Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music

Stewart Copeland’s Adventures in Music

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Stewart Copeland travels the world asking the question, 'How does music work?'

In a three-part landmark series, Stewart Copeland travels the world meeting composers, musicians, film-makers, DJs and scientists to ask the question, 'How does music work?'

In a three-part landmark series, Stewart Copeland travels the world meeting composers, musicians, film-makers, DJs and scientists to ask the question, 'How does music work?

Stewart Copeland has spent a life in music - listening, composing and playing. At the age of seven he was captivated by Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana'; ‘Something powerful took hold of me, some serious magic.’ Sixty years and twenty-five bands later, including The Police, the spell is still strong. But why? How does music ignite that excitement? What exactly is this thing that brings us together, moves us and binds us, communicates stories like no other art form, and which seemingly has transcendental powers?



Series 1

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Angus Sutherland

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Jez Nelson

Nico Wasserman

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Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music: Series 1: Episode 2

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Stewart Copeland looks at the power of music to tell stories.

Stewart Copeland looks at the power of music to tell stories as he meets film director Francis Ford Coppola, musical duo Ibeyi, folk legend Martin Carthy, rapper Talib Kweli and his old friend Sting.

Stewart Copeland continues his mission to understand how music works by exploring its extraordinary power to tell stories. 

His journey includes meetings with film director Francis Ford Coppola, who explains how simple musical devices transformed the most famous scenes in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, his old friend Sting, who describes the secrets of his songwriting process, rapper Talib Kweli, who looks at the power of music in protest, and the French-Cuban Ibeyi sisters, who show how music has kept the Yoruban tradition alive. Finally, he meets the man who composed one of the shortest but most effective musical stories ever written - the Intel bongs!

Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music: Series 1

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In a three-part landmark series, Stewart Copeland travels the world meeting composers, musicians, film-makers, DJs and scientists to ask the question, 'How does music work?'

Stewart Copeland has spent a life in music - listening, composing and playing. At the age of seven he was captivated by Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana'; ‘Something powerful took hold of me, some serious magic.’ Sixty years and twenty-five bands later, including The Police, the spell is still strong. But why? How does music ignite that excitement? What exactly is this thing that brings us together, moves us and binds us, communicates stories like no other art form, and which seemingly has transcendental powers?

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