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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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24 January 2020

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HIGHLIGHT: Holocaust Memorial Day Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, more than 150 survivors attend a commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.

Monday 7pm BBC2

TELEVISION: Saturday 10.45am (BBC2) The Diary of Anne Frank A black-and-white screen adaptation from 1959.

9pm (More4) Night Will Fall A documentary about the filming of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps.

Sunday and Monday 9pm (More4) Auschwitz Untold: In colour Sixteen Holocaust survivors, who were all children in the camps, tell of their experiences. Footage is restored and colourised (1-2/2).

Sunday 3.05pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Aled Jones visits the National Holocaust Centre, Nottingham, and Pam Rhodes meets survivors of the Holocaust.

Monday 10.30pm (BBC4) The Windermere Children: In their own words The story of the project to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust on the shores of Lake Windermere, in 1945.

Tuesday 9pm (BBC2) Belsen: Our story Interviews and dramatic reconstructions reveal the day-to-day experiences of those in Bergen-Belsen.

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for tomorrow’s Holocaust Memorial Day, from St Peter’s School, York.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s service from the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, recorded on 17 September 2019.

5.30pm (R3) Words and Music Poetry and prose about life and death at Auschwitz.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong From St Albans Cathedral, recorded on 22 October 2019.

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