2/4. I Vow to Thee My Country. Recently attracting controversy for its patriotism, this hymn was created just after the First World War. Vaughan Williams had the idea to put together the stirring music from Hoist's Jupiter from The Planets and the poem written by the American ambassador Cecil Spring-Rice that was found on his desk when he left office.
Producer Sara Conkey Repeated on Saturday at 3.30pm