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Week ahead

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24 April 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: World War One Remembered: Gallipoli A service from the Cenotaph to commemorate those who died during the Gallipoli campaign.

10.10am BBC1 Saturday

 

TELEVISION: Friday 7.30pm (C4) Unreported World Krishnan Guru-Murthy finds out how a TV show is reuniting families separated from each other in Cambodia (5/8).

8pm (BBC2) An Island Parish: Falklands The Revd Richard Hines acts as a radio presenter (5/6).

9pm (BBC2) Sex and the Church Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the issues of sex and gender over the past 300 years (3/3).

Sunday 5pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise: School Choir of the Year Aled Jones presents the junior school semi-final.

 

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship Sunderland Millfield Salvation Army celebrates 150 years since the movement was established.

9.30am (R4) Heart and Soul Uma Lulik are East Timorese sacred huts. Janak Rogers looks at their purpose.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday's service from Gonville and Caius, Cambridge.

Monday 9am (R4) Start the Week Anne McElvoy and guests, including an advocate for Aboriginal rights, discuss violence.

Tuesday 8pm (R4) The Rape of Berlin Lucy Ash investigates the mass rapes committed by Soviet troops in Germany at the end of the Second World War.

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

Thursday 11.30am (R4) My Mother's Sari Shahidha Bari looks at her traditional Bengali Muslim attire, and how it has been influenced by growing up in modern Britain.

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