LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 11th - 17th 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 11th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton. 1965 & 1985
BBC Radio 2 - 8pm: Paul Gambaccini. US Hits
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Saturday Live. Features John Amaechi
BBC Radio 4 - 10: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Highlights
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. May have an LGB or even T guest
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Counterpoint. Paul Gambaccini presents the music buffs’ quiz
6 Music - 12midnight: BBC Introducing. Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 12midnight: Doctor Who: The Commentaries

Sunday 12th
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady. New show in which people nominate real life heroes by letter. There’s good miusic too, including Dusty Springfield and Northern Soul
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 13th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Start the Week. Features Peter Ackroyd and Michael Portillo
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30pm: Counterpoint
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen’s Men of Fashion. Byron
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Matthew Parris on Napoleon

Tuesday 14th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
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 Errol Flynn 2/4
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Polly Toynbee among others fight over the reputation of Roy Jenkins with Matthew Parris

Wednesday 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen’s Man of Fashion. The Victorians; including Oscar Wilde

Thursday 16h
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: In Our Time. Suffragism
BBC Radio 4 - 11pm: The Personality Test. Guests include Sue Perkins

Friday 17th
BBC Radio 2 - 10am: Zoe Ball. The Pet Shop Boys pick their favourite toons in Tracks of My Tears
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: O’Kane and Co. Comedy chat includes ex-lesbian Jackie Clune
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 11th
BBC1 - 6.45pm: Dr Who. Easter Special in which a London bus goes to hell
BBC3 - 8.30pm: Dr Who Confidential. Hell is Dubai
ITV1 - 7.45pm: Britain’s Got Talent. There was a drag queen last year. I know. It’s desperate
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
Comedy Central - 10pm: Alan Carr: The Tooth Fairy Live

Sunday 12th
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who. Repeat of yesterday’s special
C4 - 8pm: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10pm: Chris Moyles Quiz Night. Stephen Fry joins Chris Moyles, Gary Barlow and Denise Van Outen. Why?
More4 - 5.45pm: Come Dine with Me
Five - 9pm: The Abba Years
Five - 10: Mama Mia: Where Did It All Go Right?
Living - 11am: Will & Grace
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 5pm: Dr Who

Monday 13th
BBC1 - 5pm: Dr Who (rpt.) On HD too
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. So good they’re repeating it!
4Music - 10pm: Star Stories: George Michael
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Fiver - 11am & 9pm: Mamma Mia: Where Did It All Go Right?
Fiver - 8pm: The Abba Years

Tuesday 14th
BBC2 - 8pm: The Speaker. John Amaechi is one of the judges in a teenage public speaking competition 3/8
BBC3 - 7pm: Dr Who
BBC3 - 10.30 and 12.45am: Horne and Cordon. Will Young guests
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 9.55: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: Gok’s Fashion Fix. Gok Wan tells women what to wear 1/8
C4 - 10: Shameless
E4 - 11pm: Shameless
More4 - 9pm: Come Dine with Me
Dave - 11: Graham Norton
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 7pm: Dr Who
Watch - 8: Torchwood
Watch - 9: Dr Who
Sky Arts1 - 12midnight: What the Dickens. Panel quiz presented by Sandi Toksvig
Blighty - 9.30pm: My Brilliant Britain. Alan Cumming on British eccentrics

Wednesday 15th
BBC2 - 8: The Speaker. John Amaechi among the judges
BBCHD - 9pm: Who Do You Think You Are? Graham Norton
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 11: Shameless (rpt)
Living - 8pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 9: Torchwood
Sky Arts1 - 1.10pm: Truman Capote
Sky Arts1 - 11.10: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts2 - 7pm: The Divine Michelangelo

Thursday 16th
BBC2 - 10pm: The Graham Norton Show
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV. Richard Arnold
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will and Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
E4 - 10.35pm: Star Stories: Elton John
More4 - 10pm: Brothers and Sisters
Gold - 10.55pm: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Fiver - 6am: the Ellen DeGeneres Show
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Watch - 7: Torchwood
Living - 10pm: Grey’s Anatomy
Sky1 - 11.15pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts2 - 11.30am: Michelangelo
Bio - 11am & 3pm: Rock Hudson

Friday 17th
BBC3 - 8pm: Dr Who
ITV1 - 6am: GMTV
C4 - 8.30am: Frasier
C4 - 9: Will & Grace
C4 - 10: Brothers and Sisters
C4 - 5pm: Paul O’Grady
C4 - 8: A Place in the Sun: Home or Away. Gay item Craig and Daniel have to choose between Brighton and Gran Canaria
E4 - 11.05pm: Alan Carr: Tooth Fairy Live
Fiver - 6am: The Ellen deGeneres Show
Fiver - 11.40pm: Gay, Straight or Taken?
Watch - 6pm: Dr Who
Sky1 - 11pm: What the Dickens?
Sky Arts2 - 11.30am: The Divine Michelangelo
Sky Arts2 - 9.50pm: Handel: Water and Fireworks
Sky Arts2 - 11: What the Dickens?

Film and drama
Saturday 11th
Family - 6pm: Hairspray
Screen1 - 8pm: St Trinians. Rupert Everett as Headmistress
Screen2 - 7pm: X-Men. Ian McKellen
Film1 - 1.05am: The Innocents. Brit-chiller from ’61 stars Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave & Peter Wyndgarde
TCM - 3pm (9pm on TCM2): Gypsy. Tim Curry based Frank n’Furter on Rosalind Russell’s pushy mother role in this musical bio-pic of Gypsy Rose Lee. Natalie Wood is Gypsy.
TCM - 1.30am: O, Lucky Man. Lindsay Anderson directs

Sunday 12th
BBC4 - 10pm: Suddenly Last Summer. Richard Eyre adaptation of Tennessee Williams classic. Stars the late Miranda Richardson
6.35am & 1.25am Carry on Columbus. Julian Clary stars

Monday 13th
Modern Greats - 8pm: The Color Purple. Adaptation of Alice Walker novel. Stars Whoopi Goldberg
Film4 - 5.10pm: Just My Luck. RomCom. Stars Lindsay Lohan
Gold - 9.15am & 2.15pm: Carry on up the Jungle. Frankie Howerd
Gold - 11: Carry on Follow that Camel. Phil Silvers
Gold - 12.45pm: Carry on Henry
Gold - 2.30 and 12.15am: Carry on Matron

Tuesday 14th
More4 - 10pm & 12midnight: Deliver Us from Evil. Chilling documentary of serial child abuser Father Oliver O’Grady, who molested thousands of children of both sexes from the 70s to the 90s.
Modern Greats - 11.50pm: Taxi Driver. Classic psycho drama starring Jodie Foster
Film4 - 11.45pm: The Innocents. See Saturday
Film4 - 1.50am: Live Flesh. Almadóvar adapts Ruth Rendell

Wednesday 15th
ITV1 - 10.35pm: Maverick. Comedy starring Jodie Foster
Classics - 4.45pm: Lover Come Back. Day/Hudson romcom
Classics - 6.35: Sweet Charity. Because it’s camp!
Film4 - 1.30am: Bright Young Things. Stephen Fry in this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies

Thursday 16th
Screen1 - 8pm: St Trinians
Screen2 - 12.30pm: Le Vie en Rose
Screen2 - 1.20am: The Brave One. Stars Jodie Foster

Friday 17th
Drama - 1.20pm: West Side Story
Indie - 11.35pm: Boys Don’t Cry