E4 (Brightened, better copy, the original is dark). A very moving episode of Biography (1970), about Beethoven's progressive loss of hearing, with the background of Napoleon's wars in Europe. Starring Michael Jayston (Ludwig van Beethoven), Edward Hardwicke (Franz von Brunswick), Charles Leno, John Loder, Judy Parfitt, Charles Workman, Georgina Anderson, Roland Pickering, Neil Wilson, Kenneth Benda, Rowena Cooper, David Garth, Sheila Ruskin, Alan Adams, Janet Burnell, Keith Marsh, Sarah Frampton, Derek Pollitt. Directed by Mark Cullingham.
