Bobbie's Violin
Click the video > below to see the poignant story of Bobbie's violin. For me personally the story of Bobbie dying in an RAF bomber in 1938 as the UK was rushing these planes into production to be ready for a war in Europe after Hitler annexed areas of the Czechoslovakia in that year resonated profoundly with Putin invading and annexing Ukrainian sovereign territory in Europe today. My daughter Eleena Sutton (who is 13) is - as of her performance yesterday - now the owner and custodian of "Bobbie's Violin". If it can be borrowed and played in the future by others to raise donations for Ukraine and the millions of invasion-displaced adults and children of Ukraine that would be a good thing. Maybe the BBC could have it played accordingly at the Proms? I am not sure, however, if the story of Bobbie's violin catches the imagination of others as it does me and his family - who have kept in touch after I won the instrument in an eBay auction earlier this year. B