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As editor of the Guardian" Alan Rusbridger's life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves much time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010 he managed to make his annual escape to a 'piano camp'. Here inspired by another amateur's rendition he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn in the space of a year Chopin's Ballade No.1 a piece with passages that demand outstanding feats of dexterity control memory and power - a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists. His timing could have been better. The next twelve months were to witness the Arab Spring the Japanese tsunami and the English riots and were bookended by the "Guardian" breaking two remarkable news stories: WikiLeaks and the "News of the World" hacking scandal. It was a defining year in the life of the "Guardian" and its editor and one of the most memorable in the history of British journalism. Such was the background against which he tried to carve out twenty minutes' practice a day find the right teacher the right piano the right fingering - even if that meant practising in a Libyan hotel in the middle of a revolution. Fortunately he was able to gain insights and advice from an array of legendary pianists from theorists historians and neuroscientists from a network of brilliant amateurs unearthed online even occasionally from secretaries of state. But was he able to play the piece in time?"

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