558: Edgar Wright On The Music Of The Running Man
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Edgar makes a welcome return to Soundtracking to discuss his take on Stephen King's novel, The Running Man. Very much not a remake of the 1987 movie, it remains faithful to King's novel, and features an incredible array of needle drops to compliment Steven Price's score. This is the first of two bonus episodes with total legends in quick succession. Tune in to find out who's next ...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks. How are you doing? It's Friday. Well, it'll be Friday when you're listening to this. |
| 0:06.0 | I hope you've had a good week. Hope you've managed to visit a cinema. There is so much around at the |
| 0:12.4 | minute as well. So I hope you've had a chance to pop in and spend a little time on your own or |
| 0:19.9 | with some friends or a loved one at front of a big screen |
| 0:22.4 | and immerse yourself in incredible storytelling. My mum and dad, I spoke to them last night |
| 0:27.5 | and they went along to a new little cinema that's reopened in St Andrews, my hometown, |
| 0:32.6 | well, near my hometown anyway. They went along to see the Bruce Springsteen film, Springsteen, delivered me |
| 0:38.8 | from nowhere. They loved it. So I had a really nice conversation with them about that last night. |
| 0:44.1 | I love that. I love when you or someone comes out at the cinema, they want to have a conversation |
| 0:48.0 | about it. So yeah, I hope you've been able to do that yourself. We have something for the weekend, this fine Friday for you on |
| 0:56.6 | soundtracking, as we have not one, but two very special episodes with two very special gentlemen, |
| 1:05.6 | both returning to soundtracking, I'm proud to say. First up, Edgar Wright, who is back for, I think, |
| 1:14.5 | the fourth time to discuss his take on Stephen King's novel, The Running Man. Then we are going |
| 1:23.5 | to drop a conversation with none other than Johnny Greenwood. |
| 1:27.8 | I know. Pinch me. I was actually on my way into a cinema, the Battersea Power Station |
| 1:34.5 | Cinema, to host a Q&A with Chase Infinity, who plays Willa in one battle after another. |
| 1:41.4 | And as I was going up the escalator, so check in my emails, never off. |
| 1:45.7 | And in my inbox popped an email of Johnny Gwayne, went, literally nearly fell off the escalator. |
| 1:52.6 | And he emailed me on Monday to say that he had a little window of time between radio head duties |
| 1:58.7 | to have a chat about his latest collaboration with Paul Thomas |
| 2:02.6 | Anderson on one battle after another. So I'm really excited to share that with you a little bit |
| 2:08.7 | later on. So that'll be coming in the next hour or so maybe. But now it is Edgar's time. Starring |
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