Bells on Sunday: St Anne’s Limehouse
December 3rd, 2007 by Steve BowbrickI think of you all as vigorous early risers so there’s a strong chance you’ll have heard this yesterday morning at 05:43. Bells on Sunday is another of those Radio 4 institutions that’s probably impossible to abolish, no matter how far out to the fringes of the schedule it’s pushed.
Someone (I visualise an elderly sound-recordist in a Morris Oxford with a huge valve-operated tape recorder) travels to a different parish church each week and records its bells. That’s it (there’s an archive of the last three years’ bells too. Sounds like material for a mash-up to me).
I particularly liked this one because I used to live not far from St Anne’s (a gorgeous white stone Hawskmoor job that’s got the full magical/alchemical/allegorical treatment from both Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair in recent years) and often heard the bells on a quietish Sunday morning (MP3).
