THIS Sunday (September 10), the BBC’s flagship religious programme Songs of Praise will be broadcast from the beautiful coastline of Pembrokeshire.

The programme will feature a performance from Angelicus Celtis, the young school girl voices from Wales’ Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers who recently enjoyed great success on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent performing Be Still My Soul from the stunning surroundings of Manorbier Castle.

The feature will also include poignant interviews with Josie D’Arby and the choir’s founder John Hywel Williams and son Jeremy Hywel about the Hywel Choirs, Angelicus Celtis and the tragic accident which led to the loss of their wife, mother and pianist, Jean Hywel.

John Hywel has led his Hywel Girls’ Choir on pioneer choral adventures around the world, from setting the record for the first British Choir to tour behind the Iron Curtain back in the early 1950s through to 25 international concert tours and television broadcasts spanning 120 countries.

The programme will also feature Katherine Jenkins as she travels to the monastery on Caldey Island, just off the coast of Tenby in West Wales, to sample monastic life in the 21st century. This monastery funds itself through its own businesses and small enterprises, and Katherine is guided around the monastery by Brother David, one of the longest-serving monks, who is also a published poet.

The programme will also feature hymns and songs from the beach at Tenby Harbour.

BBC Songs of Praise from Pembrokeshire will be broadcast on BBC1 at 4.30 on Sunday.

Local Pembrokeshire audiences can also be treated to an exciting live and major massed choir performance led by conductor John Hywel Williams starring Angelicus Celtis and the Hywel Girls’ Choir and Hywel Boy Singers as part of ‘A Journey of World Music’ at St. David’s Cathedral on Saturday, October 7. Further information available from 07795 236807.