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Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema

Wednesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema

02/10/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinemasearch

With Rob Cowan. Including Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Copland: Suite (The Heiress).

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau; Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Copland: Suite (The Heiress).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Puzzle.

10am
Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.

11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:

Copland: Suite from The Heiress

Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Rob dips into his CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!

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