On 19 February 1979 an episode of the BBC television programme Songs of Praise is broadcast from St Peter’s Berkhamsted. Hymns include Parry’s Jerusalem and William Cowper’s O! For a closer walk with God.
Following the broadcast, “Beorcham” (aka Percy Birtchnell) writes in the Berkhamsted Review , “almost everyone agreed that the singing was excellent” but apparently the BBC chose some “rather bleak views of the Castle”!
