Presented by Pam Rhodes
At the age of 76, John Lynes decided to start a new life as a peace keeper in the Middle East. He's just one of the people we meet as Pam Rhodes explores the wisdom and spiritual insights that can come with age. The songs and hymns, sung by Sir Willard White and the Exultate Singers, include Lord For The Years, All Through The Night and King Of Glory, King Of Peace.
John Lynes
John is 80 years old and since 2004, he has been a full-time member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron. The team goes out every day doing patrols in places where conflict is likely to occur, showing an impartial concern for ordinary people caught up in the conflict. Christian Peacemaker Teams' aim is to encourage Christians to devote the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war. Their website is www.cpt.org
Daphne Wallace
Daphne is a retired psychiatrist who had specialised in the care and treatment of elderly patients, particularly those suffering from dementia. Three years ago, she noticed changes in herself and was herself diagnosed with vascular dementia. The diagnosis made Daphne re-think the best use of her time and changed her priorities.
Rev Tom Gordon
Tom works as a chaplain at the Marie Curie Hospice in Edinburgh. His role is to help people facing the end of their lives and support them through that process, helping them to find peace of mind and to die "a good death". The website for Marie Curie Cancer Care www.mariecurie.org.uk
Biggin Hill Christian Fellowship
This Fellowship offers a regular Monday lunch for elderly people, during which they discuss issues of faith. The content of the discussions is based on the well-known Alpha course. The church's website is: www.bhcf.org.uk and more information about Alpha can be found at www.alpha.org
The Most Rev. David Hope
David is a retired Archbishop of York who has found that as he gets older, he is working towards a greater simplicity in his faith, and is looking for a spirituality that is less encumbered. Having more time on his hands since his retirement, he now re-visits the things that inspired him during his earlier faith journey and is discovering new insights.
SONGS OF PRAISE SIGNATURE TUNE
Composer: Robert Prizeman
Performers: Robert Prizeman, Maurice Murphy, Steven Geraghty
Sheet music for the Songs of Praise signature tune, composed by Robert Prizeman, is published by Chester Music, catalogue number CH55835.
You can listen to the theme tune on CD 2 of the Songs of Praise album.
Item One:
Title: KING OF GLORY, KING OF PEACE
Taken from Songs of Praise Hymn Book
Hymn no. 297
Performers: Exultate Singers
Conductor: David Ogden
Item Two:
Title: TAKE THIS MOMENT
Tune: Take this moment
Verses 1,2,4 and 5
Music: by John L. Bell
Words: John L. Bell and Graham Maule
copyright: 2000 Wild Goose Resource Group. Iona Community
Performers: Exultate Singers
Conductor: David Ogden
Item Three:
Title: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
Performer: Sir Willard White
Item Four:
Title: EVERY TIME I FEEL THE SPIRIT
Performers: THE ADVENTIST VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Conductor: KEN BURTON
Item Five:
Title: O GOD YOU SEARCH ME
From Psalm 139
Words and Music: Bernadette Farrell
Arranged: David Ogden
Performers: Exultate Singers
Conductor: David Ogden
Item Six:
Title: DEEP RIVER
Performers: Sir Willard White
The Adventist Vocal Ensemble
Conductor: Ken Burton
Item Seven:
Title: LORD FOR THE YEARS
Tune: Lord for the Years
Taken from Songs of Praise Hymn Book
Hymn no: 333
Performers: Exultate Singers
Conductor: David Ogden
Pam's introduction, with Anton Du Beck
Roko Chiswick Bridge
Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground
Hartington Road
Chiswick, London
W4 3UH
Tel: 0208 747 5757
http://www.myroko.co.uk/chiswick/index.php
The Exultate Singers items
The Church of All Saints with St. Saviour
All Saint's Road (at jct. with Queen's Road)
Weston-super-Mare
Somerset
BS23 2NL
The Sir Willard White items and the Adventist Vocal Ensemble
Christ Church Spitalfields,
Fournier Street,
London,
E1 6QE.
www.spitalfieldsvenue.org
Daphne playing golf:
Bentham Golf Club
Robin lane
Bentham
Lancaster
LA2 7AG
www.benthamgolfclub.co.uk
EXULTATE SINGERS
Exultate Singers is an accomplished chamber choir, based in Bristol in the South West of England. It was founded by its conductor, David Ogden, in September 2002 to sing Sunday Morning Worship in a live broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and since then has given many concerts, several more radio broadcasts and has appeared on BBC television.
The choir released its debut CD in December 2005. Entitled Visions of Peace, it brings together some of the pieces that have inspired audiences at Exultate Singers' concerts and broadcasts. It was featured on BBC Radio 3's programme, The Choir.
Highlights include a performance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius with City of Bristol Choir and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; the first South West performance of James MacMillan's demanding work for choir and string orchestra, Seven Last Words From The Cross, and a live broadcast on BBC Radio 4 of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London with the Big Buzzard Boogie Band.
The choir's repertoire is varied, ranging from Renaissance masterpieces to contemporary music, spirituals and jazz.
Sir Willard White
Visit www.imgartists.com for information about Sir Willard White's biography
THE ADVENTIST VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Ken Burton is principal conductor of award winning London Adventist Chorale (BBC/Sainsbury Choir Of The Year 1995, BBC UK Gospel Choir Of The Year 1996, GEM award winners 2005).
For more information visit www.kenburton.com
Anton Du Beke
Best known for starring in BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, Anton Du Beke has made ballroom queens of celebrities Lesley Garrett CBE, Esther Rantzen OBE, Patsy Palmer, Jan Ravens, Kate Garraway and Gillian Taylforth on the hit TV series.
Witty, charismatic and a natural entertainer, Anton's skills in front of an audience extend far beyond his exceptional ballroom talents. That's not to underestimate the national and international dance achievements which he and his professional partner, Erin Boag have collected over the ten years they have worked together.
Anton is now the well known presenter for the popular daytime BBC Two series Step up to the Plate and he has also made many guest appearances on BBC One's Celebrity Star Spell, Test The Nation, Celebrity The Weakest Link, Question of Sport Christmas Special, Graham Norton's Big Finish, Who Wants to be a Millionaire Christmas Celebrity Special, Rob Brydon's 'Annually Retentive' and ITV1's Loose Women and GMTV. In 2007 he competed in the new BBC Two series Underdogs and was a featured coach and choreographer in the new Brian Conley series Let Me Entertain You. He has appeared live in concert with Claire Sweeney and Bonnie Langford and has also presented several shows on BBC Radio Oxford.
www.antondubeke.com