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PopMaster and Meera Syal

Meera Syal - actor, comedian and playwright - chooses the Tracks of My Years. Ken has your love song dedications plus another round of PopMaster.

Meera Syal - actor, comedian and playwright - chooses the Tracks of My Years. Born in Wolverhampton to Punjabi parents, Meera rose to prominence as one of the team that created and starred in sitcom 'Goodness Gracious Me', as well as portraying 'Grandma Ummi' to her real-life husband Sanjeev Bhaskar in 'The Kumars at No. 42'. On the big screen Meera was most recently seen in Richard Curtis' film 'Yesterday' and has also appeared in 'Paddington 2' and 'The Nutcracker & The 4 Realms'.

In February this year Meera resurrected her Kumars At No 42 character on Radio 4 for 'Gossip and Goddesses with Granny Kumar'. Ummi gathers together her favourite inspirational women at Wembley Community Centre, aided by her millennial great granddaughter Maya and her arch nemesis "frenemy" Geeta, leader of the local Asian Ladies Silver Bats community group.

Her latest role is playing the lawyer Elizabeth Churchland in the second series of 'Code 404' starring Daniel Mays, Stephen Graham and Anna Maxwell Martin. This hugely popular Sky comedy is set in the near future and revolves around two policemen, DI John Major (Danny Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Stephen Graham). They're your usual wise-cracking partners but with one major difference - Major is half robot after being killed in the line of duty and resurrected using artificial intelligence. In the new series their relationship is in a bad place, but they still find themselves in terrible scrapes, so bank on Meera's character to get them out of their latest bit of bother...but just how trustworthy is she?

The next two tracks Meera has chosen come from Fatboy Slim and A. R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls. Ken also has another round of the PopMaster Music Quiz. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Sep 2021 09:30

Music Played

  • Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

    Hollywood Nights

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
  • Elton John & Dua Lipa

    Cold Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.
  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

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

    Feel The Need In Me

    • Heart Full Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Lola Lennox

    Love Like That

    • (CD Single).
    • Humble Angel Records.
  • Electric Light Orchestra

    The Diary Of Horace Wimp

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.
  • Faith Hill

    The Way You Love Me (Love To Infinity Edit)

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros..
  • Chris Rea

    The Road To Hell

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.
  • Silk Sonic, Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak

    Skate

    • An Evening With Silk Sonic.
    • Atlantic.
  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.
  • Captain & Tennille

    Do That To Me One More Time

    • Captain & Tennille - Scrapbook.
    • Spectrum.
  • Camila Cabello

    Don't Go Yet

    • Familia.
    • Epic.
  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.
  • Stereophonics

    Graffiti on the Train

    • (CD Single).
    • Stylus Records.
    • 1.
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Flying On The Ground

    • Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021).
    • Sour Mash Records.
  • Marti Webb

    Take That Look Off Your Face

    • The Very Best Of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    • Polydor.
  • Boz Scaggs

    Lido Shuffle

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1977 (Various).
    • Premier.
  • Big Red Machine

    Renegade (feat. Taylor Swift)

    • (CD Single).
    • 37d03d.
  • Everything but the Girl

    Missing (Todd Terry Remix)

    Remix Artist: Todd Terry.
    • Passion (Various Artists).
    • Universal.
  • Belinda Carlisle

    Leave A Light On

    • A Place On Earth - Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin.
  • Cliff Richard

    Carrie

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.
  • Diane Warren, Rita Ora, Sof铆a Reyes & Reik

    Seaside

    • The Cave Sessions - Vol. 1.
    • BMG Rights Management (US).
  • Kirsty MacColl

    In These Shoes?

    • (CD Single).
    • V2.
  • Ed Sheeran

    Visiting Hours

    • = Equals.
    • Atlantic.
  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • AR Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls

    Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) (feat. Nicole Scherzinger)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Baccara

    Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Nik Kershaw

    Wouldn't It Be Good

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Sep 2021 09:30