Vernon Kay's Tracks Of My Years guest Kiefer Sutherland picked Tracy Chapman's Fast Car as his penultimate song, telling Vernon the singer-songwriter shaped him as a teenager. "No one sounded like her, period," Kiefer said, adding that Chapman could take "huge topics" like racism and poverty and make them feel personal. He finished with Alanis Morissette's Ironic, saying the song's goofy video reminds him of his own daughter, and talked through the writing process behind his new album Gray, including a track inspired by watching his grandchildren grow up without the imaginative, unplugged childhood he had.
The week's last Ten To The Top produced some real drama. Samantha Rogers from Northumberland scored 8 and picked up the coffee mug, while Moira, a Church of Scotland minister from the Scottish Borders, raced to 15 points after a perfect first five answers, only to fall away in the second half and claim the smart speaker instead. "I wanted the mug," Samantha joked after hearing Moira's early lead.
Vernon's Vault dipped into a 1994 BBC archive clip asking "Do books have a future?", tying into Radio 2 Book Week, with various 90s pundits predicting the rise of digital reading well before e-readers existed. Stephen Graham also read an extract from Jonathan Livingston Seagull as part of the week's celebrity book choices.
On the scheduling front, Vernon mentioned that Joel Dommett is covering the Saturday morning slot for Romesh Ranganathan this weekend, "because Romesh is in the Traitors."
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