Given how tragically hard we've found it to speak to women on the show, it is a genuine delight to welcome writer, director and producer Nancy Myers to soundtracking.

Nancy is one of the Grand Dames of Hollywood. Having earned an Oscar nomination for her original screenplay

for Private Benjamin in 1980,

she's since been responsible for a string of commercial smashies

including The Parent Trap, Something's Got to Give and the Holiday.

Indeed, her second film as director, What Women Want, was at one stage

the most successful film ever directed by a woman, taking in 183 million dollars in the US alone.

Her latest project is home again for which she assumed the role of producer for her daughter Hallie.

The film is scored by John Debney and it's one of his cues from the movie you can hear playing now.

What with being one of the undoubted queens of the rom-com,

Nancy has worked with several legendary composers over the years,

from Bill Conti and Alan Silvestre to the inimitable Han Zimmer.

We'll hear plenty more about them in a bit.

But where else could we begin than with Carol King?

Music But where else could we begin than with Carol King? Nancy Myers, it's a pleasure to have you on soundtrack,

and for various reasons, A, being a massive fan of your work,

but just getting ladies on here to talk about film is brilliant.

Oh, thank you for having me.

I love this new film that you're involved in as a producer in your daughter's first feature film Home Again,

which straight in there with a musical connection, the Carl King.

And Hallie told me that she got the title from a 70 station on the radio one day, and that song coming on,

she went, that's it on she went that's it yeah that's it i know she told me the same it's funny because somebody recently said in a review of the

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