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Week ahead

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02 January 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Magna Carta Melvyn Bragg examines the 800-year history of the Magna Carta.

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TELEVISION

Sunday 3.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Connie Fisher looks at the spiritual side of Elvis Presley.

Monday to Friday 2.15pm (BBC1) Father Brown A third series with Mark Williams as the priest-sleuth (1-5/15).

Thursday 9pm (BBC4) The Inca: Masters of the Clouds Dr Jago Cooper reassesses the achievements of the Inca empire (1/2).

 

RADIO

Sunday 7am (R2) Good Morning Sunday Clare Balding talks to Jane Wilde Hawking, the first wife of the physicist Stephen Hawking.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for Epiphany from the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Cardiff.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Mounira Chaieb examines Oman's religious tolerance (1/2).

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from St Gabriel's, Pimlico.

5.30pm (R3) Words and Music Simon Russell Beale marks the 50th anniversary of T. S. Eliot's death.

Monday to Friday 10.45pm (R3) The Genius of Disability Tom Shakespeare celebrates five disabled artists.

Monday 4.30pm (R4) Beyond Belief Ernie Rea and guests discuss the story of Moses.

8pm (R4) Mindfulness: Panacea or Fad? Is mindfulness just another health fad?

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong from Bath Abbey.

8pm (R4) Unreliable Evidence Clive Anderson asks how the legal system will cope with machines that rely on artificial intelligence (1/4).

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