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What’s coming up in the week ahead on TV and on radio

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23 August 2024

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HIGHLIGHT: How to Play The Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus invite listeners to rehearsals of Mozart’s Requiem and discuss how they work to uncover a message of hope and redemption from the dying composer.

Monday 9.30am, Radio 4

TELEVISION: Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Craft and carpentry help to build faith at a Methodist chapel in Cheshire.

Tuesday 10pm (BBC4) Corridors of Power: Should America police the world? How Muslim separatists in the Kosovo region rekindled old conflicts, leading to President Clinton to consider President Miloševic’s regime a threat to their civilians. (4/8).


RADIO: Friday 1.30pm
(World Service) Heart and Soul The Pope’s ex-auditor general Libero Milone is suing the Vatican for unfair dismissal, loss of earnings, and emotional distress.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A celebration of the 350th anniversary of the birth of the hymn-writer Isaac Watts, from the Methodist Central Hall.

3pm (R3) BBC Proms The BBC Singers perform a centenary concert live at the Bristol Beacon, including works by Judith Bingham, Judith Weir, John Rutter, and Tavener, and John Pickard’s Mass in Troubled Times.

Monday to Friday 1.45pm (R4) Grenfell: Building a disaster Kate Lamble continues her investigation into the fire in 2017 (5-10/10).

Monday to Friday 4pm (R3) Composer of the Week: Byrd Donald Macleod celebrates William Byrd’s positions, including those at Lincoln Cathedral and the Chapel Royal (1-5/5).

Wednesday 3pm (R3) Choral Evensong Live from St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, during the Charles Wood Festival and Summer School.

6.30pm (R3) BBC Proms A live performance of Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass, from the Royal Albert Hall.

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