LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 25th - 31st October

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 25th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 2 - 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30pm: Stage to Screen. Paul Gambaccini on Richard Attenborough’s film adaptation of Oh What a Lovely War!
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30pm: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Stage and Screen tunes. A cornucopia of camp.
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops. ‘71 and ‘84
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15pm: Words and Music. Britten and Noel Coward
BBC Radio 3 - 4.15am: Britten. Declamato; Largo
BBC Radio 4 - 6.05am: Something Understood. Anniversary of the fire at Royal Marsden Hospital features a reading from carol Ann Duffy
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 10pm: The News Quiz
Classic FM - 9pm: Paul Gambaccini’s Hall of Heroes. Tchaikovsky

Monday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 7.48am: Thought for The Day. Rabbi Lionel Blue
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. With AA Gill
BBC Radio 4 - 9.4am:5 Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
BBC Radio 7 - 10.30pm: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary. From 1992

Tuesday 28th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Stage to Screen. Paul Gambaccini on Gypsy
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Play: Number 10. Antony Sher plays PM
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston

Wednesday 29th
BBC Radio 3 - 1pm: Afternoon on 3. Tippett and Britten
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman’s Hour. Presented by Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
ClassicFM - 9pm: The Full Works. Tchaikovsky

Thursday 30th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Woman’s Hour. Presented by Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Misfits in France. Examines Victorian English writers abroad, including Oscar Wilde in Dieppe
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston

Friday 31st
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Chagall. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding presents
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm Book at Bedtime: Ruling Passion. Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston
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 documentaries
Saturday 25th
BBC1 - 5.20pm: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC2 - 7.10pm: Stephen Fry in America. Part 2 Repeat from last Sunday
BBC HD - 8.05pm: Torchwood (rpt)
BBC HD - 11pm: Joan Armatrading
ITV1 - 7.45pm and 10.10pm: X Factor
Sky2 - 11.30am: Hairspray The School Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Living2 - 1am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts - 12.35pm: The art of Francis Bacon
Sky Arts - 2.30pm: Tim Marlowe on Francis Bacon
Sky Arts 2 - 5pm: Tim Marlowe on Francis Bacon
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who

Sunday 26th
BBC1 - 9pm: Stephen Fry in America. Fry goes to Mississippi
BBC1 - 10.20pm: Little Britain USA
BBC2 - 12.40am: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended
ITV1 - 12.10pm: X Factor
ITV1 - 6.15pm: Britannia High. Fame meets Strictly in a new dance school drama written by Jonathan Harvey
ITV1 - 10.35pm: The South Bank Show. Cildos Meireles
C4 - 11.45pm: Brothers and Sisters
More4 - 4.30pm: Come Dine with Me. Omnibus
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Sky1 - 3pm: Hairspray: The Schools Musical.
Sky2 - 11am: Hairspray The Schools Musical
Living - 9am and 4.40am: The Golden Girls
Sky Arts - 12.30pm: Truman Capote
Sky Arts - 3pm: Tim Marlow on Francis Bacon
Sky Arts 2 - 7pm: Francis Bacon
Biography - 6 and 11am: Kenneth Williams
Biography - 6.30 and 11.30am: Frankie Howerd

Monday 27th
BBC2 - 11.20pm: Beautiful People. Repeat from last Thursday
ITV2 - 7pm: Britannia High (rpt)
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 1.30pm: Francis Bacon
Sky Arts 2 - 3.35pm: Francis Bacon

Tuesday 28th
BBC1 - 3.10am: Beautiful People (rpt)
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 11.40pm: Skins
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Biography - 12noon: Raymond Burr

Wednesday 29th
ITV - 8pm: National TV Awards
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts - 11.05pm: The Art of Francis Bacon

Thursday 30th
BBC2 - 9.30pm: Beautiful People. Simon dyes Kylie’s hair
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
BBC HD - 10pm: Beautiful People (rpt)
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 12midnight: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 31st
BBC2 - 10pm: QI. With John Sessions (rpt)
BBC HD - 9.30pm Little Britain USA (rpt)
ITV1 - 8.30pm: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey wrote this one
C4 - 9.15am: Will and Grace
C4 - 12.30pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 10pm: Alan Clark’s Celebrity Ding Dong
five - 11.30am: Colin and Justin’s How not to Decorate
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts2 - 3.30pm: Bernstein

Film and drama
Saturday 26th
ITV1 - 2.40am GMT: The Wicker Man. 1973 cult movie with Christopher Lee and Lindsey Kemp
Film4 - 9pm: Brokeback Mountain
Classics - 9pm: Some Like it Hot

Thursday 30th
Modern Greats - 9.50am and 6pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law
Indie - 10pm: Volver. Almadóvar directs Penelope Cruz

Friday 31st
Classics - 11.05pm: Psycho (1960)
Classics - 2.40am: Phantom of the Opera (1962)