Category: Radio Times

  • Radio Times – Boxing Day 2016

    So you’ve made it through to Boxing Day. Assuming you’re not hitting the shops for the sales, or off to some sporting or outdoors activity, you’ll be settling in at home looking for more entertainment. Here are my choices and anti-choices for Boxing Day from the Radio Times. As ever, click the link below to…

  • Radio Times – Christmas Day 2016

    Happy Christmas! It feels as though everyone and their mum has released a Christmas Message™ this year. However, I shall simply try my best to satisfy the nation’s TV watching by sharing once more pages from my copy of the Radio Times. Hopefully this will help you find some of the programmes the rest of…

  • Radio Times – Christmas Eve 2016

    It’s that time of year again, when I humbly take it upon myself to help you make your viewing and listening choices. Yes – that means Post-Its and pens on a copy of the Christmas Radio Times, scanning them in and making your life easier. (I’ve been doing this for quite a while.) As ever,…

  • Boxing Day 2015 – Radio Times

    You’ve made it this far through. Hopefully Santa has been kind. But it looks like rain in good part of the country, so you may be thinking twice about that walk you were planning. Here are your viewing and listening choices through my ever-so-slightly myopic lens, courtesy of the Radio Times and some Post-Its. Here…

  • Christmas Day 2015 – Radio Times

    Happy Christmas all! You’ll no doubt be unwrapping presents, eating enormous quantities of food, having family arguments, and then perhaps sitting down and trying to decide what telly you should be watching. As ever, I’ve made my own suggestions to help you. You might even want to listen to the radio. Here’s the TV: (Click…

  • Christmas Eve 2015 – Radio Times

    You’re with friends and family. But what to watch or listen to? You know how I love to help out anyone who isn’t sure what’s worth your time. So here is my regular helpful guide to what to watch over the period, presented via the medium of an annotated Radio Times. (Click here to see…

  • Radio Times – Boxing Day 2014

    One final festive dose of what to watch, and what not to watch (IMHO). As ever, if you can’t read my scrawl, then try a bigger version.

  • Radio Times – 25 December 2014

    Happy Christmas! Here are some of your viewing – and listening – guides for today. If you can’t read this on your screen, click here. Here are your radio choices! Large version here. My Radio Times collection…

  • Radio Times – 24 December 2014

    I know what you’re thinking. It’s Christmas again, and I’ve no idea what to watch on television. I know that there’s loads on, but how do I sort the good stuff from the bad? Well fear not. I’m back for with a few holiday suggestions. (In case you didn’t know, I’ve done this before.) As…

  • Radio Times 23 August 2014

    It’s been a while… Now is there something special to watch on TV tonight? Perhaps at 7.50pm on BBC1? Let me be your guide. As ever look at the full size version to see the detail.

  • Radio Times – 26 December 2013

    The worst sitcom on British television somehow managed to achieve the unthinkable yesterday, becoming the most watched programme of Christmas Day. We can but hope that once PVR and on demand is added in, something else knocks it off the top. Anything! If you’re the sort of person who watches Mrs Brown’s Boys, then at…

  • Radio Times – Christmas Day 2013

    Here’s my sort-of-annual guide to what’s on TV and radio on Christmas Day – as seen through the pages of my annotated Radio Times (as very slightly featured in #6 on this Buzzfeed list). Click on the pictures below to go fullscreen. Flickr has changed the way they do things recently, and that’ll take you…