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with Sir David Attenborough and Paloma Faith

Steve, Tim and The Old Woman are joined by Sir David Attenborough and singer Paloma Faith. Plus more factoids, entertainment and lifestyle news, and loads of great music.

Steve, Tim and The Old Woman try and out-trivia each other with more brain-busting Factoids and interview more amazing celebrity guests.

Today Steve and the team chat to broadcaster & naturalist Sir David Attenborough - he tells us about his life travelling the world making nature programmes for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, and admits he may never stop working. Plus we chat to Radio 2 favourite Paloma Faith, who tells us about her musical influences and her unique performing style.

Plus, three hours of toe-tapping tunes including thirty minutes of classic Non-Stop Oldies, and the latest lifestyle and entertainment headlines and top notch Talkie bits - today we chat about it being the most miserable day of the year, changing our clocks to Greenwich mean time, Lee Westwood becoming the world's number one golfer, the results of Strictly and X Factor and loads more.

3 hours, 5 minutes

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Mon 1 Nov 2010 14:00
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Music and featured items

  • Sir David Attenborough

    The nation's favourite national historian joins Steve and compares the earliest ever life forms to compost and bath mats!

    Duration: 09:12

  • Room 5

    Make Luv

  • Hall & Oates - Kiss On My List

  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • George Benson

    Lady Love Me (One More Time)

    • George Benson - The Very Best Of.
    • Warner E.S.P..
    • 4.

  • Lady A

    Need You Now

    • Need You Now.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 1.

  • Jamiroquai

    Blue Skies

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Take That

    The Flood

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 16.

  • Cheryl Cole - Promise This

  • The Everly Brothers

    Bye Bye Love

  • Jackson Browne

    In The Shape Of A Heart

    • The Next Voice You Hear - Jackson Bro.
    • Elektra.

  • Robert Plant

    You Can't Buy My Love (Electric Proms 2010)

    • Band Of Joy.
    • Rounder.
    • 1.

  • ZZ Top

    Viva Las Vegas

    • American Dream (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Roy Orbison

    She's A Mystery To Me

    • Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl.
    • Virgin.

  • Bobby Vee

    Rubber Ball

    • The Best Of Bobby Vee.
    • Liberty.

  • The Mavericks

    Dance the Night Away

    • Ultimate Country (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Tony Christie

    I Did What I Did for Maria

    • Tony Christie - Definitive Collection.
    • Universal.

  • Carpenters

    Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day)

    • Space Invasion (Various Artists).
    • Ronco.

  • Robbie Williams

    Millennium

    • (CD Single).
    • Chrysalis.

  • Josh Groban

    Hidden Away

    • Illuminations.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • Paloma Faith

    New York

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Paloma Faith

    Smoke & Mirrors

    • Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?.
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Rumer

    Aretha

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • James Blunt

    Stay The Night

    • Some Kind Of Trouble.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Stevie Wonder

    He's Misstra Know-It-All

    • Stevie Wonder - Song Review.
    • Motown.

  • Donna Summer

    Hot Stuff

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • James Brown

    Living in America

    • 40th Anniversary Collection.
    • Polydor.
    • 4.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Sister Marie Says

    • History Of Modern.
    • 100% Records.
    • 2.

  • Roxy Music

    More Than This

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • Bon Jovi

    What Do You Got?

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Don't Stop

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 009.

  • Pete Lawrie

    In The End

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Lou Rawls

    You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

    • Million Sellers Vol.13 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Janet Jackson

    Someone To Call My Lover

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

Broadcast

  • Mon 1 Nov 2010 14:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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