Friday, June 6, 2008

LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 7th – 13th June

We seek them out so you don't have to. This is our weekly non-exhaustive round up of upcoming LGBT programmes on the radio and television. Inclusion of a programme is not a recommendation.
Enjoy!

Some of the radio programmes listed below can be listened to again via the Listen Again facility of the BBC's website while some of the television programmes will remain available also for a week on the BBC's iplayer.

Radio
Saturday 7th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30am: Sex, Telly and Britain. Miranda Sawyer and others question the truth of the 1960s sexual revolution (pt 2)
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Counterpoint. Music quiz with Paul Gambaccini
6 Music - 12noon: BBC introducing with Tom Robinson

Sunday 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30pm: Pick of the Pops. 1968 and ‘77 charts with Dale Winton
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: News Quiz presented by Sandi Toksvig (archive)

Monday 9th
6 Music - 1am: New Music with Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. Music quiz presented by Paul Gambaccini

Tuesday 10th
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45am & 7.45pm: Paid Servant. Woman’s Hour drama. In 1958 London, E R Braithawaite struggles to care for a mixed race boy who has been involved in the sex trade

Thursday 12th
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman's Hour - Lesbians in India
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Bette in Britain. Susan George narrates a programme that examines Bette Davis’ feelings about the UK, focusing on her visits and statements.

Friday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Su Perkins guests
6 Music - 7pm: New Music with Tom Robinson

Television

Films and drama

Saturday 7th
Film4 - 4.45pm: The Madness of King George. Nigel Hawthorne in adaptation of Alan Bennett work

Sunday 6th
Film4 - 12.40am: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Jodie Foster as a radical nun
Sky Movies Indie - 6.35pm: Transamerica

Friday 13th
Sky Movies Indie - 11.25am & 5.20pm: All about My Mother Almodóvar directs.

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 7th
BBC1 - 7pm: Dr Who. Part 2 of a two parter
BBC2 - 6.35pm: The Supersizers Go. Sue Perkins tries to survive the Victorian era with Giles Coren (rpt)
BBC3 - 7.45pm: Dr Who Confidential. With Russell T. Davies
Living - 10pm: Hotel Babylon

Sunday 8th
ITV - 10.45pm: The South Bank Show - Sarah Waters
BBC2 - 11pm: The Graham Norton Show (rpt)

Monday 9th
BBC2 - 6.30pm: A Taste of my Life. Nigel Slater takes Jo Brand on a culinary journey
C4 - 9pm: The Victorian Sex Explorer. Rupert Everett follows the footsteps ofBritish Empire explorer and sex tourist Richard Burton on a pan-sexual adventure. Undoubtedly the best offer this week.
C4 - 11.05pm: Derren Brown: The System. Something to do with racing
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme

Tuesday 10th
BBC2 - 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
BBC2 - 9pm: The Supersizers Go. Sue Perkins tries to survive the 1970s with Giles Coren
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme

Wednesday 11th
BBC2 - 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
BBC HD - 11pm: Torchwood
UKTV Gold - 10.55pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Sky Arts - 9pm: What the Dickens? Sandi Toksvig presents a cultural quiz.

Thursday 12th
BBC2 - 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
BBC2 - 9.45pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC4 - 9pm: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley.
C4 - 11pm: Derren Brown: Trick or Treat? (rpt)
C5 - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
UKTV Gold - 7.40pm: The Thin Blue Line
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme

Friday 13th
BBC2 - 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. Stephen Fry (rpt)
UKTV Gold - 7.40pm: The Thin Blue Line
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme

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