Roger Stamp podcast

Podcast by St John's Church, Broadbridge Heath, Horsham, West Sussex. UK. This week Roger Stamp brings you music and chat; including a song about "Them Dry Bones" based on the bible story of Ezekiel who saw dry bones get up and walk around as if they were alive.

Podcast from St John's Church, Broadbridge Heath, Sussex, UK. This week Roger Stamp brings you music and chat. Also a special competition for younger listeners: can you tell what sounds are recorded and what those sounds have in common?

Young People Podcast Trail by Roger Stamp

This week: many new voices join the weekly podcast from St John's church in Broadbridge Heath, Sussex, UK

From BBC Radio 3 Saturday Breakfast with Elizabeth Alker, 6th June 2020. Roger Stamp recorded a family of brown Sussex cows calling to another family of cows in the next field.

Roger Stamp and Kirsten McCorkle prove that its possible to talk, make a podcast and brew tea... all at the same time!

The best recordings from the past ten weeks of the podcast for St John's church in Broadbridge Heath, Sussex, UK

St John's Church Broadbridge Heath Podcast 20th May 2020: Policeman's Heel And Patternoster Lifts

St John's Church Broadbridge Heath. Weekly podcast.

Podcast for St John's church, Broadbridge Heath, Horsham, Sussex, UK

St Johns Church Podcast Easter V4 by Roger Stamp

Church Podcast 'Low Sunday' & 'Earworms' by Roger Stamp

St John's Church Broadbridge Heath. Weekly podcast for the church. Wednesday 29th April 2020.

The UK city of Brighton & Hove became the focus of concern about the spread of Coronavirus (officially called COVID-19). Roger Stamp made this report for the BBC Radio 4 "PM" programme on Tuesday 11th February 2020 (information correct at time of broadcast.

Paul Scott is not just a poet but also a biologist! As Roger Stamp discovered when Paul explained how different plants have been placed in different categories. For instance; did you know that Potatoes, Tomatoes and Deadly Nightshade are all from the same family of plants?

"Running a cathedral is a very expensive business" according to Guildford Cathedral. The Association of English Cathedrals is celebrating 2020 as the "Year of Cathedrals" with many events across the country. The Church of England says 42 of its Cathedrals reported nearly ten million visitors in 2018, an increase of over 10 per cent on the previous year. But all cathedrals have to find funds for the daily upkeep of the buildings. In Guildford the Cathedral is trying to sell off some of its land for development. Roger Stamp made this report for the BBC Sussex & Surrey Sunday Breakfast Show.

What do F. Scot Fitzfgerald, Jane Austin, Charles Dickens and the TV sci-fi series 'Blake's 7' all have in common? The poet Paul Scott talks to Roger Stamp about unfinished novels and sudden endings to TV programmes. Paul explains his view on what we can learn from unfinished works in our own lives.

"Into the valley of Death, Rode the six hundred". In this podcast, the poet Paul Scott talks to Roger Stamp about Tennyson's famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade". Paul says it was a famous mistake; so how can we learn from that mistake today? And is it also a way to understand more about the Christian God?

Churches are great places to find furniture and art which is both inspirational and functional. In Guildford, Surrey, UK, the local baptist church commissioned an artist and sculptor to create a lectern and a communion table which is inspired by the cross of Christ and his empty tomb. The designs have won awards. Roger Stamp visited the church.

If you think of a hearse what image first comes to your mind? A large black car with space for a coffin in the boot? Or perhaps an old-style funeral procession lead by black horses and a carriage. Many motorbike enthusiasts would rather ‘go’ on a bike for their funeral. The world’s only Motorcycle Funeral company, was founded by the late Elim Pentecostal minister, the Rev Paul Sinclair. Roger Stamp spoke to his wife, who now runs the company.

For this podcast I asked my friend, the poet Paul Scott, to write down what he thinks God sounds like when He speaks. His answer is inspired and surprising. I recorded three people who read his short "Pause for Thought" so that you can hear many different voices. The readers are Paul Scott, Anne Burnford and myself.

VOICES OF FAITH: 40 members of parish churches in the Anglican Diocese of Chichester, Sussex, UK have become the first recipients of a new award for services to their church. The Order of St Richard is named after Bishop Richard who was bishop of Chichester in 1244 and the Patron Saint of Sussex. Roger Stamp spoke to three people who were awarded the new Order of St Richard at a ceremony in the cathedral on 5th October 2019. Music is "The Prayer of St Richard of Chichester" (Frederick Stocken) sung by the Chichester Cathedral choir.

The Church of St Michael and All Angels in Lowfield Heath, West Sussex, UK, is so close to the runway at Gatwick airport you can stand in the churchyard and watch the planes take off; close-up….. Its noisy during services too! This week the Church of England begun a public consultation on its plans to sell the Victorian building to the Seventh Day Adventists who been renting it for ten years. The CofE gave up holding services there in 2004. They can now progress plans to sell the church because it’s unlikely to be demolished to make way for airport expansion; earlier this year the government ruled that Gatwick will not be allowed a second runway. Reporter, Roger Stamp has been to the church.

My feature about Makup for Men was broadcast by the BBC Radio 4 "You & Yours" programme. You can hear the full programme at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003r43

Many more men are wearing makeup. It's becoming an increasingly popular trend, with sales of cosmetics such as hair removal products and self tan increasing by 25 percent year on year. I don't usually wear makeup myself but I thought I would give it a try so see if it would make my rather old face look younger so I went Brighton to get advice from Makeup Artist Nadia Harper.

Have you ever looked closely at a flower, or observed people and events then written down a description of it in a poem? My friend Paul Scott has written many poetic observations about faith, life, holidays, gardening ..... and Dandelions. He asked me to record some of his poetry and here is a selection of just three or four.

Eight decades have passed since the first Jewish children arrived in England from Czechoslovakia on what has become known as the Kinderstransport. In 1938 , Nicholas Winton, a 29-year-old British stockbroker established an organisation to aid 669 Jewish children escape from the Nazis. In fact, in the end, he saved many more. Nikki was knighted in 2003. In that same year Roger Stamp interviewed him at his home in Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK.

My guests are: actress & comedian Sally Phillips: she played Shazza in the “Bridget Jones” films and “Tilly” in Miranda Hart’s TV sitcoms. Sally will be talking about her son Olly who has Downs Syndrome. The blind musician and christian composer, Marlyn Baker; and Jonathan Bryan, a 12 year old severely disabled boy, who is unable to speak. He has published his first book called “Eye Can Write”. All my guests have one thing in common: they’ve overcome the challenges posed by various disabilities.

A “mini musical” performed by children and written by a Surrey musician is becoming a very popular choice for performances in Schools and Churches. Anne Beresford's "The Tale of Three Trees" is a reflection on the Easter story based on a traditional American folk tale. During rehearsals for the performance, Anne told Roger Stamp the story of 'The Tale of Three Trees' while sitting at her piano.

Most nativity plays use a theatrical doll to represent the baby Jesus in the manger but the Wintershall Nativity players go a step further to give a sense of reality: they use a real baby (with the baby’s real mother close by to supervise). In the full week of performances, several babies were on stage in the Holly Barn at Wintershall near Bramley, Surrey: including seven-week-old twins Imogen and Joseph. Roger Stamp has been playing the part of a shepherd in performances of the play and compiling an audio diary of all his experiences with the production since rehearsals began. This is the final instalment of his exclusive look behind the scenes.

On the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1, bellringers across the UK joined together in a mass ring for peace called "Ringing Remembers". Roger Stamp joined the bell ringers in the bell tower at St George's Church in Brede, East Sussex for a live broadcast of the event.

After several weeks of rehearsals; it’s now time for the cast of the Wintershall Nativity Play to move into the 17th Century barn near Bramley, Surrey where the performances will take place. Over the last 30 years the Wintershall players have established a national reputation for producing plays which tell stories from the bible. They are mostly amateur actors and their plays are always produced to a high standard. Roger Stamp joined the cast – he plays a shepherd. This week he saw the amazing set in the barn for the first time.

In the trenches of the Somme during World War 1, just half an hour before going "over the top", solider John Stanley Purvis wrote a poem "From Steyning to The Ring" recalling the Sussex countryside he loved. Composer Ralf Vaughan Williams also served in the war: he too knew that countryside and wrote "The Lark Ascending" in 1914. Historian Simon Machin explores the link between the two pieces.

Over the last 30 years the Wintershall players have established a national reputation for producing plays which tell stories from the bible. They are mostly amateur actors but their plays are always produced to a high standard. The famous annual Wintershall Nativity play; performed in a barn near Bramley, Surrey, features plenty of live animals as well as actors. This year, Roger Stamp joined the cast as one of the shepherds. This is what happened when he went to his first rehearsal.

Over the last 30 years the Wintershall players have established a national reputation for producing plays which tell stories from the bible. They are mostly amateur actors but their plays are always produced to a high standard. The famous annual Wintershall Nativity play; performed in a barn near Bramley, Surrey, features plenty of live animals as well as actors. This year, Roger Stamp joined the cast. He went to the auditions – and they gave me a part – as one of the shepherds.

Every Summer, a play telling the story of the life of Jesus Christ is performed in fields in Surrey by over 100 actors, many of them local volunteers. The Wintershall Players have become well known for staging the annual Passion Play in London’s Trafalgar Square. They kindly welcomed Roger Stamp to watch a rehearsal for “The Life of Christ”.