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Week ahead

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06 November 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph The Queen leads the commemorations, live from Whitehall.

10.25am BBC1, 10.30am Radio 4; Sunday

 

TELEVISION: Saturday 9pm (BBC1) Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance The annual concert from the Royal Albert Hall.

Sunday 4.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Bill Turnbull presents a Remembrance programme from the Imperial War Museum.

Wednesday 11am (BBC1) Two-Minute Silence.

 

RADIO: Friday 10pm (R3) The Free Thinking Lecture Claudia Rankine, the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry, discusses race, politics, and the power of language.

Saturday 8pm (R2) Festival of Remembrance The annual concert from the Royal Albert Hall.

Sunday 7am (R2) Good Morning Sunday A special edition for Remembrance Sunday.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for Remembrance Sunday from Llandaff Cathedral.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday’s service from Southwell Minster

Monday 9am (R4) Start the Week Anne McElvoy leads a discussion on race and bias in modern society, from the Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead.

Wednesday 11am (R4) Armistice Day Silence.

3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from Winchester Cathedral.

10pm (R3) Free Thinking Festival: In conversation with Richard Dawkins Philip Dodd talks toRichard Dawkins about his assertion that belief in God is harmful to society (3/12).

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