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Fearne Cotton's final two Tracks of My Years

Vernon finishes the week with Fearne Cotton's final two selections in Tracks of My Years, and today they're from Laura Mvula and Nina Simone.

Vernon finishes the week with Fearne Cotton's final two selections in Tracks of My Years, and today they're from Laura Mvula and Nina Simone with chat about Fearne's upcoming Happy Place festivals and her advice for parents worried about how to approach wellness with their children.

Also, there's a final round of Ten to the Top before the weekend, and Vernon finds more fun in the BBC Archive in Vernon's Vault.

Fearne Cotton has been presenting since her first job on TV at the age of just 16, after winning a series of auditions for the Disney Club. By 19 she was presenting huge shows like Top of the Pops and in 2005 she joined BBC Radio 1, taking over the mid-morning show in 2009 and hosting it until 2015. Since then, she has created her hugely successful podcast Happy Place, which now has two accompanying festivals taking place this summer in Richmond, London and Cheshire. In both the podcast and her books, she has been very honest about her struggles with her own mental health, and the difficult times she has endured during her life and career. Her latest book Likeable: How I Broke Free from the Need to Please was published earlier this year, in which she shared her struggles with being a people-pleaser and burning herself out with work. In 2020, she joined Radio 2 and hosts Sounds of The 90s every Saturday night.

Listen to Fearne's full conversation with Vernon for Tracks of My Years on BBC Sounds, and watch on BBC iPlayer and Radio 2's YouTube channel, just search for 'Tracks of My Years'.

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Music Played

  • Wham!

    Young Guns (Go For It)

    • Wham - The Best Of Wham!.
    • Epic.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Let's Go Crazy

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Adele

    Rolling In The Deep

    • (CD Single).
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Jealous Lover

    • Foreign Tongues.
    • Polydor.

  • Bruce Channel

    Hey! Baby

    • Oldies But Goodies (Various Artists).
    • UME.

  • Duran Duran

    Hungry Like The Wolf

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue

    These Alarms

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

  • Labi Siffre

    It Must Be Love

    • Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying (Deluxe Edition).
    • Edsel.

  • Taylor Swift

    I Knew It, I Knew You

    • (CD Single).
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Labelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Music Factory Mastermix.

  • Shakira & Burna Boy

    Dai Dai

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Latin.

  • Stephanie Mills

    Never Knew Love Like This Before

    • NOW That's What I Call An Era - Disco: 1973-1980 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • CeCe Peniston

    Finally

    • EMI.

  • Nightcrawlers

    Push The Feeling On (The Dub Of Doom)

    Remix Artist: MK.
    • (CD Single).
    • Great Jones.
    • 1.

  • De’Lacy

    Hideaway

    • Smash Hits 3 (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Alex Warren

    PASSENGER

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Who

    Won't Get Fooled Again

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 021.

  • Madonna

    Danceteria

    • Confessions II.
    • Maverick.
    • 5.

  • Donna Summer

    This Time I Know It's For Real

    • Best Of Donna Summer.
    • Warner Bros..

  • Holly Humberstone

    White Noise

    • Cruel World.
    • Polydor.

  • Laura Mvula

    She

    • RCA.

  • Nina Simone

    I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl

    • The Greatest Hits.
    • RCA Camden.
    • 8.

  • U2

    Street Of Dreams

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

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