Hi folks, how you doing? I hope this finds you well. I'm recording this on Sunday night,

the 27th of April. I've just interviewed Son Lux, who some of you will know from everything everywhere

all at once, and soon to be heard as the composers for Marvel's Thunderbolts, which is brilliant.

Oh my God, it's so good. So yeah, I've just literally finished chatting to

them from L.A. and looking forward to sharing that chat along with the director, Jake Schreier,

as well. So a nice bumper thunderbolts episode on the way. Also, I was at a lovely little festival

film festival called Sands, the International Film Festival of St Andrews, up in my homeland, very close to where I grew up in Anstrother.

And this is an incredible little festival that has been running for the last three or four years, and it was set up by none other than the Russo brothers.

I know.

And so yesterday I hosted a really inspiring session with Joe Russo, Joe and Anthony Russo's sister, Angela Russo-Otsdott,

and then also writer and director Frankie Flowers, who most recently did the One Love Bob Marley film.

But it was so great.

It was so small.

And in fact, as I'm recording this, their closing film is Tornado, the new film from John McLean that I'm so excited to see. So yeah, there's loads

been going on. It's been a very busy and brilliant and exciting and inspiring weekend that

will feed into this podcast at some way, shape or form. Now, as we like to do as often as possible

on soundtrack and we are celebrating an independent film this week.

First up, we'll have directors Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard and then musicians,

Emiliana Turini and Simon Bert. Join me to discuss their collaboration on the esoteric

gem, The Extraordinary Miss Flower. The picture is quite hard to describe, if I want it, honest, but basically it's inspired

by behind the scenes friend of the show, the wonderful Zoe Flower, who discovered a suitcase

full of her late mother Geraldine's letters, which suggested that Geraldine had led a much

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