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Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Episode 285: Will & Arthur Sharpe On The Music Of The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman

Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6754 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Our first guests of 2022 are two brothers who've formed a formidable creative partnership since being given the opportunity to shine.

Will and Arthur Sharpe have taken on directorial and compositional duties on several joint-projects, with The Electrical Life of Louis Wain their latest collaboration. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, the biopic tells the story of the eccentric artist of the title, who had a particular - and many would say peculiar - affiliation with cats ...

While Will co-wrote and directed the film, Arthur provided the music, and as always you'll hear plenty of it throughout the conversation.

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Hi folks. How are you? Happy New Year! Um, so great. It's really exciting. I don't know how you feel,

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but I'm kind of, I am very happy to see the back of 2021 because for many reasons it's been

0:15.6

atrocious. But for many reasons, we also feel very, very lucky in the fact that we've been able to keep the podcast going and hopefully provide you with a bit of escapism to the real world.

0:27.4

And we want to continue that because we absolutely love making this show.

0:31.9

So happy new year.

0:33.7

Here is to a wonderful 2022 for each and every one of you. I hope it brings you health,

0:41.1

happiness, laughs and giggles and success in whatever it is that you want to do. I'd also like

0:47.5

to say a massive thank you to Ben who works on the show and just makes it wonderful to listen to and everything else he does as well

0:56.6

apart from that. Also to everyone who helps us facilitate all our wonderful guests, that be

1:03.4

film companies, PR companies, publicists and friends, social media. So thank you so much to everybody who's helped us get our guests this year.

1:13.6

Thanks to all our guests from 2021.

1:16.8

You have been brilliant and honest and entertaining.

1:21.3

Thank you so much.

1:22.3

We really appreciate you giving us your time and sharing your stories with us.

1:26.6

And thanks to you, our audience, for listening

1:28.8

because we really appreciate your feedback and we really appreciate you taking the time to

1:33.5

listen to us. So thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. But here is to a new year.

1:38.6

And our first guest of 2022. Oh my God. Can't believe I'm saying that. Anyway, our first guests of 2022 are two brothers

1:48.6

who formed a formidable creative partnership since being given the opportunity to shine. Will

1:54.7

and Arthur Sharp have taken on directorial and compositional duties on several joint projects

2:00.1

with the electrical life of Louis Wayne,

2:03.6

their latest collaboration. Now, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, amongst an

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