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

Alice Cooper

The Yardbirds' Train Kept a Rollin’ and Thunderclap Newman, Something in the air

Apr 10, 2021•8 min

Mica Paris

Come Live with Me Angel by Marvin Gaye and Tom Browne- Funkin for Jamaica.

Apr 03, 2021•8 min

Philip Schofield

Unforgettable by Nat King Cole and Make Me Smile by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Mar 27, 2021•8 min

Craig Charles

Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit and Wilson Pickett's Hey Jude

Mar 20, 2021•8 min

Nicky Campbell

Smile by Nat King Cole and Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

Mar 13, 2021•8 min

Gabrielle

What's Love Got To Do With It by Tina Turner and Islands in the Stream

Mar 06, 2021•8 min

Stuart MacBride

I Wanna Be Like You, Kenny Ball; My Chemical Romance, Welcome to the Black Parade

Feb 27, 2021•8 min

Stella Duffy

Life on Mars by David Bowie and You Got To Run by Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq

Feb 20, 2021•8 min

Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Desi Girl by Shankar Mahadevan and The First Time I Saw Your Face by Roberta Flack

Feb 13, 2021•8 min

Jonny Greenwood

Sweetheart Contract by Magazine, Brotherhood of Man by Oscar Peterson with Terry Clarke

Feb 06, 2021•8 min

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Some Enchanted Evening by Giorgio Tozzi and Prokofiev's 7th Piano Sonata

Jan 30, 2021•8 min

Anna Friel

Weird Fishes/Arpeggi by Radiohead, and Heart on Ice by Desi Friel

Jan 23, 2021•8 min

YolanDa Brown

What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye and Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing by Tori Kelly

Jan 16, 2021•8 min

Skin

Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise and Nina Simone singing Strange Fruit

Jan 09, 2021•8 min

Andrew O'Hagan

This Is My Life by Shirley Bassey and Falling and Laughing by Orange Juice

Jan 04, 2021•8 min

Jools Holland

Up Above My Head by Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Love Made Them Do It by Ruby Turner

Dec 26, 2020•7 min

Sheila Ferguson

What Are You Doing New Years Eve/ Nancy Wilson & When Will I See You Again/Three Degrees

Dec 26, 2020•6 min

Don Black

Besame Mucho, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme and The Way You Look Tonight, Fred Astaire

Dec 19, 2020•7 min

Richard Armitage

Dance Of The Blessed Spirits by C.W. Gluck and On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter

Dec 12, 2020•8 min

Mark Watson

The Logical Song by Supertramp and In The New Year by The Walkmen.

Dec 05, 2020•8 min

John Lanchester

JS Bach, Partita no. 1 in B flat major and Hong Kong Garden by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Nov 28, 2020•7 min

Ken Follett

Myfanwy by Cor Meibion Dolgellau A'r Cylch & Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen

Nov 21, 2020•8 min

Hank Marvin

Rock Island Line performed by Lonnie Donegan and Joshua by Allan Holdsworth.

Nov 14, 2020•7 min

Sophie Kinsella

The Seekers' Five Hundred Miles, F. Couperin's "Les Baricades Mysterieuses", A Hewitt

Nov 07, 2020•7 min

Jodie Prenger

D.I.S.C.O by Ottawan and Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell.

Oct 31, 2020•9 min

Jamie Redknapp

Easy by The Commodores and The Notorious B.I.G - Juicy.

Oct 24, 2020•8 min

Bernard Cornwell

Alison Krauss, Down to the River to Pray and Voces8, Pie Jesu from Fauré’s Requiem

Oct 17, 2020•7 min

Tori Amos

Ain't Misbehavin' by Fats Waller and Really Love by D'Angelo and the Vanguard

Oct 10, 2020•8 min

Susie Dent

Calypso by John Denver and Me, Myself, I, by Joan Armatrading.

Sep 26, 2020•8 min

Jay Rayner

A Fats Waller Medley from Ain't Misbehavin and Night Boat to Cairo by Madness

Sep 19, 2020•8 min

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