Tunes for Tyrants: Music and Power with Suzy Klein
Season 12017
Suzy explores how the power of music to rouse our emotions gave it a crucial role in some of the most turbulent years of the 20th century.
Suzy explores how the power of music to rouse our emotions gave it a crucial role in some of the most turbulent years of the 20th century.
3 Episodes
Suzy takes us back to the volatile years following the Russian Revolution and World War I.
October 2, 2017Suzy Klein reaches the 1930s, when the totalitarian dictators sought to use and abuse music for ideological ends.
October 9, 2017Suzy explores the use, abuse and manipulation of music in the Second World War - from swinging jazz to film soundtracks and from mushy ballads to madcap ballets.
October 16, 2017