Tuesday 6th November 2018
06:00-09:15 Breakfast
09:15-10:00 brand new series.2/6.Woman at War:100 Years of Service.(Series 1).(Nicky Campbell).Broadcaster Nicky Campbell discovers more about how his mother Sheila helped take on the Nazis during World War II. As he uncovers the secrets of her service with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, finding out about her pivotal role in the D-Day landings, Nicky gets a taste of what life as a wartime radar operator would have been like for his mother. And there is a proud moment for the entire family as Sheila's wartime service at last gets official recognition.
Nicky also meets a veteran of bomber command who, like his mother, wrestled with the morality of bombing German cities, as well as the young RAF women doing his mother's job today, keeping a vigilant watch over Britain's skies.
*brand new six-part-series Women at War:100 Years of Service Pam Ayres on Wednesday (7th,November,2018),Edward Fox on Thursday (8th,November,2018),Dame Kelly Holmes on Friday (9th,November,2018),Compliation on Sunday (11th,November,2018) last in series and series finale.*The Housing Enforcers returns with brand new series will be new 5 episodes starts on next Monday (12th,November,2018) to Friday (16th,November,2018) at 9:15am-10:00am.
10:00-11:00 brand new series.49/.Homes Under the Hammer.(Series 21).(Episode 49).A house in Erdington in Birmingham in a bad state of repair, six holiday homes in a former vicarage in LLanfynydd in Camarthenshire and a terraced house in Bootle on Merseyside are all sold under the hammer. Martin, Dion and Martel talk to the new owners, one of whom had not spotted an extra fee in the legal pack.
11:00-11:45 brand new series.7/15.Getting the Builders In.(Series 1).(Episode 7).In Epson, homeowners Zoe and Kevin want to get the builders in to transform an empty shell into a stylish en suite bathroom. The builders offer up three very different designs. Elliott and Paul have a clever tiling idea to make the room feel bigger, John and Simon come up with a sleek, minimalist design, and Martin and Mick think their plan for underfloor heating should clinch them the deal. Zoe and Kevin have £7,500 to spend - which builders will they pick?
In Didsbury, Jane and John need bespoke wardrobes for the bedroom. The builders have three very different ideas for what should be done, but of course only one pair can win the job.
11:45-12:15 brand new series.7/15.Fugitives.(Series 1 Cutdowns).(Episode 7).In Spain, Inspector Olga Lizana from the Spanish National Police's Extradition team is searching for a fugitive who has been on the run for seven years. He made a dramatic escape from a British courtroom seven weeks into a trial for violent robbery. He evades capture once, escaping by driving the wrong way down a Spanish motorway. When Olga finds his latest hideout on the Costa Blanca, he won't escape again.
In Coventry, officers from West Midlands Police stage a dawn raid. They are searching for a Polish man who has already served six years in prison for murder. Now the Home Office wants him out of the UK.
In London, the Extradition Unit at the Metropolitan Police are on a week-long operation. The target is a man convicted of producing and selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs back home in Poland. It is only quarter to six in the morning, but DS Pete Rance and his team are already making an arrest.
12:15-13:00 (Repeat) brand new series.20/32.Bargain Hunt.(Series 45).(Hemswell 25).Anita Manning presents from the Hemswell Antiques Centre in Lincolnshire and is joined by experts Christina Trevanion and Nick Hall. A team of best friends takes on a young married couple to buy three items which they hope will make them a profit at auction, and they all have their sights on a golden gavel. One team finds some railway memorabilia while the other uncovers a rare 1930s feminist painting. But will their items attract the bidders at the auction? Anita hears the fascinating story of Operation Fido, one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the Second World War.
13:00-13:30 R4 News at One
13:30-14:00 Regional News and Weather
14:00-14:30 Doctors
14:30-15:00 GPS
15:00-15:45 brand new series.17/30.Impossible.(Series 3).(Episode 17).
Game show in which 24 players compete across the series, scoring points by answering questions correctly. However, they must avoid the impossible answers, otherwise they will be eliminated from the show until the next day. In each episode there are three rounds, and the three highest scorers from each round play against each other in the final. The winner of this battle faces a £10,000 question.Presented by Rick Edwards.
15:45-16:30 brand new quiz series.12/30.Win of the Case.(Series 1).(Episode 12).Win of the Case is the strategy game show that trades general knowledge for intelligence, hosted by Dan Robert. Five players begin the game with a case containing a secret amount of cash. Players answer questions to win visits to a soundproof vault where they can see inside their opponents' cases.
In a fast-paced endgame, players attempt to steal each other's cases via tense head-to-head challenges, but only the player who gets over the finish line first wins what is inside their case.
16:30-17:15 (Repeat) brand new series.Flog It!.(Flog It!).(Newcastle 50).Flog It! comes from the the Discovery Museum, home to a fantastic collection of science and social history. It is the first science museum outside London and located in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Paul Martin is joined by experts Anita Manning and Nick Davies. Members of the public arrive at the museum laden with hundreds of antiques and collectibles to be valued by the Flog It! antique experts. Later in the show, a number of items are sold at auction.
Paul finds out about the famous Northumbrian landscape gardener Capability Brown.
17:15-18:00 Pointgameless
18:00-18:30 R4 News at Six
18:30-19:00 Regional News and Weather
19:00-19:30 The One Show.Presented by Matt Baker and Alex Jones. Navigating the perils and pitfalls of parenthood, Anna Maxwell Martin tells about the return of Motherland. And sashaying into the studio straight from the training room, after surviving one of the closest-ever Strictly dance-offs, are Mollie King and AJ Pritchard.
19:30-20:00 LondonEnds
20:00-21:00 brand new series.57/64.Hospital City.(Series 19)
21:00-22:00 brand new series.1/6.The A Word.(Series 2).(Episode 1).Two years on, in the idyllic landscape of the Lake District, seven-year-old Joe is growing up and changing. He has started to notice he's different from other kids. And when he says the word 'autistic' out loud, seeing it as something bad, Alison and Paul know they must talk to their son. But how do they broach the subject with a child for whom language is already a struggle? And how do they respond to the news that Joe is struggling at school far more than they thought?
Also growing up is Joe's sister, Rebecca. Now 19, she's been travelling round Africa on a gap year and crashes back into the family home with a backpack, a tattoo and a boyfriend, James. Having met Rebecca's family, and her kid brother, James can't wait to get away again. But it's clear Rebecca has other ideas.
Two years after splitting from Nicola, Eddie is the one that got away. He has a new life in Manchester, with a flat and a good job. But he can't quite shake the old Eddie off, not least because Nicola keeps dragging him back to the Lakes. Having never told her parents that she and Eddie are divorced, Nicola is horrified when they turn up for a surprise visit.
Maurice is feeling awkward too when he finds himself on old flame Louise's doorstep. They've hardly spoken in two years, but all that's about to change when Louise's son Ralph applies for a job at Scott's Brewery.Starring Morven Christie,Lee Ingleby,Greg McHugh,Vinette Robinson,Max Vento,Molly Wright,Christopher Eccleston,Craig McDonald-Kelly,George Bukhari,William Fox,Erin Shanagher,Marie Critchley,Ibrahim Ismail,Gemma Paige North,Michelle Tate,Harrison Newell-Parker,Emeila Rae Levy,Clare Holman,Jude Akuwudike,Aaron Pierre,Pooky Quesnel,Leon Harrop,Adam Wittek,Tommie Grabiec,Scarlett Hodgson,Fiona Luo,Austin Haynes,Alfie Porter,Archie Cawthra,Daniel Cerqueira,Lucy Gaskell,and Travis Smith.
22:00-22:30 R4 News at Ten
22:30-23:00 Regional News and Weather
23:00-23:40 brand new one-off-documentary.Hotel for Refugees.Two worlds meet when a small Catholic town in the west of Ireland becomes the new home for hundreds of Muslim Syrian asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in Greece. Under an EU refugee relocation scheme, Ireland has accepted up to 4,000 asylum seekers in a single year, but plans to settle several hundred of them in a former luxury hotel in small rural community of Ballaghadereen have divided the town. Some townsfolk believe it is their Catholic duty to extend a charitable hand, while others are anxious about the impact of so many strangers on the town.
We follow the story of Ghassan, 20, newly arrived in Ireland after a two-year journey from Syria. Forced to leave his parents behind, Ghassan left the war-ravaged country with his great-aunt Seeham, his aunt Jenan and two cousins Judy and Ahlam. Together they made the dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Now Ghassan finds himself living in the Abbeyfield, a former four-star hotel which fell victim to the financial crash and has been converted into an emergency reception and orientation centre (EROC). Ghassan is one of the first of 80 refugees to be housed there, and the hotel is to be their home while they wait for their asylum status to be approved.
Running the Abbeyfield is hotel manager and committed Catholic Jackie, who has a background working in luxury hotels but has never worked with refugees before. Jackie is aided by a network of volunteers who help get the refugees settled in. As they're shown around the town, Ghassan is introduced to some of the locals - Mary, a devout Catholic who runs the clothes shop and feels that the Irish should help the Syrians because of their own history of emigration, and Saj the local barber, who came to Ireland from Pakistan 15 years ago and knows what it feels like to be an immigrant arriving in a small town.
Saj believes it is his duty as a Muslim to help others and arranges a trip to the local mosque. Religion has become particularly important to Ghassan's friend Kamel. Kamel's mother was shot and killed by a stray bullet, and his faith has guided him through this most difficult period of his life. But not everyone is as keen to welcome the refugees as Mary and Saj. A local couple explain that seeing groups of Syrian men walking about the town makes them anxious, and Saj shows a provocative anti-Islam leaflet that was posted through letterboxes across town.
During Easter Holy week, the local parish priest delivers chocolate eggs to the refugee children at the Abbeyfield, but as the rest of the town celebrates Easter Sunday, Ghassan's great-aunt is left wondering why they haven't been invited to the town cathedral for Sunday mass, as back home in Syria they would celebrate Easter alongside their Christian neighbours. Learning of their disappointment Father Joseph invites the family to the cathedral, where in a moving scene they pray for the return of missing family members.
After several months at the hotel, relationships have started to form between the refugees and the townspeople. Mary is impressed with Ghassan's great-aunt's knitting - she's joined a local knitting group, teaching both local women and other Syrian women how to knit. Saj arranges a Gaelic football match between the townsfolk and the refugees and describes how working closely with the refugees has unexpectedly made him feel more positive about his own life.
23:40-00:20 brand new one-off-documentary.Generation Screwed?.George Lamb has left the shiny floor behind him and is investigating whether young people in Britain today have been royally screwed over. Escaping from his own self-confessed metropolitan bubble, he travels up and down the country to hear from the voices who have been left out of the mainstream media debates.
He meets a 'just about managing' young mum in Milton Keynes, a nuclear protester in a Scottish peace camp and a housing activist in Brixton who can't get a job or afford a home as his community feels the impact of gentrification.This film sets out to explore some of the big questions that face young people in Britain today - and asks who is responsible for making a change.
00:20-00:25 Weather for the Week Ahead
00:25-06:00 Joins R4 News Channel
R4 One Scotland
13:30-14:00 Reporting Scotland
18:30-19:00 Reporting Scotland
20:00-21:00 Scotland City
22:30-23:00 Reporting Scotland
23:00-00:00 brand new series.57/64.Hospital City.(Series 19)
00:00-00:40 brand new one-off-documentary.Hotel for Refugees.Two worlds meet when a small Catholic town in the west of Ireland becomes the new home for hundreds of Muslim Syrian asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in Greece. Under an EU refugee relocation scheme, Ireland has accepted up to 4,000 asylum seekers in a single year, but plans to settle several hundred of them in a former luxury hotel in small rural community of Ballaghadereen have divided the town. Some townsfolk believe it is their Catholic duty to extend a charitable hand, while others are anxious about the impact of so many strangers on the town.
We follow the story of Ghassan, 20, newly arrived in Ireland after a two-year journey from Syria. Forced to leave his parents behind, Ghassan left the war-ravaged country with his great-aunt Seeham, his aunt Jenan and two cousins Judy and Ahlam. Together they made the dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Now Ghassan finds himself living in the Abbeyfield, a former four-star hotel which fell victim to the financial crash and has been converted into an emergency reception and orientation centre (EROC). Ghassan is one of the first of 80 refugees to be housed there, and the hotel is to be their home while they wait for their asylum status to be approved.
Running the Abbeyfield is hotel manager and committed Catholic Jackie, who has a background working in luxury hotels but has never worked with refugees before. Jackie is aided by a network of volunteers who help get the refugees settled in. As they're shown around the town, Ghassan is introduced to some of the locals - Mary, a devout Catholic who runs the clothes shop and feels that the Irish should help the Syrians because of their own history of emigration, and Saj the local barber, who came to Ireland from Pakistan 15 years ago and knows what it feels like to be an immigrant arriving in a small town.
Saj believes it is his duty as a Muslim to help others and arranges a trip to the local mosque. Religion has become particularly important to Ghassan's friend Kamel. Kamel's mother was shot and killed by a stray bullet, and his faith has guided him through this most difficult period of his life. But not everyone is as keen to welcome the refugees as Mary and Saj. A local couple explain that seeing groups of Syrian men walking about the town makes them anxious, and Saj shows a provocative anti-Islam leaflet that was posted through letterboxes across town.
During Easter Holy week, the local parish priest delivers chocolate eggs to the refugee children at the Abbeyfield, but as the rest of the town celebrates Easter Sunday, Ghassan's great-aunt is left wondering why they haven't been invited to the town cathedral for Sunday mass, as back home in Syria they would celebrate Easter alongside their Christian neighbours. Learning of their disappointment Father Joseph invites the family to the cathedral, where in a moving scene they pray for the return of missing family members.
After several months at the hotel, relationships have started to form between the refugees and the townspeople. Mary is impressed with Ghassan's great-aunt's knitting - she's joined a local knitting group, teaching both local women and other Syrian women how to knit. Saj arranges a Gaelic football match between the townsfolk and the refugees and describes how working closely with the refugees has unexpectedly made him feel more positive about his own life.
00:40-01:20 brand new one-off-documentary.Generation Screwed?.George Lamb has left the shiny floor behind him and is investigating whether young people in Britain today have been royally screwed over. Escaping from his own self-confessed metropolitan bubble, he travels up and down the country to hear from the voices who have been left out of the mainstream media debates.
He meets a 'just about managing' young mum in Milton Keynes, a nuclear protester in a Scottish peace camp and a housing activist in Brixton who can't get a job or afford a home as his community feels the impact of gentrification.This film sets out to explore some of the big questions that face young people in Britain today - and asks who is responsible for making a change.
01:20-01:25 Weather for the Week Ahead
01:25-06:00 Joins R4 News Channel
R4 One Northern Ireland
13:30-14:00 R4 Newsline
18:30-19:00 R4 Newsline
22:30-23:00 R4 Newsline
23:00-23:35 Spotlight.PIP:The Disability Benefit Shake-Up.Peter Coulter assesses the impact of the new personal independence payment in Northern Ireland and hears from claimants.
23:35-00:15 brand new one-off-documentary.Hotel for Refugees.Two worlds meet when a small Catholic town in the west of Ireland becomes the new home for hundreds of Muslim Syrian asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in Greece. Under an EU refugee relocation scheme, Ireland has accepted up to 4,000 asylum seekers in a single year, but plans to settle several hundred of them in a former luxury hotel in small rural community of Ballaghadereen have divided the town. Some townsfolk believe it is their Catholic duty to extend a charitable hand, while others are anxious about the impact of so many strangers on the town.
We follow the story of Ghassan, 20, newly arrived in Ireland after a two-year journey from Syria. Forced to leave his parents behind, Ghassan left the war-ravaged country with his great-aunt Seeham, his aunt Jenan and two cousins Judy and Ahlam. Together they made the dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Now Ghassan finds himself living in the Abbeyfield, a former four-star hotel which fell victim to the financial crash and has been converted into an emergency reception and orientation centre (EROC). Ghassan is one of the first of 80 refugees to be housed there, and the hotel is to be their home while they wait for their asylum status to be approved.
Running the Abbeyfield is hotel manager and committed Catholic Jackie, who has a background working in luxury hotels but has never worked with refugees before. Jackie is aided by a network of volunteers who help get the refugees settled in. As they're shown around the town, Ghassan is introduced to some of the locals - Mary, a devout Catholic who runs the clothes shop and feels that the Irish should help the Syrians because of their own history of emigration, and Saj the local barber, who came to Ireland from Pakistan 15 years ago and knows what it feels like to be an immigrant arriving in a small town.
Saj believes it is his duty as a Muslim to help others and arranges a trip to the local mosque. Religion has become particularly important to Ghassan's friend Kamel. Kamel's mother was shot and killed by a stray bullet, and his faith has guided him through this most difficult period of his life. But not everyone is as keen to welcome the refugees as Mary and Saj. A local couple explain that seeing groups of Syrian men walking about the town makes them anxious, and Saj shows a provocative anti-Islam leaflet that was posted through letterboxes across town.
During Easter Holy week, the local parish priest delivers chocolate eggs to the refugee children at the Abbeyfield, but as the rest of the town celebrates Easter Sunday, Ghassan's great-aunt is left wondering why they haven't been invited to the town cathedral for Sunday mass, as back home in Syria they would celebrate Easter alongside their Christian neighbours. Learning of their disappointment Father Joseph invites the family to the cathedral, where in a moving scene they pray for the return of missing family members.
After several months at the hotel, relationships have started to form between the refugees and the townspeople. Mary is impressed with Ghassan's great-aunt's knitting - she's joined a local knitting group, teaching both local women and other Syrian women how to knit. Saj arranges a Gaelic football match between the townsfolk and the refugees and describes how working closely with the refugees has unexpectedly made him feel more positive about his own life.
00:15-00:55 brand new one-off-documentary.Generation Screwed?.George Lamb has left the shiny floor behind him and is investigating whether young people in Britain today have been royally screwed over. Escaping from his own self-confessed metropolitan bubble, he travels up and down the country to hear from the voices who have been left out of the mainstream media debates.
He meets a 'just about managing' young mum in Milton Keynes, a nuclear protester in a Scottish peace camp and a housing activist in Brixton who can't get a job or afford a home as his community feels the impact of gentrification.This film sets out to explore some of the big questions that face young people in Britain today - and asks who is responsible for making a change.
00:55-01:00 Weather for the Week Ahead
01:00-06:00 Joins R4 News Channel
R4 One Wales
13:30-14:00 R4 Wales Today
18:30-19:00 R4 Wales Today
22:30-23:00 R4 Wales Today
23:00-23:30 (Repeat) brand new series.3/4.James and Jupp.(Series 1).(Episode 3).Comedians Elis James and Miles Jupp take a series of unconventional trips around Wales. Elis takes Miles to Swansea Bay, starting in the shadow of the Port Talbot steel works at the Tata Steel Sailing Club, where they get a crash course in dinghy handling from their instructor Chloe. As Port Talbot can claim to be the hometown of three great Hollywood actors - Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen - they take a trip to Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace, and they visit the old Plaza cinema, the childhood haunt of all three Port Talbot Hollywood greats.
Swansea is the focus of the next day, including a nostalgic trip to Swansea City's old Vetch ground for football-mad Elis, and for cricket-nut Miles a visit to St Helen's, the ground where Gary Sobers famously hit six sixes off one over back in 1969. Their trip ends in the seaside town of Mumbles, from where they can see their starting point Port Talbot on the opposite side of the horseshoe-shaped Swansea Bay.
00:00-00:40 brand new one-off-documentary.Hotel for Refugees.Two worlds meet when a small Catholic town in the west of Ireland becomes the new home for hundreds of Muslim Syrian asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in Greece. Under an EU refugee relocation scheme, Ireland has accepted up to 4,000 asylum seekers in a single year, but plans to settle several hundred of them in a former luxury hotel in small rural community of Ballaghadereen have divided the town. Some townsfolk believe it is their Catholic duty to extend a charitable hand, while others are anxious about the impact of so many strangers on the town.
We follow the story of Ghassan, 20, newly arrived in Ireland after a two-year journey from Syria. Forced to leave his parents behind, Ghassan left the war-ravaged country with his great-aunt Seeham, his aunt Jenan and two cousins Judy and Ahlam. Together they made the dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Now Ghassan finds himself living in the Abbeyfield, a former four-star hotel which fell victim to the financial crash and has been converted into an emergency reception and orientation centre (EROC). Ghassan is one of the first of 80 refugees to be housed there, and the hotel is to be their home while they wait for their asylum status to be approved.
Running the Abbeyfield is hotel manager and committed Catholic Jackie, who has a background working in luxury hotels but has never worked with refugees before. Jackie is aided by a network of volunteers who help get the refugees settled in. As they're shown around the town, Ghassan is introduced to some of the locals - Mary, a devout Catholic who runs the clothes shop and feels that the Irish should help the Syrians because of their own history of emigration, and Saj the local barber, who came to Ireland from Pakistan 15 years ago and knows what it feels like to be an immigrant arriving in a small town.
Saj believes it is his duty as a Muslim to help others and arranges a trip to the local mosque. Religion has become particularly important to Ghassan's friend Kamel. Kamel's mother was shot and killed by a stray bullet, and his faith has guided him through this most difficult period of his life. But not everyone is as keen to welcome the refugees as Mary and Saj. A local couple explain that seeing groups of Syrian men walking about the town makes them anxious, and Saj shows a provocative anti-Islam leaflet that was posted through letterboxes across town.
During Easter Holy week, the local parish priest delivers chocolate eggs to the refugee children at the Abbeyfield, but as the rest of the town celebrates Easter Sunday, Ghassan's great-aunt is left wondering why they haven't been invited to the town cathedral for Sunday mass, as back home in Syria they would celebrate Easter alongside their Christian neighbours. Learning of their disappointment Father Joseph invites the family to the cathedral, where in a moving scene they pray for the return of missing family members.
After several months at the hotel, relationships have started to form between the refugees and the townspeople. Mary is impressed with Ghassan's great-aunt's knitting - she's joined a local knitting group, teaching both local women and other Syrian women how to knit. Saj arranges a Gaelic football match between the townsfolk and the refugees and describes how working closely with the refugees has unexpectedly made him feel more positive about his own life.
00:40-01:20 brand new one-off-documentary.Generation Screwed?.George Lamb has left the shiny floor behind him and is investigating whether young people in Britain today have been royally screwed over. Escaping from his own self-confessed metropolitan bubble, he travels up and down the country to hear from the voices who have been left out of the mainstream media debates.
He meets a 'just about managing' young mum in Milton Keynes, a nuclear protester in a Scottish peace camp and a housing activist in Brixton who can't get a job or afford a home as his community feels the impact of gentrification.This film sets out to explore some of the big questions that face young people in Britain today - and asks who is responsible for making a change.
01:20-01:25 Weather for the Week Ahead
01:25-06:00 Joins R4 News Channel
R4 One Northern Ireland
13:30-14:00 R4 Newsline
18:30-19:00 R4 Newsline
22:30-23:00 R4 Newsline
23:00-23:35 Spotlight.PIP:The Disability Benefit Shake-Up.Peter Coulter assesses the impact of the new personal independence payment in Northern Ireland and hears from claimants.
23:30-00:10 brand new one-off-documentary.Hotel for Refugees.Two worlds meet when a small Catholic town in the west of Ireland becomes the new home for hundreds of Muslim Syrian asylum seekers, brought over from refugee camps in Greece. Under an EU refugee relocation scheme, Ireland has accepted up to 4,000 asylum seekers in a single year, but plans to settle several hundred of them in a former luxury hotel in small rural community of Ballaghadereen have divided the town. Some townsfolk believe it is their Catholic duty to extend a charitable hand, while others are anxious about the impact of so many strangers on the town.
We follow the story of Ghassan, 20, newly arrived in Ireland after a two-year journey from Syria. Forced to leave his parents behind, Ghassan left the war-ravaged country with his great-aunt Seeham, his aunt Jenan and two cousins Judy and Ahlam. Together they made the dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Turkey to Greece. Now Ghassan finds himself living in the Abbeyfield, a former four-star hotel which fell victim to the financial crash and has been converted into an emergency reception and orientation centre (EROC). Ghassan is one of the first of 80 refugees to be housed there, and the hotel is to be their home while they wait for their asylum status to be approved.
Running the Abbeyfield is hotel manager and committed Catholic Jackie, who has a background working in luxury hotels but has never worked with refugees before. Jackie is aided by a network of volunteers who help get the refugees settled in. As they're shown around the town, Ghassan is introduced to some of the locals - Mary, a devout Catholic who runs the clothes shop and feels that the Irish should help the Syrians because of their own history of emigration, and Saj the local barber, who came to Ireland from Pakistan 15 years ago and knows what it feels like to be an immigrant arriving in a small town.
Saj believes it is his duty as a Muslim to help others and arranges a trip to the local mosque. Religion has become particularly important to Ghassan's friend Kamel. Kamel's mother was shot and killed by a stray bullet, and his faith has guided him through this most difficult period of his life. But not everyone is as keen to welcome the refugees as Mary and Saj. A local couple explain that seeing groups of Syrian men walking about the town makes them anxious, and Saj shows a provocative anti-Islam leaflet that was posted through letterboxes across town.
During Easter Holy week, the local parish priest delivers chocolate eggs to the refugee children at the Abbeyfield, but as the rest of the town celebrates Easter Sunday, Ghassan's great-aunt is left wondering why they haven't been invited to the town cathedral for Sunday mass, as back home in Syria they would celebrate Easter alongside their Christian neighbours. Learning of their disappointment Father Joseph invites the family to the cathedral, where in a moving scene they pray for the return of missing family members.
After several months at the hotel, relationships have started to form between the refugees and the townspeople. Mary is impressed with Ghassan's great-aunt's knitting - she's joined a local knitting group, teaching both local women and other Syrian women how to knit. Saj arranges a Gaelic football match between the townsfolk and the refugees and describes how working closely with the refugees has unexpectedly made him feel more positive about his own life.
00:10-00:50 brand new one-off-documentary.Generation Screwed?.George Lamb has left the shiny floor behind him and is investigating whether young people in Britain today have been royally screwed over. Escaping from his own self-confessed metropolitan bubble, he travels up and down the country to hear from the voices who have been left out of the mainstream media debates.
He meets a 'just about managing' young mum in Milton Keynes, a nuclear protester in a Scottish peace camp and a housing activist in Brixton who can't get a job or afford a home as his community feels the impact of gentrification.This film sets out to explore some of the big questions that face young people in Britain today - and asks who is responsible for making a change.
00:50-00:55 Weather for the Week Ahead
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