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From the Edinburgh International Book Festival: author Val McDermid and film critic Mark Kermode

Film critic Mark Kermode discusses his new book on film music, and crime writer Val McDermid chats about her new play inspired by the death of playwright Christopher Marlowe.

We can’t imagine films like Jaws, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park and the Exorcist without their characteristic themes; the score or the soundtrack makes or breaks how we feel about a film. Film critic Mark Kermode discusses his new book on the subject, Mark Kermode’s Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music, together with its co-author, award-winning audio producer Jenny Nelson.

Best-selling crime author Val McDermid discusses turning her forensic eye on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Elizabethan playwright and Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe in her new play, And Midnight Never Come, which is having a script-in-hand reading at the Book Festival this year.

30 minutes

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Aug 2025 15:30