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Matthew Sweet presents a programme of music for the films associated with one of the most potent forces in British cinema: Hull-born producer Joseph Arthur Rank.

Matthew Sweet presents a programme of film music marking Radio 3's Uproot festival, held in Hull - the 2017 UK City of Culture. The programme is inspired by films associated with one of the driving forces of British cinema, Hull-born Joseph Arthur Rank. His Rank Organisation films were famously prefaced with a sequence featuring a man striking a giant gong, and they brought us some of our best loved titles, and with them, some great scores: "In Which We Serve", "Brief Encounter", "A Matter of Life and Death", "Genevieve", "Reach for the Sky", "Carve Her Name with Pride" etc.

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Sat 8 Apr 201715:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Eric Rogers

    CARRY ON DOCTOR (1967) - Suite

    Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Gavin Sutherland.

  • Georges Auric

    CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1945) - Main Titles and The Battle

    Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Rumon Gamba.

  • William Walton

    HENRY V (1944) - Epilogue

    Performer: Choristers of Westminster Cathedral. Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus. Performer: Neville Marriner.

  • Norman Wisdom

    TROUBLE IN STORE (1953) - Don't Laugh At Me

    Performer: Norman Wisdom. Orchestra: Norrie Paramour Orchestra.

  • Larry Adler

    GENEVIEVE (1953) - Main Theme

    Performer: Larry Adler.

  • William Alwyn

    A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) - Main Theme

    Performer: Rumon Gamba. Performer: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Doreen Carwithen

    BOYS IN BROWN (1949) - Suite

    Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra. Performer: Gavin Sutherland.

  • Bruce Montgomery

    DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE (1954) - Titles

    Performer: Muir Mathieson. Performer: Studio Orchestra.

  • Philip Green

    THE SINGER NOT THE SONG (1961) - Theme

    Performer: Philip Green. Performer: The Knightsbridge Strings.

  • James Bernard

    FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL (1974) - The Monster Recovers

    Performer: Hugh Bean. Performer: philip martell. Performer: Studio Orchestra.

  • Tony Banks

    THE SHOUT (1978) - From The Undertow

    Performer: Tony Banks.

  • Laurie Johnson

    THE BELSTONE FOX (1973) - Suite

    Performer: Laurie Johnson. Performer: Studio Orchestra.

  • John Addison

    REACH FOR THE SKY (1956) - Reach For The Sky

    Performer: Rumon Gamba. Performer: BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • Eric Rogers

    CARRY ON MATRON (1972)

    Performer: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Gavin Sutherland.

Broadcast

  • Sat 8 Apr 201715:00
    BBC Radio 3

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