Anybody watching the Military Choir BBC2

[DTCwordfan]

Do!

It could be very emotional and inspirational - they are composing a song for the Remembrance Service at the Albert Hall out of their letters to the troops......

[sadielady]

Lovely programme Not a dry eye in this house!!

[islasmum]

It was brilliant, even though I spent about three quarters of the programme in tears! They were all brilliant and it has been an amazing series. I went on to Gareth Malones page on Facebook, and the choir has it's own page on there - lots of suggestions for the ladies to release a CD, and possibly aim for the Christmas no.1, which I think is a great idea.

[ladybirder]

I've recorded it so I still have it to look forward to.

[andy-hughes]

I hate to be a wet blanet, but these tenuous notions for creating choirs really doesn't reach me at all.

The idea nurses, priests, soldiers, soldiers' wives and so on ad infinitum, make viable choirs is simply not valid.

What it is is an excuse to cash in on the emotion that surrounds these individuals for their various reasons, and use that as an excuse to carry through the idea that this is some sort of cathartic 'journey' for everyone involved.

It's not, it's TV cashing in on national attitudes towards these individuals, and it's basis is groundless.

A woman who marries a soldier does so from simple free choice - it does not empower her with the national goodwill that allows her to join a TV-based choir and appear full of cod emotion and self-righteousness which is the wave of emotion that fuels these ideas.

It is this kind of nationalism / emotion-by-proxy that allows national forces to carry on in their primary function - fighting wars, however unjustified.