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Mark Cousins - Sound of Cinema Sunday

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the film-maker, producer and writer Mark Cousins.

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the film-maker, producer and writer Mark Cousins. His documentary work includes The Story of Film, an epic 900-minute journey through the history of cinema, from the earliest moving images in the late 19th century to the digital innovations of our own times. Mark has interviewed many of the most significant directors and actors of the past half century, and with Tilda Swinton he created the Screen Machine, a large portable cinema which they and their supporters sometimes pulled by hand through the Scottish Highlands.

Mark’s choices of film music range from Doris Day and Henry Mancini to a score by Alfred Schnittke and a song from Neneh Cherry.

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43 minutes

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Sun 10 Mar 2024 12:00

Music Played

  • Donna McKevitt

    Rilke from The Story of Looking soundtrack

    • The Story of Looking film soundtrack.
    • 1.
  • Helen Traubel & José Ferrer

    Leg of Mutton Rag

    • Vintage Hollywood Classics Vol 15 Lulu's Back inTown! Magic Movie Moments.
    • Jube.
    • 25.
  • Doris Day & FrankDeVol and His Orchestra

    Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera)

    • Doris Day: Her Greatest Songs.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.
  • Elisabeth Lutyens

    The Skull Suite: Opening Titles

    Performer: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jac van Steen.
    • Elisabeth Lutyens : Love from a stranger 4 British Film Scores.
    • NMC.
    • 15.
  • This Mortal Coil

    Song to a Siren

    • It'll End in Tears.
    • Capriccio.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Mar 2024 12:00

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