Saturday Live Inheritance Tracks

Twelve of our absolutely favourite Inheritance Tracks, the magical feature where we ask our guests to think of the song that they inherited from their parents and also the one that they would pass on to the next generation.

It never fails to inspire, delight and surprise - so we very much hope you enjoy this unique combination of tunes and tales. As one of our listeners once put it, 'it's like Desert Island Discs for people who don't have much time ...'

The 12 Inheritance

• Goldie

  

  Musician, actor and almost winner of Maestro - the BBC conductor competition show - Goldie inherits Logical Song by Supertramp and passes on Minuano (Six Eight) from the album Still Life (Talking) by Pat Metheny.

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• Dame Vera Lynn

  

  Dame Vera Lynn chose What's A Mammy, Daddy? and We'll Meet Again.

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• Brian Keenan

  

  Brian Keenan chose Ol' Man River sung by Paul Robeson and the friendship duet from The Pearl Fishers by Bizet.

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• Ronnie Corbett

  

  Ronnie chose All in the April Evening sung by the Glasgow Orpheus Choir and Fred Astaire's Change Partners.

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• Julie Walters

  

  Julie Walters chose Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor) performed by Alfred Brendel and My Funny Valentine by Cleo Laine.

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• Daniel O'Donnell

  

  The multi-million selling singer inherited the hymn Panis Angelicus and plans to pass on his own My Lovely Island Home.

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• Ruth Jones

  

  Ruth Jones chose Lily the Pink by The Scaffold and I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack.

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• k.d. lang

  

  Canadian singer-songwriter and 4 time Grammy Award winner, k.d. lang shares her Inheritance Tracks: Crying by Roy Orbison and The Valley by Jane Siberry.

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• David McKee

  

  David McKee is an author and illustrator of children's books and animations and he created Mr Benn. He chose Christopher Robin is Saying his Prayers and All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan.

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• Clarke Peters

  

  American actor, singer and writer Clarke Peters chose Christmas Song by Nat King Cole and Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.

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• Mike Leigh

  

  Filmmaker Mike Leigh chose George Formby's Bless 'Em All and Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin'.

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• Lindsay Wagner

  

  Former Bionic Woman, Lindsay Wagner inherited Mona Lisa by Nat 'King' Cole and passes on Open to Oneness from her own meditation CD.

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