Inheritance Tracks

Johnny Flynn - actor, poet, musician - he can do pretty much anything.

On stage and screen, he’s played Albert Einstein, Richard Burton and David Bowie - and in the studio he’s recorded albums of classic folk as well as the title track for The Detectorists.

Johnny took a break from playing a political broadcaster in his new show The Lovers to tell us about the musicians who have inspired him throughout his life.

Inherited: Joe Hill by Paul Robeson

Producer: Ben Mitchell

Comedian, writer and actor Rose Matafeo grew up in New Zealand, the daughter of a Samoan father and a mother with Scottish/Croatian heritage. In 2018 she won the prestigious ‘Best Show’ at The Edinburgh Fringe for ‘Horndog' - only the second woman, and the first person of colour, to win it. As an actor, she was brilliant in the New Zealand movie Baby Done and she’s soon to be back on our screens in season three of her hit BBC series Starstruck.

We asked her to take a break from writing her new stand-up show and share her Inheritance Tracks with us.

Inherited: Ramblin' Rose by Nat King Cole

Producer: Ben Mitchell

You’ll no doubt have seen the comedian Lou Sanders on pretty much every tv comedy show; from Live at the Apollo, to 8 out of 10 Cats and she was even champion on Taskmaster.

Her memoir "What's that Lady Doing?" charts a life of mistakes with funny look at what happens when we work through our issues and come out the other side.

The songs she has chosen to cherish from her past and to pass on to the next generation might surprise you…in fact, they seem to have surprised her!

Inherited: Dido Bendigo by The Watersons

Producer: Ben Mitchell

The BBC’s News Analysis Editor, Ros Atkins, knew he wanted to be a journalist when he was ten years old.

He grew up in Cornwall and the Caribbean and read history at Cambridge.

He’s now a trusted broadcaster and a man synonymous with news and, he became a bit of a social media sensation with his explainer videos.

As he once dabbled as a drum’n’bass DJ we wondered what his Inheritance Tracks might be.

Inherited: The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett

Producers: Ben Mitchell and Jesse Edwards

Award-winning author, illustrator and screen-writer Alice Oseman created the hugely popular “Heartstopper” series about two teenage boys, Nick and Charlie, falling in love at a British school. The story has been a sensation going from online-comic to printed book to blockbuster Netflix show.

Inherited: Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac

Producer: Ben Mitchell

The Megadeth frontman on the tracks that inspire him both personally and his music.

The barrister turned broadcaster reveals the music that is most important to him.

Actor and musician Minnie Driver's breakout film roles include Circle of Friends, Grosse Pointe Blank and the hugely successful 1997 movie, Good Will Hunting, for which she was Oscar nominated.

You may have recently seen her in the movies Cinderella or Chevalier - and on TV in the US sitcom Speechless or in Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck here on the BBC.

Minnie’s side-hustles are equally successful, she’s a podcaster, essayist and memoirist with her ‘tell most memoir’ Managing Expectations; which is a collection of essays about her life.

She lives in California and is a passionate surfer and a doting mother to her teenage son Henry

We asked mellifluous Minnie to share her Inheritance Tracks with us...

Inherited: Save Your Love for Me by Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley

Producers: Ben Mitchell and Catherine Powell

Annie MacManus, known professionally as Annie Mac, is the DJ turned author whose new book ‘The Mess We're In’ is a story about how music can break you down and build you back up again.

Annie presented shows on BBC Radio 1 for seventeen years and, as well as writing, performs at music festivals all over the world and at some of the biggest clubs.

Inherited: A Rainy Night in Soho by The Pogues

Producer: Ben Mitchell

After the indie rock band, The Audience, disbanded in the late 90’s, their lead singer began her solo career.

Inherited: Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Producers: Lowri Rhiannon Morgan and Leni Hatcher.