When I first met Graham Walker he was wearing a Talented Mr Ripley baseball cap and eating a breakfast sandwich.
"What do you do for a living?" I asked, while sipping my tea.
"I produce music for feature films," was the reply.
"I did the music for The Talented Mr Ripley," he added, and pointed at his cap.
Our next meeting was at the home in Hoxne he s
hares with his partner Liz Schrek.
The couple have worked together since the early 1990s, having set up Schrek Film Music Production. They have done the music for Planet 51 - an animated feature film which was released across the world last week.
They were both involved in The Talented Mr Ripley and spent a lot of time on location in Rome and southern Italy.
"Everyone was so friendly and Jude Law was beautiful," said Liz.
Graham said: "I think The Talented Mr Ripley was the best film I have worked on.
"Working with Anthony ?Minghella was just fantastic.
"He was a talented and creative director/ producer and a lovely person.
"It was such a shame when he died."
The pair's CVs are impressive to say the least.
Between them they have worked on television programmes, adverts and feature films since the 1970s.
Graham produced the music for all but one of the 23 episodes of Inspector Morse, did the original score for News at Ten and All Creatures Great and Small.
He was musical director at Yorkshire Television, head of music at Granada Television and head of film music production for Lord Grade's ITC Films.
There was a story every step of the way - Graham said he was the last person to work with T Rex singer Marc Bolan before his death in 1977.
The first feature film Graham produced music for was The Long Good Friday and this was followed by 81 others, including Sleepy Hollow, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Jaws 3, Rugrats - The Movie and Gregory's Girl.
"A lot of people in the film industry call themselves music experts but some of them know nothing about music, " he said.
"But I am a trained musician - I can talk music to the composers and the musicians."
Having started playing trumpet in the Alamein Staff Band in the Royal Tank Regiment, Graham went on to attend the Royal Military School of Music for a year and then won a scholarship for the Guildhall School of Music.
On deciding to leave the army, he set about finding a job in library music.
"When I started deciding I wanted to get out of the Army, I realised the only thing I knew anything about was music," said Graham.
"So I concentrated on getting a job that was something to do with the music business.
"While I was doing the day job in the music library, I was working in the evening as an arranger of popular music with people like Roy Castle and Dickie Henderson."
Liz started her career in advertising and went into the production side of commericals and documentaries.
