BBC Radio 3's Composer Of The Week is a guide to composers and their music. The podcast is compiled from the week's programmes and published on Friday, it is only available in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvd3
Shostakovich
Donald Macleod explores Shostakovich's brilliant youth - and the work of five extraordinary lost musical souls - amid the turmoil and extraordinary originality of 1920s Russia.