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The first BBC broadcast of Choral Evensong came from Westminster Abbey in 1926. The first edition was relayed by the British Broadcasting Company from Westminster Abbey on 7 October 1926. [1] [3] The programme continued on the BBC Home Service, later BBC Radio 4, until 8 April 1970, when it moved to BBC Radio 3.
The BBC has, since 1926, broadcast a weekly service of Choral Evensong. It is broadcast (usually live) on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesdays at 15:30 and often repeated on the following Sunday. Between February 2007 and September 2008, the service was broadcast on Sunday only.
1990. 24 September – Radio 3's Night School opens. It airs repeats of the schools programmes broadcast the previous morning on BBC Radio 5.This allows schools to record an FM-quality transmission of the programmes which, following their transfer from Radio 4 to Radio 5, results in the morning broadcast now being heard on the inferior MW waveband.
When Choral Evensong was moved from Radio 4 to Radio 3 with effect from 8 April 1970 and reduced to just one broadcast per month, the BBC received 2,500 letters of complaint, and weekly transmissions were resumed on 1 July. [9]: 262–263 [60] In 2007 the live broadcast was switched to Sundays, which again caused protests. [61]
The Advent carol service and Evensong for Ash Wednesday in particular are often broadcast by BBC Radio 3 as part of the station's regular broadcast of Choral Evensong. [4] The choir was also the first choir in the UK to webcast its services, releasing a new webcast each week throughout the year since 2008.
Like Mattins, Evensong is a service that is a distinctively Anglican service, originating in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 as a combination of the offices of Vespers and Compline. [5] Choral Evensong is sung daily in most Church of England cathedrals , as well as in churches and cathedrals throughout the Anglican Communion.
Services have also been broadcast live on the BBC Radio 3 programme Choral Evensong, most recently an Evensong service to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the foundation of the church, in 2023. [30]
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