LGBT Related Radio and TV Programmes, 9th – 15th August

Posted on: August 9th, 2008 by History Month

>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.

Radio
Saturday 9th
BBC Radio 2 – 5-7pm: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 – 4pm: Weekend Woman’s Hour. Review should include critique of early 20th century lesbian literature: Woolf and Radlyffe Hall
6 Music – 12midnight: BBC Introducing… New acts presented by Tom Robinson

Sunday 10th
BBC Radio 2 – 1pm: Interview with Cameron McKintosh
BBC Radio 2 – 2.30pm: Pick of the Pops. 1968 and ‘79 charts with Dale Winton

Monday 11th
6 Music – 1am: New Music with Tom Robinson

Tuesday 12th
BBC Radio 4 – 11.30am: From the Ban to the Booker: Val McDermid examines the development of the lesbian novel and its transition from the margins to the mainstream.
BBC Radio 7 -12noon & 7pm: The Navy Lark

Wednesday 13th
BBC Radio 7 – 12noon & 7pm: Beyond our Ken

Friday 15th
BBC Radio 4 – 3pm: Ramblings. Clare Balding on walking holidays
6 Music – 7pm: New Music with Tom Robinson

Television

Entertainment and Documentaries
Saturday 9th
BBC1 – 7pm: Last Choir Standing. Brighton gay Men’s Chorus still in it. Leeds L and G choir also features in live show from Hull
BBC HD – 7pm: Last Choir Standing
ITV3 – 7.30pm: Cadfael. Derek Jacobi plays a monk detective
UKTV Gold – 9am: Dr Who
Living – 10pm: Hotel Babylon
Biography – 6 & 11pm: Raymond Burr

Sunday 10th
BBC1 – 6pm: Last Choir Standing. Singing to survive
BBC4 – 12midnight: Joan Armatrading at Glastonbury
BBC HD – 5.30pm: Neil Diamond at Glastonbury
E4 – 11pm: Shameless
UK TV Gold – 8am and 1.35am: Dr Who

Monday 11th
BBC3 – 7.45pm: Dr Who, followed by Dr Who Confidential
C4 – 12.30pm: Will and Grace
Dave – 11.40pm: QI
UKTV Gold – 4pm: Dr Who
UKTV Gold – 10.45pm: Fry and Laurie
Living – 7pm: Will and Grace
Living 2 – 2am: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Sky Arts – 6pm: Simon Callow’s Classical Destinations (HD)

Tuesday 12th
BBC2 – Maestro. Sue Perkins wields a baton. That should be maestra
BBC3 – 7pm: Dr Who followed by Dr Who Confidential (rpt.)
BBC4 – 7.35pm: Batman. The camp ‘60’s one
ITV1 – 10.40pm: Kingdom. Stephen Fry plays the East Anglian lawyer (rpt.)
C4 – 12.30pm: Will and Grace
Living – 7pm and 1am: Will and Grace

Wednesday 13th
BBC3 – 7pm: Dr Who followed by Dr Who Confidential (rpt.)
BBC4 – 7.35pm: Batman
ITV1 – 7.30pm: Coronation Street. Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing/Gimme, Gimme, Gimme)) wrote this one
C4 – 12.30pm Will and Grace
C4 – 10pm: Dangerous Jobs for Girls
UKTV Gold – 7am and 4pm: Dr Who
UKTV Gold – 10.45pm: Fry and Laurie

Thursday 14th
BBC2 – 11.20pm: Edinburgh Festival Show. Will they mention the LGBT acts?
BBC3 – 7pm: Dr Who followed by Dr Who Confidential
C4 – 12.30pm: Will and Grace
five – 10pm and 1am: Grey’s Anatomy
E4 – 10.35pm: Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong
Dave – 10pm: QI
Living – 7pm: Will and Grace

Friday 15th
BBC2 – 10pm: QI.
C4 – 12.30pm: Will and Grace
UKTV Gold – 4pm: Dr Who
Living – 7pm: Will and Grace

Film and drama
Saturday 9th
Sky Indie – 11.20am and 8pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law

Thursday 14th
Sky Indie – 4.25pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law