Radio Times Reviews

Are TV listings guides viable today when the net gives you free access to the same information and also the digital television service give you a comprehensive EPG? Well yeah. It kind of depends on what you want and expect from this sort of magazine. You can argue that price wise this is one of the aspiring leaders of the listings ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is a listings magazine, containing one week's worth of TV and radio listings. It is one of the most famous and long running of its kind. The one thing I hate about the Radio Times is the way it confuses me with the dates it runs. It comes out on a Tuesday, but contains listings for the following Saturday to the Friday. ...  Read the complete review

I seem to watch the television 5 out of 7 nights roughly. It is a great way to relax an unwind after a hard week at work. The radio times (as the name might suggest is a TV and Radio magazine around the weeks listings. The radio times was started before TV was around, hence the name, but has now expanded to cover both mediums. The radio ...  Read the complete review

I normally get my tv guide free with the Saturday Guardian - it is small and compact and is full of info on the arts- I really like it. If I have been away for the weekend and have missed The Guardian, I just buy the cheapest guide on the shelf, they are usually packed with stories on the soaps and their casts- all of which I just ...  Read the complete review

Once my brother has finished reading this I pinch it off of him every Tuesday when it arrives through the post. My reasoning for this- 1) I get it for free 2)It means I get to spend a good hour or so doing puzzles, reading interviews and looking at what is going to be on the telly and radio in the next week. You can ...  Read the complete review

You can tell by the name of this magazine that it has been around for a long, long time, it is essentially a TV mag but it has been produced since before TV`s were around and thus it keeps the name of the radio times. These days it covers both TV and radio equally well and if you need to know when something is on either you are sure to ...  Read the complete review

I recently was passed a copy of the Radio Times and spent a good while completely engaged buy it. Formerly I had only glanced through this publication at Christmas when my parents assured me that it was an essential festive purchase for planning. I dismissed them as only a child can. I was wrong. This magazine ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is a weekly magazine designed to bring the week's television, film and radio news to your door. These pages, moreover, cover a wide spectrum of channels - I believe that it advertises itself as covering over 400 channels, which is no small feat! So, the Radio Times contains the week's TV guide, together with ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is the only magazine I read every week. Despite its name, the mag focuses more on TV than radio which I'm sure is the bigger market. Radio Times includes many features about programmes that are to be shown in the coming weeks, including behind the scenes information and exclusive previews. It also details the week's ...  Read the complete review

This one is the business in broadcasting reviews. It's also the most expensive, and the price goes up regularly - it's now £1.10, but there are various subscription deals available that can save you a fair amount and get it delivered free. There are comprehensive listings for all the terrestrial channels, as well as several pages per ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times has been my television guide of choice for as long as I can remember and I feel lost without it. Occasionally I have been forced to try other TV guides due to the unavailability of RT, and each time I have found them severely lacking in comparison. Other guides tend to have articles solely on the soap operas, combined with cramped ...  Read the complete review

There are millions of people who buy Britian's best known Tv guide, Radio Times every week to plan their viewing and there's also a handful of people like me who but it just once a year, for the bumper two week christmas edition. The rest of the year I make do with flicking through teletext of looking in the paper as I don't have much ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is one of those British traditions that is steepd in a lot of people's family history. Originally published first in 1920, there was no TV at the time, not until 1936, and it catered for radio listeners, hence the name. It was such a popular publication that on the arrival of TV, the name stuck, and has done to this ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times is really the only magazine I read every week. When you consider that I only watch the television for a couple of hours maximum a week, it seems a bit odd. It does say a lot for the way the magazine is put together though. It is called the Radio Times because when it was originally published there was no TV. It now ...  Read the complete review

With so many television listings guides out there it can be difficult sometimes to justify why you should spend £1.05 on the Radio Times each week when you can get similar listings magazines for less than 40p, and indeed the information is available for free online. The joy of the Radio Times is the quality of its listings. It covers a ...  Read the complete review

When the Radio Times was first published it only carried listings of BBC radio programmes and when TV was launched it remained the only publication allowed to list what was on on the BBC due to the limited use of listings by copyright. The BBC did not allow other publications to use them probably fearing competition and perhaps feared that one day ...  Read the complete review

The Radio Times (RT) has been around a long time and has seen many changes. It was first published in 1920 and is so called because the nation only had radio at that time. It wasn't until 1936 that we saw our first TV broadcast, which saw the first change to the Radio Times in that TV listings were included. As there was no ITV or BBC2 until much ...  Read the complete review

I always thought the Radio Times was a bit of an old people?s magazine, and to be honest, it is. There are the letters from ?Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells?, the nice sensible layouts, and the inexplicable popularity of Alan Titchmarsh. However, despite all this, it?s still the best TV listings magazine you can buy. I?ve tried all the TV ...  Read the complete review

Though I didn’t grow up with a copy of RT furnishing the coffee table, it feels like an integral part of my culture and it’s a magazine (which is exactly what it is, rather than simply a ‘listings’ periodical) with which I’m completely at home. Critics may argue that it’s overpriced in comparison with similar ...  Read the complete review

Help, I'm an endangered species! Well, as someone who prefers radio to most TV, I often feel that way. And it's why I treasure Radio Times. As the name suggests, it's the only place where you can find proper detail about what?s on the wireless. That's its main strength, but not its only one. I thought it would be worth ...  Read the complete review