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Coming up this week on TV and on radio

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22 January 2021

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HIGHLIGHT: Sunday Worship The Archbishop of Canterbury’s special adviser for reconciliation programmes, Sarah Snyder, and the chaplain to the Rose Castle Foundation, the Revd Julia Hedley, mark this time of Holocaust Memorial.

Sunday Radio 4, 8.10am

 

TELEVISION: Saturday 8pm (Nat Geographic) Anne Frank: The Nazi capture A documentary from the perspective of the Nazi captors.

9pm (More4) Night Will Fall The story of a documentary about con­­centration camps which was aban­doned owing to diplomatic concerns.

Sunday 1.15pm (BBC2) Songs of Praise: Celebrating 60 years Aled Jones and Pam Rhodes look back.

Tuesday 9pm (BBC2) 54 Days: China and the pandemic A This World investigation of the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan a year ago (1/2).

RADIO: Saturday 8pm
(R4) Archive on 4: The alliance Did the relationship between Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan lead to the fall of communism in Europe?

Sunday 3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of last week’s archive record­ing of choral vespers from the London Oratory, first broadcast on 20 January 2016.

Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral Evensong An archive recording from St Paul’s Cathedral, first broadcast on 26 January 2011.

10pm (R3) Free Thinking A look at Rot­­welsch, a “secret” language used by Jewish people in Central Europe.

Thursday 9am (R4) In Our Time Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the patron saint of Northumbria, St Cuthbert.

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