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Week ahead

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16 January 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Wolf Hall A drama based on Hilary Mantel's novel charting the life of Thomas Cromwell (1/6). 

BBC2 9pm Wednesday


TELEVISION

Saturday 9pm (Discovery) Amish Mafia A look at those who keep the peace at an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania.

Sunday 3.35pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Claire McCollum visits Muchelney, one year after the Somerset floods.

8pm (BBC1) Call the Midwife The nuns of Nonnatus House have a new resident (1/8).

Monday to Friday 2.15pm (BBC1) Father Brown More murder mysteries with the crime-solving priest (11-15/15).

Tuesday 9pm (BBC3) Excluded: Kicked out of school A look at a group of children who have been excluded from mainstream education (1/3).

Thursday 9.30pm (BBC2) Surviving the Holocaust: Freddie Knoller's war A Holocaust survivor tells his story.

 

RADIO

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

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from Christ Church, Oxford.

Monday to Friday 10.45pm (R3) The Essay: The book that changed me Writers, academics, and journalists discuss the books that inspired them (1-5/5).

Tuesday 9.30am (R4) One to One Adrian Goldberg meets a Christian woman who married a Jewish man in the 1970s (2/12).

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

10pm (R3) Free Thinking Philip Dodd looks at Churchill and Englishness in the week of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death.

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