Jonny Greenwood on BBC 6 Music

Jonny Greenwood brings a box of vinyl to Liz Kershaw's 6 Music show on Boxing Day, records picked up over ten years of looking up record shops in the Yellow Pages on tour, which have become “like postcards for me”. Jimmy Smith came first. In every shop he would go to the jazz section, find S, and judge the place by its Jimmy Smith records and what they cost. A Captain Beefheart track came off a compilation in a shop somewhere remote in Scandinavia, on a day off so trippy he is not sure which country it was. It was the first Beefheart he had heard, and he admires him for giving up music to paint. “I kind of really admire people who change career basically but carry on at the same time.”

He plays a 45-second Francis Lai cue, because no other kind of music has pieces that last 30 seconds and stop, and a Jacques Dutronc song about Father Christmas's daughter. Oscar Peterson's “Brotherhood of Man” comes from a jazz record he loves so much he went looking for a second copy to give his dad, and he keeps buying Peterson's other records hoping for another like it, and has found none. After this year's film score, with no dialogue to work around, he could see himself writing cartoon music. “I've always been told by my wife to not buy records just for the cover, but I always do.” He once nearly turned into the kind of collector who leaves sealed records unopened.

The last record is by Ferrante and Teicher, who were making tomorrow's music about 50 years earlier, found in the Oxfam shop in Moreton-in-Marsh while the band were recording. They tried to sample one of its tracks and build a song on it, and gave up, because it already worked left alone. One record stays in the box: a Korean singer he calls a sort of Korean Scott Walker, too weird for Boxing Day.