A very good morning to you, folks. It's very early on a Friday morning. Hence why my voice

may be particularly deep and gravelly, because it hasn't properly woken up yet. But it's a pleasure

to be back with you and it's a pleasure to have a bonus episode again. Thanks, Ben. Here on

Soundtracking. We've got got director Jay Roach and writer Tony McNamara,

who join me to discuss their collaboration on The Roses, a reimagining of the classic

1989 black comedy, The War of the Roses. Now just before we get to our guests for today, a big release

that hits cinemas today is down to Nabi. It's the finale, apparently, of the saga, which

continued, I think, 12 years ago on TV and has had the most extraordinary journey. I was lucky enough to catch up with

Simon Curtis the director and a whole gaggle of the cast which you can go and watch in all

its glory across on our YouTube channel which is soundtrack and extra including Mr Carson. It was just

brilliant actually catching up with them all.

So there's a big old chat with Simon Curtis and also with some of the cast across on our YouTube channel, soundtrack and extra.

Now, Simon Curtis, the director who directed the last film and then this new one, Downton Abbey, the grand finale.

But he's not been part of the creative team since the

start. Someone who has is in fact the composer John Lund, which was interesting because I wanted to

talk to Simon about how he pulled through John's music for character and narrative from the

start of downtown Abbey into this film. The music's almost like a character.

Absolutely.

I'd lucky because in fact, Gareth named the producer John and I

worked together pre-Dountain on 20,000 streets under the sky.

And so I was always very fond of him and adored his music.

And when we did this film, we were talking about what new score there would be.

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