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Holliday Grainger chooses her Tracks Of My Years

Actress Holliday Grainger joins Vernon this week choosing ten songs from her life so far. Plus, two listeners take on the mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top.

Actress Holliday Grainger joins Vernon this week choosing ten songs from her life so far, today starting with a couple of bangers from TLC and Sweet Female Attitude. Plus, two listeners take on the mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top and Vernon dives into the BBC Archive in Vernon's Vault.

Born in Didsbury in 1988, Holliday began acting at the age of just six after being scouted for a BBC TV series. She consistently acted whilst growing up, balancing studying at school and then university with her career. In 2011 she played Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias alongside Jeremy Irons and in the following years starred in other TV dramas like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Above Suspicion, as well as films like The Riot Club, My Cousin Rachel and Tell It To The Bees. Since 2017 she has played Robin Ellacott in six series of Strike on the BBC - adaptations of the book series written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Since 2019 she has starred as Rachel Carey in The Capture - a conspiracy thriller based on the terrifying world of deepfake technology. The first series was met with critical acclaim and was the most requested new show on the iPlayer that year. It has recently returned for a third series which continues on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.

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Music Played

  • Meck

    Thunder In My Heart Again (feat. Leo Sayer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Free2air.
  • Bobby Brown

    Two Can Play That Game

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Alex Warren

    FEVER DREAM

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Donna Summer

    Bad Girls

    • Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
    • Mercury.
  • Cher

    Strong Enough

    • New Hits 99 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.
  • Arthur Conley

    Sweet Soul Music

    • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Elvis Presley vs Junkie XL

    A Little Less Conversation

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG/RCA.
  • Keith Urban

    Heart Like A Hometown

    • (CD Single).
    • Hit Red Records.
  • The Who

    Magic Bus

    • The Who - Who's Better, Who's Best.
    • Polydor.
  • Take That

    You're A Superstar

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
  • Katy Perry

    I Kissed A Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 7.
  • Duran Duran

    The Reflex

    • Now 1984 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 6.
  • Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta

    Save Me Tonight

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    Get Down Tonight

    • Billboard Top Hits 1975.
    • Rhino.
  • ABBA

    Summer Night City

    • Abba - More Abba Gold.
    • Polydor.
  • Holly Humberstone

    Cruel World

    • Cruel World.
    • Polydor.
  • Kylie Minogue

    Spinning Around

    • Now 46 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Texas

    In Our Lifetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • Luke Combs

    Can't Tell Me I'm Wrong

    • The Way I Am.
    • Sony Music Nashville.
  • Doris Day

    Secret Love

    • Doris Day - Day In Hollywood.
    • Columbia.
  • Seafret & James Morrison

    Driftwood

    • Fear Of Emotion.
    • Nettwerk.
  • k.d. lang

    Constant Craving

    • The No.1 Acoustic Rock Album (Variou.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • TLC

    No Scrubs

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.
  • Sweet Female Attitude

    Flowers

    • (CD Single).
    • WEA.
  • Freya Ridings

    Wild Horse

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

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