A playful show - music for games such as chess, cards and pool plus some exuberant female soccer players - and several new releases.
First broadcast 22 September 2015
Tracklist
Playing tracks by Hozier, Tony Carty, Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders, Pietro Mascagni, Dario Marianelli and more.
Comments
Our host Tony is playing games this week but starts with new releases (first aired 22/09/2015) ... The Blacklist (angel of small death) Hozier ... No Escape (where’s Lucy) Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders ... 1917 Rapsodia Satanica (part 1) Pietro Mascagni ... Everest (the lowdown) Dario Marianelli ... Sicario (melancholia) Johann Johannsson ... A Walk in the Woods (mud) Nathan Larson, (the lake) sung by Tim Grimm ... ... onto the games ....... Pawn Sacrifice (boris Spassky) James Newton Howard ... Searching for Bobby Fischer (early victories) James Horner ( aug 1953 - June 2015 ) ... Knight Moves (you like to play games) Anne Dudley ... the stage musical 3 years in the west end CHESS (I know him so well) by Benny Anderson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice, Sung by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson ... a U.S. TV series first aired in the UK 1963, it ran 70 episodes and starred Doug McClure, Checkmate, the theme by John Williams ... From Russia With Love (007 theme) John Barry ... the 1967 (critically reviled version but was a box office hit) Casino Royale (theme) by Burt Bacharach, played by Herb Alpert ... the 2006 EON production Casino Royal (you know my name) David Arnold & Chris Cornell ... (check out the 1950s TV version, you are in for a surprise) ... Five Card Stud scored by Maurice Jarre, Dean Martin and the lyrics of Ned Washington ... The Cincinnati Kid (suite of themes/gambling man) .Lalo Schifrin ... The Hustler (Main Title/stop & go) Kenyon Hopkins ... The Colour Of Money (Main Title) Robbie Robertson ... closing with the Stage Musical Bend It Like Beckham (the wedding & football final) by Howard Goodall and Charles Hart ........ our host Tony ran himself out so did not have time to include (among many) the most dangerous game 1932/Max Steiner ... a 1945 remake game of death / Paul sawtell ... the games 1970 / Francis Lai ... with the final whistle blown, console yourself with some linked programmes ... mountains/257, 258 ... tv 50s & 60s/251 ... John Barry/76, 338 ... John Williams/245, 444 ... British Bs/252 ... critically reviled films/24 ... Cards/296 ... Steve mcqueen/182, 396 ... maurice Jarre/121 ... Robert Mitchum/270 ... Dario Marianelli (quartet)/42 ... from the cast of Casino Royale, William Holden/307, Peter o’toole/85, David Niven/392, orson Wells/155 ... Lalo Schifrin/212, 310, bullitt/396, cool hand Luke, the Fox, manning/279 the Cincinnati Kid (Ray Charles) / 105 ....... “I fold”