Carl Davis introduces the first of two programmes of music composed between the 1930s and the 1950s for films made in Britain, including works by Walton, Arnold, Bax, Britten,
Antony Hopkins , Vaughan Williams and Bliss. Several scores that have not been performed since they were commissioned have been recorded for the programmes. Carl Davis also talks to some of the composers, or people closely associated with them, about the films and the technique of writing film music.
Producer Andrew Mussett
See also tonight 11.30pm