Good News Wednesday

Actress Holliday Grainger joins Vernon this week choosing ten songs from her life so far, continuing today with a dance epic from Massive Attack and a beautiful track from Elbow. Plus two listeners take on the mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top and Vernon dives into the BBC Archive in Vernon's Vault.

Born in Didsbury in 1988, Holliday began acting at the age of just six after being scouted for a BBC TV series. She consistently acted whilst growing up, balancing studying at school and then university with her career. In 2011 she played Lucrezia Borgia in The Borgias alongside Jeremy Irons and in the following years starred in other TV dramas like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Above Suspicion, as well as films like The Riot Club, My Cousin Rachel and Tell It To The Bees. Since 2017 she has played Robin Ellacott in six series of Strike on the BBC - adaptations of the book series written by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Since 2019 she has starred as Rachel Carey in The Capture - a conspiracy thriller based on the terrifying world of deepfake technology. The first series was met with critical acclaim and was the most requested new show on the iPlayer that year. It has recently returned for a third series which continues on Sunday nights at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.

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