MUCH has been written over the years about composers such as Vaughan Williams, Holst and Elgar who spent much time in the border counties. Herbert Howells, also a borders man, is perhaps lesser ...

Former Member of Parliament Ed Balls chooses the 20th-century English composer, organist and teacher, Herbert Howells. With the biographer of Herbert Howells, Paul Spicer. Presented by Matthew Parris ...

"Herbert Howells was probably the greatest composer of English church music in the last 100 years," he said. "He's someone I've been listening to all my adult life, and a real companion of mine." ...