TV watch: The Piano

Channel 4’s The Piano is exactly the sort of programme I would expect to hate but because I love the piano, I watched the first episode and was pleasantly surprised. Yesterday, though, I thought, ‘Oh no, same old format every week; this is going to get very dull.’ Did I cry when the blind girl played Chopin? Of course I did.

There’s one thing about this programme which they really should change. Claudia Winkleman constantly describes Lang Lang as ‘the greatest pianist in the world.’ He is not.