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Inspiring hymns and songs, together with stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

Inspiring hymns and songs, together with uplifting stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

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Songs of Praise: Windrush

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17/06/2018

BBC One - Songs of Praise, Windrush

Sean Fletcher is at Tilbury Docks to mark 70 years since the arrival of the Windrush.

Sean Fletcher celebrates the faith and music of the Windrush generation 70 years after they arrived, and explores the challenges they have faced right up to the present day.

Sean Fletcher is in Tilbury Docks near London to mark 70 years since the SS Empire Windrush brought nearly 500 new settlers from the Caribbean, an event that came to symbolise the beginning of modern Britain. He travels up river and into London to explore the challenges those new arrivals and their families have faced right up to the present day, and to celebrate the faith and music they brought with them. 

He meets the 90-year-old bishop who reflects on his first impressions of arriving in Britain nearly 70 years ago. A young mother shares how her faith is sustaining her through the great distress caused by the 2018 Windrush crisis, and Britain's first black female comedian Angie Le Mar discusses her latest play that celebrates the Windrush generation and the Pentecostal faith she grew up with. 

Josie d'Arby visits the magnificent St Paul's Cathedral on the trail of one of the world's most famous bears. She hears how the final adventure of Paddington, written just before author Michael Bond passed away in 2017, came to be set in one of Britain's most famous cathedrals. 

With a rich mix of music, including uplifting gospel songs and a performance from Grammy Award-winner Gregory Porter.

Music:
Every Time I Feel the Spirit from LSO St Luke's 
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms from St Elisabeth's, Reddish
How Great Is Our God, by Beechcroft Choir and New Testament Assembly Congregation, Tooting
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind from Christ Church URC, Port Sunlight
Great Is Thy Faithfulness from St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen
He Looked Beyond My Faults from St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London
The Lion and the Lamb from City Gates Church, Ilford.

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