Songs of Praise

Pioneering Women (2018x5)

Uitzenddatum: Feb 04, 2018

One hundred years since British women over the age of 30 first got the vote, Rev Kate Bottley celebrates pioneering Christian women. She visits Mansfield College in Oxford to learn about Constance Coltman, the first woman to be ordained in a UK denomination over a century ago. Josie d'Arby gains exclusive access to an exquisite 400-year-old church altar cloth which experts say is from a skirt actually worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Josie also meets Ruth Awogbade, who launched her own Christian fashion magazine. And all this week's music, from across the UK, is inspired or written by women. Music: Blessed Assurance - LSO St Lukes, London In Heavenly Love Abiding - St German's Church, Cardiff What a Beautiful Name - St Catherine's Pontypridd Before the Throne - Enniskillen Take My Life and Let it Be - Romsey Abbey He Will Hold Me Fast from Belfast - Kristyn Getty Tell Out My Soul - St John the Baptist, Tideswell.