584: Emerald Fennell On The Music OF Wuthering Heights
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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After Bradley Cooper netted his hat-trick a couple of weeks back, Emerald Fennell becomes the latest guest to take the Soundtracking match ball home, as she joins us for a third time - on this occasion to discuss her thrilling adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Based on Emily Bronte's classic novel, it stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi and has all the wit and subversiveness one has come to expect from Emerald's work.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, how are you? Welcome along to another episode of soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you so much for joining me. It is great to have your company and I'm going to dive straight in if that's |
| 0:13.2 | okay. After Bradley Cooper netted his hat trick a couple of weeks back, Emerald Fennell becomes the |
| 0:19.6 | latest guest to take the soundtrack and |
| 0:23.0 | matchball home. I think we should have some kind of merch for this. I'm going to think about that. |
| 0:28.1 | Any suggestions? Email me. Info at edithbowman.com. Anyway, Emerald joins me for her third time |
| 0:36.6 | on this occasion to discuss her thrilling and beautiful adaptation of Wuthering Heights. |
| 0:44.8 | Based on Emily Bronte's classic novel, and I say based on it, it's, well, it stars Margarobi and Jacob Allordy and has all the wit and subversiveness one has come to |
| 0:56.8 | expect from Emerald for now. What I love about this film is that you can absolutely feel Emerald's |
| 1:05.2 | experience of reading this book for the first time and that is the film she wanted to make. |
| 1:10.2 | When she was 14 and she read this book for the first time, this is the film she wanted to make. When she was 14 and she |
| 1:11.5 | read this book for the first time, this is how she saw it. You'll hear her talk about it in much |
| 1:15.7 | better detail than that. But do not go in expecting the weather and heights of past. I've |
| 1:21.3 | already been told over and over again. Do not expect a kind of word for word interpretation. That is not what you are in for. |
| 1:31.3 | You are in for a transportative experience through Emerald's vision, through these performances, |
| 1:38.6 | through all the choices that has been made by every creative department. Now it's scored by Anthony Willis, |
| 1:48.3 | who is Emerald's long-time kind of composing collaborator. But as you well know, Charlie XX has |
| 1:56.0 | also been involved in the music of this film. But we are going to start with Anthony's Q, Thrush Cross Mirage. |
| 2:04.5 | Music The I'm so excited to talk to you about music with this film. |
| 2:52.9 | And the first thing I want to ask you is, |
| 2:55.1 | what was the music you were listening to when you read the book? |
| 2:58.9 | So when I read the book, |
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