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This Week's Guest:
Bishop John Sentamu
Sunday 22 June
Repeated
Friday 27 June | | |  |
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Sue Lawley's castaway this week is The Bishop of Birmingham, John Sentamu.
When John Sentamu was born, the sixth of thirteen children, near Kampala in Uganda in 1949 he was so small the local bishop was called in to baptise him immediately. He survived his birth, a sickly childhood and a famine to become, a mere twenty-five years later, a judge in the Uganda High Court.
In 1974 he managed to get a visa to leave Uganda and come to Britain where he studied theology with a view to returning to the Ugandan justice system at the end of his studies. However, when his friend the Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum was murdered he vowed ‘You kill my friend, I take his place’ and he was ordained in 1979. He served in parishes in Cambridge and London, and was vicar of Holy Trinity Church in South London for thirteen years during which time he raised £1.6 million to restore his church and its organ as well as increasing his congregation ten fold.
He is now the Bishop of Birmingham, and one of only two senior bishops from ethnic minorities, He was an Advisor to the Stephen Lawrence Judicial Inquiry and the Chairman of the Damilola Taylor Review board.
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1. 'I was glad'
Performer St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conducted by John Scott
Composer Sir Hubert Parry
Publisher Hyperion Records
CD Title The Music of St Paul's Cathedral
Track 1
Label Hyperion Records
Rec No SPCC2000
2. 'How beautiful are the feet'
Performer Kiri te Kanawa & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.
Composer Handel
Publisher Decca
CD Title Penquin Classics - Handel
Track 10
Label Decca
Rec No 466 215-2
3. 'Jolinkomo'
Performer Miriam Makeba
Composer Kente - Mbulu
Publisher Warner Bros
CD Title Pata Pata
Track 8
Label Warner brothers
Rec No 9362 470642
4. 'Cella Concerto in E Minor'
Performer Jacqueline du Pre
Composer Elgar
Publisher EMI
CD Title Les Introuvables de Jacqueline du Pre
Track Cd1 trk 4
Label EMI classics
Rec No 7243 5 68133 28
5. 'What a wonderful world'
Performer Louis Armstrong
Composer Thiele/Weiss
Publisher BMG music
CD Title Louis Armstrong - the Ultimate Collection
Track 1
Label RCA
Rec No 7432 1 197062
6. ''Now thank we all our God
Performer Christopher Herrrick
Composer Egil Hovland
Publisher Hyperion Records
CD Title Organ Fireworks:
Track 10
Label Hyperion
Rec No CDA 66121
7. 'O Holy Night'
Performer Aled Jones (duet with himself as a young boy)
Composer Adophe Adam
Publisher BBC
CD Title Aled
Track 14
Label UCJ- Universal
Rec No 064 479-2
8. 'Thank you for the Years'
Performer Shirley Bassey
Composer A Neve/E Neve
Publisher Sony
CD Title Thank you for the Years
Track 1
Label Sony Music Tv
Rec No Sony 512272 2
Record: I was glad
Book: The Complete Chronicles of Narnia -C S Lewis
Luxury: A kitchen
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