https://freerepublic.com/tag/songofpraise/ en-us Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:15:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3772710/posts Songs of Praise has screened the show's first ever gay wedding as part of a drive to modernise the programme. Presenters of the BBC One show have vowed that they are “not afraid of controversy” as they broadcast a wedding which is currently banned in the Church of England. The Sunday afternoon show, which has been running since 1961, was traditionally a “sort of hymn sandwich”, presenter of more than three decades Pam Rhodes said. But now, which a magazine format an on screen cast which includes soprano Katherine Jenkins and JB Gill, the former frontman of boy-band JLS, the... The Telegraph https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3772710/posts#comment Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:15:17 GMT