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Matthew Sweet is joined by director Mike Leigh to talk about his ideas about music for films and to look back on some of the scores for films such as the historical dramas 'Mr Turner', 'Peterloo' and \u2018Topsy-Turvy\u2019. He first came to prominence with the Play for Today TV drama \u2018Nuts in May\u2019 in 1976, and for many years he was known for his improvised domestic dramas. He tells Matthew about his work with composers Andrew Dickson (\u2018Naked\u2019, Mean Time\u2019 and \u2018High Hopes\u2019) and Gary Yershon (\u2018Peterloo\u2019, \u2018Happy-Go-Lucky\u2019 and \u2018Another Year\u2019). There\u2019s jazz from Marianne Jean-Baptiste (\u2018Career Girls\u2019) and an excerpt from one of Rachel Portman\u2019s earliest scores (\u2018Four Days in July\u2019). And we hear Carl Davis\u2019s versions of Gilbert and Sullivan (\u2018Topsy-Turvy\u2019).

Mike Leigh\u2019s work is celebrated by the BFI in October and November on the Southbank in London and at Home in Manchester, with the release of a new print of his 1993 classic \u2018Naked\u2019, and with the appearance of a new, revised version of \u2018Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh\u2019.