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

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.

Please also note that Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour contains a lot of relevant content and is generally LGBT friendly, but a lot of its output is not available to us before we put this on the site. For the latest Woman’s Hour stuff, subscribe to the programme's newsletter here.



Radio
Saturday 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 2 -7pm: Number One: The Rise and fall of the Charts. Gambaccini presents a two-parter assessing the state of pop charts now and looking at their heyday
BBC Radio 3 - 8am: Tchaikovsky. Letter Scene
BBC Radio 4 - 7am: Today. Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig. Hat trick!!!
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30am: Talking about Lionel. Eddie Mair profiles gay musical director Lionel Bart by his contemporaries.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 11am: Michael Ball’s Sunday Lunch. Paul O’Grady guests
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Featuring John Barrowman
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’68 and ‘78
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Tuesday 8th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30 Human Rights Now! Annie Lennox assesses the role of Amnesty International on the eve of the 6oth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
BBC Radio 3 - 8am: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
BBC Radio 3 -2pm: Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B Minor
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: I was Ernest Hemingway’s La Secreteria. Story of Valerie Danby Smith, who was just that
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Matthew Parris presents a new series. Luciano Pavarotti
BBC Radio 7 - 7.pm: The Navy Lark

Wednesday 9th
BBC Radio 3 - 7am: Tchaikovsky
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Midweek featuring Trans entrepreneur Kate Craig-Wood (rpt 9.30pm)
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Thinking Allowed. Discussion of Robert Muchembled’s new book that claims The Empire resulted from repressed sexuality

Thursday 10th
BBC Radio 3 - 7pm: Performance of the Week. Tchaikovsky
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Front Row. Derek Jacobi as Malvolio in the latest Twelfth Night

Friday 11th
BBC Radio 1 - 6-1: Floor Fillers; Pete Tong; Annie Mac; Judge Jules
BBC Radio 3 - 11.43: Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. With Clare Balding
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson. New acts
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local
BBC Radio Manchester 95.1 and online
Every Monday 8pm: The Gay Hour, Ashley Byrne and Andrew Edwards

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

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Television

Entertainement and documentaries
Saturday 6th
BBC1 - 5.35: Hole in the Wall. Dale Winton presents
BBC1 - 6.05: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC HD - 7.25: Torchwood (rpt)
ITV1 - 7 and 8.45pm: The X factor
ITV1 - 9.15: The Brit Comedy Awards. Alan Carr should win something
ITV2 - 1.40pm: Britannia High
ITV2 - 11.45: I’m a Celebrity…
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living 2 - 2am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Watch - 7.45: Dr Who Confidential
Watch - 8: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Watch - 12.45am: Torchwood

Sunday 7th
BBC1 - 8.15pm: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC2 - 10.50pm: Graham Norton Uncut. Thursday’s edition extended, with Barry Manilow
ITV1 - 1.50pm: X factor
ITV1 - 6.30: Britannia High
ITV1 - 8: Take That Come to Town
ITV1 - 9: I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here! Coming Out!
ITV1 - 10.45: South Bank Show. St Petersberg’s Mariinsky Theatre is 225!
ITV1 - 11.45: Britain’s Love Story. First of three parter on how love has changed in the UK
C4 - 12.05am: Brothers and Sisters
More4 - 6.25pm: Come Dine with Me. Christmas double Omnibus
Sky Arts - 12noon: What the Dickens? Sandi Toksvig presents

Monday 8th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it? Sell it? Kristian Digby when there was a property market
BBC3 - 7.15pm: Dr Who
C4 - 5pm: The Paul O’Grady Show
E4 - 1.25am: Shameless
Five - 11.30: Behind Closed Doors. With Charlie Luxton
Dave - 11.40pm: QI
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7: Will and Grace
Gold - 11.20pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme

Tuesday 9th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it? Sell it? Kristian Digby when there was a property market
BBC1 - 9pm: Survivors
BBC2 - 5.15pm: Bargain Hunt famous Finds. Julian Clary
BBC2 - 10pm: Strictly Baz; a Culture Show Special. Interview with Baz Luhrmann
BBCHD - 11: Hotel Babylon
BBC4 - 9pm: Stephen Fry’s Guilty Pleasures
ITV2 - 8pm: Take That Come to Town
C4 - 12.30pm: Will and Grace
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. Anastacia guests
E4 - 11pm: Skins
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Five - 11.30: Behind Closed Doors
Dave - 9.40pm: QI
Gold - 11.30pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Gold - 2.30am: The Thin Blue Line
Living - 3pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm: and 1am Will and Grace
Living2 - 10pm: The L Word

Wednesday 10th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV2 - 8pm: Here Come the Boys (rpt)
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
More4 - 10pm: Hutch: High Society’s Favourite Gigolo. Profile of the UK’s first black superstar, who had an affair with Cole Porter and Edwina Mountbatten but died broke and forgotten
Five - 9am: The Wright Stuff. With Simon Callow
Dave - 10pm: Stephen Fry: Guilty Pleasures
Gold - 11.30pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 3pm and 8: Grey’s Anatomy
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Sky Arts1 - 4pm: Rufus Wainwright sings Judy Garland
Sky Arts1 - 7.30pm: What the Dickens? Arts quiz with Sandi Toksvig

Thursday 11th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it? Sell it? Kristian Digby when there was a property market
BBC2 - 9.30pm: The Graham Norton Show
ITV1 - 10.30: This Morning. With Denise Robertson. Because she’s good
ITV2 - 10pm: I’m a Celebrity…
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. With Boyzone
C4 - 10.35: The Pregnant Man. Cutting Edge follows the famous pregnancy of Thomas Beattie
Five - 11.30: Behind Closed Doors
Gold - 11.30pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3 and 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy

Friday 12th
BBC1 - 11am: Buy it? Sell it? Kristian Digby when there was a property market
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
BBCHD - 10pm: Beautiful People. The one with the Posh Spice Doll
ITV1 - 10.30am: This Morning. Will Young performs
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me
Living - 3pm: Will and Grace
Sky Arts1 - 11.40pm: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Saturday 6th
C4 - 4.25pm: Carry on Doctor
C4 - 7.10: The First Wives Club. Bette Midler stars
Classics - 6.55pm: Some Like it Hot
Classics - 9: Romeo and Juliet. Zeffirelli’s 1968 version
Indie - 10pm: Boys Don’t Cry. Trans tragedy
Modern Greats - 8pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding. Rupert Everett stars

Sunday 7th
C4 - 1.05am: Camp. Er…it is
Modern Greats - 3.30pm: The Last Temptation of Christ

Monday 8th
Classics - 2.20: Lover Come Back. Doris Day

Wednesday 10th
Family - 6pm: The Devil Wears Prada
Family - 8: Hairspray
Sci Fi - 11.15pm: X-men

Friday
Modern Greats - 6pm: My Best Friend’s Wedding
Modern Greats - 8: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. You’re all wet. Come in