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Sound of Cinema: ... Yours faithfully

... Yours faithfully

Sound of Cinema

BBC Radio 3 - Sound of Cinema, ... Yours faithfully

Matthew Sweet explores the world of film music

With the release of the bio-pic Vita & Virginia this week, Matthew Sweet reflects on the epistolary film - movies inspired by the exchange of letters.

With the release of the bio-pic ‘Vita & Virginia’ this week, inspired by the correspondence of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Matthew Sweet reflects on the epistolary film - movies inspired by the exchange of letters.

The programme features music from ‘Broadway Melody on 1938’; ‘The Lake House’; ‘Letters to Juliet’; ‘Message In A Bottle’; ‘The Shop Around The Corner’; ‘You’ve Got Mail’; ‘84 Charing Cross Road’; ‘The Shawshank Redemption’; ‘Atonement’; ‘The Letter’ (1940); ‘Dangerous Liaisons’; ‘The Color Purple”; ‘Possession’ (2002) and ‘Vita & Virginia’.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen

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