Johnny Flynn, violin

Playing a musical instrument - whether you're professional or amateur - rarely follows a simple trajectory of practice and progress and it makes psychological as much as physical demands that can come to define a person. Alan Hall talks with musicians about the nature of their relationship to their chosen instrument.

Today, the actor Johnny Flynn, an accomplished violinist, shares the stash of instruments piled up in the little room at the top of his house.

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3