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Blood on the Tracks

Jeremy Vine, Steve Davis, Ana Matronic and Simon Day play Blood on the Tracks

Blood on the Tracks

BBC

Society & Culture

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine, snooker star turned DJ Steve Davis, Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters and comic actor Simon Day join Colin Murray for this episode of Blood on the Tracks. Up for debate are greatest collaborations, Eurovision favourites and best album closer while the four ponder what song he would cover if Elvis were still alive. Featuring a wide variety of music with obscure favourites playing alongside music from Abba, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, and Aretha Franklin. The panel also subject themselves to The Shuffle with disastrous consequences for one guest, and some weird and wonderful selections as they hit the random button on their music players. The podcast of the show has additional content to the one hour on-air version.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome to the last in the four part pilot series that is Blood on the Tracks.

0:05.2

The idea to gather four people in a room, not necessarily those you'd imagine, and see

0:09.6

if they can bond, fall out, or fall in love via the part of their music collection alone.

0:15.2

It's not an ordinary show, no that was this is, and each one is different musically and

0:20.6

tonally based on, well give them I guess the right to tell us what music makes them tick,

0:25.8

or ticks them off.

0:27.2

So a quick thank you, the response has been really positive, and that's really left

0:31.0

myself Simon and Charlie who put the show together absolutely buzzing.

0:35.2

If you have done loaded it from a place that allows it please rate and review.

0:40.0

So hopefully not for the last time, it's Blood on the Tracks for BBC Radio 2.

0:50.0

Hello everybody, it's time for the final episode of this pilot series for BBC Radio 2

0:54.8

that everyone's calling Blood on the Tracks.

0:57.1

As Frank Sinatra once signed, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain, but let's

1:02.8

not forget at this point in the words of Desray, when she said, I don't want to say ghost,

1:09.3

it's a sight that I feel the most, I'd rather have a piece of toast, emotional stuff at

1:14.5

this moment.

1:15.5

Let's introduce what may be, unless everyone listening, who has Twitter, tweets out nice,

1:19.4

and I'm what they love the show, using the hashtag BOTT, the last ever Blood on the Tracks

1:24.0

for some.

1:25.0

We begin with the journalist presenter and someone capable of making a Prime Minister

1:28.3

hold their head in their hands, but we only have him here because he's a Chelsea support

1:33.2

and closet punk.

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