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

Ruby Turner

Aretha Franklin, Don't Play That Song, and Gladys Knight, Licence to Kill.

Sep 12, 2020•8 min

Ed Balls

Former politician Ed Balls chooses 'Dopo notte, atra e funesta' from Handel's Ariodante and 'We Shall Overcome' by Pete Seeger.

Sep 05, 2020•8 min

Zawe Ashton

Crazy Love Vol II by Paul Simon and Don’t Touch My Hair by Solange featuring Sampha.

Aug 29, 2020•8 min

Matt Haig

Don't you Want Me - the Human League and It's Quiet Uptown from the Hamilton soundtrack.

Aug 22, 2020•8 min

Fay Ripley

Streisand/Garland Happy days are here again/Get Happy and Nicky Mulvey Fever to the Form

Aug 15, 2020•8 min

Tony Hadley

My Boy Lollipop by Millie Small and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Aug 08, 2020•7 min

Deborah Bull

Streets of London by Ralph McTell and Bury Me Naked by Merry Hell

Aug 01, 2020•8 min

Jessie Ware

I Get a Kick Out of You by Ella Fitzgerald and Love is Stronger than Pride by Sade.

Jul 25, 2020•7 min

Fern Britton

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of summer by Nat King Cole and Natural Woman by Carole King

Jul 18, 2020•7 min

Martha Wainwright

Me Myself I by Joan Armatrading and Going to a Town by Rufus Wainwright

Jul 11, 2020•8 min

Sally Phillips

Heart of Gold by Boney M and Days by Kirsty MacColl

Jul 04, 2020•7 min

Norah Jones

Blue Christmas by Elvis and Trenchtown Rock by Bob Wailers and the Wailers

Jun 27, 2020•8 min

Mark Strong

Mr Soft's Cockney Rebel, Birgit Nilsson singing Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde

Jun 20, 2020•8 min

Alan Ayckbourn

Schubert's Unfinished and Handel's organ concerto No.12 in B flat, op 7 no.6 Lentement

Jun 13, 2020•7 min

Dame Marina Warner

Si mi chiamo Mimi by Puccini and Sonata No. 3 in A major, op. 69 by Beethoven

Jun 06, 2020•8 min

Mark Ravenhill

The Theme from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and No-one Is Alone from Into the Woods.

May 30, 2020•8 min

John Humphrys

Henry Belafonte singing Mary’s Boy Child and Take the A Train performed by Duke Ellington

May 23, 2020•7 min

Carol Morley

Life's a Gas by T. Rex and Lost and Lonely by Paloma Faith

May 16, 2020•7 min

Stewart Copeland

Aaron Copland's Hoe Down and Spanish Castle Magic by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

May 15, 2020•7 min

Janice Long

Happiness performed by Ken Dodd and Love Song by The Cure

May 02, 2020•6 min

Jules Buckley

Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley and Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

Apr 25, 2020•8 min

Soweto Kinch

The jazz saxophonist chooses Snake Hip Swing by Ken Snake Hips Johnson and Pf Fat by Steve Williamson Feat. Black Thought (the Roots)

Apr 18, 2020•7 min

Christian Louboutin

Tina Turner’s Proud Mary and The Fugees’ Killing me Softly

Apr 11, 2020•8 min

Michelle Collins

She's Gone by Hall and Oates and Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Diana Ross

Apr 04, 2020•8 min

Johnnie Walker

With a Song in My Heart; Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel.

Mar 28, 2020•8 min

Martina Cole

Galway Bay, performed by Ruby Murray and Word on a Wing by David Bowie

Mar 21, 2020•8 min

Jane McDonald

Downtown by Petula Clark and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Mar 14, 2020•7 min

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas

These Boots Are Made for Walkin’, by Nancy Sinatra; and The Planets - Mars, by Holst.

Mar 07, 2020•7 min

Clara Amfo

Run to the Sun by N.E.R.D and Everything is Everything by Lauryn Hill

Feb 29, 2020•8 min

Corey Taylor

Burning Love by Elvis Presley; Safe European Home by The Clash

Feb 22, 2020•8 min

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