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Sir Richard Stilgoe picks the Tracks of My Years

Sir Richard Stilgoe, the composer and lyricist picks the Tracks of My Years. Plus Ken has another round of the PopMaster music quiz and the daily love song.

Sir Richard Stilgoe, the composer and lyricist picks the Tracks of My Years with songs from Paul Simon and Mica Paris and George Ure. Richard has spent fifty years as a performer and writer in all forms of the performing arts. On television he appeared on Nationwide, That's Life and several series of his own. On stage he toured for many years with his one-man show and subsequently his two-man show with Peter Skellern.
He wrote lyrics for Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera and music and lyrics for Bodywork , Brilliant the Dinosaur, 鈥極rpheus 鈥 the Mythical鈥 and Road Rage. His broadcasting work has earned him the New York Radio Festival Gold Award, three Monaco Festival Prizes and the Prix Italia. Richard sits on various boards involved in music education. In 1997 he founded the Orpheus Centre in Surrey, where young disabled people prepare for independent living through a series of performing arts courses.

Ken also has another round of the PopMaster music quiz, the daily love song and the record and album of the week. To contact the show, email ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 14 Jan 2019 09:30

Music Played

  • Average White Band

    Let's Go Round Again

    • The Best Of.
    • Rhino.
  • Jax Jones & Years & Years

    Play

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Christopher Cross

    Ride Like The Wind

    • Christopher Cross.
    • Warner Bros.
  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.
  • Trevor Horn

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World (feat. Robbie Williams & The Sarm Orchestra)

    • Trevor Horn Reimagines The 80s (Various Artists).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..
  • The Script

    Rain

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • 补鈥恏补

    The Living Daylights

    • The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
    • EMI.
    • 11.
  • Mark Ronson

    Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Jennifer Lopez

    Waiting For Tonight

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

    Always

    • (CD Single).
    • Jambco.
  • Record of the Week

    • Jack Savoretti

      Candlelight

      • Singing To Strangers.
      • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
  • Adele

    Set Fire To The Rain

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 5.
  • D:Ream

    U R The Best Thing

    • Now 28 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Westlife

    Hello My Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.
  • Kaiser Chiefs

    Ruby

    • (CD Single).
    • B-Unique.
  • Claire Richards

    Shame On You

    • My Wildest Dreams.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

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

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Bronski Beat

    Smalltown Boy

    • Pop & Wave Vol. 1 - The Hits Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 2.
  • Album of the Week

    • Alice Merton

      Learn To Live

      • Mint.
      • Paper Plane Records.
  • U2

    Vertigo

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • James Arthur & Anne-Marie

    Rewrite The Stars

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.
  • Tracks of My Years

    • Mica Paris & George Ure

      I Am The Starlight

    • Paul Simon

      成人快手less

      • Graceland.
      • Warner.
      • 8.
  • Calum Scott

    No Matter What

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

Broadcast

  • Mon 14 Jan 2019 09:30