RADIO GUIDE

RADIO 4

5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 Close Encounters. 6.00 News and Papers. 6.07 Ramblings. 6.30 Farming Today This Week. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 Today. 8.45 ((LW)) Yesterday in Parliament. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00 Your Place or Mine. 10.30 Soul Music. 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 For Human Consumption. 3.00 Drama: A Matter of Life and Death. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. Anita Rani presents highlights from the week. 5.00 Saturday PM. Presented by 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 is joined by Jeremy Dyson, Lucy Beaumont, Corinne Bailey Rae and Bob Cryer for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Corinne Bailey Rae. 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: Fangirls and Teen Hysteria. Josephine McDermott traces the history of teen idols and their fans, considering how her own love for Take That compares with what went before for the Beatles and the Osmonds. 9.00 GF Newman’s The Corrupted. By GF Newman. In prison for a crime he did not commit, Brian Oldman suspects that Joseph Oldman, now Lord Olinska, organised the killing. Drama, starring Toby Jones. 9.45 The Skewer. Jon Holmes twists current affairs clips into a surreal, satirical soundscape. 10.00 News. 10.15 Add to Playlist. 11.00 Brain of Britain. 11.30 Uncanny. 12.00 Midnight News. 12.15 Rethinking Music. 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 Lisa O’Neill. 5.00 JtoZ. Highlights of a concert by vocalist Carmen Lundy. 6.30 Opera on 3. Andrew McGregor presents a production of Verdi’s The Force of Destiny from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Brian Jagde and Etienne Dupuis. 10.05 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 Peppa Pig’s First Classical Concert: A Classic FM Exclusive. Peppa Pig makes her radio debut. 5.00 Classical Calm-Time with Giovanna Fletcher. The author presents two hours of calming music. 7.00 Saturday Night at the Movies. Jonathan Ross celebrates Family Classics Day with scores loved by all, including music from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Mary Poppins and Pirates of the Caribbean. 9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies. David ends Family Classics Day with music by Edward Elgar, Camille Saint-Saens and Felix Mendelssohn who all started composing as children. 10.00 Calm Classics. 1.00 Katie Breathwick. 4.00 Sam Pittis.

RADIO 4 EXTRA

5.00 The Food Quiz. 5.30 Barbara Nice. 6.00 Fishing for Ghosts. 7.30 Salt on Your Tongue Omnibus. 8.45 Could Do Better. 9.00 The Men from the Ministry. 9.30 Something to Shout About. 10.00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh. 11.00 Fishing for Ghosts. 12.30 Salt on Your Tongue Omnibus. 1.45 Could Do Better. 2.00 The Men from the Ministry. 2.30 Something to Shout About. 3.00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh. 4.00 The Nemesis of Fire. 4.45 The Pit and the Pendulum. 5.00 Fishing for Ghosts. 6.30 Salt on Your Tongue Omnibus. 7.45 Could Do Better. 8.00 The Men from the Ministry.

8.30 Something to Shout About. 9.00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 Keep Calman Carry On. 10.30 Cowards. 11.00 Fred at the Stand. 11.30 Seekers. 12.00 A Call from the Dead. 12.30 The Price of Fear. 1.00 Fishing for Ghosts. 2.30 Salt on Your Tongue Omnibus. 3.45 Could Do Better. 4.00 The Men from the Ministry. 4.30 Something to Shout About.