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Notable Episodes

    Introducing Facing The MusicFacing The Music

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

    Anton Bruckner The Corpse Chaser with Edith BowmanMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Handel The Royal Glutton with Issy SuttieMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Puccini The Mighty Hunter with Bec HillMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Dame Ethel Smyth The Wrecker with LaufeyMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    The Divine Maria Callas with Arielle FreeMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Debussy The Love Rat with Abi ClarkeMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Fifty Shades of Percy Grainger with Lou SandersMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Alma Mahler The Heartbreaker with Arlene PhillipsMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

    Wagner鈥檚 Tainted Legacy with Frank Cottrell BoyceMonsters of Music with Tom Allen

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

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