Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Evangelist and Salvation Army officer who served as a missionary and was elected General of the Salvation Army worldwide.
On the island
Eight records
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
International Staff Songsters of the Salvation Army
Dear Lord and Father of mankind And I think I'd like it on the Desert Island because it's got a verse there that says, you know Breathe through the heat of our desires Thy coolness and thy balm, And let Thy quiet still voice come. And when I'm getting really anxious about not being rescued ... I think I might uh quieten down with this one.
this one, of course, really tickled us women missionaries because uh it was so arrogant of a man to say, you know. Why can't women be more like men? And there were so many of us who had responsible jobs on the mission station. So we used to sing it for great fun
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
I couldn't have uh An island where I wasn't listening to the march played by the band because from a child. We marched the streets with the Salvation Army music and stood in the streets and proclaimed the gospel message of Jesus Christ.
Of a time when I shared a house with a girl in Africa and I had no money, and she just had enough money to buy a record player and one record, and this was the one record, and we played that jolly record until it was nearly worn out.
Soweto Salvation Army Songsters
they are going to sing for us in real African style a wonderful song. Which just sets my heart beating in the African way.
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
Alfred Prinz and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
even though I'd had an extremely demanding week, I could watch the musicians, and listen to the music, and absolutely find myself totally relaxed.
I Feel Like Singing All the Time
Korean Salvation Army Mission Singers
to go to the Salvation Army and see these young women beautifully groomed in their Salvation Army uniform, singing with a quality of sound that would have Done justice on The Royal Albert Hall Pratform.
St Matthew Passion, BWV 244: "Können Tränen meiner Wangen"Favourite
Janet Baker and the Munich Bach Orchestra
I used to go every Palm Sunday. To Royal Festival Hall when the full St. Matthew's Passion was sung, and it was a wonderful experience of entering into the experience of Good Friday in Eastern by being there on Palm Sunday.
In conversation
Presenter asks
1:25Does the enormity of the task ever depress you, in the sense that deprivation is as great as ever?
Well, I think, yes, the world is in a difficult position. But if I lose hope how can I inspire and encourage people to try and do something about it? ... unless I do something and encourage other people to do something, nothing is done. So every every little bit that's done is a contribution to the good and the goodwill in the world.
Presenter asks
2:42Do you have any sympathy with those who say that the world lacks good leadership at the moment?
What we need [are] politicians who don't just look after their own skin. And not only look for party popularity. Or next election we'll win. I'd like to see far more Parliaments of the world, who work together on a consensus of what is needed.
Presenter asks
9:38Did you, by all accounts, come easily to your vocation, or did you have a kind of crisis in your teens?
I had been a junior member of the Salvation Army ... but when I was a teenager and I felt What do I really believe? And therefore I questioned everything that my parents had believed and said I didn't want to come to the Salvation Army any more, and so I didn't attend.
The keepsakes
The book
The Faber Book of Religious Verse
Helen Gardner
I'd like to absorb again that wonderful poetry, especially the metaphysical poets of the Elizabethan time. And I've always felt I'd like to write poetry. And now, at last, on that island, I'll have time.
The luxury
I would like to have a kind of challenge, and that is that after I've done the Scrabble game, playing left against right and not cheating, I would then use that like a crossword and then find the cryptic clues to go with that game. So that would take me a little bit of time.
Presenter asks
10:34Was there a specific moment then when you knew what you had to do, that you had to give your life to Christ?
Yes. Well, I was at university and I'd uh tried quite a number of uh societies and clubs and I'd gone to the Christian Union. And there I met other young people of my own age, range, and interests, and I saw them studying the Bible, and I thought, well, you know, I'll have a try at this too. And then there sort of came an incandescence, if you like, an awareness. That Jesus Christ had the answer to what I was seeking.
Presenter asks
11:44Did deciding to give your life to God mean that you also decided that you would never get married?
No, I didn't. That didn't mean that at that time, but it did mean that later. In other words, as my life progressed after I was ordained and went on service in Africa. I became aware that marriage was not going to be part of my life. ... when the opportunities did come, I then knew I had to remain single, because that to me seemed to be God's direction for my life.
Presenter asks
22:01How shocked were you by what you found when you worked with women and children, victims of broken homes and of violence in Britain?
I really went through a a very cathartic experience, really, because I had not thought seriously about the deprivation in the affluent West. And when I went to some of our women's hostels and saw these lonely, destitute women. I suddenly realized the need here in countries like Britain for the care of those who are so lonely and dispossessed.
“I dedicate this child to the glory of God and the salvation of the world, would you imagine it?”
“I always count as a great compliment something that was said to me by an African ... And he said, You know, if I thought my prayer could be answered, I'd pray for you to be black.”
“for Salvation Army officers, part of our commitment is the element of sacrifice. And that is the way in which we also express our love to God.”
“Yes, I have a very deep sense of fulfilment in the task that's been given to me and therefore I can contemplate the years ahead with much pleasurable anticipation.”