Episode 5 is a musical special. Fares tells us what life was like building up to the Chopin Competition, effectively the Olympics of piano that takes place every 5 years. This story covers unbearable pressure, geopolitics, racism, sexuality and tonne of self-reflections after Fares' mistakes and mishaps, but is beautiful and entertaining at every stage - we hope you love listening to it as much as we loved producing it.

Recorded next to the piano, throughout the episode Fares plays Chopin for us, and he composed the *amazing* outro you'll hear at the end of the episode! Here is the playlist;

• Etude in e major op.10 no.3
• Mazurka in a minor op.17 no.4
• ⁠⁠Chopin’s piano concerto no.1 , 2nd movement

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