RADIO GUIDE
RADIO 4
5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 Taking Issue with Shakespeare. 6.00 News and Papers. 6.07 Open Country. 6.30 Farming Today This Week. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 Today. 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 Now Show. 12.57 Weather. 1.00 News. 1.10 Any Questions? 2.00 Any Answers? 2.45 The Planet Earth Podcast. 3.00 Drama: Puckoon. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. A round-up of highlights from the weekday programmes. 5.00 Saturday PM. News and sports headlines with Leila Nathoo. 5.30 Political Thinking with Nick Robinson. An interview with a major political figure. Last in the series. 5.54 Shipping Forecast. 5.57 Weather. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.15 Loose Ends. Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Thurston Moore, Suggs, Daisy Haggard and Charlie Stemp. With music from Madness and Soft Lad. 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 The Infinite Monkey Cage. Brian Cox and Robin Ince worry are joined by mathematician Professor Hannah Fry, computer scientist Dr Kate Devlin and comedian Rufus Hound to discuss the dangers of AI. 8.00 Archive on 4: Speaking to the People. 9.00 GF Newman’s The Corrupted. Brian’s day in court has backfired and he faces another 10 years in jail. Margaret’s health is deteriorating. Starring Joe Armstrong, Toby Jones and Flora Montgomery. 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 Doctor Who: The Wilderness Years. 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 producer Lu Edmonds. 5.00 JtoZ. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson shares his inspirations and Julian Joseph introduces concert highlights from Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong. 6.30 Opera on 3. Sean Rafferty presents a production of Donizetti’s Zoraida di Granata from Wexford’s National Opera House, starring Claudia Boyle, Konu Kim and Matteo Mezzar. 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 selects music from the Classic FM Hall of Fame with connections to the USA following Thanksgiving. Including music by Copland, Beethoven and Gershwin. 7.00 Saturday Night at the Movies. Jonathan Ross marks the release of the Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro with some of his film scores include the music for West Side Story and On the Waterfront. 9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies. David presents his favourite music, from old gems to new discoveries, featuring recordings from some of the world’s greatest orchestras and leading soloists. 10.00 Calm Classics. 1.00 Katie Breathwick. 4.00 Sam Pittis.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 The Food Quiz. 5.30 Plum House. 6.00 The
King’s General. 7.30 Coventry Omnibus. 8.45 Could Do Better. 9.00 The Men from the Ministry. 9.30 Whack-O! 10.00 Some Mothers’ Do ’Ave ’Em: A Celebration of a Comedy Classic. 11.00 The King’s General. 12.30 Coventry Omnibus. 1.45 Could Do Better. 2.00 The Men from the Ministry. 2.30 Whack-O! 3.00 Some Mothers’ Do ’Ave ’Em: A Celebration of a Comedy Classic. 4.00 Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. 5.00 The King’s General. 6.30 Coventry Omnibus. 7.45 Could Do Better. 8.00 The Men from the Ministry. 8.30 Whack-O! 9.00 Some Mothers’ Do ’Ave ’Em: A Celebration of a Comedy Classic. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 Can’t Tell Nathan Caton Nothing. 10.30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. 11.00 Fred at the Stand. 11.30 The Shuttleworths. 11.45 Facts and Fancies. 12.00 The Destruction Factor. 12.30 The Price of Fear. 1.00 The King’s General. 2.30 Coventry Omnibus. 3.45 Could Do Better. 4.00 The Men from the Ministry. 4.30 Whack-O!