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Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe take us on a musical journey of discovery, exploring the web of connections between tracks across the breadth of all musical styles, from pop, rock, reggae and hip-hop to classical, jazz, folk and country.


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Rick Wakeman - keyboard player and former member of the rock group Yes - and Welsh jazz harpist and composer Amanda Whiting, join Jeffrey and Anna as they add the final five tracks to the playlist for the current series. Kicking off with a groundbreaking French hit from 2019 and rounding off with a world-famous singalong song with an equally famous accompanying dance move, the playlist also visits Finland, Canada and a celebrated British one-hit wonder.

Add to Playlist returns for a new series on 6 November

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Pookie by Aya Nakamura 
Sumother Song by Kenny Wheeler 
Finlandia by Jean Sibelius 
Fire by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 
Macarena by Los del Rio & The Bayside Boys

Other music in this episode:

Trumpet Concerto in E Flat, III: Allegro by Joseph Haydn
No Scrubs by TLC
Djadja by Aya Nakamura
Who Let The Dogs Out by Baha Men
Wipeout by The Surfaris
Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles
99 Red Balloons by Nena
Funkytown by Lipps Inc
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba
Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye
Macarena by Los Del Rio
Old Town Road by Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus

Rick Wakeman and Amanda Whiting close out the series

Saxophonist and composer Emma Rawicz and pianist and composer Arsha Kaviani are the studio guests of Jeffrey and Anna as they add five more tracks, taking them from a politically satirical song by George Michael to a classic pop track from the American girl group TLC via two mysterious buildings conjured up by The Animals and Modest Mussorgsky.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Shoot the Dog by George Michael 
Lush Life by John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, written by Billy Strayhorn
House of the Rising Sun by The Animals 
The Old Castle by Modest Mussorgsky
No Scrubs by TLC

Other music in this episode:

Disco Inferno by The Trammps
La Cucaracha by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Cowboys & Aliens by Emma Rawicz
The Rising Sun Blues by Clarence 'Tom' Ashley and Gwen Foster
Poker Face by Lady Gaga
What's Love Got To Do With It by Tina Turner

Emma Rawicz and Arsha Kaviani celebrate exceptional teenage talent

Oscar-winning composer Anne Dudley and musician, arranger and former lead singer with the folk group Bellowhead, Jon Boden, are Jeffrey and Anna's guests in front of a live audience at the Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield. Kicking off with a huge Sheffield banger from 1982, the five-track journey takes them to Bob Marley, Eliza Carthy and finishing up with a legless cockroach!

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

The Look of Love by ABC 
Stir It Up by Bob Marley 
Little Gypsy Girl by Eliza Carthy
Pe-loc by Béla Bartók 
La Cucaracha by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

Other music in this episode:

Don't You Want Me by The Human League
Tonight The Streets Are Ours by Richard Hawley
With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker
I Do This All The Time by Self Esteem
Heatwave In The Cold North by Reverend and The Makers
Temptation by Heaven 17
Common People by Pulp
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys
I Shot The Sheriff by Eric Clapton
Rufford Park Poachers recorded by Percy Grainger
From the Diary of a Fly by Béla Bartók

Anne Dudley and Jon Boden at the Crossed Wires festival in Sheffield

RuthAnne - songwriter Ruth-Anne Cunningham - and composer Gavin Higgins join Jeffrey and Anna as they create a standalone five-track playlist for this one-off episode. Starting with a massive international hit by a leading Irish singer, they head to Fugees, Gershwin and some fine young cannibals.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Orinoco Flow by Enya
Ready or Not by Fugees 
I Loves You, Porgy by George & Ira Gershwin, sung by Nina Simone 
She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals 
Opposite People by Newen Afrobeat & Seun Kuti

Other music in this episode:

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and Tiësto
In the Name of Love by Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha
Too Little Too Late by JoJo
Work Bitch by Britney Spears
Slow Hands by Niall Horan
Where Do Broken Hearts Go by One Direction
Boadicea by Enya
Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin
Opposite People by Fela Kuti and Africa 70

RuthAnne and Gavin Higgins get in the Flow

To mark this year's BBC Proms, Jeffrey and Anna are joined by three music specialists to create a playlist of five Proms-themed tracks. Celebrated James Bond film composer David Arnold, Mercury-Prize-nominated, South Tyneside-born, singer and songwriter Nadine Shah, and composer and saxophonist Charlotte Harding check out this year's festival, currently just past its halfway point, and look into the archive to choose their five tracks.

Every concert in this year's BBC Proms is - or will be - available via BBC Sounds, including Nadine Shah's performance in Gateshead and Charlotte Harding's Relaxed Prom in Bristol, with many also available on the iPlayer.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

James Bond Theme by John Barry 
4th mvt: Adagio, from 9th Symphony by Gustav Mahler 
Time by Pink Floyd 
It’s Raining Today by Scott Walker
And the Door Unsealed by Miho Hazama, performed by the Danish Radio Big Band

Other music in this episode:

Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
Topless Mother by Nadine Shah
Miami International from Casino Royale by David Arnold
Bad Sign, Good Sign by Monty Norman
Main Title from Out of Africa by John Barry
Make It Easy on Yourself by The Walker Brothers
My Ship Is Coming In by The Walker Brothers
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by The Walker Brothers
Wilkommen from Cabaret by the Danish Radio Big Band

Nadine Shah, David Arnold and Charlotte Harding celebrate the BBC Proms

The V&A East Museum in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London opened in April with its inaugural exhibition The Music Is Black: A British Story, focusing on 125 years of Black music-making in Britain. Spanning four continents, it is a story of excellence, struggle, resilience and joy. 

To celebrate the exhibition, in a collaboration between the V&A and the BBC, Add to Playlist comes from the museum in front of a live audience with a host of significant figures on the Black British music scene.

Jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch, leading UK grime artist NoLay (accompanied by fellow grime artists Griminal and Roachee), classical pianist Keelan Carew and special guest Janet Kay - who hit the high notes with her 1979 smash hit Silly Games - join Anna and Jeffrey as they discuss the five tracks of Black British music that make up this episode's playlist.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Back to Life by Soul II Soul 
21 Seconds by So Solid Crew 
Silly Games by Janet Kay 
Deep River by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 
It’s So by Omar 

Other music in this episode:

On My Radio by The Selecter
Keep on Movin' by Soul II Soul
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
There's Nothing Like This by Omar

A celebration of Black British music live at V&A East, with Nolay, Soweto Kinch and Keelan Carew

Wolf Hall composer Debbie Wiseman and boogie-woogie pianist and singer Tom Seals are Jeffrey and Anna's final guests of the current series as they add the final five tracks, taking them from a Prince classic via the First Lady of Song to Bob Geldof's ticking clock and a Punjabi bhangra megahit.

Add to Playlist will be back on air on 14 August.

For details of the Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield and for free tickets for the recording of Add to Playlist and other Radio 4 shows, visit https://crossedwires.live/fringe

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

When Doves Cry by Prince
Slap That Bass by Ella Fitzgerald 
La Valse by Maurice Ravel 
Like Clockwork by The Boomtown Rats 
Mundian To Bach Ke by Panjabi MC

Other music in this episode:

West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys
Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
Africa by Toto
In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel
Time by Pink Floyd
Hung Up by Madonna
Knight Rider theme by Stu Phillips & Glen A. Larson
Turn It Up/Fire It Up by Busta Rhymes

Tom Seals and Debbie Wiseman slap that bass

Flautist Claire Wickes and jazz pianist Ashley Henry join Jeffrey and Anna as they add the next five tracks, exploring the association between music and chocolate, and digging into the Harlem Renaissance with the poet Langston Hughes and Cuban Negrismo, before marking the official longest partnership in pop.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

5-4-3-2-1 by Manfred Mann
Dance of the Mirlitons from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky 
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes 
Boda Negra by María Teresa Vera 
West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys

Other music in this episode:

Mississippi Goddam by Ashley Henry
Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass
Numbers by Kraftwerk
5,6,7,8 by Steps
Moon River by Audrey Hepburn
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky

Claire Wickes and Ashley Henry celebrate chocolate and music

Bass guitarist, composer and songwriter Guy Pratt and bassoonist Amy Harman are Jeffrey and Anna's studio guests as they add five more tracks. Starting with an early ska classic, they explore the art of 'hocketing' before heading to the beach with Einstein.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Miss Jamaica by Jimmy Cliff
Rock On by David Essex 
Finale of Symphony No 6 in B Minor by Tchaikovsky 
Hockets for Two Voices: 1 by Meara O’Reilly 
Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass

Other music in this episode:

Ain't No Doubt by Jimmy Nail
Like a Prayer by Madonna
The Reason by Celine Dion
I'm Alive by Vybz Kartel
Be My Guest by Fats Domino
Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed
The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
9th Symphony by Gustav Mahler
Zap Mama by Babanzélé
Gamelan by the Bali Gamelan Orchestra
Money by Pink Floyd
Welcome to the Machine by Pink Floyd

Guy Pratt and Amy Harman and the art of hocketing

Classical pianist Lucy Parham and operatic tenor Nicky Spence are Jeffrey and Anna's studio guests as they compile another five-track playlist. Starting with a memorable scene from Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo, they end up at the queen of the power ballad, stopping off to reveal the background to two very popular tunes regularly played on Radio 4.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Quartet from Rigoletto by Verdi
La Flor de la Canela by Chabuca Granda 
The Minute Waltz by Chopin 
My Native Heath, Suite IV: Barwick Green by Arthur Wood 
The Reason by Celine Dion

Other music in this episode:

Cantaloop by Us3
Proud Mary by Ike & Tina Turner
Approaching Menace by Neil Richardson
The Archers Theme by The Yetties
My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion

Lucy Parham and Nicky Spence explore some familiar Radio 4 theme tunes

Georgie Ward, composer and keyboard player to the stars, and cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe, head to the Add to Playlist studio to add the final five tracks of the series. Together with Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe, this episode takes us from a reinterpretation of a Bob Marley classic to a Sinatra father-and-daughter 'novelty' song via a ground-breaking aunt-and-niece double-act from Tanzania. 

Add to Playlist returns for a new series on 27 Feb 2025

Producer: Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Redemption Song by the Kanneh-Masons 
Cold Light by Ishmael Ensemble 
The Feeling Begins by Peter Gabriel
Mapendo by The Zawose Queens
Somethin’ Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra 

Other music in this episode:

Be the One by Dua Lipa, Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Emmanuele by Abel Selaocoe
No Volvere by The Gypsy Kings
Redemption Song by Bob Marley
Bloom by Holysseus Fly
Somethin' Stupid by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman

Georgie Ward and Abel Selaocoe round off the series

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