Emily Watson

During lockdown, early in the pandemic, the bit where none of us really knew where we were heading and it was kind of terrifying.

And anyway, I'm very lucky to live quite close to Greenwich Park.

And so that was our daily walk.

And Greenwich Park is also quite close to Trinity College of Music.

And one day we were walking in the park and it was that insanely beautiful, bright, hot spring weather with green everywhere.

We came around the corner and there's lots of sort of nooks and crannies and hills and dells in Greenwich Park into this little sort of dell.

And they're socially distanced with kind of bicycles and hoodies all over the place with music stands with these kids from Trinity College of Music playing this piece.

And it was...

breathtaking in its beauty and a moment where

of realisation of this is what we stand to lose.

This is the peak of who we are.

We have evolved to the point that we can do this.

Our young people are here by choice in this park making this incredibly beautiful sound.

And, you know, your drive through London and the lifeblood of the city was closed.

You know, the theatres were closed.

Music, everything was gone.

I felt like I would fight for this.

You know, this is something that I...

believe is really really truly good and so this piece of music you know it was incredibly moving and people didn't know whether to stop and listen because was that a gathering you know and you could people see people standing around with tears in their eyes and i i feel very grateful to those students for that moment i don't know who they are or where they are now and hopefully they're all having an amazing careers but um it was a very powerful moment

It was very overwhelming.