DESCRIPTION:
This previously-unseen footage of George Thalben-Ball rehearsing the Temple Church choir in 1958 may have been part of an hour-long programme called “Sunday Special”, which was broadcast on 29 June 1958 on BBC TV. The choir was filmed practising the “Jubilate” and Psalm 126.

The film was rescued from a skip when Broadcasting House was being refurbished and is the only known film footage of Thalben-Ball and the Temple Choir. It is astonishing to think that the BBC were so unmindful of the cultural heritage entrusted to their care that they simply threw it away.