When the clergy of St
Edmundsbury Cathedral in Suffolk recently decreed that no more girls should be taken into the choir they were falling into line with all the other Anglican Cathedrals in Britain. But they were putting themselves out of step with most other places of worship - 83 per cent of parish churches, for instance, include girls and women in their choirs.
Bob Prizeman examines the musical and pastoral questions involved.
Producer SALLY THOMPSON