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Transcript: Music for Films, Box Set: Wonderwall & Zachariah, Part One
First published 24th August 2021

TV ANNOUNCER
The following program, although edited for television, still may contain some objectionable material. The producers feel that alone should be enough to make you stay tuned to this channel.

WOMAN
I don’t believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit.

MAN #1
You know, you’re a real up person.

MAN #2
Come on magic screen, come up with something.

FILM TRAILER ANNOUNCER
Zachariah, the first electric Western.

GRAMS: ELECTRIC GUITAR CHORDS FROM ‘ZACHARIAH’ TRAILER.

JOHN RUBINSTEIN
Far… out.

BARKEEP
I’m gonna kill you, you little fag. You’re dead.

FILM TRAILER ANNOUNCER
Elvin Jones. Country Joe and the Fish. Don Johnson.

DON JOHNSON
Weird eyes.

FILM TRAILER ANNOUNCER
And John Rubinstein as Zachariah.

JOHN RUBINSTEIN
Zachariah.

IRENE HANDL
Beggin’ your pardon, sir.

JACK MACGOWRAN
Why?

IRENE HANDL
“Why” what?

JACK MACGOWRAN
But why is it not possible?

IRENE HANDL
Because it just ain’t. I mean, you take the dishes alone. I gotta’ wash and dry.

JACK MACGOWRAN
Wha– what?

IRENE HANDL
“Dry”, sir.

JACK MACGOWRAN
Yes, I know it is, but it’s not going to last Mrs Peurofoy. Do you hear that sound?

IRENE HANDL
Wha–?

JACK MACGOWRAN
Electricity. Static electricity.

IRENE HANDL
Well I still thinking isn’t enough.

JACK MACGOWRAN
Oh it’s more than enough.

IRENE HANDL
I’m tellin’ it straight Mr. Collins, it ain’t.

GRAMS: MIKE FLOWERS POPS ‘WONDERWALL’

MIKE FLOWERS
I don’t believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now…

TIM
Hello listener, this is Tim and you’re listening to ‘Music for Films’, the Underground film podcast, and I’m joined in a booth in rural Scotland by film historian Shruti Narayanswami. Hello Shruti.

SHRUTI
Hello.

TIM
Shruti, There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don’t know how–

SHRUTI
–I see what you did there.

TIM
–We’ve made quite a few of these “box set” lock down versions of the program where we look at a couple of films with a sort of tangential connection, and that you may want an alternative DVD commentary for. But perhaps a starting point is to ask you, in your busy academic life is, have you asked yourself the question “what is a Wonderwall?”

SHRUTI
No.