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SOUND OF CINEMA - 445. ALFRED HITCHCOCK (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 14th December 2024
From the driving energy of North By Northwest to the iconic string stabs of Psycho, music is an integral part of what makes Alfred Hitchcock's films stand out. Matthew Sweet finds out what makes them so good and looks at times when Hitchcock and his composers disagreed.
Charles Gounod - Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) - Funeral March Of A Marionette [Telarc]
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative For Orchestra) (1960) - Prelude [Decca]
Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (1958) - Prelude And Rooftop [Varèse Sarabande]
Bernard Herrmann - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Prelude [Sony Classical]
Arthur Leslie Benjamin - The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - Storm Clouds Cantata [Chandos]
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (A Narrative for Orchestra) (1960) - Prelude + The Murder [Decca]
Bernard Herrmann - Torn Curtain (1966) - Suite [Decca (UMO) (Classics)]
John Addison - Torn Curtain (1966) - Main Title [Decca (UMO) (Classics)]
Nitin Sawhney - The Lodger (2012) - Titles + The Big Love Theme [Network Distributing Ltd]
Stephen Horne - The Manxman (2024) - From The Island ('Ellan Vannin') [Ulysses Arts]
Stephen Horne - The Manxman (2024) - A Happy Home [Ulysses Arts]
Franz Waxman - Rebecca (1940) - Main Title / Foreword / Opening Scene [Varèse Sarabande]
Ron Goodwin - Frenzy (1972) - The London Theme [Chandos]
UNMADE MOVIES: ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BLIND MAN (320kbs-m4a/199mb/1hr26mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 8th June 2019
Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman’s unfinished screenplay, the follow-up to North by Northwest - completed by Mark Gatiss in 2015.
Adapted for radio by Laurence Bowen.
Set in 1961, a famous blind jazz pianist, Larry Keating, agrees to a radical new medical procedure - an eye transplant. The operation is a success but his new eyes are those of a murdered man, and captured on their retina is the image of his murderer. Larry and his new nurse, Jenny, begin a quest to track him down - before someone else dies.
The Blind Man is part of Unmade Movies, a season of radio adaptions of unproduced screenplays by the major authors of the 20th century - including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman.
Cast:
Larry Keating ............ Hugh Laurie
Sylvia Whitehead ............ Rebecca Front
Victor Farmer ............ Nicholas Woodeson
Jenny Stiles ............ Kelly Burke
Mortie Levitt / Captain Barzoni ............ Andy Nyman
Linda Whitehead ............ Hilary Connell
Herman Graubner ............ John Guerrasio
Dr. Mcgraw ............ John Light
Autograph Girl ............ Hollie Burgess
Narrator, Alfred Hitchcock ............ Peter Serafinowicz
Music by Blair Mowat
Sound Design by Wilfredo Acosta
Produced by Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui
Co-Producer Laurent Bouzereau.Directed by Mark Gatiss
A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
