LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 20th - 26th 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 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Jonathan Ross. Bette Midler and Will Young guest
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30am: Let Me Entertain You. John Sessions’ history of popular entertainment takes us to Elizabethan London
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30pm: Saturday Play: Bora Bora. Derek Jacobi plays art historian Alec in a play that was written for him personally by Lynne Truss. Alec has always lived in the shadow of his famous brother and a biographer brings out a terrible secret.
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 21st
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘72 and ‘89
BBC Radio 4 -11pm: And the Academy Award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini examines Silence of the Lambs
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 22nd
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. Featuring Let it Go: Will Young’s latest album all week
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30pm: Higher and Higher. Paul Gambaccini on Jackie Wilson

Tuesday 23rd
BBC Radio 2 -9.30am: Ken Bruce. See Monday
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Oh Lucky Man! Profile of film director Lindsay Anderson
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Soul Music. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Matthew Parris helps judge secretive Georgian Lady Hester Stanhope

Wednesday 24th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. See Monday
BBC Radio 7 - 8am, 12noon & 7pm: Beyond our Ken

Thursday 25th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am: Ken Bruce. See Monday

Friday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 9.30am Ken Bruce. See Monday
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Great Lives. Repeat from Tuesday
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts

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

Gaydar Radio 24/7 Brighton, London DAB and online

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 documentary
Saturday 20th
BBC1 - 5.40pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents a new show in which two teams led by celebs have to battle their way through a polystyrene wall to avoid being pushed into a pool of water
BBC1 - 12.50am: Friday Night with Jonathon Ross. Paul O’Grady guests
BBC2 - 7.30pm: Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press
ITV1 - 8.30pm: All Star Family Fortunes. Antony Cotton (Sean in Corrie) and family guest
ITV3 - 5.20pm: Cadfael
Dave - 9pm: QI. 8 back-to-back editions
Sky1 - 4pm: Hairspray The School Musical
Sky2 - 11.30am: Hairspray The School Musical
UK TV Gold - 7.20pm and 12.50am: What a Carry on! Clips
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 2pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 11.30am: Swan Lake
Biography - 12noon: Joan Collins
Biography - 11,30pm: Westlife

Sunday 21st
ITV1 - 4.45pm: All Star Family Fortunes. Repeat from last night
E4 - 11.25pm: Shameless
More4 - 4.30pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Sky 1 - 6pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical. An Enfield school takes the Broadway musical on. Presented by Denise van Outen
Sky2 - 1pm: Hairspray The Schools Musical
UKTV Gold - 11.25am 7.15pm & 12.45am: What a Carry on! Clips
Living - 9am & 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living - 3.20pm: Will & Grace
Sky Arts - 6.30pm: Simon Callow’s Classical Destinations

Monday 22nd
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC HD - 10pm: Friday Night with Jonathon Ross. Paul O’Grady guests
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
E4 - 10pm: Alan Carr: The Tooth Fairy Live
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
Dave - 9pm: QI
Sky2 - 8pm: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living 2 - 11am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts - 6pm: Simon Callow’s Classic Destinations
Paramount 1 - 11.10pm: The King of Queens. Doug thinks Carrie’s turned lesbian
Biography - 6am: The Real James Dean
Biography - 2pm: Lindsay Lohan off the Rails

Tuesday 23rd
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby gets persuasive
BBC HD - 8.50pm: A Little Late. Patti Smith
BBC HD - 11.30pm: Neil Diamond at Glastonbury
C4 - 8.30am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8pm: The Sex Education Show. Part 3 of 6
E4 - 11pm: Skins. Series one
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 8.30pm: Simon Callow

Wednesday 24th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC2 - 8pm: The Restaurant. Should still have the gay couple in it. Bit like watching a car crash though
C4 - 8.30am: Will & Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10.30pm and 3.05am: Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World. Babysitting lesbians this week
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
five - 12.45pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living2 - 11am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Biography - 6 7 11am: Bette Davis

Thursday 25th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. With Kristian Digby
BBC2 - 8pm: The Restaurant
C4 - 8.30am and 1.30pm: Will & Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 11.40pm: Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
Dave - 10pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living2 - 11am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts - 10pm: Gilbert and George
Biography - 6am: Raymond Burr

Friday 26th
BBC1 - 11am: Open House. Kristian Digby
BBC1 - 10.35pm: Jonathan Ross. Matt Lucas and David Walliams
BBC2 - 10pm: QI (rpt)
BBC HD - 10.35pm: As BBC1
ITV1 - 8.30am: Richard Arnold on the weekend’s TV
ITV1 - 10.30am: This Morning. Boyzone live
C4 - 8.30am & 12.30: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 11.30am: How Not To Decorate. With Colin and Justin
five - 12.45pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky 1 - 10.30pm: Hairspray; The School Musical
UKTV Gold - 7pm: Dancing with the Stars. Full evening’s spectacular
Sky Arts - 8pm: David Furnish Night. In a new concept, celebs select the evening’s programmes. Furnish’s choice is:
Sky Arts - 8.15pm: Elvis Costello
Sky Arts - 9.25pm: A Decade under the Influence. Film about ‘70s film-makers and their influence
Sky Arts - 11.20pm: Keith Haring. Profile of the ‘80’s artist
Sky Arts - 11.50pm: Portrait of a Photographer
Paramount1 - 9.30pm: The Sarah Silverman Show. Sarah pretends to be a lesbian
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Living 2 - 11am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Film and drama
Saturday 20th
C4 - 7.30pm: The Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers. Hail Gandalf again
Sky Movies Premiere - 8pm: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Caused enormous offence at the box office
Sci-Fi - 10pm: Rocky Horror Picture Show. That’s no way to behave on your first night out!

Sunday 21st
UKTV - 3.05pm: Dr in the House. Dirk Bogarde when young
UKTV - 5.25pm: Doctor in Love. Ditto
Sky Modern Greats - 6.40am & 3.40pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law as Oscar and Bosie
Film4 - 1.40am: Prick Up Your Ears. Frears’ biopic of Joe Orton
Disney - 6pm: Camp Rock

Monday 22nd
Drama - 10.45pm: Boys Don’t Cry
Sky Premiere - 10pm: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Tuesday 23rd
Sky Premiere - 8pm: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
TCM - 3pm: In the Good Old Summertime. Judy Garland
TCM2 - 9pm: as above
Indie - 2.10am: Ballets Russes

Wednesday 24th
Sky Premiere - 8pm: I Now Pronounce You…
Film4 - 9pm: Walk the Line. Biopic of Johnny Cash with Joaquim Phoenix

Thursday 25th
Sky Premiere - 10am & 8pm: I Now Pronounce You…
Film4 - 7.20pm: Big-top Pee Wee. The eponymous Pee Wee Herman features

Friday 26th
Sky Premiere - 8pm: I Now Pronounce You…