In the late 1990s, Secombe often presented the BBC programme Songs of Praise, which until 1992 competed directly against Highway in the Sunday evening slot. Highway was replaced by Sunday Morning with Secombe in which he would broadcast from the venue of the following Morning Worship service. The final series was moved to Sunday afternoons. The series was broadcast on Sunday evenings. Guests sang religious songs, gave readings or talked about their lifestyles and spiritual feelings. The programme was administered by Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle upon Tyne. Presented by Harry Secombe, the show was a mixture of hymns and chat from various locations across Britain, produced by their respective regional ITV franchise holders. Born in 1884, he wrote many children’s books in the 1920s and 30s and edited the children’s magazine The Merry Go Round published in Oxford with his great friend Basil Blackwell. Highway was a British television series, broadcast from 1983 until 1993. Hugh Chesterman created a vast amount of work in a relatively short life.
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