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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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24 April 2020

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HIGHLIGHT: Viral Exposure Neal Razzell looks at how the coronavirus crisis has exposed faultlines in nations around the world, beginning with China (1-5/5). Monday to Friday 1.45pm, Radio 4

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 10.45am (BBC1) Sunday Worship A service from Hereford Cathedral, filmed be­fore the closure of church build­ings.

1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Sean Fletcher looks back on journeys to ancient and sacred places of pilgrim­age.

 

RADIO: Friday 9.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Mike Wooldridge hears stories of people who have had to make some of the most difficult choices imaginable (1/2).

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship Professor Jennifer Strawbridge, of Mansfield College, Oxford, and the Revd Dr Steve Nolan, a hospice chaplain, reflect on where to find hope in times of despair.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s archive recording from Royal Holloway, University of Lon­don, first broadcast on 7 April 2010.

11.30pm (R3) Slow Radio: The cathedral The sounds of Durham Cathedral recorded in a single day (repeat).

Tuesday 9am (R4) The Life Scientific Jim Al-Khalili and the physicist Brian Greene discuss the composition of the universe, and the end of time (1/8).

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong An archive recording from St John’s College, Cambridge, first broadcast on 2 May 2018.

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