Among those giving evidence have been songwriter Billy Bragg, former peer Tony Benn, Tory Lords leader Lord Strathclyde and film maker Lord Puttnam.

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Much later the Graham family remembered that another preacher had prayed that out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up somebody to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, and that is exactly what Billy Frank Graham has been doing for the past 63 years.

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