Hello and welcome to another episode of soundtracking with me, Edith Bowman, my weekly podcast

about film and music. Now, for those of you with good hearing, you may well hear a little

bit of musical rumble in the background. Let me paint the scene for you because as recording

this, I am in Glasgow hosting the country to country, Glasgow end of the festival anyway for Radio 2.

So it's been a whole weekend of amazing music.

Country just really dips its tone in so many genres.

So it's been really great to immerse myself in this world.

There's a fiddle player outside this production office

who's warming up for his

performance. So yeah, if you can hear that on the background, I just wanted to let you know why

that was. It's got nothing to do with what we've got on this week's show, but just, I don't know,

it's quite nice that this is a podcast where we talk about music and there's music in the background.

But our guest this week is none other than Max Richter, composer extraordinaire,

who's provided the music for Adam Sandler and Kerry Mulligan's new film, Space Man.

It's directed by Johann Renk and it tells a story of a Czech astronaut

who's sent to the end of the solar system and encounter as a creature that helps sort out his issues back on Earth.

Now, the idea that this is a kind of sci-fi film, for me, it kind of crosses so many genres.

But one thing that it does do is it gives us the opportunity to see Adam Sandler in those roles kind of outside that comedy box that we see him in and enjoy him in so much.

You know, when I think of things like the Safdey Brothers film or Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love, I love seeing Adam Sandler in those roles.

And this is another example of this.

There's definitely a bit of dark comedy in there particularly with this creature that I talk about that's voiced by Paul Dano and even though it's

set in the kind of the outreaches of space it's got such a personal story really because it's really

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