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Vernon Kay: Who's up for Ten to the Top?

Who's up for Ten to the Top?

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Author and food writer Sophie Dahl chooses her Tracks of My Years all this week.

Author and food writer Sophie Dahl chooses her Tracks of My Years all this week. Plus, there's Vernon's music quiz Ten to the Top and the Record and Album of the Week.

Author, columnist and food writer Sophie Dahl continues her musical journey in Tracks of My Years.

First becoming widely known as a model - who also happened to be Roald Dahl's grand-daughter - Sophie's writing debut, an illustrated novella called The Man With the Dancing Eyes, was published in 2003.

Also a devoted home-cook, her cookbook Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights was published in 2009, and a spin-off BBC Two series, The Delicious Miss Dahl, aired the following year. In 2011, Sophie wrote and presented a BBC Two social history documentary about the Victorian domestic advisor Isabella Beeton, and her second cookbook, From Season to Season, was published.

Sophie’s first book for children, Madame Badobedah, was published in October 2019, and this week she will be on the show talking about the sequel, titled Madame Badobedah and the Old Bones, out this week!

She lives in the country with her husband and two daughters, rescue dog, cats and tortoise.

Plus, there's the mid-morning music quiz Ten to the Top, a brand new Record and Album of the Week, and we go diving into the archives for Vernon's Vault.

Whatever you're up to, Vern wants to hear from you: email vernon@bbc.co.uk - and if you’d like to apply to take part in Ten to the Top, the address you need is tentothetop@bbc.co.uk.

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