{"id":492235,"date":"2026-03-24T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:12:09","slug":"singing-in-britains-got-talent-choir-helps-mental-health-says-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492235\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing in Britain&#8217;s Got Talent choir &#8216;helps mental health&#8217; says farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fourth-generation farmer said singing in a choir, which has reached ITV&#8217;s Britain&#8217;s Got Talent semi-final, gave him &#8220;extra support&#8221; in his job, which could be &#8220;very lonely and isolating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Brooke, who farms near March in Cambridgeshire, auditioned to join the Hawkstone Farmers Choir last May, which was formed by TV celebrity Jeremy Clarkson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The choir has made it through to the closing stages of the show after judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/britainsgottalent\/articles\/the-hawkstone-farmers-choir-get-amanda-holdens-golden-buzzer\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Holden gave them a &#8220;golden buzzer&#8221; at the weekend, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brooke, from West Bilney, in Norfolk, said the choir, made up of farmers from across the UK, wanted to raise awareness of mental health issues affecting many working in agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fourth-generation farmer said singing in a choir, which has reached ITV&#8217;s Britain&#8217;s Got Talent semi-final, gave him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}