Radio Times

OVEN READY

Great British Bake Off judges Paul Hollywood and Nigella Lawson

The Split Up

Sanjeev Bhaskar and Ritu Arya star in a new legal drama that shares DNA with Abi Morgan’s hit The Split

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THE DALES ARE alive with the sound of what seems like hundreds of cast and crew, all hard at work when I visit the huge studio in the north Yorkshire village of Grassington, home of All Creatures Great and Small. Walking onto the set of Skeldale House...

FROM THE EDITOR

AUTUMN HAS ALWAYS been television’s greatest season. It’s when broadcasters bring out the programmes they’ve been quietly polishing all year, and when we at Radio Times start covering desks, walls and occasionally one another with lists of what...

ACTION WOMAN

How do you keep things fresh in a fourth series of ticking clocks, burning fuses and dastardly bomb plots? It’s a good question – and Vicky McClure, star of the hit ITV drama Trigger Point, has the answer. “We’ve become a bit like Planes, Trains and...

FROM THE EDITOR

APOLOGIES TO THOSE of you who are only just getting used to life after the World Cup, but football, with its customary disregard for whether the rest of us are ready, is back. The Scottish Premiership is already under way and the new English Premier...

FROM THE EDITOR

ONE OF THE great perks of being the editor of Radio Times is that you get to read pieces that make you laugh out loud before anyone else gets to see them. That’s exactly what happened when David Mitchell’s diary from the set of the new series of Ludwig...

The One Show

We go behind the scenes with Alex Jones and Vernon Kay as the show celebrates its 20th birthday

A BREATH OF FRESH AIR

Caitlin Moran and Adam Frost co-host the podcast Outsiding

FROM THE EDITOR

WE’VE HAD QUITE a Summer of Sport. Wimbledon, rugby, cricket, cycling, the football, the Commonwealth Games and just about every other international contest you can point a television camera at. If it moves, someone, somewhere, appears to be keeping...

MATT DAMON

THIS WEEK IN

In print, online nd on our pp, R dio Times h s ot entert inment covered ON THE APP Chris Packham takes over! Discover the programmes that shaped our cover star as he reveals his Top 10 Picks THE ODYSSEY Hear from the cast of Christopher Nolan’s new...

RISE & SHINE!

The Sara Cox Breakfast Show Monday–Friday Radio 2

WIMBLEDON!

Wimbledon Monday-Friday BBC TV, 5 Live, iPlayer and red button*

WITHER THE BBC

Does the Corporation have a bright future?

FROM THE EDITOR

LONG BEFORE STREAMING services, algorithms and endless choice, there were films that became part of family life, watched constantly on a worn-out VHS cassette. Few modern films have earned a place in our collective memory quite like the Toy Story...

FROM THE EDITOR

WELCOME TO OUR World Cup special, complete with the famous Radio Times wall chart. Expanding tournaments may be good news for football administrators, but less so for magazine art departments. But our art editor Jake Howard has somehow managed to...

JOHN TRAVOLTA on f mily, flyin nd his new ‘hom e’ to film

FROM THE EDITOR

THERE IS SOMETHING heartening about a nation arguing over comedy. Not politics, not interest rates, not whether the bins have been collected, but which funny show over the past 15 years has made us laugh, wince, recognise ourselves and perhaps feel a...

BELLA MACLEAN & ALEX HASSELL

PLAY TAGGIE O’HARA & RUPERT CAMPBELL-BLACK RIVALS Fridays Disney+

SERIOUSLY FUNNY!

Bafta Television Awards Sunday BBC One

FROM THE EDITOR

THIS WEEK’S ISSUE has been a long time in the planning, and with good reason. Reaching the age of 100 is an extraordinary achievement, but to reach that milestone as the person who has documented the profound changes in our natural world makes it...

JOIN IN WITH THE WORLD’S BIGGEST MUSIC QUIZ

WHAT A FEAST! New MasterChef presenters Grace Dent and Anna Haugh

10 more RT kids' f vourites

FROM THE EDITOR

WELCOME TO OUR Easter edition that, as always, is packed with our gold-standard guide to everything worth watching, listening to and streaming. Inside, we talk to the ever-inventive Alex Horne, the architect of mischief behind Taskmaster, who has...

From the Editor

We feature a different kind of drama on our cover this week, one that swaps stylised thrills for something altogether more bracing: verisimilitude. The Pitt, the US medical drama starring Noah Wyle, has already won armfuls of awards in America and now...

PEAKY BLINDERS

Tommy Shelby is back to face his most explosive reckoning yet. Steven Knight and Cillian Murphy reveal why the film is a warning from history

DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!

FEATURING Bob Mortimer Mel Giedroyc Alan Carr David Mitchell Sam Campbell Gbemisola Ikumelo Romesh Ranganathan Diane Morgan Amy Gledhill and hosts Jimmy Carr + Roisin Conaty

FINAL DELIVERY

RT celebrates the emotional ending of Call the Midwife with stars LAURA MAIN and HELEN GEORGE, as creator HEIDI THOMAS reveals what’s next for her midwives

From the Editor

In this week’s issue, our spotlight turns to the Paralympic Winter Games. After the extraordinary success of Team GB at the Winter Olympics, hopes are high that our Paralympians can surpass their haul of six medals at the Beijing Games in 2022. In...

HORROR SPECIAL!

Fangs! Claws! Action! As horror gets its moment in the spotlight at the Bafta Film Awards, RT explores how fright nights are helping to save the film industry PLUS Great British Menu goes to the movies*

From the Editor

■ Welcome to the new issue. We’re well into 2026 now, which made me pause and wonder: have we really passed the quarter-century mark already? Time is moving so fast… Talking of which, this year marks the 75th anniversary of our longestrunning soap...

COME ON, ENGLAND!

Six Nations Rugby — England v Wales Saturday ITV1/S4C/5 Sports Extra/5 Live

From the Editor

One of the great pleasures of my job is marvelling at the talents of RT’s staff. For the past few weeks they have been hard at work creating the definitive guide to the Winter Olympics, from establishing the fine details of when events will be...

Happily ever after?

Luke Thompson & Yerin Ha share their Cinderella love story*

FURY UNLEASHED!

RT reveals the women and men behind the god-like egos and mammoth muscles

From the Editor

2025 was a fine year for drama, with some bold new series and familiar favourites. And if the first part of 2026 is anything to go by, there’s plenty more to look forward to. In this issue, we preview the best new shows heading our way, from the return...

From the Editor

Happy New Year! Welcome to an issue that starts 2026 exactly as we mean to go on, packed with five terrific dramas guaranteed to banish any post-festive gloom. Sitting at the top of the bill is the return of The Night Manager. Tom Hiddleston is back...

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

M E R R CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From the Editor

When it comes to taking risks, film director James Cameron is in a league of his own. He currently has three of the top five highest-grossing films of all time under his belt, and now he’s back with the third instalment of his Avatar saga – Avatar:...

YOUR QUALITY GUIDE TO WHAT’S WORTH WATCHING

HEAVENLY OFFERINGS!

From Call the Midwife to new drama Amadeus, and from Dame Judi Dench to Sir David Attenborough, we reveal the festive season’s most exciting treats*

From the Editor

Many years ago, I was working at a now-defunct music magazine and I still remember the buzz in the office when news broke that the Beatles were releasing Anthology. It wasn’t just a greatest hits album, it was a full-blown media event: the three...

From the Editor

I was too young in 1967 to watch the BBC’s original TV drama The Forsyte Saga. It was famously the last major series to be made in black and white and thanks to its stellar cast it quickly became a landmark in television history. The latest version...

READY, SET, GO

Sara’s Great Northern Marathon Challenge Monday–Friday Radio 2 Children in Need Friday BBC One

From the Editor

Hello! Yes, I’m back after eight weeks on the missing list. (And to respond to one reader’s frightening theory, no, I wasn’t lifted by the Park). For those who have been playing along, turn to page 59 to see how you can enter the Sky/Netflix...

From the Editor Deputy editor

When Dame Emma Thompson agreed to write an exclusive piece for us about her new series Down Cemetery Road, based on the novel by Mick Herron, I was thrilled. I devoured the first few episodes of the drama and requested more. (This is rare because, as...

From the Editor Deputy editor

Growing up with Greek parents, I spent much of my childhood begging my mum to cook what my friends ate. She’s a brilliant cook but youvarlakia and pastitsio… boring! What really opened my eyes to Britain’s culinary delights was Hamlyn’s All Colour Cook...

AUTUMN DRAMA

Jodie Whittaker, Aimee Lou Wood and Tamsin Greig reveal the joy behind the hottest TV this autumn PLUS Sally Wainwright on her new series Riot Women

From the Editor

From Traitors, fraudsters and murder-steeped vicars to killer protein bars – this issue has it all! The Celebrity Traitors has finally arrived and with a line-up including Stephen Fry, Celia Imrie and Nick Mohammed (see p12) it promises to be even...

Marisa Abela

What’s the view from your sofa? My telly is in a bookshelf. I usually have my legs stretched out on an ottoman, and there’s a fireplace. What have you been watching? I’m in training for a film right now and I’m also planning my wedding [to actor and...

Fawlty Towers: the Play

John Cleese’s comedy is as popular as ever – so why is he so angry with the BBC?

Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robin Wright & Shirley Ballas*

LAUGH A MINUTE!

Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping Friday C4*

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS

Richard Osman reveals how Steven Spielberg turned his cosy crime bestseller into a killer film.

KICK OFF!

Move over Gary... Kelly Cates, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman have signed up to Match of the Day. But why will you never see them together?

WEDNESDAY

Wednesday Available from Wednesday Netflix*

10 ways to get the most from your

1 1 JUST TAP FOR MORE... Wherever you see a “tap for more” button, on a feature or one of our experts’ Choices, just tap on it for more exclusive content, a picture gallery or a video. 2 2 WATCH NOW! Streaming Just go to our pages, tap on any of the...

From the Editor

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the irrepressible Mr Danny Dyer. And can I stop you there? Anyone who watched the episode of ITV1’s The Assembly that featured neurodiverse people asking him difficult and challenging questions will know that...

BY THE BOOK!

Mick Herron on SLOW HORSES • Val McDermid on KAREN PIRIE PLUS Mark Gatiss swaps Sherlock for a brand-new detective

From the Editor

With Wimbledon still hogging the schedules when this issue goes “live”, we thought it would be a great idea to find out what it takes to be a British number one. It must be strange to spend most weeks of your playing year as a “plucky Brit” who is...

Money

Expert advice from Paul Lewis

How to make The Bear sandwich

THE END GAME

Squid Game Friday 27 June Netflix

From the Editor

Our writer Pete Paphides describes this week’s cover star, Lee Mack, as “the wittiest man in Britain” and Mack’s co-star on the panel show Would I Lie to You, Rob Brydon, says that he has the “quickest mind of anybody – and I mean anybody – I have ever...

20GREAT DRAMAS TO BINGE RIGHT NOW!

PLUS Tom Hardy and Pierce Brosnan on the love, death and humour in Guy Ritchie’s gangster hit

From the Editor

It was over a quarter of a century ago that the first series of Walking with Dinosaurs aired on BBC1. In 1999 the computer-generated imagery used to bring the creatures to life was unknown outside of Hollywood movies and was a wonder to behold on the...

Rose Ayling-Ellis

Few viewers could have failed to be moved – many to tears – by the “silent dance” performed by Rose Ayling-Ellis in the 2021 series of Strictly Come Dancing. Hailed as the show’s “greatest ever performance”, when the music stopped and she continued to...

BAFTA’S Leading Ladies

Also starring MONICA DOLAN JESSICA GUNNING SOPHIE WILLAN MARISA ABELA LOLLY ADEFOPE KATHERINE PARKINSON ANJANA VASAN KATE O’FLYNN

VE DAY at 80

VE Day 80 BBC TV, radio and iPlayer*

From the Editor

As I remember things, Star Wars, if not an outright children’s movie, was certainly pitched at teenagers. Nearly 50 years and many films and TV shows later, the franchise (now owned by Disney) has finally grown up. The second series of Andor is more...

From the Editor

Welcome to the Easter Issue! We hope you like our colourful, joyous cover as much as we do – an illustration by the very talented Lucy Rose. We have plenty inside to see you through the long weekend and beyond. Our family Streaming guide is there in...

THE LAST OF US

Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal star in The Last of Us Monday Sky Atlantic*

From the Editor

We have a terrific mix of stories for you this week. You can meet the latest companion to board the Tardis. Varada Sethu joins an illustrious list of actors to travel with the Doctor, from Peter Purves to Billie Piper. She plays Belinda who, in her...