Great Film Scores Live

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.7 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2011

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode are joined by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, for a special performance of extracts from popular film scores. From Star Trek to Taxi Driver and The Godfather to Blue Velvet, via the James Bond Theme and the Magnificent Seven, Simon and Mark look at what's turned these pieces into evocative classics and why music is so important in film. Conductor Robert Ziegler explains what makes a great film score, and how they are composed, and Mark gets out his harmonica to perform the signature theme tune to Midnight Cowboy, composed by John Barry in 1969. We find out whether you have voted for the Philharmonic to close the programme with the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark or Jaws. In the second hour, Mark reviews the week's new releases including the Kung Fu Panda sequel, Mother's Day, Honey 2, Kaboom, Point Blank, and Got to Run. Plus your emails, texts and tweets, and the latest cinema top ten. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wittertainment.

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0:00.0	On digital and online.
0:02.4	This is BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:05.1	Camoed and Mayo's film review.
0:09.6	Hello and welcome to another Whittitaining podcast.
0:12.9	I'm Simon and he's Mark and this week we're in a booth.
0:16.3	We're in a booth in Solford because this week's programme
0:19.8	comes live from the new home of the BBC Philharmonic in Solford
0:24.6	and it is a musically-based, musically-themed programme,
0:28.4	isn't it, son?
0:29.1	I should say that the booth has a label on the door.
0:30.9	It says BBC Philharmonic Announcer.
0:33.4	Because in this world, they still have announcers,
0:37.0	which I think is really rather good.
0:38.4	Yes.
0:38.9	You actually announce something and then back off
0:40.7	and go and have lunch.
0:42.1	Do you think that when you do that,
0:43.1	you have to do the thing they do in the King's Speech
0:44.6	about the handspan to get you the right distance
0:46.7	to open handspan?
0:47.7	It's double handspan.
0:48.7	But if we did that, I'd be back here and it would sound.
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