Gareth Malone on connecting through music, handling public expectations, and spontaneous decisions
White Wine Question Time
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🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Joining us today is perhaps the most famous choirmaster in Britain, on the cusp of a nationwide tour designed to get even the most cautious of singers up on their feet: it’s Gareth Malone!
He dials in from his rehearsal studio for a chat about how music runs through the very fabric of his existence and how it’s been a tool for celebration, reflection and healing across his life. We also speak about how he inadvertently became the country’s music teacher during Lockdown - and we can’t resist rolling out the piano to play a few of Kate’s favourites!
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| 0:00.0 | I need to be at the piano for this and I go. Yeah go and do it. This is fun. That's it. Coming up on this episode of White Line Question Time. |
| 0:25.0 | I definitely felt it. |
| 0:27.0 | You know, you're getting heartfelt messages of the same people. |
| 0:29.0 | You know, this is saving me every day. |
| 0:31.0 | And I'm thinking, well, I've also got my own family and I want my parents |
| 0:34.9 | and you know and I've got my own sanity to take care of under those extraordinary conditions. |
| 0:40.3 | Are you a raver? I mean I noticed I was like 13 and I was at home so I was just |
| 0:46.8 | raving quietly in the kitchen and thinking how very exciting and seeing pictures |
| 0:51.1 | of you know and there was that moral panic around raving and I thought it sounded all terribly exciting. |
| 0:56.0 | I feel like I contributed to that during a long stint of hosting singing competitions in the early |
| 1:00.8 | notice I apologize. |
| 1:01.8 | I mean I didn't like to I do know I deliberately |
| 1:04.4 | skirted round the title of a well-known show because I knew you were involved it's your fault Hello and |
| 1:15.0 | welcome to White Wine Question Time, the podcast that asks its guest three thought-provoking questions |
| 1:22.0 | over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:24.7 | And my guest this week is a man who first came bounding on to our screens in 2006 with an |
| 1:30.0 | infectious enthusiasm and determination to bring a love of corals singing to us all. |
| 1:35.4 | He was working for the London Symphony Orchestra running a youth choir when the BBC discovered |
| 1:40.1 | him via a Google search. |
| 1:42.2 | They were looking for a choir master for a new show they were doing with the choir and entrusted the job to him. It was an instant success and one a bafter leading him to bring together choirs in a variety of settings and communities, be they a bunch of |
| 1:53.8 | uninterested schoolboys, prisoners, almost famously the military wives who he |
| 1:59.2 | shared a Christmas number one with in 2011. Born in London and raised in Bormuth, his mother was a civil servant, his father, a bank manager, |
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