Always one of the most secretive and elusive artists, Walker rarely gave interviews. Scott will feature extracts from a unique and intimate 'lost' 90s film interview, as well as unheard sound interviews from 2006-18

Scott features musicians, writers, filmmakers and fans. With the help of those close to him, from early contemporaries to late collaborators, we discover what drove Walker to follow his creative path and build his musical legacy

In these interviews, Walker shared clues and references to the people, places and events that most inform his music

Scott will uncover sites and stories, totemic - sometimes chilling - objects and characters, behind Walker's deeply-imagined and atmospheric songs

From the dark romance of the 60s to the productive and undocumented years 2006-19, Scott brings new insights into the life and music of an artist who is rediscovered by each new generation

Walker's music is often described as cinematic, in fact Walker's creative life and music were rooted in his love of movies, especially the European films he saw on Wilshire Boulevard as a teen

Scott takes you on a journey into the stories, places and characters evoked by his songs and atmospheric music, which capture time and place and put you in the moment as vividly as any writer

"It happened through movies ...and then I developed a European imagination which probably hasn't anything to do with Europe at all" - Scott Walker

Scott explores in a new and in-depth way how Walker's music relates to cinema

Unseen and unheard interviews

Never-before-seen performance

The Scott Walker you've never seen or heard before

From the solitary figures, abandoned lovers, the child's-eye-view, and the view from the margins of Scott 1-4, to the dictators and prisoners of his later music

immerse yourself in scott walker's night

Eimear McBride

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