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SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Streets apart: "Few companies could entice Warner to make the leap from opera house to a homeless shelter, but Matthew Peacock of Streetwise Opera is a persuasive man. A former arts journalist, Peacock was working in a homeless shelter when the then Tory minister George Young's comment 'the homeless are the people you step over coming out of the opera' so enraged him he resolved to set up a company that put the homeless on stage."