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 10 BEST SHOWS TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM

ALAN CARR • The king of the Celebrity Traitors castle on stabbing his friends in the back, writing his own murder mystery — and having tea with Mariah Carey

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THE END OF BRITISH TV? • With editorial failures and resignations at the top of the BBC, as well as the threat of an American takeover at ITV, broadcasting as we know it is facing the greatest challenge it has ever seen

HAVE YOUR SAY • From the editor, Radio Times

KEEP SAFE WHEN YOU GO ONLINE • Social media platforms have a duty to protect their users from scammers, says Matt Allwright

IT WAS 30 YEARS AGO TODAY… • Three decades after the Fab Four’s history was chronicled in Anthology, there’s now an extra chapter. Theirs is a long and winding road – but an endlessly compelling one

FROM ME TO YOU…

‘THEY WERE THE BLUEPRINT OF WHAT A BAND IS’

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was held prisoner in Iran for six years, while her husband fought for her freedom. A new BBC drama tries to do their story justice

TREASURE TIME • A new series of Civilisations opens the doors of the British Museum to explore epochal society change, seen through its finest objects

‘WE WERE FAILURES BEFORE THIS’ • The show’s first script was rejected 20 times. Now, five seasons on, The Duffer Brothers are moving on to even stranger things

THE STORY SO FAR…

Watered-down truth? • There are still questions following 1988’s mass poisoning in Camelford

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS • New tech can undoubtedly transform people’s lives, so is it AI or its creators that we should fear?

A TALE OF TWO STRIKERS • Harry Kane comes home with nothing to prove — but Marcus Rashford has scores to settle, says Simon Barnes

Sport editor Michael Potts on the best of the week’s action on TV and radio

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BERTRAND RUSSELL? ‘HOLY SH*T!’ • Historian Rutger Bregman follows in the footsteps of his intellectual hero to deliver this year’s Reith Lectures

BEYOND THE TRY LINE • Two former England players may have hung up their...