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 Editor

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

RETURNING TO BATTLE

GRAPEVINE • The TV stories that are getting us talking…

TEN QUESTIONS WITH JOHN LITHGOW • The star of stage and screen on his Vatican thriller — and paying to appear in the West End

to be the voice of Jack Skellington

THE ONLY WAY IS… REALITY TV? • If politicians think a stint on telly will revive their careers, they’re deluded, says Adam Boulton

DEATH ACTUALLY • It’s been 21 years since Keira Knightley delighted viewers with a festive offering – but her new series written by Joe Barton is altogether darker…

‘I DON’T HAVE THE STEEL OF A SPY’ • His grandfather may have been a spy in the Second World War, but Ben Whishaw is far happier playing one on screen

OUR SONG • From ultimate showman to stay-at-home dad – a new documentary co-directed by husband David Furnish reveals the real Sir Elton John

A new spin on a classic • A new version of The Nutcracker is set to delight audiences this Christmas

‘We’re like two naughty kids!’

ONE FINAL PEAK • When acting power couple Lorraine Ashbourne and Andy Serkis were asked to sit for the final of Portrait Artist of the Year, a frock and a tux just wouldn’t do…

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN • Alan Bennett is a bundle of contradictions, but few dramatists have his skill and scope

HAS BAZBALL HAD ITS DAY? • England’s attacking style is thrilling but doesn’t guarantee victory, says Simon Barnes

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HIGHLAND HAUNTING • Uncanny host Danny Robins revisits the gripping mystery of a Scottish bothy — the perfect Christmas ghost story

MISSION ACCEPTED • An experts’-eye view of the murky world of spies and security

Streams of Conscıousness • I don’t just have an Instagram account, I’m a “creator”

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A SWEET TAKE ON MURDER • He has conquered television, radio, stand-up comedy and film — now Jonny Sweet has written a novel about a modern-day Jeeves with a darkly funny homicidal twist

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