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Week ahead

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10 February 2017

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HIGHLIGHT: The Documentary: Hope Speaks Out A look at the Refugee Radio Network, a radio station founded in 2014 and run by, and for, refugees.

Wednesday 7.30pm, World Service

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 5pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Aled Jones follows a pilgrim trail in north Wales to Bardsey Island.
8pm (BBC1) Call the Midwife The Revd Tom Hereward tries to help a desperate mother (4/8).
Monday 8.30pm (BBC2) An Island Parish: Anguilla Parishioners raise funds by feeding festivalgoers (7/8).
Thursday 9pm (BBC4) Notes on Blindness: Storyville A film based on the life of the theologian John Hull.

 

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, in south Manchester.
10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Rebecca Henschke invest­igates a blasphemy trial in Indonesia.
2.05pm (World Service) No Babies in Japan A look at why Japan’s population is expected to fall by 30 per cent over the next 40 years.
3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday’s service from King’s College, Cambridge.
Monday to Friday 9.45am (R4 FM) Book of the Week: Age of Anger Pankaj Misra traces the roots of hatreds across the world (1-5/5).
Monday 8pm (R4) The Philosopher’s Arms Matthew Sweet and guests discuss hypocrisy (1/3).
Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from The Queen’s College, Oxford.

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