Inheritance Tracks - Professor Alice Roberts - BBC Sounds

Sir Michael Caine

My Old Man’s a Dustman, Lonnie Donegan and Comme D’habitude, Claude Francois.

• 7 mins

Luke Goss

The Bros drummer chooses U2, Where The Streets Have No Name and Bob Marley, One Love.

• 7 mins

David Gower

Tchaikovsky: 5th Symphony, 4th movement and Candle in the Wind by Elton John

• 7 mins

Michael Sheen

O Superman, Laurie Anderson and A Design for Life, The Manic Street Preachers.

• 7 mins

Angelique Kidjo

Quimbara by Celia Cruz and Fire on the Mountain by Asa.

• 18 mins

Stephen Poliakoff

Chooses The Forsyte Saga theme by Eric Coates and Willow by Joan Armatrading

• 6 mins

Susan Hill

The Sea Interludes; Mozart’s Oboe concerto 3rd movement.

• 7 mins

George RR Martin

George RR Martin chooses The Wayward Wind by Gogi Grant and Ripple by The Grateful Dead.

• 7 mins

Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Zefiro Torna by Monterverdi Credo from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis Op123

• 7 mins

Doon Mackichan

Parigi o Cara Ah Gran Dio, from La Traviata, and What Is and What Should Never Be.

• 7 mins

Marty Wilde

Blowing Wilde by Frankie Lane and Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley

• 7 mins

Roisin Conaty

Crazy performed by Patsy Cline & My Foolish Heart performed by Sam Cooke

• 7 mins

Shirley Collins

Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughn Williams & A Denying by Shirley & Dolly Collins

• 7 mins

Armistead Maupin

Every Time We Say Goodbye – Ella Fitzgerald and Being Boring – Pet Shop Boys

• 7 mins

Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace chooses Sunshine on Leith by The Proclaimers, and Live Forever by Oasis

• 7 mins

Gok Wan

Make Your Own Kind of Music by Mama Cass Elliot and Top of the World The Carpenters

• 6 mins

Kelly Macdonald

Kelly Macdonald chooses: You are My Sunshine by Jimmie Davis and I Love You by Woodkid.

• 7 mins

Jonathan Van Ness

You Gotta Be by Des'ree and Big Dream by Jazmine Sullivan.

• 7 mins

Norman Jay MBE

Norman Jay chooses: Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole and Optimistic by Sounds of Blackness.

• 8 mins

JoJo Moyes

She's leaving home by The Beatles and Are You Lonesome Tonight performed by Elvis Presley

• 7 mins

Toby Stephens

You Are In My Vision by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army and She Belongs To Me by Bob Dylan

• 6 mins

Dan Snow

Slide Away by Oasis, and Mr. Brightside by The Killers.

• 7 mins

Andre Rieu

Sphärenklänge by Josef Strauss and What a Wonderful World performed by Louis Armstrong.

• 7 mins

Eoin Colfer

Get Down Make Love by Queen and Kindling (Fickle Flame) by Elbow feat. John Grant.

• 7 mins

Jeff Goldblum

'Misty’ by Erroll Garner and ‘We’ll Meet Again’ by Vera Lynn

• 7 mins

Stephen Hough

Chopin Etudes opus 25 no 1 in A flat major; A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

• 7 mins

Frank Skinner

Winter Wonderland - Dean Martin and George Formby - Why Women Don’t Like Me

• 5 mins

Paul O'Grady

Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum and A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody by Sonny Lester

• 7 mins

Brian Cox

Chooses Sonny Boy performed by Al Jolson, and God Only Knows by The Beach Boys

• 7 mins

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Chooses Sugar Bum Bum by Lord Kitchener and What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye.

• 7 mins