from the Chapel Royal of St. Peter-ad-Vincula, H.M. Tower of London.
Attended by the Officers and Yeoman Warders
Conducted by the Chaplain, the Rev. R. M. La Porte-Payne, M.B.E., T.D., Rector, St. Mary Abchurch, London, E.C.
Order of Service:
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia! (A. and M. 134)
Sentence, Exhortation, General Confession, Absolution
The Lord's Prayer; Versicles and Responses
Easter Anthems
Psalm 111
First Lesson: Exodus 12, vv. 1-14 (read by the Constable, Field-Marshal the Earl Wavell, P.C., G.C.B., C.C.S.I., O.C.I.E., C.M.G., M.C.)
Te Deum
Second Lesson: St. John 20, w. 11-17 (read by the Major and Resident Governor, Colonel E. H. Carkeet-James, O.B.E., M.C.)
Jubilate; Creed; Collects
Christ the Lord is risen again (A. and M. 136)
Prayers
Alleluia! Hearts to heav'n (A. and M. 137)
Address by the Rev. C. B. Mortlock, H.C.F., F.S.A., Rector of St. Vedast, Foster Lane, London, E.C.
Christ the Lord is risen today (A. and M. 131)
Blessing: Last verse of A. and M. 370 (sung kneeling)
National Anthem (first verse)
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude,
Heut triumphiret Gottes Sohn (Bach)
Organist and choirmaster, E. R. Todd
Before the Service begins, at 11.0, the Yeoman Warders, in state dress, parade on Tower Green prior to conducting the Major and Resident Governor to the Chapel Royal
(to 12.00)
Muffin and Peregrine wear their Easter bonnets with Annette Mills (who writes the songs) and Ann Hogarth (who pulls the strings).
Join Barrie Edgar at Billy Smart's Circus at Ilford to meet some of the animals. The Big Top is filled with children watching a special performance carried out by young folk who are training to be circus performers.
Commander Jacques Cousteau shows films he has taken of sea-lions, fish, octopus, and wrecks when he explored the sea bed with his frogman equipment.
Programme introduced by Robert MacDermot.
(to 18.15)
A comedy by H. W. Gribble.
[Starring] Valerie White
The scene is the lounge hall in the house of Mrs. Rodney and Miss Rodney, near London.
(Second performance on Thursday at 8.45)
The men who built the cathedrals of France ornamented the outsides with figures from the Bible. This fine film tells the simple story of the Gospels in episodes as conceived by French sculptors. It is illustrated by examples of their work in the cathedrals and churches of France.
(sound only)
(to 22.40)
