This episode looks at the score of The Killing Fields by Mike Oldfield - his only commissioned film score, Tubular Bells having been used on The Omen, but not written for it.

You can hear Sacha discuss his version of this along with talk from David Puttnam (producer) and Mike Oldfield himself.

Find out more at www.spiritofcinema.co.uk and to hear examples of Sacha's fantastic original work for film, tv, radio and more www.mayamusic.co.uk

Produced by Mable Productions

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This episode hears Sacha Puttnam talking to Oscar winning composer Rachel Portman (for Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow, and being one of the only three women to have won the Academy Award for Best Score). Rachel tells Sacha about her breakthrough into film composing along with the joys of writing the music to this wonderful and heart warming film, War of the Buttons, adapted for the screen by Colin Welland.

Sacha took two of Rachel's pieces from WotB to produce his beautiful suite on the album Spirt of Cinema.

Find more on Sacha at www.mayamusic.co.uk (where you'll also find a link to Rachel's fantastic solo album), or on instagram at @mayamusicltd, @Mable_Productions and @SachaPuttnam.

You can find Rachel at www.rachelportman.co.uk, or on Instagram at rachelportmancomposer.

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Episode Five of this podcast to accompany the Spirit of Cinema album brings us Sacha Puttnam looking at Ennio Morricone's The Mission and his (Sacha's) version of two of the standout themes weaved together, Gabriel's Oboe and The Fall, making Gabriel's Theme.

There are insights from the Maestro Morricone himself, who we sadly lost in July 2020, as well as from David Puttnam and of course there's the music. Please enjoy and subscribe, as well as listening back if you haven't heard the previous episodes.

You can find out more about the album at www.spiritofcinema.co.uk or about Sacha and his work at www.mayamusic.co.uk.

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