LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 2nd - 8th October

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!

LGBT TV and radio

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 2nd

Terrestrial

BBC2 - 4.30: Carry On at Your Convenience. Literal and metaphorical toilet humour with Williams and Hawtrey (1971 film)
BBC2 - 10.30: QI XL
ITV1 - 7.05: The X Factor. Should it still be here? Let’s wait and see
C4 - 9.50am: Ugly Betty
C4 - 3.55: Come Dine with Me

Freeview

BBC3 - 12midnight: Family Guy
BBC HD - 10.30: QI XL
BBC4 - 11.15: Crooked House. By and with Mark Gatiss
ITV2 - 6am: Corrie Omnibus
E4 - 6: Ugly Betty

Satellite and cable

Comedy Central Extra - 9am: Frasier
FX - 8: American Dad
FX - 10.15: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 4.30: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 11 & 5am: Elton John

Film

Classics - 9: Spartacus. Watch for the Tony Curtis homoerotic seduction scene. Apt this week really

Sunday 3rd

Terrestrial

ITV1 - 9.25: Corrie Omnibus
ITV1 - 7.45: X Factor
C4 - 12.05: Ugly Betty
C4 - 7: The Genius of British Art. David Starkey on royal portraits
C4 - 11.10: The Accused. Jodie Foster in a harrowing and provocative drama concerning rape (1988)
Five - 6.55: Charley’s Angels: Full Throttle. Drew Barrymore and Demi Moore (2003)

Freeview

BBC3 - 10: American Dad
BBC3 - 10.45: Family Guy
BBC3 - 12midnight: Ideal
E4 - 6: Glee
Film4 - 11am: Doctor in Distress. With Dirk Bogarde (1963)

Satellite and Cable

Sky1 - 1: Pineapple Dance Studios: Best of
Sky1 - 11: George Michael Live

Film

Drama/Romance - 2am: West Side Story
Classics - 7.10: The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy’s source
Classics - 9: Houdini. Tony Curtis shows his midriff far too often for the times
Classics - 11: Sabrina. Wilder rom-com with Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn
Classics - 1.05: A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in 1951 love-triangle drama

Monday 4th

C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 6.30: Hollyoaks. The Ste story starts. Good to have a gay actor playing a gay role

Freeview

BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 9.40: QI
E4 - 11.05: Shameless (rpt)
Film4 - 6.40: Ever After: A Cinderella story. Starring drew Barrymore (1998)

Satellite and Cable

FX - 9: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Tuesday 5th

Terrestrial

C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me

Freeview

BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
Dave - 9: QI
Dave - 12midnight: QI
Film4 - 4.45: Doctor in Distress. Dirk Bogarde

Satellite and Cable

Sky2 - 11.30: George Michael Live
FX - 10: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 3: Come Dine with Me

Wednesday 6th

Terrestrial

BBC1 - 8: Waterloo Road
ITV1 - 7: Emmerdale. It’s cull the cast time as car and train collide. Aaron and Jackson are involved
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me

Freeview

BBC3 - 11.15: Family Guy
E4 - 9: Ugly Betty
Film4 - 9: the Full Monty
Fiver - 11.25: Californication

Satellite and Cable

Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
FX - 9: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 2: Come Dine with Me

Film

Classics - 4.05: Spartacus

Thursday 7th
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 8: Ultimate Big Brother
Five - 5.30: Neighbours. Another gay soap story

Freeview

BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
Dave - 9.40: QI

Satellite and Cable

FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 10: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 3 & 8: Come Dine with Me

Friday 8th

Terrestrial

BBC1 - 8.30: QI
BBC2 - 10: The Rob Brydn Show. Sharleen Spiteri guests
ITV1 - 9: Paul O’Grady Live. Gary and Robbie
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 6.30: Hollyoaks
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 9: Embarrassing Bodies.
Five - 5: Neighbours

Freeview

BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
Dave - 9.40 & 12.40: QI

Satellite and Cable

Discovery real Time - 3&8: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 8: Freddie Mercury

Film

Comedy - 10: Bruno
Classics - 9.30am: West Side Story
Classics - 5.35&10.35: the Wizard of Oz

Radio

Saturday 2nd

BBC Radio 2 - 10am: The Graham Norton Show
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Pick of the Pops. Dale Winton
BBC Radio 2 - 6: Going Out with Alan Carr
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 6.07am: Ramblings. Clare Balding in the Forest of Dean
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: News Quiz. Sandi and Sue
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis

Sunday 3rd

BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.10: Sunday
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Classic Serial: Goodbye to Berlin. Dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word

Monday 4th

BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 2 - 10: The Musical. 5/8
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Sex, Porn and Teenagers. Miranda Sawyer investigates the sexualisation of children through the internet
6 Music - 12midnight: The Billie Holliday Story

Tuesday 5th

BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 2 - 10: Jac Holzman’s Elektra Story. The history of Elektra Records presented by Paul Gambaccini
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 1.30: Soul Music. 1/3. Sondheim’s Send in the Clowns
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: Great Lives. Matthew Parris presents. Edwina Currie on former PM of Israel Golda Meir
6 Music - 12midnight: The Billie Holliday Story

Wednesday 6th

BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 11am: Parting Shots. Presented by Matthew Parris
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Ida Barr: Artificial Hip-Hop
6 Music - 12midnight: The Billie Holliday Story

Thursday 7th

BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 2 - 8: Radio 2 In Concert. The Scissor Sisters
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Ramblings. Repeated from Saturday
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
6 Music - 12midnight: The Billie Holliday Story

Friday 8th

BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz. Sandi and Sue again
6 Music - 7: Tom Robinson

Local and web

If you want us to tell everyone about your radio broadcasts, email fenwicktony[at]hotmail.com

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 9pm: LGBT Citizen

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

Radio North Manchester 106.6 FM
Sundays - 11am: Passport. Also look out for their women's programmes

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