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Radio 4 Sunday Worship
Padre Steve Lamond and the Venerable Air Vice-Marshal Ray Pentland, Chaplain-in-Chief to the Royal Air Force, lead a service commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain live from St George's Chapel of Remembrance in Biggin Hill.
Director of Music Helen Burrows Organist Paul Isom
Brass TBC Clarinettist Peter Wright
Producer Stephen Shipley
Broadcast 12 September 2010 0810-0850
Radio 4 Opening Announcement: BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past eight – time for Sunday Worship. We go live now to St George’s RAF Chapel of Remembrance in Biggin Hill for a service commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The preacher is the Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force, the Venerable Air Vice-Marshal Ray Pentland, and the service is led by Padre Steve Lamond
Steve Lamond:
Good morning and welcome to St George’s RAF Chapel of Remembrance, Biggin Hill. The building that we’re in was built in 1951, replacing an earlier station church commemorating the Battle of Britain, which was destroyed by fire in 1946. The names of the 453 aircrew, from the 52 squadrons of the Biggin Hill Sector, who made the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War are inscribed on the reredos behind the altar.
There’ll be an official Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey next Sunday at 11 o’clock - also broadcast on Radio 4. But this morning we gather this community together in a more intimate setting for an Act of Remembrance conducted here each year.
Our choir, together with members of the chapel choir from Combe Bank School, join us in our opening hymn ‘God is our strength and refuge’, sung to the rousing melody of the Dam Busters’ March.
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