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Week ahead

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21 June 2013

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HIGHLIGHT: India: A dangerous place to be a woman Radha Bedi travels to India to investigate what life is like for women in the country.

BBC3 9pm Thursday

 

TELEVISION

Sunday 4.55pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Pam Rhodes talks to schoolchildren about the Christian calendar.

Monday 10pm (BBC4) Storyville: Power, money, greed and oil A documentary that explores the ethical issues of developing an oil field in the Gulf of Guinea.

Thursday 9pm (BBC2) Who Were the Greeks? Dr Michael Scott discovers how the ancient Greeks thought and lived (1/2).

 

RADIO

Saturday 2.30pm (R4) Saturday Drama: Suspicion for ten voices A drama about the composer William Byrd, written by Mark Lawson.

8.30pm (BBC World Service) Heart and Soul Shaimaa Khalil looks at relations between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Britain today.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from St Martin-in-the-Fields.

4pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week's service from St Paul's Cathedral.

Monday 4pm (R4) Lowry Revisited Michael Symmons Roberts takes a look at Lowry before an exhibition of his work begins on Wednesday at Tate Britain.

Tuesday 9.30am (R4) One to One A TA soldier talks to Owen Bennett-Jones about the reality of war.

8pm (R3) Radio 3 Live in Concert Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, live from St Paul's Cathedral.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from York Minster.

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