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. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00 You’re Dead to Me. 11.00 Counterfeit Characters. 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 Drama: For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour. Anita Rani presents a round-up of highlights from the weekday programmes. 5.00 Saturday PM. Round-up of the day’s news and sporting headlines, presented by Caroline Wyatt. 5.30 Sliced Bread. Consumer show in which Greg Foot and his guests search for the scientific evidence behind a product’s bold claims. Last in the series. 5.54 Shipping Forecast. 5.57 Weather. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.15 Loose Ends. Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined by Daniel Mays, Cush Jumbo, Janey Godley and Marc Wootton. With music from Ride and Georgia. 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 discover how trees “talk” to each other and what information they are communicating. 8.00 Archive on 4: Marlon Brando: The Ultimate Contender. Antonia Quirke explores the life and career of a Hollywood legend to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, examining how his approach to screen acting redefined the craft. 9.00 Drama: China Towns. By Arnold Bennett. Ephraim Tellwright embarks on a campaign to persuade a divided community to embrace federation. Starring Neil Dudgeon. Last in the series. 10.00 News. 10.15 Screenshot. 11.00 Round Britain Quiz. 11.30 Dead Famous. 12.00 Midnight News. 12.15 I’ll Be Back: 40 Years of the Terminator. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 2.00 (BST) 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. Lopa Kothari is joined by tabla player Zakir Hussain, who shares his favourite music, as well as discussing his career and musical influences. 5.00 JtoZ. Composer and multiinstrumentalist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson shares his inspirations and Julian Joseph introduces concert highlights from Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong. 6.30 Opera on 3. Donald Macleod presents a production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman recorded at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, starring Bryn Terfel in the title role. 10.00 New Music Show. 12.00 Freeness. 2.00 (BST) Through the Night.
CLASSIC FM
7.00 Classic FM’s More Music Breakfast with Tim Lihoreau. 9.00 The Classic FM Hall of Fame 2024. 12.00 The Classic FM Hall of Fame 2024. 3.00 The Classic FM Hall of Fame 2024. 6.00 The Classic FM Hall of Fame 2024. Lucy Coward counts down the biggest poll of classical music tastes, created from votes received during the first months of 2024. 9.00 Celebrating the Classic FM Hall of Fame. David Mellor presents the first of two special programmes in which he picks out what he regards as the greatest ever recordings to have featured in the Classic FM Hall of Fame. 10.00 Calm Classics. 12.00 Katie Breathwick. 4.00 (BST) Sam Pittis.
RADIO 4 EXTRA
5.00 JD Salinger, Made in England. 5.30 Soul Music. 6.00 Sergeant Cribb: Swing Swing Together. 7.30 The Peregrine Omnibus. 8.45 Singular Women. 9.00 Not in Front of the Children. 9.30 Ray’s a Laugh. 10.00 4 Extra Goes Gardening. 11.00 Sergeant Cribb: Swing Swing Together. 12.30 The Peregrine Omnibus. 1.45 Singular Women. 2.00 Not in Front of the Children. 2.30 Ray’s a Laugh. 3.00 4 Extra Goes Gardening. 4.00 Produce. 4.45 Ghost Stories by HG Wells. 5.00 Sergeant Cribb: Swing Swing Together. 6.30 The Peregrine Omnibus. 7.45 Singular Women. 8.00 Not in Front of the Children. 8.30 Ray’s a Laugh. 9.00 4 Extra Goes Gardening. 10.00 Comedy Club. 10.00 Paul Sinha’s General Knowledge. 10.30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound. 11.00 Andrew Maxwell’s Public Enemies. 11.30 Hut 33. 12.00 Produce. 12.45 Ghost Stories by HG Wells. 2.00 (BST) Sergeant Cribb: Swing Swing Together. 3.30 The Peregrine Omnibus. 4.45 Singular Women.