RADIO GUIDE
RADIO 4
5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 Please Protect Abraham. 6.00 News and Papers. 6.07 Ramblings. 6.30 Farming Today This Week. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 Today. 8.31 ((LW)) Yesterday in Parliament. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00 Your Place or Mine. 10.30 The Kitchen Cabinet. 11.00 The Week in Westminster. 11.30 From Our Own Correspondent. 12.00 News. 12.01 ((LW)) Shipping Forecast. 12.04 Money Box. 12.30 The News Quiz. 12.57 Weather. 1.00 News. 1.10 Any Questions? 2.00 Any Answers? 2.45 The Museums That Make Us. 3.00 Drama: The Ballad of Syd & Morgan. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights from the week. 5.00 Saturday PM. News and sports headlines, with Caroline Wyatt. 5.30 Political Thinking with Nick Robinson. An interview with a major political figure. 5.54 Shipping Forecast. 5.57 Weather. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.15 Loose Ends. Clive Anderson and David Morrissey are joined by Stacey Dooley and Gabrielle Brooks. With music from Ron Sexsmith and Galen & Paul. 7.00 Profile. Friends, adversaries, colleagues and confidants provide an insight into the personality and motivation of a person who is making the headlines. 7.15 This Cultural Life. John Wilson talks to leading cultural figures about their life, work and creative process. 8.00 Archive on 4: The Socrates of San Francisco. The story of Howard Luck Gossage, a reluctant advertising innovator, who tried to start a revolution in the Caribbean, and helped to create Friends of the Earth in the 1960s. 9.00 GF Newman’s The Corrupted. Leah works hard to get Brian out of Broadmoor arguing that as he was able to escape and stay out of sight, then he cannot be insane. Jasmine Hyde stars. Last in the series. 9.45
Short Works. The Suit, by Colin Carberry. Following her wedding, a woman promises to buy her father a new suit. Read by Roísín Gallagher. 10.00 News. 10.15 Bringing Up Britain. 11.00 Round Britain Quiz. 11.30 Uncanny. 12.00 Midnight News. 12.15 21st-Century Relaxation Tape. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 As BBC World Service. 5.20
Shipping Forecast.
RADIO 3
7.00 Breakfast. 9.00 Record Review. 11.45 Music Matters. 12.30 This Classical Life. 1.00 Inside Music. 3.00 Sound of Cinema. 4.00 Music Planet. With a session by bagpipe player Brighde Chaimbeul. 5.00 JtoZ. A special edition for Mental Health Awareness Month. 6.30 Opera on 3. Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Royal Opera House, starring Jenny Carlstedt, Sandrine Piau and Christopher Purves. 8.25 Radio 3 in Concert. The BBC Singers give the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Reconnaissance, and a chance to hear Saariaho’s string quartet Terra memoria, performed by Guildhall Students. 10.00 New Music Show. 12.00 Freeness. 1.00 Through the Night.
CLASSIC FM
7.00 Alan Titchmarsh. 10.00 Aled Jones. 1.00 Alexander Armstrong. 4.00 Moira Stuart’s Hall of Fame Concert. Moira showcases a piece that has been in the top ten since the chart began. 7.00 Saturday Night at the Movies. Jonathan presents music from films based in cities to help listeners escape on a city break over the bank holiday. Featuring music from In Bruges, Roman Holiday and Ratatouille. 9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies. David turns his focus to Sergei Rachmaninov 150 years after his birth. The composer currently holds the number one spot in the Hall of Fame with his Piano Concerto No 2. 10.00 Calm Classics. 1.00 Katie Breathwick. 4.00 Sam Pittis.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Act Your Age. 5.30 Bleak Expectations. 6.00 Lord Dracula. 7.30 The Wall Omnibus. 8.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 9.00 Benny Hill Time. 9.30 Whack-O! 10.00 Writing – The Midlands. 11.00 Lord Dracula. 12.30 The Wall Omnibus. 1.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 2.00 Benny Hill Time. 2.30 Whack-O! 3.00 Writing – The Midlands. 4.00 Dangerous Visions: Body Tourists. 4.45 Someone Like You. 5.00 Lord Dracula. 6.30 The Wall Omnibus. 7.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 8.00 Benny Hill Time. 8.30 Whack-O! 9.00 Writing – The Midlands. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 Nick Mohammed in Bits. 10.30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better. 10.55 The Comedy Club Interview. 11.00 Comedy Club. 11.00 Vent. 11.30 Life: An Idiot’s Guide. 12.00 To See the Sun. 12.30 The Golden Apples of the Sun. 1.00 Lord Dracula. 2.30 The Wall Omnibus. 3.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 4.00 Benny Hill Time. 4.30 Whack-O!