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Week ahead

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09 January 2015

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HIGHLIGHT: A History of Ideas Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Canon Giles Fraser, discuss the question "How did everything begin?" (1-5/15).

Radio 4 12.04pm Monday to Friday 

TELEVISION

Saturday 8pm (C4) Tsunami: Ten years on An account of the disaster using archive footage and eyewitness reports.

Sunday 3.35pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Sally Magnusson visits a floating church in Canary Wharf, London.

Monday to Friday 2.15pm  (BBC1) Father Brown More murder mysteries with the crime-solving priest (6-10/15).

 

RADIO

Friday 11am (R4) Hip in  a Hijab Shelina Janmohamed meets young Muslim women who are confronting cultural stereotypes.

Sunday 6.05am (R4) Something Understood Mark Tully investigates yoga and its spiritual roots.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Croydon.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul The second part of a look at religious tolerance in Oman (2/2).

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

Tuesday 9am (R4) Can Democracy Work? Nick Robinson asks whether we want as much democracy as we have (1/3).

9.30am (R4) One to One Adrian Goldberg examines mixed marriage in the '60s, '70s, and 2000s (1/12).

8pm (R4) File on 4 Is the British prison system reaching breaking point? (1/10).

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong from Christ Church, Oxford.

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