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Dr Katherine Hambridge

On Good Friday Dr Hambridge outlined for Radio 4 listeners the history of the exclusion of women and girls from church music as part of a segment on the admission of girls to St Paul’s Cathedral Choir

This year was the first year that there would be girls singing in the Cathedral’s Easter Day services, and Dr Hambridge argued that, although there had been girls in some Cathedral choirs for over 50 years, St Paul’s symbolic national status, and the continuing controversy over girls singing in Cathedrals, made this an important moment. You can hear the segment here, from 12.15 minutes.