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Investigating how Music Therapy works as a crucial therapeutic tool is at the heart of this series presented by author and psychotherapist Philippa Perry. She travels across the UK to meet music therapists working with people for whom talking therapies are not possible, or less accessible. In this, the second programme in the series, she is in Scotland to talk to Dr Giorgos Tsiris, who specialises in providing music therapy in palliative care and works with bereaved families. Dr Tsiris is based at St Colomba’s Hospice, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, and Philippa meets him there, along with Jimmy, whose wife was helped by music therapy at the end of her life. Jimmy describes the legacy his wife left – a song composed in Dr Tsiris’ music therapy sessions – and how he believes the treatment enabled her to face her death with more dignity and acceptance.

Philippa encourages Jimmy to experience some music therapy himself to find a way through his grief, and the programme is a moving testimony to how music can help us process the most difficult emotions we experience.