The funeral has taken place in Birmingham of my former BBC Radio Birmingham colleague Ken Dudeney who died in January.

My tribute to Country Ken was based on the song ‘Four Country Roads’, the last of them being the final journey at the end of Ken’s 70th year (he was 69). May he rest in peace. As it was Saint Patrick’s Day, I ended my tribute to Ken with the short prayer known as St Patrick’s Breastplate, which is sometimes sung or heard as a hymn:
Christ be with me,
Christ be beside me,
Christ be before me,
Christ be behind me,
Christ be at my right hand,
Christ be at my left hand,
Christ be with me everywhere I go,
Christ be my friend for ever and ever. Amen.