LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 19th - 25th July

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 19
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 -10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 1pm: Any Questions. Matthew Parris
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing… New acts presented by Tom Robinson

Sunday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30pm: Pick of the Pops. 1960 and ‘85 charts with Dale Winton
BBC Radio 7 - 1.30 & 7.30pm: Stop Messing About. Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims from 1969

Monday 21st
6 Music - 1am: New Music with Tom Robinson

Wednesday 23rd
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show. With Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 7 - 8am & 7pm: Beyond our Ken

Friday 25th
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding on walking holidays
6 Music - 7pm: New Music with Tom Robinson
BBC London 94.9 - 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lame or Baylen Leonard

Television

Entertainment and Documentaries
Saturday 19th
BBC1 - 6.25pm and 9.10: Last Choir Standing. Will Brighton’s Gay Men’s Chorus make it through?
BBC2 - 8pm: Hadrian. Dan Snow’s analysis coincides with the British Museum’s exhibition and hides neither the wall maker’s gay credentials, nor his attempts to wipe out the Jews.
ITV3 - 7.25pm: Cadfael. Derek Jacobi plays a monk detective

Sunday 20th
C4 - 10pm: The Sunday Night Project. Alan Carr. Will Young is guest presenter
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who, followed by Dr Who Confidential (rpt.)
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
Dave - 11.10pm: QI
FX - 10pm: Dexter. Michael C. Hall (David Fisher from Six Feet Under) plays the eponymous serial killer who works in forensics at the NY Police

Monday 21st
BBC1 - 2.35 am: A Taste of My Life. Nigel Slater and Jo Brand
C4 - 1pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 6pm: Simon Callow’s Classical Destinations (HD)

Tuesday 22nd
BBC1 - 2.05am: A Taste of My Life. Nigel Slater and Neil Morrissey
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who followed by Dr Who Confidential (rpt.)
ITV1 - 12.30pm and 2.05am: Loose Women. Aussie gay singer/songwriter Darren Hayes guests
ITV1 - 10.40pm: Kingdom. Stephen Fry plays the East Anglian lawyer (rpt.)
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Christopher Biggins guests
FX - 10pm: Dexter
Sky Arts -7pm: Rufus Wainwright (HD)
Sky Arts - 7.30pm: Ballet Rocks (HD)

Wednesday 23rd
BBC1 - 2.50am: A Taste of My Life. Liz Smith
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who followed by Dr Who Confidential (rpt.)
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Christopher Biggins guests
UKTV Gold - 7am and 4pm: Dr Who
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Thursday 24th
BBC1 - 3.05am: A Taste of My Life. John Hurt
C4 - 1pm: Will and Grace
BBC1 - 9pm: John Barrowman: The Making of Me. In the first of a science 3-parter exploring the nature vs. nurture debate, a number of experts test Barrowman’s assertion that he was born on our bus
C4 - 11.15pm: The Sunday Night Project. Will Young is guest presenter (rpt.)
5 - 9am: The Wright Stuff. Christopher Biggins guests
5 - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Dave - 10.20pm: Absolute Power. Stephen Fry as a spin doctor
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
FX - 11.30pm: Dexter
Biography - 7pm: Greta Garbo

Friday 25th
BBC1 - 10.35pm: Comedy Connections. Features the late Nigel Hawthorne in Yes Minister
ITV2 - 11.15pm: Benicassim. Spanish rockfest features Mika. Well, he might be
C4 - 1pm: Will and Grace
UKTV Gold - 7am and 4pm: Dr Who
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Films and Drama
Saturday 19th
Sky Indie - 11.10am: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law

Wednesday 24th
Sky Indie - 4.10pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law