Today’s radio

VERA 8.30PM

Another chance to see Brenda Blethyn in action as the Northumberland detective

ITV

6am

Good Morning Britain A lively mix of news and current affairs, plus health, entertainment and lifestyle features. (HD)

Good Morning Britain with Lorraine Entertainment, current affairs, fashion news, showbiz stories and celebrity gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly. (HD)

Daily magazine, featuring a mix of celebrity chat, showbusiness news, lifestyle features, topical discussion, health and beauty advice and more. (HD)

Loose Women Topical debate from a female perspective. (HD)

News; Weather (HD)

Regional News; Weather (HD)

Judge Rinder Real-life cases in a studio courtroom. (HD)

Quiz show, hosted by Warwick Davis. (R)(HD)

Quiz, hosted by Ben Shephard. (R)(HD)

The Chase Quiz show, hosted by Bradley Walsh. (R)(HD)

Regional News; Weather (HD)

News; Weather (HD)

Emmerdale Will fears that he has totally blown it, Lydia speculates about Vinny’s new friend, and Leyla is shocked when she sees what has happened. (HD)(AD)

Coronation Street Michael convinces Ed to stand up for himself, James fears that he will never be accepted, and

Leanne leans on Toyah and

Nick for support. (HD)(AD)

Birds of a Feather Sharon disapproves of Tracey dating policeman Barry, leading to a massive fall-out between the sisters, so Dorien intervenes in her new role as a magazine agony aunt. (R)(HD)(AD)

Joined by a new addition to the ranks, Vera and the team investigate the murder of a respected surgeon and the abduction of his two teenage daughters. (R)(HD)(AD)

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(HD) FILM (1984) 15 ◆

A teenager is given a strange, cute creature as a Christmas present by his eccentric father and warned to keep it away from water, not to feed it after midnight, or expose it to direct light. However, a chance dousing causes the furball to spawn a horde of murderous little monsters. Comedy horror, with Zach Galligan. (HD)(AD)

Ideal World (HD)

Scott & Bailey Both Scott and Bailey have important decisions to make. (R)(HD)(AD)(BSL)

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PORTILLO’S EMPIRE JOURNEY

9PM, CH5 ★★★★ The British Empire was vast, and its Caribbean capital was Jamaica. In this enlightening episode, Michael Portillo (right) travels there to tell the tale of this budding empire ripping land from the grip of powerful Spain. Paid buccaneers based in

Port Royal protected it, but what became of these pirates of the Caribbean once a navy was formed? Michael also explores how Britain’s sweet tooth powered slavery, and he meets the elders of Rastafarianism, a religious movement formed to reclaim African identities.

THE WORLD’S MOST SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS

8PM, CH5 ★★★

There’s a wealth of culture in rugged Mexico, and the north offers landscapes like no other. The Chihuahuapacific Express train (El Chepe) goes through mountains that are home to the Raramuri – reclusive indigenous people who can run for up to 200 miles without stopping.

Dazzling Duets at the BBC Memorable performances from the BBC archive.

Top of the Pops: 1989

Kermode and Mayo’s Home Entertainment Service

9.00 Top of the Pops: 1989

9.30 Sounds of the Eighties

10.00 Stevie Wonder: A Musical History 11.00 Sings Stevie Wonder

DAZZLING DUETS AT THE BBC

7PM, BBC4 ★★★★ t’s not just the music that makes this selection of duets so good, it’s watching how the musicians relate to each other as they play. Among the highlights are a side-by-side piano mprovisation from Andre Previn and Oscar Peterson, and Kiri Te Kanawa (left) singing with Thomas Allen.

KERMODE AND MAYO’S HOME ENTERTAINMENT SERVICE

8.30PM, BBC4 ★★★★

This review show doesn’t give Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo (left) nearly as much room for banter as their film podcast does. Tonight, they’re reviewing Sky’s I Know This Much Is True and the upcoming BBC football comedy The First Team.

CAN ALZHEIMER’S BE STOPPED?

8.35PM, PBS AMERICA ★★★

A survey of where we stand in the fight against a horrible disease that obs people of themselves. We hear from key researchers, go behind the scenes on clinical trials, and meet a Colombian family with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s, who once thought they had been cursed.

VAN DER VALK

9PM, TALKING PICTURES TV ★★★ TV’S reboot with Marc Warren might be over, but there are still plenty of opportunities to watch the vintage original with Barry Foster (left) – these Friday repeats will be going on until November. In tonight’s episode, the Dutch detective investigates when a woman goes missing after a swim.

STEVIE WONDER: A MUSICAL HISTORY

10PM, BBC4 ★★★★ They’re queuing up to celebrate the career of Stevie Wonder (left) in this finely made profile. The actor Martin Freeman, singers Beverley Knight and Alexander O’neal and many, many more sing his praises in this look back at Wonder’s greatest hits and musical achievements.

REDKNAPP’S HOME FIXTURE

10PM, SKY ONE ★★★

Jamie Redknapp and his dad, Harry (left), host this merry chat show from their respective homes, with help and comedy from Jamie’s friend, King Gary star Tom Davis. They talk to plenty of familiar faces from the world of sport, and Redknapp senior has some good stories to tell, too. RW

SKY COMEDY

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8.40am Family (2019) 15 u

See 4.20pm. (S)

10.15 That Thing You Do! (1996)

PG ● With Tom Hanks. (S)

12.15pm What Men Want (2019) 15

See 8pm. (S)

2.20 The Royal Tenenbaums

(2001) 15 The estranged father of three geniuses pretends to be dying. (S) Family (2019) 15 Socially awkward woman Taylor Schilling is tasked with babysitting her niece. (S) Night School (2018) 15 u

A group of adults are forced to attend night classes in a bid to finish high school. (S)

PICK What Men Want

(2019) 15 (S)

10.00 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

(1988) 15 Detective Leslie Nielsen uncovers an assassination plot. (S)

Thenakedgun21/2:the Smell of Fear (1991) 15

Detective Leslie Nielsen uncovers a plot to replace an expert with an imposter. (S)

1.10am-2.45 The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 12 With Leslie Nielsen. (S)

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FILM4

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11am Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) PG ● Bedridden woman Barbara Stanwyck accidentally eavesdrops on two men plotting murder. (S)

12.50pm Destroyer (1943) U ●

Former welder Edward G. Robinson angers his crew with his quest for perfection. (S) The Malta Story (1953) U ●

The island of Malta comes under siege during the Second World War, and a pilot plays a crucial role in its defence. (S)

40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967) PG ● Cavalry captain Audie Murphy sets out to deliver a shipment of rifles to a fort besieged by Apaches. (S) Home Alone 3 (1997) PG ●

Eight-year-old Alex D. Linz uses an arsenal of booby traps to fend off a gang of crooks searching for a microchip. (S) Heat (1995) 15 Detective Al Pacino becomes obsessed with capturing a highly intelligent career criminal. (S)

12.20am Momentum (2015) 15

Thief Olga Kurylenko is persuaded to carry out one last heist, only to be hunted by an assassin. (S)

2.10-4.00 Last Night (1998) 15

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PANDEMIC 1918

11AM, RADIO 4 HHHH

The Armistice Day celebrations of November 1918 fuelled the second wave of the influenza pandemic that killed an estimated 50 million people around the globe. Towns and cities in the UK that acted quickly to close schools and cinemas fared better than those that carried on as normal. In the second of his three-part series, the virologist Professor John Oxford considers the startling similarities between the current coronavirus crisis and the devastations of 1918.

A CHARLES PARIS MYSTERY

11.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHHH Bill Nighy returns as the louche and often out-of-work actor Charles Paris for another camply comic four-part murder mystery. We join Charles as he practises

BBC RADIO 4

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5.33am Shipping Forecast

5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today

5.58 Tweet of the Day

6.00 Today

8.45 Yesterday in Parliament 9.00 Desert Island Discs

Another celebrity selects eight favourite recordings.

9.45 (LW) Daily Service

9.45 (FM) Book of the Week: The See Through House

By Shelley Klein.

10.00 Woman’s Hour Including at 10.45 Drama: part five of Doorstep Daughter.

PICK Pandemic 1918

PICK A Charles Paris Mystery: A Doubtful Death 12noon News

12.03 Shipping Forecast

12.06 To be announced

12.20 You and Yours Reports

on consumer affairs.

1.00 The World at One 11.00 11.30

BBC RADIO 1

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7am Matt and Mollie. 11.00 Jordan North. 12.45pm Newsbeat. 1.00 Jordan North. 3.00 Scott Mills. 4.00 The Chart Show with Scott Mills. 5.45 Newsbeat. 6.00 Scott Mills. 7.00 Annie Mac. 9.00 Danny Howard. 11.00 Pete Tong. 1am Essential Mix. 3.00 Radio 1 Dance.

BBC RADIO 3

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6.30am Breakfast. 9.00 Essential Classics. 12noon Composer of the Week: Beethoven: New Pathways.

1.05 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. Pieces by Rachmaninov and Beethoven. 2.00 Afternoon Concert. Music by Koussevitzky, Hummel, Saint-saens, Dvorak and Korngold. 4.30 The Listening Service. 5.00 In Tune. Music, arts news and guests. 7.00 In Tune Mixtape. 7.30 PICK Radio 3 in Concert. 10.00 The Verb. Writing and performance showcase. 10.45 The Essay: Let Me Take You There. Aida Edemariam recalls swimming pools in England and Ethiopia.

11.00 Late Junction. Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a rare mix from Lee Ranaldo. 1am Through the Night.

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Bill Nighy (11.30am, Radio 4) his daily routine of mindfulness. This involves concentrating on three good things, which in Charles’s case are whisky, minipoppadoms and an episode of Endeavour. Two things ruin this routine – a worrying remark from his semi-detached wife and the offer of a part in an immersive production of Hamlet. Lots of 1.45

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3.45 4.00 4.30 5.00

6.00 6.30 7.00 7.45

The New Anatomy of Melancholy

The Archers Revisited

PICK Drama: Eric the Skull Gardeners’ Question Time Experts answer listeners’ horticulture queries.

Short Works Senior Moment, by Peter Bradshaw. Read by Michael Maloney.

Last Word The lives of people who have recently died.

More or Less Tim Harford investigates the numbers that are prevalent in the news, in politics and in life generally.

PM News headlines, with Jonny Dymond.

Six O’clock News

The News Quiz Host Angela Barnes is joined by Helen Lewis, Darren Harriott and Jess Fostekew.

Frontrow Arts programme.

Doorstep Daughter

BBC RADIO 2

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5am Vanessa Feltz. 6.30 Dermot O’leary. 9.30 Ken Bruce. 12noon Jeremy Vine. 2.00 Steve Wright 5.00 Saracox. 8.00 Tony Blackburn. 9.00 Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies. 11.00 Sounds of the 90s with Fearne Cotton.

1am The Craig Charles House Party.

BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

5am Wake Up to Money. 6.00

5 Live Breakfast. 9.00 Your Call. 10.00 Chiles on Friday. 1pm Elis James and John Robins. 2.30

Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review. 4.00 5 Live Drive. 7.00 5 Live Sport. 8.30 That Peter Crouch Podcast. 9.00 Stephen Nolan. 12midnight

The Coronavirus Newscast.

CLASSIC FM

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6am More Music Breakfast. 9.00 John Suchet. 1pm Aled Jones.

5.00 Classic FM Drive. 7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven. 8.00 The Full Works Concert. Music by Grieg, Handel, Albinoni, Rachmaninov, Mendelssohn, Lalo and Beethoven. 10.00 Smooth Classics.

Any Questions? Chris Mason chairs political discussion.

A Point of View Reflections on a topical issue.

The New Anatomy of Melancholy Omnibus. A guide to what it is to suffer sadness in the 21st century.

10.00 The World Tonight

10.45 Book at Bedtime: Amongst Women By John Mcgahern.

Great Lives Profile of a major cultural figure.

50 More Things That

Made the Modern

Economy Tim Harford explores the history of the QWERTY keyboard.

11.45 Today in Parliament 12midnight News; Weather

12.30 Book of the Week:

The See Through House

By Shelley Klein.

12.48 Shipping Forecast

1.00 As BBC World Service 8.00 8.50 9.00 11.00 11.30

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA

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6am Agatha Raisin. 6.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Smithfield Murders. 7.00 Miracles R Us. 7.30 Cabin Pressure. 8.00 Something to Shout About. 8.30 Never Too Late. 9.00 The 3rd Degree. 9.30 Dry Slopes. 10.00 Father and Son. 11.00 Podcast Radio Hour. 12noon Something to Shout About. 12.30 Never Too Late. 1.00 Agatha Raisin.

1.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Smithfield Murders. 2.00 The 3rd Degree. 2.30 Dry Slopes. 3.00 Father and Son. 4.00 Podcast Radio Hour. 5.00 Miracles R Us. 5.30 Cabin Pressure. 6.00 The

Man Who Was Thursday. 6.30

Off the Page. 7.00 Something to Shout About. 7.30 Never Too Late. 8.00 Agatha Raisin. 8.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Smithfield Murders. 9.00 Podcast Radio Hour.

10.00 Comedy Club: Cabin Pressure. A pilot for a small charter airline faces a career-breaking crisis. 10.30 Paperback Hell. Literary spoof series. 10.45 Steven Appleby’s Normal Life. 11.00 Inside Alan Francis. 11.30 Dave Podmore’s Cricket Fix. 12midnight The Man Who Was Thursday.