Sound of Cinema - Rachel Portman and Belle
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Matthew Sweet meets composer Rachel Portman in the week that sees the launch of Amma Asante's "Belle", featuring a new Rachel Portman score.
Rachel Portman is one of the most successful and distinctive British film composers with an extensive catalogue of film scores to her name.
Matthew meets Rachel at her London home and looks back on a career that stretches beyond her music for the 1989 Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, through Chocolat, The Duchess, Oliver Twist, Sirens, Benny and Joon, The Manchurian Candidate, The Cider House Rules and the Academy Award-winning Emma.
The programme also features music from Rachel's new score for Belle.
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Published on Saturday, 7th June 2014.
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