578: Oliver Hermanus, Paul Mescal & Josh O'Connor Discuss The History Of Sound
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Our latest guests on Soundtracking are Oliver Hermanus, Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, respectively the director and leading men in Oliver's beautiful new film, The History Of Sound. Based on two short stories by Ben Shattuck, who also wrote the screenplay, it follows the story of two men who meet at the New England Conservatory Of Music in 1917, and subsequently travel together recording the folk songs of their compatriots in 1920's America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi folks. How are you? I hope you've had a good weekend. You find me on a Sunday evening. |
| 0:05.5 | Everyone has been fed and watered. The board has been reset for a new week. Everybody's got lots of |
| 0:11.6 | things going on as I'm sure you do. But I wanted to make sure that I got this ready for you guys to listen |
| 0:16.7 | to as we started a new week. Just before I dive into this week's episode, |
| 0:22.7 | had a little flurry of emails, which is really, really nice. |
| 0:25.9 | If you'd like to get in touch with us, |
| 0:27.8 | info at edith bowman.com is the email address. |
| 0:31.2 | If you want to get in touch with anything really, |
| 0:34.3 | suggestions for episodes telling us your favorite episode. Here's another thing as well. |
| 0:39.0 | With it been our 10th birthday this year, we're starting to think of ways that we can celebrate. |
| 0:43.6 | So maybe you could give us some suggestions on what you'd like to see us do to celebrate the fact that soundtracking this August will be 10. |
| 0:51.8 | How amazing is that we are so proud of it. |
| 0:54.5 | Also, just a shout out to those people getting in touch on social media as well |
| 0:57.7 | with some love for some of the episodes that have gone out over the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:01.8 | A lot of you've been to see the Bone Temple over the weekend, |
| 1:04.8 | the latest chapter in the 28 franchise. |
| 1:08.5 | This one directed by Nia de Costa, written by Alex Garland. Thank you so much for the |
| 1:13.1 | love for that episode with Nia. I've really, really enjoyed catching up with her. I'm really hoping |
| 1:17.9 | to try and get time with Hilda to talk about their collaboration both on 28 years later, the |
| 1:24.9 | Bone Temple and also Heda as well. So thank you for the love on that episode as well. |
| 1:30.9 | Also, it was really beautiful to see sentimental value get so much love at the European Film Awards over the weekend. |
| 1:39.6 | Kind of swept the board, to be honest. |
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