Rolling Stone set to take over BBC Four

Keith Richards will “take over” BBC Four for a weekend later this month which will see him curating the TV schedule.

The Rolling Stones guitarist, 72, is set to host three days from 7pm to 4am on Friday to Sunday, called the Lost Weekend, on the channel.

He will pick all of the programmes to be shown and will feature in between them in snippets from an in-depth interview.

A delighted Richards said: “No-one has taken over a TV channel before. Let’s see how it flies!”