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Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on Radio

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26 August 2022

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HIGHLIGHT: Book of the Week: Fatwa An account of the fatwa against the writer, Salman Rushdie, issued in 1989 by Ayatollah Khomeini (1-5/10). Monday-Friday 9.45am, 12.30am, Radio 4 FM.

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise The Revd Kate Bottley visits the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show.

9.40pm (BBC4) The Satanic Verses: 30 years on The broadcaster Mobeen Azhar returns to his home county of Yorkshire to examine the effect that the book had on his community (from 2019).

 

RADIO: Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A service from All Saints’, Notting Hill, to celebrate the carnival, led by the Vicar, the Revd Philip Corbett.

10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Zubeida Malik reports on how Muslims around the world are responding to the call of sustainability, and visits Europe’s first eco-mosque, in Cambridge.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of this week’s service from St Patrick’s Anglican Cathedral, Armagh, during the Charles Wood Summer School.

Monday 4.30pm (R4 FM) Beyond Belief Professor Robert Beckford is one of the guests considering whether there is a Christian duty to make reparation for the legacy of slavery (3/8).

7.30pm (R3) BBC Proms Bach’s Mass in B minor.

Wednesday 4pm (R3) Choral Evensong A service from Edington Priory, recorded on Wednesday of last week during the Edington Music Festival within the Liturgy.

7.30pm (R3) BBC Proms Elgar’s oratorio The Dream of Gerontius.

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