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Week ahead

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29 April 2016

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HIGHLIGHT: A Celebration for Ascension Day A service from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, led by the Vicar, the Revd Dr Sam Wells.

8pm Radio 4, Thursday

TELEVISION:Friday 9pm (ITV) The Secret A dramatisation of the case of the double murderer Colin Howell, a member of a devout Baptist community in Northern Ireland (1/4).

Sunday 4pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Josie d’Arby is in Stratford-upon-Avon to discuss Shakespeare’s spiritual beliefs with Simon Callow.

8pm (Nat Geographic) The Story of God with Morgan Freeman The actor asks: Why does evil exist?

Wednesday 9pm (ITV) Her Majesty’s Prison: Norwich A look at daily life in prison for criminals, and its effect on their families.

 

RADIO: Sunday 7am (R2) Good Morning Sunday Clare Balding’s guests include Kyle Gray, an “expert on angels”.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from St Nicholas’s, Carrickfergus, Antrim.

9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Audrey Brown examines the South African wisdom of Ubuntu: a belief that our humanity is inextricably bound up in others.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday’s service from St John’s College, Cambridge.

Monday 8pm (R4) For Better or Worse Peter McGraith talks to same-sex couples who decided either to get married or stay in a civil partnership.

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

Thursday 9am (R4) In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

11am (R4) Crossing Continents Lucy Ash reports on the population police in China, who are turning into child-development specialists.

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