NO ONE can possibly look back on a week of more varied interests than ' Dick ' Sheppard, as he is known to thousands, for he might well be called the world's godfather. Nobody yet turned to him for counsel and sympathy and help without effect. His human side is as characteristic as his amazing courage in fighting constant sickness in the last ten years.
It is well known that he was vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields from 1919 to 1927, for he made it the best-known church in England. It is not so well known that he was one of the very first ministers of religion to see what broadcasting might mean to the Church. He was a prophet in his own generation, and really set the tone of broadcast services.
He is interested in simple things and simple people; when he had to give up St. Martin-in-the-Fields he found it ' no fun to chuck all the things one cares for.' That is the man who is to say something tonight about his thoughts and emotions, his personal reactions to the week just over.