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Matthew Sweet is ed by conductor Robert Ziegler in the first of two programmes reflecting on the scores of one of the great figures of film music - Jerry Goldsmith. The Classic Score of the Week is Goldsmith's score for the 1976 film "The Omen"

In the week of the much anticipated release of "Fifty Shades of Grey", Matthew Sweet features the Danny Elfman score and considers film music inspired by obsession. The programme includes music from Of Human Bondage; American Beauty; The Talented Mr Ripley; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Peeping Tom; Lolita; Eyes Wide Shut; Fatal Attraction; Last Tango In Paris and Sleeping With the Enemy. The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's "Vertigo".

In the week of the much anticipated release of "Fifty Shades of Grey", Matthew Sweet features the Danny Elfman score and considers film music inspired by obsession. The programme includes music from Of Human Bondage; American Beauty; The Talented Mr Ripley; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Peeping Tom; Lolita; Eyes Wide Shut; Fatal Attraction; Last Tango In Paris and Sleeping With the Enemy. The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's "Vertigo".

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by heritage - the Classic score of the week is Copland's "The Heiress" and the new release, Michael Giacchino's score for "Jupiter Ascending".

Matthew Sweet considers music written to enhance the character of the movie detective. The Classic Score of the week is David Raksin's 1944 music for Laura which features one of film music's most enduring themes. Also in the programme is music for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Seven Per Cent Solution, The Adventures of Tintin, Dick Tracy, The Maltese Falcon, Devil In A Blue Dress and Murder On The Orient Express. The featured new release is Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice introducing Thomas Pynchon's LA detective Larry "Doc" Sportello - and a new score by Jonny Greenwood.

Cinema's urban landscapes can be threatening and challenging. Matthew Sweet introduces film music evoking the darkness and the light of the city including "Metropolis" and "Bladerunner".

Matthew Sweet with a selection of jazz inspired film music including Justin Hurwitz's new score for "Whiplash" and the Classic Score "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Alex North.

The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews is 50 years old - in the week of the release of Sondheim's screen version of Into The Woods, Matthew Sweet looks back on the last half century of the screen musical.

Matthew Sweet introduces music written for films inspired by the acting profession hot on the heels of the launch of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's new drama, "Birdman - The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance". The programme includes scores from "Shakespeare In Love"; "All About Eve"; "Being Julia"; "Theatre of Blood"; "A Double Life"; "Kiss Me Kate"; "42nd Street"; "Les Enfants du Paradis"; "The Last Metro"and "The Artist". The Classic Score of the Week is Charles Chaplin's "Limelight". There is also a chance to hear music by Johann Johannsson for the recent Stephen Hawking bio-pic "The Theory of Everything".

Matthew Sweet looks back on the career of the great Italian film composer Ennio Morricone with the Morricone expert Pasquale Iannone. The programme includes music from much loved classics such as "A Fist Full of Dollars" and "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly"; "Cinema Paradiso", "1900", "The Mission"; and less well known scores such as "The Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion"; "A Quiet Place In The Country" and Morricone's first score: "Il Federale". The Classic Score of the Week is "Once Upon A Time In The West".

With the latest instalment of Peter Jackson's Tolkien-inspired films launched on Friday - "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies", Matthew Sweet looks at film music and sagas. The programme features music from "Harry Potter"; "The Twilight Saga"; "The Godfather"; "Ocean's Eleven"; "Three Colours Blue"; "From Russia With Love"...... and "The Hobbit". Composer Howard Shore talks about the twenty hours or more of music he has composed for the Tolkien films. The Classic Score of the Week is John Williams's "Star Wars".

Matthew Sweet is ed by Oscar-winning composer Steven Price for a review of music written for British Sci Fi films, recorded on London's South Bank as part of the BFI Sci Fi Festival -"Days of Fear and Wonder". Matthew and Steve begin their survey with Arthur Bliss's famous score for the HG Well's inspired film "Things To Come". They look at the work of James Bernard and Tristram Cary for the Quatermass films and reflect on scores for "The First Men In The Moon"; "2001 - A Space Odyssey"; "Alien"; "Brazil"; "Flash Gordon" "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"; "Sunshine"; "Inception"; "Under The Skin" and "Gravity".

Matthew Sweet meets Lorne Balfe, composer for the new animated comedy The Penguins of Madagascar. The programme explores how Balfe set about writing music for this offshoot to the one of the biggest movie franchises in recent years - the "Madagascar" series - and looks at some of Balfe's other work for film and for computer games. The classic score of the week is Ralph Vaughan-Williams's "Scott of the Antarctic".

Matthew Sweet with film music inspired by contest and competition in the arena, from sporting prowess to the gladiatorial - including music for the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1.

Matthew Sweet profiles scores for films inspired by notions of time, space and travel prompted by Christopher Nolan's new film "Interstellar". The programme includes music by Bill McGuffie from "Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD"; by David Arnold from "Stargate"; by Alan Silvestri from "Back to the Future"; Miklos Rozsa from "Time After Time"; John Barry from "Somewhere In Time"; Nathan Johnson from "Looper"; and by Michael Andrews from "Donnie Darko". The classic score of the week is Russell Garcia's score for the 1960 version of "The Time Machine". #soundofcinema.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music written for biopics about great Britons, in the week of the launch of Mike Leigh's new film about JMW Turner with a new score by Gary Yershon.

Matthew Sweet introduces a selection of film music in homage to the late Richard Attenborough. Matthew's guest is the composer George Fenton who collaborated with Attenborough on many films: "Gandhi"; "Cry Freedom"; "Shadowlands"; "In Love and War"; "Grey Owl". The programme also features music from "The League of Gentlemen"; "Sea of Sand"; "The Great Escape"; "Seance on a Wet Afternoon"; "Whistle Down The Wind"; "Jurassic Park"; and "Closing The Ring". The Classic Score of the Week is John Addison's "A Bridge Too Far". #soundofcinema

Matthew Sweet with a selection of music for films inspired by puzzles and games prompted by this week's new release, "The Maze Runner" with music by John Paesano. The Classic Score of the Week is Michel Legrand's music for "The Thomas Crown Affair".

Matthew Sweet with a selection of music for films on the subject of innocence and guilt prompted by the release of David Fincher's "Gone Girl" with a new score by Trent Reznor. The Classic Score of the Week is Bernard Herrmann's for Hitchcock's "North By Northwest". #soundofcinema.

Matthew Sweet with a selection of music for film that began life on the small screen including Harry Gregson-Williams's score for Antoine Fuqua's new release - The Equalizer. Matthew's Classic Score of the Week focuses on Barry Gray's scores for Gerry Anderson's "Thunderbird" movies.