Today's episode is especially musical, as the ballet scores Tchaikovsky wrote couldn't be more renowned: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker... and a quite intense life, filled with homosexual romances and testimonies documented in his letters and diaries, even though his biographers in his homeland, Russia, insist on denying the evidence.

This week's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7wdD8FhiE5jaLq2BCGAQCJ?si=5uUWmed9TN6c-adm0ZePZw