>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 24th
BBC Radio 2 – 8pm: Eurovision Song Contest. Ken Bruce mocks.
BBC Radio 4 – 12.30pm: News Quiz. Sandi Toksvig presents.
BBC Radio 4 – 11pm: Counterpoint. Music quiz with Paul Gambaccini
Sunday 25th
BBC Radio 4 – 9.00am: Broadcasting House – Bishop Gene Robinson featured
BBC Radio 4 – 4.30pm: Poetry Please. Carol Ann Duffy features
Monday 26th
BBC Radio 4 – 12.04pm: You and Yours. Rabbi Lionel Blue on his epilepsy
BBC Radio 4 – 2.15pm: Afternoon Play – Kaffir Lilies
Tuesday 27th
BBC Radio 4 – 4.30pm: Great Lives. AE Housman
Wednesday 28th
BBC Radio 2 – 10.30am: Icons Revisited: David Bowie. An appreciation by fellow artists.
BBC Radio 4 – 10.00am: Woman’s Hour – Cynthia Nixon (Miranda from Sex and the City) features
Thursday 29th
BBC Radio 4 – 6.30pm: Heresy. Sue Perkins joins a panel that questions received wisdom
Friday 30th
BBC Radio 2 – 9.15pm: I, Claudius. Read by Derek Jacobi
BBC Radio 4 – 4.30pm The Film Programme. Interview with Roger Corman
Television
Films and drama
Saturday 24th
Sky Movies Indie – 10am and 8pm: Wilde. Stephen Fry and Jude Law.
Sky Movies Indie – 13.15pm: All about My Mother. Almodóvar directs.
Sunday 25th
Sky movies Indie – 10am & 10pm: Volver. Almodóvar directs. Penélope Cruz stars
Monday 26th
Channel 5 – 4.40pm: Escape from Planet of the Apes
Tuesday 27th
Sky Movies Indie – 10am and 7.50pm: Cabaret
More4 – 10pm: Jesus Camp. Doc. about evangelical camp for kids in the US
Wednesday 28th
BBC2 – 9pm Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story. Julie Walters plays the TV tyrant in this biog.
Thursday 29th
Sky Movies Indie – 10am & 11.45pm: Fire. Indian drama about a lesbian relationship.
Sky Movies Indie – 18.10pm: Transamerica
Sky Movies Indie – 110pm: All about My Mother
Entertainment and documentaries
Saturday 24th
BBC1 – 6.50pm: I’d Do Anything
BBC1 – 8pm: Eurovision Song Contest. Will anyone vote for the UK? Andy Abraham sings. Wogan mocks.
Sunday 25th
BBC1 – 7.15pm: I’d Do Anything
BBC2 – 11.45pm: The Graham Norton Show
Monday 26th
BBC2 – 6.30pm: A Taste of my Life. Nigel Slater takes celebrities on a culinary journey
BBC Parliament – 6.40pm: Homosexual Rights. Part of Permissive Night. Includes the two-part documentary Man Alive: Consenting Adults (June 1967)
BBC Parliament – 23.30pm: Late Night Line-Up, Part of Permissive Night. Panel discussion on the issues covered over the evening.
Tuesday 27th
BBC2 – 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
BBC2 – 9pm: The Supersizers Go. Sue Perkins tries to survive the Restoration with Giles Coren
Wednesday 28th
BBC2 – 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
Sky Arts – 9pm: What the Dickens? Sandi Toksvig presents a new cultural quiz.
Thursday 29th
BBC2 – 6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
BBC2 – 9.45pm: The Graham Norton Show. Dame Edna Everage guests.
Friday 30th
BBC1 – 10.35pm: Tonight with Jonathan Ross. John Barrowman guests.
BBC2 -6.30pm: A Taste of My Life
C4 – 10pm: Derren Brown: Trick or Treat