George Frideric Handel wrote Royal anthems, had a furious temper and a complicated relationship with food. Comedian Isy Suttie decides whether he was a menace or just misunderstood Show more

Richard Wagner was a groundbreaking composer who left a long musical legacy. But he was also an antisemite whose music would become linked to the Nazi party. Show more

Welcome to Monsters of Music with Tom Allen, the podcast that uncovers the scandalous lives of classical musicians to figure out if they were angelic geniuses or Grade 8 monsters. Show more

Love Rat Claude Debussy left a long trail of broken hearts and gunshot wounds, but was he a hopeless romantic or just a reckless rake? Abi Clarke joins Tom and Ben to investigate. Show more

An unreliable narrator, antisemite and even a creepy doll, who was the real Alma Mahler? Choreographer and presenter Arlene Phillips finds out to place Alma on the monster scale. Show more

Ethel Smyth's scandalous life was filled with trailblazing compositions and polyamorous affairs. Laufey explores this suffragette's life to place her on the monster scale. Show more

From his whips and odd relationship with his mother, to his chest of blood-stained shirts and collection of folk melodies, Lou Sanders explores fifty shades of Percy Grainger. Show more

Anton Bruckner was morbidly fascinated with death and creepily obsessed with teenage girls. Edith Bowman explores his dark and twisted life to place him on the monster scale. Show more

With his illicit affairs, secret love child and immense wealth, Giacomo Puccini lived like an old Hollywood star, but was he a monster? Bec Hill joins Tom and Ben to find out. Show more

Franz Liszt was a monk, a sex symbol, and a rockstar. In this episode Jack Steadman hears fascinating stories from Liszt's musical life to find out if he was an angel or a monster. Show more

Maria Callas had a life dramatic enough to have been an opera. But was the singer famously dubbed La Divina really a Diva? Arielle Free joins Tom and Ben to find out. Show more