This year's Academy Award nominees for best original film score are all strong contenders. On this week's Movies on the Radio, host David Garland offers suites of music from three of the five nominees.

This week on Movies on the Radio, David Garland offers a range of modernist movie music, from from the first 12-tone film score to selections from Martin Scorsese's new film "Shutter Island."

You've seen it on the silver screen: the lovers embrace, they begin to kiss, and the music swells to a passionate crescendo! That's the music we hear tonight on Movies on the Radio.

Giant lizards crashing through the jungle! Volcanoes erupting! Cavemen running for their lives! This week, hear dinosaur-inspired music composed for the movies on Movies on the Radio.

On this edition of Movies on the Radio, host David Garland offers a wide array of music from several current films including Up In the Air, The Book Of Eli, A Single Man, Legion, The Young Victoria, Crazy Heart, and others.

Film score composers may have to write music for battles and car chases, but the gentle transitional moments of a film sometimes inspire the best music. This week on Music on the Radio, David Garland presents music to accompany people reaching out to one another.

Romantic melodrama is a popular Hollywood genre. This week on Movies on the Radio, David Garland presents the majestic, dramatic, soaring, sometimes-over-the-top music written for such films.

Let's investigate some of the music written to accompany the silver screen adventures of two great detectives: Sherlock Holmes and Philip Marlowe. Music by Hans Zimmer, David Shire, Jerry Fielding, and John Williams is featured.

The Christmas holiday is charged with nostalgia and hope, so a Christmas setting can effectively heighten the emotional power of any story. There have been many Christmas scenes in movies, and host David Garland unwraps some of the accompanying music for such scenes.