Music
The title music was not written specifically for the series, but was instead a witty piano piece, Shostakovich's Prelude No. 15 from his Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 34, played by Ronnie Lane. The key is in the contrasting rhythms: a regular, tarantella-like rhythm plays in the background while over it, a more insistent, slightly frantic minor theme chatters away obsessively.
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