Lay Clerk: Timothy Popple, Bristol Cathedral
Celebrating a hundred years of the BBC’s broadcasting of Choral Evensong. Matthew Bannister, a former head chorister and a verger, meets the people that make this service happen.
October 2026 marks a hundred years of the BBC’s broadcasting of Choral Evensong. Matthew Bannister is a former head chorister and a verger who loves Evensong. He talks to the people that make this much-loved service happen. In this episode, he meets Timothy Popple, a lay clerk who sings at Bristol Cathedral and who has written a book about Evensong.
Produced by Natalie Steed for Rhubarb Rhubarb
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