2—8 APRIL 2022

From the editors

S

o this is it. The final farewell of Tommy
Shelby and his Peaky Blinders on the
BBC, nine years after they first exploded
onto our screens in a hyper-stylised blur of
gangland violence, suits and flat caps, set to
a soundtrack of David Bowie and Nick Cave,
that both mythologised the past and set fire
to a new generation’s imagination. It’s been
a riveting ride. Yet all good things come to an
end… or do they?
Television was a very different place when
Peaky Blinders began on BBC2 in 2013. The
broadcasters held the whip hand, shows fought
for a spot in the schedules, programme creators
were largely at the mercy of management,
Netflix was a bright idea ahead of its time, and
the thought that a drama might have a life after
it finished on one of the big four channels was
frankly for the birds. How times change.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH: TCD/PROD.DB / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

W

hen the credits roll on the
feature-length final episode of Peaky
Blinders on Sunday night it won’t be
the end. For a start, you can catch up on BBC
iPlayer. But also, as fans will no doubt know,
series six, like other series before it, will head to
Netflix in June, where it will live on for ever in
the great video library in the sky. Yet even that
doesn’t spell the end for Tommy Shelby and co.
As the show’s creator Steven Knight tells us
in his revealing interview (see page 8), this week
doesn’t feel like the end for his drama, although
“it is the end of how it came into this world”.
Because Knight has plans for his TV show that
extend way beyond the small screen.
These days great television dramas like Peaky
Blinders can carry on making waves long after
the final curtain – which is why Knight has
given the show’s millions of fans around the
world the chance to watch the story develop as
not only a film but also a ballet. And when they
grow tired of those, they can lose themselves
in an immersive virtual reality video game. Or
dress in a Peaky Blinders fashion line. Tommy
Shelby, it seems, will never die.

THIS WEEK IN RADIO TIMES
ON THE COVER

Peaky Blinders 8
Steven Knight is hugely proud of his
hit drama — but as the final series
ends, what happens next?

Nicola Walker 12
The star of The Split wants to see
more women in the TV industry —
and not just in front of the camera

Newsround 16
John Craven’s news bulletin
for kids is 50 — and with war, the
climate crisis and Covid to explain,
it’s needed more than ever

Fall of a dynasty 18
A new documentary charts
the rise and fall of the media
tycoon Robert Maxwell — and
his daughter, Ghislaine

Above: Cillian Murphy stars
as Tommy Shelby in the final
episode of Peaky Blinders
Left: Plan your next break
with our eight-page holiday
special — see centre pages

Art That Made Us 20
The Rev Richard Coles, David
Baddiel and more pick creative
works that tell us how we got here

Michaela Strachan 23
The Springwatch presenter is making a song
and dance about her latest appearance on TV

Simon Barnes 25

Film 26
Andrew Garfield gives a nuanced view of survival
and greed in the recession drama 99 Homes

Streaming 34

This year the men’s and women’s Boat Races
are back where they belong — on the Thames

Ethan Hawke and Oscar Isaac enter the Marvel
universe, the irrepressible Jane Seymour and
our pick of the best TV and films to stream now

Steven Bartlett 112

Television 39

Podcasting with the star of Dragons’ Den

David Quantick 113
The key to creative writing is ignorance and luck
— and having French and Saunders on board…

Your RT

The comedy shows that make us laugh say
so much about us, says Jane Garvey

Radio 110
Aaron Sorkin has written many hit TV series
and films — but he’s really writing for radio

Books Tall tales from Test Match Special 132
Gardening The wonder of wallflowers 134
Travel Take a trip with comedian Joe Lycett 136
Money Brace yourself for higher taxes 138
ALSO THIS WEEK

Tom Loxley & Shem Law
Editors, Radio Times

Viewpoint Simple steps to make life happier 7
Puzzles Your brain teasers 139
Feedback You have your say — plus tributes

Contact Radio Times by email on
RTeditor@radiotimes.com

to Peter Bowles and Holby City 142

View from my sofa Maureen Lipman 146

Join Jane Garvey
and Rhianna Dhillon
for a new episode
every Wednesday

SCAN TO LISTEN
radiotimes.com/podcast

MORE NEWS, FEATURES, INTERVIEWS & PREVIEWS AT RADIOTIMES.COM
Follow @radiotimes on

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

3

Watch, listen, stream...
Benjamin
Franklin

Your TV guide starts on p39 

Wed & Thur
2.15pm/7.45pm
PBS America
In Britain we don’t learn
about Franklin at school, but
as this handsomely crafted
two-part series from Ken
Burns shows, he was the
18th century’s most prolific
polymath — a witty writer,
publisher, philanthropist,
scientist, diplomat and
electrical inventor.

1

Peaky Blinders

Sunday 9.00pm BBC1
The super-cool costume drama
that conquered the world plays
its last bloody card. We’ve seen
Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) go
from bookie to international power
broker: now, in a feature-length finale,
he faces a showdown with fascists,
Boston gangsters — and his own family.

FEATURE P8 씰

4

Art That Made Us

The Fall of the House of Maxwell
Monday 9.00pm BBC2

A three-part series charts a family saga steeped in
scandal. New tapes and evidence cast light on the barely
believable story of 1980s press mogul Robert Maxwell’s
operatic rise and fall, but they also root it in his family’s tragic past.

FEATURE P18 씰

There’s only one
channel called Drama
FREEVIEW 20, SKY, VIRGIN
OR STREAM ON UKTV PLAY

4

Thursday 9.00pm BBC2
Artists and performers
including Michael Sheen bring
to life a leftfield history of
British art. It’s magical to
witness artefacts, poems and
songs that illuminate the
story of 1,500 years, starting
with the so-called Dark Ages.

The Split

Monday 9.00pm BBC1
Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan are
on fire as the about-to-be-divorced legal
eagles in Abi Morgan’s addictive saga.
Don’t expect any divorce tips, though.
This is glossy, slick escapism.

Luther Sunday 3 April on Drama
In the first episode of this gripping drama, Detective John Luther (Idris Elba,
The Suicide Squad) returns to work, having taken time off to recover from
a stressful investigation. Off the bat, he solves a double murder, quickly
working out who is responsible, but unable to find the evidence to convict her.

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

THE 10 BEST SHOWS THIS WEEK

2—8 APRIL 2022

The best of streaming starts p34 

6

Spider-Man: No Way
Home 1111 h

WHAT I’M WATCHING…

This week’s contributors reveal all
DAVID QUANTICK

“I’m watching Twenty-Five
Twenty-One on Netflix,”
says the writer, comedian
and poet. “It’s a funny and
moving South Korean drama with
a unique and poignant central theme
and some brilliant moments.”

Available from 4 April
Sky Store, DVD & Blu-ray
Tom Holland’s web-slinging
teen is forced to grow up
when he puts his loved ones in
peril by accidentally unlocking
the Multiverse. Spider-Man
struggles to contain the villains
who cross over from other
realities, but help is at
hand from a couple of
familiar-looking allies.

Where do ideas come from — page 113

Twenty-Five
Twenty-One

JANE SEYMOUR

Harry Wild Available
Moon Knight
Available from 30 March Disney+
Oscar Isaac (above) and Ethan Hawke
swap the cinema for the small screen as
they go head to head in Marvel’s latest
mind-bending superhero series.

The film section starts p26 
99 Homes 1111 j
Tuesday 11.15pm BBC2
This gripping social drama features a
fine performance by Andrew Garfield
and rests on a pleasingly old-fashioned
moral dilemma. A Florida man brought
low by the 2008 financial crisis must decide whether
to sell his soul to the parasitic developer who evicts
him and then comes calling with a job offer.

from 4 April Acorn TV

8

Jane Seymour leads this convivial
detective drama about a senior sleuth
who, after moving in with her police
detective son, realises she also has
a knack for solving crime.

Radio

The radio section starts p110 
Wogan: in His Own Words

“Mostly I binge-watch,” says
the actor. “Recently I’ve loved
Euphoria, HBO’s drama
about high-school students
and their experiences of drugs, love,
sex and friendship. The actor Zendaya
is in it and it’s
frightening –
the drugs!
– but it feels
so realistic.
And I also
love The
Crown.”
Introducing
Harry Wild
— page 36

Sunday 9.00pm Radio 2
It’s 50 years since the master of
the microphone, Terry Wogan,
first broadcast on Radio 2’s
breakfast show and this celebration is centred around a
previously unbroadcast interview he gave to a local TV
station in the 1980s. In it he talks about, among other
things, the fragility of fame and the anxiety that brings.

Zendaya in
Euphoria

RT BOOK CLUB

Jonathan Creek The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish
Thursday 7 April on Drama

Lenny Spearfish survives two bullets to the chest, finds priceless treasure in
the garden and has an assassin collapse at his feet. But what is the source of his
good luck a deal he made with the devil? Guest starring Griff Rhys Jones (left).

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Sign up and receive
a book each month or
quarter for just £14.99
incl p&p. See p133 for
more information
5

BARRY
SCHWARTZ

‘Help, there’s too much choice!’
Simplify your life by settling for second best

C

an you have too much
choice? If choice is a good
thing, then more choice is an
even better thing, isn’t it? If
you know what show you are
looking for, Netflix is an unalloyed gift. But
have you ever spent half an hour flicking
through the hundreds of options only to
end up watching… something you’ve
already seen, because you can’t decide
which new thing to watch?
Consider the way you use the internet
FIELD HANDS
Can living like the
without ever planning to. The next time
Amish make us happier?
you lose an hour to clicking through links,
ask yourself if you are happier for it.
I doubt the answer will be yes.
Perhaps when you complicate people’s lives
with choice, instead of being liberated by all this
freedom, we end up paralysed by it. “Help!” we
think, when confronted by 30 different breakfast cereal boxes. “There’s too much stuff.”
Paradoxically, an excess of options has a para- of living with dramatically reduced choices as,
lysing effect on our lives and this, in turn, may be for instance, do the Amish of North America,
leading to a massive increase in anxiety, depres- rural religious communities that reject new
sion and drug abuse. This is a major problem in technology, the internal combustion engine and
the United States, but it’s not restricted to the much else in 21st-century life?
United States.
To find out, we enrolled 24 ordinary, stressedWhen I first wrote about this in 2003, I was out British citizens in a unique six-month
going to call my book The Tyranny of Choice, but experiment for Channel 4’s The Simpler Life,
my publishers suggested “tyranny” was over the living the Amish lifestyle over one summer. We
top. Twenty years later, “tyranny” isn’t over the were wondering if the volunteers would come
top any more – we have a crisis of choice.
out as happier, more balanced human beings at
So what would happen if we were to make life the end. But even if it was successful – and I can
simple, eliminate some of the choices that promise you that the results are very interesting
threaten to overwhelm us and go back to a way – joining the Amish is not an option for most of

‘

Realising that good
enough is good enough
is life-changing

’

us. So what can you do instead? You can
start by asking yourself some important
questions, like: how can I simplify my
life? Which of the things that I pursue
really matter? Which of the decisions
I make every day really matter?
If you begin to unclutter your material
life then you can, to some degree, unclutter your cognitive life. Find the decisions
in life that are the ones that you really
have to make – whom you marry, which
job you take – and which decisions where
you can just go with habit or recommendations from friends.

D

o you need the best mobile phone, or
can you just get the current version of
the one you’ve been using? Do you need
to scrutinise all the cereals on the shelf or
continue with the one you usually buy?
Reducing the decisions you make would be
helpful, but the single recommendation that I
would urge above all others is this – stop trying
to find the best. Instead, start settling for good
enough, which is not to say that you have no
standards, or even low standards. But if you’re
looking for good enough, then as soon as you
find that, you can stop looking. If you’re looking
for the best, you will never stop looking.
Realising that good enough is almost always
good enough can be life-changing. And it makes
choosing a show on Netflix a lot easier, too.

Psychologist Barry Schwartz is the author of The
Paradox of Choice. The Simpler Life is on Tue/Wed C4

FROM THE RT ARCHIVE… 30 MARCH—5 APRIL 1996

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SUNDAY NIGHT tv
BBC1

WHAT WE WATCHED

WHAT YOU SAID

5.55pm Songs of Praise

Having initially been dismissed in the press
as “Heartbeat in the Highlands”, BBC1’s
Hamish Macbeth went on to charm
ten million viewers on a Sunday night. This
week the rural police constable returned in
a new series that would see him resolve a
romantic cliffhanger as Alex (Valerie Gogan)
and Isobel (Shirley Henderson) fought for
his affections. The show’s star, Robert
Carlyle, summed up Hamish’s appeal when
he commented to RT: “The character that
Daniel Boyle [the show’s principal writer]
put on the page was someone with no
ambition whatsoever. There is a tremendous
contentment in the character of Hamish.”

A change of pace for Birds of a Feather
star Pauline Quirke had paid dividends,
with Joyce Brunt of Swindon praising her
latest role. “BBC1’s The Sculptress was an
outstanding play — if I hadn’t been adult
there were times when I’d have hidden
behind the sofa,” she wrote. “Pauline
Quirke’s acting and singing made it for
me.” The drama, about a morbidly obese
woman who’d been imprisoned for killing
her mother and sister, did very well and
the BBC then went on to bring further
Minette Walters novels to the screen,
including The Ice House and The Scold’s
Bridle. DAVID BROWN

6.30 Antiques Roadshow
7.15 Hamish Macbeth

A local seafarer disappears.

8.05 Film: Lorenzo’s Oil

Medical drama starring Nick
Nolte and Susan Sarandon.

10.15 News
10.30 Match of the Day

FA Cup semi-final highlights.

11.15 Hollywood Angel

The true-life story behind the
film Dead Man Walking.

7

It doesn’t
feel like the
end, but it is
the end of
how it came
into the
world

‘

’

STEVEN KNIGHT

8

Peaky Blinders Sunday 9.00pm BBC1

Blind
ambition

As the gangster epic reaches its finale on
TV, creator Steven Knight says there’s no
limit to where Peaky Blinders goes next

Q

RIDING INTO
TV HISTORY
Cillian Murphy’s electrifying
performance as the
charismatic Tommy Shelby is
the beating heart of the series

THE RT INTERVIEW BY

uick, drop this magazine. Run
from the room. Steven Knight,
the man who created Peaky
Blinders, is wondering – out
loud – how it might all end.
“I think Tommy’s spiritual side
represents a desire to go back to a pre-technology, free-spirit world,” Knight says of Tommy
Shelby, violent gangster and, latterly, Labour
MP. “It’s his only solution. His only way out is if
he fully embraces it and lives on the road.” So,
Tommy is going to leave as he arrived nine years
ago, on a horse? Knight leaves a beat. “I don’t let
him off the hook that easily.”
Whichever exit Tommy takes in the final
episode – spiritual return to his Romany roots or
violent showdown with those who seek his
downfall – it will be a cathartic moment for
followers of a series that, when it began on BBC2
in 2013, looked like it might not be recommissioned. Now Peaky Blinders – flat caps, fascism,
feuds and all – is part of the national consciousness. “Whether you watch it as a family or individual, it’s entered people’s lives,” says Knight.
Knight’s stroke of genius was to mythologise
the industrial Midlands and by inverting the
rules of Sunday-night drama, he made a show
unlike any other. Peaky Blinders is a proletarian
odyssey, where toffs like Nazi-worshipping Diana
Mitford, mistress then wife of British fascist
leader Sir Oswald Mosley, provide the colour,
but the lower orders bring the dramatic clout.
“I come from a very working-class background,” the 62-year-old says, speaking from his
Midlands home, wearing a pressed granddad
shirt and silver chain, his grey spiky hair
suggesting a far-off punk past rather than
modern media executive. “I always watched telly
and thought, ‘Who are they trying to depict? Is it
supposed to be us, because it’s nowhere near

MICHAEL HODGES
being us?’ I’m not saying working-class families
are all like the Shelbys, but the idea of the show
is that these are people in charge of their own
destiny, with big emotions, serious problems. It’s
not comedy, it’s not grotesque, it’s real people.”
Just how real became clear when the death of
Helen McCrory from cancer at only 52 obliged
Knight to concoct a fictional end for the character she played so convincingly, all-knowing
materfamilias Aunt Polly.
“The death of the human being is the tragedy,”
Knight says. “The death of the character is
something you can deal with, and hopefully we
dealt with it in a suitable way. Helen was so brilliant. When anything happened in the rest of the
series, I wanted people to think, ‘What would
Polly say?’ It’s like a family when someone passes
away, their opinion remains in the house. Polly’s
opinion is going to last.”
Even in the coming Peaky Blinders film?
“Absolutely. She’s such a fundamental part of
what Peaky is; her presence rules.”

A

s shooting on the movie starts in a
few months – “no time at all” as he puts
it – the last TV episode is naturally less
of a full stop for Knight than it is for us.
“It certainly doesn’t feel like the end, but it is the
end of how it came into the world.”
Hailed variously by Brad Pitt, Snoop Dog and
the late David Bowie, Peaky Blinders long ago
slipped away from the land of its birth. “It’s the
biggest show on Netflix,” Knight says. “Yet it’s
had no backing, no publicity, no big billboards
on Sunset Boulevard, none of that: it’s happened
purely by word of mouth.”
Many of those words have been about Cillian
Murphy’s portrayal of Tommy, a performance of
inordinate grace and menace lauded and lusted
after in equal amounts. “Normally shows 

9

 objectify the female,” Knight says. “Which is a
very unsafe place. But I think objectifying the
male is great and it’s funny. The social media
comments from women about watching Cillian
and Tom [Hardy] are fantastic.”

© CARYN MANDABACH PRODUCTIONS LTD; ALAMY

A

bona fide existential anti-hero,
indifferent to his own fate after seeing
the horrors of the Western Front,
Tommy Shelby is destined to walk
hand-in-hand with death – and look sharp while
he’s at it. This sartorial aspect of Peaky Blinders,
says Knight, isn’t window dressing; it’s essential
to the story.
“In the 20s and 30s, the only thing these men
owned was their body, and you can decorate
your body in such a way that it’s something to be
proud of. That’s why they were immaculate. But
since 1970, men here have dressed like American
teenage boys.” Does he regret that loss of working-class panache? “If people dress up it changes
their opinion of themselves. They have a bit
more of a swagger. I’m not a conspiracy theorist,
I don’t think there are groups of people controlling our thoughts, but I think when men dressed
up, they were probably harder to control.”
He says his writing “shadows” reality, and the
show has the habit of throwing up uncomfortable portents. Have you noticed that the “Z”
sprayed onto the side of Putin’s invading tanks
in Ukraine looks like the fascist rune behind
Mosley at rallies in Peaky Blinders? Knight has.
“It looks like we made it up, but we didn’t, obviously,” he says. “Peaky Blinders keeps being
topical in ways that surprise me.”
Fascism might have saved Tommy from
himself; Mosley has stirred his slumbering
conscience into life. “He’s had a similar experience to Churchill,” Knight says. “Churchill had
done bad things, made himself enemy number
one for the working class for years. Then, when
he came across Hitler and fascism, he implacably opposed it. Tommy Shelby is an amoral
character, it’s established that he is cynical, is

10

PEAK PERFORMANCE
Above: Steven Knight on
set with Cillian Murphy
Right: the late Helen McCrory
made an icon of Aunt Polly

getting into power because he wants to run his
illegal businesses. Things couldn’t be bleaker,
couldn’t be worse, until he meets Mosley, the
ultimate evil. Then this amoral, frozen person,
sees how bad that is and cannot tolerate it and
so he does have a moral awakening. He’s still
doing all the other bad things but he ain’t going
to go that bad.
“I think that is hopeful for the human race.
You can have the worst of the worst, but there’s a
line and somebody like Tommy will take off his

‘

When people dress
up, they have more
of a swagger
STEVEN KNIGHT

’

jacket and fight. That, I hope, is the message
that comes through.”
Knight says he’s had to tone down some of
the details of the British aristocracy’s
infatuation with fascism. “Mostly, it’s too
unbelievable for people to swallow. There
are things about the Mitfords and
Mosley you couldn’t put in because it
was total madness. I’d love to go as
far as I can with what really
happened, but whenever you do
that, people don’t believe it’s true.
They think you’re making it up.”
Mosley, Knight adds, staged
rallies attended by 30,000 people,
“enough to fill a bloody great big hall”,

and he fears the world, like the series, is heading
for a return to 1939: “And that worries me.”
Is there a chance that fascism, or something
like it, could happen here? “I think there is, let’s
be pessimistic, 60-40 in favour of common
sense in the UK, Brexit aside. There’s enough
people to win a referendum on a particular
topic, but I don’t think there’s enough people to
make [Nigel] Farage prime minister.”
Not everyone will trace the
same line from Mosley to
Farage, but most will share
Knight’s weariness with
racism, particularly when
i t ’s d i r e c t e d a t t h e
Romany community that
gave us the Shelbys.
“It’s a very odd prejudice
that’s been around for
years and seems to be
alive and well and

FASCIST
Sam Claflin plays
politician Sir Oswald
Mosley, Tommy Shelby’s
evil nemesis

Helen McCrory
was brilliant.
Aunt Polly is a
fundamental part
of Peaky

‘

’

Peaky Blinders THE LEGACY
The film

Cillian Murphy and Paul Anderson are confirmed to play Tommy and Arthur Shelby, and
Knight has revealed that filming is due to start in a few months, but otherwise few details
of the Peaky film have been released. Regarding the storyline, the TV series was always
due to cover the inter-war period, but when asked if 1939 was still going to be Peaky’s end
point, Knight revealed: “Not any more. I did, but I’m going to take it into the war, I can’t
resist it. Because it will be a film, I’ll have the budget, so I can do lots of good stuff.”

STEVEN KNIGHT

The festival

Co-curated by Knight and taking place in Birmingham on 14–15 September, the Legitimate
Peaky Blinders Festival (peakyblinders.shop/pages/peaky-blinders-festival) promises an
“immersive re-creation” of the Peaky world, with performances
by Primal Scream and others, on-stage Q&As with Knight
and the cast, and an Aunt Polly fashion boutique.

The ballet

living all over the country,” he says. “When I was
young we were very strongly connected to a
Gypsy family, partly through my dad’s work
because he was a farrier.”

W

hat did Knight think when the
comedian Jimmy Carr recently
joked, also on Netflix, about the
Nazi persecution of Gypsies in the
Second World War? Some estimates say up to
1.5 million Roma were killed. Knight pulls a
face, part disdain, part disappointment.
“I don’t think I can comment,” he says, then
immediately changes his mind. “Actually, this is
me commenting. Carr’s joke was done in order
to get a reaction. It wasn’t done out of any actual
thought process. And it was just stupid.”
I sense he’s as much offended by the flippancy
of Carr’s gag as its racism. Knight is a serious
man who writes about serious things. Peaky
Blinders is grounded in the extreme physical
and psychological violence suffered by workingclass men in war. Knight does this so well that
veterans of the British army’s more recent
conflicts have seen their own suffering in it.
“ There have been lots of incredibly
touching and moving communications from
people who have watched the show, who have
been in that situation,” he says. “Telly can enter
people’s lives and psyches. And if you’ve done
your job correctly, they’ll see themselves somewhere in there.
“I’ve got a ton of other stuff I’m doing but
for me, this is the most personal project. This is
the one I feel most ownership of. This is the
achievement I’m most proud of.”
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

With a UK tour starting in September, the
idea for Peaky Blinders: the Redemption of
Tommy Shelby (peakyblindersdance.com)
came when Knight saw Ballet Rambert
(right) perform at a Peaky Blinders festival.
“I just thought it was brilliant, it made me
want to cry. I wrote a scene for them in
series five when they performed Swan Lake,
then we thought, ‘Let’s do it’. It’s brilliant, I
love it. It’s dance for people who think they
don’t like dance.” A perfectly reasonable
proposition now we all watch Strictly?
“That’s exactly the point! How can dance
be exclusive when the biggest-rated
programme on telly is people dancing?”

The menswear line

Knight launched Garrison Tailors (named
for the gang’s favourite pub) after years
of seeing others cash in on the Peaky
brand. “We didn’t make anything until
then. The idea we might become like
Coca-Cola felt very un-Peaky, but there
was stuff out there.
There’s a Peaky beer
that has no relation
to us.” (Right: caps
from £30,
garrisontailors.com)

The video game
Launching later this year,
Peaky Blinders: the King’s
Ransom brings the 1920s to
life in virtual reality, so that
fans can infiltrate Tommy
Shelby’s world and meet
their anti-hero (pictured
inset right, voiced by
Cillian Murphy),
Arthur Shelby (voiced
by Paul Anderson)
and a host of
other brand new
characters. MH

11

The Split Monday 9.00pm BBC1

N

icola Walker is at home, in a
large white room with
timbered ceilings that appears
to be completely empty. “It’s
half term and my teenage son
is around, so I’ve been banned
from every other room. I’ve curated it so that it
looks tidy, but either side of me looks like a tip.”
She tilts the screen of her laptop to show a
mountain of stuff. Walker is often shy in interviews – she is not, it seems, a natural show-off –
but put her in front of a camera and she quietly
and brilliantly shines, whether it’s in Spooks,
Last Tango in Halifax, Unforgotten or The Split.
She’s also the queen of self-deprecation, saying
that she will be officially unemployed on 11 June
when the run of The Corn Is Green, the play at
the National Theatre in which she stars, comes
to an end. It’s rubbish, of course – there’s
Marriage to come later in the year, a TV series
co-starring Sean Bean, written and directed by
Stefan Golaszewski of Mum fame, which
Walker describes as “a couple who
have been together for ever and
whose lives are totally intertwined”. And then there’s
this third and final season
of The Split, about a family
of divorce lawyers and
their chaotic love lives,
which is utterly addictive.
COMING UP
But first things first.
Sean Bean and
Shortly before our interview,
Nicola Walker
it was announced that filming
in Marriage
was about to start on the fifth
season of Unforgotten – Walker’s
character, DCI Cassie Stuart, was
dramatically killed in the final episode of the
fourth series. Her departure was a “joint decision” with writer/creator Chris Lang and had
exactly the impact both hoped. “We took Cassie
on a fantastic journey,” Walker says. “It was very,
very sad that she died, but the story was brilliant. I loved every second of it.”
So will she be watching Sinéad Keenan take
her spot alongside Sanjeev Bhaskar in the new
episodes? “I know a tiny bit about where they’re
going with the story and it’s incredible. I’ll be
sitting on my sofa watching with everyone else.”

W

alker was born in London and
started acting with the
Cambridge Footlights. She
turned down a place at Rada
because she was already being offered acting
roles and, decades later, she still makes considered career choices. She was drawn to
Unforgotten partly because Lang avoided the TV
crime trope of violently murdered women –
“Chris has never been interested in a body
count” – but also because it was executiveproduced by Sally Haynes and Laura Mackie of
Mainstreet Pictures.
When Walker started out in the mid 90s, the
only female crew were in the make-up and 

12

STERN COUPLE
Nicola Walker and
Stephen Mangan are
back as lawyers Hannah
and Nathan Stern

I want to
look past the
camera and
see a mix of
men and
women

‘

’

N I C O L A WA L K E R

Through a

female lens

The Split star Nicola Walker says girls must be told they
can shine behind the camera, as well as in front of it
INTERVIEW BY

AMY RAPHAEL
13

PARTNERSHIP
Sanjeev Bhaskar
and Nicola Walker in
ITV’s Unforgotten

 wardrobe departments. But because executive
producers like Haynes and Mackie, Nicola
Shindler (Last Tango in Halifax and It’s a Sin)
and Jane Featherstone (Chernobyl, This Is
Going to Hurt and The Split) have pushed for
change, it now feels very different on set. “I want
to look past the camera when I’m working and
see a mix of men and women. You can’t magic it
out of nowhere; doors have to open, people have
to be trained. Girls have to be told at school that
being in front of the camera is just the top of the
iceberg when it comes to employment opportunities in our industry.”
In the third season of The Split there was even
a female grip – a job traditionally viewed as very
male since it includes operating camera cranes.
“The Split has always tried hard to make the
crew at least 50 per cent female and on this
season we had this incredible six-foot-two
Norwegian grip who was brilliant at her job. I’ve
never met a female grip in all the years I’ve been
working and it felt ground-breaking, actually.”

ALAMY; GETTY; SHUTTERSTOCK; DON SMITH/RADIO TIMES ARCHIVE

P

art of the issue is that women often
feel that they need permission to take
on roles perceived as traditionally
male. When I talk separately to Abi
Morgan, creator and writer of The Split, River
(another Nicola Walker triumph) and The Hour,
she says that she felt “grateful” to be able to be a
writer when she started out. And despite the fact
that her father was a director and that she’s
worked with female directors such as Phyllida
Lloyd (Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady) and
Sarah Gavron (Suffragette), she still hesitated
about getting behind the camera herself. “There
was no way I was going to own that space. Then
I looked at my 18-year-old daughter and
thought, ‘I’ve got to front this out.’ ”
So, finally, Morgan directed one of the new
episodes of The Split. “I am massively risk-averse
and going outside my comfort zone was terrifying. The first thing I had to shoot –
I hope I’m not giving too much
away – was a late-night scene
with Hannah [Nicola Walker]
and Nathan [Stephen Mangan]
coming back from a camping
trip. Someone shouted,
‘Action!’ and I was off.
Writing is isolating and
brutal but, for me,
directing was relaxing.
I t ’s b e e n a v e r y
VISIONARY
empowering experiAbi Morgan and
ence. If there’s one
Dee Koppang O’Leary
both direct episodes
of The Split

thing I regret, it’s waiting till my 50s to give it a
go rather than doing it in my 20s.”
Morgan agrees that you have to see it to be it.
“I looked at Emerald Fennell [director of
Promising Young Woman] and thought, ‘God,
not only is she comfortable owning her own
space on screen in The Crown [in which she
played Camilla], but she wants to own it
behind the camera, too.’ As women, we
spend most of our time trying to minimise
ourselves. I’ve tried to make as much space for
other women on screen as I can and now I think
it’s time for women to, quite literally, take hold
of the camera.”

WOMEN BEHIND
THE CAMERA
KATHY BURKE

A formidable actress, Kathy Burke
was able to play it for laughs — in
Kevin and Perry Go Large or
Gimme Gimme Gimme — but
equally at home as a domesticabuse victim in Nil by Mouth. As
a director, she’s worked largely
in the theatre since 1990, but
has recently ventured into
television with ITV’s adaptation
of Graham Norton’s debut novel, Holding.

T

hese are not idle words; the other
episodes of The Split were directed by
Dee Koppang O’Leary, who cut her
teeth on music and fashion documentaries and as an assistant director on The Crown
and Bridgerton. “I came up through the ranks
and male runners were always given the chance
to have a go at directing ahead of female
runners,” says O’Leary. “There was an assumption that boys did the tech stuff and girls looked
after the contestants or the celebrities. When I
was in my early 20s, I said I’d quite like to do the
third camera and an executive producer said,
‘James can do that. You look really pretty so you
can talk to all the contestants’. It was awful!”
O’Leary went to drama school wanting to act,
then realised her heart was behind the camera.
“I’ve got a detail-obsessed brain and I love the
analytical side of filming and putting together
all the components you need to make a beautiful
jigsaw puzzle. I’m fairly new to the world of
drama, but I get the vibe that people want to be
seen to employ female directors. If there are six
episodes in a season, they definitely want to
make sure they’ve got a female director on board
for at least two. Having a female director can
make such a difference. It was important, for
example, that the intimate scenes in Bridgerton
were seen through the lens of a woman.”
She concedes that simply box ticking won’t
work and agrees with Walker about getting
young women on board and showing them the
opportunities that exist. “You have to get the
female trainees in at 18, 19 and show them that
they can be a director, a gaffer or a director of
photography [DP] or, in fact, anything at all
behind the scenes. There are
some really exciting women
coming up through the ranks – I
worked with an amazing DP on
The Crown called Kate Reid and
she’s just one of many talented
women behind the camera.
“I’m hoping that one day
soon female directors
like the brilliant
Emerald Fennell and
Olivia Wilde will
become the norm rather
than the exception.”

IN CHARGE

Kate Herron directing
Tom Hiddleston in Loki

KATE HERRON
Having directed a series of short
films, Kate Herron went on to helm
four episodes of Netflix’s groundbreaking Sex Education. When she
heard that Marvel was looking for a director
for the first season of the Disney+ series Loki,
starring Tom Hiddleston and Gugu MbathaRaw, Herron pitched her vision (with Minority
Report and Blade Runner as key influences)
and secured the job.

SUSAN TULLY
After she quit EastEnders
as Michelle Fowler in 1995,
Susan Tully directed 12
episodes of the soap before
slowly making a name for
herself as a TV director on
Line of Duty (becoming the
first woman to direct the
series) and Too Close. She
shot four episodes of the third season of
Strike and will return to direct in season four.

PHILIPPA LOWTHORPE
Astonishingly, Philippa Lowthorpe
is the only woman to have been
awarded Baftas for Best Director,
for Call the Midwife and Three
Girls. She started her career
directing documentaries before
moving into film and TV drama;
her TV credits include
The Crown and The Third
Day. H Is for Hawk, an
adaptation of the Helen
Macdonald novel, is in
development.

15

Newsround Saturday 7.40am, Sunday—Friday 7.45am CBBC

Fifty years on from its birth on
BBC1, Newsround continues
to prove kids don’t hate news
– and its original presenter
couldn’t be more pleased

RADIOTIMES ARCHIVE; BBC PHOTOSALES; ALAMY; GETTY

JOHN CRAVEN

1972—1989

Newsround started as a six-week
experiment because of an awkward
gap in the BBC1 schedules. The
decision to fill it with a news bulletin
was risky, as research showed young
viewers hated the news. I wore a
jumper and there was no desk because we didn’t
want the audience to feel they were back at school.
It had to be informative yet informal, simple
without being simplistic. We would assume the
audience had no previous knowledge of anything
complicated. As well as covering major news
events, we needed stories they wanted to hear:
our first lead story was about rare ospreys
returning to breed in Scotland and we ended on a
funny story, with coverage about the Vietnam War
somewhere in between. The first indication I had
that we were hitting home was when a friend
phoned to say his young son had rushed to tell
him about a story he’d heard on “my news”.
During the early years, Newsround was the first
television news bulletin of the day. On several
occasions, BBC News did a newsflash on BBC1
immediately before we went on air. Our team felt
humiliated and the audience we had carefully
nursed to receive any bad news from me were
confused. It came to a head when we almost
barricaded the studio to stop a senior newsreader
entering with a newsflash. After that, no
newsflashes preceded us: Newsround broke the
big stories and, to avoid any fallout, a journalist
from the main news joined us with further details.
The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986
happened ten minutes or so before transmission.
Unlike the main news, Newsround had been
following the run-up to the launch with special
interest, so for our viewers it was particularly
poignant. I’m thrilled that “my baby” is as strong
as ever. What started as a little experiment ended
up being voted the third best children’s programme
of all time in Radio Times. Who would have
expected that 50 years ago? Not me.

16

KRISHNAN GURU-MURTHY
The beauty of Newsround was
where it sat in the schedule, in
between programmes that you
really wanted to watch, so children
like me were forced to absorb the
world by osmosis. After graduation,
joining Newsround wasn’t part of the plan. When
they approached me, I wanted to go and do
Newsnight. I really had to think: children’s TV,
is that what I want to do?
We used to get a lot of big correspondents to
do pieces — we’d ask Martin Bell, John Simpson
or Michael Buerk to write a script for Newsround
as well, and sometimes the Nine O’Clock News
would show the same report, unchanged.

NEWSROUND ANCHOR
FROM 1991—1994
I remember telling the story of a girl called
Zlata Filipovic, who was being described as
Sarajevo’s Anne Frank because she was writing
a diary during the Bosnian War. We filmed her
and her family for Newsround Extra, exploring
her life and how the war was affecting her.
I’ve never forgotten the lessons I learnt in
how to make sense of a massive, geopolitical
story in an accessible way. Channel 4 News is
arguably TV’s most complex news programme,
but I still find myself asking: are we assuming
too much knowledge here? Newsround will
always have a place — but like all television
news, the challenge is reporting the news in
the way the audience wants to watch it.

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

BEGINNINGS
Ore Oduba
(far left) with
the Newsround
team in 2011

NEWSWORTHY
KNITWEAR
John Craven
presenting
an early edition
of Newsround
Extra

FRESH-FACED
Krishnan
Guru-Murthy
in 1991

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

ORE ODUBA

PRESENTER
FROM 2008—2013

My forte was sport and I was hoping
to start on Newsround at the cutting
edge, as they were in Austria and
Switzerland for Euro 2008. But
when I arrived and said “what have
you got for me?” they sent me
crabbing in Suffolk. We all have to start somewhere,
and Newsround was the dream beginning to my
career, doing live broadcasts at 22 and having to
sharpen my elbows for a seat at the table.
I realised its impact early on with the financial
crash. It was the conversation on everybody’s
lips, but nobody really understood it; the number
of adults who came to Newsround to try to
understand it was staggering, but our approach
was never patronising.
When CBBC left BBC1 and went completely
digital, people thought it would be the end of
Newsround. But how many kids are watching BBC1
now? They’re watching things on their phones and
their tablets, or they’re on social media. Newsround
was ahead of the game then and has stayed there.
They’ve launched a new YouTube channel, they
do more stories online, they do special reports to
address things that aren’t on the news agenda
enough or are too big to cover in a bulletin.
You would think, after 50 years, they might
start slowing down, but it’s still regenerating
and relevant. I’m so proud to have been a small
chapter in one hell of a book.

JENNY LAWRENCE

CURRENT REPORTER/PRESENTER
Children and teachers come to us for the facts
and clear storytelling, which has been so
important for the conflict in Ukraine. It’s a hard
job: you’re trying to balance finding uplifting
stories — of which there are very few — and
making sure the audience understands
that this is a really difficult situation.
I’m not long back from Poland, where we
wanted to speak to children who had escaped
Ukraine, but we had to be very careful how we
went about it. There’s no point in trying to
sugarcoat something for young people and we
wanted to hear stories from a child’s perspective.
But we weren’t there to speak to traumatised
children who had just been ripped away from
their homes — that wouldn’t help anyone.
So, on our first day, we spoke to a 15-year-old
at Krakow Central Station with her mum and little
sister, trying to get to Germany. She talked about
things that haven’t been covered in the adult
news: having to say goodbye to her best friends
who were all in other countries like Moldova and
Hungary. Another eight-year-old girl talked about
FaceTiming her grandparents in Ukraine and how
she missed her toys. Those are the things that
add another dimension to our coverage because,
while we need to contextualise it, you can
get bogged down in the details of
explaining sanctions when children
are thinking, “Gosh, that Ukrainian
child must be really cold.”
Newsround is a morning
bulletin on CBBC now with a
large online presence. It’s really
important for us to highlight
that often the things seen
on social media like
TikTok aren’t true, and
give our audience
the tools to work
out what’s real.
On the website
we’ve been
getting
comments
from
children
like “Is this
World War Three?”
or “I’ve heard Putin
has Manchester
on his list of
targets”. We have
a responsibility
to fight this
MODERN MEDIUM
information
Newsround’s
online
war, too.
INTERVIEWS
BY GABRIEL
TATE

platform is crucial
to Jenny Lawrence
and the current
team

17

The Fall of the House of Maxwell
Monday 9.00pm BBC2

H

ow did Ghislaine
Maxwell morph from a
beautiful young socialite
into a convicted child sex
trafficker? A new documentary charting the entire
Maxwell family saga uncovers extraordinary
material, including a bizarre phone call in the
late 1980s between the privileged 20-something
and her bombastic press baron father.
The call was witnessed by Carol Bagoli, a
secretary in the offices of Maxwell, who owned
Mirror Group Newspapers. “Maxwell always
took his telephone calls on loudspeaker,” remembers Bagoli. “One day the switchboard put
Ghislaine through to him. The next thing I hear
is [in an elaborately cat-like voice] ‘Miaooow’.
He went, ‘Miaooow, miaoooow’ and she went,
‘Miaow’, and he replied, ‘Miaow, miaow’. This
went on for about ten miaows before he said,
‘What are you doing?’ She said, ‘Nothing’. And
I thought, ‘Yes, that’s about right.’”
Ghislaine’s life has twice been upended by the
mysterious death of a powerful and controversial man. First in 1991 when the body of her
68-year-old father (“my daddy”) was found floating off the sea near the Canary Islands during
a cruise on his £15m Lady Ghislaine yacht; and
again in 2019 when her sometime lover Jeffrey
Epstein, the man to whom she trafficked young
women for sexual abuse, died by apparent
suicide in a US prison while awaiting trial on his
own sex trafficking charges.
“There was something in Ghislaine’s relationship with Epstein that had echoes of her relationship with her father,” says Colin Barr, the
Bafta-winning executive producer of the new,
three-part documentary, The Fall of the House of
Maxwell. “That ‘miaow’ conversation was
incredibly odd, obviously. What she did with
Epstein was cynical, immoral, corrupt and

‘

What she did with
Epstein was immoral
and criminal

BRIDGEMAN; TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD;
SHUTTERSTOCK; DAILY MIRROR; THE TIMES

’

criminal. This documentary is Ghislaine’s origin
story, how she ended up the way she did.”
Included is new archive material – unseen
home movie footage and secret recordings
Maxwell made of his employees – along with
perspectives from people never interviewed
before, including a survivor of Epstein’s abuse
named only as Juliette.
As Barr says, true-life family sagas don’t come
much more extraordinary than this. Robert
Maxwell, born Jan Ludvik Hoch in 1923 in a
then-Czechoslovakian village, said he endured
such childhood poverty that he had no shoes
until he was seven. Most of his family, who were
Jewish, were murdered at Auschwitz. Maxwell
had already escaped to France and won the

18

father Robert, says a new series about
the rise and fall of the Maxwells
Military Cross fighting for the British Army in
1945 before taking British nationality. He
became variously a businessman, a Labour MP
and then an academic publisher and media
mogul, advertising his wealth with private jets,
helicopters and Rolls-Royces.

A

fter his death, however, Maxwell
was found to have stolen some £460
million from the pension assets of
the Mirror Group in order to prop up
its share price fraudulently as the company
teetered near collapse. Over 32,000 people were
affected. Two of Ghislaine’s older siblings (there
were nine children in total), Ian and Kevin, were
so closely involved with their father’s daily busi-

ness dealings that they were charged with fraud,
but eventually acquitted.
Ghislaine herself moved to the US soon after
Maxwell’s death, supported by an annual
£80,000 income from a trust fund. It’s unclear
exactly when she met Epstein, but she was
closely associated with him for 25 years until his
death. Through her social skills they mixed with
the great and good including Bill Clinton,
Donald Trump and, of course, Prince Andrew.
Christopher Mason was hired by Ghislaine in
1993 to write a song for Epstein’s 40th birthday.
He remembers her then as “effervescent, hilariously funny, self-deprecating and had a great
line in dirty jokes”. While from the Mirror days,
Carol Bagoli’s recollections are of an “engaging,
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

HITTING THE
HEADLINES
Main pic: Robert
Maxwell in 1990
with wife Elisabeth,
daughter Ghislaine
and son Ian. From
top: at home with the
children; how the Daily
Mirror reported his
death in 1991 (right);
Ghislaine with Jeffrey
Epstein (below); and
Ghislaine’s guilty
verdict in 2021 (left)

on the brink of crumbling, plenty believe
Bagoli’s phrase – “took
although she herself is
Ghislaine and her
brother Ian insist it
wasn’t suicide. Ian is
“content” his father’s
death was an unexplained acci-

I

n 1997, Ghislaine stated:
“I think he was murdered.”
There has long been talk of
the Israeli intelligence

“I don’t believe in the Mossad

the building” before sitting on the corner
of Bagoli’s desk. “She was very glamorous,
with beautiful long legs. She wasn’t haughty,
but we all knew she didn’t want to work. She
liked swanning around, being social. She was
a bit of a spoilt daddy’s girl. She knew how to
handle him.”
Handling Maxwell was a constant test for
anyone within his vicinity. “He was very intimidating,” says Bagoli. “We were relaxed when he
was away and very much on edge when he was
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

I didn’t rely on him for a huge salary.”
Maxwell’s death followed an argumentative
phone call with his son Kevin over a meeting
scheduled with the Bank of England about his
default on £50 million in loans. Maxwell missed
the meeting, instead staying on his yacht. The
inquest, one month after his body was found,
ruled it was death by heart attack combined
with accidental drowning. Yet three pathologists
were unable to agree on the cause of his death
and conspiracy theories have abounded ever

who knows? He had a bottomless
capacity for convincing himself his own lies were
true, and by then was extremely paranoid,
bugging not only his executives’ conversations
but his own family, ever more isolated as the
financial noose tightened.
“You know, Maxwell could have been quite a
heroic figure, coming from extreme poverty to
succeed in a country as class-ridden as Britain.
Instead his path curdled into hubris, vanity and
moral corruption, which was then passed down
the line to his family, including Ghislaine. It’s
hard to imagine a more dramatic rise or disastrous fall than the story of the Maxwell family.”
KATE BATTERSBY

19

Art That Made Us Thursday 9.00pm BBC2

The Rev Richard Coles says the bling
of the Lindisfarne Gospels makes them
more than just a blaze of art

B

Communards, he has a degree in theology.
As well as presenting Radio 4’s Saturday
Live and competing on Strictly, he’s written two volumes on the lives of the saints
and was ordained in 2005.
All that makes him the perfect choice to
talk about the Lindisfarne Gospels on Art
That Made Us, a new series on BBC2
charting Britain’s history through its creative endeavours.
“Seeing them is like walking into St
Peter’s in Rome – a blaze of art and
beauty,” Coles says. “The colours are so
rich and vivid… and imagine what they
were like in a world where intense colour
was not commonly found. It would have
been like the ‘ruby slippers’ bit in The
Wizard of Oz, where the world suddenly
turns into Technicolor.
“But they’re incredibly important, too.
The text is in Latin, of course, but in the
late tenth century, a priest added an
English translation between the lines,
and that’s the oldest existing translation
of the Bible into English. It may have
been done for the benefit of
the stories of the Evangelists, currently residstudents – a bit like someone at the
ing in the British Library. And, most strikgarage making notes in the Ford Escort
ing of all – perhaps even borderline-blasmanual – but it’s really resonant for
phemous – he describes the book as
me, and any Christian. Because when I
“weaponising” the Word of God.
first engaged with the Gospels with my
“The Lindisfarne Gospels are aestheteyes and ears open, they went off like a
ically very beautiful,” Coles explains,
bomb: they changed the way I saw the
“but that was to help them disseminate
world, myself and everything.
this extremely powerful new way of
“So to see these marks
thinking, believing and
made on a piece of
being. They had extraparchment a thousand
ordinary energy and potyears ago, in the falterency: they weaponised the
ing light of a North
Word of God in order to
EVANGELICAL
The
Rev
Richard
Eastern evening, and to
spread it more effectively.”
Coles
and,
right,
sense the same detonaIf he sounds knowledgean illuminated
tion
happening in their
able, that’s because he is.
page from the
minds back then… That
In addition to his 1986
Lindisfarne
Gospels
involves me intimately in
number one single with the

other,” says the Rev Richard
Coles. “I’ve just got a chuffing
speeding ticket.” (Except the
words he uses aren’t “bother” or
“chuffing”.) It’s not the most
colourful vocabulary he’ll deploy
in our conversation today, though. Speaking
from his vicarage in the Northamptonshire
village of Finedon, the pop-star-turned-vicarturned-broadcaster surprisingly reserves his
most unbiblical language to describe a manuscript of the Gospels created in Northumbria
around AD 715, comparing it to Dorothy’s ruby
slippers in The Wizard of Oz, a Ford Escort, a pint
of Guinness and Elton John.
He’s talking about the Lindisfarne Gospels, the
spectacularly illustrated eighth-century edition of

ALAMY; GETTY; NATASHA PSZENICKI; SHUTTERSTOCK

weaponised
‘They
the Word of God to
spread it effectively
’

20

a long tradition, and it’s very powerful.”
Should the Gospels be “liberated” from the
British Library, then, and returned to Lindisfarne? “I think you’d certainly appreciate them
in a different way if you saw them there,” nods
Coles, “just like Guinness tastes better in Dublin.
“They have this rich visual vocabulary, and the
creatures and the weather and the light are all
discernibly from the north of England. The
shore, the seabirds, the bit where land and water
meet, the skies, it’s all there on the pages, and
you can’t look at them without seeing the beach
at Bamburgh [across the sea from Lindisfarne].
“That said,” he adds, “I do like the thought of
them being in the British Library, available to as
many people as possible, and absolutely at the
heart of the way we tell the story of our nation. If
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

THE
ART
THAT
MADE
US
Also featuring in the series…
EMMA BRIDGEWATER
on Anti-Slavery Medallion
by Josiah Wedgwood
“I’ve spent 35 years toiling
in the Potteries,” says the
ceramicist, “and I’m in massive thrall to
the first Josiah Wedgwood. He is the
Colossus of the Potteries, and one
of the key drivers of the Industrial
Revolution. But he also engaged in a
radical political campaign, creating a
medallion in support of the anti-slavery
campaign started by William Wilberforce.
Thousands were given away at antislave trade meetings around the country.
People were giving them to their friends,
setting them in a ring or tucking them into
their hat bands — it was a brilliant
way of spreading the message.”

DAVID BADDIEL
on Going, Going by
Philip Larkin
“Larkin’s poems are
brilliantly written and
structured,” says the comedian. “But
there’s a sentimental thing in me, to do
with my immigrant stock, I’ve always had
an over-fetishised love of the English
countryside. My mum was born in Nazi
Germany and I have an awareness of
having got into this country by the scruff
of my genetic neck. Going, Going is a
lament to that English countryside as it
disappears. There’s a sense of creeping
time in it, which I also relate to as
someone a bit obsessed with mortality.”

GUS CASELYHAYFORD
they could be sent out on tour every couple of
years, like Elton John, I’d love that.” In fact, the
Gospels will make a homecoming of sorts later
this year, in a residency at Newcastle’s Laing Art
Gallery from September to December.
As a writer himself, Coles does “rather envy”
the ten years afforded Lindisfarne’s monks to
complete the Gospels. He’s also jealous of the
isolation they enjoyed, with the tides that separated their Holy Island from the Northumbrian
mainland the equivalent of turning off today’s
distracting WhatsApp notifications, he reckons
(“It is easier to tune into the God frequency with
all the world’s static reduced”). And would he
like his own books published in gem-flecked
goldback format, too? “Absolutely. Bling forever.”
ED GRENBY

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

on the works of
William Hogarth
“For me the work of the
18th-century artist Hogarth stands
out,” says the director of V&A East.
“He tells the story of the people of
this country who may have felt
excluded and he puts them front and
centre. The BBC makes me feel proud
to be part of this nation and this
series is what we should be doing in
its 100th year. It’s wonderful to see
these works that reflect back some
of the very testing things we have
gone through, which are difficult
and problematic but also rich and
gorgeous.” MICHAEL HODGES

21

RT SUBSCRIPTION

SUBSCRIBE TO RT
AND GET A ROBERTS
RADIO WORTH £79.99
Pay just £65 for six months — that’s a saving
of 42 per cent off the full subscription price*
SIX REASONS TO SUBSCRIBE
1 Receive a Roberts FM/DAB Ortus 2 Radio
2
3 Convenient delivery to your door every week
4 Enjoy great features and exclusive interviews with the stars
‡
5 A ten per cent discount on products on the RT Shop
6 Risk-free offer — benefit from our money-back guarantee**
YOUR ROBERTS ORTUS 2 RADIO
 Sleek and practical radio with built-in DAB/DAB+/FM
 Pre-set up to 20 stations
 Radio/buzzer alarm with snooze function
 Lights can be adjusted to dim or black-out at night
 Audio fade-out setting for bed-time listening
 Doubles up as a speaker for your iPod or MP3 player

ROBERTS ORTUS 2
— worth £79.99
Sleek and practical
radio with built-in DAB/
DAB+/FM RDS
waveband

To subscribe to Radio Times, call the hotline 03330 162128†, quoting RTP1422,
order online at buysubscriptions.com/RTP1422 or complete the order form
 Yes, I would like to subscribe to RT for £65 every 6 months by Direct Debit and receive a Roberts Ortus 2 radio worth £79.99. Fill in the mandate below.
Please choose your region by ticking the box***



Instructions to your Bank or Building Society to pay by Direct Debit. Originator’s reference — 941454

London, Anglia and Midlands  South, West & South West  North West, Yorkshire
and North East  Scotland & Border  Wales  Northern Ireland 

 I would like to pay £65 every 6 months.

Your details

Account name

Title

Forename

Surname

Postcode
Tel no.

Mobile

Email address

Account number

Signature
Date

Address

Sort code

Banks and Building Societies may not accept
Direct Debit instructions from some types of
account.

Instructions to your Bank or Building Society
pay Immediate Media Company Ltd Debits from the
account detailed on this instruction subject to the
safeguards assured by the Direct Debit Guarantee.
I understand that this instruction may remain with
Immediate Media Company Ltd and if so details will be
passed electronically to my Bank or Building Society.

RTP1422

Gift recipient details (Only required if you are giving an RT subscription)
Title

Forename

Surname

Address
Postcode
Tel no.

Mobile

Email address
How often did you/your household buy RT prior to your decision to subscribe?
 Always  Almost always (at least 3 out of 4)  Quite often (at least 1 out of 4)
 Only occasionally (less than 1 out of 4)  Only at Christmas  Never
How long had you been buying RT in the supermarket/newsagent before subscribing?
 Up to 12m  1-3 years  4-9 years  10+ years  Never

22

Please send order form to: FREEPOST IMMEDIATE MEDIA (please write in capital letters)
Terms and conditions  Offer ends, 23:59 on Friday 29 April 2022 and is open to new subscribers at UK delivery
addresses only.  Offer subject to availability.  Allow up to six weeks for delivery of your bonus reward. Should
this be unavailable we reserve the right to offer an alternative reward of equal value.  You will be notified of
future price increases before they take effect.  *The Basic Annual Rate of Radio Times is £223 per annum,
including the Christmas issue and a contribution towards postage. All savings are calculated as a percentage
of this Basic Annual Rate.  **You may cancel at any time and receive a full refund on any outstanding issues.
 ***If a region is not selected subscribers will automatically receive the London, Anglia and Midlands region.
 †UK calls will cost the same as other standard fixed line numbers (starting 01 or 02) and are included as part
of any inclusive or free minutes allowances (if offered by your phone tariff). Outside of free call packages, call
charges from mobile phones will cost between 3p and 55p per minute. Lines are open Mon to Fri 9am—5pm.
‡
For RT Shop ten per cent discount t&cs, visit radiotimes.com/subs10
Radio Times (published by Immediate Media Company Limited) would like to send you updates, special offers
and promotions by email. You can unsubscribe at any time. Please tick here if you would like to receive these .
We would also like to keep in touch by post and telephone about other relevant offers and promotions from
Immediate Media. If you do not wish to be contacted this way please tick here: post  phone .
For more information about how to change the way we contact you, and how we hold your personal information,
please see our privacy policy, which can be viewed online at immediate.co.uk/privacy-policy

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

All Star Musicals Sunday 7.30pm ITV

I

t isn’t the kind of thing you would
expect to see and hear on Springwatch.
Out in the wilds of Norfolk, behind the
barn where the camera equipment is
kept, a most unusual song can be heard.
It isn’t a rare bird that’s been blown off course,
it’s Michaela Strachan tap dancing and singing
at the top of her voice.
“I needed somewhere to rehearse,” smiles the
presenter. “You can’t tap dance on the carpet in a
hotel room, so I found this piece of concrete.
I put my music on, and I was away. The only
people there were two security guards who stood
there with a coffee, looking at me thinking, ‘She’s
a bit quirky, isn’t she?’ I let them watch, finished
my routine and just said, ‘All right? Nice cup of
coffee?’ And off I went to start my day.”
Strachan is part of the line-up in ITV’s new
run of All Star Musicals – not that she’ll divulge
what she’s performing. “It’s from a musical I’ve
seen loads of times,” is all she will say. “I’ve had
so many friends from school appear in it.” Stage
school? “Yes. My passion was dance and performance from the age of about three.” Is that an

‘

It’s no secret that
I’ve always wanted
to do Strictly

’

unfair advantage in this competition? “Probably,”
she laughs. “But it was a long time ago.”
Also a long time ago was Strachan’s pop
career. In 1989 and 1990, she released two
singles under the name Michaela and they
peaked at numbers 62 and 66 in the charts
respectively. Before that, she toured the country
and even went to Canada with a production of
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
“My mother was a dancer and worked in
revues, so that was where I was heading,” she
says. “But while I was doing that, I heard about
an audition for [the ITV kids’ show] the Wide
Awake Club and fancied going along for a bit of

GETTY

F

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Michaela Strachan
in ITV’s All Star
Musicals and, below,
in her pop-star
days in 1990

Michaela
Strachan
is desperate
to ditch
Springwatch
to sparkle
on stage…

if it wasn’t all happening,” she says now. “I didn’t
want the viewers thinking about my tits when
I was talking about blue tits. I didn’t want the
audience feeling sorry for me. I told who
I needed to at the BBC and my
co-presenters found out later. The
whole team knew, all 100 of them,
but I didn’t mind that. People were
very discreet, supportive and kind.”
Following reconstruc tive
surgery the following year,
when she felt that she was
“strong enough to cope with
other people’s emotions on
top of my own and my close
family’s”, she sought out a
meeting with Breast Cancer
Now and became an enthusiastic campaigner for the charity.
“It is an opportunity to help people,”
she smiles.

But there’s still one opportunity that has so far
eluded her. “It’s no secret that I’ve always wanted
to do Strictly,” she says. “I’ve actively put my
hands up for it but never been asked! I’ve been
asked to do Dancing on Ice a couple of times and
haven’t made the final line-up. The last time
I was asked I had to turn it down due to Covid
travel restrictions [Strachan has lived in South
Africa for 20 years], so when All Star Musicals
came along, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is my
dream!’ I don’t even have to worry about hurting
myself unless I do something really stupid…”
She obviously can’t reveal how she got on in
the show, but she will concede, “hand on heart,
that it’s not about winning, it’s all about
getting the most out of life and being the best
you can be”. And that’s whether you’re performing before a live audience in a West End musical
or tap dancing in a field in Norfolk? “It is,” she
beams, “Absolutely!”
BILL BORROWS

23

RT SHOP

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS

RT
CHOICE

New for 2022! RT subscribers benefit from 10% off* all RT Shop
items. Shop from the comfort of your home. P&P included**

DABSTAR CD PLAYER £59.99*
Use the FM radio and CD player to listen to your
favourite shows and artists, or use the aux-in
cable to stream from your device to the built-in
speakers. With a handy LCD screen and rotary
control and mains or battery operation.

NEW TO
RT SHOP

BEST
SELLER

BRITANNIA 9-IN-1 MUSIC SYSTEM £399.99**

The Britannia music system brings an exciting array of features to the table. Listen to your music any way
you like: on vinyl, CD, cassette, aux, USB or MP3, Bluetooth streaming, and tune in to the FM or DAB radio.
Plus, record from one CD to another — the twin CD drawers and one-button recording making this a breeze
— or record from any other sound input onto CD too! There is a dual cassette deck with cassette recording,
and you can record to USB/MP3 too.

ROBERTS PLAY 20 RADIO £84.99
The compact and portable Play 20 lets you take
DAB+ and FM radio with you wherever you go – its
lightweight design mean you can transport it easily.
Featuring protective rubber bumpers, it’s perfectly
suited for listening out and about, whether perched
on a windowsill, in the vegetable patch, or beyond!
With up to 20 station presets, you can switch
between your favourite stations with ease. Adding
to the intuitive design is a full colour display for
simple and clear navigation. From digital and
analogue listening options to the built-in battery
charger, headphone socket and lock switch, the
Play 20 is small in size, but is packed with all the
essential features.

NEW TO
RT SHOP

CASSETTE PLAYER £41.99**
Enjoy your favourite sounds on this handy
portable radio and cassette player. With an MW/
FM radio, cassette player and recorder as well
as a built-in mic, it has all you need for essential
listening. Also includes a headphone socket for
private listening. Available in black or cream
ABBA GOLD ON VINYL £34.99 INCL P&P
Celebrate the release of new songs and a
forthcoming live show from the Swedish
supergroup with a look back at the best tracks
from their heyday. This
two-disc collection is
sure to get you up on
your feet and feeling
like a dancing queen!
Includes hits such as
Mamma Mia, Super
Trouper and
Waterloo.

To order, visit radiotimes.com/shop14, call 03302 232 639 or fill out the coupon
Radio Times subscriber exclusive! Get 10% off the RT Shop, simply quote your subscriber number at checkout or on the coupon
Calls cost national rate p/min, calls from mobiles may vary. Lines open Mon—Fri 8am—6pm and Sat 9am—1pm. Allow 14 days for delivery. Available while stocks last. *For 10% discount t&cs, visit radiotimes.com/subs10.
**
Steepletone products may incur a postage surcharge for certain postcode areas. Call number above for postage details. Deliveries may take longer than 14 days due to Covid–19 outbreak.

ORDER FORM Send to: Radio Times Shop, PO Box 12635, Colchester CO7 5AN
Qty

S ub total

I enclose a cheque for £

Item

Price

Britannia 9-in-1 music system

£399.99

MasterCard  Visa

Roberts Play 20 radio

£84.99

Number

Dabstar CD player

£59.99

Signature

Cassette player

£41.99

ABBA Gold on vinyl

£34.99

P&P FREE* on all items

Total

Immediate Media Company Limited (publishers of Radio Times) would love to send you newsletters,
together with special offers and other promotions. Tick here if you’d like to receive these by Email  Post 

24



RTSHOP14
payable to Radio Times, in full payment, or debit my:

 Expiry date   /  


Print name
Address

Postcode

Subscriber number

Tel no.

Email

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SIMON BARNES

The race
is on

Oxford and Cambridge
return to the Thames –
what drama will follow?

The Boat Race
Sunday 1.50pm BBC1

GETTY

T

here was an eerie quality about
the Boat Races last year. With
spectators banned due to Covid, the
focus shifted. All sporting occasions
had become lonely quests for excellence rather than community events. With no
love or hate flowing from crowds, sport was
pared down to the essentials. And nowhere was
this more vivid than at the Boat Races of 2021.
The event had been cancelled the previous
year and, 12 months on, it was time to start
again. But not along that crowded serpentine
stretch of the River Thames in London. Instead,
it was in the Fens, where the race had been held
unofficially in 1944 to avoid an outbreak of
doodlebugs. And there the four crews, first the
women and then the men, raced along the Great
Ouse, in the rich landscape of Cambridgeshire
with the vast Fenland skies above them.
The nature of the course – more or less dead
straight – meant that in each race the two crews
raced oar to oar from start to finish. Cambridge
won both races, the women coming from
behind to do so, the men finishing less than a
length in front.
However, on Sunday the Boat Races are back
on the Tideway. Thousands of people with no
connection to either university – or interest in
rowing – will watch. And they will do so with a
very reasonable expectation of drama, for

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

BACK AT IT
The bridges and
banks of the
Thames will
be packed
once again

the event has a long history of providing it.
In 1877 the race was deemed a dead heat, and
legend has it that the judge was blind in one eye
and drunk. In 1912 both crews sank. In 1951 the
race was stopped because Oxford sank
(Cambridge won the re-row).
In 1978 Cambridge sank at Barnes Bridge. In
1984 – I was covering that one – Cambridge
rammed a barge before the start and wrecked
their boat, losing the following day in a borrowed
one. In 2012 the race was stopped by an intruder
in the water. In the 2016 women’s race,
Cambridge all but sank: they took on so much
water that the umpire advised them to pull up.
In other words, there is a strange tendency for
craziness in the Boat Race. Sunday will bring us
the 167th men’s race and the 76th women’s

contest, and it’s as much a historical pageant as
it is a sporting event: an occasion that is not only
big and ancient, but free.

I

t’s not elite sport – you find that on the
rowing lake at the Olympics. It’s about elite
students at play: for all that they work jolly
hard, they are, in a sense, just playing at it. The
event is a celebration of London and of youth,
one that can be pursued all along the river from
the Star and Garter pub to the Crabtree to the
Dove to the White Hart to the Ship.
Perhaps the point is that the Boat Race isn’t
sport we have to care about too much. We can
simply revel in the occasion, effort and agony. It
reminds us that sport can be appreciated without
partisanship, that it’s a rich and complex matter
we can enjoy on many levels.
The women’s race starts at 2.23pm, the men’s at
3.23pm on BBC1

GOLFING WONDERLAND
SERENE SPORT
Last year’s races on the
Great Ouse had no spectators

‘

There’s a strange
tendency for craziness
in the Boat Race

’

If the Boat Race was surreal last year, golf’s
Masters Tournament is surreal every year. The
course seems to have escaped from Disney’s
Fantasia, to the extent that you expect winged
horses or centaurs to emerge from the azalea.
Spaniard Jon Rahm will start as favourite, but
I’ll be perpetually lost in wonder. How do they
get grass to be so green? From Thursday 2pm
Sky Sports Main Event/Golf

25

FILM OF THE WEEK

The devil’s work
99 Homes ★★★★ j
Tuesday 11.15pm BBC2

There has been a lot of love lately for Andrew
Garfield, and rightly so. The wiry BritishAmerican actor has just been up for an Oscar for
playing Rent creator Jonathan Larson in tick,
tick… Boom! and gave a tremendous performance as televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of
Tammy Faye. Now here’s a chance to see one of
his lesser-known turns, in Ramin Bahrani’s gripping recession-era drama 99 Homes.
Set in 2010, two years after the global financial crash, Garfield plays Dennis Nash, a
construction worker living with his young son
Connor (Noah Lomax) and his mother Lynn
(Laura Dern), who runs her hairdressing business from their family home in Florida. When
Dennis’s work dries up, that beloved home is
repossessed after the bank forecloses on the
property, leading to a harrowing eviction scene,
as their possessions are dumped onto the street.
Leading this horror show is Rick Carver
(Michael Shannon), a shark-like real estate
agent. Utterly ruthless, he doesn’t shed tears
over those he evicts or the properties in question
(“Don’t get emotional over real estate”, he tells
Dennis more than once). But as the Nash family
is forced to move into a motel, alongside numerous other evictees, the twist comes when Rick
gives the desperate Dennis some work.

I

26

DEVELOPING THREAT
One Hour Photo ★★★★ j Monday 9.00pm Great Movies
The late, great comic genius Robin Williams switched gears masterfully
in this unsettling 2001 thriller from Mark Romanek, playing an
obsessive loner working at an in-store photo lab. With no family,
“Sy the photo guy” vicariously lives through others’ happy snaps —
especially regular customer Nina Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) and her family
— but he’s a man teetering on the edge. Writer/director Romanek
conjures an increasingly insidious atmosphere, including one very
effective blood-drenched nightmare set in the antiseptic aisles of the
SavMart where Sy works, but it’s Williams’s ticking-grenade turn that
draws you in. He was never this creepy on screen again. JM

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

ALAMY; ALLSTAR

mpressed by Dennis’s nerve, Carver is
soon tutoring him in the ways of this very
ugly business – one that requires not only a
heart of steel to turf people from their homes,
but a willingness to circumvent rules for profit.
Like Eduardo Saverin, his Facebook co-founder
in The Social Network, or the aforementioned
Jim Bakker, Garfield is sublime as a man who
has the American Dream dangled in front of
him and must decide which path to choose.
Bahrani is less interested in watching Nash
fight his way out of the poverty trap than he
is in creating a character study of a man
walking a moral tightrope. His films,
like 2005’s Man Push Cart and the
recent Netflix epic The White Tiger,
have an ingrained social conscience,
and 99 Homes is no different.
The sheer brutal reality of losing
your home hits hard, as cashstrapped folk face indifferent
judges, cops, and agents like Rick
Carver. Yet this is not a film that
preaches. Blending politics with
propulsive drama, it’s an absorbLONER
ing snapshot of contemporary
Robin Williams
plays it straight
America. JAMES MOTTRAM

Saturday 2
The Next Karate Kid ★★
1.25-3.35pm C4

g

ADVENTURE The original “kid”, Ralph
Macchio, may have departed, but at
least the fourth instalment in the
martial arts series could still call on the
services of his mentor, Mr Miyagi, played
by Pat Morita. Although even Morita
must have felt a sense of déjà vu
wafting over him this time. Essentially,
this is a case of “same plot, different
gender”, as future Oscar winner Hilary
Swank becomes Morita’s prize pupil in
the wake of her parents’ death in a car
crash. A few pre-prom dance lessons
are the only significant departure from
the tried-and-tested formula, although
Michael Ironside is good value as
Swank’s sinister gym teacher. DP
(US 1994, edited for language, violence, HD)

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

Calamity Jane 5 1.50-3.30pm
BBC2 (not in N Ireland)
y
MUSICAL The opening sequence of
this wonderful musical is pure pleasure,
as Doris Day rides the Deadwood stage
across the screen and into our hearts.
This isn’t the real Wild West, of course,
but Warner Bros’s Technicolored riposte
to MGM’s Annie Get Your Gun — the
studio even poached the same leading
man, Howard Keel, who’s excellent as
Wild Bill Hickok. The real strength of
the movie, though, is Day. In her finest
role, she creates a robust yet tender
character, and just marvel at her
performance of Secret Love, recorded in
one take, and which won the best song
Oscar. Day returns tomorrow in Move
Over Darling, showing in celebration of
the centenary of her birth. TS (US 1953, HD)

m

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
★★★★ 3.30-5.10pm 5 Star h

COMEDY Doctor Dolittle meets The
Crying Game in the smash hit that
made Jim Carrey an overnight comedy
sensation. The rubber-faced star plays a
bumbling, Hawaiian-shirted detective
hired to find the kidnapped dolphin
mascot of the Miami Dolphins football
team. Your reaction to the film will
largely depend on whether you find
Carrey’s distinctive style of extremely
physical comedy — often compared to
that of Jerry Lewis — stupidly hilarious
or downright annoying. Tom Shadyac
directs with anarchic energy and quirky
imagination, and he later reteamed
with Carrey on Liar Liar and Bruce
Almighty. AJ (US 1993, edited for language, HD)

North West Frontier ★★★

5.20-8.00pm Talking Pictures TV y
ADVENTURE This is a cracking movie,
directed with great pace and precision
by J Lee Thompson the year after he
made Ice Cold in Alex. It proves that an
old-fashioned, all-action drama can still
keep you on the edge of your seat
without the benefit of flashy special
effects. It could almost be called an
“eastern”, transplanting the old western
plot of a railroad journey through
hostile territory to turn-of-the-century
OUTSTANDING ★★★★ VERY GOOD

FILM OF THE DAY
Grease ★★★★
m
4.20-6.30pm C4

DID YOU KNOW
?
In 2019, Newton-John
auctioned her leather
jacket and trousers fro
m
the movie in aid of he
r
cancer research char
ity.
They went for $405,70
0

g

MUSICAL The original
high-school musical, set in the
late 1950s, has been luring
finger-clicking rock ’n’ roll
nostalgics into theatre aisles
since 1971 and is no doubt playing
on a stage somewhere in the world
right now. This smash 1978 movie
version made superstars of John
Travolta (fresh from Saturday Night
Fever) and Olivia Newton-John,
playing Rydell High’s star-crossed
senior-term lovers, as well as
immortalising songs like Summer
Nights, You’re the One That I Want
and Frankie Valli’s title number. It
withstands the test of time thanks
to its knee-bending dance routines
and greaser cool, while also
addressing various social issues
(including teen pregnancy).
Depending on your vintage, it will
either transport you back to the
actual bobbysoxer era, or the
revivalist 70s, when jive still
dominated the pop charts.
Whichever, it’s infectious fun and
blueprinted every rollicking,
tribal high-school movie since.
Andrew Collins (US 1978, some
swearing, sexual references, HD)

11.25pm-1.20am C4

h

ADVENTURE A stellar cast helps
elevate director Justin Kurzel’s moody
video-game adaptation, led by Michael
Fassbender as a man whose DNA is
the key to ending a centuries-old war
between the Templars and freedomloving rebels, the Assassins. Using a
machine developed by scientist Marion
Cotillard, Fassbender regresses to the
time of the Spanish Inquisition to locate
what both rival factions want: the
genetic code for free will. Kurzel
successfully marries the signature
touches of the blockbusting game with
a neat origin story, delivering plenty
of eye-popping stunts along the way. AJ
(US/UK/Fr 2016, violence, swearing, HD)

The Return of the Soldier ★★★

6.50-9.00pm Great Movies Classic g
DRAMA Receiving a rare showing, this
impeccably mounted film casts Alan
Bates as an officer sent to fight in the
First World War trenches, leaving his
wife (Julie Christie) emotionally frozen
and his cousin (Ann-Margret) worried
sick and heaving with desire for him.
Then Bates returns — shell-shocked and
an amnesiac — and he runs off with an
old flame (Glenda Jackson), who nurses
a big social chip on her shoulder. Based
on the novel by Rebecca West, it’s a
costume drama in which every class
division, every unsaid emotion and
every napkin knows its place. It also
features three wonderful actresses at
the peak of their powers as they joust
over Bates. AT (UK 1982)

9.00-11.25pm C4

j

HORROR COMEDY This delightfully
deadpan mockumentary concerns a
ragtag bunch of Kiwi vampires. A film
crew follows the dandyish Viago (Taika
Waititi) and the rampant Vladislav
(Jemaine Clement) as they argue about
the washing-up, hit the clubs, and suck
the life from virgins (but remember to
put a towel down first). There are some
hilarious riffs on undead mythology, and
the guts and gore are balanced with
sympathetic and believable characters.
Rhys Darby’s turn as the unfailingly
polite leader of a faction of werewolves
is a fantastic treat. All three series of
the sitcom the film spawned are now on
BBC iPlayer. LB (NZ 2014, violence, swearing, HD)

Assassin’s Creed ★★★

India. Kenneth More gives an assured
performance as the soldier entrusted
with the safety of a Hindu prince after
a rebellion, and he is given able
support by Lauren Bacall (as the
boy’s no-nonsense nurse), Wilfrid Hyde
White and Herbert Lom. DP (UK 1959)

The Hitman’s Bodyguard ★★★★

What We Do in the Shadows
★★★★ 11.15pm-12.40am BBC3

j

ACTION COMEDY In this mismatched
buddy movie packed with gags and
thrills, “personal security consultant”
Ryan Reynolds has to deliver hired killer

Samuel L Jackson to court, where he’s
due to testify against a mass-murdering
despot (Gary Oldman). Standing in his
way are countless henchmen hell-bent
on executing the turncoat assassin. The
bad guys are painted in predictably
broad brush strokes, but the script is
laugh-out-loud hilarious when it comes
to the leads’ sparring. The action set
pieces are also inventive, most notably
a chase sequence along the canals of
Amsterdam and a gruesome bout of
fisticuffs in a hardware store. TeS
(US 2017, violence, swearing, HD)

Lucy ★★★ 10.40pm-12.20am ITV j
ADVENTURE Luc Besson’s collision of
Limitless and 2001: a Space Odyssey
stars Scarlett Johansson as the
eponymous American abroad who is
forced to become a drugs mule for a
nasty Taiwanese crime boss. However,
when she accidentally ingests the
experimental substance, it expands her
brain power to cosmic proportions.
Morgan Freeman adds his usual gravitas
as the scientist Lucy seeks out as she
desperately tries to hang on to her
humanity, while also evading various
vengeful baddies. This may not be a
patch on Besson’s best work — Nikita,
Leon etc — but there’s fun to be had as
the director turns action clichés on
their head to breathtaking effect. JA
(Fr 2014, violence, HD)

★★★ WORTH WATCHING ★★ COULD BE WORSE ★ POOR i PREMIERE m FAMILY VIEWING HD HIGH DEFINITION

PICK OF THE REST...
Concert for George ★★★★
3.45-6.30pm Sky Arts

A tribute to the late Beatle. (2003, HD)

Man of Steel ★★★
5.50-8.30pm ITV2

h

Henry Cavill stars as Superman. (2013, HD)

The Greatest Showman ★★★★
6.55-9.00pm E4

g

The man who invented the circus. (2017, HD)

Fast & Furious 8 ★★★★
8.30-11.10pm ITV2

h

More turbo-driven spectacle. (2017, HD)

Bridget Jones’s Diary ★★★★
9.00-11.10pm ITVBe

j

Can Renée Zellweger find love? (2001, HD)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
★★★★ 10.00pm-1.15am Alibi
z
Rooney Mara stars in this remake. (2011, HD)

Get Out 5

11.15pm-1.20am Film4

j

Meet the parents — at your peril. (2017, HD)

Amundsen ★★★

12.35-2.35am BBC2

h

Biopic of the polar explorer. (2019, HD)

Streaming
For the best films across the
digital platforms, see page 38

27

unforgettably in the classic All Quiet on
the Western Front. Bleak and grim, it
boasts a superb all-male cast, headed
by Gregory Peck at his glummest,
playing an army officer who leads a unit
that attempts to capture an important
hill, despite the almost insurmountable
odds. Watch out for the young Martin
Landau and Harry Dean Stanton (billed
here as plain Dean Stanton) amid all the
shrapnel. As with Milestone’s other war
films, the action sequences are terrific. TS
(US 1959, violence, BW)

FILM OF THE DAY
Wyatt Earp ★★★★
2.45-6.25pm C5

h

WESTERN Corn-fed Californian
Kevin Costner loves his westerns. In his
youth, he and his family moved around
a lot because of his father’s job, but the
movie How the West Was Won made a
big impact. In 1994, he co-produced
Lawrence Kasdan’s richly detailed
Wyatt Earp biopic, taking the lead role
of the legendarily decent lawman
himself. Gene Hackman plays the
father who raises Wyatt against the
backdrop of the Civil War, while
Dennis Quaid and Michael
Madsen play Doc Holliday and
Virgil Earp, who help turn his
life around after tragedy
strikes. The journey to the
famous gunfight at the
OK Corral is a long time
coming, with plenty of
characters packed in along
the way, but it’s definitely
worth sticking around for.
Andrew Collins (US 1994, edited for content, HD)

m The Martian ★★★★
6.10-9.00pm Film4

SCI-FI Life on Mars requires ingenuity
and a keen sense of humour if Ridley
Scott’s film is anything to go by. An
Oscar-nominated Matt Damon plays
astronaut Mark Watney, who is left for
dead on the Red Planet after a manned
mission is hurriedly abandoned during
a ferocious storm. Despite his awful
predicament, Watney proves to be good
company, addressing the audience in
video diaries that draw us deeper into
his world. The use of “real science” to
work through each life-threatening
situation adds a fascinating dimension
to the story, before the narrative takes
a more familiar course as it switches
focus to Nasa’s rescue mission. SP
(US 2015, edited for content, HD)

NOW?
DID YOU K
e
Costner left th
other
an
production of
,
ie
Wyatt Earp mov
creative
Tombstone, over
d decided
differences an
instead
to make this film

Enemy of the State ★★★★
9.00-11.40pm 5 Star

Heart of a Stranger ★★

12.30-2.20pm Great Movies
DRAMA In this undemanding and
gently sentimental film, Jane Seymour
plays a prim divorcee who undergoes
a striking personality change after
receiving a heart transplant from
a young, wild-living male donor.
However, her violinist daughter (Maggie
Lawson) can’t cope with having an
independent, revamped mum. Despite
the far-fetched premise, this true-story
tale is actually rather ordinary, merely
using the supernatural hints as a
springboard to explore the complexities
of mother/daughter relationships.
Seymour is likeably zesty, but it’s
difficult to empathise with Lawson’s
selfish petulance. SF (US TVM 2002)
Jane Seymour interview, p36

Joe Kidd ★★ 12.55-2.45pm C5

j

WESTERN The spaghetti western
meets its classic American origins in
this range-war saga. Channelling his
“Man with No Name” persona, Clint
Eastwood plays the gunman up against
Robert Duvall’s greedy businessman,
who’s dispossessing Mexican-Americans
of their land. Sadly, there’s very little to
get excited about here, despite the film
being scripted by the great Elmore
Leonard and with John Sturges (The
Great Escape) on directing duties.

28

h

The one fun highlight is the sight of
Eastwood driving a train through a
saloon to mow down the villains. AJ
(US 1972, edited for violence, language, HD)

Move Over, Darling ★★★★
2.40-4.20pm BBC2

y

COMEDY Doris Day died in May 2019,
aged 97, and today would have been
her 100th birthday. Continuing BBC2’s
weekend tribute to the late star is this
remake of 1940’s My Favorite Wife, in
which Day plays a woman who returns
from a desert island to find that her
husband (James Garner) has remarried.
Providing perfect support for Day and
Garner are Polly Bergen as the “other
woman” and Chuck Connors as the hunk
who was marooned with Day. However,
stealing the show is the wonderful
Thelma Ritter as Day’s outspoken
mother-in-law. Day’s popularity suffered
from the onset of the sexual revolution
in the mid-1960s when her wholesome
image seemed out of step with the time,
but this film shows how her great talent
has endured. SH (US 1963, HD)

Pork Chop Hill ★★★★
5.05-7.00pm 5 Action

g

WAR DRAMA This is the definitive
Korean War movie from director Lewis
Milestone, who dealt with the Second
World War impressively in A Walk
in the Sun and the First World War

j

THRILLER Expert direction by Tony
Scott and a winning central performance
by Will Smith give this cracking thriller
plenty of edge and appeal. When an
incriminating tape revealing the murder
of congressman Jason Robards ends
up in Smith’s possession, he finds
himself relentlessly pursued by corrupt
Jon Voight and his posse of electronic
trackers (a young Jack Black among
them), who use spy satellites and all
manner of undercover gizmos to trace
him. Only retired spook Gene Hackman
can help the desperate Smith stay alive.
The Fugitive meets The Conversation
in this dynamic adventure that’s both
intriguing and scarily thought-provoking.
AJ (US 1998, violence, swearing, HD)

i The Wedding Guest ★★★
9.00-11.05pm Great Movies

Oblivion ★★★

10.30pm-12.50am ITV4

h

SCI-FI Tom Cruise stars here as a
security repairman tasked with
maintaining the airborne robot drones
that monitor the Earth in 2077. He and
his partner (Andrea Riseborough) have
had their memories erased for security
reasons, and are now waiting for a call
to rejoin humankind on a lunar colony.
However, when Cruise rescues an
astronaut (Olga Kurylenko) from a
downed spacecraft, he uncovers dark
secrets from the past. Director Joseph
Kosinski’s film is packed with edge-ofthe-seat action and impressive special
effects, and Cruise is good value as a
man haunted by memories of his earlier
life. TeS (US 2013, violence, swearing, HD)

All the President’s Men 5

11.10pm-1.25am BBC21
(not in N Ireland)

j

THRILLER Alan J Pakula’s Oscarwinner about the Watergate burglary
stars Robert Redford and Dustin
Hoffman as Washington Post reporters
whose stubborn digging brings down
President Nixon. William Goldman’s
script brilliantly clarifies the labyrinth
of corruption, while Pakula’s tense
direction draws telling parallels between
the blazing white, open-plan offices of
the Post (no secrets here) and the dark,
murky world of Washington politics.
There’s great support, too, from Jason
Robards as the Post’s editor and Hal
Holbrook as the creepy informant
“Deep Throat”. AT (US 1976, swearing, HD)

PICK OF THE REST...
Decision before Dawn ★★★

12.20-2.45pm Great Movies Action g
Oscar-nominated war drama. (1951)

Shark Tale ★★★
3.35-5.25pm ITV2

y

Animated Will Smith comedy. (2004, HD)

Evan Almighty ★★★
4.05-6.00pm ITV

g

Steve Carell builds an ark. (2007, HD)

i The Cobbler ★★

6.45-9.00pm Great Movies

h

Bizarre Adam Sandler fantasy. (2014)

j

THRILLER Dev Patel, genial star of
Slumdog Millionaire and The Personal
History of David Copperfield, cuts a less
heroic figure here as a man who travels
to Pakistan to kidnap a bride at her
wedding. The film starts off promisingly
as a barebones action thriller, with Patel
portraying a man with an air of genuine
danger. But once the abduction is carried
out, the pace slows to a crawl, and
director Michael Winterbottom becomes
overly preoccupied with exploring his
characters’ psychology. On the plus side,
Radhika Apte delivers an altogether
different take on the stereotypical
hostage, while the story’s air of mystery
means it at least holds the attention
until the end. JL (UK 2018, violence, swearing)

Jason Bourne ★★★★
9.00-11.35pm E4

h

Matt Damon’s spy returns. (2016, HD)

Hands of the Ripper ★★★

10.05-11.45pm Talking Pictures TV j
Entertaining Hammer offering. (1971)

Legend ★★★

11.20pm-1.55am Film4

z

Tom Hardy plays the Kray twins. (2015, HD)

Patti Cake$ ★★★★
1.55-3.40am C4

j

Feel-good music drama. (2017, HD)

Streaming
For the best films across the
digital platforms, see page 38

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Monday 4

FILM OF THE DAY

How I Won the War ★★★★

h

9.00-11.15pm Talking Pictures TV

Tuesday 5

DID YOU KNOW
?
The myopic Lennon ha
d
been self-conscious
about wearing glasses
until he was asked to
sport a pair of NHS
frames for this role

FILM OF THE DAY

True Lies ★★★★

ACTION COMEDY He’s now spent 12 years
bogged down with Avatar 2, but for ages
James Cameron really was — as he declared
in his Titanic Oscar speech — “King of the
World”. After his 1980s sci-fi hits (Aliens,
two Terminators), Cameron swerved into
comedy with this action spectacular.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a spy who
conceals his career from his frustrated
spouse (Jamie Lee Curtis, right) until both
are drawn into the orbit of terrorists. The
gender politics and Islamic panic remain
abominable, but a committed Curtis sells
every moment and Cameron’s set pieces,
including some hilarious business with a
horse, are exhilarating. Calum Baker
(US 1994, violence, swearing, HD)

BLACK COMEDY John Lennon’s decision to take a
break from the Beatles and accept the part of
Private Gripweed was the major talking point
when this film was initially released.
Consequently, its merit was somewhat lost
amid its newsworthiness. Based on Patrick
Ryan’s biting attack on the follies of war
and brass-hat incompetence, Richard
Lester’s feature broadens the satire and
throws in a little surrealism and slapstick to
make the subtleties of the book suitably
cinematic. The film is receiving a rare showing
this week alongside another Lester
cult curio from the 1960s, The
Bed Sitting Room — see
review, p31. David Parkinson
(UK 1967, violence)

It Should Happen to You ★★★★

One Hour Photo ★★★★

ROMCOM Two inimitable personalities
and talents, Judy Holliday and Jack
Lemmon (making his film debut), are
paired to delightful effect in this
romantic comedy from George Cukor.
Holliday plays a small-town girl longing
to be “somebody”, and on her arrival in
the Big Apple hires a billboard on which
she has her name displayed. Soon the
whole town is talking about her, among
them businessman Peter Lawford, who
covets Holliday’s prime advertising site.
The leads are superb, and the movie is
just short of a classic. RK (US 1954, BW)

See review, page 26.
(US 2001, swearing, nudity)

1.00-2.50pm Great Movies Classic y

The Second Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel ★★★★ 6.35-9.00pm Film4 g
COMEDY DRAMA Offering another
swirl of life lessons and local Indian colour,
this is a worthy companion piece to the
crowd-pleasing original film. As hotel
co-manager Dev Patel’s expansion dream
gets in the way of his marriage plans, his
various guests (Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith,
Judi Dench, Celia Imrie) navigate their
own romantic complications with easy
chemistry. The touching ending is a
fitting conclusion to another pleasurefilled journey performed by a wonderful
ensemble of what feel like old friends.
AJ (US/UK 2015, edited for content, HD)

9.00-10.55pm Great Movies

The Wolfman ★★★

9.00-11.00pm Horror Channel

j

PICK OF THE REST...
i A Criminal Affair ★★

2.15-4.00pm C5
Two students meet a killer. (2021, HD)

Flight of the Phoenix ★★★
9.00-11.10pm 5 Action

h

Rip-roaring desert adventure. (2004, HD)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post
★★★★ 11.30pm-12.55am BBC3 j
Affecting drama about a gay teen sent to
a religious “correctional” camp. (2018, HD)

DID YOU KNOW
?
This was the first movie
to have a $100-million
budget; Cameron then
topped that when 1997
’s
Titanic was the first
film to cost $200 millio
n

The First of the Few ★★★

San Andreas ★★★

WAR DRAMA Offered contracts and
any number of enticing star roles after
Gone with the Wind, Leslie Howard chose
to leave Hollywood and return to England
to make films designed to boost wartime
morale. He directs and stars here as
visionary aircraft designer RJ Mitchell,
the father of the Spitfire. The fine cast
also includes Rosamund John as his wife
and David Niven as the test pilot. Sadly,
it was Howard’s final screen performance:
his plane was shot down in 1943 on a
mission that has remained shrouded
in mystery. AT (UK 1942, BW)

DISASTER MOVIE This blockbuster
employs cutting-edge digital artistry to
plonk us amid the collapsing buildings
of a huge earthquake, with Dwayne
Johnson at the epicentre as the
fire-department pilot trying to save his
estranged wife and their daughter from
danger. The committee-written script
treads an indistinct line between sincere
and ironic, but Johnson is more than
equal to the preposterous, outsized
destruction. AC (US 2015, violence, swearing)

1.10-3.40pm Great Movies Classic y

Arctic ★★★★

7.05-9.00pm Great Movies

h

DRAMA There’s no cold comfort to be
had in this survival adventure, in which
stranded pilot Mads Mikkelsen ponders
whether to stay in his plane wreck-cummakeshift home or brave the tundra and
find civilisation. Director Joe Penna’s
gripping debut begins with Mikkelsen
making the most of his dire situation,
but an unexpected turn of events forces
him to face the subzero temperatures
and marauding polar bears. Giving a
majestic performance, Mikkelsen
displays stoic determination in the face
of his dilemma. JA (Ice 2018, edited for content)

COMPARE QUOTES WITH 110+ CAR
INSURANCE PROVIDERS!
Radio Times has partnered with Quotezone.co.uk
to save you time and money on your car insurance.
Complete a single quote form and compare quotes
in minutes. — and you could save £262*. If your car
insurance isn’t yet due for renewal you can still
compare quotes now and we’ll send you a reminder
before your insurance is due.
To get a quote, visit radiotimes.com/carinsurance

SAVE
UP TO*
£262
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

j

HORROR Universal lets its hairy icon
loose in the digital era in this enjoyable
horror. For the most part, director Joe
Johnston ensures that his $100-million
film remains faithful to the spirit of the
1941 original, while updating its special
effects. Benicio Del Toro plays it straight
as he falls victim to a family curse,
though Anthony Hopkins is a tad more
hammy as his sinister father. The pacing
is erratic, but this has a pleasing gothic
feel to it. JR (US 2009, violence)

RT MONEY

j

10.00pm-12.50am C5

T&Cs: *51% of consumers could save £262.01 on their Car Insurance. The
saving was calculated by comparing the cheapest price found with the
average of the next three cheapest prices quoted by insurance providers on
Seopa Ltd’s insurance comparison website. This is based on representative
cost savings from May 2021 data. The savings you could achieve are
dependent on your individual circumstances and how you selected your
current insurance supplier.

10.00pm-12.15am Sky Showcase

99 Homes ★★★★

h

j

11.15pm-1.00am BBC2
See Film of the Week, page 26.
(US 2014, swearing, HD)

PICK OF THE REST...
The Husband with Two Wives
★★★ 2.15-4.00pm C5
Made-for-TV melodrama. (2019, HD)

Pack Up Your Troubles 5
6.30-7.50pm Talking Pictures TV

y

Laurel and Hardy comedy. (1932)

Summer of Sam ★★★

9.00-11.45pm Great Movies

z

Gripping drama from Spike Lee in which
New York is terrorised by a killer. (1999)

RADIO TIMES LEATHER COVER
Just £22.50 including p&p
Perfect for subscribers — keep
your issue of Radio Times in the
luxury it deserves in one
of our premium leather covers.
Handmade from the finest
leather with a silk lining, with
two ribbon page markers.
Available in black,
burgundy and racing green
To order call 03302 232 639
or visit radiotimes.com/shop07

RT
SUBSCRIBERS
GET 10%
0FF*

Calls cost national rate p/min; calls from mobiles may vary. *Subscriber
exclusive! Get 10% off at RT Shop; simply quote your subscriber number
at checkout. T&Cs apply.

29

RT MONEY PARTNERS

Wednesday 6

FILM OF THE DAY

Stan & Ollie 5 9.00-10.30pm BBC2

g

COMEDY DRAMA This biopic of comedy icons Laurel and Hardy is set in
the mid-1950s, when their fame was dwindling and they embarked on a
theatre tour of Britain and Ireland. Directed with affection and precision by
Jon S Baird, the story is brought to life by note-perfect performances from
Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, who get to re-create many of the pair’s
famous skits, including the dainty dance routine to At the Ball, That’s All.
Screenwriter Jeff Pope’s masterstroke is to introduce slapstick into the lives
of the two fading stars, including some business with a bell at the desk of a
Newcastle hotel and an oversized trunk that bumps down some stairs. This
is a film about friendship
and it remains an absolute
delight. Andrew Collins
(UK/Can 2019, swearing, HD)

COULD YOU SAVE THOUSANDS BY SWITCHING
YOUR EQUITY RELEASE PLAN?

You could benefit from switching to a new lower interest rate or a
more flexible plan.
Radio Times has teamed up with award winning equity release advisors,
Age Partnership+. If you’ve had your existing plan for 12 months or more,
their team of qualified advisors can review your plan with no-obligation to
make sure your plan is the best option for you. A lifetime mortgage is
secured against your property. To understand the features and risks, ask
for a personalised illustration. Any money released, plus accrued interest,
would be repaid upon death or moving into long-term care.
To find out more about switching your plan or to request your free guide
written by Radio Times’s Paul Lewis, please call freephone 0800 470 2371
or visit radiotimes.com/planreview.
The Radio Times Equity Release Service is provided by Age Partnership Limited, 2200 Century Way, Thorpe
Park, Leeds LS15 8ZB. Company registered in England and Wales No. 5265969. VAT registration number 162
9355 92. Age Partnership Limited is authorised and regulated
Provided by
by the Financial Conduct Authority. FCA registered number
425432 and is trading as Age Partnership Plus.

OW?
DID YOU KN
ore
Reilly (far right) w
cial
a body suit and fa
mble
se
re
prosthetics to
e
lik
Hardy. “It was
your
wearing a mask on
id
whole body,” he sa

Mighty Joe Young ★★★

3.25-5.20pm Great Movies Action y
ADVENTURE Terry Moore is
persuaded to bring her enormous pet
gorilla from Africa to America to
become part of a nightclub act in this
entertaining spin on the monster movie.
In superlatively kitsch style, the show
includes her playing Beautiful Dreamer
while being held aloft by the gorilla.
Both director Ernest B Schoedsack and
special-effects maestro Willis O’Brien
had worked on the original King Kong,
and, while this film isn’t in the same
league as that classic, it remains
entertaining throughout. TH (US 1949, BW)

The Spy Who Dumped Me ★★★★
9.00-11.15pm Film4
j

LOOKING FOR CHEAPER TRAVEL INSURANCE?
Search over 35 different travel insurance providers

Using our partner Quotezone increases your chance of finding a great
deal by searching the market for you.
 Compare quotes up to 30 UK travel insurance providers
 Complete the quote form and compare prices within minutes
 Helping you save time and money when shopping for travel insurance
 Includes both single and annual cover
To get your free quote visit radiotimes.com/travelsinsurance
Immediate Media Company London Limited is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Seopa Ltd
(trading as Quotezone). Partnership Plus.

30

ACTION COMEDY Mila Kunis and Kate
McKinnon star here as best friends who
become embroiled in a conspiracy when
Kunis discovers her ex-boyfriend is
actually a spy. As the bullets and bodies
pile up, the duo flee their LA home for
escalating, outlandish high jinks across
Europe. Offering a novel twist on buddy
movie tropes (think Thelma & Louise
crossed with Bourne), director Susanna
Fogel punctuates the action with some
laugh-out-loud gags. Among the
supporting cast, Gillian Anderson is an
M-like secret service boss and veteran
comic star Jane Curtin appears as
McKinnon’s mother. TeS
(US 2018, violence, swearing, nudity, HD)

Hennessy ★★★★

9.05-11.10pm Talking Pictures TV

j

THRILLER Receiving a rare showing
tonight, this drama was controversial in
its day because it showed the Royal
Family under threat. It brims with
suspense, with Rod Steiger cast as the
embittered Belfast man who is intent
on blowing up the state opening of

Parliament to avenge the accidental
slaughter of his family. Richard Johnson
works with Trevor Howard to bring
down this lone terrorist on behalf of
MI5, with IRA man Eric Porter also
in pursuit. Steiger gives a consummate
portrayal of a righteously vengeful man,
while Patrick Stewart makes his feature
debut as a heavy. TH (UK 1975, violence)

Women in Love 5 11.10pm1.45am Great Movies Classic

j

PERIOD DRAMA This adaptation of
the DH Lawrence novel marked one of
Ken Russell’s more successful forays
into literature, with the director resisting
the excesses that would come to mar
some of his later films. Set in the mining
community of Nottinghamshire in the
1920s, it stars Oliver Reed and Alan
Bates as friends who woo sisters Jennie
Linden and Glenda Jackson (who won
an Oscar for her performance), in the
process bringing love and tragedy upon
them all. The nude male wrestling scene
makes unnecessary macho points that
didn’t need emphasis, but it gave the film
its notoriety. TH (UK 1969, sex scenes, nudity)

PICK OF THE REST...
A Killer in My Home ★★★

2.15-4.00pm C5
“Secret family” drama. (2020, HD)

Three Amigos! ★★★
4.30-6.35pm Film4

g

Diverting Steve Martin comedy. (1986, HD)

The Frozen Ground ★★★
9.00-11.05pm Great Movies

j

Nicolas Cage hunts a serial killer. (2013)

A Cure for Wellness ★★★
1.05-3.30am C4

z

Horror mystery that unfolds in a strange
clinic in the Swiss Alps. (2017, HD)

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Thursday 7

Friday 8

FILM OF THE DAY

FILM OF THE DAY

One, Two, Three ★★★★

6.45-9.00pm Great Movies Classic

Iron Man Three ★★★★

y

10.35pm-12.35am BBC1

h

COMEDY If you count the punchlines per

ADVENTURE Robert Downey Jr’s

minute, Billy Wilder’s film has to be one
of the fastest, talkiest comedies ever
made. James Cagney enjoys one of his
finest screen roles as a combustible
Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin,
desperate to improve sales at any
cost, while his boss’s visiting
daughter falls for a communist
played by Horst Buchholz. Wilder
was shooting in Berlin when the Wall
was being built — a stunt that even
Hollywood could never have dreamt
up. While some may find Wilder’s
scattershot approach a trifle obvious
— capitalism and communism are both
subjected to ridicule — it remains, like
Dr Strangelove, a key product of the
Cold War, when some things were
just too serious to take seriously.
Adrian Turner (US 1961, BW)

third solo outing as Tony Stark/Iron
Man boasts the high-end CGI action
we’ve come to expect from the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, but with a substantial
and involving story that finds the
soul-searching superhero cut adrift from
everything he holds dear. When a villain
known as the Mandarin (a deceptively
brilliant Ben Kingsley) begins a terror
campaign, Stark is attacked in his
Malibu home and feared dead. The
man-in-the-can soon realises the
Mandarin has ties to Aldrich Killian
(a superbly villainous Guy Pearce), a
scientist from Stark’s past. Director Shane
Black and his co-writer Drew Pearce fill
the unpredictable plot with plenty of
smart surprises, breezy black humour
and an exuberant sense of fun, and
there’s no shortage of visual spectacle.
Alan Jones (US 2013, some violence, swearing, HD)

For Whom the Bell Tolls ★★★

3.40-7.05pm Great Movies Action y
WAR Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman
turn Ernest Hemingway’s classic tale of
the Spanish Civil War into a star vehicle
made for two, with director Sam Wood
scrubbing the tale clean of political taint
— there’s no mention of Franco, for
example. Cooper plays an American
member of a loyalist partisan group
who falls for Bergman while on a mission
to blow up a bridge. Though lacking in
context, the film’s focus on Cooper’s love
for the much-abused Bergman works
well enough thanks to the quality of
the two actors. However, it was Katina
Paxinou’s performance as the rebel
leader that won the film’s only Oscar
out of nine nominations. TH (US 1943)

i Like a Boss ★★

9.00-10.40pm Film4

j

COMEDY A bitchy beauty mogul tries
to destroy a friendship in this largely
predictable romp. Rose Byrne and
Tiffany Haddish star as “non-sexual life
partners” and founders of a trendy
make-up business that’s in financial dire
straits. When a cosmetics bigwig, played
by Salma Hayek (all bust, teeth and
hair), offers to bail them out, it’s really
a scheme to seize control of their
company. Like a Boss showcases some
fabulous fashion and features an
appropriately popping visual palette,
but for a film about innovation it’s
sorely lacking in original ideas. EAS
(US 2020, swearing, drug abuse, HD)

The Bed Sitting Room ★★★

DID YOU KNOW
?
Wilder’s film is based
on
a play by the Hungarian
Ferenc Molnár, but als
o
plunders the plot of th
e
1939 movie Ninotchka
,
which Wilder co-wrote

Ralph Richardson and Rita Tushingham,
and features such great comic talents
as Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, plus
Marty Feldman in his movie debut.
Director Richard Lester conjures up a
surreal world, with the characters
gradually transmuting into various
altered physical states (Arthur Lowe
becomes a parrot, for instance), but
there’s no denying that his film does
try the patience at times. TS (UK 1969)

Paranormal Activity ★★★★

11.05pm-12.50am Horror Channel

j

HORROR Writer/director Oren Peli’s
no-budget chiller has a simplicity and a
heightened sense of reality that creates
an effective sense of dread. The story
is hardly original (a young couple
thinks their new home is haunted by
a malevolent entity), nor is the faux
documentary-style in which it is filmed.
But what makes Peli’s movie work its
creepy spell is the increasingly
unpredictable and terrifying scares,
which play to the most basic of primal
fears. The minimal special effects and
absence of music complement the eerie
tension. AJ (US 2007, violence, swearing)

PICK OF THE REST...
Deadly Prescription ★★
2.15-4.00pm C5

Is a doctor trying to kill her? (2018, HD)

Move Over, Darling ★★★★
9.00-10.40pm BBC4

y

Doris Day romantic comedy, showing in
a double bill with Calamity Jane. (1963, HD)

9.00-10.45pm Talking Pictures TV g

White House Down ★★★

COMEDY This screen version of Spike
Milligan and John Antrobus’s stage hit is
new to Talking Pictures TV this week.
An antiwar caper set three years after
the great nuclear holocaust, it stars

Channing Tatum to the rescue. (2013, HD)

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

9.00-11.40pm ITV4

2 Guns ★★★★

9.00-11.10pm Great Movies
Taut undercover-agent caper. (2013)

h

j

The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s ★★
1.00-2.30pm BBC2

y

COMEDY Bereft of Alastair Sim, the
third film in the anarchic schoolgirl
series has its moments, but sadly all too
few of them. With the school reduced to
ashes, mysterious child psychologist
Cecil Parker takes charge, in league with
white-slaving sea captain Sidney James.
Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s film is
woefully short on mayhem, spending too
much time in the company of eventual
castaways Parker and Joyce Grenfell,
and wastes the opportunities presented
by new headmistress Irene Handl, as well
as Eric Barker and Dennis Price as the
men from the ministry. DP (UK 1960, BW, HD)

Beau Brummell ★★★
6.40-9.00pm TCM

y

DRAMA Robert Morley played the
late-18th century’s two unhappiest
monarchs: Louis XVI of France (in Marie
Antoinette) and George III in this
overinflated historical pageant, showing
tonight for the first time in seven years.
Stewart Granger cuts a dashing figure
as Beau Brummell, the Regency fop
whose life, loves and dress sense set
tongues wagging, but whose loyalty to
the crown was unwavering. Faced with
the exuberance of Morley, Granger and
Peter Ustinov (as the Prince of Wales),
Elizabeth Taylor seems a little daunted as
Granger’s love interest. DP (US 1954, HD)

i Stuber ★★

9.00-10.55pm Film4

j

COMEDY A mild-mannered Uber driver
(played by The Big Sick’s Kumail Nanjiani)
gets caught up in a police chase when
he picks up a detective (Dave Bautista)
recovering from eye surgery in this
stuttering movie. The stage is set for
a fish-out-of-water variation on the
mismatched buddy movie, as the pair

DID YOU KNOW
?
The final 130-minute
edit of the movie was
75 minutes shorter th
an
the first cut — leaving
almost a whole movie
for possible DVD extra
s

cause mayhem across Los Angeles in
their pursuit of a ruthless criminal
kingpin (The Raid’s Iko Uwais). Nanjiani’s
comic timing is spot-on, but the film
struggles to get out of second gear. TeS
(US 2019, violence, swearing, HD)

Final Destination 2 ★★★

j

11.15pm-1.05am 5 Star

HORROR In this effective sequel,
perturbed teenager AJ Cook prompts
Death to resume his stalking after her
premonitions save her and a group of
motorists from a freeway pile-up. While
the film is no more sophisticated than
the original, director David R Ellis’s
skilful manipulation of tried-and-tested
horror conventions demonstrates a
thorough understanding of the genre.
Combining innovative gore sequences
with irony-laden dialogue, this is a
deliciously over-the-top thrill-ride with
no pretensions. SF (US 2002, violence,
swearing, drug abuse, brief nudity, HD)
REVIEWERS THIS WEEK Jeremy Aspinall, Lucy
Barrick, Andrew Collins, Peter Freedman, Sloan Freer,
Sue Heal, Tom Hutchinson, Alan Jones, Robyn Karney,
James Luxford, Stella Papamichael, David Parkinson,
Jamie Russell, Emma Simmonds, Tony Sloman, Terry
Staunton, Adrian Turner, Damon Wise

PICK OF THE REST...
Killing Your Daughter ★★
2.15-4.00pm C5

A DNA test upsets the parents. (2019, HD)

The Meg ★★★ 9.00-11.15pm 5 Star h
Rescue diver Jason Statham is up
against a giant prehistoric shark. (2018, HD)

21 Jump Street ★★★★

j

10.45pm-12.40am ITV

Dimwittted cops are sent back to high
school to smash a drugs ring. (2012, HD)

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
★★★ 1.05-2.35am C4
j
Send-up of the pop music industry. (2016)

31

DISNEY+

HAPPY
TOGETHER

O

scar Isaac – star of Dune and the Star
Wars franchise – had a very unlikely and
intriguing muse for his latest role as the
awkward, self-effacing English museumshop worker Steven Grant in the new
Marvel series Moon Knight.
“I listened for the sensibility and the humour
of Karl Pilkington,” reveals the GuatemalanAmerican actor. “He’s so funny, but you’re never
sure if he knows he’s being funny. Russell Kane,
too, because he has a similar biography and also
has dealt with anxiety.”
They’re unlikely and diverse inspirations –
although arguably not quite as eclectic as those
of Isaac’s Moon Knight co-star, Ethan Hawke. To
play Arthur Harrow, the cult leader and series
antagonist, Hawke cites Josef Mengele, Steve
Jobs, David Koresh, the Dalai Lama and Carl
Jung as influences.
Isaac describes the eight-month shoot as his
most demanding yet. It’s a superhero romp by
way of Indiana Jones, but also an intimate character study that grapples with the very real
condition of Dissociative Identity Disorder
(DID). Isaac has to deliver a complex array of
performances – after a series of blackouts, Grant
comes to realise he shares a body with Marc
Spector, a remorseless Jewish-American mercenary who is also an avatar of the ancient
Egyptian moon god, Khonshu. Assuming the
persona of Moon Knight allows Spector to
continue the deity’s vengeful mission.
“This isn’t a definitive portrait of DID,” says
Isaac, “but it is using this genre and iconography

‘

When actors are
excited and scared,
good things happen

ALAMY; ALLSTAR; GETTY; SHUTTERSTOCK

E T H A N H AW K E

’

to represent the internal struggle of living with it
and trying to heal from it. I read A Fractured
Mind, by Robert B Oxman, in which he recounts
his life and discovery of this condition, and how
he got to a place where he could understand it
and integrate those elements of his personality.
It was a touchstone for the whole project.”
The scenes of Marc and Steven interacting
proved extremely testing for Isaac. “I realised
that I wasn’t going to be able to react to anything
at all. It’s not like pretending I’m running from
a monster. There are intense scenes where I have
to show up, figure out how I’m going to respond
as both characters, decide which to do first, have
the dialogue fed into my ear and go for it.”
Isaac, having been persuaded by the challenge

34

Ethan Hawke
and Oscar
Isaac work
together for
the first time
in Moon
Knight

THERE’S A NEW MASKED MAN IN TOWN…

A MARVEL
MASTERCLASS
Moon Knight Available from 30 March

Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke take
their first steps into Marvel’s universe

of creating this character with whom few –
including himself and fellow comic-book aficionado Hawke – are familiar, proposed Hawke as
a potential Harrow while talking with Egyptian
director Mohamed Diab.
“We agreed that we should talk to him,” says
Isaac, “then I went to get a coffee at a place just
round the corner from me [in Brooklyn, New
York] and, there he is! I’d seen Ethan in the
neighbourhood, but we’d never actually talked
to each other. A couple of days later, we went out
to eat and really got into it.”
The neighbours are clearly each other’s biggest
fans and today are sitting side by side in a
London hotel room. “It wasn’t the coffee that
made me do it,” says Hawke. “The passion, the

intensity with which Oscar was talking about
it… When actors are really excited and scared
about something, good things come from that.
A lot of these things are reboots, but they let
Oscar create a character he wanted to play.
Marvel are much smarter than I would have
assumed about that. The problem is, if we do a
bad job in a little indie movie, nobody sees it,
but everyone’s going to see this, whether
we’re good or not. It felt like if the two of us
did it together, we’d be a little safer.”

N

either man is exactly known for taking
the safe career option. Hawke eschewed
heartthrob status after starring in
Dead Poets Society to instead work on
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

THE BEST SHOWS AND BOX SETS
TO WATCH ON DEMAND

Edited by

FRANCES

IF THE
CAPE FITS
Benedict
Cumberbatch
returns as
Dr Stephen
Strange

STAR ROLES
Isaac as Star Wars pilot
Poe Dameron (top);
a young Hawke with
Robin Williams in Dead
Poets Society (above)

stage and in off-beam arthouse cinema, while
Isaac was undaunted by joining a major new
franchise just three years after leaving behind
Star Wars and the role of hotshot pilot Poe
Dameron. In fact, the latter proved particularly
useful preparation for handling Marvel’s vociferous fanbase, he says.
“Star Wars allowed me to work out that
muscle of not caring about expectations. We
have no control over Moon Knight at this
point – everything that we could do, we
did, and now it’s just about sharing it.
Also, we weren’t doing this big tentpole
movie that had to make $200 million
on opening weekend.”

N

ALTERED STATE
Isaac in costume
as the vengeful
Moon Knight

ot that the latter would deter
Isaac from returning to the role
should Moon Knight’s rumoured
introduction into the Marvel
Cinematic Universe come to pass:
“if there was another story that
could really sustain it, I’d be absolutely open to it.”
“I’d like to see Steven Grant and
[Robert Downey Jr’s] Iron Man
have a scene together,” says
Hawke, ever the fanboy. “Him
and Downey together would
be just awesome.”
Our time almost up, I
ask both actors to
imagine what the
cults of Oscar Isaac
and Ethan Hawke
would look like. “They
would be the same cult!” grins
Isaac. “A lot of movie-watching and playing ping pong,”
adds Hawke.
“And playing music,”
concludes Isaac, patting his
co-star’s leg. “But there
wouldn’ t be any power
struggle – more a leadership
vacuum: ‘That’s OK, man –
you do it!’” GABRIEL TATE

MORE MARVEL FOR 2022
TV series and films coming later this year

Doctor Strange
in the Multiverse
of Madness
in cinemas, 6th May
After Spider-Man: No
Way Home opened
the door to parallel
superhero universes,
the sorcerer supreme
has to mop up the
mess as the walls of
reality break down.

Ms Marvel
Disney+, 8th June
Kamala Khan (Iman
Vellani) is a teenage
superhero superfan,
obsessed with
Captain Marvel (Brie
Larson). But when
Kamala develops
superpowers, she
might discover
reality doesn’t live
up to fantasy…

Thor: Love
and Thunder
cinemas, 8 July
Writer/director of
Thor: Ragnarok,
Taika Waititi, is
reuniting with Chris
Hemsworth’s God of
Thunder. The plot is
a tightly held secret
but Marvel has
revealed that there
is a key role for
Natalie Portman,
playing a female
version of Thor.

Black Panther:
Wakanda Forever
cinemas, 11 November
Following the tragic
death of Chadwick
Boseman, this sequel
won’t recast the
titular hero — instead,
it’ll focus on the
original’s other stars,
including Lupita
Nyong’o (below),
Angela Bassett and
Letitia Wright.

She-Hulk
Disney+, TBC
While it might sound
like a bizarre spin-off,
She-Hulk has a long
history in the comics.
Played by Tatiana
Maslany, she’ll fight
superhuman court
cases while learning
the ropes of being
big, green and
brawny from
cousin Bruce
(Mark Ruffalo).

back for a festive
pitstop. The 1978 Star
Wars Holiday Special
was an infamous sci-fi
misfire — could this
redeem the format?

Secret Invasion
Disney+, TBC
Rumour has it this
spy thriller series
— which sees alien
forces try to take over
Earth with sleeper
agents — could arrive
before the end of
the year. Samuel L
Jackson returns as
Nick Fury, with Game
of Thrones’ Emilia
Clarke making her
debut in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe.
HUW FULLERTON

The Guardians
of the Galaxy
Holiday
Special
Disney+,
December 2022
Ahead of the next
Guardians film,
writer/director
James Gunn is
bringing the
spacefaring heroes

JANE SEYMOUR ON... BEING BOND? 

35

THE BEST BOX SETS AND
SHOWS TO WATCH ON DEMAND
ACORN TV

NETFLIX

J
GUILTY PLEASURE

PROBING DOCUMENTARY

The Ultimatum:
Marry or Move On

800 Meters Available now

Available from 6 April
If you enjoy the guilty pleasures of
dating TV, try this new US series. All
the couples have the same issue: one
wants to get married, the other isn’t
sure. To sort that out, they choose
someone from another couple and
spend three weeks hanging out sexily.
After that, they must decide whether
to stick with their original partner or
split. It’s designed to cause sobbing
fits and recriminations. JACK SEALE

ALAMY; GETTY

AMAZON PRIME

Ater terror attacks on Western
countries the same urgent question
is asked: how could people capable
of such acts have gone undetected?
This Spanish documentary on the
events of 17 August 2017, when vans
were driven into crowds in Barcelona
and Cambrils, unpicks how much had
previously been known about the
members of the terror cell, by the
authorities and by people around
them. They had been radicalised —
so how was this not stopped? JS

BBC iPLAYER

DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI

CRIMINALLY GOOD DOCUMENTARY

The 100

The Real Peaky Blinders

Series 1—5, available until 8 April

Available now

Catch this above-average sci-fi drama
with a young-adult focus before it
drops off Amazon Prime. Nearly
a century after a nuclear apocalypse,
the survivors, who left Earth to live
on a space station, send a gang of
envoys back on a mission of salvage.
Those left behind are in warring tribes
of juvenile delinquents, turning
The 100 into a well-realised take on
the genre where surviving a dystopia
is in the hands of teenagers. JS

As Peaky Blinders comes to a close,
you can watch the box set on iPlayer
if you’ve never had the pleasure. And
this two-part BBC2 doc reveals the
history it’s based on. In the industrial
cities of 1860s Britain, “slogging
gangs” — criminal outfits concerned
with gambling rackets and fights for
territory — are a snarling counterpoint
to prim Victorian morality, and
a symptom of an urban population
increasingly living in slums. JS

36

ane Seymour is doing a lot of things seriously right. Almost 50 years after her
breakout big-screen role as Bond girl
Solitaire opposite Roger Moore in Live
and Let Die, she looks marvellous – not the
Hollywood version of marvellous, which all too
often equates to weird, but authentically great,
with visible facial lines. What’s more, far from
easing up on work, 71-year-old Seymour is
immersed in assorted acting and producing
ventures, along with intriguing sidelines as an
artist, sculptor and jewellery designer.
“For some reason I’ve yet to understand, I’m
working more now than I ever have in my life,”
she grins, reeling off a list of projects. “I’ve no
inclination to retire. Why would I do less of
with John Gielgud on War and
Remembrance when he was 84, and
I asked him the same thing. He
replied: ‘As long as my name is
on a call sheet, I know I’ll be
alive in the morning.’”
Seymour’s latest drama is
Harry Wild, an agreeable detective series set in Dublin. She
plays the eponymous title character, a recently retired professor of English who can’t resist
interfering in the police cases
assigned to her detective son.
“I’ve never seen this character
before in television or film,” says
As Harriet
Seymour. “She’s not what you’d
expect of a detective – a literature professor who has sex with
whoever she feels like, whenever
Fergus Reid
she wants, goes down the pub,
swears a lot, and isn’t afraid to
say what she thinks. I showed the script to my
sister Annie, who lives in London, and she said,
‘Jane, you have to do it.’”
Seymour is at home on America’s West Coast.
At 8am on a Malibu spring morning, she is
glowing in a zingy scarlet dress, her trademark
hair waved loosely around her shoulders. She
takes care of herself, evidently. “I eat a
Mediterranean diet,” she says. “But I get myself
a glass of red wine at the end of the day – and if
I can’t find pistachio nuts, it’ll be a bag of crisps.”
But it would be a mistake to imagine that working into her 70s hinges on her youthful looks. In
the current US sitcom B Positive (on Amazon
Prime Video) she has a recurring role as an
85-year-old, and in a recent film, Ruby’s Choice,
she played a woman with dementia.
All the same, it’s intriguing to hear Seymour
state unequivocally that she has never had
plastic surgery, any variety of injectable facial
filler, or even a non-invasive “tweakment”.

BOND GIRL
As Solitaire
with Roger
Moore as
007 in
1973’s Live
and Let Die

DETECTIVE WITH A TWIST

Harry Wild episodes 1 and 2
available from 4 April

Jane Seymour
refuses to have
plastic surgery,
but that hasn’t
held her back

HOW & WHERE
TO STREAM TV
FREE TO VIEW
BBC iPLAYER
bbc.co.uk/iplayer Create an
account for a slew of BBC shows.

ITV HUB itv.com/hub ITV
channels are free to watch online
or via your TV’s apps section.

ALL 4 channel4.com For
Channel 4, E4, More4, Film4 and
Walter Presents programmes.

MY 5 my5.tv Shows from
Channel 5 and Smithsonian.

UKTV PLAY
uktvplay.uktv.co.uk Catch up
with Dave, Yesterday and Drama.

SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
ACORN TV acorn.tv
Price: £4.99/month Dramas
from Britain and further afield.

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
amazon.co.uk/video
Price: £7.99/month Original
shows and Amazon Prime delivery.

APPLE TV+
apple.com/uk/apple-tv-plus
Price: £4.99/month For original
series such as Ted Lasso.

“No! No!” she exclaims. “I don’t see any reason
to be a much younger version of myself. When
they put a wig on me, I can easily play younger.
And with a different wig and bad lighting, I can
be older. You can’t change faces without
distorting things – if you change the nose,
that throws out the mouth, so you fix that
and it’s a never-ending cycle. I’m perfectly
happy to play a little old lady.”

T

hat said, 18 months ago she gave an
interview in which she discussed playing
Eleanor of Aquitaine in a film for TV,
baffled why a young actor was brought in
to play her character at the age of 25.
Seymour maintained she could have
played that age herself. On the strength of
that, I put it to her that if the next James
Bond is cast as a woman, she could be
the first female to play 007. The suggestion doesn’t produce a smile.
“I’d put money on that never happening,” she says flatly. “I never said I can do
a whole role playing 25 – I can’t. I’m
often asked if a woman could play Bond
and I don’t want to give anything quotable. There’s certainly life in Bond yet,
oh yes. Everyone was worried when
Roger Moore took over from Sean
Connery in 1973, remember. I liked
Daniel Craig’s Bond very much. He once
said I was his favourite Bond girl, so

I reciprocate. He was fantastic. A lovely man, too.”
Looking back, Seymour struggles to define her
career in terms of highs or lows, before pinpointing being “penniless after a terrible divorce”
from her third husband in the early 1990s (now
a four-time divorcee, she has been in a relationship with film-maker David Green since 2014).
By then she had a Golden Globe and an Emmy
to her name, but matters were such that her
agent was telling TV networks she would do
literally anything. The “anything” that turned up

‘

You can’t change
faces without
distorting things

’

was Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, which earned
her another Golden Globe and ran for six
seasons in more than 100 countries. Would she
like to bring Dr Quinn back to our screens?
“Absolutely!” she says. “The script is all ready
to go and everyone’s dying to come back and do
it, but we haven’t been able to get anyone to say
‘yes’ to it. They say it’s ‘too dusty’ – meaning a
western. That was exactly what they said when
the show first began, so please!”
Then her exasperation dissolves, and she
smiles. “But I’ve got Harry Wild,” she says
happily, “so I’m OK.” KATE BATTERSBY

BRITBOX britbox.co.uk
Price: £5.99/month Stream
programmes from the BBC, ITV,
Channel 4, Film4 and Channel 5.
CURZON HOME CINEMA
curzonhomecinema.com
Price: Rent films from £4—£12
Indie gems usually in cinemas.

DISCOVERY+
discoveryplus.co.uk
Price for Entertainment: £3.99/
month For Discovery, TLC, Animal
Planet and more. Or £6.99/
month to include Sport

DISNEY+ disneyplus.com
Price: £7.99/month New series
from Marvel and shows on Star.

ITUNES apple.com/uk/itunes
Price for new releases:
around £15 to buy, £5 to rent
A near-exhaustive list of films.

NETFLIX netflix.com
Price: £10.99/month (for HD)
For popular series like Bridgerton,
The Queen’s Gambit and Ozark.

NOW now.com
Price for Entertainment and
Cinema: £9.99/month each
Sky dramas, comedies and films.
SKY STORE skystore.com
Price: From £5—£16 to buy or
rent new releases

FILMS TO STREAM THIS WEEK 

37

FILMS

OUR PICK OF THE LATEST
MOVIES AVAILABLE TO STREAM

ST
THE BE

s
m
l
FONiDEMAND
EPIC SUPERHEROICS

Spider-Man: No Way Home 1111 h
Available now on Sky Store and other platforms;
from 4 April on DVD/Blu-ray
Tom Holland’s third solo outing as the web-slinging hero
begins moments after the end of Spider-Man: Far from
Home, when his secret identity as Peter Parker is
broadcast to the world. Dr Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch)
conjures up a solution, but the sorcerer’s spell smashes a
hole in the Multiverse, unleashing former franchise villains
Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), Doctor Octopus (Alfred
Molina) and Electro (Jamie Foxx). Despite its epic length,
the film breezes along, thanks to the spectacular action
sequences, genuinely moving moments, and some great
surprise appearances. JEREMY ASPINALL
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tom Holland’s first solo
outing as Spidey, is also available now on BBC iPlayer

LIFE BEFORE THE SOPRANOS

The Many Saints
of Newark 5 j
From 1 April, Now/Sky Cinema
Michael Gandolfini steps into the shoes
of his famous father James to play
young Tony Soprano in this hugely
satisfying prequel to The Sopranos.
The main character is Dickie Moltisanti
(Alessandro Nivola), who juggles a
complicated home life and power
struggles within the Mob against a
backdrop of New Jersey race riots in
the late 1960s and early 70s. It’s an
atmospheric, visually spellbinding
origin story that, though peppered
with familiar characters from the
show, is robust enough to stand on
its own merits. TERRY STAUNTON

ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
The Big Sick
available now on BBC iPlayer
Comedian Kumail Nanjiani’s
girlfriend is in a coma.

ALAMY; ALLSTAR

The Ice Age Adventures
of Buck Wild
MODERN FAMILY

GLOSSY ADAPTATION

Cheaper by the
Dozen 111

The Goldfinch 111 j

Available now, Disney+

This drama based on Donna Tartt’s
bestseller charts the random life of
a young New Yorker whose mother
is killed in a museum bombing.
Befriended by a wealthy family, he’s
then claimed by his estranged father,
who promptly plonks the lad in the
Nevada desert with a Russian
ne’er-do-well. Oakes Fegley and Ansel
Elgort both shine in the leading role
of Theo, while Nicole Kidman, Luke
Wilson and Finn Wolfhard also feature
in the cast. But despite its pedigree
and luscious looks, the film lacks
feeling. KAREN KRIZANOVICH

This latest spin on Frank Bunker
Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth
Carey’s semi-autobiographical novel
brings the concept bang up to date,
with Zach Braff and Gabrielle Union as
the parents of a multiracial, blended
family of ten kids. The pair juggle
that responsibility with running a
restaurant, but tensions emerge when
they move to a gated community. It’s
a bit short on laughs, but the film’s
bid to engage with issues of privilege
and prejudice in a family-friendly way
is admirable. EMMA SIMMONDS

38

From 4 April, Netflix

available now on Disney+
Animated spin-off with
Simon Pegg voicing the
buccaneering weasel.

The Kitchen
available now on Netflix
Crime drama with Elisabeth
Moss and Melissa McCarthy.

Spiritwalker
from 31 March on iTunes and
other digital platforms
Quantum Leap meets
The Bourne Identity in this
South Korean thriller.

Joe Bell
from 1 April on Amazon Prime
A working-class father (played
by Mark Wahlberg) walks
across America in tribute
to his gay son.

INSPIRING PROFILE OF AUTISM

The Reason I Jump
1111 h
From 1 April, Disney+
Landing on Disney+ in time for
World Autism Awareness Day, this
immersive documentary paints a
layered portrait of non-verbal forms
of autism and those who experience
them. Based on a memoir by Naoki
Higashida, the film uses passages
from the book along with audio-visual
flourishes that convey the sensory
world of this condition. Showing how
neurodiversity is handled in different
social contexts, this accomplished and
urgent film is both inspiring and
educational. CALUM BAKER

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

JANE
GARVEY
ON THE BOX

Kate and Koji isn’t nasty – unlike old episodes of Little Britain

WENN

T

he world’s currently a tough
place to be, so I thought I’d relax
this week and treat myself to a nice
bit of comedy. Although it’s a serious business, making people laugh.
Or trying to. Have you seen The Witchfinder
(Tuesday BBC2)? A show so terribly clever it
completely forgot to include any jokes. And
I don’t think I’ve ever laughed out loud at a TV
panel show, though that doesn’t mean I haven’t
grudgingly admired the brains or the verbal
dexterity involved. Still – who wants to relax by
grudgingly admiring someone else? The studio
audience often seem beside themselves, though.
What are these people on?
I then gave a sitcom that’s new to me a whirl.
ITV isn’t exactly known as the home of groundbreaking comedy, but Kate and Koji (Wednesday) is now into its second series, so it must be
doing something right. It certainly has a pedigree. It’s written by Andy Hamilton and Guy
Jenkin – the duo behind Outnumbered – and
filmed in front of an audience who seem
delighted to be out. Aren’t we all?
It stars Brenda Blethyn, whom I’m pleased to
see liberated from her old Vera mac and battered
hat as Kate, a forthright, indomitable café owner
in a forgotten Essex seaside resort. Okorie
Chukwu is Koji, a dignified asylum-seeker,
doctor and regular customer.
Side-splitting it is not. But everyone involved
does their level best to make the lines sing. And
many of them are sharp, but never nasty. Kate
has a view on just about everything, and thank
goodness for that – where would traditional
sitcoms be without an outspoken lady in the
prime of her life? She neatly dismisses the game
of squash – “menopausal men running into
walls” – and is wary of the Swedes as “they
don’t put tops on their sandwiches”.
A hypochondriacal customer called
Mr Mulholland announces he
doesn’t like the colour of his
sputum, which puts someone else off their mug of tea.
A gag about the horrific
prospect of getting an OBE
from Prince Andrew gets
a big laugh. And the local
MP drops out of an awards
ceremony after accidentally
sending images of his genitals to
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

a constituent when they were meant for his
researcher. Meanwhile, Koji’s asylum application has got lost in the system. And then the
report about it getting lost goes missing, too.
This is very definitely 2022.
For context, let’s travel back in time – way, way
back to the early years of the 21st century and
the very first episode of the BBC’s Little Britain.
As the corporation marks its centenary, all three
series of the hugely popular show are back on
iPlayer, though not in their entirety. Some of the
sketches are now deemed inappropriate by their
own creators, Matt Lucas and David Walliams,
who have certainly come a long way. One is the
cuddly host of The Great British Bake Off, the

‘

Blackface is no longer
acceptable, but Vicky
Pollard is still with us

’

other a leading children’s author, and both are
very much a part of the light entertainment
establishment.
In 2020, they issued a joint apology for their
use of blackface. “It was wrong and we are very
sorry,” Matt Lucas said on
Twitter. How many of us
were appalled at the time?
How did I, a white woman,
ever think it was acceptable for a white man to
pretend to be a fiery black
preacher called Pastor

Jesse King? Or for a white man to play the part
of a black woman called Desiree DeVere? Hang
on a minute, though – did I laugh? Did you?
And that’s the tough bit. I might well have
done. Watching the very first episode again, I
chortled immediately at Tom Baker’s narration:
“Britain, Britain, Britain! Land of technological
achievement. We’ve had running water for over
ten years… and we invented the cat!”

M

any of the show’s iconic characters
survive to offend another day.
Blackface is no longer acceptable –
but Vicky Pollard is still very much with us. So
even in enlightened 2022, an educated middleclass man is at liberty to play, and to mock, a
gum-chewing, recalcitrant teenage girl, a “chav”.
And Marjorie Dawes still runs her local
branch of Fat Fighters. And then there’s Emily
Howard, still “a lady”. Surely, though, the awful
sketch mocking
an incontinent
elderly woman
m u s t h av e
gone? No.
Does that
mean it’s all
right then?
Even in 2022?

THEN AND NOW
Little Britain’s mocked
“chav” Vicky Pollard
(Matt Lucas, inset, left);
and softer targets Kate
and Koji (Okorie Chukwu
and Brenda Blethyn)

Jane Garvey hosts the RT Podcast: new episodes every Wednesday. radiotimes.com/podcasts

39

SATURDAY Choices

The pick of today’s TV
CUBAN CRISIS

Television Saturday

Jodie Comer’s Villanelle
has plenty on her
plate in Havana

PICK OF THE DAY

Killing Eve 9.15pm BBC1

DRAMA So many of this episode’s storylines are embargoed that if I give

anything away, I’ll be next on Villanelle’s hit list. I can tell you that our
favourite assassin has got her hands full in Havana after generously offering
to help the Cuban housekeeper who has an abusive husband. It’s not enough
for her, though. “I tried killing other people’s assholes but… charity begins at
home,” is her shrugged explanation later as to why she has the Twelve back
in her sights again.

Women’s Six Nations
Rugby
4.30pm BBC2
Wales v Scotland (k/o 4.45pm)
In the 20-year history of the
women’s Six Nations, neither
Scotland nor Wales have won the
title. It would be a big surprise if 2022
proved to be either team’s year, but
that’s not to say a fine contest isn’t in
prospect at Cardiff Arms Park.
Scotland condemned Wales to last
place in 2021 when they beat them
27—20 in Glasgow, but the Welsh will
fancy their chances today, as WRU
performance director Nigel Walker
said that “huge strides have been
made in a relatively short time”. With
those strides including the creation
of full-time contracts for 12 players,
Welsh women’s rugby seems to be
going places. SIMON O’HAGAN

40

We flick backwards and forwards between countries and decades
discovering the origins of the Twelve as well as some surprising and very dark
secrets in both Carolyn’s and Konstantin’s pasts. Meanwhile Eve is playing a
dangerous game with Hélène in an attempt to show her that she’s not to be
underestimated. That’s foolish enough, however you’d think Eve would know
that when Hélène takes her revenge it’d be swift and painful — she always
strikes where it hurts the most. JANE RACKHAM

Superman and Lois

Pointless Celebrities

5.30pm BBC1

7.50pm BBC1

m

DRAMA Not all heroes wear

capes and in this earth-shaking
season finale, everyone gets a shot
at glory. Yes, the centrepiece is a
final, epic smackdown between the
Man of Steel and Morgan Edge, but
the writers certainly don’t forget
about Lois, whose maternal strength
is the only thing that’s going to free
a kidnapped and possessed Jordan.
There’s also a sizeable cliffhanger
that’ll leave viewers hungry for the
next series — but while we wait for
that to surface in the UK, Superman
fans could do worse than seeking
out Smallville. All episodes of the
early 2000s drama about the
teenage Clark Kent have just flown
onto All 4, where they can be
watched for free. DAVID BROWN

QUIZ It’s a sporting line-up this week

so there’s a palpable air of
competitiveness in the studio
because they all want to match Mark
Foster’s win in an earlier show.
Unfortunately, though, a lot of them
aren’t too knowledgeable about
films (presumably they were too
busy training and winning medals
to go to the cinema), which is the
subject of the first round. However,
I loved Phil Vickery’s jokey answer
for the title of a Woody Allen film.
It’s much better than the original.
All of them are much more
confident, of course, when the
questions involve a particular
footballer or tennis-playing celebrity,
although the dreaded big red cross
appears surprisingly often. JR

Chernobyl:
the New Evidence
8.00pm C4
DOCUMENTARY Previously, we saw

how KGB informer warnings about
problems with the design of the
Chernobyl plant were ignored, so
when the worst happened in April
1986, the rush was on to keep a lid on
things (the lid of reactor four having
been blown right off, of course). But
the fallout wasn’t just physical. We
meet survivors, including one young
woman whose pregnancy was
threatened. And the scientists whose
conclusions about long-term
casualties might well surprise you.
There are mindblowing details, but
the one that got me was exactly how
the Soviets stopped radioactive
clouds reaching a May Day parade
in Moscow. GILL CRAWFORD

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SATURDAY 2 APRIL
The always terrific Jean Smart (right)
has deservedly won numerous awards
for Hacks, a US comedy drama that
has arrived here on Amazon Prime
just in time for the weekend. She’s
veteran Las Vegas stand-up
comedian Deborah Vance, whose star
is waning and whose rather eventful
past is back in the news. Forced into
a working relationship with a young
comedy writer (Hannah Einbinder)

JACK SEALE

Hidden

8.35pm BBC1

9.00pm BBC4

DRAMA We’re down on the farm, but

DRAMA DCI Cadi John and DS Owen

don’t go expecting the scenes of
bucolic beauty we’d get on a Channel
5 documentary. Here, the husband
has lashed up a noose in a barn
because financial pressures have
become overwhelming, while the wife
is about to come off worse in a
confrontation with a runaway tractor.
As paramedic Jan attends the
fraught scene, she learns from her
patients that the people running the
farm next door are doing better
business and have employed plenty of
workers. But alarm bells soon start
ringing, especially for Jan’s colleague
Iain, who wonders whether there
could be links to the merciless slave
labour operation he uncovered the
other week. DBr

Vaughan bring Piotr Korecki in for
questioning but, despite incriminating
CCTV footage of a fracas with the
murdered Ifan Williams, the Polish
builder seems an unlikely suspect.
Cadi is so wrapped up in the case and
on such bad terms with those close to
her that she spends an uncomfortable
night sleeping in the police station.
The unremitting gloom is broken by
a few smiles of fond remembrance
when Cadi meets her sisters Elin and
Bethan to say a final goodbye to their
childhood home. The moment is
interrupted by Rachel, the girlfriend
she’s taken for granted, whose sharp
rebuttal causes Cadi’s world to
crumble even further.
PATRICK MULKERN

Take That: We’ve
Come a Long Way

Olivia Vinall’s Matilda
Stone is on the case

The contest reaches its climax
as six heat winners battle it out
for £50,000. Olly Murs hosts.

Celebrity Mastermind
6.35pm BBC1

MUSIC This may make you feel old,

Jeremy Edwards, Sonali Shah,
Dave Rowntree and Camilla
Tominey take to the chair.

but in 2018 “boy band” Take That
celebrated 30 years in the business
with this one-off film. There was great
excitement when Robbie Williams
joined Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and
Howard Donald to reminisce,
although it was disappointing that
Jason Orange was missing. However,
it does feature video messages from
fans recounting the funny and
surprising ways the band have
touched their lives and some
revelations from the lads’ mums.
To get you in the mood, it’s
preceded by a compilation of their
appearances on the BBC performing
their hits (9.35pm, 10.35pm in Wales).
Could it be magic? JR

Queens of Mystery
7.30pm Channel 5
COMEDY DRAMA The pop group

murder mystery has almost
become a sub-genre of UK
detective shows. I seem to
remember DI Lewis breaking his
obsession with childhood idols
Midnight Addiction after
discovering they were a nefarious
bunch. And then there was the
episode of Midsomer Murders
where the lead singer of Hired Gun
got electrocuted live on stage.
Here, it’s Volcanic Youth whose
numbers are fast being depleted
thanks to a second killing at the
scene of their reunion. The secrets
the louche band members are
concealing are obviously as dark as
the wigs, eyeshadow and leather
jackets they wear — but standing out
in contrast (as the police always
must in these kind of things) is prim
yet plucky Matilda (Olivia Vinall),
whose investigation is about to
feature a memorable key change
that would turn most old rockers
green with envy. DBr

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

8.30pm ITV

10.35pm BBC2 (11.35pm in Wales)

DBr

DOGGED DETECTIVE

Starstruck: the Final

Ant and Dec’s Saturday
Night Takeaway
7.00pm ITV
Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan)
is in the Star Guest announcer
booth, and George Ezra sings.

MOTD Top 10: Players
to Have Never Won the
Premier League 11.45pm
BBC1 (12.45am in Scotland)

Saturday Television

Casualty

BEST OF THE REST

Gary Lineker, Micah Richards
and Alan Shearer offer up
another countdown.

q FILM OF THE DAY
Grease
4.20pm C4
Classic, chart-topping musical
starring John Travolta and
Olivia Newton-John as teenage
(ahem) lovers Danny and
Sandy. (1978) See page 27

LIVE SPORT

 Premier League Football:
Liverpool v Watford 11.30am
(k/o 12.30pm) BT Sport 1 Luis
Díaz is a danger for Liverpool.
Manchester United v Leicester
City 5pm (k/o 5.30pm) Sky
Sports Premier League
 Women’s Super League
Football: West Ham United v
Manchester City 11am (k/o
11.30am) Sky Premier League
 Women’s World Cup Cricket:
Final 1.30am Sky Sports Cricket
GETTY

who has problems of her own, the two
women scope each other out and
form a brittle bond, swapping acid
retorts along the way.
Several memorable creations
among the supporting cast — gags
about the absurdity and cruelty of
showbiz are everywhere — bolster
a series about two hollow lost souls
that, like its pair of main characters,
has a soft heart hiding inside a
wonderfully sharp comic exterior.

STREAMING NOW

41

SATURDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1

Television Saturday

6.00am Breakfast Naga Munchetty, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)
10.00 Saturday Kitchen Live Host Matt Tebbutt is
joined by chefs Omar Allibhoy and Georgina Hayden
to prepare dishes for a celebrity guest. (S) (HD)
11.30 Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen
Garden The chef wants to expand the herb patch on
his smallholding. First shown on BBC2 (S) (HD)
12 noon Football Focus Alex Scott hosts. (S) (HD)
1.00pm BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
1.15 Bargain Hunt From Lincoln. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Escape to the Country Two horticulturists
seek a Yorkshire Dales home. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)
2 BBC RED BUTTON 2.30—5.30 Final Score Jason
Mohammad presents the afternoon’s football scores

3.00—4.00 Garden Rescue Creating a Moroccaninspired garden in Teignmouth, south Devon, and an
Asian-themed plot in Bitterne, Hampshire. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC2
6.40am The Dengineers First shown on CBBC (S) (HD)
7.10 Blue Peter First shown on CBBC (S) (HD)
7.40 Malory Towers 9/13 Series 2. Tensions finally
come to a head between Darrell, Alicia and Sally.
8.05 10/13. Gwen resorts to drastic measures to
hide her stolen bounty. First shown on CBBC (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Deadly 60 The world of parasites. (R) (S) (HD)
9.00 Forces of Nature with Brian Cox 4/4. The
effects of light and colour on the earth. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Earth’s Great Rivers 3/3 Series 2. The
Yukon Following the river which flows for 2,000
miles in north America. Shown yesterday (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr
4/8 Series 3. A challenge to revamp three retail
businesses in Salisbury. Shown last Wed BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
12 noon Great British Menu: Banquet Special
The ultimate winner is decided. Shown yesterday (S) (HD)
1.00pm The Best Dishes Ever Recipes from the
archives. Presented by Ainsley Harriott. (R) (S) (HD)

1

Take That at
the BBC 9.35pm
From boys to men:
the hits that tell
the story of the
band’s long career

4.00pm Final Score

4.30pm Women’s Six Nations

Jason Mohammad presents the classified results.
Producer Chris Treece; Editor Ben North (S) (HD)

5.30 Superman and Lois

Last Sons of Krypton. Clark’s worst
a15/15.
nightmare comes true as Edge’s masterplan
its grim conclusion. Only Superman can
mnears
stop him, but he can’t do it alone. See page 40.

Clark Kent/Superman Tyler Hoechlin Kyle Cushing
Erik Valdez
Lois Lane
Elizabeth Tulloch Sarah Cushing
Inde Navarrette
Jonathan Kent
Jordan Elsass John Henry Irons
Wolé Parks
Jordan Kent
Alex Garfin Chrissy Beppo
Sofia Hasmik
Morgan Edge
Adam Rayner Lana Lang-Cushing Emmanuelle Chriqui

ITV
6.00am CITV See page 46 9.25 ITV News (S) (HD)
9.30 James Martin’s Saturday Morning With
ex-rugby union player James Haskell, and chefs Mike
Reid, Lisa Goodwin-Allen and Richard Bertinet. (S) (HD)
11.40 Simply Raymond Blanc 10/10. The chef shares
recipes for salads, soups and side dishes, including his
take on Nordic speciality pickled herrings. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.45pm ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)
1.00—4.00 LIVE Racing Ed Chamberlin presents
coverage of the 3.35 Scottish Grand National from
Ayr, which follows races at 1.15, 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00.
Plus the 1.35, 2.10 and 2.45 starts at Newbury. (S) (HD)

Channel 4
6.00am Mike & Molly Double bill. (R) (S) (HD)
6.45 The King of Queens Double bill. (R) (S) (AD)
7.35 The Simpsons Principal Skinner is jilted.
7.55 Marge and Homer plan a romantic escape.
8.20 Selma plans to marry Sideshow Bob.
8.50 Maggie catches chickenpox.
9.20 Bart is teased for being a mummy’s boy.
9.50 Bart is bullied into stealing a road sign.
10.20 The family runs into an old enemy. (R) (S) (AD)
10.50 Four in a Bed Visits to Leicestershire and
Buckinghamshire, plus two stays in East Sussex. (R) (S) (HD)
1.25—3.35pm The Next Karate Kid ★★
Martial arts adventure starring Noriyuki “Pat”
Morita and Hilary Swank. Karate trainer Mr
Miyagi takes on a new female pupil. Review page 27.

q

Director Christopher Cain (1994, PG) (S) (W) (HD)

Cardiff Arms Park (kick-off 4.45).
Both sides will have targeted this match for a win
as they attempt to improve on last year, when the
Scots finished fifth and the hosts took the wooden
spoon. Since then, Wales have raised their game,
offering professional contracts to their players for
the first time. When the teams met in Glasgow last
season, Scotland triumphed 27—20. See page 40.
Producer Matt Roberts; Executive producer Mark Cole (S) (HD)

6.15 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
6.35 Celebrity Mastermind

7.05 Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs

9/14. Jeremy Edwards, Sonali Shah, Dave Rowntree
and Camilla Tominey take part. With Clive Myrie.
Series producer Jude McCaffrey; Exec producers Kate Middleditch,
Chris Jones, David Young, Jimmy Mulville Rptd Thu 11.35pm (S) (HD)

Coverage of Loughborough Lightning v Cardiff Met Archers
in the Women’s Premier League at bbc.co.uk/sport

The People’s Lochs. Paul Murton sails through the
Kyles of Bute to the Holy Loch and on to Ardentinny,
his childhood home, which overlooks Loch Long.
Director Paul Murton (R) (S) (HD)

7.05 The Wall

7.35 Top of the Pops: the Story of 1993

Charlie and Tom, a father and son from Plymouth,
bid to win enough money to buy a food truck and
realise Charlie’s dream. Presented by Danny Dyer.

A look back at TOTP in the year when 2 Unlimited
reigned supreme with their “techno techno techno”
smash No Limit, while the debut of Suede heralded
the dawn of Britpop. Meanwhile, the bad boys of
East 17 sparked a fierce rivalry with the clean-cut
Take That. Among those sharing their memories of
1993 are Heather Small, Gabrielle and Mr Blobby.

Director Julian Smith; Series producer Stephen Lovelock
Repeated Tuesday 11.45pm (S) (HD)

7.50 Pointless Celebrities

edition of the quiz featuring
aAGussports-themed
Fraser and Mike Gatting, Suzi Perry and

1.50 Calamity Jane 5 Musical comedy western
starring Doris Day and Howard Keel. Spirited
cowgirl Calamity Jane brings a glamorous
singing star to the Deadwood saloon. But her new
friend turns into a love rival. Available on iPlayer for
30 days. Review p27. Director David Butler (1953, U) (S) (HD)
3.30—4.30 Florida: America’s Animal Paradise
Natural World profiles the state’s wildlife. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

v Scotland
a Wales
Catrin Heledd introduces live coverage from

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE 5.45—8.30 Wheelchair Basketball

Director Richard van’t Riet; Series producer Laura Turner (S) (HD)

Also showing Thursday BBC4 10.40pm

2

Repeated Friday 12.35am (S) (AD) (HD)

Jules Breach, Bianca Walkden and Bianca Williams,
Phil Vickery and Mark Foster. See page 40.

q

BBC2

Killing Eve 9.15pm
Food for thought:
Carolyn is on a
mission to root
out some secrets
about the Twelve

2 BBC RED BUTTON 1.45—4.45 Women’s Six Nations

Live coverage of France v Ireland in Toulouse (kick-off 2.15)

42

BBC1

8.35 Casualty

Call. Iain’s actions jeopardise his
aJudgement
relationship with Chrissie. See page 41.
Dylan Keogh
Iain Dean
Jan Jenning
Marty Kirkby
Faith Cadogan
Charlie Fairhead
David Hide
Paula Kettering

William Beck
Michael Stevenson
Di Botcher
Shaheen Jafargholi
Kirsty Mitchell
Derek Thompson
Jason Durr
Rosie Jones

Chrissie Danes
Holly Cage
Minnie Bethurst
Luke Bethurst
Ellen Dawn
Pat Harner
Stefanie Philson

Lauren Crace
Simone Saunders
Rachel Harper
Tom Clegg
Andrea Mason
Nathan Sussex
Rebecca Knowles

Writer Philip Ralph; Producer Mat McHale; Director Merlyn Rice (S) (AD) (HD)

9.15 Killing Eve

5/8 Series 4. Don’t Get Attached. Villanelle
adecides
to put her talents towards helping

people. Available on iPlayer since Monday 28 March,
joining the whole of series 1, 2 and 3. See page 40.
Eve Polastri
Villanelle
Carolyn Martens
Konstantin
Hélène
Yusuf
Pam
Benita
Darren

Sandra Oh
Jodie Comer
Fiona Shaw
Kim Bodnia
Camille Cottin
Robert Gilbert
Anjana Vasan
Anna-Maria Everett
Josh Zare

Lars
Ingvar Sigurdsson
Young Carolyn
Imogen Daines
Johan
Siggi Ingvarsson
Karl
Louis Bodnia Andersen
Karolina
Stacy Thunes
Oliver
John Keogh
Dickie
Nigel Cooke
Camilo
Pano Masti
Young Karolina
Teresa Klamert

Writer Laura Neal; Producer Nigel Watson; Executive producers Sally
Woodward Gentle, Lee Morris Rptd Mon 12.20am (not North) (S) (AD) (HD)
Obsessed with…Killing Eve follows on BBC3

10.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
10.20 Match of the Day
Today’s highlights include Liverpool v Watford and
Burnley v Manchester City. With Gary Lineker.
Producer Matt Griffiths; Editor Steve Houghton Rptd Sun 7.30am (S) (HD)

11.45 Match of the Day: Top Ten Players
to Never Win the Premier League

Producer Verity Newman
Executive producer Alison Howe (S) (HD)

8.35 Top of the Pops 1993: Biggest Hits
A playlist of classic TOTP performances from 1993,
featuring vintage hits by Björk, Meat Loaf, Robin S,
Gabrielle, Jamiroquai, Radiohead, Ace of Base,
Haddaway, Sub Sub and Chaka Demus & Pliers.
Executive producer Alison Smith (S) (HD)

9.35 Take That at the BBC

compilation of unforgettable hits by Britain’s
a Abest-loved
boy band, featuring a host of classic

performances from the BBC archives, from their
imperial phase during the 1990s when Gary, Mark,
Robbie, Howard and Jason established themselves
as teen heart-throbs, through to their renaissance
as a “man band” in the 21st century. See page 41.
Producer Simon Goretzki; Series producer Shelley Talton (S) (HD)

10.35 Take That: We’ve Come a Long Way
most successful boy band reflect on
a Britain’s
30 years of hits in a celebration featuring fans

from Britain and beyond recounting how the band
touched their lives. Former member Robbie Williams
returns to share his favourite memories, and the
band’s biggest fans of all — their mums — enjoy their
own special reunion. And there’s a glimpse behind
the scenes as the boys are joined in the recording
studio by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. See page 41.
Director Karen McGann; Producer Andy Bates (R) (S) (HD)

11.35 Meat Loaf: in and out of Hell
A portrait of the larger-than-life rock star, who died
in January at the age of 74, reflecting on the music
that propelled him to fame and charting his journey
from an overweight, bullied child to the worldwide
superstar who recorded Bat out of Hell. Featuring
an interview and performance by the singer, plus
backstage footage from a Las Vegas concert.
Director/Producer Matt O’Casey (R) (S) (HD)

12.15am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.20—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

12.35—2.35am Amundsen ★★★ Biopic starring Pal
Sverre Hagen. Obsessed with discovering the world’s
untouched lands, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen
embarks on a quest to become the first man to reach the
South Pole. Norwegian, English +subtitles. Available on
iPlayer until May 2023. Director Espen Sandberg (2019, 12) (W) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Gary Lineker, Micah Richards and Alan Shearer
discuss top players who never lifted the trophy. (S) (HD)

q

SATURDAY 2 APRIL
ITV

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

Starstruck: the
Final 8.30pm
Hitting the right
notes: Sheridan
Smith watches as
a star is born

Chernobyl: the
New Evidence
8.00pm Eye witness
account: Oleksiy
Ananenko tells his
harrowing story

Hidden 9.00pm
Siôn Thomas
(Sion Ifan) looks
on as the police
step up their
investigation

4.00pm Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals

3.35pm A Place in the Sun

7.00pm The Normans

A look back at some of the show’s most dramatic
endgames from the arcade-themed quiz show.

Danni Menzies helps retired Clover and Mark, who
want to start a new life in Axarquía, Andalusía.

Director Richard van’t Riet; Executive producers Hugh Rycroft,
Sara Doyle and Kate Lownds (R) (S) (HD)

Director/Producer Marcin Wawro (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

4.30 The Chase Celebrity Special

Unexpectedly reunited with
qMusical.
summer love Danny at her new school,

3/3. Normans of the South. Professor
Robert Bartlett concludes his
examination of the Normans by
exploring their impact on southern
Europe and the Middle East.

Executive producers Michael Kelpie, Martin Scott and
Helen Tumbridge (R) (S) (HD)

5.30 ITV News
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase
Nikki Fox, Robert Rinder and Georgia Taylor all try
to “say what they see” as they guess well-known
phrases for the chance to win a £50,000 jackpot
for their chosen charity. Stephen Mulhern hosts.
Director Geraldine Dowd; Executive producer Gary Chippington
Repeated tomorrow 11.30am ITV2 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night
Takeaway
6/7. The Geordie boys are back with their
prime-time package of fun and games. Steve
Coogan’s comic creation Alan Partridge is this
week’s guest announcer, Stephen Mulhern has a
big surprise up his sleeve for some unsuspecting
celebrities and George Ezra performs Anyone
for You (Tiger Lily) in the End of the Show Show.
Director Chris Power; Series producers Gemma Nightingale,
Ben Aston and Sophie Coen (S) (HD)

8.30 Starstruck: the Final
For tonight’s grand final, Olly Murs welcomes back
the six heat winners as they transform into their
icon one last time. Once everyone has performed
it is down to the voting audience to pick the
contestant who will walk away with £50,000. Plus
Olly and the Starstruck judges, Queen frontman
Adam Lambert, actress Sheridan Smith, soul
sensation Beverley Knight and comedian Jason
Manford, will put on a very special performance.
Director Nikki Parsons; Series producer Kim Allinson
Repeated 12.20am (S) (HD)

9.40 ITV News
Weather; Regional Weather

(S) (HD)

10.00 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown
6/6 Series 2. Paul Sinha hosts the TV-themed quiz.
Captains Fay Ripley and Rob Beckett are joined by
Anita Rani, Sarah Hadland, Ed Byrne and Jamie
Laing to face more questions about all things telly.
Producer Lizzy Skrzypiec; Series producer Grant Philpott
Repeated Wednesday 11.45pm (S) (HD)

10.40 Lucy ★★★

Sandy Olsson can’t believe how different he is.
With some street cred can she win back the
heart of the leather-clad, tough-talking leader
of the T-birds? Available on All 4 for 7 days.
Film of the Day: page 27.
Danny Zuko
Sandy Olsson
Betty Rizzo
Kenickie

John Travolta
Olivia Newton-John
Stockard Channing
Jeff Conaway

Doody
Sonny
Putzie
Frenchy

Barry Pearl
Michael Tucci
Kelly Ward
Didi Conn

Director Randal Kleiser (1978, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

6.30 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
7.00 Matt Baker: Our Farm in the Dales
4/6 Series 2. A new patio and seating area in front
of the farmhouse begins to take shape. Over in
the paddock, the female donkeys are prepared
for the arrival of a jack that they hope will father
some foals, while Janice says an emotional
goodbye to some of her Hampshire Down sheep.
Director Matt Baker; Series producer Charlie Bullock
First shown on More4 (S) (HD)

8.00 Chernobyl: the New Evidence
Using previously classified KGB
a2/2.
documents, this film explores how far

Soviet leaders were determined to cover up the
Chernobyl disaster, including exposing children
to toxic fallout at the Kyiv May Day parade to prove
that all was fine. We hear accounts from those
who survived, including diver Oleksiy Ananenko,
who braved radioactive waters to prevent a deadlier
second explosion and Maryna Sivets, whose
unborn child’s life was put at risk. See page 40.
Director/Editor Andy Webb; Producer Maria Drovnenkova
Repeated tomorrow 1am (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 The Hitman’s Bodyguard ★★★★
comedy. Still smarting from a
qAction
previous bungled job, security expert

Michael Bryce has the chance to redeem himself
by delivering hired killer Darius Kincaid to court,
to testify against a despotic dictator. Review p27.
Michael Bryce
Ryan Reynolds
Darius Kincaid Samuel L Jackson
Vladislav Dukhovich Gary Oldman
Amelia Roussel
Elodie Yung

Sonia Kincaid
Salma Hayek
Foucher
Joaquim de Almeida
Rebecca Harr
Kirsty Mitchell
Seifert
Richard E Grant

Director Patrick Hughes (2017, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Also showing Thursday 10pm 4seven

11.25 Assassin’s Creed ★★★

adventure. Lucy, an American student
q
qAction
in Taiwan, is persuaded by her new boyfriend
to take a briefcase to the hotel room of a Mr Jang.
But Jang is really a vicious crime boss, who forces
Lucy to become a mule for an experimental drug
that’s hidden inside her abdomen. However, when
the bag leaks, Lucy undergoes a transformation
of mind-blowing proportions... Review page 27.

Lucy
Scarlett Johansson
Professor Norman Morgan Freeman
Mr Jang
Choi Min-sik
The Limey
Julian Rhind-Tutt

Pierre Del Rio
Amr Waked
Richard
Pilou Asbaek
Caroline
Analeigh Tipton
Jii
Nicolas Phongpheth

Director Luc Besson (2014, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Sci-fi adventure. An Assassin descendant
must explore his genetic memories to end
the ancient war between his clan and the
Templars. Travelling back in time to 15th-century
Spain, he gathers the skills and powers he needs
to defeat his enemies in the present day.
English, Spanish+subtitles. Review page 27.
Callum Lynch/Aguilar
Michael Fassbender
Dr Sophia Rikkin Marion Cotillard
Alan Rikkin
Jeremy Irons

Joseph Lynch
Ellen Kaye
Moussa
Maria

Brendan Gleeson
Charlotte Rampling
Michael K Williams
Ariane Labed

Director Justin Kurzel (2016, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Also showing Wednesday 11.05pm 4seven

12.20am Starstruck: the Final Shown 8.30pm (S) (HD)
1.20 Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 Living on the Veg Recipes for shepherd’s pie,
chocolate cookies, sushi and a bakewell tart. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
3.55 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.10—6.00am Alphabetical Quiz show. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

1.20am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The
Spanish Pavillion, a New Jersey family-run business. (R) (S)
2.10 Come Dine with Me In Birmingham. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
3.00 Hollyoaks Omnibus. Cast Wed/Fri (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
5.05 Moneybags Quiz show. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
5.55—6.05am Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free
Converting a shopping trolley into a seat. (R) (S) (HD)

ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

BBC1
SCOTLAND

Director/Producer Charles Colville
Signed repeat 2.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Rick Stein’s Long
Weekends
1/10. Bordeaux. The chef takes a
culinary break in Bordeaux, where he
helps judge a local wine contest and
hires a 2CV for an excursion to the coast
— abundant with mussels and oysters.
Director/Producer David Pritchard
First shown on BBC2 Repeated 1.15am (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Hidden

Series 3. Under cover of
a3/6
darkness, Cadi and Vaughan

bring in Piotr Korecki for questioning.
They show him incriminating CCTV
footage — but will he talk? Having
made a mess of her personal life, Cadi
sleeps in the office. Series 1 and 2 are
available on iPlayer. See page 41.

DCI Cadi John
DS Owen Vaughan
Siôn Thomas
Glyn Thomas
Father McEwan
Hannah
Piotr Korecki
Katarina
Det Supt Susan Lynn
Rachel West
Bethan John
Elin Jones
Siwan Williams
Alys Mitchell
PC Gwawr Daniels
PC Ryan Davies
Marc
Efa

Sian Reese-Williams
Siôn Alun Davies
Sion Ifan
Justin Melluish
Rhodri Evan
Elen Rhys
Dritan Kastrati
Joanna Ignaczewska
Victoria Pugh
Mali Tudno Jones
Megan Llyn Parri
Nia Roberts
Rhian Blythe
Sarah Tempest
Gwawr Loader
Garmon Rhys
Samuel Morgan-Davies
Bethan Stevens

Writer Caryl Lewis
Producer Hannah Thomas; Director Chris Forster
Shown last Wednesday on BBC1 Wales (S) (HD)

10.00 Hidden Wales with
Will Millard
1/3 Series 1. Adventurer Will Millard
sets off to explore the hidden history
of Wales, starting in the north of the
country. On his wanders, he comes
across the world’s biggest abandoned
slate mine and a Victorian invention
lying at the bottom of the sea.

4.00—5.30pm
Sportscene Results
11.45 Sportscene
Saturday 12.45am
MOTD: Top Ten Players
to Have Never Won
the Premier League
1.15 Weather for
the Week Ahead
1.20—6.00am News

BBC
SCOTLAND
7.00pm The Seven
7.15 The Edit 7.30
Sportscene Saturday
8.30 The Mart 9.00
Best of Chewin’ the Fat
9.30 FILM: Iona
10.50 Loop
11.00 One More Tune
11.30—12 midnight
Let’s Talk about Sex

BBC1 WALES
3.00pm Weatherman
Walking: Derek
Brockway travels to
Snowdonia to walk a
section of the Slate
Trail 3.30—4.00pm
Question of Sport

BBC2 WALES
12 noon—1.00pm
Britain’s Ancient
Capital: Secrets of
Orkney: archaeologists
uncover a remarkable
find 7.05 Lightning
7.35 Great British
Menu: Banquet Special
8.35 Top of the Pops:
the Story of 1993
9.35 Top of the Pops:
Big Hits 1993 10.35
Take That at the BBC
11.35—12.35am Take
That: We’ve Come a
Long Way

Saturday Television

Jenny Eclair, Perry Fenwick, Ore Oduba and
Richard Madeley take on one of the Chasers.

4.20 Grease ★★★★

Regional
variations

BBC2
NORTHERN
IRELAND
1.50pm Suzie Lee:
Home Cook Hero: the
ultimate roast chicken
dinner 2.00 Live
Women’s Six Nations:
coverage of France v
Ireland (kick-off 2.15)
4.15—4.30 Gardening
Together with Diarmuid
Gavin: Diarmuid sows
wildflowers as a gift
for his mother

Director James Hale; Producer Kate Owen (R) (S) (HD)

11.00 Wogan: the Best Of
Terry Wogan looks back on his
interviews with the cast of Dad’s Army
and Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy.
Series producer Simon Goretzki First shown on BBC1 (S)

11.45 Yes, Prime Minister
2/8 Series 2. Official Secrets. Jim
tries to censor the former PM’s memoirs.
Writers Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Director Sydney Lotterby Shown last Tuesday (S)

12.15am Keeping Up Appearances 10/10
Series 2. Hyacinth’s plans to take Daddy on
a picnic soon backfire. Shown last Tuesday (S)
12.45 A Slow Odyssey: a Turtle’s Journey
An immersive film following a green sea
turtle’s daily routine. (R) (S) (HD)
1.15 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends
Shown 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15—3.15am The Normans
Shown 7pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

43

SATURDAY Freeview

Television Saturday

Channel 5

5

BBC3

23

10

Drama

20

Queens of Mystery 7.30pm Mattie

What We Do in the Shadows 11.15pm

Midsomer Murders 9.00pm DS Jones

Rebus 9.30pm The detective is

investigates a band manager’s death

Vladislav and co struggle to fit in

is haunted by a mystery from his past

punished for an act of insubordination

F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.25am Milkshake! See page 46
10.00 SpongeBob SquarePants Mr Krabs
has to take boating school classes. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.10 SpongeBob hides the Krabby Patty
formula in his home. (S) (HD)
10.25 Entertainment News (S) (HD)
10.30 Friends Series 1. Rachel rekindles
her relationship with her ex-fiancé.
11.00 Someone has stolen Monica’s identity.
11.30 Ross’s ex-wife goes into labour.
12 noon Ross almost misses the birth after
getting locked in a cupboard. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30pm Our Yorkshire Farm Amanda
and Clive’s quadbikes are stolen. (S) (HD)
1.30 A storm halts the harvest. (S) (HD)
2.30 Cruising the Caribbean with Jane
McDonald The singer visits the Caribbean
in mega cruise ship MSC Divina. (S) (HD)

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Man about the House (S) 7.00
Martin Clunes: My Travels and Other Animals:
1/12. The best moments from a decade of
travels; 7.30 2/12. Encounters with working
animals (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Agatha Christie’s
Poirot: The Double Clue. A beautiful thief
steals Poirot’s heart (S) (AD) (HD)
9.05 Midsomer Murders: Series 14. Death
in the Slow Lane. A DJ judging a classic-car
show is crushed to death; 11.00 A Sacred
Trust. A nun from the cloistered world of
Midsomer Priory is strangled to death;
12.55pm A Rare Bird. The president of an
ornithological society is found dead; 2.55
Series 1. Faithful unto Death. A probe into
a community project’s finances uncovers
sinister tensions (S) (AD) (HD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
7.10am Lovejoy: 1/10 Series 1. A Japanese
antique intrigues Lovejoy; 8.00 2/10. The
dealer is stalked by an axe-wielding jailbird;
9.00 3/10. Charlie Gimbert double-crosses
Lovejoy; 10.00 4/10. A museum suffers a
break in (S) 11.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries:
4/10. Sister Boniface investigates when an
artist is found bludgeoned to death (AD) (HD)
12 noon Sharpe: 2/3 Series 5. Sharpe’s
Justice. A clash of loyalties troubles Sharpe (S)
2.00pm One Foot in the Grave: 2/6 Series 6
Victor undergoes medical tests; 2.40 3/6
Victor hires a cleaner; 3.20 4/6. A power cut
gives cause for reflection (S) 4.00 Hetty
Wainthropp Investigates: 3/6 Series 4. The
sleuth uncovers bribery and corruption;
5.00 4/6. Robert begins a career as a
journalist and Geoffrey joins a gym (S)

7.00pm Laugh Lessons
The perils of internet fame. (S) (HD)

7.05 EastEnders
Kat comes to terms with a devastating truth.
Shown last Monday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.35 Bernie returns to the Square.
Cast Tue/Thu BBC1 Shown last Tue BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.55 Gossip Girl
11/18 Series 1. Serena enlists Jenny’s help
to find Dan the perfect present. (S) (HD)
8.35 12/18. A party gets out of hand.
A box set is available on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

9.15 Love in the Flesh
3/8. The heat is turned up when six new
singles enter the beach house.
First shown last Wednesday Repeated 12.55am (S) (HD)

4.00pm Kew Gardens: a Year in
Bloom

10.00 New. Obsessed with...
Killing Eve

1/4 Series 1. A look at how tender
banana plants are cared for over winter.

5/8. Podcast hosts Naomi Shimada and
Zing Tsjeng question Eve’s motives. (S) (HD)

Director Robin Leach (S) (HD)

10.30 Mood

5.00 Cornwall: a Year by the Sea
2/4. Summer is boom or bust time for
local businesses. Can pasty makers Ann
and Fergus keep up with the demand?
First shown last Thursday (S) (HD)
5.55 5 News (S) (HD)

6.00 The Two Ronnies: the Lost
Sketches
Shortly before Ronnie Barker’s retirement,
he and Ronnie Corbett travelled to
Sydney to rework their sketches. Here,
British audiences get to see the best
of the duo’s work Down Under.
Director Luke Worster (S) (HD)

7.30 New. Queens of Mystery

a

4/6. Mattie investigates when a
band manager is stabbed to death.
Could a recording made by the lead singer
throw some light on the case? See p41.

Det Sgt Matilda “Mattie” Stone
Cat Stone
Beth Stone
Jane Stone
Dr Daniel Lynch
Natasha Young
Insp Derek Thorne
PC Terry Foster
Electra Bliss
Nikki Holler

Olivia Vinall
Julie Graham
Sarah Woodward
Siobhan Redmond
Andrew Leung
Rebecca Grant
Martin Trenaman
Michael Elcock
Michelle Collins
Chelsea Edge

Writer Julian Unthank; Producers Tim Vaughan, Linda
James; Director Jamie Magnus Stone (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Dad’s Army: All the Laughs
and More
The inside story of the classic sitcom,
featuring interviews with members of
the original cast and their families.
Directors Judith Ahern, Diani Vyas, Mark Dolan (S) (HD)

10.00 New. Most Shocking
Celebrity Moments
Notorious incidents involving such
famous faces as Wayne Rooney, Judy
Finnegan and Geri Halliwell. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Greatest Ever Celebrity Wind Ups
(S) (HD) 1.00am New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00
Dubai: Lives of the Super Rich (S) (HD) 3.45
Now That’s Funny! (S) (HD) 4.35 Wildlife SOS
(S) (SL) 5.00—5.25am House Doctor (S) (SL)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

BBC4 listings are overleaf

5/6. Sasha goes on her first girls’ work
trip abroad, but soon they’re in too deep.
First shown last Tuesday Rptd 2.25am (S) (AD) (HD)

11.15 What We Do in the Shadows
★★★★ Horror comedy starring

q

Jemaine Clement. Four vampires
share a flat in present-day Wellington in
New Zealand. Available on iPlayer for 26
days. Review page 27. Directors Jemaine
Clement and Taika Waititi (2014, 15) (S) (W) (HD)
12.40am Becoming...the Batman (S) (HD)
12.55 Love in the Flesh Shown 9.15pm 1.40
Love in the Flesh 2.25 Mood Shown 10.30pm
3.10—3.55am Freeze: Back on Thin Ice (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV2

6

5.00pm Midsomer Murders
Series 19. The Village That Rose from
the Dead. The village of Little Auburn,
abandoned since the war, is going to be
reoccupied — but then a man is found
murdered during its grand reopening.
7.00 Series 11. The Magician’s Nephew
After magician’s assistant Jean Wildacre
drops dead during a stage show, Barnaby
and Jones investigate the secretive world
of Midsomer’s Magic Circle — a group of
friends who once formed a cult together.
9.00 Left for Dead. A mystery from his
schooldays comes back to haunt Jones
following the deaths of a reclusive couple
and a murder at the wedding of an old
friend. Could the spate of killings in the
village be connected with a fatal road
accident almost 20 years earlier? (S) (AD)

11.00 The Booze Cruise

6.00pm The Brokenwood Mysteries
1/4 Series 6. The Power of Steam. Mike
and his team are drawn into a world of
escapism when they investigate a murder at
a Brokenwood steampunk event. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1/6 Series 1. The Bearded Lady. The death
of a pensioner leaves a few unanswered
questions for the amateur sleuth, who
sets about solving the mystery when
the police show little interest. (S)

9.30 Rebus
1/4 Series 4. Resurrection Men. When a
gallery owner is murdered and his body is
dumped in a bin-liner, initial lines of enquiry
centre on embittered artist Charlie Guthrie.
Rebus, meanwhile, is back at Police
College after an act of insubordination. (S)

One-off comedy drama starring Martin
Clunes, Neil Pearson, Brian Murphy and
Mark Benton. Five men set off on a
shopping trip to a French hypermarket,
while their wives back home take full
advantage of their husbands’ absence. (S)

11.00 The Heart Guy

The Booze Cruise II tomorrow 10.05pm

1.10 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Shown
8pm (S) 2.35—4.00am Ashes to Ashes:
3/8 Series 2. Animal rights activists injure a
ten-year-old girl in a petrol bomb attack (S)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 6.25 Coronation Street:
omnibus (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.05 Love Bites (S)
(SL) (AD) (HD) 11.10 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
1.10pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) (HD)
2.15 FILM Dr Seuss’ The Lorax ★★★
Animated comedy adventure (S) (W) (HD)
4.00 FILM Despicable Me ★★★★
Animated comedy (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
5.50pm FILM Man of Steel ★★★ Fantasy
adventure starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams
and Russell Crowe. In a far away galaxy, as the
planet Krypton is about to explode, scientist
Jor-El sends his baby son Kal to Earth. As he
grows to manhood, Kal — under the human
guise of Clark Kent — seeks to master his
extraordinary powers. Meanwhile, an old
enemy of Jor-El’s makes his way to Earth
determined to have his revenge. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
8.30 FILM Fast & Furious 8 ★★★★
Action adventure starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne
Johnson, Jason Statham and Charlize Theron.
The whole team have dispersed to live quieter
lives. But with Dom seemingly seduced into a
life of techno terrorism by the mysterious
Cipher, it looks like the opportunity to put
their feet up will have to wait. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.10 Celebrity Juice Vernon Kay, Fleur
East, Rickie Haywood-Williams and Nick
Grimshaw join team captains Laura
Whitmore and Emily Atack. (S) (HD)
11.55 Family Guy Series 16. Peter goes out
of his way to win an Emmy. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25am Series 13. Stewie impregnates
himself with Brian’s DNA. (S) (AD) (HD)

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am The Protectors (S) 6.25 Tenable (S)
(HD) 7.20 Hornblower (S) (AD) (HD) 9.30
New. Racing: the Opening Show (S) (HD)
10.30 Match Time Revisited (S) (HD)
12.30pm World of Sport (S) (HD) 12.45 LIVE
Snooker: Jill Douglas presents coverage of
the afternoon session on day six of the Tour
Championship at Venue Cymru in Llandudno,
featuring the first eight frames of the second
semi-final (S) (HD) 4.00 Monster Carp (S) (HD)
6.00pm Match Time Revisited Elton Welsby
presents highlights from December 1981. (S) (HD)
7.05 Dramatic Finishes A selection of
dramatic horse racing finishes. (S) (HD)
7.15 LIVE Snooker The evening session
on day six of the Tour Championship in
Llandudno, featuring the conclusion of the
second semi-final. With commentary by
David Hendon and Phil Yates. (S) (HD)
10.30 FILM Firefox ★★ Cold War espionage
thriller starring Clint Eastwood. When the Soviet
Union develops a deadly supersonic fighter,
maverick pilot Mitchell Gant is sent to Moscow
to steal the top secret plane. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

12.55 American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.50 Plebs (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.45—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

1.10am The Professionals (S) (SL) (AD) 2.20 The
Protectors (S) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

44

ITV3

1.10am Law & Order: UK: 6/6 Series 4
Skeletons. A body is found with a chilling note
(S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 2.05—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

26

7/8 Series 5. A Ghost In The Heart
Sharna launches a charm offensive to get
Hugh a high-profile job in the city. (S) (HD)
12.05am 8/8. Taste of Whyhope. Hugh
faces his biggest decision ever. (S) (HD)

ITVBe

28

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Masters of Flip: double bill (S) (HD)
9.00 LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Masters of Flip (S) (HD) 12.55pm
Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries (S) (AD) (HD)
1.55 The Real Housewives of Cheshire (S)
(AD) (HD) 4.55 Dinner Date: double bill (S) (HD)
7.00pm Celebrity Dinner Date The Only
Way Is Essex star Demi Sims chooses three
people to date based on the menus she
most likes the look of. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Diags chooses three blind dates
based entirely on their menus. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 FILM Bridget Jones’s Diary ★★★★
Romantic comedy starring Renée Zellweger,
Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Weight-obsessed
30-something Bridget Jones is busy lamenting
her lack of a good man when two come along
at once: her boss Daniel Cleaver and childhood
friend Mark Darcy. Unfortunately, in typical
world-of-Bridget style, the two men have met
before and she finds herself thrust to the
centre of a bizarre love triangle. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.10 Botched Dr Paul Nassif helps a woman
with “blowfish” lips and a male model travels
from Prague in pursuit of perfection. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight—1.00am Ibiza Weekender (S) (HD)

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

( The War Years 1939-1946 A picture-rich commemorative book Yours for just £9.99

SATURDAY 2 APRIL
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

Concert for George 3.45pm An all-star

Smoke and Steel 9.00pm A look at

arrives with suspected spinal injuries

band celebrates George Harrison

the ironclad warship HMS Warrior

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Food Unwrapped (AD) 9.30 A Place
in the Sun: three back-to-back episodes
12.25pm Location, Location, Location:
house-hunting in Yorkshire 1.25 Come Dine
with Me: in Swindon and Marlborough
4.05pm Four in a Bed From Lancashire,
East Yorkshire, Dorset and Kent.
6.45 The Great Big Tiny Design
Challenge with Sandi Toksvig 1/8. Crafting
challenge, in which ten amateur miniaturemakers must transform a derelict mini
mansion. The first challenge is to create
miniature busts of themselves. (AD)
8.00 Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and
Dad 1/4. Matt Baker treats his parents,
Janice and Mike, to a few excursions in their
beloved North East. They begin at Bamburgh
Castle Estate, where Matt learns about some
antique engineering and tea-loving Janice
learns how to blend Earl Grey. (AD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E A 19-year-old
woman is brought in with possible spinal
injuries, while a 59-year-old woman is
treated following a suspected stroke. (AD)
10.00 An elderly couple are brought in after
a road accident, while a 23-year-old man
reflects on his schizophrenia diagnosis as
he receives treatment for a bad cut. (AD)
11.05 Eight out of Ten Cats Does
Countdown With Richard Ayoade,
Rob Beckett and Claudia Winkleman.

F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am Arts Uncovered 6.20 New. Handel/
Mozart: Der Messias by Robert Wilson 8.45
Tales of the Unexpected 11.15 Anyone Can Sing
12.15pm The Directors 1.15 Deep Purple:
Perfect Strangers 3.45 FILM Concert for
George ★★★★ Concert movie. An all-star
band, featuring ex-Beatles, Travelling
Wilburys and Eric Clapton, celebrates the
music of George Harrison in a concert
marking the first anniversary of his death (W)
6.30pm Classic Albums In-depth insight
into the making of Jimi Hendrix’s 1968
double album Electric Ladyland, as famous
for its sleeve design as the songs within.
7.45 Roy Orbison: Austin City Limits The
singer/songwriter performs on the music
programme in 1982, featuring hits including
Only the Lonely and Pretty Woman.
9.00 Roger Waters: Us + Them The Pink
Floyd co-founder performs in Amsterdam
on the European leg of his 2017—2018 tour.
Featuring songs from the band’s albums
as well as his latest solo offering.
11.30 Classic Artists: Jimi Hendrix
Friends and fans of the American musician
tell the story of one of rock’s great icons,
who dazzled in the 60s with his outrageous
guitar-playing skills and experimental sound.

Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am Impossible Engineering: double bill
(AD) 8.00 Great British Landmark Fixers
9.00 Bangers and Cash: four editions
1.00pm Abandoned Engineering (AD)
4.00 Great British Railway Journeys
6.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo joins a brass band in Honley,
West Yorkshire, before crossing into Derbyshire.
6.30 Michael embarks on a journey to
Leeds, beginning at London’s Euston station.
7.00 At Bletchley, Michael meets one of the
Second World War’s most secret agents.
7.30 The former politician travels from
Northampton to Nuneaton.
8.00 In Leicester, the presenter finds out all
about the hunt for Richard III’s remains.
8.30 Michael discovers how rail workers
shaped British political history in Doncaster.
9.00 Smoke and Steel Examining a
grand public works facility in Prague and
the mint building in San Francisco. (AD)
10.00 One Foot in the Grave A hole
appears at the bottom of the garden.
10.40 Margaret collapses with exhaustion.
11.20 The Meldrews spend a day on the river.

12.05am Father Ted: double bill (AD) 1.15 24
Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20—3.50am Father Ted (AD)

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am How I Met Your Mother 6.55 Lego
Masters USA (AD) 7.55 Don’t Tell the Bride
10.00 Married at First Sight Australia 11.30
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
1.30pm Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back
(AD) 2.30 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer (AD) 3.50 Extreme Cake
Makers 4.05 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 1/24 Series 12
Amy and Sheldon go on honeymoon. (AD)
6.30 2/24. Sheldon and Amy are baffled
by one of their wedding gifts. (AD)
6.55 FILM The Greatest Showman ★★★★
Musical drama based on a true story, starring
Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. Would-be
impresario PT Barnum throws every penny
into opening a freak show. But he aspires to
greater cultural acceptance, and his ambition
could jeopardise more than his business. (AD)
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Opinions on
Cooking with the Stars, Too Hot to Handle,
Only Connect, Jaws, Cat People, The Yorkshire
Vet and Catfish UK: the TV Show. (AD)
10.00 Gogglebox Made in Chelsea and
Dragons’ Den are appraised. (AD)
11.05 Verdicts on Line of Duty, Naked
Attraction and I Can See Your Voice. (AD)
12.10am First Dates: a widow goes on her first date
in 51 years (AD) 1.15 First Dates: Valentine’s Special
2.20 Celebrity Gogglebox (AD) 3.15 Gogglebox
(AD) 4.10—6.00am Don’t Tell the Bride

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home
Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer
1.00pm A Place in the Sun 3.00 Dales for Sale
4.00 Helicopter ER 7.00 It’s Me or the Dog:
double bill 8.00 Saving Lives at Sea 9.00
New. The Holzer Files: the team investigates an
unsettling presence aboard RMS Queen Mary 10.00
New. Haunted Hospitals 11.00 Ghost Adventures
12 midnight Kindred Spirits 1.00am Paranormal:
Caught on Camera 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00
Dales for Sale 5.00—6.00am Animal Cops (AD)

1.30am Eric Clapton: Live in California 2.45
FILM Muscle Shoals ★★★★ Documentary
that tells the story of Rick Hall, who overcame
personal tragedy to found the legendary FAME
Studios on the banks of the Tennessee river (W)
5.00—6.00am The Great Songwriters

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am Come Dine with Me: from Kent
11.30 A New Life in the Sun: five editions
4.30pm A Place in the Sun: two editions
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A couple want
a seaside home on the Costa Cálida.
7.00 Jean Johansson lines up five great
options for Laura and Nick, who are seeking
a property in Estepona on the Costa del Sol.
8.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are in
Cowbridge, Wales to help a couple whose home
seems perfect — if it were not for the long list
of gripes making Amy want to move. (AD)
9.00 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer 2/5 Series 5. Ruby Wax,
Gareth Malone, Laura Whitmore and Yung
Filly make fruit turnovers, chocolate fondants
and meringue showstoppers. (AD)
10.20 Police Custody USA 1/4. The first
episode follows veteran homicide detectives
Tiffany Burgtorf and Shane Carpenter as
they investigate the case of a man shot dead
in front of his home in Kansas City. (AD)
11.20 24 Hours in A&E A look back at
more memorable stories filmed at St
George’s Hospital in south London. (AD)
12.25am Gogglebox (AD) 1.30 Eight out of Ten Cats
Does Countdown 2.30—5.00am Come Dine with Me

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am Massive Engineering Mistakes 7.00
Mega Shippers (AD) 8.00 Wheeler Dealers
1.00pm LIVE Darts: the afternoon session on
day one of the WDF World Championship from
Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey
4.30 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage Hunters: the
Restorers 6.00 Vintage Voltage (AD) 7.00 Salvage
Hunters: the Restorers 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 New. EFL: highlights including Queens Park
Rangers v Fulham 11.00 I Got Lucky: Survival
Stories 12 midnight Chaos Caught on Camera
(AD) 1.00am Massive Engineering Mistakes
2.00 Mega Shippers (AD) 3.00 Full Metal Junkies
4.00 Mega Shippers 5.00—6.00am New. Darts

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

12 midnight Impossible Engineering (AD)
2.00—3.00am Smoke and Steel (AD)

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

Dave

19

12 midnight Have I Got a Bit More Old News for
You 1.00am Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier
2.00 Dave Gorman: Terms and Conditions Apply
3.00 QI XL 3.30—4.00am Ladhood (AD)

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131
25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am The Bill 11.00 Tipping Point
4.00pm My Family Kenzo’s father arrives
unexpectedly on the Harpers’ doorstep.
4.40 An elderly patient of Ben’s dies.
5.20 Susan and Ben renew their wedding vows.
6.00 Ben drives Michael to his interview.
6.40 The Harpers appear on The Weakest Link.
7.20 Ben meets an old college pal. (AD)
8.00 Gavin & Stacey Stacey travels from
Wales to London to meet Gavin in person.
8.35 The couple have their first lovers’ tiff.
9.15 The families unite for a party. (AD)
10.00 Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder
in Lagos The journalist meets the gangs
that run the Nigerian city’s streets. (AD)
11.00 Stacey Dooley in the USA Stacey visits
a prison boot camp for women. (AD)
12 midnight—3.00am One Born Every Minute

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am Murder, She Wrote: ten editions (AD)
7.10pm Jesse Stone: No Remorse: the chief
of police has been suspended from the force,
but returns to duty to investigate a series of
murders in Boston 9.00 Yellowstone: Series 1
Jamie’s political career is threatened 10.00
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: four
episodes. Series 14. A baby’s abduction from
a playground leads to a twisted case of lies
11.00 Benson and Barba confront a powerful
administrator 11.55 Series 13. Benson is
accused of putting an innocent man in
prison 12.55am A businessman’s wife is
raped and abducted from her home
1.55 Hannibal 3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught
on Camera: the use of CCTV to fight crime

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Entertainment News 8.05 Criminals:
Caught on Camera 8.25 Judge Judy (SL)
10.15 Caught on Camera: Funniest Moments
1.25pm FILM Made of Honor ★★ 3.30
FILM Ace Ventura: Pet Detective ★★★★
Review page 27 5.10 FILM Grown Ups ★★
7.05pm FILM Journey 2: the Mysterious
Island ★★★ Action adventure starring
Dwayne Johnson. A teenage adventurer
locates an island inhabited by monster
lizards, giant bees and a gold volcano.
9.00 FILM The Meg ★★★ Action horror
thriller starring Jason Statham and Li
Bingbing. Deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor
is approached to aid a team of researchers in
their fight against a giant prehistoric shark.
11.10 FILM Final Destination 2 ★★★
Supernatural horror sequel starring Ali Larter.
Teenager Kimberly Corman has a premonition
that ends up saving her and a group of
motorists from a freeway pile-up. Review p31.
1.00am Fights, Camera, Action! (AD) 2.00 999:
Critical Condition 3.00 The World’s Most Expensive
Hotels 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Cop Car Workshop 8.00 Rick Stein’s
Long Weekends (AD) 9.00 Rick Stein’s
French Odyssey 9.30 Storage Hunters UK
10.00 Top Gear (AD) 11.00 American Pickers
12 noon Storage Hunters UK 1.00pm Top Gear
(AD) 3.00 Soapbox Race 4.00 Top Gear (AD)
6.00pm Would I Lie to You? With guest
panellists Dermot O’Leary, Mel Giedroyc,
Josh Widdicombe and Matt Dawson.
6.40 David O’Doherty, Richard Osman,
Susan Calman and Carol Kirkwood take part.
7.20 With Sarah Millican, Jon Richardson,
David Harewood and Bob Mortimer.
8.00 Not Going Out Live Special episode
of Lee Mack’s award-winning hit comedy.
8.40 Not Going Out 1/7 Series 10. Toby
organises a sponsored parachute jump.
9.20 2/7. Lee and Lucy’s friendship with Toby
and Anna is tested during a weekend break
10.00 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable 8/8
Series 2. Jessica Knappett explains why you
shouldn’t attend a funeral with her.
11.00 QI XL: Quizmas Sandi Toksvig hosts.

W

21

5 Action

33

Saturday Television

24 Hours in A&E 9.00pm Georgia,

5 USA

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.30
The Gadget Show 10.30 Police Interceptors
2.30pm FILM We Go in At Dawn ★★
Second World War thriller 4.20 FILM Any
Which Way You Can ★★★ Action comedy
6.40pm FILM Two Mules for Sister Sara
★★★★ Western starring Clint Eastwood and
Shirley MacLaine. When Hogan saves a woman
from a fate worse than death, he gets more
than he bargained for. She turns out to be
Sister Sara, a nun on a mission from God.
9.00 FILM Big Trouble in Little China
★★ Action adventure starring Kurt Russell
as truck driver Jack Burton, who’s drawn into
a supernatural world beneath San Francisco’s
Chinatown when he attempts to rescue his
best friend’s fiancée from an evil magician.
11.00 FILM Code of Silence ★★ Action
thriller with Chuck Norris and Henry Silva.
A cop and his partner find themselves caught
up in a gang war between rival mobsters.
1.00am Professionals (AD) 2.00 999: Criminals
Caught on Camera 3.00 Idiot TV 3.50 Britain’s
Biggest Armed Robbery 4.35—5.00am
Criminals: Caught on Camera (AD)

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD)
1.00pm Watercolour Challenge 2.00
Watercolour Challenge: four editions
6.00pm Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Ben revisits a former medical student who
lives deep in the woodlands of Arkansas.
7.00 The presenter catches up with Rick
who has made a fresh start on Fiji.
8.00 Ben revisits a former war
correspondent living in British Columbia
9.00 Inside the Heinz Factory Behind the
doors of the facility in Wigan, where 850
people produce 200 different products.
10.00 Elvis: the Man That Rocked the World
The story of Elvis Presley’s remarkable success,
through the prism of his finest moments.
12 midnight Victoria Wood: 40 Years of Laughs
1.00am The Highland Midwife 2.00 The Highland
Vet 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p48

Featuring articles, photographs and memories from the era Visit radiotimes.com/waryears

45

Freeview, satellite

SATURDAY
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p44

Television Saturday

5.25am Peppa Pig 5.30 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Milkshake!
Monkey 6.05 Peppa Pig 6.15 Shane
the Chef 6.40 Noddy: Toyland
Detective 6.50 New. Brave Bunnies
7.00 Thomas & Friends 7.10 Milo 7.20
Pip and Posy 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.35
Fireman Sam 7.55 Paw Patrol 8.10
Baby Shark’s Big Show! 8.25 Pirata &
Capitano 8.45 Meet the Experts
8.55 Show Me How... 9.00 Ricky
Zoom 9.15 The World According to
Grandpa 9.25 Go Green with the
Grimwades 9.35 The Adventures of
Paddington 9.50—10.00am Circle Square

CBeebies

202

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Show Me Show Me 6.20 Raa
Raa the Noisy Lion 6.30 Bing 6.40
Love Monster 6.45 Go Jetters 7.00
Postman Pat: SDS 7.15 Bing 7.30 Hey
Duggee 7.45 Go Jetters 8.00 Peter
Rabbit 8.10 Octonauts 8.25 Chuggington
8.35 Bitz & Bob 8.45 The Furchester
Hotel 9.00 Something Special 9.20
Bluey 9.35 CBeebies Presents: the
Tortoise and the Hare 10.20 Go Jetters
10.35 Nick Cope’s Popcast 10.40 Justin’s
House 11.05 Andy and the Band 11.20
Go Jetters 11.30 Patchwork Pals 11.35
Waffle the Wonder Dog 11.45 JoJo &
Gran Gran 12 noon Big Cook Little
Cook 12.20pm Raa Raa the Noisy Lion
12.30 Hey Duggee 12.45 Bitz & Bob
1.10 Love Monster 1.25 Go Jetters
1.50 Dog Loves Books 2.00 Timmy
Time 2.05 Something Special 2.25
GiggleQuiz 2.35 Tish Tash 2.40 Tee
and Mo 2.50 Love Monster 2.55 Bitz
& Bob 3.10 School of Roars 3.15 Messy
Goes to OKIDO 3.25 Teeny Tiny
Creatures 3.40 Andy’s Prehistoric
Adventures 3.55 Gigglebiz 4.10 Magic
Hands 4.20 Treasure Champs 4.35
Timmy Time 4.40 Bluey 4.50 Andy
and the Band 5.05 Maddie’s Do You
Know? 5.20 Molly and Mack 5.35
JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Sarah & Duck
5.55 Colours 6.05 Tee and Mo 6.10
Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden...
6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime
Stories: a tale is read for younger
viewers before they go to bed

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 Danger
Mouse 7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 7.40 New. Newsround See
feature: page 16 7.45 Odd Squad; Odd
Tubes 8.00 Dennis & Gnasher 8.15
New. Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl
9.00 Ninja Express 9.25 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 9.50 Odd Squad
10.00 Odd Tubes 10.05 The Incredible
Adventures of Professor Branestawm
11.00 Blue Peter: Seal Sanctuary and
Wacky Wildlife 11.30 Danny & Mick
11.40 Ninja Express 12.05pm Dennis &
Gnasher 12.40 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 1.10 Danger Mouse 2.00
Horrible Histories: Staggering Storytellers
Special 2.30 Still So Awkward 2.55 All
at Sea 3.25 Horrible Histories 3.40 Odd
Squad 4.05 Ninja Express 4.30 Danger
Mouse 4.40 Pokémon: Diamond and
Pearl 5.00 Summer Camp Island
5.25—7.00pm FILM Ratchet & Clank
★★ Animated comedy adventure

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am The Rubbish World of Dave
Spud 6.35 Thunderbirds Are Go 7.00
Dare Master 7.05 Mr Bean 7.30 Mr
Magoo 8.00 Inspector Gadget 8.30
Ted’s Top Ten 8.55 Don’t Unleash the
Beast 9.25 Mr Magoo 9.55 Hotel
Transylvania 10.25 The Rubbish World
of Dave Spud 11.05 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
12.25pm Inspector Gadget 1.25 Spy
School 1.55 Mr Bean 2.55 Mighty Mike
3.10 Teen Titans Go! 4.25 Hotel
Transylvania 4.55 Mr Magoo 5.25
Don’t Unleash the Beast 5.50 Mini
Movies 6.20 Thunderbirds Are Go
6.45 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud
7.35 Don’t Unleash the Beast
7.55 Spy School 8.25 Mini Movies
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

Egyptian Tomb Hunting
7.05pm Tony Robinson

PBS America

Henry VIII and the King’s
Men 7.00pm The monarch
84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.10am Beautiful Serengeti 8.40
Egypt’s Lost Cities 10.40 Heliopolis:
the City of the Sun (S) 11.50 The
Secret of the Animal Mummies
1.00pm Egyptian Tomb Hunting
2.55 Egypt’s Lost Cities 4.50
Heliopolis: the City of the Sun (S)
6.00pm The Secret of the
Animal Mummies An
investigation into Ancient Egypt’s
animal sacrifice rituals.
7.05 Egyptian Tomb Hunting
1/2. Tony Robinson visits some of
Egypt’s new tomb discoveries. In
the first episode, he searches for a
pharoah’s lost pyramid in Cairo.
8.05 2/2. Tony Robinson’s
journey across Egypt concludes.
9.05 Egypt’s Lost Cities The
potential existence of buildings
beneath the sands of Egypt.
11.00 The Secret of the Animal
Mummies As 6pm.
12.10am Heliopolis: the City of the
Sun (S) 1.25 Egyptian Tomb
Hunting 3.00—4.00am The
Secret of the Animal Mummies
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

Pick

36

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156
6.00am Nothing to Declare (AD)
11.00 Stop, Search, Seize (AD)
12 noon Air Ambulance ER
1.00pm Police Force: Australia
2.00 Highway Cops (AD) 3.00
Police Ten 7 4.00 Motorbike Cops
5.00 Stop, Search, Seize (AD)
6.00pm Road Wars: double bill
8.00 The Force: Manchester 9.00
Caught on Dashcam (AD) 10.00
Killer Neighbours 11.00 Ross
Kemp: Extreme World (AD)
12 midnight Night Cops 1.00am Killer
in My Village 2.00 Nothing to Declare
2.30 Border Security: Australia’s
Front Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare
4.00—6.00am Police Force: Australia

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

CBS Justice

41

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
8.30am The Key of David 9.00
Matlock 12 noon JAG 2.00pm CSI:
Miami 7.00 JAG 9.00 NCIS: five
episodes. A marine is shot dead in
Afghanistan 10.00 A doctor dies
on board the USS Borealis 10.55
A navy reservist’s husband goes
missing 11.50 Ziva and Tony travel
to Berlin 12.45am The team tracks
Bodnar’s SUV to a remote house
68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
9.00am JAG: five episodes
2.00pm Medical Detectives: four
episodes 4.00 Judge Judy
9.00 Psychic Private Eyes:
cases of mysterious deaths and
disappearances are reopened
10.00 Medium: two episodes.
A fellow psychic warns of trouble in
Joe’s future, then Allison has a
dream about a man abducting Ariel
12 midnight Medium: three episodes
3.00—6.00am Judge Judy

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

46

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD) 1.00pm
How Did They Build That? (HD)
3.00 Inside the Factory (HD) 4.00
Private Lives of the Windsors (HD)
6.00pm Private Lives of the
Windsors 3/3 Series 2. Elizabeth,
the Queen Mother. (HD)
7.00 Henry VIII and the King’s
Men 1/4. Tracy Borman looks at
Henry VIII through the eyes of the
men who exploited his vulnerability.
8.00 2/4. How Henry VIII
entrusted a huge amount of
power to the men around him. (HD)
9.00 3/4. How Henry VIII’s
courtiers shaped the final part of his
reign. With brutal struggles breaking
out, they had to tread carefully as
the king had become a tyrant. (HD)
10.00 An American Aristocrat’s
Guide to Great Estates 9/10
Julie Montagu’s own great estate
in Dorset, Mapperton. (HD)
11.00 8/10. Julie Montagu travels
to Inveraray Castle. (HD)
12 midnight—6.00am An
American Aristocrat’s Guide to
Great Estates: six editions (HD)

HGTV

44

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286
7.00am Honey I Bought the House
8.00 The Great Interior Design
Challenge 9.00 Escape to the Country
10.00 My Mortgage Free Home 11.00
DIY SOS (AD) 1.00pm Fixer Upper
3.00 Sarah Beeny’s Renovate Don’t
Relocate 5.00 A Place in the Sun: triple
bill. A couple from Kent search for a
property in the Caribbean 6.00
A couple from Worcestershire hope to
find a holiday home in Portugal 7.00
A Hampshire couple want to buy a
holiday home in Cape Verde 8.00 Escape
to the Country 10.00 DIY SOS (AD)
12 midnight Christina on the Coast:
two episodes 1.00am 100 Day Dream
Home 2.00 Honey I Bought the
House 3.00—4.00am Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

Great TV

50

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Perception 11.00 Body of
Proof 4.00pm Castle: five episodes.
A safety inspector survives being
poisoned twice 5.00 An actor is
mysteriously killed 6.00 An escaped
psychiatric patient drops dead
7.00 Beckett and Castle are ready
to face LokSat 8.00 A murdered
woman is found covered in petals
9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
3.45—6.00am Hart to Hart

1.35 JAG 3.30—6.00am Matlock

CBS Drama

Smithsonian

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am Westminster Hall 11.00 PMQs
11.35 Scottish FMQs 12.35pm Welsh
FMQs 1.35 NI Assembly Questions 2.20
House of Commons 3.05 Scottish
Parliament 4.05 Senedd Cymru 5.05
NI Assembly 6.00 Select Committees
12 midnight PMQs 12.35am Scottish
FMQs 1.35 Welsh FMQs 2.35 NI Assembly
Questions 3.20 as 2.20pm 4.05 as
3.05pm 5.05—6.00am as 5.05pm

Limitless 9.00pm Eddie
Morra is a changed man

Game of Thrones 9.00pm

Cersei has a plan in mind

Sky Showcase

Sky Atlantic

Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am Battle of the Alphas (S)
(AD) (HD) 8.00 The Simpsons (S)
9.30 New. Soccer AM 11.00 LIVE
Women’s Super League Football:
West Ham United play host to
Manchester City at Chigwell in
London (kick-off 11.30) 2.00pm
Football’s Funniest Moments (S) (AD)
3.00 New. Soccer Saturday
5.00 Curse of the Ancients (HD)
6.00pm Caesar’s Doomsday
War 1/2. How Julius Caesar rose
to power and the battle that took
him to the brink of defeat. (HD)
7.00 Impossible Animals 1/3
The challenges posed by the
habitat of the desert. (S) (AD)
8.00 Micro Monsters with
David Attenborough 3/6
Courtship in the bug world. (S)
8.30 4/6. Exploring the mating
habits of various bugs. (S)
9.00 Limitless ★★★★
Sci-fi thriller starring Bradley
Cooper. One of life’s losers is
transformed into a high-achieving
dynamo thanks to a new drug. (S) (W)
11.00 Peacemaker 2/8. After
Peacemaker’s hazardous escape,
tension and mistrust build. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Resident Alien (S) (HD)
1.00am Caught on Dashcam (S) (AD)
2.00 The Force: North East 3.00—
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

q

Challenge

48

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 9.00 Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 11.30 Family Fortunes
1.30pm All Star Family Fortunes
3.00 Strike It Lucky 4.00 The
Cube: Claire is desperate to win
£250,000 so she can afford to buy
a motorhome for a trip around
Europe, while Kevin has his sights
set on a new kitchen. Phillip
Schofield discovers if either of
them are able to beat the pesky
box 5.00 The Chase 9.00 The
Chase Celebrity Special: Boyzone’s
Shane Lynch, Olympic athlete Colin
Jackson, Emmerdale actress Fiona
Wade and comedian Stephen K
Amos combine their talents in a
bid to win big money for charity
10.00 The Chase 11.00 Bullseye
4.00—6.00am The Chase

Forces TV

96

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Fish Town (S) 10.00 Six
Feet Under: five episodes (S)
3.35pm Raised by Wolves 1/10
Series 1. Sci-fi drama starring
Amanda Collin. Androids are
tasked with raising human
children on a mysterious planet.
4.40 2/10. Mother receives
guests with sinister plans, and
questions arise surrounding the
inhabitants of Kepler-22b.
5.40 3/10. After the Mithraic kids
fall ill, Campion believes Mother is
poisoning them and plans an escape.
6.45 4/10. A discovery ignites a
conflict between Marcus and the
Mithraic leader Ambrose.
7.50 5/10. The Mithraic move
forward with Marcus’s plan, while
back at the settlement, Mother taps
into her memory archive. (S) (AD)
9.00 Game of Thrones 1/7
Series 7. Jon organises the defence
of the North, Cersei tries to even the
odds and Daenerys comes home.
10.05 2/7. Daenerys receives an
unexpected visitor and Tyrion
plans the conquest of Westeros.
11.10 3/7. Daenerys holds court,
Cersei returns a gift, and Jaime
learns from his mistakes. (S) (AD)
12.15am Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
2.25 Succession (S) (AD) 3.30 In
Treatment 4.00—6.00am Richard
E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (S) (AD)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

Sky Witness
Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (S) (HD) 7.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (HD) 8.00 Border
Patrol (S) (HD) 11.00 UK Border
Force (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (HD) 2.00pm
Nothing to Declare (S) 7.00 Blue
Bloods: double bill. A major family
secret is unearthed by the Reagans,
then Frank faces a battle with the
city government over police
brutality protests (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
9-1-1 (HD) 10.00 The Equalizer (S)
(HD) 11.00 The Rookie (HD)

12 midnight Bull: Jason helps a woman
go against legal advice (S) (HD) 1.00am
Station 19 (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Blue
Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—6.00am
Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Syfy

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30 The
Man from Atlantis 10.20 Doctor
Who 12 noon Spenser: for Hire
2.00pm Trouble in Mind 2.30
Watching 5.30 Forces News 6.00
CHiPs: double bill 8.05 Spenser:
for Hire: double bill. Spenser breaks
up a domestic dispute and gets
charged with assault, then Spenser
takes Susan to Plymouth for
Thanksgiving 10.15 UFO: double
bill. Straker arrives at Shado HQ to
find a traitor has infiltrated the
facility, then two crew members of
an interceptor try to kill their
colleagues in a crazed frenzy

Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Stargate SG-1 11.00 Fact
or Faked: Paranormal Files 12 noon
Star Trek: Voyager 5.00pm FILM
The Final Level: Escaping Rancala ★
Fantasy adventure starring Emily
Sweet and Jessica Chancellor 7.00
FILM Megalodon Rising ★ Action
movie starring Wynter Eddins and
Tom Sizemore 9.00 Intergalactic:
after the robbery, the authorities
are closing in on the gang 10.00
Fortitude: double bill. Morton
uncovers new information about
the death of Billy Pettigrew, then
panic sweeps through Fortitude as
news spreads of the second murder

12.20am Doctor Who 2.00 Midnight
Caller 4.00—6.00am The Lost Evidence

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

12 midnight—6.00am The Librarians

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

Harlan Coben’s The Five
9.00pm Danny makes a move

Sky Max

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am Dragons: Rescue Riders
(HD) 9.05 Celebrity Four Weddings
(S) (AD) 10.00 Quantum Leap (S) (HD)
8.00pm Magnum P.I: Hawaii
Supreme Court nominee Judge
Rachel Park is blackmailed (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Peacemaker: after
Peacemaker’s hazardous escape,
tensions build (S) (HD) 10.00 Resident
Alien: Harry travels to New York
looking for one of his people (S) (HD)
11.00 SEAL Team: Jason is forced
to seeks refuge with his father after
his identity is compromised (S) (HD)
12 midnight NCIS: New Orleans (S)
(HD) 1.00am Frayed (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 A League of Their Own: double
bill (S) (AD) (HD) 3.50 Celebrity Four
Weddings (S) (AD) 4.45—6.00am
Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (S) (HD)

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Road Wars (S) 7.00 Highway
Patrol (S) (HD) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law &
Disorder (S) (AD) 1.00pm Road Wars (S)
2.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 World’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
4.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
6.00 Killer in My Village (S) (HD) 7.00
Murdered at First Sight: a family man killed
in an unprovoked attack by two men (HD)
8.00 World’s Most Evil Killers: a profile of
the Truck Stop Killer, Robert Ben Rhoades
(S) (HD) 9.00 Deep Water: the Real Story:
violent crimes against homosexuals in
Sydney in the 1980s and 90s (S) 10.45
Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 1.30am
Extreme Prison Breaks (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
4.00 Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S)
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Gold
Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.00am Ever Decreasing Circles
7.45 Citizen Khan (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Desmond’s 9.35 Only Fools
and Horses: ten episodes (S) (AD)
6.20pm Only Fools and Horses
Rodney aspires to be a pop star,
but Del manages to ruin his chances.
Guest-starring DJ Mike Read.
7.00 The Trotters dog-sit while
Boycie and Marlene go on holiday,
little suspecting what lies ahead.
7.40 An old watch promises to
hold the key to the Trotters’
fortunes at last, but there’s a
nasty shock in store. (S) (AD)
9.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
Agnes and the family are joined
by Caitlyn Jenner and John
Barrowman, who brings along his
larger-than-life parents. There is
also music from the Script. (S) (HD)
10.00 The Royle Family Jim
and Nana fight over who is going
to use the toilet first. (S) (AD)
10.40 It’s baby David’s christening
and to mark this occasion his father
has grown a goatee beard. (S) (AD)
11.20 Live at the Apollo
Tonight’s host Jason Manford
introduces Michael McIntyre. (S) (HD)
12.20am Citizen Khan: double bill
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.40 All Round to Mrs
Brown’s (S) (HD) 2.45—4.00am
The Royle Family: double bill (S) (AD)
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am The Office US (S) (HD) 9.00
Curb Your Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 11.55
Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00pm The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 4.30
Modern Family (S) (HD) 7.00 The Office
US: four episodes. Michael takes the staff
on a cruise 7.30 Michael injures his foot
8.00 Jim regrets telling Michael about
his feelings for Pam 8.30 Michael
reminisces (S) (HD) 9.00 Code 404: triple
bill. It has been three weeks since Carver
and Major took down the Juggler, but
personal problems still hinder the pair
9.30 The re-emergence of a case from
his past worries Major 10.00 Major and
Carver investigate an underground
MMA fight ring (S) (AD) (HD) 10.30 The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
(HD) 11.30 Insecure (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—
5.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
FILM The Emoji Movie ★★ Animated
comedy featuring the voices of TJ
Miller, James Corden and Anna Faris
(S) (HD) 11.40 Friends (S) (AD) (HD)
5.35pm FILM Smurfs: the Lost
Village ★★★ Animated adventure
with the voice of Demi Lovato (S) (HD)
7.15 FILM Happy Gilmore ★★ Sports
comedy featuring Adam Sandler (S)
9.00 FILM Along Came Polly ★★
Romantic comedy starring Ben Stiller
and Jennifer Aniston (S) (HD) 10.50
Jason Manford Live (S) (HD) 11.50 Rob
Delaney Live: Jackie (S) (HD) 12.50am
Nigel Ng’s East Mode 1.20 The Ricky
Gervais Show (S) (HD) 2.50 South Park (S)
(HD) 4.10—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo 10.00pm Lisbeth

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
10.00 Hudson & Rex (AD) (HD)
12 noon The Coroner (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Death in Paradise (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Inspector George Gently
3/4 Series 2. When a woman is
raped and murdered, Gently and
Bacchus are thrown into a world of
racial intolerance, sexual jealousy
and turf warfare. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Death in Paradise 6/8
Series 8. After there’s another
killing connected to the festival
queen case, the team hop over
to nearby Rosalie Island to follow
up a new lead. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 7/8. DJ Dezzie Dixon is shot
dead during his reggae show on
Radio Saint Marie while his fellow
broadcasters, daughter Faith and
old friend Bunny, take a break at the
food truck over the road. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo ★★★★
Crime thriller starring Daniel
Craig and Rooney Mara. A
journalist teams up with a computer
hacker in the search for a missing
young woman. But as they work
on the 40-year-old case, secrets
erupt from the past. (W) (HD)
1.15am Death in Paradise (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.25—4.00am Inspector
George Gently (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

q

Discovery

The Witness 9.00pm The

murder of Kitty Genovese

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Discovering: Richard
Attenborough 7.00 Discovering:
John Hurt (S) 8.00 The Directors
(S) 10.00 Escobar by Escobar
12 noon King Otto (S) 1.30pm At
the Heart of Gold: inside the USA
Gymnastics Scandal 3.15 FILM
The September Issue ★★★★ A
look behind the scenes as the staff
of American Vogue prepare for the
publication of the largest issue in
the magazine’s history (S) (W)
5.00 How to Survive a Pandemic
7.15pm Never Surrender: a
Galaxy Quest Documentary First
shown as the cult classic reached
its 20th anniversary, cast and crew
come together to celebrate, recall
pivotal moments and discuss the
social effects of the sci-fi comedy. (S)
9.00 The Witness In 1964, The
New York Times printed an article
stating that Kitty Genovese was
murdered while 38 witnesses did
nothing. Fifty years later, her
brother reinvestigates. (S) (AD)
10.50 Foreman Exploring
the career of George Foreman,
the 1970s heavyweight boxing
champion who reclaimed the
title as a 45-year-old in 1994. (S)
12.30am The Swamp (S) (AD)
2.30 Wirecard: a Billion Euro Lie
(S) (AD) 4.30 Premier League
Legends: Gary Neville (S) (AD)
5.00—6.00am The Directors (S)

Nat Geographic

Micro Monsters with David
Attenborough 8.00pm

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am Battle of the Alphas (S)
(AD) 8.00 Orangutan Jungle
School (S) (HD) 1.00pm Alien Abyss
(S) (HD) 2.00 David Attenborough’s
Conquest of the Skies (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Hope for Wildlife (S) (HD)
6.00pm Hope for Wildlife
Following the work of Hope
Swinimer’s rescue centre. (S) (HD)
7.00 Impossible Animals
The challenges posed by living in
the desert where temperatures
fluctuate from blistering midday
heat to freezing nights. (S) (AD)
8.00 Micro Monsters with
David Attenborough Courtship in
the bug world, featuring scorpions
that shake their behinds. (S)
8.30 The mating habits of bugs,
including the male orb spider. (S)
9.00 Deadly Hunters Creatures
that lead the way in the battle of
predator versus prey, featuring
the great white shark. (S) (AD)
10.00 Wild Kingdoms Animals
that survive the arid and
unforgiving deserts. (S) (AD)
11.00 Alien Abyss The weird and
wonderful creatures that live in
the ocean’s darkest depths. (S)
12 midnight Impossible Animals
(S) (AD) 1.00am Coastal Africa (S)
2.00 Pridelands: Wilderness
Reborn (S) 3.00—6.00am
Undiscovered Vistas (S)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Building Off the Grid (S) (HD)
12 noon Alaska: Homestead Rescue:
six editions (S) (HD) 6.00pm Wheeler
Dealers: Dream Car: the boys race
to get a man suffering from a
degenerative condition a dream
Caterham sports car (HD) 7.00 Gold
Rush (HD) 9.00 Building Off the Grid: a
builder questions if his Greek cottage
will ever become a reality in Tennessee
(HD) 10.00 New. Motor MythBusters:
inspired by a mobster movie, the team
want to see if they can bombproof a
1981 Cadillac Eldorado. Later, they test
out three myths about electric cars (S)
(HD) 11.00 Expedition Bigfoot: the team
returns to the Olympic Peninsula with
a new plan to lure out a Bigfoot (HD)
12 midnight Contact Project (S) (HD)
1.00—6.00am Alien Highway (S) (HD)

8.00am India’s Toughest Jail (HD) 9.00
Guantanamo’s Secrets (HD) 10.00 New
Air Force One: Flying Fortress (HD)
11.00 Paranatural (HD) 12 noon Area 51:
I Was There (S) (HD) 1.00pm Drain the
Oceans: Deep Dive (HD) 4.00 Kingdom
of the Mummies (S) (HD) 6.00 Air
Crash Investigation: triple bill (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Airport Security: Peru and
Brazil: double bill. At Jorge Chavez
International Airport, a man conceals
cocaine in his suitcase, then police
officers in Lima race to locate a
suspect in an unusual location (S) (HD)
11.00 Science of Stupid: two episodes.
Jumping out of plane without a
parachute, then accidents involving
diving into shallow water (S) (HD)
12 midnight—5.00am Science of
Stupid: ten back-to-back editions (HD)

9.00am Emerald Islands of Malaysia
(HD) 10.00 Africa (AD) (HD) 12 noon
Wild Africa 2.00pm Hippos: Africa’s
River Giants (HD) 3.00 Pangolins: the
World’s Most Wanted Animal (HD)
4.00 Africa (AD) (HD) 6.00 Wild
Africa: double bill 8.00 Hippos: Africa’s
River Giants: David Attenborough
reveals the life of the hippopotamus as
never seen before (HD) 9.00 Pangolins:
the World’s Most Wanted Animal:
examining attempts to save the most
illegally trafficked animals in the world
(HD) 10.00 Africa: double bill (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Wild Africa 2.00am
Hippos: Africa’s River Giants (HD) 3.00
Pangolins: the World’s Most Wanted
Animal (HD) 3.50 Bahama Blue (HD)
4.40 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD)
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Saturday Television

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (HD)
7.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 10.00 A
League of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
4.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 5.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (HD)
6.00pm Strike Back: Retribution
3/10 Series 6. Mac and Wyatt go
under cover to infiltrate a
dangerous group. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Agatha Raisin 5/6 Series 2
Agatha’s friend Sarah is accused
of murder when the village’s
handsome and popular new
curate is found dead. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 6/6. Agatha fights to clear
Sarah’s name, but her love life is
about to get in the way of her
investigation. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Harlan Coben’s The Five
7/10. Julie and Alan’s relationship
is put to the test after they are
burgled, while Danny is forced to
make a difficult decision. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 8/10. Pru finally realises
it’s time to sort out her life before
it’s too late. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Peacemaker 2/8. After
Peacemaker’s hazardous escape,
tension and mistrust build. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Resident Alien (S) (HD)
1.00am Caught on Dashcam (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00 The Force: North East (HD)
3.00 Road Wars (S) 4.00—6.00am
Sun, Sea and A&E: double bill (S)

All Round to Mrs Brown’s
9.00pm Caitlyn drops by

SATURDAY 2 APRIL

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am How the Universe Works (S)
9.00 Combat Dealers (S) (AD) 12 noon
Massive Engineering Mistakes (S) 3.00pm
Combat Dealers: Reloaded (S) 4.00
Combat Dealers (S) 6.00 Mysteries at
the Museum: double bill. Don Wildman
investigates a brassiere that gave
schemers a boost, then examines a reel
of film that depicts a high-flying stunt
8.00 Loch Ness Monster: New Evidence:
revealing the secrets of the Loch Ness
monster (S) 10.00 Shark Rampage
1916: the true story that inspired Jaws
12 midnight Blowing Up History:
Seven Wonders 2.00am Combat
Dealers: Reloaded (S) 3.00 Massive
Engineering Mistakes (S) 4.00 Combat
Dealers (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am
Massive Engineering Mistakes (S)

6.00am The Strongest Man in History
(HD) 7.00 The Lost Pyramid (HD) 9.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 11.00 The Proof Is out
There (HD) 1.00pm Swamp People (HD)
4.00 Counting Cars (HD) 5.00 Curse
of the Ancients (HD) 6.00 Caesar’s
Doomsday War (HD) 7.00 Britain’s Most
Historic Towns: double bill. Alice Roberts
explores the history of Chester, then tells
the story of Viking England by studying
the history of York (HD) 9.00 The Plague:
the worst pandemic in European history
(HD) 11.00 The Proof Is out There (HD)
12 midnight Paranormal: Caught on
Camera (HD) 1.00am Forged in Fire
(HD) 2.00 Forged in Fire Tournament
of Champions (HD) 4.00 Forged in Fire
(HD) 5.00—6.00am Forged in Fire
Tournament of Champions (HD)

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Dogs: the Untold Story (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S)
(AD) (HD) 11.00 Tanked (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Edge of Alaska (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Alaska
Monsters (S) (HD) 3.00 Restoration Wild
(HD) 4.00 Saved by the Barn (S) (HD)
5.00 Extinct or Alive: the Lost Shark (S)
(AD) (HD) 6.00 The Crocodile Hunter:
Best of Steve Irwin (S) (HD) 7.00 Coyote
Peterson: Brave the Wild (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Edge of Alaska: McCarthy comes
under attack from awakening bears (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Alaska Monsters (S)
(HD) 10.00 Crime Scene Wild 11.00
In Search of Monsters (S) (HD)
12 midnight I Was Prey (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00am Alaska Monsters (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00am Crime Scene Wild

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

47

SATURDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW
Film4

Sky Premiere
14

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am Akeelah and the Bee
★★★ Simplistic but sincere
wish-fulfilment drama about a
precocious African-American girl
with a gift for words. Laurence Fishburne,

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
7.00am North Hollywood ★★★
Appealing comedy drama. Ryder
McLaughlin (2021, 15) 8.40 As 6.25pm
10.15 As 10.25pm 12.20pm Fast
& Furious 9 As 8pm 2.45
Blacklight ★★ Action thriller. Liam
Neeson (2022) 4.35 Our Ladies ★★★
Brassy comedy drama. Marli Siu (2019, 15)

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.35am Focus ★★ Romantic caper.
(2015, 15) 8.25 No Sudden Move
★★★ Sparkling crime drama. (2021)
10.25 Nobody ★★★★ Slick thriller.
Bob Odenkirk (2021, 15) 12.05pm The
Godfather 5 Crime drama.
Marlon Brando (1972, 15) 3.05 Collateral
★★★★ Action thriller. Tom Cruise (2004, 15)

6.25pm i Spirit Untamed ★★
Sweet but rather bland animated
adventure about a girl who bonds
with a horse. Isabela Merced (2021, U)
8.00 Fast & Furious 9 ★★★
Vin Diesel and Michelle
Rodriguez get the hard-driving
gang back together. Tyrese Gibson (2021, 12)
10.25 The Many Saints of
Newark 5 Satisfying
prequel to TV’s The Sopranos.
Review p38. Alessandro Nivola (2020, 15)

5.10pm Heat ★★★★
Atmospheric and often nailbiting crime thriller from Michael
Mann. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro (1995, 15)
8.00 The Godfather Part II
5 Breathtaking crime
drama sequel starring Al Pacino.

12.30am Blacklight As 2.45pm
2.20 Don’t Breathe 2 ★★ Horror.
Stephen Lang (2021, 18) 4.00 i Barbarians
★★ Home-invasion thriller. Iwan Rheon
(2021, 15) 5.40 Our Ladies As 4.35pm

2.10am American Gangster
★★★★ Cop Russell Crowe takes on
Harlem drugs lord Denzel
Washington in Ridley Scott’s classy,
true-life crime saga. Ruby Dee (2007, 18)
5.00 Sky Cinema Preview

Television Saturday

Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer (2006, PG) (S)

1.15pm Shrek Forever After ★★★
In this cleverly conceived final
episode in the fantasy series, ogre
Shrek falls foul of scheming
Rumpelstiltskin. Mike Myers (2010, U) (S) (AD)
3.05 Transformers: Age of
Extinction ★★★ Mark Wahlberg
teams up with Optimus Prime to
save the world in this technically
dazzling sci-fi sequel. (2014, 12) (S) (AD)

6.20pm Ghostbusters ★★
This gender-reversed comedy
reboot has a strong cast, lots of
effects and buckets of slime.

A seemingly idyllic weekend away turns sinister when Allison
Williams takes boyfriend Daniel Kaluuya home to meet her parents

Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig (2016, 12) (S) (AD)

9.00 The Rhythm Section
★★★ Slick thriller in which a
woman sets out to avenge her
family after they’re killed in a
plane crash. Blake Lively (2019, 15) (S)
11.15 Get Out 5 A young
man uncovers dark secrets when
he visits his girlfriend’s parents
in this remarkable horror
mystery with a wicked satirical
edge. Daniel Kaluuya (2017, 15) (S) (AD)
1.20—3.45am Blue Velvet
5 Unforgettable mystery in
which a naive man encounters
depravity beneath the bland
suburban surface of a small town.
Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini (1986, 18) (S)

+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am Shoot to Kill ★★★ Pacey
B-movie film noir brimming with
double- and triple-crosses. Russell Wade,
Susan Walters (1947) (S) 7.15 Who Goes
Next? ★★★ Cheaply made but
tense PoW drama. Jack Hawkins (1938) (S)
9.00 Saturday Morning Pictures
A selection of vintage cartoons and
serials, plus 1966 children’s adventure
Operation Third Form. 12 noon
Riders to the Stars ★ Sci-fi. William
Lundigan, Herbert Marshall (1954, U) 1.40pm
Sleeping Car to Trieste ★★
Plodding spy drama, a remake of
1932’s Rome Express. Jean Kent, Albert
Lieven, Derrick de Marney (1948, PG) (S) 3.30 The
Shillingbury Blowers: TV comedy (S)
5.20pm North West Frontier
★★★ Kenneth More gives an
assured performance as the soldier
entrusted with the safety of a Hindu
prince in this cracking adventure.
Review p27. Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom (1959, U)
8.00 Maigret 1960s TV drama
series starring Rupert Davies. (S)
9.05 Genevieve ★★★★ Two
couples encounter a series of
calamities during a vintage car rally
in this enjoyable comedy. Kenneth More,
John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan (1953, U) (S)

10.45 The Bed Sitting Room
★★★ Bonkers anti-war satire
based on Spike Milligan’s hit play,
featuring a cast of British greats as
the survivors of nuclear holocaust.
Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham (1969, PG)

12.30am Equus ★★★ Overly
reverent and theatrical adaptation of
the powerful play about a troubled
young man who blinds six horses.
Richard Burton, Peter Firth (1977, 15) (S) 3.15
Stardust ★★★ Dated but enjoyable
sequel to music drama That’ll Be the
Day. David Essex, Adam Faith (1974, 15) (S)
5.30—6.00am Honey West (S)

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

48

Get Out 5 11.15pm Film4

Great Movies

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am Secret Liaison ★★
Mystery thriller. Meredith Monroe (2013)
10.50 The Wrong Nanny ★★
Thriller. Lindsay Hartley (2017) 12.40pm
Roxanne ★★★★ Charming
romantic comedy. Steve Martin (1987, PG)
2.50 Marie Antoinette ★★★
Biographical historical drama. Kirsten
Dunst, Jason Schwartzman (2005, 12) 5.10
Daddy Day Camp ★ Sequel to
box-office comedy hit Daddy Day
Care. Cuba Gooding Jr, Lochlyn Munro (2007, PG)
6.55pm Bewitched ★★ Nicole
Kidman gives a self-conscious
performance in Nora Ephron’s
tepid rehash of the 1960s sitcom
about a witch in suburbia. (2005, PG)
9.00 Signs ★★★ Mel Gibson
stars as a farmer who discovers
mysterious crop circles on his land
in this atmospheric sci-fi thriller
from the director of The Sixth
Sense. Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones (2002, 12)
11.10 Awake ★★ Lethargic
psychological thriller starring
Hayden Christensen as a man who
regains consciousness during heart
surgery. Jessica Alba, Lena Olin (2007, 15)
12.55am 21 Grams ★★★★
Astonishing drama from Mexican
director Alejandro González Iñárritu
that examines life, love, loss and the
human soul. Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi
Watts (2003, 15) 3.30—5.50am Evening
★★ Sentimental romantic drama.
Claire Danes, Toni Collette (2007, 12)

+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Stranger on Horseback
★★★ Western. Joel McCrea (1955, PG) 7.20
Two Rode Together ★★★ Western.
James Stewart (1961, PG) 9.30 Three Hours
to Kill ★★ Western. Dana Andrews (1954)
11.10 Battle of Rogue River ★★★
Entertaining western. George Montgomery
(1954, U) 12.40pm The Pathfinder
★★ Period adventure. George Montgomery
(1952, U) 2.20 Apache Ambush ★★★
Western. Bill Williams, Richard Jaeckel (1955, PG)
3.45 Conquest of Cochise ★★★
Diverting western. John Hodiak (1953, U)
5.10 The Lone Gun ★★ Solid
western. George Montgomery (1954)
6.50pm 5 Card Stud ★★★
Western take on Agatha Christie’s
Ten Little Indians. Dean Martin (1968, 12)
9.00 Cross the Line ★★ Dumb
slice of action. Luke Goss (2015, 15)
10.50 Drive ★★★★ Intense and
stylish crime drama. Ryan Gosling (2011, 18)
12.50am Maximum Security ★★
Thriller. Dolph Lundgren (2017) 2.35—
4.00am Hijack ★★ Thriller. (1999)
+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am Mighty Joe Young ★★★
Fantasy adventure. Terry Moore, Robert
Armstrong (1949, U) 7.50 Trouble in the
Sky ★★★★ Drama. Michael Craig, Peter
Cushing (1960) 9.40 Underwater! ★★★
Adventure. Jane Russell, Richard Egan (1955, U)
11.40 They Live by Night ★★★★
Romantic film noir. Farley Granger, Cathy
O’Donnell (1948) 1.35pm Mr Blandings
Builds His Dream House ★★★★
Comedy. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy (1948, U) 3.30
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
★★★★ Biographical romantic
drama. Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens (1958, PG)
6.50pm The Return of the
Soldier ★★★ A strong cast and
lovely production values anchor
this otherwise hackneyed costume
drama. Review p27. Alan Bates (1982, PG)
9.00 Priest of Love ★★ The cast
is impressive but this flimsy biopic
sheds little light on DH Lawrence.
Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner (1981, 15)

11.05 The Stud ★★ Camp erotic
melodrama set in 1970s London’s,
where philandering Joan Collins
uses her wealth to snare young
men. Oliver Tobias, Emma Jacobs (1978, 18)
1.10am Roxanne ★★★★ Very
funny romantic comedy. Steve Martin,
Daryl Hannah (1987, PG) 3.15 Strongroom ★
Crime drama. Derren Nesbitt (1961, PG)
4.35—6.00am Candlelight in
Algeria ★★ Second World War spy
drama. James Mason, Carla Lehmann (1943, U)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am 2021: War of the Worlds
★ Sci-fi thriller. Emily Killian, Anthony Jensen,
Tom Sizemore (2021) 10.00 The Prisoner:
five episodes 3.00pm Descent ★★
Inept sci-fi disaster movie. Luke Perry,
Michael Dorn (2005) 4.50 Apocalypse
Pompeii ★★ A special forces
commando and his family get caught
up in a volcanic eruption. (2014, 15)
6.40pm Independence
Day-saster ★★ Cut-price sci-fi
yarn. Ryan Merriman, Tom Everett Scott (2013)
8.30 Tales from the Darkside
TV horror anthology series.
9.00 i The Butterfly Room
★★ Eerie chiller about an elderly
woman guarding a creepy secret in
her apartment. Barbara Steele (2012, 15)
10.45 Feral ★★ Students
confront a bloodthirsty foe in this
gory, predictable horror. (2017)
12.35am WAZ ★★ Violent thriller
starring Stellan Skarsgard as a
detective on the trail of a serial killer.
Melissa George (2006, 18) 2.35—4.30am
Creatures the World Forgot ★★
Adventure. Julie Ege (1971, 18)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

Sky Gangsters

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton (1974, 15)

11.30 GoodFellas 5
Martin Scorsese’s brilliant
depiction of the Mafia lifestyle.
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci (1990, 18)

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.10am The Boxtrolls ★★★
Animated adventure. (2014, PG) 8.00
Minari ★★★★ Drama. (2020, 12) 10.00
Paddington 2 5 Comedy.
(2017, PG) 12 noon District 9 ★★★★
Sci-fi drama. (2009, 15) 2.00pm Ted
★★★★ Comedy. (2012, 15) 4.00
Elysium ★★★ Sci-fi drama. (2013, 15)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
7.35am Ben-Hur 5 Period
epic. Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd (1959, PG)
11.20 The Big Heat ★★★★ Film
noir. Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame (1953, 15)
1.05pm 2001: a Space Odyssey
5 Sci-fi epic. Keir Dullea (1968, U)
3.45 Shirley Valentine ★★★★
Comedy. Pauline Collins, Tom Conti (1989, 15)

6.00pm Mass ★★★ Searing
chamber piece about four
parents brought together by a
school shooting. Jason Isaacs (2021, 12)
8.00 Mad Max: Fury Road
★★★★ Exhilarating postapocalypse action starring Tom
Hardy and Charlize Theron. (2015, 15)
10.00 The Colour Room ★★★
Inspirational biopic of influential
British ceramics artist Clarice
Cliff. Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode (2021, PG)

5.45pm The Bodyguard ★★★
Romantic thriller in which Kevin
Costner is hired to protect pop
star Whitney Houston. (1992, 15)
8.00 First Knight ★★★
Arthurian legend gets a makeover
in this surprisingly enjoyable
adventure. Sean Connery, Richard Gere (1995, PG)
10.20 Lawrence of Arabia
5 David Lean’s magisterial
portrayal of enigmatic hero
TE Lawrence. Peter O’Toole (1962, PG)

11.55pm Ted 2 ★★★ Seth
MacFarlane’s gag-heavy comedy
for fans of naughty fun. Mark Wahlberg,
Seth MacFarlane (2015, 15) 1.50am Minari
As 8am 3.55 The Boxtrolls As
6.10am 5.35 Sky Cinema Preview

1.55am Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
★★★★ A cocky but charming
student concocts an elaborate
scheme to skip school. Matthew
Broderick, Alan Ruck (1986, 15) 3.50 2001:
a Space Odyssey As 1.05pm

Sky Action

Sky Comedy

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
7.20am Suicide Squad ★★
Action adventure. Will Smith (2016, 15)
9.40 Daredevil ★★ Fantasy. Ben
Affleck (2003, 15) 11.40 As 10pm 1.40pm
Fury ★★★★ Immersive Second
World War drama. Brad Pitt (2014, 15)
4.00 Battle Los Angeles ★★★
Alien-invasion drama. Aaron Eckhart (2011, 12)

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
6.00am The Last Shift ★★★
Comedy drama. (2020, 15) 7.45
Irresistible ★★★ Comedy drama.
(2020, 15) 9.40 Dumb and Dumber
To ★ Comedy. (2014, 15) 11.40 Dinner
for Schmucks ★ Comedy. (2010, 12)
1.50pm The King of Staten Island
★★★★ Comedy drama. (2020, 15)

6.10pm Monster Hunter ★★
Milla Jovovich and Tony Jaa team
up against primeval creatures in
an alien desert wasteland. (2020, 12)
8.00 Ghost Rider ★★ Nicolas
Cage gives an idiosyncratic
performance as a skeletal biker
working for Satan. Eva Mendes (2007, 15)
10.00 Baby Driver ★★
Wheel-spinning thriller that feels
a little too much like style over
substance. Ansel Elgort, Lily James (2017, 15)

4.10pm Delivery Man ★★
A sperm donor discovers he has
533 children. Vince Vaughn (2013, 12)
6.00 You Don’t Mess with the
Zohan ★★ Heavy-handed
comedy. Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider (2008, 12)
8.00 The Joneses ★★★ Witty
satire about a seemingly perfect
family. David Duchovny, Demi Moore (2009, 15)
9.45 Talladega Nights: the
Ballad of Ricky Bobby ★★
Listless comedy. Will Ferrell (2006, 15)

12 midnight Fury As 1.40pm
2.20am Elektra ★★ Martial arts
action fantasy. Jennifer Garner (2005, 12)
4.00 Wonder Woman ★★
Animated action fantasy. (2009, 12)
5.30 Sky Cinema Preview

11.50pm Jackass 3 ★★★
Par-for-the-course third spin-off
from the cult TV series. Johnny Knoxville
(2010, 18) 1.30am Dumb and Dumber
To As 9.40am 3.20 The Last
Shift As 6am 4.55 As 7.45am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SATURDAY 2 APRIL
Sky Wizarding
Sky
Family World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
7.00am Curious George ★★★
(2006, U) 8.30 As 4.25pm 10.00
Shaun the Sheep Movie ★★★★
(2015, U) 11.30 Gulliver Returns ★★
Adventure. (2021, U) 1.05pm Scoob!
★★ (2020, PG) 2.50 Two by Two:
Overboard! ★★ Comedy. (2020, U)
4.25 Igor ★★★ Comedy. (2008, PG)

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.00am Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets ★★★★
Fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe (2002, PG) 8.45
The Prisoner of Azkaban ★★★★
Adventure. (2004, PG) 11.15 The Goblet
of Fire ★★★★ Fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe
(2005, 12) 2.00pm The Order of the
Phoenix ★★★★ Fantasy. (2007, 12)

6.00pm Pil’s Adventures ★★
An orphan poses as a princess
and is roped into a quest. (2021)
7.40 The Red Turtle 5
Meditative, wordless fantasy
about a shipwrecked sailor. (2016, PG)
9.05 The Prince of Egypt
★★★★ Superb dramatisation of
the story of Moses. Val Kilmer (1998, U)
10.45 Barbie & Her Sisters in
the Great Puppy Adventure
TV animated fantasy.

4.20pm The Half-Blood
Prince ★★★★ Satisfying,
brooding fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe (2009, 12)
7.00pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 ★★★ Doom-laden
build-up to the series finale. (2010, 12)
9.30 The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 The boy wizard’s
destiny is revealed. Daniel Radcliffe (2011, 12)
11.45 Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them 5
Fabulously fun adventure. (2016, 12)

12.05am The Swan Princess
★★★ Inventive musical fairy tale.
Jack Palance, John Cleese (1994, U) 1.40 As
7am 3.10 Okko’s Inn ★★★★
Beautifully drawn adventure. Madigan
Kacmar (2018, PG) 4.50 As 9.05pm

2.00am Fantastic Beasts: the
Crimes of Grindelwald ★★★★
Fantasy adventure. Eddie Redmayne
(2018, 12) 4.15 Harry Potter and
the Philosopher’s Stone ★★★★
Fantasy adventure. Daniel Radcliffe (2001, PG)

Sky Thriller

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
7.30am Don’t Tell a Soul ★★
Thriller. Jack Dylan Grazer (2020, 15) 9.05
As 6.15pm 10.50 The Italian Job
★★★ Crime thriller. Mark Wahlberg, Edward
Norton (2003, 12) 12.50pm As 8pm
2.25 Unknown ★★★ Thriller. Liam
Neeson, Diane Kruger (2011, 12) 4.25 Old ★★
Surreal horror. Gael García Bernal (2021, 15)

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.00am REAL ★★★★ Romantic
drama. (2019, 15) 7.30 Marley & Me
★★★ Comedy drama. (2008, PG) 9.40
The Water Diviner ★★★ Moving
period drama. Russell Crowe (2014, 15) 11.35
Captain Fantastic ★★★ Drama.
Viggo Mortensen (2016, 15) 1.40pm Finding
the Way Back ★★★ Drama. (2019, 15)

6.15pm The Kid Detective
★★★★ Dark and well-plotted
neo-noir. Adam Brody, Sophie Nélisse (2020, 15)
8.00 Naked Singularity ★★
Surreal, erratic crime comedy.

3.30pm The Light between
Oceans ★★★ Emotional drama.

John Boyega, Olivia Cooke, Bill Skarsgard (2021)

Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan (2012, 12)

9.35 The Equalizer 2 ★★★
Action-packed sequel starring
Denzel Washington. (2018, 15)
11.40 Muscle ★★★ Unsettling
psychological drama. Craig Fairbrass,

8.00 Foxcatcher 5
Remarkable Olympic wrestling
drama. Steve Carell, Channing Tatum (2014, 15)
10.15 The People vs Larry
Flynt ★★★★ Entertaining but
sanitised biopic. Woody Harrelson (1996, 18)

Cavan Clerkin, Lorraine Burroughs (2019, 18)

1.35am Finding Steve McQueen
★★★ Humorous indie heist caper.
Travis Fimmel, Lily Rabe (2019, 15) 3.15 Don’t
Tell a Soul As 7.30am 4.50 The
Spy ★★★ Wartime biographical
drama. Ingrid Bolso Berdal (2019, 12)

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander (2016, 12)

5.45 Mud ★★★★ Exquisitely
made rites-of-passage story.

12.35am Milk 5 Biopic of
politician Harvey Milk. Sean Penn (2008, 15)
2.55 All My Life ★ Romantic
drama. Jessica Rothe (2020, 12) 4.40
The Death and Life of John F
Donovan ★★ Drama. Kit Harington (2018, 15)

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
7.00am Gremlins As 4.35pm
9.00 Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines As 11.45pm 11.00 Blade:
Trinity As 9.45pm 1.00pm As
8pm 2.45 The Forever Purge
★★★ Futuristic horror. Ana de la Reguera
(2020, 15) 4.35 Gremlins ★★★★
Black comedy horror. Zach Galligan (1984, 12)

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Directors
7.45 Off Set 7.55 Gunmen from
Laredo ★★ 9.20 The Palomino
★★★ 10.55 Alias Jesse James
★★★ 12.50pm The Mississippi
Gambler ★★★ (1953, U) 3.00 Law of
the Panhandle ★★★ (1950) 4.15
Lightning Guns ★★ Western. (1950)

6.25pm Cloverfield ★★★
Gripping found-footage creature
feature. Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas (2008, 15)
8.00 Escape Room:
Tournament of Champions
★★★ Horror sequel. (2020, 15)
9.45 Blade: Trinity ★ Third
episode in the action fantasy
series. Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson (2004, 15)
11.45 Terminator 3: Rise of
the Machines ★★★ Sci-fi action
thriller. Arnold Schwarzenegger (2003, 12)

5.25pm Red Sundown ★★★
Terrific western starring Rory
Calhoun. Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger (1956, U)
7.10 Cattle King ★★ Robert
Taylor drifts through this routine
B-western. Joan Caulfield (1963, U)
9.00 Pacific Rim ★★★ Dumb
but fun sci-fi action adventure.

1.40am Willy’s Wonderland
★★★ Gory horror comedy. Nicolas
Cage (2021, 15) 3.20 The Final Wish
★★★ Well-crafted psychological
horror. Lin Shaye, Michael Welch (2018, 15)
5.00 Sky Cinema Preview

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi (2013, 12)

11.45 Full Metal Jacket
5 Harrowing Vietnam War
drama. Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin (1987, 18)
2.10am Curse of the Undead ★★
Confusing blend of B-western and
gothic horror. Eric Fleming, Michael Pate
(1959) 3.45 Off Set 4.00 Close Up
5.00 Hollywood’s Best Directors
+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

SPORT
Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00 Match
Pack 7.30 Preview 8.00 Inside the WSL
8.30 Saturday Social 9.30 Soccer AM

11.00 LIVE Women’s Super
League Football West Ham United
v Manchester City (kick-off 11.30).
2.00pm Soccer Saturday
5.00 LIVE Premier League
Football Man Utd v Leicester City.
8.30 Game of the Day 10.30 Highlights
3.45am Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best
Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

ICC Women’s World Cup
1.30am Sky World Cup Who will
win the final in Christchurch?

Sky Main Event
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440
6.00am Sky Sports News

7.00 LIVE Super Rugby Blues v
Moana Pasifika (kick-off 7.05).
9.00 Sports News 9.30 My Icon (AD)
9.40 LIVE Super Rugby Reds v
Brumbies in Brisbane (kick-off 9.45).
12 noon LIVE Championship
Football Blackpool v Nottingham
Forest (kick-off 12.30pm).
3.00pm Soccer Saturday
5.00 LIVE Premier League
Football Man Utd v Leicester City.
8.00 LIVE Boxing Savannah
Marshall v Femke Hermans.
11.00 LIVE MLS Columbus Crew
v Nashville SC (kick-off 11.00).
1.30—6.00am LIVE Women’s
Cricket World Cup The final from
Christchurch. Continues until 9.30am.

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 6.30
Championship Season Review (AD) 7.30
Greatest Games (AD) 8.15 Championship
Highlights 8.30 Saturday Social 9.30
Soccer AM 11.00 EFL 21 under 21

12 noon LIVE Championship
Football Blackpool v Nottingham
Forest (kick-off 12.30pm).
3.00pm Soccer Saturday 5.00
Championship Highlights 5.15 MLS
5.20 LIVE German Football
Borussia Dortmund v RB Leipzig.
7.30 Women’s Super League
Football 8.00 EFL Trophy Football
8.30 Championship Highlights
9.00 LIVE MLS Two games.
1.10am Major League Soccer 1.15
Greatest Games 2.00 Classic Play-Offs
3.00—6.00am Championship Highlights

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am PGA Tour Golf 7.00 Golf and
the Climate Crisis 7.30 European
Challenge Tour Golf 8.00 LPGA Tour
Golf 10.00 Golf and the Climate Crisis
10.30 European Challenge Tour Golf

11.00 LIVE Ladies European Tour
Golf South African Women’s Open.
3.00pm LIVE PGA Tour Golf
The Valero Texas Open, day three.
5.00 LIVE Women’s Golf Augusta
National Women’s Amateur event.
8.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
Valero Texas Open, day three.
11.00 LIVE LPGA Tour Golf The
Chevron Championship, day three.
2.00am US Open Official Films (AD)
3.00 PGA Tour Golf 4.00 PGA
Championships Official Film (AD)
5.00—6.00am Chronicles (AD)

Amazon Prime
6.00pm LIVE Tennis Coverage
of the Miami Open women’s final.

Sky World Cup
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Best of the Women’s World
T20 6.15 Best of the Women’s Cricket
World Cup 7.30 Test Highlights

8.30 LIVE Test Cricket South
Africa v Bangladesh in Durban.
10.50 LIVE IPL Cricket Mumbai
Indians v Rajasthan Royals;
2.50pm Coverage of Gujarat
Titans v Delhi Capitals in Pune.
7.00 Test Highlights 8.00 IPL
Highlights 10.00 One-Day Cricket
11.00 Women’s Cricket World Cup
1.30—6.00am LIVE Women’s
Cricket World Cup The final.
Coverage continues until 9.30am.

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD)

7.00 LIVE Super Rugby Blues v
Moana Pasifika (kick-off 7.05).
9.00 NFL Bitesize 9.30 My Icon (AD)
9.40 LIVE Super Rugby Reds v
Brumbies in Brisbane (kick-off 9.45).
11.45 NFL 1.00pm Darts 4.30
Basketball 7.00 Boxing Archive (AD)
8.00 LIVE Boxing Savannah
Marshall v Femke Hermans.
11.00 Boxing Archive (AD) 2.00am
Darts 5.30—6.00am Darts Gold (AD)

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Drone Racing 8.00 Super
League’s Supermen: with Martin Offiah
(AD) 9.00 Super League: highlights

9.30 LIVE NRL North Queensland
Cowboys v Sydney Roosters.
11.30 Super League 12 noon NBA
2.30pm Super League
5.30 LIVE NBA Philadelphia 76ers
v Charlotte Hornets (tip-off 5.30).
8.00 NBA Heatcheck 8.30 NBA
12.30am LIVE NBA Hawks v Nets.
3.00—6.00am Rugby League

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 520/HD 510 BT 429/HD 449
6.30—10.45am LIVE Australian
Netball Two Super Netball matches.
10.55—7.00pm LIVE
International One-Day Cricket
Pakistan v Australia in Lahore.
9.00—11.00 LIVE MLS Toronto FC
v New York City FC (kick-off 9.00).
4.30—6.45am LIVE Australian
Netball Collingwood v West Coast.

Eurosport 1

BT Sport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430
6.00am LIVE Australian Football
8.00 Wrestling (AD) 10.30 Scottish
Football 11.00 DIY Pundit (AD)
11.30 LIVE Premier League
Football Liverpool v Watford.
3.00pm BT Sport Score
5.00 LIVE National League
Football Boreham Wood v Woking.
7.30 LIVE Italian Football
Salernitana v Torino (kick-off 7.45).
9.45 National League Football
10.15 Champions League Magazine
11.00 Cricket 12 midnight DIY
Pundit (AD) 12.30am Sailing (AD)
1.00 LIVE Lacrosse
3.30 30 for 30: Doc and Darryl (AD)
5.00—6.00am French Football

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am LIVE International OneDay Cricket Continued coverage
of New Zealand v Netherlands.
10.15 The Cricket’s On (AD) 11.15
BT Sport Reload 12.30pm MotoGP
1.00 LIVE MotoGP In Argentina.
8.00 LIVE French Football St
Etienne v Marseille (kick-off 8.00).
10.00 Italian Football 11.00 French
Football 12 midnight Champions
League Magazine 12.30am UFC 2.00
Gearing Up (AD) 2.30 Motorcycling
5.30—6.00am BT Sport Reload (AD)

BT Sport 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am MotoGP 6.15 Premier League
Football 7.15 Premiership Rugby Union
8.15 ESPN FC 8.45 MotoGP

9.00 LIVE Australian Rules
Football Collingwood v Geelong.
12 noon Inside Serie A
12.30pm LIVE Pro League Hockey
India v England, women’s match.
2.30 LIVE Premiership Rugby
Union Northampton v Bristol.
5.15 LIVE Italian Football Lazio
v Sassuolo at the Stadio Olimpico.
7.00 International One-Day Cricket
8.00 Champions League Magazine
8.30 DIY Pundit (AD) 9.00 Wrestling
10.30 Ariel Helwani Meets... 11.00
Squash 12.30am Premiership Rugby
Union 2.00 Rugby Stories (AD) 2.30
Badminton (AD) 3.00 Fishing (AD) 4.00
The Cricket’s On (AD) 5.00—6.00am
International One-Day Cricket

BT Sport ESPN
Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 BT Sport
Reload 6.45 Around the Horn 7.15
Pardon the Interruption 7.45 Basketball

9.45 LIVE Australian Football
Coverage of two A-League games.
2.00pm Around the Horn
2.30 Pardon the Interruption
3.00 LIVE Pro League Hockey
India v England, the men’s match.
5.00 Basketball: college action
11.00 LIVE Basketball NCAA.
4.00am Snowboarding (AD) 5.00
Around the Horn 5.30—6.00am
Pardon the Interruption

Eurosport 2

Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435

Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436

6.00am Cycling 7.00 Superbikes
8.00 Formula E 9.00 Figure Skating
10.00 Cycling: Tour of Flanders
12 noon Figure Skating 1.00pm Cycling

6.00am World Superbikes 7.00 Snooker
9.00 Cycling 10.00 Olympics 11.00
World Superbikes 12 noon Snooker

2.30 LIVE Cycling The one-day
GP Miguel Induráin race in Spain.
4.30 Cycling 7.00 Ski Jumping 8.00
Cycling 10.00 Olympics 11.00 Formula E
12 midnight Cycling 2.00am Ski
Jumping 3.00 Alpine Skiing: World Cup
4.00 Olympics 5.00—6.00am Cycling

Saturday Television

Animation

Sky

1.00pm LIVE Darts WDF World
Championship. Continues 7pm.
5.05 Formula E 6.00 Darts
7.00 LIVE Darts Day one of
the WDF World Championship.
11.00 Cycling 12 midnight Skiing
1.00am Olympics 2.00 Darts 4.00
Motocross 5.00—6.00am Superbikes

49

SUNDAY Choices
PICK OF THE DAY

Peaky Blinders 9.00pm BBC1

DRAMA There will be a film; there will be a ballet; further
TV spin-offs have been mooted; and we can be quite sure
the hats, haircuts and swaggering mythology of Peaky
Blinders will be with us for years to come. But the main
saga itself? That ends tonight.
Fans eager for extra crumbs can turn to BBC3 after this
extra-length finale for a pair of documentaries, one with a
title that sums up the response of many to the cult drama
that conquered the world — Obsessed with Peaky Blinders.

HIGH HORSE

Television Sunday

The pick of today’s TV

Can Tommy Shelby
(Cillian Murphy)
make amends for
his past?

The final episode itself is cloaked in secrecy, but we
know the two sides of Tommy Shelby — angel-eyed
benefactor and gun-toting gangster — are both looking
for redemption before it’s too late. With a tumour in his
brain, the clock is ticking like that bomb in the Chinese
tea-room. “Some wounds I can try to heal,”
he assured his family last week. But we
can be sure blood will flow too, as cousin
Michael seeks his revenge.
DAVID BUTCHER
See feature: page 8

The Boat Races
1.50pm BBC1
SPORT The Boat Race was one of

the first large-scale events that the
pandemic put paid to in 2020, and
it obliged last year’s men’s and
women’s races to relocate to Ely,
where in front of almost no
spectators on the banks of the
Great Ouse, Cambridge won the
men’s race by a length to extend
their overall lead in the contest to
85 to 80.
In the women’s Boat Race, last
year’s winners Cambridge enjoy a
lead of 45 to 30. Now the two races
return to their traditional home —
the four-plus miles from Putney to
Mortlake on the river Thames, and
with some 250,000 spectators
expected, all the old atmosphere
and more is in prospect.
SIMON O’HAGAN
Sport: page 25

Stanley Tucci:
Searching for Italy
7.20pm BBC2
TRAVEL In Milan the cooking was all

about butter. In Tuscany, where the
12-year-old Stanley lived with his
family for a year, it’s all about bread.
He’s not a fan though. “It tastes like
cardboard,” he explains.
It’s delightful meeting his parents
and hearing how their year in Italy
changed everything for them but
then Stanley whizzes off for some
meat eating (vegans look away —
we’re talking very rare steak), an
“old-fashioned bar crawl” around
Florence’s buchette del vino and a
taste of cucina povera, the food that
peasant farmers would cook. So lots
of beans and, of course, more bread.
JANE RACKHAM

Dynasties II
8.00pm BBC1

m

NATURE In a beautiful film

about a cheetah family in
Zambia, one mole-rat does his best
to steal the show. The main drama
lies in watching ageing mother
cheetah Kali provide for her litter of
three by hunting wildebeest (and
there are some great hunt scenes).
But there’s light relief, too, when
the cubs come across the mole-rat
and decide to investigate, only for
the feisty little bundle of aggro to
take on the three big cats at once:
don’t mess with this guy.
Otherwise, it’s transporting to
watch lithe cheetahs loping over the
grassy plains, ranging over vast
distances in their search for a kill;
sometimes, only to lose their
hard-won meal to a bully. DB

50

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SUNDAY 3 APRIL
experts’ advice is on the limited side
— a lot of the time Clea and Joanna
(left) just throw everything into a
series of labelled plastic boxes — it
doesn’t matter. Series two
additionally looks at the smiley tidiers’
own lives, which were changed
radically by the success of series one.
Netflix also has the original
clutter-busting phenomenon that is
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, along
with the follow-up Sparking Joy
with Marie Kondo. JS

STREAMING NOW
Step back inside the vast, but not
necessarily tidy, closets of the rich
and famous with series two of
Get Organized with the Home Edit,
which has arrived on Netflix. Celebrity
home-organisers Clea Shearer and
Joanna Teplin visit clients including
Drew Barrymore, Chris Pratt and
Kevin Hart, and the point is to glimpse
the circumstances in which those
people live, which means if the

DOCUMENTARY The close bond

between Margaret Thatcher and
Ronald Reagan began earlier than you
might think. In this affectionate
account of their partnership, we see
them together in 1978 when she was
in opposition and he was merely
a presidential hopeful.
“Bingo — their personalities
sparked,” recalls an adviser, while
presenter Charles Moore observes that
they were “determined Cold Warriors”
before reaching power. Other leaders
saw the Cold War as a fact of life; they
believed it could be won. Through
interviewers with diplomats and
officials, Moore paints a picture of how
they forged the 80s in their image. DB

The Ipcress File

Muhammad Ali

9.00pm ITV

10.20pm BBC2 (11.20pm N Ireland)

DRAMA In plot terms, it’s fair to say

DOCUMENTARY New series

some air has come out of the tyres in
the past couple of weeks. We’re
bumping along fine but there isn’t
quite the zip you want in a spy
thriller. It doesn’t help that Harry
(Joe Cole) spends this episode as
a passive figure being tortured in
various hellish ways, while back in
England, Jean worries about him and
Dalby moons over the glamorous
Russian defector.
But to be honest, everything in this
drama is so easy on the eye and such
a cool pastiche of 1960s films — the
lighting, the tilted camera angles, the
blocky colours — I could happily watch
the plot stylishly go nowhere for
hours. And Jean does finally stumble
on the true meaning of Ipcress. DB

Revered American documentarist
Ken Burns is behind this eight-part
biography of boxing’s most engaging
figure. We begin in Louisville,
Kentucky, with insights into the boy
born as Cassius Clay’s unstable home
life, and his accidental discovery of
the sport that would make him
famous. Soon he’s a rising amateur,
winning Olympic gold and then, in his
nascent professional career,
perfecting the trick of not just
stopping an opponent, but doing so in
the round he had loudly predicted he
would before the fight began.
It’s a workmanlike profile that could
do with more of Ali himself talking
rather than his admirers, but it can’t
fail to thrill. JACK SEALE

Antiques Roadshow
7.00pm BBC1
Finds at the Royal Botanic
Garden in Edinburgh include a
set of Highland dress that once
belonged to a clan chieftain.

Ukraine: on the front
line with Jonny Mercer
5.30pm C4
The British MP and ex-soldier
goes to Ukraine to meet people
resisting Russia’s assault.

Inside the Superbrands
8.00pm C4
Helen Skelton uncovers the
secrets of Britain’s most
popular brands, with Heinz the
focus of this first episode.

Abraham Lincoln
9.00pm Sky History

Sunday Television

Thatcher and Reagan:
a Very Special
Relationship 9.00pm BBC2

BEST OF THE REST

The complete story of
America’s 16th president.

q FILM OF THE DAY
Wyatt Earp

Danny Care dresses up
to sing his heart out

All Star Musicals
7.30pm ITV
ENTERTAINMENT Half the fun of

All Star Musicals is guessing
beforehand who will take you aback
with their vocal ability — even if it’s
not for the right reasons — so we
won’t spoil it.
The six celebrities this time are
former England rugby star Danny
Care — who certainly looks the part,
although is unashamedly pleased
when his performance is over. Then
there’s Corrie’s Lisa George and
Springwatch’s Michaela Strachan
— both of whom are most thrilled
about getting to meet judge Elaine
Paige — as well as James Bond actor
Colin Salmon (who really gets into
it), ex-EastEnders actor Jacqueline
Jossa and Good Morning Britain’s
weatherman Alex Beresford.
Special mention needs to go to
choreographer Bill Deamer, who
should get his own spin-off, while
there’s also a performance from the
cast of Phantom of the Opera, who
show how it’s really done.
FRANCES TAYLOR
See page 23

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

2.45pm Channel 5
An epic and compelling study
of one of the key figures in the
history of the Old West from
The Big Chill director Lawrence
Kasdan. (1994)
See page 28

LIVE SPORT

 Snooker: Tour Championship
7.15pm ITV4 Neil Robertson won
this title in 2021.
 Women’s World Cup Cricket:
Final 6am Sky Sports Cricket
 Premier League Football:
West Ham v Everton 1pm (k/o
2pm), Tottenham Hotspur v
Newcastle United 4pm (k/o
4.30pm) Sky Premier League
 Women’s Super League:
Leicester City v Arsenal 12.15pm
(k/o 12.30pm) BBC2

ALAMY

TAKING TO THE STAGE

51

SUNDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

Television Sunday

BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Chris Mason, Nina Warhurst. (S) (HD)
7.30 Match of the Day Shown yesterday 10.20pm (S) (HD)
9.00 Sunday Morning Political interviews. (S) (HD)
10.00 Politics England News and debate. (S) (HD)
10.30 Wanted Down Under Revisited How a couple’s
lives were changed by a terrible accident. (R) (S) (HD)
11.15 Heavenly Gardens with Alexander Armstrong
The Bishop’s Palace in Wells, Somerset. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt In Edinburgh. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
1.15 Songs of Praise JB Gill learns about a project
that teaches first aid skills to young people. (S) (HD)
1.50 LIVE The Boat Races After a three year absence,
the women’s and men’s boat races between the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge return to
the Thames in London (start times 2.23 and 3.23
respectively). Last year, Cambridge claimed victory in
both races on the River Great Ouse. Clare Balding,
Lee McKenzie, Andrew Cotter and Rishi Persad
present. See page 50. (S) (HD) Sport: page 25
4.20—5.05 Dodger 4/10. Charley is in danger. The
whole series is on iPlayer. First shown on CBBC (S) (AD) (HD)

a

BBC2
6.50am Christine’s Garden Christine Walkden is
invited to a West Country tomato weekend. (R) (S) (HD)
7.20 Gardeners’ World Monty Don undertakes
seasonal tasks at Longmeadow. Shown last Friday (S) (HD)
8.20 Countryfile A look at regenerative farming.
Shown last Sunday BBC1 Signed repeat tomorrow 12.40am (S) (HD)

9.15 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites Highlights. (S) (HD)
10.45 Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen
Garden 7/10. The chef brings in new apple trees to
the orchard, and prepares a tarte tatin. (R) (S) (HD)
11.15 The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure Dave
and Si sample the tastes of Finland. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2BBC SPORT ONLINE 11.45—2.30pm Wheelchair
Basketball Coverage of Worcester Wolves v East London
Phoenix in the Women’s Premier League at bbc.co.uk/sport

12.15pm Match of the Day Live: Women’s Super
League Leicester City v Arsenal Coverage of the
top-flight clash at the King Power Stadium (kick-off
12.30). When the teams met at Meadow Park back
in December, Arsenal ran out 4—0 winners. (S) (HD)
2BBC RED BUTTON 2.30—5.30 Women’s Six Nations
Live coverage of Italy v England from Parma (kick-off 3.00)

2.40 Move Over, Darling ★★★★ Comedy with Doris
Day and James Garner. A woman presumed dead
returns to find that her husband has remarried.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review p28. Director

q

Michael Gordon (1963, U) (S) (W) (HD) Also showing Thu 9pm BBC4

4.20—5.20 Perfect Partners: Talking Pictures
Recalling cinema’s best-loved partnerships. (S) (HD)

ITV
6.00am CITV See page 56 9.25 ITV News (S) (HD)
9.30 The Pier 2/4. The highs and lows of life on
Llandudno Pier during the summer of 2021. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh
With Petula Clark, Fiona Dolman and Adam Kay. (S) (HD)
12 noon The Pet Show 8/8. Nadia Sawalha and
her pooch take on the agility course. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)
1.10 The Masked Singer US Ep 4. Popcorn, Giraffe,
Snow Owls and Sun perform. First shown on ITV2 (S) (HD)
2.05—4.05 Midsomer Murders Wild Harvest
When a man is killed by a wild boar, the investigation
leads Barnaby to a tyrannical celebrity chef. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Channel 4

52

6.05am Mike & Molly Triple bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD)
7.15 The King of Queens Three episodes. (R) (S) (AD)
8.30 The Simpsons Double bill. (R) (S) (AD)
9.30 Sunday Brunch With guests Katherine Ryan,
Steve Coogan and Patrick Kielty. Aurora performs. (S) (HD)
12.30pm The Simpsons Three episodes. (R) (S) (AD)
1.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo Twelve-year-old
giraffe matriarch Dagmar goes into labour. (R) (S) (HD)
2.40—4.00 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand
Up to Cancer 2/5. With Ruby Wax, Gareth Malone,
Laura Whitmore and Yung Filly. Shown Tue (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1

1

BBC2

Peaky Blinders
9.00pm End of an
era: in the final
episode, how will
Tommy’s elaborate
strategy play out?

Thatcher and
Reagan 9.00pm
How the pair’s
political kinship
shifted the 1980s
power dynamics

5.05pm BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
5.30 Countryfile

5.20pm Inside the Factory

Anita Rani and Sean Fletcher explore the south-west
corner of Wales as they celebrate the 70th anniversary
of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Anita
discovers how best to protect the nesting spots of
seabirds, while Sean learns how to farm oysters at
Angel Bay. Includes Weather for the Week Ahead.

2

Series 3. Gregg Wallace sees how spaghetti is made
at the world’s largest dried pasta factory in Italy.
Director Sam Bailey; Producers Sam Bailey, Emma Pound (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

6.20 Britain’s Ancient Capital: Secrets
of Orkney
3/3. On an abandoned island, Chris Packham and
Neil Oliver hunt for clues to why cultures change.

Executive producer Bill Lyons; Series editor Jane Lomas (S) (HD)

Series producer Jamie Simpson; Exec producer Rachel Bell (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

6.30 Extraordinary Portraits

7.20 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy

6/6. Artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an
88-year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to
slow down. Having worked on the farm for 70 years,
Alec continues to rise at dawn to care for his cows.
Director David Metcalf; Producers Rosie Pooley and Ellie Sabine-Singh
Repeated Tuesday 11.15pm (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Antiques Roadshow
Among the treasures brought to the Royal Botanic
Garden Edinburgh are a Highland outfit that once
belonged to a clan chieftain and a set of medals
awarded to pioneering diver Verrall Newman. And
host Fiona Bruce looks at a plant specimen collected
by Charles Darwin during his voyage on HMS Beagle.
Producer Debbie Martin; Series editor Robert Murphy (S) (HD)

8.00 Dynasties II

Series 2. Cheetah. On the plains of Zambia,
a3/4
a cheetah mother must keep her cubs safe while
them for life without her. As they
mpreparing
take on dangerous prey and battle with hyenas,
they learn that even tiny neighbours can bite back.
Narrated by David Attenborough. Available in Ultra HD
on iPlayer. Series 1 is available on iPlayer. See p50.

Producer Simon Blakeney; Exec producer Michael Gunton (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Peaky Blinders

a

6/6 Series 6. Lock and Key. As the clouds of
the coming storm gather, Tommy faces the
consequences of his actions and experiences. A box
set of previous series is available on iPlayer. See p50.

Tommy Shelby
Lizzie Shelby
Arthur Shelby
Ada Thorne
Michael Gray
Linda Shelby
Charlie Strong
Johnny Dogs
Curly
Duke Shelby
Diana Mitford
Finn Shelby
Isiah
Jeremiah Jesus
Billy Grade
Laura McKee
Gina Gray
Oswald Mosley
Alfie Solomons

Cillian Murphy
Natasha O’Keeffe
Paul Anderson
Sophie Rundle
Finn Cole
Kate Phillips
Ned Dennehy
Packy Lee
Ian Peck
Conrad Khan
Amber Anderson
Harry Kirton
Daryl McCormack
Benjamin Zephaniah
Emmett J Scanlan
Charlene McKenna
Anya Taylor-Joy
Sam Claflin
Tom Hardy

Dr Holford
Aneurin Barnard
Frances
Pauline Turner
Connor Dunn
Peter Coonan
Dot Kelly
Shashi Rami
Sam Ryan
Adam Best
Pat
Julian Moore-Cook
Jean Claude
Gregory Fitoussi
Henri
Assaad Bouab
Johnny the prison guard John O’Gorman
O’Donnell
Ciaran Owens
Liam
Darragh O’Toole
Dougie Bill
Jack Parr
Gilly Ray
Stefan Healy
Joe Ray
Ciaran Clancy
Charles Shelby
Billy Jenkins
Karl Thorne
Callum Booth-Ford
Ruby Shelby
Orla McDonagh
Lazarus
Jason Williamson
Police Commissioner Franc Bruneau

Writer Steven Knight; Producer Nick Goding
Director Anthony Byrne (S) (AD) (HD)
Obsessed with...Peaky Blinders follows on BBC3

See feature: page 8

10.20 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.50 Match of the Day 2
Premier League action, featuring West Ham United v
Everton and Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United.
Producer Chris Treece; Editor Andy Fraser (S) (HD)

11.50 The Women’s Football Show
Highlights of the weekend’s Super League games,
including Leicester City v Arsenal, Chelsea v Reading
and Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion.

Tuscany. The birthplace of some of Italy’s
a 5/6.
finest wines and dishes, Tuscany is also home

to “cucina povera” — the cuisine of the peasantry.
The actor is joined on his exploration of the region
by his parents Stan and Joan, before chef Fabio
Picchi shows him Tuscany’s signature dish. After
visiting a threshing festival, Stanley meets up with
Fabio in Livorno, where he makes a fish stew from
the fishermen’s leftovers. See page 50. (S) (AD) (HD)
RT TRAVEL An eight-day holiday in Undiscovered Italy, featuring
Puglia, Matera and Lecce: see travel supplement

8.00 The Speedshop
3/6. Defender and Autojumble. Exmoor Search
and Rescue Team has the oldest serving Land Rover
Defender in the entire England and Wales Mountain
Rescue fleet, but the 30-year-old workhorse is in
urgent need of refurbishment. Titch Cormack and
the team set to work as the vehicle must be back on
duty as soon as possible. The lads also empty the
lock-up of its broken and half-stripped motorcycles,
which they plan to repair and sell at an autojumble.
Director/Producer Christiaan Bailey Rptd Thu 11.15pm (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Thatcher and Reagan: a Very
Special Relationship

Beginning an exploration of the relationship
a 1/2.
between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
by Charles Moore, the former Daily Telegraph editor.
The US President and the British Prime Minister
worked closely together for most of the 1980s, in
the shadow of a nuclear war. Moore talks to those
who worked with the two leaders as they faced
the greatest challenge of their age. See page 51.

Producer Alexander Parsonage; Series producer Chris Durlacher
Repeated Wednesday 11.45pm (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Falklands War Stories
1/5. In a programme first shown in 2002 to mark
the 20th anniversary of the conflict, BBC reporter
Brian Hanrahan recalls his experiences of the war.
Producer Iwan Russell-Jones (R) (S) (HD)

10.20 Muhammad Ali

series. 1/8. A new series by film-maker
a New
Ken Burns charting the life of the boxer and

activist, beginning with his rise through the world
of amateur boxing to win gold at the 1960 Olympic
Games in Rome. The whole series will be on iPlayer
after tonight’s episode. See page 51. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.10 All the President’s Men 5

thriller. Based on the investigation by
q Political
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and
Bob Woodward, this film reconstructs the events
surrounding the most significant political scandal
of the 1970s which led to the Watergate hearings.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 28.

Bob Woodward
Carl Bernstein
Harry Rosenfeld

Robert Redford Howard Simons
Dustin Hoffman Deep Throat
Jack Warden Ben Bradlee

Martin Balsam
Hal Holbrook
Jason Robards

Director Alan J Pakula (1976, 15) (S) (W) (HD)

12.25am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.30—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

1.25—3.10am Sign Zone 1.25 Question Time Fiona Bruce
presents the political debate. Shown last Thursday BBC1 (S) (HD)
2.25 Holby City The final episode of the long-running
medical drama. Shown last Tuesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Series producer Ali Wood; Executive producer Frank Callaghan (S) (HD)

SUNDAY 3 APRIL
ITV

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

All Star Musicals
7.30pm A really wild
show: presenter
Michaela Strachan
swaps her outdoor
gear for glad rags

Inside the
Superbrands
8.00pm Seeing
red: superstar Ed
Sheeran reveals
his love of ketchup

Much Ado
about Nothing
8.00pm Akiya
Henry stars as
Beatrice in a bold
new production

4.05pm Evan Almighty ★★★

4.00pm Grand Designs

7.00pm The Piano: a Passion

Kevin McCloud follows Ruth and Rob as they
try to transform a 200-year-old former blacking
mill in Cumbria on an extremely tight budget.

Alexander Waugh explores his passion
for the instrument with like-minded
piano obsessives including Paul Lewis,
Damon Albarn and Jools Holland.

q

Director Tom Shadyac (2007, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

6.00 ITV News
Weather; Regional News and Weather

(S) (HD)

6.30 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars

New series. The celebrity version of the game
show returns, as Janette Manrara, Ade Adepitan
and Sarah Millican answer questions to win turns
on an arcade-style machine. Ben Shephard hosts.
Director Richard van’t Riet; Executive producers Sara Doyle,
Kate Lownds and Hugh Rycroft (S) (HD)

7.30 All Star Musicals

a

Director Edward Sunderland; Executive producers
John Lonsdale and John Comerford (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
5.30 Ukraine: on the Front Line with
Johnny Mercer
British MP and former soldier Johnny Mercer
travels to Ukraine to meet those resisting the
Russian assault. Travelling with explorer Levison
Wood, he speaks to his Ukrainian MP counterparts
who are taking up arms, before heading to Kyiv.
Directors Neil Bonner and Erica Jenkin
Producer Erica Jenkin Repeated Wednesday 3.55am (S) (HD)

6.00 One and Six Zeros
George, Jessikah and Zaki from Worthing must
answer seven questions correctly to win £1 million.

Wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, actress
Jacqueline Jossa, Good Morning Britain’s
Alex Beresford, Coronation Street star Lisa
George, actor Colin Salmon and rugby player
Danny Care take to the stage to perform hits
from shows including Hamilton, Les Misérables,
Frozen and The Greatest Showman. Musical stars
Elaine Paige, Samantha Barks and Trevor Dion
Nicholas deliver their reviews. See page 51.

Director Richard van’t Riet
Executive producers Hugh Rycroft and Lynn Sutcliffe (S) (HD)

Director Julia Knowles; Executive producer Simone Haywood
Repeated Thursday 10.45pm (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Inside the Superbrands

See feature: page 23

9.00 The Ipcress File

Held in a brutal black-site detention
a5/6.
centre, Harry is handed over to the Chinese

military, who subject him to a bewildering regime
of mental torture. Meanwhile, back in England,
Jean does not believe Maddox’s explanation for
Harry’s disappearance, and her determination to
unravel the meaning of “Ipcress” takes her from
Professor Dawson — who has returned, suffering
with amnesia — and then back to Radley’s clinic.
The whole series is available on ITV Hub. See p51.

Harry Palmer
Joe Cole Dawson
Matthew Steer
Jean Courtney
Lucy Boynton Dr Karen Newton Nora-Jane Noone
Dalby
Tom Hollander Polina Lavotchkin Anna Geislerová
Maddox
Ashley Thomas Jin-Hai
Chris Lew Kum Hoi
General Cathcart Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Deborah
Tamla Kari
Stok
David Dencik Pete
Mark Quartley
Minister
Paul Higgins Mrs Dalby
Alexandra Moen
Captain Skip Henderson Corey Johnson Murphy
Guy Rhys
Thomas Chico
Joshua James Dr Rajan Rayat
Jonas Khan
Alice
Anastasia Hille Officer Moore
Ciaran Kellgren
Writer John Hodge; Producer Paul Ritchie
Director James Watkins (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News
Weather; Regional Weather

(S) (HD)

10.20 Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities
of the World
3/3. Joanna visits Berlin, where she experiences
the Festival of Lights, encounters an all-female
motorcycle club and meets a Holocaust survivor.
Director/Producer Simon Lloyd Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

11.15 Premiership Rugby Union
Featuring highlights of Sale Sharks v Saracens,
Exeter Chiefs v Bath and Gloucester v Wasps.
Repeated tomorrow 6pm ITV4 (S) (HD)

12.10am Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 Don’t Rock the Boat 3/5. Tensions emerge as
the teams reach Northern Ireland. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.05—6.00am Tipping Point (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

7.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses
Jason, the head of the country office for UK
Sotheby’s International Realty, hopes to secure
a very personal listing — Otterburn Castle in
Northumberland, once owned by his greatgreat-great-great-grandfather “Mad Jack Hall”.
Directors/Producers Mark Littlewood, Colin Rothbart (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

New series. Ep 1. Helen Skelton uncovers the
inside secrets of some of Britain’s most popular
brands. In this episode, she ventures behind
the scenes at Heinz, spending time with staff
to learn how they make their bestselling food
items, and discovering the new products being
developed to appeal to the next generation.
She also meets a famous face who is ketchup’s
number-one fan. The next edition will be
available on All 4 after tonight’s episode.
Series director Matt David; Executive producers Nick Betts and
Johnny Webb Repeated Thursday 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Big Fat Quiz of Everything
Jimmy Carr is joined by a panel of celebrity
guests, including Rob Beckett, Richard Ayoade,
Rosie Jones, Roisin Conaty, Mawaan Rizwan and
Joanne McNally as they endeavour to come up
with the answers to a series of brainteasers.
Director Mick Thomas; Series producer Matt Nida Repeated
tonight 12.10am and Wednesday 9pm 4seven (S) (HD)

11.00 Eight out of Ten Cats Does
Countdown
Sean Lock and Harry Hill take on Jon Richardson
and Rose Matafeo, while Alex Horne and the Horne
Section join Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner.
Director Richard Valentine; Series producer Jodie Krstic (R) (S) (HD)

12 midnight Rescue: Extreme Medics 1/5. A trauma
team travel to a remote part of Skye where a man is
trapped under a vehicle. Shown last Monday (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00am Chernobyl: the New Evidence 2/2. Exploring
how far Soviet leaders were willing to go to cover up
the disaster. See choice, p40. Shown Sat 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)
1.55 Patti Cake$ ★★★★ Drama. Aspiring rapper Patti
dreams of escaping her humdrum town to become
a star. Her friend thinks they should form a group,
and an encounter with a misfit musician seems to
provide the missing ingredient their sound needs.
Patricia Dombrowski/Killa P/Patti Cake$ Jheri
Siddharth Dhananjay
Danielle Macdonald Basterd
Mamoudou Athie
Barb
Bridget Everett O-Z
Sahr Ngaujah

q

Director Geremy Jasper (2017, 15) (S) (W) (HD)
3.40 Come Dine with Me In Suffolk. (R) (S) (HD)
6.00—6.05am Food Unwrapped Ketchup. (R) (S) (HD)

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

BBC1
SCOTLAND
10.00—10.30am The
Sunday Show 11.50pm
Sportscene: highlights
of Rangers v Celtic
12.55am The Women’s
Football Show
1.30 Weather for
the Week Ahead
1.35—6.00 BBC News

Director/Producer Fran Landsman
Repeated 2.15am (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Much Ado about Nothing
Filmed in Stratford-upon-Avon,
Roy Alexander Weise directs this
new Royal Shakespeare Company
production of one of William
Shakespeare’s best-loved romantic
comedies. In a classic tale of
matchmaking and manipulation, two
very different couples fall in love.
Beatrice
Benedick
Don Pedra
Don John
Seacole
Sexton
Antonio
Leonato
Dogberry
Verges
Margaret
Borachio
Oatcake
Claudio
Hero
Conrade
Balthasar
Ursula
Messenger
Friar

Akiya Henry
Luke Wilson
Toyin Ayedun-Alase
Micah Balfour
Rebecca Banatvala
Michael Joel Bartelle
Mensah Bediako
Kevin N Golding
Karen Henthorn
Aruna Jalloh
Sapphire Joy
Curtis Kemlo
Enoch Lwanga
Mohammed Mansaray
Taya Ming
Miles Mitchell
Khai Shaw
Adeola Yemitan
Christelle Elwin
DK Fashola

Producer John Wyver (S) (HD)

10.45 All the World’s a
Screen: Shakespeare on Film
Exploring the history of films based
on Shakespeare plays, from the silent
era to the modern day. This Arena
programme reveals how Laurence
Olivier radically altered the performance
of Shakespeare on film by directing
and starring in Henry V and Hamlet,
and explores how international
film-makers have tackled the material.
Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
Director David Thompson; Producers David
Thompson and Adrian Wootton (R) (S) (HD)

11.45 Imagine...
Becoming Cary Grant. A fresh
perspective on one of cinema’s
greatest leading men. On screen,
Grant was the epitome of effortless,
debonair sophistication but the
Hollywood veneer concealed the
emotional scars of a troubled
childhood in Bristol — something he
hoped to resolve on a course of LSD
therapy. Featuring footage shot by
Grant himself as well as extracts
from his unpublished autobiography,
read by Jonathan Pryce.
Director Mark Kidel; Producers Nick Ware
and Christian Popp (R) (S) (HD)

1.15am The Beauty of Maps 1/4
Cartography through the ages, beginning with
the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the largest intact
medieval wall map in the world. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 2/4. A trip to the British Library’s vaults
to uncover three maps of London, which both
illuminate and distort the truth. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15—3.15am The Piano: a Passion
Writer Alexander Waugh meets like-minded
piano obsessives. Shown 7pm (S) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

BBC
SCOTLAND
7.00pm The Seven
7.15 Sportscene 8.20
Scottish Cup Facts*
8.30 Fish Town
9.00 Paramedics on
Scene: new series.
A mountain biker has
a crash in the Borders
10.00 Still Game
10.30 Raiders
of the Lost Archive
11.00—12 midnight
Seven Days

BBC1 WALES
10.00—10.30am
Politics Wales
4.20pm Flog It!
4.35—5.05 Snowdonia:
a Year on the Farm:
lambing season arrives
just as the Covid-19
lockdown begins

BBC2 WALES
5.20pm Dodger
6.05 Scrum V Sunday:
with Catrin Heledd,
Richard Hibbard
and Philippa Tuttiett
7.05—7.20 The Hairy
Bikers’ Cookbook: the
duo sample a traditional
barbecue in the town
of Swakopmund on
the Namibian coast

Sunday Television

Comedy fantasy sequel with Steve Carrell
and Morgan Freeman. Former news reporter
Evan Baxter is newly elected to Congress and is
trying to ignore God’s instruction to build an ark.
Forced to comply after the Almighty transforms
him into a modern-day Noah, Baxter sets out
to convince everyone of impending disaster.

Regional
variations

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
10.00—10.30am
Sunday Politics
Northern Ireland

BBC2
NORTHERN
IRELAND
6.20pm Clean It,
Fix It: in Bristol, the
team helps a family
struggling to house
their bikes 6.50—7.20
Beautiful Interiors
Northern Ireland: a
radical remodel of a
house in Moira 10.20
Lá i 1916: the shooting
of the first RIC man to
die in the 1916 Easter
Rising 11.20
Muhammad Ali: new
series. Ken Burns’s
documentary about
the boxer and activist
12.10am Sunday
Politics Northern
Ireland 12.40 Mock
the Week: with Maisie
Adam, Angela Barnes,
Rhys James, Eshaan
Akbar and Alasdair
Beckett-King 1.15—1.25
Weather Watchers
with Barra Best: the
weatherman examines
how climate shapes
people’s lives

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

53

SUNDAY Freeview

Television Sunday

Channel 5

5

BBC3

23

Wyatt Earp 2.45pm The lawman

Becoming...Tommy Shelby 10.50pm

(Kevin Costner) arrives in Tombstone

Cillian Murphy talks about his creation

F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.25am Milkshake! See page 56
10.00 SpongeBob SquarePants A sea
bunny ravages Squidward’s garden. (S) (HD)
10.10 Everyone becomes as stupid as Patrick.
(S) (HD) 10.25 Entertainment News (S) (HD)
10.30 Friends Series 1. Chandler lets slip
about Ross’s true feelings for Rachel.
11.00 Series 2. Rachel struggles to deal
with Ross’s new relationship with Julie.
11.30 Ross babysits Ben, his newborn son.
12 noon The gang’s neighbour dies.
12.30pm Phoebe shocks everyone by
announcing she is married. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.55 Joe Kidd ★★ Western starring Clint
Eastwood. A bounty hunter gets drawn
into a battle for land ownership in
Mexican-American border country at the
start of the 20th century. Review p28.

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

q

Director John Sturges (1972, 15) (S) (W) (HD)

2.45pm Wyatt Earp ★★★★

q

Epic western drama. After the death
of his sweetheart, the young Wyatt
Earp descends into a life of crime, until
he is saved by his father and guided
towards his destiny as one of the West’s
toughest lawmen. Film of the Day: p28.
Wyatt Earp
John “Doc” Holliday
Nicholas Earp
Virgil Earp
Morgan Earp
Ike Clanton

Kevin Costner
Dennis Quaid
Gene Hackman
Michael Madsen
Linden Ashby
Jeff Fahey

Director Lawrence Kasdan (1994, 12) (S) (W) (HD)
6.25 5 News (S) (HD)

6.30 When Posh Holidays Go
Horribly Wrong
Interviews with people whose holidays
ended in disaster, including a couple
whose honeymoon turned into a nightmare
when the Covid-19 pandemic started.
Directors David Donnelly and Andy Merry (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Happy Campers: the
Caravan Park
3/8 Series 2. In Cornwall, head
yellowcoat Matt prepares for a bingo
evening with a supersized prize fund.
Directors Tom Weller and Matt Fisher (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Holidaying with Jane
McDonald: the Caribbean
2/4. In St Lucia, Jane gets a bird’s-eye
view of the rainforest and takes a boat
trip from the north to the south of the
island to see its two volcanic spires.
Repeated Friday 10pm (S) (HD)

10.00 Monaco: Lives of the
Super Rich
Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford
gain an insight into more extravagant
lifestyles during a visit to Monte Carlo.
Series producer John Bonny (S) (HD)

10.55 Funniest Royal Cock-Ups
A look at some of the royal family’s faux
pas over the years, with contributions
from Paul Burrell and Judi Love. (S) (HD)
1.00am New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 A Country
Life for Half the Price with Kate Humble (S)
(HD) 3.45 Casualty 24/7: Every Second
Counts (S) (HD) 4.35 Wildlife SOS (S) (SL)
5.00—5.25am House Doctor (S) (SL) (HD)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

BBC4 listings are overleaf

7.00pm EastEnders
Rainie makes a confession to Bernie.
Shown last Wednesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 A returning face to the Square is
determined to help Stuart and Rainie.
Cast Tue/Thu BBC1 Shown last Thu BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 The Drop
3/8. The remaining creatives hit the skate
park to prove their brand can appeal to a
variety of subcultures. Clara Amfo hosts.
First shown last Monday Repeated 11.05pm (S) (HD)

9.00 Love in the Flesh
4/8. Relationships are tested to the max
after the arrival of six new guests. (S) (HD)

9.45 Hot Property
1/8. Filly meets Ryan-Mark Parsons,
a former candidate on The Apprentice.
First shown last Monday Repeated 1.35am (S) (HD)

10.15 New. Laugh Lessons Exploring what
life is really like for a 4ft-tall woman. (S) (HD)

10.20 New. Obsessed with...Peaky
Blinders
Darren Harriott and Lloyd Griffith dissect
the final episode of Peaky Blinders. (S) (HD)

10.50 New. Becoming...Tommy
Shelby: a Peaky Blinders Special
Cillian Murphy reveals all about taking on
the character in Peaky Blinders. (S) (HD)
See feature: page 8

11.05 The Drop Shown 8pm (S) (HD)
12.05am Love in the Flesh (S) (HD) 1.35 Hot
Property Shown 9.45pm (S) (HD) 2.05 Freeze: Back
on Thin Ice (S) (AD) (HD) 2.50 Mood (S) (AD) (HD)
3.35—4.00am My Mate’s a Bad Date (S) (HD)

ITV2

6

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (SL) 6.25 Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 11.30
Celebrity Catchphrase (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30pm You’ve Been Framed! Gold (S) (HD)
2.00 FILM Yogi Bear ★★ Part-animated
comedy adventure featuring the voices of
Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake (S) (W)
(HD) 3.35 FILM Shark Tale ★★★ Animated
comedy adventure featuring the voices of
Will Smith, Jack Black, Renée Zellweger and
Robert De Niro (S) (W) (HD) 5.25 FILM Shrek
★★★★ Animated fantasy comedy featuring
the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy
and Cameron Diaz (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
7.10pm FILM Johnny English ★★ Comedy
adventure starring Rowan Atkinson, and
featuring John Malkovich. When the crown
jewels are stolen from under the nose of the
authorities, bumbling secret agent Johnny
English is assigned to retrieve them and
capture the culprits. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 16. Lois’s parents
hire a nanny to help with the children.
9.30 Chris loses a rare dollar note.
10.00 Series 13. Cleveland gets a new job.
10.30 Joe takes the guys on a road trip.
10.55 Brian attends obedience classes and
loses his assertive nature. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.25 American Dad! Series 13. Francine
sets herself up as a supervillain to spice up
her relationship with Stan. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.55 Stan reacts badly when Jeff and Hayley
decide they want to have a baby. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25am Deep Heat (S) (AD) (HD) 1.25 Don’t
Hate the Playaz (S) (HD) 2.10 CelebAbility (S) (HD)
2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

ITV3

10

Drama

20

An Audience with Victoria Wood
9.00pm Let’s do it: a comedy classic

The 39 Steps 8.10pm Richard Hannay

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Emmerdale: omnibus. Marlon and
Rhona struggle in the aftermath of his stroke
(S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 8.50 That’s My Boy (S)
9.55 Midsomer Murders: Series 15. Schooled
in Murder. A female dairy worker is crushed
to death by a giant round of cheese;
11.50 Series 16. Let Us Prey. A killer employs
ancient torture methods (S) (AD) (HD)
1.50pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Theft
of the Royal Ruby. The sleuth’s hopes of a
quiet Christmas are dashed; 2.50 The Affair
at the Victory Ball. An aristocrat is murdered
at a masquerade ball 3.50 The Mystery of
the Spanish Chest. A dinner party proves
to be a prelude to murder — but fortunately
Poirot is among the guests (S) (AD) (HD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
8.00am The Bill: four episodes. Boyden’s
daughter makes an appearance; 9.00 Skase is
abducted by teenage girls; 10.00 Carver goes
too far; 11.00 Lennox is accused of racism
12 noon New Tricks: 1/10 Series 9. The Ucos
squad is dealt a devastating blow with the
news that Jack Halford is quitting; 1.20pm
2/10. Sandra and the team re-investigate the
disappearance of a PE teacher when human
remains are discovered on the perimeter of
the elite public boarding school where he
taught (AD) (HD) 2.40 Catherine Cookson’s
The Rag Nymph: period melodrama charting
the relationship between a tough Newcastle
rag woman and the waif she resolves to
protect. Starring Honeysuckle Weeks (S)
5.50 Sister Boniface Mysteries: 4/10
Sister Boniface investigates when an artist
is found bludgeoned to death (AD) (HD)

5.00pm Midsomer Murders
Series 1. Death in Disguise. The village of
Burton Mantle becomes the scene of foul
play when the leader of a local commune
meets with a violent end. (S) (AD)
7.00 Series 2. Strangler’s Wood. Spurred
into action by the discovery of a body in
a Midsomer Worthy wood, Barnaby and
Troy re-examine three similar unsolved
murders in the same village. (S) (AD)

9.00 An Audience with Victoria Wood
In this 1988 double Bafta-winning edition,
the comedian performs monologues and
songs before a star-studded audience,
including Julie Walters, Judi Dench, Dawn
French, Celia Imrie and Joan Bakewell. (S)

10.05 The Booze Cruise II: the
Treasure Hunt
Comedy drama starring Mark Benton,
Brian Murphy, Neil Pearson and Anne
Reid. Dave, Rob and Maurice embark on
a charity treasure hunt while trying to be
nice to an unpleasant client. (S) (AD) (W)
12.10am Law & Order: UK: 1/6 Series 5. The
Wrong Man. Brooks and Devlin investigate
a hospital department; 1.10 2/6. Safe. A
toddler goes missing; 2.05 3/6. Crush. A
man obsessed with a call girl is accused of
her murder (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 3.00 That’s My
Boy (S) 3.25 Emmerdale: omnibus (S) (SL)
(AD) (HD) 5.50—6.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

26

(Rupert Penry-Jones) is on the run

6.50pm Call the Midwife
5/8 Series 8. The Institute’s new screening
clinic uncovers a rare condition in a woman
who is about to be married. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.10 The 39 Steps
Dramatisation of the novel by John Buchan,
with Rupert Penry-Jones. Richard Hannay’s
life changes for ever when British spy
Scudder barges into his flat with information
about a German spy ring based in Scotland.
But when Scudder is killed, Hannay finds
himself accused of murder. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 We Hunt Together
1/6 Series 1. Crime drama starring Babou
Ceesay and Eve Myles. A pair of conflicted
coppers track down a deadly duo. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 2/6. Freddy and Baba seize upon
an opportunity to solve two problems
with another killing. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Luther: 1/6 Series 1. Luther
investigates the murder of a former child
genius’s parents (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20am We
Hunt Together: 3/6 Series 1. Jackson and
Lola make a breakthrough; 2.20 4/6. It
looks as though Baba and Freddy have got
away with murder (S) (AD) (HD) 3.10—4.00am
Where the Heart Is: 2/6 Series 1. Peggy
tangles with a local teacher (S) (AD)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

ITVBe

28

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.10 World
Superbikes Season Preview (S) (HD) 7.05
Extreme E: Electric Odyssey (S) (HD) 7.40
Motorsport Mundial (S) (HD) 8.10 New.
Auto Mundial (S) (HD) 8.40 FILM The Great
Outdoors ★★ Comedy starring Dan Aykroyd
(S) (AD) (W) (HD) 10.30 Hornblower (S) (AD) (HD)
12.45pm LIVE Snooker: Jill Douglas
presents the first eight frames of the final of
the Tour Championship, played over the best
of 19 frames (S) (HD) 4.00 Monster Carp (S) (HD)
6.05pm Match Time Revisited
Highlights from January 1982. (S) (HD)
7.05 Nine Dart Finishes A selection from ITV
Sport’s darts coverage over the years. (S) (HD)
7.15 LIVE Snooker Jill Douglas introduces
the conclusion of the final of the Tour
Championship from Venue Cymru in
Llandudno, with the winner taking home
£150,000 in prize money. With commentary
from David Hendon and Phil Yates. (S) (HD)
10.30 FILM Oblivion ★★★ Sci-fi action
adventure starring Tom Cruise and Andrea
Riseborough. Review p28. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Masters of Flip (S) (HD) 9.00
LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10pm
Million Dollar Matchmaker (S) (HD) 1.05 The
Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Celebrity Dinner Date The Real
Housewives of Cheshire’s Ester Dee chooses
three blind dates based entirely on menus
created by five potential partners. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Billie and Greg: the Family Diaries
The family takes part in a photoshoot, but
Billie and Greg are apprehensive as the
children are not getting on. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Million Pound Pawn A businessman
tries to sell a Lamborghini, but the pawnbroker
may not be able to sell it. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 DNA Journey Sporting heroes
Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp embark
on a road trip to explore their family histories
using DNA and genealogy. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.20 For Real: the Story of Reality TV
The secrets of makeover TV. (S) (HD)
11.20 Bridezillas Shannon’s wild celebrity
bachelorette party goes a bit too far. (S) (HD)

12.50am The Professionals (S) (SL) (AD) 1.55
The Protectors (S) 2.30—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

12.20am Unboxed: creating a room for a blended
family (S) (HD) 12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

54

RT SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE New for 2022! Get 10% off all RT Shop items Visit radiotimes.com/subs10
(Terms & conditions apply)

SUNDAY 3 APRIL
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

5 USA

21

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 Columbo
7.00pm Columbo: a former Broadway star
kills her husband and makes it look like
suicide, hoping the publicity will help revive
her flagging career 9.00 NCIS Series 18
The team investigates a biker killed in a
hit-and-run incident 10.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit: four episodes. Series 14
A man embarks on a killing spree 11.00
Detective Tutuola becomes entangled in a
church scandal 11.55 Series 13. Vigilantes
make the hunt for a serial rapist even more
challenging 12.55am The team investigates
a man preying on his biological daughters (S)

The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge
with Sandi Toksvig This small? 9.00pm

Sam Cooke: a Legend in Concert
9.00pm The life of the soul singer

Secrets of the Transport Museum
12 noon A tourer is resurrected

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Matt Baker: Travels with Mum
and Dad (AD) 9.55 New. A Farmer’s Life:
following the stories of farmers in Ireland
10.25 New. A Farmer’s Life: in Tyrone, Jack
is under pressure to win Star of the Future.
Vet Diane deals with an emergency 10.55
George Clarke’s Old House, New Home (AD)
12 noon Come Dine with Me: from
Gloucestershire 2.40pm Four in a Bed
5.20pm Come Dine with Me British
cooking, family favourites and luxury
ingredients feature at dinner parties in Cardiff.
8.00 New. Devon and Cornwall: Coastal
Lives Following those whose lives revolve
around the the south-western counties’
1,000 miles of shoreline, including a surfer
returning to the sport after a knee injury. (AD)
9.00 New. The Great Big Tiny Design
Challenge with Sandi Toksvig 2/8. The
nine remaining miniaturists tackle art deco
design, working against the clock to create
miniature toiletries befitting a 1920s
bathroom complete with running water. (AD)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E Cyclist Sam, 13, is
sent for a CT scan after losing consciousness
when she fell on her head during a race. (AD)
11.05 Emergency Helicopter Medics
A woman attempts to save her husband
after he suffers a cardiac arrest. (AD)

F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am Arts Uncovered 6.15 LSO: Sir Simon
Rattle Conducts Stravinsky Ballets 8.30 Tales
of the Unexpected 11.00 Comedy Legends:
the fruitful career of Alastair Sim
12 noon André Rieu: Welcome to My World
2.00pm Anyone Can Sing 3.00 FILM
A Run for Your Money ★★ Comedy starring
Donald Houston and Moira Lister. Two Welsh
coal miners get into a series of scrapes when
they spend a day in London after winning a
competition (BW) (W) 4.45 Classic Artists:
Jethro Tull: the story of the classic rock band
from Luton, responsible for such renowned
hits as Aqualung and Living in the Past
7.00pm Frank Sinatra: the Voice of
America A profile of the singer, looking
at what Sinatra was like as a person and
examining the key to his success. (AD)
9.00 Sam Cooke: a Legend in Concert
Documentary exploring the life and career
of the soul singer through the accounts of
family, childhood friends and associates,
as well as interviews with the man himself.
10.30 Queen and Adam Lambert: the
Show Must Go On The story of Adam
Lambert’s takeover from Freddie Mercury as
frontman for the rock band Queen, with concert
footage and interviews with band members.

Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am Impossible Railways: double bill (AD)
8.00 Secret Nazi Bases: four editions
12 noon Secrets of the Transport Museum
4.00pm Bangers and Cash: two editions
6.00pm Bangers and Cash A delightful
collection of British classics comes up for
auction, including an Austin A35 and a
Hillman Avenger Estate in stunning condition.
7.00 Three MGs from the 1970s still covered
in their original factory wax turn up at the
garage, and a Morris 1000 arrives for auction.
8.00 Open All Hours Tight-fisted shopkeeper
Arkwright purchases fire-damaged stock,
only to find all the tins have lost their labels.
8.40 Granville is pleasantly surprised
when Arkwright agrees to buy a van.
9.20 Arkwright feels neglected by Nurse Gladys
Emmanuel, and decides to feign an illness.
10.00 Bangers and Cash A near-perfect
50s Chevy panel van and a very desirable
low-mileage 80s Brooklands Capri tempt
auctioneer Derek out of Yorkshire.
11.00 There’s an unlikely arrival at the
North Yorkshire car auction — an Argentinian
Army Mercedes G wagon. (AD)

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera (AD)
8.20 Caught on Camera: Funniest Moments
9.15 Judge Judy (SL) 12 noon Filthy House
SOS 2.00pm Traffic Cops: triple bill
5.00pm Police Interceptors Stu deals
with a case involving a missing crossbow.
6.00 The firearms squad goes after a heavily
armed suspect, and a thief gives Dicko the slip.
7.00 An armed response team is called
out to deal with a drunken gunman.
8.00 Kev Salter and the team raid a cannabis
farm and make a shocking discovery.
9.00 FILM Enemy of the State ★★★★
Conspiracy thriller starring Will Smith, Gene
Hackman and Jon Voight. A lawyer unwittingly
becomes the custodian of evidence to a
murder. Soon he is on the run, trying to stay
one step ahead of his adversary. Review p28.
11.40 FILM Red Dragon ★★★ Thriller
based on the Thomas Harris novel that
introduced Hannibal Lecter, starring Anthony
Hopkins, Edward Norton and Ralph Fiennes. (AD)

12 midnight Secrets of the Transport Museum
(AD) 1.00—3.00am Impossible Railways (AD)

2.15am Countdown to Murder (AD)
3.10—4.00am Kill Thy Neighbour

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am Hollyoaks (AD) 8.20 Rude(ish)
Tube Shorts 8.30 Married at First Sight
Australia 11.35 Teen First Dates (AD)
12.40pm Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
USA 1.40 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
5.50pm New. Lego Masters USA The
teams have to create hats made of Lego that
must also be wearable, before hitting the
catwalk and giving it their all to impress the
judges with their brick-based millinery. (AD)
6.50 FILM The Huntsman: Winter’s War
★★★ Fantasy adventure starring Chris
Hemsworth and Charlize Theron. Elite
huntsman Eric falls for fellow warrior Sara
as the battle for dominance between two
powerful queens escalates. (AD)
9.00 FILM Jason Bourne ★★★★ Action
thriller starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones
and Alicia Vikander. Now living in selfimposed exile, former agent Jason Bourne
is contacted by an old colleague and is soon
drawn into an operation to expose CIA dirty
tricks. And, as Bourne well knows, nothing is
as it seems and no one can be trusted. (AD)
11.35 Gogglebox Featuring critiques from
2019 of Peaky Blinders, The Cameron Interview
and Jamie’s Meat-Free Meals. (SL) (AD)
12.40am Naked Attraction: a 57-year-old breast
cancer survivor takes part (AD) 1.45 Below Deck:
Mediterranean (AD) 2.40 Gogglebox (SL) (AD)
3.35—6.00am Hollyoaks (SL) (AD)

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home
Shopping 8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 10.00
A Place in the Sun 3.00pm The Hotel Inspector
4.00 Antiques Road Trip: three editions 7.00
Dales for Sale 8.00 My Mortgage Free Home:
a couple from Dorset are ready to ditch their
25-year mortgage 9.00 Dr Pimple Popper
10.00 This Cop Life 11.00 Ghost Adventures (AD)
12 midnight The Holzer Files 1.00am Haunted
Hospitals 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00—6.00am
Fantasy Homes by the Sea: double bill

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am A Place in the Sun: triple bill
12 noon Four in a Bed 2.30pm A Place in
the Sun: four editions of the property show
6.00pm A Place in the Sun Scarlette
Douglas helps Maureen search for a property
with a terrace and sea views in the town
of Mojácar on the Costa de Almería.
7.00 Danni Menzies tries to find a golf fan
the perfect Costa del Sol property.
8.00 Perfect House, Secret Location 3/4
Steve Jones helps an Essex family to fulfil
their ambition of finding a forever home with
unique character. Shown last Thursday C4 (AD)
9.00 Gogglebox Featuring reviews of Tom
Allen’s Quizness and Mare of Easttown. (AD)
10.00 Naked Attraction Glasgow make-up
artist and trans woman Callie, who is 23,
seeks a man who is proud to show her off.
Hosted by Anna Richardson. (AD)
11.05 Open House: the Great Sex
Experiment 1/6. Welsh sweethearts Mady
and Nathan are interested in bringing another
woman into their relationship. But have they
risked ruining their relationship when it
doesn’t go to plan? Shown last Friday C4 (AD)
12.10am Big Fat Quiz of Everything 2.15 Eight out
of Ten Cats Does Countdown 3.20 First Dates
(AD) 4.15—4.45am The Simpsons

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am Combat Dealers (AD) 7.00 Chasing
Classic Cars 8.00 Vintage Voltage (AD) 9.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 10.00 EFL
12 noon Salvage Hunters 1.00pm LIVE Darts:
day two of the WDF World Championship from
the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey
5.00 Shed and Buried 6.00 Full Metal Junkies
7.00 The Repair Shop 8.00 Salvage Hunters:
the Restorers 9.00 New. EFL Trophy: Rotherham
United v Sutton United 10.00 Outback Opal
Hunters 11.00 Hunting Atlantis 12 midnight Alien
Invasion: Hudson Valley 2.00am Mysteries of
the Missing 3.00 Vintage Voltage (AD) 4.00
Mega Shippers 5.00—6.00am New. Darts

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

Dave

19

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Cop Car Workshop 8.00 Rick Stein’s
French Odyssey: double bill 9.00 Storage
Hunters UK 10.00 Top Gear: double bill (AD)
12 noon American Pickers 1.00pm Border
Force: America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 2.00
Special Ops: Crime Squad UK 3.00 Top Gear
(AD) 4.00 Would I Lie to You?: triple bill
6.00pm Top Gear Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris
and Paddy McGuinness head to Silverstone. (AD)
7.00 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers
A woman is suspected of smuggling
someone else’s baby over the border. (AD)
8.00 Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone
Fishing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer
fish for salmon in the River Tweed. (AD)
8.40 QI XL Extended episode, with guests
Miles Jupp, Deirdre O’Kane and Phill Jupitus.
9.20 Josh Widdicombe, Susan Calman and
Matt Lucas take part in a festive edition.
10.00 The Island 2/8. Nature presenter
Michaela Strachan makes a guest appearance.
11.00 QI XL Sandi Toksvig calls for a bit of
“Quiet” in this extended version of the show.
12 midnight Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled 1.00am
All Girls Live at the Apollo 2.00 The ”Christmas”
Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (AD)
3.00 QI XL 3.35—4.00am Ladhood (AD)

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131

W

25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am Tipping Point: seven editions
1.00pm Property Brothers: Forever Homes
3.00 My Family: five episodes (AD)
6.20pm My Family Roger’s mum comes to
London to meet future daughter-in-law Abi. (AD)
7.00 999 Rescue Squad The team are called
to a major fire in a chemicals factory. (AD)
8.00 Inside the Operating Theatre A fouryear-old girl has her droopy eyelid lifted. (AD)
9.00 Killer Women with Piers Morgan
The broadcaster meets a woman who killed
her entire family at the age of 16.
10.00 Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over Stacey
investigates the community of “tradwives”. (AD)
11.00 One Born Every Minute Australia
First-time parents share their journey.
12 midnight Babies: Their Wonderful World (AD)
1.00—3.00am One Born Every Minute

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

5 Action

33

Sunday Television

12.10am Father Ted: two episodes (AD) 1.15
Devon and Cornwall: Coastal Lives (AD) 2.15
The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge with Sandi
Toksvig (AD) 3.20—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD)

12.15am Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan: Tomorrow
Is a Long Time: the Pretenders frontwoman’s
creative process while recording ten Bob Dylan
covers 1.50 Bob Dylan: Trouble No More 3.10
Guy Garvey: from the Vaults 4.10 The Sixties (AD)
5.00—6.00am The Great Songwriters

1.55 Hannibal: double bill 3.35—4.00am
999: Criminals Caught on Camera

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am Police Interceptors 10.00 New.
Wrestling: WWE highlights 11.00 Wrestling
12 noon Police Interceptors 2.00pm
Trucking Hell 3.00 FILM Attack on the
Iron Coast ★★ Second World War drama
5.05pm FILM Pork Chop Hill ★★★★ Drama
with Gregory Peck. During the Korean War,
an army officer and his unit take part in an
operation to capture an important hill, with the
odds stacked against them. Review p28. (BW)
7.00 FILM Return of the Magnificent
Seven ★★★ Western starring Yul Brynner,
Robert Fuller and Warren Oates. A small band
of fighters is recruited to go to the rescue of
a village whose men have been kidnapped.
9.00 FILM Bloodsport ★★ Martial arts action
starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Frank Dux
bids to become the kickboxing champion of
the world by taking part in a competition.
10.55 FILM Lone Wolf McQuade ★★★
Action adventure starring Chuck Norris.
1.05am Car Crime UK: Caught on Camera
2.05 Thieves and Thugs: Caught on Camera
3.05 Banged Up Abroad 4.00 Car Crash TV
4.50—5.00am Entertainment News

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am The Gadget Show 10.00 GPs: behind
Closed Doors: five editions (AD) 3.00pm
Viking Murder Mystery: Ancient Mysteries
4.00 The Mystery of Rome’s Sunken City
5.00pm Egypt’s Unexplained Files
Insights into belief in the land of the pharaohs.
6.00 The Egyptians’ obsession with death.
7.00 Science shines a light on the dark side.
8.00 Secrets of Tutankhamun’s Treasures
Examining the reign of Tutankhamun.
9.00 A look at Tutankhamun’s death mask.
10.00 The story behind two mummified
babies found in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
11.00 Marilyn Monroe: the Missing Evidence
Theories surrounding the actress’s death
12 midnight The Missing Evidence 1.00am
World’s Biggest Battleship: Drain the Oceans
2.00 Walking Britain’s Lost Railways: double bill
3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p58

55

Freeview, satellite

SUNDAY
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p54

Television Sunday

5.25am Peppa Pig 5.30 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Milkshake!
Monkey 6.05 Peppa Pig 6.15 Ben and
Holly’s Little Kingdom 6.25 Shane the
Chef 6.40 Noddy: Toyland Detective
6.50 New. Brave Bunnies 7.00
Thomas & Friends 7.10 Milo 7.20 Pip
and Posy 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.35
Fireman Sam 7.50 Paw Patrol 8.10
Baby Shark’s Big Show! 8.25 Pirata &
Capitano 8.40 Meet the Experts 8.50
Show Me How... 9.00 Ricky Zoom
9.15 The World According to Grandpa
9.30 Go Green with the Grimwades
9.40 The Adventures of Paddington
9.50—10.00am Circle Square

CBeebies

202

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Show Me Show Me 6.20 Raa
Raa the Noisy Lion 6.30 Bing 6.40
Love Monster 6.45 Go Jetters 7.00
Postman Pat: SDS 7.15 Bing 7.30 Hey
Duggee 7.45 Go Jetters 8.00 Peter
Rabbit 8.10 Octonauts 8.25
Chuggington 8.35 Bitz & Bob 8.45
The Furchester Hotel 9.00 Something
Special: We’re All Friends 9.20 Bluey
9.35 Peter Rabbit Special: The Tale of
the Kitten and Pig Adventure 10.00 Go
Jetters 10.20 Nick Cope’s Popcast
10.30 Justin’s House 10.50 Andy and
the Band 11.05 Go Jetters 11.30
Patchwork Pals 11.35 Waffle the
Wonder Dog 11.45 JoJo & Gran Gran
12 noon Big Cook Little Cook 12.20pm
Raa Raa the Noisy Lion 12.30 Hey
Duggee 12.45 Bitz & Bob 1.10 Love
Monster 1.25 Go Jetters 1.50 Dog
Loves Books 1.55 Timmy Time 2.00
Something Special: We’re All Friends
2.20 GiggleQuiz 2.35 Tish Tash 2.40
Tee and Mo 2.50 Love Monster 2.55
Bitz & Bob 3.05 School of Roars 3.15
Messy Goes to OKIDO 3.25 Teeny Tiny
Creatures 3.40 Andy’s Prehistoric
Adventures 3.55 Gigglebiz 4.10 Magic
Hands 4.20 Treasure Champs 4.35
Timmy Time 4.40 Bluey 4.50 Andy
and the Band 5.05 Maddie’s Do You
Know? 5.20 Molly and Mack 5.35
JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Sarah & Duck
5.55 Colours 6.00 Tee and Mo 6.10
Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden...
6.50 Hushabye Lullabye 6.50—
7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05
Sketchy Comedy 7.10 Danger Mouse
7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
7.45 New. Newsround 7.50 Odd
Squad 8.05 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
8.30 Marrying Mum and Dad 9.00
Blue Peter: Seal Sanctuary and Wacky
Wildlife 9.30 Gym Stars 9.55 Andy
and the Band 10.10 Danny & Mick
10.20 Mr Stink 11.20 Danger Mouse
12.10pm Deadly 60 1.05 Shark Bites
1.10 Horrible Histories 2.40 The
Dengineers 3.35 Operation Ouch!
4.35 Operation Ouch! Snips 4.40
Malory Towers 5.05 New. Silverpoint
5.30 New. Dodger 6.15 Horrible
Histories 6.45—7.00pm Megamind:
The Button of Doom

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am The Rubbish World of Dave
Spud 6.35 Thunderbirds Are Go 7.00
Dare Master @Home 7.05 Mighty Mike
7.30 The Epic Tales of Captain
Underpants 8.00 Mr Bean: the
Animated Series 8.30 The Rubbish
World of Dave Spud 8.55 Don’t
Unleash the Beast 9.25 Mr Magoo 9.55
Hotel Transylvania 10.25 The Rubbish
World of Dave Spud 10.55 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 11.55 Inspector Gadget
1.25pm Spy School 1.55 Mr Bean: the
Animated Series 2.55 Mighty Mike
3.10 Teen Titans Go! 4.25 The Epic
Tales of Captain Underpants 4.55
Hotel Transylvania 5.25 Don’t Unleash
the Beast 5.50 How 6.20 Thunderbirds
Are Go 6.45 The Rubbish World of
Dave Spud 7.35 Don’t Unleash the
Beast 7.55 Spy School 8.25 How
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master @Home

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

Bruce Springsteen: in His Own
Words 9.30pm “The Boss”

PBS America

84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.00am Shooting the War 11.55
WW1: the Final Hours (S) 1.00pm
Beautiful Serengeti 1.30 Shooting
the War 5.15 Putin’s Road to War (S)
6.20pm The Last Day of World
War One 6/6. Michael Palin tells
the story of how the First World
War ended on 11 November 1918. (S)
7.20 WW1: the Final Hours
The story of the extraordinary
negotiations that would end four
years of devastating conflict. (S)
8.20 Putin’s Road to War
The inside story of what led to
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. (S)
9.30 Bruce Springsteen: in His
Own Words An exclusive insight
into the life and career of the
American singer/songwriter.
11.00 Putin’s Road to War
As 8.20pm.
12.10am Bruce Springsteen: in His
Own Words 1.45 The Last Day of
World War One: with Michael Palin
(S) 2.40 WW1: the Final Hours (S)
3.35—4.00am Beautiful Serengeti
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

Pick

36

of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero

Smithsonian

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD) 1.00pm
Inside the Factory (HD) 2.00 Race
to Victory: WWII Europe (HD) 3.00
Race to Victory: WWII Pacific (HD)
4.00 Atomic Age Declassified (HD)
6.00pm Atomic Age Declassified
3/3. A look at an unlikely
partnership between nuclear
scientists and Hollywood. (HD)
7.00 Testing the Atomic Bomb
How the dawn of the atomic age
in America saw scientists decide
to test their new bombs in a
desert outside Las Vegas. (HD)
8.00 Air Warriors 9/9 Series 6
A look at the Mitsubishi A6M Zero
long-range fighter. (HD)
9.00 Ep 1 Series 8. America’s first
swept-wing jet fighter, the F-86
Sabre, designed with the engineering
specs from Nazi documents. (HD)
10.00 Inside the Factory 4/6
Series 3. Behind the scenes at a
Grimsby fish finger factory. (HD)
11.00 Air Warriors As 8/9pm.
1.00am WWII Battles in Colour (HD)
3.00—6.00am America’s Hidden
Stories: three episodes (HD)

HGTV

44

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156
6.00am Border Patrol 8.00 Police
Force: Australia 10.00 Highway
Patrol (AD) 11.00 UK Border Force
(AD) 12 noon Road Wars 2.00pm
Nothing to Declare 2.30 Border
Security: Australia’s Front Line
3.00 Nothing to Declare 4.00
Highway Cops (AD) 5.00 Caught
Red Handed 7.00 Motorbike Cops:
two episodes 8.00 Brit Cops: Law
& Disorder (AD) 9.00 FILM Senna
5 Bafta-winning documentary
(AD) (W) 11.00 The Killer Within

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

12 midnight Killer Colleagues 1.00am
Britain’s Most Evil Killers 2.00 Police
Force: Australia: four back-to-back
editions 4.00—6.00am Border Patrol

CBS Justice

41

7.00am Honey I Bought the House
8.00 My Lottery Dream Home 10.00
Flip or Flop 11.00 Christina on the
Coast 12 noon Selling Houses with
Amanda Lamb 2.00pm 100 Day
Dream Home 3.00 A Place in the Sun
5.00 Love Your Garden 6.00 My
Mortgage Free Home 7.00 No Demo
Reno 8.00 A Place in the Sun: double
bill. Ben Hillman helps a woman search
for a holiday home on the Croatian
island of Hvar, then a couple from
Rotherham have £175,000 to spend
on a holiday home in Lucca, Italy
10.00 Celebrity IOU 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight My Lottery Dream Home:
four episodes 2.00am Honey I
Bought the House 3.00—4.00am
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Great TV

50

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
9.00am Matlock 12 noon JAG
2.00pm NCIS 7.00 JAG 9.00
CSI: Miami: five episodes. Two tax
inspectors are killed on the same
day 10.00 A woman working for
a dating agency is killed 10.55 A
custody battle leads to a shooting
11.50 An American football star is
killed at a school reunion 12.45am
An old murder case is reopened

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Murder, She Wrote
2.00pm Murder, She Wrote: the
Celtic Riddle 3.45 FILM Murder,
She Wrote: South by Southwest
★★ Murder mystery 5.30 FILM
Murder, She Wrote: the Last Free
Man ★★ Murder mystery starring
Angela Lansbury 7.15 Hart to Hart:
Secrets of the Hart 9.00 Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1.35 JAG 3.30—6.00am Matlock

1.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye 3.00 Crazy
like a Fox 4.30—6.00am Hart to Hart

CBS Drama

68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
7.30am The Key of David 9.00
The Fugitive 2.00pm Unsolved
Mysteries 6.00 Matlock: five
episodes. Matlock represents a
wealthy widow 7.00 A boy kills his
father to protect his mother 8.00
A game-show producer is murdered
9.00 A millionaire is accused of
murdering his daughter’s fiancé
10.00 The lawyer’s cousin needs
his help 11.00 Unsolved Mysteries
4.00—6.00am Judge Judy

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

56

Air Warriors 8.00pm The role

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am Westminster Hall 11.00 House
of Commons 11.45 Scottish Parliament
12.45pm Senedd Cymru 1.45 NI
Assembly 2.40 PM’s Questions 3.15
Scottish Questions 4.15 Welsh Questions
5.15 NI Questions 6.00 Select
Committees 12 midnight House of
Commons 12.45am Scottish Parliament
1.45 Senedd Cymru 2.45 NI Assembly
3.40 PM’s Questions 4.15 Scottish
Questions 5.15—6.00am NI Questions

Magnum P.I. 9.00pm Higgins
and Thomas begin a search

Sky Showcase

Sky Atlantic

Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am Hour of Power (S)
7.00 Where’s Wally (S) 9.05 The
Simpsons (S) 10.00 Magnum P.I.
(S) (AD) 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
12 noon The Equalizer (S) 1.00pm
David Attenborough’s Global
Adventure: Home Planet (S) (AD)
2.00 David Attenborough’s Global
Adventure: the Rise (S) (AD) 3.00
The Simpsons: six episodes (S)
6.00pm The Simpsons Bart’s
antics get Principal Skinner fired. (S)
6.30 LIVE Women’s Super
League Football Coverage of
Chelsea v Reading from
Kingsmeadow (kick-off 6.45).
9.00 Magnum P.I. Ep 14 Series 4
A bail bondsman hires Thomas
and Higgins to find a woman, but
the pair discover that they are not
the only ones looking for her. (S)
10.00 NCIS: New Orleans 14/16
Series 7. Pride directs the team to
link Sasha to the attacks in New
Orleans and helps Connor come
to terms with who his mother
really is. Carter and Tammy search
for a stolen military dog. (S)
11.00 Saturday Night Live
American sketch show.
12.30am SEAL Team (S) 1.30 The
Force: North East 2.30 Road Wars
(S) 3.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
5.00—6.00am The Early Rundown
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

Challenge

48

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 9.00 Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 11.30 The Price Is
Right 12.30pm Blockbusters:
Simon Mayo hosts the quiz in which
contestants try to complete a path
across or down a board of lettered
hexagons (AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes:
families compete for cash and
prizes. Hosted by Les Dennis (AD)
3.00 Catchphrase: game show in
which contestants try to deduce
everyday phrases and sayings from
visual clues (AD) 5.00 The Chase:
quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh
9.00 The Chase Celebrity Special:
with Loose Women’s Andrea
McLean, football pundit Robbie
Savage, Liberty X singer Jessica
Taylor and comedian Rory McGrath
10.00—6.00am The Chase

Forces TV

Winning Time: the Rise of
the Lakers Dynasty 8.00pm

96

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Fish Town (S) 7.00 Urban
Secrets (S) 10.00 Six Feet Under (S)
12.35pm Raised by Wolves (S) (AD)
6.00pm Funeral for a Dog 5/8
Tuuli gives birth on 11 September
2001 as New York City descends
into chaos. Doubts over Felix’s
death continue to grow.
7.00 6/8. Felix reveals plans to
leave New York. Daniel and Mark
learn they are more alike than they
first thought. German +subtitles.
8.00 Winning Time: the Rise of
the Lakers Dynasty 1/10. Drama
chronicling the professional and
personal lives of the 1980s Los
Angeles Lakers, with John C Reilly.
9.05 2/10. Buss attempts to
charm Red Auerbach, and Claire’s
mandate to get creative brings
conflict with Buss’s daughter.
10.10 3/10. The Lakers respond
to Coach West’s shocking
announcement. Meanwhile,
Buss decides to travel to Vegas.
11.15 4/10. As the Lakers head
to Palm Springs for the start of
their training camp, Buss finds
himself in way over his head.
12.20am Billions (S) 1.25 In
Treatment 2.00 New. Winning
Time: the Rise of the Lakers
Dynasty 3.05 New. Billions
4.10—6.00am Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (S) (AD)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

Sky Witness
Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S)
9.00 Border Patrol (S) (HD) 11.00
The Real A&E (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon
Bondi Rescue (HD) 1.00pm UK
Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Nothing to Declare (S) (AD) 7.00
Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 The
Equalizer: McCall fights to prove
that a famous rapper is innocent of
murder (S) (HD) 9.00 The Rookie: a
criminal helps the team take down
an even bigger threat (HD) 10.00
9-1-1: an explosion rocks a hospital
(HD) 11.00 Grey’s Anatomy (S) (HD)
12 midnight Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00am How to Get Away with Murder
(S) (AD) (HD) 3.00—6.00am Nothing
to Declare: six editions (S) (AD)

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Syfy

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30
Spenser: for Hire: four episodes
10.30 The Man from Atlantis
12.20pm Spenser: for Hire 2.15
Watching 5.30 Forces News 6.00
CHiPs: double bill 8.00 Spenser:
for Hire: double bill. In the middle of
a streak of bad luck, Spenser plans
a trip away, then a hitman kills one
of Spenser’s friends in a shoot-out
10.10 UFO: a coma victim alerts
Straker to an alien bomb 11.10
The Man from Atlantis: a presumed
survivor from the submerged
Atlantis uses his unique abilities to
help an ocean research scientist

Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Stargate SG-1 12 noon
Quantum Leap 5.00pm FILM
Meteor Moon ★ Sci-fi adventure
with Dominique Swain 7.00 FILM
Asteroid-a-Geddon ★ Sci-fi action
starring Issa Veronika 9.00 Grimm:
four episodes. A Wesen becomes
a vigilante 10.00 A priest is killed
while performing an exorcism
11.00 Hank and Nick encounter
an urban legend 12 midnight
Teenagers are kidnapped by
an evil spirit of Christmas

1.05am The Man from Atlantis
5.00—6.00am The Lost Evidence

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

1.00am Intergalactic 2.00 FILM
The Final Level: Escaping Rancala ★
Fantasy adventure 4.00—6.00am
FILM Robin Hood: the Rebellion ★

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

SUNDAY 3 APRIL

Resident Alien 8.00pm

Newark, Newark 9.00pm

Hudson & Rex 8.00pm

Harry arrives in the Big Apple

Maxine and Leslie fill the car

A figure skating coach is killed

Sky Max

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am Celebrity Four Weddings
(S) (AD) 8.00 Four Weddings (S)
(AD) 10.00 Stargate Atlantis (S)
8.00pm 9-1-1: an explosion rocks
the hospital where Dr Hale is
performing surgery (S) 9.00 Bull:
Jason helps a woman determined
to go against legal advice when she
insists on pleading guilty to murder
10.00 The Equalizer: McCall fights
to prove that a famous rapper is
innocent of murder (S) 11.00
Chicago Med: Blake’s entire surgical
team mysteriously collapses during
a liver transplant operation (S)
12 midnight Chicago Fire 1.00am
Chicago PD (S) 2.00 The Rookie (S)
2.55 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD)
3.50 Celebrity Four Weddings (S) (AD)
4.45—6.00am All Hail King Julien (S)

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Road Wars (S) 7.00 Motorway
Patrol (S) (AD) 10.00 Highway Cops (S)
(AD) (HD) 11.00 Caught on Dashcam (S)
(HD) 12 noon Stop, Search, Seize (S)
(HD) 1.00pm Send in the Dogs (S)
2.00 World’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
3.00 An Unexpected Killer (S) (HD)
4.00 Killer in My Village (S) (HD) 6.00
Forensics: Catching the Killer (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers: Malcolm
Green, jailed for the murder of a Cardiff
prostitute (S) (HD) 8.00 Murdered at
First Sight: how a family man was killed
in an unprovoked attack (HD) 9.00 The
Tall Man: how an aboriginal man died in
police custody (S) 10.35 New York
Homicide (HD) 11.30 World’s Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 2.30am Road Wars (HD)
4.30—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.35am Citizen Khan (S) (AD) (HD)
8.45 Only Fools and Horses:
nine back-to-back episodes (S) (AD)
6.25pm Only Fools and Horses
The Trotters journey to Holland
to dabble in the diamond import
business — with old foe Inspector
Slater hot on their trail. (S) (AD)
8.20 Dad’s Army The platoon
take part in an exercise that pits
them against a Highland unit in a
simulated battle scenario. (BW) (S)
9.00 Newark, Newark Comedy
about a young man’s adolescence
spent in the East Midlands market
town. It’s Maxine’s 40th birthday,
but her 16-year-old son Leslie has
big plans to hog the spotlight.
9.40 Maxine takes a leap of faith
in hiring Leslie at the chippy, and
Pauline devises a plan to get Terry
back into Maxine’s good books.
10.20 Leslie and Amber go on a
double date with high expectations
and low standards. (AD) (HD)
11.00 The Royle Family In the
first ever episode of the comedy, a
huge telephone bill arrives. (S) (AD)
11.40 Jim is unpleasantly surprised
by the cost of the wedding. (S) (AD)
12.20am Royle Family Portraits (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.25 The Interviews: a look
at Barry Humphries (S) (HD) 3.25—
4.00am The Royle Family (S) (AD)
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am The Office US (S) (HD) 9.00
Curb Your Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 11.55
Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10pm
Modern Family (S) (HD) 3.30 Will &
Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 4.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 7.00 The
Office US: four episodes. Michael
decides to host a seminar 7.30 The
staff members plan festivities for
Valentine’s Day 8.00 Dwight is named
salesman of the year 8.30 Michael
strikes up a peculiar new friendship (S)
(HD) 9.00 New. Saturday Night Live:
American sketch show taking a satirical
sideswipe at cultural and political issues
(HD) 10.30 Bloods: Maleek and Wendy
are sent to teach a knife-crime
awareness workshop at a school (S) (AD)
(HD) 11.00 Saturday Night Live (HD)
12.30am Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30—
5.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00pm FILM The Other Woman
★★★ Comedy starring Cameron Diaz,
Leslie Mann and Kate Upton. When the
wife of philanderer Mark King meets his
mistress, it promises to be explosive.
But the two women discover that there
is more to this love triangle than meets
the eye, and Mark soon learns that hell
hath no fury... (S) 11.10 Kevin Hart Live:
Laugh at My Pain — Uncut: the comic
reveals some of his most personal
experiences in this 2011 performance,
including his 20-second “stamina” and
his showdown with Spongebob (S) (HD)
1.00am The Ricky Gervais Show (S)
(HD) 2.30 South Park (S) (HD)
4.15—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
10.00 The Coroner (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Death in Paradise (S) (AD)
(HD) 4.00pm Frankie Drake
Mysteries: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Murdoch Mysteries 10/12
Series 15. Murdoch investigates the
murder of a satirical cartoonist. (HD)
7.00 New. Hudson & Rex 8/16
Series 4. After an elite hockey
prospect is found dead, Charlie
and Jesse disagree over the prime
suspect in the case. (AD) (HD)
8.00 15/16 Series 1. Charlie and
Rex investigate the death of a
figure skating coach. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise 8/8
Series 8. The morning after a
storm on Saint Marie, Jack finds
a corpse on the floor of the
locked police station. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Miss Scarlet and the Duke
1/6 Series 1. Crime drama set in
Victorian London. After a woman
inherits her father’s detective
agency, she is obliged to find a
male business partner. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Death in Paradise 5/8
Series 2. Camille’s best friend
collapses on stage. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Frankie Drake
Mysteries (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00—4.00am
Hudson & Rex: double bill (AD) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

Discovery

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Discovering: Tom Cruise
(S) 7.00 Discovering: Kevin Costner
(S) 8.00 The Directors (S) 10.00
Escobar by Escobar 12 noon The
United Way (S) (AD) 2.00pm Laurel
and Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
(S) (AD) 3.50 Well Groomed (S) (AD)
5.30pm The Battle of the Sexes
★★★ Chronicling the
build-up to the historic
tennis match in 1973 between
top women’s player Billie Jean
King and former Wimbledon
champion Bobby Riggs. (S) (W)
7.00 I Am Paul Walker The life
and legacy of the American actor,
who rose to fame in the Fast and
Furious franchise, but died at the
age of 40 after a car crash.
9.00 The Armstrong Lie ★★★★
Charting cyclist Lance
Armstrong’s attempt to win
the Tour de France again four
years after retiring. In the course
of filming, director Alex Gibney
and his crew are presented with
revelations about Armstrong that
will stun the sporting world. (S) (W)
11.15 For No Good Reason
Documentary about the life and
work of artist Ralph Steadman. (S)
1.00am City of Queens (S) 2.30
Icahn: The Restless Billionaire (S)
4.25 Premier League Legends:
Robert Pires (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00—6.00am The Directors (S)

q

q

Nat Geographic

Alien Abyss 7.00pm The

survival skills of clownfish

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am The Wild Wild East (S) (HD)
9.00 Battle of the Alphas (S) (AD)
10.00 Big Cats: an Amazing Animal
Family (S) (AD) 12 noon David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure:
Home Planet (S) (AD) 1.00pm David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure:
the Rise (S) (AD) 2.00pm Amazing
Animal Friends: four editions (S)
6.00pm New. Weird, Wild and
Wonderful Discovering some of
the quaint and quirky characters
that fill the natural world.
7.00 New. Alien Abyss A look
at the planet’s strangest animals,
from ocean-dwelling snapping
shrimp to wolf eels. (S) (HD)
8.00 Wild Animal Babies Patrick
Aryee examines how offspring
depend on their mothers. (S)
9.00 David Attenborough’s
Galapagos The broadcaster
explores the archipelago. (S) (AD)
10.00 Deadly Hunters Creatures
that lead the way in the battle of
predator versus prey, including
the great white shark. (S) (AD)
11.00 Weird, Wild and Wonderful
As 6pm.
12 midnight Alien Abyss (S) (HD)
1.00am David Attenborough’s
Galapagos (S) (AD) 2.00 Impossible
Animals (S) (AD) 3.00 Wild
Kingdoms (S) (AD) 4.00—6.00am
The Wild Wild East (S) (HD)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge’s Mine
Rescue (S) (HD) 3.00pm Gold Rush
the Dirt: the Hoffman Story (HD) 6.00
Alaskan Bush People: Billy rallies the
family towards the next stage of North
Star Ranch (S) (HD) 7.00 New. Alaska:
Homestead Rescue: following families
who are moving off-grid in Alaska (S)
(HD) 9.00 New. Blowing Up History:
scientists use pioneering acoustic
imaging technology to discover Venice’s
ancient foundations (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car: the
boys race to find a Caterham sports car
for a man living with a degenerative
condition (HD) 11.00 Moonshiners (HD)
12 midnight Yukon Men (S) (HD)
3.00am Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car
(HD) 4.00—6.00am Yukon Men (S) (HD)

8.00am Seconds from Disaster (S)
(AD) (HD) 11.00 Chasing UFOs (HD)
12 noon UFOs: the Untold Stories (HD)
1.00pm Japan: between Earth and Sky
(HD) 4.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt (S)
(AD) (HD) 6.00 The Dinosaur Hunter
(HD) 7.00 Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00
New. Dutch Caribbean Coastguards: a
fisherman is missing, and as the guards
trace smugglers’ tracks, they stumble
upon a remarkable discovery (HD)
9.00 To Catch a Smuggler: HSI enacts
a controlled delivery of gun parts in
NYC (S) (HD) 10.00 Trafficked with
Mariana Van Zeller: an online romance
scam (HD) 11.00 Science of Stupid:
double bill. Jumping with a snowmobile,
then back-flipping on a motorbike (S) (HD)
12 midnight—5.00am Science of
Stupid: ten back-to-back editions (S) (HD)

9.00am Life on Earth (AD) 11.00
Galapagos (HD) 2.00pm Earth: the
Power of the Planet (HD) 5.00 Iceland:
a Wild Life (AD) (HD) 6.00 Galapagos:
triple bill. An exploration of the
archipelago, beginning with the islands’
geological history 7.00 The evolution
of species on the islands 8.00 The
islands’ extreme weather (HD) 9.00
Earth: the Power of the Planet: triple
bill. A look at the powerful natural
forces that shaped the planet, starting
with volcanos 10.00 Dr Iain Stewart
examines Earth’s atmosphere (HD)
11.00 Examining how ice changed
the course of human evolution (HD)
12 midnight Iceland: a Wild Life (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Galapagos (HD) 3.50
Earth: the Power of the Planet (HD)
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Sunday Television

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Hour of Power (HD) 7.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 10.00 Magnum P.I.
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (HD) 4.00pm A League of
Their Own: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm A League of Their Own
Outtakes and pranks from the
latest series. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Rugby’s Funniest Moments
Some of the sport’s most
amusing events. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Resident Alien 6/8 Series 2
Harry and Asta travel to New York
looking for one of his people, but
things go horribly wrong. (S) (HD)
9.00 Magnum P.I. Ep 14 Series 4
A bail bondsman hires Thomas
and Higgins to find a woman who
failed to appear in court, but the
pair discover that they are not the
only ones looking for her. (S) (HD)
10.00 NCIS: New Orleans 14/16
Series 7. Pride directs the team to
link Sasha to attacks in New Orleans
and helps Connor come to terms
with who his mother is. (S) (HD)
11.00 Brassic 8/8 Series 3
McCann’s men kidnap Tyler as a
warning to Erin. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight SEAL Team (S) (HD)
1.00am The Force: North East (HD)
2.00 Road Wars (S) 3.00 Caught
on Dashcam (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00—
6.00am Highway Cops (S) (HD)

Gold

The Battle of the Sexes
5.30pm The historic match

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am Mysteries at the Museum
9.00 Combat Dealers (S) (AD) 12 noon
Expedition Unknown 3.00pm Combat
Dealers (S) 6.00 World War II: Witness
to War: triple bill. With the United States
joining the conflict, Western forces
brought the war to the Axis front — with
extreme costs 7.00 Japan’s expansion
into South East Asia 8.00 How the
conflict took root in Africa (S) 9.00
The Somme: the First 24 Hours: Tony
Robinson assesses the events of the
first day of the Battle of the Somme (S)
10.00 Greatest Events of World War II (S)
12 midnight Al Murray’s Road to Berlin
(S) 2.00am Combat Dealers (S) 3.00
Massive Engineering Mistakes (S) 4.00
Combat Dealers (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am
Massive Engineering Mistakes (S)

6.00am Counting Cars (HD) 7.00 The
Proof Is Out There (HD) 9.00 History’s
Greatest Mysteries (HD) 11.00 Pawn
Stars (HD) 1.00pm Curse of the Lost
Amazon Gold (HD) 6.00 The Curse of
Oak Island 7.00 Black Patriots: Heroes of
the Revolution (HD) 8.00 New. Black
Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War: an
insight into the US Civil War and the
heroic figures who helped define and
reshape the reality of a democracy (HD)
9.00 New series. Abraham Lincoln:
examining the life of America’s 16th
president, beginning with his rise from
a poverty-ridden childhood (HD) 11.30
Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (HD)
12.30am Pawn Stars: nine back-to-back
editions (HD) 5.00—6.00am Black
Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War (HD)

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Dogs: the Untold Story (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S)
(AD) (HD) 11.00 Tanked (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Crikey! It’s the Irwins (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Crocodile Hunter (S) (AD) 3.00 Born
Mucky: Life on the Farm (S) (HD) 4.00
Scaled (S) (HD) 5.00 Legend of Deep
Blue (S) (HD) 6.00 Predators Up Close
with Joel Lambert (HD) 7.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue (S) (HD) 8.00 New.
Crikey! It’s the Irwins (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Crocodile Hunter: sharks and crocodiles
on the west Australian coast (S) (AD)
10.00 Mountain Monsters (S) (HD)
12 midnight I Was Prey (HD) 2.00am
Crikey! It’s the Irwins (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Crocodile Hunter (S) (AD) 4.00—
5.00am Mountain Monsters (S) (HD)

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

57

SUNDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW
Film4

Sky Premiere
14

Television Sunday

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am The Pink Panther
★★★★ A bumbling French
detective is assigned to protect a
famous diamond in this hilarious
comedy. David Niven, Peter Sellers (1963, PG) (S)
1.20pm The Longest Ride ★★
Scott Eastwood and Britt Robertson
bravely struggle against the turgid
script of this romance adapted from
Nicholas Sparks’s novel. (2015, 12) (S) (AD)
3.50 Deep Impact ★★★★
A great cast deals with looming
widespread disaster in this chilling,
convincingly staged drama that
sees a massive asteroid headed for
Earth. Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni (1998, 12) (S)

6.10pm The Martian ★★★★
Matt Damon is the abandoned
astronaut struggling for survival
on Mars in a compelling drama
that highlights ingenuity over
spectacle. Review p28. (2015, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 Independence Day:
Resurgence ★★ The interstellar
invaders return in director
Roland Emmerich’s strangely
underpowered sci-fi sequel. Liam
Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum (2016, 12) (S) (AD)

11.20 Legend ★★★ Tom Hardy
excels in dual roles playing the
Kray twins in this fascinating if
slight biopic. Emily Browning (2015, 18) (S) (AD)
1.55—4.00am A Fantastic
Woman 5 Rousing drama
starring a mesmerising Daniela
Vega as a trans woman fighting for
her dignity following the sudden
death of her lover. (2017, 15) (S)
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am The Riverside Murder
★★ Crime drama. Basil Sydney (1935) (S)
7.15 Seven Doors to Death ★★
Romantic mystery. Chick Chandler (1944) (S)
8.30 The Secret People ★ Wordy
crime drama about an assassination
plot. Valentina Cortesa (1951, PG) (S) 10.20
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
★★★ Melodramatic tale of
forbidden love that famously won
Oscars for its score and title song.
William Holden, Jennifer Jones (1955, U) (S)

12.25pm Nickelodeon ★★★
Charming tribute to the early days
of film-making. Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds
(1976, U) (S) 2.55 The Lost World
★★★ Thrilling fantasy adventure.
Michael Rennie, Jill St John (1960, PG) (S)

5.00 The Footage Detectives (S)
6.00pm The Saint TV thriller. (S)
7.00 Doctor in Trouble ★★ Leslie
Phillips winds up as a steward on
board a luxury liner in this innocently
smutty final entry in the medical
comedy series. Harry Secombe (1970, PG)
9.00 Secret Army TV drama. (S)
10.05 Hands of the Ripper ★★★
One of Hammer Films more
entertaining later offerings, a piece
of nonsense about Jack the
Ripper’s daughter starring
Angharad Rees. Eric Porter (1971, 15)
11.45 The Heritage Chart Show
with Mike Read TV music show.
12.50am Blame It on the Bellboy
★★★ A bellboy is responsible for a
series of mistaken identity mix-ups
in this fun, slapstick-style comedy.
Dudley Moore, Bryan Brow, Richard Griffiths (1992, 12)

2.25 Heller in Pink Tights ★★★
Colourful western about the antics
of a travelling theatrical troupe.
Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn (1960, PG) (S)

4.30 Circle Canyon 5.30—6.00am
Sherlock Holmes: TV mystery (S)

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

58

p The Wedding Guest 111 9.00pm Great Movies
Things don’t quite go according to plan when mysterious Dev Patel
travels to Pakistan to kidnap a bride before her wedding ceremony

Great Movies

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am My Daughter Is Innocent
★★ Thriller. Victoria Pratt (2017) 10.40 Do
You Know Me? ★★ Serviceable
made-for-TV thriller. Rachelle Lefèvre (2008)
12.30pm Heart of a Stranger ★★
Drama starring Jane Seymour.
Review p28. (2002) 2.20 Small
Soldiers ★★★ Slick fantasy action
adventure. Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith (1998, PG)
4.30 Holy Man ★★ Wearisome
comedy drama. Eddie Murphy (1998, PG)
6.45pm i The Cobbler ★★
Bizarre fantasy comedy in which
Adam Sandler’s shoemaker
discovers a way to experience the
lives of his customers. (2014, 12)
9.00 i The Wedding Guest ★★★
Dev Patel stars in this thriller about
a man on a mission in Pakistan.
Review p28. Radhika Apte (2018, 15)
11.05 Cold in July ★★★★
A Texas family man is forced into a
downward spiral of violence in this
bracingly retro-style thriller with
Michael C Hall. Sam Shepard (2014, 15)
1.30am Vincent N Roxxy ★★
A troubled pair fall in love and go on
the run from villains in the Louisiana
badlands in this derivative, violent
thriller. Emile Hirsch, Zoë Kravitz (2016, 15)
3.45—5.50am Breaker Morant
★★★★ Powerful drama based on
the true story of three Australian
soldiers court-martialled by the
British during the Boer war. Edward
Woodward, Jack Thompson (1979, PG)

+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Stealth: the Art of Deception
7.10 Deadly Voltage ★★ Disaster
drama. Mike Dopud (2015) 8.50 Stonados
★★ Disaster thriller. Paul Johansson (2013, 12)
10.35 The Nevadan ★★ Western.
Randolph Scott (1950, U) 12.20pm Decision
before Dawn ★★★ Oscar-nominated
wartime spy drama. Richard Basehart
(1951, PG) 2.45 Tracker ★★★ Period
action adventure. Ray Winstone (2010, 12)
4.50 Sink the Bismarck! ★★★★
Thoughtful and compelling second
World War drama. Kenneth More (1960, U)
6.55pm She Wore a Yellow
Ribbon 5 A cavalry officer
escorts two women through hostile
territory. John Wayne, Joanne Dru (1949, PG)
9.00 The Exception ★★ War
drama about a German soldier who
falls for a Jewish maid. Lily James (2016, 15)
11.10 Into the Sun ★★ Typical
Steven Seagal action thriller. (2005, 18)
1.00am Harrigan ★★ Muddled
crime drama. Stephen Tompkinson (2013, 15)
3.00—4.00am The Blitz on Hamburg
+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am The Set-Up ★★★★
Knockout boxing drama. Robert Ryan,
Audrey Totter (1949, PG) 7.25 Born to Be
Bad ★★ Drama. Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan,
Zachary Scott (1950, PG) 9.15 Idol on
Parade ★★ Fun musical comedy.
Anthony Newley (1959, PG) 10.55 You Must
Be Joking! ★★ Farce. Michael Callan,
Lionel Jeffries, Denholm Elliott (1965, U) 1.00pm
What a Carve Up! ★★★ Comedy
horror. Kenneth Connor, Sidney James (1961, U)
2.50 One, Two, Three ★★★★
Fast-talking Cold War comedy.
Review p31. James Cagney, Horst Buchholz
(1961, U) 5.05 Enigma ★★ Well-cast
thriller. Martin Sheen, Sam Neill (1982, 15)
7.10 Gideon of Scotland Yard
★★★★ Entertaining, skilfully
directed British police drama, that
follows a busy day in the life of
inspector Jack Hawkins. (1958, PG)
9.05 Women in Love 5
Vibrant adaptation of DH Lawrence’s
novel of sexual passions. Review
p30. Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates (1969, 15)
11.40 Shampoo ★★★ Smart
comedy about a hairdresser who
takes the needs of his clients very
seriously indeed. Warren Beatty (1975, 18)
1.50am Trail Street ★★ Western.
Randolph Scott (1947, U) 3.30 Hell Squad
★★ Second World War drama. Wally
Campo (1958) 4.35—6.00am Machine
Gun Kelly ★★★ Vivid biographical
crime drama. Charles Bronson (1958, 12)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am Independence
Day-saster ★★ Cut-price sci-fi
action drama. Ryan Merriman (2013)
10.00 Star Trek: five back-to-back
episodes of the TV sci-fi starring
William Shatner 3.00pm Frank
Herbert’s Children Of Dune: threepart TV sci-fi miniseries starring
Alec Newman and Julie Cox
8.30pm Tales from the Darkside
TV horror anthology series.
9.00 The 6th Day ★★★★
Terrific futuristic thriller about a
conspiracy to take over the world
with clones. Arnold Schwarzenegger (2000, 15)
11.20 Desolation ★★ A mother
and her children are stalked
through the woods by a creepy
stranger in this tense horror. (2017, 15)
12.50am Echoes of Fear ★★★
A woman inherits her grandfather’s
house, which holds a series of
mysteries. Trista Robinson, Hannah Race (2018, 15)
2.40—4.30am Honeymoon ★★★
Tense and intimate chiller that sees
a couple’s honeymoon escalate into
alien-induced chaos. Rose Leslie (2014, 15)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

Sky Gangsters

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
7.25am Spirit Untamed As
4.35pm 9.00 As 6.10pm 10.50
As 9.40pm 12.55pm As 8pm
2.35 Reminiscence ★★★
Noir-ish sci-fi thriller. Hugh Jackman,
Rebecca Ferguson (2021, 12) 4.35 Spirit
Untamed ★★ Sweet animated
adventure. Isabela Merced (2021, U)

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.00am The Italian Job ★★★
Comedy caper. Michael Caine (1969, PG)
7.45 Collateral ★★★★ Action
crime thriller. Tom Cruise (2004, 15) 9.50
Heat ★★★★ Crime thriller. Al Pacino
(1995, 15) 12.40pm The Godfather
Part II 5 Breathtaking crime
drama. Al Pacino, Robert Duvall (1974, 15)

6.10pm Blacklight ★★ Thriller in
which a specialist agent uncovers
a conspiracy and is targeted by
his own organisation. Liam Neeson (2022)
8.00 i Barbarians ★★ Twisty,
satirical home-invasion thriller
that sees a get-together violently
interrupted. Iwan Rheon (2021, 15)
9.40 The Many Saints of
Newark 5 Satisfying 1970sset prequel to TV’s The Sopranos.
Review p38. Alessandro Nivola (2020, 15)

4.00pm No Country for Old
Men 5 Masterful thriller.

11.45pm Don’t Breathe 2 ★★
Horror. (2021, 18) 1.30am As 2.35pm
3.40 People Just Do Nothing:
Big in Japan ★★★Good-humoured
comedy. (2021, 15) 5.30 As 8pm

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem (2007, 15)

6.05 Baby Driver ★★ Thriller
in which a getaway driver tries to
leave a life of crime. Ansel Elgort (2017, 15)
8.00 The Godfather Part III
★★★ Final part of the epic crime
saga. Al Pacino, Diane Keaton (1990, 15)
10.50 American Gangster
★★★★ Crime drama about a cop
and a drugs lord. Denzel Washington (2007, 18)
1.30am Shaft ★★★★ Crime
thriller. Samuel L Jackson (2000, 18) 3.15
Silent Night ★★ Crime thriller.
Bradley Taylor (2020, 15) 4.55 Billionaire
Boys Club ★★ Crime drama based
on a true story. Ansel Elgort (2017)

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.00am Mr Popper’s Penguins
★★★ Comedy. (2011, PG) 7.35 Stealth
★★ Action adventure thriller. Josh
Lucas (2005, 12) 9.40 Inception ★★★★
Sci-fi action thriller. Leonardo DiCaprio
(2010, 12) 12.10pm Mass ★★★ Searing
drama. Jason Isaacs (2021, 12) 2.10 Ted 2
★★★ Comedy. Mark Wahlberg (2015, 15)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
6.20am The Way We Were
★★★★ Starry romantic drama.
Barbra Streisand (1973, PG) 8.20 St Elmo’s
Fire ★★★ Glossy drama. Emilio Estevez
(1985, 15) 10.15 Grease ★★★★
Musical. John Travolta (1978, PG) 12.15pm
First Knight ★★★ Adventure. Sean

4.10pm Mad Max: Fury Road
★★★★ Exhilarating action
adventure. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron (2015, 15)
6.15 Roald Dahl’s The Witches
★★★★ Fun remake of the
children’s fantasy. Anne Hathaway (2020, PG)
8.00 Fast & Furious 7 ★★★★
Globetrotting entry in the
muscle-car franchise. Vin Diesel (2014, 12)
10.20 Anger Management
★★★ Energetic comedy starring
Adam Sandler. Jack Nicholson (2003, 15)

2.30pm Lawrence of Arabia
5 Magisterial portrayal of
enigmatic hero TE Lawrence.

12.10am Team America: World
Police ★★★ Very funny and
hugely offensive satire from the
creators of South Park. Trey Parker,
Matt Stone (2004, 15) 2.00 As 6am
3.50 Stealth As 7.35am

Sky Action

Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond (1995, PG)

Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn (1962, PG)

6.05 Twister ★★★ Bill Paxton
and Helen Hunt dodge tornados in
this engrossing action adventure
packed with special effects. (1996, PG)
8.00 Beverly Hills Cop ★★★★
Eddie Murphy brings swagger to
the role of a streetwise cop in this
blockbuster action comedy. (1984, 15)
10.00pm Moneyball ★★★★
Engrossing true-story baseball
drama. Brad Pitt (2011, 12) 12.15am
Roman Holiday 5 Sublime
romantic comedy. Audrey Hepburn (1953, U)
2.15 As 10.15am 4.15 As 8.20am

Sky Comedy

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
6.00am Skyfire ★★ Explosive
volcano disaster thriller. Jason Isaacs
(2019, 12) 7.50 Ghost Rider ★★
Action fantasy horror. Nicolas Cage,
Eva Mendes (2007, 15) 9.50 Elektra ★★
Glossy martial arts action fantasy.
Jennifer Garner (2005, 12) 11.40 As 8pm
1.40pm As 10pm 3.40 As 11.55pm

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
6.40am Alan Partridge: Alpha
Papa ★★★★ Refreshing comedy.
Steve Coogan (2013, 15) 8.25 Madea’s
Family Reunion ★★ Comedy
drama. (2006, 12) 10.20 The Longest
Yard ★★★ Prison sports comedy.
(2005, 12) 12.20pm You Don’t Mess
with the Zohan ★★ Comedy. (2008, 12)

5.40pm The Bourne Legacy
★★★ Jeremy Renner is a trained
killer forced to go on the run in
this tense action thriller. (2012, 12)
8.00 The Bourne Identity
★★★★ Crisp, fast-paced action
thriller in which Matt Damon
plays a spy with amnesia. (2002, 12)
10.00 The Bourne Supremacy
★★★★ Matt Damon returns as
the ex-CIA operative in this
exciting spy thriller sequel. (2004, 12)

2.15pm Talladega Nights: the
Ballad of Ricky Bobby ★★
Racing-car comedy. Will Ferrell (2006, 15)
4.20 The Joneses ★★★ Witty
satire about a seemingly perfect
family. David Duchovny, Demi Moore (2009, 15)
6.05 Miss Congeniality ★★★★
An FBI agent goes under cover at
a beauty pageant. Sandra Bullock (2000, 12)
8.00 Sex Tape ★★ A couple try
to pep up their marriage in this
comedy. Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel (2014, 15)

11.55pm The Bourne Ultimatum
5 Superb third entry in the
spy thriller series about a former
agent trying to piece together his
past. Matt Damon, Julia Stiles (2007, 12)
1.55am As 5.40pm 4.15 As 6am

9.45pm Bad Teacher ★★
Outrageous comedy. Cameron Diaz (2011, 15)
11.30 This Is the End ★★★★
Riotous satirical comedy. James Franco,
Jonah Hill (2013, 15) 1.20am As 10.20am
3.15 As 6.40am 4.50 As 8.25am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SUNDAY 3 APRIL
Sky Wizarding
Sky
Family World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
6.30am Curious George 2:
Follow That Monkey! ★★ (2009, U)
8.00 Monster Family 2 ★★ (2021)
9.45 Two by Two: Overboard!
★★ (2020, U) 11.15 Pil’s Adventures
★★ (2021) 1.00pm As 10.30pm 2.40
The Red Turtle 5 (2016, PG)
4.10 Coraline ★★★★ (2008, PG)

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.50am Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets ★★★★
Atmospheric fantasy adventure. Daniel
Radcliffe (2002, PG) 9.30 The Prisoner
of Azkaban ★★★★ Edgy fantasy
adventure. Daniel Radcliffe (2004, PG) 12 noon
The Goblet of Fire ★★★★ Fantasy
adventure. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint (2005, 12)

6.00pm Surf’s Up ★★★
Penguins hit the waves in this slick
action comedy. Shia LaBeouf (2007, PG)
7.30 Mr Peabody & Sherman
★★★★ A genius talking dog
adopts a human boy. Ty Burrell (2013, U)
9.05 Leo Da Vinci: Mission
Mona Lisa ★★★ Wholesome
adventure. Johnny Bosch (2018, U)
10.30 Madagascar ★★★ Four
animal friends leave their zoo
and head for the wild. Ben Stiller (2005, U)

2.40pm The Order of the
Phoenix ★★★★ Harry assembles
a student army. Daniel Radcliffe (2007, 12)
5.00 The Half-Blood Prince
★★★★ Brooding episode in the
magical franchise. Daniel Radcliffe (2009, 12)
7.35 The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 ★★★ Doom-laden build-up
to the series finale. Daniel Radcliffe (2010, 12)
10.05 The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 Voldemort and
Harry clash for the final time. (2011, 12)

12 midnight The Swan Princess:
the Secret of the Castle ★★
Musical fantasy. Michelle Nicastro (1997, U)
1.20am As 6.30am 2.45 As 8am
4.35 The Magic Roundabout
★★★ Fantasy adventure. (2005, U)

12.20am The Philosopher’s
Stone ★★★★ Harry is whisked off
to Hogwarts wizarding school in this
entertaining fantasy adventure.
Daniel Radcliffe (2001, PG) 3.00 As 6.50am
5.45 Sky Cinema Preview

Sky Thriller

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
6.45am The Dry As 2.45pm
8.55 The Desperate Hour As
4.50pm 10.35 KIMI As 6.20pm
12.15pm As 8pm 2.45 The Dry
★★★ Compelling outback crime
drama. Eric Bana (2020) 4.50 The
Desperate Hour ★★★ Gimmicky
but engaging thriller. Naomi Watts (2021)

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.55am Milk 5 Biographical
drama. Sean Penn (2008, 15) 9.15 Finding
the Way Back ★★★ Drama. (2019, 15)
11.15 Foxcatcher 5 Sports
drama. Steve Carell (2014, 15) 1.45pm Mud
★★★★ Drama. Matthew McConaughey
(2012, 12) 4.00 Steel Magnolias
★★★★ Comedy drama. (1989, PG)

6.20pm KIMI ★★★★ Twisty
thriller in which a tech worker
must overcome her agoraphobia
to report a crime. Zoë Kravitz (2022, 15)
8.00 Angels & Demons ★★
Tom Hanks’s professor visits
Rome in this glossy sequel to hit
mystery The Da Vinci Code. (2009, 12)
10.20 Killer Joe ★★ Crime
thriller about a drug dealer who
hires a psycho detective to kill
his mother. Matthew McConaughey (2011, 18)

6.00pm Military Wives ★★★★
True story about women who form
a choir while their partners are
on active duty. Kristin Scott Thomas (2019, 12)
8.00 Whiplash 5 Miles
Teller is the aspiring drummer and
JK Simmons his tough-love tutor
in this blistering drama. (2014, 15)
9.50 The United States vs
Billie Holiday ★★★ Biopic
about Billie Holiday’s persecution
by the FBI. Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes (2021, 15)

12.10am State Like Sleep ★★★
Mystery drama. Katherine Waterston (2018, 15)
2.05 Gutterbug ★★★★ Drama.
Andrew Yackel (2019, 18) 3.55 Centigrade
★★ Thriller. Genesis Rodriguez (2020, 15)
5.30 Sky Cinema Preview

12.05am The Death and Life of
John F Donovan ★★ Drama.
Kit Harington (2018, 15) 2.20 Wander
Darkly ★★★ Drama. Diego Luna (2020, 15)
4.10 Hearts and Bones ★★★★
Thoughtful drama. Hugo Weaving (2019)

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
6.00am Gremlins 2: the New
Batch As 4.25pm 8.00 Oblivion
★★★ Thought-provoking sci-fi
action adventure. Tom Cruise (2013, 12)
10.10 Blumhouse’s The Craft:
Legacy ★★ Slick fantasy horror.
Cailee Spaeny (2020, 15) 11.50 As 8pm
1.35pm Interstellar As 9.45pm

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Directors
7.10 Off Set 7.25 The Walking
Hills ★★★ Treasure-hunt western.
(1949) 9.05 Secret of Treasure
Mountain ★★ (1956, U) 10.30 Kansas
Pacific ★★ (1953, PG) 12.05pm
Laramie Mountains ★★ (1952, U)
1.15 Stage to Tucson ★★ (1950, U)

4.25pm Gremlins 2: the New
Batch ★★★ Cracking black
comedy horror. Zach Galligan (1990, 12)
6.15 Little Fish ★★★ Sci-fi
romance about a couple affected
by memory loss. Olivia Cooke (2020, 15)
8.00 Freaky ★★★ Lively bodyswap slasher comedy with Vince
Vaughn as a serial killer. (2020, 15)
9.45 Interstellar ★★★★ Sci-fi
epic about an astronaut trying to
save Earth. Matthew McConaughey (2014, 12)

3.00pm The Left Handed Gun
★★★★ Western about legendary
outlaw Billy the Kid. Paul Newman (1958, PG)
5.15 Money, Women and Guns
★★ Western with a mystery
edge. Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter (1958, U)
6.55 The Westerner ★★★★
Intriguing, Oscar-winning
western. Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan (1940, U)
9.00 The Holcroft Covenant
★★ An architect gets a letter from
his dead Nazi father. Michael Caine (1985, 15)

12.35am The Omen ★★★
Competent remake of the classic
1976 shocker. Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia
Farrow (2006, 15) 2.35 Blumhouse’s
The Craft: Legacy As 10.10am
4.25 Little Fish As 6.15pm

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

11.25pm Interview with the
Vampire ★★★ Horror. Tom Cruise (1994, 18)
1.55am Mutiny on the Bounty
★★★★ Historical adventure. (1962, 12)
5.00 Hollywood’s Best Directors
+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

SPORT
Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441

Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Premier League Highlights

6.00am Italian Football: Serie A action

1.00pm LIVE Premier League
Football Coverage of West Ham
United v Everton (kick-off 2.00);
4.00 Tottenham v Newcastle Utd.
7.30 LIVE Women’s Super
League Football Chelsea v Reading,
joining the WSL match in progress.

7.00 LIVE Australian Football
Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets.
9.00 Wrestling (AD) 11.00 ESPN FC
11.30 LIVE Italian Football
Fiorentina v Empoli (kick-off 11.30).
1.30pm National League Football
2.00 LIVE Premiership Rugby
Union London Irish v Harlequins.
5.15 Rugby Tonight 6.00 Rugby
Stories (AD) 6.30 National League
Football 7.00 Italian Football
7.45 LIVE Italian Football
Juventus v Inter Milan (kick-off 7.45).
10.00 Europa League Magazine
11.00 Rugby Union 12.30am
Squash 1.30 One-Day Cricket
2.30—6.00am LIVE
International One-Day Cricket
New Zealand v Netherlands, the
third and final ODI in the series,
held at Seddon Park in Hamilton.
Coverage continues until 11.15am.

9.30 Women’s Super League Football
10.00 Premier League Highlights
3.15am Greatest Games 4.00 Best
Goals 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

Scottish Premiership
11.00am Sky Football Rangers’
Colombian star Alfredo Morelos

Sky Main Event
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440
6.00am LIVE Women’s Cricket
World Cup Continued coverage of
this year’s final in Christchurch.
10.00 Premier League Matchday
11.00 LIVE Scottish Premiership
Football Coverage of Rangers v
Celtic from Ibrox (kick-off 12.00).
2.00pm LIVE Premier League
Football West Ham Utd v Everton at
the London Stadium (kick-off 2.00);
4.00 Tottenham Hotspur v
Newcastle United (kick-off 4.30).
7.30 LIVE Women’s Super
League Football Chelsea v Reading.
9.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
final day of the Valero Texas Open.
11.00 LIVE LPGA Tour Golf Day
four of the Chevron Championship.
2.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am League One and Two Goals
6.30 Championship Highlights
7.30 French Women’s Football 9.30
Old Firm Derby Best Goals 10.00
Scottish Premiership Football

11.00 LIVE Scottish Premiership
Football Coverage of Rangers v
Celtic from Ibrox (kick-off 12.00).
2.30pm LIVE EFL Trophy Final
Rotherham United v Sutton United
at Wembley Stadium (kick-off 3.00).
5.30 Championship Highlights
6.00 League One and Two Goals
6.30 LIVE Women’s Super
League Football Chelsea v Reading
at Kingsmeadow (kick-off 6.45).
9.30 Scottish Premiership Football
1.00am EFL Trophy Final 1.30 Scottish
Premiership Football 2.00 EFL Trophy
Final: Rotherham v Sutton 5.00—
6.00am Championship Highlights

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am Women’s Amateur Golf 9.30
LPGA Tour Golf: Chevron Championship
12.30pm Vamos! Garcia’s Glory

1.00 LIVE Drive, Chip and Putt
Coverage from Augusta National.
6.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
final day of the Valero Texas Open
11.00 LIVE LPGA Tour Golf Final
day of the Chevron Championship.
2.00am Best of the Open Zone (AD) 3.00
British Masters Masterclass 4.00 Golf
Academy 5.00 Golf and the Climate
Crisis 5.30—6.00am PGA Tour: the Cut

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 520/HD 510 BT 429/HD 449
6.45—8.45am LIVE Australian
Netball Adelaide Thunderbirds v
Giants Netball at Netball SA Stadium.
8.30—11.00pm LIVE NBA
LA Lakers v Denver Nuggets.

BT Sport 1

Sky World Cup
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am LIVE Women’s Cricket
World Cup Continued coverage of
this year’s final in Christchurch.
10.00 LIVE Test Cricket South
Africa v Bangladesh in Durban.
2.50pm LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Chennai Super
Kings v Punjab Kings from Mumbai.
7.00 Women’s Cricket World Cup 8.00
Test Highlights 9.00 Indian Premier
League Cricket 10.00 Women’s Cricket
World Cup 11.00 Test Highlights
12 midnight Indian Premier League
Cricket 1.00am International One-Day
Cricket 2.00 Women’s Cricket World
Cup 3.00 Test Highlights 4.00 Indian
Premier League Cricket 5.00 Best of
the Women’s World Cup 5.15—6.00am
Women’s World T20 Classics

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am Boxing Archive (AD) 9.00
Boxing 12 noon Boxing Archive (AD)
12.30pm Darts Gold (AD) 1.00
Basketball 3.30 Boxing 6.30 Boxing
Archive 7.30 SailGP 9.00 NFL: America’s
Game (AD) 10.00 NFL Highlights 4.00—
6.00am NFL: Super Bowl LVI Highlights

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Drone Racing 8.00 Super
League 9.00 Super League Gold (AD)

9.10 LIVE NRL Parramatta Eels v
St George Illawarra Dragons.
11.10 Super League Gold (AD) 11.15
Super League 12 noon Drone
Racing 2.00pm Netball 4.00 NBA
6.00 LIVE NBA Milwaukee Bucks
v Dallas Mavericks (tip-off 6.00);
8.30 LA Lakers v Denver Nuggets.
11.00 NBA 1.00am Super League
2.00 Premier League Darts
5.30—6.00am Darts Gold (AD)

Eurosport 1
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435
6.00am Cycling: Tour of Flanders

7.15 LIVE Paris Marathon
Coverage of the annual race.
10.00 LIVE Cycling Coverage
of the men’s Tour of Flanders;
3.45pm The women’s race.
5.00 Paris Marathon 6.30 Olympics 7.05
Ski Jumping 8.00 Cycling 10.00 Hall
of Fame 11.00 Formula E 12 midnight
Cycling 4.00—6.00am Darts

Eurosport 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436
6.00am World Superbikes 7.00 Darts
9.00 Golf 9.30 Legends Live On
10.00 Hall of Fame 11.00 Darts

1.00pm LIVE Darts Day two of
the WDF World Championship.
5.00 LIVE Motocross In Portugal.
6.05 Darts: from Frimley Green
7.00 LIVE Darts More from
the WDF World Championship.
11.00 Cycling 12 midnight Ski Jumping
1.00am Hall of Fame 2.00 Darts 4.00
Cycling 5.00—6.00am Superbikes

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am LIVE Australian Rules
Football St Kilda v Richmond;
9.00 West Coast v Fremantle.
12 noon LIVE French Football
Strasbourg v Lens (kick-off 12.00).
2.00pm LIVE MotoGP Warm-ups
for the Grand Prix of Argentina;
3.15 The Moto3 race (start 4.00);
5.00 The Moto2 race (start 5.20);
6.30 The MotoGP Grand Prix of
Argentina (start 7.00).
9.00 Wrestling (AD) 12.45am Reload
1.00 Al Davis vs the NFL (AD) 2.30
Snowboarding (AD) 3.30 Premiership
Rugby Union 5.00 Here Now (AD) 5.15
Holy Grail: the T206 Honus Wagner
(AD) 5.30—6.00am Reload (AD)

Sunday Television

Animation

Sky

BT Sport 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Squash 7.30 Premier League
Highlights 9.00 Premiership Rugby
Union 10.30 Pro League Hockey

12.30pm LIVE Pro League Hockey
India v England, a women’s match
in Bhubaneswar (push-back 12.30).
2.30 Badminton
3.00 LIVE Pro League Hockey
India v England, a men’s match in
Bhubaneswar (push-back 3.00).
5.00 LIVE Italian Football
Sampdoria v Roma (kick-off 5.00).
7.00 Champions League Magazine
7.30 LIVE French Football Paris
Saint-Germain v Lorient (k-o 7.45).
9.45 BT Sport Films (AD) 10.45 Boxing
12.15am Between the Lines 12.45
National League Football 1.15 Champions
League Magazine 1.45 Europa League
Magazine 2.45 UFC 3.45 MotoGP
Films (AD) 5.00—6.00am Fishing (AD)

BT Sport ESPN
Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 Basketball
8.30 ESPN FC 9.00 Basketball
1.00pm Freeride World Tour (AD)

2.00 LIVE Italian Football
Atalanta v Napoli (kick-off 2.00).
4.00 LIVE French Football
Lyon v Angers (kick-off 4.05).
6.00 LIVE Baseball Oklahoma
Sooners v Texas Longhorns.
9.30 BT Sport Reload (AD)
10.00 LIVE Basketball Women’s
National Championship Game.
1.30am Swimming: the NCAA
championship 4.00—6.00am Lacrosse

Amazon Prime
6.00pm LIVE Tennis Coverage
of the Miami Open men’s final.

59

Television Monday

The pick of today’s TV

BEST PRACTICE
Ruth (Deborah Findlay),
Nina (Annabel Scholey),
Hannah (Nicola Walker)
and Rose (Fiona Button)

PICK OF THE DAY

The Split 9.00pm BBC1

DRAMA Abi Morgan’s deliciously addictive saga about high-end divorce

lawyers with astonishingly messy lives returns for a third series. Nicola Walker
and Stephen Mangan are firing on all cylinders as the about-to-get-divorced
couple who are on course for an amicable and “good” split — until that
suddenly goes out of the window after a horribly awkward dinner.
Hannah and Nathan aren’t the only ones struggling to cope with the fallout
of a broken relationship. Law firm Noble, Hale and Defoe have plenty of
clients in need of their services. Among them is a surprisingly saucy countess

Inside Museums
7.30pm BBC4
ARTS Over the next four nights,

BBC4 dots around the home nations
to showcase some of our less
celebrated museums, starting
tonight with “one of Britain’s oldest
and possibly dirtiest”, as our guide
Huw Stephens describes the
National Slate Museum in Gwynedd.
He discovers a tale of landowners who
shattered mountains for profit, and
back-breaking toil for quarrymen.
Tomorrow, Diana Ali visits the
Whitworth in Manchester. On
Wednesday, Lachlan Goudie explores
Glasgow’s enviable collection at the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum, while Thursday finds MarieLouise Muir at the Ulster Folk and
Transport Museums on the outskirts
of Belfast. PATRICK MULKERN

60

Travel Man: 48 Hours
in the Basque Country
8.30pm C4
TRAVEL Joe Lycett and James

Acaster are in Bilbao and San
Sebastián, sampling their food,
art and millinery. They love buying
berets, eating pintxos (bar snacks)
and drinking kalimotxo (red wine
with coke), but frankly their approach
to art is more philistine than cultured.
At the Guggenheim they’re less than
dazzled by a fog sculpture and a
metallic maze. Even the size of the
massive art gallery doesn’t impress:
“Primark in Birmingham is over half
as big,” Joe says bluntly.
But even though they’re a little
blasé about their trip, they’re fun to
watch and the Basque country still
looks gloriously enticing. JR
YRT Travel: page 136

(Lindsay Duncan), but there’s one case that’s uncomfortably close to home...
or rather, the office.
The Split is as slick as ever (oh, just look at the lovely silk shirts, the enviably
large kitchens, the admirably independent women), the dialogue can be sharp
(if you overlook the occasional lapse into greetings-card territory) and there’s
more emotional drama packed into one episode than most families experience
in a year. If you’re looking for glossy, well-made escapism, you’ve found it.
JANE RACKHAM
See feature: page 12

Holding 9.00pm ITV

Inside the Force 24/7

DRAMA If you came to Holding

9.00pm Channel 5

expecting a conventional crime
drama, I’m guessing there have been
times when it’s been a headscratcher.
It’s felt like a whodunnit reflected
through an amusement park’s hall of
mirrors, and familiar conventions
have seemed distorted, warped and
woozy. And this final hour remains
unapologetically strange, as we go
from a whimsical performance of
cult Irish hit Where’s Me Jumper? to
a recollection of childhood loss that
absolutely pierces the heart.
But the resolution to the central
mystery is satisfying, and PJ is far
more than just a standard TV
detective with a grab-bag of foibles.
Should we get to see him probing
another murder in the future, I’d
happily tag along. DAVID BROWN

DOCUMENTARY For most of us,

the easing of lockdown restrictions
last summer brought relief. For
Lincolnshire Police, the country’s
least funded force, it brought a crime
surge and a catalogue of decisions
about how best to allocate resources.
This episode finds the officers of
Lincoln’s South Park station handling
an aggressive young man into a cell
and handing him a public order
offence. A month later, the same
person is back in the station charged
with assault, but the stakes become
much higher with the death of the
victim. The case shows the thoroughness of already overburdened
officers in a high-pressure situation:
for them it’s just another day at the
office. CAROLINE FROST

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

MONDAY 4 APRIL
Streaming TV loves a cosy crime
drama, especially one with a bookish
bent. Following Queens of Mystery
(Acorn TV and C5) and Magpie Murders
(BritBox) is Harry Wild, new today on
Acorn TV and boasting none other
than Jane Seymour in the lead (see
p36). She’s Harriet “Harry” Wild, an
English professor in Ireland who isn’t
sure what to do in retirement. Then
she’s mugged and, having moved in

Police Custody USA

The Challenger

10.00pm C4

10.00pm BBC4

9.00pm Sky Documentaries

DOCUMENTARY Kansas City is awash

DRAMA Following the recent death of

DOCUMENTARY Carl Icahn is a US

with meth. It’s connected to 85 per
cent of the crimes committed here,
so it’s the job of the police’s Narcotics
Unit to try to break the link. Their main
strategy is what they call flipping —
getting low-level dealers to give up
the names of their suppliers, and then
keep going up the chain, hopefully to
the Mexican cartel source.
We follow the unit over a couple of
tense takedowns in parking lots.
And while some suspects give up
their sources readily enough to the
seemingly amenable cops, others are
nervous — “I don’t want my children
dead,” worries one dealer — while
some don’t even bother with the “no
comment” you’d expect in interview
rooms here. GILL CRAWFORD

William Hurt, this 2013 drama offers
a reminder of one of his best TV roles.
He plays Richard Feynman in the
story of the great physicist’s
part in the inquiry into the 1986
Challenger disaster.
The space shuttle has exploded
after launch, killing the crew and
throwing Nasa’s future into doubt.
So Feynman turns detective, but he is
wary of politics and cant: after Ronald
Reagan’s famous speech he mutters,
“I personally doubt they’re touching
the face of God.”
Hurt takes what could be a dry,
technical story and makes it an
inspiring drama about the place of
science in a world of spin and greed.

business financier of formidable
repute. Even his own mother once
compared him to Genghis Khan. Icahn
started life with nothing. He now has a
personal net worth of over $16 billion.
He’s a controversial symbol of the
American Dream, but this borderline
hagiographic HBO profile only
scratches the surface of a potentially
fascinating subject. Icahn is often
accused of being a self-interested
corporate raider. The octogenarian,
who has chutzpah to spare, prefers to
describe himself as an activist investor
who works hard for shareholders. The
film doesn’t pin Icahn down, but you
may find yourself reminded of Logan
Roy from Succession. PAUL WHITELAW

DOWNFALL
Media mogul Robert
Maxwell on his yacht
Lady Ghislaine

DAVID BUTCHER

The Fall of the House of
Maxwell 9.00pm BBC2
DOCUMENTARY New series

The downfall of Ghislaine Maxwell,
convicted in December of child
trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein, is only
the most recent scandal to engulf her
family. As this excellent series charts
— and many will remember — in the
1980s and 90s, there was also the
bucaneering rise and headlong fall of
her publishing mogul father, Robert.
Is there more to be added to what
we already know of Robert Maxwell,
a man who liked to be filmed at work,
providing material for documentaries
ever since? It turns out there is,
because he also liked to tap the phones
of underlings: tapes of their panicked
conversations when Maxwell went
missing from his yacht in 1991 (his
body was later found in the sea) are
heard here for the first time — albeit
revoiced for legal reasons. “Where
the hell could the money have gone?”
rages one executive.
They add up to an extraordinary
story full of vivid testimony — and
tragic detail. DB See feature: page 18

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

University Challenge
8.30pm BBC2
Two teams battle it out in the
grand final to succeed last
year’s winners, the University
of Warwick. Paxo presides.

Butterflies
6.00pm Drama
The first episode of Carla Lane’s
sitcom sees Ria (Wendy Craig)
meeting new love interest
Leonard (Bruce Montague).

Cadbury Exposed:
Dispatches 8.00pm C4
An undercover report from
Ghana to investigate the truth
about Britain’s best-loved
chocolate brand, and the use of
child labour in its supply chain.

Winning Time: the Rise
of the Lakers Dynasty

Monday Television

Icahn: the Restless
Billionaire

BEST OF THE REST

9.00pm Sky Atlantic
As the Lakers prepare for their
season opener, Kareem begins
to doubt his place on the team.

q FILM OF THE DAY
How I Won the War
9.00pm Talking Pictures TV
Surreal, slapstick war satire
starring Michael Crawford as an
inept officer and featuring John
Lennon. (1967) See page 29

LIVE SPORT

 Premier League Football:
Crystal Palace v Arsenal 7pm
(k/o 8pm) Sky Sports Premier
League/Main Event Eberechi
Eze is an exciting talent for Palace.
 Serie A Football: AC Milan v
Bologna 7.30pm (k/o 7.45pm) BT1
 Netball Super League:
Saracens Mavericks v Wasps
5pm (centre pass 5.30) Sky Arena
 Test Cricket: South Africa v
Bangladesh 8.30am Sky Sports
Cricket/Main Event
GETTY

with her detective son (Kevin Ryan)
to recuperate, starts interfering in his
cases — helped by her sidekick Fergus
(Rohan Nedd, near left, with his
co-stars), the man who attacked her,
in whom Harry sees wasted potential.
With the crimes hovering just above
a Midsomer level of plausibility, the
main draws are Harry’s cheerfully
rude disposition — she’s at an age
where she might as well say what she
thinks — and the stories’ enjoyably
unlikely literary themes. JACK SEALE

STREAMING NOW

61

MONDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

Television Monday

BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Sally Nugent, Dan Walker. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Weekday magazine show, hosted
by Gethin Jones and Kym Marsh. (S) (HD)
10.00 New series. Scam Interceptors Rav Wilding
works with a team of ethical hackers to hunt down the
cyber criminals plaguing our lives. (S) (HD)
10.45 Defenders UK A BMW driver is caught dumping
bags of rubbish in a fly-tipping hotspot. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in
Stoke, Cumbria and Southampton. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Christina Trevanion presents
from Shrewsbury. Repeated tomorrow 6.30am BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Doctors Sid deals with a patient who believes
she is dying. Rptd 7pm BBC2 Cast Thursday BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private
Investigators 7/10 Series 3. A tycoon hires Frank and
Lu to keep an eye on his daughters. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country A couple seek a home
in Dorset. Repeated Wednesday 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD)
3.45 The Repair Shop An ageing sound system, a
music box and a saddle that’s crossed the Atlantic are
restored. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Quiz with Ross Kemp. (S) (HD)

BBC2
6.30am Bargain Hunt Charlie Ross presents from
Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Shown last Fri BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.15 The Repair Shop The team restores a mosaic
table in hundreds of pieces. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (HD)
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 Great Coastal Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo visits Port Talbot. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Inside Culture with Mary Beard 5/5 Series 5. The
historian meets British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak. (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm Ready Steady Cook A Birmingham mother
and son take to the kitchen. Rylan presents. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 Eggheads Quiz with Jeremy Vine. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Street Auction Paul Martin helps raise funds
for an inspirational resident of Gloucester. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 The Heights Series 1. Ryan, Renee, Hazel and
Shannon must face up to big changes. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.30 The Customer Is Always Right Customers
test a toothbrush and cleaning products. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.15—5.15 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 1/6 The
adventurer explores South Africa’s coast. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Entertainment and fashion news. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women Daily chat. Repeated 3am (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal David Dickinson and his
team of experts travel to Aerospace Bristol. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00—4.00 Lingo Contestants from London, Preston
and Suffolk take on the fast-paced battle of words.
Adil Ray hosts. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather

Channel 4

62

6.05am Countdown Janet Ellis guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.45 Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.40 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD)
9.05 Frasier Triple bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
10.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The
chef tries to reverse the fortunes of the Mixing Bowl
diner in Bellmore, New York. (R) (S) 11.30 News (S) (HD)
11.35 Undercover Boss USA Xavier Mufraggi, the
CEO of Club Med North America goes under cover
as a laid-back surfer in two of his resorts. (R) (S) (HD)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch Weekday magazine
show hosted by Steph McGovern. (S) (HD)
2.10 Countdown With guest John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Jonnie Irwin helps a
couple from Sheffield to find a holiday home on
Lanzarote with a budget of £280,000. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun A horse lover
from Somerset prepares to make the move to Italy
to open a pony-trekking business. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1

1

BBC2

2

The Split 9.00pm
Reality check:
Hannah is not
happy when she
learns Nathan has
met someone else

House of Maxwell
9.00pm The media
mogul begins his
infamous rise to
power as he buys
the Daily Mirror

5.15pm Pointless

5.15pm Flog It!

Quiz show presented by Alexander Armstrong. (S) (HD)

Items being valued at the RAF Museum at Hendon
in north London include a nautilus shell. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S)
7.00 The One Show

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Milton Jones, Ria Lina, Martin Roberts and Briony
May Williams vie to be the week’s first winner. (S) (HD)

Hosted by Jermaine Jenas and Alex Jones. (S) (HD)

6.30 Lightning

7.30 EastEnders

Comedian Zoe Lyons hosts the quickfire quiz. (S) (HD)

The Carters steel themselves for Tina’s funeral.

7.00 Doctors

Writer Jonny O’Neill Cast on Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Obesity: Who Cares If I’m Bigger? —
Panorama
Actress Clair Norris examines whether the Government
strategy to help the nation lose weight is working and
asks if it is possible to be overweight and healthy.
Producer Jane Goddard; Executive producer Diana Martin
Signed repeat Friday 1.35am BBC2 (S) (HD)

8.30 We Are England 10/10
LONDON/SOUTH/SOUTH EAST Investigative
journalist Livvy Haydock reflects on her formative years.
Director/Producer Abby Newbury (S)

SOUTH WEST/WEST Bristol-born stand-up comic
Jayde Adams on the affection she has for her home city.

Valerie struggles to confront Princess, and Sid has
to deal with a patient who is convinced she is dying.
Writer Ray Brooking This week’s episodes produced by Grainne
O’Boyle, directed by Enda Hughes and David Lewis Richardson
Cast Thursday Shown 1.45pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall
Series 1. Rick takes a trip to the seaside town of
St Ives, heading out to sea to fish for red mullet.
Continues tomorrow 7.30pm. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Mastermind
Tonight’s specialist subjects are the World Snooker
Championship, Jean Harlow, Alexander the Great
and Porridge. Clive Myrie asks the questions.

Director Luke David; Exec producers Mesha Stewart, Sarah Trigg (S) (HD)

Series producer Jude McCaffrey; Executive producers David Young,
Jimmy Mulville, Chris Jones and Kate Middleditch (S) (HD)

EAST Drag queen and LBTQ+ icon Bimini Bon
Boulash returns to their hometown, Great Yarmouth.

8.30 University Challenge

MIDLANDS Actor Jassa Ahluwalia learns how his
mixed heritage shaped his own sense of Englishness.

In the grand final, the last two teams fight for the
title of series champions, as they bid to succeed
2021 winners, Warwick. Jeremy Paxman hosts.

Director Alex Gower-Jackson; Exec producers Mesha Stewart, Sarah Trigg (S)

Director Tracey Rooney; Producer Peter Gwyn (S) (HD)

YORKSHIRE/LINCOLNSHIRE/NORTH WEST
Mobo-winning rap artist and The Rap Game UK victor
Graft embarks on a journey to trace his ancestry.

9.00 House of Maxwell

Executive producers Nisha Lilia Diu, Sarah Trigg (S)

Director Daniel Alexander; Exec producers Sarah Trigg, Debb Swindells (S)

NORTH EAST/CUMBRIA Actor Kema Kay takes a
trip through his home town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Director Maddy Ong; Exec producers Sarah Trigg, Debb Swindells (S) (HD)

9.00 The Split

series. 1/6 Series 3. Abi Morgan’s drama
aNew
examining marriage and separation returns.

Hannah and Nathan are in the final stages of negotiating
their divorce. The whole of series 3 will join series 1
and 2 on iPlayer after this episode is shown. See p60.
Hannah
Nathan
Ruth
Nina
Rose
Ronnie
James
Zander
Tyler
Liv Stern
Tilly Stern
Vinnie Stern

Nicola Walker
Stephen Mangan
Deborah Findlay
Annabel Scholey
Fiona Button
Ian McElhinney
Rudi Dharmalingam
Chukwudi Iwuji
Damien Molony
Elizabeth Roberts
Mollie Cowen
Toby Oliver

Caroline
India
Kate
Felix
Leonora
Prisha
Gemma
Connor
Trudy
Mike
Gael

Lindsay Duncan
Jemima Rooper
Lara Pulver
Clarence Smith
Karen Bryson
Radhika Aggarwal
Viss Elliot Safavi
Howard Corlett
Kate Maravan
Damian Lynch
Alex Guersman

Writer Abi Morgan; Producers Sumrah Mohammed and Emma Genders
Director Dee Koppang O’Leary (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.35 Have I Got a Bit More News for You
1/9. Clive Myrie hosts an extended version of last Friday’s
show with Andy Hamilton and Helen Lewis. (Rev rpt) (S) (HD)

11.20 Paddy and Christine McGuinness:
Our Family and Autism
Following the presenter and his wife as they respond
to the diagnosis of their three children with autism.

series. 1/3. When Ghislaine Maxwell was
a New
convicted in 2021 of trafficking underage girls,

she became a household name, but it was her father,
media mogul Robert Maxwell, who first plunged the
family into notoriety. The saga begins in the 1980s
when he buys the Mirror, achieving his dream of
owning a British newspaper. In New York Maxwell
is celebrated, as he rescues one of the city’s iconic
newspapers. But behind the success there is rising
panic, as executives realise there are huge holes in
the firm’s finances. Then the news breaks that he
has disappeared off his yacht. The whole series will
be on iPlayer after tonight’s episode. See page 61.
Director Daniel Vernon
Producer Ceri Isfryn Repeated Friday 11.05pm (S) (AD) (HD)

See feature: page 18

10.00 Live at the Apollo
Dara O Briain performs and comperes the show,
introducing sets by Mo Gilligan and Felicity Ward.
Director Paul Wheeler; Series producer Anthony Caveney (R) (S) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)
11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

11.15 Couples Therapy
3/9 Series 2. Dru confronts Tashira about their sex
life, and Gianni’s anxieties lead him to a destructive
decision. Series 1 and 2 are on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

11.40 How to Sleep Well with Michael
Mosley
Michael Mosley investigates the latest science and
the surprising health benefits of better sleep.

Executive producers Tom Barry and Emma Loach (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Director Danielle Carpanen; Executive producer Natalie Humphreys
Shown last Thursday (S) (HD)

12.20am ALL EXCEPT NORTH EAST/NORTH WEST
Killing Eve 5/8 Series 4. Carolyn delves into the past.
See choice, page 40. Shown Saturday 9.15pm (S) (AD) (HD)
NORTH EAST/NORTH WEST The Super League Show
Highlights from the latest matches, including Leeds Rhinos v
St Helens. Repeated tomorrow 1pm BBC2 (S) (HD)
1.05 Weather (S) (HD) 1.10—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

12.40—3.40am Sign Zone 12.40 Countryfile Adam
Henson looks at changing farming habits in the face of
pressures to go green. Shown yesterday 8.20am (S) (HD)
1.40 Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce presents the show
from the Bishop’s Palace in Wells, Somerset. (R) (S) (HD)
2.40 MasterChef Nine cooks begin the second round and
make their signature dishes. Shown last Tue BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

MONDAY 4 APRIL
ITV

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

BBC1
SCOTLAND

Holding 9.00pm
Eyes wide open:
PJ’s progress on
the case opens a
Pandora’s box of
inner demons

Travel Man:
48 Hours in the
Basque Country
8.30pm James
and Joe take in
the sights

Ian Hislop’s
Fake News: a
True History
9.00pm The writer
reveals some
little-known facts

6.30—7.00pm Reporting
Scotland; PEB: Scottish
National Party 8.00
Disclosure 8.30—9.00
Scotland’s Home of the
Year 10.35 Obesity: Who
Cares If I’m Bigger? —
Panorama 11.05 Have I
Got a Bit More News for
You 11.50 Paddy and
Christine McGuinness:
Our Family and Autism
12.50am Killing Eve
1.40—6.00 BBC News

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

7.00pm Pubs, Ponds and
Power: the Story of the Village

BBC
SCOTLAND

New series. Two new families of British estate
agents join the experts finding Brits their dream
home in sunny Spain. (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase

6.00 The Simpsons

John, Seok, Dave and Laura work as a team to
take on a Chaser and secure a cash prize. (R) (S) (HD)

Simple Simpson. Homer fights crime. (R) (S) (AD)

Producer Chris Jackson; Series producer
Diana Hare Repeated 1.30am (R) (S) (HD)

6.30 Hollyoaks

7.30 Inside Museums

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)

James is suspected of having committed a crime.
Writer Alan Flanagan Cast Wed/Fri Shown last Friday E4 Rptd
tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

6.25 Party Election Broadcast
By the Conservative Party. (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Meena is determined to walk free from her crimes.
Moira is concerned about Nate’s state of mind.
Writer Bill Taylor For cast see Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Coronation Street
Jon offers Emma the chance of a new life. Toyah
makes a decision in relation to Elsie’s adoption.
Jon Spear
Jordan Ford Silver
Emma Brooker Alexandra Mardell
Toyah Battersby
Georgia Taylor
Ruby Dobbs
Macy Alabi
Summer Spellman
Harriet Bibby
Billy Mayhew Daniel Brocklebank
Abi Webster
Sally Carman
Leanne Battersby
Jane Danson
Imran Habeeb
Charlie de Melo
Hope Stape
Isabella Flanagan
Beth Sutherland
Lisa George
Asha Alahan
Tanisha Gorey
Tyrone Dobbs
Alan Halsall
Aadi Alahan
Adam Hussain

Phill Whittaker
Evelyn Plummer
Fiz Stape
Lou Breslin
Roy Cropper
Nick Tilsley
Craig Tinker
Gail Rodwell
Simon Barlow
Tim Metcalfe
Kevin Webster
Faye Windass
Dr Chakrabarti
Gary Windass

Jamie Kenna
Maureen Lipman
Jennie McAlpine
Lucy Mizen
David Neilson
Ben Price
Colson Smith
Helen Worth
Alex Bain
Joe Duttine
Michael Le Vell
Ellie Leach
Ajay Chhabra
Mikey North

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 Cadbury Exposed
For Dispatches, reporter Antony Barnett goes
under cover in Ghana to investigate the
chocolate brand’s supply chain. He finds
children as young as ten working on plantations
that supply cocoa beans to Mondolez
International, the parent company of Cadbury.
Producer Flora Bagnal; Executive producers Sarah Hey and Miki
Mistrati Repeated Thursday 4.35am (S) (HD)

8.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in the
Basque Country

a

Writers Mark Wadlow and Cameron McAllister
More cast Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

New series. Ep 1. Joe Lycett invites James
Acaster for a long weekend in the Basque
Country. In Bilbao, they soak up art and sample
kalimotxo — red wine and cola mixed — before
heading to the region’s foodie capital, San
Sebastián. Here, they learn to make the Basque
delicacy pintxos before enjoying a glass of fizz
overlooking Mount Igueldo. The whole series is
available on All 4 following the transmission of
this episode. See page 60.

9.00 Holding

Series director Nicola Silk; Series producer Chris Richards
Repeated Wednesday 4.20am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

When PJ uncovers the truth behind the
a4/4.
body, he can no longer turn a blind eye to

those around him in Duneen. As he works to
bring the killer to justice, he is forced to confront
his own personal demons. The whole series is
available on ITV Hub. See page 60.
PJ Collins
Conleth Hill
Bríd Riordan Siobhán McSweeney
Evelyn Ross
Charlene McKenna
Abigail Ross
Helen Behan
Florence Ross
Amy Conroy
Eileen O’Driscoll
Pauline McLynn
DI Linus Dunne
Clinton Liberty
Anthony Riordan
Gary Shelford
Susan Hickey
Eleanor Tiernan
Mrs Meany
Brenda Fricker

Aoife Akingbola Demi Isaac Oviawe
Nora Goggin
Anne Kent
Alan Doddy
Michael Fry
Cormac Byrne Lochlann O Mearáin
Cathal Riordan
Calum Rea
Carmel Riordan
Jane Spollen
John Flynn
Karl Quinn
Martin Flynn
Pat Kinevane
Dr Walshe
Ivet Corvea
Sgt Looney
Gary Murphy

Writer Dominic Treadwell-Collins; Producer Martina Niland
Director Kathy Burke (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

10.45 Unbelievable Moments Caught
on Camera
A collection of dramatic footage filmed by
members of the public, from a 74-year-old man
wrestling an alligator to save his puppy, to a
couple being attacked by a rabid animal on their
driveway. Narrated by Alexander Armstrong.

Your RT Travel: page 136

9.00 Rescue: Extreme Medics
2/5. A trauma team based in Aberdeen attend a
plane crash outside Elgin. At a farm in Dumfries
and Galloway, 41-year-old Max has been crushed
beneath a dumper truck. In Glasgow, a 12-year-old
girl is knocked down and dragged under a car.
Series director Jamie Seal; Exec producers Iain Scollay and Mark
Harrison Repeated 1.25am and Thursday 9pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Police Custody USA

The narcotics squad is waging a war
a2/4.
against meth, which is ravaging Kansas

City. Using the risky tactic of turning dealers
against each other, detectives hope to “flip” their
way to the top of the supply chain. The whole
series is available on All 4. See page 61.
Director/Producer Jamie Welham Rptd 12.25am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 In the Footsteps of Killers
The Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh
Investigating what could have happened to the
young estate agent, who vanished after making
an appointment with a client in July 1986.
Director Aidan Woodward
Producers Phelan Glen and Aidan Woodward (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.25am Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 Loose Women Shown 12.30pm (S) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.05—6.00am Tipping Point (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

12.05am Emergency A man receives treatment after he
is crushed under a 400kg crate at work. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Help for
the Classic American restaurant in New York. (R) (S)
1.55 Come Dine with Me Four strangers in south-west
London try to cook their way to the prize. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
2.50 Location, Location, Location In Glasgow. (R) (S) (HD)
3.45 Ugly House to Lovely House with George
Clarke A West Sussex bungalow. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
4.40 Grayson’s Art Club Ep 3 Series 3. Grayson Perry
is joined by Joe Wilkinson. Shown last Fri (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
5.35—6.05am Bidding Wars The three pallets are
titled baby, sports and Valentine’s. (R) (S) (HD)

ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

Series producer Jemma Martinez; Executive producers
Ceri Aston and Will Yapp (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.45 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
Explosive grappling action from the world of
AEW, featuring all of the roster’s biggest stars.
Shown last Friday ITV4 (S) (HD)

North East. Ben Robinson unlocks the
roots of the Northumberland village of
Warkworth. More tomorrow 7pm.

series. 1/4 Series 2. The
aNew
Story of Slate. Huw Stephens

learns the history of the Welsh slate
industry at the National Slate Museum,
housed within the old Gilfach Ddu
workshops at Llanberis. The museum
is a living artefact, telling the story of
landlords who exploited whole
mountains to make vast profits from
what is now Snowdonia National Park.
More tomorrow 7.30pm. See page 60.
Repeated 2am (S) (HD)

8.00 Neanderthals: Meet Your
Ancestors
2/2. Ella Al-Shamahi investigates the
demise of the Neanderthals. She visits
caves in Gibraltar which may have
been the last place they survived, and
reconstructs an experiment on the
skeleton of a murdered Neanderthal.
Director Vikram Jayanti; Producers Vikram Jayanti,
Rebecca Chambers and Ian Dodd
Signed repeat tomorrow 2.30am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Ian Hislop’s Fake News:
a True History
The concept of “fake news” may seem
like a recent invention, but Ian Hislop
takes a long view and finds that fake
news was found to be profitable long
before the uncertain times of internet
trolls and echo chambers.
Director Peter Sweasey; Executive producer
Archie Baron Signed repeat 2.30am (R) (S) (HD)

10.00 The Challenger

28 January 1986, the
aOn
Challenger space shuttle

exploded, killing all seven astronauts
on board. Renowned physicist Richard
Feynman was appointed to determine
the cause of the disaster. This factbased drama shows how he carried
out his investigation. See page 61.
Richard Feynman
Chairman Rogers
Gen Kutyna
Gweneth Feynman
Larry Mulloy
Sally Ride
Dr Weiss

William Hurt
Brian Dennehy
Bruce Greenwood
Joanne Whalley
Kevin R McNally
Eve Best
Henry Goodman

Director James Hawes
First shown on BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)

11.30 Tomorrow’s Worlds: the
Unearthly History of Science
Fiction
1/4. Space. Dominic Sandbrook explores
the sci-fi genre, beginning with its
fascination with outer space. (R) (S) (HD)
12.30am 2/4. Invasion. Examining
sci-fi’s obsession with alien invasion.
Series producers Ben Southwell and John Das
Executive producer Michael Poole (R) (S) (HD)

1.30 Pubs, Ponds and Power: the Story of
the Village Shown 7pm (S) (HD)
2.00 Inside Museums Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)
2.30—3.30am Ian Hislop’s Fake News:
a True History Shown 9pm (S) (SL) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

2.00pm Fish Town
2.30 Scotland’s Sacred
Islands 3.30—4.00 Grand
Tours of Scotland’s
Lochs 7.00 The Great
Food Guys 7.30 Eat
the Town 8.00 Born to
Be Wild 9.00 The Nine
10.00 River City 10.30
The Good, the Bad and
the Unexpected 11.00
Outdoor Adventures
11.30—12 midnight Legit

STV
6.25—6.30pm PEB:
Scottish National Party
10.00 ITV News; STV
News 10.40 Scotland
Tonight 11.10 All Elite
Wrestling 12 midnight—
3.00am Shopping

BORDER
SCOTLAND
6.25—6.30pm PEB:
Scottish National Party

BBC1 WALES
6.30—7.00pm Wales
Today; PEB: Welsh
Labour Party 8.00
Legends of Welsh Sport
8.30—9.00 Snowdonia
10.35 Obesity: Who
Cares If I’m Bigger? —
Panorama 11.05 Have I
Got a Bit More News for
You 11.50 Paddy and
Christine McGuinness:
Our Family and Autism
12.50am Killing Eve
1.35—6.00 BBC News

Monday Television

Ben Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz in
which contestants drop tokens down chutes in
the hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot. (R) (S) (HD)

ITV WALES
6.25—6.30pm PEB:
Welsh Labour Party
10.45 Sharp End 11.15—
11.45 Fishlock’s Choice

BBC1 NI
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Newsline; PEB: by the
Democratic Unionist
Party 8.00 Beautiful
Interiors Northern
Ireland 8.30—9.00
Obesity: Who Cares If
I’m Bigger? — Panorama
10.35 Murder in the
Badlands 11.35 Have I
Got a Bit More News
for You 12.20am
Paddy and Christine
McGuinness: Our
Family and Autism
1.20—6.00 BBC News

BBC2 NI
10.00—10.30pm Bás
as Baile 11.15 NIFL
Premiership Highlights
11.45 Couples Therapy
12.10—12.40am Live
at the Apollo

UTV
6.25—6.30pm PEB:
Democratic Unionist
Party 10.45—11.45
View from Stormont

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

63

MONDAY Freeview

Television Monday

Channel 5

5

BBC3

23

ITV3

10

Drama

20

Inside the Force: 24/7 9.00pm Sgt

The Drop 9.00pm Radio host Roman

Vera 8.00pm DCI Stanhope pieces

Inspector George Gently 8.00pm

Mike Templeman is called to an incident

Kemp joins the show as guest judge

together a dead man’s final hours

Bacchus and Gently speak to Susan

F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.25am Milkshake! See page 66
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a New
Life in the Country A château in France’s
Loire Valley. (S) (HD) 1.10 5 News (S) (HD)
1.15 Home and Away Jasmine debriefs
with Irene about Cash. Shown last Friday 5 Star

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD)
7.00 Classic Emmerdale (S) 8.05 That’s
My Boy (S) 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs: 13/13
Series 2. A Family Gathering. The family
celebrates Lady Marjorie’s birthday; 10.20
1/13 Series 3. Miss Forrest. James upsets
Hudson (S) 11.30 Heartbeat: 3/16. A rabid
dog causes panic; 12.35pm 4/16. Nick
investigates smuggling in Whitby (S) (AD)
1.40pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill.
Donna tells Viv and Bob that she feels sick,
then Emily is stunned to learn that her best
friend has got engaged (S) 2.45 Classic
Coronation Street: double bill. The Hortons
catch out the Duckworths, then Mark is
devastated by Mike’s illness (S) (AD) 3.45
Midsomer Murders: Series 2. Dead Man’s
Eleven. A man is discovered bludgeoned
to death with a cricket bat (S) (AD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
7.00am Ever Decreasing Circles Rptd 5.20pm
(S) 7.40 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Rptd
2.20pm (S) 8.35 The Bill: Burnside discovers
Carver’s drinking problem 9.35 Classic
Holby City: Serena finds a way to spread
festive cheer (HD) 10.55 Classic Casualty:
a nervous Ruth returns to clinical duties
12 noon The Bill: Quinnan tries to help a friend
1.00pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Terry
sells his car, then Steve is forced to face up to
his worst nightmares 2.20 Hetty Wainthropp
Investigates: 7/9 Series 3. Hetty starts an
investigation from her hospital bed (S) 3.20
Lovejoy: 6/12 Series 2. A painter goes missing
(S) 4.20 Pie in the Sky: 2/10 Series 2. Crabbe
finds a body in the men’s toilet (S) 5.20 Ever
Decreasing Circles: 1/5 Series 1. Martin’s new
neighbour threatens his authority (S)

5.45pm Heartbeat

1/6 Series 1. When Ria Met Leonard. Ria
meets a new love interest called Leonard.

Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 6pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15 A Criminal Affair ★★ Thriller.
Students Julia and Erin are tasked
with interviewing a convicted killer.
Julia becomes convinced of his innocence,
which drives a wedge between the two
friends. Director Daniel West (2021) (S) (W) (HD)
4.00 Filthy House SOS A three-bedroom
house with floor-to-ceiling clutter. (S) (HD)

o

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Neighbours

Roxy and Kyle take the settlement offer.
Shown 1.45pm (S) (AD) (HD)

6.30 New. Eggheads

The Sawnettas from Oldham take part.
Directors John L Spencer, Barbara Wiltshire (S) (HD)

7.00 Police Interceptors

A pair of opportunistic burglars help
themselves to a few bottles from the
pub — but CCTV catches them at it.
Directors Rachael Davies, Mike Parmenter, James
Warner Repeated Friday 3.10am (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Traffic Cops

8/12 Series 11. Derbyshire’s road crime
team leads a crackdown on a county
lines drugs operation and heads off in
pursuit of teenage joyriders.
Series director Simon Meehan (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00pm New. MasterChef Australia
The contestants must cook using bread.
First shown on W (S) (HD)

8.10 New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

8.15 New. Freeze: Back on Thin Ice

3/4. Friends and rivals Emily and Eleanor
have a final chance to qualify for the British
Championships. The full series is on iPlayer.
Repeated 2.25am (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 New. The Drop

4/8. The remaining creatives use hype
stunts to build a bigger customer base.
The whole series is on iPlayer.
Repeated 12.55am and tomorrow 11.40pm (S) (HD)

10.00 New. Hot Property

2/8. Filly meets Chloe Ferry, who is
looking for a date with skinny legs and a
pot belly. All three series are on iPlayer.
Repeated 1.55am and Wednesday 11.50pm (S) (HD)

10.30 Gavin & Stacey

3/6 Series 1. The couple announce their
engagement, prompting the Shipmans to
throw a party in Billericay. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 4/6. Nessa reveals her big secret to
Stacey. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.30 The Miseducation of Cameron
Post ★★★★ Comedy drama with

q

Chloë Grace Moretz. Teen Cameron
Post is sent to an evangelical camp that
promotes gay “conversion therapy”.
Available on iPlayer for 12 months.
Director Desiree Akhavan (2018, 15) (S) (W) (HD)

12.55am as 9pm 1.55 as 10pm 2.25 as
8.15pm 3.05 Gavin & Stacey (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.35—4.00am My Mate’s a Bad Date (S) (HD)

ITV2

6

Paramedic Rob Davies and Dr Adam Lowe
fight to save the life of a 16-year-old boy
who has been stabbed in the neck.

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 6.10 Dress to Impress (S) (SL)
(HD) 7.05 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD)
8.00 Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Celebrity
Supermarket Sweep (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Dress
to Impress (S) (HD) 11.00 Secret Crush (S) (HD)
12 noon Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm
Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 2.00 New. The
Ellen DeGeneres Show: with Mario Lopez (S)
(HD) 3.00 Hart of Dixie (S) (HD) 4.00 One
Tree Hill (S) (HD) 5.00 The O.C. (S) (HD)
6.00pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special
Gemma Atkinson, Karen Hauer and Josh
Widdicombe take part. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Superstore 4/22 Series 3. Glenn is given
the task of firing the security guard. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 5/22. A dead body is found. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers Series 4. Linda
performs with her old band. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Teddy learns to dance. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 16. Peter gets
fired from the brewery. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.30 An offensive tweet goes viral. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. Deep Heat 3/6. Holly’s position
is challenged by a 1980s wrestling star.

Directors Tina Curley and Matt Bridger (S) (HD)

Repeated Thursday 2.35am (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am The Boy Who Grew a New Brain:
Extraordinary People (S) (HD) 1.00 New.
Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 George Clarke’s Build a
New Life in the Country (S) (HD) 3.45 Now
That’s Funny! (S) (SL) (HD) 4.35 Wildlife SOS
(S) (SL) 5.00—5.25am House Doctor (S) (SL)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

10.30 Family Guy Series 13. Peter makes
a group of female friends. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Lois books a vacation. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 13. Steve
convinces a celebrated quarterback to
give up playing football. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.55 Roger agrees to “give birth” to Jeff
to make him human again. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 New series. Inside the Force:
24/7

1/8 Series 2. Following officers and
staff at South Park Police Station in
a
Lincoln. Officers are called to a fight at a
funeral. As Sergeant Mike Templeman
and PC Will Cawte drive to the incident,
an agitated man runs out in front of
them and jumps on their car. See p60.
Series producer Annie Tetchner
Repeated Wednesday 12.05am (S) (HD)

10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
Second Counts

A 58-year-old woman is rushed to A&E
struggling to breathe and shaking
uncontrollably after having a lifethreatening allergic reaction to nuts.
Directors John Nichols, Liam Royales and Philip
Shotton (S) (HD)

11.05 Ambulance: Code Red

BBC4 listings are overleaf

12.25am Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 1.20
Superstore (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 The Stand Up Sketch
Show (S) (HD) 2.45—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

5/16 Series 4. An adoption file goes missing
in a break-in at the council offices. (S) (AD)
6.55 6/16. Gina is assaulted, and is
shocked by the reaction of the locals when
suspicion falls on a policeman. (S) (AD)

8.00 Vera

3/4 Series 10. Dirty. The murder of a
cleaner whose death occurred several
hours after the killer blow sets DCI Vera
Stanhope on an intriguing trail, as she
pieces together his final hours. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK

5/6 Series 5. Intent. Brooks and Devlin
are mystified by the murders of a
popular couple who were stabbed to
death while they slept. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Scott & Bailey

2/8 Series 3. Rachel is accused of being
the brains behind the attack on her
ex-lover Nick. Starring Lesley Sharp,
Suranne Jones and Sean Maguire. Next
episode tomorrow 11pm. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am Inspector Morse: Series 1. The
Dead of Jericho. Morse investigates an
apparent suicide and meets Sergeant Lewis
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.15—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

26

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am The Protectors (S) 6.25 The
Champions (S) 7.20 Robin of Sherwood (S)
8.15 The Avengers (S) (SL) (HD) 9.20 The
Professionals (S) (AD) 10.25 Minder: Arthur
gets political (S) (AD) 11.35 The Champions (S)
12.40pm Extreme Salvage Squad (S) (HD)
1.35 Robin of Sherwood: Robin confronts the
Baron (S) 2.40 The Avengers (S) (HD) 3.50
The Professionals (S) (AD) 4.50 Minder (S) (AD)
6.00pm Premiership Rugby Union Including
Exeter Chiefs v Bath. Shown Sun 11.15pm ITV (S) (HD)
7.00 New series. Battlebots The return of the
contest in which robots fight in an arena. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. MotoGP The Gran Premio
Michelin de la Republica Argentina. (S) (HD)
9.00 FILM White House Down ★★★
Action drama starring Channing Tatum and
Jamie Foxx. Hours before a historic Middle
East peace treaty is due to be signed,
terrorists storm the White House. (S) (W) (HD)
11.40 FILM The Stanford Prison
Experiment ★★★★ Drama based on a true
story, starring Billy Crudup. Volunteers are
locked in a mock prison. (S) (W) (HD)
2.10am The Protectors: the Contessa disappears
(S) 2.40—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

6.00pm Butterflies

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine

Series 22. Hey Big Vendor. Wesley
designs a mobile vending machine. (S)
7.20 Enter the Hawk. Local adventurer
Billy Hardcastle comes unstuck. (S)

8.00 Inspector George Gently

1/4 Series 7. Gently with the Women
Bacchus and Gently investigate the rape
of a prostitute, leading to animosity from
their colleagues as they unravel the way the
crime is handled by the force. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New Tricks

4/8 Series 6. Shadow Show. A mysterious
posting of a film clip on the internet
results in the reopening of the investigation
into the murder of a producer. (S) (AD)

11.20 Silent Witness

1/4 Series 8. A Time to Heal. The bodies
of two men are exposed by a landslide in
Ireland, forcing Sam Ryan to face her past. (S)
1.55am Kavanagh QC: 4/6 Series 4. Bearing
Witness. The barrister faces a moral dilemma
(S) (HD) 3.15—4.00am We Hunt Together: 5/6
Series 1. Freddy and Baba don Halloween masks
to gain entry to her old school (S) (AD) (HD)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

ITVBe

28

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
8.30 Unboxed (S) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe (HD)
12 noon Unboxed (S) (HD) 12.30pm The
Real Housewives of Potomac (S) (AD) (HD)
1.25 Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
2.25 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 3.10
New. Little Women: LA First shown on Lifetime
(S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real
Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Kortney and
Dave add some daring industrial design
choices to their latest project. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling A couple spruce
up their home before they relocate. (S) (HD)
8.00 Dinner Date Julia from Gloucester
picks three blind dates. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Dr 90210 Former Pussycat Doll Jessi
Peralta seeks Dr Cat’s help. (S) (HD)
10.00 Botched Medic Paul Nassif helps a
mother out of a “snotty” situation. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Atlanta Plastic Dr Crawford meets a
woman needing a breast reduction. (S) (HD)
11.55 The Only Way Is Essex Abi plans
a murder mystery birthday party. (S) (HD)
12.40—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

64

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

MONDAY 4 APRIL
More4

18

Great British Walks with My Dog
9.00pm Hermione Norris and Bess

12.10am Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown 1.15
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland (AD) 2.20 24 Hours
in A&E (AD) 3.25—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD)

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Thursday/Friday
Channel 4 (AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA 9.00 The Big Bang Theory
(AD) 11.00 Young Sheldon (AD)
12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm
The Big Bang Theory (AD) 3.00 Young
Sheldon: double bill (AD) 4.00 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 20/24
Series 4. Amy and Sheldon start an experiment
to see how quickly rumours spread. (AD)
6.30 21/24. Priya uses her legal skills to find
a loophole in the room-mate agreement. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks The friction between
James and his family continues to build.
Cast pp 83/103 Rptd tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)

7.30 New. Married at First Sight Australia
Sam and Al and Brent and Tamara air their
issues at the Commitment Ceremony.
9.00 New series. Made in Chelsea Ruby
and Reza decide to give things another go.
10.00 New. Married at First Sight Australia
The Commitment Ceremony continues.
10.35 Naked Attraction A man who is HIV
positive, and a musician take part. (AD)
11.40 Gogglebox Reviews include Britain’s Got
Talent: the Champions and The Circle. (SL) (AD)
12.45am Married at First Sight Australia 2.45
Made in Chelsea 3.40 Below Deck: Mediterranean
(AD) 4.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
5.20—6.00am Mike & Molly

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Antiques
Road Trip 12 noon Money for Nothing 1.00pm
A Place in the Sun 2.00 Animal Cops Houston
(AD) 4.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees 5.00 Countryside
999 6.00 Money for Nothing 7.00 Celebrity
Antiques Road Trip 8.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00
New. Dales for Sale 10.00 The Repair Shop 11.00
This Cop Life 12 midnight Ghost Adventures 1.00am
Kindred Spirits 2.00 Shopping 4.00 Animal Cops
Houston (AD) 5.00—6.00am Pit Bulls and Parolees

11

27

Abandoned Engineering 8.00pm

encounters with the Fab Four

Atlanta Prison Farm in Georgia

F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am Royal Air Force in Concert 7.30
Rumpelstiltskin: BalletLORENT 9.00 Tales of
the Unexpected 10.00 Discovering: Maggie
Smith 11.00 Music Icons: US Punk Rock
11.30 Video Killed the Radio Star
12 noon The South Bank Show Originals:
double bill 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected
2.00 Discovering: Ben Kingsley 3.00
Anyone Can Sing 4.00 The Sixties (AD)
5.00 Tales of the Unexpected: double bill
6.00pm Discovering: Helen Mirren
A glimpse into the world of the actress.
7.00 André Rieu: Love in Maastricht
A concert by the violinist in his home town.
8.00 Beatles Stories Fans and friends
discuss encounters with the Fab Four, from
eating beans on toast with Ringo Starr to
playing Monopoly with George Harrison.
10.00 Donovan and the Beatles In India
Folk singer Donovan retraces the journey he
and the Beatles took to India in 1968 to shine
a light on a world of peace, love and creativity.
11.00 New. Butterfly Affect Short drama,
by Edem Wornoo. A young black ballet
dancer from a rough neighbourhood must
combat the distractions of opposing worlds
in order to fulfil his limitless potential.
11.15 Tate Britain’s Great Art Walks
Actor Robert Lindsay joins Gus CaselyHayford to explore places that inspired
Victorian painter William Holman Hunt.

Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am Shipwreck Secrets 8.00 Rise of
the Nazis 9.00 World War Weird 10.00
Abandoned Engineering: double bill (AD)
12 noon The Architecture the Railways Built
(AD) 1.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
2.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00 World
War II from Above 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases
6.00pm Michael Palin’s New Europe The
veteran entertainer journeys through Poland.
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo starts the first leg of a
journey to Leeds, from London’s Euston station.
7.30 Michael meets a Second World War
secret agent at Bletchley.
8.00 New. Abandoned Engineering The
remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta,
USA, forgotten remnants of fraud in Argentina
and an ancient complex in Cambodia. (AD)
9.00 Hornby: a Model World Record
producer Pete Waterman is commissioned
to construct a monster layout. (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash A collection of
British classics comes up for auction.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering A group of
rusting ships stranded in a desert. (AD)

12.15am Romeo and Juliet (AD) 1.55 FILM
One More Time with Feeling ★★★★ (W) 4.00
Rankin’s 2020 5.00—6.00am Landmark (AD)

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am Four in a Bed 9.30 Come Dine with
Me 10.30 Couples Come Dine with Me: couples
from Kent compete 11.30 A Place in the Sun
1.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 A New Life in the Sun 3.30 Come Dine
with Me: a week of dinner parties in Kent
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A couple from
Sheffield look for a holiday home in Lanzarote.
7.00 Location, Location, Location The
property experts head to Warwickshire and
the West Midlands to assist two couples.
8.00 Grand Designs A couple plan to create
a hybrid structure by slotting in an entirely
new home within the walls of a 200-year-old
former blacking mill in Cumbria. (AD)
9.00 Gogglebox Ep 7. More critiques. (S) (AD)
10.00 Ep 6. Including reviews of Dynasties
II, Celebrity Mastermind, Is It Cake? and
TOTP: 1992 Biggest Hits. (AD)
11.05 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer 1/5 Series 5. Comedian
Ruby Wax, singing coach Gareth Malone, TV
presenter Laura Whitmore and social media
star Yung Filly bake for charity. (AD)
12.25am Police Custody USA (AD) 1.25 Rescue:
Extreme Medics (AD) 2.30 Open House: the Great
Sex Experiment (AD) 3.30 Naked Attraction (AD)
4.25—4.55am Unreported World

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 7.00
EFL Trophy 8.00 Salvage Hunters: the Restorers
9.00 Kings of the Wood 10.00 Chasing Classic
Cars (AD) 11.00 Vintage Voltage 12 noon Wheeler
Dealers 1.00pm LIVE Darts: day three of the WDF
World Championship 3.30 Three Men Four Wheels
4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage Hunters: the
Restorers (AD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie
Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 New.
Aussie Gold Hunters 10.00 New. Hunting Atlantis
11.00 How Do They Do It? 12 midnight Wheeler
Dealers (AD) 1.00am Disasters at Sea 2.00 Iron
Resurrection 3.00 Fantomworks 4.00 Mega
Shippers 5.00—6.00am New. Darts

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

19

12 midnight Mock the Week 12.40am QI XL
1.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.15 Ladhood (AD)
2.40 as 7pm 3.20—4.00am Mock the Week

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131
25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am My Dream Home 8.00 Tipping
Point 10.00 The Bill 11.00 Inside the Vets
12 noon Inside the Ambulance (AD) 2.00pm
Tipping Point 4.00 My Dream Home
6.00pm MasterChef USA Michael Mina joins
the judges for the first mystery box challenge.
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes
Kimberli and Sheldon’s home has been
in his family for three generations.
8.00 New. Inside the Ambulance An
elderly woman has badly cut her legs. (AD)
9.00 Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over Stacey
meets a popular YouTube family. (AD)
10.00 Stacey spends the weekend with
model Keisha and her daughter. (AD)
11.00 Inside the Ambulance As 8pm.
12 midnight 999 Rescue Squad (AD)
1.00—3.00am Tipping Point: two editions

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Entertainment News 8.05 Rich
Kids Go Skint 8.55 Room to Improve 10.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Filthy
House SOS 12 noon Traffic Cops 2.00pm
Police Interceptors 5.00 Shoplifters and
Scammers: at War with the Law
6.00pm Home and Away Mackenzie
demands an explanation. Shown 1.15pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. A panic-stricken Neve refuses to
hear Logan out. Repeated Tue 1.15pm C5 (AD)
7.00 Caught on Camera: Funniest Moments
8.00 Dream Home Makeovers with
Sophie Robinson Home inspiration.
9.00 New. Skin A&E 11/12 Series 3. Treating
patients for cysts, lipomas and skin tags.
10.00 Adults Only: Threesomes Are More
Fun A revealing insight into some couples
who are keen to spice up their sex lives.
11.00 Adults Only: OAPs on the Game
A hidden world of pensioners selling sex.
12 midnight Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back!
1.00am Million Pound Barges: Luxury Living
2.00 Tattoo Disasters UK 3.05 Room to Improve
3.55—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Storage Hunters
UK: two editions 10.00 Top Gear (AD)
11.00 Expedition with Steve Backshall (AD)
12 noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Top Gear
(AD) 2.00 Expedition with Steve Backshall
(AD) 3.00 Rick Stein’s Mediterranean
Escapes (AD) 4.00 Bangers and Cash
5.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends (AD)
6.00pm Taskmaster 5/10 Series 9. Jo
Brand shows cowboys how to cowboy.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Rachel Riley, JB Gill, Katie Derham and
Richard Herring take part in the quiz.
7.40 Would I Lie to You? With John Bishop,
Chris Addison, Joanna Page and Patsy Palmer.
8.20 QI XL Extended edition. With David
Baddiel, Cariad Lloyd and Ross Noble.
9.00 Sandi Toksvig calls for a bit of “Quiet”
in this extended version of the show.
10.00 All Girls Live at the Apollo
Featuring Sara Pascoe and Lucy Porter.
11.00 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable 8/8
Series 2. With AJ Odudu and Jason Manford.

W

21

3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00—3.00am Shipwreck Secrets: double bill

Dave

5 USA

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment News
12 noon Law & Order 3.55 Entertainment
News 4.00pm Law & Order 6.00 NCIS: four
episodes. Series 9. The team probes the death
of a chief petty officer 7.00 The team tackle
a blackmailer 8.00 Vance’s brother-in-law is
linked to a murder 9.00 New. Series 18. The
team investigates a biker killed in a hit-and-run
incident First shown on Fox 10.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit: four episodes
Series 14. Two district attorneys clash 11.00
Several gay men are attacked 11.55 Series 13
A kidnap victim’s leg is discovered in a canal
12.55am A woman is found murdered at a
high-society bachelor party 1.55 Hannibal

Beatles Stories 8.00pm Personal

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Yesterday

5 Action

33

Monday Television

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15
A Place in the Sun 10.05 A Place in the Sun
11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It: double bill
1.05pm Heir Hunters 2.05 Four in a Bed
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.55 Car SOS (AD)
6.55pm Escape to the Château: DIY
Dick offers his advice to a London couple
constructing a water feature. (AD)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall In Polperro,
harbourmaster Olly prepares for the arrival
of a huge storm gate, designed to protect
the residents, houses and fishing boats
from the winter sea surges. (AD)
9.00 Great British Walks with My Dog
Actress Hermione Norris and her pointer Bess
visit the Somerset coast, where they explore
Beacon Hill and follow the path once trodden
by Coleridge and Wordsworth towards the
wild and fossil-strewn Kilve Beach. (AD)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E On a busy summer
evening, 18-year-old student George is brought
to Resus after a fight at a party. He has blood
coming from his ears and is behaving erratically
but blood tests show no evidence of drugs
and only a small trace of alcohol. (AD)
11.05 Emergency Helicopter Medics In
Hampshire, a horse rider takes a nasty fall when
her animal is spooked, and, in a night mission
in Suffolk, the medics help a motorcyclist
who has suffered multiple injuries. (AD)

Sky Arts

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am Entertainment News 9.10 Traffic
Cops 11.10 FILM Cimarron ★★
2.10pm FILM Coroner Creek ★★ Western
with Randolph Scott 4.00 Trucking Hell (AD)
5.00pm Traffic Cops A suspected stolen
car fitted with cloned number plates crashes.
6.00 Police pursue suspected car thieves.
7.00 Street Crime UK: Caught on Camera
Nick Wallis joins the Met’s robbery squads
on a Friday night shift.
8.00 Trucking Hell A 20-ton drinks lorry
gets grounded on a boggy verge.
9.00 FILM Flight of the Phoenix ★★★
Action adventure remake starring Dennis
Quaid. Pilot Frank Towns is sent to pick up an
oil-well crew in Mongolia. But on the way
back to Beijing he flies into a huge sandstorm
and the plane crash-lands in the Gobi desert.
11.10 FILM Drive Angry ★★★ Action fantasy
horror starring Nicolas Cage. John Milton
escapes from Hell determined to avenge the
murder of his daughter by a sinister cult.
1.15am Car Crash TV 2.15 Fights, Camera, Action!
4.05 Doomsday: Caught on Camera
4.50—5.00am Entertainment News

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors 10.00 The
Yorkshire Vet Casebook 12 noon The Dog
Rescuers with Alan Davies (AD) 2.00pm GPs:
behind Closed Doors 5.00 The Yorkshire Vet
6.00pm Watercolour Challenge The painters
head to Wales’s Brecon Beacons National Park.
7.00 The Highland Vet Ken completes
tests on two pedigree Charolais bulls.
8.00 Scotland: a Year in the Wild The
wildlife that is abundant during the spring.
9.00 The Highland Midwife
10.00 Walking Britain’s Lost Railways
Rob Bell travels to Bangor in north Wales.
11.00 An epic 70-mile route from
Scotland’s Lowlands to its west coast.
12 midnight Walking Tudor England 1.00am
Inside the Tower of London 2.00 Sinkholes:
Sucked Under 3.00 Killer Weather: Caught on
Camera 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p68

65

Freeview, satellite

MONDAY
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p64
5.25am Peppa Pig 5.30 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Mya Go 6.05
Peppa Pig 6.20 Kid-E-Cats 6.30 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.50 Fireman Sam 7.00
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!
7.10 Peppa Pig 7.25 Paw Patrol 7.40
New. Milo 7.55 Pip and Posy 8.05
Paddington 8.25 Ricky Zoom 8.35
Peppa Pig 8.40 Daisy & Ollie 8.50
Odo 8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little
Kingdom 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies

CBeebies

202

Television Monday

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Go Jetters 6.10 Bing 6.20
Teletubbies 6.35 School of Roars 6.40
Chuggington 6.55 Tish Tash 7.00 Bing
7.05 Hey Duggee 7.25 Bluey 7.35 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
Love Monster 8.30 Nick Cope’s
Popcast 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00
CBeebies Elves and the Shoemaker
9.45 Something Special: We’re All
Friends 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 New.
The Toddler Club at Home 10.40 Hey
Duggee 10.45 Tee and Mo 10.50
Small Potatoes 10.55 Love Monster
11.05 Pablo 11.15 Let’s Go for a Walk
11.30 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our
Family 12 noon Big Cook Little Cook
12.20pm Timmy Time 12.25 Waffle
the Wonder Dog 12.35 Bitz & Bob
12.45 Go Jetters 1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.10
Numberblocks 1.15 Alphablocks 1.20
Dog Loves Books 1.25 Hey Duggee
1.35 Love Monster 1.40 Nick Cope’s
Popcast 1.45 Something Special: We’re
All Friends 2.10 Teletubbies 2.25 Bing
2.30 Go Jetters 2.40 Timmy Time
2.45 Maddie’s Do You Know? 3.00
Down on the Farm 3.15 Swashbuckle
3.40 Hey Duggee 3.50 Peter Rabbit
4.00 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 4.15
Grace’s Amazing Machines 4.30 Dog
Loves Books 4.40 Love Monster 4.45
Bluey 4.55 Molly and Mack 5.10
Waffle the Wonder Dog 5.20 Go
Jetters 5.35 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45
Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In
the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm
CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New.
Newsround 8.00 Nine Minute Ninja
8.15 Odd Squad 8.25 Operation Ouch!
9.00 FILM Pocket Monster Diamond
& Pearl: Arceus’ Conquering of
Space-Time ★★ 10.30 Secret Life of
Boys 11.20 Nine Minute Ninja 11.25
Class Dismissed 11.40 OOglies Funsize
11.45 Shaun the Sheep 11.55 Danger
Mouse 12.20pm Boy Girl Dog Cat
Mouse Cheese 12.40 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 1.05 Step Up to
the Plate 2.05 The Dumping Ground
2.30 Britain’s Best Young Artist 3.00
Horrible Histories 3.30 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 3.40 Danger
Mouse 3.55 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 4.05 Ninja Express 4.20
Danger Mouse 4.45 Odd Squad 5.10
We Bare Bears 5.20 Summer Camp
Island 5.35 Princess Mirror-Belle
6.00 New. Newsround: Sexism in
Schools Special 6.30 Skin Deep
6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am Gormiti 3D 6.30 Thunderbirds
Are Go 6.55 Inspector Gadget 7.25
Teen Titans Go! 7.55 Dare Master
8.00 Scooby-Doo 9.00 Scooby-Doo!
And WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon
10.30 Jurassic World Camp
Cretaceous 11.30 Dave Spud 12 noon
Inspector Gadget 1.00pm Makeaway
Takeaway 1.30 Don’t Unleash the Beast
2.00 Mr Bean: the Animated Series
2.30 Captain Underpants 3.00 Teen
Titans Go! 3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.30
Inspector Gadget 5.00 Dave Spud
6.00 Scooby-Doo 6.30 Scooby-Doo!
And WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon
8.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

The Lost DNA 7.55pm

Combat Ships 8.00pm

Anyone Can Sing 8.00pm

Billions 10.05pm Chuck

Western Europe’s sacred sites

A 17th-century warship

Michael and Sarah applaud

considers a new plan of attack

PBS America

84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.00am Future of Work (S) 9.10
The Lost DNA 10.15 Revolution in
Colour 11.10 Nazi Hunters 12.05pm
Europe’s Waterways 1.00 Future of
Work (S) 2.15 The Lost DNA 3.20
Revolution in Colour 4.20 Europe’s
Waterways 5.20 Beautiful
Serengeti 5.50 Nazi Hunters
6.45pm Future of Work 1/3
The social fallout from changes in
the world of employment. (S)
7.55 The Lost DNA 1/2. An
insight into the beliefs of the people
of western Europe around 3000 BC.
9.05 Revolution in Colour 1/2
The struggle for Irish independence
in the early 20th century.
10.05 Nazi Hunters 1/8. The
mission to track down former Latvian
Air Force pilot Herbert Cukurs,
who joined forces with the Nazis.
11.00 Future of Work As 6.45pm.
12.10am The Lost DNA 1.20
Revolution in Colour 2.10 Nazi
Hunters 2.50 Europe’s Waterways
3.35—4.00am Beautiful Serengeti
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

Pick

36

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD) 10.00
Combat Ships (HD) 11.00 Epic Warrior
Women (HD) 12 noon Tomb Hunters
(HD) 4.00pm Sacred Sites (HD)
6.00pm Secrets of the Celtic
Grave Buried relics that up-end
the known story of Britain’s
Roman period. (HD)
7.00 Inside the Factory 4/6
Series 3. Behind the scenes at a
Grimsby fish finger factory. (HD)
8.00 New. Combat Ships
Ep 6 Series 3. Naval armaments
through history, from cannon
armed sailing ships to cuttingedge weapon technology. (HD)
9.00 6/8 Series 2. How
revolutionary ship design helped
Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis
Drake lead England to defeat
the Spanish Armada. (HD)
10.00 Inside the Factory 5/6
Series 3. Gregg Wallace
investigates the production of
sauces in the Netherlands. (HD)
11.00 Combat Ships As 8/9pm.
1.00am The Pacific War in Colour (HD)
3.00—6.00am Aerial America (HD)

HGTV

44

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286

7.00am Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (AD) 8.00 Motorway Patrol
9.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 10.00
Police Ten 7 11.00 Highway Cops (AD)
12 noon Highway Patrol (AD) 1.00pm
Border Patrol 2.00 Border Security:
Canada’s Front Line (AD) 3.00 Nothing
to Declare (AD) 4.00 Stargate SG-1
5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation
6.00 Stargate Atlantis 7.00 Hawaii
Five-0 8.00 Killer in My Village 9.00
New series. Killer Siblings: a missing
man has embezzled money 10.00
Grimm 11.00 Killer Colleagues
12 midnight Britain’s Most Evil Killers
1.00am The Force: North East 2.00
Nothing to Declare (AD) 3.00 Border
Patrol 4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00—
6.00am Police Force: Australia (AD)

7.00am Homes under the Hammer
8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape
to the Country 12 noon My Lottery
Dream Home 1.00pm Fixer to Fabulous
2.00 A Place in the Sun 3.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 4.00 Sarah Beeny’s
Renovate Don’t Relocate 5.00 Homes
under the Hammer 6.00 A Place in
the Sun 7.00 Escape to the Country
8.00 Nick Knowles Heritage Rescue:
a project to restore a stately home in
Castle Howard (AD) 9.00 New. My
Mortgage Free Home 10.00 New.
No Demo Reno 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight Escape to the Country
1.00am DIY SOS (AD) 2.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 3.00—4.00am
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

CBS Justice

41

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00 The
Fugitive 12 noon Perry Mason (BW)
1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger 3.00
CSI: Miami 4.00 NCIS 5.00 The
Fugitive 6.00 Perry Mason (BW) 7.05
Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00 CSI:
Miami: two tax inspectors are killed
10.00 NCIS 11.00 Diagnosis Murder
1.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 2.55
JAG 3.50 The Day I Should Have Died
4.40—6.00am Medical Detectives

CBS Drama

68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
9.00am Perry Mason 11.00
Matlock 12 noon Medium 1.00pm
JAG 3.00 Perry Mason 5.00
Unsolved Mysteries 6.55 Judge
Judy 9.00 Medium 10.00
Unsolved Mysteries: double bill.
Investigating the legend of the holy
grail, then a woman haunts the area
she was killed in 11.55 Judge Judy
2.00am Medium 3.00 Evidence of Evil
4.00 Something’s Killing Me
4.55—6.00am Matlock

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

66

Smithsonian

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

Great TV

50

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Charlie’s Angels 7.00 Crazy
like a Fox 8.00 Highway to Heaven
10.00 FILM Danielle Steel’s No
Greater Love ★★ 11.50 GREAT!
Movie News Extra 12 noon Sue
Thomas: F.B.Eye 1.00pm Perception
2.00 Body of Proof 3.00 Castle 4.00
Murder, She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H
9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1.00am M*A*S*H: four episodes 3.00
Hart to Hart 3.45 Crazy like a Fox
4.30—6.00am Highway to Heaven

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am Westminster Hall 10.00
Prime Minister’s Questions 10.35
Scottish First Minister’s Questions
11.35 Welsh First Minister’s Questions:
queries in the Senedd 12.35pm
Northern Ireland Assembly Questions
1.20 House of Commons 2.00 Political
Highlights: recorded coverage
2.30 Live House of Lords
11.00—6.00am House of Lords

Sky Showcase

Sky Atlantic

Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Kay Burley 8.00 Gangs of Baboon
Falls (S) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
10.00 The Flash (S) 11.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (S) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0
(S) 2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) 3.00
Modern Family (S) 4.00 Will & Grace
(S) (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S)
5.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
6.30pm The Simpsons Bart
faces a crisis of conscience.
7.00 Grandma Bouvier is swept
off her feet by Grampa.
7.30 Homer teaches an adult
education course. (S)
8.00 Anyone Can Sing 1/4. Six
participants set out on a journey
of vocal transformation as English
National Opera voice coaches Nicky
Spence, Sarah Pring and Michael
Harper mentor them. (S) (AD)
9.00 New. The Great Debate
Ep 9 Series 2. Trevor Phillips
hosts the weekly live discussion.
10.00 Phoenix Rising 1/2. Evan
Rachel Wood reflects on her
experience of domestic violence. (S)
11.30 Last Week Tonight with
John Oliver Ep 6 Series 9. Satire.
12.10am The Force: North East 1.05
Road Wars (S) 2.00 Caught on
Dashcam (S) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S)
4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) 5.00—
6.00am The Early Rundown
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

Challenge

48

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 10.00 Play
Your Cards Right (AD) 11.00 The
Price Is Right 12 noon Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 1.00pm Catchphrase
(AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes (AD) 3.00
The Price Is Right 4.00 Play Your
Cards Right (AD) 5.00 Bullseye
6.00pm Tenable: five Hartlepool
United fans take part 7.00
Pointless Celebrities: a music
special featuring Antony Costa and
Scott Robinson, Carol Decker and
Limahl, Dave Hill and Dave
Bartram, and Mark King and Toyah
Willcox (AD) 8.00 The Chase 10.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?:
a classic episode of the awardwinning quiz show 11.00 Bullseye
12 midnight The Chase: hosted by
Bradley Walsh 5.00—6.00am Bullseye

Forces TV

96

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30 Ten
Things You Don’t Know about... 6.55
Digging for the Truth 7.50 Spenser:
for Hire 8.55 Watching 10.00 No
Place like Home 10.35 Sorry! 11.15
The Brittas Empire 12.30pm No Place
like Home 1.05 Sorry! 1.40 Sports
Show 2.05 Digging for the Truth
3.05 Real Cold War Spies: BRIXMIS
4.05 Superjet: Secrets of the Tornado
5.00 Sports Show 5.30 Forces
News 6.00 Peter Jackson’s Military
Treasures 7.00 The Falklands War:
Eyewitness 8.05 My Secret Falklands
War 9.05 An Ungentlemanly Act
11.35 We Were There
12.35am Watching 1.40 as 7.50am
2.45 as 8.05pm 3.40 as 6pm 4.40
as 4.05pm 5.35—6.00am as 6.30am

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Urban Secrets (S) 8.00
Totti: One Captain (S) 9.00 CSI:
Crime Scene Investigation (S) 10.00
The Sopranos (S) 12.10pm Game of
Thrones (S) (AD) 1.15 Six Feet Under
(S) (AD) 3.30 Ray Donovan (S) (AD)
5.30pm The Sopranos 9/13
Series 5. Johnny Sack suspects
Tony Blundetto was involved in
the Joey Peeps hit. (S)
6.35 10/13. The conflict with
Johnny Sack intensifies. (S)
7.40 Game of Thrones 6/7
Series 7. Jon Snow and his team
go beyond the wall to capture a
white walker. Meanwhile, Daenerys
has to make a tough decision. (S) (AD)
9.00 Winning Time: the Rise of
the Lakers Dynasty 5/10
As the Lakers prepare for their
season opener, Kareem begins to
doubt his place on the team.
10.05 Billions 11/12 Series 6
Chuck unleashes a new kind of
attack, and a discovery sets off
chaos at Michael Prince Capital.
11.10 The Night Of 5/8 Series 1
Box retraces Naz’s steps on the
night of the crime. (S) (AD)
12.15am Gangs of London (S) (AD)
1.20 Gomorrah: double bill (S)
3.20 Babylon Berlin: Lotte’s
situation at home worsens (S)
4.20—6.00am Urban Secrets (S)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

Sky Witness
Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S)
8.00 Border Patrol (S) 9.00 Send
in the Dogs (S) 10.00 UK Border
Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order (HD) 12 noon Bull (HD)
1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Coroner (HD) 4.00
Paramedics Australia (S) (HD) 5.00
Nothing to Declare (S) 8.00 Blue
Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. 9-1-1:
an abandoned oil well erupts,
causing a massive sinkhole (S) (HD)
10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit: double bill (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Rookie (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00am The Equalizer (S) (HD) 2.00
Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 3.00 Bull (HD)
4.00 Road Wars (S) 5.00—6.00am
Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Syfy
Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Quantum Leap 7.00 Star
Trek: Enterprise 11.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 12 noon Stargate Atlantis
1.00pm The Librarians 2.00 V
3.00 Fringe 4.00 Stargate
Atlantis 5.00 Stargate SG-1
6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise:
Archer commandeers the Defiant
7.00 Quantum Leap: Sam occupies
the body of a suicidal divorcee
8.00 Fringe: Walter believes David
Robert Jones is trying to collapse
both universes 9.00 Fortitude 11.00
FILM Moon Crash ★ Sci-fi thriller

1.00am Stargate SG-1 2.00 Stargate
Atlantis 3.00 Star Trek: Enterprise 4.00
Star Trek: Voyager 5.00—6.00am Fringe

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

Agatha Raisin 8.00pm

Business is slow for the sleuth

Sky Max

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
(S) 8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD)
10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia
(S) 12.30pm Total Wipeout (S) 1.30
Ninja Warrior Women Tournament
(S) 2.00 Stargate Atlantis (S) 4.00
Quantum Leap (S) 6.00 Most
Haunted US: double bill (S) 8.00
Magnum P.I.: a bail bondsman hires
Thomas and Higgins 9.00 NCIS:
New Orleans: Carter and Tammy
search for a stolen military dog (S)
10.00 The Russell Howard Hour:
with Sarah Millican (S) 11.00 9-1-1 (S)
12 midnight Night Cops (S) (AD)
1.00am Police Ten 7 2.00 A League of
Their Own (S) (AD) 2.55 Duck Quacks
Don’t Echo (S) (AD) 3.50 Four Weddings
(S) (AD) 4.45—6.00am Dawn of the
Croods: children’s animation

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD)
7.00 Send in the Dogs (S) (HD) 8.00
Stop, Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Nothing to Declare (S) (HD) 10.00 Brit
Cops (S) (AD) 11.00 Road Wars (S) 12 noon
Forensics (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm New York
Homicide (S) (HD) 2.00 Britain’s Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 3.00 World’s Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 4.00 Killer in My Village (S)
(HD) 5.00 Killer Lovers (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00
World’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 7.00
Murders That Shocked the Nation (S) (AD)
(HD) 8.00 Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
9.00 Forensics (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Killer
in My Village (S) 11.00 Britain’s Most Evil
Killers (S) 12 midnight World’s Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 1.00am Catching a Serial
Killer (S) (AD) 2.35 as 10pm 3.30 as 10am
4.30—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Gold
Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.10am Last of the Summer Wine
(S) 7.55 Jam & Jerusalem (S) 8.35
2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD) 9.15
Hi-de-Hi! (S) 9.55 Porridge (S)
10.30 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
11.50 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
12.30pm Dad’s Army (BW) (S) 1.10
Hi-de-Hi! (S) 1.50 2 Point 4 Children
(S) (AD) 2.30 Desmond’s 3.05
Keeping Up Appearances (S) 3.45
Dad’s Army (BW) (S) 4.25 Last of the
Summer Wine (S) 5.40 Porridge (S)
6.20pm Desmond’s
7.00 Hi-de-Hi! Jeffrey decides
Radio Maplin needs a new voice. (S)
7.40 Keeping Up Appearances
The vicar comes round for tea. (S)
8.20 Dad’s Army: the Lost
Episodes Walker is called up to serve
in the regular Army. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 This Time with Alan
Partridge Alan becomes a guest
presenter on TV show This Time.
9.40 The team dedicate a show
to a much-cherished broadcaster.
10.20 Jennie and Alan look at
corporal punishment. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
With Lee Mack and Emilia Fox. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Peep Show (S) (HD)
1.10am Jam & Jerusalem (S) 1.50
This Time with Alan Partridge (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.25—4.00am Peep Show (S) (HD)
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am Parks and Recreation (S) (HD)
9.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
(HD) 10.00 Will & Grace (S) (HD) 11.00
The Office US (S) (HD) 12 noon The
Mindy Project (S) (HD) 12.50pm Curb
Your Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 2.00 A.P. Bio
(S) (HD) 3.00 Modern Family (S) (HD)
4.00 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00
The Office US (S) (HD) 5.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 6.30 Will &
Grace: triple bill (S) (HD) 8.00 Parks
and Recreation (S) (HD) 9.00 New.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
(HD) 9.45 Saturday Night Live (HD)
11.00 The Office US: Michael strikes up
a peculiar new friendship (S) (HD) 11.30
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HD)
12.15am Real Time with Bill Maher (HD)
1.30 Bored to Death: five episodes of
the comedy (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Everybody Hates Chris (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Last Man Standing (S) (HD)
9.00 My Wife and Kids (S) (HD) 11.00
Younger (S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Live at the Apollo: Jack
Dee presents a performance by Jo Brand
(S) 10.00 New. Impractical Jokers:
inside Jokes: the scene that inspired the
name of a fan’s baby 10.30 Impractical
Jokers: Joe, Sal, Murr and Q tag team
at a coffee shop (S) (HD) 11.00 Rob
Beckett’s Undeniable: with Fay Ripley,
Ivo Graham, Darren Harriott and Bobby
Mair (S) 12 midnight Rhod Gilbert’s
Growing Pains (S) (HD) 1.00am The Ricky
Gervais Show (S) (HD) 2.00 Impractical
Jokers (S) (HD) 2.30 Impractical Jokers:
inside Jokes (S) (HD) 2.55 South Park (S)
(HD) 3.45—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

Miss Scarlet and the Duke
9.00pm A new partnership

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Major Crimes (S) (HD) 11.00 Rizzoli &
Isles (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Death in
Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Father
Brown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Murdoch
Mysteries (S) (HD) 4.00 Unforgettable
(S) (HD) 5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD)
6.00pm Death in Paradise 5/8
Series 2. Camille’s best friend
collapses on stage. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Rizzoli & Isles 5/18
Series 5. A woman with terminal
cancer is murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Hudson & Rex 8/16
Series 1. A reviled restaurateur’s
food truck explodes, killing an
employee. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Miss Scarlet and the Duke
1/6 Series 1. Crime drama set in
Victorian London, starring Kate
Phillips. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Annika 6/6. A young
woman is murdered on the
Glasgow docks. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Death in Paradise 6/8
Series 2. DI Richard Poole
investigates the death of a
strangled English tourist (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Unforgettable (S) (HD)
1.00am Limetown (S) (AD) (HD)
2.25—4.00am Murdoch
Mysteries: two episodes (S) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

Discovery

Icahn: the Restless Billionaire
9.00pm The life of Carl Icahn

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Inside the Freemasons
(S) (AD) 7.00 Discovering: Glenn
Close (S) (HD) 8.00 The Directors
(S) 9.00 Too Young to Die (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.00 The 2000s 11.00 100
Foot Wave 12 noon LFG
2.00pm How to Survive a
Pandemic 4.00 Discovering:
Vanessa Redgrave (S) (HD) 5.00
The Directors: Rob Reiner (S)
6.00pm Too Young to Die
A look at the life and career of
actor River Phoenix. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 The 2000s Cultural and
political milestones of the decade.
7.55 100 Foot Wave Charting
the decade-long odyssey of bigwave pioneer Garrett McNamara as
he attempts to ride a 100-foot wave.
9.00 Icahn: the Restless
Billionaire The life and
career of financier Carl Icahn,
who has been at the forefront
of some of the most legendary
business deals of all time. See p61.
11.00 Phoenix Rising 1/2. Actor
and activist Evan Rachel Wood
takes her experience as a survivor
of domestic violence to pursue
justice and reclaim her story. (S)
12.30am FILM Enron: the
Smartest Guys in the Room ★★★
Documentary (S) (AD) (W) 2.30 Irene’s
Ghost (S) 4.00 The Cold Blue (S)
4.55—6.00am 100 Foot Wave

a

Nat Geographic

Untamed Valley 9.00pm Hippos

face off in the Luangwa River

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am The Wild Wild East (S) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) 8.00 Gangs
of Baboon Falls (S) 9.00 Guardians
of the Wild (S) 10.00 Amazing
Animal Friends (S) (HD) 11.00 Brazil
Untamed (S) 12 noon Hope for
Wildlife (S) (HD) 1.00pm Monkey
Life (S) 2.00 Gangs of Baboon Falls
(S) 3.00 Guardians of the Wild (S)
4.00 Amazing Animal Friends (S)
(HD) 5.00 Brazil Untamed (S)
6.00pm Hope for Wildlife
Following the work of Hope
Swinimer’s rescue centre. (S) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life Alison provides
care for a baby monkey that has
survived its first day. (S) (HD)
7.30 A bust-up at the lemur
enclosure leads to injuries. (S) (HD)
8.00 Wildest New Zealand
A group of male penguins gather
to make a dangerous journey. (S)
9.00 Untamed Valley The
Luangwa River’s two-mile
meander is home to hippos and is
a crucial crossing for elephants. (S)
10.00 Brazil Untamed The
wildlife of the Pantanal. (S)
11.00 Hope for Wildlife As 6pm.
12 midnight Land of Primates
1.00am Gangs of Lemur Island (S)
(HD) 2.00 Wildest New Zealand (S)
3.00 Untamed Valley (S) 4.00 Gangs
of Baboon Falls (S) 5.00—6.00am
Guardians of the Wild (S)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD) 8.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD) 9.00
Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD) 10.00
Combat Dealers (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler
Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Mighty
Truckers (S) (HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush:
White Water (S) (HD) 3.00 Disasters
Engineered (S) (HD) 4.00 Building Off the
Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S)
(AD) (HD) 6.00 Fast ’n’ Loud (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Outback Truckers (S) (HD) 8.00
Bad Chad Customs (S) (HD) 9.00 New.
Wheeler Dealers: Dream Car (HD) 10.00
New. Texas Metal (S) (HD) 11.00 Combat
Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight
as 9pm 1.00am Texas Metal (S) (HD)
2.00 Moonshiners (S) (HD) 3.00 as 9pm
4.00 Fast ’n’ Loud (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00am Car SOS (S) (HD) 10.00 Ice
Road Rescue (HD) 12 noon Wicked Tuna:
North v South (S) (HD) 1.00pm Wicked
Tuna (S) (HD) 2.00 Drain the Oceans
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Car SOS (S) (HD)
6.00pm Air Crash Investigation (AD)
(HD) 8.00 New. To Catch a Smuggler:
CBP confronts human smuggling at the
San Ysidro border crossing (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Trafficked with Mariana Van
Zeller: criminal networks behind the
illegal destruction of the rainforest
(HD) 10.00 Facing Escobar: profile of
drug lord Pablo Escobar (HD) 11.00
Air Crash Investigation (S) (HD)
12 midnight Science of Stupid: Best Of
(HD) 1.00am Trafficked with Mariana Van
Zeller 2.00 Drugs Inc (HD) 3.00 Nazi
Megastructures (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00—
5.00am Lost Treasures of Egypt (HD)

9.00am The Zoo (HD) 10.00 Outback
Vet (HD) 11.00 Rescued Chimpanzees
of the Congo with Jane Goodall (HD)
12 noon Galapagos (HD) 1.00pm
Super Squirrels (HD) 2.00 The Zoo
(HD) 3.00 Animal Social Network (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Japan with Sue Perkins (AD)
(HD) 5.00 Wild Fukushima (HD)
6.00 Outback Vet (HD) 7.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 8.00 The Zoo (HD)
9.00 Japan with Sue Perkins (AD) (HD)
10.00 Super Squirrels (HD) 11.00
Outback Vet (HD) 12 midnight The Zoo
(HD) 1.00am as 9pm 2.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 3.00 Secrets of the
Solar System (HD) 3.50 as 7pm
4.40 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD)
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am Devonport: inside the Royal Navy
(S) 7.00 Mysteries of the Missing (S) 8.00
Ultimate Warfare (S) 9.00 Truth behind
the Moon Landing (S) 10.00 Mysteries
at the Museum 11.00 Mysteries of the
Missing (S) 12 noon Combat Dealers (S)
1.00pm Expedition Unknown (S) 2.00
Edge of War (S) 3.00 Sex, Lies, and the
Taj Mahal (S) (AD) 4.00 Mysteries at
the Museum 5.00 Ultimate Warfare (S)
6.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) 7.00
Expedition Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat
Dealers (S) 9.00 The Unexplained Files
10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) 11.00
Aircraft Stories (S) 12 midnight Combat
Dealers (S) 2.00am Nasa’s Unexplained
Files (S) 3.00 Aircraft Stories (S) 4.00
Sex, Lies, and the Taj Mahal (S) (AD)
5.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum

6.00am Secrets in the Ice: double bill
(HD) 8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00
American Pickers (HD) 11.00 Curse of
the Ancients (HD) 12 noon Egypt’s
Unexplained Files (HD) 1.00pm
Forged in Fire Tournament of
Champions (HD) 2.00 American Pickers
(HD) 4.00 Secrets in the Ice (HD)
6.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 Forged
in Fire (HD) 8.00 American Pickers
(HD) 9.00 New. Curse of the Ancients
(HD) 10.00 New. Caesar’s Doomsday
War (HD) 11.00 Ancient Discoveries (HD)
12 midnight Secrets of the Lost Ark
(HD) 1.00am American Pickers (HD)
2.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 Ancient
Discoveries (HD) 4.00 Egypt’s
Unexplained Files (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Pawn Stars: two editions (HD)

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD) 10.00 Dogs:
the Untold Story (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 How
Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 12 noon
Saved by the Barn (S) (HD) 1.00pm Scaled
(S) (HD) 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S)
(HD) 3.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD)
4.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD)
5.00 Dodo Heroes (S) (HD) 6.00 Edge of
Alaska (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 How Do Animals
Do That? (S) (HD) 8.00 Coyote Peterson:
Brave the Wild (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue (S) (HD) 10.00 I Was
Prey (HD) 11.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD)
12 midnight Crime Scene Wild 1.00am
How Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 2.00 Pit
Bulls and Parolees (S) (HD) 3.00 America’s
Cutest Pets (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD)

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Monday Television

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S) 8.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.00 DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Arrow
(S) (HD) 5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate SG-1 12/22
Series 5. O’Neill becomes technical
adviser on a TV series. (S)
7.00 13/22. A cadet team is
needed for a mission. (S)
8.00 Agatha Raisin Series 3
Agatha opens a detective
agency, but with business slow
she goes to a haunted house in
search of work. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Rob and Romesh vs NBA
Basketball 2/4 Series 2. Rob
Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan
learn about the sport. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans 14/16
Series 7. Pride directs the team to
link Sasha to the attacks in New
Orleans and helps Connor come
to terms with who his mother
really is. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Freddie Fries Again (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00am Road Wars (HD)
2.00 Caught on Dashcam (S) (HD)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 4.00
S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Highway Patrol (S) (HD)

This Time with Alan Partridge
9.00pm Alan and Jennie

MONDAY 4 APRIL

67

MONDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW
Film4

Sky Premiere
14

Television Monday

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am The Weaker Sex ★★
Wartime drama about life on the
home front. Ursula Jeans (1948, U) (S)
12.45pm The Blue Dahlia
★★★★ Alan Ladd plays a murder
suspect on the run and trying to
clear his name in this tense film
noir from George Marshall. (1946, PG) (S)
2.50 Dead Reckoning ★★★★
Humphrey Bogart stars in this
hard-boiled thriller with razorsharp dialogue. Lizabeth Scott (1947, U) (S)
4.55 Tomahawk ★★★ Western
which sees peace-loving frontier
scout Van Heflin up against both
sides. Yvonne De Carlo, Preston Foster (1951) (S)

6.35pm The Second Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel ★★★★
Judi Dench, Maggie Smith et al
check in for more heart-warming
life lessons in this irresistible
sequel. Review p29. (2015, PG) (S) (AD)
9.00 Man on Fire ★★★
Gripping action thriller in which
bodyguard Denzel Washington
sets out for revenge when the
young girl he is protecting is
kidnapped. Dakota Fanning (2004, 18) (S)
11.50 Sweet Country ★★★
Bleak period outback tale of
racial injustice that sees an
Aboriginal farmhand hunted by a
group of white men. Hamilton Morris,
Bryan Brown, Sam Neill (2017, 15) (S) (AD)

2.05—4.00am The Actors ★★
Thespians Michael Caine and Dylan
Moran use their acting talents to
con a local gangster. (2003, 15) (S)
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am Bachelor of Hearts ★★★
Romantic comedy. Hardy Kruger, Sylvia Syms
(1958, U) (S) 7.50 At Home with Paint
8.10 Find the Lady ★ Crime
thriller. Donald Houston (1956, U) (S) 9.20
The Greed of William Hart ★★
Crime melodrama. Tod Slaughter (1948, PG) (S)
10.50 Return to Yesterday ★★
Clive Brook plays a Hollywood star
who longs for a simple life in this
drama. Anna Lee (1940, U) (S) 12.10pm Tom
Brown’s Schooldays ★★★ Wellplayed dramatisation of Thomas
Hughes’s book about a public
schoolboy. John Howard Davies (1951, U) (S)
2.00 Rooms 3.00 So Little Time
★★★ Second World War drama
about the unlikely romance between
a Belgian woman and a German
soldier. Maria Schell, Marius Goring (1951, PG) (S)
5.00 The Footage Detectives (S)
6.00pm The Sandwich Man
★★ Virtually silent comedy
featuring an all-star cast. Michael
Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H Corbett (1966, U) (S)

8.00 Gideon’s Way TV drama.
9.00 How I Won the War ★★★★
Surreal war satire starring Michael
Crawford as an inept officer and
featuring John Lennon as one of
the squaddies suffering under him.
Film of the Day: p29. (1967, 12)
11.15 Jack the Ripper TV period
thriller starring Michael Caine,
Jane Seymour and Lewis Collins.
Jane Seymour feature, p36.
1.15am Passport to Shame ★★★
Cheap, tawdry but fascinating piece
of vintage sexploitation. Eddie
Constantine, Diana Dors, Odile Versois (1958, 12)

3.00 Framed ★ Ultra-violent
revenge thriller. Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke,
Gabriel Dell (1975, 18) (S) 5.10 Cruise 1937:
RMS Strathmore 5.30—6.00am
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

68

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 1111

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am Lost Letter Mysteries: For
Christmas 11.00 Unwanted Guest
★★ Thriller. Kate Mansi (2016) 1.00pm Evil
Nanny ★★ Psychological thriller.
(2016) 3.00 Dear Diary, I Died ★★
A woman’s investigation into her
sister’s death leads to trouble in this
thriller. (2016) 4.40 What’s Eating
Gilbert Grape ★★★ Sweet drama
about a sensitive teenager coping
with his family’s difficulties in a small
Iowa town. Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis (1993, 12)
7.05pm Secret Window ★★★
Entertaining and unnerving
suspense thriller with Johnny Depp
as an author with writer’s block and
John Turturro as the stranger who
accuses him of plagiarism. (2004, 12)
9.00 One Hour Photo ★★★★
Robin Williams is fantastic as a
lonely photo processor who
becomes obsessed with a “perfect”
family in this psychological thriller.
Review p26. Connie Nielsen (2001, 15)
10.55 The Box ★★ Stylish sci-fi
thriller with Cameron Diaz and
James Marsden as a couple given
a chilling get-rich-quick proposition.
Frank Langella, James Rebhorn (2008, 12)

1.20am Extortion ★★★ Tense
holiday-gone-wrong thriller about a
father trying to save his family from
a bloodthirsty fisherman. Eion Bailey
(2017, 15) 3.45—5.50am The Little
Vampire ★★★ Excellent spooky
adventure. Jonathan Lipnicki (2000, U)

+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Mother Lode ★★
Adventure. Charlton Heston (1982, PG) 8.00
Hannibal ★ Adventure. (1959, U) 10.00
Station West ★★★ Western. Dick
Powell (1948, PG) 11.55 Killer Calibre 32
★★ Spaghetti western. (1967) 1.50pm
Brave Warrior ★★ Western. (1952, U)
3.25 Aircraft Carriers 4.40 The
First of the Few ★★★ Second
World War biographical drama. (1942, U)
7.10pm Stonados ★★ Stonethrowing tornados bring chaos to
the east coast of America. (2013, 12)
9.00 Hitman: Redemption ★★
Familiar thriller about a hitman
whose final job goes sideways. Ron
Perlman, Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss (2018, 15)

11.05 Only God Forgives ★★★★
Arty crime thriller that reteams
Ryan Gosling with his Drive director,
Nicolas Winding Refn. (2012, 18)
12.50am How I Spent My
Summer Vacation ★★★ Thriller.
(2012, 15) 2.50—4.00am The Traitors
★★★ Spy thriller. Patrick Allen (1962, U)
+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am Tank Commandos ★★
War drama. (1959) 7.35 Biggles:
Adventures in Time ★ Sci-fi
adventure. (1986, PG) 9.25 A Prize of
Arms ★★★ Crime thriller. Stanley Baker
(1961, PG) 11.30 The Narrow Margin
★★★★ Crime thriller. Charles McGraw,
Marie Windsor (1952, PG) 1.00pm It Should
Happen to You ★★★★ Romantic
comedy. Review p29. Judy Holliday, Peter
Lawford, Jack Lemmon (1954, U) 2.50 Cover
Girl ★★★★ Musical romantic
comedy. Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly (1944, U)
5.05 They Made Me a Fugitive
★★★ Crime thriller. Trevor Howard (1947, PG)
7.15pm The Case of the
Frightened Lady ★★★ Smartly
written Edgar Wallace mystery
about murderous goings-on at
an aristocratic family pile. (1940)
9.00 Torn Curtain ★★★ An
American scientist is suspected
of defecting to the Communists
in this daft but enjoyable Cold War
thriller. Paul Newman, Julie Andrews (1966, 15)
11.45 Our Man in Havana ★★★
Amusing spy satire with Alec
Guinness on superb form as the
vacuum cleaner salesman who
becomes a secret agent. (1959, PG)
1.55am Stranger on Horseback
★★★ Western. Joel McCrea (1955, PG) 3.15
Strongroom ★ Crime drama. (1961, PG)
4.35—6.00am Tomorrow We Live
★★★ Melodrama. John Clements (1942, U)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am First Wave 9.00 Battlestar
Galactica 10.00 The Prisoner 11.00
Trapped in Space ★★★ Chilling,
no-nonsense sci-fi drama. Jack Wagner,
Jack Coleman, Craig Wasson (1994, 15) 1.00pm
Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune:
TV sci-fi 3.00 The 4400 4.00
40 Days and Nights ★ Disaster
thriller. Monica Keena, Alex Carter (2012)
6.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi drama.
7.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
8.00 Star Trek TV sci-fi drama.
9.00 The Wolfman ★★★ Benicio
Del Toro becomes the victim of a
family curse in this enjoyable horror.
Review p29. Anthony Hopkins (2009, 15)
11.00 Night of the Creeps ★★
Fun comedy horror in which alien
slugs nest in people’s brains and
turn them into zombies. (1987, 18)
12.45am Initiation ★★ Grisly
Scream-style horror. Isabella Gomez,
Lindsay LaVanchy (2020, 18) 2.40—4.30am
Jeepers Creepers ★★★★ Riveting
and imaginative horror. Gina Phillips,
Justin Long, Jonathan Breck (2001, 15)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.45am The Warriors ★★★★
Action drama. Michael Beck (1979, 15) 8.30
Baby Driver ★★ Action crime
thriller. Ansel Elgort (2017, 15) 10.40 No
Country for Old Men 5
Crime thriller. Tommy Lee Jones (2007, 15)
12.50pm The Godfather Part III
★★★ Crime drama. Al Pacino (1990, 15)

5.55pm The Many Saints of
Newark 5 Hugely satisfying
crime drama. Review p38. (2020, 15)
8.00 People Just Do Nothing:
Big in Japan ★★★ Goodhumoured comedy. Allan Mustafa (2021, 15)
9.45 Barbarians ★★ Twisty
home-invasion thriller. Iwan Rheon,

3.45pm Chinatown 5
Brilliant period thriller. Jack Nicholson,

11.25 Malignant ★★★ Schlockhorror about a woman tormented
by visions. Annabelle Wallis (2021, 18)

Judi Dench rethinks retirement after being offered a new job

Great Movies

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
7.10am Pil’s Adventures ★★
Family cartoon adventure. (2021) 8.50
Spirit Untamed ★★ Sweet
animated adventure. (2021, U) 10.30
As 5.55pm 12.40pm As 8pm
2.25 As 9.45pm 4.10 North
Hollywood ★★★ Coming-of-age
skating movie. Ryder McLaughlin (2021, 15)

Catalina Sandino Moreno (2021, 15)

6.35pm Film4

Sky Gangsters

1.25am Don’t Breathe 2 ★★
Brutal, twisting horror sequel.
Stephen Lang (2021, 18) 3.15 North
Hollywood As 4.10pm 5.00 Sky
Cinema Preview 5.40 As 7.10am

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Faye Dunaway, John Huston (1974, 15)

6.05 Hell or High Water ★★★★
Thriller in which two men embark
on a series of robberies. (2016, 15)
8.00 John Wick ★★★★ Lean,
action-packed thriller starring a
reliably stoic Keanu Reeves. (2014, 15)
10.00 The Raid ★★★★ Action
yarn in which cops must fight their
way out of a tower block. (2011, 18)
11.45pm Dragged across
Concrete ★★★★ Violent thriller.
Mel Gibson (2018, 18) 2.25am Rise of the
Footsoldier ★ Crime thriller. Ricci
Harnett (2006, 18) 4.30 Infamous ★★
Crime drama. Bella Thorne (2020, 15)

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.00am Where’d You Go,
Bernadette ★★★ (2018, 12) 8.00
Gridiron Gang ★★★ Drama. (2006, 12)
10.10 Synchronic ★★★ Sci-fi. (2019, 15)
11.55 Roald Dahl’s The Witches
★★★★ Fantasy. Anne Hathaway (2020, PG)
1.40pm Anger Management
★★★ Comedy. Adam Sandler (2003, 15)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
6.15am Clueless ★★★★ Romantic
comedy. (1995, 12) 8.10 Grease 2 ★★
Musical. Michelle Pfeiffer (1982, PG) 10.15
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
★★★★ Sci-fi. James Franco (2011, 12)
12.15pm Twister ★★★ Adventure.
(1996, PG) 2.15 Roman Holiday
5 Romantic comedy. (1953, U)

3.40pm Fast & Furious 7
★★★★ Globetrotting entry in the
muscle-car franchise. Vin Diesel (2014, 12)
6.00 Just Go with It ★★
Comedy in which a man lies
about his marital status. (2011, 12)
8.00 Friends with Benefits
★★★ Smart and funny romantic
comedy. Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis (2011, 15)
9.50 The Founder ★★★★ Fastfood biopic about the man who
grew McDonalds. Michael Keaton (2016, 12)

4.15pm Beverly Hills Cop
★★★★ Eddie Murphy brings
swagger to this blockbuster
fish-out-of-water comedy. (1984, 15)
6.15 Men in Black ★★★★
Sci-fi in which Tommy Lee Jones
recruits Will Smith into a
top-secret organisation. (1997, PG)
8.00 Bad Boys II ★★ Will Smith
and Martin Lawrence reteam for
this high-action sequel to the hit
comedy thriller. Jordi Mollà (2003, 15)

11.50pm The King of Staten
Island ★★★★ Comedy drama
from Judd Apatow. Pete Davidson, Marisa
Tomei, Bill Burr (2020, 15) 2.10am Where’d
You Go, Bernadette As 6am
4.10 Synchronic As 10.10am

10.30pm Single White Female
★★★★ Intense thriller. Bridget Fonda
(1992, 18) 12.25am Behind the
Candelabra ★★★★ Bittersweet
Liberace biopic. (2013, 15) 2.35 As
10.15am 4.30 Clueless As 6.15am

Sky Action

Sky Comedy

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
6.00am The Paper Tigers ★★★
Martial arts comedy. Ron Yuan, Alain Uy
(2020, 12) 7.55 Twist ★★ Crime
drama. Michael Caine, Raff Law, Rita Ora (2021, 12)
9.40 As 5.55pm 11.45 As 8pm
1.35pm Raiders of the Lost Ark
As 10pm 3.35 Hulk ★★★ Sci-fi
fantasy. Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly (2003, 12)

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
6.40am Spontaneous ★★★
Comedy drama. (2020, 15) 8.35 Bad
Therapy ★★ (2020) 10.25
Babysplitters ★★★ Comedy. (2019)
12.30pm Miss Congeniality
★★★★ Comedy. (2000, 12) 2.30 This
Is the End ★★★★ Comedy. (2013, 15)
4.30 Sex Tape ★★ Comedy. (2014, 15)

5.55pm Around the World in
80 Days ★★ Comedic take on
Jules Verne’s classic adventure.
8.00 Clash of the Titans ★★★
Spectacular mythological
adventure starring Sam
Worthington. Liam Neeson (2010, 12)
10.00 Raiders of the Lost Ark
5 Wonderful action yarn
that rattles along with wit and
invention. Harrison Ford, Karen Allen (1981, PG)

6.20pm Paul Blart: Mall Cop
★★ Fitfully funny comedy
starring Kevin James as a
bumbling security guard. (2009, PG)
8.00 Hitch ★★★ Will Smith
stars as a professional romance
adviser who can’t get his own
love life in order. Eva Mendes (2005, 12)
10.00 The Intern ★★★ Robert
De Niro’s senior citizen goes
to work at Anne Hathaway’s
internet start-up. Rene Russo (2015, 12)

12 midnight Desperado ★★★★
This explosive adventure stars
Antonio Banderas as a mysterious
guitar-playing stranger. Salma Hayek
(1995, 18) 1.50am Hulk As 3.35pm
4.10 The Paper Tigers As 6am

12.05am Miss Congeniality 2:
Armed & Fabulous ★★ Breezy
action comedy. Sandra Bullock (2005, 12)
2.00 Babysplitters As 10.25am
4.00 Spontaneous As 6.40am
5.45 Bad Therapy As 8.35am

Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cécile de France (2004, PG)

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

MONDAY 4 APRIL
Sky Wizarding World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
6.00am Curious George 3: Back
to the Jungle ★★ Adventure. Frank
Welker (2015, U) 7.30 Mr Peabody &
Sherman ★★★★ Sci-fi. Ty Burrell (2013, U)
9.05 Coraline ★★★★ Fantasy.
(2008, PG) 10.50 Dragon Rider ★★★
(2020, PG) 12.25pm Surf’s Up ★★★
Comedy. (2007, PG) 1.55 As 11.30pm

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.00am Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban ★★★★
Fantasy. (2004, PG) 8.25 The Goblet
of Fire ★★★★ Adventure. (2005, 12)
11.05 The Order of the Phoenix
★★★★ Fantasy adventure. (2007, 12)
1.25pm The Half-Blood Prince
★★★★ Satisfying fantasy. (2009, 12)

3.25pm Early Man ★★★★
Upbeat and visually inventive
prehistoric romp. Eddie Redmayne (2018, PG)

8.15 Mary and the Witch’s
Flower ★★★★ Vivid adventure
for all the family. Ruby Barnhill (2017, U)

4.00pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 ★★★ Doom-laden
build-up to the series finale. (2010, 12)
6.30 The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 Hugely satisfying
franchise finale. Daniel Radcliffe (2011, 12)
8.45 Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them 5
Fun fantasy adventure. (2016, 12)
11.00 Fantastic Beasts: the
Crimes of Grindelwald ★★★★
Dazzling adventure. (2018, 12)

10.00pm Happily N’Ever After
★★ Fantasy. (2006, U) 11.30 Open
Season ★★★ Comedy. (2006, PG)
1.00am As 6am 2.30 Weathering
with You ★★★ Fantasy. (2019, 12)
4.25 Dragon Rider As 10.50am

1.20am Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone ★★★★
Harry is whisked off to Hogwarts
wizarding school. (2001, PG) 4.00
The Chamber of Secrets ★★★★
Atmospheric instalment. (2002, PG)

5.00 Animals United ★★
Sweet but simplistic adventure.
James Corden, Stephen Fry (2010, U)

6.40 Monster House ★★★★
Thrilling Halloween tale. Steve
Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal (2006, PG)

Sky Thriller

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
6.00am Into the Labyrinth As
2.05pm 8.25 Unhinged As
4.30pm 10.10 Serenity As 11.35pm
12.10pm Under Siege As 8pm
2.05 Into the Labyrinth ★★
Mystery horror thriller. Dustin Hoffman
(2019, 15) 4.30 Unhinged ★★
Road-rage shocker. Russell Crowe (2020, 15)

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.10am Percy vs Goliath ★★★
Drama. (2020, PG) 8.05 All These
Small Moments ★★★ Drama. (2018)
9.45 Whiplash 5 Drama.
(2014, 15) 11.35 Steel Magnolias
★★★★ Comedy drama. (1989, PG)
1.45pm Military Wives ★★★★
Comedy drama. Kristin Scott Thomas (2019, 12)

6.15pm Changing Lanes ★★★★
Thoughtful, offbeat drama in
which two men take a personal
feud to extreme lengths. (2002, 15)
8.00 Under Siege ★★★★ Slick
thriller about a ship’s cook who
becomes the only hope when
terrorists come aboard. (1992, 15)
9.45 The Burnt Orange Heresy
★★★ Intriguing, well-cast artworld thriller that simmers but
never catches fire. Claes Bang (2019, 15)

3.40pm How to Lose a Guy in
10 Days ★★ Lukewarm
romantic comedy. Kate Hudson (2003, 12)
5.40 Eat Pray Love ★★
Sumptuously filmed guide to
living well. Julia Roberts (2010, 15)
8.00 Another Round 5
Irresistible Danish comedy
drama. Mads Mikkelsen (2020, 12)
10.00 The Hundred-Foot
Journey ★★★ Light foodie
comedy drama. Helen Mirren (2014, PG)

11.35pm Serenity ★★ Bland
thriller that becomes increasingly
ludicrous. Matthew McConaughey (2018, 15)
1.35am Silk Road ★★ Crime
drama. Jason Clarke (2021, 15) 3.35 Into
the Labyrinth As 2.05pm

12.05am Creation Stories
★★★★ Funny and energetic music
biopic. Ewen Bremner (2020) 2.05 Percy
vs Goliath As 6.10am 3.55 The
Last Full Measure ★★ Heartfelt,
sentimental drama. Sebastian Stan (2019, 15)

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
6.15am School’s Out Forever
★★★ Comedy horror. Oscar Kennedy
(2021, 15) 8.15 As 4.20pm 10.10 As
6.15pm 12 noon Battleship ★★★
Sci-fi action. Taylor Kitsch (2012, 12) 2.20pm
In the Earth As 9.55pm 4.20
Candyman ★★★★ Electrifying
shocker. Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd (1992, 18)

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Film
Directors 8.20 Close Up 8.55 The
Red Badge of Courage ★★★★
(1951, U) 10.20 Apache War Smoke
★★ Western. (1952, U) 11.55 Top Gun
★★ (1955, U) 1.30pm Westbound
★★★ (1959, U) 3.00 Ride Out for
Revenge ★★ Western. (1957, U)

6.15pm Skyline ★★★ Weirdly
fascinating alien-invasion thriller
with ace special effects and fullon monster mania. Eric Balfour (2010, 15)
8.00 Edge of Tomorrow ★★★
Tom Cruise is forced to relive the
same day in this clever sci-fi
blockbuster. Emily Blunt (2014, 12)
9.55 In the Earth ★★★
Unsettling, mystical horror in
which a trip to a forest research
site turns weird. Joel Fry (2021, 15)

4.40pm The Desperado ★★
Watchable western that sees a
fugitive team up with an outlaw
gunfighter. Wayne Morris (1954, U)
6.25 No Man Is an Island ★★
Tense adventure based on a true
story. Jeffrey Hunter, Marshall Thompson (1962)
8.45 Off Set Interview.
9.00 Magnum Force ★★★ Clint
Eastwood is on fine form in this
all-guns-blazing follow-up to cop
classic Dirty Harry. (1973, 18)

11.45pm The Evil Dead ★★★★
Gory, innovative horror. Bruce Campbell,
Ellen Sandweiss (1981, 18) 1.15am Sorority
Row ★★ Slapdash horror thriller.
Briana Evigan (2009, 15) 3.00 Battleship
As 12 noon 5.15 As 6.15am

11.40pm Zero Dark Thirty
★★★★ Thriller. (2012, 15) 2.45am Mars
Attacks! ★★★★ Sci-fi comedy.
(1996, 12) 4.30 Close Up 5.00
Hollywood’s Best Film Directors

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

SPORT
Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Premier League Greatest
Games (AD) 6.30 Highlights 10.00 The
Football Show: the weekend’s action
1.00pm Premier League Years
3.00 Highlights 6.30 Soccer AM

7.00 LIVE Premier League
Football Crystal Palace v Arsenal
from Selhurst Park (kick-off 8.00).

Netball 5.00pm Sky Arena
Sasha Corbin will be hoping to
create a buzz against the Wasps

Sky Main Event
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440
6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good
Morning Sports Fans 7.30 Early Kick-Off
8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans

8.30 LIVE Test Cricket South
Africa v Bangladesh, the fifth day
of the First Test in the two-match
series at Kingsmead in Durban.
2.50pm LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Sunrisers Hyderabad
v Lucknow Super Giants in Mumbai.
7.00 LIVE Premier League
Football Crystal Palace v Arsenal
from Selhurst Park (kick-off 8.00).
11.00 Sky Sports News
12 midnight NFL: Total Access
1.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am EFL Trophy Football 9.00
Scottish Premiership Round-Up 9.15
Scottish Premiership Football 9.45
Championship Highlights 10.30
Women’s Super League Football 11.00
Championship Season Review
12 noon Classic Play-Off Finals 2.00pm
Scottish Premiership Football 5.30
Scottish Premiership Round-Up 5.45
Championship Highlights 6.00 Soccer
AM 6.30 Scottish Premiership Football
7.00 German Football 8.00 EFL Trophy
Football 8.30 Soccer AM 9.00 Women’s
Super League Football 9.30 German
Football 10.30 MLS 11.00 Soccer AM
11.30 Scottish Premiership Football
12 midnight Classic Play-Off Finals
3.00am League Cup Retro
5.45—6.00am One2Eleven (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am Golf: the Masters 8.00 PGA
Tour Golf 1.00pm The Magnificent :
1975 1.40 The Masters Official Film:
Floyd 1976 2.20 The Masters Official
Film: Zoeller 1979 (AD) 2.55 The
Masters Official Film: Langer 1985
3.30 Vamos! Garcia’s Glory 4.00
Masters: the Last Nine on Sunday (AD)

5.00 LIVE Golf: the Masters
All the build-up and the practice
rounds from the Augusta National.
10.00 The Masters Official Films: from
2021 11.00 The Masters Official Film:
Tom Watson 1977 11.40 The Masters
Official Film: Ballesteros 1980 12.15am
The Masters Official Film: Tom Watson
1981 1.00 The Masters Official Film:
Player 1974 2.00 Masters: the Last
Nine on Sunday (AD) 3.00 Vamos!
Garcia’s Glory 3.30 Jordan Spieth:
from Minor to Major (AD) 4.00 The
Masters Official Film: Stadler 1982 (AD)
4.30 Masters: the One from November:
the 2020 tournament 5.00—6.00am
The Masters Official Film: Faldo 1996

Amazon Prime
3.00pm, 12 midnight LIVE WTA
Tennis Charleston Open, day one.

11.00 Soccer AM 11.30 Women’s Super
League Football: Chelsea v Reading
12 midnight Highlights 1.45am
Premier League Greatest Games 2.00
Soccer AM 2.30 Premier League Icons
3.00 Premier League Greatest Games
4.00 Best Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am
Premier League 100 Club: Mo Salah

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Talking Cricket 6.30 Women’s
Cricket World Cup Highlights: action
from the final 7.30 Test Highlights

8.30 LIVE Test Cricket South
Africa v Bangladesh, day five of the
First Test at Kingsmead in Durban.
2.50pm LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Sunrisers Hyderabad
v Lucknow Super Giants from Dr
DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai.
7.00 Test Highlights 8.00 Best of the
2015 IPL 8.30 Best of the 2017 IPL
9.00 Indian Premier League Cricket
10.00 Test Highlights 11.00 Indian
Premier League Cricket: today’s action
4.10am Best of the 2015 IPL 4.35 Best
of the 2018 IPL 5.00 Best of the 2015
IPL 5.30—6.00am Best of the 2017 IPL

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD)
7.00 NFL 8.00 Premier League Darts:
in Birmingham 11.30 Darts Gold (AD)
12 noon Good Morning Football 3.00pm
NFL Bitesize 3.30 Boxing Archive (AD)
6.30 NFL Bitesize 7.00 Pro-Football
Talk 9.00 Boxing Archive (AD)
12 midnight NFL: Total Access
1.00—6.00am NFL

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Super League 7.00 Rugby
League Retro 9.00 Super League 10.00
NBA 2.00pm Super League 3.00 Netball

5.00 LIVE Netball Coverage of
Saracens Mavericks v Wasps in the
Superleague, held at the University
of Essex (centre-pass 5.30).
7.15 NBA GameTime 7.45 NBA 11.45
Super League 12 midnight Netball
4.00am Super League 5.00—6.00am
Super League’s Supermen (AD)

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 520/HD 510 BT 429/HD 449
5.00—7.15pm LIVE Netball
Saracens Mavericks v Wasps in the
Superleague (centre-pass 5.30).

Eurosport 1
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435
6.00am Cycling 7.00 World Superbikes
8.00 World Snooker 10.00 Cycling
11.00 World Superbikes: from Spain
12 noon Motocross 12.30pm Cycling

2.30 LIVE Cycling Stage one of
the Basque Tour, featuring a 7.5km
individual time-trial from Hondarribia.
4.30 Olympics: Legends Live On
5.00 LIVE Curling Coverage of
a match in the men’s round-robin
stage at the World Championships.
8.00 Cycling 9.00 Teqball Show 9.30
Olympics: Legends Live On 10.00
Cycling 12 midnight Motor Racing
1.00am World Superbikes 2.00
Cycling 4.00—6.00am Darts

BT Sport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430
6.00am LIVE International OneDay Cricket Continued coverage
of New Zealand v Netherlands, the
third ODI, held at Seddon Park.
11.15 BT Sport Cricket Reload 11.30
National League Football 12 noon
ESPN FC 12.30pm Champions
League Magazine 1.00 Premier
League Review 2.00 French
Football 3.00 National League
Football 5.00 ESPN FC 5.30
International One-Day Cricket
6.30 Premier League Review
7.30 LIVE Italian Football
AC Milan v Bologna (kick-off 7.45).
9.45 BT Sport Goals Reload
10.15 Europa League Magazine
11.15 Rugby Tonight
12 midnight College GameDay
2.00am LIVE Basketball A match
from the NCAA tournament.
5.00—6.00am Fishing: on the Bank (AD)

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Premier League Review 7.00
Wrestling (AD) 8.00 Premier League
Football: Liverpool v Watford 9.30
Premier League World 10.00 MotoGP
2.00pm National League Football
2.30 Pro League Hockey 6.30
Premiership Rugby Union 8.00 Rugby
Tonight 8.45 BT Sport Cricket Reload
9.00 Fishing: on the Bank (AD) 10.00
Motorcycling 11.00 Wrestling (AD)

1.00am LIVE Wrestling Action
from WWE Monday Night Raw.
4.15 BT Sport Goals Reload 4.30
Rugby Stories (AD) 5.00—6.00am
International One-Day Cricket

Monday Television

Animation

Sky

BT Sport 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Italian Football: the weekend’s
Serie A action 3.00pm Motorcycling
4.00 Motor Racing 6.00 Squash: the
women’s and men’s finals at the British
Open 7.00 MotoGP: the Grand Prix
of Argentina 11.00 National League
Football 11.30 BT Sport Films (AD)
12.30am UFC Fight Camp 1.00 UFC
Main Event: Kamaru Usman v Colby
Covington from 2021 2.00 French
Football 3.00 Motor Racing: V8
Supercars 5.00—6.00am Motorcycling

BT Sport ESPN
Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 ESPN
SportsCenter 6.45 Baseball
12.45pm ESPN SportsCenter
1.00 ESPN FC 1.30 Lacrosse 3.30
Snowboarding (AD) 4.30 In Depth with
Graham Bensinger 5.00 ESPN FC
Presents — Gab and Juls: football news
5.30 In Depth with Graham Bensinger
6.00 Baseball Today in the UK 6.30
Basketball 9.00 ESPN SportsCenter
9.15 30 for 30: Survive and Advance
(AD) 11.15 ESPN SportsCenter 11.30
Baseball 5.30—6.00am ESPN FC
Presents: Gab and Juls

Eurosport 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436
6.00am World Superbikes 7.00
Darts 9.00 World Superbikes 10.00
World Superbikes 11.00 Darts

1.00pm LIVE Darts The afternoon
session on day three of the WDF
World Championship from Lakeside
Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey.
5.00 Formula E 6.00 Darts
7.00 LIVE Darts Coverage of
the evening session on day three
of the WDF World Championship
from Lakeside Country Club.
11.00 Motocross 12.05am Cycling
2.00 Darts 4.00 Cycling 5.00—
6.00am World Superbikes

69

The pick of today’s TV

Television Tuesday

TUESDAY Choices

CHASING THE PAST
Shaun Wallace and
Anne Hegerty explore
their ancestry

PICK OF THE DAY

DNA Journey 9.00pm ITV

GENEALOGY The BOGOF Who Do You Think You Are? returns, with another

batch of paired celebs going on genealogical journeys. First up: Anne Hegerty
and Shaun Wallace who, despite being quiz-show Chasers, don’t get to do
a lot of chasing when it comes to their family trees.
Instead, facts and history nuggets are just handed over by experts, with
no sign of any research being done by the famous faces. And because there
isn’t a DNA link between Anne and Shaun, both end up spending long periods

Champions League
Quarter-finals
7.00pm/7.15pm (kick-off 8pm)
BT Sport 2/3
SPORT As we enter the last eight of

European football’s premier
competition, there’s a real chance
that half of the semi-finalists will be
English teams. But tonight, two
Iberian sides plan to upset the odds:
Benfica host Liverpool in Lisbon
(on BT Sport 3) and Atlético Madrid
meet Manchester City at the Etihad
Stadium (on BT Sport 2).
The latter is as violent a clash of
footballing styles as one can imagine.
Diego Simeone’s Madrid are known
for their rigid defensive mindset and
knack of holding onto narrow leads,
but shutting out a City team revered
for their fluid offensive football is the
ultimate test. MAX COPEMAN

70

MasterChef
8.00pm BBC1
FOOD Gregg Wallace and John

Torode never know what to expect
when the ambitious amateurs cook
for the first time. It’s like Christmas
Day, says Gregg, when you’re
excited to open your presents even
though you don’t know what’s
inside them. What they get this time
is a thrilling culinary journey around
the world.
They are served dishes they’ve
never tasted before involving
ingredients from Nigeria, Italy,
Pakistan, Guyana, Japan, France
and the Philippines. If you play the
“guess the best cook before they
even put on their apron” game,
see if you can pick the one who’s
head and shoulders above the rest.
I didn’t. JANE RACKHAM

as a bystander while the other nods and emotes.
While Anne’s tale only takes her as far as Liverpool’s Albert Docks and an
account of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, she at least gets to travel to
sunny Jamaica while accompanying her co-star. However, what awaits them
there is a dark story of slavery that leaves Shaun feeling emotional about the
struggles of his ancestors, but also proud of his own notable success.
DAVID BROWN
See page 146

Ellie Simmonds:
a World Without
Dwarfism? 9.00pm BBC1

Banned! The Mary
Whitehouse Story
9.00pm BBC2

DOCUMENTARY Ellie Simmonds is

DOCUMENTARY We reach the

a winner of multiple gold medals in
Paralympic swimming, having been
born with achondroplasia, the genetic
disorder that results in short limbs.
Now, new drugs such as Vosoritide
promise to promote growth in
children with the condition. In this
provocative film, Simmonds meets
families who feel they’re benefiting,
but keeps coming back to the
question of whether dwarfism really
needs a cure. “Do you think society
should change, or we should
change?” she asks. With all she’s
achieved, would she really have
chosen a different path? Along the
way is a vital demystification of what
life with dwarfism is like. JACK SEALE

1980s in this concluding part, as the
campaigner allies herself with
another powerful woman with an
immovable helmet of lacquered hair:
Margaret Thatcher. It was an odd,
almost contradictory union, with the
free-marketeering Tories allowing
the prosperity of the pornographers
whom Whitehouse opposed.
The two women gelled, however,
in their desire to make broadcasting
subject to the Obscene Publications
Act. But in railing against the likes of
EastEnders, Whitehouse proved to
be on the wrong side of public
opinion. Catch Julie Walters playing
Whitehouse in a 2008 bio-drama on
BBC4 at 10.00pm. DBr

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

TUESDAY 5 APRIL
of a clan that has been built via
adoption — his children, including sons
Marou and Noel (Jimi Bani and Aaron
Fa’aoso, left), run guns and drugs
through the Torres Strait Islands in
Queensland. It can veer towards
soapiness in the acting, but gangster
drama fans will not be disappointed
by the creative violence of fearsome
rival gangs, while Succession
devotees can see Cox warm up for
that role with an authoritative turn
that has similar qualities. JS

STREAMING NOW
What if we told you there’s a whole
other drama starring Brian Cox as the
head of a morally compromised
family, with adult siblings all jostling to
take over the business? Long before
Succession, which you can catch up
with via Now, there was The Straits
— a one-series wonder made for
Australian television in 2012 and now
on both Acorn TV and STV Player.
Cox plays Harry Montebello, patriarch

Wellington Paranormal

The Witchfinder

9.00pm Channel 5

9.00pm Sky Comedy

10.00pm BBC2

DRAMA New series This noir-ish

COMEDY “The endangered bird

COMEDY There are certainly ragged

mystery is filmed in Budapest and
scripted by Gareth Tunley, who wrote
and directed last year’s burglar drama
Intruder for Channel 5. This time, he
channels the femme-fatale premise of
Basic Instinct: a man investigating a
woman accused of murder makes the
mistake of falling under her spell.
Here it is documentary maker
James Alden (James D’Arcy) who
becomes fascinated by socialite
Natalie Varga (Charlie Murphy) as
she fights to clear her name after
her husband’s brutal murder.
Appropriately enough, the dialogue
is full of dead lines and scenes that
creak like a rusty gate, but if it draws
you in, the story plays out over the
next three nights. DAVID BUTCHER

woman is in danger. She’s an
endangered endangered bird
woman.” Another strange case for
Minogue and O’Leary heralds the
final, fourth series of this jovial Kiwi
mockumentary, a What We Do in the
Shadows spin-off with a lighter vibe.
Shiny objects are being stolen
across town, and the police are
advised by a local ornithologist that
they’re dealing with a Kurangaituku,
the giant feathered she-beast of
Maori legend. When one bird woman
(the Kurangaituku) kidnaps another
bird woman (the ornithologist),
events become dangerously
confusing. Back at the cop shop,
there’s more bird-based chaos: a
budgie is loose. JS

edges to this costume comedy and
scenes that feel sketchy, but I like
the mad 17th-century world that
writers Rob and Neil Gibbons have
constructed. It’s a showcase for
excellent cameos tonight, including
Allan Mustafa as a complacent grocer.
He tells Thomasine (Daisy May
Cooper) to stop questioning
everything — “Leave it to the men,
love, you won’t go wrong” — when
we keep seeing how the hopelessness
of all the men in the story is where
everything goes wrong.
The main culprit is Gideon, and
Tim Key is particularly good tonight
playing Gideon’s inability to live up
to his own idea of himself, with dire
consequences. DB

The Great Celebrity
Bake Off for Stand Up
to Cancer 8.00pm C4
Presenter Matt Lucas, rapper
Example, DJ Annie Mac and
comedian Ed Gamble bake
for Paul and Prue.

The Flash
8.00pm Sky Max
Despero warns Barry that
great tragedies lie ahead.

The Simpler Life
9.15pm C4
The volunteers struggle to
carry on without their Amish
guides. Barry Schwartz’s
viewpoint: page 7

Filth: the Mary
Whitehouse Story
10.00pm BBC4

Tuesday Television

Deadline

BEST OF THE REST

2008 drama starring Julie
Walters as Mary Whitehouse.

q FILM OF THE DAY
True Lies

9.00pm Alibi
DRAMA There were more twists

FORMIDABLE
Seána Kerslake, Dervla
Kirwan and Niamh Walsh
as the Ahern women
Grace, Val and Jenny

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

and turns than an Irish country
lane in the first series of Kate
O’Riordan’s bleak thriller starring
Dervla Kerwin as Val Ahern, the
matriarch of a complex family.
It began when Val’s deeply
unpleasant husband Denis was
found dead at the bottom of a cliff.
There were numerous suspects
within the extended family but,
after various long-buried secrets
were exhumed, we learned it was an
accident… although there was a
sting in that tale, too.
“From now on, we tell each
other the truth,” instructs Val, but
there are more skeletons rattling
around in the closet and lots of
dirty laundry to be aired. Denis’s
estranged son Finn (Dean Fagan)
turns up at the Aherns and,
although they’re a ghastly bunch,
he’s keen to get to know them. The
pre-title sequence suggests that
this could be a dangerous
proposition. JR

10.00pm Channel 5
Action comedy thriller starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger as a
terrorist-battling secret agent
who suspects his wife is having
an affair with a used-car
salesman. (1994) See page 29

LIVE SPORT

 Champions League Football:
Man City v Atlético Madrid 7pm
(k/o 8pm) BT Sport 2 Renan Lodi
has helped to get Atlético this far.
Benfica v Liverpool 7.15pm (k/o
8pm) BT Sport 3 See page 70
 Championship Football:
Preston North End v Blackpool
7.30pm (k/o 7.45pm) SS Football
 Indian Premier League
Cricket: Rajasthan Royals v
Royal Challengers Bangalore
2.50pm Sky Sports Cricket
GETTY

Smother

71

TUESDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

Television Tuesday

BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Sally Nugent, Dan Walker. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Gethin Jones and AJ Odudu
host the topical magazine show. (S) (HD)
10.00 Scam Interceptors Rav Wilding and a team of
ethical hackers hunt down cyber criminals. (S) (HD)
10.45 Defenders UK Officers clamp down on traders
selling sub-standard face masks. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in
Staffordshire, Cheshire and County Durham. (S) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt In Peterborough. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Doctors Princess gets no love from her
mother. Repeated 7pm BBC2 Cast Thursday BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private
Investigators 8/10 Series 3. Frank and Lu investigate
a car accident which killed a young mum. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country A couple returning
after seven years in Switzerland seek a family home
in Cambridgeshire. Repeated Thursday 6.30am BBC2 (S) (HD)
3.45 The Repair Shop Jay Blades hears the stories
behind a special sporran, an ingenious artist’s tool
and a much-loved toy seal. Rptd tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies A family team try to find
the right path across the bridge. With Ross Kemp. (S) (HD)

BBC2
6.30am Bargain Hunt Shown Mon 12.15pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
7.15 The Repair Shop Shown yesterday 3.45pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 Great Coastal Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo travels along the rural coastline
of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden 8/10
Marcus decides he wants to raise sheep, so he takes a trip to
Lancashire where he’s introduced to Lonk sheep. (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm The Super League Show Featuring Leeds
Rhinos v St Helens and Hull KR v Warrington Wolves.
Shown yesterday 12.20am BBC1 North (S) (HD)

1.45 Eggheads Quiz with Jeremy Vine. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Street Auction A Somerset woman who draws
on her own tragic experience to help others. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 The Heights Series 1. A revelation rocks one
family, while money proves a problem. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.30 The Customer Is Always Right Consumers
try out a new portion-control bowl for dieters, a dog
lead and an electronic music box. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.15—5.15 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 2/6
The adventurer goes spearfishing on Madagascar,
before heading off to the Seychelles. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Beauty, health and style. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, fashion
and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women Lively chat. Rptd 3am (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal In Crewe, Fay Rutter
goes wild about autographs and Stewart Hoffgartner
tries to get his hands on some modern art. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00—4.00 Lingo Duos from Oxford, Chelmsford and
Belfast compete in the fast-moving battle of words.
Adil Ray presents. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather

Channel 4

72

6.05am Countdown With Jon Culshaw. (R) (S) (HD)
6.45 Cheers Two episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.40 Everybody Loves Raymond Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)
9.05 Frasier Three episodes of the US sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
10.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The chef
heads to Islip on Long Island. (R) (S) 11.30 News (S) (HD)
11.35 Undercover Boss USA The CEO of a smoothie
brand goes incognito in his own company. (R) (S) (HD)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch Magazine. (S) (HD)
2.10 Countdown With guest John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Searching for a holiday home
near the Gran Canaria town of Vecindario. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun The future of a
pony trekking business in Italy hangs in the balance
after being visited by an army of vets. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1

1

BBC2

2

The Witchfinder

Ellie Simmonds:
a World without
Dwarfism? 9.00pm
The ethical issues
a controversial
new drug is raising

(Tim Key) mislays
Thomasine, but is
disaster about to
turn to triumph?

5.15pm Pointless

5.15pm Flog It!

Quiz show presented by Alexander Armstrong. (S) (HD)

Examining antiques brought to the Milestones
Museum in Basingstoke, Hampshire. (R) (S) (HD)

10.00pm Bannister

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S)
Followed by Party Election Broadcast
By the Labour Party. (S) (HD)

Milton Jones, Ria Lina, Martin Roberts and Briony
May Williams test their general knowledge. (S) (HD)

6.30 Lightning

7.00 The One Show
Jermaine Jenas and Lauren Laverne host. (S) (HD)
2 BBC RED BUTTON 7.00—10.30 5 Live Final Score

Comedian Zoe Lyons presents the quickfire quiz.
Director John Adams
Series producer James Evans (S) (HD)

7.00 Doctors

7.30 EastEnders
Linda causes a drunken scene at the crematorium.
Linda Carter
Kellie Bright
Janine Butcher
Charlie Brooks
Shirley Carter
Linda Henry
Chelsea Atkins
Zaraah Abrahams
Frankie Lewis
Rose Ayling-Ellis
Honey Mitchell
Emma Barton
Isaac Baptiste
Stevie Basaula
Harvey Monroe
Ross Boatman
Jay Brown
Jamie Borthwick
Ben Mitchell
Max Bowden
Martin Fowler
James Bye
Jada Lennox Kelsey Calladine-Smith
Sonia Fowler
Natalie Cassidy
Stuart Highway
Ricky Champ
Callum “Halfway” Highway Tony Clay

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games

Tom “Rocky” Cotton
Brian Conley
Sharon Watts
Letitia Dean
Kheerat Panesar
Jaz Deol
Kim Fox
Tameka Empson
Zack Hudson
James Farrar
Billy Mitchell
Perry Fenwick
Rainie Highway
Tanya Franks
Ash Kaur
Gurlaine Kaur Garcha
Mitch Baker
Roger Griffiths
Lola Pearce
Danielle Harold
Arthur Fowler
Rocco Brenner
Ernie Moon
Cody Briffett
Bert Moon
Elliott Briffett
Ollie Carter
Harry Farr
Lexi Pearce
Isabella Brown

Writer Kevin Rundle More cast on Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 MasterChef

more cooks arrive in the kitchen to prepare
aNine
their signature dishes in the audition round,

Ruhma gets more than she bargained for from
a pregnant couple. Emma returns to work.
Writer Jacqui Canham Cast Thu Shown 1.45pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall
Series 1. Rick visits the Roseland peninsula, starting
at the spot said to have once been visited by Jesus,
inspiring the hymn Jerusalem. Later, Rick heads to
St Mawes for a tour of the bay with Alex and Olga
Polizzi. Continues tomorrow 7.30pm. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI crew are called into action at St Davids in
Pembrokeshire when a plane makes an emergency
crash landing on one of Wales’s busiest beaches.
Directors Phil Broadhurst, Luke Proctor and Dominick French
Series producer Alex Raw (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
The story reaches the 1970s, and Mary’s
a 2/2.
battle with permissive society heats up, as the

where John Torode and Gregg Wallace will taste
each plate purely on its merits without knowing who
cooked which. Three chefs will be granted their
aprons — and immunity from elimination — while the
remaining six must produce a second dish, but now
with John and Gregg watching their every move,
whereafter two will be eliminated. Continues
tomorrow 8pm. See page 70. (S) (AD) (HD)

suggestion that nothing should be censored starts
to gain currency. Intent on being the nation’s moral
guardian, she takes her battles to the courts. This
instalment also looks back at the final chapters of
her campaign, when she got closer to the seat of
power than anybody thought possible, thanks to
her relationship with Mrs Thatcher. See page 70.

9.00 Ellie Simmonds: a World without
Dwarfism?

Director Hannah Berryman
Executive producers Abigail Priddle and Janet Lee (S) (AD) (HD)
Filth: the Mary Whitehouse Story is at 10pm on BBC4

to an environment where difference
aAccustomed
is celebrated, the five-time gold medal-winning

Paralympian investigates a pioneering new drug which
promises to make children with achondroplasia — Ellie’s
form of dwarfism — grow closer to average height.
Travelling around the US and the UK, Ellie interrogates
her own beliefs and preconceptions as she meets
families embarking on the drug trial, individuals who
feel treatment would have positively impacted their
lives, and others who are proud of their identity and
are questioning the aims of the drug. See page 70.

Director Kate Monaghan; Producer Jasleen Kaur Sethi (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.35 Settling Down: a Believer’s Guide
2/5. Grace and Jess are engaged and about to
move into their first home together: a canal boat. In
the past, the pair have struggled with being gay and
Christian, and they’ve not always found acceptance.
As they settle in on their new boat, they are looking to
find a church and a community that welcomes them.
Series producer Jo Woolf (S) (HD)

11.15 Extraordinary Portraits
6/6. Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year-old
dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down.
Shown Sunday 6.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Witchfinder

Thomasine is stolen away and Bannister
a 5/6.
fears the worst should someone else try her

before he gets to Chelmsford. But when he tries to
get her back, he finds that the man putting her on
trial is none other than Matthew Hopkins himself.
A box set is available on iPlayer. See page 71.
Thomasine Gooch
Gideon Bannister

Daisy May Cooper Cumberlidge
Tim Key Hopkins

Tuwaine Barrett
Julian Barratt

Writers/Directors Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons
Producer Joe Fraser (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)
11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

11.15 99 Homes ★★★★

Orlando, Florida, 2010: after losing his
q Drama.
job, Dennis Nash is evicted from his home by

estate agent Rick Carver. Desperate to provide for
his nine-year-old son, Nash is forced to strike a deal
with the devil by going to work for Carver. Available
on iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Week, page 26.

Dennis Nash
Rick Carver
Lynn Nash
Frank Green

Andrew Garfield
Michael Shannon
Laura Dern
Tim Guinee

Connor Nash
Bill
Mr Tanner
Mr Freeman

Noah Lomax
Cullen Moss
J D Evermore
Clancy Brown

Director Ramin Bahrani (2014, 15) (S) (W) (HD)

12.30am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.35—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

1.00—3.30am Sign Zone 1.00 Dragons’ Den 13/14
Two sisters hope the Dragons will be attracted to their
maternity-wear business. Shown last Thursday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 MasterChef The cooks must invent a dish on the spot
from a range of ingredients. Shown last Wed BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 The four strongest chefs return to battle for a place
in the semi-finals. Shown last Friday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

11.45 The Wall
A father and son compete to win a life-changing prize.
Shown Saturday 7.05pm (S) (HD)

TUESDAY 5 APRIL
ITV

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

The Great
Celebrity Bake
Off 8.00pm
Example, Annie
Mac, Matt Lucas
and Ed Gamble

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Four contestants take turns on the supersized
arcade machine. Ben Shephard hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

Married foodies Charlie and Sasha want to start a
new life and business on the Costa del Sol — their
first task being to find a suitable home for their
two children, three dogs and four cats. (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase
Bradley Walsh presents as Gary, Damon, Sarah
and Emma answer general knowledge questions
and work as a team to take on a Chaser. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.25 Party Election Broadcast
By the Labour Party. (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Manpreet braces herself for an interrogation. Kim
is suspicious of Hazel’s intentions. Vanessa is
secretly pleased to have secured dinner with Suzy.
Manpreet Sharma Rebecca Sarker
Kim Tate
Claire King
Hazel
Kate Anthony
Vanessa Woodfield Michelle Hardwick
Amy Wyatt Natalie Ann Jamieson
Bear Wolf
Joshua Richards
Bernice Blackstock Samantha Giles
Billy Fletcher
Jay Kontzle
Bob Hope
Tony Audenshaw
Brenda Walker
Lesley Dunlop
Cain Dingle
Jeff Hordley
Charity Dingle
Emma Atkins
Charles Anderson Kevin Mathurin
Chas Dingle
Lucy Pargeter
Dan Spencer
Liam Fox
David Metcalfe Matthew Wolfenden
Dawn Fletcher
Olivia Bromley

Eric Pollard
Christopher Chittell
Ethan Anderson
Emile John
Eve Dingle
Bonnie Clement
Faith Dingle
Sally Dexter
Harriet Finch Katherine Dow Blyton
Harry Sugden
Brody Hall
Jack Sugden
Seth Ball
Jacob Gallagher Joe-Warren Plant
Jai Sharma
Christopher Bisson
Jimmy King
Nick Miles
Kerry Wyatt
Laura Norton
Laurel Thomas Charlotte Bellamy
Leyla Cavanagh
Roxy Shahidi
Liam Cavanagh Jonny McPherson
Liv Dingle
Isobel Steele
Lydia Dingle
Karen Blick

Writer Andrew Kirk More cast on Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Love Your Garden
Ep 2. In Leicester, Alan Titchmarsh, David
Domoney and Danny Clarke transform a small
space into a Caribbean-inspired technicolour
paradise, while Frances Tophill reveals how to bring
light and colour to a dark corner of the garden.
Exec producer Matt Young; Series editor Jeremy Daldry (S) (AD) (HD)
RT GARDENING Get 20% off stunning spring “Erysimum”
wallflowers from Sarah Raven: page 135

9.00 DNA Journey

series. 1/7 Series 2. Anne Hegerty
aNew
and Shaun Wallace from The Chase embark

on quests to uncover the truth behind their
bloodlines. While Anne discovers an ancestor
who survived two torpedo attacks, Shaun is able
to trace his family back eight generations to the
early 1700s and finds a forebear who managed
to gather a small fortune in Cuba. See page 70.

Director Iain Thompson; Executive producers Kathleen Larkin,
Sanjay Singhal and Steve Nam (S) (AD) (HD)

The view from Maureen Lipman’s sofa: p146

10.15 ITV News

6.00 The Simpsons
The Way We Weren’t. Homer reminisces about
his first kiss at summer camp. Marge is shocked,
but soon realises she was the one, and recounts
the events from her own perspective. (R) (S) (AD)

6.30 Hollyoaks
Friction builds between James and his family.
Lizzie, tries to convince her parents that new
boyfriend Sid is a good person.
Writer Heather Robson Cast Wed/Fri Shown yesterday 7pm E4
Rptd tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

9.15 The Simpler Life
5/6. It’s summer at the farmstead and with
Lloyd, Edna and their three children on their
way back to Ohio, the remaining volunteers
must all pull their weight. However, frictions
continue over alcohol and household chores,
while a shock discovery is set to threaten the
biggest crop of the season. Concludes tomorrow.
Series producer Jo McDiarmid; Executive producers
Stephen Day and Charlotte Desai (S) (AD) (HD)

Barry Schwartz’s viewpoint: page 7

10.15 Gogglebox
Ep 7. Britain’s armchair critics give their frank
perspectives on the week’s biggest and best TV
shows, as cameras capture their reactions.
Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

11.20 The viewers share their opinions
on shows including (Un)well, the film When
Harry Met Sally, Countdown, Britain’s Got
Talent, Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts, Elephant
Hospital, BBC news reports on quarantine and
Covid, as well as ITV news coverage of Brexit.
First shown in September 2020. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

Director Henry Cole; Producer Ben Tinsley
First shown on ITV4 (S) (HD)

11.55 Kate and Koji
3/6 Series 2. Asylum-seeker Koji has an
unpleasant experience. Continues tomorrow 9pm.
Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00pm Pubs, Ponds and
Power: the Story of the Village
East Midlands. Ben Robinson learns
how Cromford in Derbyshire evolved
during the Industrial Revolution to
service Sir Richard Arkwright’s
cotton mills. More tomorrow 7pm.
Repeated 12.30am (R) (S) (HD)

7.30 Inside Museums
2/4 Series 2. Manchester’s Whitworth
Mancunian artist Diana Ali visits the
Whitworth gallery to see how art can
stir our emotions and challenge our
beliefs. More tomorrow 7.30pm.
Repeated 1am (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Keeping Up Appearances

8.30 Yes, Prime Minister

ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

1/5. Five teams of metal detectorists compete
to unearth the most historically important items,
beginning at Ardington House, where they find
a Second World War bomb. Henry Cole hosts.

6.30pm Reporting
Scotland; Party
Election Broadcast:
by the Scottish
Conservative Party
7.00—7.30 River City:
Tyler attempts to stop
Darren starting a war
with the Murdochs

3/5 Series 5. Matt Lucas leaves Noel Fielding
to present on his own, as he dons an apron
and joins DJ Annie Mac, comedian Ed Gamble
and rapper Elliot Gleave AKA Example to tackle
three challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood
and Prue Leith. Who will impress with their
signature stained-glass biscuits, jam-packed
technicals and showstopping cakes that reveal
what they did before they were famous?
Director Ivan Youlden; Series producer Lucy Terrell Repeated
tonight 11.05pm and tomorrow 7.45pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

Writer Roy Clarke
Director/Producer Harold Snoad (R) (S)

3/8 Series 2. A Diplomatic Incident
Jim tries to turn the tables on French
officials over the Channel Tunnel.
Writers Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Director Sydney Lotterby (R) (S)

9.00 Gods of Snooker
2/3. The emergence of Steve Davis
and the rise of Barry Hearn’s stable
of players, which brought lucrative
sponsorships into the game.
Director Edward McGown; Producer Laurence
Turnbull Repeated 1.30am (R) (S) (HD)

10.00 Filth: the Mary
Whitehouse Story
First shown in 2008, this drama stars
Julie Walters as the housewife and
teacher who embarked on a mission
to clean up British TV. Her crusade
led her into conflict with the man she
felt responsible — Sir Hugh Carleton
Greene, director-general of the BBC —
resulting in a bitter fight over whether
to broadcast the word “knickers” in
the Beatles song I Am the Walrus.
Mary Whitehouse
Ernest Whitehouse
Hugh Carleton Greene
Norah Buckland
Rev Basil Buckland
Paul Whitehouse
Richard Whitehouse
Christopher Whitehouse
Lord Charlie Hill
David Turner
Harman Grisewood

Regional
variations
BBC1
SCOTLAND

celebrates the
rich heritage of
the Whitworth
in Manchester

1/7 Series 3. Richard contends with
the idea of taking early retirement.

12.20am Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 Loose Women Topical debate. Shown 12.30pm (S) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.05—6.00am Tipping Point (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

11.00 The Great British Treasure Hunt

Inside Museums
7.30pm Diana Ali

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer

12.20am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
Gordon Ramsay travels to Providence, Rhode Island,
to visit the failing Down City restaurant. (R) (S)
1.10 Undercover Boss Canada Scott Haldane, the
CEO of the YMCA, goes under cover wearing a wig that
proves ill-suited to an aquatics class. (R) (S) (HD)
2.05 Come Dine with Me Four dinner party hosts
from Maidstone and Rochester battle it out to impress
one another and win the £1,000 cash prize. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
2.55 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp
and Phil Spencer put their expertise at the disposal of
property hunters in Cumbria and Lancashire. (R) (S) (HD)
3.50 George Clarke’s Old House, New Home Helping
a couple restore the features and dimensions of their
Georgian home in Leicester. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
4.45 Grand Designs Building a Roman-inspired,
single-storey family home on protected land adjacent
to a historic abbey in Hertfordshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
5.40—6.05am Bidding Wars Today’s three pallets are
themed beauty, retro toys and lucky dip. (R) (S) (HD)

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

9

24 in Scotland

Julie Walters
Alun Armstrong
Hugh Bonneville
Georgie Glen
Timothy Davies
Paul Westwood
Drew Webb
Jeremy Legat
Ron Cook
William Beck
Nicholas Woodeson

Writer Amanda Coe; Producer Richard Burrell
Director Andy De Emmony (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.30 Meet the Romans with
Mary Beard
1/3. All Roads Lead to Rome. Looking
at ancient Rome from the standpoint
of the average citizen, beginning with
the stories of a slave-turned-baker and
a purveyor of imperial purple dye.

BBC
SCOTLAND
7.00pm Born to Be
Wild 8.00 Paramedics
on Scene 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 Disclosure:
the Truth about
Scotland and Racism
10.30 David Wilson’s
Crime Files
11.00—12 midnight
Gold Town

STV
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast:
Scottish Conservative
Party 8.00 Paul
O’Grady: for the Love
of Dogs 8.30—9.00
Animal 999 10.50
Scotland Tonight 11.20
Unbelievable Moments
Caught on Camera
12.15am Kate and Koji
12.40—3.00
Home Shopping

BBC1 WALES
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Wales Today; Party
Election Broadcast:
Welsh Conservatives
10.35 Cardiff Calling:
6 Music Festival
Highlights: featuring
Johnny Marr, Little
Simz and the Manic
Street Preachers
11.35 Settling Down:
a Believer’s Guide
12.15am Extraordinary
Portraits: last in series
12.45—6.00 BBC News

Tuesday Television

DNA Journey
9.00pm Anne
Hegerty and Shaun
Wallace chase
down the stories
of their ancestors

BBC4

ITV WALES
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast:
by the Welsh
Conservative Party
8.00 Wales This Week
8.30—9.00 Welsh Lives

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Newsline; Party
Election Broadcast:
by Sinn Féin

UTV
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast: by
Sinn Féin 8.00 Rare
Breed: a Farming Year
8.30—9.00 Keepers
of the Lough 11.00
Eamonn Mallie: Face to
Face with..: Eamonn
Mallie talks to Susan
McKay 11.30—11.55
Ulster Giants

Series producer Caterina Turroni
Executive producer Richard Bradley (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.30am Pubs, Ponds and Power: the
Story of the Village Shown 7pm (S) (HD)
1.00 Inside Museums Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)
1.30 Gods of Snooker Shown 9pm (S) (HD)
2.30—3.30am Neanderthals: Meet Your
Ancestors 2/2. Why Neanderthals became
extinct. Shown yesterday 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

73

TUESDAY Freeview

Television Tuesday

Channel 5

5

BBC3

23

ITV3

10

Drama

20

Deadline 9.00pm Can washed-up

Mood 10.00pm Sasha realises she can’t

Law & Order: UK 10.00pm Thorne

Dalziel & Pascoe 8.00pm Det Supt

journalist James Alden find a killer?

keep running away from her trauma

and Sharpe seek a prosecution

Dalziel finds his reputation at stake

F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.25am Milkshake! See page 76
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a New
Life in the Country A beach house in
West Sussex. (S) (HD) 1.10 5 News (S) (HD)
1.15 Home and Away Panic-stricken Neve
refuses to hear Logan out. Shown yesterday

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD)
7.00 Classic Emmerdale (S) 8.05 That’s
My Boy (S) 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs: 2/13
Series 3. A House Divided. The aftermath of
the Titanic disaster causes conflict; 10.20
3/13. A Change of Scene. Hudson is offered
a new position (S) 11.30 Heartbeat: 5/16
An adoption file goes missing; 12.35pm
6/16. Gina is assaulted (S) (AD)
1.40pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill.
The teenagers anxiously gather together
to discuss their alibis, then the kids’ guilty
secret continues to weigh heavily on their
minds (S) 2.45 Classic Coronation Street:
double bill. Gary receives a shock, then
Mark discovers Linda’s deceit (S) (AD) 3.50
Midsomer Murders: Series 2. Blood Will Out.
A local magistrate is found dead (S) (AD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
7.00am Ever Decreasing Circles: 1/5 Series 1
Martin’s new neighbour threatens his authority
(S) 7.40 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Rptd
2.20pm (S) (AD) 8.35 The Bill: Quinnan tries
to help a friend 9.35 Classic Holby City:
troubled nurse Fran returns to Holby (HD)
10.55 Classic Casualty: a patient prompts
Kirsty to make life-changing decisions (HD)
12 noon The Bill: Smithy picks up a lead on a
major drug dealer 1.00pm Classic EastEnders:
double bill. Rosa’s temper explodes, then
Jamie wants to run his own stall 2.20 Hetty
Wainthropp Investigates: 8/9 Series 3
A victimised German pensioner seeks his
long-lost sister (S) (AD) 3.20 Lovejoy: 7/12
Series 2. The shady trader helps a film star
(S) 4.20 Pie in the Sky: 3/10 Series 2
Fisher’s daughter escapes the fold to live
with a group of travellers (S) 5.20 Ever
Decreasing Circles: 2/5 Series 1. Martin
resigns from the Residents’ Association. (S)

6.30pm 5 Star Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 6pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15 The Husband with Two Wives ★★★
Drama. Two women discover they share
a husband — and that he’s left them
bankrupt. Director Manu Boyer (2019) (S) (W) (HD)
4.00 Filthy House SOS Helping a man
who started a mental health network. (S) (HD)

q

7.00pm New. MasterChef Australia

The three lowest-scoring contestants
from the previous episode’s invention test
must re-create a dish prepared by chef
Alla Wolf-Tasker. First shown on W (S) (HD)
7.50 New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

7.55 Ready Player One ★★★

action thriller starring Tye
q Sci-fi
Sheridan. In 2045, society’s main

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Neighbours

entertainment is an ultra-immersive
virtual reality simulation. Its creator has
hidden an Easter egg within the game
that will grant ownership to the finder.
Teen gamer Wade Watts is determined to
win the prize, but he has lethal competition.
Available on iPlayer for 26 days.

Ned tries to get Amy to think logically.

Director Steven Spielberg (2018, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Shown 1.45pm (S) (HD)

10.00 New. Mood

6.30 New. Eggheads
The Quayside Quizzers take part. (S) (HD)

7.00 New. Dream Kitchens and
Bathrooms with Mark Millar
6/8 Series 2. Mark helps DIY renovators
create a £30,000 black-and-white kitchen
in Oldham, and a £6,000 country-style
spa bathroom in Northumberland.
Directors Sam Miles, Daniel Waring, Sam Daniels (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Dogs Behaving (Very)
Badly
14/15 Series 4. Featuring a pint-sized
chihuahua with a bark that’s worse than
its bite and a bellowing weimaraner that
is disturbing a quiet rural village.
Directors Michael Nuvoletta and Selina Chan
Repeated Thursday 3.10am (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New series. Deadline

a

1/4. Thriller. When Natalie Varga is
suspected of murdering her rich
Hungarian husband, she asks washedup journalist James Alden to find the
killer, in exchange for an exclusive story.
Continues tomorrow 9pm. See page 71.

James D’Arcy
Charlie Murphy
Indra Ové
Anamaria Marinca
Brian Caspe
Rad Lazar
Nina Senicar
Abiola Ogunbiyi

James
Natalie
Barbara
Mrs Molnar
Toth
Dominik
Vera
Shona

Writers Gareth Tunley, Barunka O’Shaughnessy; Producer
Mary McCarthy; Director Joe Ahearne (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 True Lies ★★★★

comedy starring Arnold
qAction
Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee
Curtis. When a secret agent suspects his
wife of having an affair, he triggers a
chain of events that plunges her into the
world of espionage. Film of the Day: p29.
Director James Cameron (1994, 15) (S) (W) (HD)

12.50am Entertainment News (S) (HD) 1.00
New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Entertainment
News (S) (HD) 3.10 World’s Most Scenic River
Journeys (S) (HD) 3.55 Now That’s Funny!
(S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (S) (SL)
5.10—5.35am House Doctor (S) (SL)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

BBC4 listings are overleaf

6/6. After finding the strength to be
honest, Sasha knows she must find her
voice. The whole series is on iPlayer.
Rptd 12.40am and Wed 10.35pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.50 Famalam

5.50pm Heartbeat
7/16 Series 4. Nick investigates the
reappearance of a local man last seen
seven years previously. (S) (AD)
6.55 8/16. A woman’s attempt to cool
her husband’s ardour ends in tragedy,
while Greengrass takes up an illegal
new hobby — cockfighting. (S) (AD)

8.00 Midsomer Murders

1/4 Series 2. Comedy sketch show. The
competitive aunties battle it out.

6.00pm Butterflies
2/6 Series 1. Breaking the Silence
Ria lies to Leonard about her age.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 22. Gnome and Away. Howard has
an unusual gift for Marina’s garden. (S)
7.20 A Hair of the Blonde That Bit You
Howard has some explaining to do. (S)

11.40 The Drop

Series 11. Talking to the Dead. Two
couples disappear from the tiny village
of Monks Barton, leaving their half-eaten
breakfasts on the table. Can Barnaby and
Jones find the link between the missing
couples and some stolen antiques? (S) (AD)

4/8. The creatives use hype stunts.

10.00 Law & Order: UK

10.00 New Tricks

6/6 Series 5. Deal. A 12-year-old victim
of gang culture speaks out about the
shooting of a woman and ignites a
shattering chain of events. (S) (AD) (HD)

5/8 Series 6. Death of a Timeshare
Salesman. A former escort girl finds
God and confesses her sins. (S) (AD)

11.00 Scott & Bailey

2/4 Series 8. Death by Water. Leo and
Harry investigate when a boy dies from
mysterious breathing difficulties. (S)

Repeated 3.15am (S) (HD)

11.15 2/4. Scribbler P gives his take on
black military history. A box set is on iPlayer.
Repeated 3.35am (S) (HD)

Shown yesterday 9pm (S) (HD)

12.40am as 10pm 1.30 Hot Property (S) (HD)
2.30 Freeze: Back on Thin Ice (S) (AD) (HD)
3.15—4.00am Famalam: double bill (S) (HD)

ITV2

6

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 6.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL)
(HD) 7.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD)
8.25 Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Hart of
Dixie (S) (HD) 10.15 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 11.10
The O.C: pilot episode of the drama (S) (HD)
12.05pm Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 1.05 Dress
to Impress (S) (HD) 2.05 New. The Ellen
DeGeneres Show: with Channing Tatum (S)
(HD) 3.00 Hart of Dixie (S) (HD) 4.00 One
Tree Hill (S) (HD) 5.00 The O.C. (S) (HD)
6.00pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special
With Emily Atack, Loose Women’s Brenda
Edwards and Martin Kemp. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Superstore 6/22 Series 3. Amy and
Jonah offer an alternative to Cloud 9’s
terrible health insurance plan. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 7/22. Amy turns a boring Christmas
Eve at Cloud 9 into an adventure. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers Series 4. Linda invites
Louise’s classmates for a sleepover. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Tina is a magician’s assistant. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 16. Brian gets a job
at a suicide hotline centre. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.30 Meg takes up drinking. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Plebs 3/8 Series 4. Marcus spies a
money-making opportunity. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.30 4/8. The boys launch a cabaret night
in the bar. With Aisling Bea. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Family Guy Series 10. Brian and
Stewie revisit the pilot episode. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 13. Snot becomes
a summer camp counsellor. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.55 Santa Claus kidnaps Steve. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25am Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 1.25 Superstore
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

3/8 Series 3. The detectives look into the
brutal murder of a man with a secret life.
More tomorrow 11pm. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Inspector Morse: Series 1. The
Silent World of Nicholas Quinn. An Oxford
academic is found dead (S) (AD) (HD)
2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

26

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am Hot Shots (S) (HD) 6.05 The
Protectors (S) 6.35 The Champions (S) 7.25
Robin of Sherwood (S) 8.25 The Avengers
(S) (SL) (HD) 9.30 The Professionals (S) (AD)
10.30 Minder (S) (AD) 11.40 The Champions (S)
12.45pm Extreme Salvage Squad (S) (HD)
1.40 Robin of Sherwood: Robin saves a witch’s
life (S) 2.45 The Avengers (S) (HD) 3.55 The
Professionals (S) (AD) 4.55 Minder (S) (AD)
6.05pm Extreme Salvage Squad The concrete
boat job has turned into a nightmare. (S) (HD)
7.00 New. Battlebots Yeti and Witch
Doctor face off in a world-class fight. (S) (HD)
8.00 River Monsters When badly beaten
corpses wash up on a Mexican beach,
Jeremy Wade plays detective. (S) (HD)
9.00 FILM Con Air ★★★★ Action thriller
starring Nicolas Cage. Finally paroled after
eight years in prison, Cameron Poe heads
home on the “Jailbird”. But there are
nefarious plans afoot... (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.20 All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
Hard-hitting, high-flying wrestling action. (S) (HD)
12.25am The Professionals: CI5 enters a deadly
race with the KGB (S) (AD) 1.25 Auto Mundial (S)
(HD) 1.55 Motorsport Mundial (S) (HD) 2.20 The
Protectors (S) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe
2/4 Series 4. Recalled to Life. A woman
is released from prison after a 35-year
campaign to clear her of murder. (S) (AD)

11.20 Silent Witness

1.50am Kavanagh QC: 5/6 Series 4. The
Innocency of Life. A vicar lands in the dock
(S) (HD) 3.15—4.00am We Hunt Together:
6/6 Series 1. The end of the road seems
near for Freddy and Baba (S) (AD) (HD)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

ITVBe

28

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
8.00 Buying and Selling (S) (HD) 9.00
LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Unboxed (S) (HD) 12.30pm The Real
Housewives of Potomac (S) (AD) (HD) 1.25 Gemma
Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD) 2.25 The Only Way
Is Essex (S) (HD) 3.10 New. Little Women: LA
First shown on Lifetime (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real
Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD) 5.00 The
Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Dave and Kortney
find their conventional tactics fall short. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling A stay-at-home
dad and working mum need help. (S) (HD)
8.00 Dinner Date Christian from Leicester
is given five menus. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Porsha’s involvement in the Black Lives Matter
movement leads her to Louisville. (S) (HD)
10.00 Botched A mother-of-two with
drooping breasts. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.55 For Real: the Story of Reality TV
The secrets of makeover TV. (S) (HD)
11.55 The Only Way Is Essex Carol and
Mark Wright celebrate their anniversary. (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

74

RT PUZZLES Subscribe to radiotimespuzzles.com for access to hundreds of brainteasers

TUESDAY 5 APRIL
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

5 USA

21

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am NCIS (AD) 9.55 Entertainment
News 10.00 NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment
News 12 noon Law & Order 3.55pm
Entertainment News 4.00 Law & Order
6.00pm NCIS (AD) 9.00 Law & Order: Criminal
Intent: double bill. Series 6. A successful
hip-hop producer is murdered 10.00 Goren
and Eames spend Thanksgiving searching for
the missing daughter of NYPD Deputy
Commissioner Dockerty 11.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit: double bill. Series 14. A
janitor violently attacks a school coach 11.55
The SVU revisits an old rape-murder case

Devon and Cornwall 7.55pm Tristan

Northway takes a break on his trawler

12.10am Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown
1.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 2.20 999: What’s
Your Emergency? (AD) 3.25—3.50am Food
Unwrapped: Jimmy Doherty visits Maryland (AD)

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Friday/Monday
Channel 4 (AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA 9.00 Married at First Sight
Australia 11.00 Young Sheldon: double bill
12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm
The Big Bang Theory (AD) 3.00 Young
Sheldon (AD) 4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory: double bill (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 22/24
Series 4. Amy and Penny use Bernadette
to spy on Leonard and Priya. (AD)
6.30 23/24. Priya and Penny bond. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks James makes a
shocking announcement. Cast pp 83/103
Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm Channel 4 (AD)

7.30 New. Married at First Sight Australia
The couples reset as the experiment moves
into its next exciting phase, Homestay Week.
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Famous faces
deliver their frank opinions on The Masked
Dancer, Dirty Dancing and Naked Attraction. (AD)
10.00 Naked Attraction Anna Richardson
hosts the dating show. This time, Michelle,
a mother-of-two from Hampshire, and
30-year-old Adam from Essex, participate. (AD)
11.05 A transgender woman takes part. (AD)
12.10am First Dates (SL) (AD) 1.15 Married at First
Sight Australia 2.40 Celebrity Gogglebox (SL)
(AD) 3.35 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD) 4.25
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 5.15—6.00am
Mike & Molly: the couple have a wedding rehearsal

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home
Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00
Antiques Road Trip 12 noon Money for Nothing
1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00 Animal Cops
Houston (AD) 4.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees 5.00
Countryside 999 6.00 Money for Nothing 7.00
Antiques Road Trip 9.00 Hotel Inspector: You’re
Fired 10.00 New. This Cop Life 11.00 Ghost
Adventures 1.00am Kindred Spirits 2.00 Home
Shopping 4.00 Animal Cops Houston (AD)
5.00—6.00am Pit Bulls and Parolees

Secrets of the London Underground
9.00pm Siddy and Tim descend

F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am Janine and the 12 Stradivari 7.00
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody/The Two Pigeons 9.00
Tales of the Unexpected 10.00 Discovering:
Ben Kingsley 11.00 Music Icons: Folk around
the World 11.30 Video Killed the Radio Star
12 noon Cold War and Cinema (AD) 1.00pm
Tales of the Unexpected 2.00 Discovering:
Helen Mirren 3.00 Too Young to Die (AD)
4.00 David Hockney: Time Regained 5.00
Tales of the Unexpected: double bill
6.00pm Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave
A profile of the Academy Award-winning actress.
7.00 New. The Art of the Album Cover
The hidden stories behind famous album
sleeves, told from the perspective of those
who created the images.
8.55 24x36: a Movie about Movie Posters
Exploring the world of illustrated film
posters, meeting the artists who create
them, the people that commission them
and the collectors who covet them. (AD)
10.30 Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand:
Urban Myths Comedy drama starring
Katherine Ryan and Jessica Barden.
11.00 New. Teju’s Tale Short drama by
Teniola King, based on the true story of a
Nigerian nursing student arriving in 1950s
Britain and facing the challenges of settling
into a white-dominated institution.
11.15 Spielberg A look at the career of the
acclaimed film-maker Steven Spielberg. (AD)

Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am Shipwreck Secrets: double bill 8.00
World War II from Above 9.00 Secret Nazi
Bases 10.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD)
12 noon The Architecture the Railways Built
(AD) 1.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
2.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00
World War II from Above 5.00 Secret Nazi
Bases: Second World War preparations
6.00pm Michael Palin’s New Europe
The veteran traveller visits Slovakia, the
Czech Republic and Germany.
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo travels from Northampton to
Nuneaton, learning about shoemaking.
7.30 Michael completes his journey to Leeds.
8.00 New. Secrets of the Transport
Museum 10/10 Series 2. Sanjeev Bhaskar
relives a past supersonic experience. (AD)
9.00 Secrets of the London Underground
Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway visit North End
under Hampstead Heath. (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash An Argentinian
Army Mercedes G wagon arrives. (AD)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering Concrete
channels hidden in a mountaintop forest. (AD)

1.45am Too Young to Die (AD) 2.45 Christina
Hendricks: Off Camera 4.00 A Play in a Day
5.00—6.00am Landmark: the Midlands heat (AD)

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am Four in a Bed 9.30 Come Dine
with Me 10.30 Couples Come Dine with Me
11.30 A Place in the Sun: double bill
1.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away:
in Leicestershire and Lanzarote 2.30 A New
Life in the Sun 3.30 Come Dine with Me
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A holiday home
near the Gran Canaria town of Vecindario.
7.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home George tackles a cramped 1930s
semi-detached property in Manchester. (AD)
8.00 Ugly House to Lovely House with
George Clarke Improving a dated and dark
bungalow in West Sussex. (AD)
9.00 Grand Designs A 200-year-old former
blacking mill that has been designated a
scheduled ancient monument. (AD)
10.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses
Company director Jason is determined to
bag Otterburn Castle in Northumberland. (AD)
11.05 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer 3/5. With DJ Annie
Mac, comedian Ed Gamble and rapper Elliot
Gleave AKA Example. Shown 8pm C4 (S) (AD)
12.25am Rescue: Extreme Medics (AD) 1.30
Emergency (AD) 2.35 Matt Baker: Our Farm in
the Dales 3.40—4.35am Perfect House, Secret
Location: hosted by Steve Jones (AD)

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.20 World’s Greatest
Motorcycle Rides 7.10 Shed and Buried 8.00 Salvage
Hunters: the Restorers 9.00 Kings of the Wood
10.00 Chasing Classic Cars 11.00 Vintage Voltage
(AD) 12 noon Wheeler Dealers 1.00pm LIVE Darts:
the WDF World Championship 3.30 Three Men
Four Wheels 4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage
Hunters: the Restorers (AD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers
7.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 New. Full Metal Junkies 10.00 The Repair
Shop 11.00 How Do They Do It? 12 midnight
Wheeler Dealers (AD) 1.00am Disasters at Sea
2.00 Iron Resurrection 3.00 Fantomworks
4.00 Mega Shippers 5.00—6.00am New. Darts

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00—3.00am Shipwreck Secrets

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

Dave

19

12.20am Mock the Week: Rob Beckett guests
1.00 QI XL 1.40 Would I Lie to You?: the Unseen
Bits 2.15 Have I Got a Bit More Old News for You
3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131
25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am My Dream Home 8.00 Tipping
Point 10.00 The Bill 11.00 Inside the Vets
12 noon Inside the Ambulance (AD) 2.00pm
Tipping Point 4.00 My Dream Home
6.00pm MasterChef USA Nancy Silverton
joins the judges to set the next challenge.
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes
The brothers renovate a dated LA home.
8.00 New. Inside the Ambulance The
paramedics assist a woman who has fallen
and a baby with multiple seizures. (AD)
9.00 One Born: Twins and Triplets
Following multiple pregnancies and births.
10.00 New. 999 Rescue Squad The team
attends to the survivors of a fatal crash. (AD)
11.00 Inside the Ambulance As 8pm.
12 midnight Killer Women with Piers Morgan
1.00—3.00am Tipping Point: double bill

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Entertainment News 8.05 Rich
Kids Go Skint 8.55 Room to Improve 10.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Filthy
House SOS 12 noon Traffic Cops: double bill
2.00pm Police Interceptors 5.00 Shoplifters
and Scammers: at War with the Law
6.00pm Home and Away Panic-stricken Neve
refuses to hear Logan out. Shown 1.15pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Dean and Ziggy try to reignite
the spark. Repeated tomorrow 1.15pm C5 (AD)
7.00 Caught on Camera: Funniest Moments
Featuring animals behaving badly.
8.00 Mobs and Yobs: Caught on Camera
Police officers monitor a demonstration of
protesters wearing V for Vendetta masks. (AD)
9.00 Who Killed Billie-Jo? The case of
13-year-old Billie-Jo Jenkins, who was murdered
in 1997 on the patio of her seaside home.
11.00 Lost Boy: the Killing of James Bulger
The abduction and murder of the toddler.
12.30am The Disappearance of Luke Durbin
1.30 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts 2.25
100% Hotter 3.25 Room to Improve: in Dublin
3.55—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Storage Hunters
UK 10.00 Top Gear (AD) 11.00 Expedition
with Steve Backshall: visiting Greenland (AD)
12 noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Top
Gear (AD) 2.00 Expedition with Steve
Backshall (AD) 3.00 Rick Stein’s Mediterranean
Escapes (AD) 4.00 Bangers and Cash
5.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends (AD)
6.00pm Taskmaster 6/10 Series 9. Jo
Brand demonstrates a grasp of street slang.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Guests include JB Gill and Katie Derham.
7.40 Would I Lie to You?: the Unseen Bits
A compilation of unseen material.
8.20 QI XL Guests include Holly Walsh.
9.00 Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus and Prue Leith
join Alan Davies and host Sandi Toksvig.
10.00 Question Team 1/8. Richard Ayoade
invites three comedians to join his team.
11.00 Meet the Richardsons 5/10 Series 3
The couple go on a game show. (AD)
11.40 QI XL Guests include Matt Lucas.

W

12.55am Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
double bill 2.55 Hannibal: Lecter hatches a plan
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

5 Action

33

Tuesday Television

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A
Place in the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
1.05pm Heir Hunters 2.05 Four in a Bed
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.55 Car SOS (AD)
6.55pm Escape to the Château: DIY
Stephanie sets out to restore the château’s
greenhouse, which has been damaged in a
storm. Lee and Belinda race to get their garden
ready for a 60th birthday booking. (AD)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall Following those
who live and work in the South West,
including Devon wildlife ranger Jake Chant,
who monitors wild beavers, and Brixhambased trawlerman Tristan Northway. (AD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Katie is rushed
to St George’s by helicopter after a riding
accident. The 46-year-old’s horse landed on
top of her, resulting in multiple broken bones
and internal injuries. Amy, 22, has a deep
laceration to her ankle after falling onto a
gin glass at a party with her flatmates. (AD)
10.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? As
a 12-hour nightshift begins for call handlers,
in Doncaster PCs Ben Gill and Jamie Hills are
summoned to assist a colleague who is being
assaulted by an aggressive drunk. (AD)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E Cabin crew worker
Charlie had surgery to fix his broken arm but
removed his cast and discharged himself. (AD)

24x36: a Movie about Movie Posters
8.55pm Artist John Alvin

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
9.25 Traffic Cops 11.25 Trucking Hell:
Extreme Road Rescue (AD) 11.30 FILM
The True Story of Jesse James ★★ Western
1.25pm FILM North West Mounted Police
★★ 4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops
7.00pm Police Interceptors A reckless car
thief seems intent on causing carnage.
8.00 Mark and Steve stop a suspicious man
trying to hide his true identity.
9.00 Warship: Life at Sea Chef Sauhil’s
preparations for the crew’s dinner are
interrupted when poisonous fumes are
spotted seeping into HMS Northumberland.
10.00 Police UK: Armed and Deadly How
armed police officers make the life-changing
decision on when to pull the trigger.
11.00 Fights, Camera, Action! St Patrick’s
Day revelries take a wild turn, and groups of
youths fight fire with fire on bonfire night.
12 midnight World’s Biggest Diamond Heist
1.00am Mobs and Yobs: Caught on Camera 2.00
999: Criminals Caught on Camera 2.55 Concorde:
120 Seconds to Disaster 3.45 Car Crash TV: the
Legal Highway Patrol 4.35—5.00am Criminals:
Caught on Camera: with journalist Nick Wallis

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors 10.00
The Yorkshire Vet 11.00 The Yorkshire Vet in
Winter 12 noon The Dog Rescuers with Alan
Davies 2.00pm GPs: behind Closed Doors:
triple bill (AD) 5.00 The Yorkshire Vet
6.00pm Watercolour Challenge From
St Donat’s Castle in south Wales.
7.00 Inside the Tower of London The
anniversary of the Queen’s 1953 coronation.
8.00 Walking Victorian Britain Onyeka
Nubia tells the story of Victorian Britain.
9.00 New. Hitler: Could He Have Been
Stopped? Historians consider whether the
Second World War could have been avoided.
10.00 The Crucifixion Mystery
11.00 The Pompeii Mystery
12 midnight Egypt’s Unexplained Files 3.00am
Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson
3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p78

Start your FREE 7-day trial at radiotimespuzzles.com — then subscribe from just £2.99 per month! 75

Freeview, satellite

TUESDAY
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p74
5.25am Peppa Pig 5.30 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Mya Go 6.05
Peppa Pig 6.20 Kid-E-Cats 6.30 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.50 Fireman Sam
7.00 Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!
7.10 Peppa Pig 7.25 Paw Patrol
7.40 New. Milo 7.55 Pip and Posy
8.05 Paddington 8.25 Ricky Zoom
8.35 Peppa Pig 8.40 Daisy & Ollie
8.50 Odo 8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little
Kingdom 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies

CBeebies

202

Television Tuesday

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Go Jetters 6.10 Bing 6.20
Teletubbies 6.35 School of Roars 6.45
Chuggington 6.55 Tish Tash 7.00 Bing
7.10 Hey Duggee 7.25 Bluey 7.40 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
Love Monster 8.30 Nick Cope’s
Popcast 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00
CBeebies Three Little Pigs 9.40 My
Petsaurus 9.45 Something Special:
We’re All Friends 10.05 Teletubbies
10.20 New. The Toddler Club at Home
10.35 Hey Duggee 10.45 Tee and Mo
10.50 Kiri & Lou 10.55 Love Monster
11.05 Pablo 11.15 Let’s Go for a Walk
11.30 Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our
Family 12 noon Big Cook Little Cook
12.20pm Timmy Time 12.25 Waffle
the Wonder Dog 12.35 Bitz & Bob
12.45 Go Jetters 1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.10
Numberblocks 1.15 Alphablocks 1.20
Dog Loves Books 1.25 Hey Duggee
1.35 Love Monster 1.40 Nick Cope’s
Popcast 1.45 Something Special: We’re
All Friends 2.10 Teletubbies 2.25 Bing
2.30 Go Jetters 2.40 Timmy Time
2.45 Maddie’s Do You Know? 3.00
Down on the Farm 3.15 Swashbuckle
3.40 Hey Duggee 3.50 Peter Rabbit
4.00 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 4.15
Grace’s Amazing Machines 4.30 Dog
Loves Books 4.40 Love Monster 4.45
Bluey 4.55 Topsy and Tim 5.05 Small
Potatoes 5.10 Waffle the Wonder Dog
5.20 Go Jetters 5.35 JoJo & Gran
Gran 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers
6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—
7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Danger Mouse 7.25 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New.
Newsround 7.55 Ninja Express 8.10
Odd Squad 8.20 Blue Peter Challenges
8.30 Operation Ouch! 9.00 My Mum
Tracy Beaker 10.30 Secret Life of Boys
11.15 Nine Minute Ninja 11.25 Class
Dismissed 11.40 OOglies Funsize 11.45
Shaun the Sheep 11.55 Danger Mouse
12.15pm Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 12.40 Dennis & Gnasher
Unleashed! 1.05 Step Up to the Plate
2.00 Blue Peter: Seal Sanctuary and
Wacky Wildlife 2.30 Britain’s Best
Young Artist 3.00 Horrible Histories
3.30 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
3.40 Danger Mouse 3.55 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 4.05 Ninja Express
4.20 Danger Mouse 4.45 Odd Squad
5.10 We Bare Bears 5.20 Summer
Camp Island 5.35 Princess Mirror-Belle
6.00pm Young, Black and British —
Hear Us: a Newsround Special 6.20
Nikki Lilly Meets 6.35—7.00pm The
Next Step: reality-style drama

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am Gormiti 3D 6.30 Thunderbirds
Are Go 6.55 Inspector Gadget 7.25
Teen Titans Go! 7.55 Dare Master
8.00 Scooby-Doo 9.00 Scooby-Doo
and the Legend of the Vampire 10.25
Buck and Buddy 10.30 Jurassic World
Camp Cretaceous 11.30 Dave Spud
12 noon Inspector Gadget 1.00pm
Makeaway Takeaway 1.30 Don’t
Unleash the Beast 2.00 Mr Bean: the
Animated Series 3.00 Teen Titans Go!
3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.30 Inspector
Gadget 5.00 Dave Spud 6.00
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
6.30 Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the
Vampire 8.00 Jurassic World Camp
Cretaceous 8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

Revolution in Colour 9.05pm

The outbreak of civil war

PBS America

84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.00am Future of Work (S) 9.05
The Lost DNA 10.10 Revolution in
Colour 11.10 Nazi Hunters 12.05pm
Europe’s Waterways 1.00 Future of
Work (S) 2.15 The Lost DNA 3.20
Revolution in Colour 4.20 Europe’s
Waterways: a journey through
eastern Germany 5.20 Beautiful
Serengeti 5.50 Nazi Hunters
6.45pm Future of Work 2/3
How to predict job growth, training
needs and the role of education. (S)
7.55 The Lost DNA 2/2
The transition from paganism to
Christianity in the Middle Ages.
9.05 Revolution in Colour 2/2
Professor Eunan O’Halpin
investigates the end of the First
World War and the Irish Civil War.
10.05 Nazi Hunters 2/8. The
efforts of the Israeli secret service
to find Adolf Eichmann.
11.00 Future of Work As 6.45pm.
12.10am The Lost DNA 1.20
Revolution in Colour 2.10 Nazi
Hunters 2.50 Europe’s Waterways
3.35—4.00am Beautiful Serengeti
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

Pick

36

Smithsonian

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD) 7.00
Air Warriors (HD) 10.00 Combat
Ships (HD) 12 noon Aerial America
(HD) 2.00pm 9/11: the Heartland
Tapes (HD) 3.00 9/11: Stories in
Fragments (HD) 4.00 Combat
Ships: two editions (HD)
6.00pm The Hunt for Eagle 56
3/3. How it was proved Eagle 56
was sunk by a U-boat. (HD)
7.00 Inside the Factory 5/6
Series 3. Gregg Wallace
investigates the production of
sauces in the Netherlands. (HD)
8.00 America’s Hidden Stories
1/6 Series 2. How Hitler spent millions
to meddle in America’s election to
defeat Franklin D Roosevelt.
9.00 2/6. Chronicling a Ku Klux
Klan attempt to use movies to
burnish its image.
10.00 3/6. Investigating
suggestions an unelected woman
once ran the White House. (HD)
11.00 As 8pm.
12 midnight America’s Hidden
Stories (HD) 2.00am White House
Revealed (HD) 3.00—6.00am
Aerial America: triple bill (HD)

HGTV

44

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286

7.00am Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (AD) 8.00 Motorway Patrol
9.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 10.00
Police Ten 7 11.00 Highway Cops (AD)
12 noon Highway Patrol (AD) 1.00pm
Border Patrol 2.00 Border Security:
Canada’s Front Line (AD) 3.00 Nothing
to Declare (AD) 4.00 Stargate SG-1 5.00
Star Trek: the Next Generation 6.00
Stargate Atlantis 7.00 Hawaii Five-0
8.00 Killer in My Village 9.00 New.
FBI: Maggie and OA are on the hunt for
a gang of thieves (AD) 10.00 Grimm
11.00 Killer Colleagues 12 midnight
Britain’s Most Evil Killers 1.00am The
Force: North East 2.00 Nothing to
Declare (AD) 3.00 Border Patrol
4.00 Motorway Patrol (AD) 5.00—
6.00am Police Force: Australia (AD)

7.00am Homes under the Hammer
8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 9.00
A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to the
Country 12 noon My Lottery Dream
Home 1.00pm Fixer to Fabulous 2.00
A Place in the Sun 3.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 4.00 Sarah Beeny’s
Renovate Don’t Relocate 5.00 Homes
under the Hammer 6.00 A Place in the
Sun 7.00 Escape to the Country 8.00
Love Your Garden 9.00 New. My
Dream Home: Brother v Brother:
Jonathan and Drew’s flip competition is
almost complete 10.00 New. 100 Day
Dream Home 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight Escape to the Country
1.00am DIY SOS 2.00 Fantasy Homes
by the Sea 3.00—4.00am Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

CBS Justice

41

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00
The Fugitive 12 noon Perry Mason
(BW) 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger
3.00 CSI: Miami 4.00 NCIS 5.00
The Fugitive 6.00 Perry Mason
(BW) 7.05 Walker, Texas Ranger:
double bill 9.00 CSI: Miami 10.00
NCIS 11.00 Diagnosis Murder
1.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 2.55
JAG 3.55 The Day I Should Have Died
4.45—6.00am Medical Detectives

CBS Drama

68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
9.00am Perry Mason 11.00
Matlock 12 noon Medium 1.00pm
JAG 3.00 Perry Mason 5.00
Unsolved Mysteries 6.55 Judge
Judy 9.00 Medium 10.00
Unsolved Mysteries: double bill.
The mothman story is investigated,
then a visit to a haunted replica
castle 11.55 Judge Judy
2.00am Medium 3.00 Evidence of Evil
4.00 Something’s Killing Me
4.55—6.00am Matlock

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

76

America’s Hidden Stories
8.00pm Franklin D Roosevelt

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

Great TV

50

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Charlie’s Angels 7.00 Crazy
like a Fox 8.00 Highway to Heaven
10.00 FILM Danielle Steel’s
Palomino ★★ 11.50 GREAT! Movie
News Extra 12 noon Sue Thomas:
F.B.Eye 1.00pm Perception 2.00
Body of Proof 3.00 Castle 4.00
Murder, She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H
9.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? 1.00am M*A*S*H 3.00

Hart to Hart 3.45 Crazy like a Fox
4.30—6.00am Highway to Heaven

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am House of Lords: coverage of
the day’s proceedings in the House of
Lords 9.30 Select Committees:
coverage of the work of committees set
up to investigate aspects of public
policy and society 2.30pm Live House
of Lords: proceedings in the House of
Lords 9.30 House of Lords: the day’s
proceedings in the House of Lords
4.30—6.00am House of Lords

The Flash 8.00pm Despero

Raised by Wolves 9.00pm

has a warning for Barry

Mother is seeking refuge

Sky Showcase

Sky Atlantic

Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Kay Burley 8.00 Gangs of Baboon
Falls (S) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
10.00 The Flash (S) 11.00 NCIS:
New Orleans (S) 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) 2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) 3.00
Modern Family (S) 4.00 Will & Grace
(S) (AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S)
5.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
6.30pm The Simpsons The
family moves to another town.
7.00 Homer becomes a boxer.
7.30 Mr Burns’s son reappears. (S)
8.00 New. The Flash 2/18
Series 8. Despero warns Barry
that great tragedies will lead to
Armageddon. (S)
9.00 New. Peacemaker 3/8
Economos and Murn bond
on their first official mission,
while Peacemaker and Harcourt
reach an understanding. (S)
10.00 San Andreas ★★★
Disaster action thriller starring
Dwayne Johnson. An LA Fire
Department helicopter pilot tries
to save his family after an
earthquake. Review page 29.
12.15am Bloods (S) (AD) 12.45
Resident Alien: Harry travels to New
York (S) 1.40 Frayed (S) (AD) 2.35
Road Wars (S) 3.05 Hawaii Five-0
(S) 4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) 5.00—
6.00am The Early Rundown
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

q

Challenge

48

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Fish Town (S) 7.50 Totti:
One Captain (S) 8.40 CSI: Crime
Scene Investigation (S) 9.30 The
Sopranos (S) 11.40 Game of Thrones
(S) (AD) 1.00pm Six Feet Under (S)
(AD) 3.10 Ray Donovan (S) (AD)
5.20pm The Sopranos 11/13
Series 5. Tony books into the
Plaza Hotel for a little peace and
quiet, but his dreams are haunted
by faces from the past. (S)
6.25 12/13. Adriana is forced to
tell Christopher about her
dealings with the FBI, and pleads
with him to join her. (S)
7.30 Game of Thrones 7/7
Series 7. Tyrion tries to save
Westeros from itself as everyone
meets in Kings Landing. (S) (AD)
9.00 Raised by Wolves 10/10
Series 1. Paul continues to hear a
voice like the one that drove
Marcus insane. (S) (AD)
10.05 Funeral for a Dog 5/8
Tuuli gives birth on 11 September
2001 as New York City falls into
chaos. Meanwhile, doubts over
Felix’s death continue to grow.
11.05 6/8. Daniel and Mark discover
they are more alike than they
thought. German +subtitles.
12.05am Big Love (S) 2.25 Raised
by Wolves 3.30 In Treatment
4.00—6.00am Fish Town (S)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

Sky Witness

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 10.00 Play
Your Cards Right (AD) 11.00 The
Price Is Right 12 noon Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 1.00pm Catchphrase
(AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes (AD) 3.00
The Price Is Right 4.00 Play Your
Cards Right (AD) 5.00 Bullseye
6.00pm Tenable: a family of five
from Kent competes 7.00
Pointless Celebrities: children’s TV
stars Johnny Ball, Carol Chell,
Dave Benson Phillips, Pat Sharp,
Jim Howick, Ben Willbond, Andrew
Agnew and Julie Wilson Nimmo
compete in the quiz (AD) 8.00 The
Chase 10.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? 11.00 Bullseye: double
bill of the dartboard quiz game

Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)
8.00 Border Patrol (S) 9.00 Send
in the Dogs (S) 10.00 UK Border
Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order (HD) 12 noon Bull (HD)
1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Coroner (HD) 4.00
Paramedics Australia (S) (HD) 5.00
Nothing to Declare (S) 8.00 Blue
Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. The
Equalizer: McCall joins forces with
master thief Jessie Cook (HD) 10.00
Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (HD)

12 midnight The Chase: hosted by
Bradley Walsh 5.00—6.00am Bullseye

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Forces TV

96

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30 Forces
Sports Show 7.00 Digging for the
Truth 7.55 Spenser: for Hire 8.55
Watching 9.55 No Place like Home
10.35 Sorry! 11.10 The Brittas Empire
12.25pm No Place like Home 1.00
Sorry! 1.40 Ten Things You Don’t Know
about... 2.05 Digging for the Truth
3.00 My Secret Falklands War 4.00
The Falklands War: Eyewitness 5.00
Ten Things You Don’t Know about...
5.30 Forces News 6.00 Watching: two
episodes 7.05 The Brittas Empire:
double bill 8.25 Sorry! 9.05 The Man
from Atlantis 11.00 UFO 12.05am
Watching 1.10 Spenser: for Hire 2.10
Digging for the Truth 3.05 Ten Things
You Don’t Know about... 4.00 My
Secret Falklands War 5.00—6.00am
The Falklands War: Eyewitness

12 midnight The Rookie (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00am Bull (HD) 2.00 Transplant (S)
(AD) (HD) 3.00 Law & Order (HD)
4.00 Bull (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)

Syfy
Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Quantum Leap 7.00 Star
Trek: Enterprise 11.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 12 noon Stargate Atlantis
1.00pm The Librarians 2.00 V
3.00 Fringe 4.00 Stargate
Atlantis 5.00 Stargate SG-1
6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise
7.00 Quantum Leap: Sam
becomes an undercover cop 8.00
Fringe: Walter is forced to revisit his
past 9.00 FILM Meteor Moon ★
Sci-fi drama with Dominique Swain
11.00 Stargate SG-1 12 midnight

Grimm: a healer’s past catches up with
him 1.00am Stargate Atlantis 2.00
Star Trek: Enterprise 3.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 4.00 Fringe 5.00—6.00am V

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

TUESDAY 5 APRIL

Peacemaker 9.00pm What

Dad’s Army 8.20pm Sgt

Smother 9.00pm Val Ahern

100 Foot Wave 8.00pm

Land of Primates 8.00pm

does Judomaster want?

Wilson has personal problems

gets an unwelcome surprise

Surfer Garrett McNamara

The sifakas of Madagascar

Sky Max

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
(S) 8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD)
10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia
(S) 12.30pm Total Wipeout (S) (AD)
1.30 Ninja Warrior Women
Tournament (S) 2.00 Stargate
Atlantis (S) 4.00 Quantum Leap (S)
6.00pm Most Haunted US: double
bill (S) 8.00 Chicago Med 9.00
Chicago Fire 10.00 Chicago PD: the
team strives to identify the head of
the brutal Los Temidos gang 11.00
Peacemaker: Economos and Murn
bond on their first official mission
12 midnight The Equalizer 1.00am
Police Ten 7: the work of police officers
in New Zealand 2.00 A League of Their
Own (S) (AD) 3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t
Echo (S) (AD) 4.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD)
5.00—6.00am Most Haunted US (S)

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00
Send in the Dogs (HD) 8.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to
Declare (S) (HD) 10.00 Brit Cops (S) (AD)
11.00 Road Wars (S) 12 noon Forensics
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm How I Caught the
Killer (S) (HD) 2.00 Most Evil Killers (S)
(HD) 4.00 Murders That Shocked the
Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Killer Lovers (S)
(AD) (HD) 6.00 World’s Most Evil Killers
(S) (HD) 7.00 Murders That Shocked
the Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 9.00 Murder in Slow
Motion (S) 10.00 Killer in My Village (S)
11.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 1.00am
Murdered at First Sight (HD) 2.00 Killer
in My Village (S) 3.00 How I Caught the
Killer (S) (HD) 4.00 Brit Cops (S) (AD)
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.10am Last of the Summer Wine (S)
7.55 Jam and Jerusalem (S) 8.30
2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD) 9.10 Hide-Hi! (S) 9.50 Porridge (S) 10.30
Last of the Summer Wine (S) 11.50
Keeping Up Appearances (S) 12.30pm
Dad’s Army: the Lost Episodes (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.10 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 1.50 2 Point 4
Children (S) (AD) 2.30 Desmond’s (S)
3.10 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
3.50 Dad’s Army: the Lost Episodes
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.25 Last of the
Summer Wine (S) 5.40 Porridge (S)
6.25pm Desmond’s Michael is
urged to appreciate his roots. (S)
7.00 Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth visits a stately home. (S)
7.40 Hi-de-Hi! Jeffrey adds
another string to his bow. (S)
8.20 Dad’s Army Sgt Wilson
struggles to concentrate. (BW) (S)
9.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
Guests include actresses Emilia
Fox and Joanna David. (S) (HD)
10.00 Men Behaving Badly The
boys have a sleepless night. (S)
10.40 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
With Mel B and Matt Lucas. (S) (HD)
11.40 Live at the Apollo (S) (HD)
12.40am Peep Show (S) (HD) 1.50
Men Behaving Badly (S) 2.30 Jam
and Jerusalem (S) 3.00—4.00am
Live at the Apollo (S) (HD)
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am Parks and Recreation (S) (HD)
9.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD)
10.00 Will & Grace (S) (HD) 11.30 The
Office US (S) (HD) 12 noon The Mindy
Project (S) (HD) 12.50pm Curb Your
Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 2.00 A.P. Bio (S) (HD)
3.00 Modern Family (S) (HD) 4.00 Will
& Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The Office
US (S) (HD) 5.30 The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air (S) (HD) 6.30 Will & Grace (S)
(HD) 8.00 Parks and Recreation (S)
(HD) 9.00 RT CHOICE New series.
Wellington Paranormal See p71 (HD)
9.30 Los Espookys (S) (HD) 10.00 And
Just like That... (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD)
12 midnight Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30am New. The Late Late Show
with James Corden (HD) 1.25 Bored
to Death (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Everybody Hates Chris: double bill (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Last Man Standing (S) (HD)
9.00 My Wife and Kids (S) (HD) 11.00
Younger (S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 FILM Happy Gilmore
★★ Sports comedy starring Adam
Sandler. Happy Gilmore dreams of
becoming a professional ice-hockey
player, but soon discovers that his
wayward talents can be put to more
lucrative use on the golfing fairway (S)
10.45 Michael McIntyre: Live and
Laughing (S) (HD) 12.05am Rhod
Gilbert’s Growing Pains (S) (HD) 1.05
The Ricky Gervais Show (S) (HD)
2.05 Impractical Jokers (S) (HD) 2.30
Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes (S) (HD)
3.00 South Park: double bill (S) (HD)
3.50—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Major Crimes (S) (HD) 11.00 Rizzoli &
Isles (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Death in
Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Father
Brown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Murdoch
Mysteries (S) (HD) 4.00 Unforgettable
(S) (HD) 5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD)
6.00pm Death in Paradise 6/8
Series 2. Poole investigates the
death of a tourist (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Rizzoli & Isles 6/18 Series 5
Korsak is forced to deal with some
unfinished business. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Hudson & Rex 9/16 Series 1
Charlie investigates the host of a
local morning show. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New series. Smother 1/6
Series 2. The return of the
thriller starring Dervla Kirwan.
A stranger turns up on Val Ahern’s
doorstep and introduces himself
as Denis’s son. See page 71. (HD)
10.10 Ragdoll 1/6. A grisly find at
a block of flats sets Baxter, Rose
and Edmunds on the trail of a killer
who lists six more victims. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.05 Death in Paradise 7/8
Series 2. A meteorologist is found
dead as a storm brews. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.10am Unforgettable (S) (HD)
1.10 Limetown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30—
4.00am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

a

Discovery

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Inside the Freemasons (S)
(AD) 7.00 Discovering: Tim Robbins
(S) (HD) 8.00 The Directors (S)
9.00 Too Young to Die (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The 2000s 11.00 100 Foot
Wave 12 noon Well Groomed (S)
(AD) 1.40pm My Icon: Duke
McKenzie (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 FILM
The September Issue ★★★★
Documentary (S) (W) 3.40 My Icon:
Thierry Henry (S) (AD) 4.00
Discovering: Tim Robbins (S) (HD)
5.00 The Directors (S)
6.00pm Too Young to Die
A profile of singer and actress
Judy Garland. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 The 2000s Examining
more of the groundbreaking
television shows of the decade.
8.00 100 Foot Wave
The decade-long odyssey of
big-wave pioneer Garrett
McNamara to ride a 100-foot wave.
9.00 The Alpinist Following
the elusive Canadian climber
Marc-André Leclerc, who has
made some of the boldest solo
ascents in history. (S) (AD)
10.50 The United Way The story
of Manchester United Football
Club, co-written and narrated by
Eric Cantona. (S) (AD)
12.40am How to Survive a Pandemic
2.50 The Look of Silence (S)
4.50—6.00am 100 Foot Wave

Nat Geographic

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am Mysteries of Evolution (S)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) 8.00 Gangs
of Baboon Falls (S) (HD) 9.00
Guardians of the Wild (S) 10.00
Africa’s Wild Year (S) 11.00 Brazil
Untamed (S) 12 noon Hope for
Wildlife (S) (HD) 1.00pm Monkey
Life (S) 2.00 Gangs of Baboon Falls
(S) (HD) 3.00 Guardians of the Wild
(S) 4.00 Africa’s Wild Year (S)
5.00 Brazil Untamed: the southern
wetlands of the Pantanal (S)
6.00pm Hope for Wildlife
Exploring the work of Hope
Swinimer’s rescue centre. (S) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life The park
keepers bid farewell to woolly
monkeys Julio and Diego. (S) (HD)
7.30 Baby orangutan Silvestre
makes his mark. (S) (HD)
8.00 Land of Primates How
lemurs thrive in Madagascar. (S) (HD)
9.00 Wild Birds of Australia
The lives of two little penguins. (S)
10.00 Brazil Untamed How the
southern wetlands of the Pantanal
become a paradise for birds. (S)
11.00 Hope for Wildlife As 6pm.
12 midnight Africa’s Wild Horizons
(S) (HD) 1.00am Animal Empires (S)
2.00 Land of Primates (S) (HD)
3.00 Wild Birds of Australia (S)
4.00 Gangs of Baboon Falls (S) (HD)
5.00—6.00am Guardians of the
Wild: Kafue National Park (S)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD) 8.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD)
10.00 Combat Dealers (S) (HD) 11.00
Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon
Mighty Truckers (HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush:
White Water (S) (HD) 3.00 Disasters
Engineered (S) (HD) 4.00 Building Off
the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers
(S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Misfit Garage (S) (HD)
7.00 Outback Truckers (S) (HD) 8.00
Bad Chad Customs (S) (HD) 9.00 New.
Hoffman Family Gold (HD) 11.00 New.
Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge’s Mine Rescue
(HD) 12 midnight Hoffman Family Gold
(HD) 1.00am as 11pm 2.00 Moonshiners
(S) (HD) 3.00 Hoffman Family Gold (HD)
4.00 Fast ’n’ Loud (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00am Car SOS (S) (HD) 10.00 Ice
Road Rescue (HD) 12 noon Wicked
Tuna: North v South (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Wicked Tuna (S) (HD) 2.00 Drain the
Oceans (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Car SOS
(S) (HD) 6.00 Air Crash Investigation
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 New. The Dinosaur
Hunter: secrets of a newly-discovered
Italian dinosaur (HD) 9.00 Two-MillionYear-Old Boy: theories about how
prehistoric species lived and died (HD)
10.00 Skeletons of the Inca Rebellion:
surprising truths about the last days of
the Inca empire (HD) 11.00 Air Crash
Investigation (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight
New series. Science of Stupid(HD)
1.00am Trafficked with Mariana Van
Zeller (HD) 2.00 Drugs Inc (HD) 3.00
Nazi Megastructures (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00—
5.00am Lost Treasures of Egypt (HD)

9.00am The Zoo (HD) 10.00 Outback
Vet (HD) 11.00 as 7pm 12 noon Super
Squirrels (HD) 1.00pm Nature’s Perfect
Partners (HD) 2.00 The Zoo (HD)
3.00 Japan with Sue Perkins (AD) (HD)
5.00 Outback Vet (HD) 6.00 Nature’s
Perfect Partners (HD) 7.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 8.00 The Zoo (HD)
9.00 Japan with Sue Perkins (AD) (HD)
10.00 Nature’s Perfect Partners (HD)
11.00 Outback Vet (HD) 12 midnight
The Zoo (HD) 1.00am Japan with
Sue Perkins (AD) (HD) 2.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 3.00 Secrets of the Solar
System (HD) 3.50 Rescued Chimpanzees
of the Congo with Jane Goodall (HD)
4.40 Life in the Great Wetlands (HD)
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am Devonport: inside the Royal
Navy (S) 7.00 Mysteries of the Missing (S)
8.00 Ultimate Warfare (S) 9.00 Nasa’s
Unexplained Files (S) 10.00 Mysteries
at the Museum 11.00 Mysteries of the
Missing (S) 12 noon Combat Dealers (S)
1.00pm Expedition Unknown (S) 2.00
Edge of War (S) 3.00 Hidden City of
the Incas (S) (AD) 4.00 Mysteries at
the Museum 5.00 Ultimate Warfare (S)
6.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) 7.00
Expedition Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat
Dealers (S) 9.00 Legendary Locations
(S) (AD) 10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files
(S) 11.00 Aircraft Stories (S)
12 midnight Combat Dealers (S)
2.00am as 10pm 3.00 Aircraft Stories
(S) 4.00 as 3pm 5.00—6.00am
Mysteries at the Museum

6.00am Secrets in the Ice (HD) 8.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 American
Pickers (HD) 12 noon Legends of the
Pharaohs (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire
(HD) 2.00 American Pickers (HD)
4.00 Secrets in the Ice (HD)
6.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 Forged
in Fire (HD) 8.00 New. Ancient Aliens:
locations of sacred temples (HD) 9.00
New. Secrets of the Lost Ark: mysteries
surrounding the Ark of the Covenant
(HD) 10.00 New. The Proof Is Out
There: a possible alien invasion (HD)
11.00 National Park Mysteries (HD)
12 midnight The Curse of Oak Island
1.00am Ancient Aliens 2.00 Forged in
Fire (HD) 3.00 National Park Mysteries
(HD) 4.00 Legends of the Pharaohs
(HD) 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars (HD)

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD) 10.00 Dogs:
the Untold Story (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
How Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD)
12 noon Restoration Wild (HD) 1.00pm
Born Mucky (S) (HD) 2.00 Pit Bulls and
Parolees (S) (HD) 3.00 America’s
Cutest Pets (S) (HD) 4.00 Dr Jeff (S)
(HD) 5.00 Dodo Heroes (S) (HD) 6.00
Alaska Monsters (S) (HD) 7.00 How
Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 8.00
Preposterous Pets (S) (HD) 9.00 Skunk
Whisperer (S) (HD) 10.00 I Was Prey
(HD) 11.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD)
12 midnight In Search of Monsters (S)
(HD) 1.00am How Do Animals Do That?
(S) (HD) 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S)
(HD) 3.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S)
(HD) 4.00—5.00am Dr Jeff (S) (HD)

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

Tuesday Television

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S) 8.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow (HD) 10.00 The Flash
(S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans (S)
(HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (HD) 4.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate SG-1 14/22
Series 5. Teal’c fails to emerge
from the Stargate. (S)
7.00 15/22. A giant asteroid
threatens Earth. (S)
8.00 New. The Flash 2/18
Series 8. Despero warns Barry
that great tragedies will lead to
Armageddon. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Peacemaker 3/8
Economos and Murn bond on
their first official mission while
Peacemaker and Harcourt reach
an understanding. (S) (HD)
10.00 Strike Back: Retribution
4/10 Series 6. Mac is taken to Magyar
Ultra’s survivalist camp. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 SEAL Team 9/14 Series 5
Jason is forced to seek refuge
with his father. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Resident Alien:
Harry travels to New York (S) (HD)
1.00am Frayed (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Road Wars (S) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0
(S) (HD) 4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00—6.00am Highway Patrol:
Australia’s traffic enforcers (S) (HD)

Gold

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

77

TUESDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW

Television Tuesday

Film4

Sky Premiere
14

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am My Man Godfrey ★★★★
Near-faultless comedy in which a
down-and-out becomes butler to
a wealthy family. William Powell (1936, U) (S)
12.55pm Carry On Constable
★★★ Sergeant Sid James
oversees a bunch of bungling
bobbies in this fourth outing for
the comedy team. (1960, U) (S) (AD)
2.40 Man of the West ★★★★
Gary Cooper stars in a fine,
relentlessly grim western that was
given scant critical approval on its
original release. Julie London (1958, 12) (S) (AD)
4.40 The Pink Panther ★★★★
Hilarious comedy that sees a
bumbling French detective
assigned to protect a famous
diamond. David Niven, Peter Sellers (1963, PG) (S)

6.55pm Congo ★ Misfiring
jungle adventure based on the
Michael Crichton novel. Dylan Walsh,
Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson (1995, 12) (S) (AD)

9.00 Coming to America ★★★
Eddie Murphy’s pampered
African prince looks for a wife in
New York in this entertaining
romantic comedy. (1988, 15) (S) (AD)
11.20 The Beach Bum ★★
Freewheeling comedy with
Matthew McConaughey as a
hedonist poet attempting to
finish his debut novel. (2019, 18) (S)
1.10—3.55am Miss Sloane ★★★
Brisk political thriller starring
Jessica Chastain as a lobbyist
switching allegiances to work for
gun-control advocates. (2016, 15) (S)
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am Value for Money ★★
Comedy romance about a showgirl
and a wealthy heir. John Gregson, Diana Dors
(1955) (S) 7.45 13 East Street ★
Tiresome crime thriller. Patrick Holt,
Sandra Dorne (1952) (S) 9.00 Stagecoach
West (S) 10.00 Serious Charge ★★★
Surprisingly bold British drama
about a former army vicar accused
of sexual assault. Anthony Quayle (1959, PG) (S)
12.05pm The Rebel ★★★ Tony
Hancock plays a duplicitous artist in
his first comedy feature. George Sanders
(1961, U) (S) 2.10 Heaven Can Wait
5 Warm, charming and honest
fantasy comedy starring Don
Ameche as a wealthy playboy whose
life is reviewed by Satan. Gene Tierney
(1943, U) (S) 4.25 Hour of Decision
★★ Niftily plotted whodunnit about
a journalist who must prove his
wife’s innocence. Hazel Court (1957, PG) (S)
6.00pm Dial 999 TV drama. (S)
6.30 Pack Up Your Troubles
5 Laurel and Hardy re-unite
a tot with her kin in this amalgam
of pathos and comedy. (1932, U) (S)
8.00 Maigret 1960s TV drama
series starring Rupert Davies. (S)
9.05 Van der Valk TV drama.
10.05 Public Eye TV drama.
11.05 The Outer Limits
TV sci-fi anthology series. (S)
12.05am Dracula ★★★ Jack
Palance prefers neck-biting to
scenery-chewing in this laudable
adaptation of the Bram Stoker
classic. Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport (1974, 15) (S)
2.05 The Spiritualist ★★★★
Mysterious, gorgeously shot B-horror
in which a grieving widow is drawn
into the occult. Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari (1948) (S)
3.45 The Legacy ★★ Unfocused
horror. Katharine Ross (1978, 18) (S) 5.40—
6.00am How a Bicycle is Made

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

78

The Birds 5 9.00pm TCM
Danger swoops from the sky in a Californian coastal community,
where Tippi Hedren’s socialite finds herself trapped
Great Movies

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am Lost Letter Mysteries: from
Paris with Love 11.00 Broken Trust
★★ Mystery thriller. Laura Vandervoort
(2012) 1.00pm House of Deadly
Secrets ★★ Thriller. Patty McCormack
(2018) 3.00 My Daughter Is
Innocent ★★ Thriller. Victoria Pratt (2017)
4.40 Robin and Marian ★★★★
Wonderfully original take on the
legend of Robin Hood that picks up
the story 20 years after the first
meeting of Robin and Maid Marian.
Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn (1976, PG)

7.05pm Arctic ★★★★ Gripping
survival drama, in which Mads
Mikkelsen’s stranded pilot is forced
to cross a frozen wilderness or
perish. Review p29. (2018, 12)
9.00 Summer of Sam ★★★
In this absorbing drama, director
Spike Lee successfully evokes New
York in the summer of 1977 when
the city was being terrorised by
serial killer Son of Sam. (1999, 18)
11.45 Only God Forgives ★★★★
Arty if bloody crime thriller that
reteams Ryan Gosling with his
Drive director, Nicolas Winding
Refn. Kristin Scott Thomas (2012, 18)
1.35am The Hunter’s Prayer ★★★
Slick action thriller starring Sam
Worthington as an assassin who
goes on the run with his teenage
target. (2017, 15) 3.35—5.50am
Roxanne ★★★★ Charming romantic
comedy. Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah (1987, PG)
+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Battle of Rogue River
★★★ Western. George Montgomery (1954, U)
7.25 3:10 to Yuma 5
Western. Glenn Ford (1957, PG) 9.15 Tycoon
★★★ Adventure. John Wayne (1947, U)
11.55 The Last Days of Frank and
Jesse James ★★★ Western. Johnny
Cash (1986, 15) 2.00pm Conquest of
Cochise ★★★ Western. John Hodiak
(1953, U) 3.25 Sealed Cargo ★★ War
drama. (1951, U) 5.15 Trouble in the
Sky ★★★★ A pilot must clear his
name after a crash in this well-paced
British drama. Michael Craig (1960)
7.10pm Seattle Superstorm ★★
Sci-fi disaster movie. Esai Morales (2012)
9.00 The Day the Earth Stopped
★ Sci-fi mockbuster in which giant
robots land on Earth. (2009, 15)
10.50 Sniper Elite ★★ Slapdash
sci-fi action. Matthew Reese (2014, 15)
12.40am The Winter Soldier ★★
Ambitious sci-fi action thriller. Paul Sidhu
(2016, 15) 2.40—4.00am Strongroom
★ Low-budget thriller. Derren Nesbitt (1961, PG)
+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am Idol on Parade ★★
Musical comedy. Anthony Newley (1959, PG)
7.40 Suicide Battalion ★★
Uninspired wartime adventure.
Michael Connors (1958, U) 9.20 Dragonfly
Squadron ★★ War drama. (1954, U)
11.00 The Mountain Road ★★
Second World War drama. James Stewart
(1960, U) 1.10pm The First of the Few
★★★ Wartime biopic. Review p29.
Leslie Howard, David Niven (1942, U) 3.40 Hotel
Reserve ★★★ Fitfully suspenseful
thriller. James Mason (1944, U) 5.30 Cash
on Demand ★★★★ Excellent, tense
little thriller with Peter Cushing as a
bank manager who meets his match
in cunning “insurance investigator”
Andre Morell. Richard Vernon (1961, PG)
7.10pm Gideon of Scotland Yard
★★★★ Entertaining British police
drama that follows a day in the life
of inspector Jack Hawkins. (1958, PG)
9.00 The Deadly Affair ★★★★
Gripping spy thriller about an
agent investigating the suicide of a
diplomat. James Mason, Simone Signoret (1966, 12)
11.05 Bullet to Beijing ★★
Serviceable thriller. Michael Caine (1995, 15)
1.05am A Bullet for the General
★★★ Impressive spaghetti western.
Gian Maria Volonté (1966, 15) 3.15 Machine
Gun Kelly ★★★ Vivid, fast-moving
crime biopic. Charles Bronson (1958, 12)
4.40—6.00am Strongroom ★
Low-budget thriller. Derren Nesbitt (1961, PG)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Sky Gangsters

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
7.20am As 4.35pm 9.00 Pil’s
Adventures ★★ Family cartoon
japes. (2021) 10.40 Reminiscence As
8pm 12.40pm As 6.15pm 2.25
The Many Saints of Newark As
10pm 4.35 Spirit Untamed ★★
Sweet animated adventure about a
girl and a horse. Isabela Merced (2021, U)

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.15am The Last Job ★★ Crime
drama. (2021, 15) 8.10 Chinatown
5 Period thriller. Jack Nicholson
(1974, 15) 10.25 The Big Heat ★★★★
Film noir. Glenn Ford (1953, 15) 12.10pm
Hell or High Water ★★★★ Crime
thriller. (2016, 15) 2.10 John Wick
★★★★ Lean thriller. Keanu Reeves (2014, 15)

6.15pm Barbarians ★★ Twisty,
satirical home-invasion thriller
that sees a get-together violently
interrupted. Iwan Rheon (2021, 15)
8.00 Reminiscence ★★★
A machine allows users to relive
their memories in this noir-ish
sci-fi thriller. Hugh Jackman (2021, 12)
10.00 The Many Saints of
Newark 5 Hugely satisfying
1970s-set prequel to TV’s The
Sopranos. Review p38. (2020, 15)

4.00pm The Italian Job ★★★
Glossy remake of the popular
1969 crime caper. Mark Wahlberg (2003, 12)
6.00 No Sudden Move ★★★
Sparkling ensemble drama.

12.10am Don’t Breathe 2 ★★
Brutal, twisting horror. (2021, 18) 2.00
Malignant ★★★ Horror. (2021, 18)
4.00 The Ogglies ★★ Animated
adventure. (2021) 5.45 As 9am

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro (2021)

8.00 Jack Reacher ★★★ Tom
Cruise plays the maverick cop in
this brash action yarn. (2012, 15)
10.15 The Raid 2 ★★★★
Superbly stylish but very violent
action thriller. Iko Uwais (2013, 18)
12.50am Training Day ★★★★
Powerful thriller. Ethan Hawke
interview p34. Denzel Washington (2001, 18)
3.00 On the Waterfront 5
Classic crime drama. Marlon Brando
(1954, PG) 5.00 Sky Cinema Preview

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.00am Words on Bathroom
Walls ★★★ Romantic drama. Charlie
Plummer (2020, 12) 8.00 Knowing ★★★
Thriller. (2009, 15) 10.05 Thank You
for Your Service ★★★ Biopic.
(2017, 15) 12.05pm Just Go with It
★★ Romantic comedy. (2011, 12) 2.05
The Founder ★★★★ Biopic. (2016, 12)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
6.25am Three Days of the
Condor ★★★★ Tense thriller. (1975, 15)
8.25 Dragon: the Bruce Lee
Story ★★★★ Biopic. (1993, 15) 10.30
The Naked Gun: from the Files
of Police Squad! 5 Comedy.
(1988, 15) 12 noon Men in Black
★★★★ Sci-fi comedy. (1997, PG)

4.05pm Friends with Benefits
★★★ Smart romantic comedy
about two pals who take their
relationship to the next level. (2011, 15)
6.00 Zack Snyder’s Justice
League ★★★★ The extended
director’s cut of the DC Comics
superhero extravaganza. (2017/2021)
10.00 The Losers ★ Action
adventure about covert US
special forces agents who are
left for dead. Zoë Saldana (2010, 12)

1.40pm Extremely Wicked,
Shockingly Evil and Vile ★★
Bland crime drama. Zac Efron (2019, 15)
3.40 Bad Boys II ★★ Highaction sequel to the hit comedy
thriller. Martin Lawrence, Will Smith (2003, 15)
6.10 Days of Thunder ★★★
Flashy action drama. Tom Cruise,

11.45pm True Grit ★★★★
Remake of the John Wayne
western from the Coen brothers.
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon (2010, 15) 1.45am
Words on Bathroom Walls As
6am 3.50 Knowing As 8am

Sky Action

Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman (1990, 15)

8.00 Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon 5 Magnificent,
martial arts adventure. (2000, 12)
10.00pm The Social Network
5 Drama. (2010, 12) 12.05am
The Ides of March ★★★★ Drama.
Ryan Gosling (2011, 15) 1.50 As 10.30am
3.20 As 6.25am 5.20 Carry On
Spying ★★★ Spy spoof. (1964, U)

Sky Comedy

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am First Wave 9.00 Battlestar
Galactica 10.00 Farscape 11.00
40 Days and Nights ★ Disaster
thriller. Monica Keena, Alex Carter (2012) 1.00pm
Frank Herbert’s Children Of Dune:
TV sci-fi 3.00 The 4400 4.00
Virtual Nightmare ★★ Low-key
thriller in which a man starts
questioning what is real. (2000, 12)
6.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi drama.
7.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
8.00 Star Trek TV sci-fi drama.
9.00 Resident Evil ★★★
Undemanding but effective sci-fi
action horror adapted from the
video game. Milla Jovovich (2002, 15)
11.00 From the Dark ★★ Wellacted Irish chiller in which a couple
are stalked in the woods. (2014)
12.50am Nightbreed ★★★
Imaginative horror that sees a
psychiatrist dupe a patient into
believing he is a serial killer.

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
6.10am Twist ★★ Crime drama.
Michael Caine (2021, 12) 7.55 Catwoman
★★ Lacklustre fantasy. Halle Berry (2004, 12)
9.55 Riders of Justice ★★★★
Revenge drama. Mads Mikkelsen (2020, 15)
12.05pm As 8pm 2.00 Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom
As 9.45pm 4.00 As 11.55pm

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
7.25am When Jeff Tried to Save
the World ★★★ Comedy drama.
(2018, 12) 9.05 We Broke Up ★★★
Comedy drama. Aya Cash (2021, 15) 10.30
Irresistible ★★★ Comedy drama.
(2020, 15) 12.15pm Paul Blart: Mall
Cop ★★ Comedy. (2009, PG) 1.50
The Intern ★★★ Comedy. (2015, 12)

6.00pm Mortal Kombat ★★
Slick but repetitive remake of the
1995 martial arts fantasy based
on the video game. Lewis Tan (2021, 15)
8.00 Wrath of the Titans ★★
Fantasy sequel set in the world
of Greek myth with more style
than substance. Sam Worthington (2012, 12)
9.45 Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom ★★★★ Thrilling
second outing for the intrepid
hero. Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw (1984, 12)

3.55pm Hitch ★★★ Flimsy but
fun comedy about a professional
romance adviser. Will Smith (2005, 12)
5.55 The Terminal ★★★
Enjoyable but sentimental fishout-of-water comedy. Tom Hanks (2004, 12)
8.05 Grown Ups ★★ Adam
Sandler heads the cast in this
pacey midlife-crisis comedy. (2010, 12)
9.50 That’s My Boy ★★
Lazy slapstick comedy starring
Adam Sandler. Andy Samberg (2012, 15)

Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg (1990, 18)

11.55pm Vanguard ★★ Spy
adventure in which Jackie Chan
must blaze in and rescue a
kidnapped accountant. (2020, 15)
1.55am Mortal Kombat As 6pm
4.00 Catwoman As 7.55am

11.50pm EuroTrip ★★★ Rude
and generally funny teen road
movie. Scott Mechlowicz (2004, 15) 1.25am
Irresistible As 10.30am 3.10
When Jeff Tried to Save the
World As 7.25am 4.55 As 9.05am

2.50—4.30am Patchwork ★★★
Engaging black comedy horror. (2015)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

TUESDAY 5 APRIL
Animation

Sky Wizarding World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
6.00am Curious George: Royal
Monkey ★★ (2019, U) 7.30 Early
Man ★★★★ (2018, PG) 9.05 As 5pm
10.45 Monster House ★★★★
(2006, PG) 12.20pm Animals United
★★ (2010, U) 2.00 As 11.15pm 3.30
The Pirates! In an Adventure
with Scientists! ★★★★ (2012, U)

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.40am Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban ★★★★
Fantasy. (2004, PG) 9.10 The Goblet
of Fire ★★★★ Adventure. (2005, 12)
11.55 The Order of the Phoenix
★★★★ The mood remains dark in
this episode, as Harry assembles a
student army. Daniel Radcliffe (2007, 12)

5.00pm Rio ★★★★ Hugely
enjoyable comedy adventure.

2.20pm The Half-Blood
Prince ★★★★ Harry attempts
to uncover a secret from
Voldemort’s past. Daniel Radcliffe (2009, 12)
5.00 The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 ★★★ Doom-laden
build-up to the series finale. Daniel

Sky

Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway (2011, U)

Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson (2010, 12)

11.15pm Open Season 2 ★★
Frantic comedy. (2008, PG) 12.50am
As 6am 2.30 Riverdance: the
Animated Adventure ★★★ Cute
fantasy. Pierce Brosnan (2021) 4.15 Maya
the Bee ★★ Adventure. (2014, U)

9.45pm The Philosopher’s
Stone ★★★★ Harry is whisked off
to Hogwarts wizarding school. (2001, PG)
12.20am The Chamber of
Secrets ★★★★ (2002, PG) 3.00 As
6.40am 5.30 Sky Cinema Preview

Sky Thriller

7.30 The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 Harry and
Voldemort clash for the final
time. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson (2011, 12)

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
6.00am No Man’s Land ★★
Action thriller. Jake Allyn (2020, 12) 8.10
Last Moment of Clarity ★★
Thriller. Samara Weaving (2020, 15) 9.50
Masquerade ★★ Horror. Bella Thorne
(2021) 11.20 As 6.25pm 1.00pm
As 8pm 2.55 Changing Lanes
★★★★ Offbeat drama. (2002, 15)

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.00am All These Small
Moments ★★★ Drama. (2018) 7.30
The Hundred-Foot Journey
★★★ Comedy drama. (2014, PG) 9.35
Eat Pray Love ★★ Biopic. (2010, 15)
12 noon How to Lose a Guy in 10
Days ★★ (2003, 12) 2.00pm Another
Round 5 Danish drama. (2020, 12)

4.35pm Antebellum ★★★
Janelle Monáe takes on dual
roles in this mind-bending,
time-hopping thriller. (2020, 15)
6.25 Before I Go to Sleep
★★★★ Chilling, stylish thriller in
which Nicole Kidman isn’t sure
who’s the good guy. (2014, 15)
8.00 Mission: Impossible
★★★★ Brian De Palma’s smart
and exciting update of the cult
1960s TV series. Tom Cruise (1996, PG)

4.00pm Captain Fantastic
★★★ Bittersweet, often gently
funny drama. Viggo Mortensen (2016, 15)
6.05 Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind ★★★★ Innovative
and touching drama. Jim Carrey (2003, 15)
8.00 Dream Horse ★★★★
Rousing, emotional, distinctly
Welsh horse-racing drama. (2020, PG)
10.00 The Last Vermeer ★★★
Intriguing but often plodding
drama. Guy Pearce, Claes Bang (2019, 15)

10.00pm The Green Mile ★★★
Overlong but engrossing Stephen
King fantasy drama. Tom Hanks (1999, 18)
1.05am Antebellum As 4.35pm
3.00 Last Moment of Clarity
As 8.10am 4.40 As 6am

12.15am The Secrets We Keep
★★ Intriguing thriller. Noomi Rapace
(2020) 2.10 The Colour Room ★★★
Biopic. Phoebe Dynevor (2021, PG) 4.15 The
Party’s Just Beginning ★★★★
Comedy drama. Karen Gillan (2017, 15)

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
7.05am The New Mutants As
6.20pm 8.45 Mortal ★★★
Earnest fantasy. Nat Wolff (2020, 15) 10.35
Resident Evil ★★★ Sci-fi action
horror. Milla Jovovich (2002, 15) 12.20pm
Resident Evil: Apocalypse ★
Sci-fi action horror. Milla Jovovich (2004, 15)
2.00 The Matrix As 10pm

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Film
Directors 7.45 Close Up 8.20 Law
of the Panhandle ★★★ (1950, PG)
9.40 Terror in a Texas Town
★★★ (1958, PG) 11.20 Separate Tables
★★★★ Drama. (1958, PG) 1.30pm The
Fighting Lawman ★★ (1953, U) 3.00
The Odessa File ★★★ (1974, PG)

4.20pm Edge of Tomorrow
★★★ Tom Cruise is forced to
relive the same day fighting alien
invaders in this clever sci-fi. (2014, 12)
6.20 The New Mutants ★★
Dark, low-key and mysterious
X-Men spin-off set in a creepy
asylum. Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy (2018, 15)
8.00 The Forever Purge ★★★
Racial tensions feed the frenzy
in the dynamic fifth episode in
the futuristic horror saga. (2020, 15)

5.45pm The Outlaw Stallion
★★★ Beautifully filmed minor
horse-rustling western. (1954, U)
7.05 Alias Jesse James ★★★
Pleasing comedy western that’s
packed with star cameos. (1959, U)
9.00 The Birds 5
Ingenious horror classic from
Alfred Hitchcock. Rod Taylor (1963, 15)

10.00pm The Matrix 5
Spectacular sci-fi action thriller.
Keanu Reeves (1999, 15) 12.20am As
10.35am 2.05 Resident Evil:
Apocalypse As 12.20pm 3.40 As
8.45am 5.30 Sky Cinema Preview

1.35am The Red Badge of
Courage ★★★★ Documentary-like
depiction of the experience of
battle. (1951, U) 3.00 Close Up 5.00
Hollywood’s Best Film Directors

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

11.30pm Duel in the Eclipse ★★
Decent, brooding spaghetti
western with Lang Jeffries. (1968)

+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

Sky Premier League

Champions League
7.00pm BT Sport 2 Man City’s
midfield general Fernandinho

Sky Main Event
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440
6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good
Morning Sports Fans 7.30 Early Kick-Off
8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans 10.00
Football Show 12 noon Sky Sports News

4.00pm LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Rajasthan Royals
v Royal Challengers Bangalore
from Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
7.00 Soccer Special: the panel
look ahead to tonight’s fixtures
7.30 LIVE Championship Football
Preston North End v Blackpool
from Deepdale (kick-off 7.45). The
Seasiders claimed a 2—0 victory in
the reverse fixture last October.
10.15 Soccer Special Post-Match 11.00
Sky Sports News 12 midnight NFL: Total
Access 1.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Greatest Players (AD) 6.30
Countdowns (AD) 7.00 Football Years
(AD) 7.30 EFL Greatest Games 8.15
SPFL Greatest Games 9.00 Soccer AM
9.30 Championship Highlights
10.30 SPFL Greatest Games 11.00
Championship Season Review (AD)
12 noon Classic Play-Off Finals (AD)
3.00pm Championship Football (AD)
4.00 Best Goals 5.00 EFL Greatest
Games (AD) 5.45 SPFL Greatest Games
6.00 League One and Two Goals 6.30
Soccer AM 7.00 Major League Soccer

7.30 LIVE Championship Football
Preston North End v Blackpool
from Deepdale (kick-off 7.45).
10.15 Scottish Premiership Round-Up
10.30 Soccer AM 11.00 EFL Greatest
Games (AD) 12 midnight Classic
Play-Off Finals 2.45am One2Eleven:
Danny Gabbidon (AD) 3.00 Classic
League Cup 5.00—6.00am
Championship Season Review (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am How the Masters Was Won
10.00 The Masters Official Film:
Ballesteros 1983 10.30 The Masters
Official Film: Crenshaw 1984 (AD) 11.00
The Masters Film: 2020 Johnson 12 noon
McGinley and Chamblee at the Masters

2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
All the build-up from Augusta.
10.00 Tiger Woods: Back 12.15am
The Masters Official Film: Tom Watson
1981 1.00 The Masters Official Film:
Woosnam 1991 2.00 The Masters: the
Major Heard round the World 2.30
Masters: the One from November
3.00 How the 2014 Masters Was Won
5.00 The Masters Official Film:
Nicklaus 1986 (AD) 5.30—6.00am
The Magnificent Masters: 1975 (AD)

Amazon Prime
3.00pm, 12 midnight LIVE WTA
Tennis Coverage of day two of the
Charleston Open in South Carolina.

BT Sport 1

Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441

Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Greatest Games 7.00
Legends: Robbie Fowler (AD) 7.30
Legends: Ian Wright (AD) 8.00 Premier
League Highlights 9.45 Greatest
Games 10.00 The Football Show
12 noon Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
1.00pm Premier League Highlights
2.45 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.00 Premier League Highlights
6.45 Greatest Games 7.00 Review
8.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox 9.00
Review 10.00 Icons (AD) 10.30 Retro
12.30am Icons (AD) 1.00 Premier
League Years 3.00 Greatest Games
(AD) 4.00 Best Goals (AD) 5.30—
6.00am 100 Club: Robbie Keane (AD)

6.00am Boxing 7.00 Wrestling (AD)
8.00 Premier League Review 9.00
ESPN FC 9.30 Premier League World
10.00 BT Sport Goals Reload 10.30
Europa League Magazine 11.30
Champions League Magazine
12 noon Premier League Review
1.00pm Pro League Hockey 3.00
International One-Day Cricket 4.00
ESPN FC 4.30 Premier League World
5.00 Premier League Review
6.00 Rugby Stories (AD) 6.30
Premiership Rugby Union 8.00 Rugby
Tonight 8.45 MotoGP Rewind 9.00
Wrestling: WWE Raw 11.30 Boxing
12 midnight Wrestling (AD)

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Indian Premier League
Cricket 10.10 25 Years of Women’s
Cricket on Sky 10.30 Test Highlights
11.30 Indian Premier League Cricket
12.30pm Women’s Cricket World Cup
Highlights 1.30 Cricket’s Climate Crisis
(AD) 1.50 Indian Premier League Cricket

2.50 LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Rajasthan Royals
v Royal Challengers Bangalore,
from Wankhede Stadium Mumbai.
7.00 LIVE International T20
Cricket Pakistan v Australia, a oneoff T20 match from Rawalpindi.
8.00 The Cricket Show 9.00 Indian
Premier League Cricket 10.00 The
Cricket Show 11.00 Women’s Cricket
World Cup Highlights 12 midnight Indian
Premier League Cricket 5.10—6.00am
Best of the Indian Premier League

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD)
7.00 Boxing 9.00 Basketball 11.30
NFL Bitesize 12 noon Good Morning
Football 3.00pm Premier League Darts
6.30 NFL Bitesize 7.00 Pro-Football
Talk 9.00 Josh Taylor: the Tartan
Tornado 9.30 Boxing 10.30 Khan v
Brook: the Gloves Are Off 11.00 Boxing
12 midnight NFL: Total Access 1.00am
NFL: a Football Life (AD) 2.00 Premier
League Darts: from Birmingham
5.30—6.00am Darts Gold (AD)

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Drone Racing 8.00 Super
League 8.30 Netball 10.30 NBA
12.30pm Netball 2.30 Drone Racing
4.30 Super League 5.00 Netball
7.00 NBA GameTime 7.30 NBA 9.30
Kevin Sinfield: the Extra Mile (AD)
10.30 Super League 12 midnight
NBA 4.00am Rugby League Retro
5.45—6.00am Super League

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 520/HD 510 BT 429/HD 449
3.55—8.00pm LIVE
International T20 Cricket
Coverage of Pakistan v Australia,
the one-off match in Rawalpindi.

Eurosport 1
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435
6.00am Cycling 7.00 World
Superbikes 8.00 Snooker 10.00
Cycling 11.00 World Superbikes
12 noon Motocross 12.30pm Cycling

2.30 LIVE Cycling Stage two
of the Basque Tour, featuring a
207.9km route from Leitza to Viana.
4.30 The Cycling Show 5.05 World
Snooker 7.05 Cycling 9.00 Formula E:
Mexico City ePrix 10.00 Cycling
12 midnight Motor Racing 1.00am
World Superbikes: from Jerez, Spain
2.00 Cycling 4.00—6.00am Darts

1.00am LIVE Wrestling All the
grappling action from WWE NXT.
3.15 MotoGP Rewind 3.30 BT Sport
Goals Reload 4.00—6.00am
Australian Rules Football

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am MotoGP 10.00 Australian Rules
Football 12 noon Australian Football
6.00pm The Volleyball Show 6.30
Champions League Magazine

7.00 LIVE Champions League
Football Manchester City v
Atlético Madrid, the quarterfinal first-leg tie from the Etihad
Stadium (kick-off 8.00). See p70.

a

10.30 UFC 11.30 Premier League
Reload 11.45 French Football 12.45am
Fishing 2.00 Premiership Rugby Union
3.30 Fight Week 4.00 UFC Main Event
5.00—6.00am Australian Football

BT Sport 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432

Tuesday Television

6.40 Fantastic Mr Fox ★★★★
Delightfully quirky adaptation of
Roald Dahl’s book. (2009, PG)
8.10 The Road to El Dorado
★★★ Fun adventure about the
search for the city of gold. (2000, U)
9.50 Happily N’Ever After 2
★★ Routine sequel to the ironic
fantasy. Helen Niedwick, Gina K Bowes (2009, U)

SPORT

6.00am Italian Football 8.00 French
Football 2.00pm Portuguese Football
3.00 Italian Football 5.00 MotoGP
7.00 BT Sport Goals Reload

7.15 LIVE Champions League
Football Benfica v Liverpool,
the quarter-final first-leg
match from Estadio da Luz in
Lisbon (kick-off 8.00). See p70.

a

10.30 BT Sport Films 12 midnight
Australian Football: A-League action
1.00am Champions League Football
3.00 Europa League Magazine 4.00—
6.00am National League Football

BT Sport ESPN
Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 ESPN
SportsCenter 6.45 Around the Horn
7.15 Pardon the Interruption 7.45
ESPN SportsCenter 8.00 Baseball
Today in the UK 8.30 Baseball 11.30
Around the Horn 12 noon ESPN FC
12.30pm ESPN SportsCenter 12.45
Pardon the Interruption 1.15 Basketball
5.15 ESPN SportsCenter 5.30 In
Depth with Graham Bensinger
6.30 Basketball 9.00 Lacrosse 11.00
In Depth with Graham Bensinger

12 midnight LIVE Baseball
Clemson Tigers v Georgia Bulldogs.
3.30am Baseball Today in the UK
4.00—6.00am Lacrosse

Eurosport 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436
6.00am World Superbikes 7.00 Darts
9.00 World Superbikes 11.00 Darts

1.00pm LIVE Darts The afternoon
session on day four of the WDF
World Championship from Lakeside
Country Club in Frimley Green.
5.00 Formula E: highlights of the
Mexico City ePrix 6.00 Darts
7.00 LIVE Darts The evening
session on day four of the WDF
World Championship from Surrey.
11.00 Motocross 12.05am Cycling
2.00 Darts 4.00 Cycling
5.00—6.00am World Superbikes

79

The pick of today’s TV

Television Wednesday

WEDNESDAY Choices

COLOURFUL PAIR
Nick Grimshaw and
Emma Willis front a new
home makeover show
PICK OF THE DAY

The Great Home Transformation 8.00pm C4

PROPERTY New series A better life at home doesn’t happen by chance — it

happens by design, presenters Nick Grimshaw and Emma Willis tell us. Ah, yet
another makeover show, you sigh, but this approaches things in a new way.
It uses motion-capture cameras (the sort they use on wildlife documentaries)
in various cluttered and badly planned homes to track a family’s every move
so they can work out how to make the space function effectively. Unlike the
DIY SOS crew, they don’t make any structural changes.

Champions League
Quarter-finals

8.00pm Sky Arts

7.00pm (k/o 8.00pm) BT Sport 2

ENTERTAINMENT Six non-singers

SPORT Last year’s Champions

have 12 weeks to prepare to perform
for an audience of 2,500 at the
English National Opera’s London
Coliseum, and tonight they begin the
intensive training with trepidation
and gusto, and face the challenge of
singing on stage to each other.
Each has barriers to overcome,
be it entrepreneur Luke, whose
Tourette syndrome evaporates
when he sings; civil servant
Khadijah’s chronic lack of selfconfidence; or upbeat life-coach
Shirley, who struggles to walk
without a stick. Perhaps opera
singing and a dance class (“As opera
singers we dance all the time,”
explains vocal coach Sarah Pring)
can help… JOHN AIZLEWOOD

League semi-final between Chelsea
and Real Madrid had an eerie quality
due to the lack of crowds, but this
quarter-final is likely to be a raucous
full house — especially after the
government eased sanctions on the
club and allowed the sale of tickets.
Thomas Tuchel’s Blues will fancy
their chances, too, particularly given
their opponents’ stuttering form.
After knocking out PSG, Madrid
crashed to a 4—0 league defeat
at home to Barcelona — a “black
night” for Los Blancos.
In southern Spain, meanwhile,
Villarreal face a daunting visit
from Bayern Munich (k/o 8pm
BT Sport 3). MAX COPEMAN

80

Anyone Can Sing

With four young children, Sam and Becka’s three-bed Eastbourne semi is
one almighty squash but the “heat map” shows that two rooms are barely
being used. In between chatting to Sam and Becka about the challenge of
having a big family (which includes a child with an unusual medical condition),
Nick and Emma get hands-on with DIY and creative jobs so there are loads of
sensible tips and suggestions. But none of the mad ideas that you sometimes
see on BBC1’s Interior Design Masters. JANE RACKHAM

DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow 8.00pm Sky Max

Interior Design
Masters with Alan Carr

DRAMA For the time-travelling

9.00pm BBC1

superheroes, being stuck in 1920s
America has been a major blow. For
the viewing audience, though, it’s a
treat. Flapper dresses, Tommy guns,
jalopies and clashes with J Edgar
Hoover abound in one of the few
superhero shows that isn’t afraid to
have a little fun. And as Sara, Ava
and co go on the run as the bankrobbing Bullet Blondes (“as lovely as
they are lethal”, a radio announcer
calls them), it’s clear that the cast are
enjoying this jazz-era nonsense, too.
The gleeful period detail piles ever
higher in season seven’s second
episode as the team head across
country from Texas to New York.
Especially when a famous mobster
enters the picture… CERI THOMAS

PROPERTY A stuffed magpie,

mock croc wallpaper and black
shower tiles... sometimes you do
wonder about these interior
designers’ ideas. They’re revamping
five shepherds’ huts, each with
a theme (such as heritage, bohemian
or rustic chic). The huts must have
the feel of a boutique hotel but the
designers are warned they should
also be bespoke, so they can’t simply
go shopping.
Glamping is something Alan Carr
isn’t keen on. “When you’re camp all
day, you don’t want to do it at the
weekends as well!” he says. This
week’s guest judge is Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen, who’s not averse
to a bit of theatrical camp himself. JR

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL
As a nation we understandably have
an impulse to erase the memory of
Jimmy Savile, but it’s worth pondering
on what a prominent cultural figure
he was. Netflix’s new documentary
series Jimmy Savile: a British
Horror Story raids the archives,
finding countless jaw-dropping clips
where the great and good of politics,
society and particularly
entertainment fawn over a man who

Raised by Wolves
9.00pm Sky Atlantic

9.00pm More4

DRAMA Watching this gorgeous but

DOCUMENTARY The Bakers’ caravan

gonzo sci-fi show can often feel like
a baffling sprint though a fairground
attraction where the floor keeps
melting, down frequently becomes up,
and whenever you spot the exit sign
someone chases you back to the
start… Huge concepts (a future war
between religious extremists and
atheists on a planet with lakes of acid,
anyone?) continue to rub shoulders
with questions about love, devotion
and humanity as season two begins.
Are the android characters about
to start over among a new group of
humans in the planet’s temperate
zone? Or is nothing quite what it
seems? The smart money is on the
latter, but it’s going to be exhilarating

becomes a time machine as they take
a trip to the Beamish Museum, where
“living” exhibits tell the story of the
North-East in the early part of the
20th century. For Matt and his folks,
the visit does turn into something of
a busman’s holiday, particularly in the
sequence where they tour the 1940s
farm and find that many aspects are
identical to their own current set-up.
There are some surprising
moments, too: the story of how an
entire farmhouse came to be moved
stone by stone to the site is really quite
remarkable. And its original inhabitant
can’t help but get emotional as she
enters a re-creation of her childhood
bedroom. DAVID BROWN

CT

The Truffle Hunters:
Storyville 10.00pm BBC4
DOCUMENTARY In Piedmont, Italy, a

few grizzled old Italian men and their
dogs roam the mountains — usually
under cover of darkness — searching
for rare white Alba truffles. These
fetch astronomical prices at auction
but it’s a dying skill.
This gently haunting Storyville
documentary explores a traditional
and secretive way of life through the
men’s relationship with their dogs.
There are exquisite vignettes (an
aged hunter shares a plate of food
with his dog, a gourmet salivates over
the truffle on his fried egg), an
evocative operatic soundtrack and
some great characters such as Carlo,
who escapes his wife’s nagging about
retirement by sneaking out of the
window to go foraging. JR

Kate and Koji 9.00pm ITV
Despite his disastrous record,
Koji decides to take a chance
on romance and Kate is
determined to help him.
Jane Garvey: page 39

Lucy Worsley’s Royal
Photo Album 8.00pm BBC4
How the royal family worked to
create images that reinvented
the British monarchy.

Your Body Uncovered
with Kate Garraway
8.00pm BBC2
Kate meets Paul, a father of
two dealing with the aftermath
of a severe stroke.

Great Escapes with
Morgan Freeman
10.00pm Sky History
Profiling two jailbreaking
murderers who were
incarcerated at Elmira State
Prison in New York.

q FILM OF THE DAY

Benjamin Franklin:
a Film by Ken Burns
7.45pm PBS America

FOUNDING
FATHER
Benjamin Franklin
(1706—90)

HISTORY By any measure,
Benjamin Franklin was a hero of the
Enlightenment, though in Britain his
story is barely known. In America,
of course, he is revered — and if you
need to understand why, this sturdy
and beautifully crafted account of
an extraordinary life will take the
place of a doorstop biography.
Ken Burns is the master of
making televisual bricks without
straw: four hours of screen time
without need of dramatic
reconstructions or a presenter,
just elegant woodcuts and deft
period visuals. It helps that the
story is a page-turner, of how a boy
with barely any education became
a printer and publisher — and
branched out to become journalist,
scientist, inventor (he was the tech
whiz of his day), civic leader,
diplomat and founding father. The
fact he was also a slave-owner is not
passed over but nor does it dominate
his legacy. DAVID BUTCHER

Stan & Ollie
9.00pm BBC2
Delightful, affectionate biopic
of comedy legends Laurel and
Hardy, starring Steve Coogan
and John C Reilly. (2019)
See page 30

LIVE SPORT

 Champions League Football:
Chelsea v Real Madrid 7pm (k/o
8pm) BT Sport 2 Can Chelsea
stop striker Karim Benzema?
Villarreal v Bayern Munich
7.15pm (k/o 8pm) BT Sport 3
 Championship Football:
Middlesbrough v Fulham
7.30pm (k/o 7.45pm) SS Football
 Indian Premier League
Cricket: Kolkata Knight Riders
v Mumbai Indians 2.50pm
Sky Sports Cricket

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK; SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY

Matt Baker: Travels
with Mum and Dad

BEST OF THE REST

Wednesday Television

would posthumously be revealed as
one of Britain’s worst paedophiles —
and whose activities were, at the least,
strongly rumoured during his life.
The numerous moments where
Savile references his dark side, to
audiences who take this as a harmless
joke, are horribly eerie. For more on
how Savile got away with it and how
similar monsters might be stopped,
the excellent 2021 doc Jimmy Savile:
the People Who Knew is still on
Discovery+ and AppleTV. JACK SEALE

STREAMING NOW

81

WEDNESDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

Television Wednesday

BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Sally Nugent, Dan Walker. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Topical magazine show, hosted by
Gethin Jones and AJ Odudu. (S) (HD)
10.00 Scam Interceptors Rav Wilding joins forces
with a team of ethical hackers to hunt down the cyber
criminals that are plaguing our lives. (S) (HD)
10.45 Defenders UK Several canisters of mustard
gas are dumped in a lake. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in south
Wales, Hampshire and Staffordshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Philip Serrell and Kate Bliss
help two teams in Stamford, Lincolnshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Doctors It’s Rosie’s last day, but no-one has told
Jimmi. Repeated 7pm BBC2 Cast Thursday BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private
Investigators 9/10 Series 3. Frank and Lu are hired
to locate a photograph stolen from a pub. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country Jules Hudson helps a
London couple find a home in Derbyshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.45 The Repair Shop The experts restore a vintage
toy car that has reached the end of the road and a
legal eagle’s briefcase. Repeated tomorrow 7.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Ross Kemp hosts. (S) (HD)

BBC2
6.30am Escape to the Country Shown Mon 3pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
7.15 The Repair Shop Shown yesterday 3.45pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 See Hear Magazine for the
deaf and hard of hearing. With voiceover. Rptd 12.45am (S) (HD)
8.30 Extraordinary Portraits 4/6. An artist draws a pencil
portrait of a woman who survived a bus crash. (R) (S) (AD) HD)

9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm Ready Steady Cook A married couple cook
with chefs Ellis Barrie and Akis Petretzikis. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 Eggheads Quiz with Jeremy Vine. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Street Auction A community turns out to
surprise a Plymouth man who uses his experience
as a refugee to bring people together. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 The Customer Is Always Right The products
being tested include a fast-drying towel. (R) (S) (HD)
3.30 Kangaroo Dundee and Other Animals 1/2
A Natural World film following a man who raises
orphaned kangaroos in the outback. (R) (S) (HD)
4.15—5.15 Golf: the Masters 2021 Review A look
back at last year’s event at the Augusta National in
Georgia, won by Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama. (S) (HD)

ITV
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Guests, gossip and more. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Lifestyle features, fashion and
celebrity interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women Another helping of topical
studio discussion from a female perspective. (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal In Sheffield, David Ford
comes across a fancy Russian belt and Mark Stevens
discovers an ancient book of remedies. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00—4.00 Lingo Two teams of mothers and sons
from Renfrewshire and Kent, and a Sunderland-based
couple take part. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather

Channel 4

82

6.05am Countdown With Jon Culshaw. (R) (S) (HD)
6.45 Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.40 Everybody Loves Raymond Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)
9.05 Frasier Three episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
10.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The
chef comes to the aid of a failing French restaurant
in Moorpark, California. (R) (S) 11.30 News (S) (HD)
11.35 Undercover Boss USA Bowlero boss Colie
Edison goes incognito in the bowling company. (R) (S) (HD)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch Magazine. (S) (HD)
2.10 Countdown With guest John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Jasmine Harman helps
a couple to find a holiday home in the north of
Fuerteventura on a budget of £200,000. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun An escaped
horse causes mayhem at an Italian B&B. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1

1

Interior Design
Masters with
Alan Carr 9.00pm
Rural style: guest
judge Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen

BBC2

2

Stan & Ollie
9.00pm A fine

mess: with their
Hollywood careers
over, the comedy
duo hit the stage

5.15pm Pointless

5.15pm Flog It!

Quiz presented by Alexander Armstrong. (S) (HD)

Thomas Plant and David Fletcher value items at
Norwich Cathedral, including an old astronomical
map and a watercolour by a local artist.

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S)
Followed by Party Election Broadcast
By the Liberal Democrats. (S) (HD)

Director Lisa Lipman; Series producer Carole Lochhead (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games

7.00 The One Show

Milton Jones, Ria Lina, Martin Roberts and Briony
May Williams test their general knowledge. (S) (HD)

Presented by Jermaine Jenas and Alex Jones. (S) (HD)

6.30 Lightning

2 BBC RED BUTTON 7.00—10.30 5 Live Final Score

Comedian Zoe Lyons hosts the quickfire quiz. (S) (HD)

The latest football scores from 5 Live

7.00 Doctors

7.30 EastEnders

It’s Rosie’s last day, Princess gaslights Valerie, while
Rob investigates when a baby is hospitalised.

Jean misinterprets Rocky’s friendliness, while Linda
continues to cause trouble for Mick.

Writer David Lloyd Cast Thursday Shown 1.45pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

Writer Carey Andrews Cast on Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall

8.00 MasterChef

Series 1. Rick explores Tintagel, a village best known
for being the birthplace of one of Britain’s greatest
legends — the tale of King Arthur. He then moves on
to Camborne, once the world’s richest mining area,
and meets a family on the Roseland peninsula who
have carried on the ancient tradition of growing
saffron. Continues tomorrow 7.30pm. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

This week’s seven most promising chefs return to
face two more challenges, designed to gauge their
creativity and culinary repertoire. Firstly, they have
to invent a dish on the spot using ingredients including
poussin, clams and bream. The cook who fails to rise to
the challenge will be sent home, with the rest cooking
a dish to a brief set by food critic Jimi Famurewa.
Only four of the contenders will make it through to
the quarter-final. Continues Friday 8pm. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr

Series 3. The five remaining designers head
a5/8
to a glamping site in north Wales, where they

face the challenge of fitting out newly built shepherd
huts. With briefs ranging from rustic chic to romantic,
each designer takes a different approach to turning
these compact spaces into luxury accommodation.
Joining Michelle Ogundehin to judge the end results
is Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, and they agree that
two of the huts are pitched perfectly at the target
market. They are less sure about the other three, the
designers of which will have to battle to keep their
place in the competition. See page 80.
Director Ryan Daly; Series producer John Featherstone (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.35 Mood
6/6. Sasha knows she cannot keep running away
from her trauma. After finding the strength to be
honest, she must believe in herself and find her
voice. The whole series is available on iPlayer.
Sasha
Carly
Laura
Kevin
Megan
Anton
Saleem
Curtis
Kobi
Abi
Melrose
Kaspar

Nicôle Lecky
Lara Peake
Jessica Hynes
Paul Kaye
Mia Jenkins
Jordan Duvigneau
Mohamed Moses Dalmar
Jason York
Jorden Myrie
Chantelle Alle
Florence Flo Wilson
Khalid Laith

Dionn
Perry
Teenage Sasha
Damien Yapz
Fee
Lewis
Jules
Tony
Wretch 32
Kzdidit
Yazmin Lacey

Daniel Ward
Jahmar Taylor
Ebony Aboagye
Sam Buchanan
Primrose Bigwood
Louis Ellis
David Ajao
Islah Abdur-Rahman
Himself
Himself
Herself

Adapted by Nicôle Lecky; Producer Lisa Walters
Director Stroma Cairns Shown yesterday 10pm BBC3 (S) (AD) (HD)

11.25 Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars
1/8. Having selected 12 food-and-drink entrepreneurs,
the chef starts to decide who is worthy of his
£150,000 investment. He begins by inviting them to
Cornwall, where they face a high-pressure individual
challenge before assessing their teamwork while
they run food shacks on a Newquay beach.

8.00 Your Body Uncovered with Kate
Garraway
6/6. Father-of-two Paul had always led an active
life, until two years ago when he suffered a stroke.
Although he recovered, the episode had a massive
impact on him and his family. Dr Yogish Joshi from
Addenbrooke’s Hospital shows Paul augmented
reality images which guide him through what
happened inside his body during the stroke and
his life-saving surgery. Meanwhile, Janet, 70, is
trying to come to terms with a diagnosis of bowel
cancer. In an immersive consultation, Subash
Vasudevan explains the best course of action for
her. Kate Garraway and Dr Guddi Singh present.
Producers Matt Keyte, Alice Skidmore and Gabrielle Nash
Executive producers Patrick Furlong, Kitty Walshe, Claire Hughes
and Meriel Durrant (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Stan & Ollie 5

comedy drama. In 1953, years after
q Biographical
their bitter split with the Hollywood studios,
a washed-up Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark
on a tour of Britain’s music halls. With audiences
low and Stan struggling to sell a new screenplay,
old resentments begin to flare up, threatening the
tour and the pair’s friendship. Available on iPlayer
for 30 days. Film of the Day: page 30.

Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel
Ida Kitaeva Laurel
Lucille Hardy
Hal Roach

John C Reilly
Steve Coogan
Nina Arianda
Shirley Henderson
Danny Huston

Bernard Delfont
James Finlayson
James Horne
Cynthia Clark
Harry Langdon

Rufus Jones
Keith MacPherson
Joseph Balderrama
Susy Kane
Richard Cant

Director Jon S Baird (2019, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)
11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

11.15 Unspun World with John Simpson
Reflecting on the week’s global news stories. (S) (HD)

11.45 Thatcher and Reagan: a Very
Special Relationship
1/2. Charles Moore chronicles the close working
relationship between Ronald Reagan and Margaret
Thatcher. See choice, p50. Shown Sun 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12.25am Would I Lie to You? A collection of unseen
material from the panel show. Shown last Friday (S) (HD)
12.55 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
1.00—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

12.45—4.00am Sign Zone 12.45am See Hear Magazine
for the deaf and hard of hearing. With voiceover. Shown 8am (S)
1.15 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy 4/6. The actor
eats and drinks his way around Milan. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 The Real Peaky Blinders 1/2. The story of the
Birmingham gangs that inspired the drama. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 2/2. A profile of thief Billy Kimber. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL
ITV

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

The Great Home
Transformation
8.00pm House
guests: Emma
Willis and Nick
Grimshaw host

The Truffle
Hunters:
Storyville
10.00pm A look
at a timeless
Italian tradition

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Ben Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz.

Retired bricklayer Paul and wife Jean plan to
lay down new roots in Alicante. (S) (HD)

7.00pm Pubs, Ponds and
Power: the Story of the Village

Director Richard van’t Riet; Executive producers Sara Doyle,
Kate Lownds, Peter Usher and Hugh Rycroft (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 The Simpsons

5.00 The Chase
Helen, Max, Emma and Jonny take on one of
the Chasers in the hope of winning thousands
of pounds. Presented by Bradley Walsh. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.25 Party Election Broadcast
By the Liberal Democrats. (S) (HD)

6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Manpreet and Wendy discuss the pressure of their
roles in the upcoming trial. Nate tries to dodge
Chloe’s attempts to spend more time together.
Writer Bill Lyons For cast see Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Coronation Street
Faye blurts out the truth when Jon demands
answers. Gary is shocked by the decline in Laura’s
condition. Tyrone admits to Fiz that he misses her.
Writers Julie Jones and Carmel Morgan This week’s episodes
produced by Iain MacLeod, directed by Leon Lopez and Abe
Juckes For cast see Monday/Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Kate and Koji
4/6 Series 2. Despite his disastrous track record,
Koji decides to take another chance on romance,
with Kate determined to help him as much as
she can. What could possibly go wrong?
Kate
Koji
Medium Dan
Mullholland

Brenda Blethyn
Okorie Chukwu
Blake Harrison
Victor McGuire

Lisa
Iris
Amanda
Figgy

Chizzy Akudolu
Rosalind Ayres
Claire Skinner
Harriet Turnbull

Writers Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin; Director Ben Kellett
Producers Andy Hamilton, Chris Jones and Guy Jenkin (S) (AD) (HD)

Jane Garvey: page 39

9.30 Bradley and Barney Walsh:
Breaking Dad
4/6 Series 3. The father and son find themselves
in Slovenia, where motocross, ski jumping and
some unusual honey therapies are on the itinerary.
And when the duo roll up in the capital city of
Ljubljana, events take a magical turn as they
hook up with Slovenia’s national quidditch team.
Series director Phil Ashton
Series producer Reshmi Bajnath (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Fraudcast News. Reports of Mr Burns’s death
provoke a media storm in the town. (R) (S) (AD)

6.30 Hollyoaks
James makes a shocking announcement.
James Nightingale Gregory Finnegan
Brooke Hathaway
Tylan Grant
Charlie Dean
Charlie Behan
Damon Kinsella
Jacob Roberts
Dave Chen-Williams Dominic Power
Diane Hutchinson
Alex Fletcher
Donna-Marie Quinn Lucy-Jo Hudson
Ethan Williams Matthew James-Bailey
Goldie McQueen
Chelsee Healey
Honour Chen-Williams
Vera Chok

Imran Maalik
Ijaz Rana
Juliet Nightingale Niamh Blackshaw
Kathleen-Angel McQueen Kiara Mellor
Leah Barnes
Ela-May Demircan
Leela Lomax Kirsty-Leigh Porter
Liberty Savage Jessamy Stoddart
Luke Morgan
Gary Lucy
Mercedes McQueen Jennifer Metcalfe
Olivia Bradshaw
Emily Burnett
Pearl Anderson
Dawn Hope

Writer Houmi Miura This week’s episodes directed by Will Brenton
More cast Friday Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Repeated tomorrow
6.30am E4 The next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 The Great Home Transformation
series. 1/6. Emma Willis and Nick
aNew
Grimshaw present a new series in which

homes are transformed in just three days — with the
use of a truck that features an immersive mood
board to help create a bespoke and stylish design
based on a family’s needs. In Eastbourne, Becca,
Sam and their four children, are struggling for
space; a problem compounded by one child’s
medical condition. Can innovative use of data aid
to create a design solution for the family? See p80.
Series director Becky Pratt
Series producer Coco Maclehose (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 The Simpler Life
6/6. The remaining nine volunteers prepare to
celebrate with a harvest festival feast, inviting
friends and family to join them. Four months
since 24 participants embarked on the experiment,
it’s clear that living by a set of Amish principles
didn’t suit all the participants. But would we be
happier living without the noise and clutter of
our busy 21st-century lives? (S) (AD) (HD)
Barry Schwartz’s viewpoint: page 7

10.00 Naked Attraction’s Best
Naughty Bits

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

A compilation of highlights, including pickers who
entered the studio with their virginity intact, and
a catch up with professional dancer Raheem.

10.45 Rachael Blackmore: a Grand Year

Executive producer Darrell Olsen Repeated tomorrow 12.05am
C4 and Friday 3.40am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten

The National Hunt jockey tells the story of how
she rose to the pinnacle of her sport and, in 2021,
became the first woman to win the Grand National.
Featuring tributes from some of the biggest names
in racing, including AP McCoy, Katie Walsh and
Ruby Walsh, and her family and closest friends.
Director Ross Whitaker; Producer Conor O’Doherty (R) (S) (HD)
Coverage of the Grand National Festival begins tomorrow 1.45pm

11.45 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown
6/6 Series 2. Chaser, comedian and trivia genius
Paul Sinha hosts the TV-themed comedy quiz.
Regular team captains Fay Ripley and Rob
Beckett are joined by celebrity contestants Anita
Rani, Sarah Hadland, Ed Byrne and Jamie Laing
to face more questions about all things telly.

11.05 First Dates
A look back at some more classic meet-ups.

Repeated 12.15am (R) (S) (HD)

7.30 Glasgow’s Treasure
Palace: Inside Museums
3/4 Series 2. Artist Lachlan Goudie
visits Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which
houses Salvador Dali’s controversial
painting of Christ of St John of the
Cross. More tomorrow 7.30pm.
Director Morag Tinto; Executive producers Nick
Kent, Charlotte Sacher Repeated 12.45am (S) (HD)

8.00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal
Photo Album
Lucy Worsley tells the story of the
royal photograph, showing how the
royal family worked with generations
of photographers to create images
that reinvented the British monarchy.
Director/Producer Andy Hall
Repeated 1.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Putin, Russia and the West
2/4. Democracy Threatens. The second
programme features an interview with
former Ukrainian president Leonid
Kuchma, who tells the inside story of
the 2004 elections and admits to being
Putin’s ally. The programme also looks
at how the Russian-backed candidate
was declared the winner over Viktor
Yushchenko, sparking the Orange
Revolution. Rupert Graves narrates.
Director/Producer Wanda Koscia
Repeated 2.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Truffle Hunters:
Storyville

a

Documentary following a handful
of elderly men in Italy’s Piedmont
forests, working with their cherished
dogs to search for the rare and
expensive white Alba truffle, a skill
that has been passed down through
the generations. See page 81.

Executive producer Jon Crisp Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

Directors Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw (S) (HD)

12.05am Rescue: Extreme Medics 2/5. Following
the network of clinicians who are part of the Scottish
Trauma Network. Shown Monday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
1.05 A Cure for Wellness ★★★ Horror mystery starring
Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs and Mia Goth.
When Pembroke, the CEO of a major American
company, refuses to return from a Swiss mountain
spa, executive Lockhart is sent to bring him back.
However, Lockhart’s attempts to retrieve the prodigal
Pembroke plunge him into a centuries-old mystery.

11.15 Woof! A Horizon Guide
to Dogs

q

Director Gore Verbinski (2017, 18) (S) (SL) (W) (HD)

12.20am Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 Bling Gok Wan presents. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.05—6.00am Tipping Point (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

3.30 Unreported World: the Crypto Gold Rush
Thailand’s cryptocurrency boom. Shown last Friday (S) (SL) (HD)
3.55 Ukraine: on the Front Line with Johnny Mercer
The British MP and former soldier meets the people
resisting the Russian assault. Shown Sunday 5.30pm (S) (HD)
4.20 Location, Location, Location Kirstie and Phil
help two families find bigger houses. (R) (S) (HD)
5.15—6.05am Moneybags Quiz. (R) (S) (HD)

ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

Shown Saturday 10pm (S) (HD)

South West. Archaeologist Ben
Robinson chronicles the history of the
picturesque Cornish fishing village of
Port Isaac. Alongside the telegenic
views, he reveals how the locals once
earned a living from its thriving fishing
industry and the range of natural
resources such as limestone, salt, ore
and stone that were shipped from its
busy harbour. More tomorrow 7pm.

Dallas Campbell learns what science
can teach people about dogs. He
investigates the origins of domestic
breeds, discovers the vital role that
humans played in shaping canine
evolution, and asks why the bond
between us and dogs is so strong.

BBC1
SCOTLAND
6.30—7.00pm
Reporting Scotland;
Party Election
Broadcast: by the
Scottish Labour Party
11.25 The Edit 11.40
Gordon Ramsay’s
Future Food Stars
12.40am Would I Lie
to You? 1.10 Weather
for the Week Ahead
1.15—6.00 BBC News

BBC
SCOTLAND
7.00pm Getaways:
visiting Seville in
southern Spain 7.30
Style Fixers 8.00
Scotland’s Sacred
Islands with Ben Fogle:
the presenter returns
to Taransay 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 River City
10.30—12 midnight
FILM: Scottish Mussel

STV
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast: by
the Scottish Labour
Party 10.00 ITV News
at Ten; STV News;
Weather 10.40
Scotland Tonight
11.05—12.20am
All Star Musicals

BORDER
SCOTLAND
6.25—6.30pm
Party Election
Broadcast: by the
Scottish Labour Party

Wednesday Television

Coronation
Street 8.00pm
Anxious moments:
Faye waits for the
results of her scan
in the hospital

Regional
variations

BBC1 WALES
6.30—7.00pm
BBC Wales Today;
Party Election
Broadcast: by Plaid
Cymru 9.00—10.00
Hidden: Sion pays
Father McEwan a visit
10.35 Interior Design
Masters with Alan Carr
11.35—12.25am Mood

ITV WALES
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast:
by Plaid Cymru

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Newsline; Party Election
Broadcast: by the Ulster
Unionist Party 10.35
The Borrowers 11.05
Mood 11.55 Gordon
Ramsay’s Future Food
Stars 12.55am
Would I Lie to You?
1.30—6.00 BBC News

UTV
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast:
by the Ulster Unionist
Party 10.45—11.45
Love Your Garden:
transforming a small
Leicester garden into
a Caribbean inspired
technicolour paradise

Director/Producer Eileen Inkson (R) (S) (HD)

12.15am Pubs, Ponds and Power: the
Story of the Village Shown 7pm (S) (HD)
12.45 Glasgow’s Treasure Palace: Inside
Museums Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)
1.15 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album
Shown 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15—3.15am Putin, Russia and the West
Shown 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

83

WEDNESDAY Freeview

Television Wednesday

Channel 5

5

BBC3

23

10

Drama

20

The Gadget Show 7.00pm Craig

Love in the Flesh 10.00pm Zara

Lewis 8.00pm The DI looks into the

The Last Detective 8.00pm Mod

looks at a water-powered speaker

McDermott picks apart the confusion

death of a talented maths student

still shows no signs of leaving

F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.35am Milkshake! See page 86
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a New Life
in the Country A couple buy a 100-yearold tin church on the remote Scottish
island of Seil. (S) (HD) 1.10 5 News (S) (HD)
1.15 Home and Away Dean and Ziggy try
to reignite the spark on a night out.

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD)
7.00 Classic Emmerdale (S) 8.05 That’s My
Boy (S) 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs: 4/13 Series 3
A Family Secret. James proposes to Hazel;
10.20 5/13. Rose’s Pigeon. Alfred returns
to Bellamy House (S) 11.30 Heartbeat:
7/16. An amnesiac arrives in Aidensfield;
12.35pm 8/16. Greengrass takes up an
illegal new hobby — cockfighting (S) (AD)
1.40pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill. Ed
and Emily prepare for their night of passion,
then Rodney and Louise make the most of
their time together (S) 2.45 Classic Coronation
Street: double bill. Alma organises a surprise
for Audrey, then Paula tries to make peace
with Gary (S) (AD) 3.45 Midsomer Murders:
Series 3. Death of a Stranger. A fox hunt
uncovers the body of a tramp (S) (AD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
7.00am Ever Decreasing Circles: 2/5 Series 1
Martin resigns from the Residents’ Association
Shown yesterday 5.20pm (S) 7.40 Hetty Wainthropp
Investigates Rptd 2.20pm (S) (AD) 8.35 The
Bill: Smithy picks up a lead on a major drug
dealer 9.35 Classic Holby City: Serena resigns
herself to another lonely New Year’s Eve (HD)
10.55 Classic Casualty: an explosion at the
airport sends shockwaves through the ED (HD)
12 noon The Bill: Smithy picks up a lead on
a major drug dealer 1.00pm Classic EastEnders:
double bill. Lisa asks Phil about having kids,
then Ian is furious with Robbie 2.20 Hetty
Wainthropp Investigates: 9/9 Series 3. A
clock mender becomes the target of a couple
of crooks (S) (AD) 3.20 Lovejoy: 8/12 Series 2
A teenage girl exposes a blackmail case (S)
4.20 Pie in the Sky: 4/10 Series 2. A trout
farmer is accused of murder (S) 5.20 Ever
Decreasing Circles: 3/5 Series 1. Martin spots
a half-naked woman in Paul’s garden (S)

Shown Tue 6.30pm 5 Star Rptd 6pm 5 Star (S) (HD)
1.45 New. Neighbours Repeated 6pm (S) (HD)

2.15 A Killer in My Home ★★★ Thriller
starring Bree Williamson. When Allison’s
husband dies, he reveals that he has a
secret second family. Six months later, they
arrive on her doorstep... and won’t leave.

q

7.00pm New. MasterChef Australia
Four chefs compete to win an immunity
pin. First shown on W (S) (HD)
7.50 New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

7.55 Angels of the North
1/8 Series 1. Following the ups and downs
at a hair extension salon on Tyneside.
Tonight, extensionist Saffron gets a tattoo.
A box set is available on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

8.15 New. Glow Up Ireland
4/8. The contestants need to create a
distinctive drag look. (S) (HD)

Director Farhad Mann (2020) (S) (W) (HD)

9.00 I Like the Way U Move

4.00 Filthy House SOS Jon and Brennan
come to the aid of an emergency services
worker in Bolton. (S) (HD)

1/8. Reality show in which professional and
novice dancers compete to find their perfect
partner. The whole series is on iPlayer.

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Neighbours
Roxy is shocked when Gemma helps her
realise something life-changing.
Shown 1.45pm (S) (HD)

Repeated 2.05am (S) (HD)

10.00 New. Love in the Flesh
5/8. The morning of day five in the beach
house finds everyone thoroughly
confused. Continues tomorrow 10pm.
Repeated 12.20am and Friday 12 midnight (S) (HD)

6.30 New. Eggheads
Jeremy Vine hosts, as Victoria Phoenix
try their luck against the Eggheads. (S) (HD)

7.00 New. The Gadget Show
6/6. Craig Charles gets his hands on a
speaker which is powered by water, and
Georgie shares a rundown of five
gadgets designed to help save money
and protect the environment.
Director Ian Bayliss (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Police Interceptors
9/10. The knife-crime team are faced
with the growing threat of mamba, a
synthetic cannabis substitute that can be
laced with rat poison and wheel cleaner.
Directors Rachael Davies, Mike Parmenter and
James Warner (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Deadline
2/4. James finds himself growing closer
to Natalie. Ignoring a final warning to
stop his investigation, he heads to
Budapest to find the truth behind the
killing. Continues tomorrow at 9pm.
For cast see Tuesday (S) (HD)

10.00 Killer at the Crime Scene
4/8. The 2002 murder of 87-year-old
pensioner Gladys Godfrey in Mansfield,
where forensic teams acquired a DNA
sample from the killer, but found he was
not in the national database.
Director Erin Scott (S) (HD)

11.05 Police Code Zero: Officer
under Attack
In south Wales, an officer is bitten on the
finger while trying to make an arrest.
Director Laura Ellis (S) (HD)

12.05am Inside the Force: 24/7 (S) (HD) 1.00
New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00 Entertainment
News (S) (HD) 3.10 George Clarke’s Build a
New Life in the Country (S) (HD) 3.55 Now
That’s Funny! (S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 Wildlife SOS
(S) (SL) 5.10—5.35am House Doctor (S) (SL)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

BBC4 listings are overleaf

10.45 This Country
5/6 Series 3. Kerry and Kurtan welcome the
vicar home from a trip to Bristol. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.15 6/6. It’s the annual harvest festival.
A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.50 Hot Property
2/8. Filly meets Chloe Ferry, who wants a
date with skinny legs and a pot belly.
First shown Monday 10pm (S) (HD)

12.20am as 10pm 1.05 The Drop (S) (HD)
2.05 as 9pm 3.05 This Country (S) (AD) (HD)
3.35—3.55am My Mate’s a Bad Date (S) (HD)

ITV2

6

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 6.25 Dress to Impress (S)
(SL) (HD) 7.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S)
(HD) 8.25 Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Hart
of Dixie (S) (HD) 10.15 One Tree Hill (S) (HD)
11.10 The O.C: Ryan decides to run away (S) (HD)
12.05pm Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 1.05 Dress to
Impress (S) (HD) 2.05 New. The Ellen DeGeneres
Show (S) (HD) 3.00 Hart of Dixie (S) (HD) 4.00
One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 5.00 The O.C. (S) (HD)
6.00pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special
With Lesley Garrett, Jools Holland and Adil
Ray. Stephen Mulhern hosts. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Superstore 8/22 Series 3. Glenn
suspects Mateo is guilty of fraud. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 9/22. Amy organises a post-divorce
party with Dina and Jonah’s help. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers Series 4. Bob creates a
commercial to air in the Super Bowl. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Mr Frond speaks to Bob and Linda
about their children. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 16. Peter meets his
favourite cereal mascot Boo Berry.
9.30 Stewie is examined by a child psychologist.
10.00 Series 10. Meg is kidnapped while
travelling across Europe.
10.30 Series 12. Peter discovers that he has
a vestigial twin growing out of his neck.
11.00 Meg is threatened by an unstable new
pupil nicknamed “Mental Mike”. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 13. Roger runs
off after Stan hurts his feelings. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.55 Francine’s attraction to Stan wanes due
to his slot-car racing addiction. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25am Bob’s Burgers: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
1.25 Superstore: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
2.20—3.00am Celebrity Juice (S) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

84

ITV3

DON’T MISS IT! The new

5.45pm Heartbeat
9/16 Series 4. A Russian sailor seeks
political asylum in Whitby. (S) (AD)
6.55 10/16. Children get their hands
on some wartime ammunition. (S) (AD)

6.00pm Butterflies
3/6 Series 1. Thinking about a Job
Ria decides do something worthwhile.

8.00 Lewis
Pilot. The inspector and DS Hathaway
investigate a student’s murder. The prime
suspect is the victim’s ex-boyfriend, who
thinks his uncle has set him up, but old
case papers belonging to Morse show the
boy’s family is hiding a secret. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK
1/7 Series 6. Survivor’s Guilt. A key
witness is thought to have been the target
after a shooting outside the Old Bailey
leaves a police officer dead and another
wounded. But Ronnie Brooks and his
team discover otherwise... (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Scott & Bailey
4/8 Series 3. Helen Bartlett returns with
some terrible news. As a consequence,
Det Supt Julie Dodson is called on to
investigate, with DCI Murray as her
deputy. More tomorrow 11pm. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Inspector Morse: Series 1. Service of
All the Dead. A church is the scene of a murder
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

26

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am The Protectors (S) (SL) 6.25 The
Champions (S) 7.20 Robin of Sherwood (S)
8.15 The Avengers (S) (SL) (HD) 9.25 The
Professionals (S) (AD) 10.25 Minder (S) (AD)
11.35 The Champions (S) 12.40pm Extreme
Salvage Squad (S) (HD) 1.35 Robin of Sherwood
(S) 2.40 The Avengers (S) (HD) 3.45 The
Professionals (S) (AD) 4.50 Minder (S) (AD)
6.00pm Extreme Salvage Squad
Salvaging a ten-tonne gold dry-blower. (S) (HD)
7.00 New. Battlebots Hypershock and
Biteforce face off in an epic showdown. (S) (HD)
8.00 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport
Aviation protection officers Terry and Dave
deal with an unruly passenger. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Veteran Border Force officers Glen and
Amarjit search for smuggled cargo. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 FILM For a Few Dollars More
5 Spaghetti western starring Clint
Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Gian Maria
Volonté. Rival bounty hunters set out on the trail
of a psychopathic killer — but money is not the
motive for one of the pursuers. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.40 FILM Firefox ★★ Cold War espionage
thriller starring Clint Eastwood. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
2.25am The Protectors: Harry finds himself in
danger (S) 2.55—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

( podcast

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 22. A White Sweater and a
Solicitor’s Letter. A solicitor’s letter
addressed to Compo causes a stir. (S)
7.20 Why Is Barry at an Angle?
Promotion at the building society means
Barry has to visit an aggressive family. (S)

8.00 The Last Detective
1/5 Series 4. Once upon a Time on the
Westway. Dangerous and Julie are trying
hard to repair their marriage. (S)

9.35 New Tricks
6/8 Series 6. The Last Laugh. The
squad reinvestigates the disappearance
of a political activist. (AD)
10.55 7/8. Blood Is Thicker Than Water
Strickland is given the chance to check
out his sailing chums. (S) (AD)
12.15am Silent Witness: 3/4 Series 8. Harry
and Leo investigate the death of a jockey (S)
2.45—4.00am Kavanagh QC 6/6 Series 4
Dead Reckoning. A trawler sinks off the
North Yorkshire coast (S) (HD)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

ITVBe

28

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
8.00 Buying and Selling (S) (HD) 9.00
LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Unboxed (S) (HD) 12.30pm The Real
Housewives of Potomac (S) (AD) (HD) 1.25 Gemma
Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD) 2.25 The Only
Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 3.10 New. Little Women:
LA First shown on Lifetime (S) (HD) 4.05 The
Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00
The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Trying to turn
around a struggling project. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling A couple having
difficulty finding the perfect home. (S) (HD)
8.00 Dinner Date Jack selects three blind
dates based on their menus. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. Billie and Greg: the Family
Diaries Billie and Greg get stuck into their
dream renovation project. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Dr 90210 A patient with size M
breasts undergoes a reduction. (S) (HD)
11.00 Bridezillas MeanGirlZilla Clara
does battle with her bridesmaids. (S) (HD)
11.55 The Only Way Is Essex The gang
returns from Las Vegas. (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

hosted by Jane Garvey — out every Wednesday

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL
More4

18

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft: with Sam
Thompson and Debbie McGee 9.15 A Place
in the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
1.05pm Heir Hunters 2.05 Four in a Bed
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.55 Car SOS:
Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw secretly
restore a 1969 Lancia Fulvia 1.3 Rallye (AD)
6.55pm Escape to the Château: DIY
Stephanie begins restoring her old stable
into a studio for her art weekends. (AD)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall Wheelwright
Greg Rowland and his team take on the tricky
job of repairing a Victorian-era bicycle. (AD)
9.00 RT CHOICE New. Matt Baker:
Travels with Mum and Dad 2/4. The
Bakers visit the Beamish Living Museum,
where Matt gets a crash course in driving
a 1900s tram and Janice gets to take a
Shetland pit-pony for a walk. See p81. (AD)
10.00 The Windsors: inside the Royal
Dynasty As the series charting the story of the
British royal family concludes, the final episode
explores the lives of Prince William and Prince
Harry, and looks at the future of the crown. (AD)
11.00 24 Hours in A&E Gerald, 66, is rushed
to St George’s by air ambulance after falling
from his loft down two flights of stairs. Beverley,
50, arrives in A&E with an open fracture of
her right leg after being hit by a car. (AD)
12.05am Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown
1.05 Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and Dad (AD)
2.10 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20—3.45am Food
Unwrapped: Jimmy Doherty visits Sri Lanka (AD)

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Mon/Tue 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 9.00
Married at First Sight Australia 10.30 The Big
Bang Theory (AD) 11.00 Young Sheldon (AD)
12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm
The Big Bang Theory (AD) 3.00 Young
Sheldon (AD) 4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory: double bill (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 24/24
Series 4. Bernadette receives her PhD. (AD)
6.30 1/24 Series 5. Penny has regrets. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Ethan worries that
Liberty and Sienna are getting too attached.
Cast pp83/103 Rptd tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)

7.30 New. Married at First Sight Australia
Homestay Week continues as the couples learn
about each other by spending time at home
and getting insight from family and friends.
8.45 New. Teen First Dates Caelum from
Carlisle, who is on his first date as a trans man,
is set up with computing student James. (AD)
9.50 Celebrity Gogglebox TV highlights
being appraised include Clarkson’s Farm, the
film Snakes on a Plane and Lupin. (AD)
10.55 Gogglebox Antiques Roadshow, The
Circle: Vote Night and Britain’s Got Talent:
the Champions are reviewed. (AD)
12 midnight Naked Attraction (AD) 1.05am
Married at First Sight Australia 2.20 Teen First
Dates (AD) 3.15 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD)
4.05—6.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Celebrity
Antiques Road Trip 11.00 Antiques Road Trip 12 noon
Money for Nothing 1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00
Animal Cops Houston (AD) 4.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees
5.00 Countryside 999 6.00 Money for Nothing
7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 8.00 Antiques
Road Trip 9.00 New. It’s Me or the Dog 10.00 The
Bad Skin Clinic 11.00 Ghost Adventures 1.00am
Kindred Spirits 2.00 Shopping 4.00 Animal Cops
Houston (AD) 5.00—6.00am Pit Bulls and Parolees

11

Six by Sondheim 9.00pm The life and

career of the Tony-winning composer
F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am Beethoven: the Complete
Symphonies 6.50 La Bohème 9.00 Tales of
the Unexpected 10.00 Discovering: Helen
Mirren 11.00 Music Icons: New York Hip Hop
11.30 Video Killed the Radio Star
12 noon Sky Arts Book Club 1.00pm Tales
of the Unexpected 2.00 Discovering:
Vanessa Redgrave 3.00 Landscape Artist of
the Year Canada 4.00 Wordsworth and
Coleridge Road Trip with Frank Skinner and
Denise Mina 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected
6.00pm Discovering: Jason Robards
A profile of the American actor, who won
Oscars for All the President’s Men and Julia.
7.00 Classic Albums The story behind the
conception and recording of Queen’s fourth
album A Night at the Opera.
8.00 RT CHOICE New. Anyone Can Sing
Six participants are put through their paces
as their voices are transformed. See p80.
9.00 Six by Sondheim Emmy-nominated
documentary about the composer.
10.30 Les Dawson’s Parisienne Adventure:
Urban Myths Comedy starring Mark Addy.
11.00 New. Daddy’s Girl Short drama by
Jessica Magay, depicting the story of an
influencer in the year 2050 grappling with
the struggle of revealing her true self.
11.15 The Directors The life and work of
writer and film-maker Nora Ephron.
12.15am I Am Richard Pryor 2.10 Comedy
Legends 3.00 Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand:
Urban Myths 3.30 as 10.30pm 4.00 The South
Bank Show 5.00—6.00am Landmark (AD)

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am Four in a Bed 9.30 Come Dine with
Me 10.30 Couples Come Dine with Me
11.30 A Place in the Sun: double bill
1.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 A New Life in the Sun 3.30 Come Dine
with Me: five dinner parties from Dudley
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A couple look
for a holiday home in Fuerteventura.
7.00 Danni Menzies helps a recently retired
couple looking to relocate to Andalucía.
7.45 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer 3/5 Series 5. Matt
Lucas leaves Noel Fielding to present on his
own, as he joins Annie Mac, Ed Gamble and
Elliot Gleave AKA Example to tackle three
challenges set by judges Paul Hollywood and
Prue Leith. Shown yesterday 8pm Channel 4 (AD)
9.00 The Big Fat Quiz of Everything
With Rob Beckett, Richard Ayoade, Rosie
Jones, Roisin Conaty, Mawaan Rizwan and
Joanne McNally. Shown Sunday 9pm C4
11.05 FILM Assassin’s Creed ★★★
Sci-fi action adventure starring Michael
Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. English,
Spanish +subtitles. Review p27. C4 (AD)
1.15am Gogglebox (AD) 3.25 Eight out of Ten
Cats Does Countdown 4.20—4.50am Travel
Man: 48 Hours in the Basque Country (AD)

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.20 World’s Greatest
Motorcycle Rides 7.10 Shed and Buried 8.00 Repair
Shop 9.00 Dream Builds on Wheels 10.00 Chasing
Classic Cars 11.00 Vintage Voltage (AD) 12 noon
Wheeler Dealers 1.00pm LIVE Darts 3.30 Three
Men Four Wheels 4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers (AD) 6.00
Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie Gold Hunters 8.00
Salvage Hunters 9.00 New. Salvage Hunters: the
Restorers 10.00 Billy Buys Brooklyn 11.00 How Do
They Do It? 12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (AD) 1.00am
Disasters at Sea (AD) 2.00 Iron Resurrection 3.00
Fantomworks 4.00 Mega Shippers 5.00—6.00am
New. Darts: WDF World Championship highlights

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

Yesterday

27

World’s Most Dangerous Roads
8.00pm Sue and Charley are in Alaska
Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am Shipwreck Secrets 8.00 World War II
from Above 9.00 Secret Nazi Bases 10.00
Abandoned Engineering: double bill (AD)
12 noon The Architecture the Railways Built
(AD) 1.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
2.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00 World
War II from Above 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases
6.00pm Antiques Roadshow The show
embarks on its 40th anniversary tour.
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo begins the first leg of a
journey from Southampton to Wolverhampton.
7.30 A route through Hampshire and Berkshire.
8.00 World’s Most Dangerous Roads
Sue Perkins and Charley Boorman travel
along Alaska’s Dalton Highway.
9.00 Bangers and Cash Dave heads to north
Manchester to pick up an Austin A30 and a
Morris 8E that’s had an alternative paint job.
10.00 Derek travels to Scotland in the
mother of all rainstorms to pick up a Jaguar
E-type and a rare MGC convertible. (AD)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering A devastated
cliff-top ruin, an extraordinarily tall tower and
a concrete structure stranded at sea. (AD)
12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00—3.00am Shipwreck Secrets: double bill

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

Dave

19

12 midnight Mock the Week 12.40am QI XL
1.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.25 The Island
3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131
25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am My Dream Home 8.00 Tipping
Point 10.00 The Bill 11.00 Inside the Vets
12 noon Inside the Ambulance (AD) 2.00pm
Tipping Point 4.00 My Dream Home
6.00pm MasterChef USA The contestants
face their second mystery box challenge.
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes
Renovating a house for couple Allie and Ben.
8.00 New. Inside the Ambulance
Paramedics cope with a reported stabbing. (AD)
9.00 The Undateables Shaine and Gemma
celebrate their first anniversary. (AD)
10.00 Louis Theroux: the Most Hated
Family in America A Kansas church known
for protesting against homosexuality. (AD)
11.20 Inside the Ambulance As 8pm.
12.20am One Born: Twins and Triplets
1.20—3.00am Tipping Point

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

21

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am NCIS (AD) 9.55 Entertainment
News 10.00 NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment
News 12 noon Law & Order 3.55pm
Entertainment News 4.00 Law & Order
6.00 NCIS (AD) 9.00 New. Crossing Lines
Series 3. A doctor on honeymoon in Croatia
is exposed to a deadly virus First shown on
Alibi 10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit: four episodes: Series 14. Detective
Rollins comes home to find her sister in her
apartment 11.00 A prominent R’n’B singer is
beaten by her boyfriend 11.55 The author of
an erotic novel is attacked 12.55am The
detectives investigate a prostitution ring
1.55 Hannibal: double bill 3.35—4.00am
Criminals: Caught on Camera

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Entertainment News 8.05 Rich
Kids Go Skint 8.55 Room to Improve 10.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Filthy
House SOS 12 noon Traffic Cops 2.00pm
Police Interceptors 5.00 Shoplifters and
Scammers: at War with the Law
6.00pm Home and Away Justin asks John
about Theo’s troubles. Shown 1.15pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Mia surprises Chloe with a
bridesmaid dress. Repeated Thu 1.15pm C5 (AD)
7.00 You Are What You Eat Two people in
desperate need of an intervention.
8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
A woman is rushed in after collapsing at home.
9.00 999: Critical Condition A man’s
parachute fails and he is slammed to the ground.
10.00 A&E after Dark A man is brought
into Hull Royal Infirmary with stab wounds.
11.00 Ambulance: Code Red Critical care
paramedic Fay Pollock is dispatched to a
serious motorbike crash.
12 midnight Skin A&E 1.00am Drunk Tank
Hangover 2.00 Sex Pod 3.00 Room to Improve
3.55—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser: double
bill (AD) 8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Storage
Hunters UK 10.00 Top Gear (AD) 11.00
Expedition with Steve Backshall (AD)
12 noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm
Top Gear (AD) 2.00 Expedition with
Steve Backshall (AD) 3.00 Rick Stein’s
Mediterranean Escapes (AD) 4.00 Bangers
and Cash 5.00 Rick Stein’s India (AD)
6.00pm Taskmaster 7/10 Series 9
Jo Brand reveals her psychic powers.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Rachel Riley, JB Gill, Katie Derham and
Richard Herring compete.
7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Rebecca Front,
Jack Whitehall, Nick Hewer and Miranda Hart.
8.20 QI XL With panellists Matt Lucas,
Jerry Springer and Cariad Lloyd.
9.00 Sandi Toksvig gets stuck in a “Quagmire”.
10.00 New. The Island 3/8. The comedians
design their flag and choose a house band.
11.00 Have I Got a Bit More Old News
for You Richard Ayoade hosts, with guests
Roisin Conaty and Robert Peston.

W

5 USA

5 Action

33

Wednesday Television

Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and
Dad 9.00pm A museum visit

Sky Arts

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
9.25 Traffic Cops 11.25 FILM McLintock!
★★★ Comedy western 2.00pm FILM Hour
of the Gun ★★★★ Western 4.00 Trucking
Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops: double bill
7.00pm Police Interceptors Officers take
on drug offenders in the North East of England.
8.00 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
Journalist Nick Wallis follows a Flying Squad
investigation into a ruthless gang who blew
apart 27 ATMs in and around London.
9.00 New. Professionals 2/10. Peter hires
Vincent and his team to be his bodyguards.
During their investigation of the perpetrator
of the attack, they discover that Peter’s
daughter Jane has gone missing.
10.00 FILM Rise of the Footsoldier:
Extreme and Extended ★ Crime thriller
starring Ricci Harnett and Craig Fairbrass.
Over a period of 30 years, Carlton Leach
progresses from football hooliganism to the
leader of a feared criminal gang.
12.40am Fights, Camera, Action!: double bill
(AD) 2.45 Hijacked 3.45 Car Crash TV
4.35—5.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 10.00
The Yorkshire Vet 12 noon The Dog Rescuers
with Alan Davies 2.00pm GPs: behind Closed
Doors (AD) 5.00 The Yorkshire Vet
6.00pm Watercolour Challenge Capturing
a scene in the Rhondda Valley, south Wales.
7.00 Sinkholes: Sucked to Death An incident
in which 53 houses were cut off from a city.
8.00 Killer Weather: Caught on Camera
How climate change has led to flooding.
9.00 Egypt’s Sunken City: Drain the Oceans
Hunting for the remains of a city in the Nile delta.
10.00 King Tut’s Last Mission A look at what
Tutankhamun expected the afterlife to be like.
11.00 Tutankhamun with Dan Snow
Exploring the story of the Egyptian pharaoh.
12 midnight Tutankhamun with Dan Snow: double
bill 2.00am Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p88

Your must-see TV for the week ahead — catch up with the latest episodes at radiotimes.com/podcasts

85

WEDNESDAY Freeview, satellite
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p84

Television Wednesday

5.35am Peppa Pig 5.40 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Mya Go 6.05
Peppa Pig 6.20 Kid-E-Cats 6.30 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.50 Fireman Sam 7.00
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! 7.10
Peppa Pig 7.25 Paw Patrol 7.40 Milo
7.55 Pip and Posy 8.05 The Adventures
of Paddington 8.25 Ricky Zoom 8.35
Peppa Pig 8.40 Daisy & Ollie 8.50
Odo 8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little
Kingdom 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies

CBeebies

202

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Go Jetters 6.10 Bing 6.20
Teletubbies 6.35 School of Roars 6.45
Chuggington 6.55 Tish Tash 7.00 Bing
7.10 Hey Duggee 7.25 Bluey 7.35 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Love
Monster 8.30 Nick Cope’s Popcast 8.35
Justin’s House 9.00 CBeebies Little Red
Riding Hood 9.45 Something Special:
We’re All Friends 10.05 Teletubbies
10.20 New. The Toddler Club at Home
10.35 Hey Duggee 10.45 Tee and Mo
10.50 Kiri & Lou 10.55 Love Monster
11.05 Pablo 11.15 Let’s Go for a Walk 11.30
Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family
12 noon Big Cook Little Cook 12.20pm
Timmy Time 12.25 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 12.35 Bitz & Bob 12.45 Go Jetters
1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.10 Numberblocks 1.15
Alphablocks 1.20 Dog Loves Books 1.25
Hey Duggee 1.35 Love Monster 1.40 Nick
Cope’s Popcast 1.45 Something Special:
We’re All Friends 2.10 Teletubbies 2.25
Bing 2.30 Go Jetters 2.40 Timmy Time
2.45 Maddie’s Do You Know? 3.00 Down
on the Farm 3.15 Swashbuckle 3.40 Hey
Duggee 3.50 Peter Rabbit 4.00 Andy’s
Dinosaur Adventures 4.15 Grace’s
Amazing Machines 4.30 Dog Loves Books
4.40 Love Monster 4.45 Bluey 4.55
Apple Tree House 5.10 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 5.20 Go Jetters 5.35 JoJo & Gran
Gran 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers
6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—
7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New. Newsround
7.55 Ninja Express 8.10 Odd Squad
8.20 Blue Peter Challenges 8.30
Operation Ouch! 9.00 The Incredible
Adventures of Professor Branestawm
9.55 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
10.30 Secret Life of Boys 11.15 Nine
Minute Ninja 11.25 Class Dismissed 11.40
Shaun the Sheep 11.55 Danger Mouse
12.20pm Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
12.40 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
1.05 Step Up to the Plate 2.00 The
Dumping Ground 2.30 Britain’s Best
Young Artist 3.00 Horrible Histories
3.25 Sketchy Comedy 3.30 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 3.40 Danger Mouse
3.55 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
4.05 Ninja Express 4.20 Danger Mouse
4.45 Odd Squad 5.10 We Bare Bears
5.25 Summer Camp Island 5.35
Princess Mirror-Belle 6.00 Young,
Black and British: Hear Us 6.20 Nikki
Lilly Meets... 6.30 Skin Deep
6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am Gormiti 3D: the Herald of
Gorm 6.30 Thunderbirds Are Go 6.55
Inspector Gadget 7.25 Teen Titans Go!
7.55 Dare Master 8.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 8.30 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 9.00 ScoobyDoo and the Monster of Mexico 10.25
Buck and Buddy 10.30 Jurassic World
Camp Cretaceous 11.30 Dave Spud
12 noon Inspector Gadget 1.00pm
Makeaway Takeaway 1.30 Don’t
Unleash the Beast 2.00 Mr Bean 3.00
Teen Titans Go! 3.30 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 4.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 4.30 Inspector Gadget
5.00 Dave Spud 6.00 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 6.30
Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico
8.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

Benjamin Franklin: a Film
by Ken Burns 7.45pm

PBS America

84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.00am Future of Work (S) 9.15
New. Benjamin Franklin: a Film by Ken
Burns 11.35 Nazi Hunters 12.30pm
Beautiful Serengeti 1.00 Future of
Work (S) 2.15 Benjamin Franklin: a
Film by Ken Burns 4.40 Europe’s
Waterways 5.35 Nazi Hunters
6.30pm Future of Work 3/3
Series 1. Documentary asking
whether the US needs to rethink
its working practices, such as
getting rid of offices. (S)
7.45 Benjamin Franklin: a Film
by Ken Burns 1/2. Profile of
the 18th-century polymath.
Franklin moves to Philadelphia
where he builds a printing empire,
before taking up science and
inventing his lightning rod. See p81.
10.05 Nazi Hunters 3/8. How a
German housewife helped capture
Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie.
11.00 Future of Work As 6.30pm.
12.15am Benjamin Franklin: a Film
by Ken Burns 2.30 Nazi Hunters
3.15—4.00am Europe’s Waterways:
a journey through France
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

a

Pick

36

Smithsonian

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD) 7.00
America’s Hidden Stories (HD) 9.00
Pocahontas: the True Story (HD)
10.00 America’s Hidden Stories
(HD) 1.00pm Combat Ships (HD)
3.00 The Hunt for Eagle 56 (HD)
4.00 The Lost Ships: the Hunt for
the Kaiser’s Superfleet (HD) 5.30
D-Day and the Dambusters (HD)
7.00pm America’s Secret
D-Day Disaster Recalling Exercise
Tiger, a catastrophic rehearsal for
the Normandy landings. (HD)
8.00 Into the Wild Tibet The
Tibetan Plateau, an area of Qinghai
seldom seen by outsiders. (HD)
9.00 Gorillas of Gabon Efforts
to save the silverback gorillas of
Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou
National Park. (HD)
10.00 Jaguarland The wildlife
and landscape of the Pantanal
region of Brazil. (HD)
11.00 Into the Wild Tibet As 8pm.
12 midnight Gorillas of Gabon (HD)
1.00am Jaguarland (HD) 2.00 Into
the Puma Triangle (HD) 3.00—
6.00am Aerial America (HD)

HGTV

44

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286

7.00am Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (AD) 8.00 Motorway Patrol
9.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 10.00
Police Ten 7 11.00 Highway Cops (AD)
12 noon Highway Patrol (AD) 1.00pm
Border Patrol 2.00 Border Security:
Canada’s Front Line (AD) 3.00 Nothing
to Declare 4.00 Stargate SG-1 5.00
Star Trek: the Next Generation 6.00
Stargate Atlantis 7.00 Hawaii Five-0
8.00 Killer in My Village 9.00 New.
S.W.A.T: the team goes in pursuit of a
militant group. Last in series (AD)
10.00 Grimm 11.00 Killer Colleagues
12 midnight Britain’s Most Evil Killers
1.00am The Force: North East 2.00
Nothing to Declare 3.00 Border Patrol
4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00—6.00am
Police Force: Australia (AD)

7.00am Homes under the Hammer
8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 9.00
A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to the
Country 12 noon My Lottery Dream
Home 1.00pm Fixer to Fabulous 2.00
A Place in the Sun 3.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 4.00 Sarah Beeny’s
Renovate Don’t Relocate 5.00 Homes
under the Hammer 6.00 A Place in the
Sun 7.00 Escape to the Country: in rural
Oxfordshire 8.00 Love Your Garden
9.00 My Lottery Dream Home: double
bill 10.00 New. Good Bones: Mina and
Karen purchase a vacant lot to turn into
a glam build for Mina’s friend
12 midnight Escape to the Country
1.00am DIY SOS (AD) 2.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 3.00—4.00am
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

CBS Justice

41

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00
The Fugitive 12 noon Perry Mason
(BW) 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger
3.00 CSI: Miami 4.00 NCIS 5.00
The Fugitive 6.00 Perry Mason
(BW) 7.05 Walker, Texas Ranger:
double bill 9.00 CSI: Miami 10.00
NCIS 11.00 Diagnosis Murder
1.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 3.00
JAG 3.55 The Day I Should Have Died
4.45—6.00am Medical Detectives

CBS Drama

68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
9.00am Perry Mason 11.00
Matlock 12 noon Medium 1.00pm
JAG 3.00 Perry Mason 5.00
Unsolved Mysteries 6.55 Judge
Judy: five back-to-back editions
9.00 Medium: Allison pursues the
ghost of a recently executed drug
lord 10.00 Unsolved Mysteries:
double bill 11.55 Judge Judy
2.00am Medium 3.00 Evidence of Evil
4.00 Written In Blood 5.00—6.00am
Matlock: investigating a suspicious death

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

86

Gorillas of Gabon 9.00pm

Saving the silverback gorillas

Great TV

50

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Charlie’s Angels 7.00 Crazy
like a Fox 8.00 Highway to Heaven
10.00 FILM Danielle Steel’s Changes
★★ Romantic drama 11.50 GREAT!
Movie News Extra 12 noon Sue
Thomas: F.B.Eye 1.00pm Perception
2.00 Body of Proof 3.00 Castle 4.00
Murder, She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H
9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1.00am M*A*S*H 3.00 Hart to Hart
3.45 Crazy like a Fox 4.30—6.00am
Highway to Heaven: double bill

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am House of Lords: highlights of
proceedings in the House of Lords,
from Tuesday 5 April 9.30 Select
Committees: coverage of the work of
committees set up to investigate public
policy and society 3.00pm Live House
of Lords: live coverage of proceedings
in the House of Lords 9.30 House of
Lords: recorded coverage
4.00—6.00am House of Lords

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
8.00pm Zari seeks the truth

Sky Showcase

Shauna goes cyber stalking

Sky Atlantic

Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Kay Burley 8.00 Gangs of Baboon
Falls (S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare
(S) (HD) 10.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00
NCIS: New Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 S.W.A.T.
(S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Modern Family (S)
(HD) 4.00 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD)
6.30pm The Simpsons Bart goes
to work in a burlesque theatre.
7.00 Homer is worried.
7.30 Lisa falls for Nelson. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow 2/13 Series 7
Zari becomes obsessed with
figuring out who blew up the
Waverider. See page 80. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. SEAL Team 10/14
Series 5. Bravo faces a mission
unlike any other. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Bloods 4/10
Series 2. Wendy addresses
Spencer’s poor behaviour. (S) (HD)
10.30 Micky Flanagan: Back in
the Game The comedian
performs to his home crowd at
London’s Hackney Empire. (S) (HD)
12.30am Sex and the City (S) (HD)
1.35 Road Wars (S) 2.05 Caught
on Dashcam 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S)
(HD) 4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00—6.00am The Early Rundown
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

a

Challenge

Yellowjackets 10.05pm

48

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel
Secrets (S) (AD) 7.40 Totti: One
Captain (S) 8.35 CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation (S) 9.30 The Sopranos
(S) 11.40 Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
1.15pm Six Feet Under (S) (AD)
3.30 Ray Donovan (S) (AD)
5.40pm The Sopranos 13/13
Series 5. Tony takes desperate
measures to keep the peace. (S) (AD)
6.45 1/21 Series 6. Tony receives
a retirement request from one of
his associates. (S) (AD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 1/6
Series 8. Jon and Daenerys arrive
in Winterfell, where the Stark
children are finally reunited. (S) (AD)
9.00 New series. Raised by
Wolves Ep 1 Series 2. Return
of the sci-fi drama. Android
partners Mother and Father and
their brood of six join a newly
formed colony. See page 81.
10.05 Yellowjackets 8/10
Shauna dabbles in some light
cyber stalking. (S) (AD)
11.10 Winning Time: the Rise of
the Lakers Dynasty 5/10
A frustrated Kareem begins to
doubt his place on the team.
12.15am Six Feet Under (S) 2.25
Big Love (S) 3.30 In Treatment
4.00—6.00am Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets: double bill (S) (AD)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

a

Sky Witness

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 10.00 Play
Your Cards Right (AD) 11.00 The
Price Is Right 12 noon Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 1.00pm Catchphrase
(AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes (AD) 3.00
The Price Is Right 4.00 Play Your
Cards Right (AD) 5.00 Bullseye
6.00pm Tenable: Doctor Who fans
from Liverpool compete 7.00
Pointless Celebrities: with famous
faces from the world of theatre —
Simon Callow, Imogen Stubbs,
Lysette Anthony, Christopher
Timothy, Gwen Taylor, Keith Barron,
Claire Sweeney and Simon Shepherd
(AD) 8.00 The Chase 10.00 Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? 11.00
Bullseye: darts-based quiz show

Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)
8.00 Border Patrol (S) 9.00 Send
in the Dogs (S) 10.00 UK Border
Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order (HD) 12 noon Bull (HD)
1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Coroner (HD) 4.00
Paramedics Australia (S) (HD) 5.00
Nothing to Declare (S) 8.00 Blue
Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Bull:
a teenager on trial refuses to name
his accomplice (S) (HD) 10.00
Criminal Minds (S) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (HD)

12 midnight The Chase: hosted by
Bradley Walsh 5.00—6.00am Bullseye

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Forces TV

96

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30 Ten
Things You Don’t Know about... 7.00
Digging for the Truth 7.55 Spenser:
for Hire 8.55 Watching 10.00 No
Place like Home 10.35 Sorry! 11.15
The Brittas Empire 12.30pm No
Place like Home 1.10 Sorry! 1.50 Ten
Things You Don’t Know about...
2.15 Digging for the Truth 3.10
Gurkhas vs Everest 4.05 Real Cold
War Spies: BRIXMIS 5.00 Ten Things
You Don’t Know about... 5.30 Forces
News 6.00 Watching 7.05 The
Brittas Empire 8.25 Sorry! 9.05
The Man from Atlantis 11.05 UFO

12.05am Watching 1.05 Spenser: for
Hire 2.05 Digging for the Truth 3.05 Ten
Things You Don’t Know about... 4.00 as
3.10pm 5.00—6.00am as 4.05pm

12 midnight The Rookie (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00am Criminal Minds: the BAU joins the
hunt for a serial killer (S) (HD) 3.00 Bull
(HD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) 5.00—6.00am
Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)

Syfy
Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Quantum Leap 7.00 Star
Trek: Enterprise 11.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 12 noon Stargate Atlantis
1.00pm The Librarians 2.00 V
3.00 Fringe 4.00 Stargate
Atlantis 5.00 Stargate SG-1
6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise
7.00 Quantum Leap: Sam jumps
into his teenage self 8.00 Fringe:
a catastrophic event threatens the
lives of everyone 9.00 Intergalactic:
after the robbery, the authorities
are closing in 10.00 Fortitude
12 midnight Stargate SG-1 1.00am
Grimm 2.00 Stargate Atlantis 3.00
Star Trek: Enterprise 4.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 5.00—6.00am Fringe

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

SEAL Team 9.00pm Jason’s

leadership is questioned

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S) 8.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow (HD) 10.00 The Flash (S)
(HD) 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans (S) (HD)
1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00
S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow (HD) 4.00 Arrow (S)
(HD) 5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate SG-1 16/22
Series 5. Jackson is recruited by
the Tok’ra to infiltrate a meeting. (S)
7.00 17/22. Jackson is enslaved
by the Goa’uld and tries to
destroy the System Lords. (S)
8.00 New. DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow 2/13 Series 7
Zari becomes obsessed with
figuring out who blew up the
Waverider. See page 80. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. SEAL Team 10/14
Series 5. Bravo faces a mission in
South America unlike any other,
while tensions surrounding
Jason’s leadership are at an
all-time high. (S) (HD)
10.00 Harlan Coben’s The Five
7/10. Julie and Alan’s relationship
is put to the test. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 8/10. Pru puts herself in
danger. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight The Force: North East
(HD) 1.00am Road Wars (S) 2.00
Sun, Sea and A&E: double bill (S) (HD)
4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (HD)

a

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
(S) 8.00 Four Weddings (S) (HD)
10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia
(S) (HD) 12.30pm Total Wipeout (S)
(AD) 1.30 Ninja Warrior Women
Tournament (S) (HD) 2.00 Stargate
Atlantis (S) (HD) 4.00 Quantum
Leap (S) (HD) 6.00 Most Haunted
US: double bill (S) 8.00 Road Wars:
tackling Russian scam artists (S)
9.00 Hooten and the Lady: Alex
gets a lead on an ancient scroll (S)
(AD) (HD) 10.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
11.00 SEAL Team (S) (HD)
12 midnight Bull (S) (HD) 1.00am
Night Cops (S) (HD) 2.00 A League of
Their Own (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Duck
Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00
Four Weddings (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am
Most Haunted US: in New York (S)

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD)
7.00 Send in the Dogs (S) 8.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) 9.00 Nothing to
Declare (S) (HD) 10.00 Brit Cops: Law
& Disorder (S) 11.00 Road Wars (S)
12 noon Forensics: Catching the Killer (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00pm How I Caught the
Killer (S) (HD) 2.00 Most Evil Killers (S)
(HD) 4.00 Murders That Shocked the
Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Killer Lovers UK
(S) (AD) (HD) 6.00pm Most Evil Killers
(S) (HD) 7.00 Murders That Shocked the
Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Most Evil Killers
(S) (HD) 9.00 New. Murdered at First
Sight (HD) 10.00 Killer in My Village (S)
11.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 1.00am
Mark of a Serial Killer (S) (HD) 2.00
as 10pm 3.00 as 1pm 4.00 as 10am
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Gold
Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.10am Last of the Summer Wine (S)
7.50 Jam & Jerusalem (S) 8.30
2 Point 4 Children (S) 9.10 Hi-de-Hi! (S)
9.50 Porridge (S) 10.30 Last of the
Summer Wine (S) 11.50 Keeping Up
Appearances (S) 12.30pm Dad’s
Army (BW) (S) 1.10 Hi-de-Hi! (S)
1.50 2 Point 4 Children (S) 2.30
Desmond’s 3.10 Keeping Up
Appearances (S) 3.50 Dad’s Army
(BW) (S) 4.25 Last of the Summer
Wine (S) 5.40 Porridge (S)
6.20pm Desmond’s Sean and
Desmond are duped into cooking.
7.00 Hi-de-Hi! The Yellowcoat
competition gets under way. (S)
7.40 Keeping Up Appearances
Daddy gets engaged. (S)
8.15 Dad’s Army: the Lost
Episodes Frazer and Jones vie
for promotion. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
With Mel B and Matt Lucas. (S) (HD)
10.00 Men Behaving Badly
Deborah announces travel plans. (S)
10.40 Billy Connolly Does...
Billy explains that when it comes
to culture, anything goes. (AD) (HD)
11.40 Live at the Apollo (S) (HD)
12.40am Peep Show: double bill
(S) (HD) 1.45 Men Behaving Badly
(S) 2.20 Jam & Jerusalem (S)
3.00—4.00am as 11.40pm
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am Parks and Recreation (S) (HD)
9.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
(HD) 10.00 Will & Grace (S) (HD) 11.30
The Office US (S) (HD) 12 noon The
Mindy Project (S) (HD) 12.50pm Curb
Your Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 2.00 A.P. Bio
(S) (HD) 3.00 Modern Family (S) (HD)
4.00 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00
The Office US (S) (HD) 5.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 6.30 Will &
Grace (S) (HD) 8.00 Parks and Recreation
(S) (HD) 9.00 Yonderland (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. Bloods: Wendy addresses
Spencer’s behaviour (S) (HD) 10.30
Micky Flanagan: Back in the Game (S) (HD)
12.25am Sex and the City (S) (HD) )
1.30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy
Fallon (HD) 2.30 New. The Late Late
Show with James Corden (HD)
3.30 Bored to Death (S) (HD) 4.00—
5.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Last Man Standing (S) (HD) 9.00
My Wife and Kids (S) (HD) 11.00 Younger
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Friends: six episodes. Monica
buys a bed 6.30 Phoebe thinks she is a
walking jinx 7.00 Ross and Monica become
football rivals 7.30 Rachel quits her job
8.00 Chandler falls for Joey’s sister 8.30
Joey has an audition (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Jason Manford: First World Problems
(S) (HD) 10.00 Stephen Merchant: Hello
Ladies (S) (HD) 11.00 Live at the Apollo (S)
12 midnight Rhod Gilbert’s Growing
Pains (S) (HD) 1.00am The Ricky Gervais
Show (S) (HD) 2.00 Impractical Jokers
(S) (HD) 2.30 Impractical Jokers: inside
Jokes (S) (HD) 3.00 South Park (S) (HD)
3.50—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

The Coroner 9.00pm Davey

has an alternative theory

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Major Crimes (S) (HD) 11.00 Rizzoli
& Isles (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Death
in Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm
Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Murdoch Mysteries: double bill (S)
(HD) 4.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD)
5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD)
6.00pm Death in Paradise 7/8
Series 2. The team is called to
investigate the murder of young
meteorologist Leo Downs. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Rizzoli & Isles 7/18 Series 5
The duo investigate the murder of
a used-book dealer. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Hudson & Rex 10/16
Series 1. Charlie and the team find
themselves navigating the world
of high art when a gallery curator
is found murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The Coroner 2/10 Series 1
Jane is convinced a washed up body
is a botched sea burial. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Smother 1/6 Series 2
A stranger turns up at Val’s door and
introduces himself as Denis’s son. (HD)
11.10 Deception 12/13. The mystery
woman unleashes her most gamechanging twist yet. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.10am Unforgettable (S) (HD)
1.10 Limetown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.25—
4.00am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

Discovery

The Inventor: Out for Blood
in Silicon Valley 9.00pm

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Inside the Freemasons (S)
(AD) (HD) 7.00 Discovering: Michael
Keaton (S) (HD) 8.00 The Directors
(S) (HD) 9.00 Too Young to Die (HD)
10.00 The 2000s (S) (HD) 11.00
100 Foot Wave (HD) 12 noon Laurel
and Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00pm Icahn: the
Restless Billionaire (HD) 4.00
Discovering: Michael Keaton (S) (HD)
5.00 The Directors (S) (HD)
6.00pm Too Young to Die
A profile of Oscar-winning actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman. (HD)
7.00 The 2000s A look at
terrorism during the decade. (S) (HD)
8.00 100 Foot Wave Brazilian
surfers new to Nazare fail to
heed safety advice. (HD)
9.00 The Inventor: Out for
Blood in Silicon Valley
Investigating the rise and fall of
Theranos, the multibillion-dollar
healthcare company founded by
Elizabeth Holmes. (S)
11.15 Never Surrender: a Galaxy
Quest Documentary A celebration
of the 20th anniversary of the
sci-fi comedy. (S) (HD)
12.55am Life According to Sam
(S) (HD) 2.45 FILM Enron: the
Smartest Guys in the Room ★★★
Documentary (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 4.45
My Icon: Maggie Alphonsi (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00—6.00am 100 Foot Wave (HD)

Nat Geographic

Animal Empires 9.00pm The
plight of Père David’s deer

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am Mysteries of Evolution (S)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Gangs of Baboon Falls (S) (HD) 9.00
Guardians of the Wild (S) 10.00
Africa’s Wild Year (S) 11.00 Brazil
Untamed (S) 12 noon Hope for
Wildlife (S) (HD) 1.00pm Monkey
Life (S) (AD) 2.00 Gangs of Baboon
Falls (S) (HD) 3.00 Guardians of the
Wild (S) 4.00 Africa’s Wild Year (S)
5.00 Brazil Untamed (S)
6.00pm Hope for Wildlife
Following the work of Hope
Swinimer’s rescue centre. (S) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life Two marmosets
are rescued in Liverpool. (S) (AD)
7.30 Chimp Tikko challenges
Hananya for leadership. (S) (AD)
8.00 Reef Wrecks An
exploration of the shipwrecks
located off the coast of Bonaire. (S)
9.00 Animal Empires How
animals fight back from the brink
to continue their empires. (S) (HD)
10.00 Brazil Untamed A remote
wetlands region which is home to
300 pig-like peccaries. (S)
11.00 Hope for Wildlife As 6pm.
12 midnight Secret Life of the
Koala (S) (HD) 1.00am Africa’s
Hidden Kingdoms (S) (AD) 2.00
Reef Wrecks (S) 3.00 Animal
Empires (S) (HD) 4.00 Gangs of
Baboon Falls (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Guardians of the Wild (S)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)
7.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD) 8.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (HD)
10.00 Combat Dealers (S) (HD) 11.00
Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon
Mighty Truckers (HD) 1.00pm Gold
Rush: White Water (S) (HD)
3.00 Disasters Engineered (S) (HD)
4.00 Building Off the Grid (S) (HD)
5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Misfit Garage (S) (HD) 7.00
Outback Truckers (S) (HD) 8.00 New.
Gold Divers: double bill (HD) 10.00
New. Moonshiners (S) (HD) 11.00
Combat Dealers (S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight
Moonshiners (S) (HD) 1.00am Gold
Divers (HD) 3.00 Moonshiners (S) (HD)
4.00 Gold Divers (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00am Car SOS (S) (HD) 10.00 Ice
Road Rescue (HD) 12 noon Wicked
Tuna: North v South (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Wicked Tuna (S) (HD) 2.00 Drain the
Oceans (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Car SOS (S)
(HD) 6.00 Air Crash Investigation (AD)
(HD) 8.00 New. Colossal Machines:
machines designed to operate in
extremes of cold weather (HD) 9.00 Air
Crash Investigation: Korean Air Cargo
Flight 8509’s accident near Stansted in
1999 (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Car SOS: Tim
and Fuzz are off to Huddersfield to
rescue a 1992 VW Corrado (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight New. Science of Stupid (HD)
1.00am Trafficked with Mariana Van
Zeller (HD) 2.00 Drugs Inc (HD) 3.00
Nazi Megastructures (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00—
5.00am Lost Treasures of Egypt (HD)

9.00am Life in the Air (HD) 10.00 as
5pm 11.00 Rescued Chimpanzees of
the Congo with Jane Goodall (HD)
12 noon Nature’s Perfect Partners:
Natural World (HD) 1.00pm Baby
Chimp Rescue (HD) 2.00 Life in the Air
(HD) 3.00 Japan with Sue Perkins (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Mexico: Earth’s Festival of
Life (HD) 5.00 Mountain Gorilla (HD)
6.00 Baby Chimp Rescue (HD) 7.00
Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo
with Jane Goodall (HD) 8.00 Life in the
Air (HD) 9.00 Mexico: Earth’s Festival
of Life (HD) 10.00 Baby Chimp Rescue
(HD) 11.00 as 5pm 12 midnight Life in
the Air (HD) 1.00am Mexico: Earth’s
Festival of Life (HD) 2.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 3.00 as 5pm 3.50 as 7pm
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am Devonport: inside the Royal
Navy (S) 7.00 Mysteries of the Missing
(S) 8.00 Ultimate Warfare (S) 9.00
Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) 10.00
Mysteries at the Museum 11.00
Mysteries of the Missing (S) 12 noon
Combat Dealers (S) 1.00pm Expedition
Unknown (S) 2.00 Edge of War (S)
3.00 Treasures of the Terracotta Army
(S) (AD) 4.00 Mysteries at the Museum
5.00 Ultimate Warfare (S) 6.00 Nasa’s
Unexplained Files (S) 7.00 Expedition
Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat Dealers (S)
9.00 Legendary Locations (S) (AD)
10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S)
11.00 Aircraft Stories (S) 12 midnight
Combat Dealers (S) 2.00am as 10pm
3.00 Aircraft Stories (S) 4.00 as 3pm
5.00—6.00am as 4pm

6.00am Secrets in the Ice (HD) 8.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 American Pickers
(HD) 11.00 Ancient Aliens (HD) 12 noon
Legends of the Pharaohs (HD) 1.00pm
Forged in Fire (HD) 2.00 American
Pickers (HD) 4.00 Secrets in the Ice (HD)
6.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 Forged in
Fire (HD) 8.00 World’s Greatest Treasure
Mysteries (HD) 9.00 New. The Curse of
Oak Island: an incredible discovery is
made near the swamp (HD) 10.00 New.
Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman:
jailbreakers Timothy Vail and Timothy
Morgan (HD) 11.00 Mafia Killers (HD)
12 midnight Forged in Fire (HD) 1.00am
World’s Greatest Treasure Mysteries (HD)
2.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 Mafia
Killers (HD) 4.00 Legends of the Pharaohs
(HD) 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars (HD)

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD) 10.00 Dogs:
the Untold Story (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 How
Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 12 noon
Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00pm Alaska: Homestead Rescue
(S) (HD) 2.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees (S)
(HD) 3.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD)
4.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD)
5.00 Dodo Heroes (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00
Crikey! It’s the Irwins (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00
How Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 8.00
Take Back the Harbour (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
New. Great Global Clean Up (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 I Was Prey (HD) 11.00 Treehouse
Masters (S) (HD) 12 midnight Mountain
Monsters (S) (HD) 1.00am How Do
Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 2.00 as 2pm
3.00 as 3pm 4.00—5.00am as 4pm

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

Wednesday Television

Sky Max

Hi-de-Hi! 7.00pm Will Peggy
become a Yellowcoat?

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

87

WEDNESDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW

Television Wednesday

Film4

Sky Premiere
14

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am Red Mountain ★★
Alan Ladd plays a rebel
Confederate captain in this
watchable western. (1951) (S)
12.40pm The Gentle Sex ★★★
There are fine performances from
a top-notch cast in this Second
World War drama about women
who sign up for the Auxiliary
Territorial Service. Joan Gates (1943, U) (S)
2.30 The Rare Breed ★★★
A widow imports a prize Hereford
bull to the Old West in this
warm-hearted western. (1966, U) (S)
4.30 Three Amigos! ★★★
Diverting comedy in which three
stars of silent westerns are faced
with defending a Mexican village.
Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short (1986, PG) (S)

6.35pm Gods of Egypt ★
Action-packed fantasy adventure
in which an Ancient Egyptian thief
teams up with the god Horus.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (2016, 12) (S)

9.00 The Spy Who Dumped
Me ★★★★ In this outlandish
comedy, two buddies become
embroiled in a deadly conspiracy.
Review p30. Mila Kunis (2018, 15) (S) (AD)
11.15 Girls Trip ★★★★ Raunchy
comedy in which four female
friends embark on a wild weekend
in New Orleans. Regina Hall (2017, 15) (S) (AD)
1.40—4.00am The Great Wall
★★ Formulaic but good-looking
fantasy adventure about a
mercenary helping defend the
Great Wall of China. (2016, 12) (S) (AD)
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am Welcome Mr Washington
★★★ Second World War drama.
Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart, Peggy Cummins
(1944) 7.30 The Velvet Touch ★★

Dull crime drama with a play-it-safe
plot. Rosalind Russell (1948, PG) 9.30 Enemy
at the Door (S) 10.30 The Black
Book ★★★★ Visually exhilarating,
ingeniously-plotted political thriller.
Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart (1949) (S)

12.20pm The Shillingbury
Blowers (S) 2.00 Secret Army (S)
3.05 McLintock! ★★★ John
Wayne and Maureen O’Hara star
in this rollicking, if dated, comedy
western that reworks Shakespeare’s
The Taming of the Shrew. (1963, U) (S)
6.00pm For the Love of Ada
Vintage TV sitcom.
6.50 The Edgar Wallace
Mystery Theatre TV crime drama.
8.00 Rumpole of the Bailey
British TV courtroom drama.
9.05 Hennessy ★★★★
Suspenseful political thriller with
Rod Steiger as an embittered
Irishman who plots an attack on
the state opening of Parliament.
Review p30. Lee Remick (1975, 15)
11.10 The Champions Fantasy
drama starring William Gaunt. (S)
12.10am The Stranger ★★★
Orson Welles stars in and directs this
stylish thriller about the hunt for a
Nazi war criminal that shows some
of his fine directorial touches amid
the actorly excesses. Edward G Robinson,
Loretta Young (1946, PG) (S) 2.05 From the
Terrace ★★ Glitzy but pedestrian
drama following the turbulent love
life of Paul Newman’s Wall Street
whizzkid. Joanne Woodward (1960, PG) (S)
4.55—6.00am A Little of What
You Fancy ★★★ Music
documentary. Barry Cryer (1968, U) (S)

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

88

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 5
6.30pm Sky Cinema Wizarding World
Eddie Redmayne (left) plays a magizoologist in 1920s New York

Great Movies

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am Lost Letter Mysteries:
Truth Be Told 11.00 Dangerous
Attraction ★★ Crime thriller based
on a true story. Amanda Righetti (2012)
1.00pm Murder 101: If Wishes Were
Horses 3.00 Trust No One ★★
Thriller about a lawyer trying to
identify the person who killed one of
her witnesses. Nicole de Boer (2016) 4.40
Our Man in Havana ★★★ Amusing
spy satire with Alec Guinness on
superb form as the vacuum cleaner
salesman who becomes a secret
agent. Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara (1959, PG)
7.10pm Year One ★★ Jack Black
and Michael Cera journey through
the ancient world in this
knockabout comedy trashing of
pre-history that generates only
a few laughs. Olivia Wilde (2009, 15)
9.00 The Frozen Ground ★★★
Moody fact-based thriller starring
Nicolas Cage as an Alaskan state
trooper on the trail of a serial killer.
Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack (2013, 15)

11.05 The Patriot ★★★ South
Carolina farmer Mel Gibson rallies
against the British army during the
American War of Independence in
a well-staged period drama. (2000, 15)
2.20am Bullet ★★ Danny Trejo
stars as an undercover cop hunting
a drugs kingpin in this frequently
nonsensical action drama. (2014, 15)
4.10—5.50am Dear Diary, I Died
★★ Thriller. Whitney Rose Pynn (2016)
+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Brave Warrior ★★
Western. Jon Hall (1952, U) 7.30 A Bullet
for the General ★★★ Spaghetti
western. Gian Maria Volonté (1966, 15) 9.40
The Big Sky ★★★★ Western
adventure. Kirk Douglas (1952, U) 12 noon
The Nevadan ★★ Western. Randolph
Scott (1950, U) 1.45pm Utah Blaine ★★
Western. Rory Calhoun (1957) 3.25 Mighty
Joe Young ★★★ Fantasy. Review
p30. Terry Moore (1949, U) 5.20 Port
Afrique ★★ Mystery. Pier Angeli (1956)
7.15pm Deadly Voltage ★★
An estranged family is caught up
in a lightning storm. Mike Dopud (2015)
9.00 Diamond Dogs ★★ Action
adventure. Dolph Lundgren (2007, 15)
10.55 Harrigan ★★ Muddled
drama set in north-east England
in the 1970s. Stephen Tompkinson (2013, 15)
12.55am Assassination Games
★★ Punchy action thriller. Jean-Claude
Van Damme, Scott Adkins (2011, 18) 2.55—
4.00am Hell Squad ★★ Second
World War drama. Wally Campo (1958)
+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am The Racket ★★★ Crime
drama. Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott (1951, PG)
7.45 Berlin Express ★★★ Spy
thriller. Merle Oberon (1948) 9.25 Build
My Gallows High 5 Classic
film noir. Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer (1947, PG)
11.15 A Woman’s Secret ★★ Crime
drama. Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas (1949)
1.00pm The Reckless Moment
★★★ Thriller. James Mason, Joan Bennett
(1949, 12) 2.45 Every Time We Say
Goodbye ★★ Period romantic
drama. Tom Hanks (1986, 15) 4.40
Reunion at Fairborough ★★★
Romantic drama. Robert Mitchum (1985)
6.55pm 84 Charing Cross Road
★★★★ Absorbing drama about
an unusual friendship between a
writer and the staff at a London
bookshop, starring Anne Bancroft
and Anthony Hopkins. (1986, U)
9.00 To Sir, with Love ★★★
Sidney Poitier plays a teacher in
London’s East End in this naive but
enjoyable drama. Christian Roberts (1967, PG)
11.10 Women in Love 5
Sensational adaptation of DH
Lawrence’s novel of sexual passions.
Review p30. Glenda Jackson, Alan Bates (1969, 15)
1.45am Taste of Killing ★★
Spaghetti western. Craig Hill (1966) 3.25
Strongroom ★ Crime drama.
Derren Nesbitt (1961, PG) 4.45—6.00am
Operation Dames ★★ Wartime
romance. Eve Meyer, Chuck Henderson (1959, PG)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Sky Gangsters

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
7.30am North Hollywood ★★★
Appealing coming-of-age skating
movie. Ryder McLaughlin, Miranda Cosgrove (2021, 15)
9.15 As 4.35pm 10.55 As 6.10pm
12.50pm The Many Saints of
Newark As 8pm 2.55 As 10.10pm.
4.35 Spirit Untamed ★★
Adventure. Isabela Merced (2021, U)

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.00am Echo Boomers ★★
Crime drama. (2020, 15) 7.50 The
Sweeney ★★ Crime drama. (2012, 15)
9.55 On the Waterfront 5
Classic drama. (1954, PG) 11.55 No
Sudden Move ★★★ Crime drama.
Don Cheadle (2021) 2.05pm The Italian
Job ★★★ Thriller. Mark Wahlberg (2003, 12)

6.10pm Our Ladies ★★★
Brassy comedy drama about a
Catholic girls’ school choir that
travels to Edinburgh. Marli Siu (2019, 15)
8.00 The Many Saints of
Newark 5 Satisfying
prequel to TV’s The Sopranos.
Review p38. Alessandro Nivola (2020, 15)
10.10 Barbarians ★★ Satirical
home-invasion thriller that sees
a small get-together violently
interrupted. Iwan Rheon (2021, 15)

4.05pm Jack Reacher ★★★
Brash action crime thriller. Tom

12 midnight The Ogglies ★★
Animated adventure. (2021, PG)
1.40am Don’t Breathe 2 ★★
Horror. Stephen Lang (2021, 18) 3.30 As
7.30am 5.10 As 12 midnight

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins (2012, 15)

6.20 Nobody ★★★★ Family
man Bob Odenkirk goes on the
rampage in this slick thriller. (2021, 15)
8.00 Tenet ★★★★ Christopher
Nolan’s slick, mind-bending spy
adventure. John David Washington (2020, 12)
10.30 Training Day ★★★★
Powerful thriller. Ethan Hawke
interview p34. Denzel Washington (2001, 18)
12.35am Donnie Brasco ★★★★
Crime drama. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp (1997, 18)
2.50 Revolver ★★ Crime drama.
Jason Statham, Ray Liotta (2005, 15) 5.00
Finding Steve McQueen ★★★
Comedy thriller. Travis Fimmel (2019, 15)

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.00am That Awkward Moment
★★★ Comedy. (2013, 15) 7.50 Silk
Road ★★ Crime drama. (2021, 15)
9.55 The Pursuit of Happyness
★★★ Drama. (2006, 12) 12 noon Zack
Snyder’s Justice League ★★★★
Fantasy adventure. (2017/2021) 4.00pm
True Grit ★★★★ Western. (2010, 15)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
7.00am Omen IV: the Awakening
★ Horror. (1991, 15) 8.40 Sands of
Iwo Jima ★★★ War drama. (1949, PG)
10.30 Gunfight at the OK Corral
★★★★ Western. (1957, PG) 12.35pm
Carry On Spying ★★★ Spy spoof.
(1964, U) 2.10 Days of Thunder
★★★ Sports drama. Tom Cruise (1990, 15)

6.00pm Clemency ★★★★
A prison warden befriends an
inmate awaiting a pardon that
may never come. Alfre Woodard (2019, 15)
8.00 Pitch Perfect ★★★ Anna
Kendrick’s a cappella singing
group goes up against a rival
university team. Skylar Astin (2012, 12)
10.00 Hotel Mumbai ★★★
Hotel staff members Dev Patel
and Anupam Kher risk their lives
during a terrorist attack. (2018, 15)

4.00pm The Ides of March
★★★★ Gripping political drama.

12.05am District 9 ★★★★
Startling sci-fi action drama. Sharlto
Copley (2009, 15) 2.05 That Awkward
Moment As 6am 3.50 The
Pursuit of Happyness As 9.55am

1.15am Hondo ★★★ Mature,
good-looking western in which
cavalry scout John Wayne comes
to the aid of a woman and her son.
Geraldine Page, Ward Bond (1953, PG) 2.40
As 10.30am 4.45 As 7am

Sky Action

Ryan Gosling, George Clooney (2011, 15)

5.45 Moneyball ★★★★ Brad
Pitt impresses in this engrossing
true-story baseball drama. (2011, 12)
8.00 Heat ★★★★ Atmospheric
and often nail-biting crime
thriller. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro (1995, 15)
10.50 GoodFellas 5
Brilliant, unflinching depiction of
the Mafia lifestyle. Robert De Niro (1990, 18)

Sky Comedy

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am First Wave 9.00 Battlestar
Galactica 10.00 Farscape 11.00
Virtual Nightmare ★★ Sci-fi action
fantasy. Michael Muhney, Tasma Walton (2000, 12)
1.00pm Frank Herbert’s Children
of Dune 3.00 The 4400 4.00
Meteorites! ★ Derivative thriller in
which a meteorite shower wreaks
havoc in an Arizona desert town.

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
6.00am Archenemy ★★★ Action
adventure. (2020, 15) 7.35 Riders of
Justice ★★★★ Drama. Mads Mikkelsen
(2020, 15) 9.35 American Fighter
★★ Sports drama. George Kosturos (2019, 15)
11.25 Edge of Tomorrow As 8pm
1.25pm As 10pm 3.35 WW84
★★★ Fantasy. Gal Gadot (2020, 12)

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
6.20am The Night Before ★★★
Comedy. (2015, 15) 8.05 Dr Bird’s
Advice for Sad Poets ★★★
Comedy drama. (2021, 15) 10.05 She’s
in Portland ★★★ Comedy drama.
(2020) 11.55 The Terminal ★★★
Comedy drama. (2004, 12) 2.10pm
That’s My Boy ★★ Comedy. (2012, 15)

Tom Wopat, Roxanne Hart (1998, PG)

6.10pm Final Score ★★
Ex-soldier Dave Bautista must
stop terrorists who have taken
over a football stadium. (2018, 15)
8.00 Edge of Tomorrow ★★★
Tom Cruise relives the same day
fighting alien invaders in this
clever sci-fi blockbuster. (2014, 12)
10.00 Indiana Jones and the
Last Crusade 5 Inventive
and witty third outing for the
archaeologist. Harrison Ford (1989, PG)

4.10pm Delivery Man ★★
Lightly amusing comedy. Vince

6.00pm Farscape Sci-fi drama.
7.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
8.00 Star Trek TV sci-fi drama.
9.00 Haunting of Briar House
★★ Derivative horror that piles on
the clichés after a promising start.
Jodelle Ferland, Neal McDonough (2015, 15)

10.55 Death Trench ★★ Horror
thriller with Rossif Sutherland. (2017, 18)
12.45am The Disappearance of
Alice Creed ★★★ A meticulously
planned kidnap goes wrong in this
tense, twisting thriller. Gemma Arterton,
Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan (2009, 18)

2.45—4.30am The Gauntlet ★
Supernatural horror thriller. (2013)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

12.10am WW84 As 3.35pm 2.45
American Fighter As 9.35am
4.30 Final Score As 6.10pm

Vaughn, Cobie Smulders, Chris Pratt (2013, 12)

6.05 Grown Ups ★★ Pacey but
clichéd midlife-crisis comedy.
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider (2010, 12)

8.00 Grown Ups 2 ★ Adam
Sandler and his old pals hook up
for more midlife craziness. (2013, 12)
9.45 The King of Staten Island
★★★★ Idiosyncratic comedy
from Judd Apatow. Pete Davidson (2020, 15)
12.05am Bill & Ted Face the
Music ★★ Comedy. Keanu Reeves
(2020, PG) 1.40 She’s in Portland As
10.05am 3.25 The Night Before
As 6.20am 5.10 Dr Bird’s Advice
for Sad Poets As 8.05am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL
Sky Wizarding World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
6.00am Curious George: Go
West, Go Wild ★★★ 7.30 As 5pm
9.15 Fantastic Mr Fox ★★★★
10.45 Sinbad: Legend of the
Seven Seas ★★★ 12.15pm The
Pirates! In an Adventure with
Scientists! ★★★★ (2012, U) 1.45 As
11.35pm 3.15 Scoob! ★★ (2020, PG)

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.00am Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire ★★★★ Fantasy.
Daniel Radcliffe (2005, 12) 8.40 The Order
of the Phoenix ★★★★ Fantasy.
(2007, 12) 11.00 The Half-Blood
Prince ★★★★ Adventure. (2009, 12)
1.35pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 ★★★ Fantasy. (2010, 12)

5.00pm The Jungle Bunch
★★ Animals battle a koala for
their home. Kirk Thornton, Andre Gordon (2017, U)
6.40 The Boxtrolls ★★★
Adventure about nocturnal
trash collectors. Elle Fanning (2014, PG)
8.20 My Little Pony: the
Movie ★★★★ Sparkling, witty
adventure. Tara Strong, Emily Blunt (2017, U)
10.05 The House of Magic
★★★★ Charming adventure.
Murray Blue, Cinda Adams, Kathleen Browers (2013, U)

4.10pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 Harry and
Voldemort clash. Daniel Radcliffe (2011, 12)
6.30 Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them 5
Fun adventure. Eddie Redmayne (2016, 12)
8.45 Fantastic Beasts: the
Crimes of Grindelwald ★★★★
Dazzling second episode. (2018, 12)
11.00 Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone ★★★★
Harry goes to Hogwarts. (2001, PG)

11.35pm Open Season 3 ★★
Adventure. (2010, U) 1.00am As 6am
2.30 As 10.45am 4.00 Maya the
Bee: the Golden Orb ★★
Adventure. (2021, U) 5.30 Alpha and
Omega: the Great Wolf Games

1.40am The Chamber of Secrets
★★★★ Marvellously atmospheric
instalment. Daniel Radcliffe (2002, PG)
4.30 The Prisoner of Azkaban
★★★★ Sirius Black arrives in this
third outing. Daniel Radcliffe (2004, PG)

Sky Thriller

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
6.45am Blindfire ★★ Crime
drama. Brian Geraghty (2020) 8.15 Stray
Dolls ★★★ Crime thriller. Geetanjali
Thapa, Olivia DeJonge (2019) 9.55 As
5.50pm 12.10pm As 8pm 2.20
Limitless As 10.10pm 4.10 The
Whole Truth ★★★ Courtroom
drama. Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger (2016, 15)

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.00am The Last Vermeer ★★★
(2019, 15) 8.00 Finding You ★★ (2021, PG)
10.05 Captain Fantastic ★★★
Drama. (2016, 15) 12.10pm Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
★★★★ (2003, 15) 2.05 Dream Horse
★★★★ Drama. (2020, PG) 4.05 Pig
★★★ Slow-burning drama. (2021, 15)

5.50pm The Fugitive ★★★★
Exciting thriller spin-off from the
popular 1960s TV series. Harrison

5.45pm The Light between
Oceans ★★★ A couple living
in a lighthouse decide to keep
a foundling. Michael Fassbender (2016, 12)
8.00 In the Heights 5
Sensational musical from
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer
of Hamilton. Anthony Ramos (2020, PG)
10.25 Military Wives ★★★★
Women at an army base form a
choir while their partners are in
Afghanistan. Kristin Scott Thomas (2019, 12)

Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward (1993, 15)

8.00 Mission: Impossible 2
★★★★ Super-agent Tom Cruise
attempts to retrieve and destroy
a deadly virus. Dougray Scott (2000, 15)
10.10 Limitless ★★★★ An
experimental drug transforms
loser Bradley Cooper into a
superman. Robert De Niro (2011, 15)
12 midnight Stray Dolls As
8.15am 1.45am Blindfire As
6.45am 3.15 The Whole Truth As
4.10pm 5.00 Sky Cinema Preview

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

12.20am Finding You As 8am
2.20 The People vs Larry Flynt
★★★★ Biographical drama. Woody
Harrelson, Courtney Love (1996, 18) 4.30
Son of the South ★★★ Solid,
clear-eyed biopic. Lucas Till (2020, 15)

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
6.00am The Head Hunter ★★★
Horror. (2018, 15) 7.20 The Host ★★
Sci-fi thriller. Saoirse Ronan (2013, 12) 9.30
As 5.40pm 11.55 Resident Evil:
Extinction ★★ Sci-fi horror. Milla
Jovovich (2007, 15) 1.35pm As 10.10pm
3.55 The Forever Purge ★★★
Futuristic horror. Ana de la Reguera (2020, 15)

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Directors
6.35 Off Set 6.55 The Secret
Ways ★★★ 9.15 The Westerner
★★★★ 11.20 The Left Handed
Gun ★★★★ 1.30pm Ambush
at Tomahawk Gap ★★ (1953)
3.05 Red Sundown ★★★ (1956, U)
4.45 Kansas Pacific ★★ (1953, PG)

5.40pm Divergent ★★★
Clichéd but solid and diverting
Hunger Games-style dystopian
fantasy. Shailene Woodley, Kate Winslet (2014, 12)
8.00 Oblivion ★★★ Smart
sci-fi starring Tom Cruise as a
repairman who uncovers dark
secrets. Review p28. (2013, 12)
10.10 The Matrix Reloaded
★★★ The rebels fight to save the
city of Zion in this stylish sequel.

6.20pm Lightning Guns ★★
Action-packed western from
Fred F Sears. Charles Starrett (1950)
7.30 Return to Warbow ★★
No-nonsense B-western. Phil Carey,
Catherine McLeod, Andrew Duggan (1958)

9.00 Pacific Rim ★★★ Dumb
but fun sci-fi action adventure.
Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi (2013, 12)

11.45 The Holcroft Covenant
★★ Confused spy thriller. Michael

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne (2002, 15)

Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant (1985, 15)

12.30am Resident Evil:
Extinction As 11.55am 2.10 Uncle
Peckerhead ★★★ Entertaining,
gory horror with a heart. Chet Siegel
(2020, 18) 3.50 The Host As 7.20am

2.10am High Society ★★★★
Wonderful musical romantic
comedy. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra
(1956, U) 4.05 Off Set 4.30 Close Up
5.00 Hollywood’s Best Directors
+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

SPORT
Sky Premier League

Champions League
7.00pm BT Sport 2 Chelsea
look to Kai Havertz’s creativity

Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441

Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00
Legends: Thierry Henry and Paul Ince
(AD) 8.00 Best Goals 9.00 100 Club
(AD) 10.00 The Football Show
12 noon Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
1.00pm Premier League Years (AD)
3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.00 100 Club (AD)
6.00 Legends: Paul Ince and Teddy
Sheringham (AD) 7.00 Premier League
World 7.30 Soccer AM 8.00 Gary
Neville’s Soccerbox 9.00 Premier
League World 9.30 Soccer AM 10.00
Greatest Games 10.15 Highlights
12 midnight Soccer AM 12.30am
Icons 1.00 Premier League Years (AD)
3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club

6.00am Motorcycling 7.00 Wrestling
9.30 The Volleyball Show 10.00 BT
Sport Goals Reload 10.15 ESPN FC

Sky Cricket

Sky Main Event

Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

6.00am Women’s Cricket World Cup
Highlights 7.00 Indian Premier League
Highlights 8.00 International T20
Highlights 12.10pm India’s Amazing
Run Chase (AD) 12.30 Women’s
Cricket World Cup Highlights 1.30
Coaching Clinic with Rob Key (AD) 1.50
Indian Premier League Highlights

6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good
Morning Sports Fans 7.30 Early
Kick-Off 8.00 Good Morning Sports Fans

10.00 LIVE Pool Day one of
the World Championship.
2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
The build-up to this year’s Major.
7.00 Soccer Special
7.30 LIVE Championship Football
Middlesbrough v Fulham from the
Riverside Stadium (kick-off 7.45).
10.15 Soccer Special 11.00 Sky Sports
News 12 midnight NFL: Total Access
1.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Greatest Players (AD) 6.30
Countdowns (AD) 7.00 Football Years
(AD) 7.30 Greatest Games (AD) 8.30
SPFL Highlights 9.00 German Football
10.00 Championship Highlights 10.30
SPFL Highlights 11.00 Classic Play-Offs
3.00pm League Cup 4.00 Classic
Play-Offs 4.30 Classic League Cup
(AD) 5.00 Greatest Games 6.00
Championship Highlights 6.30 League
One and Two Goals 7.00 SPFL Highlights

7.30 LIVE Championship Football
Middlesbrough v Fulham (k-o 7.45).
10.15 Championship Highlights 10.30
League One and Two Goals 11.00 Greatest
Games (AD) 12 midnight Classic
League Cup 2.45am One2Eleven (AD)
3.00 Classic League Cup 5.00—6.00am
Championship Season Review

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am The Masters Official Films
9.30 Masters: the One from November
10.00 The Masters Official Films 12 noon
McGinley and Chamblee at the Masters

2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
The build-up to the tournament;
7.00 Coverage of the Par 3 contest.
10.30 Tiger Woods: Back 12.45am
Golf: the Masters 4.15—6.00am
The Masters Official Films

Eurosport 1
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435
6.00am Cycling 7.00 World
Superbikes 8.00 World Snooker
10.00 Cycling 11.00 World Superbikes
12 noon Cycling

2.30pm LIVE Cycling Stage
three of the Basque Tour, a 181.7km
route from Llodio to Amurrio.
4.30 The Cycling Show
5.00 LIVE Curling Coverage of a
match in the men’s round-robin
stage in the World Championships.
8.05 Cycling 10.05 Discovery Golf
10.35 The Cycling Show 11.05 Cycling
12 midnight Extreme E 1.00am World
Superbikes 2.00 Cycling 4.00—6.00am
Darts: the WDF World Championship

BT Sport 1

2.50 LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Kolkata Knight
Riders v Mumbai Indians, the T20
match from Maharashtra Cricket
Association Stadium, Pune.
7.00 The Cricket Show 8.00 Indian
Premier League Highlights (AD) 8.30
Best of the IPL: the 2017 final 9.00
Indian Premier League Highlights:
Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians
10.00 The Cricket Show 11.00 Indian
Premier League Highlights
12 midnight Indian Premier League
Highlights 4.10am Best of the IPL
5.00 Indian Premier League Highlights
(AD) 5.30—6.00am Best of the IPL

Sky Action

10.45 LIVE Australian Football
Brisbane Roar v Wellington Phoenix
in the A-League (kick-off 10.45).
12.45pm Premier League Reload
1.00 LIVE Australian Football
Perth Glory v Melbourne Victory,
coverage of the A-League game
from HBF Park (kick-off 1.05).
3.00 BT Sport Goals Reload 3.30
Premier League 5.00 Wrestling (AD)
7.00 BT Sport Reload 7.30 Badminton
8.00 The Aussie Rules Show 9.00
Wrestling 12.45am MotoGP Rewind
1.00 The Volleyball Show 1.30 The
Aussie Rules Show 2.30 Australian
Rules Football 4.30—6.00am
Classic Football (AD)

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Squash 7.00 International
One Day Cricket 8.00 MotoGP Rewind
8.15 Rugby Stories (AD) 8.45
Premiership Rugby Union 10.15 Rugby
Tonight 11.00 Hockey 1.00pm
Australian Rules Football 3.00
Premiership Rugby Union 4.30 Rugby
Tonight 5.15 Rugby Stories (AD)
5.45 MotoGP Rewind 6.00 Serie A:
Full Impact 6.30 DIY Pundit (AD)

7.00 LIVE Champions League
Football Chelsea v Real
Madrid, the quarter-final
first-leg match from Stamford
Bridge (kick-off 8.00). See p80.

a

10.30 Champions League Tonight:
action from the quarter-finals 11.30
BT Sport Films (AD) 2.00am The Dan
Hardy Breakdown Show 2.30 Fight
Week 3.00 Hockey 5.00 Serie A: Full
Impact 5.30—6.00am BT Sport Reload

BT Sport 3

Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446

Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432

6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD)
7.00 Boxing Archive: memorable bouts
8.00 Super Bowl LVI Highlights

6.00am Champions League Football
8.00 Portuguese Football 9.00 Motor
Racing 11.00 Europa League Magazine
12 noon Champions League Football
2.00pm National League Football
4.00 Fishing 5.00 Portuguese Football
6.00 ESPN FC 6.30 Premier League
World 7.00 Premier League Reload

10.00 LIVE Pool Day one of the
World Championship from Stadium
MK in Milton Keynes. More 5.30pm.
3.30pm Darts Gold (AD)
5.30 LIVE Pool The World
Championship from Stadium MK.
10.00 Darts Gold (AD) 10.30 NFL: a
Football Life (AD) 11.30 NFL Bitesize
12 midnight NFL: Total Access 1.00am
British Basketball League 3.30 NFL
Bitesize 4.00 NFL Highlights
5.00—6.00am NFL: a Football Life (AD)

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Super League 7.00 Netball
9.00 NBA 11.00 Super League
12 noon Good Morning Football
3.00pm Netball 4.30 Super League

7.00 LIVE Rugby Union Blue
Bulls v Western Province in the
Currie Cup (kick-off 7.00).
9.00 Boxing Archive 11.00 NBA
1.00am Super League 2.00 Netball
4.00—6.00am Rugby League Retro

Eurosport 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436
6.00am World Superbikes 7.00 Darts
9.00 World Superbikes 11.00 Darts

1.00pm LIVE Darts The WDF
World Championship. More 7pm.
5.00 Australian Superbikes 6.00
Darts: WDF World Championship
7.00 LIVE Darts Day five of the
WDF World Championship from
Lakeside Country Club in Surrey.
11.00 World Superbikes 12.05am
Cycling 2.00 Darts 4.00 Cycling
5.00—6.00am World Superbikes

Wednesday Television

Animation

Sky

7.15 LIVE Champions League
Football Villarreal v Bayern
Munich, the quarter-final
first-leg match at Estadio de la
Cerámica (kick-off 8.00). See p80.

a

10.15 DIY Pundit (AD) 10.45 UFC 11.45
Premier League Reload 12 midnight
Serie A: Full Impact 12.30am BT Sport
Goals Reload 1.00 Champions League
Football 3.00 Europa League
Magazine 4.00 UFC Countdown
5.00—6.00am French Football

BT Sport ESPN
Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 ESPN
SportsCenter 6.45 Around the Horn
7.15 Pardon the Interruption 7.45
ESPN SportsCenter 8.00 ESPN FC
8.30 Basketball 11.00 Baseball Today
in the UK 11.30 Around the Horn
12 noon ESPN FC 12.30pm ESPN
SportsCenter 12.45 ESPN Films
Presents (AD) 2.15 ESPN SportsCenter
2.30 In Depth with Graham Bensinger
4.30 Swimming and Diving 6.30
Baseball 9.30 The Aussie Rules Show
10.30 Around the Horn 11.00 ESPN
FC 11.30 BT Sport Reload

12 midnight LIVE Baseball
Virginia Cavaliers v Liberty Flames
in the NCAA (start-time 12.00).
3.30—6.00am Basketball

Amazon Prime
3.00pm, 12 midnight LIVE WTA
Tennis Charleston Open, third day.

89

THURSDAY Choices

The pick of today’s TV
ANCIENT TREASURE

Spong Man, unearthed in
Norfolk in 1979, was once
the lid to a fifth-century
cremation urn

The Masters
from 2.00pm Sky Sports Golf/
Main Event
SPORT Augusta National is primed

Television Thursday

once more for the year’s opening
Major, and the return of a full crowd
promises to add buzz to the Georgia
course’s famously pristine flora.
Hideki Matsuyama made history
last year when he became the first
Japanese player to don the green
jacket, but he’ll have to overcome a
back injury if he is to defend his title.
Spaniard Jon Rahm is perhaps the
tour’s most fancied player, but the
USA’s Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas
and Collin Morikawa are contenders,
too. As for Rory McIlroy, can he end
his eight-year Major drought and
complete that elusive career grand
slam? Highlights at 12.15am on
BBC2. MAX COPEMAN

Secrets of the Museum
8.00pm BBC2
ARTS In troubled times, it’s

comforting to know the work of our
most vital cultural institutions
carries on. So it’s a welcome return
for the series that peeks behind the
scenes at that treasure trove of
applied arts, London’s Victoria and
Albert Museum.
This week, conservators tackle
an 18th-century waistcoast that
inspired Beatrix Potter — a regular
visitor to what was then known as
the South Kensington Museum —
as she illustrated The Tailor of
Gloucester. One of Tommy Cooper’s
old magic tricks gets a refresh
before moving to Blackpool, while
the museum also acquires a striking
new portrait by Kehinde Wiley. And
breathe… GILL CRAWFORD

Gordon Ramsay’s
Future Food Stars
9.00pm BBC1
REALITY There’s a hilarious

PICK OF THE DAY

Art That Made Us 9.00pm BBC2

ARTS New series Alan Bennett once said he would like
a notice in the National Gallery telling visitors, “You don’t
have to like everything”. It’s good advice for viewers of
this enjoyably idiosyncratic journey through British works
of art from AD 400 onwards.
Not everyone will like every artefact or how it is
presented. Beowulf, for instance, is explored via an
American novelist’s slangy translation, and a comic-book
artist enthuses about the Bayeux tapestry. Both worked

90

for me, bringing fresh insight, but might horrify some
viewers. I defy you, though, to look at the gold-and-garnet
work on fragments of the Staffordshire Hoard and not be
transported (as is artist Cornelia Parker); Rev Richard
Coles explains the Lindisfarne Gospels and their rich
illuminations; and we start with the angst-ridden Spong
Man figure, who inspires sculptor Antony Gormley on the
“amazing unbroken history of making that this island has
been involved in”. DAVID BUTCHER See feature: p20

moment this week when Gordon
Ramsay tells some of his hopefuls,
“You need to relax.” I would imagine
having Ramsay bark orders at you
is deeply unrelaxing at the best of
times, but having him tell you to
relax, when he has until then spent
the whole time aggressively
cranking up the pressure on you,
must break the laws of irony.
The task the food entrepreneurs
must relax about is hosting a forest
feast in idyllic Chilterns woodland.
The weather is glorious, as is some
of the food, but there are agonising
failures (serving honey to a vegan!)
and Gordon shouts at one chef,
relaxingly, “It’s f***ing raw!” DB

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

THURSDAY 7 APRIL
Bill Paterson, Mark Lewis Jones and
Kenneth Cranham, and reveals how
the British government agonised
over its role in the aftermath of the
assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand. It is eruditely written,
thoughtfully performed and,
naturally, laden with dramatic irony.
Also new on BritBox today are
series five to nine of As Time Goes
By, the BBC sitcom starring Geoffrey
Palmer and Judi Dench, completing
the box set. JACK SEALE

STREAMING NOW
First shown on BBC2 in 2014 to mark
the centenary of the outbreak of the
First World War, the three-part drama
37 Days perhaps has a small amount
of uncomfortable resonance at the
moment, since it is concerned with
exactly how major powers found
themselves sliding into a disastrous
global conflict.
New today on BritBox, it stars
(pictured from left) Ian McDiarmid,

My Brilliant Friend

Meet the Richardsons

9.00pm Yesterday

9.00pm, 10.00pm Sky Atlantic

10.00pm Dave

DOCUMENTARY The model railway

DRAMA This spellbinding drama

COMEDY Exciting times for the

enthusiasts here have gone a bit loco.
Some end up spending thousands on
vintage stock, while trains and track
tend to dominate back gardens. But
there’s a sweetness to their collecting,
with many trying to recapture the
golden glow of childhood or buy
products they couldn’t have possibly
afforded when they were young.
But it can get to the point where toy
fans run out of space, something that
Matchbox maestro Graham Hamilton
is discovering. He does that odd thing
of referring to a car as “her” and
gushing about how “curvaceous” it is,
but he’s undeniably knowledgeable
and canny — and is now hoping that his
collection will net him a fortune at
auction. DAVID BROWN

excels itself in its final two episodes,
which are almost operatic in tone but
at the same time exquisitely subtle.
In Florence, Lenù is leading a life of
domestic discontent. In her book-filled
apartment she studies Madame
Bovary, encircled by her children
and their detritus. Each cinematically
shot scene builds a picture both of
her relative privilege and her growing
sense of oppression.
Both in Elena Ferrante’s novels and
this adaptation, seaside scenes are
ordinarily lighter, but in the finale
even the beach has a sinister quality
— the sun too sunny, the crashing
waves full of menace. Lila exerts a
phantom-like presence, but appears
only fleetingly. ORLA THOMAS

Richardsons: Jon is set to start
filming his role on Line of Duty and
Lucy has been approached to appear
on The Masked Singer. This is all
fantasy, of course, and enjoyably
absurd, but as always the plotlines
are just believable and tailored to
allow a stream of cameos.
Jon faces the fearsome Jed
Mercurio again and the AC12 maestro
warns him about the importance of
secrecy on set: “Look what happened
to Holby — leaked like a colander, that
show.” Jon is playing “a small man,
a pitiable loser”, but even this may
prove too much of a challenge,
particularly when he has to do a
sex scene. Meanwhile, Kerry Katona
gives Lucy a singing lesson... DB

A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Dingle to
Dover 9.00pm Sky Max
Freddie Flintoff, Jamie
Redknapp and pals travel
around Ireland and Britain,
beginning at the Irish National
Ploughing Championships.

Dragons’ Den
8.00pm BBC1
A former newsreader pitches
a moveable webcam. Last in
the series. Podcasts: page 112

Billy Connolly Does…
9.00pm Gold
Billy reveals the weird and
wonderful places fame has
taken him. Last in the series.

The Rise and Fall of John
Leslie 10.00pm Channel 5

Thursday Television

Scouting for Toys

BEST OF THE REST

Documentary charting the
career of the TV presenter.

q FILM OF THE DAY
One, Two, Three

9.00pm ITV
DOCUMENTARY The front page of

DEFENCE FORCE
The men of Naval Party
8901 made a heroic
stand against the odds

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

The Sun on 5 April 1982 carried the
headline “Surrender!”and a photo
of Royal Marines lying face down in
Port Stanley, and described their
“humiliating defeat” at the hands
of the Argentinian invasion force.
The myth took hold that the
Falkland Islands had been given up
with “barely a shot fired”. Far from
it. Ben Fogle sets the record straight
in a powerful documentary, hearing
from veterans of Naval Party 8901,
the detachment of 67 Marines
who mounted a defence with the
scant resources they had — a few
machine guns against a force of
800 Argentinians, plus thousands
more waiting to come ashore.
The Marines’ commanding
officer, Major Mike Norman,
remembers the difficulty of briefing
his men the night before the
invasion: “We were all going to die,
without a doubt. I was convinced of
that — and so were they.” DB

6.45pm Great Movies Classic
James Cagney plays a
Coca-Cola executive trying
to boost sales behind the Iron
Curtain in a fast-talking Cold
War satire from director Billy
Wilder. (1961) See page 31

LIVE SPORT

 Racing: Grand National
Festival 1.45pm ITV Last year’s
winner Cousin Pascal goes again
in the Foxhunters’ Chase.
 Golf: the Masters from 2pm
Sky Sports Golf/ME See p90
 Europa League Football:
West Ham v Lyon 7pm (k/o 8pm)
BT Sport 1; SC Braga v Rangers
7.15pm (k/o 8pm) BT Sport 2
 Europa Conference League:
Leicester City v PSV Eindhoven
7.15pm (k/o 8pm) BT Sport 3

NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY; GETTY

Falklands War: the
Forgotten Battle

91

THURSDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

Television Thursday

BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Rachel Burden, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Topical magazine show, presented
today by Gethin Jones and AJ Odudu. (S) (HD)
10.00 Scam Interceptors A team of ethical hackers
hunts down cyber criminals. Rav Wilding hosts. (S) (HD)
10.45 Defenders UK The enforcement officers assist
a vicar tricked by a cowboy builder. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in south
Wales, Lincolnshire and the West Midlands. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt At the International Antiques
Fair of Wales in Builth Wells, Powys. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Doctors Bear, Daniel and Zara interview a range
of candidates. Repeated 7pm BBC2 Cast today BBC2 (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private
Investigators 10/10 Series 3. Frank and Lu delve into
the world of private tutoring. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country Nick Chapman helps a
couple find a home in Argyll and Bute. (R) (S) (HD)
3.45 The Repair Shop Will Kirk restores a pair of
Turkish bath clogs, while two broken trophies are
tackled by Brenton West. Rptd tomorrow 6.15am BBC2 (S) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Quiz with Ross Kemp. (S) (HD)

BBC2
6.30am Escape to the Country Seeking a family
home in Cambridgeshire. Shown Tuesday 3pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
7.15 The Repair Shop Shown yesterday 3.45pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Gardeners’ World Toby Buckland
meets a gardener from Cornwall who has rediscovered his love
of plants through texture and sound. Shown Sun 7.20am (S) (HD)

9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm Ready Steady Cook Two vegans compete
in the culinary challenge. Rylan presents. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 Eggheads Quiz with Jeremy Vine. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Best Bakes Ever Jane Asher introduces a
selection of recipes from television chefs. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 The Customer Is Always Right Customers
test a scented candle, a fishing-based board game
and a reusable lid for hot drinks on the go. (R) (S) (HD)
3.30 Kangaroo Dundee and Other Animals 2/2
Natural World follows Chris “Brolga“ Barns, aka
Kangaroo Dundee, as he learns just what it takes
to look after his extended animal family. (R) (S) (HD)
4.15—5.15 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 3/6
Simon meets the women who make handicrafts out
of plastic waste on the island of Kiwayu. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Fashion, food and chat. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Lifestyle advice, competitions
and celebrity guests. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women Daily discussion. (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45—5.00 LIVE Racing: Grand National Festival
Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani introduce
coverage of the opening day of the famous meeting
from Aintree, featuring five races, including the 2.55
Betway Bowl and the Aintree Hurdle at 3.30. (S) (HD)

Channel 4

92

6.05am Countdown With guest Jon Culshaw. (R) (S) (HD)
6.45 Cheers Two episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.40 Everybody Loves Raymond Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)
9.05 Frasier Three episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
10.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The
irascible chef tackles Lela’s, a restaurant in Pomona,
California, with an inept owner, an arrogant chef and
light-fingered staff. (R) (S) 11.30 News (S) (HD)
11.35 Undercover Boss USA A Louisiana mayor
adopts an alter ego to meet citizens. (R) (S) (HD)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch Magazine. (S) (HD)
2.10 Countdown With guest John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Jasmine Harman helps
retirees Kay and Barry to find a holiday home in the
historic city of Jerez in southern Spain. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun On the Costa
del Sol, wannabe bar owners throw in the towel after
failing to find a suitable business. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1

1

BBC2

2

Gordon Ramsay’s
Future Food
Stars 9.00pm It’s
a case of “smoke
or be smoked” in a
salmon challenge

Art That Made
Us 9.00pm Antony
Gormley is among
the contemporary
artists illuminating
the Dark Ages

5.15pm Pointless

5.15pm Flog It!

Quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong.

A collection of the best unseen finds from the series,
featuring a pair of British railway lamps. (R) (S) (HD)

Director Richard van’t Riet; Series producer Laura Turner (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S)
Followed by Party Election Broadcast
By the Conservative Party. (S) (HD)

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Milton Jones, Ria Lina, Martin Roberts and Briony
May Williams play more fiendish games. (S) (HD)

6.30 Lightning

7.00 The One Show

Zoe Lyons presents the quickfire quiz show. (S) (HD)

Presented by Alex Jones. (S) (HD)

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE 6.50—9.00 Football Coverage
of the Centenary Shield under-18 boys’ match between
Scotland and Wales at bbc.co.uk/sport

7.30 EastEnders
Nancy and Shirley share their disapproval of Mick
and Janine, but Mick makes it clear he does not care.
Nancy Carter
Maddy Hill
Mick Carter
Danny Dyer
Peter Beale
Dayle Hudson
Vinny Panesar
Shiv Jalota
Sheree Trueman
Suzette Llewellyn
Jack Branning
Scott Maslen
Phil Mitchell
Steve McFadden
Whitney Dean
Shona McGarty
Bobby Beale
Clay Milner Russell
Bernadette Taylor
Clair Norris
Denise Fox
Diane Parish
Eve Unwin
Heather Peace
Dana Monroe
Barbara Smith
Gray Atkins
Toby-Alexander Smith
Suki Kaur Panesar
Balvinder Sopal
Karen Taylor
Lorraine Stanley
Violet Highway
Gwen Taylor

Kathy Beale
Gillian Taylforth
Stacey Slater
Lacey Turner
Patrick Trueman
Rudolph Walker
Kat Slater
Jessie Wallace
Aaron Monroe
Charlie Wernham
Jean Slater
Gillian Wright
Dotty Cotton
Milly Zero
Mila Marwa
Ruhtxjiaïh Bèllènéa
Amy Mitchell
Abbie Burke
Scarlett Butcher
Tabitha Byron
Ricky Mitchell
Frankie Day
Bailey Baker
Kara-Leah Fernandes
Mia Atkins
Mahalia Malcolm
Tommy Moon
Sonny Kendall
Will Mitchell
Freddie Phillips
Lily Slater
Lillia Turner
Mackenzie Atkins
Isaac Lemonius

7.00 Doctors
Bear, Daniel and Zara try to fill the vacant position.
Bear Sylvester
Dex Lee
Dr Daniel Granger Matthew Chambers
Dr Zara Carmichael
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh
Dr Sid Vere
Ashley Rice
Dr Jimmi Clay Adrian Lewis Morgan
Dr Princess Buchanan
Laura White
Dr Emma Reid
Dido Miles
Dr Al Haskey
Ian Midlane

Karen Hollins
Valerie Pitman
Glenn Winter
Sarah Martin
Scarlett Kiernan
Maeve Ludlow
DS Mandy Jameson
Rosie Colton
Ruhma Carter

Jan Pearson
Sarah Moyle
James Robinson
Anna Swan
Kia Pegg
Clelia Murphy
Cathy Murphy
Janice Connolly
Bharti Patel

Writer Paul Williams Shown 1.45pm BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.30 Rick Stein’s Cornwall
Series 1. Rick visits West Penwith, the westernmost
point of mainland England, where he explores the
tin and copper mining area of Botallack.

Writer Carey Andrews This week’s episodes directed by Toby Frow
More cast Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

Director Matt Bennett; Producer Caroline Topliss (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Dragons’ Den

1/6 Series 3. The cameras return
a toNewtheseries.
Victoria and Albert Museum to reveal

14/14. This week, a former newsreader and his
business partner hope to focus the Dragons’ attention
with their moveable webcam, a Welsh entrepreneur
pitches his men’s skincare range and two best friends
showcase their seasonal decorations, which add
diversity to the festivities. Touker Suleyman tucks
into a marathon runner’s caffeine chew, but will the
business itself have the legs for the long haul?
Executive producer Chi Ukairo
Series editor Samantha Davies (S) (AD) (HD)

Podcasts: page 112

9.00 Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars
Tonight, Gordon is sending his 11 remaining
a2/8.
contenders back to basics to test their raw skills
and pure talent. The entrepreneurs’ first stop is at
a world-renowned artisan smoked salmon business
in Hackney Wick, east London, where they are
challenged to master traditional techniques against
the clock. His charges must then embrace the great
outdoors and create an incredible feast in the forest
by foraging for ingredients and cooking on open
fires. Gordon will be keen to see who will succeed at
bringing the woodland to the table and creating
theatre for their paying guests. Those who fail risk
being next for the chopping board. See page 90.

8.00 Secrets of the Museum

more of its hidden gems. In this instalment, we join
curator Annemarie as she prepares a major new
Beatrix Potter exhibition from the world’s largest
collection of the author’s illustrations and writings.
And among the 250,000 items being moved to the
V&A’s new project in east London are quivers of old
poison arrows that are still lethal. See page 90.
Directors Jonny Ashton, Ed Venner; Producer Harry Pick (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Art That Made Us

series. 1/8. Beginning an alternative
a New
history of the British Isles, featuring a host of

contemporary artists exploring ancient artefacts
that made us who we are. The story begins in the
Dark Ages, the turbulent era following the Roman
occupation of Britain. Sculptor Antony Gormley
examines Spong Man, a clay figure that sat on
a fifth-century cremation urn, and actor Michael
Sheen performs Y Gododdin, the Welsh poem of
resistance against the Anglo-Saxons. The whole
series will be on iPlayer from tonight. See p90.
Director Sam Anthony; Producer Helena Hunt (S) (AD) (HD)

See feature: page 20

10.00 Mock the Week

Executive producers Lisa Edwards and Sharon Powers
Series editor Joe Wildman (S) (AD) (HD)

With guests Catherine Bohart, Darren Harriott,
Rhys James, Felicity Ward and Ed Byrne.

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.35 Question Time

Producer Ewan Phillips (R) (S) (HD)

A panel of politicians and other guests faces questions
posed by the audience. Chaired by Fiona Bruce.

11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

Executive producer Nicolai Gentchev; Series editor Hilary O’Neill (S) (HD)
Have Your Say: tweet with #bbcqt

11.35 Celebrity Mastermind
9/14. Jeremy Edwards, Sonali Shah, Dave Rowntree
and Camilla Tominey take part. With Clive Myrie.

10.30 Newsnight With Mark Urban. (S) (HD)
11.15 The Speedshop
3/6. Defender and Autojumble. A 30-year-old Land
Rover Defender is in urgent need of refurbishment.
Shown Sunday 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am Question of Sport With Joe Marler, Fran Halsall,
Joe Choong and Tom Scudamore. Shown last Friday (S) (HD)
12.35 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.40—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

12.15am Golf: The Masters Highlights Action from the
first day of the Major at Augusta National in Georgia.
See page 90. Repeated tomorrow 8am (S) (HD)
1.45—3.15am Sign Zone 1.45 Interior Design Masters
with Alan Carr 3/8. A school challenge. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45 Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden
9/10. A glut of plums results in a delicious jam. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Shown Saturday 6.35pm (S) (HD)

a

THURSDAY 7 APRIL
ITV

3

Falklands War:
the Forgotten
Battle 9.00pm Ben
Fogle learns about
veterans’ life-anddeath struggle

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

Nikki Grahame:
Who Is She?
9.00pm The life
of the reality star
who broke through
with Big Brother

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

Move Over,
Darling 9.00pm
Will Ellen get
her husband
Nicholas back
on her return?

Regional
variations
BBC1
SCOTLAND
6.30pm Reporting
Scotland; Party
Election Broadcast: by
the Scottish Liberal
Democrats
7.00—7.30 River City

BBC
SCOTLAND
5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Bradley Walsh presents as Matt, Julia, Ryan and
Margo pit their wits against the Chaser. (R) (S) (HD)

Mother-and-son estate agents Sharon and Shaun
Garner help Portsmouth pair Colin and Tracy to
find their perfect property in Almería. (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
The day of the long-awaited christening finally
arrives, but soon Gabby has a shock. Al pays a
little too much attention to Belle’s ideas. Nate
snaps at Chloe as she flirtatiously teases him.
Gabby Thomas
Rosie Bentham Priya Kotecha
Fiona Wade
Al Chapman
Michael Wildman Rhona Goskirk
Zoe Henry
Belle Dingle
Eden Taylor-Draper Rishi Sharma
Bhasker Patel
Nate Robinson
Jurell Carter Rodney Blackstock Patrick Mower
Chloe Harris
Jessie Elland Ryan Stocks
James Moore
Mackenzie Boyd
Lawrence Robb Sam Dingle
James Hooton
Mandy Dingle
Lisa Riley Sarah Sugden
Katie Hill
Marcus Dean
Darcy Grey Theo Metcalfe
Beau Newton
Marlon Dingle
Mark Charnock Thomas Tate
Bertie Brotherton
Mary Goskirk
Louise Jameson Tracy Metcalfe
Amy Walsh
Matty Barton
Ash Palmisciano Victoria Sugden
Isabel Hodgins
Meena Jutla
Paige Sandhu Vinny Dingle
Bradley Johnson
Moira Dingle
Natalie J Robb Wendy Posner
Susan Cookson
Nicola King
Nicola Wheeler Will Taylor
Dean Andrews
Paddy Dingle
Dominic Brunt Zak Dingle
Steve Halliwell
Writer Linton Chiswick This week’s episodes produced by
Kate Brooks and Laura Shaw, directed by Paul Copeland and
Ian Bevitt More cast on Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 House Prices: How High Will
They Go? Tonight
Despite the recent shocks to the economy,
house prices across the UK have continued to
rise, with the average British home now costing
more than £350,000. Jonathan Maitland
investigates why it’s happening and asks who
are the winners and who are the losers.
Producer David Raddings Repeated 3am (S) (HD)
NOTE: as Tonight reacts to the news its subject matter may change

9.00 Falklands War: the Forgotten
Battle

a

Ben Fogle uncovers the untold story of a
small garrison of British marines and the
battle they fought against near-impossible odds
during the Falklands War 40 years ago. He talks
to veterans of Naval Party 8901 who, with fewer
than 70 lightly armed men, were left to face an
Argentine invading force some ten times that
number. With new revelations from declassified
documents, Ben travels to the Falklands to ask
why they were given virtually no prior warning
of the invasion and hears how the men want
their version of events to be told. See page 91.

Director Richard Pearson; Producer Craig McAlpine (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

10.45 All Star Musicals
Wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, actress
Jacqueline Jossa, Good Morning Britain’s Alex
Beresford, Coronation Street star Lisa George,
actor Colin Salmon and rugby player Danny Care
take to the stage to perform hits from shows
including Hamilton and Frozen. See choice, p51.
Shown Sunday 7.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12.10am All Elite Wrestling: Rampage High-flying
wrestling action. Shown Tuesday 11.20pm ITV4 (S) (HD)
1.00 Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 House Prices: How High Will They Go? Tonight
Jonathan Maitland reports. Shown 8.30pm (S) (HD)
3.25 Wonders of Scotland with David Hayman 4/4
The actor’s journey draws to a close along the rugged
North Sea shores of East Lothian. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.05—6.00am Tipping Point (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

6.00 The Simpsons
Smart and Smarter. Lisa fears Maggie could
usurp her position as the clever Simpson. With
the guest voice of Simon Cowell. (R) (S) (AD)

6.30 Hollyoaks
Ethan worries that Liberty and Sienna are
getting too attached. Meanwhile, Sid plans a
romantic gesture for Lizzie, and Eric is on the
look out for Verity once again.
Writer Jayshree Patel Cast Wed/Fri Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Rptd
tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 Perfect House, Secret Location

7.00pm Pubs, Ponds and
Power: the Story of the Village
East. Archaeologist Ben Robinson
explores the history of Lavenham in
Suffolk, which was one of England’s
wealthiest places in the 16th century
due to its woollen cloth industry.
Repeated 1.05am (R) (S)

7.30 Ulster’s Folk Wonders:
Inside Museums
4/4 Series 2. At Belfast’s Ulster Folk
Museum, Mary-Louise Muir delights in
the beauty of everyday objects found
in homes in Northern Ireland at the
turn of the 20th century, and learns
about the role of Welsh geographer
EE Evans in the museum’s creation.
Repeated 1.35am (S) (HD)

4/4. Steve Jones helps Northamptonshire
couple Nicki and Levant Aktolga find a house
suitable for their home-based businesses and
their DJ son’s music studio. He shows them a
17th-century cottage, an old bakery, a modern
semi-detached and a converted mill, but without
revealing the properties’ locations. Will Steve
find the perfect place to suit their needs?
The whole series is available on All 4.

8.00 Michael Wood’s Story of
England

Series producer Emma Vulliamy
Executive producer Charlie Bunce (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Move Over, Darling ★★★★

9.00 Nikki Grahame: Who Is She?
A tribute to TV reality star Nikki Grahame,
examining her memorable appearances in the
Big Brother house and exploring her battle with
anorexia that led to her untimely death in 2021.
Producer Jane Preston; Exec producers Ollie Durrant and Richard
Osborne Rptd 12.25am and tomorrow 10pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Gogglebox
Ep 7. The armchair critics share their opinions on
what they have been watching during the week,
with cameras capturing their instant reactions.
Shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 My £2 Dream Home
This documentary follows brothers Daniel,
Jason and Will from south London who are
shaking up the property market with online
contests to win homes. After receiving over
200,000 entries for their first endeavour,
they have built a loyal online following,
particularly among working-class hopefuls
who dream of getting on the property ladder.
Executive producer Ollie Tait (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am Naked Attraction’s Best Naughty Bits Anna
Richardson hosts highlights of the show in which potential
dates bare all bit by bit. Shown yesterday 10pm (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Gordon
Ramsay visits a family-owned Irish restaurant in
Carlstadt, New Jersey, that is sinking fast. (R) (S)
1.50 Come Dine with Me Party-loving Wendy, gas
engineer Sam, self-proclaimed chatterbox Lauren and
strongman Michael battle it out in north Kent. (R) (S) (HD)
2.45 Grayson’s Art Club 6/6 Series 2. Grayson and
Philippa Perry welcome illusionist Derren Brown, who
talks about his love of painting. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.40 Location, Location, Location Kirstie Allsopp
and Phil Spencer head for the East Midlands to help
two sets of first-time buyers. (R) (S) (HD)
4.35 Cadbury Exposed Reporter Antony Barnett
goes under cover in Ghana for Dispatches to
investigate the chocolate brand’s supply chain.
Shown Monday 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

5.05 Moneybags Craig Charles hosts the high-stakes
quiz that puts mental speed to the test. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
5.55—6.05am Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free
Kirstie visits homes in Brighton and Devon. (R) (S) (HD)
Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

6/6. Victoria to the Present Day
The broadcaster charts the history of
Kibworth, Leicestershire, from the 19th
century to the present day, including
the Penny Concerts of the 1880s.
Writer Michael Wood; Producer Sally Thomas
Signed repeat 2.05am (R) (S) (AD)

starring Doris Day. Five
q Comedy
years after she is presumed to

have died in a plane crash, Ellen Arden
returns home to find that she has
just been officially pronounced dead,
enabling her husband Nicholas to
marry his new fiancée. Available on
iPlayer for 27 days. Review page 28.

Ellen Wagstaff Arden
Nicholas Arden
Bianca Steele Arden
Grace Arden
Dr Herman Schlick
Shoe salesman
Stephen “Adam” Burkett
Codd
Judge Bryson

Doris Day
James Garner
Polly Bergen
Thelma Ritter
Elliott Reid
Don Knotts
Chuck Connors
Fred Clark
Edgar Buchanan

Director Michael Gordon (1963, U) (S) (W) (HD)
Shown Sunday 2.40pm BBC2

10.40 Calamity Jane 5

comedy western. Spirited
q Musical
cowgirl Calamity Jane brings a

glamorous singer to the Deadwood
saloon. But her friend turns into a love
rival, and Calamity begins to wonder
whether a woman’s touch is more
effective than a six-gun. Available on
iPlayer for 26 days. Review page 27.

Calamity Jane
Wild Bill Hickok
Katie Brown
Lt Gilmartin
Francis Fryer
Henry Miller
Rattlesnake
Adelaide Adams

Doris Day
Howard Keel
Allyn McLerie
Philip Carey
Dick Wesson
Paul Harvey
Chubby Johnson
Gale Robbins

Director David Butler (1953, U) (S) (HD)
Shown Saturday 1.50pm BBC2

12.20am Hollywood Actresses: Talking
Pictures Archive interviews with leading
ladies of Hollywood, featuring the likes of
Lauren Bacall and Bette Davis. (R) (S) (HD)
1.05 Pubs, Ponds and Power: the Story
of the Village Shown 7pm (S)
1.35 Ulster’s Folk Wonders: Inside
Museums Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)
2.05—3.05am Michael Wood’s Story
of England Shown 8pm (S) (SL) (AD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

7.00pm Iain
Robertson Rambles
7.30 Scotland’s Best
Dog 8.00 Beechgrove:
new series 8.30
Landward 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 Raiders
of the Lost Archive
10.30 Legit 11.00 Des
Doesn’t Do: Outdoors
11.30—12 midnight
Mirror Mirror

BBC1 WALES
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Wales Today; Party
Election Broadcast:
by the Welsh Liberal
Democrats

ITV WALES
6.00pm Wales News
6.25—6.30 Party
Election Broadcast:
by the Welsh Liberal
Democrats 10.45 Face
to Face 11.15—12.10am
Love Your Garden

STV
6.00pm STV News;
Weather 6.25—6.30
Party Election
Broadcast: by the
Scottish Liberal
Democrats 8.30—9.00
Scotland Tonight 10.45
House Prices: How High
Will They Go? Tonight
11.10 The Great British
Treasure Hunt 12.10am
All Elite Wrestling:
Rampage 1.00—3.00
Home Shopping

Thursday Television

5.00pm The Chase

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Newsline; Party
Election Broadcast: by
the Social Democratic
and Labour Party
10.35 The View 11.15
Question Time: Fiona
Bruce hosts 12.15am
Celebrity Mastermind:
with Jeremy Edwards,
Sonali Shah, Dave
Rowntree and Camilla
Tominey 12.45
Question of Sport:
guests include Joe
Marler and Tom
Scudamore 1.15—6.00
BBC News

BBC2
NORTHERN
IRELAND
11.15pm—12.15am
Murder in the
Badlands: the inside
story of the murder of
Portadown teenager
Marian Beattie in 1973

UTV
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast: by
the Social Democratic
and Labour Party

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

93

THURSDAY Freeview
Channel 5

5

Cornwall: a Year by the Sea 8.00pm

Television Thursday

Farmer Matt trains his dog, Moose
F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.35am Milkshake! See page 96
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a New Life
in the Country A couple plan to open two
luxury holiday cottages on the Pembrokeshire
coast. (S) (HD) 1.10 5 News (S) (HD)
1.15 Home and Away Mia surprises Chloe
with a bridesmaid dress. Shown yesterday
6.30pm 5 Star Repeated 6pm 5 Star (S) (HD)
1.45 New. Neighbours Rptd 6pm (S) (HD)

2.15 Deadly Prescription ★★
Mystery thriller starring Joanne Kelly,
Shaun Benson and Genelle Williams.

q

Director Caroline Labrèche (2018) (S) (W) (HD)

4.00 Filthy House SOS A decade of
health problems has resulted in Elaine’s
two-bedroom flat in Rochester, Kent, being
in dire need of a deep clean. (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Neighbours
David feels guilty over what he did to
Gareth, while Karl is on the hunt for
investment opportunities.
Shown 1.45pm (S) (AD) (HD)

6.30 New. Eggheads
The Eagles from Stockton-on-Tees take on
the regulars. Jeremy Vine hosts. (S) (HD)

7.00 Inside Greggs: Britain’s
Biggest Bakery
Revealing the secrets of the bakery
chain, offering a behind-the-scenes look
at the products they sell and staff who
work in their stores across the country.
Director Dan Aldridge-Neil (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Cornwall: a Year by
the Sea
3/4. It’s Autumn, and Matt is training
Moose, his young sheepdog, while the
pregnant ewes are being scanned to see
how many lambs they can expect next
year. Meanwhile, Charlie is trying hard to
protect grey partridges on the farm. (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Deadline
3/4. James has a terrifying flight to
Budapest. And once he arrives in the city,
he tracks down people from Natalie’s
past that can help him get closer to the
truth. Concludes tomorrow at 9pm.
For cast see Tuesday (S) (HD)

10.00 New. The Rise and Fall of
John Leslie
Charting the career of one Britain’s
most famous TV presenters, who found
himself at the centre of a media storm.
Producer/Director Nick Broughall (S) (HD)

11.05 Most Shocking Celebrity
Moments
Further calamities and controversies
reported on by the media.
First shown Saturday 10pm (S) (HD)

1.05am New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.05
Entertainment News (S) (HD) 3.10 Dogs
Behaving (Very) Badly (S) (HD) 3.55 Now
That’s Funny! (S) (SL) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (S)
(SL) 5.10—5.35am House Doctor (S) (SL)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

BBC4 listings are overleaf

BBC3

23

10

Drama

20

Daisy Maskell: Insomnia and Me
9.00pm Investigating the condition

Heartbeat 5.50pm Greengrass is

Jonathan Creek 8.00pm A God-

suspected of purloining some lead

fearing woman asks the duo for help

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD)
7.00 Classic Emmerdale (S) 8.05 That’s My
Boy (S) 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs: 6/13 Series
3 Desirous of Change. A French countess
captivates Richard; 10.20 7/13. Word of
Honour Richard receives an investment tip
(S) 11.30 Heartbeat: 9/16. A Russian sailor
seeks political asylum; 12.35pm 10/16.
Wartime ammunition causes problems (S) (AD)
1.40pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill.
Emily’s relationship with Paddy continues to
blossom, then time is running out for Rodney
and Louise (S) 2.45 Classic Coronation
Street: double bill. Spider and Toyah confront
their differences, then Rita loses her patience
with Norris (S) (AD) 3.50 Midsomer Murders:
Series 3. Blue Herrings. DCI Barnaby
investigates after two suspicious deaths
at the Lawnside residential home (S) (AD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
7.00am Ever Decreasing Circles: 3/5 Series 1
Martin spots a half-naked woman in Paul’s
garden (S) 7.40 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Rptd 2.20pm (S) 8.35 The Bill: Smithy picks up
a lead on a major drug dealer 9.35 Classic
Holby City: Arthur tries to win Morven’s
affections (HD) 10.55 Classic Casualty: Jordan
worries his brain tumour is returning (S) (AD)
12 noon The Bill: Ackland’s evening does not
go to plan 1.00pm Classic EastEnders: double
bill. Phil asks Lisa to move in, then Ian realises
he can’t cope (HD) 2.20 Hetty Wainthropp
Investigates: 3/6 Series 4 Digging for Dirt. The
sleuth uncovers bribery and corruption Shown
7.40am (S) 3.20 Lovejoy: 9/12 Series 2. A corpse
is found in a suit of armour (S) 4.20 Pie in the
Sky: 5/10 Series 2. Crabbe helps a beleaguered
medium (S) 5.20 Ever Decreasing Circles:
4/5 Series 1. Martin’s holiday approaches (S)

5.50pm Heartbeat

6.00pm Butterflies
6.40 Last of the Summer Wine

Repeated 12.05am (S) (HD)

11/16 Series 4. Nick and Kate receive
advice about their marriage. (S) (AD)
6.55 12/16. Emily finds out she is
pregnant, but the joy is tempered by
ill-feeling from the Jacobs family. (S) (AD)

10.45 MOTDx

8.00 Vera

7.00pm New. MasterChef Australia
The contestants are in the Dandenong
Ranges, where a fiery team challenge
awaits them. First shown on W (S) (HD)
7.55 New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

8.00 Eating with My Ex
1/4 Series 4. Exes Flame and Alex try to
keep their chemistry under control. (S) (HD)
8.30 4/4. Osama needs to know if Avery
lied to him about her pregnancy. (S) (HD)

9.00 Daisy Maskell: Insomnia and Me
Radio presenter and insomnia sufferer
Daisy Maskell attempts to get to the root
cause of her problem, while also trying
different treatments and remedies.
First shown on BBC1 Signed rpt 1.20am (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New. Love in the Flesh
6/8. After a dramatic night, numbers are
seriously dwindling. Six couples remain
— four have built up a connection online,
and the other two met in the beach house.
Jermaine Jenas and guests explore the
culture surrounding the Premier League.
Repeated tomorrow 7pm BBC2 (S) (HD)

11.15 Mood
Shown Tuesday 10pm (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am Love in the Flesh (S) (HD) 12.50
Hot Property: Filly meets Chloe Ferry (S) (HD)
1.20 Daisy Maskell: Insomnia and Me (S) (SL)
(AD) (HD) 2.20 Gavin & Stacey (S) (SL) (AD)
(HD) 2.50—3.50am The Drop (S) (HD)

ITV2

4/4 Series 10. The Escape Turn. All is
not as it appears when DCI Stanhope
investigates the murder of wealthy
bookmaker Alun Wilmott. (S) (AD) (HD)

6

4/6 Series 1. How About Lunch?
Leonard desperately tries to contact Ria.
Series 22. The Coming of the Beast
A rumour causes ructions. (S)
7.20 Series 23. A Brief Excursion in the
Fast Lane. Barry yearns for adventure. (S)

8.00 Jonathan Creek

10.00 Law & Order: UK

6/6. Sasha knows she cannot keep
running away from her trauma.

2/7 Series 6. Immune. Ronnie and Sam
are given ten hours to find a hostage
following a bungled robbery in which an
innocent “have-a-go hero” was killed.
Tamzin Outhwaite guest stars. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Scott & Bailey
5/8 Series 3. As Rachel’s domestic
problems escalate, Janet urges her
to return home and face the music.
Meanwhile, disturbing evidence mounts
up at the Bevan house. Continues
tomorrow 11pm. (S) (AD) (HD)

1/6 Series 3. The Curious Tale of Mr
Spearfish. A man claims to have sold
his soul to the Devil, leaving his wife, a
God-fearing Catholic, terrified. (S) (AD)

9.05 New Tricks
8/8 Series 6. Meat Is Murder. A
33-year-old murder at Smithfield Market
leads to a shocking revelation. (S) (AD)
10.25 1/10 Series 7. Dead Man Talking
A psychic prompts the team to
reinvestigate the death of a financier. (S) (AD)

11.25 Silent Witness

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 6.25 Dress to Impress (S)
(SL) (HD) 7.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S)
(HD) 8.25 Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Hart
of Dixie (S) (HD) 10.15 One Tree Hill (S) (HD)
11.10 The O.C.: Kirsten visits the jail (S) (HD)
12.05pm Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 1.05 Dress
to Impress (S) (HD) 2.05 New. The Ellen
DeGeneres Show: David Letterman guests
(S) (HD) 3.00 Hart of Dixie (S) (HD) 4.00
One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 5.00 The O.C. (S) (HD)
6.00pm Catchphrase Celebrity Special
With Phil Daniels, Steph McGovern and AJ
Odudu. Stephen Mulhern hosts. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Superstore 10/22 Series 3. Cheyenne
accidentally agrees to be a surrogate for
Glenn and his wife. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 11/22. Amy butts heads with
Cheyenne’s ex-convict mum. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers Series 4. Tina is the
centre of attention at a bat mitzvah. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Bob asks Teddy to babysit. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 16. Stewie and Brian
investigate murders in London. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.30 Peter and the gang are forced to join
the US Coast Guard. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. Celebrity Juice With Johnny
Vegas, Raye, Aitch and Rachel Riley. (S) (HD)
10.50 Family Guy Series 16. Peter goes out
of his way to win an Emmy. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.20 Lois’s parents hire a nanny. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.50 American Dad! Series 13. Stan
becomes addicted to “dying”. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15am Steve and his pals turn to
witchcraft to gain popularity. (S) (AD) (HD)

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.05 The
Protectors (S) 6.30 Robin of Sherwood (S)
7.25 The Avengers (S) (SL) (HD) 8.25 The
Professionals (S) (SL) (AD) 9.30 New. Racing:
the Opening Show (S) (HD) 10.30 Minder (S)
(AD) 11.35 The Champions (S) 12.40pm
Extreme Salvage Squad (S) (HD) 1.35 Robin
of Sherwood (S) 2.40 The Avengers (S) (HD)
3.50 The Professionals (S) (AD) 4.50 Minder
(S) (AD) 5.55 Extreme Salvage Squad (S) (HD)
6.55pm New. Battlebots Champion
Tombstone takes on Gigabyte. (S) (HD)
8.00 River Monsters Jeremy Wade travels
to the north of Australia, where something
in the waters was seemingly responsible for
the disappearance of six men. (S) (HD)
9.00 FILM White House Down ★★★
Action drama starring Channing Tatum and
Jamie Foxx. Hours before a historic Middle
East peace treaty is due to be signed,
terrorists storm the White House. Luckily, a
fearless ex-marine just happens to be touring
the building with his daughter. (S) (W) (HD)
11.40 FILM Oblivion ★★★ Sci-fi action
adventure. Review page 28. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
8.00 Buying and Selling (S) (HD) 9.00
LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Unboxed (S) (HD) 12.30pm Masters of
Flip (S) (HD) 1.25 Gemma Collins: Diva Forever
(S) (HD) 2.25 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
3.10 New. Little Women: LA (S) (HD) 4.05 The
Real Housewives of New Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00
The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Dave and Kortney
Wilson look back over recent episodes. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling The duo spruce
up a worn-out home in the suburbs. (S) (HD)
8.00 Dinner Date Matt from Merseyside
looks for love among five menus. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 FILM Bridget Jones’s Diary ★★★★
Romantic comedy adapted from the novel
by Helen Fielding, starring Renée Zellweger,
Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Weight-obsessed
30-something Bridget Jones is busy
lamenting her lack of a good man when
two come along at once. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.10 Vanderpump Rules Tom Sandoval
throws an “extra” birthday party. (S) (HD)

12.45 Bob’s Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 1.40 Superstore
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Deep Heat (S) (AD) (HD)

2.05am The Protectors: the team helps a KGB
agent (S) (SL) 2.35—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

94

ITV3

12 midnight Inspector Morse: Series 2
The Wolvercote Tongue (S) (AD) (HD)
2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

Join RT BOOK CLUB monthly or quarterly, for £14.99

26

4/4 Series 8. Body 21. The team
investigates a rail crash. (S)
2.00am Kavanagh QC: 1/4 Series 5. Previous
Convictions. An activist is accused of murder
(S) (HD) 3.10—4.00am Where the Heart Is:
3/6 Series 1. Ruth’s baby is abducted (AD)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

ITVBe

28

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

Visit radiotimes.com/bookclub

THURSDAY 7 APRIL
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

The Dog House 9.00pm Ryan and Katie

A Run for Your Money 9.00pm Con

Scouting for Toys 9.00pm A massive

get to grips with Kevin the bulldog

artist Jo meets Dai Jones in London

collection of Matchbox model cars

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15
A Place in the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
1.05 Heir Hunters 2.05 Four in a Bed 4.50
Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.55 Car SOS: possibly
the series’ most obscure car to date (AD)
6.55pm Escape to the Château: DIY
Donna and Paul move into their new home in
western France, but struggle with the language,
while Adam from Warwickshire hopes to join
the band of expat château owners. (AD)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall A steam-engine
enthusiast embarks on a coast-to-coast
journey across Devon, travelling across the
county in an 80-year-old steamroller with
a top speed of eight miles per hour. (AD)
9.00 The Dog House A large newfoundland
makes a favourable first impression on one
family, and nine-week-old French bulldog
Kevin competes with a nervous terrier to
win the hearts of couple Ryan and Katie. (AD)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E An 89-year-old
man is admitted with acute abdominal pain
and has to undergo emergency surgery, and
a ten-year-old is brought in after falling out
of a tree on a family picnic. (AD)
11.05 999: on the Front Line Paramedics
are called out to a van and a car that have
collided at a roundabout, involving a man
who must always wear a crash helmet to
protect himself from frequent seizures.

F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am LA Philharmonic Centennial
Birthday Gala 7.45 Hollywood: Singing and
Dancing (AD) 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected
10.00 Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave 11.00
Music Icons: Alt Rock 11.30 Dave Stewart
and Eurythmics: Video Killed the Radio Star
12 noon National Treasures: the Art of
Collecting (AD) 1.00pm Tales of the
Unexpected 2.00 Discovering: Jason
Robards 3.00 Matisse: from Tate Modern
and MoMA 4.00 Guy Garvey: from the
Vaults 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected
6.00pm Discovering: Richard Dreyfuss
A glimpse into the life and career of the
Oscar-winning Hollywood actor.
7.00 Anyone Can Sing Six participants
are put through their paces as their voices
are transformed from screeching in the
shower to singing like a real soprano.
8.00 New. The Directors Antoine Fuqua,
whose films include The Replacement Killers.
9.00 FILM A Run for Your Money ★★
Comedy starring Donald Houston and Moira
Lister. Two Welsh miners get into a series of
scrapes when they spend a day in London
after winning a competition. (BW) (W)
10.45 New. Why Me Short drama.
11.00 The Movies Cinema in the 1970s,
including films that pushed boundaries.

Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am The Great War in Numbers (AD)
7.58 World War II from Above 8.58 Secret
Nazi Bases 10.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD)
12 noon The Architecture the Railways Built
(AD) 1.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
2.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00 World
War II from Above 5.00 Secret Nazi Bases
6.00pm Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce
presents from Minehead Railway Station.
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys
From Wokingham to Bradford-on-Avon.
7.30 Michael Portillo travels from
Chippenham to Gloucester, visiting Bristol Zoo.
8.00 New. Bangers and Cash 12/15
Series 5. Derek has three scooters to collect,
while also finding room for a Daimler. (AD)
9.00 RT CHOICE New. Scouting for Toys
2/10. Featuring Graham Hamilton, who has
collected every Matchbox model car released
between 1961 and 1982, amassing more than
2,000 vehicles. See page 91. (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash A rare 1980s
Sierra Cosworth draws in a crowd of fans.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering A village
ruin that is now pitted and scarred. (AD)

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Tue/Wed 6.30pm C4
(AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
9.00 Married at First Sight Australia 10.20
Rude(ish) Tube Shorts 10.30 The Big Bang
Theory (AD) 11.00 Young Sheldon (AD)
12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm
The Big Bang Theory (AD) 3.00 Young
Sheldon (AD) 4.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 2/24
Series 5. Amy is caught in a battle of wills
between Sheldon and Penny. (AD)
6.30 3/24. Leonard inadvertently gives the
impression he is attracted to Amy. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks The Hutchinsons
are all smiles as they make up for lost time.
Cast pp 83/103 Rptd tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)

7.30 New. Married at First Sight Australia
The couples return from Homestay Week
and head to the penultimate Dinner Party.
9.00 Naked Attraction. Flight attendant
Alex hopes he can find the perfect man. (AD)
10.00 A 60-year-old entertainer hopes to
find the perfect partner. (AD)
11.05 Gogglebox Britain’s Got Talent: the
Champions is among the appraised. (SL) (AD)
12.15am First Dates (SL) (AD) 1.20 Rick and
Morty (AD) 1.50 New. Robot Chicken (AD) 2.15
Married at First Sight Australia 3.35 Below Deck:
Mediterranean (AD) 4.25 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA 5.15—6.00am Mike & Molly

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00 Celebrity
Antiques Road Trip 11.00 Antiques Road Trip 12 noon
Money for Nothing 1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00
Animal Cops Houston (AD) 4.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees
5.00 Countryside 999 6.00 Money for Nothing
7.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 8.00 Antiques
Road Trip 9.00 New. Paranormal: Caught on Camera
10.00 New. Kindred Spirits 11.00 Ghost Adventures
1.00am Kindred Spirits 2.00 Shopping 4.00 Animal
Cops Houston 5.00—6.00am Pit Bulls and Parolees

12 midnight Freddie Mercury: the Tribute Concert
1.50am The Strange Life of Dr Frankenstein
2.50 Philip Larkin by Andrew Motion (AD) 3.50
Life and Rhymes: double bill 4.50 Arts Uncovered
5.00—6.00am Landmark (AD)

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am Four in a Bed 9.30 Couples Come
Dine with Me 11.30 A Place in the Sun
1.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 A New Life in the Sun 3.30 Come Dine
with Me: dinner parties in Mansfield
6.00pm A Place in the Sun Finding a
holiday home in the historic city of Jerez.
7.00 Grand Designs Building a Romaninspired home on land surrounding a
historic abbey in Hertfordshire. (AD)
8.00 Inside the Superbrands Ep 1.
Helen Skelton uncovers the inside secrets
of some of Britain’s most popular brands.
This episode sees her venture behind the
scenes at Heinz. Shown Sun 8pm C4 (AD)
9.00 Rescue: Extreme Medics 2/5. At a
farm in Dumfries and Galloway, 41-year-old Max
has been crushed beneath a dumper truck. (AD)
10.00 FILM The Hitman’s Bodyguard
★★★★ Action comedy starring Ryan
Reynolds. Still smarting from a bungled job,
security expert Michael Bryce has the chance
to redeem himself by delivering hired killer
Darius Kincaid to court. Review p27. (AD)
12.25am Nikki Grahame: Who Is She? (AD) 1.30
The Big Fat Quiz of Everything 3.40 Eight out of
Ten Cats Does Countdown 4.30—5.00am
Cadbury Exposed: a Dispatches investigation (AD)

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.20 World’s Greatest
Motorcycle Rides 7.10 Shed and Buried 8.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 9.00 Jimmy Doherty’s
Dream Builds on Wheels 10.00 Chasing Classic
Cars 11.00 Vintage Voltage (AD) 12 noon Wheeler
Dealers 1.00pm LIVE Darts 3.30 Three Men Four
Wheels 4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage Hunters:
the Restorers (AD) 6.00 Wheeler Dealers 7.00
Aussie Gold Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00
New. Wheeler Dealers 10.00 Chasing Classic Cars
11.00 How Do They Do It? 12 midnight Wheeler
Dealers (AD) 1.00am Disasters at Sea (AD) 2.00
Iron Resurrection 3.00 Fantomworks 4.00 Mega
Shippers 5.00—6.00am New. Darts: highlights

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

19

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Storage Hunters
UK: double bill 10.00 Top Gear (AD) 11.00
Expedition with Steve Backshall (AD)
12 noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Top Gear
(AD) 2.00 Expedition with Steve Backshall (AD)
3.00 Rick Stein’s Mediterranean Escapes (AD)
4.00 Bangers and Cash 5.00 Rick Stein’s
India: the chef enjoys Parsee hospitality (AD)
6.00pm Taskmaster 8/10 Series 9
Ed Gamble dons a baby’s bonnet.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Guests include Rachel Riley and JB Gill.
7.40 Would I Lie to You? With Robert Webb,
Terry Wogan, Katy Wix and Kevin Bridges.
8.20 QI XL With guests Johnny Vegas,
Ronni Ancona and Jimmy Carr.
9.00 With guests Alan Davies, Tom Allen,
Jimmy Carr and Lou Sanders.
10.00 RT CHOICE New. Meet the
Richardsons 6/10 Series 3. Jon kicks off
his serious acting career by landing a role
in Line of Duty. See page 91. (AD)
10.40 Mock the Week Triple bill.
12.40am QI XL 1.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.30
Live at the Apollo: with Phil Wang and Rachel Parris
3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131

W

25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am My Dream Home 8.00 Tipping
Point 10.00 The Bill 11.00 Inside the Vets
12 noon Inside the Ambulance (AD) 2.00pm
Tipping Point 4.00 My Dream Home
6.00pm MasterChef USA Chef Roy Choi
joins the top nine for their next challenge.
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes
A home which is no longer functional.
8.00 New. Inside the Ambulance Paramedics
treat a pensioner with a head injury and a
two-year-old who’s had a seizure. (AD)
9.00 16 Kids and Counting The daily lives
of seven of Britain’s largest families.
10.00 One Born Every Minute A family man
looks forward to the arrival of his fifth child.
11.00 Inside the Ambulance As 8pm.
12 midnight Women behind Bars with Trevor
McDonald 1.00—3.00am Tipping Point

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment
News 12 noon Law & Order 3.55pm
Entertainment News 4.00 Law & Order
6.00pm NCIS Series 10. Triple bill. An NCIS
armoury employee is murdered 7.00 Ducky
reopens a 12-year-old case 8.00 Survivors
of a helicopter crash are discovered (AD)
9.00 New. Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit Series 22. The SVU searches for three
women First shown on Sky Witness 10.00 Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit Series 14. Four
episodes. A baby is abducted 11.00 A sports
reporter seeks help 11.55 A boy is kidnapped
12.55am A girl disappears at a Manhattan
college party 1.55 Hannibal: double bill
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00—3.00am The Great War in Numbers (AD)

Dave

21

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Entertainment News 8.05 Rich
Kids Go Skint 8.55 Room to Improve 10.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Filthy
House SOS 12 noon Traffic Cops 2.00pm
Police Interceptors 5.00 Shoplifters and
Scammers: at War with the Law
6.00pm Home and Away Mia surprises Chloe
with a bridesmaid dress. Shown 1.15pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Tane and Nikau look for Chloe.
Repeated tomorrow 1.15pm C5 (AD)

7.00 Filthy House SOS In south Wales.
8.00 Hotel Benidorm: Sun, Sea and Sangria
Abi takes charge of reception.
9.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car
Back! The work of vehicle recovery crews.
10.00 FILM Empire State ★★ Crime
drama starring Liam Hemsworth. After
taking a job as a security guard at an
armoured car company, Chris Potamitis lets
slip to an old friend how vulnerable the
facility is, setting in motion a daring heist.

12 midnight FILM Anaconda ★★★ 1.50am Mobs
and Yobs: Caught on Camera (AD) 2.50 Room to
Improve 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

5 Action

33

Thursday Television

12.10am Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown
1.15 The Dog House (AD) 2.20 24 Hours in A&E
(AD) 3.25—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD)

5 USA

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
9.25 Traffic Cops 11.20 Trucking Hell
12.25pm FILM The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
★★★★ Fantasy adventure starring Kerwin
Mathew 2.10 FILM The Indian Fighter ★★★
Western starring Kirk Douglas 4.00 Trucking
Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops: under Attack
6.00pm Traffic Cops Thieves smash
through closed level crossing barriers.
7.00 Police Interceptors In Warrington, a
suspected cannabis grower vigorously resists
arrest by dog handler Mark Sheenan.
8.00 Traffic Cops: under Siege A unit set
up to tackle North Yorkshire’s drug dealers.
9.00 New. Trucking Hell In Hertfordshire,
Sean tries to shift a tractor unit and trailer
fully laden with 27 tonnes of wood.
10.00 A truck careers off the A1 and
becomes tangled in live electrics. (AD)
11.00 Wrestling With the superstars of WWE.
12 midnight New. Wrestling 1.00am 999:
Criminals Caught on Camera (AD) 2.00 Car
Thieves and Thugs: Caught on Camera (AD) 3.00
Idiot TV 3.50 Concorde: 120 Seconds to Disaster
4.35—5.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 10.00
The Yorkshire Vet (AD) 11.00 The Yorkshire
Vet Casebook 12 noon The Dog Rescuers
with Alan Davies (AD) 2.00pm GPs: behind
Closed Doors (AD) 5.00 The Yorkshire Vet
6.00pm Watercolour Challenge Four
amateur artists tackle the River Usk.
7.00 Our Yorkshire Farm Reuben helps his
parents with their biggest job of the summer.
8.00 As the summer holidays come to an end
five-year-old Nancy gets ready to start school.
9.00 Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot
and Miss Marple A look at the writer’s life
and ten of her most famous books.
10.30 80s Greatest Pop Videos A look
back at the greatest pop videos of 1981.
12.35am Wogan: Now You’re Talking 2.00 The
World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys: double bill
3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p98

95

Freeview, satellite

THURSDAY
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p94
5.35am Peppa Pig 5.40 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Mya Go 6.05
Peppa Pig 6.20 Kid-E-Cats 6.30 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.50 Fireman Sam 7.00
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! 7.10
Peppa Pig 7.25 Paw Patrol 7.40 Milo
7.55 Pip and Posy 8.05 The Adventures
of Paddington 8.25 Ricky Zoom 8.35
Peppa Pig 8.40 Daisy & Ollie 8.50
Odo 8.55 Ben and Holly’s Little
Kingdom 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies

Television Thursday

CBeebies

202

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Go Jetters 6.10 Bing 6.20
Teletubbies 6.35 School of Roars 6.45
Chuggington 6.55 Tish Tash 7.00 Bing
7.10 Hey Duggee 7.25 Bluey 7.40 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
Love Monster 8.30 Nick Cope’s Popcast
8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Alphablocks
9.20 Go Jetters 9.45 Something
Special 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 New.
The Toddler Club 10.35 Hey Duggee
10.45 Tee and Mo 10.50 Kiri & Lou
10.55 Love Monster 11.05 Pablo 11.15
Let’s Go for a Walk 11.30 Teeny Tiny
Creatures 11.45 Our Family 12 noon
Big Cook Little Cook 12.20pm Timmy
Time 12.25 Waffle the Wonder Dog
12.35 Bitz & Bob 12.45 Go Jetters
1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.10 Numberblocks
1.15 Alphablocks 1.20 Dog Loves
Books 1.25 Hey Duggee 1.35 Love
Monster 1.40 Nick Cope’s Popcast 1.45
Something Special 2.10 Teletubbies
2.25 Bing 2.30 Go Jetters 2.40
Timmy Time 2.45 Maddie’s Do You
Know? 3.00 Down on the Farm 3.15
Swashbuckle 3.40 Hey Duggee 3.50
Peter Rabbit 4.00 Andy’s Dinosaur
Adventures 4.15 Grace’s Amazing
Machines 4.30 Dog Loves Books
4.40 Love Monster 4.45 Bluey 4.55
GiggleQuiz 5.10 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 5.20 Go Jetters 5.35 JoJo &
Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10
Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden...
6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime
Stories: a tale for younger viewers

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New.
Newsround 7.55 Ninja Express 8.10
Odd Squad 8.20 Blue Peter Challenges
8.30 Operation Ouch! 9.00 FILM
Ratchet & Clank ★★ Animated comedy
adventure 10.30 Secret Life of Boys
11.20 Nine Minute Ninja 11.30 Class
Dismissed 11.40 OOglies Funsize 11.50
Shaun the Sheep 11.55 Danger Mouse
12.20pm Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 12.40 Dennis & Gnasher
Unleashed! 1.05 Step Up to the Plate
2.00 The Dumping Ground 2.30
Mystic 3.00 Horrible Histories 3.30
Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 3.40
Danger Mouse 3.55 Boy Girl Dog Cat
Mouse Cheese 4.05 Ninja Express
4.20 Danger Mouse 4.45 Odd Squad
5.10 We Bare Bears 5.25 Summer Camp
Island 5.35 Princess Mirror-Belle 6.00
Thirteen: a Newsround Special 6.25
My Life 6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am Gormiti 3D: the Herald of
Gorm 6.30 Thunderbirds Are Go 6.55
Inspector Gadget 7.25 Teen Titans Go!
7.55 Dare Master 8.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 8.30 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 9.00 Scooby-Doo
in Where’s My Mummy? 10.25 Buck
and Buddy 10.30 Jurassic World Camp
Cretaceous 11.30 The Rubbish World of
Dave Spud 12 noon Inspector Gadget
1.00pm Makeaway Takeaway 1.30
Don’t Unleash the Beast 2.00 Mr Bean
3.00 Teen Titans Go! 3.30 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 4.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 4.30 Inspector Gadget
5.00 The Rubbish World of Dave Spud
6.00 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
6.30 Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy?
8.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

American Oz 6.35pm Writer

Inside the Factory 8.00pm

L Frank Baum’s life story

Gregg dips into mayonnaise

PBS America

84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.00am American Oz (S) 9.10
New. Benjamin Franklin: a Film by
Ken Burns 11.35 Nazi Hunters
12.30pm Beautiful Serengeti 1.00
American Oz (S) 2.15 Benjamin
Franklin: a Film by Ken Burns 4.40
Europe’s Waterways: a journey
through Poland 5.35 Nazi Hunters
6.35pm American Oz 1/2.
The story of L Frank Baum, writer
of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
which remains one of America’s
most enduring tales. (S)
7.45 Benjamin Franklin: a Film
by Ken Burns 2/2. Franklin leaves
London and returns to wartime
Philadelphia, where he helps
Thomas Jefferson craft the
Declaration of Independence.
10.05 Nazi Hunters 4/8
How journalists brought Erich
Priebke to justice, after finding his
address in a phonebook.
11.00 American Oz As 6.35pm.
12.10am Benjamin Franklin: a Film
by Ken Burns 2.25 Nazi Hunters
3.10—4.00am Europe’s Waterways
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

Pick

36

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD) 7.00
Epic Yellowstone (HD) 10.00 Into
the Wild Tibet (HD) 11.00 Gorillas of
Gabon (HD) 12 noon Jaguarland
(HD) 1.00pm America’s Hidden
Stories (HD) 4.00 Custer’s Last
Stand: Battle of Little Bighorn (HD)
5.00 Lincoln’s Last Day (HD)
6.00pm Lincoln’s Washington
at War A look at Washington DC
in the 1860s. (HD)
7.00 Last Emperor of Mexico The
reign of Maximilian I of Mexico. (HD)
8.00 Inside the Factory 5/6
Series 3. Gregg Wallace
investigates the production of
sauces in the Netherlands. (HD)
9.00 Impossible Repairs 1/6
A quest to pull valuable timber
from the forest. (HD)
10.00 Combat Ships Ep 6
Series 3. Naval armaments
through history. (HD)
11.00 6/8 Series 2. The defeat
of the Spanish Armada. (HD)
12 midnight Impossible Repairs
(HD) 1.00am Air Warriors (HD)
3.00—6.00am Aerial America (HD)

HGTV

44

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286

7.00am Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (AD) 8.00 Motorway Patrol
9.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 10.00
Police Ten 7 11.00 Highway Cops (AD)
12 noon Highway Patrol (AD) 1.00pm
Border Patrol 2.00 Border Security:
Canada’s Front Line (AD) 3.00 Nothing
to Declare (AD) 4.00 Stargate SG-1
5.00 Star Trek: the Next Generation
6.00 Stargate Atlantis 7.00 Hawaii
Five-0 8.00 Killer in My Village: the
killing of a housesitting grandmother
9.00 Delicious (AD) 10.00 Grimm
11.00 Killer Colleagues 12 midnight
Britain’s Most Evil Killers 1.00am The
Force: North East 2.00 Nothing to
Declare (AD) 3.00 Border Patrol
4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00—6.00am
Police Force: Australia (AD)

7.00am Homes under the Hammer
8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 9.00
A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape to the
Country 12 noon My Lottery Dream
Home 1.00pm Fixer to Fabulous 2.00
A Place in the Sun 3.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 4.00 Sarah Beeny’s
Renovate Don’t Relocate 5.00 Homes
under the Hammer 6.00 A Place in the
Sun 7.00 Escape to the Country 8.00
Love Your Garden 9.00 My Lottery
Dream Home 10.00 New. Christina on
the Coast: Christina helps her best
friend Cassie tackle a master bathroom
renovation 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight Escape to the Country
1.00am DIY SOS (AD) 2.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 3.00—4.00am
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

CBS Justice

41

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00
The Fugitive 12 noon Perry Mason
(BW) 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger
3.00 CSI: Miami 4.00 NCIS 5.00
The Fugitive 6.00 Perry Mason
(BW) 7.05 Walker, Texas Ranger
9.00 CSI: Miami 10.00 NCIS
11.00 Diagnosis Murder
1.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 2.55 JAG
3.55 Donal MacIntyre’s Murder Files
4.45—6.00am Medical Detectives

CBS Drama

68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
9.00am Perry Mason 11.00
Matlock 12 noon Medium 1.00pm
JAG 3.00 Perry Mason (BW)
5.00 Unsolved Mysteries 6.55
Judge Judy 9.00 Medium: Allison
has a vision that shows how the
defendant in a murder case could
avert a disaster 10.00 Unsolved
Mysteries 11.55 Judge Judy
2.00am Medium 3.00 Evidence of Evil
4.00 Written In Blood: the murder of
James Bulger 5.00—6.00am Matlock

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

96

Smithsonian

Great TV

50

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Charlie’s Angels 7.00 Crazy
like a Fox 8.00 Highway to Heaven
10.00 FILM Danielle Steel’s A Perfect
Stranger ★★ 11.50 GREAT! Movie
News Extra 12 noon Sue Thomas:
F.B.Eye 1.00pm Perception 2.00
Body of Proof 3.00 Castle 4.00
Murder, She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H
9.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1.00am M*A*S*H 3.00 Hart to Hart
3.45 Crazy like a Fox 4.30—6.00am
Highway to Heaven: double bill

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am House of Lords: coverage of
the day’s proceedings in the House of
Lords from Wednesday 6 April 10.30
Political Highlights: recorded coverage
of political and parliamentary highlights
11.00 Live House of Lords: live coverage
of proceedings in the House of Lords
7.00pm House of Lords: recorded
coverage 3.00—6.00am House of
Lords: proceedings from Thursday 7 April

A League of Their Own Road
Trip: Dingle to Dover 9.00pm

Sky Showcase

Sky Atlantic

Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Kay Burley 8.00 Gangs of Baboon
Falls (S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare
(S) (HD) 10.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00
NCIS: New Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 S.W.A.T.
(S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Modern Family (S)
(HD) 4.00 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00 The Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.30
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD)
6.30pm The Simpsons (S) (HD)
8.00 An Idiot Abroad 6/8 Series 1
Karl Pilkington heads for Christ the
Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. (S) (HD)
9.00 New series. A League of
Their Own Road Trip: Dingle to
Dover 1/6. Freddie Flintoff and
Jamie Redknapp travel around
Britain and Ireland. (HD)
10.00 New. Resident Alien 7/8
Series 2. Harry and Asta find what
they are looking for. (S) (HD)
11.00 Wellington Paranormal
Ep 1 Series 4. An investigation
leads to a confrontation. (HD)
11.30 Peacemaker 3/8
Economos and Murn bond on
their first official mission. (S)
12.30am The Force: Manchester (S)
1.30 Caught on Dashcam (S) 2.30
Road Wars (S) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0
(S) (HD) 4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00—6.00am The Early Rundown
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

Challenge

48

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 10.00 Play Your
Cards Right (AD) 11.00 The Price Is
Right 12 noon Wheel of Fortune (AD)
1.00pm Catchphrase (AD) 2.00
Family Fortunes (AD) 3.00 The Price
Is Right 4.00 Play Your Cards Right
(AD) 5.00 Bullseye 6.00 Tenable
7.00 Pointless Celebrities: doubling
up for the latest run of the quiz are
presenters Anne Diamond and Nick
Owen, singing siblings Jedward,
sporting stars Mark Foster and
Kelly Sotherton and comedians
Katherine Ryan and Russell Kane.
Presented by Alexander Armstrong
and Richard Osman 8.00 The
Chase 10.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? 11.00 Bullseye
12 midnight The Chase: five editions of
the quiz show 5.00—6.00am Bullseye

Forces TV

My Brilliant Friend 9.00pm

Elena has a disagreement

96

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30 Ten Things
You Don’t Know about... 6.55 Digging
for the Truth 7.55 Spenser: for Hire
8.55 Watching 10.00 No Place like
Home 10.35 Sorry! 11.15 The Brittas
Empire 12.30pm No Place like Home
1.05 Sorry! 1.40 Ten Things You Don’t
Know about... 2.05 Digging for the
Truth 3.00 Superjet: Secrets of the
Tornado 4.00 My Secret Falklands War
5.00 Ten Things You Don’t Know
about... 5.30 Forces News 6.00
Watching 7.10 The Brittas Empire 8.30
Sorry! 9.05 The Man From Atlantis
11.05 UFO 12.05am Watching: double
bill 1.10 Spenser: for Hire 2.05 Digging
for the Truth 3.05 Ten Things You
Don’t Know about... 4.00 Superjet:
Secrets of the Tornado 5.00—6.00am
My Secret Falklands War

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel
Secrets (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Totti: One
Captain (S) 9.00 CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation (S) (HD) 10.00 The
Sopranos (S) (HD) 12.15pm Game of
Thrones (S) (AD) 1.20 Six Feet Under
(S) 3.30 Ray Donovan (S) (AD) (HD)
5.40pm The Sopranos 2/21
Series 6. Carmela and Meadow hold
a vigil at Tony’s bedside. (S) (AD) (HD)
6.50 3/21. Paulie and Cary
DiBartolo find a vast amount of
cash during a raid. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 2/6
Series 8. After arriving at
Winterfell, Jaime Lannister is
confronted with the consequences
of his past mistakes. (S) (AD)
9.00 New. My Brilliant Friend
7/8 Series 3. Elena embraces
the feminist cause and has a
quarrel with Pietro. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. 8/8. While on
holiday, Lila’s son Gennaro fights
with Elena’s daughters. Italian
+subtitles. See page 91. (S) (HD)
11.30 Raised by Wolves Ep 1
Series 2 Return of the sci-fi drama
starring Amanda Collin. Android
partners Mother and Father and
their brood of six join a new colony.
12.35am Banshee (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—6.00am Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (S) (AD) (HD)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

a

Sky Witness
Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)
8.00 Border Patrol (S) 9.00 Send
in the Dogs (S) 10.00 UK Border
Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order (HD) 12 noon Bull (HD)
1.00pm Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
4.00 Paramedics Australia (S) (HD)
5.00 Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)
8.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
New. The Rookie: a severed hand is
found (HD) 10.00 New series.
Transplant (S) (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (HD)
12 midnight Chicago Med (HD)
1.00am Chicago Fire (HD) 2.00
Chicago PD (HD) 3.00 Bull (HD) 4.00
Road Wars (S) 5.00—6.00am Brit
Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD) (HD)

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Syfy
Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Quantum Leap 7.00 Star
Trek: Enterprise 11.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 12 noon Stargate Atlantis
1.00pm The Librarians 2.00 V
3.00 Fringe 4.00 Stargate
Atlantis 5.00 Stargate SG-1
6.00pm Star Trek: Enterprise
7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00 Fringe:
Peter sets out to find the missing
Olivia 9.00 FILM Robin Hood:
the Rebellion ★ 11.00 Stargate
SG-1: a Tok’ra scientist provides
power-enhancing armbands
12 midnight Grimm 1.00am Stargate
Atlantis 2.00 Star Trek: Enterprise
3.00 Star Trek: Voyager 4.00 Fringe
5.00—6.00am V: the Visitors appear

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

An Idiot Abroad 8.00pm

Karl is bound for Brazil

Sky Max

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
(S) 8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.00 My Kitchen Rules:
Australia (S) (HD) 12.30pm Total
Wipeout (S) (AD) 1.30 Ninja Warrior
Women Tournament (S) (HD) 2.00
Stargate Atlantis (S) (HD) 4.00
Quantum Leap (S) (HD) 6.00 Most
Haunted (S) 8.00 Road Wars (S)
(HD) 9.00 Hooten and the Lady:
Ella is kidnapped (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(HD) 11.00 A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Dingle to Dover (HD)
12 midnight Resident Alien (S) (HD)
1.00am The Rookie (HD) 2.00 A
League of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD)
5.00—6.00am Most Haunted US (S)

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00
Send in the Dogs (S) 8.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (S) (AD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare
(S) (HD) 10.00 Brit Cops: Law &
Disorder (S) (AD) 11.00 Road Wars (S)
12 noon Forensics: Catching the Killer
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm How I Caught the
Killer (S) (HD) 2.00 Most Evil Killers (S)
(HD) 4.00 Murders That Shocked the
Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Killer
Neighbours (S) (HD) 6.00 Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 7.00 Murders That
Shocked the Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00
Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 9.00 Mark of
a Serial Killer (S) (HD) 10.00 Killer in My
Village (S) 11.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
1.00am New York Homicide (S) (HD)
2.00 as 10pm 3.00 as 1pm 4.00 as
10am 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Gold
Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.10am Last of the Summer Wine
(S) 7.55 Jam and Jerusalem (S)
8.30 2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD)
9.10 Hi-de-Hi! (S) 9.50 Porridge (S)
10.30 as 4.30pm 11.50 as 7.40pm
12.30pm as 3.50pm 1.10 Hi-de-Hi!
(S) 1.50 2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD)
2.30 Desmond’s 3.05 as 7.40pm
3.50 Dad’s Army: the Lost Episodes
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.30 Last of the
Summer Wine (S) 5.50 Porridge (S)
6.30pm Desmond’s
7.05 Hi-de-Hi! (S)
7.40 Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth arranges a social event. (S)
8.20 Dad’s Army: the Lost
Episodes The platoon suspects
that someone has been signalling
to enemy aircraft. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. Billy Connolly Does...
7/7. A look at how fame has
taken Billy to some weird and
wonderful places. (AD) (HD)
10.00 Men Behaving Badly (S)
10.40 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
With Harry Redknapp, Maya Jama
and Mick Hucknall. (S) (HD)
11.40 Live at the Apollo With Rhod
Gilbert and John Bishop. (S) (HD)
12.40am Peep Show (S) (HD) 1.50
as 10pm 2.35 Jam and Jerusalem
(S) 3.05—4.00am as 11.40pm
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am Parks and Recreation (S) (HD)
9.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
(HD) 10.00 Will & Grace (S) (HD)
11.30 The Office US (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Mindy Project (S) (HD) 12.50pm
Curb Your Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 2.00
A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 3.00 Modern Family
(S) (HD) 4.00 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00 The Office US (S) (HD) 5.30 The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD)
6.30 Will & Grace (S) (HD) 9.00 Sex
and the City: double bill. Samantha
dates a club owner, then the girls attend
a funeral (S) (HD) 10.00 Tig Notaro:
Drawn (S) (HD) 11.00 Wellington
Paranormal (HD) 11.30 The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD)
12.30am: New. The Late Late Show
with James Corden (HD) 1.30 Bored to
Death (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Everybody Hates Chris (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Last Man Standing (S) (HD)
9.00 My Wife and Kids (S) (HD) 11.00
Younger (S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Michael McIntyre’s Big
Show: with Rob Beckett, Romeo of the
Cirque du Soleil, Years and Years and
Bruno Tonioli (S) (HD) 10.00 The
Complaints Department: double bill.
With comedians Sara Pascoe, John
Thompson, Shazia Mirza and Fern
Brady, then Sarah Millican, Nick Helm,
Catherine Bohart and Daliso Chaponda
(S) (HD) 12 midnight Michael McIntyre:
Live and Laughing: recorded in 2008
(S) (HD) 1.20am The Ricky Gervais
Show (S) (HD) 2.20 Impractical Jokers
(S) (HD) 3.05 South Park (S) (HD)
3.55—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

Murdoch Mysteries 9.00pm

A murder occurs at Christmas

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Major Crimes (S) (HD) 11.00 Rizzoli
& Isles (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Death
in Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm
Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Murdoch Mysteries: double bill (S)
(HD) 4.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD)
5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD)
6.00pm Death in Paradise 8/8
Series 2. The host of a charity
fundraiser is shot dead. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Rizzoli & Isles 8/18 Series 5
A woman suffers fatal gunshot
wounds outside a nightclub, and
suspicion falls on her husband until
he too is found dead. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Hudson & Rex 11/16 Series 1
When an activist is killed during a
break-in at a water bottling plant,
the evidence seems to point towards
his partner-in-crime. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Murdoch Mysteries 11/12
Series 15. Murdoch and company’s
Christmas at an idyllic country
estate turns deadly. (HD)
10.00 12/12. Murdoch looks into
the suspicious death of a stage
manager after a going-away party
for Mary Pickford. (HD)
11.00 Death in Paradise As 6pm.
12 midnight Unforgettable (S) (HD)
1.00am Limetown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.15—
4.00am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

Discovery

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
9.00pm The comedian

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Inside the Freemasons (S)
(AD) (HD) 7.00 Discovering: John
Malkovich (S) (HD) 8.00 The
Directors (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Too
Young to Die (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
The 2000s (S) (HD) 11.00 100 Foot
Wave (HD) 12 noon For No Good
Reason (HD) 1.40pm My Icon:
Nasser Hussain (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
The United Way (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00
Discovering: John Malkovich (S) (HD)
5.00 The Directors (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Too Young to Die
A profile of Bruce Lee. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 The 2000s A reflective
look at George W Bush’s second
term as president. (S) (HD)
8.00 100 Foot Wave Nazare’s
largest swell to date paves the
way for a broken record. (HD)
9.00 Richard Pryor: Omit the
Logic A profile of the pioneering
comedian, chronicling his career as
one of the most controversial comic
actors of the 20th century. (HD)
10.40 Foreman Exploring the
career and personal transformation
of George Foreman, the 1970s
heavyweight boxing champ. (S) (HD)
12.20am Wirecard: a Billion Euro
Lie (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 The Amazing
Johnathan Documentary (S) (HD)
4.10 Discovering: John Malkovich:
a profile of the actor (S) 5.00—
6.00am 100 Foot Wave (HD)

Nat Geographic

Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms
9.00pm A vervet monkey

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am Mysteries of Evolution (S)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Gangs of Baboon Falls (S) (HD) 9.00
Guardians of the Wild (S) 10.00
Africa’s Wild Year (S) 11.00 Brazil
Untamed (S) 12 noon Over
Australia (S) 1.00pm Monkey Life
(S) (AD) 2.00 Gangs of Baboon Falls
(S) (HD) 3.00 Guardians of the Wild
National Park (S) 4.00 Africa’s Wild
Year (S) 5.00 Brazil Untamed (S)
6.00pm Over Australia 1/2
Aerial footage of the Australian
wilderness, featuring Uluru. (S)
7.00 Monkey Life When Paddy’s
group receives treats, chimp Bart
gets up to mischief. (S) (AD)
7.30 The chimp team suspects
Cherri might be pregnant. (S) (AD)
8.00 Surviving the Amazon
The predators of the Amazon. (S)
9.00 Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms
A look at the Cloud Mountains of
South Africa. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Brazil Untamed A profile
of the jaguar, the largest cat in all
of the Americas. (S)
11.00 Over Australia As 6pm.
12 midnight A Wild Year on Earth
1.00am Malawi Wildlife Rescue (S)
(HD) 2.00 Surviving the Amazon
(S) 3.00 Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Gangs of Baboon
Falls (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Guardians of the Wild (S)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00
Treehouse Masters (S) (HD) 8.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue (S) (HD) 9.00 Alaska:
the Last Frontier (S) (HD) 10.00 Combat
Dealers (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers
(S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Mighty Truckers
(HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush: White Water (HD)
3.00 Disasters Engineered (S) (HD)
4.00 Building Off the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00
Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 6.00 Misfit
Garage (S) (HD) 7.00 Outback Truckers
(S) (HD) 8.00 Bad Chad Customs (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Building Off the Grid (HD)
10.00 New. Naked and Afraid (HD) 11.30
How It’s Made (S) (HD) 12 midnight
Building Off the Grid (HD) 1.00am Naked
and Afraid (HD) 2.30 How It’s Made (S)
(HD) 3.00 Building Off the Grid (HD)
4.00 Fast ’n’ Loud (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00am Car SOS (S) (HD) 10.00 Ice
Road Rescue (HD) 12 noon Wicked
Tuna: North v South (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Wicked Tuna (S) (HD) 2.00 Drain the
Oceans (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Car SOS (S)
(HD) 5.00 Air Crash Investigation (S)
(HD) 6.00 Alaska: the Next Generation
(HD) 7.00 Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Ice Road Rescue: blizzards bring chaos to
Norway’s roads (HD) 10.00 New series
Lawless Island: after a tragic house fire,
the residents of Port Protection must
confront their grief (HD) 11.00 Air Crash
Investigation: British Airways Flight 38’s
crash landing in 2008 (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight New. Science of Stupid (HD)
1.00am Trafficked with Mariana Van
Zeller (HD) 2.00 Drugs Inc (HD) 3.00
Nazi Megastructures (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00—
5.00am Lost Treasures of Egypt (HD)

9.00am Life in the Air (HD) 10.00
Mountain Gorilla (HD) 11.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 12 noon Baby Chimp Rescue
(HD) 2.00pm Life in the Air (HD) 3.00
Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life (HD)
5.00 Mountain Gorilla (HD) 6.00 Baby
Chimp Rescue (HD) 7.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 8.00 Life in the Air (HD)
9.00 Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life
(HD) 10.00 Baby Chimp Rescue (HD)
11.00 Mountain Gorilla (HD) 12 midnight
Life in the Air (HD) 1.00am Mexico:
Earth’s Festival of Life (HD) 2.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 3.00 Mountain Gorilla
(HD) 3.50 Rescued Chimpanzees of
the Congo with Jane Goodall (HD)
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am Devonport: inside the Royal
Navy (S) 7.00 Mysteries of the Missing
(S) 8.00 Ultimate Warfare (S) 9.00 Nasa’s
Unexplained Files (S) 10.00 Mysteries
at the Museum 11.00 Mysteries of the
Missing (S) 12 noon Combat Dealers (S)
1.00pm Expedition Unknown (S) 2.00
Edge of War (S) 3.00 Lost World of the
Colosseum (S) (AD) 4.00 Mysteries at
the Museum 5.00 Ultimate Warfare (S)
6.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) 7.00
Expedition Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat
Dealers (S) 9.00 Legendary Locations
(S) (AD) 10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files
(S) 11.00 Aircraft Stories (S) 12 midnight
Combat Dealers (S) 2.00am as 10pm
3.00 Aircraft Stories (S) 4.00 Lost
World of the Colosseum (S) (AD) 5.00—
6.00am Mysteries at the Museum

6.00am Secrets in the Ice (HD) 8.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 American
Pickers (HD) 11.00 World’s Greatest
Treasure Mysteries (HD) 12 noon
Legends of the Pharaohs (HD) 1.00pm
Forged in Fire (HD) 2.00 American
Pickers (HD) 4.00 Secrets in the Ice
(HD) 6.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00
Forged in Fire (HD) 8.00 Secrets of the
Viking Stone (HD) 9.00 New. Forged in
Fire: three smiths who suffered broken
blades have the chance for redemption
in a five-hour round (HD) 10.00 New.
Counting Cars (HD) 12 midnight
Digging for Britain (HD) 1.00am
Secrets of the Viking Stone (HD) 2.00
Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 Counting Cars
(HD) 4.00 Legends of the Pharaohs
(HD) 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars (HD)

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 K9 Cops: Dogs on Patrol 10.00
Dogs: the Untold Story (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
How Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Crocodile Hunter: Best of Steve Irwin
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Ned Bruha: Skunk
Whisperer (S) (HD) 2.00 My Cat from Hell
(S) (HD) 3.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S)
(HD) 4.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet
(S) (HD) 5.00 Dodo Heroes (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Crocodile Hunter (S) (AD) 7.00
How Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD)
8.00 Saved By the Barn (S) (HD) 9.00
Scaled (S) (HD) 10.00 I Was Prey (HD)
11.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD)
12 midnight Mountain Monsters (S)
(HD) 1.00am How Do Animals Do That?
(S) (HD) 2.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD)
3.00 as 3pm 4.00—5.00am as 4pm

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

Thursday Television

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S) 8.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow (HD) 10.00 The Flash
(S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans (S)
(HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (HD) 4.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate SG-1 18/22
Series 5. A Jaffa leader tries to
form an alliance with Earth. (S)
7.00 19/22. A dormant android is
discovered on a barren planet. (S)
8.00 An Idiot Abroad 6/8 Series 1
Karl Pilkington heads for Christ the
Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. (S) (HD)
9.00 New series. A League of
Their Own Road Trip: Dingle to
Dover 1/6. Freddie Flintoff and
Jamie Redknapp travel around
Britain and Ireland, begining with
a visit to the Irish National
Ploughing Championships. (HD)
10.00 New. Resident Alien 7/8
Series 2. Harry and Asta find what
they are looking for. (S) (HD)
11.00 Peacemaker 3/8
Economos and Murn bond on
their first official mission. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Flash (S) (HD)
1.00am Road Wars (S) (HD) 2.00
Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 4.00 S.W.A.T.
(S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Highway Patrol: double bill (S) (HD)

Billy Connolly Does...
9.00pm The impact of fame

THURSDAY 7 APRIL

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

97

THURSDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW

Television Thursday

Film4

Sky Premiere
14

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am The Blue Dahlia ★★★★
Tense film noir in which Alan Ladd
plays a murder suspect trying to
clear his name. Veronica Lake (1946, PG) (S)
1.05pm Tomahawk ★★★
Peace-loving frontier scout Van
Heflin is up against both sides
in this western. Yvonne De Carlo (1951) (S)
2.45 The Weaker Sex ★★
Sentimental drama about life on
the home front. Ursula Jeans (1948, U) (S)
4.30 Night Passage ★★ James
Stewart plays a former railroad man
who comes up against his outlaw
brother in this western. (1957, U) (S)

6.20pm Ghostbusters ★★
Paul Feig’s gender-reversed
reboot of the 1984 comedy.
Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig (2016, 12) (S) (AD)

9.00 i Like a Boss ★★
Comedy in which Salma Hayek’s
beauty mogul tries to destroy
Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish’s
friendship. Review p31. (2020, 15) (S)
10.40 The Inbetweeners
Movie ★★★ The boys from the
E4 sitcom go on holiday in this
comedy that has heart beneath
the laddish antics. Simon Bird,
Joe Thomas, James Buckley (2011, 15) (S) (AD)

12.35am Frances Ha 5
Noah Baumbach’s intimate drama
about the vagaries and minutiae of
millennial life. Greta Gerwig (2012, 15) (S) (AD)
2.20—3.30am Mistress America
5 Greta Gerwig is delightful
as the heroine in this witty
screwball comedy. Lola Kirke (2015, 15) (S)
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am Funny Face ★★★★
Musical comedy. Audrey Hepburn, Fred
Astaire (1957, U) (S) 8.05 Night of the
Prowler ★ Crime drama. Patrick Holt
(1962, PG) (S) 9.20 The Gold Express
★ Comedy crime drama. Vernon Gray, Ann
Walford (1955, U) (S) 10.30 Sleeping Car
to Trieste ★★ Spy drama. Jean Kent,
Albert Lieven (1948, PG) (S) 12.20pm Dark
City ★★★ An unhinged man seeks
revenge following his brother’s
suicide in this brooding mystery
drama. Charlton Heston (1950) (S) 2.15 The
Baby and the Battleship ★★
Comedy about a baby smuggled
aboard a Royal Navy vessel. John Mills
(1956, U) 4.15 Doctor in Trouble ★★
Leslie Phillips winds up as a steward
on board a luxury liner in this final
entry in the comedy series. (1970, PG)
6.00pm Operation Amsterdam
★★★ Effective Second World War
drama about a bunch of spies sent
into Holland to recover a hoard of
industrial diamonds before the
Nazis get to them. Peter Finch (1958, PG) (S)
8.00 Justice TV legal drama.
9.00 The Bed Sitting Room
★★★ Wonderfully bonkers
anti-war satire based on Spike
Milligan’s hit play, featuring a cast
of British greats as the unfortunate
survivors of nuclear holocaust.
Review p31. Ralph Richardson (1969, PG)
10.45 Jack the Ripper Victorian
thriller starring Michael Caine.
12.45am Games That Lovers
Play ★★ Two brothel keepers make
a bet on who has the best girls in
this tawdry 1920s-set sex comedy.
Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms, Richard Wattis
(1970) (S) 2.25 To Die For 5
Satirical crime drama. Nicole Kidman,
Matt Dillon (1995, 15) 4.35 Glimpses

5.00—6.00am Burke’s Law

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

98

The Bed Sitting Room 111 9.00pm Talking Pictures TV
In a post-nuclear England, Arthur Lowe, Peter Cook and Dudley
Moore are among the survivors trying to keep a stiff upper lip

Great Movies

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am Lost Letter Mysteries: the
Impossible Dream 11.00 A Life of
Deception ★★ Mystery drama.
Emmanuelle Vaugier (2017) 1.00pm Locked
Room Mysteries: Murder 101 3.00
Twisted Tenant ★★ Thriller. James
Maslow, Lorynn York (2018) 4.40 Roxanne
★★★★ Charming and very funny
romantic comedy that updates the
story of Cyrano de Bergerac to
present-day small-town America.
Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah (1987, PG)

6.50pm The Bounty Hunter ★★
Ex-cop Gerard Butler is assigned
to track down his reporter ex-wife
(Jennifer Aniston) in this stodgy,
knockabout romantic comedy. (2010, 12)
9.00 2 Guns ★★★★ Taut crime
caper starring Denzel Washington
and Mark Wahlberg as undercover
agents unaware of each other’s
real identity. Paula Patton (2013, 15)
11.10 The Wedding Guest ★★★
Dev Patel stars in this thriller about
a man on a kidnap mission in
Pakistan. Review p28. (2018, 15)
1.15am The Colony ★★★
Occasionally tense prison-break
drama with Emma Watson
determined to rescue Daniel Brühl
from a Chilean compound. (2015, 15)
3.30—5.50am Marie Antoinette
★★★ Director Sofia Coppola’s
stylish, anachronistic take on the
life of the 18th-century monarch.
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman (2005, 12)

+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Three Hours to Kill ★★
Western. Dana Andrews, Donna Reed (1954)
7.35 Steel Sharks ★★ Action
drama. Gary Busey (1996, 15) 9.25
Hellfighters ★★ Adventure. John
Wayne, Katharine Ross (1969, PG) 11.50 3:10
to Yuma 5 Western. Glenn Ford,
Van Heflin (1957, PG) 1.45pm Rio Diablo
★★★ Western. Kenny Rogers (1993) 3.40
For Whom the Bell Tolls ★★★ War
drama. Review p31. Ingrid Bergman (1943, U)
7.05pm Swarmed ★★ Cheesy
creature feature. Michael Shanks (2005)
9.00 Crypto ★★ Convoluted
thriller in which a young bank
auditor is drawn into a dangerous
world of corruption. Beau Knapp (2019, 15)
11.15 Into the Sun ★★ Typical
Steven Seagal thriller about an exCIA agent investigating the death
of the governor of Tokyo. (2005, 18)
1.05am Blunt Force Trauma ★★
Intriguing action thriller. (2015, 15)
2.50—4.00am The Traitors ★★★
Spy thriller. Patrick Allen (1962, U)
+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am The Woman on the
Beach ★★★★ Film noir. Joan Bennett
(1947) 7.25 What a Carve Up! ★★★
Comedy horror. Kenneth Connor (1961, U)
9.10 Roxanne ★★★★ Romantic
comedy. Steve Martin (1987, PG) 11.15 It
Should Happen to You ★★★★
Romcom. Review p29. (1954, U)
1.05pm The White Tower ★★★
Adventure. Glenn Ford, Valli (1950, U) 3.00
Hunt the Man Down ★★★ Crime
thriller. Gig Young (1951) 4.30 Cover Girl
★★★★ Enjoyable musical romantic
comedy. Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly (1944, U)
6.45pm One, Two, Three ★★★★
Cold War comedy about a
Coca-Cola executive trying to boost
sales behind the Iron Curtain. Film
of the Day: p31. James Cagney (1961, U)
9.00 Buster ★★★ Squeaky-clean
but entertaining biopic about Great
Train Robber Buster Edwards, with
Phil Collins as the chirpy criminal
and Julie Walters as his wife. (1988, 15)
11.10 Flatliners ★★★ Flashy but
clichéd supernatural thriller in
which a group of medical students
temporarily induce their own
deaths. Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts (1990, 15)
1.30am Seven Dollars on the Red
★★ Spaghetti western. (1966, 15) 3.30
Hell Squad ★★ Second World War
drama. Wally Campo (1958) 4.35—6.00am
Candlelight in Algeria ★★ Second
World War drama. James Mason (1943, U)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am First Wave 9.00 Battlestar
Galactica 10.00 Farscape 11.00
Meteorites! ★ Disaster thriller.
Tom Wopat, Roxanne Hart (1998, PG) 1.00pm
2021: War of the Worlds ★ Sci-fi
thriller. Emily Killian, Anthony Jensen, Tom
Sizemore (2021) 3.00 The 4400 4.00
Rock Monster ★★ A bunch of
student friends accidentally set
free a stone beast. Chad Collins (2008)
6.00pm Farscape Sci-fi drama.
7.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
8.00 Star Trek TV sci-fi drama.
9.00 John Carpenter’s Vampires
★★★ Rip-roaring horror in which
James Woods plays a Vaticansponsored vampire slayer. (1998, 18)
11.05 Paranormal Activity ★★★★
Surprisingly effective horror about
a couple who suspect their home
is haunted. Review p31. (2007, 15)
12.50am Martyrs ★★ Horror
thriller. Troian Bellisario, Bailey Noble (2015, 18)
2.35—4.30am Urban Legends:
Final Cut ★★ Horror thriller. Jennifer
Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner (2000, 15)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

Sky Gangsters

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
6.55am As 6.25pm 8.30 North
Hollywood ★★★ Comedy drama.
Ryder McLaughlin (2021, 15) 10.15 As 8pm
12.40pm As 10.25pm 2.40 The
Many Saints of Newark 5
Crime drama. Review p38. Alessandro
Nivola (2020, 15) 4.45 Barbarians ★★
Home-invasion thriller. (2021, 15)

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.40am Naked Singularity ★★
Comedy drama. John Boyega (2021) 8.30
2 Guns ★★★★ Crime drama. Denzel
Washington (2013, 15) 10.25 Tenet ★★★★
Spy adventure. John David Washington
(2020, 12) 1.05pm Panic Room ★★★
Thriller. Jodie Foster (2002, 15) 3.05 Heat
★★★★ Crime thriller. Al Pacino (1995, 15)

6.25pm Spirit Untamed ★★
Sweet but rather bland animated
adventure about a girl who bonds
with a lively horse. Isabela Merced (2021, U)
8.00 Fast & Furious 9 ★★★
Vin Diesel and Michelle
Rodriguez get the hard-driving
gang back together. (2021, 12)
10.25 Reminiscence ★★★
Hugh Jackman has a machine
that allows users to relive their
memories. Rebecca Ferguson (2021, 12)

6.05pm John Wick ★★★★
Lean thriller starring a reliably
stoic Keanu Reeves as a former
assassin. Michael Nyqvist (2014, 15)
8.00 The Many Saints of
Newark 5 Satisfying
prequel to TV’s The Sopranos.
Review p38. Alessandro Nivola (2020, 15)
10.05 Crank ★★ Hitman Jason
Statham is injected with a poison
that will be fatal if his adrenaline
level falls. Amy Smart, Efren Ramirez (2006, 18)

12.25am Malignant ★★★
Well-crafted schlock-horror. Annabelle
Wallis (2021, 18) 2.20 The Many Saints
of Newark As 2.40pm 4.25 Sky
Cinema Preview 5.15 As 4.45pm

11.40pm Mafia Inc ★★★★ Tense
drama. Sergio Castellitto (2019, 18) 2.05am
Mr Nice ★★★ Comedy drama. Rhys
Ifans (2010, 18) 4.10 The Birthday Cake
★★ Crime thriller. Shiloh Fernandez (2021, 15)
5.50 Sky Cinema Preview

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.00am Critical Thinking ★★★
(2020) 8.00 Mr Popper’s Penguins
★★★ Comedy. (2011, PG) 9.45 Grown
Ups ★★ Comedy. (2010, 12) 11.40
Clemency ★★★★ Drama. (2019, 15)
1.40pm District 9 ★★★★ Sci-fi
drama. (2009, 15) 3.40 Pitch Perfect
★★★ Comedy. Anna Kendrick (2012, 12)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
6.25am Ben-Hur 5 Period
epic. Charlton Heston (1959, PG) 10.05 Bill
& Ted’s Excellent Adventure
★★★★ Comedy. Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter
(1988, PG) 11.40 Moneyball ★★★★
Baseball drama. Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill (2011, 12)
1.55pm Hondo ★★★ Mature
western. John Wayne, Geraldine Page (1953, PG)

5.40pm Foxcatcher 5
Remarkable Olympic wrestling
drama that is too strange to be
fiction. Steve Carell, Channing Tatum (2014, 15)
8.00 Pitch Perfect 2 ★★★
The all-female singing group
enters an international contest in
this sassy sequel. Anna Kendrick (2015, 12)
10.00 The Man from UNCLE
★★★ The Swinging Sixties TV
spy series gets an enjoyable
movie makeover. Henry Cavill (2015, 12)

3.25pm Lawrence of Arabia
5 David Lean’s magisterial
portrayal of enigmatic hero TE
Lawrence. Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness (1962, PG)
7.00 Interstellar ★★★★
Breathtaking, thoughtful sci-fi
epic with Matthew McConaughey
on top form. Anne Hathaway (2014, 12)
9.50 2001: a Space Odyssey
5 Stanley Kubrick’s
stunning sci-fi epic depicts the
evolution of mankind. Keir Dullea (1968, U)

12 midnight Elysium ★★★
Director Neill Blomkamp’s stirring
sci-fi fable. Matt Damon, Jodie Foster (2013, 15)
2.00am Critical Thinking As
6am 4.05 Grown Ups As 9.45am

12.20am Sunset Blvd 5
Satirical drama. William Holden, Gloria
Swanson, Erich von Stroheim (1950, PG) 2.10
Naked Gun 331/3: the Final
Insult ★★★★ Comedy. Leslie Nielsen,
Priscilla Presley (1994, 12) 3.35 As 6.25am

Sky Action

Sky Comedy

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
6.20am Dark Web: Cicada 3301
★★ Comedy thriller. Jack Kesy (2021)
8.10 As 3.45pm 10.10 Vanquish
★ Thriller. Ruby Rose, Morgan Freeman (2021, 15)
11.55 Skyfire ★★ Disaster thriller.
Jason Isaacs, Hannah Quinlivan (2019, 12) 1.40pm
As 10pm 3.45 Twister ★★★
Action adventure. Bill Paxton (1996, PG)

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
7.00am The Buddy Games ★★
Comedy. (2019) 8.50 Braking for
Whales ★★ Comedy drama. (2019, 15)
10.40 As 11.45pm 12.15pm
Delivery Man ★★ Comedy. (2013, 12)
2.05 The King of Staten Island
★★★★ Comedy drama. (2020, 15) 4.25
Grown Ups 2 ★ Comedy. (2013, 12)

5.40pm Batman Begins
★★★★ Gripping psychological
portrait of the comic-book hero.

6.10pm Madea’s Family
Reunion ★★ Tyler Perry
comedy. Blair Underwood, Lyn Whitfield (2006, 12)
8.00 Bridesmaids 5
Outrageous female buddy
comedy. Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne (2011, 15)
10.05 The Joneses ★★★ Witty
satire about a seemingly perfect
family. David Duchovny, Demi Moore (2009, 15)
11.45 baby done ★★★★
Charmingly acerbic Kiwi drama
with Rose Matafeo. Matthew Lewis (2020, 15)

Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson (2005, 12)

8.00 Mad Max: Fury Road
★★★★ Director George Miller
brings the franchise thundering
back to life. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron (2015, 15)
10.00 Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
★★★★ Another whip-cracking
adventure. Harrison Ford (2008, 12)
12.10am Dark Web: Cicada 3301
As 6.20am 2.00 Fall of a
Kingdom ★★ Rousing,
good-looking, fact-based historical
drama. Robert Patrick, Tommy Flanagan (2019, 15)
4.10 Skyfire As 11.55am

1.20am The Buddy Games As
7am 3.05 Last Train to
Christmas ★★★ Likeable fantasy
comedy drama. Michael Sheen (2021) 5.05
Braking for Whales As 8.50am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

THURSDAY 7 APRIL
Sky Wizarding World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
6.30am Alpha and Omega: Family
Vacation 7.20 My Little Pony: the
Movie ★★★★ (2017, U) 9.05 Gulliver
Returns ★★ (2021, U) 10.40 Scoob!
★★ (2020, PG) 12.20pm Bobbleheads:
The Movie ★★ (2020, PG) 1.50 The
Boxtrolls ★★★ (2014, PG) 3.30 Open
Season: Scared Silly! ★ (2015, PG)

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.55am Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire ★★★★ Fantasy.
Daniel Radcliffe (2005, 12) 9.35 The Order
of the Phoenix ★★★★ Adventure.
(2007, 12) 11.55 The Half-Blood
Prince ★★★★ Fantasy. (2009, 12)
2.30pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 1 ★★★ Adventure. (2010, 12)

5.00pm Shaun the Sheep
Movie ★★★★ Fun-packed
comedy from Aardman. (2015, U)
6.30 Spirit: Stallion of the
Cimarron ★★ Overly moralistic
cartoon fable. Matt Damon (2002, U)
8.00 Monster Family 2 ★★
Action-packed, globe-trotting
sequel. Emily Watson, Nick Frost (2021)
9.45 Howard Lovecraft and
the Frozen Kingdom ★★ Witty
but visually uneven fantasy. (2016, PG)

5.00pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 Harry and
Voldemort clash for the final
time. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint (2011, 12)
7.15 The Philosopher’s Stone
★★★★ Entertaining adaptation
of the first novel in the series
about the boy wizard. (2001, PG)
9.50 The Chamber of Secrets
★★★★ A new year at Hogwarts
brings excitement and danger
for Harry. Daniel Radcliffe (2002, PG)

11.15pm Extinct ★★★ Adventure.
Adam Devine (2021) 12.45am As 3.30pm
2.15 Barbie: Star Light Adventure
3.40 As 12.20pm 5.05 Daisy
Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal
★★ Adventure. Angourie Rice (2020, U)

12.30am The Prisoner of
Azkaban ★★★★ Sirius Black
arrives in this third outing for the
boy wizard. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint,
Emma Watson (2004, PG) 3.00 As 6.55am
5.45 Sky Cinema Preview

Sky Thriller

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
6.00am The Comeback Trail
★★★ Amusing crime comedy with
Robert De Niro playing a producer
who needs to bump off his star to
pay his debts. (2020, 15) 7.45 The
Godfather As 5pm 10.45 The
Godfather Part II As 8pm 2.10pm
The Godfather Part III As 11.20pm

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.20am The Surrogate ★★★★
Drama. (2020, 15) 7.55 Military Wives
★★★★ Comedy drama. (2019, 12)
9.55 Away We Go ★★★ Comedy
drama. John Krasinski (2009, 15) 11.45 Pig
★★★ Drama. (2021, 15) 1.20pm The
Light between Oceans ★★★
Drama. Michael Fassbender (2016, 12)

5.00pm The Godfather 5
Masterly, Oscar-winning crime
drama about a Mafia family.

3.35pm In the Heights 5
Sensational musical from LinManuel Miranda. Anthony Ramos (2020, PG)
6.00 Behind the Candelabra
★★★★ Bittersweet Liberace
biopic. Michael Douglas, Matt Damon (2013, 15)
8.00 The World to Come ★★★
Elegant, languid period romance.

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan (1972, 15)

8.00 The Godfather Part II
5 Al Pacino brutally
consolidates his position as head
of the family. Robert Duvall (1974, 15)
11.20 The Godfather Part III
★★★ This final part is a distant
relative of the first two films in
terms of quality. Al Pacino (1990, 15)
2.20am The Comeback Trail As
6am 4.20 The Spy ★★★ The
true story of Scandinavian actress
Sonja Wigert, who put her talents
to intriguing use as a double agent.
Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Rolf Lassgard (2019, 12)

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby (2020, 15)

9.50 Finding the Way Back
★★★ Decent sports drama
starring Ben Affleck. (2019, 15)
11.40pm The People vs Larry
Flynt ★★★★ Entertaining but
sanitised biopic. Woody Harrelson,
Courtney Love (1996, 18) 2.00am Django
Unchained ★★★★ Western.
Jamie Foxx (2012, 18) 4.55 As 6.20am

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
6.00am School’s Out Forever
★★★ Comedy horror. (2021, 15) 7.50
Rent-a-Pal ★★★ Horror. Brian Landis
Folkins (2020, 15) 9.50 As 6pm 11.50
Resident Evil: Afterlife ★★ Sci-fi
thriller. Milla Jovovich (2010, 15) 1.40pm As
10pm 4.00 Voyagers ★★ Sci-fi
thriller. Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp (2021, 15)

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Directors
7.45 Off Set 8.00 Ride Out for
Revenge ★★ (1957, U) 9.35 The
China Syndrome ★★★★ (1979, PG)
12.05pm Westbound ★★★ (1959, U)
1.30 Sierra Stranger ★★
Western. (1957, U) 3.05 Hitler: the
Last Ten Days ★★ Drama. (1973, PG)

6.00pm Insurgent ★★ The
second film in the Divergent
series finds its young heroes on
the run. Shailene Woodley, Kate Winslet (2015, 12)
8.00 Terminator: Salvation
★★ Stripped-down, sometimes
incoherent fourth instalment in
the sci-fi franchise. Christian Bale (2009, 12)
10.00 The Matrix Revolutions
★★★ Impressive if baffling third
part in the sci-fi thriller series.

5.15pm Top Gun ★★ Passable
if derivative western. Sterling Hayden,

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss (2003, 15)

12.15am Voyagers As 4pm 2.10
Resident Evil: Afterlife As
11.50am 3.50 Snatchers ★★★
Entertaining, smart-mouthed
high-school horror comedy. Mary Nepi
(2019, 15) 5.30 Sky Cinema Preview

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

William Bishop, Karen Booth (1955, U)

6.50 Mars Attacks! ★★★★
Joyfully subversive tribute to
sci-fi B-movies. Jack Nicholson (1996, 12)
9.00 Above the Law ★★
Watchable martial arts outing.
Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, (1988, 18)

11.05 Interview with the
Vampire ★★★ Lavish tale of
angst among the immortals. (1994, 18)
1.40am The Palomino ★★★
Gentle and good-looking western.
(1950, U) 3.00 Close Up 5.00
Hollywood’s Best Directors

+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

SPORT
Sky Premier League

Golf: the Masters 2.00pm
Sky Golf Hideki Matsuyama
defends his title at Augusta

Sky Main Event
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440
6.00am The Masters Film: 2019 Woods
7.00 The Masters Official Films

Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441

Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Greatest Games 8.15 Premier
League Football 10.00 The Football Show
12 noon Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
1.00pm Premier League Football:
Burnley v Everton 2.45 Greatest
Games 4.00 World 4.30 Greatest
Games (AD) 4.45 Premier League
Football 6.30 Inside the WSL 7.00
Match Pack 7.30 World 8.00 Inside
the WSL 8.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
(AD) 9.00 Match Pack 9.30 World
10.00 Inside the WSL 10.30 Retro
12.30am Icons 1.00 Years (AD) 3.00
Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals
5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

6.00am Fishing (AD) 7.00 BT Sport
Goals Reload 7.15 Wrestling 9.00
ESPN FC 9.30 The Aussie Rules Show

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Indian Premier League Cricket
10.10 Cricket’s Climate Crisis (AD)
10.30 Indian Premier League Cricket
11.30 Women’s Cricket World Cup
Highlights 12.30pm The Cricket Show
1.30 25 Years of Women’s Cricket on
Sky 1.50 Indian Premier League Cricket

a

2.50 LIVE Indian Premier
League Cricket Lucknow Super
Giants v Delhi Capitals from Dr DY
Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai.

5.30—6.00am Sky Sports News

7.00 The Cricket Show: a focus on the
draft for the Hundred 8.00 Best of the
2015 IPL 8.25 Best of the 2018 IPL 8.50
Indian Premier League Cricket 4.10am
Talking Cricket 5.00 Best of the 2015
IPL 5.30—6.00am Best of the 2017 IPL

2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
Day one of the Major at
Augusta National. See p90.
3.30am LIVE Formula One The
opening practice session of the
Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Football’s Greatest Players
(AD) 6.30 Football Countdowns (AD)
7.00 Football Years (AD) 7.30 EFL
Greatest Games (AD) 8.15 SPFL
Greatest Games 8.30 Scottish
Premiership Football 9.00 League One
and Two Goals 9.30 Championship
Highlights 10.30 Scottish Premiership
Football 11.00 Classic Play-Off Finals
3.30pm Best Championship Goals (AD)
4.00 Best Moments from the
Championship Play-Off Finals 4.30
Best Goals 5.00 EFL Greatest Games
5.45 Scottish Premiership Round-Up
6.00 Scottish Premiership Football:
Rangers v Celtic 6.30 German Football
7.00 Championship Highlights 7.30
League One and Two Goals 8.00
Championship Highlights 8.30
Scottish Premiership Football: Rangers
v Celtic 9.00 EFL Trophy Football:
Rotherham United v Sutton United, the
final at Wembley Stadium 9.30 German
Football 10.00 Scottish Premiership
Round-Up 10.15 Championship
Highlights 11.00 EFL Greatest Games
12 midnight League Cup Retro
2.00am Classic Play-Off Final 3.00
League Cup Retro 5.45—6.00am
One2Eleven: Steve Lomas (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am The Masters Film: 2019 Woods
7.00 The Masters Official Films 8.00
The Masters: the Major Heard Round
the World 8.30 Golf: the Masters: the
Par 3 contest at Augusta 12 noon
McGinley and Chamblee at the Masters

2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
The first day of the Major at
Augusta National. See p90.

a

12.30am How the 2017 Masters Was
Won (AD) 2.30 The Masters: the Major
Heard round the World 3.00 The
Masters Official Film : the Weir 2003
4.00—6.00am Golf: the Masters

Sky F1
Sky 406 Virgin 516/HD 506 BT 425/HD 445
3.30—5.30am LIVE Australian
Grand Prix First practice session.

Amazon Prime
3.45pm, 12 midnight LIVE WTA
Tennis Charleston Open, day four.

BT Sport 1

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD) 7.00
NFL Bitesize 7.30 Premier League Darts

11.00 LIVE Pool The lunch
session on day two of the World
Championship in Milton Keynes.
3.30pm Darts Gold
5.30 LIVE Pool The evening
session on day two of the World
Championship at Stadium MK.
10.00 Darts Gold (AD) 10.30 Josh
Taylor: the Tartan Tornado 11.00 Boxing
12 midnight NFL: Total Access 1.00am
NFL Bitesize 1.30 The Darts Show
2.00 Premier League Darts: in Leeds
5.30—6.00am The Darts Show

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447

10.30 LIVE Australian Rules
Football Coverage of Port Adelaide
Power v Melbourne Demons.
1.30pm The Volleyball Show 2.00
Australian Football 4.00 Premier
League World 4.30 Europa League
Magazine 5.30 Reload (AD) 5.45
DIY Pundit (AD) 6.15 French Football
6.45 Premier League Match Pack
7.15 LIVE Europa League Football
West Ham v Lyon (kick-off 8.00).
10.30 BT Sport Films (AD)
12 midnight UFC 12.30am Europa
League Football 1.30 Europa
Conference League Football
2.00 Europa League Football
3.00—6.00am LIVE Badminton
Korea Open. Continues until 11.30am.

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Pro League Hockey 8.00
Australian Football 10.00 MotoGP: in
Argentina 11.00 Pro League Hockey
1.00pm Premier League Reload 1.15
Wrestling 5.15 Badminton 5.45
Squash 6.45 DIY Pundit (AD)

7.15 LIVE Europa League
Football SC Braga v Rangers.
10.30 Europa League Football
11.45 Premier League Reload
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball Atlanta Braves v
Cincinnati Reds (start 12.20am).
3.30am UFC Countdown 4.30
Australian Football 5.30—6.00am
Rio Ferdinand’s Between the Lines

BT Sport 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Champions League Football
9.00 DIY Pundit (AD) 9.30 Serie A:
Full Impact 10.00 French Football 11.00
Europa League Magazine 12 noon
Champions League Football 3.00pm
Fishing (AD) 4.00 Motorcycling 5.00
MotoGP 6.00 BT Sport Goals Reload
6.15 Champions League Tonight

7.15 LIVE Europa Conference
League Football Leicester City v
PSV Eindhoven (kick-off 8.00).
10.30 Wrestling (AD) 11.30 UFC
12 midnight LIVE Baseball

6.00am Rugby League Retro 8.00
Super League’s Supermen (AD) 9.00
Rugby League Retro 11.00 Super League
12 noon Good Morning Football 3.00pm
NBA Classic Games 4.00 NBA 6.00
NBA GameTime 6.30 The Darts Show

3.30am Europa Conference League
Football 5.00 Premier League Match Pack
5.30—6.00am Europa League Football

7.00 LIVE Premier League Darts
From the First Direct Arena, Leeds.
10.30 The Darts Show 11.00 NBA
Heatcheck 11.30 NBA
12 midnight LIVE NBA
Milwaukee Bucks v Boston Celtics,
the Eastern Conference clash from
Fiserv Forum (tip-off 12.30am);
3.00am Golden State Warriors v
Los Angeles Lakers, the Western
Conference clash (tip-off 3.00).

Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434

5.30—6.00am Inside the NBA

Eurosport 1
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435
6.00am Cycling 7.00 World
Superbikes 8.00 World Snooker 10.00
Cycling 11.00 World Superbikes
12 noon Cycling

2.30pm LIVE Cycling Stage four
of the Basque Tour, featuring a hilly
route covering 185.6km from
Vitoria-Gasteiz to Zamudio.
4.30 Discovery Golf 5.00 World
Snooker 7.00 Cycling 9.00 World
Superbikes 10.00 Cycling
12 midnight Formula E: the Diriyah
ePrix 1.00am World Superbikes
2.00 Cycling 4.00—6.00am Darts

Thursday Television

Animation

Sky

BT Sport ESPN
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 SportsCenter
6.45 Aussie Rules Show 7.45
Swimming 9.45 SportsCenter 10.00
Baseball 1.00pm ESPN FC 1.30
SportsCenter 1.45 Basketball 4.15
ESPN FC 4.45 SportsCenter 5.00
Gab and Juls 5.30 In Depth

6.00 LIVE MLB New York Yankees
v Boston Red Sox (start 6.05).
9.30 Gab and Juls
10.00 LIVE Ice Hockey The
NCAA Frozen Four semi-finals.
4.00—6.00am Swimming

Eurosport 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436
6.00am World Superbikes: in Indonesia
7.00 Darts 9.00 Teqball Show 9.30
World Superbikes 11.00 Darts

1.00pm LIVE Darts Day six of
the WDC World Championship.
5.00 World Superbikes 6.00 Darts
7.00 LIVE Darts Further action
from the WDC World Championship.
11.00 Formula E 12 midnight Cycling
2.00am Darts 4.00 Cycling
5.00—6.00am World Superbikes

99

Television Friday

FRIDAY Choices

STEPS TO FAITH?
Standing, from left: Monty
Panesar, Laurence LlewelynBowen, Scarlett Moffatt, Shazia
Mirza and Louisa Clein. Kneeling:
Nick Hewer and Will Bayley
PICK OF THE DAY

Pilgrimage: the Road to the Scottish Isles

RELIGION This is the series where famous folk of various faiths and none make

a walking pilgrimage, picking up spiritual sustenance along the way. The latest
pilgrims start in Donegal, in western Ireland, and trace routes connected to
St Columba, the monk who helped spread Christianity through the British Isles.
As before, what could be an awkward collision of showbiz egos proves
thought-provoking. Where else could you eavesdrop on a conversation
between Scarlett Moffatt and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about the existence

Cruising with
Susan Calman

9.00pm BBC2 (not Wales)

of God? Moffatt is a believer, a self-conscious Christian who gets upset when
the group’s treatment of an ancient site feels flippant, while Llewelyn-Bowen
(who is exactly as know-all as you’d hope) describes himself as pagan.
Paralympian Will Bayley (lapsed Christian) , cricketer Monty Panesar (Sikh),
actor Louisa Clein (Jew) and comedian Shazia Mirza (Muslim) also have
their walking boots on, while Nick Hewer says he is a “soul in flux” — willing
to be won over. DAVID BUTCHER

Grantchester

The Crimson Rivers

9.00pm ITV

9.00pm More4

8.00pm Channel 5

DRAMA Since the success of Richard

DRAMA “A phantom is haunting my

TRAVEL This is a great advert for

Osman’s novel The Thursday Murder
Club, we’ve seen several imitators
feature on the bestseller lists. Now,
Grantchester gets in on the act
with some of its own old folks’ home
action. Here, a sadistic matron
who makes Nurse Ratched look like
Florence Nightingale gets done in,
and two game residents of the home
become prime suspects when
they go on the run.
Geordie and Will try to track them
down, though both have distracting
personal problems. For the local
copper, it’s the fact that estranged
wife Cathy finds herself in handcuffs.
For the vicar, it’s a tempting offer
from one of the women who have
been pursuing him. DAVID BROWN

prison,” says the rattled governor as
this latest slice of dark French crime
drama begins. “A phantom that kills
without anyone seeing.” The serial
killer inside Gordheim jail has
expanded his reign of terror to
slaying guards as well as inmates. In
a further twist, detective Pierre
Niémans (Olivier Marchal) becomes
prime suspect. He’s certainly hiding
something, but surely our grizzled
hero isn’t really Azrael, the
self-styled angel of death?
While he broods behind bars, it’s
left to sidekick Camille Delaunay
(Erika Sainte) to clear her mentor’s
name. As bodies pile up and a riot
erupts, it’s not for the faint-hearted
or haemophobic. MICHAEL HOGAN

one particular cruise company,
but it’s not a bad one for cruising
in general because Susan Calman
has such fun. True, she’s not keen on
the ship’s vertigo-inducing sea walk,
but everything else gives her
immense joy.
They “hop off” the ship in Funchal,
Madeira, where she shuts her eyes
for the cable car ride up the
mountain and screams all the way
down on a traditional wicker monte
sledge. She’s safer at the on-board
line dancing class, proving her Strictly
training wasn’t wasted by tearing up
the floor to YMCA. Although
afterwards they wonder whether
to call a medic. JANE RACKHAM

100

The pick of today’s TV

Sister Boniface
Mysteries
9.00pm Drama
DRAMA We don’t expect the stakes

to be high in this whodunnit. The
milieu is usually more village fête
than affairs of state. But the ante is
now upped, thanks to the death of
a top-level government official’s
secretary at a grand country house.
And suddenly all the talk is of spies
and secrets, giving this case the air
not of an Agatha Christie-style
mystery, but a Len Deighton thriller.
However, the sight of journalist
Ruth going undercover as a maid
does feel like something Margaret
Rutherford would have attempted.
Ruth’s aim, though, is to land a major
news story and a job in London at
The Times. But will smitten copper
Sam try to convince her to stay? DBr

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

FRIDAY 8 APRIL
might hope, since it returns him
to his memories, which are peppered
with the traumas of a black American
living a life blighted by poverty and
discrimination.
Light in the darkness comes from
Jackson’s co-star, the tremendous
Dominique Fishback, as Ptolemy’s
bright young friend Robyn — but in the
finale, high drama combines with the
tenderest emotion as we’re reminded
that she, too, has, despite her age,
lived such a hard life. JS

STREAMING NOW
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
(Apple TV+) releases its final episode
today and, if you subscribe to that
streaming service and haven’t tried
this drama yet, you must.
It’s led by a mesmeric performance
from Samuel L Jackson (right) as
a lonely old man who is offered the
chance to temporarily reverse
his tragically debilitating dementia.
But this is not the relief that one

Not Going Out

Open House: the Great
Sex Experiment

9.05pm PBS America

9.30pm BBC1

DOCUMENTARY Why do so many

SITCOM It is often acknowledged by

10.00pm C4

people fall for conspiracy theories?
That’s the nature of the internet,
according to this feature-length doc.
Despite flitting from topic to topic and
filming contributors oddly as if they
were presenters, it provides a good
overview of dangerous online
bunkum, mostly revolving around
medicine and vaccines, and often
coming from spaces populated by
women: who knew that yoga forums
were hotbeds of misinformation?
There’s also a sobering explanation
of how easy it is to be sucked in, either
by algorithms cleverly designed to pull
you down a rabbit hole or by the
simple fact that however wacky your
beliefs, someone somewhere on the
internet will share them. JACK SEALE

parents with school-age children that,
as a rule, mums are simply better than
dads at striking up casual friendships
in the playground. It’s a problem Lucy
(Sally Bretton) decides to tackle
head-on with Lee (Lee Mack) in this
week’s slice of domestic comedy.
He must, she decides, make more
of an effort with other parents,
especially as he has so few friends to
start with. That sets in motion an
uncharacteristically threadbare
episode where Lee just about
manages to make conversation with
another dad, Keith (Joe Wilkinson,
being a lugubrious oddball as usual),
and the comedy revolves mainly
around how awkward and boring that
proves to be — not a rich vein. DB

REALITY “First Dates for Swingers”

(or “Snogglebox”, as we doubt
anybody is calling it) continues to
raise eyebrows and warm hearts. As
we return to the luxury retreat for the
sexually liberated, married couple
Mike and Jess from Essex seek expert
help in having their first threesome.
Can Jess conquer her fears?
Meanwhile, Bolton spouses Jon
and Danielle continue their own
tentative journey towards group sex.
First, though, the pair must face up
to a few home truths. Cue kissing
with ice cubes, trust exercises and
nocturnal meetings in “private yurts”.
One lesson from this surprisingly
emotional hour? Be careful what
you wish for. MH

Have I Got News for You
9.00pm BBC1
Can Victoria Coren Mitchell,
comedian Ria Lina and Sunday
Times journalist Tim Shipman
somehow find fun in the news?

Kate Humble’s
Coastal Britain
7.00pm Channel 5
Kate follows the historic East
Sussex coastline, beginning on
the cliffs overlooking Hastings.

Unreported World
7.30pm C4
How discarded UK fast fashion
is causing an environmental
disaster in Ghana.

Grayson’s Art Club
8.00pm C4
Grayson and Philippa Perry
challenge comedian Mawaan
Rizwan to create an artwork.

Friday Television

Dis/Informed

BEST OF THE REST

q FILM OF THE DAY
Iron Man Three

Cardiff Calling:
6 Music Festival
Highlights 10.40pm BBC4
MUSIC Those with access to BBC1

Wales may already have seen this
Cardiff-based highlights show on
Tuesday. In classic 6 Music style,
the line-up showcases a blend of
indie veterans and hyped
newcomers. Last Friday, for
instance, saw singer/songwriter
Lucy Dacus sandwiched between
the quiet-loud of Pixies and the
loud-loud aggro-punk of Idles.
Other potential show-stealers
include Blackwood homeboys
Manic Street Preachers, rapper
Little Simz, laid-back Texans
Khruangbin and Father John
Misty teaming up with the BBC
National Orchestra of Wales.
Hopefully some of those
billed in small print will also get
a look in. Cardiff-born Gwenno’s
60s vibes would fit the bill, while
indie rockers Wet Leg are surely
large-print future stars. GARY ROSE

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

10.35pm BBC1
In this impressive fantasy
action adventure starring
Robert Downey Jr, Iron Man
squares up to a new villain, the
Mandarin (Ben Kingsley).
(2013) See page 31

LIVE SPORT

 Women’s Football, World Cup
Qualifiers: North Macedonia v
England 6.30pm (k/o 7pm) ITV4
Fran Kirby scored for England last
time out. Wales v France 7.30pm
(k/o 7.45pm) BBC2 Wales
 Racing: Aintree Festival,
day two 1.45pm ITV
 Golf: the Masters, day two
2pm Sky Golf/Main Event
 Premier League Football:
Newcastle v Wolves 7pm (k/o
8pm) Sky Premier League/ME

SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY

SHOWSTEALERS
Black Francis of Pixies
(left) and Little Simz
(below) performed at
last weekend’s
6 Music Festival

101

FRIDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

Television Friday

BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Rachel Burden, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Gethin Jones hosts the magazine
show featuring a mixture of chat and advice. (S) (HD)
10.00 Scam Interceptors Rav Wilding joins forces
with a team of ethical hackers to hunt down the cyber
criminals that are plaguing our lives. (S) (HD)
10.45 Defenders UK Trading Standards officers put
a stop to a medical scam. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer In Gillingham, Stokeon-Trent and the East End of London. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Eric Knowles presents the
show from the Lancashire town of Eccleston. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Father Brown 2/15 Series 5. Lady Felicia’s
wayward niece is suspected of murder. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.30 Money for Nothing Some retro tulip chairs
and a bureau are rejuvenated. (Revised repeat) (S) (HD)
3.00 Escape to the Country A couple search for
a new home in Northamptonshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.45 The Repair Shop Restoring a fragile violin and
a 1930s mini replica cooker. Jay Blades hosts. (R) (S) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Bridge of Lies Family members Elisha,
Emma, Georgia and Paul take part in the quiz. (S) (HD)

BBC2
6.15am The Repair Shop Shown Thu 3.45pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
7.00—8.00 Sign Zone 7.00 Great Coastal Railway
Journeys In Pembrokeshire, Michael Portillo learns about
the UK’s biggest energy port. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.30 Marcus
Wareing’s Tales from a Kitchen Garden 10/10. A trip to Kent
inspires a nutty addition to the chef’s smallholding. (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Golf: The Masters Highlights Action from the
first round. See choice, p90. Shown yesterday 12.15am (S) (HD)
9.30 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm The Pure Hell of St Trinian’s ★★ Comedy
starring Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell and George
Cole. When the schoolgirls wind up in court after
burning down St Trinian’s, a mysterious professor
springs to their defence. Available on iPlayer for 30
days. Review p31. Director Frank Launder (1960, U) (BW) (S) (HD)
2.30 The Customer Is Always Right Customers
test out a reusable sandwich wrapper. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.15 Sri Lanka: Elephant Island In this Natural
World film, wildlife cameraman Martyn Colbeck visits
Sri Lanka to study the island’s elephants. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.15—5.15 Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve 4/6
Simon explores Oman and the Maldives. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

q

ITV
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Showbiz gossip and guests. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, fashion
and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women Frank exchanges. (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45—5.00 LIVE Racing: Grand National Festival
Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani host the second
day of the meeting from Aintree, featuring five races,
including the 3.30 Marsh Chase and 4.05 Topham
Chase. Commentary by Richard Hoiles, with analysis
from AP McCoy, Mick Fitzgerald and Ruby Walsh. (S) (HD)

Channel 4

102

6.05am Countdown Jon Culshaw guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.45 Cheers Two episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.40 Everybody Loves Raymond Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)
9.05 Frasier Three episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
10.35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Gordon
gets his teeth into a pizzeria in Burbank, the heart of
movieland in Los Angeles. (R) (S) 11.30 News (S) (HD)
11.35 Undercover Boss USA The CEO of Build-a-Bear
Workshop goes under cover in her company. (R) (S) (HD)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch Weekday magazine
show presented by Steph McGovern. (S) (HD)
2.10 Countdown With guest John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun A hunt for a holiday home
near the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun A Portuguese
restaurant loses an important staff member, while
a French B&B makes big expansion plans. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1

1

BBC2

Not Going Out
9.30pm Friends
indeed? A reluctant
Lee gets to know
fellow dad Keith
(Joe Wilkinson)

QI 10.00pm An
absolute shower:
host Sandi Toksvig
presides over a
wholly shambolic
edition of the quiz

5.15pm Pointless

5.15pm Flog It!

Quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong. (S) (HD)

From Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S)
7.00 The One Show

6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games

Topical stories and reports, presented by Zoe Ball.

6.30 Lightning

Editor Rob Unsworth (S) (HD)

Host Paddy McGuinness and team captains Ugo
Monye and Sam Quek are joined by Grand Nationalwinning jockey Mick Fitzgerald, England rugby union
international Ben Earl, World Cup-winning cricketer
Alex Hartley and footballer Curtis Davies.
Series producer Tom Gill; Exec producer Gareth JM Edwards (S) (HD)

Director John Smith; Executive producer Tamara Gilder (S) (HD)

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE 6.50—9.00 Football Coverage
of the Centenary Shield under-18 boys’ match between
England and Republic of Ireland at bbc.co.uk/sport

7.00 MOTDx
Jermaine Jenas talks to Premier League players,
fans and musicians, and looks at football culture.
Shown yesterday 10.45pm BBC3 (S) (HD)

8.00 MasterChef
In the third quarter-final, this week’s four most
talented chefs must display flair and creativity as they
vie for two places in the semi-finals. Their task is to
prepare two courses that will excite not only John
Torode and Gregg Wallace, but also former champions
Simon Wood, Ping Coombes and Shelina Permalloo.
Series director Dave Crerar; Series editor Katie Attwood (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Would I Lie to You?
Jo Brand, Emma Bunton, Jonnie Peacock and Shaun
Williamson join captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell
on the comedy panel show. Rob Brydon hosts.
Director Barbara Wiltshire; Producers Mia Cross, Juliet Redden (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 Have I Got News for You
2/9. Victoria Coren Mitchell takes the hosting reins
as comedian Ria Lina and journalist Tim Shipman
join team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton for
a satirical look at the week’s headlines.
Director Paul Wheeler; Producer Jo Maney (S) (HD)

9.30 Not Going Out

Series 12. Friend. When Lee reluctantly
a3/6
promises Lucy that he will be more sociable

with other parents in the playground, he makes the
mistake of starting with Keith. A box set of previous
series is available on iPlayer. See page 101.
Lee Mack
Sally Bretton
Hugh Dennis
Joe Wilkinson

It’s Double Points Friday for Milton Jones, Ria Lina,
Martin Roberts and Briony May Williams.

Zoe Lyons presents the quickfire quiz show. (S) (HD)

7.30 Question of Sport

Lee
Lucy
Toby
Keith

2

Kirsty
Stephanie Langton
Mollie
Francesca Newman
Elsie
Millie McKillop
Man in coffee shop
Anil Desai

Writer Lee Mack; Director Nick Wood; Producer Jamie Rix (S) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.35 Iron Man Three ★★★★
action adventure starring Robert
qFantasy
Downey Jr, Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley.

7.30 Beechgrove
George Anderson, Carole Baxter, Brian Cunningham
and Calum Clunie are together on home turf to see
how to turn storm damage into new developments.
Director Clare Booth; Executive producer Gwyneth Hardy
Shown yesterday 8pm BBC Scotland (S) (HD)

8.00 Gardeners’ World
Monty Don plants perennials in his orchard beds
and starts redesigning the dry garden. JJ Chalmers
tackles some seasonal jobs at home in Scotland,
Toby Buckland admires the daffodils at Cotehele in
Cornwall, and a Birmingham couple give a tour of
their experimental garden, which has been curated
like a living art gallery with cacti and ferns. And
a passionate pelargonium grower in Hertfordshire
shows off her collection of more than 600 plants.
Exec producer Gary Broadhurst; Series editor Sharon Fisher (S) (HD)
RT GARDENING Buy three and save on Clematis “Little Lemons”
and Corydalis “Blue Heron” plants: see page 143

Your RT Gardening: page 134

9.00 Pilgrimage: the Road to the
Scottish Isles

series. 1/3 Series 4. Seven celebrities
a New
with differing beliefs walk almost 1,000 miles

from Ireland to Scotland in the footsteps of Saint
Columba, a key figure in early British Christianity.
With just 15 days to complete their journey, Monty
Panesar, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Louisa Clein,
Nick Hewer, Scarlett Moffatt, Shazia Mirza and Will
Bayley begin their trek in the saint’s birthplace, the
market town of Donegal. It’s a damp start as they
head towards the Atlantic coast and after three
hours the pilgrims reach Glencolmcille, where
they will spend their first night. See page 100.

Wealthy industrialist Tony Stark must rely on his wits
when an attack on his home leaves him without his
super suit. To make matters worse, he has to square
up to a vengeful scientist from his past and a
nefarious new villain called the Mandarin. Available
on iPlayer for 7 days. Film of the Day: page 31.

Directors/Producers Andrew Devlin, Libby Overton, Ashok Prasad
(S) (AD) (HD)

Tony Stark/Iron Man Robert Downey Jr
Aldrich Killian
Guy Pearce
The Mandarin
Ben Kingsley
Pepper Potts
Gwyneth Paltrow
Lt Col James “Rhodey” Rhodes
Don Cheadle
Dr Maya Hansen
Rebecca Hall
Happy Hogan
Jon Favreau
Ellen Brandt
Stephanie Szostak
Eric Savin
James Badge Dale
Harley
Ty Simpkins

Director Ian Lorimer; Producer Piers Fletcher (R) (S) (HD)

President Sal Kennedy William Sadler
Jarvis
Paul Bettany (voice only)
Jack Taggert
Ashley Hamilton
Mrs Davis
Dale Dickey
Vice President Rodriguez Miguel Ferrer
Doctor Wu
Wang Xueqi
Yinsen
Shaun Toub
Bruce Banner
Mark Ruffalo
Bill Maher
Himself
Joan Rivers
Herself
Pageant judge
Stan Lee

10.00 QI
Josh Widdicombe, Cally Beaton and Stephen K
Amos join Alan Davies to answer Sandi Toksvig’s
questions on the theme of “Omnishambles”.

10.30 Newsnight With Mark Urban. (S) (HD)
11.00 Weather (S) (HD)

11.05 The Fall of the House of Maxwell
1/3. An extraordinary family saga. See choice, p61.
Shown Monday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

See feature: page 18

12.35am Superman and Lois 15/15. Clark’s worst
nightmare comes true as Edge’s masterplan nears its grim
conclusion. See choice, p40. Shown Sat 5.30pm (S) (AD) (HD)
1.20 Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
1.25—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

12.05am Golf: The Masters Highlights Action from the
second round of the Major at Augusta National. (S) (HD)
1.35—3.05am Sign Zone 1.35 Obesity: Who Cares if I’m
Bigger? — Panorama Examining the Government strategy
to help the nation lose weight. Shown Mon 8pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
2.05 Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway 4/6
Helping a woman with a spinal condition. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101/HD 106 Sky 101/HD 115 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Director Shane Black (2013, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

FRIDAY 8 APRIL
ITV

3

Grantchester

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

Regional
variations

and Will investigate
when there’s a
murder at a local
nursing home

Open House:
the Great Sex
Experiment
10.00pm Jess and
Mike explore their
relationship

Cardiff Calling:
6 Music
Festival 2022
10.40pm Johnny
Marr rocks the
stage in Wales

5.00pm The Chase

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

7.00pm Dusty

Bradley Walsh presents as Matt, Simon, Phil and
Mikayla work as a team to take on quiz genius
the Chaser and secure a large cash prize.

A look at how some purchases have worked out.

Dusty Springfield is joined by Latin
musical trio Los Machucambos.

BBC
SCOTLAND

Repeated 2.40am (R) (S)

Executive producers Michael Kelpie, Martin Scott and
Helen Tumbridge (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 The Simpsons

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale

6.30 Hollyoaks

7.00pm The Seven
7.30 Sportscene:
Friday Night Football:
Queen of the South
v Partick Thistle
(kick-off 7.45) 10.00
Still Game 10.30 A
View from the Terrace
11.30—12 midnight
Scary Adult Things

9.00pm Geordie

Writer Chris Gill For cast see Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Coronation Street
Kelly refuses to allow Laura to ruin her moment of
glory. Sam faces his opponent in the chess final.
Daisy suspects Nicky of being cagey about her past.
Kelly Neelan
Millie Gibson
Laura Neelan
Kel Allen
Sam Blakeman
Jude Riordan
Daisy Midgeley Charlotte Jordan
Nicky Wheatley
Kimberly Hart-Simpson
Maria Connor Samia Longchambon
Jalena
Kyrah Wallace
Kirk Sutherland Andrew Whyment
Elaine Jones
Paula Wilcox
Gemma Winter Dolly-Rose Campbell
Tracy McDonald
Kate Ford
Steve McDonald
Simon Gregson

Terry
Michael Hagen
Daniel Osbourne
Rob Mallard
Jenny Connor Sally Ann Matthews
Amy Barlow
Elle Mulvaney
Audrey Roberts
Sue Nicholls
David Platt
Jack P Shepherd
Conor Gorman
Aidan Thompson-Coates
Oscar’s Mum
Claire Jones
Invigilator
Trev Fleming
Interviewer
Billy Doherty
Sonographer
Jade Golding
Nurse
Rayyah McCaul

Lard of the Dance. A new girl at school
threatens to overshadow Lisa. (R) (S) (AD)
Sid and Lizzie organise a night with their friends.
Sid Sumner
Billy Price
Lizzie Chen-Williams
Lily Best
Ripley Lennox
Ki Griffin
Romeo Nightingale Owen Warner
Sally St Claire
Annie Wallace
Sam Chen-Williams Matthew McGivern
Scott Drinkwell
Ross Adams
Serena Chen-Williams
Emma Lau
Sienna Blake
Anna Passey
Ste Hay
Kieron Richardson

Theresa McQueen
Jorgie Porter
Tony Hutchinson
Nick Pickard
Verity Hutchinson
Eva O’Hara
Warren Fox
Jamie Lomas
Zoe Anderson
Garcia Brown
Eric Foster Angus Castle-Doughty
DI Cohen
Ariana Fraval
Jeremy
Joseph Beattie
Raphael
Matt Mella

Writer Johnathon Hughes More cast Wed Shown Thu 7pm E4
Rptd next Monday E4 The next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Unreported World
Ep 3. In 2019, roughly 63 million kilograms of
second-hand clothes were imported into Ghana
from the UK. But, as Ashionye Ogene reports,
up to 40 per cent of such items — produced as
“fast fashion” and discarded by UK consumers
— are worthless to textile traders.

Writers David Isaac and Steven Fay More cast Monday (S) (AD) (HD)

Director/Producer Toby Bakare (S) (HD)

9.00 Grantchester

8.00 Grayson’s Art Club

5/6 Series 7. After a murder at a local nursing
home two of its elderly residents, Clem and
Ida, go missing. Are they victims, too, or were they
involved in the crime? Will and Geordie are given
the run around as they try to track them down.
Personally, the two men both find themselves at
romantic crossroads. Geordie expected Kathy to
have him back, but they seem further apart than
ever. Something must change if the marriage is
to have a future. Will patches things up with
Bonnie and resolves to forswear romance. Then
Maya turns up at the vicarage. See page 100.

Ep 4 Series 3. Grayson and Philippa Perry are
joined by comedian Mawaan Rizwan, who is
challenged to create an artwork on the theme
of “inside my head”. And contemporary artist
Heather Phillipson presents a guide to her
multimedia installations.

a

Geordie Keating
Robson Green Ida Merryman Anna Calder-Marshall
Will Davenport
Tom Brittney Clem Preston
Bruce Alexander
Mrs Chapman Tessa Peake-Jones Pat Wyndham
Mark Quartley
Cathy Keating
Kacey Ainsworth Matron Fletcher
Caroline Faber
Bonnie Evans
Charlotte Ritchie Clara Preston
Kirsten Foster
Larry Peters
Bradley Hall Ernie Evans
Isaac Highams
Miss Scott
Melissa Johns Ivy Keating
Ruby-Rose Fearfield
Elliott Wallace
Michael D Xavier Dora Keating
Rose Allen
Maya
Ellora Torchia David Keating
Carter-Jae O’Neil
Writer Richard Cookson; Producer Tim Whitby
Director Katherine Churcher (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten
Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

10.45 21 Jump Street ★★★★

comedy. Underachieving rookie cops
qAction
Jenko and Schmidt are given the chance to
make their names when they are sent back to their
old high school to infiltrate a drugs ring. But the
new boys don’t blend in as well as was hoped.

Jenko
Schmidt
Tom Hanson
Eric
Captain Dickson
Molly

Channing Tatum
Jonah Hill
Johnny Depp
Dave Franco
Ice Cube
Brie Larson

Ms Griggs
Ellie Kemper
Captain
Nick Offerman
Mr Walters
Rob Riggle
Fugazy
Dakota Johnson
Principal Dadier
Jake Johnson
Officer Doug Penhall Peter DeLuise

Directors Abigail Dankwa and Adam Simons
Executive producer Joe Evans (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Gogglebox
Ep 8. The armchair critics give frank perspectives
on the week’s biggest and best television shows.
Executive producers Mike Cotton, Victoria Ray, Sophie Lloyd and
Leon Campbell Repeated 11.05pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Open House: the Great Sex
Experiment

7.25 Dusty is joined by Scott Walker
and sings You Don’t Have to Say You
Love Me. First broadcast in 1967.
Producer Stanley Dorfman Rptd 3.05am (R) (S)

7.50 Sounds of the Sixties
Featuring performances by the Byrds,
the Hollies and the Seekers. (R) (S)

8.00 Top of the Pops 1992
The 8 October show, featuring hits
from Tasmin Archer, Prince and the
New Power Generation, M People,
Dina Carroll, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin,
Take That and the Shamen.
Repeated 12.40am (R) (S)

8.30 The 15 October show, including
performances by Sunscreem, Bizarre
Inc, Madonna, Doctor Spin, Boyz II
Men, Bon Jovi and Tasmin Archer.
Producer Stanley Appel Repeated 1.10am (R) (S)

9.00 Bonnie Raitt: BBC4
Sessions
The blues singer performs at Stoke
Newington Town Hall in north London,
featuring tracks from throughout her
career, spanning her self-titled 1971
debut album and her 2012 release,
Slipstream. The set includes Love Has
No Pride, Nick of Time and Love Me
Like a Man. She is joined on stage
by regular collaborator, Paul Brady.
Director Janet Fraser Crook; Producer Alison Howe
Repeated 1.40am (R) (S) (HD)

10.00 The Old Grey Whistle
Test: Bonnie Raitt
Bob Harris introduces a performance
by the American blues singer, guitarist
and songwriter. From March 1976.
Director Tom Corcoran
Producer Michael Appleton (R) (S)

10.40 Cardiff Calling: 6 Music
Festival 2022 Highlights

Married couple Mike and Jess from
Cerys Matthews and Huw
a2/6.
Essex consider a sexual encounter together
a
Stephens present highlights from
with another woman, but a previous experience
uncovers difficult emotions for Jess. And
married couple Jon and Danielle from Bolton
have romantic dates with other potential sexual
partners to test whether they are emotionally
prepared for group sex. See page 101.

the festival, featuring Johnny Marr,
Little Simz, Wet Leg, IDLES and the
Pixies. Plus backstage interviews and
a special performance by the Manic
Street Preachers. See page 101.

Series producers Alice Wheater and Hannah Carr-Ellison; Executive
producers Jes Wilkins, Tom Garland and Federico Ruiz (S) (AD) (HD)

Producer Ryan Minchin; Executive producer Paul
Bullock First shown Tuesday BBC1 Wales (S) (HD)

11.05 Eight out of Ten Cats Does
Countdown

11.40 Stewart Copeland’s
Adventures in Music

Paul Foot, Angela Barnes and John Cooper Clarke
join captains Jon Richardson and Sean Lock.

1/3. The musician explores the power
music has to bring people together
and to bond them in ways that are
fundamental to our evolution. His
journey takes him from the cave in
Germany where a 40,000-year-old
bone flute was discovered, to a mass
singalong by a choir in New York.

Series producer Jodie Krstic; Executive producers Richard
Cohen, Richard Osman and Ruth Phillips (R) (S) (HD)

Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
(2012, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

12.05am Jimmy Carr’s I Literally Just Told You
Jimmy Carr hosts the game show with a twist. (R) (S) (HD)
1.05 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping ★★★
Satirical comedy starring Andy Samberg. Conner
is a former boy-band singer who is about to
launch his second solo album. Bad reviews and worse
marketing decisions make success far from assured.

12.40am Home Shopping (HD)
3.00 Winning Combination Game show. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (HD)
5.05—6.00am Cash Trapped Quiz. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)

2.35 Come Dine with Me From Sheffield. (R) (S) (HD)
4.45 Moneybags Quiz show. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
5.35—6.00am Bidding Wars (R) (S) (HD)

ITV Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 113/HD 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 114

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104/HD 126 Sky 104/HD 138
Virgin 104/HD 141 +1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 142

q

Directors Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone (2016, 15) (S) (W)

8.30—9.00pm
Landward: Anne Lundon
follows events at the
Stirling Bull Sales
12.35am A View
from the Terrace 1.35
Superman and Lois
2.20 Weather for
the Week Ahead
2.25—6.00 BBC News

ITV BORDER
SCOTLAND
6.30pm ITV Evening
News; Weather
7.00—7.30 Border Life:
magazine programme
exploring life in the
Border region

BBC1 WALES
7.30—8.00pm
Weatherman Walking:
the south Wales Valleys

BBC2 WALES
7.30pm Match of
the Day Wales Live:
Women’s International:
Wales v France, World
Cup Group I qualifier
at Parc y Scarlets
(kick-off 7.45)
9.45—10.00 Coast:
the Norfolk shoreline

Friday Television

Gabby and Dawn make a discovery. Meena is
delighted. Al is left feeling slightly guilty.

Series producer Ninushka Oller-Stracey
Executive producer Sandy Watson (S) (HD)

BBC1
SCOTLAND

ITV WALES
6.30pm ITV Evening
News; Weather
7.00—7.30 Coast &
Country: exploring one
of Wales’s oldest estates

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
6.30—7.00pm BBC
Newsline; Party
Election Broadcast: by
the Alliance Party

UTV
6.25—6.30pm Party
Election Broadcast: by
the Alliance Party
7.00—7.30 UTV Life:
an eclectic mix of
stories and guests

Director Nico Wasserman
Executive producer Jez Nelson (R) (S) (HD)

12.40am Top of the Pops 1992
Shown 8/8.30pm (S)

1.40 Bonnie Raitt: BBC4 Sessions
Shown 9pm (S) (HD)

2.40-3.30am Dusty Shown 7/7.25pm (S)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding ★★★★ Very good ★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

103

FRIDAY Freeview

Television Friday

Channel 5

5

BBC3

23

10

Drama

20

Cruising with Susan Calman 8.00pm

MasterChef Australia 7.00pm Judge

Doc Martin 8.00pm The GP agrees to

Sister Boniface Mysteries 9.00pm

The crew onboard the Regal Princess

Gary Mehigan sets new challenges

meet with Louisa, but fails to show up

A secretary’s death puzzles the nun

F’view 5/HD 105 F’sat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 154/HD 105
5.35am Milkshake! See page 106
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
12.15pm George Clarke’s Build a New
Life in the Country A plan to convert a
stone house in rural Croatia into a nature
retreat. (S) (HD) 1.10 5 News (S) (HD)
1.15 Home and Away Tane and Nikau look
for Chloe on their way to the hospital.

F’view 23/HD 109 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 117 (173 London; 141 Scot) Virgin 107 (157 Scot/Wales)

Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117/HD 177
6.00am Classic Coronation Street (S) (AD)
7.00 Classic Emmerdale (S) 8.05 That’s
My Boy (S) 9.10 Upstairs, Downstairs: 8/13
Series 3. The Bolter. The Bellamys visit
Somerby Park; 10.20 9/13. Goodwill to All
Men. Richard’s mother-in-law visits Eaton
Place (S) 11.30 Heartbeat: 11/16. Nick and
Kate’s marriage is in trouble; 12.35pm
12/16. Emily learns she is pregnant (S) (AD)
1.40pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill. It
is the day of Miss Strickland’s funeral, then
Marc, Robert, Donna, Katie and Eve are
furious about Ollie’s actions (S) 2.45 Classic
Coronation Street: double bill. Spider bids
a tearful farewell to Toyah, then the Platts
decide to christen Bethany (S) (AD) 3.45
Midsomer Murders: Series 3. Judgement
Day The residents of Midsomer Mallow are
looking forward to the “Perfect Village
Competition” — until a local petty thief is
stabbed to death with a pitchfork (S) (AD)

Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 130
7.00am Ever Decreasing Circles: 4/5 Series 1
Martin’s holiday approaches (S) 7.40 Hetty
Wainthropp Investigates Rptd 2.20pm (S) 8.35
The Bill: Ackland’s romantic evening does not
go to plan 9.35 Holby City: Guy’s career goes
from strength to strength (HD) 10.55 Casualty:
Charlie welcomes two new nurses (S) (AD)
12 noon The Bill: Proctor undermines Holmes
1.00pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Lisa
and Phil bicker, then Billy and Phil resume
fighting 2.20 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates:
4/6 Series 4. Robert begins a career as a
journalist (S) 3.20 Lovejoy: 10/12 Series 2. A
property developer approaches Lady Jane’s
husband (S) 4.20 Pie in the Sky: 6/10 Series 2
Crabbe has an unwelcome visitor (S) 5.20
Ever Decreasing Circles: 5/5 Series 1. Martin
organises a vicars and tarts party (S)

Shown Thu 6.30pm 5 Star Rptd 6pm 5 Star (S) (HD)
1.45 New. Neighbours Repeated 6pm (S) (HD)

2.15 Killing Your Daughter ★★ Mystery
thriller starring Allison Paige. Candace
is thrilled to track down her biological
parents, but the Masons are prepared to go to
extreme lengths to keep her out of their lives.

q

Director Craig Goldstein (2019) (S) (W) (HD)

4.00 Filthy House SOS A mum-of-three
is overwhelmed by a sea of clutter in her
three-bedroom house. (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Neighbours
Mackenzie pitches herself to Terese as
an unpaid Fashion Week intern.
Shown 1.45pm (S) (HD)

6.30 New. Eggheads
The Medway and Solent Originals take
on the regulars. Last in the series. (S) (HD)

7.00 New. Kate Humble’s Coastal
Britain
6/8 Series 2. Kate follows the historic
East Sussex coastline, beginning on
the cliffs overlooking Hastings, a town
associated with the Battle of 1066.
Series producer Mark Leslie (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Cruising with Susan
Calman

a

2/6. The Canaries. As her cruise
ship leaves the Canaries behind,
Susan enjoys sailing north across the
Atlantic Ocean to the beautiful subtropical island of Madeira. See page 100.

Director Jenny Macleod (S) (HD)

Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Deadline
4/4. James returns to London to pursue
the killer, but finds no-one believes his
stories about what happened in Budapest.
For cast see Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Holidaying with Jane
McDonald: the Caribbean
2/4. In St Lucia, Jane gets a bird’s-eye
view of the rainforest and takes a boat
trip from the north to the south of the
island to see its two volcanic spires.
Shown Sunday 9pm (S) (HD)

11.00 New. 80s Greatest Pop
Videos: 1988
9/10. A look at the greatest pop videos
from the era when Stock, Aitken and
Waterman ruled the UK charts.
Directors Yvette Lyons, Chris Price-Morgan and
Anna Cox (S) (HD)

1.00am New. Casino (S) (HD) 3.00
Entertainment News (S) (HD) 3.10 Police
Interceptors (S) (HD) 3.55 Now That’s Funny!
(S) (SL) (HD) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (S) (SL)
5.10—5.35am House Doctor (S) (SL) (AD)
Channel 5+1 Freeview 46 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 155

BBC4 listings are overleaf

7.00pm New. MasterChef Australia

In the elimination challenge, each cook
takes on a different world cuisine, and the
chef who fails to impress heads into a battle
with previously eliminated contestants.
First shown on W (S) (HD)

7.55 New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

8.00 The Fast and the Farmer-ish
1/7. Leicestershire’s all-female Diva
Drivers are determined to outmanoeuvre
Somerset’s Checkshirt Choppers. (S) (HD)
8.30 2/7. Northern Ireland’s Bogmen
and Determinators rev up against each
other. The whole series is on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

9.00 Love in the Flesh
1/8. Zara McDermott presents a dating
show exploring what happens when couples
who have formed relationships through
apps and social media meet face to face.
9.45 2/8. All five couples go on their first
date as they start courting in the real world,
with no screens or filters to hide behind.
10.30 3/8. The heat is turned up when
six new singles enter the beach house.
11.15 4/8. Relationships are tested to the
max after the arrival of six new guests
— but which couples will survive?
12 midnight 5/8. The morning of day
five in the beach house finds everyone
confused about one couple’s status.
12.45am 6/8. After a dramatic night, the
couples face a communication task where
they must build rafts together. (S) (HD)
1.30 Hot Property: Filly meets Chloe Ferry (S)
(HD) 2.00 The Drop (S) (HD) 3.00—3.45am
Freeze: Back on Thin Ice (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

ITV2

6

SAVE on a

(

5.45pm Heartbeat
13/16 Series 4. Nick investigates
graffiti at a battery egg farm. (S) (AD)
6.55 14/16. A seemingly open-and-shut
inquiry prompted by a lost suitcase
reveals a long-running family feud. (S) (AD)

8.00 Doc Martin

6.00pm Butterflies
5/6 Series 1. The Lovers. A piece of
artwork turns out to be significant.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 23. The Mystical Squeak of
Howard’s Bicycle. Howard’s bicycle starts
acting strangely in front of Pearl. (S)
7.20 Mervyn Would Be Proud. Billy
discovers he has greater worries ahead. (S)

8/8 Series 7. The Doctor Is Out. Louisa
fears that Martin may have left Portwenn
after Dr Timoney’s suggestion that their
relationship is not meant to be. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 1/8 Series 8. Mysterious Ways
Portwenn is making preparations for PC
Penhale and Janice’s wedding. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Father Brown

10.00 Law & Order: UK

10.00 New Tricks

3/7 Series 6. Haunted. Brooks re-opens
a case following a deathbed confession to
the murder of a teenage girl. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Scott & Bailey

Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118/HD 178
6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.05 The
Protectors (S) 6.30 Robin of Sherwood (S)
7.25 The Avengers (S) (SL) (HD) 8.25 The
Professionals (S) (SL) (AD) 9.30 New. Racing:
the Opening Show: from Aintree (S) (HD) 10.30
Minder (S) (AD) 11.35 The Champions (S)
12.40pm Extreme Salvage Squad (S) (HD) 1.40
Robin of Sherwood: the outlaws rescue King
Richard (S) 2.45 The Avengers (S) (HD) 3.55
The Professionals (S) (AD) 4.55 Minder (S) (AD)
6.00pm River Monsters In the Amazon,
Jeremy Wade investigates after a body
is found with unusual bruising. (S) (HD)
6.30 LIVE International Football North
Macedonia Women v England Women
(kick-off 7.00). Coverage of the World Cup
Group D qualifier at Tose Proeski Arena in
Skopje. Laura Woods presents, with analysis
from Ian Wright and Anita Asante. (S) (HD)
9.15 New. Virtual Grand National A
computer tries to predict the outcome. (S) (HD)
10.15 New. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
Hard-hitting action from the AEW. (S) (HD)

12.40 American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.35 Bob’s
Burgers (S) (AD) (HD) 2.25 Superstore (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

12.25am Car Crash Global: Caught on Camera (S)
(HD) 1.25 The Professionals (S) (SL) (AD) 2.25 The
Protectors (S) (SL) 2.55—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV4 +1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 175

9.00 New. Sister Boniface Mysteries
Scoop. The body of a high-level
a 5/10.
official’s secretary is found at the
bottom of a staircase. See p100. (AD) (HD)

2/10 Series 7. It Smells of Books. Lane
goes under cover in his “spiritual home”,
the London Library. (S) (AD)
1/4 Series 9. Ghosts. The bodies of two
unidentified women are discovered. (S) (AD)

12 midnight Inspector Morse: Series 2. Last
Seen Wearing. A schoolgirl goes missing (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 174

ITV4

5/15 Series 5. The Hand of Lucia
A local writer is murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.20 Silent Witness

6/8 Series 3. The detectives are sent
to investigate the death of a man in
a nursing home after his daughter
complains about his care. (S) (AD) (HD)

Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115/HD 176
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (SL) 6.25 Dress to Impress (S) (SL)
(HD) 7.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show (S) (HD)
8.25 Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 9.20 Hart of
Dixie (S) (HD) 10.15 One Tree Hill: Lucas attends
a beach party (S) (HD) 11.10 The O.C. (S) (HD)
12.05pm Love Bites (S) (AD) (HD) 1.05 Dress
to Impress (S) (HD) 2.05 New. The Ellen
DeGeneres Show: with guest Lisa Kudrow (S)
(HD) 3.00 Hart of Dixie (S) (HD) 4.00 One
Tree Hill (S) (HD) 5.00 The O.C. (S) (HD)
6.00pm Celebrity Catchphrase Tony
Audenshaw, Tamzin Outhwaite and Phil Tufnell
try to guess the familiar phrases. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Superstore 12/22 Series 3. Amy does
not feel ready to start dating again. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.30 13/22. Jonah attempts to help Amy
secure a hot new video game. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers Series 4. The family
heads off on a train journey. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Linda correctly predicts that a
telemarketer will call the restaurant. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 FILM Fast & Furious 8 ★★★★
Action adventure starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne
Johnson, Jason Statham and Charlize Theron.
The team have dispersed to live quieter lives.
But with Dom seemingly seduced into a life
of techno terrorism by the mysterious
Cipher, it looks like the opportunity to put
their feet up will have to wait. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.40 Family Guy Series 16. Brian learns
to invest in the stock market. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.10am Chris loses a rare dollar note that
Carter gave him for his birthday. (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV2+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 116

104

ITV3

26

1.35am Kavanagh QC: 2/4 Series 5. The
More Loving One. An arsonist is accused of
killing his girlfriend (S) (HD) 3.05—4.00am
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: 4/6 Series 2
A spiritualist comes under investigation (S)
Drama +1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 226

ITVBe

28

Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119/HD 179
7.00am Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
8.00 Buying and Selling: the duo spruce up
a worn-out home (S) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe (HD)
12 noon Unboxed (S) (HD) 12.30pm The
Real Housewives of New York City (S) (HD)
1.25 Gemma Collins: Diva Forever (S) (HD)
2.25 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 3.10
New. Little Women: LA First shown on Lifetime
(S) (HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of New
Jersey (S) (HD) 5.00 The Real Housewives
of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Dave and Kortney
Wilson fix up an outdated house. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling Helping a former
professional footballer and his wife search
for a bigger property. (S) (HD)
8.00 Dinner Date Jess from Beckenham,
south London, looks for love. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Botched Paul Nassif treats a nose that
is stuck at a seven o’clock angle. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 A patient seeks a new nose. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.55 Atlanta Plastic Dr Crawford meets a
woman desperate for a breast reduction. (S) (HD)
11.50 The Only Way Is Essex Bobby
throws a fundraising fashion show. (S) (HD)
12.40—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe +1 Virgin 120 (Scotland 162)

FRIDAY 8 APRIL
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

Freeview 18 Freesat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147/HD 195
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A
Place in the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
1.05pm Heir Hunters 2.05 Four in a Bed
4.50 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.55 Car SOS (AD)
6.55pm Escape to the Château: DIY Six
weeks into their new life as château owners,
Donna and Paul start transforming their
abandoned scullery into a kitchen. (AD)
7.55 Devon and Cornwall On the island of
St Martin’s in the Isles of Scilly, Val Thomas
and husband Graham have run a vineyard
for more than a quarter of a century. Now
they’ve decided to put down their secateurs
and retire, but first they need to ensure that
the new owners know the ropes. (AD)
9.00 RT CHOICE New. The Crimson
Rivers Ep 3 Series 3. Niemans loses control
when he finds out about Damien and ends
up isolated. Camille is caught in a quandary
after hearing information from Kleinert and
then the shocking news about Niemans from
Marek. French +subtitles. See p100.
10.05 24 Hours in A&E A motorcyclist is
airlifted to St George’s after crashing into
a bus, and a seven-year-old arrives with his
dad after cutting his wrist while playing. (AD)
11.10 A 22-month-old girl needs urgent
treatment after being kicked by a horse,
and a man with epilepsy seeks help after
falling face-first onto the pavement. (AD)

F’view 11 F’sat 147 Sky 130 Virgin 165/HD 140 BT 349/HD 364
6.00am Darbar: Music of India 7.00 The
South Bank Show 8.00 Puccini by Andrea
Colombini 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected 10.00
Discovering: Jason Robards 11.00 Music Icons:
New Wave 11.30 Video Killed the Radio Star
12 noon Rankin’s 2020 1.00pm Tales of the
Unexpected 2.00 Discovering: Richard Dreyfuss
3.00 Mystery of the Lost Paintings (AD) 4.00
Landscape Artist of the Year National Trust
Favourites 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected
6.00pm Discovering: Basil Rathbone A
profile of the English star of stage and screen.
7.00 Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston Mick
Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham
and Stevie Nicks play hits from throughout
their career in a concert from 2004.
8.00 More tracks from the concert, featuring
hits including Dreams and Go Your Own Way.
9.15 Classic Albums How private turmoil
acted as a catalyst in the creation of Rumours,
Fleetwood Mac’s Grammy-winning album
from 1977 that sold over 19 million copies.
10.30 Discovering: Blondie A look back at
the music of the American new wave band.
11.00 New. Fields Charlene Wango’s short
film based on true-life events, as a female
pastor deals with the challenge of a family
member facing the dangers of gang culture.
11.15 Punk The exploration of punk continues
with a look at the birth of hardcore. (AD)

Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
6.00am The Great War in Numbers (AD) 8.00
World War II from Above 9.00 Secret Nazi
Bases 10.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD)
12 noon The Architecture the Railways Built
(AD) 1.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
2.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 4.00
World War II from Above 5.00 Secret Nazi
Bases: ruins of an important German asset
6.00pm Antiques Roadshow Fiona Bruce
hosts from Nymans Gardens near Crawley.
7.00 Great British Railway Journeys
In Tewkesbury, Michael Portillo joins a group
re-enacting a battle from the Wars of the Roses.
7.30 Michael Portillo embarks on the first
leg of a journey from Norwich to Chichester.
8.00 The Architecture the Railways Built
Tim Dunn visits the Ffestiniog in Wales and
learns about Amsterdam Centraal. (AD)
9.00 Bangers and Cash Derek finds room
for a Daimler and a teardrop caravan. (AD)
10.00 Dave heads for an isolated tent in the
Midlands to collect a Triumph Toledo. (AD)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering Exploring
a fuel plant in Poland that was built to make
Nazi Germany self-sufficient. (AD)

12.15am Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown
1.15 24 Hours in A&E: double bill (AD)
3.25—3.50am Father Ted (AD)

12.30am Isle of Wight Festival Greatest Hits 1.30
Discovering: Iggy Pop (AD) 2.00 Classic Albums
3.00 Video Killed the Radio Star (AD) 3.25 Born
in Chicago (AD) 5.00—6.00am Landmark (AD)

More4 +1 Freeview 86 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 196

E4

13

Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106/HD 145
6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Wed/Thu 6.30pm C4
(AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
9.00 Married at First Sight Australia 10.30
The Big Bang Theory 11.00 Young Sheldon
12 noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD) 1.00pm
The Big Bang Theory (AD) 3.00 Young
Sheldon: double bill (AD) 4.00 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 4/24
Series 5. Penny arranges a date for Raj. (AD)
6.30 5/24. Wil Wheaton invites everyone
to a house-warming party. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Romeo proves popular.
Cast pp83/103 Repeated Monday C4 (AD)

7.30 The Big Bang Theory 6/24 Series 7
Sheldon makes a scientific breakthrough. (AD)
8.00 Teen First Dates A fashion student
is set up with an apprentice plumber. (AD)
9.00 FILM Jason Bourne ★★★★ Action
thriller starring Matt Damon and Tommy Lee
Jones. Now living in self-imposed exile,
former agent Jason Bourne is contacted by
an old colleague and is soon drawn into an
operation to expose CIA dirty tricks. (AD)
11.25 Naked Attraction A model and
a veterinary student choose dates. (AD)
12.30am A 23-year-old virgin takes part. (AD)
1.35 First Dates: Valentine’s (AD) 2.35 Gogglebox
(SL) (AD) 3.30 Below Deck: Mediterranean (AD)
4.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA:
in Arvada, Colorado 5.10—6.00am Mike & Molly

E4 +1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 146

Really

17

Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Home
Shopping 8.00 Homes under the Hammer 10.00
Antiques Road Trip 12 noon Money for Nothing
1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00 It’s Me or the
Dog 3.00 Animal Cops Houston (AD) 4.00 Pit
Bulls and Parolees 5.00 Countryside 999 6.00
Money for Nothing 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00
New. Fright Club 10.00 New. Ghost Adventures
11.00 Ghost Adventures 1.00am Kindred Spirits
2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Animal Cops Houston
(AD) 5.00—6.00am Pit Bulls and Parolees

4seven

49

Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143/HD 203
9.00am Four in a Bed 9.30 Come Dine
with Me 10.30 Couples Come Dine with Me:
from Plymouth 11.30 A Place in the Sun
1.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 A New Life in the Sun 3.30 Come Dine
with Me: dinner party challenge in Lincoln
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A search for
a holiday home near the Sierra Nevada.
7.00 Ugly House to Lovely House with
George Clarke Architect Will Alsop redesigns
a West Sussex couple’s bungalow. (AD)
8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home The architect helps James and Drew
restore the features and dimensions of
their Georgian home in Leicester. (AD)
9.00 Emergency Following the work of
London’s Major Trauma System — a network
of hospitals, air ambulances and paramedics
— during the summer of 2021. (AD)
10.00 Nikki Grahame: Who Is She? A
tribute to the the reality-TV star from Big
Brother. Shown yesterday 9pm Channel 4 (AD)
11.05 Gogglebox Ep 8. The armchair critics
give their frank perspectives on the week’s
best television shows. Shown 9pm C4 (AD)
12.10am Gogglebox (AD) 2.20 The Great Celebrity
Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer (AD) 3.40—4.35am
Naked Attraction’s Best Naughty Bits (AD)

Quest

12

F’view 12/HD 114 F’sat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 169
6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.20 World’s Greatest
Motorcycle Rides 7.10 Shed and Buried 8.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 9.00 Dream Builds
on Wheels 10.00 Chasing Classic Cars 11.00
Vintage Voltage (AD) 12 noon Wheeler Dealers
1.00pm LIVE Darts: the WDF World Championship
3.30 Three Men Four Wheels 4.00 Salvage
Hunters 5.00 Salvage Hunters: the Restorers (AD)
6.00 Wheeler Dealers 7.00 Aussie Gold Hunters
8.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 New. Alien Encounters
Declassified 11.00 How Do They Do It? 12 midnight
Wheeler Dealers (AD) 1.00am Disasters at Sea
(AD) 2.00 Iron Resurrection 3.00 Fantomworks
4.00 Mega Shippers 5.00—6.00am How It’s Made

Quest +1 F’view 70 F’sat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 213
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

arrives in time for the next auction

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00—3.00am The Great War in Numbers (AD)

Yesterday +1 Freeview 75 Sky 255 Virgin 200

Dave

19

F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin 127/HD 227
7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Storage Hunters
UK 10.00 Top Gear (AD) 11.00 Expedition
with Steve Backshall: a long lava tube (AD)
12 noon Bangers and Cash 1.00pm Top Gear
(AD) 2.00 Expedition with Steve Backshall
(AD) 3.00 Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey
(AD) 4.00 Bangers and Cash 5.00 Rick
Stein’s India: Rick visits Tamil Nadu (AD)
6.00pm Taskmaster 9/10 Series 9. The five
comics go under cover to impress Greg Davies.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Rachel Riley, JB Gill, Katie Derham and
Richard Herring test their skills.
7.40 Would I Lie to You? With guest
panellists Katherine Parkinson, Louie
Spence, David O’Doherty and Bill Turnbull.
8.20 QI XL Colin Lane, Sarah Millican
and Noel Fielding join the regulars.
9.00 Sandi Toksvig looks at “Queens”.
10.00 Live at the Apollo With Phil Wang,
Brennan Reece and Rachel Parris.
11.00 QI XL Guests include Lucy Porter.
11.40 Meet the Richardsons (AD)
12.20am Mock the Week 1.00 QI XL 1.40 Would I
Lie to You? 2.15 Have I Got a Bit More Old News for
You 3.15—4.00am Richard Osman’s House of Games

Dave Ja Vu Freeview 74 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 131

W

25

Freeview 25 Freesat 156 Sky 132 Virgin 125/HD 211
6.10am My Dream Home 8.00 Tipping
Point 10.00 The Bill 11.00 Inside the Vets
12 noon Inside the Ambulance (AD) 2.00pm
Tipping Point 4.00 My Dream Home
6.00pm MasterChef USA The chefs prepare
dishes inspired by their personal legend.
7.00 Property Brothers: Forever Homes
A home for newlyweds A’amna and Ibrahim.
8.00 New. Inside the Ambulance The
crews attend a man with a broken leg. (AD)
9.00 999 Rescue Squad The team are
called in to save the survivors of a crash. (AD)
10.00 Gavin & Stacey The Shipmans
travel to Wales to attend a wedding fair.
10.40 Gavin embarks on two stag nights.
11.20 The day of the wedding arrives. (AD)
12 midnight Inside the Ambulance (AD)
1.00—3.00am Tipping Point: double bill

W +1 Sky 232 Virgin 190

21

Freeview 21 Freesat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 153
9.00am NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment News
12 noon Law & Order 2.55pm Entertainment
News 3.00 Law & Order 4.55 Entertainment
News 5.00 Law & Order 6.00 NCIS: Series 10
Four episodes. A petty officer is gunned down
7.00 A serviceman dies after a fight 8.00
Tony reviews satellite footage of the Middle East
9.00 The daughter of a navy commander is
abducted (AD) 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit: Series 14. Four episodes. The
team must thwart a psychopathic boy 11.00
A college student is sexually assaulted 11.55
A baby is abducted 12.55am Benson and
Barba confront a powerful administrator
1.55 Hannibal 3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught
on Camera: the use of CCTV to fight crime

5 USA +1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 185

5 Star

32

Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 151
8.00am Entertainment News 8.05 Rich
Kids Go Skint 8.55 Room to Improve 10.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun 11.00 Filthy
House SOS 12 noon Traffic Cops 2.00pm
Police Interceptors 5.00 Shoplifters and
Scammers: at War with the Law
6.00pm Home and Away Roo and Alf try to
get Ryder to come home. Shown 1.15pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Home and Away Dean debriefs
Ziggy about his intervention. (AD)
7.00 Car Crime UK: Caught On Camera
The use of CCTV to tackle vehicle theft. (AD)
8.00 999: Criminals Caught on Camera
Police officers monitor the activity of
Soho’s 100,000 nightly visitors. (AD)
9.00 FILM The Meg ★★★ Action horror
thriller starring Jason Statham. A disgraced
deep sea diver is approached to aid a team in
their fight against a giant prehistoric shark.
11.15 FILM Final Destination 2 ★★★
Horror sequel with Ali Larter. Review p31.
1.05am Adults Only: Threesomes Are More Fun
2.05 Adults Only: OAPs on the Game
3.05—4.00am Room to Improve

5 Star +1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 186

5 Action

33

Friday Television

Bangers and Cash 9.00pm A Daimler

and Pierre consider their next move

Fleetwood Mac: Live in Boston
7.00pm The band’s Say You Will tour

The Crimson Rivers 9.00pm Camille

5 USA

Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 187/HD 150
9.00am Traffic Cops 11.00 Trucking Hell (AD)
12.05pm FILM Pork Chop Hill ★★★★ War
drama. Review page 28 (BW) 2.05 FILM
Vera Cruz ★★★★ Western 4.00 Trucking
Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops: under Attack
6.00pm Traffic Cops: on the Edge A driver
writes off his car in a spectacular fireball.
7.00 Police Interceptors Mark and Steve stop
a suspicious man trying to hide his true identity.
8.00 A drunk driver tries everything he can
think of to avoid giving a breath sample.
9.00 Traffic Cops Alex Boniface takes
the lead in the pursuit of a stolen car.
10.00 Frontline Police 24/7 Following the
fortunes of suspects in Florida and Chicago.
11.00 Police UK: Armed and Deadly
Following operations carried out by the UK’s
armed police officers, combining real footage
with news coverage of the aftermath.
12 midnight Fights, Camera, Action! (AD)
1.00am Armed and Dangerous: Caught on
Camera (AD) 2.00 Burglars and Break-Ins:
Caught on Camera (AD) 3.00 Banged Up Abroad
3.50 Doomsday: Caught on Camera 4.35—
5.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera

5 Select

56

Freeview (HD only) 56 Freesat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 152
9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 10.00
The Yorkshire Vet 11.00 The Yorkshire Vet
Casebook 12 noon The Dog Rescuers with
Alan Davies (AD) 2.00pm GPs: behind Closed
Doors (AD) 5.00 The Yorkshire Vet (AD)
6.00pm Watercolour Challenge
7.00 The World’s Most Scenic Railway
Journeys A journey through Sicily.
8.00 England’s rural North West.
9.00 Around the World by Train with
Tony Robinson The actor travels through
South America, exploring Argentina and Peru.
10.00 Tommy Cooper: in His Own Words
Celebrities reflect on what made the
much-loved comedian one of the greats.
12 midnight Elvis: the Man That Rocked the World
2.05am Victoria Wood: 40 Years of Laughs: a profile
of the writer and comedian 3.05 Inside the Heinz
Factory 3.55—4.00am Entertainment News

FREEVIEW channels continue
overleaf: Film channels on p108

105

Freeview, satellite

FRIDAY
CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5
Full listings for Channel 5 are on p104
5.35am Peppa Pig 5.40 Paw Patrol
5.50 Pip and Posy 6.00 Mya Go 6.05
Peppa Pig 6.20 Kid-E-Cats 6.30 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.50 Fireman Sam 7.00
Thomas & Friends 7.10 Peppa Pig 7.25
Paw Patrol 7.40 Milo 7.55 Pip and
Posy 8.05 Paddington 8.25 New.
Ricky Zoom 8.35 Peppa Pig 8.40
Daisy & Ollie 8.50 Odo 8.55 Ben and
Holly 9.10—9.15am Sunny Bunnies

CBeebies

202

Television Friday

Freeview 202 Freesat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702
6.00am Go Jetters 6.10 Bing 6.20
Teletubbies 6.35 School of Roars 6.45
Chuggington 6.55 Tish Tash 7.00 Bing
7.05 Hey Duggee 7.25 Bluey 7.35 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks
8.20 Love Monster 8.30 Nick Cope’s
Popcast 8.35 Justin’s House 9.00
Bitz & Bob 9.25 Alphablocks 9.45
Something Special: We’re All Friends
10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 New. The
Toddler Club at Home 10.35 Hey
Duggee 10.45 Tee and Mo 10.50 Kiri
& Lou 10.55 Love Monster 11.05 Pablo
11.15 Let’s Go for a Walk 11.30 Teeny
Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family
12 noon Big Cook Little Cook
12.20pm Timmy Time 12.25 Waffle
the Wonder Dog 12.35 Bitz & Bob
12.45 Go Jetters 1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.10
Numberblocks 1.15 Alphablocks 1.20
Dog Loves Books 1.25 Hey Duggee
1.35 Love Monster 1.40 Nick Cope’s
Popcast 1.45 Something Special: We’re
All Friends 2.10 Teletubbies 2.25 Bing
2.30 Go Jetters 2.40 Timmy Time
2.45 Maddie’s Do You Know? 3.00
Down on the Farm 3.15 Swashbuckle
3.40 Hey Duggee 3.50 Peter Rabbit
4.00 Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures 4.15
Grace’s Amazing Machines 4.30 Dog
Loves Books 4.40 Love Monster 4.45
Bluey 4.55 Hey Duggee 5.10 Waffle
the Wonder Dog 5.20 Go Jetters 5.35
JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me
6.10pm Clangers 6.20 In the Night
Garden... 6.50—7.00pm CBeebies
Bedtime Stories: a tale is read for
younger viewers before they go to bed

CBBC

201

Freeview 201 Freesat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701
7.00am Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 Newsround 7.55
Ninja Express 8.10 Odd Squad 8.20
Blue Peter Challenges 8.30 Operation
Ouch! 9.00 FILM All Stars ★★★
10.40 Secret Life of Boys 11.25 Class
Dismissed 11.40 OOglies Funsize 11.45
Shaun the Sheep 11.55 Danger Mouse
12.20pm Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
12.40 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
1.05 Step Up to the Plate 2.05 The
Dumping Ground 2.30 Mystic 3.00
Horrible Histories 3.30 Dennis & Gnasher
Unleashed! 3.40 Danger Mouse 3.55
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 4.05
Ninja Express 4.20 Danger Mouse
4.45 Odd Squad 5.00 New. Blue
Peter 5.30 Mr Stink 6.30 Our CBBC
6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CITV

203

Freeview 203 Freesat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734
6.00am Gormiti 3D: the Herald of
Gorm 6.30 Thunderbirds Are Go 6.55
Inspector Gadget 7.25 Teen Titans Go!
7.55 Dare Master 8.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 8.30 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 9.00
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
10.25 Buck and Buddy 10.30 Jurassic
World Camp Cretaceous 11.30 The
Rubbish World of Dave Spud
12 noon Inspector Gadget 1.00pm
Makeaway Takeaway 1.30 Don’t
Unleash the Beast 2.00 Mr Bean: the
Animated Series 3.00 Teen Titans Go!
3.30 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
4.00 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 4.30
Inspector Gadget 5.00 The Rubbish
World of Dave Spud 6.00 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated 6.30
Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
8.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

Dis/Informed 9.05pm Fake
news during the pandemic

PBS America

84

F’view 84 (1-11pm only) F’sat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 273
8.00am American Oz (S) 9.10
Germany’s Neo-Nazis and the Far
Right (S) 10.25 New. Dis/Informed
12.20pm Beautiful Serengeti 1.00
American Oz (S) 2.10 Dis/Informed
4.00 Beautiful Serengeti 4.35
Europe’s Waterways 5.35 Germany’s
Neo-Nazis and the Far Right (S)
6.40pm American Oz 2/2. The
story of L Frank Baum, writer of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
which was published in 1900. (S)
7.50 Germany’s Neo-Nazis and
the Far Right How extremists
have carried out attacks on Jews
and migrants, as well as infiltrating
the security services. (S)
9.05 Dis/Informed Investigating
how the pandemic has made
the public vulnerable to
believing comforting lies over
harsh truths. See page 101.
11.00 American Oz As 6.40pm.
12.15am Germany’s Neo-Nazis and
the Far Right (S) 1.25 Dis/Informed
3.05 Europe’s Waterways
3.35—4.00am Beautiful Serengeti
PBS +1 Freeview (HD only) 87

a

Pick

36

Modern Family 8.30pm

Funeral for a Dog 9.00pm

at bizarre Tudor remedies

Phil meets up with Denise

Mark makes himself heard

Smithsonian

57

F’view (HD only) 57 F’sat 175 Sky 171 Virgin 276
6.00am Aerial America (HD)
10.00 Combat Ships (HD) 12 noon
The Hunt for Eagle 56 (HD) 1.00pm
The Lost Ships: the Hunt for the
Kaiser’s Superfleet (HD) 2.30
D-Day and the Dambusters (HD)
4.00 Combat Ships (HD)
6.00pm America’s Civil War
360 1/3. The North’s hard-won
victory in the US Civil War. (HD)
7.00 Aerial America An aerial
tour over New England. (HD)
8.00 Aerial Britain 3/8 Series 2
A look at the inspirations and
homes of notable individuals. (HD)
9.00 An American Aristocrat’s
Guide to Great Estates 8/10
A visit to Inveraray Castle. (HD)
10.00 Mystic Britain 8/10
Series 2. Examining Henry VIII’s
role in Tudor medicine. (HD)
11.00 Aerial Britain As 8pm.
12 midnight An American
Aristocrat’s Guide to Great Estates
(HD) 1.00am Mystic Britain (HD)
2.00 Aerial Greece (HD)
3.00—6.00am Aerial America (HD)

HGTV

44

Freeview 36 Freesat 144 Sky 159 Virgin 156

F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 286

7.00am Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (AD) 8.00 Motorway Patrol
9.00 Police Force: Australia (AD) 10.00
Police Ten 7 11.00 Highway Cops (AD)
12 noon Highway Patrol (AD) 1.00pm
Border Patrol 2.00 Border Security:
Canada’s Front Line 3.00 Nothing to
Declare (AD) 4.00 Stargate SG-1 5.00
Star Trek: the Next Generation 6.00
Stargate Atlantis: Dr Weir is found in
suspended animation 7.00 Hawaii
Five-0 8.00 Killer in My Village 9.00
Killer Colleagues 10.00 Grimm: Nick is
seemingly killed 11.00 Killer Families
12 midnight Britain’s Most Evil Killers
1.00am The Force: North East 2.00
Nothing to Declare (AD) 3.00 Border
Patrol 4.00 Motorway Patrol 5.00—
6.00am Police Force: Australia (AD)

7.00am Homes under the Hammer
8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00 Escape
to the Country 12 noon My Lottery
Dream Home 1.00pm Fixer to Fabulous
2.00 A Place in the Sun 3.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 4.00 Sarah Beeny’s
Renovate Don’t Relocate 5.00 Homes
under the Hammer 6.00 A Place in
the Sun 7.00 Escape to the Country: a
property in north Wales 8.00 Love Your
Garden: transforming a Manchester
family’s neglected garden 9.00 My
Lottery Dream Home 10.00 My
Mortgage Free Home 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight Escape to the Country
1.00am DIY SOS (AD) 2.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 3.00—4.00am
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Pick +1 Freesat 145 Sky 259

CBS Justice

41

Freeview 41 Freesat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 192
9.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00
The Fugitive 12 noon Perry Mason
(BW) 1.05pm Walker, Texas Ranger
3.00 CSI: Miami 4.00 NCIS 5.00
The Fugitive 6.00 Perry Mason
(BW) 7.05 Walker, Texas Ranger
9.00 CSI: Miami 10.00 NCIS
11.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00am
Walker, Texas Ranger 2.55 JAG
3.55 Donal MacIntyre’s Murder Files
4.45—6.00am Medical Detectives

CBS Drama

68

Freeview 68 Freesat 134 Sky 147 Virgin 197
9.00am Perry Mason (BW) 11.00
Matlock 12 noon Medium 1.00pm
JAG 3.00 Perry Mason 5.00
Unsolved Mysteries 6.55 Judge
Judy 9.00 Medium: Allison reopens
an old case 10.00 Unsolved
Mysteries: double bill. A tale of lost
treasure, then the murder of two
police officers in Louisiana 11.55
Judge Judy 2.00am Medium 3.00
Evidence of Evil 4.00 Written In Blood
5.00—6.00am Matlock

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

106

Mystic Britain 10.00pm A look

HGTV +1 Sky 258 Virgin 290

Great TV

50

F’view 50 (limited) F’sat 142 Sky 157 Virgin 189
6.00am Charlie’s Angels 7.00
Crazy like a Fox 8.00 Highway to
Heaven 10.00 FILM Danielle
Steel’s Fine Things ★ Melodrama
12.50pm GREAT! Movie News
Extra 1.00 Perception 2.00 Body
of Proof 3.00 Castle 4.00 Murder,
She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H 9.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1.00am M*A*S*H: four episodes 3.00
Hart to Hart 3.45 Crazy like a Fox
4.30—6.00am Highway to Heaven

Great TV +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

BBC Parliament 232
F’view 232 F’sat 201 Sky 504 Virgin 605
6.00am House of Lords 11.00 Select
Committees 6.00pm News 6.30 Sportsday
7.00 News 7.30 Dateline London 8.00
News 8.45 Newswatch 9.00 News 9.30
Media Show 10.00 News 10.30 The Papers
10.45 News 11.30 The Papers 12 midnight
News 12.30am Media Show 1.00 News
1.30 Click 2.00 News 2.30 Dateline London
3.00 News 3.30 Click 3.45 Newswatch 4.00
News 4.30 Amol Rajan Interviews Sharon
White 5.00 News 5.30—6.00am Travel Show

Sky Atlantic

Sky Showcase
Sky 106 Virgin 110/HD 109 BT 340/HD 355
6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Sky News Breakfast 8.00 Beth
Rigby Interviews (HD) 9.00 Nothing
to Declare (S) (HD) 10.00 The Flash
(S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S)
(HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00
Modern Family (S) (HD) 4.00 Will
& Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The
Simpsons (S) (HD) 5.45 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air: double bill (S) (HD)
6.30pm The Simpsons Marge
starts her own business.
7.00 An avalanche traps Homer
and Mr Burns in a cabin.
7.30 The family hires a nanny.
8.00 A weekend in the wilderness
takes a dark turn. (S) (HD)
8.30 Modern Family 17/24
Series 1. Phil meets an ex. (S) (HD)
9.00 Rob and Romesh vs Cricket:
South Africa 3/4 Series 2
The duo play a Test. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Late Late Show Best of
the Week Highlights of the show.
11.00 A League of Their Own
Road Trip: Dingle to Dover 1/6
Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp
travel around Britain and Ireland.
12 midnight Bloods (S) (HD) 12.30am
Sex and the City (S) (HD) 1.30 Road
Wars (S) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)
Sky Showcase +1 Sky 206

Challenge

48

F’view 48 F’sat 146 Sky 160 Virgin 160
7.00am The Chase 10.00 Play
Your Cards Right (AD) 11.00 The
Price Is Right 12 noon Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 1.00pm Catchphrase
(AD) 2.00 Family Fortunes (AD)
3.00 The Price Is Right 4.00 Play
Your Cards Right (AD) 5.00 Bullseye
6.00pm Tenable: five sea-loving
women from Sussex compete 7.00
Pointless Celebrities: with Bill Oddie
and Tessa Dunlop, John Craven and
Shauna Lowry, Diarmuid Gavin and
Miranda Krestovnikoff, and Helen
Skelton and Radzi Chinyanganya
8.00 The Chase: quiz show hosted
by Bradley Walsh 10.00 Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire?: with
Chris Tarrant 11.00 Bullseye
12 midnight The Chase: five editions
5.00—6.00am Bullseye: double bill

Forces TV

96

Freeview 96 Freesat 165 Sky 181 Virgin 274
6.00am Forces News 6.30 Ten
Things You Don’t Know about...
6.55 CHiPs 8.55 Watching 9.55
No Place like Home 10.30 Sorry!
11.10 The Brittas Empire 12.25pm
No Place like Home 1.00 Sorry!
1.35 Ten Things You Don’t Know
about... 2.05 Digging for the
Truth 3.00 The Falklands War:
Eyewitness 4.00 Gurkhas vs
Everest 4.55 Decisive Battles: a
profile of the legendary gladiator
Spartacus 5.30 Forces News 6.00
Watching: double bill 7.05 The
Brittas Empire: double bill 8.20
Sorry! 9.00 CHiPs: four episodes
1.00am Watching: two episodes 2.05
CHiPs 4.00 Digging for the Truth
5.00—6.00am Gurkhas vs Everest

Sky 108 (Wales 109) BT 342/HD 357
6.00am Storm City (S) (AD)
7.50 Totti: One Captain (S)
9.30 The Sopranos (S) (AD) (HD)
11.45 Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
12.50pm Six Feet Under (S) (AD)
3.00 Ray Donovan (S) (AD) (HD)
5.10pm The Sopranos 4/21
Series 6. Tony tries to help an
aspiring rapper. Paulie suffers
an identity crisis. (S) (AD) (HD)
6.20 5/21. Johnny Sack is granted
a temporary release to attend his
daughter’s wedding. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.25 Game of Thrones 3/6
Series 8. The Night King and the
army of the dead reach Winterfell,
and an epic battle between the
living and the dead begins. (S) (AD)
9.00 New. Funeral for a Dog
7/8. Tuuli no longer believes
Mark’s account of the events
on the night Felix died. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. 8/8. While
preparations are under way for
the big San Felice Festival on the
estate, Mark tells Tuuli the truth
about what really happened to
Felix. German +subtitles. (HD)
11.00 Succession 6/10 Series 2
Greg has to break some distressing
news to Tom. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am True Blood (S) (HD)
3.30 In Treatment 4.00—6.00am
Storm City (S) (AD) (HD)
Sky Atlantic +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

Sky Witness
Sky 107 Virgin 112/HD 111 BT 341/HD 356
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (AD)
8.00 Border Patrol (S) 9.00 Send
in the Dogs (S) 10.00 UK Border
Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Law & Order
(HD) 12 noon Bull (HD) 1.00pm
Blue Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00
Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD) 4.00
Paramedics Australia (S) (HD) 5.00
Nothing to Declare (S) 8.00 New.
Chicago Med (HD) 9.00 New. Chicago
Fire: Severide and Seager investigate
an anonymous tip (HD) 10.00
New. Chicago PD (HD) 11.00 Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Rookie (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00am 9-1-1 (S) (HD) 2.00 Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit (S) (HD) 3.00 Bull
(HD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) 5.00—6.00am
Brit Cops: Rapid Response (S) (AD)

Sky Witness +1 Sky 207 Virgin 206

Syfy
Sky 152 Virgin 139/HD 138 BT 347/HD 362
6.00am Quantum Leap 7.00 Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine 11.00 Star
Trek: Voyager 12 noon Stargate
Atlantis 1.00pm The Librarians
2.00 V 3.00 Fringe 4.00 Stargate
Atlantis 5.00 Stargate SG-1
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine 7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00
Fringe: the team revisits Walter’s
Harvard lab 9.00 FILM
Asteroid-a-Geddon ★ Sci-fi action
starring Issa Veronika and Eric
Roberts 11.00 Stargate SG-1
12 midnight Grimm 1.00am Stargate
Atlantis 2.00 Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine 3.00 Star Trek: Voyager
4.00 Fringe 5.00—6.00am V

Syfy +1 Sky 252 Virgin 229

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

& cable

Rob and Romesh vs Cricket:
South Africa 9.00pm

Sky Max

Sky Replay
Sky 145 Virgin 180
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry
(S) 8.00 Four Weddings (S) (HD)
10.00 My Kitchen Rules: Australia
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Total Wipeout (S)
(AD) 2.00 Stargate Atlantis (S) (HD)
4.00 Quantum Leap (S) (HD)
6.00pm Most Haunted (S) 7.00
The Flash: Despero warns Barry
that great tragedies will lead to
Armageddon (S) (HD) 8.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (S) (HD) 9.00
Hooten and the Lady (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Russell Howard Hour
(S) (HD) 11.00 Transplant (S) (HD)

12 midnight Night Cops (S) (HD)
1.00am Police Ten 7 (HD) 2.00
A League of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Four Weddings (S) (HD)
5.00—6.00am Most Haunted US (S)

Sky Crime
Sky 122 Virgin 137/HD 136 BT 348/HD 363
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD)
7.00 Send in the Dogs (S) 8.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) 9.00 Nothing to
Declare (S) (HD) 10.00 Brit Cops (S)
(AD) 11.00 Road Wars (S) 12 noon
Forensics (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm How I
Caught the Killer (S) (HD) 2.00 Most
Evil Killers (S) (HD) 4.00 Murders That
Shocked the Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00
Killer Families (S) (HD) 6.00 World’s
Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 7.00 Murders
That Shocked the Nation (S) (HD) 8.00
Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 9.00 New York
Homicide (HD) 10.00 Murdered at First
Sight (HD) 11.00 Most Evil Killers (S)
1.00am Forensics (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Killer in My Village (S) 3.00 How I
Caught the Killer (S) 4.00 Brit Cops (S)
(AD) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime +1 Sky 222 Virgin 207

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Gold
Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124 BT 343/HD 358
7.10am Jam and Jerusalem (S)
8.30 2 Point 4 Children (S) 9.10
Hi-de-Hi! (S) 9.50 Porridge (S)
10.30 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
11.50 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
12.30pm Dad’s Army: the Lost
Episodes (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10 Hi-de-Hi!
(S) 1.50 2 Point 4 Children (S) 2.30
Desmond’s 3.05 Dad’s Army (S)
3.45 Dad’s Army: the Lost Episodes
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.25 Last of the
Summer Wine (S) 5.40 Porridge (S)
6.25pm Desmond’s Lee
wonders who his parents are.
7.00 Hi-de-Hi! Barry and
Yvonne tread the light fantastic. (S)
7.40 Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth attends a christening. (S)
8.20 Dad’s Army The platoon
acquires an armoured car. (S)
9.00 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
With Harry Redknapp, Maya Jama
and Mick Hucknall. (S) (HD)
10.00 Men Behaving Badly Tony
tries to make Deborah jealous. (S)
10.40 All Round to Mrs Brown’s
With Joel Dommett, Ruth Langsford
and Eamonn Holmes. (S) (HD)
11.40 Peep Show (S) (HD)
12.50am Jam and Jerusalem: two
episodes (S) 2.15 Men Behaving
Badly (S) 2.50—4.00am The
Interviews: Kenny Everett (S) (HD)
Gold +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 194

Sky Comedy
Sky 114 (Wales 115) Virgin 135/HD 123
BT 346/HD 361
8.00am The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
(HD) 10.00 Will & Grace (S) (HD) 11.30
The Office US (S) (HD) 12 noon The
Mindy Project (S) (HD) 12.50pm Curb
Your Enthusiasm (S) (HD) 2.00 AP Bio
(S) (HD) 3.00 Modern Family (S) (HD)
4.00 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00
The Office US (S) (HD) 5.45 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air: double bill (S) (HD)
6.35 Saturday Night Live (HD) 8.00
Los Espookys (S) (HD) 8.30 Wellington
Paranormal (HD) 9.00 Girls: double bill
(S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Late Late Show
Best of the Week (HD) 11.00 And Just
like That..: Charlotte attempts to
impress a fellow mum (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Bloods (S) (HD) 12.30am
Sex and the City (S) (HD) 1.35 The
Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (HD)
2.30 Bored to Death (S) (HD) 4.00—
5.00am Everybody Hates Chris (HD)

Comedy Central
Sky 112 (Wales 113) Virgin 181/HD 132
BT 344/HD 359
8.00am Last Man Standing (S) (HD)
9.00 My Wife and Kids (S) (HD) 11.00
Younger (S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 FILM The Other
Woman ★★★ Comedy with Cameron
Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton.
When the wife of philanderer Mark King
meets his mistress, it promises to be
explosive. But the two women discover
that there is more to this love triangle
than meets the eye, and Mark soon
learns that hell hath no fury... (S)
11.10 Jason Manford: First World
Problems (S) (HD) 12.10am Live at
the Apollo (S) 1.10 Kevin Hart: Let Me
Explain (S) (HD) 2.40 Gods of the Game
(S) (HD) 3.10 Grouchy Young Men (S)
(HD) 4.10—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 133

Limetown 9.00pm Lia makes
a significant breakthrough

Alibi
Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin 126/HD 212
7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Major Crimes (S) (HD) 11.00 Rizzoli
& Isles (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon Death
in Paradise (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm
Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Murdoch Mysteries: double bill (S)
(HD) 4.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD)
5.00 Major Crimes (S) (HD)
6.00pm Death in Paradise 1/8
Series 3. Richard Poole meets a
sticky end at a reunion. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Rizzoli & Isles 9/18 Series 5
A woman’s mummified remains
are discovered. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Hudson & Rex 12/16
Series 1. Donovan’s ex-girlfriend, a
recovering addict, wakes up to find
her roommate dead. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Limetown 5/10. Lia
embarks on a search for the
creator of Limetown. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.40 6/10. Lia finds a scientist
who knows what the true purpose
of Limetown was. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.15 Evil 1/13. Psychologist
Kristen Bouchard is hired to
determine whether a serial killer is
possessed by a demon. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.20 Death in Paradise As 6pm.
12.20am Unforgettable (S) (HD)
1.20 Limetown (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30—
4.00am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
Alibi +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

Discovery

I Am Paul Walker 9.00pm

The Fast and Furious actor

Sky Documentaries
Sky 121 Virgin 278/HD 277 BT 352/HD 367
6.00am Inside the Freemasons (S)
(AD) (HD) 7.00 Discovering: Samuel L
Jackson (S) (HD) 8.00 The Directors
(S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 The Story of Late
Night (S) (HD) 10.00 The 2000s (S)
(HD) 11.00 100 Foot Wave (S) (AD) (HD)
12 noon FILM The September Issue
★★★★ (S) (W) (HD) 1.40pm My Icon:
Keegan Hirst (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Never Surrender: a Galaxy Quest
Documentary (S) (HD) 3.40 My
Icon: Sophie Cook (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00
Discovering: Samuel L Jackson (S)
(HD) 5.00 The Directors (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm The Story of Late Night
A look at the history of late-night
talk shows, beginning with shows
presented by Steve Allen, Jack
Paar and Johnny Carson. (S) (HD)
7.00 The 2000s Examining
technological advancements
during the decade. (S) (HD)
8.00 100 Foot Wave Garrett
has concerns about proposed
safety measures. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 I Am Paul Walker
Exploring the life and legacy of
American actor Paul Walker, who
died at the age of 40. (S) (HD)
10.50 The End of the Storm
Liverpool Football Club’s Premier
League-winning 2019/20 season.
12.50am LFG (S) (AD) (HD) 2.50 The
Look of Silence (S) 5.00—6.00am
100 Foot Wave (S) (AD) (HD)

Nat Geographic

Malawi Wildlife Rescue
9.00pm Treating a hedgehog

Sky Nature
Sky 124 Virgin 280/HD 279 BT 354/HD 369
6.00am Strange Creatures (S)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00
The Forgotten Forests of Malaysia
(S) 9.00 Guardians of the Wild (S)
10.00 Africa’s Wild Year (S) 11.00
Brazil Untamed (S) 12 noon Over
Australia (S) 1.00pm Monkey Life
(S) (AD) 2.00 The Forgotten Forests
of Malaysia (S) 3.00 Guardians of
the Wild (S) 4.00 Africa’s Wild Year
(S) 5.00 Brazil Untamed (S)
6.00pm Over Australia 2/2
Aerial footage of Australia’s Great
Dividing Range. (S)
7.00 Monkey Life Chimp Tikko
undergoes surgery when he gets
a tooth infection. (S) (AD)
7.30 Alison agrees to take in
a neglected marmoset. (S) (AD)
8.00 A Wild Year on Earth As
spring arrives, whooper swans
are called northward. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Malawi Wildlife Rescue
Following the work of staff at a
wildlife rescue centre. (S) (HD)
10.00 Brazil Untamed The
resurgence of the ocelot. (S)
11.00 Over Australia As 6pm.
12 midnight Deadly Hunters
1.00am Wild Kingdoms 2.00
A Wild Year on Earth (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Malawi Wildlife Rescue (S)
(HD) 4.00 The Forgotten Forests
of Malaysia (S) 5.00—6.00am
Guardians of the Wild (S)

Eden

Sky 125 Virgin 250 BT 322/HD 376

Sky 129 Virgin 266/HD 268 BT 351/HD 366

Sky 166 Virgin 245/HD 247

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)
7.00 Treehouse Masters (S) (HD)
8.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S)
(HD) 9.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S)
(HD) 10.00 Combat Dealers (S) (HD)
11.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)
12 noon Mighty Truckers (HD) 1.00pm
Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 3.00 Disasters
Engineered (S) (HD) 4.00 Building Off
the Grid (S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers
(S) (HD) 6.00 Misfit Garage (S) (HD)
7.00 Outback Truckers (S) (HD) 8.00
Hoffman Family Gold (HD) 9.00 New.
Expedition Bigfoot (HD) 10.00 Aliens
In Alaska (S) (HD) 11.00 Combat Dealers
(S) (AD) (HD) 12 midnight as 9pm
1.00am Aliens In Alaska (S) (HD) 2.00
Moonshiners (S) (HD) 3.00 Gold Rush:
Freddy Dodge’s Mine Rescue (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00am Car SOS (S) (HD) 10.00 Ice
Road Rescue (HD) 12 noon Wicked Tuna:
North v South (S) (HD) 1.00pm Wicked
Tuna (S) (HD) 2.00 Drain the Oceans
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Car SOS (S) (HD)
6.00 Air Crash Investigation (HD) 8.00
Dutch Caribbean Coastguards: as the
team trace smugglers’ tracks, they make
a remarkable discovery (HD) 9.00
Car SOS: Tim and Fuzz head to Kent to
rescue a 1973 Dennis fire engine (HD)
10.00 Colossal Machines: machines built
to operate in extremes of cold weather
(HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation (S)
(AD) (HD) 12 midnight Science of Stupid:
two episodes (HD) 1.00am Trafficked
with Mariana Van Zeller (HD) 2.00 Drugs
Inc (HD) 3.00 Nazi Megastructures (S)
(AD) (HD) 4.00—5.00am Lost Treasures
of Egypt: a secret cemetery (HD)

9.00am Life in the Air (HD) 10.00
Mountain Gorilla (HD) 11.00 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 12 noon Baby Chimp
Rescue (HD) 2.00pm Life in the Air
(HD) 3.00 Mexico: Earth’s Festival of
Life (HD) 5.00 Mountain Gorilla (HD)
6.00pm Baby Chimp Rescue (HD) 7.00
Rescued Chimpanzees of the Congo
with Jane Goodall (HD) 8.00 Life in the
Air (HD) 9.00 Mexico: Earth’s Festival
of Life (HD) 10.00 Baby Chimp Rescue
(HD) 11.00 Mountain Gorilla (HD)
12 midnight Life in the Air (HD)
1.00am Mexico: Earth’s Festival of Life
(HD) 2.00 as 7pm 3.00 Mountain
Gorilla (HD) 3.50 Rescued
Chimpanzees of the Congo with Jane
Goodall (HD) 4.40 Bahama Blue (HD)
5.30—6.00am Collar of Duty (HD)

Discovery +1 Sky 225 Virgin 258

Nat Geo +1 Sky 229 Virgin 267

Discovery History

Sky History

Eden +1 Sky 266 Virgin 246

Animal Planet

Sky 177 Virgin 257

Sky 123 Virgin 270 BT 353/HD 368

Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 251 BT 325/HD 378

6.00am Devonport (S) 7.00 Mysteries
of the Missing (S) 8.00 Ultimate Warfare
(S) 9.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S)
10.00 Mysteries at the Museum 11.00
Mysteries of the Missing (S) 12 noon
Combat Dealers (S) 1.00pm Expedition
Unknown (S) 2.00 World War II:
Witness to War (S) 3.00 Lost City of
the Desert (S) (AD) 4.00 Mysteries at
the Museum 5.00 Ultimate Warfare (S)
6.00 Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S) 7.00
Expedition Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat
Dealers (S) 9.00 Legendary Locations
(S) (AD) 10.00 Nasa’s Unexplained
Files (S) 11.00 Aircraft Stories (S)
12 midnight Combat Dealers (S)
2.00am Nasa’s Unexplained Files (S)
3.00 Aircraft Stories (S) 4.00 as 3pm
5.00—6.00am Mysteries at the Museum

6.00am Secrets in the Ice (HD)
8.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 9.00 American
Pickers (HD) 11.00 Secrets of the Viking
Stone (HD) 12 noon Legends of the
Pharaohs (HD) 1.00pm Forged in Fire
(HD) 2.00 American Pickers (HD)
3.00 American Pickers: Best Of (HD)
4.00 WW2 Mystery: Foo Fighters (HD)
6.00pm Pawn Stars (HD) 7.00 Forged
in Fire (HD) 8.00 Curse of the Ancients
(HD) 9.00 Digging for Britain (HD)
10.00 Ray Winstone’s Sicily (HD)
11.00 How Sex Changed the World (HD)
12 midnight Curse of the Ancients
(HD) 1.00am Lost Relic Hunters (HD)
2.00 Forged in Fire (HD) 3.00 How
Sex Changed the World (HD) 4.00
Legends of the Pharaohs (HD)
5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars (HD)

8.00am America’s Cutest Pets (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Dr Jeff (S) (HD) 10.00 Dodo
Heroes (S) (HD) 11.00 How Do Animals
Do That? (S) (HD) 12 noon Extinct or
Alive: the Lost Shark (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Legend of Deep Blue (S) (HD)
2.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD) 3.00
America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD) 4.00
Dr Jeff (S) (HD) 5.00 Dodo Heroes (S)
(HD) 6.00 Alaska Monsters (S) (HD)
7.00 Little Giants (HD) 8.00 Life at
Vet University (S) (HD) 9.00 Born
Mucky: Life on the Farm (S) (HD) 10.00
I Was Prey (HD) 11.00 Extinct or Alive
(S) (HD) 12 midnight In Search of
Monsters (S) (HD) 1.00am Little Giants
(HD) 2.00 My Cat from Hell (S) (HD)
3.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00am Dr Jeff (S) (HD)

Discovery History +1 Sky 277 Virgin 261

Sky History +1 Sky 223 Virgin 271

Friday Television

Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 122/HD 121
BT 345/HD 360
6.00am Stargate SG-1 (S) 8.00 Arrow
(S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow (HD) 10.00 The Flash (S)
(HD) 11.00 NCIS: Los Angeles (S)
(HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
2.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (HD) 4.00
Arrow (S) (HD) 5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate SG-1 20/22
Series 5. O’Neill enlists the help
of two military prisoners. (S)
7.00 21/22. Jackson is exposed
to a lethal dose of radiation. (S)
8.00 Rugby’s Funniest Moments
A selection of the sport’s most
amusing moments, featuring
events on the international and
domestic scene. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Rob and Romesh vs Cricket:
South Africa 3/4 Series 2
The duo head to Cape Town to see
England play a Test. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Rob and Romesh vs
Cricket: the Test 4/4 Series 2
Rob and Romesh watch England
take on South Africa. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 A League of Their Own Road
Trip: Dingle to Dover As 8pm.
12 midnight DC’s Legends of
Tomorrow (HD) 1.00am Road Wars
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Arrow (S) (HD)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
4.00 S.W.A.T. (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (HD)

Peep Show 11.40pm Mark is
roped into being a best man

FRIDAY 8 APRIL

Animal Planet +1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 259

107

FRIDAY Films & Sport
FREEVIEW
Film4

Sky Premiere
14

F’view 14 F’sat 300 Sky 313 Virgin 428/HD 429
11.00am Man of the West
★★★★ Gary Cooper stars in this
fine, relentlessly grim western from
director Anthony Mann that was
given scant critical approval on
its original release. (1958, 12) (S) (AD)
1.05pm Vertigo 5 In one
of the truly great Alfred Hitchcock
movies, James Stewart plays the
retired cop with a fear of heights
who’s hired to follow a friend’s
suicidal wife. Kim Novak (1958, PG) (S)
3.40 Little Man Tate ★★★★
Moving drama about an
uneducated woman’s struggle to
get the best for her gifted child. Jodie

Television Friday

Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd (1991, PG) (S)

5.45pm Transformers:
Age of Extinction ★★★ Mark
Wahlberg’s engineer teams up
with Optimus Prime to save the
world in this technically dazzling
sci-fi sequel. Jack Reynor (2014, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 i Stuber ★★ Fish-out-ofwater action comedy in which
a taxi driver gets caught up
in a police chase. Review p31.
Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Bautista, Iko Uwais (2019, 15) (S)

10.55 White Boy Rick ★★
A boy’s drift into crime puts him
in conflict with the FBI and his
father in this drama set in 1980s
Detroit. Matthew McConaughey (2018, 15) (S)
1.10—3.45am Regression ★★
Suspenseful thriller in which Ethan
Hawke investigates allegations of
abuse made by Emma Watson
against her father. David Thewlis (2015, 15) (S)
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

Freeview 82 Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445
6.00am Mrs Fitzherbert ★★★
Starchy but handsome historical
drama. Peter Graves, Joyce Howard (1947)
8.05 Beyond the Curtain ★
Low-budget thriller. Richard Greene, Eva
Bartok (1960, U) (S) 9.50 Blueprint for
Robbery ★★★ J Pat O’Malley
leads a daring heist in this tight, welledited drama. (1961) 11.30 The House
on 92nd Street ★★★★ Enthralling
spy thriller in which a double agent
keeps a federal agent informed
about the activities of Nazi spies in
New York. William Eythe (1945, U) (S) 1.15pm
Hell Drivers ★★★★ Stanley Baker
heads a superb British cast in this
tense thriller about a corrupt
haulage firm. (1957, PG) (S) 3.25 The
Iron Maiden ★★ Misfiring comedy.
Michael Craig (1962, U) (S) 5.25 North
West Frontier ★★★ Kenneth More
gives an assured performance as
the soldier entrusted with the safety
of a prince in this cracking adventure.
Review p27. Lauren Bacall (1959, U)
8.00 The Outer Limits TV sci-fi. (S)
9.05 Diary of a Madman ★★
Strange but decent horror that
sees Vincent Price’s 19th-century
French magistrate possessed by
and evil spirit. Vincent Price (1963, 15) (S)
11.05 Die, Monster, Die! ★★
Atmospheric cosmic horror based
on a HP Lovecraft story that sees
a meteorite cause weird mutations
in a community. Boris Karloff (1965, 12) (S)
12.50am Curse of the Faceless
Man ★★ Horror about a gladiator
who comes back to life after being
unearthed at Pompeii. (1958) (S)
2.20 The Final Conflict: Omen III
★★ Overblown addition to the
horror franchise with Sam Neill. (1980, 18)
4.30—6.00am The Golden Disc ★
Musical. Lee Patterson (1958, U) (S)

Films for streaming p38
The best of Netflix, Amazon, Sky

108

Die Hard 4.0 1111 9.00pm Great Movies
Hacker Justin Long is in for a bumpy ride with no-nonsense cop
Bruce Willis after America’s computer systems are hijacked
Great Movies

34

Freeview 34 Freesat 302 Sky 321 Virgin 425
9.00am Lost Letter Mysteries: from
the Heart 11.00 Fatal Acquittal
★★ Crime thriller. Joely Fisher (2014)
1.00pm Heart of a Stranger ★★
True-life drama. Review p28.
Jane Seymour (2002) 3.00 Wrong Swipe
★★ Thriller. Anna Hutchison (2016) 4.40
Breaker Morant ★★★★ Powerful
drama based on the true story of
Australian soldiers court-martialled
by the British during the Boer war.
Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson (1979, PG)

6.45pm The Cobbler ★★ Bizarre
comedy in which Adam Sandler’s
shoemaker finds a way to experience
the lives of his customers. (2014, 12)
9.00 Die Hard 4.0 ★★★★ Bruce
Willis strikes up a witty, odd-couple
partnership with Justin Long’s
cowardly hacker in this thoroughly
entertaining action thriller. (2007, 12)
11.40 First Kill ★★ Bloody kidnap
drama in which Hayden Christensen
is forced to help a bank robber in
order to save his son. Bruce Willis (2017, 15)
1.55am Timecop ★★★
Entertaining time-travel hokum in
which two Jean-Claude Van Dammes
endeavour to save the world from
a power-mad US senator. (1994, 18)
3.55—5.50am Bridge to
Terabithia ★★★★ Charming
fantasy about two ten-year-old
misfits who invent a magical
kingdom in their local woods.
Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb (2006, PG)

+1 F’view 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Movies
Action

42

F’view 42 (limited) F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426
6.00am Conquest of Cochise
★★★ Western. John Hodiak (1953, U) 7.20
Their Finest Hour 8.30 The Lightning
War 9.45 Diamond Hunters ★★
Drama. (2001, 12) 11.55 Massacre at
Buffalo Valley ★★ Western. (2013, 12)
2.00pm Battle of Rogue River
★★★ Entertaining western. George
Montgomery (1954, U) 3.30 Battle of the
Coral Sea ★★ War drama. Cliff Robertson
(1959, PG) 5.15 Shady Lady ★★ Drama
documentary. Michael Dorn (2012, PG)
7.10 Geo-Disaster ★★ A family
faces an earthquake, a twister and
a super volcano all at once. (2017)
9.00 Cell ★★★ A cellphone signal
triggers global mayhem in this
stylish sci-fi horror. John Cusack (2014, 15)
10.55 Blood of Redemption ★★
Goofily predictable action thriller.
Dolph Lundgren, Billy Zane, Gianni Capaldi (2013, 15)

12.40am The Killer inside Me ★★
Crime thriller. Casey Affleck (2010, 18) 2.50—
4.00am The Traitors ★★★
Efficient spy thriller. Patrick Allen (1962, U)

+1 Sky 324

Great Movies
Classic

52

F’view 52 (limited) F’sat 303 Sky 319 Virgin 424
6.00am Journey into Fear
★★★★ Stylish spy drama. Joseph
Cotten, Orson Welles (1942, PG) 7.25 Machine
Gun Kelly ★★★ Biographical crime
drama. Charles Bronson (1958, 12) 9.05 The
Reckless Moment ★★★ Thriller.
James Mason (1949, 12) 10.45 Reunion
at Fairborough ★★★ Involving
romantic drama. Robert Mitchum (1985)
1.00pm Riff-Raff ★★ Adventure.
Pat O’Brien (1947) 2.40 The End of the
Affair ★★★★ Convincing wartime
romantic drama. Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson,
John Mills (1954, PG) 4.50 Crash: the
Mystery of Flight 1501 ★★★
Watchable drama. Cheryl Ladd (1990, PG)
6.45pm Loophole ★★ Heist
caper with Susannah York and
Albert Finney as bank robbers. (1980, PG)
9.00 The Odessa File ★★★
Eminently watchable Nazi-hunt
thriller starring Jon Voight, with a
terrific Frederick Forsyth plot and
impressive production values. (1974, PG)
11.35 The Deadly Affair ★★★★
Gripping spy thriller about an
agent investigating the suicide
of a diplomat. James Mason (1966, 12)
1.35am Roxanne ★★★★
Charming romantic comedy. Steve
Martin (1987, PG) 3.40 Hell Squad ★★
Second World War drama. Wally Campo
(1958) 4.45—7.00am Operation
Dames ★★ Uneven wartime
romance. Eve Meyer, Chuck Henderson (1959, PG)
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Horror Channel

69

Freeview 69 Freesat 138 Sky 317 Virgin 149
8.00am First Wave 9.00 Battlestar
Galactica 10.00 Farscape 11.00
Rock Monster ★★ Monster horror.
Chad Collins (2008) 1.00pm Fire Serpent
★★ Sci-fi horror. Nicholas Brendon (2007)
3.00 The 4400 4.00 Shark Season
★ Action thriller. Michael Madsen (2020, 15)
6.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi.
7.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
8.00 Star Trek TV sci-fi drama.
9.00 Shut In ★★ Contrived
psychodrama starring Naomi Watts
as a widow living in self-imposed
isolation with her stepson. (2016, 15)
10.50 The Butterfly Room ★★
Eerie chiller about an elderly
woman guarding a creepy secret
in her apartment. Barbara Steele (2012, 15)
12.35am Flatliners ★★★
Supernatural thriller in which a
group of medical students induce
their own deaths. Kiefer Sutherland (1990, 15)
2.45—4.30am The Taking of
Deborah Logan ★★★ Refreshingly
creepy found-footage horror.
Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay (2014, 15)

i Premiere Star Ratings 5 Outstanding ★★★★ Very good
★★★ Worth watching ★★ Could be worse ★ Poor

Sky Adventure

Sky 301 Virgin 401 BT 501/HD 515
7.00am Spirit Untamed ★★
Animated adventure. (2021, U) 8.40
As 6pm 10.40 As 4.10pm 12.25pm
Our Ladies ★★★ Brassy comedy
drama. (2019, 15) 2.25 As 9.45pm
4.10 People Just Do Nothing:
Big in Japan ★★★ Goodhumoured comedy. Allan Mustafa (2021, 15)

Sky 302 Virgin 402 BT 502/HD 516
6.35am Away ★★★★ Animated
adventure. (2019, U) 7.55 Fantastic
Mr Fox ★★★★ Animated comedy
adventure. (2009, PG) 9.30 As 11.25pm
11.30 As 9.45pm 1.10pm Shrek
★★★★ Animated fantasy comedy.
(2001, U) 2.55 Shrek 2 ★★★★
Animated fantasy comedy. (2004, U)

6.00pm The Boss Baby 2 ★★
A new boss baby causes mayhem
for the Templeton brothers in this
animated comedy. Alec Baldwin (2021, PG)
8.00 Blacklight ★★ Thriller in
which a specialist agent uncovers
a conspiracy and is targeted by his
own organisation. Liam Neeson (2022)
9.45 Barbarians ★★ Satirical
home-invasion thriller that sees
a small get-together violently
interrupted. Iwan Rheon (2021, 15)

4.30pm Spirit: Stallion of the
Cimarron ★★ Overly moralistic
cartoon fable. Matt Damon (2002, U)
6.00 The Croods ★★★ Frantic
but fun Flintstones-style
animation. Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone (2013, U)
7.55 The Croods 2: a New
Age ★★★★ Entertaining,
animated comedy. Nicolas Cage (2020, U)
9.45 Madagascar ★★★
Colourful animated comedy
adventure. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock (2005, U)

11.25pm Malignant ★★★ Horror.
(2021, 18) 1.20am The Many Saints
of Newark 5 Crime drama.
Review p38. Alessandro Nivola (2020, 15)
3.20 As 7am 4.50 As 12.25pm

11.25pm Rio ★★★★ Animated
comedy adventure. (2011, U) 1.15am
As 6.35am 2.45 Asterix: the
Mansions of the Gods ★★★ (2014, PG)
4.15 Robinson Crusoe ★★★
Animated comedy adventure. (2015, PG)

+1 Sky 312

Sky

Hits

Sky Greats

Sky 303 Virgin 403 BT 503/HD 517
6.00am Breaking News in Yuba
County ★★ Comedy drama. (2021)
7.50 Roald Dahl’s The Witches
★★★★ Fantasy. (2020, PG) 9.45 Grown
Ups 2 ★ Comedy. (2013, 12) 11.40
Foxcatcher 5 Sports drama.
(2014, 15) 2.00pm The Man from
UNCLE ★★★ Spy adventure. (2015, 12)

Sky 304 Virgin 404 BT 504/HD 518
7.15am The Big Heat ★★★★
Film noir. Glenn Ford (1953, 15) 8.45 The
Italian Job ★★★ Comedy caper.
Michael Caine (1969, PG) 10.25 Oblivion
★★★ Sci-fi action adventure. Tom
Cruise (2013, 12) 12.30pm Lawrence of
Arabia 5 Epic historical
adventure. Peter O’Toole (1962, PG)

4.00pm Pitch Perfect 2 ★★★
The all-female singing group
enters an international contest in
this sassy sequel. Anna Kendrick (2015, 12)
6.00 The Fighter 5
Mark Wahlberg stars as boxer
Micky Ward in this uplifting
underdog story. Christian Bale (2010, 15)
8.00 Promising Young Woman
★★★★ A wildly persuasive Carey
Mulligan takes centre stage in this
candy-hued revenge fantasy. (2020, 15)

4.05pm Sunset Blvd 5
Savage, witty and suberbly acted
drama about the dark side of
fame. William Holden, Gloria Swanson (1950, PG)
6.00 St Elmo’s Fire ★★★
A group of college pals try to
make their way in the world in
this glossy drama. Emilio Estevez (1985, 15)
8.00 Saving Private Ryan
★★★★ Oscar-winning drama in
which a unit of soldiers is sent
behind enemy lines. Tom Hanks (1998, 15)

10.00pm Bad Teacher ★★
Outrageous comedy. Cameron Diaz, Justin
Timberlake (2011, 15) 11.45 Legend ★★★

10.50pm As Good as It Gets
★★★★ Offbeat romantic comedy
drama. Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt (1997, 15)
1.10am Hitch ★★★ Fun romantic
comedy. Will Smith, Eva Mendes (2005, 12)
3.20 As 10.25am 5.30 As 8.45am

Tom Hardy excels in dual roles as
the notorious Kray twins. (2015, 18)
2.10am As 6am 4.00 As 7.50am

Sky Action

Sky Comedy

Sky 307 Virgin 407 BT 507/HD 521
6.00am The Hurricane Heist ★★
Action thriller. (2018, 12) 7.50 Wonder
Woman ★★ Animated action
fantasy. (2009, 12) 9.10 Batman Begins
★★★★ Action fantasy. (2005, 12) 11.30
As 8pm 1.30pm Mad Max: Fury
Road ★★★★ Futuristic action
adventure. (2015, 15) 3.35 As 11.45pm

Sky 308 Virgin 408 BT 508/HD 522
6.50am Masterminds ★ Crime
comedy. (2016, 12) 8.40 Locked Down
★★★ Romantic crime comedy. Anne
Hathaway (2021, 15) 10.40 The Man Who
Killed Don Quixote ★★★ Amusing
fantasy adventure. Adam Driver (2017, 15)
12.55pm Madea’s Family Reunion
★★ Comedy drama. Tyler Perry (2006, 12)

5.25pm The Dark Knight
5 Awesome action fantasy
in which Christian Bale’s Batman
does battle with the Joker. (2008, 12)
8.00 Escape Plan ★★★
Sylvester Stallone and Arnold
Schwarzenegger join forces in
this prison-set thriller. (2013, 15)
10.00 One Shot ★★ Pacey
siege thriller about a group of
Navy SEALs who battle terrorists.

2.45pm The Joneses ★★★
Witty satire about a seemingly
perfect family. David Duchovny (2009, 15)
4.25 Bridesmaids 5
Hilarious and outrageous female
buddy comedy. Kristen Wiig (2011, 15)
6.30 Liar Liar ★★★★ Comedy
with Jim Carrey as a compulsive
liar “cursed” to tell the truth. (1997, 12)
8.00 The Ugly Truth ★★
Battle-of-the-sexes romantic
comedy. Gerard Butler, Katherine Heigl (2009, 15)

Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene Khoury (2021, 15)

11.45pm Rise of the Planet of the
Apes ★★★★ Breathtakingly staged
reboot of the sci-fi franchise. James
Franco (2011, 12) 1.35am Abduction ★★
Sci-fi action. Scott Adkins (2019, 15) 3.25
As 6am 5.15 Sky Cinema Preview

9.40pm Ted ★★★★ Brilliantly
outlandish comedy. Mark Wahlberg (2012, 15)
11.30 Dad’s Army ★★★ Big-screen
reboot of the much-loved TV series.
Toby Jones (2016, PG) 1.10am As 10.40am
3.25 As 6.50am 5.05 As 8.40am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

FRIDAY 8 APRIL
Sky Wizarding World

Sky 305 Virgin 412 BT 500/HD 514
6.40am Shaun the Sheep Movie
★★★★ (2015, U) 8.10 Leo Da Vinci:
Mission Mona Lisa ★★★ (2018, U)
9.35 Spirit: Stallion of the
Cimarron ★★ (2002, U) 11.05 Mary
and the Witch’s Flower ★★★★
(2017, U) 12.50pm Igor ★★★ (2008, PG)
2.20 Rock Dog 2 ★★ (2021)

Sky 306 Virgin 406 BT 506/HD 520
6.00am Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix ★★★★
Fantasy adventure. Daniel Radcliffe (2007, 12)
8.20 The Half-Blood Prince
★★★★ Satisfying and brooding
adventure. (2009, 12) 11.00 The
Deathly Hallows: Part 1 ★★★
Fantasy adventure. Daniel Radcliffe (2010, 12)

4.00pm Surf’s Up ★★★
Slick and smart action comedy.
5.30 Valiant ★★ Comedy
adventure about wartime carrier
pigeons. Ewan McGregor, Ricky Gervais (2005, U)
7.00pm Minions ★★★ Spin-off
prequel for Despicable Me’s
yellow sidekicks. Sandra Bullock (2015, U)
8.35 The Ant Bully ★★ A boy
is reduced to the size of an ant in
this fantasy. Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage (2006, U)

1.30pm The Deathly Hallows:
Part 2 5 Voldemort and
Harry clash for the final time. (2011, 12)
3.45 Fantastic Beasts and
Where to Find Them 5
Fun fantasy. Eddie Redmayne (2016, 12)
6.00 Fantastic Beasts: the
Crimes of Grindelwald ★★★★
Dazzling fantasy. Eddie Redmayne (2018, 12)
8.15 Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone ★★★★
Harry goes to wizard school. (2001, PG)

10.10pm Coraline ★★★★ Fantasy.
(2008, PG) 11.55 Planet 51 ★★★
Adventure. (2009, U) 1.30am Mosley
★★★ Fantasy. (2019, PG) 3.10 As 8.10am
4.35 Dogtanian and the Three
Muskehounds ★★ Adventure. (2021, U)

10.50pm The Chamber of Secrets
★★★★ Atmospheric instalment.
(2002, PG) 1.30am The Prisoner of
Azkaban ★★★★ Edgy adventure.
(2004, PG) 4.00 The Goblet of Fire
★★★★ Magical mayhem. (2005, 12)

Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges (2007, PG)

Sky Thriller

Sky Drama

Sky 309 Virgin 409 BT 509/HD 523
6.20am As 1.40pm 8.20 As
3.40pm 10.20 Collide ★★ Action
thriller. (2015, 12) 12.05pm Paydirt
★★ Action crime thriller. Luke Goss
(2020, 15) 1.40 Every Breath You
Take ★★ Psychological thriller. Casey
Affleck (2021, 15) 3.40 Red Lights ★★
Supernatural thriller. Cillian Murphy (2012, 15)

Sky 310 Virgin 410 BT 510/HD 524
6.40am as 9.30pm 8.25 Away
We Go ★★★ Comedy. (2009, 15) 10.05
Warrior ★★★★ Action drama.
(2011, 12) 12.25pm Finding the Way
Back ★★★ Sports drama. Ben Affleck
(2019, 15) 2.15 Behind the Candelabra
★★★★ Biographical drama.

5.40pm The Hunt for Red
October ★★★★ Thriller in which
a CIA analyst takes on a Russian
sub commander. Sean Connery (1990, PG)
8.00 The Shawshank
Redemption 5 Absorbing,
life-affirming 1940s-set prison
drama. Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman (1994, 15)
10.25 Manhunter ★★★★
William Petersen plays the ex-FBI
profiler on the trail of a serial
killer in this gripping thriller. (1986, 18)

4.15pm The World to Come
★★★ Elegant, languid period
romance. Katherine Waterston (2020, 15)
6.05 Mass ★★★ Parents meet
years after a school shooting in
this searing drama. Jason Isaacs (2021, 12)
8.00 The Desperate Hour ★★★
A woman gets news of a shooting
at her son’s school. Naomi Watts (2021)
9.30 Six Minutes to Midnight
★★★ Spy drama about a school
for Nazi children. Eddie Izzard (2019, 12)

12.30am Collide As 10.20am
2.20 Paydirt As 12.05pm
4.00 The Bygone ★★★ Modern
western following a young rancher
on the hunt for a missing Lakota
girl. Graham Phillips, Shawn Hatosy (2019, 15)

11.15pm Django Unchained
★★★★ Western mash-up. Jamie Foxx
(2012, 18) 2.05 The Glorias ★★
Inventive treatment of Gloria
Steinem’s life. (2020, 12) 4.35
Driveways ★★★ Indie drama. (2019)

Sky

Sci-Fi/Horror

Michael Douglas, Matt Damon (2013, 15)

TCM Movies

Sky 311 Virgin 411 BT 511/HD 525
6.00am Proximity ★★★ Fun sci-fi
drama. (2020, PG) 8.05 Otherworld
★★ Confusing teen fantasy. (2018, 15)
9.45 As 5.55pm 11.45 Resident
Evil: Retribution ★★ Sci-fi horror.
(2012, 15) 1.35pm Terminator:
Salvation ★★ Sci-fi action thriller.
Christian Bale (2009, 12) 3.35 As 11.30pm

Sky 315 Virgin 415/HD 416
6.00am Hollywood’s Best Directors
7.45 Off Set Interview.8.00 Hitler:
the Last Ten Days ★★ War drama.
(1973, PG) 10.10 Money, Women and
Guns ★★ Mystery western. (1958, U)
11.55 The Fighting Lawman ★★
Western. (1953, U) 1.30pm Ghost
Town ★★ Western. Kent Taylor (1955, U)

5.55pm The Divergent Series:
Allegiant ★★ Sci-fi adventure
in which Tris and Four break out
of Chicago. Shailene Woodley (2016, 12)
8.00 A Quiet Place Part II
★★★★ Tense horror sequel with
Emily Blunt continuing her silent
battle for survival. (2020, 15)
9.40 Freaky ★★★ Vince Vaughn
is a serial killer who finds himself
in the body of a teenage girl in
this lively comedy horror. (2020, 15)

3.10pm Law of the Panhandle
★★★ Johnny Mack Brown
headlines this pacy western. (1950, PG)
4.25 The Last Hunt ★★★★
Tough, unsentimental western.

11.30pm The Core ★★★ Disaster
movie with spectacular set pieces
and snappy pacing, in which a
scientist has to lead an expedition
to save the planet. Aaron Eckhart (2002, 12)
2.00am As 11.45am 3.50 As 6am

11.45pm Pacific Rim ★★★ Sci-fi
action adventure. (2013, 12) 2.25am
Gunmen from Laredo ★★ Western.
(1958, U) 3.40 As 7.45am 4.00 Close
Up 5.00 Hollywood’s Best Directors
+1 Sky 316 Virgin 417

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger (1956)

6.40 Beau Brummell ★★★
Stewart Granger stars in this
colourful drama. Review p31. (1954, U)
9.00 Miami Vice ★★ Gritty and
violent crime thriller, based on the
1980s TV series. Colin Farrell (2006, 15)

SPORT
Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00 Legends
(AD) 8.00 Best Goals (AD) 9.00 100
Club (AD) 10.00 The Football Show
12 noon Soccerbox (AD) 1.00pm Years
(AD) 3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best
Goals (AD) 5.00 100 Club (AD)
6.00 Match Pack 6.30 Preview

7.00 LIVE Premier League Football
Newcastle Utd v Wolves (k-o 8.00).
10.30 Inside the WSL 11.00 Match
Pack 11.30 Premier League World
12 midnight Highlights 1.45am Years
(AD) 3.45 Greatest Games 4.00 Best
Goals 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

Champions Cup Rugby
7.15pm BT Sport 1 Bundee Aki
stars in the centre for Connacht

Sky Main Event
Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440
6.00am Sky Sports News

6.45 LIVE Formula One The
second practice session of the
Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
8.45 The F1 Show
9.45 LIVE Test Cricket South
Africa v Bangladesh, the first day
of the Second and Final Test.
2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
Coverage of the featured groups on
the second day at Augusta National.
7.00 LIVE Premier League Football
Newcastle Utd v Wolves (k-o 8.00).
10.00 LIVE Golf: the Masters
Further coverage of the second day.
12.30am Sky Sports News
3.45 LIVE Formula One Australian
Grand Prix, final practice session.
5.10—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Greatest Players 6.30
Countdowns (AD) 7.00 Football Years
(AD) 7.30 Greatest Games (AD) 8.30
Scottish Football 9.00 German Football
9.30 Championship Highlights 10.30
Scottish Football 11.00 Best Goals
1.00pm Classic Play-Offs 2.00 Best
Goals 5.00 Greatest Games 6.00
German Football 6.30 Championship
Highlights 7.15 Major League Soccer

7.20 LIVE German Football VfB
Stuttgart v Borussia Dortmund from
Mercedes-Benz Arena (kick-off 7.30).
9.30 Scottish Football 10.00 League
One and Two Goals 10.30 EFL Trophy
11.00 EFL Greatest Games 12 midnight
Classic League Cup 2.00am Classic
Play-Offs 3.00 Classic League Cup 5.00—
6.00am Championship Season Review

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am The Masters Official Films
9.00 Golf: the Masters 11.00 McGinley
and Chamblee at the Masters 12 noon
Golf: the Masters: yesterday’s highlights

2.00pm LIVE Golf: the Masters
Coverage of the featured groups on
the second day of the Major, from
Augusta National in Georgia.
12.30am The Masters Official Films
4.30 Masters: the One from November
5.00—6.00am The Masters Official Films

Sky F1
Sky 406 Virgin 516/HD 506 BT 425/HD 445
6.45—8.45am LIVE Australian
Grand Prix Second practice session.
3.45—5.10am LIVE Australian
Grand Prix Final practice session.

Amazon Prime
3.45pm LIVE WTA Tennis
Charleston Open quarter-finals.

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Indian Premier League
Highlights 7.00 Talking Cricket (AD)
7.30 Indian Premier League Highlights

8.30 LIVE Test Cricket South
Africa v Bangladesh, the opening
day of the Second and Final Test.
2.50pm LIVE Indian Premier
League Punjab Kings v Gujarat
Titans from Brabourne Stadium.
7.00 Test Highlights 8.00 Best of the IPL
9.00 Indian Premier League Highlights
10.00 Test Highlights 11.00 Indian Premier
League Highlights 4.10am T20 Blast
Cricket 5.00—6.00am Talking Cricket

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL: America’s Game (AD)

8.00 LIVE Super Rugby Hurricanes
v Crusaders (kick-off 8.05).
10.00 Darts Gold 10.30 Darts Show
11.00 LIVE Pool Day three of the
World Championship in Milton Keynes.
3.30pm The Darts Show
4.00 Darts Gold (AD)
5.30 LIVE Pool World Championship.
10.00 Darts Gold (AD) 10.30 Josh
Taylor: the Tartan Tornado 11.00
Boxing 12 midnight NFL: Total Access
1.00am Premier League Darts 4.30
Darts Gold (AD) 5.00—6.00am NFL

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.30am NBA Action 7.00 NBA Heatcheck
7.30 Classic NBA 8.30 NBA Action

9.00 LIVE NRL NZ Warriors v North
Queensland Cowboys (kick-off 9.00).
11.00 Kevin Sinfield: the Extra Mile
(AD) 12 noon Good Morning Football
3.00pm Super League’s Supermen
(AD) 3.30 Super League 5.00 NBA

7.00 LIVE British Basketball
League Newcastle Eagles v
Cheshire Phoenix (tip-off 7.30).
9.30 NBA 11.30 NBA Heatcheck
12 midnight NBA 2.00am Super League
3.00 NBA 5.00—6.00am Super League

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 520/HD 510 BT 429/HD 449
8.30—4.30pm LIVE Test Cricket
South Africa v Bangladesh, first day
of the Second Test from Gqeberha.

Eurosport 1
Sky 410 Virgin 521 BT 412/HD 435
6.00am Cycling 7.00 Motocross 8.00
Snooker 10.00 Cycling 11.00 Formula E:
Mexico City ePrix 12 noon Cycling

2.30pm LIVE Cycling Stage five
of the Basque Tour, a 163.8km route.
4.30 The Cycling Show
5.00 LIVE Curling Coverage of
the round-robin stage of the men’s
World Championships in Las Vegas.
8.00 Cycling 9.00 World Superbikes
10.00 Cycling 12 midnight Formula E
1.00am World Superbikes: in Indonesia
2.00 Cycling 4.00—6.00am Darts

BT Sport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430
6.00am LIVE Badminton Korea
Open quarter-finals, further action.
11.30 Badminton 12 noon Europa
League Highlights Show 1.00pm
Reload (AD) 1.15 Wrestling
3.00 LIVE Pro League Hockey
Netherlands v India, women’s match.
5.00 Premier League Preview
5.30 Snowboarding 6.30 Scottish
Football 7.00 BT Sport Reload (AD)
7.15 LIVE Champions Cup Rugby
Union Connacht v Leinster (k-o 8.00).
10.15 What I Wore 10.30 UFC
12 midnight Wrestling (AD)
1.00am LIVE Wrestling WWE.
3.00 Scottish Football 3.30 Premier
League Match Pack 4.00 Premier
League Preview 4.30 Inside Serie A
5.00—6.00am Australian Football

BT Sport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am French Football 6.30 Premier
League Match Pack 7.00 Wrestling (AD)
9.00 Motorcycling 10.00 DIY Pundit (AD)

10.30 LIVE Australian Rules
Football Geelong v Brisbane.
1.30pm Serie A: Full Impact 2.00
French Football 2.30 DIY Pundit (AD)
3.00 LIVE MotoGP The opening
day of the Grand Prix of the Americas.
10.00 Wrestling: WWE NXT (AD)
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball Toronto Blue Jays v
Texas Rangers (start 12.07am).
3.30am Motor Racing 5.30—6.00am
Manchester United Classics (AD)

BT Sport 3

Friday Television

Animation

Sky

Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Europa League Football 7.30
Europa Conference League 9.30
Reload (AD) 9.45 Australian Football

10.45 LIVE Australian Football
Adelaide United v Macarthur FC.
12.45pm Match Pack 1.15 Reload
(AD) 1.30 Europa League Football
3.30 Europa Conference League
5.30 Australian Football 6.30
Premier League Preview 7.00
Inside Serie A 7.30 Reload (AD)
7.45 LIVE Rugby Union
Brive v Saracens (kick-off 8.00).
10.00 Rugby Stories (AD) 10.30
Champions League Magazine
11.00 Scottish Football 11.30
Inside Serie A 12 midnight French
Football 1.00am Champions Cup
Rugby Union 2.00 Premier
League Preview 2.30 Badminton
3.00—6.00am LIVE Badminton
Korea Open. Continues until 11.30am.

BT Sport ESPN
Sky 423 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am ESPN FC 6.30 SportsCenter
6.45 Snowboarding: Freeride World
Tour (AD) 7.45 SportsCenter 8.00
MLB 11.00 ESPN FC 11.30 Ice Hockey
3.30pm MLB 7.30 French Football

8.00 LIVE French Football
Lorient v Saint-Etienne in Ligue 1.
10.00 Baseball 1.00am Basketball
2.30 Reload 3.00—6.00am Baseball

Eurosport 2
Sky 411 Virgin 522 BT 413/HD 436
6.00am Golf 6.30 Darts 8.25 World
Superbikes 10.30 Motocross 11.00
Darts: WDF World Championship

1.00pm LIVE Darts Quarter-finals
at the WDF World Championship.
5.00 World Superbikes 6.00 Darts
7.00 LIVE Darts WDF World
Championship quarter-finals.
11.00 World Superbikes 12 midnight
Cycling 2.00am Darts 4.00 Cycling
5.00—6.00am World Superbikes

109

Edited by

JANE
ANDERSON

Word of
mouth

The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin
tells John Wilson how he conjures up
Oscar-winning drama sight unseen
This Cultural Life

JOE PUGLIESE/AUGUST; ALAMY; ALLSTAR

Saturday 7.15pm Radio 4
“I don’t think visually at all, and
that is now a little problematic.”
Aaron Sorkin is one of the most
acclaimed and commercially
successful screenwriters of his
generation. He’s written ten
movies, the last three of which – Molly’s Game,
The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Meet the Ricardos
– he’s also directed. But, sitting here in a radio
studio in Broadcasting House, he’s just made a
startling admission about his lack of visual
imagination. “I’m trying to get good at it by
surrounding myself with people who are geniuses at it.” Sorkin is being self-deprecating,
of course, but he insists that his work is really
“all about the words on the page”.
Ever since special advisers and spin doctors
first walk-talked their way round the White
House in The West Wing, such on-the-move
quickfire screen dialogue has been known as
“Sorkinesque”. But even before he
created one of the best-loved political dramas of all time, Sorkin had
made his debut in 1992 by
pumping a military movie full
of high-velocity lines. Mention
A Few Good Men to a film fan
and you’re likely to get an
i m p e r s o n a t i o n o f Ja c k
Nicholson’s on-the-ropes
Colonel bellowed back at you:
“You can’t handle the truth!”
We’re here to trace the
formative influences and
experiences

110

that forged Sorkin’s own creativity. He leads me
back to the bar of a Broadway theatre in the late
1980s. In between serving interval drinks to the
patrons of the musical La Cage aux Folles, he
began writing dialogue for a stage version of
A Few Good Men. The words “you can’t handle
the truth” were first scribbled on a cocktail
napkin. He goes further back, to heated debates
around the family dining table where his New
York lawyer father encouraged young Aaron and
his siblings to play devil’s advocate and understand opposing arguments. “Anyone who was
using one word when they could have used ten
was just not trying hard enough,” Sorkin laughs.
Those dinner debates set the template, he
believes, for nearly all the scripts he has written
for both television and cinema. And the verbal
jousting electrified The Social Network – the
story of how Facebook was created – so much

write radio plays
‘Ithen
point a
camera at them
’
that in 2011 Sorkin won an Oscar, a Golden
Globe and a Bafta for best adapted screenplay.
Now he is making his London West End
debut, with an adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic

SUPER SCRIPTS
Sorkin’s writing
credits include (from
left) Molly’s Game,
A Few Good Men and
The West Wing

referee. And the jury is a
stand-in for the audience,” he
explains. “So you don’t have
to tie yourself into a pretzel
to deliver exposition without
it sounding like you’re delivering exposition.”
For each episode of This
Cultural Life, my guests – who

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

JANE ANDERSON

PICK OF THE WEEK
Wogan: in His Own Words
Sunday 9.00pm Radio 2

Emin, Nicole Kidman, Booker Prize-winning
novelist Douglas Stuart and Succession star
Brian Cox – choose key cultural works, people
and places that have had a profound effect on
their own work. Sorkin recalls being taken by his
parents to see the Broadway musical Man of La
Mancha at the age of five, and recognising
something of his attorney father in Don Quixote,
a man often taking on a losing battle. I suggest
that the sense of idealism, optimism and
romance in Cervantes’s tale has been another
recurring touchstone of his own work.
“Yes, I write romantically and optimistically,”
Sorkin says. “With The West Wing, I thought,
‘Why can’t our leaders and elected officials on
this television show be as competent and
virtuous as the doctors and nurses on a hospital
drama, the police officers on a cop show, or the
lawyers in a legal drama?”

H

e also wanted to redefine notions
of patriotism through television
drama. “In America I’d be considered a liberal, just like my father,
and I’ve never quite understood why I was
considered less patriotic than people on the
right because they wave the flag and talk about
God, family and country. Whereas I felt, and still
feel, a deep love of American institutions.”
The West Wing casts a long cultural shadow
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

over American politics. During the presidency of
Martin Sheen’s Josiah “Jed” Bartlet, Sorkin’s
White House struggles under the weight
of geopolitical crises, but it’s an institution
staffed by people who wanted to do the right
thing, who care. By contrast, the Trump White
House was – according to Sorkin – run by
“maybe the most awful people who have ever
occupied those places”.
So, if he was starting out again as a writer,
would a post-Trump version of The West Wing
be more cynical about politics? “No. Even after
what we’ve been through, I’m still idealistic,
romantic and optimistic about our institutions.
The only thing I’m not optimistic about is
whether they will survive.”
As we near the end of our conversation Sorkin
recalls a compliment once paid to his work.
“Very early in my career, I wrote a one-act play
that played in the basement of a restaurant in
midtown Manhattan at midnight. Afterwards
a friend introduced me to two friends of his who
told me how much they loved the play. It took
me a couple of minutes to realise that they were
both blind – and it couldn’t matter less. They
heard the play and they got every moment of it.”
Maybe Sorkin should write radio plays, then?
“But that’s what I do,” he replies. “I write radio
plays and either put them on a stage or point
a camera at them.”

AMBRIDGE DIARY

The Archers this week...
The contempt in which Ruairi held Alice was
palpable last time he was in Ambridge, so what
will he make of her actions when he returns
for the holidays? At the moment, she’s busy
drawing battle lines and making a momentous
decision that riles Chris even further. So,
there’s every chance that tensions between
her and Ruairi will also boil over once again.
Elsewhere, we have Freddie and Josh
hatching plans for Easter celebrations. Both
hope to expand their businesses, but there’s
a strong chance one will get egg on their face.
Over at Grey Gables, suspicions are raised by
a new arrival, Vince makes a surprising offer
and one resident comes unstuck trying to
hide a secret. DAVID BROWN

RT SHOP
BRIGHTON RADIO
£47.99 including p&p
To order the retro-styled
Brighton radio, please call
03302 232 639* or visit
radiotimes.com/shop14

111

*CALLS COST NO MORE THAN STANDARD NETWORK RATE.

MAESTRO
Aaron Sorkin has
won an Oscar, a
Bafta and five
Emmy Awards

As one would expect, if you ask a group of
broadcasters to discuss the legacy of Terry
Wogan, there’s a lot of love in the air. I don’t
think I’ve ever listened to a programme where
there are so many instances of the words “joy”,
“genius”, “lovely” and, most of all, “kind”.
Why now? Two reasons. It’s been 50 years
since Terry broadcast his first breakfast show
on Radio 2 and, secondly, a canny producer
called Richard Latto found a film in a dusty
vault in BBC Southampton’s
Broadcasting House that
contained an interview with
the main man that’s never
been broadcast before.
The aforementioned
colleagues, co-workers
and celebrities — who
include Ken Bruce,
Jeremy Vine, Fearne
Cotton, Gaby Roslin,
Lynn Bowles, Alan
LEGEND
Dedicoat, Dermot
The twinkling
O’Leary, Joanna Lumley
Terry Wogan
and, oddly, Dallas star Patrick
Duffy — were asked to watch it
and reflect. The result is this wonderful,
heartfelt celebration of the man, which is
hosted by Zoe Ball and cleverly woven around
extracts from the interview, in which he
talks about his attitude to fame, success,
the audience and his family. At one point
Wogan joshes: “It’s nice to be liked.” Terry,
you were loved and we were lucky.

Podcasts

BRAND LEADER
Bestselling author
Steven Bartlett
is the youngest-ever
Dragon in BBC1’s
Dragons’ Den — below
(second right) with
Touker Suleyman,
Sara Davies, Deborah
Meaden and
Peter Jones

Steven Bartlett
has struck gold by
combining business
tips with happy talk

S

teven Bartlett is a smart communicator. His best line, employed near
the beginning of each of his The
Diary of a CEO podcasts, is “I hope
nobody is listening, but if you are…
then please keep this to yourself.” So begins the
sell that doesn’t seem like a sell, which has
helped this 29-year-old to build his personal
brand. The brand is now projected through a
bestselling book, sell-out tours of major venues,
a chair on Dragons’ Den and, at the very centre
of this web of activity, a chart-topping podcast.
But what matters most, above all, is the brand.
Bartlett’s aiming at a growing constituency of
young people who aspire to be their own brand.
Office workers on Zoom see one on every conference call. These people like speech, but don’t
listen to the radio. Their drama of choice is a TV
series based on a true story, such as The Dropout
or We Crashed (see above, right). They’re people
who are interested in making their mark in the
world and to that end spend a lot of time in the
space that has opened up in podcasting between
career advice, self-help, wellbeing and PR.

112

In that sense, Bartlett’s in a
direct line of descent from bestsellers of the past such as How to
Win Friends and Influence
People. His hot buttons, however,
are different. In his words there’s
as much talk of being happy as of being successful. Here confidence isn’t the quality you acquire
from having had success, it’s the quality you
need in order to have success. Here you are
encouraged to talk about your fears rather than
suppressing them. Cry if you want to.
Listening to some of the interviewees – who
range from former footballer Patrice Evra to
TV presenter Fearne Cotton and writer Oliver
Burkeman – is to be reminded how central
mental health is to the way people now look at

‘

Bartlett encourages
his guests to talk
about their fears

’

the world. Also of the way those in prominent
positions use it to establish common ground
with others: even the founder of Phones 4u,
John Caudwell, is allowed to talk about “the pain
of becoming a billionaire”.

T

he success of Bartlett’s podcast, which
can do the kind of detail that radio
doesn’t have time for, now means that
interviewees are pitched to him. The people that
radio would most love to interview, such as
former cabinet minister Matt Hancock and Love
Island’s Molly-Mae Hague, actually volunteer
for conversations with Bartlett – who, while
intelligent and articulate, isn’t ever going to lay
a glove on his guests. Why would he when
they’re all effectively in the same business?
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

EDITED BY

DAVID
HEPWORTH

RADIOHEADS

DAVID
QUANTICK

The dawn of a new idea
Creating comedy for French and Saunders
The Diary of a CEO
Within just a few years,
Steven Bartlett went from
being a university dropout
to building a global social media
marketing agency. Guests for these
unstructured conversations about
mental health and anxiety range from
Rochelle Humes to Matt Hancock.

WeCrashed
WeWork was an epic failure
as a business, but that hasn’t
prevented the growth of a small industry
devoted to telling its story. In the light of the
recently released WeCrashed, Apple TV’s
fictionalised version of the company’s rise
and fall, American podcaster Wondery have
reconfigured their previous series as
a “director’s cut” telling the same story with
the benefit of even more hindsight. You can’t
believe it happened. You can’t believe it’s not
already happening again somewhere else.

The High Performance
Podcast
Some people take their life lessons
from showbiz, others take theirs from sport.
Here former top athletes who would like to
have careers as motivational speakers meet
motivational speakers who wish they had been
top athletes. Jake Humphrey and Damian
Hughes find out how you can develop the kind
of laser focus it takes, for example, to play
top-class tennis and put it to good use in
your life and business.

SOMETHING NEW

Is It My ADHD?
Undiagnosed Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder, they say,
affects more than two million women in the
UK. Then again, 73.6 per cent of all statistics
are made up. This ten-part series, hosted by
writer Grace Timothy, with guests including
skincare adviser Caroline Hirons, social media
influencer Natalie Lee and scientist Pragya
Agarwal, promises to cover the highs, lows and
sometimes hilarious consequences of this form
of what’s known as neurodivergence.

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

P

eople often ask me where I get my ideas
from. I mean, they don’t: if people ever do
ask me anything, it’s generally something
like, “Can you move your car, it’s blocking
my drive” or “Will you be paying by card or
cash?” But if they did ever ask me where I get
my ideas from, my answer would be: ignorance
and luck. The whole thing of sitting down and
having an idea doesn’t work for most writers:
most of the time an idea turns up when you’re
doing something else.
I got the idea for my novel All My Colors
after failing to find a book I remembered
from my teens and then thinking about how
I would write it myself. More recently I was
talking to a friend who’s a translator and
wondered if anyone had translated a book so
radically that they’d rewritten it, and within
minutes I had the basis for a romantic comedy,
which became the film Book of Love. But in
the case of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Austen?, the radio comedy I’ve written for
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, the
inspiration was something else: a false memory.
Like any sane person, I’m a huge fan of
old Hollywood movies: I love the wit, style and
emotion of screwball comedies, noir thrillers and

‘

Jackie and Joan
Collins were at the
back of my mind

’

even melodramas like The Ghost and Mrs Muir
or Random Harvest. One of my favourite movies
is a lesser-known (now, anyway) 1943 film called
Old Acquaintance, starring Bette Davis and
Miriam Hopkins as feuding sisters.
I’ve always loved the central idea of a rivalry
between two writers — one, Davis, a romantic
novelist; the other, Hopkins, a serious playwright.
And the idea that the two women were sisters
made it even more exciting.
And then, with real-life sisters Jackie and
Joan Collins at the back of my mind — both of
them glamorous figures in the 1970s and 80s
— an idea began to form. Two sisters, one a
serious writer, the other a Hollywood movie star,
who have avoided each other for years, but are
suddenly thrown together when the film star
sister writes her own book.
I was a bit worried that my idea — which
I called Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Austen? as a tribute to another classic film

of sisterly warfare (and Jane Austen) — was too
close to Old Acquaintance (and its colourful 80s
remake Rich and Famous), so I watched the film
again and read the play it was based on (also
called Old Acquaintance). It was then I realised
that the two female leads weren’t sisters: the
clue is in the title. They were old friends, and
not related — there was also a major romantic
plotline in Old Acquaintance that I had
completely forgotten about…
So now, quite by accident and thanks to my
terrible memory, I had a (fairly) original idea.

I

began writing Whatever Happened to Baby
Jane Austen? and, as happens with ideas, it
began to take on a life of its own. The sister
who was a serious writer (Dawn French) became
Florence, a woman with very little sense of
humour, motivated by all kinds of fears, from
worry that her sister is more popular than her
to terror that one day she will be found out.
The sister who was a Hollywood star became
Selina (Jennifer Saunders), a cross between
Joan Collins in The Bitch and Gloria Swanson in
Sunset Boulevard, an egomaniac redeemed by
sudden flashes of concern for others.
And by setting my series in present-day
London, I was able to move the sisters between
the twin worlds of celebrity fame and literary
success, producing something that I hope is
different and — thanks to a stunning cast led
by French and Saunders — funny.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?
is on Fridays at 11.30am on Radio 4

GETTY

SHOW OF THE WEEK

113

SATURDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

BBC Radio 1

Saturday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
6.00am The Happy Hour
7.00 Adele Roberts
10.30 Dean McCullough
1.00pm Matt and Mollie
4.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems
7.00 DJ Target 1Xtra takes over.
9.00 1Xtra’s Rap Show
11.00 Radio 1’s Soundsystem
1.00am Classic Essential Mix
3.00 Future Dance Mix 3.30 Pete
Tong’s Hot Mix 4.00 Dance
Anthems 5.00 Radio 1 Relax

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

Radio

6.00am Sounds of the 60s
8.00 Dermot O’Leary

My Favorite Husband
12 noon Radio 4 Extra
We’re more aware of comic
actor Lucille Ball (above) today
than when she died in 1989.
There’s a new documentary,
Lucy and Desi, and more
significantly the Oscarnominated biopic Being the
Ricardos with Nicole Kidman as
Lucy and Javier Bardem as her
husband Desi. Now is the time
to revisit Ball’s 1948 radio
series My Favorite Husband,
very much a prototype for TV’s
comic landmark I Love Lucy
(1951—57). It’s fascinating to
hear Ball developing the scatty
character we loved. But Richard
Denning isn’t quite right as her
husband. When she moved to TV,
Ball wisely demanded her
real-life husband Desi Arnaz as
her co-star. Today’s episode
features Gale Gordon, who
later played Mr Mooney in
The Lucy Show (1962—68).
DAVID MCGILLIVRAY

Opera on 3: Tchaikovsky’s
Eugene Onegin
6.30pm Radio 3
Support for Ukraine has led
some to boycott Russian music.
But Tchaikovsky? Ukraine has
long laid claim to him, because
of his Cossack ancestry, his
fondness for the country and
his celebration of Ukrainian
song and story, not least in his
epic opera Mazeppa, about the
fabled hetman’s doomed
attempt to win independence
from Romanov Russia. Eugene
Onegin, relayed from the Met
tonight, is on an altogether
more intimate scale, but like so
much of Tchaikovsky’s work,
this tale of mistimed love
exudes an aching nostalgia for
what might have been, for the
happiness lost through bad
decisions. MARK PAPPENHEIM

GETTY

This Cultural Life

114

7.15pm Radio 4
See feature: page 110

Bridgerton stars Polly Walker and
Harriet Cains discuss series two.

10.00 Claudia Winkleman
1.00pm Pick of the Pops

Paul Gambaccini with the charts from
this week in 1979 and 1998, when the
Top 20s included the Sex Pistols, Chic,
Destiny’s Child and Robbie Williams.

3.00 Rylan on Saturday
6.00 Liza Tarbuck
8.00 The Rock Show
With Johnnie Walker.

9.00 Romesh Ranganathan:
for the Love of Hip-Hop
New series. 1/4. A companion
series to the Friday midnight
hip-hop series, showcasing big
crossover artists and more.

10.00 House Party

DJ Spooney sits in for Craig Charles.
At 11.30 the House Party Mixtape,
with 1990s UK garage. Rptd Fri 1am

12.00 Ana Matronic’s
Dance Devotion
2.00am Gary Barlow: We Write
the Songs 6/8. With Neil Hannon.
3.00 Friends Will Be Friends 4/20
4.00 The Elton John Show
An August 2012 programme with
Elton John sharing favourite records
from his personal collection. (R)

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

6.00am 6 Music Festival

Amy Lamé kicks off coverage of the
6 Music Festival in Cardiff with her
pick of performances so far. Stuart
Maconie’s 8.00 show includes
highlights of sets by Little Simz,
Porij, Manic Street Preachers and
the Pixies. At 10.00 Huey Morgan
continues with Don Letts in
conversation, music by Khruangbin
and a Cardiff tour from Don Leisure.
At 1.00pm Jamz Supernova
welcomes Elkka, and at 3.00, with
special mixes, she co-presents with
Gilles Peterson, whose solo show
at 4.00 features a chat with
Khruangbin and a live set from
Emma-Jean Thackray. Craig
Charles continues at 6.00, followed
at 9.00 by Afrodeutsche and Huw
Stephens with the full headline set
from Khruangbin, live from St
David’s Hall. Plus a chat with
Ladies of Rage and sets from Bloc
Party, Orlando Weeks, Gwenno,
Ezra Collective and Little Simz.

12.00 6 Music Festival Late

Coverage from Cardiff starts with
Jamz Supernova, then at 1.00am
Craig Charles, and at 2.00 Northern
Irish-born electronic musician and
composer David Holmes.
3.00am Lose Yourself with...
5.00 The First Time...
Matt Everitt’s 2012 chat with John Cale.

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather 7.00am, 8.00 and 1.00pm

7.00am Breakfast With Elizabeth Alker.
9.00 Record Review With Andrew McGregor.

9.30 Building a Library Nicholas Kenyon singles
out one recording of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
10.40 Pianist Kunal Lahiry, a recent appointment
to Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme,
reviews new releases of keyboard recordings by
Stephen Hough, Simon Trpceski and Mitsuko Uchida.
11.15 Record of the Week A fine new release.

bbc.co.uk/recordreview EMAIL: recordreview@bbc.co.uk
Record Review Extra is broadcast tomorrow 9pm

11.45 Music Matters

Tom Service covers myriad facets of the classical
music industry, today with a preview of a new
production of Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale
at English National Opera. Guests include Italian
harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini, who is also
founder and conductor of the Italian early music
ensemble Concerto Italiano. Repeated Monday 10pm

12.30pm This Classical Life

Saxophonist Jess Gillam is joined by composer Ella
Jarman-Pinto to swap tracks and share musical
discoveries across a range of styles, including
Johann Christian Bach, Anna Meredith, Howard
Skempton, Luke Howard and Elizabeth Maconchy,
and recordings by Flora Purim and Jungle.

1.00 Inside Music

An insider’s take on various music works, today
with soprano Nora Fischer discussing pieces by
Rameau, Poulenc, Wagner and Mahler, plus Glenn
Gould playing Bach and a performance by a string
quartet of music by Radiohead.

3.00 Sound of Gaming

Monthly series showcasing music from the world
of gaming, today with Louise Blain pondering the
notion of solitude in gaming. She’s joined by
Denver-born composer Austin Wintory to mark
the tenth anniversary of Journey.

4.00 Music Planet

Lopa Kothari with the latest roots-based music
from around the globe, today featuring a specially
recorded session from Estonian musician and
producer Maarja Nuut, whose work encompasses
folk and experimental electronics. Plus highlights
of new releases from Oumou Sangare, El Khat,
Nils Okland and Jembaa Groove.

5.00 J to Z

Julian Joseph with new and classic jazz, today inviting
Japanese piano star Hiromi to share some of the
music that inspires her, from Oscar Peterson to Frank
Zappa. Plus highlights of a concert featuring bassist
Henri Texier, a grandee of the French jazz scene,
recorded in February 2021 for Radio France in Paris.

6.30 Opera on 3: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
Onegin

James Gaffigan conducts today’s Metropolitan
Opera performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
a
Onegin, from New York. At the heart of Pushkin’s
story is Tatiana, who as a teenager falls for the

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Hannah Cox
10.00 Angellica Bell Uplifting music.
1.00pm Mark Kermode Film music.
3.00 Simon Mayo’s Essential Albums Today’s

playlist includes new and archive recordings and
marks anniversaries for composers Elmer Bernstein
and Louis Spohr and, in a recording by the Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra, Beethoven’s First Symphony.

5.00 The Console with Luci Holland

Featuring highlights of video game scores.

6.00 Jack Pepper’s Culture Bunker

Exploring the human stories behind classical music.
8.00 Saturday Night Scala With Darren Redick.
10.00 The Space A playist intended to soothe.

12.00 Night Music 5.00am In the Park

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
8.00am Frank Skinner 11.00 Sarah Champion
2.00pm Rock ’n’ Roll Football 5.00 Andy Bush’s
Indie Disco 7.00 Absolute Classic Rock Party
10.00 Sophie K 4.00am Ross Buchanan

urbane but cynical nobleman Eugene Onegin. When
he cruelly rejects her, Tatiana builds her own life
and marries a prince. When Onegin meets her again
as a strong, mature woman, and realises his
mistake, it’s too late for both of them. Presented
by Debra Lew Harder, with commentary by Ira Siff.
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin
Tatiana
Eugene Onegin
Olga, Tatiana’s sister
Lensky, her lover
Prince Gremin
Larina, Tatiana’s mother
Filippyevna, nanny
Triquet
Zaretsky
Offstage voice
Captain

Ailyn Pérez (soprano)
Igor Golovatenko (baritone)
Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo)
Piotr Beczal (tenor)
Ain Anger (bass)
Elena Zaremba (mezzo)
Larissa Diadkova (mezzo)
Tony Stevenson (tenor)
Richard Bernstein (bass)
Marco Antonio Jordão (tenor)
Vladyslav Buialskyi (bass-baritone)

RT OFFER Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin (2 CDs) — a 1979
recording featuring Yuri Mazurok, Vladimir Atlantov, Tamara
Milashkina, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Evgeny Nesterenko,Tatiana
Tugarinova and the Bolshoi Theatre Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Mark Ermler (wrongly credited to Gennady
Cherkasov) — is available for £12.90 incl p&p. Call 0115 982
7500 quoting ref ALC2007 or visit radiotimes.com/cds

10.00 New Music Show

Innovative and experimental new music in live
performance, today featuring Bara Gisladottir’s
Animals of Your Pasture, a work described as
“elemental, eternal and indomitable”. Plus Helmut
Oehring’s String Quartet No 4 (House Burning
Down II). Presented by Kate Molleson.

12.00 Freeness

Corey Mwamba with a playlist of improvised music
exploring new frontiers in outer space, technology
and language. Trumpeter Nick Walters’s piercing
horn meets inventive loops and Nasa audio samples
from space exploration missions. British duo Moses
Boyd and Binker Golding extend their collaborative
partnership to include producer Max Luthert for
their new album Feed the Machine. Corey also travels
back to 1970s Ireland via the archives of the former
Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory, an
experimental project founded in the mid-1960s by
Jacinta Delaney and Eoghan Comerford.

1.00am Through the Night With Catriona Young.
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47 Bach
Sarabande (Partita No 2 in D minor, BWV1004); Gigue
(Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006) Berlioz Symphonie
fantastique, Op 14 Hilary Hahn (violin), RAI National
Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fabio Luisi
2.39 Sibelius 13 Pieces for Piano, Op 76
3.01 Vivaldi Gloria in D, RV589
3.29 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
4.08 Poulenc Napoli 4.18 Enescu Prélude à l’unisson
(Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, Op 9)
4.26 Lipatti Improvisation for violin, cello and piano
(dedicated to Miron Soarec) 4.33 Mozart Rondo in E
flat, K371 4.39 Fanny Mendelssohn Lied, Op 8 No 1
4.45 Obrecht Omnis spiritus laudet
4.51 Sammartini Sinfonia in F
5.01 Boyce Suite for two trumpets and organ
5.11 Handel Pensieri notturni di Filli, HWV 134
5.18 Boeck Nocturne 5.27 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody
No 6 5.35 Mahler Adagietto (Symphony No 5)
5.45 Tormis Autumn Landscapes 5.54 Grieg Peer Gynt:
Suite No 1 6.19 Brahms Marienlieder, Op 22
6.36 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C, BWV1066

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

7.00am Alan Titchmarsh
Including a Gardening Tip after 8.00 and, from
9.00, the Classic FM Hall of Fame Hour.

10.00 Aled Jones
1.00pm Alexander Armstrong
4.00 Moira Stuart’s Classic FM Hall of
Fame Concert

Classic FM Hall of Fame works played in full, today
with a playlist that evokes the change in the
seasons. Featuring music by Vaughan Williams,
Beethoven, Debussy, Parry, Chopin, Binge, Mozart,
Finzi and Copland.

7.00 Saturday Night at the Movies

Andrew Collins showcases music from epic films.
Featuring highlights of scores by Dario Marianelli
(V for Vendetta), Richard Rodgers (The King and I),
John Williams (Star Wars), Rachel Portman
(Chocolat) and Anne Dudley (The Hustle).

9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies

A playlist marked by personal favourites, including
top international orchestras and soloists.
10.00 Smooth Classics With Myleene Klass.
1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

2 APRIL SATURDAY
BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day With the Rev Ian
Faulds, Rector of the Falkland Islands.
5.45 Lent Talks
4/6. A series of reflections for Lent. Clerical
abuse survivor Dr Margaret Kennedy considers
the line, “I was naked and you gave me clothing.”
Repeated from Wednesday Repeated tomorrow 11.45am

6.00 News and Papers
6.07 Ramblings

9/9. In Kent, Colleen Thirkell and her husband
Richard invite Clare Balding to walk one of the
final stages of the 168-mile Saxon Shore Way.
Repeated from Thursday

Food, farming and the countryside.

7.00 Today

With Mishal Husain and Justin Webb.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Brian Draper.
8.31 LW Yesterday in Parliament

9.00 Saturday Live

The Rev Richard Coles and Nikki Bedi are
joined by Patrick Kielty, who’s currently
touring Britain and Ireland with his stand-up
show Borderline. Producer Claire Bartleet

10.30 The Kitchen Cabinet

Listeners have their say on the week’s big issues.
Produer Beverley Purcell PHONE: 0370 010 0444 Lines
open from 12.30pm EMAIL: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

2.45 From Fact to Fiction: Jabber,
Jabber

A topical play by Mark Lawson that considers
the question of health care workers who
object to being vaccinated against Covid-19.
Dr Kat Stock
Nimmy March Jenny Wheater
Jane Slavin
Dr Tom Stock Nicholas Murchie Peter Horster MP Clive Hayward
Dr James Billing Julian Rhind-Tutt Nat Jenkins
Tom Glenister
Director/Producer Eoin O’Callaghan (R)

3.30 Rap Gets Real

Rapper and broadcaster Guvna B examines
how some high-profile rap artists — Stormzy,
Dave, Drake, J Cole and Kendrick Lamar — are
increasingly shunning the genre’s aggressive
and masculine tropes and opening up about
their battles with mental illness in their music.
Producer Charlie Towler (R)

4.00 Weekend Woman’s Hour

Highlights from the weekday programmes.

5.00 Saturday PM

Presented by Caroline Wyatt.

5.30 The Bottom Line

In recent years there’s been a huge boom in the
“buy now, pay later” industry — with customers
choosing to purchase goods and push their
payments farther down the line. Evan Davis
explores what this mean for businesses and
what it says about our relationship with debt.
Producer Lucinda Borrell (R)

6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.15 Loose Ends

The week’s political proceedings.

Clive Anderson and Emma Freud are joined
by Steve Coogan, on tour in Alan Partridge:
Stratagem later this month, Deborah
Meaden, host of new Radio 5 Live podcast
The Big Green Money Show, and comedian
Omid Djalili, currently on a UK tour. With
music from the Coral and Tenille Townes.

11.30 From Our Own Correspondent

7.00 Profile

New series. 1/7. The culinary panel show
returns, with Jay Rayner inviting Rachel
McCormack, Tim Anderson, Jeremy Pang
and Dr Zoe Laughlin to dispense advice.
Producer Daniel Cocker Repeated Tuesday 3pm

11.00 The Week in Westminster
BBC correspondents across the world tell
stories and examine news developments in
their region. Presented by Kate Adie.

12.04pm Money Box

The latest from the world of personal
finance, including impartial advice.
Repeated tomorrow 9pm

Your RT Money: page 138

12.30 The Now Show

4/6. Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests
with a satirical look through the week’s news.
Repeated from yesterday

1.00 News
1.10 Any Questions?

Chris Mason presents political debate and
discussion from Hull Minster. Panellists
include Conservative MP and former
cabinet minister Robert Jenrick.
Repeated from yesterday

Producer Sukey Firth Repeated tomorrow 11pm

Friends, adversaries and colleagues provide an
insight into the personality and motivation of
a person who is making the headlines.
Repeated tomorrow 5.45am and 5.40pm

7.15 This Cultural Life

John Wilson talks to film and TV
screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West
a
Wing, The Social Network) about his life and
creative process. Sorkin talks about the first
play he ever saw, the musical Man of La
Mancha; how as a child he loved the dialogue
in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; his mentor
William Goldman and his script for Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; working with
director David Fincher on The Social Network;
and how family dinner conversations with
his lawyer father inform much of his writing.

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

As the British arts world faces up to its postCovid future, musician and broadcaster Ben
Gernon considers how governments have
struggled to quantify the success of the arts.
Producer Gareth Gwynn Repeated Friday 12.04pm

9.00 GF Newman’s The Corrupted

1/10. The second series of the epic crime drama
by GF Newman, based on his bestselling novel
Crime and Punishment. Spanning the years
1961—70, the series plots the course of one
family’s history against the backdrop of a
revolution in crime. Today Joey finds Brian’s gun
hidden at his house and in a panic, he calls the
police. All series are available on BBC Sounds.
Joey Oldman
Toby Jones Leah Cohen
Cath Oldman
Denise Gough Jack Braden
Brian Oldman Joe Armstrong Narrator

Jasmine Hyde
Luke Allen-Gale
Ross Kemp

Producer/Director Clive Brill (R)

9.45 Border Crossing

4/4. Twenty-Something Going Nowhere
and The Revolutionary T-Shirt. Michaela
Gasteratou reads Twenty-Something Going
Nowhere by Ethiopian writer Linda Yohannes,
which centres on a young girl given a harsh
introduction to working life, while Himesh
Patel reads Nikesh Shukla’s counterpoint,
The Revolutionary T-Shirt, about a young
man whose political naivety gives way to a
more intimate understanding of injustice.
Producer Sara Davies (R)

10.00 News
10.15 How Things Fell Apart, with Jon
Ronson and Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux questions Jon Ronson about
the making of Ronson’s podcast series Things
Fell Apart, in which he drew a line through the
extraordinary human stories from the
history of the culture wars. Rptd from Wednesday

11.00 Round Britain Quiz

1/12. New host Kirsty Lang is in the chair as
the quiz celebrates 75 years on air. The first
round features contestants from Wales and
the Midlands. Repeated from Monday

11.30 Papageno and the Poetry of
Disquiet

Author and psychiatric doctor Joanna Cannon
draws on her work with suicidal patients to
explore conflicting attitudes to poetry that
deals with suicide. Repeated from Sunday

12.00 News and Weather
12.15am Letter from Ukraine

Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov reads from
his own reflection on life in war-torn Ukraine.
Translated by Elizabeth Sharp.
Repeated from yesterday 7pm

12.30—12.45 Short Works

Producer Edwina Pitman

Profound Earthly Suffering, by Kritika Pandey.
A young Indian woman, soon to be a bride,
longs to have her heart broken. Read by
Deeivya Meir. Repeated from yesterday

John Wilson on Aaron Sorkin: page 110

1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am Love in a Cold Climate as 4pm
7.30 Great Lives as 5.30pm
8.00 The Write Stuff Literary quiz. From 2008 (1/6)
8.30 Spangles ’n’ Tights 1998 sitcom (2/5)
9.00 Inside the Music: from Score to Encore
The creative process in classical music, as 7pm
12.00 CHOICE: My Favorite Husband Liz and
George Cooper get a spot to win prizes on a quiz show.
The trouble is, how does she tell him? 1948 US radio
sitcom based on the novels of Isabel Scott Rorick
(1900—67). The series, starring Lucille Ball and Richard
Denning, evolved into the US TV sitcom I Love Lucy
12.30pm Clare in the Community Series three
of the sitcom starring Sally Phillips. From 2006 (1/6)
1.00 When Courtney Met Chris
A 2009 meeting of two giants of jazz, with
Courtney Pine talking to Chris Barber (1930—2021)
2.00 Alex Horne Presents the Horne Section
Music and comedy with Alex Horne and his five-piece
band. With Danny Baker. Series two. From 2013
2.30 The Million Pound Radio Show
A series two edition of the comedy sketch show,
with Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell. From 1986
3.00 Brian Gulliver’s Travels Bill Dare with
comic accounts of his outlandish journeys. This
2012 edition features Chamanoa, a land populated
by warring naturites and nurturites. Series two

8.00 Archive on 4: The Ministry of Fun

BBC World Service
3.30 Delve Special A spoof investigation starring
Stephen Fry as reporter David Lander. From 1985
4.00 Love in a Cold Climate Dramatisation by
Claire Luckham of Nancy Mitford’s 1949 comic novel
in which a woman is invited into the 1920s world of an
aristocratic family. With Amanda Root, Barbara Jefford,
Teresa Gallagher, Tessa Worsley and more. From 1999
5.30 Great Lives Matthew Parris invites
businessman Tej Lalvani to celebrate the legacy of
theoretical physicist Richard Feynman (1918—88)
6.00 To the Ends of the Earth: King Solomon’s
Mines Tim McInnerny stars in a dramatisation by
Chris Harrald of H Rider Haggard’s 1885 mystery
novel about a hunter employed to help a man find his
missing brother, who was searching for a legendary
lost diamond mine. With David Sturzaker, Simon
Ludders, Sope Dirisu and others. From 2017 (2/2)
7.00 Inside the Music: from Score to Encore
Musician and teacher Gavin Henderson explores
the creative process in classical music, examining
some of the key roles and relationships behind the
performance, from score to encore. From 2015
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Alex Horne
Presents the Horne Section (2/6), at 10.30
Chain Reaction (6/6), at 11.00 The Simon Day
Show (5/6), and at 11.30 The Skivers (1/5)
12.00 as 6pm 1.00am as 1pm 2.00 as 2pm
2.30 as 2.30pm 3.00 as 3pm 3.30 as 3.30pm
4.00 as 4pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 Weekend Stories
5.50 More or Less 6.00 Weekend 8.30 The
Conversation 9.00 News 9.05 BBC OS
Conversations 9.30 The Explanation: the rights of
females in Afghanistan 9.50 Over to You 10.00
News 10.05 Sports Hour 11.00 The Newsroom
11.30 Comedians vs the News 12.00 News
12.05pm World Book Club: Harriett Gilbert talks to
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo about her
debut novel, We Need New Names 1.00 Newshour
2.00 News 2.05 Sportsworld 6.00 The Newsroom
6.30 Weekend Stories 6.50 Sporting Witness
7.00 News 7.05 BBC OS Conversations 7.30
WorkLifeIndia 8.00 News 8.05 The Arts Hour on
Tour: a debate from LA on how social movements
and streaming services are disrupting the
entertainment industry 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.05 Music Life: four Dublin hip-hop and
R&B artists discuss the art of storytelling 11.00
The Newsroom 11.20 Sports News 11.30 The
Cultural Frontline 12.00 News 12.05am BBC OS
Conversations 12.30 Weekend Stories 12.50 More
or Less 1.00 News 1.05 The Science Hour 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 Healthcheck 3.00 News 3.05
World Book Club 4.00 News 4.05 From Our Own
Correspondent 4.30 The Cultural Frontline

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908
News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am 5 Live Boxing
6.00 Saturday Breakfast
Chris Warburton and Lukwesa Burak
with news and a weekend preview.
9.00 Scott Mills and Chris Stark
11.00 Fighting Talk
Sports quiz hosted by Colin Murray.
12.00 5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman with Premier League
action, including updates from
Liverpool v Watford and build-up to
today’s live 3.00 commentary on
Burnley v Manchester City. And at
5.00 Sports Report, with updates
from Man United v Leicester City.
6.00pm 6-0-6
8.00 Kermode and Mayo’s Film
Review Revised repeat of
yesterday’s final ever show.
9.00 Stephen Nolan
12.00 Newscast
1.00am as BBC World Service
Programmes covering news,
current affairs, arts and science.

BBC 5 Sports Extra

Radio

6.30 Farming Today This Week

2.00 Any Answers?

Saturday

News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 2.00pm, 4.00 and
hourly to 12 midnight
Weather 6.04am, 6.57, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 12.15am
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW),
5.54pm, 12.48am

BBC Radio 5 Live

DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
10.55am—3.00pm Cricket
Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals
in the Indian Premier League.
4.40—6.45 Rugby Union Wales v
Scotland in the Women’s Six Nations.
10.00—1.45am Golf The Chevron
Championship in Mission Hills.
1.45—5.00 Test Match Special
The Women’s Cricket World Cup final.
Coverage continues until 10am.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am GameDay Breakfast
9.00 GameDay Warm Up
11.00 Premier League Football
Liverpool v Watford (k/o 12.30pm).
2.30pm Premier League Football
The day’s 3pm kick-offs.
5.15 Premier League Football
Man Utd v Leicester (kick-off 5.30).
7.30 Your Verdict 10.00 Fight
Night 12.00 Extra Time

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
12 noon—2.30pm Championship
Football Blackpool v Nottingham
Forest (kick-off 12.30pm).
2.30pm—5.00 Premier League
Football Commentary on Chelsea
v Brentford (kick-off 3.00)
8.00pm—11.00 PGA Tour Golf
Day three of the Valero Texas Open.

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Andrew Castle 10.00
Matt Frei 1.00pm Andrew Pierce
4.00 David Lammy 7.00 Natasha
Devon 9.00 The Legal Hour with
Daniel Barnett 10.00 Nick Abbot
1.00am Clive Bull 4.00 Ian Payne

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
5.00am Haroon 6.00 Beyond
Bollywood 7.00 Jasmine Takhar
10.00 Beyond Bollywood 1.00pm
Nikita Kanda and Mehreen Baig
3.00 AJD 6.00 Panjabi Hit
Squad 9.00 Pure Spice
12.00 SOS Bhangra Mix
1.00 Asian Network Represents
3.00 Desi Dancefloor Mix
4.00 Asian Network Certified

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

115

SUNDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

Radio

Sunday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
6.00am Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems
7.00 Adele Roberts
10.30 Dean McCullough
1.00pm Matt and Mollie
4.00 Radio 1’s Life Hacks
6.00 The Official Chart
7.00 Radio 1’s Chillest Show
9.00 Daniel P Carter Loud rock.
11.00 BBC Introducing
12.00 Future Soul 1.30am UK
R&B Mix 2.00 Decompression
Session 3.00 Chill Mix
4.00 Dance 5.00 Arielle Free

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.00am Good Morning Sunday
9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday
Love Songs Personal dedications.
11.00 Michael Ball

The Reunion
11.00am Radio 4
At 7.59am local time on Boxing
Day 2004, a 9.1-magnitude
earthquake began off the
northern tip of Sumatra in
Indonesia. It led to a deadly
tsunami (above), which killed
more than 230,000 people
across 14 countries. The
Reunion returns for a new run
and brings together people
directly affected to share their
experiences and stories,
including a woman who was a
university student living in Banda
Aceh (a Sumatran city) and
who lost seven members of her
family, and a British man whose
idyllic holiday in Thailand ended
with the death of his partner.
These devastating stories are
handled with sensitivity by
series host Kirsty Wark, but the
carefully edited and assembled
accompanying sound montage
really brings home the sheer
horror of this mortifying
natural event. JANE ANDERSON

Private Passions
12 noon Radio 3

ALAMY

Architect and broadcaster
Francesco da Mosta is the
quintessential Venetian — his
family is said to reach back all
the way to the founding of the
city — and his music choices are
imbued with his love and concern
for La Serenissima. Even when
describing how Ennio
Morricone’s score for Sergio
Leone’s How the West Was Won
makes the hairs on the back of
his neck stand up, he’s talking
about a performance by
Morricone in St Mark’s Square.
That’s not to diminish what is a
rich and lively conversation
with Michael Berkeley, which
ends with da Mosta describing
his favourite spaghetti recipe.

116

BBC Radio 1

Don Black discusses the new West
End musical Bonnie and Clyde, for
which he wrote the lyrics. Plus actor
Michelle Collins, currently starring
in a stage play based on Jonathan
Lynn’s screen adaptation of Cluedo.

1.00pm Samantha Barks
Sitting in for Elaine Paige.

3.00 Sounds of the 70s
5.00 Rob Beckett
7.00 Sunday Night Is
Music Night

6.45 Sunday Feature: I Arrive without
Leaving: the Story of Women Surrealist Poets

News and weather 7.00am, 8.00 and 1.00pm

New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza tells the
little-known story of the female poets and writers
who helped shape the surrealist movement. Drawing
on rare recordings — including an interview with
Leonora Carrington as well as readings of poems by
Méret Oppenheim, Joyce Mansour, Gisèle Prassinos,
Claud Cahun and Suzanne Césaire — Reza examines
how these writers confronted issues of gender
identity, the erotic, colonialism and power structures.
With readings by Anne Gallien and Emily Bruni
and contributions from contemporary surrealist
poets and writers. Producer Sarah Cuddon

7.00am Breakfast With Martin Handley.
9.00 Sunday Morning With Sarah Walker.
12.00 Private Passions

Michael Berkeley welcomes Venetian architect
and BBC broadcaster Francesco da Mosto, one
a
of the team of architects behind the restoration of
the opera house in Venice following a fire in 1996.
He is also known for his BBC TV series exploring
Venice, Italy and the Mediterranean. His music
choices include arias by Puccini and Verdi, music
by Vivaldi, Alessandro Marcello and Ennio
Morricone, and a recording by singer Mina Mazzini.

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday’s recital by Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
at Wigmore Hall in London. Hannah French presents.
Bridge Phantasie Piano Quartet in F sharp minor
Still Mother and Child (Suite for violin and piano)
Dvorak String Quintet in E flat, Op 97 (R)

2.00 The Early Music Show
Hannah French is in Cambridge exploring links
between Handel and the city, which the composer
never visited. She is joined by Suzanne Reynolds
(of the Fitzwilliam Museum), Handel aficionado
Ruth Smith and musicologist Iain Fenlon to look at
a number of treasured items of Handel memorabilia.
She also chats to Cambridge Handel Opera
Company artistic director Julian Perkins ahead of
their forthcoming production of Tamerlano.

3.00 Choral Evensong

Christopher Warren-Green conducts
the BBC Concert Orchestra in an
evening of music written by major
composers and featured in motion
pictures. Recorded in July 2016. (R)

9.00 Wogan: in His Own Words

Repeated from Wednesday (R)

Radio 2 marks this month’s
50th anniversary of the
a
station’s breakfast show debut of

Terry Wogan with a rare and
previously unaired interview with
the Limerick-born TV and radio
broadcaster, recorded at the height
of his fame in the 1980s. Presented by
current breakfast show star Zoe Ball.
Producer Mark Simpson

Pick of the Week: page 111

10.00 Dr Rangan Chatterjee
12.00 OJ Borg
With One Hit Wonders at 2.30am,
with guest Chesney Hawkes.
See also Thursday 12 midnight.

3.00 Tracks of My Years Omnibus. (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

6.00am 6 Music Festival
Amy Lamé kicks off the final day of
coverage from Cardiff with her pick
of performances so far. From 8.00
Chris Hawkins’s show includes sets
by Khruangbin, Gwenno, Sports
Team and Emma-Jean Thackray. At
10.00 Cerys Matthews has sets by
Georgia Ruth and Cerys Hafana and
a chat with Gwenno. At 1.00pm
Stuart Maconie with sets from Gruff
Rhys and Art School Girlfriend (Polly
Mackey). At 4.00 Huw Stephens with
Self Esteem and a set by H Hawkline.
Tom Robinson and Nemone take
over at 7.00, with the first part of a
live set from Johnny Marr. From
10.00 Gideon Coe and Don Letts
present the rest of Johnny Marr’s set.
Plus highlights of sets by Father John
Misty, Big Joanie, the Mysterines,
Curtis Harding and Ezra Collective.

12.00 Cillian Murphy’s Limited
Edition A 2020 nocturnal playlist.

Wogan: in His Own Words

2.00am This Is Us: 6 Music at 20
Robert Glasper with picks from 2012.
3.00 Peel Acres 10/10. Adam Buxton.
4.00 The BBC Introducing Mixtape

Pick of the Week: page 111

90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903

From the Chapel of Royal Holloway, University of
London. Recorded on 25 January. Introit: Turn
unto the Lord (Tomkins). Responses: Byrd. Psalm
119, vv35—56 (Lawes, Tomkins, Luther). First
Lesson: Jeremiah 18, vv13—23. Canticles: The
Second Service (Gibbons). Second Lesson: John
10, vv11—21. Anthem: When David Heard (Weelkes).
Voluntary: Passacaglia in D minor (Buxtehude)

DAVID CRAWFORD

9.00pm Radio 2

BBC Radio 3

4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with recordings by Esbjorn Svensson,
Miles Davis, Cecile McLorin Salvan and others.

5.00 The Listening Service
Are the hundreds of recordings of each Beethoven
symphony — and the thousands upon thousands of
live performances over the years — really so very
different from each other? Tom Service investigates.
He’s joined by music critic Fiona Maddocks and
pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. Rptd Friday 4.30pm (R)

5.30 Words and Music
The Body. A programme from November 2020 in
which actors Deeivya Meir and Ewan Bailey marked
ten years of New Generation Thinkers with readings
from then new non-fiction writing (by ten New
Generation Thinkers) on different aspects of the
body. Four authors who have passed through the
scheme — Sarah Jackson, Sandeep Parmar, Preti
Taneja and Peter Mackay — read their own poems
and prose. Plus music by Mahler, Scriabin and Missy
Mazzoli, and a recording by the Delta Rhythm Boys. (R)

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Jamie Crick
10.00 Angellica Bell
1.00pm Deb Grant Including the Piano Playlist.
3.00 Alexis Ffrench
5.00 The Scala Jukebox With Sam Hughes.
6.00 The Empire Playlist on Scala Radio

New series. 1/3. Anticipating Scala’s annual All
Movies Easter Monday — with listeners now invited
to vote for their favourite film themes — Empire
magazine’s Amon Warmann showcases three of the
shortlisted themes, starting with superheroes (from
the genre category). With music by John Williams,
Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri and Ludwig Goransson.
8.00 Sunday Night Scala With Darren Redick.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
8.00am Jason Manford 11.00 Sarah Champion
2.00pm Rock ’n’ Roll Football 6.00 Request
Show With Claire Sturgess 8.00 Sunday Night
Music Club With Danielle Perry 12.00 Dan Noble

Join RT BOOK CLUB monthly or quarterly, for £14.99

7.30 Drama on 3: Beethoven Can Hear You
Peter Capaldi stars as Ludwig van Beethoven in a
drama by Timothy X Atack. Beethoven is visited by a
deaf traveller from another time, who is shocked to
discover that he can hear. It seems that in this reality
the musical titan never lost his hearing. Beethoven is
haunted by the idea his ears could fail him. But the
visitor must make him understand his importance as
history’s first deaf composer. Featuring an original
score from deaf composer Lloyd Coleman. (R)
9.00 Record Review Extra With Hannah French.

11.00 The Art of Accompaniment

New series. 1/3. Quarrelling, Making Up
Collaborative London-born pianist Keval Shah
explores great chamber works and songs, but from
the perspective of the accompanist. Shah challenges
clichés and reinvents the way we approach some of
our most cherished pieces of music, while introducing
listeners to new and exciting works. He begins
with music that sets up the synergy of soloist and
accompanist in a variety of fascinating and surprising
ways, from songs by Schubert, Wolf and Saariaho to
chamber music by Bach, Finzi, Brahms and Dutilleux.
Producer Steven Rajam

12.00 Sounds Connected
Keelan Carew with unlikely connections among
five pieces of music, here including works by Steve
Reich, Prokofiev and Sibelius.

12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young.
Featuring the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra last
September at Musikfest Berlin. Stravinsky Symphonies
of Wind Instruments; Abraham and Isaac; Concerto for
Piano and Wind Instruments; Variations (Aldous Huxley
in memoriam) Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Maler
Georg Nigl (baritone), Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Berlin
Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Jurowski
1.51 Brahms Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op 5
2.31 Walpurgis Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni (excerpts)
3.10 Ravel Miroirs 3.42 Goldmark Scherzo in E minor,
Op 19 3.49 Dvorak Waltzes, Op 54 (selection)
3.56 Anon The Uhrovec Collection 4.05 Quantz Trio
Sonata in E flat 4.13 Bach, arr Tausig Toccata and
Fugue in D minor, BWV565 4.21 Castello Sonata No 10
a 3 (Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 2)
4.31 Auber Overture: Fra Diavolo 4.39 Chopin Rondo
in E flat, Op 16 4.49 Debussy Trois chansons de Charles
d’Orléans 4.56 Fritsch Primitiae musicales (selection)
5.04 Turina Rapsodia sinfónica, Op 66 5.13 Schubert
Overture in C minor D8 5.23 Dvorak String Quartet No
12 in F, Op 96 (American) 5.48 Bach Singet dem Herrn
ein neues Lied, BWV225 6.03 Franck Violin Sonata in A

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

7.00am Aled Jones With a Choral Classic.
10.00 John Brunning
1.00pm Catherine Bott
4.00 John Humphrys Today’s playlist includes
a performance of Rusalka’s Song to the Moon from
the debut album by American soprano Rachel WillisSorensen. Plus highlights of a recording by James
Galway of Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G, K313.
7.00 Smooth Classics Charlotte Hawkins with
a laid-back playlist, including a spotlight on British
cellist Laura van der Heijden. Featuring a Dvorak
favourite from her recently released album.

9.00 From Couch to Opera House
5/7. Jennifer Saunders presents a series to demystify
opera to those relatively new to it. This week she
celebrates the librettists and librettos, including
Lorenzo Da Ponte (many Mozart operas) and Luigi
Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Puccini’s La bohème).
Plus Gilbert and Sullivan (The Pirates of Penzance)
and a tribute to the late Stephen Sondheim,
lyricist of Bernstein’s West Side Story.
10.00 Smooth Classics With Myleene Klass.
1.00am Bill Overton A playlist for late-night listening.

Visit radiotimes.com/bookclub

3 APRIL SUNDAY
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 5 Live
11.45 Lent Talks Repeated from yesterday 5.45am
12.04pm Just a Minute

92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)

6/6. With guests Lucy Porter, Shaparak
Khorsandi, Julian Clary and Paul Merton.

News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 9.00, 11.00 and
hourly to 12 midnight
Weather 6.57am, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 9.59, 12.15am
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW), 5.54pm,
12.48am

Repeated from Monday

12.32 The Food Programme

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Bells on Sunday From the church of
St Giles in Graffham, West Sussex.
5.45 Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Producer Natalie Donovan Repeated tomorrow 3.30pm

6.00 News Summary
6.05 Something Understood

1.00 The World This Weekend

Challenging Your Instincts. Mark Tully
considers what happens when people
challenge their fears and prejudices.

1.30 The Listening Project

7.00 The Archers

Kathy Clugston invites Pippa Greenwood,
Matthew Wilson and Christine Walkden to
answer listeners’ queries. Repeated from Friday
Your RT Gardening: page 134

5/6. Nightingale. Brett Westwood hears
how the nightingale’s song continues to
inspire human creativity. Producer Tom Bonnett (R)

3/10. The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun
Matthew Sweet and guests explore the first
Chinese modernist short story. Lu Xun’s text
had a wide influence, helping to shape the
aesthetic style of poets such as Ezra Pound.

Armando Iannucci presents an appeal on
behalf of Child Poverty Action Group.

Producer Kate Howells Rptd 9.25pm and Thu 3.27pm
Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, marked
Child Poverty Action Group on the back of the envelope;
Credit/debit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144;
online via the Radio 4 website

Producer Julian May (R)

3.00 Drama: Rossum’s Universal Robots

1/2. A musical adaptation of Karel Capek’s
retro-futurist 1921 comedy — which gave us
the word robot — with music and lyrics by
Susannah Pearse, and book by Robert
Hudson. In Capek’s world, machines do all the
work and their monopolistic makers care
only about enriching themselves. Movie star
Lady Helen wants to free the robots and give
them emotion and free will. But when a scientist
helps with her plan, the outcome is surprising.

8.00 News; Sunday Papers
8.10 Sunday Worship

On Passion Sunday, a service from the Chapel
of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London,
with the theme “I was in prison”. Major Alison
Stone from the Salvation Army, Chaplain at
HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, preaches on
the role of prison ministry, and former MP
Jonathan Aitken reflects on his conversion to
Christianity while in prison. The service is led
by the Chaplain of the Chapel, the Rev Canon
Roger Hall, with music from the chapel choir.

Lady Helen
Domin
Radius
Helen 2
Alpha
Brown Owl

8.48 A Point of View

A reflection on a topical issue. Rptd from Friday

Jasmine Hyde
Paul Chahidi
Paul Hilton
Clare Foster
Anneika Rose
Neil McCaul

Director Sasha Yevtushenko

8.58 Tweet of the Day

Alquist
Matthew Durkan
Sulla
Alexandra Hannant
Fabry
Michael Begley
Logicbot
Chris Jack
Busman
Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong

4.00 Bookclub

Blue Tit. With Alasdair Grubb. (R)

Karen Joy Fowler answers listeners’ questions
about her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel We
Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. May’s
book is Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.

9.00 Broadcasting House

Presented by Paddy O’Connell.
10.00 The Archers Omnibus edition.

Producer Nicola Holloway Repeated Thursday 3.30pm

11.00 The Reunion

a

4.30 The Open Box

New series. 1/5. Kirsty Wark reunites
people affected by the Boxing Day
tsunami of 2004, including university student
Novia Liza who lost seven members of her
family, holidaying British engineer Andy
Chaggar who dealt with his grief over his
partner’s death by helping with the recovery
process, and Kontoro Mangkusbroto, the head
of reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh.

Gail McConnell’s father, an assistant
governor at the Maze Prison, was murdered
in front of her by the IRA when she was three
years old. Through her poetry, fragments of
childhood memory and an archive of public
and personal materials gathered in a “Dad
Box”, she pieces together her father’s life
and death. She also goes to find someone to
whom the murder connects her.

Producer Karen Pirie; Series producer David Prest
Repeated Friday 9am

Producer Conor Garrett Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am The Female Persuasion Adaptation of
the 2018 novel by Meg Wolitzer (1—5/10)
7.10 Inheritance Tracks With Robert Peston
7.20 Life Lines Second series of Al Smith’s drama
set in an ambulance control room. From 2019 (1—5/5)
8.30 Doctor in the House Ray Cooney’s radio
adaptation of Richard Gordon’s 1952 medical
comedy novel. With Richard Briers. From 1968
9.00 Something to Shout About 1961 comedy
9.30 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere
Comedian Daliso Chaponda explores the history of
the relationship between the UK and Africa (2/4)
10.00 Desert Island Discs A 2006 edition with
jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton (1921—2008)
10.45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
11.00 The Moth Radio Hour True US stories
11.50 Inheritance Tracks With Robert Preston in 2018
12.00 Poetry Extra With Daljit Nagra. From 2019
12.30pm HR as 5.30pm
1.00 RisingTideFallingStar Tobias Menzies
reads from Philip Hoare’s book examining his and
other people’s passions for the sea. From 2017 (1—5/5)
2.10 Inheritance Tracks With Joanne Froggatt
2.20 Valley of the Dolls Dramatisation by
Yvonne Antrobus of Jacqueline Susann’s
seismically popular 1966 novel (6—10/15)

For cast see Thursday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

Ambridge Diary: page 111

7.15 Desolation Jests

2/4. David Jason stars with John Bird, Jan
Ravens and Rory Bremner in David Renwick’s
2016 post-apocalyptic sketch show.
Producer Gareth Edwards
Repeated Friday 5.30pm on Radio 4 Extra (R)

7.45 Spring Stories

New series. 1/5. Original short stories,
starting with Only Works in the Spring by
Kerri Ní Dochartaigh, in which an eBay listing
becomes a life-changing experience.
Producer Becky Ripley

8.00 Feedback

Listeners’ views on BBC radio programmes.
Presented by Roger Bolton.

3.30 Spanish Steps Chris Stewart (ex-Genesis)
searches for the authentic sound of flamenco
4.00 How to Murder Your Husband as 8pm
5.00 Poetry Extra With Daljit Nagra. From 2019
5.30 HR Series two of Nigel Williams’s
odd-couple comedy. From 2010 (6/6)
6.00 Ghosts from the Past Robert Glenister
stars in John Metcalfe’s tale Mortmain. When
disturbed Humphrey Child married his young
Salome, he took his vows very seriously. From 1992
6.45 LP Hartley: Short Stories Robert Lang
reads the 1952 tale WS. Novelist Walter Streeter has
devoted admirers, but will he be happy to meet a one?
7.00 The Moth Radio Hour True USA stories
7.50 Inheritance Tracks With Robert Peston
8.00 How to Murder Your Husband Wickedly
comic play by Julie Rutterford. When Frank retires,
Flo realises she has many ambitions left — with or
without him. With Jean Alexander. From 1995
9.00 Desert Island Discs as 10am
9.45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Love’s impact on the brain. From 2020 (2/6)
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: HR (6/6), at
10.30 Seekers (1/6), at 10.55 Interview With
Robin Ince (1/3), at 11.00 Edge Falls (3/6), and at
11.30 Dan and Nick: the Wildebeest Years (4/7)
12.00 as 6pm 12.45am as 6.45pm 1.00 as 1pm
2.10 as 2.10pm 2.20 as 2.20pm 3.30 as 3.30pm
4.00 as 4pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Sports Desk
5.30 5 Live Sport
6.00 5 Live Science .
7.00 Sunday Breakfast With Chris
Warburton and Lukwesa Burak.
10.00 Laura Whitmore
11.45 5 Live Sport
Gigi Salmon with sports news and
build-up to the 12 noon Scottish
Premiership commentary on
Rangers v Celtic. At 2.00pm there’s
live Premier League commentary
on West Ham United v Everton, then
at 4.30 commentary on Tottenham
Hotspur v Newcastle United.
6.30pm 6-0-6 With Robbie
Savage and Chris Sutton.
8.00 Teach Me a Lesson with
Greg James and Bella Mackie
Mr Yale discusses TV stereotypes. (R)
8.45 Life Hacks
9.00 Stephen Nolan
12.00 Stacey Dooley: Fresh Starts
Profile of 27-year-old Leicester
fashion designer Eliza.
12.45am 5 Minutes On Real tales.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908

Repeated from Friday

8.30 Last Word

Matthew Bannister celebrates the lives of
notable people who have died recently.
Repeated from Friday

9.00 Money Box Rptd from yesterday 12.04pm
9.25 The Radio 4 Appeal Rptd from 7.54am
9.30 Analysis

9/9. The Dictators’ Survival Guide. How do
dictators and authoritarians stay in power?
Some autocrats seem unassailable, even
after decades at the top. In this programme
first broadcast in 2018, James Tilley, a
professor of politics at Oxford University,
explores how dictators control their people.
Repeated from Monday

10.00 The Westminster Hour

Political magazine with Carolyn Quinn.

11.00 Loose Ends Rptd from yesterday 6.15pm
11.30 Something Understood
Repeated from 6.05am

12.00 News and Weather
12.15—12.45am The Lullaby Project

Felicity Finch reports on a pioneering project
that sees prisoners and classical musicians
working together to create lullabies for the
prisoners’ children. Producer Tom Alban (R)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

There’s a surprise in store for Ruairi, and
Josh hatches a plan.

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908

Radio

2.45 1922: the Birth of Now

7.00 News; Sunday Papers
7.10 Sunday Religious and ethical issues.
7.54 The Radio 4 Appeal

5.40 Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm
6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.15 Pick of the Week
A selection of highlights from the past
seven days’ BBC radio programmes.

2.00 Gardeners’ Question Time

6.35 Natural Histories

Repeated from Tuesday

News and analysis with Jonny Dymond.
Presented by Fi Glover.

Producer Adam Fowler Repeated 11.30pm (R)

Despite improvements in workplace culture,
bullying at work appears as rife today as it
was 20 years ago. Matthew Taylor, chief
executive of the NHS confederation and
author of the Taylor Review into Modern
Workplace Practices, asks why and seeks
answers to this often hidden problem.

Sunday

How Spain Does Beans. In the second of
two programmes about pulses, Sheila Dillon
heads to Spain where beans are a celebrated
part of the diet, to see how they are grown,
processed and served.

5.00 Dirty Work

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 The Documentary:
The House That Viktor Built 6.00 Weekend 8.30
The Food Chain 9.00 News 9.05 From Our Own
Correspondent 9.30 Outlook 10.00 News 10.05
Deeply Human 10.30 Heart and Soul 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 The Compass: Emotional
Baggage (4/4) 12.00 News 12.05pm The Inquiry
12.30 Assignment 1.00 Newshour 2.00 News
2.05 The Forum: discussing American journalist
and early feminist Margaret Fuller 2.50 Over to
You 3.00 News 3.05 Music Life 4.00 News
4.05 Sportsworld 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Comedians vs the News 8.00 News 8.05 The
History Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.05 Deeply
Human: why so many cultures demand monogamy
in romance (7/12) 10.30 The Explanation: the
rights of women and girls in Afghanistan
10.50 Over to You 11.00 The Newsroom
11.20 Sports News 11.30 Outlook 12.00 News
12.05am From Our Own Correspondent
12.30 Heart and Soul 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 The Life Scientific 2.00 The Newsroom 2.30
The Climate Question 3.00 News 3.05 Deeply
Human 3.30 The Explanation 3.50 Over to You
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 The Conversation

5.00—10.00 Test Match Special
Continued coverage of the Women’s
Cricket World Cup final.
2.55—6.30 Cricket Chennai Super
Kings v Punjab Kings in the IPL.
6.30—8.45 Women’s Super
League Football Chelsea v Reading.
10.00—2.30am Golf The Chevron
Championship in Mission Hills.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
9.00 Jonny Owen and Friends
11.00 The Warm Up
1.00pm The Sunday Session
5.00 Darren Bent’s Boot Room
8.00 My Sporting Life
9.00 Trans Europe Express
12.00 My Sporting Life
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
2.00pm–5.00 EFL Trophy
Football Commentary of the final
between Rotherham United and
Sutton United (kick-off 3.00)
6.00pm–11.00 PGA Tour Golf
Day four of the Valero Texas Open

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Andrew Castle 10.00
Tom Swarbrick 1.00pm Andrew
Pierce 4.00 Camilla Tominey
7.00 Rachel Johnson 10.00
Nick Abbot 1.00am Darren
Adam 4.00 Steve Allen

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am Gagan’s Old Skool Mix
7.00 Jasmine Takhar 10.00
Gagan Grewal 1.00pm Dipps
Bhamrah 3.00 Nadia Ali 5.00
Kan D Man 7.00 Jeevan 9.00
Represents 11.00 Chill 12.00
Beyond Bollywood: the Podcast
1.00am News 2.00 Jasmine
Takhar 4.00 Bobby Friction

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

117

MONDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

BBC Radio 1

Monday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.00am Greg James
10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
1.00pm Scott Mills
3.30 Vick and Jordan
6.00 Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists
10.00 Power Down Playlist
11.00 Drum ’n’ Bass Show
1.00am Drum ’n’ Bass Mix
2.00 Radio 1’s Motivate Me Mix
3.00 Radio 1’s Workout Anthems
4.00 Radio 1 Dance
5.00 Arielle Free

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

Radio

6.30am Zoe Ball
9.30 Ken Bruce

Drama: The Painted Hall
2.15pm Radio 4
“Britain’s Sistine Chapel”, the
Painted Hall at the Old Royal
Naval College in Greenwich
(above), is replete with intricate
wall and ceiling decorations
conceived by the artist James
Thornhill. It took him almost 20
years to complete, adjusting the
content along the way to reflect
new monarchs and changes in
science and navigation. This
drama by playwright and
18th-century specialist Ian Kelly
is, on one level, an examination
of how we read paintings, how
we respond to art, told through
the voices of some of the
characters Thornhill reflected
in the work. But it is also a
moving piece on father/
daughter relationships —
Thornhill’s daughter married
William Hogarth, then a lowly
paint-mixer in the Hall. Hugh
Bonneville and Jane Asher star
— what a cast, what a drama,
what a triumph! JANE ANDERSON

Book at Bedtime:
The Promise

ALAMY

10.45pm Radio 4

118

Told over four decades and
four funerals, Damon Galgut’s
Booker Prize-winning novel
receives a respectful and
faithful treatment over the next
fortnight by abridger Richard
Hamilton, reader Jack Klaff and
producer Justine Willett. While
the story focuses on a white
family on a farm outside
Pretoria, the promise of the title
is of a house and a piece of land
vowed (in a death-bed cry of
conscience) to a black woman
who has worked for the family
her whole life. This kaleidoscopic
feat of storytelling spans
generations, politics, racial
hatred, segregation and
injustice, but ultimately remains
a tale of personal morality and
responsibility. Darkly comic,
nuanced and sad, this really
does have it all. JANE ANDERSON

SAVE on a

(

Music and regular features including
the PopMaster quiz and, after 11.30
throughout the week, Tracks of
My Years, this week featuring —
two a day — ten of the favourite
records of stage and screen actor
Jill Halfpenny. She starts with
Altered Images and Barry Manilow.

12.00 Jeremy Vine
Topical discussion. Plus music.

2.00pm Steve Wright
5.00 Gary Davies
Sitting in for Sarah Cox.

7.00 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Blues Show with
Cerys Matthews
10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
Soul, R&B, disco, funk, crossover
hits and newer sounds. Plus
features including at 10.00 the
Magnificent 7 — a nostalgic
half-hour of potentially uplifting
tunes and essential throwbacks.

12.00 Michelle Dignan
Sitting in for OJ Borg with chat,
music, texts and features including
Midnight Mastermind and the
weekly themed Yawn Chorus.
3.00am Radio 2 in Concert
Elton John in 2001 at the BBC Radio
Theatre with a set that includes
Someone Saved My Life Tonight, Tiny
Dancer and I’m Still Standing. (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans
Sitting in for Vanessa Feltz.

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq

6 Music Festival highlights, with live
music from Bloc Party, Lucy Dacus,
Idles and Ibibio Sound Machine.

7.00 Marc Riley
9.00 Gideon Coe
12.00 6 Music Festival
6/6. Series showcasing artists
scheduled to appear at this past
weekend’s 6 Music Festival in
Cardiff, continuing with Cat Power
(Atlanta-born singer/songwriter
Charlyn Marshall). At 12.00 In
Their Own Words, with BBC archive
interviews and live performances
featuring Cat Power, followed at
1.00am by the Cat Power Playlist
— an hour of music from those who’ve
influenced her. Three hours of Cat
Power’s picks from the 6 Music
Festival archives follow at 2.00,
with sets from Damon Albarn (in
2014), Kim Gordon (in 2020), Wire
(in 2015), Neneh Cherry (in 2018)
and Bob Mould (in 2016).
5.00am Deb Grant

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather Half-hourly 6.30—8.00am, 1.00pm, 6.00

6.30am Breakfast With Kate Molleson.
9.00 Essential Classics
Georgia Mann with music, arts news and texts.
11.00 Essential Performers First of this week’s
five recordings featuring violinist Daniel Hope.

12.00 Composer of the Week:
Elmer Bernstein (1922—2004)
1/5. Hollywood Beckons. Donald Macleod talks
to Peter Bernstein about his father, the American
film composer and conductor Elmer Bernstein,
whose 14 Academy Award nominations include
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), for which he won
the Oscar. Bernstein was classically trained as a
concert pianist and within five years of arriving in
Hollywood, Cecil B DeMille was to give him the
chance to write the music for The Ten Commandments.
Stripes — March Hollywood Studio Symphony,
conducted by the composer
The Ten Commandments — Prelude Paramount
studio orchestra, conducted by the composer
The Ten Commandments (excerpts) Paramount
Studio Orchestra, conducted by the composer
To Kill a Mockingbird — Atticus Accepts the Case/
Roll in the Tire Royal National Scottish Orchestra,
conducted by the composer
Reflections (Guitar Concerto (For Two Christophers))
Christopher Parkening, London Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by the composer
The Man with the Golden Arm (excerpts) Shorty
Rogers (flugelhorn), Milt Bernhart (trombone),
Shelly Manne (drums), conducted by the composer
RT OFFER Elmer Bernstein The Silencers (original soundtrack)
— featuring vocalist Vicki Carr and studio musicians conducted by
the composer — is available for £12.90 incl p&p. Call 0115 982 7500
quoting ref CDLK4573 or visit radiotimes.com/cds

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

From Wigmore Hall in London, Martin Handley
introduces Italian-Slovenian pianist Alexander
n
Gadjiev in two fine works of the piano repertoire,
written 100 years apart but both notable for their
towering technical and musical challenges.
Alexander Gadjiev (piano)
Schumann Fantasie in C, Op 17
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 7, Op 83 Rptd Sunday 1pm

2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly presents the first of a week of
programmes including a celebration of French
orchestras, beginning with the Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Chamber Orchestra in concertos by Mozart.
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33
Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Romanian Radio Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Tiberiu Soare
2.25 Ravel La valse Prague Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Ion Marin
2.40 Doreen Carwithen Four Preludes for piano
Hiroaki Takanouchi
3.00 Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K622
Raphaël Sévère, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Jean-François Heisser
3.30 Britten Les Illuminations Alessandro Fisher
(tenor), Ulster Orchestra, conductor Ilyich Rivas

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Charles Nove Music, a light look at the
newspapers and features including Questions of
the Day and, from 9.00, Screen Time.
10.00 Mark Forrest Sitting in for Mark Forrest.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Popular classical works.
4.00 Penny Smith Scala’s drive-time show with
music features including at 5.30 the Clocking Off
track and, just before 7.00, the Showstoppers.
7.00 Hannah Cox With music including after 7.00
the latest classical releases, at 8.00 the Scala Piano
Playlist and, from 9.00, an hour of calming music.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Ben Burrell 10.00 Leona Graham Rock
and pop from across the decades, from the Beatles to
Blur, from the Doors to Dodgy, from Kraftwerk to the
Killers 1.00pm Jay Lawrence 4.00 Richie
7.00 Danielle Perry 10.00 Claire Sturgess
1.00am Dan Noble

4.00 Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 in A, K488
Bertrand Chamayou, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Jean-François Heisser

4.30 New Generation Artists
Fanny Mendelsohn Sechs Lieder, Op 7 Katharina
Konradi (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Rob Luft South Wind Rob Luft (electric guitar),
Dave O’Higgins (saxophone), Misha Mullov-Abbado
(jazz bass), Ross Stanley (piano), Billy Pod (drums)
Trad Italian, arr Luft Bella ci dormi Elina Duni
(vocals), Rob Luft (guitar), Fred Thomas (piano)

5.00 In Tune
Sean Rafferty with music, classical news and special
guests, today featuring starry mezzo-soprano Joyce
DiDonato and harpsichordist Maxim Emlyanychev.
7.00 In Tune Mixtape An eclectic playlist.

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
In a concert recorded in January at the Berliner
Philharmonie, Robin Ticciati conducts the German
SO in Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the overture
to Berlioz’s opera Les francs-juges and Schumann’s
Piano Concerto in A minor, featuring soloist Leif
Ove Andsnes. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), German Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Robin Ticciati
Berlioz Les francs-juges, Op 3
Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54
8.20 Interval A recorded performance of Grieg’s
song cycle Haugtussa featuring soprano Lise
Davidsen and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.
8.45 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat

10.00 Music Matters Repeated from Saturday 11.45am
10.45 The Essay: EarthWorks
1/5. Wold. Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby
explores traces of human history in different
landscapes around the British Isles. In this first
instalment she discovers layers of human history
in Yorkshire’s celebrated chalk hills and describes
her involvement in a dig at Thwing on the high
Wolds at a Romano-British farmstead, a site which
interacts with much older patterns of habitation.
Producer Mark Smalley

11.00 Night Tracks With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young.
Strauss Four Lieder, Op 27; Zueignung Brahms Symphony
No 4 in E minor, Op 98 Camilla Nylund (soprano), La Scala
Orchestra, conductor Christian Thielemann 1.27 Verdi
String Quartet in E minor 1.49 Mozart Sinfonia concertante
in E flat, K364 2.22 Vitali Passagalli per la lettera E;
Bergamasca per la lettera B 2.31 Arensky Suite No 3,
Op 33 (Variations) 2.55 Mouton Pièces de luth in C minor
3.24 de Veana Ay amor qué dulce tirano 3.29 Bo Holten
There’s a Time for Everything 3.39 Chopin Nocturne in
E flat, Op 55 No 2 (arr for flute, cor anglais and harp)
3.45 Offenbach Recit and C’est une chanson d’amour
(The Tales of Hoffmann) 3.53 Tormis Overture No 2
4.03 Ebner Trio in B flat 4.11 Dvorak Slavonic Dance in
E minor, Op 46 No 2 4.16 Handel Harp Concerto in B flat,
HWV 294 4.31 Mozart Missa Brevis in B flat, K275
(Agnus Dei) 4.37 Corelli Trio Sonata in B minor, Op 1 No 6
4.44 Handel Suite No 2 in F, HWV427 4.53 Prokofiev
Cinderella’s Waltz (Cinderella: Suite No 1, Op 107) 4.58
Schubert String Quartet in C minor, D703 5.08 Martinu
Clarinet Sonatina 5.20 Marianna von Martinez
Sinfonia in C 5.31 Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
5.52 Debussy Nocturnes 6.18 Bertali Ciaccona in C

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00pm John Brunning
7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning.
8.00 The Classic FM Concert with John
Suchet Start of a week-long showcase of fine
recordings released this year.
J Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus
Vienna PO, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Mozart Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat, K482
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester
Camerata, conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Bruch Kol Nidrei, Op 47 Edgar Moreau (cello),
Lucerne SO, conductor Michael Sanderling
Tchaikovsky Autumn Song (The Seasons)
Tianxu An (piano)
Mendelssohn Symphony No 1 in C minor Swedish
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard
Lili Boulanger Nocturne
Coco Tomita (violin), Simon Callaghan (piano)
10.00 Smooth Classics With Margherita Taylor.
1.00am Bill Overton

4 APRIL MONDAY
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 5 Live

92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)

12.04pm You and Yours Consumer affairs.
1.00 The World at One

News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 12 midnight
Weather 5.56am, 6.07, 6.57, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 9.59,
12.30am
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW),
5.54pm (LW), 12.48am

1.45 A Show of Hands

Presented by Sarah Montague.

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With stand-up comedian and writer Sadia Azmat.
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Cetti’s Warbler. With Bill Oddie. (R)

6.00 Today

Presented by Martha Kearney and Justin Webb.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Professor Tom McLeish.

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: The Painted Hall

Ian Kelly’s dramatisation of the 20-year
process of artist James Thornhill (Hugh
a
Bonneville) completing his design for the

9.00 Start the Week

Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College,
Greenwich — while also dealing with his
daughter falling in love with a lowly paint
mixer called William Hogarth.
James Thornhill Hugh Bonneville Obadiah Neptune Ben Onwukwe
Dame Dolly Broadbent Jane Asher John Worley
Trevor Fox
Jane Hogarth Genevieve Gaunt Housekeeper Sarah Ridgeway
William Hogarth
Ryan Early
Producer/Director Clive Brill

Producer Katy Hickman Shortened repeat 9.30pm

3.00 Round Britain Quiz

9.45 FM Book of the Week: Hybrid
Humans

2/12. Kirsty Lang hosts the quiz, with Paul
Sinha and Marcus Berkmann representing
the South of England against Paddy Duffy
and Freya McClements of Northern Ireland.

1/5. Becoming Hybrid. Army veteran Harry
Parker reads from his book that reflects on
cutting-edge advances in rehabilitating the
body after injury and illness, including his
own experience of losing his legs to an IED in
Afghanistan. Abridged by Sarah Shaffi.

Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated Saturday 11pm

3.30 The Food Programme
Repeated from yesterday 12.32pm

4.00 The Godfather and Me

Producer Elizabeth Allard Repeated 12.30am

Co-writer and director of McMafia James
Watkins re-evaluates The Godfather effect and
why the influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s
1972 film casts a huge shadow over his career.

9.45 LW Daily Service

An act of worship led by Roy Jenkins.
Matthew 22, vv 8—14. I Hear Thy Welcome
Voice; Worship the Lord in the Beauty of
Holiness; There’s a Spirit in the Air.

Repeated from Thursday

4.30 Beyond Belief

New series. 1/7. Ernie Rea explores the
spiritual beliefs that Vladimir Putin has used
to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and
the close relationship between the state and
the Russian Orthodox Church.

10.00 Woman’s Hour

Presented by Emma Barnett.
Editor Karen Dalziel

11.00 The Invention of Poland

2/3. A Nation without a State. Between
1795 and 1918 there was no Poland, as the
country was divided between Russia, Prussia
and Austria, but the idea of Poland remained
extremely strong. Misha Glenny and producer
Miles Warde travel around the south east of
the country in search of what kept Poland alive.

Producer Rebecca Maxted

5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis.
6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 The Unbelievable Truth

New series. 1/6. David Mitchell hosts the
show in which contestants try to smuggle
truths into a pack of lies. Lucy Porter, Holly
Walsh, Tony Hawks and Alan Davies compete.

Producer Miles Warde Repeated Wednesday 3.30pm

11.30 Homework

1/2. Comedian Shaparak Khorsandi presents
a highly personal look at the state of the school
system in the UK. Today she chats to four of
her old friends who all went to her school in
Ealing in the 1980s. Producer Paul Russell (R)

In recent months, there have been two highprofile cases where stalkers have ended up
murdering their victims — two years since the
Government brought in new legislation to
provide victims with additional protection.
Lucinda Borrell speaks to legislators and
police, getting an understanding of how
difficult it is to police stalking crimes and
assessing the national efforts to train police
officers and investigate stalking effectively.
Producer Lucinda Borrell Postponed from 15 March
Repeated Wednesday 11am

8.30 Am I That Guy?

Writer and broadcaster Alistair Heather is not
proud of some of his past interactions with
women. Here he explores what he and all
men can do to help women feel safe, talking
to a former police officer about his work on
men’s sexual violence. Producer Dave Howard (R)

9.00 The Anatomy of Kindness

3/3. Who have we evolved to be kind to?
Can we only be kind to people like us?
Claudia Hammond looks at the evidence.
Repeated from Wednesday

9.30 Start the Week Shortened rpt from 9am
10.00 The World Tonight With Ritula Shah.
10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Promise

1/10. Do You Promise Me? Damon
Galgut’s 2021 Booker Prize-winning
a
novel, which charts the decline and fall of

the white South African Swart family, told
through four funerals. As the Swarts gather
for Ma’s funeral, her young daughter Amor
recalls an overheard promise. Read by Jack
Klaff and abridged by Richard Hamilton.
Producer Justine Willett

11.00 The P Word

Like many South Asians in the 1970s and 80s
Rajan Datar was routinely called the P-word,
but a new generation of young British Asians
say the word can be used within the
community as a sign of power. Rajan finds
out how true this is. Repeated from Wednesday

11.30 The Shadow of Algiers

1/5. The Great Seduction. Sixty years after
the Algerian War of Independence Edward
Stourton presents stories from a colonial past
that still cast their shadow over the present.
He explores how a wine bug that devastated
France may have led to the Algerian War.
Producers Adele Armstrong and Ellie House (R)

7.00 The Archers

Alice makes a monumental decision and
Tracy’s suspicions are raised.
For cast see Thursday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
3.00 Hand in Glove Martyn James stars in
Stephen Mulrine’s A Good Shaking. From 1996
4.00 Counterpoint 2011 music quiz (2/13)
4.30 Getting Nowhere Fast 2004 comedy (3/6)
5.00 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere (3/4)
5.30 Just a Minute Panel game hosted by Sue
Perkins. As broadcast last Monday on Radio 4 (6/6)
6.00 The Lost Stradivarius Adaptation by
Doreen Estall of the 1895 suspense tale by John
Meade Falkner (1858—1932). From 2008 (1/4)
6.30 A Good Read With Harriett Gilbert in 2013
7.00 Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead
7.30 Chambers Legal sitcom. From 1996 (3/5)
8.00 Raffles EW Hornung’s The Ides of March (1899)
8.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
Dramatisation by Michael Hardwick of Arthur Conan
Doyle’s short story The Resident Patient. From 1961
9.00 TED Radio Hour How our reliance on the
oceans for resources is threatened
9.50 Inheritance Tracks BBC News journalist
and Mastermind host Clive Myrie with music picks
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Just a Minute (6/6),
at 10.30 Liam Williams: Ladhood (2/4),
at 11.00 The Now Show (4/6), and at 11.30 Elis
James’s Pantheon of Heroes (6/6)
12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm
1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm
2.30 as 2.30pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm
4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

8.00 Stalked

11.45 Today in Parliament
12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
Hybrid Humans Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)

Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am Raffles as 8pm
6.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
7.00 Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere (3/4)
7.30 Just a Minute as 5.30pm
8.00 Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead
8.30 Chambers Legal sitcom. From 1996 (3/5)
9.00 Counterpoint 2011 music quiz (2/13)
9.30 Getting Nowhere Fast 2004 comedy (3/6)
10.00 Hand in Glove as 3pm
11.00 TED Radio Hour The ocean’s resources
11.50 Inheritance Tracks as 9.50pm
12.00 Lines from My Grandfather’s Forehead
12.30pm Chambers Legal sitcom. From 1996 (3/5)
1.00 Raffles as 8pm
1.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
2.00 The Female Persuasion Adaptation of the
novel by Meg Wolitzer. Abridged by Jill Waters and
Isobel Creed and read by Tanya Moodie (6/10)
2.15 Love for Lydia Dramatisation by Vivienne
Allen of HE Bates’s 1952 novel, starring Jordan
Frieda and Juliet Aubrey as the journalist and the
wealthy heiress he is assigned to dig up dirt on but
with whom he falls in love. Narrated by Tim
Pigott-Smith and starring Margaret Tyzack,
Angela Thorne and others. From 2004 (1/10)
2.30 For One Night Only Leonard Bernstein’s
1989 Christmas Day concert in Berlin. From 2006

Producer Simon Richardson

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History
9.00 News 9.05 The Climate Question: Kate
Lamble and Jordan Dunbar look at the longer-term
implications of war in Ukraine on ongoing energy
security 9.30 Crowd Science 10.00 News
10.05 The Cultural Frontline 10.30 Weekend
Stories 10.50 More or Less 11.00 The Newsroom
11.30 The Conversation: Kim Chakanetsa talks to
two beauty influencers about why they share their
lives online 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook
12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 Crowd Science 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News
3.05 Hardtalk 3.30 World Business Report
4.00 News 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness
History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today
8.05 The Climate Question 8.30 The Life
Scientific: with Professor Steve Brusatte 9.00
Newshour 10.00 News 10.05 Hardtalk 10.30
The Conversation 11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 World Business Report 12.00
News 12.05am The History Hour 1.00 News
1.05 Business Matters 2.00 The Newsroom
2.30 The Documentary: Shifting Cultures (1/4)
3.00 News 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 In the Studio

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908
News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
Rick Edwards and Connie McLaughlin
with a detailed look at the headlines.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Topical discussions, big-name
interviews and listeners’ calls
11.00 Adrian Chiles
Sitting in for Naga Munchetty with
news, big-name interviews and
listeners’ personal experiences.
1.00pm Mobeen Azhar
Sitting in for Nihal Arthanayake with
news and topical conversation.
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with the latest news and sport.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman with news, debate
and features including The Monday
Night Club, in which he’s joined by
Micah Richards, Chris Sutton and
Rory Smith to discuss the weekend’s
football. Plus build-up to the 8.00
Premier League commentary on
Crystal Palace v Arsenal. Further
interviews, features and sport
follow at 10.00.
10.30 Colin Murray
Including at 11.00 The Light
behind the News — a look at big
topical issues, and at 12.00
Midnight Medic, with Dr Chris
Smith responding to listeners’
pandemic queries and beyond.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

Radio

Resistance. Arkady Ostrovksy, Russia and
Eastern Europe editor for The Economist, tells
Tom Sutcliffe about the thousands in Russia
who have been arrested protesting against the
war in Ukraine. Halik Kochanski uncovers tales
of ordinary people who carried out acts of
defiance in Nazi Germany. Nathan Law, one of
the student leaders behind the Umbrella
Movement protest in Hong Kong, argues for the
importance of standing up to authoritarianism.

Ashley Hickson-Lovence talks to Nick Ahad
about his novel Your Show, which explores
the life of Uriah Rennie, one of the first black
referees in English football in the 1980s.

Monday

1/5. Manipulation. The importance of the
human hand from five angles, beginning with
manipulation, and how people used their hands
to organise, shape and change the world about
them. Contributors include Professor Simon
Kay, who leads the UK’s only hand transplant
service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust,
and Professor Tracy Kivell from the University
of Kent, who considers the evolution of a limb
that has the strength to grip and wield heavy
tools but can also perform the finest, most
delicate tasks. Producer Jeremy Grange (R)

7.15 Front Row

5 Live Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
2.55pm—7.00 Cricket
Sunrisers Hyderabad v Lucknow
Super Giants in the IPL.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
Presented by Laura Woods.
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs
4.00 Drive Presented by Adrian
Durham and Darren Bent.
7.00 The PressBox
10.00 Sports Bar
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari
10.00 James O’Brien
1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty
4.00 Eddie Mair
6.00 Tonight with Andrew Marr
7.00 Iain Dale
10.00 Tom Swarbrick 1.00am
Darren Adam 4.00 Steve Allen

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am The Everyday Hustle
With Sonya Barlow.
7.00 Harpz Kaur
10.00 Asian Network Certified
11.00 Noreen Khan
2.00pm Asian Network
Certified Throwbacks
3.00 Ankur Desai
6.00 Bobby Friction
8.00 The Everyday Hustle
9.00 Asian Network Chill
11.00 Asian Network News
Presents 12.00 Asian Network
Celebrates Vaisakhi
3.00am Asian Network Takeover

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

119

TUESDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

BBC Radio 1

Tuesday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.00am Greg James
10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
1.00pm Scott Mills
3.30 Vick and Jordan
6.00 Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists
10.00 Radio 1’s Power Down
Playlist With Sian Eleri.
11.00 Annie Nightingale
1.00am Radio 1’s Rap Anthems
2.00 Radio 1’s Chillout Anthems
3.00 Gameplay with Baby Queen
4.00 Radio 1 Dance
5.00 Arielle Free

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

Radio

6.30am Zoe Ball

The Caretakers
11.30am Radio 4
Multi-disciplined artist Eloise
Moody takes us behind the
scenes to meet the people who
really know six of the nation’s
museums, galleries and country
houses — those who clean them.
It’s a fascinating fusion of
eclectic sounds — echoing
voices, screeching gulls and a
Henry Hoover — with insights
into the collections they are
protecting and personal
thoughts on their work. One
striking example in this first
programme is Doreen, who
works in the Glasgow Women’s
Library. She doesn’t mind being
labelled as dyslexic but despises
the label of being a cleaner and
the unfair associations of not
bothering to do the job
properly. Doreen also has a
unique take on the Women’s
Library itself and how, late at
night, she gets “freaked out by
an old patriarchal building
doing its best to be female”.

ROSIE HUNTER

9.30 Ken Bruce
Music, chat and features including
after 11.30 Tracks of My Years,
with Jill Halfpenny discussing
records by Queen and Dolly Parton.

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Steve Wright
5.00 Gary Davies
7.00 Jo Whiley
New music and features including
the Shiny Happy Playlist —
featuring 30 minutes of feel-good
music to start the show.

9.00 The Jazz Show with
Jamie Cullum
Singer Jamie Cullum showcases
his love for jazz in eclectic playlists,
juxtaposing classic recordings,
music rooted in jazz and new
sounds from up-and-coming acts.

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
Soul, R&B, disco, funk, crossover
hits and newer sounds. Plus
features including at 10.00 the
— Magnificent 7 — a nostalgic
half-hour of potentially uplifting
tunes and essential throwback.

12.00 OJ Borg

JANE ANDERSON

3.00am Music programme
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

Great Lives

BBC 6 Music

4.30pm Radio 4

120

Upbeat show with chat, phone-ins,
listeners’ texts, features and old
and new chart hits. Plus Adam
Porter with the headlines, Richie
Anderson with travel and Mike
Williams with sports news.

There are degrees of
engagement that the guests on
Great Lives bring to their
subject, and it’s always special
when the knowledge is
personal. That’s the case with
the actor Brian Cox and his
choice of the film director
Lindsay Anderson. “The most
principled man I ever met,” Cox
says. “He taught me how to
think.” Anderson, who died in
1994, is probably best known
for the iconoclastic 1968 movie
If…, but for Cox the Anderson
effect began some years
previously when the two men
worked together at the Royal
Court theatre. Anderson,
politically uncompromising,
“was essentially alone”, Cox
says. Hopefully he’ll a bit less
alone thanks to Cox’s
championing. SIMON O’HAGAN

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq
Further 6 Music Festival highlights,
with live music from Beabadoobee,
Cat Power and Panic Shack.
7.00 Marc Riley New music.

9.00 Gideon Coe
12.00 6 Music Artist in
Residence 2/10. Irish post-punk
quintet Fontaines DC with the
second of their ten playlists based
around a theme or mood.
1.00am The First Time...
Matt Everitt invites artists to reveal
music of personal significance,
starting with Neneh Cherry in 2014,
followed at 2.00 by Tricky in 2010.
3.00 This Is Us — 6 Music at 20
Two new hour-long playlists curated
by guests, continuing the 20thanniversary of the launch of 6 Music.
First up are US pop-rock trio Haim with
a playlist of some of their favourite
records of 2013, followed at 4.00 by
Kae Tempest with her 2014 picks.
5.00 Deb Grant

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Kate Molleson.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
9.15 Inspired by a piece of music played in the first
15 minutes, listeners are invited to suggest works
for broadcast at 10.30 in the Playlist Reveal.
10.10 Song of the Day
11.00 Essential Performers Another of this week’s
five recordings featuring violinist Daniel Hope.

12.00 Composer of the Week: Elmer Bernstein
2/5. Firing on All Cylinders. Donald Macleod is
once again joined by composer Peter Bernstein,
today exploring his father’s projects in the 1960s,
including The Magnificent Seven.
Walk on the Wild Side — Main title
The composer conducts his Orchestra
The Magnificent Seven (excerpts) Studio
orchestra, conducted by the composer
To Kill a Mockingbird (excerpts) Royal National
Scottish Orchestra, conducted by the composer
True Grit (excerpts) City of Prague Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor James Fitzpatrick
A Little Investigation (How Now, Dow Jones) Hiram
Sherman (vocalist), How Now, Dow Jones Ensemble

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
John Toal presents the first in a series of recitals from
this year’s Belfast Music Society International
Festival of Chamber Music, recorded early last
month at the Great Hall at Queen’s University Belfast.
CPE Bach Piano Trio in D, Wq89 No 6 Trio Gaspard
Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K475
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Weinberg Clarinet Sonata, Op 28 Annelien Van
Wauwe (clarinet) ,Yannick Van de Velde (piano)

2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly continues with a showcase of French
orchestras, today with Cristian Macelaru
conducting the French National Orchestra and
Radio France Chorus in Saint-Saëns’s Requiem.
Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, Op 48 East-West
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Rostislav Krimer
2.35 Mozart Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor, K310
Chopin Nocturne in E, Op 62 No 2
Pavel Kolesnikov
3.00 Saint-Saëns Requiem, Op 54
Véronique Gens (soprano), Allénor Feix (mezzo),
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Nicholas Testé (baritone),
Radio France Chorus, French National Orchestra,
conductor Cristian Macelaru
3.40 Mozart Piano Sonata No 11 in A, K331
Pavel Kolesnikov
4.11 Chopin Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op 61
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

5.00 In Tune
Sean Rafferty with music, news from the classical
world and studio guests, today featuring a live
performance by the Leonore Piano Trio to
coincide with the release of their album of music by
German composer Woldemar Bargiel (1828—97).

7.00 In Tune Mixtape

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Charles Nove Music, a light look at the
newspapers and features, including Questions of
the Day and, from 9.00, Screen Time.

10.00 Mark Forrest
Including at 10.30 a guest from the arts and
entertainment world and at 11.00 the Mystery
Years. Plus listeners’ requests from 12.00.
1.00pm Sam Hughes With popular classical
works, new discoveries and rediscoveries, with
Sam’s Matinée Moment after 3.00.
4.00 Penny Smith Scala’s drive-time show with
features including at 5.30 the Clocking Off track.
7.00 Hannah Cox Including the Scala Piano
Playlist at 8.00 and, from 9.15, calming music.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham
Mainstream and indie rock and pop 1.00pm Jay
Lawrence 4.00 Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry
10.00 Claire Sturgess 1.00am Ollie Brookes

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
Hannah French introduces the BBC Singers and
chief conductor Sofi Jeannin, who join forces with
Aurora Orchestra for a performance of James
Macmillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, plus
works by Victoria, Vaughan Williams and American
composers Caroline Shaw and Reena Esmail.
Recorded last Saturday at Kings Place, London.
BBC Singers, Aurora Orchestra,
conductor Sofi Jeannin
Victoria O vos omnes
Reena Esmail When the Violin
Caroline Shaw Entr’acte
Vaughan Williams, arr Burke Fantasia on a Theme
by Thomas Tallis
Interval
James MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross

10.00 Free Thinking
As the hit period drama Bridgerton returns to Netflix,
Shahidha Bari explores what kept the Georgians
entertained, whether a night at the opera, music
lessons at home, strolls in the pleasure gardens, hot
air balloons or perhaps most of all — if Lady
Whistledown is to be believed — gossip, intrigue and
scandal. She is joined by musicologist Brianna
Robertson-Kirkland, History Film Club podcast
presenter Hannah Greig, biographer, playwright
and actor Ian Kelly, and writer Sophie Coulombeau,
who has researched Georgian novelist Frances Burney
and bluestocking socialite Mary Hamilton.
Producer Ruth Thomson

10.45 The Essay: EarthWorks
2/5. Fen. Rose Ferraby explores traces of human
history in different landscapes around the British
Isles. In tonight’s instalment she is at Must Farm,
near Peterborough, where close attention to the
changes in the peat shows how we responded to
environmental change in the Bronze Age. It was a
time when rising sea levels drove inhabitants to
seek higher ground. Ferraby uses the lens of
archaeology to reveal our impacts on the world.
11.00 Night Tracks With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

12.30am Through the Night
Catriona Young with music, beginning with a concert
given by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
Stravinsky Pulcinella Mozart Symphony No 41 in C, K551
(Jupiter) Paola Gardina (mezzo), Alasdair Kent (tenor),
Paolo Bordogna (baritone), RAI National Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Ottavio Dantone 1.48 Bach
Keyboard Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825 2.06 Thomson
String Quartet No 2 2.31 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1
in E minor, Op 11 3.12 Gorecki Salve, sidus Polonorum,
Op 72 3.37 Sterkel Duet No 3 for two violas
3.45 Beethoven Overture: Egmont 3.54 Castello Sonata
No 4 a 2 (Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book 2)
4.03 Bouwman Thalia 4.12 Dinev It Is Truly Meet
4.16 Rachmaninov Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 3 No 2
4.20 Telemann Concerto in D, TWV43:D4 4.31 Wagenseil
Trombone Concerto in E flat 4.41 Schubert Impromptu
in B flat, D 935 No 3 4.50 Tallis Suscipe quaeso
Domine 4.59 Weber Concertino in C for oboe and wind
ensemble (arr for trumpet) 5.07 Popper Hungarian
Rhapsody, Op 68 5.15 Vitali Improvisations on
Passacaglia, Toccata and Canario 5.25 Clérambault
Suite du deuxième ton 5.42 Mozart Piano Trio in C,
K548 6.05 Muthel Concerto in D minor (R)

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall Requests.
4.00pm John Brunning
7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning.
8.00 The Classic FM Concert with John
Suchet Further highlights of some of the year’s
finest recordings released so far this year.
Stravinsky The Princesses’ Round Dance
(Suite: The Firebird) LSO, conductor Simon Rattle
Grieg Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Ruth
Slenczynska (piano) Beethoven Symphony No 8
in F Le Concert des Nations, conductor Jordi
Savall Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G minor, RV315
(Summer) (The Four Seasons) I Musici, director
Marco Fiorini (violin) Price Piano Concerto in One
Movement Michelle Cann, New York Youth
Symphony, conductor Jeanne Velonis Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a Swedish
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard
Mozart Rondo in D, K485 Mahler Chamber
Orchestra, director Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am Bill Overton

RT PUZZLES Subscribe to radiotimespuzzles.com for access to hundreds of brainteasers

5 APRIL TUESDAY
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 5 Live
11.30 The Caretakers

92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)

a

News, weather and shipping forecasts as
yesterday; no weather at 5.56am

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day With Sadia Azmat.
5.45 Farming Today Agricultural issues.
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Goldfinch. With Miranda Krestovnikoff. (R)

6.00 Today
With Martha Kearney and Nick Robinson.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Michael Banner.
8.45 LW Yesterday in Parliament

Producers Eloise Moody and Emma Barnaby

9.30 Witness

9.45 FM Book of the Week: Hybrid
Humans

For cast see Thursday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

7.15 Front Row

2/5. Metal Ghosts. Harry Parker reads from
his new book, considering his dependence on
technological advances in prosthetics after
losing his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. He
also explores the innovative relationship
between invention and disability by visiting a
repository holding objects from the history
of medicine. Abridged by Sarah Shaffi.

Jane Augsburger Pippa Hayward
Senan Clifford Adrian Rawlins
Heath Garwood/Court usher
Chris Jack

Judge Gregory Perrins Neil McCaul
David Lambert Michael Begley
Sid Saunders
Paul Chahidi
Diana Wilson Rebecca Crankshaw

For details see yesterday Repeated 12.30am

The World’s Toughest Conservationists
It’s not easy fighting for nature in the former
Soviet states. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
reports from Kyrgyzstan on the extraordinary
people who protect snow leopards there.

Producer Mary Ward-Lowery

3.00 The Kitchen Cabinet
Repeated from Saturday 10.30am

3.30 Costing the Earth

9.45 LW Daily Service
Led by the Rev Aaron Moffat-Jackman.
Matthew 23, vv1—12. We Sing the Praise of
Him Who Died (Bow Brickhill), sung by the
congregation of Liverpool Metropolitan
Cathedral; Jesus Shall Take the Highest
Honour (Chris Bowater), performed by various
artists; Jesu, Lover of My Soul (Aberystwyth),
performed by the Caritas Consort.
10.00 Woman’s Hour With Emma Barnett.

Producer Alasdair Cross Repeated tomorrow 9pm

4.00 Word of Mouth

New series. 1/6. Lexicographer Jessie
Sheidlower of Columbia University has created
a Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. He
talks to Michael Rosen about once futuristic
and fictional words and language that have
become incorporated into everyday speech.

11.00 Putin
4/8. The Shallow Roots of Democracy
Jonny Dymond and guests examine Vladimir
Putin’s second term as Russian president, a
tumultuous period in his political life. They
explore how Putin cementing power in Russia,
and dealing with a revolution in Ukraine and
a challenge to the US began a path towards
the events we’re witnessing today.

Producer Maggie Ayre Repeated Monday 11pm

4.30 Great Lives

New series. 1/9. Matthew Parris is
joined by actor Brian Cox, who extols
a
the virtues of his one-time mentor, anti-

8.00 The Falklands Now
On the 40th anniversary of the Falklands
conflict, Mike Wooldridge reports on the
economic and social transformation of these
remote South Atlantic islands. Producer Ruth Evans
First broadcast on BBC World Service on 26 March
Repeated Sunday 5pm on Radio 4

8.40 In Touch
News, views and information for people who
are blind or partially sighted. With Peter White.

9.00 Fungi: the New Frontier
1/3. Down the Rabbit Hole. Tim Hayward
explores the world of fungi. Today he forages,
talks truffle sex appeal, travels back to long
before the dinosaurs, discovers a 4,000-year
old mushroom culture in Japan, and heads into
a restricted containment laboratory to witness
an ancient interaction between two very
different species of life. Producer Richard Ward (R)

9.30 Positive Thinking Repeated from 9am
10.00 The World Tonight With Ritula Shah.
10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Promise
2/10. Better Ask My Father. By Damon
Galgut. After Ma’s funeral, tensions mount
among the Swart family. Read by Jack Klaff.
For details see yesterday

Jane Garvey and Fi Glover choose some of
their favourite listener emails. Producer Sam Peach

11.30 The Shadow of Algiers
2/5. Intimate Violence. Edward Stourton
tells the story of a knife allegedy left in a house
in Algiers by French paratroopers after the
father of the household was tortured and
killed. He also talks to Zorah Drif, the
notorious “Milk Bar Bomber” immortalised in
the film The Battle of Algiers, who at 87
remains unrepentant over her actions. (R)

5.00 PM With Evan Davis.

1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
4.30 Elephants to Catch Eels 2004 sitcom (4/6)
5.00 Ayres on the Air 2004 comic poetry (4/4)
5.30 The World of Simon Rich Absurdist
stories. As broadcast last Tuesday on Radio 4 (4/4)
6.00 The Lost Stradivarius Suspense tale (2/4)
6.30 Soul Music A celebration of ELOs
orchestral 1978 Top Ten hit Mr Blue Sky. From 2015
7.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1955 comedy
7.30 King Street Junior 1990 comedy (7/7)
8.00 Raffles David Buck’s dramatisation of
EW Hornung’s 1899 crime caper Gentlemen and
Players, involving a cricket match. From 1985
8.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
Dramatisation of the 1894 short story The Adventure
of Charles Augustus Milverton. From 1961
9.00 Motortowns Sarfraz Mansoor tells the story
of Britain’s car factory towns (Luton, Longbridge,
Cowley, Halewood and Dagenham) through 70 years
of archive and local oral history recordings. From 2004
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The World of
Simon Rich (4/4), at 10.30 Alex Edelman’s
Peer Group (2/2), at 10.55 Interview With
Robin Ince (2/3), at 11.00 The Harpoon (4/4), at
11.30 The Million Pound Radio Show (2/8)
12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm
1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm
2.30 as 2.30pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm
4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

News and sport as yesterday

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
Rick Edwards and Connie
McLaughlin with a detailed look at
the headlines, sport and unique
stories from across the UK.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Topical discussions, big-name
interviews and listeners’ calls.
11.00 Chris Warburton
With news, big-name interviews
from around the UK and listeners’
personal experiences.
1.00pm Mobeen Azhar
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with news sport and interviews
linked to topical and cultural issues.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Kelly Cates with sports news and
build-up to the 8.00 live
commentary on Manchester City
v Atlético Madrid in the first leg
of the Champions League
quarter-final.
10.30 Colin Murray
Topical discussion. Plus features
including at 11.00 The Big News
Hour — an in-depth look at a big
news story — and at 12.00
Midnight Meets, in which Colin
sits down with notable guests to
find out what makes them tick.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

5 Live Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
2.55pm—7.00 Cricket
Rajasthan Royals v Royal
Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.

Talksport

11.00 Fortunately

Producer Ellie Richold Repeated Friday 11pm

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am Raffles as 8pm
6.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
7.00 Ayres on the Air 2004 comic poetry (4/4)
7.30 The World of Simon Rich as 5.30pm
8.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1955 comedy
8.30 King Street Junior 1990 comedy (7/7)
9.00 The Now Show A satirical look through the
week’s news. As broadcast last Friday on Radio 4 (4/6)
9.30 Elephants to Catch Eels 2004 sitcom (4/6)
10.00 Hand in Glove as 3pm
11.00 Motortowns as 9pm
12.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1955 comedy
12.30pm King Street Junior 1990 comedy (7/7)
1.00 Raffles as 8pm
1.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
2.00 The Female Persuasion Adaptation of
the novel by Meg Wolitzer. From 2018 (7/10)
2.15 Love for Lydia HE Bates’s 1952 novel (2/10)
2.30 Dr Hepcat and the Hepster’s Dictionary
Poet Lemn Sissay explores Cab Calloway’s
Hepster’s Dictionary, a guide to the inventive jive
slang spoken on the Harlem jazz scene
3.00 Hand in Glove Martyn James stars as
pathologist Dr Wallace in Stephen Mulrine’s Fast and
Loose — the second of three tales set in 1920s Stirling
4.00 The Third Degree 2018 quiz show (5/6)

Mike Bartlett talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his
play The 47th, which imagines the 2024 US
election through blank verse. Producer Julian May

11.45 Today in Parliament
12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
Hybrid Humans Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)

establishment director Lindsay Anderson

Producers Sandra Kanthal, Caroline Bayley and Joe Kent

7.00 The Archers

PHONE: 0370 010 0444 (Lines open from 10am)
EMAIL: youandyours@bbc.co.uk

By Margaret Heffernan. In 2019 a group of
Extinction Rebellion supporters were arrested
and charged with criminal damage after a
protest at Shell’s headquarters on the South
Bank. This drama follows their case, and is built
verbatim from court transcripts and interviews.

Producer Kirsty Reid Repeated Friday 11.45pm (R)

Producer Sam Ward Rptd next Tuesday on Radio 4 Extra (R)

Presented by Winifred Robinson.

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: The Shell Seven

The Battle for Mount Longdon. Argentinian
veteran Miguel Savage and Quintin Wright, a
former British paratrooper, both of whom
fought in the battle for Mount Longdon, give
their views of the Falklands conflict.

Philip Glenister Rav Prasanna Puwanarajah
Samantha Spiro Lisa
Katie Redford
Aimee-Ffion Edwards Uncle Bob
Steven Brandon

Plans are afoot at Brookfield and Freddie
spies a new opportunity.

2/5. Creativity. In a look at the way that people
use their hands to craft and create, harpist
Catrin Finch talks about training her fingers to
achieve the dexterity and grace her instrument
requires, and blacksmith (and one-time
jeweller) Alex Pole explains the accuracy and
sensitivity required of his hands. (R)

Producer Eliane Glaser Repeated 9.30pm

Joe
Donna
Vicky

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908

Radio

New series. 1/6. Sangita Myska meets key
innovators on a mission to change our world
for the better. Today she talks to writer
David Van Reybrouck, who spearheaded
one of the first permanent citizens’
assemblies in the world in East Belgium.

1/4. Comedy by Katherine Jakeways.
Newlyweds Vicky and Rav are looking
forward to their first quiet night in as a
married couple. But that proves impossible
when Vicky’s family invite themselves round.

12.04pm Call You and Yours

1.00 The World at One With Sarah Montague.
1.45 A Show of Hands

9.00 Positive Thinking

6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 Teatime

Tuesday

New series. 1/3. Reimagine. In every
museum and gallery, cleaning and
conversation teams look after our cultural
treasures. They have an intimate knowledge
of the buildings and collections they look
after, yet their opinions are rarely sought.
Artist Eloise Moody has been working closely
with nine people tasked with keeping their
respective museums and galleries clean.
She finds out about their lives, duties and
personal responses to the collections.

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 People Fixing
the World 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History
9.00 News 9.05 The Documentary: Shifting Cultures
9.30 The Life Scientific 10.00 News 10.05 The
Arts Hour on Tour 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 In
the Studio: how the work of Iranian-born British
artist Afshin Naghouni explores the use of nostalgia
to manipulate the masses 12.00 News 12.05pm
Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 The Life Scientific: with Prof Steve Brusatte
2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 People Fixing
the World: how Californians are working to save
the state’s most endangered butterflies 3.30
World Business Report 4.00 News 6.05 Outlook
6.50 Witness History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 The Documentary:
Shifting Cultures: tales from Australia of our
changing relationship to the environment (1/4) 8.30
Digital Planet 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05
People Fixing the World 10.30 In the Studio 11.00
The Newsroom 11.20 Sports News 11.30 World
Business Report 12.00 News 12.05am The Arts
Hour 1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 The Compass: Slick 3.05
Outlook 3.50 Witness History 4.00 The Newsroom
4.30 The Documentary: Black Music in Europe

1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Baker
4.00 Drive
7.00 Kick Off Sporting debate.
10.00 Sports Bar
12.00 Extra Time
5.00am Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
7.30pm—10.00 Championship
Football Sheffield United v Queens
Park Rangers (kick-off 7.45).

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00
James O’Brien 1.00pm Shelagh
Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
6.00 Tonight with Andrew Marr
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom
Swarbrick 1.00am Darren
Adam 4.00 Steve Allen

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
5.00am Beyond Bollywood: the
Podcast 6.00 Asian Network
Chill 7.00 Harpz Kaur 10.00
Asian Network Certified 11.00
Noreen Khan 2.00pm Certified
Throwbacks 3.00 Ankur Desai
6.00 Bobby Friction 8.00 BBC
Introducing 10.00 All Star
Anthems 11.00 Asian Network
Fresh 12.00 Haroon 1.00am
Bobby Friction 3.00 DJ
Limelight and Kan D Man

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

Start your FREE 7-day trial at radiotimespuzzles.com — then subscribe from just £2.99 per month! 121

WEDNESDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 3

Wednesday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.00am Greg James
10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
1.00pm Scott Mills
3.30 Vick and Jordan
6.00 Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists
10.00 Power Down Playlist
11.00 Benji B With future beats.
1.00am Radio 1 Dance Presents
2.00 The Radio 1 Interview
2.15 Radio 1 Playlists
3.00 Radio 1’s Rap Anthems
4.00 Radio 1 Dance
5.00 Seb Bailey

BBC Radio 2

Radio

88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Zoe Ball
9.30 Ken Bruce

Free Thinking
10.00pm Radio 3
The relationship between
Australia and China has been
rocky in recent years; both
sides have doubled down on
rhetoric and hit each other with
trade restrictions. Former
Australian prime minister Kevin
Rudd, a long-time scholar of
China, feels a change of tack is
needed. Expanding on themes
from his new book, The Avoidable
War, here Rudd chats to Rana
Mitter about the cultural
misunderstanding and historical
grievances that makes China’s
relationship with the West, and
in particular the US, so volatile.
In the spirit of that path to better
understanding we also hear from
three researchers about
representations of Chinese art
and identity from the Cultural
Revolution to the present. The
timing of Rudd’s book is apt, even
if a meeting of minds remains
to be seen. TOM GOULDING

The Compass:
Slick — the Story of
Oil, Shell and Nigeria

GARY NEIL

9.05am/8.05pm

122

Music, chat and features including
after 11.30 Tracks of My Years,
with Jill Halfpenny discussing two
more records of personal
significance, one by the Beatles
and the other by Nick Cave and
the Bad Seeds.

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Steve Wright
5.00 Gary Davies
Sitting in for Sara Cox.

7.00 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Folk Show with
Mark Radcliffe
Folk and acoustic music from here
and abroad, including recordings
by established and up-and-coming
acts. Plus news from the folk world.

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
Feel-good soul, R&B, disco, funk,
crossover hits and newer sounds.
Plus features, starting with the
Magnificent 7 — a nostalgic
half-hour of potentially uplifting
tunes and essential throwbacks.
Plus Five Seconds to Name — in
which listeners identify an act
based on a mash-up — and Musical
Youth, with a trip down memory lane.
12.00 OJ Borg Music and chat.
3.00am Sounds of the 90s
Fearne Cotton with a mixtape of some
of the decade’s “sassiest sisters and
funkiest femme fatales”, featuring hits
by Madonna, Blondie, the Spice Girls,
Skunk Anansie , Destiny’s Child and
more. First broadcast March 2021. (R)
See tomorrow 3am

4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC World Service
With the world convulsed by so
many issues around its energy
sources, this story of how oil
changed Nigeria could not be
more timely. It’s a fascinating
four-parter presented by the
BBC’s West Africa correspondent
Myeni Jones, which begins in
the innocent days of the 1960s
when the fruit that grew in
bushes in the Niger delta was
yet to be polluted out of
existence. With Royal Dutch
Shell’s arrival, crude oil went
from 2 per cent of Nigeria’s
exports to 93 per cent in a
decade, with incalculable
effects on the country’s way of
life. The memories we hear —
such as Nigerian children
learning Dutch songs for a visit
by Queen Juliana — are
extraordinary. SIMON O’HAGAN

BBC 6 Music

News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Kate Molleson.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
11.00 Essential Performers Violinist Daniel Hope.

12.00 Composer of the Week: Elmer Bernstein
3/5. Behind the Scenes. In the last of three
programmes in which Donald Macleod is joined by
composer Peter Bernstein, they discuss Elmer
Bernstein’s projects in the 1960s and 70s.
The Great Escape — Main Title Studio orchestra,
conducted by the composer
Hawaii — Overture City of Prague Philharmonic,
conductor James Fitzpatrick
The Birdman of Alcatraz (excerpts) United Artists
Studio Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Summer and Smoke (excerpts) Elmer Bernstein
and Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Big Jake (excerpts) Utah Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by the composer
Bernstein, orchestr Palmer Zulu Dawn
Bernstein River Crossing
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/the composer

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
John Toal with further performances recorded
early last month at this year’s Belfast Music
Society International Festival of Chamber Music,
at the Great Hall at Queen’s University Belfast.
Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor, K457
Vadym Kholodenko
Berg Four Pieces for Carinet and Piano, Op 5
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), Yannick Van de
Velde (piano)
Paul Juon Piano Trio No 4, Op 70 (Litaniae)
Trio Gaspard
2.00 Afternoon Concert With Ian Skelly.
Strauss Metamorphosen
KBS SO, conductor Sascha Goetzel
2.40 Johanna Müller-Hermann
Fünf Klavierstücke, Op 3
Hiroaki Takamouchi (piano)
3.00 Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
Olivier Latry (organ), French National Orchestra,
conductor Cristian Macelaru
3.45 Nicola Fago Alla gente a Dio diletta
(Il Faraone sommerso)
Jakub Jozef Orlinski (countertenor),
Il Pomo d’Oro, conductor Zefira Valova

4.00 Choral Evensong

From St Ann’s Church, Manchester with the
HeartEdge Manchester Choral Scholars. Introit:
n
It Is a Thing Most Wonderful (Bob Chilcott). Responses:
Sumsion Psalms 32, 33, 34 (Atkins, Pye, Lawes). First
Lesson: Job 36, vv1—12. Office hymn: Father, Hear the
Prayer We Offer (Sussex). Canticles: Sumsion in G.
Second Lesson: John 14, vv1—14. Anthem: Save Us, O
Lord (Bairstow). Prayer anthem: We Shall Walk
Through the Valley in Peace (Trad, arr Smith Moore).
Hymn: Praise to the Holiest in the Height (Chorus
Angelorum). Director of music Andrew Earis. Choral
conducting fellow Olivia Tait. Repeated Sunday 3pm

Scala Radio

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

7.30am Lauren Laverne
Including the Social Recall playlist.

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq
Featuring new music from Elizabeth
Fraser and highlights of the Pixies’
gig at the weekend’s 6 Music Festival.
And at 6.00 Album Club, with a
spotlight on a classic album.

7.00 Marc Riley
9.00 Gideon Coe
12.00 Freak Zone Playlist
Playlists curated by musicians and
DJs behind underground and
experimental music.
1.00am The First Time...

Matt Everitt’s 2021 chat with
Courtney Barnett, followed at
2.00 by an interview with
Charlotte Gainsbourg in 2017.
3.00 Cillian Murphy’s Limited
Edition A nocturnal playlist from 2021.
5.00 Deb Grant

DON’T MISS IT! The new

90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903

Sean Rafferty with music and studio guests, today
fearturing a live performance by American violinist
Gil Shaham ahead of tomorrow’s concert with the
Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.
7.00 In Tune Mixtape An inspired playlist.

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert
Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth
Symphony — the Pathétique, about which he is
known to have said, “the best thing I have composed”.
Stephen Hough joins them for Brahms’s First
Piano Concerto. Recorded last November.
Stephen Hough (piano), RLPO/Domingo Hindoyan
Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15
8.45 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor
(Pathétique)

10.00 Free Thinking

Former Australian prime minister Kevin
Rudd is a longtime scholar of China. In his
a
new book, The Avoidable War, he argues that it is
cultural misunderstanding and historical
grievances that make Chinese-US relations so
volatile. Rana Mitter asks him how he sees
China’s current positioning of itself on the world
stage. And, in the spirit of better understanding
the rich artistic traditions and cultural history of
China, three researchers — British-Chinese
composer Alexander Ho, University of St
Andrews lecturer Ros Holmes and Malcolm
McNeill (of the School of Oriental and African
Studies at the University of London) — discuss
the latest thinking on Hong Kong ink art,
representations of sleep, Chinese identity and
contemporary classical music and insomnia,
from the Cultural Revolution to the present day.
Producer Ruth Watts

10.45 The Essay: EarthWorks
3/5. Mountain. Archaeologist Rose Ferraby
explores traces of the past in the British landscape. In
this instalment she climbs a Lake District peak to visit
a Neolithic quarry, the source of highly prized axes.
11.00 Night Tracks With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young.
Tonight’s programme stars with an all-Tchaikovsky
concert given by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet;
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op 33; Symphony No 4
in F minor Pablo Ferrandez (cello), Orchestra della
Svizzera Italiana, conductor Krzysztof Urbanski
2.02 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet: Suite Nos 1 & 2
(excerpts) 2.18 Sibelius The Lover, Op 14 (arr for string
orchestra, triangle and timpani) 2.31 Kraus Amphitryon
2.58 Nenov Rhapsodic Fantasy 3.27 Van den Bergh
Lied für Piano-forte 3.32 Schiavetto, transcr Zupanovic
Canzon 3.41 Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite No 2 4.00 Telemann
Trio Sonata in A minor, TWV42 4.07 Vaughan
Williams Overture: The Wasps 4.16 Saint-Saëns
Bassoon Sonata in G, Op 168 4.31 Handel Spirit Music
(Alcina) 4.37 Halvorsen Pictures from Norwegian
Fairy Tales, Op 37 4.52 Palestrina Stabat mater
4.58 C Schumann Four Fugitive Pieces, Op 15 5.12 Elgar
Serenade in E minor, Op 20 5.22 Pederson Three
songs for voices 5.30 Enescu Isis 5.49 Janacek
Youth 6.07 Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op 30 No 1 (R)

Classic FM

DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Charles Nove Music, a light look at the
newspapers and features including Questions of
the Day and, from 9.00, Screen Time — an hour
of music from films, TV, adverts and video games.
10.00 Mark Forrest Including at 10.30
a guest from the arts and entertainment world.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Including at 2.30pm the
weekly Scala Sessions, today with a live
performance by harpist Lavinia Meijer.

4.00 Penny Smith
7.00 Hannah Cox New classical releases.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music Nonstop classical music.
5.00 In the Park Atmospheric sounds.

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry Lively chat, guests and tunes
10.00 Leona Graham Mainstream and indie rock and
pop, from the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen and Blondie to
AC/DC, Arcade Fire, Ed Sheeran and Nickelback 1.00pm
Jay Lawrence 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle
Perry 10.00 Sophie K 1.00am Ollie Brookes

( podcast

5.00 In Tune

99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00pm John Brunning
7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning.
8.00 The Classic FM Concert with John
Suchet Further highlights of top 2022 releases.
Ravel Boléro
Sinfonia of London, conductor John Wilson
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K314
Cristina Gómez Godoy (oboe), West-Eastern Divan
Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Dvorak Serenade for Strings, Op 22
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra,
director Stanislav Vavrinek (cello)
Schubert Overture: Fierrabras Bern Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Mario Venzago
Elena Kats-Chernin Eliza Aria
La Pietà, director Angèle Dubeau (violin)
Haydn Piano Sonata No 45 in A, H XVI 45
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
10.00 Smooth Classics With Margherita Taylor.
1.00am Bill Overton Night-time music.

hosted by Jane Garvey — out every Wednesday

6 APRIL WEDNESDAY
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 5 Live
12.04pm You and Yours Consumer affairs.
1.00 The World at One

News, weather and shipping forecasts as yesterday

1.45 A Show of Hands

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With comedian and writer Sadia Azmat.
5.45 Farming Today Agricultural issues.
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Green Woodpecker. With Craig Hartley. (R)

6.00 Today
With Martha Kearney and Nick Robinson.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Professor Mona Siddiqui.
8.45 LW Yesterday in Parliament

9.00 Life Changing

3/5. Gesture. The importance of gesture, in
religious faith and in the performing arts,
including the different ways Christians use
their hands in prayer, the symbolism of the
right and left hands in the Koran, and the
vocabulary of hand movements in the
Bharatanatyam style of dance.

2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: Blame
By Mark Lawson. Lady Grace Radebe, a
retired member of the Supreme Court, is
appointed by HM Government to head a
public inquiry. She plans to operate a
“phased” approach — like that employed by
Lord Justice Taylor during the inquiry into
the Hillsborough disaster — with a rapid
interim report followed by a more considered
one addressing culpability. This will be the
first time since 1989 such an approach has
been mooted. But will it be allowed?
Lady Grace Radebe Cecilia Noble Witness 2
Clerk to the Inquiry
Witness 3
Nickolas Grace Witness 4
Witness 1
Haydn Gwynne

Tom Glenister
Jane Slavin
Philip Jackson

Chris fights fire with fire and Vince makes
an unexpected offer.
For cast see Thursday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

7.15 Front Row

News and sport as Monday

TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Ocean Vuong
tells Samira Ahmed about the ideas behind
his new collection, Time Is a Mother.

5.00am Wake Up to Money
Financial news stories and reports
from the business world.
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
Rick Edwards and Connie
McLaughlin with news and sport.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Topical discussions, big-name
interviews and listeners’ calls.
11.00 Chris Warburton
With the latest news, big-name
interviews from around the UK and
listeners’ personal experiences.
1.00pm Mobeen Azhar
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with news, sport and interviews.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman with sports news
and build-up to the 8.00 live
commentary on Chelsea v Real
Madrid in the first leg of the
Champions League quarter-final.
10.30 Colin Murray
Discussion and debate on vital
issues. Plus features including at
12.00 Midnight in America, a
round-up of what’s making the
headlines across the Atlantic.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

Producer Hilary Dunn

8.00 The Exchange

New series. 1/4. Elderly Care. Two
strangers who share a common experience
meet for the first time, each of them bringing a
gift that helps unlock their story. With the help
of presenter Catherine Carr, they exchange
personal experiences, thoughts and beliefs.
Today: two people who faced difficult decisions
when their elderly parents needed care.
Producer Jo Dwyer Repeated Saturday 10.15pm

8.45 Lent Talks
5/6. “I Was Sick and You Took Care of Me”
Retired palliative care doctor and author
Kathryn Mannix considers the words, “I was
sick and you took care of me.”
Producer Dan Tierney Repeated Saturday 5.45am

9.00 Costing the Earth
Repeated from yesterday 3.30pm

Producer/Director Eoin O’Callaghan (R)

9.30 The Media Show Repeated from 4.30pm
10.00 The World Tonight

3.00 Money Box Live

Presented by James Coomarasamy.

Producer Thomas Harding Assinger Rptd tomorrow 8.30pm

Listeners receive financial advice.

10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Promise

9.30 Ingenious

Your RT Money: page 138

3/5. The Warrior Gene. Is there really a gene
that makes some people more violent than
others? Dr Kat Arney investigates the so-called
warrior gene, which is being used as a defence
in grisly crimes. Producer Beth Sagar-Fenton (R)

9.45 FM Book of the Week: Hybrid
Humans
3/5. The Deal. Harry Parker reads from his
new book, turning his attention to the
developments that have been made in repairing
the body, from pacemakers to brain implants.
For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am

9.45 LW Daily Service
Led by the Rev Paul Mathole. Matthew 24,
vv45—51. I Will Sing the Wondrous story
(Hyfrydol), sung by St Michael’s Singers,
Coventry; O Lord All the World Belongs to
You (Patrick Appleford), performed by
various artists; From Heaven You Came (The
Servant King), performed by Cambrensis.
10.00 Woman’s Hour With Emma Barnett.

11.00 Stalked Repeated from Monday 8pm
11.30 Oti Mabuse’s Dancing Legends
2/4 Series 2. Tango Dancer María Nieves
Oti is joined by Vincent Simone, who credits
Argentine tango dancer María Nieves as his
inspiration, having helped to bring the style
to audiences around the world and make it
visible when authorities banned it.
Producer Candace Wilson

EMAIL: moneybox@bbc.co.uk

3.30 The Invention of Poland
Repeated from Monday 11am

4.00 Thinking Allowed

New series. 1/11. The Underclass. Laurie
Taylor explored a vexed concept that has
engaged social scientists, philanthropists,
journalists, policy makers and politicians.
He’s joined by Loïc Wacquant, Professor of
Sociology at the University of California
Berkeley, and author of a magisterial study
that traces the rise and fall of a “straw man”
category of social classification which, he
argues, had a lemming effect on a generation
of scholars of race and poverty — obscuring
more than it illuminated.
Producer Jayne Egerton Repeated Sunday 12.15am

4.30 The Media Show
Media news with Katie Razzell. Rptd at 9.30pm
5.00 PM With Evan Davis.

6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 Conversations from a Long
Marriage
6/6. Please Don’t Ever Change. Jan
Etherington’s comedy with Joanna Lumley
and Roger Allam. Joanna decides the time
has come to move house, concerned that
Roger cannot manage the stairs. But a twist
of fate means that she is the one needing help.
Producer/Director Claire Jones
Repeated next Wednesday Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am Raffles EW Hornung’s A Costume Piece
6.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
7.00 Ed Reardon’s Week as 5pm
7.30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (5/6)
8.00 Hancock’s Half Hour Vintage 1958 comedy
8.30 If You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich?
9.00 The Write Stuff 2008 literary quiz (2/6)
9.30 Spangles ’n’ Tights 1998 sitcom (3/5)
10.00 Hand in Glove as 3pm
11.00 The Changing Sound of Radio as 9pm
12.00 Hancock’s Half Hour Vintage 1958 comedy
12.30pm If You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t
You Rich? Comedy drama by Paul Shearer and
Richard Turner, about three promising graduates
still underachieving in their 30s. From 1996 (5/6)
1.00 Raffles EW Hornung’s A Costume Piece
1.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
2.00 The Female Persuasion Adaptation of the
novel by Meg Wolitzer. Read by Tanya Moodie (8/10)
2.15 Love for Lydia HE Bates’s 1952 novel (3/10)
2.30 Earth to Earth: Potted Immortality
No artefact is more synonymous with death than the
urn. Antiques Roadshow expert and ceramicist Lars
Tharp is joined by Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry
3.00 Hand in Glove Stephen Mulrine’s Rights and
Wrongs — the third of three tales from series one
4.00 The Write Stuff 2008 literary quiz (2/6)

3/10. The Dead Don’t Want Anything
By Damon Galgut. Things come to a head after
Ma’s funeral, when the younger generation
question the loyalties and choices of their
elders. Read by Jack Klaff. For details see Monday

11.00 Little Lifetimes

New series. 1/6. Leaving Alan. Comic
monologues by Jenny Eclair. Val has enjoyed
nearly 40 years of a marriage of convenience
to Alan, both happily living separate lives. So
why after all this time has she decided it’s
time to leave? Read by Harriet Walter.
Producer Sally Avens

11.15 The Skewer

New series. 1/8. Jon Holmes twists current
affairs clips into a surreal, satirical soundscape.
Producer Jon Holmes Repeated Saturday 9.45pm

11.30 The Shadow of Algiers
3/5. Operation Resurrection. Edward
Stourton tells the story of how the Algerian
War of Independence came to France. On
17 October 1961, Algerians living in Paris held
a demonstration against an order to keep
them off the streets at night — but the police
response was merciless and deadly. (R)

11.45 Today in Parliament
Including Prime Minister’s Questions.

12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
Hybrid Humans Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
4.30 Spangles ’n’ Tights 1998 sitcom (3/5)
5.00 Ed Reardon’s Week Comedy by Andrew
Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. Series seven (2/6)
5.30 Conversations from a Long Marriage
Series three of Jan Etherington’s comedy. As
broadcast last Wednesday on Radio 4 (5/6)
6.00 The Lost Stradivarius Suspense tale (3/4)
6.30 How Tickled Am I? Mark Radcliffe profiles
variety, panto and film star Jimmy Clitheroe (1921—1973)
7.00 Hancock’s Half Hour Vintage 1958 comedy
7.30 If You’re So Clever, Why Aren’t You Rich?
8.00 Raffles EW Hornung’s A Costume Piece
8.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
Dramatisation by Michael Hardwick of Arthur Conan
Doyle’s The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922), about
the death of an American magnate’s wife and an
accused governess. With Norman Shelley. From 1961
9.00 The Changing Sound of Radio Musician
and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson looks at
the ways technology has changed radio (3/3)
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Conversations
from a Long Marriage (5/6), at 10.30 Kevin Eldon
Will See You Now (3/4), at 10.55 Interview
With Robin Ince (3/3), at 11.00 Radio Active
(7/8), at 11.30 Dave Podmore’s Cricket Fix (4/4)
12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm
1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm
2.30 as 2.30pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm
4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00
News 9.05 CHOICE: The Compass: Slick — the
Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria (1/4) 9.30 Digital
Planet 10.00 News 10.05 World Book Club 11.00
The Newsroom 11.30 The Documentary: Black
Music in Europe: 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook
12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30
Digital Planet 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05
Hardtalk 3.30 World Business Report 4.00 News
6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness History
7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00
News 8.05 CHOICE: The Compass: Slick — the
Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria: Mayeni Jones tells
the story of how oil changed the fate of Nigeria
(1/4) 8.30 Healthcheck 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.05 Hardtalk 10.30 The Documentary:
Black Music in Europe: Clarke Peters’s history
series covers the last four decades, from the
collapse of the Eastern Bloc onwards 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.20 Sports News 11.30 World
Business Report 12.00 News 12.05am World
Book Club 1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters
2.00 The Newsroom 2.30 Assignment
3.00 News 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 The Food Chain

Radio

New series. 1/7. Moss Hills has built a long,
successful career as a cruise ship entertainer
and director. In 1991 he was working on a
Greek cruise liner when the ship hit a massive
storm. As the vessel started to sink and amid
the panic and confusion, Moss found himself
in charge of a complex rescue mission of the
500-odd people on board. All the lights on the
ship had gone out and getting passengers to
safety was a treacherous and emotional task
for which Moss was entirely untrained. Here
he tells Jane Garvey about the experience.

News and analysis with Sarah Montague.

7.00 The Archers

Wednesday

92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)

News and topical discussion.

5 Live Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
2.55pm—7.00 Cricket
Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai
Indians in the Indian Premier League.
7.25—9.30 Football
Commentary on Burnley v Everton
in the Premier League.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs
4.00 Drive
7.00 Kick Off Sporting issues.
10.00 Sports Bar
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
1.00pm—3.00 Racing
From Lingfield.
7.30pm—10.00 Championship
Football Commentary on
Middlesbrough v Fulham (k/o 7.45).

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari
10.00 James O’Brien
1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty
4.00 Eddie Mair
6.00 Tonight with Andrew Marr
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Tom
Swarbrick 1.00am Darren Adam
4.00 Steve Allen

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
5.00am The Everyday Hustle
6.00 R&B Anthems 7.00 Harpz
Kaur 10.00 Certified 11.00
Noreen Khan 2.00pm Certified
Throwbacks 3.00 Ankur Desai
6.00 Bobby Friction 8.00 DJ
Limelight and Kan D Man
10.00 Takeover 12.00 Beats
1.00am AJD 3.00 DJ Nish

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

Your must-see TV for the week ahead — catch up with the latest episodes at radiotimes.com/podcasts

123

THURSDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

BBC Radio 1

Thursday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.00am Greg James
10.30 Rickie, Melvin and Charlie
1.00pm Scott Mills
3.30 Vick and Jordan
6.00 Clara Amfo
8.00 Radio 1’s Indie Show
Presented by Jack Saunders.
10.00 BBC Introducing Dance
11.00 Radio 1’s Residency
1.00am Radio 1’s Dance Anthems
2.00 Radio 1’s Wind Down Presents
3.00 Radio 1 Relax in Love
4.00 Radio 1 Dance
5.00 Seb Bailey

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

Radio

6.30am Zoe Ball
9.30 Ken Bruce

You Heard It Here First
6.30pm Radio 4
The words, “new Radio 4
comedy panel show” can strike
dread into the heart of the
sturdiest of souls but this
rambunctious pilot hosted by
likeable comedian Chris
McCausland (above) plays to its
strengths by making it all about
sound. McCausland is blind and
the premise of the show is that
he’s invited the panellists to
experience the world through
his ears, with questions on what
TV adverts they’re hearing, what
a famous comedian is saying
through a mouthful of cake,
and what landmarks
McCausland’s daughter is
describing for him. It’s great fun
to play along with at home and
everyone in the studio is clearly
having a hoot — the tone is set
when panellist Eleanor Tiernan
is pulled up for saying she’s
“excited to see” how the game
goes, before McCausland gives
a hilarious description of what a
Marvel movie sounds like to a
blind person. DAVID CRAWFORD

Crossing Continents

JACOB HOWE-DOUGLAS

11.00am Radio 4

124

I imagine there were moments
during this recording when
journalist Lucy Ash had worries
for her personal safety as she
tiptoed through a French forest
in the company of a deer
hunter. There are four million
people in France with a hunting
licence (granted from the age
of 16, valid for life and with no
restrictions on drinking alcohol
while handling a gun) and it’s
the country’s most popular
pastime after football and
rugby. Hunting is always going
to be a divisive issue but in this
exemplary piece of balanced
reporting, Ash examines why it
has become particularly
contentious in France after a
series of deadly incidents —
involving humans rather than
animals. JANE ANDERSON

Music, chat, guests and features
including the PopMaster music
quiz and, after 11.30, Tracks of My
Years, with actor Jill Halfpenny
discussing records of personal
significance by Elton John and
Donna Summer.
Your RT Puzzles: page 141

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Steve Wright
5.00 Gary Davies
7.00 Jo Whiley
A 1990s-only playlist to kick off
Radio 2 Celebrates the 90s, starting
with the Shiny Happy Playlist,
with 30 minutes of 90s bangers.
Radio 2 devotes all of tomorrow’s
programming to the decade.

9.00 The Country Show with
Bob Harris
A 1990s special featuring hits by
Shania Twain, the Mavericks,
LeAnn Rimes, Faith Hill, Garth
Brooks and many others.

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
12.00 OJ Borg
Music, texts and features, including
a special 1992-themed edtion of
One Hit Wonders at 2.30am
— with chart hits by Opus III, Urban
Hype and Ambassadors of Funk
— to kick off Radio 2’s all-dayFriday celebration of the 1990s.
3.00am Sounds of the 90s Fearne
Cotton with a girl power mixtape,
from the Go-Go’s to Missy Elliott. First
broadcast September 2021. (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans
With music, listeners’ texts and a look
at the papers. Plus features including
at 4.00 a special 1990s-themed
edition of Dance with the Decades
— a half-hour nostalgic playlist of
chart hits from Shaggy, Peter André,
Celine Dion and more.

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq

Ahead of tomorrow’s release of his
new album, Jack White (ex-White
Stripes) picks some music.

7.00 Marc Riley
9.00 Gideon Coe
12.00 New Music Fix
6 Music presenters each curate an
hour of their favourite new music,
starting with Steve Lamacq. At
1.00am Mary Anne Hobbs, and at
2.00 Tom Ravenscroft. And at
3.00 New Album Fix, followed at
4.00 by New Music Fix Playlist.
5.00 Deb Grant

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Kate Molleson.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
12.00 Composer of the Week: Elmer Bernstein
4/5. Breaking the Mould. Today and tomorrow
Donald Macleod is joined by Emilie Bernstein to
explore the Hollywood scores her father wrote in
the 1980s and 90s.
Ghostbusters — Theme Hollywood studio
orchestra, conducted by the composer
Airplane! — Suite City of Prague Philharmonic,
conductor James Fitzpatrick
Heavy Metal — Taarna’s Theme
City of Prague Philharmonic, Crouch End Festival
Chorus, conductor Nic Raine
Ghostbusters (excerpts) Hollywood studio
orchestra, conducted by the composer
My Left Foot (excerpts) Studio orchestra,
conducted by the composer
The Grifters (excerpts) Cynthia Miller (ondes martenot),
studio orchestra, conducted by the composer

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
John Toal with further performances recorded
early last month at the Belfast Music Society
International Festival of Chamber Music.
Liszt Miserere du Trovatore
Beethoven, transcr Liszt An die ferne Geliebte,
Op 98 Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
Debussy Première rhapsodie Annelien Van
Wauwe (clarinet), Yannick Van de Velde (piano)
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 120 No 2
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet),
Yannick Van de Velde (piano)

2.00 Afternoon Concert
Ian Skelly introduces highlights of an opera gala
given last September at the Palais Garnier in Paris.
Wagner Prelude: Lohengrin Paris Opera Orchestra,
conductor Gustavo Dudamel
2.10 Bach English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV807
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
2.30 Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op 83
Escher Quartet
3.00 Bizet Carmen (excerpts) Clémentine
Margaine (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (tenor),
Paris Opera Children’s Chorus, Chorus and
Orchestra, conductor Gustavo Dudamel
3.40 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier (final scene)
Diana Damrau (soprano), Sabine Devieilhe
(soprano), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo), Paris
Opera Orchestra, conductor Gustavo Dudamel
3.55 Verdi Alto la! Chi va la? (Falstaff) Diana
Damrau (soprano),Sabine Devieilhe (soprano),
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur (mezzo),
Clémentine Margaine (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani
(tenor), Tobias Westman (tenor), Kiup Lee (tenor),
Timothée Varon (baritone), Gerald Finley (bassbaritone), Aaron Pendleton (bass), Paris Opera
Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Gustavo Dudamel
4.15 Bach Toccata in D, BWV912
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Charles Nove Music, a light look at the
newspapers and features including Questions of
the Day and, from 9.00, Screen Time an hour of
music from films, TV, adverts and video games.
10.00 Mark Forrest Including after 11.30 the
Scala Radio Book Club, today with author
Aamina Ahmad discussing her debut novel The
Return of Faraz Ali, whose narrative asks whom do
we choose to protect, and at what price.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Popular classical works
including after 3.00 Sam’s Matinée Moment.
4.00 Penny Smith Scala’s drive-time show.
7.00 Hannah Cox The latest classical releases.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham
Mainstream and indie rock and pop 1.00pm Jay
Lawrence 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Danielle
Perry 10.00 Sophie K 1.00am Ollie Brookes

4.25 Chopin Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11
(1st mvt) Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Orchestra of
the 18th Century, conductor Frans Brüggen.
4.50 Shostakovich, arr Meyer Prelude and
Fugue No 5, Op 87 No 5 Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)

5.00 In Tune
With Sean Rafferty, today featuring conductor
Lionel Bringuier ahead of this weekend’s concert
with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice (and
violinist Renaud Capuçon) at the Festival de Pâques
d’Aix-en-Provence, which will be streamed live.
7.00 In Tune Mixtape Nonstop mix of music.

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

From the Royal Festival Hall, London, Martin
Handley introduces the Philharmonia and
n
Stanislav Kochanovsky, a Russian conductor making
waves across Europe. Shostakovich’s symphonic
poem October was commissioned to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Gill Shaham is the acclaimed soloist in Prokofiev’s
1935 Second Violin Concerto.
Gil Shaham (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra,
conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky
Shostakovich October, Op 131
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2, Op 63
8.20 Interval
8.40 Mussorgsky, orch Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition

10.00 Free Thinking
Grief. Matthew Sweet and guests look at the role
of ritual, laments and how we express grief.

10.45 The Essay: EarthWorks
4/5. Island. Rose Ferraby explores the excavation
of a Neolithic house on a remote causeway, which
leads her to explore the nature of islands,
connectedness through sea travel, and margins.

11.00 The Night Tracks Mix
11.30 Unclassified
Elizabeth Alker with new ambient and electronic
music. Plus further highlights of performances
recorded two weekends ago at Radio 3’s inaugural
After Dark Festival, including more from a set by
electronic duo Darkstar.

12.30am Through the Night With Catriona Young.
Berlioz Le Carnaval romain, op 9 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 1 in G minor (Winter Daydreams)
ERT National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Petros
Stylianou 1.22 Tchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings,
Op 48; Francesca da Rimini, Op 32 2.22 Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus (finale) 2.31 Buxtehude
Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr 2.49 Vierne Cello
Sonata in B minor, Op 27 3.11 David Matthews A Vision
of the Sea 3.35 Purcell Trio Sonata No 9 in F
3.42 Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade 3.49 Chopin
Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47 3.57 Wagenaar Frithjof’s
Meerfahrt, Op 5 4.09 Spergher Organ Sonata in B flat
4.21 Frano Parac Scherzo for Winds 4.31 Telemann
Trio No 6 in B minor for flute, viola da gamba, continuo,
TWV42:h4 (Essercizii musici) 4.39 Schumann Overture:
Manfred 4.52 Mozart Recit and Dove Sono (Le Nozze
di Figaro, Act 3) 4.58 Jongen Elégie nocturnale,
Op 95, No 1 5.10 Sweelinck Ick voer al over Rijn
5.17 Lutoslawski Five Songs 5.28 Bottesini Gran Duo
Concertante 5.46 Fredrik Wilhelm Klint Piano Sonata
in D minor 6.04 Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

6.00am More Music Breakfast
9.00 Aled Jones
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00pm John Brunning
7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning.
8.00 The Classic FM Concert with John
Suchet Further highlights of some of the finest
recordings released this year.
Brahms Hungarian Dance No 5
Swedish Chamber Orchestra,
conductor Thomas Dausgaard
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, Op 73
(Emperor)
Boris Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Vasily Petrenko
Haydn Symphony No 87 in A Basel Chamber
Orchestra, conductor Giovanni Antonini
Fauré Après un rêve
Pablo Ferrandez (cello), Julien Quentin (piano)
Gershwin Gershwin Suite Zurich Chamber
Orchestra, director Daniel Hope (violin)
10.00 Smooth Classics With Margherita Taylor.
1.00am Bill Overton A blend of night-time music.

RT SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE New for 2022! Get 10% off all RT Shop items Visit radiotimes.com/subs10
(Terms & conditions apply)

7 APRIL THURSDAY
BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News, weather and shipping forecasts as Tuesday

6.00 Today

With Mishal Husain and Justin Webb.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Canon Angela Tilby.
8.45 LW Yesterday in Parliament

9.00 In Our Time

Producer Simon Tillotson Shortened repeat 9.30pm

9.45 FM Book of the Week: Hybrid
Humans

4/5. Raging against the Dying of the
Light. Harry Parker reads from his new
book, exploring the cutting-edge advances in
rehabilitating the body after injury and
illness, and admiring the pioneers who take
part in the trials, courageously risking all.
For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am

9.45 LW Daily Service

An act of worship led by the Rev Richard
Littledale on the theme, Deeds Not Words —
You Did for Me. Reading: Matthew 25, vv31–46.
10.00 Woman’s Hour With Emma Barnett.

11.00 Crossing Continents

New series. 1/7. Dying to Hunt in
France. Lucy Ash details how calls for
a
hunting bans have affected the French
elections. The Green Party is now calling for a
ban on hunting on Sundays and Wednesdays
following a string of fatal accidents. The
Fédération Nationale des Chasseurs, which
licenses 1.3 million active hunters across
France, argues hunting is a vital part of rural
life and brings the community together. Ash
explores this battle for la France Profonde.

New series. 1/20. Consumer show in which
Greg Foot and his guests question a
product’s bold claims, beginning with the
reasons for changing to an electric vehicle.
Producer Julian Paszkiewicz

1.00 The World at One

News and analysis with Sarah Montague.

1.45 A Show of Hands

4/5. Communication. Sign-language
expert Robert Adam considers how deaf
people learn fluency and “diction” with their
hands, and former Royal Marine Gary
Mapletoft talks through the hand signals
infantry use in the field. (R)

2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: Our Friends in the North

4/10. 1970. Peter Flannery’s adaptation of
his award-winning TV drama. Nicky and his
anarchist friends are intent on bringing down
Edward Heath’s government by force, Geordie
is still working for Benny Barratt in Soho and
Mary and Tosker continue to grow apart.
Nicky
James Baxter
Geordie
Luke MacGregor
Tosker/DI Salway Philip Correia
Mary
Norah Lopez Holden
Felix
Trevor Fox
DS Conrad
Andrew Byron
Benny Barratt/Chief Constable
Roy Johnson
Tony Hirst

Commander Harold Chapple
James Gaddas
Sir Colin Blamire Des Yankson
Austin Donohue/Claud Seabrook/
DI Cockburn Tom Goodman-Hill
Florrie
Tracey Wilkinson
Helen
Eve Shotton

Producer Dimitri Houtart Repeated Saturday 6.07am

3.27 The Radio 4 Appeal
Repeated from Sunday 7.54am

3.30 Bookclub Repeated from Sunday 4pm
4.00 Unreal: the VFX Revolution

2/3. Digital Realms. Visual effects supervisor
Paul Franklin continues his look at movie
VFX, referencing pioneering digital scenes in
the films Tron, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
and Terminator 2. Producer Mark Burman (R)

4.30 BBC Inside Science

Producer Alex Mansfield Repeated 9pm

Panel game in which Chris McCausland
a
invites comedians to live in an audioonly world, deciphering brainteaser sound
cues. The contestants are Mark Maier, Amy
Gledhill, Marlon Davis and Eleanor Tiernan.
Producer Richard Morris
Repeated next Thursday on Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Writer Liz John; Director Peter Leslie Wild
Editor Jeremy Howe Repeated tomorrow 2pm

7.15 Front Row

Playwright Jeremy O Harris talks to Tom
Sutcliffe as his play “Daddy” A Melodrama
opens at the Almeida Theatre in London.
Producer Harry Parker

8.00 Terrorism and the Mind

2/3. Talking to Terrorists. What are
researchers learning about the prevalence of
mental illness among convicted terrorists, and
the role it might play in their actions? Raffaello
Pantucci investigates a growing body of
research, speaking to academics and security
officers who have conducted research in the
UK, Europe, the USA and Israel. He asks
whether the changing nature of terrorism in
the West is evidence that poor mental health
is a growing factor in people’s behaviour.

8.30 Life Changing Rptd from yesterday 9am
9.00 BBC Inside Science Rptd from 4.30pm
9.30 In Our Time Shortened repeat from 9am
10.00 The World Tonight

New series. 1/4. Husky Sledding in the
Cairngorms. Helen Mark dashes through
the beautiful Cairngorms National Park in
Aberdeenshire, in a sled driven by Wattie
McDonald — veteran of the Iditarod, the
thousand-mile sled-race across Alaska — and
pulled by his team of Siberian huskies.

5.00 PM With Evan Davis.
6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 You Heard It Here First

DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am Raffles as 8pm
6.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
7.00 It’s a Fair Cop With Alfie Moore (5/6)
7.30 Big Problems with Helen Keen as 5.30pm
8.00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
8.30 After Henry 1987 comedy (5/8)
9.00 Foul Play as 4pm
9.30 Clare in the Community as 4.30pm
10.00 Hand in Glove as 3pm
11.00 Desert Island Discs as 9pm
11.45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
12.00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter
12.30pm After Henry 1987 comedy (5/8)
1.00 Raffles as 8pm
1.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
2.00 The Female Persuasion (9/10)
2.15 Love for Lydia HE Bates’s 1952 novel (4/10)
2.30 Dancing with the Devil Rachel Johnson
talks to women who, as part of their cultural
education, visited Germany in the 1930s and
interacted socially with the Nazis. From 2010
3.00 Hand in Glove Stephen Mulrine’s tale Testing
Times — from the second run of the crime drama
series set in 1920s Stirling, about the town’s chief
pathologist, Dr Wallace. From 1997
4.00 Foul Play Whodunnit panel game chaired
by Simon Brett. Series four. From 1998 (2/6)

Josh Archer Angus Imrie Pat
Archer
Patricia Gallimore
Roisin
Cherylee Houston
Roy Tucker
Ian Pepperell
Ruairi Donovan Arthur Hughes
Ruth Archer
Felicity Finch
Stella Pryor
Lucy Speed
Susan Carter Charlotte Martin
Tracy Horrobin Susie Riddell
Vince Casey
Tony Turner

3.00 Open Country

11.30 Archaeology of a Storyteller

12.04pm You and Yours Consumer affairs.

Adil Shah
Ronny Jhutti
Alice Carter Hollie Chapman
Brian Aldridge
Charles Collingwood
Chris Carter
Wilf Scolding
Clarrie Grundy
Heather Bell
Elizabeth Pargetter
Alison Dowling
Freddie Pargetter Toby Laurence
Ian Craig
Stephen Kennedy

Producer Richard Fenton-Smith (R)

Victoria Gill with the latest scientific research.

Repeated from last Monday

There’s a new face at Grey Gables and
Alice smells a rat.

Producer Melanie Harris; Exec producer Jeremy Mortimer

Producer Phoebe Keane; Editor Bridget Harney
Repeated Monday 8.30pm

Novelist Alan Garner has spent all his life
living within the same few square miles of
Cheshire and can trace his family’s history in
the area back to the 16th century. This
programme explores how Garner has mined
this area for history and legend, truth and
imagination. With readings by Robert Powell.

7.00 The Archers

Presented by James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Promise

4/10. Nest of Vipers. By Damon Galgut. The
Swart children find themselves together
again when their father is struck down by a
snake bite. Read by Jack Klaff.
For details see Monday

11.00 The Likely Dads

New series. 1/6. Discipline. Host Tim
Vincent and panellists Russell Kane and Mick
Ferry return to discuss what it is like to be a
father in modern Britain. Today they are joined
by comedians Nabil Abdulrashid and Alun
Cochrane to talk about parental discipline.
Producers Kurt Brookes and Ashley Byrne

11.30 The Shadow of Algiers

4/5. The Suitcase or the Coffin. Edward
Stourton tells the story of how France
greeted tens of thousands of French and
Algerians who, virtually overnight, felt they
had no choice but to leave Algeria. (R)

11.45 Today in Parliament
12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
Hybrid Humans Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
4.30 Clare in the Community Series three of
the sitcom by Harry Venning and David Ramsden,
with Sally Phillips as the social worker with all the
right-on jargon but none of the practical solutions (2/6)
5.00 It’s a Fair Cop With Alfie Moore (5/6)
5.30 Big Problems with Helen Keen Comical
explorations of life’s difficulties (4/4) As R4 last Thursday
6.00 The Lost Stradivarius Suspense tale (4/4)
6.30 Great Lives Orson Welles (1915—85)
7.00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C
Potter Basil Boothroyd’s comedy. From 1976
7.30 After Henry 1987 comedy (5/8)
8.00 Raffles David Buck’s dramatisation of EW
Hornung’s Nine Points of the Law. From 1985
8.30 Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs
Arthur Conan Doyle’s thriller The Priory School
9.00 Desert Island Discs A 2006 edition with
jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton (1921—2008)
9.45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Love’s impact on the brain. From 2020 (2/6)
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Big Problems
with Helen Keen (4/4), at 10.30 Brian
Gulliver’s Travels (2/6), at 11.00 The Maltby
Collection (5/6), and at 11.30 A Look Back at
the Future Speculative topical show (5/6)
12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm
1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm
2.30 as 2.30pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm
4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 The Inquiry
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00
News 9.05 Assignment 9.30 Healthcheck 10.00
News 10.05 The Forum: Bridget Kendall and
guests discuss to what extent President Harry
Truman’s 1947 address to the United States
Congress and the world, and the policy it set out,
which are seen by some historians as marking the
start of the Cold War, were inevitable after the
Second World War 10.50 Sporting Witness 11.00
The Newsroom 11.30 The Food Chain 12.00 News
12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00
The Newsroom 1.30 Healthcheck 2.00 Newshour
3.00 News 3.05 The Inquiry 3.30 World Business
Report 4.00 News 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook
6.50 Witness History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 Assignment 8.30
Science in Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News
10.05 The Inquiry 10.30 The Food Chain 11.00
The Newsroom 11.20 Sports News 11.30 World
Business Report 12.00 News 12.05am The Forum
12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00 News 1.05 Business
Matters 2.00 The Newsroom 2.30 World Football
3.00 News 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 Heart and Soul

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908
News and sport as Monday

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
Rick Edwards and Connie
McLaughlin with news and sport.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Adrian Chiles
1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with news, sport and interviews.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman with sports and
features including at 7.00 The
Masters, in which he previews the
Masters live from Augusta. At 8.00
5 Live Formula One, with a look
ahead to the Australian Grand Prix.
Then at 9.00 Euro Leagues,
featuring Steve Crossman with
European football discussion, plus
score updates from tonight’s
Europa League fixtures. And at
10.00 The Masters, with live firstround commentary from Augusta.
10.30 Colin Murray
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

5 Live Sports Extra

Radio

Martyn Rady of University College London,
Samantha George from the University of
Hertfordshire and Nick Groom of Exeter
University join Melvyn Bragg to discuss The
Vampyre, the 1819 book by John Polidari
based on the story told by Lord Byron at the
Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva in 1816.

12.30 Sliced Bread

Thursday

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day With Sadia Azmat.
5.45 Farming Today Rural news.
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Long-tailed Tit. With Michaela Strachan. (R)

BBC Radio 5 Live

DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908
10.55am—2.55pm Cricket
Warwickshire v Surrey in the
County Championship.
2.55—7.00 Cricket Lucknow Super
Giants v Delhi Capitals in the IPL.
10.00—1.00am Golf
Live coverage from the opening
round of the Masters at Augusta
National Golf Club in Georgia.
3.55—5.05 Formula One
First practice session in Australia.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insights.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Baker
4.00 Drive Opinionated debate.
7.00 Kick Off Big sporting issues.
10.00 Sports Bar
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
1.00pm–3.00 Racing The
opening day of the Grand National
Festival from Aintree

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari
10.00 James O’Brien
1.00pm Shelagh Fogarty
4.00 Eddie Mair
6.00 Tonight with Andrew Marr
7.00 Iain Dale
10.00 Tom Swarbrick
1.00am Darren Adam
4.00 Steve Allen

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
5.00am News Presents 6.00
Beats 7.00 Harpz Kaur 10.00
Certified 11.00 Noreen Khan
2.00 Certified Throwbacks
3.00 Ankur Desai 6.00 AJD
8.00 DJ Nish 10.00 Club Hit
Squad Mix 11.00 Shisha Lounge
Mix 12.00 Love Friday Mix
1.00 DJ Limelight and Kan D
Man 4.00 Haroon

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

125

FRIDAY Radio
Today’s Choices

BBC Radio 1

Friday

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
6.30am Radio 1’s Best New Pop
7.00 Greg James
10.30 Dean McCullough
1.00pm Matt and Mollie
3.00 Radio 1’s Party Anthems
4.00 The Official Chart on Radio 1
6.00 Radio 1’s Dance Party
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Dance
10.00 Pete Tong
12.00 Radio 1’s Essential Mix
2.00am Radio 1 Dance Presents
3.00 Danny Howard 4.00 Wind
Down Presents 5.00 Radio 1 Relax

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

Radio

6.30am Zoe Ball

Whatever Happend to
Baby Jane Austen?
11.30am Radio 4
When this comedy drama first
appeared as a one-off at the
close of 2020, I wrote, “The
ending alone leaves us begging
for a series.” Our pleas have
been heard and it returns with
five new episodes. Anything
starring Dawn French and
Jennifer Saunders (above)
guarantees comic quality, but it
is David Quantick’s mordant
script that makes this such a
genuine treat (see page 113).
French and Saunders play
battling, damaged sisters
Florence and Selina. Florence is
a gifted but insecure novelist,
Selina is a movie star past her
prime and totally disconnected
from reality. When they are
both nominated for the same
literary award, sororal sparks
fly. I never thought I’d laugh so
loud at a gag linking the Lionels
Shriver and Richie. Thank you,
Mr Quantick — this is nigh on
perfect. JANE ANDERSON

Radio 3 in Concert

GETTY

7.30pm Radio 3

126

The quip “more corn than gold”
— the cruel response of an early
reviewer to Erich Wolfgang
Korngold’s Violin Concerto of
1945— sadly dogged the
reputation of this former
Viennese wunderkind, turned
Hollywood film composer, until
his recent rehabilitation over
the past quarter-century or so.
Nowadays, in our more genrefluid times, we’re free to enjoy
the concerto’s post-Romantic
lushness, unembarrassed by its
many self-quotations from
scores Korngold had written in
the 1930s for such Errol Flynn
flicks as Another Dawn and The
Prince and the Pauper. In this
BBC Symphony Orchestra
performance, Nicola Benedetti
assumes the solo role originally
taken by the great Jascha
Heifetz. MARK PAPPENHEIM

A special show devoted to the music
and culture of the 1990s as part of
Radio 2 ‘s all-day 90s celebration.

9.30 Ken Bruce
Music, chat and features including
a 1990s-themed PopMaster quiz
and, after 11.30, Tracks of My
Years, with the final two picks of
Jill Halfpenny, featuring one by
Beyoncé and one by Paul Weller.

12.00 Jeremy Vine
Including a look at the advent of
the worldwide web in the 1990s.

2.00pm Steve Wright
Three hours of 1990s music,
including at 4.15 Serious Jockin’,
in which Wright’s alter ego DJ Silly
Boi takes over for 45 minutes with
dance tunes from the decade. Plus
guests who hit big in the 90s.

5.00 Gary Davies
With an all-request 1990s playlist.

7.00 Tony Blackburn’s
Golden Hour
With 1990s hits by Ricky Martin,
Madonna and the Lighthouse Family.

8.00 Dermot’s Alternative 90s
New series. 1/20. Dermot O’Leary
shares his favourite indie tracks
from the 1990s, starting with an
A to Z, from Ash to Zombie.
Continues Sunday 3am.

10.00 Sounds of the 90s
Fearne Cotton celebrates the music
and pop culture from the decade in
which she was a teenager, tonight
featuring a Mixtape of 1990s
icons, from Whitney to Britney.

12.00 Romesh Ranganathan:
for the Love of Hip-Hop 14/20
1.00am House Party With DJ Spoony,
At 2.30 the House Party Mixtape,
tonight with 1990s UK garage. (R)
3.00 Michelle Visage’s Rule Breakers
4.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s
Kitchen Disco Party tunes.
5.00 Radio 2 in Concert (R)

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909

7.30am Lauren Laverne
Music and features including at
9.00 the Desert Island Disco, today
featuring reggae star Dennis Bovell.

10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
With a Nik Colk Void mix at 12.00.

1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 The People’s Party
with Afrodeutsche
9.00 Tom Ravenscroft
Including at 11.00 The Ravers Hour,
with a 30-minute mix by
Brainwaltzera, then one by Tom.

12.00 6 Music’s Indie Forever
1.00am Focus Beats
3.00 Ambient Focus Relaxing sounds.
5.00 This Is Us: 6 Music at 20
Neneh Cherry with 2015 favourites.

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Kate Molleson.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
11.00 Essential Performers Last of this week’s
recordings featuring violinist Daniel Hope.

12.00 Composer of the Week: Elmer Bernstein
5/5. A Master of Style. Donald Macleod is joined
by composer Emilie Bernstein, today discussing
her father’s projects with film director Martin
Scorsese and his final picture, Todd Haynes’s Far
from Heaven (2003), which yielded the last of his
14 Academy Award nominations.
Far from Heaven (excerpts) Hollywood Studio
Symphony, conducted by the composer
Rambling Rose (excerpts)
Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra, Cynthia Millar
(ondes Martenot), conducted by the composer
Devil in a Blue Dress (excerpts)
Studio orchestra, conducted by the composer
Bernard Herrmann, arr Bernstein Cape Fear
(excerpts) Studio orchestra, conductor Elmer Bernstein
Bernstein The Age of Innocence — Main title
Studio orchestra, conducted by the composer

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
John Toal with the last in a series of performances
recorded at this year’s Belfast Music Society
International Festival of Chamber Music.
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 2 in C minor, Op 66
Trio Gaspard
Charlotte Bray That Crazed Smile Trio Gaspard
Liszt Reminiscences de Don Juan
Vadym Kholodenko (piano)
2.00 Afternoon Concert Ian Skelly concludes
a week-long showcase of French orchestras.
J Strauss (son) Overture: Die Fledermaus
J Strauss Seufzer-Galopp, Op 9 Radio France
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Mikko Franck
2.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 2 in A, Op 2 No 2
Boris Berezovsky
2.30 Liszt Venezia e Napoli
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
2.45 Leonarda Sonata Duodecima
Ensemble Exclamatio
3.00 J Strauss (son) Loreley-Rhein-Klänge, Op 154
R Strauss Burleske Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
J Strauss (son) Roses from the South, Op 388
R Strauss Suite: Der Rosenkavalier
J Strauss (son) Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op 214
Radio France PO, conductor Mikko Franck
4.10 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor,
Op 2 No 1 Boris Berezovsky

4.30 The Listening Service
5.00 In Tune

Rptd from Sunday 5pm

Sean Rafferty welcomes Scottish soprano
Mhairi Lawson ahead of Saturday’s performance
with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales of
Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Cardiff.

7.00 In Tune Mixtape
An inspired and unpredictable playlist of
nonstop music from across the spectrum.

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk Sky 0216

7.00am Charles Nove Music, a light look at the
newspapers and features, including Questions of
the Day and, from 9.00, Screen Time.
10.00 Mark Forrest Including at 10.30 a guest
from the arts and entertainment world and at 11.00
the Mystery Years. Plus requests from 12.00.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Popular classical works.
4.00 Penny Smith With the Clocking Off track
at 5.30 and, just before 7.00, the Showstoppers.
7.00 Friday Night Scala With Darren Redick.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
F’view 727 F’sat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Leona Graham
Mainstream and indie rock and pop 1.00pm Jay
Lawrence 4.00 Bush and Richie 7.00 Absolute
80s Greatest Hits Claire Sturgess with music from
the decade of the Human League, Madness, Madonna,
the Cure, Rockwell, Nena, Falco, Prince and the Smiths
10.00 Sophie K 4.00am Ross Buchanan

7.30 Radio 3 in Concert

From the Barbican in London, Sakari Oramo
conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in
a
works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold — with violinist
Nicola Benedetti as soloist — and Rued Langgaard,
two composers born in the wrong place at the
wrong time. Korngold left Germany in 1934, as
the Nazis rose to power, and Langgaard — who
was 17 in 1911 when he wrote his First Symphony
— was marginalised by his native Denmark.
Presented by Martin Handley.
Nicola Benedetti (violin), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Sakari Oramo
Korngold Violin Concerto
8.00 Interval
8.20 Langgaard Symphony No 1 in B minor
(Klippepastoraler)
10.00 The Verb With Ian McMillan.

10.45 The Essay: EarthWorks
5/5. Moor. Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby
concludes with a look at environmental change on
Exmoor’s peatlands, where ecologists and
archaeologists combine to restore the upland bogs.

11.00 Late Junction
Verity Sharp presents newly reissued music from
Gabonese harpist Papé Nziengui, traditional
recordings from the Peruvian Amazon, and a piece
for theremin and accordion from Ukrainian composer
Victoria Poleva. Plus further highlights from Radio 3’s
After Dark Festival in Newcastle, withVashti
Bunyan in conversation at Sage Gateshead and a
live performance by Nyati Mayi and the Astral
Synth Transmitters on the Late Junction stage at
the Star and Shadow Cinema arts venue.

1.00am Composed with Emeli Sandé

New series. 1/12. Singer/songwriter Emeli Sandé shares
the music that brings her strength and inspiration. She
begins with works by Copland, Delius, Tchaikovsky and
Max Richter, and recordings by Julianna Barwick,
Aphex Twin, Justin Adams and Mauro Durante, and
Agnes Obel. The first Composure Moment feature
showcases Jon Hopkins’s 2018 album Singularity.

2.00 Gameplay with Baby Queen
Musician and gaming enthusiast Bella Latham (aka Baby
Queen) with a playlist of music from some of the silliest
multi-player video games, featuring highlights of scores
by Andy Poland (Quiplash) and Mike Ault (Rocket
League) and Jukio Kallio and Daniel Hagstrom (Fall Guys).
3.00 Through the Night With Catriona Young.
Lera Auerbach Icarus Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Marsalis As the Wind Goes Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet,
Op 64 (excerpts) Bernstein Mambo (West Side Story) Nicola
Benedetti (violin), National Youth Orchestra of Great
Britain, conductor Mark Wigglesworth 4.37 Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat, Op 110 5.01 Tomasi
Trumpet Concerto (2nd mvt) 5.06 Ruth Watson
Henderson In Memoriam Elmer Iseler 5.13 Schulhoff
Five Pieces for string quartet 5.26 Vivaldi Violin
Concerto in E, RV269 (La primavera) 5.36 Wilbye Flora
Gave Mee Fairest Flowers 5.37 Schiavetto, transcr
Zupanovic Fior ch’ all’ intatta 5.40 Bach Concerto in
C minor, BWV1060 5.54 Vaughan Williams Romance
6.00 Marson Waltzes and Promenades 6.13 Mozart
Symphony No 35 in D, K385 (Haffner) 6.32 Dohnanyi
Wedding Waltz (incidental music: The Veil of Pierrette)
6.39 Sibelius 13 Pieces, Op 76 Revised repeat

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922

6.00am More Music Breakfast
Presented by Tim Lihoreau.

9.00 Aled Jones
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall Requests.
4.00pm John Brunning
7.00 Smooth Classics With John Brunning.
8.00 The Classic FM Concert with John
Suchet Last of this week’s highlights of some of
the year’s finest recordings released so far
John Williams ET the Extra-Terrestrial — Theme
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
conductor John Williams
Rachmaninov Vocalise, Op 34
Martin James Bartlett (piano), London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conductor Joshua Weilerstein
Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216
Ziyu He, Salzburg Mozart Orchestra,
conductor Howard Griffiths
Debussy Clair de lune Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Sibelius Symphony No 2
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Klaus Makela
10.00 Smooth Classics With Margherita Taylor.
1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

( The War Years 1939-1946 A picture-rich commemorative book Yours for just £9.99

8 APRIL FRIDAY
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 5 Live
12.04pm Archive on 4: The Ministry of
Fun Repeated from Saturday 8pm
1.00 The World at One

92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0143 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News, weather and shipping forecasts as Tuesday

News and analysis with Jonny Dymond.

1.45 A Show of Hands
5/5. Touch. A look at the power of touch,
with massage therapist Cathy Hagan
reflecting on the way she uses her thumbs,
palms and the heel of her hand to sense and
locate areas of tension in her clients’ bodies.
Different insights into touch comes from
magician and sleight-of-hand expert James
Freedman, and hand surgeon Simon Kay. (R)

6.00 Today
With Mishal Husain and Justin Webb.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
8.45 LW Yesterday in Parliament

2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: Dead Hand

9.00 The Reunion Repeated from Sunday 11am
9.45 FM Book of the Week: Hybrid
Humans
5/5. Monsters. Harry Parker, who lost his
legs to an IED in Afghanistan, reveals how he
grappled with his new identity and disability,
and reflects on “disability hate crime”. He also
meets Andrew, who tells the story of his
amputation, and his rehabilitation through
pole dancing. For details see Monday Rptd 12.30am

Greg
Paul Mallon
DS Murray
Michelle Fairley
Kate
Roísín Gallagher
Lucy
Hannah Eggleton
Stacey
Eimear Fearon
May
Julia Dearden
Thomas Patrick Fitzsymons

9.45 LW Daily Service
Led by Rachel Redeemed. Matthew 26,
vv6—13. Ride on, Ride on in Majesty
(Winchester New), sung by the Choir of All
Saints’ Church, Margaret St, London; I Will
Offer Up My Life (This Thankful Heart),
performed by Matt Redman; Be Still My Soul
(Von Schlegel), sung by Libera.
10.00 Woman’s Hour With Anita Rani.

Daniel
Desmond Eastwood
Assistant Jo
Nicky Harley
Control
Louise Parker
Police officer
Andrew McCracken
TSG lead
Patrick Buchanan

Producer Michael Shannon

2.45 Living with the Gods
1/30. The Beginnings of Belief. Neil
MacGregor explores the role and expression
of shared beliefs around the world. He begins
by looking at the Lion Man, a 40,000-yearold ivory sculpture with the body of a man
and the head of a lion, found in a cave near
Ulm in Germany. Nothing is known about
what the Lion Man meant to the community
that made it, but archaeologists suggest it
was passed around by the people in the cave.

11.00 Three Pounds in My Pocket

New series. 1/3. Kavita Puri hears more
stories of the pioneering migrants from the
Indian subcontinent and their descendants.
The fifth series begins in the aftermath of
9/11, when the revolution in communications
meant relatives back home felt closer than
ever, while the pull of Britain became deeper
as the pioneer generation entered retirement
and their children were having their own
children. Producer Ant Adeane

5/6. Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and guests
with a satirical look through the week’s news.
Repeated tomorrow 12.30pm

7.00 Letter from Ukraine
Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov reads from
his own reflection on life in war-torn Ukraine.
Translated by Elizabeth Sharp.
Producer Emma Harding Repeated tomorrow 12.15am

7.15 Screenshot
2/9. In the week when Compartment No 6
— a strange and touching romance set on the
Trans-Siberian Express — is released, Ellen E
Jones and Mark Kermode look at the train in
cinema and its rich history both as symbol
and setting for drama. The are joined by
Compartment No 6’s co-writer and director
Juho Kuosmanen, Bryony Dixon from the
BFI, composer, musician and film buff Neil
Brand, and critic Anna Smith.
Producer Freya Hillier

8.00 Any Questions?
Chris Mason presents political debate and
discussion from St Mary’s Church in
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. The panel
includes the Shadow Leader of the House of
Commons Thangam Debbonaire MP.
Producer Beth Sagar-Fenton Rptd tomorrow 1.10pm

8.50 A Point of View
A reflection on a topical issue.
Repeated Sunday 8.48am

9.00 The Museums That Make Us
2/4. Neil MacGregor visits museums who
have to deal with the allure of a thriving past,
particularly through the Industrial Revolution.
Producer Tom Alban Postponed from 18 March

Producer Paul Kobrak

10.00 The World Tonight

3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time

Presented by Anna Holligan.

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of
Gardeners’ Question Time, listeners are
treated to a trip down memory lane, with
some familiar voices from the archive.

10.45 Book at Bedtime: The Promise

Producer Daniel Cocker Repeated Sunday 2pm

5/10. That Old Story. By Damon Galgut.
After Pa’s funeral and the reading of the will,
the thorny matter of the promise
re-emerges. Read by Jack Klaff.

Your RT Gardening: page 134

For details see Monday

New series. 1/5. The sitcom about
two warring sisters by David Quantick
continues as a series, following on from its
pilot episode. Today Florence is invited to the
Hay Book Festival as she’s been nominated
for the prestigious Brontë shield — but her
joy and delight turn to disappointment
when Selina is also nominated, for her
kiss-and-tell autobiography, Kiss and Tell.

3.45 Short Works

11.00 Great Lives Rptd from Tuesday 4.30pm
11.30 The Shadow of Algiers

Florence
Dawn French Lucy
Lisa McGrillis
Selina
Jennifer Saunders Various characters
Mrs Ragnarrok Rebecca Front
Alistair McGowan

4.30 Feedback

11.30 Whatever Happened to Baby
Jane Austen?

a

Oestrogen City, by Rosemary Jenkinson.
Caitlin is persuaded to try speed-dating on a
night out in Belfast. Read by Séainín Brennan.
Producer Michael Shannon Rptd tomorrow 12.30am

4.00 Last Word
Matthew Bannister celebrates the lives of
notable people who have died recently.
Producer Neil George Repeated Sunday 8.30pm

Listeners’ views, with Roger Bolton.
Producer Kate Dixon Repeated Sunday 8pm
ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 67234, London SE1P 4AX
phone: 0333 344 4544 email: feedback@bbc.co.uk

Producer Liz Anstee

Radioheads: page 113

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0131 Virgin 910
6.00am Raffles as 8pm
6.30 XPD as 8.30pm
7.00 All Those Women 2016 sitcom (3/4)
7.30 Desolation Jests as 5.30pm
8.00 Dad’s Army Series three. From 1976
8.30 Bristow 1999 comedy (2/6)
9.00 Guess What? Panel game. From 1998 (4/10)
9.30 Bookcases Martin Wade’s comedy (3/4)
10.00 Hand in Glove as 3pm
11.00 Podcast Radio Hour
12.00 Dad’s Army Series three. From 1976
12.30pm Bristow 1999 comedy (2/6)
1.00 Raffles EW Hornung’s 1899 tale Wilful Murder
1.30 XPD as 8.30pm
2.00 The Female Persuasion (10/10)
2.15 Love for Lydia With Tim Pigott-Smith (5/10)
2.30 Ken, Madge and the Strange Rock
Peregrine Andrews follows the story of a mysterious
find on Morecambe beach in January 2013, when
Ken Wilman and his dog Madge came across what
Ken believed to be ambergris — an extremely rare
and valuable product of sperm whales. From 2015
3.00 Hand in Glove In Stephen Mulrine’s Win
Some, Lose Some, a Lake District holiday beckons
for Dr Wallace, but there is a tricky piece of evidence
to be delivered at the end of it. Series two. From 1997
4.00 Guess What? Panel game. From 1998 (4/10)

5/5. The Black Box of History. President
Macron wants to leave his mark on
Franco-Algerian relations and in this episode
Edward Stourton reveals how the wounds
left by the Algerian War of Independence
remain very close to the surface. (R)

11.45 Witness Repeated from Tuesday 9.30am
12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
Hybrid Humans Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
4.30 Bookcases Martin Wade’s comedy (3/4)
5.00 All Those Women 2016 sitcom (3/4)
5.30 Desolation Jests David Jason stars in David
Renwick’s post-apocalyptic sketch show. As R4 Sunday
6.00 The Veldt Ray Bradbury’s 1950 cautionary
tale about smart technology, where danger
prowls in the nursery. Adapted for radio by Jack
Pulman and starring John Cazabon. From 1959
6.30 And the Academy Award Goes To
Paul Gambaccini revisits Danny Boyle’s Slumdog
Millionaire (2008), winner of eight Oscars (3/3)
7.00 Dad’s Army Series three. From 1976
7.30 Bristow 1999 comedy (2/6)
8.00 Raffles EW Hornung’s 1899 tale Wilful Murder
8.30 XPD Dramatisation by Michael Bakewell of
Len Deighton’s 1981 spy novel set in 1979. Did Churchill
meet Hitler in 1940? Can the British Secret
Intelligence Service discover the truth? With Trevor
Nichols and and others. From 1985 (1/8)
9.00 Podcast Radio Hour
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Desolation Jests
(2/4), at 10.30 Mark Watson’s Live Address to
the Nation (6/6), at 11.00 State of the Nations
(3/5), at 11.30 My Booze Hell by Little Johnny
Cartilage (3/4), and at 11.45 Bird Island (3/4)
12.00 as 6pm 12.30am as 6.30pm 1.00 as 8pm
1.30 as 8.30pm 2.00 as 2pm 2.15 as 2.15pm
2.30 as 2.30pm 3.00 as 3pm 4.00 as 4pm
4.30 as 4.30pm 5.00 as 5pm 5.30 as 5.30pm

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History
9.00 News 9.05 Tech Tent 9.30 Science in
Action 10.00 News 10.05 The Real Story: debate
on and analysis of a key news story 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.30 World Football 12.00 News
12.05pm The Fifth Floor 12.50 Witness History
1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 Science in Action 2.00
Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 Hardtalk 3.30 World
Business Report 4.00 News 6.00 News 6.05
The Fifth Floor 6.50 Witness History 7.00 The
Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05
Tech Tent: the latest stories in the tech world
8.30 Crowd Science: Marnie Chesterton meets
the scientists who dig up fossils all over the world,
wondering how many more exciting fossil finds
remain to be located 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News
10.05 Hardtalk 10.30 World Football 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.20 Sports News 11.30 World
Business Report: informed analysis 12.00 News
12.05am The Real Story 1.00 News 1.05 World
Business Report 1.30 WorkLifeIndia: money,
work, family, business and finance 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 Stumped: weekly cricket show
3.00 News 3.05 The Fifth Floor 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 News 4.05 The Real Story

News and sport as Monday

5.00am The Big Green Money
Show 6/10. Deborah Meaden
talks to companies about their
environmental commitments.
5.30 Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Chiles on Friday
1.00pm Elis James and John Robins
3.00 How Do You Cope?...
with Elis and John
New series. The Rev Richard Coles
discusses the loss of his husband.
4.00 5 Live Drive
7.00 5 Live Sport
Including at 7.00 The Friday
Football Social, with Darren
Fletcher and guests looking ahead
to the weekend’s Premier League
football. Plus build-up to the 8.00
commentary on Newcastle United
v Wolverhampton Wanderers.
10.00 Stephen Nolan
1.00am Hayley Hassall

5 Live Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0144 Virgin 908

Radio

2/5. Zero Sum. Contemporary thriller by
Stuart Drennan, about a Northern Irish man’s
mission to hunt down the serial killer known
as Dead Hand, who murdered his father 20
years ago. Today DS Murray believes she has
found the killer but Greg is not convinced.
All episodes are available on BBC Sounds.

5.00 PM News headlines.
6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 The Now Show

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0144 Virgin 908

Friday

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day With Sadia Azmat.
5.45 Farming Today
News about food, farming and the countryside.
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Common Pheasant. With Chris Watson. (R)

David Brown’s
Ambridge Diary: page 111

6.55—8.05 5 Live Formula One
Second practice session in Australia.
10.55—2.00pm Cricket
Warwickshire v Surrey in the
County Championship.
2.00—3.45 Horse Racing The
Grand National Festival at Aintree.
3.45—7.00 Cricket Lucknow Super
Giants v Delhi Capitals in the IPL.
7.55—10.00 Rugby Union
Connacht v Leinster in the European
Rugby Champions Cup round of 16.
10.00—1.00am Golf Live coverage
of the Masters in Augusta, Georgia.
Radio 5 Live: Contact individual
programmes via the website at
bbc.co.uk/5live.
TELEPHONE: 0808 590 9693
TEXT: 85058 (standard rate)

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
10.00 White and Jordan with
Martin Keown Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs
4.00 Drive 7.00 GameDay
Countdown 10.00 Sports Bar
1.00am Extra Time

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
1.00pm—3.00 Racing Ladies’ Day
at Aintree’s Grand National Festival.

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0124 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00
James O’Brien 1.00pm Shelagh
Fogarty 4.00 Eddie Mair
6.00 Andrew Pierce 9.00 The
Consumer Hour 10.00 Nick Abbot
1.00am Clive Bull 4.00 Ian Payne

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
5.00am Asian Network
Celebrates Vaisakhi 6.00 Fresh
7.00 Nikita 10.00 Certified
11.00 Noreen Khan 2.00pm
Certified Throwbacks 3.00
Official Asian Music Chart
6.00 Panjabi Hit Squad 9.00
DJ Limelight and Kan D Man
12.00 Desi Dancefloor Mix
1.00am Pure Spice with DJ
Manara 4.00 Fresh

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

Featuring articles, photographs and memories from the era Visit radiotimes.com/waryears

127

RADIO in your area
South of England and Midlands regions

BBC Local Radio

Radio

Local

Face behind the voice
Age 40
Current job
Presenter of
the weekday
mid-morning
show on Heart
(10am–1pm)
and the Club Classics show on
Saturdays (7—11pm). She also
DJs at club nights and festivals,
and is an ambassador for the
Fostering Network charity.
CV Born in Brent, north London,
she was homeless and in foster
care for a lot of her childhood.
“Sleeping on the street, picking
food out of the bin. Not having
any food for the next day and
the next day. At the time, I knew
no different, that was life. But
it was hard.” Her mother died
when she was nine and she was
placed with a foster family. “From
that day I had stability in my life.
They’re who I call mum and dad
now. I couldn’t be more thankful
to foster carers and that’s why
I’m a huge advocate for them. It’s
so important and they don’t get
the recognition they deserve.”

Pandora Christie Heart FM

Did a Diploma in Performing Arts,
then joined an acting agency and
got roles in documentaries and
student films — “I was never very
good at it, to be honest. I’m better
at just being me.” She decided to
pursue a career in radio: “Being
a part of radio has changed my
life, it was the best decision I ever
made.” Then got a job as a promo
girl with Heart’s Ground Patrol:
“I shadowed everyone I could,
from presenters and producers
to engineers. I wanted to know
everything about radio.” Worked
unpaid on a community radio
station, then moved to Choice FM
(now Capital Xtra) and then on to
Capital FM. Moved to Kiss FM in
2017, then to Heart in 2019.
Social media — yes or no? “I am
on it every day! I absolutely love
it. I use social media to spread
positivity and bring a bit of fun to
people’s lives. I love connecting
to people through it. It can be
such a great place. I think people
need to use it in a responsible way,
though, and protect themselves
from negative situations.”

Best moments “We’re doing a
game called Heart’s Make Me a
Millionaire. We’re changing lives.
Think of the good that’s doing!
I’ve helped two people becoming
millionaires — if ever I’m having a
bad day, I think of that.”
Worst moments “On my very
first show on Choice, I was
petrified and couldn’t remember

I couldn’t be
more thankful
to foster carers

‘

’

what I wanted to say. All I had
was, ‘Hello, I’m new, I’m Pandora!’
Then after the ads I forgot to
put the fader up — it took ten
seconds for the back-up CD to
kick in, but it felt like a lifetime!”
Off air Lives in west London with
staffie cross Henry: “He’s got me
wrapped around his little finger.
I’ve started doing 40 things for
40, and one of them is learning
kickboxing — I recently got my
first white belt. I have said I will be

a champion — I don’t know how
long that will take!” Advocates
for Battersea Cats and Dogs
Home. Also writes a beauty blog.
First radio memory “Radio has
been in my life since I was born,
and I used to listen to Chris Moyles
on Radio 1 all the time.”
Favourite broadcasters “Chris
Moyles is one of my radio heroes
— open, honest, unpredictable.
He made me realise you can be
yourself as a presenter. Toby
Anstiss is an incredible presenter
and has made me feel so at
home. Margherita Taylor is so
warm and friendly. You feel like
you’re sitting in a room with her.”
Ambition “To teach a course at
Global Academy on how to be a
presenter — I want to help young
people get into their dream job.
Whatever your dream, you can
make it a reality. I’m proof of that.”
Secret skills “I’m learning Polish,
so I can speak with my boyfriend’s
parents at Christmas. I’m not
quite there yet, but I’ll try again
next year.” DAVID CRAWFORD
Listen at globalplayer.com

2pm Matchday:FMrugbyunion:
Gloucester v Wasps; MW
Forest Green v Scunthorpe
United; DAB Accrington Stanley
v CheltenhamTown6.00 James
Threlfall 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Nicky Price 10.00 Kate
Clark 2pm Dominic Cotter
6.00 Manny Masih
10.00—1am Tim Manns

Monday—Friday
6am Mark Cummings 10.00
Anna King; Fri: Dominic Cotter
2pm Steve Kitchen 6.00 Jon
Smith; Thu/Fri: Tom Clarke
7.00 Tue: MW Matchnight:
Forest Green Rovers v
Mansfield Town (kick-off 7.45)
10.00—1am Chris Baxter
Phone-ins: 0800 121 7575
radio.gloucestershire@bbc.co.uk

Guernsey
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioguernsey
FM 93.2, 99 (Alderney), MW 1116

Saturday
6am Breakfast Show 10.00
Tony Gillham 2pm Cerys
Evans 6.00 Richard Latto
8.00 Tim Hunter
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Matthew Price 10.00
Tony Gillham 2pm John
Randall 6.00 Richard Green
10.00—1am Tim Manns

Monday—Friday

Berkshire
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioberkshire
FM 104.1 Hannington, 94.6 (Henley),
95.4 (Windsor), 104.4 (Reading)

Saturday
6am Bridgitte Tetteh 10.00
Bill Buckley 2pm Sport 6.00
Stereo Underground 8.00
Introducing 9.00 Bridgitte
Tetteh 10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Sunday
6am Bridgitte Tetteh 10.00
Kirsten O’Brien 2pm Andy
Jones 6.00 Tony Blackburn
10.00—1am Bill Rennells

Monday—Friday
6am Andrew Peach 10.00
Sarah Walker; Thu: Bill Buckley
2pm Phil Kennedy; Mon/Tue:
Bill Buckley 6.00 Mon/Wed/
Thu: Andy Jones; Tue:
Sport; Fri: Weekend Kick-Off
7.00 Fri: Katie Tyler 10.00—
1am Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke
Phone-ins: 0808 100 5100
radio.berkshire@bbc.co.uk

Bristol
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiobristol
FM 94.9 (Bristol), 103.6 (Severn),
104.6 (Bath)

Saturday
6am AliVowles10.00 Jonathan
Ray 2pm Sport 6.00 James
Threlfall 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am David White

6.00 Mon: Geoff Twentyman;
Tue: The Scrum; Wed: Sports
Store; Thu: Having a Gas;
Fri: Sport 7.00 Upload
10.00—1am Chris Baxter
Phone-ins: 08000 855 949
radio.bristol@bbc.co.uk

Cambridgeshire
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiocambridgeshire
FM 95.7 (Peterborough), 96

Saturday
6am KevLawrence10.00 David
Webster 2pm Sport 5.00
Post-Match 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll
Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Louise Hulland 10.00
Great Outdoors 12.00 Walk
RightBack2pm KeithGreentree
4.00 John Leech 6.00 Naked
Scientists 7.00 The Folk Show
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Dotty McLeod; Fri: Louise
Hulland 10.00 Jeremy Sallis;
Fri: Amir Suleman 2pm Chris
Mann; Fri: David Webster 6.00
Mon/Fri: Sport; Tue: Naked
Scientists; Wed/Thu: Thordis
Fridriksson 7.00 Mon: Thordis
Fridriksson; Tue: Sport; Fri: That
Friday Feeling 8.00 Thu: New
Voices 10.00—1am Nick Risby

6.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Anoushka Williams
10.00 Jack Murley 2pm
Caroline Cook 6.00 Richard
Green 10.00—1am Tim Manns

Monday—Friday
6am James Churchfield 10.00
Julie Skentelbery 2pm David
White 6.00 Tiffany Truscott
10.00—1am David Sheppard
Phone-ins: 0808 100 1039
radio.cornwall@bbc.co.uk

CWR
Listen at bbc.co.uk/cwr
FM 94.8 (Coventry), 103.7 (Stratford/
S. Warwickshire), 104 (Nuneaton)

Saturday
6am Richard Williams
10.00 Brody Swain 2pm Sport
6.00 Dan Sambell
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Sandra Godley 10.00
Brody Swain 2pm Bob Brolly
6.00 Gagan Grewal
8.00 Nikki Tapper
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday

6am Jonathan Ray 10.00
Laura Rawlings 2pm Paris
Troy 6.00 Kevin Philemon
10.00—1am Tim Manns

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiocornwall
FM 95.2 (east), 96 (Scilly), 103.9 (west)

Monday—Friday

Saturday

6am Phil Upton 10.00 Vic
Minett 2pm Trish Adudu 6.00
Mon/Fri: The Sound of the Sky
Blues; Tue: Lorna Bailey; Wed:
Coventry Creates; Thu: Brody
Swain 7.00 Mon: Sandra
Godley; Wed: Sport;
Fri: Dave Marshall Barrett
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Natalie Graham

6am James Hanson 10.00
John Darvall 2pm Paris Troy

6am Jack Murley 10.00
James Dundon 2pm Sport

Phone-ins: 0800 756 5200
coventry.warwickshire@bbc.co.uk

Sunday

Phone-ins: 0800 085 9596
Email: cambs@bbc.co.uk

Cornwall

Derby
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioderby
FM 104.5 (Drum Hill), 95.3 (north &
mid Derbyshire), 96 (Buxton), MW 1116

Saturday

Monday—Friday
6am Gordon Sparks 10.00
David FitzGerald 2pm Toby
Buckland 6.00 Rick Edwards;
Thu/Fri: Sarah Gosling
10.00—1am David Sheppard

6.00 Simon Morykin 10.00
Steve Jordan 2pm Sportscene
6.00 TheBeat8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Devon Daley

Phone-ins: 0808 100 1034
radio.devon@bbc.co.uk

Sunday

Listen at bbc.co.uk/bbcessex
FM 103.5 (north Essex),
95.3 (south Essex)

6am Simon Morykin 10.00
Steve Jordan 2pm Chris Birks
6.00 Satvinder Rana 8.00
Devon Daley 10.00—1am
Summaya Mughal

Monday—Friday
6am Andy Twigge 10.00 Ian
Skye; Mon: Steve Jordan 2pm
Sally Pepper; Fri: Steve Jordan
6.00 Sportscene at Six;
Mon: Sportscene Talk-in
7.00 Martyn Williams
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Dean Jackson
Phone-ins: 0800 145 6161
radio.derby@bbc.co.uk

Devon
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiodevon
FM 103.4 (Plymouth/west Devon),
94.8 (north Devon), 95.8 (Exeter),
95.7 (Plympton), 96 (Okehampton),
104.3 (Torbay/south Devon)

Saturday
6am Caroline Cook 10.00
Richard Green 2pm Sport:
rugby union: Exeter Chiefs v
Bath 6.00 Sarah Gosling
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Angela Kalwaites
10.00 Toby Buckland 2pm
Caroline Cook 6.00 Richard
Green 10.00—1am Tim Manns

Essex

Saturday

6am Tim Hunter 10.00 Lynne
Coleman 2pm Robin Grey;
Mon: Alison Moss
6.00 Harry Barratt
10.00—1am David Sheppard
Phone-ins: 0808 100 9932
bbcguernsey@bbc.co.uk

Hereford/Worcester
Listen at bbc.co.uk/
bbcherefordandworcester
FM 94.7 (Hereford), 104 (Worcester &
Gt Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster),
MW 1584 (Tenbury Wells)

6am Emma Bullimore 10.00
Kath Melandri 2pm Sport
6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Saturday

Sunday

Sunday

6am June Woolerton 10.00
Essex Quest 2pm Essex Rock
Show 4.00 John Leech 6.00
Ray Clark 8.00 Mark Punter
10.00—1am David Clayton

6am Tammy Gooding 10.00
MalcolmBoyden2pm Jonathan
Ray 6.00 Andrew Marston
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday

6am Elliott Webb; Thu/Fri:
Toni McDonald 10.00 Malcolm
Boyden; Mon: Tammy Gooding
2pm Andrew Easton; Thu/Fri:
Tammy Gooding 6.00 Kate
Justice; Tue: 104 FM Football
Special 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham

6am Sonia Watson 10.00 Ben
Fryer; Fri: Emma Bullimore 2pm
Sadie Nine; Fri: Dave Monk 6.00
Mon/Tue: Rob Jelly; Wed:
Around the Wicket; Thu: Fans
Phone-in; Fri: John Leech 7.00
Wed/Thu: Rob Jelly 10.00—
1am Tony Fisher; Fri: Nick Risby
Phone-ins: 0800 111 4041
Email: essex@bbc.co.uk

Gloucestershire
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiogloucestershire
FM 104.7 (Churchdown Hill) 95
(Stroud), 95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413

Saturday
6am Nicky Price
10.00 Faye Hatcher

6am Andrew Easton 10.00
Toni McDonald 2pm Sport
6.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Monday—Friday

Phone-ins: 0800 121 8181
bbchw@bbc.co.uk

Jersey
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiojersey
FM 88.8, MW 1026

Saturday
6am Sarah Bailey 10.00 Tony
Gillham 2pm Cerys Evans
6.00 Richard Latto
8.00 Tim Hunter
10.00—1am David White

All BBC local radio stations take BBC Radio 5 Live programmes from 1am

128

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Saturday 2–Friday 8 April
Sunday
6am Matthew Price 10.00
Tony Gillham 2pm John
Randall 6.00 Richard Green
10.00—1am Tim Manns

Monday—Friday

Phone-ins: 0808 100 9888
radiojersey@bbc.co.uk

Kent
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiokent
FM 96.7 (west), 97.6 (Folkestone),
104.2 (east)

Saturday

Sunday
6am Phil Harrison 10.00 Andy
Garland 2pm Erika North
6.00 Ray Clark 8.00 Mark
Punter 10.00—1am Bill Rennells

Monday—Friday
6am Andy Garland 10.00
Julia George; Thu/Fri: Steve
Ladner 2pm Pat Marsh; Fri:
Erika North 6.00 Dominic
King; Fri: Stephen Brown
9.00 Upload 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke
Phone-ins: 0800 756 1111
radio.kent@bbc.co.uk

Leicester
bbc.co.uk/radioleicester FM 104.9

Saturday
6am Rupal Rajani 10.00
Shruti Chauhan 2pm Andy
Pierce 5.00 Sport 8.00 The
Beat 10.00—1am Devon Daley

Sunday
6am Jo Bostock
10.00 Summaya Mughal
2pm Andy Pierce
6.00 Funk and Rare Groove
10.00—1am Jack Rafferty

Monday—Friday
6am Ady Dayman; Fri: Jimmy
Carpenter 10.00 Summaya
Mughal; Fri: Mid Morning
Show 2pm Ben Jackson; Fri:
Jo Bostock 6.00 Mon:
Football Forum; Tue: Sport;
Wed: Rugby Show; Thu:
Bollywood Tamasha; FM The
Boot Room; Fri: Weekend
Preview 7.00 Mon/Tue: Jack
Rafferty; Wed: The Vibe; Fri:
Reggae and Soca 9.00 Thu:
Young British Asians Talk
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Dean Jackson
Phone-ins: 0808 100 1049
radio.leicesternews@bbc.co.uk

Lincolnshire
bbc.co.uk/radiolincolnshire
FM 94.9 (Lincoln), 104.7 (Grantham)

Saturday

Monday—Friday

Sunday

6am Sean Dunderdale 10.00
Carla Greene 2pm Melvyn
Prior 6.00 In the Game; Fri:
Hope and Glory 7.00 Mon/
Wed/Thu: Laurie Dyche; Tue:
Hope and Glory; Fri: George
Smith 10.00—1am Russell
Walker; Fri: Dean Jackson

6am Andy Lake 10.00 John
Griff 2pm Matt Mackay 4.00
The John Leech Soul Show
6.00 Farzana Chaudry
8.00 Edward Adoo
10.00—1am David Clayton

Phone-ins: 0800 066 5949
bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire

London
bbc.co.uk/radiolondon FM 94.9

Saturday
5am Claira Hermet 7.00
Carrie and David Grant 10.00
Robert Elms 1pm The Women’s
Sports Show 2.00 Sport 6.00
Gary Crowley 8.00 BBC
Introducing 10.00 Sunny and
Shay 1am—5.00 Hayley Hassall

Sunday
5am Claira Hermet 6.00
Inspirit 9.00 Robert Elms
12.00 Gaby Roslin 3pm Jo
Good 5.00 Don Black 6.00
Tony Blackburn 7.00 Dotun
Adebayo 10.00 Sunny and Shay
1am—5.00 Dotun Adebayo

Monday—Friday
5am Jason Rosam 7.00 Riz
Lateef 10.00 Eddie Nestor; Fri:
Robert Elms 2pm Jumoké
Fashola; Fri: Salma El-Wardany
6.00 Sport 8.00 The Scene
10.00 Jo Good; Fri: LionHeart
1am—5.00 Dotun Adebayo;
Fri: Hayley Hassall
Phone-ins: 0800 731 2000
yourlondon@bbc.co.uk

Norfolk
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radionorfolk
FM 95.1 (east), 95.6 (Wells),
104.4 (west),MW 855 (east),
873 (King’s Lynn)

Saturday
6am Kirsteen Thorne 10.00
Anna Perrott 2pm Sport
5.00 Canary Call 6.00 Upload
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Matthew Gudgin 10.00
Treasure Quest 2pm The Big
Country Show 4.00 The John
Leech Soul Show 6.00 Ray
Clark 8.00 Mark Punter
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Rob Butler 10.00 Kayleigh
Poacher 2pm Stephen
Bumfrey6.00 Mon: Belongings;
Tue: Sport: King’s Lynn Town v
Bromley (kick-off 7.45);
Wed: The Social; Thu: The
Scrimmage; Fri: Sophie Little
7.00 Thu: Local Report 8.00
Mon: Jon Wright; Thu: Sport
10.00—1am Nick Risby
Tel: 0800 389 7321
radionorfolk@bbc.co.uk

Northampton

6am William Wright 10.00
George Smith 2pm Hope and
Glory 6.00 The Beat
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Devon Daley

Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radionorthampton
FM 104.2 (Northants),
103.6 (Corby/Kettering)

Sunday

Saturday

6am William Wright
10.00 Pirate Gold

6am John Griff 10.00 Treasure
Quest 12.00 Gadders

Monday—Friday
6am Annabel Amos 10.00
Bernie Keith 2pm Tim Wheeler
6.00 Mon/Tue: Kerrie Cosh;
Wed: The Saints Show; Thu:
Sport; Fri: Daisie-Belle Downer
7.00 Wed: Kerrie Cosh;
Thu: Daisie-Belle Downer
10.00—1am Nick Risby
Phone-ins: 0800 030 4455
radionorthampton@bbc.co.uk

Nottingham
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radionottingham
FM 103.8 (Notts), 95.1 (Newark),
95.5 (Mansfield)

Saturday
6am Liesl Soards 10.00 Dino
12.00 Matchday 6pm The
Beat 10.00—1am Devon Daley

Sunday
6am Jodi Law 10.00 Dino
2pm Arun Verma 5.00 We
Are Notts 6.00 Hansa Dabee
8.00 Laurie Dyche
10.00—1am Jack Rafferty

Monday—Friday
6am Verity Cowley 10.00
Mark Dennison 2pm Andy
Whittaker 6.00 Mon/Tue/Thu:
Arun Verma; Wed: Matchnight:
Nottingham Forest v Coventry
City (kick-off 7.45); Fri: In the
Game 7.00 Fri: Rob Green
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Dean Jackson
Phone-ins: 0800 678 3434
radio.nottingham@bbc.co.uk

Oxford
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiooxford
FM 95.2

Saturday
6am Sophie Law 10.00 James
Watt 2pm Sport: Plymouth
Argyle v Oxford United 6.00
Stereo Underground 8.00
Introducing 9.00 Bridgitte
Tetteh 10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Sunday
6am Morning Show 10.00
Fleur Ostojak 2pm Al Ryan
6.00 Tony Blackburn
10.00—1am Bill Rennells

Monday—Friday
6am David Prever
10.00 Kat Orman
2pm Adam Ball 6.00 Fleur
Ostojak 10.00—1am Paul
Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke
Phone-ins: 0808 100 9100
oxford@bbc.co.uk

Shropshire

Sunday

Sunday

6am Al Booth 10.00 Paul
Shuttleworth 2pm Michaela
Wylde 6.00 Andrew Marston
8.00 Genevieve Tudor
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

6am Rev Geoff Eze 10.00
Paula White 2pm Centre Stage
3.00 Den Siegertsz and Terry
Walsh 6.00 Susan Hanks
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday

Monday—Friday

6am Adam Green 10.00 Jim
Hawkins 2pm Mon/Tue: Ed
Nell; Wed/Thu: Clare Ashford;
Fri: Michaela Wylde 6.00
Mon: Michaela Wylde; Tue:
Active Shropshire; Wed—Fri:
Mark Elliott 7.00 Tue: Mark
Elliott 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham

6am Lee Blakeman; Thu/Fri:
John Acres 10.00 Stuart
George 2pm Mon/Tue: Louise
Stones; Wed—Fri: Liz Ellis 6.00
Sport at Six 7.00 Mon/Wed:
Susan Hanks; Tue: Sport:
Salford City v Port Vale
(kick-off 7.45); Thu: Centre
Stage; Fri: Lucas Yeomans
8.00 Thu: Susan Hanks
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Natalie Graham

Phone-ins: 0808 100 9696
radio.shropshire@bbc.co.uk

Radio Solent
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiosolent
FM 96.1 (Hampshire), 103.8 (Dorset)

Saturday
6am Katie Martin 10.00 Lucy
Ambache 2pm Sport
6.00 Stereo Underground
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Sunday
6am Katie Martin 10.00 Steph
Nieuwenhuys 2pm Lucy
Ambache 6.00 Tony Blackburn
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Monday—Friday
6am Alun Newman 10.00 Pat
Sissons 2pm Lou Hannan
6.00 Mon: Fern Balch; Tue/
Thu: Evening Show; Wed:
Sport; Fri: Sports Hour 7.00
Fri: The Dance Dungeon 8.00
Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—
1am Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

103.8 FOR WEST DORSET
As Radio Solent, including
Dorset news and features, plus:

Monday—Friday
7am—9.00 Steve Harris;
Thu: Lucy Ambache
Phone-ins: 0808 100 3800
Email: radio.solent@bbc.co.uk

Somerset
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiosomerset
FM 95.5, MW 1566

Saturday
6am Simon Parkin 10.00 Mel
Everett 2pm Sport 6.00 BBC
Introducing: with Sarah Gosling
10.00—1am David White

Phone-ins: 0800 121 8080
radio.stoke@bbc.co.uk

Suffolk
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiosuffolk
FM 103.9 (south), 104.6 (Bury
St Edmunds & north west),
95.5 (Lowestoft), 95.9 (Aldeburgh)

Saturday
6am Sarah Lilley 10.00
Georgy Jamieson 2pm Sport
6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Sarah Lilley 10.00 Matt
Marvel 2pm Keith Greentree
4.00 John Leech 6.00 Ray
Clarke 8.00 Mark Punter
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Mark Murphy 10.00
Wayne Bavin 2pm Lesley
Dolphin; Fri: Sarah Lilley 6.00
Mon: Georgy Jamieson; Tue:
Jon Wright; Wed: The Social;
Thu: Sports Social; Fri: Sophie
Little8.00Mon:BBCBelongings
10.00—1am Nick Risby
Phone-ins: 0800 141 2121
radiosuffolk@bbc.co.uk

BBC Surrey and
BBC Sussex
Listen at bbc.co.uk/bbcsurrey
bbc.co.uk/bbcsussex
FM 95.0 (Newhaven), 95.1 (Horsham),
95.3 (Brighton/Worthing), 104 (east
Surrey/north Sussex), 104.5 (east
Sussex), 104.6 (west Surrey/
NE Hants), 104.8 (west Sussex)

Three Counties
Beds, Herts and Bucks
bbc.co.uk/threecountiesradio
FM 103.8 (Herts), 95.5 (Beds),
90.4 (east Herts), 92.1 (south Herts),
98 (High Wycombe),
104.5 (Bucks), 94.7 (Aylesbury)

Saturday
6am Babs Michel 10.00
Treasure Quest 12 noon—2pm
FM 90.4/92.1/94.7/103.8 Sport
12.00 Mike Naylor
2pm FM 95.5/98/104.5/DAB
Sport 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll
Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Kady Braine 7.00 Dr
Nighat Arif 10.00 Babs Michel
2pm The Non-League Show
4.00 The John Leech Soul
Show 6.00 Farzana Chaudry
8.00 Edward Adoo
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Andy Collins 10.00 JVS
Show 2pm Roberto Perrone
6.00 Mon/Wed/Fri: Babs
Michel; Tue: Sport; Thu: Danny
Fullbrook10.00—1am NickRisby
Phone-ins: 0808 100 8800

Wiltshire
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiowiltshire
FM 104.3 (W. Wilts), 104.9 (Marlborough),
103.5 (Salisbury), 103.6 (Swindon)

Saturday
6am Shelley Keen 10.00 Sue
Davies 2pm Sport 6.00 James
Threlfall 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Jill Misson 10.00 Sue
Davies 2pm Dominic Cotter
6.00 Manny Masih
10.00—1am Tim Manns

Monday—Friday
6am Ben Prater; Fri: Jonathan
Fido 10.00 Sue Kinnear; Fri:
Kirsten O’Brien 2pm Karen
Gardner 6.00 Wiltshire Live
10.00—1am Chris Baxter
Phone-ins: 0800 0283 366
radio.wiltshire@bbc.co.uk

WM
Listen at bbc.co.uk/wm FM 95.6

Saturday

Saturday

6am Charlie Taylor 10.00 Mel
Everett 2pm Caroline Cook
6.00 Richard Green
10.00—1am Tim Manns

6am Surrey: Nicky Patrick;
Sussex: Mark Carter 10.00
Amanny Mo 2pm Sport
6.00 Stereo Underground
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—12 midnight
The Late Show

6am Henry Liston
10.00 Letitia George
2pm Sport 6.00 Mollie Green
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Monday—Friday

Sunday

Sunday

6am Claire Carter
10.00 Simon Parkin
2pm Matt Faulkner 6.00
Charlie Taylor; Fri: Luke Knight
10.00—1am Chris Baxter
Phone-ins: 0800 678 1566
somerset@bbc.co.uk

Stoke

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioshropshire
FM 90 (Church Stretton), 96
(Shropshire), 95 (Ludlow), 104.1 (Clun)

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiostoke
FM 94.6 (Stoke), 104.1 (Stafford)

Saturday

Saturday

6am Al Booth 10.00 Paul
Shuttleworth 2pm Shropshire
United 6.00 Michaela Wylde
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

6am John Acres
10.00 Rob Adcock 2pm Sport
6.00 Lucas Yeomans
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

6am Emily Jeffery 10.00 Dig It
2pm Sylvie Blackmore
6.00 Tony Blackburn
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Monday—Friday

Radio

6am Pat Marsh 10.00 Steve
Ladner 2pm The Sports Hub
6.00 Richard Latto
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

2pm Sport 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll
Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Local

6am Ashlea Tracey 10.00
Jenny Mullin 2pm Robin Grey;
Mon: Alison Moss 6.00 Harry
Barratt 7.30 Wed: Sport
10.00—1am David Sheppard

2pm Sarah-Jane Honeywell
6.00 Country Lincs 7.00 Folk
10.00—1am Summaya Mughal

Sunday
6am Grace Smith 10.00
Letitia George 2pm Sport
6.00 Gagan Grewal
8.00 Nikki Tapper
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday

6am Surrey: James Cannon;
Sussex: Allison Ferns 10.00
Sarah Gorrell 2pm Danny Pike
6.00 Mon/Tue: LesleyMcCabe;
Wed/Thu: Connor Moseley;
Fri: Joe Talbot 8.00 Mon:
Tony Blackburn; Tue: Sport
Focus; Wed: Kathy Caton; Thu:
BBC Introducing 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

6am Elise Evans; Fri: Lee Stone
10.00 Kathryn Stanczyszyn;
Fri: Letitia George 2pm Paul
Franks; Fri: John Fox 6.00 The
Football Phone-in 7.00 Mon:
Natalie Graham; Tue: Rakeem
Omar; Wed/Fri: Sport; Thu:
Amber Sandhu 10.00—1am
Tue/Thu: Caroline Martin; Fri:
Natalie Graham 10.30—1am
Mon/Wed: Caroline Martin

Surrey phone-ins: 0800 587 1046
Sussex phone-ins 0800 232 1045

Phone-ins: 0808 100 9956
radiowm@bbc.co.uk

All BBC local radio stations take BBC Radio 5 Live programmes from 1am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

129

RADIO in your area
BBC Local Radio

Radio

Local

Face behind the voice
Age 40
Current job
Presenter of
the weekday
mid-morning
show on Heart
(10am–1pm)
and the Club Classics show on
Saturdays (7—11pm). She also
DJs at club nights and festivals,
and is an ambassador for the
Fostering Network charity.
CV Born in Brent, north London,
she was homeless and in foster
care for a lot of her childhood.
“Sleeping on the street, picking
food out of the bin. Not having
any food for the next day and
the next day. At the time, I knew
no different, that was life. But
it was hard.” Her mother died
when she was nine and she was
placed with a foster family. “From
that day I had stability in my life.
They’re who I call mum and dad
now. I couldn’t be more thankful
to foster carers and that’s why
I’m a huge advocate for them. It’s
so important and they don’t get
the recognition they deserve.”

CWR
Listen at bbc.co.uk/cwr
FM 94.8 (Coventry), 103.7 (Stratford/
S. Warwickshire), 104 (Nuneaton)

Saturday
6am Richard Williams
10.00 Brody Swain
2pm Sport: Coventry City v
BlackburnRovers(kick-off3.00)
6.00 Dan Sambell
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

2pm Sport: FM Tranmere
Rovers v Carlisle United
(kick-off 3.00); MW Barrow v
Port Vale (kick-off 3.00)
6.00 Joe Costin
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Simon Logan

Sunday
6am Richard Corrie
10.00 Val Armstrong
2pm Joe Costin
6.00 Paul Braithwaite
10.00—1am Simon Logan

Monday—Friday

6am Sandra Godley
10.00 Brody Swain
2pm Bob Brolly
6.00 Gagan Grewal
8.00 Nikki Tapper
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

6am Mike Zeller
10.00 Matt Bailey;
Mon: Val Armstrong
2pm Simon Yaxley;
Mon/Tue: Vicky Warham
6.00 Mon: Tamsin Robson;
Tue/Fri: Sport;
Wed: Darren Milby;
Thu: BBC Introducing
7.00 Thu: Helen Millican;
Fri: Darren Milby
10.00—1am John Gillmore;
Fri: Steffen Peddie

6am Phil Upton 10.00 Vic
Minett 2pm Trish Adudu
6.00 Mon/Fri: The Sound of the
Sky Blues; Tue: Lorna Bailey;
Wed: Coventry Creates;
Thu: Brody Swain
7.00 Mon: Sandra Godley;
Wed: Sport: Nottingham Forest
v Coventry City (kick-off 7.45);
Fri: Dave Marshall Barrett
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Natalie Graham
Phone-ins: 0800 756 5200
coventry.warwickshire@bbc.co.uk

Cumbria
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiocumbria
FM 95.2 (Kendal), 95.6 (Carlisle), 96.1
(Morecambe Bay), 104.1 (Keswick/
Whitehaven) 104.2 (Windermere),
MW 756 (Carlisle), 837 (Barrow-inFurness), 1458 (Whitehaven)

Saturday
6am Richard Corrie
10.00 Val Armstrong

Phone-ins: 0845 305 1122
radiocumbria@bbc.co.uk

Derby
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioderby
FM 104.5 (Drum Hill), 95.3 (north &
mid Derbyshire), 96 (Buxton), MW 1116

Saturday
6am Simon Morykin
10.00 Steve Jordan
2pm Sportscene: Pre-match
3.00 Sportscene: FM Derby
County v Preston North End
(k-off 3.00); MW Morecambe v
Burton Albion (kick-off 3.00)
5.00 Sportscene: Reaction
6.00 The Beat
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Devon Daley

Leeds

Pandora Christie Heart FM

Did a Diploma in Performing Arts,
then joined an acting agency and
got roles in documentaries and
student films — “I was never very
good at it, to be honest. I’m better
at just being me.” She decided to
pursue a career in radio: “Being
a part of radio has changed my
life, it was the best decision I ever
made.” Then got a job as a promo
girl with Heart’s Ground Patrol:
“I shadowed everyone I could,
from presenters and producers
to engineers. I wanted to know
everything about radio.” Worked
unpaid on a community radio
station, then moved to Choice FM
(now Capital Xtra) and then on to
Capital FM. Moved to Kiss FM in
2017, then to Heart in 2019.
Social media — yes or no? “I am
on it every day! I absolutely love
it. I use social media to spread
positivity and bring a bit of fun to
people’s lives. I love connecting
to people through it. It can be
such a great place. I think people
need to use it in a responsible way,
though, and protect themselves
from negative situations.”

Sunday

Monday—Friday

North region
Best moments “We’re doing a
game called Heart’s Make Me a
Millionaire. We’re changing lives.
Think of the good that’s doing!
I’ve helped two people becoming
millionaires — if ever I’m having a
bad day, I think of that.”
Worst moments “On my very
first show on Choice, I was
petrified and couldn’t remember

I couldn’t be
more thankful
to foster carers

‘

’

what I wanted to say. All I had
was, ‘Hello, I’m new, I’m Pandora!’
Then after the ads I forgot to
put the fader up — it took ten
seconds for the back-up CD to
kick in, but it felt like a lifetime!”
Off air Lives in west London with
staffie cross Henry: “He’s got me
wrapped around his little finger.
I’ve started doing 40 things for
40, and one of them is learning
kickboxing — I recently got my
first white belt. I have said I will be

a champion — I don’t know how
long that will take!” Advocates
for Battersea Cats and Dogs
Home. Also writes a beauty blog.
First radio memory “Radio has
been in my life since I was born,
and I used to listen to Chris Moyles
on Radio 1 all the time.”
Favourite broadcasters “Chris
Moyles is one of my radio heroes
— open, honest, unpredictable.
He made me realise you can be
yourself as a presenter. Toby
Anstiss is an incredible presenter
and has made me feel so at
home. Margherita Taylor is so
warm and friendly. You feel like
you’re sitting in a room with her.”
Ambition “To teach a course at
Global Academy on how to be a
presenter — I want to help young
people get into their dream job.
Whatever your dream, you can
make it a reality. I’m proof of that.”
Secret skills “I’m learning Polish,
so I can speak with my boyfriend’s
parents at Christmas. I’m not
quite there yet, but I’ll try again
next year.” DAVID CRAWFORD
Listen at globalplayer.com

Sunday

Monday—Friday

6am Simon Morykin
10.00 Steve Jordan
2pm Chris Birks
6.00 Satvinder Rana
8.00 Devon Daley
10.00—1am Summaya Mughal

6am Elliott Webb;
Thu/Fri: Toni McDonald
10.00 Malcolm Boyden;
Mon: Tammy Gooding
2pm Andrew Easton;
Thu/Fri: Tammy Gooding
6.00 Kate Justice;
Tue: 104/104.6 FM Football
Special: Kidderminster Harriers
v Alfreton Town (kick-off 7.45)
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Natalie Graham

Monday—Friday
6am Andy Twigge
10.00 Ian Skye; Mon: Steve
Jordan; 2pm Sally Pepper;
Fri: Steve Jordan
6.00 Sportscene at Six;
Mon: Sportscene Talk-in
7.00 Martyn Williams
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
;Fri: Dean Jackson
Phone-ins: 0800 145 6161
radio.derby@bbc.co.uk

Hereford/Worcester
Listen at bbc.co.uk/
bbcherefordandworcester
FM 94.7 (Hereford), 104 (Worcester &
Gt Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster),
MW 1584 (Tenbury Wells)

Saturday
6am Andrew Easton
10.00 Toni McDonald
2pm Sport: 94.7 FM Hereford
v Alfreton Town (kick-off 3.00);
104/104.6 FM Sport: Bradford
(Park Avenue) v Kidderminster
Harriers (kick-off 3.00);
DAB Rugby Union: Worcester
Warriors v Newcastle Falcons
(kick-off 3.00)
6.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Tammy Gooding
10.00 Malcolm Boyden
2pm Jonathan Ray
6.00 Andrew Marston
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Phone-ins: 0800 121 8181
bbchw@bbc.co.uk

Humberside

2pm Sally Fairfax
6.00 Mon/Fri: Sportstalk;
Tue/Wed: Kim Harrison;
Thu: Phil White
7.00 Mon: Alan Raw;
Fri: George Smith
10.00—1am Russell Walker
Phone-ins: 0800 066 5959
humberside.news@bbc.co.uk

Lancashire
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiolancashire
FM 95.5 (east), 103.9 (central/
south), 104.5 (north)

Saturday
6am Shigufta Khan
10.00 Gary Hickson
2pm Matchday Live
6.00 Soul Sessions:
with Gary Hickson
8.00 BBC Introducing:
with Sean McGinty
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioleeds
FM 92.4 (west Yorkshire),
95.3 (Ilkley/Halifax),
102.7 (Keighley), 103.9 (Bradford)

Saturday
6am Andrew Edwards
10.00 Nick Ahad
2pm Sport: updates featuring
Leeds United v Southampton,
and Bristol Rovers v Bradford
City (kick-offs 3.00)
6.00 The Mixtape
8.00 BBC Introducing:
with Emily Pilbeam
10.00—1am Steve White

Sunday
6am Andrew Edwards
10.00 Nick Ahad
2pm Sport
6.00 Gul Nawaz Hussain
10.00—1am Steve White

Monday—Friday
6am Richard Stead
10.00 Gayle Lofthouse
2pm Rima Ahmed
6.00 West Yorkshire Sport
Daily: topical sports issues
7.00 Sanchez Payne
10.00—1am Russell Walker
Phone-ins: 0800 389 3333
radioleeds@bbc.co.uk

Leicester
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioleicester
FM 104.9

Saturday
6am Rupal Rajani
10.00 Shruti Chauhan
2pm Andy Pierce
5.00 Sport: Manchester United
v Leicester City (kick-off 5.30)
8.00 The Beat
10.00—1am Devon Daley

Sunday
6am Jo Bostock
10.00 Summaya Mughal
2pm Andy Pierce
6.00 Funk and Rare Groove:
Uncle Frank’s here with four
hours of funk & rare
groove classics for your
Sunday evening
10.00—1am Jack Rafferty

Monday—Friday

Monday—Friday

6am Graham Liver
10.00 Sharon Hartley
2pm Nishma Hindocha;
Fri: Mike Stevens
6.00 Sport;
Tue: Matchnight Live
7.00 Mon: Desi Nation:
with Raees Khan;
Wed: Brett Davison;
Thu: Your Lancashire
8.00 Fri: Emma Sweeney
10.00—1am John Gillmore;
Fri: Linda McDermott

6am Ady Dayman;
Fri: Jimmy Carpenter
10.00 Summaya Mughal:
music and entertainment;
Fri: Mid Morning Show
2pm Ben Jackson;
Fri: Jo Bostock
6.00 Mon: Football Forum;
Tue: Sport;
Wed: The Rugby Show;
Thu: FM The Boot Room;
Thu: DAB Bollywood Tamasha:
music, entertainment and
news from an Asian
perspective with Rupal Rajani;
Fri: Weekend Preview
7.00 Mon/Tue: Jack Rafferty;
Wed: The Vibe:
with Animata Kamara;
Thu: FM Bollywood Tamasha:
music, entertainment and
news with Rupal Rajani;
Fri: Reggae and Soca:
with Herdle White
9.00 Thu: Young British
Asians Talk
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Dean Jackson

6am Kofi Smiles
10.00 David Burns

Phone-ins: 0800 783 3583
radio.lancashire@bbc.co.uk

Phone-ins: 0808 100 1049
radio.leicesternews@bbc.co.uk

Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiohumberside
FM 95.9

Saturday
6am Phil White
10.00 Fiona Mills
2pm Sport: Pre-match
3.00 Sport: featuring Forest
Green Rovers v Scunthorpe
United, and Chesterfield v
Grimsby Town (kick-offs 3.00)
5.00 Football Forum
6.00 John Kane
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Steve White

Sunday
6am Lizzie Rose
8.00 Sunday Church Service
8.30 The Great Outdoors:
gardening expert Doug Stuart
takes your calls
10.00 Fiona Mills
2pm Liz Green
6.00 Neil Foster
10.00—1am Steve White

Sunday
6am Joe Wilson
10.00 Gary Hickson
2pm Maria Felix Vas
6.00 Unforgettable
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Monday—Friday

All BBC local radio stations take BBC Radio 5 Live programmes from 1am

128

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Saturday 2–Friday 8 April
Lincolnshire
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiolincolnshire
FM 94.9 (Lincoln), 104.7 (Grantham)

7.00 Jade Burns
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Sunday

Monday—Friday

6am William Wright
10.00 Pirate Gold
2pm Sarah-Jane Honeywell
6.00 Country Lincs
7.00 Folk: with Tim Walker
10.00—1am Summaya Mughal

6am Paul Salt; Fri: Lisa Marrey
10.00 Tony Snell; Fri: Sean
Styles 2pm Mon—Wed: Helen
Jones; Thu: Sean Styles; Fri:
Claire Hamilton 6.00 Sport;
Wed: The Rugby League Club
7.00 Mon: Ngunan Adamu;
Tue—Fri: The Place;
Wed: Sport: Burnley v Everton
(kick-off 7.30)
9.00 Mon: Orient Express
10.00—1am Linda McDermott

Monday—Friday
6am Sean Dunderdale
10.00 Carla Greene
2pm Melvyn Prior
6.00 In the Game;
Fri: Hope and Glory
7.00 Mon/Wed/Thu: Laurie
Dyche; Tue: Hope and Glory:
Fleetwood Town v Lincoln City;
Fri: George Smith
10.00—1am Russell Walker;
Fri: Dean Jackson
Phone-ins: 0800 066 5949
bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire

Manchester
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiomanchester
FM 95.1, 104.6 (Oldham)

Saturday
6am Anna Jameson
10.00 Simone Riley
2pm Sport: featuring Wigan
Athletic v Bolton Wanderers,
and Burnley v Manchester
City (kick-offs 3.00)
6.00 Upload: with David Scott
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Sunday
6am Asma Younus
10.00 Eamonn O’Neal
2pm Stacey Copeland
5.00 Rugby League Extra
6.00 Indus
8.00 The People
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Monday—Friday
6am Michelle Dignan;
Fri: Kate Thistleton
10.00 Mike Sweeney;
Fri: Simone Riley
2pm Becky Want;
Fri: Stacey Copeland
6.00 Talking Balls
7.00 Mon: Adaeze Chiwoko;
Tue: Sport: Wigan Athletic v
Accrington Stanley (k-o 7.45);
Wed: Asma Younus;
Thu: Remmel Dawodu;
Fri: Vicky Hawkesworth
10.00—1am Phil Trow;
Fri: Linda McDermott
Phone-ins: 0800 218 2255
radiomanchester@bbc.co.uk

Merseyside
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radiomerseyside
FM 95.8

Saturday
6am Ian Kennedy
10.00 Sean Styles
12.00 Sport: Liverpool v
Watford (kick-off 12.30)
6pm Late Late Beatles Show

Phone-ins: 0800 731 9333
radio.merseyside@bbc.co.uk

Newcastle
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radionewcastle
FM 95.4, 103.7 (Tyne Valley),
96 (north Northumberland),
104.4 (Gateshead/west Newcastle),
MW 1458

Saturday
6am Kelly Scott
10.00 Simon Logan
2pm Sport: Sunderland v
Gillingham (kick-off 3.00)
6.00 Beat Surrender
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—12.00 Tom Campbell

Sunday
6am Kelly Scott
10.00 Simon Logan
2pm Tom Campbell
4.00 Sport: Tottenham
Hotspur v Newcastle United
(kick-off 4.30)
6.15 Michael Poulter
10.00—1am Simon Logan

Monday—Friday
6am Alfie Joey
10.00 Gilly Hope
2pm Anna Foster
5.30 Total News 6.00 Sport
7.45 Wed: Upload;
Fri: Sport: Newcastle United v
Wolverhampton Wanderers
(kick-off 8.00)
8.00 Mon/Tue: Nick Roberts;
Thu: BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Steffen Peddie
Phone-ins: 0191 232 4141
bbc.co.uk/radionewcastle

Northampton
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radionorthampton
FM 104.2 (Northants),
103.6 (Corby/Kettering)

Saturday
6am John Griff
10.00 Treasure Quest
12.00 Gadders
2pm Sport: FM Mansfield
Town v Northampton Town
(k-o 3.00); DAB Rugby Union:
Northampton Saints v Bristol
Bears (kick-off 3.00)
6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven:
with Bernie Keith
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

6am Toby Foster
10.00 Becky Measures;
Wed/Fri: Paulette Edwards
2pm Howard Pressman;
Mon: Simon Morykin
6.00 Football Heaven
7.00Mon/Wed—Fri:SileSibanda
7.45 Tue: Football Heaven Live:
Sheffield United v Queens
Park Rangers (k-o 7.45)
10.00—1am Russell Walker

Monday—Friday
6am Annabel Amos
10.00 Bernie Keith
2pm Tim Wheeler
6.00 Mon/Tue: Kerrie Cosh;
Wed: The Saints Show;
Thu: Sport;
Fri: Daisie-Belle Downer
7.00 Wed: Kerrie Cosh;
Thu: Daisie-Belle Downer
10.00—1am Nick Risby
Phone-ins: 0800 030 4455
radionorthampton@bbc.co.uk

Nottingham
Listen at
bbc.co.uk/radionottingham
FM 103.8 (Notts), 95.1 (Newark),
95.5 (Mansfield)

Saturday
6am Liesl Soards
10.00 Dino
12.00 Matchday: featuring
Blackpool v Nottingham
Forest (kick-off 12.30pm),
plus Southend United v Notts
County, and Mansfield Town v
NorthamptonTown(k-offs3.00)
6pm The Beat
10.00—1am Devon Daley

Sunday
6am Jodi Law
10.00 Dino
2pm Arun Verma
5.00 We Are Notts
6.00 Hansa Dabee
8.00 Laurie Dyche
10.00—1am Jack Rafferty

Monday—Friday
6am Verity Cowley
10.00 Mark Dennison
2pm Andy Whittaker
6.00 Mon/Tue/Thu:
Arun Verma;
Wed: Matchnight: Nottingham
ForestvCoventryCity(k-o7.45);
Fri: In the Game
7.00 Fri: Rob Green
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Dean Jackson
Phone-ins: 0800 678 3434
radio.nottingham@bbc.co.uk

Sheffield
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiosheffield
FM 88.6, 94.7 (Chesterfield), 104.1

Saturday
6am Kat Cowan
10.00 Becky Measures
2pm Football Heaven
3.00 Football Heaven Live: FM
Stoke City v Sheffield United
(kick-off 3.00); MW Barnsley v
Reading (kick-off 3.00)
5.00 Praise or Grumble
6.00 John Kane
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Steve White

Sunday
6am Kat Cowan
10.00 Becky Measures
2pm Football Heaven
3.00 Football Heaven Live:
Rotherham United v Sutton
United (kick-off 3.00)
6.00 Gul Nawaz Hussain
10.00—1am Steve White

Phone-ins: 0800 111 4949
radio.sheffield@bbc.co.uk

Stoke
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radiostoke
FM 94.6 (Stoke), 104.1 (Stafford)

Saturday
6am John Acres
10.00 Rob Adcock
2pm Sport: featuring Stoke
City v Sheffield United, Crewe
Alexandra v Fleetwood Town,
andBarrowvPortVale(k-o3.00)
6.00 Lucas Yeomans
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Rev Geoff Eze
10.00 Paula White
2pm Centre Stage
3.00 Den Siegertsz and Terry
Walsh 6.00 Susan Hanks
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday
6am Lee Blakeman;
Thu/Fri: John Acres
10.00 Stuart George
2pm Liz Ellis;
Mon/Tue: Louise Stones
6.00 Sport at Six
7.00 Mon/Wed: Susan Hanks;
Tue: Sport: Salford City v Port
Vale (kick-off 7.45);
Thu: Centre Stage;
Fri: Lucas Yeomans
8.00 Thu: Susan Hanks
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Natalie Graham
Phone-ins: 0800 121 8080
radio.stoke@bbc.co.uk

Tees
Listen at bbc.co.uk/bbctees
FM 95, 95.8 (Whitby)

Saturday
6am Amy Oakden
10.00 Rachel Teate
2pm Sport: FM Peterborough
United v Middlesbrough
(kick-off 3.00); DAB Hartlepool
United v Salford City (k-o 3.00)
6.00 Beat Surrender
8.00 BBC Introducing:
with Rianne Thompson
10.00—1am Tom Campbell

Sunday
6am Mike Hill
10.00 Dave Llewellyn
2pm Goffy
4.00 Vintage Vinyl
6.00 Alex Hall
10.00—1am Simon Logan

Monday—Friday
6am Neil Green;
Thu/Fri: Amy Oakden
10.00 Gary Philipson
2pm Scott Makin; Fri: Antony
Collins 6.00 Sport
7.00 Mon: Antony Collins;
Thu: Matt Bailey;
Fri: Upload: with Rachel Teate
10.00—1am Steffen Peddie
Phone-ins: 0800 085 9595
tees@bbc.co.uk

WM
Listen at bbc.co.uk/wm
FM 95.6 (West Midlands)

Saturday
6am Henry Liston
10.00 Letitia George
2pm Sport:FMWolverhampton
Wanderers v Aston Villa
(kick-off 3.00); DAB Walsall v
Leyton Orient (kick-off 3.00)
6.00 Mollie Green
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Grace Smith
10.00 Letitia George
2pm Sport: Birmingham City v
WestBromwichAlbion(k-o3.00)
6.00 Gagan Grewal
8.00 Nikki Tapper
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday
6am Elise Evans; Fri: Lee Stone
10.00 Kathryn Stanczyszyn;
Fri: Letitia George
2pm Paul Franks; Fri: John Fox
6.00 The Football Phone-in
7.00 Mon: Natalie Graham;
Tue: Rakeem Omar; Wed:
Sport: West Bromwich Albion v
Bournemouth; Fri: Newcastle
United v Wolverhampton
Wanderers Thu: Amber Sandhu
10.00—1am Tue/Thu:
(Mon/Wed: 10.30) Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham
Phone-ins: 0808 100 9956
radiowm@bbc.co.uk

York
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioyork
FM 103.7 (York/Ryedale/Selby), 95.5
(Scarborough), 104.3 (Harrogate/
Ripon/Northallerton/the Dales)

Saturday
6am Adam Tomlinson
10.00 Harry Whittaker
2pm Sport: featuring Bromley
v York City, and Harrogate
Town v Colchester United
6.00 John Kane’s
Northern Soul and Motown
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Steve White

Sunday
6am Adam Tomlinson
10.00 Sarah Urwin
2pm Sport: rugby league:
Workington Town v York City
Knights (kick-off 2.00)
5.00 Liz Green
6.00 Neil Foster
10.00—1am Steve White

Monday—Friday
6am Georgey Spanswick
10.00 Jonathan Cowap
2pm Joanita Musisi
6.00 Mon: Bek Homer;
Tue: Sport: Kettering Town v
York City (kick-off 7.45);
Wed: George Smith;
Thu: Jericho Keys; Fri: Sport
7.00 Fri: George Smith
10.00—1am Russell Walker
Tel: 0800 111 4849
radioyork@bbc.co.uk

RADIO SCOTLAND
Listen at bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
FM 92.6—94.7, MW 810

Saturday
6am Our Lives with
Michelle McManus
6.30 Out of Doors
8.00 Good Morning Scotland

10.00 Shereen
11.30 Breaking the News
12.00 Off the Ball
2pm Sportsound
6.00 It’s a Small World
6.30 The Reveal
7.00 Take the Floor
9.00 Pipeline
10.00—1am Billy Sloan

Sunday
6am Our Story
6.30 It’s a Small World
7.00 The Reveal
7.30 New Every Sunday
8.00 Sunday Morning
10.00 The Sunday Show
11.30 Sportsound
3pm FM only from 4.00
Off the Ball
4.00 MW Sportsound
5.00 FM only until 6.30
Your Requests with Gary Innes
7.00 Classics Unwrapped
9.00 Jazz Nights
11.00—1am Iain Anderson

Monday
6am Good Morning Scotland
9.00 Mornings
12.00 Lunchtime Live
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Janice Forsyth
4.00 Drivetime
6.00 Get It On...with
Bryan Burnett
8.00 Vic Galloway
10.00—12.00 Iain Anderson

Tuesday
6am Good Morning Scotland
9.00 Mornings
12.00 Lunchtime Live
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Janice Forsyth
4.00 Drivetime
6.00 Get It On...with
Bryan Burnett
8.00 Another Country
with Ricky Ross
10.00—12.00 Roddy Hart

Wednesday
6am Good Morning Scotland
9.00 Mornings
12.00 Lunchtime Live
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Grant Stott
4.00 Drivetime
6.00 Get It On...with
Bryan Burnett
8.00 The Quay Sessions
with Roddy Hart
10.00—12.00 Vic Galloway

Thursday
6am Good Morning Scotland
9.00 Mornings
12.00 Lunchtime Live
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Grant Stott
4.00 Drivetime
6.00 Get It On...with
Bryan Burnett
8.00 Travelling Folk
10.00—12.00 Natasha
Raskin Sharp

Friday
6am Good Morning Scotland
9.00 Mornings
12.00 Lunchtime Live
1.30pm Breaking the News
2.00 The Afternoon Show
with Nicola Meighan
4.00 Drivetime
6.00 FM only from 7.00 Grant
Stott’s Vinyl Collective
7.00 MW Sportsound
8.00 FM BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Ashley Storrie
Phone-ins: 08085 929500

All BBC local radio stations take BBC Radio 5 Live programmes from 1am

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

129

Radio

Sunday

Monday—Friday

6am Andy Lake
10.00 John Griff
2pm Matt Mackay
4.00 John Leech Soul Show
6.00 Farzana Chaudry
8.00 Edward Adoo
10.00—1am David Clayton

Local

6am William Wright
10.00 George Smith
2pm Hope and Glory: Charlton
Athletic v Lincoln City (k-o 3.00)
6.00 The Beat
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Devon Daley

6am Helen Jones
10.00 Sean Styles
1.30pm Sport: West Ham
United v Everton (k-off 2.00)
2.00 DAB Billy Hui
4.00 Roger Lyon
6.00 Andy Ball
8.00 Carl Learmond
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Saturday

Sunday

RADIO in your area
BBC Radio Scotland

Radio

Local

Face behind the voice
Age 40
Current job
Presenter of
the weekday
mid-morning
show on Heart
(10am–1pm)
and the Club Classics show on
Saturdays (7—11pm). She also
DJs at club nights and festivals,
and is an ambassador for the
Fostering Network charity.
CV Born in Brent, north London,
she was homeless and in foster
care for a lot of her childhood.
“Sleeping on the street, picking
food out of the bin. Not having
any food for the next day and
the next day. At the time, I knew
no different, that was life. But
it was hard.” Her mother died
when she was nine and she was
placed with a foster family. “From
that day I had stability in my life.
They’re who I call mum and dad
now. I couldn’t be more thankful
to foster carers and that’s why
I’m a huge advocate for them. It’s
so important and they don’t get
the recognition they deserve.”

Saturday
NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER
hourly 8.00am to 12 noon
NEWS HEADLINES 2.00pm, 5.00
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
6.00am, 7.00, 5.30pm, 7.00,
9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12 midnight

6.00am Our Lives with
Michelle McManus
Michelle meets a conductor
who sees sound as colour, a
man who collects bricks and a
woman whose best friend
became her sister. Plus the
hunt to find a pig a companion.
6.30 Out of Doors
Mark Stephen and Euan
McIlwraith with stories
from the great outdoors in
Scotland and beyond.
Email: outofdoors@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Good Morning Scotland
Morning news programme.
10.00 Shereen
Shereen Nanjiani and guests
with a unique take on the
things getting Scotland talking
this Saturday morning.
11.30 Breaking the News
Des Clarke hosts Scotland’s
award-winning satirical news
quiz. Repeated from yesterday
12.00 Off the Ball
The most petty and illinformed football show
on radio. Presented by Stuart
Cosgrove and Tam Cowan.
Text 80295.
Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk

2.00pm Sportsound
Comprehensive coverage of
Scottish football, including live
commentary, breaking news,
interviews, analysis and
discussion. Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media

Pandora Christie Heart FM

Did a Diploma in Performing Arts,
then joined an acting agency and
got roles in documentaries and
student films — “I was never very
good at it, to be honest. I’m better
at just being me.” She decided to
pursue a career in radio: “Being
a part of radio has changed my
life, it was the best decision I ever
made.” Then got a job as a promo
girl with Heart’s Ground Patrol:
“I shadowed everyone I could,
from presenters and producers
to engineers. I wanted to know
everything about radio.” Worked
unpaid on a community radio
station, then moved to Choice FM
(now Capital Xtra) and then on to
Capital FM. Moved to Kiss FM in
2017, then to Heart in 2019.
Social media — yes or no? “I am
on it every day! I absolutely love
it. I use social media to spread
positivity and bring a bit of fun to
people’s lives. I love connecting
to people through it. It can be
such a great place. I think people
need to use it in a responsible way,
though, and protect themselves
from negative situations.”

6.00 It’s a Small World
Now more than ever, being
part of a community can play a
vital role in people’s wellbeing,
as they come together with
shared interests. Anna Massie
encounters communities
around Scotland to find out
how they have blossomed and
brought people together
locally and worldwide.
Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

6.30 The Reveal
Nalini Chetty lifts the lid on
contemporary Scottish life,
providing a peek through the
window into the country’s
lesser-known parallel worlds.
Repeated tomorrow 7am

7.00 Take the Floor
Gary Innes presents the best in
traditional music, introducing
a session from a leading band
and interviewing guests from
the world of music.
Email: takethefloor@bbc.co.uk

9.00 Pipeline
News and recordings from the
piping world, with Gary West.
Email: pipeline@bbc.co.uk

10.00 Billy Sloan
A varied selection of music
from the rich history of
Scotland’s — and the rest of
the world’s — rock and pop.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
hourly 6.00am to 12 noon,
3.00pm, 5.00, hourly 7.00 to 11.00

6.00am Our Story
Mark Stephen takes a trip on
the River Clyde with George
Parsonage of the Glasgow
Humane Society.

Best moments “We’re doing a
game called Heart’s Make Me a
Millionaire. We’re changing lives.
Think of the good that’s doing!
I’ve helped two people becoming
millionaires — if ever I’m having a
bad day, I think of that.”
Worst moments “On my very
first show on Choice, I was
petrified and couldn’t remember

I couldn’t be
more thankful
to foster carers

‘

’

what I wanted to say. All I had
was, ‘Hello, I’m new, I’m Pandora!’
Then after the ads I forgot to
put the fader up — it took ten
seconds for the back-up CD to
kick in, but it felt like a lifetime!”
Off air Lives in west London with
staffie cross Henry: “He’s got me
wrapped around his little finger.
I’ve started doing 40 things for
40, and one of them is learning
kickboxing — I recently got my
first white belt. I have said I will be

6.30 It’s a Small World
Now more so than ever, being
part of a community can play
a vital role in people’s
wellbeing, as they come
together with shared
interests and enhance their
daily lives. Here Anna Massie
encounters communities
around Scotland to find out
how they have blossomed and
brought people together
locally and worldwide.
Repeated from yesterday 6pm

7.00 The Reveal
Nalini Chetty lifts the lid on
hidden aspects of
contemporary Scottish life,
providing a peek through the
window into the country’s
lesser-known parallel worlds.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

7.30 New Every Sunday
Acts of worship from different
churches around Scotland.
8.00 Sunday Morning
Connie McLaughlin presents
music and conversation
with a faith and ethical
perspective, looking back at
the week’s events to ask what
they reveal about people’s
values and beliefs.
10.00 The Sunday Show
Martin Geissler and Fiona
Stalker discuss the big issues
of the week and talk to
the people behind the
political headlines.
11.30 Sportsound
Comprehensive coverage of
Scottish football, including live
commentary, breaking news,
interviews, analysis and
discussion. Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media

a champion — I don’t know how
long that will take!” Advocates
for Battersea Cats and Dogs
Home. Also writes a beauty blog.
First radio memory “Radio has
been in my life since I was born,
and I used to listen to Chris Moyles
on Radio 1 all the time.”
Favourite broadcasters “Chris
Moyles is one of my radio heroes
— open, honest, unpredictable.
He made me realise you can be
yourself as a presenter. Toby
Anstiss is an incredible presenter
and has made me feel so at
home. Margherita Taylor is so
warm and friendly. You feel like
you’re sitting in a room with her.”
Ambition “To teach a course at
Global Academy on how to be a
presenter — I want to help young
people get into their dream job.
Whatever your dream, you can
make it a reality. I’m proof of that.”
Secret skills “I’m learning Polish,
so I can speak with my boyfriend’s
parents at Christmas. I’m not
quite there yet, but I’ll try again
next year.” DAVID CRAWFORD
Listen at globalplayer.com

3.00pm Off the Ball
The most petty and illinformed football show
on radio. Presented by Stuart
Cosgrove and Tam Cowan.
Text 80295.
Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk

MW only
4.00—6.30 Sportsound
Continued coverage of
Scottish sport including live
and exclusive commentary.
@BBCSportsound on social media

FM only until 6.30
5.00 Your Requests with
Gary Innes
Gary shares listeners’ special
messages and dedications and
plays Scottish music requests.
7.00 Classics Unwrapped
Jamie MacDougall talks to
Helen MacKinnon from Perth
Festival of the Arts about plans
for this year, including
Perthshire Brass, the awardwinning vocal group Tenebrae
and Children’s Classic Concerts.
He also plays recordings from
the 1950s in Album of the
Week, with Sir John Barbirolli
and the New York Philharmonic,
and has news of upcoming
events with the Glasgow
Barons and the National Youth
Orchestra of Scotland.
Contact: Classics Unwrapped,
BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay,
Glasgow G51 1DA
Email: classicsunwrapped@bbc.co.uk

9.00 Jazz Nights
Seonaid Aitken with the onestop destination for jazz from
Scotland and farther afield
with news, sessions, exclusives
and features including Richard
Michael’s Song Book.

11.00 Iain Anderson
Iain invites listeners to end the
day in the company of the
songwriting masters of
country, folk, blues and soul.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Monday
NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER
hourly 6.00am to 8.00, 10.00 to 5.00pm
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
7.00pm, 8.00, 10.00, 11.00
LOCAL NEWS Dumfries, Aberdeen,
Inverness, Selkirk: 6.30am, 7.30,
8.30, 12.30pm, 4.30, 5.30;
Orkney: 7.30am, 12 noon, 6.00pm;
Shetland: 12.30pm, 5.30, 6.00

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
A round-up of the latest news
from home and abroad. With
travel reports every 15
minutes, business updates at
7.45 and 8.45, weather
reports at 7.29 and 7.59, and
sports reports at 7.08, 7.35,
8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Lucy Whyte gets to the heart
of the stories making the
day’s news and offers
listeners the opportunity to
have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Janice Forsyth
A round-up of the latest in film,
TV, arts, theatre and music
across Scotland.
4.00 Drivetime
John Beattie breaks down the
day’s talking points with
comment and opinion, plus
sport, travel and weather.

6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Bryan presents songs about
chancers, cheats and
scoundrels. Text 80295.
Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Vic Galloway
New releases from Scotland’s
best alternative artists, and
classic album cuts alongside
session tracks. Text 80295.
Email: vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk
Repeated Wednesday 10pm

10.00 Iain Anderson
A chance to end the day in the
company of the masters of
country, folk, blues and soul.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Tuesday
NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Lucy Whyte gets to the heart
of the day’s news and offers
listeners the opportunity to
have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Janice Forsyth
A round-up of the latest in film,
TV, arts, theatre and music
across Scotland.
4.00 Drivetime
John Beattie presents
comment and opinion on the
day’s talking points, plus sport,
travel and weather.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Music by bands with the
oddest names. Text 80295.
Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Another Country with
Ricky Ross
Ricky showcases new and
classic country and Americana.
10.00 Roddy Hart
An inviting mix of new music
and back-catalogue
selections.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday
NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
A round-up of the latest news
from home and abroad. With
travel reports every 15
minutes, business updates at
7.45 and 8.45, weather
reports at 7.29 and 7.59, and
sports reports at 7.08, 7.35,
8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Lucy Whyte gets to the heart
of the day’s news and offers
listeners the opportunity to
have their say.

Listen on the internet at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

128

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Saturday 2–Friday 8 April
Frequencies

Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

Repeated from Monday 8pm

12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Thursday
NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Rona Dougall gets to the
heart of the day’s news and
offers listeners the
opportunity to have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Grant Stott
A round-up of the latest in film,
TV, arts, theatre and music
across Scotland.
4.00 Drivetime
Fiona Stalker presents
comment and opinion on the
day’s talking points.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Featuring the loudest voices
of all time. Text 80295.
Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Travelling Folk
Bruce MacGregor with the
very best of folk and roots
music from around the world.
10.00 Natasha Raskin Sharp
Natasha presents an eclectic
mix of music, as well as paying
tribute to a “Late Great” and
spinning the globe for the
Out of This World feature.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

NEWS: SPORT: TRAVEL: WEATHER
as Monday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
hourly 7.00pm to 12 midnight
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
With Rona Dougall.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm Breaking the News
Des Clarke hosts Scotland’s
award-winning satirical news
quiz. Repeated tomorrow
2.00 The Afternoon Show
with Nicola Meighan
Nicola presents ideas for
fun things to do around
Scotland in the days ahead.
4.00 Drivetime
Fiona Stalker presents
comment and opinion on
the day’s talking points.
6.00 Grant Stott’s Vinyl
Collective
Grant celebrates the vinyl
revival with classic records
and new releases.
MW only
7.00—10.00 Sportsound
Comprehensive coverage of
Scottish football including live
commentary, breaking news,
interviews, analysis and
discussion. Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media

FM only
8.00 BBC Introducing in
Scotland
Phoebe I-H and Shereen
Cutkelvin present the best
unsigned andundiscovered
music Scotland has to offer.
10.00 Ashley Storrie
The comedian kicks off the
weekend with music and chat.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio Scotland
40 Pacific Quay
Glasgow G51 1DA
bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Local programmes
ORKNEY

Weekdays
7.30am—8.00 Around
Orkney: a round-up of local
news, events and weather.
6.00pm—7.00 Fri: Friday
Requests: weekly dedication
programme, featuring music
requests and greetings.
PHONE: 01856 873939
Email: radio.orkney@bbc.co.uk

SHETLAND

Weekdays
5.30pm Good Evening
Shetland: news and features
from around the isles.
6.00—7.00 Mon—Thu: As
Radio Scotland; Fri: Give Us a
Tune: all-request show.
PHONE: 01595 694747
Email: radio.shetland@bbc.co.uk

Radio nan
Gaidheal
Mar Radio Alba ach:

Disathairne
9.00am Spòrs na Seachdain
Spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus
bho air feadh an t-saoghail
còmhla ri Iain Moireasdan.
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
POST DEALAIN: sns@bbc.co.uk

10.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich
Cluinnear òrain bho Brad
Paisley, Alan Jackson, Kacey
Musgraves agus Alison Krauss.
11.00 Tiompan
Ceòl Ceilteach, clàran ùra agus
fios mu cò tha cluich càite le
Mairead NicIllinnein.
12.00—1.00pm Aileag
Beachdan chloinne, ceòl agus
spòrs gu leòr.
POST DEALAIN: aileag@bbc.co.uk

Didòmhnaich
9.00am Dèanamaid Adhradh
Seirbheis Ghàidhlig.
ath-chraoladh aig 3pm

9.30 Baile Horgaboist aig 80
Sùil air baile Horgaboist ann an
ceann a deas na Hearadh san
latha an-diugh.
10.00 Còmhla a-rithist
Feadhainn a bha uair ag obair
còmhla, ri chèile a-rithist.
An-diugh tidsearan Ard-sgoil
Phort Rìgh.
10.30 Oran Annad
Tha Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil
a’ toirt aithne dha na
h-òranaichean a th’ air a bhith
a’ cruthachadh òrain ùra ann
an Gàidhlig.
11.30 Rogha is Tagha
Taghadh à prògraman na
seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh
le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.
12.00 Crùnluath
Eòghann MacEunraig le
taghadh de cheòl na pìoba.
1.00pm Sgeulachd Beatha
Murchadh MacIllFhinnein à
Marabhaig ag innse mu
bheatha san eaglais do dh’
Annella Nicleòid.
1.30 Sùil air... Tha sinn a’
cluinntinn bho fhear a bha a’
fuireach ann am baile
Sasannach Cockermouth mu
thuil uamhasach, agus neachobrach bhon UN a’ bruidhinn
air na suidheachaidhean
duilich a chunnaic e air
feadh an t-saoghail
2.00 SpeakGaelic
Podcast airson luchdionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig air a
lìbhrigeadh le Iain Urchardan.
2.30 An Litir Bheag
Litir Bheag na seachdain sa le
Ruairidh MacIlleathain.
2.35 SpeakGaelic
2.55 Litir do
Luchd-ionnsachaidh
Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh le
Ruairidh MacIlleathain.
3.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh
3.30—4.30 Gleus
Fuinn, còisirean agus òrain bho
shaoghal ceòl clasaigeach
agus eile, le Iain Moireach.
9.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh
9.30—10.00 Alleluia

Diluain
7.30am Aithris na Maidne
Naidheachdan ionadail,
nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta
gach madainn.
9.00 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.
ath-chraoladh aig 10.30pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail
agus tha i feitheamh ribh le
taghadh ciùil.
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dha.
ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol
agaibhse gach feasgar.
POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk

3.30 Dè nan robh?
Dè nan robh am Morair
Leverhulme air
gnìomhachasan mòra a thoirt
a Leòdhas às dèidh 1918?
ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 8pm

4.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich
Taghadh de cheòl dùthchail
sean is ùr.
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
Naidheachdan nàiseanta is
ionadail o Dhiluain gu
Dihaoine.
5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le
Pluto
Ceòl, fealla-dhà agus sùil air
spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus
eadar-nàiseanta.
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
POST DEALAIN: pluto@bbc.co.uk

7.00 Cruinn
Beachdan, beagan amaideas
agus ceòl cuideachd aig
toiseach na seachdain.
9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dha.
10.30—11.30 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.

Dimàirt
Mar Diluain ach:

3.30pm Spòrscast Na
naidheachdan spòrs as ùire.
ath-chraoladh Diardaoin aig 7pm

4.00—5.00 Oran Annad
Tha Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil a’
toirt aithne dha na
h-òranaichean a th’ air a
bhith a’ cruthachadh
òrain ùra ann an Gàidhlig.
ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 7pm

7.00 Rapal
Prògram sònraichte a chaidh a
chlàradh aig Fèis The Great
Escape ann am Brighton le
Emma NicLaomainn.
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050
POST DEALAIN: rapal@bbc.co.uk

9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
10.30—11.30 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.

Diciadain
Mar Diluain ach:

3.30pm SpeakGaelic
Pod-chraoladh do luchdionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig air a
thaisbeanadh le Iain Urchadan.
Tha an t-sreath ag amas air
luchd-ionnsachaidh bunsgoile. ath-chraoladh aig 8.30pm

4.00—5.00 Gleus Fuinn,
còisirean agus òrain bho
shaoghal ceòl clasaigeach
agus eile, le Iain Moireach.
7.00 Oran Annad
Tha Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil
a’ toirt aithne dha na
h-òranaichean a th’ air a
bhith a’ cruthachadh òrain
ùra ann an Gàidhlig.
8.00 Dè nan robh? Dè nan
robh am Morair Leverhulme
air gnìomhachasan mòra a
thoirtaLeòdhasàsdèidh1918?
8.30—9.00 SpeakGaelic
Pod-chraoladh do
luchd-ionnsachaidh na
Gàidhlig air a thaisbeanadh
le Iain Urchadan.

Diardaoin
Mar Diluain ach:

3.30pm Pìobairean
New series. 1/6. Sgeulachd
Màidsear na Pìoba Seonaidh
“Roidein” Dòmhnallach à
Uibhist a Deas.
4.00—5.00 Crùnluath
Taghadh de cheòl na pìoba.
7.00 Spòrscast Na
naidheachdan spòrs as ùire.
7.30 Gillebrìde ‘s a
Chlann-nighean
A’ chlann-nighean a’ cumail
smachd air Gillebrìde, gun
trod ach le sgil is misneachd!
ath-chraoladha’maireachaig3.30pm

8.00—9.00 Roc Ceilteach
1/6. Streath do shia
phrògraman a bhios a’
coimhead air
freumhaichean, eachdraidh
agus soirbheachas a’ chiùil
Roc Cheiltich. Bithidh Dòl
Eoin MacFhionghuin a toirt
sùil air mar a shoirbhich an
nos ciuil seo gun do ruig e
mullach na priomh fhichead.
ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 4pm

Dihaoine
Mar Diluain ach:

3.30pm Gillebrìde ‘s a
Chlann-nighean
A’ chlann-nighean a’ cumail
smachd air Gillebrìde, gun
trod ach le sgil is misneachd!
4.00—5.00 Roc Ceilteach
1/6. Streath do shia
phrògraman a bhios a’
coimhead air
freumhaichean, eachdraidh
agus soirbheachas a’ chiùil
Roc Cheiltich. Bithidh Dòl
Eoin MacFhionghuin a toirt
sùil air mar a shoirbhich an
nos ciuil seo gun do ruig e
mullach na priomh fhichead.
5.30 Rogha is Tagha
Taghadh à prògraman na
seachdainairathoirtthugaibh
le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.
6.00 Na Dùrachdan
Ceòl, òrain is fealla-dhà.
9.00 Mac’ille Mhìcheil
Cuiridh Iain Mac’illeMhìcheil
agus aoighean air a’ fòn an
deireadh seachdain air a
chasan.
11.00 Tiompan
Ceòl Ceilteach, clàran ùra
agus fios mu cò tha cluich
càite le Mairead NicIllinnein.
12.00—1.00am
Naoi gu Deich

National
BBC Radio 1* FM 97.7–99.7
BBC Radio 2* FM 88.1–90.1
BBC Radio 3* FM 90.3–92.3
BBC Radio 4 FM 94.6–96.1,
103.5–104.9, LW 198, MW 1449
(Aberdeen, LW progs)
BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909
BBC Radio Scotland FM 92.5–
94.7, MW 810, 585 (Dumfries)
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal FM
103.5–104.9 (carries R4 in some
parts), MW 990 (Aberdeen)
Classic FM 99.9–101.9
Talksport MW 1053, 1089
Absolute MW 1215, 1242
Above stations also on Freeview
(*not Sat 4pm—1am, Sun 4pm—
12 midnight, weekdays 5pm—
12 midnight), plus satellite, cable,
internet and DAB (Radio Scotland
MW service only).

Local
Argyll FM 106.5, 107.1, 107.7
(Campbeltown)
BBC Cumbria FM 95.6 (Carlisle),
96.1 (Morecambe Bay), 95.2
(Kendal), 104.1 (Whitehaven/
Keswick), 104.2 (Windermere),
MW 756 (Carlisle), 837 (Barrowin-Furness), 1458 (Whitehaven)
Capital 106.1 (Glasgow), 105.7
(Edinburgh)
Central FM 103.1 (Stirling/
Falkirk/Clackmannanshire)
CFM 102.2 (Workington), 102.5
(Penrith), 103.4 (Whitehaven),
96.4 (Carlisle)
Clyde 1 FM 102.3 (Rothesay),
102.5 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Firth of
Clyde), 97 (Vale of Leven)
Clyde 2 MW 1 152 (Glasgow)
Cuillin FM 106.2, 102.7
(Skye/Lochalsh)
Forth 1 FM 97.3, 97.6
(Edinburgh), 102.2 (Penicuik)
Forth 2 MW 1548 (Edinburgh)
Heart FM 101.1 (Edinburgh/
Rosneath), 100.3 (Glasgow),
103.3 (Penicuik)
Heartland FM 97.5 (Pitlochry/
Aberfeldy), 106.6 (Perth)
Isles FM 103 (Western Isles)
Kingdom FM 105.4 (St
Andrews), 106.3 (The East Neuk),
95.2 (West Fife), 96.1 (Central &
East Fife), 96.6 (Kirkcaldy)
Lochbroom FM 102.2 (Ullapool),
96.8 (North West Scotland)
Mearns FM 105.1 (Portlethen),
105.7 (Stonehaven),
106.2 (Inverbervie),
107.3 (Laurencekirk)
MFR FM 96.6 (Speysound), 96.7
(Fraserburgh), 97.4 (Highlands/
Moray/Aberdeenshire), 102.5
(Caithness), 102.8 (Keith)
MFR Two MW 1107 (Inverness)
Nevis FM 96.6 (Fort William),
97 (Glencoe), 102.4 (Loch Leven),
102.3 (Skye & Mallaig)
Northsound 1 FM 96.9
(Aberdeen), 97.6 (Balgownie),
103 (Peterhead)
Oban FM 103.3
Original FM 106 (Aberdeen)
Radio Borders 102.3 (Berwick),
103.4 (Eyemouth), 103.1
(Peebles), 96.8 (Selkirk)
SIBC FM 96.2 (Bressay),
102.2 (Shetland)
Smooth Radio FM 105.2
(Glasgow)
Tay FM MW 102.8 (Dundee),
96.4 (Perth)
Tay 2 MW 1 161 (Dundee),
1584 (Perth)
Wave FM 102 (Dundee)
Waves Radio FM 101.2
(Peterhead/Fraserburgh)
West FM 96.7 (Ayrshire),
97.5 (Girvan), 106.7 (Rothesay)
West Sound FM 97 (Dumfries),
103 (Kirkcudbright), 96.5
(Stranraer), MW 1035 (Ayrshire)
Your Radio FM 103 (Dumbarton),
106.9 (Helensburgh)

Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

129

Radio

8.00 The Quay Sessions
with Roddy Hart
Live performances from
across the musical landscape
— all captured in front of an
audience in the intimate
setting of the foyer at BBC
Radio Scotland’s Pacific Quay.
10.00 Vic Galloway
Vic introduces new releases
from Scotland’s best
alternative artists, plus classic
album cuts alongside live
session tracks.

Friday

Local

12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
with Grant Stott
A round-up of the latest in film,
TV, arts, theatre and music
across Scotland.
4.00 Drivetime
John Beattie presents
comment and opinion on the
day’s talking points, plus sport,
travel and weather.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Music by bands who were just
a wee bit Scottish. Text 80295.

RADIO in your area
BBC Radio Ulster

Radio

Local

Face behind the voice
Age 40
Current job
Presenter of
the weekday
mid-morning
show on Heart
(10am–1pm)
and the Club Classics show on
Saturdays (7—11pm). She also
DJs at club nights and festivals,
and is an ambassador for the
Fostering Network charity.
CV Born in Brent, north London,
she was homeless and in foster
care for a lot of her childhood.
“Sleeping on the street, picking
food out of the bin. Not having
any food for the next day and
the next day. At the time, I knew
no different, that was life. But
it was hard.” Her mother died
when she was nine and she was
placed with a foster family. “From
that day I had stability in my life.
They’re who I call mum and dad
now. I couldn’t be more thankful
to foster carers and that’s why
I’m a huge advocate for them. It’s
so important and they don’t get
the recognition they deserve.”

Saturday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm, then 11.55

6.45am Farm Gate
Food, countryside and
agricultural issues.
Presented by Elaine Mitchell.
7.05 Kim Lenaghan
A selection of fine tunes.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: kim.lenaghan@bbc.co.uk

8.05 Your Place & Mine
The people, places and stories
that make Northern Ireland
unique, presented by Anne
Marie McAleese.
Phone: 0289 033 8307
Email: ypam@bbc.co.uk

9.05 Gardeners’ Corner
The weekly programme for
keen horticulturists with the
latest advice, news and visits to
gardens around the province.
Presented by David Maxwell.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55

10.05 On Your Behalf
Linda McAuley champions the
cause of consumers in Northern
Ireland, helping them to solve
their problems, make the right
choices and avoid the pitfalls.
Repeated Wednesday 6.05pm
Write to: On Your Behalf,
BBC Broadcasting House,
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
Phone: 0289 033 8314
Website: bbc.co.uk/oyb

11.05 The John Toal Show
The broadcaster ventures
beyond the confines of the
studio for first-hand experience
of listeners’ family and
community lives.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: john.toal@bbc.co.uk

Pandora Christie Heart FM

Did a Diploma in Performing Arts,
then joined an acting agency and
got roles in documentaries and
student films — “I was never very
good at it, to be honest. I’m better
at just being me.” She decided to
pursue a career in radio: “Being
a part of radio has changed my
life, it was the best decision I ever
made.” Then got a job as a promo
girl with Heart’s Ground Patrol:
“I shadowed everyone I could,
from presenters and producers
to engineers. I wanted to know
everything about radio.” Worked
unpaid on a community radio
station, then moved to Choice FM
(now Capital Xtra) and then on to
Capital FM. Moved to Kiss FM in
2017, then to Heart in 2019.
Social media — yes or no? “I am
on it every day! I absolutely love
it. I use social media to spread
positivity and bring a bit of fun to
people’s lives. I love connecting
to people through it. It can be
such a great place. I think people
need to use it in a responsible way,
though, and protect themselves
from negative situations.”

12.05pm Storytellers:
Number 5
Ep 4. By Glenn Patterson.
It is now the late 1990s and
Number 5 has been bought
by the Eliots — ex- solider Steve,
wife Catriona and their two
children. They are just
beginning to enjoy the
benefits of the Peace dividend,
when God intervenes.
Abridged by Eoin O’Callaghan
and read by Ali White.
12.30 In Bits: Jimeoin Meets
5/6. Alison Spittle tells host
Jimeoin about her bizarre
experiences with burglars
and Ricky Grover shares
stories about his tough
upbringing in east London.
1.05 The Eve Blair Show
Music and chat, with
interviews and features
ranging from books to film.
2.05 Sportsound
Michael McNamee presents
coverage of the afternoon’s
Irish Premiership matches. With
news at 3.00, 4.00 and 5.00.
6.05 The Culture Café
From the page to the stage,
Marie-Louise Muir hosts the
essential cultural conversation.
7.05 Caschlár
Lig do scíth le scoth an cheoil le
rogha Brian Mullen ó phopcheol,
fréamhcheol, ceol traidisiúnta,
na gormacha agus anamcheol.
Brian Mullen presents a
wide-ranging mix of music,
including pop, blues and soul.
Including news at 8.00.
Requests to: Brian Mullen,
Irish Language Unit, BBC Radio Ulster,
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
Phone: 0289 033 8043

Best moments “We’re doing a
game called Heart’s Make Me a
Millionaire. We’re changing lives.
Think of the good that’s doing!
I’ve helped two people becoming
millionaires — if ever I’m having a
bad day, I think of that.”
Worst moments “On my very
first show on Choice, I was
petrified and couldn’t remember

I couldn’t be
more thankful
to foster carers

‘

’

what I wanted to say. All I had
was, ‘Hello, I’m new, I’m Pandora!’
Then after the ads I forgot to
put the fader up — it took ten
seconds for the back-up CD to
kick in, but it felt like a lifetime!”
Off air Lives in west London with
staffie cross Henry: “He’s got me
wrapped around his little finger.
I’ve started doing 40 things for
40, and one of them is learning
kickboxing — I recently got my
first white belt. I have said I will be

9.05 Jazz World with
Linley Hamilton
Contemporary jazz music
from around the world and
profiles new local talent.
Email: linley.hamilton@bbc.co.uk

10.05 Saturday Club with
John Bennett
Late-night music club
featuring classic tracks from
the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Including news at 11.00.
Text: 81771

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm, then 11.55

7.05am Kim Lenaghan
Fine tunes and conversation.
Including Thought for the Day
at 7.55 and news at 8.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: kim.lenaghan@bbc.co.uk

8.30 Sunday Sequence
Audrey Carville and guests
debate the week’s religious
and ethical news and explore
the world of culture and ideas.
With news at 9.00 and 10.00.
Phone: 0289 033 8355
Email: sunday.sequence@bbc.co.uk

10.15 Morning Service
The Rt Rev Darren McCartney
leads an act of worship from
St Bronach’s Church,
Kilbroney, Rostrevor.
11.05 Sunday with
Steven Rainey
Steven brings the best of
in-depth current affairs,
interviews, discussion and
analysis — including an
essential guide to the
Sunday newspapers.
With news at 12.00.

a champion — I don’t know how
long that will take!” Advocates
for Battersea Cats and Dogs
Home. Also writes a beauty blog.
First radio memory “Radio has
been in my life since I was born,
and I used to listen to Chris Moyles
on Radio 1 all the time.”
Favourite broadcasters “Chris
Moyles is one of my radio heroes
— open, honest, unpredictable.
He made me realise you can be
yourself as a presenter. Toby
Anstiss is an incredible presenter
and has made me feel so at
home. Margherita Taylor is so
warm and friendly. You feel like
you’re sitting in a room with her.”
Ambition “To teach a course at
Global Academy on how to be a
presenter — I want to help young
people get into their dream job.
Whatever your dream, you can
make it a reality. I’m proof of that.”
Secret skills “I’m learning Polish,
so I can speak with my boyfriend’s
parents at Christmas. I’m not
quite there yet, but I’ll try again
next year.” DAVID CRAWFORD
Listen at globalplayer.com

1.05 Sunday with
Brian D’Arcy
Brian delves into his wide
experience of music to bring
listeners some tracks just right
for a Sunday afternoon, along
with some reflections to make
them think, laugh or cry.
Write to: Sunday with Brian D’Arcy,
BBC Radio Ulster, Ormeau Avenue,
Belfast BT2 8HQ

2.05 Kerry McLean
Great tunes and conversation.
Including news at 3.00.
Text: 81771
Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk

4.05 Grainne Duffy Rocks
Ep 2. The singer and guitarist
embarks on a personal journey
into the wonderful world
of rock music.
5.05 Sounds Sacred
Richard Yarr introduces
popular, sacred music
performed by local and
internationally acclaimed
performers. He also plays
listeners’ requests and
provides news of music events
across Northern Ireland.
6.05 Kintra
Stories, news, music and
banter from Ulster-Scots
communities at home and
abroad. With Helen Mark.
Email: kintra@bbc.co.uk

6.30 Carl Frampton:
a Different League
5/6. Boxer Carl Frampton
talks to Catie Munnings about
her life as a leading female in
the world of racing in both rally
and Extreme E. Catie puts
Carl’s skills to the test as he
trades the boxing ring for
the race course.

7.05 Classical Connections
with John Toal
The host presents an evening
of popular classical music. Plus
news, reviews and interviews
with local and touring
performers. With news at 8.00.
9.05 Jazz Club with
Walter Love
Recordings by jazz musicians,
including tracks that have
been performed exclusively
for BBC Radio Ulster.
10.05 Sunday Club with
John Bennett
Music designed to soothe away
the problems of the past week.
Dedications to: The Sunday Club,
BBC Radio Ulster, Broadcast House,
Belfast BT2 8HQ
Email: jb@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Monday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly 10.00
to 11.00pm, plus 4.30pm, 5.30 and 11.55

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Joel
Taggart,includingtravelupdates
and analysis of finance and
business news, plus agribusiness in Farm Gate and a
Thought for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

8.55 Party Election
Broadcast
By the Democratic Unionist
Party, for the Northern Ireland
Assembly Election on 5 May.
9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and topical
debate with Stephen Nolan.
With news and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor
Phillips Show
A mid-morning mix of
music and mischief, with fun
features such as Howl Yer
Wisht, Does My Head In and
Absolutely Mortified.
Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.00 Talkback
William Crawley and the
Talkback team present news
and invite listeners’ on-air
reactions to all the breaking
stories of the day, from politics
and health to consumer issues
and education. Including news
at 12.00 and 1.00pm.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Website: bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30pm Hugo Duncan
The best in country music
old and new, plus the
opportunity for listeners to
submit requests by phone
or text. Including news and
travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
Brightening up the afternoon
with a lively mix of music,
features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the
half-hour, plus regular sport,
traffic and weather reports,
and the latest agri-business.
6.05 Sportsound Extra Time
Nicola McCarthy, Nigel
Ringland and guests
discuss the biggest stories
making the back pages,
featuring exclusive interviews,
analysis and debate.
7.05 Blas
Fearghal Mag Uiginn le súil siar
ar aicsean na gclubanna CLG
agus craobhchomórtais na
gContaetha ag teacht chun
críche agus feachtais
Chumainn Uladh faoi lánseol.
Fearghal Mag Uiginn looks
back at the weekend’s
sporting action.
7.30 The Stephen
McCauley Show
The best in alternative music
from punk to electronica from
home and abroad, featuring
live performance, interviews
and more. Including news at
8.00 and 9.00.
9.30 ATL Introducing
Gemma Bradley serves up the
freshestnewIrishmusicaltalent,
from indie-rock to hip-hop with
live music and interviews.
Including news at 10.00.
11.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
The best in chilled-out music,
including a mix of easy
listening melodies both
old and new, together
with material by the Artist
of the Week.
Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Listen on the internet at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

128

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Saturday 2–Friday 8 April
Frequencies
Tuesday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor
Phillips Show
Music and mischief, with fun
features such as Howl Yer
Wisht, Does My Head In and
Absolutely Mortified.
Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.00 Talkback
William Crawley and the
Talkback team present news,
views and reactions to the
day’s stories. Including news
at 12.00 and 1.00pm.

Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Chris
Buckler including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

8.55 Party Election
Broadcast
By the Ulster Unionist Party,
for the Northern Ireland
Assembly Election on
Thursday 5 May.
9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with
Stephen Nolan. Listeners can
share their views by phone,
text or email. Including news
and travel at 10.00.

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Website: bbc.co.uk/talkback

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

1.30pm Hugo Duncan
The best in country music old
and new, plus the opportunity
for listeners to submit requests
by phone or text. Including
news and travel at 2.00.

10.30 The Connor
Phillips Show
Music, mischief and fun
features. With news at 11.00.

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
A lively mix of music,
features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the
half-hour, plus regular sport,
traffic and weather reports,
and the latest agri-business.
6.05 Farming Matters
Voices, views, stories, news
and chat from Northern
Ireland’s rural community,
hosted by Nicola Weir.
Including essential livestock
and weather reports.
7.05 Blas
Na himeachtaí ealaíne agus
cultúir ar gá iad a fheiceáil
agus a chluinstin.
Dáithí Ó Muirí keeps listeners
up-to-date with all that’s
happening in the arts.
7.30 The Stephen
McCauley Show
The best in alternative music
from punk to electronica from
home and abroad, featuring
live performance, interviews
and more. Including news
at 8.00 and 9.00.

Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.00 Talkback
Presented by William Crawley.
Withnewsat12.00 and 1.00pm.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Website: bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30pm Hugo Duncan
The best in country music, plus
the opportunity for listeners to
submit requests by phone or
text. News and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
Music, features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic
and weather reports, and the
latest agri-business.
6.05 On Your Behalf
Linda McAuley champions the
cause of consumers in
Northern Ireland, helping
them to solve their problems,
make the right choices and
avoid the pitfalls.
Repeated from Saturday 10.05am
Write to: On Your Behalf,
BBC Broadcasting House,
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
Phone: 0289 033 8314
Email via the website: bbc.co.uk/oyb

Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Thursday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Chris
Buckler including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

8.55 Party Election Broadcast
By the Social Democratic and
Labour Party, for the Northern
Ireland Assembly Election on
Thursday 5 May.
9.00 The Nolan Show
News and debate with
Stephen Nolan. Including
news and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor
Phillips Show
Music, mischief and fun
features. With news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.00 Talkback
Presented by William Crawley.
Withnewsat12.00 and 1.00pm.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Website: bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30pm Hugo Duncan
The best in country music.
With news and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
Music, features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news, sport, traffic
and weather reports.
6.05 The Ticket
Kathy Clugston has ideas and
information on how listeners
can spend their leisure hours.
7.05 Blas
Dearcadh an duine óig ar
ábhair a bhfuil spraoi ag baint
leo agus ábhair níos troime.
A youthful view of lifestyle
issues, travel, sport, beauty,
fashion, cookery and more.

7.30 The Stephen
McCauley Show
The best in alternative music
from punk to electronica from
home and abroad. Including
news at 8.00 and 9.00.
9.30 Ralph McLean: Country
Ralph takes another journey
into the world of American
roots music, with a selection of
classic tracks, live performance
and timeless Americana along
the way. With news at 10.00.
11.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
The best in chilled-out music.
Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Friday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly
9.00 to 11.00pm, plus 4.30pm and 11.55

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Chris Buckler and Joel
Taggart, including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

8.55 Party Election
Broadcast
By the Alliance Party, for the
Northern Ireland Assembly
Election on Thursday 5 May.
9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with
Stephen Nolan. Including news
and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor
Phillips Show
Music and mischief, with fun
features such as Howl Yer
Wisht and Absolutely Mortified.
Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.00 Talkback
Presented by William Crawley.
Withnewsat12.00 and 1.00pm.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Website: bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30pm Hugo Duncan
The best in country music.
With news and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Vinny Hurrell Show
Music, chat and a bit of craic to
get the weekend under way.
Text: 81771
Email: vinny.hurrell@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic
and weather reports, and the
latest agri-business.
5.30 Inside Business
A weekly insight into what’s
happening in business and the
economy in Northern Ireland.
Presented by Richard Morgan.
6.05 The House Party with
Phil Taggart
Dance music from soul to
house and funk to techno.
Including news at 7.00.

7.30 The Mickey Bradley
Record Show
A selection of vintage rock and
pop tracks, as well as some
new releases. With news at
8.00 and 9.00.

National
BBC Radio 1

FM 97.9—99.7
BBC Radio 2

FM 88.3—90.1

Text: 81771
Email: michael.bradley@bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 3

9.30 Blas Ceoil
Cuireann Caoimhe “Ceol” Ní
Chathail tús spleodrach le do
dheireadh seachtaine.
Caoimhe “Ceol” Ní Chathail
introduces new releases, gig
guide details and live acoustic
sessions to keep listeners in
touch with the best in
traditional, roots and folk
music. With news at 10.00.
10.30 Folk Club with
Lynette Fay
Traditional and contemporary
folk music and song with
studio guests, concert
performances, new releases
and vintage vinyl.
Including news at 11.00.

BBC Radio 4

Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live
BBC Northern Ireland
Broadcasting House
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
02890 338 000
Phone-in 0845 955 5678

RADIO FOYLE
As Radio Ulster except:

Sunday
RADIO FOYLE NEWS:
hourly 9.00am to 4.00pm (not 1.00pm)

5.05pm—6.00 Rejoice
James McClelland with gospel
favourites and sacred music.
To get in touch with the show,
write to 8 Northland Road,
Londonderry BT48 7GD

Weekdays
RADIO FOYLE NEWS: half-hourly
7.00am to 8.30, hourly 9.00 to 3.00pm

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
The day’s news presented by:
Mon: Sarah Brett and Joel
Taggart; Tue—Thu: Sarah Brett
and Chris Buckler; Fri: Chris
Buckler and Joel Taggart.
7.00—8.55
The Breakfast Show
Local, national and
international news.
12.00 Talkback
Presented by William Crawley.
1.00pm The News at One
A round-up of the day’s news.
1.30 The Mark
Patterson Show
Issues affecting the daily lives
of people in the north-west.
3.05—4.00 Sean Coyle
Requests and dedications.
Mon: 7.30—10.00pm
Foyle Sportsound
UCD v Derry City, the recently
postponed Premier Division
fixture(kick-off7.45).Presented
by Dessie McCallion.
Mon: 10.05—11.05
ATL Introducing
Gemma Bradley serves
up the freshest new Irish
musical talent, from indie-rock
to hip-hop with live music
and interviews.
BBC Radio Foyle, 8 Northland Road
Londonderry BT48 7GD
Tel: 02871 266 522

FM 90.5—92.3
93.2 (Ballycastle),
93.2 (Carnmoney Hill),
94 (Limavady),
94.9 (Londonderry),
95.6 (Brougher Mountain),
96 (Belfast),
103.5 (Larne),
103.9 (Rostrevor Forest/
Kilkeel),
104.6 (Camlough),
(R4 FM cannot be heard in
some parts of N Ireland)
LW 198 MW 720, 774
(Enniskillen (carry LW
programmes)
BBC Radio 5 Live

MW 693, 909
BBC Radio Foyle

FM 93.1
BBC Radio Ulster

FM 92.7—95.4
RTE Radio 1

FM 87.8—90.0, LW 252
RTE 2FM 90.4—92.2, 97
RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta

92.6—94.4, 102.7
RTE Lyric FM 97.8—99.6,
92.2, 95.2, 96.7, 102.2
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 (not
Freeview)
Talksport MW 1053,
1089
Absolute MW 1215
Today FM FM 105.5

All the above stations are
also broadcast via
Freeview, satellite, cable,
digital radio and the
internet.

Local
Cool FM 97.4

Music, news and sport
Downtown FM 102.3

(Ballymena), 96.6
(Omagh/Enniskillen),
97.1 (Larne), 96.4
(Limavady), 102.4
(Londonderry), 103.4
(Newcastle), 103.1 (south
Newry), MW 1026
(Belfast) Music, news
Q FM 96.7 (Belfast),
102.5 (Bangor), 102.5
(Carrickfergus), 102.9
(North West), 97.2 (North
Coast), 97.6 (Ballycastle),
107.0 (Mid Antrim),
107.6 (Larne),
106.0 (Mid Ulster),
107.2 (Dungannon),
106.3 (Maghera),
101.2 (Tyrone/Fermanagh),
102.1 (Enniskillen),
100.5 (Newry & Mourne),
101.1 (Kilkeel),
101.1 (Newcastle)

Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

129

Radio

8.55 Party Election
Broadcast
By Sinn Féin, for the Northern
Ireland Assembly Election
on Thursday 5 May.
9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with
Stephen Nolan. Listeners can
share their views by phone,
text or email. Including news
and travel at 10.00.

7.05 Blas
Caint agus comhrá faoi
imeachtaí an tsaoil mhóir agus
shaol an ghnáthlae.
Máire Bhreathnach with news
onlocalandinternationalevents
and the issues of the day.
7.30 The Stephen
McCauley Show
The best in alternative music.
With news at 8.00 and 9.00.
9.30 Ralph McLean:
Rock and Soul
Classic rock, soul, blues, pop,
gospel, reggae and funk music.
Includes news at 10.00.
10.55 Wah Yan Jee Sing
Local information on health
and social issues in Cantonese.
11.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
The best in chilled-out music.

Local

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Chris
Buckler including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.

9.30 Ralph McLean:
Local Voices
Ralph McLean presents
a selection of Irish music,
sessions and chat from
new Northern Ireland artists
and established acts.
Including news at 10.00.
11.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
Chilled-out music, including a
mix of easy listening melodies
both old and new, and material
by the Artist of the Week.

RADIO in your area
BBC Radio Wales

Radio

Local

Face behind the voice
Age 40
Current job
Presenter of
the weekday
mid-morning
show on Heart
(10am–1pm)
and the Club Classics show on
Saturdays (7—11pm). She also
DJs at club nights and festivals,
and is an ambassador for the
Fostering Network charity.
CV Born in Brent, north London,
she was homeless and in foster
care for a lot of her childhood.
“Sleeping on the street, picking
food out of the bin. Not having
any food for the next day and
the next day. At the time, I knew
no different, that was life. But
it was hard.” Her mother died
when she was nine and she was
placed with a foster family. “From
that day I had stability in my life.
They’re who I call mum and dad
now. I couldn’t be more thankful
to foster carers and that’s why
I’m a huge advocate for them. It’s
so important and they don’t get
the recognition they deserve.”

Thursday

Pandora Christie Heart FM

Did a Diploma in Performing Arts,
then joined an acting agency and
got roles in documentaries and
student films — “I was never very
good at it, to be honest. I’m better
at just being me.” She decided to
pursue a career in radio: “Being
a part of radio has changed my
life, it was the best decision I ever
made.” Then got a job as a promo
girl with Heart’s Ground Patrol:
“I shadowed everyone I could,
from presenters and producers
to engineers. I wanted to know
everything about radio.” Worked
unpaid on a community radio
station, then moved to Choice FM
(now Capital Xtra) and then on to
Capital FM. Moved to Kiss FM in
2017, then to Heart in 2019.
Social media — yes or no? “I am
on it every day! I absolutely love
it. I use social media to spread
positivity and bring a bit of fun to
people’s lives. I love connecting
to people through it. It can be
such a great place. I think people
need to use it in a responsible way,
though, and protect themselves
from negative situations.”

NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

Best moments “We’re doing a
game called Heart’s Make Me a
Millionaire. We’re changing lives.
Think of the good that’s doing!
I’ve helped two people becoming
millionaires — if ever I’m having a
bad day, I think of that.”
Worst moments “On my very
first show on Choice, I was
petrified and couldn’t remember

I couldn’t be
more thankful
to foster carers

‘

’

what I wanted to say. All I had
was, ‘Hello, I’m new, I’m Pandora!’
Then after the ads I forgot to
put the fader up — it took ten
seconds for the back-up CD to
kick in, but it felt like a lifetime!”
Off air Lives in west London with
staffie cross Henry: “He’s got me
wrapped around his little finger.
I’ve started doing 40 things for
40, and one of them is learning
kickboxing — I recently got my
first white belt. I have said I will be

a champion — I don’t know how
long that will take!” Advocates
for Battersea Cats and Dogs
Home. Also writes a beauty blog.
First radio memory “Radio has
been in my life since I was born,
and I used to listen to Chris Moyles
on Radio 1 all the time.”
Favourite broadcasters “Chris
Moyles is one of my radio heroes
— open, honest, unpredictable.
He made me realise you can be
yourself as a presenter. Toby
Anstiss is an incredible presenter
and has made me feel so at
home. Margherita Taylor is so
warm and friendly. You feel like
you’re sitting in a room with her.”
Ambition “To teach a course at
Global Academy on how to be a
presenter — I want to help young
people get into their dream job.
Whatever your dream, you can
make it a reality. I’m proof of that.”
Secret skills “I’m learning Polish,
so I can speak with my boyfriend’s
parents at Christmas. I’m not
quite there yet, but I’ll try again
next year.” DAVID CRAWFORD
Listen at globalplayer.com

5.30am Country Focus
Rural affairs programme for
anyone working in, living in or
visiting the Welsh countryside.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
News, sport, travel and
weather with Claire Summers.
8.30 Dot Davies
Lively debate, challenging
stories and great music.
11.00 Wynne Evans
The opera singer presents
music, chat and guests.
2.00pm Caryl Parry Jones
Sitting in for Behnaz Akhgar,
plus the 2.45 Teaser.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Gareth Lewis presents
everything you need to know
from Wales and the world.
6.30 Special Delivery
Three retired Pembrokeshire
midwives look back on their
careers of almost 30 years
and recall some of the most
unusual births they oversaw
in remote rural areas.
Repeated tomorrow 5.30am

7.00 Aleighcia Scott
Songs from the 1960s to today,
with fresh new music and
artists from Wales.
10.00 The Late Show with
Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.30am—5.30 as Radio 5 Live

Friday
Saturday
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm
plus 5.00pm
WEATHER: before most news bulletins
HILL FORECAST: 6.59am

5.00am Vicki Blight
Music and chat.
7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
News, sport, travel and
weather with Oliver Hides.
9.00 Money for Nothing
Dedications and song requests
from the 1950s to the 80s.
Phone: 03700 100 110

11.30 Carol Vorderman
Music and chat.
North FM only
12.00—2.00 Radio Wales Sport
Wrexham v Stockport County,
the FA Trophy semi-final, which
takes place at the Racecourse
Ground (kick-off 12.30pm).
2.00pm Radio Wales Sport
Live commentary of the big
Welsh games of the day and a
round-up of the day’s sporting
action with results and analysis.
MW/DAB only
4.00—7.00 Radio Wales Sport
Wales v Scotland. The second
match in the second round of
the Women’s Six Nations, at
Cardiff Arms Park (k-off 4.45).
5.30 Call Rob Phillips
Listeners share their thoughts
on the day’s sporting action.
7.00 Bethan Elfyn
A mix of classic rock, bold
new tunes, indie anthems and
new Welsh acts, including BBC
Introducing’s pick of the week.
10.00 BBC Introducing with
Adam Walton
The best in new Welsh music,
featuring exclusive sessions,
interviews and demos.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 6.00pm
WEATHER: before most news bulletins
HILL FORECAST: 6.58am

6.00am The Review Show
Reflecting the current arts
scene in Wales.
Repeated from last Friday
Repeated tomorrow 5.30am

6.30 Our Electric Roads
Comedian Mike Bubbins
travels across Wales by
electric car to test how well
the country is prepared for
the transition away from
petrol and diesel cars.
Repeated from last Tuesday

7.00 Country Focus
Rural affairs programme for
anyone working in, living in or
visiting the Welsh countryside.
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm and
Thursday 5.30am

7.30 Celebration
A service for the fifth Sunday
of Lent from Gateway
Church Abergavenny
with Pastor Chris Vaz.
8.00 Sunday Supplement
Political news, discussions
and analysis, plus a round-up
of the Sunday papers with
our guest reviewers.
9.00 All Things Considered
Religious affairs programme,
tackling the issues of the day in
a thought-provoking manner.
Repeated Tuesday 5.30am
Email: religion.wales@bbc.co.uk

9.30 Sunday Morning with
Scott Quinnell and Co
A mix of great music and
guests for Sunday morning.
11.00 Owen Money’s Solid
Gold Sunday
The presenter introduces a
selection of classic hits from
the 1960s and 70s.

1.00pm Anna Ryder
Richardson
Anna Ryder Richardson sits in
for Kiri Pritchard-McLean.
4.00 Huw Stephens
Huw covers Sunday afternoon
at the 6 Music Festival in
Cardiff, live from Tramshed.
Featuring a conversation with
Self Esteem and H Hawkline
performing live. Simulcast
with BBC 6 Music.
7.00 Cerys Matthews
Highlights of Cerys Matthews
in Wales as part of the
6 Music Festival.
8.00 Celtic Heartbeat
Frank Hennessy presents the
best in folk, roots and acoustic
music from the Celtic
countries and beyond. Plus
Frank’s weekly Celtic gig guide.
10.00 Beverley’s World of
Music
Broadcaster Beverley
Humphreys introduces a
selection of popular songs
from stage and screen.
1.00am—5.30 as Radio 5 Live

Monday
NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 10.00pm
WEATHER: before most news bulletins

5.30am The Review Show
Reflecting the current arts
scene in Wales.
Repeated from yesterday 6am

6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
News, sport, travel and
weather with Claire Summers.
8.30 Jason Mohammad
Lively debate, challenging
stories and great music.
11.00 Wynne Evans
The opera singer presents
music, chat and guests.
2.00pm Caryl Parry Jones
Sitting in for Behnaz Akhgar.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Gareth Lewis presents
everything you need to know
from Wales and the world.
6.30 The Learners
4/4. Jonesy puts his students
under the spotlight when
they take part in a talent
competition.
7.00 Huw Stephens
Songs from the 1960s to today,
with fresh new music and
artists from Wales.
10.00 The Late Show with
Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.30am—5.30 as Radio 5 Live

South West FM only
7.00—10.00 Radio Wales Sport
Millwall v Swansea City, the
Championship fixture at
the Den (kick-off 7.45).
10.00 The Late Show with
Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.30am—5.30 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday

NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

5.30am All Things Considered
Religious affairs programme,
tackling the issues of the day in
a thought-provoking manner.
Repeated from Sunday 9am
Email: religion.wales@bbc.co.uk

6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
News, sport, travel and
weather with Claire Summers.
8.30 Jason Mohammad
Lively debate, challenging
stories and great music.
11.00 Wynne Evans
The opera singer presents
music, chat and guests.
2.00pm Caryl Parry Jones
Sitting in for Behnaz Akhgar,
plus the 2.45 Teaser.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Gareth Lewis presents
everything you need to know
from Wales and the world.
6.30 The Idea
New series. 1/4. Hearing from
speakers with different takes
on, and solutions to, the issues
surrounding mental health.
Repeated tomorrow 5.30am

5.30am Special Delivery
Three retired Pembrokeshire
midwives look back on their
careers of almost 30 years
and recall some of the most
unusual births they oversaw
in remote rural areas.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

Repeated from Sunday 7am
Repeated tomorrow 5.30am

6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
Oliver Hides and the team
bring listeners everything they
need to know, with the latest
news, sport, travel and weather.
8.30 Dot Davies
Lively debate, challenging
stories and great music.
11.00 Wynne Evans
The opera singer presents
music, chat and guests.
2.00pm Eleri Siôn
Music and guests, plus
the 2.45 Teaser.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Gareth Lewis presents
everything you need to know
from Wales and the world.
6.30 Radio Wales Arts Show
A look at the current arts
scene in Wales.
7.00 Radio Wales Sport
Wales v France. Commentary
on the Fifa Women’s World Cup
qualifier, which takes place at
Parc y Scarlets (kick-off 7.45).
10.00 Friday Night H
H from Steps takes you into the
weekend with music and chat.
12.30am—5.00 as Radio 5 Live

7.00 Huw Stephens
Songs from the 1960s to today,
with fresh new music.
10.00 The Late Show with
Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.30am—5.30 as Radio 5 Live

BBC Wales, 3 Central Square,
Cardiff CF10 1FT
03703 500 700
(weekdays 9.30am to 5.30pm)
(landline calls charged at a
maximum of 8p per minute)
SMS: 81012
bbc.co.uk/radiowales

NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

5.30am The Idea
1/4. Hearing from speakers
with very different takes on,
and solutions to, the issues
surrounding mental health.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

Tuesday

NEWS: hourly 6.00am to 7.00pm, plus
8.05pm and 10.00
WEATHER: before most news bulletins

6.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
News, sport, travel and
weather with Claire Summers.
8.30 Jason Mohammad
Lively debate, challenging
stories and great music.
11.00 Wynne Evans
The opera singer presents
a mix of music, chat and
celebrity guests.
2.00pm Caryl Parry Jones
Sitting in for Behnaz Akhgar,
plus the 2.45 Teaser.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Wyre Davies presents
everything you need to know
from Wales and the world.
6.30 Country Focus
Rural affairs programme for
anyone working in, living in or
visiting the Welsh countryside.

Listen on the internet at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

128

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Saturday 2–Friday 8 April
Cymru
Sadwrn
5.30am Richard Rees
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ar
gyfer bore Sadwrn.
7.00 Galwad Cynnar
Gerallt Pennant a’i westeion yn
trafod natur, bywyd gwyllt a
chadwraeth.
EBOST: galwadcynnar@bbc.co.uk

EBOST: arymarc@bbc.co.uk

EBOST: marc.griffiths@bbc.co.uk

9.00 Gaynor
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth ar
nos Sadwrn gyda Gaynor
Davies.
12.00 gweler World Service

Sul
5.30am Linda Griffiths
Dechreuwch eich dydd Sul yn
sain dewis cerddorol Linda
Griffiths.
7.00 Troi’r Tir
Y straeon diweddaraf o fyd
amaeth a bywyd cefn gwlad.
Ail-ddarlledir Llun am 6pm

7.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr
R. Alun Evans yn cyflwyno
emynau ar y thema
Ffyddlondeb.
Ail-ddarlledir 4.30pm

8.00 Bore Sul
Trin a thrafod papurau’r Sul,
cerddoriaeth a sgyrsiau
hamddenol.
10.00 Swyn y Sul
Y cerddor a’r cyfansoddwr
Sioned Webb yn dewis
cerddoriaeth ar gyfer bore Sul.
12.00 Yr Oedfa
Oedfa ar gyfer pumed Sul y
Grawys, dan arweiniad Delyth
Wilson, Bro Gwendraeth.
12.30pm Bwrw Golwg
John Roberts a’i westeion yn
trafod materion moesol a
chrefyddol.
EBOST: bwrw.golwg@bbc.co.uk

1.00 Beti a’i Phobol
Beti George yn sgwrsio
gydag un o bobl Cymru.
Ail-ddarlledir Iau am 9pm

2.00 Cofio
Archif, atgof a chân yng
nghwmni John Hardy.
3.00 Hywel Gwynfryn
Amrywiaeth o gerddoriaeth,
yn ogystal â phytiau o
raglenni Radio Cymru o’r
wythnos a fu.
4.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr
R. Alun Evans yn cyflwyno
emynau ar y thema
Ffyddlondeb.
Darlledwyd 7.30am

Ail-ddarllediad

5.05 Dei Tomos
Trafod tafodiaith Y Wladfa,
Apostol Caerfyrddin a chelf y
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol.
Ail-ddarllediad
EBOST: deitomos@bbc.co.uk

6.30 Rhyfel y Cymry
40 mlynedd wedi Rhyfel y
Falklands, dyma straeon
personol rhai o’r Cymry a
effeithiwyd.
Ail-ddarlledir Mercher am 6pm

7.00 Y Talwrn
Dau dîm o feirdd yn cystadlu i
fod yn bencampwyr Y Talwrn
yn 2022.
Ail-ddarlledir Mercher am 9pm

8.00 Ar Eich Cais
Rhys Meirion yn darllen
cyfarchion ac yn chwarae
ceisiadau.
EBOST: areichcais@bbc.co.uk

9.00 John ac Alun
Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio i gloi’r
penwythnos.
12.00 gweler World Service

Llun
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore, gyda bwletinau
newyddion, chwaraeon,
tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y
bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn
ogystal â golwg ar y papurau.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda
Kate Crockett a Dylan
Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth,
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd
gyda Dewi Llwyd yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Evans
Digon o gerddoriaeth,
chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn
ogystal â chystadleuaeth
neu ddwy.
5.00 Post Prynhawn
Newyddion y dydd yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda Nia
Thomas yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk
Post Prynhawn,
BBC Radio Cymru
Canolfan y BBC,
Bryn Meirion
Bangor,
LL57 2BY

6.00 Troi’r Tir
Y straeon diweddaraf o fyd
amaeth a bywyd cefn gwlad.
Darlledwyd yesterday am 7am

6.30 Recordiau Rhys Mwyn
Clasuron coll o gasgliad Mr
Mwyn, a gwesteion yn hel
atgofion.
9.00 Stiwdio gyda Nia
Roberts
Golwg ar y celfyddydau yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt.
10.00 Geraint Lloyd
Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio ar y
shifft hwyr.
EBOST: geraint.lloyd@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500500

12.00 gweler World Service

Mawrth
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore, gyda bwletinau
newyddion, chwaraeon,
tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y
bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn
ogystal â golwg ar y papurau.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda
Kate Crockett a Dylan
Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol,
cerddoriaeth, a holi’r
cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd
gyda Jennifer Jones yn
cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Evans
Digon o gerddoriaeth,
chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn
ogystal â chystadleuaeth
neu ddwy.
5.00 Post Prynhawn
Newyddion y dydd yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda
Dylan Jones yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk
Post Prynhawn,
BBC Radio Cymru
Canolfan y BBC,
Bryn Meirion
Bangor,
LL57 2BY

6.00 Gwneud Bywyd yn
Haws
Hanna Hopwood a’i gwesteion
sy’n trafod beth sy’n gwneud
bywyd yn haws.
6.30 Georgia Ruth
Dewis eclectig o gerddoriaeth
o gasgliad Georgia Ruth.
9.00 Dei Tomos
Sgyrsiau am Gymru, ei phobl
a’i diwylliant, mewn fersiwn
fyrrach o raglen nos Sul.
EBOST: deitomos@bbc.co.uk

10.00 Geraint Lloyd
Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio ar y
shifft hwyr.
EBOST: geraint.lloyd@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500500

12.00 gweler World Service

Mercher
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore, gyda bwletinau
newyddion, chwaraeon,
tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y
bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn
ogystal â golwg ar y papurau.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda
Kate Crockett a Dylan
Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol,
cerddoriaeth, a holi’r
cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r
byd gyda Vaughan Roderick
yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Evans
Digon o gerddoriaeth,
chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn
ogystal â chystadleuaeth
neu ddwy.
5.00 Post Prynhawn
Newyddion y dydd yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda
Dylan Jones yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk
Post Prynhawn,
BBC Radio Cymru
Canolfan y BBC,
Bryn Meirion
Bangor, LL57 2BY

6.00 Rhyfel y Cymry
40 mlynedd wedi Rhyfel y
Falklands, dyma straeon
personol rhai o’r Cymry a
effeithiwyd.
Darlledwyd Sul am 6.30pm

6.30 Lisa Gwilym yn
Cyflwyno...
Cerddoriaeth newydd Cymru.
9.00 Y Talwrn
Dau dîm o feirdd yn cystadlu i
fod yn bencampwyr
Y Talwrn yn 2022.
Darlledwyd Sul am 7pm

10.00 Geraint Lloyd
Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio ar y
shifft hwyr.
EBOST: geraint.lloyd@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500500

12.00 gweler World Service

Iau
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore, gyda bwletinau
newyddion, chwaraeon,
tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y
bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn
ogystal â golwg ar y papurau.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf
yng Nghymru a thu hwnt,
gyda Kate Crockett a
Dylan Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol,
cerddoriaeth, a holi’r
cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd
gyda Catrin Haf Jones yn
cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Evans
Digon o gerddoriaeth,
chwerthin a sgwrsio,
yn ogystal â chystadleuaeth
neu ddwy.
5.00 Post Prynhawn
Newyddion y dydd yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda
Dylan Jones yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk
Post Prynhawn,
BBC Radio Cymru
Canolfan y BBC,
Bryn Meirion
Bangor,
LL57 2BY

6.00 Hawl i Holi
Trafodaeth gyfoes ar bynciau
lleol, cenedlaethol a
rhyngwladol, gyda Dewi Llwyd.
7.00 Byd Huw Stephens
Cerddoriaeth newydd,
ambell berl anghyfarwydd a
thrafod caneuon sydd wedi
newid bywydau.
9.00 Beti a’i Phobol
Beti George yn sgwrsio gydag
un o bobl Cymru.
Darlledwyd Sul am 1pm

10.00 Geraint Lloyd
Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio ar y
shifft hwyr.
EBOST: geraint.lloyd@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500500

12.00 gweler World Service

Gwener
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore, gyda bwletinau
newyddion, chwaraeon,
tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y
bwletin amaeth dyddiol, yn
ogystal â golwg ar y papurau.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate
Crockett a Gwenllian Grigg.
9.00 Trystan ac Emma
Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
gyda Trystan Ellis-Morris ac
Emma Walford.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd
gyda Dewi Llwyd yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Tudur Owen
Lot o fwydro, ’chydig o
sylwedd, dim swmp.
5.00 Post Prynhawn
Newyddion y dydd yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda
Dylan Jones yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk
Post Prynhawn,
BBC Radio Cymru
Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion
Bangor, LL57 2BY

6.00 Lauren Moore
Cerddoriaeth ar gyfer nos
Wener yng nghwmni Lauren
Moore.
8.00 Penwythnos Geth a Ger
Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda Geth
a Ger, gan gynnwys Llinell yr
Wythnos Pobol y Cwm!
10.00 Nos Wener Ffion Emyr
Ffion Emyr yn tanio’r
penwythnos gyda dwy awr o
gerddoriaeth.
12.00 gweler World Service
Radio Cymru: 03703 500 500
(Codir prisiau daearyddol safonol am
alwadau o ffonau sefydlog a
symudol)
Rhif Testun: 67500 (Codir tal yn
unol a chyfradd costau eich
rhwydwaith)
Ebost: radio.cymru@bbc.co.uk
Gwefan: bbc.co.uk/radiocymru

Cymru 2
fel Radio Cymru ag eithrio:

Sadwrn
7.00am—9.00 Sioe Frecwast:
Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
gyda Daniel Glyn.

Sul
7.00am—10.00 Sioe
Frecwast: Cerddoriaeth ac
adloniant gyda Mirain Iwerydd.

Llun—Iau
7.00am—9.00 Sioe Frecwast:
Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
gyda Caryl Parry Jones.
7.30pm—10.00 Mawrth:
Chwaraeon Radio Cymru:
Sylwebaeth ar gêm Millwall v
Abertawe yn y
Bencampwriaeth.

Gwener
7.00am—9.00 Sioe Frecwast:
Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
gyda Lisa Angharad.

National
BBC Radio 1 97.6—99.8
BBC Radio 2 88—90.2
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4
BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6, 103.5—
105, LW 198
BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693,
909, 990
Radio Cymru 92.4—96.1, 96.8,
103.5—105
Radio Cymru 2 This station
only broadcasts on Freeview,
satellite television, digital radio
and the internet
BBC Radio Wales 93.9—95.9,
103.7, 103.9, MW 1125 (mid-Wales)
Classic FM 99.9—101.9
Talksport MW 1053, 1089
Absolute MW 1197, 1242, 1260
The above stations also broadcast
via Freeview, satellite, cable,
digital radio and the internet.

Local
BBC stations:
Bristol 94.9 (Bristol), 103.6
(Severn), 104.6 (Bath)
Gloucestershire 104.7
(Churchdown Hill), 95 (Stroud),
95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413
Hereford and Worcester 94.7
(Hereford), 104 (Worcester & Gt
Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster),
MW 738, 1584 (Tenbury Wells)
Somerset 95.5, MW 1566
Wiltshire 104.3 (west Wiltshire),
104.9 (Marlborough), 103.5
(Salisbury), 103.6 (Swindon)
Independent stations:
Bay Radio 102.1 (Swansea)
Bridge FM 106.3 (Bridgend/
Vale of Glamorgan)
Capital 103.2 (Cardiff), 97.4
(Newport), 96.3 (north Wales
Coast), 103.4 (Cheshire/north east
Wales), 97.1 (Wirral), 103
(Anglesey) Music, news
Carmarthenshire 97.1
(Carmarthenshire), 97.5
(Llanelli/Carmarthen Town)
Chester’s Dee 106.3
Freeradio 103.1 (Shropshire),
97.2 (Wolverhampton) Music,
news, 97.6 (Hereford), 96.7
(Kidderminster), 102.8
(Worcester) Music
Heart 88 (Wrexham), 103 (Bath/
Weston Super-Mare), 96.3
(Bristol), 102.2 (west Wiltshire),
102.4 (Gloucester/ Cheltenham),
102.6 (Somerset), 97.2 (Swindon),
105.2 (Abergavenny/
Carmarthenshire), 105.4 (Cardiff),
105.9 (Aberdare), 105.7 (Colwyn
Bay), 105.9 (Newport), 105.7
(Pembrokeshire), 106 (Swansea/
Carmarthen), 106.1 (Ebbw Vale),
106.2 (Fishguard), 106.9 (Mold/
Flint), 107.2 (Caernarfon/
Anglesey), 107.3 (Rhyl/Prestatyn)
Greatest Hits Radio 100.8
(Porlock), 102 (Salisbury), 102.4
(west Somerset), 107.2 (Bristol),
107.4 (Telford/Wrekin), 107.5
(west Wiltshire), 107.5
(Gloucestershire), 107.7 (WestonSuper-Mare/north Somerset/
(Swindon) 107.9 (Bath), MW 1170
(Swansea/south west Wales)
GTFM 107.9 Pontypridd,
100.7/107.1 Cynon Valley
Kiss 101 (Severn Estuary), 97.2
(Bristol) Dance music, news
Nation Radio 106.8 (Cardiff),
107.3 (Swansea) Music, news
Pembrokeshire 102.5, 107.5
(Fishguard/Tenby)
Radio Cardiff 98.7
Radio Tircoed 106.5 (West
Swansea) Music, news
Scarlet FM 97.5 (Llanelli)
Smooth 100.4 (north-west
England); MW 1359 (south
Wales), 1305 (Gwent), 1260
(north Wales/Cheshire/Bristol),
774 (Gloucester), 1161 (Swindon),
936 (West Wiltshire)
Sunshine 106.2 (Hereford), 107.8
(Leominster), 107 (Monmouth),
MW 855 (south Shropshire)
The Wave 96.4 (Swansea)

Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

129

Radio

9.00 Tudur Owen
Lot o fwydro, ’chydig o
sylwedd, dim swmp.
11.00 Y Sioe Sadwrn
Cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
gyda Shelley Rees a Rhydian
Bowen Phillips.
2.00pm Chwaraeon Radio
Cymru
Sylwebaethau byw, yn ogystal
â chanlyniadau a’r newyddion
chwaraeon diweddaraf.
5.30 Marc Griffiths
Cymysgedd o’r hen a’r newydd
i ddiddanu ar nos Sadwrn, gan
gynnwys llwyth o geisiadau.

5.00 Stori Tic Toc
Mae Lora wrth ei bodd yn
canu, ond yn tewi pan mae hi’n
mynd i’r ysgol feithrin.

Local

8.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda
Dylan Jones.
8.30 Ar y Marc
Dylan Jones a’r criw yn trafod
pob math o bethau’n
ymwneud â phêl-droed.

Frequencies

Put your trust
in Stannah



Keeping you safe in
the home you love

“ Don’t be another
one wishing
you’d done it
sooner. With an
Acorn Stairlift
It is more important than ever for people
you can carry on
to remain mobile and independent in their living safely and
own homes, and we are here to help.
independently
in the home
NEXT DAY installation available
you love.”

all types of stairs

Stay in the home you love
For straight and curved staircases

Harry Gration MBE

colours and trims

 2 year warranty and

2 free services on all
new products

 14 day satisfaction
peace of mind



2

1

Bathe in luxury,
comfort and safety
once again!

family-run company

• British designed and manufactured



• Safely lowers and raises you at the
click of a button
• Battery operated, no wiring or cables
just recharge every 7-10 days

SALE
25% OFF

Call for a free
no-obligation quote

0800 077 8955
stannah.co.uk

• Belt retracts enabling normal bath use
• Normally fitted in under an hour
• Stud walls no problem!

Keep on being you

For a FREE brochure or a free ‘dry’ home
demonstration call us on:

TRY IT OUT!

0800 011 4273

FREE HOME
DEMO

Britain’s household name in bath mobility
BATH LIFTS • WALK IN BATHS & SHOWERS

Wave Goodbye to Bathing
Difficulties For Good!

Struggle to get in and out of your old bath?

The Simplicity Walk-in Shower
Bath from Nationwide Mobility.

BATH OUT – SHOWER IN – IN JUST ONE DAY!*

Strong reinforced
bath shell on a
robust steel frame
Optional powered
Safety Seat

**

E FF
L
SA0% O

SALE
UP TO
20%

2

TO
UP

Easy to use handset
to remain in control

NO WORRIES!

OFF

Pop-up waste control
100% water tight seal
Thermostatically
controlled taps
Fits in the same space
as your old bath

FITTED IN
ONE DAY!*

www.nationwide-mobility.co.uk
FOR A FREE COLOUR BROCHURE CALL NOW ON

0800 316 9798
ASK FOR EXT. 64633

Or write to Freepost Nationwide Mobility.
*Based on a straightforward fitting. **Not in conjunction with any other offer.

130

FOR YOUR FREE BROCHURE CALL

28

YEARS

FITS IN THE
SAME SPACE AS
YOUR OLD BATH
Our Shower Module’s
unique construction
enables it to be FITTED
IN JUST ONE DAY*
with NO MESS,
NO FUSS and NO
RE-TILING either!
OHygienic easy clean
tile effect panels
OEasy access lower step
OOptional seat and
grab rail
OSlip resistant floor
OBuilt-in shelving

FITTED IN JUST

*
ONE
DAY
0800 316 0110
ASK FOR EXTENSION 80638

or visit www.aquability.com

EASY, SAFE BATHING

*Time based on straightforward fitting. **Not in conjunction with any other offer.

RadioTimes 2-8 April 2022

FIND YOUR PERFECT SPACE!
Hand-built from high grade timber by Yorkshire craftsmen, Tiger garden
buildings are the quality space you need. Easy to assemble, in a wide
range of sizes – all with Tiger’s market leading 20 Year Guarantee.

SALE
NOW ON!
16’ x 14’ OPTIMA CABIN

20 YEAR GUARANTEE
FREE BROCHURE

tigersheds.com

0113 205 4189

*20 year guarantee against general timber rot and decay. Conditions apply: see tigersheds.com

‘If you’ve been through
dementia with a loved one,
you’ll know the good that
can come out of your gift.’
Richard’s story
‘Her GP was the first to recognise her symptoms.
The challenging time was getting Mum to move closer to
me – I couldn’t leave her because all her routines were
blown away. That’s why it got so hard.
My advice is don’t do things the hard way. Get on the phone to
Dementia UK’s Helpline and make things easier for yourself and
your loved one. I had calls with their dementia specialist
Admiral Nurses that were incredibly helpful and supportive.’
Richard is one of many people in the UK who have honoured a loved
one by remembering Dementia UK in their Wills. You too can give the
gift of specialist dementia care far into the future by leaving a gift
in your Will to Dementia UK.

With your help, nobody will have to face dementia alone.
Picture posed by a model.
Dementia UK is a registered charity in England
and Wales (1039404) and Scotland (SC047429)

RadioTimes 2-8 April 2022

Order your free Gifts in Wills guide today.
Call: 0300 365 5500
Email: giftsinwills@dementiauk.org
Scan the
QR code
to visit
our
website

131

Tall tales
from TMS
The Test Match Special commentators
are famous for playing practical jokes.
Here, TMS veteran and top prankster
Jonathan Agnew picks a couple that
put Johnners and Blowers in a spin…

Y
GETTY; ALAMY; SHUTTERSTOCK

ou famously don’t have to
love cricket to enjoy listening
to Test Match Special on the
radio – but it certainly helps if
you enjoy pranks and wind-ups.
In this excerpt from his book
Test Match Special: Tall Tales, co-author and
TMS anchor Jonathan Agnew describes some of
his favourites…

Spoofs have always been a
trademark of TMS, and the period
between 1991, when I arrived on
the programme, and 1994, when
my colleague Brian Johnston died,
was what you might call our
golden years. It is impossible to understate the
joy of catching out Brian or co-commentator
Henry Blofeld on air, and when Geoffrey Boycott
joined us in the commentary box he proved
another heaven-sent pranking victim.
Bill Frindall, our scorer, took on responsibility
for vetting the letters we received because he
regarded himself as an expert at spotting spoofs
submitted by the rest of us. But, like all the older
members of the TMS team, he wasn’t good on
technology. None of them had any idea how
computers worked, and fax machines were a
mystery. So for a few years we spoofers were in
our pomp. I could sit behind Johnners
[Johnston] in the commentary box, with a fairly
basic laptop, create a realistic-looking business

132

letterhead and then send it in as a fax
and plant it in front of Johnners or
Blowers [Blofeld], who would dutifully read it out.
Blowers liked to plug things. He
once cut a deal with Air New
Zealand and for a while every other
plane zooming over a Test ground
ALL IN GOOD FUN
was faithfully described to listeners
Henry Blofeld (Blowers,
as an incoming service from some
above) was the victim of
far-flung corner of New Zealand.
many a mischievous spoof
I sent him a fax from a fake carpet
company called Stephenson’s of
Sheffield, who promised him a free carpet if he
gave them a mention on air. Blowers willingly
obliged, warbling on about what a marvellous
job Stephenson’s were doing and what marvellous carpets they sold. He then carefully folded
up the fax and popped it in his breast pocket so
that he knew the name of the contact who would
J O N AT H A N A G N E W
be providing his free carpet.
But then the next fax, which had already been
prepared, was fired in from Jones’s Carpets of
The art of a good spoof was always to ensure
Sheffield, complaining about how outrageous it your target had no time to read things in
was that their main competitor had been given advance. At Edgbaston, Johnners was once
free advertising and that they would be report- assigned to describe the presentation of players
ing Blowers to the BBC’s director-general unless to senior executives from Cornhill Insurance,
their name also featured. So he had to go on the company sponsoring the match. Sponsors
about how Sheffield was packed full of excellent always provided us with a list of VIPs, but on
carpet shops, including his old friends at Jones’s this occasion Johnners couldn’t find it. That’s
Carpets. He then hurriedly pulled out the because I’d squirrelled it away to carefully
Stephenson’s letter and chucked it in a bin.
Tipp-Ex out the name of Cornhill’s general

‘ from a fake carpet

company in Sheffield

’

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

HAPPY PLACE
Bill Frindall, Jonathan
Agnew and Brian Johnston
in the TMS commentary
box at the Oval in 1991

To receive emails with our latest news
and offers, visit radiotimes.com/email

JOIN TODAY!
If you’re trying to read
more and discover new
genres, the RT Book Club
is an easy way to expand
your horizons. Each
month or quarter you
will receive a novel or
non-fiction book RT has
To receive this
month’s choice, Test
Match Special: Tall
Tales, for £14.99 (incl
p&p), sign up now.

manager Cecil Burrows, type in a replacement
and photocopy the doctored version. As
Johnners frantically scrabbled through his
papers I produced the list with a flourish and
slapped it down in front of him.
With a grateful nod, Johnners grabbed it and
began: “Down there on the podium we have
AC Smith, secretary of the Test and County
Cricket Board, the man-of-the-match adjudicator Fred Trueman and the general manager of
Cornhill Insurance, Hugh Jarce.” He carried on,
oblivious to his colleagues collapsing helplessly
behind him.

I

n 1993, I stitched Johnners up with a fake
TMS live broadcast and I should have
known he would get his own back. I’d
done something on women’s cricket for
Saturday sports show Grandstand and the
following week the producer Keith Mackenzie
came into the TMS box saying it was a really nice
piece and could they use me later for a live
Grandstand interview on why England can’t
find fast bowlers. I thought, “OK, here’s a career
opportunity,” so at tea I climbed up all this
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

scaffolding to the TV studio at Edgbaston.
Soon the floor manager Steve Pearson is
powdering me and wiring up this huge earpiece
and there’s Jack Bannister and Fred Trueman
waiting to be interviewed. Fred has his shirt
hanging out and is smoking a massive cigar,
I’ve got Keith in my ear, the whole crew is on
standby, and off we go. But when I put my first
question to Jack – why was it that England
couldn’t produce fast bowlers? – he replied,
“I dunno.” And that was it.
I soon started sweating. All I could hear was
Keith going mad, shouting louder and louder.
Then Fred started burbling on about dampproof courses and salmon fishing.
None of this felt right, and you can spot my
shifty glances around the studio [the video is
easily found on YouTube]. Yet I had to plough
on. Only when I heard a voice in my ear saying,
“I think the long-nosed commentator [ie
Johnners] has got his revenge,” did it all become
clear. I guess it would never happen today.”
Excerpt from Test Match Special: Tall Tales by
Jonathan Agnew and Phil Tufnell, published 31 March

1 DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR
Your gift-wrapped book will be delivered
to your door each month.
2 ADJUSTABLE FREQUENCY
Choose from a monthly or quarterly
subscription as best suits your reading needs.
3 SAVE MONEY
Over a year, the Book Club monthly
subscription remains at £14.99 regardless
of the book price, representing an overall
saving on 12 books.**
4 NO TIE-INS
Once you subscribe you can pause or cancel
your subscription at any time.

HOW TO JOIN

Sign up to our Book Club for £14.99 each
month or quarter at radiotimes.com/
rtbookclub or call 03302 232 639*
Terms and conditions: Join by 11 April 2022 to receive your copy
of Test Match Special: Tall Tales. If you join after this date, your
first book will be delivered in early May. Subscriptions are on a
rolling contract; you’ll be billed on a monthly or quarterly basis
until cancellation.

To order Test Match Special: Tall Tales (BBC
Books, £20) for £18 incl p&p without joining the
RT Book Club, call 03302 232 639* or visit us
online at radiotimes.com/shop14
* Calls charged per minute at no more than national rate
** Based on publishers’ prices

133

JOE SWIFT OFFERS

Wallflowers are never shy and retiring,
says Joe Swift – they’ll hog the stage!

GAP; SHUTTERSTOCK; REBECCA NAEN; GETTY; ALAMY

HOW TO GROW
ome plants are such good value
that it’s hard not to be evangelical
about them. Take perennial wallflowers (Erysimum) for example –
they start flowering in February or
March and, in mild winters, are still
going at Christmas. Pretty good, eh?
Technically there are two types of Erysimum:
perennial and biennial. Biennials left in the
ground often come back for a few years, forming
small bushy plants. The perennial ones, however,
come back reliably every year, and are far longerflowering At around 50cm/20in high, they make
more impact, too.
Their upright blooms come in a range of
vibrant colours, from deep mauves and purples
through yellows and pastel pinks to spicier
oranges and reds. “Bowles’s Mauve” is hugely
popular and an outstanding performer, carrying
a single colour throughout, whereas some others
have jolly bicoloured (two-tone) flowers. “Winter
Sorbet” has orange blooms with deep smokypurple tints as they fade, and flowers from
around March to July – so it really should be
named “Winter, Spring and Summer Sorbet”, if
that weren’t such a long plant label! It’s ideal for
jazzing up a pot. “Butterscotch” carries yellowand peach-coloured blooms, and “Apricot Twist”
is a blend of deep and soft orange, opening from
purple buds.
Erysimums are bee-magnets, too, and all make
fine cut flowers for a vase – they set off narcissi
stems in boiling water for around 20
seconds to help them last longer.

134

Choose a sunny, sheltered
spot. In cold areas they
may need fleecing in
winter, but otherwise
they’re easy to care for.
The loose term “wallflowers” (found growing in
walls or crevices) gives an
indication of the conditions
they enjoy: a well-drained
soil may result in leaves but
fewer flowers.)
drainage, or plant in a container
in a free-draining, soil-based
compost. Give them a “light
haircut” when the flowers fade
to encourage more blooms.

HOW TO PROPAGATE
Perennial varieties are easy to
propagate through cuttings.
Look for shoots about 10cm/4in
long with no flowers (or remove
them). Trim under the node
(that bump on the stem),
remove lower leaves, plant into
gritty compost with their top
leaves showing, and keep moist.
Pot up around early September,
or leave them in a very sheltered
spot or cold frame until next

SOFT YELLOWS
Erysimum “Butterscotch”
has lovely sunny or
peach-coloured blooms

WEEKLY ADVICE AND INSPIRATION

W’S THE

NO

MULCH!

RT GARDENING OFFER

O. .

.

April is the ideal time to mulch
your borders: the soil is moist, small
annual weeds are easy to smother,
and after mulching the garden looks
crisp for the growing season ahead.

TIME T

WHY IT’S WORTH DOING
Regular mulching is beneficial
in many ways. It locks
moisture into the soil and
acts as a barrier to block
out drying winds and
direct sun. Organic
mulches contain nutrients
that will act as a slowHOME-GROWN
release plant food, too.
Filling your compost
Mulch breaks down and is
bin will create
drawn into the soil by worms
a useful mulch
— which over time significantly
improves the structure of your
soil and increases its fertility. Mulching is
particularly useful where the soil is poor, thin,
or tricky to dig in (such as at the base of trees).

HOW TO DO IT
Applying mulch is easy. Simply place
around 5cm/2in of your chosen mulch on
the flowerbeds or around key plants, without
smothering their lower stems.

WHAT TO USE
VIBRANT ORANGES
Try Erysimum “Apricot
Twist” and (inset left)
“Winter Sorbet”

To receive emails with our latest news
and offers, visit radiotimes.com/email

I generally suggest going for organic matter —
whatever I can get my hands on locally that’s
cheap and in volume. All have their key benefits:
 Leaf mould Low in nutrients but an excellent
all-rounder.
 Cocoa-shell mulch A by-product of the
chocolate industry. Forms a weed-suppressing
barrier as it “glues” together over the soil.
 Garden compost Can be used both for
mulching and as a general soil improver.
 Well-rotted horse manure High in nutrients
and excellent for roses and most edible crops.
 Mushroom compost A by-product of
mushroom farming. Light and easy to use,
but on the alkaline side.
 Composted bracken A fibrous mulch
and great if you have plenty to get rid of.
 Composted woodchips I prefer these to large
woodchips as they look more natural, break
down quicker and are great for moisture
retention (though it can be acidic).
Joe Swift is a presenter on
Gardeners’ World, Fridays BBC2

STUNNING WALLFLOWERS
Get 20 per cent* off beautiful spring
blooms from Sarah Raven
These wallflower plants come in
wonderful rich colours and make
superb cut flowers. As the perfect
winter and spring bedding, just keep
picking and dead-heading them
and they’ll flower for months.
Highly impressive when planted in
drifts, they’ll burst into bloom and
add some rich, jewel-toned colour
to your garden all spring and
summer. Try underplanting your
tulips with wallflowers for a chic
combination and a truly stunning
spring display.
ERYSIMUM “SPRING
BREEZE COPPER”
New to Sarah Raven this year, this
short-lived perennial wallflower has
a wonderful perfume. Perfect at the
front of borders or in containers.
One 9cm pot £5.20
Three 9cm pots £12.75
511965
ERYSIMUM “WINTER ORCHID”
A brilliant short-lived perennial
wallflower. Long-flowering and
scented, its flowers emerge as a
coppery orange, turning to purple
as they age. Often the first things
to come into full bloom with the
hellebores and daphnes. Works well
picked for spring bunches.
Five young plants £10.35
Ten young plants £18.35
Three 9cm pots £12.75
One 2-litre pot £12.75
510136

Erysimum
“Spring Breeze
Copper”

Erysimum
“Winter Orchid”

Erysimum
“Red Jep”

ERYSIMUM “RED JEP”
A truly superb perennial wallflower
that flowers long and hard
from spring right through to
the end of summer.
One x 9cm pot £4.40
Three 9cm pots £11.96
511049

To order visit radiotimes.com/wallflowers
or call 0345 092 0283 quote RT22APRX
RETAIN
MOISTURE
Composted
woodchips
are good for this

Terms and conditions * Offer ends 15 May 2022. The 20 per cent discount
applies to wallflowers only and has already been applied to the above prices.
Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount. Other
products may be added to the same order at full price. Charges for p&p still
apply. Not redeemable against previous orders, sale items or items purchased
from the shop at Perch Hill or other retail outlets.

135

Travel Man: 48 Hours in…
Monday 8.30pm C4

I

t was a ridiculous amount of time
ago when I was asked to take over
from Richard Ayoade on Travel Man:
48 Hours in… Pre-pandemic, if you
can believe such a time ever existed,”
says Joe Lycett. Each episode sees the
comedian visit a new destination for a short city
break with a comic companion. “I went to
Amsterdam as Richard’s guest at one point, and
really enjoyed it, so it was a no-brainer when
they asked if I’d like to take over as host.”
The production team chooses the locations,
and Lycett tries not to find out too much in
advance, “so it’s a natural reaction, and we’re
taking the adventure together”. Does he have
a say in the choice of travelling companion? “We
discuss it. But there are dark arts in terms of
who gets to appear on Channel 4,” he smiles.
“They send me a list and then I’ll strike off loads
of names, and you’re left with the dregs of
the comic community… I’m joking, I don’t think
I struck off any names.”
He is happy, however, to spill the secrets on
the destinations visited for the new series…

BASQUE COUNTRY

WITH JAMES ACASTER
“We filmed a lot of the eating sequences on one
day. So at 10am I was drinking a cider and eating
some amazing tuna. An hour later, I was drinking
red wine and eating a bone marrow sandwich.
Then I was having a pint of beer with the most
incredible French toast. I remember thinking,
‘Is this my job? Am I at work?’ I felt like I had
tricked someone into making this my life,
because it was too good to be true. Obviously
James and I had to try on the Basque traditional
berets. We took a photo (below) outside the
shop (sombrerosgorostiaga.com).”
Joe’s deliberately arcane factoid “The
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has 9,000m2
of exhibition space, but is still smaller than
the world’s biggest Primark in Birmingham.”

You had
to be there
Joe Lycett is Channel 4’s new Travel
Man – and he has the facts to prove it
SPLIT WITH AISLING BEA

“We were all really impressed with this Croatian
coastal city. It’s very cool, and Aisling said that
when we had the paddle boarding lesson at
nightfall it was the most relaxed she’d felt for
ages. It was 31.5 Euros but I’d pay that just to
look into the eyes of my Jake Gyllenhaallookalike instructor (supsplit.com).
“Walking up the 180 steps of the bell tower at
the Cathedral of St Domnius was
an ordeal because I had to do it so
many times for different camera
shots. I was exhausted but when
I filmed the return down, Aisling ran
up and jumped in my arms. I mean,
Aisling is relatively light, but still
an adult woman and I don’t have
the best knees. It’s been a bit of a
struggle ever since. Of course,
Froggyland [a taxidermy museum
featuring dead frogs stuffed with
cork re-creating Victorian human
pursuits] was right up my street
(froggyland.net).”
HAT’S
Joe’s deliberately arcane
ENTERTAINMENT
factoid “Split is twinned
Sampling local
with Dover in Kent.”
headgear with

136

CYPRUS WITH MO GILLIGAN

“We filmed this one just before the
pandemic, but it’s still really fresh in
my memory: we made halloumi
(cyprustastetours.com/hh-lar), which was
really satisfying even though I found milking
the goat a little frustrating. Mo
had it sussed, though.
“My favourite bit in Cyprus
was actually the salt and
pepper shaker museum
and shop (facebook.com/
The-Salt-Pepper-MuseumLarnaka-244482546485202)
because, I mean, elephants
having sex as your salt and
pepper shakers? The woman
who ran it was lovely, but
she didn’t really get sarcasm
or British humour, and that
always makes it so much
more fun.”
ISLAND
Joe’s deliberately arcane
LIFE
With Mo
factoid “Originally created
Gilligan in
for King Farouk of Egypt,
Cyprus
brandy sour is the unofficial
national cocktail of Cyprus.”

James Acaster
in Bilbao

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

To receive emails with our latest news
and offers, visit radiotimes.com/email

RT TRAVEL
Palermo Cathedral

SICILY

COASTAL
COUPLE
Joe Lycett and
Aisling Bea
in Split

Eight days’ half-board from £1,199pp
Departures from April to November 2022
Dominated by snow-capped Mount Etna, blessed with sunshine and unspoilt
landscapes and coastlines, Sicily is a truly beautiful part of Italy.
INCLUDES  Guided tour of the Valley of the Temples  Admire Palermo’s
medieval and Baroque centre  Explore the hilltop town of Taormina and its
ancient Greek theatre  Guided tour of the Roman villa in Piazza Armerina
 Experience Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe  Guided
tour of Monreale cathedral  Visit Siracusa, home of Archimedes  Enjoy
authentic Sicilian food at a farmhouse  Return flights from selected
airports, plus transfers  Seven nights in four-star accommodation, with
breakfast and dinner  The services of an experienced tour manager
Atmospheric Bruges

KEEPING WARM

With Katherine
Parkinson and
cuddly cardies
in Antwerp

ANTWERP

WITH KATHERINE
PARKINSON
“We filmed in a little hotel
cocktail bar (dewittelelie.be)
and then at dinner we
were drinking wine
(entrepotducongo.com),
and we were wasted. The
next morning we had the
best chips I’ve ever had
in my life: I was hungover
and needed them. The guy who took us
playing city golf was great fun but when
Katherine suggested putting a penis in a
statue’s hand — about the only broadcastable
bit from that day, incidentally — I think he
sensed that something was going on that
he didn’t quite understand.
“We wore fancy cardigans (above), and I still
have mine. I lent the other one to Katherine
and she hasn’t returned it. Can you mention
this in Radio Times? I don’t want it back because
I imagine it stinks now, but I would like a
garment of some kind in return.” BILL BORROWS
Joe’s deliberately arcane factoid “Antwerp is
the 14th largest container port in the world.”
RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

BRUGES
Four days from £359pp Departures from April to December 2022
There can be few places left where you can switch off for a few days from
the pressures of modern day living as completely as you can in Bruges.
INCLUDES  Guided walking tour of Bruges  Visit to Ypres, including
the First World War battlefields  Visit to a traditional chocolatier
creating Belgian chocolates  Return rail connections available on
selected dates from over 50 regional stations  Return standard class
reserved seat on Eurostar from London St Pancras International, plus
transfers  Three nights in three-star to four-star accommodation, plus
breakfast  The services of an experienced tour manager  Departures
available for solo travellers

To book or to request a brochure, or for more information,
call 01283 742 399, or visit radiotimes.com/holidayoffers
*
Prices are per person, based on two sharing. Single rooms are subject to availability at the relevant
supplement. Additional entrance costs may apply. All holidays are subject to availability. Images used in
conjunction with Riviera Travel. Operated by and subject to the booking conditions
of Riviera Tours Ltd, ABTA V4744, ATOL 3430, IATA 9127440. Riviera Travel, New
Manor, 328 Wetmore Road, Burton-on-Trent DE14 1SP. Prices correct at time of print.
See website for full details.

137

To receive emails with our latest news
and offers, visit radiotimes.com/email

RT MONEY PARTNER

FREE
GUIDE

The big
squeeze...
Brace yourself for the impact of
higher taxes, says Paul Lewis

IS EQUITY RELEASE RIGHT FOR YOU?
Help boost your finances by unlocking tax-free cash from your home
√ Access a lump sum of tax-free cash to help with the rise in cost of living
√ Release from a minimum of £10,000 up to 58% of the value of your home
√ Maintain 100% home ownership with a lifetime mortgage
We’re pleased to have teamed up with Age Partnership+, part of the UK’s
number one equity release adviser*, to bring you an equity release service.
Their team are available to explore all of your options with you and tell you
everything you need to know about equity release, including the effect
on the amount of inheritance you can leave and if your entitlement to
means-tested benefits could be affected now or in the future.
Also, the Radio Times guide to equity release, written by RT’s Paul Lewis,
can help explain how equity release works, and if it could be right for you.
Equity release may involve a lifetime mortgage, which is secured against
your property or a home reversion plan. To understand the features and
risks, ask for a personalised illustration. Equity release requires paying off
any existing mortgage. Any money released, plus accrued interest, would be
repaid upon death or moving into long-term care.

To request your free equity release
guide written by Paul Lewis, visit
radiotimes.com/unlock_equity
or call free on 0800 464 0732
Information correct at time of going to print. *Based on the volume of plans from a panel of lenders Q1 2021—Q3 2021 .
The Radio Times Equity Release Service is provided by Age Partnership Limited, 2200 Century Way, Thorpe Park,
Leeds LS15 8ZB. Company registered in England and Wales no 5265969. VAT registration number 162 9355 92.
Age Partnership Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. FCA registered number
425432 and is trading as Age Partnership Plus.

ORDER YOUR FREE GUIDE TODAY
Complete your details and return this coupon in an envelope to: FREEPOST Age Partnership
Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/Other

We will all suffer a
severe case of fiscal
drag when the new tax
year begins on 6 April.
It’s the ultimate stealth
tax, which will take an extra £33
billion from us before it ends.
Fiscal drag means raising more
tax just by standing still: this year
tax allowances – the amount of
income we can have each year
before tax is due – are frozen, and
will be frozen every year up to and
including 2025/26.

allowance
‘Tax
is frozen until
2025/26
’
Normally, allowances increase
each year with inflation. This year,
that would have meant a rise in the
level where income tax begins,
from £12,570 to £12,960. The
freeze means you’ ll pay tax on
£390 of income that wouldn’t have
been taxed if the allowance had
risen as usual. That will cost you
£78, and so it will go on for the next
three tax years. It will also mean an
extra 1.5 million low-paid people
will pay some income tax.
The level at which higher-rate tax
begins is also frozen, at £50,270. As

wages rise, a million more people
will pay 40% tax on some of their
income by 2026. Scotland sets some
of its own thresholds; the higher
rate of Scottish income tax is 41%
on earnings, pensions and rental
income above its frozen threshold
of £43,663 in 2022/23. Two lower
thresholds will rise slightly.

A

s announced in the
Chancellor’s spring statement, all other UK
personal tax allowances and
thresholds are frozen too: an extra
16,700 estates will pay Inheritance
Tax over the next five years for that
reason, and an extra £3 billion will
be raised from higher tax on divid e n d s . H o w e v e r, N a t i o n a l
Insurance Contributions will be cut
for most people from July.
Although the starting rate goes up
from 12% to 13.25% on wages over
£190 a week from April, that
threshold will rise to £242 from
July – which will save workers
£330 over 12 months. The rate on
earnings over £50,270 rises from
2% to 3.25%.

Paul Lewis presents Money Box on
Radio 4. To read more of his advice, see
radiotimesmoney.com

QUESTIONS? Send any questions
to Paul.Lewis@radiotimes.com.
I cannot answer you personally,
but I will reflect them in this column.

Name
EMMA LYNCH; ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREW BAKER

Address
Postcode
Email address
Telephone

Date of birth

RT-AD-290322-14
By supplying your address and email address you are confirming that you are happy for Age Partnership to contact you via
letter or email regarding products and services relevant to your enquiry. Age Partnership will contact you on the telephone
number you are providing regarding your enquiry. For more information, please visit agepartnership.co.uk/privacy-policy/
To see how your data is processed, please refer to the RT Privacy Policy at:
PROVIDED BY
policies.immediate.co.uk/privacy. If you wish to receive offers, promotions and
information from Radio Times, please tick here: email  phone 

138

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

PRIZE CROSSWORD One winner will receive this range of games from winningmoves.co.uk,
including the Monopoly Only Fools and Horses edition. Fill in and post the coupon below,
or email your answers to xword14@radiotimescomps.co.uk WORDFINDER Find the name
of the show in the shaded squares to win the prize below. EASY CLUES Just for fun!

PRIZE CROSSWORD

EASY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

ACROSS (answers page 140)

6 In too much of a hurry to remove
item in tap (9)
8 Child writer to speak aloud at
French school (5)
10 Beat for game when returning (4)
11 Soothing words repeated at that
place (5,5)
12 Immoral short aristocrat raggedly
lined up outside (12)
15 Animals swallowing have too many
units (7)
16 Almost dispose of perch, eg, being
mean (7)
18 Swift after backing went wrong for
indoor commentator (6,6)
20 Travelling with parasol, via South
American city (10)
22 Make a pig’s ear of piece of fur (4)
23 It raises dough from unknown
direction (5)
24 Card game searched for by
salesperson? (9)

6
8
10
11
12
15
16
18

*

To enquire about the winners
of any of our competitions email
feedback@radiotimes.com

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Unmanned aerial vehicle (5)
Bird-watcher’s glasses (10)
First stage of human life (7)
Professional cook (4)
Fast foxtrot (9)
Staffordshire’s pottery city (5-2-5)
Pianist and TV presenter (5,7)
Isolated and vulnerable (3,2,1,4)
National symbol of the USA (4,5)
Motorcycle’s passenger seat (7)
Arm support (5)
Act without speaking (4)

WORDFINDER

Cut or copy this entry form. Closing date: Good Friday, 15 April. Solution published in RT dated
7 May. Send to: Radio Times Prize Crossword, week 14 2022, PO Box 501, Leicester LE94 0AA.
Or email your entry to xword14@radiotimescomps.co.uk
Please note, your contact details will only be used in order to contact the winner of the prize crossword

PRIZE CROSSWORD 9 SOLUTION
Prize Crossword
9 winner* Jan Turner,
Kingsbridge, Devon
Wordfinder 9
Father Brown
Wordfinder winners
Colin Parker,
Frodsham, Cheshire;
Stephen Rees,
Reigate, Surrey

TELEPHONE

Two winners of the Wordfinder puzzle will receive Soulmates.
Set 15 years into the future, science has discovered a test that
tells you exactly who your soulmate is. Each of the six episodes
features a different cast and explores a new story about the
impact of discovering (or opting not to discover) the results.

Unscramble the letters in the shaded
crossword boxes to reveal a TV show.
Enter by sending an email with your
name, address and telephone number
to wf14@radiotimescomps.co.uk.
Or post your entry (postcards only) to:
Radio Times Wordfinder, Week 14 2022,
PO Box 501, Leicester LE94 0AA. Two
winners will receive the DVD shown
left. Prizes sent monthly. Closing date:
Good Friday, 15April.

PUZZLE ANSWERS

cretonne is the answer that the
fewest people gave.

14
17
19
21

POSTCODE
EMAIL

POPMASTER
1 The Who 2 Diamonds
3 Joybringer 4 Goodbye Yellow
Brick Road 5 The Jam 6 Art of
Noise 7 Sweetness 8 Sit Down
9 The Foo Fighters 10 Don’t Stop
Me Now or Please Please

13

NAME
ADDRESS

ENIGMA
Across Cadaver, Limit, Ulcer,
Offence, Box, Tuba, Ember, Blitz,
Joust, Cameo, Burr, Leg, Berserk,
Rally, Style, Camphor
Down Crusty, Nimbus, Decibel,
Carry, Verb, Stampede, Oxen,
Yolk, Lifebuoy, Grim, Miner,
Squelch, Twenty, Prayer

9

Prize Crossword 14

EGGHEADS 1a 2c 3b 4a 5c
6b 7a 8b 9a 10c

7

Large test hasn’t begun (5)
Enormous gran, a gaunt sort? (10)
Reason to turn on fire (7)
Gosh, this half, it’s untrue (4)
Spirited away to hospital’s place of
culture? (5,4)
Acting as go-between, yet admirer
in disarray (12)
I move orderly round to place of
birth (8,4)
Aliens from new sci-fi series
(4,2,4)
First-rate cartoonist? (3-6)
Road split but had tried hard (7)
Quite a lot decimal? (5)
Grand piece of swimming,
head first (4)

1
2
3
4
5
7
9
13
14
17
19
21

POINTLESS
Corduroy (14 answered),
Velour (47), Brocade (24),
Chenille (19), Cretonne (5). So

1
2
3
4
5

DOWN

ONLY CONNECT
Three-dimensional shapes
Pyramid, Cube, Sphere, Cylinder
End in numbers
Canine, Cone, Kitten, Weight
Golfers
(Rory) McIlroy, (Lee) Westwood,
(Phil) Mickelson, (Jon) Rahm
Great ____
Britain, Scott, Grandmother, Dane
COUNTDOWN
How Rachel did it: 75+3=78,
78x6=468, 468—5=463,
10÷5=2, 2x463=926

DOWN

Flaky breakfast roll (9)
“So what?” shoulder gesture (5)
Disconnect (4)
Study in the White House (4,6)
Arrogant, condescending (12)
Italian pasta dish (7)
Hinged window cover (7)
Where a castaway may have
eight discs! (6,6)
20 Bacteria causing food poisoning
(10)
22 Inflatable floating bed (4)
23 Alpaca-like animal (5)
24 Michael Sheen fantasy series (4,5)

139

THE TOUGHEST BRAINTEASERS
FROM YOUR FAVOURITE SHOWS

Only Connect with Victoria Coren Mitchell

Countdown with Rachel Riley

The connecting wall from Only Connect combines
general knowledge, wordplay and lateral thinking
to give your brain cells a workout!

Using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division,
try to get as close to the target as possible in 30 seconds.
You can use each of the six numbers only once, but you
don’t have to use them all. Rachel’s solution is on the
previous page.

How to play Your task is to sort the 16 seemingly
random words/phrases below into four groups of four
connected words. You may find some clues fall into
more than one category, but there is only one
complete solution. If you get stuck, have
a look at the clues on the side of the page…

TRY THESE CLUES: GROUP ONE: CUBE. GROUP TWO: CONE.
GROUP THREE: WESTWOOD. GROUP FOUR: SCOTT. © RDF WEST

Pyramid

Canine

Westwood

Britain

McIlroy

Cube

Sphere

926
75

8
9

Rahm

Mickelson

4
8 2
1 2

Dane

2
Scott

Cylinder

3

10

5

How to play Complete the grid
so that every row, column and
3 x 3 box contains the digits
1 to 9. Difficulty: 14/20

5
6
4 1

SUDOKU NO 849 SOLUTION

2
7
3
5
6
1
9
8
4

4 3
7 2

1 8
6
5

Weight

5
9

5
Cone

6

Super Sudoku 850

Grandmother

Kitten

5

4
1

8

4
6
9
7
8
3
1
2
5

1
8
5
2
4
9
7
6
3

8
5
6
3
1
7
2
4
9

7
9
4
6
5
2
8
3
1

3
2
1
8
9
4
5
7
6

6
3
2
1
7
5
4
9
8

5
4
8
9
2
6
3
1
7

9
1
7
4
3
8
6
5
2

The Enigma code

SCRIBBLE PAD

Can you crack the Enigma code? Each grid number represents a letter.
Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter or letters — below
the main grid — to start. The solution is on the previous page.
Difficulty: 16/20 Target time: 32 minutes

21

How many words of three letters or more can you
find by tracking from one square to the next, going
up, down, sideways or diagonally in order? You may
not use the same letter square twice in any word.
Proper nouns or foreign words not allowed.
What is the nine-letter word?
BRAINBOX 23 words AVERAGE 15

L U T
K A O
A B W

THIS WEEK’S EASY CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Across 6 Croissant 8 Shrug 10 Undo 11 Oval Office 12 Supercilious 15 Lasagne
16 Shutter 18 Desert island 20 Salmonella 22 Lilo 23 Llama 24 Good Omens
Down 1 Drone 2 Binoculars 3 Infancy 4 Chef 5 Quickstep 7 Stoke-on-Trent
9 Jools Holland 13 Out on a limb 14 Bald eagle 17 Pillion 19 Sling 21 Mime

SEE PAGE 139 FOR ANSWERS

25 11

21

18

15
25 7

17

11

16

16

21

14

17
16

25

1

11

23
23

17
18
15

8

17

14

1

16

15

14

5

7

21

16

16

4

1

8
9

25 18

9
7
16

20

25

22
17

8

9

11

16

21

17

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

B

1

1
17

11

15

18

10

16

1

13

8

26

23
11

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

19

4

16

23

9

1

8

25

24

16

16

16
14

15

15

6

4

10
18

6

2
16

17

15

1

15

1
7

4

7

3
16

16
7

air, ait, author, authority, auto, hoi, hot, hour, houri, huia, hut, hutia, ita,
our, out, ria, riot, rit, rot, rout, routh, rut, tai, tau, taut, tho, thoria,
thou, thy, tiro, tor, tori, tour, tout, tuath, tui, tut, tutor
(Ref: Chambers English Dictionary)

140

16

9

TRACKWORD FOR LAST ISSUE Nine-letter word AUTHORITY

13

1

8

CLIVE DOIG

Trackword

17

11

9

21

14

10

8

9

21

22

Y

16

12

23

1

10

11

12

13

23

24

25

26

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

PopMaster

with Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong

with Radio 2’s Ken Bruce

Pointless asks a question of 100
people, the contestants are then asked
to choose the answer they think the
fewest of those 100 people knew.
How to play Here are the names
of five fabrics used to cover
furniture, with
alternate letters
removed. Fill in
the blanks and
give us the most
obscure
answer.

1960s
UPHOLSTERY FABRICS
C_R_U_O_
V_L_U_

1970s
B_O_A_E
C_E_I_L_
C_E_O_N_

Eggheads with Jeremy Vine
OLAV BJORTOMT
1 The title character of which
Booker-winning novel is named
after a swimming pool in Paris?

6 In 16th or 17th-century Europe,
where on the body would a woman
have worn a chopine?

a Life of Pi b Shuggie Bain
c Vernon God Little

CHRIS HUGHES
7 “I believe in America” is
the first line spoken in which
Francis Ford Coppola film?

2 Which comedy character claimed
to be “one of the few people
who’ve written more books
than they’ve read”?
a David Brent b Alan Partridge
c Garth Marenghi

STEVE COOKE
3 In which language do question
marks commonly appear upside
down at the start of a sentence?
a French b Spanish c Italian

4 Which country was cricketer
Andrew Strauss born in?
a South Africa b Canada c New Zealand

PAT GIBSON
5 How many drawers are there in a
typical semainier chest of drawers?
a Two b Four c Seven

a Her head b Her foot c Her neck

a The Godfather b Apocalypse Now
c The Conversation

8 What was the name of the
starship in The Muppet Show’s
sci-fi spoof series Pigs in Space?
a Hogwars b Swinetrek c Starpork

LISA THIEL
9 What name is given to the
original pet Gremlin in the 1984
film Gremlins?

3 What was the title of the first top
ten hit by Manfred Mann’s Earthband?
4 Which album by Elton John contained
the songs Candle in the Wind, Bennie
and the Jets and Sweet Painted Lady?

1980s
5 For which band was the song Just Who
Is the 5 O’Clock Hero a top ten hit in 1982?
6 Tom Jones featured on the 1988
top five hit Kiss by which band?

1990s
7 Michelle Gayle made the top ten
in the 90s with Do You Know? and
which other song?
8 Which 1989 hit by James
returned to the top ten in 1991
when it was re-released?

2000s—present day
9 Dee Gees — Hail Satin
was a top 20 album in 2021
for which band?
10 McFly entered the
charts at number one
in 2006 with a double
A-sided hit — name
either track

QUESTIONS BY PHIL
“THE COLLECTOR” SWERN

a Gizmo b Gidget c Groucho

10 In Greek mythology, what was
the consequence for someone who
drank from the river Lethe?
a They sang b They became pregnant
c They forgot

Dictionary corner Susie Dent
Expression of the week The naked truth
The word “propaganda” has been
in the news recently, with all its
connotations of bias and deception.
But the opposite, of course, is the
“naked truth”, a phrase that has
a little-known fable at its
heart. Its story featured in
the Roman poet Horace’s
Odes with several other
fables from classical
antiquity. It is the
tale of “Truth” and

1 Which band released the albums
A Quick One and My Generation?
2 Name the 1963 number one
instrumental hit by Jet Harris
and Tony Meehan.

GETTY; SHUTTERSTOCK

COURTESY OF REMARKABLE TELEVISION. THE POINTLESS APP IS AVAILABLE
FROM THE APPLE APP STORE, GOOGLE PLAY AND AMAZON APPSTORE

Pointless

“Falsehood” during a bathing trip in
the river. While Truth is out swimming,
Falsehood steals his clothes and
walks back to town. Truth finds only
Falsehood’s discarded clothes on the
riverbank. True to his nature, he
refuses to wear anything belonging
to Falsehood, and walks back naked
instead. Retelling of the story over the
centuries ensured that, by the Middle
Ages, the expression “naked truth”
was well established.

RT TRAVEL

DISCOVER ICELAND
Five days from £979pp — May to October 2022
Experience raw nature in breathtaking Iceland, where the power
of this ancient land can be seen
in its volcanos, thermal springs,
geysers and glaciers — and the
icy seas teem with wildlife.
Stay in charming Reykjavik,
the perfect base for exploring
Iceland’s fabled “Golden Circle”
of natural wonders.

FROM
£979PP

To book or to request a brochure,
call 01283 742 399 or visit radiotimes.com/riviera
Prices are per person, based on two sharing. Single rooms/cabins are subject to availability at the relevant
supplement. Additional entrance costs may apply. All holidays are subject to availability. Images used in
conjunction with Riviera Travel. Operated by and subject to the booking conditions of Riviera Tours Ltd,
ABTA V4744, ATOL 3430, IATA 9127440. Riviera Travel, New Manor, 328 Wetmore Road, Burton-on-Trent,
DE14 1SP. Prices correct at time of print. See website for full details.

COMPETITION RULES Enter by post (postcards only, apart from prize crossword) by sending your entry to PO Box 501, Leicester LE94 0AA. Mark the name of the competition clearly on your entry.
Bulk or third-party entries prohibited. Entries not accepted from employees of Immediate Media Company Limited or other companies associated with the competition, or their families or households.
Unless otherwise stated, winners will be first correct entry drawn at random. Entrants bound by rules. For a list of winners or full rules, send sae to: Radio Times, Vineyard House, 44 Brook Green,
Hammersmith, London W6 7BT, specifying competition, or check www.radiotimes.com/winners.

ANSWERS P139

141

Edited by

JANE HILL

LETTER OF THE WEEK

We don’t want charity

ACTIVISTS
Barbara Lisicki and Alan
Holdsworth, played by Ruth
Madeley and Arthur Hughes

As a “disabled household” we watched Then Barbara Met Alan
(21 March BBC2) with much interest. This docudrama about
changing disability civil rights in the 1990s was well acted,
humorous, heart-warming and informative… such as telling viewers
that the Disability Discrimination Act wasn’t passed until 1995.
It highlighted the importance of “rights not charity” too – a good
antidote to well-meaning, if sometimes misplaced, acts of charity.
However, the main issue it illuminated is the fact that we still have
a long way to go. Many shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment
venues etc are still not fully accessible to the wide range of disabled
users. Let’s hope things finally improve soon.
Eric Hunter Warrington, Cheshire
Eric Hunter wins a BOSE SoundLink Revolve speaker, in either black or silver.
One of BOSE’s best-performing portable Bluetooth speakers, it is water-resistant,
has a rechargeable battery that plays for up to
12 hours and delivers true 360° sound, wherever
you place it in the room. RRP £179.95. bose.co.uk

…How my mother would have
loved Then Barbara Met Alan! She
was a campaigner back in the 50s
for gentle slopes on pavements and
would have cheered at disabled
people being involved in all aspects
of the drama. Thank you to writers
Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr,
actors Arthur Hughes and Ruth
Madeley for their powerful
performances, and to the whole
BBC2 production team.
Vicki Friend
Syston, Leicestershire

GETTY; JORDAN WALLER

KILLER EPISODE
Although the first few episodes of
Killing Eve (Saturday BBC1) left
a great deal to be desired, episode
four (iPlayer/26 March BBC1) is
an incredible return to form. Well
worth watching, and wonderful
if the remaining episodes are of
this terrific standard.
Paul Miller Manchester

142

Lady Leshurr, Martin Kemp and
everyone involved in this
programme.

Casualty put to rest in the morgue.

Jacqui Adams

You’re certainly not alone among
RT readers in feeling that
way. Turn the page for
our farewell tribute
to Holby City.

Balding know
that the white
CHANGE FOR
blossom she
THE WORSE
GLORIOUS
described seeing in
When Crimewatch was
Blackthorn
blossom
Ramblings (17/19
first broadcast many years
March Radio 4), when
ago, it focused on unsolved
she was walking with Floella
crimes. Appeals for help were
Benjamin in Dulwich Woods,
made to the public, with call
south-east London, was not
handlers in the studio taking calls.
hawthorn, but blackthorn.
Nowadays Crimewatch Live
Blackthorn hedges flower in
(BBC1) might feature a couple
March before the leaves unfurl,
of live cases, but seems largely
whereas hawthorn leaves are
orientated around community
beginning to be seen now and the
issues – how to stop burglaries,
flowers will bloom in May: hence
tech awareness or on one occasion
the name mayflowers.
focusing on women who have
Blackthorn is a winter white,
made it to senior positions.
while hawthorn is creamy white.
Hardly live crime.
Just saying!
Barry Belcher London SE18
Susan Lacey-Hatton
Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire

THE WRONG CASUALTY
The BBC has shot itself in the foot
by cancelling the wrong series:
that is, Holby City instead of
Casualty (Saturday BBC1).
Holby’s cast and storylines were far
superior, and it should have been

ROCK OF AGES
Life-affirming, inspirational,
emotional, celebratory… just some
of the words to describe the joyful
Rock Till We Drop on BBC2.
A much-needed reminder of the
resilience of older people and the
contribution they make to our
society, especially when recent
headlines have been about death
and vulnerability. Thank you
for the reminder that those
born postwar still have so
much to give.
The musicians – so
talented and so full of
dreams – connected with
the younger people in the
audience at the Isle of
Wight Festival. A reminder
of how much more we
have in common in times
of divisive politics and
nasty social media.
A huge thank you to

Keith Powell
Wimborne, Dorset

NAUGHTY AND NICE
Thank you so much, BBC4, for
Robbie Cumming’s Canal Boat
Diaries (14–17 March). This has
to be one of the most delightful
programmes on TV. Robbie is so
engaging and such a pleasure to
watch, even when things don’t
go entirely to plan with his
narrowboat! Long may he and
his beloved boat the Naughty
Lass continue their journey.
Margaret Burt London E11

A SURPRISING TREAT

ACE OF BASS
Rock Till We
Drop’s Carol
Jason, 72

I seldom listen to anything more
esoteric than Radio 2, but I spotted
The Emperor and the Pianola (20
March Radio 3) in Radio Times.
The story of Emperor Haile
Selassie and the pianola in
the house in Bath where he
lived from 1936–41, it was
an unexpected, thoughtprovoking delight.
Jo Walker Darley Dale,
Derbyshire

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

EMAIL feedback@radiotimes.com
OR TELEPHONE YOUR LETTER TO 020 7150 5303
Lines open all day. Please include full name, address and phone number

with such a keen eye.

‘I was lucky
to have him
as my co-star’

understood that her

GARY’S TOO CLEAN!
As a lover of the book Slow Horses
and all things by Mick Herron,
I was very disappointed in the
picture of Gary Oldman as
Jackson Lamb (RT, 26 March).
This is a travesty. Why is he so
clean? Where is the grease round
the collar of his raincoat? He
even looks as though he
cleans his glasses! Lamb
is unspeakably revolting,
from his horribly
dandruffy hair to his
food-stained tie.
Apple TV+ will
be telling us that he
doesn’t smoke next.
Charlotte Davies
Brecon, Powys

ABOUT TIME

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

CHARMING

Peter Bowles with
Victoria creator, and
co-star, Daisy Goodwin

as my co-star the only time
I appeared on screen. Peter
could see that I was nervous and
when I fluffed my one line (a line
that I had written), he thanked
me for giving him the chance to
play the Iron Duke. That gave
me the confidence to get it right
the next time, and I will always
be grateful to him for his
courtesy and charm.

showed a well-known maker’s
name (not her great-grandfather’s)
on the face. That, and its condition
with layers of ancient varnish, dated
this clock to around the mid-1700s,
well before any “great-grandfather”
would have been born.
I know that viewers like good
back stories, but if this one was
wrong, it’s disappointing.
Marie Varney Matlock,
Derbyshire

The Repair Shop
team replies:
“We love that
viewers watch
the programme

“As you’ll be aware,
it is common for
clocks of this age to
have been through
the hands of many
different clockmakers
and repairers over their lifetime,
or even to be rebuilt or restored
using components from other
mechanisms. We do, however,
appreciate that this could have
been made clearer and will make
sure it happens for future viewers.
Thank you for bringing it to our
attention.”

GARNER PRAISE
It was great to read the article on
Alan Garner (RT, 26 March) as it
is entirely due to him that I have a
lifelong interest in British history
and (particularly Welsh) folklore.
Two of his books were filmed for
TV and are available on DVD:
The Owl Service (an eight-part
ITV series from 1969) and Red
Shift (which was a BBC Play for
Today in 1978). Both have what
today would be called “young
adult” themes.
Maybe Talking Pictures TV
could get hold of them – please!

CLEMATIS
‘LITTLE LEMONS’
£14 each plus p&p (RT13CL1) —
or buy three for £30 plus p&p
(RT13CL3) and save £12
This unusual, compact clematis
has lemon-yellow, lantern-like
flowers June—October, followed
by fluffy seedheads. Supplied as
7cm pots. Delivery in April.
To order please call 01386 426
245 and quote RORU or visit
radiotimes.com/garden14
£5.95 p&p per order. Offer closes 30 April 2022.
Full T&Cs available. Subject to availability.
UK addresses only. Offer cannot be used in
conjunction with other promotions/discounts.

RT GARDENING

BUY THREE
AND
SAVE £10!

Geoff Whitehead
Tenby, Pembrokeshire

The team at Talking Pictures TV
tell RT: “We would love to air 

CORYDALIS
‘BLUE HERON’

I SPY
Gary Oldman as
Jackson Lamb in
Slow Horses

As a follower of the
brilliant Repair Shop, I was
pleased and delighted to see a new
series starting (weekdays BBC1).
The skill and dedication of the
team shine through while
undertaking incredible repairs.
I was, however, confused by one
repair on 15 March. A long case
clock was brought in and the
owner said it had been made by
her great-grandfather, who was
then named. As a clock collector
I spotted that the clock – which
was similar to one of ours – clearly

BUY THREE
AND
SAVE £12!

‘made’ the clock, in
that he made it from

Victoria creator Daisy
Goodwin remembers
Having Peter Bowles on set was
always a delight. He had the
best posture of anyone in the
cast and was unfailingly polite
and charming. He was playing
the Duke of Wellington in
Victoria [the ITV drama she
created and mainly wrote],
and the moment he stepped
on set he was every inch the
famous old soldier.
I was very lucky to have him

RT GARDENING

One plug plant £9.99 plus p&p
— or buy three for £19.97 plus
p&p and save £10
This beauty has electric-blue
flowers on red stems, with
a heavenly fragrance. Lowgrowing, it’s perfect at the front
of beds and in shady spots.
Will grow to 30cm (1ft). 480680

CUSTODIANS
Becky Farr and
fiancé Richard
Watson with her
family heirloom

To order please call
0844 625 1540 or visit
radiotimes.com/rrt470
£6.99 p&p per order. Dispatched in seven
working days. Calls cost 5p/min plus network’s
access charge. Offer subject to availability.
Closes 31 May 2022. UK only. A £6 surcharge
may apply. Full T&Cs at yougarden.com.
Following Brexit there have been changes that
prevent us from trading in Northern Ireland.

143

EMAIL feedback@radiotimes.com
OR TELEPHONE YOUR LETTER TO 020 7150 5303
Lines open all day. Please include full name, address and phone number

The Radio Times Promise

FAREWELL HOLBY CITY

Where TV’s biggest stars first shone…

Contact us

A

 SHERIDAN SMITH
(six episodes, 2001)
The teenage Smith
played Miranda
Locke, a troubled
patient admitted
for self-harming —
who is later wrongly
suspected of murdering
Dr Victoria Merrick (Lisa Faulkner).
 OLIVIA COLMAN (one ep, 2002)
She started out on TV in comedy,
but was Kim Prebble, the mum of
a 14-year-old having a heart and
lung transplant, in this early role.

PHONE 020 7150 5800
Mon—Fri 10am—4pm (closed bank holidays)
EMAIL feedback@radiotimes.com
It is always quicker to phone or email us with any enquiries.
We welcome comments and questions about RT but,
while letters to writers are seen by our team, they
cannot respond individually. Calls to order reader offer
products may be monitored/recorded.
LETTERS FOR PUBLICATION should be brief,
addressed to the letters editor and include your
full name, address and daytime phone number.
Please include these details even when emailing.
We may edit letters and they may appear on our website.
Letters not for publication should be clearly marked.
BACK ISSUES 03330 162 128*
Syndication queries Richard.bentley@immediate.co.uk

ALAMY

FRESH FUTURE?
I was fascinated to read the
interview with Charlotte Moore
(RT, 26 March) telling us about
the wonderful new BBC output
coming up. Looking in Radio
Times at the schedules for BBC1,
BBC2 and BBC4 from Monday

144

BBC bbc.co.uk/contact Call: 03700 100 222 (textphone 03700
100 212). Write: BBC, PO Box 1922, Darlington DL3 0UR

Comedian Romesh
Ranganathan in
Holby City in 2013

of three men who could potentially be
the father of a newborn baby, leading
to scuffles at the bedside.
 ZAWE ASHTON (one ep, 2003)
The Fresh Meat star played Abigail
Meredith, whose mother is injured in
a car crash. When she dies, Abigail
blames herself for arguing with
her and revealing she’s pregnant.
 RUSSELL TOVEY (two eps,
2001, 2005) Tovey’s first
appearance was as Jerome Hibbert,
a young patient whose parents don’t
want him to know he has cancer.
Then in 2005 he played Adam
Spengler, who has a congenital
condition as well as boyfriend
troubles.
 JODIE COMER
(one ep, 2010)
Best known now as
unhinged assassin
Villanelle in Killing Eve,

 CRAIG PARKINSON
(one ep, 2003) Famous for
playing Dot Cottan in Line of
Duty, he was Gaz Simpson, one

 the Play for Today. It’s difficult
to license from the BBC, but we
will try. Regarding The Owl
Service, we will add it to our list
to discuss with ITV. Stay tuned to
Talking Pictures TV and fingers
crossed. Many thanks for the
suggestions!”

Contact them

NO JOKE

28 March to Friday 1 April, out of
around 300 programmes, more
than half are repeats.
And looking at
BBC4 alone, out of
54 programmes,
48 were repeats.
It seems
that Charlotte
Moore’s rosecoloured spectacles
give her a very
distorted and
Peter Hunt
West Moors,
Dorset

Comer at the age of 16 played
schoolgirl Ellie Jenkins, whose
headaches and vomiting attacks
turned out to be an allergic
reaction to pollen from the exotic
flowers that were sold in her
mother’s shop.
 JOE COLE (two eps, 2010)
The rebooted Ipcress File
star was introduced
during a two-part
hostage storyline
as armed robber
Shaun Jackson,
whose hold-up at an
Indian restaurant goes
seriously wrong.
 ROMESH RANGANATHAN
(one ep, 2013) The comedian
was laid low in Holby as Darren
Harrison, two months before fellow
Radio 2 presenter Paul O’Grady
popped up as patient Tim Connor.

SHEEP’S CLOTHING?
As always, I enjoyed Desert Island
Discs on 13 March (Radio 4).
However, Lauren Laverne
failed to ask Robert Plant
the most intriguing question.

end up supporting
Wanderers?
Christopher Gateley
Redditch, Worcestershire,

Christopher Gateley wins a
DVD of Call the Midwife,
series 11 – touching tales of
birth and death in 1960s Poplar.

Tickets: bbc.co.uk/showsandtours
Programme information: bbc.co.uk/programmes
About the BBC: bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc
For reception problems with BBC TV and radio services:
bbc.co.uk/reception or call: 03700 100123
ITV itv.com England/Wales ITV plc, Gas Street, Birmingham
B1 2JT, viewerservices@itv.com, tel 0344 881 4150. STV 0141
300 3000; Ulster 028 9032 8122; Channel 01534 816816
C4/E4/MORE4/FILM4 PO Box 1058, Belfast BT1 9DU,
tel 0345 076 0191, Minicom 020 7306 8691, channel4.com
S4C Canolfan S4C Yr Egin, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ, tel 0370 600
4141, s4c.cymru
CHANNEL 5 Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd, 17—29 Hawley
Crescent, London NW1 8TT, tel 020 3580 3600, channel5.com
Lifetime/Sky Arts/Sky Witness/Sky Comedy/Pick TV/
History 03442 410265*; Discovery/Quest/Home/Really/
Food Network 020 8811 3000; Dave/Eden/Drama/Yesterday/
W/Alibi/Gold 020 3192 0504; TCM 020 7693 1000; Comedy
Central 020 7478 5300; Disney 020 8636 2000; SyFy 020 3618
8000; Eurosport 0845 6721010; Fox/Nat Geo 020 3426 7000
Talking Pictures TV 01923 290555, talkingpicturestv.co.uk
IRELAND RTE 00 353 1 208 3434; Virgin Media Television
vmtinfo@virginmedia.ie
PBS AMERICA For viewer enquiries, email info@pbs.co.uk
SKY 03442 411653*; VIRGIN MEDIA 0345 454 1111
Classic FM 020 7343 9000, classicfm.com
Scala Radio 020 7434 1215
FREEVIEW/DIGITAL UK For information on Freeview and advice
on reception and equipment: 0345 650 5050, digitaluk.co.uk
FREESAT 0345 313 0051, freesat.co.uk
OFCOM The independent regulatory body for the UK media:
ofcom.org.uk, tel 020 7981 3040
ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY Regulates
advertising content. Tel 020 7492 2222, asa.org.uk

Subscribe
To subscribe to RT by Direct Debit for £111.50 every six months
call 03330 162 128* Mon—Fri 9am—5pm (closed bank holidays)
quoting Reader22, or visit buysubscriptions.com/Reader22.
The Basic Annual Rate is £223 per annum/Europe €358. Prices
for other countries also available online. The price is for one
year, including the Christmas double issue, and a contribution
towards postage. All savings are calculated as a percentage of
this Basic Annual Rate. Check magazine for the latest offers.
For subscription enquiries, or if your magazine fails to arrive,
contact us at buysubscriptions.com/help or call 03330
162 129*. SEE buysubscriptions.com/customer-services/FAQs

Vol 392
no 5097
This magazine is printed on Forest Stewardship Council ® (FSC ®)
certified paper. It can be recycled, for use in newspapers and
packaging. Please remove any gifts, samples or wrapping and
dispose of it at your local collection point
Volume 392, no 5097. Radio Times is published by Immediate Media
Company London Limited, Vineyard House, 44 Brook Green,
Hammersmith, London W6 7BT © Immediate Media Company London
Limited, 2022. “Radio Times” is a Registered Trademark of Immediate
Media Company London Limited. Text and colour reproduction by
Rhapsody Ltd; printed by Walstead Peterborough Ltd. Incorporating
World Radio. While Radio Times makes every effort to ensure editorial
information is accurate at the time of going to press, it cannot be held
responsible for errors or omissions, or for schedule changes occurring
after going to press.

RT is a member of the
Independent Press
Standards Organisation

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

* UK calls cost the same as other standard fixed line numbers (starting 01 or 02) and are included in any inclusive or free minutes allowances. Outside of free call packages, call charges from mobile
phones will cost between 3p and 55p per minute. Lines open 9am—5pm weekdays. ** Calls cost between 0 and 7p per minute plus your network’s access charge.

fter 23 years, the curtains
are being drawn around
the beds one final time in
Holby City. When episode 50 of
series 23 has aired on BBC1 on
Tuesday 29 March, it will be the
last one ever — the BBC having
announced last year that it wants
to make more drama reflecting
life across the whole of the UK.
Characters such as Jac Naylor
(Rosie Marcel), Ric Griffin (Hugh
Quarshie) and, especially, Anton
Meyer (George Irving) will long be
remembered. But the medical
drama also made its mark on the
careers of a host of now celebrated
stars. RT picks out just a few who
guested or even cut their teeth
in Holby’s illustrious past…

Radio Times provides trusted, independent journalism that has
been gathered without fear or favour from television, radio and
entertainment companies. We cherish our editorial integrity
and independence as we strive to give you accurate and
discerning guidance to the very best of broadcasting and film.

RT GARDENING OFFER

CALLISTEMON
‘BOTTLEBRUSH’
Just £24.99 plus p&p* Save £5!

Callistemon is a beautiful evergreen tree that will explode
with incredible firework-like bottle brush blooms in early
summer each year — the flowers are larger than many other
varieties. Available here in eye-catching ‘standard’ form, so
the flowering head is held on a strong stem, it’s sure to make
an incredible visual statement and help your garden to stand
out from the crowd!
Enjoy the Callistemon’s fabulous bottlebrush-like bright
red flowers in late spring and summer, and its foliage, which
has a refreshing lemon-citrus scent, will fill the air when you
brush past or crush the leaves. Plus, it’s a magnet for bees
and butterflies — essential pollinators will flock to the
nectar-laden blooms, ensuring that your fruits and
vegetables get the essential pollination service they require.
It’s a half-hardy shrub, so give winter protection in colder,
windier spots. Supplied as a 80-100cm (incl pot) tall standard
lollipop-form tree in bud in spring. 680093

GARDENIA ‘KLEIM’S HARDY’

Just £14.97 plus p&p* SAVE £15
‘Kleim’s Hardy’ is the world’s very
first fully hardy gardenia variety
and can survive outside in
temperatures as low as -10C!
Just as stunning and as
fragrant as its indoor
relative, Kleim’s Hardy’s
snowy white, waxy flowers
completely smother its
exquisite evergreen leaves
from early June onwards.
Supplied as three established
plants in 9cm pots.
510006

SAVE
£5
The bottlebrush tree
will make a bold
statement in
your garden

SAVE
£15

To order call 0844 625 1540, quoting RRT469, or visit radiotimes.com/rrt469
*

£6.99 p&p per order. YouGarden Ltd, Eventus House, Sunderland Road, Market Deeping, PE6 8FD. Calls cost 5p per minute plus your network provider’s access charge. Offer subject to
availability and in the event that this offer is oversubscribed, we reserve the right to send suitable substitute varieties of the same or a higher value. Offer closes on 30 May 2022 or while
stocks last. Delivery to UK only and a £6 surcharge may apply to the following postcode areas: AB, DD8-11, GY, HS, IM, IV, JE, KA27-28, KW, PA20-80, PH19-50, TR21-25 and ZE. Images
show mature plants. Full product details and T&Cs at www.yougarden.com. Following Brexit there are a number of changes that prevent us from trading in Northern Ireland.

ORDER FORM Send to YouGarden, PO Box 1468, Peterborough PE1 9XL
Code

Item

Price

680093 Callistemon ‘Bottlebrush’’ SAVE £5

£24.99

510006

£14.97

Qty

Sub-total

RRT469
I enclose a cheque for £

*

Please add £6.99 p&p to all orders

£6.99

payable to YouGarden Ltd, in full payment,

or debit my: MasterCard  Visa  Maestro  Expiry date   /   Valid (Maestro only)   /  
Number 

Gardenia ‘Kleim’s Hardy’ SAVE £15



Signature

              
Print name

Address

Total
Immediate Media Company Limited (publishers of Radio Times) would love to send you newsletters,
together with special offers and other promotions. Tick here if you’d like to receive these by Email 

RadioTimes 2–8 April 2022

Postcode

Mobile

Tel no

Email

145

MAUREEN LIPMAN

‘My kids want me to rein it in’
Tearful TV and cookery make her mad. But what about Gogglebox?
What’s the view from your sofa?
At the moment I don’t really have
a sofa. That’s between me and
Sofology… but I have a chair and
I have a fake fire, and like to sit
there with a glass of wine.
And what do you watch?
I’ll watch what’s on Sky Arts and
then I’ll scroll down and if there’s
something like Countryfile on I’ll
watch that: it gives me some peace.
I don’t care whodunnit. Not for me.
What I’m really enjoying is This
Is Going to Hurt. It’s wonderful.
Beautifully acted, very funny, but
also hard and dark. I believe it.
What won’t you watch?
I hate cookery programmes. The
other night, the news from the
Ukraine was absolutely heinous
and then the television changed
from the news… and it’s Nigella.
Obviously, this isn’t Nigella’s fault,
but there she is saying, “I like steak.
I like to do it with double cream…”
And I’m just thinking, “This is
so inappropriate.”

You’re in the new series of ITV’s
DNA Journey with Rula Lenska.
Why did you want to do it?
I didn’t really want to do it because
I’m prejudiced against what I call
weeping documentaries. Even The
Repair Shop, which I used to love,
has gone completely lachrymose.
And also because I knew that Rula
was a Countess, whereas I was
from some dismal shtetl. As it
happened, it turned out to be one
of the nicest things I’ve ever done.
You make a great couple…
I didn’t really know her until we
were both on Corrie. It was great
when she was on because I had

someone else like me – if you could
describe her as like me. She’s a bit
more glamorous. We were the
elderly crumpets. Well, she was the
elderly crumpet. I’m just elderly.
But I think if you’re at this age,
and you’re not a couple – I lost my
partner [Guido Castro, to Covidrelated complications] in January
last year – then you do rely on
friends. Because, my God, even
with my life, which would seem
on the surface to be very busy, you
do spend a lot of nights sitting in
front of the cathode ray thinking,
“I don’t want to be here.”
We miss seeing you on Celebrity
Gogglebox with Gyles Brandreth.
Is that all done?
It is from my point of view. I’m
sure they’ll put someone else with
Gyles. I went into Gogglebox
imagining that they wanted me for
my wit and my brain. Of course,
they just want to show you
willies and for you to be
shocked. Honestly, we
were really funny

together, but none of that was
used. And if they don’t want to use
what we gave them, f*** them.
You were involved in a couple of
public spats about cancel culture
and Helen Mirren playing Golda
Meir. Do you regret putting your
head above the parapet?
My kids would like me to rein it in.
I don’t mean to be provocative, but
if you are an opinionated person
or if you care about injustice, then
you do tend to speak out. I don’t
think it’s made me very popular to
be anti-Corbyn or indeed to take
Ed Miliband on about his attitude
to Israel. I’m not on the Bafta list
any more, or the Evening Standard
Theatre Awards. Those days have
gone. But criticism always hurts
whatever age you are. I don’t feel
“released” to be a cantankerous old
bag, even if I am one. I like things
to be nice as well. BENJI WILSON
DNA Journey is on Tuesday at 9.00pm
on ITV. Maureen Lipman’s episode
airs next Tuesday

(
NEXT WEEK

Suranne Jones
is back in
Gentleman Jack

JAY BROOKS/CAMERA PRESS

NOTHING TO WATCH?
MY RADIO I’m a radio person.
I listen to Today, Desert Island
Discs, even Farming Today. And
since lockdown I’ve been listening
to Jeremy Vine, too.
MY ART I’ve got an iPad I paint
on, using an app called Art Set.

146

On sale
5 April

Equity release.
You’re in safe hands.
Navigating the path to equity release
takes experience. It takes know-how.


'*)"/ -(
'*)
. 0- 
*)
4*0-
#*( ѵ
 +$
*)
 /#
*-
 )/ -$)"
'*)"/ -(
- ѵ

$)
*0/
*0/
/# 
 ) %
/.Ѷ
*./.
)
-$.&.ѵ
It takes Aviva.

*-

free guide
2$/#
)*
*(($/( )/Ѷ


''
0808 239 3809

1$1
,0$/4
 ' . 
 
 $($/ Ѷ
 "$./ - 
$)
)"')
*
тсчхучуѵ
 "$./ - 
Ȃ
$ ѷ
1$1Ѷ
 ''$)"/*)
*2Ѷ
*-&Ѷ
шп
рѵ
0/#*-$. 
)
- "0'/ 
4
/# 
$))$'
*)0/
0/#*-$/4ѵ

$-(
 ! - ) 
0( -
трпуттѵ

ITALY•SCOTLAND •SPAIN•ICELAND •USA

Escape!

RT TRAVEL PARTNER
Trulli houses in
Alberobello

BUY ONE,
GET ONE HALF
PRICE!
USE CODE RTHALF*

Ready for

take off?

Holidays are back! Whether you want to
leave next week or book for 2023, here are
eight trips you’ll find were worth the wait

UNDISCOVERED ITALY:
PUGLIA, MATERA AND LECCE
Eight days — first person price from £1,189, second person
now from £594.50 *using voucher code: RTHALF (offer
expires 29 April). Departing in June and September 2022

Discover the Italy less travelled with the secret beaches and rich heritage
of Puglia. Tucked away from mass tourism, undiscovered Puglia boasts
golden beaches, an abundance of delicious, locally grown produce, quirky
villages and historic towns.
Set in the historic centre of Torre Canne, the three-star superior Eden
Beach Club Hotel is just 100 yards from a sandy beach, and features a
restaurant, a panoramic rooftop with a swimming pool (seasonal), a bar
and free wi-fi throughout the hotel. There is a free bar from 6pm to 10pm
serving local spirits, wine, beer, soft drinks and tea and coffee every
evening. The en-suite rooms are spacious and have a balcony, flat screen
tv, a mini bar and air-conditioning.
INCLUDED IN THE PRICE…
 Seven nights’ half board at the three-star superior Hotel Eden in Torre
Canne with 14 meals: seven breakfasts, seven dinners
 Twin or double bedrooms with private facilities
 Excursions to Alberobello, Ostuni, Lecce, Matera and the Sassi Caves
 ATOL protected
 Return flights to Bari or Brindisi, luggage and hotel transfers
 Air-conditioned coach travel in Italy
 Services of a Mistral Holidays tour manager

To book or for more information visit
mistralholidays.co.uk/RT or call
01352 756864 quoting RTHALF
TERMS AND CONDITIONS *Use code: RTHALF, offer applies to new bookings only and expires 29 April
2022. Open Monday to Friday 10am—4pm. These holidays are operated by Mistral Holidays ABTA V0669 &
ATOL protected 6900. Subject to availability. Prices are per person based on two people sharing. Single
supplements apply and supplements may apply from some airports. Prices
shown are inclusive of current discounts and are subject to flight and
accommodation availability. Prices are correct as of 9 March 2022 and are
subject to change without notice. For full T&Cs see the website or brochure.

2

t’s been a while coming,
but travel is back on.
Exploring Roman ruins,
traversing volcanic landscapes, relaxing on
powdery beaches – whatever you’ve
been dreaming of these past two
years, it’s possible again. We can
hardly pack our suitcases fast
enough to get back out there and
experience the thrill of discovering
somewhere new. The only trouble
is deciding where to go first.
But don’t worry – we’ve done the
hard work for you. In the following
pages we have rounded up eight
amazing locations that you should
book and visit now, without delay.
They’re all easy to reach from the
UK and are currently welcoming
British travellers with minimal
Covid-related entry requirements.
But each one also offers diverse and
unique holiday experiences – the
kind of moments that we know
you’ve been missing. There’s a holiday here for every traveller, whether
you want to cruise through epic
wilds or immerse yourself in an
unforgettable festival. Enjoy the
(re)discovery. ALICIA MILLER

I

RT TRAVEL PARTNER

1

SUNSHINE IN SPAIN
WHY NOW After two years

of putting sunshine breaks
on hold, it’s finally time to
return to the ray-drenched Iberian
peninsula. Lazy tapas lunches, slow
wanders through atmospheric cities,
easy days basking on the beach —
it’s all back on the menu.

WHERE TO GO Head to the south

of the country, to Andalusia, and you
are guaranteed hot weather twinned

The Alhambra
in Granada

SAVE 10%*

BOOK BY 16 APRIL 2022
QUOTE RTA10

with all the signature atmosphere
you’ve missed, including steamy
flamenco performances, ornate
Moorish architecture and slivers
of jamón washed down with a glass
of fino sherry. In Seville you can
wander the elaborate Alcázar
Palace, festooned in colourful tiles
and dotted with orange trees, and
in Granada take in the spectacular
hilltop Alhambra complex.

SEVILLE, GRANADA AND CLASSIC SPAIN
Seven days NOW from £664pp Departing May to November 2022
Enjoy this exciting exploration of Andalusia in southern Spain — the
birthplace of Picasso and home of flamenco.
PRICE INCLUDES  Stay in the heart of Andalusia  A full-day visit to
Seville  Journey towards the Sierra Nevada, beneath which the Moorish
city of Granada stands  Visit Granada, the Alhambra and its gardens
 In the city of Ronda, take in the views from the famous Puente Nuevo,
which joins the old and new towns  Six nights’ B&B accommodation
at the three-star Hotel Coso, Antequera  Return flights to Málaga
 Air-conditioned coach travel and transfers  Fully escorted by an
experienced tour manager. Optional excursion to Córdoba also available

2

FJORDS IN NORWAY

WHY NOW If you’re into your

Scandi noir television series, Norway
is probably already on your hit list.
And with summer on the horizon,
don’t delay your visit — this is the
best time to enjoy the land of the
midnight sun and its world-famous
scenic fjords.
WHERE TO GO Start in Oslo, the
capital, for its cool design shops,

green spaces and must-see sites
like the new Munch Museum. But
you also can’t miss Bergen, the
photogenic second city that’s the
gateway to Norway’s fjords. After
you’ve taken in the city’s rainbowcoloured wharf houses, hop on
a cruise along the waterways —
hugged by dramatic peaks — or hike
through forest to epic waterfalls.

Unforgettable
Venice

Eight days NOW from £655pp
Departing April to October 2022
Discover an idyllic corner of the
world where you can enjoy some
glorious scenery and explore two
of Europe’s most fascinating,
enthralling and historic cities.
PRICE INCLUDES
 Enjoy a full-day visit to the
incomparable Venice
 Explore Verona, Romeo and
Juliet’s exquisite city
 Journey through the dramatic
Dolomites
 Experience a Grand Circular
tour of Lake Garda and its
surroundings
 Seven nights’ carefully
selected accommodation
at the hotel or resort of your
choosing
 Return flights to Italy
 Comfortable, air-conditioned
coach travel and transfers
 Fully escorted by an
experienced tour manager

SAVE 10%*

BOOK BY 16 APRIL 2022
QUOTE RTA10

To book or request a brochure, please call 0330 160 8099,
quoting RTA, or visit radiotimes.com/holidayoffers
*
Save 10% applies to new bookings made by 16 April 2022 when quoting promo code: RTA10. Prices shown
include discounts. Exclusions apply. Offers are subject to availability, cannot be used in conjunction with any
other offer and may be withdrawn at any time. These holidays are solely organised and operated by Newmarket
Holidays Ltd ABTA V7812. Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority ATOL 2325.
Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room. Single supplements apply.
Standard phone charges apply. Prices correct at the time of going to print.

radiotimes.com/travelapril2022 3

COVER: GETTY. THIS PAGE: SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY

VENICE, VERONA AND
LAKE GARDA

RT TRAVEL

RESERVE
YOUR HOLIDAY
FROM JUST
£459PP

Join the Bure Valley Railway in Norfolk

GREAT BRITISH BREAKS AND EUROPEAN RAIL HOLIDAYS
Five-day breaks from £459pp —
selected departures May 2022 to
September 2023
Arena Travel pride themselves on
creating unforgettable getaways. Take
a look at their selection of UK breaks,
travel further afield and visit some of
Europe’s top destinations, or explore
Ireland on new tours for 2022. All
holidays will allow you to sit back,

relax and travel in style, while taking in
the sights and scenery from the
comfort of your seat.
REASONS TO BOOK
Flexible booking
Secure your holiday with a deposit
and the option to transfer your
booking to another date for free*
Price promise
Your holiday will not be sold for less;

furthermore if the price of your
holiday does increase, you will
not be asked to pay more.
Safety and wellbeing
We have stringent hygiene and safety
measures to help keep you safe.
Peace of mind
We are members of ABTA and holders
of an ATOL licence, and all of our
holidays are financially bonded.

RAIL HOLIDAY

DESTINATION

DEPARTURES

DURATION

PRICE (PP)

LITTLE TRAINS OF NORFOLK

UK

MAY—SEPTEMBER 2022

5 DAYS

£459

SETTLE TO CARLISLE AND YORKSHIRE STEAM

UK

5 DAYS

£549

RAILWAYS OF SOMERSET AND THE DEVON COAST

UK

MAY—SEPTEMBER 2022

5 DAYS

£499

HERITAGE RAILWAYS OF THE COTSWOLDS & AVON VALLEY

UK

MAY 2022—SEPTEMBER 2023

5 DAYS

£499

DUBLIN, WATERFORD & THE WICKLOW MOUNTAINS

IRELAND

OCTOBER 2022

7 DAYS

£1,195

KILLARNEY, THE DINGLE PENINSULA & KINGDOM OF KERRY

IRELAND

SEPTEMBER 2022

6 DAYS

£1,125

FLORIADE SPECTACULAR & DELIGHTS OF AMSTERDAM

NETHERLANDS

MAY—OCTOBER 2022

5 DAYS

£695

MONET’S GARDEN, CHARTRES, VERSAILLES AND LOIRE VALLEY

FRANCE

JUNE—OCTOBER 2022

4 DAYS

£599

HIGHLIGHTS OF CORSICA

FRANCE

MAY, JUNE AND SEPTEMBER 2022

10 DAYS

£1,699

LITTLE TRAINS OF THE PYRENEES

ITALY

MAY AND SEPTEMBER 2022

8 DAYS

£1,049

ITALIAN RIVIERA OF FLOWERS

ITALY

SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 2022

7 DAYS

£949

MAY 2022—SEPTEMBER 2023

To book or to request a brochure call 01858 438335,
quoting RADIO2904U, or visit radiotimes.com/holidayoffers
*Terms and conditions: Operated by Arena Rail Holidays. Prices are per person and based on two people sharing. Single supplements apply. Holidays are
solely organised by Arena Rail Holidays. Images supplied by Arena Travel. Calls charged at local rate. ABTA no Y6426 and ATOL 10117

4

WHAT’S INCLUDED?
 Unique itineraries, expertly
planned
 Inclusive travel by rail, air or coach
(excluding UK holidays)
 Quality accommodation in carefully
selected hotels
 Many meals and excursions
 The services of an experienced
tour manager

RT TRAVEL PARTNER

SAVE 10%*

BOOK BY 16 APRIL 2022
QUOTE RTA10

Isle of Harris

HISTORY IN ITALY

3

WHY NOW Do you really

need a reason to book a
holiday to Italy? There’s
plenty to love about one of the
world’s great holiday destinations,
from its irresistible food to its
priceless Renaissance art and
ancient ruins. Now’s an especially
great time to take in some of its
top historic sights, before the
holiday crowds return en masse.

HIGHLANDS AND HEBRIDES
WHERE TO GO There’s history

everywhere in Italy, so don’t just
stick to Rome, Florence or Pompeii.
Head to Lake Como (above) or
Garda — where you can spend days
discovering old castellos by the
waterside — or to Puglia for Lecce’s
Roman amphitheatre. Meanwhile in
Sicily you can see some of the best
ancient Greek ruins outside Greece,
as well as intricate Roman mosaics.

Six days NOW from £1,004pp Departing May to September 2022
On this wonderful escorted tour, you’ll journey through some of Scotland’s
most breathtaking landscapes, passing wild moors, towering peaks and
mystical lochs.
PRICE INCLUDES  Enjoy Scotland’s breathtaking northwest Highlands
 Visit the Gulf Stream-warmed Inverewe Gardens  Journey through the
Isle of Skye, visiting the main town of Portree  Cross from Uig to Tarbert
on the Isle of Harris  Explore Harris and Lewis, including Gearrannan
village, the Carloway Broch and the Standing Stones at Callanish  Five
nights’ accommodation with dinner, bed, and breakfast  Six breakfasts
and five dinners  Return flights to Scotland, with coach travel, ferries and
transfers throughout  Fully escorted by an experienced tour manager
Moray Firth

SAVE 10%*

FESTIVALS IN SCOTLAND

4

WHY NOW You don’t
have to go far from
home to find holiday
adventure. Scotland has sparkling
lochs, green hills, walkable cities
— and is at its most welcoming in
summer. With the country’s many
festivals back in full swing for
2022, this year is set to be buzzier
than ever.

BOOK BY 16 APRIL 2022
QUOTE RTA10

and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Then, get out into the countryside
for an adventure on rails. One of
the world’s most scenic train
journeys, the 42 miles of the
Jacobite Steam Train from Fort
William into the rugged Highlands,
feels like a journey to the end of
the world.

WHERE TO GO Start in the

BEST OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Seven days NOW from £675pp Departing April to October 2022
Fly to Inverness and enjoy a land of open skies, rugged mountains,
sparkling lochs, romantic castles, culture and history.
PRICE INCLUDES  Spot wildlife on a cruise on the Moray Firth  Tour of
the Black Isle  Ride on the Strathspey Steam Railway  An unforgettable
journey on the Road to the Isles from Fort William to Mallaig  Discover
the Moray Coast and visit Brodie Castle  A boat trip on Loch Ness
 A tour and tasting at a whisky distillery  Visit the seaside town of Nairn
 Six nights’ dinner, bed and breakfast accommodation at the three-star
Carrbridge Hotel  Return flights to Inverness, with coach travel and
transfers throughout  Fully escorted by an experienced tour manager

To book or request a brochure, please call 0330 160 8099,
quoting RTA, or visit radiotimes.com/holidayoffers
*
Save 10% applies to new bookings made by 16 April 2022 when quoting promo code: RTA10. Prices shown
include discounts. Exclusions apply. Offers are subject to availability, cannot be used in conjunction with any
other offer and may be withdrawn at any time. These holidays are solely organised and operated by Newmarket
Holidays Ltd ABTA V7812. Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority ATOL 2325.
Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room. Single supplements apply.
Standard phone charges apply. Prices correct at the time of going to print.

radiotimes.com/travelapril2022

5

SHUTTERSTOCK; ALAMY

Scottish capital, crowned by its
castle and stuffed with chiselled
sandstone buildings, and enjoy the
world-famous Edinburgh Tattoo

RT TRAVEL PARTNER
Classic Tuscan
countryside

BUY ONE,
GET ONE HALF
PRICE!
USE CODE RTHALF*

CRUISING IN GERMANY

5

WHY NOW Cruising

has returned, and
a small, slow river
voyage in the heart of Europe is a
perfect way to ease yourself back
in. As well as Germany, many
cruises take in Slovakia, Hungary,
Austria and other countries, too.
So if you’re feeling starved of
different cultures, this is a great
way to see a lot in one go.

A TASTE OF TUSCANY
AND FLORENCE

Eight days — first person price from £1,059, second person
now from £529.50 *using discount code RTHALF (offer
expires 29 April). Departing in May, June, Sept and Oct 2022
Tuscany needs little introduction. The birthplace of the Renaissance and an
inspiration to countless artists, Tuscany isn’t just beautiful scenery and
historical cities, it is home to some of the best food and wine in Italy.
The three-star Hotel Montebello is well located in Montecatini Terme and
is rated as Excellent by Tripadvisor. The hotel facilities include a restaurant,
lounge bar and outside terrace. Free wi-fi is available in the public areas. All
of the Montebello’s comfortable bedrooms are air-conditioned and have an
en-suite bathroom, hairdryer, telephone and TV.
INCLUDED IN THE PRICE…
 Seven nights in the three-star Hotel Montebello in Montecatini Terme
 14 meals: seven buffet breakfasts, five dinners in the hotel and one
dinner at a local restaurant, plus lunch at the Vicchio Maggio Wine
Estate and vineyard
 Excursions to Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Chianti, Siena and San Gimignano
 Two vineyard visits with wine tasting and cheese and olive oil tastings
 ATOL protected
 Return flights to Pisa, luggage and hotel transfers
 Air-conditioned coach on the excursions
 Services of a Mistral Holidays tour manager
For a supplement, upgrade to the four-star Hotel Boston in Montecatini Terme

To book or for more information visit
mistralholidays.co.uk/RT or call
01352 756864 quoting RTHALF
TERMS AND CONDITIONS *Use code: RTHALF, offer applies to new bookings only and expires 29 April
2022. Open Monday to Friday 10am—4pm. These holidays are operated by Mistral Holidays ABTA V0669 &
ATOL protected 6900. Subject to availability. Prices are per person based on two people sharing. Single
supplements apply and supplements may apply from some airports. Prices
shown are inclusive of current discounts and are subject to flight and
accommodation availability. Prices are correct as of 9 March 2022 and are
subject to change without notice. For full T&Cs see the website or brochure.

6

7

WHERE TO GO Whether you

fancy floating through vineyards
on the Rhine or stopping off at
cities on the Danube, you’ll find an
itinerary to suit. Explore weddingcakey architecture in towns like
Passau (above) before sipping a
glass of crisp local white wine on
board your boat while pootling
past verdant scenery. That’s what
a holiday is all about, isn’t it?

CITIES IN THE USA

WHY NOW New York,
Los Angeles, Chicago
— with its world-class
metropolises, it’s no wonder the
USA is on so many people’s bucket
list. America’s urban centres have
come back to life post-Covid, so
now is the time take in their
riches, from fabulous restaurants
and hotels to top-notch museums
and galleries.
WHERE TO GO Washington DC is

a natural pick for history buffs, who
will love touring the National Mall

and Capitol Hill. For glitz,
meanwhile, choose Las Vegas —
with celebrity chef restaurants,
epic nightlife and the nearby Grand
Canyon, there’s a lot more than
just the gambling slots. Want a
road trip you’ll never forget?
Journey through the cities of
the Deep South, from
Atlanta and Charleston
to New Orleans, for
18th-century
architecture and
top-notch barbecues.

ISLANDS IN THE UK

8

WHY NOW If you’re still
not quite ready to take
the plunge abroad,
you’ll find plenty of thrills close
to home. Use this summer as an
excuse to explore a corner of the
UK you’ve never seen before.

WHERE TO GO Book a weekend on

the Isle of Wight — it’s an easy hop
on the ferry from Portsmouth, but

has a charm all its own with
dramatic hills, golden beaches
(below) and fossil walks. Meanwhile,
the Channel Islands have war
history and some of Britain’s best
beaches. Jersey is a great pick for
outdoor adventure, whereas
smaller Guernsey has romantic,
photo-perfect St Peter Port (right).
Get out there!

RT TRAVEL PARTNER
LONDON THEATRE BREAK

WHY NOW

We’ve all
come to
appreciate the value
of time spent in the
great outdoors. And if
natural wonders are top
of your wish list in a
holiday, there are few
places that do better
than Iceland, home of
volcanos, hot springs,
geysers and glaciers.
Visit this summer to
take in the scenery, or
in winter to spot the
northern lights.

WHERE TO GO How

wild do you want to
get? Spend a few days
exploring the capital,
Reykjavik, then tick off
the 300km Golden
Circle route, visiting the
Gullfoss waterfall and
the geyser at Geysir. Or
get really epic, tackling
the encircling Ring
Road on a week-long
adventure. Have your
camera primed for the
rugged north and east
coast, dotted with
remote fishing towns.

The Phantom of
the Opera

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: Operated by Just Go Holidays Ltd trading as Omega Breaks. This package
break is subject to Omega Breaks terms and conditions. Your booking is protected by Bonded Coach Holidays
(BCH) and the Association of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited (ABTOT); a Government-approved
protection scheme. Tours subject to availability and Government guidelines. Errors and omissions excepted.
Prices are per person, based on two people sharing a double/twin room at the Copthorne Hotel; a small
supplement may apply on your choice of show. Single supplements apply. Calls to 033 numbers are free
within inclusive minute packages, otherwise standard rates apply. See website or call for further details.

Mourne Mountains,
Northern Ireland

TITANIC, THE GIANT’S CAUSEWAY AND
MOURNE MOUNTAINS
Six days from £524pp — departs 29 May, 3 July, 4 and 18 Sept 2022
Northern Ireland offers a combination of cosmopolitan city life, unrivalled
coastal and mountain scenery as well as dramatic natural wonders,
including the ancient stone edifices of the Giant’s Causeway.
PRICE INCLUDES:  Return coach travel* and ferry crossings  Four nights
at the four-star Ballymascanlon Hotel near Dundalk or the Nuremore
Hotel and Country Club, Carrickmacross, with dinner and breakfast
 One night at a selected three-star hotel in the Dublin area with dinner
 Excursions to the Mountains of Mourne, Giant’s Causeway, DerryLondonderry, Belfast, Titanic Belfast and Dublin  Guided walking tour
of Derry-Londonderry and a city tour of Belfast  Escorted by a tour
manager in Ireland  Optional locally guided city tour of Dublin (£14pp)

For details call 03332 342493, quoting
RTC, or visit radiotimes.com/holidayoffers
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: *Return coach travel from a network of pickups in England and Wales. Pickup
point locations vary and are subject to departure date. Coach package holidays are subject to operator Just Go!
Holidays terms and conditions. Your booking is protected by Bonded Coach Holidays (BCH) and the Association
of Bonded Travel Organisers Trust Limited (ABTOT); a Government-approved consumer protection scheme.
Tours offered subject to availability and Government guidelines. Errors and omissions excepted. Prices are per
person, based on two people sharing a double/twin room. Single supplements
apply. Calls to 033 numbers are free within inclusive minutes packages,
otherwise standard rates apply. Please see website or call for further details. Due
to ferry times, coach pickup times may be very early in the morning.

radiotimes.com/travelapril2022

SHUTTERSTOCK; ALAMY

6

WILDERNESS IN ICELAND

Four-star hotel and ticket offer,
three days from £169pp
Make the capital city yours on this
three-day theatre break in London.
PRICE INCLUDES:
 Two nights at a the four-star
Copthorne Hotel, Chelsea, or Tower
Hotel with full English breakfast
 Stalls, circle, dress circle or royal
circle ticket to Mamma Mia!, Wicked,
The Phantom of the Opera (right),
Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, The
Tina Turner Musical or Grease the
Musical  Free time in London
ITINERARY:
Day 1 Make your own way to London.
Check in to your hotel. Later, enjoy an
evening performance of the show of
your choice.
Day 2 After breakfast at the hotel,
explore London. Take a trip on the
London Eye, or a spot of shopping on
Oxford Street — there is plenty to do.
Day 3 Enjoy a breakfast at the hotel
before returning home.

7

RT TRAVEL

SET SAIL
ON A JOURNEY
THROUGH EUROPE
ABOARD THE FOURSTAR MS ARENA

DELIGHTFUL HOLLAND
AND THE FLORIADE

NO SINGLE
SUPPLEMENT OR
FREE PREMIUM
PACKAGE*

Seven days from £995pp Departing 4 June 2022
Join the ultimate spring escape. Not only will the
river cruise see us sail to the likes of Amsterdam,
Den Helder and Lelystad, but we’ll also experience
the once-in-a-decade Floriade Expo and have the
opportunity to visit Het Loo Palace and De
Kruidhof Botanical Garden.

The Danube in
Austria

NO SINGLE
SUPPLEMENT OR
FREE PREMIUM
PACKAGE*

HIGHLIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS
 Six nights’ cruise on a full-board basis
 Six visits included to Amsterdam, Hoorn,
Den Helder, Harlingen, Kampen and
Lelystad
 Excursion to Floriade
The Danube to Vienna
and Budapest

Colourful Amsterdam
(above). Tulips at the
Keukenhof Gardens
in the Netherlands

Lucerne in Switzerland

A TASTE OF THE
IMPERIAL DANUBE

CRUISE THE DANUBE TO VIENNA MIGHTY RHINE TO SWITZERLAND
Eight days from £1249pp
AND BUDAPEST

Six days from £829pp
Departing 29 July 2022

Eight days from £1,195pp
Departing August and September 2022

Perfect for when time is of the essence, this six-day
cruise takes you to three of Europe’s most
fascinating capitals.
HIGHLIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS
 Five nights’ cruise on a full-board basis
 Four visits included to Budapest, Bratislava,
Vienna and Melk

Journey onboard MS Arena, along the undeniably
romantic Danube, discovering two of its most
remarkable cities en route.
HIGHLIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS
 Seven nights’ cruise on a full-board basis
 Five visits included to Melk, Vienna, Budapest,
Bratislava and Dürnstein

Departing April to October 2022

Embark on a truly unforgettable cruise through the
breathtaking Rhine Gorge, discovering charming
and historical wonders at every twist and turn.
HIGHLIGHTS AND INCLUSIONS
 Seven nights’ cruise on a full-board basis
 Excursion to the Swiss resort of Lucerne
 Nine visits included to Cologne, Rüdesheim,
Speyer, Strasbourg, Basel, Lucerne, Breisach,
Mannheim and Mainz

ALL CRUISES SHOWN INCLUDE
 Welcome drink and Captain’s Gala Dinner  Afternoon tea/coffee and cake and evening snack  Complimentary tea, coffee and wi-fi  On-board
entertainment each evening  Services of a cruise manager  Travel by air or meet us at the ship, coach options available on some cruises

To book, or for more information, call 01858 438338,
quoting RADIO2903U, or visit radiotimes.com/holidayoffers
Terms and conditions: Offers cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers or discounts and subject to availability at the time of booking. FREE PREMIUM PACKAGE on Superior Cabins only
— SAVE up to £260 — NO SINGLE CABIN SUPPLEMENT on Main Deck Standard Cabins only — SAVE up to £260. Operated by Arena Travel Holidays. Prices are per person and based on two people
sharing a cabin. Single supplements apply. Holidays are solely organised by Arena Travel Holidays. Images supplied by Arena Travel. Calls charged at local rate. ABTA no Y6426 and ATOL 10117.

8