Week three of The Choir Unsung Town was a vast improvement on the previous week’s rather downbeat episode, which despite recording the success of the children’s choir and the adult group’s first public concert at Watford Colosseum, did little to make the South Oxhey community feel good about the attitudes of those in the surrounding towns.

Last night, however, saw a community bonding together more deeply as rehearsals continued and both choirs had to get to grips with singing in Latin - no mean feat for any singer and a huge achievement for a fledgling group, who seem to be growing in stature and confidence with every week.

Despite a bit of a wobble at the start, seeing the enthusiasm with which they embraced Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, a notoriously difficult piece of choral music, and the professionalism of their performance at St Albans Abbey, was totally uplifting.

Meanwhile, there was food for thought as the children’s choir paid a visit to private boys school Merchant Taylors’, a mere six minutes' down the road from South Oxhey, to sing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Hearing the headteacher agree that the whole South Oxhey estate could fit within the school grounds was a bit of a revelation but hopefully the joint choral event will spark other collaborations between the children of South Oxhey and Merchant Taylors’ pupils.

It was also good to see Gareth Malone persevering with the formation of a new men’s group aided by boxer Matty Leonard. Their musical pub crawl was a delight to watch.

Best of all was seeing how individuals and each separate group responded to Gareth’s encouragement. There's great hope for the separate strands of this choir really coming together in next week’s concluding episode, which sees the groups staging their own community festival and some members paying a visit to Abbey Road Studios.

All the choir members are planning to watch the final show together and I shall be happy to join them. Very well done South Oxhey.