. (S) (HD)
8.00 Maigret Sets a Trap 1/2. It’s 1955 and Paris is in the grip of fear. Four women have been murdered in Montmartre and Chief Inspector Jules Maigret is under pressure to find the killer before he strikes again. (S) (AD) (HD) Chief Inspector Jules Maigret Mme Moncin Moers Inspector Janvier Inspector LaPointe Dennis Lecoin Georgette Lecoin Nicole Lecoin
Rowan Atkinson Fiona Shaw Mark Heap Shaun Dingwall Leo Staar Alexander Campbell Beth Cooke Zsofia Rea
RT DVDs To order series 2 for £9.99 incl p&p (RRP £19.99), call 0844 848 7300 (charges apply, see p161) or visit radiotimes.com/dvds06, quoting ref RT1801
10.00 Law & Order: UK 6/6 Series 7. Dependant. When a gay father is found beaten to death, Ronnie and Sam go on the hunt for his adopted son who has gone missing. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Inspector Morse Deceived by Flight. The Claret Old Boys cricketers gather in Oxford for their annual match, but before a ball is bowled, one of their team meets an untimely death. (S) (HD)
7.10am Bramwell 8.00 Soldier Soldier (S) 9.00 The Bill (S) 10.00 Classic Holby City: Mark decides to leave 11.00 Classic Casualty (S) 12 noon The Bill (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.20 London’s Burning (S) 3.20 Lovejoy (S) 4.20 Bergerac (S) 5.25 Bread (S)
6.00pm Are You Being Served? Mr Spooner reveals unexpected musical abilities and the rest of the staff insist on cashing in on his chart success. (S)
6.40 As Time Goes By A film producer arrives in town, full of ideas about filming one of Lionel’s books, but his plans are met with disapproval.
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Alvin is seen with a mystery woman and Pearl spots a lonely hearts advertisement she is sure is from Howard. (S)
8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe 3/4 Series 6. Secrets of the Dead. The duo investigate the murder of a solicitor in a sleepy Yorkshire village, but Dalziel finds himself personally involved when a letter addressed to him is discovered among the victim’s belongings. (S) (AD) Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel DI Peter Pascoe Dr Robert Silwood Valerie Silwood DS Mark Lock
Warren Clarke Colin Buchanan Henry Goodman Ruth Mitchell Richard Oldham
10.00 New Tricks 5/7 Series 1. Good Work Rewarded A man wants to clear the name of his son, a talented teenage golfer who committed suicide after being implicated in the murder of a ten-year-old boy. (S) (AD)
11.15 Taggart 2/3 Series 9. Gingerbread. A dying man’s last desperate answerphone message confuses the police and hampers their investigation into his murder. (S)
1.15am Inspector Morse 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen
2.20am Bramwell: Robert dreams of romance when wealthy widow Alice Costigan invites him to stay 3.05—4.00am The Bill (S)
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F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am The Protectors (S) 6.30 Quincy (S) (HD) 7.30 Kojak (S) (HD) 8.30 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (S) (AD) (HD) 9.35 Minder (S) 10.40 The Professionals (S) (AD) 11.45 The Sweeney (S) 12.50pm Quincy (S) (HD) 1.55 Kojak (S) (HD) 2.55 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Minder (S) 5.05 The Professionals (S) (AD) 6.10pm River Monsters A report about a beast that sliced through a man’s testicles is enough to lure Jeremy Wade to the shores of the Mekong in South East Asia. (S) (HD) 6.45 LIVE Snooker Jill Douglas presents coverage of day one of the World Grand Prix, held at the Centaur in Cheltenham. (S) (HD) 11.15 FILM Safe House ★★★ Action thriller starring Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington. Junior agent Matt Weston runs the CIA’s safe house in South Africa and is handed a hot assignment when a rogue agent decides to give himself up after years on the run. Little does Weston know how dangerous things are going to get. Review page 46. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am The Bachelor: double bill (S) (HD) 8.50 Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Buying and Selling (HD) 12.55pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 1.50 New. Million Dollar Listing: LA (S) (HD) 3.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 6.00pm New. Masters of Flip Dave and Kortney Wilson offer renovation advice. 7.00 Buying and Selling A couple seek a home with a dream kitchen. (S) (HD) 8.00 Dinner Date Maura from London picks three blind dates based on menus. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. The Real Housewives of Orange County Braunwyn and Kelly watch Emily rehearse her anniversary dance. (S) (HD) 10.00 Botched Paul Nassif helps a woman who has been injured by a dog. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Terry Dubrow operates on a transgender woman’s breast. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.30am The Contender (S) (HD) 2.35 World of Sport (S) (HD) 2.45—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 12.45—12.55am Nightscreen
12.20am Mock the Week (S) (HD) 1.00 QI: double bill (S) 2.25 Flack: drama (S) (HD) 3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
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F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.10am Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 8.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 9.00 Storage Hunters (S) (HD) 10.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 12 noon Cop Car Workshop (S) (HD) 1.00pm Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) (HD) 3.00 Sin City Motors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm QI XL With guests Jenny Eclair, Johnny Vegas and Bill Bailey. (S) (HD) 7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Guests include Ellie Taylor, Steve Pemberton, Fern Britton and Josh Widdicombe. (HD) 7.40 Would I Lie to You? Guests include Gregg Wallace and Nigel Havers. (S) (HD) 8.20 With guests Greg Davies, Konnie Huq, Phil Tufnell and Marcus Brigstocke. (S) (HD) 9.00 Live at the Apollo With Jason Manford and Michael McIntyre. (S) (HD) 10.00 Taskmaster 1/8 Series 5. Tasks include basketball without hands. (S) (HD) 11.00 QI Double bill. (S)
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Tears of the Sun 10.00pm Waters and
(centre) meets up with Fuzz and Tim
Lake are sent to war-torn Nigeria
F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (S) (HD) 9.15 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (S) (HD) 11.15 Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD) 12.15pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S) (HD) 2.15 Four in a Bed: five editions (S) (HD) 4.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo (S) (AD) (HD) 5.55 New. Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD)
Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150
6.55pm Car SOS Restoring a Daimler SP250 Dart. (S) (HD)
7.55 Escape to the Château: DIY Phil and Angelina are trying to pitch their château as the perfect place for a 50th wedding anniversary. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. Car SOS Special: Seven Day Challenge 1/2. Tim Shaw, Fuzz Townshend and guest Ross Kemp try to restore a Series 2 Land Rover in a week. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 New. 2/2. Guest Rick Wakeman takes a spin in his dream car. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 24 Hours in A&E The medical team faces a range of sport and drink-related injuries. (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown (S) (HD) 1.00am Car SOS Special: Seven Day Challenge (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—3.30am Food Unwrapped (S) (HD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196
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F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Thu/Fri C4 (AD) 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (AD) 8.00 Baby Daddy 9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00 Baby Daddy 3.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 4.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 5.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 6/24 Series 4 Raj’s sister creates tension. (AD) 6.30 7/24. Leonard vows to be more confident around women. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Romeo is besotted. Cast pp87/117 Repeated Tuesday 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.30 New. Celebrity Come Dine with Me Jay Hutton from Tattoo Fixers hosts. 8.00 Junior Bake Off The next ten contestants enter the tent. (AD) 9.00 FILM Men in Black 3 ★★★★ Sci-fi comedy starring Will Smith and Josh Brolin. Agent J is forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent his partner’s murder. (AD) 11.10 The Big Bang Theory 9/23 Series 3 Kripke plays a prank on Sheldon. (AD) 11.40 10/23. Howard feels jealous. (AD) 12.10am Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.10 Gogglebox (AD) 2.15 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.10 Don’t Tell the Bride 4.05 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 4.55—6.00am How I Met Your Mother (AD)
9.00am The A-Team: double bill (AD) (HD) 11.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 1.00pm Trucking Hell (S) (HD) 2.00 Police Interceptors (S) (HD) 3.00 Traffic Cops (S) (HD) 5.00 The A-Team: double bill (AD) (HD)
7.00pm Police Interceptors The team’s new recruits are put to the test by a pair of suspected burglars. (S) (HD)
8.00 Extreme Winter Road Rescue A lorry overturns in Milton Keynes. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Yellowstone
The Duttons deal with a painful a 3/9. family anniversary and Kayce saves a girl from danger. See page 75. (S) (HD)
10.00 Tears of the Sun ★★
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Lt Waters is sent to rescue an American doctor working in war-torn Nigeria. But the doctor refuses to leave without her patients and Waters must decide whether to follow orders or his conscience. Director Antoine Fuqua (2003, 15) (HD)
12.25am Spartacus: Blood and Sand (HD) 1.30 Airwolf (HD) 3.25 Arrow (HD) 4.05 The X-Files (S) (HD) 4.55 Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) 5.50—6.00am Access (S) (HD) Paramount Network +1 Sky 250
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F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am Come Dine with Me: triple bill 12 noon Couples Come Dine with Me: from Essex 1.00pm Undercover Boss USA 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) 4.00 Frasier (AD) 5.00 A Place in the Sun 6.00pm A New Life in the Sun A young couple stake everything on running a cycling holiday business in Spain. 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA A family restaurant in Pennsylvania. 8.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick Ep 4 Series 15. A beagle with diseased discs. (AD) 9.00 Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown Miles Jupp and Sophie Duker guest. 10.00 Naked Attraction Ep 4 Series 6. A disco dancing champion looks for love. (AD) 11.05 Crazy Delicious Ep 2 The contestants try to create a new dish using apples. (AD) 12.05am 999: What’s Your Emergency? (AD) 2.15 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It (AD) 3.20 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (AD) 4.20—4.50am Four in a Bed
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6.00am Movie News 6.10 The Waltons 7.10 Hart to Hart 9.10 Days of Our Lives 10.00 Hart to Hart 11.00 Charlie’s Angels 12 noon Starsky & Hutch 1.00pm TJ Hooker: Stacy and Corrigan grow closer 2.00 Hart to Hart 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00pm Charlie’s Angels: Tiffany joins Kelly in San Diego to study the history of the Barrows family 7.00 M*A*S*H 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Charlie’s Angels 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Waltons 4.20 Touched by an Angel 5.10—6.00am Highway to Heaven
7.00am Police Ten 7 8.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare 10.00 Border Security USA (AD) 11.00 Road Wars: double bill 12 noon Police Ten 7 1.00pm Police Force: Australia (AD) 2.00 Border Patrol 3.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00 Stop, Search, Seize 6.00pm Star Trek: the Next Generation: the Enterprise escorts an admiral 7.00 Hawaii Five-0: McGarrett reopens his father’s last, unsolved case 8.00 Elementary: a maths genius stumbles on a body (AD) 9.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers: a profile of Ipswich serial killer Steve Wright 10.00 Frontline Police 11.00 The Force: Manchester (AD) 12 midnight Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 1.00am Banged Up Abroad 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 4.00 UK Border Force (AD) 5.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare: double bill
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Freeview 48 (limited) Freesat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
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Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.25 Law & Order (S) 10.10 CSI: NY (S) (AD) 12 noon Private Eyes (S) 1.00pm Law & Order (S) 4.00 Murder, She Wrote (S) (AD) 6.00pm Law & Order Series 13. Double bill. A baseball player is suspected of murder, then a girl’s corpse is found outside the Chinese consulate (S) 8.00 NCIS Series 11. The team redouble their efforts to find the terrorist Benham Parsa (S) (AD) 9.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Series 6. A PakistaniAmerican student is murdered (S) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (AD)
Yesterday
25
Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
1.55am CSI: NY (S) (AD) 3.50—4.00am Access
6.00am Slow Train through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones (S) (HD) 7.10 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 10.00 Forbidden History (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Deep Wreck Mysteries (S) 1.00pm Murder Maps (S) (HD) 2.00 Planet Earth (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 6.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 David Jason: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Bangers and Cash (S) (HD) 10.00 Impossible Railways (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Two Ronnies (S) 1.00am The World at War (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD)
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
5 Star
30
Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am 3rd Rock from the Sun (S) (HD) 9.10 Will & Grace (HD) 10.05 Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 11.05 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 12 noon Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (S) (HD) 1.00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 3.00 Neighbours (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Home and Away (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 House (S) (HD) 6.00pm Neighbours Shown 5.30pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 New. Home and Away Rptd tomorrow 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) 8.00 Rich Kids Go Skint (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door (S) (HD) 10.00 Benefits: Too Fat to Work (S) (HD) 11.00 FILM Parker ★★★ Crime thriller starring Jason Statham (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20am Sinkholes: Sucked to Death (S) (HD) 2.20 Sex Pod (S) (HD) 3.15—4.00am Empire (S) (HD)
5 Star +1 Freeview 55 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186
5 Select
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Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access 9.10 Cruising with Jane McDonald 9.30 FILM The Elizabeth Smart Story ★★ 11.15 FILM False Pretenses ★★ 1.05pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) (AD) 2.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 4.00 The Yorkshire Vet (S) 5.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 6.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 8.00 The Yorkshire Vet at the Great Yorkshire Show (S) (AD) 9.00 Our Yorkshire Farm 10.00 Yorkshire: a Year in the Wild 11.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 12 midnight Weather Gone Viral 1.00am Great British Benefits Handout 2.00 Revealed: the Truth about the Holy Grail 3.00—4.00am Fights, Camera, Action!
Really
17
Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 12 noon Escape to the Country (AD) 2.00pm Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 French Collection: Villeurbanne flea market in Lyon (HD) 4.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 7.00 Antiques Road Trip: double bill (HD) 9.00 Saving Lives at Sea (HD) 10.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (HD) 11.00 Helicopter ER (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Adventures (HD) 1.00am Most Haunted (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Antiques Road Trip (HD)
HGTV
42
Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279 7.00am Homes under the Hammer 8.00 as 4pm 9.00 Flog It! (HD) 10.00 House Hunters International (HD) 11.00 Hawaii Life (HD) 12 noon New. Island Life (HD) 1.00pm A Place in the Sun (HD) 2.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 3.00 Flog It! (HD) 4.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 5.00 Homes under the Hammer 6.00pm New. Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb (HD) 7.00 New. A Place in the Sun (HD) 8.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 10.00 My Dream Derelict Home (AD) (HD) 11.00 Fixer Upper (HD) 12 midnight as 5pm 1.00am as 3pm 2.00 as 4pm 3.00—4.00am Nick Knowles’s Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
Quest
12
F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00 Matlock 12 noon Perry Mason 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger 2.05 CSI: Miami 3.00 NCIS 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 5.00 Matlock 6.00 Perry Mason 7.05 NCIS 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 NCIS 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00 NCIS 12 midnight CSI: Miami 1.00am NCIS 2.00 Ultimate Force 3.05 The High Chaparral 4.00 The High Chaparral 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am How Do They Do It? (HD) 6.20 Salvage Hunters: the Restorers (AD) (HD) 7.10 Deadliest Catch (HD) 8.00 Gold Divers (HD) 9.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 10.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 11.00 Speed Is the New Black (HD) 12 noon Nasa’s Unexplained Files (HD) 1.00pm Railroad Australia (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (HD) 3.00 Gold Divers (HD) 4.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 5.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 7.00 New. American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 9.00 New. Outback Truckers (HD) 10.00 Deadliest Catch (HD) 11.00 How Do They Do It? (HD) 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 American Chopper 3.00 Fantomworks (HD) 4.00 Heli-Loggers (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am How It’s Made
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
CBS Justice
39
Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
71
Challenge
46
Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
9.00am NCIS 11.00 JAG 1.00pm The High Chaparral 3.00 Perry Mason (HD) 5.00 Unsolved Mysteries: double bill. The case of a nurse’s body found in a barrel at the bottom of a pond, then the bizarre disappearance of a Louisiana woman 7.00pm Judge Judy: four episodes 9.00 Medium 10.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries 12 midnight Judge Judy 1.00am ER (HD) 2.00 Medium 3.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (HD) 5.00—6.00am Matlock
7.00am Wheel of Fortune 8.00 Catchphrase (AD) 9.00 The Chase 10.00 Supermarket Sweep 11.00 Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 12 noon Wheel of Fortune 1.00pm Catchphrase (AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Bullseye 5.00 Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 6.00 Weakest Link 7.00 Pointless Celebrities (AD) 8.00 The Chase 11.00 Bullseye 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.00am The Chase 4.00 The Chase USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Golden Balls
Horror Channel
70
Monday Television
Car SOS Special 9.00pm Ross Kemp
5 USA
Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
232
Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
8.00am Andromeda 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager 10.00 Star Trek 11.00 FILM Masque of the Red Death ★★ Horror 12.50pm Highlights 1.00 FILM Torture Garden ★★★ Portmanteau horror 3.00 Lost in Space 4.00 FILM Dark Skies ★★★ Sci-fi horror starring Keri Russell 5.50 Highlights 6.00pm Star Trek 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00 Mutant X 9.00 FILM Red Lights ★★ Supernatural thriller starring Robert De Niro 11.10 FILM X Moor ★★ Horror starring Nick Blood 12.50am FILM Shrooms ★★★ Horror starring Lindsey Haun 2.35 FILM Star Runners ★★ Sci-fi action thriller 4.20—4.30am Highlights
6.00am Westminster Hall: House of Commons proceedings 9.00 The Week in Parliament 9.30 London Assembly — Draft Budget: with evidence from London Mayor Sadiq Khan 12.30pm Political Highlights 2.30 Live Defence Questions: questions to the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and his team of ministers 3.30 Live House of Commons 11.00 Monday in Parliament 11.30 Lords Questions 12 midnight Politics Live (Later) 12.45—6.00am House of Lords — Birmingham Commonwealth Games
Listings for PBS America, Smithsonian see over. Film4 and other Freeview movie channels: p82
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
79
MONDAY Satellite & cable
Mission: Impossible III 9.00pm
The Outsider 9.00pm Ralph
Ghost Whisperer 8.00pm
Ethan is back in action
receives a clear warning
Melinda is pursued by a ghost
Television Monday
Sky 1
Sky Atlantic
W
Dad’s Army 7.40pm Corporal Jones is left up the creek
Gold
Sky 106 Virgin 110 HD Virgin 109
Sky 108
Sky 107 Virgin 112 HD Virgin 111
Sky 109 Virgin 125 BT 311 HD Virgin 211 BT 383
Sky 110 Virgin 124 BT 310
6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 The Dog Whisperer (HD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 3.00 MacGyver (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30 Futurama (S) (AD) 6.30pm The Simpsons Homer buys Lisa a pony. 7.00 Homer is shamed by his failure to score on a test. 7.30 Homer shares the recipe for his favourite cocktail. (S) (HD) 8.00 SEAL Team Ep 4 Series 3 Bravo Team help the secret service prevent a sniper attack. (HD) 9.00 Mission: Impossible III ★★★ Spy thriller with Tom Cruise. Review p45. (S) (W) (HD) 11.15 Avenue 5 2/8. Ryan learns that an engineer has a surprisingly optimistic theory. (HD) 11.50 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip Ep 4 Series 2 With ex-footballer Patrice Evra. (HD) 12.50am Jett (S) (HD) 2.05 Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD) 3.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 4.00 Futurama (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 10.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 12 noon Blue Bloods (S) (HD) 1.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 2.00 The West Wing: Sam’s relationship with an escort raises concern (S) (HD) 4.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 6.00pm Without a Trace 15/24 Series 7. A man who was faking his identity disappears. (S) (HD) 7.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 23/23 Series 4 A casino worker is raped. (S) (HD) 8.00 Blue Bloods 5/22 Series 1 A bomb threat in Manhattan puts the police on full alert. (S) (HD) 9.00 The Outsider 5/10. Holly desperately searches for clues in several locations connected to the Dayton case. (HD) 10.05 True Blood 1/12 Series 1 The first episode of the vampire drama starring Anna Paquin. (S) (HD) 11.20 2/12. Bill saves Sookie from the Rattrays. (S) (HD) 12.30am This Is Our Family (S) (HD) 1.30 1917 Special 2.00 New series. 1/8. The L Word: Generation Q: Repeated tomorrow at 9pm. See choice, page 85 (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10 Nurse Jackie (S) (HD) 4.20— 6.00am The West Wing (S) (HD)
6.00am Nothing to Declare (HD) 8.00 Paramedics (HD) 9.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 12 noon Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order (HD) 3.00 The Real A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 UK Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Nothing to Declare (S) 8.00pm Ghost Whisperer 13/22 Series 1. When a neighbour begins acting oddly, Melinda realises he is being pursued by a ghost and resolves to intervene. (S) (HD) 9.00 Criminal Minds 18/22 Series 13. The agents travel to Chicago to investigate a suspect who leaves roses on his victims. (S) (HD) 10.00 16/24 Series 8. The team moves a step closer to identifying The Replicator. (S) (HD) 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 24/24 Series 14. A mysterious criminal keeps himself one step ahead of the SVU. (HD) 12 midnight CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 1.00am Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (HD) 3.00 Ghost Whisperer (S) (HD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK (S)
6.10am MasterChef Australia (S) (HD) 7.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00 The Bill (S) 11.00 Supernanny US (S) 12 noon Tipping Point (S) (HD) 2.00pm MasterChef USA (HD) 3.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 5.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 7.00pm New. MasterChef USA A mystery box twist throws some of the cooks off balance. (HD) 8.00 Inside the Ambulance Adam and Jenine try to help a woman who has fallen from a first-floor window. (S) (HD) 9.00 One Born Every Minute There’s a serious emergency when a baby’s shoulders become wedged during delivery. (S) (HD) 10.00 My Famous Babysitter Professor Green takes care of three boys on a smallholding in the Cotswolds. (S) (HD) 11.00 Inside the Ambulance Gaz offers some much-needed support to a mother whose toddler is suffering convulsions. (S) (HD) 12 midnight One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 1.50 American Housewife (S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD)
7.20am The Piglet Files 7.45 As Time Goes By 8.20 2 Point 4 Children (S) 9.00 Open All Hours (S) 9.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 12.20pm Keeping Up Appearances (S) 1.00 Open All Hours (S) 1.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 2.20 Still Open All Hours (HD) 3.00 Keeping Up Appearances (S) 3.40 Dad’s Army (S) 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.20pm Porridge A depressed rock star graces the prison. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Open All Hours Arkwright misses out on an opportunity. (S) 7.40 Dad’s Army Corporal Jones finds himself cast adrift. (S) 8.20 Mainwaring sends his men on lengthy route marches. (S) 9.00 The Vicar of Dibley Alice tries to impress her future father-in-law and Frank makes a startling admission. (AD) 9.40 dinnerladies Norman the breadman fails to deliver. (S) (AD) 10.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys Maria goes into labour. (S) (HD) 11.00 Peep Show Double bill. (S) (HD) 12 midnight The Vicar of Dibley (AD) 12.40am Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (S) 1.55 Peep Show (S) (HD) 2.45—4.00am The Comic Strip Presents..: Red Top (S) (HD)
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
q
Sky Arts Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am War and Peace (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 The South Bank Show Originals (S) 8.30 Al Green: Music Icons (S) (HD) 9.00 The Eighties (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 11.00 Discovering: Terence Stamp (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Max von Sydow (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm The South Bank Show Originals (S) (HD) 1.30 The Band: Music Icons (S) (HD) 2.00 National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Too Young to Die (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Julie Andrews (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Discovering: Robert Redford A profile of the actor, director and producer. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 The Eighties The dawn of the music video’s rise. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 André Rieu: Wedding Special A host of celebratory songs by the Dutch violinist. (HD) 9.00 New. Great Film Composers: the Music of the Movies The 1980s. (HD) 10.00 Portrait Artist of the Year With Trevor Nelson, Noel Clarke and Ashley Roberts. (HD) 11.00 The Art of the Joy of Sex Julie Verhoeven reinterprets Joy of Sex artist Chris Foss’s original work. (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight The World of Hugh Hefner (S) 1.00am The Long and Winding Road (HD) 2.45 Off Camera with Sam Jones (S) (HD) 4.00 as 5pm 5.00—6.00am as 6pm
Sky Crime Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) (AD) 9.00 UK Border Force (S) 10.00 Road Wars (S) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 12 noon Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00pm How I Caught the Killer (S) 2.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 3.00 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 6.00pm Snapped (S) 7.00 Banged Up Abroad (S) 8.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation (S) (AD) 9.00 New. Killer Neighbours 10.00 New. Snapped 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 12 midnight Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00am World’s Most Evil Killers (S) 2.00 Snapped 3.00 Killed By My Lover (S) 4.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)
Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 1.00pm Speeders: 12 editions of the series 7.00pm Speeders: four editions. A bodybuilder attempts to arm-wrestle his way out of a ticket 7.30 A Pentagon employee is caught speeding 8.00 Officers encounter a grandfather driving at more than 100mph 8.30 A driver tries to sell a van to an officer 9.00 Bait Car: New Orleans: four editions of the series revealing how the police catch car thieves in the act 11.00 Speeders: double bill 12 midnight Bait Car 1.00am Speeders 3.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
80
Sky Witness
My Famous Babysitter 10.00pm Professor Green
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am 60-Minute Makeover (S) 9.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia (S) 12.30pm Four Weddings (S) 2.30 Animal House (S) (AD) 3.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 4.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 5.00 Babylon 5 (S) 6.00pm Stargate SG-1 (S) 7.00 Supergirl (S) 8.00 Magnum P.I.: Thomas helps girlfriend Abby Miller with a case 9.00 Hawaii Five-0: a fatal hit-and-run involves a driverless car carrying heroin 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles: the team partners up with two ex-criminals from England 11.00 Night Cops (S) (AD) 12 midnight Night Cops: triple bill (S) 3.00am Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD) 4.00 Arrow (S) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted (S)
Syfy Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am Stargate Atlantis 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager 5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: double bill. Sisko, Kira and Bashir are captured by the Maquis, then Bashir struggles to save Garak’s life 9.00 Westworld: double bill. Maeve makes a proposition to the outlaw Hector, then the future of the holiday destination is in question 11.20 FILM Road Wars ★★ Adventure
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.00 Parks and Recreation (HD) 10.30 30 Rock (HD) 12 noon The Mindy Project (HD) 1.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 2.30 Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 3.30 Parks and Recreation (HD) 5.00 30 Rock (HD) 6.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 7.30 The Mindy Project (HD) 9.00 RT CHOICE New. Miracle Workers: God asks Sanjay to take down a famous atheist See page 75 (HD) 9.30 New. A.P. Bio: a former philosophy professor takes a job teaching AP biology (HD) 10.00 Chris Rock: Never Scared (HD) 11.40 New. Real Time with Bill Maher (HD) 12.50am Eastbound & Down: double bill (HD) 2.00 Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10—5.00am 30 Rock (HD)
TLC Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377
1.20am Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: double bill 3.20 Future Man 4.00—6.00am Star Trek: Voyager
6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Randy Knows Best (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Vegas Dress (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 11.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ireland (HD) 12 noon Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD) 2.00pm as 11pm 3.00 Sister Wives (HD) 4.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ireland (HD) 4.30 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 5.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 6.00pm Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 7.00 Say Yes to the Vegas Dress (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Dress America (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK (AD) (HD) 10.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 12 midnight as 8pm 1.00am as 9pm 2.00 as 10pm 3.00 as 11pm 4.00—6.00am as 12 noon
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Will & Grace 9.30 The Office US (S) (HD) 10.30 My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 11.00 Impractical Jokers (S) (HD) 12 noon Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00pm My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 5.00 Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Lee Evans: XL Tour: a live stand-up performance (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Roast Battle: double bill, featuring Sara Barron v Richard Herring, and Ed Night v Huge Davies (HD) 11.00 The Mick: double bill. Mickey partakes in a celebration of Jimmy’s baseball career, then Chip seeks some street cred (HD) 12 midnight Your Face or Mine (S) (HD) 1.00am South Park (S) (HD) 4.15—5.00am Takeshi’s Castle (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy (HD) 1.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 2.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (HD) 3.00 Little Women: Dallas (HD) 4.00 Dance Moms (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00pm Flipping Vegas (HD) 7.00 Judge Judy (HD) 9.00 New. Cheerleader Generation: Coach Donna takes on the Nationals without Ryan 10.00 Storage Wars: double bill. René and Gunther dust off an old locker, then Casey picks up a good unit in Orange, California (HD) 11.00 Hardcore Pawn (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars: double bill. (HD) 1.00am Cheerleader Generation 2.00 Storage Wars: double bill (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hardcore Pawn (HD)
Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY CHILDREN’S Milkshake! on C5 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p78
Murdoch Mysteries 9.00pm
The Crabtrees are reunited
Alibi
Bones 5.00pm Booth crosses paths with Abbie Mills
Fox
Twin Turbos 10.00pm Doug
and Brad build a tool truck
Discovery
Secret Agent School: Camp X 8.55pm William Fairbairn
PBS America
91
Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view (HD only) 91 F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 9.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 11.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 1.00pm Rush (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Rosewood (S) (HD) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries: double bill (S) (HD) 5.00pm Major Crimes 11/19 Series 3. The division explores LA’s underground water system. (S) (HD) 6.00 12/19. The team investigates when two people are attacked with a pair of scissors at a party. (S) (HD) 7.00 Unforgettable 1/13 Series 3 Carrie goes under cover to help a Secret Service investigation into a counterfeiting ring. (S) (HD) 8.00 2/13. Carrie and Al investigate the death of a beaten-up boxer. (S) (HD) 9.00 Murdoch Mysteries 4/18 Series 13. A death at an investment event leads Crabtree to the father he never knew. (HD) 10.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 6/13 Series 2. Phryne discovers a gruesome murder while helping a football coach. (S) (HD) 11.00 New Tricks 4/10 Series 9 A retired detective is brought in to help the team. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20am Inspector George Gently: a miner’s death is investigated (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30—4.00am Rosewood (S) (HD)
8.00am Bull (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 10.00 Bull (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans (HD) 12 noon Bones: double bill (HD) 2.00pm The Mentalist (HD) 3.00 NCIS: New Orleans (HD) 4.00 Bull (HD) 5.00 Bones (HD) 6.00pm The Mentalist 6/22 Series 6. Jane tries to gather all the Red John suspects at his family home in Malibu. (HD) 7.00 NCIS 3/24 Series 16 One of the NCIS agents becomes starstruck. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 4/24. Gibbs’s quiet holiday at his remote cabin is interrupted by a call for help. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 NCIS: New Orleans 19/24 Series 4. Percy and LaSalle go under cover at a high-stakes, underground poker game. (HD) 10.00 20/24. A group of volatile thieves holds Pride and his bar patrons hostage. (HD) 11.00 American Dad! Series 12 An anonymous would-be Scrooge ruins the Secret Santa party. (HD) 11.30 Stan resolves to spend more father-son time with Steve, so the pair start bowling together. (HD) 12 midnight Family Guy (HD) 1.00am American Dad! (HD) 2.00 Family Guy (HD) 3.00 American Dad! (HD) 4.00—5.00am Bull (HD)
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Building off the Grid (S) (HD) 9.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (S) (HD) 10.00 UFOs: the Lost Evidence (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 1.00pm Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD) 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum (HD) 3.00 World War II: the Complete History (S) 4.00 New. Building off the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Fast ’n’ Loud The Monkeys race to finish their first big build without Aaron. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Outback Truckers A difficult job transporting a large house in dangerous, wet conditions. (S) (HD) 8.00 Wheeler Dealers Mike Brewer hunts for a DeLorean. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car Car owners trade up their unwanted vehicles. (HD) 10.00 New. Twin Turbos Building a tool truck. (S) (HD) 11.00 New. Bitchin’ Rides A 1948 GMC truck is transformed. (HD) 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car (HD) 1.00am Twin Turbos (S) (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 3.50 Kindig Customs (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Battle of Britain: the Real Story 9.20 The Search for Alfred the Great 10.30 When Whales Walked 1.00pm Walks around Britain 1.35 This Is Greece 2.50 When Whales Walked 5.15 This Is Greece 6.30pm The Search for Alfred the Great Neil Oliver follows the work of the team of historians and scientists trying to discover the final resting place of the remains of English king Alfred the Great. 7.40 The Spy Who Stole the Atom Bomb The story of Ursula Kuczynski, a Jewish German refugee who settled in Oxfordshire and stole Britain’s atomic secrets to give to the Soviet Union. 8.55 Secret Agent School: Camp X The story of a spy training school set up during the Second World War that laid the foundations for modern espionage in the USA. 10.00 Nazi Hunters Following the mission to track down former Latvian Air Force pilot Herbert Cukurs, who was responsible for the deaths of 30,000 Jews. 11.00 The Spy Who Stole the Atom Bomb as 7.40pm. 12.05am Secret Agent School: Camp X 1.05 Jet Set 1.30— 2.00am Walks around Britain
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Expedition Unknown 7.00 Deadliest Tech 8.00 World War II: the Complete History 9.00 Secrets of the Arsenal 10.00 Extreme Engineering 11.00 Deadliest Tech 12 noon Blowing Up History 1.00pm Expedition Unknown 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 Secrets of the Arsenal 5.00 Extreme Engineering 6.00pm Blowing Up History The construction of Egypt’s Bent Pyramid, one of the world’s most mysterious ancient mega-structures. 7.00 Mysteries at the Museum Don investigates the disappearance of one of New York’s elite. 8.00 Blowing Up History The secrets of Emperor Nero’s palace built in the heart of Rome. 9.00 Expedition Unknown Josh Gates delves into Wild West lore to find Butch Cassidy’s missing money. 10.00 America’s Lost Vikings A team uncovers discoveries about Vikings in America. 11.00 Extreme Machines A look into the adrenaline-filled world of competitive motorbike events, including the Isle of Man TT Races. 12 midnight Blowing Up History 1.00am Expedition Unknown 2.00 America’s Lost Vikings 3.00 Extreme Machines 4.00 Blowing Up History 5.00— 6.00am Mysteries at the Museum Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
History
Nat Geographic
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 Pirate Traders (HD) 10.00 Ancient Aliens (HD) 11.00 The Curse of Civil War Gold (HD) 12 noon Mountain Men: a life-or-death bear chase (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire Tournament of Champions (HD) 2.00 American Pickers (HD) 4.00 Storage Wars (HD) 5.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 6.00pm Pawn Stars: double bill (HD) 7.00 American Pickers (HD) 9.00 New. In Search Of: researchers turn to science to explain the mysteries surrounding the Bermuda Triangle (HD) 10.00 Amelia Earhart: the Lost Evidence (HD) 12 midnight The UnXplained with William Shatner (HD) 1.00am American Pickers 2.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 Mountain Men (HD) 4.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 5.00—6.00am Storage Wars (HD)
8.00am Hidden Gems of Turkey (HD) 9.00 Drain the Oceans (HD) 10.00 World War II: the Apocalypse (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Car SOS: triple bill (HD) 4.00 Supercars (HD) 5.00 Building the London Underground (HD) 6.00pm Air Crash Investigation (HD) 8.00 New. Drain the Oceans: wrecks from the Second World War at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Air Crash Investigation: a plane that nosedived into a remote desert in Patagonia (HD) 10.00 New. Rescued: a skier gets buried alive (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 12 midnight Ice Road Rescue (HD) 1.00am Wicked Tuna (HD) 2.00 Yukon Gold (HD) 3.00—5.00am Air Crash Investigation: double bill (AD) (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 8.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 10.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 11.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 12 noon Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 4.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Alone in the Wild (S) (HD) 6.00pm Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 7.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 8.00 Guardians of the Glades (HD) 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 11.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 1.00am as 7pm 2.00 as 8pm 3.00 as 9pm 3.50 as 5pm 4.40 How Do Animals Do That (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am Outback Vet (HD) 10.00 Orangutan Diary 11.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 12 noon Russia from Above (HD) 1.00pm Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 New. The Sun: Inferno in the Sky (HD) 3.00 Outback Vet (HD) 4.00 Orangutan Diary 5.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 6.00pm Outback Vet (HD) 7.00 Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 8.00 Russia from Above (HD) 9.00 Orangutan Diary 10.00 Jungle Planet: double bill (HD) 11.00 The Sun: Inferno in the Sky (HD) 12 midnight Russia from Above (HD) 1.00am Frozen Planet: wildlife in the polar regions (AD) (HD) 2.00 The Sun: Inferno in the Sky (HD) 3.00 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD) 3.50 Orangutan Diary 4.40 Jungle Planet (HD) 5.30—6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Travel
Smithsonian
57
F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am America in Space (HD) 7.00 Space Voyages (HD) 9.00 Aerial Britain (HD) 10.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 11.00 First Ladies Revealed (HD) 12 noon Space Voyages (HD) 2.00pm America in Space (HD) 3.00 Aerial Britain: northern England (HD) 4.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 5.00 America’s National Parks (HD) 6.00pm First Ladies Revealed The role style has played in the lives of US president’s wives. (HD) 7.00 Space Voyages Experts question whether the human race could ever leave Earth. (HD) 8.00 Apollo’s Moon Shot The story of Nasa’s programme to land humans on the moon and the role played by President Kennedy. (HD) 9.00 Atomic Bomb: Witness to History The aircrew who flew the planes that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki speak about their missions. (HD) 10.00 The Pacific War in Colour Personal accounts of combat in the Pacific during the Second World War. (HD) 11.00 Apollo’s Moon Shot As 8pm. 12 midnight Atomic Bomb: Witness to History (HD) 1.00am The Pacific War in Colour (HD) 2.00 Apollo’s Moon Shot (HD) 3.00 Atomic Bomb: Witness to History (HD) 4.00 The Pacific War in Colour (HD) 5.00— 6.00am America’s National Parks (HD)
CBeebies
202
Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Something Special 6.20 Baby Jake 6.35 Twirlywoos 6.45 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Numberblocks 7.05 Bing: double bill 7.20 Hey Duggee: double bill 7.35 Bitz & Bob 7.45 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.20 Biggleton 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Tee and Mo 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Alphablocks 9.20 Timmy Time 9.25 Bing 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 RT CHOICE New. Something Special See page 75 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 Hey Duggee 10.40 New. Patchwork Pals 10.45 Mister Maker’s Arty Party 11.05 Magic Hands 11.15 My Pet and Me 11.30 School of Roars 11.40 My First 11.50 Tinga Tinga Tales 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Old Jack’s Boat 12.30 Katie Morag 12.45 Melody 1.00 The Furchester Hotel 1.10 Yakka Dee! 1.15 Numberblocks 1.20 Bing 1.30 Twirlywoos 1.45 Something Special 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 The Baby Club 2.35 Pablo 2.45 Our Family 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.15 Swashbuckle 3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Octonauts 4.00 New. Love Monster 4.05 Andy’s Safari Adventures 4.20 Maddie’s Do You Know? 4.35 Peter Rabbit 4.50 Go Jetters 5.00 Gigglebiz 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.25 Molly and Mack; My Petsaurus 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: a tale is read for younger viewers before they go to bed
CBBC
Monday Television
Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
6.00am Peppa Pig 6.20 New. Mya Go: the family organise a picnic for Mother’s Day 6.30 Fireman Sam 6.40 Noddy: Toyland Detective 6.50 Shane the Chef 7.00 Thomas & Friends 7.15 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 7.20 Peppa Pig 7.40 New. Top Wing 7.55 Paw Patrol 8.10 Floogals 8.30 New. Becca’s Bunch 8.45 Little Princess 8.55 Ben and Holly 9.10—9.15am New. Sunny Bunnies: Hopper ends up trapped inside an arcade machine
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Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 613 Virgin 701 7.00am Arthur 7.15 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.25 Danger Mouse 7.35 New. MOTD Kickabout: football show featuring stars from the worlds of sport and entertainment 7.40 New. Newsround 7.45 Danny & Mick 8.00 Class Dismissed 8.15 New. Newsround 8.25 Marrying Mum and Dad 8.55 Art Ninja 9.15 A Week to Beat the World 9.30 All at Sea 1.50pm Got What It Takes? 2.25 Operation Ouch! 2.50 The Dumping Ground 3.20 The Deep 3.45 Shaun the Sheep 3.50 Scream Street 4.00 New. Newsround 4.10 Danny & Mick 4.25 Odd Squad 4.35 The Pets Factor 5.00 New. Worst Witch 5.30 A Week to Beat the World 6.00 Dragons: Race to the Edge 6.25 Operation Ouch! 6.55 Nikki Lilly Meets 7.00 Horrible Histories 7.30 A Week to Beat the World 8.00 Millie Inbetween 8.30—9.00pm The Worst Witch
CITV
203
Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 621 Virgin 734 6.00am Super 4 6.25 Fangbone 6.55 NinjaGo 7.25 Mr Bean 7.55 Mr Magoo 8.25 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 8.50 Mighty Mike 9.20 Dare Master 9.25 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 9.50 Hotel Transylvania 10.20 Spy School 10.45 Massive Monster Mayhem 11.10 Drop Dead Weird 11.40 Max & Shred 12.05pm Robozuna 12.30 Gormiti 3D 1.00 NinjaGo 1.25 Dare Master 1.30 The Bagel and Becky Show 2.10 Hotel Transylvania 2.40 Mr Magoo 3.10 The Tom and Jerry Show 3.30 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 4.00 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud 4.30 Mighty Mike 5.00 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 5.30 LEGO Jurassic World 6.00pm Robozuna 6.25 Gormiti 3D 7.00 Mr Bean 7.30 Mr Magoo 8.00 Massive Monster Mayhem 8.30—9.00pm Max & Shred
Michael Portillo’s Thai adventure
YOUR RT P152
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MONDAY Films & Sport Discover film
Television Monday
The best of Sky, iPlayer, Netflix and beyond
Available to rent or buy p Judy 1111 Sky Store/Virgin Movies/DVD
Renée Zellweger gives a tour-de-force performance as Judy Garland in this drama focusing on the star’s notorious engagement at London’s Talk of the Town in 1969. Jessie Buckley co-stars as the production assistant who is assigned to keep Garland off the pills and booze as she battles for custody of her children and marries a fifth unsuitable husband. Zellweger sings the Garland songbook with astounding accuracy, and there won’t be a dry eye in the house come the sensational Over the Rainbow finale. ALAN JONES
FREEVIEW Film4
p In Fabric 1111 10.10pm Sky Premiere An evil frock proves surprisingly wily in this weird and wonderful film that gives the phrase “fashion victim” a whole new meaning. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays the bank clerk hunting for the perfect dress in a strange department store. But the one she chooses has a sinister past. Director Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) irresistibly fuses the uncanny and the humorously humdrum in a horror that brims with Tales from the Crypt-style fatalism and Italian giallo. EMMA SIMMONDS
You must remember this Casablanca 5
1.30pm TCM
This timeless love story is wrapped inside a gripping wartime thriller and written with such wit and meaning that it’s still quoted (and misquoted) decades later. Humphrey Bogart gives a career-best turn as the cynical club owner whose seemingly apolitical stance is rocked by the arrival of old flame Ingrid Bergman. ANDREW COLLINS
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F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am Cottage to Let ★★★ Wartime propaganda piece. Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim (1941, U) (S) 12.50pm 3:10 to Yuma 5 Gripping western. Glenn Ford, Van Heflin (1957, PG) (S) (AD) 2.45 The Long Memory ★★ An old lag is desperate to discover who framed him in this thriller. John Mills, John McCallum (1952, PG) (S)
4.40pm The 300 Spartans ★★★ Decent historical adventure about the stalwart defence of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson (1962, PG) 6.55 Home Alone 3 ★★★ There are some genuine laughs in this second sequel to the hit comedy. Alex D Linz (1997, PG) (S) 9.00 Transformers: Dark of the Moon ★★★★ Shia LaBeouf and the Autobots must foil the Decepticon plan to enslave humankind in Michael Bay’s awesomely spectacular action epic. (2011, 12) (S) (AD) 12.05—3.55am i An Elephant Sitting Still ★★★★ Affecting drama following the fall-out of the theft of a school bully’s mobile phone. Review p45. Zhang Yu, Peng Yuchang (2018) (S)
Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
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Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am Locked Away ★★ (2010) 10.55 A Sister’s Secret ★★ Thriller. Alexandra Paul (2009) 1.00pm Faultline ★ Disaster movie. Doug Savant (2004) 2.45 Lava Storm ★★ Disaster movie. (2008) 4.30 The Little Vampire ★★★ Horror fantasy adventure. Jonathan Lipnicki (2000, U) 6.25pm Bicentennial Man ★★ Sci-fi comedy drama. Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz (1999, PG) 9.00 Surrogates ★★★ Bruce Willis stars in this intriguing sci-fi thriller. Radha Mitchell (2009, 12) 10.50 Vanilla Sky ★★ Romantic fantasy thriller. Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz (2001, 15) 1.30am Equals ★★★ Romantic sci-fi drama. Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart (2015, 12) 3.40—6.00am How Do You Know ★★ Romantic comedy drama. Jack Nicholson (2010, 12) Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
Dressed to kill
Sky Premiere
50
F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am Gunga Din 5 Adventure. Cary Grant (1939, U) 8.20 Bad for Each Other ★ Drama. (1954) 10.05 The Ugly Duckling ★★ Comedy. Bernard Bresslaw (1959) 11.50 Passport to Suez ★★ Spy detective drama. Warren William (1943) 1.20pm Gandhi 5 Epic biopic. Film of the Day: p45. Ben Kingsley (1982, PG) 5.05 Sirocco ★★★ Spy drama. Humphrey Bogart (1951, PG) 7.10pm The Long Haul ★★★ British crime thriller. Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen (1957) 9.00 Bunny Lake Is Missing ★★★ Atmospheric mystery. Laurence Olivier (1965, 12) 11.15 Tom Jones ★★★★ Oscar-winning period comedy adventure. Albert Finney (1963, PG) 1.50am Hell Squad ★★ Drama. (1958) 3.10 The Warrior and the Slave Girl ★★ Adventure. (1958) 4.35—6.00am The Sword of El Cid ★★ Historical adventure. (1963, U) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
Talking Pictures TV
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Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.00am Knight of the Plains ★★ (1939, U) 7.25 The Terror ★★ Mystery. (1938, PG) 9.00 Adventures of Captain Fabian ★★ (1951, PG) 11.00 June Allyson 11.30 On the Beat ★★ Comedy. Norman Wisdom (1962, U) (S) 1.35pm The Pot Carriers ★★★ Comedy drama. (1962, PG) (S) 3.15 Crooks’ Tour ★★ Spy comedy. Basil Radford (1940, U) 4.55 The Lady Is a Square ★★ Musical comedy. Review p45. (1959, U) 7.00pm Dr Crippen ★★ Historical crime drama. Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne (1962, PG) 9.00 Special Branch TV drama. 10.00 The Small Back Room ★★★ Brooding wartime drama. David Farrar (1949, PG) 12.15am Circle of Deception ★★★ Drama. Suzy Parker (1960) (S) 2.15 The Most Dangerous Game ★★★★ Classic horror. Joel McCrea (1932, 12) (S) 3.35 Nomads ★★★ Supernatural thriller. (1985, 15) (S) 5.25—6.00am Honey West
Sky Oscars
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am Billionaire Boys Club ★★ Crime drama. Ansel Elgort (2017) 8.00 As 6.15pm 9.45 Dolittle Special 10.00 i In Fabric As 10.10pm 12.10pm Joker preview 12.25 As 8pm 2.40 Never Grow Old ★★★ Western. John Cusack, (2019, 15) 4.40 The Cleanse ★★★ Black comedy horror. (2016)
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 6.40am As 3.40pm 8.45 As 5.45pm 10.45 The Dark Knight 5 Action fantasy. Christian Bale (2008, 12) 1.20pm Jerry Maguire ★★★★ Romantic comedy. Tom Cruise (1996, 15) 3.40 An Officer and a Gentleman ★★★ Romantic drama. Richard Gere, Debra Winger (1982, 15)
6.15pm Escape Plan 3 ★★ Sly Stallone leads a rescue mission in this brutal thriller. Review p62. Dave Bautista, 50 Cent, Jaime King (2019, 15) 8.00 The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne. Olivia
5.45pm The Untouchables 5 Brian De Palma’s riveting revamp of the old TV series. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia (1987, 15)
10.10 i In Fabric ★★★★ Weird and wonderful supernatural thriller about a dress with a sinister past. Review left. Marianne Jean-Baptiste (2018, 15)
7.45 Unforgiven 5 Oscar-winning western in which an old gunslinger is forced out of retirement. Clint Eastwood (1992, 15) 10.00 Inglourious Basterds ★★★ Quentin Tarantino’s Oscarwinning Second World War action adventure. Brad Pitt (2009, 18)
12.20am Never Grow Old As 2.40pm 2.10 Rabid ★★★ Horror.
12.35am Django Unchained ★★★★ Western. Jamie Foxx, Christoph
Laura Vandervoort, Benjamin Hollingsworth (2019, 18)
Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson (2012, 18)
Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15)
4.05 The Cleanse As 4.40pm 5.30 1917 Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
Sky Hits
3.20 Ben-Hur 5 Period epic. Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd (1959, PG)
Sky Greats
Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 6.00am Tully ★★★★ (2018, 15) 7.50 Blockers ★★★★ Comedy. (2018, 15) 9.40 Superman Returns ★★★★ Fantasy. (2006, 12) 12.20pm Avengers: Infinity War ★★★★ Adventure. Robert Downey Jr (2018, 12) 2.50 Ant-Man and the Wasp ★★★★ Adventure. Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas (2018, 12)
Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 6.00am Shenandoah ★★★★ (1965, PG) 7.50 The Prestige ★★★★ (2006, 12) 10.05 Marnie ★★★★ Drama. (1964, 15) 12.20pm Minority Report ★★★★ Futuristic thriller. Tom Cruise (2002, 12) 2.50 The Bourne Identity ★★★★ Action thriller. (2002, 12) 4.50 Zulu 5 Historical drama. Stanley Baker (1963, PG)
7.00 Avengers: Endgame ★★★★ End-of-an-era action adventure epic. Robert Downey Jr (2019, 12) 10.00 Skyscraper ★★★ Exciting but outlandish action adventure. Dwayne Johnson (2018, 12) 11.45 Kick-Ass ★★★★ Refreshing if controversial action comedy. Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson (2009, 15)
7.15pm About a Boy ★★★★ Witty and moving romantic comedy drama. Hugh Grant (2002, 12) 9.00 The Shawshank Redemption 5 A man convicted of murder serves an eventful sentence in this enthralling prison drama. Tim Robbins (1994, 15) 11.30 Cape Fear ★★★★ Martin Scorsese’s dazzling and very violent remake of the classic 1962 thriller. Robert De Niro (1991, 18)
1.45am Kick-Ass 2 ★★★ Action comedy drama. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2013, 15) 3.35 Serenity ★★ Thriller. Matthew McConaughey (2018, 15) 5.30 The Adjustment Bureau ★★★ Romantic sci-fi drama. (2010, 12)
1.40am Mad Max beyond Thunderdome ★★★ Futuristic adventure. Mel Gibson (1985, 15) 3.30 American Gigolo ★★★ Thriller. (1980, 18) 5.30 Once upon a Time in the West 5 Western. (1968, 15)
4.50pm Captain Marvel ★★★ Fantasy action adventure. Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Jude Law (2019, 12)
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 6.00am Armageddon As 5.20pm 8.45 Cliffhanger As 3.20pm 10.45 Van Helsing As 8pm 1.00pm Déjà Vu ★★★ Explosive sci-fi action thriller. Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer (2006, 12) 3.20 Cliffhanger ★★★★ Nail-biting action thriller. Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow (1993, 15)
Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.30am As 7.15pm 8.15 You Me and Him ★★ (2017, 15) 10.00 As 9pm 11.55 Made of Honor ★★ (2008, 12) 1.40pm An Actor Prepares ★★ Road movie. (2018, 15) 3.25 Juliet, Naked ★★★ Drama. Rose Byrne (2018, 15) 5.05 About Time ★★★★ Sci-fi romantic comedy. Domhnall Gleeson (2013, 12)
7.15pm Tag ★★ Five adult pals go all out to continue their childhood game. Ed Helms (2018, 15) 9.00 The Royal Tenenbaums 5 Gene Hackman stars as the patriarch of a gifted but dysfunctional New York family.
5.20pm Armageddon ★★★ Flashy, overwrought but nonetheless thrilling sci-fi action adventure. Bruce Willis (1998, 15) 8.00 Van Helsing ★★★ Exciting blend of Hammer horror and Indiana Jones-style adventure from the director of The Mummy. Hugh Jackman (2004, 12) 10.15 The Punisher ★★★ Loud, fast and extremely vicious take on the Marvel comic. Tom Jane (2004, 18)
11.00 Brüno ★★★ Sacha Baron Cohen stars as the gay Austrian fashion journalist on a mission to become world famous. (2009, 18)
12.30am Punisher: War Zone ★★ Action crime thriller. Ray Stevenson (2008, 18) 2.20 Paradox ★★★ Martial arts action thriller. Louis Koo (2017, 18) 4.05 Robin Hood ★★★★ Adventure. Patrick Bergin (1990, PG)
12.30am 30 Minutes or Less ★★★ Crime action comedy. Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride (2011, 15) 2.05 About Time As 5.05pm 4.20 The Golden Child ★★ Action comedy. Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance (1986, PG)
Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow (2001, 15)
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RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY Sky
Disney
Sky
Adventure
Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.05am The Adventures of Jurassic Pet ★★ (2019, U) 7.40 As 6.20pm 9.20 As 4.40pm 11.00 As 10.30pm 1.00pm The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl ★★ (2005, U) 2.40 A Wrinkle in Time ★★ (2018, PG) 4.40 Journey 2: the Mysterious Island ★★★ Adventure. (2011, PG)
6.15pm Up 5 A widower attaches balloons to his house and floats off in search of a lost world in this animated fantasy. Ed Asner (2009, U) 8.00 The Pacifier ★★ Family comedy starring Vin Diesel as a Navy SEAL who’s assigned to protect the five children of an assassinated scientist. (2005, PG) 9.40 The Game Plan ★★★ The Rock brings a light comic touch to this enjoyable family comedy. (2007, U)
6.20pm Mr Popper’s Penguins ★★★ Enjoyable comedy starring Jim Carrey. Carla Gugino (2011, PG) 8.00 Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald ★★★★ Dazzling second episode in the magical adventure series. (2018, 12) 10.15 Dolittle Special 10.30 Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time ★★★ Charming Arabian Nights-style adventure.
11.35pm Bedknobs and Broomsticks ★★★ Musical fantasy. (1971, U) 1.35am Return to Oz ★★★ Fantasy. (1985, PG) 3.30 The Black Cauldron ★★★ Animation. (1985, U) 5.00 Robin Hood ★★★★ (1973, U)
12.30am Nanny McPhee ★★★ Period fantasy adventure. Emma Thompson, Colin Firth (2005, U) 2.15 As 2.40pm 4.10 Pete’s Dragon ★★ Part-animated musical fantasy.
Sky Thriller
Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley (2010, 12)
Helen Reddy, Jim Dale (1977, U)
Sky
Drama
Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 7.10am Final Score: Behind the Scenes 7.30 Thoroughbreds ★★★★ Thriller. Anya Taylor-Joy (2017, 15) 9.15 Pimped ★★ Thriller. Ella Scott Lynch (2018, 15) 10.50 As 7.10pm 12.40pm As 9pm 3.15 Contraband ★★★ Thriller. Mark Wahlberg (2012, 15) 5.15 Anon ★★★ Sci-fi thriller. Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried (2018, 15)
Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510 6.15am As 3.45pm 8.10 Benjamin ★★★ Comedy. Colin Morgan (2018, 15) 9.40 First Reformed ★★★★ Drama. Ethan Hawke (2017, 15) 11.40 As 8pm 1.45pm Backstabbing for Beginners ★★ Drama. Theo James (2018, 15) 3.45 White Boy Rick ★★ Crime drama. Matthew McConaughey (2018, 15)
7.10pm Greta ★★★ A little old lady makes a young woman’s life a misery in this sprightly chiller.
5.45pm Widows ★★★★ Steve McQueen’s slick and suspenseful crime drama. Daniel Kaluuya interview, p36. Viola Davis (2018, 15) 8.00 Mary Queen of Scots ★★★ A keen feminist slant and upfront sexuality liven up this familiar historical drama. Saoirse Ronan (2018, 15) 10.15 Blue My Mind ★★★ Coming-of-age body-horror drama with increasingly bizarre tendencies. Luna Wedler (2017, 18)
Chloë Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert (2018, 15)
9.00 Bad Times at the El Royale ★★★★ Whip-smart and stylish thriller. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson (2018, 15)
11.25 Snatch ★★★ A missing gem causes murderous mayhem in director Guy Ritchie’s cheeky crime yarn. Brad Pitt, Jason Statham (2000, 18) 1.10am Out of Blue ★★ Crime drama. Patricia Clarkson (2018, 15) 3.10 Wild Things ★★★ Thriller. Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell (1998, 18) 5.15 Angel Flight Down ★★ Drama based on a true story. Patricia Kalember (1996)
Sky
Sci-Fi/Horror
12.10am First Reformed As 9.40am 2.10 Benjamin As 8.10am 3.45 Tom and Jerry: a Nutcracker Tale 4.45 Christmas on Holly Lane ★★ Seasonal drama. Sarah Lancaster, Karen Holness, Gina Holden (2018)
TCM Movies
Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am Sleepy Hollow ★★★★ Gothic horror fantasy. Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci (1999, 15) 8.00 Psycho 5 Classic horror thriller. Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh (1960, 15) 10.00 As 6pm 12 noon As 8pm 2.00pm As 10pm 4.00 Star Trek: Nemesis ★★★ Sci-fi adventure. Patrick Stewart (2002, 12)
Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 6.00am Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 7.30 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid ★★★ (1972, 12) 9.30 Key Largo ★★★ (1948, PG) 11.40 Column South ★★★ (1953, U) 1.30pm Casablanca 5 Drama. Review left. (1942, U) 3.45 Tumbleweed ★★ Western. Audie Murphy (1953, U)
6.00pm Star Trek: Generations ★★★★ Entertaining sci-fi adventure featuring members of both the original Star Trek and Next Generation casts. Patrick Stewart (1994, PG) 8.00 Star Trek: First Contact 5 First-rate sci-fi that sees the Next Generation crew travelling back in time. Patrick Stewart (1996, 12) 10.00 Star Trek: Insurrection ★★★ Light-hearted, impressive sci-fi adventure. Patrick Stewart (1998, PG)
5.35pm The Hired Gun ★★ Anne Francis stars as an innocent on the run in this B-movie western. Rory Calhoun (1957, U) 7.00 The Plunderers ★★ Western starring Rod Cameron as a government agent who goes to extreme lengths to infiltrate a gang led by a notorious criminal. (1948, U) 9.00 Universal Soldier — the Return ★ Futuristic action thriller. Jean-Claude Van Damme (1999, 18)
12 midnight Star Trek: Nemesis As 4pm 2.00am Beneath Us ★★ Horror thriller. Lynn Collins (2019, 15) 3.30 Victor Crowley ★★ Horror. Parry Shen, Kane Hodder (2017, 18) 5.00 Sky Cinema Preview
10.50pm Interview with the Vampire ★★★ Horror. Tom Cruise (1994, 18) 1.25am Dracula ★★★★ Classic horror. Bela Lugosi (1931, PG) 4.00 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
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SPORT Sky Premier League
Italian Football 7.40pm Premier 1 Sampdoria’s ageless frontman Fabio Quagliarella
Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 Legends: Robbie Fowler (AD) 7.30 Goals on Sunday 9.00 Highlights: the key moments from Sunday’s matches 10.00 Premier League Years (AD) 12 noon Highlights: action from Saturday’s games 3.30pm 100 Club (AD) 4.00 Highlights 5.00 Soccer AM: the Best Bits (AD) 5.30 100 Club 6.00 Legends: Tony Adams (AD) 6.30 Legends: Peter Schmeichel (AD) 7.00 Premier League Review 8.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox 9.00 Premier League Review 10.00 The Debate 11.00 Best Goals (AD) 12 midnight The Debate 1.00am Premier League Years (AD) 3.00 Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)
6.00am Chelsea Classics (AD) 7.00 Wrestling (AD) 9.00 Premier League Review 10.00 Premier League Football: Leicester City v Chelsea 11.30 What I Wore: Steven Gerrard 11.45 BT Sport Big Bash Reload 12 noon Premier League Review 1.00pm French Football: highlights 2.00 Scottish Football Extra 2.30 Scottish Premiership Football: Hamilton v Celtic 4.00 Wrestling 6.00 SPFL Highlights 6.15 Early Kick-Off 6.30 Premier League Review
Sky Cricket
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437
Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504
6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 Best of Sky Cricket (AD)
8.00 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup ninth-place play-off.
7.45 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup ninth-place play-off.
3.45pm My Icon: Ramla Ali (AD) 4.00 Sky Sports News 7.00 Sky Sports Tonight 10.00 The Debate 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight—6.00am Sky Sports News
3.45pm Lord’s Pavilion Portraits (AD) 3.50 Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 4.00 How the 2009 World T20 Was Won 6.00 Captain’s Log 7.00 How the 2009 World T20 Was Won 9.00 Captain’s Log 10.00 Last Man Standing (AD) 10.30 How the 2009 World T20 Was Won 12.30am Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 1.00 Best of England v Windies 1.10 Best of Sky Cricket 1.30 Greatest Games (AD) 2.00 How the 2009 World T20 Was Won 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00 Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 5.30 Best of England v Windies 5.40—6.00am Best of Sky Cricket
Sky Football Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503 6.00am EFL Greatest Games 6.45 SPFL Greatest Games 7.00 Greatest Players 7.30 Football Countdowns (AD) 8.00 Football Years (AD) 8.30 EFL Greatest Games 8.45 One2Eleven (AD) 9.00 SPFL Round-Up 9.15 EFL Greatest Games 9.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.15 SPFL Greatest Games 11.30 Football’s Greatest Players 12 noon Football Countdowns (AD) 12.30pm Football Years (AD) 1.00 EFL Greatest Games 1.30 SPFL Greatest Games 1.45 One2Eleven (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 3.00 Greatest Players 3.30 Football Countdowns (AD) 4.00 Football Years (AD) 4.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.30 EFL Greatest Games 5.45 SPFL Round-Up 6.00 Soccer AM: the Best Bits (AD) 6.30 League One and Two Goals 7.00 Championship Highlights 7.30 Gary Neville in Qatar 8.30 Championship Highlights 10.00 SPFL Round-Up 10.15 SPFL Greatest Games 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.00 One2Eleven (AD) 11.15 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Football Years (AD) 12.30am SPFL Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Football Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 6.00am European Tour Golf 10.30 Chronicles of a Champion (AD) 11.00 PGA Tour Golf: Phoenix Open 4.00pm European Tour Golf 5.00 PGA Tour Golf: Phoenix Open 6.00 European Tour Golf 7.00 PGA Tour Golf 8.00 Feherty Talks To 9.00 European Tour Golf 10.00 PGA Tour Golf 11.00 Feherty Talks To 12 midnight European Tour Golf 1.00am PGA Tour Golf 2.00 Feherty Talks To 3.00 European Tour Golf 4.00 PGA Tour Golf: Phoenix Open 5.00—6.00am Feherty Talks To
Premier Sports 1 Sky 412 Virgin 551 7.40—9.45pm LIVE Italian Football Sampdoria v Napoli in Serie A (kick-off 7.45).
Wine
BT Sport 1
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am Boxing Gold (AD) 7.00 Sporting Records (AD) 8.00 Boxing Gold (AD) 9.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 10.00 Sporting Records (AD) 11.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 12 noon NFL: a Football Life (AD) 1.00pm Darts Gold (AD) 2.00 Super Bowl LIV 4.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 5.00 Super Bowl LIV 7.00 NFL: America’s Game 8.00 Super Bowl LIV 10.00 Super League Fulltime 10.30 NFL Roundtable 11.00 Super Bowl LIV 1.00am NFL: a Football Life (AD) 2.00 NFL: Greatest Games (AD) 3.30 Darts Gold (AD) 4.00 Sporting Records (AD) 5.00—6.00am Sporting Greats (AD)
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am Sporting Greats (AD) 7.00 Super League Gold (AD) 8.00 Greats (AD) 9.00 Records (AD) 10.00 Boxing Gold 11.00 Super League Gold (AD) 12 noon Netball 1.00pm Sporting Greats (AD) 1.30 NBA Finals Defining Moments 2.30 NBA Classic Games 3.30 Netball 4.30 Boxing: Demetrius Andrade v Luke Keeler from Miami 8.30 Super League 8.45 NBA Gametime 9.00 NBA: Houston v New Orleans 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight Super League Fulltime 12.30am Super League Gold (AD) 1.00 Sporting Records (AD) 2.00 Super League Gold (AD) 3.00 Sporting Records (AD) 4.00 Sporting Greats (AD) 5.00—6.00am Sporting Records (AD)
Eurosport 1 Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435 6.00am Alpine Skiing 8.00 Snowboarding 8.30 Tennis: Australian Open 4.00pm Athletics 5.00 Snooker 7.00 Tennis: Australian Open: the best moments from Melbourne Park 11.00 Athletics: World Indoor Tour 12.30am Cyclo-Cross: from Switzerland 2.00—6.00am Tennis: Australian Open
7.30 LIVE German Football VfL Bochum v SV Hamburg, a Bundesliga 2 clash from the Ruhrstadion (kick-off 7.30). 9.30 Score Best Bits 10.00 Goals Reload 10.30 German Football 11.00 Wrestling 1.00am LIVE Wrestling WWE Monday Night Raw. 4.15 Score Best Bits 4.45 French Football 5.45—6.00am Goals Reload
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.00am Italian Football 6.30 Rugby Union 8.00 International Women’s T20 Cricket 10.00 T20 Cricket 11.00 Badminton (AD) 11.30 Fishing (AD) 12.30pm Italian Football 1.00 MotoGP Classics (AD) 3.00 Marc Marquez: Trophy Collector (AD) 4.00 Hockey 7.00 John Barnes: Poetry In Motion (AD) 8.00 Sailing (AD) 9.00 Fishing (AD) 10.00 Hockey: Pro League
12 midnight LIVE Basketball A US college double header, starting with UConn Huskies v Oregon Ducks (tip-off 12.00); 2.00am Kansas State Wildcats v Baylor Bears from Bramlage Coliseum (tip-off 2.00).
Monday Television
Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.30am As 3pm 8.15 As 4.45pm 9.45 Up As 6.15pm 11.25 The Game Plan As 9.40pm 1.20pm The Pacifier As 8pm 3.00 A Bug’s Life ★★★★ Animated adventure. Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey (1998, U) 4.45 Dinosaur ★★★ Animated adventure. DB Sweeney, Alfre Woodard (2000, PG)
4.00—6.00am Hockey: Pro League
BT Sport 3 Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.00am German Football: extended highlights from the weekend matches 7.30pm French Football 8.30 Australian Football 9.30 UFC Main Event 10.30 French Football 11.30—6.00am German Football
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434 6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 NHL 8.30 Basketball: US college action 1.45pm ESPN FC 2.15 BT Sport Reload 2.30 Basketball: NCAA 6.00 ESPN FC: football analysis 6.30 NHL: Washington Capitals v Pittsburgh Penguins 8.30 Basketball: US college action
12 midnight LIVE Basketball A US college double bill, starting with Florida State Seminoles v North Carolina Tar Heels (tip-off 12.00); 2.00am Kansas Jayhawks v Texas Longhorns from Allen Fieldhouse (tip-off 2.00). 4.00 BT Sport Reload 4.15—6.00am Basketball
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 7.00am Cycling 8.30 Nordic Combined Skiing 9.00 Snowboarding 11.00 Alpine Skiing from Rosa Khutor 1.00pm Cycling: stage seven of the Vuelta a San Juan 2.00 Snooker: the final of the German Masters 4.00 Cyclo-Cross: from Switzerland 6.00 Cycling: Great Ocean Road Race 7.30 Athletics 9.00 Alpine Skiing 12 midnight Tennis: Australian Open 2.00am Snooker: German Masters 4.00—6.00am Snowboarding
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TUESDAY Choices
DESK-BOUND In Peckham, work coach Malcolm must help deliver Universal Credit PICK OF THE DAY
Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State 9.00pm BBC2
DOCUMENTARY New series There’s a key scene in this first episode of a
series about benefits, where the civil servant in charge of Universal Credit, Neil Couling, shows us a whiteboard in the Department for Work and Pensions called the “motherboard”. Among the grids and numbers is a piece of paper stuck on that says, “Pay claimants the right amount of money and on time”. It seems a modest aim but, as Couling tells us, “It has defeated the benefits system for the last 35 years.”
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Midsomer Murders
Life Drawing Live!
8.00pm ITV
8.00pm BBC4
DRAMA Annette Badland has added
ART If Mary Beard’s Shock of the
real zest to the regular line-up, so it’s no wonder that the writers have upped the number of scenes featuring macabre pathologist Fleur Perkins. I like the way that she has Barnaby wrapped around her little finger. Indeed, midway through this mystery, he appears more preoccupied with assembling her flat-pack furniture than he is with solving the actual crime. On the topic of which, look out for a guest appearance by one of Fleur’s TV predecessors — yes, that’s Clare Holman (Dr Hobson from Inspector Morse and Lewis) playing the not-so-grieving widow of an estate agent shot while unveiling a creepy dolls’ house collection. DAVID BROWN
Nude inspired you to seek out a friendly body to draw, look no further. An onscreen group of artists (with guidance and tips from The Big Painting Challenge’s Daphne Todd and Lachlan Goudie) are drawing several life models in real time, with the hope that viewers will join in at home. The human form is a challenging subject, but this is going to be shot so that it offers different perspectives of the subjects. And as, unfortunately, life drawing isn’t taught in art schools so often these days, it’s a rare opportunity to get a lesson in the art of drawing a real person. JANE RACKHAM See feature: page 28
The series helps us understand why. Its strength is that we meet not just those at the top of the benefits bureaucracy but those at the bottom — officials at a Jobcentre in Peckham, south London, known as “work coaches”, and their claimants or “customers”. In their sometimes testy encounters we see how Jobcentres have become a one-stop shop, helping claimants with food bank vouchers, housing and childcare. As unemployed labourer Declan says, unhappily, “It’s like they’ve got a hold of your life.” DAVID BUTCHER
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
This Is Our Family 9.00pm Sky Atlantic
9.00pm Channel 5
DOCUMENTARY This kind of
DOCUMENTARY Thirty years ago,
“longitudinal” documentary requires a commitment of money and time (several years) without promising what you’d call big ratings. The last in the short but worthwhile series wasn’t available for preview but sounds like a strong story. Vinnie Nailor, who is 31 at the start of filming, has spent most of his adult life in prison. Growing up in a family of small-time criminals in Milton Keynes, Vinnie is now a dad himself — to six children by five women. He wants to go straight, but it remains to be seen whether he can handle the pressures of settling down — and earning less in a week than he used to make in a day.
devoted family man and professional photographer Dan Price simplified his life. He rented two acres of Oregon wilderness to live in blissful solitude in what he calls a “hobbit hole”. Why he built such a tiny home (the entrance is the size of a dog flap and you can’t stand up in it) isn’t clear… except presumably it fulfils his needs. “I don’t want to be a part of that huge mess out there,” he explains. While Ben Fogle recognises that Dan’s serenity and happiness come from the simplicity of his life, he still finds his underground home weird: “I feel like I’ve drunk something and I’m hallucinating!” JR
DAVID BUTCHER
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY You’ll sometimes find the ITV soaps accused of copying their BBC counterparts and vice versa. But it’s a rare thing to see two BBC continuing dramas with plotlines that mirror each other. And yet here we are with Holby City (8pm BBC1; Scotland: 10.35pm) and EastEnders, both of which have been featuring a nurse being blackmailed by a patient. Over in Walford, Sonia’s resorted to desperate measures, while here at Holby, it’s Nicky (Belinda Owusu, right) who’s the victim of extortion.
TODAY IN SOAPLAND
They’ve been dealing with their respective crises in different ways, but you’d have thought someone in the drama department would have clocked the similarities in the storyline. Away from these money worries, we have Sacha discussing affairs of the heart with Ric. Though I’d like to know whether real-life medics have the time to sit in deckchairs on the roof of a hospital discussing their love lives in great detail. I seriously doubt that they do. DAVID BROWN
DISCOVER TV
The best of streaming and catch-up
Football Stars in Bad Cars from 6am BBC3/iPlayer
The L Word: Generation Q
10.00pm C4
10.00pm Sky Atlantic
DRAMA It recently emerged that
DOCUMENTARY Josh is 15 and in A&E
DRAMA New series It’s been a long
after a suicide attempt. He’s one of three people in this doc who are being treated by the overstretched mental health team in Nottinghamshire. “We’ve got a crisis ourselves,” says crisis nurse Steph Langley about staff shortages. This is desperately sad to watch: the understandable frustrations at not getting help quickly enough, the guilt felt by a parent whose child wants to die, the pain you can see as someone struggles with anxiety or schizophrenia or a personality disorder. Meanwhile Steph and team continue trying to help people manage themselves. “I will never lose hope for people,” she says. JR
time coming — ten years — but this is the sequel to the groundbreaking, glossy American drama about the lives and loves of a group of lesbians and bisexuals in Los Angeles. The L Word inspired astonishing levels of devotion from its fans, so this has got a lot to live up to, which is maybe why it opens with a boundary-pushing sex scene. Some of the original cast members return, including Jennifer Beals as Bette, Katherine Moennig as Shane and Leisha Hailey as Alice. But there are new — equally airbrushed and gorgeous — characters, too, making this a very glamorous slice of escapism. JR
the division of HBO that commissions Jett is withdrawing from original production. So Carla Gugino, the show’s star and executive producer, has let it be known that season two is now looking for a home. Fingers crossed it finds one. There certainly isn’t such a wealth of addictive, witty thrillers around that we can afford to see a show as good as this expire after one series. Not in a world where Silent Witness is finishing its 23rd Tonight we get a talky episode, but it’s quality talk. The writing (by Sebastian Gutierrez, who also directs, and is Gugino’s real-life partner) is slickly done. And it looks like we have a new McGuffin: a 1958 Mercedes 300SL Roadster. DAVID BUTCHER
POISONOUS Nikki (Emilia Fox) and the team are in a dangerous place
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
Jett 11.00pm Sky 1
DISCOVER TV KIDS
My Life 5.30pm CBBC, iPlayer Danny was born with a rare chromosomal condition and, in 2017, was left paralysed. Humour, family and football keep him going! JACK SEALE
Silent Witness
The Favourite
9.00pm BBC1
Streaming 31 January (Sky Cinema)
DRAMA A word of warning: don’t
Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are rival courtiers competing for the affection of the eccentric Queen Anne, a role that earned Olivia Colman a best actress Oscar.
read on if you haven’t seen last night’s episode, with its alarming developments for Nikki (Emilia Fox) and our team of forensic scientists. As the series finale opens, they’re deeply implicated in a case involving deadly nerve agents, Porton Down and three generations of the same family dead — along with that cheery detective sergeant. But who or what killed Katherine Dukes, the former MoD scientist who was working for a pharmaceutical firm and kept something sinister in her safe? As Thomas (Richard Lintern) begins her postmortem, “a few petechial haemorrhages” look like the least of her problems. A lot hangs on finding the formula for the mysterious KS79 but the script wrong-foots us nicely. It’s not often Silent Witness rises to real melodramatic heights, but tonight it shows it can still pull out all the stops. DAVID BUTCHER
Tuesday Television
Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency
A bit of fun for Sport Relief. Three Fulham players leave their fancy cars at home and share a Fiat Multipla, gaudily pimped by Peter Crouch, to training instead. After further redesigning it, they pass it on to Norwich City FC.
BEST LIVE SPORT International One-Day Cricket: South Africa v England 10.30am Sky Cricket/Main Event The first in a three-match series at Newlands, Cape Town. Snooker: World Grand Prix, day two 12.45pm, 6.45pm ITV4 FA Cup Football: fourth round replay 7.15pm BT Sport 1 Coverage of the night’s best tie.
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Black Narcissus
3.35pm BBC2 Vivid Powell and Pressburger masterpiece, as a group of nuns are overwhelmed by their Himalayan home. See page 45
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Television Tuesday
BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Louise Minchin, Dan Walker. (S) (HD) 9.15 Fraud Squad: the Hunt An insurance cheat who exploited the Manchester Arena bombing. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Homes under the Hammer Refurbishment projects in Lancashire, Bolton and Manchester. (S) (HD) 11.00 Wanted Down Under A couple from Leeds spend a trial week in Australia. Rptd tomorrow 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD) 11.45 Defenders UK A learner driver tries to cheat his way through his driving test. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Derbyshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 1.45 Doctors Daniel and Zara continue to work through their troubled past. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 2/10 Series 3. Frank and Lu take on the case of a washed-up rock star who believes the Devil is trying to kill him. Roberta Taylor guests. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Escape to the Country A Worcestershire couple search for a new home in Cornwall. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.45 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Sheep and pig farmers compete at the Yeovil Show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Raj Bisram picks up a collection of uranium glass. Rptd tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
BBC2 6.30am Wanted Down Under Shown Mon 11am BBC1 (S) (HD) 7.15 Antiques Road Trip Shown Mon 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) 8.00—9.00 Sign Zone MasterChef: the Professionals Four chefs face the first round of finals week. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Current affairs. (S) (HD) 11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S) (HD) 12.15pm Politics Live With Jo Coburn. (S) (HD) 1.00 The Super League Show The opening round of fixtures, including Toronto Wolfpack v Castleford Tigers and St Helens v Salford Red Devils. (S) (HD) 1.50 Get away for Winter A Scottish duo look for a rental home on the island of Madeira. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.35 Coast Exploring the Welsh coast. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.05 Deborah Kerr: Talking Pictures Archive interviews and film clips. Narrated by Sylvia Syms. (R) (S) 3.35—5.15 Black Narcissus 5 Oscar-winning drama starring Deborah Kerr and Sabu. Five English nuns establish a hospital in a disused harem in the Himalayas. As the nuns struggle to cope with the sensuous atmosphere of their surroundings, the intrusive male presence of the local English agent brings further disquiet. Film of the Day: page 45.
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Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1947, U) (S)
ITV 6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) 9.00 Lorraine Fashion and showbiz news. (S) (HD) 10.00 This Morning Lifestyle features, cookery and celebrity chat. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Forthright opinions. (S) (HD) 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 2.00 Judge Rinder Real-life courtroom cases. (S) (HD) 3.00 Tenable Quiz show hosted by Warwick Davis. Repeated 11.40pm (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather
4.00—5.00 Tipping Point Game show. (S) (HD)
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6.30am Cheers Double bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD) 7.20 The King of Queens Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 9.10 Frasier Two episodes of the US sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) 10.10 Undercover Boss USA A café franchise’s COO goes under cover in her own company. (R) (S) (HD) 11.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef is in Monrovia, California. (R) (S) 12 noon News (S) (HD) 12.05pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses Viewing three unusual properties in Spain. (R) (S) (HD) 1.05 Escape to the Château: DIY Billie visits Angel for ideas on room designs for the food event. (R) (S) (HD) 2.10 Countdown With guest Prue Leith. (S) (HD) 3.00 A Place in the Sun On Gran Canaria. (R) (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun Gîte owners in France face plumbing problems for their guests. (S) (HD)
BBC1
BBC2
Holby City 8.00pm Behind the brave face, Nicky struggles to cope with familial and financial matters
Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State 9.00pm Money is tight for Peckham Jobcentre’s Karen
FA CUP FOOTBALL: if there’s an FA Cup fourthround replay today, the following schedule may change
5.15pm Flog It!
5.15pm Pointless
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong in which contestants try to score the fewest points. (R) (S) (HD)
With Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the Rev Richard Coles, Stuart Maconie and Lou Sanders. (S) (HD)
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) 7.00 The One Show
6.30 Great Asian Railway Journeys
Paul Martin visits Nostell Priory near Wakefield. (R) (S) (HD)
Presented by Alex Jones and Matt Baker. (S) (HD)
Ho Chi Minh City to Phan Thiet. In Vietnam, Michael Portillo boards the Unification Railway from Ho Chi Minh City to the northern capital, Hanoi. (S) (AD) (HD) Your RT Travel: page 152
7.30 EastEnders
7.00 Top Gear
Whitney takes matters into her own hands. Sharon is desperate to fix her relationship with Dennis.
2/6. Chris Harris races the £2.5m McLaren Speedtail against the RAF’s newest fighter jet. With guest Romesh Ranganathan. See choice, page 64.
Writer Wendy Granditer Cast Thursday and Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Holby City
Shown Sunday 8pm (S) (HD)
Sacha is scheduled to perform a ground-breaking bowel transplant operation but Max is not sure he’s the best person for the job. Donna’s head is turned by a showbiz casting director who is in for treatment.
8.00 Cornwall: This Fishing Life
Sacha Levy Max McGerry Dominic Copeland Nicky McKendrick Cameron Dunn Chloe Godard Ric Griffin Essie Di Lucca
Bob Barrett Jo Martin David Ames Belinda Owusu Nic Jackman Amy Lennox Hugh Quarshie Kaye Wragg
Xavier “Zav” Duval Donna Jackson Ange Godard Ben Sherwood Tracey McKendrick Felicity “Fliss” Tape Gideon Spinks
Marcus Griffiths Jaye Jacobs Dawn Steele Charlie Condou Cathy Murphy Anna O’Grady Ben Moor
Writer Nick Fisher; Director Dermot Boyd Producer Estelle Daniel (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Silent Witness
Series 23. The Greater Good 2/2 a10/10 Jack collapses at the scene of a car crash and
is rushed to hospital. Meanwhile, after Thomas’s discovery that soldier John Sealy may have been exposed to a nerve agent, is it possible someone is targeting the victim’s family? See page 85. Henry Young DI Karl Guyatt Conor Hodgson DS Lucy Vali Arthur Simpson Simone Taylor Rosie Chamberlain Max Thorndyke AC Harry Lennox Paramedic
Director Nathan Harrison; Series producer Luke Pavey (S) (AD) (HD) RT TRAVEL Create your own Cornish adventure — visit radiotimes.com/cottages
9.00 Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State
Today in Soapland: page 85
Dr Nikki Alexander Emilia Fox Jack Hodgson David Caves Dr Thomas Chamberlain Richard Lintern Clarissa Mullery Liz Carr Lt Col Ben Carmichael Ben Bailey Smith Edmund “Fish” Fishbourne Dan Parr Private John Sealy Will Stevens Sergeant Haring Daniel Stewart Major Mark Sealy William Ash Professor Katherine Dukes Clare Higgins Sandra Gibbs Caroline Lee Johnson
4/6. The smallest boats in the Cornish fleet face challenging times. Their sustainable methods are threatened by industrialisation, fewer young people entering their precarious profession, and declining stocks of mackerel. In Penberth, James Batten is the only fisherman under 65 and with the odds stacked against him, has taken a second job as a shipwright.
Robert East Ash Tandon Richard Durden Adelle Leonce Graham Turner Tina Chiang Julia Haworth Daniel Weyman Michael Simkins Elizabeth Boag
Writer Michael Crompton; Producer Lawrence Till Director Dominic Leclerc (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Followed by National Lottery Update (S)
10.35 Plastic Surgery Undressed 2/6. Vogue Williams and Mobeen Azhar give Mark, Tyler, Sarah and Laura a chance to observe surgeon Amir Nakhdjevani perform liposculpture on a patient who wants to restore his six-pack. Will they still want to schedule their own procedures after witnessing what is involved? The whole series is available on iPlayer. Executive producers Nicholas Steinberg, Mandy Thomson and Ross McCarthy (S) (HD)
11.25 Easy Ways to Live Well 2/3. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Steph McGovern visit a garden centre on the Wirral where the staff, who are on their feet all day, are looking for alternatives to over-the-counter painkillers to deal with their aches and pains. Will Hugh’s suggestion of an “open label placebo” or Steph’s idea of 15 minutes of group singing each day prove the most efficacious? Director/Series producer Nick Angel Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 12.30—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
series. 1/3. In-depth look at the Department aNew for Work and Pensions, Jobcentres and claimants
during the implementation of the biggest change to the benefits system in a generation. This edition focuses on Peckham Jobcentre in south London. Rachel left a 27-year career in the NHS to care for her elderly parents. She’s been struggling to pay her rent and bills while paying back an advance she took out while waiting for her first Universal Credit payment. Jobcentre staff member Karen works tirelessly to support claimants but is frustrated that she has to supplement her low earnings with a second job. See page 84. Director Chris McLaughlin; Series producer Tom Swingler Repeated tomorrow 11.15pm (S) (HD)
10.00 Better Things 5/12 Series 3. No Limit. Sam is feeling the strain of her menopause. After a night out with the girls, she decides a visit to her doctor is in order. (S) (HD) Sam Max Actor Duke
Pamela Adlon Mikey Madison Hannah Alligood Olivia Edward
Phyllis Ida Lala Dr Babu
Celia Imrie Rose Abdoo Judy Reyes Usman Ally
10.25 The Archiveologists 5/6. Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson delve into the archive to parody a 1970s film. Writers Joe Wilkinson, Diane Morgan; Producer Abby C Kumar (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Newsnight With Emily Maitlis and Katie Razzall. (S) (HD) 11.10 Weather (S) (HD)
11.15 Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick? For Horizon, an ex-commando is locked in a nuclear bunker for ten days with no way of telling the time. He is monitored around the clock by a team of scientists as he carries out a barrage of tests to uncover exactly what makes the body clock tick. Director/Producer Tom Cook (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15—2.45am Sign Zone 12.15 Monty Don’s American Gardens 3/3. The west coast of the USA. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.15 Murder, Mystery and My Family 5/10. The poisoning of an elderly woman by her nurse in the 1930s. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Island Medics 5/10. Crews tend to a 95-year-old navy veteran as he is winched from a ship. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY ITV
Channel 4
Midsomer Murders 8.00pm Fleur Perkins and DCI Barnaby go hell for leather to solve another case
Crazy Delicious
BBC4
Regional variations
Joseph and Lily try to put their signature on bold, innovative dishes
Life Drawing Live! 8.00pm Josie d’Arby presides over a challenge for six amateur artists
5.00pm The Chase
5.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me
7.00pm Beyond 100 Days (S) (HD)
Bradley Walsh presents the quiz show. (S) (HD)
On the menu in Cardiff are an American-themed soirée and some plant-based food. (S) (HD)
Followed by Weather (S) (HD)
8.00pm Bethie,
Wendy is left surprised by Victoria. Wendy Posner Susan Cookson Victoria Sugden Isabel Hodgins Aaron Dingle Danny Miller Al Chapman Michael Wildman Amba Metcalfe Ava Jayasinghe Amy Wyatt Natalie Ann Jamieson Andrea Tate Anna Nightingale April Windsor Amelia Flanagan Archie Breckle Kai Assi Belle Dingle Eden Taylor-Draper Billy Fletcher Jay Kontzle Bob Hope Tony Audenshaw Brenda Walker Lesley Dunlop Cain Dingle Jeff Hordley Charity Dingle Emma Atkins Chas Dingle Lucy Pargeter Cara Carryl Thomas Dan Spencer Liam Fox Danny Harrington Louis Healy
David Metcalfe Matthew Wolfenden Dawn Taylor Olivia Bromley Diane Sugden Elizabeth Estensen Dotty Thomas Tilly Rue Foster Doug Potts Duncan Preston Ellis Chapman Aaron Anthony Eric Pollard Christopher Chittell Gabby Thomas Rosie Bentham Graham Foster Andrew Scarborough Harriet Finch Katherine Dow Blyton Isaac Dingle Bobby Dunsmuir Jacob Gallagher Joe-Warren Plant Jai Sharma Christopher Bisson Jamie Tate Alexander Lincoln Jimmy King Nick Miles Johnny Woodfield Luca Myron Hebda Kerry Wyatt Laura Norton Kim Tate Claire King Kyle Winchester Huey Quinn
Writer Kirsty Halton More cast Thursday Repeated tomorrow 7.50am and 12.15pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 The Metro: a Rail Life Story 3/4. The Tyne and Wear Metro comes under pressure when a train breaks down in a tunnel near a busy station. Elsewhere, track inspection supervisor Wayne must repair some decaying sleepers which could cause a derailment, and customer service manager Alan has to deal with an outbreak of anti-social behaviour. Series producer Gavin Barclay Executive producer Mark Robinson (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Midsomer Murders
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The Miniature Murders. Death looms in Midsomer once more when estate agent Alexander Beauvoisin is murdered at the unveiling of a new dolls’ house collection at Midsomer Museum of the Family. See page 84. DCI John Barnaby Neil Dudgeon Fiona Beauvoisin Clare Holman DS Jamie Winter Nick Hendrix Holly Ackroyd Joanna Page Fleur Perkins Annette Badland Alexander Beauvoisin Roger Barclay Jemima Starling Katy Brand Wesley Peters Thomas Dominique Maxine Dobson Eleanor Bron Finn Wokoma Rohan Nedd Samuel Wokoma Karl Collins Erin Turner Ami Okumura Jones Carys Nicholson Rosalie Craig Forensic officer Tom Anderson Sarah Barnaby Fiona Dolman Betty Barnaby Isabel Shaw Writer Helen Jenkins; Producer Guy Hescott Director Toby Frow (S) (AD) (HD) RT DVDs To order Midsomer Murders series 20 on two DVDs for £29.99 incl p&p (RRP £39.99), call 0844 848 7300 (charges apply, see p161) or visit radiotimes.com/dvds06, quoting ref RT1801
10.00 ITV News at Ten
6.00 The Simpsons Homerland. Homer returns from a nuclear convention a changed man. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 Hollyoaks Romeo becomes besotted with Celeste. Romeo Quinn Owen Warner Celeste Faroe Andrea Ali Mitchell Deveraux Imran Adams Scott Drinkwell Ross Adams Anthony Hutchinson Caelan Cobbledick-Manning Azim Maalik Nav Sidhu Charlie Dean Charlie Behan Cindy Cunningham Stephanie Waring Courtney Campbell Amy Conachan
Damon Kinsella Jacob Roberts Darren Osborne Ashley Taylor Dawson Dee Dee Hutchinson Lacey Findlow Edward Hutchinson Joe McGann Goldie McQueen Chelsee Healey Grace Black Tamara Wall John Paul McQueen James Sutton Jordan Price Connor Calland Juliet Quinn Niamh Blackshaw Kyle Kelly Adam Rickitt
Writer Tom Melia More cast Friday Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Rptd tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 8.00 Crazy Delicious Ep 3. This week, Heston Blumenthal, Niklas Ekstedt and Carla Hall challenge food-loving mortals Bethie, Lily and Joseph to impress them in three culinary tasks. First they must invent a winning new banana-based dish, before creating an imaginative pizza. In the final round, the best two cooks are asked to produce a unique take on a barbecue. Presented by Jayde Adams. Directors Niall Downing and James Morgan; Executive producers Tina Flintoff, Nicola Pointer and Nick Hornby (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Ep 4. Maria is admitted after her car collided with a lamppost on her way home from treatment at St George’s. Former hairdresser Ronald is brought in by his granddaughter after a fall during the night. And while three-year-old Ronnie is seen in Paediatrics, his dad talks about his hopes of giving him a good upbringing. Director/Producer Joy Ash Repeated tomorrow 11.35pm C4 and Thursday 9pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Losing It: Our Mental Health Emergency
More stories from the front line of the a3/4. mental health services. Christopher, 40, has
schizophrenia, depression, acute anxiety and psychogenic seizures and has been with the community mental health team for the last 11 years. Recently he was told he no longer qualifies for support from them, but due to his self-harming a decision has been made to delay discharging him for a further six months. See page 85.
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)
Director/Producer Charlie Slade (S) (AD) (HD)
10.45 White House Farm
11.00 Holidays from Hell: Caught on Camera
4/6. The funerals approach, but Stan’s efforts are in vain as the farm throws up even more questions. The chances of solving the case look bleak for Stan and Mick — until a vital witness comes forward. Continues tomorrow 9pm.
Cameras reveal what can go wrong when a dream holiday turns into a nightmare.
8.00—9.00pm River City 10.35 Holby City 11.35 Plastic Surgery Undressed 12.25am Easy Ways to Live Well 1.25 Weather for the Week Ahead 1.30—6.00 BBC News
7.30 Botticelli’s Venus: the Making of an Icon Sam Roddick explores the appeal of 15th-century painting The Birth of Venus, revealing its journey to worldwide fame was far from straightforward after lying in obscurity for centuries. He examines why Botticelli’s nude was so revolutionary and looks at its impact on modern culture with artists including Terry Gilliam, who re-invented it for his Monty Python’s Flying Circus animations. Director/Producer Maurice O’Brien (R) (S) (HD)
8.00 Life Drawing Live!
Painting Challenge aCelebrity winner Josie d’Arby hosts a life
drawing class for six amateur artists, including some well-known faces, led by artists Daphne Todd and Lachlan Goudie. Viewers are invited to draw along at home as the participants try to capture a series of poses, and artist and teacher Diana Ali will provide useful tips on tackling tricky aspects of life drawing. See page 84.
4/11 Series 1. Sex, Lies and Muesli Yoghurt. Anna reaches the end of her tether and tries to drive bulimic Delilah out of the house. 10.40 5/11. Fantasy Football Egg, deeply embarrassed at having caused a scene, seeks advice from Warren’s therapist. Anna hits on the bright idea of using her feminine charms to drum up business. 11.20 6/11. Family Outing. Anna organises a special dinner to fan the flickering flame of romance between Milly and Egg, while Miles gets short shrift. Next episode tomorrow 10pm. Miles Stewart Milly Nasim Warren Jones Edgar “Egg” Cooke Anna Forbes Delilah O’Donnell Graham Kira Mr Webb
Jack Davenport Amita Dhiri Jason Hughes Andrew Lincoln Daniela Nardini Charlotte Bicknell David Mallinson Cyril Nri Luisa Bradshaw-White Christopher Bramwell
Writers Richard Zajdlic and Patrick Wilde Director Audrey Cooke More cast tomorrow First shown on BBC2 (S)
BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
q 3.35 Come Dine with Me In Buckinghamshire.
Director Shana Feste (2014, 12) (S) (SL) (W) (HD) (R) (S) (HD)
7.30—8.00pm Border Life 10.45 Representing Border 11.10 The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury: Sporades 11.40—12.30am White House Farm
11.45am—12.15pm X-Ray: exposing a rogue trader who is selling conservatory roofs
Channel 4 Freeview 4 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 +1 F’view15 F’sat121 Sky 204 Virgin 142 HD F’view104 Sky 138 Virgin 141
Director Ollie Bartlett; Series producer Mike Maclaine Shown 3pm (S) (HD)
BORDER SCOTLAND
10.00 This Life
ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
A team of five workmates answer questions about top ten lists. Hosted by Warwick Davis.
10.00pm ITV News at Ten; STV News and Weather 10.40 Scotland Tonight; ITV Weather 11.05 White House Farm 12.05am James Martin’s French Adventure: Dordogne 1.00 Nightscreen 5.05—6.00 Judge Rinder: court cases
BBC1 WALES
4.30 The Great Hotel Escape Yvonne and Fernando try to get their hotel ready for a big tour group. (R) (S) (HD) 5.25 Cooking Up a Fortune Partners Lisa and Andrea take on married couple Robin and Sarah. (R) (S) (HD) 5.50—6.30am Countdown (R) (S) (HD)
11.40 Tenable
STV
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12.30am Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 The Home Game A Wiltshire couple are stunned by their open-plan makeover. (R) (S) (HD) 3.50 Nightscreen Text information. (HD) 5.05—6.00am Judge Rinder (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Australia on Fire: Climate Emergency The dramatic story of the battle to save Australia from the bushfires. Shown yesterday 8pm (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Featuring a Greek restaurant in Ventura Harbor, California. (R) (S) 1.50 Endless Love ★★ Romantic drama starring Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde and Bruce Greenwood.
As BBC2 until: 7.00pm Scotland’s Home of the Year 7.30 Test Drive 8.00 This Farming Life 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Tiny Lives 11.00—12 midnight David Wilson’s Crime Files
Exec producers Emyr Afan and Sally Dixon (S) (HD)
12 midnight Britain and the Sea 3/4 David Dimbleby follows the trade routes of the west coast of Scotland. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Jigs and Wigs: the Extreme World of Irish Dancing 1/6 Series 2. Master tapper Chris Naish puts together a new crew within the space of a week. (R) (S) (HD) 1.30 2/6. A dance group spreading the word of the gospels. (R) (S) (HD) 2.00 Carved with Love: the Genius of British Woodwork 2/3. The story of 17thcentury carver Grinling Gibbons. (R) (S) (HD) 3.00—4.00am Art on the BBC: the Story of the Nude 1/4. How TV has influenced our understanding of the arts, starting with the nude. Shown Sunday 9pm (S) (SL) (HD)
Director/Series producer Richard Weller (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
BBC SCOTLAND
Tuesday Television
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 Emmerdale
BBC1 SCOTLAND
a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white
BBC2 WALES 1.50pm First Minister’s Questions 2.40—3.05 Coast 7.00—8.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
BBC1 NORTHERN IRELAND 10.35pm The Search 11.05 Plastic Surgery Undressed 11.55 Easy Ways to Live Well 12.55—6.00am News
BBC2 NORTHERN IRELAND 10.00—10.30pm True North: Soul Singers: Belfast Community Gospel Choir prepares for a concert 11.15 Better Things 11.40 The Archiveologists 11.45—12.15am Inside No 9: new series
UTV 10.45pm Eamonn Mallie: Face to Face With 11.10 The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury: Skiathos and Skopelos 11.40—12.30am White House Farm
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Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9.00pm The host meets Dan in Oregon Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 91 9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) 11.15 Paddington Station 24/7 Behind the scenes at the London station. (S) (HD) 12.10pm 5 News (S) (HD) 12.15 GPs: behind Closed Doors A patient with severe acne. (S) (HD) 1.10 Access (S) (HD) 1.15 Home and Away Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star Repeated 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 5.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)
2.20 Erasing His Past ★★ Thriller. A widow questions her dead partner’s honesty. Director Jared Cohn (2019) (S) (W) (HD) 4.00 Friends Series 2. The gang’s neighbour Mr Heckles dies. (S) (HD) 4.30 Phoebe reveals she is married. (S) (HD)
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5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 5.30 Neighbours Lisa reveals she is pregnant. Shown 1.45pm Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Home and Away Colby ends things with Mackenzie. Shown 1.15pm Next episode 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 5 News Tonight (S) (HD) 7.00 Canada: a Year in the Wild 1/4. A look at animals through the four seasons, beginning in autumn. Continues tomorrow at 7pm. Director Matt Thompson Executive producer Sarah Swingler (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly 5/10 Series 2. Helping an over-friendly great dane puppy and a labrador with a strange aversion to shiny floors. Series producer Sarah Rest Executive producer Tim Quicke (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
5/5 Series 11. Ben meets loner Dan, who lives in a unique wild meadow a home in Oregon. Ben fishes for his supper and experiences a Native American-style sweat lodge during his stay. See p84. Director/Producer Sean McDonnell (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Bad Girls behind Bars
4/6 Series 2. Long-serving inmate Mia has to deal with being convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years. Director/Producer Jane Handa (S) (HD)
11.05 Murdered by My Daughter The murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards by 14-year-olds Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham. (S) (HD) 12.05am Inside the World’s Poshest Hotels
(S) (HD) 1.00 New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (HD) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.10 Divine Designs (S) (SL) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) (HD)
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Judge John Deed 8.00pm Jo takes
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Long Lost Family Special: the Unknown Soldiers 8.30pm
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 7.50 Emmerdale (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.20 Coronation Street (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Superstore (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 12.15pm Emmerdale Shown yesterday 7pm ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 Coronation Street Shown yesterday 7.30/8.30pm ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 1.50 New. The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 2.45 Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 3.50 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 New. Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) 6.55 Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD) 8.55 Rising Damp (S) 9.55 Man about the House (S) 10.25 Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 12.40pm Heartbeat (S) (AD) 1.45 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Dave Glover’s job is at stake, then Sarah’s behaviour worries Jack (S) 2.50 Classic Coronation Street: double bill. Mike offers Kevin work, then the Platts celebrate their third anniversary (S) 3.55 The Durrells (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD)
Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
6.00pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold
6.00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Four editions of comical clips sent in by viewers, narrated by Harry Hill. (S)
The Hollow. A philandering husband is found dying after being shot during a house party. Sarah Miles guest-stars. (S) (AD) (HD)
Jean accepts Lionel’s proposal, but their happiness is not shared by everyone.
Don’t Hate the Playaz 10.05pm Mist
8.00 Two and a Half Men
on a case of building site negligence
16/24 Series 9. A storm traps Alan and Walden in the beach house with Lyndsey and Zoey on Valentine’s Day. (S) (HD) 8.30 18/24. Walden’s former business partner Billy approaches him with a new money-making scheme. (S) (HD)
8.00 Paul O’Grady: for the Love of Dogs
9.00 New. Love Island
A search for the remains of soldiers killed during the First World War. (S) (AD) (HD)
Relationship-based reality show in which singletons compete to find love. (S) (HD)
10.05 Don’t Hate the Playaz 5/7 Series 2. Maya Jama, Keisha Buchanan and London Hughes go up against Lady Leshurr, Cariad Lloyd and Mist. Jordan Stephens hosts. (S) (HD)
10.50 Family Guy Series 9. Death tries to show Peter what life would be like without alcohol. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Peter discovers that Lois’s father is having an affair, and is forced to keep the dalliance a secret. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.45 American Dad! Series 11. Hayley gets an office job and falls for a cute colleague. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.15am Steve does his best to stop Snot becoming a bully. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.40 The Cleveland Show (S) (AD) (HD) 1.40 Ibiza Weekender Shown Sunday 10.05pm (S) (HD) 2.40 Two and a Half Men: double bill (S) (HD) 3.20—3.30am Nightscreen (HD) ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
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Paul tries to cheer up the home’s longest-serving resident. (S) (HD)
6.00pm Hi-de-Hi! A yellowcoat’s professionalism is questioned. Gillian Taylforth guests. (S)
6.40 As Time Goes By 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Billy finds a new recruit for his Merry Men with excellent credentials and wants the gang to give him a warm welcome. (S)
8.00 Judge John Deed
8.30 Long Lost Family Special: the Unknown Soldiers 10.00 Law & Order: UK 1/8 Series 8. Flaw. When a jeweller is found dead with no hands or teeth, there are many suspects, but the case takes a shocking turn when the victim’s sister receives a gruesome delivery. (S) (AD) (HD) Ronnie Brooks Joe Hawkins Wes Leyton Jacob Thorne Kate Barker Henry Sharpe Tom Beth
7.10am Bramwell 8.00 Soldier Soldier: Hobbs becomes a PoW (S) 9.00 The Bill (S) 10.00 Classic Holby City (S) 11.00 Classic Casualty (S) 12 noon The Bill (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.20 London’s Burning (S) 3.20 Lovejoy (S) 4.20 Bergerac (S) 5.25 Bread (S)
Bradley Walsh Ben Bailey Smith Paterson Joseph Dominic Rowan Georgia Taylor Peter Davison Nikesh Patel Jenny Rainsford
3/5 Series 1. Duty of Care. Jo Mills takes on the case of a worker killed on a building site, convinced that the managing director of the company should be held accountable for his neglect of health and safety legislation. (S) (AD) Judge John Deed Jo Mills Charlie Deed Sir Michael Niven Stephen Ashurst
Martin Shaw Jenny Seagrove Louisa Clein TR Bowen David Norman
10.00 New Tricks 6/7 Series 1. Home Truths. When a missing person case that Lane originally investigated is re-activated, he is determined to crack it. But after the detectives uncover another two disappearances, they start to think they have a serial killer on their hands. (S) (AD)
11.00 Inspector Morse
11.15 Taggart
The Secret of Bay 5b. An attractive woman ruffles Morse’s feathers, while a murder at a car park unveils a crime of passion involving a jealous husband, his wife and her lover. (S) (HD)
3/3 Series 9. Death Without Dishonour A war begins between rival taxi firms, confronting the team with a series of coincidences to investigate. Meanwhile, Taggart’s daughter is implicated in a murder investigation. (S)
1.15am Inspector Morse (S) (AD) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen
2.15am Bramwell 3.05—4.00am The Bill (S)
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F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am Football Rivalries (S) (HD) 6.15 The Chase (S) (HD) 7.15 Quincy (S) (HD) 8.20 Kojak (S) (HD) 9.25 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (S) (AD) (HD) 10.35 Minder (S) 11.40 The Professionals (S) (AD) 12.45pm LIVE Snooker: the afternoon session on day two of the World Grand Prix (S) (HD) 5.15 The Professionals (S) (AD) 6.10pm River Monsters Jeremy Wade returns to Africa’s Okavango Delta to reinvestigate the tigerfish. (S) (HD) 6.45 LIVE Snooker Coverage of the evening session of the World Grand Prix, featuring first-round matches played over the best of seven frames. Ronnie O’Sullivan won this title in 2018, but his title defence came to an early end at this stage last year when he was beaten 4—2 by Marco Fu. (S) (HD) 11.15 FILM Sudden Death ★★★★ Action thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. A fire officer has to foil a terrorist attack on a sports stadium. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am The Bachelor (S) (HD) 8.45 Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Income Property (S) (HD) 12.25pm Real Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 1.20 Vanderpump Rules (S) (HD) 2.15 New. Million Dollar Listing: LA (HD) 3.10 Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD) 4.05 Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00 New. Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 6.00pm New. Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave work on a classic craftsman house. 7.00 Buying and Selling Jonathan and Drew Scott help a couple find a larger home. (S) (HD) 8.00 Dinner Date Sean from Derbyshire looks for love. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The Real Housewives of Potomac Robyn plans a spooky party. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Real Housewives of Orange County Brauwnyn and Kelly watch Emily rehearse her anniversary dance number. (S) (HD) 11.00 Bridezillas A bride makes a threat after a clash with the crew. (S) (HD)
1.25am Lethal Weapon (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.25 The Protectors (S) 2.55—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 12.45—12.55am Nightscreen (HD)
12.20am Mock the Week (S) (HD) 1.00 QI: double bill (S) 2.25 Flack (S) (HD) 3.10—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.10am Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 8.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 9.00 Storage Hunters (S) (HD) 10.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 12 noon Cop Car Workshop (S) (HD) 1.00pm Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 3.00 Sin City Motors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm QI XL With Sarah Millican, Tommy Tiernan and Josh Widdicombe. (S) (HD) 7.00 New. Richard Osman’s House of Games Ellie Taylor, Josh Widdicombe, Steve Pemberton and Fern Britton compete. (HD) 7.40 Would I Lie to You? Guests include Bill Oddie, Frank Skinner and Sarah Millican. (S) (HD) 8.20 With Mackenzie Crook, Chris Packham, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Rhod Gilbert. (S) (HD) 9.00 Live at the Apollo With Rob Brydon, Sarah Millican and Jason Byrne. (S) (HD) 10.00 Taskmaster 2/8 Series 5. Nish Kumar pretends he is Robin Hood. (S) (HD) 11.00 QI Double bill of the panel game. (S)
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TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY More4
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Paramount Network
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F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (S) (HD) 9.15 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (S) (HD) 11.15 Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD) 12.15pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S) (HD) 2.15 Four in a Bed (S) (HD) 4.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo (S) (AD) (HD) 5.55 New. Love It or List It Australia: in Melbourne (S) (HD)
Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150
7.55 Escape to the Château: DIY Angel advises two Brits on how to make their wedding business work. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. David Jason’s Great British Inventions 3/4. The actor operates one of the world’s biggest hydraulic cranes. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 999: on the Frontline Ep 1 Series 4. Following paramedics across the West Midlands. (S) (HD)
9.00am The A-Team (AD) (HD) 11.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away: double bill (S) (HD) 1.00pm Trucking Hell (S) (HD) 2.00 Police Interceptors (S) (HD) 3.00 Traffic Cops (S) (HD) 5.00 The A-Team: double bill (AD) (HD)
7.00pm Police Interceptors Shaun and Grant pull over the angriest driver they have ever encountered. (S) (HD)
8.00 Traffic Cops Officers engage in an off-road pursuit when an uninsured van fails to stop. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Frontline Police 24/7
Police race to a suspected terror incident on London’s Tube network. (S) (HD)
10.00 Police Raids: Caught by Surprise A specialist team targets businesses suspected of dealing fake goods. (S) (HD)
A teenager has injured his hand after punching through a window. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.05am David Jason’s Great British Inventions (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10 Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown (S) (HD) 2.15 24 Hours in A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20—3.45am Food Unwrapped: the truth about absinthe (S) (HD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196 13
F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Fri/Mon C4 (AD) 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (AD) 8.00 Baby Daddy 9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00 Baby Daddy 3.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 4.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 5.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 8/24 Series 4 The friends set up camp outside a cinema, where they cross paths with Wil Wheaton. (AD) 6.30 9/24. Penny’s dad pays a visit. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Martine urges Scott to be honest. Cast pp87/117 Rptd Wed 6.30pm C4 (AD) 7.30 New. Celebrity Come Dine with Me Former Coronation Street star Steven Arnold hosts his first ever dinner party. 8.00 Junior Bake Off The Heat B contestants face two biscuit-themed challenges. (AD) 9.00 New. Eight out of Ten Cats Jimmy Carr hosts the comedy panel show. 10.00 Sarah Millican: Thoroughly Modern Millican Live Anecdotes on life’s humdrum curiosities at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2012. 11.05 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 12.05am Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.05 Gogglebox (AD) 2.10 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.05 Eight out of Ten Cats 4.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 4.50—6.00am How I Met Your Mother (AD)
adventure starring Antonio q Action Banderas and Salma Hayek. Mexico:
pursuing his quest to avenge the death of the woman he loved, an embittered mariachi homes in on a vicious gang boss. Director Robert Rodriguez (1995, 18) (HD)
1.10am The Virginian: Men from Shiloh (S) (HD) 2.45 Arrow (HD) 3.35 The X-Files (S) (HD) 5.10—6.00am Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) Paramount Network +1 Sky 250
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F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am Come Dine with Me: triple bill 12 noon Couples Come Dine with Me 1.00pm Undercover Boss USA 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond: double bill (AD) 4.00 Frasier: double bill (AD) 5.00 A Place in the Sun 6.00pm A New Life in the Sun Gîte owners in France face plumbing problems. 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA A restaurant in Monrovia, California. 8.00 999: on the Frontline Paramedic Rob Armstrong fights to save the life of a truck driver who is having a heart attack. 9.00 FILM Hidden Figures ★★★★ Drama based on a true story. Three African-American female mathematicians battle racism and sexism at Nasa in the 1960s. Review p41. (AD) 11.25 Meet the Drug Lords: inside the Real Narcos 3/3. Former Special Forces soldier Jason Fox investigates the drug cartels of Peru. (AD) 12.30am SAS: Who Dares Wins (AD) 1.35 The Supervet: double bill (AD) 3.40 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 4.30—5.00am Four in a Bed
Pick
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Freeview 11 Freesat 144 Sky 152 Virgin 165
6.10am The Waltons 7.10 Hart to Hart 9.10 Days of Our Lives 10.00 Hart to Hart 11.00 Charlie’s Angels 12 noon Starsky & Hutch 1.00pm TJ Hooker 2.00 Hart to Hart 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00pm Charlie’s Angels: a new member joins the team in the hunt for a killer on Hawaii 7.00 M*A*S*H: four back-to-back episodes 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: triple bill of the quiz 12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Charlie’s Angels 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Waltons 4.20 Touched by an Angel 5.10—6.00am Highway to Heaven
7.00am Police Ten 7 8.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 9.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 10.00 Border Security USA (AD) 11.00 Road Wars 12 noon Police Ten 7 1.00pm Police Force: Australia (AD) 2.00 Border Patrol 3.00 Nothing to Declare 3.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00 Stop, Search, Seize 6.00pm Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00 Hawaii Five-0: Wo Fat kidnaps McGarrett 8.00 Elementary: a ground-breaking artificial intelligence software programme is stolen (AD) 9.00 Killer in My Village: a look into the killing of 63-year-old Alethea Taylor 10.00 Murders That Shocked the Nation 11.00 The Force: Manchester (AD) 12 midnight Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 1.00am Banged Up Abroad 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 4.00 UK Border Force (AD) 5.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare
Sony Channel +1 Freesat 152 Sky 257
Pick +1 Freeview 92 Freesat 145 Sky 252
E4 +1 Freeview 28 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146
Sony Channel
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Freeview 48 (limited) Freesat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
1.50am CSI: NY (S) 3.50—4.00am Access
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
5 Star
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Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am 3rd Rock from the Sun (S) (HD) 9.10 Will & Grace (S) (HD) 10.05 Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 11.05 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 12 noon Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (S) (HD) 1.00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 3.00 Neighbours (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Home and Away (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 House (S) (HD) 6.00pm Neighbours Shown 5.30pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 New. Home and Away Rptd tomorrow 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole (HD) 8.00 On Benefits: Britain’s Most Married Man (S) (HD) 9.00 New. Me and My Ten Kids: Mega Families (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Bodylicious! (S) (HD) 11.00 FILM Deep Blue Sea ★★★ Sci-fi action thriller (S) (HD) 1.05am Sex Pod (S) (HD) 2.05 Empire: double bill (S) (HD) 3.55—4.00am Access (HD)
5 Star +1 Freeview 55 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186
11.00 Desperado ★★★★
11.05 24 Hours in A&E
E4
Mariachi take on an evil drugs baron
5 Select
54
Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access (S) 9.10 Cruising with Jane McDonald (S) 9.30 FILM Gracie’s Choice ★★ (S) 11.15 FILM Tiny House of Terror ★★ (S) 1.00pm The Dog Rescuers (S) 2.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 4.00 The Yorkshire Vet (S) (AD) 5.00 The Dog Rescuers 6.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 8.00 The Yorkshire Vet (S) (AD) 9.00 Tutankhamun with Dan Snow (S) 10.00 Egypt: the Real Cleopatra 11.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) (AD) 12 midnight Weather Gone Viral 1.00am The Great British Benefits Handout (S) 2.00 Secrets of the Royal Train (S) 3.00 Fights, Camera, Action! (S) (AD) 3.55—4.00am Access (S)
Yesterday
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Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129 6.00am Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones (HD) 7.10 as 11am 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 10.00 Murder Maps (S) (HD) 11.00 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Deep Wreck Mysteries (S) 1.00pm Murder Maps (S) (HD) 2.00 Planet Earth (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 6.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 New. Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The Two Ronnies (S) 11.00 Porridge (S) 1.00am The World at War (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am as 11am Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
Really
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Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 12 noon Escape to the Country: double bill (AD) 2.00pm Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 French Collection (HD) 4.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build: double bill (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 7.00 Antiques Road Trip (HD) 9.00 Helicopter ER (HD) 10.00 Ambulance: a woman who is struggling to breathe (HD) 11.00 Helicopter ER (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Adventures 1.00am Most Haunted (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Antiques Road Trip (HD)
HGTV
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Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279 7.00am Homes under the Hammer 8.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 9.00 Flog It! (HD) 10.00 House Hunters International (HD) 11.00 Hawaii Life (HD) 12 noon New. Island Life (HD) 1.00pm A Place in the Sun (HD) 2.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 3.00 Flog It! (HD) 4.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 5.00 Homes under the Hammer 6.00 Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb (HD) 7.00 New. A Place in the Sun (HD) 8.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 10.00 New. My Lottery Dream Home (HD) 11.00 Hawaii Life (HD) 12 midnight Homes under the Hammer 1.00am Flog It! (HD) 2.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 3.00—4.00am Nick Knowles’s Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
Quest
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F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00 Matlock 12 noon Perry Mason 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger 2.05 CSI: Miami 3.00 NCIS 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 5.00 Matlock 6.00 Perry Mason 7.05 NCIS 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 NCIS 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00 Scorpion 12 midnight CSI: Miami 1.00am NCIS 2.00 Ultimate Force 3.05 The High Chaparral 4.00 The High Chaparral 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am How Do They Do It? (HD) 6.20 American Pickers (HD) 7.10 Deadliest Catch (HD) 8.00 Gold Divers (HD) 9.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 10.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 11.00 Speed Is the New Black (HD) 12 noon American Pickers (HD) 1.00pm Railroad Australia (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (HD) 3.00 Gold Divers (HD) 4.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 5.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 7.00 New. American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 9.00 New. Born Mucky: Life on the Farm (HD) 10.00 The Repair Shop (HD) 11.00 How Do They Do It? (HD) 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 American Chopper 3.00 Fantomworks (HD) 4.00 Heli-Loggers 5.00—6.00am How It’s Made
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
CBS Justice
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Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
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Challenge
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Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
9.00am NCIS: double bill 11.00 JAG 1.00pm The High Chaparral: two episodes 3.00 Perry Mason (HD) 5.00 Unsolved Mysteries: double bill 7.00pm Judge Judy: real-life small-claims cases 9.00 Medium: Allison wakes up five years in the past 10.00 CSI: Miami: Alexx is suspected of killing a child molester (HD) 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries 12 midnight Judge Judy 1.00am ER (HD) 2.00 Medium 3.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (HD) 5.00—6.00am Matlock
7.00am Wheel of Fortune 8.00 Catchphrase (AD) 9.00 The Chase 10.00 Supermarket Sweep 11.00 Price Is Right (AD) 12 noon Wheel of Fortune 1.00pm Catchphrase (AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Bullseye 5.00 Price Is Right (AD) 6.00 Weakest Link 7.00 Pointless Celebrities 8.00 The Chase 11.00 Bullseye 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.00am The Chase 4.00 The Chase USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Golden Balls
Horror Channel
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Tuesday Television
Desperado 11.00pm Carolina and El
Restoring a 1968 Morris Traveller. (S) (HD)
21
Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) 9.25 Law & Order (S) 10.10 CSI: NY (S) 12.05pm Private Eyes (S) 1.00 Law & Order: triple bill 4.00 Murder, She Wrote (S) 6.00pm Law & Order Series 13. Double bill. A student is killed by a hit-and-run driver, then a bookmaker is arrested on suspicion of murdering his business partner (S) 8.00 NCIS Series 11. A port authority officer is murdered (S) (AD) 9.00 New. The Enemy Within: Keaton and the team spy on one of their own, hoping Cruz will lead them to Tal (S) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: four episodes (S)
David Jason’s Great British Inventions 9.00pm Tanks, cranes and hovercraft
6.55pm Car SOS
5 USA
Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
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Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
8.00am Andromeda 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager 10.00 Star Trek 11.00 FILM Dark Skies ★★★ Sci-fi horror 12.50pm Highlights 1.00 FILM Ice Twisters ★★ Disaster thriller 2.50 Highlights 3.00 Lost in Space 4.00 FILM Shark Lake ★★ Crime drama 5.50 Highlights 6.00 Star Trek 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00 Mutant X 9.00 FILM The Devil’s Tomb ★★ Action horror starring Cuba Gooding Jr 10.50 FILM The Funhouse ★★★ Horror with Elizabeth Berridge 12.45am FILM The Lesson ★★★ Horror thriller starring Evan Bendall 2.45—4.30am FILM The Reef ★★★ Horror thriller based on a true story
6.00am House of Lords: Birmingham Commonwealth Games 9.00 Monday in Parliament 9.30 Political Highlights 11.30 Live Foreign and Commonwealth Office Questions 12.30pm Live House of Commons 7.30 Live House of Lords: the evening’s proceedings, including the second reading of the Extradition (Provisional Arrest) Bill 11.00 Tuesday in Parliament 11.30 Welsh First Minister’s Questions 12.15am Politics Live (Later): with Jo Coburn 1.00—6.00am House of Lords: Extradition
Listings for PBS America, Smithsonian see over. Film4 and other Freeview movie channels: p92
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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TUESDAY Satellite & cable
Jett 11.00pm The thief is
briefed on a new assignment
Television Tuesday
Sky 1
The L Word: Generation Q 10.00pm New friendships
Sky Atlantic
Carly tries to reassure Shaun
Sky Witness
Louis Theroux: Dark States — Murder in Milwaukee 10.00pm
W
The Vicar of Dibley 9.00pm
Darcey Bussell guest-stars
Gold
Sky 106 Virgin 110 HD Virgin 109
Sky 108
Sky 107 Virgin 112 HD Virgin 111
Sky 109 Virgin 125 BT 311 HD Virgin 211 BT 383
Sky 110 Virgin 124 BT 310
6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (HD) 8.00 The Dog Whisperer (HD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Force: Manchester (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 3.00 MacGyver (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30 Futurama (S) (AD) 6.30pm The Simpsons The nuclear plant is sold. 7.00 Marge visits the doctor. 7.30 Bart tricks the town. (S) (HD) 8.00 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip Ep 4 Series 2 With ex-footballer Patrice Evra. (HD) 9.00 An Idiot Abroad 5/8 Series 1. Karl visits Egypt, where he tastes local delicacies including rabbit meat. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Force: North East New homeowners discover a cannabis farm in their loft. (S) (HD) 11.00 New. Jett 5/9. Bennie cleans up a mess, while Evans briefs Jett on a new job for Bestic. See page 85. (S) (HD) 12.10am Avenue 5 (HD) 12.45 Cobra (S) (HD) 1.45 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 2.40 Road Wars (S) (HD) 4.00 Futurama (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 10.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 12 noon Blue Bloods (S) (HD) 1.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 2.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 4.00 Without a Trace: triple bill (S) (HD) 7.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 1/25 Series 5 A man dressed as an alien is found dead. (S) (HD) 8.00 Blue Bloods 6/22 Series 1 Police investigate the drug-related deaths of three teenagers. (S) (HD) 9.00 New. This Is Our Family 4/4. The Nailor family adjust to a new way of life when Vinnie returns home from prison. See page 84. (HD) 10.00 The L Word: Generation Q 1/8. Return of the US drama about the lives and loves of a group of friends living in Los Angeles. See p85. (HD) 11.10 Oz 7/8 Series 2. Ryan’s brother is imprisoned for the murder of Dr Nathan’s husband. 12.25am FILM Maria Full of Grace ★★★ Crime drama with Catalina Sandino Moreno. Spanish, English +subtitles (W) (HD) 2.20 From the Earth to the Moon (S) (HD) 4.20—6.00am The West Wing (S) (HD)
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 8.00 Paramedics (HD) 9.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 12 noon Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order (HD) 3.00 The Real A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 UK Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00pm Nothing to Declare Six editions following the work of customs officers in Australia. (S) 8.00 Ghost Whisperer 14/22 Series 1. The ghost of an artist enlists Melinda’s help. (S) (HD) 9.00 New. The Good Doctor Ep 11 Series 3. Shaun deals with the effects his intimacy with Lea will have on his relationship with Carly. (HD) 10.00 New. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 9/22 Series 21. The team spring into action to help a detective who suspects his daughters are being groomed. (HD) 11.00 1/24 Series 15. William Lewis holds Benson in captivity. (HD) 12 midnight CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 1.00am 9-1-1 (S) (HD) 2.00 Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Ghost Whisperer (S) (HD) 4.00 Station 19 (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)
6.10am MasterChef Australia (S) (HD) 7.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00 The Bill (S) 11.00 Supernanny US (S) 12 noon Tipping Point (S) (HD) 2.00pm MasterChef USA (HD) 3.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 5.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 7.00pm New. MasterChef USA The cooks are challenged to replicate a tarte tatin prepared by Gordon Ramsay. (HD) 8.00 Inside the Ambulance Joel and Sam treat a woman who’s in excruciating pain. (S) (HD) 9.00 Gaz offers much-needed support to a mother whose toddler is suffering convulsions. (S) (HD) 10.00 Louis Theroux: Dark States — Murder in Milwaukee 3/3. Examining gun crime and racial tensions in the US city, meeting the police department’s homicide officers and families of people who have been shot. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Inside the Ambulance A young man has a seizure. (S) (HD) 12 midnight One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 1.50 American Housewife (S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD)
7.20am The Piglet Files 7.45 As Time Goes By 8.20 2 Point 4 Children (S) 9.00 Open All Hours 9.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 12.20pm Keeping Up Appearances (S) 1.00 Open All Hours 1.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 2.20 dinnerladies (S) (AD) 3.00 Keeping Up Appearances (S) 3.40 Dad’s Army (S) 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.20pm The Vicar of Dibley The villagers set up a radio station. (S) (AD) 7.00 Open All Hours Arkwright advertises for a live-in housekeeper. 7.40 Dad’s Army Mainwaring sends his men on lengthy route marches to harden their feet. (S) 8.20 Pike becomes trapped in barbed wire in a minefield. (S) 9.00 The Vicar of Dibley Geraldine shoots to stardom. (AD) 9.40 dinnerladies The staff await a royal visit. (S) (AD) 10.15 Live at the Apollo With Roisin Conaty and Nick Helm. (S) (HD) 11.15 Peep Show Mark invites his parents over for Christmas lunch. (HD) 11.50 Mark feels depressed. (S) (HD) 12.20am The Vicar of Dibley (AD) 1.00 Live at the Apollo (S) (HD) 2.00 Peep Show (HD) 2.55 Spaced (S) (AD) 3.25—4.00am Black Books (S)
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
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Sky Arts Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D Major (Op 25) (HD) 6.20 John Eliot Gardiner Conducts Mendelssohn (S) (HD) 8.00 The South Bank Show Originals (S) (HD) 8.30 The Band: Music Icons (S) (HD) 9.00 The Eighties (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 11.00 Discovering: Julie Andrews (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Robert Redford (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm The South Bank Show Originals (S) 1.30 The Byrds: Music Icons (S) (HD) 2.00 National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Too Young to Die (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Leslie Caron (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm The Eighties The impact of the emergence of Aids. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Portrait Artist of the Year With Trevor Nelson, Noel Clarke and Ashley Roberts. (HD) 8.00 New. The celebrity sitters are Len Goodman, Tinie Tempah and Harriet Walter. (HD) 9.00 I Am Johnny Cash A celebration of the country singer/songwriter. (S) (HD) 10.50 Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited The story behind Johnny Cash’s lost Native Americanthemed concept album. (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Portrait Artist of the Year (HD) 1.00am Great Film Composers: the Music of the Movies (HD) 2.00 Gary Cooper: the Irresistible (S) (HD) 3.00 Off Camera with Sam Jones (S) (HD) 4.15 as 5pm 5.10—6.00am Discovering: Alec Guinness (S) (AD) (HD)
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Sky Crime Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 9.00 UK Border Force (S) 10.00 Road Wars (S) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 12 noon Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00pm How I Caught the Killer (S) 2.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 3.00 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) 6.00 Snapped 7.00 Banged Up Abroad (S) 8.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) 9.00 New. World’s Most Evil Killers 10.00 New. Snapped 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 12 midnight Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00am Snapped (S) 4.00 as 5pm 5.00—6.00am as 6am Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 8.00 Bait Car: LA 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 12 noon Bait Car: LA 1.00pm Speeders: ten editions 6.00pm Speeders: six editions. Officer Slaughter pulls over a gun-totin’ cowboy 6.30 A driver on the way to a prom is caught speeding 7.00 Deputy Rubel tackles a repeat offender 7.30 A gaggle of party girls head for a “boob-off” in Maryland 8.00 as 6pm 8.30 as 6.30pm 9.00 Bait Car: New Orleans 10.00 Bait Car: LA 11.00 Speeders: double bill 12 midnight Bait Car 1.00am Speeders 3.00 Bait Car: LA 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
90
The Good Doctor 9.00pm
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am 60-Minute Makeover (S) 9.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia (S) 12.30pm Four Weddings (S) (AD) 2.30 Animal House (S) (AD) 3.00 The Chef’s Line: double bill (S) (AD) 4.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 5.00 Babylon 5 (S) 6.00 Stargate SG-1: O’Neill enlists the help of two military prisoners (S) 7.00 Supergirl: a shocking revelation brings chaos to National City (S) 8.00 Road Wars (S) 9.00 Strike Back: Legacy (S) 11.00 The Good Doctor: a patient refuses anaesthesia during an operation 12 midnight Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1.00am Jett (S) 2.05 Night Cops (S) (AD) 3.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 4.00 Arrow (S) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted (S)
Syfy Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am Stargate Atlantis 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager 5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: double bill. Kira and Bashir enter another dimension, then Bareil and Wynn vie to be elected as Bajor’s spiritual leader 9.00 FILM They Live ★★★ Sci-fi thriller by John Carpenter. Review p45 11.00 FILM Twelve Monkeys ★★★★ Thriller with Bruce Willis
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.00 Parks and Recreation (HD) 10.30 30 Rock (HD) 12 noon The Mindy Project (HD) 1.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 2.30 Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 3.30 Parks and Recreation (HD) 5.00 30 Rock (HD) 6.30 Modern Family (S) (HD) 7.30 The Mindy Project (HD) 9.00 New. Curb Your Enthusiasm (HD) 9.40 New. Ballers: former NFL pro Spencer Strasmore finds a new career as a financial manager for younger NFL stars after retiring from the game (HD) 10.15 Sex and the City (HD) 10.50 New. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD) 11.50 Entourage (S) (HD) 1.00am Eastbound & Down (HD) 2.10 Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20—5.00am 30 Rock (HD)
TLC Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377
1.40am Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: double bill 3.50 Marvel’s Runaways 5.00—6.00am Star Trek: Voyager
6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Randy Knows Best (HD) 7.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Princess Brides (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Vegas Dress (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 11.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ireland (HD) 11.30 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 12 noon as 4am 2.00pm as 11pm 3.00 Sister Wives (HD) 4.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 5.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 6.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 7.00 New. My Big Fat Fabulous Life (HD) 8.00 Love After Lock Up (HD) 9.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 10.00 Unpolished (HD) 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 12 midnight as 8pm 1.00am as 9pm 2.00 as 10pm 3.00 as 11pm 4.00— 6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD)
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Will & Grace 9.30 The Office US (S) (HD) 10.30 My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 11.00 Impractical Jokers (S) (HD) 12 noon Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00pm My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 5.00 Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00pm The Ricky Gervais Show: double bill. Featuring banter with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, then a discussion about holidays in space (S) (HD) 10.00 Joe Lycett: That’s the Way, A-Ha, A-Ha, Joe Lycett (S) (HD) 11.00 Your Face or Mine: triple bill (S) (HD) 12.30am South Park (S) (HD) 3.50 New. The Daily Show: satirical talk show hosted by Trevor Noah (HD) 4.15—5.00am Takeshi’s Castle (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy: real-life smallclaims cases (HD) 1.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 2.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (HD) 3.00 Little Women: Dallas (HD) 4.00 Dance Moms (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00pm Flipping Vegas: Scott Chance encounters a house infested with reptiles (HD) 7.00 Judge Judy (HD) 9.00 Ghost Hunters: the search for paranormal activity 10.00 Storage Wars: double bill (HD) 11.00 Hardcore Pawn: double bill (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars: double bill (HD) 1.00am The Joy of Sex Toys (HD) 2.00 Storage Wars: double bill (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hardcore Pawn (HD)
Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY CHILDREN’S Milkshake! on C5 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p88
Frankie Drake Mysteries 9.00pm Frankie has a theory
Alibi
Family Guy 9.00pm Lois
has to look after her father
Fox
Gold Rush 9.00pm Parker tries to get a washplant going
Discovery
Mata Hari: the Naked Spy 7.40pm The Dutch dancer
PBS America
91
Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view 91 (1–11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 9.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 11.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 1.00pm Rush (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Rosewood (S) (HD) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD) 7.00pm Unforgettable 3/13 Series 3. An ambitious reporter is killed after breaking a story about a sex scandal. (S) (HD) 8.00 4/13. Carrie goes under cover at an illegal casino to investigate a murder. (S) (HD) 9.00 New. Frankie Drake Mysteries 3/10 Series 3 A favourite teacher at a private school is killed and Frankie is hired to find the killer. (AD) (HD) 10.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 7/13 Series 2. The driver of the ladies’ motorcar rally team is found dead in her roadster, leaving Phryne struggling to convince Jack that her friend’s death was not an accident. (S) (HD) 11.00 New Tricks 5/10 Series 9 The body of a missing computer expert turns up in a morgue under a false name. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20am Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (S) 2.20—4.00am Rosewood (S) (HD)
8.00am Bull (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 10.00 Bull (HD) 11.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Bones: double bill (HD) 2.00pm The Mentalist (HD) 3.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Bull (HD) 5.00 Bones (HD) 6.00pm The Mentalist 7/22 Series 6. The list of Red John suspects is narrowed to two. (HD) 7.00 NCIS 5/24 Series 16. The team tries to exonerate a marine serving a life sentence. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 6/24. A Halloween crime scene is probed. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Family Guy Series 17 Lois receives a surprising birthday present from her father. 9.30 Series 10. Peter decides to live upstairs permanently. 10.00 Lois tries to save the life of Stewie’s new best friend. (HD) 10.30 Peter becomes Tom Tucker’s agent. (HD) 11.00 American Dad! Series 12 A DJ battle is all that stands between Stan and death. (HD) 11.30 Series 1. Stan fails miserably when he tries to help his son impress a cheerleader. (HD) 12 midnight Family Guy (HD) 1.00am American Dad! (HD) 2.00 Family Guy (HD) 3.00 American Dad! (HD) 4.00—5.00am Bull (HD)
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Building Off the Grid (S) (HD) 9.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (S) (HD) 10.00 UFOs: the Lost Evidence (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 2.00pm Mysteries at the Museum (HD) 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 New. Building Off the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Fast ’n’ Loud Guest builder Brian Bass helps transform a 1934 Ford Coupe. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Outback Truckers Steve travels from Perth into the heart of Australia amid arid conditions. (S) (HD) 8.00 Richard Hammond’s Big Richard explores Austria. (HD) 9.00 New. Gold Rush Rick and Tony suffer mechanical failures. (HD) 10.00 New. Gold Rush: White Water The crew take a gamble. (HD) 11.00 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost Mine A bold risk threatens to shut down Dave’s operation. (S) (HD) 12 midnight Gold Rush (HD) 1.00am Gold Rush: White Water (HD) 2.00 Richard Hammond’s Big (HD) 3.00 Gold Rush (HD) 3.50 Kindig Customs (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Jet Set 8.25 Nazi Hunters 9.30 King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons 10.55 Secret Agent School: Camp X 12 noon Nazi Hunters 1.00pm Walks around Britain 1.30 King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons 2.55 Secret Agent School: Camp X 3.55 Nazi Hunters 5.00 The Spy Who Stole the Atom Bomb 6.15pm King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons Michael Wood tells the story of King Alfred the Great. 7.40 Mata Hari: the Naked Spy Examining the truth behind the legend of the Dutch exotic dancer who was found guilty of being a German spy during the First World War and executed by firing squad. 8.55 Secret Agent School: Camp X The secret agent training school that would go on to lay the foundations for the CIA. 9.55 Nazi Hunters The efforts of the Israeli secret service to track down Adolf Eichmann, known as the architect of the Holocaust and culpable for the murder of six million Jews. 11.00 Mata Hari: the Naked Spy As 7.40pm. 12.05am Secret Agent School: Camp X 1.00 Jet Set 1.30—2.00am Walks around Britain
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Blowing Up History 7.00 Deadliest Tech 8.00 World War II: the Complete History 9.00 Secrets of the Arsenal 10.00 Extreme Engineering 11.00 Deadliest Tech 12 noon Blowing Up History 2.00pm Mysteries at the Museum 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 Secrets of the Arsenal 5.00 Extreme Engineering 6.00pm Blowing Up History The documentary turns to Abu Simbel in Egypt, the largest rockcut temple in the world, built 3,000 years ago by Pharaoh Ramses II. 7.00 Mysteries at the Museum Don Wildman unearths relics and sinister artefacts, each with an extraordinary story to tell and a secret to be revealed. 8.00 Expedition Unknown Josh Gates sets off deep into the Australian Outback. 9.00 Unexplained and Unexplored Unravelling the mystery of the Mayan empire’s fate. 10.00 Why We Hate Exploring ideological factors that fuel hate and violence. 11.00 Extreme Machines The extensive use of mega trucks. 12 midnight Expedition Unknown 1.00am Unexplained and Unexplored 2.00 Why We Hate 3.00 Extreme Machines 4.00 Blowing Up History 5.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
History
Nat Geographic
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am American Pickers: double bill (HD) 8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 Pirate Traders (HD) 10.00 Ancient Aliens: Stranger Theories (HD) 11.00 American Pickers 12 noon Mountain Men (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire Tournament of Champions (HD) 2.00 American Pickers (HD) 4.00 Storage Wars (HD) 5.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 6.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 American Pickers: double bill (HD) 9.00 New. The UnXplained with William Shatner: how ritual may tap into hidden forces that lie beyond the grasp of conventional explanation (HD) 10.00 New. Ancient Aliens: double bill (HD) 12 midnight The Curse of Oak Island 2.00am American Pickers 3.00 Mountain Men (HD) 4.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 5.00—6.00am Storage Wars (HD)
8.00am Egypt from Above (S) (HD) 9.00 Nazi Secrets Revealed: Draining the Ocean (HD) 10.00 World War II: the Apocalypse (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Car SOS (HD) 4.00 Supercars (HD) 5.00 History’s Toughest Prisons (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Air Crash Investigation (HD) 7.00 New. Hidden Gems of Turkey: Andrew Evans explores Western Anatolia (HD) 8.00 Europe from Above: aerial footage of Poland (HD) 9.00 Drain the Oceans (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation: investigators discover a danger that the industry has known about for years (HD) 12 midnight Ice Road Rescue (HD) 1.00am Wicked Tuna (HD) 2.00 Yukon Gold (HD) 3.00—5.00am Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 8.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 10.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 11.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 12 noon Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 4.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 6.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 7.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 8.00 The Zoo (S) (HD) 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 11.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 1.00am Animal Cops Houston (S) 2.00 The Zoo (S) (HD) 3.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 3.50 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 4.40 How Do Animals Do That (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am Outback Vet (HD) 10.00 Orangutan Diary 11.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 12 noon New series. Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.00 Outback Vet (HD) 4.00 Orangutan Diary 5.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 6.00 Outback Vet (HD) 7.00 Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 8.00 Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 9.00 Orangutan Diary 10.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 11.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 12 midnight Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 1.00am Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.05 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD) 3.50 Orangutan Diary 4.40 Jungle Planet (HD) 5.30—6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Smithsonian
57
F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am Aerial Britain (HD) 7.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 8.00 Space Voyages (HD) 9.00 Apollo’s Moon Shot (HD) 10.00 Atomic Bomb: Witness to History (HD) 11.00 The Pacific War in Colour (HD) 12 noon Aerial Britain (HD) 1.00pm An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 2.00 Space Voyages (HD) 3.00 Apollo’s Moon Shot (HD) 4.00 Atomic Bomb: Witness to History (HD) 5.00 Smithsonian Time Capsule 6.00pm The Pacific War in Colour Personal accounts of Second World War combat. (HD) 7.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates A visit to Elizabethan mansion Doddington Hall. (HD) 8.00 New. Julie Montagu goes to 450-year-old Holdenby House. (HD) 9.00 Britain in Colour A vivid portrait of the royal family from the late 19th century. (HD) 10.00 America’s Civil War 360 The North’s hard-won four-year US Civil War victory. (HD) 11.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates As 8pm. 12 midnight Britain in Colour (HD) 1.00am America’s Civil War 360 (HD) 2.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 3.00 Britain in Colour (HD) 4.00 America’s Civil War 360 (HD) 5.00—6.00am Smithsonian Time Capsule
CBeebies
202
Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Something Special 6.20 Baby Jake 6.35 Twirlywoos 6.45 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Numberblocks 7.05 Bing: double bill 7.20 Hey Duggee: double bill 7.35 Bitz & Bob 7.45 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.20 Biggleton 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Tee and Mo 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Alphablocks 9.20 Timmy Time 9.25 Bing 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 New. Something Special: educational series 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 Hey Duggee 10.40 New. Patchwork Pals 10.45 Mister Maker’s Arty Party 11.05 Magic Hands 11.15 My Pet and Me 11.30 School of Roars 11.40 My First 11.50 Tinga Tinga Tales 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Old Jack’s Boat 12.30 Katie Morag 12.45 Melody 1.00 The Furchester Hotel 1.10 Yakka Dee! 1.15 Numberblocks 1.20 Bing 1.30 Twirlywoos 1.45 Something Special 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 The Baby Club 2.35 Pablo 2.45 Our Family 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.15 Swashbuckle 3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Octonauts: animated adventures 4.00 New. Love Monster 4.05 Andy’s Safari Adventures 4.20 Maddie’s Do You Know? 4.35 Peter Rabbit 4.50 Go Jetters 5.00 Gigglebiz 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.25 Molly and Mack; My Petsaurus 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: A tale is read for younger viewers before they go to bed
CBBC
Tuesday Television
Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
6.00am Peppa Pig 6.20 New. Mya Go 6.30 Fireman Sam 6.40 Noddy: Toyland Detective 6.50 Shane the Chef 7.00 Thomas & Friends 7.15 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 7.20 Peppa Pig 7.40 New. Top Wing: the Cadets send stressed Shirley on a remote treetop cabin holiday 7.55 Paw Patrol 8.10 Floogals 8.30 New. Becca’s Bunch 8.45 Little Princess 8.55 Ben and Holly 9.10—9.15am New. Sunny Bunnies
201
Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 613 Virgin 701 7.00am Arthur 7.15 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.25 Danger Mouse 7.40 New. Newsround 7.45 Danny & Mick 8.00 Class Dismissed 8.15 New. Newsround 8.25 Marrying Mum and Dad 8.55 Art Ninja 9.15 A Week to Beat the World 9.30 All at Sea 1.45pm Got What It Takes? 2.20 Blue Peter 2.50 The Dumping Ground 3.20 The Deep 3.45 Shaun the Sheep 3.50 Scream Street 4.00 New. Newsround 4.10 Danny & Mick 4.25 Odd Squad 4.35 The Pets Factor 5.00 RT CHOICE New. 4 o’Clock Club: comedy about the rivalry between two brothers See p85 5.30 RT CHOICE New. My Life: extraordinary children See p85 6.00pm Dragons: Race to the Edge 6.25 Operation Ouch! 6.55 Nine Minute Ninja 7.05 Horrible Histories 7.35 My Life 8.00 The Next Step 8.25 4 o’Clock Club 8.55—9.00pm Lifebabble
CITV
203
Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 621 Virgin 734 6.00am Super 4 6.25 Fangbone 6.55 NinjaGo 7.25 Mr Bean: the Animated Series 7.55 Mr Magoo 8.25 Scooby-Doo 8.50 Mighty Mike 9.20 Dare Master 9.25 Captain Underpants 9.50 Hotel Transylvania 10.20 Spy School 10.45 Massive Monster Mayhem 11.10 Drop Dead Weird 11.40 Max & Shred 12.05pm Robozuna 12.30 Gormiti 3D 1.00 NinjaGo 1.25 Dare Master 1.30 The Bagel and Becky Show 2.10 Hotel Transylvania 2.40 Mr Magoo 3.10 The Tom and Jerry Show 3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.00 Dave Spud 4.30 Mighty Mike 5.00 Captain Underpants 5.30 LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar 6.00pm Robozuna 6.25 Gormiti 3D 7.00 Mr Bean: the Animated Series 7.30 Mr Magoo 8.00 Massive Monster Mayhem 8.30—9.00pm Max & Shred
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TUESDAY Films & Sport Discover film
Television Tuesday
The best of Sky, iPlayer, Netflix and beyond
New to Prime this week Late Night 111 Amazon Prime The “newbie deals with dragon-lady boss” story is hardly new, but this comedy is still a hoot. Its success is down to its two female leads: Emma Thompson is reliably spot-on as a diva-like TV chat-show host; while Mindy Kaling gives a subtler, star-making performance as the new writer who turns around the ailing show. An underused John Lithgow adds some drama to leaven the levity, but this is essentially quality comic fluff — just the job when you’re in the mood for something light and likeable. DAVE ALDRIDGE
FREEVIEW Film4
Sky Premiere 14
F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am Two Thousand Women ★★★ Effective wartime drama. Phyllis Calvert (1944, PG) (S) (AD) 12.55pm Ride Lonesome ★★★★ Brilliantly scripted western. Randolph Scott (1959, 12) (S) 2.25 D-Day the Sixth of June ★★★ Stirring romantic drama. Robert Taylor (1956, PG) (S)
4.35pm Warlock ★★★★ A former gunfighter turns lawman in this fine western. Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda (1959, U) 6.55 Risen ★★ Biblical drama about Roman officers assigned to investigate the disappearance of Christ’s body after the Crucifixion. Joseph Fiennes (2016, 12) (S) 9.00 Taken 3 ★★ Liam Neeson batters even more bad guys in this action threequel that has great stunts but predictable twists. Forest Whitaker (2014, 12) (S) (AD) 11.15 ’71 ★★★★ A soldier finds himself separated from his regiment during a riot in this superb thriller. Jack O’Connell (2014, 15) (S)
1.20—3.45am Byzantium ★★★★ Haunting and visually resplendent arthouse horror. Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan (2012, 15) (S) Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
32
Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am My Daughter’s Secret ★★ Thriller. Nina Dobrev (2007) 11.00 Mother’s Crime 1.00pm Metal Tornado ★★ Sci-fi. Lou Diamond Phillips (2011, PG) 2.55 40 Days and Nights ★ Thriller. Monica Keena, Alex Carter (2012) 4.45 Marie Antoinette ★★★ Drama. Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman (2005, 12) 7.05pm Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle ★ Action comedy adventure sequel. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bernie Mac (2003, 12)
9.00 Miami Vice ★★ Gritty and seriously violent crime thriller. Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx (2006, 15) 11.35 Dog Eat Dog ★★ Meandering crime thriller. Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe (2015, 18) 1.30am Drive ★★★★ Thriller. Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan (2011, 18) 3.45—5.50am Dan in Real Life ★★★★ Drama. Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche (2007, PG) Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
Robot wars – supersized! Pacific Rim 111 9.00pm Sky Sci-Fi/Horror Gargantuan aliens emerge from the sea to colonise Earth in this cheesy but fun hybrid of Transformers and Godzilla, showing tonight in a double bill with its sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising. In the original film, Idris Elba stars as the marvellously named Stacker Pentecost, leader of the human resistance, while man of the moment John Boyega (recently seen in Star Wars Episode IX: the Rise of Skywalker) plays his son in the follow-up. An anime spin-off series is set to smash its way onto Netflix later this year. ALAN JONES
A history of violence Bronson 111 My5 FREE TO VIEW
Tom Hardy is stunning as Britain’s most violent prisoner, Charles Bronson, in Nicolas Winding Refn’s eccentric, stylised and often unsavoury biopic. The violence may be too extreme and the message too non-judgemental for mainstream viewers, but Hardy does an admirable job of making this monster seem human. DAMON WISE
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F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am Hotel Reserve ★★★ Thriller. James Mason (1944, U) 7.50 Passport to Suez ★★ Drama. Warren William (1943) 9.20 Gandhi 5 Drama. Ben Kingsley (1982, PG) 1.05pm The Wild One ★★★★ Drama. Marlon Brando (1953, PG) 2.45 On the Waterfront 5 Drama. Marlon Brando (1954, PG) 5.00 Footsteps in the Fog ★★★ Thriller. Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons (1955, U) 6.50pm Loss of Innocence ★★★ Charming romance. Kenneth More (1961, PG) 9.00 My Stepmother Is an Alien ★★★ Entertaining sci-fi. Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger (1988, 15) 11.10 The Big Chill ★★★★ Drama. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt (1983, 15) 1.15am You’re Jinxed Friend, You’ve Met Sacramento ★★ Western. Ty Hardin (1972) 3.00 What a Carve Up! ★★★ Comedy horror. Kenneth Connor, Sidney James (1961, U) 4.25—6.00am Long John Silver ★★ Adventure. Robert Newton (1954, U) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
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Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.00am Once a Thief ★★★ Drama. John Stuart (1935) 7.20 The Stars Look Down ★★★★ Drama. Michael Redgrave (1939, PG) (S) 9.20 The Gay Dog ★★ Comedy. Wilfred Pickles (1954, U) 11.00 June Allyson 11.30 The Scamp ★★ Drama. (1957, PG) (S) 1.30pm Hell in the Pacific ★★★★ Drama. Lee Marvin (1968, PG) 3.35 The Proud Valley ★★ Drama. (1940, PG) 5.10 Operation Amsterdam ★★★ Drama. Peter Finch (1958, PG) 7.15pm The Extra Day ★★ Portmanteau drama about movie extras. Richard Basehart (1956, PG) 9.00 Gideon’s Way TV crime drama. 10.00 The Snorkel ★★★ Taut thriller. Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John, Mandy Miller (1958, 12)
11.50 Fear Is the Key ★★★ Thriller. Barry Newman (1972, 15) 1.55am White Water Summer ★★★ Adventure. (1987, 15) 3.45—5.30am The Traitor ★★ Spy mystery. Donald Wolfit (1957, PG) (S)
Sky Oscars
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am As 4.15pm 8.00 Eighth Grade ★★★★ Comedy drama. Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton (2018, 15) 9.50 1917 Special 10.20 As 6.15pm 12 noon As 8pm 2.15pm Radioflash ★★ Thriller. Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan (2019) 4.15 Never Grow Old ★★★ Western. John Cusack, Emile Hirsch (2019, 15)
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 7.05am As 5.50pm 9.15 As 10.15pm 11.15 Mary Poppins 5 Musical fantasy. Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke (1964, U) 1.40pm Black Swan ★★★★ Psychological thriller. Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis (2010, 15) 3.30 Walk the Line ★★★★ Musical drama.
6.15pm i November Criminals ★★ Two teens take matters into their own hands in this strongly cast crime drama. Ansel Elgort, Chloë
5.50pm The Blind Side ★★★★ Charming true-story drama about a white Christian who takes in an underprivileged black teenager.
Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon (2005, 12)
Grace Moretz, Catherine Keener (2017, 12)
Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron (2009, 12)
8.00 The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne. Olivia
8.00 Erin Brockovich ★★★★ Compelling biographical drama. Julia Roberts, Albert Finney (2000, 15)
Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15)
10.10 Escape Plan 3 ★★ Brutal action thriller. Review p62.
10.15 The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne. Olivia
Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista (2019, 15)
Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15)
12 midnight In Fabric ★★★★ Thriller. Review p82. (2018, 15) 2.10am Beats ★★★★ Drama. (2019, 18) 3.55 The Cleanse ★★★ Horror. (2016) 5.30 Monster Family Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
12.20am Boys Don’t Cry ★★★ Compelling drama based on a true story. Hilary Swank, Peter Sarsgaard (1999, 18) 2.20 Black Swan As 1.40pm 4.20 Mary Poppins As 11.15am
Sky Hits
Sky Greats
Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 7.20am First Man ★★★★ Space drama. Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy (2018, 12) 9.45 As 7pm 11.45 As 9pm 1.40pm As 11pm 3.40 Johnny English ★★ Spy comedy adventure. Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich (2003, PG) 5.10 The Aftermath ★★★ Drama. Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke (2019, 15)
7.00pm Thor ★★★ Spectacularlooking adventure. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins (2011, 12)
9.00 Thor: the Dark World ★★★★ Explosive action epic in which the thunder god must save the cosmos. Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston (2013, 12)
Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 8.25am The Perfect Storm ★★★ Drama. (2000, 15) 10.45 The Guns of Navarone ★★★★ Adventure. (1961, PG) 1.25pm The Birds 5 Horror. (1963, 15) 3.30 The Bourne Supremacy ★★★★ Thriller. (2004, 12) 5.25 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 5 Comedy. Bob Hoskins (1988, PG)
7.15pm Shaun of the Dead 5 Entertaining mix of George A Romero-style horror and offbeat humour. Simon Pegg (2004, 15) 9.00 Blade Runner 5 Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi thriller. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young (1982, 15)
Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss (2019, 15)
11.00 The Last Samurai ★★★★ Tom Cruise plays a disillusioned US soldier who is hired to train Japan’s first modern army in this sweeping period drama. (2003, 15)
1.00am Forgetting Sarah Marshall ★★★ Comedy. Jason Segel, Kristen Bell (2008, 15) 3.05 Red Sparrow ★★★★ Thriller. Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton (2018, 15) 5.30 Pearl Harbor ★★ Drama.
1.45am Miller’s Crossing 5 Period crime drama. Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney (1990, 18) 3.55 The Bridge on the River Kwai 5 Classic Second World War epic.
Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale (2001, 12)
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins (1957, PG)
11.00 Us ★★★★ Astute, often terrifying chiller from Get Out director Jordan Peele. Lupita Nyong’o,
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 6.00am Samson ★★ Drama. Taylor James (2018, 15) 8.00 As 5.50pm 10.15 Big Trouble in Little China ★★ Adventure. Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall (1986, 15) 12 noon As 10.15pm 2.00pm 300: Rise of an Empire ★★★★ Historical action adventure. Eva Green, Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro (2013, 15)
Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.05am Death Do Us Part ★★ Drama. (2018, 18) 7.55 As 7.05pm 9.55 As 11pm 11.40 Stuck on You ★★★ Comedy. (2003, 12) 1.45pm The Wedding Guest ★★ Drama. (2017, 15) 3.30 The Ladykillers ★★★ Comedy. (2004, 15) 5.20 Super Troopers 2 ★★ Comedy. (2018, 15)
8.00 The Equalizer 2 ★★★ The ex-secret agent-turned-good Samaritan continues to right wrongs in this action-packed sequel. Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal (2018, 15)
7.05pm Identity Thief ★★ A mild-mannered accountant attempts to bring a fraudster to justice. Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy (2013, 15) 9.00 The Big Lebowski ★★★★ An unemployed hippy becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine plot when he’s mistaken for a millionaire. Jeff Bridges, John Goodman (1998, 18) 11.00 Happy Gilmore ★★ An ice-hockey player discovers a talent for golf. Adam Sandler (1996, 12)
10.15pm 300 ★★★★ Breathtaking and very gory historical action adventure. Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham (2006, 15) 12.25am As 2pm 2.15 As 10.15am 4.00 As 3.50pm
12.40am Slaughterhouse Rulez ★★ Horror. Simon Pegg, Asa Butterfield, Michael Sheen (2018, 15) 2.35 The Ladykillers As 3.30pm 4.30 The Family Stone ★★★ Drama. Sarah
3.50pm Jason and the Argonauts ★★★★ Lively fantasy adventure with nifty special effects. Todd Armstrong (1963, U) 5.50 King Arthur ★★★ Exciting period action adventure. Clive Owen, Keira Knightley (2004, 12)
Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton (2005, PG) Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description
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TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY Sky
Disney
Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.35am As 2.40pm 8.20 As 6pm 10.20 As 4.25pm 11.55 As 8pm 1.15pm The Tigger Movie ★★ Adventure. Jim Cummings (2000, U) 2.40 The Princess and the Frog ★★★ Fantasy. Anika Noni Rose (2009, U) 4.25 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen ★★★ Comedy. (2004, PG)
Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter (2013, 12)
11.55 The Emperor’s New Groove ★★★★ Witty comedy.
Adventure
Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.05am Stuart Little ★★★ Fantasy. Michael J Fox (1999, U) 7.35 As 6pm 9.35 As 8pm 11.50 As 10.15pm 2.15pm Nanny McPhee ★★★ Fantasy. Emma Thompson, Colin Firth (2005, U) 4.00 Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief ★★★ Fantasy.
6.00pm Dumbo ★★★★ Charming live-action remake of the flying elephant fantasy. Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green (2019, PG)
8.00 Aladdin ★★★ Energetic retelling of the Arabian Nights tale. Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott (2019, PG) 10.15 Hook ★★★ Entertaining fantasy adventure that sees a grown-up Peter Pan face his old nemesis. Dustin Hoffman, Robin
David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt (2000, U)
1.25am The Sword in the Stone ★★★ Animated adventure. Rickie
12.40am Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief As 4pm 2.40 Zathura: a Space Adventure ★★★★ Fantasy adventure. Josh
Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson (1963, U)
Sky Thriller
Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard (2005, PG)
4.30 Stuart Little As 6.05am
Sky
Drama
Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 7.00am Rabbit ★★ Thriller. Adelaide Clemens (2017, 15) 8.45 Steel Country ★★★ Thriller. (2018, 15) 10.20 Blood Brother ★★ Drama. Tremaine “Trey Songz” Neverson (2018, 15) 11.50 As 11.25pm 1.55pm Superfly ★★★ Action. Trevor Jackson (2018, 15) 3.55 Breaking In ★★★ Thriller. Gabrielle Union (2018, 15)
Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510 6.25am Sorry Angel ★★★ Drama. Vincent Lacoste (2018, 15) 8.50 American Summer ★★★ Comedy. Blake Cooper (2018, 15) 10.45 The Exception ★★ Drama. Lily James, Christopher Plummer, Jai Courtney (2016, 15) 12.40pm As 8pm 2.55 As 11.55pm 4.40 Two for Joy ★★ Drama. Samantha Morton (2018, 15)
5.25pm Accident ★ Nonsensical action thriller. Stephanie
6.25pm Saturday Church ★★★ Vibrant and emotionally direct drama. Luka Kain (2017, 15) 8.00 The Shape of Water ★★★★ Beautiful adult fairy tale.
Schildknecht, Roxane Hayward, Tyrone Keogh (2017, 15)
7.00 The Girl in the Spider’s Web ★★★ High-velocity thriller. Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Sylvia Hoeks (2018, 15)
Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon (2017, 15)
9.00 Catch Me If You Can ★★★★ Suspenseful true-life tale.
10.15 Lez Bomb ★★★ Quirky, charming comedy. Jenna Laurenzo,
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks (2002, 12)
Caitlin Mehner, Brandon Micheal Hall (2018, 12)
11.25 The Sisters Brothers ★★★★ Rugged western. John C Reilly,
11.55 Anything ★★★ Implausible romantic drama. John
Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal (2018, 15)
Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, Maura Tierney (2017, 15)
1.30am Sweet Country ★★ Period adventure. Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill (2017, 15) 3.25 Mara ★★ Horror thriller. Olga Kurylenko (2018, 15) 5.05 Point Last Seen ★★★ Suspense thriller. Linda Hamilton (1998)
1.40am American Summer As 8.50am 3.35 Being Rose ★★★ Well-played, bittersweet drama. Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin (2017) 5.10 Apostasy ★★★★ Drama. Siobhan
Sky
Sci-Fi/Horror
Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am The Dark ★★★ Horror. Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols (2018, 15) 7.45 As 5.30pm 9.30 The Darkest Minds ★★ Sci-fi thriller. Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore (2018, 12) 11.30 As 7.15pm 1.15pm As 9pm 3.30 As 11.15pm 5.30 Judge Dredd ★★★ Sci-fi action. Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante (1995, 15)
7.15pm Happy Death Day 2U ★★ Sequel to 2017’s smart horror. Jessica Rothe, Ruby Modine (2019, 15) 9.00 Pacific Rim ★★★ Giant robots take on alien monsters in this dumb but fun sci-fi action adventure. Review left. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi (2013, 12)
11.15 Pacific Rim: Uprising ★★★ There’s more city-smashing mayhem in this exciting action sequel. John Boyega, Scott Eastwood (2018, 12) 1.15am The Omen ★★★★ Terrifyingly effective horror. Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw (1976, 15) 3.10 Damien — Omen II ★★★ Horror. William Holden, Lee Grant (1978, 18) 5.00 Sky Cinema Preview
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Sky Premier League
Logan Lerman, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan (2010, PG)
Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins (1991, U)
2.50 As 9.20pm 5.30 The Return of Jafar ★★ Animated adventure. Dan Castellaneta (1994, U)
SPORT
Finneran, Sacha Parkinson, Molly Wright (2017, PG)
TCM Movies Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 6.00am Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 7.10 Gambit ★★★ Comedy. Shirley MacLaine (1966, U) 9.15 I Killed Wild Bill Hickok ★★ Western. (1956) 10.30 Cimarron ★★ Western. Glenn Ford (1960, 12) 1.30pm The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 5 Western. (1947, PG)
4.00pm Sherlock Holmes: Terror by Night ★★★ Neat mystery. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce (1946, U) 5.15 Riding Shotgun ★★ Western. Randolph Scott (1954, U) 6.50 Strangers on a Train 5 Gripping thriller in which a chance meeting leads to murder. Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker (1951, PG)
9.00 Collateral Damage ★★ By-the-numbers action thriller. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas (2001, 15)
11.15pm US Marshals ★★ Action thriller. Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr (1998, 15) 1.55am The Saga of Hemp Brown ★★★ Western. Rory Calhoun (1958, U) 3.30 As 6am TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
International Cricket
Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Legends (AD) 8.00 Best Goals 9.00 100 Club (AD) 10.00 Premier League Years (AD) 12 noon Best Goals (AD) 1.00pm Premier League Years (AD) 3.00 Best Goals (AD) 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00 100 Club (AD) 6.00 Premier League Legends (AD) 7.00 Review 8.00 Soccerbox (AD) 9.00 Review 10.00 The Debate 11.00 Review 12 midnight The Debate 1.00am Premier League Years (AD) 3.00 Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)
6.00am German Football 7.00 Wrestling (AD) 8.45 Premier League Review 9.45 Scottish Football 12 noon German Football 1.30pm BT Sport Reload 2.00 Early Kick-Off 2.15 SPFL Highlights 2.30 Rugby Union: Premiership Cup 4.00 WWE (AD) 5.00 BT Sport Goals Reload 5.30 Early Kick-Off: football chat 5.45 Premier League Review 6.45 BT Sport Score Best Bits
Sky Cricket
10.30am Sky Cricket/Main
Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504
Event England’s Eoin Morgan
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 6.55 Women’s World T20 Classics 7.15 Best of Sky Cricket (AD)
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437 6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans
8.00 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The first Under-19 World Cup semi-final; 10.30 South Africa v England, the first in a three-match series from Newlands, Cape Town. 7.30pm Sky Sports Tonight 10.00 The Debate 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight Sky Sports News 2.00—10.00am LIVE International One-Day Cricket New Zealand v India from Seddon Park, Hamilton.
Sky Football Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503 6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Greatest Players (AD) 7.30 Football Countdowns (AD) 8.00 Football Years (AD) 8.30 EFL Greatest Games 8.45 One2Eleven (AD) 9.00 Greatest Games 9.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 10.30 Greatest Games 11.30 Greatest Players 12 noon Countdowns (AD) 12.30pm Football Years (AD) 1.00 Greatest Games 1.45 One2Eleven (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 3.00 Greatest Players (AD) 3.30 Countdowns (AD) 4.00 Football Years (AD) 4.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.30 Greatest Games 6.00 League One and Two Goals 6.30 Countdowns (AD) 7.00 Soccer AM: the Best Bits (AD) 7.30 Classic Play-Off Finals: Burnley v Sheffield United from May 2009 8.30 League One and Two Goals 9.00 Championship Highlights 10.00 SPFL Greatest Games 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.00 One2Eleven (AD) 11.15 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Football Years (AD) 12.30am SPFL Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Football Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 6.00am Masterclass 7.00 Short Game School (AD) 7.30 The Improvers 8.00 Golf Academy 9.00 Tee Time Tips (AD) 10.00 School of Golf (AD) 11.00 Best of the Open Zone 2018 (AD) 12 noon Masterclass 12.30pm Short Game School (AD) 1.00 Golf Academy 2.00 Best of the Sky Zone (AD) 3.00 Tee Time Tips (AD) 4.00 School of Golf (AD) 5.00 Best of the Open Zone (AD) 6.00 Golf Academy 7.00 How The 2006 Ryder Cup Was Won: a look back at Europe’s victory over the USA at the K Club in County Kildare 10.00 Golf Academy 11.00 School of Golf 12 midnight Masterclass 1.00am The Improvers 1.30 Short Game School (AD) 2.00 Best of the Sky Zone (AD) 3.00 Tee Time Tips (AD) 4.00 School of Golf (AD) 5.00—6.00am Best of the Open Zone 2018 (AD)
Travel
BT Sport 1
7.45 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The first Under-19 World Cup semi-final; 10.30 South Africa v England. 7.30pm 25 Years of the Barmy Army 7.45 Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 8.00 International One-Day Cricket 1.55—10.00am LIVE International One-Day Cricket New Zealand v India from Hamilton.
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am Boxing Gold 7.00 Records (AD) 8.00 Boxing Gold 9.00 NFL (AD) 10.00 Records (AD) 11.00 NFL (AD) 12 noon NFL (AD) 1.00pm Boxing Gold 2.00 Darts Gold 3.00 Super Bowl LIV 5.00 Darts Gold (AD) 5.30 Fishing 6.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 7.00 NFL Roundtable 7.30 Super Bowl LIV: highlights 9.30 Fishing 10.00 NFL Roundtable 10.30 Darts Gold (AD) 11.00 NFL: a Football Life (AD) 12 midnight NFL (AD) 1.00am Super League Gold (AD) 2.00 NFL (AD) 3.30 Darts Gold (AD) 4.00 Records (AD) 5.00—6.00am Greats (AD)
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am Sporting Greats (AD) 7.00 Super League Gold (AD) 8.00 Super League Fulltime 8.30 Greats (AD) 9.00 Sporting Records (AD) 10.00 Boxing Gold 10.30 Super League Fulltime 11.00 Super League Gold (AD) 12 noon Netball 1.00pm Super League Fulltime 1.30 Sporting Greats (AD) 2.00 NBA Classic Games 4.30 Sporting Greats (AD) 5.00 Netball 6.00 Super League Fulltime 6.30 Boxing Gold 7.00 Mountain Biking 8.00 Super League Fulltime 8.30 NBA Champions 2011 Mavericks (AD) 10.00 NBA GameTime 10.30 NBA Heatcheck 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight NBA Classics 1.00am Boxing Gold 2.00 Super League Gold (AD) 3.00 Records (AD) 4.00 Greats (AD) 5.00—6.00am Records (AD)
Sky Mix Sky 145 Virgin 520 HD Virgin 510 7.45am—3.45pm LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup semi-final.
Eurosport 1 Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435 6.00am Snooker 8.00 Cyclo-Cross 10.00 Alpine Skiing: World Cup 11.00 Snowboarding 1.00pm Alpine Skiing 3.00 Ski Jumping 4.30 Athletics
6.00 LIVE Athletics The World Indoor Tour from Düsseldorf. 8.00 Tennis: Australian Open 9.00 Hall of Fame 10.00 World Superbikes 12 midnight Tennis 1.00am Triathlon 1.30 Volleyball 2.00—6.30am Tennis
7.15 LIVE FA Cup Football Coverage of a fourth-round replay. 10.00 Premier League Reload 10.15 Goals Reload 10.45 Early Kick-Off 11.00 Yachting (AD) 12 midnight LIVE NHL Boston Bruins v Vancouver Canucks, the inter-conference clash from TD Garden (face-off 12.00). 2.30am Liverpool: Team of the Eighties (AD) 3.30 Manchester United Classics (AD) 4.30 Arsenal Classics (AD) 5.30—6.00am Italian Football
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.00am Hockey: the best action from the Hockey Pro League, featuring Australia v Great Britain, Spain v Netherlands and Spain v Holland 12 noon MotoGP Classics (AD) 3.00pm MotoGP Films: Jorge (AD) 4.30 German Football 7.00 Wrestling 11.15 Italian Football 11.45 Scottish Premiership Football
12 midnight LIVE Basketball Coverage of a US college game; 2.00am More NCAA action. 4.00 The Day the Series Stopped (AD) 5.00—6.00am Fishing (AD)
Tuesday Television
6.00pm Ralph Breaks the Internet ★★★★ Lively, energetic sequel. John C Reilly, Sarah Silverman (2018, PG) 8.00 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ★★★★ Animation. Sterling Holloway (1977, U) 9.20 The Lone Ranger ★★★★ Enjoyable adventure. Johnny Depp,
Sky
BT Sport 3 Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.00am French Football: highlights from the weekend’s Ligue 1 fixtures 2.30pm Italian Football 3.00 German Football 4.30 French Football
6.00 LIVE French Football Coverage of a Ligue 1 match; 8.00 Nantes v Paris St-Germain from Stade de la Beaujoire (kick-off 8.05). 10.00 30 for 30: The U: how the Miami Hurricanes became college football’s bad boys in the 1980s (AD) 12 midnight German Football 1.00am FA Cup Football 2.30 Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop (AD) 2.45 30 for 30 Shorts (AD) 3.00 Australian Football 4.00 German Football 5.00—6.00am Yachting (AD)
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434 6.00am Around the Horn 6.30 Pardon the Interruption 7.00 ESPN FC 7.30 Basketball 11.00 BT Sport Reload 11.15 Around the Horn 11.45 ESPN FC 12.15pm Basketball 2.00 X Games: from Aspen, Colorado 3.00 Basketball 6.30 ESPN FC 7.00 Around the Horn 7.30 Pardon the Interruption 8.00 Basketball: US college action 11.30 Pardon the Interruption
12 midnight—6.00am LIVE Basketball Three NCAA games.
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 6.00am Alpine Skiing 7.00 Ski Jumping 8.30 Table Tennis 9.30 Athletics 11.00 Tennis: Australian Open: highlights featuring the mixed doubles final, the women’s doubles final, the men’s doubles final, the women’s singles final and the men’s singles final 6.00pm Cycling 6.30 Triathlon 7.00 Cyclo-Cross 9.00 Alpine Skiing 10.00 Athletics 11.30 Cyclo-Cross 1.30am Luge 2.00 Cycling 3.00 Cyclo-Cross 4.00—6.00am Alpine Skiing
Michael Portillo’s Thai adventure
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WEDNESDAY Choices
The pick of today’s TV MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME
Television Wednesday
Rebekah Staton, Youssef Kerkour and Rufus Jones return for a second run
PICK OF THE DAY
Home 10.00pm C4
SITCOM As the second series of Rufus Jones’s sitcom opens, Syrian asylum
seeker Sami (Youssef Kerkour) is apparently running in terror through woodland, pleading for his life. Nothing serious, it’s a family game with water pistols. But the scene shows the way Home blends the serious and the trivial, the agonising and (at its best) the agonisingly funny. Sami stowed away in the car of a Dorking family as they returned from Calais and the first series charted his attempts to fathom the demands
DAVID BUTCHER
Brain Games
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor
Good Omens
White House Farm
8.00pm Nat Geo
8.30pm BBC2
9.00pm BBC2
9.00pm ITV
HEALTH Most TV health
DRAMA The pace picks up this
DRAMA Last week it looked like
experiments seem to involve the participants upping their physical activity or slashing their calorie intake. So it makes a nice change when Michael Mosley asks a group of Edinburgh residents simply to spend an extra hour surrounded by nature every week in order to monitor the health benefits. It’s even better to know that it does make a difference to your wellbeing. Also on this week’s agenda is the baffling numbers of plant-based milks you can buy: are they really healthier than cow’s milk? And is soy milk better than almond, or should you go for oat, or coconut? Giles Yeo has the not-very-straightforward answers. JANE RACKHAM
week as our heroes race towards Armageddon, with young antichrist Adam (Sam Taylor Buck) bringing aliens, Krakens and spaceships to life and dominating his friends while angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) is suspected of treachery by his superiors in Heaven. Elsewhere, David Tennant’s Crowley is having some of his own trouble with former colleagues, battling fellow demons as the final two Horsemen of the Apocalypse are called into action. Doctor Who fans, keep your eyes peeled: there’s more than one reference to Tennant’s years in the Tardis hidden in this episode, starting with a subtle nod to Time Lord planet Gallifrey… HUW FULLERTON
the case against Jeremy Bamber, accused of killing his family in a shotgun massacre, was solid. His girlfriend, Julie Mugford, turned up at the police station with lots to say. Well, she says it all tonight, but still officers inch their way towards Bamber at a crawl. Det Sgt Stan Jones (Mark Addy) remains convinced that Bamber killed his parents, his sister Sheila and his twin nephews. But once again he butts heads with his boss, the blinkered DCI Taff Jones (Stephen Graham and that very odd Welsh accent). It’s the penultimate episode, so at least we know it must all fall into place next week. We’ve spent a long time getting there. ALISON GRAHAM
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SCIENCE The enjoyably
amped-up pop science series returns for a sixth run with one of its habitual Battle of the Sexes episodes, in which it prods at some of the clichés about the differences between the male and female brain. Glitzing up the competition are a celebrity couple, actors Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who is affectionately described by Shepard as, “the money tree that grows in my yard” . They kiss, cuddle and laugh their way through a series of mental challenges — though perhaps the best moment has nothing to do with male or female neuroscience. When mentalist Lior Suchard guesses the names of their first crushes, Kristen’s jaw almost hits the floor. DAVID CRAWFORD
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of his new country — from Post Office queues to Home Office interviews. Six months on, he is still waiting to hear about his application, sharing a room in a hotel with a gay Nigerian dentist and nearing the end of his tether. Kerkour is great as Sami, but the best comedy comes from his hosts, sharp-tongued Katy (Rebekah Staton) and Jones himself as perennially pompous Peter, who steps in tonight when Sami’s patience breaks.
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY
The Great Pottery Throw Down
TODAY IN SOAPLAND
to Roy offering her his sofa to sleep on. Hollyoaks (6.30pm C4) goes all cutesie romcom as Mitchell learns that Scott is leaving and is urged by Martine to declare his true feelings. Hence Mitchell then racing to stop Scott before he can make his exit. Little do the pair realise, though, that their actions are being observed by Celeste, who reports back to Mitchell’s sinister secret twin Toby. But will he be able to stop the episode from turning into a Richard Curtis movie? DAVID BROWN
Avenue 5
Finding Joy
10.00pm Sky 1
10.00pm W
9.00pm More4
COMEDY Passengers on space liner
COMEDY New series Joy (Amy
REALITY Emma Bridgewater, the
the Avenue 5 are complaining about not so much First World as Off World problems: room towels have been folded into obscene shapes and so on. Ryan Clark (fabulous Hugh Laurie), “captain” of the wayward vessel, has bigger headaches to contend with, and reveals his secrets — both to the viewer by way of an oddly touching phone-call home, and to moaner-inchief Karen (Rebecca Front), whom he invites to become a liaison officer. Anyone wondering whether Veep’s scorching one-liners translate to a scifi setting needn’t worry. They do. And there are wonderful cameos, including Daisy May Cooper as a pretend navigator and Himesh Patel as a sidetracked stand-up. MARK BRAXTON
Huberman, who also wrote this kooky Irish comedy) says she’s perfectly OK with her life. Admittedly her long-term boyfriend Aidan (Lochlainn Ó Mearáin) has left her and her dog (also Aidan) keeps defecating on her bed (get the metaphor?) but she’s managing to cling on to her rigidly ordered life. Then Ireland’s favourite vlogger (who reports on finding happiness “mostly through sponsored treatments and events”) has a bad reaction to a skin resurfacing treatment, so Joy fills in for her. Despite some risqué jokes, it’s not Fleabag — actually it’s a bit daft and some gags miss the mark — but Huberman is immensely likeable, so this may be a grower. JR
ceramics queen who presides over every middle-class kitchen, lends her stately presence to the Throw Down when she sets and judges the spot-test task, inviting the remaining potters to handwrite on two pieces of crockery. The words must have meaning for the contestants, who come up with some poignant stories. Bridgewater is supportive and encouraging, which makes her eventual criticisms feel like stabs to the heart: “I wouldn’t say its something you’re accustomed to doing,” she says to the task’s crestfallen loser. The main challenge is to throw and make two matching lamp bases: “We want the wow factor,” says judge Sue Pryke. AG
Britain’s Most Expensive Home: Building for a Billionaire 9.00pm C4
DREAMING BIG John Caudwell with his partner, Modesta Vzesniauskaite
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PROPERTY It’s always good to get ideas from property shows, and this one has useful tips and tricks for anyone thinking of doing up a Mayfair mansion on a £65m budget. Like the best way to install a “lava wall” next to your pool. Or why it’s best to avoid a mirrored dancefloor in your basement nightclub. Or how to respond when your interior designer says a £300,000 sculpture you’ve set your heart on might look ”a bit chavvy”. It’s the mega-project of John Caudwell, who founded Phones 4u. He’s knocking through a mansion and a townhouse, and the first scene we see involves fitting a £500,000 car-stacking machine to manage the underground car park. Other jaw-dropping scenes follow, as Caudwell cheerily admits, “I hate minimalism.” DAVID BUTCHER
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24 Hours in Police Custody All 4 (expires today) A memorable two-parter in the documentary strand that follows every detail of a real police investigation. A young man executed in woods near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, leads the cops into the complex hierarchy of the alarmingly lucrative local cannabis trade. But has the obvious suspect actually done the deed?
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I can’t help but feel that Coronation Street (7.30, 8.30pm ITV) killed off Roy’s long-lost brother Richard too quickly. In the rush to give the beloved café owner another waif to look after in Richard’s daughter Nina (Mollie Gallagher), Corrie opted not to explore an interesting sibling bond. But we are where we are, and tonight sees Roy discover that a desperate Nina has been going through the factory bins. Later on, she turns up at the café and confesses that she’s homeless — all of which leads
Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures 4.30pm Disney Jr (Sky 607, Virgin 707), DisneyLife Today, the Happy Helpers assist with the location of a lost cat. JACK SEALE
BEST LIVE SPORT Snooker: World Grand Prix, day three 12.45pm, 6.45pm ITV4 More from Cheltenham. Cycling: Tour of Valencia, day one 2pm Eurosport 2 The big names head for Spain. Scottish Premiership Football: Motherwell v Celtic 7.15pm (k/o 7.45pm) BT Sport 1 FA Cup Football: fourth round replay 7.30pm (kick-off tbc) BBC1 The battle to secure a last-16 spot.
o FILM OF THE DAY
Wind River 9.00pm Film4
Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner star in this tale of murder on a Wyoming reservation. See page 46
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WEDNESDAY Main Channels DAYTIME BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Louise Minchin, Dan Walker. (S) (HD) 9.15 Fraud Squad: the Hunt Investigating a wealthy manager taking advantage of the NHS. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Homes under the Hammer Properties in the West Midlands, Cheshire and east London. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Wanted Down Under A woman believes Brisbane will offer her son the perfect lifestyle.
BBC1
BBC2
Shakespeare and Hathaway 2.15pm Major Benedick (Christopher Timothy) fights to keep his allotment
Trust Me, I’m a Doctor 8.30pm Michael Mosley tests the benefits of spending an hour outdoors
FA CUP FOOTBALL: if an FA Cup fourth-round replay is shown on Tuesday, the following schedule will change
5.15pm Flog It!
5.15pm Pointless
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Alexander Armstrong hosts as more contestants try to aim low with their answers. With Richard Osman.
With Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Reverend Richard Coles, Stuart Maconie and Lou Sanders. (S) (HD)
Director Richard van’t Riet; Producers Tamara Gilder, Richard Hague and John Ryan (R) (S) (HD)
6.30 Great Asian Railway Journeys
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S)
Da Nang to Hoi An. In the tailoring capital of Hoi An, Michael Portillo discovers the favourite food of the region’s silkworms and sees how Cham weavers create their distinctive brocade. (S) (AD) (HD)
Television Wednesday
Repeated tomorrow 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD)
11.45 Defenders UK A second-hand car dealer who sold a potentially deadly vehicle. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Newark Antiques Fair in Nottinghamshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 1.45 Doctors Daniel helps a chaplain overcome a crisis of faith — in the rehabilitation of prisoners. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 3/10 Series 3. Long-buried secrets are unearthed when Frank and Lu come to the aid of a community of allotment holders. Guest-starring Philip Jackson and Christopher Timothy. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Escape to the Country Nicki Chapman is in Cornwall on a £750,000 property search. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.45 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Flower displays at the Kent County Show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip A small glass whisky jar turns up in Essex. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
BBC2 6.30am Wanted Down Under Shown Tue 11am BBC1 (S) (HD) 7.15 Antiques Road Trip Shown Tue 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) 8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 See Hear With voiceover. Repeated 12.15am (S) (HD) 8.30 Fake Britain 6/6 Series 9. A dangerous fake botox treatment. (R) (S) (HD)
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Current affairs. (S) (HD) 11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S) (HD) 11.15 Politics Live With Jo Coburn. (S) (HD) 1.00pm Get away for Winter An Essex woman wants to swap the UK for the sun of Majorca. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 Coast The south-west coast of England. (R) (S) (HD) 2.25 Richard Harris: Talking Pictures A retrospective look at TV appearances made by the actor. (R) (S) 3.00—5.15 Cromwell ★★★★ Historical drama with Richard Harris and Alec Guinness. The divide between Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I becomes a feud that takes them from Parliament into a full-scale battle between their two mighty armies, the Roundheads and the Cavaliers. Review page 46.
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Director Ken Hughes (1970, PG) (S) (W)
ITV 6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD) 9.00 Lorraine Entertainment news. (S) (HD) 10.00 This Morning Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Lively debate. (S) (HD) 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 2.00 Judge Rinder Courtroom kerfuffles. (S) (HD) 3.00 Tenable Five relatives calling themselves the Wham Bam Thank You Mams take part in the quiz. Repeated 11.40pm (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather
4.00—5.00 Tipping Point With Ben Shephard. (S) (HD)
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6.30am Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD) 7.20 The King of Queens Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 9.10 Frasier Two episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) 10.10 Undercover Boss USA The CEO of Shoppers World goes under cover in the business. (R) (S) (HD) 11.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA An Italian restaurant in California. (R) (S) 12 noon News (S) (HD) 12.05pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses A classic car-loving couple search for a home in Almería. (R) (S) (HD) 1.05 Escape to the Château: DIY Dick Strawbridge helps restore a traditional wine press. (R) (S) (HD) 2.10 Countdown With guest Prue Leith. (S) (HD) 3.00 A Place in the Sun Danni Menzies helps a couple who are looking to retire to Spain. (R) (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun A couple have a plumbing crisis in the face of a catering deadline. (S) (HD)
Followed by Party Political Broadcast By the Conservative Party. (S) (HD)
7.00 The One Show
From Glemham Hall in Suffolk. (R) (S) (HD)
7.00 The Andrew Neil Show Interviews, discussion and analysis from Westminster.
Presented by Alex Jones and Matt Baker.
Editor Hugh Milbourn (S) (HD)
Executive producer Michael Armit (S) (HD)
7.30 Yorkshire Walks
7.30 FA Cup Match of the Day Live Action from a fourth-round replay. At this stage last year, the lowest ranking and only non-League side left in the competition, Barnet, held their London rivals, Championship side Brentford, to a 3—3 draw. But Brentford made no mistake in the replay, winning 3—1. Notable upsets included Championship side Millwall’s 3—2 victory over Everton from the Premier League. League One AFC Wimbledon, meanwhile, pulled off a giant-killing shock when they beat three-time Cup winners West Ham 4—2. (S) (HD) In the event of extra time/penalties, subsequent programmes may run late or change
10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) Followed by National Lottery Update (S)
10.35 Eating with My Ex 4/10 Series 2. Ayo, who felt Felicia was the perfect girlfriend, would like to know why she dumped him out of the blue, while accusations of cheating dogged the relationship of Michael and Casey. The whole series is available on iPlayer. Directors Paul Mackay, Sasha Webb and Jan Genesis Series producer Melissa Waterson (S) (HD)
11.05 My Mate’s a Bad Date 4/7. Twenty-five-year-old Tyler wants to date the male version of herself, so Oloni puts that idea to the test. The whole series is available on iPlayer. Series producer Ciara Redman; Executive producer Laura Bowen (S) (HD)
11.30 First and Last 5/6. More contestants face five bizarre challenges. Shown Saturday 8.30pm (S) (HD)
12.15am A Question of Sport Guests Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Jake Ball, Anne Keothavong and Adam Jones join team captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell. Sue Barker hosts. Shown last Friday (S) (HD)
12.45 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 12.50—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)
FA Cup Football Newport County scored a historic win in a fourth-round replay last season, beating Middlesbrough 2—0 to reach the fifth round for only the second time — the first being back in 1949. The hero of the League Two side’s win was busy winger Robbie Willmott who scored once and set up the other goal, and less than two years before, had been stacking supermarket shelves. BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
3/4. Runswick Bay to Whitby. Artist Shanaz Gulzar walks a stretch of the 109-mile Cleveland Way. Series producer Cy Chadwick; Executive producer Tony Parker First shown on BBC1 North West (S) (HD)
8.00 Lose Weight and Get Fit with Tom Kerridge 4/6. The temptations of sweet treats and alcohol are threatening to undo the progress of some of the guinea pigs, so Tom invents some healthy snacks that look and taste like treats but are lower in calories. Director Sarah Myland; Producer Rosa Brough (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor
Series 9. Giles Yeo investigates whether a4/6 plant-based milks are any healthier than dairy,
and Guddi Singh witnesses pioneering cancer surgery using an intelligent knife that can detect tumours. Michael Mosley asks if spending an hour a week in nature can improve our health. See p94. Series producer Dominic Gallagher Executive producer Jacqueline Smith (S) (HD)
9.00 Good Omens
Saturday Morning Funtime. Armageddon a4/6. starts in earnest, as the Antichrist’s powers
wreak havoc across the globe. See page 94. Aziraphale Michael Sheen Crowley David Tennant Voice of God Frances McDormand Gabriel Jon Hamm Anathema Adria Arjona Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell Michael McKean Madame Tracy Miranda Richardson Newton Pulsifer Jack Whitehall Arthur Young Daniel Mays Deirdre Young Sian Brooke Adam Young Sam Taylor Buck Hastur Ned Dennehy Ligur Ariyon Bakare Archangel Michael Doon Mackichan Thaddeus Dowling Nick Offerman
Pepper Amma Ris Brian Ilan Galkoff Wensleydale Alfie Taylor Captain Vincent David Morrissey The Voice of Death Brian Cox The Metatron Derek Jacobi Kirsty Wark Herself Maud Indra Ove Pollution Lourdes Faberes Death Jamie Hill James Naughtie Himself (voice) Harriet Dowling Jill Winternitz Agnes Nutter Josie Lawrence Uriel Gloria Obianyo Sandalphon Paul Chahidi International Express man Simon Merrells
Writer Neil Gaiman; Director Douglas Mackinnon First shown on Amazon Prime (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Live at the Apollo Jen Brister and Darren Harriott perform. (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Newsnight With Katie Razzall. (S) (HD) 11.10 Weather (S) (HD)
11.15 Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State 1/3. A focus on the staff and claimants at Peckham Jobcentre in south London. See choice, page 84. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (HD)
12.15—2.45am Sign Zone 12.15 See Hear Magazine for the hard-of-hearing. With voiceover. Shown at 8am (R) (S) (HD) 12.45 Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls 1/3. Ed meets fishermen in the Netherlands. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 Earth’s Tropical Islands 1/3. A focus on Madagascar, the oldest island in the world. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY ITV
Channel 4
White House Farm 9.00pm DS Stan Jones and DCI Taff Jones are split over the case
BBC4
Home 10.00pm Sami vents his frustration as a trip to the countryside with the family gets out of control
Regional variations
Timeshift: The Trains That Time Forgot 9.00pm Andrew Martin takes to the railways
BBC1 SCOTLAND 12.45am The Edit 1.00 Weather 1.05—6.00 BBC News
BBC SCOTLAND
5.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me
7.00pm Beyond 100 Days (S) (HD)
Rob, Sharon, Jayne and Dan take part. (S) (HD)
In Brighton, there’s a South Pacific-inspired menu, some fine dining and a kitchen catastrophe. (S) (HD)
Followed by Weather (S) (HD)
6.00 The Simpsons
1/5. Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the relationship between discoveries in anatomy and works of art, beginning with a focus on Claudius Galen and Leonardo da Vinci.
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 6.25 Party Political Broadcast By the Conservative Party. (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 Emmerdale Laurel receives some shocking news. Writer Bill Lyons Cast Tuesday and Thursday Repeated tomorrow 7.50am and 12.15pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 Coronation Street Beth tells Roy she caught Nina rummaging in bins. Roy Cropper David Neilson Beth Sutherland Lisa George Sally Metcalfe Sally Dynevor Tim Metcalfe Joe Duttine Claudia Colby Rula Lenska Ken Barlow William Roache Amy Barlow Elle Mulvaney Tracy McDonald Kate Ford Liz McDonald Beverley Callard Steve McDonald Simon Gregson Emma Brooker Alexandra Mardell Mary Taylor Patti Clare Evelyn Plummer Maureen Lipman
Gail Rodwell Helen Worth Audrey Roberts Sue Nicholls Sean Tully Antony Cotton Hope Stape Isabella Flanagan Asha Alahan Tanisha Gorey Ruby Dobbs Macy Alabi Ike Rodgers Julian Walsh Mr Percival Steve Varnom Disco Des John Henshaw Woman Sian Headon Homeless man Damien Oakes Teens Joel McCleoud, Joe Harrison
Writer Jonathan Harvey More cast Monday Repeated tomorrow 8.20am and 12.45pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
Treehouse of Horror XXIV. Homer wreaks havoc in a Dr Seuss-style tale. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 Hollyoaks Martine urges Mitchell to follow his heart. Writer Gareth Lemon This week’s episodes directed by Sean Glynn Cast Tuesday/Friday Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Repeated tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)
Today in Soapland: page 95
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It Ep 5 Series 5. Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are in High Wycombe, where Carly and Phil are finding their four-bedroom semi less roomy now they have three daughters. Carly wants to move because of the unsociable kitchen, but husband Phil still loves the house and its handy location. Series producer Laura Harding; Executive producers Jo Scott and Jonny Wharton Repeated Friday 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Home: Building for a Billionaire
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5/6 Series 2. After Barney spends his birthday at Niagara Falls, the pair enjoy an ice hockey match at Lake Placid. Then they hit the road for Vermont, where they drink beer with relatives of Maria von Trapp. After that, is attempting a treacherous ice climb really such a good idea?
Billionaire John Caudwell is aiming to create one of the most lavish homes ever to be renovated in Britain. Bought for £87 million, it is estimated that the property in the heart of London’s Mayfair will be worth over £250 million when the work is complete. As it enters its last crucial stages, cameras follow some of the project’s unique engineering tasks, including a mechanical car stacker and a pool with a bespoke installation designed to resemble lava. See page 95.
Producer Emma Hammill; Series producer Oli Tridgell (S) (AD) (HD) RT TRAVEL Experience New England in the fall with Newmarket — visit radiotimes.com/newengland
10.00 Home
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8.00 Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad
8.30 Coronation Street Sally looks over Tim’s divorce papers. Writer Jonathan Harvey Repeated tomorrow 8.50am and 1.15pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 White House Farm
With the testimony of a vital witness a 5/6. confirming Stan and Mick’s suspicions, Taff remains unconvinced. See page 94.
DCI Thomas “Taff” Jones Stephen Graham Julie Mugford Alexa Davies Jeremy Bamber Freddie Fox Marcus McBride Tom Christian Tracey Brown Amy McCallum Sheila Cafell Cressida Bonas DS Stan Jones Mark Addy
DC Mick Clark Scott Reid Frankie Bidiwi Stewart Scudamore Heather Amos Grace Calder Sally Jones Millie Brady CS George Harris Sean Gilder DI Ron Cook Andrew Frame DI Cresswell Dorian Lough Acting CS Mike Ainsley David Kennedy
Writer Kris Mrksa; Executive producers Willow Grylls, Charles Pattinson, Elaine Pyke and Kris Mrksa (S) (AD) (HD) RT DVDs To pre-order White House Farm on two DVDs for £21.99 incl p&p (RRP £24.99), call 0844 848 7300 (charges apply, see p161) or visit radiotimes.com/dvds06, quoting ref RT1801
10.00 ITV News at Ten Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)
10.45 Peston
Director/Producer Ruth Nicklin Rptd Thu 10pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
series. 1/6 Series 2. Comedy written aNew by and starring Rufus Jones. After eight
months in the UK, Sami is still waiting to hear if he can stay, and his patience is starting to wear thin. The whole series is available online on All 4 and also continues next week on C4. See p94. Peter Katy Sami John George Yasmine
Rufus Jones Rebekah Staton Youssef Kerkour Oaklee Pendergast Ali Elhawary Nathalie Armin
Victor Monica Henry Gemma Jason Golfer
Syrus Lowe Sonita Henry Jordan Scowen Isabella Pappas Alex Heath Alexander Kirk
Director David Sant; Producer Adam Tandy Signed repeat tomorrow 2.40am (S) (AD) (HD)
10.30 999: What’s Your Emergency? Ep 3 Series 10. PCs Lauren El Sharkawi and Nina Crehan are called out to a family who have been subjected to racist abuse from a neighbour. Shown Monday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
11.35 24 Hours in A&E Ep 4. Former hairdresser Ronald is brought in by his granddaughter after a fall in the night. Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30am Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 Through the Keyhole With Paddy McGuinness, Catherine Tyldesley and Chris Kamara. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 3.50 Nightscreen Text information. (HD) 5.05—6.00am Judge Rinder (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
12.35am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Mike & Nellie’s Steakhouse in Oakhurst, New Jersey. (R) (S) 1.25 The Supervet High-risk surgery. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 Come Dine with Me In Ayrshire. (R) (S) (HD) 3.15 Deadwater Fell 4/4. The villagers try to rebuild their shattered lives. Shown last Friday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 4.10 The Great Hotel Escape Helping two novice hoteliers in the Lake District. (R) (S) (SL) (HD) 5.05 Cooking Up a Fortune Sisters Maria and Sumayya and dads John and Jonny take part. (R) (S) (HD) 5.35 Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free Transforming a living room, hall and bedroom. (R) (S) (HD) 5.50—6.30am Countdown (R) (S) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
Channel 4 Freeview 4 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 +1 F’view15 F’sat121 Sky 204 Virgin 142 HD F’view104 Sky 138 Virgin 141
Political discussion with Robert Peston. Executive producers Rachel Corp, Geoff Hill and Mark Rubens Series editor Vicky Flind (S) (HD)
11.40 Tenable Five family members take part.
Shown 3pm (S) (HD)
7.30 The Beauty of Anatomy
Series producer Michael Waterhouse Exec producer Brendan Hughes (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 World’s Busiest Railway 2/4. Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Robert Llewellyn go behind the scenes at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to find out what role it plays in longdistance travel across India. Plus a look at one of the country’s poshest trains. Series producer Amanda Lyon; Executive producer Lisa Ausden Repeated 2am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Timeshift: The Trains That Time Forgot — Britain’s Lost Railway Journeys Andrew Martin revisits the rail routes that were once travelled by the Flying Scotsman, the Cornish Riviera Express and the Brighton Belle as he explores a bygone golden age of travel. It was a time when the journey itself was as important as reaching the destination. Andrew also compares those journeys with the passenger experience of today. Director/Producer Merryn Threadgould Signed repeat 3am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 This Life 7/11 Series 1. Brief Encounter. Anna seduces Jo, who immediately convinces himself he’s in love with her. 10.40 8/11. Cheap Thrills. Egg gets a visit from his father, who is bearing bad news, while Anna makes a spectacle of herself at Hooperman’s party. 11.20 9/11. Just Sex. The souring of Warren’s romance convinces him that honesty is the best policy. And Jerry finds an unexpected ally in Anna. Next episode tomorrow 10pm. Truelove Sarah Montgomery Mrs Webb Phil Dale Rattigan Jerry Muldoon Ferdy Maggie Hooperman Jo Pemberton Kelly Monk
Keith-Lee Castle Clare Clifford Michael Elwyn Maria McErlane Richard Cant Mark Lewis Jones Nicholas Palliser Paul Copley Chris Crooks Ramon Tikaram Su Elliott Geoffrey Bateman Steve John Shepherd Saul Reichlin Sacha Craise Stuart Organ
Writers Patrick Wilde and Matthew Graham Directors Nigel Douglas and Audrey Cooke More cast Tuesday First shown on BBC2 (S)
12 midnight Art, Passion and Power: the Story of the Royal Collection 2/4 Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story of the Royal Collection’s restoration. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Britain and the Sea 4/4 British seaside arts and leisure. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 World’s Busiest Railway Shown 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)
STV 6.25—6.30pm Party Political Broadcast: by the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 10.00 ITV News at Ten; STV News and Weather 10.40 Scotland Tonight; ITV Weather 11.05 Peston 12.05am The Home Game 1.00 Nightscreen 5.05—6.00 Judge Rinder: court cases
BORDER SCOTLAND 10.45pm Representing Border 11.10 Peston 12.05—12.30am The Way We Were
Wednesday Television
5.00pm The Chase
As BBC2 until: 2.25pm Politics Scotland 3.30 FILM: Cromwell 5.45—6.30 Flog It! 7.00 This Farming Life 8.00 Beechgrove Repotted 8.30 Wild Cameramen at Work 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Taken Down 10.50 The State of It 11.20 Scotland Unsolved 11.30 The Edit 11.45—12 midnight Rewind 1990s: 1998
BBC1 WALES 6.30—7.00 BBC Wales Today; Party Political Broadcast: by the Welsh Conservatives 10.00 News; BBC Wales Today; Weather 10.30 BBC Wales Live 11.05 Eating with My Ex 11.35 My Mate’s a Bad Date 12 midnight—12.45am First and Last
ITV WALES 6.25—6.30pm Party Political Broadcast: by the Welsh Conservatives 11.40—12.30am Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals
BBC1 NORTHERN IRELAND 6.30—7.00pm BBC Newsline 10.35 Nolan Live 11.35 Eating with My Ex 12.05am My Mate’s a Bad Date 12.30 First and Last 1.15 A Question of Sport 1.45—6.00 News
BBC2 NORTHERN IRELAND 10.00—10.30pm The Search
UTV 6.00—6.30pm UTV Live 11.40—12.30am Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals
3.00—4.00am The Trains That Time Forgot - Britain’s Lost Railway Journeys Shown 9pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
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Parking Hell: at War with the Law 8.00pm Instructor Andy Bennett
Celebrity Juice 10.05pm Singer Ella
Agatha Christie’s Poirot 5.55pm The
Eyre shows she’s game for a laugh
sleuth embarks on an Egyptian cruise
Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 101 9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) 11.15 Paddington Station 24/7 Meeting the workers who keep the London station running. (S) (HD) 12.10pm 5 News (S) (HD) 12.15 GPs: behind Closed Doors A fouryear-old boy with a cancerous tumour visits the surgery. (S) (HD) 1.10 Access (S) (HD) 1.15 Home and Away Shown yesterday
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 7.50 Emmerdale Shown Tue 7pm ITV (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.20 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) (HD) 9.20 Superstore (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 12.15pm Emmerdale Shown yesterday 7pm ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) 1.50 New. The Ellen DeGeneres Show: lively blend of chat and entertainment (S) (HD) 2.45 Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 3.50 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 New. Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
6.30pm 5 Star Repeated 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 5.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) 6.55 Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD) 8.55 Rising Damp (S) 9.55 Man about the House (S) 10.25 Inspector Morse (S) (AD) (HD) 12.40pm Heartbeat (S) (AD) 1.45 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. The pheasant wars escalate, then Luke and Dolores’s accident interrupts Jessica’s evening (S) 2.50 Classic Coronation Street: double bill. Alma is furious with Mike, then Denise tells Tracy that keeping the baby a secret was her idea (S) 3.55 The Durrells (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD)
2.15 The Wrong Mother ★★ Thriller starring Vanessa Marcil.
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Director Craig Goldsmith (2017) (S) (W) (HD)
4.00 Friends Series 2. Ross celebrates his birthday in style at a concert. (S) (HD) 4.30 Monica poisons Ross. (S) (HD)
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 5.30 Neighbours Shane tries to reconcile with Dipi. Shown 1.45pm Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Home and Away Dean fears he may lose Ziggy.
A selection of home videos sent in by members of the public. 6.30 Featuring dogs that can drive tractors and administer CPR. 7.00 Narrated by Harry Hill. 7.30 A priest in the wrong place at the wrong time, and a cat has an accident. (S)
8.00 Two and a Half Men 17/24 Series 9. Alan suspects Lyndsey has a drinking problem. (S) (HD) 8.30 19/24. Alan and Lyndsey introduce their mothers to each other. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island
Shown 1.15pm Next episode 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
Relationship-based reality show. (S) (HD)
6.30 5 News Tonight (S) (HD) 7.00 Canada: a Year in the Wild
10.05 Celebrity Juice
2/4. Winter arrives, as a porcupine forages for food and a polar bear gives birth. Continues tomorrow at 7pm. (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Parking Hell: at War with the Law 5/6 Series 3. A driving instructor offers specialised courses in parking, and a self-parking car is put to the test. Directors/Producers Edwin Hasler, Jon Profaska (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Red Arrows Take America
4/4. Despite unforeseen changes for the team, there’s an iconic flypast over the Golden Gate Bridge and the Great Pacific Airshow, before an epic journey home. Series producer John Willats; Exec producer Mike Blair Postponed from Wed 29th Jan (S) (HD)
10.00 The Chernobyl Railway with Chris Tarrant While exploring Ukraine’s 13,000 miles of railways, Chris travels on one of the most bizarre vehicles he has ever boarded. Director Jeff Morgan Series producer Jennifer Perelli (S) (HD)
11.05 Me and My Sex Doll: the Sex Business 1/3 Series 3. Retailers and enthusiasts explain why £5,000 sex dolls are destined to change the nation’s sex lives. Executive producer Paul Blake (S) (HD)
12.05am Busted in Bangkok 4/6. First shown last Monday (S) (HD) 1.00 New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (HD) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.10 House Busters (S) (SL) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) +1 Freeview 44 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155 5 Select For listings see opposite page
BBC4 listings are overleaf
Joining regulars Holly Willoughby, Fearne Cotton and Gino D’Acampo are singer Ella Eyre, broadcaster Ben Fogle and First Dates star Fred Sirieix. Keith Lemon hosts. (S) (HD)
10.50 Family Guy Series 9. The residents spend an evening at James Woods’s mansion. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 The residents of Quahog try to solve a murder mystery. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.50 American Dad! Series 11. While on vacation, Stan joins the world of old Hollywood. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20am Stan becomes a college campus security guard. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility (S) (HD) 1.30 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 2.25 Hell’s Kitchen USA (S) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen (HD) ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
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5.55pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot Death on the Nile. The sleuth investigates the murder of an American heiress on board an old steamer in Egypt. (S) (HD) 8.00 Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case. Poirot and Captain Hastings return to Styles, where they met and conducted their first investigation 30 years earlier. (S) (AD) (HD) Hercule Poirot Colonel Race Jacqueline de Bellefort Simon Doyle Linnet Ridgeway Captain Hastings Elizabeth Cole Dr Franklin Nurse Craven Stephen Norton Maj Allerton
David Suchet James Fox Emma Malin JJ Feild Emily Blunt Hugh Fraser Helen Baxendale Shaun Dingwall Claire Keelan Aidan McArdle Matthew McNulty
RT DVDs To order Poirot: the Definitive Collection on 35 DVDs for £74.99 incl p&p (RRP £109.99), call 0844 848 7300 (charges apply, see p161) or visit radiotimes.com/dvds06, quoting ref RT1801
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Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries 9.00pm James and Peregrine Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130 7.10am Bramwell 8.00 Soldier Soldier (S) 9.00 The Bill (S) 10.00 Classic Holby City 11.00 Classic Casualty (S) 12 noon The Bill (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.20 London’s Burning (S) 3.20 Lovejoy (S) 4.20 Bergerac (S) 5.25 Bread (S)
6.00pm Hi-de-Hi! Ted pretends it is his birthday. (S)
6.40 As Time Goes By Jean and Lionel could not be happier as wedding preparations get into full swing.
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine When Lenny returns, he hears a voice from above. As he waits for more information, the gang makes sure he is well equipped to receive messages. (S)
8.00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 4/9 Series 3. Fisticuffs. The sleuth tries to help a road rage victim and lands right in the middle of a family tragedy. (S)
9.00 Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries 3/8. Dead Beat 1/2. After two singers are electrocuted while performing on a TV pop music show, Peregrine’s impartiality is tested when an old boyfriend is named as the lead suspect. (S) (HD)
10.00 New Tricks
2/8 Series 8. Safe from Harm. Ronnie and Joe hunt down a killer who is armed with a large hunting knife, while one of Ronnie’s young clients is using his office as a hideout. (S) (AD) (HD)
1/8 Series 2. A Delicate Touch. The squad members are ordered by their new boss to look into the unsolved murder of a barrister found bound and gagged in his car 25 years ago, and they soon discover the late advocate had unusual hobbies. The case was a rare failure for a former chief inspector, although his notes point to a very clear suspect. (S) (AD)
11.00 Inspector Morse
11.20 Taggart
The Infernal Serpent. A scientist is murdered moments before he is due to deliver a controversial speech. (S) (AD) (HD)
1/3 Series 10. Instrument of Justice An informant is due to give evidence against a powerful gang leader, but police fail to get the witness to court. (S)
10.00 Law & Order: UK
1.20am Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 3.20—3.30am Nightscreen
2.20am Bramwell 3.05—4.00am The Bill (S)
+1 F’view 34 (9pm—midnight) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174
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Drama +1 Sky 243 Virgin 226
Dave
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F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am Football Rivalries (S) (HD) 6.15 The Chase: quiz show (S) (HD) 7.20 Quincy (S) (HD) 8.20 Kojak (S) (HD) 9.30 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (S) (HD) 10.35 Minder (S) 11.40 The Professionals (S) (AD) 12.45pm LIVE Snooker: the afternoon session on day three of the World Grand Prix (S) (HD) 5.15 The Professionals (S) (AD) 6.10pm River Monsters Jeremy Wade investigates the mysterious deaths of fishermen in Alaska. (S) (HD) 6.45 LIVE Snooker The evening session on day three of the World Grand Prix, featuring second-round matches. Top seed Mark Allen lost 4—1 to eventual runner-up Ali Carter at this stage last year. With Jill Douglas. (S) (HD) 11.15 FILM Inglourious Basterds ★★★ Quentin Tarantino’s suspenseful Second World War action adventure, starring Brad Pitt. A hit squad plots to blow up the Nazi high command at a Paris film premiere. Review page 46. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am The Bachelor USA (HD) 8.50 Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Be Tasty (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 1.05 Vanderpump Rules (S) (HD) 2.05 Million Dollar Listing: NYC (S) (HD) 3.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 6.00pm New. Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave Wilson take on a historic home overhaul. 7.00 Buying and Selling Transforming a tired old property into a luxury home. (HD) 8.00 Dinner Date Jerome from London chooses three blind dates. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Growing Up Chrisley Chase and Savannah move into their new home. (S) (HD) 9.30 New. Chase has acting homework. (S) (HD) 10.00 Botched by Nature Terry Dubrow and Paul Nassif travel to Louisiana. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Dating in the Dark Six single men and women try to find love in the dark. (S) (HD)
2.20am The Protectors: a pianist deceives Harry (S) 2.55—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 12.45—12.55am Nightscreen (HD)
12.20am Mock the Week (S) (HD) 1.00 QI: double bill (S) 2.25 Flack (S) (HD) 3.10—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.10am Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 8.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 9.00 Storage Hunters (S) (HD) 10.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 12 noon Cop Car Workshop (S) (HD) 1.00pm Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 3.00 Sin City Motors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm QI XL Cariad Lloyd guests. (S) (HD) 7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games With guests Ellie Taylor, Steve Pemberton, Fern Britton and Josh Widdicombe. (HD) 7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Dara O Briain, Barry Cryer and Sue Perkins. (S) (HD) 8.20 With Alex Jones, Chris Tarrant, Alexander Armstrong and Mel Giedroyc. (S) (HD) 9.00 Live at the Apollo With Al Murray. (S) (HD) 10.00 New series. Hypothetical 1/8 Series 2 With guests Jonathan Ross, Maisie Adam, Sara Barron and Rob Beckett. (HD) 11.00 QI Jo Brand and Bill Bailey guest. (S) 11.40 With Sean Lock and Anneka Rice. (S)
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
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Hawkeye gets caught up in a war
6.55pm Car SOS Restoring a 1968 Volvo Amazon. (S) (HD)
7.55 Escape to the Château: DIY Jonny and Ashley continue the search for their dream château. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. The Great Pottery Throw Down 5. The potters build two matching aEp lamp bases. See p95. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 David Jason’s Great British Inventions The actor operates one of the world’s biggest hydraulic cranes. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.05 It Was Alright in the 1970s Ideas conveyed about society, sex and national stereotypes in the 1970s. (S) (HD) 12.10am Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown (S) (HD) 1.15 as 9pm 2.15 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (S) (HD) 3.15—3.40am Food Unwrapped (S) (HD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196 13
F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Mon/Tue 6.30pm C4 (AD) 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (AD) 8.00 Baby Daddy 9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00 Baby Daddy 3.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 4.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 5.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 10/24 Series 4. Raj and Howard compete. (AD) 6.30 11/24. The guys make fun of Zack. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Martine feels hurt. Cast pp87/107 Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.30 New. Celebrity Come Dine with Me Real Housewives of Cheshire star Dawn Ward hosts the third dinner party of the week. 8.00 Junior Bake Off The cooks face two tricky bread-based challenges. (AD) 9.00 FILM Bad Neighbours ★★★ Comedy starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron. Frat-boy neighbours from hell move next door to new parents. Review p46. (AD) (W) 11.00 The Big Bang Theory 13/23 Series 3 Leonard and Sheldon’s flat is burgled. (AD) 11.30 14/23. Sheldon gets a job at a diner. (AD) 12 midnight Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00am Gogglebox (AD) 2.05 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.00 Don’t Tell the Bride 3.55 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 4.45—6.00am How I Met Your Mother (AD)
Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150 9.00am The A-Team (AD) (HD) 11.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 1.00pm Trucking Hell (S) (HD) 2.00 Police Interceptors (S) (HD) 3.00 Traffic Cops (S) (HD) 5.00 The A-Team: double bill (AD) (HD)
7.00pm Police Interceptors Pursuing a drunk driver. (S) (HD) 8.00 Officers search an estate for suspects involved in a shooting. (S) (HD)
9.00 The Last of the Mohicans ★★★★ adventure inspired by James q Period Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel,
starring Daniel Day-Lewis. A frontiersman raised by Native Americans gets caught up in a feud between the Huron tribe and the French and British armies. Director Michael Mann (1992, 12) (HD)
11.15 Helicopter Pursuits: Caught on Camera 11.45 New. Wrestling
Action featuring the next generation of British WWE superstars. 12.45am Knight Rider (AD) (HD) 1.50 Arrow (HD) 3.30 The X-Files (S) (HD) 5.00 Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) 5.50—6.00am Access Paramount Network +1 Sky 250 47
F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am Come Dine with Me 12 noon Couples Come Dine with Me 1.00pm Undercover Boss USA 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) 4.00 Frasier: double bill (AD) 5.00 A Place in the Sun 6.00pm A New Life in the Sun A catering couple from Bristol have a plumbing crisis. 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA An Italian restaurant in Long Beach, California. 8.00 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast Ep 5 Series 7. Claudia Winkleman guests. (AD) 9.00 Australia on Fire: Climate Emergency The story of the battle to save Australia from the bushfires. Shown Monday 8pm C4 (S) (AD) 10.00 Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown Ep 4. Miles Jupp guests. 11.05 Holidays from Hell: Caught on Camera Including flight delays. (AD) 12.15am Britain’s Most Expensive Home: Building for a Billionaire (AD) 1.20 Naked Attraction (AD) 2.20 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: in High Wycombe (AD) 3.25 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 4.20—4.50am Four in a Bed
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Freeview 11 Freesat 144 Sky 152 Virgin 165
6.10amThe Waltons 7.10 Hart to Hart 9.10 Days of Our Lives 10.00 Hart to Hart 11.00 Charlie’s Angels 12 noon Starsky & Hutch 1.00pm TJ Hooker 2.00 Hart to Hart 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00 Charlie’s Angels: the trio discover businessman Dale Woodman is using his agency as a front for prostitution 7.00 M*A*S*H: four episodes 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Charlie’s Angels 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Waltons 4.20 Touched by an Angel 5.10—6.00am Highway to Heaven
7.00am Police Ten 7 8.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare 9.30 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 10.00 Border Security USA (AD) 11.00 Road Wars 12 noon Police Ten 7 1.00pm Police Force: Australia 2.00 Border Patrol 3.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00 Stop, Search, Seize 6.00pm Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00 Hawaii Five-0 8.00 Elementary 9.00 New. Instinct 10.00 Air Ambulance: teams come to the aid of a mother and daughter involved in a high-speed motorcycle crash, before helping a four-year-old girl with a serious leg fracture 11.00 The Force: Manchester (AD) 12 midnight Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 1.00am Banged Up Abroad 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 4.00 UK Border Force (AD) 5.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare
Sony Channel +1 Freesat 152 Sky 257
Pick +1 Freeview 92 Freesat 145 Sky 252
E4 +1 Freeview 28 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146
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Freeview 48 (limited) Freesat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
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Yesterday
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Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
1.55am CSI: NY (S) (AD) 3.50—4.00am Access
6.00am Slow Train through Africa (S) (HD) 7.10 as 11am 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 10.00 Murder Maps (S) (HD) 11.00 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Deep Wreck Mysteries (S) 1.00pm Murder Maps (S) (HD) 2.00 Planet Earth (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 6.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 New. Impossible Engineering (AD) (HD) 9.00 Porridge (S) 11.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am The World at War (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am as 11am
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
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Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am 3rd Rock from the Sun (S) (HD) 9.10 Will & Grace (HD) 10.10 Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 11.05 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 12 noon Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (S) (HD) 1.00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 3.00 Neighbours (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Home and Away (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 House (S) (HD) 6.00pm Neighbours Shown 5.30pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 New. Home and Away Rptd Thu 1.15pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Sinkholes: Sucked Underground (S) (HD) 8.00 Big Body Maternity Ward (HD) 9.00 FILM Scary Movie ★★★ Horror spoof starring Shannon Elizabeth and Anna Faris (HD) 10.45 FILM Scary Movie 2 ★ Horror parody sequel (S) (HD) 12.25am Sex Pod: double bill (S) (HD) 2.20—4.00am Empire: double bill (S) (HD)
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Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 12 noon Escape to the Country (AD) 2.00pm Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 French Collection (HD) 4.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 6.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip: with Holby City’s Rosie Marcel and Bob Barrett (HD) 7.00 Antiques Road Trip (HD) 9.00 Call the Cleaners: double bill (HD) 10.00 New. Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 11.00 Helicopter ER (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Adventures (HD) 1.00am Most Haunted (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Antiques Road Trip (HD)
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Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279
5 Star +1 Freeview 55 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186
A compilation of police helicopter chases taken from the first three series. (S) (HD)
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Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.25 Law & Order (S) 10.10 CSI: NY 12 noon Private Eyes (S) 1.00pm Law & Order (S) 4.00 Murder, She Wrote: double bill (S) 6.00pm Law & Order: Series 13. Double bill. A drug dealer is murdered, then a witness fails to appear in court (S) 8.00 NCIS Series 11 The team uncovers faulty bulletproof vests (S) (AD) 9.00 New. Rookie Blue Series 5. Chris searches for weapons in a club. Elsewhere, Andy helps Sam investigate a missing persons case First shown on Universal (S) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (AD)
Last of the Mohicans 9.00pm
F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (S) (HD) 9.15 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (S) (HD) 11.15 Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD) 12.15pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S) (HD) 2.15 Four in a Bed (S) (HD) 4.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo (S) (AD) (HD) 5.55 New. Love It or List It Australia: in Brisbane (S) (HD)
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Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access 9.10 Cruising with Jane McDonald 9.30 FILM Double Daddy ★ Thriller starring Mollee Gray 11.15 FILM A Surrogate’s Nightmare ★★ Thriller 1.00pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) 2.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 4.00 The Yorkshire Vet at Easter (S) 5.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) 6.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 8.00 The Yorkshire Vet 9.00 Paddington Station 24/7 10.00 Secrets of the Mr Kipling Factory 11.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 12 midnight The Kennedy Killing: the CIA Conspiracy 1.00am The Mega Crater Mystery: Draining the Ocean 2.00 Inside Air Force One: Secrets of the Presidential Plane 3.00—4.00am Fights, Camera, Action!
7.00am Homes under the Hammer 8.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 9.00 Flog It! (HD) 10.00 House Hunters International (HD) 11.00 Hawaii Life (HD) 12 noon New. Island Life (HD) 1.00pm A Place in the Sun (HD) 2.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 3.00 Flog It! (HD) 4.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 5.00 as 7am 6.00 Selling Houses (HD) 7.00 A Place in the Sun (HD) 8.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 9.00 Renovate Don’t Relocate (HD) 10.00 New. Dream Gardens (HD) 11.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea (AD) (HD) 12 midnight as 7am 1.00am Flog It! (HD) 2.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 3.00—4.00am Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
Quest
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F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00 Matlock 12 noon Perry Mason 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger 2.05 CSI: Miami 3.00 NCIS 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 5.00 Matlock 6.00 Perry Mason 7.05 Scorpion 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 NCIS 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00 Scorpion 12 midnight CSI: Miami 1.00am NCIS 2.00 Ultimate Force 3.05 The High Chaparral 4.00 The High Chaparral 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am How Do They Do It? (HD) 6.20 American Pickers (HD) 7.10 Deadliest Catch (HD) 8.00 Gold Divers (HD) 9.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 10.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 11.00 Speed Is the New Black (HD) 12 noon American Pickers (HD) 1.00pm Railroad Australia (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (HD) 3.00 Gold Divers (HD) 4.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 5.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 7.00 New. American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 9.00 New. Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (HD) 10.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (HD) 11.00 How Do They Do It? (HD) 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 American Chopper 3.00 Fantomworks (HD) 4.00 Heli-Loggers 5.00—6.00am How It’s Made
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
CBS Justice
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Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
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Challenge
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Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
9.00am NCIS 11.00 JAG 1.00pm The High Chaparral 3.00 Perry Mason (HD) 5.00 Unsolved Mysteries: double bill 7.00 Judge Judy 9.00 Medium: Allison dreams of a stalker 10.00 CSI: Miami: a body is found in the boot of a car involved in an accident (HD) 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries: the strange fate of a prison-system director 12 midnight Judge Judy 1.00am ER (HD) 2.00 Medium 3.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (HD) 5.00—6.00am Matlock
7.00am Wheel of Fortune 8.00 Catchphrase (AD) 9.00 The Chase 10.00 Supermarket Sweep 11.00 Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 12 noon Wheel of Fortune 1.00pm Catchphrase (AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Bullseye 5.00 Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 6.00 Weakest Link 7.00 Pointless Celebrities (AD) 8.00 The Chase 11.00 Bullseye 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.00am The Chase 4.00 The Chase USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Golden Balls
Horror Channel
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Wednesday Television
The Great Pottery Throw Down 9.00pm Melanie, Keith and Sue
Paramount Network
Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
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Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
8.00am Andromeda 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager 10.00 Star Trek 11.00 FILM Shark Lake ★★ Crime drama 12.50pm Highlights 1.00 FILM 6-Headed Shark Attack ★★ Comedy action adventure 2.50 Highlights 3.00 Lost in Space 4.00 FILM San Andreas Mega Quake ★ Disaster movie 5.50 Highlights 6.00 Star Trek 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00 Mutant X 9.00 FILM Ultraviolet ★★ Sci-fi action thriller starring Milla Jovovich. English, Vietnamese +subtitles 10.45 FILM Wolf Creek 2 ★★ Horror 12.50am FILM AfterDeath ★★ Horror mystery 2.40—4.30am FILM Legend ★★ Fantasy adventure
6.00am House of Lords — Extradition 9.00 Tuesday in Parliament 9.30 Political Highlights 11.30 Live Northern Ireland Questions 12 noon Live Prime Minister’s Questions: Boris Johnson answers questions in the Commons 12.35pm Live House of Commons: debate from the chamber 7.30 Live House of Lords 11.00 Wednesday in Parliament: the day’s political proceedings 11.30 Prime Minister’s Questions 12.05am Politics Live (Later) 1.50—6.00am House of Lords — Divorce Bill
Listings for PBS America, Smithsonian see over. Film4 and other Freeview movie channels: p102
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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WEDNESDAY Satellite & cable
Avenue 5 10.00pm Ryan is
Television Wednesday
worried standards are slipping
Sky 1
Sky Atlantic
9-1-1 9.00pm A serial bomber
is on the loose in the city
Sky Witness
Emma Willis: Delivering Babies 9.00pm Maternity care
W
Absolutely Fabulous 10.25pm
Edina and Patsy are lost
Gold
Sky 106 Virgin 110 HD Virgin 109
Sky 108
Sky 107 Virgin 112 HD Virgin 111
Sky 109 Virgin 125 BT 311 HD Virgin 211 BT 383
Sky 110 Virgin 124 BT 310
6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (HD) 8.00 The Dog Whisperer (HD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 3.00 MacGyver (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30 Futurama: double bill (S) (AD) 6.30pm The Simpsons Lisa feels neglected by Homer. 7.00 Marge has a breakdown. 7.30 Mrs Krabappel searches for love in the personal ads. (S) (HD) 8.00 Hawaii Five-0 Ep 6 Series 10 A fatal hit-and-run involves a driverless car carrying heroin. (HD) 9.00 New. SEAL Team Ep 5 Series 3. Jason must select a new candidate to join the team. (HD) 10.00 New. Avenue 5 3/8 Judd outlines the plan for a rescue mission. See p95. (HD) 10.30 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip Ep 4 Series 2 With ex-footballer Patrice Evra. (HD) 11.30 The Russell Howard Hour Topical entertainment show. (HD) 12.30am The Late Late Show with James Corden: Best of the Week (HD) 1.30 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Futurama (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 10.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 12 noon Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 2.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 4.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 7.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2/25 Series 5 Catherine and Warrick search a storm drain for clues to the identity of a body uncovered by a flash flood. (S) (HD) 8.00 Blue Bloods 7/22 Series 1 Erin tries to make a high-school teacher testify against his gangster brother. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 From the Earth to the Moon 9/12. Alan Shepard gets another chance with Apollo 14. (HD) 10.00 10/12. The lunar geologists voice their opinions. (HD) 11.05 The Birdman Following Professor Carl Jones as he tries to save the Mauritius kestrel from extinction. (HD) 11.15 Oz 8/8 Series 2. Adebisi finally loses his grip on reality. 12.40am 1/8 Series 3. Adebisi returns from the psychiatric ward. 1.50 John Adams(S) (HD) 3.15 The Deuce (HD) 4.20—6.00am The West Wing: double bill (S) (HD)
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 8.00 Paramedics (HD) 9.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 12 noon Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order (HD) 3.00 The Real A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 UK Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00pm Nothing to Declare Six episodes of the documentary following the work of customs officers in Australia. (S) (AD) 8.00 Ghost Whisperer 15/22 Series 1. Melinda tries to make peace with her mother in a bid to lay a ghost to rest. (S) (HD) 9.00 9-1-1 18/18 Series 2. Buck faces a life-or-death situation. (S) (HD) 10.00 Station 19 14/17 Series 2 A fire in a coffee processing plant causes problems. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 15/17. The remaining squad members anxiously await news of their colleague. (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 1.00am The Rookie (S) (HD) 2.00 Madam Secretary (HD) 3.00 Ghost Whisperer (S) (HD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)
6.10am MasterChef Australia (S) (HD) 7.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00 The Bill (S) 11.00 Supernanny US (S) 12 noon Tipping Point (S) (HD) 2.00pm MasterChef USA (HD) 3.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 5.00pm Tipping Point Quiz show with Ben Shephard. (S) (HD) 7.00 New. MasterChef USA The cooks create an Italian meal. (HD) 8.00 Inside the Ambulance Jo and Ash deal with a patient who’s struggling to breathe. (S) (HD) 9.00 Emma Willis: Delivering Babies The presenter works as a maternity care assistant. (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Finding Joy 1/6 Comedy drama following a woman as she navigates a break-up. See p95. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.35 Women on the Verge Comedy starring Kerry Condon and Nina Sosanya. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 Inside the Ambulance A young motorcyclist requires urgent treatment. (S) (HD) 12.15am One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.15 Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am American Housewife (S) (HD)
7.20am The Piglet Files 7.45 As Time Goes By 8.20 2 Point 4 Children 9.00 Open All Hours 9.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 12.20pm Keeping Up Appearances (S) 1.00 Open All Hours 1.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 2.20 dinnerladies (S) (AD) 3.00 Keeping Up Appearances (S) 3.40 Dad’s Army (S) 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.20pm The Vicar of Dibley Geraldine shoots to stardom. (AD) 7.00 Open All Hours Granville tries to impress a local beauty. 7.40 Dad’s Army Pike gets trapped in a minefield. (S) 8.20 Walker gets too friendly with some Italian prisoners of war. (S) 9.00 The Vicar of Dibley Alice shocks Geraldine. (AD) 9.40 dinnerladies Bren’s mother wreaks havoc. (S) (AD) 10.25 Absolutely Fabulous Edina and Patsy head for France. (S) (AD) 11.00 Peep Show Life takes a positive turn for Mark. (S) (HD) 11.35 Mark’s book is accepted by a publisher. (S) (HD) 12.10am The Vicar of Dibley (AD) 12.50 Absolutely Fabulous (S) (AD) 1.30 Peep Show (S) (HD) 2.30 Spaced (S) (AD) 3.20—4.00am Peep Show
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
a
Sky Arts
Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am Turandot on Sydney Harbour (HD) 8.05 The South Bank Show Originals (S) 8.30 The Byrds: Music Icons (S) (HD) 9.00 The Eighties (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 11.00 Discovering: Leslie Caron (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Alec Guinness (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm The South Bank Show Originals (S) 1.30 The Kinks: Music Icons (S) (HD) 2.00 National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Too Young to Die (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Peter Lorre (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm The Eighties A look at the events of Ronald Reagan’s two terms in the White House. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Portrait Artist of the Year The contestants are challenged to paint Len Goodman, Tinie Tempah and Harriet Walter. (HD) 8.00 Live from the Artists Den With Alabama Shakes. (S) (HD) 9.00 The History of Comedy A look at comedians who died at a relatively young age. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Bafta: Life in Pictures With the actor Hugh Grant. (S) (HD) 11.00 The Directors The life and work of Sydney Pollack. (HD) 12 midnight Fairport Convention: Folk Heroes (S) (HD) 1.30am Johnny Cash’s Bitter Tears Revisited (S) (AD) (HD) 2.45 Off Camera with Sam Jones (S) (HD) 4.00 Discovering: Peter Lorre (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Discovering: Maximilian Schell (S) (AD) (HD)
100
From the Earth to the Moon 9.00pm Alan Shepard
Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 9.00 UK Border Force (S) 10.00 Road Wars (S) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) 12 noon Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00pm How I Caught the Killer (S) 2.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 3.00 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 6.00 Snapped 7.00 Banged Up Abroad 8.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) 9.00 The Hunt for the Shoe Rapist (S) (AD) 10.00 New. Snapped 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 12 midnight Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00am How I Caught the Killer (S) 2.00 Snapped 3.00 Killed By My Lover (S) 4.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)
Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: LA 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: LA 1.00pm Speeders: ten editions 6.00 Speeders: six further editions. Officer Olson pulls over a couple of teens and gives them a pop quiz 6.30 A confused wedding planner goes the wrong way down a one-way street 7.00 A car decorated with pieces of junk is spotted 7.30 Officer Williams pulls over a car full of Italian tourists 8.00 as 6pm 8.30 as 6.30pm 9.00 Bait Car: LA: Documentary about car criminals 11.00 Speeders 12 midnight Bait Car 1.00am Speeders 3.00 Bait Car: LA 3.30 Bait Car: San Francisco 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am 60-Minute Makeover: double bill (S) 9.00 The Chef’s Line: double bill (S) (AD) 10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia: double bill (S) 12.30pm Four Weddings: double bill (S) 2.30 Animal House (S) (AD) 3.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 4.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 5.00 Babylon 5 (S) 6.00 Stargate SG-1: Jackson prepares to sacrifice himself (S) 7.00 Supergirl: how Ben Lockwood became Agent Liberty (S) 8.00 Road Wars: a cannabis factory is raided (S) 9.00 Strike Back: Legacy (S) 11.00 SEAL Team 12 midnight Avenue 5 12.30am Caribbean Cops: double bill (S) (AD) 2.30 A Town Called Eureka (S) 3.30 RSPCA Animal Rescue (S) 4.00 Arrow (S) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted (S)
Syfy Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am Stargate Atlantis 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager 5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 9.00 New. Marvel’s Runaways: the teenagers find themselves in an alternate dimension that tests their bonds — but not everyone makes it out 10.00 FILM xXx ★★★ Spy action thriller starring Vin Diesel 12.30am Marvel’s Runaways 1.30 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 3.30 Future Man 4.10 Blood & Treasure 5.00—6.00am Star Trek: Voyager
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
a
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.00 Parks and Recreation (HD) 10.30 30 Rock (HD) 12 noon The Mindy Project (HD) 1.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 2.30 Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 3.30 Parks and Recreation (HD) 5.00 30 Rock (HD) 6.30 Modern Family (S) (HD) 7.30 The Mindy Project (HD) 9.00 New series. The Righteous Gemstones: comedy following a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work (HD) 10.15 Sex and the City (HD) 10.50 New. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD) 11.50 Entourage (S) (HD) 1.00am Eastbound & Down (HD) 2.10 Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20—5.00am 30 Rock (HD)
TLC Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377 6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Vegas Dress (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 11.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 12 noon Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD) 2.00pm Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 3.00 Sister Wives (HD) 4.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ireland (HD) 5.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 6.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 7.00 Say Yes to the Vegas Dress (HD) 8.00 90 Day Fiancé (HD) 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 12 midnight 90 Day Fiancé (HD) 3.00am Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 4.00—6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD)
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Will & Grace 9.00 The Office US (S) (HD) 10.00 My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 11.00 Impractical Jokers (S) (HD) 12 noon Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00pm My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 5.00 Friends: eight episodes (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 FILM Airplane II: the Sequel ★★ Comedy sequel starring Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty 11.00 Roast Battle: Sara Barron v Richard Herring, and Ed Night v Huge Davies (HD) 11.30 Your Face or Mine: double bill. Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan host the game show (S) (HD) 12.30am South Park (S) (HD) 3.50 New. The Daily Show (HD) 4.15—5.00am Takeshi’s Castle (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy (HD) 1.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 2.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (HD) 3.00 Little Women: Dallas (HD) 4.00 Dance Moms (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00 Flipping Vegas (HD) 7.00 Judge Judy (HD) 9.00 My Crazy Sex: a teacher who learned a harsh lesson in romance while on a flight (HD) 10.00 Storage Wars: double bill. Brandi and Jarrod sweeten their profit in an unexpected way, then more bids for the contents of abandoned storage units (HD) 11.00 Hardcore Pawn (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars (HD) 1.00am My Crazy Sex (HD) 2.00 Storage Wars (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hardcore Pawn (HD)
This month, Marian Keyes’s new novel Grown Ups JOIN the RT Book Club on p148
WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY CHILDREN’S Milkshake! on C5 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p98
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 10.20pm Phryne
suffers a crisis of confidence
Fox
Richard Hammond’s Big 9.00pm A huge container ship
Discovery
Desert War 8.40pm The North Africa campaign
PBS America
91
Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view 91 (1–11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 9.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 11.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 1.00pm Rush (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Rosewood (S) (HD) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 5.00pm Major Crimes 15/19 Series 3. A man in a Santa suit robs a bank and is aided in his escape by a flash mob. (S) (HD) 6.00 16/19. A registered sex offender is found with the body of a teenage girl in his truck. (S) (HD) 7.00 Unforgettable 5/13 Series 3 A link between the death of a coastguard officer and the disappearance of explosives. (S) (HD) 8.00 6/13. Al becomes the prime suspect in the murder of someone he once helped put away. (S) (HD) 9.00 Death in Paradise 6/8 Series 5. A chef is stabbed to death in his restaurant. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.20 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 8/13 Series 2. A professor’s corpse is revealed during an anatomy lecture. (S) (HD) 11.20 New Tricks 6/10 Series 9 The death of a teenage tennis star occupies the team. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.40am Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (S) 3.00—4.00am Rosewood (S) (HD)
8.00am Republic of Doyle (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 10.00 Bull (HD) 11.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Bones (HD) 2.00pm The Mentalist (HD) 3.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Bull (HD) 5.00 Bones (HD) 6.00pm The Mentalist 8/22 Series 6. Jane prepares to come face to face with Red John. (HD) 7.00 NCIS 7/24 Series 16 After a mural is stolen, the trail leads to a conspiracy regarding a navy contractor. 8.00 8/24. A murder case at home is linked to soldiers killed by friendly fire overseas. 9.00 17/24 Series 15. Gibbs and Ducky see an antique war stick on television that could be the missing murder weapon in a 16-year-old cold case. 10.00 Ep 5 Series 17. The team members investigate a corporal suspected of murder. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 American Dad! Series 1 Stan feels threatened when Francine earns more than him. 11.30 Hayley decides she has had enough of being bossed around. 12 midnight Family Guy: double bill (HD) 1.00am American Dad! (HD) 2.00 Family Guy (HD) 3.00 American Dad! (HD) 4.00— 5.00am Republic of Doyle (HD)
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Building off the Grid (S) (HD) 9.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (S) (HD) 10.00 UFOs: the Lost Evidence (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 1.00pm Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD) 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum (HD) 3.00 World War II: the Complete History (S) 4.00 New. Building off the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Fast ’n’ Loud Brian Bass falls behind on his Ford. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Outback Truckers Hauling $3 million worth of equipment. (S) (HD) 8.00 Mighty Ships The Ibn Battuta dredger. (S) (HD) 9.00 New. Richard Hammond’s Big Richard joins the crew of the Marie Maersk container ship. (HD) 10.00 New. Disasters Engineered The Aberfan disaster in Wales. (HD) 11.00 Massive Engineering Mistakes A huge error causes flooding in Chicago. (S) (HD) 12 midnight Richard Hammond’s Big (HD) 1.00am Disasters Engineered (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 3.00 Richard Hammond’s Big (HD) 3.50 Kindig Customs (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Jet Set 8.30 Nazi Hunters 9.35 King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons 10.55 Secret Agent School: Camp X 12 noon Nazi Hunters 1.00pm Walks Around Britain 1.30 King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons 2.55 Secret Agent School: Camp X 4.00 Nazi Hunters 5.00 Mata Hari: the Naked Spy: the truth about the woman shot as a spy 6.10pm King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons The role of Alfred the Great’s daughter Aethelflaed in England’s battles. 7.30 Nazi Creatures The Nazi fascination with animals, including experiments to create the purest breed of horse and trying to resurrect the extinct wild aurochs. 8.40 Desert War An account of the Second World War campaign in North Africa, using testimonies of veterans from both sides as well as archive footage and dramatic reconstructions. 9.55 Nazi Hunters How German housewife Beate Klarsfeld helped capture Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, whose crimes earned him the nickname the Butcher of Lyon. 11.00 Nazi Creatures As 7.30pm. 12.15am Desert War 1.25—2.00am Jet Set
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Expedition Unknown 7.00 Deadliest Tech 8.00 World War II: The Complete History 9.00 Secrets of the Arsenal 10.00 Extreme Engineering 11.00 Deadliest Tech 12 noon Blowing Up History 1.00pm Expedition Unknown 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 Becoming Alexander 5.00 Extreme Engineering 6.00pm Blowing Up History The construction of an ancient city lost in the Peruvian desert. 7.00 Mysteries at the Museum Don Wildman unearths relics and sinister artefacts, each with an incredible secret to be revealed. 8.00 Expedition Unknown Josh Gates ventures to Australia’s island state of Tasmania. 9.00 How Trains Changed the World Examining how metro systems have shaped cities and changed the world. 10.00 Wings of War Chronicling the fight for domination of the skies over southern England during the Second World War. 11.00 Extreme Machines The world of drag racing. 12 midnight Expedition Unknown 1.00am How Trains Changed the World 2.00 Wings of War 3.00 Extreme Machines 4.00 Blowing Up History 5.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
History
Nat Geographic
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 Pirate Traders (HD) 10.00 Ancient Aliens (HD) 11.00 American Pickers 12 noon Mountain Men (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire Tournament of Champions 2.00 American Pickers (HD) 4.00 Storage Wars (HD) 5.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 6.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 American Pickers (HD) 8.00 New. American Pickers: Mike and Danielle pick through an artist’s high-end collection of flash art (HD) 9.00 New. The Curse of Oak Island (HD) 10.00 New. Lost Worlds: Deeper into the Black Sea (HD) 11.20 Storage Wars (HD) 12.20am Forged in Fire 1.20 American Pickers 2.15 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.10 Mountain Men (HD) 4.05 Pawn Stars (HD) 5.00—6.00am Storage Wars (HD)
8.00am Hidden Gems of Turkey (HD) 9.00 The Mega Crater Mystery: Draining the Ocean (HD) 10.00 World War II: The Apocalypse (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Car SOS (HD) 4.00 Supercars (HD) 5.00 Panama Canal Revealed (HD) 6.00pm Air Crash Investigation (HD) 8.00 RT CHOICE New series. Brain Games: Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard go head to head in a battle of the sexes. See page 94 (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New series. Brain Games: Best of: the importance of instincts (HD) 10.00 Science of Stup0id: Best of (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 12 midnight Ice Road Rescue (HD) 1.00am Wicked Tuna (HD) 2.00 Yukon Gold (HD) 3.00—5.00am Air Crash Investigation: double bill (AD) (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 8.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 10.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 11.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 12 noon Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 1.00pm Dr Jeff (S) (HD) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 4.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 6.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 7.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 8.00 Deadly Dragon of Borneo (S) (HD) 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Animal Cops Philadelphia 11.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 1.00am Animal Cops Houston (S) 2.00 as 8pm 3.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 3.50 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 4.40 How Do Animals Do That (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am Outback Vet (HD) 10.00 Orangutan Diary 11.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 12 noon New. Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.00 Outback Vet (HD) 4.00 Orangutan Diary 5.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 6.00 Outback Vet (HD) 7.00 Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 8.00 Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 9.00 Orangutan Diary 10.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 11.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 12 midnight Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 1.00am Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.05 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD) 3.55 Orangutan Diary 4.45 Jungle Planet (HD) 5.35—6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Smithsonian
57
F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am Apollo’s Moon Shot (HD) 7.00 Atomic Bomb: Witness to History (HD) 8.00 The Hunt for Eagle 56 (HD) 9.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 10.00 Britain in Colour (HD) 11.00 America’s Civil War 360 (HD) 12 noon Apollo’s Moon Shot (HD) 1.00pm Atomic Bomb: Witness to History (HD) 2.00 The Pacific War in Colour (HD) 3.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 4.00 Britain in Colour (HD) 5.00 Hunt for the Double Eagle (HD) 6.00pm America’s Civil War 360 The North’s hard-won four-year US Civil War victory. (HD) 7.00 Air Warriors The EA-6B and its successor, the EA-18G, known in the US military as the Prowler and the Growler. (HD) 8.00 New. Brazil’s Emerald Oasis Examining the astonishing range of wildlife attracted to the Pantanal’s Rebel Lake. (HD) 9.00 Big Cat Country The lionesses from the Hollywood pride are in grave trouble. (HD) 10.00 Aerial Africa A view of Namibia, from the Kunene River to the Namib desert. (HD) 11.00 Brazil’s Emerald Oasis As 8pm. 12 midnight Big Cat Country (HD) 1.00am Aerial Africa (HD) 2.00 Brazil’s Emerald Oasis (HD) 3.00 Big Cat Country (HD) 4.00 Aerial Africa (HD) 5.00—6.00am Hunt for the Double Eagle (HD)
CBeebies
202
Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Something Special 6.20 Baby Jake 6.35 Twirlywoos 6.45 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Numberblocks 7.05 Bing: double bill 7.20 Hey Duggee: double bill 7.35 Bitz & Bob 7.45 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.20 Biggleton 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Tee and Mo 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Alphablocks 9.20 Timmy Time 9.25 Bing 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 New. Something Special 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 Hey Duggee 10.40 New. Patchwork Pals 10.45 Mister Maker’s Arty Party 11.05 Magic Hands 11.15 My Pet and Me 11.30 School of Roars 11.40 My First 11.50 Tinga Tinga Tales 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Old Jack’s Boat 12.30 Katie Morag 12.45 Melody 1.00 The Furchester Hotel 1.10 Yakka Dee! 1.15 Numberblocks 1.20 Bing 1.30 Twirlywoos 1.45 Something Special 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 The Baby Club 2.35 Pablo 2.45 Our Family 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.15 Swashbuckle 3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Octonauts 4.00 New. Love Monster 4.05 Andy’s Safari Adventures 4.20 Maddie’s Do You Know? 4.35 Peter Rabbit 4.50 Go Jetters 5.00 Gigglebiz 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.25 Molly and Mack; My Petsaurus 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: a tale is read for younger viewers before they go to bed
CBBC
Wednesday Television
Alibi
American Dad! 11.00pm Stan
6.00am Peppa Pig 6.20 New. Mya Go 6.30 Fireman Sam 6.40 Noddy: Toyland Detective 6.50 Shane the Chef 7.00 Thomas & Friends 7.15 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 7.20 Peppa Pig: double bill 7.40 New. Top Wing 7.55 Paw Patrol 8.10 Floogals 8.30 New. Becca’s Bunch: a thick fog descends on Wagtail Woods 8.45 Little Princess 8.55 Ben and Holly: the fairy kingdom runs out of cash 9.10—9.15am New. Sunny Bunnies
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Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 613 Virgin 701 7.00am Arthur 7.15 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.25 Danger Mouse 7.40 New. Newsround 7.45 Danny & Mick 8.00 Class Dismissed 8.15 New. Newsround 8.25 Marrying Mum and Dad 8.55 Art Ninja 9.15 A Week to Beat the World 9.30 All at Sea 12.25pm Nikki Lilly Meets 12.30 Secret Life of Boys 1.45 Got What It Takes? 2.20 Lifebabble 2.25 Operation Ouch! 2.50 The Dumping Ground 3.20 The Deep 3.40 Shaun the Sheep 3.50 Scream Street 4.00 New. Newsround 4.10 Danny & Mick 4.20 Odd Squad 4.35 The Pets Factor 5.00 New. The Next Step 5.25 New. My Perfect Landing 5.50 New. Got What It Takes? 6.25pm Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 6.35 Operation Ouch! 7.05 Horrible Histories 7.35 My Perfect Landing 8.00 The Next Step 8.25—9.00pm Got What It Takes?
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Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 621 Virgin 734 6.00am Super 4 6.25 Fangbone 6.55 NinjaGo 7.25 Mr Bean 7.55 Mr Magoo 8.25 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 8.50 Mighty Mike 9.20 Dare Master 9.25 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 9.50 Hotel Transylvania 10.20 Spy School 10.45 Massive Monster Mayhem 11.10 Drop Dead Weird 11.40 Max & Shred 12.05pm Robozuna 12.30 Gormiti 3D 1.00 NinjaGo 1.25 Dare Master 1.30 The Bagel and Becky Show 2.10 Hotel Transylvania 2.40 Mr Magoo 3.10 The Tom and Jerry Show 3.30 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 4.00 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud 4.30 Mighty Mike 5.00 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 5.30 LEGO Jurassic World 6.00 Robozuna 6.25 Gormiti 3D 7.00 Mr Bean 7.30 Mr Magoo 8.00 Massive Monster Mayhem 8.30—9.00pm Max & Shred
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WEDNESDAY Films & Sport Discover film
Television Wednesday
The best of Sky, iPlayer, Netflix and beyond
Tailor made for you Phantom Thread 5 Netflix Recently arrived on Netflix is this divine melodrama examining the impact of emotional upheaval on the fragile mind of a finely tuned creative. Daniel Day-Lewis plays a renowned dressmaker in 1950s London, whose fastidious approach to his craft has left him intolerant of the messiness of human beings. Paul Thomas Anderson’s film draws out the flaws and vulnerability of Day-Lewis’s character as he enters into a relationship with a new muse (Vicky Krieps) and struggles to maintain a normal life. EMMA SIMMONDS
FREEVIEW Film4
Sky Premiere 14
F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am Esther Waters ★★ Victorian melodrama. Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde (1948, U) 1.15pm The Violent Men ★★★ Well-cast western. Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck (1955, PG) (S) 3.10 The Weaker Sex ★★ Sentimental wartime drama. Ursula Jeans (1948, U) (S)
4.55pm 40 Guns to Apache Pass ★★ Efficiently made, low-budget western. Audie Murphy, Michael Burns (1966, PG) 6.50 Last Vegas ★★★ An attentiongrabbing cast assembles for a stag do in this geriatric take on The Hangover. Review p47. Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro (2013, 12) (S) (AD) 9.00 i Wind River ★★★ Compelling thriller in which a game tracker and an FBI agent investigate a death on a Native American reservation. Film of the Day: p46. Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen (2017, 15) (S) (AD) 11.10 Lone Survivor ★★★ Mark Wahlberg heads an ensemble cast in this brutal, gung-ho action film. (2013, 15) (S) (AD) 1.35—4.00am Rush ★★★★ Drama based on a true story. Daniel Brühl (2013, 15) (S) (AD) Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
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Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am Intimate Stranger ★★ Mystery. Kari Matchett (2006) 11.00 The Wedding Stalker ★★ Thriller. (2017) 1.00pm Earthfall ★ Disaster movie. Joe Lando (2014) 2.50 San Andreas Quake ★★ Disaster drama. Jhey Castles (2015, 12) 4.35 Bicentennial Man ★★ Comedy drama. Robin Williams (1999, PG) 7.10pm The Forger ★★ Watchable drama. Josh Hutcherson, Hayden Panettiere, Alfred Molina (2012, 12)
9.00 Shutter Island ★★★ Atmospheric mystery. Review p46. Leonardo DiCaprio (2009, 15) 11.40 Awake ★★ Psychological thriller. Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin (2007, 15)
1.25am Sniper: Ghost Shooter ★★ Action thriller. Chad Michael Collins (2016, 15) 3.25—6.00am Bicentennial Man ★★ Sci-fi. Robin Williams (1999, PG) Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
Back on TCM today Gaslight 1111 1.30pm TCM Ingrid Bergman won her first best actress Oscar for this menacing melodrama, playing a socialite slowly being driven mad by her suave husband, Charles Boyer. This film was released in Britain as The Murder in Thornton Square to avoid confusion with the same-titled 1940 British production with Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard. The Victorian sets look sumptuous, George Cukor’s intelligent direction shines through, and the radiant Bergman seizes the opportunity to make the film her own. TONY SLOMAN
Space cadet Astro Kid 111 iTunes/Virgin Movies This junior-league sci-fi animation sees ten-yearold Willy separated from his scientist parents and stranded on a strange planet after their spaceship is hit by an asteroid. It’s an enjoyable synthesis of Lost in Space, Wall-E and a touch of Tarzan, offering bright and breezy fun for younger kids. DAVE ALDRIDGE
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F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am Journey into Fear ★★★★ Spy drama. (1942, PG) 7.30 Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House ★★★★ Comedy. (1948, U) 9.25 The Reckless Moment ★★★ Thriller. (1949, 12) 11.10 Barbary Coast ★★★ Period drama. (1935, PG) 1.05pm We’ll Meet Again ★★★ Musical. (1942, U) 2.50 Don’t Panic Chaps ★★ Comedy. (1959, U) 4.40 First Men in the Moon ★★★ Adventure. (1964, U) 6.50pm Earth Girls Are Easy ★★★★ Breezy satire. Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey (1988, PG) 9.00 Down and Out in Beverly Hills ★★★ Amusing comedy. Nick Nolte, Bette Midler (1986, 15) 11.10 Rock around the Clock ★★★ Musical. Bill Haley (1956, U) 12.45am Suddenly, Last Summer ★★★★ Drama. Elizabeth Taylor (1959, 15) 3.00 Machine Gun Kelly ★★★ Drama. (1958, 12) 4.25—6.00am Mayflower: the Pilgrims’ Adventure ★★ Drama. (1979) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
Talking Pictures TV
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Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.00am The Gentle Trap ★ Thriller. (1960, PG) (S) 7.20 Go to Blazes ★★ Comedy. (1961, U) (S) 9.05 Tomorrow at Ten ★★★ Drama. (1962, PG) 11.00 June Allyson 11.30 Beautiful but Dangerous ★★ Comedy drama. (1954, U) 1.30pm Mandy ★★★★ Drama. (1952, PG) (S) 3.20 Once upon a Dream ★★ Comedy. Googie Withers (1948) 5.05 The Interrupted Journey ★ Crime drama. Richard Todd (1949) 6.45pm The Long Duel ★★ Authenticlooking adventure. Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard (1967, PG) 9.00 Rumpole of the Bailey TV drama. 10.05 This Is My Street ★★ Well-written drama. Ian Hendry, June Ritchie, John Hurt (1963, PG) 12.05am The Driver ★★★★ Thriller. Ryan O’Neal (1978, 15) 1.55 Prizzi’s Honor ★★★★ Comedy. Jack Nicholson (1985, 15) 4.25—6.00am The Spiral Staircase ★★★★ Thriller. (1946, PG)
Sky Oscars
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am As 2.30pm 8.00 Radioflash ★★ Disaster thriller. Brighton Sharbino (2019) 10.00 i The Field Guide to Evil As 10.10pm 12.15pm As 8pm 2.30 Never Grow Old ★★★ Western. John Cusack (2019, 15) 4.30 Escape Plan 3 ★★ Thriller. Review p62. Sylvester Stallone (2019, 15)
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 6.45am Crazy Heart As 3.50pm 8.45 Gladiator As 10.20pm 11.20 Bohemian Rhapsody As 8pm 1.40pm True Grit ★★★★ Western. John Wayne (1969, PG) 3.50 Crazy Heart ★★★★ Intimate music drama guaranteed to pluck the heartstrings.
6.15pm November Criminals ★★ Strongly cast teen crime drama. Ansel Elgort, Chloë Grace Moretz (2017, 12) 8.00 The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne from director Yorgos Lanthimos. Olivia
5.50pm Philadelphia 5 Tom Hanks plays a gay lawyer who takes his employers to court.
Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15)
10.10 i The Field Guide to Evil ★★★ Horror anthology of diverse myths and folk tales from around the world. (2018, 15) 12.15am Escape Plan 3 As 4.30pm 2.00 Rabid ★★★ Gory horror remake. Laura Vandervoort (2019, 18) 4.00 November Criminals As 6.15pm 5.30 1917 Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
Sky Hits
Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal (2009, 15)
Denzel Washington, Jason Robards (1993, 12)
8.00 Bohemian Rhapsody ★★★ Rami Malek gives an Oscarwinning portrayal of Freddie Mercury in this biopic. (2018, 12) 10.20 Gladiator 5 A Roman general escapes death and becomes a celebrated fighter. Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix (2000, 15)
12.55am As Good as It Gets ★★★★ A bigot is forced to change his ways in this offbeat romantic comedy drama. Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt (1997, 15) 3.15 Philadelphia As 5.50pm 5.30 True Grit As 1.40pm
Sky Greats
Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 8.40am Ghost Rider ★★ Horror. Nicolas Cage (2007, 15) 10.35 As 9pm 12.50pm Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again ★★★ Musical. Lily James (2018, PG) 2.50 Johnny English Reborn ★★★ Spy comedy. Rowan Atkinson (2011, PG) 4.40 Iron Man ★★★★ Adventure. Robert Downey Jr (2008, 12)
Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 6.50am Tremors 5 Comedy. (1989, 15) 8.40 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ★★★★ Comedy. (1989, U) 10.25 Atonement 5 Period drama. (2007, 15) 12.35pm Psycho 5 Horror. Anthony Perkins (1960, 15) 2.30 The Bourne Ultimatum 5 Thriller. Matt Damon (2007, 12)
6.50pm Iron Man 2 ★★★ Familiar but still cracking fantasy sequel. Robert Downey Jr, Mickey Rourke (2010, 12) 9.00 Glass ★★★ M Night Shyamalan’s intriguing follow-up to Unbreakable and Split. Bruce
4.30pm Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom Menace ★★★ The Skywalker legend is born in George Lucas’s first prequel. Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman (1999, U)
11.15 Halloween ★★★★ David Gordon Green takes the landmark slasher back to its roots with a superior continuation of the killer saga. Jamie Lee Curtis (2018, 18)
6.50 Hot Fuzz ★★★★ Gleeful mix of murder mystery and comedy. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost (2007, 15) 9.00 Collateral ★★★★ Hitman Tom Cruise forces taxi driver Jamie Foxx to assist him as he conducts a killing spree. (2004, 15)
1.05am Edge of Tomorrow ★★★ Sci-fi. Tom Cruise (2014, 12) 3.05 Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World ★★★★ Adventure. Russell Crowe (2003, 12) 5.30 Green Zone ★★★★ War thriller. Matt Damon (2010, 15)
11.00pm Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★ Thriller. (2012, 15) 1.45am War of the Worlds ★★★★ Sci-fi thriller. (2005, 12) 3.45 Barbarella ★★★ Fantasy. (1967, 15) 5.30 Evil Dead II ★★★ Horror comedy. (1987, 18)
Willis, Samuel L Jackson, James McAvoy (2019, 15)
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 6.00am Speed 2: Cruise Control ★★ Thriller. Sandra Bullock (1997, PG) 8.20 Final Score ★★ Thriller. Dave Bautista (2018, 15) 10.20 Charlie’s Angels As 6.15pm 12.15pm Lethal Weapon As 8pm 2.15 Lethal Weapon 2 As 10pm 4.15 Broken Arrow ★★★ Thriller. John Travolta, Christian Slater (1996, 15)
Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.25am Humor Me ★★ Comedy. (2017, 15) 8.05 As 4.35pm 9.55 A Very Bad Day ★★ Drama. (2017, 15) 11.20 Benjamin ★★★ Comedy. (2018, 15) 12.50pm How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ★★ Romance. (2003, 12) 2.50 50 First Dates ★★★ Romance. Adam Sandler (2004, 12)
6.15pm Charlie’s Angels ★★ Action comedy adventure based on the 1970s TV show. Cameron Diaz,
4.35pm Book Club ★★★ Nimble ensemble comedy. Diane Keaton, Jane
Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray (2000, 15)
6.25 Holmes and Watson ★ Comedy adventure. Will Ferrell, John C
8.00 Lethal Weapon ★★★★ A suicidal detective and a veteran cop team up to take down a drugs ring. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover (1987, 18) 10.00 Lethal Weapon 2 ★★★ Mel Gibson and Danny Glover take on ruthless South African drug runners. Joe Pesci (1989, 18) 12 midnight Broken Arrow As 4.15pm 2.00am Final Score As 8.20am 4.00 Speed 2: Cruise Control As 6am
Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen (2018, 12)
Reilly, Ralph Fiennes, Kelly Macdonald (2018, 12)
8.00 Instant Family ★★★ A couple fosters three siblings. Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner (2018, 12)
10.10 Night School ★★ A streetwise hustler goes back to high school. Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish (2018, 12) 12.20am How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days As 12.50pm 2.30 Benjamin As 11.20am 4.10 Roxanne ★★★★ Romantic comedy. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah (1987, PG)
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WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY Sky
Disney
Sky
Adventure
Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.05am As 3.25pm 7.50 As 7pm 9.50 As 5.10pm 11.40 A Wrinkle in Time ★★ Fantasy. Oprah Winfrey (2018, PG) 1.40pm Zathura: a Space Adventure ★★★★ Fantasy. Josh Hutcherson (2005, PG) 3.25 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ★★★ Fantasy. Mackenzie Foy (2018, PG)
6.15pm Finding Nemo 5 A distraught clownfish sets out to rescue his son. Albert Brooks, Ellen 8.00 Mary Poppins 5 Two children find their lives transformed by a magical nanny.
5.10pm Jumanji ★★★★ Two children free Robin Williams and a host of marauding wildlife from a sinister board game. (1995, PG) 7.00 Bumblebee ★★★ The lovable robot befriends a teenage girl. Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena,
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson (1964, U)
Dylan O’Brien, Jorge Lendeborg Jr (2018, PG)
10.25 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 5 Timeless classic about a princess tormented by her stepmother. Adriana Caselotti (1937, U)
9.00 Bedtime Stories ★★★ A hotel handyman’s tall tales have a funny way of coming true.
11.55pm Robin Hood ★★★★ Adventure. Brian Bedford (1973, U) 1.30am As 6.50am 3.15 The Hunchback of Notre Dame ★★★★ Musical. Tom Hulce (1996, U) 4.50 Lilo & Stitch ★★★★ Comedy. Daveigh Chase (2002, U)
10.45pm Pete’s Dragon ★★ Cute fantasy. Helen Reddy (1977, U) 12.45am Return to Oz ★★★ Fantasy. Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh (1985, PG) 2.45 A Wrinkle in Time As 11.40am 4.45 Pete’s Dragon As 10.45pm
DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe (2003, U)
Sky Thriller
Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce (2008, PG)
Sky
Drama
Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 6.45am Truth or Dare ★★ Horror. Lucy Hale (2018, 15) 8.40 Lizzie ★★ Psychological thriller. Kristen Stewart (2018, 15) 10.40 Salt As 7.10pm 12.35pm The Recruit As 9pm 2.45 The Rock ★★★★ Action. Sean Connery (1996, 15) 5.05 Hotel Mumbai ★★★ True story. Dev Patel (2018, 15)
Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510 7.00am Summer 1993 ★★★★ Drama. Laia Artigas (2017, 12) 8.50 Bel Canto ★★ Thriller. Julianne Moore (2018, 15) 10.45 Burning As 8pm 1.25pm Almost Famous As 10.35pm 4.10 Alfie ★★ Jude Law plays a roguish ladies’ man in this remake of the 1966 comedy drama. Marisa Tomei (2004, 15)
7.10pm Salt ★★ Angelina Jolie is on fighting form as a discredited CIA agent. (2010, 12) 9.00 The Recruit ★★ Colin Farrell is taught CIA tactics by gruff trainer Al Pacino in this glossy thriller. Bridget Moynahan (2002, 12) 11.00 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile ★★ Zac Efron stars as serial killer Ted Bundy in this chronicle of his court case. Lily Collins (2019, 15)
6.10pm My Girl 2 ★★ Sentimental drama. Dan Aykroyd,
12.55am Gran Torino ★★★ Drama. Clint Eastwood (2008, 15) 2.55 Outlaws ★★ Crime drama. Matt Nable, Ryan Corr, Abbey Lee (2017, 18) 4.30 Sam Churchill: Search for a Homeless Man ★★ Mystery. John Schneider (1998)
Sky
Sci-Fi/Horror
Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am Fever ★★★ Thriller. Tom Miller (2017, 15) 7.25 Future World ★★ Adventure. James Franco (2018, 15) 9.00 Blade Runner As 6pm 11.00 The Matrix As 8pm 1.20pm The Matrix Reloaded As 10.30pm 3.45 The Matrix Revolutions ★★★ Thriller. Keanu Reeves (2003, 15)
6.00pm Blade Runner 5 A world-weary ex-cop goes in search of four lethal androids. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young (2007, 15)
8.00 The Matrix 5 A computer hacker is drawn into a nightmare of alternative worlds and mind control. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne (1999, 15)
10.30 The Matrix Reloaded ★★★ Stylish, effects-laden sequel. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne (2002, 15)
1.00am The Matrix Revolutions As 3.45pm 3.15 Incident in a Ghostland ★★★ Stylishly made haunted-house horror. Crystal Reed, Mylène Farmer, Anastasia Phillips, Emilia Jones (2018, 18) 5.00 Sky Cinema Preview
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky (1994, PG)
8.00 Burning 5 Youthful romance turns to teasing mystery in this South Korean adaptation of a story by Haruki Murakami. Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jun Jong-seo (2018, 15)
10.35 Almost Famous ★★★★ A teenage journalist goes on tour with a rock band. Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson (2000, 15)
1.15am Alfie As 4.10pm 3.05 Summer 1993 As 7am 4.50 My Girl 2 As 6.10pm
TCM Movies Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 6.30am Hollywood’s Best Directors 7.30 Horse Feathers 5 Comedy. (1932, U) 9.00 The Blue Dahlia ★★★★ (1946, PG) 11.10 The Secret War of Harry Frigg ★★★ (1967, U) 1.30pm Gaslight ★★★★ Melodrama. Review left. (1944, PG) 3.45 Arizona Trail ★★ (1943, U)
5.00pm Horizons West ★★ A tale of brothers on opposite sides of the law. Robert Ryan (1952, 12) 6.40 Chisum ★★ Rambling John Wayne movie. Forrest Tucker (1970, PG) 9.00 Training Day ★★★★ A rookie is placed with a detective who believes he is above the law. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke (2001, 18)
11.30 Tango & Cash ★★★ Hugely silly, hugely enjoyable thriller. Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell (1989, 18) 1.40am The Plunderers ★★ Solid western. Rod Cameron, Ilona Massey (1948, U) 3.30 Hollywood’s Best Directors
TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
SPORT Sky Premier League Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 The Debate 8.00 Best Goals 9.00 100 Club (AD) 10.00 Premier League Years (AD) 12 noon The Debate 1.00pm Premier League Years: 2011/12 (AD) 3.00 Best Goals (AD) 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00 100 Club (AD) 6.00 Legends (AD) 7.00 Premier League World 7.30 The Tyler Archives 8.00 Soccerbox 9.00 Premier League World 9.30 The Tyler Archives 10.00 The Debate 11.00 Best Goals (AD) 12 midnight The Debate 1.00am Premier League Years: 2012/13 (AD) 3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)
6.00am BT Sport Goals Reload 6.15 Scottish Football 6.30 Score Best Bits 7.00 Wrestling 9.30 Premier League Reload 9.45 Scottish Football 10.00 FA Cup Football 11.30 Early Kick-Off 11.45 BT Sport Score Best Bits 12.15pm Premier League Reload 12.30 Rugby Union: Premiership Cup 2.00 Premier League Football: Leicester City v Chelsea 3.30 SPFL Highlights 3.45 Early Kick-Off 4.00 Wrestling: WWE action (AD) 6.00 Reload 6.30 SPFL Highlights 6.45 Scottish Football Extra
Cycling 2.00pm Eurosport 2 Will it be a home win for Alejandro Valverde?
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437 10.00am LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup seventh-place play-off. 3.45pm My Icon 4.00 Sky Sports News 7.00 Sky Sports Tonight 10.00 The Debate 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight Sky Sports News 12.30am LIVE NBA Brooklyn Nets v Golden State Warriors. 3.00 Sky Sports News 4.00—7.00am LIVE European Tour Golf The opening round of the Victorian Open from Geelong.
Sky Football Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503 6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Greatest Players (AD) 7.30 Football Countdowns (AD) 8.00 Football Years (AD) 8.30 EFL Greatest Games 8.45 One2Eleven (AD) 9.00 Greatest Games 9.30 Classic Play-Offs 10.30 Greatest Games 11.30 Greatest Players (AD) 12 noon Countdowns (AD) 12.30pm Years (AD) 1.00 Greatest Games 1.45 One2Eleven (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 3.00 Greatest Players (AD) 3.30 Countdowns (AD) 4.00 Football Years (AD) 4.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.30 Greatest Games 6.00 Classic League Cup Finals: Chelsea v Tottenham from 2008 7.00 League One and Two Goals 7.30 Championship Highlights 10.00 SPFL Greatest Games 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.00 One2Eleven (AD) 11.15 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Football Years (AD) 12.30am SPFL Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Football Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 6.00am Chronicles (AD) 6.30 European Tour 7.30 PGA Tour Golf 1.00pm European Tour 2.00 Drive Time USA 3.00 PGA Tour Golf 4.00 European Tour 5.00 Drive Time USA 6.00 PGA Tour Golf 7.00 PGA Tour Champions 8.00 PGA Tour: the Cut 8.30 Drive Time USA 9.30 PGA Tour Champions 10.30 PGA Tour: the Cut 11.00 Drive Time USA: golf discussion 12 midnight European Tour 1.00am PGA Tour Champions 2.00 Drive Time USA 3.00 European Tour Golf
4.00—7.00am LIVE European Tour Golf The opening round of the Victorian Open from Geelong.
Premier Sports 1 Sky 412 Virgin 551 7.40—9.45pm LIVE Italian Football Lazio v Hellas Verona.
BT Sport 1
Sky Cricket Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504 10.00am LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup seventh-place play-off from Gauteng, South Africa. 3.45pm International One-Day Cricket 5.45 How the 2010 World T20 Was Won 7.45 International One-Day Cricket 10.45 How the 2010 World T20 Was Won 12.45am International One-Day Cricket 1.45 Best of Sky Cricket (AD) 2.00 How the 2010 World T20 Was Won 4.00 Cricket’s Greatest Games (AD) 5.00 Best of Sky Cricket 5.40—6.00am Women’s World T20
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am Boxing Gold (AD) 7.00 Records (AD) 8.00 Boxing Gold (AD) 9.00 NFL: America’s Game 10.00 Fishing 10.30 Sporting Records (AD) 11.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 12 noon NFL: a Football Life (AD) 1.00pm Super Bowl LIV: highlights 3.00 Darts Gold 4.00 Boxing Gold 5.00 Fishing 5.30 Darts Gold 6.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 7.00 Super Bowl LIV 9.00 Boxing Gold 10.00 Motorsport Mundial 11.00 NFL: a Football Life 12 midnight NFL: America’s Game (AD) 1.00am Super League Gold 2.00 NFL: Greatest Games (AD) 3.30 Darts Gold (AD) 4.00 Sporting Records (AD) 5.00—6.00am Sporting Greats (AD)
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am Sporting Greats (AD) 7.00 Super League Gold (AD) 8.00 Sporting Greats (AD) 8.30 Fishing 9.00 Records (AD) 10.00 Boxing Gold 11.00 Super League Gold (AD) 12 noon Netball 1.00pm Sporting Greats (AD) 2.00 Fishing 2.30 NBA: Players Only 3.30 NBA Classic Games 4.30 Netball 5.30 Mountain Biking 6.30 Super League Fulltime 7.00 Inside Super League 8.00 Super League 9.00 Super League Fulltime 9.30 NBA GameTime 10.00 Inside Super League 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up: the latest news and talking points 12 midnight NBA: Sounds of the Finals
12.30am LIVE NBA Brooklyn Nets v Golden State Warriors at Barclays Centre (tip-off 12.30). 3.00 Super League Gold (AD) 3.30 Records (AD) 4.00 Greats (AD) 5.00—6.00am Sporting Records (AD)
Eurosport 1 Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435 6.30am Trail Running 7.00 Table Tennis 8.00 Snowboarding 10.00 Athletics 11.30 Tennis: Australian Open 4.30pm Athletics: World Indoor Tour 6.00 Triathlon 7.00 Mountain Biking 8.00 Cycling 9.00 Tennis: Australian Open 11.00 Cycling: Tour of Valencia 12 midnight Athletics: World Indoor Tour 1.00am Triathlon 2.00 Tennis 3.00 Athletics 4.00 Cycling 5.00—6.00am Cyclo-Cross
7.15 LIVE Scottish Premiership Football Motherwell v Celtic from Fir Park (kick-off 7.45). 10.00 Wrestling: WWE action 1.00am LIVE Wrestling NXT. 3.00 Liverpool: Team of the Seventies (AD) 4.00 ESPN Films: Renee (AD) 5.30—6.00am BT Sport Goals Reload
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.00am French Football 8.00 Hockey 12 noon MotoGP Classics: from 1995 3.00pm Hockey 4.00 French Football
6.00 LIVE French Football Coverage of a Ligue 1 match; 8.00 Saint-Etienne v Marseille from Stade Geoffroy-Guichard. 10.00 Premier League Review 11.00 Ref: Stories from the Weekend: a revealing glimpse inside the world of referees (AD) 12 midnight LIVE Basketball Coverage of a US college game. 2.00am Premier League World 2.30 Rugby Tonight (AD) 3.00—6.00am MotoGP Classics (AD)
Wednesday Television
Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.50am Bolt ★★★★ Comedy adventure. John Travolta (2008, PG) 8.30 As 6.15pm 10.15 Fantasia 2000 ★★★ Animation. Steve Martin (1999, U) 11.35 Planes ★★★ Adventure. Dane Cook (2013, U) 1.10pm As 10.25pm 2.40 As 8pm 5.05 Dumbo 5 Classic fantasy. Edward Brophy (1941, U)
BT Sport 3 Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.00am Australian Football 1.00pm German Football 2.00 Italian Football: Coppa Italia 2.30 FA Cup Football 4.00 Scottish Football 6.00 BT Sport Score Best Bits 6.30 Premier League World 7.00 German Football 8.00 Rugby Tonight (AD) 8.30 Badminton (AD) 9.00 UFC Countdown 10.00 UFC: inside the Octagon (AD) 10.30 Australian Football 11.30 Scottish Football 1.30—6.00am Australian Football
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434 6.00am Around the Horn 6.30 Pardon the Interruption 7.00 ESPN FC 7.30 X Games 8.30 NHL 10.30 ESPN FC 11.00 Pardon the Interruption 11.30 Basketball: US college action 4.45pm ESPN FC 5.15 Around the Horn 5.45 Pardon the Interruption 6.15 BT Sport Reload 6.30 Basketball 10.00 NHL: Boston v Vancouver
12 midnight LIVE Basketball Coverage of a US college game; 2.00am Louisville Cardinals v Wake Forest Demon Deacons (tip-off 2.00). 4.00 BT Sport Reload 4.15—6.00am Basketball
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 6.00am Cycling 7.00 Athletics 8.30 Triathlon 9.30 Mountain Biking 10.30 Tennis: Australian Open 11.30 Cycling
2.00pm LIVE Cycling Stage one of the Tour of Valencia. 3.30 Hall of Fame: Greatest Cyclists 4.30 Snowboarding 6.30 Alpine Skiing 8.30 Ski Jumping 10.00 Cycling 11.00 Snooker 1.00am Olympics: Hall of Fame 2.00 Cycling 3.00 Cyclo-Cross 4.00 Alpine Skiing 5.00—6.00am Snowboarding
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THURSDAY Choices
The pick of today’s TV NEW IN TOWN
Television Thursday
Commissioner Patterson (Don Warrington) gives DI Parker (Ralf Little) a guided tour
PICK OF THE DAY
Death in Paradise 9.00pm BBC1
DRAMA There’s yet another corporate do on the island of Saint Marie, as
a British developer launches a timeshare complex. His daughter leaves the party early, heading up to her room. Uh-oh, heading up to her doom, more like, as no one ever leaves a party in Death in Paradise without meeting the Grim Reaper before the opening credits. But in a remarkable break with tradition, considering all of the British nationals who’ve been scythed down before, a senior detective from the
The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick
Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls
Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals
Barrymore: the Body in the Pool
8.00pm C4
9.00pm BBC2
9.00pm ITV
9.00pm C4
DOCUMENTARY When this series
DOCUMENTARY There’s an odd shift
DOCUMENTARY The death of Stuart
stops trying to find wacky things for Ed Balls to do — milk a cow! play boules in comical fashion! — it does a fine job charting the winds of change blowing through Euro-politics. It’s one thing to read about how electorates are turning to extremist parties, but it’s another to meet people at the sharp end. After a bizarre encounter with a social media star in Milan, Ed visits a farmer in Calabria who can’t make his farm pay, a lace-maker near Calais whose industry is on its knees, and an activist for Marine Le Pen in Marseille, whose rhetoric about being “swamped” by immigration leaves Ed with a heavy heart. DAVID BUTCHER
of tone midway through this look at the Queen’s trials and tribulations when we go from the sombre to the salacious in the space of an ad break. We start with an exploration of how the monarch reacted to such tragedies as the Aberfan colliery disaster and the assassination of Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional IRA, before the gaze turns to royal scandals. Toe-sucking, Squidgygate… you know the drill. But waiting in the wings in the final act is, naturally, Diana, whose death in 1997 proved to be a turning point in the way the Windsors chose to express emotion publicly.
Lubbock, whose body was found in the swimming pool at Michael Barrymore’s Essex home nearly 20 years ago, was a tragedy for his family and a headline-grabbing scandal that’s never gone away. It all but destroyed Barrymore’s television career, pushing him into the showbusiness wilderness for years, and left Lubbock’s family desperate for answers. To this day the death remains unexplained. This feature-length documentary speaks to those involved in the investigation, including detectives, pathologists and eyewitnesses. There are contributions, too, from Lubbock’s family. AG
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DOCUMENTARY Of course
Noel Fitzpatrick isn’t supposed to have favourites, but he’s fallen in love with Ted, a pint-sized shih tzu puppy. “Can I have visitation rights?” he asks, after giving the cute little bundle yet another cuddle. Noel is operating on Ted’s broken leg and on schnauzer Jess’s deformed spine, but neither of these operations is as challenging as the final one. Dachshund Ruby’s pelvis was shattered after a car hit her when she was in the care of her owner’s friend (you can imagine the guilt). After a six-hour operation, Noel says, “I’ve done my best… but it’s possible she’ll never walk again.”
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victim’s local force arrives to investigate. So welcome DI Neville Parker, of Manchester Police. And welcome Ralf Little, Ardal O’Hanlon’s replacement. You’ll like Little, he brings a light comic touch and a certain charm. Of course, every detective must have quirks, and Parker is super-sensitive to sunlight and suffers from myriad allergies. But never mind, he plans to catch the next plane home… ALISON GRAHAM See feature: page 16
DAVID BROWN
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY It seems to be the week for giving former soap characters an off-screen death. Corrie’s Rita is to learn that her former husband Dennis Tanner has met his maker. And Laurel on Emmerdale (7pm, 8pm ITV) will receive word from Australia that Sandy Thomas has passed away. With actor Freddie Jones having died last July, there was no way that Sandy would have been able to reappear, but a part of me still liked to think of the old rogue living it up Down Under. But what
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his demise does give us is fresh drama for young Arthur (Alfie Clarke, left), who believes that the news about his granddad is punishment for his bullying behaviour. After Laurel (Charlotte Bellamy) then finds him in floods of tears, Arthur reveals that he’s the one responsible for hurting little Archie. Expect a shell-shocked Laurel to start fretting about how she could have missed the signs and rueing the past decisions she’s made as a mother. DAVID BROWN
DISCOVER TV
The best of streaming and catch-up
Perpetual Grace, Ltd
Edgar Wright: Life Cinematic
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Deuce
9.00pm BBC4
9.00pm 5USA
DRAMA The Deuce is on the home
DOCUMENTARY This week Dorset-
DRAMA Fin gets a little short-changed
born director Edgar Wright is the film-maker exploring his own influences. No previews were available but Wright is always an engaging talker. He made his name on the so-called Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End) and has said that An American Werewolf in London helped inspire his distinctive blend of horror, comedy and visual thrills. He expands on that in discussion with Robbie Collin, taking in other favourites including Carrie, Bullitt and 1934 musical Dames. He also discusses his most recent film, Baby Driver, and reflects on the role that music plays in his films. DAVID BUTCHER
this week. You’d have thought his military past would come into play when a fellow Army Ranger is sexually assaulted. But no, it’s the eternally empathetic Benson (Mariska Hargitay) who ends up providing wise counsel to headstrong Captain Beth Williams after she’s found attacked in a New York park. That’s not to say that the central theme of a hardened soldier finding the strength to be vulnerable isn’t stirring. It is. I just wish that Ice-T had been given the opportunity to explore it. He’s been on this show since 2000 and deserves to do more than just read out rap sheets and bang on suspects’ doors. DAVID BROWN
straight. For those of us who have stuck with David Simon and George Pelecanos’s great sex-industry saga, the sense that our characters are running out of road — and sometimes off it — is sad. Of the twins at the heart of the story, Frankie (James Franco) is dead and his barman brother Vince broken. “Nothing lasts,” says Vince’s girlfriend Abby, as their miraculously longlasting relationship hits another crisis. Also at the heart of the story is sex-worker-turned-porn-mogul Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who tonight reveals the sad secret of her teenage years. But it’s mournful mafioso Rudy who steals the show.
10.25pm Sky Atlantic
DAVID BUTCHER
Secrets of the Museum
The creator of Amazon’s tremendously odd spy thriller Patriot is behind this equally strange Western neo-noir. Jimmi Simpson is a desperate drifter whose attempt to prey on a pastor backfires — the gun-totin’, freely-cursin’ man of god is played by Ben Kingsley, channelling the same “lethal eccentric” energy he showed in the film Sexy Beast. Luis Guzmán, Terry O’Quinn and Timothy Spall co-star.
DISCOVER TV KIDS
Inside My Head: Taking Control of Anxiety
Thursday Television
Starzplay
5.00pm CBBC, iPlayer In a Newsround special, 16-year-old Molly learns to cope with her anxiety. JACK SEALE
BEST LIVE SPORT
8.00pm BBC2 DOCUMENTARY New series
Edwardian toy elephant Pumpie gets some TLC
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International Women’s T20 Cricket: India v England 3am BT Sport 1 England’s talented all-rounder Natalie Sciver. Snooker: World Grand Prix, day four 12.45pm, 6.45pm ITV4 Super League: Warrington Wolves v St Helens 7pm (k/o 7.45pm) Sky Arena/Main Event Darts: Premier League, round one 7pm Sky Action A new season starts in Aberdeen.
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Creed
10.00pm Channel 5 Crowd-pleasing boxing drama, as Rocky Balboa returns to coach the son of his opponent Apollo Creed. See page 46
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Prepare to lose yourself in quiet contemplation with a paper conservator in the first episode of a charming and rather lovely new series centred on the “backstage” work of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. There’s an army of these people beavering away doing remarkably intricate preservation work. The paper expert is brightening and repairing a paper peep-show of the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the toy department, cherished Pumpie the elephant, a 100-year-old beloved family toy, looks a little forlorn, with a loose trunk and moth damage, until he’s spruced up. Meanwhile, in textiles, everyone is flat out, preparing for a Christian Dior exhibition featuring some of the designer’s most lustrous and beautiful dresses, including a weepingly lovely black pleated frock that once belonged to actress Martita Hunt. AG
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THURSDAY Main Channels DAYTIME
Television Thursday
BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Charlie Stayt, Naga Munchetty. (S) (HD) 9.15 Fraud Squad: the Hunt The case of a reckless hoaxer who faked accidents for fun. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Homes under the Hammer In County Durham, Salford and south-east London. (S) (HD) 11.00 Wanted Down Under A trial week in Perth for a couple with different views. Rptd tomorrow 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD) 11.45 Defenders UK Catching a fly-tipper who dumped waste on school grounds. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Builth Wells. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 1.45 Doctors Ruhma helps a new mother who is convinced her baby has been swapped. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 4/10 Series 3. After a fatal accident in a carpet warehouse, the youngest daughter of a carpet king suspects her sisters of murder. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Escape to the Country A couple seek a retirement home in the Dorset countryside. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.45 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Dairy farmer Tereza shows her prize goats. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip A vintage train set is found in Norfolk. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
BBC2 6.30am Wanted Down Under The Larkin family spend a trial week in Brisbane. Shown Wednesday 11am BBC1 (S) (HD) 7.15 Antiques Road Trip Shown Wed 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) 8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 Great British Railway Journeys Michael travels from Jarrow to Spennymoor. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 8.30 Lose Weight and Get Fit with Tom Kerridge 1/6 Embarking on an eight-week weight loss journey. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Current affairs. (S) (HD) 11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S) (HD) 12.15pm Politics Live With Andrew Neil. (S) (HD) 1.00 Get away for Winter A trio are hoping to rent a property in Goa, southern India. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 Coast A race around the Isle of Wight. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.35 Shelley Winters: Talking Pictures Television appearances by the Oscar-winning actress. (R) (S) (HD) 3.05—5.15 Yentl ★★ Musical drama starring Barbra Streisand. Poland, 1904: Yentl is a young woman set on becoming a Talmudic scholar. To enter an appropriate school she must disguise herself as a boy. Review p46. Director Barbra Streisand (1983, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
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ITV 6.00am Good Morning Britain Robert Downey Jr talks to Richard Arnold about his film Doolittle. (S) (HD) 9.00 Lorraine Health, fashion and showbiz. (S) (HD) 10.00 This Morning Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women The regulars and their guests put the world to rights once more. (S) (HD) 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 2.00 Judge Rinder Real-life courtroom cases. (S) (HD) 3.00 Tenable Five members of a rounders team take part. Repeated 12.05am (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather 4.00—5.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (S) (HD)
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6.30am Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD) 7.20 The King of Queens Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 9.10 Frasier Two episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) 10.10 Undercover Boss USA The CEO of restaurant chain Muscle Maker Grill goes under cover. (R) (S) (HD) 11.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA At Mill Street Bistro in Norwalk, Ohio. (S) 12 noon News (S) (HD) 12.05pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses A Welsh couple look for the perfect property in Almería. (R) (S) (HD) 1.05 Escape to the Château: DIY Ben and Billie show musician Sam Brown their studio. (R) (S) (HD) 2.10 Countdown With guest Prue Leith. (S) (HD) 3.00 A Place in the Sun Scarlette Douglas helps two house-hunters find a property on Cyprus. (R) (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun A Yorkshire can-can dancer teaches her amateur troupe a routine. (S) (HD)
BBC1
BBC2
Death in Paradise 9.00pm DI Neville Parker arrives from Manchester to help catch a killer
Secrets of the Museum 8.00pm Textile conservator Jo restores a toy elephant to its former glory
5.15pm Pointless
5.15pm Flog It!
Quiz presented by Alexander Armstrong. (R) (S) (HD)
Presented by Paul Martin from Bristol Cathedral, where he learns about explorer John Cabot.
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) 7.00 The One Show
Director Clare Wilmshurst; Series producer Louise Hibbins (R) (S) (HD)
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Presented by Matt Baker and Alex Jones. (S) (HD)
Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the Rev Richard Coles, Stuart Maconie and Lou Sanders test their skills. (S) (HD)
7.30 EastEnders
6.30 Great Asian Railway Journeys
Bernadette is curious about Karen’s lack of concern when the police update her about Keanu. Bernadette Taylor Clair Norris Karen Taylor Lorraine Stanley Jags Panesar Amar Adatia Bex Fowler Jasmine Armfield Honey Mitchell Emma Barton Jay Brown Jamie Borthwick Ben Mitchell Max Bowden Tina Carter Luisa Bradshaw-White Dot Branning June Brown Martin Fowler James Bye Sonia Fowler Natalie Cassidy Stuart Highway Ricky Champ Callum “Halfway” Highway Tony Clay Iqra Ahmed Priya Davdra Sharon Mitchell Letitia Dean Kheerat Panesar Jaz Deol Daniel Cook Adrian Edmondson Kim Fox Tameka Empson Billy Mitchell Perry Fenwick
Rainie Branning Tanya Franks Ash Kaur Gurlaine Kaur Garcha Kush Kazemi Davood Ghadami Mitch Baker Roger Griffiths Lola Pearce Danielle Harold Vinny Panesar Shiv Jalota Louise Mitchell Tilly Keeper Sheree Trueman Suzette Llewellyn Ruby Allen Louisa Lytton Jack Branning Scott Maslen Phil Mitchell Steve McFadden Whitney Dean Shona McGarty Bobby Beale Clay Milner Russell Shelley Maria Louis Isaac Baptiste Stevie Basaula Keegan Baker Zack Morris Mo Harris Laila Morse Habiba Ahmed Rukku Nahar Denise Fox Diane Parish
Writer Simon Ashdown This week’s episodes directed by John Greening More cast Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Best Home Cook 6/8 Series 2. The remaining cooks compete in the quarter-final as Tom Kerridge takes Angela Hartnett’s role in the judging line-up for one week. First up Mary Berry challenges the competitors to cook their ultimate family pie, which must be fully encased in pastry. The presence of renowned pie expert Tom adds pressure to an already tricky challenge. Next, Chris Bavin asks them to rustle up a dish that takes a root vegetable that’s usually an accompaniment and places it centre stage. This week’s eliminator is a recipe that’s close to Tom’s heart and he expects it to be executed perfectly. Series producer Sharon Tucker Executive producers Clare Paterson and Andrew Palmer (S) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise
Series 9. When a young woman dies in a5/8 mysterious circumstances at the unveiling of a luxury timeshare resort, DI Neville Parker flies in from the UK to investigate. See page 104.
DI Neville Parker Ralf Little DS Madeleine Dumas Aude Legastelois-Bidé Officer JP Hooper Tobi Bakare Officer Ruby Patterson Shyko Amos Tamsin Lewis Chanel Cresswell Charlie Lewis Tom Varey
Neil Henderson Steve Pemberton Joanne Henderson Samantha Bond Jacob Roach Anthony Adjekum Emma Taylor Nicola Millbank Catherine Bordey Elizabeth Bourgine Commissioner Selwyn Patterson Don Warrington
Writer Robert Thorogood; Producer Ella Kelly Director Richard Signy (S) (AD) (HD)
See feature: page 16
10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 10.35 Question Time
Hue to Ninh Binh. Michael Portillo tours the striking imperial city of Hue, crosses the former demilitarized zone which once split north and south Vietnam, and takes a boat ride on the Red River Delta. Director Cassie Farrell; Exec producer John Comerford (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and her friend, the fashion and interior designer Pearl Lowe, go searching for antiques in their adopted county of Somerset, with Norwegian jewellery catching their eye. (R) (S) (HD)
8.00 Secrets of the Museum
series. 1/6. The Victoria and Albert Museum aNew allows in cameras to explore the vast riches of
its collection that are not on display to the public, revealing the efforts of its experts and conservators to preserve its treasured objects. In this opening edition, textile conservator Jo patches up a 100-year-old stuffed toy and curator Charlotte tries to identify the face of a beautiful 18th-century aristocrat on an ornate gold and enamel snuffbox. Paper conservator Anne restores a colourful Victorian peep-show and, behind the scenes of the Christian Dior exhibition, Lillia and Lara create bespoke mannequins for the couturier’s exquisite gowns. See page 105.
Producer Robin Ockleford; Series producer Vari Innes (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Travels in Euroland with Ed Balls
The former politician explores the roles that a3/3. the financial crash and increasing globalisation have played in the rise of right-wing populism. In Milan he finds out if wealthy voters are attracted by the promise of a huge tax break by former deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s party. In impoverished Calabria, Ed asks why vociferously anti-EU, populist party FiveStar has struck a chord with the local farming community. In northern France he learns how Marine Le Pen and her rebranded National Party’s highlighting of the threat to French industry from foreign traders has won her support in towns like the lace-making centre of Caudry. See page 104.
Director James Ross; Producer Joe Fowler (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Mum 4/6 Series 3. Thursday. After a night out at a restaurant, Pauline’s had too much to drink and Jason has something he needs to say to Cathy. Cathy Michael Pauline Derek
Lesley Manville Peter Mullan Dorothy Atkinson Ross Boatman
Kelly Jason Reg Maureen
Lisa McGrillis Sam Swainsbury Karl Johnson Marlene Sidaway
Writer/Director Stefan Golaszewski Producer Lyndsay Robinson (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Fiona Bruce presents the topical debate from Harpenden, Hertfordshire. The discussion continues on Question Time Extra Time on Radio 5 Live.
10.30 Newsnight With Mark Urban. (S) (HD)
Director Rob Hopkin; Executive producer Nicolai Gentchev HAVE YOUR SAY: text 85058 or tweet with #bbcqt (S) (HD)
11.15 Win the Wilderness: Alaska
11.35 Newscast Gossip and analysis of the latest political goings-on with Laura Kuenssberg and the Brexitcast team. Executive producer Rob Burley; Editor Dino Sofos Repeated tomorrow 10.30pm BBC Parliament (S) (HD)
12.05am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 12.10—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
11.10 Weather (S) (HD) 2/6. A navigation test pits men against women on a trek through an area of untamed Alaskan wilderness. See choice, page 65. Shown Sunday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15—1.30am Sign Zone 12.15 Dom Does America 5/10 Dominic Littlewood works as a US marshal. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 Trust Me, I’m a Doctor 1/6. Investigating how much exercise people really need to be healthy. (R) (S) (HD) BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY ITV
Channel 4
BBC4
The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick 8.00pm One of the most complex operations of the vet’s career so far
5.00pm The Chase
5.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me
7.00pm Beyond 100 Days (S) (HD)
Jason, Vickie, Thora and Tom join forces.
An experimental Asian menu and homegrown organic food feature in Nottingham. (S) (HD)
Followed by Weather (S) (HD)
6.00 The Simpsons
2/4. Paul Rose arrives in the village of Malham in the Yorkshire Dales, where the Pennine Way was launched 50 years ago. Switching to climbing gear he tries scaling the limestone cliff face of Malham Cove, before taking a ringside seat at a sheep mart in Wensleydale and enjoying a wellearned pint in Britain’s highest pub.
Executive producers Michael Kelpie, Martin Scott and Helen Tumbridge (S) (HD)
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 Emmerdale
Four Regrettings and a Funeral. The death of a much-loved neighbour prompts four locals to address their biggest regrets. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Arthur makes a shocking confession.
6.30 Hollyoaks
Arthur Thomas Alfie Clarke Laurel Thomas Charlotte Bellamy Leanna Cavanagh Mimi Slinger Leo Goskirk Harvey Rogerson Leyla Harding Roxy Shahidi Liam Cavanagh Jonny McPherson Liv Flaherty Isobel Steele Lucas Dexter Ansell Luke Posner Max Parker Lydia Hart Karen Blick Mandy Dingle Lisa Riley Manpreet Sharma Rebecca Sarker Marlon Dingle Mark Charnock Matty Barton Ash Palmisciano Millie Tate Willow Bell Moira Dingle Natalie J Robb Moses Dingle Arthur Cockroft Nate Robinson Jurell Carter
Martine is hurt by her father’s harsh words.
Nicola King Nicola Wheeler Noah Dingle Jack Downham Paddy Kirk Dominic Brunt Pearl Ladderbanks Meg Johnson Pete Barton Anthony Quinlan Priya Kotecha Fiona Wade Rhona Goskirk Zoe Henry Rishi Sharma Bhasker Patel Ryan Stocks James Moore Sam Dingle James Hooton Sarah Sugden Katie Hill Tracy Metcalfe Amy Walsh Trevor Rowe David McCelland Vanessa Woodfield Michelle Hardwick Vinny Bradley Johnson Will Taylor Dean Andrews PC Swirling Andy Moore
Writer Tony Higgins More cast Tuesday Repeated tomorrow 7.50am and 12.15pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
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7.30 How Safe Is Your Vape? Tonight Jonathan Maitland investigates whether the UK’s 3.6 million vapers are risking their health. Director/Producer Diani Vyas Repeated 3am (S) (HD) NOTE: as Tonight reacts to the news its subject matter may change
8.00 Emmerdale Arthur has some explaining to do. Writer Anna Clements Repeated tomorrow 8.20am and 12.45pm ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Save Money: Lose Weight 3/6 Series 2. Sian Williams checks out the best veggie boxes, while Dr Ranj Singh has tips on how to get the best fibre for less. Plus a new diet combining paleo and vegan approaches. Series producer Amanda Kean Executive producer Rachel Innes-Lumsden (S) (HD)
9.00 Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals
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3/4. A look at how the Queen has handled the trials and tragedies of her reign, from national disasters such as Aberfan and Grenfell to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. In the past decade, William and Harry have been more open to displaying their emotions, pointing a new direction for the royal family. See p104. Director Ian A Hunt Producers Georgie Nicholson and Ian A Hunt (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 ITV News at Ten Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)
10.45 Regional political programmes Discussion of the latest issues from Westminster and from where you live, featuring local politicians and prominent figures. (S) (HD)
Writer Shaun Kitchener Cast Tue/Fri Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Rptd tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 8.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick
5 Series 15. Two-year-old dachshund aEp Ruby is rushed in by a distraught family after being run over by a car. She has mfriend fractures of her pelvis, sacrum and femur
which have damaged her nerves and rendered her back legs paralysed. Can Noel perform the complex surgery required? Also, schnauzer Jess is booked in for spinal surgery after an earlier operation on her knee, but Noel discovers a fast-growing lump on her thigh. See page 104.
Directors/Producers Sam Barnes and Kevin Forde (S) (AD) (HD) RT BOOKS To order Listening to the Animals: Becoming the Supervet for £8.99 + p&p, call 03302 232 639 or visit radiotimes.com/shop06
9.00 Barrymore: the Body in the Pool
hours of 31 March 2001, a phone aIncallthewasearly made to Essex emergency services
to say a body had been found in the swimming pool of TV presenter Michael Barrymore. At the time, Barrymore was one of the most popular entertainers in Britain. When paramedics arrived, Stuart Lubbock’s body was found by the side of the pool. Now, 19 years on, this documentary explores the full story behind one of Britain’s most high-profile unexplained deaths, as told by the people closest to it. See page 104. Director Tom Barrow; Producer Owen Phillips Repeated tomorrow 11.05pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
10.50 Naked Attraction Ep 5 Series 6. Anna Richardson hosts as 25-year-old Hope, a model from Birmingham, is hoping to pin down a man who shares her keen interest in wrestling. Kurt, 28, a veterinary student gets tongue-tied talking to women. Can he find someone whose company relaxes him enough to have a proper conversation? Series producer Charlotte Faux; Executive producers Mike Cotton, Darrell Olsen and Eve Winstanley Repeated tomorrow 1am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)
11.50 Sex Tape 1/4. Three couples take part in a social experiment, filming their most intimate moments, before sharing their “sex tapes” with the pairs and relationship expert Anjula Mutanda. Executive producer Gary Chippington (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am Tenable Shown 3pm (S) (HD) 12.55 Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 How Safe Is Your Vape? Tonight Jonathan Maitland investigates. Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD) 3.25 Nightscreen Text information. (HD) 5.05—6.00am Judge Rinder (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
12.40am The Supervet Border collie Buzz arrives with a painful lump on his ankle but his recovery does not go according to plan. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.40 Baghdad Central 1/6. Crime thriller. An Iraqi former policeman sets out to find his missing daughter. See choice, page 75. Shown Monday 10pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.40 Home 1/6 Series 2. After eight months in the UK, Sami is still waiting to hear if he can stay. See choice, page 94. Shown yesterday 10pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 3.10 Come Dine with Me In Wakefield. (R) (S) (HD) 4.05 The Great Hotel Escape A reviewer visits James and Zoe’s hotel in Wales. (R) (S) (HD) 4.55 Grand Designs Revisiting a couple with an ambitious project in Tuscany. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 5.50—6.30am Countdown (R) (S) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
Channel 4 Freeview 4 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 +1 F’view15 F’sat121 Sky 204 Virgin 142 HD F’view104 Sky 138 Virgin 141
11.10 Grantchester 4/6 Series 5. The naked body of a young man is found on the Fens. Continues tomorrow 9pm. Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
Life Cinematic 9.00pm Edgar
Wright shares his personal pantheon of film-making
7.30 The Pennine Way
Producer Paul Greenan Executive producer Nicola Addyman (R) (S) (HD) RT TRAVEL Visit radiotimes.com/hoseasons for a great collection of UK breaks
8.00 Mark Kermode’s Oscar Winners: a Secrets of Cinema Special Mark Kermode asks whether past winning films had something that gave them the edge over all the other movies released in the same years. Though many think a worthy subject is a good route to glory, Mark reveals that it’s actually how the film treats its subject that holds the key to success.
BBC SCOTLAND As BBC2 until: 12 noon—1.00pm First Minister’s Questions 7.00 Sportscene: including Rangers v Hibernian and Motherwell v Celtic 8.00 Getaways 8.30 Des Doesn’t Do...Cooking 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Jim Smith Live from Perth 11.00 Talking Sex with Gran 11.30—12 midnight The Comedy Underground
STV 7.30—8.00pm Scotland Tonight: current affairs show 8.30—9.00 How Safe Is Your Vape? Tonight 10.45—11.10 Save Money: Lose Weight 12.55am How Safe Is Your Vape? Tonight 1.20—5.05 Nightscreen
ITV BORDER SCOTLAND 10.45pm Representing Border: presented by Peter MacMahon 11.10 Around the House: presented by Paul Brand 11.35 The Metro: a Rail Life Story 12.05—12.55am Grantchester
BBC2 WALES
Producer Mark Kermode Series producer Nick Freand Jones (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00—10.30pm The Tuckers: Billy and Bobby get involved in a house clearance
9.00 Life Cinematic
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2/5. Edgar Wright. The British film director talks about the movies that have influenced his life and his career. His choices include An American Werewolf in London, Carrie, Bullitt, Mad Max: Fury Road and the classic Busby Berkeley choreographed musical Dames. See page 105.
Director Sam Anthony; Series producer Ian Sharpe Repeated 2.50am (S) (HD)
10.00 This Life 10/11 Series 1. Father Figure. Will Milly risk her relationship with Egg to indulge a romantic fantasy? (S) 10.40 11/11. Let’s Get It On. Milly is left feeling hurt and confused when O’Donnell brings their affair to an abrupt end. Writer Amy Jenkins; Director Nigel Douglas Cast Tuesday/Wednesday First shown on BBC2 (S)
11.20 Wonders of the Universe
Thursday Television
Inside the Crown: Secrets of the Royals 9.00pm William and Harry have signalled change
Regional variations
10.45—11.10pm Wales on TV: Luciano Pavarotti’s appearance at the 1995 Eisteddfod
BBC1 NORTHERN IRELAND 10.35pm The View: news, comment and analysis from Stormont and Westminster 11.15 Question Time 12.15am Newscast 12.45—6.00 BBC News
UTV 8.30—9.00pm Rare Breed: a Farming Year: Jack and his family go for glory at Balmoral Show 10.45—11.10 Save Money: Lose Weight
Professor Brian Cox experiences total weightlessness and takes a face-distorting trip in a centrifuge as he considers the enormous effect gravity has on the world around us. But this force also acts over much greater distances. He shows how, despite being relatively weak, it is the orchestrator of the cosmos. Director/Producer Chris Holt (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.20am How We Built Britain Exploring some of the great country houses of the Elizabethan era. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20 Awesome Beauty: the Art of Industrial Britain Lachlan Goudie explores Britain’s spectacular industrial landscapes of shipyards and steelworks. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 The Art of the Vikings: Secret Knowledge Examining the effects of Viking culture on the British Isles. (R) (S) (HD) 2.50—3.50am Life Cinematic Featuring Edgar Wright. Shown 9pm (S) (HD) BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 8.00pm A shock for Helen and Lynley
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 8.00pm Bad news at the dog shelter
Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility 10.05pm
Law & Order: UK 10.00pm Brooks
Jenny “The Vixen” Ryan competes
and Hawkins investigate corruption
Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 111 9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) 11.15 Paddington Station 24/7 Behind the scenes at the London station. (S) (HD) 12.10pm 5 News (S) (HD) 12.15 GPs: behind Closed Doors A patient suffering from high blood pressure is offered practical advice. (S) (HD) 1.10 Access (S) (HD) 1.15 Home and Away Shown yesterday
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 7.50 Emmerdale (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.20 Coronation Street (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Superstore (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 12.15pm Emmerdale Shown yesterday 7pm ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 Coronation Street Shown yesterday 7.30/8.30pm ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 1.50 New. The Ellen DeGeneres Show: chat and entertainment (S) (HD) 2.45 Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 3.50 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 New. Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) 6.55 Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD) 8.55 Rising Damp (S) 9.55 Man about the House (S) 10.25 Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 12.40pm Heartbeat (S) (AD) 1.45 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Kim is on the warpath, then Jan offers a solution to Jack and Sarah’s problems (S) 2.50 Classic Coronation Street: double bill. Tracy announces she is leaving, then Mavis enters her picture in an exhibition (S) 3.55 The Durrells (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD)
Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
6.00pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold
6.00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Including a man roller-skating off a roof and a car crashing into an off-licence. (S)
The Mystery of the Blue Train. Poirot looks into the death of Ruth Kettering, who appears to have been murdered between Calais and Nice. Alice Eve guests. (S) (HD)
Lionel gets cold feet as the wedding approaches, and Jean tries to remain calm.
6.30pm 5 Star Repeated 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 5.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 A Murderer Upstairs ★★★ Thriller. A woman reaches out to her stepdaughter after she is subjected to a brutal attack that left her best friend dead.
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Director Jem Garrard (2017) (S) (W) (HD)
7.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold: A to Z!
4.00 Friends Rachel gets drunk. (S) (HD) 4.30 Ross draws up a list of Rachel’s good and bad points. (S) (HD)
Featuring cute kids and crazy animals, pranks and painful-looking accidents. (S)
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 5.30 Neighbours
20/24 Series 9. Walden reveals that he is going into business with his ex-wife. (S) (HD) 8.30 21/24. Alan gets more than he bargained for with Lindsey. (S) (HD)
Gary is caught in a dilemma. Shown 1.45pm Rptd 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Home and Away Mason tries to get Justin to face reality. Shown 1.15pm Next episode 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 5 News Tonight (S) (HD) 7.00 Canada: a Year in the Wild
8.00 Two and a Half Men
9.00 New. Love Island
Relationship-based reality show. (S) (HD)
10.05 New. Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility 4/6 Series 4. Stacey Solomon leads three friends against Jenny Ryan, Chelcee Grimes, Dane Baptiste and Greg Shepherd. (S) (HD)
3/4. Following the wildlife of Canada throughout spring, when the race is on to find a mate and start a family. Continues tomorrow at 7pm. (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
10.50 Family Guy
8.00 New. Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
11.50 American Dad!
5/9 Series 5. A crown green bowling team in Saydo are determined to end their losing streak, while Joe and Jan receive some devastating news concerning the future of the dog shelter. Directors/Producers Michela Marchina, Rob Cowling, Richard Mejeh and Phillip Rashleigh (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
9.00 Traffic Cops: Under Attack Derbyshire’s traffic police come face to face with aggressive, armed criminals. Producer/Director Simon Meehan (S) (HD)
10.00 Creed ★★★★
drama with Michael B Jordan. qBoxing Former heavyweight champion Rocky
Balboa is called upon to mentor and train a hungry new fighter — the son of his old adversary. Film of the Day page 46. Adonis Johnson Rocky Balboa Bianca Mary Anne Creed
Michael B Jordon Sylvester Stallone Tessa Thompson Phylicia Rashad
Director Ryan Coogler (2015, 12) (S) (W) (HD)
12.40am Criminals Caught on Camera (S) (HD) 1.05 New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (HD) 4.00 Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink (S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.10 House Busters (S) (SL) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) (HD) +1 Freeview 44 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155 5 Select For listings see opposite page
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Series 9. Chris wants to start a new hobby and befriends a puppeteer. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.20 Peter and Joe play a series of painful Halloween pranks. (S) (AD) (HD) Series 11. Francine’s lonely-housewife novel is up for an award. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20am Francine’s sister Gwen causes trouble when she comes to stay. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.45 The Cleveland Show (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 2.35 Hell’s Kitchen USA (S) (HD) 3.25—3.30am Nightscreen ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
ITV4
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8.00 Lewis Wild Justice. Lewis and Hathaway enter the world of St Gerard’s College after a bishop is found dead having consumed poisoned wine. When another two deaths occur, it appears that the killer is knocking out candidates from the election to become Vice Regent of the college. (S) (AD) (HD) DI Robert Lewis DS Hathaway Dr Laura Hobson Chief Superintendent Innocent Father Moreno Mancini Caroline Hope Adele Goffe Professor Joanne Pinnock
Kevin Whately Laurence Fox Clare Holman Rebecca Front Ronald Pickup Amelia Bullmore Sian Phillips Sorcha Cusack
7.10am Bramwell 8.00 Soldier Soldier (S) 9.00 The Bill (S) 10.00 Classic Holby City 11.00 Classic Casualty: Jack has a crisis (S) 12 noon The Bill (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.20 London’s Burning (S) 3.20 Lovejoy (S) 4.20 Bergerac (S) 5.25 Bread (S)
6.00pm Hi-de-Hi! Resident Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge cons Jeffrey into funding one of his infamous drunken binges. (S)
6.40 As Time Goes By 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Truly, Billy and Alvin try to negotiate their way past a guard dog when the friendly canine Clegg is looking after decides to protect its new minder’s house. (S)
8.00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 3/4 Series 2. A Suitable Vengeance Lynley returns to his ancestral home to celebrate his engagement, but his anger over his mother’s indiscretion with a doctor spoils the occasion. (S) Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers Lady Helen Clyde Peter Lynley Lady Asherton
Nathaniel Parker Sharon Small Lesley Vickerage Matthew Goode Gabrielle Drake
10.00 New Tricks
3/8 Series 8. I Predict a Riot. The skeleton of a missing undercover police officer is found and, before long, evidence of corruption emerges. (S) (AD) (HD)
2/8 Series 2. Family Business. When the detectives try to trace the attacker of an Asian woman who was left in a coma after a brutal beating, a young Asian officer who is drafted in to help forms an unlikely alliance. Nina Wadia, Keith Allen and Navin Chowdhry guest-star. (S) (AD)
11.00 Inspector Morse
11.20 Taggart
The Sins of the Fathers. When Morse investigates the murder of a brewery manager he discovers that his associates stood to profit from his death. (S) (HD)
2/3 Series 13. Apocalypse. The strange activities of a religious cult prompt Jardine and Reid to investigate a series of murders committed by a killer obsessed with the biblical plagues of Egypt. (S)
10.00 Law & Order: UK
1.20am Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen
2.10am Bramwell 3.00—4.00am The Bill (S)
+1 F’view 34 (9pm—midnight) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174
ITVBe
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Drama +1 Sky 243 Virgin 226
Dave
F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am Football’s Greatest: Diego Maradona (S) (HD) 6.15 The Chase (S) (HD) 7.20 Quincy (S) (HD) 8.25 Kojak (S) (HD) 9.30 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (S) (HD) 10.35 Minder (S) (AD) 11.40 The Professionals (S) (AD) 12.45pm LIVE Snooker: coverage of the afternoon session on day four of the first World Grand Prix tournament, held at the Centaur in Cheltenham. Jill Douglas presents (S) (HD) 5.15 The Professionals (S) (AD) 6.15pm River Monsters Jeremy Wade travels to Canada’s remote backwaters. (S) (HD) 6.45 LIVE Snooker Coverage of the evening session on day four of the World Grand Prix at the Centaur in Cheltenham, featuring the opening two quarter-finals. (S) (HD) 10.45 FILM Safe House ★★★ Thriller starring Ryan Reynolds. Junior agent Matt Weston runs the CIA’s sleepy safe house in South Africa and is suddenly handed a hot assignment when a rogue agent decides to give himself up. Review p46. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am The Bachelor (S) (HD) 8.50 Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Income Property (S) (HD) 12.25pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 1.20 Vanderpump Rules (S) (HD) 2.15 Million Dollar Listing: NYC (S) (HD) 3.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 6.00pm New. Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave restore an old farmhouse. 7.00 Buying and Selling Jonathan and Drew help nurse Jenna and firefighter Neil. (HD) 8.00 Dinner Date Londoner Daisy picks three blind dates from five menus. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Don’t Be Tardy Brielle attempts to move out and live on her own. (S) (HD) 9.30 New. The family head to Miami. (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Married to Medicine Heavenly’s spiritual journey in Miami continues. (S) (HD) 11.00 The Millionaire Matchmaker A drinks entrepreneur looks for love. (S) (HD)
1.00am Jeremy Wade’s Mighty Rivers (S) (HD) 2.10 The Protectors (S) 2.45—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 12.45—12.55am Nightscreen (HD)
12.20am Mock the Week (S) 1.00 QI (S) 2.25 Flack (S) (AD) (HD) 3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
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F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.10am Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 8.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 9.00 Storage Hunters (S) (HD) 10.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 12 noon Cop Car Workshop (S) HD) 1.00pm Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 3.00 Sin City Motors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm QI XL With Sue Perkins, Romesh Ranganathan and Bill Bailey. (S) (HD) 7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Ellie Taylor, Josh Widdicombe, Steve Pemberton and Fern Britton compete. (HD) 7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kate Humble and Miles Jupp. (S) (HD) 8.20 With Dale Winton, Richard Bacon, Miranda Hart and Clare Balding. (S) (HD) 9.00 Live at the Apollo Featuring Rhod Gilbert and John Bishop. (S) (HD) 10.00 Taskmaster 3/8 Series 5. Mark Watson tries to open a briefcase. (S) (HD) 11.00 QI Double bill of the quiz. (S)
This month, Marian Keyes’s new novel Grown Ups JOIN the RT Book Club on p148
THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY More4
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Paramount Network
31
London Heist 9.00pm Jack Cregan
and Dr Kapoor share their ideas
(Craig Fairbrass) agrees to one last job
F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (S) (HD) 9.15 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (S) (HD) 11.15 Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD) 12.15pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It (S) (HD) 2.15 Four in a Bed (S) (HD) 4.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo (S) (AD) (HD) 5.55 New. Love It or List It Australia: from Melbourne (S) (HD)
Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150
6.55pm Car SOS A 1980s Ford Escort RS 1600i. (S) (HD)
7.55 Escape to the Château: DIY 9.00 Grand Designs A house wrapped around a tree. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. New Amsterdam
19/22. Vijay and Iggy work with a patient struggling with previous surgery. (S) (AD) (HD) Ryan Eggold Freema Agyeman Jocko Sims Tyler Labine Anupam Kher
11.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? How emergency service staff have to learn to deal with death on a daily basis. (S) (HD) 12 midnight 24 Hours in A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: in Scottsdale, Arizona (S) 2.00 as 10pm 3.00—3.30am Food Unwrapped (S) (HD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196
E4
5.00pm The A-Team An old friend asks Hannibal and the team for help to trace a sunken galleon. (AD) (HD) 6.00pm The gang helps pensioners being victimised by land swindlers. (AD) (HD)
7.00 Police Interceptors
Hunting for a stash of wine. (S) (AD) (HD)
Dr Max Goodwin Dr Helen Sharpe Dr Floyd Reynolds Dr Iggy Frome Dr Vijay Kapoor
9.00am The A-Team (AD) (HD) 11.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 1.00pm Trucking Hell (S) (HD) 2.00 Police Interceptors (S) (HD) 3.00 Traffic Cops (S) (HD)
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F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Tue/Wed 6.30pm C4 (AD) 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (AD) 8.00 Baby Daddy 9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00 Baby Daddy 3.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 4.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 5.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 12/24 Series 4. Leonard and Sheldon fight. (AD) 6.30 13/24. Tension mounts when the pals attend a weekend science conference. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Liberty is worried. Cast pp87/117 Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.30 New. Celebrity Come Dine with Me Actor Ewen MacIntosh hosts. 8.00 Junior Bake Off The contestants face a couple of dessert challenges. (AD) 9.00 FILM The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 ★★★★ Finale to the action adventure series starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. Review p46. (AD) (W) 11.45 The Big Bang Theory 15/23 Series 3 Leonard is invited to Switzerland. (AD) 12.15am 16/23. Sheldon misses an opportunity to meet Stan Lee. (AD) 12.45 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.45 Gogglebox (AD) 2.50 First Dates (SL) (AD) 3.45 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 4.35—6.00am How I Met Your Mother (AD)
Name-swapping friends leave the interceptors baffled. (S) (HD) 8.00 An overturned trailer full of cows blocks a main carriageway. (S) (HD)
9.00 London Heist ★★
thriller starring Craig Fairbrass. q Heist A career crook tries to uncover the
truth behind his dad’s murder.
Director Mark McQueen (2017, 15) (S) (HD)
Police tackle a suspected terror incident on London’s Tube network. (S) (HD) 12 midnight Police Raids: Caught by Surprise (S) (HD) 1.00am Knight Rider (AD) (HD) 3.05 Arrow (HD) 4.35 Wentworth Prison (S) (AD) (HD) 5.25 Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) (AD) (HD) 5.50—6.00am Access (S) (HD)
Paramount Network +1 Sky 250
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F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am Come Dine with Me 12 noon Couples Come Dine with Me 1.00pm Undercover Boss USA 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) 4.00 Frasier (AD) 5.00 A Place in the Sun 6.00pm A New Life in the Sun 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef visits Mill Street Bistro in Norwalk, Ohio. 8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home 5/5 Series 6. George updates a classic 1930s terraced home. Shown Sun 8pm C4 (AD) 9.00 24 Hours in A&E Ep 4. A woman who drove into a lamppost. Shown Tue 9pm C4 (AD) 10.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Home: Building for a Billionaire Following the renovation of an £87 million property in Mayfair. See choice, p95. Shown Wed 9pm C4 (AD) 11.05 Australia on Fire: Climate Emergency The battle to save Australia from bushfires. (AD) 12.10am Holidays from Hell: Caught on Camera (AD) 1.15 Barrymore: the Body in the Pool (AD) 3.10 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast (AD) 4.15—4.45am Four in a Bed
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Freeview 11 Freesat 144 Sky 152 Virgin 165
6.00am Movie News 6.10 The Waltons 7.10 Hart to Hart 9.10 Days of Our Lives 10.00 Hart to Hart 11.00 Charlie’s Angels 12 noon Starsky & Hutch 1.00pm TJ Hooker 2.00 Hart to Hart 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 6.00 Charlie’s Angels: the idyllic setting of Hawaii becomes the scene of a tense race to save Kris from the clutches of a kidnapper 7.00 M*A*S*H 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Charlie’s Angels 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Waltons 4.20 Touched by an Angel 5.10—6.00am Highway to Heaven
7.00am Police Ten 7 8.00 Police Force: Australia 9.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 10.00 Border Security USA (AD) 11.00 Road Wars 12 noon Police Ten 7 1.00pm Police Force: Australia 2.00 Border Patrol 3.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00 Stop, Search, Seize 6.00pm Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00 Hawaii Five-0: Max is forced to work with a rival medical examiner 8.00 Elementary: a thief commits murder to steal a rare map (AD) 9.00 New. The Pacific: Sledge has a harrowing first experience of combat (AD) 10.10 How I Caught the Killer 11.05 The Force: Manchester 12 midnight Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 1.00am Banged Up Abroad 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 4.00 UK Border Force (AD) 5.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare
Sony Channel +1 Freesat 152 Sky 257
Pick +1 Freeview 92 Freesat 145 Sky 252
E4 +1 Freeview 28 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146
Sony Channel
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Freeview 48 (limited) Freesat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.25 Law & Order (S) 10.10 CSI: NY (S) 12.05pm Private Eyes 1.00 Law & Order (S) 4.00 Murder, She Wrote: double bill (S) 6.00pm Law & Order: double bill (S) 8.00 NCIS (S) (AD) 9.00 RT CHOICE New. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 18 An Army ranger attempts to recover from a sexual assault. See page 105 (S) 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 3 Double bill. A pregnant woman experiences an attack (S) 11.55 Series 2. An injured six-year-old is abandoned (S) (AD)
Yesterday
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Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
12.55am CSI: NY (S) 3.50—4.00am Access
6.00am Slow Train through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones (S) (HD) 7.10 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 10.00 Murder Maps (S) (HD) 11.00 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Deep Wreck Mysteries (S) (HD) 1.00pm Murder Maps (S) (HD) 2.00 Planet Earth (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 6.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Bangers and Cash (HD) 9.00 Train Truckers (S) (HD) 10.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am The World at War (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD)
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
5 Star
30
Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am 3rd Rock from the Sun (S) (HD) 9.10 Will & Grace (HD) 10.05 Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 11.05 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 12 noon Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (S) (HD) 1.00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 3.00 Neighbours (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Home and Away (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 House (S) (HD) 6.00 Neighbours Shown 5.30pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 New. Home and Away Repeated tomorrow 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 It’s Your Fault I’m Fat (S) (HD) 8.00 Me and My Ten Kids: Mega Families (S) (HD) 9.00 FILM The Mummy ★★ Action horror fantasy (HD) 11.05 FILM Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ★★ Action fantasy (S) (HD) 1.00am Rich Kids Go Skint (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Empire (S) (HD) 3.50—4.00am Access (HD)
5 Star +1 Freeview 55 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186
5 Select
11.00 Frontline Police 24/7
21
54
Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access 9.05 Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.30 FILM Kill Thy Neighbor ★★ 11.15 FILM Lust for Murder ★★★ 1.00pm The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 2.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors 4.00 The Yorkshire Vet 5.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) 6.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors 8.00 The Yorkshire Vet 9.00 Red Arrows: Kings of the Sky 10.00 Secrets of the Kellogg’s Factory 10.55 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 11.55 Mega Tornado: Weather Terror 12.55am The Pillars
Really
17
Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 12 noon Escape to the Country (AD) 2.00pm Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 French Collection (HD) 4.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 6.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 7.00 Antiques Road Trip (HD) 9.00 New. Ghost Nation: the team helps Jason’s daughter solve a mystery in Massachusetts (HD) 10.00 New. Paranormal Lockdown UK (HD) 11.00 Helicopter ER (HD) 12 midnight Ghost Adventures (HD) 1.00am Most Haunted (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am Antiques Road Trip (HD)
HGTV
42
Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279 7.00am Homes under the Hammer 8.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 9.00 Flog It! (HD) 10.00 House Hunters International (HD) 11.00 Hawaii Life (HD) 12 noon New. Island Life (HD) 2.00pm Escape to the Country (HD) 3.00 Flog It! (HD) 4.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 5.00 as 7am 6.00 Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb (HD) 7.00 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (HD) 8.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 10.00 New. Fixer Upper (HD) 11.00 My Lottery Dream Home (HD) 12 midnight Homes under the Hammer 1.00am Flog It! (HD) 2.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 3.00—4.00am Nick Knowles’s Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
Quest
12
F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00 Matlock 12 noon Perry Mason 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger 2.05 CSI: Miami 3.00 NCIS 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 5.00 Matlock 6.00 Perry Mason 7.05 Scorpion 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 NCIS 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00 Scorpion 12 midnight CSI: Miami 1.00am NCIS 2.00 Ultimate Force 3.05 The High Chaparral 4.00 The High Chaparral 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am How Do They Do It? (HD) 6.20 American Pickers (HD) 7.10 Deadliest Catch (HD) 8.00 Gold Divers (HD) 9.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 10.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 11.00 Speed Is the New Black (HD) 12 noon American Pickers (HD) 1.00pm Railroad Australia (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (HD) 3.00 Gold Divers (HD) 4.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 5.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 7.00 New. American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 9.00 New. Goblin Works Garage (HD) 10.00 Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (HD) 11.00 How Do They Do It? (HD) 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 American Chopper 3.00 Fantomworks (HD) 4.00 Heli-Loggers 5.00—6.00am How It’s Made
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
of the Earth 2.05 GPs: behind Closed Doors 3.00—4.00am Fights, Camera, Action!
CBS Justice
39
Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
71
Challenge
46
Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
9.00am NCIS 11.00 JAG 1.00pm The High Chaparral 3.00 Perry Mason (HD) 5.00 Unsolved Mysteries: double bill 7.00 Judge Judy 9.00 Medium: Lucas Harvey corrupts Allison’s dreams 10.00 CSI: Miami: the team members fight a double-jeopardy ruling (HD) 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries: stories of pets that saved lives 12 midnight Judge Judy 1.00am ER (HD) 2.00 Medium 3.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (HD) 5.00—6.00am Matlock
7.00am Wheel of Fortune 8.00 Catchphrase (AD) 9.00 The Chase 10.00 Supermarket Sweep 11.00 Price Is Right (AD) 12 noon Wheel of Fortune 1.00pm Catchphrase (AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Bullseye 5.00 Bruce’s Price Is Right (AD) 6.00 Weakest Link 7.00 Pointless Celebrities 8.00 The Chase 11.00 Bullseye 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.00am The Chase 4.00 The Chase USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Golden Balls
Horror Channel
70
Thursday Television
New Amsterdam 10.00pm Dr Frome
5 USA
Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
232
Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
8.00am Andromeda 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager 10.00 Star Trek 11.00 FILM San Andreas Mega Quake ★ Disaster movie 12.50pm Highlights 1.00 FILM Impact Earth ★★ Action drama 2.50 Highlights 3.00 Lost in Space 4.00 FILM Triassic Attack ★ Sci-fi horror 5.50 Highlights 6.00pm Star Trek 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00 Mutant X 9.00 FILM Patient Zero ★★ Horror starring Natalie Dormer 10.45 FILM A Lonely Place to Die ★★★ Action horror thriller 12.40am FILM I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ★ Horror 2.40—4.30am FILM Tales That Witness Madness ★★ Portmanteau horror
6.00am House of Lords — Divorce Bill 9.00 Wednesday in Parliament 9.30 Live Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Questions 10.10 Live Commissioners Questions: queries on the Electoral Commission 10.30 Live Business Questions 11.15 Live House of Commons 5.30pm House of Lords 11.00 Thursday in Parliament 11.30 Scottish First Minister’s Questions: recorded coverage 12.15am Politics Live (Later): with Andrew Neil 1.00—6.00am House of Lords
Listings for PBS America, Smithsonian see over. Film4 and other Freeview movie channels: p112
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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THURSDAY Satellite & cable
The Heist 9.00pm Top cops Sue Hill and Ray Howard
Television Thursday
Sky 1
The Deuce 10.25pm Candy
Madam Secretary 10.00pm
Inside the Ambulance 8.00pm
dinnerladies 9.55pm Philippa
has new-found confidence
Will Elizabeth be celebrating?
Mick helps a stunt driver
shares her ideas with Dolly
Sky Atlantic
W
Gold
Sky 106 Virgin 110 HD Virgin 109
Sky 108
Sky 107 Virgin 112 HD Virgin 111
Sky 109 Virgin 125 BT 311 HD Virgin 211 BT 383
Sky 110 Virgin 124 BT 310
6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (HD) 8.00 The Dog Whisperer (HD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 10.00 The Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 3.00 MacGyver (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30 Futurama: double bill (S) (AD) 6.30pm The Simpsons Homer joins the power plant’s softball team. 7.00 Lisa falls in with a bad crowd. 7.30 Santa’s Little Helper runs away from home. (S) (HD) 8.00 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip Ep 5 Series 2. Highlights of the adventure. (HD) 9.00 New series. The Heist Ep 1 Series 2. Ten people team up to plan a raid on a cashin-transit van. (HD) 10.00 New. The Russell Howard Hour Ep 11 Series 3. Topical comedy show. (HD) 11.00 Cobra 3/6. Sutherland heads to Northumberland. (S) (HD) 12 midnight An Idiot Abroad (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 2.00 The Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 3.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (HD) 4.00 Futurama (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 10.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 12 noon Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 2.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 4.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 6.00pm Without a Trace 1/23 Series 1. The team investigates the disappearance of a marketing executive. (HD) 7.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 3/25 Series 5 A 12-year-old girl vanishes. (HD) 8.00 Blue Bloods 8/22 Series 1 An off-duty incident threatens Jamie’s career. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 John Adams 4/7 Series 1 Thomas Jefferson and Adams are reunited in France. (S) (HD) 10.25 New. The Deuce 6/8 Series 3. Abby decides to confront Vincent and Paul turns to activism. See page 105. (HD) 11.35 The Sopranos 8/13 Series 2 Carmela uses her connections to lend Meadow a helping hand. (S) (HD) 12.35am The Sopranos (S) (HD) 1.45 Life Itself: Special (HD) 2.00 New series. 1/10 Series 2. Public Enemy: Repeated tomorrow 9pm (S) (HD) 3.10 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 4.00—6.00am The West Wing (S) (HD)
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 8.00 Paramedics (HD) 9.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 12 noon Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order (HD) 3.00 The Real A&E (S) (HD) 4.00 UK Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00pm Nothing to Declare Six episodes following the work of customs officers in Australia. (S) 8.00 Ghost Whisperer 16/22 Series 1. Melinda helps Andrea’s friend find his missing brother. (S) (HD) 9.00 New. The Rookie 4/10 Series 2. Officer Nolan has to adjust to his new training officer’s unusual approach to police work. (HD) 10.00 New. Madam Secretary 10/10 Series 6. Elizabeth and the team launch a new landmark political initiative. (HD) 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 2/24 Series 15 A young boy is abandoned in Times Square. (HD) 12 midnight CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 1.00am Chicago Med (HD) 2.00 Chicago Fire (HD) 3.00 Chicago PD (HD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)
6.10am MasterChef Australia (S) (HD) 7.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00 The Bill (S) 11.00 Supernanny US (S) 12 noon Tipping Point (S) (HD) 2.00pm MasterChef USA (HD) 3.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 5.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 7.00pm New. MasterChef USA The cooks take part in a tag-team challenge — and the pressure is on for the losing team as two of the contestants are up for the chop. (HD) 8.00 Inside the Ambulance Mick and Rachel help an amateur stunt driver who has crash-landed and damaged his back. (S) (HD) 9.00 A young motorcyclist needs urgent treatment. (S) (HD) 10.00 One Born Every Minute Midwives discover a woman’s baby is lying sideways. (S) (HD) 11.00 Inside the Ambulance Paramedics treat a man whose flat has filled up with toxic smoke and an eight-year-old girl with an erratic heart rate. (S) (HD) 12 midnight One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 1.50 American Housewife (S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD)
7.20am The Piglet Files 7.45 As Time Goes By 8.20 2 Point 4 Children (S) 9.00 Open All Hours 9.40 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 10.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 12.20pm Keeping Up Appearances 1.00 Open All Hours 1.35 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 2.15 dinnerladies (S) (AD) 3.00 Keeping Up Appearances 3.40 Dad’s Army (S) 4.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.20pm The Vicar of Dibley Alice shocks Geraldine. (AD) 7.00 Open All Hours Nurse Gladys poses as a shop critic. 7.40 Dad’s Army Walker is accused of treason. (S) 8.20 Mainwaring tackles a suspected terrorist. (S) 9.00 The Vicar of Dibley Geraldine’s hopes of romance are fuelled by a visit from David’s handsome brother. (S) (AD) 9.55 dinnerladies Philippa has a bright idea for raising spirits. (S) (AD) 10.35 Absolutely Fabulous Edina installs a flotation tank. (S) (AD) 11.15 Peep Show (S) (HD) 12.20am The Vicar of Dibley (S) (AD) 1.15 Absolutely Fabulous (S) (AD) 1.55 Peep Show (S) (HD) 2.45—4.00am Spaced (S) (AD)
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
Sky Arts Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am Sarah Brightman: Hymn (HD) 8.00 The South Bank Show Originals (S) 8.30 The Kinks: Music Icons (S) (HD) 9.00 The Eighties (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 11.00 Discovering: Peter Lorre (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Maximilian Schell (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm The South Bank Show Originals (S) 1.30 The Police: Music Icons (S) (HD) 2.00 National Treasures: The Art of Collecting (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Too Young to Die (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Robert Taylor (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Discovering: Montgomery Clift A profile of the actor. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 The Eighties Looking at the US’s economic growth. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Hollywood Censored Documentary about the Hays Code. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. The Directors The life and career of Otto Preminger. (HD) 10.00 Gene Tierney: A Forgotten Star Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the American actress. (S) (HD) 11.00 Great Film Composers: the Music of the Movies A look at soundtracks of the 1980s. (HD) 12 midnight The History of Comedy (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Bafta: Life in Pictures (S) (HD) 2.00 Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History (S) (HD) 3.00 Off Camera with Sam Jones (S) (HD) 4.15 as 5pm 5.10—6.00am Discovering: Montgomery Clift (S) (AD) (HD)
a
Sky Crime Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) 7.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 9.00 UK Border Force (S) 10.00 Road Wars (S) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 12 noon Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00pm How I Caught the Killer (S) 2.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 3.00 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Caught on Dashcam (S) (AD) 5.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 6.00 Snapped 7.00 Banged Up Abroad (S) 8.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) 10.00 New. Snapped 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 12 midnight Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00am A Lie to Die For (S) 2.00 Snapped 3.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) 4.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)
Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: LA 7.30 Bait Car: San Francisco 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: LA 11.30 Bait Car: San Francisco 1.00pm Speeders 6.00 Speeders: six editions. Florida police officers stop a dilapidated vehicle 6.30 A Californian lounge singer offers a unique excuse when she is pulled over 7.00 Police follow a Vermont biker on a dangerous high-speed chase 7.30 A drunk fan takes his partying too far 8.00 as 6pm 8.30 as 6.30pm 9.00 Bait Car: LA 9.30 Bait Car: San Francisco 11.00 Speeders 12 midnight Bait Car: LA 1.00am Speeders 3.00 Bait Car: San Francisco 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car: LA
ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED
110
Sky Witness
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am 60-Minute Makeover (S) 9.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia (S) 12.30pm Four Weddings 2.30 Animal House (S) (AD) 3.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 4.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 5.00 Relic Hunter: Sydney searches for a fabled alms bowl (S) 6.00pm Stargate SG-1: the team is sent to rescue a stranded scientist (S) 7.00 Supergirl: J’onn bumps into villain Manchester Black (S) 8.00 Road Wars (S) 9.00 Strike Back: Legacy (S) (HD) 11.00 A League of Their Own: European Road Trip 12 midnight The Russell Howard Hour 1.00am The Heist 2.00 The Rookie 3.00 Madam Secretary 4.00 Arrow (S) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted (S)
Syfy Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am Stargate Atlantis 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager 5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 9.00 New. Blood & Treasure: an antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artefacts 10.00 FILM Hard Rain ★★★ Thriller starring Morgan Freeman and Christian Slater 12 midnight Blood & Treasure
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.00 Parks and Recreation (HD) 10.30 30 Rock (HD) 12 noon The Mindy Project (HD) 1.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 2.30 Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 3.30 Parks and Recreation (HD) 5.00 30 Rock (HD) 6.30 Modern Family (S) (HD) 7.30 The Mindy Project: triple bill. Mindy and Casey’s time in Haiti is cut short 8.00 Mindy tries to adjust to her relationship 8.30 Casey has an identity crisis (HD) 9.00 New. My Favourite Shapes by Julio Torres (HD) 10.15 Sex and the City (HD) 10.50 New. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD) 11.50 Entourage (S) (HD) 12.25am Entourage (S) (HD) 1.00 Eastbound & Down (HD) 2.10 Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20—5.00am 30 Rock (HD)
TLC Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377
1.00am Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: double bill 3.00 Midnight, Texas 4.00—6.00am Star Trek: Voyager
6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Vegas Dress (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 11.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ireland (HD) 12 noon Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD) 2.00pm Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 3.00 Sister Wives (HD) 4.00 Curvy Brides (HD) 5.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 6.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 7.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 9.00 My 600lb Life: Where Are They Now? (HD) 10.00 Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 11.00 Dr Pimple Popper: Supersized (HD) 12 midnight Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 1.00am as 9pm 2.00 as 10pm 3.00 as 11pm 4.00—6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD)
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Will & Grace 9.00 The Office US (S) (HD) 10.00 My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 11.00 Impractical Jokers (S) (HD) 12 noon Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00pm My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 5.00 Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 FILM Step Brothers ★★★ Comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C Reilly. When their parents get married, step brothers Brennan and Dale are forced to share a room. The problem is that these guys are in their 40s (S) (HD) 11.00 FILM Jackass 3 ★★★ Comedy with Johnny Knoxville (S) (HD) 1.00am South Park (S) (HD) 3.50 New. The Daily Show (HD) 4.15— 5.00am Takeshi’s Castle (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy (HD) 1.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 2.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera (HD) 3.00 Little Women: Dallas (HD) 4.00 Dance Moms (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00 Flipping Vegas (HD) 7.00 Judge Judy (HD) 9.00 The Toe Bro (HD) 10.00 Storage Wars: double bill. Emily’s husband misses a bid and stirs up trouble, then Mary teams up with Kenny (HD) 11.00 Hardcore Pawn: double bill. Les lands a buyer for his Lee Iacocca Mustang, then Karen comes up with a big idea (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars (HD) 1.00am The Toe Bro (HD) 2.00 Storage Wars (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hardcore Pawn (HD)
Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY CHILDREN’S Milkshake! on C5 Full listings for Channel 5 are on p108
Bite Club 9.00pm Zoe struggles with her emotions
Alibi
The Fix 9.00pm Maya hopes her questions will be answered
Fox
Alaskan Bush People 9.00pm
Nazi Hunters 9.55pm
Bird and Gabe Brown
The hunt for Erich Priebke
Discovery
PBS America
91
Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view 91 (1–11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 9.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (S) (HD) 11.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 1.00pm Rush (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Rosewood (S) (HD) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD) 7.00pm Unforgettable 7/13 Series 3. Eliot is forced to confront his past when one of his oldest friends, a campaign manager for a mayoral candidate, is killed after a charity event. (S) (HD) 8.00 8/13. A college dropout is murdered, and the investigation leads Carrie and Al to a community on an abandoned island near Manhattan. (S) (HD) 9.00 Bite Club 6/8. Dan becomes the prime suspect in the serial killer case when Stephen plants evidence in his home. Zoe struggles with her feelings for Dan. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 9/13 Series 2 The lead actor in a movie is murdered on set and Phryne helps to identify the killer. (S) (HD) 11.00 New Tricks 7/10 Series 9 The team unearths a poetic murder mystery. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.20am Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (S) 2.35—4.00am Rosewood (S) (HD)
8.00am Republic of Doyle (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 10.00 Bull (HD) 11.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Bones (HD) 2.00pm The Mentalist (HD) 3.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Bull (HD) 5.00 Bones (HD) 6.00pm The Mentalist 9/22 Series 6. An FBI agent has a tempting offer for Jane. (HD) 7.00 NCIS 9/24 Series 16 The lead suspect in an unsolved robbery case is released from prison. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 10/24. A newborn baby is found with no identification and no ties to a family. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. The Fix 10/10 All questions will be answered as a conviction is made in the Jessica Meyer murder case. (HD) 10.00 NCIS 17/24 Series 15 A possible murder weapon is seen on television. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 American Dad! Series 1 Stan forgets a big anniversary, so he arranges to have 20 hours erased from Francine’s memory. 11.30 Roger slips into a coma. 12 midnight Family Guy (HD) 1.00am American Dad! 2.00 Family Guy (HD) 3.00 American Dad! (HD) 4.00—5.00am Republic of Doyle (HD)
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00 Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Building Off the Grid (S) (HD) 9.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (S) (HD) 10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 1.00pm Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD) 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum (HD) 3.00 World War II: the Complete History (S) 4.00 New. Building Off the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Fast ’n’ Loud (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Outback Truckers A large convoy tries to escape Perth before sunset. (S) (HD) 8.00 Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car Owners trade up their unwanted vehicles to get them the car of their dreams. (HD) 9.00 New. Alaskan Bush People The siblings rush to complete a project before a storm hits. (HD) 10.00 Expedition Bigfoot (HD) 11.00 Richard Hammond’s Big Richard joins the crew of the Marie Maersk container ship. (HD) 12 midnight as 9pm 1.00am as 10pm 2.00 Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 3.00 Alaskan Bush People 3.50 Kindig Customs (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Jet Set 8.25 Nazi Hunters 9.30 King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons 10.50 Desert War 12 noon Nazi Hunters 1.00pm Walks around Britain 1.30 King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons 2.50 Desert War 3.55 Nazi Hunters 4.55 Nazi Creatures 6.10pm King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons Exploring the role of Alfred the Great’s grandson Aethelstan in creating a kingdom of all England, and discussing the ruler’s learning and law-making. 7.30 Nazi Law: Legally Blind A look at how Hitler manipulated laws to further his agenda, denying rights to people who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state. 8.40 Desert War Concluding part of the documentary about the North African campaign. At El Alamein, the Allied Eighth Army fights a battle that transforms the course of the Second World War. 9.55 Nazi Hunters How journalists found Waffen SS captain Erich Priebke. 11.00 Nazi Law: Legally Blind As 7.30pm. 12.15am Desert War: the battle for El Alamein 1.30—2.00am Jet Set
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Expedition Unknown 7.00 Deadliest Tech 8.00 World War II: the Complete History 9.00 Becoming Alexander 10.00 Extreme Engineering 11.00 Deadliest Tech 12 noon Blowing Up History 1.00pm Expedition Unknown 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 Hidden History of Egypt 5.00 Extreme Engineering 6.00pm Blowing Up History The construction of the Inca capital of Cusco, focusing on new discoveries that reveal the secrets behind this mighty empire’s fall.. 7.00 Mysteries at the Museum Don Wildman unearths relics and sinister artefacts, each with an incredible secret to be revealed. 8.00 Expedition Unknown Josh Gates visits the Caribbean to hunt for the treasure of Captain Kidd. 9.00 SAS: Who Dares Wins The recruits undergo an escape and evasion mission. 10.00 Manhunt Joel Lambert tries to outrun Panama’s anti-drug trafficking officers. 11.00 Extreme Machines In-depth look at aircraft carriers. 12 midnight Expedition Unknown: the treasure of Captain Kidd 1.00am SAS: Who Dares Wins 2.00 Manhunt 3.00 Extreme Machines 4.00 Blowing Up History 5.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
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History
Nat Geographic
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 Pirate Traders (HD) 10.00 Ancient Aliens (HD) 11.00 American Pickers 12 noon Mountain Men (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire Tournament of Champions (HD) 2.00 American Pickers (HD) 4.00 Storage Wars (HD) 5.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 6.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 American Pickers (HD) 9.00 New. Forged in Fire: four bladesmiths pay tribute in a special military themed competition (HD) 10.00 Truck Off!: truckers’ driving ability, grit and innovation are tested (HD) 11.00 Forged in Fire: Knife or Death (HD) 12 midnight Last Days of the Nazis (HD) 1.00am American Pickers 2.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 Mountain Men (HD) 4.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 5.00—6.00am Storage Wars (HD)
8.00am Hidden Gems of Turkey (HD) 9.00 Lost Worlds of the Med: Draining the Ocean (HD) 10.00 World War II: the Apocalypse (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 1.00pm Car SOS (HD) 4.00 Supercars (HD) 5.00 Icebreakers: Arctic Giants (HD) 6.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 8.00 Car SOS (S) (HD) 9.00 Supercar Megabuild: Shane Lynch and Dan Barruffo turn a luxury Bentley into an off-roader (HD) 10.00 Running Wild with Bear Grylls: Cara Delevingne joins Bear on a journey into the mountains of Sardinia (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation: the crash of a plane that nosedived into a remote desert (HD) 12 midnight Ice Road Rescue (HD) 1.00am Wicked Tuna (HD) 2.00 Yukon Gold (HD) 3.00— 5.00am Air Crash Investigation (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 8.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 10.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 11.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 12 noon Animal Cops Philadelphia 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 4.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 6.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 7.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 8.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 11.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 1.00am as 7pm 2.00 Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD) 3.00 as 9pm 3.50 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 4.40 How Do Animals Do That (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am Outback Vet (HD) 10.00 Orangutan Diary 11.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 12 noon New. Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.00 Outback Vet (HD) 4.00 Orangutan Diary 5.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 6.00 Outback Vet (HD) 7.00 Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 8.00 Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 9.00 Orangutan Diary 10.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 11.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 12 midnight Earth: the Nature of Our Planet (AD) (HD) 1.00am Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.00 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD) 3.55 Orangutan Diary 4.45 Jungle Planet (HD) 5.35—6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Smithsonian
57
F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 7.00 Britain in Colour (HD) 8.00 America’s Civil War 360 (HD) 9.00 Brazil’s Emerald Oasis (HD) 10.00 Big Cat Country (HD) 11.00 Aerial Africa (HD) 12 noon An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 1.00pm Britain in Colour (HD) 2.00 America’s Civil War 360 (HD) 3.00 Brazil’s Emerald Oasis (HD) 4.00 Big Cat Country (HD) 5.00 Planes, Cranes and Rockets (HD) 6.00pm Unbelievable Flying Objects The most bizarre aircraft ever constructed, including creations designed to transport tanks onto the battlefield. (HD) 7.00 Seriously Amazing Objects Stories of survival, including a B-26 bomber that flew over 200 wartime missions. 8.00 New. Xavier Carnegie ventures into the Smithsonian to discover some incredible objects. 9.00 Air Warriors The inside story of the US army’s go-to battlefield transport. (HD) 10.00 Navy SEAL Dog The vital roles the military canines serve on and off the battlefield. (HD) 11.00 Seriously Amazing Objects As 8pm. 12 midnight Air Warriors (HD) 1.00am Navy SEAL Dog (HD) 2.00 Seriously Amazing Objects 3.00 Air Warriors (HD) 4.00 Navy SEAL Dog (HD) 5.00—6.00am Planes, Cranes and Rockets (HD)
CBeebies
202
Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Something Special: We’re All Friends 6.20 Baby Jake 6.35 Twirlywoos 6.45 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Numberblocks 7.05 Bing 7.20 Hey Duggee 7.35 Bitz & Bob 7.45 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.20 Biggleton 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Tee and Mo 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Alphablocks 9.20 Timmy Time 9.25 Bing 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 New. Something Special 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 Hey Duggee 10.40 Patchwork Pals 10.45 Mister Maker’s Arty Party 11.05 Magic Hands 11.15 My Pet and Me 11.30 School of Roars 11.40 My First 11.50 Tinga Tinga Tales: Animated African folk tales 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Old Jack’s Boat: a retired fisherman tells stories from inside his old boat. 12.30 Katie Morag 12.45 Melody 1.00 The Furchester Hotel 1.10 Yakka Dee! 1.15 Numberblocks 1.20 Bing 1.30 Twirlywoos 1.45 Something Special 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 The Baby Club 2.35 Pablo 2.45 Our Family 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.15 Swashbuckle 3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Octonauts 4.00 New. Love Monster 4.05 Andy’s Safari Adventures 4.20 Maddie’s Do You Know? 4.35 Peter Rabbit 4.50 Go Jetters 5.00 Gigglebiz 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.25 Molly and Mack; My Petsaurus 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories: a tale is read for younger viewers before they go to bed
CBBC
Thursday Television
Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
6.00am Peppa Pig 6.20 New. Mya Go: the family buys a new computer 6.30 Fireman Sam 6.40 Noddy: Toyland Detective 6.50 Shane the Chef 7.00 Thomas & Friends 7.15 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 7.20 Peppa Pig7.40 New. Top Wing: Baddy steals a plane, but does not know how to land it 7.55 Paw Patrol 8.10 Floogals 8.30 New. Becca’s Bunch 8.45 Little Princess 8.55 Ben and Holly 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies
201
Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 613 Virgin 701 7.00am Arthur 7.15 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.25 Danger Mouse 7.40 New. Newsround 7.45 Danny & Mick 8.00 Class Dismissed 8.15 New. Newsround 8.25 Marrying Mum and Dad 8.55 Art Ninja 9.15 A Week to Beat the World 9.30 Secret Life of Boys 1.25 Nikki Lilly Meets 1.45 Got What It Takes? 2.20 Operation Ouch! 2.50 The Dumping Ground 3.20 The Deep 3.40 Shaun the Sheep 3.50 Scream Street 4.00 New. Newsround 4.10 Danny & Mick 4.20 Odd Squad 4.35 The Pets Factor 5.00 RT CHOICE New. Inside My Head: young sufferers of mental illness See page 105 5.30 New. Blue Peter 6.00pm Dragons: Race to the Edge 6.45 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.00 Horrible Histories 7.30 Blue Peter 7.55 The Dumping Ground 8.25 Inside My Head 8.55—9.00pm Lifebabble
CITV
203
Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 621 Virgin 734 6.00am Super 4 6.25 Fangbone 6.55 NinjaGo 7.25 Mr Bean 7.55 Mr Magoo 8.25 Scooby-Doo! 8.50 Mighty Mike 9.20 Dare Master 9.25 Captain Underpants 9.50 Hotel Transylvania 10.20 Spy School 10.45 Massive Monster Mayhem 11.10 Drop Dead Weird 11.40 Max & Shred 12.05pm Robozuna 12.30 Gormiti 3D: The Herald of Gorm 1.00 NinjaGo 1.25 Dare Master 1.30 The Bagel and Becky Show 2.10 Hotel Transylvania 2.40 Mr Magoo 3.10 The Tom and Jerry Show 3.30 Scooby-Doo! 4.00 Dave Spud 4.30 Mighty Mike 5.00 Captain Underpants 5.30 LEGO Jurassic World 6.00pm Robozuna 6.25 Gormiti 3D: The Herald of Gorm 7.00 Mr Bean 7.30 Mr Magoo 8.00 Massive Monster Mayhem 8.30—9.00pm Max & Shred
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THURSDAY Films & Sport Discover film The best of Sky, iPlayer, Netflix and beyond
FREEVIEW
Sky Premiere
Film4
14
F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am 7th Cavalry ★★★ Disjointed but emotional western. Randolph Scott (1956, U) (S) 12.35pm Samson and Delilah ★★★ Thumping biblical epic from Cecil B DeMille. Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders (1949, U) (S)
Television Thursday
3.10 Two Rode Together ★★★ Well-cast John Ford western. James Stewart (1961, PG) (S)
5.25pm The Thirty-Nine Steps ★★ Remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1935 thriller. Kenneth More, Taina Elg (1959, U) (AD) 7.15 Max Steel ★★ Action adventure based on a popular TV series and toy range. Ben Winchell, Josh Brener, Ana Villafañe (2016) (S) 9.00 The Hitman’s Bodyguard ★★★★ Mismatched buddy movie that’s packed with gags and thrills. Review p41. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman (2017, 15) (S) (AD)
A journey worth taking The Straight Story 5 All4
FREE TO VIEW
David Lynch resists his usual strange impulses for this whimsical road movie. Exhibiting dignified self-assurance in his final role, Richard Farnsworth stars as an Iowa farmer travelling by lawnmower to visit his dying brother in Wisconsin. It’s hard to imagine a gentler film, yet Lynch fully exploits the stately pace to gaze fondly upon life’s rich pageant. Lynch recently celebrated his 74th birthday by releasing a short film on Netflix called What Did Jack Do? in which he interrogates a monkey. DAVID PARKINSON
11.20 Kiss the Girls ★★★ Atmospheric thriller about the hunt for a serial killer. Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd (1997, 18) (S) (AD)
1.35—4.00am Monsters: Dark Continent ★★★★ Thought-provoking sci-fi action thriller sequel set in the Middle East. Johnny Harris, Sam Keeley, Joe Dempsie (2014, 15) (S) Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
32
Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am Mind Games ★★ Thriller. Alexandra Holden (2006) 11.00 Garage Sale Mystery 1.00pm Arctic Blast ★★ Disaster movie. Michael Shanks (2010, PG) 2.55 Age of Ice ★★ Sci-fi adventure. Barton Bund (2014, 12) 4.50 Ruth & Alex ★★ Drama. Morgan Freeman (2014, 12) 6.40pm How Do You Know ★★ Comedy. Jack Nicholson, Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd (2010, 12)
9.00 V for Vendetta ★★★ Action thriller. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea (2005, 15)
11.40 Jarhead ★★★ Fact-based war drama.
p Gemini 111 10.10pm Sky Premiere
Hollywood’s narcissistic, petty underbelly is laid bare in this quirky whodunnit. Lola Kirke stars as a personal assistant to a film star (Zoë Kravitz) who scours LA for clues after her boss is involved in a shocking crime. The film’s musings on the price of fame can slow the pace to a crawl, but it’s fun to watch Kirke bicker with various self-absorbed artists, while John Cho is excellent as an eccentric cop. The third-act reveal may be slightly unsatisfying, but Gemini is still a stylish attempt to modernise a well-worn genre. JAMES LUXFORD
Snakes alive! Them That Follow 111 Sky Store
Now available to rent, this drama stars Walton Goggins as a manipulative, snake-wrangling preacher and Olivia Colman as a woman forced to choose between her beliefs and her son. Although sombre and slow-moving, this well-acted film asks some interesting questions about faith and religion. STEPHEN CARTY
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am In Fabric ★★★★ Thriller. Review p82. (2018, 15) 8.10 Dolittle Special 8.30 Escape Plan 3 As 6.15pm 10.20 The Favourite As 8pm 12.35pm i Gemini As 10.10pm 2.30 Never Grow Old ★★★ Western. (2019, 15) 4.30 November Criminals ★★ Drama. Ansel Elgort (2017, 12)
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 7.50am BlacKkKlansman As 7.35pm 10.15 Roman Holiday 5 Romantic comedy. Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck (1953, U) 12.25pm Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 5 Western. Paul Newman (1969, PG) 2.30 Almost Famous ★★★★ Comedy drama. Billy Crudup (2000, 15)
6.15pm Escape Plan 3 ★★ Brutal action thriller. Review p62. Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista (2019, 15) 8.00 The Favourite 5 Superb historical comedy drama.
5.20pm The Social Network 5 David Fincher’s insightful fact-based drama. Jesse Eisenberg,
Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz (2018, 15)
10.10 i Gemini ★★★ Atmospheric thriller. Review left. Lola Kirke, Zoë Kravitz (2017, 15)
11.50 Beats ★★★★ Heartwarming journey into 1990s rave culture. Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald (2019, 18) 1.35am The Field Guide to Evil ★★★ Horror anthology. (2018, 15) 3.40 Radioflash ★★ Disaster thriller. Brighton Sharbino, Dominic Monaghan (2019) 5.30 Final Score Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
Sky Hits
11.40 The Long Haul ★★★ Crime thriller. Victor Mature (1957) 1.25am Texas Adios ★★★ Spaghetti western. Franco Nero (1966, 12) 3.10 The Warrior and the Slave Girl ★★ Period adventure. (1958) 4.35—6.00am The Giants of Thessaly ★★ Adventure. Roland Carey (1960, U) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
Talking Pictures TV
81
Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.20am Blackout ★★ Thriller. (1950, PG) (S) 8.00 Blind Corner ★★ Crime drama. (1963, PG) 9.35 Flying 55 ★★ Crime drama. (1939, U) 11.00 June Allyson 11.30 Take Two: Madeline Smith Interview 12 noon Raising the Wind ★★★ Comedy. (1961, U) 2.00pm Rooms 2.30 True as a Turtle ★ Comedy. (1956, U) 4.45 They Who Dare ★★ War drama. (1953, U) 7.05pm Ransom ★ Sean Connery tries to thwart a gang of hijackers. Ian McShane (1975, PG) 9.00 The Human Jungle TV drama. 10.00 All the Way Up ★★ Comedy of manners. Warren Mitchell, Pat Heywood (1970, 12) 12.05am Poor Cow ★★★ Drama. Carol White, Terence Stamp (1967, 15) 2.10 Double X: the Name of the Game ★ Crime drama. Simon Ward (1991, 15) (S) 4.15 Lunch Hour ★★ Comedy. Shirley Anne Field, Robert Stephens (1962, U) 5.30—6.00am Honey West
10.00 Django Unchained ★★★★ Quentin Tarantino’s audacious western mash-up. Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson (2012, 18)
12.45am Midnight Express 5 Harrowing drama. Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt (1978, 18) 2.50 Chinatown 5 Period thriller. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (1974, 15)
5.05 Roman Holiday As 10.15am
4.40pm Solo: a Star Wars Story ★★★★ Fun adventure.
4.30pm Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ★★★ Enjoyable adventure. Ewan McGregor,
7.00 Dumbo ★★★★ Charming live-action fantasy. Colin Farrell, Michael
Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans (1963, PG)
John David Washington, Adam Driver (2018, 15)
Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 7.00am Spartacus 5 Historical epic. Kirk Douglas (1960, PG) 10.20 The Witches ★★★ Fantasy adventure. Anjelica Huston (1989, PG) 11.55 Vertigo 5 Thriller. James Stewart, Kim Novak (1958, PG) 2.10pm The Bourne Legacy ★★★ Action thriller. Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz (2012, 12)
Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke (2018, 12)
F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am Loophole ★★ Crime drama. (1980, PG) 8.10 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial ★★★ Courtroom drama. Eric Bogosian (1988, U) 10.35 The Last Hurrah ★★★ Political drama. Review p46. Spencer Tracy (1958, U) 1.00pm Rock around the Clock ★★★ Musical. Bill Haley (1956, U) 2.40 Dead Reckoning ★★★★ Film Noir. Humphrey Bogart (1947, U) 4.45 Sirocco ★★★ Spy drama. Humphrey Bogart (1951, PG) 6.50pm The African Queen 5 Adventure. Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn (1951, U) 9.00 Tom Jones ★★★★ Hugely entertaining period comedy adventure.
7.35 BlacKkKlansman ★★★★ A black police officer helps to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 7.30am King Kong ★★★★ Period fantasy adventure. Naomi Watts, Jack Black (2005, 12) 10.45 Deep Impact ★★★★ Sci-fi drama. Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman (1998, 12) 12.50pm Shazam! As 9pm 3.05 Johnny English Strikes Again ★★ Spy comedy. Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko (2018, PG)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard (2005, 15)
50
Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake (2010, 12)
Sky Greats
2.10am Aftermath ★★★ Thriller. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy (2017, 15) 4.00—5.50am Garage Sale Mystery: The Wedding Dress Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
Welcome to the dark side
Sky Oscars
Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen (2002, PG)
Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper (2018, 15)
7.00 The World’s End ★★★ An epic pub crawl turns into a fight for human existence. See Edgar Wright Choice p105. Nick Frost (2013, 15) 9.00 Evita ★★★ Madonna plays the poor rural girl who became a mother figure to Argentina. Antonio Banderas (1996, PG)
1.15am Bridget Jones’s Diary ★★★★ Romantic comedy. Renée Zellweger (2001, 15) 2.55 Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason ★★★ Romantic comedy. (2004, 15) 4.50 Johnny English Strikes Again As 3.05pm
11.20pm Scarface ★★★★ Scorching drama. Al Pacino (1983, 18) 2.15am The Doors ★★★ Musical biography. Val Kilmer (1991, 18) 4.40 Barefoot in the Park ★★★★ Romantic comedy. Robert Redford (1967, PG)
Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green (2019, PG)
9.00 Shazam! ★★★★ Laugh-packed superhero yarn. Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel (2019, 12)
11.15 The Mule ★★★★ Well-paced, poignant drama.
Sky Action
Sky Comedy
Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 6.15am Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts 7.45 Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders ★★★ Animated adventure. Adam West (2016, PG) 9.15 Oblivion As 5.45pm 11.30 Lethal Weapon 3 As 8pm 1.45pm Lethal Weapon 4 As 10.15pm 4.00 Proud Mary ★★★ Thriller. (2018, 15)
Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.10am All about Steve ★★ Romantic comedy. (2009, 12) 8.00 Good Morning, Vietnam ★★★ Drama. (1987, 15) 10.05 As 5.15pm 11.50 Wayne’s World ★★★★ Comedy. (1992, PG) 1.35pm Wayne’s World 2 ★★★ (1993, PG) 3.25 Game Night ★★★ Mystery. (2018, 15)
5.45pm Oblivion ★★★ A security repairman uncovers dark secrets on a deserted Earth. Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough (2013, 12) 8.00 Lethal Weapon 3 ★★★ Detectives Mel Gibson and Danny Glover target a copturned-crime lord. Joe Pesci (1992, 15) 10.15 Lethal Weapon 4 ★★★ The cop duo must track down a ruthless Triad gang. Mel Gibson,
5.15pm The Pacifier ★★ Disney family comedy. Vin Diesel (2005, PG) 7.00 Can You Ever Forgive Me? ★★★★ Terrific true story about a hard-up author who forges letters. Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant (2018, 15) 9.00 Along Came Polly ★★ A cautious Ben Stiller falls for a wild Jennifer Aniston. (2004, 12) 10.40 Superbad ★★★★ Two teens attempt to procure booze for a party. Jonah Hill, Michael Cera (2007, 15)
Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo (1998, 15)
12.30am Riot Girls ★★★ Sci-fi action thriller. (2019, 18) 2.00 Proud Mary As 4pm 3.45 Daughter of the Wolf ★★ Action thriller. (2019) 5.30 Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders As 7.45am
12.40am Dirty Cops ★★ Crime drama. Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche (2018, 18) 2.50 Eaten by Lions ★★★ Comedy. Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll (2018, 12) 4.30 The First Wives Club ★★★★ Comedy. Goldie Hawn (1996, PG)
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THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY Sky
Disney
Sky
Adventure
Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.20am Planes ★★★ Adventure. Dane Cook (2013, U) 7.55 As 6pm 9.55 As 4.25pm 11.30 The Tigger Movie ★★ Adventure. (2000, U) 12.50pm The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ★★★★ Adventure. Sterling Holloway (1977, U) 2.10 As 8pm 4.25 Tarzan ★★ Adventure. (1999, U)
Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.40am The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl ★★ Fantasy. Taylor Lautner (2005, U) 8.20 As 5.55pm 10.25 As 8pm 12.25pm Stuart Little ★★★ Fantasy adventure. Michael J Fox (1999, U) 1.55 As 10pm 4.10 Bedtime Stories ★★★ Fantasy comedy. Adam Sandler (2008, PG)
6.00pm Incredibles 2 ★★★★ Entertaining and well nigh irresistible adventure. Holly Hunter,
5.55pm The Kid Who Would Be King ★★★ Upbeat fantasy adventure. Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Rebecca Ferguson, Patrick Stewart (2018, PG)
8.00 Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time ★★★ Charming Arabian Nights-style adventure.
Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw (2018, U)
10.15 A Bug’s Life ★★★★ Wonderful animated adventure. Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1998, U)
11.55 The Haunted Mansion ★★ Comedy horror. Eddie Murphy (2003, PG) 1.35am The Muppet Movie ★★★★ Comedy. Jim Henson, Frank Oz (1979, U) 3.20 Muppet Treasure Island ★★★★ Comedy. Tim Curry (1996, U) 5.10 The Hunchback of Notre Dame II ★★ Musical. Jason Alexander, Tom Hulce (2002, U)
Sky Thriller
10.00 Tomorrowland: a World Beyond ★★★★ A teenager is inspired to save a utopia. George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson (2015, 12)
12.15am The Mask of Zorro ★★★★ Swashbuckling action. Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins (1998, PG)
2.40 The Legend of Zorro ★★★ Adventure. Antonio Banderas (2005, PG) 5.00 Stuart Little As 12.25pm
Sky
Drama
Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510 6.30am 303 Squadron As 4.10pm 8.15 The Captain As 10pm 10.15 Where Hands Touch As 5.55pm 12.20pm The Aftermath As 8pm 2.10 Mary Magdalene ★★★ Religious drama. Rooney Mara (2017, 12) 4.10 303 Squadron ★★ Second World War drama. Maciej Zakoscielny (2018, 15)
5.35pm Crypto ★★ A bank auditor is drawn into a dangerous world. Beau Knapp, Alexis Bledel, Kurt Russell (2019, 15) 7.25 Jacob’s Ladder ★★ Moody rehash of the 1990 horror thiller. Michael Ealy (2019, 15) 9.00 Papillon ★★★★ Captivating remake of the 1973 prison drama.
5.55pm Where Hands Touch ★★ Wartime romance. Amandla
11.15 Argo 5 Ben Affleck directs and stars in this terrific and tense true story. Ben Affleck (2012, 15) 1.20am Domino ★★ Thriller. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Guy Pearce, Carice van Houten (2019, 18)
3.00 The Juror ★★ Thriller.
Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Anne Heche (1996, 18)
5.00 Deep Family Secrets ★★★ Thriller. Richard Crenna, Angie Dickinson (1997)
Sky
Sci-Fi/Horror
8.00 The Aftermath ★★★ Keira Knightley is spot-on as the troubled wife of a British army officer in this classy romance. Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke (2019, 15)
10.00 The Captain ★★★ An army deserter impersonates an officer in this good-looking German drama. Max Hubacher (2017, 15) 12 midnight Mary Magdalene As 2.10pm 2.10am The Tribes of Palos Verdes ★★ A young girl seeks refuge in surfing. Maika Monroe, Jennifer Garner (2017, 15) 4.05 Tex ★★★★ Drama. Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly (1982, PG)
TCM Movies Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 6.45am The Lion in Winter 5 Historical drama. (1968, 12) 9.30 The Hound of the Baskervilles 5 Classic mystery. (1959, PG) 11.20 Firecreek ★★★ Western. (1968, 12) 1.30pm All Quiet on the Western Front 5 Drama. Lew Ayres (1930, PG)
6.15pm Anna and the Apocalypse ★★★ Comedy horror. Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming (2017, 15) 8.00 A Quiet Place 5 Unbearably tense horror. John
4.15pm The Day of the Jackal 5 Suspenseful thriller. Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale (1973, 15)
9.45 Overlord ★★★ Supergory action horror adventure.
7.05 Dawn at Socorro ★★★ Routine western from George Sherman. Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie (1954, PG) 9.00 Ocean’s Thirteen ★★ Breezy crime caper. George Clooney,
Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Pilou Asbaek (2018, 18)
Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Al Pacino (2007, PG)
11.45 Escape Room ★★★ Taut horror thriller packed with nervetingling incident. Taylor Russell (2019, 15)
11.35 Universal Soldier — the Return ★ Futuristic action thriller. Jean-Claude Van Damme (1999, 18)
1.30am The Final Conflict: Omen III ★★ Horror. Sam Neill (1980, 18) 3.30 Omen IV: the Awakening ★ Horror. Faye Grant, Michael Woods (1991, 15) 5.15 Sky Cinema Preview
1.25am Assassins ★★★ Action thriller. Sylvester Stallone (1995, 15) 4.00 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors 5.30 Key Largo ★★★ Crime drama. Humphrey Bogart (1948, PG) TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
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Darts 7.00pm Sky Action World champion Peter Wright aims for Premier League glory
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437 7.00am Good Morning Sports Fans
8.00 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The second Under-19 World Cup semi-final. 3.45pm My Icon 4.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Pebble Beach Pro-Am, day one. 7.00 LIVE Super League Warrington Wolves v St Helens. 10.00 The Debate 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight Sky Sports News 1.00am LIVE NBA Milwaukee Bucks v Philadelphia 76ers. 3.30 Sky Sports News 4.00—7.00am LIVE European Tour Golf The second day of the Victorian Open from Geelong.
Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish (2018, 12)
Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am As 3.45pm 8.30 As 6.15pm 10.15 As 8pm 12 noon The Adjustment Bureau ★★★ Romantic sci-fi drama. Matt Damon, Emily Blunt (2010, 12) 2.00pm Escape Room As 11.45pm 3.45 AI: Artificial Intelligence ★★★★ Sci-fi fantasy drama. Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law (2001, 12)
Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds (2018, 15)
Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502
Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton (2010, 12)
Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 6.10am Bad Samaritan ★★ Horror. (2018, 15) 8.15 The Standoff at Sparrow Creek ★★★ Thriller. (2018, 15) 9.55 Vault ★★ Crime drama. (2019, 15) 11.50 Charlie Says ★★★ Crime drama. (2018, 15) 1.50pm Eye for an Eye ★★ Mystery thriller. (2019, 15) 3.30 Argo As 11.15pm
Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek (2017, 15)
Sky Premier League
Sky Football Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503 6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Greatest Players (AD) 7.30 Football Countdowns (AD) 8.00 Football Years (AD) 8.30 EFL Greatest Games 8.45 One2Eleven (AD) 9.00 Greatest Games 9.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.15 SPFL Greatest Games 11.30 Greatest Players (AD) 12 noon Countdowns (AD) 12.30pm Football Years (AD) 1.00 Greatest Games 1.45 One2Eleven (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 3.00 Greatest Players (AD) 3.30 Football Countdowns (AD) 4.00 Football Years: action from the 1993/94 season (AD) 4.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.30 Greatest Games 6.00 Championship Season Review: the 2013/14 campaign 7.00 SPFL Round-Up 7.15 Football Years: 1991/92 (AD) 7.45 Championship Highlights 10.00 SPFL Round-Up 10.15 Greatest Games 11.00 One2Eleven: Joe Cole (AD) 11.15 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Football Years (AD) 12.30am SPFL Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Football Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 7.00am Ryder Cup Memories (AD) 8.00 Players Championship Official Film (AD) 10.00 European Tour Golf 11.00 Players Championship Official Film (AD) 12 noon European Tour Golf 1.00pm Ryder Cup Memories 2.00 Players Championship Official Film (AD) 3.00 European Tour Golf
4.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day one of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 11.00 European Tour Golf 12 midnight Ryder Cup Memories (AD) 1.00am European Tour Golf 2.00 Chronicles of a Champion (AD) 3.00 European Tour Golf 4.00—7.00am LIVE European Tour Golf The Victorian Open.
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 The Debate 8.00 Best Goals 9.00 100 Club 10.00 Premier League Years: a review of the 2013/14 season (AD) 12 noon The Debate 1.00pm Premier League Years: the 2014/15 season (AD) 3.00 Best Goals (AD) 4.00 Greatest Games 5.00 100 Club (AD) 6.00 Legends (AD) 7.00 Match Pack 7.30 Premier League World 8.00 Soccerbox 9.00 Match Pack 9.30 Premier League World 10.00 The Debate 11.00 Best Goals 12 midnight The Debate 1.00am Years (AD) 3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals 5.00 Best Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)
Sky Cricket Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504 6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 6.55 Women’s World T20 Classics 7.40 Lord’s Pavilion Portraits (AD)
7.45 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The second Under-19 World Cup semi-final. 3.45pm 25 Years of the Barmy Army 4.00 Women’s World T20 Classics 5.00 International One-Day Cricket 2.00am How the 2012 World T20 Was Won: tournament review 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00—6.00am Women’s World T20 Classics (AD)
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am Boxing Gold 7.00 Sporting Records (AD) 8.00 Boxing Gold 9.00 NFL 10.00 Sporting Records (AD) 11.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 12 noon NFL 1.00pm Sporting Records (AD) 1.30 Darts Gold 2.00 NFL 3.00 Darts Gold: archive arrows (AD) 3.30 Darts: the final of the 2020 PDC World Championship 6.30 The Darts Show
7.00 LIVE Premier League Darts The first round of the 2020 season from P&J Live, Aberdeen. 10.30 The Darts Show 11.00 Super Bowl LIV: highlights 1.00am Premier League Darts 4.30 Sporting Records (AD) 5.00—6.00am Sporting Greats (AD)
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am Sporting Greats (AD) 7.00 Super League Gold (AD) 8.00 Greats (AD) 9.00 Records (AD) 10.00 Boxing Gold 11.00 Inside Super League 12 noon Netball 1.00pm Mountain Biking: The Pioneer 2.00 Shaq: the Big Conversation (AD) 3.00 Inside Super League 4.00 Greats (AD) 5.00 Netball 6.00 Inside Super League
7.00 LIVE Super League Warrington Wolves v St Helens from Halliwell Jones Stadium (kick-off 7.45). 10.00 NBA GameTime 10.30 NBA 12 midnight Super League 12.15am Super League Gold (AD) 12.30 NBA 1.00 LIVE NBA Milwaukee Bucks v Philadelphia 76ers, the Eastern Conference clash (tip-off 1.00). 3.30 Sporting Records (AD) 4.00 Sporting Greats (AD) 5.00—6.00am Sporting Records (AD)
Eurosport 1
BT Sport 1 Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430 6.00am T20 Cricket
8.00 LIVE T20 Cricket The Big Bash League challenger match. 11.30 Scottish Football Extra 12 noon Scottish Premiership Football 1.30pm Fishing (AD) 2.30 Yachting (AD) 3.30 T20 Cricket 4.30 SPFL Highlights 4.45 Wrestling: the best of the week’s action from the WWE 10.45 Premier League Match Pack 11.15 Premier League World 11.45 SPFL Highlights 12 midnight LIVE Basketball Coverage of a US college game. 2.00am International Women’s T20 Cricket: Australia v India 3.00—6.30am LIVE International Women’s T20 Cricket India v England in the Tri-Nations Series from the CitiPower Centre, Melbourne.
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.00am German Football: highlights 7.00 Wrestling 9.00 FA Cup Football 10.30 Badminton (AD) 11.00 Rugby Tonight (AD) 11.30 Australian Football 12.30pm MotoGP Classics (AD) 2.30 MotoGP Films: Great Moments (AD) 4.00 Badminton (AD) 4.30 Rugby Tonight (AD) 5.00 Scottish Football 6.30 30 for 30: When the Garden Was Eden: the golden era of the New York Knicks (AD) 8.00 T20 Cricket 9.00 UFC 10.00 Early Kick-Off 10.15 Premier League Reload 10.30 BT Sport Films: No Hunger in Paradise (AD) 12 midnight T20 Cricket: Big Bash League 1.00am UFC 2.30 French Football 3.30 Premier League World 4.00—6.00am MotoGP Classics (AD)
BT Sport 3 Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.00am French Football: extended highlights of the week’s Ligue 1 games 5.30pm German Football 7.00 BT Sport Reload 7.30 Fishing (AD) 8.30 Rugby Tonight (AD) 9.00 Premier League Reload 9.15 Goals Reload 9.30 Australian Football 10.30 French Football 11.30 German Football 12 midnight—6.00am Hockey
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434 6.00am Around the Horn 6.30 Pardon the Interruption 7.00 ESPN FC 7.30 Basketball: NCAA action 11.00 Around the Horn 11.30 ESPN FC 12 noon Reload 12.30pm Pardon the Interruption 1.00 Basketball 4.30 BT Sport Reload 4.45 Basketball 6.30 ESPN FC 7.00 Around the Horn 7.30 Pardon the Interruption 8.00 BT Sport Reload 8.30 Basketball: NCAA
12 midnight—6.00am LIVE Basketball US college action; 2.00am Arizona Wildcats v USC Trojans (tip-off 2.00); 4.00 More NCAA action.
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 6.00am Cycling 9.30 Trail Running 10.00 Cyclo-Cross 12 noon Cycling
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435
2.00pm LIVE Cycling Stage two of the Tour of Valencia, a 181km route from Torrent to Cullera.
6.00am Cyclo-Cross 7.00 Tennis: Australian Open 6.30pm Athletics: World Indoor Tour 8.00 Cycling 10.00 Athletics 11.00 Cycling: Tour of Valencia 12 midnight Cycling 1.00am Bala Triathlon 1.40 Snooker 147s 2.00 Alpine Skiing 4.00 Cycling 5.00—6.00am Alpine Skiing
3.30 Cycling 4.30 Cyclo-Cross 6.30 Trail Running 7.00 Alpine Skiing 9.00 Snowboarding: action from the World Cup event in Feldberg, Germany, featuring the snowboard cross 10.00 Cycling 11.00 Ski Jumping 12.30am Tennis 1.30 Triathlon 2.00 Cycling 3.00 Tennis 4.00 Alpine Skiing 5.00—6.00am Snowboarding
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8.00 Mary Poppins Returns ★★★ Fun musical fantasy. Emily
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The pick of today’s TV TAKING THE WHEEL
Television Friday
Adrian Chiles and Mehreen Baig preside over tales of coastal communities
PICK OF THE DAY
Our Coast 8.30pm BBC2 (not Wales)
FACTUAL New series Only Adrian Chiles could say, “It looks slightly like
a prison mugshot” when glancing at a photograph of someone’s beloved seaman dad and not get a smack across the chops. With his ruddy, put-upon face and mordant wit, Chiles is the best thing about this easy-going coastal tour, which begins tonight with the Merseyside shoreline. He and co-host Mahreen Baig are very much channelling their respective histories on The One Show, as they offer up briny versions of the kind of features you’d expect to see each weeknight over on BBC1 at 7pm. So, we
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get Chiles on board the Queen Mary 2, while Baig zips along on the Hoylake Hovercraft with the RNLI. Historian Emma Dabiri, meanwhile, looks into the theory that a Viking ship might just have ended up being berthed beneath a pub car park in the Wirral. As you might have predicted, the result is pleasant rather than massively insightful. But it’s a relaxing, end-of-the-working-week exhale of a programme that’s guaranteed to put you in a restful mood. DAVID BROWN
Would I Lie to You?
Just One Look
Cobra
King Gary
9.00pm BBC1
9.00pm More4
9.00pm Sky 1
9.30pm BBC1 (Wales: 11.25pm)
COMEDY OF THE WEEK There’s a
DRAMA New series When a woman
DRAMA The red zone of
SITCOM It’s Big Gary’s birthday and
painstaking dramatic reconstruction tonight, as David Mitchell illustrates how he lost a bobble hat in the closing doors of a Tube train. For added verisimilitude host Rob Brydon plays the closing doors. It’s a brilliant bit of tomfoolery in a sparkling episode. There are some great value-formoney guests, particularly Strictly Come Dancing professional (and 2019 winner with Kelvin Fletcher) Oti Mabuse, who tells a good story about the “This is my….” guest, and comedian James Acaster with his remarkable tale of an incomplete haircut. Then there’s Love Island winner Dani Dyer, who shares her encounter with a slug with a “bad aura”. ALISON GRAHAM
in a TV drama says to her hunky husband, “Perfect… you’re perfect,” you know her life is about to be turned upside down by the discovery of a dark secret. In this French adaptation of the Harlan Coben thriller it’s improbably stylish gamekeeper Eva (Virginie Ledoyen) whose middleclass existence is disturbed when she finds an old photo of her husband Bastien (Thierry Neuvic) and a woman with her face scratched out. Bastien denies all knowledge and then promptly disappears. The first episode is a classy slow burn, with a menacing killer stalking the family and Ledoyen excellent as a hurt woman desperate for answers.
Northumberland is still not a good place to be, despite the PM’s speech about getting everything working again. Fuel tankers are being hijacked, food, water and energy are in short supply, while a former solder is heading up People’s Justice, a group that are acting as vigilantes — or looking out for their communities, depending on your view. By the time they blockade the whole of London, it’s obvious the PM is losing control. Of course, he (and most of his team) also have many tricky personal problems to resolve… as well as those created by his Home Secretary (a wonderfully machiavellian performance by David Haig). JANE RACKHAM
he’s got it all planned out. “I like my bubble and squeak in the morning, football in the afternoon — in the evening I do the big bonfire. That’s my birthday.” Yet son Gary has other plans — a day at an indoor golf course. But with Big Gary’s overeager employee Winkle and Gary’s insatiable competitiveness both rearing their ugly heads, it soon turns sour. Somewhere between Butterchurn Crescent and the crazy golf course, however, the humour around Gary and his petty-mindedness gets a bit lost. Neighbourly disagreements are riper for laughs and hopefully next week’s series finale will take the show out on a high. FRANCES TAYLOR
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FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY The perimeters of Coronation Street (7.30pm ITV) have always been patrolled by scriptwriting sentries who punish anyone who strays too far from Weatherfield. Disaster awaits those who leave those boundaries behind, particularly when they go to Blackpool. Remember Alan Bradley being hit by a tram? Young Simon Barlow going missing? Little Jack Webster almost getting himself killed? I seem to remember Vera Duckworth merely mentioning that she wanted to retire
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there before she died in her armchair. And yet, despite the seaside resort being cursed, the Corrie regulars are off there again today, just in time for the 10,000th episode. The reason for the trip is all down to Rita (Barbara Knox) receiving a parcel containing the ashes of Dennis Tanner, with a note requesting that she scatter them in Blackpool. Next thing you know, Jenny’s booked a coach and the likes of Ken, Audrey, Mary, Sally and Carla are all accompanying Rita and the urn... DAVID BROWN
The Graham Norton Show
10.00pm BBC2
10.35pm BBC1
ENTERTAINMENT There’s only one
COMEDY New series Comedians
CHAT The last time Mark Ruffalo was
doing travelogues is nothing new. But comparing, say, Susan Calman’s jaunts round her homeland on Channel 5 to Frankie Boyle’s is like comparing chalk and cheese. Boyle is testing out some new material, and looking round the country while he does so. As well as an appreciation of Highland scenery, there are more surreal interludes, including tea with a hermit in a caravan tree-house — Boyle’s worried that the man will be even more of an introvert than he is — and an unfiltered riff on Jimmy Savile. Politics and myth-busting are never too far away, however, and by the time Boyle goes on stage in Oban, he’s on fine, vitriolic form. GILL CRAWFORD
on the show, he talked about his fear of being chased by someone with a grubby stick. Thankfully tonight he’s talking about Dark Waters, not another phobia but his whistleblower film about a real-life American defence attorney who took on a company that had dumped toxic waste. He’s joined by Friends’ David Schwimmer and British comedian Nick Mohammed. They’re starring in Sky 1’s new spy comedy, Intelligence. “If it’s called Intelligence, naturally I’m going to be part of it,” Schwimmer has said, although Mohammed points out, “We did offer the part to the local shoplifter from Blackpool but he wasn’t available, sadly.” JR
thing you can be certain of on The Big Narstie Show, and that is you can’t be certain of anything. Returning for its third series, this anarchic chat show doesn’t take itself — or its guests — too seriously, mixing interviews, music performances and sketches in a Bafta-nominated mash-up. Host and MC Narstie is again joined by comedian Mo Gilligan (something of a star in his own right) to co-present, and while the celebs joining the pair tonight are unlikely to be on many people’s list of dream dinner-party guests, they are sure to cause some good-natured anarchy: reality TV star Gemma Collins, actor Vinnie Jones and star of sitcom Man like Mobeen, Guz Khan. FT
The Big Narstie Show 11.05pm C4
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The best of streaming and catch-up
All or Nothing: Philadelphia Eagles Amazon Prime In the wake of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the all-access NFL documentary returns. Drawing the short straw in 2019 (literally: if no team volunteers, the league chooses one at random and they have to allow filming, like it or not) were the Philadelphia Eagles, who duly suffered a season full of injuries and off-field intrigue — but with plenty of wins, too.
DISCOVER TV KIDS
Bedtime Story 6.50pm CBeebies, iPlayer Bjorn Ulvaeus — yes, from Abba — settles himself down and reads Goat’s Coat by Tom Percival, the story of a goat called Alfonso who wears a special coat. JACK SEALE
Friday Television
Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland
DISCOVER TV
BEST LIVE SPORT
9.00pm ITV DRAMA Tormented vicar Will soaks
Will (Tom Brittney) visits a boxing match at Vic’s (Ross Boatman) gym
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
DAVID BUTCHER
PGA Tour Golf: Pebble Beach Pro-Am, day two 4pm Sky Golf Phil Mickelson defends his crown. International One-Day Cricket: South Africa v England 10.30am Sky Cricket/Main Event Championship Football: Bristol City v Birmingham City 7pm Sky Football/7.30pm Main Event (kick-off 7.45pm) Super League: Hull FC v Hull KR 7pm (k/o 7.45pm) Sky Arena
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John Wick
9.00pm 5 Star Lean, propulsive, action-packed revenge thriller starring Keanu Reeves. See page 47 GETTY
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up everyone’s guilt and shame like a sponge, which makes for some very odd, angry sermons. At the end of tonight’s episode he’s weeping in the pulpit after a particularly furious outburst at his baffled congregation. For heaven’s sake, Will can’t even look himself in the mirror (which he dashes to the vestry floor), such is his pain. Or, as Geordie puts it in a suspiciously 21st-century way, “This has broken him.” “This” is a scandal that emerges when two lads are found unconscious after a boxing match at the local gym. Luckily, Will (Tom Brittney), who of course accompanies Geordie (Robson Green) throughout the police investigation, hunting witnesses and contributing to official interviews, gets to the heart of the matter. He unearths an awful story of deceit and shame, and blames himself, of course.
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FRIDAY Main Channels DAYTIME
Television Friday
BBC1 6.00am Breakfast Naga Munchetty, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD) 9.15 Fraud Squad: the Hunt Investigating a dentist who has been fleecing the NHS. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Homes under the Hammer Properties in Kent, Cumbria and the West Midlands. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Wanted Down Under A family sample homes, jobs and lifestyles during a week in Brisbane. (S) (HD) 11.45 Defenders UK Counterfeit airbags that would fail to work in the event of a crash. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Oswestry. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 1.45 Doctors A busy woman trying to make ends meet risks harming her daughter. (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private Investigators 5/10 Series 3. A simple missing person’s case takes a dramatic turn. Guest-starring Simon Williams and Josie Lawrence. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Escape to the Country Margherita Taylor helps a duo seeking a home on the Welsh borders. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.45 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Highland cattle farmers Simon and Emma exhibit their finest bull, Merlin, at the Great Yorkshire Show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Natasha Raskin Sharp and Raj Bisram visit Cambridge. Last in series. (S) (HD)
BBC2 6.30am Wanted Down Under The Onaivi family spends a trial week in Perth. Shown yesterday 11am BBC1 (S) (HD) 7.15 Antiques Road Trip Shown yesterday 4.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) 8.00—9.00 Sign Zone MasterChef: the Professionals The four remaining chefs create a single dish. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD) 10.00 Victoria Derbyshire Current affairs. (S) (HD) 11.00 BBC Newsroom Live (S) (HD) 12.15pm Politics Live With Jo Coburn. (S) (HD) 1.00 Get away for Winter A couple from Scotland seek a rental home on the Costa del Sol. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 Coast Estuaries around the UK. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.50 Shirley MacLaine: Talking Pictures (R) (S) (HD) 3.35—5.15 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing ★★ Romantic drama with William Holden and Jennifer Jones. A doctor working in Hong Kong during the Korean War encounters prejudice when she falls in love. Review p47. Director Henry King (1955, U) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
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ITV 6.00am Good Morning Britain Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles talks about making her West End debut in the hit musical Waitress. (S) (HD) 9.00 Lorraine More guests and gossip. (S) (HD) 10.00 This Morning Lifestyle features, competitions and celebrity guests. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD) 12.30pm Loose Women Feisty discussion. (S) (HD) 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD) 2.00 Judge Rinder Legal wrangles. (S) (HD) 3.00 Tenable Five family members attempt to beat the Tenable tower in the quiz show hosted by Warwick Davis. (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather 4.00—5.00 Tipping Point With Ben Shephard. (S) (HD)
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6.30am Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD) 7.20 The King of Queens Two episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 8.10 Everybody Loves Raymond Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) 9.10 Frasier Two episodes of the US sitcom. (R) (S) (AD) 10.10 Undercover Boss USA The co-owner of a custom signs company goes under cover. (R) (S) (HD) 11.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Mill Street Bistro proprietor Joe Nagy slips back into his old ways. (R) (S) 12 noon News (S) (HD) 12.05pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses A couple seek their “forever home” in Alicante. (R) (S) (HD) 1.05 Escape to the Château: DIY Nicole and Stefan continue to renovate their château in Lucheux. (R) (S) (HD) 2.10 Countdown With guest Prue Leith. (S) (HD) 3.00 A Place in the Sun A couple from London search for a holiday home around Torrevieja. (R) (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun A couple try to boost bookings for their cycling-holiday business. (S) (HD)
BBC1
BBC2
The Graham Norton Show 10.35pm Brief encounter: Mark Ruffalo discusses his legal drama
Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland 10.00pm The comic travels from the Granite City to the resort of Oban
5.15pm Pointless
5.15pm Flog It!
Quiz presented by Alexander Armstrong. (R) (S) (HD)
Valuing items in Kingston upon Hull. (S) (HD)
6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 Regional news magazines (S) 7.00 The One Show
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Presented by Alex Jones and Dev Griffin. (S) (HD)
7.30 Garden Rescue Transforming a characterless plot in Stoke-on-Trent. Director/Producer Richard Holmes (R) (S) (HD)
8.00 EastEnders Linda thinks Mick and Shirley are plotting against her. Linda Carter Kellie Bright Mick Carter Danny Dyer Shirley Carter Linda Henry Chantelle Atkins Jessica Plummer Tiffany Butcher-Baker Maisie Smith Gray Atkins Toby-Alexander Smith Suki Panesar Balvinder Sopal Kathy Beale Gillian Taylforth Patrick Trueman Rudolph Walker Kat Moon Jessie Wallace Leo King Tom Wells Max Branning Jake Wood Ian Beale Adam Woodyatt Jean Slater Gillian Wright
Lexi Pearce Isabella Brown Amy Mitchell Abbie Burke Tommy Moon Shay Crotty Ricky Mitchell Frankie Day Bailey Baker Kara-Leah Fernandes Lily Fowler Aine Garvey Janet Mitchell Grace Chatham Taylor Alfie Jacobs Riley Taylor Tom Jacobs Dennis Rickman Bleu Landau Mackenzie Atkins Isaac Lemonius Will Mitchell Freddie Phillips Mia Atkins Mahalia Malcolm Dotty Cotton Milly Zero
Writer Simon Ashdown More cast Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 A Question of Sport Olympic 400m gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu, Cricket World Cup winner Mark Wood, Sheffield United striker Billy Sharp and former swimmer Fran Halsall join Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell in the quiz. Series producer Dave Gymer; Exec producer Gareth JM Edwards (S) (HD)
COMEDY OF THE WEEK
9.00 Would I Lie to You?
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the Rev Richard Coles, Stuart Maconie and Lou Sanders take part. (S) (HD)
6.30 Great Asian Railway Journeys Hanoi to Ha Long Bay. Checking into Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel, Michael Portillo discovers a bunker used by guests during the Vietnam War. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Saving Lives at Sea The crews race to save a fisherman from a burning boat and a man stuck in freezing mud. Executive producer Sarah Spencer; Directors Phil Broadhurst, Dominick French and Luke Proctor (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
2 BBC RED BUTTON 7.00–9.15 Under-20s Six Nations Rugby Coverage of Ireland v Wales at Irish Independent Park in Cork (kick-off 7.15)
7.30 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Countryfile presenters Adam Henson and Steve Brown team up with antique experts David Harper and Roo Irvine for a trip around the Cotswolds. Series producer John Redshaw; Exec producer Jim Regan (R) (S) (HD)
8.30 Our Coast
series. 1/4. The Merseyside Coast. Adrian aNew Chiles and Mehreen Baig explore four coastlines
encircling the Irish Sea, beginning with the Merseyside shoreline, stretching from Sefton Sands to the Wirral, via Liverpool. Arriving just in time for the docking of the Queen Mary 2, Adrian goes onboard to explore the largest ocean-crossing liner in the world. Mehreen boards the Hoylake hovercraft, which is run by one of the oldest lifeboat stations in the country. See p114.
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Director Barbara Wiltshire Producers Hannah Duncombe and Chloe Sibthorp (S) (HD)
Director Diccon Ramsay; Series producer Piers Fletcher (S) (HD)
9.30 King Gary
series. 1/4. Aberdeen to Oban. The aNew comedian travels from Aberdeen to Oban to
9/11. Guests James Acaster, Dani Dyer, Oti Mabuse and Fred Sirieix join team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell to cover the truth from their rivals. Rob Brydon hosts. See page 114.
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5/6. Gary has organised a trip to an indoor mini golf course for Big Gary’s birthday, but the father versus son game gets highly competitive. Meanwhile, Terri meddles in John the butcher’s date. See p114.
Gary King Terri King Big Gary King Denise King Teddy King
Tom Davis Laura Checkley Simon Day Camille Coduri Riley Burgin
Winkle Neil Maskell John the butcher Jay Simpson Sacha Olga Koch Rupert Barney White Putt shack manager Kevin “KG’ Garry
9.30 QI James Acaster, Bridget Christie, Alan Davies and Joe Lycett consider quantity and quality.
10.00 Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland discover how Scotland’s landscape has shaped the nation. Along the way, he meets a hermit, joins a commune and goes underneath a mountain. He visits the town of Inveraray, where he meets Andy Wightman, an MSP and a campaigner for land reform, who explains why more than half of Scotland is thought to be owned by fewer than 500 people. See p115.
Writers James De Frond and Tom Davis; Director James De Frond Producer Rupert Majendie (S) (HD)
Series producer Graeme Hart Executive producers Mick McAvoy and Nicky Waltham (S) (HD)
10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.30 Newsnight With Mark Urban.
Followed by National Lottery Update (S)
10.35 The Graham Norton Show
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Graham welcomes Mark Ruffalo, who talks about the legal drama Dark Waters, and Friends star David Schwimmer and British comedian Nick Mohammed, who appear together in the spy comedy series Intelligence. Music comes from Alicia Keys, who performs her new single, Underdog. See p115. Director Steve Smith; Series producer Jon Magnusson (S) (HD)
11.25 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK 5/9. The remaining queens are split into two teams for a girl group battle and with the help of singer MNEK, they record vocals and perform their own versions of the same song. The whole series is available on iPlayer. Director Tony Grech-Smith; Series producer Matt Green (S) (HD)
12.30am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD) 12.35—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD) BBC1 Freeview 1 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101 HD Freeview 101 Freesat 106 Sky 115 Virgin 108
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11.00 Weather (S) (HD)
11.05 Front Row Late 4/6 Series 6. Mary Beard and her panel of guests engage in live discussion about contemporary culture. Series producer Mark Crossan; Exec producer Tanya Hudson (S) (HD)
11.45 Southside with You ★★★★
drama starring Tika Sumpter and qRomantic Parker Sawyers. Chicago 1989: on a summer day,
20-somethings Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama enjoy their first date together. But neither can imagine what the years ahead will hold. Review p47.
Director Richard Tanne (2016, 12) (S) (W) (HD)
1.00—2.25am Sign Zone 1.00 Cashing In on the Housing Crisis: Panorama People living in temporary accommodation in former office blocks. Shown Monday 8.30pm BBC1 (S) (HD) 1.35 Doctor Who 6/10. The team faces a deadly global threat. See choice, p65. Shown Sunday 7.10pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD) BBC2 Freeview 2 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102 HD Network Freeview 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102
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Channel 4 The Big Narstie Show 11.05pm The grime MC returns for a third series of anarchic fun with Mo Gilligan
Grantchester 9.00pm Will and Geordie try to put their troubles behind them at a boxing match
BBC4 There’s Only One Madonna 9.30pm In vogue: a look at the influence of the Material Girl
Regional variations BBC1 SCOTLAND 12.30am The State of It: comedy on the theme of democracy 1.00 Weather for the Week Ahead 1.05—6.00 News
BBC SCOTLAND 5.00pm Couples Come Dine with Me
7.00pm World News Today (S) (HD)
Stuart, Claire, Jan and Alex must work as a team to stay ahead of the Chaser. (S) (HD)
A Mexican fiesta, a Filipino menu, a tricky baked Alaska and jackfruit feature in Belfast. (S) (HD)
Followed by Weather (S) (HD)
6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD) 6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD) 7.00 Emmerdale
6.00 The Simpsons
Gary Davies and Anthea Turner present the edition first shown on 2 March, with performances by Living in a Box, Sam Brown, Jason Donovan, Tyree featuring Kool Rock Steady, Depeche Mode, Deacon Blue, Donna Summer, Wasp and Gloria Estefan.
Belle is intrigued by something she discovers. Writer Lesley Clare O’Neill Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 Coronation Street In the 10,000th episode, Rita is surprised by an unexpected parcel, while another resident contemplates leaving the cobbles for good. Writer Damon Alexis-Rochefort This week’s episodes produced by Iain MacLeod and directed by Matt Hilton and Tim O’Mara Cast Monday/Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)
Today in Soapland: page 115
8.30 The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury 5/6. In the Dodecanese, a far-flung group of islands at the gateway between Europe and the East, Julia uncovers a treasure trove of Byzantine art in Rhodes and meets the female entrepreneurs producing an age-old superfood made from honey and sesame. Then she heads for the neighbouring Symi, where she immerses herself in the island’s rich history while taking a lesson in the dangerous art of sponge diving. Series director/Series producer Chris Williams (S) (AD) (HD) RT TRAVEL Discover our great collection of Greek holiday ideas — visit radiotimes.com/greece for more information
9.00 Grantchester
Series 5. As Geordie and Will head to a 5/6 a charity boxing match at Vic’s gym, both
men put on brave faces in an attempt to hide the worries that are haunting them. But after a fight takes an unexpected turn, Will is forced to question his judgement. Meanwhile Leonard tries to reunite the warring Chapmans, who appear determined never to see eye to eye about anything again. See page 115. Geordie Keating Robson Green Will Davenport Tom Brittney Leonard Finch Al Weaver Mrs Chapman Tessa Peake-Jones Vic Morgan Ross Boatman Matthew Butler Jim Caesar Marie Morgan Sandra Huggett
Lucas Rawlings Jack Donoghue Walter Rupert Holliday Evans Jack Chapman Nick Brimble Daniel Marlowe Oliver Dimsdale Ellie Harding Lauren Carse Larry Peters Bradley Hall June Butler Sarah Stanley
Writer Daisy Coulam; Producer Richard Cookson Director Rob Evans (S) (AD) (HD) RT DVDs To pre-order Grantchester series 5 on two DVDs for £16.99 incl p&p (RRP £19.99), call 0844 848 7300 (charges apply, see p161) or visit radiotimes.com/dvds06, quoting ref RT1801
10.00 ITV News at Ten Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)
10.45 Cold Feet 4/6 Series 9. A chance encounter gives Pete a boost, while Jenny faces fresh heartbreak and Karen attempts to make amends with her mother. See choice, page 75.
Yolo. Homer is in a slump, until an old pen pal helps him live life to its fullest. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 Hollyoaks Tony plans a romantic surprise for Diane. Tony Hutchinson Nick Pickard Diane Hutchinson Alex Fletcher Liberty Savage Jessamy Stoddart Leela Lomax Kirsty-Leigh Porter Lisa Loveday Rachel Adedeji Luke Morgan Gary Lucy Mandy Morgan Sarah Jayne Dunn Marnie Nightingale Lysette Anthony Martine Deveraux Kelle Bryan Misbah Maalik Harvey Virdi
Nana McQueen Diane Langton Nancy Osborne Jessica Fox Rose Lomax Isla Pritchard Sally St Claire Annie Wallace Sami Maalik Rishi Nair Sid Sumner Billy Price Toby Faroe Bobby Gordon Walter Deveraux Trevor A Toussaint Abigail Alyssia Jarvis DS Cohen Ariana Fraval
Writer Rachel Hall More cast Tuesday Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Repeated next Mon E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD) 8.00 Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast 6/6 Series 7. Joining Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty in their pop-up café on Southend Pier tonight is actress Saoirse Ronan. The boys have tracked down Saoirse’s most nostalgic dish, a Chinese takeaway she used to have with her dad as a child living in New York. Jamie re-creates this restaurant dish in a domestic kitchen by inventing a new technique he calls “bounce cooking”. Series producer Anna Stickland Executive producer Samantha Beddoes (S) (AD) (HD) RT BOOKS To order your copy of Jamie Oliver’s Five Ingredients: Quick and Easy Food for £23.99 including p&p, call 03302 232 639 or visit radiotimes.com/shop06
9.00 Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown Ep 5. Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges take on Jon Richardson and Victoria Coren Mitchell in the comedic version of the classic words and numbers game. Spencer Jones joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner. Jimmy Carr hosts. Director Richard Valentine; Series producer Jodie Krstic (S) (HD)
10.00 The Last Leg Ep 4. Hosts Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are joined by celebrity guests for a comic review of the significant moments of the past seven days. As usual, the hashtag #isitok paves the way for the gang to examine the leading and most entertaining news stories of the week. Series producer Cimran Shah Executive producers Ben Knappett and Andrew Beint (S) (HD)
11.05 The Big Narstie Show
series. 1/6 Series 3. The rapper and aNew his comedian co-pilot Mo Gilligan return
Shown Monday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
with more late-night anarchic chat, comedy and music. Guests joining them include reality TV star Gemma Collins, actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones and comedian Guz Khan. See p115.
11.45 Dancing on Ice
Series producer Rina Dayalji; Executive producers Nathan Brown, Obi Kevin Akudike and Ben Wicks (S) (HD)
Ep 5. It’s Fairytale Week and the remaining celebrities and their partners battle to stay in the competition. There’s also a spectacular performance from Disney on Ice. Hosted by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. Shown Sunday 6pm (S) (HD)
1.25am Home Shopping (HD) 3.00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? With actress and former glamour model Linda Lusardi. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 3.50—6.00am Nightscreen Text information. (HD) ITV Freeview 3 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103 +1F’view33 F’sat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114 HD F’view103 F’sat111 Sky 103 Virgin 113
12.10am Last Vegas ★★★ Comedy. Four old pals get together in Sin City where the eternal bachelor of the group is determined to live it up before finally settling down with a much younger woman. Review p47. Billy Michael Douglas Diana Mary Steenburgen Paddy Robert De Niro Dean Jerry Ferrara Archie Morgan Freeman Lonnie Romany Malco Sam Kevin Kline Maurice Roger Bart
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Director Jon Turteltaub (2013, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 2.00 The Simpsons Four episodes. (R) (S) (AD) 3.45—6.00am Come Dine with Me In Devon. (R) (S) (HD)
Channel 4 Freeview 4 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104 +1 F’view15 F’sat121 Sky 204 Virgin 142 HD F’view104 Sky 138 Virgin 141
7.30 Top of the Pops 1989
Director/Producer Paul Ciani (R) (S)
8.00 Doris Day: Virgin Territory Clips from her many films, including Calamity Jane and Pillow Talk, illustrate this biography of the actress and singer, who died in May last year at the age of 97. After starting her career as a band singer, Day became one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars, but away from the cameras her life was often troubled. Furthermore, her work has not always received the critical acclaim it deserves. With contributions from James Garner, Richard Carpenter, Terence Davies and Don Pippin. Director/Producer Karen Whiteside Repeated 2.25am (R) (S) (HD)
9.00 Top of the Pops 1989 Nicky Campbell and Lenny Henry host the edition first shown on 9 March, featuring performances by the Reynolds Girls, Dusty Springfield, Womack & Womack, Deacon Blue, Paula Abdul, Donna Summer, Jason Donovan and Wasp. (R) (S)
As BBC2 until: 7.00pm Sportscene: coverage of a Scottish Cup fifth-round tie 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Gary: Tank Commander 10.30 The Farm: Baled Up 11.00 Burnistoun’s Big Night 11.30—12 midnight Mirror Mirror
STV 1.25—6.00am Nightscreen
BBC1 WALES 7.00pm Six Nations Sin Bin: with Ardal O’Hanlon and Gareth Anscombe 7.30—8.00 Tudur’s TV Flashback: host Tudur Owen discovers how to look good 9.30—10.00 The Tuckers: Murphy falls ill and recuperates in Glyn’s bed 11.25 King Gary 11.55 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK 1.00—6.00am News
BBC2 WALES 7.00pm Scrum V Live: Ireland Under-20s v Wales Under-20s (kick-off 7.15) 9.15—9.30 Coast
Friday Television
5.00pm The Chase
UTV 8.30—9.00pm UTV Life: an eclectic mix of stories and guests
9.30 There’s Only One Madonna This in-depth examination of the singer’s popularity in Britain reveals her influence on the worlds of fashion, music and gender politics, and follows a group of fans on her Drowned World Tour. A known Anglophile, Madonna is described as an inspiration to a generation of women, the founder of “girl power” and an icon for the gay community. Contributors include JeanPaul Gaultier, Mel C, Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. First shown in 2001. Producer Jo Shinner Executive producer Mike Connolly (R) (S) (HD)
10.25 Madonna Rebel Heart Tour Shot around the world with live and behind-the-scenes footage, this show features new hits and classic songs spanning all decades of Madonna’s career, including Living for Love, Material Girl, Holiday and an acoustic version of Like a Prayer. Directors Jamie King, Danny B Tull and Nathan Rissman (R) (S) (HD)
12.25am Classic Albums: the Wailers — Catch a Fire Concert footage, home movies and interviews give a background to the Wailers’ 1973 LP Catch a Fire. (R) (S) (HD) 1.25 Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the South 3/3. Mississippi and Louisiana The comedian explores the musical heritage of the two Deep South states. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 2.25—3.25am Doris Day: Virgin Territory Shown 8pm (S) (HD)
BBC4 Freeview 9 Freesat 107/173 Sky 116 Virgin 107 HD Freeview 106 Freesat 107 Virgin 107
a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white
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Doc Martin 8.00pm Best man Al
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Freeview 5 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154 HD Freeview 105 Freesat 105 Virgin 105 6.00am Milkshake! See page 121 9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD) 11.15 Paddington Station 24/7 Behind the scenes at the London station. (S) (HD) 12.10pm 5 News (S) (HD) 12.15 GPs: behind Closed Doors Dr Tawana sees a young man with ingrown toenails. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10 Access (S) (HD) 1.15 Home and Away Shown yesterday
F’view 6 F’sat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115 HD Virgin 176 7.00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD) 7.50 Emmerdale: double bill (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.50 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) 9.20 Superstore (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 11.15 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 12.15pm Emmerdale Shown yesterday 7/8pm ITV (S) (AD) (HD) 1.15 You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) 1.50 New. The Ellen DeGeneres Show: chat and entertainment (S) (HD) 2.45 Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 3.50 Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 New. Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
6.30pm 5 Star Repeated 6pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 5.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold
F’view 10 F’sat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117 HD Virgin 177 6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) 6.55 Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD) 8.55 Rising Damp (S) 9.55 Man about the House (S) 10.25 Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 12.40pm Heartbeat (S) (AD) 1.45 Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Jack meets Sarah in York to try for a reconciliation, then the Glovers plead with Ned not to go through with the fight (S) 2.50 Classic Coronation Street: double bill. Steve hopes to win Fiona over with a bunch of flowers, then Raquel tries to comfort Curly (S) 3.55 The Durrells (S) (AD) (HD) 4.55 Heartbeat (S) (AD)
2.15 Love You to Death ★★ Crime thriller starring Emilija Baranac. An attorney puts herself in danger when her mistakes in court allow a killer to go free.
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7.00 Totally You’ve Been Framed! Gold
Director Brian Skiba (2015) (S) (W) (HD)
Featuring the ultimate drooling dog. (S)
4.00 Friends Phoebe learns the truth. (S) (HD) 4.30 Joey gets a part in a soap. (S) (HD)
5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD) 5.30 Neighbours Zenin sends Ned a threatening text. Shown 1.45pm Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Home and Away Ryder’s efforts to woo Jade are a success. Shown 1.15pm Next episode 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 5 News Tonight (S) (HD) 7.00 Canada: a Year in the Wild 4/4. It’s summer, and the native creatures strive to make the most of the warmth and long days. (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Secret Scotland with Susan Calman 6/6 Series 2. Susan concludes her journey in Ayrshire and the Isle of Arran by visiting the birthplace of Robert Burns. Director/Producer Tony McKee (S) (HD) Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Holidaying with Jane McDonald and Friends 6/6. The singer is in York, where she takes a flight in a 1940s Tiger Moth plane. James and Ola Jordan go to Crete, and Johnny Ball takes a solo trip to Pisa. Director/Producer Vanessa Williams (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Inside the World’s Greatest Hotels 6/6. The history of the Ritz in London, exploring its long connection to the royal family and revealing how it redefined the nature of customer service in hotels. Directors/Producers Tim Williams, John Coffey (S) (HD)
11.05 Sabotage ★★
Thriller with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Members of a rogue group of drug q enforcement agents who steal $10 million from a ruthless cartel are made to see the error of their ways. Review page 47. Director David Ayer (2013, 15) (S) (W) (HD)
1.05am New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.05 Access (S) (HD) 3.10 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.45 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.10 House Busters (S) (SL) 5.35—6.00am Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) (HD) +1 Freeview 44 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155 5 Select For listings see opposite page
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8.00 Two and a Half Men 22/24 Series 9. Alan ends up in hospital after a minor heart attack. (S) (HD) 8.30 23/24. Alan’s friends and family shower him with love and affection when he returns from hospital. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island
Glamorous singles live in a beautiful villa in the South African sun under the watchful gaze of the audience at home. (S) (HD)
10.05 Family Guy Series 9. Meg offers to look after Joe while Bonnie is out of town. 10.35 Lois displays skill as a boxer. 11.05 Brian becomes a bestselling writer when he puts out a self-help book. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 11. Stan witnesses a couple die in a car crash, so goes to see a psychiatrist to help with the trauma. (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight Stan makes a wish upon his Christmas tree angel to become single — which then comes true. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.30am The Cleveland Show (S) (AD) (HD) 1.25 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 2.25 Celebrity Juice: the Sweetest Bits (S) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen ITV2+1 Freeview 27 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116
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F’view 24 F’sat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118 HD Virgin 178 6.00am World of Sport: TV Firsts (S) (HD) 6.15 The Chase (S) (HD) 7.20 Quincy (S) (HD) 8.20 Kojak (S) (HD) 9.25 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (S) (HD) 10.35 Minder (S) 11.40 The Professionals (S) (AD) 12.45pm LIVE Snooker: coverage of the afternoon session on day five of the World Grand Prix, featuring the concluding two quarter-finals (S) (HD) 4.45 The Professionals (S) (AD) 5.45 River Monsters (S) (HD) 6.45 LIVE Snooker Coverage of the evening session of on day five of the World Grand Prix at the Centaur in Cheltenham, featuring the opening semi-final. Ali Carter and Judd Trump were the victorious players at this stage last year, with Carter thrashing Xiao Guodong 6—0 and Trump edging past Barry Hawkins 6—5. Trump would go on to lift the trophy after defeating Carter 10—6 in the showpiece match. Jill Douglas presents. (S) (HD) 10.45 New. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite The latest edition of the wresting event. (S) (HD) 12.55am Fishing Impossible (S) (HD) 1.55 Minder (S) (SL) 2.50—3.00am Nightscreen (HD)
ITV4 +1 Freesat 154 Sky 220 Virgin 175
5.55pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot After the Funeral. At Richard Abernethie’s funeral, his niece Cora suggests he was probably murdered. The next day Cora herself is slain. Gueststarring Michael Fassbender. (S) (HD)
8.00 Doc Martin 1/8 Series 8. Martin and Louisa are living together again at the surgery, while Portwenn is buzzing with preparations for Janice and PC Penhale’s wedding. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 2/8. Louisa helps with the diagnosis of a pupil. (S) (AD) (HD) Dr Martin Ellingham Louisa Ellingham Bert Large Ruth Ellingham Al Large Morwenna Newcross PC Joe Penhale Janice
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Murdoch Mysteries 8.00pm Higgins and Ruth’s wedding is interrupted
Secret Scotland with Susan Calman 8.00pm Visiting Burns Cottage
Including a clip of a boy who’s afraid of falling from a fairground ride. (S)
Drama
Martin Clunes Caroline Catz Ian McNeice Eileen Atkins Joe Absolom Jessica Ransom John Marquez Robyn Addison
Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130 7.10am Bramwell 8.00 Soldier Soldier (S) 9.00 The Bill (S) 10.00 Classic Holby City (S) 11.00 Classic Casualty (S) 12 noon The Bill (S) 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.20 London’s Burning (S) 3.20 Lovejoy (S) 4.20 Bergerac (S) 5.25 Bread (S)
6.00pm Hi-de-Hi! Fred thinks he is being hunted by a gang who once bribed him to fix a race. (S)
6.40 As Time Goes By Judith’s new romance seems to be having problems, which Jean is only too keen to help solve — with disastrous results. (S)
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Auntie Wainwright sends Tom and Smiler on a mission to collect a new vehicle. (S) (HD)
8.00 Murdoch Mysteries 3/18 Series 12. My Big Fat Mimico Wedding A guest at the marriage of Higgins and Ruth makes repeated attempts to kill the groom. But that is just the beginning of the machinations taking place at the Newsome estate. (S) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise 3/8 Series 1. Predicting Murder. After predicting her own murder, a voodoo priestess is found dead. Unlike his colleagues, DI Poole is convinced it is a straightforward murder, and nothing to do with voodoo spirits and he soon discovers a link to a scandal that led to a woman’s disappearance years earlier. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Law & Order: UK
10.15 New Tricks
4/8 Series 8. Pride. When a murder suspect turns out to be the father of Ronnie’s former boss, how far will he go to help her find the real killer? (S) (AD) (HD)
3/8 Series 2. Trust Me. The ageing cops reinvestigate a murder case in which a girl’s body was misidentified. Lisa Faulkner and Harriet Walter guest-star. (S) (AD)
11.00 Inspector Morse
11.35 Taggart
Driven to Distraction. Morse and Lewis have a serious difference of opinion over correct police procedure. (S) (HD)
1/3 Series 14. Babushka. Jardine and Reid look into the apparently motiveless murder of a businessman, focusing their inquiries on a shady matrimonial agency. (S)
1.20am Inspector Morse (S) (HD) 3.15—3.30am Nightscreen
2.25am Bramwell 3.10—4.00am The Bill (S)
+1 F’view 34 (9pm—midnight) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174
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F’view 26 F’sat 118 Sky 131 Virgin 119 HD Virgin 179 7.00am The Bachelor USA (S) (HD) 8.50 Be Tasty (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe 12 noon Income Property (S) (HD) 12.25pm The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 1.20 Vanderpump Rules (S) (HD) 2.15 Million Dollar Listing: NYC (S) (HD) 3.10 The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00 New. The Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 6.00pm New. Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave are charmed by the potential of a house. 7.00 Buying and Selling A couple want to leave their suburban starter property. (HD) 8.00 Dinner Date Singleton Matt from Somerset looks for love. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Botched A woman seeks help to remedy her facial features. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 A serious case of man boobs. (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Kendra on Top Patti continues to mend fences with Kendra and Hank. (HD) 11.30 Patti resumes work on her book. (HD) 11.55 The Only Way Is Essex Joey and Arg have an accident. (S) (HD)
Drama +1 Sky 243 Virgin 226
Dave
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F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 Virgin 127 HD Virgin 227 BT 387 7.10am Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 8.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 9.00 Storage Hunters (S) (HD) 10.00 American Pickers (S) (HD) 12 noon Cop Car Workshop (S) (HD) 1.00pm Top Gear (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Cops UK: Bodycam Squad (S) (HD) 3.00 Sin City Motors (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Top Gear: double bill (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm QI XL With guests Julia Zemiro, Matt Lucas and David Mitchell. (S) (HD) 7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games Ellie Taylor, Josh Widdicombe, Steve Pemberton and Fern Britton compete. (S) (HD) 7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Rhod Gilbert, Sally Phillips, Des O’Connor and Tess Daly. (S) (HD) 8.20 With Gabby Logan, Andy Hamilton, Christian Jessen and Diane Parish. (S) (HD) 9.00 Live at the Apollo With Ed Byrne, Adam Hills and Gina Yashere. (S) (HD) 10.00 Taskmaster 4/8 Series 5. Mark Watson and Nish Kumar make toast. (S) (HD) 11.00 QI Double bill. (S)
12.40—12.55am Nightscreen (HD)
12.20am Mock the Week (S) 1.00 QI: double bill (S) 2.25 Flack (S) (AD) (HD) 3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games (S) (HD)
ITVBe +1 Freesat 119 Sky 231 Virgin 120
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 79 Sky 211 Virgin 131
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turned upside-down by a photograph
family deal with a painful anniversary
F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147 HD Virgin 195 8.55am Kirstie’s Vintage Gems (S) (HD) 9.15 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun (S) (HD) 11.15 Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD) 12.15pm Find It, Fix It, Flog It: double bill (S) (HD) 2.15 Four in a Bed: five editions (S) (HD) 4.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo (S) (AD) (HD) 5.55 New. Love It or List It Australia (S) (HD)
Freeview 31 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187 HD Virgin 150
7.55 Escape to the Château: DIY Fiona battles to get her dining room ready in time to show it to the mayor. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New series. Just One Look
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1/6. Thriller starring Virginie Ledoyen. A wife’s world is turned upside-down after a photo featuring her husband arrives in the mail. French +subtitles. See p114. (HD)
10.10 New. The Passenger
4/6. Mathias traces the paintings to an apartment in Paris. The entire series is available on All 4. French +subtitles. (HD)
11.15 24 Hours in A&E A victim of a stabbing. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.15am A cycling injury. (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (S) 2.20 24 Hours in A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 3.25—3.50am Food Unwrapped (S) (HD) More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196
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F’view 13 F’sat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106 HD Virgin 145 6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Wed/Thu 6.30pm C4 (AD) 7.00 How I Met Your Mother (AD) 8.00 Baby Daddy 9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00 Baby Daddy 3.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 4.00 The Goldbergs (AD) 5.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 14/24 Series 4. Sheldon receives acting lessons. (AD) 6.30 15/24. Leonard gets a proposal. (AD) 7.00 New. Hollyoaks Tony takes a big step. Cast pp87/117 Repeated next Monday C4 (AD)
7.30 New. Celebrity Come Dine with Me Geordie Shore’s Charlotte Crosby hosts. 8.00 Junior Bake Off Pastry challenges. (AD) 9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Killing Eve is among the small-screen offerings appraised. (AD) 10.00 Gogglebox: Celebrity Special for SU2C Including University Challenge. (AD) 11.20 Rick and Morty 5/10 Series 4. Morty suffers a potentially lethal snake bite. (AD) 11.50 New. Mr Pickles 5/10. Tommy enters the soapbox derby. First shown on Fox (AD) 12.05am Robot Chicken (AD) 12.20 Rick and Morty (AD) 12.50 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 1.50 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 2.40 Gogglebox (AD) 3.35 First Dates (SL) (AD) 4.30 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 5.20—6.00am How I Met Your Mother (AD)
9.00am The A-Team (AD) (HD) 11.00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 1.00pm Trucking Hell (S) (HD) 2.00 Police Interceptors (S) (HD) 3.00 Traffic Cops (S) (HD) 5.00 The A-Team: double bill (AD) (HD)
7.00pm Police Interceptors Two known offenders end up in trouble after a chase through Sheffield. (S) (HD)
8.00 Traffic Cops: Criminal Crackdown An insight into the working life of officers patrolling Derbyshire’s roads. (S) (HD)
9.00 Traffic Cops Police officers detain a man driving erratically on the M1. (S) (HD)
10.00 Streets of Rage: Caught on Camera CCTV cameras in Huntingdon capture drink- and drug-fuelled violence. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Yellowstone 3/9. The Duttons face a painful family anniversary and Kayce saves a young girl from danger. See choice, page 74. (S) (HD) 12 midnight Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (HD) 1.05am Airwolf: double bill (HD) 3.05 Arrow (HD) 4.35 Wentworth Prison (S) (AD) 5.25 Criminals: Caught on Camera 5.50—6.00am Access (S) (HD) Paramount Network +1 Sky 250
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F’view 47 F’sat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143 HD F’view 110 9.00am Come Dine with Me 12 noon Couples Come Dine with Me 1.00pm Undercover Boss USA 2.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 3.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (AD) 4.00 Frasier (AD) 5.00 A Place in the Sun 6.00pm A New Life in the Sun A cyclingholiday business receives a boost. 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Gordon Ramsay’s involvement with the Mill Street Bistro comes to a dramatic climax. 8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It Ep 5 Series 5. Kirstie and Phil are in High Wycombe. Shown Wednesday 8pm C4 (AD) 9.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? Ep 3 Series 10. Hate crime. Shown Mon 9pm C4 (AD) 10.00 24 Hours in A&E Ep 4. A woman who drove into a lamppost on her way home from treatment at St George’s. (AD) 11.05 Barrymore: the Body in the Pool The death of Stuart Lubbock. See choice, page 104. Shown yesterday 9pm C4 (AD) 1.00am Naked Attraction (AD) 2.10 Sex Tape (AD) 3.10 Australia on Fire: Climate Emergency (AD) 4.10—4.40am Four in a Bed
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6.00am Movie News 6.10 The Waltons 7.10 Hart to Hart 9.10 Days of Our Lives 10.00 Hart to Hart 11.00 Charlie’s Angels 12 noon Starsky & Hutch 1.00pm TJ Hooker 2.00 Hart to Hart: double bill 4.00 Murder, She Wrote: double bill 6.00pm Charlie’s Angels: the girls investigate a shipwreck 7.00 M*A*S*H: four episodes 9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: triple bill 12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Charlie’s Angels 3.00 M*A*S*H 3.30 The Waltons 4.20 Touched by an Angel 5.10—6.00am Highway to Heaven
7.00am Police Ten 7 8.00 Police Force: Australia 9.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 10.00 Border Security USA (AD) 11.00 Road Wars 12 noon Police Ten 7 1.00pm Police Force: Australia 2.00 Border Patrol 3.00 Border Security: Australia’s Front Line 4.00 Border Security USA (AD) 5.00 Stop, Search, Seize 6.00pm Star Trek: the Next Generation: Klingon fugitives seize the Enterprise 7.00 Hawaii Five-0: a private investigator helps McGarrett solve an escort’s murder 8.00 Elementary: Sherlock tries to help Joan locate a missing woman (AD) 9.00 Crazy on a Plane 10.00 The Force: North East 11.00 The Force: Manchester (AD) 12 midnight Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (AD) 1.00am Banged Up Abroad 2.00 Road Wars 3.00 Highway Patrol (AD) 4.00 UK Border Force (AD) 5.00—6.00am Nothing to Declare
Sony Channel +1 Freesat 152 Sky 257
Pick +1 Freeview 92 Freesat 145 Sky 252
E4 +1 Freeview 28 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146
Sony Channel
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BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
Yesterday
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Freeview 25 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
triple bill (S) (AD) 3.50—4.00am Access
6.00am Slow Train through Africa with Griff Rhys Jones (S) (HD) 7.10 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 10.00 Murder Maps (S) (HD) 11.00 Impossible Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Deep Wreck Mysteries (S) (HD) 1.00pm Murder Maps (S) (HD) 2.00 Planet Earth (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The World at War (S) (HD) 6.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 War Factories (S) (HD) 9.00 Abandoned Engineering (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Impossible Engineering (AD) (HD) 11.00 Steam Train Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight as 7pm 1.00am as 5pm 2.00—3.00am as 11am
5 USA +1 F’view 56 (not 2-4am) F’sat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185
Yesterday +1 Sky 255 Virgin 200
5 Star
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Freeview 30 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151 8.00am 3rd Rock from the Sun (S) (HD) 9.10 Will & Grace (HD) 10.05 Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 11.05 Two and a Half Men (S) (HD) 12 noon Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (S) (HD) 1.00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away (S) (HD) 3.00 Neighbours (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Home and Away (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 House (S) (HD) 6.00pm Neighbours Shown 5.30pm C5 (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 New. Home and Away: Ryder manages to save his night with Jade (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords (S) (HD) 8.00 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door (S) (HD) 9.00 FILM John Wick ★★★★ Action thriller starring Keanu Reeves. Film of the Day: page 47 (S) (HD) 11.00 New. Impact Wrestling (HD) 1.00am Sex Pod (S) (HD) 2.00 Riverdale (S) (HD) 3.50—4.00am Access (HD)
5 Star +1 Freeview 55 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186
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Freeview 54 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152 9.00am Access (S) 9.05 Criminals: Caught on Camera (S) 9.30 FILM Family Gathering ★★ (S) (W) 11.15 FILM Trust No One ★★ (S) (W) 1.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) 2.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) 4.00 The Yorkshire Vet (S) 5.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 6.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors (S) (AD) 8.00 The Yorkshire Vet: a pair of ferret fanciers fret over a prize-winning critter with a problematic lump (S) 9.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (S) 10.00 By Royal Appointment: Shops Serving the Queen (S) 11.00 The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies (S) 12 midnight Britain by Bike with Larry and George Lamb (S) 1.00am Tony Robinson: Coast to Coast 2.00 JFK’s Secret Killer: the Evidence (S) 3.00—4.00am Fights, Camera, Action! (S)
Really
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Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128 6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer: double bill 10.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 11.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 12 noon Escape to the Country: double bill (AD) 2.00pm Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 French Collection (HD) 4.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (AD) (HD) 6.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (HD) 7.00 Antiques Road Trip: double bill (HD) 9.00 New. Ghost Adventures (HD) 10.00 New. Haunted Hospitals (HD) 11.00 Ghost Adventures (HD) 1.00am Most Haunted: from Walton Hall in Cheshire (HD) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00— 6.00am Antiques Road Trip: double bill (HD)
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Freeview 42 Freesat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 279 7.00am Homes under the Hammer 8.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 9.00 Flog It! (HD) 10.00 House Hunters International (HD) 11.00 Hawaii Life (HD) 12 noon New. Island Life (HD) 1.00pm A Place in the Sun (HD) 2.00 Escape to the Country (HD) 3.00 Flog It! (HD) 4.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 5.00 Homes under the Hammer 6.00 New. Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb (HD) 7.00 New. A Place in the Sun (HD) 8.00 Escape to the Country: double bill (HD) 10.00 A Place in the Sun (HD) 12 midnight as 5pm 1.00am Flog It! (HD) 2.00 Bargain Hunt (HD) 3.00—4.00am Nick Knowles’s Original Features
HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 283
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F’view 12 F’sat 172 Sky 144 Virgin 169 HD F’view 114 F’sat 167
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00 Matlock 12 noon Perry Mason 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger 2.05 CSI: Miami 3.00 NCIS 4.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 5.00 Matlock 6.00 Perry Mason 7.05 Scorpion 8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 NCIS 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles 11.00 Scorpion 12 midnight CSI: Miami 1.00am NCIS 2.00 Ultimate Force 3.05 The High Chaparral 4.00 The High Chaparral 4.50—6.00am Mission: Impossible
6.00am How Do They Do It? (HD) 6.20 American Pickers (HD) 7.10 Deadliest Catch (HD) 8.00 Gold Divers (HD) 9.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 10.00 Wheeler Dealers (HD) 11.00 Speed Is the New Black (HD) 12 noon American Pickers (HD) 1.00pm Railroad Australia (HD) 2.00 Deadliest Catch (HD) 3.00 Gold Divers (HD) 4.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 5.00 Outback Truckers (HD) 6.00pm Wheeler Dealers (HD) 7.00 New. American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Salvage Hunters (HD) 9.00 New. Hunting Hitler (HD) 10.00 New. Treasure Quest: Snake Island (HD) 11.00 How Do They Do It? (HD) 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (HD) 1.00am Chasing Classic Cars (HD) 2.00 American Chopper 3.00 Fantomworks (HD) 4.00 Dirty Jobs 5.00—6.00am How It’s Made
CBS Justice +1 Freeview 69
Quest +1 F’view 76 (7pm–4am) F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
CBS Justice
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Freeview 39 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
CBS Drama
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Challenge
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Freeview 71 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
Freeview 46 Freesat 146 Sky 151 Virgin 164
9.00am NCIS 11.00 JAG 1.00pm The High Chaparral 3.00 Perry Mason (HD) 5.00 Unsolved Mysteries: double bill. The death of music producer Bobby Fuller, then the legend of the Chupacabra 7.00 Judge Judy: four editions 9.00 Medium: Allison starts working for a private corporation 10.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries 12 midnight Judge Judy 1.00am ER (HD) 2.00 Medium 3.00 CSI: Miami (HD) 4.00 Walker, Texas Ranger (HD) 5.00—6.00am Matlock
7.00am Wheel of Fortune 8.00 Catchphrase (AD) 9.00 The Chase 10.00 Supermarket Sweep 11.00 Price Is Right (AD) 12 noon Wheel of Fortune 1.00pm Catchphrase (AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes 3.00 The Chase 4.00 Bullseye 5.00 Price Is Right (AD) 6.00 Weakest Link 7.00 Pointless Celebrities (AD) 8.00 The Chase 11.00 Bullseye 12 midnight Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 1.00am The Chase 4.00 The Chase USA (AD) 5.00—6.00am Golden Balls (AD)
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Challenge +1 Freesat 147 Sky 251 Virgin 230 BBC
Parliament
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Freeview 70 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
Freeview 232 Freesat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
8.00am Andromeda 9.00 Star Trek: Voyager 10.00 Star Trek 11.00 FILM Triassic Attack ★ Sci-fi horror 12.50pm Highlights 1.00 FILM Sharknado 5: Global Swarming ★★ Sci-fi horror 2.50 Highlights 3.00 Lost in Space 4.00 FILM Mysterious Island ★★★ Fantasy adventure 6.00pm Star Trek 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00 Mutant X 9.00 FILM Cabin Fever ★ Horror starring Gage Golightly 10.55 FILM Outpost ★★ Action horror starring Ray Stevenson 12.45am FILM Phantasm ★★★ Horror starring A Michael Baldwin 2.35 FILM The Drownsman ★★ Horror 4.20—4.30am Highlights
6.00am House of Lords: recorded coverage 9.00 Thursday in Parliament 9.30 Lords Questions: recorded coverage 10.00 Live House of Lords: coverage of the day’s proceedings 2.30pm House of Lords: highlights of business in the House of Lords 6.00 Political Highlights: 10.30 Newscast 11.00 The Week in Parliament 11.30 Prime Minister’s Questions 12.05am Politics Live (Later) 12.50 Political Highlights 5.15—10.15am Westminster Hall: House of Commons proceedings
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Yellowstone 11.00pm John and his
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Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153 9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.25 Law & Order (S) 10.10 CSI: NY (S) 12 noon Private Eyes 1.00pm Murder, She Wrote (S) (AD) 2.00 Law & Order (S) 4.00 Murder, She Wrote (S) 6.00pm Law & Order (S) 8.00 NCIS (S) (AD) 9.00 New. Private Eyes Series 2. Everett and Shade investigate suspicious activity in suburbia First shown on Universal 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 3. Triple bill. An animal-rights activist is killed 10.55 A woman is found raped and murdered 11.55 A father accused of rape by his 18-year-old daughter is found dead (S) 12.55am CSI: NY:
Just One Look 9.00pm Eva’s world is
6.55pm Car SOS
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Cobra 9.00pm Anna seeks
Public Enemy 9.00pm Guy
Chicago Med 8.00pm
Never Seen a Doctor 10.00pm
Peep Show 10.20pm Mark
direction from Sutherland
Beranger offers his services
Dr Charles receives a visitor
Joanne neets Katie Piper
(right) launches a campaign
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6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 7.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue (HD) 8.00 The Dog Whisperer (HD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol (HD) 10.00 The Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 3.00 MacGyver (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30 Futurama (S) (AD) 6.30pm The Simpsons Homer becomes a singer’s manager. 7.00 Sideshow Bob gets engaged. 7.30 Bart gets a guitar. 8.00 New. Spooky tales, including a Stranger Things parody. (HD) 8.30 New. Modern Family Ep 4 Series 11. Jay feels neglected. (HD) 9.00 New. Cobra 4/6. A new threat rears its head. See page 114. (S) (HD) 10.00 New. The Late Late Show with James Corden: Best of the Week Highlights. (HD) 11.00 The Russell Howard Hour Ep 11 Series 3. Topical comedy. (HD) 12 midnight Avenue 5 (HD) 12.30am Micky Flanagan Thinking Aloud (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 2.30 The Force: Manchester (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Futurama (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S)
6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.00 Without a Trace (S) (HD) 10.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 12 noon Blue Bloods (S) (HD) 1.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 2.00 The West Wing (S) (HD) 4.00 Without a Trace: triple bill (HD) 7.00pm CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 4/25 Series 5 Catherine and Nick investigate the deaths of two women who underwent the same unorthodox anti-ageing procedure. (S) (HD) 8.00 Blue Bloods 11/22 Series 1 An unsolved case from Frank’s past returns to haunt him. (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Public Enemy 1/10 Series 2 The mystery thriller returns. Investigator Chloe Muller turns to Guy Beranger when a girl disappears, but Beranger wants something in return. (HD) 10.10 New. 2/10. Continuing the new run of the French mystery thriller.. French+subtitles. (HD) 11.15 The Outsider 5/10 Holly desperately searches for clues in several locations connected to the Dayton case. (HD) 12.20am Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 The New Pope: double bill (HD) 4.20—6.00am The West Wing: double bill (S) (HD)
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 8.00 Paramedics (HD) 9.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (S) (HD) 12 noon Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order (HD) 3.00 The Real A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 UK Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00pm Nothing to Declare Six editions following the work of customs officers in Australia. (S) 8.00 New. Chicago Med 6/10 Series 5. Natalie’s actions with a recent patient get her into trouble and Dr Charles receives a visit from an old friend. (HD) 9.00 New. Chicago Fire 6/10 Series 8. Cruz and Severide investigate a suspicious house fire started by an elderly woman. (HD) 10.00 New. Chicago PD 6/10 Series 7. An army recruitment centre is bombed. (HD) 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 3/24 Series 15 A teenager is shot by a chef. (HD) 12 midnight Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 1.00am Elementary (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Ghost Whisperer (S) (HD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)
6.10am MasterChef Australia (S) (HD) 7.30 Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD) 8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00 The Bill (S) 11.00 Supernanny US (S) 12 noon Tipping Point (S) (HD) 2.00pm MasterChef USA (HD) 3.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD) 5.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 7.00pm New. MasterChef USA The cooks cater for the wedding of series nine winner Gerron Hurt. (HD) 8.00 Inside the Ambulance Lee and Kath blue light to a man who’s collapsed after playing bingo. (S) (HD) 9.00 999 Rescue Squad Staff are scrambled to a block of flats after an explosion causes casualties and a driver is trapped after his lorry hits a tree. (S) (HD) 10.00 Never Seen a Doctor A couple with dental issues and a woman stuck in a neverending cycle with her psoriasis. 11.00 Inside the Ambulance A hospital patient is found wandering the streets. (S) (HD) 12 midnight One Born Every Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street (S) (HD) 1.50 American Housewife (S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Renovate My Home: Leave It to Bryan (S) (HD)
7.10am The Piglet Files 7.35 As Time Goes By 8.10 2 Point 4 Children (S) 8.50 Open All Hours 9.30 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 10.10 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 12.10pm Keeping Up Appearances 12.50 Open All Hours 1.30 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 2.10 dinnerladies (S) (AD) 2.50 Keeping Up Appearances 3.30 Dad’s Army (S) 4.10 Last of the Summer Wine (S) 6.10pm The Vicar of Dibley Geraldine receives a visitor. (AD) 7.00 Open All Hours Arkwright hatches a plan. 7.40 Dad’s Army Mainwaring tackles a suspected terrorist. (S) 8.20 Mainwaring sets up an observation post. (S) 9.00 Only Fools and Horses Del buys a manual to show him how to make positive decisions. (S) (AD) 10.20 Peep Show Jeremy moves in with Mark’s sister Sarah. (S) (HD) 10.50 Dobby’s ex-boyfriend offers her a job in New York. (S) (HD) 11.20 All Round to Mrs Brown’s With guests Ross Kemp, Pixie Lott, survivalist Steve Backshall and comedian Kevin Bridges. (HD) 12.40am Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (S) (HD) 1.40 Peep Show: double bill (S) (HD) 2.35—4.00am Spaced (S) (AD)
Sky 1 +1 Sky 206
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208
Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 180
W +1 Sky 209 Virgin 190
Gold +1 Sky 210 Virgin 194
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Sky 122 Virgin 123 HD Virgin 156 6.00am La Fille Mal Gardée (HD) 8.10 The South Bank Show Originals (S) 8.35 The Police: Music Icons (S) (HD) 9.00 The Eighties (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 11.00 Discovering: Robert Taylor (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Discovering: Montgomery Clift (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm The South Bank Show Originals (S) 1.30 Pretenders: Music Icons (S) (HD) 2.00 National Treasures: the Art of Collecting (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Portrait Artist of the Year (HD) 4.00 Tales of the Unexpected (S) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Warren Beatty (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Discovering: Jack Palance A profile. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 The Eighties The impact of Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power in the Soviet Union. (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History A look at the course of the Cold War in Berlin through music. (S) (HD) 9.00 Rudeboy: the Story of Trojan Records The record label that placed Jamaican music at the heart of British youth culture. (S) 10.55 Bob Marley: the Making of a Legend The reggae musician’s pre-fame years. (S) 12.45am Bob Marley Live at the Rainbow: a 1977 performance (S) 2.15 Oasis: Live by the Sea 3.30 Video Killed the Radio Star (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Discovering: Warren Beatty (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Discovering: Jack Palance (S) (AD) (HD)
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Sky 121 Virgin 136 HD Virgin 135 6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00 Caught on Dashcam (S) (AD) 8.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 9.00 UK Border Force (S) 10.00 Road Wars (S) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 12 noon Banged Up Abroad (S) 1.00pm How I Caught the Killer (S) 2.00 Border Security: Canada’s Front Line (S) 3.00 Road Wars (S) 4.00 Caught on Dashcam (S) (AD) 5.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK (S) 6.00 Snapped 7.00 Banged Up Abroad 8.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) 9.00 New. A Lie to Die For 10.00 New. Snapped 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 12 midnight World’s Most Evil Killers 1.00am Killer Neighbours 2.00 Snapped 3.00 Killed By My Lover (S) 4.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK (S) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)
Sky Crime +1 Sky 221 Virgin 207
Sony Crime Freesat 143 Sky 179 Virgin 193 6.00am Speeders 7.00 Bait Car: San Francisco 8.30 Bait Car: LA 9.00 Speeders 11.00 Bait Car: San Francisco 12.30pm Bait Car: LA 1.00 Speeders: 12 editions 7.00pm Speeders: four more editions. A teen driver is stopped by his mother 7.30 A female biker is caught speeding 8.00 A woman is spotted without her seatbelt on 8.30 A punk is stopped for having her music too loud 9.00 Bait Car: San Francisco: how the police catch car thieves in the act 10.30 Bait Car: LA 11.00 Speeders: double bill 12 midnight Bait Car: New Orleans 1.00am Speeders: four editions 3.00 Bait Car: LA 4.00 Speeders 5.00—6.00am Bait Car: New Orleans
Sky 2 Sky 168 Virgin 160 7.00am 60-Minute Makeover (S) 9.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia (S) 12.35pm Four Weddings (S) 2.30 Animal House (S) (AD) 3.00 The Chef’s Line (S) (AD) 4.00 A Town Called Eureka (S) 5.00 Relic Hunter (S) 6.00 Stargate SG-1: a malfunction plunges Earth into jeopardy 7.00 Supergirl: Colonel Haley makes a surprise decision about Supergirl (S) 8.00 Road Wars: officers face a drug addict in Milton Keynes (S) 9.00 Strike Back: Legacy (S) (HD) 11.00 Cobra: a new threat arises (S) 12 midnight The Late Late Show with James Corden: Best of the Week 1.00am Chicago Med 2.00 Chicago Fire 3.00 Chicago PD 4.00 Arrow (S) 5.00—6.00am Most Haunted (S)
Syfy Sky 114 Virgin 138 BT 319 HD Virgin 137 BT 375 6.00am Stargate Atlantis 8.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 1.00pm Stargate Atlantis 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager: double bill 5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation 7.00 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: double bill. Quark tries to enhance his reputation, then Dax faces the ultimate nightmare 9.00 FILM xXx ★★★ Spy action thriller with Vin Diesel and Asia Argento 11.30 FILM Twelve Monkeys ★★★★ Futuristic thriller starring Bruce Willis and Madeleine Stowe
Sky Comedy Sky 113 Virgin 122 HD Virgin 121 8.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 9.00 Parks and Recreation (HD) 10.30 30 Rock (HD) 12 noon The Mindy Project (HD) 1.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 2.30 Everybody Hates Chris (HD) 3.30 Parks and Recreation (HD) 5.00 30 Rock (HD) 6.30pm Modern Family (S) (HD) 7.30 The Mindy Project: triple bill. Morgan sues Mindy for sexual harassment 8.00 Mindy dates an art journalist 8.30 Peter resists Mindy’s efforts to bond with him (HD) 9.00 Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 Sex and the City (HD) 10.50 New. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD) 11.50 Entourage (S) (HD) 1.00am Eastbound & Down: double bill (HD) 2.10 Girls: double bill (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20—5.00am 30 Rock (HD)
TLC Sky 133 Virgin 167 BT 323 HD BT 377
2.00am Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 4.00—6.00am Star Trek: Voyager
6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 11.00 Curvy Brides (HD) 12 noon Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD) 2.00pm Dr Pimple Popper (HD) 3.00 Sister Wives (HD) 4.00 Curvy Brides (HD) 5.00 Curvy Brides Boutique (HD) 6.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 7.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK (HD) 8.00 Say Yes to the Dress America (HD) 9.00 Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 10.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ten Years of Yes! (HD) 12 midnight Say Yes to the Dress America (HD) 1.00am Say Yes to the Dress (HD) 2.00 Say Yes to the Dress: Ten Years of Yes! (HD) 4.00— 6.00am Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta (HD)
Syfy +1 Sky 214 Virgin 229
TLC +1 Sky 233 Virgin 172
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Comedy Central Sky 112 Virgin 132 BT 307 HD Virgin 181 BT 370 8.00am Will & Grace 9.00 The Office US (S) (HD) 10.00 My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 11.00 Impractical Jokers (S) (HD) 12 noon Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00pm My Name Is Earl (S) (HD) 5.00 Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Joe Lycett: That’s the Way, A-Ha, A-Ha, Joe Lycett (S) (HD) 10.00 New. Bob’s Burgers: Tina dissects a pig 10.30 Roast Battle (HD) 11.00 FILM Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan ★★★★ Satirical comedy with Sacha Baron Cohen 1.00am South Park: five episodes (S) (HD) 3.25 The Mick: double bill (HD) 4.15—5.00am Takeshi’s Castle (S) (HD)
Comedy Central +1 Sky 212 Virgin 133
Lifetime Sky 187 Virgin 208 BT 329 HD BT 384 7.00am Judge Judy (HD) 1.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 2.00 My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera: a “haunted” bar in Texas (HD) 3.00 Little Women: Dallas (HD) 4.00 Dance Moms (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00pm Flipping Vegas: Scott Yancey takes on a house full of mould (HD) 7.00 Judge Judy: four editions (HD) 9.00 Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath: Leah becomes more determined than ever to challenge Church practices (HD) 10.00 Storage Wars (HD) 11.00 Hardcore Pawn (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars (HD) 1.00am Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (HD) 2.00 Storage Wars (HD) 3.00—4.00am Hardcore Pawn (HD)
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Unforgettable 7.00pm Carrie heads to an elite prep school
Alibi
NCIS 9.00pm McGee and
Gibbs go through the evidence
Fox
Code of the Wild 9.00pm Chris is on the road to El Dorado
Discovery
Survivor 7.15pm A wildebeest’s relationship with a lioness
PBS America
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Sky 124 Virgin 157 HD Virgin 199
Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322 HD BT 376
F’view (HD only) 91 F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 9.00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: double bill (S) (HD) 11.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 1.00pm Rush (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Rosewood (S) (HD) 3.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD) 5.00pm Major Crimes 19/19 Series 3. The division desperately works to stop a serial killer. (S) (HD) 6.00 1/19 Series 2. A new deputy district attorney challenges Raydor’s intentions. (S) (HD) 7.00 Unforgettable 9/13 Series 3 An elite prep school comes under Carrie and Al’s scrutiny. (S) (HD) 8.00 10/13. Carrie and Al conduct their own secret investigation. (S) (HD) 9.00 Death in Paradise 7/8 Series 5. A treasure hunter is found dead after a valuable discovery. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.20 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries 10/13 Series 2 A suspicious death occurs at an idyllic vineyard. (S) (HD) 11.20 New Tricks 8/10 Series 9 The detectives investigate the murder of an East German immigrant. (S) (AD) (HD) 12.40am Inspector Alleyn Mysteries: a barrister is poisoned (S) 2.55—4.00am Rosewood (S) (HD)
8.00am Republic of Doyle (HD) 9.00 Bones (HD) 10.00 Bull (HD) 11.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Bones (HD) 2.00pm The Mentalist (HD) 3.00 NCIS (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Bull (HD) 5.00 Bones (HD) 6.00pm The Mentalist 10/22 Series 6. The FBI reluctantly asks Jane to help find a missing computer programmer. (HD) 7.00 NCIS: New Orleans 19/24 Series 4. Percy and LaSalle go under cover at a high-stakes, underground poker game. (HD) 8.00 20/24. A group of volatile thieves holds Pride and his bar patrons hostage. (HD) 9.00 New. NCIS Ep 6 Series 17 After a petty officer’s son is found killed, evidence suggests Kasie’s best friend is guilty. (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Fix 10/10. All questions will be answered as a conviction is made in the Jessica Meyer murder case. (HD) 11.00 American Dad! Series 1 An Iranian couple arouse suspicion. 11.30 Roger provides a secret ingredient for Francine’s salad. 12 midnight Family Guy (HD) 1.00am American Dad! 2.00 Family Guy (HD) 3.00 American Dad! 4.00— 5.00am Republic of Doyle (HD)
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00 Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Building off the Grid (S) (HD) 9.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (S) (HD) 10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 1.00pm Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD) 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum (HD) 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 New. Building off the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Fast ’n’ Loud The Monkeys and Big Mike race to finish their 1975 Datsun 280Z. (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Outback Truckers Driver Steve Grahame discovers his vehicle has taken a battering. (S) (HD) 8.00 Gold Rush Rick and Tony both suffer mechanical failures. (HD) 9.00 New. Code of the Wild Casey and Chris are in search of the lost City of Gold. (S) (HD) 10.00 Faking It: Tears of a Crime The case of Levi Bellfield. 11.00 Examining the crimes of Dr Harold Shipman. 12 midnight The murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. (S) (HD) 1.00am FBI Files (S) 3.50 Kindig Customs (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30—6.00am How It’s Made (S)
8.00am Jet Set 8.25 Nazi Hunters 9.30 Born to Explore 10.50 Desert War 12 noon Nazi Hunters 1.00pm Walks around Britain 1.30 Nazi Law: Legally Blind 2.40 Desert War 3.50 Nazi Hunters 4.45pm Nazi Law: Legally Blind A look at how Hitler manipulated laws to further his agenda, denying rights to people who were considered physically or racially inferior or disloyal to the state 5.55 Born to Explore Richard Wiese travels to Namibia for an in-depth look at the cheetah, the most endangered cat in Africa, finding out what is being done to save it from extinction. 7.15 New. Survivor The story of a wildebeest calf that was seized by a lioness and whose instinct drove it to bond with the big cat — who reciprocated. 8.30 The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia An investigation into the rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, looking at his vision for the future, his handling of dissent and his ties to journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death. 11.00 Survivor As 7.15pm. 12.15am Walks around Britain 12.50—2.00am Jet Set
Alibi +1 Sky 232 Virgin 191
Fox +1 Sky 224 Virgin 158
Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258
PBS +1 Freeview 93 (HD only)
Discovery History Sky 171 Virgin 257 6.00am Expedition Unknown 7.00 Deadliest Tech 8.00 World War II: the Complete History 9.00 Hidden History of Egypt 10.00 Extreme Engineering 11.00 Deadliest Tech 12 noon Blowing Up History 1.00pm Expedition Unknown 2.00 Mysteries at the Museum 3.00 World War II: the Complete History 4.00 Hidden History of Rome 5.00 Extreme Engineering 6.00pm Blowing Up History Uncovering the secrets of the lost city of Tikal, which was once home to over 100,000 people, hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle. 7.00 Mysteries at the Museum A woman’s quest for athletic glory. 8.00 Expedition Unknown Josh Gates travels to Namibia to embark on a treacherously deep dive in Lake Otjikoto. 9.00 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A New York photographer climbs skyscrapers to capture a bird’s-eye view of the city. 10.00 Houdini’s Last Secrets Experts re-create Houdini’s buried alive escape stunt. 11.00 Extreme Machines Four-wheel-drive vehicles. 12 midnight Expedition Unknown 1.00am Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 2.00 Houdini’s Last Secrets 3.00 Extreme Machines 4.00 Blowing Up History 5.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum Discovery History +1 Sky 271 Virgin 261
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History
Nat Geographic
Sky 130 Virgin 270 BT 327 HD BT 379
Sky 129 Virgin 266 BT 317 HD Virgin 268 BT 373
6.00am American Pickers (HD) 8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 Pirate Traders (HD) 10.00 Ancient Aliens (HD) 11.00 American Pickers 12 noon Mountain Men (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire Tournament of Champions (HD) 2.00 American Pickers (HD) 3.00 American Pickers: Best Of (HD) 4.00 Storage Wars (HD) 5.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 6.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 American Pickers (HD) 9.00 Last Days of the Nazis: the Final Solution and the Night of Broken Glass (HD) 10.00 Lost Gold of WWII: the unearthing of a bombmaker leads the team to some intriguing discoveries (HD) 11.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 12 midnight In Search Of (HD) 1.00am American Pickers 2.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 Mountain Men (HD) 4.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 5.00—6.00am Storage Wars (HD)
8.00am Hidden Gems of Turkey (HD) 9.00 Atlantis: Draining the Lost City (HD) 10.00 World War II: the Apocalypse (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 1.00pm Car SOS (HD) 4.00 Supercars (HD) 5.00 World’s Fastest Train (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Air Crash Investigation (HD) 7.00 Tracing Heritage (HD) 8.00 Britain’s Underworld (HD) 9.00 New series. Inside the American Mob: the rise and fall of some of the most powerful men in American organised crime (HD) 10.00 New. World’s Most Dangerous Drug: Super Meth (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 12 midnight Ice Road Rescue (HD) 1.00am Wicked Tuna (HD) 2.00 Yukon Gold (HD) 3.00—5.00am Air Crash Investigation: double bill (HD)
History +1 Sky 230 Virgin 271
Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267
Animal Planet
Eden
Sky 162 Virgin 251 BT 325 HD BT 378
Sky 166 Virgin 245 BT 315 HD Virgin 247 BT 389
6.00am Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 8.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 10.00 Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 11.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 12 noon Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 1.00pm Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 3.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 4.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 6.00pm Bondi Vet (S) (HD) 7.00 Animal Cops Houston (S) 8.00 New. Pit Bulls and Parolees (HD) 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Animal Cops Philadelphia (S) (HD) 11.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 1.00am as 7pm 2.00 as 8pm 3.00 as 9pm 3.50 as 5pm 4.40 Little Giants (HD) 5.10—6.00am Tanked (S) (HD)
9.00am Outback Vet (HD) 10.00 Orangutan Diary 11.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 12 noon Yellowstone Journals (HD) 1.00pm Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.00 Outback Vet (HD) 4.00 Orangutan Diary 5.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 6.00pm Outback Vet (HD) 7.00 Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 8.00 Yellowstone Journals (HD) 9.00 Orangutan Diary 10.00 Jungle Planet (HD) 11.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 12 midnight Yellowstone Journals: double bill (HD) 1.00am Frozen Planet (AD) (HD) 2.00 Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD) 3.00 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD) 3.50 Orangutan Diary 4.40 Jungle Planet (HD) 5.30— 6.00am Frontier Borneo (HD)
Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 Virgin 259
Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246
Smithsonian
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F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 195 Virgin 276 6.00am Brazil’s Emerald Oasis (HD) 7.00 Big Cat Country (HD) 8.00 Aerial Africa (HD) 9.00 Seriously Amazing Objects 10.00 Air Warriors (HD) 11.00 Navy SEAL Dog (HD) 12 noon Brazil’s Emerald Oasis (HD) 1.00pm Big Cat Country (HD) 2.00 Aerial Africa (HD) 3.00 Seriously Amazing Objects 4.00 Air Warriors (HD) 5.00 America’s Stealth Bomber: (HD) 6.00pm Navy SEAL Dog The vital roles the military canines serve on and off the battlefield. (HD) 7.00 Aerial America A flight over Miami, home to more than six million people. The city is famous for Ocean Drive and the 1980s TV cop show set there. (HD) 8.00 New. A journey over Kansas, where aviation pioneers took flight and the first battle of the Civil War took place. (HD) 9.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates Julie Montagu visits the 450-year-old Holdenby House. (HD) 10.00 Mystic Britain Clive Anderson and Mary-Ann Ochota explore Hadrian’s Wall. (HD) 11.00 Aerial America As 8pm. 12 midnight An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 1.00am Mystic Britain (HD) 2.00 Aerial America (HD) 3.00 An American Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates (HD) 4.00 Mystic Britain (HD) 5.00—6.00am America’s Stealth Bomber (HD)
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Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 614 Virgin 702 6.00am Something Special 6.20 Baby Jake 6.35 Twirlywoos 6.45 Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 7.00 Numberblocks 7.05 Bing: double bill 7.20 Hey Duggee: double bill 7.35 Bitz & Bob 7.45 Peter Rabbit 8.00 Go Jetters 8.10 Octonauts 8.20 Biggleton 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Tee and Mo 9.05 Yakka Dee! 9.10 Alphablocks 9.20 Timmy Time 9.25 Bing 9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 New. Something Special 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 Hey Duggee 10.40 Patchwork Pals 10.45 Mister Maker’s Arty Party 11.05 Magic Hands 11.15 My Pet and Me 11.30 School of Roars 11.40 My First 11.50 Tinga Tinga Tales 12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm Old Jack’s Boat 12.30 Katie Morag 12.45 Melody 1.00 The Furchester Hotel 1.10 Yakka Dee! 1.15 Numberblocks 1.20 Bing 1.30 Twirlywoos 1.45 Something Special 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 The Baby Club 2.35 Pablo 2.45 Our Family 2.55 Grace’s Amazing Machines 3.15 Swashbuckle 3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Octonauts 4.00 New. Love Monster 4.05 Andy’s Safari Adventures 4.20 Maddie’s Do You Know? 4.35 Peter Rabbit 4.50 Go Jetters 5.00 Gigglebiz: comedy sketch show for the under-sixes 5.15 Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.25 Molly and Mack; My Petsaurus 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm RT CHOICE New. CBeebies Bedtime Stories: a tale is read for younger viewers. See page 115
CBBC
Friday Television
Sky 132 Virgin 126 BT 312 HD Virgin 212 BT 382
6.00am Peppa Pig 6.20 New. Mya Go 6.30 Fireman Sam 6.40 Noddy: Toyland Detective 6.50 Shane the Chef 7.00 Thomas & Friends 7.15 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures 7.20 Peppa Pig 7.40 New. Top Wing 7.55 Paw Patrol 8.10 Floogals 8.30 New. Becca’s Bunch: Beatrice gets her paw stuck to Becca’s wing 8.45 Little Princess 8.55 Ben and Holly 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies: the gang visits a Mexican carnival
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Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 613 Virgin 701 7.00am Arthur 7.15 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.25 Danger Mouse 7.35 New. MOTD Kickabout 7.40 New. Newsround 7.45 Danny & Mick 8.00 Class Dismissed 8.15 New. Newsround 8.25 Marrying Mum and Dad 8.55 Art Ninja 9.15 A Week to Beat the World 9.30 Hetty Feather 1.50pm Got What It Takes? 2.25 Operation Ouch! 2.55 The Demon Headmaster 3.20 The Deep 3.45 Shaun the Sheep 3.50 Scream Street 4.00 New. Newsround 4.10 Danny & Mick 4.25 Odd Squad 4.35 The Pets Factor 5.00 New. The Dumping Ground 5.30 Horrible Histories: Egyptian beauty secrets, and a Saxon musical instrument made from live pigs 6.00 New. Crackerjack! 6.45 Horrible Histories 7.15 Horrible Histories: Gory Games 7.40 Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch 8.00 So Awkward 8.30—9.00pm The Dumping Ground
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Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 621 Virgin 734 6.00am Super 4 6.25 Fangbone 6.55 Mighty Magiswords! 7.25 Mr Bean 7.55 Mr Magoo 8.25 Scooby-Doo! 8.50 Mighty Mike 9.20 Dare Master 9.25 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 9.50 Hotel Transylvania 10.20 Spy School 10.45 Massive Monster Mayhem 11.10 Drop Dead Weird 11.40 Max & Shred 12.05pm Robozuna 12.30 Gormiti 3D 1.00 Mighty Magiswords! 1.25 Dare Master 1.30 The Bagel and Becky Show 2.10 Hotel Transylvania 2.40 Mr Magoo 3.10 The Tom and Jerry Show 3.30 Scooby-Doo! 4.00 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud 4.30 Mighty Mike 5.00 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants 5.30 LEGO Jurassic World 6.00 Robozuna 6.25 Gormiti 3D 7.00 Mr Bean 7.30 Mr Magoo 8.00 Massive Monster Mayhem 8.30—9.00pm Max & Shred
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FRIDAY Films & Sport Discover film The best of Sky, iPlayer, Netflix and beyond
FREEVIEW Film4
Sky Premiere 14
F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428 HD Virgin 429 11.00am The 300 Spartans ★★★ Decent historical adventure. Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe (1962, PG) (S)
1.15pm Robin and Marian ★★★★ Wonderfully original Sherwood Forest adventure. Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn (1976, PG) (S) 3.35 Shane 5 Classic western about a lone rider who sides with a homesteader against a cattle baron and his gunslinging minions. Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin (1953, PG) (S) (AD)
5.55pm Exodus: Gods and Kings ★★★ Ridley Scott gives this biblical epic a modern thriller edge and high-end CGI.
Television Friday
Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro (2014, 12) (AD)
9.00 X-Men Origins: Wolverine ★★ Spin-off prequel featuring a lively turn from Hugh Jackman. Danny Huston (2009, 12) (S) (AD)
Watch it for free Twelve Monkeys 1111 BBC iPlayer FREE TO VIEW Although inspired by Chris Marker’s 1962 short film La Jetée, this film is very much the work of Terry Gilliam. He imposes his own pseudo-poetic vision onto a world doomed to viral annihilation unless time traveller Bruce Willis can prevent the disaster. Brad Pitt gives a twitchy performance as the leader of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, but it’s Willis’s anguished introvert who holds this atmospheric film together. Gilliam’s latest flight of fantasy, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, is now in cinemas. DAVID PARKINSON
11.05pm RoboCop ★★★★ Joel Kinnaman stars as the Detroit cop-turned-cyborg in this smart update of the 1987 sci-fi masterpiece. Gary Oldman (2014, 12) (S) (AD) 1.20—3.15am Seoul Station ★★★ Terrifying animated prequel to Train to Busan. Ryu Seung-ryong, Shim Eun-kyung, Lee Joon (2016, 15) (S)
Film4 +1 F’view 45 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430
Sony Movies
Freeview 32 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425 9.00am Hidden Crimes ★★ Thriller. (2009) 11.00 My Neighbor’s Keeper ★★ Mystery thriller. (2007) 1.00pm Titanic 2 ★★ Disaster adventure. (2010, 12) 3.00 Asteroid vs Earth ★ Disaster thriller. (2014) 5.00 I Spy ★★ Spy action comedy. Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson (2002, 12) 6.55pm Six Days Seven Nights ★★★ Enjoyable castaways tale. Harrison Ford (1998, 12) 9.00 Pulp Fiction 5 Exhilarating crime drama. John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson (1994, 18) 12.05am Layer Cake ★★★ Crime thriller. Daniel Craig (2004, 15) 2.15 The Benefactor ★★ Drama. Richard Gere (2015, 15) 4.05—6.00am The House Bunny ★★★ Comedy. Anna Faris (2008, 12) Sony Movies +1 F’view 60 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
Sony Movies Classic
Friday night frights p Pet Sematary 111 8.00pm Sky Premiere This solid adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller is darker and bleaker than its 1989 movie incarnation. When Jason Clarke and his family move to a property in Maine, they are troubled by trucks hurtling past their backyard. Many a local pet has fallen victim to the traffic, and has been laid to rest nearby. But not far away is a Native American burial ground that has its own secrets. Although this remake deviates from King’s original text, there are plenty of frights and the creepy Wendigo spirit really comes into its own. ALAN JONES
In cinemas today The unstoppable Margot Robbie (right) returns as Suicide Squad’s chief mischief-maker in solo adventure Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). Robert Downey Jr talks to the animals in Dolittle. And South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Baftaand Oscar-nominated Parasite finally gets a UK release. STEVE MORRISSEY
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F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424 6.00am The Reckless Moment ★★★ (1949, 12) 7.40 The Best Years of Our Lives 5 Drama. (1946, U) 11.20 Sealed Cargo ★★ War drama. (1951, U) 1.10pm Barbary Coast ★★★ Period action drama. Miriam Hopkins (1935, PG) 3.00 Loss of Innocence ★★★ Romantic drama. Kenneth More (1961, PG) 5.10 The Wild One ★★★★ Drama. Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy (1953, PG) 6.50pm The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 5 Powerful kitchensink drama. Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave (1962, 12) 9.00 The Big Chill ★★★★ Wise and witty drama. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt (1983, 15) 11.10 Enigma ★★ Thriller. Martin Sheen (1982, 15) 1.10am The Gorgon ★★★ Horror. Peter Cushing (1964, 12) 2.50 Conduct Unbecoming ★★ Drama. (1975, PG) 4.35—6.00am The Sword of El Cid ★★ Historical adventure. (1963, U) Sony Movies Classic +1 F’View 62 (limited) F’Sat 304 Sky 320
Talking Pictures TV
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Freeview 81 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445 6.00am Counter-Attack ★★★ War drama. (1945) 7.45 Convict 99 ★★ Comedy. Will Hay (1938, U) 9.30 Address Unknown ★★ Second World War drama. Paul Lukas (1944, PG) 11.00 June Allyson 11.30 A Canterbury Tale ★★★★ War drama. Eric Portman (1944, U) 2.00pm Rooms 2.30 Rockets Galore ★★ Comedy. Jeannie Carson (1958, U) 4.30 The Hasty Heart ★★★ Second World War drama. Ronald Reagan (1949, U) 6.35pm Dick Powell Theatre TV series. 7.40 For Those in Peril ★★★ Flagwaving wartime drama about the air-sea rescue service. David Farrar, Ralph Michael (1943, U) 9.00 Hazell TV crime drama. 10.00 To the Devil a Daughter ★★ Muddled Hammer horror. Richard Widmark (1976, 18) 12 midnight See No Evil ★★ Thriller. Mia Farrow, Robin Bailey (1971, 15) (S) 1.50am Junior Bonner ★★★★ Drama. Steve McQueen, Robert Preston (1972, PG) 4.10—6.00am The Second Woman ★★ Thriller. Robert Young (1951) (S)
Sky Oscars
Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501 6.00am In Fabric ★★★★ Supernatural thriller. Review p82. (2018, 15) 8.15 November Criminals ★★ Drama. Ansel Elgort, Chloë Grace Moretz (2017, 12) 10.00 As 11.50pm 12 noon i Pet Sematary As 8pm 2.00pm As 9.45pm 4.15 Never Grow Old ★★★ Western. John Cusack (2019, 15)
Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502 7.05am Lawrence of Arabia 5 (1962, PG) 10.40 Gone with the Wind 5 Romantic drama. Vivien Leigh (1939, PG) 2.20pm The Quiet Man 5 Romantic comedy drama. John Wayne (1952, U) 4.30 The Bridge on the River Kwai 5 Second World War epic. William Holden (1957, PG)
6.15pm Gemini ★★★ Lola Kirke and Zoë Kravitz are compelling in this noir about the dark side of Hollywood. Review p112. (2017, 15) 8.00 i Pet Sematary ★★★ Stephen King’s best-seller is rebooted as a chilling depiction of mortality. Review left. (2019, 15) 9.45 The Favourite 5 Superb tragicomic take on the reign of Queen Anne. Olivia Colman,
7.10pm Saving Private Ryan ★★★★ Strongly acted, Oscarwinning Second World War drama.
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult (2018, 15)
11.50pm Escape Plan 3 ★★ Action thriller. Review p62. Sylvester Stallone (2019, 15) 1.45am Rabid ★★★ Horror. Laura Vandervoort (2019, 18) 3.45 As 8.15am 5.30 1917 Special Sky Premiere +1 Sky 312 Virgin 412
Sky Hits
Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns (1998, 15)
10.00 Gravity 5 Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts marooned in space in this brilliant adventure. (2013, 12) 11.35 Unforgiven 5 Oscar-winning western in which an old gunslinger is forced out of retirement. Clint Eastwood (1992, 15) 1.50am The French Connection 5 Superb, multi-Oscar-winning crime drama starring Gene Hackman. Fernando Rey (1971, 18) 3.45 The Bridge on the River Kwai As 4.30pm
Sky Greats
Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503 6.30am We’re the Millers ★★★ (2013, 15) 8.30 The Lone Ranger ★★★★ (2013, 12) 11.10 As 9pm 1.20pm Austin Powers: the Spy Who Shagged Me ★★★★ (1999, 12) 3.05 Austin Powers in Goldmember ★★★ Spoof. (2002, 12) 4.50 Dumbo ★★★★ Adventure. Colin Farrell (2019, PG)
Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504 6.35am Awakenings ★★★★ (1990, 15) 8.45 Stand by Me 5 Drama. (1986, 15) 10.20 Remember the Titans ★★★ American football drama. (2000, PG) 12.20pm Rear Window 5 Thriller. James Stewart (1954, PG) 2.20 A Few Good Men ★★★★ Courtroom drama. Tom Cruise (1992, 15)
6.50pm Captain America: the First Avenger ★★★ The star-spangled hero is born in this pleasingly retro-style Marvel Comics caper. Chris Evans (2011, 12) 9.00 Captain Marvel ★★★ Feisty Brie Larson stars in Marvel’s classy fantasy adventure. (2019, 12) 11.10 The Equalizer 2 ★★★ The ex-secret agent-turned-good Samaritan rights wrongs in this action-packed sequel. (2018, 15)
4.50pm Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ★★★ The dark destiny of Anakin Skywalker is decided. Ewan McGregor (2005, 12) 7.15 Isle of Dogs ★★★★ A boy searches for his lost canine chum. Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton (2018, PG) 9.00 The Royal Tenenbaums 5 Gene Hackman stars as the patriarch of a gifted but dysfunctional New York family.
1.15am Safe House ★★★ Action thriller. Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington (2012, 15) 3.15 The Bodyguard ★★★ Romantic thriller. Kevin Costner (1992, 15) 5.30 The Hate U Give ★★★★ Crime drama. Amandla Stenberg (2018, 12)
11.00pm The Big Lebowski ★★★★ Comedy. Jeff Bridges (1998, 18) 1.00am Die Hard with a Vengeance ★★★★ Action thriller. Bruce Willis (1995, 15) 3.15 The Verdict ★★★ Drama. (1982, 15) 5.30 The Last Samurai ★★★★ (2003, 15)
Sky Action Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507 7.00am Armageddon ★★★ Thrilling sci-fi action adventure. Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck (1998, 15)
9.45 Cliffhanger As 6pm 11.45 Bumblebee As 8pm 1.45pm Pacific Rim As 10pm 4.00 Pacific Rim: Uprising ★★★ Sci-fi action adventure. John Boyega, Scott Eastwood (2018, 12)
6.00pm Cliffhanger ★★★★ Action thriller in which a group of desperate criminals coerce a rock climber into helping them escape. Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow (1993, 15) 8.00 Bumblebee ★★★ The robot befriends a teenage girl in this fun-filled spin-off. (2018, PG) 10.00 Pacific Rim ★★★ Giant robots take on alien monsters in this dumb but fun sci-fi action adventure. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba (2013, 12) 12.15am Pacific Rim: Uprising As 4pm 2.15 Armageddon As 7am 5.00 Sky Cinema Preview
Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow (2001, 15)
Sky Comedy Sky 310 Virgin 408 BT 508 6.15am 30 Minutes or Less ★★★ (2011, 15) 7.45 My Cousin Vinny ★★★★ (1992, 15) 9.50 Being Frank ★★ (2018) 11.45 As 11pm 1.40pm You Don’t Mess with the Zohan ★★ (2008, 12) 3.35 The Longest Yard ★★★ Prison sports comedy. (2005, 12) 5.30 Grown Ups ★★ (2010, 12)
7.15pm Grown Ups 2 ★ The four friends return, this time finding themselves outdone for juvenile behaviour. Adam Sandler (2013, 12) 9.00 Little ★★ A body swap forces a horrid tech magnate to learn some life lessons. Regina Hall, Issa Rae, Marsai Martin, Justin Hartley (2019, 12)
11.00 Nobody’s Fool ★★ Advertising executive Tika Sumpter has sister issues and man dilemmas. Tiffany Haddish (2018, 15) 1.00am This Is the End ★★★★ Satirical comedy. James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel (2013, 15) 2.55 As 9.50am 4.55 The Fighting Temptations ★★ Musical comedy. Cuba Gooding Jr, Beyoncé Knowles (2003, PG)
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Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506 6.35am As 6pm 8.35 As 8pm 11.15 The Mask of Zorro ★★★★ Swashbuckling adventure. Antonio Banderas (1998, PG) 1.40pm The Legend of Zorro ★★★ Swashbuckling adventure. Antonio Banderas (2005, PG) 4.00 A Wrinkle in Time ★★ Fantasy adventure. Oprah Winfrey (2018, PG)
6.35pm The Jungle Book 5 Classic, timeless animated adventure charting the adventures of Mowgli. Phil Harris (1967, U) 8.00 Aladdin ★★★ Energetic live-action retelling of the Arabian Nights tale. Will Smith (2019, PG) 10.15 Dinosaur ★★★ Visually stunning animated adventure about an abandoned baby dinosaur making its way to a new land. DB Sweeney, Alfre Woodard (2000, PG)
6.00pm The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ★★★★ Wonderful entry in the fantasy adventure series.
10.40 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ★★★ Genteel seasonal fantasy. Mackenzie Foy (2018, PG)
11.45pm Christopher Robin ★★ Part-animated adventure. (2018, PG) 1.40am Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ★★★★ Comedy. (1989, U) 3.25 The Emperor’s New Groove ★★★★ (2000, U) 4.50 Recess: All Growed Down
12.30am Garfield ★★ Part-animated comedy. Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt (2004, U) 2.00 As 4pm 4.00 Nanny McPhee & the Big Bang ★★★★ Period fantasy adventure. Emma Thompson (2010, U)
Sky Thriller
8.00 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ★★★★ Harry is whisked off to Hogwarts. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson (2001, PG)
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Drama
Sky 308 Virgin 410 BT 510 6.00am Sabrina ★★★ Romantic comedy. Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond (1995, PG) 8.15 Tully As 6.10pm 10.05 Being Rose ★★★ Drama. Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin (2017) 11.45 King Arthur As 8pm 2.05pm Blood Diamond As 10.10pm 4.30 Tyrel ★★ Comedy drama. Jason Mitchell (2018, 15)
6.50pm The Sisters Brothers ★★★★ Rugged, idiosyncratic western about a pair of assassins on the hunt for gold. John C Reilly (2018, 15) 9.00 Bad Boys ★★★★ Hugely entertaining action comedy thriller in which two cops have to switch lifestyles. Martin Lawrence (1995, 18) 11.05 Rust Creek ★★★ A student stranded in a forest is hunted by ruthless criminals in this absorbing chase thriller. Hermione Corfield (2018, 15)
6.10pm Tully ★★★★ Charlize Theron delivers a wincingly honest performance in this witty portrait of motherhood. (2018, 15) 8.00 King Arthur ★★★ An intriguing spin on the legendary figure. Clive Owen, Keira Knightley (2004, 12) 10.10 Blood Diamond ★★★ The discovery of a rare and priceless diamond in Sierra Leone attracts the attention of mercenary.
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Sci-Fi/Horror
Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou (2006, 15)
12.35am Being Rose As 10.05am 2.05 Tyrel As 4.30pm 3.45 Sabrina As 6am 5.55 Save the Last Dance ★★★ Dance drama. Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas (2000, 12)
TCM Movies
Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511 6.00am At First Light ★★★ Sci-fi thriller. Stefanie Scott (2017, 12) 7.50 As 3.30pm 9.30 As 5.15pm 11.15 As 7pm 1.15pm As 9pm 3.30 Mad Max 5 Futuristic action adventure. Mel Gibson (1979, 18) 5.15 Mad Max 2 ★★★★ Futuristic action adventure. Mel Gibson (1981, 18)
Sky 315 Virgin 415 BT 512 HD Virgin 416 7.40am The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 5 (1947, PG) 10.15 I Killed Wild Bill Hickok ★★ Western. (1956) 11.40 Six Black Horses ★★ (1962) 1.30pm The Towering Inferno ★★★★ (1974, 12) 4.55 Casablanca 5 Classic romantic drama. Review p82. Humphrey Bogart (1942, U)
7.00pm Mad Max beyond Thunderdome ★★★ The rogue ex-cop leads lost youngsters out of the wilderness. Mel Gibson(1985, 15) 9.00 Mortal Engines ★★★ Visually stunning sci-fi in which mobile cities fight for world domination. Hugo Weaving (2018, 12) 11.20 Little Monsters ★★★★ Lupita Nyong’o stars as a teacher ferociously protecting her pupils from zombies. Alexander England (2019, 15)
7.00pm The Plunderers ★★ Solid minor western that offers more character depth than usual. Rod Cameron, Ilona Massey (1948, U) 9.00 US Marshals ★★ Efficient rehash of The Fugitive, with Tommy Lee Jones reprising his Oscar-winning role. (1998, 15) 11.40 Training Day ★★★★ Powerful thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Oscar-winning Denzel Washington. (2001, 18)
1.10am The Farm ★★ Horror thriller. Nora Yessayan, Alec Gaylord (2018, 15) 2.40 Hostel ★★ Horror. Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson (2005, 18) 4.30 Batman and Robin ★★ Action fantasy.
2.10am For Whom the Bell Tolls ★★★ War drama. Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, Akim Tamiroff (1943, U) 5.00 Hollywood’s Best Film Directors
George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger (1997, PG)
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Ben Barnes, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley (2010, PG)
Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509 6.40am Serenity ★★ (2018, 15) 8.40 As 11.05pm 10.40 Thoroughbreds ★★★★ Thriller. (2017, 15) 12.25pm The Prestige ★★★★ Period mystery. Hugh Jackman (2006, 12) 2.45 The Vanishing ★★★ Psychological thriller. Gerard Butler (2016, 15) 4.45 Sweet Country ★★ Period adventure. Hamilton Morris (2017, 15)
1.05am Miss Bala ★★ Crime action drama. Gina Rodriguez (2019, 15) 2.55 Miller’s Crossing 5 Period crime drama. Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden (1990, 18) 5.00 Angel Flight Down ★★ Drama. Patricia Kalember (1996)
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TCM Movies +1 Sky 316 Virgin 417
Super League 7.00pm Sky Arena/Mix Local pride is at stake for Hull’s Marc Sneyd
Sky Main Event Sky 401 Virgin 511 BT 402 HD Virgin 501 BT 437 7.00am Good Morning Sports Fans
8.00 LIVE International One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup fifth-place play-off; 10.30 South Africa v England. 7.30pm LIVE Championship Football Bristol City v Birmingham City at Ashton Gate (kick-off 7.45). 10.30 Sky Sports News 11.00 NBA: the Warm Up 12 midnight Sky Sports News 1.00am LIVE NBA Indiana Pacers v Toronto Raptors (tip-off 1.00). 3.30—6.00am LIVE International One-Day Cricket New Zealand v India in Auckland.
Sky Football Sky 403 Virgin 513 HD Virgin 503 6.00am Greatest Games 6.45 SPFL Round-Up 7.00 Greatest Players (AD) 7.30 Countdowns (AD) 8.00 Years (AD) 8.30 EFL Greatest Games 8.45 One2Eleven (AD) 9.00 SPFL Round-Up 9.15 EFL Greatest Games 9.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 10.30 Greatest Games 11.00 SPFL Round-Up 11.15 Greatest Games 11.30 Greatest Players (AD) 12 noon Countdowns (AD) 12.30pm Years (AD) 1.00 Greatest Games 1.30 SPFL Round-Up 1.45 One2Eleven (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Offs 3.00 Greatest Players (AD) 3.30 Countdowns (AD) 4.00 Years (AD) 4.30 Classic Play-Off Finals 5.30 EFL Greatest Games 5.45 SPFL Round-Up 6.00 Greatest Players (AD) 6.30 Football Countdowns (AD)
7.00 LIVE Championship Football Bristol City v Birmingham City. 10.30 EFL Greatest Games 11.00 EFL Highlights 11.15 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight Years (AD) 12.30am SPFL Greatest Games 1.00 Countdowns (AD) 1.30 Years (AD) 2.00 Championship Season Review 3.00 Classic Play-Offs 5.00—6.00am League Cup Classics
Sky Golf Sky 405 Virgin 515 HD Virgin 505 7.00am PGA Tour Golf 10.00 European Tour Golf 11.00 PGA Tour Golf: day one of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am from California 2.00 Players Championship Official Film 3.00 European Tour Golf
4.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day two of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 11.00 European Tour Golf 12 midnight PGA Tour Champions 1.00am European Tour Golf 2.00 Chronicles (AD)
2.30—6.00am LIVE European Tour Golf Day three of the Victorian Open from Geelong.
Premier Sports 1 Sky 412 Virgin 551 7.40—9.45pm LIVE Italian Football Roma v Bologna.
BT Sport 1
Sky 402 Virgin 512 HD Virgin 502
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408 HD BT 430
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 The Debate 8.00 Best Goals 9.00 100 Club (AD) 10.00 Years: 2016/17 (AD) 12 noon The Debate 1.00pm Years 3.00 Best Goals (AD) 4.00 Greatest Games (AD) 5.00 100 Club (AD) 6.00 Legends (AD) 7.00 Match Pack 8.00 World 8.30 Soccerbox 9.00 Match Pack 10.00 World 10.30 The Tyler Archives 11.00 Best Goals (AD) 12 midnight Match Pack 1.00am Years (AD) 3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)
6.30am Rugby Tonight 7.00 WWE (AD) 9.45 Scottish Football 12 noon Goals Reload 12.30pm Premier League World 1.00 International Women’s T20 Cricket 2.00 Rugby Tonight (AD) 2.30 Reload 3.00 WWE 6.00 Italian Football 6.30 SPFL Highlights 6.45 Rugby Tonight (AD)
Sky Cricket Sky 404 Virgin 514 HD Virgin 504 6.00am Classic Cricket 6.45 International One-Day Cricket
7.45 LIVE International One-Day Cricket U19 World Cup; 10.30 South Africa v England, from Kingsmead in Durban. 7.30pm Women’s World T20 Classics 8.00 International One-Day Cricket 1.55—6.00am LIVE International One-Day Cricket
Sky Action Sky 407 Virgin 517 HD Virgin 507 6.00am LIVE Rugby Union Highlanders v Sharks (kick-off 6.05). 8.00 Rugby Greatest Games 8.10 LIVE Rugby Union Brumbies v Rebels (kick-off 8.15). 10.10 Rugby Gold (AD) 10.30 Darts Show 11.00 NFL: America’s Game 12 noon Premier League Darts 3.30pm Darts Gold 4.30 NFL 5.00 NFL: America’s Game (AD) 6.00 Premier League Darts 9.30 The Darts Show 10.30 Darts Gold 11.00 NFL: a Football Life (AD) 12 midnight NFL: America’s Game (AD) 2.00am NFL: Greatest Games (AD) 3.30 Darts Gold 4.00 Records (AD) 5.00—6.00am Greats (AD)
Sky Arena Sky 408 Virgin 518 HD Virgin 508 6.00am Sporting Greats (AD) 7.00 Super League Gold 8.00 Mountain Biking 9.00 Super League 9.15 Super League Gold (AD) 9.30 Records (AD) 10.00 Boxing Gold 11.00 Super League Gold (AD) 11.45 Super League 12 noon Inside the NBA 1.00pm NBA Classics 2.00 NBA Champions (AD) 3.15 Super League 3.30 Motorsport Mundial 4.00 NBA Champions (AD) 5.30 Netball 6.30 Super League
7.15 LIVE Rugby Union Sale Sharks v Saracens in the Premiership Cup (kick-off 7.45). 10.00 Wrestling: WWE action (AD) 3.00am Premier League Preview 3.30 SPFL 3.45 Goals Reload 4.00—6.00am LIVE Men’s Hockey New Zealand v Great Britain.
BT Sport 2 Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409 HD BT 431 6.00am Goals Reload 6.15 SPFL Highlights 6.30 German Football 7.00 Australian Football 8.00 Match Pack
8.30 LIVE Australian Football Melbourne City v Melbourne Victory. 10.30 BT Sport Goals Reload 10.45 LIVE Australian Football Perth Glory v Wellington Phoenix. 12.45pm MotoGP Classics (AD) 3.45 SPFL 4.00 Match Pack 4.30 Women’s T20 Cricket 5.30 French Football 6.00 Reload 6.15 German Football
7.15 LIVE German Football Eintracht Frankfurt v FC Augsburg. 9.30 Poker: World Tour Series 11.30 LIVE Hockey Pro League. 1.30am UFC: build-up to UFC 247 3.00—7.00am LIVE International Women’s T20 Cricket Australia v India.
BT Sport 3 Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410 HD BT 432 6.00am French Football 7.00 T20 Cricket 8.00 French Football 12 noon Badminton (AD) 12.30pm Fishing (AD) 1.30 Champions League 2.00 French Football 3.00 German Football 3.30 Australian Football 6.30 Premier League Preview 7.00 French Football
7.30 LIVE French Football Angers v Lille (kick-off 7.45). 9.45 SPFL Highlights 10.00 LIVE Basketball NCAA. 4.00 UFC 5.00 Match Pack 5.30—6.00am Premier League Preview
BT Sport ESPN Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411 HD BT 434
7.00 LIVE Super League Hull FC v Hull Kingston Rovers (k/o 7.45). 10.15 Super League 10.30 NBA 12 midnight Super League 12.30am NBA Classic Games 1.00 LIVE NBA Pacers v Raptors.
6.00am Around the Horn 6.30 Pardon the Interruption 7.00 ESPN FC 7.30 Basketball 11.00 Around the Horn 11.30 Pardon the Interruption 12 noon ESPN FC 12.30pm Basketball 5.45 Around the Horn 6.15 ESPN FC 6.45 Pardon the Interruption 7.15 Basketball
3.30 NBA Classic Games (AD) 5.30—6.00am Sporting Records (AD)
9.00 LIVE Women’s Hockey Argentina v USA, Pro League. 11.00 World Rally: Monte Carlo 12 midnight LIVE Basketball A US college double header.
Sky Mix Sky 145 Virgin 520 HD Virgin 510 7.45am—3.45pm LIVE One-Day Cricket The Under-19 World Cup. 7.00—10.15 LIVE Super League Hull FC v Hull Kingston Rovers.
Eurosport 1 Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412 HD BT 435 6.00am Alpine Skiing 7.00 Ski Jumping 8.30 Snowboarding 9.30 Snowboarding 10.30 Ski Jumping 12.05pm Tennis 1.25 Alpine Skiing 3.25 Ski Jumping: from Sapporo
4.55 LIVE Ski Jumping 6.15 Hall of Fame 7.15 Trail Running 8.00 Cycling 10.00 Ski Jumping 11.00 Cycling 1.00am Triathlon 1.40—2.00am Snooker 147s
Friday Television
Sky 305 Virgin 405 BT 505 6.30am Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen ★★★ (2004, PG) 8.05 As 6.35pm 9.30 Atlantis: the Lost Empire ★★★★ Animation. (2001, U) 11.10 As 11.45pm 1.00pm The Haunted Mansion ★★ Comedy horror. (2003, PG) 2.35 As 8pm 4.50 A Bug’s Life ★★★★ Animation. (1998, U)
4.00am BT Sport Reload 4.15—6.00am Basketball
Eurosport 2 Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413 HD BT 436 6.00am Cycling: Tour of Valencia
7.00 LIVE Cycling Langkwai. 8.30 Cycling 9.30 Triathlon 10.30 Tennis: Australian Open 11.30 Trail Running 12 noon Cycling
2.00pm LIVE Cycling Stage three of the Tour of Valencia. 3.30 Cycling 4.30 Athletics 6.00 Cyclo-Cross 7.00 Tennis 8.00 Snowboarding 9.00 Alpine Skiing 10.00 Cycling 11.00 Ski Jumping 12 midnight Alpine Skiing 1.00am Formula E 2.00 Cycling 4.00 Ski Jumping 5.00—6.00am Alpine Skiing
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Children’s novelist Frank Cottrell-Boyce says if you want your kids to fall in love with literature, don’t force them to read Imagine this. You’ve written a book that is going to be turned i n t o a n a n i m a t e d fi l m b y DreamWorks, the people who brought the world Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda. And you’ve also signed up to spend hours reading hundreds of stories written by children. Which project would excite you more? For Frank Cottrell-Boyce, children’s novelist, movie scriptwriter, and the man who wrote the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony, there’s no contest. It’s being a judge for the Radio 2 breakfast show’s 500 Words, the annual writing competition for five- to 13-year-olds, that he’s buzzing about. “I love film,” he says. “It’s great to work with DreamWorks, and this is the first time they are doing one of my books. But I absolutely adore 500 Words.” This year’s 500 Words was launched on 16 January during a special edition of Zoe Ball’s breakfast show, which was broadcast live from a school in Cottrell-Boyce’s home city of Liverpool. It’s the tenth anniversary of the competition and an astonishing 930,000 children have taken part since it began, each creating their own story in just 500 words. The organisers hope that this year will bring the total number of entries to a million. Cottrell-Boyce has been a judge since 2012, reading original works of fiction by children from across the country. Entries are split into two categories: ages five to nine and ten to 13. But whatever the age group, he has been surprised by what children write about. “Every year I think, ‘How the hell did they come up with that?’ They are very engaged with the world; their antennae are well attuned.
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There is fantasy, too, but it usually flows from the world they live in.” Last year Brexit cropped up a lot, and the year before, plastic. He’s also identified that children can be uninhibited about their emotions in their fiction. “A few years ago, someone wrote about grandparents dying and I thought, ‘Gosh, that’s very raw.’” His enthusiasm for 500 Words is an expression of his passion for both reading and writing. He’s written more than a dozen children’s novels, the most successful among them being Millions, which started life as a film script and for which he won the prestigious Carnegie Medal in 2004; The Unforgotten Coat, winner of the Guardian
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Children’s Fiction Prize; and Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth, the one DreamWorks is filming. The inventive plots, whether about kids finding large sums of money or refugees arriving in Liverpool, have gripped children’s imaginations. “Children who read a lot do write more. If you read, it feeds the brain,” he says. And yet for someone who is so passionate about reading and writing, Cottrell Boyce is not keen on children learning to read very early. “If you do that it just becomes decoding,” he says. He didn’t learn to read early himself, and it clearly did him no harm. Born Frank Boyce in 1959, he was raised in a Catholic family in Liverpool and went on to Keble College, Oxford, where he met his wife Denise Cottrell. His early
career included writing for Brookside and Coronation Street and being a TV critic for Living Marxism. Eagle-eyed viewers of Corrie at the time would have noticed the magazine on the shelves of the Kabin. Then he moved on to writing film scripts, including Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People and Hilary and Jackie.
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PICK OF THE WEEK Seth Lakeman’s Folk Map of the British Isles Sat 9.00pm Radio 2 Our sense of national identity is forged in the stories we tell about ourselves — about our homes and our communities — and for the British, as with so many cultures, many of those stories are rooted in folk music. Seth Lakeman (below) is the poster boy for the modern British folk revival. At 42, he has 17 albums to his name — either as the main artist or as part of wider projects — and he’s a prolific live performer. He is also a prime example of a storyteller seeking to make sense of where he lives, specialising in exploring through music historical aspects of his native Devon. His latest album — A Pilgrim’s Tale — is about the journey that the Mayflower pilgrims set off from Plymouth on 400 years ago this year. In this four-part series, Lakeman is casting his net wider, to uncover the distinct sounds of traditional and folk THAT’S music in the different ALL FOLK regions of the British Isles Musician — a general survey of each of Seth Lakeman England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. At a time when we’re supposedly a divided nation, what can the roots of our narrative music-making tell us about our broader culture? You can draw your own conclusions from the first episode, focusing on Scottish songs. Notice any celebrating the Act of Union of 1707?
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is visiting his father, where his own children’s books remain in the loft. Among his favourites were lurid lives of the saints – “the more they were tortured and beheaded the better” – and Just William books by Richmal Crompton. But he fears that children now won’t enjoy the pleasures of books in the same way, not only because of technological change but also Government education policy. “We didn’t have access to hi-tech in the same way and so we had much more bookish childhoods. It was not just about the writing but talking and listening were hugely important, and they are vital for creativity.” Cottrell-Boyce is a man of humour and charm but he can be angry, too – especially about how schooling stultifies young imaginations. “The core curriculum threatens creativity. Schools are made to focus on literacy as a route to employment and that utilitarian approach is a problem. The good thing about 500 Words is that children don’t have to get spelling and RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
punctuation right. We want cracking stories.” He is also enraged by “barbaric” library closures, but is delighted that schools encourage writers to come into the classroom to read. “Writing for kids means you can’t live in a bubble. You go out and meet the audience all the time and have to win them over.” Now he is creating an Instagram account where new books will be reviewed to help parents find more choice. “Children’s books are barely reviewed in this country. We are to children’s writing what Brazil is to football and France is to food, yet we don’t celebrate it. Our books go around the world. But parents here often don’t know which ones to buy. There’s more than just David Walliams, however brilliant he is.” CATHERINE PEPINSTER The closing date for this year’s 500 Word entries is 8pm on 27 February. The winners will be announced on 12 June. Visit bbc.co.uk/500words for details
Josh is still struggling to find his place on the farm and ends up incurring the wrath of Pip when he puts his foot in it once again. And the problems continue to mount at Brookfield as Vince squeezes the family for discounts on his daughter’s wedding. Things are looking up for staff at the pub when they attract business from corporate go-getters. This is exactly the kind of clientele they’re trying to encourage, but what Kenton and Jolene haven’t foreseen is Lynda’s plan to sabotage the event. And with Valentine’s Day approaching, Helen is keen to make it a special occasion for her and Lee. But then comes an unexpected confession… DAVID BROWN
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‘I’d like to thank…’ How to survive radio awards season
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erry Wogan rose to speak. Radio’s brightest stars shimmered around us in the hotel ballroom. The racehorses of the airwaves snorted in the paddock. At such interminable radio awards ceremonies – plump with so many prizes – even the crockery wins. This one wanged on so long, the announcements were clustered between courses. Breadsticks, awards. Soup, awards. Lamb or vegetable curry, awards. Cheese or blancmange, awards. Coffee, awards. By the time the last Perspex gong was delivered – “Best afternoon show featuring a live cat!” – the first winner had died of natural causes. As had the vegetables. A mysterious green gloop glared from every plate, as diners guessed the provenance. Was it a giant radioactive amoeba? Or a brassica boiled to death? “Aah. The broccoli,” boomed Terry. “A brave choice!” Even the chef had to laugh. Yes, the radio awards season is upon us once again, with some of my favourite people on the airwaves being nominated for something. There’s nothing quite like the joy of winning. But equally, there’s nothing like the misery of coming second. “The judges said: Paddy O’Connell is this year’s best Number Two!”
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Faced with the hell of watching rivals thank “the team”, or Sheena in marketing, it’s better not to be nominated at all. Whatever else we may know about getting something pumped out on the transmitter, ego beats electricity every time. I remember hosting the international Rose d’Or awards, and an entire country’s delegation walked out when their national broadcaster didn’t win. Afterwards, a very drunk Eastern European collared me in the bar, “Vye didn’t ve win?!” “Look,” I countered, “I’m just the announcer. I didn’t win anything either!” The whole point about awards is that they’re subjective and political. You can’t give them all to the same person, the same country, or the same company. You can’t give them all to men. You can’t give them all to women. You can’t be biased – but try telling that to the film Baftas and the Oscars, both of which have both been RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
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If you go down to the woods today… Teddy Bears’ Picnic is one of the greatest records ever made. I refer, of course, to the 1932 version by the BBC Dance Orchestra, conducted by Henry Hall with vocal by Val Rosing, who didn’t even get his name on the label. There are many other versions, but this particular one is an example of what makes a record great. Great records are all about the particulars. If they were recorded again the next day they wouldn’t be the same. Teddy Bears’ Picnic has a unique atmosphere. You might even say it has a unique vibe. It manages, simultaneously, to be as cosy as Ovaltine and as sinister as, well, imagine a wood full of teddy bears.
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criticised for being whiter than an Alpine ski slope. So there’s generally a committee employed at the last moment to smooth things over. It’s a bit like the Electoral College in the US presidential election. No one knows quite how it works, but it often changes the result.
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o today, I call for this kind of backroom information to be given out at all future awards ceremonies. “And the best midmorning show with its own standalone podcast on nutcrackers was changed at the last moment, because we’d already given too many awards to its commercial rival!” This is the way to make these things entertaining, otherwise by the time the fourth prize is handed out, the smokers have left the room and everyone’s on their phones. You also need a great heartfelt speech of nomination and a few humble words of acceptance. I witnessed an event at which Michael Parkinson honoured Jimmy Tarbuck. After explaining how far back they went as friends, Parky ended by saying: “Tarby’s a man who loves to fill a room with the sound of laughter.” I caught Tarbuck’s eye, as he waited for the punchline… “Usually, his own!” Even losers like me had to laugh. Paddy O’Connell hosts Broadcasting House on Sunday at 9am on Radio 4, and co-hosts the podcast Dogpod
I was thinking about this while listening to Barry Humphries’ Forgotten Musical Masterpieces, which is back for a short run on Radio 2, starting on 2 February. The JAZZY programme celebrates the Dance back in particularity of old-time time with Barry Humphries popular music and points out how it throws light upon the times that brought it forth. This particular edition was about the music of the Jazz Age and featured the kind of tunes that would have been on the phonographs of the characters in novels by F Scott Fitzgerald or Evelyn Waugh.
Incorrigibly naughty These range from some you probably know, like The Charleston and The Party’s Over Now, to less familiar delights like Elsie Carlisle’s My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes and, a new one on me, Don’t Tell My Mother I’m Living In Sin by Elsa Lanchester. This contains my new favourite couplet: “See that her youth isn’t wrecked by vermouth/pull her up short if she goes for the port”. I like to imagine Humphries broadcasting in a bespoke suit, with a stiff collar, and maybe even spats. He’s incorrigibly naughty as only a senior citizen can be. I could “hear” his eyebrows rise as he related how Lanchester, who was married to the portly actor Charles Laughton, was “steadily crushed by the weight of domesticity — and possibly by the weight of Charles Laughton”.
End of Empire? We Need to Talk About the British Empire is a new Audible series in six parts, presented by Afua Hirsch. Via interviews with people who grew up with it, from Benjamin Zephaniah to Diana Rigg, this promises to deliver a more nuanced view of the complex legacy of the days when Britannia ruled the waves. For the benefit of those who think this is all in the dim and distant past, it starts in Hong Kong.
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97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 7.00am Matt and Mollie 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 11.00 Maya Jama 1.00pm Dev and Alice 4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems 7.00 DJ Target 1Xtra takes over. 9.00 1Xtra’s Rap Show 11.00 Diplo and Friends 1.00am Kan D Man and DJ Limelight 3.00 Danny Howard’s Club Mix 4.00 Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems 5.00 Arielle Free
BBC Radio 2 88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902
6.00am Sounds of the 60s Tony Blackburn with hits of the era.
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Repeated Sunday 8 February
I Think I’ve Been Here Before 8.00pm Radio 4 Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, an annual US custom made famous in the film in which Bill Murray is trapped in a time loop. A fine time for storyteller Ross Sutherland (above) to hold forth on aspects of repetition, from déjà vu to — one of his own concerns — performing the same words on stage night after night. “We’re drawn towards patterns of repetition because they feel safe,” he says. “But we’re disappointed when politicians repeat the same words.” On the strength of his recent, superb Radio 3 series The Escape Artist, I’m very happy to welcome Sutherland’s return. DAVID MCGILLIVRAY
New Generation Artists Day All day from 9.00am Radio 3 Radio 3 devotes all of today to a celebration of 20 years of its New Generation Artists scheme. Among a welter of archive recordings by past and present alumni are four live concerts from London’s Wigmore Hall featuring such stars as Khatia Buniatishvili, Elena Urioste, Allan Clayton and the Elias Quartet. MARK PAPPENHEIM
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8.00 Dermot O’Leary Chart star Dua Lipa performs from her new album Future Nostalgia.
10.00 Graham Norton Guests include musician, producer and Wombles creator Mike Batt — who discusses his new book — and actor Ralf Little, who next Thursday takes over from Ardal O’Hanlon as the star of the BBC1 detective series Death in Paradise. Plus Will Becher and Richard Phelan, co-directors of A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon. See Thursday 9pm BBC1
1.00pm Pick of the Pops Paul Gambaccini with the Top 20s from this week in 1987 and 1995. Repeated Wednesday 3am
3.00 Rylan on Saturday 6.00 Liza Tarbuck 8.00 The Radio 2 Rock Show Johnnie Walker invites Los Angeles blues-rock singer/songwriter Beth Hart to praise a fellow musician.
9.00 Seth Lakeman’s Folk Map of the British Isles
New series. 1/4. Seth Lakeman explores regional a sounds from around the British Isles, starting in Scotland. He hears from fellow fiddle player John McCusker, Gaelic harpist Rachel Newton, accordion player Phil Cunningham, folk singer Karine Polwart, Celtic Connections festival organiser Donald Shaw, Folk Show host Mark Radcliffe, and more. Producer Dave Young See Wed 9pm
10.00 The Craig Charles House Party Funk and soul. 12.00 Lottie’s Dance Devotion Sitting in for Ana Matronic. 2.00am The Birth of Sparks: from Beach Boys to Blighty 1/2. (R). 3.00 Radio 2 in Concert Paloma Faith’s November London concert. (R) 4.00 Angela Scanlon
BBC 6 Music DAB bbc.co.uk/6music Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.00am Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie With guest Clare
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 News and weather 7.00am, 8.00, 8.30, 1.00pm
7.00am Breakfast With Elizabeth Alker. 9.00 New Generation Artists Day
Kate Molleson launches a day devoted to the 20th anniversary of Radio 3’s New a Generation Artists scheme. 9.35 Poulenc, arr Lennox Berkeley Flute Sonata Emily Beynon, BBC National Orchestra of Wales 9.55 Brahms Violin Concerto Janine Jansen, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, conductor Krzysztof Urbanski 10.30 Kate Molleson is joined by trumpeter and NGA alumnus Alison Balsom. 10.55 Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No 2 in D (1st mvt) Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello), Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) 11.30 First of today’s four concerts broadcast live from Wigmore Hall, London, all presented by Andrew McGregor. New Generation Artist alumni Meta4 perform a string quartet by Jouni Kaipainen, originally commissioned in 2010, after which they are joined by Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in Franck’s Piano Quintet. Jouni Kaipainen String Quartet No 6 (The Terror Run) Meta4 Franck Piano Quintet in F minor Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Meta4 12.30pm Fiona Talkington continues the celebrations, with archive performances, including bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu, the Apollon Musagete Quartet, pianist Louis Schwizgebel and percussionist Colin Currie. 12.50 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1, in D, Op 11 (1st mvt) Apollon Musagete Quartet 1.05 Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 5 in F (Egyptian) Louis Schwizgebel (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins 1.35 Stravinsky Violin Concerto (4th mvt) Ilya Gringolts, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, conductor Dima Slobodeniouk 2.00 The second of today’s live concerts features former New Generation Artists Elena Urioste, Eivind Ringstad, Andrei Ionita and Cédric Tiberghien in chamber music for piano and strings. Debussy Violin Sonata Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op 73, for cello and piano Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K478 Elena Urioste (violin), Eivind Ringstad (viola), Andrei Ionita (cello), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) 3.00 Fiona Talkington presents more archive music. 3.00 Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Simon Lepper (piano) 3.40 Vaughan Williams, orch Anthony Payne Four Last Songs Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins 4.00 Tea-time Jazz Featuring Tom Arthurs, Misha Mullov-Abbado and Trish Clowes. 4.20 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op 23 (3rd mvt) Beatrice Rana (piano), Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Academy, conductor Antonio Pappano
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6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Angellica Bell Uplifting music. 10.00 Simon Mayo Food and drink expert Nigel Barden joins Simon at 11.30, and there’s another chance to hear the Scala Radio Book Club interview, originally aired on Thursday. 1.00pm Mark Kermode With film music.
3.00 Jack Pepper’s Culture Bunker
Grogan (ex-Altered Images).
Stories behind classical music.
10.00 The Huey Show 1.00pm Liz Kershaw
5.00 The Console with Luci Holland New, popular and emerging scores from video games. 6.00 Faye Treacy With favourite classical works.
With guests the Boomtown Rats.
3.00 Gilles Peterson 6.00 The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show 9.00 The Tom Robinson Show 12.00 The Freak Zone Playlist
8.00 Saturday Night Scala
1.00am The Joy of 6 2.00 6 Music Recommends: the New Music Playlist 3.00 Live Hour The Case in 1983. 4.00 The Story of Pop 32/52.Alan Freeman on James Brown. 1994 series. 5.00 Chris Hawkins
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 8.00am Frank Skinner 11.00 Sarah Champion 2.00pm Rock ’n’ Roll Football With Matt Forde. 5.00 Andy Bush’s Indie Disco 7.00 Absolute Classic Rock Party 10.00 Dan Noble 4.00am Ross Buchanan
Darren Redick with classical favourites.
11.00 The Space 1.00am Night Music
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4.30 New Generation Artists Day
The celebration of New Generation Artists continues with today’s third live concert. n Fatma Said (soprano), Catriona Morison (mezzo), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Benjamin Appl (baritone), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Eivind Ringstad (viola), Joseph Middleton (piano) Robert Schumann Zigeunerleben; Zigeunerliedchen I and II Clara Schumann Der Wanderer in der Sägemühle Robert Schumann Ich bin Geliebt Schubert Der hirt auf dem Felsen; Licht und Liebe; Licht und Liebe Duparc L’invitation au voyage; Sérénade Duparc Chanson triste Brahms Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano, Op 91; Zigeunerlieder, Op 103 (selection) 5.30 Kate Molleson is joined in the studio by guitarist Sean Shibe to talk about how the scheme has forged lasting musical friendships. 5.40 Bridge Pensiero for Viola and Piano; Allegro appassionato for Viola and Piano Lise Berthaud (viola), Xenia Maliarevitch (piano) 6.30 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Tom Poster (piano) 7.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor, Op 2 No 1 Igor Levit 7.30 The Elias Quartet feature in the last of today’s live concerts from Wigmore Hall, London. Allan Clayton (tenor), Lawrence Power (viola), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Martin Fröst (clarinet), Elias String Quartet Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge Britten String Quartet No 3 8.25 Interval Mozart Trio in E flat, K498, for Clarinet, Viola and Piano (Kegelstatt) Mendelssohn String Quintet No 2 in B Flat, Op 87 9.30 Kate Molleson concludes the celebrations with more archive performances. 9.45 Dvorak String Quartet No 12 in F, Op 96 (1st mvt) (American) Escher String Quartet 10.05 Bruch Kol Nidrei Natalie Clein (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov 11.05 Schumann Three Romances, Op 94 Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
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1.00am Through the Night With Catriona Young. Schubert Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F, D487 Rossini Duo in D for Cello and Double Bass Ross Harris Orowaru (The Rippling Sound of Water) Schubert Quintet in A for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, D667 (Trout) 2.22 Lilburn Diversions for Strings 2.39 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 10 No 1 3.01 Svendsen Symphony No 2 in B flat 3.36 Prokofiev Violon Sonata No 1, Op 80 4.06 Bortniansky What God is Greater? 4.14 Kapsberger Toccata arpeggiata, Toccata seconda, and Colascione for chittarone 4.23 Lalo Two Aubades 4.32 Purcell If Music Be the Food of Love 4.37 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op 34 4.52 Chopin Polonaise No 7 in A flat, Op 53 5.01 Brahms Three Hungarian Dances 5.09 Kodaly Four Italian madrigals 5.21 Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV497 5.34 Roussel Three pieces for piano, Op 49 5.43 Strauss Macbeth, Op 23) 6.03 Mudarra Claros y frescos ríos 6.08 Elsner Symphony in C, Op 11 6.34 Mozart Mass in C, K257 (Credo)
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
7.00am Alan Titchmarsh 10.00 Bill Turnbull With popular favourites. 1.00pm Alexander Armstrong 3.00 Moira Stuart’s Hall of Fame Concert Classic FM Hall of Fame works played in full, today with Sibelius, Beethoven, Finzi, Bruch and Mozart. 5.00 Saturday Night at the Movies Andrew Collins presents the second of two programmes of Oscar-winning film music. He concludes with highlights of scores by John Barry (Out of Africa), Ryuichi Sakamoto (The Last Emperor) and Alan Menken (Pocahontas). Plus scores by Thomas Newman and Randy Newman, this year nominated respectively for 1917 and Marriage Story. 7.00 Cowan’s Classics Rob Cowan with music by Fauré, Respighi, Handel and more.
9.00 Beethoven: the Man Revealed 5/52. John Suchet celebrates Ludwig van Beethoven, born 250 years ago. Tonight he explores more of the composer’s youth, including why he became a piano teacher at 13. 10.00 Smooth Classics With Myleene Klass. 1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00 Jane Jones
RadioTimes 1–7 February 2020
1 FEBRUARY SATURDAY BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4 For national frequencies see p141 Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW) Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day With Dr Rachel Mann. 5.45 Four Thought 7/8. When Alice Moloney’s father was diagnosed with cancer, she found herself at a loss as to how to communicate with him digitally. One solution was sending more personal objects. Alice works in digital communication, and in this talk at the Shambala Festival she describes her journey to improve the tools available to communicate grief and sadness. Producer Giles Edwards (R)
6.00 News and Papers 6.07 Open Country
6.30 Farming Today This Week 7.00 Today With Nick Robinson and Martha Kearney. 7.20 Yesterday in Parliament 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 7.48 Thought for the Day
9.00 Saturday Live Extraordinary stories and remarkable people, with Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein. Their main guest is actress Frances Barber. Producer Laura Northedge
10.30 The Kitchen Cabinet 6/7. Jay Rayner hosts a special film edition of the culinary show, featuring panellists Zoe Laughlin, Tim Anderson, Anna Jones and Tim Haywood. Producer Laurence Bassett Repeated Tuesday 3pm
11.00 The Week in Westminster 11.30 From Our Own Correspondent
8.00 I Think I’ve Been Here Before
Chris Mason chairs from Aston Parish Church in Birmingham, with a panel including Ken Clarke, who at the 2019 general election stood down after 49 years as a Conservative MP. Repeated from yesterday
Ross Sutherland explores the joy that comes from repetition, looking at the behavioural grooves to which people return, and the concepts of pattern, memory and déjà vu. With contributions from Catherine Loveday, Julia Shaw, Glenn Moore and Robin Morgan. Producer Hana Walker-Brown
2.00 Any Answers? Listeners have their say on the week’s issues. PHONE: 0370 010 0444 Lines open from 12.30pm email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk
2.45 Drama: Bathwater Poet Vicky Foster stars in her drama based on real-life experiences involving violence in family life. What’s the impact on a son of having a violent father he never really knew? How does society view those whose partners are violent? “Do I walk like him? Do I talk like him? Is my body the same shape?” With Finlay McGuigan as Joseph. Director Susan Roberts (R)
3.30 Art of Now: Filth Emma Critchley meets the artists who are finding original and compelling ways to make us understand and feel the crisis of filth. Repeated from Tuesday
4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour A round-up of highlights from the weekday programmes, with Jenni Murray. EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Jonny Dymond.
5.30 The Inquiry 10/10. With countries shutting their doors to foreign recyclable waste and a lack of processing capacity back home, is the recycling system broken? Or could Sweden, which has reduced the amount of household waste it sends to landfill to under one per cent, have an answer? Presented by Charmaine Cozier. Producer John Murphy
6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.15 Loose Ends Clive Anderson and Nikki Bedi are joined by actors Richard Armitage and Rufus Jones, broadcaster Clara Amfo, and thriller writer SJI Holliday. With music from US folk duo Shovels and Rope and from Dublin-born traditional singer and bouzouki player Daoiri Farrell. Producer Sukey Firth Rptd Monday 11.30am
7.00 Profile
Presented by Kate Adie.
12.04pm Money Box
7.15 Saturday Review
Repeated tomorrow 9pm
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12.30 The News Quiz 4/8. Andy Zaltzman, Geoff Norcott, Suzi Ruffell and Anand Menon join host Nish Kumar to take a satirical look at the stories making the headlines. Repeated from yesterday
1.00 News
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Meg Rosoff, Katie Puckrik and Colin Grant to discuss: Persona, a theatrical adaptation by Paul Schoolman of Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 film, at the Riverside Studios, London; William Gibson’s sciencefiction novel Agency; Robert Eggers’s movie The Lighthouse, set in 1890s New England; and the exhibition Mushrooms: the Art, Design and Future of Funghi, at Somerset House in London. Producer Oliver Jones
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Look Back in Anger as 4pm 7.30 Journeys Down My Street as 5.30pm 8.00 Archive on 4: Lern Yerself Scouse as 3pm 9.00 Do Tell Them Pike: Arthur Lowe on the Radio as 7pm 12.00 The Change 2003 comedy (1/6) 12.30pm Such Rotten Luck Tim Piggot-Smith and Zoë Wanamaker star in Ronald Hayman’s comedy drama The Little Grey Man, about the triumphs and tragedies that befall a second-class writer. From 1989 1.00 Trumpet Tanika Gupta’s dramatisation of Scottish writer Jackie Kay’s 1998 debut novel. When celebrated jazz trumpeter Joss Moody dies, his adopted son Colman makes an extraordinary discovery — the man he adored as his father was, in fact, a woman. With Maureen Beattie (1—5/5) 2.10 Inheritance Tracks With Artemis Fowl creator and children’s author Eoin Colfer 2.15 In the Psychiatrist’s Chair Professor Norman Stone discusses his loathing for Oxford University and his admiration for Margaret Thatcher 3.00 Archive on 4: Lern Yerself Scouse Liverpool-born writer and poet Paul Farley explores the complex system of vocal flavours that make up the Scouse accent. From 2015 4.00 Look Back in Anger David Tennant stars in a radio adaptation of John Osborne’s influential *Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat
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9.00 Drama: Pilgrim 3/4. Wedlowe Sound. Supernatural fantasy by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, about an immortal hero. William Palmer must tackle an old adversary and save the community of Wedlowe Sound when it is threatened by a giant. Starring Paul Hilton and Ronald Pickup. William Palmer/Pilgrim Paul Hilton Wedlowe Ronald Pickup Massey Paul Stonehouse
Neil Gwen Dreamer Girl
Will Howard Liza Sadovy Ben Crowe Agnes Bateman
Producers/Directors Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole (R)
9.45 Annika Stranded 3/8. Representation. Another tale by Nick Walker featuring Scandinavian detective Annika Strandhed, leading light in the murder squad of the Oslo police. A journalist is found dead in Norway’s parliament building. Producer Jeremy Osborne (R)
10.00 News and Weather 10.15 The Fix
5.00 Saturday PM
An insight into the personality of someone making the headlines. Rptd tomorrow 5.40pm
The latest from the world of personal finance, including impartial advice.
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3/3. Matthew Taylor and Cat Drew visit the borough of Barking and Dagenham in east London, where more than one in ten people owe money to the council. Here, to conclude their series, they help to implement an innovative solution to the problem of debt. Producer Chloe Hadjimatheou Rptd from Wednesday
11.00 Round Britain Quiz 3/12. Northern Ireland’s pairing of Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements take on Paul Sinha and Marcus Berkmann of the South of England. Tom Sutcliffe chairs. Repeated from Monday
11.30 Don’t Log Off 1/4. A Sense of Belonging. Alan Dein connects online with strangers across the world, exploring the things that unite people across cultures and borders. Today he reaches out to people in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond, hearing from those yearning for love and a better life elsewhere — and those determined to make a go of it where they are. Producer Laurence Grissell (R)
12.00 News and Weather 12.30—12.45am Short Works Something Less than Our Best “It is something of a relief to come into the bar in the evenings. We are together and something less than our best is more than enough.” A semi-autobiographical tale about working in an east London bar, by Max Sydney Smith. Read by Rose Lucas, with music by Delawhere. Repeated from yesterday 1.00 as BBC World Service
BBC World Service 1956 stage play about disaffected working-class man, here directed by actor Richard Wilson. With Nancy Carroll, Daniel Evans, Claire Price and Ian McKellen. From 2016 5.30 Journeys Down My Street Historian Mike Berlin learns how immigrants from Somaliland came to settle in the Butetown community of Cardiff in the late 19th century (2/3) 6.00 Dan Dare — Prisoners of Space Ed Stoppard narrates an adaptation by Patrick Chapman of the classic sci-fi comic created by Frank Hampson. Colonel Dare isn’t fooled by the relative calm in space. Bizarre events prove him right. From 2017 (3/3) 6.30 Wishing Well Rosemary Leach stars in a sinister drama by Sally Warboyes. Sarah needs a room for the night and is taken under the wing of Grace and Kenneth. With Kate Buffery. From 1991 7.00 Do Tell Them Pike: Arthur Lowe on the Radio Ian Lavender explores the radio legacy of actor Arthur Lowe (1915—82), including Dad’s Army, With Great Pleasure, Billy’s Last Stand and Desert Island Discs. From 2015 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: 10.00 Josh Howie’s Losing It (1/6), at 10.30 Masala FM (5/6), at 11.00 Wondermentalist Cabaret (3/4), and at 11.30 Mark Thomas Presents (2/4) 12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 1pm 2.10 as 2.10pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
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5.00am News 5.05 The Newsroom 5.30 The Hurricane Tapes 5.50 World Wise Web 6.00 News 6.05 Weekend 8.30 Global Business 9.00 News 9.05 The World This Week 9.30 The Documentary: Shifting Cultures 10.00 Sports Hour 11.00 News 11.05 The Newsroom 11.30 The Hurricane Tapes 11.50 Over to You 12.05pm Music Life: Tony Allen 1.00 Newshour 2.00 News 2.05 Sportsworld 3.00 News 3.00 Sportsworld 4.00 News 4.00 Sportsworld 5.00 News 5.00 Sportsworld 6.00 The Newsroom 6.30 The Hurricane Tapes: the true story of the triple murder convictions of boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter 6.50 World Wise Web 7.00 News 7.05 The History Hour 8.00 News 8.05 The Arts Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Newsroom 10.20 Sports News 10.30 Boston Calling 11.00 News 11.05 From Our Own Correspondent 11.30 Outlook 12.00 News 12.05am Hardtalk 12.30 Crowd Science 1.00 News 1.05 The World This Week 1.30 Global Business 2.00 News 2.05 The Newsroom 2.30 The Missing Cryptoqueen: a cryptocurrency scam 2.50 Over to You 3.00 News 3.05 World Book Club: Petina Gappah 4.00 News 4.05 From Our Own Correspondent 4.30 Boston Calling
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5.00am 5 Live Boxing 5.30 Robbie Savage’s Premier League Breakfast 6.00 Saturday Breakfast 5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 8.00am—12 noon Tennis: Australian Open Commentary on the women’s singles final. 9.00 Scott Mills and Chris Stark 11.00 Fighting Talk 12.00 5 Live Sport Jonathan Overend with sports news, interviews and features including build-up to the Premier League games including updates of Leicester City v Chelsea. Plus coverage of Wales v Italy and Ireland v Scotland in the Six Nations. At 3.00 there’s live commentary on a Premier League game and coverage across the leagues. Plus Six Nations updates. And at 5.00 Sports Report. Plus updates from Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers. 5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 2.00—6.45pm Six Nations Wales v Italy (kick-off 2.15), the opening match of the Six Nations, in Cardiff. 4.15 Ireland v Scotland (kick-off 4.45), from Dublin. Sport: page 34
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15/16. Helen Mark visits Tintagel in Cornwall to cross the new bridge that now links the castle to the mainland. She discovers its links with the legend of King Arthur and the way this myth has shaped the buildings in the landscape. She meets some of the people who live there and finds that the real historic importance of this part of the UK is only just beginning to be understood. Rptd from Thursday
1.10 Any Questions?
Saturday
News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 2.00pm, 4.00 and hourly to 12 midnight Weather 6.04am, 6.57, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 9.59, 12.29am shipping forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW), 5.54, 12.48am
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6.00pm 6-0-6 8.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review Weekly guide. 9.00 Stephen Nolan 12.00 Brexitcast 12.30am As Heard on BBC Sounds 1.00 Up All Night 5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 3.00—7.30 Women’s Cricket Australia v India, from Canberra.
Talksport 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927 6.00am GameDay Breakfast 9.00 GameDay Warm Up 11.00 GameDay Exclusive Reshmin Chowdhury with live commentary on Leicester v Chelsea (kick-off 12.30pm). 2.30pm GameDay Live Adrian Durham with the 3pm kick-offs. 5.15 GameDay Exclusive Live commentary on Manchester United v Wolves (kick-off 5.30). 7.30 GameDay: Your Verdict 9.00 Fight Night 12.00 Extra Time
LBC 97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919 5.00am Best of Steve Allen 6.00 In Conversation with Steve Allen 7.00 Andrew Castle 10.00 Matt Frei 12.00 Maajid Nawaz 3.00pm Ian Payne 6.00 Clive Bull 10.00 Nick Abbot 1.00am Matt Stadlen
Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 5.00am Desi Dancefloor Mix 5.30 AJD’s Bhangra versus Bollywood Mix 6.00 Jasmine Takhar 10.00 Raj and Pablo Film specialists. 1.00pm Eshaan, Sunil and Nim 4.00 AJD 7.00 Panjabi Hit Squad 10.00 Nucleya 1.00am Kenny Allstar 3.00 Nucleya (R)
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97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 7.00am Matt and Mollie 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 11.00 Jordan North Music and chat. 1.00pm Dev and Alice 4.00 Radio 1’s Life Hacks 6.00 The Official Chart: First Look on Radio 1 7.00 Radio 1’s Chillest Show 9.00 Daniel P Carter Loud rock. 11.00 BBC Music Introducing on Radio 1 with Huw Stephens 1.00am Radio 1’s Residency 3.00 Radio 1’s Wind Down 4.00 Adele Roberts
BBC Radio 2 88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902
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6.00am Good Morning Sunday
The Purity Spiral 1.30pm Radio 4 Social media is a snakepit of vile trolls — but what is the process by which good intentions tip over into denunciations and online baiting? Journalist Gavin Haynes takes a deep dive into the social dynamic that creates micro communities fuelled by a competitive need to put on displays of righteousness. He tells the sad story of knitter Nathan Taylor (a gay man living with HIV) who introduced an inclusive #diversknitty hashtag on Instagram but ended up being denounced as a “white supremacist”. As the hate piled on, he had a breakdown. DAVID CRAWFORD
Bookclub/ World Book Club 4.00pm Radio 4 2.05pm BBC World Service World Book Club on the BBC World Service is now into month two of its year-long celebration of female writers, with Petina Gappah today talking about her novel The Book of Memory. Meanwhile, on Radio 4’s monthly Bookclub, James Meek answers audience questions about his novel The People’s Act of Love. SIMON O’HAGAN
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The Rev Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad welcome Beth Morrey, author of the new novel Saving Missy.
9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs Personal dedications. 11.00 The Michael Ball Show 1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday 3.00 Sounds of the 70s
7.00am Breakfast With Martin Handley. 9.00 Sunday Morning Sarah Walker with music and guests including at 10.30 Nick Ahad with his monthly arts round-up.
12.00 Private Passions Michael Berkeley welcomes US-born, UK-based environmental lawyer and ClientEarth founder and CEO James Thornton, also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest. He discusses music of personal significance including works by Sibelius and Gyorgy Kurtag and a recording of a key Buddhist text set by master of modern gamelan Lou Harrison.
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday’s recital from Wigmore Hall in London, presented by Andrew McGregor. Jennifer Pike (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano). Dani Howard Dualism (BBC commission: first performance) Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Rozsa Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song (R)
2.00 The Early Music Show Lucie Skeaping looks at Selva Morale e Spirituale — a collection of late sacred works by Monteverdi. (R)
3.00 Choral Evensong
7.00 Claudia Winkleman
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Paul Whitehouse discusses his current project: a West End musical based on Only Fools and Horses.
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
9.00 Barry Humphries: Barry’s Forgotten Musical Masterpieces
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New series. 1/4. Barry Humphries returns with more a musical memories transporting
listeners to a bygone era. This fourth series showcases musical warnings which, combined with Humphries’s unique commentary, shine an entertaining and thought-provoking light on current affairs. This first part recalls the flamboyant 1920s. Producer Clare Wordsworth
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10.00 The Swing and Big Band Show with Clare Teal 11.00 Don Black 4/13. With spotlights on Shirley Bassey, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones. Plus a celebration of French singer/songwriter and mid-century star Charles Trenet (1913—2001), best known for his 1946 hit La Mer.
12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds of the 60s (R)
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7.00am Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie With guest Ben Watt (ex-Everything but the Girl).
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Miranda Sawyer chats to director Melina Matsoukas (Queen & Slim).
Cadfael: Monk’s Hood
2.00 Guy Garvey Rptd 12 midnight 4.00 Amy Lamé New music. 6.00 Now Playing @6Music
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News and weather 7.00am, 8.00, 8.30, 1.00pm
Fourth of five live programmes with Alan Carr and Melanie Sykes.
Johnnie Walker with period music and 1970s reminiscences by food critic Jay Rayner, who was three at the dawn of the decade.
10.00 Cerys Matthews 1.00pm Sound and Vision
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From the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, recorded last October. Introit: The Holy Son of God Most High (Hurford). Responses: Rose. Psalm 142, 143 (Hylton Stewart, Aktins). First Lesson: Hosea 5, vv1—7. Canticles: Gloucester Service (Howells). Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 10, vv14 —end; 11, v1. Anthem: Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace (Joubert). Hymn: All People That on Earth Do Dwell (Old Hundredth). Voluntary: Exurgat Deus (Hurford).
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A 1991 full-cast, five-part dramatisation of one of Ellis Peter’s medieval mystery series has Brother Cadfael (Philip Madoc) investigate death by poisoned partridge. Narrated by Michael Hordern, this is a top-notch thriller.
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Presented by Tom Robinson.
8.00 Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone Rarities, requests and demos. 10.00 Don Letts’ Culture Clash Radio Franz Ferdinand’s 2004 debut. 12.00 Guy Garvey (R) 2.00am BBC Introducing Mixtape 3.00 Live Hour Archive performances. 4.00 The Story of Pop 33/52 5.00 Chris Hawkins
7.30 The Escape Artist 2/2. Omnibus. Ross Sutherland traces the life of Swiss writer, poet, artist and pugilist Arthur Cravan, whose anarchic art heralded Dadism, surrealism, situationism, punk rock and alternative comedy.
8.45 Radio 3 in Concert Fiona Talkington presents two American orchestras from the same city — or rather the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul — in a concert of works from the mid-19th and late-20th centuries. And Russian pianist Alexei Zuev performs Stravinsky’s own transcription of The Firebird. Mendelssohn String Symphony No 10 in B minor Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Tito Muñoz Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird Alexei Zuev, piano Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 1 Kareem Roustom Ramal John Adams Gnarly Buttons Michael Collins (clarinet), Minnesota Orchestra conductor Osmo Vanska Haydn Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle) Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, conductor Tito Muñoz
11.00 Sean Shibe’s Guitar Zone 5/6. Joy and Melancholy. Classical guitarist Sean Shibe reveals the interval of sadness that permeates the lute music of John Dowland. (R)
12.00 Classical Fix
Alyn Shipton with recordings by Charlie Parker, Woody Shaw, Jessica Williams and many others.
5.00 The Listening Service Tom Service explores the string quartet, from Haydn’s epic 68 works for the medium, to Beethoven’s late masterworks, to Shostakovich’s 15 soul-bearing 20th-century works. He’s joined by the Brodsky Quartet — a British ensemble now approaching its 50th anniversary — and British-Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova. Repeated Friday 4.30pm
5.30 Words and Music As part of Part of Radio 3’s Nordic Sounds season, actors Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards, The Killing) and Vera Vitali (Bonus Family) read from the darker side of Scandinavian literature, including writers Per Petersson, Stieg Larsson, August Strindberg and Jo Nesbo. Featuring music by Sibelius, Nielsen, Rautavaara, Björk and Johann Johannsson. Producer Janet Tuppen
6.45 Sunday Feature: The Lonely Death of Stanley Bate English composer and pianist Stanley Bate (1911—59) studied at the Royal College of Music and won nearly
Clemency Burton-Hill creates a classical playlist for a music fan who is curious about classical music.
12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young. Including a concert featuring cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. Debussy Cello Sonata in D minor Boulanger Three Pieces for Cello and Piano Ginastera Puneña No 2, Op 45 Villa-Lobos Cantilena (Bachiana brasileira No 5) Ginastera Malambo, Op 7; Pampeana No 2, Op 21 Falla, arr Marechal Suite populaire espagnole Piazzolla Le Grand Tango Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), José Gallardo (piano) 1,44 Rodrigo Concierto serenata 2.06 Falla Noches en los jardines de España 2.31 Bach Cantata No 21: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis 3.06 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 3.43 Chopin Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39 3.51 Fontana Sonata undecima for cornet, violin and bass continuo 3.59 Simpson Prelude in D; Divisions on a Ground 4.07 Handel Tu, del ciel ministro eletto 4.14 Farnaby, arr Howarth Fancies, Toyes and Dreames (arr for brass quintet) 4.20 Colin Brumby Festival Overture on Australian Themes 4.31 J Strauss (son) Rosen aus dem Süden, Op 388 4.40 Bartok Mikrokosmos (selection) (arr for two pianos) 4.50 Johan Duijck Cantiones Sacrae in honorem Thomas Tallis, Op 26, Book 1 5.00 Weiss Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G 5.10 Mozart Adagio and Allegro in E flat for wind octet, KAnhC 5.19 Vivaldi Recorder Concerto in C, RV444 5.29 Morley Burial Sentences Elgar They Are at Rest 5.42 Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in E, Op 6 6.07 Respighi Pini di Roma (R)
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6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Jamie Crick Including tunes from musicals. 10.00 Chris Rogers and Anthea Turner 1.00pm A Cello Special with Hauser Ahead of the release of his solo album, Stjepan Hauser (of Slovenian and Croatian duo 2Cellos) celebrates the cello. 3.00 Alexis Ffrench With highlights of a recently released recording by pianist Stephen Hough and highlights of this year’s Bafta-nominated film scores. 5.00 The Scala Jukebox With Sam Hughes. 6.00 Faye Treacy Favourite classical works. 8.00 Sunday Night Scala With Darren Redick.
10.00 The Console with Luci Holland 11.00 The Space Atmospheric music.
all the awards available at the college. Then came Paris with Nadia Boulanger, a spell in Berlin with Hindemith and, before the Second World War, highly successful ballet collaborations with Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois. With the outset of war the openly gay Bate and his wife, the composer Peggy Glanville Hicks, moved to Australia and then to the US. Bate returned to Britain but his career never regained its pre-war position. It is thought that he took his own life. Simon Heffner explores.
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1.00am Night Music Nonstop music.
Absolute Radio DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 8.00am Jason Manford 11.00 Sarah Champion 2.00pm Jay Lawrence 6.00 Request Show with Claire Sturgess 8.00 Time to Listen 10.00 Sunday Night Music Club 12.00 Dan Noble
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
7.00am Aled Jones Including a Choral Classic at 8.15. 10.00 Bill Turnbull With popular favourites. 1.00pm Alexander Armstrong Uplifting music.
3.00 John Humphrys Personal music picks, with recordings by pianist Martin Helmchen and conductor Andrew Davis.
5.00 David Mellor With recent and up-and-coming releases, today featuring highlights of recordings by cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Stephen Hough, and two new Beethoven box sets.
7.00 Smooth Classics Charlotte Hawkins with a laid-back playlist, today showcasing Polish cellist Maciej Kulakowski, with highlights of his recording of music by Liszt.
9.00 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Classical Music Soprano Catherine Bott showcases music with hidden clues and riddles. 10.00 Smooth Classics With Myleene Klass. 1.00am Bob Jones Night-time music.
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92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4 For national frequencies see p141 Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW) Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW) News 5.30am, 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, 12 noon and hourly to 12 midnight Weather 6.57am, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 9.59, 12.15am Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW), 5.54, 12.48am
5.00 File on 4
Mary Berry: A Life Through Food Sheila Dillon sits down with cookery star and former Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry over tea and lemon drizzle cake, and learns more about her passion for home cooking, her determination to succeed as a woman in the world of food, and how she’s handled finding fame in later life.
3/10. Facial Recognition. Geoff White reports on the dangers posed by weak regulation and complex laws surrounding the use of facial recognition technology.
Producer Lucy Taylor Repeated tomorrow 3.30pm
1.00 The World This Weekend Global news and analysis, with Mark Mardell.
1.30 The Purity Spiral
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Gavin Haynes enters “the purity spiral” — an online morality vortex in which societies become hollowed-out, dominated only by the most radical ideological voices, prisoners of their own tone-policing and competitive woke-ness.
6.00 News Summary 6.05 Something Understood Embarrassment. Mark Tully examines the consequences of embarrassment, with readings from Jane Austen, TS Eliot and Wendell Berry by Samantha Bond, Francis Cadder and Matt Addis. Producer Frank Stirling (R)
Producers Max O’Brien and Sean Glynn
2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time
6.35 On Your Farm 7.00 News; Sunday Papers 7.10 Sunday
2.45 The Listening Project Omnibus. Presented by Fi Glover.
Religious and ethical headlines.
3.00 Drama: Oliver: Lagos to London
7.54 Radio 4 Appeal
3/3. Ayeesha Menon’s radical updating of Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist. Oli has become a hardened 20 year-old, who’s forgotten his best friend Mene and all their dreams. Saffron Hill is grooming Oli as the gang’s new leader, and persuades Bill to include him in a plan that will earn them a small fortune. But when they get to the rendezvous, Oli’s kind heart ruins the callous scheme and he pays a heavy price.
Mariella Frostrup makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust. Repeated 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, marked Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust on the back of the envelope; Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144; online via the Radio 4 website
8.00 News; Sunday Papers 8.10 Sunday Worship Fr Dermot Preston SJ preaches live from St Aloysius’ RC Church, Glasgow, with the Schola Cantorum of St Aloysius’ College. The Director of Music is Ann Archibald and the organist is Hugh Reid.
Oli Idris Debrand Babatunde Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Nancy Tamara Lawrance Bill Fehinte Balogun Dodger Sylvester Akinrolabu Miss Saffron Hill Jocelyn Jee Esien
8.48 A Point of View Weekly reflections on topical issues with a range of contributors. Repeated from Friday
8.58 Tweet of the Day Parrot Crossbill. With John Aitchison. (R)
Inspector Ndbuisi Kalungi Ssebandeke Charlie Samuel Adebayo Auntie Rosie Bisola Elizabeth Alabi Young Agi Sariah Joye Waitress Fatima Adoum
4.30 What If Our Textbooks Were Black?
5/6. Susan Calman, Graeme Garden, Sindhu Vee and Lloyd Langford are obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as superheroes, meat, names and Bob Dylan. David Mitchell hosts. Rptd from Monday
7.45 No One Called Her Angel 4/5. By Louise Welsh. En route to Angel’s childhood home, Lynn sees that her daughter Amber is oblivious to the tensions between the two women. Read by Maryam Hamidi. Producer Eilidh McCreadie
8.00 More or Less 4/6. Tim Harford investigates numbers that are prevalent everywhere. Repeated from Friday
8.30 Last Word Matthew Bannister celebrates notable people who have recently died. Rptd from Fri
9.00 Money Box Rptd from yesterday 12.04pm 9.25 Radio 4 Appeal Repeated from 7.54am 9.30 Analysis 1/9. Get Woke or Go Broke? The return of the programme looking at the ideas and forces that shape public policy in Britain and abroad. Philip Coggan examines what is driving businesses to advertise their commitment to liberal causes such as diversity and tackling climate change. Repeated from Monday
10.00 The Westminster Hour Political magazine with Carolyn Quinn.
12.00 News 12.15—12.45am Thinking Allowed
2/2. Naomi Beckwith invites more artists to imagine a new cultural textbook that reinstates some of those black cultural figures who have been sidelined. Producers Steve Urquhart and Natalie Moore (R)
1.00 as BBC World Service
BBC World Service 5.00 Poetry Extra With Daljit Nagra 5.30 All Those Women Sheila Hancock and Lesley Manville star in a sitcom by Katherine Jakeways about four generations of women living under one roof. With Sinead Matthews. From 1998 (4/4) 6.00 Jeff Noon — Dead Code: Ghosts of the Digital Age Drama by Jeff Noon, set in the ruins of a housing estate in a futuristic, post-digital-age world, where music haunts the streets. With Emma Atkins, Paul Simpson and Jason Done. From 2005 6.45 The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains Bill Paterson reads an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s multi-award-winning novelette (5/5) 7.00 Radiolab Strange stories of brains (5/8) 7.55 Motherwell Memoir by renowned Scottish journalist and longtime Guardian contributor Deborah Orr, who died in October, aged 57. Abridged by Julian Wilkinson — omnibus (1—5/5) 9.05 Desert Island Discs A 1983 edition with fashion designer Zandra Rhodes discussing her life and her then favourite music, from Handel to Pink Floyd 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: 10.00 All Those Women (4/4), at 10.30 Small Scenes (1/4), at 10.55 Interview, at 11.00 Lenny Henry: Rogue’s Gallery (4/4), at 11.15 A Stuggy Pren (2/5), and at 11.30 As Told to Craig Brown (6/6) 12.00 as 6pm 12.45am as 6.45pm 1.00 as 1pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 2.30 as 2.30pm 3.45 as 3.45pm 4.00 as 4pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
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4/6. Open-door topical show from the mind of broadcaster, producer and audio-fiddler Jon Holmes. Producer Jon Holmes (R)
Hidden Gay Lives. Laurie Taylor uncovers the history of Polari, Britain’s secret gay language, with Paul Barker, professor of English language at Lancaster University. He also talks to the cultural historian James Polchin about the ways in which gay men once navigated a society that criminalised them, as well as holding them responsible for the violence they often experienced. Rptd from Wed
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Ladies of Letters Go Global as 1pm 7.15 Tips for the Barmaid as 2.15pm 7.30 All Those Women as 5.30pm 8.00 Whack-O! Comedy from 1962 8.30 Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse 9.00 Motherwell as 8pm 10.10 Desert Island Discs as 9.05pm 11.05 Radiolab Strange stories of brains (5/8) 12.00 Whack-O! Comedy from 1962 12.30pm Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse 1.00 Ladies of Letters Go Global Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman’a acidic satire starring Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales as duelling perversely genteel “friends” who set out on a grand tour (1—5/5) 2.15 Tips for the Barmaid Lorraine Ashbourne reads Claire Powell’s tale about a 40something single mum working behind the bar at her local sports club 2.30 The Second Sleep Post-apocalyptic thriller by Robert Harris (The Ghost), set 800 years in the future, in which a priest investigates a vicar’s untimely death. Abridged by Jeremy Osborne (1—5/10) 3.45 Door Stepping With Jude Rogers (1/5) 4.00 A Sense of Things Moving Forward Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber and Simon Russell Beale star in Craig Warner’s drama about the tragedy of the Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colón, Grand Admiral of the Ocean Sea. From 1992
7.15 The Skewer
5/8. When Brains Attack. Strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and sometimes propel them to do amazing things. With Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich. (R)
12.04pm The Unbelievable Truth
Sonita Alleyne, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, is Lauren Laverne’s castaway.
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4.00 Bookclub
Producer Cathy Drysdale Repeated Friday 9am
11.15 Desert Island Discs
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm
11.00 Radiolab
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Topical magazine hosted by Paddy O’Connell, with guests reviewing the Sunday papers. Paddy O’Connell: page 127 10.00 The Archers Omnibus edition.
Kirsty attempts to keep the peace and Pip reaches the end of her tether.
Producer Gill Parry; Director Michael Buffong
Journalist James Meek talks about his novel The People’s Act of Love, first published in 2005, a bold and imaginative work based in the wilds of Siberia where a strange and violent group of individuals come together with sinister results. James Naughtie presents, and invites an audience of readers to join in the discussion. March’s Bookclub choice: Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes. Producer Dymphna Flynn Rptd Thu 3.30pm
9.00 Broadcasting House
5.40 Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm 6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.15 Pick of the Week With John Waite. 7.00 The Archers
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5.00am News 5.05 The Newsroom 5.30 The Cultural Frontline 6.00 Weekend 8.30 The Food Chain 9.00 News 9.05 From Our Own Correspondent 9.30 Heart and Soul 10.00 News 10.05 The Compass 10.30 Outlook: perspectives on important issues 11.00 News 11.05 The Newsroom 11.30 The Cultural Frontline 12.05pm The World This Week 12.30 Science in Action 1.00 Newshour 2.00 News 2.05 CHOICE: World Book Club: Petina Gappah 3.00 News 3.05 The Forum 3.50 50 More Things That Made the Modern Economy 4.00 News 4.05 Sportsworld 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Global Business 8.00 News 8.05 Music Life 9.00 Newshour 10.05 The Newsroom 10.20 Sports News 10.30 The Missing Cryptoqueen 10.50 50 More Things That Made the Modern Economy 11.00 News 11.05 The Cultural Frontline 11.30 Heart and Soul 12.00 News 12.05am People Fixing The World 12.30 Discovery 1.00 News 1.05 World Business Report: informed analysis 1.30 Digital Planet 2.00 News 2.05 The Newsroom 2.30 Healthcheck 3.00 News 3.05 The Forum 3.50 Sporting Witness 4.00 News 4.05 Hardtalk 4.30 The Conversation
News and sport bulletin every half-hour Times vary during live sports coverage
5.00am 5 Live Science 6.00 Sunday Breakfast 5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 8.00am—12.30pm Tennis: Australian Open The men’s singles final at Melbourne Park. 9.00 Pienaar’s Politics 10.00 Laura Whitmore’s Sunday Session 11.30 5 Live Sport Including at 11.30 The Squad with Nick Bright, in which Nick and sporting vloggers discuss the weekend’s biggest football stories, including Leicester City v Chelsea. And the relegation fight comes into focus with AFC Bournemouth v Aston Villa and Newcastle United v Norwich. From 12.30pm Steve Crossman presents build-up to the Premier League matches Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City and Burnley v Arsenal, with live commentary on the latter from at 2.00, followed at 4.00 by further build-up to Tottenham v Manchester City, with managers José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola going to head to head; commentary starts at 4.30.
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Peter Gibbs chairs from the Cotswolds, with a panel of Pippa Greenwood, Chris Beardshaw and Chris Thorogood. Repeated from Friday
Caz Graham meets two innovators trying to make money from a small Lake District farm.
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693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905 Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
Sunday
5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Bells on Sunday The morning bells from the freestanding bell tower of the Church of All Saints and Saint Lawrence in Evesham, Worcestershire. 5.45 Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm
12.30 The Food Programme
5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 12.30—2.30pm Rugby Union France Women v England Women, in the Six Nations (kick-off 12.30). 2.45—6.00 France v England, in the opening round of Six Nations, which takes place at the Stade de France, Paris (kick-off 3.00). Sport: page 34. 6.30pm 6-0-6 Football phone-in. 8.00 Peter Allen 10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All Night
Talksport 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927 6.00am Weekend Sports Breakfast Presented by Georgie Bingham and Tony Cascarino. 9.30 Gloryhunters with Charlie Baker Football quiz show. 11.00 Warm Up With Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning. 1.00pm Sunday Exclusive With Mark Saggers. 5.00 Simon Jordan’s Final Word with Danny Kelly 8.00 On the Sporting Couch 9.00 Trans Euro Express With Andy Goldstein. 12.00 Extra Time 5.00am Early Breakfast
LBC 97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919 5.00am Steve Allen 7.00 Andrew Castle 10.00 Nigel Farage 12.00 Maajid Nawaz 3.00pm Ian Payne 6.00 Clive Bull 9.00 In Conversation with Steve Allen 10.00 Tom Swarbrick Pacy show. 1.00am Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen
Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 6.00am Jasmine Takhar 10.00 Gagan Grewal 1.00pm Preeya Kalidas 3.00 Waqas Saeed 5.00 Dipps Bhamrah 7.00 Nadia Ali Bengali culture. 9.00 Ashanti Omkar
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97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 6.30am Greg James 10.00 Clara Amfo 1.00pm Scott Mills 4.00 Nick Grimshaw 7.00 Annie Mac 8.00 Radio 1’s Power Down Playlist with Annie Mac Celebrating electronic music. 9.00 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 11.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show Presented by Jack Saunders. 1.00am René LaVice 3.00 Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems (R) 4.00 Adele Roberts
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88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902 5.00am Vanessa Feltz
The Essay: Between the Essays 10.45pm Radio 3 Hope, according to Emily Dickinson (above), is the thing with feathers. That famous line is at the heart of this series of miniature aural pieces, but if your passion for 19th-century poetry has waned in the years since school then fear not, this is less an examination of Dickinson’s stanzas and more a comment on how hope manifests itself in our lives. From parents sitting waiting in a neo-natal unit to commuters stuck in traffic jams, the perspective afforded by this unique format more than sings the tune without the words. TOM GOULDING
24 Kildare Road 10.45am/7.45pm Radio 4 The award-winning playwright Katie Hims (Home Front, The Earthquake Girl) brings us a ten-part serial linked to the discovery of the body of an old woman, miles away from her London home, in a snowcovered park in Bridlington. But while the how and why of how she got here is the link, these are vignettes into the lives of the people drawn into her story. Listen hard because the everyday, throwaway conversations also contain the odd comment that gets to the deepest, sometimes darkest, heart of the matter. JANE ANDERSON
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As “home-made” podcasts go, this is one of the best, and is ideal for anyone with more than a passing interest in the Second World War, offering an intricate level of detail. Check out Operation Swallow — a commando raid in Norway — as a starting point. JANE ANDERSON Listen at ww2podcast.com
6.30 Zoe Ball Upbeat show with chat, phone-ins and texts, regular features and music, from radio oldies to Radio 2’s current playlist.
9.30 Ken Bruce Music, chat and features, including after 11.30 throughout the week Tracks of My Years, featuring — two a day — ten of the all-time favourite records of former Slade bassist and singer Jim Lea, who co-wrote most of the superstar glam-era band’s hits. He starts with favourite records by the Shadows and the Beatles.
12.00 Jeremy Vine With news and topical discussion, including a phone-in. Plus new music and a pick of hip pop oldies.
2.00pm Steve Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 7.00 Jo Whiley New music. 9.00 The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews Featuring the full spectrum of the blues, from vinyl classics to bluesrock and beyond, whether from Memphis, Mali or Manchester.
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00 OJ Borg Chat, new and old music and regular features including a battle between two of an artist’s hits — with listeners’ votes determining the winner — and Midnight Mastermind, in which listeners challenge OJ in a specialist subject. 3.00am Sounds of the 70s Johnnie Walker with period music and 1970s reminiscences by food critic Jay Rayner. (R)
BBC 6 Music DAB bbc.co.uk/6music Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny Music, laughs and guests, with Field Music performing new material. 4.00 Steve Lamacq New music. 7.00 Marc Riley With live sets.
9.00 Gideon Coe 12.00 6 Music Recommends 1.00am The Story of Pop 34/52 Alan Freeman continues with disco. 2.00 70 Years of Cool 1/3. 2009 series with Jamie Cullum celebrating New York jazz label Blue Note Records. 2.30 Live Hour Rock Goddess in 1983, Unknown Mortal Orchestra in 2018 and Spratleys Japs in 2019. 3.30 6 Music’s Trunk of Funk with Craig Charles A mix from Craig’s Saturday evening show. 4.00 Desert Island Disco 4.30 People’s Playlist 5.00 Chris Hawkins
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 News and weather Half-hourly 6.30—8.30am, 1pm, 5.00, 6.00
6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny. 9.00 Essential Classics With Ian Skelly. 9.30 Listeners’ playlist suggestions. 11.10 Essential Five First of this week’s five works featuring grand musical entrances.
12.00 Composer of the Week: Samuel Wesley (1766—1837) 1/5. Wesley’s Shifting Religious Views. A profile of the late-Georgian organist and composer who, as a child prodigy, was described by William Boyce as the English Mozart. Today Donald Macleod delves into Wesley’s religious background. Symphony in A (Brillante) London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert O Lord God Most Holy Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, conductor Geoffrey Webber Might I in Thy Sight Appear Frances Cary (soprano), Andrew Arthur (organ), conductor Geoffrey Webber Psalms 42 and 43 Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, John Challenger (organ), director Andrew Nethsingha Dixit Dominus Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Christopher Monks (organ), conductor Geoffrey Webber Preludium, Ariette and Fuga in C minor Jennifer Bate (organist) Symphony in A London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert RT OFFERSacredChoralWorksbySamuelWesley—featuringorganist John Challenger and the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge conducted by Andrew Nethsingha — is available for £15.95 incl p&p. Call 0115 982 7500 quoting ref CHAN10751 or visit radiotimes.com/cds
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5.00 In Tune Katie Derham with live performances by the Allegri String Quartet with clarinettist Joseph Shiner — ahead of Sunday’s concert at Kings Place in London — and pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. Katie also talks to the team behind Opera Undone. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape Nonstop music.
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a concert of works by Ellington, Ravel and Prokofiev, recorded on 23 January at Hoddinott Hall in Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Huw Watkins (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor David Danzmayr Ellington The Nutcracker Suite 7.55 Ravel Piano Concerto in G 8.20 Interval music 8.40 Prokofiev Cinderella (various mvts)
10.00 Music Matters Tom Service hears from Roger Norrington, emeritus conductor of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who discusses a lifetime spent making music and his commitment to historically informed performance.
10.45 Between the Essays
1/5. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers Five radio producers from around the world a offer miniature features inspired by Emily Dickinson’s 1860s poem “Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers. In this first instalment, Copenhagen anthropologist and producer Nanna Hauge Kristensen visits a Danish neonatal intensive care unit, where parents and their premature infants negotiate the precariousness of life.
From Wigmore Hall in London, Andrew McGregor introduces Katharina Konradi and n Eric Schneider in a recital of songs by Schubert
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and pieces by Rachmaninov and Strauss. Katharina Konradi (soprano), Eric Schneider (piano) Schubert Suleika II, D717; An mein Herz, D860; Suleika I, D720 Rachmaninov Lilacs; Beloved, Let Us Fly; How Fair This Spot; Vocalise Strauss Lieder der Ophelia (Op 67) Barber Nuvoletta, Op 25 Schubert Im Abendrot; Lied des Florio; Lied der Delphine
12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young.
2.00 Afternoon Concert
A recital from the Ulster Hall in Belfast as the Ulster Orchestra and Gerard McChrystal perform n the first-ever broadcast of two new works by Dave Heath. Then, Tom McKinney kicks off a week of recordings by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Dave Heath Ray of Light; Illumination Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor Gerard McChrystal (saxophone), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Maxime Pascal 3.20 Bartok Suite No 1, Sz31 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard
4.30 Early Music Now Tom McKinney presents highlights recorded in December at the Actus Humanus festival in Poland.
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6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Charles Nove Vibrant music. 10.00 Simon Mayo Including after 10.00 the Mayo Clinic. At 11.30 Simon is joined by guest Kirill Karabits, chief conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Plus requests from 12.00. 1.00pm Sam Hughes With popular classical works, with Sam’s Matinée Moment after 3.00. 4.00 Mark Forrest An eclectic playlist, including a relatively long piece at 6.30 in the Scala Immersion.
7.00 Hannah Cox 10.00 The Space Atmospheric music. 12.00 Night Music Nonstop classical music. º
Absolute Radio DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Sarah Champion 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry Old and new mainstream and indie rock and pop, from Metallica to Muse, from the Kinks to Kings of Leon, from Freddie Mercury to Mercury Rev, from Queen to Prince 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Chris Martin
11.00 Night Tracks Hannah Peel with an immersive soundtrack. With pieces from 18th-century Dresden performed at the Early Music Days Festival Herne, Germany. Marchand Pièces de clavecin, Livre 1 (selection) Johannes Keller (harpsichord) Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV903 Stanislav Gres (harpsichord) Pisendel Violin Sonata in E minor Leila Schayegh (violin), Stanislav Gres (harpsichord) Veracini Violin Sonata No 5 in G minor Evgeny Sviridov (violin), Johannes Keller (harpsichord) Bach Trio Sonata in G, BWV1038 Vivaldi Trio Sonata No 12 in D minor, RV 63 (La Follia) Leila Schayegh (violin), Evgeny Sviridov (violin), Stanislav Gres (harpsichord), Johannes Keller (harpsichord) 1.41 Schubert Symphony No 9 in C (Great) 2.31 Debussy Etudes, Book 2 2.57 Mahler Kindertotenlieder 3.23 Pavel Mihelcic Nocturne for violin and guitar 3.29 Field Aria; Nocturne and Chanson 3.37 Handel Concerto Grosso in B flat, Op 3 No 1 3.46 Strauss Träumerei am Kamin (Intermezzo) 3.54 Mozart Horn Concerto No 2 in E flat, K417 4.08 Gesualdo O vos omnes; Tribulationem et dolorem inveni 4.15 Schubert Ave Maria, D839 4.19 Schumann Overture: Genoveva 4.31 Pez Passacaglia and Aria 4.39 Liszt La Campanella 4.44 Schubert Trio in B flat, D471 4.52 Moniuszko Hrabina 5.07 Jadin Sonata No 3 in F, Op 6 5.28 Grieg Violin Sonata No 2 in G, Op 13 5.48 Debussy Nocturnes 6.14 Faure Reflets dans l’eau (Mirages, Op 113) 6.19 Beethoven Seven Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen, WoO46
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet Popular classical works. 1.00pm Anne-Marie Minhall Requests. 5.00 Sam Pittis Classic FM favourites. 7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning. 8.00 The Full Works Concert With Jane Jones. The first of two programmes of performances recorded in November at the Schloss Elmau as part of the Verbier Festival in the Swiss Alps. Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64 Marc Bouchkov, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy Tchaikovsky Lullaby Behzod Abduraimov (piano) Haydn Symphony No 90 in C Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 49 Benny Tseng (violin), Pablo Ferrández (cello), George Li (piano) Albéniz Asturias Milos Karadaglic (guitar) Dvorak Silent Woods, Op 68 No 5 Mischa Maisky (cello), Orchestra de Paris, conductor Semyon Bychkov Einaudi Ascent Ludovico Einaudi (piano)
10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am Bob Jones
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7.00 The Archers
6/10. Post-apocalyptic thriller by Robert Harris, set 800 years in the future, in which a priest investigates a vicar’s untimely death. Abridged by Jeremy Osborne and read by Michael Maloney. Producer Karen Rose Rptd 10.45pm
Kate makes her presence felt and Neil questions his future.
12.18 You and Yours Consumer reports. 1.00 The World at One Presented by Sarah Montague.
1.45 The Disrupters 1/5. Kamal Ahmed and Rohan Silva with stories about the realities of starting a business. Today they talk to Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman — the poster children of the UK’s internet boom — about the rise of lastminute.com, and how in business as in life, we have to be careful what we wish for.
6.00 Today With Nick Robinson and Jon Sopel. 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Dr Jane Leach.
9.00 Start the Week
Producer Georgia Catt (R)
2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm 2.15 Drama: The Hartlepool Spy Comedy drama by Ian Martin. In 1804, chaos erupts when a French warship is wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool and a single survivor washes ashore in the form of a monkey.
Producer Hannah Sander Shortened repeat 9.30pm
9.45 FM Book of the Week: Surfacing 1/5. Beneath the broad Alaskan sky, long-buried artefacts spill from the thawing tundra. In the eroding sand dunes of a Scottish island, preserved Neolithic hearths and homes are uncovered by the wind. And in a grandmother’s tenement flat, memories surface of a long-ago mining accident and a mother who was kind. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie’s essays reflect on time, memory and our connections to the past. Abridged by Linda Cracknell and read by Maureen Beattie.
Cavendish Rev Ferrier Mayor Palmer Lady Embleton
Michael Palin Mrs Palmer Jim Moir Garvey Toby Jones The Monkey Gina McKee
Monica Dolan Jason Forbes Robin Berry
Producer Sam Ward (R)
3.00 Round Britain Quiz 4/12. Val McDermid and Alan McCredie of Scotland take on Northern Ireland’s Paddy Duffy and Freya McClements. Tom Sutcliffe chairs. Producer Paul Bajoria Rptd Saturday 11pm
3.30 The Food Programme Repeated from yesterday 12.30pm
Producer Eilidh McCreadie Repeated 12.30am RT BOOKS To order Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie for £12.99 incl p&p, call 03302 232 639 or visit radiotimes.com/shop06
4.00 The Art of Survival The stories of homeless people who have participated in projects that advance the potentially redemptive qualities of art.
9.45 LW Daily Service Led by Canon Steve Williams. Philippians 1, vv3—11. Praise My Soul the King of Heaven (Praise My Soul). I Want to Thank You Lord (Hogan). Christ Is the World’s True Light (Rinkart). Daily Service Singers. Director of music Andrew Earis. Organist Graham Eccles.
Producers Alia Cassam and Alan Hall
4.30 The Infinite Monkey Cage 4/6. Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Ed Byrne, forensic chemist Niamh Nic Daeid and broadcaster Adam Rutherford (BBC Inside Science) as they explore the science of fire and how it has impacted on the evolution of life on Earth. Is controlling fire a uniquely human trait? And how have other species evolved to use fire to their advantage?
10.00 Woman’s Hour 10.45 24 Kildare Road 1/5. The 15-Minute Drama. By Katie Hims. An elderly woman is found dead in a park, and the story of how she ended up there is told through her family and her friends. See drama repeat 7.45pm
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Producer Alexandra Feachem Repeated tomorrow 11pm See Wednesday 9.30am and Thursday 4.30pm
5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis. 6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.30 The Unbelievable Truth
11.00 The Untold 11/13. Game Over in Dover? Grace Dent follows the story of John Shirley’s family-run Dover-based freight agency company, which he fears will be ruined when Britain leaves the EU customs union. Producer Neil McCarthy Rptd from Saturday 6.15pm
7.45 24 Kildare Road
1/5. By Katie Hims. Two boys out sledging in their local park find the a body of an old woman, and the recollections of the people she met and her family and her friends reveal what has led her there. Ryan Harry Grasby Jackson Aaron Gelkoff Mick David Reed Hayley Christine Bottomley Kadija Nahel Tzegai Pat/Shirley Heather Craney Rose Jessica Turner Frank/Taxi driver Neil McCaul
Marion Marcia Warren Zoe Amanda Wilkin Eve Sinead MacInnes Bloke Ian Conningham Eli/ Ben Greg Jones Ozzy Ikky Elyas Ned Will Kirk Call handler Scarlett Courtney
Director Mary Peate Repeated from 10.45am
8.00 My Name Is 5/8. Abi Blake, a survivor of domestic abuse, examines the systems that exist when people are affected by the issue. Rptd Wednesday 11am
8.30 Analysis 2/9. The NHS has a unique resource — our data, and here David Edmonds asks whether a combination of data and Artificial Intelligence will transform the service. With contributions from John Bell, who leads the government’s life-sciences industrial strategy, and Matthew Gould, chief executive of NHSx, the unit set up to lead the NHS’s digital transformation. Is there a danger that data may be sold to the private sector at bargain basement prices? Producer David Edmonds Repeated Sunday 9.30pm
9.00 The Crisis Inside Rptd from Tuesday 9.30 Start the Week Shortened rpt from 9am 10.00 The World Tonight Presented by Ritula Shah.
10.45 The Second Sleep 11.00 Word of Mouth
Rptd from 12.04pm
4/7. NHS Language Use. Michael Rosen talks to a content designer from the NHS.UK’s standards team about the choice of words used on the health service’s official website. Repeated from Tuesday
11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00 News 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: Surfacing 1/5. Repeated from 9.45am
Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
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BBC World Service 4.00 Whispers With Anthony Holden (1/6) 4.30 Huddwinks 1988 comedy with Roy Hudd 5.00 Chambers 1996 legal comedy (3/5) 5.30 The Unbelievable Truth 2020 game (5/6) 6.00 Orbiter X BD Chapman introduces his sci-fi adventure involving UFOs. From 1959 (1/14) 6.30 A Good Read Literary discussion (7/9) 7.00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 7.30 Dad’s Army 1976 comedy with Arthur Lowe 8.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial by David Ellis. A second-hand car dealer, unjustly suspected of fraud and murder, loses a chequebook, sparking a chain of suspicious events. With Noel Johnson. From 1969 (1/7) 8.30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? Anne Sebba profiles pianist Joyce Hatto (1928—2006), heralded as a lost genius of classical music on her death in June 2006, until it was revealed that the recordings released in the final years of her life were faked 9.00 TED Radio Hour Guy Raz asks whether hating others is learned or innate (9/16) 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Unbelievable Truth (5/6), at 10.30 On the Hour (6/6), at 11.00 The News Quiz Extra (5/8), and at 11.45 What to Do If You’re Not like Everybody Else With Andrew Lawrence (1/4) 12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm 1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 2.30 as 2.30pm 2.45 as 2.45pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm 4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
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Front Row considers the idea — in the context of the arts — of risk. How has it changed over the ccourse of the past 20 years? Is what people saw as risky in 2000 the same now? Does risk always move the boundaries of what’s seen as possible? John Wilson presents. The programme’s 10-strong Risk List will be unveiled in a special edition on Wednesday. Producer Simon Richardson
6/6. Comedy panel show, tonight with Marcus Brigstocke, Lou Sanders, Cally Beaton and Neil Delamere talking with deliberate inaccuracy on a variety of topics. David Mitchell hosts.
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Find the Lady as 8pm 6.30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? as 8.30pm 7.00 Chambers 1996 legal comedy (3/5) 7.30 The Unbelievable Truth 2020 game (5/6) 8.00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket 8.30 Dad’s Army Comedy with Arthur Lowe 9.00 Whispers With Anthony Holden (1/6) 9.30 Huddwinks 1988 comedy with Roy Hudd 10.00 Lucinda Brayford as 3pm 11.00 TED Radio Hour as 9pm 12.00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket Comedy from 1977 12.30pm Dad’s Army Comedy with Arthur Lowe 1.00 Find the Lady as 8pm 1.30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? as 8.30pm 2.00 The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1/5) 2.15 A History of the Infinite From 2016 (1/10) 2.30 The Far Pavilions MM Kaye’s epic novel (1/20) 2.45 Goon Abroad A 1983 series with Harry Secombe (1921—2001) reading his autobiography (1/5) 3.00 Lucinda Brayford Elspeth Sandys’s adaptation of Martin Boyd’s 1946 novel about an Australian woman who arrives in England and quickly realises that everything is not quite as it initially seemed. With Juliet Aubrey, Jonathan Firth, Angela Pleasance, James Laurenson, Abigail McKern, Eleanor Bron, Penelope Wilton and others. From 2005 (1/3)
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Royal Opera House music director Antonio Pappano talks to Andrew Marr about his new production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, staged to mark the composer’s 250th anniversary.
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5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day With Dr Rachel Mann. 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day Slavonian Grebe. With John Aitchison. (R)
11.30 Loose Ends
12.04pm The Second Sleep
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Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 6.00am Harpz Kaur 10.00 Asian Network’s Big Debate 12.30pm Asian Network Reports 1.00 Noreen Khan Desi music, retro hits and guests. 4.00 Yasser New, unsigned and underground British-Asian music. 5.30 Asian Network Reports 6.00 Yasser 7.00 Bobby Friction 10.00 Mobeen Azhar 12.00 Shisha Lounge Mix 12.30am Asian Network Playlists 1.00 Drum ’n’ Bass Show 3.00 1Xtra Playlists 4.00 Twin B
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People Fixing the World: The Miracle Cure: Exercise 3.05pm/8.05pm BBC World Service Who doesn’t know that the answer to most woe is to get moving? Particularly at the older end of the population. Over 40 per cent of UK adults don’t manage the minimum recommended 30 minutes of moderately intense exercise five times a week. This programme looks at the world picture, which is better but not by much. Some countries are actively working to get seniors off the sofa: there is aerobics with cheerleader pompoms in South Korea, free gym vouchers in Finland and, joyfully, walking football in Walton-on-Thames where running is penalised. My kind of exercise. FIONA HUGHES
The Full Works Concert 8.00pm Classic FM Set amid the Bavarian Alps, Schloss Elmau offers a remarkable music venue, combining a concert hall with a hotel-cum-spa. Since 2009 it has hosted an autumn visit from the Swiss-based Verbier Festival and tonight, in the second of two programmes of recordings from last year’s event (the first was last night), the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra plays Mozart’s overture to La clemenza di Tito and Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. MARK PAPPENHEIM
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Tim Samuels presents a series in which wellbeing trends are scientifically tested. His Zap Your Mood Better episode visits the “most depressed area of Britain” to see if a wearable electric device is better than antidepressants. JANE ANDERSON
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6.30 Zoe Ball Upbeat show with chat, phone-ins and texts, regular features and music, with chart oldies and tracks from Radio 2’s current playlist.
9.30 Ken Bruce Music, chat and regular features including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, in which former Slade star Jim Lea discusses two more of his all-time favourite records, today featuring the Who and Bob Dylan.
12.00 Jeremy Vine Topical discussion, plus music.
2.00pm Steve Wright New pop music and hits of yesteryear, plus regular features and big-name guests.
5.00 Sara Cox Chat, chart oldies and music from Radio 2’s current playlist, plus listener phone-ins, texts and dedications.
7.00 Jo Whiley New music and classic album tracks.
9.00 The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum Singer Jamie Cullum shares his love of jazz, from heritage tracks to contemporary sounds including interviews, up-and-coming acts and live performances.
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies Period hits and lesser-known or forgotten gems, from chart pop, rock and dance to indie classics and hip-hop, and at 4.50, Mastermix A short mix featuring hits from the decade.
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7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny Indie music, laughs and studio guests.
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 News and weather as Monday
6.30am Breakfast Petroc Trelawny with chat, news and an eclectic music stretching from Baroque works to the Great American Songbook. Plus listeners’ texts and requests. 9.00 Essential Classics With Ian Skelly. 9.30 Listeners’ playlist suggestions. 10.10 Musical Time Travellers Stories behind the music-making of the British Isles. 11.10 Essential Five Another recommended work featuring a grand musical entrance. 11.30 Slow Moment A musical reflection.
12.00 Composer of the Week: Samuel Wesley 2/5. Wesley’s Distinguished Circle. Donald Macleod journeys through Samuel Wesley’s circle of friends and colleagues, from his distinguished beginnings — when he met the composer William Boyce — to later in life, when he was sought out by the Norwegian violinist and composer Ole Bull, and performed for Felix Mendelssohn. Plus a look at his collaborations with the famed writer on music Charles Burney, and with his friend, the organist Vincent Novello. And he was appointed the first ever grand organist to the Grand Lodge of Freemasons. Fugue in B minor for Dr Mendelssohn Jennifer Bate (organ) Sinfonia obligato London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert O Sing unto Mie Roundelaie Julia Gooding (soprano), Ana-María Rincón (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), Rufus Müller (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass), director Timothy Roberts (director) Voluntary in D Jennifer Bate (organ) Air and Gavotte Carlo Curley (organ) Violin Concerto No 2 in D Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Parley of Instruments, director Peter Holman (fortepiano)
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Georgia Mann introduces pianist Federico Coli in the first of this week’s four concerts of Bach chamber music recorded last month at LSO St Luke’s church in London. Federico Colli (piano). Bach Italian Concerto in F, BWV971; Partita No 4 in D, BWV828; Chaconne in B minor (Partita No 2, BWV1004)
2.00 Afternoon Concert Tom McKinney with further performances by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Henning Kraggerud, conductor Alpesh Chauhan Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances, Op 45 conductor Alpesh Chauhan Brahms Piano Concerto no 1 in D minor Elisabeth Leonskaja, conductor Thomas Dausgaard
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6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Charles Nove Vibrant and soothing music. 10.00 Simon Mayo Including after 10.00 the Mayo Clinic — responding to listeners’ queries — and listeners’ requests from 12.00.
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1.00pm Sam Hughes
New music, phone-ins and guests. 7.00 Marc Riley New music. 9.00 Gideon Coe BBC archive live sessions and concerts.
4.00 Mark Forrest
12.00 6 Music Recommends Tom Ravenscroft curates an hour of his favourite new music. 1.00am The Story of Pop 35/52 Alan Freeman continues with the history of the synthesiser. From 1994. 2.00 70 Years of Cool 2/3. Jamie Cullum celebrates Blue Note Records. 2.30 Live Hour Noah and the Whale at Glastonbury in 2009. Plus Bob in 1989 and Sergio Mendes in 2006. 3.30 Gilles Peterson’s The Shakedown A 30-minute mix. 4.00 Jukebox New tracks. 5.00 Chris Hawkins
With popular classical works, new discoveries and rediscoveries, and at 2.00 Mindfulness of Music. An eclectic playlist, including at 6.30 the Scala Immersion, featuring a relatively long piece. 7.00 Hannah Cox Featuring the latest classical recordings and, from 9.00, a Mindfulness Moment.
10.00 The Space Nonstop eclectic playlist of atmospheric music. 12.00 Night Music Nonstop music.
Absolute Radio DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 6.00am Dave Berry Lively chat, music and regular features 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Chris Martin
5.00 In Tune Katie Derham with arts-related news and chat, music and guests, today featuring conductor Ivan Fischer — ahead of performances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment — and live performances by pianist Melvyn Tan and Belfast early-music ensemble Sestina. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape An eclectic playlist.
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the CBSO in a programme of Beethoven marking an anniversary for the composer and the start of the 100th anniversary year of the orchestra itself. The programme includes two of Beethoven’s most life-enhancing symphonies, and a new work by the South Korean-born composer Unsuk Chin, commissioned to mark the CBSO’s centenary. CBSO, conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D Unsuk Chin SPIRA — a Concerto for Orchestra (first UK performance) Interval Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat
10.00 Free Thinking Anne McElvoy is joined by Austrian-German author Daniel Kehlmann, author of the blockbuster novel Die Vermessung der Welt (Measuring the World). They discuss the German folkore joker Till Eulenspiegel, the subject of Richard Strauss’s tone poem but also the inspiration behind Kehlmann’s latest German hit novel Tyll, now published in Britain in a translation by Ross Benjamin.
10.45 Between the Essays 2/5. Paradise. In this next miniature feature inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers, sound artist and poet Axel Kacoutié offers a story about a man’s journey home, interwoven with the discovery of a lesserknown truth about hope. Producer Axel Kacoutié
11.00 Night Tracks Hannah Peel with an immersive soundtrack.
12.30am Through the Night Catriona Young with music including a performance by pianist Nikita Volov at the Transylvanian International Piano Competition in Brasov, Romania. Bach Capriccio in B flat, BWV992 Berg Piano Sonata, Op 1 Haydn Keyboard Sonata in B flat, H XVI 52 Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor, S178 Nikita Volov (piano) 1.41 Pizzetti Requiem 2.06 Eybler Symphony in C 2.31 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op 35 3.06 CPE Bach Der Herr lebet, Wq251 3.43 Byrd Firste Pavian and Galliarde 3.49 Agay Five Easy Dances 3.57 Dall’Abaco Concerto a piu istrumenti in C, Op 6 No 10 4.04 Arnold Little Suite for Brass Band No 1, Op 80 4.11 Bo Holten Here’s a Time for Everything 4.21 Sammartini Sinfonia in F 4.31 Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnaval 4.40 Mozart Twelve Variations in B flat, K500 4.49 Brahms Three Songs, Op 42 5.00 de Ribayaz Five pieces 5.09 Haydn Divertimento Feldpartita in B flat, H II 46 5.18 Bach Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV1056 5.29 Mendelssohn Incidental Music: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5.53 Allegri Primo Ballo della notte d’amore; Sinfonica 6.03 Norman String Sextet in A, Op 18
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet Popular classical works. 1.00pm Anne-Marie Minhall Requests. 5.00 Sam Pittis Classic FM favourites. 7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning. 8.00 The Full Works Concert With Jane Jones.
Second of two programmes of performances recorded in November at the Verbier Festival. a Mozart Overture: La Clemenza di Tito Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy Schubert Impromptu in A flat, D935 No 2 Lukas Geniusas (piano) Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy Chopin Prelude in D flat, Op 28 No 15 Behzod Abduraimov (piano) Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Maxim Vengerov, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur Haydn Keyboard Concerto in G, H XVIII 4 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy
10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am Bob Jones
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4 FEBRUARY TUESDAY BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4 For national frequencies see p141 Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW) Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW) News, weather and shipping forecasts as yesterday; no weather at 5.57am
BBC Radio 5 Live 12.04pm The Second Sleep 7/10. Robert Harris’s post-apocalyptic thriller set 800 years in the future in which a priest investigates a vicar’s untimely death. Read by Michael Maloney. Repeated 10.45pm
12.18 Call You and Yours Consumer affairs, inviting listeners to offer their experiences.
6.00 Today
1.45 The Disrupters
With Mishal Husain and Martha Kearney. 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament 7.48 Thought for the Day With Canon Angela Tilby. 8.31 LW Yesterday in Parliament
9.00 The Life Scientific
Producer Anna Buckley Repeated 9.30pm
9.30 One to One What happens when you become obsessed by words? When this obsession becomes so severe that your life becomes a frenzied narrative filling your every waking moment? How do you escape? Verity Sharp meets Tim Parks, who shares his experiences of a painful chronic condition brought about by a constant mental and physical tension, related to his work as a writer. Producer Sarah Bunt
9.45 FM Book of the Week: Surfacing 2/5. Exquisite, clear-eyed essays on memory, archaeology and nature by the poet Kathleen Jamie. Read by Maureen Beattie. For details see yesterday Repeated 12.30am
9.45 LW Daily Service Led by the Rev Ernie Rae. Luke 18, vv1—8. Father, Hear the Prayer we Offer (Sussex); Hear my Prayer (Hogan). The Daily Service Singers, director Andrew Earis. Organist Graham Eccles. Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me (What Gift of Grace is Jesus my Redeemer). Performed by Olly Hamilton. 10.00 Woman’s Hour With Jane Garvey. 10.45 24 Kildare Road 2/5. The 15-Minute Drama. For details see drama repeat 7.45pm
11.00 Code Red The innovation that’s revolutionising the way people are treated for injuries that cause catastrophic bleeding. Producer Beth Eastwood
11.30 Art of Now: Recovery Neil McCarthy talks to survivors of torture who have created art based on their experiences as part of their recovery process at a studio in Finsbury Park, north London. Rptd Sat 3.30pm
1.00 The World at One
7.00 The Archers
With Sarah Montague. 2/5. Co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talks to Kamal Ahmed and Rohan Silva about how he became one of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs. He discusses setbacks along the way, including the time he had angry customers ringing every landline in the office 24 hours a day. For details see yesterday (R)
2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm 2.15 Drama: Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft By Sara Davies and Abigail Youngman. The strangest story of all HP Lovecraft’s “weird tales” isn’t fiction at all — it’s true. It concerns his marriage to Sonia Greene, a successful businesswoman whose family had fled Ukraine to make a life in the United States.
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For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm
7.15 Front Row Samira Ahmed talks to Eimear McBride about her new novel, Strange Hotel. With her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, McBride won the 2014 Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction. She followed it in 2016 with The Lesser Bohemians. Producer Julian May
7.45 24 Kildare Road 2/5. By Katie Hims. The story of how an elderly woman is found dead in a park is told through her family and her friends. Marion has gone missing from her residential care home. For cast and details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am
8.00 File on 4
HP Lovecraft John MacKay Lilian Clarke Sarah Parks Sonia Greene Tracy Wiles Florence Greene Samuel Loveman Carl Prekopp Martha Godber Producer Mary Ward-Lowery (R)
3.00 The Kitchen Cabinet 6/7. Repeated from Saturday 10.30am
4/8. For decades, sewage sludge from waste treatment works has been used as a fertiliser on agricultural land. But File on 4 has seen a report which raises serious concerns over whether the practise could pose a risk to human health. Is tougher regulation needed? Claire Bolderson reports. Producer Ben Robinson Repeated Sunday 5pm
3.30 Making History 8/8. London versus the Rest? With recent political convulsions having revealed a rift between the UK’s capital and its regions, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at other moments in history when London has been out of sync with the rest of the country. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith
4.00 Word of Mouth 5/7. Michael Rosen talks to conversation analyst Elizabeth Stokoe about the differences between real human speech and, in the era of AI, simulated speech. Producer Sally Heaven Repeated Monday 11pm
8.40 In Touch News, views and information for people who are blind or partially sighted, presented by Peter White.
9.00 Inside Health 3/10. James Gallagher separates medical fact from fiction, clarifying health issues and shedding light on the latest scientific research. Repeated tomorrow 3.30pm
9.30 The Life Scientific 4/8. Repeated from 9am
10.00 The World Tonight Presented by Ritula Shah.
4.30 A Good Read 2/10. Stig Abell — the editor of the Times Literary Supplement and presenter of Radio 4’s Front Row — is joined by Bradford Literature Festival co-founder Syima Aslam as guests of Harriett Gilbert. The three choose favourite books from the BBC’s list of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; and Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Second Sleep
Producer Beth O’Dea Rptd Fri 11pm See tomorrow 7.15pm
2/5. Repeated from 9.45am
5.00 PM With Evan Davis.
1.00 as BBC World Service
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Find the Lady Mystery serial (2/7) 6.30 Ken and Mark and Robert as 8.30pm 7.00 HR Nigel Williams’s comedy drama (3/6) 7.30 Fags, Mags and Bags Comedy (4/4) 8.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1954 comedy 8.30 Round the Horne as 7.30pm 9.00 The News Quiz Extra Panel show (5/8) 9.45 What to Do If You’re Not like Everybody Else Comedy with Andrew Lawrence (1/4) 10.00 Lucinda Brayford By Martin Boyd (2/3) 11.00 Imagining Chekhov as 9pm 11.15 Frankie Takes a Trip Comedy drama 12.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1954 comedy 12.30pm Round the Horne as 7.30pm 1.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial (2/7) 1.30 Ken and Mark and Robert as 8.30pm 2.00 The Story of Doctor Dolittle (2/5) 2.15 A History of the Infinite (2/10) 2.30 The Far Pavilions Rukhsana Ahmad’s dramatisation of MM Kaye’s epic 1978 novel, set against the backdrop of war in 19th-century India. A young English orphan is disguised by his ayah as her son following the 1857 mutiny, and as he gradually forgets his true identity, his destiny is set (2/20) 2.45 Goon Abroad By Harry Secombe (2/5) 3.00 Lucinda Brayford By Martin Boyd (2/3)
Lynda goes into battle and Neil reaches a decision.
7/10. Repeated from 12.04pm
11.00 The Infinite Monkey Cage 4/6. Repeated from yesterday 4.30pm
11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00 News 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: Surfacing
BBC World Service 4.00 Jest a Minute Comedy quiz (6/6) 4.30 Hopes and Desires Bill Nighy stars in Michael Butt’s comedy Vongole, about a professor who delights in seducing female students over dinners 5.00 HR Nigel Williams’s comedy drama (3/6) 5.30 Fags, Mags and Bags Comedy (4/4) 6.00 Orbiter X Sci-fi adventure. From 1959 (2/14) 6.30 Pioneers With director Michael Apted (2/6) 7.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1954 comedy 7.30 Round the Horne 1967 camp classic 8.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial (2/7) 8.30 Ken and Mark and Robert A 2010 programme in which film-maker Ken Russell (1927—2011) talked to Mark Kermode about his love of music 9.00 Imagining Chekhov Peter Firth reads Chekhov’s Telescope — Alison MacLeod’s tale based on the 1996 publication Dear Writer, Dear Actress: the Love Letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper 9.15 Frankie Takes a Trip Comedy drama 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Fags, Mags and Bags (4/4), at 10.30 Irish Micks and Legends (1/4), at 10.45 Terry Alderton: More Crazy Now (1/4), at 11.00 Rudy’s Rare Records (1/4), and at 11.30 A Look Back at the Nineties (5/5) 12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm 1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 2.30 as 2.30pm 2.45 as 2.45pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm 4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
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5.00am Morning Reports With news and sport and a look at the morning’s papers. 5.15 Wake Up to Money Financial news stories. 6.00 5 Live Breakfast Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden present news from the UK and around the world, including business, travel updates and the day’s sports stories. And at 9.00 Your Call Nicky Campbell invites listeners’ calls on the day’s big story. 10.00 Emma Barnett News, current affairs, interviews and topical discussion, with listeners’ texts. 1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake News, big-name interviews and topical conversation. The Headliners podcast is available from the BBC Sounds app. 4.00 5 Live Drive A round-up of the day’s top news and sport with Chris Warburton. 7.00 5 Live Sport Steve Crossman presents sports news and coverage of the FA Cup fourth-round replays, with live commentary on one of them to follow at 7.45. 10.30 Sarah Brett Topical discussion with guests including comedians, columnists, bloggers and vlogger. Plus features on digital culture, real-life stories, and listeners’ calls on the big stories that have featured on 5 Live today. 1.00am Up All Night Rhod Sharp with global news and topical discussion. Plus stories from around the world.
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4/8. Jim Al-Khalili’s guest is the 2019 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine Peter Ratcliffe, who was recognised for his work in the area of the mechanisms our cells use to detect and respond to low oxygen levels.
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Pilot episode in which British-Malaysian stand-up comedian Phil Wang turns his attention to the British Empire. Was British colonialism really one big crime? Modern liberalism would say so, but Phil’s dad misses those prompt British buses. “I wish they’d come take us over again. Maybe I’d get to work on time.” Producer Matt Stronge (R)
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5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day With Dr Rachel Mann. 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day Madagascar Harrier-Hawk. Presented by Chris Packham. (R)
6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.30 Phil Wang: Wangsplaining
Talksport 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927 6.00am Sports Breakfast Presented by Alan Brazil. 10.00 White and Sawyer 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00 Adrian Durham The latest news from the sporting world. 7.00 Kick-Off 10.00 Sports Bar With Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy. 1.00am Extra Time 5.00 Early Breakfast
LBC 97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919 7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00 James O’Brien 1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair 6.00 Nigel Farage 7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick 1.00am Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen Topical musings.
Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 6.00am Harpz Kaur 10.00 Asian Network’s Big Debate 12.30pm Asian Network Reports 1.00 Noreen Khan Desi music, retro hits and guests. 4.00 Yasser New, unsigned and underground British-Asian music. 5.30 Asian Network Reports 6.00 Yasser 7.00 Bobby Friction 10.00 Mobeen Azhar 12.00 Club Hit Squad Mix 12.30am Asian Network Playlists 1.00 Annie Nightingale 3.00 1Xtra Playlists 3.40 Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories 4.00 Jamz Supernova
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97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 6.30am Greg James 10.00 Clara Amfo 1.00pm Scott Mills 4.00 Nick Grimshaw New music. 7.00 Annie Mac 8.00 Sound of 2020 Live With Beabadoobee, Celeste, Easy Life, Inhaler, Joesef, Joy Crookes and Squid. 11.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show Presented by Jack Saunders. 1.00am Benji B Electronic music. 3.00 The Reality Tea 3.30 Radio 1’s Workout Mix 4.00 Adele Roberts
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88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902 5.00am Vanessa Feltz
Alex Edelman’s Peer Group 6.30pm Radio 4 Borscht Belt humour has been popular in the UK since the Marx Brothers. The latest exponent is freewheeling New Yorker Alex Edelman (above). He’s a millennial, and that was the title of his 2014 show in Edinburgh, which won him a best newcomer award. The BBC decided he needed toning down and introduced British commentators to his radio show, which begins its third series tonight. This time round he’s touring student unions, whose members help him decide whether young people are misrepresented by the media. I wouldn’t mind Edelman unadulterated. DAVID MCGILLIVRAY
Front Row 7.15pm Radio 4 The nightly arts magazine has been exploring the idea of risk, and tonight — in an extended edition live from the BBC Radio Theatre — comes the announcement of a ten-strong Risk List. Arriving at the criteria for “risk” will be a challenge in itself, but the process will no doubt reveal much about today’s cultural values and orthodoxies. I like what Risk List adjudicator Ellen E Jones has to say. “I expect our main challenge will be sorting the posers from the real risk-takers.“ SIMON O’HAGAN
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Money 101 Getting your head around personal finances can be an off-putting task, especially for young adults, but twentysomething Bea Duncan makes it engaging. Topics include self-employment, crowdfunding and student loans. JANE ANDERSON Listen at bbc.co.uk/sounds
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6.30 Zoe Ball Upbeat show with chat, phone-ins and texts, regular features and pop music. Plus big-name guests.
9.30 Ken Bruce Music, chat and features including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, with former Slade bassist and singer Jim Lea discussing two more records of personal significance, featuring one by the Kinks and one by Colin Blunstone.
12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve Wright 5.00 Sara Cox Chat, chart oldies and music from Radio 2’s current playlist, plus listener phone-ins, texts and dedications.
7.00 Jo Whiley 9.00 The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Broadcast live from Salford Quays, traditional and contemporary folk and acoustic music from here and abroad, with the latest releases and classic tracks. Plus live sessions from new and established acts and news from the folk world.
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation Original soul and R&B, disco and reggae, plus contemporary urban sounds, from hip-hop to grime.
12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am Pick of the Pops Paul Gambaccini counts down pop charts from this week in 1987 and 1995, when the Top 20s included radio hits by Pepsi and Shirlie, Taffy, Nikki French, Deuce and many others. (R)
BBC 6 Music DAB bbc.co.uk/6music Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny Indie music, laughs and guests, today with comedian Andrew Maxwell.
4.00 Steve Lamacq 7.00 Marc Riley New music, with live sets. 9.00 Gideon Coe Including a spotlight on Ashanti’s record label.
12.00 6 Music Recommends With Mary Anne Hobbs. 1.00am The Story of Pop 36/52. Alan Freeman celebrates Jamaican musicians. From 1994. 2.00 70 Years of Cool History of Blue Note Records. 2.30 Live Hour Frampton’s Camel in London in 1972. Plus sessions by Obi in 2004 and Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo in 2011. 3.30 Mary Anne Hobbs Hit Reset Mix A weekly 30-minute mix. 4.00 Jukebox 5.00 Chris Hawkins
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 News and weather as Monday
6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny. 9.00 Essential Classics With Ian Skelly. 9.30 Listeners’ playlist suggestions. 10.10 Musical Time Travellers Stories behind the music-making of the British Isles. 11.10 Essential Five Another recommended work featuring a grand musical entrance. 11.30 Slow Moment A musical reflection.
12.00 Composer of the Week: Wesley 3/5. Wesley the Virtuoso. Donald Macleod explores the life and career of Samuel Wesley, today tracing his journey as a performer of both the violin and keyboard. By his sixth birthday he had not only learnt Handel oratorios by heart, but he was also starting to compose his own. Sonatina, Op 4 No 1; Sonatina, Op 4 No 2 Timothy Roberts (piano) Duet for the Organ Hans Fagius and David Sanger (organs) Symphony in E flat London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert Arrangement with Variation of Rule Britannia Jennifer Bate (organ) Rondo on God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Timothy Roberts (fortepiano) All Go unto One Place Choir of New College Oxford, director Edward Higginbottom
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Georgia Mann presents the second of this week’s four concerts of Bach chamber music recorded last month at LSO St Luke’s in London. Alina Ibragimova (violin), Carole Cerasi (harpsichord) Bach Violin Sonata No 4 in C minor, BWV1017; Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor, BWV1014; Violin Sonata No 6 in G, BWV1019
2.00 Afternoon Concert Tom McKinney continues a showcase of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, today featuring performances of Weber, Schumann and Brahms recorded at their home in the City Halls in Glasgow. Weber Invitation to the dance Conductor Alexander Vedernikov Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor, Op129 Johannes Moser, conductor Alexander Vedernikov Brahms, orch Schoenberg Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor, Op 25 Conductor Alexander Vedernikov
3.30 Choral Evensong From the Chapel of Keble College in Oxford, recorded 19 November. Introit: Behold, O God, Our Defender (Howells). Responses: Ayleward. Psalms 27, 28, 29 (Plainsong). First Lesson: 1 Samuel 1, vv19b—28. Office Hymn: Sol Ecce Lenteus Occidens (Plainsong). Canticles: The Second Service (Byrd). Second Lesson: Luke 2, vv41—52. Anthem: Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace (Berkeley). Hymn: Lord of Beauty, Thine the Splendour (Wood Green). Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in G (Parry). Director of Music Matthew Martin. Organ scholar Benjamin Mills. Repeated Sunday 3pm
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6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Charles Nove Vibrant and soothing music. 10.00 Simon Mayo Music, features and guests, today with science writer and broadcaster Dr Adam Rutherford discussing his latest book at 11.30. 1.00pm Sam Hughes With popular classical works and features including after 1.00pm her weekly Scala Sessions, today with pioneering, conductorless string orchestra the 12 ensemble. 4.00 Mark Forrest Music and features including at 4.30 a guide to walks and trails presented by Country Walking deputy editor Nick Hallissey.
7.00 Hannah Cox 10.00 The Space Nonstop atmospheric music. 12.00 Night Music Nonstop classical music.
Absolute Radio DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry Mainstream and indie rock and pop, from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Blondie to Coldplay, Green Day and Muse 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Chris Martin
4.30 New Generation Artists Tenor Ilker Arcayurek sings Beethoven and Wolf, and viola-player Maxim Rysanov performs Martinu’s Three Madrigals for violin and viola. Wolf Ganymed (Goethe-Lieder) Ilker Arcaryurek (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano) Martinu Three Madrigals Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola) Beethoven Adelaide Ilker Arcayurek (tenor)
5.00 In Tune Katie Derham with arts-related news, music and guests, featuring a live performance by the Piatti String Quartet, and a visit to Tate Britain to view the new exhibition British Baroque Power and Illusion. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape An eclectic playlist.
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert In a concert recorded on Friday at the Music Hall in Aberdeen, Jamie MacDougall introduces the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works by Barber, Mahler and Shostakovich which were all linked to personal and public tragedy. Claudia Huckle (mezzo), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Sanderling Barber Adagio for strings Mahler Kindertotenlieder 8.20 Interval 8.40 Shostakovich Symphony No 5
10.00 Free Thinking With productions of works by Samuel Beckett currently staged at two West End theatres, Philip Dodd looks at the playwright’s influential writing.
10.45 Between the Essays 3/5. How to Get Stuck in Traffic. Five radio producers from around the world offer miniature features inspired by Emily Dickinson’s 1860s poem “Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers. This instalment features a documentary about people waiting — and hoping — in traffic jams, produced by Kenneth Berth, whose day job involves broadcasting traffic news on Belgian radio. 11.00 Night Tracks With Hannah Peel.
12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young. Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin recorded last August at the Schubertíada in Catalonia. Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D795; Der Wanderer, D649 Andrè Schuen (baritone), Daniel Heide (piano) 1.45 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor, D845; Overture in D in the Italian Style, D590 2.31 Schoeck Violin Concerto quasi una fantasia in B flat, Op 21 3.06 Merku Abstraction, Op 23 3.19 Grieg Holberg Suite 3.37 Bach Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068 (1st and 2nd mvts) 3.42 Cavalli Dixit Dominus a 8 3.53 Mendelssohn Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op 27 4.07 Handel Cara sposa (Rinaldo) 4.11 Mozart Kirchen-Sonate in B flat, K212 4.17 Arvo Pärt Magnificat 4.23 Dvorak Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2 4.31 Schubert Ballet Music No 2: Rosamunde 4.38 Brahms Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen, Op 74, No 1 4.49 Stenhammar Late Summer Nights, Op 33 5.07 Haydn Symphony No 88 in G 5.28 Kutev Pastoral for flute and orchestra 5.39 Bridge Four pieces for viola and piano 5.51 Mozart Concerto in E flat for two pianos and orchestra, K365 6.17 Telemann Recorder Sonata in D minor, TWV 41:d4 6.26 Brahms Waltz in B minor, Op 39 No 11; Waltz in E, Op 39 No 12 (R)
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6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet Classical hits. 1.00pm Anne-Marie Minhall Requests. 5.00 Sam Pittis Classic FM favourites. 7.00 Smooth Classics Relaxing sounds. 8.00 The Full Works Concert Jane Jones with “mood-lifters” for a potentially bleak winter’s evening. Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Zubin Mehta Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K299 James Galway (flute), Catrin Finch (harp), Sinfonia Varsovia Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op 34 Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conductor Neeme Jarvi Marquez Danzon No 2 Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela, conductor Gustavo Dudamel CPE Bach Cello Concerto in A, H439 German Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, director Steven Isserlis (cello) Verdi Grand March (Aida) London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conductor Richard Hickox Finzi Romance in E flat, Op 11 Royal Northern Sinfonia, conductor Howard Griffiths Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor George Li (piano)
10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am Bob Jones
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News, weather and shipping forecasts as Monday; no weather at 5.57am
5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day Presented by Dr Rachel Mann. 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day Wedge-Tailed Shearwater. With Chris Packham. (R)
6.00 Today
10.00 Woman’s Hour With Jenni Murray.
3.30 Inside Health
10.41 24 Kildare Road 3/5. The 15-Minute Drama. Two boys out
3/10. Repeated from yesterday 9pm
sledging in their local park find the body of an old woman in the snow, and in Katie Hims’s drama the recollections of the people she met and her family and her friends reveal what has led her there. This time, on her way to Bridlington by train, Marion meets Zoe, who is on a romantic mission. For cast and details see Monday 10.55 The Listening Project
Nudity. Laurie Taylor explores the cultural history of nudity. He is joined by Sarah Schrank from California State University to explore the eras and locations in which nudity thrived, taking in the California desert, Depressionera collectives, and 1950s suburban communities. And Barbara Górnicka from University College, Dublin asks why we find exposing bodies shameful, drawing on her own participation at a nudist swimming club.
Presented by Fi Glover.
With Nick Robinson and Martha Kearney. 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament 7.48 Thought for the Day With Jasvir Singh. 8.31 LW Yesterday in Parliament
11.00 What Does Boris Johnson Really Think? What are Boris Johnson’s political beliefs? Nick Robinson tries to find out through interviews with insiders.
11.30 Conversations from a Long Marriage
9.00 In Wordsworth’s Footsteps
3/4. Lean on Me. First solo narrative comedy series by award-winning comedy writer Jan Etherington, starring Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam as a long-married couple who are trying to keep the passion alive in their relationship. Joanna’s nursing skills are found wanting after Roger’s knee operation. Producer Claire Jones
12.04pm The Second Sleep 8/10. Robert Harris’s post-apocalyptic thriller set 800 years in the future. Read by Michael Maloney. For details see Monday Repeated 10.45pm
Producer Beaty Rubens Repeated 9.30pm
12.18 You and Yours
9.30 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Consumer and public interest reports. 1.00 The World at One With Sarah Montague.
New series. 1/6. “How do you make gold?” asks curious listener Paul Ruddick. Inspired by the promise of riches, Hannah Fry and Adam Rutherford return with a new series and embark on a mission to discover the origin of gold. The tale takes them from the clandestine codes of Aristotle to the alchemy of Isaac Newton, alongside materials scientist Mark Miodownik.
1.45 The Disrupters 3/5. Kamal Ahmed and Rohan Silva lift the lid on the realities of starting up a business, with leading entrepreneurs revealing their stories of risk, ambition and failure. For details see Monday (R)
2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm 2.15 Drama: The Disappearance of Mr Chan
Producer Michelle Martin Repeated 8.45pm and Friday 5.45am
Hong Kong writer Mr Chan fails to arrive at Heathrow. His daughter Poppy sets out to find him. But her mother begs her to come home and keep her company. She’s scared. Simon Wu’s drama tells of a clash between generations about the best way to deal with political disturbance. It’s also a story about fear, courage and determination.
9.45 FM Book of the Week: Surfacing 3/5. Exquisite, clear-eyed essays on memory, archaeology and nature by the poet Kathleen Jamie. Read by Maureen Beattie. For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am
9.45 LW Daily Service Led by Canon Ann Easter. Psalm 78, vv5—8. Tell out My Soul, the Greatness of the Lord; This is Amazing Grace (Who Breaks the Power of Sin and Darkness), performed by Olly Hamilton. Prayer chant: O Lord Hear My Prayer (Taizé); O God, beyond All Praising (Thaxted). Daily Service Singers, director Andrew Earis. Organist Graham Eccles, flautist Nicola Gerrard.
Poppy Jennifer Leong Winnie and Security Officer Mr Chan and UncleJamie Zubairi Michelle Yim Mrs Chan and Auntie Jason and Information Officer Liz Sutherland-Lim Jeremy Ang Jones Producer Melanie Harris
3.00 Money Box Live Financial questions answered. PHONE: 0370 010 0444 Lines open from 1pm to 3.30pm EMAIL: moneybox@bbc.co.uk
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Find the Lady Mystery by David Ellis (3/7) 6.30 I’ve Played in Every Toilet as 8.30pm 7.00 The Change Comedy (2/6) 7.30 Joe Lycett’s Obsessions (4/4) 8.00 Hancock’s Half-Hour Comedy 8.30 Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead 9.00 The Rest Is History as 4pm (6/6) 9.30 Such Rotten Luck Ronald Hayman’s comedy drama Keats, Baby, You Done It Wrong, about the triumphs and tragedies that befall a struggling, second-class writer. From 1989 10.00 Lucinda Brayford as 3pm 11.00 Isy Suttie’s Guide to Love and Romance 12.00 Hancock’s Half-Hour Comedy 12.30pm Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead 1.00 Find the Lady Mystery by David Ellis (3/7) 1.30 I’ve Played in Every Toilet as 8.30pm 2.00 The Story of Doctor Dolittle Ahead of this week’s big-screen release of Stephen Gaghan’s Dolittle, a chance to hear the original 1920 book by Berkshire-born Hugh Lofting (1886—1947), adapted by Colin Smith and read by Alan Bennett. Dr John Dolittle prefers his many animals to his human patients. He even learns to talk to them. From 1995 (3/5) 2.15 A History of the Infinite With Adrian Moore. From 2016 (3/10) 2.30 The Far Pavilions (3/20)
4.30 The Media Show With Amol Rajan. 5.00 PM With Evan Davis. 6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.30 Alex Edelman’s Peer Group
New series. 1/4. Cool. Aided by a peer group at the University of West a London, comedian Alex Edelman discusses the concept of cool. Producer Sam Michell
7.00 The Archers Lee has a confession to make and Freddie makes a fool of himself. For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm
7.15 Front Row
Stig Abell hosts an extended edition of the programme, live from the BBC a Radio Theatre in London, in which author Will Self, critic Ellen E Jones and artist and writer Scottee reveal the Front Row Risk List — the top ten riskiest artworks of the 21st century. Producer Hannah Robins
8.00 The Moral Maze
New series. 1/8. Michael Buerk hosts Mona Siddiqui, Anne McElvoy, Michael Portillo and Giles Fraser. Producer Dan Tierney Rptd Sat 10.15pm
8.45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry 1/6. Repeated from 9.30am
9.00 Out of the Ordinary 2/4. Hole in the Head. Jolyon Jenkins meets the people who think that drilling a hole in their head can restore the lost energy of youth and help prevent dementia. (R)
9.30 In Wordsworth’s Footsteps 2/3. Repeated from 9am
10.00 The World Tonight Presented by Shaun Ley.
10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Second Sleep 8/10. Rptd from 12.04pm 11.00 The Skewer 5/6. Topical, sounds-based comedy from the mind of Jon Holmes. Rptd Sunday 7.15pm
11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00 News 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: Surfacing 3/5. Repeated from 9.45am
2.45 Goon Abroad With Harry Secombe (3/5) 3.00 Lucinda Brayford Elspeth Sandys’s adaptation of Martin Boyd’s 1946 novel about an Australian woman who arrives in England and quickly realises that everything is not as it seemed. From 2005 (3/3) 4.00 The Rest Is History With Frank Skinner (6/6) 4.30 Such Rotten Luck as 9.30am 5.00 The Change Comedy (2/6) 5.30 Joe Lycett’s Obsessions (4/4) 6.00 Orbiter X Sci-fi by BD Chapman (3/14) 6.30 The Palace of Laughter Geoffrey Wheeler on Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre, built in 1914 (4/6) 7.00 Hancock’s Half-Hour Comedy 7.30 Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead 8.00 Find the Lady Mystery by David Ellis (3/7) 8.30 I’ve Played in Every Toilet John Harris mourns the decline of the UK’s “toilet circuit” — a national network of small and modest music venues relied on by as yet undiscovered bands. From 2014 9.00 Isy Suttie’s Guide to Love and Romance (2/3) 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Joe Lycett’s Obsessions (4/4), at 10.30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (2/6), at 11.00 Brian Gulliver’s Travels (4/6), and at 11.30 Daphne Sounds Expensive (1/4) 12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm 1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 2.30 as 2.30pm 2.45 as 2.45pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm 4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
Talksport 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927 6.00am Sports Breakfast Presented by Alan Brazil. 10.00 White and Sawyer Sporting insight and opinion. 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00 Adrian Durham 7.00 Kick-Off With Hugh Woozencroft. 10.00 Sports Bar With Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy. 1.00am Extra Time With Paul Ross. 5.00 Early Breakfast
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Producer Jayne Egerton Repeated Sunday 12.15am
News and sport as Monday
5.00am Morning Reports With news, sport, business and a look at today’s papers. 5.15 Wake Up to Money Financial news stories. 6.00 5 Live Breakfast Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden present news from the UK and around the world, including business, travel updates and the day’s sports stories. And at 9.00 Your Call Nicky Campbell invites listeners’ calls on the day’s big story. 10.00 Emma Barnett News and current affairs interviews. Plus listeners’ stories and contributions, and a round-up of the day’s headlines. 1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake News, big-name interviews and topical conversation. The Headliners podcast is available from the BBC Sounds app. 4.00 5 Live Drive A round-up of the day’s top news and sport with Chris Warburton. Plus interviews with people at the centre of the news, and regular travel updates. 7.00 5 Live Sport Mark Chapman presents coverage of the FA Cup fourth-round replays, with live commentary on one of them to follow at 7.45. 10.30 Sarah Brett Big stories of the day, plus the latest news and sport and a look ahead to what is expected to be making the headlines tomorrow. 1.00am Up All Night Rhod Sharp with international news, topical discussion and guests.
Radio
2/3. Bliss Was It in That Dawn Jonathan Bate travels in the footsteps of William Wordsworth, in a series marking the 250th anniversary of the year of the poet’s birth. Today, Bate relates the powerful and poignant story of Wordsworth’s visit to Paris on the first anniversary of the French Revolution. Alongside vivid recreations of Wordsworth’s initial excitement about the possibility of real change, Bate also tells of Wordsworth’s love affair with a royalist sympathiser, the birth of their illegitimate child, and in later life his shift from radical politics to radical poetry.
4.00 Thinking Allowed
693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905 Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
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92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4 For national frequencies see p141 Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW) Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
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5.00am News 5.05 The Newsroom 5.30 Digital Planet: the latest developments in digital communication 6.00 Newsday 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 News 9.05 World Book Club 10.00 World Update 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Documentary 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 The Compass 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 Hardtalk 3.30 World Business Report 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 7.00 News 7.05 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk: interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe 8.30 Healthcheck: health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world 9.00 Newshour: the stories behind the latest headlines 10.00 News 10.05 The Newsroom 10.20 Sports News 10.30 World Business Report: informed analysis 11.00 News 11.05 The Compass 11.30 The Documentary 12.00 News 12.05am World Book Club 1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters 2.00 News 2.05 The Newsroom 2.30 The Documentary 3.00 News 3.05 Outlook: Perspectives on important issues 4.00 News 4.05 The Inquiry: the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world 4.30 The Food Chain
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919 7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00 James O’Brien 1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair 6.00 Nigel Farage 7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick Pacy and unpredictable topical show. 1.00am Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen Topical musings.
Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 6.00am Harpz Kaur 10.00 Asian Network’s Big Debate 12.30pm Asian Network Reports 1.00 Noreen Khan Desi music. 4.00 Yasser British-Asian music. 5.30 Asian Network Reports 6.00 Yasser British-Asian music. 7.00 Bobby Friction 10.00 Poppy Begum 12.00 Asian Network’s Mixtape Series 12.30am Asian Network Playlists 1.00 Benji B Future beats.
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97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 6.30am Greg James 10.00 Clara Amfo 1.00pm Scott Mills Music and chat. 4.00 Nick Grimshaw New music. 7.00 Annie Mac 9.00 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 11.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show 1.00am Radio 1’s Soundsystem with Toddla T Carnival vibes. 3.00 Radio 1’s Chill Mix 3.30 The Gemma Collins Podcast 4.00 Weekend Early Breakfast
BBC Radio 2 88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902 5.00am Vanessa Feltz
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6.30 Zoe Ball
Remembering Tryweryn 11.30am Radio 4 If the flames of nationalism are often fanned by a perceived injustice, there are few symbols as incendiary in Wales as Capel Celyn: a village in the Afon Tryweryn valley that was intentionally flooded in the 1960s to create a reservoir that would service Liverpool. The event has long been immortalised by graffiti daubed across a wall near Aberystwyth that spells Cofiwch Dryweryn (Remember Tryweryn, above). Guto Harri explores the 50 years of writing and music inspired by the drowned village, and why the controversy feels especially raw in these fractious times. TOM GOULDING
In Tune 5.00pm Radio 3 Has there ever been such a prodigious musical dynasty as the Kanneh-Masons of Nottingham? With big sister Isata (23) and brother Sheku (20) both riding high in the charts with their respective Clara Schumann and Elgar discs, siblings Braimah (22), Konya (19) and Jeneba (17) visit the In Tune studio for some live music-making today, while younger sisters Aminata (14) and Mariatu (10) are presumably practising hard at home. MARK PAPPENHEIM
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9.30 Ken Bruce Gentle chat, music from Radio 2’s current playlist and hits of yesteryear. Plus features including the PopMaster music quiz and, after 11.30, Tracks of My Years, with musician and songwriter Jim Lea discussing favourite records by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Fleetwood Mac. Your RT Puzzles: page 159
12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve Wright 5.00 Sara Cox 7.00 Jo Whiley 9.00 The Country Show with Bob Harris Country, roots and Americana, including live sessions, tonight with US country superstar Brett Eldredge as he winds down his UK tour.
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am Tracks of My Years Omnibus edition of the daily feature from Ken Bruce’s morning show in which a guest shares ten of their favourite records of all time. Former Slade bassist and singer Jim Lea discusses records by the Shadows, the Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, Colin Blunstone, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush and more. 4.00 The Craig Charles House Party Mixtape Funk and soul. 4.30 Huey Morgan’s Loungin’ Mix A 30-minute segment of mellow music for unwinding, taken from Huey Morgan’s Friday show.
BBC 6 Music 7.30am Lauren Laverne 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny 4.00 Steve Lamacq Including
6.30am Radio 2
No melodrama, no invasive interviews, this is a simple, fact-based addition to the ever popular true-crime genre. Host Adam Lloyd adds humanity to stories often researched by listeners, such as The Kindness of Strangers. JANE ANDERSON Listen at uktruecrime.com
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at 6.00 Roundtable, with guests assessing the week’s new releases. 7.00 Marc Riley New music. 9.00 Gideon Coe Archive sessions.
12.00 6 Music Recommends 1.00am The Story of Pop 37/52 Spotlight on Bob Marley. From 1994. 2.00 Marc Riley’s Musical Time Machine Interviews with Tina Turner and Captain Beefheart. 2.30 Live Hour The Kinks at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire in 1973. Plus the Fallen Leaves and Aldous Harding in 2019. 3.30 Jukebox 5.00 Chris Hawkins
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 News and weather as Monday
6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny. 9.00 Essential Classics With Ian Skelly. 9.30 Listeners’ playlist suggestions. 10.10 Musical Time Travellers 11.10 Essential Five Another recommended work featuring a grand musical entrance. 11.30 Slow Moment Short musical contemplation.
12.00 Composer of the Week: Wesley 4/5. Wesley’s Passion for Bach. Donald Macleod follows Samuel Wesley on his journey to explore and promote the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was largely unknown in the United Kingdom, and Wesley wanted to share his discovery of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues. Music historian Charles Burney was dismissive of Bach but soon changed his tune once Wesley played him Bach’s music. Duet in B flat (for Eliza) Davitt Moroney (harpsichord), Olivier Beaumont (harpsichord). Voluntary in D, Op 6 No 8 Jennifer Bate (organ) Handel, arr Wesley Rejoice the Lord Is King Psalmody, Timothy Roberts (organ), director Peter Holman Wesley Symphony in D London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert String Quartet in E flat (1st mvt) Salomon Quartet Confitebor tibi, Domine Claire Seaton (soprano), Susanne Holmes (mezzo), Nicholas Sharratt (tenor), Jonathan Brown (baritone), Southern Pro Musica, conductor David Gostick
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Georgia Mann presents the third of this week’s four concerts of Bach chamber music recorded last month at LSO St Luke’s in London. Maxim Rysanov (viola), Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Steven Devine (organ) Bach Cello Suite No 1, BWV1007 (arr for solo viola); Two-part Inventions for violin and viola (selection); Viola da gamba Sonata No 1 in G, BWV1027
2.00 Afternoon Concert Opera Matinée. Gounod’s opera Faust, which premiered in Paris in 1859 and is based on Goethe’s play about the German legend concerning a man who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Elizabeth Alker introduces this performance recorded last May at the Slovene National Theatre in Maribor. Gounod Faust Doctor Faust Martin Susnik (tenor) Méphistophélès Peter Martincic (bass-baritone) Marguerite Sabina Svilak (soprano) Valentin, a soldier, Marguerite’s brother Jaka Mihelac (baritone) Siebel, a youth, in love with Marguerite Jadranka Juras (mezzo) Marthe Schwertlein, Marguerite’s guardian Dada Kladneik (mezzo) Wagner, friend of Valentin Marko Mandir (baritone)
SNG Maribor Opera Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Gianluca Martinenghi
5.00 In Tune
Katie Derham with arts-related news and chat, music and studio guests, today featuring a a live performance by siblings Braimah, Konya
Scala Radio DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216
6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Charles Nove Vibrant and soothing music. 10.00 Simon Mayo Music and features including after 10.00 the Mayo Clinic and at 11.30 the Scala Radio Book Club, today with British author Kiran Millwood Hargrave discussing her first book for adults, The Mercies, published today.
1.00pm Sam Hughes With popular classical works, new discoveries and rediscoveries, and at 2.00 Mindfulness of Music.
4.00 Mark Forrest An eclectic playlist, including at 6.30 the Scala Immersion, featuring a relatively long piece. 7.00 Hannah Cox News classical recordings. 10.00 The Space Nonstop atmospheric music. 12.00 Night Music Nonstop music.
Absolute Radio DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Claire Sturgess 10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Chris Martin
and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Katie also talks to Deborah Roberts and Thomas Guthrie, conductor and director of a new production of da Gagliano’s opera La Dafne, staged on Saturday at the Brighton Festival of Early Music. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape Inspired mix of music.
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
From the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Tom Redmond introduces the BBC n Philharmonic in a concert of works by Beethoven including his rarely heard Opferlied. Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Manchester Chamber Choir, BBC Philharmonic, conductor Ben Gernon Beethoven Prometheus: Overture and ballet music; Opferlied, Op 121b 8.25 Music Interval Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)
10.00 Free Thinking Early Cinema. Ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards, Matthew Sweet and guests reflect on early film innovations including a profile of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873—1968), the first woman to direct a film and one of the first to make narrative film. A new documentary about the French film-maker is currently in cinemas. Film scholar and biographer Ian Christie discusses British film pioneer Robert W Paul (1869—1943). Plus a look at how the Boer War led to animated film. Producer Caitlin Benedict
10.45 Between the Essays 4/5. Perfect Love. In this next miniature feature inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” Is the Thing with Feathers, New York-based artist Ariana Martinez makes a virtual journey from Brooklyn to a burial site just outside Seoul as she documents Korean-American artist Taehee Whang’s hopes of reconnecting with her grandfather after his death.
11.00 Night Tracks: the Archive Remix A soundtrack for late-night listening, with classical, contemporary and everything in between.
11.30 Unclassified Elizabeth Alker with music that defies classification, including new releases and previews.
12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young. Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave); Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor; Spinning Song, Op 64 No 4 Mahler Symphony No 1 Yeol Eum Son (piano), RTV Slovenia SO/Pablo González 2.03 Bach O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV118 2.12 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 64, No 5 (The Lark) 2.31 Bach Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV361 3.01 Ligeti Quartet No 1 (Metamorphoses nocturnes) 3.23 Scriabin Nocturne for piano (left hand), Op 9 No 2 3.30 Brahms Tragic Overture 3.45 Rautavaara Three Sonnets by Shakespeare 3.52 Mozart Adagio and Allegro in E flat, K.Anh.C17.07 4.01 Janacek Violin Sonata 4.19 Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 4.31 Ruth Watson Henderson Come Holy Spirit 4.36 Telemann Trio No 4 (Essercizii musici) 4.46 Trad, arr Hurst Ten Thousand Miles Away 3.53 Stainov The Secret of the Struma River 5.00 Beethoven Grosse Fuge, Op 133 5.19 Auric, arr Lane Suite: It Always Rains on Sunday 5.34 Byrd Goodnight Ground in C 5.43 Strauss Four Lieder 5.54 Vaughan Williams The Wasps (Suite) 6.04 Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 (R)
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00 John Suchet Popular classical works. 1.00pm Anne-Marie Minhall Requests. 5.00 Sam Pittis Classic FM favourites. 7.00 Smooth Classics With Sam Pittis. 8.00 The Full Works Concert Catherine Bott with further uplifting works for a potentially drab winter’s evening. Walton Crown Imperial City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Louis Frémaux Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op 56a New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 73 City of London Sinfonia, director Michael Collins (clarinet) Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman Rodrigo Fantasía para un gentilhombre Alfonso Moreno (guitar), Mexico State Symphony Orchestra, conductor Enrique Bátiz Parry Lady Radnor’s Suite Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Patrick Hawes 10.00 Smooth Classics With Margherita Taylor. 1.00am Jane Jones
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12.18 You and Yours
7.00 The Archers
Consumer and public interest reports.
Jill attempts to rally the family and there is more bad news at Brookfield.
News, weather and shipping forecasts as Tuesday
1.45 The Disrupters
1.00 The World at One With Sarah Montague. Kamal Ahmed and Rohan Silva lift the lid on the realities of starting up a business, with leading entrepreneurs revealing their stories of risk, ambition and failure. For details see Monday (R)
2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm 2.15 Drama: Maynard
6.00 Today
Kathy Burke — best known as an actress and a theatre director — makes her directorial debut for Radio 4, telling the story of a man trying to escape a life of crime and make a go of the community café that his late mother ran so successfully. But to get the place up and running, he may have to borrow money from his drug-dealing brother. Written by and starring Fraser Ayres.
With Justin Webb and Martha Kearney. 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament 7.48 Thought for the Day With Pádraig Ó Tuama. 8.31 LW Yesterday in Parliament
9.00 In Our Time
Maynard Fraser Ayres Sister Magdalene/Petra Marcus Chizzy Akudolu Kobna Holdbrook-Smith Jules Kellie Shirley Auntie P Ellen Thomas Mama Martina Laird Director Kathy Burke Executive producer Jeremy Mortimer
3.00 Open Country 16/16. The National Centre for Folk Arts is housed at Halsway Manor in Somerset’s Quantock Hills. For more than 50 years Halsway Manor has hosted residential and outreach activity covering all facets of folk arts — from instrumental music, song and dance to traditional storytelling, crafts and instrument-making. Helen Mark pays a visit and meets some of the people taking part in a “winter warmer” celebration of music and dance. Producer Toby Field Rptd Saturday 6.07am
Producer Simon Tillotson Shortened repeat 9.30pm
9.45 FM Book of the Week: Surfacing 4/5. Exquisite, clear-eyed essays on memory, archaeology and nature by the poet Kathleen Jamie. Read by Maureen Beattie. For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am
9.45 LW Daily Service A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music. Led by Rev Katherine Hedderly. 10.00 Woman’s Hour With Jenni Murray. 10.45 24 Kildare Road 4/5. By Katie Hims. The 15-Minute Drama.
3.27 Radio 4 Appeal Rptd from Sun 9.25pm 3.30 Bookclub Repeated from Sunday 4pm 4.00 The Film Programme The South Korean movie Parasite is shortlisted in the Best Picture category at this year’s Oscars, a rare accolade for a foreignlanguage film. It’s also shortlisted in five other categories, with Bong Joon-ho in the running for Best Director. He tells Antonia Quirke why he thinks his thriller about class warfare in Korea has touched a nerve in the West. Producer Stephen Hughes Rptd Sunday 11pm
For details see drama repeat 7.45pm
11.00 From Our Own Correspondent 3/9. Kate Adie introduces the current affairs show in which BBC correspondents report on stories from around the globe.
11.30 Remembering Tryweryn
Guto Harri explores the meaning of two Welsh words that were daubed on a a crumbling stone wall in west Wales in the
4.30 BBC Inside Science
early 1960s, in reference to a village that was flooded to provide water for Liverpool.
5.00 PM
Presented by Adam Rutherford. Repeated 9pm Presented by Evan Davis.
Producer Glyn Tansley
6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.30 Elephant in the Room
12.04pm The Second Sleep 9/10. The penultimate episode of Robert Harris’s novel — set 800 years into the future. Fairfax is troubled by a secret and must also uncover the darker secrets of the Devil’s Chair. The reader is Michael Maloney.
6/7. Sarah Millican hosts the game show which uses national surveys to find out how its panellists — Zoe Lyons, Kerry Godliman, Lou Conran or Jason Cook — compare to the the average British person. (R)
For details see Monday Repeated 10.45pm
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Find the Lady Mystery serial (4/7) 6.30 The Power of Om as 8.30pm 7.00 Millport Comedy with Lynn Ferguson (2/6) 7.30 Elephant in the Room as 5.30pm 8.00 The Ken Dodd Show 1975 comedy 8.30 I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again 9.00 The Write Stuff Literary quiz 9.30 Married 1999 comedy (1/6) 10.00 Desolation Island Dramatisation by Roger Danes of Patrick O’Brian’s 1978 novel — the fifth in the Aubrey-Maturin series. August 1811: Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for Australia on a mission to transport a group of convicts including an American spy. When a fever breaks out among prisoners and crew, Jack decides to head for Brazil but he’s pursued by a Dutch warship. With David Robb, Richard Dillane, Teresa Gallagher, Samuel Barnet and others (1/2) 11.00 Here’s the Thing With Jerry Seinfeld 12.00 The Ken Dodd Show 1975 comedy 12.30pm I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again 1.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial (4/7) 1.30 The Power of Om as 8.30pm 2.00 The Story of Doctor Dolittle (4/5) 2.15 A History of the Infinite (4/10) 2.30 The Far Pavilions Dramatisation of MM Kaye’s 1978 novel starring Vineeta Rishi, Inam Mirza, Sam Dastor, Joseph Samrai and others (4/20)
5.00am Morning Reports 5.15 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast With Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden. At 9.00 Your Call. 10.00 Emma Barnett 1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 The Inside Track Sports news and features including at 7.00 The Inside Track, in which Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell and Eleanor Oldroyd look at the week’s big stories, with input from athletes, coaches, administrators and journalists from the sporting world. At 8.00 Six Nations 2020, featuring a Six Nations preview ahead of this weekend’s fixtures including Scotland v England and Ireland v Wales. And at 9.00 The Euro Leagues Football Show, featuring Steve Crossman and Spanish journalist Guillem Balagué with opinionated and irreverent debate on the stories making the headlines across the European football leagues.
Producer Oliver Jones
7.45 24 Kildare Road 4/5. By Katie Hims. Marion arrives in Bridlington and makes her way to 24 Kildare Road. Starring Christine Bottomley. For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
8.00 The Briefing Room David Aaronovitch and guests explore an issue in the news.
8.30 The Bottom Line New series. 1/8. Synthetic Biology Evan Davis returns with the series in which he explores different aspects of business with a range of guests. Today the topic is synthetic biology, a process that allows scientists to manipulate DNA to make nature do things it wouldn’t do naturally, with applications in healthcare and agriculture. It could even stop our reliance on oil, and it’s why the UK government is investing heavily in the science; it believes it could be worth around £400 billion. Davis is joined by Richard Kitney from Imperial College, London, who is co-founder SynbiCITE; Yvonne Armitage, bioeconomy specialist at the Knowledge Transfer Network; and James Field, founder and CEO of Lab Genius. Producer Julie Ball Repeated Saturday 5pm
9.00 BBC Inside Science Rptd from 4.30pm 9.30 In Our Time Shortened repeat from 9am 10.00 The World Tonight Presented by Razia Iqbal.
10.45 The Second Sleep 9/10. Repeated from 12.04pm
11.00 Relativity 4/4. In the final episode of Richard Herring’s comedy, Ken turns to his grandchildren for help with his technological challenges, while Chloe goes into early labour as Ian frets about his bag-for-life going to waste. Starring Alison Steadman, Phil Davis and Herring himself. Margaret Ken Jane Ian Chloe
Alison Steadman Phil Davis Fenella Woolgar Richard Herring Emily Berrington
Pete Holly Mark Nick Billy
Gordon Kennedy Tia Bannon Fred Haig Harrison Knights Danny Kirrane
Producer Polly Thomas (R)
11.30 Today in Parliament 12.00 News 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: Surfacing 4/5. Repeated from 9.45am
2.45 Goon Abroad With Harry Secombe (4/5) 3.00 Desolation Island as 10am 4.00 The Write Stuff Literary quiz 4.30 Married A comedy (1/6) 5.00 Millport Comedy with Lynn Ferguson (2/6) 5.30 Elephant in the Room With guests Sara Pascoe, Jen Brister and Gearoid Farrelly (5/7) 6.00 Orbiter X UFO sci-fi adventure (4/14) 6.30 Great Lives Humphrey Carpenter invites poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Chris Salewicz to assess the legacy of reggae guru Bob Marley (1945—82) 7.00 The Ken Dodd Show 1975 comedy 7.30 I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again 1966 comedy with John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jo Kendall 8.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial (4/7) 8.30 The Power of Om The Rev Richard Coles explores the science of spiritual sounds. From 2011 9.00 Here’s the Thing Alec Baldwin talks to US comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who discusses his stand-up and the global hit sitcom Seinfeld. From 2020 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Elephant in the Room (5/7), at 10.30 Listen Against With Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes (4/4), at 11.00 The Skivers (2/5), and at 11.30 Delve Special (4/4) 12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm 1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 2.30 as 2.30pm 2.45 as 2.45pm 3.00 as 10am 4.00 as 4pm 4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 7.00—10.00 Rugby League Warrington Wolves v St Helens in Super League (kick-off 7.45). 10.00 Question Time Extra Time Adrian Chiles introduces extended coverage of Question Time. 1.00am Up All Night 5 Live Sports Extra Digital only 3.00—7.30am Women’s Cricket India Women v England Women, a T20 Tri-Series clash in Melbourne.
Talksport 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927 6.00am Sports Breakfast With Alan Brazil and Ally McCoist. 10.00 White and Sawyer 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00 Adrian Durham and Darren Gough Footballing news. 7.00 Kick-Off With Hugh Woozencroft with Darren Lewis. 9.00 Kick-off Added Time 10.00 Sports Bar With Andy Goldstein and Jason Cundy. 1.00am Extra Time 5.00 Early Breakfast
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Samira Ahmed talks to Sarah Phelps about her latest Agatha Christie adaptation for BBC1, The Pale Horse. Phelps has previously adapted for TV the Christie tales And Then There Were None and The ABC Murders.
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George Sand. Her real name was Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, but she used the pen name George Sand. She lived from 1804 to 1876 and was one of the most popular and prolific writers in the France of her day. She has been played on film by actresses including Merle Oberon, Julia Davis and Juliette Binoche. Joining Melvyn Bragg to discuss Sand are Belinda Jack from Oxford University, Nigel Harkness from Newcastle University, and Sand scholar Angela Ryan.
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5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Dr Rachel Mann. 5.45 Farming Today 5.58 Tweet of the Day Greater Rhea. With Chris Packham. (R)
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm
693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905 Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906 Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin
5.00am News 5.05 The Newsroom 5.30 Healthcheck 6.00 Newsday: the latest headlines 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00 News 9.05 The Forum 9.50 Sporting Witness 10.00 World Update 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Food Chain 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 Assignment 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 The Inquiry 3.30 World Business Report: Informed analysis 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 7.00 News 7.05 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 The Inquiry 8.30 Science in Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Newsroom 10.20 Sports News 10.30 World Business Report 11.00 News 11.05 Assignment: BBC correspondents report their experiences 11.30 The Food Chain 12.05am The Forum: thought-provoking discussion, with Bridget Kendall 12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters 2.00 News 2.05 The Newsroom 2.30 Assignment 3.00 News 3.05 Outlook 4.00 News 4.05 Hardtalk: interviews with newsmakers and personalities 4.30 World Football: reports from around the globe
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919 7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00 James O’Brien 1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair 6.00 Nigel Farage 7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom Swarbrick 1.00am Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen Topical musings.
Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 6.00am Harpz Kaur 10.00 Asian Network’s Big Debate 12.30pm Asian Network Reports 1.00 Noreen Khan 4.00 Yasser British-Asian music. 5.30 Asian Network Reports 6.00 Yasser British-Asian music. 7.00 Bobby Friction 10.00 Poppy Begum 12.00 Love Friday Mix 12.30am Asian Network Playlists 1.00 Toddla T 3.00 1Xtra Playlists 4.00 Seani B
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97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1 F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901 6.00am Radio 1’s Best New Pop 6.30 Matt and Mollie 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems 11.00 Maya Jama New music. 1.00pm Dev and Alice 4.00 The Official Chart Show 6.00 Radio 1’s Party Anthems 7.00 Radio 1’s Dance Party 9.00 Pete Tong Dance tracks. 11.00 Danny Howard 1.00am Essential Mix 3.00 Drum ’n’ Bass Mix 3.30 Annie Mac 4.00 Wind Down 5.00 Arielle Free
BBC Radio 2 88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2 F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902 5.00am Vanessa Feltz
6.30 Zoe Ball 9.30 Ken Bruce
Napoleon Moon 11.30am Radio 4 Science fiction draws in radio comedy writers like a black hole. In this pilot David Reed, one third of comic trio the Penny Dreadfuls, imagines the remains of London in 2070. No preview was available but descriptions of the “Britannia archipelago” drenched in acid rain, AI companions, and homeless robots imply a sci-fi grab-bag with borrowings from Blade Runner, His Dark Materials and more. Producer Julia McKenzie promises that “the way of life for the haves and the have-nots will ring true for society today”. There’s a lead role for Paterson Joseph, best-known as Mark’s high-flying boss in Peep Show. DAVID MCGILLIVRAY
And the Academy Award Goes to... 11.00am Radio 4 You’d have thought Richard Gere would be a natural at tap dancing, but one of the many fun facts revealed in this first episode of the annual series celebrating Best Picture Oscar winners is that the star took two months to get his feet to behave properly for his part in Chicago. A blockbuster of a treat for film fans, the series is presented by Paul Gambaccini with his customary Hollywood-style drama expressed in every other syllable. And next week comes the biggie of them all: Gone with the Wind. DAVID OPPEDISANO
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A rare commodity where the audience’s contributions are always funnier than the guests’. Joe Lycett invites people to talk about their obsessions. Clara Amfo’s is trainers, Carol Kirkwood’s is cats, one unknown man’s is extendable tables. JANE ANDERSON Listen at bbc.co.uk/sounds
Chat, music and features including after 11.30 Tracks of My Years, featuring the two final picks of former Slade bassist, backing vocalist and songwriter Jim Lea, who discusses favourite discs by the Four Tops and Kate Bush.
12.00 Jeremy Vine 2.00pm Steve Wright Chat and music, including at 4.15 Serious Jockin’, in which Wright’s alter ego DJ Silly Boi takes over.
5.00 Sara Cox 7.00 Tony Blackburn’s Golden Hour An eclectic pick of pop and soul, today including Quincy Jones, George Benson and Ronan Keating.
8.00 Friday Night Is Music Night Another chance to hear soprano Lesley Garrett headline a special concert in which Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and solo trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary in an eclectic programme of popular classics, show tunes, film music and arias and songs from opera and operetta. Recorded last August in Suffolk as part of the annual visit to the Snape Proms at Snape Maltings. Presented by Ken Bruce. (R)
10.00 Sounds of the 80s With Gary Davies.
12.00 Anneka Rice 2.00am Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park: 2019 Highlights Zoe Ball with performances by Simply Red, Kelsea Ballerini, Bananarama, Clean Bandit, Status Quo, Westlife and headliners the Pet Shop Boys, recorded in September. 4.00 Huey Morgan
BBC 6 Music DAB bbc.co.uk/6music Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne Irish author Marian Keyes discusses her new book Grown Ups. Your RT Books: page 148
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny 4.00 Steve Lamacq 7.00 Iggy Pop Personal picks, tonight featuring Chai, Skip James, Son Little, German experimentalist Michael Rother and Stockhausen.
9.00 Tom Ravenscroft 12.00 Nemone’s Electric Ladyland Beats, breaks and funk. 2.00am Classic Concert Memorable archive performance. 3.00 Live Hour Concerts and sessions from the BBC archives. 4.00 The Story of Pop 38/52 Alan Freeman explores the post-1960s careers of major Motown artists. 5.00 Chris Hawkins Music and chat.
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3 Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903 News and weather as Monday
6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny. 9.00 Essential Classics With Ian Skelly. 9.30 Listeners’ playlist suggestions. 10.10 Musical Time Travellers 11.10 Essential Five Last of this week’s recommended works featuring grand musical entrances.
12.00 Composer of the Week: Wesley 5/5. Wesley’s Mysterious Health. Donald Macleod concludes with a look at the mystery surrounding aspects of Samuel Wesley’s health. Wesley was noted to be a rather extreme character, often displaying entirely opposite ends of his personality, from deep gloom to extreme elation. At one stage he threw himself out of a window, and was subsequently committed to an asylum in Chelsea for a year. People have more recently speculated that Wesley may have suffered from bipolar disorder, or manic depression. Voluntary in G minor Jennifer Bate (organ) Ode to St Cecilia (excerpt) Julia Gooding (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), David Mattinson (baritone), St John’s Smith Square Orchestra, conductor John Lubbock Might I in Thy Sight Appear Patrick McCarthy (tenor), Timothy Roberts (organ) Memoriam fecit mirabilium suorum Portsmouth Choral Union, Southern Pro Musica, conductor David Gostick Symphony in B flat London Mozart Players, conductor Matthias Bamert Fidelia omnia mandata ejus Claire Seaton (soprano), Southern Pro Musica, conductor David Gostick
1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Georgia Mann presents the last of this week’s four concerts of Bach chamber music recorded last month at LSO St Luke’s in London. Justin Taylor (harpsichord), Consone Quartet Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV1052; Toccata in D for solo harpsichord, BWV912; Harpsichord Concerto in G minor, BWV1058
2.00 Afternoon Concert Tom McKinney concludes a showcase of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, today featuring performances of Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Elgar. Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments Kurt Schwertsik Now You Hear Me, Now You Don’t, Op 102 Colin Currie (percussion) Shostakovich Symphony No 10 conductor Martyn Brabbins Maconchy Music for Woodwind and Brass Rudi Stephan Music for Orchestra Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 Jamal Aliyev, conductor Ben Gernon
4.30 The Listening Service Rptd from Sunday 5pm 5.00 In Tune Katie Derham with arts-related news and chat, today featuring a live performance by South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son.
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
Scala Radio DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216
6.00am In the Park Calming sounds. 7.00 Charles Nove Vibrant and soothing music. 10.00 Simon Mayo Including after 10.00 the Mayo Clinic, and listeners’ requests from 12.00.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Popular classical works. 4.00 Mark Forrest An eclectic playlist. 7.00 Friday Night Scala Darren Redick with an upbeat selection of classical favourites. 9.00 Highly Rated Roundtable show with Penny Smith inviting journalists, broadcasters and musicians to share their cultural recommendations.
10.00 Hannah Cox 1.00am Night Music
Absolute Radio DAB absoluteradio.co.uk F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915 6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham 1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Absolute 80s Claire Sturgess gets nostalgic for the pop and rock decade that stretched from Adam and the Ants to ZZ Top, from the Pet Shop Boys to Poison, from a-ha to U2 10.00 Dan Noble 4.00am Ross Buchanan
7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
From Sage Gateshead, Sarah Walker introduces the Royal Northern Sinfonia in an n all-Schubert programme in which the composer’s orchestral music is placed alongside some of his best-loved songs arranged for voice and orchestra by various composers. Ilker Arcayürek (tenor), Royal Northern Sinfonia, conductor Laurence Equilbey Schubert Overture: Rosamunde, D644 arr Reger Im Abendrot arr Krawczyk An Silvia; Nacht und Träume arr Strauss Ganymed arr Britten Die Forelle arr Mottl Ständchen arr Berlioz Erlkönig arr Webern Du bist die Ruh Interval Symphony No 4 in C minor (Tragic)
10.00 The Verb Ian McMillan welcomes Native American poet, writer and activist Layli Long Soldier.
10.45 Between the Essays 5/5. Baked Beans and Pigeon Feed. In this final miniature feature, producer Hannah Dean weaves together the experiences of three resilient men and their encounters with birds. Featuring text from Samuel Selvon’s 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners, read by the poet and musician Anthony Joseph.
11.00 Late Junction Ahead of Sunday’s 92nd Academy Awards, a playlist featuring some of the more left-field and striking film scores of the past 12 months, including music from Mica Levi — previously Bafta-nominated for Under the Skin (2013) and Jackie (2016) — and Bobby Krlic (aka the Haxan Cloak), composer of the score for last year’s Midsommar.
1.00am Through the Night With Catriona Young. Vivaldi’s rousing opera L’Olimpiade, performed in November 2018 at Herne Early Music Days festival in Germany. Vivaldi L’Olimpiade Aminta Anna Aglatova (soprano) Aristea Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo) Argene Federica Carnevale (mezzo) Licida Carlos Mena (countertenor) Megacle Kangmin Justin Kim (countertenor) Clistene José Coca Loza (bass) Alcandro Sergio Foresti (bass baritone) La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basle, conductor Andrea Marcon 3.32 David Horne Daedalus in Flight 3.43 Borodin, arr Sargent String Quartet No 2 in D (3rd mvt) 3.51 Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV543 4.01 Szymanowski Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor 4.09 Mozart Overture: La Clemenza di Tito 4.14 Hummel Trio in G for violin, viola and cello 4.29 Debussy Rondes de Printemps (Images pour orchestre) 4.37 Hammerschmidt Suite in D minor for gambas (Erster Fleiss) 4.52 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 1, Op 11 (2nd mvt) 5.01 Strauss Festmusik der Stadt Wien 5.11 Handel The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) 5.15 Rautavaara Anadyomene, Op 33 5.26 Blow Venus and Adonis (excerpts) 5.33 Bloch Cello Suite No 1 5.43 Schubert Gute Nacht; Gefrorne Tränen; Auf dem Flusse (Winterreise) 5.54 Gombert Musae Jovis 6.01 Dallapiccola Due Cori Di Michelangelo Buonarroti Il Giovane Set 1 6.13 Weiner Serenade in F minor, Op 3 6.34 Janacek String Quartet No 2 (Intimate Letters)
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast Presented by Tim Lihoreau. 9.00 John Suchet Classical hits. 1.00pm Anne-Marie Minhall Requests. 5.00 Sam Pittis Classic FM favourites. 7.00 Smooth Classics Relaxing sounds.
8.00 The Full Works Concert Catherine Bott presents the final selection of uplifting music for the winter doldrums. Rossini Overture: William Tell Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Herbert von Karajan Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550 NDR Radiophilharmonie, conductor Andrew Manze Mendelssohn Concerto in E for Two Pianos Katie and Marielle Labèque (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Semyon Bychkov J Strauss (son) By the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op 314 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Gerard Schwarz Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007 Yo-Yo Ma 10.00 Smooth Classics With Margherita Taylor. 1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00 Jane Jones
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4.55 The Listening Project
10/10. Conclusion of Robert Harris’s post-apocalyptic thriller set 800 years in the future — after a “systemic collapse of technical civilisation” known as the Apocalypse — in which a priest investigates a vicar’s untimely death. Read by Michael Maloney. For details see Monday Repeated 10.45pm 12.18 You and Yours Consumer reports.
Fi Glover presents another intimate and revealing conversation. (R) 5.00 PM Presented by Caroline Wyatt.
1.00 The World at One With Mark Mardell.
6.00 Today With Mishal Husain and Justin Webb. 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament 7.48 Thought for the Day With Rhidian Brook. 8.31 LW Yesterday in Parliament Update on the latest political proceedings
Producer Richard Morris Repeated tomorrow 12.30pm
7.00 The Archers
5/5. Kamal Ahmed and Rohan Silva lift the lid on the realities of starting up a business, with leading entrepreneurs revealing their stories of risk, ambition and failure.
There is a shock for Alice, and Kirsty makes a breakthrough.
2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm 2.15 Drama: Wheatish
9.45 FM Book of the Week: Surfacing 5/5. In the last of the extracts from Kathleen Jamie’s collection of essays, the poet draws together her reflections on nature, memory and family. Read by Maureen Beattie. For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am
9.45 LW Daily Service Bishop Joe Aldred leads a reflection on the theme ‘’Responding to God — Sacraments”. 1 Cor 11, vv23—29. I Come with Joy, a Child of God (St Botolph). Ave Verum Corpus (Mawby). Prayer chant: Eat This Bread, Drink This Cup (Taizé). Alleluia, Sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol). 10.00 Woman’s Hour With Jane Garvey. 10.45 24 Kildare Road 5/5 The 15-Minute Drama. See drama repeat 7.45pm
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New series. 1/3. Chicago Ahead of the 92nd Academy Awards on Sunday, Paul Gambaccini returns with the annual series telling the stories behind Best Picture winners. He begins with the triumph in 2003 of Rob Marshall’s Chicago, the musical based on the story of 1920s murderers Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, starring Oscar-winning Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere. Featuring input by the film’s musical supervisor Maureen Crowe and, from the archives, Rob Marshall and Richard Gere.
Mina Anwar Mum Nadia Emam Nadeem Jeanette Percival
Rani Moorthy Esh Alladi
Director Aisha Khan
3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time Kathy Clugston and the panel are in Dumfries and Galloway. Answering questions from the audience are a panel of James Wong, Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden.
Producer Emma Kingsley
11.30 Napoleon Moon
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Comedy by David Reed, set in a dystopian 25th-century Britain in which one man — Napoleon Moon — is determined to prove that he is worthy of joining mankind’s elite amongst the stars.
7.45 24 Kildare Road 5/5. By Katie Hims. Two boys out sledging in their local park find the body of an old woman, and the recollections of the people she met and her family and friends reveal what has led her there. This time, paramedics Ozzy and Ned wait for a call out on a snowy January day. More cast and details see Monday Rptd from 10.45am
8.00 Any Questions? Chris Mason presents political debate from Winchester University. His panel includes Home Office minister Victoria Atkins MP; Professor John Denham from the Centre for English Identity and Politics; and associate editor for politics and royals at the Telegraph, Camilla Tominey. Producer Lisa Jenkinson Repeated tomorrow 1.10pm
8.50 A Point of View Repeated Sunday 8.48am
Another “From Fact To Fiction” story, in which a writer responds to current events and the recording is made in the days leading up to broadcast. Repeated tomorrow 12.30am
10.00 The World Tonight
4.00 Last Word
Repeated from Tuesday 4.30pm
Presented by Razia Iqbal.
10.45 The Second Sleep 11.00 A Good Read
Rptd from 12.04pm
11.30 Today in Parliament 11.55 The Listening Project Presented by Fi Glover. (R)
4.30 More or Less Tim Harford presents the programme that investigates the numbers that are prevalent everywhere — in the news, in politics and in life generally. Repeated Sunday 8pm
12.00 News 12.30—12.45am Book of the Week: Surfacing 5/5. Repeated from 9.45am 1.00 as BBC World Service
BBC World Service 4.30 Dry Slopes Comedy with Nick Ball (2/4) 5.00 Reluctant Persuaders Second series of Edward Rowett’s sitcom about London’s worst advertising agency. With Nigel Havers, Matthew Baynton and Josie Lawrence (4/4) 5.30 The Skewer Topical satirical comedy (4/6) 6.00 Orbiter X Sci-fi adventure. From 1959 (5/14) 6.30 Off the Page 2005 discussion on paranoia 7.00 The Burkiss Way Comedy from 1980 with Chris Emmett and Fred Harris 7.30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel Michael Roberts’s 1990 re-creation of the Marx Brothers’ 1930s radio show 8.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial (5/7) 8.30 When Garry Met Tony Sports presenter Garry Richardson fulfills his lifelong ambition of performing a Frank Sinatra song with a Big Band, and discovers more about the origins of the genre 9.00 Podcast Radio Hour Presenters recommend their favourite classical music podcasts and speak to the people who make them 10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Skewer Topical satirical comedy series (4/6), at 10.30 The Harpoon (1/4), at 11.00 Innes Own World (3/4), and at 11.30 The Maltby Collection (4/6) 12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm 1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm 2.30 as 2.30pm 2.45 as 2.45pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm 4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm
*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat
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Arts news and reviews presented by Chrystal Genesis. Producer Jerome Weatherald
Weekly reflections on topical issues.
BBC Radio 4 Extra DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910 6.00am Find the Lady Mystery serial (5/7) 6.30 When Garry Met Tony as 8.30pm 7.00 Reluctant Persuaders Sitcom (4/4) 7.30 The Skewer Topical satirical comedy (4/6) 8.00 The Burkiss Way Comedy from 1980 8.30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 9.00 We’ve Been Here Before 2004 panel game 9.30 Dry Slopes Comedy with Nick Ball (2/4) 10.00 Desolation Island as 3pm 11.00 Podcast Radio Hour as 9pm 12.00 The Burkiss Way Comedy from 1980 12.30pm Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel 1.00 Find the Lady Mystery serial (5/7) 1.30 When Garry Met Tony as 8.30pm 2.00 The Story of Doctor Dolittle Alan Bennett reads an adaptation of the original 1920 book by Hugh Lofting (1886—1947) (5/5) 2.15 A History of the Infinite Adrian Moore examines the world of mathematics (5/10) 2.30 The Far Pavilions By MM Kaye (5/20) 2.45 Goon Abroad Harry Secombe (1921—2001) reads from his autobiography. From 1983 (5/5) 3.00 Desolation Island Dramatisation by Roger Danes of Patrick O’Brian’s 1978 novel (2/2) 4.00 We’ve Been Here Before 2004 comedy panel game, chaired by Clive Anderson
7.15 Front Row
3.45 Short Works
Repeated Sunday 8.30pm
Producer Julia McKenzie
Writer Liz John; Director Jeremy Howe Editor Jeremy Howe
Producer Dan Cocker Repeated Sunday 2pm
Matthew Bannister celebrates the lives of notable people who have recently died.
Napoleon Moon Paterson Joseph Tazima/Various roles Cash Kemah Bob Emma Dennis-Edwards Clive 5 David Reed
Bert Fry Eric Allan Kate Madikane Perdita Avery Kirsty Miller Annabelle Dowler Freddie Pargetter Toby Laurence Johnny Phillips Tom Gibbons Hannah Riley Helen Longworth Lynda Snell Carole Boyd Peggy Woolley June Spencer Jakob Hakansson Paul Venables Philip Moss Andy Hockley Lee Bryce Ryan Early Gavin Gareth Pierce
DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906 Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin
5.00am News 5.05 The Newsroom 5.30 Science in Action 6.00 Newsday: the latest headlines 8.30 Business Daily: business and finance news, interviews and reports 8.50 Witness History 9.00 The Real Story 10.00 World Update 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 World Football: reports from around the globe 12.00 News 12.05pm The Fifth Floor: global news 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 Heart and Soul: Dying to Worship: the Christians of India 2.00 Newshour: the stories behind the latest headlines 3.00 News 3.05 Tech Tent 3.30 World Business Report 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 The Fifth Floor: global news 7.00 News 7.05 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk: interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe 8.30 Crowd Science: questions about life, Earth and the universe 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 The Newsroom 10.20 Sports News 10.30 World Business Report: informed analysis 11.00 News 11.05 Tech Tent 11.30 World Football 12.00 News 12.05am The Real Story 1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters 2.00 News 2.05 The Newsroom 2.30 Stumped 3.00 News 3.05 The Fifth Floor 4.00 News 4.05 The Real Story
Travel
5.00am Morning Reports 5.15 Wake Up to Money 6.00 5 Live Breakfast Nicky Campbell and Rachel Burden present news from the UK and around the world. At 8.30 Robbie Savage’s Premier League Breakfast and at 9.00 Your Call. 10.00 Chiles on Friday Adrian Chiles presents the day’s news. Plus current affairs interviews, listeners’ stories and a round-up of the day’s headlines. 1.00pm Elis James and John Robins 3.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review Weekly guide. 5.00 5 Live Drive The day’s news and sport with Anna Foster and Tony Livesey. 7.00 5 Live Sport Sports news, interviews and features including The Friday Football Social, in which Darren Fletcher and Jermaine Jenas are joined by guests for a look ahead to the weekend’s football action. And at 9.30 The Peter Crouch Podcast, in which the Premier League star, together with Chris Stark and Tom Fordyce, offers insights into how to become a professional footballer. 10.00 Stephen Nolan News and debate, including a chance for listeners to phone in. 1.00am Up All Night With Dotun Adebayo.
Radio
Sabina contemplates becoming a single mother, but there are more than a few hurdles to overcome before she embarks on the first stage. For British Asian women of a certain generation, life can be complicated, even more so if you are Muslim, single and heading into your 40s. Sabina wonders what went wrong. A failed marriage? Compromised fertility? Or perhaps she’s just too choosy? She confides in her best friend Amber that she’s planning to freeze her eggs, just in case. And when she mentions single motherhood to Nadeem on a first date, he is surprisingly judgemental. Wheatish is a story about a woman facing up to her own desires, her life and her mother. The author, Yasmeen Khan, is a broadcaster and writer who has made documentaries for Radio 4 and written for the theatre. She is currently writing for EastEnders.
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am
5/8. Nish Kumar hosts the topical comedy panel game, with Andrew Maxwell, Zoe Lyons and Sophie Duker among those vying to see who is best up with the news.
1.45 The Disrupters
For details see Monday (R)
9.00 Desert Island Discs
News and sport as Monday
6.00 Six o’Clock News 6.30 The News Quiz
Jill Archer Patricia Greene David Archer Timothy Bentinck Pip Archer Daisy Badger Josh Archer Angus Imrie Jolene Archer Buffy Davis Kenton Archer Richard Attlee Helen Archer Louiza Patikas Lilian Bellamy Sunny Ormonde Neil Carter Brian Hewlett Susan Carter Charlotte Martin Alice Carter Hollie Chapman Rex Fairbrother Nick Barber
693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905 Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
Friday
5.30am News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day With Dr Rachel Mann. 5.45 Farming Today Rural issues. 5.58 Tweet of the Day Atlantic Canary. Chris Packham presents the sounds of the Atlantic canary, a finch native to the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands, singing in the treetops of Tenerife. (R)
12.04pm The Second Sleep
Radio 5 Live: Contact individual programmes via the website at bbc.co.uk/5live. TELEPHONE: 0808 590 9693 TEXT: 85058 (standard rate)
Talksport 1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927 6.00am Sports Breakfast Presented by Ally McCoist. 10.00 Jim White, Perry Groves and Bob Mills 1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00 Adrian Durham The latest sporting news. 7.00 GameDay Countdown 10.00 Sports Bar With Adam Catterall and Micky Gray. 1.00am Extra Time
LBC 97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919 7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00 James O’Brien 1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty International and regional news. 4.00 Eddie Mair 6.00 Andrew Pierce Forthright analysis of the latest UK and international news. 10.00 Nick Abbot 1.00am Matt Stadlen
Asian Network DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912 6.00am Harpz Kaur 10.00 Asian Network’s Big Debate Debate on topical and cultural issues. 12.30pm Asian Network Reports 1.00 Noreen Khan News and chat. 4.00 The Official Asian Music Chart With Yasser Ranjha. 5.30 Asian Network Reports A round up of all the day’s news from the UK and South Asia. 6.00 Yasser British-Asian music. 7.00 Panjabi Hit Squad Dee and Rav with new hip-hop. 10.00 Kan D Man and DJ Limelight 1.00am Asian Network Residency 3.00 Kan D Man and DJ Limelight
Michael Portillo’s Thai adventure
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Local
Kim Harrison BBC Radio Humberside Age 25 Current job Presents Kim’s World (Tue 7pm). Also works in retail and is a cheerleading coach. CV Born and brought up in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. Went to community arts college in Grimsby. Studied broadcast journalism at the University of Salford. Worked for CBeebies as a runner, and as a researcher on various programmes. “After a busy year, I decided to go travelling. My flight to China was booked — but then I entered the BBC’s Young Voices competition, and took my first step towards my career as a presenter.“ Best moment “When my producer told me I had won the New Voices competition, I was over the moon. I actually didn’t speak (that’s rare!).” Worst moment “I usually just find the funny in a bad situation. At the 100k Drop wrap party, I started shaking my booty — and my skirt split at the back, revealing my behind! I laughed it off and turned it round to look like a side split.” Off air “My family are wild — they are the craziest bunch of characters. We’d be a great addition to Phoenix Nights or Gavin & Stacey!”
Berkshire Saturday 6.00am Bridgitte Tetteh 9.00 Andrew Peach 12.00 In Other News 1.00pm Sport 6.00 Stereo Underground 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 David Allen 12.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 2.00am as 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Paul Coia 9.00 Debbie McGee 11.00 Bill Buckley 2.00pm Henry Wymbs 5.00 David Miller 7.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 8.00 Bridgitte Tetteh 9.00 Bill Rennells 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.30am Steve Madden 7.00 Mon/Tue/Fri: Andrew Peach; Wed/Thu: Vernon Harwood 10.00 Kirsten O’Brien; Fri: Tony Blackburn 1.00pm Bill Buckley 4.00 Phil Kennedy 6.00 Fri: Weekend Kick-Off 7.00 Michelle on the Move; Fri: Mums without Makeup 10.00 Paul Miller 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 0118 946 4200 Phone-ins: 0808 100 5100 radio.berkshire@bbc.co.uk
Cambridgeshire Saturday 6.00am Charlie Thompson 9.00 Dave Webster 12.00 Richard “Spanners” Ready 2.00pm Sport: football: Ipswich Town v Peterborough United and Cambridge United v Colchester United (kick-offs 3.00) 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
First radio memory “When my best friend and I were kids, we created our own radio show — I was ten years old and paving the way for radio success! Fifteen years on, my first show with Radio Humberside was on 3 December last year. I shouted: ‘Well well well, hello lovelies, welcome to Kim’s World!’ The most exciting two hours of my life.” Favourite broadcasters “Fearne Cotton. Since I was young I’ve been so inspired by her. I would watch her on the TV show Smile and phone in to every competition. I wanted her job so bad. I love her shows, her personality and her podcasts. I hope I can bring as much joy to the radio as she has.” Ambition “To have a career where I can make people laugh — to wake up every morning and be so excited to head to my job. Also I’ve always wanted to present Big Brother and travel.” Dream job “I want to be a presenter. I always have. My dream is slowly coming true.” Secret skills “I can talk to anyone. Sometimes you have to be brave to start the conversation — but it’s an easy way to make someone’s day. (But I suppose it’s not a secret, actually, because I’m always talking!)” Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
Sunday
Weekdays
6.00am Louise Hu lland 9.00 DevineCounty10.00ChrisSouth 12.00 Walk Right Back 2.00pm Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 6.00 Naked Scientists 7.00 Sue Marchant 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as 5 Live
5.00am Richard Williams 6.00 Breakfast9.00 VicMinett 12.00 BrodySwain3.00pm PhilUpton 6.00 Mon/Fri: The Sky Blues Phone-in; Tue/Thu: Sport; Wed: Rugby Show 7.00 Mon: The C Word; Tue: Play Up; Wed: Upbeat; Thu: Culture Club; Fri: Later On 8.00 Fri: Reggae Got Soul 9.00 Mon: Upload; Thu: BBC Music Introducing Live 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Colin Young’s Trunk of Funk 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 4.00am Wally Webb 6.00 Kev Lawrence and Dotty McLeod 9.00 Chris Mann 12.00 Jez Sallis 3.00pm Thordis Fridriksson; Fri: Steve Line 4.00 Ronnie Barbour; Fri: Thordis Fridriksson 6.00 Mon: Extra Time; Fri: Late Kick Off 7.00 Mon: Level 23; Tue: Sport; Wed: The Residency; Thu: Classical Cambridgeshire; Fri: That Friday Feeling 8.00 Mon: The Folk Show; Wed: Upload 10.00 (Mon: 11.00) Nick Risby 1.00am as 5 Live Cambridge tel: 01223 259696 Peterborough tel: 01733 315444 Phone-ins: 0800 085 9596 Email: cambs@bbc.co.uk
Coventry and Warwickshire Saturday 5.00am Keith Wedgbury 7.00 EdNell10.00 MollieGreen12.00 Kirsty Leahy 2.00pm Sport: football:BristolRoversvCoventry City 6.00 Marian McNamee 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Justine Greene 9.00 Gold and Treasure 12.00 Easy Sunday 3.00pm Bob Brolly 6.00 Midlands Masala 8.00NikkiTapper10.00Graham Torrington 1.00am as 5 Live
Tel: 02476 551 000 Phone-ins: 0800 756 5200 Email:coventry.warwickshire@bbc.co.uk
Derby Saturday 6.00am Donna Alos 9.00 Andy Twigge 12.00 Ed Stagg 2.00pm Sportscene: football: Rotherham United v Burton Albion 5.00 Sportscene 6.00 The Beat 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 A Touch of Soul 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Kath Melandri 9.00 Planet Ray 11.00 Ken Crowther 12.00 EmmaBullimore2.00pm Sport: football: Lincoln City v SouthendUnitedandCambridge United v Colchester United 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am June Woolerton 9.00 The Essex Quest 12.00 Mark Punter 2.00pm Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 7.00 Sue Marchant 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays 4.00am Chris Berrow 6.00 Ben and Sonia 9.00 Emma Bullimore 12.00 Tony Fisher 4.00pm Ian Puckey 7.00 Your Essex; Fri: John Leech’s Big Essex Soul Night 10.00 Nick Risby 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01245 616 066 Phone-ins: 0800 111 4041 Email: essex@bbc.co.uk
Gloucestershire Saturday 5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00 SteveKitchen9.00FayeHatcher 12.00 David Smith 2.30pm Matchday: football: FM/MW Grimsby Town v Forest Green Rovers; DAB Cheltenham Town v Morecambe 5.00 Matchday Extra Time 6.00 Boogie Wonderland 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 5.00am Jo Durrant 6.00 Richard Atkins 9.00 Kristina Thornton 12.00 Pete Wilson 1.00pm Warren Moore 4.00 The Vintage Chart Show 6.00 Manny Masih 8.00 Kevin Philemon 10.00 Geoff Barker’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party 12.00 Johnny Coppin 1.00am Sounds of Brass 2.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.30am Joe Lemer 6.00 Mark Cummings 9.00 Anna King 12.00 Dominic Cotter 3.00pm Nicky Price 5.00 Steve Kitchen 7.00 Jon Smith; Wed: Evening Show 10.00 Chris Baxter 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01452 308585 Phone-ins: 0800 121 7575 radio.gloucestershire@bbc.co.uk
Hereford/Worcester
Sunday
Saturday
6.00amDonnaAlos9.00James Watt 1.00pm Tony Lyman 4.00 DeanPepall6.00SatvinderRana 8.00DevonDaley10.00Graham Torrington 1.00am as 5 Live
6.00am Andrew Easton 9.00 Dave Bradley 11.00 Toni McDonald 2.00pm Trevor Owens 3.00 Sport: football: Alfreton Town v Hereford 6.00 Richard Searling 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Tony Lyman 6.00 Ian Skye 9.00 Sally Pepper 12.00 Andy Twigge 3.00pm Steve Jordan 6.00 Sportscene; Mon: Talk-in; 7.00 Top Floor 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Dean Jackson 1.00am as 5 Live Tel: 01332 361 111 Phone-ins: 0800 145 6161 radio.derby@bbc.co.uk
Sunday 6.00am John Hellings 7.00 Kate Justice 9.00 Malcolm Boyden 12.00 Jonathan Ray 3.00pm Mike Wyer 6.00 Andrew Marston 8.00 John Hellings 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Andrew Nash 6.00 Elliott and Toni 9.00 Elliott Webb 10.00 Malcolm Boyden 1.00pm Tammy Gooding 4.00 Andrew Easton; Thu: Richard Hurst 7.00 Kate Justice 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Colin Young’s Trunk of Funk 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01905 748485 Phone-ins: 0800 121 8181 bbchw@bbc.co.uk
Saturday 6.00am Rod Whiting 9.00 Chris Berrow 12.00 Solid Gold Saturday 2.00pm Hope and Glory: Southend United v Lincoln City 6.00 The Beat 8.00 BBC Introducing in Lincolnshire 10.00 A Touch of Soul 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday
Kent Saturday 6.00am Pat Marsh 10.00 Jon Holmes 12.00 Phil Harrison 2.00pm The Sports Hub 6.00 Roger Day 8.00 BBC Introducing in Kent 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am Sean Rowley: All Back To Mine 2.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 5.30am Hymns on Sunday 6.00 Sunday Breakfast 8.00 SundayGardening 11.00 Lembit Opik 2.00pm Dominic King: King and Company 3.00 Julia George 5.00 Daryl Denham 9.00 Kent Folk 10.00 Bill Rennells 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am The Early Call 6.00 Ian Collins and Anna Cookson 9.00 Julia George; Fri: Lembit Opik 12.00 Pat Marsh and Erika North 3.00pm John Warnett 6.00 Dominic King; Fri: Access All Areas 8.00 Fri: The Kent Sessions: Revisited 9.00 On the Air With; Tue: Upload 10.00 Paul Miller; Fri: Steve N Allen 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01892 670 000 Phone-ins: 0800 756 1111 radio.kent@bbc.co.uk
Leicester Saturday 6.00am Jack Rafferty 9.00 Rupal Rajani 12.00 Sport: football: Leicester City v Chelsea 4.00pm Owynn Palmer-Atkin 6.00 The Beat 10.00 A Touch of Soul 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Jo Bostock 9.00 Clueless 12.00 Dave Andrews 3.00pm Andy Pierce 7.00 Uncle Frank 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Tony Lyman 6.00 Jimmy Carpenter and Summaya Mughal 9.00 Ben Jackson 12.00 Martin Ballard 4.00pm Ady Dayman 6.00 Mon: Football Forum; Tue: Inside Sport; Wed: The Rugby Show; Thu: Bootroom; Fri: Sport Weekend Preview 7.00 Mon: Level 23; Tue: The A Word; Wed: The Vibe; Thu: Bollywood Tamasha; Fri: Herdle White 8.00 Mon: The Curry Show 9.00 Thu: Young British Asians Talk 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Dean Jackson 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 0116 251 6688 Phone-ins: 0808 100 1049 radio.leicesternews@bbc.co.uk
Lincolnshire
6.00am Rod Whiting 7.00 Lincolnshire Farming 7.30 Rod Whiting 9.00 Gardening Phone-in 10.00 Pirate Gold 1.00pm Poachings 2.00 Tim Rogers Country 3.00 Howard Leader 6.00 Westenders 8.00 Henry Ayrton’s Jukebox 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 6.00am Scott Dalton 9.30 Melvyn in the Morning 1.00pm Sue Taylor 4.00 William Wright 6.00 Thu: Upload; Fri: Hope and Glory — The Preview Show 7.00 Mon: Paul Hudson’s Weather Show; Tue/Fri: Hope and Glory; Wed: Showtime; Thu: Thursday Night Folk 8.00 Mon: Lincolnshire Kitchen 9.00 Wed: Sex, Drugs and Lullabies; Thu: Nevermind the 90s 10.00 Russell Walker; Fri: Dean Jackson 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01522 511219 Phone-ins: 0800 066 5949 bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire
London Saturday 6.00am Best of Jo Good 7.00 Carrie and David Grant 10.00 Robert Elms 1.00pm Gary Crowley’s A to Z 2.00 BBC Radio London Sport 6.00 GaryCrowley8.00 BBCLondon Introducing 10.00 Sunny and Shay 2.00am Jim Davis
Sunday 6.00am Inspirit 9.00 Tim Arthur 12.00 Soul on Sunday 3.00pm Gaby Roslin 5.00 Gary Crowley’s A to Z 6.00 Sunny and Shay 8.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00 Duncan Barkes 1.00am Jim Davis
Weekdays 4.00am Mon—Thu: Petrie Hosken 7.00 Vanessa Feltz 10.00 Robert Elms 1.30pm Jo Good; Fri: Claira Hermet 5.00 Eddie Nestor 7.00 Fri: The Women’s Sports Show 8.00 The Scene 10.00 Duncan Barkes; Fri: Sunny and Shay 1.00am Dotun Adebayo; Mon: JimDavis2.00am Fri: JimDavis Tel: 0207 765 1166 Phone-ins: 0800 731 2000 yourlondon@bbc.co.uk
Norfolk Saturday 6.00am Kirsteen Thorne 9.00 Keith Greentree 12.00 The Garden Party 2.00pm Sport: football: Newcastle United v Norwich City (kick-off 3.00) 5.00 Canary Call 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Listen on the internet at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings
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Saturday 1–Friday 7 February Frequencies Sunday 6.00am Anthony Isaacs 9.00 TreasureQuest1.00pm Gudgin’s Guest 2.00 Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 7.00 Sue Marchant 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays
Northampton Saturday
6.00am Sophie Law 9.00 Find It or Forfeit 12.00 Tony Gillham 2.00pm Kat’s Kick up the 80s 4.00 Al Ryan 6.00 Henry Wymbs 9.00 Bill Rennells 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 6.00am Mon/Tue: Sophie Law; Wed—Fri: Laurie Bailey 7.00 David Prever 10.00 Kat Orman 1.00pm James Watt 4.00 Adam Ball 7.00 Mon: Forces Radio; Tue: Sportsnight; Wed: New Forty; Thu: Fleur Ostojak; Fri: Laugh Lounge 8.00 Fri: LivingfortheWeekend 9.00 Mon/Wed: Upload; Thu: Abingdon College Takeover; Fri: DJG’s Soulful House 10.00 Paul Miller 1.00am as 5 Live
6.00am John Griff 9.00 Treasure Quest 12.00 John Rose 2.00pm Sport 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven 8.00 Lal Muttock 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Tel: 03459 311 444 Phone-ins: 0808 100 9100 oxford@bbc.co.uk
Sunday
6.00am Clare Ashford 9.00 Ryan Kennedy 1.00pm MichaelaWylde2.00Shropshire United: football: FM Rochdale v Shrewsbury Town; DAB Shropshire United: AFC Telford United v Altrincham 6.00 Jim Hawkins 8.00 BBC Music Introducing 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Martin Heath 9.00 John Griff 12.00 Gadders 2.00pm Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 6.00 Jona Kotnis 8.00 Mark Dean 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays 4.00am Wally Webb 6.00 Annabel Amos 9.00 Bernie Keith 12.00 Helen Blaby 3.00pm Wayne Bavin 6.00 Wed: The Saints Show; Thu: The Cobblers Show; Fri: Sport 7.00 Tim Wheeler 10.00 Nick Risby 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01604 239100 Phone-ins: 0800 030 4455 bbc.co.uk/northamptonshire
Nottingham Saturday 6.00am Ed Nell 9.00 Liesl and Arun 12.00 Jo Davies 1.30pm Matchday5.00 Postmatch 6.00 The Beat 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 A Touch of Soul 1.00am as 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Frances Finn 9.00 John Holmes 12.00 Paul Robey 4.00pm Jo Davies 6.00 Hansa Dabee 8.00 Dawne Stewart 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays
Shropshire Saturday
Sunday 6.00am John Hellings 7.00 Ryan Kennedy 9.00 Treasure Quest 11.00 Sunday Kitchen 12.00 Paul Shuttleworth 3.00pm Mike Wyer 6.00 Genevieve Tudor 8.00 Jazz 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Saturday 6.00am Luke Deal 9.00 Georgy Jamieson 12.00 Life’s a Pitch 2.00pm Sport 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven 8.00 BBC Suffolk Introducing 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday
Beds, Herts and Bucks Saturday 6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Treasure Quest 12.00 Mike Naylor 2.00pm Countdown to Kick-Off 3.00 Sport: football: FM 98/104.5 Milton Keynes Dons v Wycombe Wanderers; FM90.4/92.1/94.7/103.8Watford v Everton; FM 95.5 Stevenage v Leyton Orient; DAB West Bromwich Albion v Luton Town; MW Sport 5.00 5-0-5 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as 5 Live
Sunday
6.00am Lesley Dolphin 9.00 Wayne Bavin 12.00 Sarah Lilley 2.00pm Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 7.00 Sue Marchant 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Nana Akua 9.00 Tony Hadley 11.00 Nick Coffer 1.00pm People’s Playlist 2.00 Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 6.00 Yasmeen Khan 8.00 Edward Adoo 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays
Weekdays
4.00am Wally Webb 6.00 Luke Deal 7.00 Mark Murphy 10.00 James Hazell 1.00pm Lesley Dolphin 4.00 Stephen Foster 7.00 Mon: Belongings; Tue: The Tuesday Takeover; Wed: BBC Music Introducing; Thu: Sports Social; Fri: Georgy Jamieson 9.00 Wed: Music: Made in Suffolk 10.00 Nick Risby 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
4.00am WallyWebb6.00 Andy Collins 9.00 JVS Show 12.00 Nick Coffer 3.00pm Roberto Perrone 6.00 Mon: Sport; Tue: Ollie Bayliss 7.00 Mon: Level 23; Tue: People’s Playlist; Wed: Mental Health; Thu: BBC Introducing; Fri: The Random Fact Show 8.00 Mon—Wed: Nana Akua; Thu: Jaguar and Danny; Fri: The What’s On Show 9.00 Fri: Justin Dealey 10.00 Nick Risby 1.00am as 5 Live
Tel: 01473 250 000 Phone-ins: 0800 141 2121 radiosuffolk@bbc.co.uk
BBC Surrey and BBC Sussex
Tel: 01582 636 963 Phone-ins: 0808 100 8800 bbc.co.uk/threecounties
WM
6.00am Adam Green and Clare Ashford 9.00 Jim Hawkins 12.00 Colin Young 3.00pm Paul Shuttleworth 4.00 Ryan Kennedy; Mon: Mark Elliott 7.00 Mon: BBC Music Introducing Xtra; Tue: Active Shropshire; Wed—Fri: The 7 o’Clock Show 8.00 Mon: Marie Crichton 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Colin Young 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
5.00am Shaun Tilley 6.00 Surrey: James Cannon; 6.00 Sussex: Mark Carter 9.00 Danny Pike 12.00 Graham Dene 2.00pm Joe Talbot 6.00 Stereo Underground 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 David Allen 12.00 Paul Miller 2.00am Dancefloor Delights 4.00 as Radio 5 Live
Saturday
Sunday
Sunday
5.30am Hymn Half Hour 6.00 Emily Jeffery 9.00 Dig It 12.00SylvieBlackmore3.00pm Mark Carter 5.00 David Miller 7.00 Nicky Patrick 9.00 Nicky Horne 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Sior Coleman 7.00 Llewela Bailey 9.00 Foxy and Giuliano 12.00 The Other Side Of 1.00pm Soul and Motown 3.00 Bob Brolly 6.00 Gagan Grewal 8.00 Nikki Tapper 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Tel: 01743 248484 Phone-ins: 0808 100 9696 radio.shropshire@bbc.co.uk
Stoke
Tel: 0115 955 0500 Phone-ins: 0800 678 3434 radio.nottingham@bbc.co.uk
Sunday
6.00am Adam and Michelle 9.00 James Watt 12.00 Kat’s Kick up the 80s 2.00pm Sport 6.00 Stereo Underground
Suffolk
Three Counties
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Tel: 01782 208080 Phone-ins: 0800 121 8080 bbc.co.uk/stoke
Surrey phone-ins: 0800 587 1046 bbc.co.uk/surrey Sussex phone-ins 0800 232 1045 bbc.co.uk/sussex
Weekdays
5.00am Tony Lyman 6.00 AndyWhittakerandSarahJulian 9.00 Mark Dennison 12.00 Alan Clifford 4.00pm Verity Cowley 6.00 Fri: The Terrace 7.00 ArunVerma10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Dean Jackson 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Oxford
5.00am Den Siegertsz 6.30 John Acres 9.00 Stuart George 12.00 Louise Stones 3.00pm Perry Spiller and Liz Ellis 6.00 Sport; Fri: Praise and Grumble 7.00 Lucas Yeomans; Thu: The Takeaway; Fri: Extra Time 8.00 Fri: Richard Searling 9.00 Tue/Wed: The Wildcard; Thu: Centre Stage 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Colin Young 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
9.00 Wed: After the Watershed; Fri: Lost In Music 10.00 Paul Miller 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Sophie Calvert 10.00 Lucas and Rob 2.00pm Sport 5.00 Praise and Grumble 6.00 Richard Searling’s Northern Soul 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as Radio 5 Live 6.00am Sunday Morning 6.30 In Praise of God 7.00 Tim Wedgwood 9.00 Terry Walsh 11.00 Paula White 2.30pm In Praise of God (R) 3.00 Jodie Looker 5.00 Centre Stage 6.00 Ajmal Hussain 8.00 Jazz 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am The Early Start 6.00 Surrey: James Cannon and Lesley McCabe; Wed: Mark Carter 6.00 Sussex: Neil Pringle 9.00 Danny Pike 12.00 Allison Ferns; Fri: Joe Talbot 4.00pm—7.00 Sarah Gorrell Surrey only: 5.00 Mike Buxton; Wed: Clare Cowan 6.00—7.00 The Rewind. 7.00 Mon: The Big Take Over; Tue: Albion Unlimited; Wed: BBC Introducing; Thu: Politix and Chill; Fri: Something for the Weekend 8.00 Tue: Sport; Thu: Lewis Mason
5.00am Nina Das Gupta 7.00 Mollie Green 10.00 Richie Anderson12.00 PeteWaterman 2.00pm Sport: football: FM Bournemouth v Aston Villa; DAB Birmingham City v Nottingham Forest 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Rakeem 6.00 Sam andDaz9.00 DannyKelly12.00 Caroline Martin 2.00pm Sunny and Shay; Fri: Foxy 4.00 Paul Franks 5.30 Football Phone-in 7.00 Mon: Natalie Graham; Tue: Rakeem; Wed: Sasha Simone; Thu: Melzy J; Fri: Sport 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Colin Young’s Trunk of Funk 1.00am as Radio 5 Live; Fri: Reggae Show 3.00 Fri: as Radio 5 Live Tel: 0121 567 6055 Phone-ins: 0808 100 9956 Email: bbcwm@bbc.co.uk
National BBC Radio 1 FM 97.6—99.8 BBC Radio 2 FM 88—90.2 BBC Radio 3 FM 90.2—92.4 BBC Radio 4 FM 92.4—94.6, LW 198 BBC Radio Five Live MW 693, 909 Classic FM 99.9—101.9 Talksport MW 1053, 1071, 1089, 1107 Absolute FM 105.8 (London/South East), 105.2 (West Midlands) plus MW 1215, 1197, 1233, 1242, 1260 These stations are also broadcast via Freeview, satellite, cable, digital radio and the internet.
Local BBC stations:
Asian Network MW 837 (Leicester/Nottingham/Derby), 1458 (Birmingham), 828 (Wolverhampton), 1449 (Peterborough/Cambridge) Berkshire 104.1 (Hannington), 94.6 (Henley),95.4(Windsor),104.4(Reading) Cambridgeshire 95.7 (Peterborough), 96, MW 1026 Coventry & Warwickshire 94.8 (Coventry), 103.7 (Stratford/ S. Warwickshire), 104 (Nuneaton) Derby 104.5 (Drum Hill), 96 (Buxton), 95.3 (Stanton Moor), MW 1116 Essex 103.5 (north Essex), 95.3 (south Essex), MW 765, 729 Gloucestershire 104.7 (Churchdown Hill), 95 (Stroud), 95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413 Hereford and Worcester 94.7 (Hereford), 104 (Worcester & Gt Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster), MW 738 (Worcester), 1584 (Tenbury Wells) Kent 96.7 (west), 97.6 (Folkestone), 104.2 (east) Leicester 104.9 Lincolnshire 94.9 (Lincoln), 104.7 (Grantham) London 94.9 Norfolk 95.1 (east), 95.6 (Wells), 104.4 (west),MW855(east),873(King’sLynn) Northampton 104.2 (Northants), 103.6 (Corby/Kettering) Nottingham 103.8 (Notts), 95.1 (Newark), 95.5 (Mansfield) Oxford 95.2 Shropshire 90 (Church Stretton), 96 (Shropshire), 95 (Ludlow), 104.1 (Clun) Stoke 94.6 (Stoke), 104.1 (Stafford), MW 1503 Suffolk 103.9 (south), 104.6 (Bury St Edmunds & north west), 95.5 (Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh) Sussex and Surrey95.0(Newhaven), 95.1 (Horsham), 95.3 (Brighton/ Worthing), 104.0 (East Surrey/North Sussex), 104.5 (East Sussex), 104.6 (West Surrey/NE Hants), 104.8 (West Sussex) Three Counties 103.8 (Herts), 95.5 (Beds), 90.4 (East Herts), 92.1 (South Herts), 98.0 (High Wycombe), 104.5 (Bucks), 94.7 (Aylesbury) MW 630 (Herts & Bucks), 1161 (Beds) WM 95.6 (West Midlands) Independent stations: Absolute Radio Classic Rock MW 1152 (Birmingham), MW 990 (Wolverhampton) The Beach 103.4 (Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft), 97.4 (Southwold/Halesworth) BOB FM 106.7 (Stevenage), 106.9 (Hertford/Ware/Welwyn & Hatfield) The Breeze 101.6 (Four Marks/ Medstead/Alresford/Bordon/ Grayshott/Beacon Hill & Hindhead), 101.8 (Petersfield), 102 (Alton), 97.1 (Haslemere & Midhurst), 107.6 (Basingstoke), 106.4 (N. Hants), 105.6 (Newbury/Thatcham), 107 (Reading), 107.4 (Hungerford), 107.5 (Gloucestershire/The Malverns) Buzz Radio FM 103.8 (London) Capital 95.8 (London), 95.9 (Brackley), 96.2 (Coventry/Nott), 96.5 (Mansfield), 101.6 (Lichfield), 102 (Stratford), 102.2 (Birmingham), 102.4 (Burton) 102.8 (Derby), 105.4 (Leicester), 107.1 (Rugby), 107.2 (Brighton/Hove), 107.3 (Warwick), 107.6 (north Oxon) Capital XTRA 107.1 (north London), 96.9 (south London) Cambridge 105 105 Cambridge Cheshire’s Silk 106.9 (Macclesfield/east Cheshire) Connect 97.2 (Wellingborough), 106.8 (Peterborough) 107.4 (Kettering/Corby) Dream 100.2 (Tendring/Colchester) Eagle Radio 96.4 (Hants/Surrey) Fosse 107 (Loughborough), 107.9 (Hinckley) Free Radio 96.4 (Birmingham), 97.2 (Wolverhampton), 103.1 (Shropshire), 97 (Coventry/ Warwickshire), 102.9 (Leamington Spa), 97.6 (Hereford), 96.7 (Kidderminster), 102.8 (Worcester)
Gem 106 (East Midlands) Gold MW 945 (Derby), 999 (Nottingham), 1548 (London) Greatest Hits Radio MW 1359 (Coventry), MW 1017 (Shropshire) HCR 104 FM (Huntingdon) Heart 95.9 (Thanet), 96.1 (Ashford/ Colchester), 96.3 (Basildon), 96.4 (Bury St Edmunds), 96.6 (Northants), 96.7 (Winchester), 96.9 (Bedford/Newhaven), 97 (Dover/ Folkestone/Reading), 97.1 (Ipswich), 97.4 (Banbury/Newmarket), 97.5 (south Hampshire/Ryde/Southend/ Horsham), 97.6 (Dunstable), 100.7 (west Mids), 102 (Hastings), 102.3 (Dorset), 102.4 (Eastbourne/ Norwich/Gloucester/Cheltenham), 102.6 (Chelmsford/Oxford), 102.7 (Peterborough/Reigate/Crawley), 102.8 (east Kent), 102.9 (Berkshire), 103 (Cambridge/Stroud/east Devon), 103.1 (west Kent), 103.3 (Milton Keynes), 103.4 (Henley on Thames), 103.5 (Brighton), 106.2 (London) HFM 102.3 (Market Harborough) Jack FM 106.4/106.8 (Oxfordshire) Jack FM 2 107.9 (Oxfordshire) Jackie 107.8 (south west London/ north Surrey) Kiss 100 (London), 107.7 (Peterborough), 105.6 (Cambridge), 106.1 (Norwich), 106.4 (Ipswich) KL.FM 96.7 (King’s Lynn) Kmfm 106 (Canterbury/Herne Bay/Whitstable), 107.6 (Ashford), 105.6 (Maidstone), 107.9 (Medway towns), 100.4 (Hoo St Werburgh), 101.6 (Sevenoaks), 96.2 (Tunbridge Wells), 96.4 (Folkestone), 106.8 (Dover), 107.2 (Thanet) LBC London 97.3 (London) LBC London News MW 1152 (London) Lincs 102.2 (Lincoln), 96.7 (Grantham), 97.6 (Scunthorpe) London Greek 103.3 London Turkish MW 1584 Lyca Dilse MW 1035 (London) Magic 105.4 (London) Mansfield 103.2 Maritime 96.5 (Greenwich) Mix 96.2 (Aylesbury) More Radio Eastbourne 107.5 (Eastbourne/ Hailsham) More Radio Hastings 107.8 (Hastings/Bexhill) More Radio Mid Sussex 106.4 (Burgess Hill/Haywards Heath), 106.8 (Lewes) More Radio Worthing 107.7 (Worthing/Littlehampton/ Shoreham) North Norfolk Radio 96.2 (Norfolk), 103.2 (Cromer/Wells) Norwich 99.9 Peak 107.4 (Chesterfield), 102 (Matlock) Premier Christian MW 1305 (London), 1332 (central), 1413 (east/west), 1566 (Guildford) Radio Caroline MW 648 (Suffolk, north east Essex) Radio Essex 105.1 (Southend-onSea), 107.7 (Chelmsford) Rutland 107.2 (Rutland), 97.4 (Stamford) Sabras MW 1260 (Leicester) Sam FM 106 (Southampton), 106.5 (Bristol), 107.7 (Swindon) Signal 1 96.4 (Congleton), 96.9 (Stafford), 102.6 (Staffordshire/Cheshire) Signal 2 MW 1 170 (Staffordshire/Cheshire) Signal 107 106.5 (Shrewsbury), 107.1 (Oswestry/north Shropshire), 107.4 (Telford), 107.7 (Wolverhampton) Smooth FM 102.2 (London), 105.7 (West Midlands), 106.6/101.4 (East Midlands); MW 792 (Bedford), 828 (Bournemouth/Luton), 1152 (Norfolk), 1251 (Bury St Edmunds), 774 (Gloucester), 1521 (Crawley),603 (eastKent),1170 (Portsmouth/ Ipswich), 1557 (south Hants), 1332 (Peterborough), 1017 (Shrewsbury/ Telford), 1359 (Chelmsford/ Warwickshire), 1431 (Southend), 1161 (Swindon), 1323 (Brighton), 1242 (west Kent) Spectrum MW 558 (London) Spire 102 (Salisbury) Star 107.9 (Cambridge), 107.1 (Ely) Sunrise MW 963/972 (London) Sunshine 106.2 (Hereford), 107.8 (Leominster), 107 (Monmouth), MW 855 (S. Shropshire/N. Herefordshire/N. Worcestershire) The Eye 103 (Melton Mowbray/ Vale of Belvoir) Time 107.5 (Romford/Barking & Dagenham/Redbridge) Town 102 (Ipswich) Radio X 104.9 (London) XL MW 1296 (Birmingham)
Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings
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Tel: 01603 617 321 radionorfolk@bbc.co.uk
Sunday
Weekdays
Local
4.00am Wally Webb 6.30 Chris Goreham 10.00 Chrissie Jackson 1.00pm Stephen Bumfrey 4.00 Matthew Gudgin 6.00 Thu: The Scrimmage; Fri: Yellow Friday 6.30 Fri: Local Report 7.00 Mon: The Jack Jay Show; Tue: The Game; Wed: The Social; Thu: BBC Music Introducing; Fri: Evening Show 10.00 Nick Risby 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 David Allen 12.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 2.00am The Dance Dungeon 4.00 as Radio 5 Live
RADIO in your area BBC Local Radio
South, West and South West region Weekdays
Face behind the voice
Radio
Local
Kim Harrison BBC Radio Humberside Age 25 Current job Presents Kim’s World (Tue 7pm). Also works in retail and is a cheerleading coach. CV Born and brought up in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. Went to community arts college in Grimsby. Studied broadcast journalism at the University of Salford. Worked for CBeebies as a runner, and as a researcher on various programmes. “After a busy year, I decided to go travelling. My flight to China was booked — but then I entered the BBC’s Young Voices competition, and took my first step towards my career as a presenter.“ Best moment “When my producer told me I had won the New Voices competition, I was over the moon. I actually didn’t speak (that’s rare!).” Worst moment “I usually just find the funny in a bad situation. At the 100k Drop wrap party, I started shaking my booty — and my skirt split at the back, revealing my behind! I laughed it off and turned it round to look like a side split.” Off air “My family are wild — they are the craziest bunch of characters. We’d be a great addition to Phoenix Nights or Gavin & Stacey!”
Berkshire
First radio memory “When my best friend and I were kids, we created our own radio show — I was ten years old and paving the way for radio success! Fifteen years on, my first show with Radio Humberside was on 3 December last year. I shouted: ‘Well well well, hello lovelies, welcome to Kim’s World!’ The most exciting two hours of my life.” Favourite broadcasters “Fearne Cotton. Since I was young I’ve been so inspired by her. I would watch her on the TV show Smile and phone in to every competition. I wanted her job so bad. I love her shows, her personality and her podcasts. I hope I can bring as much joy to the radio as she has.” Ambition “To have a career where I can make people laugh — to wake up every morning and be so excited to head to my job. Also I’ve always wanted to present Big Brother and travel.” Dream job “I want to be a presenter. I always have. My dream is slowly coming true.” Secret skills “I can talk to anyone. Sometimes you have to be brave to start the conversation — but it’s an easy way to make someone’s day. (But I suppose it’s not a secret, actually, because I’m always talking!)”
Saturday
Saturday
6.00am Bridgitte Tetteh 9.00 Andrew Peach 12.00 In Other News 1.00pm Sport on BBC Radio Berkshire 6.00 Stereo Underground 8.00 BBC Introducing: Berkshire’s new music scene with Bridgitte Tetteh 9.00 David Allen: with music and conversation 12.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 2.00am as Radio 5 Live
4.00am BCFM 5.00 Martin Evans 6.00 Ali Vowles 9.00 James Hanson 11.00 Jonathan Ray 2.00pm Sport: football: Queens Park Rangers v Bristol City and Bristol Rovers v Coventry City (kick-offs 3.00) 6.00 Boogie Wonderland 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am BBC Introducing 3.00 Ujima Radio
Sunday 6.00am Paul Coia 9.00 Debbie McGee 11.00 Bill Buckley 2.00pm Henry Wymbs 5.00 David Miller 7.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 8.00 Bridgitte Tetteh 9.00 Bill Rennells: tunes from the past six decades 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.30am Steve Madden 7.00 Mon/Tue/Fri: Andrew Peach; Wed/Thu: Vernon Harwood 10.00 Kirsten O’Brien; Fri: Tony Blackburn’s Weekend Warm-up 1.00pm Bill Buckley 4.00 Phil Kennedy 6.00 Fri: Weekend Kick-Off 7.00 Michelle on the Move; Fri: Mums without Makeup 10.00 Paul Miller: with The Late Show 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 0118 946 4200 Phone-ins: 0808 100 5100 radio.berkshire@bbc.co.uk
Sunday 4.00am Somer Valley FM 5.00 Martin Evans 6.00 Lucy Tegg 10.00 Clueless 1.00pm Warren Moore 4.00 The Vintage Chart Show 6.00 Manny Masih 8.00 Kevin Philemon 10.00 Geoff Barker 12.00 Johnny Coppin Folk 1.00am Sounds of Brass 2.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Joe Lemer 6.30 Emma Britton 9.00 John Darvall 12.00 Steve Yabsley 3.00pm Claire Cavanagh 6.00 Geoff Twentyman; Wed: Laura Rawlings 7.00 Upload; Fri: Sport: football: Bristol City v Birmingham City 10.00 Chris Baxter 1.00am as Radio 5 Live; Fri: The Beats, Breaks and Bass Show 3.00 Fri: Ujima Radio Phone-ins: 08000 855 949 radio.bristol@bbc.co.uk
Phone-ins: 0808 100 1039 radio.cornwall@bbc.co.uk
Devon Saturday 6.00am Caroline Cook 9.00 The Golden Hour 10.00 Kerry White 12.00 Richard Green’s Retro Show 2.00pm Sport: football: all except FM 95.7 Swindon Town v Exeter City (kick-off 3.00); FM 95.7 Plymouth Argyle v Newport County (kick-off 3.00) 6.00 Boogie Wonderland 8.00 BBC Introducing in Devon: with Sarah Gosling 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday
6.00am Pick of the Week 7.00 Simon Parkin 10.00 Charlie Taylor 1.00—2.00pm The Retro Show 9.00—1.00am Rick Edwards
6.00am Farming Today This Week: countryside issues 6.30 Angela Kalwaites 9.00 Toby Buckland 12.00 Sport: rugby union: Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins, a Premiership Cup semi-final at Sandy Park (kick-off 1.00pm) 3.00pm A Bit More Fitz 4.00 The Vintage Chart Show 6.00 Geoff Barker’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party 8.00 Sounds of Brass 9.00 Tim Manns 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays
Weekdays
6.00am Claire Carter 9.00 Simon Parkin 12.00 Back Tracks 1.00pm Mon/Tue/Fri: Andy Bennett; Wed/Thu: Vicki Clark 4.00 Matt Faulkner 7.00—10.00 Charlie Taylor; Wed: Trish Campbell
5.00am Laura James; Mon: Matt Woodley 6.00 Gordon Sparks and Laura James; Mon: Laura James 9.00 The Golden Hour 10.00 David FitzGerald; Thu: Toby Buckland 1.00pm Janet Kipling 3.00 Rick Edwards 5.00 Pippa Quelch 7.00 Mon: Ally Reeve; Tue: Matt Tancock; Wed—Fri: Sarah Gosling 10.00 David Sheppard 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
Bristol
5.00am Naomi Kennedy 6.00 Julie Skentelbery and James Churchfield 9.00 David White 12.00 Laurence Reed 3.00pm Debbie McCrory 5.00 Martin Bailie; Fri: Mel Osborne 7.00 Tiffany Truscott 10.00 David Sheppard: with The Late Show 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
BBC SOMERSET As Bristol except:
Saturday
Tel: 01823 323956 Phone-ins: 0800 678 1566 somerset@bbc.co.uk
Cornwall Saturday 6.00am Donna Birrell 9.00 Jack Murley 12.00 Freddy Zapp 2.00pm Sport 6.05 Boogie Wonderland 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Faith Programme: with Donna Birrell 9.00 Jack Murley 12.00 Sunday Requests 2.00pm John Prowse and Steve Penhaligon 2.05 Cornwall Connected 4.00 The Vintage Chart Show 6.00 Geoff Barker’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party 8.00 Sounds of Brass 9.00 Tim Manns 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Phone-ins: 0808 100 1034 radio.devon@bbc.co.uk
Essex Saturday 6.00am Kath Melandri 9.00 Planet Ray 11.00 Ken Crowther 12.00 Emma Bullimore 2.00pm Sport: football: Lincoln City v Southend Utd and Cambridge Utd v Colchester Utd (kick-offs 3.00) 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing in Essex: with Ollie Winiberg 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am June Woolerton 9.00 The Essex Quest
12.00 Mark Punter’s Vintage Vinyl 2.00pm Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech 7.00 Sue Marchant 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays
Weekdays 4.00am Chris Berrow 6.00 Ben and Sonia 9.00 Emma Bullimore 12.00 Tony Fisher 4.00pm Ian Puckey 7.00 Your Essex; Fri: John Leech’s Big Essex Soul Night 10.00 Nick Risby: with The Late Show 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01245 616 066 Phone-ins: 0800 111 4041 Email: essex@bbc.co.uk
Saturday 5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00 Steve Kitchen 9.00 Faye Hatcher 12.00 David Smith 2.30pm Matchday: football: Grimsby Town v Forest Green Rovers (kick-off 3.00); DAB Cheltenham Town v Morecambe (kick-off 3.00) 5.00 Matchday Extra Time 6.00 Boogie Wonderland 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 5.00am Jo Durrant 6.00 Richard Atkins 9.00 Kristina Thornton 12.00 Pete Wilson 1.00pm Warren Moore 4.00 The Vintage Chart Show 6.00 Manny Masih 8.00 Kevin Philemon 10.00 Geoff Barker’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party 12.00 Johnny Coppin 1.00am Sounds of Brass 2.00 as Radio 5 Live 5.30am Joe Lemer 6.00 Mark Cummings 9.00 Anna King 12.00 Dominic Cotter 3.00pm Nicky Price 5.00 Steve Kitchen 7.00 Jon Smith; Wed: Evening Show 10.00 Chris Baxter 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01452 308585 Phone-ins: 0800 121 7575
Guernsey Saturday 6.00am Isla Blatchford 9.00 Jon Ozanne 12.00 Tony Gillham 2.00pm Sportscene 6.00 David White 8.00 Tim Hunter 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Cathy Le Feuvre 9.00 Fiona Le Tissier 11.00 Chris Bougourd 2.00pm Tony Gillham 4.00 Richard Green 6.00 Geoff Barker 8.00 Sounds of Brass 9.00 Tim Manns 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Phone-ins: 0808 100 9932 bbcguernsey@bbc.co.uk
Hereford/Worcester Saturday
Gloucestershire
Weekdays
6.00am Oscar Pearson 9.00 Jenny Kendall-Tobias 9.30—12.30pm Wed—Fri: MW States of Deliberation 1.00pm John Randall 2.30—5.30 Wed—Fri: MW States of Deliberation 4.00 Luke Webb 7.00 Tim and Sydney 9.00 BBC Radio Guernsey on Shuffle; Mon: The Sun Lounge 10.00 David Sheppard: with The Late Show 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Andrew Easton 9.00 Dave Bradley 11.00 Toni McDonald 2.00pm Trevor Owens 3.00 FM 94.7 Sport: football: Alfreton Town v Hereford (kick-off 3.00), coverage of the National League North encounter at Impact Arena 6.00 Richard Searling’s Northern Soul 8.00 BBC Introducing in Hereford and Worcester 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am John Hellings 7.00 Kate Justice 9.00 Malcolm Boyden 12.00 Jonathan Ray 3.00pm Mike Wyer 6.00 Andrew Marston 8.00 John Hellings 10.00 Graham Torrington: with late-night music and conversation 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Andrew Nash 6.00 Elliott and Toni 9.00 Elliott Webb 10.00 Malcolm Boyden 1.00pm Tammy Gooding 4.00 Andrew Easton: music and chat; Thu: Richard Hurst 7.00 Kate Justice 10.00 Graham Torrington: with late-night music and conversation; Fri: Colin Young’s Trunk of Funk 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Phone-ins: 0800 121 8181 bbc.co.uk/herefordworcester
Jersey Saturday 6.00am Jenny Mullin 9.00 Jon Ozanne 12.00 Tony Gillham 2.00pm Sportscene 6.00 David White 8.00 Tim Hunter 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Matthew Price 9.00 Christina Ghidoni 12.00 Phil Taylor 2.00pm Tony Gillham 4.00 Richard Green 6.00 Geoff Barker’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party 8.00 Sounds of Brass: presented by Philip Hunt 9.00 Tim Manns 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
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Saturday 1–Friday 7 February Frequencies Weekdays
Phone-ins: 0808 100 9888 radiojersey@bbc.co.uk
Kent Saturday
Sunday 5.30am Hymns on Sunday 6.00 Sunday Breakfast: presented by Anna Louise 8.00 Sunday Gardening 11.00 Lembit Opik 2.00pm Dominic King: King and Company 3.00 Julia George 5.00 Daryl Denham 9.00 Kent Folk 10.00 Bill Rennells 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am The Early Call: presented by Mike Ziolek 6.00 Ian Collins and Anna Cookson 9.00 Julia George; Fri: Lembit Opik 12.00 Pat Marsh and Erika North 3.00pm John Warnett 6.00 Dominic King; Fri: Access All Areas 8.00 Fri: The Kent Sessions: 9.00 On the Air With; Tue: Upload 10.00 Paul Miller: with The Late Show; Fri: Steve N Allen 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Tel: 01892 670 000 Phone-ins: 0800 756 1111 radio.kent@bbc.co.uk
London Saturday 6.00am Best of Jo Good 7.00 Carrie and David Grant 10.00 Robert Elms 1.00pm Gary Crowley’s A to Z 2.00 BBC Radio London Sport 6.00 Gary Crowley 8.00 BBC London Introducing 10.00 Sunny and Shay 2.00am Jim Davis
Sunday 6.00am Inspirit 9.00 Tim Arthur 12.00 Soul on Sunday 3.00pm Gaby Roslin 5.00 Gary Crowley’s A to Z 6.00 Sunny and Shay 8.00 Dotun Adebayo 10.00 Duncan Barkes 1.00am Jim Davis
Weekdays 4.00am Mon—Thu: Petrie Hosken
Tel: 0207 765 1166 Phone-ins: 0800 731 2000 yourlondon@bbc.co.uk
Oxford
9.00 Nicky Horne 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am Simon Clarke 7.00 Alun Newman and Lou Hannan 10.00 Morning Show 1.00pm Alex Dyke 4.00 Sam Fraser 6.00 Fri: Sports Hour 7.00 Steph Newenhouse; Tue: Sport 10.00 Paul Miller 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
103.8 FOR WEST DORSET As Radio Solent, including Dorset news and features, plus:
Saturday
Weekdays
6.00am Adam and Michelle 9.00 James Watt 12.00 Kat’s Kick up the 80s 2.00pm Sport: football: Oxford United v Blackpool 6.00 Stereo Underground 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 David Allen 12.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 2.00am The Dance Dungeon 4.00 as Radio 5 Live
7.00am Steve Harris 9.00—10.00 Alun Newman and Lou Hannan
Sunday
5.00am Shaun Tilley’s 70s and 80s Heaven 6.00 Surrey: James Cannon 6.00 Sussex: Mark Carter 9.00 Danny Pike 12.00 Graham Dene 2.00pm Joe Talbot 6.00 Stereo Underground 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 David Allen 12.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 2.00am Dancefloor Delights 4.00 as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Sophie Law 9.00 Michelle’s Find It or Forfeit 12.00 Tony Gillham 2.00pm Kat’s Kick up the 80s 4.00 Al Ryan 6.00 Henry Wymbs 9.00 Bill Rennells 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 6.00am Mon/Tue: Sophie Law; Wed—Fri: Laurie Bailey 7.00 David Prever 10.00 Kat Orman 1.00pm James Watt 4.00 Adam Ball 7.00 Mon: Forces Radio BFBS on BBC Radio Oxford; Tue: Sportsnight; Wed: The New Forty; Thu: Fleur Ostojak; Fri: The Laugh Lounge 8.00 Fri: Living for the Weekend 9.00 Mon/Wed: Upload; Thu: Abingdon College Takeover; Fri: DJG’s Soulful House 10.00 Paul Miller 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Phone-ins: 0808 100 9100 radio.oxford@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/radiooxford
Radio Solent Saturday 6.00am Katie Martin 9.00 Alex Dyke’s Weekend Wall of Sound 12.00 Jono Holmes 2.00pm Sport: football: coverage of Bournemouth v Aston Villa, Liverpool v Southampton, Portsmouth v Sunderland and Eastleigh v Woking (kick-offs 3.00) 6.00 Stereo Underground: presented by Richard Latto 8.00 BBC Introducing: Solent 9.00 David Allen 12.00 Paul Miller Soul Show 2.00am The Dance Dungeon
Sunday 4.00am Solent Showstoppers 6.00 Tim Daykin 9.00 Pat Sissons 12.00 The Kitchen Garden 2.00pm David Hedges 5.00 Solent Showstoppers 7.00 The Cartridge Years
Phone-ins: 0808 100 3800 Text: “SOLENT” to 81333 Email: radio.solent@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/solent
BBC Surrey and BBC Sussex Saturday
Sunday 5.30 Hymn Half Hour 6.00 Emily Jeffery 9.00 Dig It 12.00 Sylvie Blackmore 3.00pm Mark Carter 5.00 David Miller 7.00 Nicky Patrick 9.00 Nicky Horne 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 5.00am The Early Start 6.00 Surrey: James Cannon and Lesley McCabe; Wed: Mark Carter 6.00 Sussex: Neil Pringle 9.00 Danny Pike 12.00 Allison Ferns; Fri: Joe Talbot 4.00—7.00pm Sarah Gorrell Surrey only 5.00 Mike Buxton; Wed: Surrey: Clare Cowan 6.00—6.00 The Rewind. 7.00 Mon: The Big Take Over; Tue: Albion Unlimited; Wed: BBC Introducing in the South; Thu: Politix and Chill; Fri: Something for the Weekend 8.00 Tue: Sport in Focus; Thu: Lewis Mason 9.00 Wed: After the Watershed; Fri: Lost in Music 10.00 Paul Miller 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Surrey phone-ins: 0800 587 1046 bbc.co.uk/surrey Sussex phone-ins 0800 232 1045 bbc.co.uk/sussex
Three Counties Beds, Herts and Bucks Saturday 6.00am Saturday Breakfast 9.00 Treasure Quest 12.00 Mike Naylor
2.00pm Countdown to Kick-Off 3.00 Sport: football: FM 98/104.5 Milton Keynes Dons v Wycombe Wanderers; FM 90.4/92.1/94.7/103.8: Watford v Everton; FM 95: Stevenage v Leyton Orient; MW: Sport 5.00 5-0-5: with Luke Ashmead 8.00 BBC Introducing 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Nana Akua 9.00 Tony Hadley 11.00 Weekend Kitchen 1.00pm People’s Playlist 2.00 Keith Greentree 4.00 John Leech Soul Show 6.00 Yasmeen Khan 8.00 Edward Adoo 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays 4.00am Wally Webb 6.00 Andy Collins 9.00 The JVS Show 12.00 Nick Coffer’s Weekend Kitchen: food and drink from Beds, Herts and Bucks 3.00pm Roberto Perrone 6.00 Mon: Sports Show; Tue: Ollie Bayliss 7.00 Mon: Level 23; Tue: People’s Playlist; Wed: Mental Health; Thu: BBC Introducing; Fri: Random Fact Show 8.00 Mon—Wed: Nana Akua; Thu: Jaguar and Danny; Fri: The What’s On Show 9.00 Fri: Justin Dealey 10.00 Nick Risby: 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Phone-ins: 0808 100 8800 bbc.co.uk/threecounties
Wiltshire Saturday 6.00am Graham Rogers 9.00 Sue Davies 12.00 Jonathan Fido 2.00pm Sport: football: Swindon Town v Exeter City 6.00 Boogie Wonderland 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Rick Edwards 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday 6.00am Breakfast Show 9.00 Sue Davies 12.00 Wild about Wiltshire 1.00pm Warren Moore 4.00 The Vintage Chart Show 6.00 Manny Masih 8.00 Kevin Philemon 10.00 Geoff Barker 12.00 Johnny Coppin Folk 1.00am Sounds of Brass 2.00 as Radio 5 Live
National BBC Radio 1 97.6—99.8 BBC Radio 2 88—90.2 BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6, LW 198 BBC Radio Five Live MW 693, 909 Classic FM 99.9—101.9 Talksport MW 1053, 1089 , 1107 Absolute MW 1 197, 1215, 1233, 1242, 1260, 105.8 (London) These stations are also broadcast via Freeview, satellite, cable, digital radio and the internet.
Local BBC stations: Berkshire 104.1 Hannington, 94.6 (Henley), 95.4 (Windsor), 104.4 (Reading) Bristol 94.9 (Bristol), 103.6 (Severn), 104.6 (Bath) Cornwall 95.2 (east), 96 (Isles of Scilly), 103.9 (west), MW 630 (west), 657 (east) Devon 103.4 (Plymouth/west Devon), 94.8 (north Devon), 95.8 (Exeter), 95.7 (Plympton), 96 (Okehampton), 104.3 (Torbay/ south Devon) Essex 103.5 (north Essex), 95.3 (south Essex), MW 765, 729 Gloucestershire 104.7 (Churchdown Hill) 95 (Stroud), 95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413 Guernsey 93.2, 99 (Alderney), MW 1 1 16 Hereford & Worcester 94.7 (Hereford), 104 (Worcester & Gt Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster), MW 738 (Worcester), 1584 (Tenbury Wells) Jersey 88.8, MW 1026 Kent 96.7 (west), 97.6 (Folkestone), 104.2 (east) London 94.9 Oxford 95.2 Solent 96.1 (Hampshire), 103.8 (Dorset), MW 999, 1359 (Dorset) Somerset 95.5, MW 1566 Sussex and Surrey 95.0 (Newhaven), 95.1 (Horsham), 95.3 (Brighton/Worthing), 104 (east Surrey/north Sussex), 104.5 (east Sussex), 104.6 (west Surrey/ NE Hants), 104.8 (west Sussex) Three Counties 103.8 (Herts), 95.5 (Beds), 90.4 (east Herts), 92.1 (south Herts), 98 (High Wycombe), 104.5 (Bucks), 94.7 (Aylesbury), MW 630 (Herts & Bucks), 1161 (Beds) Wiltshire 104.3 (west Wiltshire), 104.9 (Marlborough), 103.5 (Salisbury), 103.6 (Swindon)
Independent stations: BOB FM 106.7 (Stevenage), 106.9 (Hertford/Ware/Welwyn & Hatfield)
Weekdays
The Breeze 96.6 (Blandford),
5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00 Ben Prater 9.00 Marie Lennon 12.00 Graham Seaman 2.00pm James Thomas 4.00 Graham Rogers 7.00 Mon: The Social; Tue: Let’s Get Physical; Wed: Wild about Wiltshire; Thu: Culture Club; Fri: Friday Night In 10.00 Chris Baxter 12.00 Thu: as Radio 5 Live 1.00am Mon—Wed/Fri: as Radio 5 Live
97.4 (Shaftesbury), 105.6/106.6 (Somerset & West Dorset) 107.8 (Southampton), 107.2 (Bristol/ Winchester), 107.4 (Portsmouth), 101.6 (Four Marks/Medway/ Alresford/Bordon/Grayshott/ Beacon Hill & Hindhead), 101.8 (Petersfield), 102 (Alton), 97.1 (Haslemere & Midhurst) 107.6 (Basingstoke), 105.6 (Newbury/ Thatcham), 107 (Reading), 107.4 (Hungerford/Somerset), 107.5 (Cheltenham/Gloucester/The Malverns), 107.7 (Weston-SuperMare/north Somerset), 107.9 (Bath), 100.8/102.4 (Somerset) Buzz Radio FM 103.8 (London)
Phone-ins: 0800 0283 366 radio.wiltshire@bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk/wiltshire
Capital 95.8 (London), 103.2 (south Hants), 107.6 (north Oxon)
Capital XTRA 107.1 (north London), 96.9 (south London) Channel 103.7 (Jersey) Dream 100.2 (Tendring/ Colchester) Eagle Radio 96.4 (Hants/Surrey) Fire 107.6 (Bournemouth/Poole/ Christchurch) Gold 1548 (London), Heart Berkshire 102.9 & 97.0 Oxford 102.6 & 97.4 Dorset 102.3 Hampshire 96.7 & 97.5 Kent 103.1 & 102.8 Sussex 102.4 & 103.5 Crawley 97.5 & 102.7 Bath 103 Bristol 96.3 Somerset 102.6 Wiltshire 97.2 & 102.2 Gloucestershire 102.4 Barnstaple 96.2 & 97.3 Exeter 97.0 & 103.0 Plymouth 97.0 & 96.6 South Hams 100-102 Torbay 96.4 Cornwall 105.1 & 107 London 106.2 Dunstable 97.6 Essex 96.3 & 102.6 Island 93.7 (Alderney), 104.7 (Guernsey) Isle of Wight Radio 102 (Ryde/ Cowes/Ventnor), 107 (Isle of Wight) Jack FM 106.4/106.8 (Oxfordshire) Jack FM 2 107.9 (Oxfordshire) Jackie 107.8 (SW London/north Surrey) Juice (Brighton/Hove) 107.2 Kiss 100 (London), 101 (Severn Estuary), 97.2 (Bristol) Kmfm 106 (Canterbury/Herne Bay/Whitstable), 107.2 (Thanet), 107.6 (Ashford), 105.6 (Maidstone), 107.9 (Medway towns), 100.4 (Hoo St Werburgh), 101.6 (Sevenoaks), 96.4 (Folkestone), 106.8 (Dover), 96.2 (Tunbridge Wells) LBC London 97.3 (London) LBC London News MW 1152 (London) London Greek 103.3 London Turkish MW 1584 Lyca Dilse MW 1035 (London) Magic 105.4 (London) Mix 96.2 (Aylesbury) More Radio Eastbourne 107.5 (Eastbourne/ Hailsham) More Radio Hastings 107.8 (Hastings/Bexhill) More Radio Mid Sussex 106.4 (Burgess Hill/Haywards Heath), 106.8 (Lewes) More Radio Worthing 107.7 (Worthing/Littlehampton/ Shoreham) Pirate 102.2 (East Cornwall), 102.8 (West Cornwall/Scilly) Premier Christian MW 1305 (London), 1332 (central), 1413 (east/west), 1566 (Guildford) Radio Essex 105.1 (Southend-onSea), 107.7 (Chelmsford) Sam FM 106 (Southampton), 106.5 (Bristol), 107.7 (Swindon) Smooth FM 102.2 (London), MW 792 (Bedford), 828 (Bournemouth/Luton), 774 (Gloucester), 1521 (Crawley), 603 (east Kent), 1557 (south Hants), 1359 (Chelmsford), 1431 (Southend), 936 (west Wiltshire), 1323 (Brighton), 1242 (west Kent) Spectrum MW 558 (London) Spire 102 (Salisbury) Spirit 96.6 (Chichester/ Bognor), 102.3 (Littlehampton), 106.6 (Midhurst) Sunrise MW 963/972 (London) Time 107.5 (Romford/Barking & Dagenham/Redbridge) Wave 105.8 (Poole), 105.2 (Solent) Wessex 96 (Bridport), 97.2 (Weymouth/Dorchester) Radio X 104.9 (London)
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6.00am Pat Marsh 10.00 Jon Holmes 12.00 Phil Harrison 2.00pm The Sports Hub 6.00 Roger Day 8.00 BBC Introducing in Kent 9.00 Justin Dealey 1.00am Sean Rowley: All Back to Mine 2.00 as Radio 5 Live
7.00 Vanessa Feltz 10.00 Robert Elms 1.30pm Jo Good: music and chat; Fri: Claira Hermet 5.00 Eddie Nestor 7.00 Fri: Women’s Sports Show 8.00 The Scene 10.00 Duncan Barkes; Fri: Sunny and Shay 1.00am Mon: Jim Davis; Tue—Thu: Dotun Adebayo 2.00am Fri: Jim Davis
Local
6.00am Ashlea Tracey 9.00 James Dundon 9.30—5.30pm Tue/Wed: MW The States of Jersey 1.00pm Jenny Mullin 4.00 Eliza Philippidis 7.00 Tim and Sydney 9.00 BBC Radio Jersey on Shuffle; Mon: The Sun Lounge 10.00 David Sheppard: 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
RADIO in your area BBC Local Radio
North region
Face behind the voice
Cumbria Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 6.00am to 9.00, 10.00, 12 noon, 1.00pm WEATHER: 7.32am, 8.32, 11.32
6.00am Richard Corrie 9.00 ValArmstrong12.00 JoeCostin 2.00pm BBC Radio Cumbria Sport: football: FM Mansfield Town v Carlisle United (kick-off 3.00); MW Barrow v Torquay United (kick-off 3.00) 6.00 John Mann’s Soul and Motown 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 John Lipscombe 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Richard Corrie 9.00 Val Armstrong 12.00 Joe Costin 2.00pm Harry King 5.00 Sunday Best 6.00 Your Classical: with John Lipscombe 7.00 Braithwaite’s Country: with Paul Braithwaite 9.00 John Mann 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: half-hourly 5.00am to 9.00, hourly until 12 midnight, plus 5.30pm WEATHER: 6.32am, 7.32, 8.32, 12.32pm, 4.32, 5.32
5.00am Mon—Wed: Simon Yaxley; Thu/Fri: Richard Corrie 6.30 Mike Zeller 9.00 Caroline Robertson 12.00 Gordon Swindlehurst 2.00pm Vicky Warham; Fri: Simon Yaxley 5.00 The News Hour 6.00 Mon: Your Classical: with John Lipscombe; Tue: Life Stories; Wed: Money Talks; Thu: BBC Introducing; Fri: BBC Radio Cumbria Sport
Local Radio
First radio memory “When my best friend and I were kids, we created our own radio show — I was ten years old and paving the way for radio success! Fifteen years on, my first show with Radio Humberside was on 3 December last year. I shouted: ‘Well well well, hello lovelies, welcome to Kim’s World!’ The most exciting two hours of my life.” Favourite broadcasters “Fearne Cotton. Since I was young I’ve been so inspired by her. I would watch her on the TV show Smile and phone in to every competition. I wanted her job so bad. I love her shows, her personality and her podcasts. I hope I can bring as much joy to the radio as she has.” Ambition “To have a career where I can make people laugh — to wake up every morning and be so excited to head to my job. Also I’ve always wanted to present Big Brother and travel.” Dream job “I want to be a presenter. I always have. My dream is slowly coming true.” Secret skills “I can talk to anyone. Sometimes you have to be brave to start the conversation — but it’s an easy way to make someone’s day. (But I suppose it’s not a secret, actually, because I’m always talking!)” Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
7.00 Mon: The Arty Show; Tue: Sports Extra; Wed: The Gathering; Thu: The Great Outdoors; Fri: Friday Showcase 10.00 Ian Timms; Fri: Joe Costin 12.00 Mon—Thu: iTimms Playlist 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Annetwell St, Carlisle CA3 8BB Carlisle: 01228 592 444 Barrow: 01229 836 767 Whitehaven: 01946 695 156 Phone-ins: 0845 305 1122 radiocumbria@bbc.co.uk
Derby Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 6.30am to 9.00, hourly to 2.00pm, hourly 6.00 to 9.00 WEATHER: 7.32am, 8.32, 9.25, 10.25, 11.25
6.00am Donna Alos 9.00 Andy Twigge 12.00 Ed Stagg 2.00pm Sportscene: football: Rotherham United v Burton Albion (kick-off 3.00) 5.00 Sportscene: Reaction 6.00 The Beat: with Dean Jackson 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 A Touch of Soul 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS: half-hourly 6.30am to 9.00, hourly to 9.00pm WEATHER: 7.32am, 8.32, 9.25, 10.25, 11.25
6.00am Donna Alos 9.00 James Watt 1.00pm Tony Lyman 4.00 Dean Pepall 6.00 Satvinder Rana 8.00 Devon Daley 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: half-hourly 6.00am to 9.00, hourly to 12 midnight, plus 4.30pm, 5.30, 6.30 WEATHER: 6.33am, 7.26, 8.26, 10.38, 12.33pm, 4.33, 5.30
5.00am Tony Lyman 6.00 Ian Skye 9.00 Sally Pepper
9.00 Wed: Sex, Drugs and Lullabies; Thu: Nevermind the 90s 10.00 Russell Walker; Fri: Dean Jackson 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am James Piekos 9.00 David Burns 12.00 Sally Fairfax; Fri: Phil White on the Road 3.00pm Andy Comfort 6.00 Sportstalk 7.00 Mon: BBC No Filter Drag Queen Take Over; Tue: Kim’s World; Wed: Fiona Mills Unheard and Uncensored; Thu: Culture Night; Fri: Humberside Sport 9.00 Tue: Upload 10.00 Russell Walker 1.00am (Tue: 2.00) as Radio 5 Live;Tue:Sex,DrugsandLullabies
Sunday
Newport, Lincoln, LN1 3XY Tel: 01522 511 411 Phone-ins: 0800 066 5949 radio.lincolnshire@bbc.co.uk
Queens Court, Queens Gardens, Hull, HU1 3RH 96-98 Victoria Street Grimsby DN31 1BA Tel: 01482 323 232 Phone-ins: 0800 066 5959 humberside.news@bbc.co.uk
Weekdays
NEWS: half-hourly 5.00am to 9.00, hourly 10.00 to 4.00pm, half-hourly 4.30 to 6.00, hourly 7.00 to 10.00 WEATHER: half-hourly 5.00am to 6.00pm, plus 6.33am, 7.33, 8.33, 4.33pm, 5.33
Kim Harrison BBC Radio Humberside Age 25 Current job Presents Kim’s World (Tue 7pm). Also works in retail and is a cheerleading coach. CV Born and brought up in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. Went to community arts college in Grimsby. Studied broadcast journalism at the University of Salford. Worked for CBeebies as a runner, and as a researcher on various programmes. “After a busy year, I decided to go travelling. My flight to China was booked — but then I entered the BBC’s Young Voices competition, and took my first step towards my career as a presenter.“ Best moment “When my producer told me I had won the New Voices competition, I was over the moon. I actually didn’t speak (that’s rare!).” Worst moment “I usually just find the funny in a bad situation. At the 100k Drop wrap party, I started shaking my booty — and my skirt split at the back, revealing my behind! I laughed it off and turned it round to look like a side split.” Off air “My family are wild — they are the craziest bunch of characters. We’d be a great addition to Phoenix Nights or Gavin & Stacey!”
6.00 Northern Soul and Motown: with John Kane 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Phil Butler 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays
12.00 Andy Twigge 3.00pm Steve Jordan 6.00 Sportscene at Six; Mon: Sportscene Talk-in 7.00 The Top Floor 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Dean Jackson 1.00am as Radio 5 Live 56 St Helen’s Street, Derby, DE1 3HY Tel: 01332 361 111 Phone-ins: 0800 145 6161 radio.derby@bbc.co.uk
Humberside Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 6.30am to 8.00, hourly to 1.00pm; WEATHER: halfhourly 6.00am to 1.00pm, plus 8.33am
6.00am Paul Hudson’s Weather Show 7.00 Phil White 10.00 Absolutely Clueless 12.00 Humberside Sport: football: Hull City v Brentford (kick-off 12.30pm); Crawley Town v Scunthorpe United and Grimsby Town v Forest Green Rovers (kick-offs 3.00) 6.00 Northern Soul and Motown: with John Kane 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Phil Butler 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS: half-hourly 6.00am to 9.00, hourly to 1.00pm; WEATHER: halfhourly 6.00am to 2.00pm, plus 9.30am
6.00am Lizzie Rose 8.00 The Great Outdoors: with Lizzie Rose and Doug Stewart 10.00 Fiona Mills 1.00pm Paul Hudson’s Weather Show 2.00 Lucy Clark 4.30 Humberside Sport: rugby league: Leeds Rhinos v Hull FC (kick-off 4.45) 7.00 Westenders 8.00 Henry Ayrton’s Jukebox 10.00 Steve White 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Lancashire Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm WEATHER: with news, plus 7.15am, 8.15
6.00am John Gillmore and Shigufta Khan 10.00 The Saturday Session: with Gary Hickson 12.00 Steve Royle 2.00pm MatchdayLive:football: Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers (kick-off 3.00) 6.00 Saturday Night Soul 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Desi Nation 12.00 On the Wire 2.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS: as Saturday; WEATHER: as news, plus 6.30am, 8.05, 12.05pm
6.00am Joe Wilson 9.00 The Sunday Session 12.00 Lancashire Outdoors 2.00pm MW The Country Show 2.00 FM Sport: Burnley v Arsenal (kick-off 2.00) 4.00 Grin and Tonic 6.00 Indus 8.00 Unforgettable 10.00 Simon Brierley 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: half-hourly 6.00am to 6.00pm, hourly to 11.00pm; WEATHER: as news, plus 7.20am, 8.20, 12.30pm, 4.50, 5.50
6.00am Graham Liver 9.30 Sally Naden 1.00pm John Gillmore and Nishma Hindocha 4.00 Brett Davison; Fri: Gary Hickson 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: LAnCS; Tue: Midweek Jukebox; Wed: Your Lancashire; Thu: Talking Sport 8.00 Thu: TNT: with Lydia and Hussnain; Fri: The Drift 9.00 Fri: Bluenotes 10.00 Allan Beswick; Fri: Simon Brierley 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Darwen St, Blackburn BB2 2EA Tel: 01254 262 411 Phone-ins: 0800 783 3583 radio.lancashire@bbc.co.uk
Leeds Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 6.00am to 9.30, then hourly to 1.00pm; WEATHER: with news hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm
6.00am Andrew Edwards 9.00 Nick Ahad 12.00 Larry and Paul 2.00pm West Yorkshire Sport: football: FM Leeds United v Wigan Athletic; MW West Yorkshire Sport: Oldham Athletic v Bradford City
NEWS: half-hourly 7.00am to 9.00, hourly to 1.00pm; WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Andrew Edwards 9.00 Richard Stead 12.00 Paul Hudson’s Weather Show 1.00pm Yorkshire Brass 3.00 West Yorkshire Sport: rugbyleague:theSuperLeague, Championship and League One 6.00 Connections 8.00 The Durbervilles 9.00 Gary Copley 10.00 Steve White 1.00am as Radio 5 Live NEWS: half-hourly 6.00am to 9.00, 12 noon to 2.00pm, and 4.00 to 7.00, elsewhere hourly; WEATHER: with news every hour 6.00am to 10.00pm
5.00am Steve Bailey 6.00 Richard Stead 9.00 Stephanie Hirst; Wed: Johnny I’Anson 12.00 Liz Green 3.00pm Gayle Lofthouse 6.00 West Yorkshire Sport Daily 7.00 MW as Asian Network 7.00 Mon: FM Monday Night MixTape;Tue: FMWestYorkshire Sport:Extra;Wed: FMBackstage; Thu: FM The Scene; Fri: FM West Yorkshire Sport: rugby league: Castleford Tigers v Wigan Warriors (kick-off 7.45) 9.00 Wed: FM Ahmed Zaman 10.00 Russell Walker 1.00am as Radio 5 Live 2 St Peter’s Square Leeds LS9 8AH Tel: 0113 244 2131 Phone-ins: 0800 389 3333 radioleeds@bbc.co.uk
Lincolnshire Saturday NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm, plus 7.30am, 8.30 WEATHER: 7.20am, 8.45, 11.45, 1.45pm
6.00am Rod Whiting 9.00 Chris Berrow 12.00 Solid Gold Saturday: with Melvyn Prior 2.00pm Hope and Glory: football: Southend United v Lincoln City (kick-off 3.00) 6.00 The Beat: with Dean Jackson 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 A Touch of Soul 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Manchester Saturday NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 10.00pm WEATHER: 5 mins past the hour
6.00am Connor Phillips 9.00 Phil Trow 12.00 Justin Moorhouse 2.00pm Sport: football: Bolton Wanderers v Tranmere Rovers (kick-off 3.00) 6.00 Stuart Ellis 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Stephanie Hirst 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Mike Shaft 9.00 Eamonn O’Neal and Jimmy Wagg 12.00 Mike Sweeney 2.00pm Sport: rugby league and football: Whitehaven RLFC v Swinton Lions and Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City 7.00 Indus 8.00 The People 10.00 Gerald Jackson’s Unforgettable 2.00 as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 12 noon WEATHER: 5 mins past the hour
5.00am Mark Crossley 6.00 Chelsea at Breakfast; Thu: Phil Williams 9.00 Mike Sweeney 12.00 Becky Want 3.00pm Phil Trow 6.00 Talking Balls 7.00 Mon—Wed: The Dead Good Show; Thu: Sport: rugby union: Warrington Wolves v St Helens (kick-off 7.45); Fri: Sport: rugby league: Castleford Tigers v Warrington Warriors (Kick-off 7.45) 10.00 AllanBeswick;Fri: Richard Searling’s Northern Soul 12.00 (Mon—Thu: 1.00) as Radio 5 Live Quay House, BBC MediaCity UK Salford, M50 2QH Tel: 0800 218 2255 Phone-ins: 0800 218 2255 radiomanchester@bbc.co.uk
Merseyside
Sunday
Saturday
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm WEATHER: 7.03am, 8.45
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm, 7.00pm to 10.00
6.00am Rod Whiting 7.00 Farming 7.30 Rod Whiting 9.00 Gardening Phone-in 10.00 Pirate Gold 1.00pm Poachings 2.00 Tim Rogers Country 3.00 Howard Leader 6.00 Westenders 8.00 Henry Ayrton’s Jukebox 10.00 Keith Skues 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Breakfast Show 9.00 PaulSalt12.00 RogerLyon 2.00pm Merseyside Sport: football: Liverpool v Southampton and Watford v Everton (kick-offs 3.00) 6.00 70s Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Billy Maher 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays
NEWS: as Saturday
NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 7.00pm, plus 6.30am, 7.30, 8.30, 4.30pm, 5.30, 6.30 WEATHER: 6.58am, 7.58, 8.58, 10.55, 1.58pm, 4.55
6.00am Scott Dalton 9.30 Melvyn in the Morning 1.00pm Sue Taylor 4.00 William Wright 6.00 Thu: Upload; Fri: Hope and Glory — the Preview Show 7.00 Mon: Paul Hudson’s Weather Show; Tue/Fri: Hope and Glory; Wed: Showtime: with Ella; Thu: Thursday Night Folk 8.00 Mon: Lincolnshire Kitchen
Sunday 5.00am Folkscene 6.00 Daybreak 9.00 Paul Beesley 12.00 Frankie Connor 2.00pm Sounds Country 3.00 MW Merseyside Sport: rugby league: Oldham RLFC v Widnes Vikings 4.00 FM Folkscene 5.00 Asa Murphy 7.00 On the Beat: with Spencer Leigh 8.00 Upfront 10.00 Billy Maher 12.00 Pure Musical Sensations 2.00am as Radio 5 Live
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Saturday 1–Friday 7 February Frequencies Weekdays NEWS: every 15 minutes 6.00am to 9.00, then hourly until 5.00pm, every 15 minutes until 7.00, then hourly until 10.00pm; WEATHER:7.05am,8.05,4.05pm,5.15,5.45
Newcastle Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 7.00am to 9.00, hourly 10.00 to 1.00pm WEATHER: 7.57am, 8.57, 9.57, 11.57
6.00am Mel Crawford 9.00 Tamsin Robson 12.00 Simon Logan’s Fantastic 80s 2.00pm Sport: football: Portsmouth v Sunderland (kick-off 3.00) 5.00 Sport 6.00 Beat Surrender 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Chris Donald’s Soul Club 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Sunday Breakfast: with Michael Poulter 9.00 Garden Mania 10.00 Tamsin Robson 1.00pm Fiona King 4.00 Upload 6.00 Paddy MacDee 8.00 Michael Poulter 10.00 Kelly Scott 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: every 15 minutes from 6.30am to 9.00, half-hourly to 4.00pm and every 15 minutes from 4.15 to 5.30, then 6.00 WEATHER: 6.57am, 7.57, 8.57, 11.57, 12.57pm, 4.57, 5.57
5.00am Nick Roberts 6.00 Gilly Hope 7.00 Alfie and Anna at Breakfast 10.00 Lisa Shaw 12.00 Simon Logan 4.00pm Mon—Wed: Charlie Charlton; Thu/Fri: Rebecca O’Neill 5.00 Total Sport 7.00 Nick Roberts 8.00 Mon/Tue: Tamsin Robson; Wed: Upload; Thu: BBC Introducing; Fri: It’s Grin Up North 10.00 Steffen Peddie; Fri: Chris Donald’s Soul Club 1.00am as Radio 5 Live Broadcasting Centre Barrack Road Newcastle NE99 1RN Tel: 0800 234 6565 Phone-ins: 0191 232 4141 bbc.co.uk/radionewcastle
Sheffield Saturday NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm, plus 6.30am, 7.30, 8.30 WEATHER: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm
6.00am Nick Wilson 7.00 Kat Cowan 10.00 Nowt So Strange As Folk! 12.00 The 90s Show
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm, plus 7.30am, 8.30 WEATHER: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm
6.00am Sarah Major 7.00 Kat Cowan 9.00 In the Garden 10.00 Rob Rouse Roadshow 12.00 Paul Hudson’s Weather Show 1.00pm Yorkshire Brass 3.00 GerryKersey6.00 Eastern Air 9.00 MW Aap Ki Baat 9.00 FM Nick Wilson 10.00 FM only until 11.00 Steve White 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 10.00pm, plus half-hourly 6.30am to 12.30pm and 3.30 to 5.30 WEATHER: hourly 6.00am to 7.00pm
5.00am Steve Bailey 7.00 Toby Foster 10.00 Paulette Edwards 1.00pm Rony Robinson 3.00 The Golden Year 4.00 Howard Pressman; Fri: Steve White 6.00 Football Heaven 7.00 Mon: Monday Night Social; Wed: New Traditions; Thu: The Vibe; Fri: FM Hello Friday 7.45 Tue: Football Heaven Live: Tranmere Rovers v Doncaster Rovers; Fri: MW Football Heaven Live: Lincoln City v Rotherham United 9.00 Mon: The Sauce 10.00 Russell Walker 1.00am as Radio 5 Live 54 Shoreham Street Sheffield S1 4RS Tel: 0114 273 1177 Phone-ins: 0800 111 4949 radio.sheffield@bbc.co.uk
Stoke Saturday NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm, plus updates every 20 minutes; WEATHER: every 20 minutes from 7.00am to 1.00pm
6.00am Sophie Calvert 10.00 Lucas and Rob 2.00pm Sport: football: Port Vale v Salford City and Walsall v Crewe Alexandra (kick-offs 3.00) 5.00 Praise and Grumble 6.00 Richard Searling’s Northern Soul 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Alex Lester 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Easy like a Sunday Morning 6.30 In Praise of God 7.00 Tim Wedgwood 9.00 Terry Walsh 11.00 Paula White 2.30pm In Praise of God (R) 3.00 Jodie Looker 5.00 Centre Stage 6.00 Ajmal Hussain 8.00 Jazz: with John Hellings 10.00 Graham Torrington 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: hourly 5.00am to 7.00pm, plus updates every 20 minutes; WEATHER: every 20 minutes from 5.00am to 7.00pm
5.00am Den Siegertsz 6.30 John Acres 9.00 Stuart George 12.00 Louise Stones 3.00pm Perry Spiller and Liz Ellis 6.00 Sport at Six; Fri: Praise and Grumble
Cheapside, Hanley Stoke-on-Trent ST1 1JJ Tel: 01782 208 080 Phone-ins: 0800 121 8080 radio.stoke@bbc.co.uk
Tees Saturday NEWS: every 15 minutes 7.00am to 9.00, then hourly until 1.00pm WEATHER: 7.45am, 8.45, 9.45, 11.45am
6.00am Scott Makin 9.00 Gary Philipson 12.00 Goffy 2.00pm Sport: football: Middlesbrough v Blackburn Rovers 6.00 Beat Surrender: with Nick Roberts 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 It’s Grin Up North 12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Mike Hill 9.00 Brigid and Dave 12.00 Goffy 2.00pm Vintage Vinyl: with Colin Bunyan 5.00 Songs from the Shows 7.00 Braithwaite’s Country: with Paul Braithwaite 9.00MichaelPoulter10.00Kelly Scott 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays NEWS: every 15 minutes 6.00am to 9.00, then hourly until 4.00pm, then every 15 minutes 4.15 to 6.00 WEATHER: 6.45am, 7.45, 8.45, 11.45, 1.45pm, 4.45, 5.45
5.00am The 60 Minute Wake UpCall6.00 NeilGreenandAmy Oakden 9.00 Gary Philipson 12.00 Scott Makin 4.00pm Antony Collins 6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon/Wed/Thu: Bob Fischer in the Evening; Tue: SportExtra;Fri: BBCIntroducing 8.00 Fri: It’s Grin Up North 10.00 Steffen Peddie; Fri: Chris Donald’s Soul Club 1.00am as Radio 5 Live PO Box 95 FM Middlesbrough TS1 5JA Tel: 01642 225 211 Phone-ins: 01642 225 511 tees@bbc.co.uk
York Saturday NEWS: half-hourly 7.00am to 1.00pm WEATHER: 7.30am, 8.30, 9.30, plus each hour after news
6.00am Joanita Musisi 9.00 Finders Keepers 12.00 Ross Dickinson 2.00pm Sport: football: York City v Chester and Aldershot v Harrogate Town 5.00 MW Sport: rugby league: Toulouse Olympique v York City Knights 6.00 FM only until 7.00 Northern Soul and Motown: with John Kane 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Phil Butler 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Saturday
6.00am Jonathan Cowap 9.00 Sarah Urwin 12.00 Paul Hudson’s Weather Show 1.00pm Yorkshire Brass 3.00 Neil Foster 6.00 Dr Rock 7.00 Gary Copley 8.00 Henry Ayrton’s Jukebox 10.00 Steve White 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Weekdays
Weekdays
NEWS: half-hourly from 6.00am to 7.00pm, then hourly until 10.00 WEATHER: 7.30am, 8.30, 12.30pm, 5.30, 6.30, plus each hour after news
NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER hourly 6.00am to 6.00pm NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER 7.30pm, hourly 9.00 to 12 midnight OUTDOOR CONDITIONS 6.07pm
5.00am Steve Bailey 6.00 Georgey Spanswick 9.00 Jonathan Cowap 12.00 Adam Tomlinson and Anna Wallace 4.00pm Jules Bellerby 6.30 Fri: Sport 7.00 Mon: Beth McCarthy; Tue: Sport; Wed: God’s Own Countryfile; Thu: Bek Homer; Fri: Upload 9.00 Tue: Dr Rock (R); Wed: Paul Hudson’s Weather Show 10.00 Russell Walker 1.00am as Radio 5 Live 20 Bootham Row York Y030 7BR Tel: 0800 111 4849 radioyork@bbc.co.uk
RADIO SCOTLAND Saturday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER hourly 8.00am to 12 noon NEWS HEADLINES 2.00pm NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER 6.00am, 7.00, 5.30pm, 7.00, hourly 9.00 to 12 midnight OUTDOOR CONDITIONS 7.02am, 7.03pm
6.00am Life Cycle: Lee Craigie goes in search of a happy place, known as “flow” 6.30 Out of Doors: with Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith 8.00 Good Morning Scotland: presented by Isabel Fraser and Gordon Brewer 10.00 Shereen: current affairs 11.30 The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected: comedy panel show, with Billy Kirkwood, Jay Lafferty and Liam Withnail (R) 12.00 Off the Ball: football forum, with light-hearted features and competitions 2.00pm Sportsound: Livingston v Motherwell, Rangers v Aberdeen, St Johnstone v Hearts 5.30 Off the Ball 7.00 Take the Floor: the Big Fling — Scottish Dance Band Extravaganza concert from Celtic Connections (R) 9.00 Pipeline: music and news from the piping world 10.00 Billy Sloan: rock and pop 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS: SPORT: WEATHERhourly6.00am to 12 noon, 3.00pm, 5.00, 7.00 to 11.00 OUTDOOR CONDITIONS 7.02am, 7.03pm
6.00am Brainwaves: the workings of the human gut (R) 6.30 New Every Sunday: a weekly act of worship from churches around the country 7.00 Classic Scottish Albums: Emeli Sandé discusses Our Version of Events 7.30 The Kitchen Café: Stockholm’s food (R) 8.00 Good Morning Scotland 10.00 Sunday Morning with..: music and conversation 12.00 Sportsound: Hamilton Academical v Celtic, the Scottish Premiership clash at Fountain of Youth Stadium 5.00pm BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician: six young musicians battle it out in the grand final 8.00 Pipeline: the piping world 9.00 Classics Unwrapped 11.00 Iain Anderson: Horse McDonald sits in 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
6.00am Good Morning Scotland: news programme 9.00 Mornings: presented by Kaye Adams 12.00 John Beattie: news, comment and discussion 1.30pm Life Cycle: Lee Craigie gets on her bike for a journey through the difficult landscape around trust 2.00 The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth: the host discusses what’s current in film, television, arts, theatre and music in Scotland 4.00 Newsdrive: headlines 6.30 MW Sportsound: a review of the day’s stories 6.30 FM only until 7.30 Get It On: music request show 9.00 Vic Galloway: the latest bands and music news (R) 11.00 Iain Anderson: Horse McDonald sits in 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
Tuesday 1.30pm—2.00 Jumping Off: comedy drama by Tessa Gibbs 9.00 Another Country with Ricky Ross: a session from Lauren Jenkins 11.00—1.00am Roddy Hart: Roddy presents a selection of music, spanning the decades
Wednesday 1.30pm Brainwaves: a bold discussion about periods 2.00—4.00 The Afternoon Show with Grant Stott 6.30 MW Sportsound: Aberdeen v St Johnstone, Motherwell v Celtic and Rangers v Hibernian 9.00 FM only until 10.30 Travelling Folk: presented by Bruce MacGregor 11.00—1.00am Vic Galloway: featuring the latest bands and music news (R)
Thursday 1.30pm The Kitchen Café: food magazine 2.00—4.00 The Afternoon Show with Grant Stott 9.00 The Quay Sessions: Roddy Hart’s guests are Isobel Campbell and My Darling Clementine (R) 11.00—1.00am Natasha Raskin Sharp: an eclectic mix of music from the TV antiques presenter
Friday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER as Monday NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER 7.30pm, hourly 10.00 to 12 midnight OUTDOOR CONDITIONS as Monday
1.30pm The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected: Chris Forbes, Njambi McGrath and Marc Jennings compete 2.00—4.00 Out for the Weekend: a guide to outdoor activities with Nicola Meighan 8.00 Out for the Weekend: with Nicola Meighan (R) 10.00—1.00am Ashley Storrie: classic floor-fillers and party tracks BBC Radio Scotland 40 Pacific Quay Glasgow G51 1DA bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
National BBC Radio 1 97.6—99.8 BBC Radio 2 88—90.2 BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4 BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6, LW 198 BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909 BBC Radio Scotland 92.6—94.7 Classic FM 99.9—101.9 Talksport MW 1053, 1089 AbsoluteMW1197,1215,1233,1242,1260
Local BBC stations: Cumbria 95.2 (Kendal), 95.6 (Carlisle), 96.1 (Morecambe Bay), 104.1 (Keswick/ Whitehaven) 104.2 (Windermere), MW 756 (Carlisle), 837 (Barrow-inFurness), 1458 (Whitehaven) Derby 104.5, 95.3 (north & mid Derbyshire), 96 (Buxton), MW 1116 Humberside 95.9 Lancashire 95.5 (east), 103.9 (Central/south), 104.5 (north) Leeds 92.4 (west Yorkshire), 95.3 (Ilkley/Halifax), 102.7 (Keighley), 103.9 (Bradford), MW 774 (west Yorkshire) Lincolnshire 94.9, 104.7 (Grantham) Manchester 95.1, 104.6 (Oldham) Merseyside 95.8, MW 1485 Newcastle 95.4, 103.7 (Tyne Valley), 96 (north Northumberland), 104.4 (Gateshead/westNewcastle),MW1458 Sheffield 88.6, 94.7 (Chesterfield), 104.1, MW 1035 Stoke 94.6, 104.1 (Stafford), MW 1503 Tees 95, 95.8 (Whitby) York 103.7 (York/Ryedale/Selby), 95.5 (Scarborough), 104.3 (Harrogate/ Ripon/Northallerton/the Dales), MW 1260 (Scarborough), 666 (York)
Independent stations: Capital 96.3 (Chorley), 99.8 (Burnley/Pendle/Hyndburn), 106.5 (Preston/South Ribble), 107 (Blackburn/Darwen/Accrington), 105.1 (Leeds), 105.3 (Newcastle), 106.4 (Teesside), 102 (Manchester), 105.6 (Fenham/Bradford/Sheffield), 105.8 (Hexham/E Yorks/N Lincs), 105.1 (S Yorks), 107.6 (Liverpool) CFM 96.4 (Carlisle) , 102.5 (Penrith), 103.4(Whitehaven),102.2(Workington) Cheshire’s Silk 106.9 (Macclesfield/east Cheshire) Compass 96.4 (Grimsby) Dearne 102 (Barnsley/Dearne Valley, 97.1 (Penistone) Chester’s Dee 106.3 (Chester) Gold MW 1458 (Manchester), 945 (Derby), 999 (Nottingham) Greatest Hits Radio 105.9 (Liverpool), MW 1152 (Manchester), MW 999 (Preston/ Blackpool), MW 1548 (Sheffield/ Rotherham), 828 MW (Leeds), MW 1 161 (E Yorks/N Lincs), MW 1 170 (Teesside), MW 1 152 (Tyne & Wear) Hallam FM 102.9 (Barnsley), 103.4 (Doncaster), 97.4 (Sheffield) Heart 96.9 (north Lancs/south Cumbria), 102.3 (Windermere), 103.2 (Kendal), 106.2 (SW Yorks), 107.6 (Bradford), 107.7 (Sheffield), 105.4 (NW England), 101.2 (Hexham/ Sunderland), 96.2 (Fenham), 100.7 (Teesside), 101.8 (Newcastle) Hits Radio 103 (Manchester) Imagine 104.9(SManchester/NCheshire) KCFM 99.8 (Hull) Lincs 102.2 (Lincolnshire), 97.6 (Scunthorpe), 96.7 (Grantham) Manx Radio 103.7 (north), 89/MW 1368 (Isle of Man), 97.2 (south/east) Metro 102.6(Alnwick),103.2(Hexham), 103 (Fenham), 97.1 (Newcastle) Minster 104.7 (York) Peak 107.4(Chesterfield),102(Matlock) Pulse 1 97.5 (Bradford), 102.5 (Huddersfield/Halifax) Pulse 2 MW 1278 (Bradford), 1530 (Halifax/Huddersfield) Radio Aire 96.3 (Leeds) Radio Borders 97.5 (Berwick), 96.8 (Selkirk),103.4(Eyemouth),103.1(Peebles) Radio City 96.7 (Liverpool) Radio City Talk MW 1548 (Liverpool) Radio Wave 96.5 (Blackpool) Radio X 97.7 (Manchester) Rathergood 102.3 (Thirsk), 102.6 (Richmond), 102.8 (Burnhope), 103.2 (Darlington), 103.5 (Northallerton), 106.8 (Brusselton) Revolution 96.2 (Oldham/Tameside/ Rochdale/east Manchester) Ridings 106.8 (Wakefield) Rock FM 97.4 (Preston/Blackpool) Smooth 100.4 (NW), 97.5, 107.7 (NE), MW 1260 (north Wales/Cheshire) , 100.1 (Windermere), 100.8 (Kendal), 101.4 (Keswick) Stray FM 97.2 (Harrogate), 107.1 (Ilkley/ Otley/Pateley Bridge) Sun 103.4 (Sunderland) TFM 96.6 (Teesside/County Durham/north Yorkshire) Tower 107.4 (Bolton/Bury) Trax107.9(Bassetlaw),107.1(Doncaster) Viking (E Yorks/N Lincs) 96.9 Wire107.2(Warrington/Widnes/Runcorn) Wish 102.4 (Wigan/St Helens) Yorkshire Coast 96.2 (Scarborough), 102.4 (Bridlington), 103.1 (Whitby/Filey)
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PO Box 95.8, Liverpool, L69 1ZJ Tel: 0151 708 5500 Phone-ins: 0800 731 9333 radio.merseyside@bbc.co.uk
Sunday
7.00 Mon—Wed: Lucas Yeomans; Thu: The Takeaway; Fri: Extra Time 8.00 Fri: RichardSearling’sNorthernSoul 9.00 Tue/Wed: The Wildcard; Thu: Centre Stage 10.00 Graham Torrington; Fri: Colin Young’s Trunk of Funk 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
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6.00am Mon—Wed: Lisa Marrey; Thu/Fri: Paul Beesley 7.00 Tony Snell 9.30 Sean Styles 12.00 Roger Phillips 2.00pm Jenny Lee Summers 4.00 Paul Salt 6.00 Merseyside Sport; Thu: Try Time 7.00 Jermaine Foster; Thu: MW Merseyside Sport: rugby league: Warrington Wolves v St Helens (kick-off 7.45) 9.00 (Thu: 10.30 MW) Linda McDermott 12.00 Mon: Orient Express; Tue: Folkscene: with Mike Brocken (R); Wed: On the Beat (R); Thu: The Magic of Motown; Fri: The Late Late Beatles Show 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
2.00pm Football Heaven 3.00 Football Heaven Live: Crystal Palace v Sheffield United (kick-off 3.00); MW Charlton Athletic v Barnsley (kick-off 3.00) 5.00 Praise or Grumble 6.30 Northern Soul and Motown: with John Kane 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00 Phil Butler 1.00am as Radio 5 Live
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Kim Harrison BBC Radio Humberside Age 25 Current job Presents Kim’s World (Tue 7pm). Also works in retail and is a cheerleading coach. CV Born and brought up in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. Went to community arts college in Grimsby. Studied broadcast journalism at the University of Salford. Worked for CBeebies as a runner, and as a researcher on various programmes. “After a busy year, I decided to go travelling. My flight to China was booked — but then I entered the BBC’s Young Voices competition, and took my first step towards my career as a presenter.“ Best moment “When my producer told me I had won the New Voices competition, I was over the moon. I actually didn’t speak (that’s rare!).” Worst moment “I usually just find the funny in a bad situation. At the 100k Drop wrap party, I started shaking my booty — and my skirt split at the back, revealing my behind! I laughed it off and turned it round to look like a side split.” Off air “My family are wild — they are the craziest bunch of characters. We’d be a great addition to Phoenix Nights or Gavin & Stacey!”
Saturday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER hourly 8.00am to 12 noon NEWS HEADLINES 2.00pm NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER 6.00am, 7.00, 5.30pm, 7.00, hourly 9.00 to 12 midnight OUTDOOR CONDITIONS 7.02am, 7.03pm
6.00am Life Cycle Lee Craigie goes in search of a happy place, known as “flow”, meeting children’s writer and illustrator Debi Gliori, climber Dave Macleod and comedian Bruce Morton.
First radio memory “When my best friend and I were kids, we created our own radio show — I was ten years old and paving the way for radio success! Fifteen years on, my first show with Radio Humberside was on 3 December last year. I shouted: ‘Well well well, hello lovelies, welcome to Kim’s World!’ The most exciting two hours of my life.” Favourite broadcasters “Fearne Cotton. Since I was young I’ve been so inspired by her. I would watch her on the TV show Smile and phone in to every competition. I wanted her job so bad. I love her shows, her personality and her podcasts. I hope I can bring as much joy to the radio as she has.” Ambition “To have a career where I can make people laugh — to wake up every morning and be so excited to head to my job. Also I’ve always wanted to present Big Brother and travel.” Dream job “I want to be a presenter. I always have. My dream is slowly coming true.” Secret skills “I can talk to anyone. Sometimes you have to be brave to start the conversation — but it’s an easy way to make someone’s day. (But I suppose it’s not a secret, actually, because I’m always talking!)” Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
2.00pm Sportsound Commentary and updates from the Scottish Premiership, including Livingston v Motherwell, Rangers v Aberdeen, St Johnstone v Hearts (kick-offs 3.00). Text 80295. Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
5.30 Off the Ball Football forum, with lighthearted features and competitions. Call 08085 929500 or text 80295.
Repeated from last Monday
Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk
6.30 Out of Doors Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith explore the Scottish countryside.
7.00 Take the Floor The Big Fling - Scottish Dance Band Extravaganza concert features Tom Orr and his Mega Ceilidh Dance Band as well as Irish fiddler Manus McGuire and a whole host of Scottish musicians including danceband fiddler Marie Fielding, the Robert Black Scottish Dance Band, special guest John Carmichael, and Gary Innes Highland Dance Band, together with rising-star fiddle-accordion duo Ellie McLaren and Callum Cruickshank. Repeat
Email: outofdoors@bbc.co.uk
8.00 Good Morning Scotland Isabel Fraser and Gordon Brewer present news, sport and weather. 10.00 Shereen Current affairs discussion, presented by Shereen Nanjiani, in which she is joined by special guests to discuss the week’s biggest stories, and interviews people making the news. 11.30 The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected Mark Nelson leads panellists Billy Kirkwood, Jay Lafferty and Liam Withnail as they attempt to decipher the good from the bad, with a few twists along the way. Repeated from yesterday
12.00 Off the Ball Football forum, with lighthearted features and competitions. Call 08085 929500 or text 80295. Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk
Email: takethefloor@bbc.co.uk
9.00 Pipeline Music and news from the piping world. Repeated tomorrow 8pm Email: pipeline@bbc.co.uk
10.00 Billy Sloan The presenter introduces rock and pop music from Scotland and around the world, plus regular features Spin the Globe, Musical Chairs and Early Morning Soul. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday NEWS: SPORT: WEATHERhourly6.00am to 12 noon, 3.00pm, 5.00, 7.00 to 11.00 OUTDOOR CONDITIONS 7.02am, 7.03pm
6.00am Brainwaves Pennie Latin makes a frank and fearless journey into the workings of the human gut, asking what is “normal” when it comes to the quantity, quality and regularity of faeces. Repeated from last Wednesday
6.30 New Every Sunday A weekly act of worship from churches around Scotland. 7.00 Classic Scottish Albums Davie Scott meets Emeli Sande to hear how she wrote Our Version of Events. 7.30 The Kitchen Café Chef Neil Forbes shows Jenny MacPherson how to make a warm pigeon breast and blood orange salad in just 20 minutes. Plus features on being creative with avocados. Repeated from last Thursday
8.00 Good Morning Scotland The nation’s morning news programme, including analysis and debate of recent stories, and a look forward to the big events of the coming week. 10.00 Sunday Morning with... A host introduces a selection of music and stimulating conversation from a faith and ethical perspective. 12.00 Sportsound Hamilton Academical v Celtic Commentary on the Scottish Premiership clash at Fountain of Youth Stadium (kick-off 12.30). Text 80295. Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
5.00pm BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Six young musicians battle it out in the grand final of BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year, live from the City Halls Glasgow. Presented by Bruce MacGregor. 8.00 Pipeline Music and news from the piping world. Repeated from yesterday 9pm Email: pipeline@bbc.co.uk
9.00 Classics Unwrapped Jamie MacDougall presents the best in classical music, plus news and interviews. Email: classicsunwrapped@bbc.co.uk
11.00 Iain Anderson Horse McDonald sits in to present the blues, country, folk, soul and rock ’n’ roll magazine, plus profiles of singers and songwriters. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
Monday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER hourly 6.00am to 6.00pm NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER 7.30pm, hourly 9.00 to 12 midnight OUTDOOR CONDITIONS 6.07pm LOCAL NEWS Dumfries, Aberdeen, Inverness, Selkirk: 6.30am, 7.30, 8.30, 12.30pm, 4.30, 5.30; Orkney: 7.30am, 12 noon; Shetland: 12.30pm, 5.30
6.00am Good Morning Scotland The nation’s morning news programme. With travel reports every 15 minutes, business updates at 6.15, 7.45 and 8.45, weather at 6.29, 6.59, 7.29 and 7.59, and sports reports at 6.08, 6.35, 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35. 9.00 Mornings Kaye Adams reports on stories making the news, and listeners have the opportunity to have their say. 12.00 John Beattie The host introduces news, comment and discussion on the day’s hot topics, with contributions by the sports, travel and weather teams. 1.30pm Life Cycle Some shocking stories and inspirational outcomes are in store as Lee Craigie gets on her bike for a journey through the landscape around trust. 2.00 The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth The host discusses what’s current in film, television, arts, theatre and music in Scotland. 4.00 Newsdrive Headlines from Scotland and the rest of the world. MW only 6.30—7.30 Sportsound A review of the day’s stories, topical debate from listeners and guests, and a look ahead to forthcoming events and matches. Text 80295. Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
FM only until 7.30 6.30 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett Music show in which listeners can text or email in their requests. Text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk
9.00 Vic Galloway Up-and-coming bands, vintage vinyl and music news. Text 80295. Repeat Repeated Wednesday 11pm Email: vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk
11.00 Iain Anderson Horse McDonald sits in to present the blues, country, folk, soul and rock ’n’ roll magazine, plus profiles of singers and songwriters. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
Tuesday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER: OUTDOOR CONDITIONS: LOCAL NEWS as Monday
6.00am Good Morning Scotland The nation’s morning news programme. With travel reports every 15 minutes, business updates at 6.15, 7.45 and 8.45, weather at 6.29, 6.59, 7.29 and 7.59, and sports reports at 6.08, 6.35, 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35. 9.00 Mornings Kaye Adams reports on stories making the news, and listeners have the opportunity to have their say. 12.00 John Beattie The host introduces news, comment and discussion on the day’s hot topics, with contributions by the sports, travel and weather teams. 1.30pm Jumping Off Tessa Gibbs’s comedy drama about addiction, friendship and coming to terms with who you really are. With Jessica Hardwick and Michael Nardone. 2.00 The Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth The host discusses what’s current in film, television, arts, theatre and music in Scotland. 4.00 Newsdrive Headlines from Scotland and the rest of the world. MW only 6.30—7.30 Sportsound A review of the day’s stories, topical debate from listeners and guests, and a look ahead to forthcoming events and matches. Text 80295. Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
FM only until 7.30 6.30 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett Music show in which listeners can text or email in their requests. Text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk
9.00 Another Country with Ricky Ross A live session from Nashvillebased singer-songwriter Lauren Jenkins, fresh from the stage of her Glasgow show and performing songs from her debut album No Saint. Plus new and classic Country and Americana. 11.00 Roddy Hart Roddy presents a selection of music spanning the decades, playing anything from old favourites and the classics to great new material. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
Wednesday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER: OUTDOOR CONDITIONS: LOCAL NEWS as Monday
6.00am Good Morning Scotland The nation’s morning news programme. With travel reports every 15 minutes, business updates at 6.15, 7.45 and 8.45, weather at 6.29, 6.59, 7.29 and 7.59, and sports reports at 6.08, 6.35, 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35. 9.00 Mornings Kaye Adams reports on stories making the news, and listeners have the opportunity to have their say. 12.00 John Beattie The host introduces news, comment and discussion on the day’s hot topics, with contributions by the sports, travel and weather teams. 1.30pm Brainwaves Expert on menstrual health Professor Hilary Critchley and staff and students from Edinburgh University join Pennie Latin for a bold and brave conversation about periods. 2.00 The Afternoon Show with Grant Stott The host discusses what’s current in film, television, arts, theatre and music in Scotland. 4.00 Newsdrive Headlines and comment from Scotland and the rest of the world. MW only 6.30—10.30 Sportsound Commentary and updates from the Scottish Premiership, including Aberdeen v St Johnstone, Motherwell v Celtic, and Rangers v Hibernian (kick-offs 7.45). Text 80295. Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
FM only 6.30 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett Music show in which listeners can text or email in their requests. Text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk
FM only until 10.30 9.00 Travelling Folk Bruce MacGregor introduces the best folk music, with previews of the latest releases. 11.00 Vic Galloway Up-and-coming bands, vintage vinyl and music news, plus session tracks and competitions. Text 80295. Repeated from Monday 9pm Email: vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
Thursday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER: OUTDOOR CONDITIONS: LOCAL NEWS as Monday
6.00am Good Morning Scotland The nation’s morning news programme. With travel every 15 minutes, business at 6.15, 7.45 and 8.45, weather at 6.29, 6.59, 7.29 and 7.59, and sports reports at 6.08, 6.35, 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
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FM only until 7.30 6.30 Get It On... with Bryan Burnett Music show in which listeners can text or email in their requests. Text 80295. Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk
9.00 The Quay Sessions Isobel Campbell returns to the musical fray with a brand new album, There Is No Other, for 2020. Americana duo My Darling Clementine are husband and wife Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish. They bring their band to showcase original songs and covers taken from their recent Country Darkness album. Presented by Roddy Hart. Repeat 11.00 Natasha Raskin Sharp The TV antiques presenter shares an eclectic mix of music from classic rock to alternative releases. Plus features Natasha’s Job Lot Vinyl Auction, and Jazz Corner. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
Friday NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER as Monday NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER 7.30pm, hourly 10.00 to 12 midnight OUTDOOR CONDITIONS as Monday LOCAL NEWS Dumfries, Aberdeen, Inverness, Selkirk: 6.30am, 7.30, 8.30, 12.30pm, 4.30, 5.30; Orkney: 7.30am, 12 noon, 6.10; Shetland: 12.30pm, 5.30, 6.07
6.00am Good Morning Scotland The nation’s morning news programme. With travel reports every 15 minutes, business updates at 6.15, 7.45 and 8.45, weather reports at 6.29, 6.59, 7.29 and 7.59, and sports reports at 6.08, 6.35, 7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35. 9.00 Mornings Stephen Jardine reports on stories making the news.
Repeated 8pm
4.00 Newsdrive Headlines and comment. 6.30 Sportsound A review of the day’s stories, topical debate from listeners and guests, and a look ahead to forthcoming events and matches. Text 80295.
Radio nan Gaidheal Mar Radio Alba ach:
Disathairne 9.00am Spòrs na Seachdain Spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus bho air feadh an t-saoghail còmhla ri Iain Moireasdan. POST DEALAIN: sns@bbc.co.uk FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
10.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air de a tha dol agaibhse gach feasgar. 11.00 Tiompan Ceòl Ceilteach, CDs ùra, cò a tha cluich càite? Le prògram beò agus beothail cumaidh Mairead NicIllinnein a’dol sibh. 12.00—1.00 Aileag Beachdan chloinne, ceòl agus spòrs gu leòr. POST DEALAIN: aileag@bbc.co.uk
Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
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8.00 Out for the Weekend Nicola Meighan presents a guide to activities in Scotland over the weekend, from outdoor festivals to leisurely strolls, as well as the weather forecast. Gardening expert Carole Baxter is also on hand with tips for amateur horticulturists, while studio guests contribute to the Out for the Weekend feature.
9.00am Dèanamaid Adhradh Seirbhis à tasglann a’ BhBC.
Repeated from 2pm
10.00 Ashley Storrie Thecomedianbringsherunique sense of fun to the show, including regular feature Soap Dodgers. Listeners are asked to suggest tracks related to her weekly topic and as always, she is joined by curmudgeonly sidekick “Silent Paul”. 1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live BBC Radio Scotland 40 Pacific Quay Glasgow G51 1DA bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Local programmes ORKNEY
Weekdays 7.30am—8.00 Around Orkney: round-up of local news, events and weather 6.10pm—7.00 Mon: Musical Milestones: a musical journey with this month’s invited guest; Tue: Tuesday Folk: traditional and modern Folk with the fiddling piper Andy Cant; Wed: Dustan Off The Stoor: archives from the Radio Orkney vaults; Fri: Friday Requests: weekly dedication programme PHONE: 01856 873939 Fax: 01856 872908 Email: radio.orkney@bbc.co.uk
SHETLAND
Weekdays 5.30pm—6.00 Good Evening Shetland: news and features 6.10—7.00 Mon: Wir Kinda Country: country and western music; Tue: Fae Hameabout; Wed: In Conversation: David Gardener hosts; Thu: Museum Lecture; Fri: Give Us a Tune: all-request show PHONE: 01595 694747 Fax: 01595 694307 Email: radio.shetland@bbc.co.uk
ath-chraoladh aig 3pm
9.30 Dealan-de Dealbh air Uibhist a Tuath ro 1920 bho Niall Mac a’ Phiocair à Aird na Saltrach. 10.00 Pìobairean 4/6. Sgeulachd a’ phìobaire Uilleam Dòmhnallach à Beinn na Fadhla. 10.30 Beag air Bheag 4/10. Prògram airson luchd-ionnsachaidh còmhla ri Iain Urchardan. 11.00 Sruth na Maoile Mairi Anna NicUalraig agus Sean O hEanaigh le ceòl à Alba ’s Eirinn. 12.00 Gleus Le Iain Moireach. 1.00pm Sgeulachd Beatha Catrìona Koster às a’ Phloc ann an còmhradh ri Gilleasbuig MacDhòmhnaill. 1.30 Crùnluath Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air dè a tha dol agaibhse gach feasgar. 2.30 Rogha is Tagha Taghadh a prògraman na seachdain. 3.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh Seirbhis à tasglann a’ BhBC. 3.30 Alleluia 4.00—4.05 An Litir Bheag 9.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh Seirbhis à tasglann a’ BhBC. 9.30 Beag air Bheag 5/10.Abheilsibhagionnsachadh Gàidhlig? A bheil sibh feumach air misneachd gus ur Gàidhlig a chleachdadh? A bheil sibh a’ sireadh fiosrachaidh mu dè tha dol ann an saoghal na Gàidhlig? Ma fhreagair sibh ”tha” gu dìreach aon de na ceistean sin ’s ann dhuibhse a tha Beag air Bheag, prògram ùr gu sònraichte do luchdionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig air BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 12.00
10.30—10.35 Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh Litir do luchd-ionnsachaidh le Ruaraidh MacIlleathain. ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 11pm
Diluain 7.30am Aithris na Maidne Naidheachdan ionadail, nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta gach madainn còmhla ri sgioba-naidheachd Radio nan Gàidheal. 9.00 Coinneach MacIomhair Còmhradh, conaltradh agus cnuasachadh gach là. POST DEALAIN: coinneach@bbc.co.uk ath-chraoladh aig 9pm
10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir Morag Dhòmhnallach a’ feitheamh ribh le taghadh de dh’òrain Ghàidhlig. 12.00 Fàs Veganism A’ sgrùdadh veganism; dòigh-ithe a tha air sìor fhàs anns na beagan bhliadhnaichean a dh’fhalbh. ath-chraoladh aig 10pm
12.30pm Feasgar Naidheachdan, deasbad, ceòl, is cur-seachad aig àm bìdh. 2.00 Caithream Ciùil Ceòl Gaidhealach ’s Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air dè a tha dol agaibhse gach feasgar. POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk Email: dethadol@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air de a tha dol agaibhse gach feasgar. ath-chraoladh aig 10.30pm
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair Naidheachdan nàiseanta is ionadail o Dhiluain gu Dihaoine. 5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le Pluto Ceòl, fiosrachadh agus fealladhà air ur slighe dhachaigh le Derek “Pluto” Moireach. POST DEALAIN: pluto@bbc.co.uk FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
7.00 Rapal A toirt fuaimean ùra gu Radio nan Gaidheal. POST DEALAIN: rapal@bbc.co.uk FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
9.00 Coinneach MacIomhair Còmhradh, conaltradh agus cnuasachadh gach là. POST DEALAIN: coinneach@bbc.co.uk
10.00 Fàs Veganism A’ sgrùdadh veganism; dòigh-ithe a tha air sìor fhàs anns na beagan bhliadhnaichean a dh’fhalbh. 10.30—11.30 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich Ceòl Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air de a tha dol agaibhse gach feasgar.
Dimàirt Mar Diluain ach:
12.00—12.30pm Pìobairean Sgeulachd a’ phìobaire Aonghas Nìll Caimbeul à Uibhist a Deas. ath-chraoladh aig 10pm
4.00—5.00 Sruth na Maoile Mairi Anna NicUalraig agus Seán O hEanaigh le ceòl à Alba ’s Eirinn. ath-chraoladh aig 10.30pm FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
10.00 Pìobairean Sgeulachda’phìobaireAonghas Nìll Caimbeul à Uibhist a Deas. 10.30—11.30 Sruth na Maoile Mairi Anna NicUalraig agus Seán O hEanaigh le ceòl à Alba ’s Eirinn.
Diciadain Mar Diluain ach:
12.00—12.30pm Beag air Bheag 5/10. A bheil sibh ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig? A bheil sibh feumach air misneachd gus ur Gàidhlig a chleachdadh? A bheil sibh a’ sireadh fiosrachaidh mu dè tha dol ann an saoghal na Gàidhlig? Ma fhreagair sibh ”tha” gu dìreach aon de na ceistean sin ’s ann dhuibhse a tha Beag air Bheag, prògram ùr gu sònraichte do luchdionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig air BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. ath-chraoladh aig 10pm
4.00—5.00 Gleus Fuinn, còisirean agus òrain bho shaoghal ceòl clasaigeach agus eile, le Iain Moireach. ath-chraoladh aig 11.05pm
10.00 Beag air Bheag 11.00 Litir do Luchdionnsachaidh Litir do luchd-ionnsachaidh le Ruaraidh MacIlleathain. 11.05—12.05am Gleus
Diardaoin Mar Diluain ach:
12.00—12.30pm Dealan-de ath-chraoladh aig 10pm
4.00—5.00 Crùnluath Ceòl na pìoba còmhla ri Cailean MacIlleathain. ath-chraoladh aig 10.30pm
10.00 Dealan-de 10.30—11.30 Crùnluath Ceòl na pìoba còmhla ri Cailean MacIlleathain.
Dihaoine Mar Diluain ach:
12.00—12.30pm Leugh an Leabhar Leabhraichean air BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. 2.00 Aileag Prògram don chloinn le ceòl, còmhradh, fiosrachadh agus fealla-dhà. POST DEALAIN: aileag@bbc.co.uk
3.00 Caithream Ciùil Ceòl Gaidhealach ’s Ceilteach agus fiosrachadh air dè a tha dol agaibhse gach feasgar. POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk
5.30 Leugh an Leabhar Leabhraichean air BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. 6.00 Na Dùrachdan Mairead NicIllinnein is Ailig Bhaltois le ceòl, òrain is fealla-dhà. 8.00 Tiompan Ceòl Ceilteach, CDs ùra, cò a tha cluich càite? Le prògram beò agus beothail cumaidh Mairead NicIllinnein a’dol sibh. 9.00 Mac Ille Mhicheil Cuiridh Iain Mac Ille Mhicheil agus a chàirdean an deireadh-sheachdain air a chasan. 11.00—12.00am Coinneach MacIomhair Còmhradh, conaltradh agus cnuasachadh gach là. POSTDEALAIN:coinneach@bbc.co.uk
National BBC Radio 1* FM 97.7–99.7 BBC Radio 2* FM 88.1–90.1 BBC Radio 3* FM 90.3–92.3 BBC Radio 4 FM 94.6–96.1, 103.5–104.9, LW 198, MW 1449 (Aberdeen, LW progs) BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909 BBC Radio Scotland FM 92.5– 94.7, MW 810, 585 (Dumfries) BBC Radio nan Gaidheal FM 103.5–104.9 (carries R4 in some parts), MW 990 (Aberdeen) Classic FM 99.9–101.9 Talksport MW 1053, 1089 Absolute MW 1215, 1242 Above stations also on Freeview (*not Sat 4pm—1am, Sun 4pm— 12 midnight, weekdays 5pm— 12 midnight), plus satellite, cable, internet and DAB (Radio Scotland MW service only).
Local Argyll FM 106.5, 107.1, 107.7 (Campbeltown) BBC Cumbria FM 95.6 (Carlisle), 96.1 (Morecambe Bay), 95.2 (Kendal), 104.1 (Whitehaven/ Keswick), 104.2 (Windermere), MW 756 (Carlisle), 837 (Barrowin-Furness), 1458 (Whitehaven) Capital 106.1 (Glasgow), 105.7 (Edinburgh) Central FM 103.1 (Stirling/ Falkirk/Clackmannanshire) CFM 102.2 (Workington), 102.5 (Penrith), 103.4 (Whitehaven), 96.4 (Carlisle) Clyde 1 FM 102.3 (Rothesay), 102.5 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Firth of Clyde), 97 (Vale of Leven) Clyde 2 MW 1 152 (Glasgow) Cuillin FM 106.2, 102.7 (Skye/Lochalsh) Forth 1 FM 97.3, 97.6 (Edinburgh), 102.2 (Penicuik) Forth 2 MW 1548 (Edinburgh) Heart FM 101.1 (Edinburgh/ Rosneath), 100.3 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Penicuik) Heartland FM 97.5 (Pitlochry/ Aberfeldy), 106.6 (Perth) Isles FM 103 (Western Isles) Kingdom FM 105.4 (St Andrews), 106.3 (The East Neuk), 95.2 (West Fife), 96.1 (Central & East Fife), 96.6 (Kirkcaldy) Lochbroom FM 102.2 (Ullapool), 96.8 (North West Scotland)
Mearns FM 105.7 (Stonehaven), 106.2 (Inverbervie), 107.3 (Laurencekirk) MFR FM 96.6 (Speysound), 96.7 (Fraserburgh), 97.4 (Highlands/ Moray/Aberdeenshire), 102.5 (Caithness), 102.8 (Keith) MFR Two MW 1107 (Inverness) Nevis FM 96.6 (Fort William), 97 (Glencoe), 102.4 (Loch Leven), 102.3 (Skye & Mallaig) Northsound 1 FM 96.9 (Aberdeen), 97.6 (Balgownie), 103 (Peterhead) Oban FM 103.3 Original FM 106 (Aberdeen) Radio Borders 102.3 (Berwick), 103.4 (Eyemouth), 103.1 (Peebles), 96.8 (Selkirk) SIBC FM 96.2 (Bressay), 102.2 (Shetland) Smooth Radio FM 105.2 (Glasgow) Tay FM MW 102.8 (Dundee), 96.4 (Perth) Tay 2 MW 1 161 (Dundee), 1584 (Perth) Wave FM 102 (Dundee) Waves Radio FM 101.2 (Peterhead/Fraserburgh) West FM 96.7 (Ayrshire), 97.5 (Girvan), 106.7 (Rothesay) West Sound FM 97 (Dumfries), 103 (Kirkcudbright), 96.5 (Stranraer), MW 1035 (Ayrshire) Your Radio FM 103 (Dumbarton), 106.9 (Helensburgh)
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Email: sportsound@bbc.co.uk
12.00 John Beattie The host introduces news, comment and discussion. 1.30pm The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected Mark Nelson leads a panel of Scotland’s funniest comedians and personalities attempting to decipher the good from the bad, with a few unexpected twists along the way. 2.00 Out for the Weekend Nicola Meighan presents a guide to activities in Scotland over the weekend.
Local
9.00 Mornings Kaye Adams reports on stories making the news. 12.00 John Beattie The host introduces news, comment and discussion on the day’s hot topics, with contributions by the sports, travel and weather teams. Including First Minister’s Question Time. 1.30pm The Kitchen Café Magazine celebrating the role food plays in Scottish life, with contributions from leading chefs, recipe ideas and a look at the latest nutritional trends. 2.00 The Afternoon Show with Grant Stott The host discusses what’s current in film, television, arts, theatre and music in Scotland. 4.00 Newsdrive Headlines from Scotland and the rest of the world. MW only 6.30—7.30 Sportsound A review of the day’s stories, topical debate from listeners and guests, and a look ahead to forthcoming events and matches. Text 80295.
RADIO in your area BBC Radio Ulster Face behind the voice
Radio
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Kim Harrison BBC Radio Humberside Age 25 Current job Presents Kim’s World (Tue 7pm). Also works in retail and is a cheerleading coach. CV Born and brought up in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. Went to community arts college in Grimsby. Studied broadcast journalism at the University of Salford. Worked for CBeebies as a runner, and as a researcher on various programmes. “After a busy year, I decided to go travelling. My flight to China was booked — but then I entered the BBC’s Young Voices competition, and took my first step towards my career as a presenter.“ Best moment “When my producer told me I had won the New Voices competition, I was over the moon. I actually didn’t speak (that’s rare!).” Worst moment “I usually just find the funny in a bad situation. At the 100k Drop wrap party, I started shaking my booty — and my skirt split at the back, revealing my behind! I laughed it off and turned it round to look like a side split.” Off air “My family are wild — they are the craziest bunch of characters. We’d be a great addition to Phoenix Nights or Gavin & Stacey!”
Saturday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 4.00pm, 5.30, then hourly 7.00 to 11.00
6.45am Farm Gate Food, countryside and agricultural issues, focusing on business news, industry reports and the latest technology. Presented by Bernie Allen. 7.05 Kim Lenaghan A selection of fine tunes. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: kim.lenaghan@bbc.co.uk
8.05 Your Place & Mine Anne Marie McAleese and the team report on stories from around Northern Ireland. Phone: 0289 033 8307 Email: ypam@bbc.co.uk
9.05 Gardeners’ Corner Experts talk to gardeners and give topical advice for horticulturists everywhere. Presented by David Maxwell. Phone: 03030 80 55 55
9.45 On Your Behalf Consumer affairs programme. Including news at 10.00. Phone: 0289 033 8314
10.30 Storytellers — A Run in the Park 9/10. By David Park. As the running group members try their best to help Yana’s family, the day of the big run approaches. Read by Julia Dearden. Repeat 10.45 10/10. On the day of the final run, Maurice’s new exercise regime is put to the test after he receives an unexpected phone-call. Read by Des McAleer. Repeat Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm/6.45pm
First radio memory “When my best friend and I were kids, we created our own radio show — I was ten years old and paving the way for radio success! Fifteen years on, my first show with Radio Humberside was on 3 December last year. I shouted: ‘Well well well, hello lovelies, welcome to Kim’s World!’ The most exciting two hours of my life.” Favourite broadcasters “Fearne Cotton. Since I was young I’ve been so inspired by her. I would watch her on the TV show Smile and phone in to every competition. I wanted her job so bad. I love her shows, her personality and her podcasts. I hope I can bring as much joy to the radio as she has.” Ambition “To have a career where I can make people laugh — to wake up every morning and be so excited to head to my job. Also I’ve always wanted to present Big Brother and travel.” Dream job “I want to be a presenter. I always have. My dream is slowly coming true.” Secret skills “I can talk to anyone. Sometimes you have to be brave to start the conversation — but it’s an easy way to make someone’s day. (But I suppose it’s not a secret, actually, because I’m always talking!)” Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
11.05 The John Toal Show The broadcaster ventures beyond the confines of the studio for first-hand experience of listeners’ family and community lives. Includes recipes, top kitchen tips, chat and music. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: john.toal@bbc.co.uk
12.05pm Stories in Sound From overcoming homelessness to contemplating suicide and being “queer on stage”, local people share their struggles and triumphs around topics often considered taboo. Mairead Campbell presents. Repeated Wednesday 6.05pm
12.30 Inside Business Interviews and the latest business analysis. Presented by Wendy Austin. 1.05 Eve Blair A mix of music and chat, with interviews and features ranging from books to film. 2.05 Sportsound Coverage of the Irish Cup sixth round, with fixtures including Queen’s University v Glentoran and Cliftonville v Rathfriland Rangers. Presented by Michael McNamee. (kick-off 3.00). FM only from 5.45 4.00 Sportsound Ireland v Scotland. Jim Neilly is joined by Tony Ward to commentate on the match from the opening round of fixtures of the Six Nations Cup, which takes place at Aviva Stadium (kick-off 4.45).
MW only 5.45 Sportsound Coverage from the National Football League, including Laois v Armagh (throw-in 6.00), Cavan v Westmeath and Down v Derry (throw-ins 7.00). Orla Bannon presents. FM only 7.05 Caschlár Brian Mullen presents a wide-ranging mix of music, including pop, blues and soul. Including news at 8.00. Phone: 0289 033 8043
9.00 Jazz World with Linley Hamilton The host introduces a selection of contemporary jazz music from around the world and profiles up-and-coming local talent. Email: linley.hamilton@bbc.co.uk
10.05 Saturday Club with John Bennett Late-night music club featuring classic tracks from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Including news at 11.00. Text: 81771
12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Sunday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm and 11.55
7.05am Kim Lenaghan A selection of fine tunes and conversation. Including Thought for the Day at 7.55 and news at 8.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: kim.lenaghan@bbc.co.uk
8.30 Sunday Sequence Religious and ethical issues. With news at 9.00 and 10.00. Email: sunday.sequence@bbc.co.uk
10.15 Morning Service The Rev Jared Stephens leads a religious service from the Four Corners Festival at Cliftonville Moravian Church, Belfast. With preacher the Rev Dr Lesley Carroll. 11.05 Sunday with Dearbhail The best in-depth current affairs, interviews, discussion and analysis. Plus an essential guide to the Sunday papers and news at 12.00. FM only from 1.30 1.05pm Sunday with Brian D’Arcy A combination of conversation, meditation, fun and good music. MW only 1.30 Sportsound Thomas Niblock presents coverage of the National Football League, including Monaghan v Tyrone, Fermanagh v Roscommon (Throw-ins 2.00) and Meath v Donegal (Throw-in 2.30). FM only until 4.30 2.05 Kerry McLean Host Kerry McLean helps wind down the weekend and sets the mood for the week ahead with some great tunes and conversation. Including news at 3.00. Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk Text: 81771
4.05 The Siobhan Brown Soul Show The singer brings some seriously soulful sounds to the Sunday afternoon airwaves, from dancefloor classics to the latest releases. 5.05 Sounds Sacred Richard Yarr introduces popular sacred music performed by local and internationally acclaimed performers. He also plays listeners’ requests and provides news of music events across Northern Ireland. 6.05 Kintra Helen Mark and the Kintra team with stories, news, music and banter from Ulster-Scots communities at home and abroad. 6.30 Showstoppers 4/8. Sheelagh Greer gets the Sunday sing-a-long going with songs from Hollywood and Broadway hits, including Les Misérables and Sister Act, and a look at how The Sound of Music has inspired singers such as Ariana Grande. 7.05 Classical Connections with John Toal The host presents an evening of popular classical music. Plus news, reviews and interviews with local and touring performers. Including news at 8.00. 9.05 Jazz Club with Walter Love Recordings by jazz musicians, including tracks that have been performed exclusively for BBC Radio Ulster.
10.05 Sunday Club with John Bennett A late-night selection of music designed to soothe away the problems of the past week. Email: jb@bbc.co.uk
12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Monday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: half-hourly 6.30am to 8.30, 9.00, 9.03, hourly 11.00 to 5.00pm, 5.30, hourly 6.00 to 11.00, then 11.55
6.30am Good Morning Ulster The day’s news with presenters Joel Taggart and Noel Thompson, including regular travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus agri-business in Farm Gate and a Thought for the Day at 6.55 and 7.55. Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk
9.05 The Nolan Show Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. Including news and travel at 10.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk
10.30 Mid-Morning Show A guest host presents a carefree morning mix of music, chat and the odd phone-call. With news at 11.00. 12.00 Talkback William Crawley and the team present the news and invite listeners’ on-air reaction to all the breaking stories of the day, from politics to health, consumer issues and education. Including news at 12.00 and 1.00pm. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
1.30pm Hugo Duncan The best in country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text. Including news and travel at 2.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771
3.05 The Lynette Fay Show Nuala McKeever sits in for Lynette, with a light-hearted mix of music and chat. Text: 81771 Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Evening Extra Conor Bradford presents news on the half-hour, regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest in agri-business news. 6.05 Sportsound Extra Time Nikki Gregg and the Sportsound Extra Time sports panel discuss the biggest stories making the back pages featuring exclusive interviews, analysis and debate. 7.05 Blas Fearghal Mag Uiginn le súil siar ar aicsean na gclubanna CLG agus craobhchomórtais na gContaetha ag teacht chun críche agus feachtais Chumainn Uladh faoi lánseol. Fearghal Mag Uiginn looks back at the weekend’s sporting action.
7.30 The Stephen McCauley Show The best in alternative music from punk to electronica from home and abroad. Including news at 8.00 and 9.00. 9.30 ATL Introducing Five-piece indie pop band Brand New Friend are live in session, Jordan Adetunji is the Future Headliner and there are more “world exclusives”. Including news at 10.00. 11.05 The Late Show with Eve Blair The best in chilled-out music, including a mix of easy listening melodies both old and new, together with material by the Artist of the Week. Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk
12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Tuesday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday
6.30am Good Morning Ulster The day’s news agenda set with presenters Noel Thompson and Karen Patterson, including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus the main agri-business news in Farm Gate and Thought for the Day at 6.55 and 7.55. Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk
9.05 The Nolan Show Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. Including news and travel at 10.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk
10.30 Mid-Morning Show A guest host presents a carefree morning mix of music, chat and the odd phone-call. With news at 11.00. 12.00 Talkback William Crawley and the team present the news and invite listeners’ on-air reaction to all the breaking stories of the day, from politics to health, consumer issues and education. Including news at 12.00 and 1.00pm. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
1.30pm Hugo Duncan The best in country music. With news and travel at 2.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771
3.05 The Lynette Fay Show Nuala McKeever sits in for Lynette, with a light-hearted mix of music and chat. Text: 81771 Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Evening Extra Conor Bradford presents news on the half-hour, regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest in agri-business news. 6.05 Farming Matters Voices, views, stories, news and chat from Northern Ireland’s rural community, hosted by Nicola Weir. Including essential livestock and weather reports.
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12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Wednesday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday
6.30am Good Morning Ulster The day’s news agenda set with Karen Patterson and Noel Thompson. Including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus the main agri-business news in Farm Gate and Thought for the Day at 6.55 and 7.55. Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk
9.05 The Nolan Show Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. With news and travel at 10.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk
10.30 Mid-Morning Show A guest host presents a carefree morning mix of music, chat and the odd phone-call. With news at 11.00. 12.00 Talkback William Crawley and the team present the news and invite listeners’ on-air reaction to all the breaking stories of the day, from politics to health, consumer issues and education. Including news at 12.00 and 1.00pm. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
1.30pm Hugo Duncan The best in country music old and new, plus the opportunity for listeners to submit requests by phone or text. Including news and travel at 2.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771
3.05 The Lynette Fay Show Nuala McKeever sits in. Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk Text: 81771
10.30 Mid-Morning Show A guest host presents a carefree morning mix of music, chat and the odd phone-call. With news at 11.00. 12.00 Talkback William Crawley presents. With news at 12.00 and 1.00pm.
Repeated from Saturday 12.05pm
1.30pm Hugo Duncan The best in country music. Withnews and travel at 2.00.
6.30 Storytellers — A Run in the Park 9/10. By David Park. As the running group members try their best to help Yana’s family, the day of the big run approaches. Read by Julia Dearden. 6.45 10/10. On the day of the final run, Maurice’s new exercise regime is put to the test after he receives an unexpected phone-call. Read by Des McAleer. Rptd from Saturday 10.30/10.45am
7.05 Blas Caint agus comhrá faoi imeachtaí an tsaoil mhóir agus shaol an ghnáthlae. Má tá sé i mbéal an phobail, beidh sé i mbéal Mháire agus a haíonna chomh maith. All the latest news on local and international events and the issues of the day. 7.30 The Stephen McCauley Show The best in alternative music from punk to electronica from home and abroad, featuring live performance, interviews and more. Including news at 8.00 and 9.00. 9.30 Ralph McLean — Rock and Soul The presenter plays the best of classic rock, soul, blues, pop, gospel, reggae and funk music during his weekly journey through some of the most soulful music ever made. Includes news at 10.00. 10.55 Wah Yan Jee Sing Local information on health and social issues in Cantonese. 11.05 The Late Show with Eve Blair The best in chilled-out music, including a mix of easy listening melodies both old and new, together with material by the Artist of the Week. Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk
12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Thursday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday
6.30am Good Morning Ulster Presented by Noel Thompson and Karen Patterson. Including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus the main agri-business news in Farm Gate and Thought for the Day at 6.55 and 7.55. Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk
9.05 The Nolan Show Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate. With news and travel at 10.00. Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771
3.05 The Lynette Fay Show Nuala McKeever sits in for Lynette, with a light-hearted mix of music and chat. Text: 81771 Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk
4.00 Evening Extra News on the half-hour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business. 6.05 The Ticket From blockbuster movies to comedy gigs, Kathy Clugston has just the ticket, offering ideas and information on how listeners can spend their leisure hours. 7.05 Blas Dearcadh an duine óig ar ábhair a bhfuil spraoi ag baint leo agus ábhair níos troime, gach rud ón stíl mhaireachtála go taisteal agus cúrsaí spóirt. A youthful view of lifestyle issues, travel, sport, beauty, fashion, cookery and more. Presented by Caoimhe Ní Chathail. 7.30 The Stephen McCauley Show The best in alternative music from punk to electronica from home and abroad, featuring live performance, interviews and more. Including news at 8.00 and 9.00. 9.30 Ralph McLean — Country From the sounds of Nashville to new bluegrass, Ralph takes another journey into the world of American roots music, offering a selection of classic tracks, live performance and timeless Americana along the way. Including news at 10.00. 11.05 The Late Show with Eve Blair The best in chilled-out music, including a mix of easy listening melodies both old and new, together with material by the Artist of the Week. Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk
12.00 as Radio 5 Live
Friday RADIO ULSTER NEWS: half-hourly 6.30am to 8.30, 9.00, 9.03, hourly 11.00 to 5.00pm, 5.30, 6.00, 7.00, 7.03, 9.00, 10.00, 10.04 then 11.00
6.30am Good Morning Ulster With Karen Patterson and Joel Taggart. Including regular news, travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus the main agri-business news in Farm Gate and Thought for the Day at 6.55 and 7.55. Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk
9.05 The Nolan Show Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate. With news and travel at 10.00.
RADIO FOYLE
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk
10.30 Mid-Morning Show A guest host presents a carefree morning mix of music, chat and the odd phone-call. With news at 11.00. 12.00 Talkback William Crawley presents. With news at 12.00 and 1.00pm.
BBC Radio 1
Sunday
FM 97.9—99.7
RADIO FOYLE NEWS: hourly 9.00am to 4.00pm (not 2.00pm)
BBC Radio 2
FM 88.3—90.1
5.05—6.00pm Rejoice James McClelland presents gospel favourites and sacred music, plus listeners’ requests and dedications. To get in touch with the show, write to 8 Northland Road, Londonderry BT48 7GD.
BBC Radio 3
Weekdays
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
RADIO FOYLE NEWS: half-hourly 7.00am to 8.30, hourly 9.00 to 3.00pm
1.30 Hugo Duncan The best in country music. With news and travel at 2.00.
6.30am Good Morning Ulster The day’s news presented by Mon: Joel Taggart and Noel Thompson; Tue—Thu: Karen Patterson and Noel Thompson; Fri: Karen Patterson and Joel Taggart. Including regular travel and sport updates and analysis of finance and business news, plus agribusiness in Farm Gate and Thought for the Day at 6.55. 7.00 The Breakfast Show Local, national and international news, plus the latest weather and travel updates for the north west of Northern Ireland. 9.05 The Nolan Show Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with Stephen Nolan. Listeners can share their views by phone, text or email. Including news and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771
3.05 The Vinny Hurrell Show Magazine show, with music, chat and a bit of craic to get the weekend under way. 4.00 Evening Extra Seamus McKee presents news on the half-hour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business. 5.30 Inside Politics Mark Devenport casts an expert eye over the week’s events on the political scene. Interviews with leading political figures, live studio debate and reports are all part of the mix. Plus the inside line on the stories behind the headlines at Stormont, Westminster and the Dáil. 6.05 Kerry McLean Classic rock and pop tunes. Including news at 7.00. Text: 81771 Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk
7.30 The Mickey Bradley Record Show There are loads of great records out there and Mickey has bought, borrowed and blagged lots of them since his teenage years. Here, he invites listeners to another selection of vintage rock, pop, and new releases. Including news at 8.00 and 9.00. Text: 81771 Email: michael.bradley@bbc.co.uk
9.30 Blas Ceoil Cuireann Caoimhe ’Ceol’ Ní Chathail tús spleodrach le do dheireadh seachtaine. Ceol traidisiúnta, fréamh agus dúchasach, le heisiúintí úra, sonraí gigeanna agus seisiúin bheo. Caoimhe “Ceol” Ní Chathail introduces new releases, gig guide details and live acoustic sessions to keep listeners in touch with the best in traditional, roots and folk music. With news at 10.00. 10.30 Folk Club with Lynette Fay The best traditional and contemporary folk music. Including news at 11.00. 12.00 as Radio 5 Live BBC Northern Ireland Broadcasting House Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ 02890 338 000 Phone-in 0845 955 5678
National
As Radio Ulster except:
Phone: 03030 80 55 55 Text: 81771 Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk
10.30 Mid-Morning Show A guest host presents a carefree morning mix of music, chat and the odd phone-call. With news at 11.00. 12.00 Talkback William Crawley and the Talkback team present the news and invite listeners’ on-air reaction to all the breaking stories of the day, from politics to health, consumer issues and education. With news at 12.00. 1.00pm The News at One Lunchtime round-up of the day’s local, national and international news stories. Plus the latest sports headlines. 1.30 The Mark Patterson Show Issues affecting the daily lives of people in the North West. Including news at 2.00. 3.05 Sean Coyle The host brightens up the day with great music and chat, plus listeners from across the region are invited to phone in with their requests and dedications. Including news at 4.00. 4.00—6.00 Evening Extra (Fri 4.00—5.30) Seamus McKee presents news on the half-hour, plus regular sport, traffic and weather reports, and the latest agri-business. BBC Radio Foyle, 8 Northland Road Londonderry BT48 7GD Tel: 02871 266 522
FM 90.5—92.3 BBC Radio 4
93.2 (Ballycastle), 93.2 (Carnmoney Hill), 94 (Limavady), 94.9 (Londonderry), 95.6 (Brougher Mountain), 96 (Belfast), 103.5 (Larne), 103.9 (Rostrevor Forest/ Kilkeel), 104.6 (Camlough), (R4 FM cannot be heard in some parts of N Ireland) LW 198 MW 720, 774 (Enniskillen (carry LW programmes) BBC Radio 5 Live
MW 693, 909 BBC Radio Foyle
FM 93.1, MW 792 (Londonderry) BBC Radio Ulster
FM 92.7—95.4, MW 1341, 873 (Enniskillen) RTE Radio 1
FM 87.8—90.0, LW 252 RTE 2FM 90.4—92.2, 97 RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta
92.6—94.4, 102.7 RTE Lyric FM 97.8—99.6, 92.2, 95.2, 96.7, 102.2 Classic FM 99.9—101.9 (not
Freeview) Talksport MW 1053,
1089 Absolute MW 1215 Today FM FM 105.5
All the above stations are also broadcast via Freeview, satellite, cable, digital radio and the internet.
Local Cool FM 97.4
Music, news and sport Downtown FM 102.3
(Ballymena), 96.6 (Omagh/Enniskillen), 97.1 (Larne), 96.4 (Limavady), 102.4 (Londonderry), 103.4 (Newcastle), 103.1 (south Newry), MW 1026 (Belfast) Music, news Q FM 96.7 (Belfast), 102.5 (Bangor), 102.5 (Carrickfergus), 102.9 (North West), 97.2 (North Coast), 97.6 (Ballycastle), 107.0 (Mid Antrim), 107.6 (Larne), 106.0 (Mid Ulster), 107.2 (Dungannon), 106.3 (Maghera), 101.2 (Tyrone/Fermanagh), 102.1 (Enniskillen), 100.5 (Newry & Mourne), 101.1 (Kilkeel), 101.1 (Newcastle)
Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings
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4.00 Evening Extra Seamus McKee presents. 6.05 Stories in Sound From overcoming homelessness to contemplating suicide and being “queer on stage”, local people share their struggles and triumphs around topics often considered taboo.
Local
7.05 Blas Ag coinneáil an lucht éisteachta ar an eolas faoi na himeachtaí ar gá iad a fheiceáil agus a chluinstin i saol ealaíne agus cultúir na Gaeilge agus níos faide ó bhaile. Dáithí O Muirí keeps listeners up-to-date with all that’s happening in the art world. 7.30 The Stephen McCauley Show The best in alternative music from punk to electronica from home and abroad, featuring live performances, interviews and more. Including news at 8.00 and 9.00. 9.30 Ralph McLean — Local Voices Ralph McLean presents a selection of Irish music, sessions and chat from new Northern Ireland artists and established acts. Includes news at 10.00. 11.05 The Late Show with Eve Blair The best in chilled-out music, including a mix of easy listening melodies both old and new, together with material by the Artist of the Week.
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RADIO in your area BBC Radio Wales Face behind the voice
Radio
Local
Kim Harrison BBC Radio Humberside Age 25 Current job Presents Kim’s World (Tue 7pm). Also works in retail and is a cheerleading coach. CV Born and brought up in the Grimsby/Cleethorpes area. Went to community arts college in Grimsby. Studied broadcast journalism at the University of Salford. Worked for CBeebies as a runner, and as a researcher on various programmes. “After a busy year, I decided to go travelling. My flight to China was booked — but then I entered the BBC’s Young Voices competition, and took my first step towards my career as a presenter.“ Best moment “When my producer told me I had won the New Voices competition, I was over the moon. I actually didn’t speak (that’s rare!).” Worst moment “I usually just find the funny in a bad situation. At the 100k Drop wrap party, I started shaking my booty — and my skirt split at the back, revealing my behind! I laughed it off and turned it round to look like a side split.” Off air “My family are wild — they are the craziest bunch of characters. We’d be a great addition to Phoenix Nights or Gavin & Stacey!”
Saturday NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 1.00pm, plus 5.00pm and 6.00 WEATHER: before most news bulletins HILL FORECAST: 6.59am
5.00am Vicki Blight Music and chat. 7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather with Oliver Hides. 9.00 Money for Nothing Owen Money presents a lively mix of music and humour. Telephone: 03700 100 110
11.30 Carol Vorderman Carol presents from Cardiff city centre. 1.30pm Radio Wales Sport Commentary on this afternoon’s match between Wales and Italy from the opening round of Six Nations fixtures, which takes place at Principality Stadium (kick-off 2.15). From 5.00, a round-up of the day’s sporting action with results and analysis. 5.30 Call Rob Phillips The broadcaster encourages listeners to phone in to share their thoughts on the day’s sporting action, and take part in lively debates. Call: 03700 100 110 Text: 81012 Tweet: @bbcradiowales
7.00 Bethan Elfyn A mix of classic rock, new tunes and indie anthems, as well as music from up-and-coming Welsh acts. 10.00 Adam Walton The best in new Welsh music, featuring exclusive sessions, interviews and demos. 1.00am—5.00 as World Service
First radio memory “When my best friend and I were kids, we created our own radio show — I was ten years old and paving the way for radio success! Fifteen years on, my first show with Radio Humberside was on 3 December last year. I shouted: ‘Well well well, hello lovelies, welcome to Kim’s World!’ The most exciting two hours of my life.” Favourite broadcasters “Fearne Cotton. Since I was young I’ve been so inspired by her. I would watch her on the TV show Smile and phone in to every competition. I wanted her job so bad. I love her shows, her personality and her podcasts. I hope I can bring as much joy to the radio as she has.” Ambition “To have a career where I can make people laugh — to wake up every morning and be so excited to head to my job. Also I’ve always wanted to present Big Brother and travel.” Dream job “I want to be a presenter. I always have. My dream is slowly coming true.” Secret skills “I can talk to anyone. Sometimes you have to be brave to start the conversation — but it’s an easy way to make someone’s day. (But I suppose it’s not a secret, actually, because I’m always talking!)” Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
Sunday NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 6.00pm WEATHER: before most news bulletins HILL FORECAST: 6.58am
5.00am Vicki Blight Music and chat. 6.30 Science Café Adam Walton presents a guide to the latest developments in the scientific world, including cutting-edge technologies and current research. Repeated from last Tuesday
7.00 Country Focus News on rural and farming issues for everyone working, living or visiting the Welsh countryside. 7.30 Celebration Led by Pastor Rob James, chair of the Evangelical Alliance Wales Executive. 8.00 Sunday Supplement Weekly magazine looking at the world of Welsh politics, news and the Sunday papers. 9.05 All Things Considered Religious affairs programme, tackling thorny issues in a thought-provoking manner. Repeated Tuesday 5.30am Email: religion.wales@bbc.co.uk
9.30 Sunday Morning with Scott Quinnell and Co Great music and great guests for Sunday morning. 11.05 Owen Money’s Solid Gold Sunday The entertainer plays a selection of classic hits from the 1960s and 70s. 1.05pm Aled Jones 2/12. Ventriloquist Nina Conti joins Aled to share her personal choice of music and discuss her life and career. First broadcast in September 2016. Repeat
2.00 Lynn Bowles The broadcaster invites guests from all walks of life to chat, and offers listeners the opportunity to interact with the show’s experts. 4.05 Roy Noble The host presents the usual mix of music and conversation. Email: roy.noble@bbc.co.uk
6.05 Jamie Owen’s Wales 4/6. Jamie continues to explore the historical county of Gwent. Repeated from last Thursday
6.30 Eye on Wales Current affairs programme focusing on major issues, offering explorations of the day’s most pressing stories and broadcasting rarely heard voices. 7.00 Celtic Heartbeat Frank Hennessy introduces folk roots and acoustic music from the Celtic nations and the rest of the world. Featuring a regular mix of guests, sessions, reviews and the weekly gig guide. 9.00 Beverley’s World of Music Broadcaster Beverley Humphreys introduces a selection of popular songs from stage and screen. 11.00 Lisa Gwilym Music and chat. 1.00am—5.30 as World Service
Monday NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 10.00pm WEATHER: before most news bulletins
5.30am Radio Wales Arts Show Nicola Heywood Thomas presents the latest reviews, reports and analysis in a weekly round-up of the arts scene. Repeated from last Friday
6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather with Claire Summers. 8.30 Jason Mohammad The broadcaster presents music, chat and the day’s leading stories. Telephone: 03700 100 110 Text: 81012 Email: jason@bbc.co.uk Tweet: @bbcradiowales
11.05 Wynne Evans The opera singer presents a mix of music, chat and celebrity guests. Text: 81012 Email: wynne@bbc.co.uk
2.05pm Eleri Siôn A mixture of conversation, entertainment, music and advice. Plus the 2.45 Teaser. Telephone: 03700 100 110 Text: 81012 Email: eleri@bbc.co.uk Tweet: @bbcradiowales
5.00 Gareth Lewis The latest stories and developments from Wales and the world, featuring sport, weather and travel news. 6.30 Sarah Breese: Nothing like a Dame Comedian and actress Sarah Breese has always wanted to be a pantomime star, but her only experience to date was as a child, when she reached the giddy heights of the front end of a cow. Here, Sarah takes a whirlwind tour of some of Wales’s finest productions to see if she has what it takes to tread the slippery boards of the pantomime stage. From her favourite family panto in Mid Wales, to a rock ‘n’ roll extravaganza in the north, she hears surprising stories from behind the scenes, as well as being put through her paces by the country’s most beloved panto stars. Repeat 7.00 Janice Long A range of songs from the 1960s right through to today, as well as new music and artists from Wales. 10.00 Chris Needs The host presents a selection of late-night tracks and chat. Telephone: 03700 100 110
1.00am—5.30 as World Service
Tuesday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday
5.30am All Things Considered Religious affairs programme, tackling thorny issues in a thought-provoking manner. Repeated from Sunday 9.05am
6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather with Claire Summers. 8.30 Jason Mohammad The broadcaster presents music, chat and the day’s leading stories. 11.00 Wynne Evans The opera singer presents a mix of music, chat and celebrity guests. 2.00pm Eleri Siôn A mixture of conversation, entertainment, music and advice. Plus the 2.45 Teaser. 5.00 Gareth Lewis The latest stories and developments from Wales and the world, featuring sport, weather and travel news.
6.30 Science Café Adam Walton presents a guide to the latest developments in the scientific world, including cutting-edge technologies and current research. Repeated tomorrow 5.30am
7.00 Janice Long A range of songs from the 1960s right through to today, as well as new music and artists from Wales. 10.00 Chris Needs The host presents a selection of late-night tracks and chat.
2.00pm Eleri Siôn A mixture of conversation, entertainment, music and advice. Plus the 2.45 Teaser. 5.00 Gareth Lewis The latest stories and developments from Wales and the world, featuring sport, weather and travel news. 6.30 A Bridge through Time Documentary about the Transporter Bridge in Newport, following those who work on it, travel on it and live in its shadow. Repeat
Telephone: 03700 100 110
Repeated tomorrow 5.30am
1.00am—5.30 as World Service
7.00 Janice Long A range of songs from the 1960s right through to today. 10.00 Chris Needs The host presents a selection of late-night tracks and chat.
Wednesday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday
5.30am Science Café Adam Walton presents a guide to the latest developments in the scientific world, including cutting-edge technologies and current research. Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm
6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather with Claire Summers. 8.30 Jason Mohammad The broadcaster presents music, chat and the day’s leading stories. 11.00 Wynne Evans The opera singer presents a mix of music, chat and celebrity guests. 2.00pm Eleri Siôn A mixture of conversation, entertainment, music and advice. Plus the 2.45 Teaser. 5.00 Gareth Lewis The latest stories and developments from Wales and the world, featuring sport, weather and travel news. 6.30 Eye on Wales Current affairs programme focusing on major issues, offering explorations of the day’s most pressing stories and broadcasting rarely heard voices. Repeated tomorrow 5.30am
7.00 Janice Long A range of songs from the 1960s right through to today, as well as new music and artists from Wales. 10.00 Chris Needs The host presents a selection of late-night tracks and chat. Telephone: 03700 100 110
1.00am—5.30 as World Service
Thursday NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday
5.30am Eye on Wales Current affairs programme focusing on major issues, offering explorations of the day’s most pressing stories and broadcasting rarely heard voices. Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm
6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather with Claire Summers. 8.30 Dot Davies Real-life stories, music, topical discussion and a chance to speak directly to Wales’s decision makers. 11.00 Wynne Evans The opera singer presents a mix of music, chat and celebrity guests. Text: 81012 Email: wynne@bbc.co.uk
Telephone: 03700 100 110
1.00am—5.30 as World Service
Friday NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 7.00pm, plus 10.00pm WEATHER: before most news bulletins
5.30am A Bridge through Time Documentary about the Transporter Bridge in Newport Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm
6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast News, sport, travel and weather with Oliver Hides. 8.30 Jiffy’s Six Nations Breakfast Jonathan Davies takes listeners’ calls about the tournament. 9.00 Dot Davies Real-life stories, music, topical discussion and a chance to speak directly to Wales’s decision makers. 11.00 Wynne Evans The opera singer presents a mix of music, chat and celebrity guests. 2.00pm Eleri Siôn A mixture of conversation, entertainment, music and advice. Plus the 2.45 Teaser. 5.00 Gareth Lewis The latest stories and developments from Wales and the world, featuring sport, weather and travel news. 6.30 Ham and Jam: the Wildly Brilliant Poetry of Childe Roland Sophie McKeand pays tribute to Llangollen poet and artist Childe Roland, aka Peter Meilleur. Featuring contributions from those who knew and loved him, as well as archive recordings of Peter reading his own poetry, while Sophie and his widow Sue perform their favourites among his works. Repeat 7.00 Radio Wales Sport Round-up of events, including news as it happens and live commentaries. 10.00 Chris Needs The host presents a selection of late-night tracks and chat. Telephone: 03700 100 110
1.00am—5.00 as World Service BBC Wales, Broadcasting House Llandaff, Cardiff CF5 2YQ Tel: 03700 100 222 Phone-ins: 03700 100 110 (landline calls charged at a maximum of 8p per minute) SMS: 81012 bbc.co.uk/radiowales
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Saturday 1–Friday 7 February Cymru Sadwrn 5.30am Caniadaeth y Cysegr Hanner awr o ganu cynulleidfaol. Ail-ddarlledir Sul 4.30pm
EBOST: galwadcynnar@bbc.co.uk
8.00 Post Cyntaf Newyddion a chwaraeon bore Sadwrn. EBOST: post.cyntaf@bbc.co.uk
EBOST: arymarc@bbc.co.uk
9.00 Tudur Owen Lot o fwydro, ’chydig o sylwedd, dim swmp. 11.00 Y Sioe Sadwrn Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant ar ddydd Sadwrn. 1.45pm Chwaraeon Radio Cymru Sylwebaethau o gêm Cymru v Yr Eidal ym Mhencampwriaeth y Chwe Gwlad. 5.30 Marc Griffiths Cymysgedd o’r hen a’r newydd i ddiddanu ar nos Sadwrn, gan gynnwys llwyth o geisiadau. EBOST: marc.griffiths@bbc.co.uk
9.00 Gaynor Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ar nos Sadwrn. Os oes gyda chi gyfarchion neu gais am gân yna cysylltwch. Ffôn: 03703 500500
12.00 gweler Radio 5 Live
Sul 5.30am Yr Oedfa Gwasanaeth ar y Sul i wrandawyr Radio Cymru, dan ofal y Parchedig Beti Wyn James. Ail-ddarlledir am 11.30am
6.00 Gwawr Owen Dwyawr o gerddoriaeth amrywiol yng nghwmni’r pianydd a’r arweinydd Gwawr Owen. 8.00 Bwrw Golwg John Roberts a’i westeion yn trafod materion moesol a chrefyddol. EBOST: bwrw.golwg@bbc.co.uk
8.30 Dewi Llwyd ar Fore Sul Adolygiad o’r papurau Sul, cerddoriaeth hamddenol, a sylw i’r celfyddydau. 10.00 Richard Rees Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth i helpu i ymlacio ar fore Sul. 11.30 Yr Oedfa Gwasanaeth ar y Sul i wrandawyr Radio Cymru, dan ofal y Parchedig Beti Wyn James. Darlledwyd am 5.30am
12.00 Beti a’i Phobol Beti George yn sgwrsio gydag un o bobl Cymru. Ail-ddarlledir Iau am 6pm
1.00pm Cofio Archif, atgof a chân yn ymwneud â phethau bach sy’n cael sylw John Hardy yn y rhaglen hon. Ail-ddarlledir Mercher 6pm
Darlledwyd Sadrwn 5.30am
5.00 Myfi sy’n Filwr Bychan Cyfres yn edrych ar brofiadau’r rhai wnaeth Wasanaeth Milwrol Cenedlaethol rhwng 1949—1963. 5.30 Dei Tomos Sgyrsiau am Gymru, ei phobl a’i diwylliant. EBOST: deitomos@bbc.co.uk
7.00 Stori Tic Toc Huw sy’n adrodd hanes Mabon a’i dad yn paratoi i ddarllen stori cyn cysgu. 7.05 Y Talwrn Criw’r Ship a Penllyn yn cystadlu i fod yn bencampwyr Y Talwrn yn 2020. 8.00 Ar Eich Cais Rhys Meirion yn darllen cyfarchion ac yn chwarae ceisiadau. EBOST: areichcais@bbc.co.uk
9.00 John ac Alun Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio i gloi’r penwythnos. 12.00 gweler Radio 5 Live
Llun 5.30am John Hardy Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ben bore, gyda bwletinau newyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. 8.00 Post Cyntaf Dylan Jones a Kate Crockett gyda’r newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt. EBOST: post.cyntaf@bbc.co.uk
8.30 Aled Hughes Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth, a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar feddwl pawb. 10.00 Bore Cothi Croeso cynnes dros baned gyda Shân Cothi. 12.00 Dros Ginio Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd, gyda Dewi Llwyd yn cyflwyno. Ffôn: 03703 500 500 EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
2.00pm Ifan Evans Digon o gerddoriaeth, chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy. 5.00 Post Prynhawn Newyddion y dydd yng Nghymru a thu hwnt gydag Alun Thomas. EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk Post Prynhawn, BBC Radio Cymru Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion Bangor, LL57 2BY
6.00 Stiwdio Golwg ar y celfyddydau yng Nghymru a thu hwnt. 7.00 Recordiau Rhys Mwyn Clasuron coll o gasgliad Mr Mwyn, a gwesteion yn hel atgofion.
10.00 Geraint Lloyd Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio ar y shifft hwyr. Pwy yw perchennog newydd yr het yr wythnos hon? Ffôn: 03703 500500 EBOST: geraint.lloyd@bbc.co.uk
12.00 gweler Radio 5 Live
Mawrth 5.30am John Hardy Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ben bore, gyda bwletinau newyddion, chwaraeon, tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn ogystal â golwg ar y papurau. 7.00 Post Cyntaf Dylan Jones a Kate Crockett gyda’r newyddion diweddaraf yng Nghymru a thu hwnt.
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rom her house in the Dublin seaside suburb of Dún Laoghaire, Keyes can walk to the home of her mother and a brother; her other siblings live nearby. Like the Caseys, hers is a close-knit family that socialises and holidays together. Keyes, the eldest of five siblings, is their organiser, the one shouting, “For God’s sake, will you get on,” at the bottom of the stairs, then getting huffy if everyone isn’t “having a lovely time, all the time”. “I’m not a relaxed person, you know,” she confides. “I feel that I have to keep an eye on everything to make sure it’s all running OK.” A premium was placed on humour in her childhood home. “Being funny is the one thing that comes easy to me. We live in fairly frightening times, so it is more important than ever to laugh at ourselves and our circumstances.” She is “thrilled” to be chairing the judges of the 2020 Comedy Women in Print prize, founded last year by comedian and writer Helen Lederer partly as a response to the 20-year-old Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize having only ever had three female winners (a fourth woman, Nina Stibbe, has won since, in 2019). “Most men won’t read women,” says Keyes. “Publishing is a sexist industry. The Women’s Prize for Fiction has had a transformative impact. CWIP is in its second year– it will be brilliant for highlighting entertaining women writers.” Watching television is her “total escape”. On Twitter, you will find her dissecting Love Island and discuss-
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ing her passion for Scandi drama for her 195,000 followers. Does she still bake? “I can’t, because it reminds me how terrible I felt during those times.” She has, however, taken up painting, and has even had two commissions. “One from my sister, and one from my cleaning-lady, so it doesn’t really count as a new career.” Her fans can rest easy. PATRICIA NICOL Marian Keyes will appear on Radio 5 Live in the afternoon on 6 February, the 6 Music breakfast show on 7 February, and Radio 4’s Open Book on 9 February. She will be on tour from 5 to 15 February across the UK. For details, visit mariankeyes.com/events For more information about CWIP and how to enter, visit comedywomeninprint.co.uk
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Malaysia and Singapore. The Thai leg of his journey began in Northern Thailand’s largest city, Chiang Mai, which has more than 300 temples and an atmospheric old town. “Chiang Mai’s old quarter is very picturesque,” says Portillo. “It’s entirely square with a wall and moat around it. Chiang Mai was the capital of Lanna Kingdom and it was only at the end of the 19th century that Siam – as Thailand used to be – absorbed Lanna, so it has different traditions. Whereas present-day Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia were all colonised by European powers, Thailand was never colonised thanks to the statecraft of the Thai royal family, which was always outmanoeuvring the French and British. “They had to give enormous concessions to the British. The area around Chiang Mai is teak forest and the British were very interested in getting their hands on the teak. The Thai made that possible, but managed to continue to be selfgoverning. There are gorgeous railway journeys in Thailand and the journey south from Chiang Mai takes you through teak forests – it’s superb.”
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From Chiang Mai, Portillo chugged south to Kanchanaburi on the River Kwai and rode on the notorious “Death Railway”, which is estimated to have cost the lives of over 100,000 forced labourers and Allied soldiers in the Second World War. Much of the line was dismantled after the war, but passenger trains still run along the Bangkok section and cross its famous bridge, immortalised in the 1957 war film The Bridge on the River Kwai. “The bridge is not the bridge you expect to see if you’ve seen the movie. It turns out that the prisoners were forced to build two bridges. The first was a temporary bridge made out of wood that they could put up quickly, so supplies could get through. It was always intended that they’d build alongside that a concrete and steel bridge,
PLACE OF PEACE The Wat Phra Singh, one of Chiang Mai’s 300 temples
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which they did, and then the first bridge was demolished because it was no longer needed. The Allies managed to destroy two spans of the bridge and you can clearly see the repair because the design is different. “The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is very close by and has the graves of about 7,000 Allied troops – mostly British, Dutch and Australian. It’s beautifully tended and extremely moving as well: long rows of identical headstones recording each name and the pitifully young ages at which they died.” The towering ruined temples and palaces of AMONG THE RUINS S i a m’s o l d c a p i t a l , A buddha in Ayutthaya Ayutthaya, are also a Historical Park must for anyone interested in pre-20th-century history. “Ayuttahya was overrun by the Burmese in the 18th century to the extent that the city was never rebuilt. You get the idea of a very beautiful capital. It’s kind of like a Pompeii. GUIDE TO One of those cities that suffered a catastrophe THE EAST from which it never recovered.” TV presenter Michael Portillo, and the bridge over the River Kwai
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THE TOUGHEST BRAINTEASERS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE SHOWS
Only Connect with Victoria Coren Mitchell
Countdown with Rachel Riley
The connecting wall from Only Connect combines general knowledge, wordplay and lateral thinking to give your brain cells a workout!
Using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, try to get as close to the target as possible in 30 seconds. You can use each of the six numbers only once, but you don’t have to use them all. Rachel’s solution is on the previous page.
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Can you crack the Enigma code? Each grid number represents a letter. Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter or letters — below the main grid — to start. The solution is on the previous page. Difficulty: 12/20 Target time: 24 minutes 23 20 11
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TRACKWORD FOR LAST ISSUE: Nine-letter word DUPLICITY cid, city, cud, cuit, cul, cult, cup, cut, dup, duplicity, duty, licit, lid, lucid, lud, pud, pudic, pudicity, pul, puli, put, puy, tic, tui, tup (Reference: Chambers English Dictionary)
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Pointless
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with Radio 2’s Ken Bruce
Pointless asks a question of 100 people, the contestants are then asked to choose the answer they think the fewest of those 100 people knew. How to play Here are the names of five 19th-century British prime ministers, with alternate letters missing. Can you fill in the blanks?
19TH-CENTURY BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS R_B_R_ / P_E_L S_E_C_R / P_R_E_A_ J_H_ / R_S_E_L W_L_I_M / G_A_S_O_E B_N_A_I_ / D_S_A_L_
1960s 1 What was the title of the only number one hit single achieved by Johnny Preston? 2 Which 1966 top 40 hit by The Chiffons made the top ten when it was reissued in 1972?
1970s 3 Can you name the group that made the top ten with Tom-Tom Turnaround and Sister Jane? 4 What was the title of the Manhattan Transfer’s only number one single?
1980s
a Matthew b Pelican c Endeavour
5 Which singer and guitarist joined Gary Moore on the 1985 top ten single, Out in the Fields? 6 What was the title of the Wings album that first contained the tracks With a Little Luck, Girlfriend and Deliver Your Children?
6 Which city was popularly known as Linenopolis in the 19th century?
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Eggheads with Jeremy Vine KEVIN ASHMAN 1 The practice of ingesting small amounts of poison in order to build up an immunity is named after which ancient world character?
for what turned out to be North America?
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2 What type of historical figure is the animated children’s TV character, Noggin the Nog?
JUDITH KEPPEL 7 Which term refers to creatures that are mainly active in twilight conditions?
a Viking prince b French pirate c Eskimo boy
STEVE COOKE 3 Which endangered mammal, found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is sometimes known as the forest giraffe? a Bongo b Okapi c Gnu
4 Jim Grant is the real name of which bestselling novelist? a Andy McNab b Lee Child c Ian Rankin
CHRIS HUGHES 5 What was the name of the ship in which John Cabot set sail in 1497
a Diurnal b Crepuscular c Ectothermic
8 Omophagia is the technical term for eating what? a Sugary food b Hot food c Raw food
DAVE RAINFORD 9 Journalist Jon Ronson used to play keyboard for which comedy act? a Frank Sidebottom b Vic Reeves c John Shuttleworth
10 Brian John Duffy, aka Jet Black, was a founding member of which band? a The Clash b The Jam c The Stranglers
Dictionary corner Susie Dent Word of the Week – ultracrepidarian We all know someone who likes to talk at length on a subject they know little about — “ultracrepidarian” is one word for such a presumptuous critic. The term originates in a classical story of a cobbler in ancient Greece, who, while observing a painting by the artist Apelles, criticised the rendering of a sandal in the picture, which had one loop too
few; he also passed comment on the subject’s leg. Apparently Apelles liked to eavesdrop on those who came to see his paintings, and is said to have retorted that the cobbler should judge nothing but the shoes, which were his only sphere of knowledge. The Latin tag ne ultra crepidam means “beyond the sole or sandal”, and from this was formed “ultracrepidarian”: one who gives opinions on matters far outside their own area of expertise.
7 Which band had top ten hits with their singles Nancy Boy, Pure Morning and You Don’t Care About Us? 8 The 1993 top ten remix of Housecall by Shabba Ranks featured which other vocalist?
2000s—present day 9 Eminem entered the charts at number one in 2005 with which song? 10 Which X Factor winner made their solo chart debut with the number one hit, When You Believe?
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Down the drain
Rowland Hughes Swanage, Dorset
… Chris Packham doesn’t practise what he preaches. In the making of his programme he flew by jet to Nigeria and Brazil, where he took a helicopter flight above Sao Paulo. He criticises our excesses, decadence and thoughtless greed, saying we should be repairing goods, instead of buying new, yet he owns ten vacuum cleaners! Bri Heath Aberystwyth, Ceredigion
5 LIVE... OLD AND NEW Nicky Campbell, Rachel Burdon, Elis James and John Robins
Radio 5 Live has lost its way. As a middle-aged woman with a keen interest in current affairs and sport, I used to listen every day, but over the past year or so the station has changed. Mark Pougatch isn’t the only well-qualified presenter who has disappeared, but in my opinion there is no “younger” audience to pursue. The young access news and sports in other ways and don’t rely on the radio as we did. I find myself listening to 5 Live only when “the grown-ups” are on – Breakfast, Drive, Emma Barnett and some of the sports coverage. It became obvious I definitely wasn’t the demographic any more when one Friday afternoon I caught the end of a jolly discussion about a man who had relieved himself in a sink in front of his girlfriend after a night out. Julie Parkes Wigan, Greater Manchester Julie Parkes wins a BOSE SoundLink Revolve speaker, in either black or silver. One of BOSE’s best-performing portable Bluetooth speakers, it is water-resistant, has a rechargeable battery that plays for up to 12 hours and delivers true 360° sound, wherever you place it in the room. RRP £179.95. bose.co.uk
SCANDALOUSLY GOOD TV The Trial of Christine Keeler (BBC1) has been a superb piece of television drama: excellent writing by Amanda Coe, fine direction and first-rate performances throughout. But special mention must surely go to the wonderful James Norton, who has portrayed the character of Stephen Ward in such a nuanced, sympathetic and moving manner. He deserves to win a Bafta for his unforgettable performance.
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TARRANT’S MISSING LEG What’s happened to the final episode of Chris Tarrant’s Extreme Railway Journeys (Channel 5) about the Kenyan railway? I was particularly looking forward to this one as I worked and travelled on these trains in the early 1970s. Linda Gresham Birmingham
Channel 5 tell us this episode was held back because of Christmas scheduling and will air in March.
HE’S FOUND HIS NISH Whoever thought of making Nish Kumar the new chair of The News Quiz (Friday Radio 4) was inspired. I really like him and we share the same madcap sense of humour.
Stephen Cowley Barnstaple, Devon
POTTED PLEASURE What a thoroughly enjoyable week of Masters Snooker (BBC2): no racial abuse, no tantrums, no spitting, no disrespect for the referee, no booing, but only appreciation for a good performance by either player. Between frames and sessions there was intelligent comment by Hazel Irvine and her guests. Thank you to the players and the BBC. Alan Hodgson Bristol
GIVE US A GOOD READ Whatever is Radio 4 doing to Book of the Week (Monday– Friday)? Why Women Read Fiction (13–17 January) was a charmless list of points read in a confrontational style: valid points maybe, but hardly a joined-up narrative. Then we’ve had Orwell in Five Words (20–24 January), “an investigation” by Phil Tinline that included multiple voices and interviews. I love Radio 4 and am interested in all its social issues, but please give us back a story to listen to. I’m not asking for frothy escapism (though that’s fun occasionally), just fiction or non-fiction read in a warm and engaged manner by one empathetic voice. Lyn Armstrong Sheffield
PACKHAM PREACHES I absolutely agree with the points made by Chris Packham in 7.7 Billion People and Counting (21 January BBC2). Overpopulation is the most serious – and ignored – problem facing Earth today. There is little point in reducing our carbon or plastic footprints when there are so many human footprints. As a species, we are far too “successful” now, and the alternative to population control – by contraception, education and managed consumption – will be despoliation of the planet and assured disaster. I commend Chris Packham
Every funny line (or even voiced idea) is accompanied by Nish’s huge, infectious laugh. An excellent choice.
MOVING James Norton as Stephen Ward
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FAST TRACK The Speedshop BIKER (12 January Speedshop’s BBC2) was Titch Cormack a gem: great people, great story, great bikes, my home town of Poole – plus a great soundtrack. It’s not often I get to hear Black Sabbath on the BBC! Motorcyclists are usually portrayed on TV in a negative way, so I hope this documentary will be followed by a series. Mark Hall Fordingbridge, Hampshire
SLOW BUT PERFECT Many thanks to BBC4 for All Aboard! New Zealand by Rail, Sea and Land (19 January). These Slow TV programmes are oases of calm in our turbulent world. I was surprised to note the similarity between much of the countryside of New Zealand to that of our own. When I asked my grandson, who spends half his year in the winter sports industry on the South Island, what it was like, he replied, “It’s just like Wales – it rains a lot.” Bill Summerfield Barry, Vale of Glamorgan
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GIVE IT SOME WELLY! DCI Vera Stanhope in Vera (Sunday ITV) means well, but how many lives are lost during highspeed dashes to crime scenes when she keeps holding up the much faster police cars with her battered old Land Rover? Or have the BBC’s Top Gear team been working a spot of magic under the bonnet… Stuart Ford Bridgend, Shropshire
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‘I love cosy programmes…’ They remind me of being off school poorly, says the comedy star
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Reece, what’s the view from your sofa? My very old, foot-thick television, that probably should be in a skip. I’d never get rid of it – it’s like an antique – but if I want to watch Netflix I have to pull out all these wires and change all the configurations at the back with a Scart lead. It’s absolutely ludicrous. Everyone in my family is completely embarrassed, but I still persevere with it. Apart from your ancient telly, what else can you see? There’s a big pile of books next to the TV. I’ve got so many books now it’s like a hoarder’s house. There are lots of DVDs as well, which are an old-fashioned thing now, I guess, but I can’t bear to part with them. What do you enjoy watching? Cosy programmes that as a child, I would only have watched if I was poorly, off school with a stomach
ache and eating oxtail soup. I think that’s why I love Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s fishing programme. It harks back to the sort of gentle television that appeals to me. I enjoy the quite deliberately slower pace of it. It seems like a tonic to everything else. Do you watch much comedy? I can’t enjoy it in the same way because I’m just thinking, “Oh, God, this is really good,” and that’s distressing! [laughs] Although Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are a big inspiration. I love that they’re still managing to make me laugh with the return of Big Night Out [on BBC4], which is as mad as ever. They’ve still got the spark in them. What can you say about this fifth series of Inside No 9? I hope that there are as many surprises as people have come
to expect from the show. I think that there are going to be some unexpected reactions to some of the stories we’ve told; although it gets harder and harder to keep the surprise going. How many more series do you think you have in you? We’re happy with the way that it’s gone so far. I think we still have a few good stories and we’re not repeating ourselves. Besides, we might not get another series. I read somewhere that it had been commissioned for series six and I was like, “It’s news to me.” It’s not been confirmed yet! It’s not in our powers to say, “Yeah, we’ll keep going, thank you.” But if people want it, I think we will keep doing it, until we think there’s a good place to stop. I think that as long as we feel that as the writers and the creators, there’s no reason why it should end.
Steve Pemberton recently mentioned that you might do a stage version of Inside No 9… That is something that we’ve been talking about. We’ll never make things easy for ourselves, but the episodes of No 9 are suited to it through their theatricality – they are like little plays, so doing some of them on stage would feel like a natural thing. It’s a future thing for us to mull over, but I think it probably will happen. In 2017, you made three specials for the anniversary of League of Gentlemen. Any plans for more? I don’t know what the next anniversary of it would be. When one of us dies? It would have to be a while now, until it felt special again. Maybe we’ll have a reunion when we’re 70 and return on our Zimmer frames. FRANCES TAYLOR Inside No 9 is on Monday 10pm BBC2 (Tuesday 11.45pm in Northern Ireland)
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NOTHING TO WATCH? MY BOOK I enjoyed Cari Mora by Thomas Harris, who created Hannibal Lecter. MY FILM I cannot tell you how much joy it brings me to watch Laurel and Hardy in Sons of the Desert. I watched it recently and laughed like it was my first viewing. MY PODCAST I enjoy @ShockWavesPod, a great, very detailed horror film podcast.
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