Episode 247: Nicholas Britell On The Music Of The Underground Railroad

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is one our our faves - a supremely talented composer and all-round top fella, returning to the podcast for a third time.

As ever, Nicholas Britell's services are in high demand - and he's been keeping pretty busy during the pandemic and beyond Not only has he scored Barry Jenkins's new Amazon Prime series, The Underground Railroad, but he's also penned the music for Cruella and the forthcoming season 3 of Succession among other things.

As always, you'll hear plenty of Nicholas's music sprinkled throughout, illustrating the discussion.

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0:29.9	Hello, hello. How are you all? Just one quick question before we crack on with this
0:35.0	episode. Have any of you ventured to the cinema yet?
0:39.2	Yes, I have.
0:41.0	I was lucky enough to get to a preview screening of Quiet Place 2 this week
0:45.9	at Cineworld in Leicester Square on their massive IMAX.
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0:52.3	It was so, so wonderful. And this weekend, I am going to take my kids,
0:57.1	not once but twice, to a couple of little local cinemas and need us in Gloucestershire. So I'm very
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