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Radio Scotland,03 Dec 2025,30 mins
Series The Arts Mix
Hollywood composer Craig Armstrong, Gareth Rubin on Murder at Christmas, Ailie Robertson on Three Winter Songs.
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Hollywood composer Craig Armstrong talks to Len Pennie about his working relationship with Peter Mullan, what he thinks his scores for Love Actually, Romeo and Juliet, and so many other films he has composed for mean to people, and his upcoming new album Pacific, which was recorded in Berlin. Composer and harpist Ailie Robertson tells Len about her new project, Three Winter Songs, in which she celebrates the poetry of three women with songs for choir and harp. Journalist and author Gareth Rubin talks about his Choose Your Own Adventure-style mystery, Murder at Christmas, and what he enjoys about the twists and turns of writing new books, and writing Holmes and Moriarty, a Sherlock Holmes book endorsed by the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate.
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