Cardinal Basil Hume funeral

Cardinal Basil Hume funeral; ENGLAND: London: Westminster Cathedral: EXT LA GV Westminster Cathedral INT CMS Bronze angel statue CMS Wall carving of Catholic Bishop CMS Clergymen along in procession TMS Clergymen along past coffin EXT SIDE Procession of clergymen into church L-R INT LA GV Cross CMS Coffin of Basil Hume with govt mourners seated behind TGVs Cathedral as mass underway Cardinal Edward Cassidy (envoy from Rome) speaking SOT - We are here to celebrate the life of an outstanding son of this nation and the church - the Archbishop of Westminster - and at same time, to many of us, a friend and spiritual guide Clergyman singing SOT TGV Congregation singing reply SOT EXT Mourners outside church singing SOT INT LA GV Cross above altar ZOOM IN TMS Duchess of Kent (no hat) seated beside Princess Michael of Kent TLMS Politicians seated in front row (Paddy Ashdown MP (Lib Dem Ldr), William Hague MP (Cons Ldr), Betty Boothroyd MP (Speaker), Bertie Ahern (Irish PM) and Tony Blair (PM) Rev John Crowley (Bishop of Middlesbrough) homily SOT - Under the abbot of Ampleforth the main disadvantage was brief and to point - it read - much too humble to make known his abilities, could easily be missed/ to his own family and friends he was George or Basil, to others Your Eminence but to most of us he was just father/ new priest asked him how he'd like to be addressed, back came the reply 'I can cope with just about anything short of Hey You/ among sackfuls of letters which engulfed his house when his illness became known a sizeable amount of them started 'I am not a believer' but he was man of God who touched people's hearts in a remarkable way Cutaways audience listening (inside and outside) TMS TLMS Pallbearers carrying coffin down aisle TS Coffin lowered into resting place in cathedral chapel LA Painting on chapel ceil...