Former Defence Minister performs Flanders & Swann for charity

12 April 2012

A former Defence Minister and spy watchdog is recreating the comic songs of Flanders & Swann to raise money for orphaned children.

Michael Mates will perform classics like Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud and The Gasman Cometh in aid of Hope & Homes For Children next week.

"I have been a fan of Flanders & Swann since I saw them perform in the 1950s," said Mr Mates who sat on the Intelligence and Security Committee that oversees MI5 and MI6.

"This is a really good cause, a charity that is managing to empty the worst orphanages in Eastern Europe and Africa."

The charity was founded by the former British commander in Bosnia, Col Mark Cook, after he found a cellar full of starving children in war-torn Sarajevo.

It now works in 10 countries to find families for young victims of war and poverty.

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