Changing the Way We Think

Published: Oct. 17, 2015, 1:25 p.m.

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Matthew Sweet introduces scores for films that question the way we think about the cinema, and about other things as well....

The programme features music from Birth of a Nation; The Assassination of the Duke of Guise; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; The Seven Samurai; The Magnificent Seven; The Robe; Midnight Cowboy; Taxi Driver; The Young Sherlock Holmes; Avatar;and the Classic Score of the Week - Jaws.

Matthew also considers whether film can change our ideas about society in the week that has seen the launch of Sarah Gavron\'s new biopic, "Suffragette", with music by Alexandre Desplat.

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