This week the harvest celebrations of Cullompton,a small town in agricultural east Devon. Martin Bashir shares the varied experiences of harvest time with a farmer, a vet, a conservationist and a policeman, and he even tries his hand at baking the harvest loaves. The hymns are sung in the beautiful 15th-century church of St Andrew.
Hymns: Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (St George); We Plough the Fields, and Scatter (Wir Pflugen); There Is a Redeemer; Bringing in the Sheaves; 0 Praise Ye the Lord! (Laudate Dominum); Purify My Heart; Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart/He Is Exalted; Now Thank We All Our God (Nun Danket).
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