LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 10th - 17th 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.
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 10th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Saturday Live. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage: includes the travelogue 18th century Mary Lacy who disguised herself as a man and joined the Navy
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: News Quiz. (rpt)
BBC Radio 4 - 2.30: Walter Now. Ian McKellen revives his role as the eponymous grown up with learning difficulties that featured in C4’s first ever drama. Includes a gay character.
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson

Sunday 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Show tunes and music
BBC Radio 2 - 2.30: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops ’75 and ‘85
BBC Radio 3 - 10.15pm: Words and Music. Through the Looking Glass. Derek Jacobi is one of the narrators
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15: Desert Island Discs. Ruth Padel
BBC Radio 4 - 12.04pm: Just a Minute. Julian Clary guests
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Belsen after Belsen. Programme commemorating the Holocaust
6 Music - 1am: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 6.30pm: The Canterville Ghost. 2/3

Monday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Viva Latino!
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Handel
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: Just a Minute. Graham Norton guests

Tuesday 13th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Take Two. Musical Partnerships. Billie Holliday and Lester Young
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Great Lives. Tony Hancock by Pam Ayres. Presented by Matthew Parris

Wednesday 14th
BBC Radio 7 - 11pm: Eddie Izzard: The Definite Article. Recorded at The Shaftesbury Theatre

Thursday 16th
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: The Rest is Noise. The realism of Britten’s Peter Grimes

Friday 17th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents. Sue Perkins guests
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Great Lives (rpt)
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

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

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

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

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

Television

entertainment and documentary
Saturday 10th
BBC1 - 6.45pm: Your Country Needs You. Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd Webber go Eurovision
BBC2 - 10.30pm: QI. Extended edition from last night
C4 - 11.50: Morrisey. Sneak preview of the video I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
Living - 6pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 8: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 11th
BBC4 - 7pm: Stephen Fry in America. Deep South
C4 - 10pm: The Sunday Night Project. Alan Carr
More4 - 6.15pm: Come Dine with Me
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts - 12noon: What the Dickens?

Monday 12th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy. Kristian Digby
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
ITV1 - 7.30pm: Coronation Street. First of tonight’s editions concerns Tyrone and Molly’s nuptials. Jonathan Harvey wrote this one…
ITV1 - 8.30: Coronation Street…and this one too
C4 - 9pm: Will and Grace
E4 - 12.10pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 10pm: Queen Victoria’s Men. Examines the myth of sexual repression in the Victorian era
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 3.55: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts - 12.30am: Andy Warhol

Tuesday 13th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy. Kristian Digby
BBC2 - 10pm: The Culture Show. Anthony and the Johnsons
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC4 - 9pm: The High Life. Nineties mile high comedy with a young Alan Cummings as a gay air-steward. Who’d have thought?
BBC HD - 7pm: Raven. Fantasy game show.
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 10pm: Derren Brown: Evening of Wonders. Clairvoyant or conjuror? Our gay Svengali performs at the Garrick
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm &1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3am: Da Vinci Inquest
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Watch - 9pm: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 12noon: Andy Warhol

Wednesday 14th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy?
BBC2 - 9pm: The City Uncovered with Evan Davis. Banks exposed
BBC2 - 10: QI (rpt)
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 11.40pm: The Convention Crusher. Justin Lee Collins meets a hermaphrodite ventriloquist!
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm & 1am: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 7.30pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts1 - 8: Andy Warhol’s Factory People

Thursday 15th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy?
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
BBC3 - 8pm: The World's Strictest Parents
BBC3 - 10.30pm: The Undercover Princes - includes Crown Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, the first Indian royal to come out
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 9am: Will & Grace
C4 - 10pm: Paul Burrell: What Really Happened. Jacques Peretti pokes around in the Royal Butler’s drawers
C4 - 11.05: Paul Burrell: In His Own Words. Self-explanatory really
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
E4 - 9.30: Derren Brown (rpt)
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Dave - 9pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 9.30am & 1.30pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts1 - 3: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
UKTV Style - 3 & 9pm: Escape to the Country
Bio - 6.30pm: Drew Barrymore

Friday 16th
BBC1 - 11am: To Buy or Not to Buy?
BBC1 - 9: QI
BBC2 - 11.35pm: The Culture Show. Anthony and the Johnsons
BBC3 - 9pm: Dr Who. Followed by Dr Who Confidential
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 9am: Will & Grace
C4 - 11.35pm: The Sunday Night Project
E4 - 12.15pm: Ugly Betty
Dave - 9.40pm: QI
Living - 7pm: Will and Grace
Living - 3.55am: Queer Eye…
Sky Arts1 - 12.50am: What the Dickens?
Bio - 10.30: Drew Barrymore

film and drama
Sunday 11th
C4 - 11.10pm: In and Out. Kevin Kline as an outed teacher
Drama - 10.10pm: Le Vie En Rose
Screen1 - 10.50pm: Rocky Horror Picture Show. Dammit, Janet, I love you

Monday 12th
Classics - 11.05: Psycho

Wednesday 14th
Film4 - 9pm: Volver. Almadóvar melodrama with Penelope Cruz

Thursday 15th
Indie - 10pm: Volver

Friday 16th
Classics - 11.20pm: Psycho