Sunday Feature: Hidden Women and Silenced Scores

Music historian Leah Broad explores why the music of three 20th-century female composers that was much loved at the time is so little heard today. Looking at issues of style, gender, nationality and genre, she hears from those who knew Avril Coleridge Taylor, Doreen Carwithen and Dorothy Howell, and uncovers the sometimes shocking stories of how their music was silenced. Contributors include Howell's niece and nephew Meryn and Columb Howell, Andrew Palmer and Andrew Knowles, who knew Carwithen, authors Sophie Fuller and Jeremy Dibble, musicians Chi-Chi Nwanoku and Samantha Ege, and Oliver Dashwood, the great-grandson of Coleridge Taylor