Linford Christie, Fleur East, Gizzi Erskine and Hugh Cornwell

Blood on the Tracks

BBC

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Olympic 100 metres Gold Medal winner Linford Christie, singer Fleur East, Chef Gizzi Erskine and Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers talk best basslines, greatest pop song by an actor or actress and band with which they’ve always had an obsession. Music featuring includes favourite tracks by Chic, The Damned, Fleetwood Mac and The Spice Girls.

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0:00.0	Welcome one and all the blood on the tracks which aim is A to bring together four people who
0:14.0	will form an unlikely bond through their favourite music.
0:16.5	B, enjoy some amazing songs you may or may not know and C, at some stage, as is with
0:21.5	near enough every episode of Blood on the Tracks, Slag off Abba.
0:24.7	That's basically it in a nutshell.
0:26.7	So whether you're actually listening to our answers in each round or you just get lost
0:29.8	in conversation with others, answer the questions yourself.
0:32.3	We thank you for being a Blood on the Tracks listener.
0:35.0	And with me this time, a four-piece, two-part male, two-part female, a mix of youth and experience.
0:41.0	First up, a man who's been making music as a solo artist and before with the stranglers,
0:45.2	for three years longer than I've been alive yet somehow I look almost as old as him.
0:51.2	Hugh Cornwell's here.
0:52.2	How you doing, Hugh?
0:53.2	Good, good.
0:54.2	So someone who'll be very happy about Hugh being here, a famous cook and a huge punk
0:58.9	fan, I'm assuming you just spit into your risotto when it gets too dry.
1:03.0	Get your earskins here, how you doing?
1:04.8	Marvelous, bit nervous.
1:05.8	Definitely excited about this one.
1:08.0	Well, have you ever met him for Christie?
1:10.1	No, I haven't.
1:11.1	You all have now.
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