Gareth Malone: he wants to teach the world to sing | Viv Groskop

The jubilee concert will see the choirmaster – whose projects have charmed with his ability to coax music from the most unlikely people – and the Military Wives performing at Buckingham PalaceHe is an unlikely people's hero. He has the body of the Milkybar Kid, the nerdy quiff of Tintin, the bow tie of a ventriloquist's dummy and the specs of a librarian. And yet the nation has taken 36-year-old Gareth Malone to its heart. There's that part of the nation that goes dewy-eyed at the sound of ...

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