Sunday, October 10, 2010

LGBT related Radio and TV Programmes, 9th - 15th 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

Lip Service on BBC3!

Listings (times given are pm unless otherwise stated)

Saturday 9th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 5.45: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC2 - 10.05: QI XL
ITV1 - 7.40: The X Factor
C4 - 9.50am: Ugly Betty
C4 - 4.10: Come Dine with Me. Rpt.

Freeview
BBC3 - 12midnight: Family Guy
BBC HD - 5.45: Strictly Come Dancing
BBC HD - 10.55: QI XL
BBC4 - 10.30: Mad Men
BBC4 - 11.15: Crooked House. By and with Mark Gatiss
ITV2 - 6am: Corrie Omnibus
ITV2 - 8am: Emmerdale. Jackson gets hit by a train
E4 - 6.30: Ugly Betty
More4 - 6.55: Grand Designs. Pet Shop Boys ex-manager Tom Watkins moves to Hastings with his partner Darron
Film4 - 6.45: Ever After...A Cinderella Story. Stars Drew Barrymore

Satellite and cable
Comedy Central Extra - 9am: Frasier
FX - 8am: American Dad
FX - 10.15&11.30: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 4.30: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 4: Freddie Mercury

Film
Indie - 9.55am: Milk (2008)

Sunday 10th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 7.30: Strictly Come Dancing
ITV1 - 9.25am: X Factor. Rpt.
ITV1 - 1: Corrie Omnibus
ITV1 - 4.55: Downton Abbey. Rpt.
ITV1 - 8: X Factor. With Joe McElderry
ITV1 - 9: Downton Abbey
C4 - 9.30am: Hollyoaks Omnibus
C4 - 12.20: Ugly Betty

Freeview
BBC3 - 10: American Dad
BBC3 - 10.45: Family Guy
BBC3 - 12midnight: Ideal
BBCHD - 7.30: Strictly Come Dancing
Dave - 7: Stephen Fry in America
ITV2 - 10: The Only Way is Essex. Reality meets soap a new show about a group of young Essex people, one of whom is gay
E4 - 6: Glee
E4 - 11.40: Skins

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Modern Family Double Bill

Film
Classics - 12.40am: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? She tortured her disabled sister of course! True horror with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford (1960)

Monday 11th

C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC4 - 9: A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss.1/3. Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood
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 - 3: Come Dine with Me

Film
Drama/Romance - 6am: West Side Story
Showcase - 11.10am & 8: Thelma and Louise
TCM - 9: A Passage to India
TCM - 12.05: Women in Love

Tuesday 12th

Terrestrial
BBC2 - 10: Later Live...With Jools Holland. Antony and the Johnsons pop in
BCC2 - 11.20: Top of the Pops 2: Wham Special
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 6.30: Hollyoaks
Five - 5.30: Neighbours

Freeview
BBC3 - 10.30: Lip Service. The BBC hopes to break new ground with this drama about a group of lesbians set in Glasgow
BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
BBC HD - 10: Later Live...With Jools Holland
BBC HD - 10.30: Lip Service
Dave - 9: QIXL
Dave - 12midnight: QI XL
E4 - 7: Hollyoaks
More4 - 2.20: Come Dine with Me

Satellite and Cable
FX - 10: Family Guy
Discovery Real Time - 3: Come Dine with Me

Wednesday 13th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 8: Waterloo Road
BBC2 - 9: Wonderland: Boy Cheerleaders. A boys’ cheerleading group from South Leeds challenge the gender stereotype
C4 - 8.25am: Frasier
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
Five - 1.45&5.30: Neighbours

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC3 - 11.45&2.45am: Lip Service. A chance to catch up – or watch again – the 1st part of this lesbian drama
BBC HD - 10: Mad Men
ITV2 - 8: Gossip Girl
TV2 - 10: The Only Way is Essex
E4 - 9: Ugly Betty
E4 - 12.20am: Ru Paul’s Drag Race
Fiver - 11.25: Californication

Satellite and Cable
Sky Ats1 - 8: The Art of Francis Bacon
Gold - 10.40: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Living - 3.50am: Pete Burns’s PA
FX - 9: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 3: Come Dine with Me
Bio - 9am: Denise Robertson. LGB rights Advocate and agony aunt

Film
Showcase - 5.50: Rebel without a Cause
Comedy - 10: Brüno. Sacha Baron Cohen’s outrageous alter-ego gets another airing (2009)
Indie - 5.55: Milk. Sean Penn gives an Oscar winning performance as Harvey Milk (2008)

Thursday 14th
ITV1 - 12.30: Loose Woman. With Paul O’Grady
ITV1 - 7.30: Tonight: Cyber Bullying
C4 - 8.25am: Frasier
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 10.20: True Blood
Five - 1.45&5.30: Neighbours. Another gay soap story

Freeview
BBC3 - 11: Family Guy
BBC4 - 11: A History of Horror wirh Mark Gatiss. Rpt.
Dave - 9.40: QI

Satellite and Cable
Sky1 - 8: Modern Family
Living - 3.50am: Pete Burns’s PA
FX - 9: Family Guy
FX - 10: American Dad
Discovery Real Time - 3 & 8: Come Dine with Me

Film
Classics - 11.10am: Spartacus

Friday 15th

Terrestrial
BBC1 - 8.30: QI
BBC2 - 7: The Culture Show. Grayson Perry tours the Frieze Art Fair in London
BBC2 - 11.50: Later with...Jools Holland. Extended version of Tuesday’s broadcast
ITV1 - 9: Paul O’Grady Live. Joe McElderry
C4 - 5: Come Dine with Me
C4 - 8: Come Dine with Me
Five - 1.45&5.30: Neighbours

Freeview
BBC3 - 11.30: Family Guy
BBC HD - 8.30: QI
BBC HD - 11.15: The Culture Show. Grayson Perry
BBC HD - 11.50: Later...With Jools Holland
Dave - 7.20, 9.40 & 1am: QI
ITV2 - 9: The Only Way is Essex
E4 - 9: How to Look Good Naked

Satellite and Cable
Discovery real Time - 3&8: Come Dine with Me

Film
Classics - 2.50am: Pillow Talk. Rock Hudson/Doris Day

Radio

Saturday 9th
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 Peak District
BBC Radio 4 - 9: A History of the World in 100 Objects. As Neil McGregor prepares to reveal the 100th object, Evan Davis reviews the contenders
BBC Radio 4 - 12.30: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 1.15: Any Questions? David Starkey is on the panel
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Weekend Woman’s Hour
BBC Radio 4 - 5.30: The Bottom Line. Evan Davis
BBC Radio 4 - 8: Archive on 4: The Death of the Battleaxe. Examination of the female battleaxe stereotype from its Music Hall origins. Jeannette Winterson contributes and there is lots of archive material

Sunday 10th
BBC Radio 2 - 1: Elaine Page. Stage musicals
BBC Radio 2 - 5: Paul O’Grady
BBC Radio 4 - 7.10: Sunday. Religious topical programme that often takes on LGBT issues
BBC Radio 4 - 3: Classic Serial: Goodbye to Berlin. Dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel. Second of a two-parter
BBC Radio 4 - 8.30: Last Word
BBC Radio 7 - 6: The Devil in Amber. Mark Gatiss reads from his own novel
BBC Radio 7 - 9.15: Short Stories by D.H. Lawrence. Her Turn

Monday 11th
BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 2 - 10: The Musical. 6/8
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime. Mr Chartwell. Read by Miriam Margolyes
6 Music - 12midnight: The Billie Holliday Story
BBC Radio 7 - 3.30: The Color Purple. Dramatisation of the Alice walker novel

Tuesday 12th
BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 2 - 10: Jac Holzman’s Elektra Story. The history of Elektra Records presented by Paul Gambaccini. 2/3
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 4.30: A Good Read. Philip Norman on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime. Mr Chartwell. Read by Miriam Margolyes
6 Music - 12midnight: The Billie Holliday Story
BBC Radio 7 - 3.30: The Color Purple. Dramatisation of the Alice walker novel

Wednesday 13th
BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky
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 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime. Mr Chartwell. Read by Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Ida Barr: Artificial Hip-Hop
BBC Radio 7 - 2: Jackie and Me. Jackie Clune on the history of Jackie magazine
BBC Radio 7 - 3.30: The Color Purple. Dramatisation of the Alice walker novel

Thursday 14th
BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky
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
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime. Mr Chartwell. Read by Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 4 - 3.15: Centurions. Discussion of Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
BBC Radio 7 - 3.30: The Color Purple. Dramatisation of the Alice walker novel

Friday 15th
BBC Radio 1 - 4: Scott Mills
BBC Radio 3 - 12noon: Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky
BBC Radio 4 - 9.45am&7.45pm: A History of the World in 100 Objects. Neil McGregor
BBC Radio 4 - 11: Glad to Be Grey? Jane Hill on the fears of older lesbians and gays facing residential care
BBC Radio 4 - 4: Last Word
BBC Radio 4 - 6.30: The News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig
BBC Radio 4 - 10.45: Book at Bedtime. Mr Chartwell. Read by Miriam Margolyes
BBC Radio 4 - 11: A Good Read. Rpt.
6 Music - 7: Tom Robinson
BBC Radio 7 - 3.30: The Color Purple. Dramatisation of the Alice walker novel
BBC Radio 7 - 11: Stand Up on 7. Stephen K. Amos

Local and web

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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

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