Original subtitles

Hello, Lucy.

Daniel's here. It's Daniel.

Hello, Lucy.

I'll put your cane in the corner.

PIANO PLAYS

One. Three, four.

So, the first bit, it's like this.

HE PLAYS CHORD

Wait.

Wait.

Wait...

..and one, two, three, four, go.

LUCY BEGINS TO PLAY

Lucy is the most gifted musician I think I've ever met.

Well done. So, you're going to go, "Bom."

Bom, listen, listen.

Bom.

Like that.

I was introduced to her when she was three years old

and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I've never met anybody who has

the same depth of understanding of music.

Lucy makes you completely rethink how the brain works

and how the heart works as well.

PIANO CONTINUES

Bom.

HE SINGS ALONG

Bom.

Well done. You're doing really well.

Brilliant.

Ladies and gentlemen, Lucy.

OK.

Morning, Lu.

Morning, Lucy.

Morning, Lucy.

Today is...Tuesday the seventh.

Coat off.

Tuesday the seventh...

So, it's Tuesday the seventh. ..of March.

What year is it?

2023.

Good girl.

You ready?

Poppy here?

She is. She's watching.

And a big mouth.

Good girl.

Excellent, Luce.

Fantastic.

Daniel today.

It is Daniel today.

At?

1.40pm. 1.40pm.

You ready?

She has a chromosome 16 duplication.

Thank you. Thank you.

She does struggle with processing and she does take time.

You can't ask Lucy to do something

and assume she's going to do it immediately.

I don't believe she actually has a formal diagnosis of Autism,

but she has many of the traits.

And then, obviously, she has severe vision loss, well,

to the point of no functional vision.

What can you read?

Cam.

Cam.

What's on the end? Ah.

Ah. Camera.

Camera. Camera.

Do you want to have a feel of it?

Can you reach for me?

Reach, reach, reach, reach, reach.

Poppy's holding the camera.

There's lots of wires.

Camera.

Camera. Camera.

She's holding the camera.

Lucy, we just wanted to say hi.

It's Poppy and Glenn.

Hello, Lucy.

I don't think she's really fussed.

I think the cameras are just there.

I think it's just another thing that Lucy takes in her stride.

She knows that you guys are in the room.

She quite often calls you out that you're in the room,

but I don't think it phases her.

Poppy and Glenn.

So, I'm gonna tuck that wire in there.

Is that all right?

There we go.

Yes, now we're ready for piano.

Daniel!

He's here. Hi! Hi.

Hi, Lucy.

Hello, Lisa.

How would you describe her relationship with Daniel?

Oh, it's just lovely.

They're just in tune with each other.

Shall we do that one?

Oh, I love that one.

Yeah.

She looks forward to his lessons so much.

Bit louder. I'm playing bass guitar, yeah.

Music, for Lucy, is key.

I think, if Daniel wasn't in her life,

Lucy would have no real grounds of communication.

PIANO PLAYS

DANIEL HUMS

Daniel, sing.

DANIEL CONTINUES HUMMING

Nice. Lovely.

I can't remember a time before I could play the piano...

..and I think that maybe that's the same with Lucy, isn't it?

It's just that, maybe that's why we get on so well musically,

is that we both have that kind of natural attachment to the piano

as the way that we express ourselves.

much more so than with words.

She sees the world differently.

She sees the world in a beautiful way.

I wish I saw the world the way Lucy sees it, I do.

She's just happy.

But when she was born, the first thing I remember saying was,

"Is she OK? Is she all right?"

And they went to me, "Yeah, she's fine. She's fine."

And yet, at nine months, she was diagnosed with

advanced bilateral retinoblastoma.

It's cancerous tumours of the eyes.

It's a rare child cancer.

It was horrendous, just horrendous.

Sorry, Luce, you going in?

A drink. Yes, I've heard ya.

You take coat off? Mum do it.

No, Lucy do it.

I look back on that now and I go, "We did it.

"We did it as a team."

Good girl. Thank you. Thank you.

So what you gonna do now?

Cuddle. Ah, you want a cuddle?

Aww, come here, then, give me a hug. Whistle.

Now, it's just about living life

and it's about living every single moment with her.

CANDICE WHISTLES

Do you remember what we said?

9pm.

9pm. That's right.

On channel...?

Four. That's right.

What is on at 9pm tonight?

Tell Mummy. Royal Festival Hall.

And who is playing at the Royal Festival Hall?

Piano. The Piano.

Who played piano though?

Who played piano...?

With? With? Daniel.

Please welcome Lucy and her teacher - Daniel.

APPLAUSE

So, we're nearly at the piano.

Nearly at the piano.

Hold your cane properly.

OK.

OK.

All right, we're nearly at the piano.

OK.

There's the piano stool.

OK.

Now, find the pedal.

Find the pedal.

OK. Now, wait, wait.

That's right.

PIANO PLAYS

Lucy.

It is you.

I can't believe where she is now.

LUCY HUMS WITH MUSIC

Yay!

Well done!

Ho, ho, ho!

What you are looking and witnessing here

is a true star with natural talent.

When she was very, very little, we got her a little keyboard

and we took it into hospital with us,

and she played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star perfectly on it.

And the nurse came over,

and she thought that it was pre-recorded.

And I said, "No, Lucy's playing it."

And she said, "No, no way."

And that's when Daniel came in.

Daniel understands her and she understand him.

It's like having a musical soulmate.

She's got a phenomenal talent

and she wants to share the talent.

She wants to go out there and play for people

and hear that applause.

PIANO PLAYS

Big clap.

Ready?

MUM GASPS

Wow.

APPLAUSE

Well done, Lucy. That was beautiful. Bravo.

Oh, my gosh.

Ladies and gentlemen...

Go on, say it.

..please welcome to the stage, Lucy, Daniel. Yeah.

I know you wanted to give somebody performance of the night.

Yes, and that person is Lucy.

APPLAUSE

Oh, wow, 444 retweets.

Yeah, she's up there.

Sounds incredible.

You do sound incredible.

Yes, you do.

Lang Lang.

Lang Lang.

Who else? Mika. Mika.

And Lucy. And Lucy.

Viewers of Channel 4's The Piano were left in tears last night

following the emotional final that saw 13-year-old Lucy, who's blind,

win the show.

Please welcome to the stage Lucy.

Please welcome...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome...

She's 13-year-old Lucy, she's blind, has autism,

and last night she was crowned the winner of Channel 4's The Piano.

You want to tell Tony about the Royal Festival Hall?

What are you going to tell Tony?

I love that the world's opening up for her

cos that's what you want.

I don't want her to just be kept

for us and just kept and hidden away.

I want everybody to see how amazing Lucy is.

Morning, Lucy. Lucy! Congratulations, well done!

CHEERING

I'm proud of ya.

It's Tia. What's Tia saying? Congratulations.

CHEERS You won. Yay.

Well done, well done. I'm so proud.

Ah, you're so proud, Tia.

INDISTINCT

Ah, Tia. Well done, Lucy.

Thank you. Thank you so much...so much.

Thank you so much.

RADIO: Now, is there something about losing your sight

that makes you better at music?

Some scientists think there might be.

An amazing number of children with special needs

have a particular musical talent.

Someone like Lucy can probably hear

about ten notes at once,

so that means, when she's listening to an orchestra or a choir,

she can hear what every single player is singing or playing.

The miracle child, I'm gonna call her that today.

Blind miracle girl.

The miracle thing, it's that,

it's a way of...putting a label on, or saying, using...

I mean, even using the word blind, saying,

"The blind girl," you know?

The fact that she's blind, that's not her main characteristic.

I don't think of her as a blind person, you know?

I think of her as a musician.

PIANO MUSIC PLAYS

RADIO: Well, that is, that was Lucy,

playing Debussy's Arabesque in the final.

By her side for many, many years

has been her piano teacher, Daniel Bath, who joins us now.

Daniel, hello. Hello.

So you've been teaching Lucy for around ten years,

but talk us through the method that you initially used.

Well, I first met her when she was,

I think she had just turned four, actually.

# Fish are jumping... #

Because obviously she can't see where the fingers are going,

I would play the piece,

and she would hold on to the top of my hand,

so she could feel what my fingers were doing.

So through that she learned what the fingering patterns were.

She'll hear a piece of music,

like on the radio or something, and then she'll know it,

she'll remember it, because her memory's so good.

..number? 11. OK.

And then she'll sit down at the piano,

and she'll play it straight away.

And, to be honest,

a lot of my work has just been training the fingers

to make the music that's already in her head, in her memory.

I always think of it like a sculpture, you know?

You've got a block of marble that's roughly the right shape

and very gradually chip away at it.

Daniel, we've got to end it there, but... Thanks, Daniel.

We hope that more children can get access to that,

we need more access to music education for everybody.

Yep, good point, well made. Thanks, Daniel.

Thank you very much.

Daniel is Lucy's piano teacher.

What a remarkable technique and a remarkable achievement.

Thank you. Thank you, bye, thank you.

It makes me feel very uncomfortable, putting myself forward,

but it's a really useful tool to

spread the message for what we do.

Lucy's very much just the tip of the iceberg

when it comes to, you know, what's possible.

Did you put the plug in?

Yeah, it's ready now. PLAYS RANDOM NOTES

Uh...

# Old McRayan had a farm... #

Wait.

PLAYS NOTES CLEANLY

# Old... #

Yay!

Give a clap.

Do you think you can do the bass?

I'm a piano teacher to several children who are visually impaired

and some of them have additional needs as well.

# E-I-E-I-O... #

Glenn and Poppy, I am going to play...

..so please listen carefully and don't talk.

OK, so, Daniel, get your tabla ready,

we're not gonna do bass today.

THEY SING

It's very empowering for a lot of children

who don't feel like they have agency

and power in their lives, or control over their environment.

THEY SING

Music is an area where they can have complete control

over their environment,

and, if you're a music teacher,

that's your job, is to facilitate that.

SHE PLAYS ROTTERDAM BY THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH

ALL SING: # And everyone is blonde

# And everyone is beautiful... #

Music's often treated like a kind of, you know, frivolous luxury,

but Lucy, for me, is like the best example of why music is

so important.

Piano is how Lucy communicates.

The music's everything to her, really.

# ..done more here

# Than they ever would do in a jar

# This could be Halifax or anywhere

# Liverpool or Rome

# Cos Halifax is anywhere

# Anywhere alone

# Anywhere alone... #

With Lucy, what we've found with

the publicity surrounding her being on the TV series

is that there's a great rush of people wanting

to associate themselves.

Lucy's had lots of invitations to come perform in various places.

Uh, we've got to think about the jazz concert in Halifax

and we need to work out what we're gonna play, so...

Thinking, Beginning to See the Light.

Beginning to See the light, would you like to do that?

One, two, a one, two, three, four.

MUSIC PLAYS

Concentrate on your fingers.

I, uh, have a jazz piano trio

and we have a gig, which Lucy's going to be playing in.

Lucy will come on and she will replace me.

# Dah, doo, doo, doo-doo, doo, doo-doo... #

Solo.

It's a chance for her to...

..have a bit of practice performing in public spaces

and get used to the other musicians.

Whoooo!

Lucy loves playing jazz,

part of that is my influence on her

because she's spent ten years listening to me playing jazz.

Feels a bit scary, actually, sometimes, if I hear her play,

that sounds like me playing. So, uh...

Why's that scary?

Uh, well, it's just that responsibility...

THEY PRACTISE SCATTING

..that what she's doing is my fault.

THEY CONTINUE SCATTING

It's nice, that one, isn't it? Come on, then, we've finished.

You know, Lucy's very much at the beginning of something,

at the beginning of her musical career.

Lucy will, she will be better at playing the piano than I have been

because she's heading towards a career as a concert pianist,

as far as I can see.

So we'll have to be careful

because Lucy's that combination of great skill

and confidence, and also great vulnerability.

LUCY: Alexa, play applause by the audience.

ALEXA: I couldn't find Applause by Audrey, but here's...

Alexa, play applause by the audience.

ALEXA: I couldn't find Applause by the Orphans, but here is...

Alexa, play applause by the audience.

ALEXA: Applause by the audience on Amazon Music.

PLAYS ONE NOTE

APPLAUSE

Alexa, stop.

Alexa, go back.

Applause...

SHE FINISHES PLAYING

APPLAUSE

We're gonna carry on our work about strangers.

And now, for Lucy's benefit,

all our badges have braille on them, don't they?

What does that say on there, Lucy?

Angie. It says Angie, doesn't it?

And that means I'm a safe person,

cos I've got my badge on.

DIRECTOR: How do you think Lucy gets to know someone?

So...we've got a couple of theories with Lucy.

The first thing she generally asks someone to do is to whistle.

Sam, whistle. SAM WHISTLES THE COCKROACH

Partly because it's musical and she loves it.

And she will identify people with,

not only a song they whistle,

but how well they can whistle.

SAM WHISTLES LIKE A BIRD

And the number of staff who have a specific Lucy whistle.

SHE WHISTLES Okey dokey. That's better.

Oh, Polly can do it!

Do Polly's whistle. Do that again, Polly.

SHE WHISTLES

She's loving it. Yeah,

just another way she controls us all, subtly.

Shoe lace. That's right.

Daniel, whistle.

LUCY WHISTLES

DANIEL WHISTLES

She'll be 14 in May.

Duke Ellington.

Into teenage years, and they get hormonal

and stroppiness increases.

So Lucy's definitely getting her teenager head on.

We are getting "no" a little bit more

and we had a foot stomp the other day.

Keyboard. Yeah, I brought my keyboard,

so you can practise on that.

Listen, in the concert tomorrow night...

OK? No, stop, stop.

No, no, no. We'll do Blue Monk.

DANIEL HUMS

Listen to the... Listen to the introduction.

Listen to the introduction.

No, listen. Oi! Listen to the introduction.

Listen!

Louder.

More left hand.

Lucy can sense what my mood is.

She can sense if I'm at all stressed.

Daniel, sing. Solo. It's... Solo.

It's... No, don't talk, just play the solo.

Blue Monk. No, play the solo.

And she'll just do something either

to wind me up more or to defuse the stress.

That's very extraordinarily so.

Do it properly, left hand.

Whoo!

No, play properly. Listen, play properly.

Don't mess it up. No, don't mess it up. Play properly.

Sh! No, no. And end with Blue Monk. No.

I'm just trying to calm down,

so I can say something sensible.

How do you and Lucy deal with pressure differently?

Um, she doesn't care

and I go to pieces, that's basically how it works.

I'll just play the piano for a bit, if you don't mind.

Yeah, play the piano for a bit.

All the time, I feel a massive amount of responsibility

and a lot of that is because I know what she can do,

I know what she's capable of doing.

Yeah, when I start to think about it,

it's actually completely overwhelming.

I didn't know working with Lucy was going to become

such a big part of his life.

Daniel doesn't like doing things by halves.

It does involve doing lots of different things

and going to lots of different places.

He basically works pretty much all the time.

One, two, three, four.

PLAYING OUT OF TUNE

Oh, stop, stop!

I always think of the song The Impossible Dream -

kind of sums up quite a lot about his attitude to life

cos most of us do what we think we can do,

and he does what he thinks needs to be done.

# To dream

# The impossible dream... #

I think it was teaching Lucy, really, that made him

even more aware than he was before of how we don't live

in a society where people get what they need to make the most

of their talents.

# Run where the brave dare not go... #

That's it, yeah.

That's why he started working extra with Lucy

because he knew that she needed more than

the lessons that he was being originally asked to do.

It does worry me because it's not really sustainable to work

the sort of hours and the pressure that he works.

# To reach the unreachable... #

Hello, Lucy. Daniel here.

Are you ready?

LUCY PLAYS CLASSICAL PIECE

Good. Right. OK, stop for a minute. Well done.

OK, now, let's go back to the beginning.

HE HUMS

From the beginning. Here we go. No.

From the beginning. No.

Aha! Listen, Lucy. No.

First of all...

No. Fantaisie-Impromptu by Chopin, and then... No. And then...

No. No? And then?

No.

HE LAUGHS

What are we going to have, then?

So Lucy gave me a bit of a shock there when she started...

It was that bit where she started just stopping.

She hardly ever does that, she had a mental block.

I don't know if she actually did or whether she was just doing it

to wind me up cos she could tell that I was tense.

But you see, tonight, I'll just be having nightmares about that,

about her stopping on that bit.

It's like, you know, like when you're trying to...

I feel like Uri Geller or something,

trying to bend spoons with my mind.

It's like trying to sort of make Lucy play

the right chord with my mind.

Come on, Lucy!

The Uri Geller of piano teaching.

AUDIENCE MURMURS

Can you hear the audience?

Nearly time for the concert.

OK? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, yeah.

Please welcome to the stage John and Adam!

Whoo!

All right, OK, you ready? Daniel's turn. Here we go.

Are we going to go on stage? You ready? Here we go.

Hold your cane properly. Ladies and gentlemen...

Hold your cane properly - that's right. Hey!

APPLAUSE

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Do you want to say it? Please welcome to the stage...

Do you want to say it? John.

Yay!

And please welcome to the stage...

Who else? Who's playing bass? Daniel's turn.

Ah, my turn? Please welcome to the stage Adam,

who's playing bass for us.

APPLAUSE And, um...

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

So we're going to start with...

What's the first song? You going to say it?

We're gonna start with...

It's called...

I... Can you say what it is?

Is it called... WHISPERS: I Love Being Here With You?

Can you say it? It's called I Love Being Here With You.

There we go, brilliant.

OK, so, there we are,

I Love Being Here With You by Beegie Adair.

You ready? Ready?

Quite fast. HE HUMS

Go! One... Two, a one, two, three, four.

More left hand.

Louder, left hand.

Left hand louder.

HE HUMS

More left hand.

Left hand, come on, play it louder.

Yeah.

Daniel, sing. Louder.

HE HUMS Lounder, left hand.

Well done.

And now Satin Doll. You ready?

Satin Doll.

Satin Doll. HE HUMS

And now Satin Doll.

What?

HE HUMS

Louder.

Thank you very much, Lucy.

APPLAUSE

Whoo!

Come here, babe.

Well done. You did really well.

Well done, Lucy, well done.

OK. Well done.

Well done. Come here, sweetheart. What's the matter?

Aargh!

Stupid.

So...

So, like... No, it's cos...

I was having to...

Spent the whole time,

I was just growling in her ear, "Come on, Lucy, keep playing!"

I thought... It was actually three numbers in,

I was thinking of calling it a day, actually.

She's doing an entire, like...

She's doing an entire set now by herself...

I know, but... ..which is just amazing.

But she's not ready for it, that's the point. That's what...

But this is what gigs in Halifax on a Thursday night are for. Yeah.

There's so many people in that room that will be absolutely gobsmacked.

And just cos you know and I know what she's capable of

doesn't mean that... I know, but it's not fair,

that's why... It's not fair on her.

You're a bit tired, aren't you?

Aw, yeah. Tablet. She needs an easy week.

We need an easy week. Tablet.

You've been a really good girl, ain't ya?

Yeah, she's fab. She's just not feeling it, I can tell.

I think she's tired. I think there is a bit of tiredness

and...but, yeah, it's not like her, that.

She normally plays a lot differently to that.

And then, as a parent, you start thinking,

did you do the right thing, bringing her?

Well, I suppose, when we do stuff like that,

it makes me realise how...

..how much I kind of project...

..my musical life onto Lucy,

that's the problem.

And I think... And that's why I feel like...

I feel like I've cocked up the thing.

I just feel really bad because I know that it's like...

I'm not...

I've not acted in her best interests.

# I've lived a life that's full

# I've travelled each and every highway

# More, more than this

# I did it my way. #

I think Lucy plays that. Daniel!

Go really slow.

She's not feeling it.

I will let Lisa know not to worry,

just to keep calm and distracted.

Good girl. Come on, darling.

I want what's best for Lucy,

so it's about giving her all these experiences

and not hiding her away because she's got additional needs.

But now I'm thinking,

"Is she ready for it? Have I done this right?

When they're 18, I'm going to get teary, I know I am.

When they are 18, that's when they're expected to be an adult,

aren't they? They're expected to be an adult at 18.

That isn't going to happen with Lucy, it's not.

She's always going to need help and it terrifies me.

Morning, Luce!

Good girl. Good girl. Come on, then.

Lisa. It's an awful feeling,

but I'm thinking to myself, "How old am I going to be

"when I leave this earth and who's going to look after her?"

I'll do your coat for you today.

I'm scared of what age I'm going to go at

because, you know, I'm 47 now and I know I'm getting older.

Sorry. It's very hard when I talk about future with Lucy -

it's the worst part.

Number three. Number three.

Well done. Well done.

Lucy's piano lessons have had a profound impact on her life

and on my life as well.

You know, I learn a lot from her

about how to deal with life,

about how to deal with life's difficulties, and...

In 2010, I had a mental breakdown

and I had...I had... I was...

..quite unable to do very much for...

..for...

..quite a long time.

And it was a result of too much stress

and just working very hard.

For a lot of the time, I couldn't play the piano -

it made me feel sick.

Yeah, it was a terrible time for the rest of the family

and obviously I feel terrible about it

because of putting them through all of that.

I was looking down a very dark tunnel and that was it.

No-one really seemed to be able to do much...

..to help. Erm, he's probably not the easiest person to help.

Yeah, he just had to completely leave

all the different jobs that he was doing.

You know, that wasn't like a,

"Oh, I think I should stop," kind of quit. It was like,

"Oh, I can't actually leave the house," kind of quit.

He used to just put loads and loads of work into doing up the garden -

that helped him a lot.

So, obviously, when he overworks now,

it does make me anxious

because, um,

you know, we don't really want to be back there again.

After a while, a friend called me up.

Lucy's school had been in touch with him

because they needed someone to teach her the piano.

And he said to me, he said, the only person he could think of

who would be suitable for doing this was me.

And I said to him, "No, I can't do it because I've got to be careful."

He kept coming back to me, so every month or so he'd say,

"We still haven't found anyone to teach this girl."

Anyway, after a few times, I eventually said,

"Oh, all right, then. Go on, then."

And so I went to see her,

and it was, yeah, it was just really fantastic.

Communicating through music in a really direct

and immediate and profound way, which I'd never really done before.

I really look forward to Lucy's lessons every time

because it's like the place where I'm meant to be.

It's a space where we can both be ourselves in a really full way.

Daniel! Hello, Lucy!

Hello, Lucy.

Oh, you've got your hair up today on top of your head.

Yeah, very nice.

Lovely. Are you going to come and sit down?

Hair up. Thank you very much.

Daniel. Sit down. Well done. Daniel do it.

Now, Lucy, today we've got

some important news

because we're going to be doing a concert for the coronation.

Live? Do you know that? The coronation.

It's going to be a live concert at a castle.

A concert live in Windsor Castle.

And? And it's going to be

Prelude In C by Bach.

Can you remember how to play it?

Prelude In C by Bach?

BOTH SHUSH

We're going to do the "sh" later.

We're going to do just the music first.

Shhh!

Oh, all right, then.

SHE SHUSHES

DANIEL SHUSHES, LUCY LAUGHS

She's been asked to perform at the Coronation Concert

on the 7th of May, which is the day after the coronation itself.

For Lucy's career,

I think being a full-time professional musician

is such a long way off at the moment.

But I think it'll be a great opportunity for Lucy

to play with a really good orchestra.

And then you have to stop here.

Stop on C...

Ah, you've got to stop. You've got to stop there.

Listen. Listen.

In the concert, live at Windsor Castle,

you're going to stop there, on that C.

We're going to go like this.

Bach's Prelude In C cos that's one of the pieces

Lucy knows best of all.

By coincidence, it's the piece that she performed

in her first-ever public performance,

when she was seven years old...

..which is kind of a bit why I'm slightly wishing

that she was playing something a bit more substantial...

..because it doesn't give a true representation

of who she is as a musician.

London with? Daniel.

I'm not sure if Lucy knows who the King is.

She knows who Mozart is...

..and she knows who Stevie Wonder is.

Co-ro-na-tion.

Coronation. It's the coronation of...

What does this say?

Ki-ng Cha-rles.

Can you say that?

Just King Charles.

She needs to be seen as a serious musician

and not just a kind of, sort of,

you know, exhibit in the Royal Menagerie,

or what...which is the thing that I'm a little bit concerned about.

Daniel!

Hi, Lucy.

SHE MAKES CLICKING NOISES Listen. Are you listening?

This is the announcement.

Live. Yeah, when it's live,

this is going to be the announcement.

RECORDING: In celebration of His Majesty's watercolours,

we welcome a pianist from the Queen Consort's patronage,

The Amber Trust.

It's the incredibly talented Lucy!

Hey!

OK, and then you play it.

And then you play it, Lucy,

Prelude In C by Bach.

It's Lucy!

Yeah, go on.

No, you've got to play the piece, Lucy.

Playing, Lucy!

Prelude In C. Lucy!

DANIEL LAUGHS

Lucy, you've got to play Prelude In C by Bach.

Listen, I'm going to do it again - listen. Applause.

The incredibly talented Lucy!

I knew this would happen.

I have always said she'd play on massive, big stages

and you can't get a bigger stage than the King's coronation concert.

I've got no doubt in my head that there's going to be more offers -

there's already been a couple come through for July.

It's like, "Whoa!" It's just, "Whoa!"

It is scary because Daniel is a big part of that

and I don't want to, you know, put too much on him.

I'm rather hoping that things will die down a bit.

It's just really important that we don't take on too much

because obviously, when you're starting out, temptation is

to say yes to whatever comes in because you think,

"Oh, it's great, it's just more exposure."

But, for Lucy, especially, that is the wrong thing to do.

Apart from anything, it wouldn't mean anything to her.

I know Daniel is protective of her, bless him,

but there will be other things coming in

and it's something we need to sort of discuss at some point,

as to whether he can do it and he can handle it.

It's a difficult one, it really is,

cos they've been together for so long.

The most important thing is that every bit

of work is in her best interest.

You know, that's the only question, really, that matters in the end, is,

is this going to be good for Lucy?

Personally, I'm quite opposed to the idea of monarchy,

so if it was my gig I wouldn't accept it.

But, really, it's a great opportunity for Lucy,

you know, and my priority is to support Lucy.

Oh, wow, look at this.

I'll sit next to her and I'll sort of whisper things to her, just

to make sure she's in the right sort of mental place.

And the thing she'll love best is going be the big round of applause,

because it will be the biggest round of applause she's ever had.

Can you show me your badge again?

I've got two badges,

"Music for the many,"

and we've got the Extinction Rebellion one,

which I've worn because it said that

the way you dress should take into account

the environment and the climate and ecological crisis,

so I thought, "What better way of doing that than wearing this?"

So, there we go. Do you think you'll be allowed to wear it on telly?

Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt. These can't be on sight at all.

When you're off site, that needs to be hidden. Oh, I see. It's security.

OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, yeah.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Oh, you made it! Hey!

Hello.

Daniel.

CHEERING

Hello, Lucy.

Hi, Lucy.

That's it.

I just see it as a new beginning for me and her.

And do you know what?

I'm going to make sure she gets everything she deserves out of this,

however long it lasts and however long she wants to do it for.

HE HUMS

We were expecting the car at half five

and then we got advised there'd be a bit of a delay,

which seems to be the standard for these things.

And then we've kind of had a couple more delays,

and so we're just kind of now waiting

to hear just what's...what's going on.

PHONE VIBRATES

Hello?

Yes, it is. Hello.

What?

Do you know why? Have they given you any...?

Really?

Right. Thank you. Bye, thanks.

What's happened?

The Royal Household have said, well, no, well, she said,

the security of the Royal Household said I don't meet

the minimum security requirement.

She said they're going to send security people round

to collect my pass because obviously I'm a high risk...

..so...

So, what does that mean?

I don't know. They think I'm a...a threat.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Come in.

Come in, Candice. OK. I need, so...

It's all right. I've had some bad news, Candice.

What's wrong? It's nothing...

Security called me and said I hadn't passed

the minimum security requirement for the Royal Household. Oh, no.

So it's The Royal Household security

that have, erm, said... So, how's it going to work?

Well, Lisa is very happy to go with Lucy.

It'll be fine. So, I'm really sorry. OK.

No, no. You don't have to be sorry.

But you better get going, then, because the carriage awaits,

I'm really sorry, but... No, it's OK.

Just really enjoy it. Yeah, we will. We will.

Make the most of it. It's just such a great thing, isn't it? So...

OK, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry.

It's not your fault. Well... Don't worry

Mummy's here.

Do you want to put your jacket on, Luce?

Coat on. You want your coat on?

Daniel here.

Daniel is not here.

Can you put this on? Now, you tell me.

Daniel. Fastened or not? Zip up. You want zip up?

Yeah, later.

Come on, sweetheart. Daniel coming back later.

Yeah, well, we're probably going to go and see him soon.

Let's go and find that piano.

The only reason I'm here is,

you know, to facilitate Lucy's performance, you know,

which is what they want. I'm doing it for them.

I don't know, I don't know.

I think it's probably to do with my involvement

with Extinction Rebellion.

Erm...

Hasn't made me warm to the monarchy any more, I have to say...

..if I'm honest!

ANNOUNCER: In celebration of His Majesty's watercolours,

we welcome a pianist from Her Majesty Queen Camilla's patronage

The Amber Trust, it's the incredibly talented Lucy.

CHEERING

MUSIC: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach

I think quite often, actually, about Lucy's next steps.

I tend to veer wildly between two extremes.

You know, the idea that I have to be there with her -

I can't let her do anything without me.

I sort of veer between that and thinking,

you know, I need to let her do her own thing.

MUSIC CONTINUES

I've always thought it would be great for her to work

with loads of different people.

It's really important that we're not stuck to

the idea of me being glued to Lucy forever.

Good ending.

CHEERING ON TV

Yay. HE APPLAUDS

She's doing a bow.

CHEERING

That was good, wasn't it?

Oh, Lucy, that was incredible.

You were amazing.

Lionel Richie was just asking after her. Oh, Lucy.

Oh, what an honour. Yeah.

What an honour.

Come on.

ANNOUNCER: Thank you to all our wonderful performers.

SHEEP BLEAT

Yeah, hold your cane properly, long finger.

Hold it properly, Lucy. That's right, well done.

Woooshhh. Very good.

LUCY SINGS TUNE

Woooshhh. Can you hear the wind going wooshhhh?

# Da-da-da, da-da-da

# Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. #

By?

# I only... #

I Only Have Eyes for You by...

Who sings that?

Oscar Peterson. Oscar Peterson

# Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. #

Here's the door. I'll open the door. Are you ready?

Beep. Beep. Come on, then, I've opened the door.

Right, let's go and find the piano. Here we go. Are you ready?

Hold your cane properly.

Ooh. What's that?

Oooh. What's that? What's that?

What's this?

HE VOCALISES THE MELODY

LUCY LAUGHS

Oh, yes!

LUCY LAUGHS

Yay! Well done.

That's so exciting! A new piano.

# And now... #

I'll sing it. Go on, you play it.

# And now the end is near

# And so I face the final curtain... #

HE VOCALISES THE MELODY

I can't imagine ever saying goodbye to Lucy

because we're such close friends.

I'm speaking obviously for both of us now,

I think we do enjoy each other's company.

I can't imagine not being part of each other's lives in some way...

..certainly for the foreseeable future.

I mean, I'm her piano teacher, so there!

# Da-da-da, my way. #

Lucy, that was amazing.

Absolutely...

BOTH: Wonderful! HE CHUCKLES

MUSIC: I Wish by Stevie Wonder

Subtitles by Red Bee Media