{"id":71104,"date":"2020-12-18T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/bbc-broadcasts-from-melrose-and-eoropaidh\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:26:32","slug":"bbc-broadcasts-from-melrose-and-eoropaidh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/bbc-broadcasts-from-melrose-and-eoropaidh\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC TV and radio feature Scottish Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scottish Episcopal Church featured on four BBC broadcasts on the fourth Sunday in Advent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The significance of the nativity was discussed by the Rev Diana Hall<\/strong> on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Sunday Morning<\/em> programme with Sally Magnusson.<\/p>\n

Rev Hall, Rector of St Anne\u2019s in Dunbar, told the programme: \u201cThe nativity symbolises one of the most important things about the Christian faith. We hear the word \u2018Emmanuel\u2019 at Christmas and Emmanuel means God with us, and so the nativity symbolises this belief that Jesus came to live among us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crib service at St Anne\u2019s Church is a highlight of the whole year. I\u2019ve had all sorts of things happening at the crib service. I\u2019ve had a 50-year-old playing Jesus\u2019 granny flying down the aisle on a scooter, shrieking; I\u2019ve had children\u2019s faces light up as the light is dimmed and they see a tiny baby Jesus cradled in his mother\u2019s arms; and I\u2019ve seen me halfway down the high street in the middle of summer be approached by somebody in their 20s to tell me that they were once the baby Jesus at St Anne\u2019s. They might have very little other church contact but they regard the church as home because it\u2019s a place they really had an experience of community that is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cIn the end, the story of the nativity is a story of hope in the midst of hard times, a story of light in darkness; it\u2019s the promise that God has come to us to be with us and that God never leaves us, and always offers hope for the future. I think hope is what many people are needing right now, and I hope that\u2019s what the nativity will speak to people this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can hear Rev Hall\u2019s full interview on the BBC Sounds website here https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m000qj36<\/a> at the 50-minute mark.<\/p>\n

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Earlier, the Rev Philip Blackledge <\/strong>led worship on BBC Radio Scotland programme\u00a0New Every Sunday<\/em> from Holy Trinity in Melrose. The broadcast can be heard on the BBC website, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Every Sunday<\/em> also came from Melrose last weekend, when Rev Blackledge welcomed Gaudete Sunday, also known as Rejoicing Sunday. You can listen again to last week\u2019s programme here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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BBC One Scotland’s weekly worship programme Reflections at the Quay<\/em> featured library footage of Once In Royal David’s City<\/em> being sung beautifully at St Paul’s Cathedral<\/strong> in Dundee (shown above), as producers delved into the archives to add music to the programme at a time when we are not able to sing in church. Reflections at the Quay<\/em> can be seen again here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And later on Sunday, St Moluag\u2019s<\/strong> at Eoropaidh on the Isle of Lewis, pictured above, featured on BBC One\u2019s Countryfile<\/em>. In a Christmas special of the popular programme, presenter John Craven explored the ancient tradition of Gaelic psalm singing, and as part of the item, renowned Gaelic composer Calum Martin sang inside St Moluag\u2019s and was then interviewed in nearby Ness.<\/p>\n

Countryfile<\/em> can be watched again here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Main image of nativity characters, at top of page, was taken at St John the Evangelist, Aberdeen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish Episcopal Church featured on four BBC broadcasts on the fourth Sunday in Advent. The significance of the nativity was discussed by the Rev Diana Hall on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Sunday Morning programme with Sally Magnusson. Rev Hall, Rector of St Anne\u2019s in Dunbar, told the programme: \u201cThe nativity symbolises one of the most […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73223,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104\/revisions\/73223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}