The Curious Lives of Composers

What if the greatest composers in history weren’t refined geniuses in candlelit rooms—but obsessive, scandal‑ridden, unpredictable, tragic figures living on the edge of brilliance and collapse? This episode of Unlikely Threads Andrew and Clive pulls back the velvet curtain and plunges you into a world where genius and madness are never far apart. What begins as a harmless search for a single “interesting fact” for HepFM’s Classic Hour radio show quickly spirals into a labyrinth of wild ambition, personal tragedy, dark rumours and behaviour that borders on the absurd. Follow Clive and Andrew and step inside the lives they never put in the programme notes…