The Sound Of Cinema

The programme features scores from 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World', 'Charade', 'The Leopard', '55 Days at Peking', 'The Great Escape', 'The VIPs', 'Cleopatra', 'McLintock!', 'Promises! Promises!', 'Move Over, Darling' and 'The Birds'.

Matthew Sweet presents an anthology of film music from the year 1963.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Films from 1993 featured in the programme include: 'Tombstone'; 'The Age of Innocence'; 'Philadelphia'; 'The Fugitive'; 'The Piano'; 'Shadowlands'; 'The Firm'; 'Farewell My Concubine'; 'Schindler's List'; 'Groundhog Day' and 'Jurassic Park'.

The programme also features music by Michael Giacchino for the new Jurassic World film - 'Fallen Kingdom'.

Matthew Sweet looks back on the film music world of 1993.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Other featured sound tracks include music by Carl Davis, Miklos Rozsa, Elmer Bernstein, Bryan Byrne and Georges Auric. Matthew's Classic Film Score of the Week is Richard Rodney Bennett's 'Far From The Madding Crowd'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by women of the 19th century.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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Matthew Sweet introduces a celebratory concert of film music by Elmer Bernstein.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with a selection of film music on the theme of horses.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Films on his list include 'My Favourite Martian'; 'Species'; 'The Man Who Fell To Earth'; 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'; 'Vikaren'; 'K-Pax'; 'The Brother From Another Planet'; 'PK' and 'District 9'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Jerry Goldsmith's 'Star Trek - The Motion Picture'.

This week's featured new release is James Cameron Mitchell's 'How To Talk To Girls At Parties' featuring new music by Nico Muhly.

Matthew Sweet with an alien perspective on film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from Hanna, Monte Carlo or Bust, The Great Race, Le Mans 66, Rush, Mad Max Fury Road, Ronin, The French Connection, Black Panther, Bullitt and fromt he enw Fast and Furious film. There's also a close look at Billy Goldenberg's score for Steven Spielberg's early film, Duel.

Series of programmes exploring film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

A world of film music with Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

His son, actor Kiefer Sutherland - best known for his starring roles in 1987's The Lost Boys plus Designated Survivor and 24 - joins Matthew Sweet to look back at his father's life through the soundtracks of his major films.

It includes music from The Hunger Games (by composer James Newton Howard), Don't Look Now (composer Pino Donaggio), Six Degrees of Separation (composer Jerry Goldsmith) and Pride and Prejudice (by composer Dario Marianelli), this episode also contains insights into what it's like learning about your father through film...

Actor and Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland looks back at his late father's life and films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland speaks to Matthew Sweet about his late father Donald Sutherland's career, which spanned 60 years and included 200 films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

An interview with the American genius of Disney movies, composer Alan Menken.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Alberto studied music in his home city of San Sebastian, Paris and Barcelona. He cites Stravinsky and Debussy as his biggest influences and has written for the concert stage and ballet.

He talks to Matthew about working in Europe with Almodovar as well as other regular collaborators Julio Medem and Iciar Bollain, and in Hollywood where he's been Oscar nominated for The Constant Gardener, The Kiterunner, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Matthew Sweet meets film composer Alberto Iglesias.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Alexandre talk about his methodology of writing for film and about the importance of collaboration. The programme draws on scores for 'Le Plus Bel Age'; 'Girl with A Pearl Earring', 'The Beat My Heart Skipped'; 'Rust and Bone'; 'Philomena'; 'The Tree of Life'; 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'; 'Argo'; 'The Imitation Game'; 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'; 'The Fantastic Mr Fox'; 'Grand Budapest Hotel' and 'Isle of Dogs'.

Alexandre also chooses this week's Classic Score.

Matthew Sweet in conversation with Alexandre Desplat.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week is Sammy Fain's and Oliver Wallace's music for Walt Disney's 1951 animated 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by Lewis Carroll's character Alice.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from 'Total Recall', 'The Life of Pi', 'The Double Life of Veronique', 'Albert Nobbs', 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', 'As You Like It', and from films inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's novella 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' - including the Classic Score of the Week, Franz Waxman's music for the 1941 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.

Matthew Sweet presents music for films about people leading double lives.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

His collaboration with composers like James Newton Howard has resulted in some of the most memorable film scores of recent decades, making his insights particularly valuable in the context of Sound of Cinema.

Hosted by Matthew Sweet, the programme dives into the unique role that music plays in Shyamalan's films, exploring how scores have been integral in shaping the eerie atmospheres and emotional depth for which his work is renowned.

Whether you're a devoted fan of Shyamalan's work or simply curious about the intersection of music and film, this episode promises to be a fascinating listen.

Director M. Night Shyamalan talks to Matthew Sweet about how music influences his films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet is joined in the studio by M. Night Shyamalan - director of The Sixth Sense, Signs and Unbreakable - to talk about how music shapes his films.

The new film has been scored by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL). Matthew also highlights scores by Bernard Herrmann, Laurence Rosenthal, and James Horner, among others, from films such as 'Clash of The Titans'; 'Troy'; 'Immortals' and 'Jason and the Argonauts'. The Classic Score of the Week is Max Steiner's music for 'Helen of Troy'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces music written for films set in Ancient Greece.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks at how the world of the convent has inspired cinema.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from 'Black Books'; 'Buster'; 'The Pope Must Die'; 'Knight Moves'; 'The Crying Game'; 'The Grotesque'; 'The Full Monty'; 'American History X'; 'Monkeybone'; 'The Miracle Maker'; 'Tristan and Isolde' and 'Elle'.

And Anne chooses the Classic Score of the week.

Matthew Sweet meets composer Anne Dudley.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Included in the programme is music from High Anxiety, Adaptation, Now Voyager, Inside Out, Arachnophobia, Vertigo, Marnie, The Aviator, Airport, and Airplane. The Classic Score of the Week is Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1962 Freud: The Secret Passion.

The programme also features an interview with Ariel Marx talking about her imaginative score for the new film, Shiva Baby.

Matthew Sweet on film and film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

In this dip into the world of Rahman we hear music from 'Lagaan'; 'Roja'; 'Bombay'; 'Taal'; 'Warriors of Heaven and Earth'; 'Elizabeth - The Golden Age' and 'Couples Retreat'.

The Classic Score of the Week is A.R. Rahman's music for Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire'.

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Matthew Sweet features the film music of AR Rahman.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Films and scores featured in the programme include ‘The Trolls World Tour', ‘Proxima', ‘No Time To Die', Lord of the Rings, ‘The Rise of Skywalker', ‘The Hunt', ‘Ran', ‘The Fall', ‘Tumbbad', ‘Celle que vous croyez' and the ‘The Willoughbys'. The Classic Score of the Week is ‘La Strada' marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Fellini.

Matthew Sweet on music for films to be enjoyed from home

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music by Trevor Jones, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Hans Zimmer, Jimmy Van Heusen, Lerner and Loewe, Anne Dudley and ... Monty Python?

The Classic Score of the Week is Ron Goodwin's 'Gawain and the Green Knight'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by the Arthurian legends.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet meets the composer of the new Avatar.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

He also features music from the winner of the Best Score in this year's Awards.

Matthew Sweet looks at music written for gaming and marks the tenth Bafta Games Awards.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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(See also 'Saturday Classics with Ella Spira' 1400-1600).

Matthew Sweet focuses on music from some of the prize-winning BAFTA films of the past.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from 'Black Swan', 'Mao's Last Dancer', 'The Red Shoes', 'The Intelligence Men', 'Exposed', 'The Bandwagon', 'Black Tights' and the Classic Score of the Week is 'On Your Toes'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by the ballet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew considers the background and origin of both cartoon superheroes and features some of the earliest Batman/Superman screen music - written by composers such as Sammy Timberg, Leon Klatzkin, Lee Zahler and Mischa Bakaleinikoff. And of course there are also the more familiar scores as well, from Neal Hefti, Danny Elfman, Shirley Walker, Elliot Goldenthal and Hans Zimmer.

The Classic Score of the Week is John Williams's iconic music for 'Superman - The Movie'.

Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by cinematic portrayals of Batman and Superman.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from 'Iris', 'Billy Elliot', 'Mrs Brown', 'Becoming Jane', 'Miss Potter', 'The Duchess', 'Notes On A Scandal', 'Jane Eyre', 'Philomena', 'A Cock and Bull Story', 'Mrs Henderson Presents' and 'Brooklyn'.

Matthew Sweet celebrate 25 years of BBC Films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The classic score of the week is Ron Goodwin's 'Where Eagles Dare'; and Matthew also focuses on scores by Maurice Jarre; Anthony Collins, Hans Zimmer; Leighton Lucas; Stephen Warbeck and Dmitri Tiomkin. And there's a short tribute to the late Italian film composer Riz Ortolani.

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Matthew Sweet introduces film music about war and military action behind enemy lines.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

This week Matthew looks at music for films which convey other meanings below the surface. His selection includes music by Alan Silvestri for Forrest Gump; Harry Gregson-Williams music for 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe'; Leonard Rosenman's music for 'Star Trek' and Clinton Shorter's for 'District 9'. There is also music for 'The Time Machine', and the Classic score of the Week is Akira Ifukube's music for the first in the Japanese Godzilla series.

The programme also features the latest film appearance of Godzilla with music by Alexandre Desplat.

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Matthew Sweet takes musical inspiration from the new Godzilla film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

ProducerRUTH THOMSON

PresenterMatthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of underwater film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet meets Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Classical composers on the silver screen.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from Viva Zapata, Panic In the Streets, Boomerang, Gentleman's Agreement, Pinky, A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, Splendour In The Grass, Baby Doll, and The Last Tycoon.

Matthew Sweet on music for the great director's films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet is joined by Hollywood composer Bill Conti.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also focuses on the likes of Winston Churchill, Florence Nightingale, the Duke of Wellington, Shakespeare; Charles Darwin and Mary Queen of Scots with film music from 'Young Winston', 'The Lady with the Lamp', 'Waterloo', 'Creation' and 'Shakespeare in Love', etc.

Featured composers include Alfred Ralston, Nino Rota, Anthony Collins, Stephen Warbeck, Christopher Young, Alexandre Desplat, William Walton, John Barry and Craig Armstrong.

The Classic Score of the Week is Erich Korngold's music for 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of music written for biopics of great Britons.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The American actor and singer Paul Robeson made a terrific impact on the UK when he arrived here in the 1930s, performing Jerome Kern's 'Showboat' at Drury Lane and appearing in British films of the period such as 'King Solomon's Mines'; 'Song of Freedom' and 'Sanders of the River'.

The programme goes on to feature music from films such as 'Pool of London' from the '50s, and jazz-infused social realist films such as 'A Taste Of Honey' and 'Sapphire'; to films such as 'Babylon' and 'Pressure' (the first feature-length drama to be directed in Britain by a black film maker), and culminates in some of the more recent restorative history films such as 'Belle' and 'Twelve Years A Slave'.

Broadcast as part of Radio 3's exploration of issues of diversity and inclusion, connecting audiences with pioneering music and culture.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music giving a brief history of black british cinema

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Series of programmes exploring film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The classic score of the week is Bernard Herrmann's 'Fahrenheit 451' and the programme also features music by Nico Muhly, James Horner, Thomas Newman and Joseph LoDuca.

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Inspired by The Book Thief, Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by books.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Lenin declared 'that of all the arts the important for us is the cinema' recognising the propaganda potential that it offered and means of spreading the message of Bolshevism across Russia. His enthusiasm for cinema prompted a surge of inventive film making that has given the world some of its most discussed and influential cinema, featuring scores from some of the leading composers of the day. Matthew charts Soviet Cinema through its music, from Eisenstein to Tarkovsky, with scores by Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Edmund Meisel, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov and Eduard Artemiev, among others.

Matthew Sweet on the Russian Revolution and music for film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Although Schoenberg never wrote a score to accompany an actual film he was very interested in the medium and lived his final years in Hollywood where several of the leading Hollywood composers attended his composition classes. His revolutionary ideas about 'twelve tone' composition made a sizable impact on film music as Matthew explores and illustrates in this programme.

Matthew Sweet explores the impact of Schoenberg's ideas on film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Tyler is especially known for his large orchestral, high octane scores associated with the action thriller and the superhero genres. He talks to Matthew about his work to date, his affection for someof the great film composers of the past, and about creating music for some of the biggest selling box-office successes of our time.

Matthew Sweet is in conversation with Hollywood composer Brian Tyler.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew and Steve begin their survey with Arthur Bliss's famous score for the HG Well's inspired film 'Things To Come'. They look at the work of James Bernard and Tristram Cary for the Quatermass films and reflect on scores for 'The First Men In The Moon'; '2001 - A Space Odyssey'; 'Alien'; 'Brazil'; 'Flash Gordon' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'; 'Sunshine'; 'Inception'; 'Under The Skin' and 'Gravity'.

Matthew Sweet and composer Steven Price discuss music written for British sci-fi films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Fifty years on from Cabaret, Matthew looks at representations of Berlin's 'Weimar Years'.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet catches up with Agnes Poirier at Cannes Film Festival.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Agnes Poirier is at Cannes film festival. She tells of Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the recognition of female directors. Presented by Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet celebrates the music of the best films at the Cannes Film Festival.

The programme features music from the 1936 version of As You Like It by William Walton and Patrick Doyle's' score for the more recent adaptation of the same play; 'Twelfth Night', 'Pandora's Box', 'Lola Montez', 'Lord of the Rings', 'Mulan', 'The Messenger', 'Saint Joan' and 'Pope Joan'.

Matthew Sweet with music for films that find women disguised as men.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet and the BBC Philharmonic celebrate the music of Carl Davis.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from Birth of a Nation; The Assassination of the Duke of Guise; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; The Seven Samurai; The Magnificent Seven; The Robe; Midnight Cowboy; Taxi Driver; The Young Sherlock Holmes; Avatar;and the Classic Score of the Week - Jaws.

Matthew also considers whether film can change our ideas about society in the week that has seen the launch of Sarah Gavron's new biopic, 'Suffragette', with music by Alexandre Desplat.

Matthew Sweet introduces scores for films that have changed the way we think about cinema.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

The programme features music from ‘What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, ‘Finding Neverland', ‘The Kid', ‘Bright Eyes', ‘Captains Courageous', ‘Babes In Arms', ‘Hunted', ‘Willie Wonka And The Chocolate Factory', ‘The Parent Trap', ‘Pollyanna', ‘Taxi Driver', ‘Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children', ‘Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone' as well as music from Patrick Doyle's new score. The Classic Score of the Week is Miklos Rosza's music for the 1940 ‘Thief Of Baghdad' starring Sabu.

Matthew Sweet with film music and celebrated child actors.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured composers include Alan Silvestri, Dmitri Tiomkin, Malcolm Arnold, Jerry Goldsmith, Bruce Broughton, Murray Gold and James Newton-Howard. Something for everyone on Sound of Cinema this Christmas.

Matthew Sweet and the BBC Philharmonic in concert with a festive mix of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

~Sound Of Cinema is in concert this Christmas with Matthew Sweet, the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Ben Palmer offering a festive mix of film music from across the decades.

Initially a music student at Yale where he wrote two musicals with his brother, the pianist Chilly Gonzales, he went on to study film scoring with Jerry Goldsmith at the University of Southern California. Starting out in television he won an Emmy for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before the cheerleading comedy Bring it On launched his film career. Other credits include Under the Tuscan Sun, Garfield, Crazy Stupid Love, Pitch Perfect, and Trolls.

Christophe talks to Matthew about his latest film Free Guy, his love of modular synths, and how it feels when a film you score flops at the box office.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

Matthew meets Christophe Beck who composed the music for Frozen and The Hangover trilogy.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet on music for the British director's films

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week is Anton Karas' 'The Third Man' and the programme also features music from 'La Dolce Vita', Jacques Tati's 'Playtime'; 'The Dark Knight Rises'; 'Roman Holiday' and 'Wings of Desire'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces film music evoking the lighter side and the darkness of the city.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music by Constant Lambert from the 1948 Anna Karenina; from Rachel Portman for Nicholas Nickleby from 2002; Richard Addinsell's theme from A Tale Of Two Cities from 1958; Mychael Danna's score for Vanity Fair from 2004; and Richard Robbins's score for Howards End from 1992. The Classic Score of the Week is Alfred Newman's 1939 'Wuthering Heights'.

Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by classic novels and short stories.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week is The Great Caruso.

Live from Cardiff, Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for film inspired by opera.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet talks to composer Clint Mansell, whose film credits include Black Swan.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Abbey Road began its venture into film in the early 80s and quickly attracted the likes of Mikl　s R　zsa, John Williams and Stephen Spielberg, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Horner etc. It continues to play a major role in music for international film. One of the first significant scores to be recorded there was Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was soon followed with prestigious catalogue of titles: The Return of the Jedi, The Last Emperor, RoboCop, Aliens, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Skyfall, Gravity, The Shape of Water, Black Panther and so on.

Matthew reflects both on the history, in conversation with engineers Merik Stiles and Ken Townsend, and with Hollywood composer James Newton Howard (The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight, Fantastic Beasts) who has recently been recording there. Meanwhile, Louise talks with Isabel Garvey about links with the world of Gaming. Titles such as Final Fantasy and Call of Duty have passed through Abbey Road's doors. She meets composer Ilan Eshkeri who rectory recorded ‘Ghost of Tsushima' there, and with cellist Caroline Dale, who explains some of the challenges that face the musician working on soundtracks.

A special profile of Abbey Road at 90.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

While superheroes have been with us since the 1930s, and they have made occassional forays into movies from that time, it was really the arrival of Superman in 1978 that fired the public's imgaination with the cinematic superhero - helped, in no small way, by John Williams' classic score. Matthew considers some of the succesful 'superhero' soundtracks that have emerged in the past 35 years, including the music for Batman; The X-Men and Spiderman.

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Matthew Sweet introduces music from superhero films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured scores include: Leonard Rosenman's 'Rebel Without A Cause'; Jean Constantin's 'Les Quatre Cents Coups'; Michel Legrand's 'The Summer of 42'; Nino Rota's 'Amarcord'; Ron Grainer's 'To Sir With Love'; Richard Addinsell's 'Tom Brown's Schooldays'; Danny Elfman's 'Good Will Hunting'; Jo Hishiashi's 'Spirited Away'; Nicholas Britell's 'Moonlight' and Jon Brion's 'Ladybird'.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet talks to Abel Korzeniowski about his music for The Watched.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet talks to Abel Korzeniowski about writing the music for Ishana Night Shyamalan's The Watched, and why Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather means so much to him.

The programme also includes music from 'Puss in Boots'; 'Antz'; 'Shrek'; 'Ice Age - The Dawn of Dinosaurs': 'Prince of Egypt'; 'The Black Cauldron' and 'Mr and Mrs Smith'. The Classic Score of the Week is prompted by John Powell and comes from 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.

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Matthew Sweet talks to John Powell about films scores for computer-animated features.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from 'Apollo 13', 'Twelve Years A Slave', 'The Ten Commandments', '9', '8 Femmes'; 'The Seven Year Itch' alongside scores by Alfred Newman, Malcolm Arnold, Randy Newman and Elmer Bernstein, Philip Glass and Marco Beltrami, Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone.

Matthew Sweet counts down through movie scores featuring numbers in the title.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by the theme of crime and punishment.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

He talks to Matthew about changing his score to All the Money in the World when Kevin Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer, manipulating elephant noises through EMS synthesizers in Somerset, and taking inspiration from 'the sound of capitalism' - the famous New York Stock Exchange Bell.

Matthew Sweet meets composer Daniel Pemberton, who has scored the new release Yesterday.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

From his home in Santa Barbara he talks to Matthew Sweet about starting out in the business, working with Tim Burton, and the challenges of 2020.

Danny Elfman talks to Matthew Sweet about his three-decade career in film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet speaks to the brilliant American composer, David Amram.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured soundtracks include 'Farewell My Lovely', 'The Conversation', 'The Taking of Pelham One Two Three', 'All The President's Men', 'Zodiac', 'Hindenburg', 'The Big Bus', 'Saturday Night Fever', '2010', 'Short Circuit', 'Norma Rae', and 'Return To Oz'.

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Matthew Sweet's guest is composer David Shire.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With Babylon now in cinemas, Matthew Sweet looks at the theme of decadence in the movies.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from 'Pinocchio'; 'Suspicion'; 'Presumed Innocent'; 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'; 'The Invention of Lying'; 'The Talented Mr Ripley'; 'True Lies'; 'M.Butterfly'; 'Where Eagles Dare'; 'The Usual Suspects' and 'The Mercy'. The Classic Score of the Week is Fumio Hayasaki's music for 'Rashomon'.

Matthew Sweet shares film music inspired by deception ahead of the release of 'Mercy'.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet spins some stellar cinematic discs to mark the launch of Ad Astra.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week is Charles Williams's 'The Dream of Olwen' from the 1947 film 'While I Live'.

Matthew also looks at Denham's life post-1950 when it became one of the most important centres for recording film music - playing host to Bernard Herrmann, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams, among many others.

Matthew Sweet on music associated with Denham Film Studios.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Explosive film music with Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also in the programme is music for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Seven Per Cent Solution, The Adventures of Tintin, Dick Tracy, The Maltese Falcon, Devil In A Blue Dress and Murder On The Orient Express.

The featured new release is Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice introducing Thomas Pynchon's LA detective Larry 'Doc' Sportello - and a new score by Jonny Greenwood.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The concert also features the singers Adrian de Gregorian and Fflur Wyn.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet focuses on music for mystery films, a genre favourite.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'A Stolen Life', 'I Was Monty's Double', 'The Man In The Iron Mask', 'The Prince and the Pauper', 'Vertigo', 'The Double', 'Adaptation', 'The Double Life of Veronique' and 'Dead Ringers'.

Matthew Sweet with music for films about doubles.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured films include 'The Odd Couple', 'Gunfight At OK Corral', 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'Mr and Mrs Smith', 'To Have And Have Not', 'Cleopatra', 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner', '21 Jump Street', 'Men In Black', 'Silver Streak', 'Night At The Museum', 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein', 'The Intelligence Men', 'Coraline', 'Shaun Of The Dead' and the Classic Score of the week is Laurel and Hardy's 'Way Out West'.

There's also a chance to hear part of the new score by Thomas Ades for the new bio-pic about French author, Collette.

Matthew Sweet with music for cinematic duos.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with film music that comes back down to earth with a bump.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with screen music for Dracula.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music on the theme of Easter.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

At a time when nearly all cinemas are closed owing to Covid-19, Matthew celebrates the cinema buildings themselves, through scores and films that are either about cinemas, that feature cinemas, or are about enjoying the cinema experience. They could be the great illuminated electric picture palaces of the 30s, the converted local village hall, the drive-in, or the multiplex, each has its own character and story to tell. The programme draws on films as varied as The Magic Box, The Smallest Show on Earth, Army of Shadows, The Chosen (1981), The Blob, Dillinger, Inglorious Basterds, The Last Picture Show, and perhaps not surprisingly, Cinema Paradiso.

The cinema is a place of escape, a place of fantasy and wonderment, of shared experiences; as John Updike said:

`The size of the great rear wall measures

The breadth of the dreams we have there.`

So, Matthew invites listeners to share their cinema going stories - to record themselves and become an integral part of the programme - a programme in homage to the movie house.

Matthew Sweet on music and film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'The Illustrated Man'; 'A Clockwork Orange'; 'Dark Star'; 'Halloween'; 'The Thief'; 'Midnight Express'; Apocalypse Now'; 'Tron'; 'Chariots of Fire'; 'Tron Legacy' and 'The Social Network'. Matthew also talks to composer Matthew Herbert about his new synth based score for Gloria Bell.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Photo credit: Alfonso Bresciani/Netflix

Matthew Sweet on films and film music inspired by the pursuit of power.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'I Robot'; 'When Worlds Collide'; 'The Bible - In The Beginning'; 'Noah'; 'Silkwood'; 'The Village' and 'The Parallax View'. The Classic Score of the Week is John Williams's music for 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind'.

Matthew also casts a thought on this weekend's BAFTAs.

Matthew Sweet with music for films about whistleblowers and Cassandras.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme, which is a revised repeat of programme from 2014, includes film music from Morricone's early years with the experimental ensemble, Il Gruppo through to his work for Sergio Leone and beyond and features music from much loved classics such as 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'; 'Cinema Paradiso', '1900', 'The Mission' as well as less well known scores such as 'The Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion'; 'A Quiet Place In The Country' and Morricone's first score, 'Il Federale'.

The Classic Score of the Week is 'Once Upon A Time In The West'.

Matthew Sweet on the great Italian maestro who died earlier this week.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

(first broadcast in 2017)

Matthew Sweet with music reflecting the film career of Erich Korngold.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Music for characters who find escape through the screen.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

Matthew Sweet looks back at this category of film, which seemed to spring into existence in America around the 1930s, and he foregrounds the music of some of the best and most defining examples.

The programme includes music from Home Alone, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Gulliver's Travels, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ET - The Extra Terrestrial, Kiki's Delivery Service, Paddington 2 and the Classical Score of the Week - the Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell score for Shrek.

Film and music for all the family.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew looks at representations of Halloween in film in the likes of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' and 'Meet Me In St Louis' and turns to scores from some of the great and scariest horror films, such as Suspiria, The Quatermass Xperiment, Doctor Who, The Night Of The Hunter, Psycho, A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Babadook, Candyman, Insidious, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Sinister, and - the Classic Score of the Week - John Carpenter's influential music for the 1978 Halloween.

Timely film music to set the heartbeat racing

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Steve Jablonsky is from the Hans Zimmer stable of American film composers, at Remote Control Productions, and is perhaps best known for his music for Michael Bay's 'Transformers' series of films.

As well as music by Jablonsky, this week's programme also features apocalyptic scores by David Arnold, Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, Russell Garcia and Bernard Herrmann.

Matthew Sweet with a selection of film scores reflecting the end of the world.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by the 18th century.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Music for films set on the university campus.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With the launch of Emerald Fennell's new film Saltburn, with a score by Anthony Willis, Matthew Sweet foregrounds music for films set on the university campus.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

'There's nothing quite as wonderful as money on the this week's Sound Of Cinema - except of course when it's dirty, filthy, stolen and the root of all evil.'

The programme features music from - amongst others - 'Rogue Trader'; 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'; 'Indecent Proposal'; 'Glengarry Glen Ross'; 'Trading Places' and 'Wall Street

Matthew's Classic Score of Week is Ennio Morricone's 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces film scores inspired by the theme of money.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music by Michael Nyman; Georges Auric; Elliot Goldenthal; Alexandre Desplat; Gabriel Yared; Nicholas Ward-Jackson; Jeff Beal; Frank Cordell and Krishna Levi.

Films: 'Lust for Life'; The Draughtsman's Contract'; 'Moulin Rouge'; 'Frida'; 'Girl With A Pearl Earring'; 'Camille Claudel'; 'Caravaggio 1610'; 'Pollock' and 'The Rebel'.

The Classic Score of the week is Alex North's 'The Agony and the Ecstasy'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by great artists.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'The New World'; '1492 - Conquest of Paradise'; 'The Mission'; 'The Abyss'; 'First Men In The Moon'; 'The Terrornauts'; 'The War of the Worlds'; 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'; 'ET - The Extra Terrestrial' and 'Arrival'.

Music for films about contact with new worlds, new people and extra-terrestrials.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores music for films reflecting the depictions of indigenous peoples.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music from Pope Joan, Cleopatra, Captain Marvel, Hidden Figures, Suffragette, Radioactive, Amelia, Mary Shelley, and the Classic Score of the Week - Toshiro Mayazumi's music for the 1966 movie The Bible: In The Beginning...

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet showcases film scores about female firsts, outstanding achievements by women and chats to composer Amelia Warner about her new film Young Woman and the Sea.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Film music and the folk influence.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music from 'The Company of Wolves'; 'The Brothers Grimm'; 'Blancanieves'; 'Belle et la Bete'; 'Excalibur'; 'King Arthur'and 'The Secret of Roan Inish'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Erich Korngold's 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'.

Matthew Sweet presents music inspired by folk tales.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet goes into the woods

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

As well as the 'The Age of Adaline' the programme features music from 'Cocoon'; 'Lost Horizon'; 'Tuck Everlasting'; 'Dorian Gray'; 'The Fountain'; 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Hook'.

The Classic Score of the Week is James Bernard's music for 'She'.

Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by stories of immortality.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

As well as featuring music by Amelia Warner for the new film, Matthew also offers musical moments from the 1931 James Whale 'Frankenstein'; 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein'; 'Son Of Frankenstein'; House Of Frankenstein'; 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed'; 'I Frankenstein'; 'Victor Frankenstein'; and the 2015 version of 'Frankenstein'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's 'Bride of Frankenstein'.

Matthew Sweet with film music for Frankenstein.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

In today's programme Matthew focuses on Waxman's pre-War years, from his first work in film in Germany in 1930 for Frederick Hollander on The Blue Lamp and with Fritz Lang, to his breakthrough years in Hollywood with James Whale and Alfred Hitchcock. Featured films include 'Bride of Frankenstein'; 'Captains Courageous'; 'The Philadelphia Story'; 'Rebecca'; 'Rear Window'; 'A Christmas Carol'; 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' and 'Objective Burma!'.

Matthew Sweet on the music of Franz Waxman.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured films include 'Humoresque'; 'The Paradine Case'; 'Sunset Boulevard'; 'A Place In The Sun'; 'Peyton Place'; 'Sayonara'; 'The Spirit of St Louis' and 'Taras Bulba'.

Matthew Sweet on Franz Waxman in Hollywood.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

France was one of the first nations to recognise the possibilities of cinema and through the pioneering work of figures such as Auguste and Louis Lumi耀re and Georges M退li耀s, it quickly established the foundations for a new form of art and entertainment.

Matthew and Guy begin at the beginning, on a whistle-stop tour of the story of French Film, to the present, taking in scores for films such as L'Atalante; Les Enfants du Paradis; French Cancan; The Red Balloon; Rififi; Les Quatre cents coups;

The catalogue of his films includes some of the greats of the last 75 years - Matthew reflects on his career and pays tribute with music from 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'; 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; 'The Lavender Hill Mob'; Kind Hearts and Coronets'; 'The Man In The White Suit': 'Dead of Night'; 'The Servant'; 'The Lion In Winter'; 'The Italian Job; 'Rollerball'; 'The Blue Max'; 'Jesus Christ Superstar'; and 'Julia'.

Matthew Sweet introduces music for films associated with cinematographer Douglas Slocombe.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet presents music from films featuring assassins and hitmen.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music for big screen versions of 'Mission Impossible'; 'The Addams Family', 'Zorro', 'Twin Peaks', 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', 'Star Trek', 'Monty Python','The Avengers' and 'The Muppets'.

Matthew's Classic Score of the Week focuses on Barry Gray's music for Gerry Anderson's 'Thunderbirds Are Go'.

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Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for films based on television shows.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The new film includes a score by Marco Beltrami, who was Oscar nominated for his music for 'The Hurt Locker'. The programme offers the opportunity to hear part of his new score for 'Carrie' as well as other scores by Beltrami.

The programme also features music from 'The Shining'; 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Dreamcatcher'; as well as music from 'Apt Pupil', 'Children of the Corn', 'The Running Man' and 'Dead Zone'.

The classic score of the week is 'Psycho' by Bernard Herrmann.

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Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the works of Stephen King.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet talks to composer Gabriel Yared.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

As well as Chris Hajian's music from 'The Infiltrator', the programme also features music from 'The Godfather', 'Once Upon a Time in America', 'The Roaring Twenties', 'Road to Perdition', 'The Untouchables', 'The Long Good Friday', 'The Krays', 'Bugsy Malone' and selections from this week's Classic Score, 'Get Carter'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by gangsters.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also in the programme, music by James Bernard, Alexandre Desplat, Stanley Myers, Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander, James Horner, James Newton Howard, Barrington Pheloung, Jeff Beal, Elliot Goldenthal and Gary Yershon. The Classic Score of the Week is Miklos Rozsa's music for the 1956 Van Gogh bio-pic 'Lust for Life'.

Matthew Sweet introduces music for films on the theme of genius.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet speaks to composer George Fenton about his rich and varied career.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

(See also this week: Words and Music - Movies tomorrow on Radio 3 and Free Thinking on Tuesday evening on Bruce Lee)

Hollywood composer Germaine Franco on her Academy Award-nominated score for Encanto.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

God of War and Battlestar Galactica composer Bear McCreary discusses his prolific career.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured scores include: Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe's for 'Megamind'; James Horner's for 'A Beautiful Mind'; Mark Mothersbaugh's for 'The Royal Tenenbaums'; Carter Burwell's for 'Being John Malkovich'; Angelo Badalamenti's for 'City of Lost Children'; Randy Newman's for 'Awakenings'; plus music by Eric Serra for this week's featured new release: 'Lucy'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's 'The Bride of Frankenstein'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of music for films inspired by the human brain.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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Matthew Sweet looks at how film scores present ideas about grief.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from 'To Kill A Mockingbird' 'In The Heat Of The Night', 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', 'The Green Mile' and 'The Fugitive'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's for Hitchcock's 'North By Northwest'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces music for films on the subject of innocence and guilt.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with music for the screen from the Korean Wave.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featuring horror scores by composers James Bernard, Tristram Cary, and Benjamin Frankel, as well as music from Hammer's highly successful comedy films and only space western...

Matthew Sweet introduces music from films made by the Hammer production company.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Music for an iconic name in British film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Mummy are visions that spring to mind, but Matthew Sweet's playlist suggests there's much more to Hammer Studios besides.

Matthew Sweet with the composer of Shrek, The Martian and Mulan.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Includes in the programme is music by Roy Budd, Elmer Bernstein, Carter Burwell, Alan Silvestri, Lalo Schifrin, Isaac Hayes, Bill Conti, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, Howard Shore, Brian Tyler and Herbie Hancock Plus a track from Christopher Benstead's score for Guy Richie's new film 'Wrath of Man'.

Matthew Sweet on film and fllm music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet in conversation with the daughter of the great Henry Mancini.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Captain Phillips is a biopic directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks recalling the story of Captain Richard Phillips who was taken hostage by Somali Pirates during the Maersk Alabama hijacking in 2009.

Matthew features some of Henry Jackman's music for this film, as well as his music for other films, and looks back on scores from some of the great thrillers inspired by the hijack theme, including: 'The Hunt For Red October'; 'Airforce One'; 'Mutiny on the Bounty' and 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inpired by the theme of hijacking.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet on the film world's take on history.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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Matthew Sweet on the collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, Hairspray, The Addams Family, Mary Poppins Returns - Hollywood composer Marc Shaiman talks to Matthew Sweet about his music and career.

The programme also features music from 'Plaza Suite', 'Grand Hotel', 'Grand Budapest Hotel', 'Some Like It Hot', 'The Shining', 'The Night Porter', 'Death In Venice', 'Somewhere In Time' and Michael Giacchino's new score for 'Bad Times At The El Royale'.

And there's the chance to hear some of Justin Hurwitz's new score for 'First Man', Damien Chazelle's new film biopic about astronaut Neil Armstrong.

Matthew Sweet with a selection of film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Howard talks about his working methods; his collaborations with directors David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese; about writing music for Tolkien; and he introduces some of his concert music too.

Matthew Sweet is in conversation with film composer Howard Shore.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores the trend among composers of creating scores for imaginary films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

From Castaway to Donnie Darko, Matthew Sweet celebrates imaginary friends in film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Following the release of IF, Matthew Sweet celebrates the cuddly, unhinged and not-so-friendly imaginary friends we find in films and the music bringing these characters to life.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

In Billy O'Brien's new film, based on Dan Wells's novel, a fifteen year boy, a diagnosed social-path, lives in fear that he is fated to become a serial-killer. The music for the film is by Adrian Johnston who has given us scores for 'Becoming Jane' and the 2008 big screen version of 'Brideshead Revisited' as well as music for some of Stephen Poliakoff's film dramas.

The programme also includes music from 'The Elephant Man'; 'The Island of Dr Moreau'; 'Splice'; 'Jurassic Park'; 'Never Let Me Go'; 'The Boys From Brazil'; 'Gattaca' and 'Creation'. The Classic Score of the Week is Ernest Gold's music for 'Inherit The Wind.

Matthew Sweet with music for films that explore ideas of heredity and genetics.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes scores from 'Shakespeare In Love'; 'All About Eve'; 'Being Julia'; 'Theatre of Blood'; 'A Double Life'; 'Kiss Me Kate'; '42nd Street'; 'Les Enfants du Paradis'; 'The Last Metro'and 'The Artist'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Charles Chaplin's 'Limelight'.

There is also a chance to hear music by Johann Johannsson for the recent Stephen Hawking bio-pic 'The Theory of Everything'.

Matthew Sweet with music written for films inspired by the acting profession.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

As well as Indiana Jones and 'Jungle Cruise', the programme features music from 'Romancing the Stone', 'King Solomon's Mines', 'Tomb Raider', 'Secret of the Incas', 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' and the 1950 version of 'King Solomon's Mines'.

Matthew looks back on 40 years of Indiana Jones.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet presents music from films made by female directors.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet in conversation with Grammy and Oscar-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music by Christopher Young from 'Drag Me To Hell

and Marco Beltrami from 'Woman in Black'. There is Humphrey Searle's music for 'The Haunting', Danny Elfman's for 'Corpse Bride', James Horner's 'Casper', John Williams' only score for Alfred Hitchcock and Jerry Goldsmith's atmospheric score for the original 'Poltergeist'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir'.

Matthew Sweet explores music for films inspired by the spirit world.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet reflects on the history and art of screaming in films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Producer: Barnaby Gordon

Matthew Sweet with soundtracks for films where deceit and fakery are the name of the game.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With the release of Fly Me to the Moon, Matthew Sweet uncovers the films in which fakery is the name of the game. With soundtracks from The Truman Show, Total Recall and The Game.

From characters stuck in artificial worlds - The Truman Show and The Matrix - to films that lead the audience to question what's real and what's not, like The Game, Total Recall and Synecdoche New York, this episode of Sound of Cinema looks at how deception comes across in the music of these fraud-based films...

Matthew Sweet with soundtracks for films where deceit and fakery are the name of the game.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With the release of Fly Me to the Moon, Matthew Sweet uncovers the films in which fakery is the name of the game. With soundtracks from The Truman Show, Total Recall and The Game.

Matthew Sweet with a tribute to the award-winning and prolific film composer James Horner.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

James talks about his working relationship with the director M Night Shyamalan and films such as 'The Village'; his work for Disney and films such as 'Dinosaur' and 'Maleficent'; his work for 'King Kong', 'The Dark Knight' and 'The Hunger Games'. James also choses the Classic Score of the Week.

Matthew Sweet presents music and conversation with film composer James Newton Howard.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Isobel Waller-Bridge and music from Jane Austen films with Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet samples John Barry's extraordinary film music beyond his James Bond scores.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Music by the English composer John Barry, one of the greatest film composers in the history of cinema. In this edition, such films as Out of Africa, Midnight Cowboy and Zulu.

Matthew Sweet explores John Barry's music beyond the 007 films, from Out of Africa to Zulu

Producer: Barnaby Gordon

Matthew Sweet and composer David Arnold explore John Barry's iconic music for 007.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

For the 60th anniversary of Goldfinger Matthew Sweet and composer David Arnold unpick John Barry's music for the James Bond films like Thunderball, Moonraker and that iconic theme.

Matthew Sweet is shaken but not stirred as he explores John Barry's iconic music for 007.

Matthew Sweet and director and composer John Carpenter talk about the music for his films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Hollywood composer John Debney talks to Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet meets the English film composer John Scott.

Film music from John Scott, the man who wrote A Study in Terror and The Final Countdown.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet on Williams without Lucas and Spielberg.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet talks to Insidious composer Joseph Bishara about contemporary horror.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from Snowpiercer, Ice Age, The Revenant, The Edge, The Seventh Sin, The Painted Veil, Cast Away, Star Trek, The Physician, Kon-Tiki and Into the Wild. The Classic Score of the Week is Ralph Vaughan Williams's music for the 1948 film, Scott of the Antarctic.

The programme also includes a taster from James Newton-Howard's new score for News of the World, the new Tom Hanks film, set for release at the end of the month.

Matthew Sweet looks at film music that explores the idea of journeys into the unknown.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet plays music from films with a jungle setting.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet is joined by the composer of La La Land and First Man

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores the impact of Japanese mega monsters on film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks back on the career of Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

She joins Matthew Sweet from her studio in LA overlooking the Pacific and talks about studying under Milton Babbitt and Nadia Boulanger, scoring for documentaries, attending the Last Night of the Proms and the influence of Benjamin Britten on her score for The Marvels.

Matthew Sweet talks with the composer of The Marvels.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Film composer Laura Karpman talks to Matthew Sweet about Ms Marvel, studying under Nadia Boulanger and the influence of Benjamin Britten on her score for The Marvels.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

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Matthew Sweet is joined by Under the Skin composer Mica Levi. Plus listener suggestions.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music by Shostakovich - part of his score for the 1929 Russian film, 'New Babylon' which never actually made it to the screen - by Joseph Clyde Breil for 'Birth of A Nation'; Hans Erdman for 'Nosferatu'; John S Zamecnik for the 1927 film 'Wings' and Carl Davis's score for Abel Gance's 'Napoleon'.

Matthew also talks to American organist Cameron Carpenter about his music for 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari'.

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

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Matthew Sweet focuses on music for silent cinema. With Charlie Chaplin's City Lights score

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew explores Max's approach to writing for film and features scores from 'Waltz with Bashir', 'When We Leave', 'Sarah's Key', 'The Congress' and his music for the forthcoming 'Testament of Youth', based on the life story of Vera Brittain. Max has chosen this week's classic score which is Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov's music for Tarkovsky's 1966 masterpiece, 'Andrei Rublev'.

From Sage Gateshead, Matthew Sweet presents a special edition with composer Max Richter.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The classic score of the week is Ralph Vaughan-Williams's 'Scott of the Antarctic'.

Matthew Sweet meets Lorne Balfe, composer for the animation The Penguins of Madagascar.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet in conversation with Grammy-winning composer Lorne Balfe.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Philomena' won Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope the Best Screenplay award at the 70th Venice Film Festival, and Dame Judy Dench's central performance has been widely tipped for a best-actress award. The film is a moving account of a mother's loss of a child, sold for adoption. The film score is by the enormously succesful French composer, Alexandre Desplat, who also wrote the music for 'The King's Speech', 'The Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'.

Philomena is Radio 3's Sound of Cinema's featured new release of the week, and as well as offering a chance to hear music from the film, plus other scores by Desplat, Matthew takes the subject of the lost child to reflect other film scores inspired by this subject, including music by Angelo Badalamenti, Rachel Portman, Max Richter and Franz Waxman

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Film music on the theme of lost children, inspired by the new release Philomena.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with music for films mapping female power and male anxiety.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks back on the film music career of Marco Beltrami.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet marks the centenary of the birth of soprano Maria Callas with a look back at how she and her recordings have been featured in film. The programme includes music from The First Lady, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Saint Laurent, Yves Saint Laurent, and Callas Forever. We hear Callas in arias from Tosca, Norma, Gianni Schicchi and Andrea Chenier. Matthew also offers some thoughts and extracts from the soundtrack from Callas's starring role in Pasolini's 1968 film Medea.

The programme also takes a look at the relationship between opera and the cinema in general. Music featured includes cues from Citizen Kane, The Fifth Element, Hannibal, and The Godfather.

Soprano Maria Callas and the cinema.

Matthew Sweet marks the centenary of the birth of soprano Maria Callas with a look back at how she and her recordings have been featured in the cinema.

Mark Isham discusses his career in film with Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

~Sound Of Cinema meets the American film composer Mark Mothersbaugh

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew looks back on the career and recordings of soprano Marni Nixon.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The progrmame includes music for 'Cinema Paradiso'; 'Le Temps Retrouv退'; 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'; 'Rashomon'; 'Total Recall'; 'Inception'; 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'; from composers such as Jon Brion, Hans Zimmer, Jerry Goldsmith, Fumio Hayasaka, Giovanni Fusco, Jorge Arriagada, and Ennio Morricone.

The Classic Score of the Week is Mikl　s R　zsa's music for 'Spellbound'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by the theme of memory.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with Hollywood composer Michael Giacchino.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet discusses the film music of Michael Nyman.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Mike Leigh's work is celebrated by the BFI in October and November on the Southbank in London and at Home in Manchester, with the release of a new print of his 1993 classic ‘Naked', and with the appearance of a new, revised version of ‘Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh'.

Mike Leigh joins Matthew Sweet to talk about his ideas about music for film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from ‘Room at the Top', ‘Malena', ‘The Lost Daughter', The Reader', ‘Notes on a Scandal' and ‘Judy'. This week's Classic Score is Franz Waxman's music for ‘Sunset Boulevard', which was released in 1950.

Music for films that explore the age gap.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew finds out what goes into recording a Hollywood film soundtrack from the people at Air studios who make it happen. As well as Lorne, he talks to three-time Grammy Award-winning recording engineer Geoff Foster, music editor Cecile Tournesac, conductor Matt Dunkley, orchestra leader Perry Montague-Mason and principal double-bass Mary Scully.

A behind-the-scenes listen to the soundtrack recording for Mission: Impossible - Fallout.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

He looks back on some of the scores that have been created over the past 46 years for the celebrated science fiction saga - from Jerry Goldsmith's 'brilliantly strange and alienating' first score, to music by Danny Elfman and Patrick Doyle.

The programme also includes other ape inspired scores: Elmer Bernstein's Buddy; Maurice Jarre's Gorillas in the Mist; Paul Sawtell's Tarzan and the Huntress; Johnny Dankworth's Sands of the Kalahari; James Newton Howard's Outbreak.

Matthew's Classic score of the Week is Max Steiner's King Kong.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of simian-inspired film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew considers the monstrous films of Universal Studios from the 1930s onwards; the work of movie creature makes Ray Harryhausen, Phil Tippett and Rick Baker; and features music from films such as 'The Blob', 'The Mummy Returns', 'The Creature From The Black Lagoon', 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms', 'Gorgo', 'The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad', 'The Valley of Gwanji', 'Starship Troopers', 'Dragonslayer', 'American Werewolf in London', 'The Thing', and 'Alien', as well as Alexandre Desplat's music from the new film 'The Shape Of Water'.

Matthew Sweet looks at movies, music and monsters ahead of 'The Shape of Water'.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from 'Mommie Dearest', 'La Ciociara' ('Two Women') and from several more recent films including 'Power Of The Dog', 'Lady Bird', 'Philomena', 'Arrival', 'Tully', 'The Lost Daughter', 'Goodnight Mommy' - all of which explore contrasting thoughts and ideas about motherhood. The Classic Score of the Week is Krzsztof Komeda's music for 'Rosemary's Baby'.

And there's also a chance to hear music by Sarah Angliss for Romala Garai's new film 'Amulet'.

Matthew Sweet focuses on the theme of motherhood inspired by Aldomovar's Parallel Mothers.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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Matthew Sweet presents film music inspired by inventors.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Fifth Estate is Bill Condon's new drama based on the WikiLeaks story, with music by Carter Burwell. Matthew Sweet looks back at some of the great film scores created for movies inspired by the world of journalists and journalism, including Bernard Hermann's celebrated music for Citizen Kane; Nino Rota's music for La Dolce Vita; and Hans Zimmer's music for Frost/Nixon.

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Matthew Sweet explores music in films about journalism, from Citizen Kane to Frost/Nixon.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Composer Howard Shore talks about the twenty hours or more of music he has composed for the Tolkien films.

The Classic Score of the Week is John Williams's 'Star Wars'.

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Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by sagas.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with film music for the wicked.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew introduces a selection of music that underscores some of cinema's most tyrannical characters, including a range of music as fantastical as The Phantom Menace to Quo Vadis.

The programme looks at some of the many films covering the Nixon era, but also looks back at the ways that Washington has been covered in American cinema from the time of Frank Capra's 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' through to films like 'Wag The Dog', 'Bulworth', 'Advise and Consent', 'Lincoln', 'Clear and Present Danger' and 'Enemy of the State'. The Classic Score of the Week is David Shire's music for Francis Ford Coppola's 'The Conversation'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music with a political slant.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

And on a similar theme, as Incredibles 2 reaches UK screens this week, there's a chance to hear some of Michael Giacchino's new score.

Matthew Sweet marks the 50th anniversary of Yellow Submarine.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores music and Walt Disney.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music by John Williams, Howard Shore and Brian Tyler.

Composer John Powell discusses his music for How To Train Your Dragon

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the week is Barry Gray's music for the full length big screen supermarionation feature, ‘Thunderbirds Are Go'.

Matthew Sweet on the composer of Thunderbirds.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet introduces music for films set against the background of World War I.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

As well as music from the new film X-Men Apocalypse, the programme features music from 'Them!'; 'Tarantula'; 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes'; 'The Omega Man'; 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'; 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire'; 'The Amazing Spider Man' and 'The Mutations'. The Classic Score of the Week is the 1958 version of 'The Fly'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the idea of 'mutant' beings in the cinema.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

(Photo of Mychael Danna, credit: Tyler Curtis)

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet talks to composer Nathan Johnson about scoring music for film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with music for neo-noir film as Blade Runner 2049 hits cinemas.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Recorded as part of Radio 3's New Year - New Music Season, the programme features scores by Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, Philip Glass, Peter Maxwell Davies, Jon Brion, Bebe and Louis Baron, Mario Nascimbene, Hans Zimmer, Basil Kirchin, Mr Ozio, Carter Burwell and Nathan Johnson.

Matthew Sweet explores some of the experimental ventures in music for film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Clip from 'Breathe' - Robin (ANDREW GARFIELD), Diana (CLAIRE FOY) and Dr Clement (STEPHEN MANGAN) the director of the Disability Research Foundation are visiting Teddy's (HUGH BONNEVILLE) workshop where he is working on a new version of the wheelchair. Writer William Nicholson. Director Andy Serkis.

Matthew Sweet interviews composer Nitin Sawhney, who has scored music for over 50 films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Terry Gilliam's new film is inspired by the power of mathematics to change the world, with a new score by George Fenton. Matthew considers the film and its music and looks at other film scores inspired by number-crunching, from Don Davis's music for 'The Matrix' trilogy to James Horner's score to 'A Beautiful Mind'.

The Classic score of the week is Michael Nyman's 'Drowning By Numbers' and the programme also features music by Hans Zimmer; Richard Rodney Bennett; John Williams and Danny Elfman.

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Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music on the theme of mathematics and numbers.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with music from the score for The Goldfinch.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from Of Human Bondage; American Beauty; The Talented Mr Ripley; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Peeping Tom; Lolita; Eyes Wide Shut; Fatal Attraction; Last Tango In Paris and Sleeping With the Enemy.

The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's 'Vertigo'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by obsession.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from ‘Clash of the Titans', ‘The Giant of Marathon', ‘The Games', ‘Foxcatcher', ‘Unbroken', ‘Race', ‘Munich', ‘Visions of Eight', ‘I Tonya', ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'. The Classic Score of the Week is - (well what else could it be?) ........ Vangelis's distinctive synth sounds for ‘Chariots of Fire'.

Matthew Sweet with film and film music inspired by Olympic athletes.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music from the films Troy, Alexander, Fury, Saving Private Ryan, Atonement, Ran, 47 Ronin, and The Lord of the Rings.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by the battlefield.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'Gandhi', 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', 'Doctor Who and the Daleks', 'Starship Troopers', 'Howl's Moving Castle', 'La Grande Illusion', 'King and Country', 'Paths of Glory', 'The Victors', 'Hair', 'Born On The Fourth Of July', 'Friendly Persuasion', 'Witness' and 'The Great Dictator' - as well as part of Rupert Gregson-Williams's new score.

Matthew Sweet presents music for films with a pacifist theme.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Friday 27th September sees the re-release of Robin Hardy's cult British film The Wicker Man. On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, Matthew Sweet looks back at the film's imaginative score - which Christopher Lee described as being some of the best music he's heard in a film - and takes it as a springboard to explore film music which evokes the uneasy and sometimes sinister side of British rural life, as portrayed in the music for the screen.

Featured scores include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from 1973 with music by Ron Goodwin; Witchfinder General from 1968 with music by Paul Ferris; James Bernard's music for the 1957 Hound of the Baskervilles; Erich Korngold's music for The Adventures of Robin Hood; Marc Wilkinson's score for Blood On Satan's Claw; Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust; Patrick Doyle's music for Brave; and music for the 2013 film A Field in England.

Matthew Sweet with a programme about film music, exploring the score for The Wicker Man.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music from 'The Pianist'; 'Song Without End'; 'Shine'; 'The Piano'; 'The Legend of 1900'; 'The Fabulous Baker Boys'; and takes a look at some of the so called 'Denham Concertos'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Richard Addinsell's 'Warsaw Concerto' for 'Dangerous Moonlight'.

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Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by the piano.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet hails cinema's greatest apes from Caesar to King Kong.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With the release of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Matthew Sweet hails cinema's greatest apes - King Kong to Joe Young - exploring music from all 9 Planet of the Apes films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'The 49th Parallel'; 'A Matter of Life and Death'; 'Black Narcissus' - and the Classic Score of the Week, Brian Easdale's music for 'The Red Shoes'.

Matthew Sweet introduces music from the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with film music that underscore concepts of power.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features scores from 'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth'; 'The Lost World'; 'Valley of Gwangi'; 'Dinosaur' and 'Ice Age' as well as music by John Williams and Michael Giacchino. The Classic Score of the week is Mario Nascimbene's music for 'One Million Years BC'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music with a prehistoric theme.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Producer: Paul Frankl

Matthew Sweet explores film plots with a highly revealing psychological back-story.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet introduces music for films dealing with the subject of racial prejudice.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Rachel Portman is one of the most successful and distinctive British film composers with an extensive catalogue of film scores to her name.

Matthew meets Rachel at her London home and looks back on a career that stretches beyond her music for the 1989 Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, through Chocolat, The Duchess, Oliver Twist, Sirens, Benny and Joon, The Manchurian Candidate, The Cider House Rules and the Academy Award-winning Emma.

The programme also features music from Rachel's new score for Belle.

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Matthew Sweet meets composer Rachel Portman, who discusses her career writing film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Rachel talks about working with directors Lasse Hallström, Amma Asante and Roman Polanski; about how she approaches scoring a film - her methods of creating and shaping themes to convey character and situation; about the range and variety of her work, whether a literary classic, a family adventure, or a great period drama; and she talks about how she often finds herself drawn to movies with strong female protagonists.

The programme was recorded in July before an invited audience.

The BBC Philharmonic celebrates the music of composer Rachel Portman.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

From Chocolat to Belle and Oscar-winning Emma, composer Rachel Portman explores her best-loved scores with Tom McKinney alongside music performed by the BBC Philharmonic.

Rachel talks about working with directors Lasse Hallstr怀m, Amma Asante and Roman Polanski; about how she approaches scoring a film - her methods of creating and shaping themes to convey character and situation; about the range and variety of her work, whether a literary classic, a family adventure, or a great period drama; and she talks about how she often finds herself drawn to movies with strong female protagonists.

Nicholas Brittell's work with Hans Zimmer on the score for '12 Years A Slave' won him great praise, since which he went on to score Natalie Portman's directorial debut film, 'A Tale of Love and Darkness'.

The programme includes music from 'Cabaret'; 'The Gold Diggers of 1933'; 'The Kid'; 'The Great Gatsby'; 'The Bicycle Thieves'; 'Cinderella'; 'Teorema'; 'Elysium' and 'The Bonfire of the Vanities'. The Classic Score of the Week is Erich Korngold's music for 'The Prince and the Pauper'.

Matthew Sweet with a selection of film music inspired by images of poverty and riches.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with music from the films of the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks at music written for films about animals behaving badly.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet presents music for some of the films of Hull-born producer J Arthur Rank.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Music featured in the programme includes 'Schindler's List' ; 'Battleship Potemkin'; 'Malta GC'; 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'; 'Cleopatra'; 'Zulu' and 'Apollo 13'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's 'Taras Bulba'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of music written for films based on real lives.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew features music from the new film as well as from 'Argo', 'Mata Hari - Agent H21', 'The Good Shepherd', 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind', 'Black Book', 'Bridge of Spies', 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy', 'Red Joan', and cues from Gabriel Yared's and Stephane Moucha's 'The Lives of Others', which is the Classic Score of the Week.

Matthew Sweet marks the release of Dominic Cooke's thriller The Courier.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'Red Dawn', 'Silk Stockings', 'The Day The Earth Stood Still', 'High Noon', 'Inherit The Wind', 'The Eternal Sea', 'The Caine Mutiny', 'On The Waterfont', 'Spartacus' and 'Exodus'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by ideas of McCarthyism.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week is John Addison's 'A Bridge Too Far'.

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Matthew Sweet with music in homage to actor, producer and director Richard Attenborough.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Characters in a road movie undergo a journey - usually by car or motorbike - which invariably presents a life-changing experience. They can be journeys about self-discovery, rebellion, reconciliation and sometimes death. Matthew foregrounds some of the best road movie scores including 'Easy Rider', 'On the Road', (inspired by Jack Kerouac's genre-defining novel of the same name), 'The Motorcycle Diaries', 'Little Miss Sunshine', 'To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar' and 'Locke'. Matthew takes a look at how Erik Nordgren's score works to picture in Ingmar Bergman's 1957 masterpiece 'Wild Strawberries' and reflects on the importance of the road movie in the work of director Wim Wenders. The Classic Score of the Week is Ry Cooder's atmospheric music for 'Paris, Texas'.

Matthew Sweet with music for the road movie genre.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'The Witches', 'James and the Giant Peach', '36 Hours', 'The Night Digger', 'You Only Live Twice', 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and 'Fantastic Mr Fox'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the works of writer Roald Dahl.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With music by John Barry, Geoffrey Burgon, Dorothy Carwithen and Korngold's Oscar winning score to the 1938 Errol Flynn classic.

Matthew Sweet rides through the glen with the film music of Robin Hood

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also in the programme is music by Bruce Broughton, John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Thomas Newman, James Horner, Paul Misraki and David Arnold.

Matthew Sweet with film scores inspired by robots, cyborgs and artificial intellegence.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'Edward Scissorhands'; 'L'Enfant Sauvage'; 'The Enigma of Kasper Hauser'; 'Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan'; 'Princess Mononoke'; 'The Jungle Book (1942)'; 'Romolo e Remo'; 'Lord of the Flies'; 'Tangled'; 'Nell' and 'The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'. The featured new release is Lenny Abrahamson's 'Room' - with music by Stephen Rennicks.

Matthew Sweet with music from films about people living outside of conventional society.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also in the programme is music for the varioues St Trinian's films, plus 'Rebel Without A Cause', 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', 'Heathers', 'Suicide Squad', 'Birds of Prey' and the recent 'The Suicide Squad', 'Kick-Ass', and 'The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared'. The Classic Score of the Week is 'West Side Story'.

Matthew Sweet looks at music written for films that have a disruptive vibe.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the history and culture of Scotland.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks at the music of films that offer their protagonists redemption.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with film music about hidden worlds.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew's Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's music for 'Sunset Boulevard'.

The programme also includes music from 'Up'; 'Driving Miss Daisy'; 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'; 'On Golden Pond'; 'Iris'; 'The Hunger'; 'Cocoon' and 'Wild Strawberries'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by movies about old age.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with film music for the Victorian detective

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also in the programme is music by Dan Romer, Jerry Goldsmith, Alberto Iglesias, Ron Grainer, John Williams, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Harold Arlen and Mica Levi. The Classic Score of the Week is Jerry Goldsmith's ‘The Illustrated Man'.

Matthew Sweet explores music for films bound together by the theme of skin.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

Other series featured in the programme include ‘WandaVision', ‘Bridgerton', ‘Game Of Thrones', ‘His Dark Materials', ‘Dark', ‘Stranger Things', ‘Hemlock Grove', ‘Carnival Row', ‘The Umbrella Academy', ‘Penny Dreadful' and ‘Penny Dreadful - City of Angels'. The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's music for the original 1959 ‘The Twilight Zone'.

A look at music for recent TV series.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'Amelie'; 'An Affair To Remember'; 'Casablanca'; 'The Lake House'; 'Love Actually'; 'Les Parapluies de Cherbourg'; 'The Lobster' and 'The Double Life of Veronique'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of music from films featuring soulmates.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The films and music featured in the programme include Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious' with a score by Roy Webb, Miklos Rozsa's 'The Killers', Max Steiner and 'The Big Sleep', Dimitri Tiomkin and 'Duel In The Sun', Georges Auric's music for Jean Cocteau's 'Beauty And The Beast', Allan Gray and 'A Matter Of Life And Death, Alan Rawsthorne and 'The Captive Hearth', John Ireland's 'The Overlanders', Mischa Spoliansky's 'Wanted For Murder' and Hugo Friedhofer's 'The Best Years Of Our Lives'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music from the year 1946.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also featured in the programme is music by Patrick Doyle for 'Much Ado About Nothing'; Jocelyn Pook's score for Al Pacino's 2004 'Merchant of Venice' - the orchestra will be joined by singers Laura Wright and Tim Clifford Hill; Erich Korngold's music for the 1935 Max Reinhardt version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'; Michael Nyman's music for 'Prospero's Books'; Miklos Roza's music for the 1953 Marlon Brando 'Julius Caesar'; and Nino Rota's score for Franco Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Matthew Sweet joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for film music inspired by Shakespeare.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

While the cinema has brought many famous adaptations of Shakespeare's plays to the screen, the story of The Bard's influence on film is far greater. Matthew Sweet presents a selection of soundtracks for films that have taken Shakespeare's stories as the source material for new plots - some quite literal, others a little more subtle. The programme features a Spaghetti Western versions of Hamlet, a submarine reworking of Romeo and Juliet, and a mediaeval Japanese take on King Lear.

Featured film scores include music for 'Theatre Of Blood', 'Chimes At Midnight', 'All Night Long', 'Forbidden Planet', 'Prospero's Books', 'McLintock!' and 'The Lion King'.

The Classic Score of the Week is the film soundtrack to Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story'.

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by Shakespearean themes.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme looks at some of the earliest examples of space operas, including 'Flash Gordon' and 'Buck Rogers', defining the genre, and features music from the likes of 'Battlestar Galactica', 'Battle Beyond The Stars', 'Star Trek - Beyond', 'Dune', 'The Last Starfighter', 'Serenity', 'Jupiter Ascending', 'The Fifth Element' and of course, 'Star Wars' which perhaps did more than any other film to establish the musical sound of space opera.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music inspired by the space opera genre.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

With music from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Schindler's List and Jurassic Park. Matthew gives us a close encounter with the music for Close Encounters of the Third Kind as he analyses the scene of humanity's first contact with the alien mothership.

Matthew Sweet celebrates 50 years of one of cinema's greatest collaborations.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

This week's new release is Paul Feig's 'Spy', starring Melissa McCarthy, with a score by Theodore Shapiro.

Other featured films include 'The Lady Vanishes'; 'The Third Man'; 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'; 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold'; 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' and Matthew's Classic Score of the Week - Roy Webb's music for Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music from spy movies.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet on film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'Venus In Fur', 'The Red Shoes', 'Svengali', 'The Artist', 'Maps To The Stars', 'Hail Caesar', 'Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool' and 'Ed Wood'; and he features music from the four different versions of 'A Star Is Born'. From 1937 with music by Max Steiner; the 1954 version with Judy Garland; the 1976 telling with Barbra Streisand; and this week's featured new release with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.

Matthew Sweet with film music and svengalis.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from the movies 'Star Trek: Into Darkness', 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture', 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn' and 'Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'. And the Classic Score of the week is music by Fred Steiner from an early Star Trek TV episode 'Charlie X'.

Matthew Sweet celebrates the music of the Star Trek movie franchise.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from the 1976 'King Kong', 'First Men In the Moon', 'Jason and the Argonauts', 'Sen Noci Svatojanske' (A Midsummer Night's Dream), 'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit', 'Chicken Run', 'Early Man', 'Anomalisa', 'The Corpse Bride', 'Isle of Dogs', 'Fantastic Mr Fox', and music by Michael Giacchino for the new 'Jurassic World Dominion'.

Matthew Sweet looks at animating the inanimate and the role that music plays.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Jurassic Park revolutionised cinema's engagement with visual effects. With the latest JP now upon us, Matthew Sweet looks at animating the inanimate and the role that music plays.

The programme includes music from the 1976 'King Kong', 'First Men In the Moon', 'Jason and the Argonauts', 'Sen Noci Svatojanske' (A Midsummer Night's Dream) , 'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit', 'Chicken Run', 'Early Man', 'Anomalisa', 'The Corpse Bride', 'Isle of Dogs', 'Fantastic Mr Fox', and music by Michael Giacchino for the new 'Jurassic World Dominion'.

Matthew Sweet with music for film that captured a decade.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The celebrated Japanese animation studio has produced some acclaimed titles including 'Spirited Away', 'The Princess Mononoke', 'Laputa - Castle in the Sky'and 'Porco Rosso'. Aviation is often a prevailing theme of the films, reflecting Miyazaki's years growing up around his father's business in the Japanese aviation industry. Matthew talks to Justin Johnson of the British Film Institute about the films, and about the BFI's current Studio Ghibli Festival; and features work from one of the studio's foremost composers, Joe Hisaishi.

Matthew also turns his attention to other great film scores inspired by the theme of aviation, including The Battle of Britain; The Sound Barrier and The Aviator.

A live programme about film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's looks at music written for the stunts performed in cinema.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The composer Isobel Waller-Bridge presents two hours of music and conversation with special guests Hans Zimmer and Oscar nominees Ludwig Goransson (Oppenheimer) and Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things). The programme is a celebration of the creativity and imagination that underpins so much of contemporary film music. Isobel is also joined by Hollywood composer Nami Melumad (Star Trek, An American Pickle, Thor: Love and Thunder) for a look at at how composers enter the profession and soprano Renée Fleming talks about her role on the epic score of Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings.

Isobel Waller-Bridge with Hans Zimmer and Oscar nominees on music for film.

Composer Isobel Waller-Bridge with guests Hans Zimmer and Oscar nominees Ludwig Goransson and Jerskin Fendrix and two hours of music and chat on composing for the modern cinema.

Matthew Sweet musters all his resources to bring us the best modern survival film scores.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet musters all his resourcefulness to bring us the best modern survival film scores as Jodie Comer tackles rising water and raising a child in The End We Start From.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

Live from London's Barbican, Matthew Sweet celebrates the music of the James Bond films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

American composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard talks to Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

1939 had been a golden year for cinema. Among the scores and films that Matthew looks at are Erich Korngold's 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'; Ferdinand Heinz Provost's 'Intermezzo'; Alfred Newman's 'Wuthering Heights'; Richard Addinsell's 'Goodbye Mr Chips'; Anthony Collin's 'Nurse Edith Cavell'; Aaron Copland's 'Of Mice And Men'; Max Steiner's 'Dark Victory'. 'Ninotchka'; 'Stagecoach'; 'The Wizard of Oz' and of course 'Gone With The Wind'.

Matthew Sweet dusts off his tux and strolls the red carpet of the 1940 Oscars.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

From the 1970s and 1980s, the film musical declined in popularity, but re-appeared with renewed vigour - darker, and with an edge - at the start of the new century, in films such as 'Chicago' and 'Moulin Rouge'. The programme features music from 'Chicago', 'Les Miserables', 'Moulin Rouge', 'Mamma Mia', 'Dancer In The Dark'; 'London Road'; 'Into The Woods', 'Frozen' and 'Nine' - and also features some of Justin Hurwitz's music for 'La La Land'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music from 21st-century film musicals.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also in the programme, James Horner's music for Bicentennial Man; David Arnold's Stepford Wives; Howard Shore's Hugo; Mark Mothersbaugh's Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs; Michel Sanvoisin's Little Dorrit (with a little help from Verdi); Philippe Sarde and Tess; Elmer Bernstein's Wild Wild West; Steve Jablonsky's Steamboy; and the Classic Score of the Week is Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times - a sneak preview of a soon to be released recording from Timothy Brock.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by man and machine.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured scores include those for 'North and South'; 'Lincoln': 'The General'; 'Gettysburg'; 'Copperhead'; 'Glory'; 'The Outlaw Josey Wales; 'Dances With Wolves'; 'The Beguiled' and 'Sommersby'. The featured new score is Martin Phipps music for 'The Keeping Room'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the American Civil War.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from the films ‘Radioactive'; ‘X - The Unknown'; ‘Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox'; ‘Superman IV - The Quest For Peace'; ‘Edge Of Darkness'; ‘Goldfinger'; ‘Radium Girls'; ‘ The China Syndrome'; ‘Silkwood'; ‘Grand Central'; ‘Chernobyl' and ‘The Atom - A Love Affair'. The Classic Score of the Week Is Leonard Rosenman's extraordinary music for the 1970 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie, ‘Beneath The Planet of the Apes'.

Matthew Sweet with music and film and things nuclear.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

And the programme also includes music from the newly released video-on-demand feature, 'The Old Guard' - based on a 2017 comic book by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez and featuring a new score by Dustin O'Halloran and Volker Bertelmann.

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by comic strips.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from Sideways, Bottle Shock, The Monuments Men, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Best Offer, The Leopard, Goldfinger, Phantom Thread, La La Land, Like Water For Chocolate, and Blind Ambition.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew's guest is 'Downton Abbey' composer John Lunn.

Matthew Sweet with film music to a theme.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Also featured in the programme is Martin Phipps's music from the 2010 version of 'Brighton Rock'; Philip Green's 'League of Gentlemen'; Quincy Jones's 'The Italian Job'; Roy Budd's 'Get Carter'; Ennio Morricone's 'The Untouchables'; Elliot Goldenthal's 'Public Enemies' and film noir scores by Andre Previn and David Raksin.

The featured new release is 'Legend' with a new score by Carter Burwell.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by the criminal mind.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music from 'Inferno' by Hans Zimmer, 'Passengers' by Thomas Newman, 'Idiocracy' by Theodore Shapiro, Miklos Rozsa's 'The World, The Flesh and The Devil', Fred Myrow's 'Soylent Green' as well as cues from 'Cloud Atlas', 'Elysium', 'What Happened To Monday' and Craig Armstromg's 'In Time'. Also in the line up is Alan Silvestri's 'Avengers - Infinity War'. The Classic Score of the Week is Jerry Goldsmith's masterly music for 'Logan's Run' from 1976.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

An often ensemble cast, pitted against difficult odds, caught in the drama of overcoming cataclysmic events, the Disaster Movie has its antecedents in the pioneering days of cinema but it reached its peak in the 1970s. But as one of the latest examples of the genre, 'Geostorm' has discovered, having finally been released after several years of post production and aborted publicity campaigns, the events of Disaster Movies have a unhappy knack of being pre-empted by real life.

The programme features music from 'Meteor', 'San Francisco', 'The High and the Mighty', 'Airport', 'The Poseidon Adventure', 'The Towering Inferno', 'Airplane', 'When Worlds Collide', 'Krakatoa - East of Java', 'Dante's Peak' and 'Geostorm'.

Matthew Sweet showcases music inspired by disaster movies.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

As well as music by Sarah the programme features scores from Hans Zimmer, George Fenton, Frank Churchill, Alex Wurman, Harry Gregson-Williams and ɀric Serra.

Screen music to underscore the natural world.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'Behind The Candelabra'; 'Limelight'; 'L'Illusioniste'; 'La Strada'; 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'; 'Annie Get Your Gun'; 'Calamity Jane' and 'Marguerite'. The Classic Score of the Week is 'Singin' In The Rain'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music inspired by the idea of the entertainer.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The eye is a magical, paradoxical organ. Soft, vulnerable, worryingly penetrable - and yet an instrument of mastery and control.' Matthew explores the many ways in which the eye takes a central role in film and features music from Polanski's 'Macbeth'; Maurice Jarre's score for 'Les Yeux Sans Visage'; Cocteau's 'Orphee'; the 1981 and 2010 versions of 'Clash Of the Titans'; Les Baxter's music for 'The Man With The X-Ray Eyes'; 'Clockwork Orange'; 'The Parallax View'; 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'; 'Eye In The Sky'; 'Lost Highway'; 'Peeping Tom' and 'The Eyes Of Laura Mars'. The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's 'Psycho'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for films exploring the subject of the eye.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'The Incredibles', 'The Addams Family', 'The Godfather', 'The Sound of Music', 'Little Women', 'Mary Poppins', 'Star Wars', 'A River Runs Through It', 'The Family Way' and 'August: Osage County'; and the Classic Score of the Week is Alfred Newman's music for 'How Green Was My Valley'.

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by family matters.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks at the films and film music that inspired Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks at music composed for the films of French director Bertrand Tavernier.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Photo: Claire Folger

Matthew Sweet looks back on the music written for the films of Clint Eastwood.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme makes reference to 'In Which We Serve', 'Bounty', 'Blithe Spirit', 'Brief Encounter', 'This Happy Breed', 'The Ghost Camera', 'Great Expectations', 'Oliver Twist', 'The Passionate Friends', 'Summertime', 'Madeleine', 'The Sound Barrier', 'Hobson's Choice', 'The Bridge On The River Kwai', 'Lawrence of Arabia', 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Ryan's Daughter' and 'Passage To India'.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet on film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Ridley Scott's wide ranging output includes The Duellists, Alien, Bladerunner, Legend, Thelma and Louise, 1492 - Conquest of Paradise, Heaven of Heaven, Hannibal, GI Jane, Prometheus, Robin Hood, Gladiator and he's collaborated with some of the greatest film composers of our time, including Jerry Goldsmith, Vangelis, Michael Kamen, Hans Zimmer and Harry Gregson Williams. His latest project, The Counsellor, arrives in cinemas this week with a score by rising British star, Daniel Pemberton.

Matthew Sweet explores scores from films of distinguished British director Ridley Scott.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week - during this, the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt - features his music for Shakespeare's 'Henry V'.

Matthew Sweet looks back on the film music of William Walton.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music by Bill McGuffie from 'Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD'; by David Arnold from 'Stargate'; by Alan Silvestri from 'Back to the Future'; Miklos Rozsa from 'Time After Time'; John Barry from 'Somewhere In Time'; Nathan Johnson from 'Looper'; and by Michael Andrews from 'Donnie Darko'.

The classic score of the week is Russell Garcia's score for the 1960 version of 'The Time Machine'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces scores for films inspired by notions of time, space and travel.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from 'East of Eden', 'Big Fish', 'Bicycle Thieves', 'Two Women', 'Room', 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'The Parent Trap', 'What Maisie Knew', 'Kramer vs. Kramer', 'Mrs Doubtfire', 'Losing Isaiah' and 'Solomon and Sheba'.

Matthew Sweet introduces film music on the theme of parent/child relationships.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet on film and music for hidden gay cinema.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Image © Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved. Singin' in the Rain is showing in selected cinemas as part of the BFI Musicals season.

Matthew Sweet celebrates the world of MGM musicals on film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by the Frankenstein story in the week of the release of Luke Scott's debut feature 'Morgan'. The programme highlights music from the Universal Studios series of films from the '30s and '40s; from the Hammer Collection of the '60s and '70s; and from some of the more recent cinematic incarnations of the story.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by the Frankenstein story.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Scoring music for series with big budgets on small screens for TV and streaming services.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Moon features in a variety of ways in the history of film, from werewolves and romance to the stuff of hard science. It today's programme we hear music from 'Road To Morocco'; 'An American Werewolf in London'; 'The Wolf Man'; 'By The Light Of The Silvery Moon'; 'The Princess Kaguya'; 'Apollo 13'; 'A Grand Day Out'; 'The First Men In The Moon'; 'Woman On The Moon'; 'Iron Sky'; '2001 - A Space Odyssey'; 'Moon'; 'Destination Moon' and 'Hidden Figures'.

Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of film music inspired by the moon.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet features music from movies that engage with the multidimensional multiverse.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from the 1947 Rita Heyworth musical 'Down To Earth'; 'Shakespeare In Love'; 'The Invisible Woman'; 'The Girl With A Pearl Earring'; 'La Belle Noiseuse'; 'Surviving Picasso'; Carl Dreyer's 1927 'Michael'; 'Taxi Driver'; 'Broken Blossoms'; 'La Notte'; 'Pulp Fiction'; Elton John's music for 'The Muse'; and the Classic Score of the Week, Dmitri Tiomkin's 'Dial M for Murder'.

Matthew Sweet with film music on the concept of the muse.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features scores from 'Steel Magnolias'; 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'; 'Cartouche'; 'Anne of The Thousand Days'; 'Le M退pris'; 'Day for Night'; 'Tirez Sur Le Pianiste'; 'Le Dernier M退tro'; 'Jules et Jim'; 'Day of the Jackel'; 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' and 'Agnes of God'.

Matthew Sweet reflects on the film music of French composer Georges Delerue.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew sifts through the underscore to Nicolas Cage's career.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew focuses on the more colourful aspects of East London - as has appealed to film makers - of Charles Dickens, Opium Dens, Jack the Ripper and the Krays.

Featured films include 'Oliver'; 'From Hell'; 'Time After Time'; 'The Verdict'; 'Broken Blossoms'; 'It Always Rains on Sundays'; 'Sparrows Can't Sing'; 'Legend'; 'Eastern Promises' and 'The Long Good Friday'.

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by London's historic East End.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Alfred Newman scored over 200 films, won 9 Academy Awards and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Hollywood film music. He was also head of a great dynasty of film composers: brother Lionel, sons David, Thomas and daughter Maria, and nephew Randy Newman; and the dynasty continues on into the next generation.

Matthew selects examples from the Newman catalogue and includes music from this week's featured new release, 'Tarzan', with a new score by David Newman.

The Classic Score of the week is Alfed Newman's 'How The West Was Won'.

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Matthew Sweet looks at the music of the celebrated Hollywood Newman dynasty.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet and Doug Adams take a detailed look at the score for The Lord of the Rings.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Other scores featured in the programme include: George Fenton's 'Dangerous Liaisons'; Jerry Goldsmith's 'Basic Instinct'; Hans Zimmer's 'Sherlock Holmes'; Henry Jackman's 'X Men - First Class'; Henry Mancini 'Mommie Dearest'; Jack Nitzsche 'One Flew over The Cuckoo's Nest'and Alan Menken's 'The LIttle Mermaid'. The Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's 'Rebecca'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces music inspired by screen villainesses.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

For Those In Peril' attracted a lot of acclaim at its premiere during this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival. It goes on general release this week. Writer and Director, Paul Wright, says of it:

'I remember when I was little, the mums and dads used to tell all the little kids about the devil in the ocean, how it had cursed the town and all the people in it.'

Eric Enocksson has composed the score for the film and there will be an opportunity to hear part of it in the programme.

Using this as his starting point, Matthew looks at how the sea has shaped scores from the likes of Dmitri Tiomkin, John Barry, Mychael Danna and Alan Silvestri' for films such as 'Abyss', 'The Old Man and the Sea'; 'The Life of Pi' and 'The Deep'.

An edited version of the programme will be available as a podcast from Monday lunchtime.

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Matthew Sweet explores film scores inspired by our relationship with the sea.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet revels in the film music of the Gothic.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from Danny Elfman, John Williams, Joseph Bishara, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, Hans Zimmer, Maurice Jarre, Delia Derbyshire, Georges Auric, James Newton Howard and Nick Glennie-Smith. The Classic Score of the Week is John Corigliano's music for the 1980 Ken Russell film, 'Altered States'.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Music in the programme is taken from the films ‘The Innocents', ‘The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari', ‘Gone Girl', ‘The Girl On The Train', ‘Rashamon', ‘The Lone Ranger', ‘Amarcord', ‘Detour', ‘Possessed', ‘Stage Fright', ‘Memento', ‘Notes On A Scandal' and ‘American Psycho'. Plus, of course, music from the new film.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film through its music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet looks at films that explore the art of wooing.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also features music from The Wiz, Journey Back to Oz, Return to Oz, Oz the Great and Powerful, plus others - and part of Toby Chu's new score for 'Legends of Oz'.

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Matthew Sweet considers film music for The Wizard of Oz.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet marks International Women's Day with a look at woman who score films, featuring a wide ranging selection of music from across a variety of genres. The programme includes great pioneers of the past, such as Elisabeth Lutyens and Shirley Walker, as well as some of the excitingly diverse, up-and-coming names, hungry for attention now.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's listens to the music in Wes Anderson's films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from the films Clueless, Black Panther, The Fifth Element, Breakfast at Tiffany's,

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featured scores include: Alan Silvestri's 'Contact'; Tristram Cary's ' Quatermass and the Pit'; Danny Elfman's 'Men in Black' and Eric Serra's 'The Fifth Element'.

The classic score of the week is John Williams's 'E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial'.

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Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music inspired by aliens.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Following the release of Barbie, what is cinema's fascination with the colour pink?

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew's Classic Score of the Week is Francis Lai's 'Love Story'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film scores inspired by love and tragedy.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featuring the brilliant, classically trained Dutch composer Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. JunkieXL

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from 'Treasure Island', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'The Deep', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'King Solomon's Mines', 'Jason and the Argonauts', 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly' and 'Gold'.

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by classic stories of secret maps and lost treasure

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with music from films evoking urban chaos and trouble on the streets.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Virtually every major franchise has its equivalent local version in some part of the world. It could be a Turkish or Filipino interpretation of James Bond or an Indian take on Harry Potter. Sometimes the music bares a strong resemblance to the original as well. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the many different takes on the James Bond franchise and Matthew and Iain give particular attention to the 'Eurospy' phenomenon of the 60s and 70s.

This sharing of ideas also works the other way round, and Matthew and Iain look at how Hollywood has taken inspiration from French cinema, Bollywood and Japan. The programme includes music from 'True Lies', 'Sommersby', 'UpperSeven - The Spy with Ten Faces', 'OK Connery', 'Kung Fu Hustle', 'Dastak', 'Pearl Harbor', and 'Battle beyond the Stars'. The Classic Scores of the week are Fumio Hayasaka's 'The Seven Samurai' and Elmer Bernstein's 'The Magnificent seven'.

Matthew Sweet with music for transnational film adaptations.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme also includes music from Escape From The Dark, The Molly McGuires, Germinal, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Descent, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, and Beneath Hill 60.

Matthew also meets compsoer Natalie Holt who talks about her score for the new Phyllida Lloyd film, 'Herself'.

Series of programmes exploring film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

In this special edition of Sound of Cinema marking this year's Vaughan Williams anniversary, Matthew Sweet examines the composer's personal philosophy on music for film. He features key music moments from the rich legacy the composer left the cinema, considers VW's decision making when matching music to image, and puts him in context with the work of his British contemporaries. The programme is rich in examples from the composer's music for the cinema.

Matthew Sweet marks the anniversary of Vaughan Williams.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme marks the reverent and the irreverent on film, about a monarch whose reign saw the advent of cinema and whose Diamond Jubilee in 1897 was one of the first events to receive the multi-camera treatment. Featured music include scores for 'Elizabeth in London'; 'Assassin's Creed Syndicate'; 'Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists'; 'Mr Turner'; 'From Hell'; 'The Wrong Box'; 'The Man Who Would Be Queen'; 'The Life Of Vickie'; 'Young Victoria' and 'Mrs Brown'. The Classic Score of the Week is Anthony Collins's 'The Great Victoria'.

Matthew Sweet looks at representations of Queen Victoria in film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew is joined by curator Kristian Volsing and composer and gaming expert Stephen Baysted ('ProjectCARS; 'World Of Speed'; Need For Speed: Shift') to discover more about composing music for the medium, the function of music in games, and the current state of gaming itself. Including:

Journey (Austin Wintory)

The Last of Us (Gustavo Santaolalla)

No Man's Sky (65DaysofStatic)

Overwatch (Derek Duke/Neal Acree)

Assassins Creed III, SimsAnimals (Winifred Phillips)

Zelda (Koji Kondo)

Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)

Red Dead Redemption (Woody Jackson)

The nature of video game music with Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew also features a selection of music from some ear-grabbing contemporary gaming scores including those for the remarkably popular Final Fantasy, God of War, Assassin's Creed, Civilisation, Skyrim, and Call of Duty franchises.

Matthew Sweet's occasional foray into gaming music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The score for Thor: Love and Thunder sets Matthew thinking about Viking gods in films.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet meets Bafta nominee Volker Bertelmann.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet with a themed selection of music for film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Films and scores included in the programme are 'Socrates'; 'Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure'; 'Il Conformista'; 'Hollow Man'; 'Total Recall'; 'Rashomon'; 'I Heart Huckabees'; 'Interstellar'; 'The Mission'; 'La Chinoise'; 'Week-End' and 'Synecdoche New York'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Mikis Theodorakis's music for 'Z'.

Matthew Sweet with music for films with a philosophical aspect.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme includes music from Gattaca, Spellbound, 3 Women, Desperately Seeking Susan, Welcome To Marwen, Oxygen, Total Recall, Face/Off, Hands Of Orlac, Self/Less, and Freaky. The Classic Score of the Week is Franz Waxman's music for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde from 1941.

The programme also features some of Lorne Balfe's music for the newly released 'Black Widow'.

Series of programmes exploring film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The original Orient Express boasted a much loved classic score by Richard Rodney Bennett. The new film, with a starry ensemble cast and directed by Kenneth Branagh, has music by Branagh's regular musical collaborator, Patrick Doyle.

The programme also features music from 'Death On The Nile'; 'Evil Under The Sun'; 'Le Grand Alibi' '8 Women'; 'Gosford Park'; 'The Draughtsman's Contract'; 'Sleuth'; 'Clue' and 'Murder on the Orient Express'.

Matthew Sweet looks at music for whodunnits in the week of Murder On The Orient Express.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet is joined by pianist and film music authority Neil Brand for a live programme exploring the importance of memory on the working of music for film. Matthew and Neil discuss and illustrate how musical recollection informs a viewer's reading of a film; how it can heighten emotional response; how at times it can even suggest psychological depths to narrative and character that run counter to our perception of the image.

They explore the 'Casablanca' effect and consider the interesting and novel ways in which our received or instinctive repertory of musical sounds, offers a collective cultural reference with the ability to evoke mood, setting, empathy and humour.

Matthew Sweet with pianist Neil Brand on how memory works in film.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew discusses Alwyn's contribution to British film with Philip Lane, and finds out more about Philip's tireless work to track these sometimes lost scores down and bring them before the public. Volume 4 of the CD series 'The Film Music of William Alwyn' has just been released with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba.

The programme includes highlights from across William Alwyn's career including music from 'The History of Mr Polly'; 'The Master of Ballantrae'; 'Manchester - A City Speaks'; 'Desert Victory'; 'The Rocking Horse Winner'; 'Svengali'; 'The Card'; 'The Swiss Family Robinson' and 'They Flew Alone'.

The Classic Score of the Week is Alwyn's music for the 1946 film 'Odd Man Out'.

Matthew Sweet looks back on the film music career of composer William Alwyn.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew turns his thoughts to film music that explores our sky-borne aspirations.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme draws from films about historic women at the sharp end of battle, including music by Nina Humphreys for 'Boudica'; Eric Serra and Mischa Spoliansky's music for films about Joan of Arc; and Craig Armstrong/AR Rahman's score for 'Elizabeth - The Golden Age'. The Classic Score of the Week is Erich Korngold's 'The Sea Hawk'.

Other scores in the programme include Stephen Warbeck's music for 'Charlotte Gray'; Anthony Collins's 'Odette' and Georges Delerue's 'Mata Hari, Agent H21'.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music on the theme of women at war.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Reflecting International Women's Day on Sunday, Matthew Sweet features music for films that pass the Bechdel Test.

Featured scores includes 'Thelma and Louise', 'Gone With The Wind', 'Silence Of The Lambs', 'The Portrait Of A Lady', 'The Princess Mononoke', 'Orlando', 'Annie Get Your Gun'. The Classic Score of the Week is Alfred Newman's 'All About Eve'.

Matthew also profiles scores by some of the foremost women film composers, including Lesley Barber, Lisa Gerrard, Doreen Carwithen, Rachel Portman, Anne Dudley, Jocelyn Pook, Laura Rossi and Debbie Wiseman.

@BBCradio3 #womensday.

Matthew Sweet introduces music for films centring on women and music by female composers.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Featuring music from Wonder Woman, Cat Woman, Super Girl, X Men, The Avengers, and The Fantastic Four, plus a rallying cry for equal pay from Bat Girl in 1972.

Film music for the female super hero, with Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

There's also the chance to hear music from Carter Burwell's new score for 'Catherine Called Birdy'.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.

The programme features music from ‘Broadway Melody on 1938'; ‘The Lake House'; ‘Letters to Juliet'; ‘Message In A Bottle'; ‘The Shop Around The Corner'; ‘You've Got Mail'; ‘84 Charing Cross Road'; ‘The Shawshank Redemption'; ‘Atonement'; ‘The Letter' (1940); ‘Dangerous Liaisons'; ‘The Color Purple`; ‘Possession' (2002) and ‘Vita & Virginia'.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

How should we regard Britain in the 1950's? Matthew Sweet profiles the decade through some of the film music of the time and takes a 'rear view mirror' look, courtesy of some more recent films set in the period, which saw the nation transition from post-war austerity into the Swinging Sixties.

Music featured in the programme is taken from the films 'The Happiest Days of Your Life'; 'Doctor In the House'; 'A Kid For Two Farthings'; 'Night And The City'; 'Room At The Top'; 'Night Of The Demon'; 'The Colditz Story'; 'Queen And Country'; 'Wish You Were Here'; 'The Long Day Closes'; and 'Phantom Thread'. The programme also features music from this week's featured new release 'Tell It To the Bees'.

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The programme features music from Dekalog, The Double Life of Veronique, Three Colours Blue, A Requiem For My Friend, The Queen Of Spain, The Secret Garden, Damage, Between Strangers, Woman of Berlin, Valley Of Shadows, All About Love, The Beautiful Country, Aberdeen, and Mother Didn't Know.

Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner talks to Matthew Sweet.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Films in which humans take on animal characteristics

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

David Arnold is best known for scoring a series of James Bond movies, as well as films such as Independance Day, Godzilla and BBC TV series' Little Britain and Sherlock.

In this one hour special, David is off to the cinema with actor and comedian Matt Berry - renowned for his deep voice and appearances in shows such as The IT Crowd and The Mightly Boosh.

The BBC's Sound of Cinema season is dedicated to the composers, songs and film scores that form the soundtrack to the big screen. The season features a major BBC Four series and programming across BBC radio.

Film composer David Arnold takes a trip to the cinema and plays music from the big screen.

Guests from the film world select favourite musical moments from the big screen.

Irish film star Cillian Murphy has appeared in movies such as 28 Days Later, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. He began his performing career as a musician, and recently appeared in the video for the track Hold Me Forever by Money.

The BBC's Sound of Cinema season is dedicated to the composers, songs and film scores that form the soundtrack to the big screen. The season features a major BBC Four series and programming across BBC radio.

Guests from the film world select favourite musical moments from the big screen.

Danny Elfman is one of America's most prolific television and film composers. Best known for creating the main title theme to The Simpsons, amongst his other credits he has scored the music for the majority of Tim Burton's movies including Batman, Alice in Wonderland and Beetlejuice. Danny also has soundtrack credits on movies such as Men In Black, Spiderman, Planet of the Apes, Edward Scissorhands and Good Will Hunting.

In this one hour special, Danny takes us through his career as a film composer, picking some of his favourite pieces of music from cinema.

The BBC's Sound of Cinema season is dedicated to the composers, songs and film scores that form the soundtrack to the big screen. The season features a major BBC Four series and programming across BBC radio.

Guests from the film world select favourite musical moments from the big screen.

Film composer David Arnold takes a trip to the movies with actor and comedian Matt Berry, playing music from the big screen. David is best known for scoring a series of James Bond movies, as well as films such as Independance Day, Godzilla and BBC TV series' Little Britain and Sherlock. Matt is renowned for his deep voice and appearances in shows such as The IT Crowd and The Mightly Boosh.

Plus actor Cillian Murphy selects some of his favourite musical moments from the big screen.

Cillian has appeared in movies such as 28 Days Later, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. He began his performing career as a musician, and recently appeared in the video for the track Hold Me Forever by Money as well as the hit BBC drama Peaky Blinders.

The BBC's Sound of Cinema season in 2013 was dedicated to the composers, songs and film scores that form the soundtrack to the big screen. The season featured a major BBC Four series and programming across BBC radio.

The best of 6 Music's Sound of Cinema season, featuring David Arnold and Cillian Murphy.

Guests from the film world select favourite musical moments from the big screen.

Matthew Sweet looks back at the film music of 1966.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Photo credit: Niko Tavernise/NETFLIX © 2020

Matthew Sweet features music for the films of 1968

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

The Classic Score of the Week is Frank Cordell's music for 'Cromwell'.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music from the year 1970.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Today Matthew Sweet celebrates its 40th birthday and explores what other scores were making waves in 1977; the year that saw James Bond save the world from Karl Stromberg and his toothy henchman Jaws, Alvy Singer woo Annie Hall, and Tony Manero disco dance his way through his Saturday nights.

Matthew Sweet presents a selection of music for films from 1977.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Matthew Sweet explores film music from the year 1995

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Looking back at the 70th Academy Awards ceremony in 1998.

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen