from Peterhead, Scotland
Peterhead, the most north-easterly point in the British Isles, is Europe's largest white-fishing port and a vital base for North Sea oil technology. In tonight's New Year Songs of Praise from the old
Parish Church, James O'Hara meets some of the people working in the town's old and new industries; local fisherman Andrew Duncan , whose family has been fishing out of Peterhead for over 150 years and who spends most of his life fishing far out in the North Sea, and newcomer Dick Metson , a helicopter pilot flying regularly between bases in the north-east of Scotland and the oil rigs far out in the treacherous North Sea.
Organist GORDON MILLAR
Conductor ALISTAIR MACDONALD Film director PATTI STEEPLES Producer LESLIE MITCHELL
Series producer JIM MURRAY BBC Scotland
(For hymns see Wed at 10.55 am)