Let the People Sing was a choir contest run and broadcast by BBC Radio radio from 1950s to 1980s. The contest also led to new choral works being commissioned.The Musical Times - Volume 101 - Page 11 1960 and also Armstrong Gibbs's Suite of Songs from the British Isles (for s.a.t.b. choir). This last was originally a B.B.C. commission for the 1959 'Let The People Sing' contest. In 1959 The Fenland Singers, conducted by Catherine M. Baxter, won the mixed voice competition. In 1958 they had come second when

Agnes Duncan Agnes Duncan Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (10 November 1899 – 1996) was a Scottish singer and choral conductor. Her Scottish Junior Singers won the leading BBC choral competition on two occasions. Life Duncan ...

's choir had won the children's and the youth class. Both the 1958 and 1959 finals were held in the

Royal Festival Hall The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a Grade I l ...

. In 1961 Agnes Duncan's choir again won the children's and the youth class.

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