Celebrating the music that special guests cherish and would like to bestow to future generations.
Kate Humble has presented the majestic Animal Park from Longleat for more than two decades.
As a champion of the environment and rural affairs, she’s been the president of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and founded Humble by Nature, a rural skills centre based at her farm here in Wales.
But when she’s not frolicking in the fields or mucking out meerkats Kate unwinds at home, often in the kitchen, creating recipes for her latest book.
I don’t know about you, but a bit of Beethoven always beats the boredom out of a bolognas...I wonder if Kate’s the same?
Inherited: Suzanne by Leonard Cohen Passed on: Ain't got no / I got life by Nina Simone
Producer: Ben Mitchell
There’s so much more to the actor Peter Capaldi than his brilliant, edgy and original Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who…his career stretches far beyond the Tardis.
He won a BAFTA, for playing the ferocious, foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, another BAFTA for the film spin off ‘In the Loop', and whilst we’re on awards…He’s also won an Oscar!
A punk in his younger days…he’s now writing and recording his own rock music…his debut solo album was released in 2021…so we’re fascinated to hear what he’s chosen as his Inheritance Tracks.
Inherited: That's Life by Frank Sinatra Passed on: Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Anna Bailey
In his regular column Adrian Chiles has written candidly about everything from wearing compression socks to struggling to bend down - even his favourite coat hanger. These musings are now collected in a single book.
He admits that his "orgy of oversharing" isn't for everyone, yet insists even life's most mundane details can hold deeper meaning.
So, what meaning will we uncover in his musical tastes?
Inherited Track: Reuben's Blues by Stan Kenton Pass On: Stop This World by Mose Allison
Producer: Ben Mitchell
This week’s Inheritance Tracks come from the funny and startlingly honest double act and married couple Chris and Rosie Ramsey. They struck gold when they turned their bickering and banter into the wildly successful podcast… Sh*gged, Married, Annoyed…
They take the quotidian absurdities of marriage, parenthood…life in general …and transform it all into comedy gold…nothing seems to be off limits!
They’ve hosted their own BBC 2 chat show…Chris is a touring stand-up comedian…and they’ve both individually competed on Strictly.
Chris and Rosie live just outside the town where they grew up, South Shields, and are now bringing up their family there
We wanted to know about the song or piece of music they’ll pass on to them…
Rosie - Inherited: Wake up Boo! by The Boo Radleys Chris - Inherited: Real gone Kid by Deacon Blue Pass on: I'm Alive by Celine Dion
Producer: Ben Mitchell
The best-selling crime-writer Sir Ian Rankin began his life surrounded by food. His dad ran a grocery store in Fife, his mum worked in a school canteen, and Ian's early writing saw him reviewing wine.
He says he never intended to turn to crime, so to speak, but it was his creation of the hard-drinking and stubborn Edinburgh detective Inspector John Rebus which changed his writing style – and his life.
Beginning with Knots and Crosses in 1987, there have now been 25 Rebus novels - as well as the tv dramas and stage plays – mainly dealing with Scotland’s dark and dangerous underworld.
What then will he reveal as his Inheritenace Tracks?
Inherited: Seven Drunken Nights by The Dubliners Pass on: Another Man's Rain by Jackie Leven
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Noa Dowling
Comedian, actor, Pointless presenter and debut author Alexander Armstrong, grew up in rural Northumberland where his musical ability and joy at being able to entertain began at a young age.
He went to both school and Trinity College Cambridge on music scholarships and after a Footlights’ writing stint, he went on to become one half of the BAFTA-winning comedy duo Armstrong & Miller
If you’re wondering where his passion for classical music began...his Inheritance Tracks will provide the answer.
Inherited: Minuetto Allegretto by the Wombles Passed on: It Must Be Love by Madness
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Noa Dowling
Celia Imrie has worked in television, theatre and films over the past five decades.
She’s taken roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in big budget films such as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to name but a few.
Celia will be starring in the film adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club. The story follows a group of friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders but find themselves caught in a real case.
So with that in mind, we wanted to solve the mystery of what are Celia’s Inheritance Tracks.
Inherited Track: You Know What I Mean by Jeff Beck. Pass On: Merveille by Jean-Louis Aubert.
Producer: Noa Dowling
The two-time Sunday Times bestselling author and journalist Candice Brathwaite grew up in Brixton, south London.
Candice first became known for her conversations about the often over-looked experience of Black mothers in the UK which became the subject of her raw, searing and witty 2020 book, 'I am Not Your Mother'. She followed that with 'Sista Sista' essays which were equally forceful on the issues of diversity, identity and representation. Her latest book 'Manifesto' is out now.
We asked Candice to share with us the tracks that have inspired her.
Inherited: Never, Never, Never by John Holt Pass on: Spring 1, Vivaldi re-composed Four Seasons by Max Richter
Producer: Lowri Morgan
Leigh Francis’ creation Keith Lemon came to our attention with Bo Selecta in the early noughties, and he hasn’t been off our screens much since, with various sketch and panel shows becoming hits, most notably Celebrity Juice and the revamped Through the Keyhole.
Surreal and silly, his is a brand of comedy that has mass appeal, and his new book 'Leigh, Myself and I' charts how "a little boy called Leigh became a naughty bear".
What then will his Inheritance Tracks be?
Inherited: Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants Passed on: New Sensation by INXS
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Tim Minchin is the multi-talented Australian musician, comedian, actor, writer, director, who helped bring Matilda from book to stage with his hit musical lyrics.
In his new book "You Don't Have To Have A Dream" he shares his thoughts and advice on life, art, success, kindness, love - but it was his dream to be a musician that drove young Tim from an early age.
It was his tongue-in-cheek songs and poetry that helped find him fame here in the UK and off the back of his success rebranding Dhal he has turned Groundhog Day into a musical and even trod the boards himself as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar.
With a CV like that – what then will he choose as his Inheritance Tracks.
Inherited: What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong Passed on: Lullaby of Birdland by Ella Fitzgerald
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Nicola Adams was one of the stand-out stars of the London Games in 2012 when she became the first woman to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.
And then she won gold again in Rio four years later.
Born into a tough life in Leeds in the early 1980s, Nicola immediately loved enjoyed the discipline she found in boxing at the age of 12.
If her punches have unnerved her opponents in the ring, her charm and winning smile have perhaps been even more disarming.
Her Inheritance Tracks will have you heading straight to the gym.
Inherited: Hustlin' by Rick Ross Pass on: Sure Thing by Miguel
Producer: Ben Mitchell
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