LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 4th - 10th April

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 4th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1970 & 1980
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends features David Starkey
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 12midnight: GMT The Story of Doctor Who

Sunday 5th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. New show in which people nominate real life heroes by letter
BBC Radio 3 - 8pm: Drama: The Trial and Death of Socrates
BBC Radio 4 - 11.15am: The Reunion. Remembering the opening of the National Theatre in 1963 under the directorship of Lawrence Olivier. Derek Jacobi guests
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 6th
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music quiz

Tuesday 7th
BBC Radio 2 - 10.30pm: Blonde on Blonde. Mariella Frostrup on Doris Day. 1/3
BBC Radio 2 - 11.30: Hollywood Charmers. Michael York on David Niven. ¼
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Matthew Parris on Napoleon

Thursday 9th
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Show. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 10th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: The Reunion. Repeated from Sunday
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Last Word
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
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
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

24th March @ 6pm (last Tuesday of the month)
Out in South London - local LGBT radio show with Rosie Wilby and guests
Listen online at www.southcityradio.org

Television

Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 4th
BBC1 - 5.25pm: Hole in the Wall.
C4 - 4pm: Come Dine with Me (rpt)
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken
Living - 11am: Will and Grace
Watch - 8pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood

Sunday 5th
BBC2 - 12.15am: Graham Norton Uncut
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10pm: Chris Moyles Quiz Night. Alan Carr joins human emetics Chris Moyles, Davina McCall and Jerry Springer
E4 - 1.15pm: Ugly Betty
More4 - 5.50pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 9pm and 1am: QI
Living - 11am: Will & Grace
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who
Bio - 6pm: Raymond Burr

Monday 6th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 11.05pm: Chris Moyles’s Quiz Night. Repeat of last night’s ordeal featuring Alan Carr
C4 - 11.55: 8 out of 10 Cats. Scott Capurro guests (rpt)
C4 - 12.25am: The Gangster and the Pervert Peer. Investigation of the dealings between Ronnie Kray and Lord Boothby (rpt)
Dave - 9 & 11.40pm: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Bio - 6am: Raymond Burr

Tuesday 7th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Dawn French. Sitting in for Paul O’Grady. John Barrowman guests
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 10.20pm: QI
Dave - 11: Graham Norton
Dave - 12.40am: QI
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 7pm: Dr Who
Watch - 8: Torchwood
Watch - 9: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 9am: Andy Warhol’s Factory People
Sky Arts1 - 12noon, 3.40&10.55pm: What the Dickens. Panel quiz presented by Sandi Toksvig

Wednesday 8th
BBC1 - 8pm: Waterloo Road. A student is humiliated in a sex education class
BBC1 - 10.45pm: Queens of British Pop. Includes an interview with Andy Bell. Presented by Lisa Tarbuck 2/2
BBC2 - 7pm: Escape to the Country. Alistair Appleton presents
BBC2 - 8: The Speaker. John Amaechi among the judges
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 11.05pm: Shameless (rpt)
Dave - 11pm: QI
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky 1 - 11.55am & 11.55pm: What the Dickens?

Thursday 9th
BBC1 - 9pm: Panorama Special: Britain’s Homecare Scandal. Joan Bakewell on behalf of older people’s rights. LGBT content unknown.
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Fiver - 6am: the Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 7: Torchwood

Friday 10th
BBC3 - 8.05pm: Dr Who Double Bill
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen deGeneres Show
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Sky 1 - 12.05 & 11.35pm: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Saturday 4th
Screen 1 - 12.05am: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Monday 6th
Action/Thriller - 9.50am & 6pm: X-Men. Ian McKellen stars
Comedy - 8pm: St Trinians. Rupert Everett as the Headmistress
Family - 12.15 & 8pm: Hairspray
Classics - 10.50pm: Lover Come Back. Hudson / Day romcom

Tuesday 7th
C4 - 1.55pm: An Ideal Husband. Oscar Wilde wrote and Rupert Everett stars
Drama - 2pm: West Side Story
Film4 - 9pm: Boat Trip. Two straights find themselves on an all-gay cruise. How hysterical!

Wednesday 8th
Screen 1 - 8pm: Hairspray

Friday 10th
ITV1 - 11.15: De-Lovely. Bio-pic of Cole Porter, played by Kevin Kline
Classics - 9pm: A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando classic
Indie - 6.35pm: Notes on a Scandal. Judi Dench as a nasty closet lesbian
Modern Greats - 5am: Little Man Tate. Stars Jodie Foster
Fim4 - 1.55am: Live Flesh. Pedro Almadóvar does Ruth rendell