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Hello, this week I'm in Worcestershire, | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
one of England's biggest food-growing areas, | 0:00:05 | 0:00:07 | |
so what better place, then, to celebrate harvest | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
than with some first-class hymns and some great food and drink? | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
Cheers, John. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:15 | |
This week, we get a taste of the good life... | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
..watch as Pershore turns purple... | 0:00:22 | 0:00:25 | |
and we've got music from the town's stunning abbey... | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
and the Operababes. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
In our consumer society where every variety of food is available | 0:00:40 | 0:00:45 | |
all year round regardless of season, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
it's easy to forget all the skill and effort | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
that goes into stocking the shops and putting food on the table. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
And a huge variety of that food is produced here in Worcestershire. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
The county's mineral-rich flood plains of the River Severn and Avon | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
make it the perfect location for growing | 0:01:04 | 0:01:06 | |
a wonderful array of fruit and vegetables. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
From apples in the Teme Valley, | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
asparagus in the Vale Of Evesham, | 0:01:13 | 0:01:17 | |
and plums growing just up the River Avon in Pershore. | 0:01:17 | 0:01:21 | |
And our hymns come from the town's stunning abbey | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
where the congregation has been joined by choirs from the surrounding area. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
We begin with a 20th-century hymn that celebrates the circle of life | 0:01:28 | 0:01:32 | |
and God's role within it, | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
O Lord Of Every Shining Constellation. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
Worcestershire vicar and allotment gardener Richard Etheridge | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
has a keen interest in the history of harvest celebrations. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
Harvest festivals began with a Cornish vicar who got fed up | 0:04:16 | 0:04:22 | |
with people getting drunk at the harvest supper... | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
..and thought that there was something better to do, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
and he thought the idea was to encourage people | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
to bring a token of the harvest to church | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
for a special thanksgiving service, | 0:04:38 | 0:04:40 | |
and that idea then spread throughout the countryside and into the towns. | 0:04:40 | 0:04:47 | |
It's a reminder to us | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
of our dependence on the labours of other people | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
and the good things that God has provided for the world to use. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
The harvest loaf was first mentioned in the Old Testament | 0:05:00 | 0:05:04 | |
and was a way of thanking God for a successful harvest. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
It was the idea that they took the first few sheaves of wheat, | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
made the flour, made the bread, | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
as the very first of the crop. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:19 | |
Fresh flour from the fresh wheat as an offering to God. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:27 | |
So often the harvest loaf was in the shape of a wheat sheaf. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:32 | |
Sometimes it used to be shared out at the harvest supper | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
as a token of the loaf that was broken and shared | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
by Christ to feed the hungry. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
Whatever we do, we're dependent on God, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
we're dependent on the gift of the weather, | 0:05:51 | 0:05:56 | |
on the gift of life for the seed, | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
and the gift of life for ourselves. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
O-yay! | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
Well, I've heard of painting the town red, | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
-but here in Pershore.... -O-yay! -I can't hear myself think! | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
Here is Pershore they prefer the colour purple, | 0:09:13 | 0:09:15 | |
and every summer they go plum crazy. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
You're the organiser of this event. Em, it's all a bit mad, isn't it? | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
-Very mad, but isn't it wonderful? -It's fantastic. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
-So many people, it's really good. -Did you come up with the idea? | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
No, the Pershore Plum Festival was founded about 15 years ago. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
There was a plum festival here over 90 years ago, | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
and it was said that it was the greatest plum show on Earth, | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
so almost 100 years later we're striving to recreate that spectacle. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:52 | |
-Mr Sandon, what are you doing here? How are you? -Nice, big smile. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
-Two choirboys together. -Oh, yes! | 0:09:56 | 0:09:59 | |
How important is it to Pershore, this event? | 0:09:59 | 0:10:01 | |
Incredibly important! | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
In fact, they've got special awards this year for the Plum Festival | 0:10:03 | 0:10:06 | |
and the Pershore Plum itself is a wonderful thing | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
and part of, I suppose, the well-being of the town is based upon plums, | 0:10:10 | 0:10:15 | |
so it's marvellous. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
-So a big honour for you! -It's great. I love it, yes. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:20 | |
I get free plums! THEY LAUGH | 0:10:20 | 0:10:22 | |
We remember our wonderful times together. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:25 | |
Oh, plenty of wonderful times together! | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
Two choirboys together, we usually burst into song, don't we? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
But not today. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:32 | |
No, not...not singing. I'm not singing. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
# Plum, plum, plum Remember you're a plum... # | 0:10:34 | 0:10:38 | |
I've just spied the smartest ladies in Pershore. Hello, how are you? | 0:10:38 | 0:10:42 | |
I'm fine, thank you. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
I should be bowing in front of you, shouldn't I? You're... | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
-What are you? -We're princesses. -And who are these two ladies with you? | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
-The attendants. -Oh. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:52 | |
What does it mean to you to be princess of this festival? | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
-Em, it's really fun and I'm really enjoying it so far. -So far? | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
What have you got to do in the future? | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
You've got lots of exciting events, haven't you? | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
Yeah, we're going to go to the races. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
We'll cut the ribbon around the plum tree. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
You'll cut the ribbon around the plum tree? | 0:11:09 | 0:11:11 | |
I declare this tree planted. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
If only we lived in a world where you could pay for your rent | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
using fruit as currency. Just imagine! | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
Well, that's exactly what happens here in Pershore. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
The town rent this land from Westminster Abbey | 0:11:29 | 0:11:31 | |
and guess how much they pay for it. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
A pound of plums! | 0:11:33 | 0:11:35 | |
Plums have been growing here for a couple of centuries, | 0:11:37 | 0:11:42 | |
so plums are a sort of mascot for Pershore. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
There are three varieties of Pershore plum - | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
the Yellow Egg plant, the Purple and the newest addition, | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
the Pershore Emblem, the proud discovery of a local gardener. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:56 | |
This is the original Emblem, which I planted here 30 years ago, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
and er, you can see that we've got quite a family of them here now. | 0:12:04 | 0:12:10 | |
It's a good all-round plum, makes good jam, very dark jam, | 0:12:11 | 0:12:16 | |
and it freezes well and you can... | 0:12:16 | 0:12:19 | |
It's like a dessert plum as well. | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
So we've got the Purple Egg Plum on the top. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
Oh! Delicious! | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
As the organiser, do you get to travel around on this for the year? | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
Not yet, but I'm hoping that this will be | 0:12:39 | 0:12:41 | |
my mode of transport for the next four weeks. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
Pretty impressive, isn't it? It runs on plum juice, you know. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:47 | |
It does, yes! SHE LAUGHS | 0:12:47 | 0:12:49 | |
She's got the regal wave going. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
It's hard for me to imagine that we can look at nature | 0:15:15 | 0:15:20 | |
without thinking of God. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
I think, right through my life, I've been fascinated by growing things, | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
whether it's a plant or an animal. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
Trees are certainly important because of the shelter they give to crops. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
We're still learning about the relationship with many forms of wildlife, | 0:15:34 | 0:15:38 | |
obviously birds and insects and so on, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:40 | |
and there are many other things that people are discovering even now, | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
where trees are interrelated with other forms of wildlife. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:47 | |
They provide a lovely atmosphere. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:52 | |
A lot of older people like myself | 0:15:52 | 0:15:55 | |
associate Worcestershire with elm trees. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:57 | |
It used to be referred to as "the Worcestershire weed", | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
it was so common, but apart from that, | 0:16:00 | 0:16:03 | |
it's a very, very beautiful tree - huge, billowing, cumulous, | 0:16:03 | 0:16:07 | |
cloud-like branches everywhere and quite majestic. | 0:16:07 | 0:16:11 | |
In the 1970s, the appearance of the landscape changed | 0:16:11 | 0:16:15 | |
when millions of native elms were killed by Dutch elm disease. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
Dutch elm disease suddenly took off. It's been around for a long, long time, | 0:16:23 | 0:16:28 | |
but it became rampant suddenly, maybe a different fungal strain, | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
but it really took off then and the area around this area, | 0:16:31 | 0:16:36 | |
it looked almost like a desert with dead elms in the summer, everywhere. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:39 | |
It looked very, very bleak. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
Certainly consequences for many forms of wildlife, | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
including some species of butterflies became rare or even extinct. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:50 | |
Although Dutch elm disease all but wiped out the native species, | 0:16:50 | 0:16:54 | |
a chance discovery by Bob and his team provided a glimmer of hope. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
Some years ago, we were travelling around the area | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
and noticed a beautiful elm tree that was in full health. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:08 | |
It was a bit strange because the whole area was | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
at one time filled with elm trees and this was the only survivor. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:13 | |
We took cuttings and we've been rooting these at the college. | 0:17:13 | 0:17:17 | |
We've been busy propagating these now for some years. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:22 | |
Although it's still early days, Bob's hopeful the young elms will flourish | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
and be reintroduced across the countryside. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
You never can be absolutely sure they're going to be completely immune | 0:17:30 | 0:17:35 | |
or even resistant, but so far so good. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:39 | |
The elms we've planted are really growing away now, quite well. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
I've got high hopes that there are | 0:17:42 | 0:17:44 | |
quite a few elms now that are growing away very healthily. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:48 | |
I've always been very conscious | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
of the beauty of creation and God's goodness. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
It seems to me that every leaf and every blade of grass | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
is an "I love you" from the Lord. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
For me, nature is one long, ongoing miracle. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
We shall never fully understand it, it's like opening a box | 0:18:06 | 0:18:10 | |
and then we find the wonders of creation and there's a smaller box inside | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
which we have to open, and again and again and again, | 0:18:14 | 0:18:18 | |
so for me it's a never-ending wonder. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
# Let us wander not unseen | 0:18:29 | 0:18:33 | |
# By the elms on hillocks green | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
# While the ploughman near at hand | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
# Whistles o'er the furrow'd land | 0:18:41 | 0:18:45 | |
# And the milkmaid singeth blithe | 0:18:45 | 0:18:50 | |
# And the mower whets his scythe | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
# Singeth blithe, singeth blithe | 0:18:53 | 0:18:58 | |
# Singeth blithe | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
# And the milkmaid singeth blithe | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
# Let us wander not unseen | 0:19:04 | 0:19:08 | |
# By the elms on hillocks green | 0:19:08 | 0:19:12 | |
# While the ploughman near at hand | 0:19:12 | 0:19:16 | |
# Whistles o'er the furrow'd land | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
# And the shepherd, and the shepherd | 0:19:20 | 0:19:25 | |
# Tells his tale | 0:19:25 | 0:19:28 | |
# Beneath the hawthorn in the dale | 0:19:28 | 0:19:31 | |
# Beneath the hawthorn in the dale | 0:19:31 | 0:19:37 | |
# Let us wander not unseen | 0:19:37 | 0:19:41 | |
# By the elms on hillocks green | 0:19:41 | 0:19:46 | |
# While the ploughman near at hand | 0:19:46 | 0:19:50 | |
# Whistles o'er the furrow'd land | 0:19:50 | 0:19:54 | |
# And the milkmaid singeth blithe | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
# And the mower whets his scythe | 0:19:58 | 0:20:02 | |
# Singeth blithe, singeth blithe | 0:20:02 | 0:20:07 | |
# Singeth blithe | 0:20:07 | 0:20:09 | |
# And the milkmaid singeth blithe | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
# Let us wander not unseen | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
# By the elms on hillocks green | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
# While the ploughman near at hand | 0:20:21 | 0:20:25 | |
# Whistles o'er the furrow'd land | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
# And the shepherd, and the shepherd | 0:20:29 | 0:20:34 | |
# Tells his tale | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
# Beneath the hawthorn in the dale | 0:20:37 | 0:20:41 | |
# Beneath the hawthorn in the dale | 0:20:41 | 0:20:46 | |
# Let us wander not unseen | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
# By the elms on hillocks green | 0:20:50 | 0:20:54 | |
# While a ploughman near at hand | 0:20:54 | 0:20:58 | |
# Whistles o'er the furrow'd land. # | 0:20:58 | 0:21:05 | |
MUSIC: Theme From "The Good Life". | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
We used to be quite normal once. We lived in Bewdley just down the way. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:15 | |
We had fairly normal jobs. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:17 | |
John worked for a solicitor's in Birmingham | 0:21:17 | 0:21:19 | |
and I worked for the Forestry Commission, | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
but an opportunity came up | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
to move up to this farm and at first we thought, | 0:21:24 | 0:21:27 | |
"No, silly idea," and then we thought, | 0:21:27 | 0:21:29 | |
"Well, why not, you know? Opportunity of a lifetime, let's go for it!" | 0:21:29 | 0:21:33 | |
John and Linda are sampling the good life on their farm, | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
living in harmony with the natural environment. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:41 | |
A lot of people say that we're well bonkers. We've taken on a lot here. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:44 | |
It was very hard work for the first few years. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
We replaced all the fences around the farm | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
so that we could get the cattle in and get them grazing. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:53 | |
We wanted to farm it in an environmentally friendly way | 0:21:53 | 0:21:58 | |
and we're not actually connected to the National Grid here, | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
so we had ideas about using as much renewable energy as possible | 0:22:02 | 0:22:06 | |
and heating the house with our own wood and all that sort of thing, | 0:22:06 | 0:22:10 | |
and generally have a go at looking after the land. | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
And also, it was very much about it being open for people to come and share that journey with us. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:19 | |
So the folks here today are learning about pig-keeping. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:24 | |
You know, it's just us sharing as far as we've got in our learning, | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
and people have been keeping pigs for thousands of years, | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
so it can't have been that difficult. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
You know, Stone Age man didn't have an NVQ in pig-keeping, you know, he just got on with it. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
We have other volunteers who are getting stuck into apple presses, | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
learning those skills. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
We've had all sorts of people, some not as weird as us! | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
You just pray that God sends people that are going to be useful | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
and they turn up. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
You should get another flush of juice. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
I like to think that people are enjoying coming here, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:04 | |
enjoying being reconnected with the land. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
And just having some fun realising the joy they can have | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
in being in the natural environment and working in it. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
I can imagine, out here, seasons mean a lot more to you than to | 0:23:14 | 0:23:17 | |
the person who just picks up their food from the supermarket shelf. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:22 | |
Yeah, the harvest is just an amazing time, and that sense, | 0:23:22 | 0:23:26 | |
which I wasn't really fully aware of before we came here. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
I've had a niggling thing going on about the harvest festival we do in our own church, | 0:23:30 | 0:23:36 | |
which was ending up as sort of | 0:23:36 | 0:23:37 | |
tins of baked beans and packets of spaghetti. | 0:23:37 | 0:23:40 | |
I'm thinking, "This isn't what harvest is about." | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
Harvest is about real food and that real sense | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
of overwhelming...joy that we've got food in the barn. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:51 | |
If we've got the food in the barn, | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
we'll be able to eat through the winter, | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
and how, you know, 50-100 years ago, that sense within a community - | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
that there was enough for us to get through the winter - | 0:24:01 | 0:24:03 | |
would just be so overwhelming. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
No wonder you wanted to sing your praises to the Lord. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:09 | |
Creator God, provider of all, we bring our thanks today. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:28 | |
We bless each other that the beauty of this world | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
and the love that created it... | 0:26:31 | 0:26:33 | |
..Might be expressed through our lives and be a blessing to others, | 0:26:33 | 0:26:38 | |
now and always. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:40 | |
Amen. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:41 | |
And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, | 0:26:43 | 0:26:47 | |
be amongst you and remain with you always. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
ALL: Amen. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:52 | |
# For the beauty of the Earth | 0:27:07 | 0:27:13 | |
# For the beauty of the skies | 0:27:13 | 0:27:18 | |
# For the love which from our birth | 0:27:18 | 0:27:25 | |
# Over and around us lies | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
# Over and around us lies | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
# Lord of all, to thee we raise | 0:27:32 | 0:27:40 | |
# This our joyful hymn of praise | 0:27:40 | 0:27:46 | |
# For the beauty of each hour | 0:27:51 | 0:27:58 | |
# Of the day and of the night | 0:27:58 | 0:28:03 | |
# Hill and vale Hill and vale | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
# And tree and flower And tree and flower | 0:28:07 | 0:28:11 | |
# Sun and moon and stars of light | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
# Sun and moon and stars of light | 0:28:14 | 0:28:18 | |
# Lord of all, to thee we raise | 0:28:18 | 0:28:25 | |
# This our joyful hymn of praise | 0:28:25 | 0:28:33 | |
-# For the joy of human love -For the joy of love | 0:28:38 | 0:28:45 | |
# Brother, sister, parent, child | 0:28:45 | 0:28:50 | |
# Friends on Earth Friends on Earth | 0:28:50 | 0:28:54 | |
# And friends above Friends above | 0:28:54 | 0:28:57 | |
# For all gentle thoughts and mild | 0:28:57 | 0:29:01 | |
# For all gentle thoughts and mild | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
# Lord of all, to thee we raise | 0:29:05 | 0:29:13 | |
# This our joyful hymn of praise | 0:29:13 | 0:29:20 | |
# For each perfect gift of thine | 0:29:22 | 0:29:29 | |
# To our race so freely given | 0:29:29 | 0:29:34 | |
# Graces human and divine | 0:29:34 | 0:29:42 | |
# Flowers of Earth and buds of heaven | 0:29:42 | 0:29:46 | |
# Flowers of Earth and buds of heaven | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
# Lord of all, to thee we raise | 0:29:49 | 0:29:56 | |
# This our joyful hymn of praise | 0:29:58 | 0:30:04 | |
# This our joyful hymn | 0:30:06 | 0:30:09 | |
# Our hymn of praise. # | 0:30:09 | 0:30:14 | |
With the harvest here safely gathered in for another year | 0:30:28 | 0:30:31 | |
and the thankful relief that there'll be enough food to feed the animals through winter, | 0:30:31 | 0:30:36 | |
our final hymn reminds us that even though the days fly by, God is always at our side. | 0:30:36 | 0:30:42 | |
Next week, as the BBC marks the 10th anniversary of 9/11, | 0:33:22 | 0:33:27 | |
Sally Magnusson discovers how a new generation of young people | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
are finding ways to build a more peaceful and tolerant world. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
And there are hymns and songs in harmony | 0:33:34 | 0:33:38 | |
from Milton Keynes, London and Birmingham. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
And I hope you can be with us in London | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
for our 50th birthday celebration at Alexandra Palace. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
We'll be singing some wonderful hymns, of course. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:51 | |
And our special guests include the one and only Andrea Bocelli, | 0:33:51 | 0:33:55 | |
gospel diva Beverley Knight, | 0:33:55 | 0:33:58 | |
voice of an angel Katherine Jenkins | 0:33:58 | 0:34:01 | |
and international country-music legend LeAnn Rimes. | 0:34:01 | 0:34:05 | |
If you'd like to be part of the audience, | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
tickets cost £12 each plus a charge of £1.50 per transaction. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:10 | |
If you haven't got your ticket yet, here's the number to call. | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
Or you can apply online. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:28 | |
I can't wait. See you on the 25th. | 0:34:31 | 0:34:33 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:34:48 | 0:34:51 | |
E-mail [email protected] | 0:34:51 | 0:34:55 |