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25/12/2016

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A service for Christmas from Durham Cathedral. With Canon Angela Tilby.

A service for Christmas from Durham Cathedral. Canon Angela Tilby encounters the Angel of the North and reflects on the north east's industrial past.

'Surprised by an Angel' - A Service for Christmas Morning from Durham Cathedral

Canon Angela Tilby encounters the Angel of the North, the massive figure designed by Antony Gormley which dominates the main road and railway line through the North East. She reflects on the region's industrial past which has now largely disappeared and how the Angel has unexpectedly become a source of wonder and support, almost a place of pilgrimage. Angela journeys on to Durham Cathedral to contemplate the mystery of the Nativity of Jesus - how God sent his angel to surprise Mary and the shepherds with the news that the birth of a child would be how God meets us today and everyday in the struggle of human living.

With Canon David Kennedy and the Cathedral Consort of Singers directed by James Lancelot and accompanied by Francesca Massey singing seasonal music from Handel's Messiah and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

Producer: Stephen Shipley.

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