Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a special

episode of the Film Stories podcast. Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

In movies, movies that had stories. That the story just sucks a man. This is just the beginning.

We would be honored if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew.

As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

The aim of the podcast though, well, I'm here to talk of the stories of films and I tend to talk about development stories,

production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the bits and bobs really that go to make

the films that we know and sometimes love. Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love.

Now what you've happened upon here is one of my occasional special episodes of the podcast.

I really love doing these.

This is where I get someone from the filmmaking world in, get to spend half an hour chuntering

to them about their film work and their background and their own film stories.

And I'm really, really thrilled for this episode to be joined by a film composer whose work I just love, Patrick Doyle.

Now Patrick Doyle has done film scores as broad and wide as sense and sensibility, Carlito's Way.

Henry V, he's worked extensively with Kenneth Branagh. And in fact, it was his latest collaboration with Kenneth Branagh on the fact it was his latest collaboration with

Kenneth Branagh on the film Death on the Nile that we were here to talk about although as

you were about to find out the conversation went off all over the place really as we discussed

the breadth of his film work a couple of notes just heading into the interview. I quote at one point, a separate interview

that I've been done with Doyle and I use a quote from that. And just to give you the source of that,

that was from the website popdisciple.com where there is an excellent interview with Patrick Doyle

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