Choral Evensong (BBC)

The programme is a broadcast of the Anglican service of Choral Evensong (sung evening prayer) live from cathedrals, university college chapels and churches throughout the United Kingdom.

In 1970 the programme was reduced to just one broadcast per month, but the BBC received 2,500 letters of complaint, and weekly transmissions were resumed on 1 July of that same year.

[6] The live transmission returned to Wednesdays in September 2008, with a recorded repeat on Sunday afternoons at approximately the same time.

Choral Evensong forms part of Radio 3's religious programming remit, although non-religious listeners have also campaigned for its retention.

[5] Its 80th and 90th anniversary programmes were celebrated live from Westminster Abbey, with services on 11 October 2006 and 28 September 2016 respectively.

A BBC Radio Outside Broadcasts van at New College, Oxford in February 2006.
The first BBC broadcast of Choral Evensong came from Westminster Abbey in 1926