Lance Pierson Performer

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The 70 Minute Bible

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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.

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Part 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

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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

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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.

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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

Picture of a Divine Soul

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"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.

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Introduction
Antiphon
The Elixir
Praise
Vertue
The Pulley
Easter Wings
Deniall
Redemption
The Collar
The Quip
Aaron
The Flower
Prayer
Love

Mark's Gospel

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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.

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Side 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

Sing In My Mind

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"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.

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Power 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

Music Hall Memories

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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.

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Albert 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

Cricket's a Glorious Game

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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.

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Richard 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

The John Betjeman You Never Knew

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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.

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N.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

Gerard Manley Hopkins – The Grandeur of God

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.

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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…

John Milton - Pre-eminence Lost?

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.

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Disc 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
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