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Vernon brings the big tunes

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

Author, columnist and food writer Sophie Dahl shares her penultimate songs 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two series, The Delicious Miss Dahl, aired the following year. In 2011, Sophie wrote and presented a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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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Thu 5 Oct 2023 09:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Bob Sinclar

    Love Generation (feat. Gary β€œNesta” Pine)

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.

  • Take That

    Windows

    • This Life.
    • EMI.

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • Jocelyn Brown

    Somebody Else's Guy

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Angry

    • Hackney Diamonds.
    • Polydor.

  • Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

    Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)

    • 20 Number 1's Of The 70's (Various).
    • MFP.

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Stop

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

  • Chris Isaak

    Wicked Games

    Remix Artist: TrentemΓΈller.
    • Wild At Heart (Original S/Track).
    • London.

  • Busted

    Good One

    • Greatest Hits 2.0.
    • Busted Live.

  • The Coral

    In The Morning

    • (CD Single).
    • Deltasonic.

  • Emeli SandΓ©

    There For You

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • R.E.M.

    Shiny Happy People

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1991 (Various).
    • Telstar.

  • Record of The Week

    • U2

      Atomic City

      • (CD Single).
      • Island.

  • Vernon's Vault

    • Midge Ure

      Sign of the Times (Radio 2 Session, 2 March 2018)

  • Beverley Knight

    Someone Else's Problem

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

  • S Club

    Reach

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Hozier & Brandi Carlile

    Damage Gets Done

    • Unreal Unearth.
    • Island.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • Jamie Cullum

      Frontin' (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Session, 2004)

      • Twentysomething.
      • UCJ.
      • 16.

    • Clint Eastwood & Jamie Cullum

      Gran Torino

      • Original Theme Song From The Motion Picture.
      • New Line Records.
      • 1.

    • The Beatles

      Paperback Writer

      • The Beatles.
      • Parlophone.
      • 1.

  • Regina Spektor

    Eet

    • Far.
    • Sire.
    • 2.

  • Luke Combs

    Fast Car

    • Gettin' Old.
    • River House Artists.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Oct 2023 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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