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Week ahead

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12 September 2014

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HIGHLIGHT: The Real Noah's Ark: Secret History Dr Irving Finkel explores the implications of a 4000-year-old account of a great flood.

Channel 4 8pm Sunday
 

TELEVISION

Sunday 5.30pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise As the harvest season is celebrated, Claire McCollum visits Kenya.

9pm (BBC4) British Art at War: Bomberg, Sickert and Nash Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how three artists responded to the First World War, beginning with Nash (1/3).

Wednesday 9pm (BBC2) This World: Ireland's lost babies Martin Sixsmith looks at the part played by the RC Church in Ireland in sending babies abroad for adoption.

 

RADIO

Saturday 8pm (R4) Archive on 4: Media and the Middle East John Lloyd explores media reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from Hereford Cathedral.

9.30pm (World Service) Heart and Soul Robert Beckford looks at how Haile Selassie came to be worshipped as a living god.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Vespers recorded in Neresheim Abbey, Germany, with the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir.

Thursday 11.30am (R4) Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip The Vietnamese writer talks about her life, and the East Meets West foundation she has set up.

8pm (R4) The Report Peter Day travels to Myanmar to find out how the country is trying to emerge from its undeveloped past (12/15).

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