Beatie Wolfe

He was dancing with one of the carers.

And this was being filmed by one of the other people there to share with the family.

They couldn't believe it.

They absolutely couldn't believe it.

There was another woman called Anne who had stopped speaking.

So she'd, you know, been nonverbal for nine months.

And halfway through the first song, she starts singing along, you know, in this amazing choral soprano voice.

And this is a song, again, she's not heard before, but she's singing along and it's just amazing.

Mm-hmm.

There were so many examples with every person that I got to know of it doing something, you know, inexplicable.

I think...

I know it's tough.

I mean, the thing with music is when someone is, you know, in a way where they physically can't get up and dance or do other sorts of therapies that also might be very beneficial at unlocking, you know, something, where almost all they can do is...

passively absorb something.

That's the wonderful thing about music is it's not asking anything from you.

It's something you can absorb and who knows why or how, but it can magically transform something that seems completely stuck and impenetrable.

When something is beyond description, you know, it's an experience.

It's something that you know those times where you have been forever changed by something.

You know, watching a film in the cinema or listening to a record or reading a book.

And it's not that anything really has shifted outside of you.