Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell.
In today's episode, Tenducci embarks on his operatic career and after his first London season, has acquired a massive and enthusiastic following. But he is soon embroiled in a public scandal with an English society lady.
Read by Greta Scacchi
Abridged by Viv Beeby
Produced by Emma Harding
'The Castrato and His Wife' is published by Oxford University Press. Show less