from Coverack Coverack is a tiny fishing village at the bottom of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. Every year local people and holidaymakers gather round the harbour walls to sing their favourite hymns In the open air.
Geoffrey Wheeler joins in the singing and meets people from the area, among them Michael Eustice , Coverack's postman, and John Corln. who remembers Marconi unloading his newly-invented radio equipment at the harbour and making the first transmission across the Atlantic.
All hall the power (Diadem); Jesus shall reign (Truro); Deep harmony; Blessed assurance; Ave Maria (Sacred Song); In heavenly love abiding (Pen-Ian); Forward be our watchword (Rachle); When I survey the wondrous cross (Great Soul); Day is dying in the West (Sennen)
Conductor EDWARD GOLDSMITH
Outside broadcast director DAVID KREUER Producer CHRISTOPHER MANN Series producer JIM MURRAY BBC Bristol