Canon Richard Cooper: an Unlikely Story – from Dales Choir Boy to Queen’s Chaplain. Friday 19 July at 3:00pm

The ‘Unlikely Story’ tells of a journey, all of it spent in the old Diocese of Ripon and much of it in the Northern Dales of Swaledale and Teesdale; as rich in characters as it is in landscape.

Hear what the undertaker said to the young Curate; what The Queen said to the young Naval Officer; how the Chaplain dined with the King and Queen of Norway; what he had for lunch at Buckingham Palace and what not to say to a group of school-children!