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Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on Radio

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01 March 2024

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HIGHLIGHT: The Poetry Detective Vanessa Kisuule looks at poems to help with the end of life, including those that offer consolation and others that speak to the departed (3/3).

Sunday 4.30pm, Radio 4

 

TELEVISION: Friday 1.45pm (BBC1) Father Brown The priest is determined to unmask a mortal when someone is killed by a supposed vampire (9/10).

Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Canon Kate Bottley marks 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

8pm (BBC1) Call the Midwife Sister Monica ruffles some feathers, and a Mother of the Year competition is held in Poplar (8/8).

9pm (BBC4) How the BBC Began A documentary exploring the BBC’s impartiality, the 1926 General Strike, and how RC grievances in Northern Ireland were ignored.

Monday 8pm (BBC1) Panorama: Trump: The sequel? Justin Webb and Marianna Spring examine the appeal of the US presidential candidate.

Wednesday and Thursday 9pm (C4) The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson Featuring archive material and interviews with friends and colleagues (1-2/4).

Thursday 8.30pm (ITV1) Tonight: Online Britain: Who’s getting left behind? In a world that’s growing increasingly digital, what will happen to the millions left behind?

 

RADIO: Friday 11.30am (World Service) Heart and Soul Nastaran Tavakoli-Far hears how the ancient tradition of iconography is being translated into the 21st century.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship Before International Women’s Day (8 March), two young women in the music industry choose their favourite line from the Beatitudes, and discuss Jesus’s teachings.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of this week’s live service from Winchester Cathedral.

Monday 9.30pm (R3) Compline From Corpus Christi, Leeds, sung by the Senior Girls and Choral Scholars of Leeds Cathedral Choir.

11pm (R4) Lent Talks The Rector of St James’s, Piccadilly, the Revd Lucy Winkett, discusses the human capacity for betrayal, and how it can deepen faith (3/6).

Tuesday 10pm (R3) Free Thinking Shahidha Bari and guests discuss a women’s peace congress in 1915 in The Hague, and hear stories that link women with war.

Wednesday 4pm (R3) Choral Evensong Live from the chapel of King’s College, London.

Thursday 8.05pm (World Service) Assignment Micky Bristow reports on Chinese government reforms to the education system in Tibet. Will they undermine the Tibetan language and culture?

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