Biography E4 - Beethoven (1970) - Michael Jayston as Ludwig van Beethoven

A very moving episode of Biography (1970), about Beethoven's tragedy, the progressive loss of hearing, leading to his increasing loneliness, with the background of Napoleon's wars in Europe and how people were seeing these events. Starring Michael Jayston (Ludwig van Beethoven), Edward Hardwicke (Franz von Brunswick), Charles Leno (Joseph Haydn), John Loder, Judy Parfitt (Josephine Deym), 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.