Church on television

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I rather liked the Easter service from St Albans that the BBC showed and it seems a lovely cathedral, not that I'll ever afford to live in the area. For the most important days the BBC usually shows something reasonable but for regular weekly services I typically have to resort to some amateurish webcam like that from St Mary of the Angels in Worthing. In the US it was far easier to find services on television.

At St Albans the sung parts, with responses, weren't to the tunes I am used to. I have wondered where to find the music for tunes I grew up with for lines like, Glory to God in the highest, We lift them to the Lord, Christ will come again, God of power and might, etc. The tunes do seem quite widespread, as I heard the same in Ohio, but perhaps have since been changed in the Church of England.

Songs of Praise isn't really what I want. These days they jump from place to place during the show and interview all manner of people and have celebrity singers and whatnot. I instead seek something more like a straight church service.