image class="left" url=""   Sir Cliff is picture leaving the Rolls Building in London during his High Court battle with the BBC
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Only two years ago he emerged triumphant from his High Court battle against the [[/news/bbc/index.html BBC]] which had, he said, left his reputation 'forever tainted'.
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But in the week he turned 80, Sir Cliff Richard has given startling proof that he lives up to the Christian precept of loving your enemy — by recording a special edition of the Beeb's flagship religious programme Songs Of Praise.
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I can reveal the programme was filmed in St Paul's Cathedral last week with the working title 'Britain's Favourite Carol'.
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It also features Forces' sweetheart Katherine Jenkins, as well as blind Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and Irish icon Daniel O'Donnell.
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But an insider assures me that there is no question about who the star of the show is.
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'It's Cliff,' he tells me.
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'The BBC showed him the idea of the programme — it was wonderful. He sang Bethlehem and a less well-known carol and talked about his faith.
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'It's set to go out before Christmas. The deal was that he would be 'the star'.' Nevertheless, anyone who had suffered Sir Cliff's experiences might have demurred.
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He described as 'heartbreaking' a BBC report in which a helicopter was deployed to record a police raid on his house in Berkshire in 2014.
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Sir Cliff subsequently took action against both the BBC and South Yorkshire Police.
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The latter apologised and paid him damages.
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	  image class="left" url=""   Sir Cliff proudly holds aloft his new album, released to celebrate his 80th birthday this week
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The BBC issued an apology — but refused a pay-out, only for the case to be resoundingly settled in his favour with the Corporation ordered to pay him £210,000, as well as £850,000 of his legal costs.
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'Cliff explained that he doesn't hold grudges and that the only way in life is to move on and move forward,' I'm told.
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'His view is that all is good again.'
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Sir Cliff has been a devout Christian since the mid-1960s. It was at a Billy Graham event, in front of 27,000 people at Earls Court in London, that the star revealed his new-found faith.
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The BBC declined to make a comment.
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  Men running scared after MeToo, reveals Bond star
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She has revealed she was once groped on set by a famous actor.
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But Bond actress Naomie Harris now says the Me Too Movement has had a positive impact on boorish behaviour.
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'I recently did a film where the producer stood up before we had even started shooting, and he said, 'This is an environment which is not tolerant of any abuse towards women.'
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'I've never had a producer say that before.
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I feel as though lots of men are running scared — and I don't mean the good men as the vast majority of men have nothing to fear — but there were some really bad apples and they're getting their day now in court.
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