Oh, well, good evening. Well, I say good evening. That's because as I'm recording this, it's 9 o'clock on Thursday night. And I've just got back from going to the theatre with my friend Millie. We went to see Good Night, Oscar, at the Barbican. What a wonderful place the Barbican is. I love the theatre at the Barbican. And we watched Sean Hayes and the rest of the cast be extraordinary in this play

about, I mean, he's a composer. He was many things, actually. And what's so fantastic about the

show is that Sean, who plays Oscar, Sean Hayes plays Oscar, obviously he's an amazing pianist.

And so we get an element of that

performance as well. But one of the things that I loved about it, one of the many things I loved

about the show was that in the part of it where Sean's playing the piano, he's obviously in

character and it's such an insight into the character in that particular part of the performance.

It's very, very good.

Quite like them to make it into a film. And also it has very topical tone to it because it's based

around this character, Oscar, who has issues with drug addiction and alcohol abuse. And it's set

in the 50s, I want say and the kind of start of that

whole kind of late night talk show thing and there's a whole kind of thematic element to it

about censorship which could not be more fitting with regards to the atrocious news that

Jimmy Kimmel's been pulled off air it's's awful. It felt so kind of relevant to today and kind of scary as well on the fact that those conversations were going on back then and where are we, you know, 70 years later and those conversations are still being had. Anyway, if you get the chance, I don't think the run is very much long left, but if you do get the chance, if it goes anywhere else in the world, go and watch Sean Hayes be extraordinary in Good Night Oscar.

But let's get into soundtrack and shall we?

And thank you so much for listening. This is bonus time again. And when I say bonus, it's like bonus bonus, basically,

because we've got not one but two episodes relating to the music,

the wonderful music of Darren Aronofsky's Ritis and Darkly comic thriller Cotsie Lynn.

We're going to drop the episode featuring composer Rob Simonson shortly, but first, it is the turn of the wonderful Joe Talbot from Idols, who collaborated with Rob and the score and also provided original songs for the film.

If you listen to the episode with Darren that we put up a couple of weeks ago,

you'll have a really kind of better understanding of that whole dynamic,

which was so fascinating, so unique and so fitting for the film. And I am so thrilled to share these conversations with you.

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