Radio Times

Radio Times magazine is the UK's number one quality entertainment guide, helping readers to find the best TV, radio, streaming content, podcasts, and films, each week. With unparalleled access to the biggest names in entertainment, combined with journalism from the best writers in broadcasting, incisive criticism, exclusive features, and original photo shoots, the magazine makes headlines every week. The comprehensive, easy-to-use listings cover over 100 channels. And the daily recommendations written by Radio Times’ TV experts help uncover the best things to watch and listen to on the small screen, including streaming services such as; BBC iPlayer, ITVX, All4, Apple +, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ , Britbox, Acorn and many more. If you enjoy radio, you will also find full national radio listings including Scotland, Wales, N Ireland and local English radio plus podcasts. Plus, a puzzles section, the unique letters pages, latest books reviews, travel guides and money advice. It not only makes Radio Times an indispensable weekly read but the absolute must guide to home entertainment.

From the Editors

THIS WEEK • THE TEN BEST SHOWS TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM

KING OF THE CONVERSATION • Michael Parkinson was more than a chat show host – he interviewed the greatest stars of our time, says Sir Michael Grade

PARKINSON ON…

A LIFE IN RT • Michael Parkinson appeared on the cover of Radio Times four times between 1973 and 2021

TEN QUESTIONS WITH BEN WHISHAW • From Q in James Bond to This Is Going to Hurt, it’s been a golden 12 months. What’s next? Lots of sex, it seems…

Sylvester McCoy clocks up 80 years

THE RADIO TIMES AT 100 • Continuing our countdown to RT’s centenary with a weekly look back at some of the magazine’s landmark issues…

COUNTDOWN TO DISASTER • ‘I wanted to crawl into a hole and hide,’ says the woman behind the doomed UK space mission

PROMS WITH SOUL • Henry Wood would have approved of pop at the Albert Hall, says Stuart Maconie

‘DAVID IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PAINTERS OF OUR TIMES’ • Melvyn Bragg has caught David Hockney’s life and work on camera for almost 50 years. Now Sky Arts is bringing the old friends together again – for the very last time

DAVID HOCKNEY ON SKY ARTS THIS WEEK

A real Irish horror story • Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack on the mother-and-baby scandal that inspired their new BBC drama – just one of 25 gripping shows to entertain you this autumn…

Summer of love • What’s in the water in Ambridge? As romance blossoms all across The Archers, RT heads to Borsetshire to catch up with Pip and Stella, Mia and Brad and Tracy and Jazzer to find out what’s making this everyday story of country folk so hot

NO LONGER A ONE-SLAM WONDER • The nerves are gone — and Carlos Alcaraz will now dominate men’s tennis, says Simon Barnes

PICK OF THE WEEK’S SPORT ON TV

TV’S QUIZZING CONUNDRUM • With new hosts stepping into old shows, is it the star or the format that keeps us tuning in?

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DOCTOR WHO AND THE DA VINCI CODE • Hugh Schofield reveals how a former BBC scriptwriter inspired the bizarre theory behind Dan Brown’s...