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Professor Robert Winston explores the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered mental and physical illness.

Robert investigates Maurice Ravel, who died in 1937 after suffering for a number of years from a form of dementia, now thought to be Pick's disease. The effect of the disease was that while his creativity stayed alive, the music that was still being created in his brain remained trapped there. Robert discusses Ravel's condition with neurologists Jason Warren and Eric Baek, Ravel expert Deborah Mawer and composer Matthew King.