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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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    Bobby Gillespie

    Sat 16 Oct 2021

    The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by June Tabor, and Joe Hill by The Dubliners.

  • Bernardine Evaristo

    Sat 9 Oct 2021

    Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole & Bridge Over Troubled Water sung by Roberta Flack

  • Robin Ince

    Sat 2 Oct 2021

    Geoffrey Burgon's Theme from Brideshead Revisited and Batyar by The Ukrainians.

  • Hannah Mills MBE

    Sat 25 Sep 2021

    Creep by Radiohead and A Thousand Trees by Stereophonics

  • Tez Ilyas

    Sat 18 Sep 2021

    Mubarak Ho Tum Sabko Haj Ka Mahina by Shabbir Kumar and Tappe by Surinder Rattan

  • Neil Oliver

    Sat 11 Sep 2021

    La Mer by Charles Trenet and Martha by Tom Waits

  • Ann Cleeves

    Sat 4 Sep 2021

    Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific and Farewell to Stromness, Peter Maxwell Davies

  • Lynda La Plante

    Sat 28 Aug 2021

    The Great Pretender by The Platters & Nessun Dorma from Turandot - Luciano Pavarotti

  • Frankie Bridge

    Sat 21 Aug 2021

    I Heard it Through the Grapevine-Marvin Gaye and Don鈥檛 Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin.

  • Emma Barnett

    Sat 14 Aug 2021

    Cheek to Cheek by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong and The Time is Now by Moloko

  • David Thewlis

    Tue 10 Aug 2021

    Vincent by Don McLean and 11.59 by Blondie

  • Andy Hamilton

    Sat 31 Jul 2021

    It鈥檚 Impossible by Perry Como and It Doesn鈥檛 Matter Anymore sung by Buddy Holly.

  • Deborah Moggach

    Sat 24 Jul 2021

    Ella Fitzgerald: Thanks for the Memory and Dory Previn: The Lady with the Braid.

  • Caitlin Moran

    Sat 17 Jul 2021

    Sister Suffragette from Mary Poppins and Something Good by Utah Saints.

  • Anita Rani

    Sat 10 Jul 2021

    Kiya Hai Pyar Jise Humne Zindagi by Jagjit Singh and Incredible by M-Beat

  • Michael Rosen

    Sat 3 Jul 2021

    Tom Lerher鈥檚 Wernher von Braun, Young Hearts Run Free, Candi Staton

  • George The Poet

    Sat 26 Jun 2021

    And the Beat Goes On by The Whispers and Collateral Damage by Burna Boy

  • Keisha Buchanan

    Sat 19 Jun 2021

    I Wanna Be Down by Brandi and Right Here by SWV

  • Archbishop Stephen Cottrell

    Sat 12 Jun 2021

    Chopin Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor and Tippett, A Child of our Time

  • Victoria Hislop

    Sat 5 Jun 2021

    Take Five by Dave Brubeck and Pio Poli by Michalis Hatzigiannis

  • Darcey Bussell

    Sat 29 May 2021

    Dancing Queen by Abba and Prokofiev's Adagio from Cinderella

  • Mary Beard

    Sat 22 May 2021

    Bridge over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel, Sisters are doin' it... by Eurythmics

  • Jonathan Dimbleby

    Sat 15 May 2021

    Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and Beethoven鈥檚 7th Symphony, the final movement.

  • Anya Hindmarch

    Sat 8 May 2021

    Gregorio Allegri: Miserere and Living Next Door to Alice by Smokie

  • Deborah Meaden

    Sat 1 May 2021

    Smooth Sailing by The Temptations and Mercy Mercy Me by Marvin Gaye

  • Liz Kershaw

    Sat 24 Apr 2021

    Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea and You Could Be Mine by Guns N' Roses

  • Steve Davis

    Sat 17 Apr 2021

    Sea Song by Robert Wyatt and Swimming with the Snake by Tim Smith

  • Alice Cooper

    Sat 10 Apr 2021

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

  • Mica Paris

    Sat 3 Apr 2021

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

  • Philip Schofield

    Sat 27 Mar 2021

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

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