RADIO GUIDE
RADIO 4
5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 The Banksy Story. 6.00 News and Papers. 6.07 Open Country. 6.30 Farming Today This Week. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 Today. 8.30 ((LW)) Yesterday in Parliament. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00 You’re Dead to Me. 10.30 Alexei Sayle’s Strangers on a Train. 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 Opening Lines. 3.00 Drama: Tam O’Shanter. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. Anita Rani presents a round-up of highlights from the weekday programmes. 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 and Richie Anderson are joined by Daliso Chaponda, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Mathew Baynton for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. 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: Dom Joly: Goth or Not? The comedian examines the history of goth subculture, to find out how to define what a goth is, and takes a look back at his own teenage dabblings. 9.00 Drama: China Towns. One family is about to be hit by scandal while elsewhere in the community religious rivalry threatens to turn ugly. By Arnold Bennett, dramatised by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan. 10.00 News. 10.15 Screenshot. 11.00 Counterpoint. 11.30 Offstage: Inside the X Factor. 12.00 Midnight News. 12.15 Across the Divide. 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. More from this year’s Celtic Connections. 5.00 JtoZ. Kevin Le Genre explores jazz, Afrofuturism and beyond with guest Nicole Mitchell, investigating why so many jazz musicians have used music to travel through space. 6.30 Opera on 3. Kate Molleson introduces a 1996 production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, starring Bo Skovhus in the title role, with Charles Mackerras conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. 10.00 New Music Show. 12.00 Freeness. 1.00 Through the Night.
CLASSIC FM
7.00 Classic FM’s More Music Breakfast with Tim Lihoreau. 10.00 Aled Jones. 1.00 Alexander Armstrong. 4.00 Alan Titchmarsh. A selection of classical music for the weekend. 7.00 Classic FM at the Movies with Jonathan Ross. Jonathan features some old favourites and some new releases including scores from Moon Knight, The Crown Babylon, Ms Marvel and Alien. 9.00 Connecting Notes. John Humphrys explores some of classical music’s most fascinating stories and the commonalities between them. 10.00 Calm Classics. 1.00 Katie Breathwick. 4.00 Sam Pittis.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 Whispers. 5.30 Relativity. 6.00 Something to Scare off the Birds. 7.15 Knock if You Can’t Go. 7.30 The Pulse Glass Omnibus. 8.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 9.00 Take Me to Your Reader. 9.30 The 27-Year Itch. 10.00 Hens, Hons and Funerals. 10.30 The Drop Out Boogie. 11.00 Something to Scare off the Birds. 12.15 Knock if You Can’t Go. 12.30 The Pulse Glass Omnibus. 1.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 2.00 Take Me to Your Reader. 2.30 The 27Year Itch. 3.00 Hens, Hons and Funerals. 3.30 The Drop Out Boogie. 4.00 Algernon Blackwood – The Empty Sleeve. 4.45 The Lottery. 5.00 Something to Scare off the Birds. 6.15 Knock if You Can’t Go. 6.30 The Pulse Glass Omnibus. 7.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 8.00 Take Me to Your Reader. 8.30 The 27-Year Itch. 9.00 Hens, Hons and Funerals. 9.30 The Drop Out Boogie. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 Tom Wrigglesworth’s Open Letters. 10.30 The Nick Revell Show. 11.00 Vent. 11.30 Hut 33. 12.00 The Man in Black. 12.30 Haunted. 1.00 Something to Scare off the Birds. 2.15 Knock if You Can’t Go. 2.30 The Pulse Glass Omnibus. 3.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 4.00 Take Me to Your Reader. 4.30 The 27-Year Itch.