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Pains of Glass - with Sister Wendy

on BBC Two England

Art expert Sister Wendy Beckett joins George Pattison, Dean of King's College, Cambridge, to examine the Holy Week story as it is depicted in the stained-glass windows of King's College Chapel. Music sung by the college's famous choir, conducted by Stephen Cleobury, includes part of Victoria's Tenebrae Responsaries, Blow's Salvator Mundi and Lotti's Crucifixus.
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Pains of Glass - with Sister Wendy 7.20pm BBC2
The "pains" are the events of the Passion as recorded in the stained-glass windows of King's College Chapel in Cambridge. Sister Wendy Beckett, nun and art lover, records her feelings as she sees these magnificent 16th-century works for the first time and discusses their inspiration with the Dean of King's College, George Pattison.
"It's not enough to have an artist who can draw and who can colour," says Sister Wendy. "You have got to have an artist who can understand, and that's what we've got here: the theology of the Passion made radiant to us in the windows."

Contributors

Presenter:
Sister Wendy Beckett
Guest:
George Pattison
Conductor:
Stephen Cleobury
Producer:
James Whitbourn
Producer:
David Kremer

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