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Guests on songs inherited from their parents and songs they'd pass on to their children.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Craig Charles

    Sat 20 Mar 2021

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

  • Nicky Campbell

    Sat 13 Mar 2021

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

  • Gabrielle

    Sat 6 Mar 2021

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

  • Stuart MacBride

    Sat 27 Feb 2021

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

  • Stella Duffy

    Sat 20 Feb 2021

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

  • Priyanka Chopra Jonas

    Sat 13 Feb 2021

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

  • Jonny Greenwood

    Sat 6 Feb 2021

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

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Sat 30 Jan 2021

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

  • Anna Friel

    Sat 23 Jan 2021

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

  • YolanDa Brown

    Sat 16 Jan 2021

    What鈥檚 Going On by Marvin Gaye and Don鈥檛 You Worry 鈥楤out A Thing by Tori Kelly

  • Skin

    Sat 9 Jan 2021

    Stevie Wonder鈥檚 Pastime Paradise and Nina Simone singing Strange Fruit

  • Andrew O'Hagan

    Mon 4 Jan 2021

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

  • Jools Holland

    Boxing Day 2020

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

  • Sheila Ferguson

    Boxing Day 2020

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

  • Don Black

    Sat 19 Dec 2020

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

  • Richard Armitage

    Sat 12 Dec 2020

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

  • Mark Watson

    Sat 5 Dec 2020

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

  • John Lanchester

    Sat 28 Nov 2020

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

  • Ken Follett

    Sat 21 Nov 2020

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

  • Hank Marvin

    Sat 14 Nov 2020

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

  • Sophie Kinsella

    Sat 7 Nov 2020

    The author Sophie Kinsella has died, aged 55. She was interviewed for Radio 4 in 2020.

  • Jodie Prenger

    Sat 31 Oct 2020

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

  • Jamie Redknapp

    Sat 24 Oct 2020

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

  • Bernard Cornwell

    Sat 17 Oct 2020

    Alison Krauss, Down to the River to Pray and Voces8, Pie Jesu from Faur茅鈥檚 Requiem

  • Tori Amos

    Sat 10 Oct 2020

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

  • Susie Dent

    Sat 26 Sep 2020

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

  • Jay Rayner

    Sat 19 Sep 2020

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

  • Ruby Turner

    Sat 12 Sep 2020

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

  • Ed Balls

    Sat 5 Sep 2020

    Dopo notte, atra e funesta from Handel's Ariodante and 'We Shall Overcome' by Pete Seeger

  • Zawe Ashton

    Sat 29 Aug 2020

    Crazy Love Vol II by Paul Simon and Don鈥檛 Touch My Hair by Solange featuring Sampha.

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