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The Race to Record an Album

Anneka’s back with another ambitious challenge - to produce and record an album of songs from the musicals, but she needs to first beg, bribe and bamboozle some of the UK’s highest-profile recording artists and performers to sing. If that wasn’t a daunting enough task, she also needs to throw a Gala concert to launch the album and all this in just five days! All her Herculean efforts will go towards helping forty UK children’s hospices, by raising money and awareness via the CD and Gala event. Children’s hospices are the unsung heroes, who provide vital care for terminally ill children and their families and siblings. They have been largely overlooked by the government and need to raise approximately 85% of all their costs to stay open each year- we’re talking millions! Last year, a staggering 20,000 children across the Click here to buy this CDcountry desperately needed hospice care, only 4,600 received it - a shocking state of affairs! The final and in many ways, the most important element of her challenge, is for Anneka to put together a choir made up of the children from the hospice’s around the country , who are ready, willing and able enough to sing on the CD and perform the title song at the Gala event with a celebrity soloist. For fully able children, used to performing in public in a choir, this would be a nerve rackingAssociation of Children's Hospices undertaking. Anneka will be with them every step of the way, every rehearsal, every forgotten line, every bout of stage fright!

English
  • Originally Aired June 6, 2007
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Network BBC One
  • Notes Is a season finale
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