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Prisons Sunday

Claire McCollum is in the Clink restaurant in Styal near Manchester, where inmates from the nearby prison are being given the chance of a fresh start in life by being trained in a fine dining restaurant.\n\nPam Rhodes meets former politician, now ordained priest, Jonathan Aitken in London to hear about his journey from prison to the pulpit. At Lambeth Palace, Pam finds out about the Church of England’s free Daily Hope phone service, now also available in prisons across the country.\n\nAs the Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Rose Hudson Wilkin, calls for a change in attitudes towards asylum seekers, we meet the Christian charities helping refugees on the south coast.\n\nWith congregational singing recorded before the current restrictions, as well as specially recorded hymns from singer Mary Jess and vocal ensemble Tessera:\n\nAll My Hope On God Is Founded – St Elisabeth’s Church, Reddish April 2018\nBeauty for Brokenness – St David’s Church, Exeter September 2018\nDear Lord and Father of Mankind – Hereford Cathedral October 2017\nBlessed Assurance – LSO St. Lukes June 2017\nWhen I Needed a Neighbour – Tessera, Coughton Court July 2020\n10,000 Reasons – Mary-Jess, Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth August 2020\nLove Divine All Loves Excelling – St. Asaph Cathedral June 2017\n

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