Military Wives
Last night Emma and I watched a really moving film, “Military Wives” [ 1] , starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan. You may be familiar with it, or may have seen the Gareth Malone TV series “The Choir” first aired in 2006 which inspired it. It’s a story about the spouses of military personnel while their loved ones are deployed on duty in Afghanistan, and how they find support, and even an outlet for their emotion by joining an unlikely choir, of varying musical ability, who eventually get to perform their own song in the Royal Albert Hall. Well as you can imagine, it’s very emotional viewing. There’s the young bride, who gets that devastating visit that no military service family wants to get, there’s the Colonel’s wife who has already lost her soldier son and whose husband is caught up in an explosion. And yet it’s as funny as it is moving, thanks in part to the brilliant dialogues between chalk and cheese choir mistresses Kate and Lisa. Well in a ...