Two questions hung over the appearance by London’s Citigroup staff in last night’s edition of “The Choir – Sing While You Work”: can bankers sing and will their appearance on the programme in any way alter public perceptions of the financial industry? The answers were “yes” and “maybe”.

As a brief recap, "The Choir" is helmed by choirmaster Gareth Malone, who takes on the challenge of creating choirs from scratch at a variety of companies and organisations and prepares them to compete against each other.