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Sue Barker chooses her Tracks Of My Years this week

Tennis player and presenter Sue Barker joins Vernon to choose her Tracks Of My Years this week - ten songs that tell the story of her life and career to date.

Tennis player and presenter Sue Barker joins Vernon to choose her Tracks Of My Years this week - ten songs that tell the story of her life and career to date. Also, we dip into the BBC archive in Vernon's Vault, and two listeners take on the mid-morning quiz Ten To The Top.

Born in 1956 in Devon, Sue began playing tennis at an early age with her older sister Jane. After being scouted by former Wimbledon winner Angela Mortimer, Sue moved to the US at 17 to join the women’s tennis circuit. In her tennis career, Sue reached the heights of world number three, won the French Open (1976 – aged 20) and reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon in 1977. She retired from professional tennis at the age of 29, and through a lucky phone call, took her first presenting job with Channel 7 in Australia. In 1993, she joined the BBC, and for thirty years fronted the coverage of Wimbledon, until 2022. She also hosted long-running quiz show A Question Of Sport for 24 years.

Later this year, she's back on the road with her former A Question Of Sport colleagues Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell for Sue, Matt & Phil Live!

Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 2.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 12 Jan 202609:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Artful Dodger

    Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta) (feat. Craig David)

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 44 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Toto

    Hold The Line

    • Driving Rock (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Such A Funny Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

  • Elton John & Dua Lipa

    Cold Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • The Supremes

    Baby Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Elles Bailey

    Growing Roots

    • Can't Take My Story Away.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • The Searchers

    When You Walk In The Room

    • (Single).
    • Prt.

  • Bruno Mars

    I Just Might

    • The Romantic.
    • Atlantic.

  • Tears for Fears

    Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    • The Best Of Drive Time (Various Artists).
    • Polygram TV.
    • 7.

  • Mumford & Sons

    The Banjo Song

    • Prizefighter.
    • Island.

  • Natasha Bedingfield

    Unwritten (Radio 2 Piano Room, 17 Feb 2025)

  • Madonna

    Papa Don't Preach

    • Madonna - The Immaculate Collection.
    • Sire.
    • 4.

  • Shakira

    Zoo

    • Zootopia 2 O.S.T..
    • Disney.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    All Over The World

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Little Mix

    Wings

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK.

  • Blue

    The Day The Earth Stood Still

    • Reflections.
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 6.

  • Cast

    Free Love

    • Yeah Yeah Yeah.
    • Scruff Of The Neck.

  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    September

    • Greatest Hits Of 1978 (Various Artis.
    • Premier.
    • 3.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    The Sound of Silence

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Paint It Black

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Jan 202609:30
    BBC Radio 2

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