LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 29th August - 4th September

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
Come Dine with Me repeats on C4 Saturday from 5-7pm and Five shows The Guardian at 6.30. This weeks episode, imported from Five USA, features a gay teenager who is kicked out by his parents. On Sunday there’s The Unforgettable…Kenny Everett on ITV1 at 2pm. Will and Grace back on C4 at 8.40 weekday mornings. Stephen Fry in Whose Line is it Anyway? on Dave at 8.30 followed immediately by QI. Art of Francis Bacon at 8pm on Sky Arts 1 Tuesday at 8pm and Andy Warhol’s Factory People at 11.35.
Best of the week is First Cut on C4 Friday at 8pm. Featuring Jon, who was born and named Natasha, it promises to be a serious look at gender variance.

Ongoing
Final week of BB and not a single gay or lesbian kicked out. Come Dine with Me every weekday at 5 on C4. The Wire 11.20pm Tuesday, Wednesdayand Thursdayon BBC2. Ugly Betty on C4 at 10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11 on Wednesday. Usually there’s some LGBT content on The Big Questions on BBC1 on Sunday morning at 10am.

Films
Lots of Carry-ons. On Saturday, there’s Spying on Gold at 1.05pm, followed by At Your Service at 5.30 and Henry at 7.15. Cowboy, Screaming andCleo back-to-back on ITV3 on Sunday from 5.10pm.
Saturday there’s the X-Men on Action/Thriller at 10pm. Monday there’s La Vie en Rose at 10pm on Indie. Tuesday there’s Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan at 9pm on Film4. The inevitable Rocky Horror Show at 3.10pm and 12.40am on Indie and Hairspray on Comedy Thursday at 6pm. Camp Monroe classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on Classic 9pm 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 29th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops 64 and 73
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini’s US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour

Sunday 30th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Alan Cumming guests
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 12.02pm: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 31st - Bank Holiday
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins

Tuesday 1st
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth Williams. Interesting concept. An unearthed, as yet unperformed script for Round the Horne from 1966 is brought to life by actors. Robin Sebastian plays Kenneth Williams and Jonathan Rigby Kenneth Horne
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. With Matthew Parris

Thursday 2nd
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: At The Fringe. Content unknown

Friday 3rd
BBC Radio 2 - 5pm: Chris Evans. Live from Blackpool with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8.30: Live at the Lights. The lights being Blackpool Illuminations. Lit up by Alan Carr
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play. Sons. By Nell Leyshon. Two mothers react very differently when their sons, Gabriel and Ryan, fall in love at school
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local and online

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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

I'm From... Gay Stories Around the World

When Nathan Manske, a free lance editor and copywriter from Driftwood, Texas (although he has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 2003) saw the film Milk, he, like many others, felt inspired.

Having seen a picture of Harvey Milk during a Pride march holding a sign stating “I’m From Woodmere, N.Y.” For Manske, the sign meant " that there are gay people in every small town and every big city across America and the world." His response was to create I’m from Driftwood, a website compiling the stories of LGBT people from all over the world in the hope that those that feel alone in this world, can see that they are not.

To read the stories and to share your own, visit www.ImFromDriftwood.com.

Kennedy Championed the fight against US Hate Crime

US Senator Ted Kennedy, who died this week age 77, was a champion of the battle against Hate Crime in the USA and a tenacious advocate of the proposed Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, according to Innokenty Grekov of Human Rights First.

Ted Kennedy was one of the Senate's earliest champions in the fight against hate crime. Since the early 1990s, Senator Kennedy has called for better government response to the growing problem of violence motivated by racism, religious intolerance, sexual orientation bias or other similar factors. For example, in one of his most courageous political moments, Senator Kennedy argued in favor of legislation protecting those who face violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. He spoke out after realizing that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, as well as those who seek to protect their rights, have been threatened by a particularly aggressive wave of bias-motivated violence.

Senator Kennedy later went to on to compare hate crimes to "acts of domestic terrorism" and worked tirelessly to pass hate crimes legislation in the Senate. In 2007, he joined Sen. Gordon Smith in a bipartisan effort to pass the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The bill failed to advance in the Senate Judiciary Committee, but that not deter Senator Kennedy. He continued to fight, and just this year, the Senate adopted this critical measure as part of the Defense Authorization Bill.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 22nd - 28th August

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
Apologies that the advertised repeat of Have I Got News for You featuring Brian Blessed and Alan Duncan last Saturday on BBC2 was replaced at the eleventh hour. The intro suggested it was to do with Brian Blessed. You might be forgiven for thinking it had more to do with Alan Duncan. The man who can’t keep his foot out of his mouth was in trouble again over his expenses comments and Tory Central Office must have strings to pull. Just a thought. Gok Wan tells Ben Shepherd what’s wrong with him in Gok’s Fashion Fix on Saturday at 4.05pm on Channel 4. The X Factor is back (like secondary cancer?) on ITV1 at 7pm. BBC2 broadcasts the Edinburgh Festival round-up, at midnight.
ITV1 repeats Forbidden Love at 11.05pm Sunday. E4 repeats Ugly Betty on Sunday at 6pm.
The return of Countdown brings a brand spanking new series of Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm weekdays on C4. Choreographer Michael Clark on The Edinburgh Festival Show 7pm on BBC2 Wednesday.

Ongoing
C4’s BB continues to keep all its LGB housemates. Alan Carr’s repeated Chatty Man on 4 at 1.15am Saturday. The Wire 11.20pm Monday, Tuesdayand Wednesday on BBC2. Ugly Betty on C4 at 10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11 on Wednesday.
Usually there’s some LGBT content on The Big Questions on BBC1 on Sunday morning at 10am. Ellen is on Fiver every weekday morning at 6.

Films
Full Monty on Film4 Saturday. Boys Don’t Cry on Indie at 10pm. On Sunday Sky Screen 1 airs Hairspray at 6pm and Mamma Mia at 8, while Screen 2shows The Bourne Ultimatum at 10.40pm.
The Bourne Identity 11pm ITV2 on Tuesday. Boys Don’t Cry on Indie at 10pm. The gorgeous Roddy McDowell in Planet of the Apes 1.30pm C4 Wednesday. The Bourne Ultimatum on Modern Greats at 6pm.
Almadóvar’s Volver on Film4 at 9pm Thursday. The Bourne Supremacy ITV2 9pm 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 22nd
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops 70 and 84
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini’s US hits
BBC Radio 4 - 10am: Excess Baggage. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 10.15pm: The Atheist and the Bishop. Self-explanatory prog with a gay agnostic as witness

Sunday 23rd
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page. Cast of Hairspray
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 12.02pm: Just a Minute. Kit Hesketh-Harvey guests and is as camp as a row of tents
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 24th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute. Sue Perkins

Tuesday 25th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Fry’s English Delight. Stephen Fry on English usage
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: With Great Pleasure. Clive Stafford Smith, activist on prisoners’ human rights and a gay man, chooses prose and poetry.
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. Dervla Murphy on Freya Stark, who roamed the Middle East in the 1930s. With Matthew Parris

Wednesday 26th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The Odd Half Hour. Stephen K Amos

Thursday 27th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: At The Fringe. Content unknown
BBC Radio 4 - 7.15: Front Row. Interview with Alan Cummings as he begins a tour as a stand up comedian

Friday 28th
BBC Radio 2 - 7.30pm: Friday Night is Music Night. John Barrowman stars
BBC Radio 2 - 11: In the Beginning. As part of the Beatles night special, Holly Johnson goes back to their roots
BBC Radio 4 - 2.15pm: Afternoon Play. The Last Tsar. Why did George V refuse asylum to Tsar Nicholas? Derek Jacobi plays the English monarch
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local

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

Gay Humanists Welcome Support for Alan Turing Campaign

The gay Humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed the decision of Richard Dawkins to back the campaign to win an official apology for Alan Turing, the code-breaking genius and father of the modern computer who committed suicide in 1954 after being prosecuted for being homosexual.

More than 2,500 people have now added their name to the on-line petition calling for the Government to recognise the "consequences of prejudice" that ended the life of the scientist aged just 41.

Professor Dawkins said that an apology would "send a signal to the world which needs to be sent", and that Turing would still be alive today if it were not for the repressive, religion-influenced laws which drove him to despair.

The author of The God Delusion, who is due to present a forthcoming television programme for Channel 4 on Turing, said the impact of the mathematician's war work could not be overstated. "Turing arguably made a greater contribution to defeating the Nazis than Eisenhower or Churchill. Thanks to Turing and his 'Ultra' colleagues at Bletchley Park, Allied generals in the field were consistently, over long periods of the war, privy to detailed German plans before the German generals had time to implement them.

"After the war, when Turing's role was no longer top-secret, he should have been knighted and fêted as a saviour of his nation. Instead, this gentle, stammering, eccentric genius was destroyed, for a 'crime', committed in private, which harmed nobody," he said. Professor Dawkins also called for a permanent financial endowment to support Bletchley Park, where Turing helped break the Nazi Enigma code.

The PTT secretary George Broadhead commented: "It is great to have such a prominent atheist and humanist as Richard Dawkins add his weight to the campaign. As a gay atheist himself, Alan Turing is a humanist hero and an apology for the appalling way he was treated for being gay is long overdue.

For more information, visit: www.pinktriangle.org.uk

"They Want to Exterminate us"

Harrowing reports about the torture and execution of LGBT people in Iraq are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch. The 67 page report, entitled They Want to Exterminate Us: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq, shows through first hand accounts that LGBT people and "the third sex" are threatened, robbed, tortured and murdered, both systematically and casually, in the newly 'liberated' 'democratic' republic.
To read more and download the report, go to www.hrw.org/node/85050

'Just Plain Sense' Interviews

A selection of recent LGBT-themed interviews of note in Christine Burn's podcast, Just Plain Sense.

- Half an Hour with Peter Tatchell

- Adopting – A trans perspective

- Half an Hour with Dr Stuart Lorimer

- Fascinating Adele: Part One and Part Two

Evelyn Waugh 'had gay affairs at Oxford'

A new biography of author Evelyn Waugh claims he had three gay relationships while studying at Oxford in the 1920s.

Waugh, whose most famous works were Brideshead Revisited and Scoop, was described as "one of the great bisexual authors" by biographer Paula Byrne. In the book, titled Mad World: Evelyn Waugh And The Secrets of Brideshead, Byrne says Waugh had an "acute homosexual phase".

You can read teh full PinkNews article here.

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 15th - 21st August

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
BBC1 maintains the tradition that there has to be a gay man on the Saturday night schedules with a new series called Walk on the Wild Side at 5.50pm. This comedy tries to re-invoke the days of Animal Magic and one of the voice-overs is Stephen Fry. Also on Saturday at 10.15 BBC2 repeats the Have I Got News for You episode in which Alan Duncan puts his foot into his own mouth and Brian Blessed is just plain frightening. Handel in The Proms at 8.45on BBC2. The same channel broadcasts the Edinburgh Festival round-up, at 11.55pm. Watch is besieged with Dr Who and Torchwood all evening. Biodoes Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd 7-8pm.
C4’s Chatty Man at 10pm guests Jack Dee. E4 repeats Ugly Betty on Sunday at 6pm.

Ongoing
4’s BB continues to keep all its LGB housemates. Alan Carr is repeated on Chatty Man on C4 at 12.50 Saturday. The Wire 11.20pm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday on BBC2. Ugly Betty on C4 at 10pm Wednesday and Skins at 11 on Wednesday. A repeat of Kingdom, with Stephen Fry, is on ITV1 at 9pm Friday.
Usually there’s some LGBT content on The Big Questions on BBC1 on Sunday morning at 10am. Ellen is on Fiver every weekday morning at 6. Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm on C4. Dr Who on BBC3 every evening at 7, QI on Dave and Will & Grace onLiving every day.

Films
<Hairspray on Comedy at 6pm Saturday. Campness reins in Clash of the Titans on Five at 5.45pm Sunday, plus The Bourne Ultimatum at 9.40pm onModern Greats and Psycho on Classics at 10.50pm. The gruesome Deliver Us from Evil on More4 at 10pm Tuesday, plus James Dean in Rebel without a Cause on TCM at 6.55pm. Mamma Mia! on Comedy at 8pm Wednesday.

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 15th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Dale Winton’s Pick of the Pops 66 and 74
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini’s US hits
BBC Radio 2 - 10: The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock. It’s the 40th anniversary of everything this year isn’t it?
BBC Radio 4 - 6.15pm: Loose Ends
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30: Tennyson: Poetry Please

Sunday 16th
BBC Radio 2 - 1pm: Elaine Page
BBC Radio 2 - 3: Sounds of the 70s. Johnnie Walker on T Rex
BBC Radio 2 - 9: Russell Davies. Wizard of Oz
BBC Radio 4 - 7.05am: Sunday. Religious programme that often deals with LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 12.02pm: Just a Minute. Stephen Fry
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word. Weekly obituary that has included LGBT figures in the past

Monday 17th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: Just a Minute. Kit Hesketh-Harvey guests
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime: The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Tuesday 18th
BBC Radio 4 - 9am: Fry’s English Delight. Stephen Fry on English usage
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30pm: Great Lives. George Galloway on Spanish Civil War hero John Cornford. With Matthew Parris
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime: The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Wednesday 19th
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30pm: The Odd Half Hour. Stephen K Amos
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime: The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Thursday 20th
BBC Radio 4 - 11.30am: Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45pm: Book at Bedtime: The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale

Friday 21st
BBC Radio 4 - 4pm: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: The Film Programme. Almadóvar and Broken Embraces
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime: The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale
6 Music - 7pm: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 7pm: Round the Horne

Local

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

Support for Ezra Nawi

Ezra Nawi, a Jewish gay Israeli, helps poor locals who love him, and thwarting settlers and soldiers who view him with contempt. It is perhaps best to think of him as the Robin Hood of the South Hebron hills.

The full article from the New York Times is available here.

Ezra Nawi is to appear in Court on 16 August for trying to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region. A campaign, www.supportezra.net, supported by Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others has been set up to support Nawi and call for his liberation. The campaign also has a website, http://www.FreeEzra.org/, where people are asked to sign a petition.