At times during lockdown, a simple task like getting yourself out of bed can feel like a huge achievement. Throw in baking a banana bread before elevenses and you’re winning.
But if your name is Gareth Malone, otherwise known as TV’s favourite choirmaster, you set the bar higher. ‘When the world shut down in March, I lost all my work and it was a real worry, like for most people.
What the hell was I going to do? 'It didn’t take long for me to create a virtual choir, where I’m now singing with hundreds of thousands of people from their sofas around the world,’ he tells us proudly as we chat to him on the phone from his sound-proof music studio in his back garden, which he’s kitted out with snazzy, state-of-the-art technology.