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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.
Generally comprising Anglican evensong, occasionally Roman Catholic vespers. Initially broadcast on BBC Home Service, later branded BBC Radio 4, until 8 April 1970 when the programme moved to BBC Radio 3. The Daily Service: 97 43 by All Souls Church, Langham Place: BBC: 2 January 1928 over 33,500 Live church sermon, bible reading, and choral ...
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]
Choral services are occasionally recorded for broadcast on the radio, most recently in November 2024 when Evensong and Matins were recorded for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, respectively. [35] [36] In January 2025 plans were announced to expand the church's musical program with the formation of a girls' choir and a choir of men and women. [37]
A service of Choral Evensong is broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 3, a tradition begun in 1926. [7] ... works which remain part of the Anglican choral repertoire today. ...
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]
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.