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What's in Vernon's Vault today?

Author and food writer Sophie Dahl chooses her 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 chooses her 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

Last on

Wed 4 Oct 2023 09:30

Music Played

  • Madonna

    Ray Of Light

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.
  • Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa

    One Kiss

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Kylie Minogue

    Tension

    • Tension.
    • BMG Rights Management.
  • Billy Ocean

    Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.
  • Ash

    Usual Places

    • Race The Night.
    • Fierce Panda Records.
  • Oasis

    Roll With It

    • (CD Single).
    • Creation Records.
  • Record of The Week

    • U2

      Atomic City

      • (CD Single).
      • Island.
  • Alice Cooper

    Poison

    • Free Spirit (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 7.
  • Agnetha FΓ¤ltskog

    Where Do We Go From Here?

    • A+.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).
  • Paul McCartney & Wings

    Jet

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.
    • 2.
  • *NSYNC & Justin Timberlake

    Better Place

    • TROLLS Band Together O.S.T..
    • RCA.
  • Original Dodger & Romina Johnson

    Movin' Too Fast

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

    Black Moonlight

    • Danse Macabre.
    • BMG Rights Management (US).
  • R.E.M.

    What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
  • Vernon's Vault

    • Muse

      Sing for Absolution (Acoustic Radio 2 Performance)

      • Butterflies and Hurricanes.
      • WM UK.
      • 4.
  • Album of The Week

    • Beverley Knight

      A Little More Love

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

    Side

    • (CD Single).
    • Independiente.
  • Miami Sound Machine

    Dr. Beat

    • NOW 1984 (Various Artists).
    • NOW.
  • Tracks of My Years

    • The Source

      You Got The Love (feat. Candi Staton)

      • Monster Hits Of Dance - 36 Monster Hits From The 80's & 90's (Various Artists).
      • Castle Communications.
    • Nabilobeats

      Pure Imagination

      • Single.
      • 1.
  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Come Together

    • Ike & Tina Turner The Collection.
    • Entertaine Me Europe Ltd.
    • 1.
  • Joel Corry, MK & Rita Ora

    Drinkin'

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Oct 2023 09:30

Ten To The Top

Ten To The Top

Get all the details of how to enter and listen to Vernon's daily music quiz.