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Jun 2020
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Episode 200: Pinar Toprak On The Music O...

Edith Bowman
About this episode
We can barely believe we're uttering these these words, but welcome to the 200th episode of Soundtracking. 200! That's a lot of great guests, stories, creative insights and - perhaps most importantly - music from the world of film and television.

And we're delighted to be celebrating our birthday with a brilliant female composer, given that it's still an industry dominated by men. 

Pinar Toprak is a Turkish American musician, best known for her work on smash video game Fortnite and Captain Marvel. She joined me from her home in the US to discuss all manner of things, from the CD that inspired her to pursue a career in film scoring to the industrious way in which she landed the Captain Marvel gig.
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