Saturday 28th September 2013
| Hello: a Portrait of Leslie Phillips |
Documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the life of legendary actor Leslie Phillips, whose 75-year career has covered every medium and even embraced Twitter.
| Sound of Cinema: Chaplin and Music |
Charlie Chaplin's role as a pioneering actor, comedian and film maker we know. Less well known is his work as a film composer. Although he could not read music, he worked very closely with music collaborators, singing ideas and giving advice about instrumentation. Matthew Sweet explores the importance of music in Chaplin's creative life and the crucial role it played in his films.
| Saturday Classics: Sound of Cinema |
The iconic English actor Terence Stamp was introduced to classical music during the 1960s by his friend Michael Caine. But his musical influences stem from his East End childhood, films that he saw and an early trip with his aunt to see Bizet's Carmen at Sadlers Wells. The result is that he is a passionate lover of classical music. In this special "Sound of Cinema" edition of Saturday Classics he presents two hours of his favourite music including works by the film composer Alfred Newman, by Delibes, Borodin, Rodrigo. Dick Barton makes an appearance, as do Jimi Hendrix and KD Lang, all linked one way or another, to Terence Stamp's distinguished life and career.
| Sound of Cinema |
Matthew Sweet presents the first of a weekly series of programmes celebrating
film music, and with the re-release of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man there's a
heady mix about life in the British countryside in today's selection.
Friday 27th September sees the re-release of Robin Hardy's cult British film The Wicker Man. On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, Matthew Sweet looks back at the film's imaginative score - which Christopher Lee described as being some of the best music he's heard in a film - and takes it as a springboard to explore film music which evokes the uneasy and sometimes sinister side of British rural life, as portrayed in the music for the screen.
Featured scores include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from 1973 with music by Ron Goodwin; Witchfinder General from 1968 with music by Paul Ferris; James Bernard's music for the 1957 Hound of the Baskervilles; Erich Korngold's music for The Adventures of Robin Hood; William Walton's music for Went The Day Well; Marc Wilkinson's score for Blood On Satan's Claw; Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust; Patrick Doyle's music for Brave; and Jim Williams's music for the 2013 film A Field in England.
Friday 27th September sees the re-release of Robin Hardy's cult British film The Wicker Man. On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, Matthew Sweet looks back at the film's imaginative score - which Christopher Lee described as being some of the best music he's heard in a film - and takes it as a springboard to explore film music which evokes the uneasy and sometimes sinister side of British rural life, as portrayed in the music for the screen.
Featured scores include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from 1973 with music by Ron Goodwin; Witchfinder General from 1968 with music by Paul Ferris; James Bernard's music for the 1957 Hound of the Baskervilles; Erich Korngold's music for The Adventures of Robin Hood; William Walton's music for Went The Day Well; Marc Wilkinson's score for Blood On Satan's Claw; Ilan Eshkeri's Stardust; Patrick Doyle's music for Brave; and Jim Williams's music for the 2013 film A Field in England.
Sunday 29th September 2013
| Secret Voices of Hollywood |
In many of Hollywood's greatest movie musicals the stars did not sing their own songs. This documentary pulls back the curtain to reveal the secret world of the 'ghost singers' who provided the vocals, the screen legends who were dubbed and the classic movies in which the songs were ghosted.
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Monday 30th September 2013
Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm
| Sound of Cinema: John Williams |
John Williams talks to Donald Macleod about a date with a young rookie director that changed movie history. Williams discusses the lunch meeting with Steven Spielberg in 1972 that precipitated one of the cinema's greatest partnerships - as well as introducing his pioneering score to Spielberg's "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind".
Before that, we hear about Williams's early life in jazz, working with Henry Mancini and André Previn, and composing big band jazz scores for television - including the detective drama Checkmate. The composer discusses his experiences in the hothouse film and TV studios of the 1960s, and introduces his score to the TV film Jane Eyre, for which he visited the Yorkshire Dales.
The programme ends with the first of a series of Williams's concert works - the pungently dissonant, Bartók-tinged Flute Concerto from 1969.
| The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet |
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Tuesday 1st October 2013
Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm
| Sound of Cinema: John Williams |
| The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet |
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Wednesday 2nd October 2013
| The Culture Show: Jon Ronson Meets Malcolm Gladwell - Beware the Underdog |
Malcolm Gladwell is about to publish a book. He's done it four times before, and whenever it happens huge things occur: Millions of copies get sold, world leaders take note, catchy phrases infiltrate our language and millions of us are moved by his inspiring stories and big powerful ideas.
Jon Ronson goes head to head with The Tipping Point author in his New York home to talk about his latest work. 'David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants' seeks to shake our faith in what it means to have the upper hand. In it Gladwell argues we get advantage and disadvantage the wrong way round. Being dyslexic, losing a parent in childhood, being bombed, shot at, marginalized... can all be turned to good, according to his latest optimistic tome.
In this candid and revealing confrontation, one thing comes clear... Giants beware: underdogs can surprise you when they make good the advantages that stem from a traumatic start.
| Unreliable Evidence: Instant Justice |
A sharp rise in the use of on the spot fines, penalty notices for disorder, cautioning, and other "out of court disposals" has raised concerns that the criminal justice system is being circumvented and undermined.
More than 50% of all offences are now dealt with outside of the courts. Clive Anderson brings together leading lawyers, a senior magistrate and a chief constable to discuss the developments.
Penalty notices for disorder and fixed penalty notices mean police and other officials can bypass time-consuming and costly court cases for less serious offences, but they are also able to "find people guilty" and mete out punishment without legal checks and balances. According to some critics, criminal offences such as harassment and disorderly conduct are being dealt with "like a parking ticket".
The number of on-the-spot fines issued by public authorities has increased 16-fold in the last decade, for offences such as leafleting and dog-fouling, and the number of fixed penalty notices issued by police, local authorities and schools has also increased dramatically. Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has initiated a consultation about the frequent and inconsistent use of police cautions, often for very serious offences.
What does it mean for justice in Britain when criminal offences which were once tried in a court room are now dealt with on-the-spot, with the "offenders" unable to argue their case, or the public able to see justice done? And to what extent do these untested "crimes" lay on a police computer, accessible during CRB checks?
Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm
| Sound of Cinema: John Williams |
| The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet |
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Thursday 3rd October 2013
| Bargains in the Sun: Tonight |
Jonathan Maitland asks whether the time is right to start buying into the seemingly resurgent property markets in Greece, Spain, and other countries that were popular with Brits looking for holiday homes prior to the economic downturn in the Eurozone.
Sound of Cinema
Radio 3, 11.00am - 12.00pm
| Sound of Cinema: John Williams |
| The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet |
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Friday 4th October 2013
| Sound of Cinema |
| Sound of Cinema: John Williams |
| The Essay: Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet |
Radio 3, 10.45pm - 11.00pm
