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Radio Times

2-8th August 2025
Magazine

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

‘I’D NEVER WANT TO BE PRIME MINISTER!’

GRAPEVINE • The TV stories that are getting us talking…

TEN QUESTIONS WITH SAM CLAFLIN • He’s comfortable mixing with A-listers but says he’ll always play second fiddle to strong women (and Alan Partridge)

find love on a reality dating show

THE CURSE OF THE ALGORITHM • In the age of Netflix, who will keep us informed and educated as well as entertained, asks the Bishop of Leeds

The ultimate model family? • The first season of Netflix hit Wednesday smashed records and made a huge star of Jenna Ortega. Now she’s back in season two with Catherine Zeta-Jones and new co-star Joanna Lumley

PARENTAL GUIDANCE • If you thought raising kids was tricky, spare a thought for the mother eaten by her own spiderlings…

‘I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE I’M A SEX SYMBOL’ • Stephen Mangan is rarely off our screens, whether it’s as an actor or a presenter – not bad for a bloke who thinks he looks like a donkey

THE GLOVES ARE OFF • Spitting Image returns — and this time, there’s nothing to hold it back

SHOCK OF THE NEW • Lovers of Test cricket may feel alienated, but the Hundred has been great for the women’s game, says Simon Barnes

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

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SAILS & SCALES • Poet laureate and landlubber Simon Armitage brings the Shipping Forecast’s lyrical energy to the Proms

GOING INTO LABOUR • A who’s who of party leaders since the Second World War, from Atlee to Starmer

Streams of Conscıousness • After the vinyl renaissance, are DVDs poised for a comeback?

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‘MOST MYSTERY WRITERS LIVE VERY DULL LIVES’ • Much to his own wife’s relief, author Peter Swanson has just used his imagination — and a love of Hitchcock — to fire his latest thriller about a failing marriage

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Languages

  • English