Tunes for Tyrants: Music and Power with Suzy Klein

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.

Latest: Season 1 · 2017

E1. Revolution
Oct 2, 2017 · 60m
Suzy takes us back to the volatile years following the Russian Revolution and World War I.
E2. Dictatorship
Oct 9, 2017 · 60m
Suzy Klein reaches the 1930s, when the totalitarian dictators sought to use and abuse music for ideological ends.
E3. World War
Oct 16, 2017 · 60m
Suzy 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.