Inheritance Tracks
Summary: Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.
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Theatre director Trevor Nunn chooses Coronation Scot from Paul Temple by Carl Davis and All you Need is Love by the Beatles.
Suggs from Madness shares his Inheritance Tracks.
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 celebrity astrologer Russell Grant shares his Inheritance Tracks.
Julia Donaldson's Inheritance Tracks are The Warthog by Flanders and Swan and World Inside a Book written by Julia herself.
Fiona Shaw chooses Father and Son by Cat Stevens and the final chorus of Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc.
Neil Sedaka chooses The World is Waiting for the Sunrise by Les Paul and Mary Ford and his own composition Manhattan Intermezzo
Soul singer Nona Hendryx chooses 'Peace in the Valley' by Rosetta Tharpe and ‘Strange Fruit’- versions by Billy Holliday and Nona herself.
Sir John chooses After the Ball is Over performed by Gerald Adams and the Variety singers as his inherited track and What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong to pass on.
Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze inherits They Can’t Take That Away From Me by Sarah Vaughan and passes on Que Sera Sera by Sly and the Family Stone.
Sir Andrew Motion chooses The Weight by The Band and Sonnet, from Serenade by Benjamin Britten.
Country singer Charley Pride chooses Roy Acuff, Great Speckled Bird and his own, Kiss An Angel Good Morning
Singer songwriter Hazel O’Connor chooses Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland as the song she has inherited. The tracks she would like pass down are Redemption Song by Bob Marley and Imagine by John Lennon. .
Lenny Henry chooses Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino and Vide Cor Meum composed by Patrick Cassidy from the film Hannibal.
The South African jazz legend chooses U Mam'u Ya Jabula, a traditional South African song, performed by himself and When It's Sleepy Time Down South by Louis Armstrong.
Singer songwriter, Ralph McTell, best known for ‘The Streets of London’ chooses ‘I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now’ by the Dinning Sisters and ‘Crossroads Blues’ by Robert Johnson