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Castaway
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A former Archbishop of York and Bishop of London who gave up high office to become a local vicar.
On the island
Eight records
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550: I. Molto allegro
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner
I've chosen the opening of Mozart's Fortieth Symphony because that's, I suppose, the first bit of classical music I recollect from our home in Thorns Lane ... whenever the ... opening bar start up my mind goes immediately back to our front room in Thorns Lane.
Yorkshire and uh brass bands have been part of the tradition, so I thought I'd uh select uh the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, one of the well known bands of Yorkshire, and the Floral Dance.
The Madrigal Choir, conducted by Marin Constantin
I spent a bit of time in uh Romania and uh ... I remember me hearing this carol two days before Christmas in the Communist State, and it was it just struck me as being so transformative really, the music and the words, simply telling the story of how Mary and Joseph make their way to Bethlehem and in the stable Mary gives birth to the Son of God.
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Sanctus
Munich Bach Choir and Munich Bach Orchestra, conducted by Karl Richter
I really must have among my selection a part of Bach's B minor Mass, which has always been a huge inspiration. And what better than the Sanctus, which does really speaks right from the very beginning, of the sheer holiness, the wonder, the beauty and the splendour of God.
I felt I couldn't let a programme like this go without uh on Oakley More Bar Tat. And again you've got a very good uh another very good uh brass band, the Black Dyke Mills band, which was actually in our church not all that long ago, to play it.
Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Op. 3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins
which has been a huge source both of solace and of inspiration to me, just to get away from everything and everyone. I think at some stage I'd rather entertain the view that I might have become a Trappist monk.
Elijah, Op. 70: Lift Thine Eyes
I think after all that we need something to lift our eyes and raise our spirits. Um and so I've chosen uh part of Mendelssohn's Elijah, and I've always found in the psalm, you know, I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help. I mean, that's a great psalm of hope and encouragement
All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 (Vespers): VI. Bogoroditse Devo (Ave Maria)Favourite
Berlin Radio Chorus, conducted by Robin Gritton
it speaks of, you know, the beauty and the wonder and the love of God uh for his creation and for the whole human family.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:53Are you feeling fulfilled by the move [to St Margaret's, Ilkley]?
Oh, very much so. It's something I've always wanted to do ever and strangely ever since becoming bishop, because I've always felt that the the basic ministry of the priest among his people is is the fundamental uh ministry.
Presenter asks
8:55Is there an element of you that disapproves [of modern consumerism] or thinks that we're overindulgent?
Well, I think there is an element of that, and I'm glad that I was brought up in the way that I was, because even now, I mean, I sometimes have to stop myself and hear my father saying, you know, Do you really need it? And on the whole I don't.
Presenter asks
10:16When did you realize that this was a vocation that you had?
I I think there was never any moment when I had a kind of Damascus Road experience. I think it was something which was, you know, there beginning as a sort of seed and began to grow and I actually didn't do anything about it until I was at Nottingham University.
The keepsakes
The luxury
Presenter asks
20:53Did you, as bishop and then subsequently as archbishop, ever ordain a woman?
No, no, I I mean I made it clear that that that was not possible.
Presenter asks
25:19How much heart-searching did it take to decide to [call a press conference and publish the letter from Outrage]?
Well, it took me quite a bit of uh thought and reflection, and I remember on the Friday before calling the press conference on the Monday, uh I'd already um made arrangements to go to Paris for a day, and I remember going into into Notre Dame Cathedral. And the stations of the cross were in progress. And uh I followed the stations, and I knew then that I had to do what I had to do.
Presenter asks
29:42Is that part of why you decided to cease to be Archbishop of York, that suddenly [it was] out of a kind of frustration?
No, you go round and round in circles. I mean there are mountains of paper produced, and you hear the same old arguments time and again. You can tell who's going to talk and who's going to say what. You think, well, you know, what's the purpose of it all?
“I'm my office now. So I'd do all my Yes, I do. And I'm very happy doing that. I quite enjoy it.”
“I believe [the office of priest] is a vocation, um and it I'm not in it for the money. As long as I had a roof over my head and enough to get by with, I mean, that was fair enough.”
“I can't see that, you know, eternity and the temporal are two separate things. The one is embraced in and by the other. It's all part of the same thing.”
“At the end of the day my Yorkshire upbringing uh means that I'm going to tough it out.”