582: Harry Lighton On The Music Of Pillion
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Now we know Edith said we are going easy on the bonus episodes in 2026, but like all the best new year resolutions, that's gone right up the swanny. Because ... there are simply too many great movies and wonderful creatives around. Case in point - Pillion - written and directed by our latest guest, Harry Lighton. Starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgard, it tells the story of a timid gay man who enters into an adventurous queer relationship with an enigmatic biker.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. How are you? It's Friday. I know, like, wait a minute, what are you doing here? Well, I know I said I was going to go easy on you with the old bonus Epps in 2026, but hey, like all the best New Year's resolutions, that's all gone up this one. |
| 0:17.1 | Because there are simply too many great movies, too many brilliant creative people that I want to talk about around their films, their music, that at the minute, to cover in just one soundtrack in a week, it's not possible. |
| 0:34.6 | Case in point, Pillion, you might have seen about this film, believe all the |
| 0:40.1 | hype, written and directed by our latest guest, Harry Leighton. I have to say thank you to |
| 0:49.0 | Harry, who responded to my kind of random pleas on email and found the time before heading across the Atlantic |
| 0:58.2 | to be swooned by the Americans and celebrate the response that his film is also having over |
| 1:05.4 | there. But the film is a breath of fresh air. It's brave. It's funny. It's honest. It's real. And I just loved it. I thought it was great. |
| 1:17.7 | It tells the story of a timid gay man played by Harry who enters into a, how shall I say this? |
| 1:26.6 | An interesting relationship with an enigmatic biker played by |
| 1:32.4 | Alexander Scarsgaard. As I said, this film is just a breath of fresh air. It's a queer |
| 1:39.6 | rom-com, but with real context and it feels like we're seeing a side of this community that we |
| 1:47.6 | haven't seen portrayed in this way. And thankfully at last, Harry Lighten is doing that. It's scored by |
| 1:55.4 | the wonderful Oliver Cote, who we really must get on the show. Fear not, I've been emailing in |
| 2:00.4 | this week |
| 2:00.9 | I sense another bonus episode coming |
| 2:03.2 | But we will begin |
| 2:05.1 | With the wonderful cue called |
| 2:07.5 | Bikesdale from Olamour |
| 2:09.2 | Music I'm Oh, yeah, oh. Oh. Oh. |
| 2:35.0 | Oh. |
| 2:37.0 | Oh. |
| 2:38.0 | Oh. |
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