Episode 208: Glen Ballard On The Music Of The...

We're bringing you another of our Soundtracking Everyman film club interviews, recorded at Screen On The Green in Islington following a screening of the Marianne Faitfull documentary, Broken English. Edith's guests are directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and Beth Orton, who ...  Show more

Our latest guest on Soundtracking is the writer and director of DJ Ahmet, Georgi M. Unkovski. Set in North Macedonia, it tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who discovers music, falls in love for the first time, and struggles to come to terms with the conservatism of the rural v ...  Show more

Elliott Gould has lived a life in show business. He was just 12 when he started singing and dancing in a vaudeville routine in 1951. Dancing has been a fixture: Gould says he tangoed with his mother to "I Get Ideas" at his own bar mitzvah, perhaps hinting at the career-long mi ...

After watching an early copy of the forthcoming documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway, Alec became fascinated by the film's quietly hilarious hero, Steve Young. As part of his job as a writer for the David Letterman Show, Steve had to scour secondhand stores for kooky mu ...

Oscar-winning film-maker Damien Chazelle talks to John Wilson about his career and cultural influences.As a child, Chazelle first started experimenting with making films using his dad’s old camcorder. After studying filmmaking at Harvard, he drew on his own experiences as a skilf ...  Show more

Robert Glasper is the only artist to have an album debut in the top 10 of 4 different Billboard charts. He's a musical polymath whose resume ranges from Kendrick Lamar to Herbie Hancock. At the piano, he serves up jazz licks worthy of Mary Lou Williams before segueing into a Nirv ...  Show more