The Catholic Association of Performing Arts (CaApa) celebrated its annual festive dinner at Allen Hall, the seminary in Chelsea, with actor Timothy West CBE as guest of honour.
He entertained members with his after-dinner speech relating how he was dressed as an archbishop at the Vatican in a mitre several sizes too large and aroused the suspicions of the Swiss Guard.
He had been engaged to participate at the international symposium celebrating 1,000 years of Ss Cyril and Methodius in a dramatised reading. He had thought that he would be performing to just the Pope and cardinals and was startled to find himself in an auditorium with 8,000 seated and 2,000 standing.
