Alex Stobbs first appeared on our screens when we watched the touching documentary, A Boy Called Alex. It was a tale of determination and the love of life over, or perhaps in spite of, adversity. The main adversity for Alex is that he has cystic fibrosis, and a lesser one is that he’s slightly deaf.

But Alex’s resolve to forge on doing exactly what he wants and not what his disease dictates has seen him emerge from the cocoon of his childhood to fly the nest all the way to the life of a student at Cambridge.

It was here that we rejoined Alex’s life-story; he’s now a young man and a choral scholar at King’s College, and during the film, Alex was trying hard to learn to conduct the three-hour Bach masterpiece, St Matthew Passion. And the pursuit of perfection in his role nearly pushed Alex’s frail health over the edge. Read more & comment »