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Week ahead

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24 March 2017

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HIGHLIGHT: Beyond Belief Ernie Rea discusses the seal of the confessional with an RC priest, a rabbi, a former Bud­dhist monk, and a director of the St Marylebone Centre for Heal­ing and Counselling (5/6).
Monday 4.30pm, R4 

 

TELEVISION:
Friday 7.30pm (C4) Unreported World Marcel Theroux visits Russia to find out why large Russian Orthodox families are often honoured by the Putin gov­ernment (2/8).
Sunday 4pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise David Grant presents a programme for Mothering Sunday.
9pm (BBC1) Turkey with Simon Reeve The presenter meets refugees creating a new life for them­selves and a builder constructing one of the world’s biggest mosques (1/2).

 

RADIO:
Friday 10.45pm
(R3) The Free Thinking Essay Victoria Donovan looks at post-war Soviet Russia, and asks why the re­­gime spent millions on the restora­­tion of religious architecture (5/10).
Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Wor­ship for Mothering Sunday.
10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Asatru Paganism has be­­come Iceland’s fastest-growing religion.
3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last Wednesday’s service from York Minster.
Monday 10am (R3) Free Thinking Festival Anne McElvoy chairs a dis­cussion of isolation with a psychi­atrist, an ex-prisoner, and the former hostage Terry Waite.
Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evening Prayer live from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

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