{"id":550420,"date":"2026-04-25T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T18:43:14","slug":"ben-bartlett-1965-2026-film-music-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550420\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bartlett (1965-2026) | Film Music Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tPosted: April 25, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in <a href=\"https:\/\/filmmusicreporter.com\/category\/film-music-news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Film Music News<\/a><br \/>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/filmmusicreporter.com\/tag\/ben-bartlett\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Bartlett<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmmusicreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vs-68.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-137804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/vs-68-300x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\"   \/><\/a>Ben Bartlett passed away last Sunday, April 19 at age 61 after battling lung cancer. The composer wrote numerous scores for British television and television over the last three decades and was best known for his music from the\u00a0 BBC documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination and won a BAFTA TV Award. His other scoring credits include BBC\u2019s Walking with Beasts &amp; Walking with Monsters, ITV\u2019s Vera, which ran between 2011 and 2025, Sky\u2019s The Tunnel, ITV\u2019s The Loch, Sky\u2019s Mad Dogs, ITV\u2019s Lucan,\u00a0Sky\u2019s  Stan Lee\u2019s Lucky Man and ITV\u2019s The Trials of Jimmy Rose. Among his feature scoring credits are Marc Munden\u2019s 2007 drama The Mark of Cain and Robert Krause\u2019s 2006 horror thriller Blood Trails. He has also written extensively for concert hall and theatre, receiving critical acclaim for his mini- opera El Tigre. Bartlett is survived by his wife, Sonia, and two children.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted: April 25, 2026 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music NewsTags: Ben Bartlett Ben Bartlett passed away last Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[189394,96,189395,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-550420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ben-bartlett","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-film-music-news","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}