Joanna Lumley, Jan Etherington and Roger Allam in Conversations from a Long Marriage © BBC Radio 4, 2018

Conversations from a Long Marriage – Full Playlist by Jan Etherington

We received a wonderfully thoughtful email from non other than Jan Etherington, the creator and writer of Conversations from a Long Marriage!

While we eagerly await the release of season 6 (19 May 2025 at 2:15PM!), let’s listen, sing, and dance to the iconic songs she personally selected for her beloved series.

Play on!


Pilot Episode

Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane

Christmas Episode

AlI I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey


Series 1 

Episode 1

Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane

Feelin’ Groovy – Simon & Garfunkel

Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin

End Titles: You Make Me So Very Happy – Blood Sweat & Tears

Episode 2

Dream a Little Dream of Me – Mamas & Papas

Blackbird – Paul McCartney

We Have No Secrets – Carly Simon

End Titles: Don’t Worry Baby – The Beach Boys

Episode 3

Lean on Me – Bill Withers

Ring My Bell – Anita Ward

Bend Me, Shape Me – Amen Corner

End Titles: Never Be Anyone Else But You – Ricky Nelson

Episode 4

Forever Young – Bob Dylan

No Particular Place to Go – Chuck Berry

Highway to Hell – AC/DC

I Think I’m Going Back – Dusty Springfield

End Titles: Dance Me to the End of Love – Leonard Cohen


Series 2 

Theme Tune for All Episodes in Series 2
The Things We Do for Love – 10cc

Episode 1

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

It’s All in the Game – Cliff Richard

The Game of Love – Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

Honey Can I Put on Your Clothes – Elkie Brooks

Episode 2

Tired of Waiting – The Kinks

Days Like These – Van Morrison

Roxanne – The Police

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac

Best of Both Worlds – Scott Walker

Is She Really Going Out with Him? – Joe Jackson

I’m Not in Love – 10cc

Episode 3

I Knew the Bride – Dave Edmunds

Breakfast in Bed – Dusty Springfield

Rock the Casbah – The Clash

Come Away with Me – Norah Jones

Episode 4

Black Coffee in Bed – Squeeze

If You Go Away – Scott Walker

Sometimes We Cry – Van Morrison

Sunshine of Your Love – Cream

Have I Told You Lately That I Love You – Van Morrison

Episode 5

Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer

You Really Got Me – The Kinks

If I Ever Lose My Faith in You – Sting

Episode 6

Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac

Days – The Kinks

Here I Go Again – The Hollies

Stuck in the Middle with You – Stealers Wheel

Time After Time – Matt Munro


Series 3

All Episodes Opener
The Things We Do for Love – 10cc

Episode 1

Happy Birthday (Sung)

The Pushbike Song – Mungo Jerry

Perfect 10 – The Beautiful South

Baby Let Me Take You Home – The Animals

Floating Away in a Bath Tub – Toploader

I Want to Ride My Bicycle – Queen

Dreamer – Supertramp

Episode 2

If I Can Help Somebody – The King’s Singers

Heroes – David Bowie

I Love My Dog – Cat Stevens

Our House – Madness

Have I the Right? – Honeycombs

Look Through Any Window – The Hollies

Hold Back the River – James Bay

Knock, Knock, Who’s There? – Mary Hopkin

Lazy Sunday Afternoon – Small Faces

Bonnie & Clyde – Georgie Fame

Episode 3

Can’t Explain – The Who

As Long As You Follow – Fleetwood Mac

Alone Again Naturally – Gilbert O’Sullivan

Run for Home (Chorus) – Lindisfarne

All Day and All of the Night – The Kinks

Walking Back to Happiness – Helen Shapiro

Who’s That Girl? – Eurythmics

Episode 4

Yesterday Man – Chris Andrews

Hungry Like the Wolf – Duran Duran

In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry

Somebody Help Me – Spencer Davis Group

Bad Bad Boy – Paul Jones

Baby Come Back – The Equals

Only You – Flying Pickets

I’m Not in Love – 10cc

Episode 5

All or Nothing – Small Faces

Getaway – Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames

See My Friends – The Kinks

Hole in My Shoe – Traffic

Cry – Godley and Creme

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? – Sandy Denny

Episode 6

Changes – David Bowie

I Can’t Tell the Bottom from the Top – The Hollies

I’ll Put You Together Again – Hot Chocolate

Accidents Will Happen – Elvis Costello

The Young Ones – Cliff Richard

I Want to Break Free – Queen

Forever and Ever – Demis Roussos

Father & Son – Cat Stevens


Series 4

Title Music for Every Episode
The Things We Do for Love – 10cc

Episode 1

Stackin’ Paper – ZZ Top

Sit Down – James

Listen to Me – The Hollies

I Love My Dog – Cat Stevens

She Drives Me Crazy – Fine Young Cannibals

You Got Your Troubles – The Fortunes

Singing the Blues – Tommy Steele

Get Down – Gilbert O’Sullivan

Don’t Leave Me This Way – Communards

Rescue Me – Elkie Brooks

Episode 2

Yesterday Has Gone – Cupid’s Inspiration

No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley

Shout – Tears for Fears

Hold Me Close – David Essex

Picture of You – Joe Brown

I Go to Sleep – The Pretenders

One Love – Bob Marley

Let’s Stick Together – Roxy Music

Episode 3

See Me, Feel Me – The Who

Sail Away – David Gray

The Boat That I Row – Lulu

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – George Harrison & Jools Holland

Lay Me Down – Sam Smith

When You Rock ‘n’ Roll with Me – David Bowie

Sail Away (Reprise of Chorus) – David Gray

Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat – Cast of Guys and Dolls

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – George

Why? – Annie Lennox

Quando Quando Quando – Engelbert Humperdinck

Smooth – Santana

Episode 4

Top Gear Theme – Instrumental

Pump It Up – Elvis Costello

Go Now – Moody Blues

Where Have All the Good Times Gone? – The Kinks

My Ever Changing Moods – Style Council

Friends – Arrival

Even the Bad Times Are Good – The Tremeloes

Amoureuse – Kiki Dee

Episode 5

I Woke Up This Morning – Crispian St Peters

Bad Case of Loving You – Robert Palmer

Show Me the Way – Peter Frampton

Stand by You – The Pretenders

The Lady’s Still Around – Sung by Elaine Delmar

Eternal Flame – The Bangles

She’s Not There – The Zombies

It’s Raining Today – Scott Walker

Somebody Help Me – Spencer Davis Group

Heavy Heart – James Righton

Morning Dew – Robert Plant

Episode 6

Fix You – Coldplay

More Than This – Roxy Music

Can’t Get By Without You – Real Thing

Everytime That You Walk in the Room – The Searchers

Every Kinda People – Robert Palmer

Open Up Your Door – Richard Hawley

Start – James Righton

Keeping the Dream Alive – Münchener Freiheit


Series 5 

Episode 1

Love Is a Battlefield – Pat Benatar

Hit the Road Jack – Ray Charles

Unbelievable – EMF

We Gotta Get Out of This Place – The Animals

Miracles – Colin Blunstone

Vincent – Don McLean

Pure Imagination – Jamie Cullum

Episode 2

Fussin’ & Fightin’ – Bob Marley

All or Nothing – Small Faces

We Have No Secrets – Carly Simon

Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top

When You Say Nothing at All – Alison Krauss

Walk Right Back – The Everly Brothers

The Story of My Life – Michael Holliday

She’s in Fashion – Suede

Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf

Episode 3

Listen to Me – The Hollies

That’s What Friends Are For – Dionne Warwick

Where Do You Go to, My Lovely? – Peter Sarstedt

Pull Up to the Bumper – Grace Jones

Mercedes Benz – Janis Joplin

Blue Peter Theme (Barnacle Bill)

Rainbow Chaser – Nirvana (UK Band)

You Get What You Give – The New Radicals

Take Me Home – Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Nothing Like a Friend – Richard Hawley

Episode 4

Sweet Talkin’ Guy – The Chiffons

Mean Woman Blues – Roy Orbison

Grow Old with Me – Tom Odell

Don’t Give Up – Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel

A Little Less Conversation – Elvis Presley

Episode 5

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of – Carly Simon

Let’s Go Round Again – Average White Band

Shattered Ground – Nick Cave

Best of Both Worlds – Scott Walker

Sweets for My Sweet – The Searchers

Unbelievable – EMF

Mercy – Duffy

Episode 6

Coming Round Again – Itsy Bitsy Spider – Carly Simon

Then He Kissed Me – The Crystals

Getting Mighty Crowded – Betty Everett

Who Are You? – The Who

Lay Me Down – Sam Smith

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield

Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers


Series 6 –

Tune in on May 19th (after The Archers) at 2.15pm every Monday!

Not much into music? You can buy the scripts from Conversations of a Long Marriage here.

14 thoughts on “Conversations from a Long Marriage – Full Playlist by Jan Etherington

  1. I was about to spend hours re listening and researching the playlist. What a treat to find it already done.
    Thank you.

  2. I am so pleased to discover this playlist. Wonderful songs, wonderful series and wonderful actirsz

  3. I am so pleased to discover this playlist. Wonderful songs, wonderful series and wonderful actors.

  4. thanks so much! Would it be possible to have the series 6 list too please?
    I’ve listened to it all, so wonderful – can’t wait for series 7, script and acting are just wonderful!

  5. hi does anyone know the introduction music. lyric i just want to be with you, got to see it through

    1. I Shazam’d it and found its name: Be With You by Mark G Hart & Stephen Emil Dudas. I haven’t had any luck finding a way to stream/download it though 🙁

    2. Be With You by Mark G Hart & Stephen Emil Dudas. Can’t find it anywhere online though…

  6. What was the song in series 6 containing the lyric “We’ve got a whole lotta history…”
    Apologies for repeat post – incorrect email ‘last time !

  7. Recently discovered Conversations from a Long Marriage, brilliant, funny, well acted & well written!! And totally loving the songs that are played, thanks to this playlist I’ve added them to my Spotify playlist! Thank you so much 🙏

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