Church bells ring to mark the New Year, to celebrate a wedding, to wake the congregation and call them to worship, or just to please the bellringers.
Tonight, they summon hundreds of campanologists to St Martin-in-the-Fields in London's Trafalgar Square to sing their favourite hymns and tell their tales. Pam Rhodes learns the craft, visits a bell foundry and climbs the dusty stairs of church towers from
Derbyshire to Somerset.
Hymns: Angel-Voices Ever Singing; 0 Praise Ye the Lord! (Laudate
Dominum); The Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended (St Clement); Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
(Repton); We Have a Gospel to
Proclaim (Fulda); To Thee 0 Lord, Our Hearts We Raise (Golden
Sheaves); He Who Would Valiant
Be (Monks Gate); Unchanging God Who Livest (Belfry Praise). Director Ron Isted
Editor Roger Hutchings
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