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Week ahead

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23 January 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Holocaust Memorial Day Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, all who were persecuted and murdered by the Nazis are commemorated.

BBC2 7pm Tuesday

 

TELEVISION

Saturday 9pm (C4) Holocaust: Night will fall A look at newsreel footage gathered as evidence after the concentration camps were liberated.

Sunday 4.35pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Claire McCollum explores a building swap between a church and a bingo hall.

Monday 9pm (BBC2) David Starkey's Magna Carta A look at the origins of the historic document.

Tuesday 9pm (BBC2) Touched by Auschwitz Laurence Rees explores the human legacy of the crimes perpetrated in the camps.

Wednesday 10.45pm (BBC1) The Holocaust: A story of remembrance Three women, including the author Judith Kerr, tell their stories.

 

RADIO

Sunday 6.05am (R4) Something Understood Mark Tully and Rabbi Lord Sacks discuss the concept of God's loving nature.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from Coventry Cathedral to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from Ripon Cathedral.

Tuesday 11am (R4) Anne Frank's Trees: Keeping the memory alive Michael Rosen reports on the ways used to remember the Holocaust.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong A service from 2009, from All Hallows', Gospel Oak, London.

8.45pm (R4) David Baddiel Tries to Understand What are the differences between Sunni and Shia Islam?

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