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Gary Davies sits in with Griff Rhys Jones choosing his Tracks Of My Years

Comedy icon Griff Rhys Jones chooses two more songs in this week's Tracks Of My Years. Plus more music history in De Ja Woo and music quizzing in Ten To The Top.

Comedy icon Griff Rhys Jones chooses two more songs in this week's Tracks Of My Years.

We've known and loved Griff's work since the late seventies in shows like Not the Nine O'Clock News, It'll be Alright on the Night, Three Men In A Boat and Restoration, but he's still perhaps best remembered for his long-running partnership with the late Mel Smith in 'Alas Smith & Jones'.

Away from comedy, Griff has hosted multiple arts and travel documentaries, including Griff’s Great Australian Rail Trip, Griff’s Great Kiwi Road Trip and Griff's Canadian Adventure, and next year he's hosting a new Channel Four travel documentary exploring the Southern States.

Griff has won two Oliviers, two British Comedy Awards, two Baftas and an Emmy, and he's currently on a theatre tour with his one man show The Cat’s Pyjamas. Having first started last year, the show sees Griff "sharing witty observations and rambling comic stories covering a diverse range of subjects: from TV travel, his childhood, Welsh family, age, fraud, late night trains and nostalgia to the TikTok generation, crocodile smuggling, and opal noodling in Australia."

Plus the mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top, more music history in De Ja Woo, and the Record and Album Of The Week.

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Music Played

  • Whitney Houston

    Love Will Save The Day

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.
  • The Boomtown Rats

    Rat Trap

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
  • Taylor Swift

    The Fate Of Ophelia

    • The Life Of A Showgirl.
    • Republic.
  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Prefab Sprout

    Cars And Girls

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.
  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Crazy in Love (feat. JAY-Z)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 3.
  • Sam Ryder

    Better Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Artist Theory.
  • R.E.M.

    Losing My Religion (Live From John Peel Public Session On ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 1 / 1998)

    • R.E.M. At The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ (Live).
    • Craft Recordings.
    • 18.
  • Sam Fender

    Talk To You (feat. Elton John)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Fantasy

    • The Best Of Earth Wind & Fire.
    • CBS.
    • 5.
  • RAYE

    WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

    • (CD Single).
    • RAYE.
  • Journey

    Don't Stop Believin'

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.
  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Various Artists - Untitled.
    • Global Records & Tapes.
  • Perrie

    Rocket Scientist

    • PERRIE.
    • Sony.
  • Oleta Adams

    Get Here

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.
  • Chrissie Hynde & k.d. lang

    Me & Mrs Jones

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • The Bellamy Brothers

    Let Your Love Flow

    • Country Moods (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Anne-Marie

    DEPRESSED

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD

    My Only Angel

    • (CD Single).
    • Locomotion/Island.

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