Sound of Cinema

by BBC Radio 3

Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

Wallace & Gromit and the music of Aardman Animations
Mar 6, 2025 – 32:00
And the Beat Goes On: percussion in film
Mar 6, 2025 – 15:43
100 years of Ron Goodwin
Mar 6, 2025 – 21:58
Bafta Film Awards 2025: Soundtrack highlights
Feb 25, 2025 – 21:34
Warsaw Concertos – Film music from Poland
Feb 20, 2025 – 26:17
Wolf Hall and Period Music in Film
Feb 5, 2025 – 24:07
Maria Callas and opera in films
Feb 5, 2025 – 26:59
Four trombones and a mandolin? Small but mighty soundtracks
Jan 25, 2025 – 17:49
Alfred Hitchcock
Jan 11, 2025 – 18:27
A celebration of German film
Jan 4, 2025 – 20:43
Music from films themed around the Vatican
Jan 2, 2025 – 17:18
Comfort films
Jan 2, 2025 – 15:07
Christmas film scores
Dec 23, 2024 – 19:04
Cinematic Presidents
Nov 30, 2024 – 16:13
The Roman Empire
Nov 16, 2024 – 21:11
Hollywood composer Marc Shaiman
Oct 31, 2024 – 28:49
Westerns
Oct 22, 2024 – 15:38
Cinema Paradiso and the long hot summer
Aug 24, 2024 – 16:21
An interview with visionary filmmaker and director M. Night Shyamalan
Aug 10, 2024 – 33:25
Actor Kiefer Sutherland on the life and films of his father Donald Sutherland
Jul 23, 2024 – 29:48
It's all lies! Music for films of deceit and fakery...or is it?
Jul 16, 2024 – 18:19
Composer of The Watched - Abel Korzeniowski
Jun 19, 2024 – 29:50
First Women
Jun 8, 2024 – 23:47
Cannes Film Festival
May 25, 2024 – 25:22
Planet of the Apes
May 25, 2024 – 23:57
The Ex Factor
Apr 27, 2024 – 22:06
Real Lives and the musical world of cinema biopics
Apr 13, 2024 – 19:43
Denis Villeneuve, director of Dune Part 2, the biggest Sci-fi movie of the decade
Mar 9, 2024 – 28:27
Stephen Warbeck
Feb 17, 2024 – 30:59
Kris Bowers
Jan 27, 2024 – 34:45
Survival films
Jan 20, 2024 – 32:40
Spielberg and Williams
Dec 30, 2023 – 21:37
Laura Karpman
Nov 11, 2023 – 36:52
Hammer
Oct 28, 2023 – 26:24
First Dates
Oct 21, 2023 – 26:43
George Fenton
Sep 30, 2023 – 32:55
Family Films
Sep 23, 2023 – 25:07
Zoomorphia
Aug 19, 2023 – 21:43
Think Pink
Jul 29, 2023 – 23:19
Destroyer of Worlds
Jul 22, 2023 – 22:53
Stunt Films
Jul 15, 2023 – 29:41
The Elements
Jul 8, 2023 – 19:34
The world of director Wes Anderson
Jun 24, 2023 – 21:47
Films that made an impression
Jun 17, 2023 – 21:42
Chevalier and cinema's ear on the past
Jun 10, 2023 – 27:53
David Lynch
May 27, 2023 – 29:04
Hallyu - The South Korean Wave
May 20, 2023 – 22:44
The Crowded Planet
May 13, 2023 – 23:05
Folk music in films
Apr 29, 2023 – 22:15
The Earth
Apr 22, 2023 – 26:05

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