Sound of walking under a solar powered arch playing ceremonial music, and people entering COP29's venue the national stadium. Morning of 20th November 2024.

COP29 Baku stadium entrance, solar power arch

The Underground film show explores London's old and new Chinatown, through the lens of the 1964 Robert Hartford-Davis-directed "slice of life" melodrama 'Saturday Night Out'. With Tim Concannon and Roz Kaveney. First broadcast on Resonance FM, 26th May 2025.

Show notes: https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-westferry-saturday-night-out/

Music for Films - Westferry - Saturday Night Out

The Underground film show visits Jean-Loup Dierstein's shop in Paris, featured in Caroline Martel's 2012 film 'Wavemakers', where he maintains the legacy of the Ondes Martenot, the nearly century-old electronic keyboard based on the telegraph machine.

First broadcast on Resonance FM, 11:30am 7th July 2025. 30 mins.

Shownotes: https://www.thebeekeepers.com/music-for-films-rome-metro-wavemakers/

Music for Films - Rome Metro - Wavemakers

Author Geoff Ryman reflects on how the soundtrack to MGM’s classic ‘Wizard of Oz’ got him into the habit of re-imagining the story, which led to his own novel’ Was’. 

The Tunes of Oz

Field recordings and interviews with participants in Delia Derbyshire Day in January 2013, listening to lost tapes by the electronic music pioneer.

The Future Is Handmade

“Maybe the world’s best film podcast” David Cairns, shadowplay blog.

'Music for Films' the underground cinema podcast.

Made in Scotland, 'Music for Films' is about the music, films and the music for films which have shaped people’s lives.

On our mission to explore the subterranean sources of London’s culture we created the Scala Underground Film Map, which imagines the Tube as a film festival programmed by the legendary cinema at Kings Cross.

The BeeKeepers are interested in connecting the past, the present and the future, and in people choosing their own adventures.

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