Performers
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In 2019 our service included popular carols and beautiful music from professional performers, with festive readings from our celebrity guests and supporters.
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Guests enjoyed performances from the internationally renowned classical singer Carly Paoli and soloist Tom Elwes from the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum.
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The Marlborough Stroke Association Christmas Choir performed under choirmaster Adam Staines alongside the Pinewood School Chapel Choir under Niki Bell .
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Lessons were read by radio and television broadcaster Chris Tarrant, Strictly Come Dancing star Viscountess Emma Weymouth, bestselling poet Charly Cox, BBC presenter Will Glennon, and adventurer David Hempleman-Adams. Stroke survivor Martin Stephen gave an address (author and former high master of St Paul’s School and Manchester Grammar School).
Carly Paoli - "Nobody does it better" (Mail on Sunday Event Magazine)
Chris Tarrant - talking of his stroke "I thought I was going to die at 39,000ft somewhere between Bangkok and London; I've been very lucky."
Charly Cox - "Brave and Beautiful" (Stylist Magazine)
Internationally renowned classical singer Carly Paoli
Strictly Come Dancing star, Viscountess Emma Weymouth
David Hempleman-Adams - was the first person to reach the North and South poles and the summits of the highest mountains on each continent
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Viscountess Emma Weymouth - "they finally gave me an MRI scan and saw this bleeding on my brain. If I hadn't been treated, I wouldn't be here."
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Adventurer David Hempleman-Adams
BBC Presenter Will Glennon
Television broadcaster Chris Tarrant
Martin Stephen - talking of his stroke "One by one, I lost the ability to order my hands, my feet, my mouth, my eyes to do what I asked them to do."
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Will Glennon - the BBC presenter nearly died in a crash in 2014 when his bicycle collided with a delivery van, suffering a massive head injury.
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Author Martin Stephen
Best-selling poet Charly Cox
