Songs of Praise Catch up, Remembering Black History on BBC 1

Songs of Praise

Remembering Black History

For Black History Month, guest presenter Mark De-Lisser visits the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. He meets the director, Dr Richard Benjamin, to find out about Britain’s involvement in the slave trade and the role the church played at the time. Mark meets the museum’s historian-in-residence, Laurence Westgaph, to hear about his ambition to create what could become the country’s first memorial to the enslaved. The rector of Liverpool, Rev Canon Dr Crispin Pailing, shares why he is passionate about offering the grounds of St Nicholas’ Church, which was once the city’s main burial ground, as a home for the memorial. \n\nClassical pianist Alexis Ffrench tells YolanDa Brown about his love of music and how he felt as a child being Britain’s youngest black church organist. We also have a special performance of Alexis’s own composition inspired by the faith poem Footprints in the Sand. The daughter of Christian peacemaker Nelson Mandela shares what she feels her father would have thought about the Liverpool garden being built in his honour, and we hear about the vision for the garden from two members of the community, Sonia Bassey and Stephen Nze, who help run the charity behind the project, Mandela8. \n\nMusic comes from across the UK, including poignant hymns written during the period of the slave trade:\n\nYou’ll Never Walk Alone – Tessera\nFor the Healing of the Nations – Christ Church, Birkenhead, October 2018\nGreat Is Thy Faithfulness – Vocal Creation, St Andrew’s Plymouth\nFootprints in the Sand – Alexis Ffrench\nWade in the Water – Stellina\nAmazing Grace – Warwick Road United Reformed Church, May 2019\nChange – Bright City \n

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