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Week ahead

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17 October 2014

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HIGHLIGHT: Something Understood Mark Tully explores the religious importance of the work of George Herbert.

Radio 4 6.05am Sunday
 

TELEVISION

Sunday 4.25pm  (BBC1) Songs of Praise David Grant looks at the preparations for the Big Sing at the Royal Albert Hall.

Monday 9pm  (ITV) Grantchester Another case forJames Runcie's fictional clergyman-sleuth (3/6).

Tuesday 9pm  (BBC2) Human Universe Professor Brian Cox asks whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe (3/5).

Wednesday 9pm  (BBC2) Gunpowder 5/11: The greatest terror plot A drama documentary about the plot to blow up the House of Lords in 1605.


RADIO

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from Cannon Street Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, marking 200 years of co-operation between the Jamaican and British Baptist Churches.

9.30am  (World Service) Heart and Soul Jane Little talks to Dr Eben Alexander about the near-death experience that turned him from a sceptic into a believer.

3pm  (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Monday 8.30pm  (R4) Analysis Edward Stourton looks at caliphates in history (4/8).

Tuesday 11.30am  (R4) Chant The Revd Richard Coles considers a recording of Gregorian chant which sold in millions in the 1990s.

Wednesday 3.30pm  (R3) Choral Evensong from Chelmsford Cathedral.

8.45pm  (R4) Four Thought Robyn Scott talks about her work with murderers in a South African prison.

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