The story of the great composer and his tragedy - the progressive loss of hearing - with the background of Napoleon's war in Europe and how people were seeing it. Starring Michael Jayston, Edward Hardwicke, 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.