My brother, Owen, and I spent Easter Monday at the Roald Dahl Museum, working with families to write songs about the experience of flying.
It was the first time we’d worked together
and, well it worked out beautifully! I
haven’t often co-delivered, but it’s a great opportunity to play to different
people’s strengths, and ultimately come up with something really good. Naturally, there were things we’d like to try
differently, but in generally, with only 45 minutes with each group, we
achieved a lot.
Owen brings an
incredible talent in singing, guitar and improvisation, along with his irresistible
charm and sense of how to pitch things at just the right level. Combined with my background in interpreting museum
themes for families and enabling our youngest audiences to become creators, we
involved every visitor to the workshop in the writing of a new and original
song.


In planning, it was also wonderful
to read Going Solo for the first time, and to feel Roald Dahl’s experience of
flight, and of Africa, and how widely it influenced his later writing.