Tracks of My Years

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Tracks Of My Years

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Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and and their favourite records.

Vernon Kay talks to a special guest about their life and career and their favourite records.

Tracks Of My Years: Russell Crowe

16/06/2024

Russell Crowe

BBC Radio 2 - Tracks Of My Years, Russell Crowe

You're going to love the songs and stories in Tracks of My Years chosen by Russell Crowe.

You're going to love the songs and stories in this week's omnibus edition of Tracks of My Years chosen by Hollywood royalty - Academy-Award winning actor Russell Crowe.

Vernon Kay knows you’re going to love the songs and stories in this week’s Tracks of My Years Omnibus Edition as he's joined by Hollywood Royalty - Academy Award winning actor Russell Crowe, who selects the songs and singers that have inspired him.

Russell has starred in some of the biggest blockbusters ever, from “L.A. Confidential”, “A Beautiful Mind” and “Les Miserables” to his Oscar-winning role as Maximus Decimus Meridius in “Gladiator”, and although he doesn’t quite give us his famous line “at my signal unleash hell”, he does talk about taking his family to The Colosseum in Rome, which he jokingly describes as “The Office”. 

As we’ll hear, he is a keen musician and has seen and met all the artists he has chosen. And he will be livening up this summer in the UK by bringing “Russell’s Indoor Garden Party” to venues across the country in July. It promises to be an organic night of music and stories with his band The Gentlemen Barbers. AND, at the end of June, he will be taking said band to Worthy Farm for the first time. Radio 2 are heading to Glastonbury too, with Zoe Ball, Jo Whiley and Dermot O’Leary, and you can catch them all on BBC Sounds.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

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