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Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on radio

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11 February 2022

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HIGHLIGHT: Archive on 4: God knows I’m gay An audio diary kept by Joel Love, who, 12 years ago, while openly gay, was training at theological college. He recalls his experiences, and hears from other clergy. Saturday 8pm, Radio 4

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 10.30am (BBC1) Heaven Made A novice receives his first habit at the monastery (3/3).

11.25am (BBC1) Songs of Praise A focus on Christians showing kindness to others; Dr Sentamu remembers Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

8pm (BBC1) Call the Midwife Nonnatus House faces its biggest threat yet (7/8).

 

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service for Racial Justice Sunday from St Nicholas’s, Durham, led by the Vicar, Canon Arun Arora.

10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul: The right thing Mike Wooldridge talks to June Joplin, a transgender Baptist minister in Canada (1/3).

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of this week’s service from Winchester Cathedral, recorded on 5 October.

4pm (R3) BBC100: Celebrating our orchestras and choirs Sacred music by composers including Vaughan Williams, Judith Weir, and Howard Goodall.

Monday to Friday 1.45pm (R4) Nazanin Ceri Thomas explores the plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (1-5/5).

Wednesday 4pm (R3) Choral Evensong Choral Evening Prayer from Buckfast Abbey, sung by the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, recorded on 7 December 2021.

7.30pm (R3) Radio 3 in Concert Settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, recorded by the BBC Singers with Peter Phillips, on 13 January.

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