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Gerard Manley Hopkins - The Grandeur of God

A special live recording of Lance performing an entire one-man show at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity on Monday 24th September, 2007. The show includes the whole of "The Wreck of the Deutschland" and many other poems with Lance's comments on each.
This is a 2 disc set, lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes and comes with a programme with
the words of the poems, footnotes and illustrations.
You can download the programme here.
Disc 1 |
God's Grandeur |
Inversnaid |
Felix Randal |
Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice |
Spring |
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord |
Pied Beauty |
Hurrahing in Harvest |
The Lantern Out of Doors |
Disk 2 |
The Wreck of the Deutschland |
Several of Hopkins untitled poems |
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire… |
Gerard Manley Hopkins - What I do is me

A second recording of Hopkins' poems featuring hidden gems like 'Binsey Poplars', 'As kingfishers catch fire', 'St Winefred's Well' and many more.
The recording features 18 poems and includes a booklet with all the words of the poems and explanations of difficult words. It’s a follow up to Lance’s first recording ‘The Grandeur of God’ which featured Hopkins’ most famous poems.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingDisc 1 |
General Introduction |
Penmaen Pool |
In the Valley of the Elwy |
The Loss of the Eurydice (extract) |
The May Magnificat |
Binsey Poplars |
Henry Purcell |
Peace |
Spring and Fall |
‘As kingfishers catch fire’ |
Disk 2 |
Ribblesdale |
The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo |
St Winefred’s Well - Fragment C |
Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves |
St Winefred’s Well - Fragment B |
‘Carrion Comfort’ |
‘My own heart let me more have pity on’ |
Epithalamion |
To R.B. |
The John Betjeman You Never Knew

A selection of some of John Betjeman's great poems that are not so famous.
Lance links each of the poems with background information. This is a celebration of the life of the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingN.W.5 + N.6 |
Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall |
Summer |
Cricket Master |
Town Clerk's Views |
Inexpensive Progress |
The Empty Pew |
Pershore Station, or A Liverish Journey First Class |
A Ballad of the Investiture 1969 |
14 November, 1973 |
A Lincolnshire Tale |
Bristol and Clifton |
Blame the Vicar |
Septuagesima |
Sunday Morning, King's Cambridge |
The Conversion of St Paul |
Before the Anaesthetic, or A Real Fright |
St. Saviour's, Aberdean Park, Highbury, London, N |
Advent 1955 |
John Milton - Pre-eminence Lost?

A special live recording of Lance performing an entire one-man show at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity on Monday 22nd September, 2008. Lance traces Milton's life story and performs extracts from Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, Comus, Lycidas and the Sonnets.
The show is an hour and a half in length (on 2 discs). The CDs come with a special programme including the words of the poems and annotations to help explain the meaning of difficult ones.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingDisc 1 - Early Life |
At a Vacation Exercise 23-37 |
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity 117-24, 113-40, 149-56, 165-80, 213-28 |
L'Allegro 33-40, 125-44 |
Il Penseroso 31-44, 151-74 |
Sonnet: How soon hath Time |
Ad Patrem |
Comus 105-24, 143-4 |
Comus 709-54 |
Comus 143-51, 779-86, 799-803, 1017-22 |
Lycidas 37-49, 139-51, 165-81 |
Lycidas 70-84 |
Lycidas 108-9, 112-31 |
Lycidas 186-93 |
Disc 2 - Later Life |
Sonnet: When I consider how my light is spent |
Sonnet: Methought I saw my late espoused saint |
Sonnet: Cromwell, our Chief of Men |
Sonnet: To Mr Cyriack Skinner Upon his Blindness |
Paradise Lost 1: 1-26 |
Paradise Lost 3: 21-4, 33-6, 40-55 |
Paradise Lost 7: 1-3, 5-8, 12-6, 21-31 |
Paradise Lost 9: 1-17, 20-4, 25-33, 41-7 |
Conclusion to Paradise Lost |
Samson Agonistes 41, 67-82 |
Samson Agonistes 1708-12, 1714-24, 1745-58 |
Paradise Regained 1: 126-36, 140-6, 150-9 |
Bringing Bible Reading to Life

How to give church Bible readings real impact in communicating God's message.
A practical guide by Lance Pierson. Featuring ten top tips on how to vary and improve your readings.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingIntroduction |
Tip 1 - Pray |
Tip 2 - Prepare |
Tip 3 - Practise |
Introduction to tips for more experienced readers |
Tip 4 - Make eye contact |
Tip 5 - Learn by heart |
Tip 6 - Use more than one reader |
Tip 7 - Involve the congregation |
Tip 8 - Make the reading choral |
Tip 9 - Use drama and other arts |
Tip 10 - Retell the reading in other words |
Lance reads his own modern-day version of Luke 24: 13-35 |
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits

2016 was the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's passing. Trio 'In Voice and Verse' decided that it was time he had a greatest hits collection! So here is the best of the Bards work brought to life in words and music.
Lance presents the most famous speeches and sonnets from Hamlet to Henry and Richard to Romeo. Belinda and Heather perform music inspired by Shakespeare's work, from Purcell to Cole Porter and Walton's Henry V to Bernstein's West Side Story.
CD - £10Elizabeth to Elizabeth

A celebration of 450 years of English history and music. Trio 'In Voice and Verse' celebrate the humorous highs and serious lows of English history from the first Elizabeth to the second.
Concert trio "In Voice and Verse" present a pageant of readings and music from across the centuries celebrating the Nation's Monarchs and the highlights of our history. The music includes pieces by Handel, Beethoven, Purcell, Holst and Britten, as well as 'Rule Britannia' and the National Anthem. The words include poetry by Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson and John Betjeman.
CD - £10 | Click for Track ListingThe Queene's Alman | William Byrd |
This Royal Throne of Kings | William Shakespeare |
A Prayer for the Queene's Most Excellent Majesty | John Dowland/Anon |
Eliza is the Fairest Queen | Anon |
O Peaceful England from 'Merrie England' | Edward German/Basil Hood |
A Ballade to Queen Elizabeth: Of the Spanish Armada | Austin Dobson |
Long Live Elizabeth from 'Merrie England' | Edward German/Basil Hood |
When I was Fair and Young | Elizabeth I |
Prayer from 'Gloriana' | Benjamin Britten/William Plomer |
The Stuart Kings | Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon |
Speech from the Scaffold | Charles I |
Sonnet to Cromwell | John Milton |
The Vicar of Bray (Verses 1-3) | Anon |
Fairest Isle from 'King Arthur' | Henry Purcell/John Dryden |
The Vicar of Bray (Verse 4) | Anon |
Poem on George I | Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon |
The Vicar of Bray (Verse 5) | Anon |
God Save the King / My Heart is Inditing | G.F. Handel |
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (Excerpts) | Thomas Gray |
Ye Mariners of England (Verses 1 & 3) | Thomas Campbell |
Rule Britannia (Verses 1, 2 & 6) | Thomas Arne/James Thomson |
Poem on William IV (Music "Heart of Oak" - William Boyce) | Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon |
I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls | Michael W Balfe |
The Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred Tennyson |
When Thou Tookest upon Thee from 'Festival Te Deum' | Arthur Sullivan |
Poem on George V | Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon |
In Loyal Bonds United | Gustav Holst/Shapcott Wensley |
The Soldier | Rupert Brooke |
Futility | Wilfred Owen |
Nimrod from the Enigma Variations | Edward Elgar |
The Other Little Boats | Edward Shanks |
The Life that I Have | Leo Marks |
O Taste and See | R. Vaughan Williams |
In a Golden Coach | Ronald Jamieson |
Excelsior | Flanders & Swann |
Counting the Years from Five Briar Roses | Betty Roe/Marian Lines |
Jubilee Hymn | John Betjeman |
Airs and Variations on 'God Save the Queen' | Ludwig van Beethoven |
The Bible in Voice and Verse

2011 was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. In addition to shaping the way we speak and providing a handbook for Christian worship it has also inspired vast amounts of music, in hymns, anthems, spirituals and oratorios.
Lance's concert trio "In Voice and Verse" tell the story of Genesis to Revelation using the words of the King James Bible interspersed with the famous pieces of music which those words inspired. The music includes excerpts from Haydn's 'Creation', Handel's 'Messiah', Mendelssohn's 'Oh for the Wings of a Dove' and several modern compositions. Joining Lance are soprano Belinda Yates and pianist Heather Chamberlain.
CD - £10 | Click for Track ListingPROLOGUE: | Vaughan Williams: 'The Truth from Above' |
Part 1 - | The Old Testament |
THE CREATION | [Genesis 1: 1-11] |
Joseph Haydn | 'With Verdure Clad' from The Creation |
THE FALL | [Genesis 3: 1-14, 16-19] |
THE FLOOD | [Genesis 6: 5-6, 8, 13-4; 7:15-7, 23-4; 8:1] |
MOSES | [Exodus 1:8-14; 3:1-8, 10] |
Gwyn Arch | 'Oh my children of Israel' from The Promised Land |
JOSHUA | [Joshua 1: 1-9] |
Traditional spiritual | 'Joshua fit the battle of Jericho' |
DAVID | [1 Samuel 16: 1, 4-7, 10-12] |
Psalm 23 | with musical accompaniment: Brother James' Air |
Felix Mendelssohn | 'Hear My Prayer' leading into 'O for the Wings of a dove' |
PROPHECY | [Isaiah 9: 2, 6-7] |
George Frideric Handel | 'Rejoice greatly' from Messiah |
Part 2 - | The New Testament |
NATIVITY | [John 1:1-12, 14] |
Matthew 1:18-21, 24-5 | |
Andrew Carter | 'Mary's Magnificat' |
MINISTRY | [Matt 5: 1-10; 6: 9] |
Arranged by Campbell Hughes | The Lord's Prayer |
PASSION | [John 13: 1;] [Luke 22: 15, 19-20;] [John 18:1] |
The Taizé Community | 'Stay with me' |
Mark 15:22, 25-26, 33-34, 37-39 | |
John Stainer | 'God so loved the world' from Crucifixion [John 3: 16-17] |
RESURRECTION | [John 20: 11-18] |
George Frideric Handel | 'I know that my Redeemer liveth' from Messiah |
PENTECOST | [Acts 2:1-4] |
Traditional | 'Come Holy Ghost' |
EPISTLES | [1 Corinthians 13] |
SS Wesley | 'Love one another' from 'Blessed be the God and Father' |
THE END | [Revelation 21: 1-4] |
EPILOGUE: John Rutter | 'The Lord Bless You and Keep You' |
William Cowper - "A Mysterious Way"

Cowper is a forgotten treasure of English literature and an important Christian Poet. He is best remembered today for the hymn 'God moves in a mysterious way' and the comic poem 'John Gilpin'. He spent most of his adult life living and writing in Olney.
In fact he was a key figure in the development of 18th century English poetry; as a close associate of John ('Amazing Grace') Newton, he co-authored the Olney Hymns and wrote poems against the slave trade; his best work was written in the face of recurrent bouts of depression.
The CD features 22 of Cowper's poems and hymns, introduced and read by Lance.
CD - £5The Poems We Grew Up With

This is a collection of favourite traditional poems many of which the 50+ generation grew up hearing. Lance introduces each one and reads along with music and sound effects. For many this will be a real nostalgic laugh and cry but it's perhaps also a chance to introduce some of these classics to a new generation.
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Edward Lear | The Owl and the Pussy-Cat |
Marriott Edgar | The Lion and Albert |
AA Milne | The King's Breakfast |
Rudyard Kipling | The Camel's Hump |
Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky |
John Masefield | Sea Fever |
John Masefield | Cargoes |
Sir Walter Scott | Lochinvar |
Anon | The Christmas Spirit |
Walter de la Mare | The Listeners |
William Wordsworth | 'Daffodils' |
Roger McGough | Daffodils |
Robert Browning | Home Thoughts From Abroad |
Robert Browning | How They Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix |
William Cowper | The Diverting History of John Gilpin |
WS Gilbert | The Yarn of the Nancy Bell |
Robert Burns | A Red, Red Rose |
William Wordsworth | Composed Upon Westminster Bridge |
Percy Shelley | Ozymandias |
Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib |
John Milton | Sonnet on his Blindness |
Mrs Malone | Eleanor Farjeon |
Cricket's a Glorious Game

A chance to hear some of the wonderful literature which Cricket has spawned. A real celebration of the great game with favourite stories and poems performed by Lance.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingRichard Tydeman | Perspicacity |
Lucinda Partington-Grey | St Yorick's Gently Down versus Gently Down Pentecostal Church |
Arthur Marshall | Cricket was a manly game |
W.G. Grace | Public Speaker? |
John Geater | The Scent of Roses |
Bob Wyatt | The Ballad of Tom the Smith |
Tim-Brooke Taylor | The Diary of a Village Cricketer |
Herbert Farjeon | Herecombe v Therecombe |
A.G. Macdonell | The Village Cricket Match |
William Douglas-Home | A Glorious Game, Say We |
Mark's Gospel

Lance brings the Gospel Story to life in the Bible's own words. Lance uses a modern, accessible translation as well as music and sound effects to really bring the story to life.
The translation is Alan T Dale's New World: the heart of the New Testament in plain English. The different parts of the story are broken up into the CD tracks.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingSide 1 |
Coming |
Calling |
Healing |
Teaching |
Commanding |
Restoring |
Feeding |
Disputing |
Revealing |
Unveiling |
Side 2 |
Bequeathing |
Leaving |
Holy Week: Palm Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday - Part 1 |
Tuesday - Part 2 |
Wednesday |
Thursday, day and evening |
Thursday night |
Friday |
Easter Sunday |
Music Hall Memories

Lance's show "Music Hall Memories" has been so successful that a recording of it had to be produced! It contains 16 comic and dramatic monologues, mostly famous from Music Hall or radio, all recreated by Lance. To help this recording appeal to a younger audience who've never heard of Stanley Holloway or Music Hall (as well as to those who have), the MC Ali Burnett provides a 21st century linking patter.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingAlbert Ramsbottom | |
Marriott Edgar | The Lion and Albert |
Marriott Edgar | The Return of Albert |
Stanley Holloway | Albert's Reunion |
Milton Hayes | The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God |
Al Read | |
The Doctor's Waiting Room | |
The Constable's Notebook | |
The Nurse's Phone Call | |
Sam Small | |
Stanley Holloway | Old Sam |
Marriott Edgar | Old Sam's Christmas Pudding |
W.S. Gilbert | The Yarn of the Nancy Bell |
Robb Wilton | Back Answers |
Myra Brooks Welch | The Touch of the Master's Hand |
Stanley Holloway Miscellaneous Monologues | |
Marriott Edgar | The Ole in the Ark |
Marriott Edgar | The Magna Charter |
R.P. Weston & Bert Lee | Yorkshire Pudden! |
Fran Hill | The Diary of Janice Ramsbottom |
Sing In My Mind

"Sing in My Mind" is a collection of favourite poems, both old and new performed by Lance. The recording contain 21 poems which are divided into three different groups. Power Poems are serious poems with the power to move, excite or make you think. Lighter Lyrics places the emphasis on humour and Open-Air Odes are poems recorded on Lance's central London poetry guided walk.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingPower Poems | |
Gerard Benson | After the Book is Closed |
John Donne | Death be not proud |
Walter Scott | Lochinvar |
W.H. Auden | Night Mail |
Robert Southey | How the Water Comes Down at Lodore |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | Epithalamion |
Walter de la Mare | The Listeners |
Lighter Lyrics | |
Joy Gammon | Through the Eyes of a Child |
Ian Serraillier | After Ever Happily |
Steve Turner | Burglars |
Alastair Reid | The O-Filler |
Robert Browning | Home Thoughts From Abroad |
Edward Blishen | Abroad Thoughts |
P.G. Wodehouse | Missed! |
Douglas Moffat | As They Stood A-blocking |
Edward Thomas | Adlestrop |
Martin Newell | Adlestrop Revisited |
Marriott Edgar | Old Sam's Christmas Pudding |
Open-Air Odes | |
Robert Burns | A Red, Red Rose |
William Wordsworth | Composed upon Westminster Bridge |
Stanley J Sharpless | Upon Westminster Bridge |
Picture of a Divine Soul

"Picture of a Divine Soul" is a celebration of the poetry of George Herbert. Lance reads some of Herbert's famous poems and brings them to life in his own style. He also explains the background and talks about some of the interesting facts about the poems.
CD - £5 | Cassette - £1 | Click for Track ListingIntroduction |
Antiphon |
The Elixir |
Praise |
Vertue |
The Pulley |
Easter Wings |
Deniall |
Redemption |
The Collar |
The Quip |
Aaron |
The Flower |
Prayer |
Love |
The 70 Minute Bible

The 70 Minute Bible gives the chief highlights of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation using sketches, stories and monologues all performed by Lance. With pieces that will make you laugh and others which are very moving this is a great way to hear the Bible story for the first time or the hundredth.
CD - £5 | Click for Track ListingPart 1 - The Old | |
James Weldon Johnson | The Creation |
Godfrey Rust | Adam |
Keith Waterhouse | How long, O Lord? |
Frank Topping | Abraham and Sarah |
Lance Pierson | Moses Knowses |
David Hatch | BBC BC |
Psalm 23 | The New Millenium Version |
Alan T. Dale | Carmel Mountain (1 Kings 18) |
Simon Baynes | The Argument |
Part 2 - The New | |
Lance Pierson | Montmorency |
Charles Causley | Ballad of the Bread Man |
Philip Turner | And it was the third hour… |
Dave Hopwood | Rolling Stones |
Alan T. Dale | The Great Day (Acts 2) |
Letter to the Thessalonians | Paul, Silas and Timothy |
Alison Head | A Reflection on Revelation |
David Lawrence | Gabriella's Tale |
As Good As A Feast

This recording is a celebration of two of God's best inventions, food and drink. This is the recording of Lance's popular "As Good As A Feast" show and there is a strong emphasis on humour.
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Lionel Bart | Food, Glorious Food |
A.P. Herbert | Bacon and Eggs |
Thomas Arne | Rule Britannia |
R.P. Weston and Bert Lee | Yorkshire Pudden! |
Radio Commercial | Brooke Bond Choicest |
Gerald Durrell | A Good Hot Curry |
Lance Pierson | Ode to an Apple |
Steve Turner | White with Two Sugars (Please) |
Kenneth Grahame | Bubble-and-Squeak and |
- | Hot Buttered Toast |
Various | Grace |
Traditional | Stone Soup |
Veronica Zundel | The 23rd Channel |
Nick Page | The Baker |
John Oliver | Bread of Life |
Lance Pierson | Wine |
George Herbert | Love (III) |
Lance Pierson Collection

A compilation of Lance's favourite pieces from all the different areas of his work. The recording includes poetry, Bible reading and pieces from Lance's one-man shows.
Individual tracks can still be purchased as mp3 files.
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Favourites From The Shows | |
Lance Pierson | The Cricketer's Psalm |
Christina Rossetti | In the Bleak Midwinter |
Derek Wood | Seed |
Anon | The Centurion |
Lance Pierson | The Beginning |
Mervyn Watling | Sixteen Giants |
Lance Pierson | John |
Bible | |
Acts 3-4 | Clash with the Jewish Leaders |
Poetry | |
Gerard Manley Hopkins | God's Grandeur |
Ralph Hodgson | Eve |
George Herbert | Redemption |
Adrian Plass | When I Became a Christian |
Cabaret | |
Marriott Edgar | The Lion and Albert |
Godfrey Rust | Come On In, The Sofa's Lovely |