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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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10 July 2020

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HIGHLIGHT: A Deadly Trade Sue Mitchell investigates the long and dangerous journeys experienced by refugees to the UK. She talks to refugees, lorry drivers, and invest­igators. 

Monday 8pm, Radio 4



TELEVISION: Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Aled Jones counts down the UK’s top ten favourite hymns, as voted for in 2019 (repeat).

Monday 2.55pm (BBC2) Joan of Arc The epic film starring Ingrid Bergman.
9pm (BBC2) Once Upon a Time in Iraq The story of the Iraq War, told by civil­­ians, soldiers, and journalists (1/5).

Thursday 8pm (ITV) Stephen Lawrence: Has Britain changed? A panel of experts considers how much the country has changed since the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.

RADIO: Sunday 6.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul John Lauren­son travels to Hungary, where a pastor and a Prime Minister are at war over the meaning of Christianity.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from South Wales Baptist College, with the Revd Dr Rosa Hunt and the Revd Dr Craig Gardiner.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s archive recording from King’s College, Cambridge, on the feast of the Visitation, first broadcast on 8 July 2015.

Tuesday 8pm (R4) File on 4 Alys Harte tells the untold story of the Rochdale grooming scandal.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong An archive recording from Chichester Cathedral, first broadcast on 22 September 2010, during the Southern Cathedrals Festival.

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