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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

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Robert Powell and Amanda Donohoe with readings celebrating cinema set alongside music.

With the Academy Awards given out today, the literary sequence turns to the movies alongside the sounds of Erich Korngold and Max Steiner, John Williams, John Adams and Poulenc.

Bogey, Marilyn, Laurel and Hardy, Judy Garland and Fred Astaire all make an appearance in today's programme celebrating the movies as the Academy Awards are handed out this weekend. The programme include poems by Anthony Brode, Sharon Olds, Jack Mitchell and Roger McGough and prose by Raymond Chandler, Katherine Mansfield and F Scott Fitzgerald.  The music draws from Max Steiner's score for Casablanca, vintage Erich Korngold, Bernard Herrmann; songs by Elizabeth Lutyens and Francis Poulenc, and film inspired music for the concert hall by John Adams, Charles Koechlin and Arnold Schoenberg. The Kinks look back to their Celluloid Heroes and there's Hitchcock inspired music by Danny Elfman and from John Williams's Star Wars.

The readers are no strangers to the world of film - Robert Powell and Amanda Donohoe. 

Producer Chris Wines

You can now find a playlist on the Free Thinking website Film on Radio 3: music, history, classics of world cinema
From Matthew Sweet on soundtracks to star performers through films which have created an impact to old favourites including programmes on Marlene Dietrich, Asta Neilsen, Jacques Tati, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Satyajit Ray, The Tin Drum, Touki Bouki, Kurosawa, Dziga Vertov, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh, Spike Lee. Plus Radio 3's regular exploration of the Sound of Cinema and classic cinema scores.

Readings:
I Lost My Girlish Laughter by Jane Allen
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Movie by Ken Shapiro
The Last Tycoon by F Scott Fitzgerald
Pictures by Katherine Mansfield
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster 
Bogey by Lee L Berkson
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Death of Marilyn Monroe by Sharon Olds
Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
Sunday Observance by Anthony Brode
Leytonstone by Stephen Volk
Cinema Exit by Richard Aldington
If Life’s A Lousy Picture Why Not Leave Before The End? by Roger McGough

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