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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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15 March 2019

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HIGHLIGHT: Sea of Faith Canon Giles Fraser revisits Don Cupitt’s 1980s TV series Sea of Faith, which had a profound influence on his thinking.

Friday 11am, Radio 4

TELEVISION: Sunday 11.30am (BBC1) Walks of Life Exploring the spiritual narratives in the British countryside, Mehreen Baig walks the final part of the Two Saints Way to Lichfield (1/8).

1.05pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Katherine Jenkins visits the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, for St Patrick’s Day.

Monday 9pm (BBC2) The Choir: Our school by the Tower The children of a school near Grenfell Tower celebrate their return to the school with a musical (2/2).

Tuesday 9pm (BBC4) The Internet’s Dirtiest Secret: The cleaners — Storyville A look at the “cleaners” who search the world’s most disturbing and violent online material and delete 25,000 Facebook, Google, and Twitter posts daily.

RADIO: Friday 1.30pm (World Service) Heart and Soul Is celebrating the life, or remembering the dead the right thing for a funeral?

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for Lent from Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, in Armagh.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s service from King’s College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R4) Choral Evensong Live from Westminster Abbey.

Thursday 9am (R4) In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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