The recent release on BBC of Prisoner 951, (and available on I Player) the extended story of Nazanine Radcliffe’s unjust imprisonment in Iran is a powerful reminder to pray for the Spirit of God to be at work in the hearts of so many who are held in terrible conditions in Iran’s prison system – and especially for the many Christians who are under great pressure and persecution in that country.

Inspired by two women who had been imprisoned for their evangelistic work in Tehran, as told in their book Captive in Iran’, the Lord led me to write a presentation based around Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The piece that you will hear here tells the true story of another woman who was taken from her home and imprisoned there.

Join Colin, Elizabeth, Ros and myself in this presentation to pray on behalf of those who are imprisoned for their faith in Iran, and elsewhere. May it give us a fresh boost to pray for the work of God in Iran.

I interwove my own music here with the slow movement from one of Antonio Vivaldi’s oboe concertos, plus an arrangement of ‘Dobru Noc’, a Czech folk song that Dvorak made famous, and which Justin Coldstream arranged for us for string quartet. Justin was of the greatest help in orchestrating the whole of this Evin Suite. I pray the Lord will bless you as you listen and pray.