When the clergy of St
Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk recently decreed that no more girls should be taken into the choir they were falling into line with all the other
Anglican Cathedrals in Britain. But they were putting themselves out of step with most other places of worship -
83 per cent of parish churches include girls and women in their choirs. Are the Cathedrals right to defend the boys-only treble line or are the parish churches more in tune with the times?
Bob Prizeman looks for answers and examines the musical and pastoral questions involved.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON