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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.
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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

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

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

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

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