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Rosamund Pike and The 5 Star Biz Quiz

Zoe chats to Rosamund Pike about A Private War. Plus, it's your chance to watch the Radio 2 Breakfast Show tomorrow by testing your showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz.

Zoe chats to actress Rosamund Pike about starring in American biographical drama A Private War. Rosamund reveals how taking on the role of Marie Colvin resulted in her losing one and a half centimetres in height. We learn which planets are visible in the morning sky with fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society Huw James.

Another listener tests their showbiz knowledge in The 5 Star Biz Quiz for the chance to come and watch tomorrow's Friends Round Friday show.

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!

Former Irish rugby player Dennis Hickie speaks to Mike about Ireland's chances in the Six Nations. There's also weather with Carol Kirkwood, a daily Pause For Thought from Dr. Jim Harris and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Trevor Horn

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World (feat. Robbie Williams & The Sarm Orchestra)

    • Trevor Horn Reimagines The 80s (Various Artists).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..

  • The Beloved

    Sweet Harmony

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Clean Bandit

    Baby (feat. MARINA & Luis Fonsi)

    • What Is Love?.
    • Atlantic.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • Hits & Pieces - The Best of Marc Almond & Soft Cell.
    • UMC.

  • John Parr

    St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Lizzo

    Juice

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Liberty X

    Just A Little

    • Now 52 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    Private Eyes

    • Single Mixes.
    • RCA.

  • Sam Smith & Normani

    Dancing With A Stranger

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • The Killers

    When You Were Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Andreya Triana

    Broke

    • Broke.
    • Hi-Tea Records.

  • The Cure

    The Love Cats

    • The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
    • Fiction.

  • Katrina and the Waves

    Walking On Sunshine

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artist.
    • Virgin.

  • Claire Richards

    Shame On You

    • My Wildest Dreams.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • James Arthur & 础苍苍别鈥怣补谤颈别

    Rewrite The Stars

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

  • Rosie Gaines

    Closer Than Close

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Rudimental

    Scared Of Love (feat. Ray BLK & Stefflon Don)

    • Toast To Our Differences.
    • Atlantic.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • The Maisonettes

    Heartache Avenue

    • History Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Br Music.

  • Zara Larsson

    Ruin My Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Black Butter.

  • Prefab Sprout

    The King of Rock 'N' Roll

    • Hits Album 8, Part 2 (Various Artist.
    • Hits Album.

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Kula Shaker

    Hush

    • Kula Shaker - Kollected: The Best Of.
    • Columbia.

  • Robert Palmer

    Addicted To Love

    • Sounds Of The 80s - Like A Record Baby (1984-1986) (Various Artists).
    • UMC.

  • Imagine Dragons

    Bad Liar

    • Origins.
    • Interscope.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Dr Jim Harris, Art Historian:

听

January is awful.听 It鈥檚 cold. It鈥檚 miserable.听 And above al it鈥檚 dark.听 It鈥檚 a month when I don鈥檛 see daylight at home between Sunday afternoon and Saturday morning.听听 It鈥檚 a month when my students get ill and don鈥檛 come to class.听 It鈥檚 a month when the next month is February, which, to be perfectly frank, hardly seems any better.

听

So, I don鈥檛 care what TS Eliot said, April is not the cruelest month. January is.

听

Earlier in this mean-spirited month, when we were promised the spectacle of a superbloodwolfmoon, I was excited to think that it would be out in all its bloody, lupine glory just as I was heading off to get the bus to work. But no. It was cloudy. It was dark. Of course it was. It was January.听

听

And yet.

听

And yet, in the middle of all this darkness, my friends Jess and Adam were married at a beautiful service, after which they threw a wonderful party full of joy and old friends.

And in the middle of all this darkness, I found myself welcomed to stay with my friends Annie and Chris on nights when the late hour and foul weather made travelling too horrible to contemplate.

听

In the Bible, darkness is described in physical terms: it is thick, it is a dense canopy, it can be felt.

听

But darkness in the Bible is also always accompanied by light: God himself is a lamp to lighten the darkness.听 Christians believe that no matter how thick and deep and dark the darkness becomes, it will never overcome the light.

听

And it鈥檚 not just in January that it鈥檚 good to remember that.听 We seem to be living in a time when darkness of all kinds surrounds us.听 That it鈥檚 January simply provides a physical darkness to underline the metaphor.

听

But yesterday, when I got off the bus, I realized that the bike ride from the bus station to the Museum was now done in daylight.听 The enveloping darkness of the New Year had already started to recede.

听

I really should have remembered that it would, long before then, at Adam and Jess鈥檚 shining January wedding: the light shines in the darkness, no matter how dark - and the darkness will not overcome it.

听

So long, then, January.听 We overcame you.听 You won鈥檛 be missed.

Broadcast

  • Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2