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Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Sound of Vangelis

    Sat 25 Jun 2022

    Matthew Sweet looks at the extraordinary output of Vangelis who has recently died.

  • Star Trekkin'...

    Sat 18 Jun 2022

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

  • Stop Motion

    Sat 11 Jun 2022

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

  • Wings

    Sat 28 May 2022

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

  • Lesley Barber

    Sat 21 May 2022

    Lesley Barber talks to Matthew Sweet about her career composing music for films.

  • The Multiverse

    Sat 14 May 2022

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

  • Cabaret

    Sat 30 Apr 2022

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

  • The Music of Nicolas Cage

    Sat 23 Apr 2022

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

  • Bruce Broughton

    Sat 16 Apr 2022

    Matthew meets Hollywood composer Bruce Broughton for a look back at his career in film.

  • Feast

    Sat 9 Apr 2022

    Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

  • Germaine Franco and Encanto

    Sat 26 Mar 2022

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

  • Everybody Wants to Be a Cat

    Sat 19 Mar 2022

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

  • The Modern TV Score

    Sat 12 Mar 2022

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

  • The Wit to Woo

    Sat 26 Feb 2022

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

  • Agatha Christie

    Sat 12 Feb 2022

    Agatha Christie's detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple portrayed on screen.

  • Motherhood

    Sat 29 Jan 2022

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

  • Nathan Johnson

    Sat 22 Jan 2022

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

  • It's a Scream!

    Sat 15 Jan 2022

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

  • Mind the Gap!

    Sat 8 Jan 2022

    Music for films that explore the age gap.

  • Come Together at Abbey Road

    Christmas Day 2021

    A special profile of Abbey Road at 90.

  • The Return of The Lord of the Rings

    Sat 18 Dec 2021

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

  • Marni Nixon

    Sat 11 Dec 2021

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

  • The World of Fashion

    Sat 27 Nov 2021

    With the release of House of Gucci, Matthew Sweet features music from films about fashion.

  • The films of Clint Eastwood

    Sat 13 Nov 2021

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

  • 1966

    Sat 30 Oct 2021

    Matthew Sweet looks back at the film music of 1966.

  • Epic Struggle

    Sat 23 Oct 2021

    Matthew Sweet selects music for films that have struggled to reach the screen.

  • John Carpenter

    Sat 16 Oct 2021

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

  • Bond Villains

    Sat 9 Oct 2021

    Series of programmes exploring film music.

  • Skin

    Sat 25 Sep 2021

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

  • Mike Leigh's Music

    Sat 18 Sep 2021

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

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