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Ludwig van Beethoven: The Battle for Joy

Dominic West exposes Beethoven’s emotional pain in search of joyful, life-affirming music.

Dmitri Shostakovich: Staring Down the Terror

Michael Sheen uncovers Shostakovich’s fear and defiance in Stalin’s terrifying USSR.

Florence Price: Power and Pride

Nina Sosanya confronts Price’s battle with prejudice to reveal her true musical identity.

Antonín Dvořák: Heartache and Hope

Adeel Akhtar unravels Dvořák’s grief and musical rebirth after the deaths of his children.

Sergei Rachmaninov: Fear of Failure

Kit Harington tackles Rachmaninov’s paralysing writer’s block to reveal a masterpiece.

Jean Sibelius: Rage Against the Machine

Toby Jones reveals how Sibelius’s anger and destruction freed him from musical torment.

Ethel Smyth: Resilience and Resistance

Maxine Peake embraces Smyth’s rule-breaking as the composer takes on the patriarchy.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lust for Life

Andrew Lincoln revels in Mozart’s new-found love as he and his music, break free.

Duke Ellington: In Control

Don Warrington watches Ellington risk it all to save his name and musical legacy.

Joseph Haydn: Letting Go of Loneliness

David Suchet plunges into Haydn’s isolation and how it was shattered in war-torn Vienna.

Introducing Facing The Music

Exposing the emotional turmoil behind legendary composers and their captivating music.

Introducing Monsters of Music with Tom Allen

In Monsters of Music, Tom Allen uncovers the scandalous lives of classical musicians.

Handel The Royal Glutton with Issy Suttie

Handel was a glutton, a royal composer and maybe a spy, but was he really a monster?

The Divine Maria Callas with Arielle Free

Maria Callas's life was as dramatic as an operatic storyline. But was she really a Diva?

Wagner’s Tainted Legacy with Frank Cottrell Boyce

Richard Wagner was a romantic, a revolutionary and bitter antisemite.

Debussy The Love Rat with Abi Clarke

Claude Debussy was a love rat who left behind a trail of broken hearts and gunshot wounds.

Franz Liszt The First Rockstar with Jack Steadman

Liszt was a monk, a sex symbol, and a pianist who made nuns faint and forget their vows.

Puccini The Mighty Hunter with Bec Hill

Blackmail, affairs and a secret love child. Was Puccini the bad boy of the Opera world?

Anton Bruckner The Corpse Chaser with Edith Bowman

Anton Bruckner was a composer fascinated with death, religion and teenage girls.

Fifty Shades of Percy Grainger with Lou Sanders

Percy Grainger had a fetish for whips, blood-stained shirts and folk melodies.

Dame Ethel Smyth The Wrecker with Laufey

Ethel Smyth was a trailblazing composer, suffragette and no stranger to passionate affairs

Alma Mahler The Heartbreaker with Arlene Phillips

A composer, heartbreaker, socialite and antisemite. Who was the real Alma Mahler?