YOUNGSTERS from an internationally acclaimed band will be blowing their own trumpet on television.

Present world champions, Smithills School Senior Brass Band are being featured on a new TV series "How Music Works" presented by composer Howard Goodall.

The series starts on Saturday, November 11 and Smithills are featured playing in the fourth programme on Saturday, December 2.

Musical director of Smithills Brass Band Chris Wormald said: "Every series of Howard Goodall's previous Channel 4 TV programmes has either won a BAFTA Award or has been nominated for a BAFTA, the highest award in British Film and Television.

"Already before being broadcast, How Music Works' is being tipped by the media as a 2007 BAFTA winner, something composer and presenter Goodall is thrilled about."

Mr Goodall has visited Smithills School on a number of occasions and officially opened the school as a Specialist Arts College in April 2004.

His visit was filmed by the award-winning programme The South Bank Show and subsequently broadcast on ITV1.

Mr Wormald said: "Our particular session was filmed over a day with Howard Goodall at the Battersea Arts Centre.

"The television crew had scheduled two, three hour sessions for the band in order for us to get things perfectly right from many camera angles but as with all our TV work we had done everything to perfection and finished two hours early."