Alex Stobbs became an overnight phenomenon and shot to international prominence following the broadcast of the critically-acclaimed, award-winning 2008 documentary, A Boy Called Alex. It told his extraordinary story as an Eton music scholar and cystic fibrosis sufferer. One year on this Cutting Edge film for Channel 4 follows Alex's dramatic and eventful transition from boy to man as a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and a member of its world-famous choir. Alex is also set on fulfilling his life-long ambition: to conduct Bach's three hour masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, with a professional orchestra and some of the country's top soloists. But by pushing himself to the limit, Alex risks getting an infection that could be his last. "It's hard to find words to describe how inspiring this film is. You'll
just have to watch it." The Times