LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 27th February - 5th March

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.
Some good old classic films on Wednesday. Generation Gap on Radio 4 looks interesting.

TV
New
Dale Winton on The National Lottery: In It to Win It BBC1 8.30pm Saturday.
Come Dine with Me 8pm Sunday C4. My Name Is Muhammad is about 9 different characters with that name on BBC1 at 10.55 Sunday. Gay men dancing on Pineapple Dance Studios 6pm Sky1. Mad Men BBC4 11pm.
QI repeated on BBC2 10pm Monday.
Alan Cumming guests on a repeat of Eight out of Ten Cats C4 11.35pm Tuesday.
John Barrowman on Alan Carr: Chatty Man at 10pm C4 Thursday. Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man on BBC3 10.30pm.
John Barrowman again on Titchmarsh 5pm ITV1 Friday. Kingdom ITV3 10pm. Sky Arts1 features Jodie Foster 8pm and Truman Capote 1.10am. Simon Callow 7.30pm Sky Arts2.

Ongoing
Come Dine with Me at 4.25 on C4 and QI XL 10.15 BBC2 Saturday. Dr Who/Torchwood back to back on Watch from 7 on BBC3. Nurse Jackie BBC4 10.30pm. C4 repeats Chatty Man with Alan Carr at 11.45.
The Big Questions is on BBC1 at 10am on Sunday; LGBT content unknown. Glee on C4 at 5.30pm. Jason Gardiner oozes pus on Dancing on Ice at 6.45 and 8.50pm on ITV1.
C4 airs Will and Grace every morning at 8.55am. The Wright Stuff Five at 9.15am every weekday often has an LG guest. Come Dine with Me weekdays 5.30pm on C4 and at 9pm Monday More4.
On Monday: Dr Who on BBC3 at 7pm and on Watch at 8pm. More Glee on E4 at 9pm.
Shameless on C4 10pm Tuesday (repeated Wednesday 11).
BBC4 airs Mad Men at 10pm Wednesday.
Alan Carr Chatty Man C4 10pm Thursday. Skins on E4 at 10pm, followed by Glee. Brothers and Sisters on More4 at 10.
On Friday there’s QI on BBC1 at 8.30pm. Dr Who 8.10 BBC3. Torchwood Watch 8pm.

Films
Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan on BBC3 at 8.30pm (and Wednesday 9pm). Mamma Mia! on Screen 1 Sunday 6pm.
On Wednesday, A Streetcar Named Desire on Drama at 10.10pm. Victim on Film4 2.45pm and The Dreamers Film4 11.15pm, as well as Cabaret 11.55pm BBC1.
On Thursday, Silence of the Lambs on Drame at 12.35am and the camp and creepy Whatever Happened to baby Jane? at 1.30am on Classics.
Friday, Freaky Friday Fim4 4.55pm St Trinians Screen 1 9.35.

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 27th
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
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07: Ramblings. Clare Balding hangs out with Gustav Holst fans in Cheltnham
BBC Radio 4 - 10.30: And the Academy award Goes to…Paul Gambaccini on the genius of Gigi
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15: Loose Ends. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15: the Moral Maze. Content unknown

Sunday 28th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Stage and film music show
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Poetry Please
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 4.30pm: News Quiz
BBC Radio 7 - 8" Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Monday 1st
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Generation Gap. A mother and son discuss how attitudes around sex are changing
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Tuesday 2nd
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: The Ballet Russes in England. 2/2: What Did Britain Do for Diaghilev?
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45pm: Generation Gap. An 82 year-old gay rights campaigner who counsels on homophobic bullying discusses changes in attitudes to LGB people
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Wednesday 3rd
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 8: The Moral Maze. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 3pm: E M Forster's Room with a View
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Thursday 4th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 2 - 10pm: The Comedy Hour. 1/6: And the Winner Is…Matt Lucas presents his own comedy awards (The Lucases) to his own favourite comedians
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding
BBC Radio 4 - 3.45: Generation Gap. Irma Kurtz and Simone Bienne on changing attitudes to sex
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. With Evan Davies
BBC Radio 4 - 9: The Moral Code. Adam Rutherford
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 7 - 3pm: E M Forster's Room with a View
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes

Friday 5th
BBC Radio 1 - 6.30am: Chris Moyles. Features Aled
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am: Book of the Week: Just Kids. Patti Smith’s memoirs of her arrival in New York and her subsequent friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 9: Round the World in 100 Objects
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime - Trespass by Rose Tremain
6 Music - 7.30: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 3pm: E M Forster's Room with a View
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Stop Messing About!
BBC Radio 7 - 7.30: The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket
BBC Radio 7 - 9pm: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. Read by Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 7 - 11.30: Intimate Contact with Julian Clary

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