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Inheritance Tracks

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Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.

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BBC Radio 4

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Music

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Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Ziggy Marley 24.05.2014

Ziggy Marley chooses 'Africa Unite' by Bob Marley, and hands down his own track,'I Don't Wanna Live On Mars'.

Ronan Keating 17.05.2014

Ronan Keating chooses Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' and a song which has been vital to Ronan's life: 'Father and Son' by Cat Stevens.

Coleen Nolan 10.05.2014

Coleen Nolan chooses 'That's Life' by Frank Sinatra and 'Voice Within' by Christina Aguilera.

Julian Lloyd Webber 03.05.2014

Julian Lloyd-Webber's Inheritance Tracks are The March from the Love For Three Oranges by Prokofiev and The Little Beggar Boy by Piazzolla played by Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd-Webber.

Judy Finnigan 26.04.2014

Judy Finnigan chooses Who's Sorry Now by Connie Francis, and Hey Jude, by The Beatles.

Helen Fielding 19.04.2014

Bridget Jones’ author Helen Fielding chooses 'Climb Every Mountain' from the Sound of Music and Diana’s Krall’s version of 'Pick Yourself Up'.

Jimmy Osmond 12.04.2014

Jimmy Osmond chooses 'Moon River' by Andy Williams and 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' by The Osmonds.

Jack Whitehall 05.04.2014

Comedian Jack Whitehall chooses plainchant from the Monks of Ampleforth Abbey and Rollin' by Limp Bizkit.

Francis Urquhart 29.03.2014

For Radio 4’s Character Invasion, House of Cards’ Francis Urquhart shares his Inheritance Tracks, courtesy of his creator Michael Dobbs and actor Ewan Bailey.

Claudia Winkelman 22.03.2014

Claudia Winkelman shares her inheritance tracks. She inherits the ET theme tune by John Williams and she passes on 'As' by Stevie Wonder.

Desmond Morris 15.03.2014

Zoologist, writer and broadcaster Desmond Morris chose 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' by Ella Fitzgerald and 'Be Cool' by Honor Heffernan.

Danielle de Niese 08.03.2014

Opera singer Danielle de Niese shares her Inheritance Tracks. She inherits Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen and passes on I Know That My Redeemer Liveth from Handel’s Messiah.

Patti Boulaye 01.03.2014

Singer, actor, painter, choreographer, producer, Patti Boulaye chooses 'Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen' by Louis Armstrong and 'Earth Song' by Michael Jackson. .

Eva Schloss 22.02.2014

Auschwitz survivor, Eva Schloss, inherits the 'Trout Quintet' by Schubert and passes on ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong.

Johnny Borrell 15.02.2014

Razorlight’s lead singer Johnny Borrell picks The Beach Boys 'California Saga: The Beaks Of Eagles' and Regina Spektor 'Samson'.

Marjorie Wallace 08.02.2014

Marjorie Wallace is the Founder and Chief Executive of SANE. She inherits Chopin's Ballade in G minor played by Vladimir Ashkenazy and passes on 'If I Loved You' from the original movie soundtrack of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

Graham Nash 01.02.2014

Twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Graham Nash of the Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash chooses his Inheritance Tracks; Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings and Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by the aforementioned Crosby, Stills and Nash

Chris Hadfield 25.01.2014

Chris Hadfield is former Commander of the International Space Station. He chooses 'Where have all the flowers gone' by the Kingston Trio and 'The Story' by Brandi Carlile.

Jack Vettriano 18.01.2014

The artist Jack Vettriano chooses the tracks that mean something to him: he inherits Kitty Kallen's Little Things Mean A Lot and passes on My Father by Judy Collins

Kate Adie 11.01.2014

Journalist Kate Adie chooses the 'Housewive’s choice' theme - 'In Party Mood' by the West End Celebrity Orchestra composed by Jack Strachey. And passes on 'Five Variants Of Dives And Lazarus' by Vaughan Williams.

Jennifer Saunders 04.01.2014

Comedian Jennifer Saunders chooses The Q5 theme by Spike Milligan and Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s song ‘Talk to me of Mendocino’ sung by Kate and her children Rufus and Martha Wainwright.

John Challis 28.12.2013

John Challis, AKA Boycie from 'Only Fools and Horses' chooses: Peter Lind Hayes: Life Gets Tee-Jus, Don't It? And Whitesnake - Here I Go Again.

Sir Cliff Richard 21.12.2013

Cliff Richard is Britain's most enduring pop star, recently releasing his 100th album. He chooses 'Chewing Piece of Straw' by Jack Payne and his Orchestra and his own track 'We Don't Talk Anymore'.

Doreen Lawrence 14.12.2013

Baroness Doreen Lawrence is the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Since his death she has campaigned for justice for the victims of race crime and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust in 1998. She chooses ‘Redemption Song’ by Bob Marley and The Wailers and 'Hello Mama Africa' by Garnett Silk.

Judith Kerr 07.12.2013

Judith Kerr is a children’s writer and illustrator whose books ‘The Tiger Who Came for Tea’ and ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ have been delighting children and young people for many years. She inherits the Johannes Brahms Lullaby Wiegenlied and It Ain't Necessarily So by George Gershwin.

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