Songs of Praise: Prisons Sunday

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Claire McCollum

Pam Rhodes

Cat Lewis

Emyr Afan

Matthew Napier

Jonathan Davies

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Prisons Sunday

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Claire McCollum visits the Clink restaurant in the grounds of Styal women’s prison.

Claire McCollum visits the Clink restaurant in Styal, partly run by prison inmates who are being given the chance of a fresh start in life by being trained in a fine dining restaurant.

Claire McCollum is in the Clink restaurant in Styal near Manchester, where inmates from the nearby prison are being given the chance of a fresh start in life by being trained in a fine dining restaurant.

Pam Rhodes meets former politician, now ordained priest, Jonathan Aitken in London to hear about his journey from prison to the pulpit. At Lambeth Palace, Pam finds out about the Church of England’s free Daily Hope phone service, now also available in prisons across the country.

As the Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Rose Hudson Wilkin, calls for a change in attitudes towards asylum seekers, we meet the Christian charities helping refugees on the south coast.

With congregational singing recorded before the current restrictions, as well as specially recorded hymns from singer Mary Jess and vocal ensemble Tessera:

All My Hope On God Is Founded – St Elisabeth’s Church, Reddish April 2018
Beauty for Brokenness – St David’s Church, Exeter September 2018
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind – Hereford Cathedral October 2017
Blessed Assurance – LSO St. Lukes June 2017
When I Needed a Neighbour – Tessera, Coughton Court July 2020
10,000 Reasons – Mary-Jess, Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth August 2020
Love Divine All Loves Excelling – St. Asaph Cathedral June 2017


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