Ken Loach
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The film director Ken Loach talks to Michael Berkeley about the classical music he\\u2019s loved throughout his life and the dangerous power of music in film.
Ken Loach began his career directing Z Cars - but very soon entered the national consciousness in the late 1960s with films such as Cathy Come Home, Poor Cow and Kes. He\\u2019s kept up this prolific pace in the subsequent fifty years, making more than fifty award-winning films for cinema and television, and achieving a level of realism rarely captured by other directors. His latest film, Sorry We Missed You, is about the impact on families of the gig economy.
Ken talks to Michael about the music of his childhood growing up in Nuneaton after the war \\u2013 he chooses Brahms's Academic Festival Overture to recall music lessons at school - and he we hear a piece by Schubert which reminds him of his own children growing up.
Ken picks recordings which bring back particular moments in his life: the sheer energy and excitement of Carlos Kleiber\\u2019s 1974 recording of Beethoven\\u2019s Fifth Symphony; the 1968 recording of Dvorak\\u2019s Cello Concerto by Mstislav Rostropovich and Herbert von Karajan, which brings back memories of making Kes; and Geza Anda\\u2019s recording of Mozart\\u2019s Piano Concerto Number 21, which was used in the film Elvira Madigan.
Every one of Ken\\u2019s films has a cause at its heart such as homelessness, unemployment and civil rights. We hear the music of resistance that reflects the struggle of ordinary people for justice and dignity that has driven his career.
Producer: Jane Greenwood\\nA Loftus production for BBC Radio 3
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