Playtime
The House of Commons hosted a special event today - which coincided nicely with my new brief (shadow arts) and my constituency (Wantage & Didcot). Katie Melua and All Angels sang - absolutely wonderful, really spectacular. “Whispering” Bob Harris and his wife, Trudi, were among the hosts - constituents, though I didn’t know it until today. And a video of one of my local schools, St Birinus, was played, with the head teacher Chris Bryan, and the head of music, Liz Stanley, in attendance. All to launch Playtime, an on-line music service for schools put together by Broadchart and part funded by the Government. And thanks to the music industry waiving licence fees, it is affordable. A quiet success story that not many people probably know about, including the hundreds of thousands of kids who will benefit.