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Melina Matsoukas

Miranda Sawyer chats to director Melina Matsoukas about her latest film Queen and Slim and other work,.

Miranda Sawyer chats to director Melina Matsoukas about her latest feature directorial debut Queen and Slim written by the Emmy winner Lena Waithe and starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith which follows a black Ohio couple on the run. Matsoukas is the woman behind some of the most iconic and influential music videos of the last decade including Rihanna's We Found Love, for which Melina won a Grammy (and was the first-ever solo female director to do so). She also directed Formation by µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©.

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Thu 10 Jun 2021 02:00
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Music Played

  • The Pharcyde

    Runnin'

    • POLYGRAM TV.

  • Roy Ayers

    Searching

    • Roy Ayers: The Collection.
    • Polydor Limited.
    • 12.

  • Burna Boy

    My Money, My Baby

  • Blood Orange

    Runnin' Away (from the Queen and Slim Soundtrack)

  • Solange

    Cranes In The Sky

    • HitDisc: HC201644.
    • Saint / Columbia.
    • 13.

  • Herbie Hancock

    Tears at night

  • Little Freddie King

    Pocket Full of money

  • Lauryn Hill

    Guarding the Gates

  • David Bowie

    A New Career In A New Town

    • Low.
    • EMI.
    • 7.

  • Eric B. & Rakim

    Microphone Fiend

    • MCA Records.

  • Rihanna

    We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 80 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Freedom (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

  • Thundercat

    Them Changes

    • Brainfeeder.

  • Digable Planets

    Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

    • PENDULUM.

  • Sea Power

    Carrion

    • Rough Trade.

  • The Chameleons

    Singing Rule Britannia (While The Walls Close In)

    • What Does Anything Mean? Basically.
    • Dead Dead Good.

  • John Coltrane

    In A Sentimental Mood

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Feb 2020 13:00
    Â鶹Éç Radio 6 Music
  • Tue 3 Nov 2020 01:00
    Â鶹Éç Radio 6 Music
  • Thu 10 Jun 2021 02:00
    Â鶹Éç Radio 6 Music