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Hugh Jackman and The Why Workshop

Hugh Jackman chats to Zoe about The Front Runner and Hugh Jackman: The Man. The Music. The Show. Plus it's The Why Workshop, where Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with your questions.

The Greatest Showman's Hugh Jackman chats to Zoe about The Front Runner, a film based on American senator Gary Hart's 1988 presidential campaign, plus he tells us all about Hugh Jackman: The Man. The Music. The Show.

It鈥檚 The Why Workshop, where Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions on Octopuses, how light is absorbed and what smells in space!

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, King of the Jungle Harry Redknapp, a daily Pause For Thought with Remona Aly and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Wed 16 Jan 2019 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Michael Jackson

    Black Or White

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • Kygo

    Happy Now (feat. Sandro Cavazza)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • All Saints

    Pure Shores

    • (CD Single).
    • London.
    • 8.

  • Rudimental

    These Days (feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Kelly Clarkson

    Since U Been Gone

    • Now 62 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    AKA... What A Life!

  • Dua Lipa

    New Rules

    • Dua Lipa.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Whitney Houston

    I'm Your Baby Tonight

    • Whitney Houston-I'm Your Baby Tonight.
    • Arista.

  • P!nk

    A Million Dreams

    • The Greatest Showman: Reimagined (Various Artists).
    • Atlantic.

  • Chaka Khan

    Ain't Nobody

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.

  • Jamiroquai

    Virtual Insanity

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Liam Payne & Rita Ora

    For You (Fifty Shades Freed)

    • Fifty Shades Freed O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

    Shallow

    • A Star Is Born O.S.T..
    • Interscope.

  • James

    Sit Down

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Frontiers Records.
    • T1.

  • Dolly Parton

    9 to 5

    • Dolly Parton: The Ultimate Collection.
    • BMG/RCA.

  • Oasis

    Don't Look Back In Anger

    • This Year's Love (Various Artists) C.
    • Global Television.

  • Nina Nesbitt

    Colder

    • The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change.
    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Ariana Grande

    no tears left to cry

    • (CD Single).
    • Republic Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:

Back in the nineties when I had a fringe quiff, my family decided to embark on the journey of a lifetime - around Europe, in a minibus, hired from a Kent old people鈥檚 home. Emblazoned on the back doors were the words 鈥楴ever too old for fun鈥�.

It was the journey of a lifetime because - it was never to be repeated.听 We answered the riddle of how many Indians can you get into a minibus. The answer is鈥� 12. We all piled in: parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and a team of cousins - and off we set in the dead of night.

Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I fell out with my cousins in Rome and got the silent treatment between Italy and Germany. We itched from bed bugs in a Dutch guesthouse. And we spent hours circling around Siena in frantic search of my brother and cousin. 鈥楳eet me at the gate鈥�, they said. Siena has seven gates!

We got lost, ran out of money, lived off watermelons and eggs for two days, and almost fell off a cliff edge in Switzerland when dad was dozing at the wheel. It was not the dream holiday.

But memories like these make the stories of our lives. We journeyed through a spectrum of cultures, landscapes and crazy experiences in a matter of weeks and I will never forget them.

The 14th century Moroccan Muslim explorer Ibn Batutta. Ibn Batutta travelled for nearly 30 years across Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Apparently, he covered three times the distance of Marco Polo. Ibn Batutta said, 鈥淭ravelling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.鈥�

I can relate to this. When I gazed upon the majesty of the Swiss alps, I felt like I'd wandered into a piece of poetry. Whenever we lost our way, I saw the selfless kindness of strangers who helped us like they were blood.

Every time I step out of my door it鈥檚 a new adventure. I don't know what's around the corner, or what story it will bring.

Like Ibn Battuta, I don鈥檛 want to lose the wonder of curiosity and the hunger for exploring. Little did I know that the embarrassing minibus motto would be one for life, that I too will 鈥榥ever be too old for a bit of fun.鈥�

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Broadcast

  • Wed 16 Jan 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2