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“Ria has never had the time or opportunity to think about what she might actually want from the world. So, when she starts cleaning for Fran, she’s intoxicated by this confident and self-assured woman who encourages her to take control of her life, and when Ria flourishes, an intense friendship is forged.

“However, when Fran’s advice leads to a shocking event, the lives of these two very different women become intertwined by shared secrets and dangerous plots. What follows is a compelling and manipulative game of cat and mouse. But just who is playing who?”

It continues: “Layered with intense drama, the first-look pictures offer a glimpse of the lead cast in their roles. The pictures showcase the disparity between Ria’s and Francesca’s lives before becoming intertwined and eventually unhinged.”

The cast of the series also includes Sion Daniel Young, Emun Elliott, Clive Russell, Julian Lewis Jones and Catherine Ayers, and the show features not only some sumptuous visuals and locations, but also an engrossing soundtrack, including some popular hits.

But just which songs features throughout the series? Read on for everything you need to know about the soundtrack to The Guest.

The Guest original score

The original music for The Guest has been composed by Blair Mowat.

Mowat has worked with the creative team behind the show before, having composed the score for Men Up, the TV film written and directed by The Guest’s Matthew Barry and Ashley Way.

He has also worked on many other shows including Doctor Who spin-off Class, Nolly, After the Flood, McDonald & Dodds and the yearly A Ghost Story for Christmas specials.

The Guest soundtrack: All the songs featured

Episode 1

• MWY – Adwaith
• Lose Control – Teddy Swims

Episode 2

• Still Dreaming – Gillie
• Humanity – Lava La Rue

Episode 3

• Burn – Blewska
• Walking on Sunshine – Katrina And The Waves

Episode 4

The Guest is available to watch in full now on BBC iPlayer.

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EXCLUSIVE: Blue Therapy maker Osun Group has optioned its first book in the shape of Yrsa Daley-Ward‘s fiction novel The Catch.

This will see Daley-Wood making her TV screenwriting debut by adapting the book, which is billed as a “supernatural thriller exploring sisterhood, identity, and the radical act of choosing yourself.”

Early stage work has begun on an adaptation for a returning series, marking Osun’s first book-to-screen acquisition and a first scripted project unveiled from a slate of projects. Osun’s Head of Drama, Sheila Nortley, who first worked with Daley-Wood on the 2011 indie feature David is Dying, struck the option agreement.

Daley-Ward, Supacell exec Nortley and Osun founder Luti Fagbenle are executive producers, with the process of finding a showrunner, director and on-screen talent underway.

The Catch, published in July, follows estranged twin sisters Clara and Dempsey, whose lives are upended when Clara, a celebrity author craving validation, spots a woman in London who looks exactly like their long-vanished mother – unchanged by time and unburdened by motherhood. She is convinced this is their mother returned, while the reclusive Dempsey suspects a con. The sisters collide over the stranger’s identity, and are propelled toward a reckoning that threatens their very existence and forces them to confront the wounds of their past.

The book was selected for the New York Times Book Review Book Club and included on summer read lists by the likes of The Washington Post, TIME, USA Today and Forbes.

“The Catch asks, ‘What if the person you fear most and the person you long for most were the same?” said Daley-Ward. “I’ve often wondered what it would be like to meet my mother again, not as she was, but as I am. The TV adaptation takes that unsettling question and spins it into an edgy, psychological suspense about family, obsession, and the terror of recognition.”

Nortley called the book “both vast and otherworldly, yet so deeply intimate and tragically human,” adding, “Yrsa’s storytelling has a way of getting under the skin and holding a mirror up to our most uncomfortable truths. To have such a bold and inventive novel as our first scripted adaptation at Osun Group is both an honour and a statement of intent. I can’t wait to bring it to the screen.”

Daley-Ward, who splits her time between L.A. and London, began her career as a poet, curating deeply personal prose through her Instagram feed. The Catch is her debut fiction novel following her poetry collection The Terrible. She also collaborated with Beyonce, co-writing Black is King, the visual album inspired by Disney+’s The Lion King. She has also acted in shows such as Outer Range, World on Fire and Kwame Kwei-Armah’s upcoming feature directorial debut The Collaboration.

London-based Osun is best known for Blue Therapy, the British unscripted relationships YouTube format that we told you earlier this month had landed its first international version, via Streamz in Belgium.

Daley-Ward is represented by Marya Spence at Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Gary Burkhard at Alan Siegel, the Artists Partnership, Michelle Kroes at CAA and Bloch Law.

Waking Hours is the debut feature documentary by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini, which will celebrate its world premiere on Thursday, Sept. 4, in the competition section of the Venice Critics’ Week (Settimana Internazionale della Critica), an independent event taking place during the Venice Film Festival.

The movie from Rome-based production company Volos Films Italia, in co-production with Roberto Minervini’s Cosma Film and in collaboration with RAI Cinema, takes us on a nocturnal journey with a clan of Afghan people smugglers at the edge of the European Union, enabling illegal border crossings between Serbia and EU member Hungary.

They are “awaiting those to be carried across the border, wandering through the labyrinth of a sleepless, perpetual night,” notes a synopsis. “At the edge of the forest, shadowy human figures gather around the fire, while the distant echo of gunshots reverberates through the night. Not far away, a wall of sharp metal marks the beginning of Europe.”

The filmmakers provide some insight into the genesis of the doc. “Waking Hours emerges from the depths of the forest, not as a backdrop but as a living body — a place of disorientation, transformation, and fragile refuge,” explain Cammarata and Foscarini. “Along the Balkan route, cinema vérité and theater merge in a poetic counter-investigation that reveals without fully showing, creating space for listening. The forest is our boat; cinema, our passage.”

Says Stefano Centini of Volos Films Italia: “We first met the project at Bellaria Film Festival, where the directors pitched it during [an] (In)Emergenza [section session]. It became clear that Waking Hours offers not only a unique look into a world we rarely see from an insider perspective, but also a daring work from two upcoming directors who chose to confront this topic with the necessary formal research and visual approach.”

He concludes: “They are digging out a personal perspective which encompasses the mere ‘function’ of the characters and highlights something more universal about the human condition. We are excited to present this bold film.”

THR can debut the very first teaser for Waking Hours before its world debut in the Venice Critics’ Week program that runs through Sept. 6, as part of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. “How did it feel to cross the border?” is a question teased in the clip that features darkness and fire.

“I know it’s often said, but this film truly is unique — not only in the content it is showing, but in how it is shown,” says Tommaso Priante of Luminalia. “Waking Hours offers a perspective on migration that hasn’t been seen before. Having worked for a year in a refugee center in Italy, I drew on that experience in creating Luminalia. Bringing films like Waking Hours to audiences means confronting stereotypes and encouraging us to reflect on, and even question, the notions of ‘us’ and ‘them’.’

Watch the first teaser for Waking Hours below.