Inheritance Tracks BBC Radio 4

Star of TV and radio, Vernon Kay comes from a Northern working-class family. His first job, at 14, was putting stickers on boxes of bananas at a ripening factory…and he also worked as caretaker, deep cleaning schools before his break came as a model.
TV came next with stints on T4 and All-Star Family Fortunes and has recently taken over the mid-morning show on Radio 2.
Last November Vernon ran an Ultra Marathon for Radio 2’s BBC Children in Need fundraiser, 115 miles in just four days, and he raised over £6 million!!!
Married to fellow presenter Tess Daly, they have two daughters...so what’s the music he’ll choose to pass on to them?
Inherited: Allentown by Billy Joel
Passing on: You Got The Love by Candi Staton
Producer: Ben Mitchell

Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris are a funny couple. Quite literally!
The comedians have been regulars on comedy quiz panels, with Parris one of the hosts on the Mash Report, and Brigstocke appearing on many programmes here on Radio 4, including the popular I’ve Never Seen Star Wars amongst countless other shows.
They're new podcast ‘How was it for you?’, offers a peek into the joyful mess that ensues when two comedians live together.
So we were fascinated to see what there joint inheritance tracks would be.
Inherited:
Marcus - A Forrest by The Cure
Rachel - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt by DJ Shadow
Passed on:
Together - Buona Sera by Louis Prima
Producer: Eirian Jones and Ben Mitchell

The Michelin starred chef and restaurateur Angela Hartnett likes crisps, prefers cheese to dessert, and her favourite pasta is spaghetti in a tomato sauce. Simple tastes for someone who’s famous for giving people fine dining experiences.
A protegee of Gordon Ramsay, Angela cheffed in some of the best restaurants in the world before opening her own Murano in Mayfair.
She’s famous and in demand for her TV appearances and hosts the excellent and entertaining podcast Dish along with Nick Grimshaw.
Whilst growing up, she inherited the values of wholesome food and the importance of the family meal from her Italian grandmother. So we askes her to share the music that she’s inherited with us.
Inherited: Simply the Best by Tina Turner
Passed on: Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini, performed by Luciano Pavarotti
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Catherine Powell

The comedian, podcaster and self described Vibe-Magnet John Robins is an Edinburgh Comedy Award winner whose dry stand up has taken him on several sold out tours, a BBC 5 Live programme with Elis James, and the latest series of Taskmaster.
He openly talks about all aspects of his life, from the ridiculous to the sublime, and has been praised for the way he has discussed the way he has dealt with mental health and his sobriety.
A lover of games and music - what then will he chose for his Inheritance Tracks.
Inherited: Enlightenment by Van Morrison
Passed on: The Wild Kindness (feat. Cassie Berman) by Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Producer: Ben Mitchell

Born in Paris, Liz Bonnin grew up in Ireland where she studied biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin.
She joined an all-girl pop band rather than doing a PhD at Oxford and then came TV, initially on entertainment shows before her real calling pulled her back for a Masters in wild animal biology.
When Liz returned to our tv screens it was as a science presenter; Tomorrow’s World, Bang Goes the Theory, Blue Planet Live....
She’s taken viewers from the Galapagos...to the Jurassic Coast and even Arctic...but where will her Inheritance Tracks lead us today?
Inherited: Amélia by Malavoi
Passed on: I'm Every Woman by Chakka Khan
Producer: Ben Mitchell

Broadcaster Lauren Laverne has, arguably, two of the best jobs in radio - 6 Music’s Breakfast Show and Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
Her career in entertainment began though as the lead singer and a guitarist in the band Kenickie and her love of performing and sharing music see's her takes Desert Island Discs to the London Palladium for a series of special live shows.
As someone who encourages people to share the music that shaped their lives we were fascinated to hear her Inheritance Tracks.
Inherited: Now Westlin Winds by Dick Gaughan
Passed on: Hit or Miss by Odetta
Producer: Ben Mitchell