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

Our latest guests on Soundtracking is Oliver Laxe co-writer and director of Sirat. Sirat sees Luis and his son travel through Morocco from party to party in search of Luis's daughter, who has been missing for five months having last been seen at a rave in the desert. It features ...  Show more

Our latest guests on soundtracking are a couple of firecrackers, as Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots, who join us to discuss Kristen's debut as a writer and director, The Chronology Of Water. Based on Lidia Yuknavitch's acclaimed memoir, it tells the story of a woman who reclaims ...  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