Lament for Syria is a poem written by Amineh Abou Kerech, winner of the 2017 Betjamin poetry prize for 10-13 year olds. She moved to the UK last summer, and composed […]
This beautiful poem by the great Lord Tennyson was read by the Attorney General, Geoffrey Cox. It was originally written to mourn the untimely death of just one man, but […]
The final reading of the service was given by Colin Thubron, the acclaimed travel writer. It is a letter written by Freya Stark, one of the first Westerners to ever […]
The fourth reading of the service absolutely brought the house down. Martin Jarvis, narrator of the audiobooks, stood up and read this extract from Richmal Crompton’s fabulous Just William series about an […]
The 2nd reading at our flagship carol service was this excellent monologue by Marriott Edgar, famed author of The Lion and Albert. It was read in a magnificently pronounced Northern accent […]
This poem, the first reading at the Hands Up flagship carol service, is by Nizar Qabbani, a Syrian diplomat and poet, born in Damascus in 1928. Qabbani moved abroad after […]
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