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Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on Radio

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07 October 2022

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HIGHLIGHT: Our Dementia Choir Sings Again Vicky McClure and the choir set out to raise awareness of dementia by recording a single and performing at a concert (1/2). Monday 9pm, BBC1

 

TELEVISION: Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Sean Fletcher visits London to see how gospel music shapes lives and faith in the UK.

Thursday 9pm (BBC2) TS Eliot: Into “The Waste Land” A feature-length documentary to mark the centenary of Eliot’s modernist work.

 

RADIO: Friday 8.30pm (World Service) CrowdScience: Why Am I Gay? Caroline Steel examines nature, nurture, and evolution in human sexual attraction.

Saturday 11.45am (R3) Music Matters Ahead of International Mental Health Awareness Day on Monday, a look at the link between mental health, music, and the arts.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship Humbler Church Bigger God: from the HeartEdge Conference in Leeds.

10.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul How do we recognise a cult, and what could make some of us more vulnerable?

3pm (R3) A repeat of a liturgical devotion on the Seven Joys of Mary, from the Lady Chapel of St Albans Cathedral, with music from Ensemble Pro Victoria and recorded on 4 September.

Tuesday 3.30pm (R4) Costing the Earth Eleanor Rosamund-Barraclough joins an archaeological dig in Malta, to discover how early humans survived in a changing climate (6/13).

Wednesday 4pm (R3) Choral Evensong Live from Gloucester Cathedral on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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13 - 15 September 2026

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Public Faith Common Good  a day symposium at St John’s College Cambridge, Tuesday 21 July 2026

Speakers to include the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams; the Bishop of Chelmsford, Dr Guli Francis-Deqhani, Nick Spencer, and Anna Rowlands.

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Faith & Music - a joint event with RSCM - Southwark Cathedral, London
Saturday 10th October 2026

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Saturday 21st November 2026

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