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Remembrance Sunday

Live from Aldershot, the home of the British Army, with traditional hymns and guest soloist Michael Ball. Introduced by Bill Turnbull.

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  • Choirs and Congregation of The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints

    For All The Saints

    Ensemble: Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Supporting Artist: Daniel Moult. Supporting Artist: Bill Turnbull. Lyricist: W. W. How. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Music Arranger: Robert Ramskill.

    Tune: Sine Nomine, Composer: R. Vaughan Williams

  • Choirs and Congregation of The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints

    I Vow To Thee, My Country

    Ensemble: Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Supporting Artist: Daniel Moult. Supporting Artist: Bill Turnbull. Lyricist: Cecil Spring-Rice. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Music Arranger: Robert Ramskill.

    Tune: Thaxted, Composer: Gustav Holst

  • Choirs and Congregation of The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints

    O Valiant Hearts

    Ensemble: Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Supporting Artist: Daniel Moult. Supporting Artist: Bill Turnbull. Lyricist: J. S. Arkwright. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Music Arranger: Geoff Ellerby.

    Tune: Supreme Sacrifice, Composer: Charles Harris

  • Choirs and Congregation of The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints

    O Brother Man

    Ensemble: Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Supporting Artist: Daniel Moult. Supporting Artist: Bill Turnbull. Lyricist: J. G. Whittier. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Music Arranger: Paul Leddington Wright.

    Tune: Londonderry Air, Music: Irish Trad

  • Michael Ball

    Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

    Choir: Choirs and Congregation of The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints. Ensemble: Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Supporting Artist: Daniel Moult. Supporting Artist: Bill Turnbull. Lyricist: William Williams. Lyricist: Peter Williams and Others. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Music Arranger: Robert Ramskill.

    Tune: Cwm Rhondda, Composer: John Hughes

  • Michael Ball

    Abide With Me

    Ensemble: Band of the Royal Corps of Signals. Supporting Artist: Daniel Moult. Lyricist: Henry Francis Lyte. Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Music Arranger: Robert Ramskill.

    Tune: Eventide, Composer: William Henry Monk

  • The Farnham Youth Choir

    In Flanders Fields

    Supporting Artist: Julia Freeman. Lyricist: John McRae. Conductor: David Victor-Smith.

    Composer: Alexander Tilley

Factsheet for Sunday 9th November 2014

Live from Aldershot, the home of the British Army, with traditional hymns and guest soloist, Michael Ball.

Contributors & Interviewees

Arabella Dorman

has been to Iraq and Afghanistan as a war artist, both as a military embed and as an individual traveller, to explore what conflict means today, its immediate impact and also its long term repercussions. Throughout these journeys she was very much supported by a personal Christian faith, which also forms the basis of her life, ethics and paintings.


Andrew Wallis

Andrew is the Curator of and one of two men who came up with the idea of creating a garden filled with soil from the 70 fields where guardsmen had fought and died in World War I. The central circular bed that holds the sacred soil has the words of John McCrae鈥檚 poem In Flanders Fields carved around it.

We took Ray Huggins and Norman Mitchell to see the Garden, just before it was opened by HRH The Queen, on 6th November this year.


Major Rob Hoey

Rob is a serving officer with the Royal Engineers, and a Christian. He believes the core values of the Army are consistent with Christian values 鈥� loyalty, integrity and selfless commitment. For him, God is a Sovereign God and, as such, has a plan in life for him.


Bob Gale

Bob was a Signalman in the Navy during the Second World War, serving in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, India, Burma and Malaysia. He received the Distinguished Service Medal for his part in the Normandy Landings in 1944. He read an extract from the poem, 鈥楩or the Fallen鈥�, by Laurence Binyon (1869- 1943)


Lewis Trinder

D Day and Arctic Convoy Veteran Lewis Trinder talked to Bill Turnbull about his experiences in World War 11 and the impact of the First World War on his own family.


Emma Thompson & Samantha Trussler
Emma talks about the difficulties of being a military wife left at home to cope with family life during her husband鈥檚 tour of Afghanistan, and Samantha of how she founded the Aldershot Military Wives Choir.

Credits

Presenter Bill Turnbull
Performer Michael Ball
Producer Karen Hannah
Series Producer Matthew Napier
Executive Producer David Taviner

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