Inheritance Tracks

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Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

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Episodes

Robert Carlyle

Watching the Wheels, by John Lennon; and Waiting on a Friend by The Rolling Stones.

Feb 15, 2020•8 min

Ainsley Harriott

Be My Life's Companion by Mills Brothers; I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl by Nina Simone

Feb 08, 2020•7 min

Emeli Sande

Three Little Birds by Bob Marley; Elgar's Cello Concerto performed by Jacqueline Du Pre.

Feb 01, 2020•8 min

Duff McKagen

of Guns N’ Roses, chooses Funk 49 by The James Gang and Little Doll, by The Stooges.

Jan 25, 2020•7 min

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Chooses Sugar Bum Bum by Lord Kitchener and What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye.

Jan 18, 2020•7 min

Brian Cox

Chooses Sonny Boy performed by Al Jolson, and God Only Knows by The Beach Boys

Jan 11, 2020•8 min

Paul O'Grady

Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody by Sonny Lester

Jan 04, 2020•8 min

Frank Skinner

Winter Wonderland - Dean Martin and George Formby - Why Women Don’t Like Me

Dec 28, 2019•6 min

Stephen Hough

Chopin Etudes opus 25 no 1 in A flat major; A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

Dec 21, 2019•7 min

Jeff Goldblum

'Misty’ by Erroll Garner and ‘We’ll Meet Again’ by Vera Lynn

Dec 14, 2019•8 min

Eoin Colfer

Get Down Make Love by Queen and Kindling (Fickle Flame) by Elbow feat. John Grant.

Dec 07, 2019•8 min

Andre Rieu

Sphärenklänge by Josef Strauss and What a Wonderful World performed by Louis Armstrong.

Nov 30, 2019•8 min

Dan Snow

Slide Away by Oasis, and Mr. Brightside by The Killers.

Nov 23, 2019•7 min

Toby Stephens

You Are In My Vision by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army and She Belongs To Me by Bob Dylan

Nov 16, 2019•7 min

JoJo Moyes

She's leaving home by The Beatles and Are You Lonesome Tonight performed by Elvis Presley

Nov 09, 2019•8 min

Norman Jay MBE

Norman Jay chooses: Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole and Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness.

Nov 02, 2019•8 min

Jonathan Van Ness

You Gotta Be by Des'ree and Big Dream by Jazmine Sullivan.

Oct 26, 2019•7 min

Kelly Macdonald

Kelly Macdonald chooses: You are My Sunshine by Jimmie Davis and I Love You by Woodkid.

Oct 19, 2019•8 min

Gok Wan

Make Your Own Kind of Music by Mama Cass Elliot and Top of the World The Carpenters

Oct 12, 2019•6 min

Danny Wallace

The writer and presenter, Danny Wallace, shares his Inheritance Tracks - Sunshine on Leith by The Proclaimers, and Live Forever by Oasis

Oct 05, 2019•8 min

Armistead Maupin

Every Time We Say Goodbye by Cole Porter sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Being Boring by the Pet Shop Boys.

Sep 28, 2019•8 min

Shirley Collins

Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughn Williams & A Denying by Shirley & Dolly Collins

Sep 21, 2019•8 min

Roisin Conaty

Crazy performed by Patsy Cline & My Foolish Heart performed by Sam Cooke

Sep 14, 2019•7 min

Marty Wilde

Blowing Wilde by Frankie Lane and Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley

Sep 07, 2019•7 min

The actor and comedian Doon MacKichan shares her Inheritance Tracks - Parigi o Cara Ah Gran Dio, from La Traviata, performed by Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland and What Is and What Should Never Be by Led Zeppelin.

Aug 31, 2019•8 min