Episode list

Nara Leão revolutionized Brazilian music, broke prejudices, confronted the military dictatorship, opened paths for women. All this without changing the tone of her voice.

Narrated by Best Actor Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson - before James J Corbett, sport, stage and screen were seen as unworthy for the better classes; but this Irishman changed the social values of a nation, and his rags-to-riches story and widespread fame helped create America's first national hero.

We follow how the opera singer Carina Henriksson, who has lived and worked in several world metropolises, takes the lure of the fine arts and opera to one of Sweden's most sparsely populated areas.

The veteran British actor looks back over his career, from how it all began to the people that inspired his later roles.