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Sophie Dahl chooses her final Tracks of My Years

Author and food writer Sophie Dahl chooses her final 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 final choices 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

Last on

Fri 6 Oct 2023 09:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Propaganda

    Duel

    • A Secret Wish - Propaganda.
    • ZTT.
    • 12.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 5.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Boogie Wonderland (feat. The Emotions)

    • The Best Seventies Album In The World.. Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 2.

  • *NSYNC & Justin Timberlake

    Better Place

    • TROLLS Band Together O.S.T..
    • RCA.

  • George Ezra

    Dance All Over Me

    • Gold Rush Kid.
    • Columbia.

  • Chairmen of the Board

    Give Me Just A Little More Time

    • Hits Of Hot Wax & Invictus (Various).
    • Hdh.

  • Shania Twain

    That Don't Impress Me Much

    • Now 44 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Tension

    • Tension.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Cerrone

    Supernature

    • Disco Inferno (Various Artists).
    • EastWest.

  • Frank Sinatra

    Love And Marriage

    • My Way - The Best Of Frank Sinatra.
    • Reprise.

  • Record of the Week

    • U2

      Atomic City

      • (CD Single).
      • Island.

  • Spice Girls

    Stop

    • Spice Girls - Spiceworld.
    • Virgin.

  • Becky Hill & Shift K3Y

    Better Off Without You

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Ash

    Usual Places

    • Race The Night.
    • Fierce Panda Records.

  • Steve Winwood

    Valerie

    • Pure Rock Ballads (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Eric Prydz

    Call On Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Data Records.

  • Sia

    Gimme Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Vernon's Vault

    • Dido

      Here With Me (Radio 1 Live Lounge, 1 Sep 2003)

      • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 1's Live Lounge: The Collection.
      • 26.

  • Album of The Week

    • Beverley Knight

      Nostalgia

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

  • Elton John

    Philadelphia Freedom

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Bizarre Inc

    I'm Gonna Get You (feat. Angie Brown)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 1992 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • µώΒαΓ¶°ω°μ

      Unison

      • Vespertine.
      • Elektra.
      • 12.

    • The Beatles

      Paperback Writer

      • The Beatles.
      • Parlophone.
      • 1.

    • Blur

      Tender

  • James Blunt

    The Girl That Never Was

    • Who We Used To Be.
    • Atlantic.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Oct 2023 09:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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