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Week ahead

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10 April 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Kill the Christians Jane Corbin examines why Christianity is facing the greatest threat to its existence in the place where it was born.

BBC2 9pm Wednesday 

TELEVISION: Friday 9pm (BBC2) Sex and the Church Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores how Christianity has shaped Western attitudes to sex (1/3).

Sunday 4.40pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Connie Fisher talks to Lord Lloyd-Webber about getting churches connected to the internet.

Monday 8.30pm (BBC1) A Suicide in the Family: Panorama Why is it that more middle-aged men kill themselves than any other group? 

RADIO: Sunday 6.05am (R4 FM only) Something Understood John McCarthy and Paula Gooder consider the phrase "I am".

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from St James's, Piccadilly, London.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Hardeep Singh Kohli explores the relationship between religion and food in Paris.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's Sequence for Easter, recorded last month in the Temple Church, London.

Monday 9am (R4) Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe explores the concept of altruism.

Wednesday 11am (R4) Lives in a Landscape Alan Dein meets the islanders of Lindisfarne (2/4).

3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong A 1992 recording of a service from Trinity College, Cambridge.

Thursday 9am (R4) In Our time Melvyn Bragg looks at Fr Matteo Ricci SJ, who led a Christian mission to China in the 16th century.

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