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Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new...

Documentary covering the famous Wigan Casino northern soul venue and the working class kids who spend all their money not on alcohol but on records...

Explores the life and career of American soprano Renée Fleming. Share an intimate visit with Renée behind the scenes, at home and on...

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose...

This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta...

A biographical look at the career of the acclaimed Margot Fonteyn. As a little girl called Peggy Hookham growing up in Shanghai, she told her mother...

The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara...

Tony Palmer examines the life and legacy of the German composer, Carl Orff.

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen...

A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show but premiered in its entirety at the Royal Festival...

A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.

Award-winning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams....

There's no doubt that Richard Wagner who built it was the most influential composer in the whole of the 19th Century. But his family has survived a...

Tony Palmer’s study of the German composer Paul Hindemith.