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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!
Radio
Some of the programmes listed below will remain available for listen again from the BBC’s website.
Saturday 22nd
BBC Radio2 – 8.00pm: Elton John – The Red Piano Concert.
Sunday 23rd
BBC Radio4 – 3.00pm: Classic Serial – Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. 1st of 2.
BBC Radio3 – 8.00pm: Drama on 3 – Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
Thursday 27th
BBC Radio4 – 9.00: In Our Time – The Ideas of Socrates.
Friday 28th
BBC Radio4 – 2.15pm: Afternoon Play – A Coup, based on a short story by Bruce Chatwin.
BBC Radio4 – 6.30pm: The News Quiz hosted by Sandi Toksvig.
Television
Documentaries
Saturday 22nd
National Geographic -6.00pm: History’s Conspiracies – The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover.
BBC2 – 9.30pm: Nureyev: From Russia with Love.
ITV – 9.40pm: Elton John: Me, Myself & I.
Sunday 23rd
BBC1- 10.00am: The Big Question debates “Same-sex Partnerships”
Monday 24th
BBC1 – 10.35: Movie Connections – Cast & Crew discuss the making of “Billy Elliott”.
Tuesday 25th
BBC3 – 9.00pm: Lucy: Teen Transexual in Thailand.
More 4 – 9.00pm: True Stories: Murder Most Foul – Antony Sher returns to South Africa to investigate the murder of two gay men.
Sky Arts – 10.35: The Secret Files of Gilbert & George.
Wednesday 26th
UK TV Food – 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life – Alan Bennett.
Thursday 27th
Biography – 6.00pm: Katharine Hepburn.
BBC3 – 10.30pm: Danny: Escape from my female body.
Films
Saturday 22nd
Sky Modern Greats – 10.00pm: The Doors.
Sky Arts – 11.00pm: Romeo and Juliet – Ballet with Nureyev & Fonteyn.
Tuesday 25th
Channel 4 – 1.30am: Withnall & I.
Wednesday 26th
Channel 4 – 1.30pm: The Children’s Hour.
Sky Drama – Midnight: Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Friday 28th
Sky Indie – 12.40am: All About My Mother.
Saturday 29th
BBC2 – 1.10am: The Triple Echo.