579: Claire Foy On H Is For Hawk
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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It's bonus time here again on Soundtracking, as actor Claire Foy joins us to discuss her starring role in H Is For Hawk. Based on Helen Macdonald's incredibly moving memoir, it tells the story of how they cope with the grief of losing their beloved father by forming an unlikely friendship with a stubborn goshawk called Mabel.
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, folks. I say good afternoon because I'm recording this on Thursday afternoon |
| 0:04.5 | ahead of releasing this into your ears. Welcome along to a bonus episode, bonus time again, |
| 0:11.9 | here on soundtracking. I hope we've had a great week. Whether you've had the chance to get |
| 0:17.3 | along to the cinema, there feels like there's a real kind of intent of people wanting to get to the cinema |
| 0:24.6 | because there's so much great stuff around to go and check out whether that be things like |
| 0:29.9 | Hamnet. |
| 0:30.6 | I know that one battle after another is going back into cinemas. |
| 0:34.1 | You might have seen Pilling, which is definitely worth seeing. |
| 0:38.0 | Is this thing on the new Bradley Cooper films coming up? |
| 0:40.9 | History of Sound. |
| 0:42.6 | And also the film that we're about to talk about today. |
| 0:45.0 | The film is called H is for Hawk. |
| 0:47.7 | And it stars the wonderful Claire Foy, |
| 0:50.6 | who joins us to discuss her starring role in the film. |
| 0:54.7 | I just wanted to point out, |
| 0:55.9 | I don't know if you can hear the beautiful tones of a piano being played in the background. |
| 1:01.9 | That's because I'm recording this at home. |
| 1:03.9 | My husband is downstairs writing in his, I say studio, it's just a room in our house. |
| 1:10.2 | So sometimes we have to target him when |
| 1:12.8 | things are going on. And he's in the middle of something so I can't tell him to, shh, because that |
| 1:18.4 | would be rude. Anyway, let's get back to Claire Foy. So H is for Hawk is based on Helen |
| 1:24.7 | McDonald's incredibly moving memoir. And it tells the story of how they cope with |
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