Samuel West narrates a nother in the series of documentaries on 20th-century music. The Rite of Spring has become a totem of our troubled times, but it began as a calculated bid forthe hearts and wallets of bourgeois Paris by staging a spectacular return to Russia's roots in its prehistoric pagan religion. For most of this century The Rite's profoundly traditional parentage was carefully hidden by its composer. The surprising life story of Stravinsky's score is told by scholars Richard Taruskin and Stephen Walsh , dance historian Millicent Hodson , the conductor Diego Masson , the composer George Benjamin and others. Producer Nick Morgan