UK Prime Minister David Cameron could make his chart debut, after recording a track for a new album – on which he will feature alongside EastEnders star Danny Dyer.

The PM has recited Rupert Brooke’s poem The Soldier for the official World War I centenary album, which also includes contributions from Stephen Fry, Radio 4’s Today presenter James Naughtie and Game of Thrones actor Sean Bean.

The album of words and music, called Forever, will also include appearances from the descendants of servicemen who were awarded the Victoria Cross for their gallantry in the war whose voices have been assembled for a version of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields.

Cameron recorded his performance inside his home at 10, Downing Street in London, including one of the most famous lines from the war poets: “If I should die, think only this of me – that there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.”

The Prime Minister’s move into the recording world comes after he famously fell foul of stars from one of his favourite bands The Smiths for talking about how much he loved their music.

Guitarist Johnny Marr urged Cameron to stop talking about how much he liked their music.

The album, to be issued by Decca Records on July 14, sees Dyer reading In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Naughtie reciting For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon, Bean performing Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen and Stephen Fry giving his take on In Flanders Fields by John McCrae. Comic actor John Thomson recites Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est and Sarah Millican reads Amy Lowell’s sonnet From One Who Stays, and there are wordless performances of Abide With Me and I Vow to Thee, My Country.