Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.
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Geoff Norcott
If you type ‘right wing comedian’ into a search engine the top answer will be Geoff Norcott.
Amazingly...the second, third and fourth results would also be the comedian and podcaster.
He's certainly cornered his niche making us laugh on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, and his own stand-up special for Radio 4 Geoff-erendum.
But, ironically, it seems Geoff doesn't necessarily skew right, when it comes to at least one of his musical heroes – as we discovered, when we asked him to share his Inheritance Tracks.
Inherited: Itchycoo Park by Small Faces
Pass on: Zoo Station by U2
Producer: Ben Mitchell
16/9/2023
6:38
Richard Osman
Born in Billericay, Richard Osman got his first taste for broadcasting on BBC Radio Sussex, when he was still at school. He read Politics and Sociology at Cambridge and then worked behind the scenes in TV before creating and co-presenting the BBC quiz show, Pointless.
His own show, Richard Osman’s House of Games followed, another huge success, and along the way he’s managed to become an international best-selling crime fiction author!
It all began with The Thursday Murder Club in 2020 and with the fourth book in the wildly popular series on the horizon we asked him to put down that feather quill and share his Inheritance Tracks with us.
Inherited: Life on Mars by David Bowie
Pass on: Being Boring by Pet Shop Boys
Producer: Ben Mitchell
9/9/2023
7:14
Johnny Flynn
Johnny Flynn - actor, poet, musician - he can do pretty much anything.
On stage and screen, he’s played Albert Einstein, Richard Burton and David Bowie - and in the studio he’s recorded albums of classic folk as well as the title track for The Detectorists.
Johnny took a break from playing a political broadcaster in his new show The Lovers to tell us about the musicians who have inspired him throughout his life.
Inherited: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson
Passing on: Close My Eyes by Arthur Russell
Producer: Ben Mitchell
2/9/2023
5:28
Rose Matafeo
Comedian, writer and actor Rose Matafeo grew up in New Zealand, the daughter of a Samoan father and a mother with Scottish/Croatian heritage. In 2018 she won the prestigious ‘Best Show’ at The Edinburgh Fringe for ‘Horndog' - only the second woman, and the first person of colour, to win it. As an actor, she was brilliant in the New Zealand movie Baby Done and she’s soon to be back on our screens in season three of her hit BBC series Starstruck.
We asked her to take a break from writing her new stand-up show and share her Inheritance Tracks with us.
Inherited: Ramblin' Rose by Nat King Cole
Passed on: Where am I going? by Barbra Streisand
Producer: Ben Mitchell
26/8/2023
6:12
Lou Sanders
You’ll no doubt have seen the comedian Lou Sanders on pretty much every tv comedy show; from Live at the Apollo, to 8 out of 10 Cats and she was even champion on Taskmaster.
Her memoir "What's that Lady Doing?" charts a life of mistakes with funny look at what happens when we work through our issues and come out the other side.
The songs she has chosen to cherish from her past and to pass on to the next generation might surprise you…in fact, they seem to have surprised her!
Inherited: Dido Bendigo by The Watersons
Passing On: Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan
Producer: Ben Mitchell