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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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17 April 2020

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HIGHLIGHT: Heart and Soul A look at how priests from the Community of St Martin, a rabbi, and an imam, in France, are keeping worship alive through social media. Friday 9.30am World Service

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 10am (BBC1) Sunday Worship A service from St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, recorded before the closure of church buildings was announced.

1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Aled Jones visits the Salvation Army’s Straw­­­­­­berry Field centre, in Liverpool.

9pm (BBC2) Stacey Dooley: Locked up with the lifers Stacey Dooley reports from a women’s prison in Iowa, and speaks to eight murderers.

Wednesday from 8am National Geographic celebrates Earth Day with programming to mark the event’s 50th anniversary.

 

RADIO: Friday 11am The Learning Revolution Alex Beard asks what kind of knowledge will be crucial for hu­­mankind to learn in the future (1/3).

Sunday 6.05am (R4) Something Understood The Revd Malcolm Doney appreciates the things in life which can go unnoticed (repeat).

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A virtual service from Holy Trinity, Platt Lane, Manchester, with speech and music recorded in isolation.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of Sunday’s archive recording of a service from the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas, first broadcast on 19 April 2017.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong An archive recording from Royal Holloway, University of London, first broadcast on 7 April 2010.

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