Well, good day to you. How are you? I hope this finds you well. I hope you had a great weekend.

Thanks so much for choosing to listen to soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman.

It is a pleasure to have you with us and also a pleasure in the fact that we are at a very exciting time in cinema

with two particular films that are doing all kinds of brilliant things

to encourage us all into the cinema.

Now, I did witness the double bill of Barbie and Oppenheimer

on the same day.

I did Barbie first, then I did Oppenheimer,

and I could have quite easily gone round and done the whole thing again.

You might have already taken a listen to last week's episode

with the fabulous Greta Gerwig.

If you haven't, please do so.

Her craft and enthusiasm and intelligence and wit at our own show in our chat as she talks

about Barbie. I should also see that for this brand new episode which was recorded before the

sagstrike began, it is with the legend that is Christopher Nolan.

Now, criminally, it's the first opportunity that I've had to speak to him on the podcast.

That's not to say that his work hasn't been talked about at grey length, whether that's with

his composers, Hans Zimmer and Ludwig Gorensen and many others.

So it was an absolute joy to welcome him to discuss Oppenheimer.

Now, I love the kind of cerebral nature of Christopher Nolan's films.

I think that he will go down in history as being one of the greats.

I think he's one of them already. He's

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