The Reluctant Choirboy Written to celebrate the 250th anniversary of St James’ Church, Whitehaven in July 2003. Set in eighteenth century Georgian Whitehaven, Samson Jennings and his mother are climbing up to the newly completed church to meet the new incumbent, the Reverend Thomas Spedding. Samson thinks he’s being asked to see the vicar because he’s been collecting fallen apples from the orchards on Castle Meadows. However, it is not about apples, but something that Samson has never for a moment foreseen or expected. (Running time 35 minutes)