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Radio 3,20 May 2017,18 mins

Arthurian Legends

Sound of Cinema

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Matthew Sweet presents a selection of film music and takes a look at some of diverse range of films inspired by the Arthurian legends in the week of the release of Guy Ritchie's new film "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" with a score by Daniel Pemberton. The programme includes music by Trevor Jones, Miklos Rozsa, Franz Waxman, Hans Zimmer, Jimmy Van Heusen, Lerner and Loewe, Anne Dudley and ... Monty Python? The Classic Score of the Week is Ron Goodwin's "Gawain and the Green Knight".

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