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Inheritance Tracks

BBC Radio 4www.bbc.co.uk

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

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Episodes

Paul Nicholas

Actor and singer Paul Nicholas chooses 'Singing In The Rain' by Gene Kelly and 'Don't Worry About Me' by Frank Sinatra.

Jun 22, 20137 min

George Benson

George Benson inherited Just Friends by Charlie Parker and would like to pass on Save The Children by Marvin Gaye.

Jun 15, 20138 min

Alex Jennings

Olivier-Award winning actor Alex Jennings chooses Bring me Sunshine by Morecombe and Wise as the track he’s inherited and It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night by Prince as the track he'd like to pass on.

Jun 08, 20137 min

Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum chooses Dave Brubeck’s Take Five as the track he’s inherited and My Girls by Animal Collective as the track he’d like to pass on.

Jun 01, 20138 min

Bonnie Tyler

Singer Bonnie Tyler chooses A Hard Day’s Night by the Beatles as the song she has inherited and River Deep Mountain High by Tina Turner as the track she’d like to pass down.

May 18, 20137 min

Don McLean

Singer songwriter Don McLean chooses White Christmas by Bing Crosby as the track he has inherited and Don't Be Cruel by Elvis Presley as the song he would like to pass on.

May 11, 20137 min

Steve Hackett

Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett chooses The Drinking Song sung by Mario Lanza as the track he’s inherited and Blowin’ In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary as the song he’d like to pass on.

May 04, 20137 min

Mary Berry

Mary Berry chooses How Great Thou Art as the song she has inherited and Mamma Mia by Abba as the song she'd like to pass on.

Apr 27, 20138 min

Petula Clark

Singer Petula Clarke chooses Only Forever by Bing Crosby and Hotel California by the Eagles.

Apr 20, 20138 min

Graham Fellows

Graham Fellows- aka John Shuttleworth- shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Apr 13, 20138 min

Mick Fleetwood

Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac chooses 'Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie' by Charlie Kunz and 'Imagine' by John Lennon.

Apr 06, 20137 min

Kerry Katona

The singer chooses Hero by Maria Carey and For Once in My Life by Stevie Wonder.

Mar 30, 20137 min

John Taylor

Duran Duran guitarist John Taylor chooses 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' by the Beatles, and 'Golden Years' by David Bowie.

Mar 23, 20138 min

J.J.Williams

Legendary Welsh rugby player J.J.Williams shares his love of The House of the Rising Sun and Bread of Heaven ( Cwm Rhondda ).

Mar 16, 20139 min

Robbie Savage

The footballer turned pundit chooses Big Girls Don't Cry by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and She's the One by Robbie Williams.

Mar 09, 20137 min

Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne from ELO chooses ‘If I Loved You’ from Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein and ‘Only the Lonely’ by Roy Orbison.

Mar 02, 20138 min

Ian Hunter

Mott the Hoople lead singer Ian Hunter chooses 'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' by Leslie Hutchinson and one of his own tracks 'Life'.

Feb 23, 20137 min

Dawn O'Porter

Journalist, author and television presenter Dawn O'Porter chooses Speed of the Sound of Loneliness performed by Nanci Griffith and Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.

Feb 16, 20138 min

IT Katie Melua

Singer Katie Melua chooses 'Imagine' by John Lennon and 'Kids' by MGMT.

Feb 09, 20137 min

Ben Elton

Ben Elton chooses 'Sagt Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind?' performed by Marlene Dietrich and 'We Are The Champions' by Queen.

Feb 02, 20137 min

Tamasin Day Lewis

Tamasin chose Bach’s Brandenburg 6 and Rise and Fall by Fireflies.

Jan 26, 20137 min

Charlotte Green

Charlotte Green, leaving the BBC after 25 years, chooses her Inheritance Tracks.

Jan 19, 20137 min

Trevor Nunn

Theatre director Trevor Nunn chooses Coronation Scot from Paul Temple by Carl Davis and All you Need is Love by the Beatles.

Jan 12, 20137 min

Suggs

Suggs from Madness shares his Inheritance Tracks.

Jan 05, 20137 min

Russell Grant

John McCarthy and Suzy Klein with journalist and broadcaster Aggie MacKenzie, Martin Green who was Head of Ceremonies at the 2012 Olympics and Andrew Parker who was 'the human bridge' during the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. Felcity Finch reveals the Secret Life of the Archers, poet Luke Wright offers a festive rhyme, travel writer Adrian Mourby describes Kosice, one of the 2013 European Capitals of Culture, singer Ralph McTell takes us by the hand and leads us through the streets of London, and cel...

Dec 29, 20127 min

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks are The Warthog by Flanders and Swan and World Inside a Book written by Julia herself.

Dec 22, 20128 min

Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw chooses Father and Son by Cat Stevens and the final chorus of Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc.

Dec 15, 20128 min

Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka chooses The World is Waiting for the Sunrise by Les Paul and Mary Ford and his own composition Manhattan Intermezzo

Dec 08, 20127 min

Nona Hendryx

Soul singer Nona Hendryx chooses 'Peace in the Valley' by Rosetta Tharpe and ‘Strange Fruit’- versions by Billy Holliday and Nona herself.

Dec 01, 20127 min
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