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's growing fame takes him to Dublin, to sing in a season of operas in English. It's in Dublin that he first encounters a charismatic teenage girl, who will bring him adventures in love, but a brush with total ruin.
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