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A joyous exploration with Neneh Cherry and Marianne Elliott

Cerys curates you an eclectic Sunday morning playlist and chats to Neneh Cherry about her autobiography A Thousand Threads and Marianne Elliott about her new film The Salt Path.

Cerys curates an eclectic Sunday morning playlist filled with her new discoveries and unearthed classics from around the globe.

This week she chats to Neneh Cherry about her autobiography A Thousand Threads. Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper and producer who first achieved global success in 1988 with the single 'Buffalo Stance', a groundbreaking mix of music genres. She's released 6 albums and won 2 Brit awards. She is the step-daughter of the legendary American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Don Cherry.

She also chats to Marianne Elliott about her new film The Salt Path, which stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Marianne is an Olivier and Tony award-winning theatre director, and the only woman to have won three Tony Awards for Best Direction (Company, Angels in America, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and recipient of an OBE in 2018. She has directed some of the most celebrated theatrical productions in the West End and on Broadway; War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Angels in America, Company and Death of a Salesman. The Salt Path is her film directorial debut.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • ZZ Top

    Salt Lick

    • Chrome Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box.
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 5.

  • Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe & Yomo Toro

    La Murga

    • Anthology.
    • Fania.
    • 2.

  • Jeff Beck

    Blackbird

    • You Had It Coming.
    • Epic.
    • 9.

  • Adrian Quesada & Hermanos Gutiérrez

    Primos

    • ATO Records.

  • Lina & Jules Maxwell

    Não Deixei de Ser Quem Sou (The Person I Always Was)

    • Não Deixei de Ser Quem Sou (The Person I Always Was).
    • Atlantic Curve / Schubert Music Europe gmbh.
    • 1.

  • Funkadelic

    Can You Get To That

    • Westbound Records ‎.

  • Letta Mbulu

    Afro Texas

    • Naturally.
    • Fantasy.
    • 1.

  • Tyler, The Creator

    Best Interest

    • BEST INTEREST.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Tito Puente

    Oye Cómo Va

    • El Rey Bravo.
    • Fania.
    • 2.

  • Rubén Blades & Pete Rodríguez y su Conjunto

    Juan Gonzalez

    • De Panama A Nueva York.
    • Fania.
    • 1.

  • Pearl & The Oysters

    Sous La Lune Mandarine

    • Sous La Lune Mandarine.
    • Stones Throw.

  • Miles Davis

    Florence Sur Les Champs Élysées

    • Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.
    • Top Tracks.
    • 6.

  • Johnny “Guitar” Watson

    A Real Mother For Ya

    • DJM.

  • Saltfishforty

    Old Joe Clark (live)

    • cellar records.

  • Kay Starr

    There Ain`t No Sweet Man That`s Worth the Salt of My Tears

    • The Ulitmate Collection, Vol. 1.
    • Black Sheep Music.
    • 4.

  • Brenda Wootton

    The Mermaid

    • Burlington.

  • Chris Roe

    Breathe

    • white.

  • Salt‐N‐Pepa

    Shoop

    • FFRR.

  • Brenda Wootton & Four Lanes Male Choir

    Waiting for the Tide

    • Burlington.

  • Louis Jordan

    Salt Pork West Virginia

    • Somebody Up There Digs Me (Remastered Edition).
    • Little Starlight Records.
    • 11.

  • Johnnie Taylor

    I Ain't Particular

    • The Very Best Of Johnnie Taylor.
    • Stax.
    • 5.

  • Case Oats

    Seventeen

    • Merge Records.

  • Guillermo Portabales

    Lamento Cubano

    • El Carretero.
    • World Circuit.
    • 7.

  • Iarla Ó Lionáird

    Aililiu Na Gamhna

    • The Seven Steps to Mercy.
    • Real World Records.
    • 2.

  • Marie Osmond

    Paper Roses (clip)

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.

  • ABBA

    Sitting In The Palmtree

    • Waterloo.
    • Polar Music International AB.
    • 2.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Ordinary Pain (Album Version)

    • Songs In The Key Of Life.
    • UNI/MOTOWN.
    • 10.

  • Barry White

    I Can't Leave You Alone

    • I Love To Sing The Songs I Sing.
    • Island Def Jam.
    • 5.

  • Nikki Giovanni

    Like a Ripple on a Pond

    • Like a Ripple on a Pond.
    • Modern Harmonic.
    • 6.

  • Don Cherry

    Universal Mother

    • Hear & Now.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 2.

  • Neneh Cherry

    Synchronised Devotion

    • Broken Politics.
    • Neneh Cherry.
    • 4.

  • Fabian

    Prophecy

    • Don Letts - Dread Meets Punk Rockers Downtown Vol. 2.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 11.

  • Ornette Coleman

    P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation)

    • This Is Our Music.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Ray Barretto

    Acid

    • Head Sounds.
    • Fania.
    • 1.

  • Buena Vista Social Club

    Veinte Años

    • Buena Vista Social Club.
    • World Circuit.
    • 7.

  • Eva Quartet

    To Thee We Sing

    • Sacred Treasures V: From A Russian Cathedral.
    • Valley Entertainment.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 May 2025 10:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music