Inheritance Tracks
Summary: Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.
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John Peel's widow, Sheila Ravenscroft, chooses 'Panis Angelicus' by César Franck and 'You Little Thief' by Feargal Sharkey.
West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall selects 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' by Judy Garland and Faure's 'In Paradisum'
Bonnie Langford chooses 'Bring Me Sunshine' by Morecambe and Wise, and 'The Overture of Gypsy' by Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra.
Richard Branson chose 'Tubular Bells' by Mike Oldfield and 'Satisfaction' by the Rolling Stones.
Cerys Matthews inherits Snooks Eaglin's 'I'm a Country Boy' and passes on Hozier's 'Take Me To Church'.
Rebecca Front chooses: We All Laughed by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong; and Siciliano, The second movement of Bach's Second Piano Concerto, performed by Glenn Gould.
Singer Natalie Cole inherits 'Smile' from her father Nat King Cole and passes on 'You Gotta Be' by Des'ree.
Actor Anthony Head inherits 'Adagio for Strings' by Samuel Barber and passes on 'Highway, Highway' by Stephen Allen Davis.
Former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss inherits Boney M's 'Rivers of Babylon', and he passes on Hootie & The Blowfish's 'Hold My Hand'.
Conductor Sir Neville Marriner inherits Handel's Messiah performed by The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and passes on Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht performed by the Hollywood String Quartet.
Andy Bell from Erasure chose '(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear' by Blondie and 'Moments of Pleasure' by Kate Bush.
Louise competed in the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Australia, making the swimming finals in the 100m and 200m backstroke. She is currently the Commonwealth Games Federation Honorary Secretary and is Vice Chair of the Commonwealth Games Scotland Organising Committee. Louise chose "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers and "The Road To Home" by Amy Macdonald.
Roger Wright chooses Sibelius' 2nd Symphony and Via Con Me by Paolo Conte
Chris Froome shares his Inheritance Tracks: All You Need is Love by the Beatles, and Scatterlings of Africa by Johnny Clegg.
The beehive Queen of Neasden chooses The Folks Who Live on the Hill by Peggy Lee and How Can You Mend a Broken Heart by the Bee Gees.