RADIO GUIDE
RADIO 4
5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer for the Day. 5.45 Lent Talks. 6.00 News and Papers. 6.07 Ramblings. 6.30 Farming Today This Week. 6.57 Weather. 7.00 Today. 8.31 ((LW)) Yesterday in Parliament. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00 You’re Dead to Me. 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 Short Works. 3.00 Drama: Family Business. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights from the week. 5.00 Saturday PM. Presented by Caroline Wyatt. 5.30
Sliced Bread. The scientific evidence behind a product’s bold claims. 5.54 Shipping Forecast. 5.57 Weather. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.15 Loose Ends. Clive Anderson and Bidisha Mamata are joined by Jonny Lee Miller, Ade Adepitan and Gary Stevenson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kat Eaton. 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 find out if cats are better than dogs, joined by Deborah Meaden, David Baddiel, evolutionary scientist Ben
Garrod and veterinarian Jess French. 8.00 Archive on 4: It Must Be Wonderful to Be Free. Megan Nolan marks the 60th anniversary of the death of playwright and novelist Brendan Behan, hearing from historians, writers and members of Behan’s family. 9.00 Drama: China Towns. By Arnold Bennett. Ephraim Tellwright’s single-minded pursuit of business has tragic consequences for those who get in his way. Starring Neil Dudgeon. 10.00 News. 10.15 Add to Playlist. 11.00 Round Britain Quiz. 11.30
Things Fell Apart. 12.00 Midnight News. 12.15 Tremolo. 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 live session by Volosi. 5.00 JtoZ. Darcy James Argue shares his musical inspirations. 6.30 Opera on 3. A New York Metroplitan Opera production of Puccini’s Turandot, starring Elena Pankratova in the title role. Presented by Debra Lew Harder with commentaty from Ira Siff. 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 including Alexander Faris’ theme to
Upstairs Downstairs, a Gardening Tip and the
Titchmarsh Teaser question after 5pm. 7.00 Classic FM at the Movies with Jonathan Ross. Jonathan celebrates cinema’s biggest anniversaries in 2024, including the scores to Howl’s Moving Castle, The Towering Inferno and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. 9.00 Connecting Notes. John Humphrys explores the approaches of some of history’s greatest composers including Leonard Bernstein and Marin Alsop. Plus, Schubert’s Symphony No 5. 10.00 Calm Classics. 1.00 Katie Breathwick. 4.00 Sam Pittis.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 The 3rd Degree. 5.30 In and Out of the Kitchen. 6.00 Love’s Old Sweet Song. 7.15 Ernest and Gwendolin. 7.30 The Crying Book Omnibus. 8.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 9.00 Not in Front of the Children. 9.30 Robbing Hood. 10.00 4 Extra Goes Gardening. 11.00 Love’s Old Sweet
Song. 12.15 Ernest and Gwendolin. 12.30 The Crying Book Omnibus. 1.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 2.00 Not in Front of the Children. 2.30 Robbing Hood. 3.00 4 Extra Goes Gardening. 4.00 Owls. 4.45 Ghost Stories by HG Wells. 5.00 Love’s Old Sweet Song. 6.15 Ernest and Gwendolin. 6.30 The Crying Book Omnibus. 7.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 8.00 Not in Front of the Children. 8.30 Robbing Hood. 9.00 4 Extra Goes Gardening. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 Paul Sinha’s General Knowledge. 10.30 I’ve Never Seen Star Wars. 11.00 Please Use Other Door. 11.30 Sarah Millican’s Support Group. 12.00 Space Force. 12.30 The Woman in Black. 1.00 Love’s Old Sweet Song. 2.15 Ernest and Gwendolin. 2.30 The Crying Book Omnibus. 3.45 Uncle Mort’s Celtic Fringe. 4.00 Not in Front of the Children. 4.30 Robbing Hood.