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Week ahead

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05 June 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Holy Grail Conspiracy: Secrets of the Knights Templar A look at the most powerful religious body in Europe in the Middle Ages.

 

8pm Channel 5 Friday

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 3.55pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Rap artists modernise a traditional hymn, and David Grant meets a group of singing pilgrims.

10pm (BBC2) Protecting Our Foster Kids A look at the day-to-day work of carers and other professionals as they help vulnerable children (1/4).

Thursday 11.05pm (C4) Dementiaville Dr David Sheard shows how it is possible to reconnect with someone with dementia using shared memories (2/3).

 

RADIO: Friday 3.45pm (R4) Shorts: Welcome to your holiday! Deepti Kapoor considers the Western tourists who go to Goa for healing spirituality (1/3).

Saturday 9pm (R4) The Last Chronicle of Barset A dramatisation of the last of Trollope's Barchester Chronicles (1/4).

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A mass for Corpus Christi from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Karishma Vaswani explores attitudes to abortion in Indonesia, which has one of the highest abortion rates in the world.

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

Monday 8.30pm (R4) Analysis: Is the Pope a Communist? Edward Stourton explores Pope Francis's critique of capitalism.

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

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