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SAS Rogue Heroes has metal, Peaky Blinders has PJ Harvey and The Bear has dad rock. We meet the new breed of music overseers whose anachronistic soundtracks are taking TV to thrilling new heights

And often, they’re brilliant: try the perfectly judged dad rock of The Bear, or the incredible assemblage of early 1980s Black American music in the crack epidemic drama Snowfall. For both Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes, Hartley focused on anachronistic music: the former, set a century ago, used dark and brooding singer-songwriters, such as Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. Both Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes were written by Steven Knight, who had very clear ideas himself about what he wanted, reflecting the fact that music supervisors are adamant that they are there to work with writer, director and editor, not to foist their choices on them.

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