Gay Sherlock Holmes

Guy Richie's newest version of the cerebral detective'story is released today, with what we are promised is a homoerotic view of the relationship between the famous sleuth and his accolite Dr Watson. Robert Downey Jr, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock, told a British newspaper the film was about “two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed”.

To mark the occasion, Robbie Hudson explores for the Times the various guises that the relationship between Sherlock and the Doctor have taken over the years.

Read the full article here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 26th December- 1st January

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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
Biggie of the week is An Englishman in New York; the sequel to the Naked Civil Servant on ITV1 December 28th. The original was shown 34 years ago.

TV
New
Celebrity Come Dine with Me is repeated on C4 4.05 Saturday. It’s the one with Nicky Clarke. Matthew Bourne’s dance drama The Car Man is at 10pm on More4, followed by Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill at 11.45
Sunday’s Celebrity Mastermind on BBC1 at 7.30pm includes Paul O’Grady. Christmas Eve’s QI is repeated on BBC2 at 12.35 am. BBC3’s Family Guy at 11.30pm sees Peter take part in a medical experiment which has the side effect of turning him gay. On BBC4, Orson Welles over Europe at 9.30pm is presented and narrated by Simon Callow.
Mamma Mia: Where Did it All Go Right? and The Abba Years on Five from 7pm. Also on Five at 11.50pm is the Bourne Identity: The True Story. Sandi’s Christmas Cracker at 10.15am on Sky Arts1.
On Monday: Corrie’s Anthony Cotton on All Star Family Fortunes Celebrity Special on ITV1 at 10.25am. John Hurt revives the role of Quentin Crisp, Britain’s most famous and outspoken queen and plays him in his twilight years (there were many of them!) in An Englishman in New York on ITV1 at 9pm. Morrissey at 8am on SkyArts1
BBC1 at 10.35pm BBC1 Monday. Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings at 10pm BBC2. It’s LGBT interest is that Derek Jacobi has a part, but, well, it’s Victoria Wood isn’t it? Come Dine with Me Christmas on C4 at 8pm Monday and Tuesday.
Tuesday: BBC2 repeats an Ab Fab with the title ‘Gay’ as part of the June Whitfield tribute evening at 10pm, followed by the inevitable repeat of QI at 10.55. C4 airs Will and Grace every morning at 7.45 and Come Dine with Me Omnibuses from 3.05- 4.10 and 4.55-6pm every weekday through to Thursday. Alan Carr Chatty Man Christmas Special at 10.20pm; Elton John on Sky Arts1 at 2pm.
On Wednesday: Freddie Mercury on Bio at 11pm. Graham Norton in Who Do You Think You Are? on Blighty at 6pm.
Thursday, or New Year’s Eve if you prefer: Ian McKellen amongst others on his role as a voice over in The Magic Roundabout at 9.55am on BBC1. Graham Norton’s New Year’s Eve Show at 10.40 guests Joan Rivers. Corrie at 8.30 is written by Jonathan Harvey. Alan Carr: Chatty Man’s New Year’s Special is repeated at 10pm on E4.
Dr Who on Friday (NYD) BBC1 at 12.55pm; repeat of the first of the two-parter that sees the end of David Tennant. QI at 9.30am. C4’s Come Dine with Me at 5pm, with an Omnibus at 6.10pm on More4. Also at 6.10pm and then at 7.55, as a climax to a long storyline comprising blackmail, Syed is outed by his lover Christian on his wedding day on Eastenders on BBC1.

Films
On Saturday, X-Men on Film4 at 9pm. At the same time the glorious Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is on TCM.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure at 11.45pm Family Sunday.
Jodie Foster plays the eponymous feisty Anna in Anna and the King on C4 at 12.25pm Monday.
On Tuesday, the legendary James Dean in East of Eden on Classics at 9pm.
Mamma Mia on Family at 8pm Wednesday.
X-Men day on Thursday; with the original on Modern Greats at 6.40pm and Last Stand at 9pm Film4.
NYD Friday Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls on E4 at 9pm and St Trinians on Family at 9pm

Radio
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.

Saturday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 3: Paul Gambaccini interviews Sting
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: The Happy Prince, by Oscar Wilde

Sunday 27th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Alan Cumming amongst others
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 8.15: Sunday Worship: A suite of carols by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and composer Sasha Johnson Manning.
BBC Radio 4 - 9.00: Broadcasting House: Interview with Carol Ann Duffy who is named Culture Figure of the Year by the programme. Christopher Biggins reviews the papers.
BBC Radio 4 - 2.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Choirs. London Bulgarian Choir

Monday 28th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Barbra Streisand: the Way I Am. Interviewed by Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 2 - 7pm: Electric Proms with Dame Shirley Bassey
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The Unbelievable Truth New Year Special. Stephen Fry guests

Tuesday 29th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Who on Who. David Tennant interviews Russell T. Davies. David Tennant is on every TV and radio programme this week; or it seems that way.
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: Bright Young Things

Wednesday 30th
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: Bright Young Things

Thursday: NYE
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere. Paul Gambaccini on their appeal
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Abba
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: Bright Young Things

Friday: NYD
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: The Great British Songbook of the Noughties. Alan Carr among the talkers and Will Young among the singers
BBC Radio 2 - 7.30pm: Ella, Aretha, Dusty and Me
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing About!
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: At Home with Hinge and Bracket

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Merry Christmas from the LGBT History Month Team

Song: Kisses for Christmas by Thomas Anders
Images: Kiss-in against homophobia (website in French), Paris, 12 December 2009

Craigie Aitchison Dies

Craigie Aitchison
1926 - 2009

Bisexual painter Craigie Aitchison has died, aged 83.

Obituary in the Daily Telegraph
Entry on Wikipedia

Tatchell Reluctantly Withdraws from Election

Peter Tatchell has withdrawn as Green candidate for Oxford East. In a characteristically candid statement, he said that he would not be able to fulfil all the demands of the post, if elected, as a result of brain damage sustained from beatings he received by Mugabe's henchmen, right wing thugs at Moscow Pride and a recent road incident.

"I have postponed making this announcement for several months, in the hope that I might get better and be able to carry on as the Green candidate. Unfortunately, my condition has not improved. If anything, it is worse," he said.

"There is, however, a glimmer of hope for the future. The medical advice is that if I slow down and reduce my workload my condition may improve in a year or so. On the downside, I am unlikely to ever recover fully. Some of the damage is probably permanent.

"I don't regret a thing. Getting a thrashing and brain injuries was not what I had expected or wanted. But I was aware of the risks. Taking risks is sometimes necessary, in order to challenge injustice. My beatings had the positive effect of helping draw international attention to the violent, repressive nature of the Russian and Zimbabwean regimes. I'm glad of that.

"My physical inconveniences are nothing by comparison to the far worse beatings inflicted on human rights defenders in countries like Russia, Iran, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Columbia, Sudan and Burma. These heroic activists often end up jailed or dead. I count myself lucky.

"The Oxford Green Party expects to select a new parliamentary candidate in January. That person will have my wholehearted support. I intend to campaign with them during the general election.

"I would like to thank members of Oxford Green Party for their immense kindness, support, and generosity during my two and a half years as their candidate. It has been a pleasure working with the Oxford Greens and I wish them future success."

LGBT History and Arhives Conference a Success

Flights (or Fights) of Fancy; the 7th Annual LGBT History and Archives Conference was a great success.

Held on 5th of December at the London Metropolitan Archives, the day's events included a tour of ancient Egypt and same-sex desire and gender identity at the British Museum, National Gay Icons, LG comics, fanzines and graphic novels, a history of the 70s theatre company Gay Sweatshop, and a worrying account of press hysteria and censorship in Glasgow.

For a full report by Tony Fenwwick, please click here (Word document).

Ex-Lion Gareth Thomas reveals he is gay

Former Wales and Lions captain Gareth Thomas has broken one of the major taboos that surround sport by revealing he is gay.

Read the full article on BBC Sport here. There is also a very long (and positive) article in the Daily Mail here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 19th - 25th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
Christmas is a time when lesbigays and trans folks tend to be left out in the cold by the terrestrials. This year is no exception. There’s a sequel to The Naked Civil Servant, but that comes up next week.

TV
New
Take That do a special of their Circus tour at 6.30pm ITV1 Saturday (repeated Sunday 2.20pm), followed by Ian McKellen among the Stars on the Street (Corrie) at 8.
Sunday’s Corrie Omnibus on ITV1 at 10.10am includes two episodes written by Jonathan Harvey in the last hour.
Best of Graham Norton on BBC1 at 10.35pm BBC1 Monday. Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings at 10pm BBC2. It’s LGBT interest is that Derek Jacobi has a part, but, well, it’s Victoria Wood isn’t it? Come Dine with Me Christmas on C4 at 8pm Monday and Tuesday.
Also on C4 Tuesday: Alan Carr Chatty Man Christmas Special at 10.20pm; his Celebrity Ding Dong Special from last year is repeated on E4 at 11.30pm. Alan Bennett on Bennett on BBC4 at 7.50pm. Sandi (Toksvig’s) Christmas Cracker on Sky Arts1 at 8pm (includes the London Gay Men's Chorus and many other surprise guests).
Come Dine with Me from Northampton Omnibus on C4 1.35pm Wednesday. QI XL on BBC2 at 11.10. Ballet Boyz interpret The Rite of Spring on BBC3 at 10pm. Old Celebrity Come Dine with Me with David Gest at 9 on More4. George Michael on Bio at 9.
The Tsarina’s Slippers by Tchaichovsky at 2.15pm BBC2 Thursday, or Christmas Eve if you prefer. Derek Jacobi in The Old Curiosity Shop on ITV1 at 3.15 (if you like gambling run a sweepstake on how many versions of A Christmas Carol there are over Christmas. It runs into double figures). Victoria Wood’s Midlife Christmas at 9pm BBC1 and QI at 10. Celebrity Come Dine with Me Christmas Special concludes at 10 on C4, followed by Alan Carr Chatty Man Christmas Special at 11.05 (yes, it was shown on Tuesday as well). Celebrity Shock List on Five (what’s the point in Five?) features George Michael and Stephen Gately.
Dr Who on Friday (Christmas Day) BBC1 at 6pm; the two parter that sees the end of David Tennant. QI is repeated on BBC2 at midnight. Five dedicates its evening to programmes about ABBA. Oh, that’s the point of Five! Alan Carr Chatty Man Christmas Special repeated at 9pm on E4.

Ongoing
C4’s Come Dine with Me on Saturday at 5.
Come Dine with Me on Sunday at 8pm on C4.
St Trinians 2 Premiere repeated on C4 at 10.30am and Ugly Betty at 10pm Monday.

Films
Jodie Foster in Silence of the Lambs at 9.50pm on Modern Greats.
On Tuesday, X-Men at 2.35pm on Modern Greats.
Mamma Mia on Sky Movies Christmas (Goddess help us!) at 8pm Thursday and Four Weddings and a Funeral at 9 on Film4
Billy Elliot on Friday (Christmas day) on BBC3 at 9pm.

Radio
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.

Saturday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. Boy George guests
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard

Sunday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 2.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Choirs. London Bulgarian Choir
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Last Season of Innocence. Includes Carol Ann Duffy
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Includes an interview with Jan Morris

Monday 21st
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30pm: Take Two. Includes a discussion of Billie Holliday

Tuesday 22nd
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30pm: Scene of the Crime 1/2 Mystery by Stella Duffy
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Great Lives. Presented by Matthew Parris. Viv Stanshall
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: The Navy Lark

Thursday: Christmas Eve
BBC Radio 2 - 12noon: Alan Carr’s Office Party
BBC Radio 2 - 7: Manilow Live in the Park

Friday: Christmas Day
BBC Radio 2 - 11am: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: A Magic manilow Christmas
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: A Funny Sort of Sound. Julian Clary on comedy musical acts
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Loose Ends Best Bits. Includes Will Young among others
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15pm: Front Row. Alan Bennett guests
BBC Radio 4 - 9: The Friday Play: The Late Mr Shakespeare.
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Professorial Patrons for LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month today announced four new academic patrons: Sheila Rowbotham, Viv Gardner, Melanie Tebbutt and Martin Hall. All four are highly respected professors in their fields.

Prof Rowbotham is a sociologist and international writer on women’s history. Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies, with a special interest in women in British theatre. Prof Tebbutt is the Director of the Manchester Centre for Regional History, with a special interest in working class histories. Prof Hall is an historical archaeologist and Vice Chancellor of Salford University.

Co-chair Sue Sanders said: “We’re honoured to have such eminent professors give us their support.

"In previous years, our calendar has shown amazing community support for celebrating our history. The involvement of academics will extend our influence into the highest levels.”

They join existing patrons Angela Eagle, Minister of State for Pensions and Ageing Society, Cyril Nri, actor, director and writer, Sir Ian McKellen, actor, and Labi Siffre, poet, songwriter and singer.

Bulletin No 66

The latest edition of the LGBT History Month bulletin is now available, as usual packed-full of news, information, notices of upcoming events and quotations.

To access the latest bulletin please click on one of the links below:
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You can view all previous bulletins here or register to our mailing list here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 12th - 18th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

TV
New
Will Young on Cheryl Cole’s Night In on ITV1 at 6.30pm Saturday. X Factor 7.30. Alan Carr on the British Comedy Awards at 9.30. Come Dine with Me Extra Portions at 7.30 on C4. Ian McKellen and Anthony Sher on acting Shakespeare at 8.25pm More4. Double repeat of QI on Dave 9pm. What the Dickens on Sky Arts1 10.05. Demi Moore on Bio 10am and 4pm.
On Sunday, there’s T4 St. Trinians 2 Premiere on C4 at 12.50pm. X Factor Final ITV1 7.30. Come Dine with Me C4 at 8.30. Wayne McGregor on The South bank Show at 10.45pm ITV1. Ugly Betty 6pm E4 and Come Dine with Me More4 6.20.
Monday’s Paul O’Grady Show on C4 at 5pm is a Christmas panto Special with Stephen Fry, repeated Thursday 12.40pm. Will Young performs his latest on the Graham Norton Show at 10.35 Monday, repeated Tuesday midnight.
Madonna guests on GMTV Monday ITV1 (Part 2 Tuesday). The Graham Norton Show at 10.35 (repeated Tuesday 11.55). Kristian Digby in Open House on BBC2 at 1.45pm.
On Tuesday there’s Westlife on The Alan Titchmarch Show on ITV at 3pm, and Will Young on The Paul O’Grady Show at 5 on C4. Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema on Sky Arts1 at 12.20.
Lady GaGa and Bette Midler on The Royal variety Performance on ITV1 from 7.30pm Wednesday. On C4 there’s Come Dine with Me at 8.30 and Alan Carr: Chatty Man at 11.20pm. Boy George on Bio at 11pm.
Mark Gatiss in the creepy Crooked House, repeated on BBC4 at 11pm Thursday. Truman Capote: profile of the Author on Sky Arts1 at 1.10am.
Westlife on GMTV Friday. Eddie Izzard guests on Jonathan Ross at 10.35 BBC1. Both Corries on ITV1 are written by Jonathan Harvey. QI on Dave at 9.

Ongoing
C4’s Come Dine with Me on Saturday at 4. Doctor Who and Torchwood on Watch at 8 and 9pm. X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday.
Come Dine with Me on Sunday at 8pm on C4.
Frasier 8.30, Will and Grace at 9am, Ugly Betty 11am and the Paul O’Grady Show every day at 5pm on C4. On Monday, BBC2 repeats last Thursday’s QI at 10, while C4 is airing Ugly Betty.
True Blood on Wednesday C4 at 10pm. The Restaurant at 8pm on Thursday BBC2. QI on BBC1 at 9.30. Alan Carr Chatty Man at 10pm on C4.
Beautiful People concludes at 10pm on BBC2 Friday.

Films
Sam Taylor-Woods Nowhere Boy on E4 at 10.45pm Saturday. X-Men at 8 on Modern Greats. Demi Moore in Striptease ITV4 11pm, repeated Sunday 10.15pm.
Psycho at 3.15pm on Sci-fi Horror Tuesday. O Lucky Man at 11pm TCM.
Prick up Your Ears on Film4 at 1.45pm Friday.

Radio
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.

Saturday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Afternoon Play: The Middle, by Amelia Bullmore
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: Tales from The Stave: Tippett; A Child of Our Time
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard

Sunday 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15: Words and Music. Includes Tennessee Williams
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 2.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Choirs. Warrington Male Voice
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Includes an interview with Jan Morris

Monday 14th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. Andrew Marr discusses artists of the First World War
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Tuesday 15th
BBC Radio 3 - 11am: The Essay: The Great and the Good Mr Handel; 2/5 Handel and Relationships
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Great Lives. Presented by Matthew Parris. Rich Hall on Tennessee Williams
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Wednesday 16th
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Bespoken Word. Performance Poetry
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Thursday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Protected by Faith. John Waite on the work of The Vatican Secret Archives Laboratory

Friday 18th
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: O Lucky Man. Appreciation of the life and work of Lindsay Anderson
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing about
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: At Home with Hinge and Bracket
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: The 99p Challenge. Presented by Sue Perkins

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 5th - 11th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

TV
New
Being Alan Bennett at 9.30pm on BBC2 Saturday. 50 Greatest Comedy Films on E4 at 9.30pm is presented by Stephen Fry.
Fern Britton Meets… on BBC1 at 10am Sunday guests Desmond Tutu. The South Bank Show on ITV1 at 11.20 features Carol Anne Duffy. BBC4 devotes its evening to Alan Bennett.
Madonna guests on GMTV Monday ITV1 (Part 2 Tuesday). The Graham Norton Show at 10.35 (repeated Tuesday 11.55). Kristian Digby in Open House on BBC2 at 1.45pm. BBC2 also repeats last Thursday’s QI at 10, while C4 is airing Ugly Betty.
On Tuesday there’s Boy George on The Alan Titchmarch Show on ITV at 3pm. A Woman of No Importance by Alan Bennett on BBC4 at 10.40. A Cream Cracker with the late Thora Hird on BBC4 10.10pm Wednesday.
Ronan Keating on This Morning at 10.30 on ITV1, plus QI on BBC1 at 9.30pm Thursday. What the Dickens? at 10.05pm Sky Arts 1.
On Friday C4 repeats The Boy Who Was Born a Girl at 7.30pm and Eddie Izzard is on More4 at 11.15pm .

Ongoing
C4’s Come Dine with Me on Saturday at 4. Doctor Who and Torchwood on Watch at 8 and 9pm. X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday.
Come Dine with Me on Sunday at 8pm on C4.
Will and Grace at 9am and the Paul O’Grady Show every day at 5pm on C4. True Blood on Wednesday C4 at 10pm. The Restaurant at 8pm on Thursday BBC2. Alan Carr Chatty Man at 10pm on C4. Beautiful People at 10pm on BBC2 Friday.

Films
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? on Classics at 8pm Saturday. Monday on Classics at 11.10pm there’s James Dean in East of Eden. Mamma Mia on Family at 8pm Tuesday.

Radio
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.

Saturday 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 3 - 6pm: Tchaichovsky: The Tsarina’s Slippers
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends

Sunday 6th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15: Words and Music. Includes poetry by Sassoon and Walt Whitman
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 2.45pm: Joan Armatrading’s Favourite Choirs. Warrington Male Voice
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 7th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. Andrew Marr discusses Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Tuesday 8th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Tales from the Stave. Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Great Lives. Presented by Matthew Parris
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Wednesday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: In Living Memory. The Mapplethorpe Affair. An apposite recall of the attempts to burn the books of the US photographer
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. The cut-throat debate that often touches on LGBT issues returns
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Thursday 10th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand

Friday 11th
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15: Afternoon Play: Number 10; A Failed State. Final part of a series starring Anthony Sher as PM
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing about
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: The 99p Challenge. Presented by Sue Perkins

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 28th November - 4th 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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

TV
New
Dirty Dali: A Private View at 11.25pm on More4 Saturday. Brian Sewell assesses the artist’s tastes, which included a fondness for androgyny. Not for the faint-hearted I gather. Die-hard fans of Dolly Parton might choose to watch Fern Britton Meets…on BBC1 at 10am Sunday, where the C and W icon talks about the impact of religion on her life and in her work. Andy Warhol’s Factory People on Sky Arts1 at 7pm.
Stephen Fry guests on The Graham Norton Show at 10.35 on Monday (repeated Tuesday 11.55). Kristian Digby in South London in Open House on BBC2 at 1.45pm. BBC2 also repeats last Thursday’s QI at 10, while C4 is airing Ugly Betty. If you want to know about Rudolf Nureyev, there’s Margot on BBC4 at 9pm followed by a repeat of the performance of Marguerite and Armand at 10.25. Christopher Biggins on The Wright Stuff on Five at 9.15am.
On Tuesday there’s lots of QI on Dave and Watch repeats Russell T Davies’ version of Casanova, with David Tennant in the leading role, at 10pm.
Tracey Chapman on Bio at 8.30pm Wednesday.
Eddie Izzard on Paul O’Grady at 5 on C4, plus Sandi Toksvig on QI on BBC1 at 9.30pm Thursday.
On Friday there’s Nureyev on BBC4 at 8pm (Romeo and Juliet) and 10 (From Russia with Love). Eddie Izzard in performance on More4 at 11.10pm.

Ongoing
On Saturday morning Nigel Slater’s Simple Suppers on BBC1 at 11.30. C4’s Come Dine with Me on Saturday at 4. Doctor Who and Torchwood on Watch at 8 and 9pm. X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday. Celebrity Get Me Out of Here all week on ITV1 until they kick out or if they keep that gay couple that do people’s houses. The Final is on Friday at 8.30pm.
Come Dine with Me comes from Colchester and includes tantrums on Sunday at 8pm on C4.
Frasier at 8am,Will and Grace at 9am and Ugly Betty at 11, plus the Paul O’Grady Show every day at 5pm on C4. True Blood on Wednesday C4 at 10pm. The Restaurant at 8pm on Thursday BBC2 (if you like watching people break down and cry in front of Raymond Blanc). Alan Carr Chatty Man at 10pm on C4. Beautiful People at 10pm on BBC2 Friday.

Films
Monday on Screen 1 at 8pm there’s Mamma Mia! Carry on Doctor on C4 at 1.35 Tuesday. 1.35pm Tuesday night on Film4. Frears’ Prick up Your Ears, the bio-pic of Joe Orton, on Film4 at 1.30am Wednesday night. Psycho at 10.15 on Sky Movies Christmas Thursday night. Denholm Elliott stars in Vault of Horror at 1.55am Friday night on Film4.

Radio
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.

Saturday 28th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 4- 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial. In 1925 Tennessee tried to outlaw the teaching of Darwin
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends

Sunday 29th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 3 - 10.45: Words and Music. With Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15am: Desert Islands Discs. Morrissey
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 7 - 8pm: Where Angels fear to Tread. E.M. Forster
BBC Radio 7 - 10: The News Quiz

Monday 30th
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Tuesday 1st
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: He’s Not the Messiah, He’s a Very naughty Boy. Sanjeev Bhaskar on Python’s Life of Brian, remembering Graham Chapman
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Wednesday 2nd
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play: A Dangerous Thing, by John Sessions. The friendship of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. The cut-throat debate that often touches on LGBT issues returns
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Thursday 3rd
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread

Friday 4th
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15: Afternoon Play: Number 10; A Failed State. 4/5 of a series starring Anthiny Sher as PM
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Any Questions? A.A. Gill joins the panel
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing about
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: The 99p Challenge. Presented by Sue Perkins

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Ofsted supports LGBT History Month

A message of support from Ofsted for LGBT History Month. Ofsted is setting up its own LGBT staff forum as part of its single equality scheme.

Ofsted’s strategic plan puts equality and diversity at the heart of everything it does. And that commitment is not only about ensuring equality of opportunity for our workforce, but also that the organisations we inspect and regulate fulfil their responsibilities to promote equality and diversity.

‘We are pleased to share celebrating the contributions and achievements of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through dedicated events like the LGBT History Month and to combat prejudice and discrimination,’ says Sonia Gandhi, Head of Equality and Human Rights.

A month of events to celebrate the lives and achievements of the LGBT community takes place every year. In 2010, its November pre-launch has been timed to be part of Anti-Bullying Week.

To strengthen the way we inspect equality and human rights, our new inspection frameworks actively promote positive relationships and respect for human rights, and understanding and respecting people’s differences. Our guidance means inspectors must be on the lookout for, and report, bullying and harassment, including homophobic bullying, as well as highlighting good practice.

To support our own staff, we are setting up an LGBT staff support group. This, along with individuals and organisations that represent lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, will help is shape our single equality scheme, which we’ll publish in April 2010.

London Metropolitan Archives: Flights of Fancy

The London Metropolitan Archives will be holding another of their LGBT study days early next month. The arts are powerful. Sometimes they are disturbing, dangerous and real instruments of change. They provide people with ways of making their presence felt, their thoughts known and voices heard. Be inspired and challenged by FLIGHTS OF FANCY, past and present.

Programme:
The First Gay Kiss? Sex, Scholars and Ancient Egypt.
Dr Richard Parkinson, British Museum
Richard Parkinson will discuss controversial images of men kissing from Ancient Egypt and how they have been used in studies of ancient sexuality. He’ll consider how Ancient Egypt has featured in gay works of art and how ancient same sex desire can be presented in Museum displays, drawing on the British Museum’s recently launched webtrail.

The Coming Out of Comics
Paul Gravett, author, curator, lecturer and director of the Comica Festival, London
LGBT comics creators have traditionally been published episodically, producing newspaper strips in the LGBT press, short pieces in pornographic magazines and in sporadic fanzines and underground anthologies. Graphic novels offer an exciting platform through bookshops and libraries for extended, complete strip narratives in book form. This select survey will consider the distinct qualities, techniques and contents of six key contemporary international graphic novelists who have developed long-form "literary" comics: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, USA), Ralf König (Maybe, Maybe Not, Germany), Ariel Schrag (Potential/Likewise, USA), Kiriko Nananan (Blue, Japan), Fabrice Neaud (Journal, France), and Alison Bechdel (Fun Home, USA).

National Gay Icons
Professor Richard Dyer, King’s College, London
Recently the National Portrait Gallery held a well mounted exhibition entitled 'Gay Icons', the first of its kind anywhere in the world. What did they have in mind? What is a gay icon? This presentation will look at a wide range of images of people who were and were not chosen for the show.

Richard Dyer teaches Film Studies at King's College London.
The Creation and Reception of ‘Victim’.
Brian Robinson Senior Programmer, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
The BFI National Archive owns Dirk Bogarde's personal collection of scripts which includes a heavily annotated script of 'Victim'(1961)and the film is available at the BFI

Mediatheque alongside some key BBC documentaries of the period. This presentation explores the context of the campaign for law reform, other Basil Dearden social

issue films, the impact of 'Victim' and its marketing campaign.
Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community
Dr Catherine Silverstone - Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Queen Mary, University of London
From the mid-1970s to the late-1990s Gay Sweatshop produced a substantial body of work including plays, readings, workshops, pantomimes, cabarets, and performance clubs. In this paper Catherine will consider elements of Gay Sweatshop’s archive of their 1988 production This Island’s Mine, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, in relation to Section 28, homophobia and community.

sh[OUT] or should that be sh[OOSH]
Dianne Barry - documentary filmmaker, artist and curator
Before it was even launched, the Daily Mail released a ‘tirade of homophobic rhetoric’ against GoMA’s exhibition on contemporary art and LGBTi human rights, sh[OUT]. The paper’s concerted opposition to the exhibition and community arts projects intensified over the summer months. Rather than defend freedom of expression Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art chose to censor artists’ work. In this session filmmaker and artist, Dianne Barry, describes how GoMA’s response enraged and alienated the artists and communities it had aimed to represent, provoking a storm of creative protest.

Plus practical workshops and discussion groups.

This year we are joined by Poet and Musician Nick Field who will perform a selection from his repertoire
Nick is a produced playwright, harpist and spoken word artist. His poetry is soulful, bittersweet and lyrical, exploring themes as diverse as identity and the joys and heartaches of travel. Nick has performed his work widely, highlights this year included the vaults at Shunt the Green Man Festival and a commission from Apples and Snakes to write and perform a one-man show.

Flights of Fancy
Saturday 5 December 2009 9.30am - 4.30pm £10 / £7.50
London Metropolitan Archives, 40, Northampton Road, EC1R 0HB
Booking / Further Information: Call on 020 7332 3851 email ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Making a Gay Scene at the V&A

The V&A Museum late opening event on 27 November will have something a little queer about it.

That week, Making a Scene will tap the surface of Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans & Queer culture to celebrate making visible what for so long has been hidden. From clandestine liaisons to the joy of serendipity, the art of cruising to radical activism, Making a Scene explores the relationship between sexuality, performance and public space.

All this and more, through a selection of talks events, workshops and happenings and performances. All events are free and unbooked, unless stipulated otherwise.

Find a full list of the events on the V&A's site here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 21st - 27th November

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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

Cast Offs on Channel 4 Tuesday. Doing it for disability!

TV
New
On Saturday morning Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers on BBC1 at 11.30. Shirley Bassey on Strictly at 6.50pm (She's all over the place this week) Celebrity Get Me Out of Here all week on ITV1 until they kick out if they keep that gay couple that do people's houses. Doctor Who and Torchwood on Watch at 8 and 9pm.
On Sunday there's Dame Kelly Holmes on The Variety Club Showbiz Awards at 3.35pm on 5. Sky Arts 1 has Hockney on Photography at 7pm, while there's Simon Callow's Classical Destinations on Sky Arts 2.
Monday's 8.30 helping of Corrie at 8.30 on ITV1 is a Jonathan Harvey edish, with camp vamp Carla flaring her nostrils and pouting her lips all over the Underworld. Ugly Betty at 10 on C4.John Barrowman guests on GMTV at 8.35 on Tuesday. Kristian Digby in a Sheffield semi (what is it with gay men and houses?) in Open House on BBC2 at 1.45pm. It's a kind of house selling meets speed dating thing and a gay bloke makes it chic. Shirley Bassey (again) singing songs including Rufus Wainright's at 10.35 on BBC1. Freddie Mercury on Sky Arts 1 at 5pm and John Waters at 11.

Thin Blue Line at 7.40pm and Gimme Gimme Gimme at 11.55 on Gold Wednesday.
New series (yes! New series!) of QI on BBC1 at 9.30pm Thursday.
On Friday there's Will Young on GMTV from 6am. Susan Sarandon guests on Paul O'Grady at 5. Sky Arts 1 has Andy Warhol's Factory People at 7 and Freddie Mercury at 8 and midnight. Rock Hudson on Bio at noon.

Ongoing
C4's Come Dine with Me on Saturday at 4. X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday. The Graham Norton Show at 10.35pm on Monday and 11.55 Tuesday on BBC1.

BBC1's The Big Questions on Sunday at 10am often features LGBT issues. No Stephen K Amos last week though he was billed. Come Dine with Me on Sunday at 8pm on C4.

Frasier at 8am, Will and Grace at 9am and Ugly Betty at 11, plus the Paul O'Grady Show every day at 5pm on C4. Gok Wan on How to Look Good Naked C4 8pm Tuesday. True Blood on Wednesday C4 at 10pm. The Restaurant at 8pm on Thursday BBC2 (if you like watching people break down and cry in front of Raymond Blanc). Alan Carr Chatty Man at 10pm on C4. Beautiful People at 9.30 on BBC2 Friday.

Films
Monday on Classics at 11.10pm there's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Two gay icons Bette Davis and Joan Collins in one of the sickest films ever made. Bright Young Things, adapted from Waugh and directed by Stephen Fry at 1.35pm Tuesday night on Film4. Carry on Dick on C4 terrestrial at 1.40pm Wednesday. 80s gay classic My Beautiful Laundrette on Film4 1am Thursday night. Boys Don't Cry on More4 at 10pm Friday.

Radio
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.

Saturday 21st
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton's Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Saturday Play: The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial. In 1925 Tennessee tried to outlaw the teaching of Darwin
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman's Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Moral Maze. Bear pit that sometimes touches on LGBT issues

Sunday 22nd
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Features Priscilla
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O'Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 7 - 10: The News Quiz

Monday 23rd
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread

Tuesday 24th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: I Will Not Let You Go. The story of Bohemian Rhapsody
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread

Wednesday 25th
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. The cut-throat debate that often touches on LGBT issues returns
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread

Thursday 26th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: Alan Carr's Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Off The Page. Pub closures. Features Simon Fanshaw
BBC Radio 4 - 3.30: An Important Passenger. Part 3 of a fantasy drama. Noel Coward is one of several artists stuck on a train
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread

Friday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing about
BBC Radio 7 - 11am & 9pm: EM Forsters Where Angels Fear to Tread
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: The 99p Challenge. Presented by Sue Perkins

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Biggest ever pre-launch event for LGBT History Month

The British Museum hosted a day of presentations and workshops yesterday, to encourage celebrations of LGBT History Month, next February, whose theme will be Education and Young People.

Students from three local schools took part in a field trip with a difference. They had a special tour of the museum’s LGBT exhibits and had a lesson in a rainbow coloured double decker bus on the museum forecourt.

In the afternoon, teachers and youth workers heard about successful celebrations involving young people, in previous years. Teachers also had the opportunity to question some of the speakers in a special session afterwards.

The main prelaunch, in the evening, included speeches from politicians and presentations from other organisations.
Co-chair Tony Fenwick thought the event was the best ever:

‘The whole day was a series of highlights, but my personal favourite was primary teacher John Harold talking about his opera project based on the true story of two gay penguins in a New York zoo who raise a chick. We were all deeply moved by musician Naechanè V Romeo talking about his experience as a trans man. Kate Sicolo’s anti homophobia work in Cornwall shows that every local authority should employ a specialist like her.’

Culture minister Ben Bradshaw2 presented youth activist Ben Hall with the Diana Anti Bullying Award1, in recognition of his outstanding voluntary work. Ben is only 16, but he has accomplished many things in the past 2 years. He is the chair of his local LGBT youth group committee, has run workshops on homophobic bullying at Schools Out conferences and has created workshops with parents to highlight the dangers and signs of online bullying.

Schools Out co-chair Sue Sanders said: ‘Ben is an extraordinary young man. His energy and enthusiasm are an inspiration to us all, and his ICT skills have helped us no end. He’s very mature and a pleasure to work with.’

Ben was delighted by the award and commented: ‘It’s a great feeling, to know you’re helping – in whatever way – to make the world a better place. It’s taught me a lot, and I feel more confident. One of the highlights was when Sir Ian McKellen attended my workshop!’

The event was bizarrely picketed by a small Christian fringe group, who claimed the event was ‘promoting evil’.
Co-chair Sue Sanders said: ‘The protestors are a perfect example of the need for education – about LGBT history, culture and identities, including Christians. The sort of censorship they are demanding leads to ignorance, hatred and even homophobic murder, as we’ve seen in the news recently.’

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 14th - 20th November

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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

3D week on Channel 4. Free specs at Sainsburys

TV
New
On Saturday morning Clare Balding presents The Lord Mayor’s Show on BBC1 at 10.45. QI on Dave at 8.20. Torchwood on Watch at 9pm.
BBC1’s The Big Questions on Sunday at 10am often features LGBT issues. This week Stephen K Amos is on the panel so it’s more than likely. Ugly Betty on C4 at 3.30pm. Dr Who one-off at 7pm on BBC1. I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here on ITV1 at 9pm. Samantha Fox and TV-interior-designer couple Colin Macallister and Justin Ryan fly the rainbow flag. Doctor Who Confidential on BBC3 at 8pm. Raymond Burr features on Bio at 6pm and midnight.
Sue Perkins presents The Art on Your Walls on BBC2 at 9pm Monday. Derren Brown in 3D at 10pm the same night. Skins at 11pm on E4.
Alan Carr guests on Paul O’Grady at 5 on Tuesday. What the Dickens on Sky Arts 1 at 10.30pm.
Grayson Perry in Where is Modern Art Now? on BBC4 at 9pm Wednesday. The Thin Blue Line repeated on Gold at 7.45pm and What the Dickensagain at 10.30 on Sky Arts 1.
Alan Carr guests on This Morning at 10.30am ITV1 Thursday. Boyz II Men on The Alan Titchmarsh Show at 3 on the same channel. At 8pm on BBC1 Children in Need features Shirley Bassey and Mica. Unfortunately it also features Chris Moyles. Alan Carr: Chatty Man starts again at 10pm on C4. QIon Dave at 9pm. The Thin Blue Line at 7.45 on Gold and Stephen Fry goes American on Bones at 9pm on Sky 1. More Dickens on Sky Arts1 at10.30pm.
Stephen Fry in America on Dave at 8pm. Sky Arts 1 has What the Dickens at 10.30pm and Arts 2 has Simon Callow at 11.30am.
Beautiful People at 9.30 on BBC2 Friday. Children in Need night on BBC1 features the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert after midnight.

Ongoing
C4’s Come Dine with Me is from Kent on Saturday at 4. X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday. The Graham Norton Show at 10.35pm on Monday and11.55 Tuesday on BBC1.
Come Dine with Me on Sunday at 8pm on C4.
Frasier at 8am,Will and Grace at 9am and Ugly Betty at 11, plus the Paul O’Grady Show every day at 5pm on C4. Gok Wan on How to Look Good Naked C4 8pm Tuesday. True Blood on Wednesday C4 at 10pm. The Restaurant at 8pm on Thursday BBC2 (if you like watching people break down and cry in front of Raymond Blanc). Syed and Christian are still trying to find their way on Eastenders on BBC1 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8pm with an omnibus on Sunday at 1.25pm.

Films
On terrestrial Saturday there’s Contact with Jodie Foster at 5pm on Five and Four Weddings and a Funeral on C4 at 9.30pm.
St Trinians with Rupert Everett as headmistress at 6.15pm Comedy Sunday. Repeated Thursday 9.30pm.
Flesh for Frankenstein with gay icon Joe Dallessandro at 12.40am in 3D on C4.
Psycho on Sci-Fi/Horror at 4.35pm on Thursday with the creepily gorgeous Anthony Perkins.

Radio
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.

Saturday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30: Armatrading for Mayor. Joan on the history of the office and its inhabitants
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Moral Maze. Bear pit that sometimes touches on LGBT issues
BBC Radio 7 - 12: midnight Dr Who: The Commentaries

Sunday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: John Barrowman. Features La Cage aux Folles
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 7 - 10: The News Quiz

Monday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Graham Norton. Covering Steve Wright

Tuesday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Graham Norton. Covering Steve Wright
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30am: Parting Shots. Matthew Parris on diplomats and ambassadors
BBC Radio 4 - 4.55pm: 1989 Day-by-Day. A Labour Peer asserts that men cannot contract HIV through heterosexual relations and police in Prague beat protesters
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15pm: Front Row special: interview with Alan Bennett

Wednesday 18th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Graham Norton. Covering Steve Wright
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Hut 33: Back to Your Post. Sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1942.
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. The cut-throat debate that often touches on LGBT issues returns

Thursday 19th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Graham Norton. Covering Steve Wright
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30: Alan Carr’s Comedy Outings
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Pick-ups. Comedy set in a Manchester cab firm. LGBT content unknown

Friday 20th
BBC Radio 2 - 2pm: Graham Norton. Covering Steve Wright
BBC Radio 2 - 7.30: Friday Night is Music Night
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz. With Sue Perkins
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing about
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: The 99p Challenge. Presented by Sue Perkins

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

An officer and a gentle woman: the sex-change aristocrat

He led a life of privilege — game hunter, Guardsman and gentleman farmer. But Rhodri Davies had only one desire: to be a woman. So he changed his gender, lost his family, and found a new career as a nurse.

Read the full article in The Times here.

Miranda was also interviewed on BBC Radio 4's The Choice on Tuesday 5 November. The programme is available to listen online for the a week here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 7th - 13th November

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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.
With our apologies for the delay due to a technical problem.

Warning: One film not to see is The Execution of Gary Glitter on C4. It examines what would happen to Paul Gadd (Glitter’s BC name) if capital punishment came back to the UK. Anne Widdecombe and Gary Bushell have cameo roles, as does Miranda Sawyer (what on earth did she think she was doing?) C4 Monday 9pm

TV
New
On Saturday morning Nigel Slater cooks Simple Suppers on BBC1 at 11.30. In the evening Mika and La Roux perform on 4Music: Live from Abbey Road on C4 at 11.20. Alan Cummings investigates The Real Cabaret on BBC4 at 11.30pm. Lindsay Lohan at 9am and Freddie Mercury at 11pm onBio. What the Dickens on Sky Arts 1 for insomniacs at 1.10am.
I bet you never thought All Star Family Fortunes would be in this guide. Well, the ludicrously-cheesy-yet-made-almost-pallatable-by-Vernon-Kaye ITV1show features John Barrowman and his at 7.15pm Sunday. Simon Callow’s Classical Destinations on Sky Arts 1 at 7pm. QI on Dave at 9 and Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive on Blighty at 10pm. Best wishes to him because I believe he’s on a downer at the moment.
Sandi Toksvig is Paul O’Grady’s guest on Monday at 5pm C4. Stephen Fry in America on Dave at 8pm. Sky Arts 1 has What the Dickens at 10.30pmand Arts 2 has Simon Callow at 11.30am
Stephen K. Amos guests on The Wright Stuff on Five at 9.15am from Tuesday through till Friday. Also on Tuesday, a double helping of QI on Dave at8.20pm. Lots of What the Dickens on Sky Arts 1, with Dirk Bogarde By Myself at 11pm. Ballet Boyz at 8pm Sky Arts 2.
On Wednesday Sandi Toksvig pops up on ITV1’s This Morning and Simon Lycett, Elton John’s flower arranger, will be on hand with his tips at 3pm onThe Alan Titchmarsh Show. What the Dickens is on Sky Arts 1 again.
On Friday QBoy’s Coming Out to Class in repeated on C4 at 9.35am and there’s Peter Kaye: Raider of the Pop Charts on C4 at 9pm. But Beautiful People is back! Simon and Kylie become wedding designers in Jonathan Harvey’s comedy designed on the childhood of Simon Doonan. BBC2 10pm

Ongoing
C4’s Come Dine with Me is from Cambridge on Saturday at 4. X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday. The Graham Norton Show at 10.35pm on Mondayand 11.55 Tuesday on BBC1. Frasier at 8am,Will and Grace at 9am and Come Dine with Me on Sunday on C4. Paul O’Grady Show every day at 5pm onC4. Gok Wan on How to Look Good Naked C4 8pm Tuesday. The Restaurant at 8pm on Thursday BBC2 (if you like watching people break down and cry in front of Raymond Blanc). True Blood is on C4 on Wednesday at 10pm. Gok Wan on How to Look Good Naked C4 8pm Tuesday and Derren Brown at 11. Syed and Christian are still trying to find their way on Eastenders on BBC1 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8pm with an omnibus on Sunday at 1.25pm.

Films
On terrestrial Saturday there’s The Full Monty on C4 at 9.30pm and The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino as Shylock on BBC2 at 12.20am. Why? Because the hero’s a woman and Antonio and Bassanio are obviously more than just good friends. Mamma Mia! on Family at 8pm.
Meet Dorothy and her friends on Five 3pm Sunday with The Wizard of Oz. Bogarde in Doctor in Distress at 5.05 Film4. On Wednesday there’s X-Men onModern Greats at 11pm and O Lucky Man on TCM at 11.30pm. Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love on Film4 4.30pm Thursday.

Radio
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.

Saturday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Jonathan Ross. Morrissey guests
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 3 - 8.45pm: Britten in the 50s
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Archive on 4: This is the Army, Mr Jones. JohnBarrowman on Irving Berlin’s morale boosting wartime show
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Moral Maze. Bear pit that sometimes touches on LGBT issues. This week it’s about Twitter and brings up that Jan Moir article on Stephen Gately

Sunday 8th
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 7 - 10: The News Quiz

Tuesday 10th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: The Choice. Michael Buerk talks to Miranda Ponsonby about her decision to have gender reassignment surgery
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30: Parting Shots. Matthew Parris on diplomats and ambassadors
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play: Albert’s Boy. Victor Spinetti plays Albert Einstein in a tragi-comic look at his twilight years
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30: The Choice. As 9am

Wednesday 11th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Hut 33: Back to Your Post. Sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1942.
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. The cut-throat debate that often touches on LGBT issues returns
BBC Radio 7 - 5.30pm: The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere. 1987 comedy features Tim Curry and Simon Callow

Thursday 12th
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Pick-ups. Comedy set in a Manchester cab firm. LGBT content unknown
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30: The Canterville Ghost. Alistair McGowan reads from Wilde’s satirical ghost story

Friday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 31st October - 6th November

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.

Some of the programmes listed below will be available online on the respective network's websites.

Enjoy!

Owt on’t’telly?

A round up of LGBT progs and personalities on British TV.

Warning: Emmerdale is running a story about a woman faking domestic abuse to seek attention. You might like to complain to ITV1. In the past Emmerdale has had a major lesbian character: Zoe. She came out, chucked her girlfriend, went mad, turned into a nymphomaniac and conceived a baby in the back of a car with the local thug, lived with him for a while and then fled with the baby to Brazil. Yeah, like you do!

TV
New
C4’s back to back Come Dine with Me comes from Derby and is shown from 3.45-6.15 Saturday. Francis Bacon Night on BBC4 starts with a 2005 Arenaprofile on the artist at 9pm, has the man himself in never-seen-before archive clips on In His Own Words at 10.35 and follows with Love is the Devil (see films) at 11. What the Dickens at 8pm on Sky Arts 1 and Freddie Mercury at 9.55.
On Sunday Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive is repeated on Blighty at 10pm.
On Monday Benidorm is repeated on ITV2 at 10pm. On Wednesday BBC3 airs The Noughties: Was That It? which documents the decade and includes lots on civil partnerships. Rufus Wainwright is featured on Sky Arts1 at 4.35pm Thursday. Barry Manilow on Bio at 4pm. Friday’s Corrie at 7.30 is written by Jonathan Harvey. Brighton Beach Patrol on Five at 8 and Benidorm on ITV1 at 9. Why Benidorm? It’s a modern farce with a gay couple in it. They’re awful, but as in all good farces everyone else is too.

Ongoing
X Factor ITV1 Saturday and Sunday. The Graham Norton Show at 10.35pm on Monday and midnight Tuesday on BBC1. Will and Grace at 9am andCome Dine with Me on Sunday on C4. Paul O’Grady Show every day at 5pm on C4. True Blood is on C4 on Wednesday at 10pm. Gok Wan on How to Look Good Naked C4 8pm Tuesday and Derren Brown at 11. Syed and Christian are still trying to find their way on Eastenders on BBC1 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8pm with an omnibus on Sunday at 1.25pm.

Films
On Saturday BBC4’s Francis Bacon night winds up with Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon at 11pm. The true-life tragedy stars Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as the burglar he seduces. X-Men Last Stand on E4 at 7.55. On Sunday there’s West Side Story on Screen 1 at 6.30am and Mamma Mia at 8pm on Family. On Tuesday St. Trinians is on Comedy at 8pm, with Rupert Everett as headmistress.

Radio
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.

Saturday 31st
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 9.15: Paul Gambaccini US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Howard’s End. Dramatisation of the E M Forster classic
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: The Moral Maze. Bear pit that sometimes touches on LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs. Sabotage. Aftermath of a gay wedding

Sunday 1st
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: John Barrowman. Features La Cage aux Folles
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past
BBC Radio 7 - 10: The News Quiz

Tuesday 3rd
BBC Radio 4 - 9.30am: Parting Shots. Matthew Parris on diplomats and ambassadors

Wednesday 4th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Hut 33: Back to Your Post. Sitcom set in Bletchley Park in 1942.
BBC Radio 4 - 8pm: The Moral Maze. The cut-throat debate that often touches on LGBT issues returns
BBC Radio 7 - 5.30pm: The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere. 1987 comedy features Tim Curry and Simon Callow

Thursday 5th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Off the Page. Rhona Cameron discusses leaving your comfort zone
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: Pick-ups. Comedy set in a Manchester cab firm. LGBT content unknown

Friday 6th
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local and online

For a global classification of queer radio on line:
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=gay&so=26,52,78 and
http://radiotime.com/Search.aspx?query=Lesbian
Gay Internet Radio Live (G.I.R.L.) is on the air 24 hours a day with dance music from the US at www.gayinternetradiolive.com.

Wythenshaw 97.2 FM, a community radio station, airs a lesbian and gay radio magazine programme once weekly, according to Out North West Magazine published by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation in Manchester. Podcast http://www.tuesdaynightout.co.uk/

GayRadio-UK is a new online radio station in Blackpool and promises a variety of LGBT programming. The audio stream is at www.gayradiouk.com. Guests iunclude lesbian actress Amanda Barrie, gay icon Su Pollard and radical actor Richie Tomlinson. Daily programmes are uploaded at the most popular gay podcast site on the net, Feast of Fun www.feastoffools.net, with a speech based programme of LGBT guests, news digest and light-hearted discussion.

Galaxy North East
Monday-Friday 4-7pm: James Barr

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

BBC London - 94.9 and online
Monday – Friday 3-5pm: Danny Baker. With Amy Lamé or Baylen Leonard

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

Manchester’s gaydio www.gaydio.co.uk

FYI Radio (gay youth radio) - online (currently only podcast but soon to grow to a fully fledged station) www.fyiradio.net

www.pinkeradio.com

Last Tuesday of the month - 6pm
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org