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Race

Published: June 4, 2016, 3:01 p.m.

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Matthew Sweet looks at music for films that tackle the subject of racial prejudice in the week that has seen the launch of the film "Race" about the life of athlete Jesse Owens, with a score by Rachel Portman. The programme also includes music from Quincy Jones\' "The Color Purple" and "In the heat of the night", Herman Stein\'s score for the 1965 film "The Intruder", Terence Blanchard\'s music for the 1992 biopic "Malcolm X" and his classic score of the week is Elmer Bernstein\'s "To kill a mockingbird" from 1962.

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