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Waiting for Mrs Forbes

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

En attendant Mme Forbes
Ray Gosling presents a tale of ecclesiastical life in the Diocese of Fulham and Gibraltar.
... I went to a service the other day - the altar looked like an Oxo cube and the priests seemed to be dressed in raincoats - it's all terribly sad....
The Rev Kenneth Forrester is chaplain to the dying Anglican community in Pau, in south-west France. His church, St Andrew's, has neither bells, vergers nor jumble sales -just a tiny congregation of ageing expatriates who assemble to hear true-blue 1662 ideas more ancient than modern.... Producer ALASTAIR WILSON

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Mme Forbes
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Ray Gosling
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Kenneth Forrester
Producer:
Alastair Wilson
Source: Radio Times

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