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Blood on the Tracks

Justin Hawkins, Pat Cash, Ali Siddiq and Edith Bowman

Blood on the Tracks

BBC

Society & Culture

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Justin Hawkins of the Darkness joins Wimbledon Tennis Champion Pat Cash, American comic Ali Siddiq and DJ Edith Bowman to play songs by AC/DC, The Editors, Whitney Houston, Pink Floyd and Spinal Tap as Colin Murray asks about tracks from movies, pop princesses and extreme vocal ranges. Plus the guests submit their phones and devices to ‘The Shuffle’

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, I'm Colin Murray. This is Blood on the Tracks. Four people come together

0:13.2

in a room and either bond or fracture based solely on the record collection. They're

0:17.7

here to enjoy themselves and make no mistake to win. What a lineup we've got today.

0:23.0

First up, a former Wimbledon champion who would trade his men, singles titled Lady Famously

0:27.2

Won a 1987 on Centre Court to be named the next lead singer of Inaccess. I've no doubt about that.

0:34.1

Right? Pat Caches with his high-pact. No, you won't believe this because we'll just swap it

0:40.0

round because beside you, as a frontman of a band whose debut album sold 1.3 million copies

0:45.1

in the UK alone. But, and I'm not joking, I think he would trade all of that for a chance to

0:50.4

win a grand slam title in tennis, Justin Hawkins from The Darkness is here, right?

0:55.4

In a heartbeat. It's a deal. My other two guests are connected as well. It's unbelievable.

1:04.3

A Houston native and a brilliant comedian who learned to trade while serving a jail sentence in

1:08.8

the USA, Ali Siddiqui's here. What's that? I'm funny enough, that's exactly how my fourth

1:14.4

guest started her career, learning how to present radio while still in a stretch for drug traffic

1:18.8

and in the Scottish Highlands. That's where she met Jimmy Cranky. My old really one partner

1:24.4

in crime, now completely clean. I repeat, completely clean. Edith Bowman, are you?

1:30.1

I'm very, I thought you were going to say I was good. I did time for having a dual radio show with you.

1:35.2

That's the centre. Yeah. This has the potential to be the best blood in the tracks ever.

1:40.4

No, you see that every week? No pressure, I don't know. Right? No pressure. Just loads it all.

1:44.4

Right, here we go. Edith Daweson Award winning sound tracking podcast, all but the music that

1:50.2

appears in films. That's why the first question is this. Forget your favourite record. I want your

1:55.1

favourite film based purely on the songs that were in it. So I don't even care if it's that good

2:00.5

a movie, but if you love it for the music that was in it, and we're going to start with Justin Hawkins,

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