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Live Easter Day Eucharist From Salisbury Cathedral

Easter Sunday 24 April

10.00-11.00am Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE

Easter Day's live Choral Eucharist from Salisbury Cathedral is introduced by the Dean of Salisbury, the Very Rev June Osborne, who will also preach. The President is the Rt Rev Dr Christopher Herbert.

The programme opens with the lighting of the Paschal Candle, symbolising the Light of Christ, which will be lit from a bonfire outside the Cathedral just before dawn on Easter morning. The Eucharist begins with Charles Wood's arrangement of the introit This Joyful Eastertide, sung by the Cathedral Choir, and the Mass Setting is Mozart's Coronation Mass.

Director of Music David Halls conducts Salisbury Cathedral Choir, with both boy and girl choristers, and the organist is Daniel Cook. The congregation join in traditional Easter hymns, including Jesus Christ Is Risen Today and Thine Be The Glory.

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Urbi Et Orbi

Easter Sunday 24 April

11.00-11.35am Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One goes live to the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI's traditional Easter message and blessing, Urbi et Orbi, "to the city and the world".

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Jesus's life from his revolutionary teaching in Galilee to its climax in Jerusalem is followed in the concluding part of this series investigating the true meaning behind the 2,000-year-old story of Jesus.

Combining documentary footage with specially shot drama depicting key moments in Jesus's life, it re-examines the Gospel accounts of his life, analysing his teaching, the land in which he lived and preached, and the people who surrounded him.

Obery Hendricks from the New York Seminary investigates the meaning of Jesus's teaching and how the Church has tried to downplay its real significance. Ben Witherington from Asbury Theological Seminary investigates how Jesus's decision to confront the authorities in Jerusalem was planned in secret several months before. Helen Bond of Edinburgh University and Andrew Skinner of Brigham Young University investigate the last week of Jesus's life and the real meaning of the trials he underwent before the Jewish and Roman authorities. And Tom Wright, ex-Bishop of Durham and now a research professor at St Andrew's University, looks at the significance of the Resurrection and its part in Christianity's beginnings as a separate religion.

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Tamsin Greig reads the Easter Story

Songs Of Praise celebrates Easter Day with traditional hymns from Wesley Memorial Church in Oxford, plus music from tenor Wynne Evans and mezzo-soprano Melanie Marshall. Actors Bill Patterson and Tamsin Greig read the Easter Story from the King James Bible.

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The international officers visit South Wales before returning home

The international police officers in the UK on a fact-finding mission visit South Wales before they return to their respective homes to implement what they've learnt from their time here.

In Wales, Australian PC Luke Elsbury witnesses the results of the biggest cannabis raid he's ever seen in his life. "That is a lot of ganja! At home this would be front page news," he comments.

The Zambian Assistant Commissioner has a rather confusing time as he attempts to make sense of the Welsh accent, while Constable Usufono from Samoa patrols the homosexual part of town in the most eye-opening beat of her career.

On returning home the officers are eager to see what they can implement from their time in the UK. Luke will have to see how well push bikes go down in the Western Australia Police Force, and it's debatable whether PC Usufono can persuade her boss to let her become the first female officer to go out on a women-only patrol in Samoa. Meanwhile, the Zambians hope that, when they go through UK-approved firearms training, their aim is up to scratch.

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British composer Gustav Holst

British composer Gustav Holst was an extraordinary man. He taught himself Sanskrit; lived in a street of brothels in Algiers; cycled into the Sahara Desert; allied himself during the First World War with a "red" priest who pinned on the door of his church: "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression"; and distributed a newspaper called The Socialist Worker.

Holst hated the words used to his most famous tune, I Vow To Thee My Country, because it was the opposite of what he believed. His music – especially his most famous work, The Planets – owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the "English folk song tradition"; but this very great composer died of cancer, broken and disillusioned, before he was 60.

This first-ever full-length film about this remarkable man is directed by Tony Palmer.

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