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Gareth Malone tries to teach choral music to people with little singing experience

Choirmaster Gareth Malone attempts to teach choral music to people with little singing experience

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The Choir: Military Wives

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The Choir: Military Wives: Episode 3

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The choir is challenged to perform at the Royal Albert Hall on Remembrance Sunday.

Gareth Malone challenges the choir to perform at the Royal Albert Hall on Remembrance Sunday, with only a few weeks to prepare. The women contribute to a specially composed song.

Choirmaster Gareth Malone has formed a new choir of military wives at RMB Chivenor in north Devon while their husbands deploy to Afghanistan for a six-month tour of duty. 

Four months after their husbands' departure, the wives are finding it increasingly difficult to cope. Gareth sets them the biggest challenge of their lives: to perform at the Royal Albert Hall on Remembrance Sunday in just a few weeks' time. The women contribute letters and lyrics to a song that is specially composed for them by the Duchess of Cambridge's favourite composer Paul Mealor. 

After a six-month wait, and agonising reports of multiple injuries and fatalities on the frontline, the choir-members' husbands finally return, to joyous reunions. Now Gareth has to make sure his choir members give it their all, for the once-in-a-lifetime Royal Albert Hall performance.

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Gareth Malone forms a choir with the partners left behind by troops away in Afghanistan

Choirmaster Gareth Malone visits RMB Chivenor military base in Devon where he hopes to form a choir with the wives and girlfriends left behind by troops deployed in Afghanistan

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