Sound of Cinema Podcast
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen
UK Only
Episodes to download
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Decadence
Sat 21 Jan 2023
With Babylon now in cinemas, Matthew Sweet looks at the theme of decadence in the movies.
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Second Chance
Sat 31 Dec 2022
Matthew Sweet looks at the music of films that offer their protagonists redemption.
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And then there were nuns!
Sat 29 Oct 2022
Matthew Sweet looks at how the world of the convent has inspired cinema.
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Tom Holkenborg
Sat 10 Sep 2022
Featuring the brilliant, classically trained Dutch composer Tom Holkenborg a.k.a. JunkieXL
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Lalo Schifrin at 90
Sat 20 Aug 2022
Matthew Sweet looks back on the career of Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin.
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The Connoisseurs
Sat 13 Aug 2022
Matthew considers film and film music under the wider context of the connoisseur.
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Stranger Things about the Eighties
Sat 30 Jul 2022
Matthew Sweet with music for film that captured a decade.
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Viking gods
Sat 9 Jul 2022
The score for Thor: Love and Thunder sets Matthew thinking about Viking gods in films.
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Sound of Vangelis
Sat 25 Jun 2022
Matthew Sweet looks at the extraordinary output of Vangelis who has recently died.
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Star Trekkin'...
Sat 18 Jun 2022
Matthew Sweet celebrates the music of the Star Trek movie franchise.
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Stop Motion
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Matthew Sweet looks at animating the inanimate and the role that music plays.
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Wings
Sat 28 May 2022
Matthew turns his thoughts to film music that explores our sky-borne aspirations.
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Lesley Barber
Sat 21 May 2022
Lesley Barber talks to Matthew Sweet about her career composing music for films.
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The Multiverse
Sat 14 May 2022
Matthew Sweet features music from movies that engage with the multidimensional multiverse.
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Cabaret
Sat 30 Apr 2022
Fifty years on from Cabaret, Matthew looks at representations of Berlin's 'Weimar Years'.
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The Music of Nicolas Cage
Sat 23 Apr 2022
Matthew sifts through the underscore to Nicolas Cage's career.
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Bruce Broughton
Sat 16 Apr 2022
Matthew meets Hollywood composer Bruce Broughton for a look back at his career in film.
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Germaine Franco and Encanto
Sat 26 Mar 2022
Hollywood composer Germaine Franco on her Academy Award-nominated score for Encanto.
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The Modern TV Score
Sat 12 Mar 2022
Scoring music for series with big budgets on small screens for TV and streaming services.
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Moon River: The story of the 1962 Oscars Best Song winner
"Wherever you're going, I'm going your way..."
