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Week ahead

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15 February 2013

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HIGHLIGHT: The Botanical Vicar The poet Lemn Sissay celebrates the life of the Revd Charles Edward Shaw, who was renowned for finding exotic plants in unlikely places.
Radio 4 11am Monday 

TELEVISION

Sunday 4.30pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise David Grant introduces hymns from St Mary's, Portsmouth.

Thursday 9pm (BBC4) The Holocaust and My Father: Six million and one David Fisher examines the journal kept by his Hungarian father during the Holocaust.

RADIO

Friday 3.45pm (R4) I Refuse A short story commissioned to mark the centenary of the birth of the American civil rights heroine Rosa Parks (1/3).

Saturday 6.30am (BBC World Service) Heart and Soul Imam Khalid Latif considers what happens when world religions change their minds.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from the ecu­menical chaplaincy of Liverpool Hope University.

4pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from St John's College, Cambridge.

7.45pm (R3) Sunday Feature: The idea of sin The Revd Richard Coles ex­­plores the way in which sin has been marginalised (2/3).

Tuesday 11pm (R4) Susan Calman Is Convicted A visit to death row in North Carolina confirms Susan Cal­man's ideas about capital punishment (2/4).

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from King's College, London.

8.45pm (R4) Lent Talks Baroness Kennedy QC reflects on the theme of abandonment (1/6).

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