Emily Watson

And it's been the most incredible journey.

That was 10 years ago.

And it's a choir made up of refugees and displaced people and allies.

So it's sort of 50-50 people from here and people not from here.

And their brief is to sing music from all around the world that's not religious.

And they do a lot of kind of mashup of different cultural things.

So there are 50-odd members of the choir from 26 different countries around the world, kind of Ukrainian, Iranian, Afghanistan.

All around the world.

And they sing stuff from loads and loads of different cultures.

And to me, they are an incredible success story.

They're singing on Ed Sheeran's latest album.

They've sung twice at Glastonbury.

They sang with Guy Garvey at the Platinum Jubilee Palace concert last year.

They sang at Kofi Annan's memorial.

And hearing them sing is like taking a bath in the opposite of hate.

It's just a beautiful thing.

And this is a song that was written for them by Felix Buxton of Basement Jacks, who is a great supporter of the choir.

And yeah, this is one of their pieces that they are readying for Refugee Week this year.

What's it going to be?

It's Staying Alive, which is a poetry collection published by Bloodaxe Books.