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Coming up this week on TV and radio

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18 May 2018

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HIGHLIGHT: The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Live coverage of the build-up to the ceremony at 12 noon, in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. 

9am Saturday BBC1, 9.25am ITV, 10am Radio 5 Live, 11.30am Radio 2 and Radio 4, and streaming live on iPlayer

TELEVISION: Sunday 10am (BBC1) Feel the Spirit: A jazz celebration service for Pentecost Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, a set­ting of Will Todd’s Jazz Missa Brevis.

2.25pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise: Manchester remembered On Whit Sunday, the Revd Kate Bottley hears from survivors of the Manchester Arena bombing on 22 May last year.

Monday 8pm (BBC1) Grenfell: Who is to blame? — Panorama Richard Bilton reveals new evidence about safety failures at Grenfell Tower.

Tuesday 9pm (BBC2) Manchester: The night of the bomb The story of last year’s attack is retold through the eyes of survivors and witnesses.

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for Pentecost from Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, in Northern Ireland.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s service from St Pancras’s Church during the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.

Tuesday 8pm (R4) File on 4 Michael Buchanan investigates Marian Vale, Newry, a former mother-and-baby home (1/10).

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong Recorded at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on 11 May, during the Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice.

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