Jeff Wayne’s sci-fi influences on The War of the Worlds | #BFISciFi

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Jeff Wayne, the composer who created the musical version of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, reflects on sci-fi film music that inspired him. Wayne discusses the Doctor Who theme tune and scores for films including A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). 

Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds tours the UK and Holland in December 2014.

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