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Oscar-winning composer Anne Dudley and musician, arranger and former lead singer with the folk group Bellowhead, Jon Boden, are Jeffrey and Anna's guests in front of a live audience at the Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield. Kicking off with a huge Sheffield banger from 1982, the five-track journey takes them to Bob Marley, Eliza Carthy and finishing up with a legless cockroach!
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
The Look of Love by ABC
Stir It Up by Bob Marley
Little Gypsy Girl by Eliza Carthy
Pe-loc by Béla Bartók
La Cucaracha by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Other music in this episode:
Don't You Want Me by The Human League
Tonight The Streets Are Ours by Richard Hawley
With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker
I Do This All The Time by Self Esteem
Heatwave In The Cold North by Reverend and The Makers
Temptation by Heaven 17
Common People by Pulp
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys
I Shot The Sheriff by Eric Clapton
Rufford Park Poachers recorded by Percy Grainger
From the Diary of a Fly by Béla Bartók

RuthAnne - songwriter Ruth-Anne Cunningham - and composer Gavin Higgins join Jeffrey and Anna as they create a standalone five-track playlist for this one-off episode. Starting with a massive international hit by a leading Irish singer, they head to Fugees, Gershwin and some fine young cannibals.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
Orinoco Flow by Enya
Ready or Not by Fugees
I Loves You, Porgy by George & Ira Gershwin, sung by Nina Simone
She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals
Opposite People by Newen Afrobeat & Seun Kuti
Other music in this episode:
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber and Tiësto
In the Name of Love by Martin Garrix and Bebe Rexha
Too Little Too Late by JoJo
Work Bitch by Britney Spears
Slow Hands by Niall Horan
Where Do Broken Hearts Go by One Direction
Boadicea by Enya
Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin
Opposite People by Fela Kuti and Africa 70

To mark this year's BBC Proms, Jeffrey and Anna are joined by three music specialists to create a playlist of five Proms-themed tracks. Celebrated James Bond film composer David Arnold, Mercury-Prize-nominated, South Tyneside-born, singer and songwriter Nadine Shah, and composer and saxophonist Charlotte Harding check out this year's festival, currently just past its halfway point, and look into the archive to choose their five tracks.
Every concert in this year's BBC Proms is - or will be - available via BBC Sounds, including Nadine Shah's performance in Gateshead and Charlotte Harding's Relaxed Prom in Bristol, with many also available on the iPlayer.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
James Bond Theme by John Barry
4th mvt: Adagio, from 9th Symphony by Gustav Mahler
Time by Pink Floyd
It’s Raining Today by Scott Walker
And the Door Unsealed by Miho Hazama, performed by the Danish Radio Big Band
Other music in this episode:
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
Topless Mother by Nadine Shah
Miami International from Casino Royale by David Arnold
Bad Sign, Good Sign by Monty Norman
Main Title from Out of Africa by John Barry
Make It Easy on Yourself by The Walker Brothers
My Ship Is Coming In by The Walker Brothers
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by The Walker Brothers
Wilkommen from Cabaret by the Danish Radio Big Band

The V&A East Museum in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London opened in April with its inaugural exhibition The Music Is Black: A British Story, focusing on 125 years of Black music-making in Britain. Spanning four continents, it is a story of excellence, struggle, resilience and joy.
To celebrate the exhibition, in a collaboration between the V&A and the BBC, Add to Playlist comes from the museum in front of a live audience with a host of significant figures on the Black British music scene.
Jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch, leading UK grime artist NoLay (accompanied by fellow grime artists Griminal and Roachee), classical pianist Keelan Carew and special guest Janet Kay - who hit the high notes with her 1979 smash hit Silly Games - join Anna and Jeffrey as they discuss the five tracks of Black British music that make up this episode's playlist.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
Back to Life by Soul II Soul
21 Seconds by So Solid Crew
Silly Games by Janet Kay
Deep River by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
It’s So by Omar 
Other music in this episode:
On My Radio by The Selecter
Keep on Movin' by Soul II Soul
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
There's Nothing Like This by Omar

Wolf Hall composer Debbie Wiseman and boogie-woogie pianist and singer Tom Seals are Jeffrey and Anna's final guests of the current series as they add the final five tracks, taking them from a Prince classic via the First Lady of Song to Bob Geldof's ticking clock and a Punjabi bhangra megahit.
Add to Playlist will be back on air on 14 August.
For details of the Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield and for free tickets for the recording of Add to Playlist and other Radio 4 shows, visit https://crossedwires.live/fringe
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
When Doves Cry by Prince
Slap That Bass by Ella Fitzgerald
La Valse by Maurice Ravel
Like Clockwork by The Boomtown Rats 
Mundian To Bach Ke by Panjabi MC
Other music in this episode:
West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys
Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
Africa by Toto
In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel
Time by Pink Floyd
Hung Up by Madonna
Knight Rider theme by Stu Phillips & Glen A. Larson
Turn It Up/Fire It Up by Busta Rhymes