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Week ahead

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15 May 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Good Morning Sunday Hardeep Singh Kohli's guest is the founder of L'Arche, Jean Vanier.


7am Radio 2 Sunday

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 4.50pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise: School Choir of the Year The winners in both the Junior and Senior categories are named.

 

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from St Andrew's and St George's West Church, Edinburgh, on the opening weekend of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Rustam Qobil meets the Muslim Uighers living in hiding in Kazakhstan.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from St Pancras New Church, London.

Monday 9am (R4) Start the Week Andrew Marr and guests discuss the notion of equality.

8pm (R4) Can Pay Won't Pay At what point does paying tax become a moral issue?

Tuesday 9.30am (R4) Witness Mike Lanchin hears from two people who were in the church in El Salvador when Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong livefrom Lichfield Cathedral.

8pm (R4) Unreliable Evidence Clive Anderson and a panel of experts examine the suggestion that the UK should withdraw from human-rights legislation.

Thursday 9am (R4) In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the first-century historian and author of The Jewish War, Josephus.

10pm (R3) Free Thinking Steve Hilton asks if progress is making us inhuman.

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