Peter Stead explores how music is used in our best-loved novels.

In Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence showed his anguish at the direction British culture was taking during the First World War. Through thinly veiled portraits of his own friends, Lawrence had his characters dance to the music of the Russian Ballet, yet despaired that "art should interpret industry, as art once interpreted religion".

With John Worthen, Miranda Seymour and Rob Stradling.
Reader Jody Elen Machin.