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SOUND OF CINEMA - 472. PHILIP K. DICK (320kbs-m4a/134mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 12th July 2025
Matthew Sweet on soundtracks for films inspired by the science-fiction writer, Philip K Dick, such as Total Recall and Blade Runner. The Prom on 22 July also features a new BBC Commission by Mark Simpson, ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick’), inspired by his work.
Vangelis - Blade Runner (1982) - Main Titles [EastWest U.K.]
Thomas Newman - The Adjustment Bureau (2011) - None Of Them Are You + The Ripples Must Be Endless [Relativity Music Group]
John Williams - Minority Report (2002) - Main Title [DreamWorks]
Jerry Goldsmith - Total Recall (1990) - The Implant + The Mutant [Quartet]
Jerry Goldsmith - Total Recall (1990) - The Dream [Quartet]
Harry Gregson‐Williams - Total Recall (2012) - The Dream [Madison Gate]
Ólafur Arnalds - Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017) - Suite [Madison Gate]
Hans Zimmer - Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Blade Runner [Epic]
Dominic Lewis - The Man In The High Castle (2015) - Alternate Outcome [Varèse Sarabande]
GREAT LIVES SERIES 26 - 1. MICHAEL SHEEN ON PHILIP K. DICK (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th sepotember 2018
Actor Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon; The Queen; Midnight in Paris) explores the life of Philip K. Dick with Matthew Parris, and explains why he had such a big influence on his recent production of Hamlet.
Michael first discovered Philip K. Dick through the film Bladerunner, and moved onto his short stories which got him thinking about science-fiction in a new way. Whilst reading about philosophy, quantum physics, and comparative mythology, it struck him how Dick was intuitively weaving narratives around all the most interesting elements that these fields were throwing up.
He talks about Philip K. Dick's innate interest in multiples realities, and how they overlap with Sheen's own family experiences of mental health issues. In fact the more he found out about him, the more he was drawn to this enigmatic writer.
Producer: Toby Field.
PHILIP K. DICK - DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? (320kbs-m4a/259mb/1hr53mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th & 12th January 2019
Philip K. Dick's cult sci-fi novel inspired the film Blade Runner. Set in a world devastated by nuclear war, a San Francisco bounty hunter is on a mission to retire a group of rogue androids. James Purefoy and Jessica Raine star in this new adaptation.
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway.
Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.
PHILIP K. DICK - DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 5th January 2019
In post-war 1992 androids are becoming indistinguishable from human beings, even in their capacity to love, and bounty hunter Rick Deckard is tasked with locating and retiring a rogue group of escaped androids who have fled a life of slavery and returned to Earth.
PHILIP K. DICK - DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 12th January 2019
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard is on a mission to locate and retire a rogue group of androids who have escaped a life of slavery on Mars and returned to Earth. But now that androids are almost indistinguishable from human beings, 'retirement' begins to feel more like murder and Deckard's morals get in the way of the job. The boundaries continue to blur when he develops feelings for the beautiful and sentient Rachael Rosen, herself an android.