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The As a drummer for one of the most successful, respected and critically acclaimed bands, he's thrilled music lovers across the planet for a quarter of a century.

Now, Philip Selway of Radiohead has turned his hands to film scores taking charge of the music for Polly Steele's debut feature, Let Me Go.

Based on the memoir of Helga Schneider,

Let Me Go tells the story of a woman who discovers her mother

had strong ties with the Nazis many years after she was abandoned by her as a child.

It features four incredibly strong and well-drawn female characters,

which inspired Philip's compositions in all

sorts of fascinating ways. I'm Edith Bowman and you're listening to Soundtracking, a podcast about

screen music that has, we're very proud to say just been nominated for four British Radio

Academy Awards. Thank you. Now, Philip is the first of our guests who spends

most of his time being a rock star, albeit a particularly humble and unassuming one. As such,

we will not only explore the specifics of his score for Let Me Go, but also the different creative

challenges it posed to those he encounters in his day job.

And that's kind of where we began, or at least very quickly arrived,

accompanied by examples of his cues from the film.

Philip, welcome to soundtracking.

This is exciting because this is a new thing for you, or is it?

Very much a new thing for me, actually. Yeah, this was my first soundtrack.

You know, we've done stuff in the band, but actually getting completely stuck into a project, more or less from its earlier incarnations.

Yeah. So, yeah, it's been incredible.

It's been a huge learning curve to do it.

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