A POPULAR television show come to Pershore.

Sean Fletcher, the presenter from BBC1’s Songs of Praise, came with a team to film interviews at Pershore Abbey on Saturday, January 25.

The theme for the show will be Lent, and more interviews are planned to include anointing with ash and the Pershore Brownies making pancakes.

The programme will be on BBC One at 13.15 on Sunday February 23.

Songs of Praise is a program of hymns and songs, together with stories of faith from around the UK and beyond.

Pershore Abbey was an Anglo-Saxon abbey and is now an Anglican parish church.