from Lyme Regis
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler
For nine months of the year Lyme Regis is a small seaside town of 3,500 inhabitants; but in the summer the streets and seafront become crowded with holidaymakers. This year, to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to the town, local people and visitors join together to sing favourite hymns on The Cobb, the great breakwater at the harbour mouth.
Geoffrey Wheeler joins in the holiday spirit and goes mackerel fishing with Ken Gollop. He also meets Jadiviga Lavery who was a Polish Resistance fighter, first against the Nazis and then against the Russians. She was captured by the KGB and sentenced to death, a sentence which was commuted to life imprisonment in Siberia ...
And can it be? (Sagina); Lord of all hope-fulness (Slane); Eternal Father, strong to save (Melita); To God be the glory; The Lord's my Shepherd (Crimond); I love to hear the story (Angels' Story); Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton); Will your anchor hold?
Conductor BRIAN MANNERS
Researcher VALETTA STALLABRASS Producer ERNEST REA
Series producer STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Bristol
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