0:00:02 > 0:00:05This week, I'm taking a stroll down memory lane.
0:00:05 > 0:00:08Do you remember when milk came in glass bottles?
0:00:08 > 0:00:11And shops had signs outside them
0:00:11 > 0:00:14and you posted your letters in a postbox in the wall?
0:00:14 > 0:00:17But, you know, behind this wonderfully evocative
0:00:17 > 0:00:22recreation of a 1950s street is a very serious purpose.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24ALL SING
0:00:24 > 0:00:26In Dementia Awareness Week,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28I find out how a care home in Bristol
0:00:28 > 0:00:31is using singing and nostalgia
0:00:31 > 0:00:34to help its residents engage in the present.
0:00:34 > 0:00:38And I'm in Liverpool to join a spectacular pageant
0:00:38 > 0:00:41inspired by the late Pope John Paul II.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45And Josie hears from the sister
0:00:45 > 0:00:48of a teenage murder victim, Anthony Walker,
0:00:48 > 0:00:53whose trust in God transformed her from crime victim to crime fighter.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Later, we'll be hearing from Welsh classical singers Richard and Adam,
0:01:06 > 0:01:08but now our first hymn
0:01:08 > 0:01:12sung in the magnificent surroundings of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15And in that most traditional setting, a modern favourite -
0:01:15 > 0:01:17King Of The Ages.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11BIRDSONG
0:04:15 > 0:04:17It's Dementia Awareness Week.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Now, of course, dementia is a condition that most of us hope
0:04:20 > 0:04:23we'll never have to deal with,
0:04:23 > 0:04:27but at care homes like this one here in Bristol,
0:04:27 > 0:04:30they're coming up with all sorts of innovative ways
0:04:30 > 0:04:32to help people who are affected.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38Christopher Taylor is manager of this family-run care home,
0:04:38 > 0:04:42which is using nostalgia to help residents with dementia.
0:04:45 > 0:04:50Our experience is that to have really good conversations
0:04:50 > 0:04:51with the people who live with us,
0:04:51 > 0:04:53it's better to focus on long-term memories.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55And we feel that those conversations
0:04:55 > 0:04:58are so important to people's wellbeing.
0:04:58 > 0:04:59It can affect someone's mood
0:04:59 > 0:05:02for the rest of the day in a positive way, really.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06How did you use to spend your ration?
0:05:06 > 0:05:11Well, we used to go regularly and get our ration for the month.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15And so we always had, like, something in the cupboard.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17It's really lovely to see, actually.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21That person who you're not used to seeing alive like that,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24really, really enjoy that conversation.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30- Did you go to church much?- They encouraged us to go to church.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33We used to like singing the hymns.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37And enjoy, you know, if we could remember it,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- go back home and sing it. - BOTH CHUCKLE
0:05:40 > 0:05:45- ALL:- # Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep... #
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Hymn singing not only brings people together,
0:05:48 > 0:05:49it's also good for the brain.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56Rita Severn has Alzheimer's and regularly attends a service here
0:05:56 > 0:05:58run by church volunteers.
0:05:58 > 0:06:04# For those in peril on the sea. #
0:06:04 > 0:06:06I remember Mum as a Sunday-school teacher.
0:06:10 > 0:06:15I'd see her at the front of church leading choruses, telling stories.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22She gave her faith out to people,
0:06:22 > 0:06:24shared it out to lots and lots of children.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30And now it's much more, I think,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33taking part in the songs and hymns
0:06:33 > 0:06:38as a receiver rather than a deliverer of that faith.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41How important has your own faith been
0:06:41 > 0:06:47in coping with your mum's illness as it progressed?
0:06:47 > 0:06:51Church is very important, but my faith is really when I'm on my own
0:06:51 > 0:06:56and I go outside and I just need that time just to stop
0:06:56 > 0:07:00and let it all just take hold of me.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Let God hold on to all my worries,
0:07:04 > 0:07:09concerns, fears, and just take them away,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12so that I can come back in and be that positive, bouncy,
0:07:12 > 0:07:17slightly annoying daughter that I am sometimes.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19# ..when we cry to Thee... #
0:07:19 > 0:07:22It was very moving hearing the service,
0:07:22 > 0:07:25when she was unable to communicate in any other way,
0:07:25 > 0:07:28that she knew the words of Eternal Father.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30The words were coming and I noticed during that
0:07:30 > 0:07:34the foot was tapping, there was engagement in the words.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38Life has a habit of throwing challenges at us,
0:09:38 > 0:09:41and it's how we react that makes us who we are.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Josie has been to visit a woman in Liverpool
0:09:43 > 0:09:46whose life was rocked by tragedy,
0:09:46 > 0:09:49and she responded in a most remarkable way.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55In 2005, the brutal murder of teenager Anthony Walker
0:09:55 > 0:09:57stunned the nation.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Anthony Walker, an 18-year-old sixth-form student
0:10:00 > 0:10:02was attacked with an axe by a group of men in Huyton near Liverpool.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06Almost overnight, the Walker family found themselves
0:10:06 > 0:10:10and their Christian faith in the media spotlight.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13But one member of the family was spurred on by her faith
0:10:13 > 0:10:16and the memory of her brother
0:10:16 > 0:10:20to join the fight against crime in a very real way.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22We'll keep going and with this serious message.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26That faith was to fuel Anthony's sister Dominique
0:10:26 > 0:10:30as she became a public campaigner against race hate crime.
0:10:30 > 0:10:36Raised in a Christian family, this was the only way to deal with it,
0:10:36 > 0:10:38to be led by the spirit almost.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41It's fight or flight. And I think with us
0:10:41 > 0:10:44it was sort of fight, but a different type of fight
0:10:44 > 0:10:46for what was to come.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Some of Dominique's battles began very close to home,
0:10:50 > 0:10:53when she discovered the identity of her brother's killers.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57I knew them. We grew up together, played on the same playground.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00So, obviously, that on top of everything else,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03it was...it was very difficult.
0:11:03 > 0:11:04I was very angry.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Anthony's killers were eventually found and convicted.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12And Dominique's determination to bring them to justice
0:11:12 > 0:11:15led to a remarkable change in career.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18In 2009, she became a police officer
0:11:18 > 0:11:20and is now an expert in race hate crime,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23running the Anthony Walker Foundation
0:11:23 > 0:11:25and training her fellow officers.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- Hi, Dom.- You all right, Kev? - Not too bad. How are you?- Let's go.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30I didn't want to be a police officer,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32it just was never in my thoughts,
0:11:32 > 0:11:34but I suppose God knows my heart.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39And I think it could have only been God that could've got me in.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44What role does faith play for you now?
0:11:44 > 0:11:48My relationship with God is them little utterances,
0:11:48 > 0:11:50them little words that you say.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53You know, sometimes I'll say for God to protect me
0:11:53 > 0:11:55is one of the main things.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58"No weapon formed against me shall prosper,"
0:11:58 > 0:12:00is always something that I've always said.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03And I've found in incidents, for example,
0:12:03 > 0:12:05where it's really serious,
0:12:05 > 0:12:07they will look to you.
0:12:07 > 0:12:11Like, "You're of faith, aren't you? Let's pray."
0:12:11 > 0:12:14And that's how it is, because...
0:12:14 > 0:12:18in them incidents where it's literally life or death,
0:12:18 > 0:12:23God is sometimes the only thing that people have.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Can I ask you about forgiveness
0:12:25 > 0:12:29and how you've gone about forgiving these people?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Jesus said that we must forgive, seventy times seven we must forgive,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35that's what the Bible says.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38From when we were kids, my mum always told us that you forgive,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40that you...you move on.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47I've lived it and I know what it costs,
0:12:47 > 0:12:52but for me to be functioning now as an adult,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55I wouldn't be able to do it any other way
0:12:55 > 0:12:58than through forgiveness and through God.
0:12:58 > 0:12:59There's just no other way.
0:13:01 > 0:13:02What do you think Anthony
0:13:02 > 0:13:06- would make of who you are today? - DOMINIQUE SPLUTTERS
0:13:06 > 0:13:08He would just not be able to fathom
0:13:08 > 0:13:11that I could be this type of person.
0:13:11 > 0:13:13I think he always knew it was in me,
0:13:13 > 0:13:17and it shouldn't have took me to lose him to get that,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20but I suppose that's God's way sometimes.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Sometimes it's the hard way, but I think he would be proud.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- I think he would be. - DOMINIQUE LAUGHS
0:13:32 > 0:13:37# I didn't know today would be our last
0:13:39 > 0:13:45# Or that I'd have to say goodbye to you so fast
0:13:46 > 0:13:51# I'm so numb, I can't feel any more
0:13:53 > 0:13:59# Praying you'd just walk back through that door
0:14:01 > 0:14:06# And tell me that I was only dreaming
0:14:08 > 0:14:13# You're not really gone as long as I believe
0:14:14 > 0:14:19# There will be another angel
0:14:19 > 0:14:22# Around the throne tonight
0:14:22 > 0:14:26# Your love lives on inside of me
0:14:26 > 0:14:30# And I will hold on tight
0:14:30 > 0:14:33# It's not my place to question
0:14:33 > 0:14:36# Only God knows why
0:14:38 > 0:14:43# I'm just jealous of the angels
0:14:43 > 0:14:46# Around the throne tonight
0:14:55 > 0:15:00# You always made my troubles feel so small
0:15:02 > 0:15:07# You were always there to catch me when I'd fall
0:15:09 > 0:15:14# In a world where heroes come and go
0:15:15 > 0:15:21# Well, God just took the only one I know
0:15:22 > 0:15:28# So I'll hold you as close as I can
0:15:30 > 0:15:33# Longing for the day
0:15:33 > 0:15:36# When I see your face again
0:15:38 > 0:15:41# But until then
0:15:42 > 0:15:46# God must need another angel
0:15:46 > 0:15:50# Around the throne tonight
0:15:50 > 0:15:54# Your love lives on inside of me
0:15:54 > 0:15:57# And I will hold on tight
0:15:57 > 0:16:01# It's not my place to question
0:16:01 > 0:16:04# Only God knows why
0:16:06 > 0:16:10# I'm just jealous of the angels
0:16:10 > 0:16:14# Around the throne tonight
0:16:15 > 0:16:20# I'm just jealous of the angels
0:16:20 > 0:16:26# Around the throne...tonight. #
0:16:29 > 0:16:32- We're just going to bring out some teas.- Lovely.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Oh, lots of people love gardening,
0:16:35 > 0:16:38and even on a rainy day like today, you can still get your hands dirty
0:16:38 > 0:16:40and smell the soil and love the colours
0:16:40 > 0:16:42of the plants and the flowers.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44In fact, it seems to me that often gardening
0:16:44 > 0:16:48is as much about exercising the mind as the body.
0:16:48 > 0:16:49CHATTER
0:16:53 > 0:16:54There you go, that's perfect.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Well, today is Trinity Sunday,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00and so the words of our next hymn remind us of the mystery of God.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04That there is one God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13People find strength in community,
0:20:13 > 0:20:17and that's something I've witnessed in abundance here today.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21But Liverpool is one city that's renowned for its community spirit,
0:20:21 > 0:20:26not least because of its long history of forging strong links
0:20:26 > 0:20:28between its different faith communities.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33Last weekend, Claire experienced that unity in action for herself
0:20:33 > 0:20:36when she joined thousands of Christians from across Merseyside
0:20:36 > 0:20:39for the Liverpool Pentecost Pageant.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44The first pageant took place in 1982,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47when Pope John Paul II visited Liverpool.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50It was devised by Anglican bishop David Sheppard
0:20:50 > 0:20:52and Roman Catholic Archbishop Derek Worlock
0:20:52 > 0:20:54to bring churches together,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57something that's continued today by their successors.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00For over 30 years now, we've been standing together
0:21:00 > 0:21:04wanting to make some sort of witness together to the city.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05MUSIC PLAYS
0:21:07 > 0:21:09It's something that we can do together.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14It gives a very big witness to the people of Liverpool
0:21:14 > 0:21:19that the Christian people and those who are our friends
0:21:19 > 0:21:22are very happy to be public about our faith
0:21:22 > 0:21:26and to show that it is a joyous and a happy faith.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29And that joy's not just for inside the church buildings,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31but it's out on the street as well.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33Matthew, you're the man in charge here.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35What is special about the Pentecost Pageant?
0:21:35 > 0:21:38Well, for me the star is this extraordinary street.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41I mean, what other street in the UK, in Europe,
0:21:41 > 0:21:43has two cathedrals on either end?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46And for me, I guess, the pageant is very much an opportunity for us all
0:21:46 > 0:21:49to come together and celebrate around the themes of Pentecost.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51And it's a massive undertaking.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I imagine you've been working at this for hours and weeks and months.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58There's something like 350 performers taking part,
0:21:58 > 0:22:02alongside the 2,000 people that have been involved in the procession.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06The logistics of all of that have been, actually, great fun.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08MUSIC PLAYS
0:22:08 > 0:22:11- Can you give us a twirl?- Yeah.- Yeah, sure.- Look at that. Look at that.
0:22:11 > 0:22:12SHE LAUGHS
0:22:12 > 0:22:14CHURCH BELL CHIMES
0:22:15 > 0:22:18..the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20- ALL:- Amen.
0:22:20 > 0:22:25We're going inside the Metropolitan Cathedral now for our next hymn,
0:22:25 > 0:22:29which assures us that God loves and cares for every single one of us.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40I worked in a mission hospital in Africa in the 1970s.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44It was quite an experience because people would arrive by ambulance,
0:24:44 > 0:24:48dragged along over the sand on these...contraptions.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Or, if they were able to walk, they walked.
0:24:51 > 0:24:5370 miles sometimes.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Dr Jennifer Bute is a retired GP whose Christian faith
0:24:59 > 0:25:03took her to Mozambique when she was in her 20s.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07I'd said to God once, I would never ever run a place by myself,
0:25:07 > 0:25:10but when I arrived, the doctor said he'd been there for 15 years
0:25:10 > 0:25:12and disappeared for a while.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15So I was often the only doctor there.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Jennifer retired from practising medicine 11 years ago,
0:25:20 > 0:25:23and since then she's been devoting all of her time
0:25:23 > 0:25:25to communicating in any way she can
0:25:25 > 0:25:29the best ways to help people with dementia.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33And her passion for that comes from her own experience of the condition.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37I had the usual memory problems,
0:25:37 > 0:25:39but assumed it was because I was very busy.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42I didn't think there was any more reason to it.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46And then...I started getting lost.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48And then it got worse,
0:25:48 > 0:25:51I didn't recognise people that I ought to know.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54I didn't recognise relatives.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58When I first got my diagnosis of dementia,
0:25:58 > 0:26:02I thought, "Well, God, how am I meant to respond to this?"
0:26:04 > 0:26:09My father had dementia, and I understood it professionally,
0:26:09 > 0:26:14and then having it from the inside, I thought this was a gift from God.
0:26:16 > 0:26:17And each day I say to God,
0:26:17 > 0:26:20"Well, another day,
0:26:20 > 0:26:25"I need your help in it, but I'm here for whatever."
0:26:25 > 0:26:27- Oh, dear.- You know I always write this down?
0:26:27 > 0:26:30That's all right, it keeps us on our toes.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32LAUGHTER
0:26:32 > 0:26:36Each week, Jennifer holds a class to help others with dementia.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40She uses a Japanese therapy based on arithmetic and wordplay.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44It's been shown to slow down memory loss.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48Sometimes I describe dementia as being trapped inside a house
0:26:48 > 0:26:51and the key has been thrown away.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54And one is often frightened,
0:26:54 > 0:26:57because one can't get through that door,
0:26:57 > 0:27:00one can't communicate with people outside,
0:27:00 > 0:27:02and they sometimes can't communicate with you.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05But just as in a house,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08if the front door is locked, surely there's a back door.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11- I put down a dandelion.- That will do. That'll do.
0:27:11 > 0:27:14That'll do. It's a yellow flower. Well done.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17And I've found that's so with people with dementia,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19there's always a way to communicate.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24It is not true that there is no way in, the person is still there.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28When I was in Africa, patients would often give us presents,
0:27:28 > 0:27:30give me presents as thank yous.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32It might be bananas or a chicken.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Well, one day, they gave me a clay pot, which I still have.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38It was a wonderful clay pot
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and I sent it home to England in the post.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43How daft can you be?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47And it arrived in hundreds of pieces, as you can see.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48SHE LAUGHS
0:27:48 > 0:27:52And people said, "Well, it's no use - it's worthless!"
0:27:52 > 0:27:55But I loved it...
0:27:55 > 0:27:58and so I put it together again.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02And to me now, it's more precious than it was before.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05It's no good for holding water,
0:28:05 > 0:28:08but that doesn't mean to say it hasn't got worth.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10And I think we can become more beautiful
0:28:10 > 0:28:15because of the difficulties and because of the brokenness.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17So this pot to me is very precious.
0:28:26 > 0:28:34# I'll walk with God from this day on
0:28:34 > 0:28:42# His helping hand, I'll lean upon
0:28:42 > 0:28:50# This is my prayer, my humble plea
0:28:50 > 0:28:58# May the Lord be ever with me
0:29:00 > 0:29:08# There is no death though eyes grow dim
0:29:08 > 0:29:15# There is no fear when I'm near to Him
0:29:15 > 0:29:23# I'll lean on Him for ever
0:29:23 > 0:29:31# And He'll forsake me never
0:29:31 > 0:29:38- BOTH:- # He will not fail me
0:29:38 > 0:29:45# As long as my faith is strong
0:29:45 > 0:29:53# Whatever road I may walk alone
0:29:53 > 0:29:58# I'll walk with God
0:29:58 > 0:30:01# I'll take His hand
0:30:01 > 0:30:05# I'll talk with God
0:30:05 > 0:30:09# He'll understand
0:30:09 > 0:30:13# I'll pray to Him
0:30:13 > 0:30:17# Each day to Him
0:30:17 > 0:30:24# And He'll hear the words that I say
0:30:24 > 0:30:32# His hand will guide my throne and rod
0:30:32 > 0:30:36# And I'll never walk alone
0:30:36 > 0:30:42# While I walk with God. #
0:30:51 > 0:30:55Well, even though it's time for us to say goodbye to the '50s,
0:30:55 > 0:31:00next week we'll be rolling back the decades even further, to 1916.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03Claire will be marking the anniversary
0:31:03 > 0:31:06of the Battle of Jutland.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09But today, it's time for our final hymn,
0:31:09 > 0:31:12written by Victorian philanthropist Anna Waring,
0:31:12 > 0:31:15who lived and worked here in Bristol.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18In Heavenly Love Abiding was her expression
0:31:18 > 0:31:21of the hope and joy of Christ's love,
0:31:21 > 0:31:24no matter what challenges life might send our way.