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Meera Syal's Final Tracks of My Years

Meera Syal - actor, comedian and playwright - chooses her final Tracks of My Years. There's the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster.

Meera Syal - actor, comedian and playwright - chooses her final Tracks of My Years. Born in Wolverhampton to Punjabi parents, Meera rose to prominence as one of the team that created and starred in sitcom 'Goodness Gracious Me', as well as portraying 'Grandma Ummi' to her real-life husband Sanjeev Bhaskar in 'The Kumars at No. 42'. On the big screen Meera was most recently seen in Richard Curtis' film 'Yesterday' and has also appeared in 'Paddington 2' and 'The Nutcracker & The 4 Realms'.

In February this year Meera resurrected her Kumars At No 42 character on Radio 4 for 'Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar'. Ummi gathers together her favourite inspirational women at Wembley Community Centre, aided by her millennial great granddaughter Maya and her arch nemesis "frenemy" Geeta, leader of the local Asian Ladies Silver Bats community group.

Her latest role is playing the lawyer Elizabeth Churchland in the second series of 'Code 404' starring Daniel Mays, Stephen Graham and Anna Maxwell Martin. This hugely popular Sky comedy is set in the near future and revolves around two policemen, DI John Major (Danny Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Stephen Graham). They're your usual wise-cracking partners but with one major difference - Major is half robot after being killed in the line of duty and resurrected using artificial intelligence. In the new series their relationship is in a bad place, but they still find themselves in terrible scrapes, so bank on Meera's character to get them out of their latest bit of bother...but just how trustworthy is she?

The final two tracks Meera has chosen come from Mumford & Sons and Elvis Presley. Ken also has your love song dedications plus another round of PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Fri 3 Sep 2021 09:30
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Music Played

  • Coldplay

    A Sky Full Of Stars

    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Awards (Various Artists).
    • UMOD.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    The Secret He Had Missed (feat. Julia Cumming)

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Billy Joel

    All About Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Texas

    You Can Call Me

    • Hi.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Red Box

    Lean On Me

    • Red Box - The Circle & The Square.
    • Sire.

  • Irene Cara

    Fame

    • NOW Yearbook '82 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Weeknd

    Take My Breath

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

  • America

    The Border

    • Encore! More Greatest Hits.
    • Rhino.

  • Neil Diamond

    September Morn

    • Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio.
    • Columbia/Mca.

  • Record of the Week

    • Elton John & Dua Lipa

      Cold Heart

      • (CD Single).
      • Virgin/EMI.

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    Torn

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artist.
    • Elektra.

  • Pink Floyd

    Money

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Laura Mvula

    Magical

    • Pink Noise.
    • Atlantic.

  • Gallagher & Lyle

    I Wanna Stay With You

    • Gallagher & Lyle - Breakaway.
    • River Records.

  • Steps

    Take Me For A Ride

    • What The Future Holds Pt. 2.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Summer Moved On

    • (CD Single).
    • WEA.

  • Paul Simon

    50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

    • Paul Simon - Negotiations & Love Song.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 6.

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Album of the Week

    • Diane Warren, Leona Lewis & James Morrison

      Grow Old With Me

      • The Cave Sessions Vol 1.
      • BMG.

  • Aswad

    Shine

    • Now 1994 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Jack Savoretti

    Secret Life

    • Europiana.
    • UMG.

  • Tracks Of My Years

    • Mumford & Sons

      Sigh No More

      • Sigh No More.
      • Cooperative Music.
      • 1.

    • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

      A Little Less Conversation

      • (CD Single).
      • BMG/RCA.

  • ABBA

    Don't Shut Me Down

    • Voyage.
    • Polar.

  • Bananarama

    Venus

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Sep 2021 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2