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Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on radio

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04 October 2024

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HIGHLIGHT: Panorama: October 7th: One year on Jane Corbin meets four families whose lives have been changed for ever by the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Monday 9pm, BBC1


TELEVISION: Friday 8.15pm
(PBS America) Auschwitz: The inside man The story of Witold Pilecki, who infiltrated the camp to bear witness to the brutality.

Sunday 1.15pm (BBC1) Songs of Praise Claire McCollum celebrates harvest thanksgiving at Northern Ireland’s first community-owned farm, Jubilee Farm in County Antrim.

Tuesday 9pm (BBC2) Bombing Brighton: The plot to kill Thatcher Featuring archive footage from 1984 and new testimony from people whose lives were profoundly affected.

Wednesday 9pm (C4) One Day in October The terror attack on Kibbutz Be’eri on 7 October 2023 is retold through interviews with survivors, including Emily Hand, aged nine.


RADIO: Friday 1.30pm
(World Service) Heart and Soul How the loss of his wife inspired a pharmaceutical executive, aged 65, to become a Roman Catholic priest.

Sunday 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship The director of the Rose Castle Foundation in Cumbria, Canon Sarah Snyder, who is the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser for Reconciliation, leads a service on the theme of peacebuilding.

3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat of this week’s service from St Jude’s, Hampstead, in north-west London, marking the centenary of the BBC Singers. Recorded on 18 September.

Wednesday 3pm (R3) Choral Evensong Choral Evening Prayer, live from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on the feast of St John Henry Newman.

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