St Paul's Church, Bedford Chapel in St Paul’s was used by the BBC as the studio for broadcasting the Daily Service and "The Epilogue" not only nationally but throughout Europe. This extraordinary period in the church’s history is fittingly commemorated by an inscription on the floor at the entrance of the chapel: THE BBC BROADCAST THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE FROM THIS CHAPEL 1941-1945 IN THE DARKNESS OF WAR: NATION SHALL SPEAK PEACE UNTO NATION THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES HOPE THROUGH RECONCILIATION FORGIVENESS THROUGH UNDERSTANDING PEACE Secondly, at the southern end of the high altar rail, an inscription on a wooden panel records
Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual The day after South African State President F. W. De Klerk announced that the African National Congress (ANC) and other political organisations would be unbanned and Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, a small group of Capetonians took to the streets in an act of guerrilla street theatre. The Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual as it eventually came to be known, was actually planned some ten days before the announcement by the Rainbow People's Party and the ritual, march, celebration or carnival, call it what you will, involved children as well as innocent bystanders who were