Prof Robert Winston investigates how hypnotherapy helped save Rachmaninoff's career, and a theory to explain a problem for performers of his piano music: his enormous hand span. Show more

Prof Winston examines how deafness and a catalogue of chronic illnesses became key to the transcendent spirit of Beethoven's music. Show more

Professor Robert Winston looks at the evidence that Schubert contracted syphilis and wrote his greatest works under the shadow of this chronic and, at the time, incurable disease. Show more

Prof Robert Winston looks at the stark divisions of light and dark in Peter Warlock's songs, and asks if we're right to label this troubled composer with a psychological condition. Show more