Inheritance Tracks
Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.
Ben Bailey Smith
You might know Ben Bailey Smith better as Doc Brown, an actor, comedian, rapper and screen writer. Ben was born to a Jamaican mother and English father in Willesden, north west London, his older sister is the celebrated writer Zadie Smith. He started rapping when he was 15, competing in…
Gaz Coombes
The frontman of one of the biggest music acts of the 90’s, Supergrass, Gaz was born in Oxford to a food scientist father and an English teaching mother. The family moved to San Francisco for a few of Gaz’s formative years, before returning to Oxford and at 13, he met…
Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan was born in 1970 in Tooting, south London. He became a solicitor in the early 90’s specializing in Human rights issues, and an MP in 2005. He was first elected as London Mayor in 2016, becoming the third mayor of the city and its first Muslim mayor. In…
Dr Alex George
Former A & E doctor, Love Islander and mental health campaigner on his life in music.
Mathew Baynton
Mathew Baynton is an actor, writer, comedian and musician – who shot to fame as part of the troop who brought us the historical and hysterical sketch show Horrible Histories on CBBC. Since then, along with his fellow co-stars, he has gone on to create, write and star in the…
Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain won him The Booker Prize in 2020. It centres around an alcoholic single mother and her gay son navigating life on a Glasgow estate and it reflects Douglas’ own troubled upbringing. After near homelessness he earned a place at The Royal College of Art…and…
Alex Jones
Alex Jones, is a broadcaster and host of The One Show and Reunion Hotel. Music: Inherited: Tiny Dancer by Elton John Pass on: I'm Yours by Jason Mraz Producers: Ben Mitchell and Lowri Rhiannon Morgan
Tony Robinson
The actor and broadcaster shares the music that has shaped his life.
Rufus Wainwright
As well as being a consummate journalist, newsreader and broadcaster, Sophie does ‘beyond the limits’ running…the Marathon des Sables for example…for pleasure?! In this edition of Inheritance Tracks he reveals the stories behind the music that continues to inspire him; from the highlands of Scotland to a powerful song gifted…
Sophie Raworth
As well as being a consummate journalist, newsreader and broadcaster, Sophie does ‘beyond the limits’ running…the Marathon des Sables for example…for pleasure?! In this edition of Inheritance Tracks she reveals the very personal stories behind the music that continues to inspire her and evoke such fond and beautiful memories; from…
Elizabeth Day
For Elizabeth Day, nothing succeeds like failure as her award-winning podcast How To Fail With Elizabeth Day proves - and getting in the way of defeat once again is her new book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict. In this edition of Inheritance Tracks she reveals how a warm down…
Matthew Modine
Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto and On My Feelings by Ruby Modine
Anneka Rice
Joan Baez performing There but for fortune, Nina Simone: Feeling Good
George Webster
I Feel by Teddy Thompson and Any Dream Will Do by Jason Donovan
Lily James
Eric Bibb, The Cape and Lianne La Havas, Green Papaya
Carlo Rovelli
Nothing Shines Unless It Burns by Belladonna and Fratres by Arvo Pärt
Andrew Roachford
Let's Stay Together Al Green and Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield
Sean Fletcher
He's Misstra Know-It-All by Stevie Wonder and Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
Chris Robshaw
If You Don't Know Me By Now by Simply Red and California King Bed by Rihanna
Tom Allen
Saving All My Love for You by Whitney Houston and Chicago by Sufjan Stevens