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. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00 Your Place or Mine. 10.30 Soul Music. 10.45 ((LW)) Test Match Special. 11.00 Kings in the North. 11.30 From Our Own Correspondent. 12.00 News. 12.01 ((LW)) Shipping Forecast. 12.04 Money Box. 12.04 ((LW)) Test Match Special. 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: Bed for the Night. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. A round-up of highlights from the weekday programmes. 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. 5.57 ((LW)) Test Match Special. England v Ireland. Commentary on day three of the one-off four-day Test at Lord’s. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.15 Loose Ends. Emma Freud and Arthur Smith are joined by Jon Ronson, Jayde Adams, Tom Allen and Rakie Ayola. With music by Glenn Tilbrook and Rae Morris. 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 Great Outdoors. Matthew Sweet draws on BBC archive encounters, to illustrate how the countryside has long been a battleground for political and cultural factions. 9.00 Stone. By Richard Monks. DCI John Stone investigates a hit-and-run on a cyclist, but soon realises there are several people who wanted the man dead. 9.45 Short Works. Summer Holiday, comedian Josie Long’s short story about a less-thanglamourous summer job. 10.00 News. 10.15 Screenshot. 11.00 Round Britain Quiz. 11.30 Uncanny. 12.00 Midnight News. 12.15 Whose Truth Is It Anyway? 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 Gaming. 4.00 Music Planet. Including a Road Trip to Sri Lanka. 5.00 JtoZ. Julian Joseph pays tribute to a titan of jazz piano, Ahmad Jamal, who has died at the age of 92. 6.30 Opera on 3. Debra Lew Harder presents a New York Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, starring Erin Morley as Pamina and Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino. 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 A 60th Birthday Celebration: A Classic FM Exclusive. Moira presents a concert performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the 60th birthday of Debbie Wiseman. 7.00 Saturday Night at the Movies. Jonathan presents soundtracks of biopics and films based on real events. Including music from

Florence Foster Jenkins, The Pianist, Amadeus and The Theory of Everything. 9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies. David begins a month-long focus on his favourite singers, beginning with Luciano Pavarotti and his performances of Puccini’s Nessun Dorma and O Soave Fanciulla from La Bohème. 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 In Praise of Evil. 7.30 Churchill’s Passions Omnibus. 8.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 9.00 Benny Hill Time. 9.30 Whack-O!

10.00 Laura Barton’s American Road Trip. 11.00 In Praise of Evil. 12.30 Churchill’s Passions Omnibus. 1.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 2.00 Benny Hill Time. 2.30 Whack-O!

3.00 Laura Barton’s American Road Trip. 4.00 Earworm. 4.45 Someone Like You. 5.00 In Praise of Evil. 6.30 Churchill’s Passions Omnibus. 7.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 8.00 Benny Hill Time. 8.30 Whack-O! 9.00 Laura Barton’s American Road Trip. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 The

Jail Diaries of Sir Ralph Stanza. 10.15 The Shuttleworths. 10.30 Welcome to Wherever You Are. 11.00 Vent. 11.30 Life: An Idiot’s Guide. 12.00 Fear on Four. 12.30 I Am Legend. 1.00 In Praise of Evil. 2.30 Churchill’s Passions Omnibus. 3.45 The Fosdyke Saga. 4.00 Benny Hill Time. 4.30 Whack-O!