Composer of the Week: Leonard Bernstein

1/5. Donald Macleod explores Bernstein's early years, and the influential contacts he made while at Harvard who gave him a head start in his career.

2/5. Donald Macleod explores Bernstein's meteoric rise to fame as a conductor and a composer as America goes to war.

3/5. Donald Macleod finds Bernstein beginning married life as he flirts with Hollywood and hits the heights of his fame in America.

4/5. Donald Macleod explores as cracks appear in the Bernstein's personal life, and Leonard has his first flop with the musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

5/5. Donald Macleod explores the final years in the life of Leonard Bernstein, when his behaviour became more erratic, but he also became more active in his work for charitable causes.