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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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09 October 2020

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HIGHLIGHT: Start the Week Andrew Marr’s guests are the writer Madeleine Bunting, who spent five years exploring the value of care, and Helen Kingston, a GP in Somerset, who set up a project for care-givers. Monday 9am Radio 4

TELEVISION: Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Claire McCollum visits a restaurant partly run by prison inmates, and Pam Rhodes meets the Revd Jonathan Aitken.

9pm (BBC2) Enslaved with Samuel L. Jackson A look at 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World (1/4).

Monday 7.30pm (BBC2) Mastermind One of the specialist subjects is William Tyndale.

RADIO: Sunday 5.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Two friends discuss standing up to someone who wants to kill you because of your faith.

8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship In a service from Ewenny Priory, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Rt Revd June Osborne, reflects on the way our history and context shape us.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s service from St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington, recorded on 20 September.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong Live from Canterbury Cathedral.

4pm (R4) Thinking Allowed Laurie Taylor looks at the polymaths who have contributed to the growth of knowledge.

Thursday 10pm (R3) Free Thinking Matthew Sweet talks to the bio­grapher Peter Salmon about Jacques Derrida’s influence on what is valued.

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