from Beccles Quay, Suffolk Holiday-makers and boating folk gather by the river with choirs and congregations from Suffolk and Norfolk to sing their Songs of Praise with the Wrentham Band and the East Norfolk Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Pam Rhodes discovers how the spiritual needs of holiday-makers are cared for, and goes messing about on the river with some waterbound missionaries. She takes a 'Swallows and Amazons' journey to the remotest part of the Broads to find a young man who lives in a resurrected 'Ark' and the last of the offshore fishermen tell tales of 50 years at sea, in all weathers, in the same tiny boat.
Shall we gather at the river? Our
God reigns: I need thee every hour; Seek ye first; God is love: let heav'n adore him (Hyfrydol); By the rivers of Babylon; Abide with me; To God be the glory
Conductor ROBERT MCNEIL WATSON Researcher JUDITH PEERS Producer SIMON HAMMOND Editor STEPHEN WHITTLE
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