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Sunday Worship: 08/04/2012

08/04/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, 08/04/2012

Easter Worship from Manchester Cathedral featuring Radio 4 commission The People's Passion

Easter Eucharist live from Manchester Cathedral, with the Bishop of Manchester and featuring choral work The People's Passion, by Sasha Johnson Manning and Michael Symmons Roberts.

The Bishop of Manchester preaches at this special Easter Eucharist featuring composer Sasha Johnson Manning's and poet Michael Symmons Roberts' new Radio 4 commission 'The People's Passion' live from Manchester Cathedral. President: The Dean, The Very Revd Rogers Govender; Deacon: The Precentor, The Revd Canon Gilly Myers; Organist & Master of the Choristers: Christopher Stokes; Sub-Organist: Jeffrey Makinson; Producer: Philip Billson.

The People's Passion is a weeklong event across BBC Radio 4 and Local Radio.
The BBC has commissioned a brand new choral work which will be performed by choirs across the country at Easter 2012. It receives its first full broadcast during this Easter Sunday Eucharist. Over one hundred choirs across the country and around the world have joined to sing The People's Passion during Holy Week and Easter. From Dunfermline to the Channel Islands, from North Carolina to Birmingham and Kenya, choirs big and small are participating. They're singing in great cathedrals, tiny churches, schools, shopping centres and supermarket car parks, and 36 BBC Local Radio stations have followed their progress. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/peoples-passion/

This Holy Week BBC Radio 4 has broadcast five new plays by the award winning playwright Nick Warburton which have been written especially for The People's Passion. The drama has focussed on the daily life of people who live and work in a fictional British cathedral and has featured the music commissioned for the event.

Five radio features, focused on five actual British cathedrals whilst BBC local radio stations have explored cathedrals in your area and asked, in light of the St. Paul's Protest, what is the purpose of cathedrals in Britain today.

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