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A red-brick street, jelly on trestle-tables, a blond boy in his sky blue Sunday best gets over-excited. This is young master Gary during the Silver Jubilee celebrations round his way… and here he is all grown up, same sky blue but a national treasure now, and he’s at his piano opposite Lord Lloyd Webber at his and they’re writing a song to mark HRH’s Diamond Jubilee. It must, says Gaz, encapsulate “the sounds of the Queen’s proudest achievement: the Commonwealth.”

A children’s choir in Kenya, Rastafarian drummers in Jamaica, pan-pipers on the Solomon Islands and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra are all awaiting their cues, but first the composers must find a way of working.

His Lordship: “It’s very pretty…”

Gaz: “But…? We need a key word for when we don’t like each other’s ideas.”

BEST FACTUAL

The Secret History of Our Streets BBC2, Wednesday, 9pm

At the end of the 19th century – “with its self-importance, dirt, wealth and awful poverty”, according to the voiceover – London was the world’s largest city. Deptford High Street, the swankiest thoroughfare in the capital’s south, was sacrificed to new ideas of urban planning and bulldozed. This series, chronicling the changing fortunes of six streets, begins here.

BEST SPORT

Euro 2012 Live

BBC1, Friday, 4.15pm

The opening match has all the makings of an anti-football non-classic: Poland, fresh from having their nasty fans exposed by the Panorama report Stadiums Of Hate, against Greece, who won the tournament in 2004 by grabbing their solitary chance then defending like mad. But I’ll be hooked, and on the evening game (Russia-Czech Republic) as well.