Matthew Sweet discusses the sounds of cinema's beginnings from the orchestras of big-budget epics to the small bands of the fleapits and discovers how their ghosts haunt us today. Show more
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Novelist Jonathan Coe explores how a joint concert with Arthur Honegger led to composer Miklos Rozsa writing for film, including scores for Ben-Hur, Spellbound and The Lost Weekend. Show more
Academic and social critic Camille Paglia discusses the film scores which have inspired her since childhood, including the work of Bernard Herrmann, John Dankworth and Max Steiner. Show more
Writer and film critic David Thomson explores how film composers create mood and how the best music evokes a place beyond reality. Show more
Matthew Sweet explores silence in film and asks what sounds have been lost because of cinema's increasing reliance on digital technology. Show more