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Week ahead

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26 July 2013

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HIGHLIGHT: Kumbh Mela: The greatest show on earth A documentary about the Hindu festival where 100 million pilgrims gather for ritual bathing in the Ganges.

BBC2 9pm Tuesday
 

TELEVISION

Sunday 4.30pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Diane Louise Jordan looks at why certain towns and villages are associated with saints.

9pm (BBC2) The Mystery of Rome's X Tombs A mass grave of more than 2000 skeletons was found recently in one of the catacombs in Rome. Michael Scott investigates.
 

RADIO

Saturday 8.30pm (BBC World Service) Heart and Soul Will Grant looks at how faith has helped victims of people-trafficking (2/2).

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from the Keswick Convention in Cumbria.

3.30pm (R3) A repeat of last week's Choral Vespers from Buckfast Abbey.

7.45pm (R4) Opening Lines: Looking sadly out of windows A short story about a young girl who adopts St John the Baptist as her role-model (2/3).

Monday to Friday 9.45am (R4 FM only) The Pink Sari Revolution Extracts from a book about a group fighting for women's rights in India, and its founder, Sampat Pal Devi.

8pm (R4) The Bishop and the Bankers Bishop James Jones looks at how banks can build a culture of virtue into their structures (2/3).

Tuesday 3.30pm (R4) The Philosopher's Arms Matthew Sweet holds a philosophical debate on free will with a live audience in a pub (1/4).

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from Gloucester Cathedral.

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