KEYWORDS: Binfield, church bells, UK, England, ringers, tradition, history, bell tower. Binfield All Saints' Church, church, Sunday morning.
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Introduction: In England on Sunday mornings it is still quite common to hear church bells ringing. However, each year fewer and fewer people volunteer as church bell ringers and there is a real fear that the tradition may die out. David Barasoain (Bear-es-wayne), recently to visited the village of Binfield in Berkshire (Bark-sure) county to meet some of these ringers and to hear the bells for himself.

0:00 SFX Church Bells
0:04 Tuesday nights here in the...
0:42 SFX bells back up, and fade.
0:58 "All six bell ringers . . . "
1:14 SFX bells up full . . .
1:31 Act, Mike Dearing . . .
1:53 "Its Dearing who . . . "
2:01 Act, MD, "The pattern you ring is . . . "
2:30 "experiment with other methods."
2:31 One of the people we meet in the course of the evening . . .
3:01 Act, David Butler "The bell is hanging like that in the frame . . . "
3:14 . . . "get it to go past there."
3:16 SFX walking up stairs to see the bell.
3:16 Going up the stairs now... you . . .
3:40 SFX in bell tower next to bell toll.
3:42 "Tell him he can ring the bell at any time . . .
4:04 One of the oldest bell ringers is John, he's 83 years old.
4:06 Act, John "I used to ring...
4:14 . . . I'm still here."
4:22 Many of the ringers here do it because it was passed on to them.
5:02 Act, DB "Its very much a family thing . . ."
5:10 Rosemary martin is one of two female ringers . . .
5:25 Act, RM, "I was bullied into it . . (laughs) . . . "
5:52 What we find here are six people who enjoy what they're doing.
6:21 SFX bells up full :03
6:39 But for tonight in the village of Binfield, none of that matters.
6:40 SFX bells and commands fade.

Out Cue:

A look there at six church bell ringers of the Binfield All Saints' Church in Berkshire (Bark-sure) county in England.