Six biographies in which the private life of a public face is revealed.
5: Peter Is My Rock. They met at a lunch party in 1937 and stayed together for 40 years.
Humphrey Carpenter presents a portrait of the tenor Peter Pears , who was the inspiration for and the exponent of almost all the music that
Benjamin Britten wrote. At home, Pears played the stout defender and guardian of his lover's genius. He was a bon viveur, but his partner Britten preferred the home comforts and safety of Suffolk. Producer Simon Elmes