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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

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth, we’re excited to share Episode 1 from The Miles Davis Story, the latest series of the Legend podcast.
Presented by acclaimed actor and longtime fan Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme, Da 5 Bloods), the 5-part series explores the life and legacy of a visionary artist whose relentless pursuit of the "new" often scorched his own life and the lives of those around him.
Across the series, Clarke charts Miles’s ever-evolving artform, starting with this first great transformation of a legend - when the young Miles chose to step into the unknown, seize control of his own creative destiny, and begin his journey as a leader.
This is episode one of the series, exploring how New York helped Davis discover a radical new sound. If you like what you hear, you can listen to every episode on BBC Sounds. Just search for ‘Legend’.
Miles Davis Interview: From Jazz Talking by Ben Sidran, 1986.
The Arsenio Hall Show, Paramount, originally broadcast in 1989.
60 Minutes, CBS News. Originally broadcast in 1989
Featured tracks (in order of appearance)
“So What” – Miles Davis
“Blue in Green” – Miles Davis (feat. John Coltrane & Bill Evans)
“Bitches Brew” – Miles Davis
"Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" - MIles Davis
“Agitation” – Miles Davis
“Flamenco Sketches” – Miles Davis & Bill Evans
“Ko Ko” – Charlie Parker
“Salt Peanuts” – Dizzy Gillespie
"Jivin with Jack the Bellboy" - Miles Davis
"Move" - Miles Davis
"Moon Dreams" - Miles Davis
"Boplicity" - Miles Davis
Presenter: Clarke Peters
Series Producer: Clem Hitchcock
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
Editor: Kirsten Lass
Production Manager: Emily Duffy
Music Consultant: Guy Barker
Additional Music: Guy Barker
Archivist: Simon Rooks
Script Consultant: Anne Harbin
Technical Production and Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby
Commissioning Editors for the BBC: Dan Clarke and Matthew Dodd
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4

Flautist Claire Wickes and jazz pianist Ashley Henry join Jeffrey and Anna as they add the next five tracks, exploring the association between music and chocolate, and digging into the Harlem Renaissance with the poet Langston Hughes and Cuban Negrismo, before marking the official longest partnership in pop.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
5-4-3-2-1 by Manfred Mann
Dance of the Mirlitons from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Boda Negra by María Teresa Vera
West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys
Other music in this episode:
Mississippi Goddam by Ashley Henry
Knee Play 5 from Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass
Numbers by Kraftwerk
5,6,7,8 by Steps
Moon River by Audrey Hepburn
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky