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Special Guest - Paul Saunderson

Season 1, Ep. 489

This episodes special guest is composer Paul Saunderson


I met with Paul and we had a wonderful chat, talking about growing up, school, creativity, clubbing and so much more


Paul Saunderson is a British film composer with with over 80 credits in Film & TV to his name. His work includes 3 seasons of Apple TV’s comedy drama TRYING starring Rafe Spall + Esther Smith, Mike Bartlett’s follow up series to Doctor Foster LIFE airing on BBC ONE, RAW'S award winning documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS (Tim Wardle dir.) and Sister Pictures CLEANING UP starring Sheridan Smith. Other works include Camelot Films PRIZEFIGHTER starring Russell Crowe and Ray Winston and collaborating on hit SKY One action series STRIKE BACK, SKY Atlantic’s mystery thriller RIVIERA (Julia Styles) and MTV's action adventure series THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES. Saunderson also wrote the music for Keith English’s adaptation of the Jo Brand Novel THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME (Sheridan Smith and Mark Addy) and Tom Edmunds DEAD IN A WEEK or your money back (Tom Wilkinson and Aneurin Barnard), collaborating with ELBOW'S front man Guy Garvey and I AM KLOOT'S bass player Peter Jobson. 

A multi-instrumentalist, Paul is as equally at home with orchestras as he is with contemporary music, known for his diversity and emotion within his writing. Often performing on his scores, Paul is accomplished at a range of instrument, piano, guitar, bass, ukulele, mandolin, drums and various percussion and is know to take found sounds and manipulate them within his scores making ever project he does completely bespoke and also different from one to the next.


Saunderson has worked with many recording artists; writing arrangements for Elbow, Badly Drawn Boy, Coldplay, Kasabian, KT Tunstall, Tom Odell, The Cinematic Orchestra, Ash, and Andy Burrows and Guy Garvey. 

Paul has recently completed work on Balloon Entertainment's musical drama CHAMPION alongside grime producer SWINDLE coming to BBC ONE and NETFLIX this July as well as a brand new BBC STUDIOS landmark documentary series called EARTH that tells the 4.5 billion year story of our Earth spread across 5 episodes. 

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