LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 6th - 12th September

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 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30pm: Alphabet Poems. With Wendy Cope
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘73 and ‘95
BBC Radio 4 - 12noon: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins and Julian Clary guest
BBC Radio 4 - 2.45pm: History of Home. Laurence Llewelyn Bowen on David Hicks
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Bookclub. Gore Vidal
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: For One Night Only. Paul Gambaccinin on Miles Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: And the Academy Award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini examines Lawrence of Arabia
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 5.30pm: How Tickled am I? Mark Radcliffe on Beryl Reid; featuring the Sister George thing
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes

Monday 8th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Fry’s English Delight. Third of a three-parter for language lovers by Stephen Fry. Cliché
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45pm: Book of the Week. Evan Davis introduces Greed
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 7 - 12noon & 7pm: The Navy Lark

Tuesday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week. Evan Davis with Making Money
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives presented by Matthew Parris

Wednesday 10th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week. Evan Davis with Making Money
BBC Radio 4 - Big Bang Day. Cern’s Large Hadron Coller is to be switched on. This means nothing to me, but all the programmes are special.
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Big Bang Day: Physics Rocks. A team discuss the Universe. Includes Eddie Izzard and John Barrowman
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Kicking the Habit. Comedy, written by Christopher Lee
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Torchwood: Lost Souls. Special radio edition
BBC Radio 7 - 12noon & 7pm: Beyond our Ken

Thursday 11th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week. Evan Davis with Making Money

Friday 12th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week. Evan Davis with Making Money
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: For one night only. Paul Gambaccini on Elvis’ return to TV in 1968
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Great Lives presented by Matthew Parris (rpt)
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

Local
BBC London 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard
Sunday 9am-12noon: Lesley Joseph and Christopher Biggins

Gaydar Radio - Brighton, London DAB and online - 24/7

BBC Three Counties (and online), Cambs, Essex, Norfolk, Northants., Suffolk - 10pm-1am Ern and Vern. Kenny Everett meets Round the Horn in a bucketful of innuendo

Television

Entertainment and documentaries

Saturday 6th
BBC1 - 12.50pm: Clare Balding introduces The World Paralympics
BBC1 - 8pm: Eurovision Dance Contest. Presented by Graham Norton. How gay can BBC1 on a Saturday night get?
BBC2 - 9.10pm: Have I Got Old News for You? Clare Balding guests
BBC2 - 11.30pm: Comedy Connections. Little Britain
ITV1 - 9.25pm: Corrie Omnibus. Sean is beside himself
ITV2 - 6am: Corrie Omnibus
ITV2 - 9pm: Ghosthunting with Paul O’Grady and Friends. In Palermo!?
E4 - 11.50pm: Alan Carr: Tooth Fairy Live
Living - 9am: The Golden Girls
Living - 10pm: Hotel Babylon
Living 2 - 2am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Biography - 6am and 12noon: Shirley McLaine

Sunday 7th
Sky 1 - 7pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical. An Enfield school takes the Broadway musical on. Presented by Denise van Outen
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 4.30pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
UKTV Gold - 11pm: AbFab
Living - 9am: The Golden Girls
Living - 3.50am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Living - 4.35am: The Golden Girls
Sky Arts - 1.30pm: Kylie: Cultural icon

Monday 8th
C4 - 8.25am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
UKTV Gold - 7am & 4pm: Dr Who
UKTV Gold - 3.20 & 8.20pm: The Thin Blue Line
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living 2 - 2am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts - 4pm: Liberace. Profile of the closet queen
Biography - 9 & 10.30pm: The Duchess. Chi?

Tuesday 9th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby gets persuasive
BBC2 - 8.30pm: Maestro. Sue Perkins is favourite to win
BBC2 - 11.20pm: The Supersizers Go…Restoration. Sue Perkins again
BBC HD - 8.30pm: Maestro. As BBC2
C4 - 8.30am: Will and Grace
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 12.10am: Derek Jarman: Life as Art
BBC Parliament - 6.30am: TUC Conference

Wednesday 10th
C4 - 8.30am: Will & Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
UK Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
UK Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Biography - 11pm: Being the Campest Men
UK TV History - 10pm: I, Claudius. Derek Jacobi plays the unlikely emperor

Thursday 11th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. With Kristian Digby
BBC4 - 11pm: Maestro
BBC Parliament - 6.30am: TUC Conference
C4 - 8.30am and 1.30pm: Will & Grace
C4 - 11.40pm: Alan Carr’s celebrity Ding Dong (rpt)
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
UK TV History - 10pm: I Claudius

Friday 12th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby in Bristol
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
C4 - 8.30am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5.30pm: Come Dine with Me
Sky 1 - 6pm: Hairspay; The School Musical
UKTV Gold - 11pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace

Film and drama

Tuesday 9th
10.35am My Favourite Wife. 1940 romcom stars Cary Grant

Wednesday 10th
TCM - 1pm: the Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Repeated on TCM2 at 7pm