The Music of Nicolas Cage
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is a new film, with music by Mark Isham, in which actor Nicolas Cage not only appears but plays the part of himself. Matthew offers this as an excuse to sift th...
23 Apr 202220min
Bruce Broughton
Matthew meets Bruce Broughton, Hollywood composer of Silverado, The Young Sherlock Holmes and Lost in Space, for a look back at his career in film music.
16 Apr 202229min
Feast
The subject this week is food as Matthew examines big screen kitchens and lavish gourmet meals to mark the release of a movie about Julia Child and a new Rachel Portman score.
9 Apr 202223min
Germaine Franco and Encanto
Matthew Sweet talks to Germaine Franco, the first female composer to score a Disney animated feature, 'Encanto', which is nominated for best Original Score at this weekend’s Academy Awards. Matthew in...
26 Mar 202229min
Everybody Wants to Be a Cat
Matthew Sweet ponders the relationship between cinema and cats and features some of its best film feline scores including Roy Webb’s ‘Cat People’, Danny Elfman’s music for Catwoman in ‘Batman Returns’...
19 Mar 202222min
The Modern TV Score
With the arrival of the big budget series for TV and streaming, scoring has undergone a transformation in recent years. Matthew focuses on writing scores for the small screen. There's music from 'Doct...
12 Mar 202219min
The Wit to Woo
With Joe Wright's new film out, inspired by the fictional Cyrano de Bergerac and with a score by Bryce and Aaron Dressner, Matthew looks at films that explore the art of wooing. He introduces music b...
26 Feb 202223min
Bruce Broughton
'Young Sherlock Holmes', 'Silverado', 'Tombstone', 'Lost In Space' are just a few of the films scored by Matthew Sweet's guest, the Hollywood composer Bruce Broughton. Bruce looks back on his career i...
19 Feb 202227min
