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Week ahead

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24 February 2017

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HIGHLIGHT: Beyond Belief Ernie Rea and guests discuss religion in Pakistan, looking at blasphemy laws and adultery punishments (1/6).
Monday 4.30pm, Radio 4

 

TELEVISION:

 

Sunday 4pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Josie d’Arby joins a group on a Dartmoor farm.
Monday 9pm (BBC1) Catching the Abusers: A Crimewatch special Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley speak to survivors of child sex abuse, and detectives from a national initiative to bring abusers to justice.
Thursday 10pm (C4) Extremely British Muslims A look at Muslim life in Britain today, filmed over the course of a year (1/3).

 

RADIO:

 

Friday 10.30am (R3) Music in Time Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, a piece in seven parts, each addressed to a different part of Christ’s crucified body.
Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship live from St Davids Uniting Church, Pontypridd.
10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Nicola Kelly joins some Nubian mothers as they secretly baptise their babies in the Nile.
3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday’s service from Rochester Cathedral.
Monday to Friday 1.45pm (R4) Neither There nor Here David Dabydeen explores the forces that help and hinder integration (1-5/5).
Tuesday 9.30am (R4) One to One Lucy Mangan discusses altruism with the Revd Clare Herbert (8/8).
Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from St John’s College, Cambridge, on Ash Wednesday.

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