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Freya Ridings and Prue Leith

Freya Ridings performs live and Prue Leith CBE chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Simon and Garfunkel and Miriam Makeba. There's also another round of PopMaster.

Freya Ridings, British singer songwriter, performs live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. Chef, business woman, journalist, novelist and Great British Bake-Off judge - Prue Leith CBE chooses the Tracks of My Years .

Prue Leith has been at the top of the British food scene for nearly sixty years. She hails from Cape Town, South Africa. As a student she travelled to Europe to attend the Sorbonne and came to London in 1960 to attend the Cordon Bleu Cookery School. Here her love of cookery began. She started her own business, ran her first restaurant and founded her own cookery school. She鈥檚 been a leading figure in campaigns to improve food in schools, hospitals and in the home. She writes on food for many of the national newspapers and has written five romantic fiction novels including the trilogy "The Angelotti Chronicles". She has compiled countless cookery books and written her autobiography - My Life of a Plate. She is, of course, a judge alongside Paul Hollywood in "The Great British Bake-Off". This week chooses the Tracks of My Years with songs by Simon and Garfunkel, Miriam Makeba, the Beatles, Carly Simon and Abba.

Ken's got another round of the legendary PopMaster music quiz and your dedications with today's love song. There's also the record and album of the week.
If you want to contact the show, just email - ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk

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Mon 2 Dec 2019 09:30
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Music Played

  • Elton John

    Step Into Christmas

    • Caribou.
    • Mercury.

  • Sigma

    You And Me As One (feat. Jack Savoretti)

    • (CD Single).
    • 3Beat.

  • Scottish Quest All Stars

    Santa's A Scotsman

    • (CD Single).
    • Dabster Productions.

  • Whitney Houston

    Million Dollar Bill

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 1.

  • SHAED

    Trampoline (feat. ZAYN)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 12.

  • Philip Bailey & Phil Collins

    Easy Lover

    • Singles.
    • Rhino.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Wandering Star

    • Blue Moon Rising E.P..
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Madonna

    Ray Of Light

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 10.

  • Jim Croce

    It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

    • Jim Croce- The Collection.
    • Castle Communications.

  • Pete Tong, Heritage Orchestra & Jules Buckley

    Symphony Of You (feat. Boy George)

    • Chilled Classics.
    • Polydor.

  • Andy Burrows

    Light The Night

    • (CD Single).
    • Play It Again Sam UK.
    • 1.

  • Steely Dan

    Haitian Divorce

    • Remastered - The Best Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • Mabel

    Loneliest Time Of Year

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Pulp

    Common People

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

  • Freya Ridings

    Love Is Fire (Radio 2 Piano Room, 2/12/2019)

  • Freya Ridings

    Lost Without You (Radio 2 Piano Room, 2/12/2019)

  • Album of the Week

    • Robbie Williams

      成人快手

      • The Christmas Present: Christmas Future.
      • Farrell Music.

  • 10cc

    The Things We Do for Love

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1976 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • George Michael

    This Is How

    • Last Christmas O.S.T..
    • Virgin EMI.

  • Mary J. Blige

    This Christmas

    • A Mary Christmas.
    • Decca.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • Simon & Garfunkel

      The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

      • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
      • Columbia.

    • Miriam Makeba

      Back Of The Moon

      • King Kong The Musical.

  • Luke Evans

    Changing

    • At Last.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • James Taylor

    Your Smiling Face

    • James Taylor - Classic Songs.
    • CBS.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Dec 2019 09:30
    成人快手 Radio 2