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Who's up for Ten to the Top?

Author and food writer Sophie Dahl chooses her Tracks of My Years all this week. Plus, there's Vernon's music quiz Ten to the Top and the Record and Album of the Week.

Author, columnist and food writer Sophie Dahl continues her musical journey in Tracks of My Years.

First becoming widely known as a model - who also happened to be Roald Dahl's grand-daughter - Sophie's writing debut, an illustrated novella called The Man With the Dancing Eyes, was published in 2003.

Also a devoted home-cook, her cookbook Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights was published in 2009, and a spin-off Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two series, The Delicious Miss Dahl, aired the following year. In 2011, Sophie wrote and presented a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two social history documentary about the Victorian domestic advisor Isabella Beeton, and her second cookbook, From Season to Season, was published.

Sophie’s first book for children, Madame Badobedah, was published in October 2019, and this week she will be on the show talking about the sequel, titled Madame Badobedah and the Old Bones, out this week!

She lives in the country with her husband and two daughters, rescue dog, cats and tortoise.

Plus, there's the mid-morning music quiz Ten to the Top, a brand new Record and Album of the Week, and we go diving into the archives for Vernon's Vault.

Whatever you're up to, Vern wants to hear from you: email vernon@bbc.co.uk - and if you’d like to apply to take part in Ten to the Top, the address you need is tentothetop@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Tue 3 Oct 2023 09:30
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Music Played

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    • Genesis - Turn It On Again.
    • Virgin.

  • Take That

    Windows

    • This Life.
    • EMI.

  • Jennifer Lopez

    Waiting For Tonight

    • Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Sugababes

    When The Rain Comes

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Cher

    Believe

    • Love Songs - 39 All Time Love Classic.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Sweet Sounds Of Heaven (feat. Lady Gaga & Stevie Wonder)

    • Hackney Diamonds.
    • Polydor.

  • Nirvana

    Smells Like Teen Spirit

  • Record Of the Week

    • U2

      Atomic City

      • (CD Single).
      • Island.

  • The Script

    Superheroes

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    • The Old Skool Reunion (Various Artis.
    • Global Television.

  • Zoe Wees

    Lightning

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Take Me With U

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Stop

    • Are We There Yet?.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Who

    5.15 LOOP

    • Simply The Best Movie Album (Various).
    • Warner Strategic Market.

  • Queen

    We Are The Champions

    • News Of The World.
    • Island.
    • 2.

  • Jake Shears & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Laura (Radio 2 Piano Room, 23 Feb 2023)

  • Album Of The Week

    • Beverley Knight

      I'm On Fire (feat. London Community Gospel Choir)

      • The Fifth Chapter.
      • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Dua Lipa

    Love Again

    • Future Nostalgia.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Emeli SandΓ©

    There For You

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Tracks Of My Years

    • Beats International

      Dub Be Good To Me

      • Dancing On Sunshine - 22 Reggae Hits.
      • Polygram Tv.

    • Alicia Keys

      Empire State of Mind

      • Single.
      • EMI.
      • 1.

  • Pixies

    Where Is My Mind?

    • Death To The Pixies.
    • 4AD.
    • 14.

  • Armand van Helden

    You Don't Know Me (feat. Duane Harden)

    • (CD Single).
    • FFRR.

Broadcast

  • Tue 3 Oct 2023 09:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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