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Week ahead

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27 January 2017

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HIGHLIGHT: The Conversation Fraidy Reiss, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who was married against her will at 19, talks to Jasvinder Sanghera about their shared experiences of forced marriage.
Monday 5.30am, 1.30pm, 7.30pm, World Service

 

TELEVISION:
Sunday 3pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Josie d’Arby visits a magic-lantern festival for the Chinese New Year.
8pm (BBC1) Call the Midwife Sister Ursula tries to get Nonnatus House to run to a timetable (2/8).
Monday 8.30pm (BBC2) An Island Parish: Anguilla Bishop Brooks checks on church renovations (5/8).
Tuesday 10pm (C4) The Modern British Slave Trade A look at people in Britain who are forced into slavery.

 

RADIO:
Sunday 6am
(R2) The Sunday Hour The Revd Kate Bottley reflects on Holocaust Memorial Day, on Friday.
8.10am (R4 FM) Sunday Worship A service from St John the Baptist, Cardiff.
10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Lucy Wearing hears how a bridal make-up artist in Pakistan channels religion through make-up.
3pm (R3) A repeat of last Wednesday’s choral vespers on the feast of the Conversion of St Paul, from Westminster Cathedral.
Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong live from Chichester Cathedral on the eve of the feast of the Presentation of Christ.
Thursday 8.30pm (R4) The Bottom Line Evan Davis discusses the grow­ing pressure on care homes (2/10).

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