WINCHESTER Cathedral have a packed entertainment schedule for the week ahead.

On Tuesday at 1pm, the first organ recital of the lunchtime series comes from James Tett, who was awarded this recital as a well-deserved prize from last year’s Oundle for Organists.

Lunchtime Recitals are free to attend and a retiring collection will be taken to defray expenses and support the cathedral music programme.

Then at 7pm at Wessex Learning Centre, Inner Close, Professor Roger Richarson, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Winchester will give a fascinating lecture which opens a window on to intergenerational relations by the values, hopes, convictions, prejudices, anxieties, and guilt complexes of an age.

Seventeenth-century England was a moralising period and one expression of it was the huge amount of zealous parental advice poured out in publications of different kinds and in letters addressed by fathers to their children, especially to sons and heirs.

Religious exhortations, guidance on education, politics, travel, lifestyle, marriage and household management rubbed shoulders with each other.

Tickets are £5 and available from the Cathedral Box Office on: 01962 857275.

On Wednesday at 10.30am you can see the Cathedral Transformed Tour.

When Queen Victoria came to the throne the Cathedral was cold, dismal and colourless. This tour traces its remarkable transformation and introduces colourful Victorian personalities associated with the Cathedral.

Specialist tours are free to attend upon admission to the Cathedral.