Tunes for Tyrants: Music and Power with Suzy Klein S01E02 - Dictatorship

In the second episode of this fascinating series exploring the politics of music, Suzy Klein reaches the 1930s, when the totalitarian dictators sought to use and abuse music for ideological ends.

This time the lives of the composers are in the spotlight - and we're in the company of the greats: Richard Strauss, Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, who produced some of the 20th Century's best-loved music whilst navigating the precarious tightrope of working for perhaps the most terrifying music-lovers ever: Hitler and Stalin.