BBC Sounds - Sounds Iconic: Music & Film - Available Episodes

BBC 100: Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg James presents classic conversations with the biggest names in music and film.

• 1 min

Beyoncé 2008

Sasha Fierce is left at the door as Beyoncé speaks to Sara Cox and MistaJam.

• 26 mins
• 16 Oct 2022

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg presents vintage conversations with Tom Hanks and David Bowie from the BBC archives.

• 1 min

Tom Hanks talks to Simon Mayo (1995)

Actor Hanks is Simon Mayo's 'God of the Week' and discusses Apollo 13 and Toy Story.

• 13 mins

David Bowie: Verbatim (2016)

Bowie’s extraordinary life and unparalleled career told in his own words.

• 60 mins
• 30 Jan 2016

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg finds Olivia Coleman talking to Vic Reeves on Chain Reaction from 2015.

• 1 min

Series 10

Vic Reeves talks to Olivia Colman

Vic Reeves, of Vic and Bob fame, talks to Bafta Award-winning actress Olivia Colman.

• 25 mins
• 11 Mar 2015

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg finds an interview with acclaimed actor Sidney Poitier, likely unheard since 1980.

• 1 min

Sidney Poitier on Kaleidoscope (1980)

Ground-breaking actor Poitier speaks on his life, his career and his autobiography.

• 22 mins

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg presents a rare Charlie Chaplin interview after a boisterous Oasis on Radio 1.

• 1 min

Oasis 1997

Noel and Liam crash Lamacq's Radio 1 studio in this ebullient and legendary interview.

• 48 mins
• 07 Oct 2022

Charlie Chaplin (1952)

A 'round table' interview with a reluctant genius, on the BBC's Light Programme.

• 20 mins

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg introduces a rare, insightful and RAW interview with Whitney Houston from 1990.

• 1 min

Whitney 1990

Simon Bates visits Whitney at home in this insightful and, at times, difficult interview.

• 36 mins
• 16 Oct 2022

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg introduces Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen speaking together to the BBC in 1976.

• 1 min

Shakespeare's Heroes: Dench and McKellen (1979)

Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen on their roles in Macbeth.

• 13 mins

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg digs out an intimate recording with Nile Rodgers, as he walks his native NY Streets.

• 1 min

Musician Nile Rodgers walks the streets of New York, after a cancer diagnosis.

• 28 mins
• 26 Nov 2012

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg introduces a classic snippet of Desert Island Discs with film master Hitchcock.

• 1 min

Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

Film director Alfred Hitchcock is Roy Plomley's castaway on Desert Island Discs.

• 7 mins
• 19 Oct 1959

Sounds Iconic: Film + Music

Greg James wraps up his classic conversations with the biggest names in music and film.

• 1 min